Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

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  • We came to give, not to take.
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  • Al Asr -1

    Al Asr -1
    Apr 30 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the Prophets and Messengers, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and his family and companions. May peace and blessings be upon them. My brothers and sisters, the Sahaba, whenever they began a meeting or they ended a meeting, they would start and end with which surah? They would recite one surah. Which one? Wa al-asr. Shukr. Wa al-asr. Inna al-insana lafi khusri. Illa alladhina amanu wa amilu salihati wa tawasubi al-hakki wa tawasubi sabr. Allah SWT said, Allah took an oath. An oath is just a promise. It is taken to emphasise the importance of something. So Allah took an oath by time. In another hadith, Allah SWT said, Do not curse time. People say, oh, bad time. Allah said, do not curse time because I am time. So Allah is taking an oath by time, by himself. And then Allah is saying, see the Arabic grammar of that. Inna, which is emphasis. Wa al-asr. Inna al-insana. And then Allah is using another word of, another command of emphasis, which is the lamb of Taqi. La fi khusri. If you say, Inna al-insana. If you say al-insana, kullu insana fi khusri, the meaning is convertible. No, Allah SWT is saying very simply. Inna al-insana. La fi khusri. Truly and verily and surely and definitely all of human beings. Inna al-insana. Every human being on the earth. La fi khusri. Surely that person is in loss. In khusran. He is in loss. He is in... And then Allah SWT says, makes the condition, the criterion, except those who have Iman. Wa amilu as-salihat. And who do good deeds. Remember, this is all related. Allah did not say, illa alladhina amanu, aw amilu as-salihati, aw no. He didn't say this or that or that. Allah said this and that and that and that. Illal alladhina amanu, wa amilu as-salihati, wa tawaso bil haqqi, wa tawaso bil haqqi, wa tawaso bil sami. And those who invite towards the Haqq, to the Truth, and those who have patience, who have sabr, who have perseverance, who have grit, who have persistence. Now think about this and say, why is Allah SWT... What do we learn from this surah? And why was this surah considered so important that Sahaba, Ridhaan la hiya alayhim in main, used to begin and end their meetings, meetings with this? And that is, because this surah focuses on the most critically important elements of life. Because remember, in our life, it's not how much money you have, how much of power you have, what properties you have, none of that. Your health, your wealth, your, whether you are handsome or pretty, or whatever you are, makes no difference. So Allah SWT in His beautiful Kalam has clearly specified what is important. The importance of, the important things are the ones that Allah mentioned. So the Sahaba used to say, read this surah to remind themselves, what is important? Iman wa amir as-sarihaat, wa tawassu bi-raq, wa tawassu bi-sawar. So let me examine myself to see, do I have Iman? What is the meaning of saying, Iman? It means that I believe, and totally and completely without any doubt, in the Tawheed of Allah SWT, that there is no one worthy of worship, except Allah. And in the Risalah of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi, that Rasool Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is the Messenger of Allah and is the last and final Messenger after whom there is no message. I do not make shirk, I do not join partners with Allah because there are no partners. I do not worship something other than Allah because there is no one worthy of worship except Allah. I do not allow my desires to supersede the orders of Allah. I don't worship my desires, I worship Allah. When I say I worship Allah, it means I keep Allah's boundaries, the hudud of Allah. What Allah made halal is halal, what Allah made haram is haram. Nobody else can do that. Nobody else can come and change that. Wherever the kalam of Allah,
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  • Real cost – #2

    Real cost – #2
    Apr 29 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the most honorable of the prophets and messengers, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family and companions. May peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family and companions. And may peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family and companions. I would like to remind myself and you that for all of this to happen for us, and we ask Allah the Exalted to make dua, but remember, I remind myself, dua alone is not enough. Dua has to be with dawah. There has to be action. The key is to get those good deeds into our account. It's not simply making dua. Allah said, see the generosity of Allah. Allah said, Masalu allatheena yunfiqoona anwaalahum fee sabeeli Allah Kamasali habbatin anbatat Sabaa salabila fee kulli tumbulat Immiyatu habba Wallahu yuda'ifu liman yasha Wallahu wa'asi unaleem Allah said, the example of those who spend their wealth in the cause of Allah is like that of a grain that is planted and it sprouts into seven years. The plant has seven years, each bearing 100 grain. You know, think of a corn plant. You plant one corn seed. The plant grows. It has branches. Each branch has a corn cob and each cob has 100 grains. There is one you planted, you got 700. And then the word of my Rabb, Jalla Jalaluhu. And Allah multiplies the reward even more to whoever he wills. For Allah is all bountiful, all knowing. Whenever I read this ayat, I revel in the fact that, you know, I am a person who is not a person. No thought is available to you. You move carefully that you are looking at God. We will first look at Mohamad Sanqu lotta who also says, a witness from the Prophet Mohammad, the ummah проблема has this command that I came from you. What does mooha meanơi That Allah is the hall ofиш and hu. which can really and truly only be done when we understand it in its original. And this is true of all languages. Urdu, for example, which I, alhamdulillah, is my mother tongue, and I think I speak it, and I understand, I read it, I write it, I love Urdu poetry. If you recite a Urdu couplet, with each word, the nuance of the word, the tone of the word, the way the word is used in that couplet, each one has a delight of its own, which you translate it, none of that can be conveyed. Now, this is the Kalam of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala. Ta'ala Allahu alhamdulillah, we don't compare the Kalam of Allah to the Kalam of any shahir. In any case, the Quran is not shahir. Very important to learn the Arabic language. That is what touches our heart and strengthens our faith. Just think about the dua which we make every morning, and see how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is described in this dua. The glory and magnificence of Allah. And how we place ourselves in a position, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave us the permission to place ourselves in a position where we are invoking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and making Him the witness on our tawhid. Allahumma inni ushiduk wa ushidu hamalata arshik wa malaikatik wa jamiya qalkik annaka anta Allah la ilaha illa ant wahadaka la sharika lak wa anna Muhammadan abuduka wa rasuluk O Allah, I make you the witness. And I make witness the malaika, the angels who hold the throne. And I make witness all the angels. And I make witness everything in creation. Every breath of air, every wave of the ocean, every drop of rain, every flick. of snow, every sound, every radio wave, every creature, every human, every jinn, every animal, every bird, every reptile, every amphibian, everything I know and everything I don't know, every grain of sand on every beach. I make all of them witness that you are one. Wahadaka. La sharika lak. And there is no comparison to you. There is no one who can be joined with you. There is no one who is like you. There is no one who is equal to you.
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  • Real cost – #1

    Real cost – #1
    Apr 28 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:My dear brothers and sisters, respected elders, this life is a transaction. It's a deal. To get something, we must give something. So let us look at our lives and see what we are paying to get what we have. I'm going to count some things. It's not an exhaustive list. Just to give you some thinking points. Ask yourself, what did we give up for the conveniences of modern living? What did we give up to be able to eat processed food and drink sodas? What did we give up to get iPads and smartphones into our lives? That is the real cost, not the dollars you charged on your card. What did we get? What did we give up to get 24-7 news reports? Which rapidly morphed into super-focused propaganda. For example, we used to get literally hourly, maybe even minute-wise, I don't know, reports on the number of COVID deaths in the world. What did that do to us and our psychology? Today we get the same about Gaza. One of the things that happens, and I'm speaking as a psychologist, and that is the reason I've said over and over and over again, do not watch these videos. It deadens the heart. It makes you immune to the pain. Tears no longer come to your eyes. You no longer cry before Allah in tahajjud because you got used to that. Seeing it over and over and over and over. And that's the purpose of it. We get all these things. We get all these things. We get all these things. We get all of this in the form of graphic videos on our phones and social media feed. What did we give up to get this news? Think about that. And what would have been lost if we did not get this news over and over and over again? Our children compare their faces and their beauty and their bodies and their clothes with everything superficial. With everything superficial. With so-called influencers. And they get anxious. And they get depressed. And they despair. And they commit suicide. Have you ever heard of an influencer who talks about grades in school and working for real, worthwhile goals and feeding the hungry and helping the sick? Have you ever heard any influencer talk about these things? Things of true value? Our children are exposed through these influencers to cultures and values that alley cats would be ashamed of. But thanks to the power of the media, all that is normalized and applauded. And those who challenge that are maligned and denigrated and cast into the garbage bin of old people from the old country who don't understand us. Go ahead, do what you want. It's your fate. What did those children get in return? Today, mental illness is in epidemic proportions. Seven and eight year olds want to commit suicide. And they need psychiatric treatment. Do you think that's accidental? What did we get when we lost respect for parents and children and elders? What did we get when we gave up reading? What did we get when we substituted Instagram and YouTube shorts for serious study? What did we get when we lost our adab to the extent where you would go to a sheikh and say, shorten your lecture because I am getting bored? Hmm? Hmm? Hmm? Hmm? Hmm? I know all of these things. Or at least I don't know. I don't see all because I really don't see how all have benefit. But some of these things have benefits. But pause for a minute and calculate the cost. You got that benefit at what cost? As they say, there are no free lunches. So let's look at what we paid and ask, is it worth it? I remind myself, I knew that returns on interest are not the same as the cost of a job. I remind myself, I knew that returns on investment are assessed in terms of their magnitude and guarantee of safety. For example, if I sell my house and use the money to go on a world cruise in a luxury cruise liner, I will return with some nice photos, some worn memories, some amazing experiences and be homeless. Would you call that return on investment? Or a foolish waste of resources? On the other hand, if I sell my house and buy two shops, rent them out,
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