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Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

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  • Be careful what you die with

    Be careful what you die with
    Dec 23 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen Muhammadu Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbuhu sallam. Tasliman kathiran kathiran. My brothers and sisters, I went to visit the grave of my brother-in-law Akbar Jang. Absolutely wonderful human being. And I realized that this was the first time I came to Delhi when he was not there. The first time I came to Delhi was after I got married. And then every time I've come here, we have come and always stayed with them. My sister-in-law and Akbar Bhai. One of the nicest human beings that I have ever had the pleasure and privilege to know. Extremely polite, very cultured, highly educated. A thinking person. And a person with whom you had, you know, he was very sociable. He would speak to anybody. I mean, he would speak to, from the greatest scholar to literally the, you know, the rickshaw puller. And he would do this. He would just walk around in the street and he would talk to anybody. You know, people who are selling something, he would stand there. He would talk to them in the most affectionate. And wonderful manner. He wouldn't sort of talk down to anybody. Very polite and very, very erudite. And you could speak to him literally on any subject on the face of the planet. He was a very well-read person. Very kind, very helpful. You know, thorough, thorough, thorough gentleman. And one of the best things that I can, that I remember about him was that in 40 years that I knew him. And I've, you know, we've lived with him. So, I've. You would have spoken in 40 years. I would have heard him speak for God knows how many hours. Not one single time did I ever hear him say anything negative about anybody else. Amazing. No. Never, never. Not one word of. Not one word of. Not one word of any casting, any aspersions on anybody. Any insinuations. Saying anything negative about. Not even once. In 40 years. Of. Of. We staying with them. They're coming and staying with us and so on. Absolutely fabulous human being. Akbar Ismail. And so, I went there to his khawar. And, of course, I make dua. May Allah make it easy for you. Allahumma khafirlahu wa rahamahu wa aafihi wa aafu anhu wa krim nuzulahu wa si mudkhalahu wa ghasilu ilmaaii wa althaljii wa albarad wa naqihihimina alqataya kamaa naqaitu thawbul abiyadu min al-danas. Allahumma adkhilahu fi jannatil firdausi laala bi ghairi hisaab. We ask Allah to bless him, to fill his khabar with nur, to forgive his sins, to grant him jandatul firdausul ala without his saab. We ask Allah to grant sabr to his family. We ask Allah to protect him from all the difficulties of the khabar and of the fire of Jahannam. We ask Allah to forgive his sins. Because Allah is Ghafoorul Rahim, He is Rahmanul Rahim. And there is no sin that anybody can do which is beyond Allah's forgiveness inshaAllah. And Alhamdulillah Akbar Wahi was a good Muslim and he died on Islam. We ask Allah to bless him and to help him in this time when the only one who can help us is Allah. Peace be upon you. see you will see a mound of sand and this is true for every one of us no matter how glorious and magnificent we might be in life when we die and we are buried a mound of sand is all that will remain and that's why the poet said he said the the mirage of life the truth about the mirage of life is this that as soon as your eyes shut you become a story from is you become was your name itself will disappear from people's tongues the moment you die because if you if you think about this when you go to somebody's janaza they will bring the janaza they will put it on one side and they will say that after the Salah after whichever fard Salah say Salatul Asr say after Salatul Asr there will be a Salatul janaza right Asr ki naaaz kay baad mein naaaz kay janaza padi jaaegi then after the Salah is over what will they say please form the safs for Salatul Janazah and then they will say bring the mayyat or bring the janazah, bring the mayyat they will not say bring Yaver Bhai, they will not say Sheikh Yaver to go either love no, they will say bring the mayyat so what happened to my name I mean the people who are saying bring the mayyat are people who know me, are people who are related to me, right, are people who love me inshallah but they will not say bring Sheikh Yaver, bring Yaver Bhai, bring Yaver no, they will say bring the mayyat my name is gone and I my body is not cold yet almost to that extent I have just been given ghusl and I have been clothed in my kafan and I am there I am not even in the ground and people have stopped using my name to the extent that if somebody says bring Sheikh Yaver here or bring Yaver Bhai here or bring Mr. Beg here people will say you have gone mad what are you saying, how do you say bring Mr. Beg Mr. Beg is dead, he is gone bring the janazah bring the body bring the mayyat and then you put the person in the grave now what goes into the grave, Rasulullah ...
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  • Find a problem to solve – #3

    Find a problem to solve – #3
    Dec 22 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alameen, wassalatu wassalamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen, Muhammadu rasulullahi sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahibu sallam, tasliman kathiran kathira. Fammabadu, my brothers and sisters, somebody asked me a question, I've been, last two further reminders, we've been talking about, of secret of success, and I said find a problem, solve it, scale it, monetize it, and one of our listeners, he said, how do I find a problem? Now, on the face of it, that looks like a trick question, so I'm sure he's trying to trick me. But seriously, if you think about it, how do you find a problem? That reminds me of a story. I was, many years ago, I was walking in Nizamabad with a friend of mine, and we went down, we were going to some place, and we went down a lane, and this lane was absolutely stinking. It was the foulest smelling thing that you can imagine. So my friend obviously expressed his disgust, and he said, what a horrible smell. So I said to him. That is the smell of money. So he thought I was speaking hypothetically, you know, that like money is dirty kind of thing. Of course, I don't believe money is dirty, money is money. What you do with it makes it dirty or good. So he said, do you mean, what do you mean? So I said, I'm not speaking hypothetically. This is the smell of money. So he said, I didn't understand. I said, what are you smelling? He said, garbage. I said, okay. So if you apply to the city and say that I want to remove this garbage, do you think the city will agree? And I said, apply to the city. I want to remove the garbage. He said, yeah, I'm sure they'll agree. So he said, if you apply to remove this garbage, who will pay you for that? He said, the city will pay. He said, yes. The garbage itself, you get. And the city is paying you to remove the garbage. Now you take this garbage and then you take it to a place and you separate it. You recycle it. Plastic separate, inflammable separate and so on. And you make a plastic melting factory. You make, you create a factory to make briquettes, fuel briquettes, for example. You take other garbage which can be converted into vermicompost. So you have fertilizer. So I said, there's three different revenue streams. Now you can upscale the plastics into making different kinds of consumer products. So that is a revenue stream that can be scaled up some more. So he said, fantastic. I never thought of that. I said, okay, then I'm not finished. So I said, here you have got three revenue streams. The raw material for which you are getting. Not only are you getting it free because garbage is garbage. People just throw it. But you are also being paid to bring it to your place from wherever it is. Right? So here is raw material being donated to you free of cost. And somebody is paying you to move that raw material from wherever it is to your factories. Right? He said, fantastic. I said, okay, I haven't finished yet. He said, what more? What is there? I said, I'll tell you. The real punchline is to come. So the punchline is to remove this garbage, you need labor. To separate the garbage into different, you know, basic raw material products for your different factories, you need labor. Who are the people that you are going to employ? He said, well, people who are very poor, people who have really no options in life, people who are completely uneducated. And since we are talking about India, we'll, we'll probably employ people of lower castes who are already oppressed and so on. So I said, there you go. Now you are providing employment for all of these people. And all of them, all of them are people in need, people who are, you know, who have, who have serious life difficulties. So I said, now think about this. So when you are doing this, you are getting Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will reward you because you are helping all of these people. At the same time, you are cleaning the streets. So now your city, instead of smelling like a garbage dump, now start smelling like a rose garden because the whole place is cleaned up. Plus you have provided employment for all these people. Now you being a good Muslim, inshaAllah, and you being, the purpose being to please Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, you will not exploit these people who you are employing. You will employ them. You will maybe start schools for their small children. Maybe you will start and you should start, you know, you should start a free medical facility for them to, you know, to give them, provide them medical aid. And then you expand the schools, employ, you know, make them absolutely top class schools and then open them. So now you've got a fourth revenue stream, which is schools. And it's a very, very popular and a very lucrative revenue stream. You have your hospitals. Now again, in the hospitals, that's a fifth revenue stream, right? And again, I'm not saying do it like the corporate hospitals do make it into an absolute profit center. Don't do that, ...
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  • Find a problem to solve – #2

    Find a problem to solve – #2
    Dec 21 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen, wa salatu wa salamu ala ash-sharafi al-anbiya wa al-mursaleen. Muhammadun Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi sallam, tasliman kaseeran kaseera. Qumma baadu. My brothers and sisters, this is the second part of the Solve a Problem series. And that is, as I said, the secret of success is find a problem, solve it, scale your solution and monetize it if you want to. Now, for this, you need two critical essential things. One is curiosity and two is creativity. How do you get that? Practice this principle. Ask, how does it work? Then ask, how can I make it better? How does it work and how can I make it better? Now, this applies to everything in life. It is not only something that applies to mechanical processes. It's something that applies to human relations, for example. How's my marriage? How is it working? How can I make it better? My employment? How is it working? How can I make it better? Everything. You can apply it across the world. Right? Curiosity is, how does it work? Creativity is, how can I make it better? I always say this to myself and to all of you. Work for love, money will follow. Because only when you work for love, only when you work for the love of the thing you are doing, can you produce superb quality. And when you produce superb quality, you can charge a premium. Money will follow. But only if you have superb quality. Now, many times, people fail because they get discouraged. And that happens because they are concerned about what people will say. And I say to you, forget people. First of all, people won't say anything for the simple reason that people have their own stuff to do. They're not living their life wondering about you and commenting on what you're doing. And even if they're doing, forget them. They're not important. Forget. Forget people. Their opinion doesn't count. Don't seek approval from outside. Do the thing because you love it. And keep doing it. How many times? Until you succeed. Until you succeed. You don't count the number of attempts, except at the end after you have succeeded. You don't say, this is my 50th attempt. You don't say, this is my 10th attempt. No. You don't count the attempts until the end. After you have succeeded. So how long must I work until I succeed? Give you two examples. Thomas Edison, the great inventor who invented the incandescent bulb. His teachers said that he was too stupid to learn anything. This is what school does for you. His teacher said that he was too stupid to learn anything. And he was fired from his first two jobs for being nonproductive. When Edison was working on inventing the light bulb, they say that he made 10,000 unsuccessful attempts. Think about that. How long does that take? Right? 10,000 unsuccessful attempts. Now, when they asked him how he kept going after failing so many times, he said, I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Now, see that attitude. That is the secret. The secret of success. The attitude of saying, I am not going to feel sad, glad, bad, mad because of what people are saying. I am doing this stuff and I will do it until I succeed. So they said, you, how did you keep going after failing so many times? He said, no, I've not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Now, you can have that attitude only if you don't look for approval from people. And work for the love. Of what you do. There's no other way. If you are looking for approval from people, no way that you will succeed. There's a wonderful story about Thomas Edison. And the story is that he had his lab, uh, in a sort of granny cottage, um, outside his outside his house in his garden. And in that lab, he had all his experiments. All his documents. All his documents. All his documentation. His writing, his books, everything. And one night that cottage somehow caught fire. So now think about this. Here is a wooden building. It's full of paper. So what do you think happens? When it catches fire, you have the perfect fire. Got a huge fire happening. Edison's son says, I went looking for my dad because I thought to myself, you know, this, this is, it's a life's work and it's going. I'm going to commit suicide when I die. I'm going to commit suicide when I die. I'm going to commit suicide when I die. so he went looking for him he said I found him standing looking at the fire his hands behind his back just looking at the fire so he said to him the son came and said dad are you ok he said yeah absolutely he said go call your mom tell her she is never going to see a fire like this in her life her son is completely puzzled he said what here is the thing where your whole life's work is effectively gone down the drain and you are saying call your mom to see this wonderful fire he said yeah he said tell me how many people do you know who have the opportunity of having all their mistakes wiped off at once and they have a ...
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