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  • Question of Rizq – Day trading and Futures

    Question of Rizq – Day trading and Futures
    Jul 10 2025
    https://youtu.be/zTx5mgShXAE Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, I'm walking on Watch Hog Road in Summers, Connecticut. And one of my favorite walks, as a matter of fact, when we arrived here in September 2019, I think it was, if I'm not mistaken, the 23rd or 24th of September. Straight off the plane, I started this walk. I came here, I walked, and I'm not describing for you the route because most of you don't know the route. But for those of you who know that, I went down Watch Hog Road to the end, took a left all the way to Pease Road, up Pease Road. All the way to Hall Hill Road at the cemetery and then back to Hall Hill Road to my brother-in-law's place. And the whole thing was about eight miles. Didn't realize that, how far it was going to be. And I remember there was a guy who was mowing the sidewalk near his house on the way. And I asked him, how do I get back to where I need to be? He said, oh, wow, you are very far away from there. So I said, anyway, I still need to go. So I did. Now, this is a little brook that I have passed over many, many times on these walks. They seem to have done a great job with repairing it and repairing this little bridge here and so on. You can see the brook. Literally, this is the beauty of this place, that the water is literally good enough to drink. Stop by deep. This is maybe about three feet deep or so, at least at this point. Has some fish. Lots of this aquatic greenery and very beautiful scenery. I've been on this walk many, many times. I see many things here. I will show you here some signs of wealth as we go forward. There's a guy who owns most of the upper land here, and he's recently bought himself a plane. And he's built himself an airport, a whole landing strip with a hangar and everything. So anyone who's feeling very rich because you have a nice car, well, there are people who are, for them, a nice car is not something they even think about. The reason I'm saying that is because this is one of the biggest, most confusing, most confounding, most problematic parts of our life. And that is the question of sustenance. The question of rizq. Most of us, if not all of us, at some point in time, we are subject to anxiety about our rizq, about our... about our sustenance. Will I get it? Will I not get it? What happens? And then we have to deal with all that is happening on the global scale. Although having said that, people like to talk about how global markets are going up and down and what... For example, right now, the war in the Middle East, or the impending war, the war that just stopped and we are not sure is it a ceasefire or a complete cessation. It's a complete cessation. It's a cessation of hostilities. Is it a peace? Be that as it may, how will it affect what will happen if the Suez Canal is blocked and so on and so on? A lot of anxiety over this. We spend a lot of anxious hours over this. We spend a lot of time in, frankly, useless conversation because the people who are talking all this will not be affected one way or the other. Because even if the stock market crashes, the only people who are affected are the people who have... stocks. If you don't have any stocks, if you are a mom and pop shop, you're selling something, then somebody is buying those things from you. You are a farmer, you are a carpenter, you are a mason, you are a plumber, you are somebody with a trade. This is the beauty that people don't seem to understand. If you have a trade, if you have something that is saleable in terms of your efforts, then you are a farmer. You are a farmer. You are a mason. You are a plumber. You are a farmer. You are a shepherd in terms of your knowledge. No market crash can ever touch you. But people don't want to learn that. They think it's infradict. How can I be a plumber? So don't be a plumber. Stop. That's nicer for you. Right? Always be somebody else's slave. It's up to you. I mean, you can free yourself by learning a trade or you can be a slave all y...
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  • Don’t let the correction be worse than the mistake

    Don’t let the correction be worse than the mistake
    Jul 9 2025
    https://youtu.be/IDIR-TMhmAY Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, one of the tendencies that seems to be predominant today is the tendency to correct others. People seem to walk around with this thing as if it's their duty and Allah has sent them to correct others. And no one to convincing will seems to work. We try to tell them, Allah sent us to correct ourselves, to improve ourselves, to make our own better, to learn and practice this deen ourselves. But we do not correct others. In this video, I have already said that let not your correction, meaning the way you correct people, let not your correction, let not the way you correct people be worse than the mistake. It is so surprising. It is so surprising to see how this is happening. This is so common, so common, where you find people over and over again. The way they correct somebody is so awful that people forget about what was said, and they get stuck on how it was said. But this is the tendency, one single word, one single letter. I've seen this happening so many times, where the Imam, for example, is reciting Quran and doing a beautiful job, and thanks to his recitation, you are in khudu, you are able to concentrate, you are able to focus in your salah, and the quality of your salah, alhamdulillah, is better than it would otherwise have been. Okay? And then when the salah is finished, somebody will say to the Imam that that particular ayah in that particular ayah, that particular word that you pronounced was wrong in this way. You know, some issue of tajweed. Now, tajweed is important, there's no doubt about that. But we also know the usool that as long as the mistake is not a major mistake, as long as it's not changing the meaning of the word, and as long as it's not a mistake in Surah al-Fatiha, it's not such a serious mistake. But you focus on that. And the fact of the rest of the recitation is gone from you. Anyone with any grace would have complimented the Khari on the beauty of the recitation, but no. We want to show that I know better, that I am, you know, more knowledgeable than you and so on and so on. May Allah have mercy. And many such examples of how people in their enthusiasm, their correction is worse than the level of the mistake. Let me give you a beautiful example of how correction should be done. Okay? Okay. Okay. So, there was a man in Madinah, an elderly man, who was doing wudu incorrectly. And the two sons of Sayyidina Ali , Hassan and Hussein , they saw this. So they went to the man and Sayyidina Hassan Ibn Ali . He was a very good man. He was a very good man. He was a very good man. He said to the man, he said, uncle, my brother and I are having some disagreement with regard to the way in which wudu should be done. So if you don't mind, we will both do wudu before you. If you can please look at us and see and tell us which one is doing the wudu correctly and which one is making a mistake. And both of them, one by one, they did wudu. And obviously both of them did it correctly. Okay. So, the man realized what was going on. He realized that this was about him, not about them. So he said to them when they finished, he said, you have both performed the wudu wallahi by Allah. Both of you performed the wudu beautifully and correctly. And it was I who was mistaken. And he said, I thank you for your wisdom and your gentleness in teaching me. It is myicing and my salutations to your like without the teachings and rumors and news of one from among themselves going against you. It is in the middle and very deep with all of the μ unanimously. So in Day終 están estas or notargent discuss about what will takes place. It was simple and simple and a long marriage. You tell your wife that you wanted something to give. Now you are like that father, like the moo of the mother who has learnt and your little brother who doesn't know the mother. Your mom doesn't know what he needs. You don't want his belly there.
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  • Advice to Tablighi brothers

    Advice to Tablighi brothers
    Jul 8 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:The purpose of Deen is to excel in it. Allah SWT said, Allah did not say to differentiate between who is doing evil and who is doing good. No. The question of evil does not arise. It says, in the good, who does the best? So it's very important for us, especially when we are out in the path of Allah SWT, to ensure that we do, whatever we do, to the absolute best of our ability. And obviously it goes without saying that if you want to do something to the best of your ability, then you have to know how to do it. It doesn't come by birth. It doesn't come by enthusiasm alone. Enthusiasm must never be confused for expertise. They're two different things. In battle, for example, you have an experienced warrior, soldier, you have a soldier, you have a soldier, you have a soldier, you've got an enthusiastic one. The enthusiastic one only dies faster. That's all. Right? Nothing else. He'll never win. There's no way that an enthusiastic soldier who does not have the experience is going to beat a true warrior. Enthusiasm means that he will only die faster. So also in Deen. It's very important for us to ensure that we learn. To give you a chance to learn. So we're going to give you one live example which happened just now. It is not a criticism of you. When you decide, when you narrate a hadith after the Salah, what is the correct way of doing that? You're holding a book in your hand. The first thing it starts from is to say, what are you holding in your hand? So stand up there and say, As-Salaam-Alaikum wa Rahmatullah. Because this is our way. We first greet people. As-Salaam. Qabar al-Khalaam. Say As-Salaam-Alaikum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh. This is a hadith from Muntaqab-e-Hadith. And if it's a book which generally people may not know who is the author, say the name of the author. Yusuf Qandawi Rahmatullah Ali. If you're using Ayatul Salihin, you need not say it because we know who the author is. But if you're using a book which most people may not know, say the author. And then you say, Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. Then you say, Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wa Salatu wa Salamu Ala Sharifil Anbiya wal Mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasool Allahi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Or some version of that. And then you come to the hadith. This is our way. This is not simply open the book, start the hadith. No. Salam. Then what are you saying? And start with Bismillah. We start with Bismillah. And then we say, Salatuna Salam wa Rasoola Salam. Then you come to the hadith. Now, these are simple things. But this is what I advise you and myself is that when you go out in Jamaat, my submission is create a course of what every person in the Jamaat should learn, depending on the duration of the Jamaat. If it's the sale of the Jamaat, then something which is fit for three days. If it's a chilla Jamaat, then something for 40 days. If it's a four months, then so on so on. Create a course. Go with the course. Now, the course is not for people to become Muftis. No. You will be surprised. I'll tell you two incidents, real life incidents. We had a group of teenagers who went to with one of our Imams to for Umrah. There they are sitting in a mudhakara and another Alim was with them. He said, who was the wife of Sayyidina Ali bin Abi Talib? They did not know. Can you believe it? Teenagers. All of them, all of them, beards. They were going for Umrah so they obviously concerned God to them. They come from families which come regularly to the Masjid. Who is the wife of Sayyidina Ali bin Abi Talib and they don't know. Another one. One of them. he asked the Imam from where he went, he said, Sheikh, you say Rasool Allah, Rasool Allah, what does that mean? Who asked? The kid. This is a teenager, he's not a kid. Really interesting, seriously. Where is the kid? He's past his bulukh, his baliq. He does not know what Rasool Allah means. The reason I'm saying this to you is not to tell you that the people
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