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  • Repaying debts of gratitude

    Repaying debts of gratitude
    Jul 18 2025
    https://youtu.be/cacSqpWOgSg Auto-generated transcript:It's a beautiful misty morning and we are walking here in Ashley, Razawai, in cyclist from a telephone, granting us these opportunities, the beautiful places and this company of good friends. There was a man called Hakim At-Tai. He was the chief of a tribe in Nets called At-Tab-Bahit-Bannu-Tai and his son Uday bin Hatim became a Muslim. He was one of the Sahaba. Hatim At-Tai was known for his generosity. And I remember one of the earliest stories that my mother told me, and I must have been a meek, I mean I was definitely under 10, I was probably maybe five or six years old, was the story of Hatim At-Tai. And she used to say Hatim Tai. So the story that my mother told me was that Hatim At-Tai was one day a man, he had a horse. He had a particular stallion which was very famous all over Arabia for its breeding and for its speed and all the noble qualities of a horse. And he was a very famous man. He was a very famous man. He was a very famous man. So Hatim At-Tai was famous as the owner of this horse. So a man came to him once and his intention was to buy this horse. So he came to his village. He came and met him. And as is the norm in our culture, when you meet somebody, even for a transactional reason, you don't immediately go there and start talking about the transactions. I've come to buy you a horse. I come to buy a car. I come to buy you a vehicle. I come to buy you a car. I come to buy you a vehicle. And this man bought me a horse. And it was a very, very nice horse. There was a courtesy involved. And you meet the person. And the person, you know the other person shows their hospitality to you. And so on. And all of this is part of the part of our culture. So this man went there and Hatim At-Tai, he came to see him. So Hatim At-Tai invited him home. And as we know in Islam, a guest has a right to be hosted by you for sure. And this is the case. This is the case. This is the case. three days without question any guest so he has a right to be hosted and so hot on tight no he we hosted him and so on and at the time of the meal they had this yeah wonderful roast meat and so on now they passed two days pass and then the man said to him I have come here with this intention of requesting you to sell your house to me so how do I say to him for once I wish you had not followed our culture he said what do you mean he said because we are going through a very difficult time in terms of drought having a massive drought here in this country and when you came as a guest said the only thing I had was the horse and I slaughtered the horse to for you to eat and if you had told me you came by the horse I wouldn't have started us now see this see the level of generosity see the level of you know the the hospitality toward the host what in Urdu we call mehmanawazi another story about Hathiman Tai which Maharani just told me is somebody asked him they said who do you know anybody who is more generous or have you met anyone who was more generous than yourself because Hathiman Tai was known for his amazing generosity as I mentioned and the man said yes I know someone who was more generous than me and he said I am not a generous person I am not a generous person than I am so this man said what's the story who's who this person so have to meant I said is somebody who owned 10 sheep so this person asking the question he said this is a strange thing a person owns ten sheep and he's more generous and you say yeah so he said what's the story so the story is that only when given services people have the capacity but to I went to the village of this person and so as this usual custom of people are being hospitable and this man he slaughtered one of his sheep and he brought him brought the meat and so on cooked it and brought it for heart even tie now how to a tie he said when I was eating the sheep and eating the meat he said I love the brain the mothers so this man noticed that I loved
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  • Who has the power

    Who has the power
    Jul 17 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the worlds, and peace and blessings be upon the honorable ones who have been sent by the messengers, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, and peace and blessings be upon him and his family. And then, my brothers and sisters, Sheikh recited the famous ayat of Surat Al-Baqarah after Ayat Al-Qursi. And he recited it starting from, But if you look at the ayat before that, Allah said, After Ayat Al-Qursi, Allah said, And after that, Now this ayah, Allah said, The one who denies, turns his back on, opposes, goes against, The Ta'gut, false deities, The one who denies the Ta'gut, False deities, false gods. And by deities and gods, it not only meant some stone image, It is everything which we consider to have power in our lives. And when you see, if you want to see, and ask yourself this question and say, Well, in my life, what has power? What am I giving power to? Then you will see, You will look at and see, what is it that you obey? Who do you obey? So it's not just a question of saying, power, I know my mother is so important, father is so important, But you don't even call them, you don't even go to see them, forget about obeying them, so there's no power. Power is, It's a function of obedience. So we obey those who we believe to be powerful in our lives, because, We feel that by obeying them, they will do something good for us. So Ta'gut can mean laws which are against the laws of Islam. For example, Allah created an entire system of inheritance. So when you die, Allah created a system whereby your wealth goes so much to your wife, so much to your husband, So much to your children, if your parents are alive, then so on to the parents, and so on and so on. Allah created a whole system. Now some Muslims are not happy with that. So they want to change that. So they will write a will, Which is against the Shari'ah distribution system of the Quran. And if you live in a country like this or in any of the non-Muslim countries, Then that will legally, from the perspective of the country, that will work. It is a legal document. But what you have done there is, you have gone against the law that Allah created in the Quran. And therefore you have committed Kufr, And you have left Islam. By writing such a will. Right? So Allah is saying the opposite. Allah is saying the one who does the opposite. The one who says, I have rejected Kufr. I have rejected Ta'gut. I have rejected all false deities. So I give you an example of false deity being a law. In this case, the law of inheritance. False deity can also be in terms of halal and halal. Allah created, He declared some things to be halal and some things to be haram. Some businesses to be halal, some businesses to be haram and so on. All of which are geared towards us. For us to benefit. Because Allah is the most powerful. Nobody can harm Allah. Nobody can benefit Allah. So if Allah for example, prohibited the use of intoxicants, Use of drugs, That is to help whom? One of the finest ways of destroying your life is, Start drugs. It won't take long, very quickly. You will be toast. Allah created laws of behavior with each other. To be dutiful and to be, to serve your parents. So, Between brothers and sisters. Allah said, If there are difficulties, solve those difficulties. Solve the problems. Don't create problems. Aslihu bayna akhawaiqu. Allah said, solve the problems between the brothers. Don't create problems. And so on. But if you go against those, Then you are befriending the Taawud. You are obeying the Taawud. So first thing I remind myself and you, Let us look in our lives and say, Who are the false gods that we are worshipping? Now you might say, I'm not worshipping, But this is worship. Worship is to obey. Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, One man from Najd, His name was Uday bin Hatim. He was from the,
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  • Prepare for death

    Prepare for death
    Jul 16 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. And praise be to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and his companions. And many, many thanks. And then what? My brothers and sisters, Death is not something unique. It's not something that we are shocked with. Death is a part of life. Allah announced and Allah told us, All souls taste death. And indeed, you will be rewarded on the Day of Resurrection. So whoever is shaken by the Fire and enters Paradise has won. And the life of this world is nothing but the death of all living things. Allah says, Every living thing will die. Every living thing will die. And you will surely get your full reward on the Day of Judgment. And then Allah gave us a criteria. Who Goshhzeh An-Nari Wa takiego ah is such a person whom Allah finally mentions to Him and Who will that班 خَرَ tangled in live that other person? Well, strength, So the first thing we do is we make du'a for your mother, our sister. May Allah grant her Jannatul Firdausul Aala bi Ghairi Hisab. May Allah fill her qawar with Noor. May Allah ease the path onwards for her. And may Allah give her and keep her and deal with her in a way that she could never have imagined in keeping with His Majesty and His Grace and His Generosity. Then Rasulullah said in the famous hadith in Muslim, Abu Hurairah reported that Rasulullah said, when the human being dies, when the son of Adam dies, all his deeds, all her deeds come to an end. A'n Abi Hurairah radiallahu anhu qaal, Qaal Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Izaa maata bani Adam intafa' aamaluhoo illa min salaas, sazaqatu jaariya, au ilmu yantafa' bihi, au waladun salihun yad'u lahu. Rawahu Muslim. When a person dies. All deeds come to an end. So the first thing we understand from the ayat which I recited is the criterion of success. It's not how much money you have, which car you drive, what kind of house, none of that. Will you and I be freed from the hellfire and will we get Jannah? This is the criterion of success. Nobody can know for sure, so we keep on trying to be among those people who, inshallah, will be given Jannah. By staying away from everything which Allah prohibited, by doing what Allah told us to do, and by making a lot of istighfar, because no matter what we do, we will make mistakes, we have to. Allah has left the door of tawbah open, we use it. From the hadith, which I narrated, one part of it just... I'll tell you this now and the rest we'll see, inshallah. Rasulullah said, all deeds end with death. So the first thing we understand from that is what? Do it now. Anything good that you want to do, do it now. Don't wait till tomorrow because we don't know, nobody is guaranteed tomorrow. Do it now. Go to the masjid to pray, don't wait for somebody to bring you to the masjid. When you have money, give charity. Don't wait for a time, when? Because of life and things, you will not be able to give charity. Don't wait to do something good, which requires physical effort. If you have not done hajj, go do hajj. Don't wait until now you are so old, you cannot do and your fard is still not fulfilled. Whatever you do. Whatever good you think of doing, do it immediately, don't postpone it. And then Rasulullah said, all deeds end with death except three. Illa thalath. One, sadaqatul jariya. Two, any knowledge, beneficial knowledge. Two, any knowledge, beneficial knowledge. Three, the knowledge that you have been given, you teach it. And three, children who are salihaeen, who are good children, who are pious children, who make dua for you. Now think about that, these three things also refer to the actions of the individual himself or herself. Sadaqatul jariya, who is going to give it? You. My sadaqatul jariya, who must give? I. Ongoing charity, something which continues after you die.
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