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Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

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  • Resolve disputes

    Resolve disputes
    Jan 16 2026
    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 Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. And peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. From now on, my brothers and sisters, we are looking at a world which seems to be going from one stage of turmoil into a worse stage of turmoil. We ask Allah for goodness and well-being. And for protection from all evil, inshallah. I was recently at a gathering which I could not avoid. I generally try to avoid all gatherings because almost by default, they are a complete waste of time. And with huge scope of falling into evil. The biggest evil being that of Hiba. Of backbiting. As in the words of Sheikh Muhammad Mutawalli Ash-Sharawi, he said that when you do Hiba of a person, remember that the door of Tawbah is open for him. So you are doing Hiba about him as he is today. Tomorrow, day after day after that, before he dies, he makes Tawbah, he is free. But your sin... The sin of Hiba is with you. And that is why Rasulullah SAW told us to hide the weaknesses and the sins and the mistakes of our brothers and sisters. He said don't expose people because if you expose somebody, Allah will expose you. And my Malik said, if Allah decides to expose you, Allah will expose you in your safest place in the inside of your home. He also said, he said I have known people who were great scholars, very knowledgeable and who were, you know, on the face of it, which means that they were focused and they were established on their, I'd set salaa and on all of this. But they used to expose others. They used to talk about others. They used to tell their secrets through the world and he says Allah SWT humiliated them and exposed them and they became objects of ridicule and hatred and conversely, he said, people. They're not great scholars, nothing. Alhamdulillah, they're good people. Not as if they were evil. They were not evil, but they were ordinary people. But they used to cover the faults of their brothers and sisters. And he said, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala raised them. And he raised their mention and he gave them Izzah and he gave them Dharajat. And one of the Salafi Salihin, he said, always forgive your brothers and sisters. Always have the best belief about them. Husna Zan, about your brothers and sisters. He said, to the extent, I think it's Ibn al-Khaimah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, who said this. Anyway, he said, to the extent, he said, if I see, it's not a question of seeing, it's a question of seeing. It's not a question of seeing. It's a question of seeing. It's a question of talking about, hearing about. He said, if I see my brother with alcohol dripping from his beard, I will say somebody poured it on him. And if I see and hear him standing on a hilltop and saying, Ana Rabbukum al-Aala, I will say he's reciting the ayat of the Quran. If he stands on the hilltop and he's saying, I am reciting the ayat of the Quran, I will say, I am your God. Ana Rabbukum al-Aala, he said, I will say that he's reciting the ayat of the Quran. I will not say he has claimed to become, to be God. No. So I remind myself when you, let us become the lehaf of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Become the cover of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala on our brothers and sisters. Hide the faults. Don't expose them. Because Imam Shafi'i said, don't talk about people because they also have tongues. They can also talk about you. Don't talk about people. Imam Shafi'i said, if you can say something good, say something good. If you have nothing good to say, keep quiet. Keep quiet. A closed mouth is the safest bet. If you say something, maybe it is good, maybe it's not good. But if you say nothing, Alhamdulillah. And that is why it is very good to avoid gatherings. By all means, meet people who are good, beneficial, useful, from whom you learn something good. Alhamdulillah, yesterday I had a very nice meeting with my very dear friend who is sitting here. May Allah bless him. And he was telling me that Alhamdulillah, we have in Islam a complete system of jurisprudence. It's not some hearsay that my grandmother said this. No, this is a complete jurisprudence, complete system of jurisprudence with divine laws, with laws of God. It's a complete system of jurisprudence, complete system of jurisprudence, complete system of jurisprudence. And which is applicable to our lives as we speak. And will be applicable until Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala decides to keep this world. Now, think about the number of Muslims who are in litigation in all the courts. You forget even the courts of the world. Take Hyderabad city. In Hyderabad, how many Muslims are in litigation, one against the other, in some cases in the same families. May Allah have mercy on us. Brother against brother, father against son, inna illahi wa inna illahi wa ati. Or some...
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  • Be thankful

    Be thankful
    Jan 15 2026
    Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillah Rabbil Alameen. Wa Salatu Wa Salamu Alaa Ashrafil Anbiya wal Mursaleen Muhammadu Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Alaihi Wasallam Tasliman Katsiraan Katsiraan My brother and sister began his Qalam by his word Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim and then he said Alhamdulillah Rabbil Alameen. All praise and all thanks are for Allah the protector, the creator, the sustainer, the Rabb of the worlds. Rabbil Alameen. Then Allah SWT in the Quran Allah said Wa Ista'azana Rabbukum la in shakartum la azidannakum wa la in kafartum inna azabi la shadeed Allah SWT said the one who thanks me I will increase my blessing for him. And the one who does not thank me let him beware that my punishment is severe. SubhanAllah. I remind myself and you that to thank Allah SWT, to make shukur of Allah SWT, this is the essence of Ibadah. This is why we pray. We pray to thank Allah SWT. Now the question is what do we need to thank Allah for? And the best standard for that is to thank Allah. The best standard for that is the hadith of Rasulullah SAW where he said the meaning of which is that if you wake up in the morning with your body is healthy. You wake up in the morning with a healthy body. You have a roof over your head meaning that you are in a state of Aman. And you have food for that day. Three things. One, that you are healthy. Number two, that you are not living in fear. You have a roof over your head. You have a place to stay. And three is that you have food for that day. Now we shall have said if these three things are there for you, then it is as if the whole world is in your hands. The whole world has been collected for you. This is the standard. This is the standard. A healthy body. Now they say that you have a thousand problems in life until you have a health problem. And then you have only one problem. So supposing you feel you have a lot of problems in your life and you say Allah take away my problems. One way of those problems being taken away is you get a health problem. Then everything else goes. The only thing which is there is that health problem. We all went through Covid. Our memories are very short. That's one of the problems. The human mind, we don't remember things. It's both a good thing and a bad thing. But the downside of it is we don't thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We went through Covid. And at least those of you who are here, you know what all you suffered. Alhamdulillah, Allah Ta'ala kept me away from here during those times. So I did not suffer all that. But I heard of what happened here. Only one problem that day, that time. Illness. And many people didn't even get Covid. We still suffered. So enumerate. Count for yourself what are the ni'maat of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Health. Second thing Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, A roof over your head. Alhamdulillah, we have, we not only have homes, we have comfortable homes. We have homes in which we have climate control. Right? We have homes which are safe. We have mosques where we can pray. Nobody bothers us. Alhamdulillah. We have transportation. Multiple forms of transportation, not only one. We go where we want. We come where we want. Alhamdulillah, we have disposable incomes. Nobody bothers us. Nobody here is living from hand to mouth. I know each of you personally. Nobody is living hand to mouth. Do we thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? We are healthy. Our near and dear ones are healthy. Even when you are making dua. Dua is for somebody who is further away. It is a friend or some relative or something. You are not staying awake in the night because that person is sick. Let us face it. At the most you make dua, that's it. You are not sitting there by their hospital bed. You are not paying their hospital bills. You are not, you know, staying awake in the night because of them. Nothing. That can happen to you and me. We can be that person. To whom it is happening. So we need to thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Ya Rabb, we are so grateful to you. We are so thankful to you. You see, literally, I mean, I was also born here and grew up here. If I just think back. In the days of my childhood and my youth and when I was growing up and when I was in college. All of you have seen those. You guys were not born but at least the older ones who were there at that time. There was a time when we used to get, we used to have electricity for two hours and three hours in the day. We used to have power for two or three hours. Yes? Load shedding happens, right? So light, the current didn't go off for two hours. It came for two hours. There was a time we lived in homes, big homes, but there was no hot and cold running water. Remember? You remember when you have a shower, you have that immersion heater. You have to put a bucket in it and plug it in. When you are in the city, hot, cold, you are doing this and that. You are not doing anything. You are not doing anything. When you are in the city, ...
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  • Reflect on the Qur’an

    Reflect on the Qur’an
    Jan 14 2026
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds, and peace and blessings be upon the honourable, the most noble and the most exalted. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions, and a lot of peace and blessings. My brothers and sisters, Allah used words which mean people who think, people who can see. Allah said, Do they not reflect on the Quran? Do they not do tadaabur on the Quran? Allah did not say, Do they not read the Quran? Allah said, Do they not reflect on the Quran? Or is it that their hearts are locked? Qala Qulubihim Aqfaluhah. Qufal. On the hearts. So I remind myself and you that the purpose of dhikr, the purpose of reading the Quran, is to reflect on it, is to think about it, and to implement it in our lives. We read the Quran for Sawaab, we read the Quran for Barakah, we read the Quran because we read the Quran out of habit. Sanzal, that's good to read. I mean, that's not the purpose. The purpose is to reflect on the Quran. That's why Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la asked this question, Afalaa yata dabbaroonul Qur'an. See, if you think about it, our lives and our interactions are made of words. We say things to each other. And whatever we say to each other has some effect. Right? If I look at you and say, Mashallah, beautiful dress, you are looking very handsome. It has some effect. Right? To the extent that if I say something to you, which is patently and clearly false, like what happens when you get angry with somebody, and may Allah save us from such anger, but we use bad language, or you curse somebody. Right? Even at the mildest level, I don't want to sit here and, you know, share with you our very choice Hyderabadi words of, you know, describing each other. But even at the mildest level, if we say to somebody, Aap ghadhe hai, everybody adab se baal, Aap ghadhe hai, tu ghadha hai nahi baal, Aap ghadhe hai. So does it have an effect on you? If somebody says to you, Aap ghadhe hai, kuch pe asar hota hai ki nahi hota? Although you are not a donkey, right? Why does it have an effect? If you have a donkey's head, then you are not a donkey. If you have a photo, you can see if it is a donkey or me. Suppose somebody says you are a donkey, does it have an effect on you? Why? You are not a donkey. And the man is, in case of mistaken identity, maybe he never saw a donkey in his life, or we don't know. We don't know why. The point I am making is that even a word which is clearly false, which is complete nonsense, even that has an effect on us. I know it is wrong. Still it has an effect. But the Kitab of Allah, the Kalam of Allah, which is Haqq, what effect does it have? We need to ask ourselves. I am not saying it doesn't have an effect on you. I am saying I have to ask, you have to ask yourself. What effect does the Quran-ul-Karim have on me? And if it does not have an effect, then I must ask myself this question, that when even a bad word, even a curse word, even foul language, even that has an effect, then how is it that the most beautiful of Kalam, there is nothing that is superior to the Quran-ul-Karim, has no effect? Allah SWT promoted some things. Allah SWT told us, Go towards, سارعوا إلى مغفرة من ربكم Allah said, run and race with each other, with each other compete. In what? إلى مغفرة من ربكم Towards the forgiveness of Allah SWT. Allah is telling us, do it. حكم from Allah SWT. Are we doing it? Allah SWT said, Be with, كونوا مع الصادقين Allah said, be with the people of truth. Let's look at our own friend circles. Who are they? Are they people of truth? Allah SWT said, The sign of a good friend is that when you meet him, he reminds you of Allah SWT. When you speak, or when he speaks to you, you remember the Akhirah. And you learn something from him. Something beneficial, whatever it is. This is the criterion of friendship. So look at our friends. Do they fit here? When you look at the friend, or you talk to the friend, when you are with the friend, are you remembering Allah SWT? Or he is taking you away from? How do we even describe each other? Sir, he is a person worth 3,000 crores. Especially the goats. He is a goat worth 10,000. Is there any difference? He is a person worth so many crores. Allah SWT says, So what value does knowledge have? What value does character have? Does it have any value? If Rasool Allah came here in this Majlis, if any of the Sahaba came here in this Majlis, they were worth 3,000 crores. What was the net worth of Naudhubillah of Nabi SAW? Or net worth of Abu Bakr Siddique? Or net worth of, net worth of Bilal bin Rabah, or net worth of Abdel Rahman? What was it? See, what shall we do? We respect them or we say, no, this is not right. These are our standards. Now, when these are our standards, these are the standards that are going into these children. Because of our ...
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