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Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

By: Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center
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  • Adab before Ilm

    Adab before Ilm
    Nov 16 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 prophets and messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions. Many thanks and blessings. From now on, my brothers and sisters, one of the... Alhamdulillah, we are living in times where there is a lot of interest in Islam. I have lots of young friends of mine, some students, some not students, but people who are who I know in many countries, who are very interested in Islam. Also, similarly, people who are interested in... therefore, this interest in Islam, for a lot of them, it's... it translates into, you know, harakas and conferences and so on and so forth. Of course, lots of stuff on social media and so on. So people are interested in the deen. But there are two... simultaneously... two problems that I find which are... which seem to go hand in hand. The first problem is that, thanks to the deen, we are able to go to our home. Thanks to the ease with which information... I want you to distinguish between information and knowledge. Between malumaat and ilm. Information and knowledge. I want you to distinguish between these two things. They're very, very important. So, the one thing is that, because information is easily accessible, easily available, whether it is multiple translations and tafaseer of the Quran al-Kareem, whether it is the siyasita or other books of hadith, whether it is reference material, you go to chat GPT or you go and do any kind of a search, and you put a prompt and it gets you information from all over the place. So, because there is this ease of accessing information, there seems to be a loss of the awe and majesty of the knowledge. And people I see treat the knowledge of the Kitab of Allah and the teachings of Muhammad Rasulullah like they treat any other kind of knowledge. So, the awe and the majesty of this knowledge, that this is Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala Himself speaking, that awe and majesty seems to take a backstage and may Allah have mercy in the case of some people, it disappears. So, therefore, for example, when we hear the stories of the importance of adab, the importance of the manners, the methodology of preparing yourself to receive the knowledge. The famous story of Imam Malik bin Anas , whose mother used to . She used to tie a turban on his head for him to go to learn with Rabia Turai, Rahatul Ali, who was his teacher. And his mother used to tell him, learn from the adab of Rabia before you take from his knowledge. Take from his adab before you take from his knowledge. And this is when Imam Malik was a little boy and his mother used to take him, they say she would take him for, in time for Salatul Fajr to the masjid, the masjid of the Nabi wa Sharif. And she would leave him there all dressed up. So, imagine he's being woken up before the time of Fajr and then he is being prepared by his mother. And then she takes him there, walks him there, leaves him there. He is in the masjid of the Nabi wa Sharif immediately after Salatul Fajr, he is there in the class of Rabia Turai. And he is there in the class of Rabia Turai. And he is there in the class of Rabia Turai until the time for Zuhar and then after Salatul Zuhar, his mother would pick him up and bring him home. Now, I don't know whether there was a breakfast program at that time or what, or whether this little boy didn't even eat any food all the way until Zuhar. And that's the time when he would have gone home and he would have had a meal. These are things to think about and say that today people walk around with buckets in their hands, what amounts to buckets, saying that they get dehydrated, unless they drink this gazelle down, this liters and liters and liters of water. You need to have food like little babies every hour. But whereas these people,
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  • Voices in the head

    Voices in the head
    Nov 15 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Now, most of the time, this is not conscious. So, we just give people permission to come and occupy, to live rent-free in your mind, in your head. Don't do that. Don't do that. Your mind is a very precious, very precious, precious thing. The mind is like a fertile field. The mind is like a fertile field. The mind is like a fertile field. The mind is like a fertile field. The mind is like a fertile field. fertile field, it will, whatever you plant in it, it will give you a harvest for that thing. Whatever you plant in it, the mind will give you a harvest for that thing. It makes it grow and it gives you a harvest. That is the reason why it's very important for you to choose what to plant in your mind. Because you plant wheat, you get wheat. You plant rice, you get rice. You plant wheat and you want rice, you will not get. So you have to decide, what is it that I'm going to allow into my mind? What will I allow to live rent-free in my mind? So choose who you want to listen to. And then listen to them very carefully. That's the second part. For the first part, we listen to everybody. Which is detrimental because everybody does not have the competence to say or tell us anything that is beneficial for us. And then the other part of it is that we disregard, again, consciously or unconsciously, real advice which can benefit us. And this would be the advice from experts. And advice from people who are... Who are genuinely concerned about you. So that's the other thing. So therefore, it's very important to pay close attention to that advice. Advice coming from people who are experts. And understand that that advice is coming to you and most of the time it will come to you free, is to be appreciated, deeply appreciated. Because it's not your right. That people must... So, that's the third part. That's the fourth part. That people must spend their time with you. People must share their hard-earned life lessons with you. Right? It's not... It's not something that is necessary for those people to do. If somebody's doing it, they are doing you a favor. And that is something that we need to appreciate. Not just take it for granted. If somebody is sharing their knowledge and their experience, it must be respected. One of the very detrimental things that I have noticed, especially this Gen Z, is this completely arrogant assumption. That anyone who's not... I don't know. I don't know. I don't think anyone can do that. I don't think anyone who's under 20 is not worth listening to. That the only people who are worth listening to are people of your age, people of this generation. Now that's about the most stupid thing that you can think about. Because experience comes with age. Experience comes with living life. You cannot have 40 years of experience when you are age 20. The only way to have 40 years of experience is to be 40 plus. It's not... is to be 40 plus. Now, having said that, not everyone who has 40 years of life experience can teach you something useful because of another very important factor, which is the tendency to document that experience. Because what is not documented is not learned. It's as simple as that. What is not documented is not learned. People live the life. So I'm 70 years old. There are millions of people who are 70 years old. But the 70-year-old who can teach you something will be the one who has taken the time and trouble to live reflectively and thoughtfully and he or she has documented their learnings. If they have done that, then what they have documented is potentially useful for you. I'm not saying everything is useful, but potentially useful for you.
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  • See with our nose

    See with our nose
    Nov 14 2025
    https://youtu.be/rWvlGzItHqY Auto-generated transcript:I'm back again in my favorite place in Hyderabad, KBR Park. And as I'm walking, I'm hearing the bulbul calls. All kinds of names it has, Indian nightingale, also they call it and so on. I don't know what it is. It's a bulbul. And whenever I think about these zoological names, and I can't remember one, I console myself and say, well, I don't know or I can't recall the name of this bird, but the bird doesn't know either. I don't mean that entirely facetiously. Of course, you know, feel free to laugh. But the reason I'm saying that is because one of the downsides of knowledge is that it makes you jaded. I was speaking to a young friend of mine, may Allah bless him, very, very knowledgeable. He's a high school kid, but extremely knowledgeable about wildlife, birds. He has a special interest in, literally passion for, insects. I call him Spider-Man. He loves spiders and scorpions and all kinds of loving beasts like that. And knows a hell of a lot about them. And his bird identification is incredible. Knows all the names. But yesterday when I was having a conversation with him, I went over the weekend to Sarpanparli Lake, which is a very beautiful lake. I'm saying this for those who are listeners from here, who know the places on the way to Viharbas. And we saw a bunch of birds. So, point herons, cattle egrets, painted storks, stilts and What is turns, river turns and so on. So, as I was telling him these things, for every one of them, he said, Oh common, oh common, oh common. Meaning, these are common species. It's not a rare one. Thought that came into my mind was, that this is the first sign of being jaded. Where you're looking at, looking for some, you know, scintillating experience, some aha moment, every time in life. Now, the bad news is, it doesn't exist. Because most of life is repetition. Most of life is seeing the same thing again and again. So, you have two options. One is, you are constantly seeking this aha experience, this new thing. And so, therefore, when you see the same thing again and again, you're just bored. You don't want to see it again and again. But guess what? That's your fate. You will see it again and again. On the other hand, you have another person like me, for example. I don't care how many times I see the same thing. I never cease to be amazed. I never cease to be astonished. I never cease to marvel at the glory and magnificence of the creation of my Rab, Jalal Jalal Hu. I don't care if I see the same thing 50 times, 100 times, 1000 times. Incidentally, this is also the secret of my life. The secret of marriage, of a good marriage. As I have said many times before, I fall in love with my wife every morning, and every evening, and every afternoon. Same wife for the last 40 years. Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. The thing is, if you find beauty in something, the beauty is there. And the more you can look at the same thing and enjoy that beauty, the happier person you are, the happier you will be. Because there are that many opportunities of enjoying that beauty. Whereas if you are looking for new things all the time, you will get them once in a while, but only once in a while. The major aha experiences of life, the major thresholds of life, are very few. Getting married, the day of the ceremony, the anticipation of it, and then the ceremony itself, and so forth, is one experience in your entire life. But your wife or your husband, you are going to be seeing them every single morning, every single afternoon, every single evening. And what happens to a lot of people, and I have seen this also happening, is that over time, they get bored. They get just used to seeing each other. They don't take care of their appearance. If you see them, if you turn up at their house, that's why I have, I make it an absolute rule, I always take an appointment before I go to some people. Because I want to share, save myself the shock of seeing this person,
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