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Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

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  • Be a slave

    Be a slave
    Jan 24 2026
    Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wassalatu wassalamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wasallam tasliman kathiran kathira. Fumma baadu. My brothers and sisters. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala created this world. And sent us to live in this world. And sent us a complete plan, a road map of how to live in this world. From the beginning to the end, from the time you are born to the time you die. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent us a complete plan. There is no deficiency in that plan. There is nothing missing in that plan. Nothing has to be added in. Nothing has to be subtracted. And that plan is called Al-Islam. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did not just send the plan and leave it to us to read it and interpret it and understand it according to our own understanding. But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala also sent along with the plan. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent that plan with a teacher, with a guide. The plan did not come to us directly. The plan came to the teacher and the teacher taught it to us. And that teacher is Muhammad Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi wa sallam. And that is why the Kitab and the Sunnah are the two guides for us to live our life in this world. There is nothing other than the Kitab and the Sunnah. Anyone who brings anything which is other than the Kitab of Allah, the Quran al-Kareem, and the Sunnah of Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, then this is something which is prohibited. It is a bid'ah which is haram. We are not permitted to use that, no matter who it is. We know Allah and we know His Nabi alayhi salatu wasalam. That's it. Anyone else we know through them. We respect the ulama. We respect the... Al-Quran. I hesitate to use the word awliya with respect to specific people because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did not specify any individual and say that this is my wali. Please understand this. This is a source of all kinds of confusion. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala specified the anbiya alayhi wa sallam. The prophets and He named them. Inna arsalna noohan ila qawmi. Allah did not say we sent a message. No. We sent. No. Alayhi salam. Right? And so on and so on and so on. Salih alayhi salam and Lut alayhi salam and Ibrahim alayhi salam and Musa alayhi salam and Isa alayhi salam and Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam to all of humanity. Allah mentioned them by name. But anyone other than that, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did not mention by name and say, so and so is my wali or was my wali. Allah did not say this. About the awliya, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala made a statement where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Allah said, Allah is the wali of the believers. And what does Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala do when Allah is the wali? What does it mean? He says, He takes them out of darkness into light. Right? This is the sign of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala being the wali of the believers. Now the wali, in the Arabic language, there are many words to describe friendship, different grades of friendship. And in these grades of friendship, the closest of grades, of friendship is, wiliya, is wali. Wali is somebody who is, who is a party to all your secrets. That person has access to everything that you have. To the innermost part of your house, he has access to your bank account, he has access to your, all your secrets. So when we use the word wali with respect to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, we have to understand that there is a difference. Like there is a difference between, difference with respect to all the words that we use, connected with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah, we say Allah is al-basir. He is the one who sees. But the basarat of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is not like yours and mine. Allah sees, you also see. But we are not the same. The basarat of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is, in keeping with His majesty and grace. Allah is as-sameer. He is the one who, hears. But the samaat of Allah, is not like yours and mine. Allah is kalim. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala speaks. But His kalam is not the same as your kalam and my kalam. So when we say wali, when we have wilaya, the first and foremost thing in any friendship is, equality. With Allah there is no equality. Allah is our Rabb. And we are, the ibad of Allah. We are the slaves of Allah. And in this slavery, there is honour. The greatest honour is to be, a obedient slave of Allah. Abdan shakura. The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said about himself, should I not be a grateful slave? In the famous hadith of Aisha Siddiqua radiallahu anha, which is in Bukhari and Muslim, Mutafakun alaih. She said that, I asked Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam, she said that, the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam would stand in salah, and she said, for so long, that the skin of his blessed feet would crack. We're just standing in one place. The feet would swell. When you go on long flights and so on, you wear pressure stocks, so that ...
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  • We will be tested

    We will be tested
    Jan 23 2026
    Gofundme link mentioned in the reminder: https://gofund.me/fa98ac89f Auto-generated transcript: Recitation of Surah Al-Baqarah Surah Al-Baqarah Surah Al-Baqarah Surah Al-Baqarah Surah Al-Baqarah everything I have. But give me this. But Alhamdulillah, Allah does not do these bargains. Allah is not telling us, sacrifice everything you have before I will send salam on you. So please understand this. The meaning of saying these things is not to say that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala demands that, you know, all your family should die before He forgives you. No. Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is just saying that whatever happens to you, maybe a thorn pricks your foot. Nothing more than that. We ask Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to save us from all calamities, all of these things. But when something happens, and bereavement is something, it is taba'i, it is something which is a part of nature. Either I will die first or somebody else will die first. I mean, it is as simple as that. Nobody has eternal life. So when these things happen, when we behave with patience, with sabr, with ta'ammul, then Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is promising His salam. Now my point is, for us to think about this and say, what is the value of salam from Allah? SubhanAllah. I mean, this is guaranteed for jannah, inshaAllah. We ask Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to grant them all janatul firdos. So really, seriously, I remind myself and I request you to remind yourself and ask and say, what is it that, you know, how do I deal with calamities? How do I deal with losses? How do I deal with things? We are so quick to complain. We are so quick to lament. We live in a future which we imagine and for most of us, all that we imagine is usually negative. As a matter of fact, my khutbah this week, that is for tomorrow, is on this basis. It was saying, gratitude, but for what? I should be grateful, but for what? And inshaAllah, you will get some, I'll give you some data in that khutbah. The point I'm saying is that, alhamdulillah, Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala has kept us so beautifully, so protected, so blessed that it is impossible to imagine. But for most of us, we don't deal with data. We deal with, with, you know, just conjecture and imagination. And unfortunately, human imagination believes negative more than positive, remembers negative more than positive, imagines negative more than positive. And this is, all of these things are patently, they are things which are obviously wrong and we should not do them. So, but we have to consciously tell ourselves that I will not anticipate the worst all the time. By all means, prepare for the worst. No, nothing wrong with that. But at the same time, anticipate good. Alhamdulillah, just look at our own track record with Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, you know, if somebody is good to you for, if somebody is a friend of yours for some few months, a couple of years and so on, we say, SubhanAllah, oh, this friend of mine, my best friend, you know, I'm willing to, you know, I'm willing to, I'm willing to, I'm willing to, he will give my, he or she will give their life for me. I'm willing to give my life. Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala has kept us beautifully from the day we were born until today. Alhamdulillah. Right? Alhamdulillah, mashallah, for those of who, for those who have faced calamities and so on and so on, this is something which is also tabai, which is also, there is, there is a benefit which comes with ease, right? Which comes with difficulty. There is benefit or ease which comes with difficulty. When we look at something, for example, if somebody dies shaheed, you know, on the face of it, the person died, but then he died a shaheed, which means that for him, jannah is guaranteed. So, this is something to really think about and so on and ask ourselves, we ask Allah to, to help us to face calamities. Final point I want to say here is that I have also, Avin Masjid put out a GoFundMe link to help our brother and sister and I am asking, I am asking, I am asking, I am asking, I am asking, I am asking, I am asking, I am asking, I am asking, I am asking Umair to include that in this Fajr reminder. So, do scroll down, find it and may Allah Ta'ala give you the tawfiq to spend for the benefit of this, of this family because, believe me, wallahi subhanAllah, it is them today, it could have been any of us and we ask Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to keep everyone, all of us safe and in His care so that we live this life in a way that is pleasing to Him Jalla Jalaluhu and we meet Him in a state when He is pleased with us. Wa sallallahu ala nabil kareem wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in bi rahmatik ya rukh urra.
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  • Eyyaka Na’abudu

    Eyyaka Na’abudu
    Jan 22 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 Prophet and 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. My brothers and sisters, the entire essence of Islam is collected in this very short ayat of Surah Al-Fatiha where Allah SWT said, إِيَّا كَنَعْبُدُ وَإِيَّا كَنَسْتَعِينَ The whole of Islam, everything in Islam is collected in these two phrases. إِيَّا كَنَعْبُدُ وَإِيَّا كَنَسْتَعِينَ We ask, we worship only you, Ya Rabb, and we ask help only from you. إِيَّا كَنَعْبُدُ وَإِيَّا كَنَسْتَعِينَ And this is the hadith of Rasulullah SAW also where he said, worship only Allah and do not join partners with Him. And do not ask anyone for anything. Don't ask anyone for anything. Ask Allah. Ask Allah SWT. If we take this and see, إِيَّا كَنَعْبُدُ that we worship only Allah SWT, the five pillars of Islam are collected in that. So when we say, أَشَهَدُوا لَا إِلَٰهِ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَأَشَهَدُوا أَنَّ مُحَمَّدَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ The Shahada, the first pillar, there is no one who is, joined with Allah in this. أَشَهَدُوا لَا إِلَٰهِ إِلَّا اللَّهُ I bear witness that there is no one worthy of worship except Allah. وَأَشَهَدُوا أَنَّ مُحَمَّدَ رَسُولُ اللَّهُ And I bear witness that Muhammad SAW is the Rasul, is the Messenger of Allah, which means that I accept that there is nobody worthy of worship except Allah. And I worship Allah, in the way that Rasulullah SAW worshipped him. That is the meaning of أَشَهَدُوا أَنَّ مُحَمَّدَ رَسُولُ اللَّهُ If you accept that Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى is worthy of worship, then how do you worship him? In the way of Rasulullah SAW. The way Rasulullah SAW worshipped Allah, I worship Allah. So if you take this and expand it and say, when you say the way, Rasulullah SAW worshipped Allah, it refers to Salah, it refers to Namaz, from the beginning to the end, all that is necessary before you come for Salah, which is Tahara and Wudu and so on. And then the Salah itself, what do you do, how do you make your Niyah, how do you do Takbeer, Taharima, after that what do you recite, after that Surah Al-Fatiha, what do you say, after that the next, after that the next, after that Surah Al-Fatiha, what do you do, Ruku, Sujood, everything. How do you do it? The way Rasulullah SAW did it. Which means that it is fard upon you to find out how he did it. Right? Because any other way of doing it is not acceptable before Allah SWT. This is the meaning of the verse, the way, this is the meaning of Ashtadhu Billahi Ilayh Illam, that I worship only Allah, how do I do that? The way Rasulullah SAW did it. Not the way my father did it, or I am doing it, or somebody else is doing it, or my Sheikh is doing it, or my teacher is doing it, or no. The way the Rasulullah SAW did it, and Allah SWT in His mercy caused every detail about Rasulullah SAW's life to be preserved. Everything. From the smallest detail to the largest detail. There is no one whose life is so completely preserved as the life of Rasulullah SAW. If you read Imam Tirmidhi's Shamailul Muhammadiyah, which is called Shamail-e-Tirmidhi, everything is described. Everything is described. Everything is described. How many grey or white hair were there in the blessed beard and the head of Rasulullah SAW is counted and measured. What was the, what, how were the soles of his feet? Can you imagine anybody to be described in that kind of detail? How did he clip his feet? How did he clip his feet? How did he clip his feet? How did he clip his feet? How did he clip his nails? From which finger did he start? Where did he end? And so on. So also is Salah. Everything. And that is why they say, they say both of these things. They say God is in the details, and they say the details are in the head. The devil is in the details. It's important for every single thing to be known, and to be practiced. For example, in Salah, the Rukun of the Salah, the pillar of the Salah, is Qiyam, is Ruku, is Sajda. Right? How you go into Ruku, is Sajda. How you go into Ruku, is also part of the Salah. How you are in Ruku, the position is also to be learnt, is also part of Salah. From Ruku, to completely stand up fully, Nabi said, stand up fully and stay there until the bones come to rest. So many times you see people pray, they go to Ruku, they just come up half way, and they go into Sajda. Some people literally die from Ruku into Sajda. Salah is invalid. Salah becomes invalid. And I don't make it up. There is a...
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