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Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

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  • Fear being called to account

    Fear being called to account
    Nov 23 2025
    https://youtu.be/RHuqcOwaSFE Auto-generated transcript:As-salatu wa-s-salamu ala ayyashah, fila mihi wa-l-musa'il, muhammad wa-s-salamu ala ayyashah, wa-l-mahdi wa-s-salamu alayhi wa-l-mahdi wa-s-salamu taslimu, My brothers and sisters, I spoke to you about brotherhood yesterday. And as I am sitting here, as Masih Darwish Shariff, looking at this beautiful architecture, I cannot help but relate it to what I said, which is, see the effect of togetherness. See the arches, see the curves of the arches, see the curves of the pattern, see how the pattern relates one to the other, and creates this absolutely beautiful image, which would not be possible if the relationships were not there. But thanks to the fact that there are the relationships between the patterns, we have these wonderful, these beautiful, these beautiful, these beautiful, these beautiful, these beautiful, so beautiful, so lovely to see how this is one straight line and it's all connected. And that is the nature of life. Alhamdulillah we have, as you know in the Haram in Madinah, these are the AC vents, air conditioning vents. Temperature is beautifully maintained, neither very cold, obviously never warm. Very very beautiful temperature control. All that glitters here is polished brass, polished very lovingly every bit of it the whole time. Lighting is just good, neither too bright nor too dark. These chairs, and you can see there are a series of them in this line, all the way, as you can see. These are the chairs of the teachers. Chairs of teachers who teach. We have Dars, we have Khatiras after usually the Maghrib, Sathya, Isha. And see the other one, the chairs are covered and nobody sits on them. Very unlike some masajid where the chair of the Imam is a piece of, is a subject of dispute. And people sitting on it and then being told not to sit on it. They take offense and all kinds of nonsense that happens. One of the things that we, we have to understand is that, we have to understand that, we have a lot of frivolity, frivolity, frivolity, frivolity, frivolity, frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity see the whole year. And the thing that struck me the most always was this whole sense of Adam. Even everywhere, I mean here, quite clearly nobody calls you by name. No way that anyone would ever call me by name. So, immigration officer, imagine that I'm at the airport, with the immigration officer, I'm trying to get my fingerprinting. And my fingerprints always give me trouble, you know. Because my hands get a lot of work, how they lie, even how they do. So, the fingerprints are almost rubbed off. So, I'm trying to do that. The immigration officer is telling me to place them in a certain way. And he addresses me as Baba. And the first couple of times he said, Baba, I didn't even realize you were speaking to me. I'm thinking, why is he saying Baba? Who's the… I realized it's me. He said, Baba. Baba, here, here, here. Baba, here. He says, here, here, here. Baba, here. He's telling me to put my finger on this on a scanner. SubhanAllah, immigration officer, you only hear this here, you hear Baba, you hear Sheikh, their uncle, my uncle, once in a while, my father, youngsters introduce themselves. They say, I am your son, Abu Bakr. I am your son, Abu Bakr. I am your son, Abu Bakr. He won't say, I am Abdul Rahman. No. He says, I am your son. I am your son. Very, very, the level of politeness, it's a beautiful thing, Wallahi Subhanallah, to live in a Muslim country where the culture is Islam. It's not, and believe me, I have stayed in, I have been to Egypt several times. I have been to the UAE, I don't know how many times. I have been to Oman, I have been to Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, many times, of course, Saudi Arabia many times. The same thing. It doesn't matter which country. All, Alhamdulillah, Muslim lands are like this. With people who are steeped in their culture. The culture is a culture of respect, of mutual respect, of respect for age, respect for knowledge, and assumptions. You know, it's assumption of knowledge. Age, of course, at least, is very important. Age, of course, at least, is very important. It's a basis for it. It's a basis for it. It's a basis for it. It's a basis for it. It's a basis for it. It's a basis for it. It's a basis for it. 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  • Remember the Brotherhood

    Remember the Brotherhood
    Nov 22 2025
    https://youtu.be/ZfEUYrA0rC8 Auto-generated transcript:As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillah. Ya Rabbi al-Alamin. Wa sallatu wa sallam ala ashra min al-fiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sallam. Tasbeeman kathiran kathiran. Ummabadum. My brothers and sisters, alhamdulillah. I am in Masjid al-Nabiyyat al-Sharif. As you can see, this classic architecture, all of us who have been here are familiar with it. I also know the architecture. May Allah bring you here as soon as you want to come here. InshaAllah. You know what strikes me? Two things that strike me here. One is that I am actually sitting, if you think about it, I am just actually sitting here within maybe 100 meters of the Rau'dah of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. The Rau'dah is where he is buried, but that's where he used to live. That was his house. And the what we know today as the Riyadh ul Jannah, which is that part of the Masjid between his house and his mimbar, which he said this is a garden from among the gardens of Jannah. Al-Riyadh Al-Rau'dah means Riyadh ul Jannah. A garden from the gardens of Jannah. Now, I always make this dua whenever I have the honor and opportunity to pray in Riyadh ul Jannah, which yesterday I did. I always make this dua that Allah, Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, told us that once you enter Jannah, once a person enters Jannah, Allah will not throw him out. Dhaariqah huwa al-fawthu al-adheem. Allah said this is the final success after which there is no test. No more test. Final success. That is when one enters Jannah. So I make this dua and I say Allah, you caused me to enter Riyadh ul Jannah which Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said is a garden from the gardens of Jannah. So don't send me out. Do not send me out. Because you allowed me in here. I came here with your permission, with your help. Because you wanted me to come here. Because of your mercy, because of your forgiveness, because of your kindness. So please do not deny that to me. Do not send me away from here. We ask Allah to accept this dua that everyone who has prayed in Riyadh ul Jannah, may Allah give them Jannah. Because He already gave them Jannah. And may Allah never take them out from Jannah. May Allah make us a part of Jannah. May Allah make us a part of Jannah. May Allah make us a part of Jannah. We ask you for Jannah and we ask you for protection from the fire. So what strikes me when I come here is that this place or the little villages I mentioned before off track for everyone except for the few Arabs who lived here. In the time of the great empires, the great Persian empire, the great Roman empire, the Eastern Roman empire, the Pajat Khan empire, the time of the empires, this was a full on place. Nobody cared about it. Nobody wanted it. Nobody ruled it. Nobody wanted to rule it. And so this became a place which this became a big blessing for the Arabs because since they were people who nobody cared about, nobody interfered with them. Subhanallah, today, I think one of the biggest problems of the Arabs today is that everybody within courts cares for them. Right? Most of them care for them like a lion cares for the antelope. He loves the antelope. But not in the way that he wants. The antelope wants to be loved. Anyway, that's a different story. But the point I'm saying is that it left them alone to have their own culture. It left this area alone for itself. It left this area alone for itself. And so the people who were living in this area were not living in this area. They were living in this area. And so the people who were living in this area, they were living in this area. And so Allah created us and the only one who is worthy of worship. The one who created us, the one who sustains us, the one who feeds us, the one who protects us and the one to whom we will all return. There is no doubt about this fact. It doesn't matter whether you believe it or you don't believe it because this will happen. This will happen. But one day we will return to Allah. And sitting here reminds me of this that this very simple but very incredibly powerful thought or philosophy, the philosophy and thought of Tawhid started from here and went around the world. Started from here and went right around the world. To every corner. To every human being wherever he or she lives. I think I can safely say that there is not a living person today who has not heard about Islam. Who does not… who may not know Islam as they are understanding it. But the basic fundamental belief that this is the worship of the Creator, the worship of the one God, the only God. I… The person who understands Islam. Who understands… who hears that may say, well I don't agree with that. Sure, no problem. Don't agree. But does it change anything? If you don't agree that gravity exists, will gravity disappear? If you don't agree that the earth revolves around the sun, will that...
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  • From Masjid An Nabawi Ash-Shareef

    From Masjid An Nabawi Ash-Shareef
    Nov 20 2025
    https://youtu.be/Ir_IfT4260g Auto-generated transcript: Bismillahirrahmanirrahim, Alhamdulillah, wa bilalameen, wa salatu wassalamu ala ashraf, bi zanbi wal mursaleen, Muhammadur Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi, wa sallamu wa sallam, tasliman kaseeran kaseera. Umma baadu, for those of you who can recognize this, you know where I am, I don't need to explain, that is the bottom of the green dome, the raudha of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa alaihi wa sallam, and I am in Masjid Nabiyyat-e-Sharif, Alhamdulillah, it's a beautiful, beautiful scene. May Allah bless all the people here. What you are seeing here is the sufrat, the dastarkhans, the food that is being spread out, and all of this is privately funded. There are families in Medina who have been doing this for literally centuries. We're right through Ramadan, and then throughout the year, every Monday and Thursday, the days of sunnah fasting, they give iftar to anyone who wants to eat. Nobody will even ask you if you are fasting or not. You can just sit down and you will eat, and there's beautiful food. I'm in this area which is normally an open space. It's a small courtyard, but they have these beautiful, these beautiful umbrellas that automatically open and shut. That's a wonderful sight to see also when it happens. So beautiful to be in Masjid Nabiyyat-e-Sharif. I remember the very first time I came here was in 1997, when my wife and I came here for the first hajj. And it was amazing. When I came to Medina itself, and then especially when I entered Masjid Nabiyyat-e-Sharif, it was like coming home. Now, I've been, I've traveled all over the world. I've been to many countries first time, and I know the feeling of first time. I know how it feels. It's some anxiety. There is obviously some excitement, obviously, but there is also anxiety. There is, you know, some level of, I wouldn't say fear, but, you know, you're wondering what's going to happen and so on. But here it was like coming home. And I'm coming to a place for the first time, never been here before. And this is the barakah of Rasulullah ﷺ and his beautiful maqam. Imagine, I remember 2008 when I came here, my wife and I, we came for hajj and I spoke at the International Hajj Conference. When we came to Medina after completing hajj, as we came over the little hill, and we could see the minarets of Al Hanuma Sharif of Rasool Allah ﷺ, I know the thought in my mind was, what is it about this place, which was a little oasis, unheard of probably at the time, which sent out the call for the oneness of the worship of Allah SWT, which echoed all around. And people responded and people answered and people continued to respond and answer, no matter how many people malign Islam, no matter how many Islamophobes they are, no matter what, people come to Islam, Muslims are Muslims, they are proud to be Muslims, they are happy to be Muslims, and they are people who come here, they flock here from every nation in the world. Every country. Every area. Every part of the world. As I said before, another reminder from Makkah, every complexion, every hair color, every shape of nose and eyes and mouth, every stature, the tall ones, the short ones, the large ones, the not so large ones, the thin ones, everybody from, you know, everything, they are here. If Allah made them, they are here. SubhanAllah, they come and they come for the love of Allah and they come for the love of his Habib, of Rasool Allah ﷺ, and they come for the love of the house of Allah and they come for the love of the masjid and abu-yash-sharif. SubhanAllah, imagine, what was it that made this happen? And… Because you're looking at a man who was alone and he had no resources. He had a vision and he had an aim which surpassed anything that anybody can imagine, but he had nothing to make it happen. He had nothing to make it happen. Yet, Allah swt has caused him to be the cause of millions and millions and millions of people, the 1.5 billion already in this world living, and imagine all the millions in 1500 years who came to Islam. We ask Allah swt to help them. We ask Allah swt to keep us in Islam and for us to die in Islam so we can go and meet Rasool Allah ﷺ in Jannatul Firdaus, inshaAllah. My brothers and sisters, the issue is to have a sense of awe and love and majesty of the place. And this is something that we have in both the Hanumai. And frankly, even though these are fabulous buildings, if you look at the buildings, if you look at the magnificent structure, if you look at the Haram Sharif in Makkah, it's like a city, literally like a city. Without a doubt, it's like a whole city. It's, you know, the electric power, you name it. I mean, everything is like a whole city in one mosque. But that's not what impresses. What impresses is the sense of awe and majesty. And that is nothing to do with the building or the architecture or the structure or how big it is, how small it is. It is the history. It is the sense of majesty ...
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