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Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

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  • Sunrise in Madina

    Sunrise in Madina
    Nov 28 2025
    https://youtu.be/v2Wa6C1cdgM Auto-generated transcript: As-salāmu ʿalaykum wa rahmatullāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Muhammadu Rasulullahi sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Faham abadu. Brothers and sisters, my dear brother and friend Atif. Atif Nasir from Kuwait. He told me, do go to the top of the roof after fajr. The sunrise is amazing. I didn't realize how true, what exactly he meant. Because when I come here, it's like being on another planet. Suhara is so incredibly beautiful. I cannot even imagine. I cannot even describe it. The roof is beautiful. It has carpets everywhere. And I was hoping to get a sighting of the Mount Rakhud. But that looks like it might not happen because in the direction of Ahud, there is a, the roof is not completely open. They have a sort of wall and a roofed veranda all around. So, on the roof you are open to the sky for part of it, part of it, but you can also shelter under the veranda if you need to. But okay, alhamdulillah. What I can see is so incredibly beautiful. It's cold. Madina is cold in the morning. So, but it's not badly cold. It's not bitterly cold. It's a very, very beautiful scene. Suha Allah. Waiting for the sun to rise. Inshallah. And it is unbelievable. I was going to talk about Mount Rakhud with the picture. But I guess that is not the case. I guess that is not to be in this particular video. But Inshallah. I can still talk about the mountain. I guess without the mountain being in the picture. I'm literally within sighting distance of the Mount Rakhud. And I will take a picture of the Mount Rakhud and show it to you. Before I go there, you can see here, this minar, which is a pointed one, which you can see there. Oops. That went off quite fast. Okay, that one. That pointed one is the minar, which is the one that is in front of me. And that is the one that is in front of me. And that is the one that is in front of me. This is the minar, which is next to the Gubbat Al-Hudra, the green dome of the best brother of Rasul Allah . So that is the minar of the dome. Now, this is the roof. So I was talking about the mount of Ahad. The mount of Ahad is, The Mahantra Vahad is, as I said, I'm literally sort of a very short walk away from the Mahantra Vahad. From where I'm standing, if the built-up area was not there, I would be able to see the Mahantra Vahad very, very clearly. That is actually my intention of coming up here. But, khair inshaAllah. The Mahantra Vahad is the Mahantra of history. It's the Mahantra which knows the history of the Muslims. It is the Mahantra about which Rasulullah said, the Mahantra of Vahad loves us and we love Vahad. And so that is the importance of Vahad is clear from many, many Ahadiths where Vahad is mentioned both literally as well as allegorically. For example, goodness, like the goodness of the, as much as the Mahantra Vahad, good deeds, the size of the Mahantra Vahad, a date seed, given in sadaqa by somebody who is poor. And that one date, so that one date seed, all that this person has and gives that sadaqa, Allah will make it grow like the mountain of Vahad made of gold and so forth. Many Ahadith, alhamdulillah, which are, which talk about the fazilat and the position, the prominence of this mountain in the seerah of Rasulullah . The mountain of Vahad is the mountain which gave shelter to Rasulullah in the battle of Vahad. When the Muslims had lost the battle, the mountain of Vahad was witness to the reason they lost the battle. After having won it, the mountain of Vahad, those that Rasulullah had given this instruction, this command, that nobody must leave, that the archers must not leave their post, until he commanded them to do that. But they left their post. And they left their post not because they had suddenly become bhaagi or rebels, or they stopped believing, in Islam and believing in Rasulullah . None of that. They left their post for a, for a reason, may Allah forgive us, the kind of reason that we give ourselves, which is that we take, we take one of the Ahadith, we take one of the command of Rasulullah , and we say that, oh you see, but logically that command is not valid anymore, because the reason for the command is, gone, and therefore I need not obey that command. And that's exactly what the archers said. Those among them who saw the others, the other Muslims collecting booty, they said, well, the command of not giving the mountain really applied while the battle was going on. But now the battle is over, and the booty is being collected by people, and if we don't go, and if we don't exert ourselves, and we ...
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    13 mins
  • Ask “Why?” Not, “What?”

    Ask “Why?” Not, “What?”
    Nov 27 2025
    https://youtu.be/UHamiG5ea7k Auto-generated transcript: Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafil abdiyaj wal mursaleen. Alhamdulillahi Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasliman kaseeran kaseera. Abna al-Badu. My brothers and sisters, Subhanallah, I never get tired of these beautiful views of Al-Masjid al-Nabi wa al-Sharif. Once again, I'm sitting very close to the Roda Mubarak. Just behind it, a few steps away. I am thinking of the Hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. The first Hadith in Bukhari, narrated by one of the Qatab-ul-Anhu, who said that Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he heard Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam say, in our Aamalu Biniyat, that the reward of the deeds, or the deeds are based on their intention, the intention with which they are done. The reason I'm mentioning this Hadith is because, normally when we look at decision-making, when we look at, when we look at, especially in times of stress, in times of, you know, any kind of difficulties, and we are thinking of what to do, how to do it, what decisions to make, what might be beneficial, what might not be beneficial, so on. We think in terms of trying to project, or trying to, in a way, foresee, like for example, you might say, if I do this, such and such will happen, if I do something else, something else will happen. So, we are looking at, we are doing some sort of scenario planning, and we are trying to imagine scenarios, and we are saying to ourselves, if I do this, then this scenario will happen, and if I do that, then that scenario will happen. This scenario might unfold, if I do something else, a different scenario might unfold, and so on. Which is all really, if you look at it, an exercise in fantasy, because we don't know, and we can never know the reality. We can never know what will actually happen. So, what we are trying to say is, we are trying to kind of foresee that, to the extent possible. So, you might say, well, what is the alternative? What must we do, and why or how does this hadith relate to this issue of decision, of decision making concerning our lives? What's the connection? My submission to you is, the connection is that, instead of thinking what might happen, ask yourself, why am I doing something? So, when you are considering a decision, and you are saying that, this is what the future seems to hold, therefore, what must I do? Instead of that, think of the decision, and say, don't say, should I do this or that? Think of the decision and say, why would I do this thing? Look at the reason you are taking a decision or deciding not to take a decision. Look at the reason for it, why? I'll tell you why I'm saying that, with an example. I used to live in America in 1997 to 99, and I went to America for the reason why anybody goes to America, which is, to build a career in your life. And as part of that process, I had a partner, a business partner, with whom I was planning to set up a training company. We needed $1 million to start. We started fundraising, and we raised $250,000. We raised about 25% of what we need. We raised that in a pretty short time, just for a month, for less than a month. My partner was absolutely thrilled. And he said to me, he said, we have arrived. So I said, how's that? He said, well, we have 25% of what we need, and the bank will give us the rest. So I went silent for a while. He said, why are you silent? I said, because, I said, we need to have a talk. He said, what talk? So we sat in his house, and this was about maybe 9 o'clock or something in the night. And we talked till the following morning, the whole night. I said to him that, there are two things that we cannot do. One is, we have to do something. And the other is, we cannot do. Thirdly, I can't do. I cannot participate with you if you do them. So the first thing we cannot do is to borrow money on interest. Irrespective of the reason, irrespective of the amount of interest. We are not borrowing money on interest. Number one. I said, this is an absolutely, as far as I'm concerned, it's an absolutely written in stone rule. We cannot borrow money on interest. And I said, the second thing we cannot do is to use alcohol as in any of our promotional events. So no wine and cheese parties, and no product launches with drinks and stuff. And of course, I also said to him, no use of women. Either as, you know, in pictures or actual women in any of the promotional activities. So I said, these are the two or three things that we absolutely cannot do under any circumstances. He looked at me as if I was crazy. He said, do you realize where we are living? I said, yeah. Why? He said, what difference does it make? He said, because in this country, this country America, this country America is America because of interest. He said, this is the biggest benefit we have that we don't need to raise all the money. And you want to wipe that out in ...
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    15 mins
  • How to live a life of influence

    How to live a life of influence
    Nov 26 2025
    https://youtu.be/Inc0bp3k3PI Auto-generated transcript: Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alameen, wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafil biya'i wa al-mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi, wa sahbihi wa sallamu ala alayhi wa sallamu ala alayhi wa sallam. A person says, I am standing here at the window of my room in Hilton, in Medina. And as you can see, literally, a very short walk from here, maybe just over 100 meters. This is the Masjid al-Nabawiwaye Sharif. Today, as I'm standing here, I'm thinking to myself, many, if not all of us are literally obsessed with one thought in our minds, and that is, how can I live a life of power and influence? And I want to say to you that, from where I'm sitting, as I mentioned to you, literally, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30 on them, they slide sideways and in the evening sometimes they open them so that you have this little open courtyard, not very little, quite big actually, open to the skies. Very, very beautiful to sit there with the beautiful breeze of Madina blowing directly into the Masjid. And these are the umbrellas that cover now, they have covered it, King Abdullah. May Allah forgive him and be pleased with him. He is responsible for covering the entire courtyard all around Masjid, which is a huge, huge, huge relief for the people who come here from the sun. And of course, it increases obviously the capacity for the people. So, we have this example of the Prophet Muhammad . And the reason I'm saying most powerful and influential is because as I look down here, you can see all those cars and buses there moving at a snail's pace because of… it's almost a traffic jam. And we have here the people… May Allah bless them down here on the ground. People who are here for one purpose only and that is to go to the Masjid-e-Nabawi-e-Sharif, to pray there and to present their salaam to Rasulallah . Literally I can tell you, I can stand here by this window for 24 hours and this stream of people, they are all here. This stream of people walking towards the Masjid-e-Nabawi ends 24-7, day and night, there are people who are going to the Masjid. And walking there, walking back, that's all they do. Alhamdulillah, I have had the pleasure and the privilege of being one of them. Now, how did this happen? How does this happen? How do you become powerful and influential? How do you become powerful and influential in this life? Paradoxically, it is by defocusing from this life and focusing on the hereafter. And that is the message of Rasulallah in a gist of it, which is the… literally in a nutshell, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, we can actually do something. In our entire existence, we began in the ilm of Allah SWT, in the knowledge of Allah SWT. From there we went into the Alam Al Arwah, the world of the souls. From there we, when Allah SWT, we stayed in the Alam Al Arwah, the world of the souls for Advokatul Ravisht. And then when Allah SWT decreed, we came to the wombs of our mothers. And then, we stayed there, for, period, of, whatever, number, of, months, and, then, we, were, rejected, into, this, world, extremely, unhappy, that, having, changed, our, situation, yelling, and, screaming, our, guts, out, and, then, we, suddenly, fell, in, love, with, We live in this world and we live in this world for as long as Allah decrease and just like we had no control over when we came into this world, we will have no control over when we leave this world. And then for most of us, that leaving of this world will also be, it may not be like yelling and screaming, but certainly something that you leave with great reluctance. And the key is to remember that just like this world, we had no conception of what this world is like. When we were in the womb of our mothers, we have really no actual experiential knowledge of what the aakhira will be like when we leave this world. But leaving this world is as inevitable as it was leaving the womb of our mothers. And it's with one difference, which is that when we were in the womb of our mothers, nobody came to us and to tell us about the joys of this world and what we are going to see here and so on and so forth. And we, where we were, we thought that was the ultimate. We were in a nice warm place and we had no, we were not in danger. We got our food on time and we were taken care of and all our needs were met. We really couldn't ...
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    12 mins
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