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Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

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  • 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
  • They work for Rasoolullahﷺ

    They work for Rasoolullahﷺ
    Nov 25 2025
    https://youtu.be/WxfsmWqWVSY Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim, Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alameen, wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafil abya'i wal mursaleen, Muhammadun Rasulullah, insallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi, wa sahbihi salam, tasliman kathiran kathira, amman wa ba'du. My brothers and sisters, I'm sitting, standing here, you can see right opposite the Prophet Sharif. I'm thinking to myself, here I am, this is the Prophet Sharif, over to the right from here, and little bit behind is the Rauza Mubarak. And if I turn around completely, and I'm looking now in that direction, which is the opposite, and I'm back to the Masjid-e-Sharif, you can see the Mount Rauhaj. Now, of course in the dark now you can't see the mountain, but that's where it is. It's literally a stone's throw from here. I'm thinking to myself, that 1500 years ago, this little village, which had this masjid, was made of mud brick, and made with the blessed labor and effort of Rasulullah, the son of himself, and all those who loved him. And now, I'm thinking, what has changed, and what has not changed? What has changed is the brick and mortar. What has changed is now that we have this magnificent structure, which is beautifully lighted. One of the things that always I'm very positively impressed with is the subtlety of the lighting of these beautiful buildings. It's the Masjid in Saudi Arabia, especially the Haramain Sharifahin, where you can see how these minarets are lighted. They seem to glow with an internal glow of themselves. The unlighted pillar-like thing that you're seeing are the umbrellas now folded. In the earlier videos, you would have seen them extended. They do that. They're on timers. They do that. They're on the roof during the daylight hours, and then in the night, as soon as it falls, sunsets, they are folded back up again. So, this is what has changed, which is the material surface things. But what has not changed, SubhanAllah, I was thinking to myself, and we were talking to some friends of mine. I met one of my very dear old friends here just now from Mangalore. He was remarking on how despite this enormous footfall, just see the people. And this is now a bit after Isha, so a lot of people have left, but still you can see this massive crowd coming out. What has not changed is the love of Muhammad ﷺ that you can see in all that happens here. Starting with the cleaning of the Masjid. The people of the Nizamah, the housekeeping who clean the Masjid, those who use machines, there are all kinds of machines. There are scrubbers and cleaners and carpet cleaners and carpet vacuumers and shampoos and all sorts of stuff. And then there are people who are just picking up stuff. And may Allah have mercy on the Muslims. There's no shortage of stuff that they throw out. They throw on the ground, but people keep picking it up. What is clear is how these people work by themselves. There's no supervision. They probably have one supervisor for every hundred people or something like that just to make sure that people are paid on time. I don't know why they even have them. But anyway, they probably have that. I don't know that they have anything more. Because you don't see any supervisors. You just see the people of the cleaning crews. They're working by themselves. What is abundantly clear is they're not doing it for the money. Because I know some of the people, these people personally, one of my very good friends is a cleaner here at Masjid al-Nabawi Sharif. And I know what he gets paid. He doesn't get paid very much. But he's been here for the last 20 years just cleaning the Masjid al-Sharif. The love of Muhammad , the love of Masjid al-Nabawi Sharif. For 20 years. Now, man is a cleaner of this beautiful Masjid. And it's not because the Masjid is beautiful, but because this Masjid is the Masjid of Muhammad . That has not changed. For 1500 years, Masjid is populated by people who love Muhammad . It's cleaned by people who love Muhammad . It's maintained by people who love Muhammad . It is, all this is done for the love of Muhammad . And Allah , may Allah reward them. These are the true billionaires and trillionaires of the world. Not the ones who cannot distinguish between good and evil. The ones who have a good lifestyle, whose sum total of their lives is the, which is to satisfy their desires. And then call it technology and what not. But with a result that they don't have any idea of what they are saying and doing. May Allah have mercy. These are the role models. These are the people who are unfortunately the role models, instead of the true role models who should be our role models. The best of them, the one without comparison is Muhammad Rasulullah . The one who Allah called Rahmatul Al-Alamin, the one who Allah called Al-Bashir wa Nazir, Da'iyanil Allahi bi-idhnihi wa sirajan bunirah. The one who Allah sent as a mercy to every creature that He created. Al-Alamin, not just Rahmatul Al-Muslimin, Rahmatul Al-Alamin. ...
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