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Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

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  • Khushoo is the soul of Salah

    Khushoo is the soul of Salah
    Dec 25 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wasalatu wasalamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahibus salam. Tasleeman kathiran kathira. My brothers and sisters, somebody much wiser than I am said this, and I'm only repeating. And he said, what if I told you the ummah's downfall didn't begin with politics or culture or society. It began on the prayer mat. It began on the prayer mat. What is the first thing lost from the ummah? It is not hijab. It is not honesty. It is not charity. It is something far more subtle and almost gone. Rasulullah, he sallallahu alayhi wa sallam warned us. And he said, the first thing to be lifted from my ummah is khusho. Not prayer itself, not fasting, not rituals. Khusho. The heart inside the prayer. The body stays Muslim. The soul slips away. Now think about that again. The prayer remains. The movements remain. The words remain. The masjid, the prayers remain. The presence, the huzur of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala disappears. The humility disappears. The trembling disappears. The softness disappears. We keep the shell. We lose the soul. Why is this terrifying? Because when khusho is lost, you still pray. But your prayer doesn't lift you. Doesn't soften you. Doesn't restrain you. Doesn't change you. You pray with your limbs, but not with your heart. This is how an ummah decays from within. The ummah lost khusho when we started rushing. We started multitasking. We started treating prayer like a chore. Something to be done and finished with. We started thinking about everything except sallam. We started thinking about everything except Allah. Think about what happens in the sallam. Our bodies enter sallam. Our minds stay in the dunya. This is how khusho dies. The painful reality. Today we know the motions of sallam better than their meaning. We perfect our tajweed, but not our attention. We memorize surahs, but not salanda. We inherited the ritual, not the reverence. Khusho is not crying. Khusho is not crying. Khusho is not crying. Khusho is not crying. It's not emotion. It's not drama. It's not fear. Khusho is being present. Being humble. Being aware. Being small before Allah. Being sincere. Being still. It is the heart kneeling in sajda before the body does. Khusho was the secret of the sahaba. They didn't pray long. They prayed deep. When they stood, their hearts trembled. When they bowed, their egos bent. When they prostrated, the dunya disappeared. They prayed like people who knew they would die tomorrow. How to revive khusho? How to revive khusho? In one sentence. Before you say Allahu Akbar, whisper in your heart, Ya Allah, this prayer is for you. Ya Allah, this prayer is for you. Ya Allah, this prayer is for you. Not for him. Not for habit. Not for routine. Not for people. Not for discipline. For him. For Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. That intention alone changes the entire prayer. The truth no one tells you. The ummah won't be revived by more lectures, more institutes, more seminars. It will be revived the moment hearts bow the way bodies bow. Revive khusho and you revive your civilization. So ask yourself. When I pray, does Allah have my body or my heart? Because the first thing the ummah lost was khusho. And the ummah will rise again only when we find it. Inside ourselves, inside our prayer, inside our hearts. In the words of the great grammarian and great scholar of the Abbasi period, in the court of Harun Rashid, he said, I heard the Arab. The tribal Arabs, the Badu, praying to Allah. With words that opened the eyes of eloquence and opened the jewels of wisdom. And opened the jewels of wisdom. I heard him say, It is enough for me to be your slave. It is enough for me to be proud that you are my Rabb. You are as I love. So make me as you like. It is enough for me to be your slave. It is enough for me to be proud that you are my Rabb. You are as I love. So make me as you love. See how beautiful this is. It is enough for me to be your slave. It is enough for me to be proud. It is enough for me to be your slave. You are as I love. So make me as you love. SubhanAllah. It shows us that the actual thing which is important is this connection with Allah. The connection with Allah in our Salah. When we can do that, when we get that connection, Inshallah, that is where the secret of success is. The connection of with Allah SubhanAllah. I remind myself and you that SubhanAllah, we, we are not in the same place. Inshallah, we pray. At least those of us who pray, pray. But how many of us pray in a way where that prayer is beneficial for us? Where that prayer really does something for us? That is the issue. The issue is what is my Salah doing for me? And I remind myself and you that Allah SubhanAllah told us that the Salah is the tool to deal with this world. Right? To deal with this world. Because Allah SubhanAllah told us, Ya yuwa allazeena aamana usta'eenoo bisabri wa salah. O you who...
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  • Dua is Ibaadah

    Dua is Ibaadah
    Dec 24 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Inna salatu wassalamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sallam. Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. My brothers and sisters, the fundamental belief of Islam is the Tawheed of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala jalla zillaluh. That there is no one worthy of worship except Allah. That there is no one who can help or harm. There is no one who can fulfill any of our needs or desires. There is no one who has any power or authority of any kind in any sphere of life. There is no one who can cure disease. Or alleviate suffering. Whether it's economic or health-wise. Or of any other kind. There is no one who has the power to decree that the converse of this has the power to decree that somebody should become sick. Somebody should have some difficulty. There is no one who can do any of these things. Illa Allah. Illa Allah. Except Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. This is the fundamental belief. And therefore, the fundamental belief also extends to the fact that when we have any need, we ask only Allah. Do not ask anyone other than Allah. We ask only Allah. And we ask only Allah without associating any partners with Him. And without going through this one or that one. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Himself commanded us and said Uda'uni astajib lakum. Allah said, ask Me and I will accept your ask. I will accept your dua and I will give you. Uda'uni astajib lakum. And Allah said the one who burns that and scorns that and does not ask, considers himself to be self sufficient and not in need of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said that He will put him fi Jahannam wa al-Dakhirin. And He will put him in the hellfire. And He will put him in the hellfire. You ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala always to keep us among those who always ask Him and who keep asking Him. And when you ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, there are three kinds of duas, if I can say that. One are the duas of the Quran. Rabbana a'tina fi al-dunya hasanatan wa fi al-akhirati hasanatan wa ila azama na'ar. Wa Rabb, give us goodness in this life and give us goodness in the life of the Hereafter. And save us from the hellfire. Rabbana la tuzikqaluwana ba'dayzi hadaytina wahablana milladinkar rahma. Innaka anta al-wahaba. O Allah, do not allow our hearts to change after You have guided them. And many others. The distinction of the duas of the Quran is that they all begin with Rabbana. So all the Rabbana duas are from the Quran al-Karim. And then there are the duas of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And obviously nobody can make better duas than Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam himself. No one can make better duas than Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was connected to Allah more than him, more than he was. And so his duas are the most beautiful duas in the world. And his duas are so comprehensive, they cover every aspect of life. It's a very good thing to memorize some of those duas and to ask. And his duas all begin with Allahumma. Allahumma. Allahumma a'ini al-adhi. Allahumma a'ala adhikrika wa shukrika wa husni ibadatika. The dua that he taught to be recited after every Salam. Allahumma a'ini, oh Allah, help me. Ala adhikrika, in your remembrance, adhikrika wa shukrika. And to help me to become grateful to you. Wa husni ibadatika and to beautify my ibadat. So Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam's duas are the beginning usually with, almost always with Allahumma. We know the famous story concerning Ramadan where, and Lailatul Qadr specifically where Aisha Siddiqua radiallahu anha, may Allah bless her and raise her darajat and fill her qabar with noor. Our mother and one of our greatest teachers, Aisha Siddiqua radiallahu anha asked Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, she said, Ya Rasulullah, if I were to get Lailatul Qadr, what must I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? Which is the best dua to make? And he taught her the famous dua which we all know, alhamdulillah. Where she, where he said to her, ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and said, Allahumma inna ka'afu. Tuhibbul aafu fa aafu anni. Allah, you are the forgiver. You love to forgive. So forgive me. On a side note, I must caution myself and you that the best form of any dua is the, any dua of the Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the best form of that dua is exactly the way that he taught us to make. So don't, don't add to it. Don't try to improve it. Because there is no way that you can improve a dua of the Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So don't try to improve it. For example, this dua, Allahumma inna ka'afu. Tuhibbul aafu fa aafu anni. This is what Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam taught Sayyidina Aisha sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Sayyidina Qadr al-A'am, alhamdulillah, and it came to us. Now, usually people add Kareem. Kareem. Allahumma ...
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  • Be careful what you die with

    Be careful what you die with
    Dec 23 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen Muhammadu Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbuhu sallam. Tasliman kathiran kathiran. My brothers and sisters, I went to visit the grave of my brother-in-law Akbar Jang. Absolutely wonderful human being. And I realized that this was the first time I came to Delhi when he was not there. The first time I came to Delhi was after I got married. And then every time I've come here, we have come and always stayed with them. My sister-in-law and Akbar Bhai. One of the nicest human beings that I have ever had the pleasure and privilege to know. Extremely polite, very cultured, highly educated. A thinking person. And a person with whom you had, you know, he was very sociable. He would speak to anybody. I mean, he would speak to, from the greatest scholar to literally the, you know, the rickshaw puller. And he would do this. He would just walk around in the street and he would talk to anybody. You know, people who are selling something, he would stand there. He would talk to them in the most affectionate. And wonderful manner. He wouldn't sort of talk down to anybody. Very polite and very, very erudite. And you could speak to him literally on any subject on the face of the planet. He was a very well-read person. Very kind, very helpful. You know, thorough, thorough, thorough gentleman. And one of the best things that I can, that I remember about him was that in 40 years that I knew him. And I've, you know, we've lived with him. So, I've. You would have spoken in 40 years. I would have heard him speak for God knows how many hours. Not one single time did I ever hear him say anything negative about anybody else. Amazing. No. Never, never. Not one word of. Not one word of. Not one word of any casting, any aspersions on anybody. Any insinuations. Saying anything negative about. Not even once. In 40 years. Of. Of. We staying with them. They're coming and staying with us and so on. Absolutely fabulous human being. Akbar Ismail. And so, I went there to his khawar. And, of course, I make dua. May Allah make it easy for you. Allahumma khafirlahu wa rahamahu wa aafihi wa aafu anhu wa krim nuzulahu wa si mudkhalahu wa ghasilu ilmaaii wa althaljii wa albarad wa naqihihimina alqataya kamaa naqaitu thawbul abiyadu min al-danas. Allahumma adkhilahu fi jannatil firdausi laala bi ghairi hisaab. We ask Allah to bless him, to fill his khabar with nur, to forgive his sins, to grant him jandatul firdausul ala without his saab. We ask Allah to grant sabr to his family. We ask Allah to protect him from all the difficulties of the khabar and of the fire of Jahannam. We ask Allah to forgive his sins. Because Allah is Ghafoorul Rahim, He is Rahmanul Rahim. And there is no sin that anybody can do which is beyond Allah's forgiveness inshaAllah. And Alhamdulillah Akbar Wahi was a good Muslim and he died on Islam. We ask Allah to bless him and to help him in this time when the only one who can help us is Allah. Peace be upon you. see you will see a mound of sand and this is true for every one of us no matter how glorious and magnificent we might be in life when we die and we are buried a mound of sand is all that will remain and that's why the poet said he said the the mirage of life the truth about the mirage of life is this that as soon as your eyes shut you become a story from is you become was your name itself will disappear from people's tongues the moment you die because if you if you think about this when you go to somebody's janaza they will bring the janaza they will put it on one side and they will say that after the Salah after whichever fard Salah say Salatul Asr say after Salatul Asr there will be a Salatul janaza right Asr ki naaaz kay baad mein naaaz kay janaza padi jaaegi then after the Salah is over what will they say please form the safs for Salatul Janazah and then they will say bring the mayyat or bring the janazah, bring the mayyat they will not say bring Yaver Bhai, they will not say Sheikh Yaver to go either love no, they will say bring the mayyat so what happened to my name I mean the people who are saying bring the mayyat are people who know me, are people who are related to me, right, are people who love me inshallah but they will not say bring Sheikh Yaver, bring Yaver Bhai, bring Yaver no, they will say bring the mayyat my name is gone and I my body is not cold yet almost to that extent I have just been given ghusl and I have been clothed in my kafan and I am there I am not even in the ground and people have stopped using my name to the extent that if somebody says bring Sheikh Yaver here or bring Yaver Bhai here or bring Mr. Beg here people will say you have gone mad what are you saying, how do you say bring Mr. Beg Mr. Beg is dead, he is gone bring the janazah bring the body bring the mayyat and then you put the person in the grave now what goes into the grave, Rasulullah ...
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