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Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

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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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  • King or Khalifa

    King or Khalifa
    Jan 21 2026
    Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wasalatu wasalamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasliman kathiran kathiran. Hama baadu, my brothers and sisters, Allah SWT when He created Azam alayhi salam, before He created Azam alayhi salam, Allah SWT said, to the malaika, inni ja'ilun fil ardi khalifa. He said, I have decided to send on the earth a khalifa. Allah did not say, inni ja'ilun fil ardi malik. Allah did not say, I have decided to send on the earth a king, a khalifa. Who is a khalifa? A khalifa is one, the difference between a malik and a khalifa. A king, is somebody who is, who makes the laws. The king issues a farban. From tomorrow, this will happen. It will happen. Nobody, will question the king. So the first one, the king makes the laws. Number two, nobody can question the king. Why did you do this? Because I am the king. My word is law. Right? I am the state. This is the position of kingship. So king makes the laws. Nobody can question the king. And good and bad, is decided based on one criterion, which is, does it please the king? Is the king happy with that? It is good. If the king is not happy, it is bad. In the case of the khalifa, all these three are different. The khalifa does not make laws. The khalifa implements laws. He follows the laws, and he makes sure the law is followed in the states. Number two, the khalifa is questionable and answerable to the king. You cannot ask the king, why did you say this? No. But the khalifa, is answerable. The king can ask him, will ask him. And the third thing is, in the case of the king, good and bad is, what pleases the king. In the case of the khalifa, it is what pleases the king, not what pleases the khalifa. Right? So if I am the king, I will say, good is what pleases me. But if I am the khalifa, I will say, good is what pleases the king, not me. Even if I don't like something, I have to do it, because it pleases the king. Now this is very, very important. When we think about ourselves, the reason I am saying this is not for, some intellectual benefit. I am saying this because, this is the reality. This is our reality today. And the reason why, we have problems, is because we have forgotten this. We have forgotten that we are not kings. We want to live in this life, as if we are kings. And that's where the problem is. We want to make our own laws. And by laws, I don't mean parliament and this and that. I am saying, laws in terms of what we apply to ourselves. Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala made a law, but we choose to follow it, or we don't choose, or we choose not to follow it. Selective obedience, is disobedience. Because if you are selecting, obey, if Allah has made three laws, you say, I will obey number one, I will obey number three, but number two, I don't like. This is not the, way a, Khalifa is to behave. That is why, if I ask myself, or ask you, are you Allah, or are you Abdullah? Which one are you? Astaghfirullah, Ilazim, Nauzubillah. You are not Astaghfirullah, Nauzubillah. Are you Allah? Are you God? Or are you, Abdullah, the slave of Allah? You are not Khadimullah. What is the word for, servant in Arabic? Khadim. Look it up. Go into Google Translate, and type, servant, and translate into Arabic. It will never say, Abd, it will say, Khadim. So are we, are we, Khuddamullah, or are we, Abdullah, Abdullah. So I'll, I'll talk about this tomorrow, InshaAllah. But today, as far as the, King and the, Vice-Chairman is concerned, the Khalifa is concerned, there was aifa from, Hussain, Mahmud, there is a wholeょ, you, One of the things which Hyderabad is known for and known for negatively, there is nothing to feel proud about it. People laugh at us. We should be ashamed. Is the Hyderabadi weddings. Right? We have become so shameless, we don't even feel ashamed. What would people say? If the wedding is at 8 o'clock, if it is at 10 o'clock, people start coming. They don't say. This is a good thing or a bad thing? People are praising us. They are laughing at us. They invited us at 8 o'clock, you must go only at 10. Only if you go at 10 then people will start coming. So is this something to feel proud about or something to feel ashamed about? The ostentatious spending in weddings. Right? Who are you showing off to? Who are you trying to show off to? I was in Jeddah once and one of my friends, there is one huge function place in Jeddah. Some, some name like this. The massive halls. The huge halls. The huge halls. So he told me that, so one of the, he told me the name of the Saudi person and he said he had his daughter's engagement here and he spent 30 million riyal. Daughter's engagement. So after the wedding, after the dowry, people wanted to impress her. She said, you are a very good person. You are a very good person. I said what is the big deal here. So even if some people want to impress her- it goes up to only 30 billion. If ...
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