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  • Lessons from Hatim Al Asamm – 8

    Lessons from Hatim Al Asamm – 8
    Sep 16 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family and companions. Peace be upon you all and upon you all. My brothers and sisters, we are on the last of the Hikaiyat and advice of Hatim al-Assam, may Allah have mercy on him. The eighth point, where he said, I have seen people that they place their trust in their own abilities and in things which have been created by Allah like themselves. So they trust their own abilities or they trust maqlouq. And he said, but I have read in the Quran where Allah said, And whosoever, which means whosoever has taqwa of Allah, He will extract him from his difficulties, will make a way out for him. And will provide him from sources that they could not imagine. And whoever puts their trust in Allah, then he will become sufficient for him. And so he said, Hatim al-Assam, may Allah have mercy on him. Hatim al-Assam, may Allah have mercy on him. So I have placed my trust in Allah alone. I remind myself and you that we live in this world for a short time. And then we go before Allah. And therefore it is essential for us to make sure that we do not do anything which displeases Allah . Now, if you see the advice of Hatim al-Assam, may Allah have mercy on him. And that is reason why we go before Allah. christ, and gunning into what mapping us into. And let us stop with this for a moment. and world we talk about the self-made man. I am the master of my own destiny. You must have heard these statements. These statements are kufr. Because Allah is the master of destiny, not me. But Allah has given me some abilities and therefore I must have confidence and nothing wrong with that. Now the finest example of this, and that is why I keep on saying all the time over and over again that the seerah of Rasul is the tafsir of the Quran. The seerah is the tafsir, explanation of the Quran. The point that Hatim al-Aswami is making which is that you may have confidence in yourself but ultimate confidence and trust is with Allah. This is illustrated in the story of Rasul Al-Aswami. This is illustrated in the story of Rasulul Ahmadi. This is illustrated in the story of Rasulul Ahmadi. Because Rasulullah have made his two devotions. One is he sent his safety missions, he 허� vielleicht sampai ke overcoming all the obstacles with his company and he gave his Person ofôle ahhiy DID to тем who feel, for example, thatthird ofbe puttheirrumin their series of battle, whereas his troops lose, but all the people on the course of the first journey reached to the battle of Badr. O Allah, if these people perish, then there will be no one to worship you on the face of the earth. And he said, O Allah, help me. O Allah, help me. O Allah, help me. Until Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, radiyallahu anhu, he couldn't see Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam in such a state of concern. He said to him, Basti ya Rasulullah, your Rabb will not abandon you. So does it mean he had no confidence in himself? No. He had confidence in himself. He had confidence in whatever material resources he had. But the ultimate confidence is in Allah. The issue of taqwa is to be concerned about the pleasure of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala alone. And to have a single-minded focus to say that everything I say or do, every decision I make, everything I choose to do. Whatever I decide to do or not to do will be done only with one focus, which is does it please Allah? And that is why I see the beauty of what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says. Think about this. Allah is saying, Wa ma yattakhi illa hai aja allahu makharaja. The One who has taqwa, I will extract him from his difficulties. I will help him. I will help him. Allah is saying, I will take him out of his difficulties. Allah is not saying I will give him the power to get out.
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  • Lessons from Hatim Al Asamm – 7 – The journey of my pizza

    Lessons from Hatim Al Asamm – 7 – The journey of my pizza
    Sep 16 2025
    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 prophets and messengers. Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions. Peace be upon him, and upon him, and upon him. From now on, we are looking at the story of Hatim al-Assam, peace and blessings be upon him, and the advice that he gave to people. And this is the seventh of them, seventh out of eight. He said, I have seen that people are struggling to earn their money. I've seen that people are struggling to earn their money so much that they disgrace and they demean themselves before others and even use haram means to earn their livelihood. What I have read in the Quran that Allah has said, وَمَا مِنْ دَابَّةٍ فِي الْأَرْضِ إِلَّا عَلَى اللَّهِ رِزْقُهَا وَيَعْلَمُ مُسْتَقَرَّهَا وَمُسْتَوْضَعَهَا كُلٌّ فِي كِتَابٍ مُّبِينٍ And this is the first of the seven verses. And the second verse is the first verse. And the third verse is the first verse. And the fourth verse is the first verse. And the fifth verse is the first verse. And the sixth verse is the first verse. And the seventh verse is the sixth verse. And the seventh verse is the sixth verse. And the seventh verse is the fifth verse. And the fourth verse is the sixth verse. Then Allah says in Ayatul 추َسَّطَ passieren Weは انعم الْحَٰرين الذين بالحق القدم escola There is no moving creature on the earth whose provision, whose rizq is not guaranteed by Allah. And only He who knows where it lives and where it is laid to rest. And all of them is written in the perfect record. حادث الالميل الم记ع الأمر őlحاطم الأسم says I know that I am also one of those creatures selling some goods at the market. He knows that and He knows that I am also one of those people. sustenance depends on Allah and Allah has guaranteed that to me. So I engage myself in the Ibadah of Allah for which He created me and I have left the responsibility of my provisions to Him. I engage myself in the Ibadah of Allah and responsibility of the provisions I have left it to Allah. I remind myself and you, think about one thing. Most of you would have had your dinner I suppose by now, right? If you didn't have dinner, you had lunch anyway. Think about what you ate for lunch, whatever it was. Supposing you ate for lunch a roti, you know, a kufus. You ate a pizza. You ate a pizza. You ate a pizza. Now take that bread you ate and trace it back. Before becoming a bread, what was this thing? It was dough. And this dough went into an oven and somebody cooked it, right? Before the dough, what was it? Flour. And this flour, was it born as a flour? No. Before that, what was it? It was a plant. It was a seed, right? So somebody sowed a seed somewhere, we don't know where. That plant grew. It produced seeds, which is rice or wheat or corn or whatever. And then somebody harvested that and someone transported that to some place. It was stored. And then someone bought that and they took it and they ground it and they made flour. And somebody bought this flour and they took it into the bakery and they kneaded the dough and they baked the bread. And then this bread went into the pizza place and somebody made the pizza. Okay? And all you did was, you went and paid five bucks and you bought the pizza and you ate the pizza. You don't know and you don't remember and you don't acknowledge and you don't think of all the people and all the things that I only started at the plant. There's a story beyond that also. All of that, which was decreed by Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala Jalla Jalaluhu so that you could eat your pizza. How many people? In how many people? In how many? God knows how many countries because today our plates are international. The beef on your plate comes from Argentina. The mutton on your plate comes from New Zealand or Australia. The chicken on your plate comes from God knows where...
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  • Rights of Rasoolullahﷺ – #2 Ita’at

    Rights of Rasoolullahﷺ – #2 Ita’at
    Sep 15 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. We praise Him, we ask for His help, we ask for His forgiveness, we believe in Him, we trust in Him, and we seek refuge in Allah from the evils of our souls and from the evil deeds of our deeds. Whomsoever Allah guides, no one is misguided from Him, and whosoever He guides, no one is guided from Him. And after that, my brothers and sisters, help us. We are looking at the rights of the Messenger of Allah on his Ummah, meaning on us. And as I mentioned before, the issue with rights is that if somebody has a right on you, and you do not fulfill that right, then you are culpable, you are punishable if Allah wants to punish. We ask Allah to save us from that, because of all the rights, the rights of the people, the rights of creation, the number one first right is the right of Rasulullah . We spoke about the first right, the first right of Allah. The first of them, adab ul-ihtiram, the respect and honour that is due to Him . Today we will speak about the second of them, which is itaat, to obey Him without question. Allah said that He sent His Anbiya to be obeyed. This is not blind following, but obedience with the knowledge of who we are obeying and why. And this is not a new system, you need to follow it completely, not partially, not selectively. That change is to move from living by our desires to living by the command of Allah . Allah said, وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَا مِنْ رَسُولٍ إِلَّا لِيُتَاعَ بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ Allah said, we have sent no Messenger but to be obeyed by the command and leave of Allah. That is why Abu Hurayrah reported, that Rasulullah said in a Hadith, Sahih Hadith which is recorded in Bukhari, Everyone from my nation will enter Jannah except those who refuse. Everyone from my nation, from the Ummah will enter Jannah except those who refuse. So they asked him, Ya Rasulullah, who will refuse? He said, whoever obeys me enters Jannah. Whoever disobeys has refused. May Allah grant us the Tawfiq not to refuse to enter Jannah. I remind myself and you that the most common reason we refuse to obey Rasulullah is because of our slavery to our desires, to our Nufus, to our Nafs. The question is to ask yourself this question and say, is whatever we want to do that is against the command of Rasulullah and can result in our being listed as a Nafs? In our being listed among those who refuse to enter Jannah, is it worth that price? Is it worth that price? Allah made it a condition of Iman, of faith itself, that not only should we accept every judgement of Rasulullah without question, but we must not even feel any resistance in our hearts or we risk being out of Islam. Now this is a condition that is unique to the judgment of Rasulullah. Which indicates his position and the importance of obeying him totally. Because in the Sharia, it's only what you say and what you do which becomes possibly culpable, which you are accountable for, not what is in your heart, not what you feel and not what you think. Except when it comes to the judgments of Rasulullah . In the case of anything which the Nabi ruled, even thinking and feeling against it is, an issue of great importance and great problem as far as Allah is concerned. I am talking about blind obedience versus obedience with knowledge. The most common, the most simple, the easiest way to understand is the standpoint from which you obey a physician without question. Not because you are doing blind obedience, but because you trust him. Because you know his training, you know who he is, and you know that he has the knowledge. He has your best intentions of heart. And so he tells you to do something, you do that. You follow his advice. You don't argue with that. Now Rasulullah in the same way, with the greater magnitude that as far as the physician is concerned, is something which cures an ailment, maybe it's a life-saving thing. Life is saved by Allah ,
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