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Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

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  • Preparing for the future

    Preparing for the future
    Feb 7 2026
    https://youtu.be/mnGqUuPFzsc Nvidia CEO on future jobs: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-says-160735219.html?_guc_consent_skip=1770435644 Auto-generated transcript: Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wa salatu wa salamu ala ash-sharafi al-anbiya wal-mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Dasliman kaseeran kaseeran. My brothers and sisters, I'm in Bidar, in the Black Buck Sanctuary. And I'm looking at... You can see what I'm looking at. On my right is a huge strand of Glycidia, which is something that the Forest Department themselves planted here. This is their tendency to plant trees in every open piece of land. Unfortunately, for the Black Buck, this is a terrible thing because Glycidia completely covers the soil and doesn't... does not allow grass to grow. As I'm walking here, there is a Black Buck male, which is in the grass there. I don't think you can see it, but it's there. Now, Black Buck are an endangered species, and they exist on grass. They eat grass. And if the grass... is gone, then the Black Buck is gone. It's as simple as that. But there we have the department in its wisdom. They have planted the place full of Glycidia. As you can see here, they're looking at a beautiful sunrise. Amazing. Beautiful sunrise. MahaAllah. Allah Ta'ala's khawarat is everywhere. You see this whole strand of Glycidia. Glycidia has this very pretty pink flower, pink flower, almost like cherry blossoms, but for grasslands and for Black Buck, it's very bad news. Now, this is a very interesting thing. It's a very interesting thing. The sanctuary itself is about what you can see here, which in terms of the territory, in terms of what their need is, way, way, way less than afternoon. But there you are. And on top of that, grass is obviously susceptible to burning. And so, you know, somebody throws a cigarette butt or something, and that's the end of a huge wave of grassland. You can probably see here. Okay, there you go. Now, that's a nice male. It's a very good male. It's a nice picture. He is standing there looking at me. Okay. And then he's going off on his own. Lovely big buck. . ! This is ideal territory for me to come to the point that I want to talk to you about, and that is the question of looking at ourselves. And I'm especially talking to now the, especially the youth. There's a wonderful, well wonderful for want of another word, but wonderful statement by the head of Nvidia, a man who runs a company which has a market cap, which is more than the GDP of India. And I imagine this one company. If it were to be a market cap, nation state, it would be bigger than India in terms of its GDP. And it's run by one man, obviously he's the head of the company. Now he says that the millionaires of the future will not be people with college degrees. They will be plumbers and electricians. Because AI will automate and take over everything which can be automated and taken over. And the only thing which will be there for you to use and also as a means of livelihood are things which cannot be taken over by AI. And that is things which needs a human being with hands and legs to fix it. So AI is not going to unblock your sink. It's not going to redo your toilets. You need somebody to do that. AI is not going to wire up your houses. You need someone to do that. So he says, get a skill. Get a skill that you can do with your hands. In other words, get a trade. That's a, that's a good idea. As you can see, the clouds are very pretty. And the sun is shining. But this is serious bad news for grasslands. So to come back to my topic. He says, do something with your hands. Get a trade. Now, believe me, I can't possibly agree with that more. I completely agree with it. And I strongly recommend for all of you to go and learn something that your hands are good at. Yeah. you can do with your hands. The issue is that many people seem to have attitudes of, I mean, ridiculous attitudes where they look down on tradespeople, on tradesmen and tradeswomen, and they think that there is something wrong with, you know, something in Fradig and something not so nice about working with your hands. And that's why I say to you, first and foremost, if you have any reluctance to learn, ask yourself, what is the reason? If you say, I don't like to become a plumber, say, ask yourself, what is the reason? That reason might be a cancer of your mind, where you are looking down on something which is, something which is not so nice about working with your hands. And that's why I say to you, if you have any reluctance to do something which is not right, ask yourself, what is the reason? wonderful work and you know they're doing very well for themselves one is Anil who is Bosnian and the other one is Jihad Akal who is Lebanese both of them dear friends of mine and they do a phenomenal work they build houses they do all kinds of stuff all of which is non AIable if I can ...
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  • Rain drop by drop

    Rain drop by drop
    Feb 6 2026
    Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wa Salatu Wa Salamu Ala Ashrafil Anbiya wal Mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Alaihi Wasallam. Tasliman Katsiran Katsiran. Fammamadu. My brothers and sisters, we continue with our reminders on things that we should thank Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for. And we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to enable us to live a life of awareness and a life of thoughtfulness and not just, you know, randomly just live. Because to live is not merely to draw breath. Breathing is not living. Living is when it is done thoughtfully, consciously, and where we respond to what Allah has given us by thanking Him and by spreading goodness around us. Because if you think, if you think about that, a person who is in a coma is also alive. He's not dead. But you don't call that living. Because the person is in a coma. He can't, he doesn't know what's going on. He can't communicate. He can't do anything. But he's breathing. So if we, may Allah have mercy on us, there are many of us, if not most of us, who live like as if we are in a coma. Because, you know, we're just living. We're just breathing. We get hungry, we eat. We feel sleepy, we sleep, and so on. That is not life. Life is to live consciously and thoughtfully. Let me mention for you a couple of things, which we usually take for granted. Let me ask you, when did you last clip your nails? Now, you might say, well, last week, you know, two weeks ago or something. And hopefully, if you have not clipped your nails for two weeks, your nails need clipping. So go clip them. And then also, in the process, learn how Rasulullah ﷺ clipped his nails. So you can do that according to the Sunnah, inshallah. And also get some... Go out for it. And similarly, let me ask you, when was the last time you had a haircut? And you will tell me something, you know, two weeks ago, one month ago, whatever. The reason I'm asking you why or when you had a haircut and when you clipped your nails is because... Let's reflect on this. What if nails and hair were live tissue and not dead tissue? Because these are all epithelial cells. These are all... Parts of your skin. The skin forms into nails and skin forms into, you know, the hair follicles come out of the skin. What if it was live tissue? What if it had capillaries which... What if it had capillaries which... With blood in them? What if it had nerve endings in them? Believe me, every time you needed to clip your nails, or every time we needed a haircut, you would have had to go to a hospital and go under general anesthesia for this to be done. And then every hair end that was cut would have to be cauterized to stop the blood flowing. If somebody just shaved your head, you would die. It would be tantamount to somebody taking the skin off your skull. But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave us hair and gave us nails and made them also into objects of beauty. Think about the billions of dollars worth of industry which is dedicated to hair care. I remember a friend of mine telling me, you can't do anything to it. Hair is hair. It's dead tissue, right? What can you do to dead tissue? If you are going to put stuff or, you know, massage your head with oil and so on, it's the... Oil is going into the... Oil is going into the... into the skin, right? Hair is dead tissue. But despite that, it's a... It's something of great beauty. And, you know, women especially, and of course a lot of men also nowadays, they spend a lot of time on haircuts, on growing hair long or short or perming them or God knows what. All time and effort and expense on dead tissue. And the fact that it is dead tissue is a blessing, is a huge blessing in itself. Think about that. I mean, just one small thing, but how important it is. Second thing, let me ask you, how many times did we thank Allah SWT for sending us rain in individual drops and sending us snow? Because right now in America, it's extremely, extremely cold and a lot of snow. Um, Allah SWT has sent this snow also in flakes, individual flakes. The reason I'm asking this is, just think about this. Now, right now I'm in Hyderabad. Hyderabad has a area of about 2,000 square kilometers. The overall area of the city, about 2,000 square kilometers. It gets approximately 20 inches of rain in a year. Now, one inch of rain covering one square meter, one square kilometer, one inch of rain spread over one square kilometer weighs approximately 25,400 metric tons. This is one inch of rain, right? Now, do the sums. Uh, 20 inches of rain over 2,000 square kilometers. That comes to, in terms of the weight of water, that comes to 1,016,000,000 metric tons of water. This water is falling on us from a height of 10,000 feet average. 10 to 15,000 feet is the, uh, is the cloud height. So, take 10,000 feet. This water, 1,016,000,000 metric tons of water is falling on Hyderabad from a height of 10,000 feet. And obviously, as it is falling, it accelerates at ...
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  • Language is a miracle

    Language is a miracle
    Feb 5 2026
    Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wasalatu wasalamu ala sharifil anbiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa ala alihi wa sahibu sallam. Tasliman kathiran kathiran. Muhammadu. Brothers and sisters, alhamdulillah, we are my partner in crime. Mr. Aliuddin Haider and I are going to Bidar, to the Black Buck Sanctuary, which is also famous for raptors and for owls. And the next two, three days we'll be there, inshallah. I believe there is no Wi-Fi there, so I am recording this on the way there. We are on the National Highway, going on Bombay Road. Alhamdulillah, I am most grateful to Allah SWT for very, very special friends and brothers like this. Those company I enjoy were always there. And mashallah, alhamdulillah, Allah has enabled us to spend some beautiful time together. The topic that we have been talking about of being grateful to Allah SWT and the importance of that, I want to continue with that. The secret to the love. Of Allah. The love of Allah. To develop the love of Allah. The secret to that, the way to do that, is to be consciously grateful to Allah SWT. Now, alhamdulillah, we are all thankful, inshallah. But I am not talking about, you know, some general vague feeling of being thankful. I am saying, thankful for what? So, think about specific things. Think about specific. Think about specific things that we are and should be thankful to Allah SWT for. For example, take the, going to be the great miracle of language. Allah SWT has uniquely blessed human beings with two things. One is with the physical ability to produce sound of a huge variety. One is with the physical ability to produce sound of a huge variety. One is with the physical ability to produce sound of a huge variety. Different pitches, from a tenor to a soprano to a bass, different pitches and different levels of complexity. This sound production is what enables and makes language possible. Animals also make sounds. Obviously, all animals make sounds. Birds sing beautifully. But the difference between the song of a bird and the song of a human being is not only in the words and so on, which of course we can always argue that the bird's words we don't understand, fair enough, but also in the variety of the sound. Because at the end of the day, that bird song is only one set of sounds. Now, birds of course have different kinds of calls. So, each bird. It doesn't have only one. But if you just think about it, how many different calls does a bird have? Maybe four or five. But for a human being, the ability to produce sound is almost unlimited. So, that's the first thing. The second thing Allah gave us is the intellectual capacity to take a thought, convert that thought into what we call a word. So, that's the first thing. The second thing Allah gave us is the intellectual capacity to take a thought, convert that thought into what we call a word. Which is, which we then write, what we call write. Which is we make some squiggles on paper, which represent that word, which opens that thought. So, for example, I look at my wife, you look at your spouse, you look at your child, you meet your friend, and you have, you have a feeling, this thought and this feeling in your heart, which you have given the word love. So, I love my friend. I love my wife. I love my child. I love my, you know, father, mother. What is love? Now, the issue of what is love, there is, there are reams and reams of poetry written, and there are, you know, God knows, thousands and millions of pages of prose which are describing love. But that whole thing is condensed into one word, which is L-O-V-E. Love. Hub. Muhabbat. Ishq. You know, all, all of these things are in one word. Love. Love. Love. Love. Love. Love. Love. Love. Love. Love. Love. Love. Love. Love. Love. Love. Love. Different languages. I will come to that in a minute. So, this word, love. So, this love, when you say, when somebody says love, it opens this door in your mind and your heart to the actual feeling. Then you take this word love, and you write it on paper, right. There's a, there's an L, which is a vertical line, which is standing on a horizontal line, and then there's a circle, and then there is, there are two vertical lines which are at an angle, so that join at the bottom. Then there is one vertical line with four, with three horizontal lines, which is L-O-V-E. These squiggles, these marks on the paper, somebody who knows that language just looks at those marks on the paper and he produces the same sound, love, as the first person whoever said love. Now, imagine, just think about the complexity of this. Now, then, since these sounds and these squiggles are local, we have our multiplicity of languages. So, you have love in English, you have hub in Arabic, you have muhabbat or ishq in Urdu, you have prem in Hindi, you have anvu in Tamil. And you have pasam in Tamil and Marayana. I mean, you know, you go through the works, ...
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