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  • Be a slave – 3

    Be a slave – 3
    Jan 26 2026
    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 most noble of the prophets and messengers, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and his family. Peace and blessings be upon him and his family. Brothers and sisters, we were talking about the issue of being Abdullah, the slave of Allah. And as I mentioned to you, the differences between being a slave and being a servant. We ask Allah to make us true Ibadullah, true slaves of himself. This was the first and foremost lesson that Allah, through his Prophet taught the Sahaba in Makkah, which was the lesson of complete and total submission and obedience to Allah without any exceptions, without bringing their own thinking and their own logic and their own feelings and their own inclinations into the equation. Whatever Allah orders, we do. There is no limit. There is no argument about that. There is no option in that matter. And we see this if you, that's the reason why it is so important to study, not just read. Unfortunately, we don't even read. We need to read, we need to study the Seerah of Rasulullah . Because this is the lesson we learn from the Seerah of Rasulullah that the first lesson was the lesson of obedience to Allah . And we must be obedient to Allah and to the Prophet . And this lesson was learned in Makkah. And it was learned in Makkah in some very, very hard and harsh circumstances. Because in Makkah the Muslims were persecuted. They were persecuted cruelly, persecuted mercilessly. They were tortured. Some of them were killed. they were deprived of their possessions, their property was confiscated, and eventually they had to leave Mecca permanently, their own home, their own vatan, where they were born, their motherland, they had to leave it and go away. And all of this they did only and only to please Allah SWT. And through that entire period of 13 years, you see it, they never once retaliated against the people who were oppressing them. Now when you see this Sira later on, if you take the battle of Badr, you take Ahad, you take different things, you can see very clearly that these were people who were capable of retaliating. So it's not that they were cowards and they were, you know, helpless or they did not know what to do. They knew. They knew they were not, they were, they were, they were brave people, they were noble people. And when they were permitted to defend themselves, when they were permitted to retaliate, they did that and well. They won battles. They won battles. The battle of Badr was against three times their number. Right? The enemy was three times the number of the Muslims, yet the Muslims won. So there was no doubt about their bravery and so on and so forth. So the obvious question is, same, very same people, why did they not do something in Makkah? You know, being persecuted, all things are happening, do something. Right? So this is what Abu Jahl is doing, take him down. This is what so-and-so is doing, finish him. No. Because that was not permitted to them. Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, make sabar, have sabar. So, so, right? Even when something as, as heinous and as horrific as what happened with Sayyida Sumayya bint Khayyat, Radhi Allah anhu, and her husband, Abu Yasir, Abu Ammar Yasir, Radhi Allah anhu, they were murdered by Abu Jahl in the most, most horrific ways. Despite that, Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, have sabar. Have sabar, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la will give you better. Bilal bin Rabba Radhi Allah anhu, tortured daily, in public. All this happened in public. I mean, Abu Jahl was not, was not hiding anything. And, the people who were torturing, they were not hiding something. They, they did that, openly in public. The purpose of doing it in public, was to terrify and terrorize the other Muslims, to say, leave this religion. Leave this religion. But, that didn't happen. They did not leave the religion. And, they also, did not retaliate, because the order was not there. Now, this whole thing of, how, this message was, conveyed, it was taught, it was accepted, is, is, one of the, finest, examples of that, and the finest, dalail of that, is from the Quran itself. The last ayat of, Surah Al-Baqarah, we know from the tafsir of Surah Al-Baqarah, that, when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala revealed, لِلَّهِ مَا فِي السَّمَوَاتِ مَّا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَإِن تُبْدُو مَا فِي أَنفُسِكُمْ أَوْ تُخْفُوهُ يُحَاسِبُكُمْ بِهِ اللَّهِ فَيَغْفِرُ لِمَنْ يَشَاءُ وَيُعَذِّبُ مَنْ يَشَاءُ وَاللَّهُ وَلَا كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala revealed this ayatul kareemah, and he said that, everything in the heavens and the earth, belongs to Allah. لِلَّهِ مَا ...
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  • Be a slave – 2

    Be a slave – 2
    Jan 25 2026
    Auto-generated transcript:I want to draw your attention to this word as the highest form of honouring Rasulullah. Because he said in Surah Al-Isra' Surah Al-Isra' If you take this ayah, Allah said, His Abdihi, His Abdi. Now there is no, even though, as I said yesterday, if Allah had said, The meaning is conveyed, he is the Rasul. Allah did not say that. Allah said, His Abdihi. So when Allah SWT is using a form of address, it means that this is the highest level of honour. So being the Abdi of Allah, being called Abdi, my slave, being called this, being given this title by Allah SWT, is the highest level of honour that any creature can get. And this was given to Rasulullah SAW. So what's the difference? Our problem today is that, Alhamdulillah, may Allah have mercy on us, we don't completely rebel. Against Allah SWT. We are not atheists. We don't say there is no God. What we do, is something which is, actually even more serious. I might say what is more serious than being atheist, but I'll tell you the problem with Dalail. I never express my opinions. It's a question of what is Dalil in the Quran, and the Sunnah. What we do is, what I call selective obedience. So we have this whole Deen of ours, Alhamdulillah, it covers every aspect of our lives. This is the beauty of Islam. Islam has not left anything uncovered or left to do whatever you like. Anything in life. From our birth to our death, every single thing is covered in Islam. At any stage in your life, at any question that we have, we ask ourselves the question and say, what should I do according to the Quran and Sunnah? There is an answer. But what we do is, from this, what are we supposed to do? First of all, Allah SWT told us very clearly, two things to understand. First of all, any ayat of the Quran which begins like this, is a hukum. This is an amr of Allah. There is no, no scope for saying, okay, fine, let me think about it. No. Amr of Allah. Ya ayyuha alladheena amanu is a hukum of Allah SWT. Second thing is, Allah is addressing the people of Iman and He is calling them the people of Iman. Ya ayyuha alladheena amanu, all you who believe. Right? Udkhulu fi silmi kafatan. Wa la tattabihi khutuati shaitan, innahu lakum adhum mubeen. Right? Allah said, O you who believe, enter into Islam completely. Enter into Islam totally. Udkhulu fi silmi kafatan. Now this is a simple question. I am a believer. Allah Himself is calling me a believer. Then what's the meaning of entering into Islam? I mean, according to me, I have entered into Islam. That's why I am a believer. If I had not entered into Islam, how am I a believer? You are saying I am a believer, which means what? I am in Islam. No. Allah is saying no. Completely. Completely. In another place in the Qur'an, Allah SWT said, Allah said, they have said, La ilaha illallah, but Iman has not entered their hearts. What must they do? He said, obey Allah, obey Rasulullah, he said, salam, he said, salam. So there is a difference between the two. The two, the two, the two, the two, the two. the two, the two, the two, the two, the two, the two. the two, the two, the two, the two, the two. The two, the two, the two, the two, the two, the two, the two. The two, So the point is that Allah is saying this is not sufficient. Enter into Islam fully. Our problem is, we want to enter Islam as per our convenience. So, it is convenient for me to pray. I will pray. Salatul Fajr, too difficult to go to the masjid. Right? Get up and get out of the house and this and that. Forget it. I will pray Fajr at home. Zohar, masjid is next to my office. Okay, I will pray Zohar in the masjid. Asar also, before I go home, I will pray. So, convenience. I want to buy a car. I have an option. I can buy a second-hand car. Good condition second-hand car. I have the money. No. I want to buy a fancy car. I want to take it straight from the showroom. New car. Do you have the money? No. So, what will you do? You take a loan on it. Interest. You take a loan on interest. You are buying NBT with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. I can live in a rented house. I can accumulate some funds and then buy a house. May not be a big house, but enough for myself. No. I must have a big house. I don't have the money. What do I do? Go to the bank. I am doing some business. Then somebody will come. Do this also. Why don't you keep some? In America, the latest one is jelly beans with marijuana. It is haram. No, in the US it is legal. Being legal. Being legal. And being halal. They should be the same. But they are not. It is legal to live without marrying a man and woman. It is legal to live together. To have children. It is legal. It's not illegal. You won't go to jail. Is it halal? It is there. It is there. It is there. It is there. To live in that state is go for. And I tell people, you don't like what I say, don't listen. Go away. I don't make the rules. You have a problem, go talk to Allah SWT about it. We want to be members of this Islamic organization, that ...
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  • Be a slave

    Be a slave
    Jan 24 2026
    Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wassalatu wassalamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wasallam tasliman kathiran kathira. Fumma baadu. My brothers and sisters. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala created this world. And sent us to live in this world. And sent us a complete plan, a road map of how to live in this world. From the beginning to the end, from the time you are born to the time you die. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent us a complete plan. There is no deficiency in that plan. There is nothing missing in that plan. Nothing has to be added in. Nothing has to be subtracted. And that plan is called Al-Islam. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did not just send the plan and leave it to us to read it and interpret it and understand it according to our own understanding. But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala also sent along with the plan. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent that plan with a teacher, with a guide. The plan did not come to us directly. The plan came to the teacher and the teacher taught it to us. And that teacher is Muhammad Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi wa sallam. And that is why the Kitab and the Sunnah are the two guides for us to live our life in this world. There is nothing other than the Kitab and the Sunnah. Anyone who brings anything which is other than the Kitab of Allah, the Quran al-Kareem, and the Sunnah of Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, then this is something which is prohibited. It is a bid'ah which is haram. We are not permitted to use that, no matter who it is. We know Allah and we know His Nabi alayhi salatu wasalam. That's it. Anyone else we know through them. We respect the ulama. We respect the... Al-Quran. I hesitate to use the word awliya with respect to specific people because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did not specify any individual and say that this is my wali. Please understand this. This is a source of all kinds of confusion. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala specified the anbiya alayhi wa sallam. The prophets and He named them. Inna arsalna noohan ila qawmi. Allah did not say we sent a message. No. We sent. No. Alayhi salam. Right? And so on and so on and so on. Salih alayhi salam and Lut alayhi salam and Ibrahim alayhi salam and Musa alayhi salam and Isa alayhi salam and Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam to all of humanity. Allah mentioned them by name. But anyone other than that, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did not mention by name and say, so and so is my wali or was my wali. Allah did not say this. About the awliya, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala made a statement where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Allah said, Allah is the wali of the believers. And what does Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala do when Allah is the wali? What does it mean? He says, He takes them out of darkness into light. Right? This is the sign of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala being the wali of the believers. Now the wali, in the Arabic language, there are many words to describe friendship, different grades of friendship. And in these grades of friendship, the closest of grades, of friendship is, wiliya, is wali. Wali is somebody who is, who is a party to all your secrets. That person has access to everything that you have. To the innermost part of your house, he has access to your bank account, he has access to your, all your secrets. So when we use the word wali with respect to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, we have to understand that there is a difference. Like there is a difference between, difference with respect to all the words that we use, connected with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah, we say Allah is al-basir. He is the one who sees. But the basarat of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is not like yours and mine. Allah sees, you also see. But we are not the same. The basarat of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is, in keeping with His majesty and grace. Allah is as-sameer. He is the one who, hears. But the samaat of Allah, is not like yours and mine. Allah is kalim. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala speaks. But His kalam is not the same as your kalam and my kalam. So when we say wali, when we have wilaya, the first and foremost thing in any friendship is, equality. With Allah there is no equality. Allah is our Rabb. And we are, the ibad of Allah. We are the slaves of Allah. And in this slavery, there is honour. The greatest honour is to be, a obedient slave of Allah. Abdan shakura. The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said about himself, should I not be a grateful slave? In the famous hadith of Aisha Siddiqua radiallahu anha, which is in Bukhari and Muslim, Mutafakun alaih. She said that, I asked Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam, she said that, the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam would stand in salah, and she said, for so long, that the skin of his blessed feet would crack. We're just standing in one place. The feet would swell. When you go on long flights and so on, you wear pressure stocks, so that ...
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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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  • Istighfaar wa Tawba

    Istighfaar wa Tawba
    Jan 20 2026
    https://youtu.be/3a001miSN3o Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wasalatu wasalamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasleemun kathirun kathirun. My brothers and sisters, this morning we talked about istighfar and tawbah. I want to elaborate on that to remind myself and you about the importance of istighfar and tawbah. A man came and prayed, started praying in masjid of the Nabi al-Sharif. Sayyidina Ali bin Abi Talib radhi allahu anhu was sitting there. So the man came and he stood and he said, O Allah forgive me and forgive my sins. Astaghfirullah illa zi la ilaha illa huwa lahi al-quyyum wa atubu ilayh. And he said, Allahu Akbar. So when he finished his salah, Sayyidina Ali called him and he said, Do you think istighfar is only so simple? Just say Astaghfirullah and it's done. He said, This is not the way to make istighfar. He said, istighfar has several stages. He said, the first stage of istighfar is that you sincerely and deeply regret the thing that you are repenting for. So whatever is that sin that you have been committing, either of sin of commission or of omission. For example, you were supposed to do something for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. For example, the simplest and the most common one is the neglect of salah. We are supposed to pray and we don't pray and we neglect salah. So then, subhanAllah, may Allah Ta'ala give us tawfiq. Allah gives us tawfiq and we realize that this is something which I have been doing, which is very bad, I should stop doing it. And you want to make istighfar. So the first and foremost thing is to feel deeply regretful about doing the thing that you were, were not supposed to do or not doing the thing that you were supposed to do. He said, the second very important thing is that if the matter involved anybody else, for example, salah involves only the abd and the Rabb, Jalla Jalaluhu. There's no third person involved. But supposing it is that you usurped somebody's rights, you abused somebody, you slandered somebody, you did whatever you did. Which was from the rights of the people and you did not fulfill those rights or you deprived people of their rights. Then you must go and make amends. You must go and reimburse those people. You must go and apologize to those people. If you have to give back what you took, you must give it back. If you have to compensate them, compensate them. The Sahaba even asked him, he said, What if that person, the action, the actual injured person is no longer there? Because maybe I got this, you know, I got this realization that I've done something wrong. And meanwhile, this person has died or this person has gone away somewhere, is not accessible. Then what do we do? Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, Then you reimburse that person's heirs. The people who inherited from that person, his children or whoever it is. And he said, if even, so the Sahaba asked, this is the Aswala, what if even those people are not there? Maybe the whole family disappeared or something. He said, then you continuously make istighfar and tawbah for that person. And you give in sadaqah, continue to give in sadaqah, with the intention that Allah SWT should reward that person for this sadaqah that you're giving. So Sayyidina Ali said, this is the second step. He said, the third step is that you hate to go back to that sin that you were committing. You're committing with such intensity that even if you had to be, even if somebody murdered you, if somebody killed you, you still would not do that. Even on pain of death, you will not go back to that sin. And this is the fourth thing is that now you do the right thing and you stay on that right thing with istighfahmat, with steadfastness. So it's the istighfah and tawbah. This is the whole process of istighfah and tawbah. As I mentioned, this body, these two words are interchangeable. They are interchangeable. If somebody just mentions istighfah, then it means istighfah and tawbah. If somebody says tawbah, it means istighfah and tawbah. But if the two words are individually mentioned and if they are explained, then they mean what they mean. Allah SWT said, Allah said, make istighfah and then turn towards Allah SWT. Istighfah is to repent, is to apologize, is to be sorry. And tawbah and tawbah is to turn towards Allah SWT. So both are important. That we are, dreadful for what we did and that we turn towards Allah SWT Jalal Jalal Hu and we live our lives in a state of obedience to Allah SWT. Istighfah and tawbah is the root and the beginning of everything good. It is the beginning of a change in our lives. It's a beginning of completely revamping whatever we are doing. Allah SWT in His infinite mercy leverages us to do good. He has left the door of tawbah open until the end. Until the end. So no matter what anybody has done, one must never lose hope. One must never ever feel that, ...
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  • Ikhlaas un Niyyah

    Ikhlaas un Niyyah
    Jan 19 2026
    Auto-generated transcript: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the most honorable of the prophets and messengers, Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, and his companions, with much peace and much love. Dear brothers, about the Ameer of the Believers, Umar ibn al-Khattab, said, I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say, The deeds are only by intention, or as he said, The Ameer of the Believers, Umar ibn al-Khattab narrated that he heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say, The deeds are only by intention, the reward of the deed is based on its intention. And about the Imam al-Nawiyah, peace and blessings be upon him, said in his book, Al-Riyadh al-Saleheen, in the introduction, The intention is to be manifested in all deeds, in all words, and in all situations, both clear and light. Imam al-Nawiyah, peace and blessings be upon him, said in his book, Al-Riyadh al-Saleheen, in the introduction, That the intention, the awareness of the intention, is important in all deeds, in all actions, and in all words, in all situations, that we might find ourselves in. Al-Bari'zatu wal-Khafi, Whether this is in the external environment visible or whether it is internal to us, in our hearts. I remind myself and you that on the Day of Judgment, this will be the basis on which we will be judged. We ask Allah to grant us Ikhlas al-Niya, sincerity of our intentions, because without that sincerity, the action or the speech will look the same, but it will either have no reward or it will actually be incurring a sin. We have the famous Hadith, which is considered to be one of three, which encompass the entire Deen. So this Hadith is considered to be something which is equivalent to one third of all knowledge. And that's called the Hadith of the Salas, the Hadith of the Three. Rasool Allah said on the Day of Judgment, the first person to be produced before Allah will be a scholar, will be an Alim, and he will be asked, what did you do for the sake of Allah? And he will say, I memorized the Kitab of Allah, and I used to teach the Kitab of Allah, and I used to teach the knowledge of Islam. And it will be said to him, you are lying. You did all this so that you would be known as a great scholar, as a Hafez, as a Qari, as a Mufti or whatever. And this was done. This happened. People knew you and they called you by all kinds of titles and so on and so forth. And today there is nothing for you and this person will be thrown into the Hellfire. Who is this person? He is a Muslim, he is an Alim, he is a Hafez of the Quran. And he will be thrown into the Hellfire, why? Because of the Fasad Fi Niyah. Because of the problem and the conflict of the intention. Then the second person to be produced before Allah will be a philanthropist. He will be somebody who Allah had given a lot of wealth and he spent it in charitable things. And he will be asked, what did you do for the sake of Allah? And he will say, I, Ya Allah, you gave me a lot of wealth and I spent it in your path. I spent it in your path. I did this, I did that, I did that and so on and so on. I helped these people and whatever. And it will be said to him, you lied. You did all this so that you would be known as a charitable person, as a philanthropist and this happened. In the world you were known as this great person who did so much of good and this and that. Built hospitals and masajis and madaris and God knows what. So that reward you got in the world. Here there is nothing for you and he will be thrown into the Hellfire. And the third person to be produced before Allah will be somebody who fought in the path of Allah and who died. And he will be asked, what did you do? And he will say, Ya Rabb, I fought in your path and I died for your sake. And it will be said to him, you lied. You fought for yourself because you wanted to be known as a great fighter, as a brave person. And you died. And here there is nothing for you and this person will be thrown into the Hellfire. So somebody will be thrown into Hellfire. Somebody who was an Alim, somebody who was a Saqeeb, who used to give Saqawat. And somebody who was apparently Shaheed Fi Sabirillah. All three, first three people in the Hellfire, these are the first three people. Not Kuffar and Munafiq and Mushriq, first three people. May Allah save us from this. So I remind myself and you that the Ikhlaas of the Niyya is the number one thing that we should guard against. Our scholars say, it is like going into a fair like Nawaz or something, right? Going into this fair and you have your wallet and you have a wad of money with you. Where will you keep your hand? On that pocket, right? Because you are afraid somebody will pick your pocket. There is a lot of crowd, people are milling around. This is how we should treat our Niyya. As something which ...
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