• Parenting skills #3
    Dec 7 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 kind and the kind of messengers 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. After that, my brothers and sisters, we talked about the overall background, the reason why parenting, conscious and thoughtful parenting is absolutely critical. Parenting is not something that will happen by default. It's not something that will happen because you want it. It is something you have to work on. And it starts with having a dream for your child, which is a shared dream. Please think about these things. This whole issue of raising children is a vast subject. Second one. Introduce, connect, and make. Connection with Rasulullah . First and foremost, the Seerah of the Nabi . Essential reading, essential learning. As I told you, do not let tomorrow morning come on you without at least starting. I don't expect you to finish the whole book. But start. Read two pages at least before you go to bed. Any Seerah book. There are so many Seerah books. Alhamdulillah. Plenty of them. Whichever language. Alhamdulillah. Allah is the most Merciful. People have translated every kind of language. Whichever language. Read about Rasulullah . Then read about his rights. What is the right of the Rasul on us? Because we will be questioned about rights. The right of the Rasul on us is that we follow a Sunnah. That we follow a Sunnah. Very important. In every aspect of our lives. In our appearance, in our actions, in our dealings, in our manners, in how we pray. The finest example, the finest proof and evidence of somebody who says give me proof that following the Sunnah is critical. I will tell you the proof is your Salah. Salah is proof. How is it proof? Because Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Aqibu Salah. Allah gave a command. Establish Salah. Establish Salah. Establish Salah. Fa'an Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa do it did allah tell us in the quran is there any ayat or ayat or ayat of how to pray never nothing so how do you know how to pray because rasul taught us allah inspired him and he taught us that what did he say sallu kamara he said pray as you have seen me pray and that's a beautiful hadith about how this whole thing happened i won't go into it now pray as you have seen me pray so when we are praying here when we just prayed now salatul maghrib three rakat we prayed on the tariqa we prayed on the way of muhammad sallallahu alaihi salam now instead of three rakat if i say no i want to pray for god is my salah valid no i can have the best it oh no i i mean i i love allah so much three is not enough i want to pray 300 no no no sarathul maghrib is three rakat why because rasul allah sallallahu alaihi salam taught us there is no other answer because allah commanded him he taught us sallu kamara this is the foundation of proof evidence that the sunnah of of rosh is far from the believer the word sunna is used to distinguish between what allah made further so on and so on it say is terahi terah it does not mean the sunna is not important the sunna of the rasool is different from the hakum of allah that just to differentiate but to follow the sunna is further on the muslim and the evidence is salah itself and allah has predicted this itself so this is the meaning of sunna so this is the meaning of sunna itself so this is the meaning of sunna itself so this is the meaning of sunna itself I made this for all the five Harkans. How do you enter Islam? Allah does not tell us that. How do you pray? Allah does not tell us that. Allah told us to fast in Ramadan. What breaks the fast? What must I do if the fast is broken? What does not break the fast? All of this, not in the Quran. Allah made Zakat for us. How much Zakat on what? Who must pay Zakat to whom? Can you pay Zakat to your wife? Can your wife pay Zakat to you? Where do you find all this? In the Sunnah. Hajj. He said, take the Harkan of Hajj from me. Take the Manas. Take the rituals of Hajj from me. Imagine the Quran says very clearly, So on the 9th of Dhul Hijjah, what are you doing in Arafat? Did you think of this? Allah said, Hajjila Baitillah. To the house of Allah. House of Allah is in Makkah. But on the day of Hajj, where are you? Supposing somebody says, look, this whole issue of going to Arafat and what not is too much...
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  • Parenting skills #2 – Connect to Allahﷻ
    Dec 6 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 Prophet and the messengers. And peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and his companions. After that, my brothers and sisters, we talked about the overall background, the reason why parenting, conscious and thoughtful parenting is absolutely critical. Parenting is not something that will happen by default, it's not something that will happen because you want it. It is something you have to work on. And it starts with having a dream for your child, which is a shared dream. So it has to be a three-way conversation, the father, the mother and the child together. So the first one, connect to Allah . The training of connecting to Allah begins with tahajjud. Make tahajjud fardh on yourself. Right? If you want to raise good children, make tahajjud fardh on yourself. Don't let a single day pass starting from tonight. That you have not prayed at least two rakats of time. No matter what, whether you are well, you are sick or whatever, you are travelling, not travelling, doesn't matter. I'm not talking fiqh, I'm talking here the hope of Allah . Make tahajjud fardh on yourself. This is what will give your children, that's the connection. I mentioned this story many times before. And I'm mentioning it now again because I see a lot of new faces. You might not have heard this story from me. My earliest memory of my father, Anandul Ali. These were the days before plastics. There were no plastics. Chairs were made of wood. Glasses were made of glass, not of plastic. And so on. So we lived in, where we lived in India. In a big house. But this was the day, this was the days before. I'm talking about the late 50s. So it's the days before hot and cold running water. There were no geysers and so forth. Water used to be heated outside. Then brought inside. But tahajjud time there is no one to heat the water and bring it. So cold water. Every day around 2.30 or something, I would hear the sound of the metal bucket in the bathroom. You had bucket of GI, galvanized iron. It had a handle. So my father would put it on the floor, would tank. Then he would drop the handle, it would blank. So that was my father getting ready to make wudu. Then he would make wudu. Then he would pray tahajjud. And we could hear him. When he was, he would pray in the other room. Where we were sleeping. The main room. But he would, we could hear his recitation. And when he finished and his duas. Yeah. To this day I live by those duas. And then he would finish that. Then he would sit and read Quran. So he would hear him reciting Quran. Then at the time of salatul fajr, when the time comes to fajr, he would come inside. Turn on the lights and say, salatul khairu minna naum. And he would pull out blankets off. You're a little kid, you hated that. But that's how we, there's no option. There's no option of not getting up for salatul fajr. Whether you are five years old or you are eight years old or you are ten years old, makes no difference. You get up for salatul fajr and you play salatul fajr by jama'at. We lived very far from masjid. So my father would do the imamat. I would call the adhan. And the children would pray. Behind that, my mother and our sisters. No option. There's no question of, oh, chota bachcha hai sora. No, no, no, no. No chota bachcha. You are going to wake up for salatul fajr and you will pray by jama'at khalas. It's not a matter open for any discussion. This is how you raise children. You want someone. You want your child to cry in the night. Cry in the night for you when you are in your grave. Raise them like this. Teach them to take from the treasure of the parna. And another, give them memories. Give your children memories. When they think about things, good things, let them think of you. Another one of these. My father again. My brother and I, you know, we travel a lot and so on. Sometimes you have some problems, some issue. So, you would phone him. And tell him, papa, this thing matters here. This thing we have to do. Some issue we need. He would say, theek hai. Mai pakad leta unku. Diyen hai tak chhoda nahi. Huh? You say, okay. I will hold on to him. I will not leave him until he gives you. Who is this? Who will you hold on? Huh? You call me. You call me. You call me. You call me. You call me. You call me. You call me. You call me. You call me. to give medicines to people. He would treat them. He would not take the fees. Then he would also give the money to buy medicines. So, I told him, how is this? What kind of? It's supposed to be a business. All your colleagues and all your contemporaries, they've got big nursing homes and they're making money and so on. And you know, alhamdulillah, his diagnosis, Allah had given him so much. I've never seen clinical diagnosis like my father's. ...
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  • Parenting skills #1
    Dec 5 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 kind and the kind of messengers 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. After that, my brothers and sisters, we talked about the overall background, the reason why parenting, conscious and thoughtful parenting is absolutely critical. Parenting is not something that will happen by default. It's not something that will happen because you want it. It is something you have to work on. And it starts with having a dream for your child, which is a shared dream. So, it has to be a three-way conversation. The father, the mother and the child together. Have the conversation with regard to what you want this child to become and why. And the child must be... the prime mover behind that. The child should want it. And you as a parent must support that. And if you feel that the child wants something which is inappropriate or which you think is not the right thing, then it is your job, with love and with understanding to guide the child to where you think the child should be. And again, be very careful and clear in this. It is not always that you have the right answers. You may not have the right answers. But you can try to find ways to help them. And so, having that level of humility to know that the child also has an understanding… And at the end of the day, the child… If you really want the child to exceed… and excel… then that will happen only if the child… is herself or himself completely committed to that goal. And that commitment cannot be forced. So, that's a very important thing to understand. Commitment cannot be forced. Commitment has to come from inside. If you want the commitment to come, then you have to spend the time and the energy behind it. Now, let me talk about what I call the six rules of Islamic parenting, because we are talking about parenting from an Islamic context. And as I mentioned before, these are important because this is something that we will be questioned about by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when we meet Allah. As I said before, to be a parent, to have a child is not a blessing. Allah never used the word niyamah for children. Allah used the word fitrah, which means test. So a child is a test. And if you pass the test, then it becomes a niyamah. But by itself, it's not a niyamah. If the child, if you fail in that test, then may Allah have mercy on us, the children can become the opposite of niyamah. So they can be a sadaqah jariyat, they can be a niyamah for you, or they can be the opposite of that. And that is, that depends on what we choose to do. Illa mashallah. So these are the six, what I call my rules. The first and foremost is to introduce Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to the child. The child must know who Allah is. And the child must have a relationship with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. It's not just a matter of intellectually knowing somewhere, this is Allah, this is a description, no. So what? Why is that important? How does that relate to me as a human being, as a Muslim? So knowing Allah, introducing Allah is these two things. One is, who is Allah, His glory, His majesty, His power, His authority, His generosity, what He has blessed us with and so on, and answering it when we go back to Him, inshaAllah. And what is my relationship with that? Because, only when I understand my relationship with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, then it comes to the actual action which is, therefore, what should I do? Therefore, what do I need to do? Right? It's not a, as I said before, it's not an intellectual exercise. This is a very personal relationship, which is closer and more personal than any other relationship, or the face of the earth, including our relationship with our own parents. Because all relationships of this world end with our death. The only relationship which remains is our relationship with our Creator, with our Khalif-e-Malik, with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. This remains with us even after we die. Second one is to introduce Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, to your child. And then you can come back to this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of ...
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  • Kuwait Parenting Workshop #2
    Dec 4 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:I want to remind myself and you that as far as children are concerned, the only thing that parents will be questioned about before Allah is how those children were raised, about their tarbiyah. Right? You will not be asked whether your child was a doctor or an engineer or a pilot or an architect and so on. None of which are bad things to have. All good things, I am telling you. But you will not be questioned about that. You will be questioned only about the tarbiyah of the child. What is it that the child did with respect to his beliefs? And with respect to his akhlaq, his dealings? So when you are talking about what is my dream for my child, okay, that's your dream for the child. But you are not the child. At the end of the day, he is the one who is going to or she is the one who is going to have to do what you have dreamt. So where is their commitment in that? So that is very important for you to understand. Okay? So the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the commitment for the dream comes from within the child, it's not going to happen. It will not happen. So, you have to guide the child to have a kind of dream which also aligns with your own dream. If you don't do that, and it is only your dream, it won't work. And then obviously when I say you, I mean both the mother and the father. So, it has to be a three-way conversation. Sit, three of you sit together and talk about this dream. What is it that motivates you? How will you do this? And so on. So, the dream, your dream for the child really should be the child's dream for herself or himself supported by you. It's not a question, I want my child to be this or that. You may want. You may want. Won't happen. Unless you put the effort. And unless the child also wants that to happen. So, have those conversations. I don't know if you have them yet, but you should have them. Now, parenting as I say is a contact sport. It's not a armchair dialogue. You can't sit and, you know, I want this, I want that. No, it has to be your involvement. And your involvement includes your time. It includes your talent. It includes money. But much more important than money is your time. So, how much time? How much time do you give to your child? And the usual answer we get from people is, Oh, but you see, I'm very busy. I have this job. I have to travel. You're making the choices. It is your child. You have to make the choices. And if you say, I have to do all of this. That's the choice you're making. Then don't expect magic to happen because magic won't happen. Right? Right? Andre Agassi, tennis player, who had the most powerful serve of any tennis player in history. He started, literally, his father started him playing tennis, literally, when he was the highest. He was the height of an adult tennis racket. So, how old is that? Maybe two years old. He just taught us the racket. And his father designed a ball throwing machine. In those days, they didn't have these machines. Nowadays, you can buy them. But in those days, he designed a ball throwing machine which used to throw the ball at a speed of, if I'm not mistaken, about a hundred kilometers an hour. So, like a bullet. And Andre Agassi's father had this rule that he had to, again, if I'm not mistaken with the figures, he had to face one thousand serves. This ball is being fired. He has to face that serve and hit it back one thousand times a day. So, by the time Andre Agassi was like ten or twelve years old, he had already faced a million serves, which no competition, no competitor of his ever did. So, the key is the dream of the father, starting early enough, and then consistent effort on that. Not a day was missed. There was no way, as long as I was not sick in bed, I was not sick. Whether it's Christmas, whether it is this, whether it is that, it doesn't matter. You are going to fire one thousand serves in a day. And there are many such stories about, I'm giving you examples from athletics and sports because they're easy to find. Many such examples. Great sports people don't become great sports people by wishing for it. There is a lot of energy, there is a lot of effort that goes into it. And the same rule applies. So, your commitment as a parent, how committed are ...
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  • Kuwait Parenting Workshop #1
    Dec 3 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:I want to remind myself and you that as far as children are concerned, the only thing that parents will be questioned about before Allah is how those children were raised, about their tarbiyah. Right? You will not be asked whether your child was a doctor or an engineer or a pilot or an architect and so on. None of which are bad things to have. All good things, I am telling you. But you will not be questioned about that. You will be questioned only about the tarbiyah of the child. What is it that the child did with respect to his beliefs? And with respect to his akhlaq, his dealings? And that is why it is so important to pay attention to that. See, I want to draw your attention to is this, that people in our normal sort of, you know, we will talk, say, well, so and so has been blessed with a child. Right? Or so and so has not been blessed with a child. Some people have children, some don't have children. Although Allah swt in the ayat of Mishra Allah swt made it very clear. Allah swt said, Allah is the one who has control over everything. . Allah said, He gives to whoever He wants to give. He gives to whoever He wants daughters. And He gives to whoever He wants sons. And Allah said, to some He gives both. And to some He gives nothing. So it is the, something which is given by Allah swt. Children. So I know many people, some friends, some others who talk about, who are so desperate to have children. And if they don't get children, they feel very bad about it. Society also puts pressure on them. How is it you don't have children? How long have you been married? Did you seek particular attention? Did you do this, do that? People ask all these funny questions. So there is a lot of sort of psychological pressure, social pressure. And then of course desire also. Alhamdulillah. No one can say, No one can say. No one can say. No one can say. No one can say. No one can say. No one can say. No one can say. Alhamdulillah, the world today has, how many, 7 billion? 7 billion didn't happen by accident. Because people have a desire to have children, so they have children. So, Alhamdulillah, this is all the Qadar of Allah. Allah made the earth, He created human beings, and then He put this desire to propagate the species in the hearts of people, so they are doing it. So, we talk about this, people who don't have children, they feel as if they are somehow, I won't say cursed, but not blessed. But the thing I say to them, I say to the others also, which is, look in the Quran and show me where Allah called children a blessing. Find me the place. Niyama. Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala, called children fitna. Trust. Inna wa alhamalukum wa auladukum. Niyama or fitna? Fitna. In Surah Al-Taghabi, Allah said this, In Surah Al-Taghabi, Allah also said, Inna wa alhamalukum wa auladukum, aduwan lakum. They are your enemies. Azwajikum wa auladukum. Your spouses and your children are your enemies. Except those who you have. So, forgive them and treat them and guide them correctly and so on. So, I'm not saying you should not have children. I'm saying, hamza merla givu. But don't just imagine that because you have a child, you are somehow blessed in this special manner. You're not. You have now entered the testing ground. If Allah gives you a child, Allah is giving you a child. He does not give you a test. If Allah does not give you a child, seriously, when people come to me and ask me, I say, thank Allah. Say, Alhamdulillah. Should I do this operation, that operation? No, I'm not. You're asking my opinion, I say no. Don't do any operation. Ask Allah. Allah will give you. So, I want. Why do you want? What? Huh? Huh? You're not sitting in this house in a bad manner. Don't feel at peace at all. Don't feel at peace at all. Don't feel at peace at all. Don't feel at peace at all. Don't feel at peace at all. Don't feel at peace at all. Don't feel at peace at all. Don't feel at peace at all. Don't feel at peace at all. Don't feel at peace at all. Don't feel at peace at all. Don't feel at peace at all. Don't feel at peace at all. Don't feel at peace at all. There is no one to sit and eat. And it will be left. So the point is that, first and foremost, think about this. Those of you who are, who don't have children, or who are not yet married, and once you get married, you will want to have children. Don't make that into a default setting. Right? So spend some thought on this. Say, do I really want children? Alhamdulillah, by all means have children. But do that thoughtfully. I'm not discouraging you. I'm saying, do it thoughtfully. Spend some. It deserves that thought. And if you don't have children, if you don't have children, don't need to feel bad about it. Don't need to feel somehow defensive. Alhamdulillah. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has Qadar. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has Qadar. He gave us, if you look in Islam, there are many examples of some of the biggest names in our scholars, in our Sarbh Sali, who never had ...
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  • Greatest collection of humanity
    Dec 2 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:Salam alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Allah is truly all-knowing, all-aware. As-salamu alaykum. As-salamu alaykum. As-salamu alaykum. As-salamu alaykum. As-salamu alaykum. As-salamu alaykum. That thing is maintained to this day. It's amazing the millions of pigeons that are here, incredible amount of pigeons, incredible number of pigeons. And then people in there mistakenly, Allah have mercy on them, mistakenly believe that some kind of sadaqah in feeding pigeons. There are people selling grains and people buying grains and throwing it on the floor. And you have these absolute clouds of pigeons descending and eating the grain and drying up. And then of course, there are people like people eat food, they are sitting everywhere eating food. So all that food is dropped on the pigeons. They eat all that. But you don't see the kind of, you know, pigeon poop that you should really, technically speaking, see in a place like this because of the absolutely peak efficiency of cleaning that happens. Yesterday we were, as I said, in the first floor of Mataaf and we see people on machines, on scaffolding and so on, cleaning by hand every single ring in the decoration of the ceiling of the Haram. You know, they have all those beautiful Islamic art decorations, which are little rings and circles and squares and all kinds of geometric shapes. All of these are being cleaned by hand. There's a guy there on the top, way on top, who is polishing the, what looks like metal from below, because he is, by hand literally, he's spraying something on it and he's polishing it by hand, way up in the top of the roof. Amazing, the kind of cleaning. And I was thinking to myself that these are not people doing a job. These are people who are doing it, salamu alaykum, bismillah, these are people who are doing it for the barakah and for the blessing and for the reward of the Lord. And I was thinking to myself, these are not people doing a job. Cleaning the house of Allah . These are people, whether they are doing it with awareness or not, they are following the sunnah of Ibraheem . Who Allah commanded to clean their house. These people are doing it. There's no way that this job can be done by somebody who does not actually have this awareness. This is my gumman, this is my assumption that it's not a job that's being done just in the top. Because there's not a scrap, can you imagine? And people are peeping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . being done just in the dorm. Because there's not a scrap. Can you imagine? And people are peeping. Subhanallah, may Allah have mercy on Muslims yesterday. My wife and I were walking up. We are walking up to the harem. We are not even in the, we are not in the mataf. We are not even in the immediate sand of the harem. We are on what used to be a road between the, between our hotel and the hotel opposite. And all these roads have now been closed off. And they have been paved with marble and then made into purely walkways, which is a wonderful thing. So, there's no cars and buses and stuff. But people walk. But it is still a road. It is actually a road. People are walking up and down that. In the middle of that road, there are these two large, portly gentlemen who are on the floor sleeping. One guy is about to fall asleep. The other guy is fast asleep. Literally on the stone floor, they are fast asleep. Amazing. Allah grant us this. Ability to sleep anywhere. And the people are beating around. They are women and children and peaches. Peaches and occasionally cats. They are all, you know, beating around and walking around them. Completely oblivious to the world. And as I said, my wife said, this is tabak kool. I said, smart. Only Muslims can do it. May Allah have mercy on us. There's nothing good about that. So, please don't even try putting putting, you know, obstacles in the way of people. Tabak kool or not, it's definitely not Islamic. But anyway, may Allah have mercy on them and forgive them. And forgive all of us. So, my point I'm making is that all of this that you see here, there's such a sense of peace. Imagine millions of people come here. There are incidents. And, you know, may Allah have mercy. There are incidents of sometimes stampedes during Hajj. And some people dying because of that. Some people dying because of dehydration, because of the heat. When they are walking from from Arafat to Mina and so forth. Of course, you don't need to walk. Now they have a train. They used to have, they've always had buses. Anyway, long and short of it is, that is it. But you never ever have a riot here. Think about that. Go to one football match and you know what I'm talking about. Right? There's no rioting. There's no rioting. There's no yelling. There's no screaming. There's no cursing. There's no people fighting each other. Although people are, you know, bumping and all of that stuff. I mean, you know, there's no way it can be reduced. I agree because there are people who...
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  • Khushu is the soul of Salah
    Dec 1 2025
    https://youtu.be/tW2B_4_vsTo Quote mentioned: Instagram https://share.google/zLkIXaLoBK9Xkt0u1 Auto-generated transcript: Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wa Salatu Wasalamu Ala Ashrafil Anbiya Ilum Kursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Alaihi Wasallam. Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. One of my very good friends sent me this forward on WhatsApp. And unlike most of these forwards, this one is really, truly worth reading and listening to. So I thought I will use this as the basis of my Pajayat Reminder today. First, let me read what the forward is. It says, I have no idea who is the author of this. May Allah bless them and reward them in keeping with majesty and grace. Very beautiful. The forward goes as follows. It says, What if I told you Ummah's downfall didn't begin with politics or culture or society. It began inside 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 none. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam warned us. He said, The first thing to be lifted from my Ummah is Khushu. Not Salah itself. Not fasting. Not rituals. Khushu. The heart inside the prayer. The body stays Muslim. The soul slips away. He did that again. Listen to that again. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam warned us. He said, The first thing to be lifted from my Ummah is Khushu. The first thing to be lifted from my Ummah,棊棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 The prayer remains, the movements remain, the words remain, the masjid remains, but the presence disappears, humility disappears, the trembling disappears, the softness disappears. We keep the shell, we lose the soul. Why is this terrifying? Because when Kosho 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 Kosho when we started rushing, we started multitasking, we started treating prayer like a chore. We started thinking about everything except Allah. Our bodies enter Salah. Our minds stay in the dunya. This is how Kosho dies. A painful reality. Today, we know the motions of Salah better than its meaning. We perfect our tajweed, but not our attention. We memorize surahs, but not saranda. We inherited the ritual, not the reverence. Kosho is not crying. It's not emotion. It's not drama. It's not a ritual. It's a ritual. It's not fear. Kosho is being present, being humble, being aware, being small before Allah . Being sincere, being still. It is the heart kneeling before the body does. Kosho was the secret of the Sahaba. They didn't pray long. They prayed deeply. When they stood, their hearts trembled. When they bowed, they prayed. When they prayed, they prayed. When they prayed, they prayed. When they prayed, they prayed. When they棊棊棊棊 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 khushu and revive a civilization. So ask yourself, when I pray, does Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala have my body or my heart? Because the first thing the ummah lost was khushu. And the ummah will rise again only when we find it inside ourselves, inside our prayers, inside our hearts. This is where the beautiful reminder ends. And again, as I said, may Allah reward the person who wrote this. Very, very beautiful. Subhanallah. I remind myself and you, my brothers and sisters, that the purpose of reminders is not the reminder itself. The purpose of reminders is to then bring that action into our lives. If we listen to our reminder and I remind myself, I remind others, and we do not practice it ourselves, then the reminder has no meaning. So let us not become just people who routinely, without thinking, you know, just say things. Let us be people who when we say something, let us be those who will also apply it and who will work according to it. Because as Allah SWT said in the Quran al-Kareem, He said, يَا يُوَا الَّذِينَ هَمْ مَنُوا لِمَا تَخُولُونَ مَا لَتَفَرُونَ O you people, O you who believe, why do you say that which you believe? Do not do. لِمَا تَقُولُوا مَعَ لَا تَفْعَلُونَ Now, we don't want to be people who say something and do something else. Because that is a very dangerous thing to do. So think about this, that if you are, for example, if you and I, if we are, have lives where we say that we believe in Allah, we say that we believe in the Day of Judgment, we say that we believe in the meeting ...
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  • This is honor
    Nov 30 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, just met my dear friend, Tamur, from California. He teaches… he's a software engineer, worked for Verizon all his life, senior professional, also teaches Arabic grammar. I've been here in Basin-Zabu Sharif, and so on and so on, he said something wonderful. He said that, trillions of people who live in this world, the time Allah created this world, trillions of people, and out of all those trillions, Allah honored one. And that one is here, in these beautiful mercies. Muhammad Rasool Allah. SubhanAllah. And I said to him, I said, look, this is honor. Because for the last 1500 years, and it so happens that this is the 1500th year of, from the beginning of the revelation, 2025. He said, for 1500 years, people are coming here. Look at these people here. They're coming here. All of these people, thousands upon thousands of them, not one is related to him, not one knows him, not one has seen him, but they all love him. Now this is honor. This is honor in a lifetime. And this honor comes for one reason only, and that is, that the person lives his life for one reason only. That reason is to please Allah . And that is, that the person lives his life for one reason only. This is the lesson we learn from Rasool Allah life. To simplify our lives. People say, declutter your life, declutter your mind, simplify your life. You know what's the best decluttering? The best simplification is to understand that there is only one thing to do in life. And that is? To make pleasing Allah your only goal. No other goal. Have only one goal. And that goal is to please Allah . Just one goal. To please Allah . And if you have this one goal, everything else falls into place. Allah provides us. We get stuck with rizq. We get stuck with, you know, how's my job and I'm making so much money and I have, my needs are expanding and I need to make more money and what will happen to me and this and that and the other. None of that matters. Because Allah promised. If He created you, He will fulfill your needs. And if you don't, then you will be in a state of ! not created the jinn and the insan for anything other than my worship. Allah did not create us to run around behind food and this and that and shelter. Allah created us to worship you. All the rest will come. We make reasonable effort. I'm not saying don't do anything. But do something. the Torah decrees it. It is happening because Allah decreed. If you got sustenance based on the amount of effort you make, then the head-loading coolie, the illiterate neighbor who was carrying stones and bricks on his head at a construction site would be the highest paid person in the land. If you got sustenance based on your education, the president of a university probably would be the highest paid person in the land. And I can go on endlessly with this. You will find that that's not the case. That is not the case. Yes, you effort, you make some effort, but Allah gives. Allah said that He gives and all the people need to take sustenance but most people don't understand. Let's just say, it is my Lord, my Lord, who expands your sustenance or constrains it but most people don't understand. Let us be among the people who do understand. Because we have been told this. What is there not to understand? Because we have been informed. We have been informed in the best possible way, which is by the Kalam of Allah SWT himself. How do we know this? Because Allah said so. Let us look to that. And let us make that our creed in life. That I will work to please Allah. That everything I do, there is only one question I need to answer. Does it please Allah? Because if you do the thing for the right reason, believe me, everything else follows. Do it for the right reason and everything else follows. That is the whole thing. Make sure the right reason, the reason is right. The rightest of right reasons is to please Allah SWT. We ask Allah SWT to be pleased with us and never to be distressed. Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
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