• Live a life of purpose
    Dec 28 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers, and praise be to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions, and peace and blessings be upon them. My brothers and sisters, the most important thing, we are talking about happiness, and we were talking about what I mentioned in the last khatira, the issue of happiness and how do you become happy, what makes you happy. So it's not just a question of saying be happy, be happy doing what. Now, it's very important to understand this because, as I mentioned yesterday, people can be happy in some very negative ways, and therefore happiness is not a reliable meter to judge whether one's life is going on track or not. Now, therefore, what is the right track? How do you measure happiness? And what should you do? Well, I believe... that the correct and the most reliable way of trying to be happy is to live a life of purpose, not just randomly live. To live is not merely to breathe. To live is not merely to draw breath. To live is to achieve something worthwhile, to create a legacy, to do something and create some results which carry on after you, to spread goodness wherever you might be. That to me is the true description of happiness. So live a life of purpose. If you... One of the most valuable and useful things to do is to read biographies. It doesn't matter whose biography you read, but read biographies. The best biography to read, of course, is that of Rasulullah ﷺ, because Allah ﷻ presented His Nabi ﷺ as the best of examples for all people and of all time. The best example for you is the life of my Nabi ﷺ. The best example for you is the life of my Nabi ﷺ, and this is for the person who believes in Allah ﷻ, who believes in the Last Day, Day of Judgement, and looks forward to the meeting with Allah ﷻ. So any person of Iman, the best biography to read must be available for you, and must be available for you, absolutely required reading is the biography of Rasulullah to study the seerah Mubarak of the Rasul because Allah put this forward as the best thing to do so that's the first thing second thing is as I said read any biography right anyone because no matter whose biography you read whether you read the biography of a good person or a bad person he teaches you something and the reason I'm saying biographies is because to the extent possible they are as true as any story might be and though biography is like all histories are colored by the people who write them and no matter how objective a author might say he is or she is or no matter how for how objective they think they are there will be some bias and some leaning towards whatever the author considers to be worthwhile but leave that aside that doesn't matter now that is perfectly okay majority of what you're going to read will be fact will be something which actually occurred which happened I love reading biographies and one of the authors I strongly recommend is a man by the name of John Mann he's written a biography of Sultan Salahuddin by Yubi Rahatul Ali it's called Saladin and he's written another one of Genghis Khan if you read both it's called Genghis if you read these you it's a good way to read these as well as a comparison between two of the most powerful leaders the world has ever seen and who had an amazing impact, but two extremely different people, two totally different people. And it is a good thing to read this and to then reflect and say, well, what is it that makes them different? Quite apart from asking yourself the question and saying, well, who do I want to be like? But even if you don't go there, say, what is it that makes them different? So read biographies. Now, when you do that, you will realize that anyone in this world who has had an impact, irrespective of the kind of impact, anyone who had an impact was able to do that only because they wanted to do that. They were clear in their minds. They had a purpose. They were living with a purpose. They were living for a purpose, to achieve something. And they were able to achieve it to whatever extent. But they were able to achieve it. And the reason they were able to achieve it is because they were clear in their minds as to what they wanted to do. So I remind myself and you, let us learn to live a life of purpose. Live consciously. Live deliberately. Live thoughtfully. Exercise your mind and exercise your thought. Exercise your choices. All of us, no matter who we are, no matter where we find ourselves placed in the story of life, we have choices. I want to give you a measure of comparison. We have choices. But we must convert those choices into options. The way I differentiate that is that if you walk into a store, say you walk into TJ Maxx, what are the choices you have? The choices you have are everything that ...
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  • What makes you happy
    Dec 28 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, there is a general feeling, a false feeling, that there is a false feeling in the world that somehow as long as you are happy, all is right with your world. As long as you are happy. So people say, as long as we are happy. People say about their children, for example, that, you know, what are they doing? How are they? Oh, no, no, no. As long as they are happy, it's fine. You know, whatever they are doing. Now, this is, I say this is a fallacy because if you think about it, there are people in the world who are happy doing things which are in themselves ranging from a waste of time to something which, things which are actually evil. The finest example of that is social media. Today, one of the biggest, if not the biggest calamity, the biggest pandemic, the biggest epidemic that is completely, you know, destroying generations, not even one generation. is social media addiction, screen addiction. Imagine we are living in a world where we have managed to turn it upside down. For example, things that we should keep private, things that we kept private, we meaning as human beings, we kept private for centuries, for millennia, generation after generation. Things which we guarded jealously, things which we did not reveal to anyone, many times even to people we should have revealed them to. We didn't share them with anyone except with our very closest, nearest and dearest. People we completely trusted. All that information today, we voluntarily, without being forced to, and without seeking or getting a single cent in compensation, we put it out there for the entire world and his wife to see. On Instagram, on Facebook, on Snapchat and God knows what. Our most private information, starting from something as mundane and apparently, harmless as what you eat, pictures of your food, pictures of your plates, to things which are potentially dangerous, which we should never ever reveal. Everything is out there. And we know very well that those who we are giving this to voluntarily, whether it's these companies who, run these social media, who own the social media, or whether it is people who use information they get from social media, to do other things with it. We know that many of these things, many of these kinds of people, take our information and use it for their purposes. The most benign result of that is that they make humongous amounts of money, while we get nothing. They make a lot of money, while we get nothing. They make humongous amounts of money using our material, our life stories, and we get nothing in return. That's the most benign form of it. Two, some very malevolent and evil things that happen with information that is freely given on the internet. Now, we are happy doing it. And the people who are using this information for their own nefarious, reasons are happy using it. Right? This is the most benign thing and the most common thing. And we get our children addicted to it from, literally from the time they open their eyes. And we have all kinds of excuses, and all kinds of reasons why we do it. Oh, it keeps the child occupied. Otherwise, the child is a nuisance. Otherwise, the child makes a lot of noise. If I didn't do this, what would I do? A simple question is, what did your mother do? What did your grandmother do? Before the social media, they came into the picture. Right? Children were still there. Right? They were still having babies. How did they keep them occupied? Think about this. You know, I remember, and I don't have to go back always into my childhood. I'm saying it right now. If you go into the villages, for example, in India, you will see this anywhere. You have a little kid. All he has is a shoebox, or the equivalent of a shoebox. Something like a shoebox. And he has, he has, he has, he has, he has, he has, some bottle caps, small or big bottle caps. And he has a string. Now this child, first of all, he accesses all of these materials. And then he creates a wheeled vehicle. So he makes axles, he fixes those bottle caps as wheels to that box that he has, the shoe box or its equivalent. He ties the string and then he puts something in it and he drags it around and he calls it his car, he calls it his bus, he calls it his train, he calls it whatever he wants to call it. And in the whole process he is learning to be dexterous, he is learning to use his intelligence, his reasoning powers, he is learning to create something. That thing which he creates is successful part of the time, sometimes it fails. And each time it is successful or fails, he is learning some other lesson. And he is having a hell of a lot of fun. He is having great fun doing all this. And most of the time he is doing this outside. He is getting some sunlight, he is getting some vitamin D, he is breathing fresh air hopefully depending on which place he is living in. All of this is happening. Even in America, I remember seeing exactly this happening in an Amish village in ...
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  • FR… Three aspects of health
    Dec 27 2025
    https://youtu.be/HoSt3sN4jDM Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillah Rabbil Alameen. Wa Salatu Wa Salamu Alai Sharafi Al-Anbiya Wa Al-Mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Alaihi Wa Sallam. Tasleeman Kaseeran Kaseera. Famaa Baadu. I'm in KBR Park, where I come every day to walk five miles. And this is a young peacock. He's just molted his tail. He's waiting to get his full feathers. Beautiful bird, as you can see. I want to remind myself and you that the reason I do this walk is because I'm concerned about my physical health. And when I'm concerned, it's not because I'm worried or something, but because... It is important to be concerned about your physical health. And as you grow older, you don't grow stronger. You... It's the opposite. You grow weaker. And if you don't take care of yourself, then the price to pay is very painful and severe. So I do my best to take care of myself. The best way to do that, hands down, is to walk... five miles a day. And that is what I try to do. Now, the point I want to make here, as far as Khatera is concerned, as far as Fathir Bantar is concerned, is that just as we are concerned about our physical health, which we should be, we should also be concerned about two other things. One is our mental health. And the third is our spiritual health. These two are equally, if not more important than physical health alone. Mental and spiritual health. So the question I want to ask myself and ask you to ask yourself is, what is our plan for that? For better mental health? And better spiritual health? So just as walking five miles a day is a great exercise and the best exercise for physical health, then reading one book a month is the best exercise for mental health. It doesn't matter which book you read. It doesn't matter whether you enjoy... book or you don't enjoy the book. It doesn't even matter whether you understand it or not. As a matter of fact, ironically, a book that you don't understand, a concept you don't understand, but which you struggle to understand. So, say, for example, if you are not a, or if your knowledge of mathematics is like mine, then reading a book on mathematics I would consider it to be, for example, a refined method of torture. But that is better for me, for my mental health, than reading something, you know, a children's, a book of stories for children or comics or something. Because the struggle, the mental struggle that you have to undergo to understand something you don't understand is what generates brain cells. It is what creates new neurons. So, even though it's painful, or rather maybe because it's painful, because the same thing applies for physical health. Any exercise we do, whether it's in a gym or whether it's this walking and so on, the first sensation is pain. Without exception, the first sensation is pain. And it's only when you go through that pain barrier, when you can break through the pain barrier, that you reach a stage where you get what I call a state of grace, where now you enjoy the exercise. Not that you enjoy the pain, because the pain goes away. Then there's no pain. Then you're just enjoying it for the sake of enjoying it, and it's wonderful. But to get to that state of grace, you have to go through a state of grace. You have to go through the barrier of pain. There's no other way to do that. Similarly, as far as spiritual health is concerned, once again the same thing, which is, we have to go through the barrier of pain. And the barrier of pain happens primarily because we don't understand the value of spiritual health. In the words of the philosopher Jiddu Krishnamoorthy, he said, it's not a sign of health to be profoundly adjusted to a sick society. It's not a sign of health to be profoundly adjusted to a sick society. And one thing for sure, we today, globally speaking, are a very sick society. We are not just sick, we are very, very sick. And the pressure on us, always from everywhere, is to get adjusted to that sick society. So, this is the problem. This is something that we have to come to terms with and say, that I will not adjust to the sick society. And the fact that I am not adjusted is not a bad thing. It is a sign that my heart is still alive. It is a sign that my spiritual health is still worth salvaging. It is a sign that I have not yet been corrupted to the point where I just accept whatever is happening in society. And may Allah forgive us, you know, maybe I fall into the group of people who not just accept it, but who contribute to it. They make the society sicker. Take, for example, the issue of ostentatious spending or luxuries. It's not just a matter of saying, I have the money so I can spend it. No. The question is, if you have the money, what are the choices that you are making? People like to blame God, blame Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for the misery that we find ourselves surrounded with in this world. And we ask this question and we say, if there is a God, why is this happening? If...
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  • Ihsan – The Standard of Excellence
    Dec 26 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wasalatu wasalamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahibu sallam. Tasliman kathiran kathira. Fama baadu. My brothers and sisters, to continue and expand on the theme of what we have been talking about for the last couple of days, which is the standard of excellence, al-ihsan. See the beauty of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam's explanations and his answers. He was called Jamil Galim. The person who was in his speech and in whatever he said, he was so perfect and so complete. He did not say, he didn't speak for a long period of time. What he had to say? He said it in a short, you know, short speech or maybe sometimes a sentence, which was a wealth of meaning. So when in Hadith Jibreel, when Jibreel alayhi salam asked him, what is al-ihsan? What is excellence? His reply was so beautiful. He said, ! To worship Allah as if you can see him. And if you cannot see him, know that he sees you. Now think about this, that yesterday as I was saying, the thing to do is when you stand on the Musallah, is to specifically say, O Allah, this salah is for you. This salah is for you. I am praying for you. Because Allah says, Allah says, Personal. Establish the salah for my dhikr. So when we stand on the Musallah, we say, O Allah, this salah is for you. This dhikr is for you. And therefore, Prophet Muhammad is saying, that pray as if you can see Allah. So when you are standing there and saying, O Allah, this salah is for you, it is as if you are seeing Allah. And then obviously when you do that with concentration, you will find that all thoughts and distractions disappear. And you get concentration and you are able to focus on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Now that is the whole issue of Ihsan. Now, ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! This is to be extended and should be extended into every aspect of our lives. So we pray as if we can see Allah. We do business as if we can see Allah. We are with our families as if we can see Allah. We drive our car as if we can see Allah. Everything in life, right? Our transactions as if we can see Allah. Now if we do this as if we are seeing Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and knowing that even though we don't see Allah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will make us see Allah. is seeing us if we work with this awareness in every aspect of our life believe me our life will become very beautiful because every action will be an action of ahsan no matter how small or big that action is it will be an action of ahsan if i am cleaning my room then i'm and if i'm doing it with this consciousness that allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is seeing me as i am working real time allah is seeing me then imagine how beautifully that room will be cleaned right this thing has there are two major benefits that come from this awareness the awareness that i am in the presence of allah and again this is we not only have the dalil of rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam hadith we also have the dalil of the quran where allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said he said he is with you wherever you might be right he is with you wherever you might be so now having this awareness there are two major benefits the first benefit is that it gives you uh it's a shield against all sin if i am for example if somebody is you know i i obviously i don't smoke but if somebody who's smoking uh once he has this awareness that my rabbi is watching me how will he even ever light a cigarette right think about that he's going to light a cigarette he says subhanallah allah is watching me what do you do throw away the packet because this is something we do not do we do not do this we do not do this we do not do this we do not do this which is which is prohibited so why would i do that same thing i'm about to for example i'm about to uh you know bad talk somebody backbite somebody do some ghibah uh carry some tail namima cast aspersions on people uh you know insinuate people cast insinuations on people and so on any of this kind of stuff the before you even begin if you have this awareness subhanallah allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is watching me allah is allah is here allah is with me he listens to me he hears me then any chance of doing that evil action completely disappears so this is a shield and a protection from everything which is evil and the other big benefit is that it's a sense it it's it's a source of enormous confidence uh that you get because you say alhamdulillah i am with allah allah is with me so how can anything harm me how can anything how can any anything uh you know cause me any pain any suffering anything negative nothing whatever i'm doing i'm doing it for the sake of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and i'm doing it knowing that allah is with me so therefore i will be supported therefore i will be protected uh therefore i have this enormous confidence in in what ...
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  • Khushoo is the soul of Salah
    Dec 25 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wasalatu wasalamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahibus salam. Tasleeman kathiran kathira. My brothers and sisters, somebody much wiser than I am said this, and I'm only repeating. And he said, what if I told you the ummah's downfall didn't begin with politics or culture or society. It began on the prayer mat. It began on 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 gone. Rasulullah, he sallallahu alayhi wa sallam warned us. And he said, the first thing to be lifted from my ummah is khusho. Not prayer itself, not fasting, not rituals. Khusho. The heart inside the prayer. The body stays Muslim. The soul slips away. Now think about that again. The prayer remains. The movements remain. The words remain. The masjid, the prayers remain. The presence, the huzur of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala disappears. The humility disappears. The trembling disappears. The softness disappears. We keep the shell. We lose the soul. Why is this terrifying? Because when khusho 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 khusho when we started rushing. We started multitasking. We started treating prayer like a chore. Something to be done and finished with. We started thinking about everything except sallam. We started thinking about everything except Allah. Think about what happens in the sallam. Our bodies enter sallam. Our minds stay in the dunya. This is how khusho dies. The painful reality. Today we know the motions of sallam better than their meaning. We perfect our tajweed, but not our attention. We memorize surahs, but not salanda. We inherited the ritual, not the reverence. Khusho is not crying. Khusho is not crying. Khusho is not crying. Khusho is not crying. It's not emotion. It's not drama. It's not fear. Khusho is being present. Being humble. Being aware. Being small before Allah. Being sincere. Being still. It is the heart kneeling in sajda before the body does. Khusho was the secret of the sahaba. They didn't pray long. They prayed deep. When they stood, their hearts trembled. When they bowed, their egos bent. When they prostrated, the dunya disappeared. They prayed like people who knew they would die tomorrow. How to revive khusho? How to revive khusho? In one sentence. Before you say Allahu Akbar, whisper in your heart, Ya Allah, this prayer is for you. Ya Allah, this prayer is for you. Ya Allah, this prayer is for you. Not for him. Not for habit. Not for routine. Not for people. Not for discipline. For him. For Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 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 khusho and you revive your civilization. So ask yourself. When I pray, does Allah have my body or my heart? Because the first thing the ummah lost was khusho. And the ummah will rise again only when we find it. Inside ourselves, inside our prayer, inside our hearts. In the words of the great grammarian and great scholar of the Abbasi period, in the court of Harun Rashid, he said, I heard the Arab. The tribal Arabs, the Badu, praying to Allah. With words that opened the eyes of eloquence and opened the jewels of wisdom. And opened the jewels of wisdom. I heard him say, It is enough for me to be your slave. It is enough for me to be proud that you are my Rabb. You are as I love. So make me as you like. It is enough for me to be your slave. It is enough for me to be proud that you are my Rabb. You are as I love. So make me as you love. See how beautiful this is. It is enough for me to be your slave. It is enough for me to be proud. It is enough for me to be your slave. You are as I love. So make me as you love. SubhanAllah. It shows us that the actual thing which is important is this connection with Allah. The connection with Allah in our Salah. When we can do that, when we get that connection, Inshallah, that is where the secret of success is. The connection of with Allah SubhanAllah. I remind myself and you that SubhanAllah, we, we are not in the same place. Inshallah, we pray. At least those of us who pray, pray. But how many of us pray in a way where that prayer is beneficial for us? Where that prayer really does something for us? That is the issue. The issue is what is my Salah doing for me? And I remind myself and you that Allah SubhanAllah told us that the Salah is the tool to deal with this world. Right? To deal with this world. Because Allah SubhanAllah told us, Ya yuwa allazeena aamana usta'eenoo bisabri wa salah. O you who...
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  • Dua is Ibaadah
    Dec 24 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Inna salatu wassalamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sallam. Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. My brothers and sisters, the fundamental belief of Islam is the Tawheed of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala jalla zillaluh. That there is no one worthy of worship except Allah. That there is no one who can help or harm. There is no one who can fulfill any of our needs or desires. There is no one who has any power or authority of any kind in any sphere of life. There is no one who can cure disease. Or alleviate suffering. Whether it's economic or health-wise. Or of any other kind. There is no one who has the power to decree that the converse of this has the power to decree that somebody should become sick. Somebody should have some difficulty. There is no one who can do any of these things. Illa Allah. Illa Allah. Except Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. This is the fundamental belief. And therefore, the fundamental belief also extends to the fact that when we have any need, we ask only Allah. Do not ask anyone other than Allah. We ask only Allah. And we ask only Allah without associating any partners with Him. And without going through this one or that one. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Himself commanded us and said Uda'uni astajib lakum. Allah said, ask Me and I will accept your ask. I will accept your dua and I will give you. Uda'uni astajib lakum. And Allah said the one who burns that and scorns that and does not ask, considers himself to be self sufficient and not in need of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said that He will put him fi Jahannam wa al-Dakhirin. And He will put him in the hellfire. And He will put him in the hellfire. You ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala always to keep us among those who always ask Him and who keep asking Him. And when you ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, there are three kinds of duas, if I can say that. One are the duas of the Quran. Rabbana a'tina fi al-dunya hasanatan wa fi al-akhirati hasanatan wa ila azama na'ar. Wa Rabb, give us goodness in this life and give us goodness in the life of the Hereafter. And save us from the hellfire. Rabbana la tuzikqaluwana ba'dayzi hadaytina wahablana milladinkar rahma. Innaka anta al-wahaba. O Allah, do not allow our hearts to change after You have guided them. And many others. The distinction of the duas of the Quran is that they all begin with Rabbana. So all the Rabbana duas are from the Quran al-Karim. And then there are the duas of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And obviously nobody can make better duas than Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam himself. No one can make better duas than Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was connected to Allah more than him, more than he was. And so his duas are the most beautiful duas in the world. And his duas are so comprehensive, they cover every aspect of life. It's a very good thing to memorize some of those duas and to ask. And his duas all begin with Allahumma. Allahumma. Allahumma a'ini al-adhi. Allahumma a'ala adhikrika wa shukrika wa husni ibadatika. The dua that he taught to be recited after every Salam. Allahumma a'ini, oh Allah, help me. Ala adhikrika, in your remembrance, adhikrika wa shukrika. And to help me to become grateful to you. Wa husni ibadatika and to beautify my ibadat. So Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam's duas are the beginning usually with, almost always with Allahumma. We know the famous story concerning Ramadan where, and Lailatul Qadr specifically where Aisha Siddiqua radiallahu anha, may Allah bless her and raise her darajat and fill her qabar with noor. Our mother and one of our greatest teachers, Aisha Siddiqua radiallahu anha asked Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, she said, Ya Rasulullah, if I were to get Lailatul Qadr, what must I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? Which is the best dua to make? And he taught her the famous dua which we all know, alhamdulillah. Where she, where he said to her, ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and said, Allahumma inna ka'afu. Tuhibbul aafu fa aafu anni. Allah, you are the forgiver. You love to forgive. So forgive me. On a side note, I must caution myself and you that the best form of any dua is the, any dua of the Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the best form of that dua is exactly the way that he taught us to make. So don't, don't add to it. Don't try to improve it. Because there is no way that you can improve a dua of the Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So don't try to improve it. For example, this dua, Allahumma inna ka'afu. Tuhibbul aafu fa aafu anni. This is what Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam taught Sayyidina Aisha sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Sayyidina Qadr al-A'am, alhamdulillah, and it came to us. Now, usually people add Kareem. Kareem. Allahumma ...
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  • Be careful what you die with
    Dec 23 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen Muhammadu Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbuhu sallam. Tasliman kathiran kathiran. My brothers and sisters, I went to visit the grave of my brother-in-law Akbar Jang. Absolutely wonderful human being. And I realized that this was the first time I came to Delhi when he was not there. The first time I came to Delhi was after I got married. And then every time I've come here, we have come and always stayed with them. My sister-in-law and Akbar Bhai. One of the nicest human beings that I have ever had the pleasure and privilege to know. Extremely polite, very cultured, highly educated. A thinking person. And a person with whom you had, you know, he was very sociable. He would speak to anybody. I mean, he would speak to, from the greatest scholar to literally the, you know, the rickshaw puller. And he would do this. He would just walk around in the street and he would talk to anybody. You know, people who are selling something, he would stand there. He would talk to them in the most affectionate. And wonderful manner. He wouldn't sort of talk down to anybody. Very polite and very, very erudite. And you could speak to him literally on any subject on the face of the planet. He was a very well-read person. Very kind, very helpful. You know, thorough, thorough, thorough gentleman. And one of the best things that I can, that I remember about him was that in 40 years that I knew him. And I've, you know, we've lived with him. So, I've. You would have spoken in 40 years. I would have heard him speak for God knows how many hours. Not one single time did I ever hear him say anything negative about anybody else. Amazing. No. Never, never. Not one word of. Not one word of. Not one word of any casting, any aspersions on anybody. Any insinuations. Saying anything negative about. Not even once. In 40 years. Of. Of. We staying with them. They're coming and staying with us and so on. Absolutely fabulous human being. Akbar Ismail. And so, I went there to his khawar. And, of course, I make dua. May Allah make it easy for you. Allahumma khafirlahu wa rahamahu wa aafihi wa aafu anhu wa krim nuzulahu wa si mudkhalahu wa ghasilu ilmaaii wa althaljii wa albarad wa naqihihimina alqataya kamaa naqaitu thawbul abiyadu min al-danas. Allahumma adkhilahu fi jannatil firdausi laala bi ghairi hisaab. We ask Allah to bless him, to fill his khabar with nur, to forgive his sins, to grant him jandatul firdausul ala without his saab. We ask Allah to grant sabr to his family. We ask Allah to protect him from all the difficulties of the khabar and of the fire of Jahannam. We ask Allah to forgive his sins. Because Allah is Ghafoorul Rahim, He is Rahmanul Rahim. And there is no sin that anybody can do which is beyond Allah's forgiveness inshaAllah. And Alhamdulillah Akbar Wahi was a good Muslim and he died on Islam. We ask Allah to bless him and to help him in this time when the only one who can help us is Allah. Peace be upon you. see you will see a mound of sand and this is true for every one of us no matter how glorious and magnificent we might be in life when we die and we are buried a mound of sand is all that will remain and that's why the poet said he said the the mirage of life the truth about the mirage of life is this that as soon as your eyes shut you become a story from is you become was your name itself will disappear from people's tongues the moment you die because if you if you think about this when you go to somebody's janaza they will bring the janaza they will put it on one side and they will say that after the Salah after whichever fard Salah say Salatul Asr say after Salatul Asr there will be a Salatul janaza right Asr ki naaaz kay baad mein naaaz kay janaza padi jaaegi then after the Salah is over what will they say please form the safs for Salatul Janazah and then they will say bring the mayyat or bring the janazah, bring the mayyat they will not say bring Yaver Bhai, they will not say Sheikh Yaver to go either love no, they will say bring the mayyat so what happened to my name I mean the people who are saying bring the mayyat are people who know me, are people who are related to me, right, are people who love me inshallah but they will not say bring Sheikh Yaver, bring Yaver Bhai, bring Yaver no, they will say bring the mayyat my name is gone and I my body is not cold yet almost to that extent I have just been given ghusl and I have been clothed in my kafan and I am there I am not even in the ground and people have stopped using my name to the extent that if somebody says bring Sheikh Yaver here or bring Yaver Bhai here or bring Mr. Beg here people will say you have gone mad what are you saying, how do you say bring Mr. Beg Mr. Beg is dead, he is gone bring the janazah bring the body bring the mayyat and then you put the person in the grave now what goes into the grave, Rasulullah ...
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  • Find a problem to solve – #3
    Dec 22 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alameen, wassalatu wassalamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen, Muhammadu rasulullahi sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahibu sallam, tasliman kathiran kathira. Fammabadu, my brothers and sisters, somebody asked me a question, I've been, last two further reminders, we've been talking about, of secret of success, and I said find a problem, solve it, scale it, monetize it, and one of our listeners, he said, how do I find a problem? Now, on the face of it, that looks like a trick question, so I'm sure he's trying to trick me. But seriously, if you think about it, how do you find a problem? That reminds me of a story. I was, many years ago, I was walking in Nizamabad with a friend of mine, and we went down, we were going to some place, and we went down a lane, and this lane was absolutely stinking. It was the foulest smelling thing that you can imagine. So my friend obviously expressed his disgust, and he said, what a horrible smell. So I said to him. That is the smell of money. So he thought I was speaking hypothetically, you know, that like money is dirty kind of thing. Of course, I don't believe money is dirty, money is money. What you do with it makes it dirty or good. So he said, do you mean, what do you mean? So I said, I'm not speaking hypothetically. This is the smell of money. So he said, I didn't understand. I said, what are you smelling? He said, garbage. I said, okay. So if you apply to the city and say that I want to remove this garbage, do you think the city will agree? And I said, apply to the city. I want to remove the garbage. He said, yeah, I'm sure they'll agree. So he said, if you apply to remove this garbage, who will pay you for that? He said, the city will pay. He said, yes. The garbage itself, you get. And the city is paying you to remove the garbage. Now you take this garbage and then you take it to a place and you separate it. You recycle it. Plastic separate, inflammable separate and so on. And you make a plastic melting factory. You make, you create a factory to make briquettes, fuel briquettes, for example. You take other garbage which can be converted into vermicompost. So you have fertilizer. So I said, there's three different revenue streams. Now you can upscale the plastics into making different kinds of consumer products. So that is a revenue stream that can be scaled up some more. So he said, fantastic. I never thought of that. I said, okay, then I'm not finished. So I said, here you have got three revenue streams. The raw material for which you are getting. Not only are you getting it free because garbage is garbage. People just throw it. But you are also being paid to bring it to your place from wherever it is. Right? So here is raw material being donated to you free of cost. And somebody is paying you to move that raw material from wherever it is to your factories. Right? He said, fantastic. I said, okay, I haven't finished yet. He said, what more? What is there? I said, I'll tell you. The real punchline is to come. So the punchline is to remove this garbage, you need labor. To separate the garbage into different, you know, basic raw material products for your different factories, you need labor. Who are the people that you are going to employ? He said, well, people who are very poor, people who have really no options in life, people who are completely uneducated. And since we are talking about India, we'll, we'll probably employ people of lower castes who are already oppressed and so on. So I said, there you go. Now you are providing employment for all of these people. And all of them, all of them are people in need, people who are, you know, who have, who have serious life difficulties. So I said, now think about this. So when you are doing this, you are getting Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will reward you because you are helping all of these people. At the same time, you are cleaning the streets. So now your city, instead of smelling like a garbage dump, now start smelling like a rose garden because the whole place is cleaned up. Plus you have provided employment for all these people. Now you being a good Muslim, inshaAllah, and you being, the purpose being to please Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, you will not exploit these people who you are employing. You will employ them. You will maybe start schools for their small children. Maybe you will start and you should start, you know, you should start a free medical facility for them to, you know, to give them, provide them medical aid. And then you expand the schools, employ, you know, make them absolutely top class schools and then open them. So now you've got a fourth revenue stream, which is schools. And it's a very, very popular and a very lucrative revenue stream. You have your hospitals. Now again, in the hospitals, that's a fifth revenue stream, right? And again, I'm not saying do it like the corporate hospitals do make it into an absolute profit center. Don't do that, ...
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