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  • Greatest collection of humanity

    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

    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

    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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  • Uhud is witness

    Uhud is witness
    Nov 29 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu, alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen, wa salatu wa salamu ala ala al-sharafi al-anbiya wal mursaleen, Muhammadun Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahibu salam. Sashliman kaseeran kaseeran. My brothers and sisters, I am seeing and looking at a view which, Allah grant all of us, is the view that Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam himself used to see when he was in his masjids, when he was in his home, when he was in his city of Badin al-Barawarah, and that is the site of the Mount Ravaad. The Mount Ravaad is a very important historical place in Islam. This is Mount Ravaad. This is the mountain which has been mentioned in the hadith many, many times. It is the mountain about which Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, the mountain of Ravaad loves us and we love Ravaad. This is the mountain which gave shelter to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in the battle of Ravaad when he was injured and he fell and they took him up the side of the mountain into a little defile where he was sheltered from the enemies. This is the mountain which, was witnessed to the reason for the defeat after the victory. Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had commanded a set of sahaba to, a set of archers from the sahaba to be on a small hillock that is adjacent to the Mount Ravaad to cover a passage that is between that hillock and the mountain, and prevent the enemy from entering the mountain. And prevent the enemy forces, especially enemy cavalry from attacking the Muslims through that passage because that would have brought them right at the back of the Muslim army. But unfortunately the sahaba who were there disregarded the instruction and command of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Because Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had commanded them very clearly and said, do not leave your post even if you, whether you see us winning or losing, even if you see the crows and vultures eating from our bodies, do not leave your post. What happened was that with the initial victory, the Muslim forces were even into the camp of the disbelievers and the enemy, and they were collecting booty. When these archers on the hill, they saw that, their intention changed and they said, well, the instruction of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, his command does not apply anymore because we have won the battle, the battle is over. The command applied only while the battle was happening and now that the battle is over, we don't need to obey the command. And they left. And when they left and they came down to collect booty, they left. And when they came down to collect the booty, that was exactly the time that Khalid bin Walid bin Al-Ahmad bin waiting for. And he came and he, he came and he, he attacked the Muslim army from behind. And the worst nightmare of any infantry is to be caught between the enemy in front and the enemy cavalry behind. And that's exactly what happened. The result of all that was of course disastrous. And the Muslims lost the battle. And in that battle, more than 70 of the Sahaba, the blessed companions of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, were Shaheed. They were killed. And among them, some of the greatest of them, Hamza bin Abdul Muttalib radhiallahu anhu, Musa bin Umair radhiallahu anhu, Abdullah bin Rawah radhiallahu anhu, and others who were among the greatest of the Sahaba. All of them. And the rest of them died in that, in the battle of Arhat, thanks to this one act of disobedience of the Sahaba. As I mentioned, the Sahaba had not rebelled. They didn't rebel. They were not, they had not left Islam. They had not stopped believing in Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. All they did was, they took a command of the Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and interpreted that in the light of their own convenience. They interpreted that in the way that was convenient for them to interpret it. And that was the biggest mistake they made it, that that they made, and which resulted in this great calamitous defeat of the Muslims. My brothers and sisters, the reason for saying this is, I remind myself and you, this is exactly what we do today. We take the command of the Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, we take his blessed sunnah, and then we take the liberty which we don't have of interpreting that to suit ourselves. And we say, oh, but you see, this is, doesn't apply anymore. We are living in the 21st century, and that was 7th century, and we are living in America or Canada or somewhere, and that was in medieval and pre-medieval Arabia. And all sorts of taweelat and all sorts of taweelat, and all sorts of taweelat, and all sorts of taweelat, and all sorts of ridiculous explanations, none of which pay attention to the fact that this was the command of the Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. It is not open for us to interpret it and to change it, and to choose to follow and not to follow. I ask Allah ...
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  • Sunrise in Madina

    Sunrise in Madina
    Nov 28 2025
    https://youtu.be/v2Wa6C1cdgM Auto-generated transcript: As-salāmu ʿalaykum wa rahmatullāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Muhammadu Rasulullahi sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Faham abadu. Brothers and sisters, my dear brother and friend Atif. Atif Nasir from Kuwait. He told me, do go to the top of the roof after fajr. The sunrise is amazing. I didn't realize how true, what exactly he meant. Because when I come here, it's like being on another planet. Suhara is so incredibly beautiful. I cannot even imagine. I cannot even describe it. The roof is beautiful. It has carpets everywhere. And I was hoping to get a sighting of the Mount Rakhud. But that looks like it might not happen because in the direction of Ahud, there is a, the roof is not completely open. They have a sort of wall and a roofed veranda all around. So, on the roof you are open to the sky for part of it, part of it, but you can also shelter under the veranda if you need to. But okay, alhamdulillah. What I can see is so incredibly beautiful. It's cold. Madina is cold in the morning. So, but it's not badly cold. It's not bitterly cold. It's a very, very beautiful scene. Suha Allah. Waiting for the sun to rise. Inshallah. And it is unbelievable. I was going to talk about Mount Rakhud with the picture. But I guess that is not the case. I guess that is not to be in this particular video. But Inshallah. I can still talk about the mountain. I guess without the mountain being in the picture. I'm literally within sighting distance of the Mount Rakhud. And I will take a picture of the Mount Rakhud and show it to you. Before I go there, you can see here, this minar, which is a pointed one, which you can see there. Oops. That went off quite fast. Okay, that one. That pointed one is the minar, which is the one that is in front of me. And that is the one that is in front of me. And that is the one that is in front of me. This is the minar, which is next to the Gubbat Al-Hudra, the green dome of the best brother of Rasul Allah . So that is the minar of the dome. Now, this is the roof. So I was talking about the mount of Ahad. The mount of Ahad is, The Mahantra Vahad is, as I said, I'm literally sort of a very short walk away from the Mahantra Vahad. From where I'm standing, if the built-up area was not there, I would be able to see the Mahantra Vahad very, very clearly. That is actually my intention of coming up here. But, khair inshaAllah. The Mahantra Vahad is the Mahantra of history. It's the Mahantra which knows the history of the Muslims. It is the Mahantra about which Rasulullah said, the Mahantra of Vahad loves us and we love Vahad. And so that is the importance of Vahad is clear from many, many Ahadiths where Vahad is mentioned both literally as well as allegorically. For example, goodness, like the goodness of the, as much as the Mahantra Vahad, good deeds, the size of the Mahantra Vahad, a date seed, given in sadaqa by somebody who is poor. And that one date, so that one date seed, all that this person has and gives that sadaqa, Allah will make it grow like the mountain of Vahad made of gold and so forth. Many Ahadith, alhamdulillah, which are, which talk about the fazilat and the position, the prominence of this mountain in the seerah of Rasulullah . The mountain of Vahad is the mountain which gave shelter to Rasulullah in the battle of Vahad. When the Muslims had lost the battle, the mountain of Vahad was witness to the reason they lost the battle. After having won it, the mountain of Vahad, those that Rasulullah had given this instruction, this command, that nobody must leave, that the archers must not leave their post, until he commanded them to do that. But they left their post. And they left their post not because they had suddenly become bhaagi or rebels, or they stopped believing, in Islam and believing in Rasulullah . None of that. They left their post for a, for a reason, may Allah forgive us, the kind of reason that we give ourselves, which is that we take, we take one of the Ahadith, we take one of the command of Rasulullah , and we say that, oh you see, but logically that command is not valid anymore, because the reason for the command is, gone, and therefore I need not obey that command. And that's exactly what the archers said. Those among them who saw the others, the other Muslims collecting booty, they said, well, the command of not giving the mountain really applied while the battle was going on. But now the battle is over, and the booty is being collected by people, and if we don't go, and if we don't exert ourselves, and we ...
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  • Ask “Why?” Not, “What?”

    Ask “Why?” Not, “What?”
    Nov 27 2025
    https://youtu.be/UHamiG5ea7k Auto-generated transcript: Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafil abdiyaj wal mursaleen. Alhamdulillahi Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasliman kaseeran kaseera. Abna al-Badu. My brothers and sisters, Subhanallah, I never get tired of these beautiful views of Al-Masjid al-Nabi wa al-Sharif. Once again, I'm sitting very close to the Roda Mubarak. Just behind it, a few steps away. I am thinking of the Hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. The first Hadith in Bukhari, narrated by one of the Qatab-ul-Anhu, who said that Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he heard Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam say, in our Aamalu Biniyat, that the reward of the deeds, or the deeds are based on their intention, the intention with which they are done. The reason I'm mentioning this Hadith is because, normally when we look at decision-making, when we look at, when we look at, especially in times of stress, in times of, you know, any kind of difficulties, and we are thinking of what to do, how to do it, what decisions to make, what might be beneficial, what might not be beneficial, so on. We think in terms of trying to project, or trying to, in a way, foresee, like for example, you might say, if I do this, such and such will happen, if I do something else, something else will happen. So, we are looking at, we are doing some sort of scenario planning, and we are trying to imagine scenarios, and we are saying to ourselves, if I do this, then this scenario will happen, and if I do that, then that scenario will happen. This scenario might unfold, if I do something else, a different scenario might unfold, and so on. Which is all really, if you look at it, an exercise in fantasy, because we don't know, and we can never know the reality. We can never know what will actually happen. So, what we are trying to say is, we are trying to kind of foresee that, to the extent possible. So, you might say, well, what is the alternative? What must we do, and why or how does this hadith relate to this issue of decision, of decision making concerning our lives? What's the connection? My submission to you is, the connection is that, instead of thinking what might happen, ask yourself, why am I doing something? So, when you are considering a decision, and you are saying that, this is what the future seems to hold, therefore, what must I do? Instead of that, think of the decision, and say, don't say, should I do this or that? Think of the decision and say, why would I do this thing? Look at the reason you are taking a decision or deciding not to take a decision. Look at the reason for it, why? I'll tell you why I'm saying that, with an example. I used to live in America in 1997 to 99, and I went to America for the reason why anybody goes to America, which is, to build a career in your life. And as part of that process, I had a partner, a business partner, with whom I was planning to set up a training company. We needed $1 million to start. We started fundraising, and we raised $250,000. We raised about 25% of what we need. We raised that in a pretty short time, just for a month, for less than a month. My partner was absolutely thrilled. And he said to me, he said, we have arrived. So I said, how's that? He said, well, we have 25% of what we need, and the bank will give us the rest. So I went silent for a while. He said, why are you silent? I said, because, I said, we need to have a talk. He said, what talk? So we sat in his house, and this was about maybe 9 o'clock or something in the night. And we talked till the following morning, the whole night. I said to him that, there are two things that we cannot do. One is, we have to do something. And the other is, we cannot do. Thirdly, I can't do. I cannot participate with you if you do them. So the first thing we cannot do is to borrow money on interest. Irrespective of the reason, irrespective of the amount of interest. We are not borrowing money on interest. Number one. I said, this is an absolutely, as far as I'm concerned, it's an absolutely written in stone rule. We cannot borrow money on interest. And I said, the second thing we cannot do is to use alcohol as in any of our promotional events. So no wine and cheese parties, and no product launches with drinks and stuff. And of course, I also said to him, no use of women. Either as, you know, in pictures or actual women in any of the promotional activities. So I said, these are the two or three things that we absolutely cannot do under any circumstances. He looked at me as if I was crazy. He said, do you realize where we are living? I said, yeah. Why? He said, what difference does it make? He said, because in this country, this country America, this country America is America because of interest. He said, this is the biggest benefit we have that we don't need to raise all the money. And you want to wipe that out in ...
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  • How to live a life of influence

    How to live a life of influence
    Nov 26 2025
    https://youtu.be/Inc0bp3k3PI Auto-generated transcript: Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alameen, wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafil biya'i wa al-mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi, wa sahbihi wa sallamu ala alayhi wa sallamu ala alayhi wa sallam. A person says, I am standing here at the window of my room in Hilton, in Medina. And as you can see, literally, a very short walk from here, maybe just over 100 meters. This is the Masjid al-Nabawiwaye Sharif. Today, as I'm standing here, I'm thinking to myself, many, if not all of us are literally obsessed with one thought in our minds, and that is, how can I live a life of power and influence? And I want to say to you that, from where I'm sitting, as I mentioned to you, literally, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30 on them, they slide sideways and in the evening sometimes they open them so that you have this little open courtyard, not very little, quite big actually, open to the skies. Very, very beautiful to sit there with the beautiful breeze of Madina blowing directly into the Masjid. And these are the umbrellas that cover now, they have covered it, King Abdullah. May Allah forgive him and be pleased with him. He is responsible for covering the entire courtyard all around Masjid, which is a huge, huge, huge relief for the people who come here from the sun. And of course, it increases obviously the capacity for the people. So, we have this example of the Prophet Muhammad . And the reason I'm saying most powerful and influential is because as I look down here, you can see all those cars and buses there moving at a snail's pace because of… it's almost a traffic jam. And we have here the people… May Allah bless them down here on the ground. People who are here for one purpose only and that is to go to the Masjid-e-Nabawi-e-Sharif, to pray there and to present their salaam to Rasulallah . Literally I can tell you, I can stand here by this window for 24 hours and this stream of people, they are all here. This stream of people walking towards the Masjid-e-Nabawi ends 24-7, day and night, there are people who are going to the Masjid. And walking there, walking back, that's all they do. Alhamdulillah, I have had the pleasure and the privilege of being one of them. Now, how did this happen? How does this happen? How do you become powerful and influential? How do you become powerful and influential in this life? Paradoxically, it is by defocusing from this life and focusing on the hereafter. And that is the message of Rasulallah in a gist of it, which is the… literally in a nutshell, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, we can actually do something. In our entire existence, we began in the ilm of Allah SWT, in the knowledge of Allah SWT. From there we went into the Alam Al Arwah, the world of the souls. From there we, when Allah SWT, we stayed in the Alam Al Arwah, the world of the souls for Advokatul Ravisht. And then when Allah SWT decreed, we came to the wombs of our mothers. And then, we stayed there, for, period, of, whatever, number, of, months, and, then, we, were, rejected, into, this, world, extremely, unhappy, that, having, changed, our, situation, yelling, and, screaming, our, guts, out, and, then, we, suddenly, fell, in, love, with, We live in this world and we live in this world for as long as Allah decrease and just like we had no control over when we came into this world, we will have no control over when we leave this world. And then for most of us, that leaving of this world will also be, it may not be like yelling and screaming, but certainly something that you leave with great reluctance. And the key is to remember that just like this world, we had no conception of what this world is like. When we were in the womb of our mothers, we have really no actual experiential knowledge of what the aakhira will be like when we leave this world. But leaving this world is as inevitable as it was leaving the womb of our mothers. And it's with one difference, which is that when we were in the womb of our mothers, nobody came to us and to tell us about the joys of this world and what we are going to see here and so on and so forth. And we, where we were, we thought that was the ultimate. We were in a nice warm place and we had no, we were not in danger. We got our food on time and we were taken care of and all our needs were met. We really couldn't ...
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  • They work for Rasoolullahﷺ

    They work for Rasoolullahﷺ
    Nov 25 2025
    https://youtu.be/WxfsmWqWVSY Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim, Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alameen, wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafil abya'i wal mursaleen, Muhammadun Rasulullah, insallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi, wa sahbihi salam, tasliman kathiran kathira, amman wa ba'du. My brothers and sisters, I'm sitting, standing here, you can see right opposite the Prophet Sharif. I'm thinking to myself, here I am, this is the Prophet Sharif, over to the right from here, and little bit behind is the Rauza Mubarak. And if I turn around completely, and I'm looking now in that direction, which is the opposite, and I'm back to the Masjid-e-Sharif, you can see the Mount Rauhaj. Now, of course in the dark now you can't see the mountain, but that's where it is. It's literally a stone's throw from here. I'm thinking to myself, that 1500 years ago, this little village, which had this masjid, was made of mud brick, and made with the blessed labor and effort of Rasulullah, the son of himself, and all those who loved him. And now, I'm thinking, what has changed, and what has not changed? What has changed is the brick and mortar. What has changed is now that we have this magnificent structure, which is beautifully lighted. One of the things that always I'm very positively impressed with is the subtlety of the lighting of these beautiful buildings. It's the Masjid in Saudi Arabia, especially the Haramain Sharifahin, where you can see how these minarets are lighted. They seem to glow with an internal glow of themselves. The unlighted pillar-like thing that you're seeing are the umbrellas now folded. In the earlier videos, you would have seen them extended. They do that. They're on timers. They do that. They're on the roof during the daylight hours, and then in the night, as soon as it falls, sunsets, they are folded back up again. So, this is what has changed, which is the material surface things. But what has not changed, SubhanAllah, I was thinking to myself, and we were talking to some friends of mine. I met one of my very dear old friends here just now from Mangalore. He was remarking on how despite this enormous footfall, just see the people. And this is now a bit after Isha, so a lot of people have left, but still you can see this massive crowd coming out. What has not changed is the love of Muhammad ﷺ that you can see in all that happens here. Starting with the cleaning of the Masjid. The people of the Nizamah, the housekeeping who clean the Masjid, those who use machines, there are all kinds of machines. There are scrubbers and cleaners and carpet cleaners and carpet vacuumers and shampoos and all sorts of stuff. And then there are people who are just picking up stuff. And may Allah have mercy on the Muslims. There's no shortage of stuff that they throw out. They throw on the ground, but people keep picking it up. What is clear is how these people work by themselves. There's no supervision. They probably have one supervisor for every hundred people or something like that just to make sure that people are paid on time. I don't know why they even have them. But anyway, they probably have that. I don't know that they have anything more. Because you don't see any supervisors. You just see the people of the cleaning crews. They're working by themselves. What is abundantly clear is they're not doing it for the money. Because I know some of the people, these people personally, one of my very good friends is a cleaner here at Masjid al-Nabawi Sharif. And I know what he gets paid. He doesn't get paid very much. But he's been here for the last 20 years just cleaning the Masjid al-Sharif. The love of Muhammad , the love of Masjid al-Nabawi Sharif. For 20 years. Now, man is a cleaner of this beautiful Masjid. And it's not because the Masjid is beautiful, but because this Masjid is the Masjid of Muhammad . That has not changed. For 1500 years, Masjid is populated by people who love Muhammad . It's cleaned by people who love Muhammad . It's maintained by people who love Muhammad . It is, all this is done for the love of Muhammad . And Allah , may Allah reward them. These are the true billionaires and trillionaires of the world. Not the ones who cannot distinguish between good and evil. The ones who have a good lifestyle, whose sum total of their lives is the, which is to satisfy their desires. And then call it technology and what not. But with a result that they don't have any idea of what they are saying and doing. May Allah have mercy. These are the role models. These are the people who are unfortunately the role models, instead of the true role models who should be our role models. The best of them, the one without comparison is Muhammad Rasulullah . The one who Allah called Rahmatul Al-Alamin, the one who Allah called Al-Bashir wa Nazir, Da'iyanil Allahi bi-idhnihi wa sirajan bunirah. The one who Allah sent as a mercy to every creature that He created. Al-Alamin, not just Rahmatul Al-Muslimin, Rahmatul Al-Alamin. ...
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