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  • Accountability is a blessing

    Accountability is a blessing
    Feb 9 2026
    https://youtu.be/Mouyqr5_pUQ Auto-generated transcript: Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wa Salatu Wa Salamu Alai Sharafi Al-Anbiya Wa Al-Mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Alaihi Wa Sahibi Wasallam. Tasleeman Kaseera Kaseera. Fammabadu, my brothers and sisters, that is the moon of the 15th of Shaaban. And that's about as big as I can get it. We are at this place, very nice place, which is on the bank of this lake in Bidar, in Karnataka. There is a sanctuary, a black buck sanctuary there in Bidar. And that's where we are. Some forest. Photos also I will upload in due course, inshallah. It's a little bit of a misty morning. But across this lake, there is this beautiful pink forest of gliricidia trees, which are in flower. Looks very pretty, but it's an invasive species, which is destroying the grasslands here. And the grassland is where black buck live. So they are endangered. They're severely endangered. There are two things that are the biggest source of danger for them. One is the destruction of the trees. And the second one is... The destruction of Indian pie dogs, which prey on their fawns, especially newborn ones, which are completely helpless when they are born. Of course, once they stand up and start and then get firm on their feet, then dogs can't catch them. They're very fast. But that period of some minutes, maybe an hour or so, is extremely vulnerable. And dogs are dogs. I mean, they know they are pack animals. They're predators. They hunt in packs. They know when the deer are dropping their fawns. And they're waiting. And that is the tragedy that unfolds. Alhamdulillah. This also shows how much value water... adds to not just the picture, but to life itself. We are in a very dry, deciduous forest. If you look at it, if you look at here, this is how it is. Very, very dry and deciduous. This is a secondary forest. This is not the primary forest here. This is something which is partly what has grown up. And partly which has been planted. But anyway, forest is forest and it adds beauty to the whole environment. But if you look at it, if you take this water away, then what is left is very harsh and dry. And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, that's why when He mentions Jannah, He always mentions water. Jannah atin tajree min tahti al-anhaar. Flowing water. This is, of course, a... lake, not flowing, but Allah mentions flowing water. And there's a whole flight of... I'm trying to figure out now what that is. I don't think you can see it in this video. But, or you can. Okay, there you go. See that V formation. Most birds fly like that. It's not only geese. This looks like some kind of cranes or storks or something. This is a very, very dry forest. This is something... Birds which are bigger and longer, not the... not duck. This is a time in the morning when birds also start taking flight. Aquatic birds usually rest and spend the night on water because that's where they are safest. Others spend the night in trees. Others spend the night in trees. And then in the morning, they all take flight and they go into the fields where either they feed on post-harvest the grain that drops on the ground and which is left there accidentally, not deliberately, but it's enough to feed them. Or they feed on grass and other things in the fields which are surrounding these waters. Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la's Nizam, the system that He has created where everything gets what is written for it. No one gets what is not written for them. No one can take away what is written for them. And this is the lesson that we human beings don't see. We cannot be sad about anything. accountability to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, we may think of it as something which is frightening, which is terrible, which is, you know, I wish it wasn't there kind of thing. But I remind myself, yes, of course, it is frightening to some extent, because to face Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with the kinds of life that we live, obviously, it's not something which is not frightening. But we rely on the tremendous mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, which he has mentioned in the Quran many, many, many times, and much more than he mentioned his punishment and his anger. So we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for his mercy and for his forgiveness. And we ask Allah to correct our ways in this life so that we become eligible for his mercy and his forgiveness. And even if we are not eligible, we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to forgive us anyway, because it's only Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who can be that generous, who can forgive even those who patently deserve punishment. The reason I say that accountability is a great ni'mah, it's a great blessing, is for two reasons. One is that the awareness of accountability, the fact that we are accountable. Okay. Okay. That we believe this and we try our best to live our lives knowing that we are accountable to the one from whom nothing is hidden, obviously keeps us on track. I'm not saying that necessarily threat ...
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  • If there’s a God why’s there suffering

    If there’s a God why’s there suffering
    Feb 8 2026
    Auto-generated transcript: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the Prophet and the messengers. And peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions. And peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions. And after that, my brothers and sisters, sometimes people who are atheists and people who don't understand, even sometimes, may Allah have mercy on us, Muslims who don't understand Islam, who have not taken the trouble to learn anything. They ask this question, they say that if there is a merciful God, if there is a merciful God, why is there suffering? If there is a God, or a merciful God, why is there suffering? Seems to be a... a reasonable question, if you look at it in one way. That's why I said, people who don't understand, ask this question. Because people who understand and know the Qur'an, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentioned very clearly, why there is suffering, despite the fact that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is there, and this is Haqqa. This is the truth. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, in Surah Ar-Rum, Zahara al-fasadu fil barri wal bahri, bi ma kasabat aydi al-nasi li yuziqahum ba'da alladhi amilu la'allahum yarji'oon. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, which means, the fasad, the trials, tribulations, difficulties, calamities, diseases, wars, all the orphans and widows, all the blood and gore, all that you are seeing. Zahara al-fasadu, jo fasad zahir hai, fil barri wal bahar, zameen pe aur paani pe, on the earth and on the oceans. bi ma kasabat aydi al-nasi, yeh insano ke haaton uska kia hua hai, yeh aapki mehnat ka sila hai. Allah said, this is the result of, and the fruits of what your hands have earned. Kasabat aydi al-nasi. Kasab, Urdu ka raaz bhi hai. Kasbe maash. Ayd, aydin, yadam, yada, is hand. Aydi al-nasi. Insano ke haat, kut ki. Bi ma kasabat aydi al-nasi. Now you might say, well, okay, so why doesn't Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala intervene? And why doesn't Allah change everything? Can He do it? Of course He can do it. Why doesn't He do it? Allah says, li yuziqahum ba'da alladhi amilu, la'allahum yarjihu. So that we can allow you to test the result of some of your deeds, so that you may turn towards Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Ta ke aap apne amal ka maza chakhe, thoda sa, chakhe, poora khaye nahi. Zaa'iqa, yuziqal, li yuziqal ladhi ba'da al-amilu, la'allahum yarjihu. Ta ke Allah ki taraf, Lord Almighty. So that you may turn towards Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. A good way to understand this is, say for example, the mother is cooking in the kitchen and the, imagine the old days when the stoves would be at the, floor level. So the mother is sitting there cooking and the little kid is trying to put his hand into the fire because the fire looks very nice. Right? Fires are extremely attractive. You look at it, the flames going up and down, the orange and the yellows and the colors and it's very nice to see. So the child doesn't understand what is a fire. So the child is constantly trying to put his hand into the fire and the mother keeps pushing him away, pushing, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it. Finally, one day, when the child tries to cook, when the child tries to cook, when the child tries to put his hand in the fire, the mother slaps him on the wrist. So when she slaps him on the wrist, it hurts. Right? So he starts crying. Yeah, my mother hit me. Why did she hit you? To prevent you from doing something which would have caused you far more pain. If she had not hit you and she had allowed you to put your hand into the fire, then you would have burnt. And the pain of burning is far, far more than the pain of being slapped on the wrist. So Allah says, we allow you to taste some of the result of your own deeds. Right? So people say, if there is a God, why is there suffering? There is suffering not because there is no God, there is suffering because you are not doing your duty. Another example, in America they have this practice, or this possibility, opportunity. You can go to the local police station and you can say that you would like to enroll for the ride-along program. So the ride-along program is, this is a police public, you know, PR thing they do, where they give you the opportunity to sit in the cruiser of a car, and you take the police officer and go with him on a shift. So you are riding along with the police officer. So you see whatever he sees, you are participating in whatever he is participating. So I did once in Florida, and we caught several people on the highway and gave them tickets. And the, so when I went there, the police officer I went with, Paul Bosco. So he, first of all he deputized me, he gave me a badge. And he says, you are legally, officially a deputy now. And then he gave me a bulletproof vest to wear. So his car, when I saw it, it was freezing cold ...
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    21 mins
  • Preparing for the future

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

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

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

    Shut the door of sadness
    Feb 4 2026
    Auto-generated transcript: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him and his family, and peace be upon him and his family. And after that, my brothers and sisters, all human beings everywhere have only one basic desire. Every time of history, every period of history, every geographical location, every culture, every religion, every race, all people have only one fundamental basic desire. And all that they do, is to try to fulfil that desire. And that desire is to be happy. Right? That desire is to be happy. Take any human activity, it is geared to try to make you happy. Why do you accumulate wealth? To be happy. Why do you want good health? To be happy. Why do you want a good family? To be happy. Why do you want to live in a country which is secure, where you have rights, and these rights are fulfilled? To be happy. Right? Why do you want to stay out of jail? To be happy. Take any activity. To be happy. And Allah SWT showed us how to be happy. And the way to be happy is to be happy. And the way to be happy is to be happy. And the way to be happy is to be happy. And the way to be happy is to be happy. And the way to be happy is to have trust in Allah SWT. Now we have trust in Allah SWT on the basis that Allah SWT is our Khaliq and Malik and Radhik and Hakim. And Allah SWT is the most merciful. There is no one more merciful than Allah SWT. Allah SWT. So what envy, it's based on the fact that whatever happens, whatever happens, happens only by the will of Allah. Whatever it is. Whatever appears to be good, whatever appears to be bad from our perspective is by the will of Allah. It is not in spite of Allah's will. So if something is happening, which is happening by the will of the one who is the most merciful and the one who is interested in our welfare only, then how can that thing be bad? For example, if you go into an operating theatre, operation theatre, and you see a surgeon operating on, on somebody. Maybe the surgeon is operating on someone who is very close and dear to him. What will you see there? Actual physical observation. You will see somebody with a scalpel, which is a polite name for a knife, who is cutting open the body of somebody else. There is blood everywhere. So that scene, is it a nice scene? But do you therefore hate the surgeon? Do you say here is a person without mercy, here is a person who is cruel, here is a person who is murdering somebody else? No. Because you understand what is going on. You will not say that because you understand what is going on. If somebody says that, you will say, he is illiterate. What nonsense are you talking? You don't see what is going on. What is this? What is going on is the best thing that can happen to the patient. He had this tumor, which is being removed. What is better than that? He would have died with his cancer or whatever. The tumor is being removed. The person, the surgeon, is doing him a favor. And that is the reason why when the surgery is over, you pay the surgeon. So you are paying him for cutting you off. You are thanking him for cutting you off. The answer is yes. Why? Because you understand what is going on. You understand that this person who has the knowledge, more knowledge than I have, more specific knowledge than I have, who is concerned and about my welfare, who wants the best for me, is doing the best for me, maybe that thing which is being done at that moment is painful. Because there is no other way. This is the only way. The tumor cannot be wished out. It has to be wished out. So that is the only way. But even though it is painful, he said, Alhamdulillah, I will bear the pain. Because the pain of not doing that would have been much worse. And therefore, our scholars have said, see the pain of not doing that. So, nail the door of sadness. Nail shut. Nail the door of sadness with the of Allah . Allah said, Don't be sad. The Prophet in the cave, in the cave of the revolution, the Messenger of Allah and Abu Bakr al-Siddiq were in this cave. And Abu Bakr al-Siddiq said, Ya Rasulullah, if they look down, they will see us. The enemies who are at the door of the cave, entrance of the cave, he said, if they look down, they will see us. Rasulullah said, what do you say about two, the third of whom is Allah? And he said, La tahzan, inna Allah ma'ana. Inna Allah ma'ana. He said, have no sadness, have no fear. La tahzan. Do not have huzan. Verily and truly Allah is with us. Inna Allah ma'ana. He did not say, inna Allah ma'i. Wa anta ma'i. Allah is with me and you are with me. No. Inna Allah ma'ana. Allah is with us both. So huzan, which is the the the the the the the the the The huzan, The huzan, The huzan, The huzan, The huzan, The huzan, The huzan, The huzan, The huzan, The huzan, The huzan, The huzan, The huzan, The huzan, The huzan, The huzan, The ...
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  • Do not die except in a state of Islam

    Do not die except in a state of Islam
    Feb 3 2026
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him and his family, is a very peaceful and very much-loving person. And after that, my brothers and sisters, we are talking about the ayat of Allah SWT where he said, يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ حَقَّ تُقَاتِهِ وَلَا تَمُوتُنَّ إِلَّا وَأَنْتُمْ مُسْلِمُونَ Allah said, which means, O you who believe, have taqwa of Allah SWT as it is His right. And do not die except in a state of Islam. We looked at the first part of the ayah. Today we look at the second part of the ayah where Allah said, لَا تَمُوتُنَّ إِلَّا وَأَنْتُمْ مُسْلِمُونَ Do not die except in a state of Islam. A state of Islam means a state of submission to Allah SWT. Submission to Allah means submission to everything which Allah SWT commanded. As I remind myself and you again and again, our problem is not that we disbelieve in everything. Our problem is worse than that. Our problem is that we don't believe in everything. Our problem is that we don't believe in everything. Our problem is that we selectively obey. And Allah SWT mentioned that very clearly in the Quran, where He said, أَفَتُؤْمِنُونَ بِبَعْدِ الْكِتَابِ وَتَكْفُرُونَ بِبَعْدِ Do you believe in some things of the book? You take some things of the book? You obey some commands? And you leave the rest? فَمَنْ يَفْعَلُ ذَلِكَ مِنْكُمْ إِلَّا خِذْيٌّ فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَيَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ وَرَضُّونَ إِلَىٰ أَشَدِّ أَذَابٍ وَمَنْ اللَّهُ بِغَافِلٍ عَمَّا تَعْمَلُونَ Allah SWT said that what is the reward? فَمَا جَزَاهُ مَنْ يَفْعَلُ ذَلِكُ What is the jaza? What is the reward? And Allah SWT is using the word reward in a sarcastic way. Whereas where He means punishment. جَزَا سَمَانِ جَزَا نِجَزَا جَزَا كَمَنِ صَزَا هَيَا And Allah says what is the reward for those of you who do this? Accept hardship and suffering and problems and humiliation in this life. خِزْيُنْ فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا This is the beauty of the Kamal of the Arabic language. One single word. خِزْيُنْ خِزْيُنْ خِزْيُنْ It has every bad thing in it. It has disease, it has accidents, it has problems, it has conflicts, it has suffering, it has poverty. You name it. خِزْيُنْ خِزْيُنْ Hard. Your life will become extremely difficult. فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا And it doesn't end with that. وَيَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ يُوَضُّونَ إِلَىٰ أَشَدِّ أَذَابٍ And on the Day of Judgment you will be turned towards the worst of punishments. You might ask this question, at least I am doing something. Somebody else is completely rejecting. He is not even a Muslim. He has not even said, لا إله إلا الله At least I am doing something. At least I am coming to Furaishalatul Fajr. At least I am giving some Zakat. At least I am doing Qurbani in Eidul Adha. And so on. The issue there is not at least. The issue there is the arrogance. Is the Takabbur of the slave. The Takabbur of somebody who has no Hasyat except what Allah has given him. What right do you and I have to be arrogant? When Allah SWT reminded us. And Allah said, وَلَا حَلْ أَتَعْ عَلَىٰ الْإِنسَانِ حِينٌ مِّنَ الدَّهْرِ لَمْ يَكُنْ شَيْءً مَّذْكُورًا As the human being forgotten the time when he had no mention. There was no mention of him. He was not a thing mentioned. What right do you have to be arrogant? On what basis are you arrogant? And we are arrogant. So don't expect me to say. Ya Allah you may have given me three commands. But I will obey only one. The other two commands I don't like. I will not do. This is exactly what Iblis did. Exactly. This is exactly what Shaytan did. Shaytan did not deny Allah SWT. Shaytan did not say you are not my Rabbi. You are not my Khalikh. No, no, no. He did not deny Allah SWT. He did not deny making Sajidah to Allah. Allah, he did not say, I will not make sajdah to you. He said, I will not do this command. I will not make sajdah to Adam because in my understanding, this is wrong. So what is he doing? He is taking his will, his understanding, his whatever and imposing it on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Yaab meru kaisa bolte? Aapki baad ghalat hai. Laaha wa laakho ta'ala. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying, you do this shaitaniyat...
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  • How to develop Taqwa

    How to develop Taqwa
    Feb 2 2026
    Auto-generated transcript:Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen, wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen, Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam, tasliman kathiran kathiran. Fama ba'du, my brothers and sisters, we were talking about the ayat of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, which we hear in practically every qutbah, where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Ya ayyuha alladhina amanu taqullaha haqqa tuqatih, wa la tamutunna illa wantu muslimun. Which means Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, O you who believe, have taqwa of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as it is His right, and do not die except in a state of Islam, except as a Muslim. To continue with that, we spoke about the importance of obedience to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, and of having taqwa as it is His right. It is the right of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that we should have taqwa. How do we increase this? How do we develop this taqwa in our lives? That is the question and the important thing to think about. Alhamdulillah, we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to give us Ramadan al-Kareem, which is maybe less than two weeks away. We ask Allah to give us Ramadan in a state of good health and Iman, and the ability to make the best of it. Because we don't know which Ramadan will be our last. The purpose of Ramadan itself, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Allah said, The purpose of fasting is to develop taqwa. So in this ayat, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, As it is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's right that we should have taqwa. The way to develop taqwa is to focus on and reflect on two things. One is the glory and majesty of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. This is visible for anyone who has the eyes to see, in their lives, all around them, in the creatures of Allah, creation of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. It is visible in the kalam, the majesty of the Quran al-Kareem. The thing is to see it. And the thing is to glorify Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and make dhikr of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when we see all of these things. From the smallest to the biggest. We see the glory and magnificence of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. You see how Allah created this earth. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentioned this in the Quran in many places. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentioned all the different things. How did we create the earth and we made it inhabitable for you and we sent rain to you and we grow your food because of this water which comes to you and so on and we put the mountains there to stabilize the earth so it does not... You don't... You don't... You don't... You don't... You don't have earthquakes and so on and so on and so on. All of this is for us to think and reflect. We say Alhamdulillah Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala made these things for us. Allah created these things for us. So the more we reflect on the glory and majesty of Allah, the more we have khashiyat of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in our hearts. Yesterday I mentioned two things. The importance of khashiyat and the importance of hubb of Allah. Love for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. The combination of these... The combination of khashiyat and hubb is taqwa. Only when you have the glory and awe and majesty of Allah in the heart and we also have love for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Together it produces the condition called taqwa which is what is desired where we fear to disobey and displease Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in any way. So before every speech, before every action, you ask the question, does this please Allah? If the answer is yes, you do it. If the answer is no, you don't do it. And if the answer is I don't know, you find out. Until you find out, you don't do it. So khashiyat and hubb. So to produce khashiyat, we have to focus on and think about the glory and majesty and power and authority of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah says, قُلِ اللَّهُمَّ مَالِكَ الْمُلْكَ Allah says, Allah says, Allah says, Allah says, Allah says, Allah says, Allah says, Allah says, Allah says, Allah says, Allah says, Allah says, Allah says, Allah says, Allah says, Allah says, Allah says, Allah says, this car belong to? Who is the owner of this car? Full on bin full on. So anything to do with that car is the business of the one to whom the car belongs. Now if you see that the car is punctured, then what do you do? Go and change the tyre. If you find the car tyre is punctured, you don't go and change the tyre. You please inform the owner. The car, your tyre is punctured. So he can do something about it. Right? Who does it belong to? And the reason to understand who it belongs to is because if you understand who it belongs to, then you leave the car. Leave that to the one to whom it belongs. Hasan Basir Ahadulillah said, it is a sign of the weakness of your Iman. It's a sign of the weakness of your Iman that you are more attached to what is in your hand than you are attached to what is in the hand of Allah. Seriously, let us ask ourselves these ...
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