Episodes

  • 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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  • The Ultimate Reality – From Baqi’

    The Ultimate Reality – From Baqi’
    Nov 24 2025
    https://youtu.be/P73wmJlRdiA Auto-generated transcript:And may such people have such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such He entering the, what is also called Jannat al-Bakir. But Allah knows Jannah is Jannah. This is the graveyard of Madinah. This is the place, this is the place in which are buried the best of the best and the worst of the worst. This cemetery is buried of Sa'ib Ibn Al-Fa'a, may Allah be pleased with him. And this is buried Sayyidah Fatima bint Muhammad, may Allah be pleased with him. And this is also buried of Abu Ibn Saluk, the head of the Manafiqin about whom Allah has revealed the Quran and said, I will not forgive him and these people even if you ask forgiveness. Ya Rasulullah, seventy times. Sabiyyina marro. So, both are buried. Both kinds of people are buried. The best of the worst, the Sayyidah Fatima bint Muhammad was the, the, so this, I will show you there is a boundary there. You will see there. Inside, there is a boundary. Inside that boundary is Sayyidah Aisha S.A. and Sayyidah Fatima all of the the family of the Prophet is buried. If you see that boundary, inside the mound. This is the ultimate reality. This is where we will all end up. I don't mean the specific place but in a grave. Where a floor will be sand, soil and earth. Not be comfortable mattresses and cupboards. It will be sand and soil and earth. This is the ultimate reality. Whether you are a king or a pope, I make scripts. This is where we will end up. All of us without, without exception. I always pray here that may Allah bless you all in Jannah, in Tahajjud, in Sajdah, in Bila. So, if, if it happens, I am sure, so when it happens, then what will they do? What will the people do? How will they do? When the people there are finished, then what will they do? They will just, people, they will take them from there. Yes, then, they will go there, and all the Muslims, all of them, all of them, such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such So, obviously this has become so big, but you do, you do, you do, you do, you do, you use these graves also. I said it's a huge cemetery, mashallah. This is the ending for all of us. Doesn't matter if you are a king or a queen or a copper, homeless person, what matters is our deeds. What did we die with? If we died with good deeds, if we died with belief in Allah, worshipping Allah, living our lives for the sake of Allah, trying to please Allah, then this will be the best thing that we can imagine. May Allah make us among those. And these graves will become, underneath this on the top you see soil, just to raise mound of earth. Underneath this is either a garden from a garden of the Jannah or a plate of the hell pile. We ask Allah to make this into a garden for the garden of Jannah for us, inshallah. And that will depend on our deeds, nothing else. What we believed in and how we lived our lives. May Allah give us the tawfiq, the guidance to believe in the correct thing, the right thing in Tawheed, which is to believe in Him as our Creator, Maintainer, Protector. To Him is return. And in His name we pray, Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And to live our lives in obedience to Him on the way of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. May the blessings of Allah be upon the Prophet and his family. May Allah bless him and his family. May Allah bless him and his family.
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  • Fear being called to account

    Fear being called to account
    Nov 23 2025
    https://youtu.be/RHuqcOwaSFE Auto-generated transcript:As-salatu wa-s-salamu ala ayyashah, fila mihi wa-l-musa'il, muhammad wa-s-salamu ala ayyashah, wa-l-mahdi wa-s-salamu alayhi wa-l-mahdi wa-s-salamu taslimu, My brothers and sisters, I spoke to you about brotherhood yesterday. And as I am sitting here, as Masih Darwish Shariff, looking at this beautiful architecture, I cannot help but relate it to what I said, which is, see the effect of togetherness. See the arches, see the curves of the arches, see the curves of the pattern, see how the pattern relates one to the other, and creates this absolutely beautiful image, which would not be possible if the relationships were not there. But thanks to the fact that there are the relationships between the patterns, we have these wonderful, these beautiful, these beautiful, these beautiful, these beautiful, these beautiful, so beautiful, so lovely to see how this is one straight line and it's all connected. And that is the nature of life. Alhamdulillah we have, as you know in the Haram in Madinah, these are the AC vents, air conditioning vents. Temperature is beautifully maintained, neither very cold, obviously never warm. Very very beautiful temperature control. All that glitters here is polished brass, polished very lovingly every bit of it the whole time. Lighting is just good, neither too bright nor too dark. These chairs, and you can see there are a series of them in this line, all the way, as you can see. These are the chairs of the teachers. Chairs of teachers who teach. We have Dars, we have Khatiras after usually the Maghrib, Sathya, Isha. And see the other one, the chairs are covered and nobody sits on them. Very unlike some masajid where the chair of the Imam is a piece of, is a subject of dispute. And people sitting on it and then being told not to sit on it. They take offense and all kinds of nonsense that happens. One of the things that we, we have to understand is that, we have to understand that, we have a lot of frivolity, frivolity, frivolity, frivolity, frivolity, frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity see the whole year. And the thing that struck me the most always was this whole sense of Adam. Even everywhere, I mean here, quite clearly nobody calls you by name. No way that anyone would ever call me by name. So, immigration officer, imagine that I'm at the airport, with the immigration officer, I'm trying to get my fingerprinting. And my fingerprints always give me trouble, you know. Because my hands get a lot of work, how they lie, even how they do. So, the fingerprints are almost rubbed off. So, I'm trying to do that. The immigration officer is telling me to place them in a certain way. And he addresses me as Baba. And the first couple of times he said, Baba, I didn't even realize you were speaking to me. I'm thinking, why is he saying Baba? Who's the… I realized it's me. He said, Baba. Baba, here, here, here. Baba, here. He says, here, here, here. Baba, here. He's telling me to put my finger on this on a scanner. SubhanAllah, immigration officer, you only hear this here, you hear Baba, you hear Sheikh, their uncle, my uncle, once in a while, my father, youngsters introduce themselves. They say, I am your son, Abu Bakr. I am your son, Abu Bakr. I am your son, Abu Bakr. He won't say, I am Abdul Rahman. No. He says, I am your son. I am your son. Very, very, the level of politeness, it's a beautiful thing, Wallahi Subhanallah, to live in a Muslim country where the culture is Islam. It's not, and believe me, I have stayed in, I have been to Egypt several times. I have been to the UAE, I don't know how many times. I have been to Oman, I have been to Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, many times, of course, Saudi Arabia many times. The same thing. It doesn't matter which country. All, Alhamdulillah, Muslim lands are like this. With people who are steeped in their culture. The culture is a culture of respect, of mutual respect, of respect for age, respect for knowledge, and assumptions. You know, it's assumption of knowledge. Age, of course, at least, is very important. Age, of course, at least, is very important. It's a basis for it. It's a basis for it. It's a basis for it. It's a basis for it. It's a basis for it. It's a basis for it. It's a basis for it. 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  • Remember the Brotherhood

    Remember the Brotherhood
    Nov 22 2025
    https://youtu.be/ZfEUYrA0rC8 Auto-generated transcript:As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillah. Ya Rabbi al-Alamin. Wa sallatu wa sallam ala ashra min al-fiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sallam. Tasbeeman kathiran kathiran. Ummabadum. My brothers and sisters, alhamdulillah. I am in Masjid al-Nabiyyat al-Sharif. As you can see, this classic architecture, all of us who have been here are familiar with it. I also know the architecture. May Allah bring you here as soon as you want to come here. InshaAllah. You know what strikes me? Two things that strike me here. One is that I am actually sitting, if you think about it, I am just actually sitting here within maybe 100 meters of the Rau'dah of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. The Rau'dah is where he is buried, but that's where he used to live. That was his house. And the what we know today as the Riyadh ul Jannah, which is that part of the Masjid between his house and his mimbar, which he said this is a garden from among the gardens of Jannah. Al-Riyadh Al-Rau'dah means Riyadh ul Jannah. A garden from the gardens of Jannah. Now, I always make this dua whenever I have the honor and opportunity to pray in Riyadh ul Jannah, which yesterday I did. I always make this dua that Allah, Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, told us that once you enter Jannah, once a person enters Jannah, Allah will not throw him out. Dhaariqah huwa al-fawthu al-adheem. Allah said this is the final success after which there is no test. No more test. Final success. That is when one enters Jannah. So I make this dua and I say Allah, you caused me to enter Riyadh ul Jannah which Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said is a garden from the gardens of Jannah. So don't send me out. Do not send me out. Because you allowed me in here. I came here with your permission, with your help. Because you wanted me to come here. Because of your mercy, because of your forgiveness, because of your kindness. So please do not deny that to me. Do not send me away from here. We ask Allah to accept this dua that everyone who has prayed in Riyadh ul Jannah, may Allah give them Jannah. Because He already gave them Jannah. And may Allah never take them out from Jannah. May Allah make us a part of Jannah. May Allah make us a part of Jannah. May Allah make us a part of Jannah. We ask you for Jannah and we ask you for protection from the fire. So what strikes me when I come here is that this place or the little villages I mentioned before off track for everyone except for the few Arabs who lived here. In the time of the great empires, the great Persian empire, the great Roman empire, the Eastern Roman empire, the Pajat Khan empire, the time of the empires, this was a full on place. Nobody cared about it. Nobody wanted it. Nobody ruled it. Nobody wanted to rule it. And so this became a place which this became a big blessing for the Arabs because since they were people who nobody cared about, nobody interfered with them. Subhanallah, today, I think one of the biggest problems of the Arabs today is that everybody within courts cares for them. Right? Most of them care for them like a lion cares for the antelope. He loves the antelope. But not in the way that he wants. The antelope wants to be loved. Anyway, that's a different story. But the point I'm saying is that it left them alone to have their own culture. It left this area alone for itself. It left this area alone for itself. And so the people who were living in this area were not living in this area. They were living in this area. And so the people who were living in this area, they were living in this area. And so Allah created us and the only one who is worthy of worship. The one who created us, the one who sustains us, the one who feeds us, the one who protects us and the one to whom we will all return. There is no doubt about this fact. It doesn't matter whether you believe it or you don't believe it because this will happen. This will happen. But one day we will return to Allah. And sitting here reminds me of this that this very simple but very incredibly powerful thought or philosophy, the philosophy and thought of Tawhid started from here and went around the world. Started from here and went right around the world. To every corner. To every human being wherever he or she lives. I think I can safely say that there is not a living person today who has not heard about Islam. Who does not… who may not know Islam as they are understanding it. But the basic fundamental belief that this is the worship of the Creator, the worship of the one God, the only God. I… The person who understands Islam. Who understands… who hears that may say, well I don't agree with that. Sure, no problem. Don't agree. But does it change anything? If you don't agree that gravity exists, will gravity disappear? If you don't agree that the earth revolves around the sun, will that...
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