A Laptop and a Banana! - Sayed Mohammed Baqer Al-Qazwini

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[0:17]i begin in the name of the almighty god the compassionate the

[0:24]merciful the one who has created everything and utmost perfection and may

[0:29]the peace and blessings of the almighty god be upon his pure

[0:33]and beloved messenger the peak of his creation the symbol of humanity

[0:39]the holy prophet muhammad and his immaculate progeny of the bait peace

[0:51]be upon them especially the leader of our time the awaited savior

[1:01]may allah hasten his reappearance and make us all amongst his sincere

[1:09]and dedicated servants respected brothers and sisters and indeed we have honored

[1:28]the children of adam we have honored the human being illuminate your

[1:37]hearts and minds with a very loud sarawat muhammad one of the

[1:48]most beautiful aspects of the month of ramadan is that it truly

[1:54]makes us more humane and it allows us to see the humanity

[2:00]in other people one of the biggest challenges that we human beings

[2:07]have is to see others as human beings not objects if you

[2:13]analyze our lives you find that we view our surroundings as objects

[2:19]i view human beings as objects how can i benefit from these

[2:28]objects how can i use this person is this person useful for

[2:31]me or not useful for me can i use this person as

[2:37]a bridge to achieve my own success or no we constantly view

[2:41]others around us as objects as tools how can i take advantage

[2:48]of them many times we may not be conscious of this there

[2:51]are some people when you tell them that you view others from

[2:57]this lens you look at others as if they are tools they'll

[3:00]deny it no that's not how i am many times we don't

[3:06]even sense it because we get so used to it and we

[3:10]don't view only strangers this way we view our loved ones this

[3:17]way as well it's not that i just see strangers as objects

[3:20]how can i benefit from them your most immediate family members those

[3:25]who are beloved to you normally that's how we view them how

[3:30]can i make use of them how can i benefit from them

[3:33]to put it in one short statement we usually view people like

[3:40]we see laptops and bananas what do i mean by that i'll

[3:45]give you the example of a laptop a laptop is a very

[3:50]useful device you can get your work done with it you can

[3:53]make money from it you can read books on it you can

[3:59]prepare for your presentation laptop is very useful some of us cannot

[4:04]live without it however when you examine this laptop you see it

[4:08]as a tool it's only an object that gets my work done

[4:13]that's why if i were to ask you about the history of

[4:21]this laptop and the factors that came together together to produce this

[4:26]laptop you would not know anything about it if i would tell

[4:30]you this laptop do you know the millions of factors that combined

[4:32]for you to enjoy it and for you to use it do

[4:37]you know the scientists who over the years collaborated and did research

[4:42]to produce a laptop the chip here the motherboard here the screen

[4:46]here do you know who made them which factory this comes from

[4:51]those factory workers who produced it do you know anything about their

[4:58]life normally we don't know anything about this laptop other than the

[5:01]fact that it's pretty useful yes i know some specs it has

[5:06]you know this speed it has 16 gigabytes of ram i know

[5:10]the resolution these basics but i don't know the history behind this

[5:16]laptop the millions of people who worked to produce this laptop for

[5:20]you millions of people work so you can enjoy a laptop if

[5:22]you look at the combined effort and then subhanallah when you realize

[5:29]the power of god this device this smartphone in your hands the

[5:36]laptop that you have you know it comes all from the earth

[5:38]examine every element in a laptop it comes from the earth every

[5:43]element in it go and see the breakdown of those elements i

[5:47]once read an article about the iphone it has tens and hundreds

[5:54]of parts every one of these parts comes from a mineral in

[5:57]the earth see what allah can create for you this earth that

[6:01]you see you just see a mountain you see dust you see

[6:04]rocks a beautiful scream can be made from that look at the

[6:08]adam of allah subhanahu ta'ala the greatness of the creation of god

[6:11]but i don't know any of this history and the problem is

[6:17]i don't care if tomorrow i were to invite all of you

[6:20]to a workshop here and i tell you tomorrow i'm going to

[6:23]give you a six-hour workshop on the history of laptops every part

[6:29]where it's produced who those factory workers are what kind of living

[6:33]conditions their families have i guarantee you most of you would not

[6:39]show up to this workshop you tell me say it i don't

[6:42]care the laptop is useful let me just enjoy it who cares

[6:45]about all of this so what that's how we view a laptop

[6:49]and then come to other blessings that allah has given us like

[6:54]food let's take the example of a banana westerners eat bananas a

[7:00]lot a few years ago in the u.s walmart the most item

[7:04]they sold to americans was a banana right everyone who's leaving out

[7:08]checking out let's grab a banana you look at this banana as

[7:13]a fruit gives you potassium it's good it's packed with energy it's

[7:16]a healthy food to eat but do you know what goes on

[7:23]behind the scenes for you to enjoy this banana millions of factors

[7:29]combined together for you to enjoy it that farmer who had to

[7:33]go through a lot of trouble to prepare the earth to grow

[7:38]the banana tree the rain water that came from thousands of miles

[7:44]away and this water itself it's billions of years old right look

[7:48]at all these factors combining and then they take that banana they

[7:55]send it to the factory they package it they ship it how

[7:58]many people are involved to bring this banana here to you in

[8:02]nova scotia if you look at the combined effort it's millions of

[8:08]people because you have to look at each segment independently the truck

[8:11]that brought it for you here who made the truck who are

[8:14]the people who worked in that factory to produce the truck and

[8:18]then the gas that the truck used when you think of these

[8:24]details your brain will stop because there are really millions of factors

[8:27]involved now when you look at the banana and you eat it

[8:32]you don't care about that i don't care let me just enjoy

[8:33]my banana i don't even know about these factors nor do i

[8:39]care about them if objects had feelings they would be very disappointed

[8:45]at us to human beings they'd be like they'd be offended right

[8:47]imagine if a banana had feelings and the banana would say okay

[8:52]this person is just eating me and doesn't care about all my

[8:55]history the banana would be upset the banana would be offended by

[9:00]the way banana does have feelings every object in the universe has

[9:06]feelings you know why because allah says in the holy quran everything

[9:13]in the universe has some perception you cannot comprehend it but it

[9:20]doesn't mean that objects don't have some sort of perception everything in

[9:25]existence recognizes its lord and that's why as a mutman you constantly

[9:30]thank allah for these blessings knowing that you can never pay god

[9:37]back and you can never thank him enough when we read this

[9:39]verse in the holy quran if you count the blessings of allah

[9:45]you can never keep account of them we usually don't take this

[9:52]seriously take it literally you can never count the blessings of allah

[9:55]i'll give you a quick example here so when you look at

[10:01]just one small banana you see that millions of factors produced it

[10:04]you look at your body you see billions of cells and atoms

[10:09]in your body if you want to thank allah for each of

[10:11]these factors for each cell in your body how long will it

[10:15]take you in 2007 jeremy harper he found his way to the

[10:24]guinness book of world records by counting from zero to a million

[10:31]in three months he even broadcast it live it took him 89

[10:37]days he started in june he finished in september he wanted to

[10:41]count all the way to a million it took him three months

[10:48]he would spend 16 hours a day counting for three months his

[10:50]full-time job 16 hours a day was just to count and he

[10:55]broadcast it live it took him three months if you want to

[10:59]say from one to a million right the digits 16 hours a

[11:03]day it will take you three months now if one banana has

[11:07]millions of factors in it and you want to thank allah for

[11:09]each factor what kind of age do you need for that is

[11:14]it possible to even thank allah well allah says you can never

[11:19]keep track of the blessings that i've given you so be humbled

[11:22]and thank allah from the bottom of your heart knowing that you

[11:25]can never pay him back some of us if we say alhamdulillah

[11:31]thank you allah we really feel as if he paid him back

[11:34]you can never pay back so look at these simple objects there

[11:40]is so much history behind them but we don't care about that

[11:45]history because we human beings tend to look at everything as a

[11:51]tool as an object i just want to use it i don't

[11:52]care about that history the way we view a laptop and a

[11:59]banana is the way we see people around us every single day

[12:01]even our loved ones even in our marital relationships too often you

[12:07]see a husband who looks at his wife as a set of

[12:13]features he doesn't see her as a true human being he sees

[12:17]her as a person with features she cooks she does house chores

[12:21]she cleans the house she goes through pregnancy she brings me children

[12:25]she offers me intimacy that's all i see i see an object

[12:29]that is useful for me and it gives me those certain features

[12:34]i sometimes don't see that this person is a human being same

[12:37]with other people around you and based on my experience with those

[12:41]people who come for marital counseling those people who feel sad in

[12:47]the marriage and feel miserable in the marriage and you have problems

[12:49]in the marriage it goes back to this fundamental point you'll see

[12:53]that one of the spouses either the husband or the wife and

[12:56]sometimes both they don't really see the other side as a human

[13:01]being who has a soul who has a precious soul we don't

[13:09]see that i just see an object i see a tool that

[13:13]i need to benefit from and they feel miserable the wife feels

[13:16]miserable the husband feels miserable sometimes she sees him as just an

[13:24]object she's benefiting from him she's some woman they see their husbands

[13:28]as atm machines that's all they see them they cannot see beyond

[13:33]that and this brings a lot of frustration in the marriage we

[13:36]tend to see each others each other as objects in the month

[13:42]of ramadan we learn to rise above that and this is our

[13:48]human challenge not just within a family look at our society for

[13:52]instance look at our professions for instance look at the world of

[13:55]doctors and professionals there are two types of doctors there are those

[14:00]doctors who look at you as a number as some object they

[14:05]don't care about you who you are your human feelings your human

[14:09]experiences they don't care about them sometimes you go to some clinics

[14:16]to some hospitals right especially in some other countries you honestly don't

[14:20]feel like you're a human being in that place i myself i've

[14:23]experienced that from the way you stand in line you get a

[14:25]number and then the way that you're treated like a sheep like

[14:32]an animal you sit there and then once after three hours it's

[14:34]your turn to see that doctor he's sitting there wallahi is not

[14:37]willing to look at you in the eye because he doesn't care

[14:41]you're just a number as long as he's making his money he

[14:46]doesn't care you are just a number in front of him he

[14:50]sits there you know he's arrogant and you know he's not interested

[14:55]i've been i've even entered in some of these offices i see

[15:00]the doctor he has the prescription in his hand and the pen

[15:04]ready ready he just wants to write some medicine and kick you

[15:07]out of his office because he doesn't see you as a human

[15:09]being you're just some object you're just some patient who cares about

[15:14]you and then you have a second group of doctors the second

[15:21]group of doctors they see that humanity in you and they give

[15:26]you that fine human touch they say something nice they show empathy

[15:32]they show care you truly feel respected by that doctor yes this

[15:38]doctor maybe doesn't know me maybe it's his first time seeing me

[15:43]it's her first time seeing me but i truly feel that this

[15:45]doctor cares this doctor has humanity in them you know these type

[15:48]of these type of doctors they help their patients heal more than

[15:54]that first group of doctors when a patient goes to a doctor

[15:59]a surgeon feeling that the surgeon sees me as a human being

[16:03]and care as cares about me and my well-being i know that

[16:08]in the office the way he treated me he asked me about

[16:13]my family members he asked me about my day what am i

[16:14]up to he showed care he laughed with me he showed me

[16:20]genuine human emotions when that doctor operates on me i feel much

[16:23]more comfortable i feel safer i feel stronger i heal better that

[16:29]touch of humanity does miracles in our lives but this is what's

[16:36]missing in our societies today unfortunately we see others as objects corporations

[16:41]see people as objects how do i just make money out of

[16:44]these people you're just a number nobody cares about you even our

[16:49]popular culture that's how we are viewed in society one of the

[16:54]reasons why today teenagers are going through so much depression anxiety suicidal

[16:59]thoughts is because they feel as if the world of social media

[17:05]and our popular culture has reduced them to numbers has reduced them

[17:10]to objects today one of the biggest challenges of our youth is

[17:14]they don't feel happy with their bodies why because the society views

[17:18]them as an object and let's face it today in this world

[17:23]if you're not rich if you don't come from a prestigious family

[17:27]and if you're not good looking you don't have the perfect body

[17:32]who cares about you how many people out there care about you

[17:34]in society if you're missing these yes if you're rich you're powerful

[17:39]you have a position you come from a prestigious family people might

[17:43]respect you people might care but when it comes to you know

[17:49]the the hum the humanity in you not many people care yes

[17:53]if you have the perfect body you'll get a lot of attention

[17:56]but if you have a beautiful soul how many people pay attention

[18:00]to that not many people care about that not many people are

[18:04]willing to even see the fine nature of the soul that allah

[18:07]has created in you we are busy with superficial aspects what defines

[18:14]you is not your body it's your soul before you came to

[18:18]this dunya allah created you in the world of souls when you

[18:20]die you'll shed this body away but your soul stays but we're

[18:26]obsessed with this body only perfecting this body i have to have

[18:29]the perfect body if i don't i'm upset there are people who

[18:31]commit suicide because of that and the reason is because society has

[18:36]not shown them what it means to be human see that humanity

[18:43]don't see others as mere objects i tell you this is the

[18:50]challenge of every believer and every human being in this world if

[18:53]i have a company and i have employees this is a very

[18:58]natural scenario let's say you have a supermarket you have a company

[19:00]an insurance company you have a gas station you have any type

[19:06]of company where employees work under you be honest with me between

[19:09]you and god even we the believers don't you feel if you're

[19:13]the head of the company you're the boss you're the manager don't

[19:17]you feel that you're better than your employees we do naturally we

[19:25]do this gas station has 10 employees workers and you have the

[19:30]owner of the gas station whether you like it or not this

[19:36]owner feels he's better than those employees even if he's decent he

[19:40]doesn't yell at them he doesn't abuse them inside his heart he

[19:45]feels more important he feels like he's better than them why because

[19:47]they're working for me here comes the beauty of islam and imam

[19:55]zayn al-abidin al-islam teaches you do you want to taste true iman

[20:01]do you want to taste the sweetness of faith when you step

[20:04]outside your house and you go out there in the world see

[20:09]everyone out there as potentially being better than you and see yourself

[20:16]as being less than everyone else that's a true movement even if

[20:20]you see others on a different path once a man comes to

[20:25]imam he says i see sinful people sinful people people who have

[20:30]bad habits bad lifestyles corrupt people out there can't i at least

[20:34]say i'm better than them at least i'm a muwali i'm a

[20:38]muahrid i'm a man can't i at least say to myself i'm

[20:41]better than that corrupt person at least i have iman this person

[20:46]doesn't at least i'm not committing those sins this person is the

[20:49]imam says no you have no right to think that way he

[20:53]says why the imam says how do you know the ending of

[20:55]the affairs maybe that person last minute does tawba allah forgives him

[21:01]and you deviate do you have such guarantee and then the imam

[21:04]gives them the example of the magicians sahara the sorcerers of the

[21:07]era of prophet musa alaihissalam the imam tells him they lived an

[21:12]entire life of kufur an entire life of disbelief last minute they

[21:19]see the miracle they repent they worship allah they go straight to

[21:24]heaven whereas some others last day of their lives they deviate they

[21:28]go to hell don't even say to yourself i'm better than that

[21:32]corrupt person maybe that corrupt person will repent and allah will accept

[21:37]them more than he accepts me if i have employees here's my

[21:46]challenge to truly feel that i am equal to them or they

[21:47]could be potentially be better than me can i reach this state

[21:51]or no this is the message of the month of ramadan why

[21:53]do you think we fast for 30 days to worship allah this

[21:59]way see the empathy see the spirituality see the human side in

[22:08]people rasulullah the greatest creation of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala once he

[22:15]was sinning with his companions and the casket of a deceased passed

[22:22]by janazah there were people carrying the casket the prophet sallallahu alaihi

[22:26]stood up to respect that casket his companions told him ya allah

[22:32]why did you get up this is a jewish man who died

[22:33]why did you show that respect let's look at the response of

[22:39]the prophet he responded by saying two words but an ocean of

[22:43]humanity and knowledge are contained in these two words the prophet said

[22:47]in arabic alice at nephson look at rasulullah today the world doesn't

[22:53]know who the rasool is if they know him they'd follow him

[22:56]he said isn't he a soul isn't he a human being so

[22:59]what if he's jewish i respected this body it's the body of

[23:04]a human being see the humanity don't get stuck on labels see

[23:07]the humanity in this person the prophet truly cared he did not

[23:13]take advantage of people and use them as objects even if his

[23:18]mission was for allah he still didn't take advantage of people see

[23:22]how the prophet salallahu treated the ansar the ansar the helpers in

[23:29]medina after the fatah of mecca the conquest of mecca they were

[23:34]concerned why were they concerned because they realize now that the prophet

[23:38]sallallahu alaihi achieved victory over the meccans mecca is his hometown it's

[23:43]his birthplace they feared the prophet will leave medina and go to

[23:50]mecca now because islam now became the dominant reality in mecca and

[23:55]he's safe there and allah gave him a grand victory so the

[23:59]people of medina were concerned is the prophet now going to go

[24:04]back to mecca or no the prophet salallahu alaihi knew that they

[24:08]were concerned the prophet is their concerns he says no i'm going

[24:12]back to medina look at the loyalty of rasulullah i just i

[24:15]didn't just come to your city to take advantage of you or

[24:18]to use you even if it's for the religion of allah i'm

[24:21]coming back to your city it's my town now and i will

[24:27]be buried here see that's the humanity of rasulullah and another beautiful

[24:34]example that we see between the prophet and the ansar if you

[24:37]look at the battle of hunain something very disturbing happened unfortunately because

[24:42]of the love of this dunya so after the battle of hunain

[24:47]the prophet was dividing the spoils of war right for instance the

[24:51]camels the gold the silver the spoils of war the prophet sent

[24:56]a lot of the spoils of war to the meccans because the

[25:00]meccans had just entered islam the prophet wants to give them something

[25:04]to keep them quiet to avoid their controversies and their fitness and

[25:08]their problems right so he sent them a lot of spoils of

[25:15]war to create peace in arabia the people of medina the ansar

[25:21]they're very upset they say we come here we fight we support

[25:24]him the meccans get most of the spoils of war they could

[25:29]not accept that so they come to their leader the leader of

[25:33]the ansar was said they tell him sad we're not happy with

[25:36]this arrangement go talk to him we're not happy we came here

[25:41]we're fighting we're sacrificing he sends most of the spoils of war

[25:47]to the meccans sat comes to rasulullah he tells them this decision

[25:57]that you've made to send the spoils of war to mecca is

[26:01]it from allah or is it from you if it's from allah

[26:07]we have no choice but to accept i can't object to god

[26:12]but if it's from you we're not happy is that is that

[26:16]how you treat rasulullah after all these years is this appropriate to

[26:20]tell your prophet even if that's the prophet's decision if you're a

[26:24]true men you should fully embrace you should fully accept but it's

[26:27]a test my dear brothers and sisters believe me even those who

[26:31]think they're the best believers when allah tries them their true colors

[26:36]show the prophet was very disappointed with this so he came he

[26:40]spoke to the ansar he told them o ansar your chief your

[26:47]master your mawla has said this do you agree with what he

[26:50]said now they were very polite by the way they told him

[26:55]ya rasulallah you are our mawla allah is our mawla he told

[27:00]them again but he is your chief isn't he they said you

[27:04]are our chief he says i know but you recognize him as

[27:06]your chief they said yes the prophet tells him what he told

[27:12]me do you all agree they said yes ya rasulullah if it's

[27:14]from god we accept if it's from you we cannot accept this

[27:19]we find this unfair at this moment the prophet salallahu alaihi aroused

[27:25]their guilt and he wanted them to feel ashamed of what they

[27:32]did the prophet told them so gently weren't you misguided allah guided

[27:37]you through me weren't you few in numbers allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

[27:42]made you a big nation and multiplied your numbers through me weren't

[27:47]you fighting all the time allah united you through me allah made

[27:52]you the best nation look at medina right now can you compare

[27:55]it to seven eight years ago allah gave you all these blessings

[27:59]through me and now you come and object about a few camels

[28:05]they really felt ashamed but here's where you know the greatness of

[28:11]rasulullah he had to teach them the lesson they have to feel

[28:16]guilty they kept quiet they didn't say anything they felt ashamed the

[28:20]prophet sallallahu alaihi told them don't you have a response answer me

[28:22]say something back to me they told them ya rasulallah we have

[28:26]nothing to say you're right everything you say is true we feel

[28:32]ashamed for what we said and everything you say is true we

[28:37]don't have any response the prophet says i'll tell you what to

[28:40]tell me look at the look at this phenomenal heart of rasulullah

[28:46]he told them you can also tell me ya rasulullah your own

[28:53]city exiled you we gave you refuge your own people did not

[28:57]accept your claim they accused you of being a liar but we

[29:03]believed in you we gave you security tell me this you can

[29:06]also tell rasulallah this when the prophet said this they all broke

[29:12]into tears they broke into tears when they saw the humbleness of

[29:16]rasulullah in other words the prophet was telling them look i don't

[29:19]see you as objects i see you as valuable subjects i care

[29:26]about you i didn't come here to take advantage of you i

[29:30]also give you credit you stood with me and allah gave support

[29:34]to islam through you allah supported this religion through you this is

[29:41]he would not see other people as objects you're all familiar with

[29:50]this last statement he said to malika but some of us may

[29:53]not be familiar with the first part the imam is teaching his

[29:57]governors how to view their subjects the imam ali salaam tells maliki

[30:00]in that treatise in the ayat he tells him normally it's hard

[30:17]for you when the when you're the governor when you're the ruler

[30:20]and you have all the powers normally it's very hard for you

[30:26]to see people as human beings you see them as objects i

[30:29]political power i can enforce it i just see numbers numbers when

[30:36]they tell you my the population of my city is 1 million

[30:38]i as a ruler what do i see i see a digit

[30:42]called a million you're all part of that number i no longer

[30:45]see that humanity that's what happens with most rulers right force your

[30:56]heart to feel the mercy for your subjects pressure your heart force

[31:01]your heart i know it's not easy you need to train yourself

[31:10]bring your heart to love your subjects those whom you're ruling over

[31:26]don't be a wild beast willing to pray on them because that's

[31:31]what politicians do they prey on their people then the imam makes

[31:36]this famous statement which you've all memorized because people are two categories

[31:47]because people fall under these two categories either they're your brothers in

[31:52]faith this person is your brother see him as a brother or

[31:57]he's your counterpart in creation just allah created you allah created that

[32:01]person too sometimes we feel special allah created me i'm special you're

[32:06]not more special than that other person allah created him too you

[32:09]know as they say scholars have mixed feelings about the synod of

[32:14]the hadith but it's interesting hadith they say one day musa alaihissalam

[32:18]asked allah subhanahu ta'ala why did you create the why did you

[32:24]create the ant you know some insignificant creature crawling the earth right

[32:29]why did you create it according to the hadith allah subhana wa

[32:33]ta allah told musa musa moments before you asked me an aunt

[32:39]asked me allah why did you create musa see how we see

[32:46]this life from our lens yeah the ant can ask allah the

[32:50]same question you know when we say oh allah these annoying ants

[32:53]why did you create them the ant will say yeah allah these

[32:55]annoying human beings getting always in our way crushing us whenever they

[33:03]can like that namla said in surat anem with sulaiman you know

[33:06]pack up let's get out of here because sulaiman and his and

[33:10]his soldiers are going to crush us over here right if i

[33:14]think animals are annoying animals believe me they think i'm annoying too

[33:17]we have this selfish perception of life so the imam alayhi salaam

[33:27]bring your heart to see those people whom you rule over as

[33:35]the creations of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala see them as human beings

[33:38]can you achieve that if you want to know if the month

[33:43]of ramadan was productive this year ask yourself am i closer to

[33:46]this humanity or no if you're closer to this humanity you passed

[33:49]your trial you benefited from the month of ramadan and you're all

[33:55]familiar with that amazing scene of amir al-mu'min when he was passing

[33:58]by and he saw an old man begging imam ali salaam asked

[34:04]what is this they told him yeah this is a christian man

[34:08]non-muslim who cares he's begging the imam didn't tell them who is

[34:13]he what is this why is an elderly man begging in my

[34:16]government why we have to take care of the elderly then the

[34:21]imam says this beautiful statement when he was young and he had

[34:25]muscles and energy you used him society used him now that he's

[34:32]old you betray him you don't take care of him no i

[34:35]want you to take him and put him on the monthly salary

[34:38]from the bait malik muslim from the public funds this is he

[34:43]would not allow a non-muslim to be used in his government but

[34:48]that's our challenge going forward every day ask yourself when you're dealing

[34:53]with your wife your husband your sister your brother am i seeing

[34:59]them like laptops and bananas or no i care about them and

[35:03]their history and what they go through and i truly have that

[35:07]empathy yes you know who the closest human beings on earth the

[35:13]people who are closest to seeing you as human beings not as

[35:18]objects that they can benefit from it's your parents yes maybe there

[35:24]are some parents who even see their children as tools for their

[35:27]own success that's natural the reason why your parents have the greatest

[35:33]right over you is because they are the least people on earth

[35:38]to view you as an object parents truly care about their children

[35:42]they want the success of their children sometimes parents will if they

[35:49]will impact their own success just to see their kids successful appreciate

[35:52]that that's why they have the greatest haka on you everyone else

[35:57]out everyone else out there your friends your community your society they

[36:01]think what am i going to benefit from this person they use

[36:05]they see you as an object except your parents your parents are

[36:10]the least likely people to see you as objects appreciate that yes

[36:14]we see our parents as objects i benefit from my parents right

[36:18]my parents gave me everything i benefited from them but my parents

[36:24]don't see me the way i see them it's impossible to equate

[36:27]between these two and that's why one day a man came to

[36:34]rasulullah carrying his old mother on his back there were no wheelchairs

[36:37]back then he came to hajj carrying his mother on his back

[36:41]to the hajj you think it's easy to do that tawaf she

[36:46]she's on his back going to mina going to arafah the guy

[36:52]was exhausted he came standing before rasulullah you can imagine he's probably

[36:55]you know not even being able to breathe anymore he's exhausted he

[36:59]says did i pay her back now i know she carried me

[37:04]nine months in her room now i've been carrying her for weeks

[37:07]on my back so i paid her back the prophet said no

[37:13]not even one contraction of labor why why you're not being fair

[37:19]ah the prophet gives you the answer the prophet teaches us when

[37:24]your mother carried you she was happy eager every minute for you

[37:29]come to the to come to this dunya to embrace you she

[37:34]was excited you are carrying your mom on your back you're waiting

[37:37]by the minute for her to leave she's a guest you're saying

[37:41]yeah let me serve her today tomorrow she's going to be gone

[37:44]you're waiting for your mom to leave this world you're not excited

[37:50]for her to stay longer when you have an older father an

[37:53]older mother who's crippled who's sick and you have to serve them

[37:58]honestly are you excited for them to live longer you're not excited

[38:03]even if you're the best son even if you're so gentle you

[38:06]kiss their hand every day but you're not excited but when you

[38:10]have a baby on the way aren't you excited can you compare

[38:14]between these two the prophet says you can never pay her back

[38:17]the love the excitement she had for you you can never pay

[38:23]that back that's why they have such a high right over us

[38:26]don't think you can ever pay them back i know some children

[38:29]you know if they go and serve their parents he takes his

[38:33]mom to five doctor's appointments or he buys his dad a house

[38:37]when he's old he really thinks he's paid them back you can

[38:39]never pay them back who are you fooling you can never pay

[38:45]them back and when you acknowledge that you've done justice to them

[38:49]when you acknowledge that mom and dad no matter what i do

[38:52]i can never pay you back then you've done them justice otherwise

[38:55]you cannot do them justice so this is our challenge as we

[39:02]come towards the end of the month of ramadan brothers and sisters

[39:04]let us reflect on this reality let's see others as human beings

[39:12]your spouse don't see your spouse as a a a object with

[39:16]a bunch of features see the soul see the spirituality in your

[39:19]spouse and your in your siblings and those around you even your

[39:25]employees truly see them as human beings that's how we invite others

[39:29]to the path of rasulullah to the path of amir al-mu'min but

[39:35]this is the month of forgiveness my dear brothers and sisters ask

[39:40]allah for forgiveness on these last two nights say oh allah if

[39:44]you have not forgiven us in these tuna in in the last

[39:49]26 27 28 nights oh allah please forgive us don't let that

[39:52]eat come without earning your forgiveness from allah and when allah forgives

[39:56]you you feel it in your heart believe me allah gives you

[40:01]that peace in your heart because you know if you're sincere or

[40:04]not see i don't know if others are sincere or not but

[40:07]i know myself i can't fool and deceive myself all it requires

[40:12]is humbleness of the heart and sincerity show that sincerity those who

[40:29]ask the needy they have stood at your gate [Music] those who

[41:24]are in need they have now landed at the shores of your

[41:30]mercy they are asking you to cross to your land of mercy

[41:35]and compassion [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh allah in this blessed month if

[42:04]you only forgive those who did well those who fasted properly they

[42:09]spent the night in your ibadah then what about us the sinful

[42:15]ones we who have drowned in our sins who do we have

[42:17]if you only have mercy on the good ones [Music] who did

[42:41]well then what about us we still have hope yes we should

[42:45]do more but we still have hope on [Music] foreign [Music]

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