Making the Most of Summer Break - Sayed Saleh Qazwini

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[0:00]foreign [Music] foreign upon us and a miracle from Allah is the

[0:54]constant changes that we witness in life there's always change this world

[1:04]life is constantly moving not one step not one second does anything

[1:12]stop your heart is moving the blood in your body is circulating

[1:18]your age is moving you're always going forward and this universe in

[1:25]itself is constantly moving the Earth is moving the Moon is moving

[1:28]the sun is moving there's constant movement and this is one of

[1:36]the signs of the miracle of Allah and Allah says that the

[1:43]Believers the meaning they are those who Ponder there are those who

[1:48]pay attention to the Miracles that are taking place around them many

[1:52]times people they come and they say I want to see a

[1:55]miracle I want to see proof that God exists your life is

[1:59]a miracle the fact that you have all of these systems they're

[2:06]moving moving Parts in a body that are functioning that is a

[2:11]miracle the fact that you see the constant change every day the

[2:16]sun rises the sun sets the moon every day it's in a

[2:19]different place you look outside you look at the Sun at sunsets

[2:26]every day every time it's different there are no two identical images

[2:30]where does this come from this is from Allah and Allah says

[2:35]in the Quran in the creation of the heavens and the earth

[2:48]and the differences in the day and night these are signs for

[2:55]those who have the intellect for those who Ponder there are people

[3:01]who see Miracles every day but they don't see it their eyes

[3:04]are blinded to it who are they Allah those who constantly remember

[3:15]Allah while they're standing while they're sitting while they're laying down they're

[3:19]always pondering upon about the creation of Allah and the think about

[3:29]the creation of the heavens and the Earth who put all this

[3:36]together how did this all come to be oh Allah this was

[3:40]not created in vain all of this sophistication there's a purpose behind

[3:44]it there's a reason behind it now my dear brothers and sisters

[3:53]the reason I mention this is because with all of the moving

[3:57]parts that are going on we also see that there are seasons

[4:00]there are four seasons in a year you have the winter the

[4:05]spring the fall and the summer and now we are entering or

[4:14]we have entered into a season and we all saw the Miracles

[4:17]of Allah just a couple months ago you look outside the trees

[4:23]and you see their Twigs there's no leaf on it there's no

[4:27]Greenery there's no life to it now you look you see it's

[4:32]green and the pollen is everywhere it's making your backyard messy and

[4:37]it's making you sneeze but these are the signs of Allah this

[4:41]is the creation of Allah so you see now it looks so

[4:49]light Lively when just a couple of months ago it looked dead

[4:52]if someone were to come and see the trees with just the

[4:57]twigs and there's no there's no leaves on it you'd say this

[5:00]is a debt tree but subhanallah comes to life and it becomes

[5:04]so Lush and so green and so full of life so these

[5:09]are the changes that we see these are the signs of Allah

[5:15]and now we are entering into the summer now when you think

[5:19]of Summer a lot of people they think of the break maybe

[5:22]going to the beach maybe going on vacation maybe having fun doing

[5:32]things that are that are entertaining and fun but of course there's

[5:37]a lot that comes with it a lot of people they have

[5:42]plans some people during the summer they plan vacations some people sport

[5:46]some people activities enrichment programs and others they just want to be

[5:52]a couch potato sit and watch Netflix all day so it all

[5:55]depends on who you are and how you utilize that time and

[6:01]this is a very important point that I wanted to discuss today

[6:04]sometimes we have free time and the difference between a successful person

[6:12]and a non-successful person or the difference between a motman or a

[6:16]person who's not men is it all comes down to how you

[6:23]utilize your time that's it it all comes down to how do

[6:25]you how you utilize your time on the day of judgment one

[6:30]group of people will be us happily I mean and another group

[6:35]of people will be as habash maybe they both lived 80 years

[6:39]they both lived 70 years they both lived 50 years two people

[6:45]they lived the same life same number of days but one person

[6:49]passes and the other fails why the difference is how you used

[6:53]your time how you spent your time how you spent your day

[6:58]how you spent that breath that energy that life the Allah has

[7:04]given you so yes maybe we have a break from school maybe

[7:09]you have a break from the summer break that you know we

[7:15]all look forward to but in reality do we really have a

[7:17]break is there a break in life there's no break in life

[7:23]the reality is that there's no break in life this life is

[7:30]constantly working there's constant effort foreign you're striving you're in a marathon

[7:46]don't think that you have a break on you're strong you're in

[7:57]America you're you're in a marathon you're in a race and you're

[8:01]going towards your lord until until you will meet your lord foreign

[8:38]there's two people one group of people you're struggling to your lord

[8:45]at the end you meet your lord and then what some people

[8:48]they'll be given their book in the right hand foreign this person

[8:56]will have an expedited pass to Paradise Allah is going to be

[9:02]easy going with this person because God knows Allah knows that this

[9:06]person did not have any any wrongdoings this person will be happy

[9:16]amongst his peers amongst other people and then the other who their

[9:23]book is given to them behind their back they will cry out

[9:32]meaning why why did I waste my life why did I waste

[9:35]my energy why did this happen to me and the person will

[9:41]be taken to the Hellfire so my dear brothers and sisters were

[9:46]all struggling there's no break in life yes it might be summer

[9:49]break it might be a spring break it might be winter break

[9:53]you might think you have all these breaks but in reality there's

[9:56]no break there's no break even sometimes I've heard Scholars there's they

[10:02]say that there's no retirement in Islam Today some people in this

[10:07]country like I'm gonna work my whole I'm gonna work until I'm

[10:10]65 60 whatever is the retirement age and then I'm gonna retire

[10:14]I'm gonna have fun is there retirement there's no retirement as long

[10:20]as your heart is beating God is holding you accountable you have

[10:23]to put in work there's no time to rest there's no time

[10:28]to rest are we are we really ready to meet our Lord

[10:33]if we are then yes it is your time to retire but

[10:38]no one is ready because that's we have to put in work

[10:44]until our last day so now that the break is coming up

[10:46]the smart person is the one that realizes that they have to

[10:53]utilize their time even if it's a couple minutes even if it's

[10:56]in a couple hours every day you have to utilize that time

[11:00]because there are nammas there are blessings in our lives that we

[11:08]don't realize until it's taken away from us a lot of people

[11:11]once they get older they get too busy then they say I

[11:17]don't have time anymore I wish I had utilized my time when

[11:19]I was younger this is how we are once the time is

[11:25]gone once that Nama that blessing is no longer there then we

[11:28]wish we had it and this is the same with your health

[11:31]with your health some people when they're healthy they're not really doing

[11:36]that which they're supposed to do that brings them closer to God

[11:41]that gives them a better life but once that Health goes away

[11:44]once they have pain in their legs and in their heart and

[11:48]their get their body back pain all of this then they say

[11:50]I wish I could do this I wish I could do that

[11:53]then it becomes difficult it's not easy anymore because there's a struggle

[12:00]and we keep getting weaker and weaker and weaker now my dear

[12:05]brothers and sisters time is a blessing whether you have a little

[12:10]bit of time or you have a lot of time it's a

[12:11]blessing from Allah upon us and the men and the Believers the

[12:17]one who realizes that blessing before it's taken away from them indeed

[12:25]by time the human being is in loss you're losing time these

[12:35]are the four ways that you can utilize your time and it

[12:41]doesn't become a form of regret on the day of judgment because

[12:46]every person will be regretful on the day of judgment one of

[12:49]the names of the day of judgment is the day of regret

[12:55]is warn them of the day of hasra the day of regret

[13:01]everyone will feel regret and Allah says indeed the human being is

[13:12]a loss loss of time except those who have faith they do

[13:21]good deeds and they stand for the truth and they are patients

[13:26]so now my dear brothers and sisters what are some things that

[13:30]we can do during our break whether it's a weekend whether it's

[13:35]summer break some people they have summer break you have two months

[13:41]and a half three months of no school some people they waste

[13:45]it all on Playstation others they waste it in other ways so

[13:49]it all depends on how you utilize that time there are several

[13:56]tips Five Points I prepared several ways that we should utilize our

[14:02]time and take advantage of these moments that we have and this

[14:08]is not only for those who are in school this is for

[14:13]everyone if as long as you're living as long as Allah has

[14:15]given you an extra day an extra hour to live that means

[14:20]that's a time that God has given you utilize it in a

[14:24]way that will bring you closer to Allah one of the best

[14:31]ways to benefit from your time is by seeking knowledge and this

[14:37]is an advice that it's for your own good no one else

[14:41]benefits When you seek knowledge if you are picking up a book

[14:47]if you're reading an article if you're learning something new you're the

[14:50]one who's going to benefit you're going to be the first beneficiary

[14:54]of this and this is why sometimes during our day-to-day busy hectic

[15:00]life we don't have the time to go and pick up a

[15:05]book and read about something learn something new but if you have

[15:09]a break that is the time to learn something new this is

[15:15]an opportunity and you have to take this opportunity and of course

[15:19]when it comes to knowledge there are types of knowledge there are

[15:21]some people they go and they for example read about things that

[15:26]are not very beneficial you know they go and they read about

[15:30]magic for example what's that going to do to you they go

[15:35]and they read about Jinn they go and read a fiction a

[15:41]book that's a fiction what is that going to do to you

[15:45]how's that going to help you now yes if you're into for

[15:47]example creative writing then it might help you in one way but

[15:53]read something that will benefit you read something that will make you

[15:58]a better person some people they go and they read things that

[16:01]are not really beneficial or they watch YouTube YouTube clips about things

[16:06]that are just time wasting time wasting you know I don't want

[16:15]to put anyone down but there's a trend of people going online

[16:19]and watching other people play video games you're not even playing the

[16:26]video games if you're playing now that would be maybe fun but

[16:30]you're watching someone else play the video games right is that a

[16:34]is that a thing right now yeah see the guys know about

[16:39]it so this is a reality now this is sometimes hours and

[16:47]hours and I you know these clips on YouTube you see they

[16:50]have millions of views millions of views I mean they're really they

[16:56]must be really good because I didn't I don't get those views

[16:58]but they get all these views so so there's types of knowledge

[17:05]that a person should try to seek that is better for you

[17:08]better for your Dunya and better for your akhara you know the

[17:12]do-it-yourself the I uh DIY that that might be good right you

[17:19]actually you may maybe you learn something learn how to garden learn

[17:22]how to do something in your garage in the basement maybe that

[17:26]will be helpful but then there's a knowledge that is good for

[17:30]your Dunya and good for your akhara and that is learning about

[17:37]the religious akam learning about what God expects from me at the

[17:40]end of the day I'm living in this life Allah has certain

[17:46]expectations from me Allah expects me to pray do I know how

[17:52]to pray Allah expects me to do ULU Allah expects me to

[17:54]go to Hajj Allah expects me to give my homes and my

[17:58]zakat and know the Halal business transactions from the Haram business transaction

[18:01]do I know this or do I not know them if I

[18:05]don't know them then I need to learn then I need to

[18:08]invest time in learning at the end of the day Allah has

[18:14]sent prophets and Messengers Allah has sent me a book to guide

[18:17]me the Quran have I read the Quran have I pondered about

[18:25]about God's message to me God is sent speaking to me specifically

[18:28]through the Quran God is sending me a message have I pondered

[18:32]about that have I thought about that and this is why is

[18:37]very important Allah says what does this mean this means it's an

[18:55]obligation upon everyone until one person does it it's an obligation upon

[19:04]every Community to send someone to learn about the religion learn about

[19:08]the and this person comes and teaches the community this is an

[19:12]obligation the Quran is saying this verse was revealed during the time

[19:15]of the Prophet because there were people who were joining the religion

[19:19]of Islam but they did not live in Medina so Allah says

[19:26]each group of people each Village each Nation let them send a

[19:32]few people to the prophet to learn about their and then they

[19:35]go back and they teach their people so we have to learn

[19:42]about Phil we have to learn uh our akam and in a

[19:47]Hadith he says and this is he says he says he would

[20:03]insist on learning to off a Deen he says if it was

[20:08]up to me I would beat my companions with a whip on

[20:10]their head until they learn to off a Deen now someone get

[20:15]me the Whip please thank you so this is the Imam of

[20:23]course is is giving a metaphor on the importance the importance of

[20:29]seeking knowledge that it's that important that this is the level that

[20:33]it would take of course the Imam did not do that but

[20:36]the Imam is encouraging people to seek knowledge so we were talking

[20:44]about how to utilize summer break and one of the best ways

[20:51]of utilizing our time is by seeking knowledge seek knowledge and there's

[20:53]types of knowledge the most important knowledge is the knowledge that will

[20:57]bring you closer to God because that is the knowledge that will

[21:02]benefit you in this Dunya and it will benefit you in the

[21:06]afterlife second point my dear brothers and sisters you take the knowledge

[21:11]what's the best thing that you could do with that knowledge give

[21:16]it back spread the knowledge spread knowledge and every single one of

[21:21]us we have a unique way of giving back that knowledge right

[21:27]now we live in a society that most people 99 of people

[21:32]don't know about Islam people don't know the reality of your faith

[21:36]they don't know the blessing that you have so if you're a

[21:41]person that cares for other people a person that has compassion for

[21:45]other people then you have to give back that knowledge the Hadith

[21:51]says everything has zakat every wealth has zakat and the zakat of

[21:55]knowledge is to give it back if you have knowledge give it

[22:01]back to other people teach other people spread that knowledge in a

[22:05]way maybe you heard something in a lecture maybe you read something

[22:08]in a book go write a blog go do a post on

[22:12]Tick Tock go do whatever it takes to spread that knowledge in

[22:15]your own unique way some people they're very good in writing some

[22:20]people they're very good in drawing some people are very good in

[22:27]poetry this summer you have time sit and try to spread that

[22:29]knowledge and with chat GPT you could get your way through so

[22:34]many things you know it will help you but make sure that

[22:38]you do the work not chat GPT okay so here spread the

[22:41]knowledge you have to if you have some type of knowledge you

[22:46]know something about Islam you know something about Quran you heard a

[22:49]lecture go and tell someone else have that be something that you

[22:55]talk about on the dinner table for example you listen to a

[22:58]lecture during the day at night talk about it most of our

[23:05]Scholars they did not just seek knowledge they gave knowledge and that

[23:09]is why they remember it one of our greatest Scholars is they

[23:21]look at his books that he used to write they see his

[23:28]handwriting was very sloppy very sloppy you know even sloppier than some

[23:34]of you guys here so how was why because Allah did not

[23:40]want to waste any time so he used to write while he's

[23:48]on the donkey he's traveling from point A to point B he's

[23:51]going from place to place and he's not he doesn't want to

[23:57]waste time so during that time he's writing his writing and that

[24:00]these books that he wrote during those times that is what's safe

[24:04]to show you are that is what saved the religion of Islam

[24:08]so this is this is um something that now of course we

[24:16]live in a time where there are many ways where you could

[24:18]spread knowledge right now there are some people that are very good

[24:25]in social media use that they open pages just to spread the

[24:28]knowledge of Islam people are very good with technical uh cameras and

[24:32]recording and digital media and all of that that's the new books

[24:37]that's the new era this is how knowledge is spread right now

[24:41]use those to spread knowledge my dear brothers and sisters another we

[24:47]said the first is take the knowledge second give back knowledge third

[24:54]discover new talents every day you go to work back and forth

[24:59]back and forth every day you go to school it doesn't give

[25:05]you time to discover a talent that you have you don't know

[25:10]about maybe you have a talent that you have not discovered yet

[25:14]we have we have Hidden Treasures within us we don't know about

[25:20]them yet you won't know about it until you try until you

[25:23]throw yourself into something and then you will see that this is

[25:29]a gift that you have and that way you could be a

[25:31]lot more productive in your life you could do so much time

[25:37]you could do so much benefiting from your time so this is

[25:41]uh one point another very important point the fourth is during summer

[25:49]break okay this is also the time to have some fun right

[25:51]having fun is halal as long as you keep it Halal so

[25:56]go out sports activities picnic this is the time to spend you

[26:03]know spend with your family spend quality time with your family right

[26:08]now one of the biggest disasters that's falling upon families is not

[26:14]the lack of finances not the lack of resources it's the lack

[26:18]of quality time spending with one another the husband doesn't spend time

[26:23]with the wife the wife doesn't spend time with the husband the

[26:25]kids they don't even know what's going on with their parents and

[26:28]the parents have no clue what's going on with the kids because

[26:33]we're running in our lives like robots and we're not really spending

[26:38]quality we're living but we're not really living we're not spending quality

[26:42]time with one another I'm feeding my children I'm providing for them

[26:47]but I'm not really talking to them I don't even know them

[26:50]and this is this is a tragedy that we see going on

[26:55]right now with all of these tools and gadgets and social media

[27:00]we are disconnected from the closest people to us right so during

[27:05]the break take that as an opportunity to have a break from

[27:10]every distraction sometimes right now most people are working from home right

[27:18]the company they come and they tell you here's a phone here's

[27:22]a computer you thought that they gave you this computer as a

[27:25]gift but they gave you they took away your time from you

[27:28]now you're working instead of working nine to five now you're working

[27:34]24 7 because they gave you this work phone they gave you

[27:37]this computer and now you're on the clock the whole time you

[27:40]have to always answer you have to always be there you have

[27:44]to always do your job this is one type of distraction and

[27:49]then you have the other distractions which are the entertainment and the

[27:53]social media and all of that that's also a distraction from your

[27:56]family that's a distraction from spending quality time with the people that

[28:02]you love so now that you have a break if you really

[28:04]want to go on a vacation put the phone on silence put

[28:11]your phone on do not disturb and spend real quality time with

[28:15]your family because we need that we need that to survive we

[28:19]need that for our families to flourish we need that we need

[28:25]that quality time and Allah they teach us the importance of spending

[28:33]quality time with family family bond is very good and it's very

[28:40]necessary in the age that we live in finally my dear brothers

[28:48]and sisters another very important um way to utilize our time when

[28:55]you have extra time one of the best ways to utilize it

[28:57]we said spread and learn we set spread knowledge we said figure

[29:05]out talents do things around the house um we we said we

[29:10]we said do sports activities have fun but then there's also something

[29:14]very important and that is the spiritual growth spiritual growth this is

[29:21]important you need that spiritual growth we all need it and on

[29:25]your free time this is the best opportunity to have that spiritual

[29:29]growth to give yourself that food that nutrition for the soul that

[29:35]food that the soul needs and when you have free time this

[29:39]is the opportunity a lot of people they say oh I'm so

[29:41]busy I have to wake up early I don't have time to

[29:45]for example do extra prayers I'm working I don't have time to

[29:48]fast I don't have time to do this I don't have time

[29:51]to read Quran I don't have time well now that you have

[29:56]time utilize that time at least a portion of your break a

[30:01]portion of every day to try to get closer to Allah the

[30:08]summer comes with hot days but you long days as well maybe

[30:12]you have long more time to do things during the day so

[30:16]this is the time that you should utilize let me tell you

[30:23]this Hadith it is said that Prophet is Jesus he used to

[30:27]raise the Dead so his mother Maryam Mary she died during the

[30:33]life of prophet is she died during the life of prophet Issa

[30:36]so Prophet is he called his mother after she had passed away

[30:47]he erased her from the dead he brought her back to life

[30:51]by the permission of God Jesus does not do anything on his

[30:54]own Jesus is a servant of God just like rasulullah just like

[30:57]Musa just like Aisa just like Adam just like all of the

[31:05]prophets he used to raise the dead by the permission of God

[31:09]and this is one major difference between Christians who they they made

[31:13]Jesus divine and Muslims who says who say that he did things

[31:18]by the order of Allah by the permission of God the same

[31:20]way Musa Moses split the Sea by the permission of God so

[31:25]he speaks to her and he tells hermini o mother speak to

[31:34]me and then he asks her he tells her she comes back

[31:36]to life she wakes up from her dead from her death he

[31:41]tells her ya um oh my mother do you want to come

[31:51]back to this Dunya look at the answer that she gives she

[31:56]tells him yes I want to come back why she says I

[32:08]want to come back so that I can pray to God on

[32:14]a cold night on a night that is very cold and I

[32:21]want to fast on a day that is very warm and very

[32:27]hot why she says because the path after death is very frightening

[32:42]and there are certain things that we could do that will remove

[32:49]that fear Maryam she says one of them is praying on a

[32:53]very cold night when everyone doesn't want to get out of bed

[32:57]when everyone is bundled up and they're very warm in their bed

[32:59]and to fast on a very warm day when no one wants

[33:05]to fast on a warm day everyone avoids fasting on a hot

[33:10]day but the awliyah of Allah in the hot summer he used

[33:20]to fast why because that is these are the things that bring

[33:24]us closer to Allah my dear brothers and sisters a lot of

[33:32]people a lot of people during the summer when there's no school

[33:34]they stay up late right they stay up late maybe past midnight

[33:39]midnight is the time between Fajr and Maghrib right from Maghrib to

[33:51]Fajr the time in between that is midnight so sometimes midnight changes

[33:56]it could be in this in the winter months midnight is much

[34:03]later because Fajr you have Fajr is probably six seven so it's

[34:07]later but in the summer months midnight could be even before 12.

[34:11]it could even before 12 a.m could be midnight depending on the

[34:16]calculation depending on the time so if you're staying up that late

[34:21]how hard is it to pray a turaka prayer before you sleep

[34:26]it doesn't have to be a Salat if Salat is too much

[34:31]for you just by calling it's too frightening of a word you

[34:36]could do another two like us pray another turacus four sets of

[34:44]two which is eight this is and then you have the chef

[34:49]which is another two and then you have the weather which is

[34:54]one raka one eleven rakas doesn't take more than 15 minutes more

[34:58]than 15-20 minutes so this is one advice that I give and

[35:06]don't say oh I'm too young when I become old I will

[35:07]start praying no anytime anytime you begin is the right time the

[35:14]bottom point the bottom line my dear brothers and sisters is that

[35:17]we should not waste our time don't waste your time this Dunya

[35:23]as a gift this life that Allah has given us is a

[35:25]gift from Allah to us let us not waste it let us

[35:30]take advantage of every single second every single breath the Allah has

[35:35]given us we ask Allah to bless you all some of you

[35:40]are graduating some of you have already graduated some of you have

[35:42]family members that are graduating this Saturday in the morning there's going

[35:51]to be the graduation for the Sunday School students of the city

[35:56]of knowledge school that is with for Mecca and at 7 pm

[36:01]there's going to be a graduation ceremony for the students not not

[36:07]the students that are going here but any student that is graduating

[36:11]whether you're graduating from high school elementary to middle school middle school

[36:17]to high school um university if you're graduating let us know so

[36:22]that when we have our snack and chat Heritage we will recognize

[36:28]you and we will talk about the importance of graduating and reaching

[36:32]that milestone in life my dear brothers and sisters we ask Allah

[36:36]to bless you Allah foreign foreign

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