Night 4 - Hassanain Rajabali

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[0:00]become the site of Mecca's permanent home the land is situated in

[0:07]a beautiful and quiet area surrounded by trees that provide a sense

[0:10]of privacy and natural beauty at the heart of the center will

[0:14]be a prayer room a sanctuary where individuals and families can come

[0:21]to worship and gain nearness to Allah in addition the center will

[0:26]feature a double basketball court gymnasium where our families can engage in

[0:31]physic physical activity and build healthy habits the gymnasium will also serve

[0:37]as a multi-purpose Hall to meet the growing needs of our community

[0:41]the center will also include classrooms where our weekend school will provide

[0:46]a foundation of Islamic knowledge and values based on the teachings of

[0:51]the B our vision for Mecca goes beyond just bricks and mor

[0:56]we envision a space where families can Bond over shared experiences where

[1:01]our youth can find mentors and role models and where our community

[1:05]can come together as one family this is an ambitious project that

[1:09]will be costly but our ability as a community to come together

[1:15]in such short time and secure this land debt-free is a testament

[1:18]to our dedication and determination times have changed and we must Safeguard

[1:24]our families in new and creative ways join us in this journey

[1:29]filled with opport opportunities and make meca a part of your legacy

[1:37]together we can build a brighter future for our [Music] community salamu

[1:51]alaykum and welcome to the Future home of Mecca the Muslim educational

[1:56]Community Center of America this beautiful 11 acre law on Bridge Road

[2:01]in Canton Michigan will inshallah become the site of Mecca's permanent home

[2:06]the land is situated in a beautiful and quiet area surrounded by

[2:12]trees that provide a sense of privacy and natural beauty at the

[2:16]heart of the center will be a prayer room a sanctuary where

[2:20]individuals and families can come to worship and gain nearness to Allah

[2:27]in addition the center will feature a double basketball court gymnasium where

[2:31]our families can engage in physical activity and build healthy habits the

[2:37]gymnasium will also serve as a multi-purpose Hall to meet the growing

[2:41]needs of our community the center will also include classrooms where our

[2:46]weekend school will provide a foundation of Islamic knowledge and values based

[2:54]on the teachings of the B our vision for Mecca goes beyond

[2:57]just bricks and mortar we envision a space where families can Bond

[3:01]over shared experiences where our youth can find mentors and role models

[3:06]and where our community can come together as one family this is

[3:13]an ambitious project that will be costly but our ability as a

[3:16]community to come together in such short time and secure this land

[3:20]debt-free is a testament to our dedication and determination times have changed

[3:27]and we must Safeguard our families in new and creative ways join

[3:31]us in this journey filled with opportunities and make Mecca a part

[3:36]of your legacy together we can build a brighter future for our

[3:41][Music] community Salam alaykum and welcome to the Future home of Mecca

[3:59]the Muslim educational Community Center of America this beautiful 11 acre lot

[4:04]on Ridge Road in Canton Michigan will inshallah become the site of

[4:09]Mecca's permanent home the land is situated in a beautiful and quiet

[4:12]area surrounded by trees that provide a sense of privacy and natural

[4:17]beauty at the heart of the center will be a prayer room

[4:23]a sanctuary where individuals and families can come to worship and gain

[4:27]nearness to Allah in addition the center will feature a double basketball

[4:33]court gymnasium where our families can engage in physical activity and build

[4:39]healthy habits the gymnasium will also serve as a multi-purpose Hall to

[4:44]meet the growing needs of our community the center will also include

[4:49]classrooms where our weekend school will provide a foundation of Islamic knowledge

[4:54]and values based on the teachings of the B our vision for

[4:58]Mecca goes beyond just bricks and mortar we envision a space where

[5:04]families can B muh muham [Music] muhamed [Music] [Music] Allah for [Music]

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[22:29]for [Music] [Music] salam alaikum brothers and sisters in this holy month

[23:34]and welcome to night three of our program alhamdulillah the crowd has

[23:42]been very great so far in this program and this is a

[23:46]strong indication that this community is thriving and growing and that Mecca

[23:50]is going in the right direction alhamdulillah we expected this growth early

[23:56]on and this is why two years ago we decided or we

[24:03]started uh planning to establish a community center that we would call

[24:08]Future home of Mecca we envisioned that community center that is tailored

[24:13]to the needs of all family members a center that will serve

[24:19]as a hub for educational religious recreational and social activities as you

[24:26]know we bought a piece of land 11 .5 Acres on rge

[24:31]road and with your generous support we were able to raise and

[24:36]pay for that land $965,000 that we raised in a matter of

[24:43]months alhamdulillah that was less than two years ago last year around

[24:49]this time we unveiled the rendering of this beautiful uh Community Center

[24:57]that inshallah we'll call it uh home uh M's home inallah in

[25:01]the future since then we have been working in two tracks first

[25:04]we've been working with the city and with the county to do

[25:11]resoning and work on some of the paperwork and permits and today

[25:13]I have very good news to share with you we just came

[25:18]uh me and the board members here we attended a a public

[25:21]hearing at the city hall and we just got our application approved

[25:28]for the resoning alhamdulillah this is a very uh good Milestone that

[25:35]um would probably require you to to Muhammad Muhammad so this inshallah

[25:42]this resoning would allow us not only to build a Masjid but

[25:45]we also include a school and a daycare inshallah which the community

[25:48]need very much on the second track we started to raising money

[25:54]to be ready for that groundbreaking when that application and when when

[25:59]we complete the process which we still have one step to complete

[26:02]we have another hearing next month and inshallah we hope with your

[26:05]support we're going to ask you all to come together to the

[26:09]City Hall we're going to show them that we have uh people

[26:11]we have Community behind this project uh inall once we complete this

[26:15]we'll be ready to go for groundbreaking to do that we're not

[26:20]waiting we already have started raising money last year around this time

[26:24]uh it was actually on the time of theid when we started

[26:29]a very successful campaign we called it the musala sponsorship um we

[26:34]have five musala spots sponsorship sponsorship we have in the new Majid

[26:41]inshallah we have a 500 uh uh Mah that that can accommodate

[26:44]500 people and we wanted 500 people to sponsor a a spot

[26:50]on that Mah uh it was a stretch goal because we need

[26:52]a 500 people at $5,000 to be able to um raise 2.

[26:59]$5 million that we need to groundbreak inshallah the good news which

[27:04]also I wanted to share with you today actually as of last

[27:08]night we have raised 1,237 th000 so that's almost half $250 spots

[27:15]have been sponsored so uh alhamdulillah you see that this community is

[27:20]uh is is very generous and they're very excited about this project

[27:24]and I'm here tonight to ask you to keep the momentum and

[27:30]to support this cause and to donate actually I'm going to give

[27:34]you uh an opportunity for uh you to sponsor a spot on

[27:42]this Mahar on behalf of yourself your children your family this is

[27:47]probably the best investment that you could do in your life imagine

[27:50]how many people are going to pray on that spot how many

[27:53]people would read Quran and do Dua you're going to get aure

[27:58]for that even if you depart life the a would continue to

[28:00]come this is the beauty of the hassar so I'm going to

[28:04]ask you today to if you did not sponsor one of those

[28:09]spots yet to do so there's do there's many different ways that

[28:12]uh you could do this uh there's a form here you could

[28:16]for you could fill it's uh you could scan one of the

[28:17]QR codes on the uh walls here and there's a process very

[28:23]smooth process where you can set up a payment or even a

[28:25]payment plan you could pay whatever amount you feel comfortable with so

[28:30]please take advantage of this opportunity uh this is something that uh

[28:35]we look forward to do with you and um as Haj Hassan

[28:40]mentioned on the first night uh and even yesterday uh in his

[28:45]lecture about the importance of finding a purpose in life so I

[28:50]found this very interesting because um uh God gave us wealth and

[28:54]health and progeny and and everything that we could use to uh

[29:00]find find um that purpose and today I'm giving you the opportunity

[29:04]to donate and to sponsor that spot and inshallah that would be

[29:07]something that would uh help us find our purpose in life inshallah

[29:14]and um I have couple announcements to go through quickly um after

[29:20]muham Muhammad uh the sponsors for tonight uh are Dr Farah mahi

[29:30]and Hass Andi for The Souls of their please let's recite uh

[29:46]one more announcement um there is a dinner AAR dinner that we

[29:55]are doing a on uh March 28th uhar uh the our annual

[29:57]ifar we would ask you to buy tickets and Reserve tables if

[30:03]you did not do so inshallah that would also be uh something

[30:06]that would help our cause here at Mecca and uh without further

[30:13]Ado uh I would like to uh welcome Haj Hassan Ali with

[30:18]muh alhamd ald MIM Muhammad [Music] all praise belongs to Allah begin

[31:56]in his blessed name Allah subhana ta'ala is our main focus Us

[31:59]in every thought that we have for we are only existing because

[32:05]of him it's very difficult to understand Allah primarily because he's absolute

[32:08]he's the Unseen and it's hard for us to understand the animation

[32:15]that God puts in us and when he talks to us at

[32:19]the level that he does when it comes to comparing the created

[32:22]from the Creator it's very very difficult granted but we must also

[32:28]also by the same token understand that the grandness of Allah at

[32:32]this level is so great that our inability to understand him is

[32:38]proof positive as to how great he is for when you can

[32:40]comprehend somebody then there's a limited idea of greatness but when God

[32:46]is the absolute and you and I can understand our realities through

[32:52]those eyes it really takes us in a different direction and if

[32:55]you look at Alternatives if one was to argue that there is

[32:58]no God that's a ridiculous suggestion if there is a you know

[33:02]anthropomorphic God who's actually sitting on a throne of some sort which

[33:06]is once again ridiculous because that God now needs structure and body

[33:15]and form and that God is finite and the whole notion of

[33:21]finite versus infinite I'm not going to get into it at the

[33:23]moment but when we talk about Allah in its purest form it's

[33:28]really an Asm otic trajectory if you look at calculus which is

[33:32]natural mathematics you will see that everything that we do in life

[33:35]today that gives us success even at the astronomical level when we

[33:40]send satellites into space and when we send spaceships out it's all

[33:43]calculus you know in medicine when there's a prescription given as to

[33:51]how many doses a person should take in a day depending on

[33:53]what medication one is taking it's all calculus okay and what is

[34:01]calculus based on Infinity it's all based on Infinity it's the power

[34:05]of the ASM toote okay I know I may be speaking a

[34:09]little bit too much Science and Mathematics here some people saying okay

[34:12]what's an ASM tootes and so on but it means something approaching

[34:16]Infinity but never becoming infinite and that's amazingly powerful our spirituality and

[34:23]our existence is asymptotically approaching God infinitely so understand that while we

[34:31]have natural mathematics and that's what gives us the power to do

[34:34]what we have our spirit and our reality is also in that

[34:39]natural state of mathematics once you start to understand this reality it

[34:43]starts to make sense about when we talk about all praise belongs

[34:46]to Allah subhana tala and if you and I have any doubts

[34:51]then look around and wonder as to how this phenomenal system is

[34:55]working Allah says do you see any cracks in my creation Allah

[35:10]says wow he created he says the uh the skies without pillars

[35:38]that you can see become and we raised mountains on Earth to

[35:48]create the perfect spin so you don't wobble you and I think

[35:54]the world is not moving we think the world is flat people

[35:57]argue it's a flat Earth look at the spectacular system while you

[36:01]and I are on this Earth moving at at an incredible speed

[36:05]spinning on its own axis while the entire Earth is spinning around

[36:10]the Sun and yet you and I feel nothing is moving Allah

[36:14]is mentioning this and we've brought all kinds of create creatures and

[36:25]we bring rain from the sky what is the biggest problem as

[36:31]rich as we can be as powerful as we can be with

[36:33]all the armaments you and I have if there is no rain

[36:37]what happens you have a drought and the most powerful people dwindle

[36:41]and they die Allah says in if we didn't bring the clouds

[36:53]who would flood your Rivers these are realities for you and I

[36:56]to consider not to belittle or to put down but to understand

[37:01]the gravity of the presence of God in the natural system that

[37:04]you and I are part of that natural system and we're gravitating

[37:08]towards it and death the impending reality awaits to pull us towards

[37:12]Infinity please understand this this is something you and I cannot escape

[37:19]and if you and I have any doubts about it then introspect

[37:21]further and question its Integrity for it's the most conspicuous reality is

[37:27]the presence of Allah subh Allah says says Inman is talking to

[37:45]his son my son if you were to take the sky the

[37:48]Earth split the Earth God is present there is the presence of

[37:54]the almighty that reality translates into something I'm going to talk about

[38:01]today human behavior Mission my brother mentioned Mission purpose this Center has

[38:07]a purpose support it this Center should have a beautiful building it

[38:11]should be sprawling see those pictures there mashallah purpose be part of

[38:17]it establish any Islamic Center being built you see it's being done

[38:25]for the cause of B Allah of course the prophet and B

[38:28]support it $1 $10,000 million dollar give a good word go and

[38:35]put your hand in it put a Breck in it for every

[38:38]time a child comes and an adult comes and there is some

[38:41]change in their hearts is you have a thy Center for example

[38:46]my respected Brother David you know they have these gatherings right centers

[38:50]build these places have people get together so that there's a social

[38:55]reality upon which God can be remembered word purpose mission for without

[39:03]purpose what good is it I also want to make a point

[39:05]here just little side note thank you for not passing the basket

[39:10]Muhammad Muhammad having said that fill that basket it shouldn't have to

[39:20]come in front of you support it but let it not be

[39:22]during a speech it's disturbing with all due respect and thank you

[39:29]I appreciate that salaat Muhammad Muhammad Allah subhana tala when you look

[39:36]at the physical realities I touched on when you look around us

[39:41]and one thing that goes wrong in us you know an eyelash

[39:44]or let's say your eyebrow stops everything drops on your eyebrows yeah

[39:48]it's a billion dollar industry just the eyebrow industry the Aesthetics the

[39:52]whole facial Aesthetics business is a billion dollar approaching a trillion dollars

[39:58]why because looking good is part of the fabric of the individual

[40:03]self there's nothing wrong with it one should look vibrant and pleasant

[40:10]and Allah made us beautiful we made Mankind in the best of

[40:17]forms maintain it look good in it keep a healthy lifestyle decorate

[40:24]your places give it good aroma these are all gifts of Allah

[40:29]subhana taala so there's nothing wrong in you and I getting but

[40:33]imagine one of those things goes wrong when you age and the

[40:35]hair falls off you know what kind what kind of an industry

[40:41]is just hair transplant industry turkey is raking in the money but

[40:45]is it bad no it is Allah showing us that when you

[40:51]had that Big W of hair on your head were you grateful

[40:54]and how important is it that when he starts to recede H

[40:58]how does it change your attitude people get depressed with their noses

[41:04]and their eyes and their hair and Allah says look in the

[41:09]mirror I created you the way I wanted and all human beings

[41:15]are beautiful regardless of how you look in terms of your shape

[41:18]your size your skin color every human being is a beautiful creation

[41:23]but you and I have emotions securities insecurities we feel that people

[41:31]judge us based on how we look so sometimes we want to

[41:33]adjust but I'm talking about it from this perspective that do we

[41:38]take this as as as gratefulness for what Allah has given us

[41:42]and our capacities and our abilities if you and I just simply

[41:45]focus on that all our religion will come into Focus you know

[41:51]our apathy in religion our agnosticism will all fade away because we'll

[41:56]just start to feel the reality Dawning upon us because the energy

[42:02]level of the God's presence is immense but Allah says mankind is

[42:08]in a state of that we take things for granted until it's

[42:12]taken away from us like when we lose our loved ones it's

[42:17]it's a shock Allah says how much did you care when they

[42:20]were around you how about a human being when you go and

[42:24]bury them even your friends did you speak ill of that brother

[42:26]oh did but I'm asking for forgiveness so notice when a person

[42:32]dies we forgive them or when they're alive we're ever willing to

[42:35]find faults in them why can't we appreciate humans when they're alive

[42:38]why can't we appreciate the promotion of good and how God has

[42:45]chosen us with such Grace this is the conversation we're having but

[42:50]bottom line let's discuss this you know when I have debates and

[42:53]discussions with atheists all the physical realities of the proof of the

[42:56]existence of God to me are all secondary because they are absurdly

[43:02]conspicuous you know when an atheist is arguing against God it's not

[43:09]important what's important is the moral argument for you and I as

[43:16]a human race Harvard did the longest study and found out that

[43:19]the human Race's greatest aspiration is to find good relations that last

[43:25]until death we think we want to be rich and famous it's

[43:27]all false what we're looking for is somebody to associate with with

[43:31]love and to have trust and integrity and to feel secure with

[43:41]that relationship until we die I mean as long as we don't

[43:44]have it no matter how rich we are no matter how good-look

[43:48]we are no matter how strong we are we feel deficient but

[43:51]the minute that love connects and it moves in the right direction

[43:55]and Mission suddenly you find yourself on a different scale of of

[44:01]appreciation bottom line is the moral argument it's the moral argument that's

[44:06]fundamental and that's the conversation we need to have morality without God

[44:12]makes absolutely no sense relative morality that agnostics and atheists suggest actually

[44:20]is a headless creature it makes no sense it's utilitarian in nature

[44:24]and it makes no sense it's impossible when you dig deep it's

[44:32]nonsense whoever's trying to be a relative moralist is Playing Tricks on

[44:37]you because morality has to have an eternal trajectory it must be

[44:41]infinite when I say I'm going to be honest you can't say

[44:46]I'm going to be honest for 50 years okay I'll be honest

[44:53]for 100 years so the 101st year you won't be honest that

[44:56]means you're not honest now you have to say forever I love

[45:01]you for 10 years can you imagine somebody telling you I love

[45:06]you for the next five years what a silly idea anything good

[45:11]must be forever if it's not forever it's not good and there

[45:14]is no forever but Allah so Allah is all good and everything

[45:18]returns to Allah and all good originates from Allah therefore all morals

[45:23]that are good are towards Allah and if Allah doesn't accept it

[45:28]and rejects it then that is not moral Muhammad Muhammad so the

[45:37]moral Foundation is crucial what is morality you need an allseeing being

[45:43]when transactions take place moral judgments are dependent on oversight civil societies

[45:51]have oversight systems they have governance they have legal systems they have

[45:57]punitive measures upon which if you violate you'll be punished there's a

[46:01]reward system where you're allowed to freely move around not necessarily be

[46:05]given money but if you don't violate the law you're given freedom

[46:09]to do what you want that capacity is built on an oversight

[46:17]system that monitors you now take that on a higher scale take

[46:20]any Civil Society it needs it take it on a higher scale

[46:25]what about the human race what about when you die what about

[46:28]children who were killed in the fields silently at Night by some

[46:32]murderer and they were buried and nobody saw it what of that

[46:39]Justice what happens to that child that was born these are questions

[46:42]of a very high moral character I won't go into it but

[46:46]I'm just letting the foundation now coming down to the reality when

[46:49]we have the month of Ramadan upon which fasting is enjoined upon

[46:53]us Allah wants us what is you be become God conscious what

[46:58]is that you have a high moral standard what is the high

[47:06]moral standard huh the 49th chapter Allah says all you who believe

[47:18]do not go ahead of Allah and his messenger meaning the moral

[47:26]Foundation The Guiding Light of humanity and for the Believers especially is

[47:29]Allah and the messenger all actions and transactions start from them as

[47:36]far as the dos and don'ts and all judgment ends with them

[47:39]it's as simple as that and the Quran has laid it out

[47:51]Allah the prophet is the best example for you like the messenger

[47:59]is your best role model for who the ones who understand the

[48:02]eternity of Life the ones who know God is there the ones

[48:07]who know I'm returning to God the ones who know God sees

[48:11]me the ones who know that God created me for a purpose

[48:15]I have a purpose on this Earth and when I die I

[48:17]don't vanish very very important both together how did you you remember

[48:29]God often you're constantly looking at goodness what good can I do

[48:32]how much lying can I stop how much evil can I eradicate

[48:36]when you and I work in that direction that's not just a

[48:45]t Allah Allah Subhan Allah those are all good but if it

[48:48]doesn't translate into actual transaction of promotion of good and forbiddance of

[48:52]evil then you and I don't understand Allah now in huat it's

[48:57]it's a long I mean it's not a long chapter but this

[49:00]Surah is the Surah of moral characters and I'll discuss it briefly

[49:07]I'm laying the foundation because I want to go back to verse

[49:09]177 of bakar as I mentioned yesterday where Allah subhana tala talks

[49:18]about the prophet sallallah alai wasam Muhammad Muhammad he said if you

[49:25]follow the prescriptions of verse 177 of you will have complete faith

[49:31]you will achieve ta we want to talk some of those parts

[49:33]but I want to lay the foundation that those parts that Allah

[49:39]talks about comes from these fundamental General verses of the Quran like

[49:44]huat and huat lays out a beautiful example of people who created

[49:50]trouble and people who did good and Allah describes them Quran is

[49:54]filled with those kinds of analogies and expressions but Allah says very

[50:12]powerful I just want you to understand the gravity of the prophet

[50:16]and then I'll move on to 177 the gravity of obeying the

[50:22]prophet you know me say obey the prophet obey Allah what's the

[50:27]gravity Allah describes the gravity here how important is the prophet and

[50:33]what if you don't obey him what if you do belittle him

[50:39]my religion is entirely revolving around the prophet Allah says in he

[50:52]says the prophet has greater right on the believer than the Believers

[50:59]have on themselves meaning the messenger of Allah if he tells me

[51:02]to go that way and I want to go that way I

[51:06]have to go that way and if I don't I'm committing a

[51:10]sin but you said I have free will the prophet said not

[51:16]there you've done your there's there's no compulsion in religion but once

[51:21]you've done Shah you have compelled yourself to the truth and therefore

[51:25]prayer and fasting becomes oblig in hij etc etc because you have

[51:29]compelled Yourself by your own admittance of doing how do we know

[51:35]that the next verse brilliant what does the Quran say indeed truth

[51:45]is clear from error so Allah is telling me there is no

[51:48]compulsion in religion but truth compels you wow what a spectacular answer

[51:57]no compulsion in religion but truth compels you in the legal system

[52:04]what compels you truth expose the truth and submit Allah says I

[52:09]created the universe in truth and you better submit to the truth

[52:15]for there's nothing more important than that there was a man who

[52:17]comes to the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam and the prophet

[52:20]is about to go to war to defend Islam and he says

[52:24]teach me Islam can I be a Muslim Muslim with the the

[52:29]most minimum transactions the prophet is already ready to go think about

[52:37]it the timing he looks at him and says Don't Lie he

[52:40]says that's it he says that's it and the prophet lives comes

[52:45]back from the battle and the man is a Muslim Prophet asked

[52:48]him what made you a Muslim he said you told me not

[52:52]to lie it took me nowhere but to you because you're you're

[52:57]the truth your actions are truthful God is true nature is true

[53:03]Islam is De Allah mentions it inat he says he sent Messengers

[53:20]with the religion of Truth and it will supersede all religions for

[53:24]truth is compelling this conversation is about truth and if anybody has

[53:30]greater truth Allah says bring your evidence if you are truthful I

[53:39]love that system it's fluid it's natural it's not you know um

[53:48]myopic you know it's not indoctrination it's just natural it indulges me

[53:57]to falling in love with God's system and what better than you

[54:02]and I am telling you as much as you and I can

[54:05]be the best physical people in the world with all the wealth

[54:07]in the world and we could control the universe and let's say

[54:09]we have systems where we control all the actions of the universe

[54:15]would you say you're a powerful person yes I you a good

[54:20]person but that person is rude egotistic selfish narcissistic is that a

[54:30]good person no but you own the universe yeah you're useless flip

[54:34]it on the other side you have an abject poor person who's

[54:40]got nothing but their moral standards are with Integrity with honesty with

[54:45]dignity with love and compassion and forgiveness and patience look I'm sure

[54:51]all every word I just stated must have struck your heart in

[54:57]some direction of calmness in peace for that's by Nature the remembrance

[55:04]of God makes your hearts tranquil what remembrance it's this Allah is

[55:12]giving me the example he said the Integrity of your moral standards

[55:16]who better than my prophets and I have protected them the imams

[55:23]who are the guardians of prophethood I have protected them simple introduction

[55:30]El when he fell from Grace he asked Allah for a respite

[55:33]he said to God give me time I have fallen from Grace

[55:40]I have disobeyed you give me time and Allah says what is

[55:42]it that you want he said give me time Allah says I

[55:51]accept till the day of judgment Allah says you may die before

[55:54]the day of judgment in the Quran Allah leaves it open he

[55:59]said maybe depending on my time I will decide how long you

[56:02]El will live but I give you respect now what does el

[56:08]say interesting from the horse's mouth he says by your Authority I

[56:15]will beguile them all all of this mankind that has caused my

[56:19]downfall the children of Adam I'm going to take them with me

[56:26]and make them fall the way I fell Allah says this Allah

[56:35]says clearly indeed he is your Archen enemy no question about that

[56:43]but look from his own mouth what does he say then except

[56:51]your purified ones the devil is admitting he can't touch this prophet

[56:56]he's admitting he can't touch the he's saying it by the way

[57:04]in Arabic is somebody who's born pure lives pure and dies pure

[57:07]not one who's Whimsical in Purity that's m mlas is somebody who

[57:14]is pure from birth guided protected not this silly story where the

[57:18]Prophet figured out he's a prophet at the age of 40 and

[57:22]prior to that he didn't know not such silly silly ideas where

[57:24]when jbel comes to him in the Mount of in the the

[57:27]cave of H you know he's so terrified he wants to commit

[57:29]suicide and then he runs to trying to figure out you know

[57:35]was this the devil talking to me and then you got Salman

[57:36]rushi writing books called The Satanic Verses nonsense right all of these

[57:41]concoctions of the satanic idea is to try to subterfuge and cover

[57:48]the truth of Allah subhana ta'ala nonsense the purity of prophethood is

[57:55]at Birth and before the prophet was born his light was the

[57:59]first creation and Allah endowed it and through that light you and

[58:02]I have come into existence everyone of us has the light of

[58:06]the Prophet did you know that how does it feel you just

[58:13]heard that feels good huh Muhammad Muhammad you know why it's important

[58:20]to think that way because if we're going to be admonished by

[58:22]God that come to me be upright have tawa if you don't

[58:29]have the light of the Prophet then what potential do you have

[58:32]so you and I have all the potential of Purity and that's

[58:36]a gift of God that God said it's already in you when

[58:42]I call you towards me uprightness maintain your faces upright and do

[58:54]the right things you say how can I do it am I

[58:58]not tainted am I not corrupt was I is my soul not

[59:03]corrupt Allah says no your soul is as pure as it was

[59:05]given by the prophet the difference is you can be tainted prophets

[59:11]and imams cannot be tainted they're protected you see because even even

[59:19]El says I can't touch these agents so this conversation I'm bringing

[59:22]out when Allah says Allah is telling me these are agents I

[59:29]have chosen before even creation and I've placed them on this Earth

[59:33]for you as your pegs to guide you as rahma against going

[59:39]astray it's a gift of God but the gravity of my observation

[59:43]of such laws is this conversation and it must translate so think

[59:54]about this logic 14 Century I'm reading this he says all you

[59:59]who believe don't raise your voices above that of the messenger of

[60:03]the Prophet greater than the prophet 14 centuries how do I raise

[60:16]my voice Prophet is not with me physically although he is spiritually

[60:20]well Allah is laying a foundation that even today I want you

[60:28]to know that this principle stands that your observation and love of

[60:35]the prophet and obeying him is so crucial to you forever that

[60:40]when you say muham you better understand the gravity of what it's

[60:46]all about now there were companions as you know who became Khalifa

[60:52]soon after interesting and it's funny because even when I go to

[60:56]you know to Medina at the prophet's grave next to the prophet

[61:01]the two of them are buried there it's very interesting when you

[61:04]watch and when I watch that that verse it's interesting but it's

[61:15]switched now the next verse has been put in but anyway look

[61:19]companions important people next to the prophet even them look what Allah

[61:24]is saying what had happened was the Banu Assad were becoming believers

[61:28]they were all coming in armies to do shahada Prophet is standing

[61:36]in Medina and they're coming to do you know shahada and they

[61:39]were not Consulting him they were talking to each other and they

[61:42]started raising their voices now I want you to understand the gravity

[61:49]of obedience to the prophet when the messenger of God is next

[61:52]to you how should you behave this is not you know this

[61:55]is 14th centuries later today is in my heart in my head

[62:00]Allah is sh me the gravity of how you should see the

[62:02]prophet if the person I give you a simple example IM imagine

[62:08]he's in this room right now we'd all be completely attentive everything

[62:13]he says he moves we move he's silent we're silent he's completely

[62:18]we're under his control the level of honor and respect should be

[62:24]such that none of us should misbehave in his presence that's proof

[62:28]positive that I love this man and I respect him and I

[62:33]obey him now what does the Quran say he said don't raise

[62:37]your voices what's the effect of just raising your voice next to

[62:40]the prophet listen to this this is incredible that's how powerful it

[62:47]is Allah says if you raise your voice next to the prophet

[62:49]it means you don't believe in him number one and all your

[62:52]good deeds get wiped out it's say it here he says your

[63:04]good deeds will get wiped out and you won't see it wow

[63:10]my good deeds all my prayers my charity my belief Allah says

[63:13]I throw them all out you raise your voice in front of

[63:18]the prophet and show even a slight amount of disrespect towards him

[63:22]I take your good deeds and I throw it out wow That's

[63:26]Heavy I can't stress it enough in this conversation in this presentation

[63:32]it requires much more conversation but in the same Surah Allah subhana

[63:39]tal reverses it he reverses it and says if you obey if

[63:48]you obey the prophet and Allah Allah and the prophet your deeds

[63:54]will remain intact that's the gravity of the moral Foundation of Islam

[63:58]so when you and I look at each other and say what

[64:03]is my Islam my Islam is to observe the prophet researchers have

[64:06]done studies on the character of the messenger of Allah he is

[64:10]the most profound personality in the annals of History Michael H Hart

[64:15]has written two volumes of the 100 most influential people in the

[64:18]history of the human race and he insists based on Research that

[64:22]there was no man who had greater impact on Humanity than the

[64:29]holy prophet Muhammad sallallah alai wasam moving forward I want us to

[64:36]understand so you notice by the way Allah says and by the

[64:40]way the next verse whoa the one who lowers his voice and

[64:52]shows respect to the prophet that's the one I test them with

[64:57]tawa that's the one Allah said for them is a forgiveness protection

[65:02]and a great reward for if you just examine the prophet when

[65:08]Allah says in another verse Allah says oh Prophet say say if

[65:17]you claim to love God then obey me then God will love

[65:27]you and God will protect you and forgive you so the condition

[65:32]of the centrality of the holy prophet is fundamentally huge it's Central

[65:37]and I'd like to express it further in the remaining nights inshallah

[65:40]but I want us to understand I know I'm speaking to an

[65:43]audience that nods and accepts and agrees but it's not the point

[65:50]the point is to increase the intensity of our inner Faith towards

[65:55]Allah when you and I are alone the one who worships God

[66:21]how obeys loves God corrects themselves in the hidden not to be

[66:26]seen by others their own transaction with God for them is protection

[66:37]for forgiveness and a great reward this is very very important for

[66:42]us to understand now when we go to verse 177 muham Muhammad

[66:48]so we're going to get into something very practical as we mentioned

[66:52]and then I will conclude inshallah uh sorry I just need to

[67:02]move there verse 177 now this verse actually came when people were

[67:09]arguing with the messenger about the B is were arguing you know

[67:13]is you know is superior to your place where is the Caba

[67:20]from our historical understanding was the first house that Allah built Allah

[67:24]says in the Quran Thea is at the center of the earth

[67:34]when you look at it in terms of land mass you will

[67:36]see from east to west it's very Central north to south IT

[67:41]addresses humanity equidistantly and therefore the cabba which is a six-sided cube

[67:48]is very just with every direction it's beautiful now Allah T is

[67:52]saying you're arguing about in my direction Allah says righteousness is not

[67:56]in this and I gave the uh principle yesterday about the alness

[68:00]of our Sharia where we now condemn each other if you violate

[68:06]the slight Shar sure you want to do you want to do

[68:08]meaning you want to promote good you want to forbid evil but

[68:14]there is an and anab meaning a character on how to correct

[68:17]people you cannot whimsically or with condescending attitude like I'm holier than

[68:25]you then I come and tell you you're wrong that doesn't work

[68:31]nobody likes to be corrected with with such demeanor you have to

[68:34]do it with a gentle welcoming with a gentle caressing you have

[68:38]to gently awaken the person so Allah is responding you are all

[68:46]arguing about the have you got complete faith now what does Allah

[68:52]say this point I want to make and I'm going to end

[69:04]tonight so Allah says your foundation your your belief and by the

[69:13]way there is no you don't follow a on there is no

[69:19]in you and I have to learn it understand it from teachers

[69:27]and it adopted individually there is no emulation what we call in

[69:32]what's the roots of religion what is that belief in God prophethood

[69:37]the finality of the day of judgment and the Hereafter all of

[69:44]those aspects including IM the whole nine yards all of this is

[69:48]Quran mentions that right here you have to have a foundation by

[69:53]the way I need to make this point many of us are

[69:54]weak in faith and we are very Whimsical in our Iman and

[69:59]when problems come we lose faith in God when things go well

[70:04]either we go towards God or we forget God even more the

[70:08]reason we go through those bouncy Lifestyles is because ourlad is very

[70:14]weak it's like a tree whose roots are not planted properly it's

[70:19]wobbly a little wind the whole Tree starts to shake when you

[70:22]have Deep Roots as I mentioned the first night who are the

[70:24]people with Deep Roots people deeply rooted in knowledge you know the

[70:33]one who who's the kernel of the kernel the one who goes

[70:38]to the DNA of things the one who understands how the system

[70:42]works the one who sees God in everything that is what strengthens

[70:45]IM and then the certainty of the day of judgment as I

[70:50]mentioned yesterday from belief in the Unseen which is Allah subhana tomorrow

[70:56]day of judgment and of course our living IM he's also unseen

[71:04]today such beliefs demand strong Uso how many of us sit down

[71:11]and really contemplate about Allah his and understand how God functions how

[71:16]does the justice of God Work how does the pr the problem

[71:24]of evil work what will happen to humanity what does God want

[71:27]from me have we contemplated when we read in Ramadan and we

[71:30]read the Quran sit and contemplate say Ya Allah teach me about

[71:38]you Allah says I have the he has the best names call

[71:43]him through these names for that's the reality the real DNA of

[71:50]you every transaction of yours the like the dislike the caring the

[71:53]sharing the loving the giving the forgiving is all all from you

[71:57]have to understand it's an extraction from the absolute understand it when

[72:04]you start to touch it it gravitates and changes us our transactions

[72:08]change our lingo changes our attitude changes our susceptibility to irritation changes

[72:17]our forgiveness increases our long-term Vision enhances you understand my point our

[72:25]judgment changes brothers and sisters for sure 100% people who have bad

[72:29]character bad attitudes who do Haram things it's because they have a

[72:32]very low belief system in The Eternity of God In The Eternity

[72:38]of life and in the presence of God's mercy they have doubts

[72:41]about it they're utilitarian they use you know Allah's name but they

[72:49]don't have faith and Allah calls them Allah say they swear that

[72:58]you are the prophet Allah says I swear they're Liars huh Allah

[73:02]says because their is so weak they create trouble they they're troublemakers

[73:08]so how is our transaction built one of the fundamental things when

[73:12]you and I want our Iman to be accepted after this the

[73:17]first thing Allah says he says now what is the will I'm

[73:31]just going to touch on this part every one of us has

[73:38]family relations unfortunately when you travel the world many of us have

[73:43]disputes within our families brother to brother brother to sister mother to

[73:48]father mother to Children some CH some kids don't talk to their

[73:55]mothers don't talk to their uncles there's a dispute I don't get

[73:58]along with him I want to say this very clearly the holy

[74:04]prophet peace be upon him as say stated if you do not

[74:06]do which is if you do not bring peace in your family

[74:12]your prayers are Highly Questionable it won't be accepted so you have

[74:19]relatives you don't talk to send Salam to them forgive them no

[74:25]matter what they've done if there's a breach of justice that they

[74:29]have violated that's very severe be patient but hold on to it

[74:35]but forgive them in this world and said oh Allah while it's

[74:37]tough for I forgive them so that you forgive me for all

[74:42]the things that I've done wrong Allah loves that and say Salam

[74:45]to them call them once in a while onid remember them so

[74:52]Allah subhana tala is laying the fundamental Foundation of morality that if

[74:58]you cannot be kind to your own kin your own family your

[75:01]own blood what kind of kindness are you going to have I

[75:06]am a firm believer and I'll give you the best example I

[75:08]believe if I want to touch God metaphorically I touch my parents

[75:16]I touch my mother I hold her hand I kiss it I

[75:21]said there is no closer rahma than the hand of my mother

[75:27]but when I kiss it I know this is Allah's mercy upon

[75:30]me Allah says now if you understand that reality and you maintain

[75:34]that [Music] stature makes my heart tremble it's so elegant and it's

[75:56]the solution to majority of our problems we have enjoined upon mankind

[76:03]goodness to parents the mother who suffered pain upon pain for two

[76:08]years look at how Allah is describing be grateful to them to

[76:18]me and to them you will all come back to me if

[76:25]you and I don't have have love for our loved ones especially

[76:27]our parents and if you and I cannot bridge that brothers and

[76:30]sisters how can you and I dare claim that Allah is merciful

[76:35]when the very Mercy that's touching me every single day now some

[76:39]of you have rights that some of our parents are mean they're

[76:45]harsh I've seen it some parents are pathetic but not too many

[76:51]alhamdulillah on a grander scale of 8 billion people the majority of

[76:59]the parents are good thank God I respect even I have atheist

[77:03]friends Buddhist friends and they tell me oh my mother I work

[77:05]every day that's I take care of my mother I said I

[77:10]like you she like me said yeah I like you I respect

[77:12]you why I said because you are touching the true mercy of

[77:17]God you may not believe in God but that's transactional to me

[77:21]I love people who respect their parents their Brothers their sisters how

[77:27]often brothers and sisters fight with each other and then when the

[77:31]will comes and the parent has died take them to court and

[77:35]then we tear each other apart each one's going to tear the

[77:38]other one apart Robin Williams as he dying he went through Dementia

[77:44]or whatever he had as he's dying there the family's in the

[77:46]court trying to divide all his wealth can you imagine living a

[77:49]legacy behind like that where you worked so hard did all that

[77:54]so your whole family should be split and they don't talk to

[77:56]each other now and they have lawsuits upon lawsuits because of the

[77:59]same money that they're going to leave behind what's left are your

[78:09]good deeds no no vision where does all of this come from

[78:14]the Quran the prophet Allah subhana tal is merciful he has guaranteed

[78:20]us follow this prescription and see how much happiness you will have

[78:23]so please I advise us on this night Ramadan practically if you

[78:30]haven't picked up the phone to call a relative pick it up

[78:33]send them a message Salam thinking of you may Allah bless you

[78:37]begrudgingly do it you'll be surprised and that person will respond really

[78:45]you don't have an axe to grind Shan is banging his head

[78:47]on a wall like ah please don't do this spread it you

[78:52]know cause more fitna you said no I'm a worshipper of God

[78:55]and my Lord has said share and give how many of us

[79:02]care for our family members who may have difficulty I've had people

[79:05]come to me and they said brother I'm very poor I said

[79:08]but your brother is super rich yeah but he doesn't give me

[79:10]anything I said what kind of a brother is this you know

[79:16]I had a father one time he came to me I swear

[79:18]I'm going to end with this because this is going to make

[79:23]my blood boil I was in England and a father comes to

[79:26]me he says I'm homeless said what said yeah I live in

[79:36]somebody's house he said I have a son and I nurtured him

[79:42]with my wife and when I got him married I gave over

[79:47]the title of my house to him he said I left for

[79:51]to go to pray one day I come home and I can't

[79:54]open the door he got married so I can't open the door

[79:59]he says I can't enter the house and my son told me

[80:02]I don't want you in this house anymore I said such a

[80:07]son is not a son he has a Reptilian Brain how dare

[80:12]he does that but it's possible I hate to bring these negatives

[80:16]but it's a reality let's not go there I know we're not

[80:20]but let's look at it in the flip side bring Harmony and

[80:25]worry about the love of parents my policy and I'll make this

[80:30]my final point when I was a teenager I looked at my

[80:32]parents and I said if not for them I think I would

[80:37]have been totally lost and I realized that when I was younger

[80:41]nobody was more important than my friends and I used to ignore

[80:46]my parents I didn't pay much attention to them they were utilitarian

[80:49]one day dawned on me my mother was calling me and I

[80:56]pretended I couldn't hear her and I was lying in bed she

[81:01]was calling me from downstairs I said you know what I'll pretend

[81:04]I didn't hear her and the F of Allah opened up in

[81:08]my head he says yeah yeah go ahead ignore her they'll come

[81:11]a day you'll go to her grave and you'll beat the tombstone

[81:18]and she won't answer you you fool and I jumped out of

[81:21]bed and I ran I didn't know if my mother was going

[81:24]to die then I stood next to her and said yes because

[81:28]something told me shaan doesn't want me to look at my mother

[81:32]and then from then onwards I said from now onwards to punish

[81:37]myself I will not own a single dollar every penny that I

[81:42]make in my life will belong to my parents it'll be in

[81:45]their name I will take what I need but I don't own

[81:50]anything as long as my parents are alive now I'm not claiming

[81:54]to be anybody special quite honestly but I I do want to

[81:58]impress that when Allah says give to your near kin especially your

[82:04]parents and your brothers and sisters and your cousins and your uncles

[82:10]and your aunts and your grandmothers take care of them please this

[82:14]is just a simple advice we'll continue to discuss this insh tomorrow

[82:34]I think we're going to have a Q&A session for 10 minutes

[82:39]10 15 minutes inallah those of you who have any questions I

[82:41]make a lot of points when I speak as you know and

[82:46]sometimes there are points that need clarification may need correction I'm not

[82:50]perfect uh please bring it forward and let's share it in this

[82:58]audience and let the world hear it because our objective as Believers

[83:03]is to and join upon each other truth and Justice and honesty

[83:08]and that's IM and I in the month of Ramadan when you

[83:12]and I indulge in conversations the messenger of Allah says if you're

[83:17]busy giving knowledge or receiving knowledge and Allah had decreed for you

[83:22]to die at that moment Allah will delay your death that's in

[83:25]the Quran by the way where Allah postpones your death because you

[83:32]were busy gaining knowledge or giving knowledge so be let's be indulgent

[83:38]in that and let's pray to Allah subhana tala that the knowledge

[83:42]Allah avails us is fruitful beneficial and brings certainty into our hearts

[83:49]inshallah alayum

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