Night 5 - Hajj Hassanain Rajabali

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[0:00]educational Community Center of America this beautiful 11 acre lot on Ridge

[0:08]Road in Canton Michigan will inshallah become the site of Mecca's permanent

[0:12]home the land is situated in a beautiful and quiet area surrounded

[0:16]by trees that provide a sense of privacy and natural beauty at

[0:20]the heart of the center will be a prayer room a sanctuary

[0:26]where individuals and families can come to worship and gain nearness to

[0:31]Allah in addition the center will feature a double basketball court gymnasium

[0:37]where our families can engage in physical activity and build healthy habits

[0:42]the gymnasium will also serve as a multi-purpose Hall to meet the

[0:48]growing needs of our community the center will also include classrooms where

[0:52]our weekend school will provide a foundation of Islamic knowledge and values

[0:58]based on the teachings of the B our vision for for Mecca

[1:01]goes beyond just bricks and mortar we envision a space where families

[1:05]can Bond over shared experiences where our youth can find mentors and

[1:10]role models and where our community can come together as one family

[1:15]this is an ambitious project that will be costly but our ability

[1:21]as a community to come together in such short time and secure

[1:24]this land debt free is a testament to our dedication and determination

[1:29]times have changed and we must Safeguard our families in new and

[1:33]creative ways join us in this journey filled with opportunities and make

[1:42]Mecca a part of your legacy together we can build a brighter

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[20:47]alayum everyone may Allah accept all of your deeds and in this

[20:56]holy month of Ramadan um I would like to start inshallah masallah

[21:00]Mecca is having a very vibrant month of Ramadan holy month of

[21:04]Ramadan this Ramadan with so many programs and events for different ages

[21:08]different groups at different times of the day so it's even harder

[21:13]for me to keep up with all the programs that are happening

[21:15]where to sign up where to go where to do things so

[21:19]it's best if I encourage everyone that would like to stay up

[21:21]to date with a program to join our WhatsApp community group that

[21:27]we recently established to keep up and to see all the liers

[21:30]and events that we are sharing so um we have a night

[21:36]we have every afternoon we have Quran Quran so you could recite

[21:39]Quran at home alone to you know to do a or you

[21:44]can join our dear respected uh brother Haj haar hammud and join

[21:48]the thawab and multiply the thawab by reciting Quran with other people

[21:53]that are with your community within your community so you can recite

[21:56]Quran alone at home or you can multiply that and reward when

[22:01]you reide with other people you could learn also so make sure

[22:03]you attend that program that program Quran is every day at 5:30

[22:08]p.m.

[22:08]um here at the Mah um so we have kids program nightly

[22:14]that is that goes parallel with the nightly adult program this is

[22:19]not Jungle Java where you just drop off your kids they're just

[22:21]jumping around not learning anything this is actually a program focused on

[22:25]the children to learn about Islam I think one of the events

[22:29]that I went with Haj Hassan the other night I saw they

[22:33]were learning in the in the dark with laser about Haram and

[22:36]Halal doing Ramadan which is very interesting for me even myself I

[22:39]learned a couple of things uh just stepping in there for a

[22:43]couple minutes so make sure to come to the program here nightly

[22:46]program for adults and drop of your kids knowing that they're in

[22:49]a safe environment learning about Islam the same way you're enjoying your

[22:53]time and learning from our dear respected ali um they have fun

[22:59]they learn and it's for ages of 5 to um 11 years

[23:01]old and it starts right before this program so you can drop

[23:06]them off and come here um have coffee and tea until the

[23:10]program starts so we made it this e very easy this year

[23:13]we have programs every Friday so we have upcoming Friday March 7th

[23:20]at 11: PM Brothers game night where they will be playing games

[23:23]they will have discussions they will have Refreshments so it's very easy

[23:28]this Friday 7th we have the this program upcoming Friday um not

[23:32]upcoming Friday the next Friday March 14th we have the family lock

[23:37]in at High Velocity make sure you purchase your tickets because we're

[23:40]seeing the tickets are flying very fast and getting purchase very fast

[23:43]this is an event for the entire family so your family will

[23:48]be all together in one place and at High Velocity or there

[23:51]will be Sports I know Sports before AAR is not ideal but

[23:55]this is after AAR where everyone is filled and full of energy

[23:58]so we will have sports Sports we will have Dua discussion and

[24:01]the most important thing this is the birth celebration birth of Im

[24:05]alassan so we will have a very fun event that night make

[24:10]sure you purchase your tickets um we have shared the flyer and

[24:13]we will share the flyer again um every week to remind you

[24:18]in of the program and two Fridays after that we have the

[24:22]most important event which is our Mecca fundraising dinner inshallah we would

[24:26]like to see all of you purchase your tickets purchase are the

[24:31]tickets are almost sold out so make sure you purchase your tickets

[24:35]before they get sold out um to support meca so you can

[24:38]support Mecca by purchasing your tickets for thear you can sponsor every

[24:44]night nightly program you can sponsor it the um proposed amount is

[24:48]$250 but you can support it from $1 to $10,000 up to

[24:53]you whatever amount you want to if you want to do that

[24:55]you can contact uh sister ahlam her number is on the flyer

[24:58]or you can scan one of the QR codes around here and

[25:02]there's an option for Ramadan night nightly sponsorship and you can enter

[25:06]in the notes which night you would like to sponsor um very

[25:11]easy process for you to do so this is another way for

[25:13]you to support Mecca um so all of us masallah I think

[25:16]have houses we have Apartments we have a place to live in

[25:22]unlike our unfortunate sisters and brothers in um in Palestine in Lebanon

[25:25]in Sudan and Yemen and all these different countries so with that

[25:30]comes many responsibilities we pay for our DTE bill for our internet

[25:35]bill for all these different bills that we want to pay for

[25:38]insurance why so we can live comfortably in that place that we

[25:42]have so we can make sure our kids are comfortable we make

[25:44]sure we are living um and a good life and to be

[25:49]able to pass that on to our next Generations well Mecca needs

[25:52]your support as well we have bills here for electricity we have

[25:55]bills for the nightly programs for the speaker that we pay for

[26:00]the things that we purchase so that's another way for you to

[26:03]support Mecca is to become a monthly recurring donor it could be

[26:09]$1 it could be up to $500 or ,000 you get to

[26:11]choose that but when you support that just rest assur when you

[26:15]come here you look around if you're donating $10 a month you

[26:18]know that $10 of this place is for you right because you

[26:23]pay mortgage in your house and you think your house is yours

[26:25]you pay your apartment it's yours so when you pay $10 $100

[26:30],000 500 doesn't matter the amount all the amounts are in equal

[26:33]in Allah subh T's eyes this place is yours this is your

[26:36]community this is the future of you so I'm getting older so

[26:41]I want to make sure I'm leaving behind a place that is

[26:43]secure that is safe that is actually teaching that is the message

[26:47]of to my children and to make sure that I did my

[26:52]job in front of Allah in Allah subhana T's eyes so make

[26:57]sure you support Mecca by becoming a monthly um recurring member donor

[27:01]and the other way that you can support Mecca is to build

[27:06]the future of Mecca so we have the uh posters around the

[27:08]future of Mecca by sponsoring a prayer spot for $5,000 I know

[27:13]$5,000 might sound a lot but we have other options we have

[27:16]monthly reoccurring we have different amounts that you can a you're able

[27:22]to do that $5,000 if you're not able to do the $5,000

[27:24]there are other amounts that you can pay but make sure you

[27:28]build a brick so when your kids when inshallah after a long

[27:31]life you pass away I pass away my kids come say my

[27:35]dad paid for that building we made sure we put a brick

[27:40]in there so make sure you sponsor do uh support Mecca through

[27:45]nightly sponsorship through Mah prayer spot and through one more important um

[27:51]way which is becoming a volunteer at Mecca so Mecca runs on

[27:55]volunteers if you look around we have brothers standing up we have

[28:00]brothers amongst you sitting down we have a group of volunteers of

[28:03]80 volunteers that help run all the programs that we have they

[28:06]run this program behind the scenes after everyone leaves cleaning up we

[28:13]have brothers at the tech these are not none of the volunteers

[28:15]are paid that's why they're called volunteers we have sister Malak handling

[28:19]our kids she's a volunteer everyone else with is volunteer the afar

[28:24]coming up volunteer the family lock in so volunteer being a volunteer

[28:27]in Mecca is very important important for the prosperous I don't know

[28:32]if that's the word of Mecca so make sure you become a

[28:36]volunteer and help even if it's one day of the year that

[28:38]one day will make a difference in being able for Mecca to

[28:45]keep up his programs um so when you become a nightly sponsor

[28:49]uh for Ramadan we have the same thing for maharam not only

[28:55]you are benefiting but your are also benefiting because like tonight's tonight's

[29:01]sponsors we have two Anonymous so even though we don't know their

[29:05]names but we have two Anonymous donors and then we have anded

[29:11]so for the soul of the and for the soul of Rec

[29:36]so now the of the sponsors of tonight's tonight's program got benefit

[29:42]as well they're you know they have passed away but they have

[29:46]they were benefited through US reciting the so um as I have

[29:52]mentioned to make sure you sign up for our um WhatsApp group

[29:54]to stay up to date with all with all the programs we

[29:59]have more programs coming up in the upcoming weeks we will slowly

[30:02]reveal the programs for you guys so it's not too much to

[30:07]digest and to try to remember them but uh make sure you

[30:10]sign up and then if you are on social media WhatsApp or

[30:16]Facebook I mean uh Instagram and um Facebook make sure you are

[30:20]um also on there because we also always update um our programs

[30:27]on there um so you might ask okay why should I do

[30:29]this we are hearing this message every night I have donated um

[30:34]maybe I don't want to donate or something if we look at

[30:38]our bill that I mentioned the DTE bill that we have there's

[30:40]a due date on it right if you don't pay by due

[30:44]date they will come back saying oh you missed your payment right

[30:46]reminder a week if you don't pay your payment it's just something

[30:51]that stays for me I always snooze it they come through my

[30:53]email snooze it until the day before and then I pay it

[30:56]but at the end of the day I make sure I pay

[30:58]it otherwise uh some my credit score stays good so the same

[31:01]thing that we are re like like constantly reminding everyone is because

[31:07]we we would love everyone to become part of the fabric of

[31:12]Mecca of Mecca's Community by continuously supporting it like I said there

[31:16]are many ways to support not only monitor monetarily but also through

[31:20]your time through anything if you have any ideas you would like

[31:23]to suggest of any programs of anything else everyone is open you

[31:27]can just talk to any of the board members or myself to

[31:30]try to um if you have any suggestions to you can become

[31:33]part of Mecca's community so thinking okay why should I become part

[31:37]of Mecca's Community why should I even pay towards Mah to build

[31:43]a Masjid here when I can drive 20 minutes or 25 minutes

[31:45]mallah there are like three masjids in Dearborn Heights there are 10

[31:49]mids I think in between Dearborn and Detroit why should I support

[31:54]a Masjid um here then when I can do that alhamdulillah the

[31:58]space is for everyone but this is just think of the future

[32:01]right when all of us work or the people that work invest

[32:06]in their 401k 403b or all these retirement plans right this is

[32:09]all for your future so when you retire and you're paying Social

[32:16]Security Medicare so when you retire you feel comfortable not only living

[32:20]comfortably but you're able to make sure that your kids are living

[32:24]comfortably right generational wealth so we're trying to pass generational wealth downtown

[32:28]our kids but this is something that will stay forever even in

[32:32]the Hereafter it will not it's not something that um will go

[32:36]away insh so I I don't want to elongate the program or

[32:49]um all the announcements on you guys but um let's I would

[32:56]like to ask um ifer is here brother okay brother to recite

[33:00]um some um ayat from the Quran inshallah until Hass comes here

[33:06]muhamad Muhammad muhamed muhamad bill [Music] [Music] in well [Music] in [Music]

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[36:41][Music] s [Music] [Music] well for [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I would

[38:21]like to remind everyone that tonight after um our dear respected ha

[38:25]Hassan's lecture there will be a Q&A so if you would like

[38:30]to stay please make sure bring up your questions and let's try

[38:32]to challenge them as much as possible inallah without further delay I

[38:36]would like to um welcome our dear respected withad muhammadd [Music] MIM

[39:18]Muhammad [Music] all praise belongs to Allah subhana tal and I begin

[39:58]in his blessed name and Allah subhana tala has created us in

[40:02]magnificent ways and one of the greatest gifts he given us is

[40:08]our gregarious nature which makes us very social we are social beings

[40:12]highly dependent on each other and our desire for other human beings

[40:16]to be around us is part and parcel of the very fabric

[40:21]of who we are and this is a gift of God that

[40:25]is really something that should be cherished and nothing is more precious

[40:29]to us than that reality for being in solitary confinement of some

[40:34]sort is essentially punishment of the soul but being around others is

[40:38]a huge gift for it extends the mercy of Allah for the

[40:43]human race starts to become one being we have made you from

[40:56]oneself it's beautiful the fact that the entire human race has one

[41:00]set of parents and you know that's the gift of Allah to

[41:06]ensure that mankind shares some connection with each other and that's why

[41:11]we Brethren as IM Alam says to Malik when he makes him

[41:15]appoints him the governor of Egypt and says when you go to

[41:20]Egypt oh Malik know that there are two kinds of people that

[41:22]are under your toage one is that they are uh Believers in

[41:30]faith or they are your equals in humanity so you must consider

[41:38]the human race within that prescription and at the end of the

[41:42]day we're all mankind Adam oh children of Adam we're all children

[41:48]of Adams think about it you know when somebody calls you oh

[41:51]son of fulan Bin fulan and then 8 billion people are all

[41:53]responding at the same time that's incredible by the same token because

[42:01]we're so blessed to be gregarious and social in nature we tend

[42:05]to be disobedient and Reckless in our obligations and as a result

[42:10]we tend to cause pain on each other while we're gifted with

[42:17]this social gift of God this uh what we call nature of

[42:20]being around others um we find ourselves harming each other often and

[42:27]if you look at the pain on Earth as I mentioned depression

[42:30]is on the rise while technology is accelerating asymptotically our depression our

[42:35]suicidal ideations are increasing because at this social level we're not obeying

[42:41]the commands of God and the solution is very simple but its

[42:45]implementation is not easy first and foremost we human beings are created

[42:54]weak Allah says we have made we've made you natur naturally weak

[43:02]right we made Mankind in a state of trepidation the word cabad

[43:09]is liver liver is the most stressed organ in the human body

[43:12]it's the one that's the most stressed not the heart the liver

[43:15]is the most stressed and therefore Allah has enabled the liver to

[43:21]regenerate itself because it's the most damaged that's the mercy of Allah

[43:26]its ability to regen generate is a gift of God but that

[43:33]regeneration is what we call we talk about the ability to return

[43:37]When Allah says hasten to forgiveness to protection doesn't only mean forgiveness

[43:55]it means protection from mistakes has multiple meanings one powerful meaning in

[44:04]the Quran is seeking protection from future sins and Allah says and

[44:11]if you do that Allah says the reward that awaits you is

[44:16]greater than the Earth and Sky put together for the paradise that

[44:24]awaits you is greater than all the Creations put together think about

[44:28]it but it is a calling for the god conscious and they're

[44:34]transactional and look at the transaction when we talk about social beings

[44:38]what brings Harmony in society they give charity in good times and

[44:51]in bad times what's charity charity to who to others a kind

[45:01]word to somebody a smile a hug is also charity Allah says

[45:11]kind speech and forgiveness is better than charity followed by injury kind

[45:17]speech smile Salam you look beautiful I'm so happy to see you

[45:23]I pray for you it's charity here Allah of course talks about

[45:29]spending in good times and in bad times why bad times because

[45:37]they have trust in Allah they know the treasury of Allah is

[45:42]infinite and no matter how much you feel threaten by potential poverty

[45:46]you're not afraid because Allah says Allah is ever wealthy you are

[45:58]poor what happens is because we are weak and we're vulnerable and

[46:03]Allah has allowed us to be in that state where we can

[46:08]go astray we develop strategies at a young age to survive this

[46:13]world and there are two ways to survive a Progressive Way what

[46:22]we call a growth mindset or defensive existence a fixed mindset two

[46:31]types a growth mindset is the one who sees potential in life

[46:37]and constantly growing ASM totically a fixed mindset is where you don't

[46:43]want to change you're the same and you just keep degrading and

[46:46]rotting away over time and IM Ali Alam says a person who

[46:52]doesn't grow from yesterday has technically died for plateaus in spirituality is

[46:59]one of the most dangerous things to experience and therefore Allah subhana

[47:02]tala has instituted prayer Upon Us maintain it you wonder why God

[47:14]is pushing me towards religious transactions on a daily basis it is

[47:17]precisely to prevent me from reaching a plat muhamad muhamad spiritual Plateau

[47:29]is dangerous you start because remember for the chart to take a

[47:37]dip you have to first come to slope zero and then you

[47:40]drop that slope zero is when you lose hope you feel like

[47:46]oh there's nothing else for me to do in life I've reached

[47:47]my maximum potential what happens then is you start dipping and when

[47:54]you start dipping now you start doing bad things now the world

[47:56]starts to become a glass that's half empty and you start to

[48:03]see negatives and then you work hard to empty the glass extremely

[48:06]dangerous now you become a social anathema you start getting into gossiping

[48:14]fault finding complaining on a constant basis and you start to become

[48:20]very difficult to deal with and the world becomes troubled by the

[48:27]presence of that individual so we are created by Nature weak but

[48:31]often we don't know how to raise our children we put them

[48:36]in states of peril because we ourselves when we are young and

[48:40]get married often we don't have a clear vision of what our

[48:45]goals are in life and even when we get married it's often

[48:48]just an experimental relationship I don't know I'll figure things out as

[48:52]we go one thing I admire about families that get you know

[48:59]early marriages I've seen couples come to me and said Hajj we're

[49:01]getting married we want to come we want to learn the Quran

[49:04]we want to learn Islam and I look at them and I

[49:08]say why why do you want to do that and they said

[49:09]well soon we're going to have children and I need to know

[49:14]how to deal with my spouse I need to understand my wife

[49:17]the wife says I need to understand my husband I said Bravo

[49:21]Bravo this is the sign of a Believer one who preempts one

[49:24]who does not react at the moment of divorce and starts to

[49:29]figure out with her counselor what I need to do to fix

[49:30]my marriage but the one who's always been Vigilant and aware that

[49:36]my marriage could go astray and my children could go astray should

[49:40]I not preempt myself that's a Believer a Believer is constantly Vigilant

[49:47]not waiting for the world to collapse and then to say you

[49:57]know IM IM sa Zan is asking us what have you been

[50:00]doing you're asking me to come back what have you been doing

[50:06]have you taken action have you protected yourself Allah says what's take

[50:13]action prevent IM aliam says what is tawa he says tawa is

[50:18]immunity it's a very simple thing if you look at the human

[50:23]body one of the most dangerous things in the human body is

[50:25]immunity when your immunity drops no matter how strong you are you

[50:33]will die you will suffer once your immunity is strong then the

[50:37]potential for growth is there but if the immunity is lacking you're

[50:41]finished so we must immunize ourselves with Iman with hope with belief

[50:49]in God and understanding Allah not just loose talk about Allah Allah

[50:55]Allah Allah no no no no you sit and you wonder how

[51:00]does Allah work and when you want to know how Allah works

[51:02]just look in the mirror you are the greatest living miracle that

[51:07]ever existed people ask me about miracles Hajj can you show is

[51:10]there a miracle in life I said yeah go in the mirror

[51:12]look at yourself you're a miracle what I'm not a miracle I

[51:15]I know when I was born I have a birth date I

[51:18]know my parents I said go ask your parents how you were

[51:20]born they have no idea and when you started babbling and crawling

[51:26]and talking your parents have no idea when the switches were turned

[51:29]on and when you got sick they got confused and when you

[51:33]did good things they were happy who do you think was controlling

[51:35]all of that you we as parents when my daughter was born

[51:40]and I held her I said Ya Allah I had very little

[51:42]to do with this child I held her hand and she looked

[51:46]at me I said my God blessed is you who creates such

[51:51]beauty and this child looked at me grabbed my finger I said

[51:55]what did I do for this child to grab my finger I

[51:59]don't even know how this child is grabbing my finger and then

[52:01]the child is growing the next thing they're your height and then

[52:03]they're taller than you they're taller than their mothers like double the

[52:10]size you know these big beastly guys right Salam alaykum brother big

[52:14]biceps and I want you to meet my mama and she's like

[52:16]onethird his size she sayam alaykum I said oh my God how

[52:21]did this big creature come from this small creature Allah says look

[52:28]how I create H I make this child grow what a blessing

[52:32]but we are weak and we learn to survive at a young

[52:39]age children learn to lie many parents white lie children see that

[52:47]H that's the template we're going to follow you ever noticed by

[52:50]the way they say the fruits don't fall far from the tree

[52:54]when you see a family that's got Edition meaning they are wise

[53:01]they're very academic they're very philosophical they're very deep in their thoughts

[53:04]they're very Visionary they're planning and everything about them has meaning to

[53:09]life you'll notice their children emulate similar characters so parents who are

[53:14]educated typically children are going to be educated parents who are not

[53:21]into education right they have to change the course mallah I've seen

[53:24]many parents who are blueco collar workers who came into this country

[53:28]to survive the difficulties of poverty in the countries that they came

[53:31]from and they worked menial labor but they saved up money to

[53:37]ensure that their children went to school to change the course of

[53:40]their Generations such that their children became doctors and lawyers and Engineers

[53:45]Bravo that's potential to see the glasses half full and when you

[53:52]see the glasses half full you work hard to fill it how

[53:54]do you fill it you see God you see the day of

[53:58]judgment you see the eternity of life and you see the impending

[54:01]mercy of Allah at a constant basis and you indulge and that's

[54:06]progression that's life so our weaknesses tend to marginalize us and when

[54:14]we learn those subtle misbehaviors it becomes part and parcel of my

[54:20]character aaf the ones who troubled the messenger of Allah the narciss

[54:28]ists the materialists the capricious egotists and I'm using a bit heavy

[54:35]word here forgive me but inshallah it make sense you'll see that

[54:43]those people were born good the MUA the were born good every

[54:52]child is born good none of us should ever say that this

[54:56]child is intrinsically BN born evil like Saddam Saddam was born good

[55:00]his birth was good but he was born in a trashy environment

[55:04]his mother was trashy his uncle was trashy his environment was trashy

[55:09]so Allah is going to hold all those people liable for having

[55:15]made a monster like Saddam it's not only Saddam who's going to

[55:18]be held liable on Judgment Day every person that infused the negative

[55:23]thoughts in him is that they are going to to be paying

[55:29]a price for having caused the death of millions of people as

[55:31]a result of their misdeeds we don't realize the transactions that we

[55:36]indulge in for this life is all about cause and effect and

[55:38]we are effects of causes and we're causing effects therefore it's very

[55:45]important for you and I to be vigilant that when Allah says

[55:47]it's not only about you it's not only about the fact that

[55:52]you may go astray but those around you will suffer because of

[55:54]you and it could lead to a monstr Cy that may lead

[55:58]to a genocidal killer like Netanyahu for then you find yourselves in

[56:02]a state of peril and you realize how did this monstrosity come

[56:06]into the world well there's a collection of preceding events that took

[56:10]place and it led to what we call negligence within that Society

[56:15]negligence of Allah negligence of purpose in life utilitarian existence they lived

[56:23]in a pathway by which just to survive as creatures on this

[56:27]Earth not having a vision that the next world is superior and

[56:32]you're being held liable by the transactions you do today this is

[56:37]the Gathering we have today precisely when Allah says it's not a

[57:11]new news Allah says this has been mentioned to you from time

[57:17]IM Memorial that mankind listen and be given advice for the one

[57:21]who is conscious of their obligations will listen to you say what's

[57:26]one who has who has Allah says successful is the believer who

[57:37]when they approach prayer they're in the State of Consciousness presence obligation

[57:43]Duty the person understands liability and doesn't take things lightly we don't

[57:50]need to be paranoid about life we need to be indulging in

[57:53]the natural forces of life to to get on that wave and

[57:59]ride the Progressive life and not to fight it for when we

[58:04]fight it takes far too much energy but when we submit with

[58:07]Allah it's easy for then nature takes over and we become naturally

[58:11]good and Harmony falls into our hearts and theck of Allah brings

[58:16]what Tranquility Allah says he puts into the hearts of the Believers

[58:30]s what's Sakina Tranquility what is tranquility the medication the elixir of

[58:40]the being who was created the being who was created in a

[58:44]state of trepidation I'm in a state of trepidation God said I

[58:52]give you tranquility and I calm you down and I make you

[58:56]Progressive Allah says wow that's the the the result of therefore God

[59:14]increases faith upon Faith what is that security in what way Tranquility

[59:20]in what way Vision Clarity certainty for When Trials and tribul ations

[59:26]come and people who have a clear vision of their life and

[59:32]their future and what life is all about it's a very calming

[59:34]feeling to be around people who are confident not false sense of

[59:38]confidence but the ones who are connected with Allah the way the

[59:41]prophets and were for they had no fear Imam Hussein Alam in

[59:48]carala was facing the most tragic situation in the animals of history

[59:52]but he was calm focused the companions looked at him and he

[59:58]was so laser focused that when Shimmer wants to come and burn

[60:01]the tents early on before the battle started and Muslim binah was

[60:05]Furious because Shimmer was making fun of Imam Hussein Shimmer was ready

[60:13]to attack him Imam puts his hand on him he says stop

[60:15]says I want to hit him said don't wow just that vision

[60:23]is my lesson in life just that vision of Imam putting his

[60:26]hand on Muslim and telling him stop you have a right to

[60:36]smack this devil don't do it that power of patience oh it

[60:44]doesn't come easy brothers and sisters it takes time it takes effort

[60:49]how does it take effort vigilance constancy can't just hang around all

[60:58]day and do silly things and expect God to take you towards

[61:02]him IM aliam takes Kad by the grave I think he starts

[61:06]walking with him he says K come he says to K preach

[61:11]to me says you're the ocean of knowledge how can I preach

[61:17]to you Imam says I love to hear good exaltations towards Allah

[61:23]I am the agent of God but I love to hear when

[61:24]you talk about Allah for I tell people about Allah but I

[61:30]love to hear it how beautiful this conversation is he says no

[61:35]he puts his hand on his chest he says this is knowledge

[61:40]he says Salon saloni ask me before you lose me but the

[61:50]human race was stupid then he says oh K there are three

[61:55]kinds of people on on Earth know that he says there's the

[62:01]learned the arite who gives knowledge the second group is the one

[62:05]that gains knowledge and the third group is the rubbish the trash

[62:13]the troublemakers the ones who cause hell on Earth the potential saddams

[62:20]the potential Fons the potential Netanyahu you'll find that those kind of

[62:23]people are rubbish they indul in silly things that eventually grows into

[62:30]a cancer that metastasizes and then it spreads and kills the society

[62:37]it's prevalent everywhere aren't we we're all swimming in this Cesspool of

[62:43]infections on Earth and we're constantly having to immunize ourselves and seek

[62:48]Refuge with Allah for we're inundated sometimes by the sheer force of

[62:54]negativity but Allah says don't lose hope in my Mercy say to

[63:04]my worshippers who've gone astray don't lose hope in my Mercy he

[63:18]forgives all he is of forgiving ah when I read this verse

[63:25]like somebody put a jolt of energy in me and told me

[63:26]come on go fly the universe is yours do you not see

[63:48]we made the universe subservient to you whether you can see it

[63:52]or not can you imagine God telling you and me that and

[63:57]telling me the canvas that you can work on with your artistic

[64:03]work is my universe take it and use it and I've made

[64:06]it subservient to you and yet you and I are depressed oppressing

[64:14]oppressed negative condemning fault finding refractory The Story Goes On and On

[64:24]so tonight just briefly ly I want to touch that in that

[64:30]verse 177 when Allah said you know a Believer is the one

[64:35]who believes in Allah the day of judgment the scriptures the Angels

[64:39]that's the foundation of vision and then the first thing you do

[64:42]is you take care of your near family but what is the

[64:49]social implication for Allah subhana will hold us liable on Judgment Day

[64:53]based on our social transactions you might think no my Salah when

[64:57]I pray that's what's going to take me into Paradise no no

[65:03]no IM made a beautiful statement after he finished prayer somebody said

[65:07]You Prayed rather quickly he said prayer begins when it ends and

[65:12]when I read that it you know I became a bit dizzy

[65:17]how does prayer begin when it ends it's kind of rhetorical isn't

[65:20]it kind of cyclical then he dawned on me oh my God

[65:26]you're so right you only pray so that you behave well so

[65:31]that you do good otherwise what good is prayer there are people

[65:34]who pray the minute they're rolling the carpet they're doing they're backbiting

[65:38]fault finding cheating stealing that's not an accepted prayer that's insulting it's

[65:45]like in Iraq I had a brother who got kidnapped True Story

[65:51]by the way many years ago in Iraq you got kidnapped and

[65:55]then uh they figured out a ransom so the family came up

[66:02]with $50,000 Ransom to release their brother it was in Ramadan The

[66:07]Ransom was in Ramadan I want you to see this pathetic reality

[66:11]this is the stupidity when Allah say righteousness is not that you

[66:20]aim East and West so in Ramadan they said okay we'll come

[66:23]at this time they said no no no no we're busy breaking

[66:28]our fast you're a thief you're an abductor you're a violator you're

[66:34]a shaan it's like sitting on the pulpit I said you are

[66:39]the Shan you're doing you're seeking Refuge from Shan you are the

[66:42]biggest Shan ya used to say I said you are the Shan

[66:46]but Allah said look how they pretend they use my religion as

[66:52]a means by which to promote their own selfish motives not that

[66:56]how did these people develop this at a young age they learned

[67:02]to lie and cheat and as a family if we're not Vigilant

[67:03]in infusing love in a child and managing their and constantly inviting

[67:12]them towards Allah many parents say are afraid when their children become

[67:15]religious they get terrified oh my son starts to pray now I

[67:19]said aren't you happy I don't know I'm worried said are you

[67:25]feeling okay it's like I've seen in our school it wasse Subhan

[67:29]Allah the girl comes and she gets inspired wants to wear hijab

[67:34]the parent takes the child out of the school you call the

[67:38]parent why did you take your child out my daughter wants to

[67:40]wear hijab too dangerous like what do you want your daughter to

[67:44]walk around without hijab for every man to see her I mean

[67:50]the mentality you know I had a a parent say to the

[67:52]son said if you stop praying I'll buy your car I looked

[67:56]at the parent why why' you do that well brother you know

[68:00]I said I know why the parent looks at me he said

[68:02]why I says you don't pray and you can't stand when your

[68:08]son is better than you you don't wear hijab and when your

[68:11]daughter wears it she's a poignant reminder of what you should be

[68:13]doing and rather than enable her you disable her in order to

[68:20]protect your own rotting reality as IM aliam says the third group

[68:24]that's the rubbish the one that doesn't give knowledge nor take knowledge

[68:29]and Imam says be careful how silly mankind is acquiring large amounts

[68:34]of wealth when it needs to be protected whereas the knowledge will

[68:41]protect you it's a self governing system you're so foolish nobody said

[68:46]don't get wealth but get knowledge it's a higher priority the prophet

[68:57]said acquire Knowledge from the Cradle to the Grave for that's what's

[69:00]going to protect you for if we if you don't have basic

[69:04]knowledge how will he have a vision how will you develop certainty

[69:06]how will you meet your lord when it's time to leave this

[69:10]world what are you going to answer you're going to be biting

[69:13]your fingernails and said I wish I was alive to go back

[69:20]and do Allah says I warned you so many times even the

[69:23]angels will ask the angels are about to toss these people in

[69:34]hell and the angels are looking at them like how'd you get

[69:38]here I love this verse in Sur mul I love it why

[69:43]are the Angels asking people Bound for hell didn't the Angels already

[69:49]tell God that mankind is going to cause Bloodshed and they said

[69:52]oh yeah yeah yeah come on we were expecting all of you

[69:55]the gates are wide open come on in the fire is Raging

[69:58]come on in come on we were expecting you all we told

[70:01]God about that so we knew you guys are coming to hell

[70:03]anyway is that how Angels reacted no they're surprised why are they

[70:09]surprised you know when I read these verses I'm like Subhan Allah

[70:14]why is why are you surprised oh Angels Angels say what God

[70:19]sent you with guidance was so good how could you go astray

[70:23]so much n so much gifts so many guidances and so much

[70:32]forgiveness God loves those who turn to him look in that Allah

[70:48]the the ending part is why is Allah saying Allah is consoling

[70:58]me that I created death and life to test which of you

[71:03]is best in Deeds but most likely you will fail or most

[71:06]likely you will go astray partially so he's consoling me instantaneously by

[71:13]saying I am mighty I am forgiving he's giving me hope that

[71:17]don't worry this trial is difficult but you will make it if

[71:23]you have hope in me how do you have hope if you

[71:27]don't acquire knowledge if you're not busy gaining or giving how many

[71:32]of us you ask basic questions how many Muslims know the meaning

[71:40]of f it's amazing ask people huh I said it's cryptic you

[71:43]read this do you pray said I pray 10 times a day

[71:46]you don't know the meaning of how come well you know it's

[71:50]just a magical Abracadabra you know it's going to open those magical

[71:54]doors you know on jna all I need is is alhamdulillah like

[71:59]a parrot and then the magical doors of Jenna will open up

[72:02]is that how it is no no no no e oh brother

[73:18]are you you going too much with Al I said good if

[73:25]they're right I'll be there you can join me later what what

[73:28]you were born a Muslim you were born a follow of how

[73:34]do you know you're right majority of us say or we say

[73:39]yahar Ali yah Hussein what's the difference between that and the person

[73:45]says oh Krishna Jesus Christ they were born there you think the

[73:50]majority of the Muslim umah the followers of a b follow it

[73:55]because it's the truth no we love to come to lectures and

[74:01]have speakers reconfirm our own faith and when they say things I

[74:04]like said yes I like you brother you're the best I said

[74:07]why I'm confirming yeah you're confirming my faith I said how do

[74:09]you know your faith is right no you just said it is

[74:13]right Christians do that they go to churches hallelujah praise the Lord

[74:20]Jesus died on the cross Hallelujah that's what I want to hear

[74:24]why well you're confirming my faith yeah but it's not true who

[74:30]cares just keep saying it again and again it'll become true is

[74:34]that the way knowledge should be acquired no oh no no no

[74:39]no no see by one thing when I was lecturing in Africa

[74:44]and Muslim countries people said to me you grew up in America

[74:47]I said yeah say odd said why is it OD he said

[74:51]you grew up in a non-muslim country and you're preaching Islam to

[74:56]us how is that how does that work I said I don't

[74:58]need to go to H H is good but where is Allah

[75:04]not where is the messenger of Allah not it's everywhere you just

[75:11]have to look look at the animals look at people and when

[75:14]you're non- Christians and non-muslims it's a great lesson so I would

[75:18]look at the brother said the non-muslims taught me Islam huh how

[75:24]can nonm Muslims teach you Islam I said they ask me the

[75:28]right questions they POS even the atheists I tell the atheists I

[75:31]appreciate what you do although I don't agree with you but I

[75:33]like you you sanitize religion you ask questions nobody would dare ask

[75:40]you uncover things as possib possibilities I like that you strengthen my

[75:47]faith honestly ever since I've been debating atheist for the last three

[75:50]decades my faith has just increased towards Allah and I thank the

[75:57]aist for that Muhammad Muhammad from the perspective of not the fact

[76:04]that they're doing wrong but the fact that when you're indulging in

[76:09]knowledge truth is clear from error it's not rocket science our Iman

[76:16]should be strong that when we sit and listen and we say

[76:20]to the speaker I agree with you not because the speaker is

[76:22]confirming what I like but because the speaker is confirming what is

[76:27]true there's a big difference now in hurat the Surah that I

[76:34]started you notice that Allah is setting the standard of morality the

[76:39]moral stance by the same token of what I mentioned as social

[76:43]beings you notice you and I are products of our society the

[76:49]way we dress the way we think the way we talk I've

[76:53]seen Chinese people grow up in England and they have a perfect

[76:57]British accent you know you see this Chinese speaking perfect British accent

[77:03]it's kind of bizarre because he say oh my God and then

[77:05]you see this person who's British born in China and speaks just

[77:07]like a Chinese well the environment makes you who you are we

[77:16]all agree with that that's why it's very important to create good

[77:20]environments when we have children create good environments Infuse love in them

[77:25]lman to his son my son don't associate anyone with Allah that's

[77:38]something you and I should teach not to a child stop wearing

[77:44]hijab stop praying I'll buy you a car this is Shan a

[77:46]parent who sees a child who's more modest if they don't appreciate

[77:52]it they're enemies of God I have a Christian lady who was

[77:58]anti her daughter becoming a Muslim her daughter married a Muslim brother

[78:03]he's here in the room and when she started to become Muslim

[78:10]the mom went ballistic crazy she even stopped me from reading the

[78:17]nikah one thing she noted when she became a Muslim muslima the

[78:23]daughter the mom noted that my doesn't drink doesn't fornicate doesn't indulge

[78:30]in indecent activities is decent and the mom realized you know what

[78:35]that's a gift I said the religion gave you this gift today

[78:41]she loves Islam she's the biggest supporter of Islam why because the

[78:46]dean brings you towards high moral standards it makes you amicable it

[78:51]makes you palatable it makes you socially attractive when a parent recognizes

[79:01]that so to me the iron is a non-muslim parent is recognizing

[79:03]the Rah of her own daughter having become a muslima and appreciating

[79:07]the fact that her daughter is Nota and her daughter is maintaining

[79:14]the lifestyle of Islam whereas you have Muslim families who condemn their

[79:17]children from following the religion of Islam and on Judgment Day I

[79:22]promise you that child will point a finger to the parent and

[79:25]said this mother this father stopped me from coming to you oh

[79:31]Allah Allah says but the other ay where Allah says be aware

[79:47]of that day with the father won't help the son no the

[79:52]son will help the father and this is the truth that will

[79:54]come and that child will point a finger and said oh Allah

[79:59]this parent stopped me there's a fiduciary responsibility within the spiritual sense

[80:04]that a parent has a moral obligation to raise their children properly

[80:08]and not to prevent them and when I see that misbehavior and

[80:15]then I see the child become lost or dejected over time it's

[80:19]not a blaming game but now it's you have to indulge in

[80:25]Corrections and correction ing a child who's learned bad behavior or has

[80:30]been abused or has been beaten up is very very difficult traumatized

[80:35]children especially children who've witnessed Wars and deaths and Carnage and decapitations

[80:40]and blood it's like a it's like an infection you can't get

[80:46]rid of that infection it bothers you for life so now it

[80:49]requires uh support it requires love it requires careful you know massage

[80:57]to get rid of this Bala but who causes this Bala insan

[81:07]mankind is doing to themselves at all times so these vulnerabilities that

[81:13]I want to talk about briefly and then tomorrow I will I

[81:17]will talk about it but the foundation is social your brothers where

[81:26]do we learn this from from the messenger why did Allah send

[81:31]124,000 Messengers why did Allah send imams why because the social implication

[81:37]that we are products of our e e with your societies isn't

[83:23]that amazing the Believers are brothers therefore make peace between each other

[83:30]because without that there is no progression now what does Allah say

[83:38]meaning the mercy of Allah stops when you and I fight the

[83:45]mercy of Allah stops when you and I don't get along the

[83:48]mercy of Allah stops when you and I indulge in hatred for

[83:53]each other Shan becomes the dominant Authority there and Allah mentioned that

[83:57]so when you look at all these verses inat I'm just going

[84:03]to touch very briefly like we look down on people one of

[84:06]the vulnerabilities we have in society is we like to look down

[84:12]on people do you ever notice when children get together and somebody

[84:16]Falls or something everybody laughs it always intrigues me and I look

[84:20]at them I say why' you laugh so funny he fell I

[84:24]said when did it become funny for someone to fall huh I

[84:29]said have you thought about that are you being pavlovian that you're

[84:34]just having a knee-jerk reaction that somebody fell and you laugh what

[84:38]is it about you that you laugh well made me feel good

[84:42]cuz I didn't fall you did and I felt better than you

[84:49]oh my God look at us isn't it all about that we

[84:51]sit down and God say what happened oh did you know that

[84:56]they getting divorce don't tell me more bring some coffee please why

[84:59]this is amazing information let me tell you a secret about that

[85:05]really secret something bad oh my god let's hear it all ears

[85:10]oh my God we're like perked up all The Radars are on

[85:16]full attention when the Quran is recited why because I'm so vulnerable

[85:24]I'm a Survivor tell me about everybody failing so I can feel

[85:31]good fault finders you have a problem your Salah why are you

[85:38]doing this well because when I put you down somehow I feel

[85:43]good Allah says do not find Fs in each other don't give

[85:55]each other bad names after having faith we call each other terrible

[85:59]nicknames in some societies we're experts in calling people bad names and

[86:04]then we hide it under the God but I love him that's

[86:09]why I call him dog Pig hey dog come here I remember

[86:13]one boy said hey dog come here I said excuse me what'

[86:15]you call him he's my buddy he's my buddy so you called

[86:20]him a dog which one a doberman like what are you talking

[86:22]about I love you I'm going to call you a dog no

[86:26]you don't love me you don't love him you're condescending you're you're

[86:30]actually putting down somebody but we hide in the I love you

[86:38]Habibi you know no you don't love Allah said don't do that

[86:42]if you don't desist and stop you are an oppressor now this

[86:49]is Islam what is Quran addressing my vulnerabilities that I developed as

[86:54]a child and it became part of me and this is a

[87:01]serious problem everyone in this room has everyone of us has picked

[87:04]up some disease somewhere in our lives it's hard to avoid it

[87:10]it's almost like the intrusion into the DNA you know and then

[87:14]you have problems in life our DNA has been intruded our our

[87:21]behavioral DNA has been intruded and we're replicating we're copying and we're

[87:28]acting on it so when Allah says all you believe let not

[87:46]one group laugh at another group my God this is a problem

[87:50]you find problems in society watch children adults watch just turn on

[87:56]your radar for the day and note note how much gossip takes

[88:03]place how much lying takes place I see it every single day

[88:06]rumors hatred jealousy fault finding diseases of the heart that result because

[88:17]no knowledge no kind exhortation no talking to his son none of

[88:39]these my son maintain prayers do good forbid evil be patient with

[88:45]the trials that will come to you do not turn your face

[88:48]away from people God doesn't like and a a boastful show off

[88:56]lower your demeanor be humble lower your voice don't be loud don't

[89:03]talk like a donkey when you speak loud you sound like a

[89:12]donkey Quran says that I love the Quran the my Lord has

[89:18]taught me and he's telling me you are vulnerable you have developed

[89:22]Bad characters you will develop Bad characters cuz you're a Survivor on

[89:26]this transient Earth and you think laughing at others will make you

[89:29]feel good you fool that one who fell is my creation and

[89:35]one day you will fall and you won't like it when others

[89:39]laugh at you do unto others as you want done unto you

[89:41]Isa Alam says the holy prophet said that that's the principle of

[89:45]goodness so I end with this tonight that in the month of

[89:50]Ramadan the fasting that Allah has instituted is precisely so we eliminate

[89:55]these bad habits we develop love for each other and we refuse

[90:03]to find faults in each other we look at ourselves and find

[90:10]ourselves very faulty not in a negative debilitating way but in a

[90:14]proactive way to say I've got a scar here I've got a

[90:19]problem here you know what I have an action plan I'm going

[90:20]to take medication I'm going to go to the gym I'm going

[90:24]to eat healthy food this is how I'm going to eradicate this

[90:26]problem proactivity finding Solutions not finding faults in others I don't need

[90:32]to satisfy myself at the cost of somebody else falling I need

[90:39]to improve myself for myself for Allah says save yourselves on Judgment

[90:45]Day no one is going to ask you about you only God

[90:47]will ask you about you and if your heart is not calm

[90:51]you're going to be in trouble Hearts Don't become calm if they

[90:55]don't indulge in knowledge if they don't reflect find purpose in life

[90:59]and become proactive on a daily basis you and I are going

[91:05]to fail so let's make a resolution tonight that as IM aliam

[91:09]says there are three groups of people Ya Allah I want to

[91:14]be in the first two and by the way you can never

[91:15]be in the there are three groups there's the one who gives

[91:20]knowledge the one who receives knowledge and the rubbish Imam Ali says

[91:24]well guess what when you are in the first group you have

[91:27]to be in the second group and when you in the second

[91:30]group you have to be in the first group but for sure

[91:34]you're never in the third group isn't that amazing that when you

[91:37]are giving knowledge you're learning and when you're learning you're going to

[91:41]give knowledge and that beautiful cycle of relationship of growth is what

[91:45]you and I need to be doing inshallah some of these verses

[91:47]I will continue to discuss on how we behave even within religion

[91:53]claiming I have faith you know very religious I'm AJ I went

[91:56]to Hajj you know no what a direct sentence

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