[SPEAKER_00]: Many of us would say, it's just another twelve months.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's not just twelve months.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's three hundred and fifty-four nights and days that have been recorded in our book.
[SPEAKER_00]: Three hundred and fifty-four chances to provide your own time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Three hundred and fifty-four moments to open the Quran.
[SPEAKER_00]: If three hundred and fifty four opportunities to show mercy seek forgiveness, help a parent, forgive an enemy, hide a fault, restrain a gaze and lift a bed in Subhanallah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some who stood with us last year
[SPEAKER_00]: They are no longer here.
[SPEAKER_00]: They returned to their Lord, leaving behind silence and longing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Others were born into this world, bringing joy and hope into their families.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some children became teenagers.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some teenagers stepped into adulthood.
[SPEAKER_00]: Parents became grandparents and some in what felt like the blink of an eye became orphans or widows.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Razza is not far away from us.
[SPEAKER_00]: The question is not, what did this year bring to me?
[SPEAKER_00]: But rather, the question is, what did I send forth in it for my meeting with Allah SWT?
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ, he guides us regarding these passing years.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, ﷺ take benefit of five before five.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're youth before your old age.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your health, before your sickness, your wealth, before your poverty, your free time, before your preoccupied, and your life, before your death.
[SPEAKER_00]: And walking in his footsteps, Imam Hassan Al-Bassuri said, O son of Adam, you are nothing but a number of days, every time a day passes, every time a day passes, a part of you is gone.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if a whole year has passed those sevens of Allah and with children of Adam how much of us is left.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the question that begs to be answered at this point in time.
[SPEAKER_00]: We begin in the name of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and we request praises and blessings upon Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
[SPEAKER_00]: My dear brothers and sisters in Islam, today is the last Friday of the year, one thousand, four hundred and forty-six after the hijr of the Prophet ﷺ from Makkah to Al Medina.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this means that in a few days' time, another Islamic year will come to an end.
[SPEAKER_00]: And a new Islamic year will begin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Accordingly, Subhan Allah,
[SPEAKER_00]: in the blink of an eye, an entire Islamic year would have passed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now I would like us to pause and let this fact sink in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Many of us would say it's just another twelve months, but it's not just twelve months.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's three hundred and fifty four nights and days that have been recorded in our book.
[SPEAKER_00]: three hundred and fifty four chances to pray for your own time three hundred and fifty four moments to open the Quran
[SPEAKER_00]: Three hundred and fifty four opportunities to show mercy, seek forgiveness, help a parent, forgive an enemy, hide a fault, restrain a gaze, and lift a burden.
[SPEAKER_00]: Subhanallah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And every single one of those days had breaths, and every breath that we took.
[SPEAKER_00]: Every scroll, every stare, every coin, every bite, every word has been wrapped and sealed and lifted to the heavens, Subhan or Bialala.
[SPEAKER_00]: An entire year, my brothers and sisters in Islam, some who stood with us last year,
[SPEAKER_00]: They are no longer here.
[SPEAKER_00]: They return to their Lord, leaving behind silence and longing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Others were born into this world, bringing joy and hope into their families.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some children became teenagers.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some teenagers stepped into adulthood.
[SPEAKER_00]: Parents became grandparents, and some in what felt like the blink of an eye became orphans or widows.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Razza is not far away from us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Health faded in bodies that once ran freely and sickness touched homes that once were untouchable.
[SPEAKER_00]: Behind every name is a story that shifted this year.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some smiled more than others.
[SPEAKER_00]: Others cried more than others.
[SPEAKER_00]: Subhanah, Rabbi Al-Aliha.
[SPEAKER_00]: And through it all, O servants of Allah and O children of Adam, an entire year has passed.
[SPEAKER_00]: carrying with it our tests, our triumphs, our trust in the one who writes all our stories, Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
[SPEAKER_00]: A year that was once our future, full of unknowns, full of hopes, full of promises is now part of our eternal past.
[SPEAKER_00]: We can no longer touch it, but it will testify for us or against us when we stand in front of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala on the day of Qiyama, Allahul Mastahan.
[SPEAKER_00]: The question is not, what did this year bring to me?
[SPEAKER_00]: But rather, the question is, what did I send forth in it for my meeting with Allah SWT?
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ, he guides us regarding these passing years.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, ﷺ, take benefit of five before five.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're youth before your old age.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your health, before your sickness, your wealth, before your poverty, your free time, before your preoccupied, and your life, before your death.
[SPEAKER_00]: And walking in his footsteps, Imam Hassan Al-Bassari said, O Son of Adam, you are nothing but a number of days, every time a day passes, every time a day passes, a part of you is gone.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if a whole year has passed those servants of Allah and O children of Adam, how much of us is left.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the question that begs to be answered at this point in time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let our hearts feel this point.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let it weep for what has gone.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let it yen for what remains.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because a new year isn't just a number changing.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is a witness.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is a new scroll.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is a new chance.
[SPEAKER_00]: And perhaps I will find a one.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala knows best.
[SPEAKER_00]: Me Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala say if I saw all I mean.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or servants of Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And no children of Adam.
[SPEAKER_00]: In the authentic Sunnah.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is reported that a man asked a question.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said Ya Rasulullah.
[SPEAKER_00]: O Messenger of Allah, who amongst the people is the best?
[SPEAKER_00]: We all want to be the best.
[SPEAKER_00]: What does it mean to be the best?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it about kicking a football within a millimeter of the post and scoring an impossible goal?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it about how many accolades you acquire in your field of expertise?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it about how many a stars and aates or nines that you get in your GCSEs?
[SPEAKER_00]: They asked the Prophet sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
[SPEAKER_00]: Teach us Ya Rasulullah, who is the best of the best?
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, the one whose life is long and whose deeds are good.
[SPEAKER_00]: The one whose life is long, and whose deeds are good.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the man went further.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, Ya Rasulullah, O Messenger of Allah, teach me who are amongst the worst of people, who are amongst the worst of people.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ said, Mampala Umur, whoever has a long life.
[SPEAKER_00]: but whose deeds are bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: May Allah SWT save us.
[SPEAKER_00]: In this life, Al-Marim l-Khapab, Rabbi Allah SWT.
[SPEAKER_00]: The second colour of Islam, he said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He said, He
[SPEAKER_00]: The faqqi of this Ummah, a famous companion of the Prophet ﷺ, the one who accepted Islam early, he didn't have a big tribe to defend him, but his imman carried him in front of the Ka'aba and he recited a rahmat, in front of the Qur'ajh, even though he knew they would beat him unconscious.
[SPEAKER_00]: What does he say?
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, I have never regretted anything more than I regret a day in which the sun set
[SPEAKER_00]: My life span decreased and my deeds did not increase.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Hanna Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: May Moon Ibn Mehran, He used to say, A man will not be truly God-fearing.
[SPEAKER_00]: He will not have taqwa.
[SPEAKER_00]: He will not be mutatae.
[SPEAKER_00]: Every juma Allah guides us to taqwa.
[SPEAKER_00]: Taqwa, taqwa, taqwa.
[SPEAKER_00]: Juma are after jumaah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Year after year.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is saying, a man will not be truly from the people of Takawa until he holds himself to account more strictly than he holds his business partner to account.
[SPEAKER_00]: And until he knows where his clothing comes from and what he eats and what he drinks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hassan al-Basri, the famous Tabiri, he said, may Allah have mess you upon him, a servant of Allah, continues to be in a good state as long as he has an internal advisor from within himself.
[SPEAKER_00]: And holding himself to account is part of his daily concern.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was reported that one of the righteous ones sat down to take himself to account and this is how they did it.
[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't just learn these statements from the best of the best.
[SPEAKER_00]: They applied it.
[SPEAKER_00]: They implemented it.
[SPEAKER_00]: He implemented it and he took himself to account and he calculated the number of days he had lived and realized that he was sixty years old.
[SPEAKER_00]: He calculated the number of days in those years and found them to be twenty one thousand five hundred days.
[SPEAKER_00]: at this point he started crying.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he said, whoa to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whoa to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Will I meet Allah with twenty one thousand five hundred cents?
[SPEAKER_00]: And how much worse will it be if every day consisted of not just one sin but ten cents?
[SPEAKER_00]: May Allah SWT give us.
[SPEAKER_00]: He then went on to recite from the Quran.
[SPEAKER_00]: The verse from Surah Al-Imuran, in which Allah SWT says,
[SPEAKER_00]: Tawattu lahu anna bainaha wa bainahu amadam bhaida wa yuhavveru cum Allahunafsa
[SPEAKER_00]: wa la hu raufum billi badae on the day when every soul will find what it has done of good present before it present before it and what it has done of evil it will wish that between itself and the evil was a great distance and accordingly Allah warns you of Allah's punishment.
[SPEAKER_00]: and Allah is full of kindness to His servants.
[SPEAKER_00]: Amazing how Allah ends the verse.
[SPEAKER_00]: He ends it with hope.
[SPEAKER_00]: The verse is real, but don't be in the state of despair.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah is kind with His servants.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we are from the servants of Allah Subhanahu Ata'ala.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let not the passing of these days and nights take for granted Allah Subhanahu Ata'ala's kindness upon us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let us seek forgiveness and amend our ways.
[SPEAKER_00]: For a year has gone and this means we are one year closer to the grave.
[SPEAKER_00]: My brothers and sisters in Islam, in light of this
[SPEAKER_00]: Darus Salam Education Center wants to assist us ending Bayer strongly and beginning the next year strongly.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they have facilitated what I call a weak of knowledge, a weak of knowledge because there is a weak or less than a weak between us and the new year.
[SPEAKER_00]: If we go through this weak of knowledge, we would have insha'Allah ended Bayer strongly and we would insha'Allah begin next year as well strongly.
[SPEAKER_00]: This week of knowledge entails a program here on Monday in Shah-Allah with a senior scholar Sheikh Adnan Abdul Qadir from Kuwait.
[SPEAKER_00]: The details of which will be shared with you on the Masjid forums.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the week then will end with a Friday Jumour and an important Saturday program and an important Sunday program with Doart propagators that are recognized internationally and also a scholar.
[SPEAKER_00]: that is recognized internationally.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is respected in both the Arab world and the English world.
[SPEAKER_00]: Inshallah on Friday you will have a brother and fellow dairy and propagator who is famous in honest Abu Tamiya who will be delivering next Friday's Khutbah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And on Saturday inshallah and Sunday at Darusalam from four p.m.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sheikh Serid
[SPEAKER_00]: Kemeli, the famous Moroccan, Maliki, Farkeh and Muhadith.
[SPEAKER_00]: He will be a guest of Daru Salam for the community of Daru Salam and Blackburn, and he will be delivering enlightening talks to help us move the needle up in our lives with the new year that has arrived, being in the Lahay, Teala.
[SPEAKER_00]: The attendance for the two talks at Daru Salam is by registration, so please do take note of the instructions via the message at the forums.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also, given the status of the Sheikh coming, other important notable scholars and imams from across the country will be Adaro Salam and in Blackburn over next weekend.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is indeed a mercy from Allah SWT.
[SPEAKER_00]: I stood here before you a few weeks ago talking about the virtues of knowledge.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is no greater way to pave our path to Jannah than seeking knowledge.
[SPEAKER_00]: May Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala help us end there by paving our path to Jannah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Through seeking knowledge and begin next year by paving our path to Jannah through seeking knowledge.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean,