WEBVTT 00:00.311 --> 00:05.453 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to start off with a few controversial questions, so excuse me, but you guys got to answer. 00:06.094 --> 00:15.778 [SPEAKER_00]: What I noticed in the morning and throughout the afternoon, I think one of the things that brings everybody here together is the sporting aspect of it. 00:16.638 --> 00:18.580 [SPEAKER_00]: So we had people who were interested in hiking. 00:19.140 --> 00:20.942 [SPEAKER_00]: There's no mashallah, it's covered. 00:21.642 --> 00:24.204 [SPEAKER_00]: Then we saw a little bit of footy cricket. 00:24.384 --> 00:28.568 [SPEAKER_00]: So I want to ask you guys, what is the best sport in your guys opinion? 00:28.608 --> 00:30.069 [SPEAKER_00]: Because you all play some sort of sport. 00:30.729 --> 00:33.151 [SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, if you don't play, I know they've been to the games room. 00:33.392 --> 00:33.832 [SPEAKER_00]: What do you think? 00:33.992 --> 00:34.953 [SPEAKER_00]: Cricket put your hands up? 00:35.653 --> 00:37.295 [SPEAKER_00]: I think cycling. 00:37.315 --> 00:37.495 [SPEAKER_00]: Cycling? 00:37.515 --> 00:38.175 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, go to the cycle. 00:39.657 --> 00:40.097 [SPEAKER_00]: Volleyball. 00:40.657 --> 00:41.158 [SPEAKER_00]: Badminton. 00:42.499 --> 00:44.200 [SPEAKER_00]: Good morning. 00:44.380 --> 00:44.861 [SPEAKER_00]: Football. 00:49.413 --> 00:50.174 [SPEAKER_00]: That's your sport. 00:51.154 --> 00:51.555 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll move him. 00:52.275 --> 00:53.516 [SPEAKER_00]: So that's the first question. 00:53.556 --> 01:03.582 [SPEAKER_00]: The second question is obviously, if you follow these sports and you really invested a little bit of time and energy behind it, you followed some of the best people in the sport. 01:04.223 --> 01:07.185 [SPEAKER_00]: So the classic debate is, Messi or Ronaldo, the youngsters. 01:07.485 --> 01:08.125 [SPEAKER_00]: Messi or Ronaldo. 01:08.145 --> 01:09.666 [SPEAKER_00]: No. 01:09.786 --> 01:09.986 [SPEAKER_00]: Huh? 01:11.367 --> 01:12.748 [SPEAKER_00]: Ronaldo, Messi or Ronaldo. 01:15.410 --> 01:16.470 [SPEAKER_00]: Messi, Ronaldo. 01:20.605 --> 01:38.059 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, we can carry on arguing till the cows go home, but what you realize is that the certain people who are professionals and they've reached the, what we would say, the pinnacle, when it comes to their respective sports, cricket, football, swimming, cycling, whatever it may be. 01:38.719 --> 01:41.342 [SPEAKER_00]: Now there's one word, one rule. 01:42.177 --> 01:44.379 [SPEAKER_00]: major rule that they all live by. 01:45.220 --> 01:52.566 [SPEAKER_00]: And the reason I was thinking about it is yesterday when Mufti said, everybody's got five minutes a few of the guys said, no, I'm not a speaker. 01:53.106 --> 01:53.847 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't speak. 01:54.447 --> 01:55.528 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't speak. 01:56.309 --> 02:02.354 [SPEAKER_00]: And as I thought about it deeper, I started thinking in the sunnah of the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. 02:03.015 --> 02:06.598 [SPEAKER_00]: When jibri li alaihi salam came for the first time with revelation. 02:08.031 --> 02:34.477 [SPEAKER_00]: He told the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he says iqaba, he says read, the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam obviously, he didn't know how to read and write, he was umi, so he says ma anabiqari, he says i can't recite, i can't read, does jibri la alaihi sallam take no as an answer, he doesn't, what does he do, he squeezes him, and one of the narrations of the Hadith, he squeezes him, 02:35.206 --> 02:38.747 [SPEAKER_00]: It says Iqara, read, it tells him again, are you trying it? 02:39.907 --> 02:43.788 [SPEAKER_00]: It says, ma'ana biqara, it says, I don't recite, I didn't learn how to read or write. 02:44.809 --> 02:49.190 [SPEAKER_00]: So he squeezes him even more, even tighter, some of the narrations of the Hadith. 02:50.110 --> 02:58.432 [SPEAKER_00]: On the third occasion, it tells him Iqara and by the father of the permission of Allah Subhanahu wa t-ta'ala, the messenger of sallallahu alaihi wa sallam recites. 02:58.452 --> 03:00.053 [SPEAKER_00]: What I want you to take from this story is, 03:01.662 --> 03:03.723 [SPEAKER_00]: Even though, yes, it's a miracle. 03:04.123 --> 03:05.963 [SPEAKER_00]: The Messenger of Allah wa alaihi wa salam. 03:06.023 --> 03:07.984 [SPEAKER_00]: Tells jibri l-alaihi salam at the beginning. 03:08.244 --> 03:08.964 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't recite. 03:09.725 --> 03:12.706 [SPEAKER_00]: That wasn't an answer which was accepted. 03:12.926 --> 03:16.987 [SPEAKER_00]: So that's the first example I want you to take from the Sunnah. 03:18.568 --> 03:19.268 [SPEAKER_00]: Second example. 03:20.491 --> 03:44.344 [SPEAKER_00]: One day, the Messenger of Allah wa alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallall 03:45.487 --> 03:48.469 [SPEAKER_00]: The messenger of Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam asks a question. 03:48.810 --> 03:53.513 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, there is a tree, which is similar to a believer. 03:54.154 --> 03:55.675 [SPEAKER_00]: Got a lot of similarities. 03:56.195 --> 04:00.359 [SPEAKER_00]: And he asks the Sahaba, anybody know the name of the tree. 04:01.740 --> 04:02.721 [SPEAKER_00]: So they start answering. 04:03.721 --> 04:09.746 [SPEAKER_00]: And they give exotic trees and trees that are found in the body, and more the rural areas, et cetera, the deserts. 04:10.807 --> 04:12.708 [SPEAKER_00]: And nobody comes up with the answer. 04:13.708 --> 04:22.054 [SPEAKER_00]: Eventually the messenger, Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, tells them that this tree, which is similar to a believer, is the palm tree. 04:23.255 --> 04:26.918 [SPEAKER_00]: Abdullah bin O'r-Marr, radi Allah wa Anha, was one of the youngsters. 04:28.239 --> 04:29.680 [SPEAKER_00]: He tells his father later on. 04:30.121 --> 04:33.583 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, oh my father, I knew the answer. 04:34.704 --> 04:38.467 [SPEAKER_00]: I knew the answer, but you know amongst the people in the gathering. 04:40.162 --> 04:43.326 [SPEAKER_00]: The giants, the seniors, so I didn't want to speak. 04:44.127 --> 04:47.170 [SPEAKER_00]: So his father tells him how I wish you spoke. 04:48.211 --> 04:56.060 [SPEAKER_00]: Not only because he knew the answer, but because he's amongst the messenger of Allahu'aallahu alaihi wa sallam you never know a du'aad. 04:56.120 --> 04:57.982 [SPEAKER_00]: Good du'aad could come his way, et cetera. 04:58.703 --> 05:05.090 [SPEAKER_00]: So look at how he's encouraged to come out of his comfort zone, even if he, let's say even if he was going to make a mistake. 05:05.130 --> 05:11.236 [SPEAKER_00]: The third example, move the touch down it earlier from a different aspect, then I'll touch on it from slightly different angle. 05:12.278 --> 05:16.002 [SPEAKER_00]: One of the young Sahabi companions, he asked the messenger sallahu alayhi wa sallam. 05:16.943 --> 05:18.825 [SPEAKER_00]: They say he used to do hidma, he used to help. 05:20.173 --> 05:28.700 [SPEAKER_00]: And one day, the messenger of Allah will sell him asks him, you know, ask me, ask him, you know, he's a young still, what can we give him, maybe we give him a little bit to reward him. 05:29.541 --> 05:30.602 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, oh messenger of Allah. 05:31.883 --> 05:38.669 [SPEAKER_00]: As al-Aluqa, he's saying, I ask you, oh messenger of Allah, y'all moratha ka y'all companion ship in janna. 05:39.950 --> 05:41.371 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the ultimate. 05:42.012 --> 05:45.315 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what every believer strives towards. 05:46.447 --> 05:50.673 [SPEAKER_00]: The answer to the messenger of Allahu alaihi wa sallam gives him is what? 05:50.873 --> 05:52.295 [SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't say it's not possible. 05:53.277 --> 05:56.321 [SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't tell him, he doesn't tell him, it's hard. 05:57.632 --> 06:02.735 [SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't tell him, I don't know what's going to happen. 06:03.395 --> 06:06.017 [SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't give him hopelessness. 06:06.817 --> 06:16.663 [SPEAKER_00]: He gives him hope, gives him a solution, and he knows that if he does it, even in Allah he'll be with the messenger of Allahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu. 06:16.683 --> 06:19.305 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, fa a'inni ala'nafzika. 06:20.005 --> 06:24.089 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, one of the narrations, because Rati Sujud, it says, help me against yourself. 06:24.189 --> 06:28.292 [SPEAKER_00]: I, yourself, make sure you make a lot of Sujud. 06:28.733 --> 06:30.374 [SPEAKER_00]: You prostrate a lot. 06:30.895 --> 06:32.156 [SPEAKER_00]: You read a lot of Salah. 06:32.656 --> 06:36.220 [SPEAKER_00]: So notice how this is the aim of every believer. 06:36.360 --> 06:40.824 [SPEAKER_00]: The lesson I want to take, the Messenger of the Seven says, Hey, you aiming to be with the ambia. 06:41.124 --> 06:42.145 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not possible for you. 06:43.580 --> 06:49.482 [SPEAKER_00]: So similarly, in our day-to-day lives, there's so many things that you hear people saying, oh, I can't do it. 06:49.702 --> 06:50.723 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not possible. 06:51.163 --> 06:55.465 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, some of the youngsters have good ideas and the uncles say, you know, you're wasting your time. 06:56.265 --> 06:57.966 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we did that long ago. 06:58.026 --> 06:59.106 [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody's going to listen to you. 07:00.312 --> 07:01.833 [SPEAKER_00]: and that shouldn't be the case. 07:02.794 --> 07:06.236 [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, you should be encouraged, and you should know similar to the hike today. 07:06.876 --> 07:09.918 [SPEAKER_00]: You went on up and down, that's life. 07:10.439 --> 07:22.066 [SPEAKER_00]: Life has its ups, life has its downs, life has its challenging moments, but Allah's panahwa ta'ala has given you an amazing opportunity, amazing gift which is life. 07:22.627 --> 07:24.148 [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine you live a life of, 07:25.208 --> 07:25.869 [SPEAKER_00]: 50, 60 years. 07:25.889 --> 07:29.693 [SPEAKER_00]: A third of your life is meant sleeping, a third of your life. 07:29.893 --> 07:34.838 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the statistics, a third of your life you spent growing up and doing all other things. 07:35.238 --> 07:38.601 [SPEAKER_00]: What have you done to live, to leave your mark? 07:38.942 --> 07:47.070 [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine when you go, are you just going to be somebody who just came, didn't really impact society in any positive way and you go, got something to give. 07:47.250 --> 07:48.631 [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody's got something to give. 07:49.512 --> 08:00.869 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of the brothers we sat with somebody's specialists in data analytics and somebody else is into travel and somebody else works in the underground and all those expertise. 08:02.362 --> 08:08.343 [SPEAKER_00]: when they are brought together, that's what brings and umma forward, that's what brings the nation forward. 08:08.363 --> 08:16.185 [SPEAKER_00]: And we were actually speaking about this yesterday, we said that my humble opinion, I don't, and I may be wrong, you can differ no problem. 08:16.865 --> 08:24.207 [SPEAKER_00]: We were talking about the time of the Sahab al-Ali Allah Muhammad and we said there was some companions who this specialization was knowledge. 08:25.607 --> 08:29.988 [SPEAKER_00]: But others, they came to the messenger sallallahu al-Sallam and this was the majority. 08:30.889 --> 08:33.657 [SPEAKER_00]: They were not students 24-7. 08:35.221 --> 08:37.609 [SPEAKER_00]: Some came for a day, some met him for a moment. 08:38.643 --> 08:45.588 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of the youngsters, they, Ma Ali Qudnul, who were it, all of their love, and one of the young sahabi, came to the messenger, Sallahu al-Sallam. 08:46.169 --> 08:51.072 [SPEAKER_00]: They spent a little bit of time, and then he said that, who were young, so he thought that, you know what, we missing our families. 08:52.073 --> 08:53.274 [SPEAKER_00]: So he sent them back home. 08:53.794 --> 09:01.200 [SPEAKER_00]: But he narrates the Hadith of Sala, the Sala of the messenger, Sallam, Sallam, Luka, Mara, E to Muni, or Salli. 09:01.700 --> 09:04.022 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's not a prerequisite, is it's good? 09:04.302 --> 09:14.251 [SPEAKER_00]: if you learn and more knowledge, et cetera, but not everybody has to be an alley, not everybody has to give 24 hours of the day to read books rather. 09:14.891 --> 09:25.020 [SPEAKER_00]: What makes community and society function is when you with your talent and him or the different talent and him with another expertise come together and you're able to complete men to one another. 09:25.580 --> 09:30.883 [SPEAKER_00]: And that was the muchhtama, the community of the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallallam. 09:31.283 --> 09:35.845 [SPEAKER_00]: If you look at the golden generations of Islam, you know, we speak about the golden period, etc. 09:36.626 --> 09:40.728 [SPEAKER_00]: You've found a lot of people, yes we had the rulama, but you also had 09:41.328 --> 09:46.732 [SPEAKER_00]: People who could think, well, you have people who are into business, you have people who knew how to build. 09:47.232 --> 09:54.857 [SPEAKER_00]: People would travel to different parts of the globe to get whatever piece of expertise and come an implemented way they are. 09:55.298 --> 09:58.300 [SPEAKER_00]: So my message especially to the youngsters who are here. 09:59.040 --> 10:14.058 [SPEAKER_00]: you've come here, retreat is more so spiritual, but at the same time don't look down upon the the skills or your expertise that you've got or you're learning to say, oh, let me leave everything and now go to Madrasa for the next seven years and no, no, no, no. 10:15.468 --> 10:20.531 [SPEAKER_00]: the umma and the community, we need different parts for it to function. 10:20.951 --> 10:24.072 [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine, your whole body was just one hand, only a hand. 10:24.092 --> 10:25.433 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, your body has different parts. 10:27.194 --> 10:31.977 [SPEAKER_00]: You've got a hand, you've got a leg and they all work in sync and they complement one another. 10:31.997 --> 10:40.681 [SPEAKER_00]: And if the smallest part of it is missing, the message is just a little selam says, the smallest part is is painful, the whole body pains and he is talking about the umma. 10:41.562 --> 10:43.202 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm talking from a slightly different 10:44.583 --> 10:54.711 [SPEAKER_00]: As an owner, if you look at an individual, if he's missing the small part of your nail, your nail, not as important as the eye, for example, that you feel the pain. 10:55.332 --> 10:57.474 [SPEAKER_00]: It's got its function that it has to do. 10:57.614 --> 11:02.058 [SPEAKER_00]: So similarly in the owner, don't think that, oh, I lent a bit of computers and that I'm useless. 11:02.318 --> 11:03.579 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't need my expertise. 11:03.639 --> 11:06.561 [SPEAKER_00]: And you will be surprised, especially the younger generation. 11:07.182 --> 11:08.123 [SPEAKER_00]: You'll be surprised. 11:08.803 --> 11:17.548 [SPEAKER_00]: at how much you've got to give and how much you can push forward whatever good endeavor or agenda that comes your way. 11:17.668 --> 11:28.254 [SPEAKER_00]: So with whatever Allah has given you in your capacity use it to benefit yourself, your family, the Umma at large because the Umma needs you. 11:30.595 --> 11:47.049 [SPEAKER_00]: At the end of the day, Allah SWT will ask you, you know, sometimes people look at it and say, you know what I'm scared or I'm shy or I'm not I'm not befitting to be in such and such a room and what you've got to realise is not about befitting or not befitting. 11:47.309 --> 11:49.111 [SPEAKER_00]: It's your responsibility. 11:50.251 --> 11:55.973 [SPEAKER_00]: Your responsibility that Allah put on your shoulders to say you are given opportunity, what did you do with that opportunity? 11:56.714 --> 12:00.975 [SPEAKER_00]: Able to speak to a few people, you are able to have your skill in computers or whatever it may be. 12:01.475 --> 12:08.418 [SPEAKER_00]: Did you use it in a way that pleases Allah, benefits yourself, benefits your family, benefits community etc. 12:08.858 --> 12:15.101 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm just going to go one more point I'll mention, especially the youngsters who are here. 12:16.290 --> 12:19.813 [SPEAKER_00]: Technology is leverage, you know what's leverage? 12:21.055 --> 12:21.615 [SPEAKER_00]: What's leverage? 12:22.016 --> 12:39.953 [SPEAKER_00]: In your own words, something that you can use where you've got, you're putting a little bit of effort, but it comes from the word that a lever, you know, in physics when you've got your, your, your pivot, and then you've got your piece of iron or you've got your lever, 12:41.083 --> 12:45.928 [SPEAKER_00]: The more leverage you have on it, the easier it is to move heavy items. 12:46.128 --> 12:47.910 [SPEAKER_00]: So technology is more rich. 12:49.652 --> 12:53.336 [SPEAKER_00]: Take a lot of interest in all the new technology that's coming out. 12:54.617 --> 13:00.263 [SPEAKER_00]: But your artificial intelligence, you've got your VR, you've got old new things Why? 13:00.304 --> 13:01.945 [SPEAKER_00]: Because right now you're free. 13:02.878 --> 13:06.641 [SPEAKER_00]: and you've got a lot of time and the world is going to change so fast. 13:06.962 --> 13:12.366 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, all that you see today is going to change rapidly and radically. 13:13.127 --> 13:15.509 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, they talk about the internet when it first came out. 13:15.969 --> 13:16.930 [SPEAKER_00]: Now the thing, this is web 3.0. 13:19.172 --> 13:22.995 [SPEAKER_00]: And we've got to ask ourselves, are we prepared for the change and not only are we prepared? 13:23.095 --> 13:25.517 [SPEAKER_00]: Are we going to be at the forefront when it comes to this? 13:25.877 --> 13:33.983 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's not to discourage the all the generation, but you can help when it comes to your funding and encouragement of the youngsters. 13:34.003 --> 13:34.564 [SPEAKER_00]: Because if you look, 13:35.484 --> 13:49.794 [SPEAKER_00]: at the West and you look at some of the thinkers of the world, a lot of their money and investment goes behind the type of innovation startup learning about new technologies etc and that's your leverage. 13:50.314 --> 13:55.838 [SPEAKER_00]: So I would encourage you to look into that study that way, what you can learn and one more thing. 13:56.678 --> 14:02.482 [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever you can do, do it to the best of your ability, best of your ability. 14:02.502 --> 14:10.447 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's one of the teachings of the messenger, Sallam is says, Allah loves that when a person does an action, he does it to the best of his ability. 14:11.027 --> 14:14.309 [SPEAKER_00]: The head of Jibril, alaihi salamu, he comes to the messenger, Sallam. 14:14.890 --> 14:23.876 [SPEAKER_00]: He asks him a few questions, one of them is Islam, which is like the bare minimum, your five pillars, your five pillars of Islam, your belief in Allah, your Shahada, 14:25.036 --> 14:29.518 [SPEAKER_00]: Shaykh Adateen, Salat, Zakat, fasting and Hajj, okay, that's time. 14:29.738 --> 14:35.181 [SPEAKER_00]: After that, Imam, after that, he tells him, Ehsan, he says, what's Ehsan? 14:35.361 --> 14:35.881 [SPEAKER_00]: Think about it. 14:36.682 --> 14:38.303 [SPEAKER_00]: What's the purpose of Ehsan? 14:38.423 --> 14:44.886 [SPEAKER_00]: And ta'abud Allah'aq'a'an'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n 14:45.886 --> 14:53.168 [SPEAKER_00]: If that's not possible, then know that he's watching you why, it's to inspire and to encourage excellence. 14:53.208 --> 15:03.432 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the main, the main thing behind a fan is to make sure that whatever you do, you do it to the best of your ability. 15:03.792 --> 15:05.952 [SPEAKER_00]: And opportunities will come to you in life. 15:07.053 --> 15:10.254 [SPEAKER_00]: As you're growing, you'll find there's so many, so many different opportunities. 15:10.934 --> 15:12.154 [SPEAKER_00]: And eventually, as you grow 15:14.475 --> 15:19.842 [SPEAKER_00]: more responsibility, you get married, you don't have a lot more time on your hands. 15:21.385 --> 15:23.467 [SPEAKER_00]: So what you've got to do is make the most of it. 15:23.868 --> 15:31.098 [SPEAKER_00]: And as we mentioned, I think yesterday or day before we were saying, after your E-man, one of the most valuable things you have right now is time. 15:32.617 --> 15:40.160 [SPEAKER_00]: The life span is in the hands of Allah obviously, but more often than not, people who are younger, generally, they live longer. 15:40.800 --> 15:55.627 [SPEAKER_00]: So you've got a lot of time and you've got your health and this, a message that's Allah alayhi wa l-Salam tells us, Mata'ani, Maghboun on Fiyhi Maka'afir on Minanas, two bounties of Allah, most people, they are one way of translating, they are deceived by it. 15:55.727 --> 15:58.948 [SPEAKER_00]: I think that, you know, it's going to be there and therefore ever. 16:01.102 --> 16:05.011 [SPEAKER_00]: or say how to waltvaraq, your health and your free time. 16:05.071 --> 16:07.878 [SPEAKER_00]: What he's trying to tell you is, it's temporary. 16:08.219 --> 16:10.524 [SPEAKER_00]: He has to come a time where it goes. 16:11.362 --> 16:18.164 [SPEAKER_00]: your health, as well as your free time, you become busy, and your health as you get all the it will have its ups and downs. 16:18.184 --> 16:19.204 [SPEAKER_00]: So I'll ask Fanna with her. 16:19.244 --> 16:27.126 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll grant us all the ability to be practicing Muslims and those who exert ourselves to the best of our abilities. 16:27.226 --> 16:30.006 [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody's got talent and everybody's got something to give. 16:30.526 --> 16:33.687 [SPEAKER_00]: So make sure you give it and to the best of your ability. 16:33.707 --> 16:37.648 [SPEAKER_00]: You would the correct intention knowing that whatever you're doing, even in LA, 16:38.228 --> 16:39.729 [SPEAKER_00]: is an act of worship. 16:40.190 --> 16:44.813 [SPEAKER_00]: I think for me a verse that stands out at the moment and I'll tell you why. 16:45.885 --> 16:52.209 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a few ahadith way, the sahab ala dillahu anhum wa traveling, and it was one guy, one sahabi leading the salah. 16:53.230 --> 17:03.696 [SPEAKER_00]: Different narrations of the ahadith, but this sahabi, some of the narrations say, whatever he read, he would end off by reciting Suratul iqlas, alhu al-Allah wa ahad. 17:04.417 --> 17:05.518 [SPEAKER_00]: Suratul iqlas. 17:06.038 --> 17:08.640 [SPEAKER_00]: Another narration says, he would read that Surah, 17:09.607 --> 17:14.229 [SPEAKER_00]: in every rak'a, so they came and they didn't want to replace him because he read the best. 17:14.309 --> 17:16.190 [SPEAKER_00]: So they came to the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. 17:16.631 --> 17:23.194 [SPEAKER_00]: So the messenger of Allah, this man is reading Suratul iqlas in every rak'a, what to do? 17:23.974 --> 17:27.896 [SPEAKER_00]: So the messenger of Allah alaihi wa sallam says, ask him why does he do it? 17:28.537 --> 17:36.261 [SPEAKER_00]: One narration he says, because in it are the qualities of Allah, Sifatur Rahman, the qualities of the most merciful. 17:37.261 --> 17:38.642 [SPEAKER_00]: And I love those qualities. 17:39.183 --> 17:44.487 [SPEAKER_00]: One narration, the message of Allah, says, tell him that Allah loves you. 17:44.908 --> 17:47.089 [SPEAKER_00]: Because you love Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. 17:47.790 --> 17:51.553 [SPEAKER_00]: Another narration he says, Hubbuka Iya'a'a'ad halakal jannah. 17:52.094 --> 17:56.157 [SPEAKER_00]: Says, You're love for the Surah, is the reason for you to enter jannah. 17:56.557 --> 17:58.799 [SPEAKER_00]: Surah to Allah, we've all memorized it. 17:59.440 --> 18:00.180 [SPEAKER_00]: We all know it. 18:00.861 --> 18:02.983 [SPEAKER_00]: And in fact, we generally read it when we 18:03.773 --> 18:05.494 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, Salah and quickly we heard the Adat. 18:05.614 --> 18:06.795 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me quickly read my Salah. 18:06.815 --> 18:09.436 [SPEAKER_00]: That's generally when we read the Salah and we read the Surah. 18:10.117 --> 18:16.060 [SPEAKER_00]: But the Messenger of Salah is telling you that this man, because he was away, he knew what he was reading. 18:16.100 --> 18:17.061 [SPEAKER_00]: He was sincere. 18:17.081 --> 18:20.443 [SPEAKER_00]: The small Surah is a reason for him to enter Jannah. 18:21.043 --> 18:22.004 [SPEAKER_00]: If you look at the Surah, 18:23.070 --> 18:24.992 [SPEAKER_00]: Why, why was the surah revealed? 18:25.593 --> 18:30.858 [SPEAKER_00]: Some narrations is mentioned that some of the non-Muslims they came to the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. 18:31.278 --> 18:33.580 [SPEAKER_00]: They said, what's the description of your Lord? 18:33.620 --> 18:34.741 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, you're talking about Allah. 18:34.761 --> 18:36.563 [SPEAKER_00]: Wa shapallahu alaihi wa sallam. 18:36.583 --> 18:36.863 [SPEAKER_00]: Who's Allah? 18:37.064 --> 18:38.145 [SPEAKER_00]: Tell us who is he? 18:38.545 --> 18:39.266 [SPEAKER_00]: What's the answer? 18:39.286 --> 18:44.491 [SPEAKER_00]: Another narration, some of the Jews came and they said, what's the lineage of your Lord? 18:44.511 --> 18:45.492 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, who does he go back to? 18:46.598 --> 18:50.221 [SPEAKER_00]: So Allah SWT tells the Messenger of Allah that He will send them. 18:50.822 --> 18:51.963 [SPEAKER_00]: Goal, tell them. 18:52.143 --> 18:57.327 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's a response to the question who Allah who Ahad, He is Allah. 18:58.028 --> 19:01.991 [SPEAKER_00]: Ahad, the one, the only, the unique, is nobody like Him. 19:02.211 --> 19:04.073 [SPEAKER_00]: This is completely different. 19:04.093 --> 19:06.295 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the creator and the creation. 19:07.537 --> 19:11.398 [SPEAKER_00]: And the verse that stands out to me at the moment, right now is Allah who summits. 19:12.078 --> 19:12.658 [SPEAKER_00]: Assamat. 19:13.718 --> 19:20.220 [SPEAKER_00]: One of the meanings of Assamat is a levy, yasmodu ilahil hijad. 19:20.400 --> 19:23.700 [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody's needs, whoever needs anything. 19:24.300 --> 19:27.161 [SPEAKER_00]: You ask Allah, He asks Allah, somebody else all the way. 19:27.841 --> 19:29.942 [SPEAKER_00]: Wherever they are in the world, they're asking Allah. 19:30.562 --> 19:31.742 [SPEAKER_00]: And all these needs, 19:32.482 --> 19:36.985 [SPEAKER_00]: They go to Allah's ﷻ who were to Allah and He is the one who fulfills everybody's needs. 19:37.306 --> 19:38.346 [SPEAKER_00]: Now just take a moment. 19:38.827 --> 19:43.390 [SPEAKER_00]: Sheikh was talking about pondering and reflection, reflecting over the Quran. 19:43.911 --> 19:50.876 [SPEAKER_00]: A Quran, yes we recite, we memorize, we go over it, but the main, one of the main purposes it was revealed is to reflect. 19:51.882 --> 19:54.363 [SPEAKER_00]: Kitabun Anzalna who ilaykha mubarak. 19:54.903 --> 19:56.703 [SPEAKER_00]: A book of Allah that was revealed. 19:57.403 --> 20:00.964 [SPEAKER_00]: Blessed book, one of the reasons, Leah dhabbaru ayati. 20:01.484 --> 20:04.344 [SPEAKER_00]: So they may ponder and reflect over the verses. 20:04.385 --> 20:05.745 [SPEAKER_00]: How do you ponder and reflect first? 20:05.765 --> 20:07.825 [SPEAKER_00]: You have to know what Allah is saying. 20:07.845 --> 20:14.166 [SPEAKER_00]: Then you sit, you introspect, you take lesson and you implement in your life. 20:14.286 --> 20:18.947 [SPEAKER_00]: So just imagine, everybody has needs and Allah is telling you that he is a summit. 20:22.309 --> 20:23.610 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. 20:24.632 --> 20:26.594 [SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't need anybody else. 20:26.614 --> 20:27.496 [SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't need to eat. 20:27.836 --> 20:28.777 [SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't need to drink. 20:29.038 --> 20:30.440 [SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't have any partner. 20:30.820 --> 20:35.446 [SPEAKER_00]: He is one and unique and everything is dependent on him. 20:35.467 --> 20:36.788 [SPEAKER_00]: Now just imagine. 20:37.349 --> 20:57.614 [SPEAKER_00]: When you reading your salah and you reading the surah and you start off and you're saying Qunhu Allah who I had, what power, what confidence, surely you should be boosted knowing that you speaking to Allah, the one who is telling you He is the one and only, whatever you need come to me, whatever you need ask of me because I want to give you. 20:58.354 --> 20:59.194 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah who summits. 20:59.734 --> 21:06.856 [SPEAKER_00]: And then he tells you, the path to Him, you don't need to go through Amolana or you don't need to go through anybody else. 21:06.956 --> 21:13.298 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not like this special people who have exclusive access to Allah's phanahu wa tera'ala. 21:13.378 --> 21:13.518 [SPEAKER_00]: No. 21:13.998 --> 21:16.138 [SPEAKER_00]: And he says, La Miyalid, Wala Miyulad. 21:16.999 --> 21:21.100 [SPEAKER_00]: This Allah's phanahu wa tera'ala is telling them that when it came to the people, obviously they 21:27.356 --> 21:29.342 [SPEAKER_00]: No does Allah have any parents. 21:29.482 --> 21:30.666 [SPEAKER_00]: He didn't give birth. 21:31.047 --> 21:33.895 [SPEAKER_00]: No was He given birth to Subhanah. 21:34.902 --> 21:42.826 [SPEAKER_00]: unique, powerful in his own way, in his unique way he is the Creator and everything else is the creation. 21:43.306 --> 21:47.128 [SPEAKER_00]: And yourself as a Muslim, you go over these verses of the Qur'an. 21:47.309 --> 21:57.174 [SPEAKER_00]: So much so, the messenger of Allah, alaihi wa salam tells you that the Surah, these few lines, these few verses, is equivalent to one third of the Qur'an. 21:58.500 --> 22:06.442 [SPEAKER_00]: One third of the Qur'an, why it's only speaks about Allah's whanah, there's no jannah, jahannam, mentioned in Surah to the iqlas. 22:07.002 --> 22:16.583 [SPEAKER_00]: There's no other rulings, Allah is speaking about himself only, Surah, iqlas, meaning Surah to him, ha, lisa, purely speaking about Allah. 22:17.484 --> 22:24.185 [SPEAKER_00]: And as a Muslim, you go through life, you got your issues, you got to realize that your main focus has to be Allah. 22:25.217 --> 22:47.084 [SPEAKER_00]: And when you go and the Quran, the whole message in the Quran is to guide you on that journey to remind you to go back to Allah, Allah who summit, lami ali duwalam yulat, wala miyyakul lahu qufu wa nahad Allah is not dependent on anything, it doesn't have any part, nor he doesn't need anybody to stand in for him, etc. 22:47.925 --> 22:48.465 [SPEAKER_00]: Subhanah. 22:48.745 --> 22:51.886 [SPEAKER_00]: So when you look at the small powerful surah, 22:53.017 --> 23:08.941 [SPEAKER_00]: Somebody had, they knew the meaning, they believed in the Surah, they loved the Surah, they loved the attributes of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, which in turn took them to love Allah Himself and their reward was Jannah. 23:09.781 --> 23:15.323 [SPEAKER_00]: So make sure that you have a relationship with the Quran and more so reflection over the Quran. 23:15.983 --> 23:17.965 [SPEAKER_00]: One verse is enough to change your life. 23:18.005 --> 23:22.589 [SPEAKER_00]: One surah is enough to enter you into Janna, even in Allah. 23:23.149 --> 23:24.611 [SPEAKER_00]: And that requires effort. 23:25.171 --> 23:34.179 [SPEAKER_00]: It requires you to put in the effort and Allah's Phanhu wa Ta'ala opens, understanding the home so every he wishes, Adam alaihi salam, was with the angels. 23:35.310 --> 23:37.051 [SPEAKER_00]: He didn't know anything. 23:37.671 --> 23:41.614 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah is the one who taught him the names which even the angels didn't know why. 23:42.114 --> 23:49.499 [SPEAKER_00]: The knowledge came from Allah directly when you make the efforts Allah will open you doors and the last point I'll end of with. 23:50.559 --> 23:53.661 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah says in the Quran, describing the book, 23:56.072 --> 24:05.960 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, Kitabun, Aziz, one of the verses, Allah is describing the Quran to be mighty and powerful and noble. 24:06.941 --> 24:10.964 [SPEAKER_00]: And I read one of the scholars he was speaking about his reflection on that verse. 24:12.225 --> 24:17.548 [SPEAKER_00]: He says that, you know, a lot of the times we give, you know, a little bit spare time we give to the Quran. 24:17.648 --> 24:19.750 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, by the way, it's not bad. 24:19.970 --> 24:20.350 [SPEAKER_00]: It's good. 24:20.510 --> 24:21.891 [SPEAKER_00]: Wait, you're driving somewhere. 24:21.911 --> 24:22.992 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, let me read some Quran. 24:23.372 --> 24:29.215 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, but we give our, you know, secondary and the secondary time to the Quran. 24:29.235 --> 24:30.536 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not our primary goal. 24:30.776 --> 24:33.078 [SPEAKER_00]: And he's saying, no, this is a powerful book. 24:33.118 --> 24:36.360 [SPEAKER_00]: You've got to give your best time for it. 24:36.460 --> 24:38.321 [SPEAKER_00]: Then Allah's panahu wa ta'ala will open. 24:38.901 --> 24:39.183 [SPEAKER_00]: for you. 24:39.625 --> 24:43.482 [SPEAKER_00]: So, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everybody. 24:43.522 --> 24:45.692 [SPEAKER_00]: I think it was the amazing time. 24:45.913 --> 24:48.745 [SPEAKER_00]: I think my first time coming to one of these retreats, S.A.A.I.K. 24:48.826 --> 24:49.589 [SPEAKER_00]: Mullah O'khayran.