[SPEAKER_00]: The brothers and sisters, there's a term that I want you to remember in the Lahtada and I will quote the exact passage.
[SPEAKER_00]: But so that you at least have the term in Lahtada and you can see the whole thing light of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a term in our books of Tuscia known as La Fulazim, which refers to the weakness of aspiration.
[SPEAKER_00]: a person who aims low, a person who has weak aspiration, a person who has small dreams, a person that is very individualistic, as opposed to being about the community.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so it refers to limited domains and particularly limited pursuits.
[SPEAKER_00]: in regards to what you are seeking from Allah SWT.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's an interesting topic because typically we talk about choosing janna or choosing janna.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this isn't about choosing paradise or choosing hellfire.
[SPEAKER_00]: This isn't about choosing hella or choosing hellam.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's more about how much of janna you actually pursue.
[SPEAKER_00]: and choosing what's virtuous over what's idle, what's meaningless, and choosing what's better over what's just okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's an interesting field that you find in Tuscia and Subhadala, it has never been more relevant, perhaps, to us than what we're seeing with the people of Razza, who demonstrate to us with the meaning that they have, the purpose that sustains them,
[SPEAKER_00]: that they are able to be steadfast upon something that is so great and face a monster that is so vicious because they believe in a purpose that's that much higher.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so the title for today's Hultba is Are you a mediocre Muslim?
[SPEAKER_00]: And the word that I want you to focus on is mediocre.
[SPEAKER_00]: Media-ocrity as it relates to your asum, as it relates to your pursuits.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the beauty of the subject is that there are tangible ways to measure your asum, tangible ways to measure the level of your determination and the sincerity of your pursuits.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what you'll find in these chapters is that there are plenty of examples that are given for us about how motivated people are when it comes to the dunya versus the ahyura.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you meet people and very few people don't have ambitions as a whole.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very few people don't have goals as a whole.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's what those goals are about and what they're willing to do with these goals.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so it's one of those chapters if you open up any member of Azadiyah, Himo Lata, out of talking about it, or Himo Lata talking about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is worldly example after worldly example after worldly example.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is how you act with things that you want in this world.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is how you act with the goals that you set for yourself in this world.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now compare that to the goals that you set with the Dean of Alas of Hanoatah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's more about striving.
[SPEAKER_00]: with your Imam rather than merely surviving as a Muslim.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I'm okay with just being that Muslim that prays five times a day that does what he has to do and move on, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: And taking it to something greater.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'd love an abbasal, the Allah, to have an anhulah.
[SPEAKER_00]: He frames this discussion in the ayah from Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, in the Allah, Hustar al-Minnina, and Fussah, and why don't we be an Allah, Muhammad, agenda?
[SPEAKER_00]: That verily Allah has purchased from the believers.
[SPEAKER_00]: their lives in their entirety, and their wealth in its entirety in exchange for janna.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he says, if you look at this ayah, Allah, as a result, is giving us a rule that the loftier, the price, the loftier, the aspiration has to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: The loftier, the price, the loftier, the aspiration has to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: There has to be something that matches it in proportion.
[SPEAKER_00]: And SubhanAllah, there's a very powerful head-eat from the Prophet ﷺ that shows you the opposite of this.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is Allah talking about Jannah.
[SPEAKER_00]: What about dunya?
[SPEAKER_00]: which actually comes from the word Denny, it's lower, it's something that Allah doesn't care about, therefore Allah's uponutana says, go ahead and take it.
[SPEAKER_00]: If this is what you want, take it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And listen to what the messenger of Allah, Allah Almighty was said, I'm says.
[SPEAKER_00]: and frame it with what you see every day.
[SPEAKER_00]: The wing of a mosquito, a loss of heroin to aloeud, not allow a disbeliever to even have a sip of water from it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's actually an incredible hadith, especially when you look at it side by side, with that ayah from the Quran.
[SPEAKER_00]: What does this mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: You see people that curse Allah day and night.
[SPEAKER_00]: You see people that oppress, you see people that live lives that are entirely unholy and ungodly, yet Allah, SubhanAllah, says, go ahead and take the dunya.
[SPEAKER_00]: If this is what you want, a parable into Allah belongs to the highest example is someone coming in front of your house and drinking out of the sewer or eating out of your trash can.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's trash.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's sewage.
[SPEAKER_00]: The dunya to a loss of heroin to add it is not worth the wing of a mosquito.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is what you want fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: Go ahead and take it.
[SPEAKER_00]: 80 years, 90 years, you want palaces, you want cars, you want good clothes, fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: And for us, we watch this all play out in front of us and we're like, how is Allah still letting this person have this, despite the way that they are?
[SPEAKER_00]: Whereas that other person is paying with the price of their lives, their homes, their entire existence.
[SPEAKER_00]: be on the la human agenda.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because Allah Azuzam has written for them agenda, what they are pursuing and what they're sacrificing matches the value of the goal.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so if you see the dunya as mattering so much, then you're not going to be able to come to terms with what you're witnessing outside.
[SPEAKER_00]: How is it that these people live such great lives?
[SPEAKER_00]: And there's such terrible people.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so you get back to the core of purpose.
[SPEAKER_00]: I chose this Hultba based upon one of my favorite passages from El Fawat.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I have to read it in its entirety and Arabic, and then I'll do the translation in the name of Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I remember in the name of Allah, in his Fawat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Qaleyah, Allah, Eifan, as Meena, until a Tariq.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, oh, you who is weak in your aspirations, weak in your resolve.
[SPEAKER_00]: Where are you in regards to the past to a loss of Hanoatahah, then listen to what he says, Qada Tariqun, Tani Bafihi Aada, Wabbeke Ali Ageli Hinoah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Warimya Fennahar Al-Halim.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wa'objyaad al-Dabhai Asma'il.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wa'bi'a'yusuf wa'vithamana'in-Bahsen wa'l-Labhififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififififif
[SPEAKER_00]: the path of the prophets, the path of the righteous, a path upon which other Mali Islam exhausted himself, a path upon New Hali Islam crying for almost a thousand years, a path that led to Abraham, Mali Islam being thrown into a fire, and then his son is Mali, Mali Islam being laid down for sacrifice.
[SPEAKER_00]: A path that led to use to fight his salam, being enslaved and soul-cheaply and imprisoned, a path that led to Zekarii atahis salam, being sewn into two, and his son Yeharii atahis salam beheaded, a path by which a U of atahis salam cried and endured all sorts of afflictions.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Dawood, I need to say that I'm wept beyond measure.
[SPEAKER_00]: And a path with which Muhammad, Salallahu, I need to say that I'm struggled with all of its poverty and with all of its harm.
[SPEAKER_00]: So how can we expect to claim to be on this path by play and by amusement?
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to say something about this text and actually how we look at texts like this usually.
[SPEAKER_00]: Usually, if you found this on your social media feed or someone sent it to you,
[SPEAKER_00]: The primary takeaway, the primary messages, you're going to be okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Be patient.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because other people have gone through this and don't worry, a human body said, I'm went through this and you've been through and other people have been through difficulty.
[SPEAKER_00]: So don't worry, be patient in the manner of seriyusala.
[SPEAKER_00]: With hardship comes ease.
[SPEAKER_00]: Actually, Subhanallah, want to reframe the message altogether.
[SPEAKER_00]: And ask you to be a little bit more critical when you see messages like this being sent to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is actually not a be patient message.
[SPEAKER_00]: This passage is not a B patient's message.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is there are people who came before you who were patients and who endured sacrifice because they lived for Allah's mission and not themselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is not a B patient message.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's sort of like the multiple rooming messages and now Gazadi is getting into yoga and hip messages too and like taking these messages that are meant to be
[SPEAKER_00]: and messages of Eloil Hima, aspiring for something greater and turned into, you're going to be okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's okay that your card is broke down.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's okay that you just went through this hardship.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is not a suburb message.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a live for something greater than yourself message and then endure whatever that comes for that message.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is what I've never heard from Allah to Ana, is saying, what are you willing to do and what are you willing to endure for the sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'am?
[SPEAKER_00]: Pushing yourself beyond mediocrity.
[SPEAKER_00]: And as you start to read, what didn't unclean Rahim Allah gives in terms of examples, they're all worldly examples, but they're almost all outdated or they don't fit our context.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he talks about how you would be patient and raising your camel.
[SPEAKER_00]: He talks about how you would be patient, intending to your sheep.
[SPEAKER_00]: He talks about how you would be patient with milking it.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, let's give it insha'alata'ala, your modern context, while still maintaining the message.
[SPEAKER_00]: He talks about when you ask a child, what do you want to be when you grow up?
[SPEAKER_00]: Back then, there were worldly professions, and there were professions that were generally considered within the domain of the spiritual and things of that sort.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, worldly professions can also be professions for the sake of a loss of how to attach it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if a person says, I want to be a doctor, I want to be an engineer, I want to be this, I want to be that.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is an entire pathway that's put forward.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says the resources that you spend towards becoming that thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right?
[SPEAKER_00]: This becomes sort of like the entire house has to think about how we're going to put so-and-so through this so that they could reach that goal.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is going to require this many years of work.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is going to require this much money being put forward.
[SPEAKER_00]: It becomes an entire family effort.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he talks about this in the capacity of raising a father, or raising a warrior, or raising a touch of, raising a merchant.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we have these examples with ourselves as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: and has no goals for themselves beyond simply a certain career and making a certain amount of money that's not an indictment of the child he says that's an indictment of the culture around that child because a community
[SPEAKER_00]: raises what is like it's in its next generation.
[SPEAKER_00]: The tabirin were the tabirin, were the tabirin of the Sahada.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were molded in the same spirit as their parents that you die for what we died for, you live for what we lived for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then he talks about the way that you train your body.
[SPEAKER_00]: You wake up at a certain time.
[SPEAKER_00]: You put yourself through a certain amount of physical reps and exercise.
[SPEAKER_00]: Strict dieting, all of that so that you can get your body to a particular point.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he talks about the hustle of this world and the tiredness of this world.
[SPEAKER_00]: And pursuing of this world.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you were to compare that with your pursuit of genre, all of this to say dear brothers and sisters, so that we don't go into the abstract and leave off the practical.
[SPEAKER_00]: That this is talking about what you want,
[SPEAKER_00]: and what you do for what you want.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so being a mediocre Muslim falls under two buckets, being undisciplined or being unwilling, being undisciplined or being unwilling.
[SPEAKER_00]: Undisciplined or unwilling, they're in a map mentioned that of the signs of la Fulism is a person who satisfied only with the Farad, the bare minimum of worship.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hamdulillah I do this and Hamdulillah I do that, you know, as religiosity, periodic, as it wears off generation by generation to find the Muslim who prays five times a day, it's like finding a Sheikh now, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, oh my God, he prays five times a day.
[SPEAKER_00]: You talk about matching people from marriage, someone says Sheikh, he prays five times a day and he fasts from a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: As if like you just met Hassan and Buster or something like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's not that big of a deal, Hamdulillah that just means he's a Muslim.
[SPEAKER_00]: That just means he's a Muslim.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's an indictment of culture, that's an indictment of generation.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the first sign of lawfulism is to be satisfied with the Farad.
[SPEAKER_00]: The second sign is to be inconsistent in consistent with their EBADAT.
[SPEAKER_00]: So worship in the broader sense, Quran and things of that sort.
[SPEAKER_00]: The third sign is to be obsessed with the goals of this world and non-shalant about the goals of the Acha.
[SPEAKER_00]: Meaning what when someone asks you about your worldly pursuits in your goals, you've got it down in the next few years.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to earn this much, I want to have this, I want to own this, and I've got a whole pathway to get there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Someone asks you about your Dinyan and Shallah, you know, I want to read more Quran.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Shallah, I want to go to the Masid more often.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those aren't real goals.
[SPEAKER_00]: when you say them that way.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to give more sub-Akanshallah.
[SPEAKER_00]: You ask about dunya we go, you ask about worldly goals, you've got a game plan, you have a certain time factor that's attached to it, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: In this many years, in this many months, this is where I want to be, this is what I want it to look like.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you talk about your worldly goals, they're unstructured.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're abstract, they're ambiguous.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so someone asks you today, and they ask you three years later, you don't wish I would want to read what Oracle and and shall I want to start going to the message more often.
[SPEAKER_00]: Something is wrong with this picture.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's mediocrity, and there's a problem in the pursuits.
[SPEAKER_00]: The fourth thing that is mentioned in Palad's very relevant to the time is avoiding inconvenience or ridicule for the sake of a less panotan.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why is this so important?
[SPEAKER_00]: If you cannot tolerate minor inconveniences and minor ridicule or mockery for being a Muslim or being a dedicated Muslim,
[SPEAKER_00]: How are you going to tolerate one day major sacrifices for the sake of oppression for the sake of a loss of pound of time?
[SPEAKER_00]: How are these are daily exercises in what drives you and what you're willing to endure for the sake of a loss of pound of time?
[SPEAKER_00]: So when the inconvenient shows itself or the minor mockery, the minor ridicule shows itself with being a Muslim.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or being a dedicated Muslim amongst Muslims, perhaps that don't practice certain things.
[SPEAKER_00]: You endure them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because you know that there might come a day that you'll have to make a major sacrifice for the sake of a lost parents are, someone might oppress you because of your deemed.
[SPEAKER_00]: So how do you rise above this?
[SPEAKER_00]: Number one, you upgrade your intentions with your daily lives.
[SPEAKER_00]: Find the pursuit of a lot in every single thing that you do, even your work.
[SPEAKER_00]: Find the pursuit of a loss of happiness out and inserted there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number two, when you ask a loss of penultider, when you make your out to a loss of penultider, ask a loss of penultider for the highest and the best, the profit slice, and I'm said, when you ask a lot for a gentleman, don't just ask him for a gentleman, ask him for a fit of those.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ask him for the highest level, not just anywhere in gender, and there's a work that has to match that do out as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number three,
[SPEAKER_00]: When it comes to your eBadance, how do you improve its quality and its quantity?
[SPEAKER_00]: And so how do I lengthen my sujuud, but add a sudden a prayer?
[SPEAKER_00]: How do I lengthen the amount of Quran that I'm reading on a daily basis?
[SPEAKER_00]: But add baked in time for Tadab-Burantafukh, or contemplation and remembrance.
[SPEAKER_00]: The point is, how do I add regularly to its quality and to its quantity?
[SPEAKER_00]: Number four, set high long-term goals for your dean and have measurable small discipline ways to get there and revisit it frequently.
[SPEAKER_00]: The same way that you do with your worldly goals.
[SPEAKER_00]: You want to get to this place in three, four years?
[SPEAKER_00]: What does that look like for the next month?
[SPEAKER_00]: What does that look like for the six months ahead?
[SPEAKER_00]: And make yourself accountable to those goals.
[SPEAKER_00]: The last two things, dear brothers and sisters.
[SPEAKER_00]: to strong company.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't just surround yourself with people that don't cause you to send you surround yourself with people of a lofty him, people of lofty ambitions.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is one Allah as O Joseph says, wa fivadi kaffili atanafasid mutanafisul.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let those who are competitors compete over agenda.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let those who like to compete, we move towards things, we compete over things.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let them compete over that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look at the people around you and ask yourself, not just, do they not make me sin?
[SPEAKER_00]: Do they motivate me toward something that's greater?
[SPEAKER_00]: And in that, Subhanallah, you find that those that compete over the palaces of jannas, that of the crumbs of this dunya, Allah, as-a-a-jall, arranges all of their affairs.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's Hadith from the Prophet ﷺ, where he said, atayhi salatu s-salam, man-kana-ta-dunya-hamma, fa'r wa-kallahu-a-dihi-am-ra, wa-jalla-fakra-hubayna-ayne, wa-lam-yat-ti-him-in-a-dunya,
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah m'aquiti wa l-lahu wa m'n kanat il-aqirata ni yatahu Jam'a Allahu l-lahu amra wa j'a-l-l-rina Hufiq al-Bihit wa atatuh dunya wa hirah-rina Prophet saying some said whoever is focused only on this world Allah Azdu wa j'al wou'l confound his affairs Farwaq Allah wa Ali amra Everything will be all over the place By the way, don't read this Hadith only in terms of money
[SPEAKER_00]: It's actually a problem with this heavy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whoever makes the dunya the world, the life of this world, their greatest concern, a lot as a result, will put it all over the place.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll scatter it for them.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they constantly feel like I can't catch up with this or this or that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not just money.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everything that is worldly in its nature.
[SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of panorots and anata will cause that person to fear poverty constantly.
[SPEAKER_00]: He'll put poverty right between their eyes so that they only see poverty.
[SPEAKER_00]: They only see, but they're not getting to where they need to get.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Prophet saying, some said, whoever pursues the hereafter, whoever pursues the Ahthira, Allah Azzaujad, will gather their affairs for them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, Ata to dunya wa hiar Ahthima, and he has richness in his heart, and it's like the world is chasing after that person.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah, as a judge, is arranging their affairs for them.
[SPEAKER_00]: To tell you that when you dedicate your affairs to Allah, Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ala, you entrust Allah as a judge to the things that you're not truly having to sacrifice for his sake.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I don't have as much time to do this because I'm doing this now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't have as much to spend on this because I'm spending on this now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah, Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ala will do your books for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah, as a judge, will put those affairs in order for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Allah, Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ala will gather it for you in your heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the last thing in this regard.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, how long you talk to a kid and you say, what do you want to be when you grow up?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you know, I want to be this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to be that.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do you want to do later on in your life?
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to do this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's something about the people of Reza.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the people of Palestine that are there right now and holding it down and rebought.
[SPEAKER_00]: that that young child that walks around knows in his mind or in her mind that one day I'm going to free-must look.
[SPEAKER_00]: That your purpose is beyond simply growing up to reach your graduation.
[SPEAKER_00]: That you have a responsibility that there's something greater than your individual pursuit as it relates to your community on this earth.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so I'm going to ask you all a very serious question that in Shalwata, you'll take with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's your umma goal?
[SPEAKER_00]: Every single person should have an umma goal.
[SPEAKER_00]: At least one, a big goal.
[SPEAKER_00]: If I was to ask you, what is your umma goal?
[SPEAKER_00]: What is it?
[SPEAKER_00]: What are you giving back to the umma?
[SPEAKER_00]: What do you want to put into this umma?
[SPEAKER_00]: What is your umma goal?
[SPEAKER_00]: And then you write all the details under that.
[SPEAKER_00]: May Allah support us.