WEBVTT 00:00.111 --> 00:01.952 [SPEAKER_00]: Your own family doesn't really know. 00:02.512 --> 00:04.673 [SPEAKER_00]: No one knows your deepest struggles. 00:05.353 --> 00:06.533 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah Subhanahu al-Ali Zawir. 00:06.713 --> 00:09.914 [SPEAKER_00]: So the battle that you think is hidden in the deepest battles possible? 00:10.414 --> 00:11.435 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not hidden from Allah. 00:12.035 --> 00:13.375 [SPEAKER_00]: And He's thanking you for that. 00:13.715 --> 00:15.156 [SPEAKER_00]: He's appreciating you for that. 00:15.696 --> 00:16.896 [SPEAKER_00]: Nothing is wasted with Allah. 00:16.936 --> 00:22.958 [SPEAKER_00]: No amount of good, no amount of subid or restraint for the sake of Allah is hidden from Allah Subhanahu al-Ali Zawir. 00:22.978 --> 00:27.220 [SPEAKER_00]: Bismillah al-Hamir al-Hamir al-Ali Rasulillah wa l-Ali Rasulillah wa l-Ali Yawir al-Ali Yawir al-Ali Yawir al-Ali Yawir. 00:27.840 --> 00:39.211 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a famous story, almost every Muslim knows, and we teach our children from a young age, this story, and the story of Hajjah, Ali Hassalam, in the desert, know water, her baby's crying. 00:39.231 --> 00:40.352 [SPEAKER_00]: She's looking for help. 00:40.392 --> 00:42.094 [SPEAKER_00]: She searches on a sofa and marwa. 00:42.114 --> 00:43.034 [SPEAKER_00]: It runs in between. 00:43.675 --> 00:46.177 [SPEAKER_00]: Seven times and of course, you know the story today. 00:46.838 --> 00:53.560 [SPEAKER_00]: We all are required and millions of people are required to walk in the same footsteps of Haja Rādhīhāsara. 00:54.180 --> 01:09.264 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter if it's a king or a queen, a prime minister, a politician, a new Muslim and old Muslim from all walks of life, we are retracing the footsteps of a desperate mother, a believer who trusted and lost of Hanutāla. 01:09.644 --> 01:12.965 [SPEAKER_00]: But in that moment, no one else, no human being was watching. 01:13.645 --> 01:22.453 [SPEAKER_00]: In that moment, it was her and her Lord, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and it led you to fast forward centuries in the same region of Eribia. 01:23.541 --> 01:35.325 [SPEAKER_00]: A man who is, it's reported that he is walking and there's, in that pathway, a branch or a tree that's really bothering people, possibly maybe a source of irritation or harm to people. 01:36.005 --> 01:44.508 [SPEAKER_00]: And as you know in the famous Halif, he decides to cut it, remove it, whatever it was, a tree or a branch, he removes it from people's pathway because it was harming people. 01:45.308 --> 01:49.470 [SPEAKER_00]: And Allah appreciated this, and Allah Subhanahu ta'ala, forgave this man. 01:49.830 --> 01:57.254 [SPEAKER_00]: And in the harith, the metin in the actual harith, Fashakar Allahulah, that Allah thanked him, that's the literal translation. 01:57.814 --> 02:03.577 [SPEAKER_00]: Fawafar Allah, because of what the man did, Allah appreciated, thanked him, and he forgave this man. 02:04.297 --> 02:06.538 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine someone doing this in 2026? 02:06.838 --> 02:09.179 [SPEAKER_00]: How they would cut a tree or a branch that's bothering people? 02:09.899 --> 02:12.980 [SPEAKER_00]: Almost certain we would be certain it has to be a social media campaign. 02:13.420 --> 02:16.161 [SPEAKER_00]: They have to go viral, they have to get two or three angles. 02:16.181 --> 02:17.641 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a mic, of course, he's mic though. 02:18.061 --> 02:19.242 [SPEAKER_00]: People are asking if it's stage. 02:19.282 --> 02:20.682 [SPEAKER_00]: Now people are asking if it's AI. 02:21.242 --> 02:25.984 [SPEAKER_00]: And of course, hashtag alhamdulillah, I saved everyone from like a tree branch today. 02:26.744 --> 02:31.385 [SPEAKER_00]: and it's not to make fun of, by the way, it's not to make fun of campaigns that inspire people. 02:31.505 --> 02:37.687 [SPEAKER_00]: I do believe with all the negative or immoral content on social media, we do need inspiration. 02:37.787 --> 02:38.707 [SPEAKER_00]: We need good content. 02:38.727 --> 02:42.528 [SPEAKER_00]: We need people to see it and replicate it without recording it. 02:42.668 --> 02:47.530 [SPEAKER_00]: When people do the same work without caring, it might be watchers is going to get enough views. 02:48.290 --> 03:05.777 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you've ever felt in life ever at any stage that no one sees what you do, of good, that it's not really known or noticed by the people, or that you're sacrificing so much for family, school, work, community, you're doing so much for the Omnour for people, and it seems to disappear. 03:06.517 --> 03:11.439 [SPEAKER_00]: Into thin air, then the name of Allah Subhan Wa'Tada Ashakud is the name for us to know. 03:12.359 --> 03:20.445 [SPEAKER_00]: And I want to begin by asking, does anyone know approximately how many times in the Qur'an is this name found in this form, a shakur? 03:20.886 --> 03:21.686 [SPEAKER_00]: Anybody want to guess? 03:23.067 --> 03:23.888 [SPEAKER_00]: Rapid fire guess. 03:25.289 --> 03:25.409 [SPEAKER_00]: One. 03:25.910 --> 03:27.010 [SPEAKER_00]: One time, that's a great guess. 03:28.712 --> 03:30.493 [SPEAKER_00]: Seven, great guess as well, Mashallah. 03:31.013 --> 03:32.194 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going up, anybody else? 03:32.294 --> 03:32.875 [SPEAKER_00]: Do we have an eight? 03:34.493 --> 03:42.725 [SPEAKER_00]: 13, our fundraising macho, four times in the Quran, four times in what's amazing, it is always paired with another name. 03:43.646 --> 03:49.014 [SPEAKER_00]: Three of those instances of a foreign shakur and one is shakurun halim. 03:50.015 --> 03:57.420 [SPEAKER_00]: It is always paired with another name of a loss of panletata, as though to say, the one who appreciates what you're doing and thanks you for it. 03:57.440 --> 03:59.241 [SPEAKER_00]: Again, we'll define what that means. 03:59.621 --> 04:01.823 [SPEAKER_00]: There's some other reward that comes with that. 04:01.903 --> 04:03.043 [SPEAKER_00]: So he's not just thanking you. 04:03.564 --> 04:07.146 [SPEAKER_00]: He's not just appreciated of what you do, that he's also for bearing. 04:07.306 --> 04:10.028 [SPEAKER_00]: So there will be gentleness towards this creation. 04:10.568 --> 04:13.030 [SPEAKER_00]: There will be forgiveness of a fool and shakur. 04:13.610 --> 04:21.054 [SPEAKER_00]: And one of the examples is in an ayah in the Quran, that some of the tabirin, they said, this is the ayah of those who love to recite Quran. 04:21.674 --> 04:23.435 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the verse, they said of the Quran. 04:23.735 --> 04:24.756 [SPEAKER_00]: Does anyone know the ayah? 04:27.297 --> 04:29.558 [SPEAKER_00]: What is the verse of the Quran in the Quran? 04:30.178 --> 04:31.259 [SPEAKER_00]: It's in sort of thought. 04:32.828 --> 04:37.912 [SPEAKER_00]: in Naladina, Yatsluna, Kitab Allah, those who recite the book of Allah, and they established the prayer. 04:38.492 --> 04:40.653 [SPEAKER_00]: And they given charity in secret and in public. 04:41.214 --> 04:48.779 [SPEAKER_00]: Long story short, you fast forward to the next ayah, Liyawafir, Um, O'jura, Umwayazidah, Umin Fangli, Innahu, Rafurun, Shaqun. 04:49.259 --> 04:55.543 [SPEAKER_00]: The name of Allah appears here that he is paying these people back in full, Wayazidah, Umin Fangli. 04:55.984 --> 05:00.227 [SPEAKER_00]: You did something good, you recited Qur'an, no one noticed, no one had to notice it was for Allah. 05:00.972 --> 05:02.413 [SPEAKER_00]: is for your soul to be nourished. 05:03.233 --> 05:11.078 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah SWT gave you that full reward and he added on top of it a bonus from His bounty, way as he the home, mean fuddly. 05:11.639 --> 05:17.242 [SPEAKER_00]: So when you pay attention to this order, the scholars say, you didn't negotiate for the additional bonus. 05:17.683 --> 05:18.943 [SPEAKER_00]: You didn't ask for the bonus. 05:19.464 --> 05:20.905 [SPEAKER_00]: You were doing it for a good reason. 05:20.945 --> 05:23.106 [SPEAKER_00]: We're talking about sincere acts of worship. 05:23.166 --> 05:24.147 [SPEAKER_00]: So the question becomes, 05:25.390 --> 05:29.491 [SPEAKER_00]: What does it mean when a Muslim says that a lot thanks his creation? 05:30.111 --> 05:33.392 [SPEAKER_00]: That a lot of Panata is shakur towards his creation. 05:34.012 --> 05:41.114 [SPEAKER_00]: Does this mean that the Creator actually thanks his creation in the way we thank each other because that could be a misunderstanding. 05:41.814 --> 05:44.074 [SPEAKER_00]: In theology and awfully that could be very confusing. 05:44.434 --> 05:50.116 [SPEAKER_00]: When we thank people, sometimes it's because we needed something from them and they did you a favor. 05:50.196 --> 05:54.817 [SPEAKER_00]: They did what you wanted, they smiled, they opened the door, they put that thing in the bag, whatever, they helped you. 05:55.557 --> 05:58.358 [SPEAKER_00]: And you think the person because there was something you needed. 05:59.038 --> 06:02.119 [SPEAKER_00]: But we know Allah does not need anything from his creation. 06:02.739 --> 06:05.280 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah Subhan wa Ta'ala is al-Ghani Yulhamid. 06:05.740 --> 06:09.321 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah is a summit and our children learn the Surah at a young age. 06:09.801 --> 06:12.122 [SPEAKER_00]: He does not need us, we are in need of Him. 06:12.622 --> 06:16.003 [SPEAKER_00]: And to Mulfukhara, who in Allah, Allah, who al-Ghani Yulhamid. 06:16.423 --> 06:21.185 [SPEAKER_00]: So the scholars of Ahlusuna, they break down the meaning of Shukur or Shakur. 06:21.685 --> 06:24.087 [SPEAKER_00]: They say that it includes three general things. 06:24.167 --> 06:26.889 [SPEAKER_00]: It could be more, but it's at least these three things. 06:27.070 --> 06:30.773 [SPEAKER_00]: When we say Allah appreciates you, he thanks you. 06:31.253 --> 06:32.894 [SPEAKER_00]: Number one, it means he rewards you. 06:33.475 --> 06:36.177 [SPEAKER_00]: So Allah accepts whatever little good you've done. 06:36.437 --> 06:39.420 [SPEAKER_00]: You might measure that it's very small, but it was sincere. 06:39.640 --> 06:44.124 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah will thank you for it and return something enormous with it of reward. 06:44.744 --> 06:47.447 [SPEAKER_00]: Number two is that it means Allah will also praise you. 06:48.047 --> 06:56.649 [SPEAKER_00]: So whoever remembers Allah on the gathering, Allah will remember them in a better gathering, in the gathering of the Malaykah, in the Qur'an, 5th Qur'uni, 5th Kurkum. 06:56.929 --> 07:02.230 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember me, I will remember you, the scholars of Tafsiyyid, most of them they said this means a lot praises you. 07:02.830 --> 07:10.431 [SPEAKER_00]: This is like the Hadith where you do something good, no one on earth knows, nobody on TikTok, Instagram, your community, your own family, no one knows. 07:10.971 --> 07:13.192 [SPEAKER_00]: But you're sincere, you're doing this for the sake of Allah. 07:14.133 --> 07:20.115 [SPEAKER_00]: And imagine in that moment, Allah says to the angels around, to Jibbir Ali Sadan, that Allah loves so and so, so love him. 07:21.035 --> 07:26.177 [SPEAKER_00]: And Jibbir goes to the angels across the heavens, the Samawat, Allah loves so and so, so love this person. 07:27.037 --> 07:30.418 [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine your name is mentioned in the heavens by millions of angels. 07:31.253 --> 07:44.286 [SPEAKER_00]: Unknown on earth, Majjhul on earth, and your Masjhul, your famous in the heavens, a person of consistency in their goodness, honesty with Allah when no one else is watching, and you're not looking for worldly praise. 07:45.347 --> 07:47.869 [SPEAKER_00]: And lastly here, it needs that Allah will increase you. 07:48.639 --> 08:01.469 [SPEAKER_00]: The inshaqqatum, the azidanaqum, a lot of people misunderstand this verse to me and that if you thank Allah Allah will give you just like material things, but that's a very low standard to say that if I do good, Allah will give me material things. 08:01.849 --> 08:12.657 [SPEAKER_00]: Material things we need at times, there may be an necessity, but Allah will give you the ability, the guidance, the blessing also in your material things on top of what you've done, on top of your gratitude. 08:16.380 --> 08:21.182 [SPEAKER_00]: is the one who takes the small deeds that you've done and he amplifies the many degrees. 08:21.843 --> 08:26.925 [SPEAKER_00]: He's the one who gives you endless jannah forever for a limited number of days in this world. 08:27.545 --> 08:32.308 [SPEAKER_00]: A shakur, he gave you so much more and then he said rewarding a good deed. 08:32.908 --> 08:44.661 [SPEAKER_00]: with multiples is of shukut and praising the one who did it is also shukut, meaning all of these māāni, all of these meanings are found in the Qur'an and in the Sun of the Prophet, Aleyhisallahu al-Azallam. 08:44.921 --> 08:49.926 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a linguistic gem for those interested before Islam, before revelation. 08:50.607 --> 08:52.188 [SPEAKER_00]: before the Quran was revealed. 08:52.209 --> 08:55.932 [SPEAKER_00]: The Arabs used to use the word shakur for an animal. 08:56.032 --> 08:57.053 [SPEAKER_00]: But what kind of animal? 08:57.593 --> 08:59.315 [SPEAKER_00]: What were they referring to? 08:59.355 --> 09:02.358 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's found in the Sinan and Arab and many of the other dictionaries. 09:02.858 --> 09:10.805 [SPEAKER_00]: It was referring to a writing animal, shakur Adaba, that grew very fat, like very full on very little food. 09:11.646 --> 09:15.008 [SPEAKER_00]: So it wasn't just like you gave it a lot of food and naturally expected to grow. 09:15.488 --> 09:19.930 [SPEAKER_00]: No, you gave it very little like scraps, but it still somehow, there's better kidding it. 09:20.351 --> 09:26.234 [SPEAKER_00]: It grew significantly from the little scraps that you gave it, probably filled with protein in our times, a lot of them died. 09:26.634 --> 09:31.877 [SPEAKER_00]: And so the sugar here, they said, was that the feet, the little food, showed up on its body. 09:32.876 --> 09:36.619 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, you gave a camel a little bit of scraps and they came out like muscular for example. 09:36.639 --> 09:37.520 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, how did this happen? 09:37.540 --> 09:38.961 [SPEAKER_00]: You would call that dabascha cool. 09:39.421 --> 09:40.662 [SPEAKER_00]: You'd call that dabascha cool. 09:40.922 --> 09:44.765 [SPEAKER_00]: So you gave it a handful, it looks like you gave it an entire like a feast or a forest. 09:45.246 --> 09:50.490 [SPEAKER_00]: And when you look at the opposite of shukur in the Quran in the sunnah, the opposite is kufur. 09:51.170 --> 10:05.256 [SPEAKER_00]: And the word cuff, when we talk about it generally, it has the connotation of covering something, covering something, a loss of panotatic give a parable in the Quran, a farmer's as Khufar meaning they are covering the seed with soil. 10:05.816 --> 10:07.457 [SPEAKER_00]: Please do not misunderstand me. 10:07.497 --> 10:10.738 [SPEAKER_00]: We are not saying that a law called all of the farmers Khufar. 10:10.778 --> 10:11.999 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't misunderstand what I'm saying. 10:12.379 --> 10:16.941 [SPEAKER_00]: The word linguistically meant that they covered the the seed with soil. 10:17.641 --> 10:21.966 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is what the word cuffer means also, theologically, the one who covers the truth. 10:22.707 --> 10:32.657 [SPEAKER_00]: So in gratitude towards God is to cover a gift, the gift of life, the gift of guidance, the gift of intellect, the gifts, the many gifts that we have in life. 10:32.677 --> 10:34.419 [SPEAKER_00]: And Shukur is to uncover it. 10:35.220 --> 10:42.146 [SPEAKER_00]: And when we say uncover it so that it shows, we don't need to show it off, rather uncover it, recognize it, accept it, utilize it. 10:42.526 --> 10:45.048 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a privilege and a blessing from Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. 10:45.288 --> 10:49.892 [SPEAKER_00]: So you've accepted that gift from Allah and used it in the way that is most pleasing to Him. 10:50.752 --> 10:56.898 [SPEAKER_00]: And Allah Subhan Wa Ta'ada, a shakud, takes the little bit that we do, and it is little in terms of quantity. 10:57.319 --> 11:06.087 [SPEAKER_00]: Takes the little that we do in terms of the number of days or hours or months or years of sacrifice, and then he makes it show up like a harvest in the Ahra. 11:06.848 --> 11:10.470 [SPEAKER_00]: a harvest of gender for every, where you can have whatever you want. 11:11.030 --> 11:17.974 [SPEAKER_00]: There's no mathematical equation that would allow this to be considered normal, like you give one, you got two. 11:18.114 --> 11:23.516 [SPEAKER_00]: No, you have a limited number, finite, and you're getting an infinite amount of happiness in gender. 11:23.636 --> 11:30.440 [SPEAKER_00]: It's only with also a different set of laws of experience and happiness in the way that this world does not possess. 11:31.300 --> 11:46.147 [SPEAKER_00]: When you give in charity, every time we hear of the opportunity to give in charity or at fun raising, you know, dinners and campaigns and programs and online as well, we always are hearing this verse in which on loss of panoatala refers to the one who gives in charity and he amplifies it. 11:46.167 --> 11:49.468 [SPEAKER_00]: It's like the one who, again, with the condition that there's a loss. 11:49.888 --> 11:53.390 [SPEAKER_00]: It's like the one who gave in the path of a lot of single seed. 11:53.870 --> 12:01.852 [SPEAKER_00]: and it's planted and it grows seven years of corn and every single one of those ears you have from it from that corn 100 different grains. 12:02.292 --> 12:03.953 [SPEAKER_00]: For example, this is an example. 12:04.593 --> 12:12.375 [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine this Allah SWT when he's giving us the parable of the 700 times of a reward for a single charity that you gave. 12:12.855 --> 12:17.456 [SPEAKER_00]: The scholars say, well, Allah who you lie for Emeyesha Allah multiplies even beyond 700. 12:18.056 --> 12:21.397 [SPEAKER_00]: You might do a noble act of worship that's not so easy for you. 12:22.217 --> 12:25.001 [SPEAKER_00]: or you're just so sincere in how you did it. 12:25.462 --> 12:36.337 [SPEAKER_00]: You sacrifice so much for that family member, or for your alchiro, or something good that you've done, that a loss of panatale might give you 700 times the reward of the single active worship. 12:36.998 --> 12:37.278 [SPEAKER_00]: 700 times? 12:38.780 --> 12:46.303 [SPEAKER_00]: When Bitcoin was going viral in 2013, later in 2017, and people were hearing about it for the first time. 12:46.343 --> 12:51.006 [SPEAKER_00]: People were buying things they should have bought with things they don't understand, and giving up money they should have given up. 12:51.446 --> 12:54.947 [SPEAKER_00]: People were thinking about making millions off of a few dollars. 12:55.488 --> 12:58.149 [SPEAKER_00]: So that's why people were willing to sacrifice later on. 12:58.309 --> 13:02.771 [SPEAKER_00]: NFTs and the meta space and people bought fake virtual land and things like this. 13:03.111 --> 13:04.892 [SPEAKER_00]: People paid millions of dollars. 13:05.632 --> 13:08.733 [SPEAKER_00]: Because they thought the returns will be 100, 200, 300. 13:08.753 --> 13:13.454 [SPEAKER_00]: And it causes sometimes any or excitement, but also greed to kick in. 13:13.995 --> 13:17.075 [SPEAKER_00]: And if a person doesn't have principles in how they invest, then they make mistakes. 13:17.616 --> 13:24.798 [SPEAKER_00]: With a loss of panuotrada, the promise here is that as long as you are sincere, and the act of worship, 13:25.658 --> 13:38.409 [SPEAKER_00]: that is correct, both conditions matter, since serity, and that we ensure this is the correct thing to do, so it cannot contradict like what the prophet taught at a self-to-set-up, then you know that you're always going to get a multiple always. 13:39.170 --> 13:42.753 [SPEAKER_00]: There's no exception to that, since serity, correct action. 13:43.253 --> 13:46.176 [SPEAKER_00]: You will never, ever get only one Hassanah forever. 13:46.797 --> 13:47.898 [SPEAKER_00]: The minimum is 10 times. 13:48.755 --> 13:50.696 [SPEAKER_00]: and up to 700 and beyond. 13:51.476 --> 14:00.159 [SPEAKER_00]: And any one of us who sees this from a financial lens would say, I'll do anything for as many of you by that as possible, as long as I have life, as long as my heart is beating. 14:00.719 --> 14:04.541 [SPEAKER_00]: That it's such a scary thing for someone to kill their time on devices. 14:05.081 --> 14:09.943 [SPEAKER_00]: Addicted to devices, addicted to video game, social media, addicted to killing time. 14:10.483 --> 14:17.386 [SPEAKER_00]: that they're not utilizing that breath, that they have, that from the perspective of the one in the grave today, they would wish to come back for just a fraction. 14:17.446 --> 14:17.687 [SPEAKER_00]: Why? 14:18.147 --> 14:22.769 [SPEAKER_00]: You can get so much in terms of returns with so little of time. 14:23.309 --> 14:30.153 [SPEAKER_00]: We ask Allah Subhan Allah, to put Barak in our time and to accept from us and grant us in serity, Allah Muhammad, I mean, the one who does something good. 14:31.013 --> 14:41.882 [SPEAKER_00]: Prophet ﷺ says, when you give something in charity like a date, literally something tiny and insignificant, that Allah Subhanahu ta'ala will amplify, magnify the value of the Saudhaka that you give. 14:42.543 --> 14:47.848 [SPEAKER_00]: To the extent in one of the ahadith, it's mentioned that Allah Subhanahu ta'ala will allow it to grow for that owner. 14:48.428 --> 14:53.169 [SPEAKER_00]: you know how people invest a dollar you're expecting a thousand you put a thousand expecting whatever ten percent. 14:53.690 --> 14:57.871 [SPEAKER_00]: A lot will allow your charity to grow until it becomes like a mountain. 14:58.131 --> 15:01.192 [SPEAKER_00]: The profit is saying Ali Salat was said I'm in terms of reward. 15:01.692 --> 15:02.032 [SPEAKER_00]: A date? 15:02.992 --> 15:04.213 [SPEAKER_00]: A date became like a mountain. 15:04.813 --> 15:06.714 [SPEAKER_00]: What about all the other acts of worship with you? 15:07.194 --> 15:10.777 [SPEAKER_00]: What about those two rakas you thought are they really that important on just very busy? 15:11.197 --> 15:16.220 [SPEAKER_00]: But it was the two rakas before Fajir that the Prophet said, greater than everything in this world. 15:16.320 --> 15:17.721 [SPEAKER_00]: Everything the sun rises upon. 15:18.161 --> 15:20.182 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the two rakas before Fajir. 15:20.403 --> 15:22.844 [SPEAKER_00]: What about the mandatory prayer on time? 15:22.924 --> 15:24.845 [SPEAKER_00]: So this is again like the example of the camel. 15:25.325 --> 15:30.489 [SPEAKER_00]: Give it very little and then it became very strong and big and you know if this is not our normal transaction. 15:31.189 --> 15:33.493 [SPEAKER_00]: Can we have any accounting majors in this room? 15:33.833 --> 15:34.855 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't have to run them question. 15:35.255 --> 15:36.036 [SPEAKER_00]: Any accounts here? 15:37.118 --> 15:37.699 [SPEAKER_00]: No accounts? 15:38.140 --> 15:38.380 [SPEAKER_00]: OK. 15:39.401 --> 15:40.603 [SPEAKER_00]: I shouldn't expect that we have accounts. 15:40.623 --> 15:41.485 [SPEAKER_00]: OK, how am I going to do that? 15:42.606 --> 15:45.871 [SPEAKER_00]: When it comes to anybody take account, you want to have that question. 15:47.177 --> 15:47.878 [SPEAKER_00]: One person, too. 15:48.358 --> 15:50.060 [SPEAKER_00]: Accounting 101 is not an easy class. 15:50.080 --> 15:51.521 [SPEAKER_00]: Like most people are like, I don't want to take this. 15:51.601 --> 15:54.563 [SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of universities, it's a weed out course. 15:54.583 --> 15:55.904 [SPEAKER_00]: They weed out 400 students. 15:55.964 --> 15:58.286 [SPEAKER_00]: And you'll see who remains with, you know, like a 4.0. 15:58.626 --> 16:00.807 [SPEAKER_00]: Those are the people that pursue accounting. 16:00.867 --> 16:03.589 [SPEAKER_00]: When it comes to accounting, I want us to think about the concept of, 16:04.570 --> 16:07.855 [SPEAKER_00]: Debits and credits and I think we're all at least we're on the same page with this. 16:08.356 --> 16:12.542 [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine we all have debits and we're thinking about our marasi, our sins. 16:13.062 --> 16:15.646 [SPEAKER_00]: It's just an example, an example of us to think about this. 16:16.087 --> 16:20.573 [SPEAKER_00]: And you think about credits, all the good that we try to do and the good that we've done. 16:21.434 --> 16:28.417 [SPEAKER_00]: What's remarkable when you take the pair of the name of Amasupanatara that he gave us, which is Rafur and Shakur. 16:28.557 --> 16:32.339 [SPEAKER_00]: They're always paired together, except once you have Rafur and Halim paired together. 16:33.079 --> 16:40.902 [SPEAKER_00]: Here I want to say think about the example of a man who in the 1700s is a story that was recorded about this man in 1719. 16:41.402 --> 16:44.584 [SPEAKER_00]: He was tripped shipwrecked on an island by himself. 16:45.404 --> 16:58.213 [SPEAKER_00]: And as he's on his island and he's trying to figure out how to stay sane and how to survive and so on and so forth, he's thinking about all the hardships he's going to probably face in the next few weeks, maybe days, a lot of him how long he'll survive. 16:58.753 --> 17:03.756 [SPEAKER_00]: So he says to himself, I'm like a person who has debit and credit in a way or debt and credit. 17:04.257 --> 17:09.420 [SPEAKER_00]: So he says to himself, let me think about these two columns of evil and good, bad and good in different forms. 17:09.741 --> 17:13.383 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, yes, come on an island, I'm completely isolated. 17:13.503 --> 17:14.424 [SPEAKER_00]: His ship is wrecked. 17:15.024 --> 17:17.407 [SPEAKER_00]: And it doesn't look like anyone's coming to save him soon. 17:17.767 --> 17:20.791 [SPEAKER_00]: This is, yes, I'm on an island alone, but at least I'm alive. 17:21.512 --> 17:23.494 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, yes, I don't have clothes. 17:23.814 --> 17:27.799 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, I don't have any replacement, you know, for like additional clothes or anything else. 17:28.300 --> 17:33.205 [SPEAKER_00]: But the climate on this island is so hot, I probably wouldn't even want to wear extra clothes if I had them. 17:33.806 --> 17:44.757 [SPEAKER_00]: So he starts to list the difficulties he's going through and then thinking about a credit, a positive thing, a silver lining, if you will, which for us is a part of our belief in Kada. 17:45.158 --> 17:50.223 [SPEAKER_00]: That you're trying to figure out how do I maximize the reward of the hardship that I'm going through. 17:50.563 --> 17:58.273 [SPEAKER_00]: Alamat Juryanifi Musli Bhati, we say in the Hadith of Omsenam al-Dilana, Ola helped me reward me in my calamity and replace it with something better. 17:58.754 --> 18:06.664 [SPEAKER_00]: Ibn Tanyi is in jail, imprisoned for over 12 years of his life as a great scholar for his religious views when they came to comfort him in jail. 18:07.265 --> 18:12.788 [SPEAKER_00]: Long story short, the end of his passage he says, if they keep me here in jail, alone, then it's Haluah. 18:13.008 --> 18:15.789 [SPEAKER_00]: I have privacy with a lot to worship when no one else is around. 18:16.249 --> 18:20.552 [SPEAKER_00]: If they kill me, if they execute me, in this land, then at least I'm a Shahid. 18:20.632 --> 18:21.232 [SPEAKER_00]: It is Shahid. 18:21.712 --> 18:25.534 [SPEAKER_00]: And if they banish me to another land, out of Damascus, then it is what? 18:25.754 --> 18:27.215 [SPEAKER_00]: Siyahah, then it's tourism. 18:27.275 --> 18:28.115 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll see another land. 18:28.595 --> 18:30.436 [SPEAKER_00]: In other words, you're not ignoring. 18:31.957 --> 18:40.363 [SPEAKER_00]: The bad that's happening and especially if it's injustice, volume, it has to be fall and resisted, but you're also trying to keep your soul intact. 18:40.784 --> 18:43.106 [SPEAKER_00]: You're trying to maximize your reward with Allah. 18:43.506 --> 18:46.008 [SPEAKER_00]: So you're looking for a silver lining in that situation. 18:46.348 --> 18:50.971 [SPEAKER_00]: The man on the island concludes after all his debits and credits as he's going through good and bad. 18:51.712 --> 18:57.794 [SPEAKER_00]: There's hardly any condition he could go through, that's so miserable that there's nothing on the flip sign to be thankful for. 18:58.394 --> 18:59.614 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's not easy to do. 19:00.415 --> 19:03.155 [SPEAKER_00]: It's easier said than done, and I think we all recognize this. 19:03.215 --> 19:04.776 [SPEAKER_00]: It does not romanticize the pain. 19:05.236 --> 19:07.077 [SPEAKER_00]: We ask a monster Palatalla to protect us. 19:07.177 --> 19:09.597 [SPEAKER_00]: Our loved ones, our brothers, and sisters in every land in place. 19:09.978 --> 19:13.519 [SPEAKER_00]: And to grant us Aafia, and to grant us strength and gratitude, along that mean. 19:13.799 --> 19:15.259 [SPEAKER_00]: So, a lot of food, a Shakur. 19:15.599 --> 19:17.840 [SPEAKER_00]: He is the one that does not just rebalance. 19:18.440 --> 19:23.504 [SPEAKER_00]: your ledger if you will, but he's the one that, as they refer, forgives your sins. 19:24.224 --> 19:25.305 [SPEAKER_00]: He's the one who erases. 19:25.565 --> 19:28.708 [SPEAKER_00]: As soon as you just turn to Allah, your heart feels remorse. 19:28.728 --> 19:30.009 [SPEAKER_00]: You feel bad about what you did. 19:30.389 --> 19:32.931 [SPEAKER_00]: And you start to, you know, utter the words of forgiveness. 19:33.511 --> 19:34.352 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, Allah forgive me. 19:34.392 --> 19:35.192 [SPEAKER_00]: Astaghfirullah. 19:35.232 --> 19:35.893 [SPEAKER_00]: How atul be day. 19:35.953 --> 19:36.413 [SPEAKER_00]: Or you pray. 19:36.753 --> 19:37.354 [SPEAKER_00]: Turaqas. 19:37.514 --> 19:38.214 [SPEAKER_00]: Salat to Talba. 19:39.075 --> 19:45.181 [SPEAKER_00]: The already you took the first step, Allah is taking many steps towards you, aware of how sincere and remorseful a person is. 19:45.561 --> 19:48.424 [SPEAKER_00]: So he is of a food erasing those debits, if you will. 19:49.084 --> 19:55.831 [SPEAKER_00]: But he is also as shakud as you sought foriveness from Allah, that Allah Subhan Allah Tata, thank you for the good that you did. 19:55.891 --> 19:57.612 [SPEAKER_00]: Appreciate it, the good steps you took. 19:58.353 --> 20:01.714 [SPEAKER_00]: And so now you also have a reward, a credit for what you've done. 20:02.314 --> 20:10.197 [SPEAKER_00]: One of the best ways to actually think about this visually is the Hadith where the Prophet ﷺ tells us about four possible scenarios. 20:11.077 --> 20:16.079 [SPEAKER_00]: If you intended to pray 2.0K, you intended something good, but you never managed to do it. 20:16.099 --> 20:17.039 [SPEAKER_00]: Your intention was real. 20:17.700 --> 20:21.961 [SPEAKER_00]: Something interrupted you, something bigger happened, a law will reward you with one good deed. 20:22.301 --> 20:23.201 [SPEAKER_00]: You didn't even do it. 20:23.662 --> 20:24.762 [SPEAKER_00]: You didn't even pray the 2.0K. 20:26.104 --> 20:29.591 [SPEAKER_00]: The second situation you intended to do something good and you actually didn't. 20:29.891 --> 20:34.359 [SPEAKER_00]: Here, as we said before, minimum 10 times the reward of what you've done. 20:34.980 --> 20:37.665 [SPEAKER_00]: Up to 700, and a law may multiply beyond 700. 20:39.604 --> 20:42.667 [SPEAKER_00]: What if you intended to commit a sin and you fell into it? 20:43.367 --> 20:53.996 [SPEAKER_00]: It is written as a sin, sins are not multiplied with the one condition based on other health that if you inspired other people to commit a sin, you taught someone something bad. 20:54.296 --> 20:56.058 [SPEAKER_00]: You put on social media something had on. 20:56.398 --> 20:59.000 [SPEAKER_00]: And now other people are watching it and they're forwarding and they're sharing it. 20:59.420 --> 21:01.501 [SPEAKER_00]: Now you've actually spread something bad. 21:01.661 --> 21:04.363 [SPEAKER_00]: So you didn't just commit a sin, you endorsed it in a way. 21:04.383 --> 21:10.267 [SPEAKER_00]: You facilitated it for others, or the one who committed something bad and Allah hit it for them, concealed it for them. 21:10.727 --> 21:12.368 [SPEAKER_00]: And then the next day they expose it to other people. 21:12.388 --> 21:14.750 [SPEAKER_00]: They told people about the sins, them, I'll say that they did. 21:15.490 --> 21:17.371 [SPEAKER_00]: that Allah was concealing it for you. 21:17.391 --> 21:18.931 [SPEAKER_00]: Do not normalize it in society. 21:19.751 --> 21:25.273 [SPEAKER_00]: What if someone intended something bad and for the sake of Allah they abandoned it? 21:25.573 --> 21:28.214 [SPEAKER_00]: Not because of somebody was watching or I got interrupted. 21:28.574 --> 21:33.096 [SPEAKER_00]: You were about to do something bad before the sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'adi decided I can't do this. 21:33.436 --> 21:34.976 [SPEAKER_00]: This is not something pleasing to Allah. 21:35.757 --> 21:39.298 [SPEAKER_00]: Not only is it not written as a sin, Allah will record it for you as a good deed. 21:40.121 --> 21:41.562 [SPEAKER_00]: So you look at these forcing areas. 21:41.602 --> 21:48.806 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a very famous Hadith I know we've heard it many times, but I want us to think about the many battles that people are fighting. 21:49.307 --> 21:50.727 [SPEAKER_00]: The many struggles that people have. 21:50.807 --> 21:54.790 [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of people talk about the things that they stay away from in terms of head-on. 21:55.290 --> 21:59.251 [SPEAKER_00]: or the acts of the rabada that they're constantly just pushing their enough, I gotta do this. 21:59.371 --> 22:00.071 [SPEAKER_00]: I have to do this. 22:00.111 --> 22:02.592 [SPEAKER_00]: There's no way that I will neglect this rabada. 22:02.972 --> 22:05.032 [SPEAKER_00]: And for many people, it is a adat for some people. 22:05.312 --> 22:10.174 [SPEAKER_00]: They express that they have a lot of anger or a short temper with family and loved ones. 22:10.614 --> 22:17.015 [SPEAKER_00]: For a lot of people, it's their devices, the things that they're watching or the things they're texting, the emails, they're writing, that they shouldn't send. 22:17.175 --> 22:19.356 [SPEAKER_00]: You knew it was an angry email, you knew it was an abusive, 22:19.776 --> 22:20.497 [SPEAKER_00]: text message. 22:20.617 --> 22:21.657 [SPEAKER_00]: It was a state of anger. 22:22.138 --> 22:24.499 [SPEAKER_00]: So you stopped, you took a breath, you did a sting out of that. 22:24.959 --> 22:26.120 [SPEAKER_00]: You asked a lot for guidance. 22:26.720 --> 22:27.541 [SPEAKER_00]: You're like, you know what? 22:27.581 --> 22:31.343 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to revisit this one on calm because you don't send the message when you're angry. 22:31.403 --> 22:33.484 [SPEAKER_00]: You never send a text when you're angry. 22:33.504 --> 22:34.245 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the rule of life. 22:34.405 --> 22:36.106 [SPEAKER_00]: You never send a text when you're angry. 22:36.806 --> 22:39.568 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not going to end up in anything that you would agree with. 22:39.708 --> 22:42.150 [SPEAKER_00]: Even if it's true, it's a approach later on. 22:43.273 --> 22:48.477 [SPEAKER_00]: And the reality is, for the overwhelming majority of people, your own family doesn't really know. 22:49.017 --> 22:51.178 [SPEAKER_00]: No one knows your deepest struggles. 22:51.859 --> 22:53.040 [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of panelatial is aware. 22:53.740 --> 22:59.684 [SPEAKER_00]: Closes, friends, maybe if somebody opened up too much, maybe a lot of panelatial is the one who is aware. 23:00.184 --> 23:07.449 [SPEAKER_00]: And especially, you think about these situations, I mentioned this example of someone who's refraining from sending an angry message. 23:08.050 --> 23:12.433 [SPEAKER_00]: This would prevent a lot of problems and drama and fitter in relationships. 23:13.013 --> 23:33.371 [SPEAKER_00]: in workplace settings between friends in what's up group chats that amount of things that people send with a large number of members in that group and you know there are a lot of signs and I hope that you know every one of us as the years past my way we just become more restrained we think more about what we're about to send and share and is this the right way to say it. 23:34.615 --> 23:39.356 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, because if somebody's starting with, like, with all due respect, then you probably should pause. 23:39.376 --> 23:40.557 [SPEAKER_00]: That's like a red flag. 23:40.577 --> 23:40.777 [SPEAKER_00]: Right. 23:40.837 --> 23:49.360 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're starting your text, like, with all due respect, one brother, he's like, every time I sit down to write a message when I'm angry, he has, like, he says he has incompetent co-workers. 23:50.080 --> 23:51.980 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, okay, I, I really, I get what you're saying. 23:52.060 --> 23:53.301 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't really, I get what you're saying. 23:54.121 --> 23:58.023 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, every time I start the message with all due respect, only that's for me, my red flag. 23:58.523 --> 24:04.266 [SPEAKER_00]: He's like, I imagine Shipe-on pulls up a chair right next to my desk, and he's like, oh, hey, I think you're heading in the right direction. 24:04.526 --> 24:05.466 [SPEAKER_00]: So he stops right there. 24:06.026 --> 24:09.188 [SPEAKER_00]: He's like, you know what, for me, I've learned what my triggers are. 24:09.848 --> 24:13.271 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's a positive thing to have that level of self-awareness. 24:13.812 --> 24:15.894 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, when I'm in this state, I don't send messages. 24:16.454 --> 24:21.719 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll go make a little, I'll take a walk, I'll run on the treadmill, I'll do something, go work out, but don't send it. 24:22.059 --> 24:24.242 [SPEAKER_00]: In other words, I look forward a shakur. 24:24.622 --> 24:25.262 [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks you. 24:25.282 --> 24:26.323 [SPEAKER_00]: I appreciate you. 24:26.984 --> 24:35.306 [SPEAKER_00]: for restraining and holding back from something how I'm even though the majority of people in this world over allowing majority of cases people don't really know your struggles. 24:35.926 --> 24:39.127 [SPEAKER_00]: So the battle that you think is hidden, the deepest battles possible. 24:39.607 --> 24:40.667 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not hidden from Allah. 24:41.247 --> 24:42.567 [SPEAKER_00]: And he's thanking you for that. 24:42.928 --> 24:44.348 [SPEAKER_00]: He's appreciating you for that. 24:44.888 --> 24:46.108 [SPEAKER_00]: Nothing is wasted with Allah. 24:46.128 --> 24:51.789 [SPEAKER_00]: No amount of good, no amount of subid or restrained for the sake of Allah is hidden from Allah Subhanahu Ata'a. 24:51.910 --> 24:53.410 [SPEAKER_00]: So if you go back to the story of Hajjah, 24:54.270 --> 25:03.155 [SPEAKER_00]: Again, the story is very familiar to us, and you know the story as, but on him, I said, leaves, she asks that Allah command you to do this and he affirms that's the case. 25:03.575 --> 25:06.897 [SPEAKER_00]: She knows Hollis, we're in good hands, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, we trust in him. 25:07.177 --> 25:07.917 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a command. 25:08.557 --> 25:13.080 [SPEAKER_00]: But with Hajj al-Adi has said, um, a lot of times people focus on the fact that she's running. 25:13.740 --> 25:27.641 [SPEAKER_00]: Sorry, between Al-Safan and Marwashi is going between the two mountains and remarkably here the scholars say yes the running is the effort but Allah did not reward like the running did not lead to the result the running was the effort 25:28.688 --> 25:32.272 [SPEAKER_00]: And the reality is, Alas sent now the source of help and support. 25:32.312 --> 25:39.039 [SPEAKER_00]: He sent the angel to cause an opening to the ground where Zamzam would come out until the end of times. 25:39.320 --> 25:46.387 [SPEAKER_00]: So in a way, the effort that she put in, the sari that she put in, Alas with hangout added took care of the outcome. 25:47.048 --> 25:51.233 [SPEAKER_00]: you are responsible for the effort and Allah reward you for your effort. 25:51.613 --> 25:54.816 [SPEAKER_00]: What if you put in the effort and you didn't get a positive outcome? 25:55.117 --> 25:56.118 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah will still reward you. 25:56.678 --> 25:58.881 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah Subhanahu ta'ala is rafu wa an shakura. 25:58.901 --> 26:05.828 [SPEAKER_00]: So every time we go there and we recite in Nassafa wa marwata min sha'a ila, we get to the end of the ayah, woman tapah wa khairan wa illa laha. 26:06.348 --> 26:12.455 [SPEAKER_00]: Sha Qirun Ali, that a lot appreciates the good that you've done, appreciates all knowing. 26:12.875 --> 26:17.279 [SPEAKER_00]: So a lot of Subhanallah Talah did not just reward her for the result. 26:17.380 --> 26:19.782 [SPEAKER_00]: He caused the result to happen. 26:19.802 --> 26:24.167 [SPEAKER_00]: He rewarded her for the effort that she put in with an outcome she could not control. 26:24.727 --> 26:26.868 [SPEAKER_00]: And we know this when we talk about Tawakul. 26:26.968 --> 26:28.029 [SPEAKER_00]: We mentioned this often. 26:28.489 --> 26:33.892 [SPEAKER_00]: And there are many examples from the prophets and the messengers, the righteous men and women in the Quran in the Siddha. 26:34.172 --> 26:35.092 [SPEAKER_00]: We have so many examples. 26:35.152 --> 26:39.734 [SPEAKER_00]: Another one is, for example, Nurhadi Hissana, 950 years of Dawa. 26:40.275 --> 26:42.536 [SPEAKER_00]: Nurhadi Hissana is patient for 950 years. 26:42.976 --> 26:48.219 [SPEAKER_00]: One time, there was a little boy in Michigan in one of the messages, maybe 20 years ago. 26:48.659 --> 26:52.661 [SPEAKER_00]: As everyone was praying, Risha, is very quiet night, like Risha here at times. 26:53.401 --> 26:59.347 [SPEAKER_00]: And as everyone's praying, a little boy runs up to the Mimbot and he runs the mic and he starts babbling really loud in the microphone. 26:59.907 --> 27:02.329 [SPEAKER_00]: And it was honestly like it was very distracting. 27:02.410 --> 27:06.553 [SPEAKER_00]: It was very adorable, but it was like he knew this is where the Imam gives his right hip hop. 27:06.573 --> 27:09.236 [SPEAKER_00]: So he went off, like he was going to hip hop, but to babies around the world. 27:09.516 --> 27:18.685 [SPEAKER_00]: He went off and he's babbling and babbling and babbling and honestly like amongst all the distractions in Salah in life, I would say that's probably one of the top 10, like one of the top 10 by far. 27:19.085 --> 27:19.946 [SPEAKER_00]: that amount of babbling. 27:20.026 --> 27:22.227 [SPEAKER_00]: And he's not just babbling, he's laughing in between. 27:22.267 --> 27:24.629 [SPEAKER_00]: And so people are breaking their Salah as a disaster. 27:24.649 --> 27:24.989 [SPEAKER_00]: And we'll see. 27:25.009 --> 27:29.453 [SPEAKER_00]: But anyways, he does this for from Raka to all the way to the 4th Raka. 27:29.493 --> 27:32.735 [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, there was a long time of distracting us in Salah. 27:33.776 --> 27:34.797 [SPEAKER_00]: Right when Salah ended. 27:35.537 --> 27:36.238 [SPEAKER_00]: A man stood up. 27:37.061 --> 27:39.942 [SPEAKER_00]: Ya Jama'a, never bring your children to the Masada. 27:39.962 --> 27:41.402 [SPEAKER_00]: Look at what they're doing to the houses. 27:41.442 --> 27:42.962 [SPEAKER_00]: All He goes off on the parents. 27:42.982 --> 27:48.023 [SPEAKER_00]: And the father is from a little nostalgic, very righteous man, very beloved brother. 27:48.483 --> 27:51.044 [SPEAKER_00]: His son is always by his side when he starts Salah. 27:51.304 --> 27:58.965 [SPEAKER_00]: But it was one of those moments, you know, when you say when your hands are going up, especially and your child knows they can run because you can't grab them fast enough, it's kid ran away. 27:59.605 --> 28:01.866 [SPEAKER_00]: And he started Salah, his kid is on the moon, but it's too late. 28:02.873 --> 28:04.615 [SPEAKER_00]: And so the father felt so embarrassed. 28:05.256 --> 28:06.257 [SPEAKER_00]: Why am I sharing this story? 28:06.898 --> 28:11.623 [SPEAKER_00]: When that man got angry and he stood up and yelled up, you know, like the parents who bring their kids to the message. 28:13.230 --> 28:16.372 [SPEAKER_00]: Another person basically calmed him down and he's like, listen, everyone. 28:16.832 --> 28:20.333 [SPEAKER_00]: Prophet Noah Hadid Sinan was patient with non-Muslims for 950 years. 28:20.754 --> 28:23.575 [SPEAKER_00]: Can we be a little more patient or a subat least with each other? 28:23.635 --> 28:27.437 [SPEAKER_00]: For like, yes, for a couple minutes in Salah, yes, it was distracting. 28:27.457 --> 28:29.298 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, we try generally if you bring a child. 28:29.338 --> 28:30.458 [SPEAKER_00]: Try to keep them next to you. 28:30.778 --> 28:35.260 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you know that child, like the second child sometimes, that child is the one that's going to run away. 28:35.280 --> 28:38.562 [SPEAKER_00]: Then maybe be a little more cautious for the sake of people's hushua. 28:38.942 --> 28:40.003 [SPEAKER_00]: But if something happens, 28:40.723 --> 28:45.647 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't imagine that the parents don't care, don't imagine the parents are usually the most embarrassed. 28:45.808 --> 28:50.532 [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, that's one of the reasons many parents or many mothers at times don't even go to the message. 28:51.012 --> 28:55.056 [SPEAKER_00]: So we should also be very understanding, and it's our greatest extent. 28:55.116 --> 29:01.041 [SPEAKER_00]: New Hale Selam gives Dawah for 950 years and less than 100 people became Muslim. 29:02.033 --> 29:13.409 [SPEAKER_00]: If this were a modern-day Wall Street business, the KPI is in the metrics that you're measuring would look like an absolute failure from a secular lens, less than 100 people converted in 950 years. 29:15.313 --> 29:20.116 [SPEAKER_00]: and Allah refers to Nuhalehi Selan's effort in Nuhukana Abdan Shakura. 29:20.657 --> 29:22.718 [SPEAKER_00]: He was a grateful servant to Allah. 29:23.099 --> 29:28.482 [SPEAKER_00]: The first of Ullula Azmi, min al-Rusad, there are prophets on the day of judgment who have no followers. 29:28.923 --> 29:30.164 [SPEAKER_00]: Does that mean they failed? 29:30.384 --> 29:31.705 [SPEAKER_00]: They absolutely passed. 29:32.165 --> 29:32.766 [SPEAKER_00]: they had a mission. 29:33.366 --> 29:34.087 [SPEAKER_00]: They did their part. 29:34.587 --> 29:35.989 [SPEAKER_00]: The outcome is not up to you. 29:36.069 --> 29:40.613 [SPEAKER_00]: You have to do your part and leave the outcome the reward with a loss of Hanna Wattada. 29:40.953 --> 29:43.055 [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, you know, you look at the prophets on Allah Almighty. 29:43.075 --> 29:46.539 [SPEAKER_00]: He was saying, I'm hoping to have the greatest amount of followers on the day of judgment. 29:47.039 --> 29:53.225 [SPEAKER_00]: But either way, either way, we know every prophet and every messenger is thanked by a loss of Hanna Wattada. 29:54.488 --> 30:10.355 [SPEAKER_00]: When I, every now and then, like every quarter, I'll take in all the Q&A forms from every lecture that I've conducted across the country, every email that was sent to either my admin or myself, every message or DM with any religious question or venting or anything at all. 30:11.095 --> 30:13.977 [SPEAKER_00]: And will compile them and see, like, what are, are there any changes? 30:14.257 --> 30:16.338 [SPEAKER_00]: Are there any trends, complaints, issues? 30:16.658 --> 30:18.859 [SPEAKER_00]: What are the top fifth issues, theological issues? 30:19.099 --> 30:22.401 [SPEAKER_00]: And I like to do this because I like to see, is there some significant changes? 30:22.421 --> 30:27.324 [SPEAKER_00]: Is there a new issue that needs to be addressed by the organizations and the communities? 30:27.984 --> 30:31.766 [SPEAKER_00]: And so, Palo, one of the things that, um, I think comes up more than anything else. 30:32.486 --> 30:34.648 [SPEAKER_00]: If I were to summarize it in one word, is the word pain. 30:35.648 --> 30:37.250 [SPEAKER_00]: the people express a lot of pain. 30:38.051 --> 30:41.115 [SPEAKER_00]: And the reality is we don't know the pain of the person sitting next to us. 30:41.636 --> 30:50.147 [SPEAKER_00]: We know each other, we smile at each other and we should get to know each other for the sake of a loss of Hannah Tana in terms of Tidalph, but we don't really know the pain of people. 30:50.688 --> 30:56.353 [SPEAKER_00]: There are a lot of people in the community who are struggling with children who are very rebellious and arrogant. 30:56.373 --> 30:59.496 [SPEAKER_00]: There are people who struggle with their children, hoping they'll come back to a slump. 30:59.876 --> 31:02.379 [SPEAKER_00]: There are people who are looking for jobs, they'll come and pray every day. 31:02.419 --> 31:07.423 [SPEAKER_00]: And they've been praying and you see them and so on and so forth, they've applied to 800, 900 jobs. 31:07.443 --> 31:09.345 [SPEAKER_00]: They've sent out their job applications. 31:09.605 --> 31:10.907 [SPEAKER_00]: They've gone through a job interviews. 31:11.367 --> 31:15.834 [SPEAKER_00]: There are people struggling with their health or their parents' health or their children's health. 31:16.174 --> 31:17.877 [SPEAKER_00]: There are people who don't have access to health care. 31:18.277 --> 31:20.320 [SPEAKER_00]: There are people who are struggling in their marriages. 31:20.741 --> 31:25.888 [SPEAKER_00]: There are a lot of people going through pain when it comes to their teenage sons and daughters or their toddlers. 31:26.409 --> 31:32.255 [SPEAKER_00]: There are people who are newly converting to Islam and their families are the greatest opposition. 31:32.416 --> 31:35.619 [SPEAKER_00]: They're harming them or abusing them, they have been accepted them. 31:36.060 --> 31:42.146 [SPEAKER_00]: And in many ways, when you recognize that there is a lot of pain that exists in everyone's life in different forms, 31:43.047 --> 31:46.948 [SPEAKER_00]: It should cause us to be a little more compassionate and supportive and helpful to each other. 31:46.968 --> 31:48.869 [SPEAKER_00]: A little more understanding what somebody cuts you off of. 31:48.889 --> 31:50.489 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't know what they're going through. 31:50.529 --> 31:51.189 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm justified. 31:51.329 --> 31:53.210 [SPEAKER_00]: Everyone's a bad driver. 31:53.230 --> 31:54.270 [SPEAKER_00]: A little more understanding. 31:54.530 --> 31:55.551 [SPEAKER_00]: Just a little more understanding. 31:55.571 --> 31:59.332 [SPEAKER_00]: And to remember that just as you at times feel like you ordered, 31:59.892 --> 32:06.975 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, on the hills of Asafan Marua and you're going through your own pain and you're thinking about your problems and not everyone else's problems. 32:07.456 --> 32:08.596 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't see the water yet. 32:08.616 --> 32:09.657 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't see that zamsam. 32:09.677 --> 32:12.598 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't see where the outcome is, but we still have to run. 32:12.698 --> 32:13.919 [SPEAKER_00]: We still have to put in effort. 32:14.319 --> 32:15.780 [SPEAKER_00]: There still has to be sai. 32:16.400 --> 32:24.244 [SPEAKER_00]: And all of that has to be directed towards Allah, asking Allah for help, focusing on the al-Qira and the eternal nature of paradise. 32:24.924 --> 32:35.894 [SPEAKER_00]: woman arad al-Akhirwata, whoever wants whoever desires the afir al-Wassah al-Hah sāyahah, Allah Subhāma tāna says stripes for it, meaning as it deserves, as it is forever. 32:36.434 --> 32:38.956 [SPEAKER_00]: What is reasonable and rational in this transaction? 32:39.357 --> 32:42.500 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, who won't meet me in Fahudah, it can kind of sāyuhum meskura. 32:43.020 --> 32:49.726 [SPEAKER_00]: Then Allah says, when you do this as a believer, you're striving your effort, your sacrifice, the nights you stayed up, the hard work you put in. 32:50.306 --> 32:51.628 [SPEAKER_00]: It's appreciated by Allah. 32:52.208 --> 33:03.940 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is one of the most uplifting ayat in the Quran when it comes to the unseen, unnoticed, hard work that you put in and you don't care the other people will notice, but you really hope that it has value. 33:04.340 --> 33:07.403 [SPEAKER_00]: You hope that it means something, you hope that it will lead to some kind of return. 33:08.124 --> 33:14.306 [SPEAKER_00]: You know the favorite story of the woman who used to clean the message of the Prophet ﷺ and then she passed away. 33:14.926 --> 33:23.869 [SPEAKER_00]: And in fact, what a lot of people might not know about that story, al-Buhadi and Muslim report this narration, that all we, it's like they heard the story and they weren't sure. 33:23.909 --> 33:25.870 [SPEAKER_00]: They just knew there was someone who cleaned the message. 33:25.890 --> 33:29.211 [SPEAKER_00]: They said, oh, Shabban, it might have been a guy, it might have been a young man. 33:29.671 --> 33:33.572 [SPEAKER_00]: So they weren't even sure, like, was it a woman or a man, but there was somebody who cleaned the message. 33:33.952 --> 33:35.013 [SPEAKER_00]: And one day they passed away. 33:35.573 --> 33:43.555 [SPEAKER_00]: And the Prophet ﷺ asks about this individual, even Hajjah says with no doubt it was likely a black woman according to another hadith. 33:44.536 --> 33:48.797 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't even know she Ethiopian, Absinian, those are some of the assumptions later. 33:49.337 --> 33:52.018 [SPEAKER_00]: That's how unknown she was to most people. 33:52.778 --> 33:54.400 [SPEAKER_00]: That's how unnoticed she was. 33:54.961 --> 34:02.769 [SPEAKER_00]: She cleaned the message of the prophet, Sonalahua is in the house of a loss of habitat, one of the most noble things in the entire world. 34:03.570 --> 34:06.553 [SPEAKER_00]: And the prophet asks about her, he notices who's missing by the way. 34:07.855 --> 34:10.618 [SPEAKER_00]: He asks about her in the Sahaba said she passed away. 34:11.559 --> 34:12.820 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, why didn't you inform me? 34:13.866 --> 34:19.809 [SPEAKER_00]: And some of the reports mentioned that some of the Sahaba who responded said, we didn't want to bother you with something like that. 34:19.829 --> 34:21.429 [SPEAKER_00]: Like it seems insignificant. 34:21.770 --> 34:23.470 [SPEAKER_00]: You're dealing with all these bigger issues. 34:23.871 --> 34:28.133 [SPEAKER_00]: So we were trying not to distract you with another thing to worry about. 34:28.693 --> 34:30.113 [SPEAKER_00]: But to them it was insignificant. 34:30.654 --> 34:32.695 [SPEAKER_00]: To the professor on the law, my son, she was valuable. 34:33.395 --> 34:35.916 [SPEAKER_00]: And he went to her grave, he said, show me where you buried her. 34:35.996 --> 34:36.636 [SPEAKER_00]: Show me her grave. 34:37.297 --> 34:39.618 [SPEAKER_00]: They took him there and he went and he prayed over her. 34:40.298 --> 34:48.543 [SPEAKER_00]: And he said, Salam Allah, how are you, Salam these graves by default, are filled with darkness for their inhabitants and a lot of Hanatat illuminates them. 34:48.723 --> 34:49.903 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, there's light, there's newer. 34:50.624 --> 34:53.726 [SPEAKER_00]: In these graves because of this prayer, my prayer over them. 34:54.166 --> 35:02.951 [SPEAKER_00]: And of course, the one who seeks with their e-man to prepare for that meeting with Allah, the one who recites Sauratu, the one who's strong with their e-man, that they will have light in their graves. 35:03.291 --> 35:07.693 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of the Muslims thought she's not that significant to distract the prophet Ali Salatu, 35:08.794 --> 35:09.775 [SPEAKER_00]: the prophet didn't think so. 35:10.395 --> 35:13.057 [SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, we don't even really know her name. 35:13.337 --> 35:14.717 [SPEAKER_00]: There are some interpretations. 35:15.598 --> 35:17.119 [SPEAKER_00]: She wasn't a commander in the Muslim army. 35:17.799 --> 35:20.101 [SPEAKER_00]: She wasn't a prolific narrator of Hadith. 35:20.481 --> 35:22.622 [SPEAKER_00]: She wasn't a wealthy donor as far as we know. 35:23.042 --> 35:26.805 [SPEAKER_00]: She quietly cleaned the mess shit of the prophet, Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. 35:26.825 --> 35:30.106 [SPEAKER_00]: But when she disappeared, the prophet noticed at a sallato sallam. 35:30.587 --> 35:31.927 [SPEAKER_00]: And that should remind us. 35:32.908 --> 35:34.948 [SPEAKER_00]: to pay attention to the people who are usually there. 35:35.188 --> 35:36.569 [SPEAKER_00]: The people who might be a notice. 35:36.629 --> 35:37.989 [SPEAKER_00]: The people who might be marginalized. 35:38.329 --> 35:41.250 [SPEAKER_00]: The volunteers that all these programs in events are on the country. 35:41.390 --> 35:44.470 [SPEAKER_00]: Every Islamic organization has its share of volunteers. 35:44.650 --> 35:48.231 [SPEAKER_00]: Most messages have a significant number of people who volunteer. 35:48.311 --> 35:49.211 [SPEAKER_00]: They're time, they're effort. 35:49.491 --> 35:52.012 [SPEAKER_00]: Whether at the board level or with specific programs. 35:52.112 --> 35:58.933 [SPEAKER_00]: Even the youth who volunteer for these weekly classes and other programs may allow reward the male, elevate their rents, may luxep from them. 35:59.193 --> 36:03.454 [SPEAKER_00]: There are people who clean the messaged who you pass by, maybe in some messaged they're unnoticed. 36:03.875 --> 36:05.435 [SPEAKER_00]: And we should appreciate the work that they do. 36:05.855 --> 36:08.456 [SPEAKER_00]: We should notice when somebody who is usually there is no longer there. 36:08.896 --> 36:11.137 [SPEAKER_00]: There are people who open up the doors of the messaged the others. 36:11.277 --> 36:12.497 [SPEAKER_00]: They have no idea who they are. 36:13.098 --> 36:15.298 [SPEAKER_00]: We ask a lot of Repanatala to reward them. 36:15.318 --> 36:19.440 [SPEAKER_00]: We ask a lot of Repanatala to appreciate the good that they have done along the Amin. 36:20.476 --> 36:22.137 [SPEAKER_00]: What about those who with their families? 36:22.557 --> 36:26.979 [SPEAKER_00]: They sacrifice so much and they feel like they're never really getting anything back. 36:27.439 --> 36:42.426 [SPEAKER_00]: There are a lot of examples and I told you I compiled, you know, this is what we do every quarter, compile a lot of the different complaints or venting or questions and so you'll have this category, a great number of people who feel in my household, I'm not really thankful for anything. 36:42.786 --> 36:43.626 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not appreciative. 36:43.926 --> 36:45.407 [SPEAKER_00]: It might just be a couple. 36:45.667 --> 36:47.868 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't have to be like a mother and a father who 36:50.389 --> 37:02.173 [SPEAKER_00]: There are a lot of moms who say like the only time my name is mentioned is when somebody lost something, for example, and she's like it's right there, they're like, no, I look there, she's like it's right there, they're like, no, I open the fridge, it's not there, then she shows up and magically it's there again, right? 37:02.293 --> 37:11.457 [SPEAKER_00]: It shows up when she comes, and there are a lot of examples like this, a person, a parent, a mother, a father, can spend, you know, sometimes like an hour cleaning her room. 37:12.137 --> 37:14.059 [SPEAKER_00]: And the other family members might not notice. 37:14.219 --> 37:15.821 [SPEAKER_00]: She cleaned the room for an entire hour. 37:16.041 --> 37:18.564 [SPEAKER_00]: And then she left for 20 seconds, came back, and their toddlers there. 37:18.584 --> 37:19.925 [SPEAKER_00]: It looks like there was a bomb that went off. 37:20.326 --> 37:21.627 [SPEAKER_00]: All these toys weren't they come from? 37:21.988 --> 37:23.569 [SPEAKER_00]: Child has no care in the world. 37:23.970 --> 37:24.530 [SPEAKER_00]: Long must die. 37:24.550 --> 37:28.294 [SPEAKER_00]: That's why children toddlers, especially they're like little hurricanes, a long must die. 37:29.015 --> 37:30.777 [SPEAKER_00]: I want us to think about the examples of, 37:31.818 --> 37:34.220 [SPEAKER_00]: those who struggle in their work settings. 37:34.980 --> 37:38.783 [SPEAKER_00]: Like they do feel other people are constantly taking a credit for their work. 37:39.183 --> 37:41.925 [SPEAKER_00]: Which is not a very pleasant experience. 37:42.465 --> 37:47.148 [SPEAKER_00]: Or think about the example of the one who is serving their parents, and their parents no longer remember them. 37:47.468 --> 37:48.829 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't longer remember their names. 37:49.350 --> 37:53.853 [SPEAKER_00]: Think about the person who are like the person who is helping their family in terms of 37:54.613 --> 38:09.699 [SPEAKER_00]: like stability, structure, finances, whatever it may be, and they're not really thanked for it, like especially those who work to serve their families, to make sure that they have a roof above their heads, but they start to feel maybe because the family's not appreciating explicitly, like it's no longer really appreciated. 38:10.279 --> 38:18.343 [SPEAKER_00]: But then you look at some of the verses of the Qur'an, and one of the most uplifting verses about this concept by far in Suratul Insan. 38:19.103 --> 38:30.167 [SPEAKER_00]: About those who help others in Namanuparimu Kumli, Wajhilla, Hila, Nuri, Duwinkum, Jazan, Wala Shukura, that we are feeding for the sake of Allah, we don't want any reward or thanks for me. 38:30.647 --> 38:34.969 [SPEAKER_00]: Jazan, Wala Shukura, no Jazan, no Shukura, they gave up both in a dunya. 38:35.529 --> 38:39.191 [SPEAKER_00]: And a few verses later, that was Aya 9 in Suratul, Insan. 38:39.991 --> 38:48.418 [SPEAKER_00]: You fast forward to Aia 22, same Sura, a loss to Pana Tana speaking to the people of Jaina in Nihada Kanada Komjaza, Wakana Sari Yukon, Meshkora. 38:49.018 --> 38:56.505 [SPEAKER_00]: This is all a reward for what you've done in a dune, this is all a reward for you, and your effort is appreciated by a loss to Pana Tana. 38:57.085 --> 38:59.286 [SPEAKER_00]: here, you're not looking for credit. 38:59.667 --> 39:00.627 [SPEAKER_00]: You're not always necessary. 39:00.647 --> 39:03.829 [SPEAKER_00]: Look, it's nice to be appreciated and we should be appreciative. 39:03.989 --> 39:06.231 [SPEAKER_00]: And we'll talk about this in a moment, shall Allah tāla. 39:06.551 --> 39:11.194 [SPEAKER_00]: But Allah's repentant tāla is reminding the person who may feel unappreciated at home or work. 39:11.614 --> 39:13.255 [SPEAKER_00]: But they are doing the right thing. 39:13.655 --> 39:18.238 [SPEAKER_00]: They are doing this for the sake of Allah, that Allah Himself is appreciative of what you do. 39:18.638 --> 39:20.019 [SPEAKER_00]: And what is their more important than that? 39:20.059 --> 39:21.259 [SPEAKER_00]: But I'll also panotaida. 39:21.559 --> 39:22.440 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, thank you for this. 39:22.500 --> 39:30.343 [SPEAKER_00]: And of course, the thanks here, praise and reward, and increase as well as eternal paradise in my Escalasa panotaida, to grant us that, along the Amit. 39:31.004 --> 39:33.685 [SPEAKER_00]: Another category I found with those emails and questions. 39:34.305 --> 39:41.573 [SPEAKER_00]: The group of people who felt sad about being in a spiritual state that's no longer a good compared to where they were before. 39:42.054 --> 39:45.057 [SPEAKER_00]: They felt like they drifted away from a loss of halata and there are many examples. 39:45.537 --> 39:51.464 [SPEAKER_00]: But amongst them, when somebody would say, like, I used to pray, Cliam would lay, or go to halaka to more often or read a Jews every day. 39:52.045 --> 39:53.686 [SPEAKER_00]: And then you look at why, what changed? 39:54.427 --> 39:57.509 [SPEAKER_00]: In many of these cases, a person that didn't really drift away from Allah. 39:58.069 --> 39:59.830 [SPEAKER_00]: Their circumstances became very difficult. 40:00.090 --> 40:10.416 [SPEAKER_00]: Somebody got really sick in the valley, or they had a chronic illness, or she literally a late-stage cancer and surgery and treatment, or somebody that a mom that just had a newborn. 40:10.676 --> 40:14.718 [SPEAKER_00]: She's like, might on my lawn is like, destroyed compared to the previous animal lawns of my life. 40:15.138 --> 40:19.581 [SPEAKER_00]: Somebody who just got their first job, and they're barely surviving two or three jobs to take care of their family. 40:20.121 --> 40:22.122 [SPEAKER_00]: They're like, man, I used to be able to do more than I've had it. 40:22.562 --> 40:25.904 [SPEAKER_00]: They are trying, but they feel like a shadow of where they were before. 40:26.625 --> 40:28.245 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is the person who's really trying. 40:29.006 --> 40:31.227 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the person whose circumstances have changed. 40:31.767 --> 40:33.468 [SPEAKER_00]: A loss of panotatic gives us good news. 40:33.508 --> 40:35.389 [SPEAKER_00]: Through the prophet, Salaloha, Adiyah, Salam. 40:35.589 --> 40:38.351 [SPEAKER_00]: If you fall ill, or you travel, 40:39.257 --> 40:44.222 [SPEAKER_00]: and previously used to do good things, but the illness and trouble disrupted you for a genuine reason. 40:44.602 --> 40:47.585 [SPEAKER_00]: Qutibalah umit numakala yama yumokliman sahihan. 40:47.885 --> 40:53.770 [SPEAKER_00]: You will have the same reward as you used to do when you were healthy and you were at home. 40:54.491 --> 40:56.994 [SPEAKER_00]: But is this for the person who says I'm traveling? 40:57.034 --> 40:58.075 [SPEAKER_00]: It was a very light travel. 40:58.095 --> 41:02.240 [SPEAKER_00]: So you stop like praying your son and your poor aunt and you like neglected everything. 41:02.260 --> 41:03.422 [SPEAKER_00]: And there was no relics cues. 41:03.822 --> 41:06.005 [SPEAKER_00]: This is for the person who generally is going through a hardship. 41:06.485 --> 41:07.687 [SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of those their intentions. 41:07.707 --> 41:13.754 [SPEAKER_00]: So a lot of thanks them by doing what he will give them the same reward for the habits they had the entire here. 41:14.094 --> 41:14.294 [SPEAKER_00]: Why? 41:15.035 --> 41:27.786 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah knows that that weak you fell ill with that cold or virus, and you didn't pray as many know of it, you barely read your Quran compared to before, had you not fallen ill, you would have continued with your weakly having, you would have continued praying your Cliam. 41:28.247 --> 41:31.830 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's the question of what are our habits when we are able to do them? 41:31.870 --> 41:35.833 [SPEAKER_00]: What are the things that we establish as a default part of our identities? 41:36.554 --> 41:46.663 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's important to have really strong habits because when things are difficult, physically, or emotionally, or in our worldly circumstances, the reward continues. 41:47.124 --> 41:49.946 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's from a loss of panotada's generosity. 41:49.986 --> 41:52.349 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is another example of a shakur. 41:52.369 --> 41:59.195 [SPEAKER_00]: So when your life is not according to your schedule or according to your preferences, that a loss of panotada did not take that away from your record. 41:59.215 --> 42:01.737 [SPEAKER_00]: And we ask a loss of panotada to grant his consistency. 42:01.897 --> 42:02.438 [SPEAKER_00]: Love me, I mean. 42:03.721 --> 42:07.344 [SPEAKER_00]: There was an interesting study about lottery-prize winners. 42:07.384 --> 42:08.544 [SPEAKER_00]: I know this is a weird tangent. 42:08.685 --> 42:09.905 [SPEAKER_00]: How did that for the blessing of Islam? 42:10.246 --> 42:11.647 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a study in 1978. 42:11.747 --> 42:13.348 [SPEAKER_00]: I thought it was interesting here. 42:14.028 --> 42:24.396 [SPEAKER_00]: Study lottery winners, people who won usually millions of dollars in the lottery, and at the same time, they studied victims of paralysis in car accidents. 42:24.416 --> 42:27.138 [SPEAKER_00]: So anybody who went through an accident and they became paralyzed. 42:27.678 --> 42:30.460 [SPEAKER_00]: And what's interesting about this, and then I'll get to this example here. 42:30.741 --> 42:31.982 [SPEAKER_00]: What's interesting about the studies, 42:32.782 --> 42:47.749 [SPEAKER_00]: is that they found those who were lottery winners, those who had like the millions of dollars for the first time in their lives, they all self-reported, they all admitted a lot less pleasure in everyday things like a meal or a breakfast or conversation with a friend. 42:48.289 --> 42:58.834 [SPEAKER_00]: They found that overwhelmingly in that study, and there are many others, by the way, that corroborate this, the paralyzed accident victims reported more pleasure and happiness and joy 43:02.175 --> 43:07.777 [SPEAKER_00]: And the researchers gave this a term, I don't really like the term, but the term is hedonic or hedonic adaptation. 43:08.137 --> 43:16.279 [SPEAKER_00]: Basically, the idea of hedonism, that you adapt to your situation and that many people, because of the nymphs, they stop, they stop seeing their blessings. 43:16.840 --> 43:18.980 [SPEAKER_00]: They stop recognizing how much they've been given. 43:19.520 --> 43:20.901 [SPEAKER_00]: They start to assume it's a default. 43:20.941 --> 43:24.382 [SPEAKER_00]: This is why there are very wealthy people in the world who are not happy at all. 43:24.942 --> 43:32.785 [SPEAKER_00]: because it's like they're looking for something more purposeful, something greater, transcendence here in the needs in terms of hierarchy. 43:33.345 --> 43:37.166 [SPEAKER_00]: With this as well, there's another example, Persian poet. 43:37.846 --> 43:40.727 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know fantasy, but I was trying to find the translations of it. 43:41.207 --> 43:44.228 [SPEAKER_00]: A Persian poet set something powerful just about breathing from this 43:51.149 --> 43:51.970 [SPEAKER_00]: in and out. 43:52.710 --> 43:57.354 [SPEAKER_00]: The one you took in, you needed to support your life, to live a little longer. 43:58.054 --> 44:02.897 [SPEAKER_00]: And the one that you exhaled is a reminder as well about the one who sustained your body. 44:02.918 --> 44:04.178 [SPEAKER_00]: So in a way it refreshes you. 44:04.499 --> 44:10.123 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, therefore, in every single breath, the believer, the human being takes, there are two blessings. 44:10.703 --> 44:12.945 [SPEAKER_00]: And for each one of these, thanks is due to Allah. 44:13.505 --> 44:19.127 [SPEAKER_00]: I am Malu, Alada, Uda, Shukra, Wakalilumiribadiya, Shakur, even breathing every single breath. 44:19.707 --> 44:24.589 [SPEAKER_00]: In healing, next healing, and we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Tata to keep us amongst the Shakirin. 44:25.009 --> 44:28.630 [SPEAKER_00]: You have also the examples in the modern world, just like you see in the Quran. 44:29.010 --> 44:33.312 [SPEAKER_00]: Two powerful kings, both were given by the way, blessings from Allah. 44:34.092 --> 44:44.476 [SPEAKER_00]: And you have the example of the descendants and the people of Belles Rua'i, the followers of Musa'i Selam amongst them, Yafukauru, one of the wealthiest, richest people in all of history. 44:45.456 --> 44:49.298 [SPEAKER_00]: Finally, when he gets all this wealth and he becomes too comfortable, he becomes arrogant. 44:49.958 --> 44:55.880 [SPEAKER_00]: And he says, in Nama Oti-Tura'ala, in Minarindi, I was given this because of knowledge that I have. 44:56.983 --> 44:58.704 [SPEAKER_00]: and Allah caused the earth to swallow him up. 44:59.405 --> 45:06.371 [SPEAKER_00]: So in Manani, he said, I'm thanking Allah, Subhanat, I literally in the moment of hearing like the gift of understanding animals. 45:06.871 --> 45:10.134 [SPEAKER_00]: How does that mean, Fadli Rambi, the Ablu, and Ashqor, amakfor? 45:10.794 --> 45:13.696 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a favor from my Lord to test me. 45:13.837 --> 45:14.617 [SPEAKER_00]: Am I grateful? 45:15.058 --> 45:16.058 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it showing the gift? 45:16.299 --> 45:17.399 [SPEAKER_00]: Am I thanking Allah for it? 45:17.980 --> 45:20.562 [SPEAKER_00]: Or am I going to, or amakfor, I mean, covered it up? 45:20.962 --> 45:22.504 [SPEAKER_00]: Did I wear it really came from? 45:23.024 --> 45:24.986 [SPEAKER_00]: And he is honored until the end of times. 45:25.666 --> 45:30.210 [SPEAKER_00]: And the sad thing is in the world today, sometimes people slip up in society. 45:30.831 --> 45:35.815 [SPEAKER_00]: Between a fine line that they don't notice, and for the Muslim, the line is not very fine, very distinct. 45:36.415 --> 45:38.297 [SPEAKER_00]: But you'll notice this on social media often. 45:38.497 --> 45:45.483 [SPEAKER_00]: When people talk about work hard and hustle culture, which is very important in Islam, to work very hard, wake up early on that stuff, it's very important. 45:45.944 --> 45:49.187 [SPEAKER_00]: But the idea of the self-made, the word self, is very problematic. 45:49.707 --> 45:54.150 [SPEAKER_00]: From the Islamic lens, it starts to normalize the idea that it's you, you did this alone. 45:54.651 --> 45:57.192 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, where did the self even get life from? 45:57.773 --> 46:00.975 [SPEAKER_00]: This is from a loss of panoatata, and so the self made man. 46:01.455 --> 46:04.638 [SPEAKER_00]: The one who like shows off on social media is like, I changed my life. 46:05.078 --> 46:07.760 [SPEAKER_00]: I started becoming part of the 4am champions club. 46:08.060 --> 46:15.525 [SPEAKER_00]: I get up every day, I listen to podcasts, and I don't know, work out, and I take 30 supplements, and I'm up while everybody is asleep, that kind of self made man. 46:15.866 --> 46:19.068 [SPEAKER_00]: And this person's like talking about people sleeping and I'm building. 46:19.348 --> 46:47.301 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm doing it's me it's me it's I and this is a common thing on social media unfortunately who created you who created the morning who created your time who created this world and your sleep who gave you the ability and the strength there are people who work harder than you but they don't have the circumstances and privileges you have there are mothers who walk literally still to this day they walk kilometers for clean water and certain villages around the world to take care of their families so we look at all these examples we remember at the end of the 46:48.722 --> 46:56.248 [SPEAKER_00]: The work you put in is still important, but we thank Allah Subhan Al-Tanif for the capacity, the Telfi'ikh, one of the Telfi'ikhs, illabillah. 46:56.689 --> 47:10.481 [SPEAKER_00]: So if you have, you know, anything of this world you worked for, we're like in Islam, we don't deny it, and we encourage our children to be 4.0 students and to have good character and to care about the Ahid onto be productive and all of that, but direct it towards them. 47:11.081 --> 47:14.182 [SPEAKER_00]: and gratitude to Anoma and living with humility. 47:14.783 --> 47:19.584 [SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes people conflate this to me and Muslims should never mention any of their worldly accomplishments. 47:20.085 --> 47:23.866 [SPEAKER_00]: That humility means don't say anything about your work and that's also not true. 47:24.386 --> 47:40.093 [SPEAKER_00]: Because at times we should encourage one another and especially in this country, non-Muslim should know the hard work that Muslims put in, the level of education that Muslims have, the things that we have produced, the things that we are responsible for, technologically and scientifically, historically and today. 47:41.013 --> 47:44.637 [SPEAKER_00]: At times a person wants to disappear and say that's Islamic humility. 47:45.197 --> 47:51.584 [SPEAKER_00]: As long as you're being sincere, you're thanking a law for your job, your degree, your marriage, your children, there's nothing wrong with this. 47:52.064 --> 47:56.228 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes I think one of the interesting things is when you're reading email signatures, 47:56.789 --> 48:09.655 [SPEAKER_00]: and there are a lot of acronyms you don't recognize and it's the first time you see the acronym like sometimes people have much like five or six different acronyms like PhD, MBA, MD and LLC and I don't know and then you start googling like what is this person or shall they have? 48:10.075 --> 48:11.296 [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of accomplishments. 48:11.696 --> 48:13.657 [SPEAKER_00]: Does Islam say you remove all those letters? 48:14.097 --> 48:15.498 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't tell us about your credentials? 48:15.998 --> 48:19.340 [SPEAKER_00]: No, we should be proud of these things that have to love for that to feel from Allah. 48:19.780 --> 48:20.861 [SPEAKER_00]: But what are we using it for? 48:21.181 --> 48:22.441 [SPEAKER_00]: Who are we thanking because of it? 48:22.721 --> 48:23.902 [SPEAKER_00]: Does it make us more prideful? 48:24.302 --> 48:27.963 [SPEAKER_00]: Or does it make us humble and serving society and serving community as well? 48:28.283 --> 48:34.546 [SPEAKER_00]: We ask Allah SWT to grant us a sin and a khalas and to Allah in everything that we do along the Amin. 48:35.286 --> 48:39.348 [SPEAKER_00]: Shukud also does not mean you need to erase your grief. 48:40.088 --> 48:46.870 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes people think if I complain of my pain if I feel sad emotionally that means I'm not 48:48.611 --> 48:52.855 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's another calm and misconception that's related to this concept of shookan. 48:53.235 --> 48:56.497 [SPEAKER_00]: And of course you have many famous examples, the Prophet ﷺ himself. 48:56.838 --> 49:05.024 [SPEAKER_00]: He said in the Aina Tadma al-Qalba Ya'azan, wala n'apulu illam ayar l-Ra'abunah, the eye shat's tears and the heart feels sadness or grief. 49:05.605 --> 49:08.047 [SPEAKER_00]: But we only say that, which pleases Allah. 49:09.045 --> 49:11.246 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is with the loss of his toddler Ibrahim. 49:11.786 --> 49:13.486 [SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ is crying. 49:13.526 --> 49:18.827 [SPEAKER_00]: And of course, the reminder here is that Shukhul does not mean you have to pretend like you don't have emotions. 49:19.427 --> 49:22.928 [SPEAKER_00]: But obviously the emotions should not be directed in the wrong place. 49:23.028 --> 49:28.390 [SPEAKER_00]: They should not be put into the wrong way as well in terms of character, in terms of words, in terms of speech. 49:28.850 --> 49:33.971 [SPEAKER_00]: And so sometimes tears and gratitude are both bringing people closer to a loss of panoatana. 49:34.451 --> 49:37.372 [SPEAKER_00]: We have so many examples from the Sahaba themselves 49:38.892 --> 49:41.173 [SPEAKER_00]: just so we have something practical in Chalatata. 49:41.294 --> 49:43.535 [SPEAKER_00]: I actually want to jump to a framework. 49:44.215 --> 49:55.802 [SPEAKER_00]: What are at least four things that we can take and if you want for those who they review like their devices often in terms of a reminder, you can even put down four bullet points that you review on a weekly basis. 49:56.103 --> 49:57.543 [SPEAKER_00]: That's how helpful some of these are. 49:57.944 --> 50:02.446 [SPEAKER_00]: These are four ways to live with this name on law, Subhanatata, the name Ashakua. 50:02.767 --> 50:04.908 [SPEAKER_00]: The first is to consider 50:08.310 --> 50:12.674 [SPEAKER_00]: The scholars say it's found in three ways and all of these are required in Islam. 50:13.175 --> 50:15.337 [SPEAKER_00]: The heart, the tongue and the lens. 50:15.817 --> 50:20.082 [SPEAKER_00]: So the heart in terms of acknowledging in your heart where the blessings came from. 50:20.522 --> 50:22.544 [SPEAKER_00]: The tongue in terms of constantly praising Allah. 50:22.564 --> 50:23.925 [SPEAKER_00]: Muhammadulillah, Muhammadulillah. 50:24.366 --> 50:26.208 [SPEAKER_00]: In pain and in ease. 50:26.388 --> 50:27.449 [SPEAKER_00]: Muhammadulillah for everything. 50:27.909 --> 50:28.710 [SPEAKER_00]: And also the limbs. 50:29.090 --> 50:32.093 [SPEAKER_00]: What that means is to use the blessings of Allah, your sight. 50:32.694 --> 50:40.924 [SPEAKER_00]: you're hearing the device you have, the friends you have, the marriage children, whatever you have access to, whatever you are blessed with, use it to please a loss of Hanoatah. 50:40.944 --> 50:52.098 [SPEAKER_00]: Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, 50:52.458 --> 50:54.279 [SPEAKER_00]: So you is your health in worship. 50:54.739 --> 50:56.360 [SPEAKER_00]: And that also means take care of your health. 50:56.700 --> 50:57.560 [SPEAKER_00]: That means eat healthy. 50:57.580 --> 50:58.501 [SPEAKER_00]: That means exercise. 50:58.581 --> 50:59.461 [SPEAKER_00]: Use it for a loss six. 50:59.481 --> 51:00.222 [SPEAKER_00]: So you can be strong. 51:00.742 --> 51:05.244 [SPEAKER_00]: Use your degree or your education to serve a good cause to benefit society in some way. 51:05.364 --> 51:12.208 [SPEAKER_00]: Use your wealth to investing good organizations and structures and political advocacy and anything that will help people. 51:12.608 --> 51:16.770 [SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ was so thankful to Allah ﷺ as he stood in Klayam with late. 51:17.490 --> 51:23.512 [SPEAKER_00]: and it's not from a place of anxiety or sadness or like you're checking off like the boxes. 51:23.972 --> 51:26.493 [SPEAKER_00]: Rather, it's coming from a place of real gratitude to Allah. 51:26.933 --> 51:31.874 [SPEAKER_00]: So an action item to add, we all know this, but sometimes we slip up with these basic sunan. 51:32.434 --> 51:37.916 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah Maring Nih'ala, Vikriqa, was shukriqa, wa husnareba, the take after, every prayer. 51:38.556 --> 51:41.579 [SPEAKER_00]: O Allah help me to remember you, meaning regularly. 51:42.099 --> 51:47.123 [SPEAKER_00]: To praise your thank you, meaning consistently, and to worship you in the best manner possible. 51:47.603 --> 51:50.946 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah Muhammad Aya Niyada Dikriqa, was Shukriqa, was Hustaryi Ba Dikri. 51:51.306 --> 51:59.473 [SPEAKER_00]: The prophet taught this Duhat, Sallallahu alaihi sallam, to Mu'adbn Devat, and he started his advice with O Mu'ad, I love you by Allah. 51:59.973 --> 52:07.418 [SPEAKER_00]: So don't forget to say after every prayer, along the Aigni, al-Avikrika, wa shukrika, wa shukrika, wa hashnari bhadatek. 52:07.718 --> 52:12.721 [SPEAKER_00]: If this is all you take from today, as a new habit, you'll have taken abundance and shallotada. 52:13.102 --> 52:22.568 [SPEAKER_00]: But when you make this du'a, the scholar say, any routine du'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a' 52:25.830 --> 52:32.695 [SPEAKER_00]: have a mindfulness, have brochure as you're saying it, because you imagine how comprehensive this dua is in its impact. 52:33.096 --> 52:35.077 [SPEAKER_00]: You're asking a lot to help you to thank him. 52:35.597 --> 52:39.721 [SPEAKER_00]: You're asking a lot of panotana, even the ability to thank a lot deserves gratitude. 52:40.241 --> 52:42.503 [SPEAKER_00]: The ability to thank a lot deserves thanks. 52:43.445 --> 52:52.352 [SPEAKER_00]: Number two, as an action item from this topic, let's actually run the middle maro ficheia, do not despise or be little any small deed. 52:53.153 --> 53:03.181 [SPEAKER_00]: And there are countless examples, but you know these examples and these stories and I shared a few of them today, but I want us to think about the small thing that a person does sincerely every single day. 53:03.581 --> 53:08.245 [SPEAKER_00]: You might smile in the face of someone who's having a really bad week, or they've just gone through some loss. 53:08.925 --> 53:14.969 [SPEAKER_00]: Or again, you don't know their pain, and you don't need much to smell the face of your brother or your sister. 53:15.349 --> 53:15.909 [SPEAKER_00]: That's free. 53:16.410 --> 53:18.611 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't need like a border approval for something like that. 53:18.991 --> 53:24.735 [SPEAKER_00]: And so it's a reminder for us like how small these things are in terms of effort, but for some people, they're massive. 53:25.315 --> 53:29.097 [SPEAKER_00]: for some people changes their day or their week, there's to be kind to other people. 53:29.397 --> 53:31.838 [SPEAKER_00]: We also don't know what'll save us on the day of judgment. 53:31.898 --> 53:43.504 [SPEAKER_00]: What's that thing that like this man who removed the branch or the person who gave water to the thirsty dog, you don't know what it is that will be most appreciated by a loss of habitat or it'll outweigh other things. 53:44.344 --> 53:44.905 [SPEAKER_00]: Number three. 53:46.025 --> 53:56.729 [SPEAKER_00]: is to also be grateful to other people, and I hinted at this earlier, but it is crucial in Islam that we are thankful as well to other people. 53:57.189 --> 54:01.291 [SPEAKER_00]: And when someone does anything, anything for you, but you are thankful to them. 54:01.771 --> 54:14.616 [SPEAKER_00]: Whoever does not thank the people has not thanked Allah, as the Prophet ﷺ, which basically means Allah SWT gave you a blessing through a person, meaning something good happened and you didn't thank Allah or thank the person that he facilitated for you. 54:15.096 --> 54:26.001 [SPEAKER_00]: Anish Kaurali, Waliwani, Deka, Ileyan, Masin, Allah Subhanat, and a specifies as well, to be grateful to Him and He says, be grateful to Me and to Your parents, and to Allah is the final return. 54:26.481 --> 54:33.784 [SPEAKER_00]: So He combines in this ayah, surat l-Lokhman, He combines thanking Allah to also thanking a specific group of people here, the parents. 54:34.304 --> 54:40.467 [SPEAKER_00]: How terrible isn't, for someone to be a good parent and for that child to be arrogant rebellious and ungrateful. 54:40.967 --> 54:43.248 [SPEAKER_00]: How terrible of a situation for them spiritually. 54:43.888 --> 54:46.971 [SPEAKER_00]: And also there are a lot of studies in the space of marriage. 54:47.471 --> 54:53.977 [SPEAKER_00]: A Gottman Institute is a very well-known institute in Gottman himself as a Christian author who writes about the five languages of love and other things. 54:54.017 --> 54:55.158 [SPEAKER_00]: And so Gottman is well-known. 54:55.198 --> 55:01.363 [SPEAKER_00]: Anyways, their studies are interesting and it's helpful to sometimes look at what they've noticed in many couples. 55:01.624 --> 55:06.608 [SPEAKER_00]: Again, Christian background, but some of these things are just techniques or things to pay attention to. 55:07.308 --> 55:09.731 [SPEAKER_00]: He says they found in a lot of stable marriages. 55:10.371 --> 55:32.858 [SPEAKER_00]: the positive interactions tended to outnumber the negative ones by roughly five to one even during conflict so the positive things even when there is a problem an argument like coldness some issue that they still tended to outweigh in terms of ratio that bad things by five to one because appreciation when it comes to especially marriage 55:33.418 --> 55:38.825 [SPEAKER_00]: and siblings and relationships and ones parents and all that, it cannot be decorative, it cannot be performative. 55:39.486 --> 55:43.572 [SPEAKER_00]: And it has to be there in abundance, it really does carry the structure of a lot of relationships. 55:44.012 --> 55:46.215 [SPEAKER_00]: To just appreciate, it's a very basic etiquette. 55:46.736 --> 55:48.458 [SPEAKER_00]: Even if things are not going well that week. 55:49.159 --> 55:51.462 [SPEAKER_00]: Even if right now, there's another issue you haven't resolved. 55:52.162 --> 55:54.405 [SPEAKER_00]: To be appreciative is an act of worship in Islam. 55:54.685 --> 55:58.549 [SPEAKER_00]: We ask Allah SWT to keep us grateful for the people around us as well. 55:58.869 --> 55:59.450 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah the Amin. 55:59.890 --> 56:05.075 [SPEAKER_00]: And lastly, one of the most important practical advices of the Prophet, Sallallahu alaihi wa-sallamu alaihi. 56:05.936 --> 56:15.624 [SPEAKER_00]: look at those who have less than you in a dunya, not those who have more than you, and that is more befitting or more fitting so that you are not be literally a lost favor is upon you. 56:16.224 --> 56:28.214 [SPEAKER_00]: What happens if someone spends a lot of time on social media, and just because of the way they scroll, the overwhelming majority of reels they watch, which in general is not healthy from a secular lens or religious lens. 56:28.454 --> 56:33.038 [SPEAKER_00]: But let's see somebody does spend time on social media, and a lot of what they see is like the people living 56:33.558 --> 56:44.121 [SPEAKER_00]: above you, the people living with more, the people on vacations all the time, the Maldives, I don't know, resort, like they're just constantly watching people enjoy things that they don't have at this point in life. 56:44.641 --> 56:46.522 [SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes those things aren't even real. 56:46.982 --> 56:52.404 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes they're like, like a press release, like a short snippet of this person's life, a highlight. 56:52.744 --> 56:56.465 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not even like the way they're really living it, obviously hides a lot of the pain as well. 56:57.045 --> 57:00.468 [SPEAKER_00]: People's awards and achievements and it's not usually the sad stories. 57:01.088 --> 57:05.031 [SPEAKER_00]: What about somebody on the opposite and all the consumes like they're watching genocide? 57:05.412 --> 57:09.155 [SPEAKER_00]: They're watching pain, they're watching loss, they're watching people talk about their suffering. 57:09.835 --> 57:11.116 [SPEAKER_00]: A parent who just lost their child. 57:11.717 --> 57:17.601 [SPEAKER_00]: And that person's like, wow, like I actually, I felt really bad about my life before this, but Hamden and I at least I have food. 57:17.702 --> 57:19.623 [SPEAKER_00]: Hamden I have kids that I have a home. 57:19.963 --> 57:24.167 [SPEAKER_00]: He asked the house as a disaster because of the hurricane child, but Hamden I have a hurricane child. 57:24.667 --> 57:28.831 [SPEAKER_00]: And so, in a way, it helps us to reframe the blessings of Allah, in that moment. 57:28.891 --> 57:35.436 [SPEAKER_00]: And we ask Allah, Subhanatata, to protect us from comparing our entire lives to other people's highlights and reels. 57:35.476 --> 57:41.341 [SPEAKER_00]: We ask Allah, Subhanatata, to keep us amongst the shakari in a long time, to spend more time thinking about those who have less. 57:42.142 --> 57:47.346 [SPEAKER_00]: rather than those who have more, and this helps us to be more grateful towards Allah, Subhanahu Ata'ala. 57:47.506 --> 57:53.870 [SPEAKER_00]: Lastly, these are four practical action items, but one of the thoughts we should reflect on often is the end scene. 57:54.510 --> 58:03.376 [SPEAKER_00]: The people who enter Jannah, may Allah make us and our loved ones amongst them, Waqal alhamdulillah ilahi l-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e- 58:07.319 --> 58:12.682 [SPEAKER_00]: The people of gender-entrogenna, they thank Allah Subhanu Attana, who removed from us all pain. 58:13.102 --> 58:14.683 [SPEAKER_00]: Hazan does not mean just grief. 58:15.063 --> 58:16.724 [SPEAKER_00]: Some scholars say means difficulty. 58:16.844 --> 58:21.826 [SPEAKER_00]: A dunya has ended, and the difficulty of health-farming, we're not facing that pain. 58:22.787 --> 58:25.168 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah Subhanu Attana, our Lord in Narobbana. 58:26.058 --> 58:29.240 [SPEAKER_00]: Love of food, He is forgiving, oft forgiving, intensely forgiving. 58:29.760 --> 58:32.041 [SPEAKER_00]: Shakur, intensely appreciative. 58:32.581 --> 58:40.905 [SPEAKER_00]: The people of Jannasi that led you, all the bonuses of Allah was giving, and everything that Allah erased without His mercy, we can't enter Jannasi. 58:41.486 --> 58:43.307 [SPEAKER_00]: Without His mercy, we can't possibly get there. 58:43.767 --> 58:45.508 [SPEAKER_00]: So, the overwhelming majority. 58:46.468 --> 58:55.693 [SPEAKER_00]: of life that is not noticed by other people, your own internal thoughts and experiences and the things that happen behind the scenes between you and Allah, all of that is known to Allah and appreciated by Him. 58:56.153 --> 59:10.720 [SPEAKER_00]: So focus on the most important audience, focus on what you're doing between you and Allah, Subhan Allah, to Allah, focus on the fact that the people of Jinnah and to Jinnah, and they're now reflecting on all the opportunities in this world that they had to get closer to Allah in Narabana la Rafur on Shakur. 59:11.160 --> 59:14.522 [SPEAKER_00]: Once again, action item after the five prayers at 59:15.342 --> 59:20.349 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah Almighty had al-Wikrīqa, wa shukrīqa, wa khasnīra ibadateq. 59:20.650 --> 59:28.140 [SPEAKER_00]: In any language you can, Allah helped me to remember you often, to thank you often and to worship you in the best manner possible. 59:28.681 --> 59:30.924 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you haven't thanked someone in your life, 59:31.485 --> 59:34.367 [SPEAKER_00]: or a family member, or a spouse, or a parent, thank them. 59:34.387 --> 59:39.711 [SPEAKER_00]: Send them a text message and thank them and shout out, I know some parents will freak out and call you and say, is everything okay, what's going on? 59:40.051 --> 59:42.453 [SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of random, don't tell them like the one guy did. 59:42.713 --> 59:45.835 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't say we were in a lecture in the sheikh said to thank you. 59:45.895 --> 59:47.316 [SPEAKER_00]: That doesn't sound very real, by the way. 59:47.356 --> 59:48.717 [SPEAKER_00]: You put yourself in a bad position. 59:48.737 --> 59:49.678 [SPEAKER_00]: You made me look bad as well. 59:49.698 --> 59:52.660 [SPEAKER_00]: Just thank them for the sake of a loss of hot Natalia regularly. 59:53.160 --> 59:55.062 [SPEAKER_00]: Even if it's not your love language. 59:55.202 --> 59:56.983 [SPEAKER_00]: Even if it sounds something you care about often. 59:57.324 --> 01:00:09.040 [SPEAKER_00]: who ask a lot to unite between our hearts and bless our homes and relationships, that make us amongst those who are sincere and seeking His pleasure, and to grant us the small amount of gender in which we can say in the Arab and the Arab world. 01:00:09.341 --> 01:00:12.350 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah, Meen, wa salilahum ala nabina Muhammad wa ad-Aliw-sakhiyaj minayin.