[SPEAKER_00]: A couple of days ago, when I was driving back from the University of East Anglia, which is based in Norwich, a three-hour drive from Leicester.
[SPEAKER_00]: As I was driving back, I ran into a reindeer, and I ended up killing it.
[SPEAKER_00]: As this rain day is running in front of me, it decided to stop right in front of me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hit full force and with Allah, he brothers and sisters, I thought this was the end of my life.
[SPEAKER_00]: I honestly did, even the yesterday was, nah, I'm yesterday.
[SPEAKER_00]: When we buried one of our uncles in Birmingham, I mentioned this as an incident.
[SPEAKER_00]: As they remind her, for the people to take heed, because it could have been me that was being buried by my relatives.
[SPEAKER_00]: Today, my brothers and my sisters, I want to take two lessons from this incident that took place.
[SPEAKER_00]: The first, my brothers and my sisters is death is closer to us than what we think.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah SWT reminds us time and time again, brothers and sisters, about al-Mut.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we are also told that from the names of the hereafter is, as Allah says, we are in them, Yom Al-Hasrah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Remind them and warn them about the day of Al-Hasrah, which means the day of regret.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some of us, we might be living our lives.
[SPEAKER_00]: Walking on the face of this earth, thinking that death is completely and non-toss, or strange to us.
[SPEAKER_00]: People are dying right before us, brothers and sisters.
[SPEAKER_00]: How many of us take this person when we receive this reminder?
[SPEAKER_00]: How many reminders do we actually need?
[SPEAKER_00]: I told the attendees, the messenger of Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam totas, kafabil moti wa aitha.
[SPEAKER_00]: We are here giving a reminder, when in essence we are not in need of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The fact that someone has passed away, it is a reminder in within itself.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's right, the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam say, kafabil moti wa aitha.
[SPEAKER_00]: Someone dying is enough of a reminder.
[SPEAKER_00]: When will we smell the coffee?
[SPEAKER_00]: When will we wake up from this intoxication that we are all suffering from?
[SPEAKER_00]: We are fast asleep.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is why I live in the Meatali, but I do not want to say and not to near the people are asleep.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very the Maitu in Tebehu.
[SPEAKER_00]: When they pass away, then this is when they will take heed.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is when they will pay attention.
[SPEAKER_00]: However, it is a little too late.
[SPEAKER_00]: One of our biggest regrets my brothers and my sisters and this is from the names of the hereafter, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Al-Hasrah.
[SPEAKER_00]: What is in them, Yom Al-Hasrah?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is that we would wish we did a little bit more?
[SPEAKER_00]: Azallah, Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ala, Tawzas.
[SPEAKER_00]: Haditha j'ahadahumul, Mood, Kala, Rabir j'ahun, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: When they are struck with death, they will say, oh Allah take us back.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh Allah take us back.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I could do maybe more of my salawat.
[SPEAKER_00]: I could pay more charities.
[SPEAKER_00]: I could fast-more la alli at a man who saw the ha.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah says, perhaps I can go and carry out some more righteous acts.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can accumulate some more deeds.
[SPEAKER_00]: However, it is a little too late brothers and sisters.
[SPEAKER_00]: who may be procrastinating.
[SPEAKER_00]: How many people my brothers and my sisters do we come across?
[SPEAKER_00]: How many deaths have we heard about?
[SPEAKER_00]: Where one kept on telling himself, I will and I shall.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will repent one day.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will change my life around.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will seek forgiveness from that individual who I may have oppressed.
[SPEAKER_00]: They went to sleep and they never woke up.
[SPEAKER_00]: They went to sleep and they never woke up brothers and sisters.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the reality guys that graveyard 6 feet down is the homes of every single one of us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some of us are thinking, well, Lahih, I have my whole life ahead of me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I remember many, many years ago when I was walking on 7 sisters' road, finished repark London.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're still alive.
[SPEAKER_00]: And at the time, some hairs began to appear on my face.
[SPEAKER_00]: It can be called the whiskers.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't have a beard then.
[SPEAKER_00]: Manga said to me, I'm a man.
[SPEAKER_00]: He still have your whole life ahead of you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Still have your whole life ahead of you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just enjoy it now.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't need to grow beard.
[SPEAKER_00]: And at the time, my little brother was right next to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: So after that, I thought about what he said.
[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, young, I wasn't even that practicing at the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I just got on with my life.
[SPEAKER_00]: My uncle is still alive, brothers and sisters.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is over 20 years ago, maybe this incident took place.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I had my younger brother with me as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: That younger brother of mine is today not alive.
[SPEAKER_00]: I buried my younger brother with my own two hands.
[SPEAKER_00]: Twenty-two years of age, that's how, or that's when he passed away.
[SPEAKER_00]: Brothers and sisters, death does not discriminate with age.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're just another person on the list.
[SPEAKER_00]: The messenger of Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he also told us in a Hadith.
[SPEAKER_00]: That death is more closer to us, mean Shiraqin Ali, you know your shoelace?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's very close to you, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Very very close to us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Death is more closer to you than that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Hadith or many my brothers and my sisters pertaining to death.
[SPEAKER_00]: However, I want to conclude this one point with this Hadithia.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mankarnat and Dahumadli matunli aahihim in Ardhi.
[SPEAKER_00]: Omen Shayin, Feli'atahallel, whom in Hulio, this is a Hadith that should remain on the back of our minds.
[SPEAKER_00]: Every single time we come into interaction with others.
[SPEAKER_00]: What is the mess in the Sunnah Ali was saying, whoever has oppressed his brother?
[SPEAKER_00]: In any way, he has taken away from his rights.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whether it may be that you spoke ill of him behind his back, maybe you took his wealth unjustly, any form of oppression that you may have caused your brother, and we tend to take it extremely likely.
[SPEAKER_00]: We overlook it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not a big deal, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Failure to hell, whom in Julio,
[SPEAKER_00]: Let that individual seek forgiveness from that person today.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not when you're going out on hedge.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you see that what's up message going around, huh?
[SPEAKER_00]: With general terms, if, if I oppressed you, then please forgive me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was just before the month of Ramadan kicks in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Please, brothers, this all forgive one another.
[SPEAKER_00]: You clearly know deep inside that you oppressed him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you don't go up to Him directly seeking for His forgiveness.
[SPEAKER_00]: My brothers and my sisters, who are being told here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Abla and Laia Kune Dina are on where I dirham.
[SPEAKER_00]: Before they come today, when the Dina are on the dirham, the pounds, and the dollars, the euros, they will be of no benefit.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't know what happens guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: In Canada, I am an insolent, oh, they are the ones who will be given the limit.
[SPEAKER_00]: If this individual had good deeds, it will be taken away from him in accordance to the oppression that he caused.
[SPEAKER_00]: All that hard work, some of us, my brothers and my sisters, we fast in the day, we pray in the night, we have a lot of Quran that we read.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ibn Uttaymi, rahmatullahi alaihi, he was asked about a woman, who prays in the night and fast in the day.
[SPEAKER_00]: However, her tongue is moist of other people's honours.
[SPEAKER_00]: She's always speaking about them.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I said?
[SPEAKER_00]: Perhaps Allah was a panel at the outer center so that she could be at the service of others.
[SPEAKER_00]: She's working so hard doing all of these righteous deeds so she could what help out people on Yomarteyama.
[SPEAKER_00]: A subject that was going to happen, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to be giving up our good deeds.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me explain to him in Amal and Sari.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, hey, they're in Sayyia to Sari, hey, be here for Hamilari.
[SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't have any good deeds.
[SPEAKER_00]: What would happen brothers and sisters?
[SPEAKER_00]: The good deeds of that person, or the bad deeds of that individual that you backbited,
[SPEAKER_00]: will be placed on your back.
[SPEAKER_00]: You are pristine, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: You spoke about Him.
[SPEAKER_00]: That individual on your mouth, the amethyst is in need of righteous deeds.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't have any good deeds to give up to Him.
[SPEAKER_00]: You will take His bad deeds.
[SPEAKER_00]: This, my brothers and my sister, is the reality of oppression.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I have a principal, brother and sister, you know the principal is the loom, the oppression
[SPEAKER_00]: will come back to Hauntas, will come back to Haunt every single one of us.
[SPEAKER_00]: If it doesn't come back to Hauntas in his dunya, then the hair after is waiting.
[SPEAKER_00]: What is my evidence for this, my brothers and my sisters, have been speaking a lot about sort of use of when going around the universities.
[SPEAKER_00]: We know that the brothers of use of, they use their hands to throw him in the well
[SPEAKER_00]: These very hands they use, the throw him in the well.
[SPEAKER_00]: These same hands lay to rundown the line when you first fool it.
[SPEAKER_00]: What a saddha kalena.
[SPEAKER_00]: A famine had struck where they lived, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: So the brothers of Yusuf, this is after, Yusuf became a chansala, someone with high status.
[SPEAKER_00]: They walked into the palace, needing food.
[SPEAKER_00]: The same hands that they used to oppress him, were the same hands that they stretched out saying, what a subdukaleena, we are in need of help, be charitable towards us.
[SPEAKER_00]: The same tongue, that the wife of El Aziz used to oppress him by spreading these allegations about him, was the same tongue that later on admitted that she was wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah SWT is fair and just.
[SPEAKER_00]: So my brothers and my sisters, let's have, let's not have this mentality, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Which is also mentioned sort of use of the brothers of use of, they said kill him.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were struck with envy, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, too loose, use of.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you know what I said?
[SPEAKER_00]: After we kill him, what a cool numbing back at the hill, common solid hill.
[SPEAKER_00]: We will all then become righteous people.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes the shaytan whispers, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, just once, once.
[SPEAKER_00]: You'll get away with it, just like so, and so we'll go away with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: before that becomes a reality where we keep procrastinating.
[SPEAKER_00]: Keep telling ourselves, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: There is time ahead of me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let us repent today.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let us seek forgiveness from those that we oppressed a full amount of samarun wa s-tachfirullah Ali wa lakum.
[SPEAKER_00]: What he say, alamustamina f-tachfirullah, in order for Rahim.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hamdulillah, Waqafar, O Sarat, O Sarama, and Nabi al-Mustafa al-Mujtaba.
[SPEAKER_00]: A second lesson, and I'll just repeat what I mentioned right at the beginning for those who came in late, I accidentally killed a reindeer when I was driving on the motorway when coming back from Norwich the other day.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allahi, I personally thought that Allah this was the end of my life.
[SPEAKER_00]: As I saw the rain day rushing towards me and then it's for some reason decided to stop.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right in front of my car and I ended up slamming into it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was told by brothers later on that people have died like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the rain day ends up smashing into the windscreen and it hits you right in the face.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then Hamdulillah that didn't happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: could have been that today, you would have been receiving.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's up, messages?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, Abu Tamiya's past away.
[SPEAKER_00]: We took one lesson from it, which was how death is around the corner brothers and sisters.
[SPEAKER_00]: It could hit any of us at any moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: The second lesson that I want to take away my brothers and sisters is, at times we are struck with calamities, with difficulties, hardships, and trials and tribulations.
[SPEAKER_00]: And depending on how we look at it, it could go a very long way with how we end up dealing with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even Sheikh Ali is saying something, Muhammad Allah, Alayhi says the following.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, al-Mas'a'a'ibu-Ni'ama.
[SPEAKER_00]: The calamities that you are struck with is a blessing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why, li'an-Ni'ama kafirata ni dun'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u
[SPEAKER_00]: What you said about Alayha, it also invites you to be patient and being patient is a noble act.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you'll be rewarded for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: What talk of Alayha in Arabic is Allahi?
[SPEAKER_00]: It also leads an individual now to return back to Allah, Subhan Allah, to seek forgiveness.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it causes one to break down humbly in front of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ala while E'ara'a'a'ala'an al-Halq.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the last point that he mentions is, one may be left with no choice except to turn to Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ala.
[SPEAKER_00]: And as when he sees that nobody can help him in his situation, at times we find ourselves in this position, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going through difficulties and we feel deserted for sakin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody can help us in this problem that we are currently experiencing.
[SPEAKER_00]: You'll be left with no option except to turn to Allah, to have no hotel.
[SPEAKER_00]: And these calamities, my brothers and my sisters, at times, is a blessing in disguise.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is the only important lesson that I want to take away from the situation.
[SPEAKER_00]: When this rain dares smashed into my car,
[SPEAKER_00]: I arrived back in Nesta.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was very deep into the night.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't even look at it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I wake up in the morning and said, you know what, I think I should take it for a check.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm currently doing a university tour where I'm lecturing at 25 universities around the country.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm in desperate need of this Toyota Corona to stay intact.
[SPEAKER_00]: If it gets me through this university tour, my brothers and my sister is a huge accomplishment.
[SPEAKER_00]: The last headache that I need, with how busy I am, with all the commitments that I have, is for my car breaking down.
[SPEAKER_00]: The mileage is extremely high.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just hoping that it gets me through this university tour.
[SPEAKER_00]: I take it to the mechanic, surround the corner for my house, and I said can you just check it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because from the apparent it seems that the bonnet is open, you look at my car guys as a huge dent in the front, and it looks like that the bonnet is open.
[SPEAKER_00]: When reality is not, it just moves out of place because of the collision.
[SPEAKER_00]: The mechanic opens it and he checks my ordinary system because you are right in the head.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what do you mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: He goes, it is death the cipher.
[SPEAKER_00]: The oil is below zero, it's extremely empty.
[SPEAKER_00]: And because I'm extremely unexperienced when it comes to cars, I just drive.
[SPEAKER_00]: I said to him, what could this, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: What are the ramifications that he goes, it could lead?
[SPEAKER_00]: Your time belt snapping, it could cause your time belt to snap, and then chaos, the car will be finished.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's panola.
[SPEAKER_00]: I probably would have done another, huh?
[SPEAKER_00]: How many miles without checking whether the oil is there or not?
[SPEAKER_00]: So my brothers and my sisters, the Shahid Minal Qalam is, sometimes you go through difficulties and hardships,
[SPEAKER_00]: And we could put a positive spin to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a blessing in disguise.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even when you look at the story of use of Alis al-Tus-Sarab, Allah of Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ala sent down revelation upon Ya'qub.
[SPEAKER_00]: To allow his brothers to take him, even though he was very reluctant.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was very reluctant, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: They wanted to plot and harm him, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: He was reluctant, shall I allow them to take him because the excuse was, we are going to go and play tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let us take use of with us.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is our brother.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was very reluctant, the father, I hope, eventually, Allah, as they would have sent down revelation saying, let them take him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ta'ib, you may ask yourself the question.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why would Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala allow this to take place?
[SPEAKER_00]: When Allah as the original is al-Alim, He is all knowing.
[SPEAKER_00]: He knows what they're going to do to Him.
[SPEAKER_00]: We hear this from time to time.
[SPEAKER_00]: If there's really a God, then why are all of these different evils taking place?
[SPEAKER_00]: Why is God not stopping it?
[SPEAKER_00]: This is an atheist doubt that is spread.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, in storage use of my brothers and my sisters, Allah wills a panel with ta'ala.
[SPEAKER_00]: He mentions two of his names three times.
[SPEAKER_00]: Inna who, who will Alimun Hekim, allows Subhanahu Wa'Ta Alis, or knowing, and his O' eyes.
[SPEAKER_00]: At times, we are made to go through something.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we don't see the good in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: However, allows Subhanahu Wa'Ta Alis O' eyes.
[SPEAKER_00]: And my favorite line of poetry is roba amaran te tari.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jerra amaran te tari.
[SPEAKER_00]: Khafi al-Mahabubu minhu wa beden makruhufi.
[SPEAKER_00]: It might be something that you really despise.
[SPEAKER_00]: However, it drags along with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: That which is going to bring you utter joy.
[SPEAKER_00]: That which you love is not apparent.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't see it.
[SPEAKER_00]: All you see is negativity.
[SPEAKER_00]: And misery.
[SPEAKER_00]: Khafi al-Mahabubu minhu wa beden makruhufi.
[SPEAKER_00]: it is a blessing in this guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes we as human beings, we struggle to distinguish between that which, we are being deprived from and that which is being held in store for us.
[SPEAKER_00]: How many times my brothers and my sisters have we been in a position, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: We thought that this was the worst thing for us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Years go by and then we say, oh, Subhanallah.
[SPEAKER_00]: If that didn't happen, I wouldn't have this today, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure a lot of it didn't relate to that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Especially when it comes to marriage situations.
[SPEAKER_00]: Huh?
[SPEAKER_00]: You come across the system, princess charming.
[SPEAKER_00]: You think to yourself that you never have a cross Come across a woman like her.
[SPEAKER_00]: SubhanAllah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Years go by, Allah as though it just blesses you.
[SPEAKER_00]: With that which the mind can't imagine.
[SPEAKER_00]: SubhanAllah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then you say, good riddance.
[SPEAKER_00]: Huh?
[SPEAKER_00]: If that didn't happen, I wouldn't have this today.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, life you asked me, brothers and sisters, what was the best thing that ever happened to you?
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what my answer would be?
[SPEAKER_00]: Divorce.
[SPEAKER_00]: Back in 2015, I went through the most difficult period in my life.
[SPEAKER_00]: At the time of you asked me, I probably may be what break down into tears because of all the difficulties and hardships that I was going through.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what we see then.
[SPEAKER_00]: However now, I probably wouldn't be standing in front of you if I'd ever went through that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I probably wouldn't have gone to Almedina if that didn't happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when I went to Almedina in the 60s, I spent there with the sweetest days of my life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sweetest days of my life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Point of the matter is, brother, this is something that's happened.
[SPEAKER_00]: That might not necessarily be pleasing to the eye.
[SPEAKER_00]: However, from the Hekma Allah as the Wajjal, so much good comes out of it, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: My brothers and my sisters, and I always tend to mention this to the atheist, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: That which we can see is very limited, I don't think anybody can see that which is happening on the main road there.
[SPEAKER_00]: That which you can hear, likewise is limited, and what you can smell is very limited.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you accept that, why do you feel to understand that your intellect is limited as well?
[SPEAKER_00]: You struggle to really see through things.
[SPEAKER_00]: You struggle to see the blessing in disguise.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I will need to be extremely, extremely patient.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Some of us here, we come from countries which has been warped on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some of our parents, they went through famines, they went through difficulties, they went through poverty.
[SPEAKER_00]: They found themselves in the midst of wars.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do you think they were thinking at the time of the insistence?
[SPEAKER_00]: Why is this happening to me?
[SPEAKER_00]: Why is this and why that's right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you think it ever crossed their minds that they would be here in the UK, living better lives than most people?
[SPEAKER_00]: At the time when all of these calamities and difficulties were taking place, I know of an African Sheikh Subhanallah that was driven out of his home and he came running to Anmedina eventually ended up becoming a teacher in the
[SPEAKER_00]: And African man was teaching me Arabs.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah wa wa wa wa wa wa Jibs plan.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so perfect and beautiful.
[SPEAKER_00]: We just have to be what?
[SPEAKER_00]: Extremely patient.
[SPEAKER_00]: And look at the bigger picture.
[SPEAKER_00]: And just let Allah wa wa Jibs deal with this time.