WEBVTT 00:10.173 --> 00:31.978 [SPEAKER_00]: a lot of us, we see the Quran, we come to the message, we see the most half on the shell for we go to our home and we see the most half in our house and we think to ourselves that this is a sacred book, it's a holy book, it's a very very special book and those are all true, but the person who treats the Quran with such reverence, 00:32.262 --> 00:40.131 [SPEAKER_00]: that they develop a relationship where they don't engage with it has missed the entire purpose of the Qur'an itself. 00:41.132 --> 00:50.843 [SPEAKER_00]: One of my teachers early on used to say that he could always tell the success of his students by how they're most half how they're Qur'an looked. 00:51.864 --> 01:00.514 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, if you're a Qur'an looked clean and pristine and nice, he said, I could tell that you were not going to be a good student of the Islamic studies. 01:01.051 --> 01:20.528 [SPEAKER_00]: But if your Quran was worn down and the binding was getting weak and the pages had been flipped and had creases in it and there were notes along the side, he said, this was a student that was going to fully grow and understand and develop their firm, their understanding of this Dean. 01:20.508 --> 01:32.688 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah SWT gives us so many different examples so that we can reflect daily, weekly, monthly on how we live in this life, in an attempt to get to Jannan Al-Akhirah. 01:32.708 --> 01:34.471 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah grant us that. 01:34.491 --> 01:45.570 [SPEAKER_00]: One of the examples that Allah SWT presents in the Quran, a number of times across different places, is the example of human development. 01:45.938 --> 01:56.094 [SPEAKER_00]: how a child grows, how a baby, how a young person becomes strong, and becomes older, and becomes more senior. 01:57.315 --> 02:03.986 [SPEAKER_00]: And in the Qur'an, whenever Allah SWT highlights this development, there's always a mention of change. 02:04.747 --> 02:11.457 [SPEAKER_00]: The famous ayah where Allah SWT said that we were born into weakness, and then we became strong, and then we became weak again. 02:12.230 --> 02:21.203 [SPEAKER_00]: There's always an idea that there are different stages and different moments that a person needs based on their age and the stage of life that they're at. 02:22.505 --> 02:33.481 [SPEAKER_00]: And we see in the life of the Prophet, I such a sonam, that the way in which he dealt with different people at different stages was very strategic, was very calculated. 02:34.423 --> 02:38.068 [SPEAKER_00]: He would deal with people in different ways based on who they were. 02:38.656 --> 02:44.163 [SPEAKER_00]: where they were coming from, even how old they were and what their spiritual state was. 02:45.164 --> 02:47.647 [SPEAKER_00]: Brothers and sisters, I want to share with you a beautiful story. 02:48.468 --> 02:50.371 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's a story that might catch you off guard. 02:51.592 --> 03:01.525 [SPEAKER_00]: After the Fatih of Mecca, the prophet Aysut to Salam was traveling back from Gerona. 03:02.500 --> 03:09.730 [SPEAKER_00]: And when the Prophet ﷺ was traveling back, there was a place that they stopped the care of and in order to perform prayer. 03:11.032 --> 03:17.701 [SPEAKER_00]: And so he had asked one of the companions to call the Evan, and one of these companions began to call the Evan. 03:18.683 --> 03:30.499 [SPEAKER_00]: Now after the conquest of Mecca had happened, the Muslims were in a very peculiar situation because there were many people from Mecca who had either just become Muslim. 03:30.833 --> 03:47.010 [SPEAKER_00]: and their Islam was still maturing, or there were people who were not yet Muslim, but they had politically conceded to the Muslims, meaning that the Muslims are now the ones who are in charge of Mecca of our city. 03:47.030 --> 03:57.921 [SPEAKER_00]: In this moment when the Evan was being given in the middle of the desert on a trip back, there was a group of young boys and they were from the second category, they were not yet Muslim. 03:58.103 --> 03:59.785 [SPEAKER_00]: but they were part now of the community. 03:59.845 --> 04:03.428 [SPEAKER_00]: They were companions of the Muslims in this journey. 04:04.850 --> 04:08.293 [SPEAKER_00]: And when they heard the Evan, they were young, they were like 10 years old. 04:09.354 --> 04:11.456 [SPEAKER_00]: They did what you would expect children to do. 04:12.497 --> 04:18.863 [SPEAKER_00]: They started to call the Evan themselves, but they didn't know a way that was actually in a form of mockery. 04:20.285 --> 04:27.672 [SPEAKER_00]: And so they were about 10 of them, but there was one in particular, 04:28.327 --> 04:33.295 [SPEAKER_00]: And Abu Mahdurah, his actual name was Os, bin-me-yar, bin-l-o-zan, al-Juma-hi. 04:34.317 --> 04:44.353 [SPEAKER_00]: And what was different about him in that when he was repeating and sort of mocking the Evan is that even in his mockery, even in his joking, his voice was very beautiful. 04:45.635 --> 04:54.790 [SPEAKER_00]: So the prophet, Salallahu al-Salam, he hears this, and he looks at all these children that are making fun of the Evan, which is a very horrible thing to do. 04:55.192 --> 04:57.735 [SPEAKER_00]: But he sees one of them has a particularly nice voice. 04:57.755 --> 05:00.018 [SPEAKER_00]: So he calls that young boy over Abu Mahadura. 05:00.719 --> 05:01.360 [SPEAKER_00]: So come over here. 05:02.842 --> 05:08.289 [SPEAKER_00]: So all of a sudden they all stop, of course, because when kids get in trouble, they act like they didn't do anything. 05:09.291 --> 05:14.417 [SPEAKER_00]: He calls this young boy over and he says to him, can you repeat what you said? 05:15.379 --> 05:16.320 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to hear your voice. 05:17.862 --> 05:19.444 [SPEAKER_00]: And he became shy. 05:19.880 --> 05:22.884 [SPEAKER_00]: So the Prophet, I say to Salam, he gave him actually some money. 05:23.004 --> 05:26.268 [SPEAKER_00]: He took out some money and he gave him a small bag of coins. 05:26.308 --> 05:27.069 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, this is for you. 05:28.050 --> 05:31.435 [SPEAKER_00]: Can I please ask you, can you repeat the Evan? 05:31.495 --> 05:32.416 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you repeat after me? 05:33.778 --> 05:42.649 [SPEAKER_00]: And so the Prophet, I say to him, he said, Allah, Iqaba, Allah, who Iqaba, and Abu Mahlura started to repeat, but he still did it very quietly. 05:42.809 --> 05:46.714 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah, Iqaba, Allah, what Iqaba, he was very shy. 05:46.913 --> 05:58.073 [SPEAKER_00]: So the Prophet, I say to Salam, He repeated, no, say it again after me, Allah wa Aqabat Allah wa Aqabat until, He got this young boy to call the Avan with his beautiful voice. 05:59.816 --> 06:07.690 [SPEAKER_00]: And He could tell the Prophet, Salam, could tell that He was hesitant because He still was not Muslim. 06:08.665 --> 06:14.772 [SPEAKER_00]: He didn't want to concede, he didn't want to join the Muslims, but there was something just so charming about the Messenger of the Prophet ﷺ. 06:15.452 --> 06:20.878 [SPEAKER_00]: So magnetic that even people who weren't Muslim, they felt compelled to respond to his request. 06:23.982 --> 06:34.673 [SPEAKER_00]: Prophet ﷺ, he felt this hesitation, and he took his hand, Prophet ﷺ, and he ran his fingers through the hair of this young boy. 06:35.817 --> 06:42.206 [SPEAKER_00]: And then he placed his hands on the chest of this young boy, and he said, oh Allah, give him hidayah. 06:43.307 --> 06:45.830 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh Allah guide his heart, guide his heart. 06:48.294 --> 06:55.323 [SPEAKER_00]: Abu Mahdurah then departed, and they did their prayer, and then they went back to Mecca. 06:56.845 --> 07:03.394 [SPEAKER_00]: When they got to Mecca, and they had settled, they were preparing for prayer in the Haram. 07:04.353 --> 07:10.662 [SPEAKER_00]: And of course, this is the kaba, this is the, you know, the, the, the most important message on the face of the earth. 07:12.104 --> 07:17.452 [SPEAKER_00]: And so the Prophet, I say to Salam and everybody, they're looking for a more evident to come and call the advance, so that people will come for prayer. 07:18.453 --> 07:28.427 [SPEAKER_00]: All the companions, they start to look around, who wears this, where is this person, where is Belad, where is so, and so, get them to call the advance, the Prophet says, hold on. 07:28.447 --> 07:33.955 [SPEAKER_00]: There's someone I have in mind, where is Abu Mahdurah? 07:35.150 --> 07:38.880 [SPEAKER_00]: And he comes, and his personality now is different, something changed. 07:39.803 --> 07:42.751 [SPEAKER_00]: Before he was hesitant, now he's a little bit more excited. 07:43.413 --> 07:46.020 [SPEAKER_00]: The prophet I chose to announce this, can you please call the avan for us? 07:46.943 --> 07:47.725 [SPEAKER_00]: And he does. 07:49.342 --> 07:54.910 [SPEAKER_00]: Later, much, much later, when Abu Mahalura is narrating this whole story to us. 07:55.651 --> 07:56.772 [SPEAKER_00]: He's much older in his life. 07:57.794 --> 08:02.580 [SPEAKER_00]: He was asked about how he came to Islam, and he told this whole story, I was a young boy. 08:02.600 --> 08:07.267 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't want to, I was mocking the event, he called me over, he gave me some coins. 08:08.468 --> 08:13.515 [SPEAKER_00]: But then when he gets to the point where his heart turned, he says something very interesting. 08:15.137 --> 08:17.020 [SPEAKER_00]: He says the prophet Isaacs of Saddam. 08:17.590 --> 08:21.894 [SPEAKER_00]: ran his fingers through my hair, places hand on my chest and made dua for me, and when he did that. 08:22.755 --> 08:29.642 [SPEAKER_00]: He went from being the person that I didn't want to be next to, to all of a sudden becoming the person that I couldn't see myself being away from. 08:31.223 --> 08:34.927 [SPEAKER_00]: My heart yearned for him, Salalai Salam. 08:34.947 --> 08:40.893 [SPEAKER_00]: He went from being the most hated to the most beloved, and that's when I became a Muslim. 08:40.913 --> 08:45.117 [SPEAKER_00]: And he said, as proof of my love for that moment in my life, 08:47.054 --> 08:50.099 [SPEAKER_00]: He grabbed his hair as an adult. 08:50.119 --> 08:55.207 [SPEAKER_00]: And he said, I have never, ever cut this piece of hair from my head because this is the hair that he touched. 08:55.667 --> 08:58.972 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a La la, I've seen it. 08:58.992 --> 09:09.889 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine the story of a young boy who in a matter of hours or even days 09:10.865 --> 09:22.238 [SPEAKER_00]: went from being the young boy who was mocking the Evan, the call to prayer, one of the most sacred and beautiful experiences. 09:22.978 --> 09:27.924 [SPEAKER_00]: There are people that have heard the Evan and that was enough for them to accept Islam. 09:29.125 --> 09:37.935 [SPEAKER_00]: And this young boy went from mocking this act of worship the Evan to all 09:39.029 --> 09:40.751 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine what did it take? 09:41.492 --> 09:42.853 [SPEAKER_00]: What was the transformation? 09:44.094 --> 09:54.645 [SPEAKER_00]: The transformation brothers and sisters was as Allah reminds us in the Quran that every state and every stage has its strategy. 09:55.206 --> 10:04.636 [SPEAKER_00]: The prophet Ayesal to Saddam, when he dealt with other people who were proclaimed enemies of Islam, he had a different approach. 10:05.417 --> 10:06.758 [SPEAKER_00]: He had a different style. 10:07.480 --> 10:13.629 [SPEAKER_00]: when there were people that mocked Islam who were much older, mature, intelligent, developed, responsible. 10:14.571 --> 10:17.836 [SPEAKER_00]: His approach was not to run his fingers through their hair and give them money. 10:19.138 --> 10:24.927 [SPEAKER_00]: But you see here, Sallallahu Alaikum, that he understood the scenario perfectly. 10:25.908 --> 10:31.176 [SPEAKER_00]: He understood that this young boy is too young to understand. 10:32.388 --> 10:33.689 [SPEAKER_00]: that what he's doing is not right. 10:33.749 --> 10:40.796 [SPEAKER_00]: And he understood that if I can win his heart over now, it will be the best decision for the rest of his life. 10:41.918 --> 10:43.900 [SPEAKER_00]: And the Prophet, I such a sonan, did it perfectly. 10:45.461 --> 10:58.294 [SPEAKER_00]: Brothers and sisters, the reason I'm telling the story of a young boy to a room full of mostly adults is because as much as we look at the story of a ten-year-old and think that that has nothing to do with me, 11:00.535 --> 11:09.350 [SPEAKER_00]: If you look at the nuffs that is inside of every single one of us, it is closer to that of Abu Mahaludah than it is to anything else. 11:11.073 --> 11:26.779 [SPEAKER_00]: When we hear and when we feel the desire to do something, the scholars say that the nuffs that is inside the force, the energy that is pushing us towards our actions is similar to that of a child. 11:28.261 --> 11:37.335 [SPEAKER_00]: And so many of us, we live our life as Muslims, and we have a very simple strategy when it comes to being Muslim. 11:37.355 --> 11:42.724 [SPEAKER_00]: I will pray when I feel like praying, but if I don't feel like praying, I may not pray. 11:43.645 --> 11:46.810 [SPEAKER_00]: I will give Sadaka, if I feel like giving Sadaka, 11:47.667 --> 11:50.832 [SPEAKER_00]: But if I don't feel like doing that, then I may not do it. 11:51.853 --> 11:57.221 [SPEAKER_00]: Even though these are adult thoughts happening inside of the hearts of all of us, this sounds very childish. 11:57.782 --> 11:59.264 [SPEAKER_00]: My son Musa is seven years old. 12:00.425 --> 12:04.251 [SPEAKER_00]: There are some days where Musa prays with me all five prayers, Masha'Allah. 12:05.072 --> 12:07.415 [SPEAKER_00]: And there are some days where I'm begging him to pray one. 12:08.637 --> 12:10.019 [SPEAKER_00]: He's young, don't judge him, okay? 12:11.261 --> 12:15.447 [SPEAKER_00]: And I ask him, I say, Musa, Baba, what is the difference between yesterday and today? 12:16.118 --> 12:20.263 [SPEAKER_00]: Yesterday, you prayed, fed you with me, the horror, acceleration, uh, a mother of Asia. 12:20.603 --> 12:24.928 [SPEAKER_00]: Today, we're sitting here and I'm like, please, pray, Mugredib, and his shorts are too short anyways. 12:26.090 --> 12:27.992 [SPEAKER_00]: And he says, Bob, I yesterday, I felt like it. 12:28.052 --> 12:30.175 [SPEAKER_00]: Today, I don't feel like it. 12:30.195 --> 12:32.998 [SPEAKER_00]: And as much as we look at children and say, that's nonsense. 12:33.258 --> 12:36.202 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, La, he, that same thought exist inside of each every one of us. 12:37.683 --> 12:39.425 [SPEAKER_00]: And if we deny it, we're not telling the truth. 12:40.887 --> 12:43.290 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah Subhanahu Ata'ala and the Quran, 12:43.422 --> 12:50.553 [SPEAKER_00]: He actually gives us the example of the most childish adult that ever existed in history. 12:51.795 --> 12:56.522 [SPEAKER_00]: The most childish adult, his name was Firaun. 12:56.542 --> 13:03.553 [SPEAKER_00]: Firaun, a tyrant and a pressur, you know, you think of the most evil people that we can imagine today. 13:04.474 --> 13:06.277 [SPEAKER_00]: The most evil people that we can think of. 13:07.699 --> 13:11.725 [SPEAKER_00]: Firaun was exactly like them if not worse. 13:12.903 --> 13:21.117 [SPEAKER_00]: And we see SubhanAllah that the one thing that held back for Aaron was not lack of power, no, absolutely not. 13:21.137 --> 13:24.141 [SPEAKER_00]: It was not lack of money, no, of course he had the most. 13:25.063 --> 13:29.811 [SPEAKER_00]: He was the one who was in charge, but it was the lack of discipline. 13:31.133 --> 13:34.418 [SPEAKER_00]: It was the childishness that existed in his heart. 13:35.701 --> 13:37.223 [SPEAKER_00]: The lack of devotion. 13:37.844 --> 13:49.640 [SPEAKER_00]: that every mature individual develops the ability to do things that you don't want to do because you know that this is what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala wants you to do. 13:51.121 --> 14:04.579 [SPEAKER_00]: We see in the story of Fura'an in Sultan Nazih'a'an a very interesting conversation and Allah Ta'ala shows us this and by the way he gives us the cure at the end of this passage, which I love Subhanahu Wa. 14:06.101 --> 14:07.463 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah Ta'ala 14:08.168 --> 14:17.302 [SPEAKER_00]: to the sacred valley of Ithua and he tells him go to fit out because he has transgressed his way out of line. 14:18.023 --> 14:35.931 [SPEAKER_00]: This is your job now, your purpose is to go and to try to correct this tyrant and bring him back into proper behavior, act like an adult, as we say. 14:37.092 --> 14:42.239 [SPEAKER_00]: He goes and he asks, now think of the example, the Prophet is what's what I'm called, Abu Mahlouda over. 14:43.661 --> 14:44.863 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you want to call the other? 14:46.245 --> 14:48.308 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a proposal, it's a request. 14:49.530 --> 14:54.937 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah Subhanahu Ata'ala will not force any one of us to pray. 14:56.039 --> 14:58.502 [SPEAKER_00]: He will not force any one of us to give that cat. 15:00.125 --> 15:00.966 [SPEAKER_00]: It's our choice. 15:01.967 --> 15:05.192 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah has placed before us the opportunity. 15:05.392 --> 15:15.103 [SPEAKER_00]: And the chance to please him, Jalla Wala, but he's not going to make our limbs go over to the Walu area and make Walu and then stand in Sala. 15:15.123 --> 15:15.343 [SPEAKER_00]: No. 15:16.665 --> 15:17.686 [SPEAKER_00]: Look at Sayyidina Musa. 15:17.906 --> 15:19.948 [SPEAKER_00]: He could have come and said, look, you have no choice. 15:20.068 --> 15:21.290 [SPEAKER_00]: Listen to me or you're done. 15:21.330 --> 15:26.896 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you want to be purified? 15:28.277 --> 15:33.323 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you want to be a person that seeks purification of your state? 15:34.518 --> 15:50.052 [SPEAKER_00]: and will you not let me help you and guide you to your Lord, our Lord, everyone's Lord, Allah, so that you can develop a proper state of mature reverence of God. 15:52.914 --> 16:02.803 [SPEAKER_00]: And then Allah subhanahu wa t-ta'ala gave Sayyidina Musa, the miracles to demonstrate that 16:03.408 --> 16:13.582 [SPEAKER_00]: To prove to this person, you know, when you're speaking to a child, sometimes you tell them, hey, if you do this, I'll give you something they say show me. 16:15.084 --> 16:15.925 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to see it first. 16:17.387 --> 16:25.057 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, when I'm trying to convince my son, whose name ironically is Moosa as well, Moosa, if you finish your homework, we're going to get ice cream. 16:25.077 --> 16:25.958 [SPEAKER_00]: He goes up in the freezer. 16:26.018 --> 16:26.479 [SPEAKER_00]: Show me. 16:27.674 --> 16:52.922 [SPEAKER_00]: wants to make sure the goods are there he's smart you know in fick you can't promise you know the in transactions you can't promise a good you don't have so he's just operating within the sharia he says look i'll do the homework but you got to show me the goods first then i open the freezer and he sees the popsicle okay bismillah let's start mass science english let's go all right popsicle time so so panna la a la gauge a namusa 16:53.138 --> 17:02.151 [SPEAKER_00]: The evidence to show this childish person for Alan is immature, tyrant, that I am coming from Allah. 17:02.171 --> 17:13.827 [SPEAKER_00]: This is not from me, but just like a child does, when you don't want to listen, it doesn't matter how good the proof is. 17:14.888 --> 17:21.778 [SPEAKER_00]: If I kept that about, if Alan saw what he needed to see, he saw what everyone else saw. 17:22.805 --> 17:24.887 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember the magicians? 17:24.907 --> 17:35.917 [SPEAKER_00]: When they were having the duel and Musa Isalam throws down his staff when it becomes a snake and they prostrated and they said this is no, no, no, this is not magic, this is Prophethood. 17:37.238 --> 17:51.090 [SPEAKER_00]: Every single person who saw what Musa Isalam was given from Allah they submitted but if a person's heart has no discipline has no strength 17:52.015 --> 17:57.902 [SPEAKER_00]: to go against what they want, and to rather prefer what Allah wants, Fakat Veda or Asam. 17:59.284 --> 18:02.728 [SPEAKER_00]: Fumma adhabara yasam, and then he turned his back. 18:04.530 --> 18:16.465 [SPEAKER_00]: Working hard, SubhanAllah, yasaha, you know, Sari, when we go for Omra and you're running back and forth, Sari, the word literally comes from striving to do something hard. 18:16.886 --> 18:20.470 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes, the truth is easier to follow. 18:21.277 --> 18:25.002 [SPEAKER_00]: There are moments when doing the right thing is the smoother option. 18:26.243 --> 18:29.327 [SPEAKER_00]: You have everything in front of you, just do the right thing. 18:29.387 --> 18:34.773 [SPEAKER_00]: Why would somebody fight so hard to go in the wrong direction? 18:35.594 --> 18:38.618 [SPEAKER_00]: To go against traffic, to swim upstream, why? 18:38.658 --> 18:41.141 [SPEAKER_00]: Because the ego is uncontrolled. 18:42.803 --> 18:51.013 [SPEAKER_00]: All of us in this room have been a part of a discussion, a debate or an argument where we hit a certain point in that discussion when we know that we were wrong. 18:52.630 --> 19:01.079 [SPEAKER_00]: The hardest thing in that moment when you spent the last 30 minutes trying to defend your point is to look at the person in the eye and say, you know what, you're right. 19:02.020 --> 19:02.501 [SPEAKER_00]: It was me. 19:03.141 --> 19:03.622 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm wrong. 19:04.042 --> 19:04.563 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry. 19:04.823 --> 19:05.484 [SPEAKER_00]: I apologize. 19:06.926 --> 19:14.033 [SPEAKER_00]: For now, in that moment, did not possess the maturity and the discipline to look at say in a moose sense and say, you know what, you're right. 19:14.153 --> 19:14.594 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm wrong. 19:15.755 --> 19:20.140 [SPEAKER_00]: Fumme ade barayesa'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 19:20.693 --> 19:22.395 [SPEAKER_00]: And then he makes a big scene. 19:22.515 --> 19:23.096 [SPEAKER_00]: What does he do? 19:23.476 --> 19:25.198 [SPEAKER_00]: He calls everybody over. 19:26.399 --> 19:27.400 [SPEAKER_00]: Everyone who can hear him. 19:28.602 --> 19:30.103 [SPEAKER_00]: Fahashara Fanada. 19:30.123 --> 19:35.069 [SPEAKER_00]: He gathers people and he calls out Fakala and Arabbukumul ala. 19:36.230 --> 19:38.192 [SPEAKER_00]: I am your Lord the most high. 19:39.654 --> 19:45.520 [SPEAKER_00]: Brothers and sisters, when you look at this story and you see the degradation 19:45.753 --> 19:47.015 [SPEAKER_00]: of maturity. 19:47.055 --> 19:59.752 [SPEAKER_00]: You see that fit our own went from someone that was being offered a beautiful offering, mentorship and guidance from the words and the mouth of a prophet to all the sudden now claiming that he is God. 20:00.913 --> 20:04.538 [SPEAKER_00]: What you're witnessing before your eyes is a person that has no self-discipline. 20:05.277 --> 20:16.052 [SPEAKER_00]: No self-control, no real strength doesn't matter how much money, power, influence, doesn't matter what you have if you can't control yourself, you can't control anything. 20:17.534 --> 20:24.484 [SPEAKER_00]: The people around you, they might respect you for worldly reasons, but if you cannot control yourself, you can't control anything. 20:25.122 --> 20:33.394 [SPEAKER_00]: This is why the Prophet ﷺ said that the strong one is not the one who can win in a match of wrestling and pin the other person down. 20:33.755 --> 20:37.620 [SPEAKER_00]: The strong one is the one that can control themselves in a time of anger. 20:38.882 --> 20:43.248 [SPEAKER_00]: This had even sounds like it's very simple, but there's deep spiritual implications here. 20:43.609 --> 20:46.513 [SPEAKER_00]: Your strength has nothing to do with other people. 20:47.695 --> 20:54.825 [SPEAKER_00]: Your strength is found here. 20:56.105 --> 20:57.807 [SPEAKER_00]: Many people can run fast. 20:58.168 --> 20:59.810 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you make your way to the mission? 21:00.931 --> 21:03.735 [SPEAKER_00]: Many people can make a lot of money and work long hours. 21:04.075 --> 21:07.099 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you donate that money when someone in Russia needs it? 21:08.881 --> 21:16.470 [SPEAKER_00]: Because all of the success that you and I have, if we can't capitalize on it when Allah asks us, it's not strength, it's just our own weakness. 21:16.550 --> 21:18.853 [SPEAKER_00]: May Allah protect us. 21:18.873 --> 21:22.618 [SPEAKER_00]: And then Allah subhanahu wa tāna, later in the Surah. 21:24.826 --> 21:43.037 [SPEAKER_00]: He actually tells us, in Nafiralika, la ar-Aboratani meyakshah, who ever heard this story, it is a deep reminder for those who have khashya, for those who revere and think so highly about Allah. 21:44.367 --> 21:46.669 [SPEAKER_00]: And Allah to Allah gives many, many different examples. 21:46.729 --> 21:58.760 [SPEAKER_00]: He explains the building of the earth and the laying out of the earth and the construction of the sky and the alternation of the day and the night to display that it's not for an al-Huzoor abit him. 22:00.101 --> 22:02.143 [SPEAKER_00]: And then Allah's upon and wa ta'alaam will finish here. 22:03.064 --> 22:05.146 [SPEAKER_00]: He says something so beautiful, so powerful. 22:07.188 --> 22:12.653 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, when he describes Janna, 22:13.358 --> 22:16.342 [SPEAKER_00]: Heaven, may Allah grant us that. 22:16.362 --> 22:41.458 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, well, a man and a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, a man, 22:42.535 --> 23:00.815 [SPEAKER_00]: a man and a half a month on a rupee, for a person who in their heart of hearts, they have a deep level of concern and caution, and even fear about ever transgressing the status of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala in their life. 23:02.196 --> 23:06.521 [SPEAKER_00]: You know the feeling you have when we say fear of Allah, you know what that means day-to-day? 23:07.482 --> 23:11.226 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't mean that you walk around looking at the sky like this, that's not fear of Allah. 23:11.847 --> 23:18.877 [SPEAKER_00]: Fear of Allah is when you know that if you do what you're about to do, you're going to miss Assad. 23:18.897 --> 23:21.260 [SPEAKER_00]: And you look at the clock and you look at your heart and you sit. 23:22.783 --> 23:29.592 [SPEAKER_00]: And that tension that you feel, the tension, even though no one knows you're just at work. 23:31.515 --> 23:34.760 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, this is Toronto, so you probably work with 58 Muslims as well, so they all know. 23:34.880 --> 23:41.449 [SPEAKER_00]: But you get my point, nobody's going to judge you, nobody knows. 23:43.066 --> 23:44.689 [SPEAKER_00]: that's hoof of Allah. 23:45.751 --> 24:04.163 [SPEAKER_00]: It's when you're scrolling on your phone and you see another video, another picture of someone in Gaza or Lebanon or Sudan or somewhere that needs the food more than you need another dish or they need clothes more than you need new clothes and you look at that. 24:05.510 --> 24:08.417 [SPEAKER_00]: And you say to yourself, I'm going to have true fear of Allah here. 24:08.437 --> 24:11.785 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to just stack my own belongings more. 24:11.805 --> 24:13.749 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to give to someone who needs more. 24:15.333 --> 24:17.959 [SPEAKER_00]: Having Huff of Allah is a daily reality. 24:20.004 --> 24:23.552 [SPEAKER_00]: Having Huff of Allah, having fear of Allah is always wondering. 24:24.241 --> 24:26.463 [SPEAKER_00]: Am I going to be able to make the right choice from the time comes? 24:27.304 --> 24:28.425 [SPEAKER_00]: And what is the result of that? 24:29.226 --> 24:32.168 [SPEAKER_00]: How do we prove that we love a law that we fear him in the right way? 24:32.669 --> 24:35.211 [SPEAKER_00]: When the head nefs anil hawa? 24:35.231 --> 24:44.500 [SPEAKER_00]: Whenever your nefs pushes you to do that, which you know is not the right thing to do, you hold yourself back. 24:44.520 --> 24:45.761 [SPEAKER_00]: You hold yourself back. 24:45.821 --> 24:47.723 [SPEAKER_00]: It's hard work while lying. 24:47.743 --> 24:48.704 [SPEAKER_00]: It is hard work. 24:49.825 --> 24:52.948 [SPEAKER_00]: It is not easy, but Jen does not cheap. 24:53.755 --> 25:00.822 [SPEAKER_00]: And nor is it free, a lost pound iron local iron, he says that he purchased from us, the believers. 25:01.863 --> 25:06.447 [SPEAKER_00]: He purchased from us our lives and everything in it for agenda. 25:06.467 --> 25:08.649 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not cheap, and it's not free. 25:10.011 --> 25:15.096 [SPEAKER_00]: It requires the ability to be disciplined and to sacrifice for the sake of Allah. 25:16.417 --> 25:23.644 [SPEAKER_00]: One of the most important things that a Muslim can walk away with today from this Qadba 25:23.962 --> 25:25.485 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna have to make tough decisions. 25:26.547 --> 25:27.889 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna have to make tough choices. 25:29.031 --> 25:32.398 [SPEAKER_00]: Not everything in my life because of my Islam is gonna be easy. 25:33.299 --> 25:35.664 [SPEAKER_00]: We think I'm Muslim, yeah Allah make my life easy. 25:35.944 --> 25:37.066 [SPEAKER_00]: No, that's not how it goes. 25:38.769 --> 25:42.376 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah as a result of your Islam will not make your life easy. 25:43.077 --> 25:47.826 [SPEAKER_00]: He will put tests, but he will give you the strength to conquer those tests. 25:48.262 --> 25:52.029 [SPEAKER_00]: May Allah ta'ala give us the ability to hold ourselves back from the things that we should not do. 25:52.490 --> 25:55.916 [SPEAKER_00]: May Allah ta'ala give us the strength and the ability to practice Islam the way that he loves. 25:56.377 --> 26:11.164 [SPEAKER_00]: May Allah give us the ability to follow the son of his beloved messenger, Sallallahu ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala al 26:13.709 --> 26:19.176 [SPEAKER_00]: Hamdulillah, here are a bit of Al-Alamino, Salatu, Salam, or Al-A Rasul al-Kirim, or Al-Ali, he was a heavy age man, brothers and sisters. 26:19.837 --> 26:23.061 [SPEAKER_00]: Today's Qudbah was nothing more than recitation of Qutan. 26:23.181 --> 26:25.103 [SPEAKER_00]: We read the book of Allah and we talked about it. 26:25.844 --> 26:27.907 [SPEAKER_00]: It was that simple, Subhan Allah. 26:28.328 --> 26:34.555 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah gives us this book so that we can spend some time in 20 minutes thinking about the lessons that affect our daily lives. 26:34.636 --> 26:36.298 [SPEAKER_00]: May Allah tell us, open our hearts to the Qutan. 26:37.139 --> 26:42.906 [SPEAKER_00]: One of the things that the Qutan speaks about that is very important for us is I conclude. 26:43.460 --> 26:46.746 [SPEAKER_00]: and the self-discipline that's required to be a person of empathy. 26:47.467 --> 26:49.832 [SPEAKER_00]: All of us know today is October 4th. 26:50.393 --> 26:53.258 [SPEAKER_00]: We are well aware of the genocide that has been happening. 26:53.659 --> 26:59.730 [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody needs any further introduction to the tragedy that is befalming and inflicting our brothers and sisters. 27:00.511 --> 27:07.003 [SPEAKER_00]: But what I will say is this, tests have multiple forms and multiple shades. 27:07.422 --> 27:16.254 [SPEAKER_00]: And while the video and the pictures of our brothers and sisters overseas are memorializing their tests, we also ourselves have deep tests. 27:17.877 --> 27:31.135 [SPEAKER_00]: When we see something like this that is unprecedented, and when we see the effects of tyranny affecting the Muslim Ummah, in a way that we've never ever imagined. 27:32.498 --> 27:37.286 [SPEAKER_00]: The test that follows each and every one of us is the question, what will you do about it? 27:38.528 --> 27:43.415 [SPEAKER_00]: And we know that many people are involved, but I'm not speaking about the group. 27:43.455 --> 27:44.557 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm speaking about the individual. 27:45.539 --> 27:49.205 [SPEAKER_00]: Today, what will you, Abdurrahman, Murphy, do about this? 27:50.887 --> 27:55.755 [SPEAKER_00]: You alone may not be able to end the tragedy 27:56.208 --> 28:03.256 [SPEAKER_00]: but you alone may be able to end a tragic moment for another individual. 28:04.598 --> 28:07.841 [SPEAKER_00]: Brothers and sisters, this was never meant to be easy. 28:08.562 --> 28:10.244 [SPEAKER_00]: This dunya was never meant to be smooth. 28:11.485 --> 28:17.572 [SPEAKER_00]: Part of our challenge as people that have been given privilege as Sheikh Osman Khamers said yesterday, beautifully. 28:18.313 --> 28:20.916 [SPEAKER_00]: Privilege has its responsibilities. 28:21.976 --> 28:42.859 [SPEAKER_00]: and part of the responsibility of those of us whom Allah has not put in an occupied territory or in a war zone or in an area where we ourselves are in danger part of the privilege of that gift is that we cannot forget and we cannot stop supporting the relief of our brothers and sisters who are in need. 28:43.459 --> 28:49.806 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to ask everybody today on October 4th to make a sincere need. 28:49.786 --> 29:02.472 [SPEAKER_00]: that you are going to give and support and raise your hands and make do a and advocate for our brothers and sisters who have no one else to advocate for them and we're going to ask and beg a lost parent to add up to give them relief and victory out a bit odd to me. 29:02.833 --> 29:04.476 [SPEAKER_00]: We ask a lost parent to accept from us. 29:04.837 --> 29:06.200 [SPEAKER_00]: We ask a lot to add up to forgive us. 29:06.260 --> 29:11.170 [SPEAKER_00]: We ask a lost parent to add up to give the relief and support to our brothers and sisters who are being oppressed. 29:11.150 --> 29:21.240 [SPEAKER_00]: We ask Allah's promise to Allah, to uplift them, and to remove their trial from them, and to remove their pain from them, and for those that have been martyred, we ask Allah to give them Jehna, be ready, He's seven. 29:21.300 --> 29:25.423 [SPEAKER_00]: For those that have been injured, we ask Allah to give them a Sakinah in this life until they meet Him. 29:25.864 --> 29:30.108 [SPEAKER_00]: For those that have been affected by this, we ask Allah to replace what that has been taken with something better. 29:30.508 --> 29:38.676 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah, we ask you to make us people that are committed to relieving our brothers and sisters, that we become means of support for them, that we do not forget them, Allah. 29:38.656 --> 29:42.703 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah we ask you to bring about a day in which the entire Ummah's united ya Allah. 29:43.024 --> 29:49.054 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah we ask you to bring about a day in which the entire Ummah is united upon La ilaha illa Llama Muhammad al-Sawallahu al-Lawat. 29:49.074 --> 29:52.841 [SPEAKER_00]: And that we care for one another and empathize with each other and support one another yat Muhammad Rahimini. 29:53.142 --> 29:54.584 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah we ask you to accept from us. 29:54.945 --> 30:00.715 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah we ask you to forgive those that have passed away in our community and we ask you if she felt to those who are sick yawat yawat.