WEBVTT 00:00.031 --> 00:03.943 [SPEAKER_00]: There will be people in this room who are not going to be alive next to Maban. 00:04.284 --> 00:06.069 [SPEAKER_00]: It may be you and it may be me. 00:06.751 --> 00:08.597 [SPEAKER_00]: This may be our last opportunity. 00:09.139 --> 00:12.589 [SPEAKER_00]: And the question is, what are we going to do with that last opportunity? 00:13.379 --> 00:16.003 [SPEAKER_00]: This month of Ramadan, two weeks have gone by. 00:16.623 --> 00:21.971 [SPEAKER_00]: For many of us, we started out as with every match, as with every competition, with every event. 00:22.792 --> 00:26.116 [SPEAKER_00]: You start out racing past the gates. 00:26.857 --> 00:29.942 [SPEAKER_00]: In excitement, you welcomed the month of Ramadan. 00:30.282 --> 00:31.884 [SPEAKER_00]: You were eager in the first few days. 00:32.465 --> 00:34.628 [SPEAKER_00]: But as the days went by, 00:34.608 --> 00:39.312 [SPEAKER_00]: and the fast grew on you and you got de-sensitized and I got de-sensitized. 00:39.773 --> 00:42.335 [SPEAKER_00]: We slowly but surely lost that motivation. 00:42.956 --> 00:45.918 [SPEAKER_00]: We lost the energy that we had in the first few days. 00:46.959 --> 00:54.226 [SPEAKER_00]: And we reach a point at this very point in the middle of the month, where we are depleted in energy and depleted in motivation. 00:54.707 --> 00:57.529 [SPEAKER_00]: And some of us have even lost sight of the goal. 00:58.150 --> 00:59.751 [SPEAKER_00]: What are we trying to do in this month? 00:59.831 --> 01:02.674 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of us are just trying to survive. 01:02.654 --> 01:03.775 [SPEAKER_00]: the last few days. 01:04.276 --> 01:21.855 [SPEAKER_00]: As the last ten days draw near, and the nights in which we search for a little cutter draws near, we have to completely switch this mindset over, we have to rejuvenate, we have to revive our energies and be ready because what's about to come is the night of a lifetime. 01:22.495 --> 01:28.662 [SPEAKER_00]: Many of us, we find ourselves at the middle of the month, we find ourselves sleep walking into the last ten nights. 01:29.519 --> 01:37.652 [SPEAKER_00]: Whereas some of us are racing, running, competing on the full game because they know these are the nights that matter. 01:38.454 --> 01:44.944 [SPEAKER_00]: As you come into the last ten nights you remember how our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ would prepare for the last ten nights. 01:45.225 --> 01:54.480 [SPEAKER_00]: His wife, Aayashar al-Dyallahu anha informs us either Akhabil al-Asharu, when the last ten nights would draw near Shaddam Izara, he would tighten his belt. 01:55.068 --> 02:11.911 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, before someone is going to get involved in a very strenuous activity, they're going to run a race, they're going to get involved in combat, they're going to do something at some exercise, they tighten their belt, they pull up their sleeves, this is what the Prophet ﷺ would do as you approach the last ten nights. 02:12.672 --> 02:16.857 [SPEAKER_00]: He would exert himself more than he would in any night of the year. 02:17.158 --> 02:17.879 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the first thing. 02:18.660 --> 02:24.788 [SPEAKER_00]: Shaddam Eizala, he would tighten his belt. 02:24.768 --> 02:26.712 [SPEAKER_00]: He would wake up his family. 02:26.732 --> 02:31.801 [SPEAKER_00]: So many times, as parents, we say, it's okay, they young, let them sleep, let them snore, let them snooze. 02:33.044 --> 02:43.283 [SPEAKER_00]: But if there was any night in the year to wake them up, to let them experience the sweetness of an all-nighter in servitude of the Almighty, these are the nights to wake them up. 02:43.837 --> 02:48.894 [SPEAKER_00]: As the last ten night with dronia, the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallam would not let anybody sleep in his house. 02:49.857 --> 02:56.378 [SPEAKER_00]: The children, his wives, his family, his extended family, he would go knocking their doors. 02:56.864 --> 03:00.790 [SPEAKER_00]: saying to them, Allah Takhu Manifat O Salyan, why don't you get up and pray? 03:01.611 --> 03:08.562 [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody would be left, no room, no door would be unlocked except that he would pass by and involve everyone. 03:09.483 --> 03:16.594 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is really especially a due to duty for the leaders of the household, the fathers and for the mothers. 03:17.502 --> 03:25.177 [SPEAKER_00]: Because Allah Subhan Allah is not going to ask our children why didn't you wake up 8-year-old 9-year-old 11-year-old to pray at night. 03:25.778 --> 03:28.964 [SPEAKER_00]: He is going to ask us those who are responsible for them. 03:29.505 --> 03:30.587 [SPEAKER_00]: Why did we not push them? 03:31.349 --> 03:33.893 [SPEAKER_00]: For many of us there is an embarrassing answer to this. 03:34.875 --> 03:38.903 [SPEAKER_00]: We ourselves don't get up where is the question of waking up our children. 03:40.823 --> 03:45.470 [SPEAKER_00]: As we come towards these last ten nights, many of us feel despair. 03:46.231 --> 03:47.153 [SPEAKER_00]: We feel embarrassed. 03:47.774 --> 03:48.795 [SPEAKER_00]: We think, what's the point? 03:49.536 --> 03:50.578 [SPEAKER_00]: I've wasted two weeks. 03:51.359 --> 03:54.224 [SPEAKER_00]: Forget two weeks, I might have wasted my entire life. 03:55.305 --> 03:56.747 [SPEAKER_00]: How am I going to save myself? 03:57.228 --> 04:02.116 [SPEAKER_00]: What is the point of exerting myself just in the last few nights over a month? 04:02.576 --> 04:08.526 [SPEAKER_00]: For those people, a last Japan hotel has a special message for you. 04:08.546 --> 04:09.447 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah says, Mukura. 04:10.304 --> 04:33.308 [SPEAKER_00]: Quliyyari bhandiyyalladin asrafu ala Fussi'in O Muhammad Salallahu alaihi wa sallam Tell my slaves who have gone too far in wronging themselves Those who have lost hope, those who have disappeared Those who are beyond repair Those whose emojis have failed Spiritual emojis of course 04:35.110 --> 04:42.160 [SPEAKER_00]: l-takana-tumir-wahmetilah tell them to never lose hope in the mercy of Allah. 04:43.022 --> 04:49.711 [SPEAKER_00]: In Allah'a yaghfirud-do-nuh by jami'a Allah forgives all sins. 04:50.492 --> 04:57.743 [SPEAKER_00]: In-Nuh, w-w-w-w-l-r-fuh, r-Rahim, he is the most forgiving and the most merciful. 04:58.702 --> 05:05.833 [SPEAKER_00]: Many of us, as we entered these last ten nights, devoid of energy, devoid of hope, we need to remember that message. 05:06.554 --> 05:14.908 [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever our criminal record says in the site of Allah, it is only a moment of sincere repentance and it can all be wiped clean. 05:15.308 --> 05:16.731 [SPEAKER_00]: We can start with a clean slate. 05:17.973 --> 05:20.136 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the spirit of the last ten nights. 05:20.673 --> 05:33.197 [SPEAKER_00]: As when the Prophet sallallahu aluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluallualluall 05:34.510 --> 05:43.748 [SPEAKER_00]: It's like if I end up one day standing in front of the king or the queen or the prime minister, I'm going to find myself speechless, give me a script, what should I say? 05:44.810 --> 05:50.882 [SPEAKER_00]: And in that moment, the Prophet ﷺ tells her, if you find yourself in that night, lay it to God. 05:50.862 --> 05:58.354 [SPEAKER_00]: Then you should say, Allahumma in Naka'afu'un, all Allah, you are the only one able to wipe away all of my sins. 05:59.015 --> 06:06.508 [SPEAKER_00]: To wipe bul'afwa and you love to do so, Fafwani, please erase wipe clean all of my sins. 06:07.129 --> 06:07.730 [SPEAKER_00]: Be ambitious. 06:08.752 --> 06:13.900 [SPEAKER_00]: As we come to the last ten nights, we are not asking somebody with limited capital. 06:13.880 --> 06:16.686 [SPEAKER_00]: with a small bank account, with limited reserves. 06:17.147 --> 06:21.097 [SPEAKER_00]: We're not asking someone who is facing the cost of living crisis. 06:21.538 --> 06:24.224 [SPEAKER_00]: We are asking the Almighty who owns the heavens and the earth. 06:25.206 --> 06:26.589 [SPEAKER_00]: Why be modest in our request? 06:27.411 --> 06:31.821 [SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says to his companions, i.e sallatumun l-lahah. 06:31.801 --> 06:38.569 [SPEAKER_00]: If you get a chance to ask Allah for something, Fasaluhul Firdos, don't ask him for the basement of Paradise. 06:39.069 --> 06:47.639 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't ask him for the ensuite studio accommodation of Paradise, ask him for the penthouse, ask him for El Firdos, ask him for the greatest part of Paradise. 06:48.760 --> 06:54.467 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't be modest, don't be shy, because you are asking the one who owns the heavens and the earth. 06:54.447 --> 06:57.632 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the attitude with which we should go into the last 10 nights. 06:58.013 --> 07:10.773 [SPEAKER_00]: We are going towards a sale and offer a one-time offer in which 83 years' worth of deeds can begin, and a lifetime worth of sins can be forgiven. 07:11.854 --> 07:15.460 [SPEAKER_00]: How merciful of Allah to even grant us that opportunity. 07:15.845 --> 07:21.714 [SPEAKER_00]: And I want to end this hothba sharing with you this story in hopes that it will give us food for thought. 07:22.495 --> 07:27.422 [SPEAKER_00]: This man Abu Gaurayar al-Radiyallahu anhu, he except Islam in the seventh year history. 07:28.684 --> 07:37.617 [SPEAKER_00]: That means after he except Islam, he only has three to four years in the company of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. 07:37.637 --> 07:40.321 [SPEAKER_00]: Before the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam passes away. 07:41.402 --> 07:42.544 [SPEAKER_00]: Three to four years. 07:43.503 --> 07:46.366 [SPEAKER_00]: For a moment, think about everything he has missed. 07:47.087 --> 08:03.343 [SPEAKER_00]: He has missed the Battle of Budder, the Battle of Othet, the Battle of the Trench, the great battles, the great wars, the great moments, how many years he missed the company of the Prophet ﷺ. Seventeen years, he did not experience a moment with the Prophet ﷺ. 08:04.584 --> 08:07.367 [SPEAKER_00]: And he's come now at the very end of the Prophet's life. 08:08.228 --> 08:12.092 [SPEAKER_00]: The last minute, the last three years 08:13.034 --> 08:16.379 [SPEAKER_00]: One might think, in three years, what is this man going to do? 08:16.880 --> 08:18.242 [SPEAKER_00]: What's he going to learn from the Prophet? 08:18.622 --> 08:19.544 [SPEAKER_00]: What's he going to achieve? 08:20.104 --> 08:27.395 [SPEAKER_00]: And then he turns around and he shocks us all, and he becomes the greatest narrator of Hadith that the world has ever seen. 08:28.076 --> 08:36.088 [SPEAKER_00]: Three to four years in the company of the Prophet Sallahu alaihi wa sallu and he narrates roughly 12,000 Hadith. 08:36.068 --> 08:43.151 [SPEAKER_00]: Like when you're watching a match and you get that substitution at the last five minutes and that substitutes cause all the goals. 08:44.536 --> 08:47.445 [SPEAKER_00]: That last over of the match on all the runs are scored. 08:48.421 --> 08:50.865 [SPEAKER_00]: It takes a man who knows the value of time. 08:52.268 --> 08:53.791 [SPEAKER_00]: He thinks to himself, I have three years. 08:53.831 --> 08:56.816 [SPEAKER_00]: I've spent so many years of my life as a disbeliever. 08:57.438 --> 09:00.183 [SPEAKER_00]: In these three years, this was his mandate, his mission. 09:00.704 --> 09:07.476 [SPEAKER_00]: I am not going to part, waste, rid Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam for even a single minute. 09:07.456 --> 09:18.708 [SPEAKER_00]: I am going to memorize everything he says, every movement, to the extent, Abu Huraira used to watch the Prophet's silences and ask him why were you silent for that one moment. 09:19.529 --> 09:24.775 [SPEAKER_00]: One day he asked the Prophet, Ara'a'itah Sukhuta, Kabeenah, Teqbid, Yul Fatiha, Tehmata, Kul. 09:25.195 --> 09:29.540 [SPEAKER_00]: I saw you silent for one moment between saying Allah, Akbar, and reading the Fatiha. 09:29.881 --> 09:31.202 [SPEAKER_00]: What do you say? 09:31.182 --> 09:40.414 [SPEAKER_00]: look at the curiosity, look at the intelligence, look at how intent he is to preserve every second he lives with the Prophet ﷺ. 09:41.135 --> 09:44.860 [SPEAKER_00]: So many of us our entire lives have been lived in sin, in waste. 09:45.440 --> 09:49.386 [SPEAKER_00]: We have never really discovered our purpose and why our law created. 09:49.526 --> 09:58.978 [SPEAKER_00]: So many of us lived our Ramadan, in waste, in waste of time, in watching cereals, in watching TV, in 09:58.958 --> 10:07.109 [SPEAKER_00]: If Abu Rayalah in three years, four years could narrate thousands of Ahadith, you and me, we still have half the month. 10:07.690 --> 10:11.455 [SPEAKER_00]: There will be people in this room who are not going to be alive next to my band. 10:11.795 --> 10:13.537 [SPEAKER_00]: It may be you, and it may be me. 10:14.238 --> 10:16.061 [SPEAKER_00]: This may be our last opportunity. 10:16.642 --> 10:20.106 [SPEAKER_00]: And the question is, what are we going to do with that last opportunity? 10:20.887 --> 10:25.053 [SPEAKER_00]: There are so many of us in this room, we are going to wake up on the day of judgment regretful. 10:25.934 --> 10:27.396 [SPEAKER_00]: As Allah says in the Quran, 10:27.494 --> 10:55.864 [SPEAKER_00]: Hattah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah, Ithajah 10:56.502 --> 10:57.503 [SPEAKER_00]: What's Allah's response? 10:58.465 --> 11:07.818 [SPEAKER_00]: Qallah, in Nahah, Qallim atunhu aqaa illuha, you are speaking empty words, my friend. 11:08.519 --> 11:17.953 [SPEAKER_00]: Wa minu wa r-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra 11:18.828 --> 11:21.933 [SPEAKER_00]: How many of us was being those words of regret on the Day of Judgment? 11:22.454 --> 11:24.678 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah sent me back, give me extra time. 11:24.718 --> 11:29.205 [SPEAKER_00]: Extension, please, I didn't do enough. 11:29.225 --> 11:30.227 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't use my time well. 11:30.808 --> 11:33.272 [SPEAKER_00]: I had that last Ramadan, but I slept through it. 11:33.573 --> 11:37.900 [SPEAKER_00]: I played playstation, I wasted my time. 11:37.880 --> 11:38.561 [SPEAKER_00]: death comes. 11:38.581 --> 11:40.724 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't come within appointment. 11:41.625 --> 11:43.088 [SPEAKER_00]: This might be our last Ramadan. 11:43.548 --> 11:45.451 [SPEAKER_00]: The last ten nights we stand in front of Allah. 11:46.012 --> 11:54.224 [SPEAKER_00]: Let us stand in front of Allah in a way where we can stand in front of Him on the Day of Judgment and say, I did justice to every night in those last ten nights. 11:54.685 --> 11:58.831 [SPEAKER_00]: I did justice to those days that were the weekend and the bank holiday I had no excuse. 11:59.211 --> 11:59.872 [SPEAKER_00]: I stood the night. 12:00.333 --> 12:00.813 [SPEAKER_00]: I swatted. 12:01.214 --> 12:01.675 [SPEAKER_00]: I cried. 12:02.035 --> 12:03.938 [SPEAKER_00]: My feet were swollen and I did it for you. 12:05.082 --> 12:07.996 [SPEAKER_00]: We will be able to say that to Allah on the Day of Judgment. 12:08.659 --> 12:12.679 [SPEAKER_00]: We will be of those begging to ask Him to send us back.