[SPEAKER_00]: Your brothers and sisters, I want you to imagine if you walked into the harem right now, walk into the mesjid and you see the caraba and front of you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And with you as you enter into the harem, are the following types of people.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have a person who converted to a snam, and had to be ostracized and alienated from their family members,
[SPEAKER_00]: and make substantial sacrifices in order to come to Islam in the first place and then to make that journey to Mecca.
[SPEAKER_00]: entering into the Haram, bawling their eyes out and crying, and looking towards the Khaba and saying, Alhamdulillah, Allah brought me here, Alhamdulillah, Allah brought me to Islam.
[SPEAKER_00]: My life would have been incomplete ruin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Had I not found Islam, this is the greatest thing that ever happened to me, even though I made the greatest sacrifices to get here.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the next to that person is someone who repented to a loss of Hanoi to Aada,
[SPEAKER_00]: Born and raised Muslim, but lost their way along the way, and came back to a lot of panorotada after years of estrangements, and is crying and weeping because they know they didn't deserve another chance with a lot of panorotada, but they got that other chance.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they feel like they're becoming Muslim all over again, and weeping, and saying, and hemmed it out, and actually sharing a story with me before we enter into the Adam about how they had a full heart attack in 2020 or 2021, and the heart completely shut off, and a lot of the panoramic attitude just made it that there was just...
[SPEAKER_00]: some sort of intelligence that Allah put in there to where the heart had just enough blood suddenly to keep him alive and now he's back to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah I can't believe that I'm here Allah blessed me with another opportunity Alhamdulillah and then you have a third person that's next to those two that's been born and raised Muslim their whole life and they wonder why
[SPEAKER_00]: They can't get that type of emotion anymore and that motivation to do these things so like how come I feel so behind This person that converted to Islam and this person that returned to a loss of kind of it's out and then you have the son or the daughter of that person
[SPEAKER_00]: who was born and raised in Islam and is just kind of there because they were brought along the road and never really felt like they had a choice.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, fine, we'll go to Omra, we'll go to Heads, we'll do what we have to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Same way that Islam has been for their entire life.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, my parents brought me to the Masjid, my parents taught me how to pray, my parents told me to do this, my parents taught me how to memorize, and this is the scene by the way of four people.
[SPEAKER_00]: with you as you enter into the Haram.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's this question here about the freshness of that motivation and treating Islam and treating the faith like a gift and remaining motivated towards this Dean on a consistent basis and feeling like it came from the heart like I chose Islam.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whether it was for the first time or the second time, but I chose Islam and a freshness that comes with that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes when you're watching someone go through it, you wish
[SPEAKER_00]: Even as Abu Bakr will be allowed to, I don't wish when he saw new converts from Yemen come to the Prophet's life and weep.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he said, I remember when we used to cry like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: When we hear the Qur'an, I remember when our hearts were like the hearts of these people as they're hearing the Qur'an for the first time.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you reminisce and you want that so badly.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there are some, and we always talk about this, who take Islam for granted because they never felt like they had to work for Islam in the first place.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I remember when I was studying Islamic finance, there were two types of transactions that the Prophet ﷺ prohibited amongst many.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they're called Al-Munamasa Al-Munabada.
[SPEAKER_00]: And just stay with me for a moment because it took me right to an analogy of hidayah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Al-Munamasa is, if you go to the marketplace in Jahliya and you touch something, it's yours.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's no, you can't put it back on the shelf, you can't give it back, call us, you touch it, it's yours.
[SPEAKER_00]: Al-Munamada is, if the seller froze something to you and you catch it, it's yours.
[SPEAKER_00]: And of course, there is an element of gambling, a very intentional superstitious type of this, where someone would intentionally subject themselves to this and like, all right, I'm going to close my eyes and whatever I touch is mine, no matter what I paid forward, so it's like gambling on the part of the buyer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or, I'm going to pay the seller something, and whatever he gets his hand on and throws towards me, that's the one.
[SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes there's a lot of remorse and regret, like I didn't choose this garment.
[SPEAKER_00]: This garment just came to me, and I don't know what to do about them, and many of the really not talk about the idea of faith in this way, and how to stay motivated towards seeking to please a lost panza in finding the truth on a regular basis and not treating this affair of Islam and this affair of faith.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's just something that fell on you, rather than something you should be seeking for your entire life over and over and over again and trying to develop that freshness of a relationship with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'am and of course this was very painful to the Prophet ﷺ and to many of those who converted to Islam and they wanted so badly for their parents or their spouses or their childrens to see the beauty of Islam but they just couldn't see it in Nakalatah dimanah, but
[SPEAKER_00]: you can't guide whom you will.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can show someone the way.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can be an example of that way.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can give them the environment of that way, but if faith doesn't enter the heart, then that person is going to treat it either like a nuisance or even worse, they're going to reject it altogether.
[SPEAKER_00]: the pain of parents who try so hard to give their children everything, but it doesn't enter into the heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Allah, As-Azza wa-Jan mentioned that, a Qur'an-Fadim, there's no compulsion in religion.
[SPEAKER_00]: You want so bad for someone in your household or someone that's under your control to see the beauty of Islam and to take it, but it's not working, it's not clicking.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this, by the way, is a message first and foremost to those who grew up with Islam.
[SPEAKER_00]: and don't realize how special what they have actually is.
[SPEAKER_00]: No one can wish you into Genona.
[SPEAKER_00]: No one can want success or salvation for you more than you have to want it for yourself.
[SPEAKER_00]: And a person should never think that just because I was pressured into guidance or something happened where it was conducive to tonight, I never had to choose it in the way that that
[SPEAKER_00]: non-Muslim had to choose to become Muslim that I have to somehow go on this journey where I step away from a lost prince or so I could step to him intentionally.
[SPEAKER_00]: By the way, it's one of the tricks of shape-on.
[SPEAKER_00]: One of the tricks of shape-on is that I did not choose righteousness.
[SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, I have to step into wickedness so I can choose it again and be fresh.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so someone says, you know, I never really wanted to pray.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was kind of given to me growing up, but I never really
[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, I don't want to start doing this good deed because someone else expects it of me.
[SPEAKER_00]: It actually totally disrupts human complexity altogether because when you look at how many of those who embrace Islam initially embraced Islam, they embraced Islam in context of pressure.
[SPEAKER_00]: Tribes are embracing Islam, my tribe is embracing Islam, they went along with the flow as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: That doesn't mean that they were hypocritical.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there was a flow, there was a channeling into Islam, and so I'm going to enter into Islam as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it wasn't the original Muhaj, you don't even say it or no, like people are coming into Islam.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was born into the household of Islam.
[SPEAKER_00]: Tribes became Muslim.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, one of the people that we praise so consistently when we talk about Sadaqa, Abu Talha, how do they allow Tana'an who responded to the verse, Lantana'al, Al-Birrahata, Tulfiyaqal, Mimma'atuhibbun, you will not achieve genre or righteousness or the reward of righteousness until you spend from what you love.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he acted in one of the most sincere ways that we ever read of the Sahaba.
[SPEAKER_00]: He came to the Prophet, so I said, I love nothing more.
[SPEAKER_00]: than this garden, be to have, in front of the Masjid of the Prophet's Heism, and Allah said, until you spend from what you love, I'm giving what I love, my most precious real estate.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know that that man entered into Islam because his wife, Umsunain, set the Mahal.
[SPEAKER_00]: The dowry, he wanted to marry Um Sudeem or the al-Awata and she, her mahal was Islam.
[SPEAKER_00]: You want to marry me, you got to be Muslim.
[SPEAKER_00]: That doesn't mean that he didn't sincerely embrace Islam, but there was certainly something that facilitated that and that pushed him because he really wasn't interested in looking into Islam in the first place, but look how sincere he ended up becoming.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look at the motivation shifting.
[SPEAKER_00]: and the intention turned.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so someone says, I don't want to start praying or I don't want to go to the message or I don't want to do this because someone else made me do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or I don't want to wear hijab because someone else is, you know, expecting me to wear hijab.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to start showing up to this event because someone else is expecting you to start showing up to this event.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not how this works.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes, a lot of Hannah and I live by actually giving us
[SPEAKER_00]: these environments to where righteousness is incentivized.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there is a moment where it's actually awkward to not do the right thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those are the best things that Allah Azzaqqa can give to us until the right type of motivation and the right type of heart settles into it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I come into it.
[SPEAKER_00]: We can't deny this element of our deed, the Prophet's Al-Samsat, Al-Jibababuna, Allah is amazed by those.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yaqwaam, Yaqudun al-Jannah, to be salasip.
[SPEAKER_00]: People that entered into janna in chains.
[SPEAKER_00]: What does that mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Does that mean that the Muslims chain people up and forced them to become Muslim?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I call it half a deep.
[SPEAKER_00]: What this means is that battles were fought in early Assam.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there were captives that ended up embracing Islam and ended up becoming the scholars of this religion and ended up becoming the forerunners of this religion.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was initially a situation where someone else,
[SPEAKER_00]: was pulling me into the fold of Islam, again, not forcing them to become Muslim.
[SPEAKER_00]: And no, this does not give you permission to go and put someone in chains and say, until you become Muslim.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying them.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm saying that when you read the history of human complexity, there is more a lefited couloub.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are those whose hearts were softened through extra spoils of battle from the Prophet ﷺ.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes there were other things to try to incentivise, to push people.
[SPEAKER_00]: To stay on the right path, the same way that when you tell your kids to memorize what I'm and you promise them that when you finish this joy, I'm going to give you this and when you do this, I'm going to give you that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Until the relationship becomes transformational, until it goes into that, so then I come back to each and every single one of us.
[SPEAKER_00]: How do I maintain that freshness of motivation in pursuing the loss of Hanutahala?
[SPEAKER_00]: And feel that.
[SPEAKER_00]: that same type of renewal and revival, approaching Islam, like a new Muslim who just found the gold, the gift that it actually is.
[SPEAKER_00]: How do I approach Islam, like a gift and not a burden, even if it's been made very easy to meet?
[SPEAKER_00]: And Allah, as a facilitator to form me, without me ever really having to struggle to find it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to give you a Hadith from Shadad when Oshal of the Allah al-Tarani, because it comes in the form of Dura'at, and half of the binura'ads of Rahim Allah mentions that in this Dura'at, this is one of the ways that you see the comprehension, the comprehensiveness of the speech of the Prophet ﷺ, and the ways that he taught his companions how to make Dura'at.
[SPEAKER_00]: Shadada bin Oshal of the Allah al-Tarani was one of the early Muslims.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when he embraced Islam,
[SPEAKER_00]: He embraced it with extreme hardship like many of those early Muslims and many of those early Muslims then transitioned over decades and they felt like their hearts weren't as fresh as the day they became Muslim and they worried about themselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like have we become desensitized to all of this?
[SPEAKER_00]: Are we not pursuing lofty enough goals?
[SPEAKER_00]: I remember when we used to have to do this and we used to have to do that and now things seem to be getting too easy for us and there's a complacency that's setting it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, he would say later on in Islam, after the death of the Prophet ﷺ, that I've restrained myself from speaking about many things that I learned from the Prophet ﷺ, meaning like there's a caution there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Am I saying it right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Am I relaying on behalf of the Prophet ﷺ properly?
[SPEAKER_00]: But he said there's one thing,
[SPEAKER_00]: that I speak freely with.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he said, it's a duat that the Prophet says I'm taught me.
[SPEAKER_00]: A supplication that the Prophet says I'm taught me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to focus on the first line of the duat.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll read it in its full and shall lots of time.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I'll focus on the first line.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet says I'm said to Shaddat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Kaleya Shaddat.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'd rather eat a nasa yakni zuna vahaba while filled with love.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fekniz ha wala in kedi mat.
[SPEAKER_00]: OSHA does.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you see people start piling up gold and silver, then treat this throughout like a treasure.
[SPEAKER_00]: Start to pile up with the statement of this throughout.
[SPEAKER_00]: What does the Prophet's license mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: When you see people's motivations turn very worldly.
[SPEAKER_00]: They approach their world with such motivation, their dunya, their income, their career goals, their whatever goals would
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, motivation and determination.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, instead, I want you to treat this duat like a treasure.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the very first line of the duat is the one that have the knowledge of Rahim Allah spent some time with, that fits this kotba.
[SPEAKER_00]: The first line of the duat, Allahumma inni as al-Ukha.
[SPEAKER_00]: The baat of al-Umwala azimata al-Rusht.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allahumma inni as al-Ukha.
[SPEAKER_00]: The baat of al-Umwala azimata al-Rusht.
[SPEAKER_00]: O Allah, I ask you to remain firm on this way, and I ask you for Al-Azim at Al-Aruhsh to be determined, motivated towards rightful guidance, constantly seeking.
[SPEAKER_00]: The next way to please Allah Sponsor, and then being able to commit to them.
[SPEAKER_00]: The first part of the Dura is discipline, not falling off.
[SPEAKER_00]: The second part of the drought is still pursuing losty goals, still pursuing rightful guidance and trying to do more and more and more and getting close to a lost part so I'm not one day feeling in emotion saying I want to do this and then not doing anything about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, someone that's constantly setting new goals in their deen and constantly looking for the next way to please a lost planet to add it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And just like that person follows their bank account and follows how they got this and they got this and they got that.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, like I want rightful guidance, the way that a new
[SPEAKER_00]: You know there's this this famous like saying of like, I beat the fighter we talked about like discipline is what wins not motivation You need discipline not motivation because discipline is what's gonna keep you on and that's true Sometimes you're not gonna feel like praying you might not have felt like coming to dream out today, but you still came because you knew that you had to
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes you're not going to feel like doing this about they're doing that about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you're disciplined enough to keep to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you also want the motivation to keep going for more and more and more and more.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so this is in the draw of the Prophet ﷺ, Allah man is al-Qadh Thabat of al-Aman.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, al-Azimat al-Aruhsh-twa-as al-Qa, Moujibati Rahmatik.
[SPEAKER_00]: and in Naka Anta Alamul Ruyub is the end of it in one narration.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet said, I'm taught him to say, oh, I ask you for firmness upon this matter, and determination upon rightful guidance, and the deeds that bring about your mercy, and the acts that necessitate your forgiveness.
[SPEAKER_00]: and the ability to be grateful to you for your blessings and the ability to excel in worshiping you and a heart that is sound and a tongue that is truthful and I ask you for the good that you know and I seek refuge in you from the evil that you know and I seek your forgiveness for what you know indeed you are the knower of all of the unseen things and shall all tell you we'll put the deer at written online bit in the night out in the description so you can go back and watch it and you can memorize it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I want to focus on the first thing, and Insha'Allah Ta'Allah will conclude with this.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Rida mentioned that there is the opening of the door of guidance, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: And then there is an ishtimrah to continue upon it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you look at the majority of the deraids of the Prophet ﷺ, they focused on this idea of being able to continue to stay motivated.
[SPEAKER_00]: and to do better and to excel.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they're element mention of this in particular.
[SPEAKER_00]: This type of muscle, this type of motivation, that there are two reasons why people start to lose motivation.
[SPEAKER_00]: One of them is depression, paralysis.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't mean depression in the medical term.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you know, like,
[SPEAKER_00]: So many bad things are happening, there are so many setbacks and so I don't really feel motivated to keep doing good because the bad just keeps on getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and so I don't really see a way forward.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is like when a lot of us are just says, well, uh, Tejnu, when a Tejnu wants him to alone and come to what we need.
[SPEAKER_00]: that don't lose hearts, and don't grieve when you are the victorious, should you remain believers.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what this means is that if you look around the world and you say, fellas, themes getting worse.
[SPEAKER_00]: The situation of the Muslims is getting worse.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is happening, this is happening, and you start to lose motivation, then you renew your belief in the cuddut of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and the divine decree of Allah Azuzah, in his power,
[SPEAKER_00]: And that is the diagnosis for that, that Allah, as Ojalah, is ultimately in charge, and Allah, Subhanatah, is powerable, reign supreme, and Allah will not let my good in the process go unrewarded.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then the second one is disinterest, lack of motivation that comes out of being disinterested, that comes out of no longer feeling the freshness of the day you return to Allah as an
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is the part where you have these duets from the Prophet ﷺ to enable yourself.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you look to how easy Allah Azzaudah has made certain things for you and you have to ask yourself, what are the life-deen goals that I have set for myself?
[SPEAKER_00]: that I keep on working towards, like a person who is desperate for a loss of Hanoatana's reward.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you're not setting big goals for yourself at the religious level, then that's an indication that you're not motivated towards the big reward that Allah Azoujad has promised to you, that you're treating Dean like a side hustle, that you're treating religion like just something that you do on the side and my parents brought me into it and yeah, I mean, I do this because I do that but it's not my number one priority.
[SPEAKER_00]: That has to actually represent itself in the goals that you're setting for yourself on a regular basis.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when you look towards the people that Allah Subhanar Tahada has put in our lives as examples of those who stay fresh, of those who stay motivated.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ask Allah as the Ojal, because sometimes it's not the environment.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes it's not the lack of an example.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes it's not that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala hasn't given me enough pressure and enough people to push me in that direction.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes it's that the heart needs to be unlocked.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so you find all of these doas of the Prophet's life, some of the most frequent one.
[SPEAKER_00]: ask Allah Azadat to make your heart firm upon rightful guidance.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then surround yourself with people that are motivated towards that rightful guidance.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then do the actions of those that are motivated until you find your own internal motivation taking over as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: Remember when Abu Talha married Umzuddin, Islam was an obstacle to his marriage.
[SPEAKER_00]: After Abu Talha married Umzuddin, he went so far in his Islam that even the most precious real estate in the world, he volunteered it for the sake of his Islam.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes the heart becomes unlocked and the motivation becomes refined as you keep pushing yourself and pushing yourself and pushing yourself.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even when you quote unquote don't feel like it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Alhamdulillah, for the things that Allah Az Az al-Qut in our lives,
[SPEAKER_00]: that push us towards good and the people that Allah put in our lives and the circumstances that Allah put in our lives that push us towards good and in Hamdulillah for the crises that sometimes are forced in our lives to make us be forced into choosing.
[SPEAKER_00]: A loss of Hanoatahala once again and coming back to a loss of Hanoatahala, fresh, and we ask Allah, as a result, for Huston Khatima, for a good ending at the end of it all.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we ask Allah, a loss of Hanoatahala, that we return to him, with hearts that are attached to him, that we come to a loss of Hanoatahala, with fresh,
[SPEAKER_00]: with fresh e-man, with fresh faith.
[SPEAKER_00]: That what Allah as the Audit has facilitated for us that we take the best course of action in regards to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we ask Allah to forgive us for our shortcomings in regards to what he has revealed to us.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we ask Allah as the Audit to make us amongst those who love this Dean, who love this message, and who work for this Dean, and who worship Allah as the Panoat and Alah.
[SPEAKER_00]: sincerely, date and night in private and in public.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah, I mean, al-Qul-Kawriha, al-Wastakha, al-Lawyarak, May Salam, al-Masam, al-Festakharu, al-Naural, al-Vurrahin.