WEBVTT 00:00.392 --> 00:11.388 [SPEAKER_00]: Often times a Muslim might say I don't want to have any authority in any way at school at work, politically, wherever when the entire system has to be fixed first, everything has to be perfect for me to step up. 00:11.508 --> 00:14.492 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's very idealistic but not realistic at all. 00:14.632 --> 00:15.033 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'll really 00:15.253 --> 00:15.814 [SPEAKER_00]: is realistic. 00:15.914 --> 00:23.080 [SPEAKER_00]: The principles are realistic and well kind of the reality of the situation is that long before something changes for the better steps are taken. 00:23.260 --> 00:35.350 [SPEAKER_00]: Harm is reduced, it might be gradual, it might be slow and that's the impatience that some people have that I don't want to deal with something this difficult complex corrupt and so I would rather stay away but that's not always a position of tough one. 00:36.071 --> 00:41.055 [SPEAKER_00]: One of the most lesson-filled sword of the entire Quran you can extract 00:43.917 --> 00:51.462 [SPEAKER_00]: and a story that is well known to sometimes the youngest of Muslims amongst us is the story of Yusuf Ali Hisselam. 00:53.984 --> 00:58.927 [SPEAKER_00]: And I don't exaggerate when I say we could extract hundreds of lessons and that's on the conservative side. 00:59.847 --> 01:06.632 [SPEAKER_00]: But there's a specific area of the Sula towards the end of the narrative that we were given from a loss of Hanoatahada. 01:07.552 --> 01:09.353 [SPEAKER_00]: When the King requests or offers 01:13.967 --> 01:15.648 [SPEAKER_00]: He requested something specific. 01:16.468 --> 01:20.829 [SPEAKER_00]: Quala Jalalani al-Akhaza in Al-Al-Inni, Hafeelun al-Aim. 01:22.430 --> 01:38.235 [SPEAKER_00]: Yusuf al-Aim Salam and this is found in so many books of commentary when it comes to responsibility, when it comes to discussions on leadership from Islamic lens, when it comes to authority, when it comes to opportunities as well. 01:38.415 --> 01:39.996 [SPEAKER_00]: Quala Jalalani al-Akhaza in Al-Akhaza, 01:45.351 --> 01:58.441 [SPEAKER_00]: And then he said, in need, have you learn Alim to attributes your characteristics here that are crucial, things that we notice in our workplaces, things that we hope our children are developing at younger ages. 01:59.462 --> 02:01.564 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, I'm going to be a guardian over it. 02:02.225 --> 02:04.187 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll protect things from leaking out. 02:04.247 --> 02:05.868 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll protect things from being misused. 02:05.908 --> 02:08.391 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll protect the work in terms of integrity. 02:08.751 --> 02:10.473 [SPEAKER_00]: And also, adding competent. 02:10.693 --> 02:11.414 [SPEAKER_00]: I know this field. 02:11.454 --> 02:12.115 [SPEAKER_00]: I know this space. 02:12.135 --> 02:16.259 [SPEAKER_00]: And of course, he was given the dream from a loss with Hanatana division of what would happen. 02:17.602 --> 02:21.186 [SPEAKER_00]: to the agriculture, the crops, the seven years of famine. 02:21.887 --> 02:24.150 [SPEAKER_00]: So Yusufadi, Selam, is mentioning these two traits. 02:24.190 --> 02:31.438 [SPEAKER_00]: And I want us to think about this for a moment as we switch over to some of the aheady that are very misunderstood out of context. 02:32.425 --> 02:40.729 [SPEAKER_00]: In our religion, where the Prophet ﷺ tells some of the Sahaba explicitly, like Abu Musa Al-Ashadi, Lally Allahuan. 02:41.629 --> 02:48.212 [SPEAKER_00]: They came into his home once to the Prophet's home peace be upon him, and they demanded that somebody from their tribe is given authority, power. 02:48.932 --> 02:50.433 [SPEAKER_00]: give one of us this position. 02:51.034 --> 03:00.881 [SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ said, we don't give this position in this responsibility, this emanah to those who coveted it, to those who desire power, meaning for the sake of power. 03:01.442 --> 03:07.226 [SPEAKER_00]: This hadith by itself seems to discourage, seeking out any form of leadership in some people's minds. 03:07.967 --> 03:15.813 [SPEAKER_00]: Another hadith, one of the Sahaba, the Prophet ﷺ tells him, and these are authentic narrations, he tells me, Abdel Rahman. 03:16.820 --> 03:25.048 [SPEAKER_00]: Al-Abdu Rahman bin Samur al-Ali al-Lohan, do not ask for a position of governance, a position of political power and immoral. 03:26.129 --> 03:36.278 [SPEAKER_00]: And he says, if you are given this position, and mislead him, you're requesting that you're coveting it, you're going to be left alone, meaning there's no divine support from Allah in it. 03:36.419 --> 03:38.460 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're coveting power for the sake of power, 03:39.378 --> 03:53.134 [SPEAKER_00]: But if you're given it, meaning you are the qualified person for it, or it be follows you, or you're required in your setting your context, your school, your work, your community to step up, then a loss of Hanoatada will help you with it or into Alaya. 03:54.195 --> 03:56.478 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah will give you a divine support if you're sincere. 03:57.536 --> 03:59.637 [SPEAKER_00]: if you're not looking just for power. 04:00.177 --> 04:03.838 [SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of the scholars say the story of Yusufani selam is but one example. 04:03.878 --> 04:08.739 [SPEAKER_00]: And yes, it's before the Shariah, the final Shariah of Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu alaihi wa selam. 04:09.039 --> 04:13.601 [SPEAKER_00]: But Yusufani selam didn't want to be responsible for the treasury, for the sake of power. 04:14.101 --> 04:18.382 [SPEAKER_00]: Just for a CV, just for something worldly, didn't want it for source of income. 04:19.202 --> 04:20.583 [SPEAKER_00]: Why was Yusufani selam? 04:21.543 --> 04:23.925 [SPEAKER_00]: asking for it when he was offered a position in the palace. 04:24.846 --> 04:26.687 [SPEAKER_00]: He asked because he was competent over it. 04:27.308 --> 04:28.609 [SPEAKER_00]: He knew what needed to be done. 04:28.769 --> 04:30.610 [SPEAKER_00]: He's the one who was given the vision as well. 04:31.431 --> 04:34.754 [SPEAKER_00]: And also, he knows he's going to protect it in terms of integrity. 04:35.454 --> 04:40.979 [SPEAKER_00]: Musaadi Selam was referred to in the Qur'an by the daughter of Shrive as Qawiyun Amin. 04:41.239 --> 04:41.860 [SPEAKER_00]: He's strong. 04:42.609 --> 04:46.852 [SPEAKER_00]: He can do this work, he can take care of this job, also he's trustworthy. 04:47.433 --> 04:57.260 [SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ, his nickname amongst all of the people of Quraish before Prophethood, everyone knew him as the honest person, the trustworthy, Assadik al-Amin. 04:58.281 --> 05:03.905 [SPEAKER_00]: And you don't build a nickname like this in a year or two, trustworthy meaning you've always been trustworthy. 05:04.786 --> 05:08.809 [SPEAKER_00]: honest, they said you've never told a lie, son the law hiding you, a sendin. 05:09.429 --> 05:20.357 [SPEAKER_00]: And the reality is often times stepping back from a position of responsibility in your setting, it might be that in some cases stepping back is a form of harm. 05:21.175 --> 05:23.356 [SPEAKER_00]: neglecting it might be the wrong thing to do. 05:23.997 --> 05:26.878 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is why in Islam every single case is different. 05:27.399 --> 05:36.103 [SPEAKER_00]: This is why when you have five thick rulings for all situations, it might be in some cases hadam for someone and wajib obligatory for someone else. 05:36.884 --> 05:38.445 [SPEAKER_00]: And we could be talking about something. 05:39.639 --> 05:46.624 [SPEAKER_00]: seemingly subtle, like university students and their after school clubs in high school and other people in work environments. 05:47.304 --> 05:54.770 [SPEAKER_00]: And we could be talking about something that's socially observed, discussed, negotiated at times when it comes to political leadership. 05:55.390 --> 05:58.412 [SPEAKER_00]: The reality is everyone has a irresponsibility to step up in some way. 05:59.193 --> 06:02.135 [SPEAKER_00]: When it comes to what's happening around us, for example, 06:03.312 --> 06:18.844 [SPEAKER_00]: It is crucial that our children who are raised here understand that there are people in this city and state and country who are sitting in rooms discussing and making decisions about where money is going resources, who gets to have cleaner water. 06:19.505 --> 06:22.868 [SPEAKER_00]: There are people making decisions about the school system, the curriculum is being taught. 06:23.348 --> 06:25.850 [SPEAKER_00]: There are people making decisions about your taxpayer dollars. 06:26.030 --> 06:26.651 [SPEAKER_00]: Where is it going? 06:27.071 --> 06:27.872 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it helping someone? 06:28.332 --> 06:31.595 [SPEAKER_00]: There are people making decisions about healthcare and medicine. 06:32.375 --> 06:36.717 [SPEAKER_00]: and the influence of corporations or foreign governments in this land. 06:37.477 --> 06:44.800 [SPEAKER_00]: There are people who are making decisions about how much of your money might be going to other countries for military aid or weapons to commit genocide or war crimes. 06:45.440 --> 06:50.883 [SPEAKER_00]: These are things we have to be in tune with and our community generally in the last few years has been. 06:51.943 --> 06:53.944 [SPEAKER_00]: The point is when we talk about responsibility. 06:55.003 --> 07:05.489 [SPEAKER_00]: Often times those who are sitting and making those decisions, we don't know, in many cases, do they really care about morality or is it up to a certain point when they're donors and others influential? 07:05.930 --> 07:07.150 [SPEAKER_00]: Do they really care about ethics? 07:07.791 --> 07:09.112 [SPEAKER_00]: Are they haphi lonely? 07:09.152 --> 07:09.972 [SPEAKER_00]: Are they competent? 07:10.513 --> 07:12.574 [SPEAKER_00]: Or is it connections and political parties? 07:13.114 --> 07:14.675 [SPEAKER_00]: Do they really know what they're talking about? 07:15.095 --> 07:16.096 [SPEAKER_00]: Do they have a background? 07:16.156 --> 07:17.497 [SPEAKER_00]: Are they educated in the space? 07:17.897 --> 07:19.898 [SPEAKER_00]: Do they have a history in terms of experience? 07:21.219 --> 07:22.260 [SPEAKER_00]: And are they trustworthy? 07:23.077 --> 07:24.558 [SPEAKER_00]: Will they really have your back? 07:25.358 --> 07:27.900 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it all talk or is it real genuine service? 07:28.880 --> 07:31.922 [SPEAKER_00]: When you sit fighting, he's said, I'm says, in need, have you learned fighting? 07:32.402 --> 07:35.204 [SPEAKER_00]: One who guards and one who is competent. 07:35.264 --> 07:47.090 [SPEAKER_00]: We all know from work experiences, what it looks like to prioritize someone trustworthy when you have to make a decision about employment rather than somebody who just has a connection, but you can't trust. 07:47.651 --> 07:49.112 [SPEAKER_00]: And it might be that the one who has 07:50.276 --> 07:53.431 [SPEAKER_00]: competence in a field is not trustworthy and they don't get the job. 07:54.579 --> 08:02.121 [SPEAKER_00]: Because trustworthyness, we recognize how crucial it is for the most basic of human relationships in our families, in our school settings. 08:03.021 --> 08:22.947 [SPEAKER_00]: And many times when we use these examples automatically, people's minds go to, again, political leadership, senators and mayors and presidents and prime ministers, but I want you to think about anyone who's ever counted money for any organization or taking care of being the treasure of an organization, the level of a man that's with them. 08:23.627 --> 08:31.697 [SPEAKER_00]: that nobody else may be watching a charity organization, protecting for example money and where it's going, ensuring that it's being used ethically. 08:32.398 --> 08:39.466 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to think about the example of teachers, oftentimes what they have of your children and our children, it's more precious than money. 08:40.107 --> 08:44.528 [SPEAKER_00]: what they're doing behind the scenes when perhaps parents don't know, it's more precious than any money. 08:44.948 --> 08:46.948 [SPEAKER_00]: They have to be people of trustworthiness. 08:47.608 --> 08:53.610 [SPEAKER_00]: When you think about a high school students this week, somebody opened up to him and told him about a hardship that they're going through. 08:54.150 --> 08:56.950 [SPEAKER_00]: He has to protect it as well from leaking out from being shared. 08:56.970 --> 08:58.491 [SPEAKER_00]: This is not something for you to share. 08:59.031 --> 09:04.652 [SPEAKER_00]: Al-Majadis-Mil-Amanah, and that includes our group chats that generally when someone says 09:06.132 --> 09:07.492 [SPEAKER_00]: The default is that it's private. 09:07.992 --> 09:12.614 [SPEAKER_00]: Unless you know this is something that could be shared, unless they are absolutely okay with it. 09:13.134 --> 09:19.735 [SPEAKER_00]: Think about the many nurses, the PA's, the physicians, and others who are dealing with patient charts. 09:19.755 --> 09:26.277 [SPEAKER_00]: Think about many dentists and others who are about to tell that patient what they actually have rather than what they could make money off of. 09:26.737 --> 09:31.901 [SPEAKER_00]: Think about people who are constantly engaged with referring and benefiting with commissions. 09:32.401 --> 09:39.347 [SPEAKER_00]: Think about people who are entrusted with company passwords, contractors, hold deposits, and on and on and on and on there are countless examples. 09:40.534 --> 09:48.457 [SPEAKER_00]: Parents who are leading their families, mothers and fathers, are also holding a position of office, even if it doesn't look like a political position. 09:48.858 --> 09:51.039 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a position that a law will ask about on the day of judgment. 09:51.659 --> 10:00.723 [SPEAKER_00]: One of the Sahaba, who without only Allahuan, one time there's a situation where it looked like he was being invited to take over a political leadership. 10:01.683 --> 10:05.485 [SPEAKER_00]: And the Prophet ﷺ warned him because he knew the personality of the Sahaba, 10:06.713 --> 10:17.555 [SPEAKER_00]: and it meant you had to not just be competent and trustworthy but also strong when you're dealing with a lot of different tribes or politicians or other people, you have to have a certain type of personality. 10:18.255 --> 10:23.036 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, yeah, in Nakawaiifun wa innaha amana, and wait to hear the entire context. 10:23.556 --> 10:27.597 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, your personality in other words is not made for this, it's too weak for this position. 10:27.677 --> 10:31.538 [SPEAKER_00]: This position in particular, but then he says to him, it's an amana. 10:32.598 --> 10:37.681 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a trust from Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, wa innahayam al-Khyamati khizyoun wa nadanah. 10:38.181 --> 10:42.183 [SPEAKER_00]: On the day of judgment, this position of leadership that you have. 10:42.564 --> 10:44.405 [SPEAKER_00]: And again, don't just think about politics. 10:45.405 --> 10:50.448 [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be a form of disgrace and regret in Allah accept. 10:50.488 --> 10:51.649 [SPEAKER_00]: And there's always here and accept. 10:52.949 --> 10:58.493 [SPEAKER_00]: Accept for those who do what inlam and ahadahabi haqtihah, except for the one who took it. 10:59.549 --> 11:08.392 [SPEAKER_00]: with its proper rights, with its due rights, with the ledi alaihi fiha, and they fulfilled the qualifications and responsibilities of that task. 11:08.992 --> 11:15.395 [SPEAKER_00]: In other words, we're not discouraged, black and white, not to be in a position of leadership in Islam. 11:15.955 --> 11:24.121 [SPEAKER_00]: And in fact, overwhelming majority of scholars historically will contextualize every hadith and say, no, in many cases, the filth ruling might be wretched. 11:24.462 --> 11:27.984 [SPEAKER_00]: In other cases, most of them have, in some cases, it might be discouraged for you. 11:28.505 --> 11:30.466 [SPEAKER_00]: And in other cases, it might absolutely be had on. 11:31.007 --> 11:36.031 [SPEAKER_00]: It just depends on the situation, but at the same time, the difference between two people in that position. 11:36.751 --> 11:37.412 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the same role. 11:37.712 --> 11:39.433 [SPEAKER_00]: They might be both incompetent as well. 11:39.854 --> 11:41.295 [SPEAKER_00]: The difference is between the individuals. 11:41.815 --> 11:43.076 [SPEAKER_00]: The differences in the manner of the woman. 11:43.937 --> 11:45.238 [SPEAKER_00]: Are they really qualified for? 11:45.318 --> 11:46.499 [SPEAKER_00]: Is this the right fit for them? 11:46.539 --> 11:48.221 [SPEAKER_00]: Can they handle that responsibility? 11:48.881 --> 11:52.044 [SPEAKER_00]: Especially when there's pressure, especially when things get very tough. 11:52.584 --> 11:53.925 [SPEAKER_00]: Profit use if any is said on. 11:54.866 --> 12:05.510 [SPEAKER_00]: Requested a position and served a system that we have no detail at all in the Quran or Sunnah that he requested before I take this position, that the entire system has to change in some way. 12:06.190 --> 12:09.912 [SPEAKER_00]: He didn't request, for example, we have no indication that it was all based off of Waihi. 12:10.552 --> 12:12.773 [SPEAKER_00]: revelation or the Shariah of that time. 12:13.253 --> 12:16.595 [SPEAKER_00]: We have no indication whatsoever that it was the law of a loss of Hanoatana. 12:17.135 --> 12:22.117 [SPEAKER_00]: And yet he took that position in a law records it in a permanent scripture and recitation for us. 12:22.757 --> 12:32.281 [SPEAKER_00]: Often times a Muslim might say I don't want to have any authority in any way at school at work politically wherever when the entire system has to be fixed first. 12:32.401 --> 12:34.402 [SPEAKER_00]: Everything has to be perfect for me to step up. 12:35.247 --> 12:38.248 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's very idealistic, but not realistic at all. 12:38.688 --> 12:39.888 [SPEAKER_00]: And our religion is realistic. 12:40.268 --> 12:41.609 [SPEAKER_00]: The principles are realistic. 12:42.129 --> 12:47.790 [SPEAKER_00]: And what kind of the reality of a situation is that long before something changes for the better steps are taken. 12:48.350 --> 12:49.251 [SPEAKER_00]: Harm is reduced. 12:49.351 --> 12:50.151 [SPEAKER_00]: It might be gradual. 12:50.671 --> 12:51.371 [SPEAKER_00]: It might be slow. 12:51.931 --> 12:57.993 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's the impatience that some people have that I don't want to deal with something this difficult, complex, corrupt. 12:58.433 --> 12:59.833 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I would rather stay away. 12:59.853 --> 13:01.454 [SPEAKER_00]: But that's not always a position of toughwa. 13:02.074 --> 13:19.520 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes, as I've been saying that Hamilah says in other scholars as well, when it comes to the maxims, the principles of Islam, of recognizing the entirety of a situation and studying it properly and choosing the lesser of two evils, sometimes that is the necessary task for the believer. 13:19.980 --> 13:22.161 [SPEAKER_00]: But who's going to know what's right and what's wrong? 13:22.761 --> 13:28.463 [SPEAKER_00]: Other than the people of knowledge in that space, that domain, that company, that political realm, 13:28.963 --> 13:37.907 [SPEAKER_00]: with the Osul of Islam, because ultimately we're not driven purely by secular, naturalistic systems in this world, we have a moral worldview. 13:38.227 --> 13:48.371 [SPEAKER_00]: We are driven by morality, and we ask Allah SWT to grant us a clause in everything that we do and protect us from our own nefs, Allah Mmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmehmeh 13:48.591 --> 13:54.974 [SPEAKER_00]: did he dilute the message after he stayed quiet when he met these two men, these two prisoners? 13:55.534 --> 13:58.895 [SPEAKER_00]: Now he gave them dowels as well and he didn't sugarcoat at all. 13:59.596 --> 14:04.158 [SPEAKER_00]: People who worship idols alongside Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala he gave them dowels as very explicit. 14:04.678 --> 14:09.280 [SPEAKER_00]: When he said Ya Sahihai Ba Yassizni Arbabu Mu Tafarri Kona Khairun Amidna Huluahed Al-Faha 14:10.060 --> 14:21.527 [SPEAKER_00]: are multiple gods, multiple deities, the idols that you worship, is that better than a loss of panota, the one that you're resistible, the one who is self-sufficient, is that really what you think, in other words, he gave them that one. 14:21.547 --> 14:25.669 [SPEAKER_00]: He wasn't afraid of speaking the truth about who he was. 14:26.169 --> 14:27.590 [SPEAKER_00]: He didn't hide his moral beliefs. 14:28.191 --> 14:35.075 [SPEAKER_00]: There are people in this country in corporate spaces, in political spaces, maybe a much smaller space in a school setting or university setting. 14:35.795 --> 14:40.138 [SPEAKER_00]: who might say moral things up to a certain point, who might hide their actual beliefs. 14:41.138 --> 14:50.784 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's important in the 21st century, especially this year when Islamophobia is very empirically getting worse, and we're seeing this all across the country. 14:51.304 --> 14:53.365 [SPEAKER_00]: It's important for people to be honest about who they are. 14:53.825 --> 14:55.386 [SPEAKER_00]: It's important for a Muslim not to shy away. 14:55.566 --> 14:56.287 [SPEAKER_00]: This is what I believe. 14:56.747 --> 14:59.289 [SPEAKER_00]: So if you talk about tolerance, this is what I believe. 14:59.429 --> 15:01.650 [SPEAKER_00]: So when you speak of tolerance towards Muslims, 15:05.472 --> 15:11.334 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is what we believe in terms of how to serve this specific space, whether it's corporate, political, or anything else. 15:11.854 --> 15:21.097 [SPEAKER_00]: And what's amazing about the story of Yusuf Ali said I'm here, again, timeless lessons, is that he ended up serving people that actually caused him hard. 15:21.858 --> 15:26.879 [SPEAKER_00]: When he took this position, he fed the very same people, his brothers, who threw him into the well. 15:27.800 --> 15:30.621 [SPEAKER_00]: He served many lands and he was not firm that land by the way. 15:31.760 --> 15:39.962 [SPEAKER_00]: He served in a land in which people came from all over for the crops that they still had in that kingdom, for the food that they still had access to. 15:40.682 --> 15:45.323 [SPEAKER_00]: And it wasn't about shared nationality, ethnicity, background, religion. 15:46.044 --> 15:47.264 [SPEAKER_00]: Use if I say, I'm served. 15:47.324 --> 15:50.545 [SPEAKER_00]: And again, not just his brothers, but all of the people of Egypt. 15:51.045 --> 15:59.187 [SPEAKER_00]: And the reminder for us, if you're ever given an amenah of authority in a work setting on campus or politically, 15:59.747 --> 16:04.191 [SPEAKER_00]: It's important to remember that public good and the pursuit of justice in Islam. 16:04.211 --> 16:06.232 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't have a membership door. 16:06.633 --> 16:07.494 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not just for Muslims. 16:08.194 --> 16:10.476 [SPEAKER_00]: That you're not just watching out for you and we know this. 16:10.796 --> 16:17.442 [SPEAKER_00]: I think every single one of us when we come across problems politically and socially that we struggle with. 16:17.722 --> 16:27.270 [SPEAKER_00]: Whether it's our children or school or clean water or anything else or your neighbor who might not be able to afford medication, whatever the problem is, these are not Muslim problems. 16:28.220 --> 16:30.501 [SPEAKER_00]: These are issues that affect a lot of people in society. 16:31.401 --> 16:47.466 [SPEAKER_00]: And the reality for us also is that any politics that only reaches back to our own people is not following in the footsteps of Prophet Yusuf Ad-e-Sanam but also many examples from the Sida from Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Ad-e-Yusuf Ad-e-Sanam Yusuf Ad-e-Sanam was shown seven years. 16:47.626 --> 16:52.068 [SPEAKER_00]: There's going to be hardship, there's going to be famine, there's going to be a drought, there's going to be a lot of pain. 16:53.182 --> 17:04.908 [SPEAKER_00]: And generally when we think about our own lives, it's not surprising to imagine that your brothers or your sisters next to you might be going through something or worry or anxiety in this stage of life. 17:05.108 --> 17:13.192 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of you might be worried about the next few months of your life or the next few years in terms of your children or something else that you're struggling with. 17:13.792 --> 17:18.756 [SPEAKER_00]: And we don't neglect the reality of having fear of the future or some kind of worry. 17:18.796 --> 17:20.158 [SPEAKER_00]: It's something the Prophet spoke about. 17:20.598 --> 17:26.523 [SPEAKER_00]: Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and meduha constantly to have a tranquility and a trust and a loss with Hanoatana. 17:26.964 --> 17:32.328 [SPEAKER_00]: But also the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam taught us, even if the day of judgment is about to begin. 17:32.809 --> 17:34.370 [SPEAKER_00]: So forget our problem just for a moment. 17:34.930 --> 17:40.035 [SPEAKER_00]: If the day of a judgment is about to start and you're holding that plant in your hand, then plant it. 17:41.289 --> 17:41.689 [SPEAKER_00]: plant it. 17:41.749 --> 17:45.391 [SPEAKER_00]: You might be planting in a garden you don't live to see because the day of judgment is starting. 17:45.951 --> 17:47.072 [SPEAKER_00]: But we are an omelette of action. 17:47.612 --> 17:48.632 [SPEAKER_00]: We are an omelette of resilience. 17:48.812 --> 17:50.533 [SPEAKER_00]: We're an omelette that keeps pivoting, adjusting. 17:51.033 --> 17:53.294 [SPEAKER_00]: We are a people that keep standing back up when we fall down. 17:53.955 --> 18:04.059 [SPEAKER_00]: And that means for some people investing in certain things, investing in your health physically, if you're noticing that you're not taking care of your health, don't wait for a day in which there's a severe consequence for it. 18:04.619 --> 18:06.440 [SPEAKER_00]: For many people, it might be their education. 18:06.540 --> 18:10.322 [SPEAKER_00]: It might be their families, your relationships, your parents, your children, your marriage. 18:11.022 --> 18:28.351 [SPEAKER_00]: invest in the skills that matter for you, invest in yourself physically, to be strong, invest in your actual wealth, invest wisely, and often times people think developing skills and investing and thinking about possibilities in the future that this is stemming only from fear. 18:28.851 --> 18:30.992 [SPEAKER_00]: But the reality is this is also an act of Belesa. 18:31.393 --> 18:38.036 [SPEAKER_00]: This is what it looks like to take the means to be a person of preparation, as the profits on a lawhouse and did throughout the Sira as well, 18:40.317 --> 19:02.588 [SPEAKER_00]: action item and advice I would advise everyone here in myself know your neighbors as well before you need to know them know your neighbors know who's around you and make sure there's a decent relationship make sure you're checking on people if you have elderly neighbors make sure as you're cutting the grass or someone's cutting the grass ask if they need help if you notice somebody hasn't you know been seen in a while check on them as well 19:03.288 --> 19:06.171 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're making extra food or dessert, drop it off, let them know. 19:06.371 --> 19:08.853 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm your Muslim neighbor by the way, we've been living here for a couple of years. 19:09.614 --> 19:11.515 [SPEAKER_00]: We shouldn't wait until something is needed. 19:12.076 --> 19:14.458 [SPEAKER_00]: From a worldly lens for us to have these relationships. 19:14.478 --> 19:17.921 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's something, the Prophet ﷺ commanded of us. 19:18.461 --> 19:24.446 [SPEAKER_00]: Again, there are hundreds upon hundreds of lessons from the story of Yusuf Ad-e-Salaam. 19:25.427 --> 19:45.687 [SPEAKER_00]: But ultimately, the responsibility that a loss of panathetic gives you in your domain and your circle, whether it's your family or your friends or your school or your work or politically, make sure you're taking advantage of every opportunity, assessing where you should be stepping up and where you should not, whether it's due to pride or competence or trust or anything else. 19:46.588 --> 19:53.687 [SPEAKER_00]: And of course, ensuring that you're taking the MNA very seriously, knowing that a law will ask about it on the day of judgment, so protecting it with trustworthiness. 19:54.048 --> 20:01.969 [SPEAKER_00]: We ask a loss of panoatana to allow us to fulfill our responsibilities ethically and to forgive us for our shortcomings and to protect us, our institutions and families all around the world.