WEBVTT 00:00.763 --> 00:03.205 [SPEAKER_00]: See, what you and I are looking for. 00:04.626 --> 00:09.810 [SPEAKER_00]: If you don't find it with your Imam, with your Islam, with your Deen, Allah, you will never find it. 00:10.911 --> 00:12.592 [SPEAKER_00]: You will never find happiness. 00:14.654 --> 00:16.795 [SPEAKER_00]: You will never find, I mean, you will look for happiness. 00:16.815 --> 00:21.279 [SPEAKER_00]: You will believe that you have happiness, but you will never find happiness. 00:21.839 --> 00:24.742 [SPEAKER_00]: But you will get deluded in believing that this is happiness. 00:26.322 --> 00:29.724 [SPEAKER_00]: So you become a slave of something else, other than Allah. 00:30.325 --> 00:34.968 [SPEAKER_00]: As long as you are slave or anything other than Allah, then you are never emancipated. 00:35.188 --> 00:36.169 [SPEAKER_00]: You are never free. 00:36.629 --> 00:37.950 [SPEAKER_00]: You are the slave of something else. 00:38.351 --> 00:53.902 [SPEAKER_00]: Hamdulillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rahmani r-Rah 00:58.357 --> 01:11.706 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a golden rule in life related to our hair after that the stronger your 01:23.450 --> 01:29.234 [SPEAKER_00]: the weaker your focus in life will be, and obviously it's related to your hair after. 01:30.534 --> 01:45.964 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is why people often are not clear in the direction of their life, because of the weakness of the imam, the weakness of the belief in Allah SWT. 01:46.064 --> 01:46.905 [SPEAKER_00]: We, Allah SWT give us 01:53.443 --> 02:01.845 [SPEAKER_00]: an element of independent agency in our life, an element not totally an element that you are independent. 02:03.665 --> 02:12.867 [SPEAKER_00]: And I lost part of all I want to see, this independence that I have given my slave, how will he take it? 02:14.207 --> 02:18.388 [SPEAKER_00]: Will he remember me or will he forget me? 02:19.509 --> 02:24.471 [SPEAKER_00]: Willi, obey my commands, or willi be oblivious to my commands. 02:26.552 --> 02:42.098 [SPEAKER_00]: So the stronger, Ariman, Ariman in the loss of Hamadala, the clearer we will be in life, the truth is, in many ways, the happier you will be in life, why? 02:43.618 --> 02:46.339 [SPEAKER_00]: Because life throws many challenges. 02:49.570 --> 02:55.592 [SPEAKER_00]: If you know that challenge is from Allah, then you deal with it accordingly. 02:56.472 --> 03:10.876 [SPEAKER_00]: But if you believe it's all about you, you have no other source, it's yo-lo, you only live once, oh my god, you know, my life is turning upside down, then you fall into depression. 03:11.856 --> 03:13.236 [SPEAKER_00]: You fall into an happiness. 03:20.408 --> 03:25.070 [SPEAKER_00]: then your approach to life will be different. 03:25.430 --> 03:40.658 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is why, last few weeks, we have been speaking about individuals who failed to lost Muhammadallah who may not have failed to lost Muhammadallah but then ended up failing to lost Muhammadallah and how that changed their lives. 03:41.998 --> 03:46.100 [SPEAKER_00]: And I said that everybody, 03:51.312 --> 04:20.552 [SPEAKER_00]: And then the reason Allah SWTG gives people respite is that Allah wants people to turn to Allah SWTG but also Allah gives the respite so on the day of judgment you don't turn around and say Allah, I ain't no time, I ain't no force, and this is why the greatest, the greatest status you and I can attain is to be the servants of Allah. 04:22.970 --> 04:25.871 [SPEAKER_00]: And Nabhi is chosen by Allah Subhawala. 04:26.692 --> 04:28.632 [SPEAKER_00]: You and I are not Nabhi's. 04:29.653 --> 04:35.815 [SPEAKER_00]: So the highest status you and I can attain is to be the servants of Allah. 04:37.316 --> 04:38.116 [SPEAKER_00]: And go to rule. 04:39.117 --> 04:44.919 [SPEAKER_00]: If you are the slaves of anything other than Allah, it is humiliation. 04:47.560 --> 04:49.881 [SPEAKER_00]: But if you are the slaves of Allah, 04:54.070 --> 05:22.078 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah Subhamdulillah, even referring to the Messenger of Allah in his most adventurous night of his life in his Subhamdulillah, the Ashra may abdihi laylin min al-Masjid al-Haram il al-Masjid al-Aqsa He is saying, oh, pure is that being who took his upd He servant in referred to al-Masjid al-Masjid al-Masjid al-Haram to Masha'aqsa al-hamdulillah, he is the end of the Al-Abd when Allah Subhamdulillah speaks about 05:24.232 --> 05:27.934 [SPEAKER_00]: revealing the book, the most holiest book on the Messenger of Allah. 05:28.214 --> 05:37.978 [SPEAKER_00]: He called him, he served his slave, and this is why, to become the servant of Allah Subhamdulillah, it's honour. 05:39.238 --> 05:43.140 [SPEAKER_00]: To become the servant of anything else is disgrace. 05:45.212 --> 06:09.060 [SPEAKER_00]: The Messenger of Allah said, ahabbu l-asma-e-e-l-allahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al-dallahu al 06:14.592 --> 06:18.493 [SPEAKER_00]: become slaves of the dunya, the rat race. 06:18.953 --> 06:23.815 [SPEAKER_00]: Not knowing you are knowing me, the rat race, earning money, earning fame. 06:24.535 --> 06:31.258 [SPEAKER_00]: The messenger Allah, even articulate that 1400 years ago, he said, dice up to Dilham wa abdu dinar. 06:32.298 --> 06:34.919 [SPEAKER_00]: This joint is the slave of the dinar. 06:36.059 --> 06:37.940 [SPEAKER_00]: And the dinar of the Dilham. 06:39.364 --> 07:01.638 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, the messenger Allah was saying anything other because he knew the vast majority of people would lose their way because of the dunya because of the dunya so he said destroy it is the slave of the their ham and the dinar the pound and the dollar the penny and the scent the ropaia this person is destroyed 07:02.705 --> 07:08.289 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is why, to become a servant of Allah SWT is the greatest honor that the person have. 07:08.329 --> 07:15.555 [SPEAKER_00]: There was a very pious individual, it was bishar, anybody heard his name? 07:16.636 --> 07:22.320 [SPEAKER_00]: Bishar al-Hafi, very, very, very pious individual, very pious individual. 07:22.580 --> 07:25.502 [SPEAKER_00]: But before becoming pious, like 07:26.395 --> 07:33.320 [SPEAKER_00]: for their living in Ayahs, like him, with a guy and a bee, all these other imams of their time, he wasn't very polite. 07:35.382 --> 07:39.785 [SPEAKER_00]: So there was a scholar in his city who was going past his house. 07:41.046 --> 07:46.610 [SPEAKER_00]: And visually he should drink, visually he should party, visually he should, you know, wine and dye. 07:47.051 --> 07:51.594 [SPEAKER_00]: So he's going past his house and he, his music from his house. 07:51.634 --> 07:53.696 [SPEAKER_00]: He, his dancing, women, 07:54.964 --> 07:57.646 [SPEAKER_00]: He hears people that are drunk. 07:58.626 --> 08:00.868 [SPEAKER_00]: So this is called a knocks on the door. 08:01.808 --> 08:03.289 [SPEAKER_00]: And this lady opens his door. 08:04.850 --> 08:06.231 [SPEAKER_00]: And he asks, who lives in this house? 08:06.511 --> 08:07.212 [SPEAKER_00]: She said, Bishop. 08:08.152 --> 08:14.116 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, tell me, is Bishop a free person or is he a slave? 08:16.357 --> 08:18.298 [SPEAKER_00]: She says, he's a free person. 08:18.398 --> 08:21.560 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, I knew it because a slave would never behave this way. 08:21.701 --> 08:22.181 [SPEAKER_00]: A lot. 08:23.213 --> 08:28.456 [SPEAKER_00]: He didn't mean slave, slavery, he meant slave of Allah's phanodala. 08:29.417 --> 08:33.199 [SPEAKER_00]: A free person, a free person, feel that he's free. 08:33.679 --> 08:36.501 [SPEAKER_00]: He's not answerable to Allah's phanodala, so I'll do what he wants. 08:37.121 --> 08:41.604 [SPEAKER_00]: No accountability, go through life, go through life like you're asleep. 08:43.156 --> 09:07.970 [SPEAKER_00]: But you believe that you're awake, go through life in a ruffler, and heedlessness, for just a lot, no, for the horse-sala, no, us-sala, no, mug-rips-sala, no, but you got time for work, you got time, you got time for university, you got time for college, you got time for friends, but you got no time for Allah, you got no time for Allah, you got time for everything else besides Allah's Muhammad ala. 09:10.151 --> 09:10.672 [SPEAKER_00]: So he said, 09:12.430 --> 09:18.154 [SPEAKER_00]: I knew he must be a free person because a slave would not behave this way. 09:18.335 --> 09:26.261 [SPEAKER_00]: So the girl goes into the house, Richard asks who he said this is some religious man who is going past and he asks, there's a free man living a slave. 09:26.501 --> 09:27.982 [SPEAKER_00]: And I said, free man, he said, I knew it. 09:29.243 --> 09:31.865 [SPEAKER_00]: A slave would never behave in this way. 09:33.406 --> 09:36.168 [SPEAKER_00]: These words hit the heart of Bishop. 09:42.326 --> 09:49.793 [SPEAKER_00]: and then he began to speak to him and then he became one of the greatest saints ever in the history. 09:50.714 --> 09:51.514 [SPEAKER_00]: Ever in history. 09:53.636 --> 09:56.058 [SPEAKER_00]: See, what you and I are looking for. 09:57.500 --> 10:02.684 [SPEAKER_00]: If you don't find it with your Imam, with your Islam, with your Deen, what lie you will never find it. 10:03.785 --> 10:05.447 [SPEAKER_00]: You will never find happiness. 10:07.517 --> 10:14.124 [SPEAKER_00]: You will never find, I mean, you will look for happiness, you will believe that you have happiness, but you will never find happiness. 10:16.126 --> 10:19.029 [SPEAKER_00]: But you will get deluded in believing that this is happiness. 10:20.609 --> 10:24.011 [SPEAKER_00]: So you become a slave of something else, other than Allah. 10:24.611 --> 10:29.253 [SPEAKER_00]: As long as you are slave or anything other than Allah, then you are never emancipated. 10:29.473 --> 10:30.454 [SPEAKER_00]: You are never free. 10:30.914 --> 10:32.254 [SPEAKER_00]: You are the slave of something else. 10:32.955 --> 10:37.437 [SPEAKER_00]: But when you become the slave of Allah, when you were servitude of Allah, 10:38.037 --> 10:42.439 [SPEAKER_00]: Then Allah will put a happiness in your heart, a contentment in your heart. 10:42.920 --> 10:45.961 [SPEAKER_00]: That doesn't mean that you will have no trials and tribulations in life. 10:45.981 --> 10:48.042 [SPEAKER_00]: You will have trials and tribulations in life. 10:48.242 --> 10:52.905 [SPEAKER_00]: But because you are the servant of Allah, Allah will all make a path for a servant. 10:54.666 --> 11:02.490 [SPEAKER_00]: But because we live in the dunya, we are social beings, we see what is around us, we get sucked in, we get pulled in. 11:03.671 --> 11:06.192 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, there was a crow. 11:08.048 --> 11:10.790 [SPEAKER_00]: So this crow one day, you know, where are we happy crow? 11:11.131 --> 11:20.119 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is it, see, if you lived, somewhere secluded isolated, we know social media, we know nothing else. 11:20.599 --> 11:25.083 [SPEAKER_00]: You and I would be generally reasonably happy because we would have done anything to compare our lives with. 11:25.103 --> 11:34.092 [SPEAKER_00]: We were most likely very focused, but because today's specially today, 11:35.301 --> 11:43.963 [SPEAKER_00]: You can open your phone, you can open your Instagram, your open TikTok, you see somebody else, oh, this person is having a real nice time. 11:44.284 --> 11:54.526 [SPEAKER_00]: Look, every time I open his martial law, he's in co-ways, he's having, you know, big, big, big restaurants, only taking the thing, look at my life, man, I'm a student. 11:55.307 --> 11:57.067 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't, I'm a four to go to these restaurants. 11:58.487 --> 12:00.068 [SPEAKER_00]: The best I can do is digsy chicken. 12:01.697 --> 12:14.134 [SPEAKER_00]: Look at her, every time she's always on a holiday with her husband, and they seem lovely, lovely, and then you start comparing. 12:15.855 --> 12:18.558 [SPEAKER_00]: And then you think, no, I need to achieve that. 12:19.378 --> 12:21.220 [SPEAKER_00]: But you only see the thaw here. 12:21.540 --> 12:23.382 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't see what's behind that. 12:23.763 --> 12:24.844 [SPEAKER_00]: I say this, honestly. 12:25.544 --> 12:27.306 [SPEAKER_00]: So many rich people that you would see. 12:27.486 --> 12:29.068 [SPEAKER_00]: You would say, man, it's a man made it. 12:29.628 --> 12:31.009 [SPEAKER_00]: He's got it all, look at his house. 12:31.330 --> 12:33.432 [SPEAKER_00]: Look at his car, he drives, look at his bank balance. 12:33.832 --> 12:35.874 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you see his day-to-day life? 12:37.656 --> 12:39.397 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you see when he wakes up in the morning? 12:40.411 --> 12:49.159 [SPEAKER_00]: How many rich people that they rich, they gave the children everything and now that children feel their entitled, they never listen to their parents. 12:50.640 --> 12:52.341 [SPEAKER_00]: How many wife has been spoiled? 12:52.361 --> 12:54.043 [SPEAKER_00]: How many husbands has been spoiled? 12:54.563 --> 12:58.407 [SPEAKER_00]: Because of what you dream about, but you only hear the dahil. 12:59.828 --> 13:07.715 [SPEAKER_00]: So this crow is he lived, no other birds around him, happy one day he sees a swan. 13:10.153 --> 13:10.313 [SPEAKER_00]: one. 13:11.674 --> 13:13.094 [SPEAKER_00]: So beautiful. 13:14.134 --> 13:15.335 [SPEAKER_00]: I wish I was a swan. 13:16.015 --> 13:20.296 [SPEAKER_00]: So he comes up to the swan and he says to the swan, so so beautiful. 13:21.516 --> 13:22.337 [SPEAKER_00]: You're lovely. 13:23.677 --> 13:26.098 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the swan says to him, you know, that's what I thought. 13:27.318 --> 13:31.599 [SPEAKER_00]: I thought I was the best thing, the most beautiful thing, till I saw a parrot. 13:32.239 --> 13:34.100 [SPEAKER_00]: I got one color, he got two colors. 13:37.310 --> 13:39.752 [SPEAKER_00]: So he looks for a parrot, he finds a parrot. 13:40.673 --> 13:43.976 [SPEAKER_00]: And the crow comes up to the parrot and he says, oh, you are so beautiful. 13:45.097 --> 13:47.138 [SPEAKER_00]: I've never seen something so beautiful. 13:48.359 --> 13:53.264 [SPEAKER_00]: The parrot goes, you know, I used to think I was the most beautiful thing until I saw the peacock. 13:55.085 --> 13:57.207 [SPEAKER_00]: So the peacock are more difficult colors. 13:58.368 --> 14:02.792 [SPEAKER_00]: I wish, if you want to, so the crow says, I wish I could see a peacock. 14:02.852 --> 14:03.913 [SPEAKER_00]: He goes, go to the zoo. 14:04.881 --> 14:15.109 [SPEAKER_00]: So he goes to the zoo and he sees the peacock and he sees hundreds of people around the peacock looking at the peacock, how beautiful is the peacock admiring the peacock. 14:15.590 --> 14:25.238 [SPEAKER_00]: When the people disperse at the end of the day, the crow flies into the cage of the peacock and he says to the peacock, you know, I've never seen anything so beautiful. 14:25.458 --> 14:28.260 [SPEAKER_00]: Look at the admiration you get, look at the people who come to see you. 14:29.321 --> 14:31.963 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, yes, that's what I used to think 14:35.860 --> 14:37.902 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, nobody wants to cage a crow. 14:39.343 --> 14:40.584 [SPEAKER_00]: Look at me, I'm in a cage. 14:41.965 --> 14:45.788 [SPEAKER_00]: People come and see me and they admire me, but I'm not free. 14:46.549 --> 14:52.854 [SPEAKER_00]: I wish I was a crow because I would be free and nobody wants to cage a crow. 14:53.795 --> 14:58.238 [SPEAKER_00]: See, the grass is always green around the other side. 15:00.160 --> 15:03.483 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, today, the finally the students were asking me, 15:04.422 --> 15:12.626 [SPEAKER_00]: She said, you know, with the software and the projects, he said, you walk sometimes into the building and say, I made it. 15:14.868 --> 15:20.871 [SPEAKER_00]: I said, listen, I think a lot of what I have from where we started and where we are. 15:21.711 --> 15:24.293 [SPEAKER_00]: I said, but you don't see the sleepless nights. 15:26.053 --> 15:27.354 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't see the headaches. 15:28.075 --> 15:30.516 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't see the four o'clock when my eyes open 15:33.562 --> 15:38.046 [SPEAKER_00]: You just see, oh, hey, it's the principal of a sofa. 15:38.226 --> 15:40.748 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't see the headaches we have with our Pakistan project. 15:41.088 --> 15:46.212 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't see the hours I spent just yesterday on our South African project because we had issues. 15:46.532 --> 15:48.534 [SPEAKER_00]: You just think, oh, he's come for Juma Juma Juma. 15:48.554 --> 15:49.515 [SPEAKER_00]: He must have a easy. 15:50.035 --> 15:52.677 [SPEAKER_00]: He tells the kids to make tea for him. 15:52.697 --> 15:54.759 [SPEAKER_00]: He tells one off and he tells the second one off. 15:55.159 --> 15:57.441 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what you see is the Dahir. 15:59.590 --> 16:05.935 [SPEAKER_00]: I thank Allah, Allah, I thank Allah, there is no job in the world, I would have other than this. 16:06.456 --> 16:27.232 [SPEAKER_00]: But I have done other jobs, I'm just telling you, I have done other jobs, I've done 12 hour shifts, I've done deliveries, I've traveled to London for a year working, I've run a warehouse for a year, I didn't start here, but now because I've got other things to compare 16:29.273 --> 16:30.754 [SPEAKER_00]: I appreciate what I have. 16:31.534 --> 16:38.537 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want nothing to compare it with, if you went straight into it, maybe a modern society teaching you something, I wish I was a millionaire. 16:38.998 --> 16:40.278 [SPEAKER_00]: I wish I had a massive car. 16:40.638 --> 16:41.639 [SPEAKER_00]: I wish I had this. 16:41.879 --> 16:45.300 [SPEAKER_00]: But you don't realize what you have because you're nothing to compare it with. 16:47.441 --> 16:50.483 [SPEAKER_00]: The glass is all with greener on the other side. 16:52.095 --> 16:53.736 [SPEAKER_00]: That's how we see it. 16:54.396 --> 17:02.119 [SPEAKER_00]: We always see other people's life because we always judge our own life by what we don't have and not what we have. 17:03.800 --> 17:08.902 [SPEAKER_00]: You know when you go into a building, they call it a missing tile theory. 17:09.702 --> 17:14.224 [SPEAKER_00]: So let's say you're sitting in the doctor's surgery and you look at the ceiling and this tiles. 17:15.564 --> 17:16.445 [SPEAKER_00]: What do you notice? 17:17.185 --> 17:19.746 [SPEAKER_00]: You notice that tile which is not there. 17:20.901 --> 17:23.502 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't notice all the other tiles which are there. 17:23.742 --> 17:26.042 [SPEAKER_00]: You notice that one tile which is not that. 17:26.262 --> 17:28.703 [SPEAKER_00]: This is how many of us spend our entire lives. 17:29.523 --> 17:32.104 [SPEAKER_00]: We only notice what we don't have. 17:33.825 --> 17:34.785 [SPEAKER_00]: What we don't have? 17:36.605 --> 17:37.666 [SPEAKER_00]: That's all we notice. 17:39.346 --> 17:44.007 [SPEAKER_00]: And then it's all when we, and because this is the way we spend our life, we're never happy, we're never much more in. 17:45.048 --> 17:46.908 [SPEAKER_00]: We're always looking at other people. 17:47.408 --> 17:49.489 [SPEAKER_00]: The promise of Allah, and He will sell them as told. 17:50.945 --> 17:53.588 [SPEAKER_00]: It's all a mover, it's all a mover. 17:54.269 --> 17:55.811 [SPEAKER_00]: Look at those who are beneath you. 17:56.011 --> 18:02.738 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't look at those who are above you because if you're always looking at those who are above you, then you will be in the state of depression. 18:04.180 --> 18:05.461 [SPEAKER_00]: Look at those who are beneath you. 18:06.571 --> 18:11.114 [SPEAKER_00]: Look at those people who are in Gaza, look at those people who are in Syria. 18:11.774 --> 18:16.097 [SPEAKER_00]: Look at those, you know, we have two schools and a mother's in Pakistan. 18:16.757 --> 18:23.922 [SPEAKER_00]: The Pakistan government recently decided that all the Afghans, all the Afghans have to leave the country. 18:24.022 --> 18:28.464 [SPEAKER_00]: So that was 170 students just from our schools. 18:28.485 --> 18:30.266 [SPEAKER_00]: 170 students. 18:36.957 --> 18:41.400 [SPEAKER_00]: The parents were born in Pakistan, they were born in Pakistan. 18:44.462 --> 18:50.205 [SPEAKER_00]: Today, the same now in the region that I in the countries, it's a totally foreign for them. 18:51.646 --> 18:53.747 [SPEAKER_00]: Totally and utterly foreign for them. 18:54.328 --> 18:54.668 [SPEAKER_00]: Why? 18:56.029 --> 19:00.912 [SPEAKER_00]: See, so when you don't do sugar on what you have, we go through our lives. 19:02.930 --> 19:05.332 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't see what others are going through. 19:06.172 --> 19:16.459 [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine, imagine, which are talking about anyway, imagine you were booted out of the UK, and you had to go back to Somalia, and you had to go back to Africa and Pakistan. 19:16.899 --> 19:17.659 [SPEAKER_00]: I've seen it. 19:18.200 --> 19:19.000 [SPEAKER_00]: I've seen it. 19:19.360 --> 19:23.723 [SPEAKER_00]: I've seen the children who are in our schools who are happy, now they're in a place. 19:24.123 --> 19:27.125 [SPEAKER_00]: They have to start all over again. 19:28.026 --> 19:31.228 [SPEAKER_00]: But because we are looking always at those who are above us, 19:32.060 --> 19:33.401 [SPEAKER_00]: and not those who are beneath us. 19:34.241 --> 19:35.642 [SPEAKER_00]: We never enter state of happiness. 19:36.622 --> 19:41.005 [SPEAKER_00]: We always comparing our lives with those who are more than us worldly. 19:42.766 --> 19:48.629 [SPEAKER_00]: But if you see this, imagine every parent here, or a parent has dream for its children. 19:50.029 --> 19:59.634 [SPEAKER_00]: Every parent, I was speaking to one guy from Pakistan the other day, and he was saying to me, I was telling him about this, and he was saying, yeah, but you know, there are one, he's at this, and I've managed at that. 20:00.194 --> 20:01.035 [SPEAKER_00]: I said, listen, brother. 20:02.485 --> 20:10.629 [SPEAKER_00]: I said, you just told me 10 minutes ago that when your children don't come on the weekend to visit you, will you feel like a fish out of water? 20:12.210 --> 20:14.371 [SPEAKER_00]: I said, every parent has a dream for their children. 20:15.072 --> 20:17.853 [SPEAKER_00]: Every parent has a stability for their children. 20:19.594 --> 20:23.937 [SPEAKER_00]: I said, do you think those grandnie parents didn't have a stability for their children? 20:24.817 --> 20:27.819 [SPEAKER_00]: They didn't want to have a happiness, everybody does. 20:32.868 --> 20:40.411 [SPEAKER_00]: The Messenger of Allah said, in the dunya look at those who are beneath you and then you will always be in the state of shukar. 20:42.271 --> 20:47.493 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't look at those who are above you because if you always look at those who are above you, you will never be satisfied. 20:47.814 --> 20:59.658 [SPEAKER_00]: The Messenger of Allah said, that nothing will stay shank, the stomach of Ibn Adam, nothing, even if we are two valleys of gold, besides the dust in the grave. 21:01.447 --> 21:10.070 [SPEAKER_00]: If somebody gave you look at these people, billionaires, you're thinking, you couldn't spend that money if you wanted it within your lifetime. 21:10.090 --> 21:11.550 [SPEAKER_00]: Why do you want more billions for? 21:12.630 --> 21:19.533 [SPEAKER_00]: This is called the mess you all have said, look at the Lebanon war, the Lebanon war, the Yemen, the Hablab, the Gathalism. 21:19.893 --> 21:24.294 [SPEAKER_00]: If the son of Adam, if man had two valleys of gold, he won a third. 21:24.874 --> 21:25.774 [SPEAKER_00]: He'd won a fourth. 21:26.155 --> 21:27.035 [SPEAKER_00]: He'd won a fifth. 21:28.319 --> 21:41.662 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, they only think, which will say she ate you, which will fill his stomach, is when he placed in the grave, and you know the dust, which will go into your stomach when your body erodes, that's the only time he will be say she ate it. 21:43.582 --> 21:45.923 [SPEAKER_00]: So, you want to say happy, I want to say happy, you want to say happy? 21:47.563 --> 21:55.044 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's say in the shukkar of Allah, stop looking at people who are above you, say it been armed, find a purpose in life, find a goal in life. 21:59.251 --> 22:00.231 [SPEAKER_00]: Find a purpose. 22:00.671 --> 22:04.813 [SPEAKER_00]: Look, I say, I think I lost one dollar. 22:04.833 --> 22:07.234 [SPEAKER_00]: I am in a somewhat of a privileged position. 22:07.694 --> 22:10.335 [SPEAKER_00]: But you know, last year, I was in Leicester. 22:11.675 --> 22:16.837 [SPEAKER_00]: And my old friends, my old friends from Darwin, Bury, where we studied, there are three, something we years ago. 22:17.057 --> 22:17.717 [SPEAKER_00]: We went together. 22:19.978 --> 22:20.518 [SPEAKER_00]: And they said, if, 22:22.508 --> 22:25.770 [SPEAKER_00]: They said, if you could be given 1,000 pounds, yeah? 22:26.531 --> 22:28.893 [SPEAKER_00]: So 100,000 pounds every year for the rest of your life. 22:29.713 --> 22:30.754 [SPEAKER_00]: How would it change your life? 22:31.775 --> 22:39.820 [SPEAKER_00]: So one said, 100,000 pounds with the rest of my life I'll do this, I'll retire, you know, I'll move to India, I'll move to Flah, I'll move to Flah. 22:40.381 --> 22:41.602 [SPEAKER_00]: They asked me, what would you do? 22:42.162 --> 22:46.485 [SPEAKER_00]: I said, you know, honestly, besides maybe by a bigger car, it wouldn't change my life at all. 22:47.686 --> 22:48.226 [SPEAKER_00]: No, it's true. 22:48.747 --> 22:51.289 [SPEAKER_00]: Because the satisfaction that I get here, 22:52.616 --> 22:53.877 [SPEAKER_00]: I would never get anywhere else. 22:55.978 --> 23:00.301 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not blowing my trumpet, what I'm saying is find a purpose in life. 23:00.901 --> 23:02.942 [SPEAKER_00]: But don't make that purpose your dunya. 23:04.403 --> 23:06.625 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't make it that purpose your dunya. 23:07.688 --> 23:11.111 [SPEAKER_00]: And that does not mean by anything that you shouldn't earn. 23:11.131 --> 23:11.872 [SPEAKER_00]: You should earn. 23:12.752 --> 23:17.556 [SPEAKER_00]: Those people who earn and give these madrasas, etc., they are the backbone of our community. 23:18.037 --> 23:19.138 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying don't earn. 23:19.678 --> 23:23.982 [SPEAKER_00]: But do not make the only dunya your purpose. 23:25.943 --> 23:27.044 [SPEAKER_00]: Have a great ago. 23:27.104 --> 23:32.409 [SPEAKER_00]: And Wala, he, I tell you, I tell you, you will be happy, you will be, it's my end. 23:32.689 --> 23:35.712 [SPEAKER_00]: Because you know whatever comes from Allah, returns Wala. 23:37.058 --> 23:41.776 [SPEAKER_00]: But if you're working for the dunya, when this dunya is not there, you're going to depression. 23:43.086 --> 23:44.307 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is what I want me to use. 23:44.587 --> 23:47.289 [SPEAKER_00]: May Allah SWT make us amongst those who do sugar. 23:47.969 --> 23:51.912 [SPEAKER_00]: May Allah SWT make us amongst those who appreciate what we have. 23:52.432 --> 23:56.015 [SPEAKER_00]: May Allah SWT they say Arabic and Netma is our focus at the benefit. 23:56.115 --> 24:00.158 [SPEAKER_00]: A favor, a virtue, it's only realized when it's lost. 24:00.758 --> 24:02.799 [SPEAKER_00]: You only realize your parents when they're gone. 24:03.260 --> 24:05.121 [SPEAKER_00]: You only realize your spouse when they're gone. 24:05.401 --> 24:07.403 [SPEAKER_00]: You only realize your children when they're married. 24:07.923 --> 24:09.224 [SPEAKER_00]: Appreciate what you have today. 24:09.444 --> 24:10.425 [SPEAKER_00]: And Allah SWT say, 24:13.146 --> 24:16.589 [SPEAKER_00]: If you do sugar, if you do sugar, I will give you more. 24:17.770 --> 24:19.311 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah guarantees, I will give you more. 24:19.531 --> 24:20.712 [SPEAKER_00]: So may Allah SWT give us many blessings. 24:20.852 --> 24:23.894 [SPEAKER_00]: Many blessings, many Shahid wa raqallahu ala fiqmadan as we give it. 24:24.254 --> 24:25.555 [SPEAKER_00]: May praise be upon you all.