WEBVTT 00:00.191 --> 00:20.417 [SPEAKER_00]: If at any point in life you feel alone, if you ever think you're in a stage of life where you're really, really feeling alone, to first turn to Allah Subhanah Tata, to turn to Allah to know that you are never alone, to internalize that reality, that Allah is with you, and Allah is watching you, and Allah is a witness over you, and Allah is supporting you, that you also turn to Him, that you turn to Allah. 00:20.857 --> 00:36.944 [SPEAKER_00]: You remember him in times of ease when he blesses your life with people or wealth or health and know that the response and that feeling of companionship with a lot of concept of Marie to be with Allah, but he much easier in times of hardship, even if the entire world around you is gone, even if you're living under occupation or genocide. 00:37.464 --> 00:44.107 [SPEAKER_00]: Even if you're living with a lot of uncertainty about your financial state or your health or the loss of a loved one, even if you're the only 00:50.878 --> 00:58.702 [SPEAKER_00]: that every single person has their own unique experience with is our situatedness where we are, our experiences. 00:59.663 --> 01:05.486 [SPEAKER_00]: And especially with regards to the things that no one else knows about your own family, your own friends. 01:06.646 --> 01:08.948 [SPEAKER_00]: The people closest to you could be your own spouse. 01:10.709 --> 01:14.631 [SPEAKER_00]: And oftentimes, this can show up in different forms, positive and negative. 01:15.613 --> 01:23.258 [SPEAKER_00]: a teenager who sent a long email a few weeks ago asking about something they thought was blasphemous to ask about and they said in my community there's no one to ask. 01:23.338 --> 01:24.419 [SPEAKER_00]: My friends don't understand. 01:24.459 --> 01:27.861 [SPEAKER_00]: People look at me weird for asking this question but I'm just trying to understand. 01:28.781 --> 01:33.344 [SPEAKER_00]: There are people who are going through life stages in which they feel more alone than ever before. 01:34.185 --> 01:38.948 [SPEAKER_00]: There's someone not too far from here who buried their loved one after 30 years of marriage. 01:40.574 --> 01:45.496 [SPEAKER_00]: and perhaps a few weeks after the Janas, a very few people are still asking how he's doing. 01:46.296 --> 01:50.378 [SPEAKER_00]: There are a lot of people who are struggling with their children or the loss of a loved one. 01:50.938 --> 01:54.459 [SPEAKER_00]: There are people struggling with their exams, worries about finances. 01:55.019 --> 02:05.683 [SPEAKER_00]: And there are many people know doubt whatsoever who feel alone in a general social sense that they live alone and maybe came to do an opera alone and maybe live in a place in which no one ever visits. 02:06.304 --> 02:08.764 [SPEAKER_00]: These types of experiences that we have 02:10.822 --> 02:12.763 [SPEAKER_00]: They can show up as wounds at times. 02:14.185 --> 02:33.639 [SPEAKER_00]: And one of the most interesting things that we noticed in the last, especially 10 years, is how for many people looking for relief and something bearable through one's device, through technology, through AI companionship, through chat mods, through online friends, through video games. 02:34.299 --> 02:35.860 [SPEAKER_00]: For many people, they find it bearable. 02:36.701 --> 02:39.043 [SPEAKER_00]: It almost numbs what they're going through in the real world. 02:40.080 --> 02:44.629 [SPEAKER_00]: And for others, it starts to become a type of reality, but it's not real. 02:45.800 --> 03:11.237 [SPEAKER_00]: And the problem for many people when they start to become addicted to devices and especially AI companionship and chat bots that they assume because they're not being judged, they assume because they can finally say that thing that they haven't stated their vulnerability or their fears or their struggles or their problems, there are many people they don't realize just because it doesn't judge does not mean it's good for you, especially when it becomes an addiction. 03:12.218 --> 03:14.019 [SPEAKER_00]: it's a type of counterfeit presence. 03:14.539 --> 03:15.719 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not a real presence. 03:16.119 --> 03:18.000 [SPEAKER_00]: There are no people behind the screen. 03:18.720 --> 03:28.562 [SPEAKER_00]: And it becomes dangerous for some people and especially for many young people who grow up addicted and find it normal to chat openly with different types of AI platforms. 03:29.022 --> 03:36.264 [SPEAKER_00]: And the reason this is concerning is not just because of the cases of addiction, but also because many people 03:40.442 --> 03:53.077 [SPEAKER_00]: in the real world, through people, through friends, through trustworthy family members, but also more importantly, to seek out a loss of habitat, while who amacom, Aina Makuntu, Allah's with you wherever you are. 03:53.715 --> 03:56.336 [SPEAKER_00]: You were never in a room alone, ever in your life. 03:56.856 --> 03:58.316 [SPEAKER_00]: You were never alone to begin with. 03:58.896 --> 04:01.257 [SPEAKER_00]: Your soul itself before was put into your body. 04:01.897 --> 04:03.697 [SPEAKER_00]: Was in a place in which you were not alone. 04:03.737 --> 04:05.777 [SPEAKER_00]: And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala was with you. 04:06.118 --> 04:11.039 [SPEAKER_00]: And the reality for us when we look at the sida is we find many examples of this natural human emotion. 04:11.739 --> 04:17.500 [SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ, early on in the sida, the revelation paused for a brief time. 04:18.498 --> 04:20.459 [SPEAKER_00]: and it was a test, and many wisdoms were behind it. 04:21.219 --> 04:21.719 [SPEAKER_00]: It paused. 04:22.379 --> 04:23.560 [SPEAKER_00]: They started making fun of him. 04:23.740 --> 04:26.360 [SPEAKER_00]: They said his Lord abandoned him, his Lord left him. 04:26.761 --> 04:31.682 [SPEAKER_00]: They mocked the prophet, Salam and he was saddened, wondering what's next. 04:32.502 --> 04:37.204 [SPEAKER_00]: And Allah does not reveal after this a singular ayah but rather an entire Surah, wa l-Buhah. 04:37.664 --> 04:41.105 [SPEAKER_00]: Wa laida, saja, ma wa daqa, Abbuqa, wa naqa. 04:41.885 --> 04:43.967 [SPEAKER_00]: Your Lord didn't abandon you, nor does He hate you. 04:44.427 --> 04:48.190 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a response for the people who mock you, but also a reminder for the believer. 04:48.790 --> 04:54.494 [SPEAKER_00]: Just because you cannot see with your eyes and understand the wisdom of Allah, does not mean His presence is not there. 04:54.935 --> 05:00.239 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah's with you wherever you are, and Allah's with His servants in the most difficult of times as well. 05:00.999 --> 05:03.341 [SPEAKER_00]: Wa-Ham'aikum, A'Nam'aikum to. 05:03.741 --> 05:05.943 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah reminds the Prophet ﷺ. 05:06.964 --> 05:09.385 [SPEAKER_00]: Were you not lost before and Allah gave you guidance? 05:10.318 --> 05:11.479 [SPEAKER_00]: the reality of Hidaia. 05:11.999 --> 05:16.541 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me dedicate a team in Fahawa and you were an orphan and Allah SWT gave you shelter. 05:17.261 --> 05:26.086 [SPEAKER_00]: The first space or room in his life in a figurative sense, the Prophet ﷺ was born to that space to that room where he didn't have a father. 05:27.526 --> 05:30.768 [SPEAKER_00]: And at the age of six, now he's in another space where his mother passes away. 05:30.928 --> 05:38.272 [SPEAKER_00]: And at the age of eight, his grandfather, a protection for him also passed away, fast forward in his life to Khadijat Ali al-Lahu'anha. 05:39.272 --> 05:49.463 [SPEAKER_00]: When the Prophet ﷺ receives revelation and comes rushing homes and meloones and meloones into the arms of Khadijad al-Lawan, he thinks something bad is happening to him. 05:50.163 --> 05:54.508 [SPEAKER_00]: He sees these things that just took place and he assumes something bad is happening. 05:55.549 --> 05:59.293 [SPEAKER_00]: And she says, no baiha Allah, la yukhzik Allah, whatever that, Allah will not disgrace you. 06:00.946 --> 06:02.127 [SPEAKER_00]: and she told him why. 06:02.707 --> 06:05.189 [SPEAKER_00]: In the kalatus local hadith, you speak the truth. 06:05.529 --> 06:09.151 [SPEAKER_00]: Watasilor Raham, you uphold the ties of kinship of family. 06:09.172 --> 06:10.472 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't break off ties easily. 06:10.993 --> 06:12.394 [SPEAKER_00]: And you help those who are suffering. 06:12.494 --> 06:14.995 [SPEAKER_00]: And you remove the weight, the burden of those who need help. 06:15.456 --> 06:17.117 [SPEAKER_00]: Watirin O'ala, Nawa, Abilhat. 06:17.597 --> 06:24.843 [SPEAKER_00]: You support the causes of truth, Allah will not cause you to be disgraced, meaning what happened to you in the cave is not going to be a bad thing. 06:25.203 --> 06:27.024 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know the story, and it continues from there. 06:27.365 --> 06:41.836 [SPEAKER_00]: But the point here is that Allah decreed that the very first human being that would console the Prophet ﷺ, in the first moment of Wajhia of Revelation, was none other than his wife, Radijah, Lallyalohana. 06:42.638 --> 06:51.363 [SPEAKER_00]: Khadija that Allah SWT gave through Jibrit Isalam greeting Salam and the good, the glad tidings are good tidings of a home in paradise. 06:52.083 --> 06:59.567 [SPEAKER_00]: Fast forward, a decade later, the prophet is being hunted, it's Allah Allah, and He's salam being chased with a bounty on his head, and Abu Bakr will be Allah Allah. 07:00.785 --> 07:05.350 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know the story, they're in the cave of Thelr and the enemies are close by. 07:05.791 --> 07:08.894 [SPEAKER_00]: They searched everywhere, north and south and east and west. 07:09.455 --> 07:11.137 [SPEAKER_00]: They get very close to this cave. 07:11.818 --> 07:14.461 [SPEAKER_00]: And Abu Bakr had a whispers and he wonders, they're not too far. 07:15.142 --> 07:19.186 [SPEAKER_00]: If they look at a certain angle, if they just get too close, they might see us. 07:19.947 --> 07:36.825 [SPEAKER_00]: and you know the story, the Prophet ﷺ, the one who experienced orphanhood at a young age and the one who experienced and not having a mother at the age of six and a grandfather and later on, as you know, eventually his uncle, the Prophet ﷺ told him, Ma'l-Van Nuqqa, what is your assumption? 07:36.945 --> 07:42.611 [SPEAKER_00]: Ya'ababak, O Abu-Bakat, with two individuals when Allah is their third, Allah with Al-Ithuma. 07:43.870 --> 07:47.172 [SPEAKER_00]: in nallaha māna, la tāhzān du nā grīv, Allah is with us. 07:47.793 --> 07:53.857 [SPEAKER_00]: Notice these words, māna, mā aia, there are laws with us and earlier, wahwah, mākum, Allah is with you. 07:54.177 --> 08:04.424 [SPEAKER_00]: Wherever you are, you're a child in school and elementary, you're a middle school or a high school or university student living alone, traveling, isolated, no family, no friends, Allah is with you. 08:05.725 --> 08:07.927 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah sopāna tāna is always with you. 08:08.967 --> 08:12.631 [SPEAKER_00]: We fast forward and the Prophet ﷺ experiences the year of sorrow. 08:12.811 --> 08:16.015 [SPEAKER_00]: I am in Huzh, Khadija passes away, really low on him. 08:17.056 --> 08:24.284 [SPEAKER_00]: And imagine the loss, the one who was there to support him first when he receives Wahi, in that space that sometimes people think I feel alone. 08:25.407 --> 08:33.194 [SPEAKER_00]: Fast forward a few months later, his only legal protection, his social, political protection, his uncle passes away as well. 08:33.814 --> 08:35.896 [SPEAKER_00]: He leaves to give them salvation. 08:36.317 --> 08:40.280 [SPEAKER_00]: They kick him out, cause him to bleed and reject the message of Islam, at least temporarily. 08:40.901 --> 08:42.903 [SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ doesn't know where to turn. 08:43.583 --> 08:44.404 [SPEAKER_00]: And Allah gifts in. 08:45.165 --> 08:51.730 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah also planetary gifts in with Al-Azharat Wal-Maraj, ascension to the heavens to see a sign that no one else could see. 08:52.651 --> 08:57.554 [SPEAKER_00]: A miracle upon miracles filled with many ayat and many reminders and many of the things we take theologically. 08:58.714 --> 09:03.217 [SPEAKER_00]: As a gift to the Prophet ﷺ after all of this, fast forward one more time. 09:03.986 --> 09:07.528 [SPEAKER_00]: The final moments, the final day of the Prophet's life, Aliyah-salatu wa-sallam. 09:08.028 --> 09:17.154 [SPEAKER_00]: After all the pain and all the hardship that we went through, after all the moments in which he helped others, as he was reminded by Allah, you were an orphan, Allah gave you shelter. 09:17.554 --> 09:19.475 [SPEAKER_00]: So when an orphan comes to you, don't turn them away. 09:19.895 --> 09:22.577 [SPEAKER_00]: When someone comes begging, a sa'id, don't turn them away. 09:23.377 --> 09:25.278 [SPEAKER_00]: Rather remember to always be there for others. 09:25.478 --> 09:27.799 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember to pay attention to the people around you. 09:28.279 --> 09:30.680 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember your own community not just your direct family. 09:30.960 --> 09:37.402 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember the new Muslims who oftentimes struggle not because of theology but because of the social aspect of becoming Muslim. 09:37.962 --> 09:39.563 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember the people in your society. 09:40.323 --> 09:43.264 [SPEAKER_00]: You look at the end of his life, and he is allowed to us Salam, and it was a Monday. 09:43.765 --> 09:44.505 [SPEAKER_00]: In this very month. 09:46.170 --> 09:55.954 [SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ is very sick and he is not able to lead the prayer, the Jama'at for the Ummah, so he assigns multiple times Abu Bakr on the Allahu'a and to lead the Salah. 09:56.694 --> 10:09.258 [SPEAKER_00]: And as you know his home, the Prophet's home is in the Mastid ﷺ, so he opens the curtain as they were praying and he looks out and they could see him, ﷺ he's in front of them and they get happy and they think he's coming to join us. 10:09.979 --> 10:13.140 [SPEAKER_00]: Abu Bakr is leading the prayer and the Sahab looked up out of excitement. 10:14.152 --> 10:20.235 [SPEAKER_00]: And Abu Bakit is about to step back so the Prophet could lead and he gestures to them will continue your prayer, but he smiled. 10:21.176 --> 10:23.277 [SPEAKER_00]: He smiled seeing the believers pray. 10:23.978 --> 10:28.680 [SPEAKER_00]: He smiled knowing after these 22 to 23 years, that the Ummah is in a good place. 10:29.361 --> 10:31.182 [SPEAKER_00]: He smiled seeing the unity of the believers. 10:31.222 --> 10:39.066 [SPEAKER_00]: He smiled seeing the men praying, he sees them right in front of him, the Janah, prayer, the message is packed with people, as it is packed today. 10:39.727 --> 10:40.327 [SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ smiles. 10:42.387 --> 10:44.588 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's not the Allah, and he says about this. 10:44.628 --> 10:53.173 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, I never saw a more beautiful sight than the Prophet ﷺ, they were so happy that he may be his recovery from his severe illness. 10:54.453 --> 10:55.694 [SPEAKER_00]: And then he drops the curtain. 10:56.534 --> 10:59.056 [SPEAKER_00]: ﷺ, and that was the last time that they saw him. 10:59.216 --> 11:00.036 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know how to say that. 11:01.257 --> 11:02.658 [SPEAKER_00]: As he's getting more and more ill, 11:03.748 --> 11:09.732 [SPEAKER_00]: We seen the Prophet ﷺ these final moments, a few more reminders about the idea of companionship that you're not alone. 11:10.472 --> 11:15.476 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember the story of Faqhtima, his daughter, Ali al-Lahu Anha, she comes to him and he whispered something in her ear. 11:16.276 --> 11:20.839 [SPEAKER_00]: She starts to cry and then he says something else to her and she starts to smile and laugh. 11:21.800 --> 11:24.882 [SPEAKER_00]: Later on she said the Prophet ﷺ ﷺ her father told her, 11:25.905 --> 11:27.746 [SPEAKER_00]: that this illness would be his final illness. 11:27.887 --> 11:28.807 [SPEAKER_00]: He would pass away from it. 11:29.888 --> 11:30.749 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't sell out to a son. 11:31.509 --> 11:32.570 [SPEAKER_00]: And so she started to cry. 11:33.411 --> 11:37.354 [SPEAKER_00]: But then he gave her the news that you were going to be the first amongst my family to depart after me. 11:38.155 --> 11:42.158 [SPEAKER_00]: The prophet Al-Azulatoa, Salam is the one who taught us and Mar-O-Maham and Ahad. 11:42.918 --> 11:44.259 [SPEAKER_00]: You will be with a person you love. 11:45.165 --> 12:04.829 [SPEAKER_00]: Al-Mar-O-Maman, you'll be with the people you love, the Sahaba were so elated, so happy to find out that when we die in our bodies and our souls move on, you mean we're going to reunite somewhere else, we're going to be together somewhere else, and not just somewhere else in the best of homes, and not just in the best of homes but forever. 12:05.549 --> 12:06.709 [SPEAKER_00]: Never beating farewell again. 12:08.009 --> 12:12.350 [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine how happy they were to hear the good news that there's reunion in Jeninah forever. 12:13.540 --> 12:19.485 [SPEAKER_00]: May Allah grant us and our loved ones and our descendants that reunion in Paradise with the Prophet ﷺ. 12:20.426 --> 12:23.349 [SPEAKER_00]: In these final moments, the Prophet ﷺ is in the lap of Khadiz Yad Al-Dilawana or Aishal Al-Lirana. 12:23.369 --> 12:26.591 [SPEAKER_00]: And as the Prophet is there, he's allowed to us to salam and he's sweating and he's struggling and the pain is severe. 12:26.631 --> 12:35.939 [SPEAKER_00]: And he's repeating the shahad al-Ala, ilah, ilah, ilah, ilah, ilah, ilah, ilah, ilah, illah, illah, illah, illah, illah, illah, illah, illah, illah, illah, illah, illah, illah, illah, illah, illah, illah, illah, illah, illah, illah, illah, illah, illah, illah, illah, illah, illah, illah, illah 12:36.955 --> 12:43.278 [SPEAKER_00]: Indeed, there are pains for the reality of death, even the prophet, Salah Aiyusat. 12:43.799 --> 12:51.883 [SPEAKER_00]: Sweating and repeating over and over the Shahada in Nalin-Mati-Sakarat, there are pains or anguishes for this experience of death. 12:52.043 --> 12:54.004 [SPEAKER_00]: So the prophet is not acting like there's nothing there. 12:54.484 --> 12:57.626 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not performing for the Ummah, or anything like that, Salah Aiyusat. 12:57.646 --> 12:58.086 [SPEAKER_00]: Nor would he. 12:59.066 --> 13:01.548 [SPEAKER_00]: And he's expressing very explicitly what he's going through. 13:03.028 --> 13:04.049 [SPEAKER_00]: And then in his last moment, 13:05.450 --> 13:11.694 [SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ says madalladina, and I'm telling him, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know what Shuhada, he was salihane. 13:12.814 --> 13:18.017 [SPEAKER_00]: O Allah, with those whom you have favored, the prophets and the truthful, the righteous, and the martyrs. 13:19.018 --> 13:33.607 [SPEAKER_00]: And He says ﷺ, O Allah, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know 13:34.563 --> 13:38.828 [SPEAKER_00]: Our mother Ayshad al-Lawanha, she mentioned that he passed away in her embrace. 13:39.709 --> 13:41.511 [SPEAKER_00]: She was holding onto him when he passed away. 13:42.151 --> 13:43.012 [SPEAKER_00]: I did this a lot to us. 13:43.773 --> 13:47.457 [SPEAKER_00]: The first moment of Wahay, and he rushes to his wife, Radijah, al-Lawanha. 13:48.318 --> 13:50.240 [SPEAKER_00]: And he shows us there's nothing embarrassing about that. 13:50.800 --> 13:52.642 [SPEAKER_00]: This is not contrary to masculinity. 13:53.263 --> 13:58.827 [SPEAKER_00]: for a woman to also be emotionally supportive and strong for her husband, in a time that is very just stressful. 13:59.468 --> 14:08.455 [SPEAKER_00]: And for people to be more intentional in their families as siblings, as children, as parents, as relatives, to be more intentional about showing support. 14:09.095 --> 14:13.679 [SPEAKER_00]: And he passes away also in the embrace of his wife, Aisha, Rondi Laurana. 14:14.540 --> 14:16.301 [SPEAKER_00]: Between these two moments, 23 years of 14:19.200 --> 14:25.822 [SPEAKER_00]: of a clarification of mercy to the world, to show us how to worship Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala through all types of social experiences. 14:27.183 --> 14:35.006 [SPEAKER_00]: And she says, Mata Rasulullah, Mata Rasulullah, the messenger of Allah has passed away, the messenger of Allah has passed away, and the news spreads in Medina. 14:35.646 --> 14:40.828 [SPEAKER_00]: And the people are in shock, because the greatest day of their life was the day that he entered Medina Ali Hisla to a setup. 14:41.678 --> 14:44.999 [SPEAKER_00]: And the darkest day for the one that was the day that he passed away on, he saw a lot to us enough. 14:45.439 --> 14:48.520 [SPEAKER_00]: And this very month in a way is a reminder of that. 14:48.560 --> 14:49.860 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not a celebration. 14:50.580 --> 14:51.160 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a pain. 14:51.900 --> 14:55.221 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a severe pain, but with that pain, there's a lot of glad tidying. 14:55.821 --> 15:10.285 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a beautiful glad tidying and seeing how he taught the Sahdha, the men and the women, the old and the young, how he interacted, how he showed compassion, how he showed love, his character, Sallalahu alaihi o sallam, for some people that's all it took to be convinced that 15:11.985 --> 15:19.767 [SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes we slack off with our character, and we over-emphasize other things or in a harsh way, and we forget the beauty of Islam. 15:19.907 --> 15:22.307 [SPEAKER_00]: Talk through the messenger, and he salatu wa salam. 15:22.767 --> 15:26.808 [SPEAKER_00]: How much of the world would change if every Muslim lived upon the prophetic character? 15:27.288 --> 15:31.889 [SPEAKER_00]: How many of our families would be in a much better state, and our children and the youth of this Ummah? 15:32.349 --> 15:37.070 [SPEAKER_00]: If the family is acted upon the character of the prophet, salalahu alaihi wa salam. 15:37.850 --> 15:54.609 [SPEAKER_00]: And as the shock spread and people could not believe did he really die Salallahu alaihi wa sallam Abu Bakad here's the news and he comes back and he sees the chaos and the sadness and the grief And he goes straight to the body of the prophet alaihi salatu wa salam in the house of Aayhi shadallahu alaihi 15:55.730 --> 16:00.751 [SPEAKER_00]: And he kisses his forehead, makes a prayer, and then he goes out, makes a door out, and then he goes out. 16:01.691 --> 16:06.412 [SPEAKER_00]: And as he sees the people and the commotion that they have in the mission of the prophet, he's allowed to sit up. 16:06.792 --> 16:11.353 [SPEAKER_00]: He starts to speak and people start to listen, because it is of a wickedly a law on. 16:11.373 --> 16:12.293 [SPEAKER_00]: You had not so people. 16:13.254 --> 16:15.814 [SPEAKER_00]: Whoever amongst you used to worship Muhammad, 16:19.985 --> 16:22.726 [SPEAKER_00]: Waiman kanayabudun l-haha f-in-na-l-haha yun layamut. 16:23.246 --> 16:27.106 [SPEAKER_00]: However, worships Allah, Allah's ever-present, present, never-leaves. 16:28.447 --> 16:31.087 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember, Abu Bakr was the one that was in the cave being console. 16:31.607 --> 16:33.688 [SPEAKER_00]: Lata-hazan in-na-l-haha m-a-na. 16:34.428 --> 16:39.249 [SPEAKER_00]: He saw, not only like, not only was Abu Bakr Ali al-lahan, the four most in-e-man. 16:39.929 --> 16:43.109 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember, they had many personal first-hand experiences with the Prophet ﷺ. 16:43.129 --> 16:44.070 [SPEAKER_00]: They were distressed for. 16:46.090 --> 16:53.374 [SPEAKER_00]: And he's being taught the greatest of followers of the Prophet ﷺ is being taught as well, how to interpret and feel about different situations. 16:53.934 --> 16:55.455 [SPEAKER_00]: Lata Huzan in Allahumana. 16:56.216 --> 16:59.117 [SPEAKER_00]: And on that day he was the one consoling rather than consoled. 16:59.578 --> 17:07.122 [SPEAKER_00]: He is the one who is reminding when the greatest of believers were struggling to accept that the Prophet ﷺ has truly passed away. 17:08.130 --> 17:13.214 [SPEAKER_00]: giving them back La Tahazan in Allahamana, in a moment in which the Ummah absolutely needed it. 17:14.075 --> 17:16.717 [SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ was born during this month. 17:17.838 --> 17:24.144 [SPEAKER_00]: There is no consensus in Jumah on which day in particular, but it was a Monday, and the Prophet passed away on a Monday as well. 17:24.184 --> 17:31.390 [SPEAKER_00]: So Allah ﷺ, and he loved to fast Mondays in general and mentioned this as one of the things that he did as gratitude to Allah ﷺ. 17:31.910 --> 17:34.453 [SPEAKER_00]: But he reminded us in a very practical way as well. 17:35.473 --> 17:55.207 [SPEAKER_00]: that if at any point in life you feel alone, if you ever think you're in a stage of life where you're really, really feeling alone, to first turn to Allah Subhanahu Tata, to turn to Allah to know that you are never alone, to internalize that reality, that Allah's with you and Allah's watching you and Allah's a witness over you, and Allah's supporting you. 17:55.607 --> 17:58.069 [SPEAKER_00]: That you also turn to Him, that you turn to Allah. 17:58.529 --> 18:03.193 [SPEAKER_00]: You remember Him in times of ease when He blesses your life with people or wealth or health, 18:04.057 --> 18:11.015 [SPEAKER_00]: and know that the response and that feeling of companionship with Allah, the concept of Mary, to be with Allah, will be much easier in times of hardship. 18:12.112 --> 18:13.873 [SPEAKER_00]: even if the entire world around you is gone. 18:14.413 --> 18:16.434 [SPEAKER_00]: Even if you're living under occupation or genocide. 18:16.935 --> 18:22.358 [SPEAKER_00]: Even if you're living with a lot of uncertainty about your financial state or your health or the loss of a loved one. 18:22.978 --> 18:27.460 [SPEAKER_00]: Even if you're the only Muslim in your family that allows with you, well, a macum, anima, quintupe. 18:28.041 --> 18:34.864 [SPEAKER_00]: The concept of companionship from the life of the Prophet ﷺ gives us many, many lessons before the sake of time, I'll only mention a few. 18:35.325 --> 18:40.848 [SPEAKER_00]: First and foremost, for every one of us are reminder, any time you pray, alone, 18:41.548 --> 18:42.548 [SPEAKER_00]: Slow down in your prayer. 18:43.108 --> 18:44.249 [SPEAKER_00]: You're conversing with Allah. 18:44.709 --> 18:49.250 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want to feel companionship with a lot, then experience the quality of that companionship. 18:49.790 --> 18:50.470 [SPEAKER_00]: Slow down. 18:50.990 --> 18:53.250 [SPEAKER_00]: Especially in your prostration, your surdued. 18:53.811 --> 19:00.852 [SPEAKER_00]: Al-Qarab-ul-Mayyakul-Nab-Dume-Rab-Dume-Rab-Dume-Rab-Dume-Rab-Dume-Rab-Dume-Rab-Dume-Rab-Dume-Rab-Dume-Rab-Dume-Rab-Dume-Rab-Dume-Rab-Dume-Rab-Dume-Rab-Dume-Rab-Dume-Rab-Dume-Rab-Dume-Rab-Dume-Rab-Dume-Rab-Dume-Rab-Dume-Rab-Dume-Rab-Dume-Rab-Dume- 19:10.994 --> 19:13.895 [SPEAKER_00]: Express your vulnerability to Allah, ask Allah SWT. 19:13.975 --> 19:16.076 [SPEAKER_00]: And that is the beauty of our faith. 19:16.556 --> 19:17.557 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to go to people. 19:17.917 --> 19:19.657 [SPEAKER_00]: There's no confession in Islam to people. 19:20.017 --> 19:23.539 [SPEAKER_00]: There's no hierarchy, there's direct connection to Allah SWT. 19:23.959 --> 19:26.620 [SPEAKER_00]: Number two, if you ever do feel distrust. 19:27.908 --> 19:29.628 [SPEAKER_00]: know that the Prophet felt distressed as well. 19:29.808 --> 19:30.729 [SPEAKER_00]: Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. 19:30.789 --> 19:34.049 [SPEAKER_00]: And when he was distressed, they said, he used to offer two rakhas. 19:34.489 --> 19:35.089 [SPEAKER_00]: He used to pray. 19:35.709 --> 19:37.170 [SPEAKER_00]: Let us before anything else. 19:37.230 --> 19:40.250 [SPEAKER_00]: Before social media, before turning online, before numbing one's mind. 19:40.690 --> 19:43.911 [SPEAKER_00]: Let us turn to Allah, Subhanahu alaihi wa Two Laih Rakesh. 19:44.351 --> 19:46.911 [SPEAKER_00]: Number three, a reminder for all of us and for myself. 19:47.632 --> 19:55.253 [SPEAKER_00]: If you know someone going through a stage of life, they're in that room alone in that period of life, be more consistent in reaching out to them. 19:55.893 --> 20:01.119 [SPEAKER_00]: because a lot of people are expressing loneliness in a world of technological connections. 20:01.864 --> 20:13.631 [SPEAKER_00]: So, reach out to that person who just lost the loved one, reach out to that friend that you know is living alone, reach out to that person who just moved and relocated, reach out to someone who expressed something to you that they might have not expressed to anyone else. 20:14.492 --> 20:20.195 [SPEAKER_00]: It is from the rights of the believers that they spread this salam to each other, not just the people they know, but also the people that they don't. 20:20.956 --> 20:25.939 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's not enough at times you just respond in a group chat and assume along connecting to them. 20:27.060 --> 20:28.921 [SPEAKER_00]: Direct connection is something very special. 20:29.241 --> 20:30.622 [SPEAKER_00]: And we all know this on the receiving end. 20:31.541 --> 20:33.745 [SPEAKER_00]: Number four, the Prophet smiled. 20:34.185 --> 20:38.252 [SPEAKER_00]: Sallallahu alaihi wa-sallam when he opened the curtain and he saw the Jama'at in the nested. 20:38.973 --> 20:41.577 [SPEAKER_00]: When he saw the Muslim men praying in the nested, he smiled. 20:42.436 --> 20:47.060 [SPEAKER_00]: There is a reminder for us, especially with all that's happening in the world, to be consistent in the message. 20:47.860 --> 20:55.386 [SPEAKER_00]: It is a sign of faith, whatever city you're from, wherever you can, to try to be in the message as often as you can for the Jama'at prayer. 20:56.067 --> 21:00.671 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's something many of us are privileged to do that we might not be taking full advantage of. 21:01.011 --> 21:03.433 [SPEAKER_00]: We ask a loss of panotana to bless our congregations. 21:03.933 --> 21:09.098 [SPEAKER_00]: Number five, for the parents, a reminder, a reminder based on all the literature today, 21:09.698 --> 21:14.465 [SPEAKER_00]: please do not allow your children at a young age to become addicted to technology. 21:15.125 --> 21:16.728 [SPEAKER_00]: It is not for their benefit. 21:16.828 --> 21:17.889 [SPEAKER_00]: It may seem easier. 21:17.969 --> 21:19.692 [SPEAKER_00]: It may seem fun and all of that and we know. 21:21.002 --> 21:26.666 [SPEAKER_00]: But it is an act of love and mercy to protect them from harm outside of the home and in the home and especially internally. 21:27.287 --> 21:32.411 [SPEAKER_00]: May Allah protect our children and to raise them with the right understanding of where to talk and what to say. 21:32.471 --> 21:35.453 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't let them also turn their technology into confidence. 21:35.993 --> 21:40.537 [SPEAKER_00]: AI platforms are absorbing a lot of things and a lot of children are struggling in their parents have no idea. 21:41.305 --> 21:47.917 [SPEAKER_00]: the parents who also assume at times not my child many times it is that parents child and may a loss of panotaida protect them as well. 21:48.338 --> 21:52.084 [SPEAKER_00]: We might have to reframe that in a way in which parents 21:53.382 --> 22:01.728 [SPEAKER_00]: Just to remember the first time that child expressed something taboo, that topic that maybe is awkward, that we need to be able to have those hard conversations. 22:02.268 --> 22:05.090 [SPEAKER_00]: Because otherwise, they are taking place in other places. 22:05.330 --> 22:07.431 [SPEAKER_00]: And we ask a lot of subhanotada to protect our families. 22:07.812 --> 22:15.797 [SPEAKER_00]: And lastly, a reminder for all of us, take advantage of this month if you have it before, maybe turn it into a month in which we're learning more about the life of the prophet. 22:16.117 --> 22:23.000 [SPEAKER_00]: and the Sunnah and the Seerah, and throughout the year as well, and to be consistent with trying to really practice what he left behind. 22:23.380 --> 22:29.003 [SPEAKER_00]: We ask Allah SWT to make us amongst those who are gathered with the Prophet ﷺ in the highest ranks of Jannah. 22:29.323 --> 22:35.346 [SPEAKER_00]: And to make us the means of righteous companionship in this world, and to connect our hearts to Him so that we never, ever feel truly alone. 22:35.586 --> 22:39.488 [SPEAKER_00]: Wa salilah Muhammad alaikum alaikum alaikum alaikum alaikum alaikum alaikum alaikum alaikum alaikum.