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 https://youtu.be/Ir_IfT4260g Auto-generated transcript: Bismillahirrahmanirrahim, Alhamdulillah, wa bilalameen, wa salatu wassalamu ala ashraf, bi zanbi wal mursaleen, Muhammadur Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi, wa sallamu wa sallam, tasliman kaseeran kaseera. Umma baadu, for those of you who can recognize this, you know where I am, I don't need to explain, that is the bottom of the green dome, the raudha of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa alaihi wa sallam, and I am in Masjid Nabiyyat-e-Sharif, Alhamdulillah, it's a beautiful, beautiful scene. May Allah bless all the people here. What you are seeing here is the sufrat, the dastarkhans, the food that is being spread out, and all of this is privately funded. There are families in Medina who have been doing this for literally centuries. We're right through Ramadan, and then throughout the year, every Monday and Thursday, the days of sunnah fasting, they give iftar to anyone who wants to eat. Nobody will even ask you if you are fasting or not. You can just sit down and you will eat, and there's beautiful food. I'm in this area which is normally an open space. It's a small courtyard, but they have these beautiful, these beautiful umbrellas that automatically open and shut. That's a wonderful sight to see also when it happens. So beautiful to be in Masjid Nabiyyat-e-Sharif. I remember the very first time I came here was in 1997, when my wife and I came here for the first hajj. And it was amazing. When I came to Medina itself, and then especially when I entered Masjid Nabiyyat-e-Sharif, it was like coming home. Now, I've been, I've traveled all over the world. I've been to many countries first time, and I know the feeling of first time. I know how it feels. It's some anxiety. There is obviously some excitement, obviously, but there is also anxiety. There is, you know, some level of, I wouldn't say fear, but, you know, you're wondering what's going to happen and so on. But here it was like coming home. And I'm coming to a place for the first time, never been here before. And this is the barakah of Rasulullah ﷺ and his beautiful maqam. Imagine, I remember 2008 when I came here, my wife and I, we came for hajj and I spoke at the International Hajj Conference. When we came to Medina after completing hajj, as we came over the little hill, and we could see the minarets of Al Hanuma Sharif of Rasool Allah ﷺ, I know the thought in my mind was, what is it about this place, which was a little oasis, unheard of probably at the time, which sent out the call for the oneness of the worship of Allah SWT, which echoed all around. And people responded and people answered and people continued to respond and answer, no matter how many people malign Islam, no matter how many Islamophobes they are, no matter what, people come to Islam, Muslims are Muslims, they are proud to be Muslims, they are happy to be Muslims, and they are people who come here, they flock here from every nation in the world. Every country. Every area. Every part of the world. As I said before, another reminder from Makkah, every complexion, every hair color, every shape of nose and eyes and mouth, every stature, the tall ones, the short ones, the large ones, the not so large ones, the thin ones, everybody from, you know, everything, they are here. If Allah made them, they are here. SubhanAllah, they come and they come for the love of Allah and they come for the love of his Habib, of Rasool Allah ﷺ, and they come for the love of the house of Allah and they come for the love of the masjid and abu-yash-sharif. SubhanAllah, imagine, what was it that made this happen? And… Because you're looking at a man who was alone and he had no resources. He had a vision and he had an aim which surpassed anything that anybody can imagine, but he had nothing to make it happen. He had nothing to make it happen. Yet, Allah swt has caused him to be the cause of millions and millions and millions of people, the 1.5 billion already in this world living, and imagine all the millions in 1500 years who came to Islam. We ask Allah swt to help them. We ask Allah swt to keep us in Islam and for us to die in Islam so we can go and meet Rasool Allah ﷺ in Jannatul Firdaus, inshaAllah. My brothers and sisters, the issue is to have a sense of awe and love and majesty of the place. And this is something that we have in both the Hanumai. And frankly, even though these are fabulous buildings, if you look at the buildings, if you look at the magnificent structure, if you look at the Haram Sharif in Makkah, it's like a city, literally like a city. Without a doubt, it's like a whole city. It's, you know, the electric power, you name it. I mean, everything is like a whole city in one mosque. But that's not what impresses. What impresses is the sense of awe and majesty. And that is nothing to do with the building or the architecture or the structure or how big it is, how small it is. It is the history. It is the sense of majesty ...
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