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How to live a life of influence

How to live a life of influence

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 https://youtu.be/Inc0bp3k3PI Auto-generated transcript: Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alameen, wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafil biya'i wa al-mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi, wa sahbihi wa sallamu ala alayhi wa sallamu ala alayhi wa sallam. A person says, I am standing here at the window of my room in Hilton, in Medina. And as you can see, literally, a very short walk from here, maybe just over 100 meters. This is the Masjid al-Nabawiwaye Sharif. Today, as I'm standing here, I'm thinking to myself, many, if not all of us are literally obsessed with one thought in our minds, and that is, how can I live a life of power and influence? And I want to say to you that, from where I'm sitting, as I mentioned to you, literally, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30 on them, they slide sideways and in the evening sometimes they open them so that you have this little open courtyard, not very little, quite big actually, open to the skies. Very, very beautiful to sit there with the beautiful breeze of Madina blowing directly into the Masjid. And these are the umbrellas that cover now, they have covered it, King Abdullah. May Allah forgive him and be pleased with him. He is responsible for covering the entire courtyard all around Masjid, which is a huge, huge, huge relief for the people who come here from the sun. And of course, it increases obviously the capacity for the people. So, we have this example of the Prophet Muhammad . And the reason I'm saying most powerful and influential is because as I look down here, you can see all those cars and buses there moving at a snail's pace because of… it's almost a traffic jam. And we have here the people… May Allah bless them down here on the ground. People who are here for one purpose only and that is to go to the Masjid-e-Nabawi-e-Sharif, to pray there and to present their salaam to Rasulallah . Literally I can tell you, I can stand here by this window for 24 hours and this stream of people, they are all here. This stream of people walking towards the Masjid-e-Nabawi ends 24-7, day and night, there are people who are going to the Masjid. And walking there, walking back, that's all they do. Alhamdulillah, I have had the pleasure and the privilege of being one of them. Now, how did this happen? How does this happen? How do you become powerful and influential? How do you become powerful and influential in this life? Paradoxically, it is by defocusing from this life and focusing on the hereafter. And that is the message of Rasulallah in a gist of it, which is the… literally in a nutshell, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, we can actually do something. In our entire existence, we began in the ilm of Allah SWT, in the knowledge of Allah SWT. From there we went into the Alam Al Arwah, the world of the souls. From there we, when Allah SWT, we stayed in the Alam Al Arwah, the world of the souls for Advokatul Ravisht. And then when Allah SWT decreed, we came to the wombs of our mothers. And then, we stayed there, for, period, of, whatever, number, of, months, and, then, we, were, rejected, into, this, world, extremely, unhappy, that, having, changed, our, situation, yelling, and, screaming, our, guts, out, and, then, we, suddenly, fell, in, love, with, We live in this world and we live in this world for as long as Allah decrease and just like we had no control over when we came into this world, we will have no control over when we leave this world. And then for most of us, that leaving of this world will also be, it may not be like yelling and screaming, but certainly something that you leave with great reluctance. And the key is to remember that just like this world, we had no conception of what this world is like. When we were in the womb of our mothers, we have really no actual experiential knowledge of what the aakhira will be like when we leave this world. But leaving this world is as inevitable as it was leaving the womb of our mothers. And it's with one difference, which is that when we were in the womb of our mothers, nobody came to us and to tell us about the joys of this world and what we are going to see here and so on and so forth. And we, where we were, we thought that was the ultimate. We were in a nice warm place and we had no, we were not in danger. We got our food on time and we were taken care of and all our needs were met. We really couldn't ...
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