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King or Khalifa

King or Khalifa

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 Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wasalatu wasalamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasliman kathiran kathiran. Hama baadu, my brothers and sisters, Allah SWT when He created Azam alayhi salam, before He created Azam alayhi salam, Allah SWT said, to the malaika, inni ja'ilun fil ardi khalifa. He said, I have decided to send on the earth a khalifa. Allah did not say, inni ja'ilun fil ardi malik. Allah did not say, I have decided to send on the earth a king, a khalifa. Who is a khalifa? A khalifa is one, the difference between a malik and a khalifa. A king, is somebody who is, who makes the laws. The king issues a farban. From tomorrow, this will happen. It will happen. Nobody, will question the king. So the first one, the king makes the laws. Number two, nobody can question the king. Why did you do this? Because I am the king. My word is law. Right? I am the state. This is the position of kingship. So king makes the laws. Nobody can question the king. And good and bad, is decided based on one criterion, which is, does it please the king? Is the king happy with that? It is good. If the king is not happy, it is bad. In the case of the khalifa, all these three are different. The khalifa does not make laws. The khalifa implements laws. He follows the laws, and he makes sure the law is followed in the states. Number two, the khalifa is questionable and answerable to the king. You cannot ask the king, why did you say this? No. But the khalifa, is answerable. The king can ask him, will ask him. And the third thing is, in the case of the king, good and bad is, what pleases the king. In the case of the khalifa, it is what pleases the king, not what pleases the khalifa. Right? So if I am the king, I will say, good is what pleases me. But if I am the khalifa, I will say, good is what pleases the king, not me. Even if I don't like something, I have to do it, because it pleases the king. Now this is very, very important. When we think about ourselves, the reason I am saying this is not for, some intellectual benefit. I am saying this because, this is the reality. This is our reality today. And the reason why, we have problems, is because we have forgotten this. We have forgotten that we are not kings. We want to live in this life, as if we are kings. And that's where the problem is. We want to make our own laws. And by laws, I don't mean parliament and this and that. I am saying, laws in terms of what we apply to ourselves. Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala made a law, but we choose to follow it, or we don't choose, or we choose not to follow it. Selective obedience, is disobedience. Because if you are selecting, obey, if Allah has made three laws, you say, I will obey number one, I will obey number three, but number two, I don't like. This is not the, way a, Khalifa is to behave. That is why, if I ask myself, or ask you, are you Allah, or are you Abdullah? Which one are you? Astaghfirullah, Ilazim, Nauzubillah. You are not Astaghfirullah, Nauzubillah. Are you Allah? Are you God? Or are you, Abdullah, the slave of Allah? You are not Khadimullah. What is the word for, servant in Arabic? Khadim. Look it up. Go into Google Translate, and type, servant, and translate into Arabic. It will never say, Abd, it will say, Khadim. So are we, are we, Khuddamullah, or are we, Abdullah, Abdullah. So I'll, I'll talk about this tomorrow, InshaAllah. But today, as far as the, King and the, Vice-Chairman is concerned, the Khalifa is concerned, there was aifa from, Hussain, Mahmud, there is a wholeょ, you, One of the things which Hyderabad is known for and known for negatively, there is nothing to feel proud about it. People laugh at us. We should be ashamed. Is the Hyderabadi weddings. Right? We have become so shameless, we don't even feel ashamed. What would people say? If the wedding is at 8 o'clock, if it is at 10 o'clock, people start coming. They don't say. This is a good thing or a bad thing? People are praising us. They are laughing at us. They invited us at 8 o'clock, you must go only at 10. Only if you go at 10 then people will start coming. So is this something to feel proud about or something to feel ashamed about? The ostentatious spending in weddings. Right? Who are you showing off to? Who are you trying to show off to? I was in Jeddah once and one of my friends, there is one huge function place in Jeddah. Some, some name like this. The massive halls. The huge halls. The huge halls. So he told me that, so one of the, he told me the name of the Saudi person and he said he had his daughter's engagement here and he spent 30 million riyal. Daughter's engagement. So after the wedding, after the dowry, people wanted to impress her. She said, you are a very good person. You are a very good person. I said what is the big deal here. So even if some people want to impress her- it goes up to only 30 billion. If ...
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