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  • Salah is the pillar of my life

    Salah is the pillar of my life
    Dec 18 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions. Peace be upon them all. And after that, my brothers and sisters, in life we have a principle, all of us. And that is that we value something based on that thing fulfilling its purpose. Everything has a purpose. The purpose of this chair is to provide a place for us to sit on. The purpose of this chair is not to be a table for us to eat off. You can still do it. That's not the purpose. Place to sit. If the chair stops performing this function, then there is no value for the chair. The purpose of this phone is to do some things, help us to communicate. If this phone goes dead, it happened to me. I had actually quite a new Android phone a few years ago. And one day it... went dead. Literally. I mean, it just became a brick. Then we asked the warrant... It was unfortunately, the warranty period also had just finished. And the only useful thing, if you can call it useful, is the guy tells me, Yeah, this happens. I said, okay, thank you very much. Phone is gone. Kalas. I had to buy a different phone, new phone. Now, point is, I spent money buying that phone, obviously. You know, whatever it was those days. 30,000, 40,000, whatever. Phone went dead. When the phone goes dead, it doesn't change its shape. It's the same phone. It just doesn't work. So, do you think I would have said, you know, okay, so I spent all this money on the phone. And even if it is not working, still I spent the money on the phone. And, you know, it's a nice phone. The time that it worked, it worked. For whatever, one year or something. So, let me just keep it. I'll keep the phone. Maybe put a chain and then hang it on my neck or something. Like a necklace. Will I do that? Will you do that? What would you do? It stopped performing. It stopped fulfilling its function. So, what do you do? You try to repair it. You take it to the shop, whatever, and say, can you repair it? And if you say, sorry, this cannot be repaired. It's finished. Then what do you do? You junk it. You throw it away. Right? The same principle applies in life throughout. Same principle for things. Same principle for relationships. You have an employee. You have a job. You have a job. You have a job. You have a job. You have a job. You have a job. You have an employee. You have employed him for a certain job. He doesn't come. He doesn't do the job. He does not do the job. And so on. So after a while what do you do? You tell him, please go find some other employment. I employed you for a certain job. You are not there. You are not doing this work. I employed you, for example, to drive my car. You are not there. Any time I need to go somewhere, you are not there. I am driving my own car. Then if I am driving my own car, why do I… Why am I paying you? water. Same principle. The same principle also applies to our purpose on this earth. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did not create this world without a reason. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told us, people will say, O our Rabb, you have not created all this batil, without any purpose, meaningless. No. It has a purpose. What is the purpose? What is the purpose of our creation? Why did Allah create us? Did Allah leave us to guess? You guess, what is your guess? No. Allah told us. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told us in so many words, and very emphatically. In Surah Az-Zariyat, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, وَمَا خَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونَ Allah said, I have not created the jinn and the insan for anything other than my worship. إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونَ Nothing but my worship. I created you to worship me. And the first and foremost and most important form of that worship is Salah. Salah at its time. عَلَى وَقْتِهَا Salah at its time. And for the men, by jam'ah in some masjids. Salah at its time. And then Allah did not leave us to decide what is the meaning of Salah, how to pray. No. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala showed us. Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, a group of young, Sahaba came and they spent two to three weeks with the Rasul alaihi salatu wasalam in his company. They stayed in masjid of the Nabi sh-Sharif. They were given food from the houses of the Nabi alaihi salatu wasalam. And these young Sahaba, they were young boys, but you know, they were Sahaba. Nabi sh-Salam taught them, gave them tarbiyah. And the narrator of the hadith says that, we learned so much that I cannot even narrate all of that at one go. He said after two to three weeks, these are all young boys, they have come from, some of them from distant tribes. So they were missing their homes and parents. But then they are with the Rasul, Rasulullah sallallahu...
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  • How to build Tawakkul

    How to build Tawakkul
    Dec 17 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the messengers and messengers. Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and peace and blessings be upon him. Tasliman kathiran kathira famma ba'du. My brothers and sisters, in Jammu al-Tirmidhi, there is this hadith where Rasulullah, peace and blessings be upon him, is reported to have said, If you were to rely upon Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, with the required reliance, then He would provide for you just as a bird is provided for. It goes out in the morning hungry and returns full. In Jammu al-Tirmidhi, the hadith is reported where Rasulullah, peace and blessings be upon him, is reported to have said, the meaning of which is, If you were to rely upon Allah, if you were to rely upon Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, with the required reliance, then He would provide for you just as a bird is provided for. It goes out in the morning hungry and returns full. We ask Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, to help us to have tawakkul on Him and on Him alone because only He is worthy of being and He is worthy of being relied upon. The question is, how do we build tawakkul? How do we build this reliance on Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, and on Him? And the answer is that we build reliance in the same way that we build reliance on anything else. And that is, by focusing on the power and the strength and the ability to provide of that entity that we are intending to rely upon and also to look at our own history in that relationship. And that is why they say, we should trust, we should verify, verify, verify, verify, verify, verify, intending to rely upon. And the second one is interesting because the second one starts from where the first one finishes, which is that having learnt about the greatness and glory and power and control of the entity we are intending to rely upon, to actually have this reliance, to have this tawakkur, there has to be a leap of faith. A risk has to be taken. At that point of risk, our true belief on this entity is called to question. You really believe. If you really believe, then step forward. I want to tell you two stories. One is a hypothetical story, it's a teaching story. And the other one is a true story that happened to me. The hypothetical story is that there was this man, it's a teaching story, so it's very useful. There was this man who wanted to climb the Matterhorn, which is one of the most famous mountains in India. And he was one of the very difficult mountains to climb in Europe. And he wanted to climb it, climb one particular phase of it, which was a very difficult phase to climb. And nobody had until that time attempted it solo, alone. This man decided that he wanted to do that. So he trained for it and so on, a couple of years. And he came to this mountain, and he said, I want to climb this mountain. And he said, I want to climb it. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. 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And as he went higher and higher and higher and higher, the weather kept on worsening until it came to a point where this man was... It was very high up. And it became pitch dark. And there was a terrible wind and gusty wind and pitch dark. And this man is climbing on his own. No help. And then the inevitable happened. He reached up for a handhold. He caught a place in the rock. And as he was lifting himself up, his whole body weight on his one hand. The rock gave way. And he fell. It's pitch dark. He can't see anything. And as he's falling, his whole ...
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  • No pain no gain

    No pain no gain
    Dec 16 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, this is a follow-up on my previous khatira, that happiness is a choice. Happiness, you don't become happy because of the possessions you have or the circumstances you find yourself in or because of what somebody else does for you or does not do for you and so on. Happiness is not a factor of external things that happen to you in life and definitely not of any material possessions. Happiness is a choice. You become happy when you want to become happy. And that's a very powerful and very empowering thought to keep in mind because you will find people in the best of situations who are constantly complaining. I have a friend of mine who, I even joke with him, but that's his life. He's had the best of jobs. He's risen to the maximum height possible in his career. He has wealth. He has properties. He has, you know, all kinds of stuff. But anytime you talk to him, you always say, yeah, you know, this is a but, yeah, but. I mean, this but is the root cause. The but is the biggest and the most clear symptom of this disease of ingratitude, of being ungrateful to Allah. 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And his whole life's work, so it was, you know, God knows, a few thousand experiments maybe. And one day there was a fire in the night. It was a huge fire, completely uncontrollable. And Thomas Edison's son says that the minute I discovered and I realized there was a fire, I went looking for my dad. I thought he must be going completely crazy because that's his whole life's work. And it's just, you know, going up in flames and nothing can be done to stop it. And he said, I saw him standing there with his hands clasped behind his back, watching this fire. So he said, I went to him, I said, Dad, are you okay? Is it, you know, this terrible thing has happened? He said, go call your mom, tell her she'll never see a fire this big again. Now imagine, this is the attitude of the man. His whole life's work is going up in flames before his eyes. And he tells his son, go call your mom because she's never going to see a fire like this again in her life. So the son says to his father, he said, he says, that's okay. But I mean, you know, this is your whole life's work. I mean, what do you have to say about that? He said, look, how many people get a chance to have all their mistakes wiped out and to start afresh? Yes. How many people get a chance to have all their mistakes wiped away, wiped off and to start afresh? Now, the same thing. It is a fire. All your life's work, all your experiments, everything is going up in flames. The question is, do you go into despair? Do you commit suicide? Do you say my life is over? Or do you say this is a fresh beginning? Who makes that choice? It's as simple as that. Who makes that choice? And the answer is very simple. You know, I don't need to tell you the answer, right? But do we make that choice? This is our challenge. Allah SWT did not promise us ease. Allah SWT promised us growth. And growth comes with pain. No pain. No gain. Growth comes with pain. The question is, how do you see that? I used to do Aikido at one point in time when I was in Bangalore. And we were sparring in the dojo. My partner and I using Bokken, which is wooden swords. Basically wooden sticks, slightly shaped like the, like the katana, the Japanese samurai sword. But obviously they have no sharp edges and so on. So my partner, obviously we are all friends. So he was, you know, sparring with me. So he's attacking me and I'm blocking and so on. Our sensei, Julius Abe, he came up to us and he said, you know what? The best, the best partner, ...
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  • Happiness is a choice

    Happiness is a choice
    Dec 14 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafi al-anbiya wal-mursaleen. Muhammadun Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi sallam. Tasliman kathiran kathiran. Amma baadu, my brothers and sisters. I was talking to a friend of mine, and we were talking about the different kinds of things that are happening in the world, almost all over the world, and everyone seems to be in some kind of problem or the other. For someone it's financial, for somebody else it is political, for somebody it's health, it's old age, it's, you know, all kinds of stuff. And the conversation was kind of going towards, you know, a lot of negativity. And I was, then I remember I said, I said to them that I was really repeating something which I read many years ago and which I try to hold on to because of how beautifully it's done. And the story was about this lady who, an old lady, this Uber guy gets a call. And when he goes to pick up, there's this very elderly woman. And she just comes to the door. She says, will you, can you help me with a bag? So he comes, he goes up there. There's one single bag. And as he picks up the bag, he sees that it's a small little house. And he sees that it looks like she is vacating the house. The house seems to be, you know, completely empty. And so he takes the bag. Takes her, helps her down the stairs. And then they are going to the car. And this woman seems to be very happy. Absolutely, you know, top of the world. So he puts the bag in the car. And then she gets into the car. And he says, he has the address. So he knows that he's taking her to a sanitarium, an elderly care facility. So he asks her, you know, just, you know, a conversation. He says, you're going to this facility. And, you know, who is there? Anyone in your family? She says, no, I have nobody. I'm alone in the world. And I got to a stage where I can't really stay alone by myself. So I need to go. I need to take this. I need to go to this facility. Now, this Uber driver, he doesn't know me. Should he sympathize with her? What should he say? So he says, spontaneously, he says, you know, that's terrible. I mean, there's no one here. Even to go to this facility, you have to go on your own. She says, well, you know, I'm not going to go. I'm not going to go. I'm not going to go. You know, you are there. I mean, I'm so happy that you're there. And thank you very much for being there. So the man says, of course, absolutely. I am honored. I'm very happy to be with you. And so he said, how are you able to maintain this kind of equanimity, this kind of, you know, there's no anxiety. You're not upset. Nothing, you know, you seem to be so happy. And really, I mean, what is there to be so happy about? So she said something which is fantastic and which has, Anandila stayed with me. And I'm sharing that with you because I think it is such a beautiful thing. She says to him, every morning when I get up, I'm at an age where I get up, I have aches and pains. And every day I wake up, I think I have a new one. And so on and so forth. But she said, every morning when I get up, I realize that I have a choice. And my choice is, that I can either think about this new pain I have. And I can think about the fact that I can't remember things too well. I can think about the fact that sometimes because when I need to go to the bathroom, the need is so urgent that sometimes there is an accident. I can think about all kinds of things. Or I can look out of the window and I see this absolutely beautiful, glorious sunrise. I see this absolute glorious, you know, sunny morning. I see it's now winter, so I see snow everywhere. It's beautifully white. And then there is a cardinal sitting on a rock. It looks like a ruby which is on a bed of white silk cotton. I can listen to the thrilling, beautiful sound and song of the skylark. I can think about the fact. I can think about the fact that while it is true that I am old and I have these aches and pains and stuff, but alhamdulillah I am able to walk. I am able to move around. I am not in a wheelchair. I can think about the fact that I am able to more or less eat whatever I like to eat. I don't have any crippling diet restrictions. I can't even go to the doctor. I can't even go to the doctor. And so on and so on. So meaning that she says that I have a choice to think about many, many things. And she said that I thought to myself that all of those things are true. While it is true that I have aches and pains and the rest of the list that I mentioned to you, it's all true. It's also equally true that there are so many positives. Right? That I am not in a wheelchair. That I am able to move around and so on and so forth. And a whole lot of them. It's not just these things. There are more and many more. So she says, I therefore have in my life all these choices. Now, my thing is, which of these choices do I want to focus on? Right? Which of these choices do I want to focus ...
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  • Standard of success

    Standard of success
    Dec 14 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:اللہ رب العالمين اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلام یہ مسئلہ یہ ہے جو سکہ ہے جو سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی کیونکہ دیسرے سندر سے ایک سوشل کرنا چاہتا ہے مثال سے اگر آپ کہتے ہیں کہ میں سرکار کرنا چاہتا ہوں تو کیا سرکار ہے؟ یہ سندر سے ہے، صحبت ہے، صحبت ہے تو آپ کہتے ہیں کہ میں سو ساٹھ فرماتا ہوں اور یہ سندر میں سہ ساٹھ فرماتا ہے یہ سندر ہے لہذا اگر میں سہ ساٹھ فرماتا ہوں اور 20 سیکنڈ میں سہ ساٹھ فرماتا ہوں اور اگر میں سہ ساٹھ فرماتا ہوں اور 14 سیکنڈ میں سہ ساٹھ فرماتا ہوں کیونکہ سہ ساٹھ اور 15 سیکنڈ یہ میرا سندر ہے آپ یہ نہیں کہیں جہاں آپ یہ آپ کیہیں جہاں آپ یہ آپ کیہیں جہاں آپ یہ آپ کیہیں جہاں آپ آپ یہ آپ کیہیں جہاں آپ یہ آپ کیہیں جہاں آپ یہ آپ کیہیں جہاں آپ آپ کو بھی بیٹی نہیں ہوگی میں ایک انسان ہوں بیٹی نہیں ہوں بیٹی اور کٹس بہتر ہیں اور اس کے ساتھ لیکن ہم اس سے نہیں سمجھتے ہیں کیونکہ یہ ایک غیر سمجھتا ہے ہم انسانوں سے سمجھتے ہیں کیا انسان سردار ہے میں آپ کو ایک رانڈم نمبر دے گا کیا انسان سردار ہے آپ کو کہنا ہے ایک اولمپیک گولڈ میڈلسٹ سپرنٹ میں کیا کرتا ہے اسے سردار میں دینا تو میں میں کبھی نہیں دیکھتا ہوں لیکن یہ سردار ہے میں ایک اولمپیک گولڈ میڈلسٹ سے سردار کروں گا سپرنٹ میں ہندو سا میٹر دشت آپ کو سردار کر سکتا ہے ایک سردار تو کیا سردار ہے سردار کی سردار کیا ہے اب جو سردار کی حقیقت ہے وہ جو سردار کی حقیقت ہے تو ہمیں اس سردار کے باوجود ہے اور یہ اللہ سبحانہ وتعالی اور اللہ سبحانہ وتعالی ہمیں سردار دیا گیا ہے بہت سمجھا سردار اور وہ کہا اللہ نے کہا جو سردار کی حقیقت ہے اور جنہ میں دیا گیا ہے یہ شخص یہ فقط یہ شخص اس فیض سکسیسفل قرآن کریم اللہ نے دو لفظ لفظ لفظ مفلحون یہ لوگ ہیں مفلحون یہ لوگ ہیں جو سکسیسفل ہیں دوسرا لفظ فیض فائزون لوگ سکسیسفل ہیں فیض اور فیض دوسرے سکسیسفل مطلب ہے لیکن دوسرا لفظ ہے اس لفظ میں یہ ہے جو ایسی مطلب ہے لیکن یہ کبھی ایسا ہے یہ ہے آپ جانتے ہیں دوسرے لفظ فلا ہے سکس جو مطلب ہے مثال آپ کی بچہ سکتا ہے کہ یہ دوسرے سکس آئے جو سکس ہے وہ اس کے بارے میں سکس ہے درہندو اللہ میرے بچہ سکسیسفل ہے یہ سکسیسفل جہاں نہیں یہ سکسیسفل ہے جہاں جہاں جو کچھ جہہیں ...
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  • Kuwait Youth program – Importance of Seerah

    Kuwait Youth program – Importance of Seerah
    Dec 13 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:As-salāmu ʿalaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh. Alhamdulillah. As-salātu wa-salāmu ʿalā-i-rasūli-llāh wa-alā-ālihi wa-sahbihi wa-man walā. Wa-ba'āt. I am absolutely delighted to see all of you, mā shā'a Llāh. May Allah bless you and protect you. May Allah use you for His work, in shā'a Llāh. And the thing I want to remind myself of you is that the position of youth, of young people, in Islam has always been very, very important. And if you read the seerah of Rasulullah s.a.w., how many of you have read the seerah? One, two, three, four, mā shā'a Llāh, good, good. Mā shā'a Llāh. So, the others who have not read the seerah, please make the intention that you will read at least one book, any book of the seerah, the biography of Rasulullah s.a.w. Say now we are almost at the end of this month, so say by the 30th of December, before this year ends, in shā'a Llāh, you will read at least one book of the seerah, of the life of Rasulullah s.a.w. Right? Okay? Do that. In shā'a Llāh. Because the thing is that to love Rasulullah s.a.w., to love Rasulullah s.a.w., not just to love him, but to love him more than we love anything else, is a requirement of Islam. It is something which we as Muslims, we do and we should do. But also, a theological requirement in Islam. This has been commanded by Allah s.w.t. in the Qur'an. Allah s.w.t. in surah Tawbah, Allah s.w.t. says, أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّضِيمِ قُلْ إِن كَانَ آبَاؤُكُمْ وَأَبْنَاؤُكُمْ وَإِخْوَانُكُمْ وَأَزْوَاجُكُمْ وَعْشِيرَتُكُمْ وَأَمْوَالُ لِتَّرَفْتُكُهَا وَتِجَارَةُكُمْ تَقْشَوْنَا كَسَادَهُمْ وَمَسَاكِنُ تَرْضَوْنَهُمْ أَحَبَّ إِلَيْكُمْ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ وَالجَّهَادِ فِي سَبِيلِهِ فَتَرَبَّسُوا حَتَّى يَأْتِيَ اللَّهُ بِأَمْرِهِ وَاللَّهُ لَا يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الْفَاسِقِينَ Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala said in Surah At-Tawbah Say to them, Ya Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam قُلْ Say to them إِنْ كَانَ خَبَابُكُمْ If your fathers and mothers وَأَمْنَاوْلُ and your children وَإِخْوَانُكُمْ and your siblings وَأَزْوَاجُكُمْ and your spouses وَعَشِينَتُكُمْ and your extended family وَأَمْبَالُنِي تَرَفْتُمْهَا and the wealth that you accumulate وَتِجَارَةً تَخْشَوْنَا كَسَدْهَا and your tijara, your business and trade in which you fear a loss وَمَسَاكِنُ تَرْضَوْنَهَا and your houses, your palaces, your villas, your flats, your apartments which you build or you buy and you love them, you look at them, you feel happy about them أَحَبَّ إِلَيْكُمْ If these are more beloved to you أَحَبَّ إِلَيْكُمْ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَرَسُولِ More beloved to you than Allah and His Rasul Allah says فَتَرَبَّسُ Allah says get away Go away فَتَرَبَّسُ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَ اللَّهُ بِأَمْرِهِ Go away and wait for the Amr of Allah Wait for the Azab of Allah Wait for the punishment of Allah And then Allah real forces that and says وَاللَّهُ لَا يَهْدِ الْقَوْمَ الْفَاسِطِينَ Allah does not guide people who are rebellious Right? So the love of the Rasul ﷺ To love Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala And to love the Rasul ﷺ More than we love anyone and anything else Is not just a matter of discretion It's not just a matter of our nature It's a matter of our nature It's not because Rasul ﷺ was in any case a person Who is very easy to love Because he was such a beautiful being It is a religious requirement If somebody says I follow Islam But I'm sorry I don't love Rasul ﷺ This person is out of Islam This person has put himself in a place Where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala promised punishment He has said I will punish Right? Now how can you love somebody you don't know? To love somebody you have to know the right You can't love a stranger That is the reason why it is important To read the life of Rasul ﷺ To read his seerah Now the beautiful thing you will see Those of you who have read the seerah You will agree with me Those of you who have not read the seerah But you read it you will agree with me The beautiful thing about the seerah of Rasul ﷺ That unlike anyone else In the world Rasul ﷺ the more you know him The more the closer you get to him The more you love him The more you respect him Now this is not true of anyone else In English we say familiarity breeds contempt Right? This happens with a lot of people You look at somebody from a distance And say oh ...
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