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  • Muharram – The month of Allah

    Muharram – The month of Allah
    Jul 6 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers, Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions. May peace and blessings be upon him. Our brothers and sisters, we are in the sacred month of Muharram, one of the four sacred months. That's also the beginning of the new year. We ask Allah to make this a year in which we can gain His Rida. You will notice that I am not saying this will be a year full of peace and harmony and this and that, because all of those are the effects of the Rida of Allah . There is no sense in asking for peace and harmony and prosperity and health and so on, when our life is going in the opposite direction, trying to attract the anger of Allah. You cannot have any of that stuff if Allah is angry. The only way to have peace and harmony and health and wealth and so on and so forth is if Allah is pleased with us. So I don't ask for any of the effects. They will happen. They have to happen. There is no way that somebody who Allah is pleased with will suffer in the sense of this dunya. It may look like suffering even, but that won't be suffering from the sense of this dunya. So we ask Allah to enable us to live lives which please Him . The ayat of Surah Tawbah which I recited before you, the meaning of which is Allah said, Verily the number of months with Allah is twelve. Twelve months in a year. So was it ordained by Allah on the day when He created the heavens and the earth. Four of them are sacred. That is the right religion. Abu Bakr narrated that Rasul said, The year is twelve months of which four are sacred. Three are consecutive, meaning one following the other, which are Dhul Qaidah, Dhul Hijjah and Muharram. And then Rajab, which comes between Juma'at and Shaaban. And this is in Bukhari. Allah said the about this ayat, which is the ayat from Surah Tawbah E Expertly Allah said Allah has chosen I'm sure He said Allah has chosen a special thing, a special people, special creations. He has chosen I'm sure the first creation. From among the angels. He chose kinship entourage of Allah and among all mankind, He chose intercessors of Allah. From speech, he chose the remembrance of himself, which is dhikr. From among the spaces on the earth, he chose the masajid, the mosques. From among the months, he chose Ramadan and the sacred months. So venerate that which has been chosen by Allah, because people of understanding and wisdom respect that which has been chosen by him, Jalla Jalaluhu, and this is from Tafseer ibn Kathir. Abu Hurairah, radiallahu anhu, in a hadith reported in Muslim Sharif, said that Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said the best fast after Ramadan is in the month of Muharram. So Muharram is a month in which Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam encouraged us to fast during this month, as much as you can, as many days as you can, with special significance given to the 10th, which is called the Yawm al-Ashara, the second. Ashura, which is the 10th of Muharram, which is tomorrow. And Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, the recommendation is to fast not only that one day by itself, but to fast either the 9th and 10th, which is today and tomorrow, or to fast 10th and 11th, which is Saturday and Sunday. So whatever you like, inshallah. Infiqus Sunnah, Sheikh Sayyid Sadiq says, Abu Hurairah, radiallahu anhu, reported, I asked Rasulullah, Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, which salah, which prayer is the best after the fardh prayers? Please note, he's asking after the fardh prayer. There's no question about the fardh prayer being the best of all prayers. Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was asked, which is the best deed? He said to pray the fardh salah at its time. At its time, on time, not delayed and so on and so forth, as soon as the time comes. So fardh salah.
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  • Fulfill your purpose

    Fulfill your purpose
    Jul 5 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:Bismillah, walhamdulillah, wassalatu wassalamu ala rasulillah, wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa man wala. And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam taught us that any gathering in which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is not mentioned and in which salutations, salat and salam are not sent on Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam will be a means of regret on the Day of Judgment. So we remind ourselves of the ultimate reality. We are here as a family. That it is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who has blessed us to be part of this family. Either genetically or through the institution of marriage. And it is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who aligns hearts together or makes them divert from each other. As Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that the hearts are built. Between the fingers, if you will, the fingers of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And Allah is above all comparisons. So don't imagine it to be fingers. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala makes people's hearts come together. Aligned in harmony, in resonance. And vice versa. Anyone who seeks guidance from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah. Who is sincere in their seeking of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala guides either directly or through the companions and the family that Allah surrounds that person with. Because as human beings we are social creatures. We need companionship. We need support. We need encouragement. There will be moments of weakness. Somebody calls us and pulls us along. To share our joys. To be together in moments of happiness and joy. And also for support in moments that are not as pleasant for us. For our nafs. So we thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. For gathering us. In this blessed gathering of the family. And this is a good opportunity to remember those who have preceded us. Our parents. Who are not with us. Mummy and Baba. My parents. My parents. Yawar's parents. MyThis year has been the best anniversary of chance of yourDDiG's greatness. Today is you live with patience. sorrow, safe and healthy. And grace. and inshallah leaving behind a legacy of deen, of righteousness, of virtue, of good character with their children, with their grandchildren, investing in them not just to give them an economically sound future but one which is moral, which is one of beautiful character one of haya, of modesty, one of concern for humanity one of wanting good for everyone so we thank Allah SWT for gathering us with this concern and in this family may Allah SWT illuminate the graves of all of those who have preceded us and may Allah SWT make their qubur avenues and passages of Jannah because we are to follow them soon and one day these little babies who are sitting here will sit and be talking just like we are talking today and some of them will be sitting here and they will be saying, and some of them will be saying, and some of them will be saying, and some of them will be saying, and some of them may remember us and some of them will not remember us but even if they make dua that those who preceded us inshallah will feel the cool breeze in our graves so what is our responsibility, those who have been given this and who are mature enough is to raise a generation that knows their deen that is righteous, that has concern for all of humanity and for the preservation of this deen because Allah SWT created us to be His ibad, to worship Him as He wants us to be to interact with each other as He wants us to be to transact with each other as He wants us to be and to care for each other as He wants us to be and Allah SWT made us fortunately from this Ummah of Rasulullah SAW the Khairul Ummah which is a very special Ummah and a great honour that we should be proud of that we are Muslims not just Muslims but people from the Ummah of Rasulullah SAW which on the Day of Judgment will compose 80 of the 100 rows of people going to Jannah Musa will see his Ummah from the whole horizon that is going to Paradise
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  • When did civilization begin?

    When did civilization begin?
    Jul 4 2025
    https://youtu.be/bzav-icohZk Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, there was a very famous anthropologist and American anthropologist archaeologist called Margaret Mead. So, somebody asked her once, they said, when was the beginning of civilization? And she said a wonderful thing. She said, they found a, in one of the archaeological digs, she said they found a skeleton of a person whose femur had broken and joined and healed. So, the femur is the big bone of the leg. She said that is the beginning of civilization. So, they said what has the joining of a femur got to do with the beginning of civilization? So, they said, what has the joining of a femur got to do with the beginning of civilization? So, she said that in the wild, if an animal breaks a femur, that is a death sentence. Because once the big bone of the leg is broken, the animal can't run. And if the animal can't run, that animal is dead. It can't find food, and so either it'll die of starvation, or something will get it. The healing and joining of the femur means that somebody took the leg and went back to the front yard, and it will come back to its former state. So, it's a death sentence. So, the two animals, they were actually in the wild, but they were in a care of that animal and they fed it and they took care of it until it was able to walk again. So in this case it was a human being who obviously suffered some kind of accident and broke his or her femur but there was somebody there who took the time and trouble to take care of them and made sure that you know they were and the femur doesn't join fast it's a big bone so it takes time so they took care of them fed them whatnot until their leg was healed and she said this is the beginning of civilization. So my understanding from this and I submit to you is that civilization is not like what we seem to believe today which they all the fancy sexy technology we have it you have this AI which can do this and this robot which can do that effectively the robot is doing what another human being can do with his eyes shut in a less efficient manner and we are very impressed that this robot did all this just because it's a machine and so forth so I won't go into discussing that but my point is that that's not civilization. Civilization is how we treat each other how we talk to each other how we take care of each other in times of need how we go out of our way to provide for each other in my research for my book the business of family business I spoke to and I have read about many entrepreneurs startup stories and one of the startup stories this man says that she's been with our company for you know god knows from the beginning inception almost number 30th or something else so as to what keeps you there and he's not even the highest paid or anything like that he said what keeps you there is the fact that one day I was away on a sales trip and my child fell seriously ill and he says that my boss, who is the founder of the company, without being asked, he came home, took my wife and my son to the hospital, and then when the child was whatever they had to do, they did it. And the child had been admitted into the hospital and was going to be there overnight and happened to stay there for a day or two. He says, my boss, the founder of the business, he said to my wife, you go home and take care of whatever you need to do at home and I'll stay here. And he stayed awake with the child the whole night, looking after my child. And I was away, selling whatever product I was selling for that company. He said, now, that is debt. As far as I'm concerned, that is debt. And nothing will take me away from that organization. So my submission to you when I ask myself the same question is, what are the legacies that we are creating? Now, the thing is to understand this, that this doesn't happen overnight. That man, whoever it was, didn't do it because he suddenly had a brainwave on that day.
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  • Enter Islam completely

    Enter Islam completely
    Jul 3 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, Allah SWT addressed us, addressed the believers. And he said, which means, he actually said, Allah SWT said, O you who believe. So first thing to think about and reflect on is Allah is addressing the believers. So Allah is not saying you don't believe. Allah is not addressing the Mushrikeen and the Kuffar and this one and that one. People don't believe. No, Allah is saying, O you who believe. Number one. Number two, any ayat which begins with, We know that this is a hukum of Allah. Whatever comes after that is the command. Therefore, it must be obeyed. So what is the command? Allah says, Enter into Islam completely. Now think about that. This is the believers. And remember, the ayat did not come for you and me. When the ayat came, who are the believers there? It's Abu Bakr and Omar and Osman and Ali and Talha and Zubair. All the Sahaba of Rasulullah SAW. These are the best of the best. The first generation, the best generation, the people who learned Islam at the feet of the Prophet. Allah is addressing them and saying, Enter into Islam fully and completely. Right? So therefore, the first thing we understand is that simply saying, My name is Abdul Rahman or saying that, I say to Allah, There is no God but Allah. I say to Muhammad Rasulullah. Or saying that my father and grandfather and great grandfather, What not, I'm a born Muslim. None of this matters. Islam is about me. Islam is about you individually as a person. It doesn't matter who your father, grandfather was. Because if you look at the Sahaba, The first generation, Every single one, One of them was a convert. Every one of them was a revert. It's only Abdul Abid Zubair and the others. Radha Allah anhu. Radha Allah anhum. And then, of course, The grandchildren of Rasulullah SAW. These were the people who were born into Islam. Because both Sayyidah Fatima and Sayyidah Ali were Muslim. And Abdul Abid Zubair, His father Zubair bin Awam and his mother Asma bin Abi Bakr. They were Muslim. But other than that, The first generation, The first generation who came, There was nobody. I mean, every single one of them was a revert. So it doesn't matter whether my ancestors and my extended family, Whether they are Muslim, non-Muslim. What matters is me. So I need to look at myself. You need to look at yourself and say, Have I entered completely into Islam as Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wishes me to do? As Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala commanded me to do? Right? So that's the first question to ask yourself. Then Allah continued in the ayah. Allah said, See the beauty of the, The Bayan of the Quran. Allah said, Allah did not say don't follow shaytan. Allah did not say don't go, Don't go with shaytan. Allah said don't follow the footsteps of shaytan. Khutuwat. Now, What is the meaning of saying don't follow footsteps? When you're talking about footsteps, What are you looking at there? Small to the big. Eh? Small to the big. Small to the big. Okay. What else? The path. Paths, actions. No, just physically. If I say, Hudaifah is there, right? So supposing I tell you don't follow Hudaifah's, Don't follow Hudaifah. That's one thing. Don't go with Hudaifah is one thing. Don't follow his footsteps means, Where is Hudaifah? Is he there? The same direction. He's going. Is he physically there? No, he's not. Exactly. The first thing, First thing to understand is the only time you're going to say, Don't follow the footsteps of so and so, Is when the person himself is not there. If the person is there, You won't say don't follow. You'll say don't follow him. You won't say, You won't talk about footsteps. Here's the guy in front of you. Follow him. Don't follow him. Whatever. Right? But the moment you're saying don't follow footsteps means, That the person is not there. Now, What does it mean? Therefore, If I follow the footsteps of Shaitaan, Whose responsibility is it? Yours. Shaitaan is not even there. I can't say he took me. He did.
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  • Adab is critical

    Adab is critical
    Jun 30 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wasalatu wassalamu ala ash-shaytani anbiya wal-munsaleen. Muhammad Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi salam. Tasliman kathiran kathiran. From now on, my brothers and sisters. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said in Surah Al-Hujurat. A'udhu billahi min ash-shaytan al-rajim. In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. Ya ayyuha alladhina amanu la tuqaddimu bayna yadehi allahi wa rasulihi wa attaqullah. Inna allaha sami'un alim. Ya ayyuha alladhina amanu la tarfa'u aswatakum fawqa sawti al-nabi'i. Wa la tajharu lahu bilqawli kajjahri ba'dikum li ba'd. Anta habata amalukum wa antum la tash'urun. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said which means, O believers. Do not proceed. Do not go ahead in any matter. Ahead of the decree of Allah and his messenger. Do not proceed in any matter before a decree from Allah and his messenger. Which means, wait for what Allah said and his messengers have said. And then do it. Don't precede that. Don't try to preempt that. And fear Allah. Surely Allah is all-hearing, all-knowing. And then Allah says again. Allah repeats this word of command. O believers. Do not raise your voices above the voice of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Nor speak loudly to him as you do to one another. Or your deeds will become null and void while you are unaware. You will not even know but your deeds will be wiped out. Now, what is being taught here? If you see this beautiful. The Hadith of the Holy Quran. Is the issue of Adab. The issue of respect. An attitude of deep and great respect. For Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and his Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So, my question to myself is, why is this so important? Why is it so important that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, not only is He commanding the believers, which means inshallah us, to lower our voices and not speak loudly to the Rasul, like we do amongst ourselves? What's so important and why is that? And the answer to that is, that for everything, to benefit from everything, there is a system, there is a method, there is a way. If you want to benefit from that system, you have to follow that way. Otherwise, you will not be able to benefit. The way of benefiting from Islam is through adab, through respect, deep and abiding respect in the word of Allah and in the teachings of Muhammad Rasulullah. And if you don't do that, then we cannot benefit from Islam, we cannot benefit from the kitab of Allah, we cannot benefit from Islam. We cannot benefit from the teachings of Rasulullah . Now think about this, that Allah is saying, if you raise your voice above the voice of the Nabi , Allah will wipe out your deeds. What does that mean? If somebody lands on the Day of Judgment, and may Allah protect us from being that person, and you land up there on Jai'f Judgment, you spent your whole life doing all kinds of good stuff, you went for Hajj many, many times, you gave a lot of sadaqah, you prayed, you did all kinds of good things. But when you reach before Allah , nothing is there, and your book of deeds is blank, because you did not show the respect for Rasulullah , which was his due. Now, what happens to somebody who has no deeds? He goes to Jahannam. The Prophet said, I am the one who has no deeds. I am the one who has no deeds. I am the one who has no deeds. I am the one who has no deeds. Now, when this ayat was revealed, Sayyidina Omar , he was a man with a very deep commanding and powerful voice. He started, when he would then, after this ayah was revealed, whenever he would speak to the Prophet , he would mumble. He would speak in a very low voice, and he would mumble. So, Nabi asked him, what's wrong with you? Why are you speaking like this? And he discovered that he had put pebbles into his mouth. And he said, Ya Rasulullah, Allah revealed this ayah that if my voice goes above your voice, then I will go to Jahannam. So,
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  • Fatwa and Hukm

    Fatwa and Hukm
    Jun 29 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honor of the prophets and messengers, and praise be to the Messenger of Allah, may peace and blessings be upon him and his family, and upon his family and his companions, and on many many things. From Abadu, my brothers and sisters, a very important matter that I want to speak to you about. And that is, somebody asked me this very wonderful question. The question they asked me was, they said that somebody has given a fatwa to say that if you do not own your own house, if you do not own a house, then to buy your first house, it is permissible to use an interest bearing mortgage. Right? The fatwa is, if you don't own a house, it is permissible to, get a house using an interest bearing mortgage. So I thought, let me clarify this once and for all. And for that, the excuse or the logic they have given, they used two terms which are Shari'i terms. One, they said that this is, to own a house is Darurah. To own a house is Darur. Darurah is the Shari'a. Darurah is something which, if you don't have this, if you don't have that, you will perish. Right? If you don't have that, you will perish. So in that case, the Haram becomes Halat. For example, if I don't get dinner today, can I use that to eat something Haram? No. Because if I don't eat one meal, nothing will happen to me. I won't die. But if I am not able to get any food, for say three days, four days, nothing. Not one scrap. So at the end of three days or four days, that's a different level of Darurah, different level of desperation. That's understanding about the word Darurah. The second word or term they used was that, since you are living in Darul Harb, Darul Harb. So I thought, let me explain this to you. And of course, this is recorded, so you can go and listen to it again and again if you like. First and foremost principle to understand is this, that all goodness, all khair, all barakah, all blessing is only and only in the obedience of Allah . Not in disobedience of Allah. So first get this thing settled. Once and for all, settle this in your mind. Don't live in confusion that there is no goodness, goodness in the disobedience of Allah. For example, somebody asked Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam, they said, Ya Rasulullah, if there is some medicine in which there is some alcohol, there is something which is haram, which is not, you know, the whole thing is not alcohol, but Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam said, there is no goodness in what Allah has prohibited. Period. So there is no goodness in what Allah has prohibited. There is no, no evil in what Allah has permitted. So all goodness comes from obeying Allah and all evil comes from disobeying Allah. That is the first thing which I want you to understand and fit in your mind. Then let me explain the second term which is, this term which is used in the, by the scholars called Darul Harb. Now Darul Harb and so on is not part of any, is not part of the, is not in the Quran and Sunnah, but this is terminology that was later on, created by the scholars. Alhamdulillah, it's good terminology, nothing wrong with that, but you must understand what it means. There are three classifications of states, of countries, three classifications. One is Darul Islam. Darul Islam is a country which is ruled by Muslims according to the Sharia of Islam. Right? Completely everything. The civil law, the criminal law, the law, concerning family law, right? Every single thing in this country is run completely and totally 100% according to the Sharia of Islam. There is no disobedience of Allah which is permitted in that country and that country is ruled by Muslims. This is called Darul Islam. Now I won't comment on, in today's world which country is like this. I'll leave that to, I'll leave you to discover that. Number two is a country in which
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