Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillah Rabbil Alameen wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen. Muhammad wa Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sallam. Tasliman kathira kathira. Fammabadu, my brothers and sisters, if I ask you how critical is Islam for you? Or if you ask me the same question, how daruri? To use the Arabic word, how daruri? What is the answer? How important is it? How critical is it? Again, speak from the heart. Don't give me a standard answer. No. How daruri? How critical? Think about it. You don't need to tell me. Think about it. The reason I'm saying that, let me give you a comparison. Suppose I ask you three cards. A Costco card. Store card Costco. A health insurance card. Medicare, MassHealth, H&E, whatever. And a Social Security card. All three are cards. All three are numbers. Which is the most, if I tell you choose one, which will you choose? Which one? Social. Social, absolutely. Without the Social Security card, you will be in the icebox. Right? Right? Another example. Somebody goes to a storehouse. Somebody goes to TJ Maxx. He's going there because he has some need. The same person goes to ER in Bay State. He also has a need. Whose need is more? Yeah, right? Yeah, I mean, there's a no brainer. The TJ Maxx guy also has a need. He's going there to, you know, I want to buy a shirt or jacket or whatnot. If I get it, I don't get it, it won't kill you. But if I'm in ER, I can't breathe. My heart is doing all kinds of magic. Now, take this as a framework for comparison and ask yourself, how important, how critical is Islam in my life? Take this as a, is Islam as important as TJ Maxx? Or is Islam as important as ER? Is Islam as important as, I'm not saying it's not important. How important? What is the degree, the level? The reason I'm asking you that is because our decisions in our life, our actions, the choices we make are all related to the level of importance of that thing. As a family man, right, foreign boy, you have a family, a wife and children, you have parents, you also have friends. You have a family. You have a family. You have friends. You have colleagues. You are good to all of them. But if you had to choose and say, here is something, choose one. Will you give precedence to your friend over your son? No. No. That why, that's why we have to ask ourselves, how really important is Islam in my life? Because all my decisions, how much time do I spend in the worship of Allah Subhanahu Ta'ala, in the Ibadat of Allah? In Salah, in Dhikr, in Tilawatul Quran and so on. How much charity do I give? How much money, time, energy, life do I spend in the path of Allah? My earning, where do I give it? Where do I spend it? Where do I spend it? Where do I spend it? Where do I spend it? Where do I spend it? Where do I spend it? Where do I spend it? Where do I spend it? Where do I spend it? Where do I spend it? Where do I spend it? Where do I spend it? Where do I spend it? Where do I spend it? And here's the question, how much money do I choose to earn from? Somebody comes to me with this fantastic scheme. The only hitch is that I have to borrow money on interest. But he's showing me this, you know, you'll become a billionaire in 10 days. Will you take that or not? Eating, what goes into my mouth? And so on and so on. My relationships. My effect? All of them depend on how important is Islam. Because if I am going to choose something which is halal, even though I have the option to choose something which is haram without any consequences in this world. Like Sheikh Hussain used to say, this country is the freest country in the world because you can do anything you want. I remember we used to go in 1997 when I used to live here. Dr. Ali and I used to go for, those days we used to do two jaulas in a week. We had a makhami jaula and an intiqali jaula. So the intiqali jaula we used to do in UMass. So interestingly, in UMass in those days, you had the MSO room, MSA room. And on one side,
