We came to give, not to take.
Auto-generated transcript: My brothers and sisters, I’m walking on Watch Hog Road in Summers, Connecticut. And one of my favorite walks, as a matter of fact, when we arrived here in September 2019, I think it was, if I’m not mistaken, the 23rd or 24th of September. Straight off the plane, I started this walk.… Continue reading Question of Rizq – Day trading and Futures
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Auto-generated transcript: My brothers and sisters, one of the tendencies that seems to be predominant today is the tendency to correct others. People seem to walk around with this thing as if it’s their duty and Allah has sent them to correct others. And no one to convincing will seems to work. We try to… Continue reading Don’t let the correction be worse than the mistake
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Auto-generated transcript: The purpose of Deen is to excel in it. Allah SWT said, Allah did not say to differentiate between who is doing evil and who is doing good. No. The question of evil does not arise. It says, in the good, who does the best? So it’s very important for us, especially when… Continue reading Advice to Tablighi brothers
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Auto-generated transcript: In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to God, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace and blessings upon him and his family. And after… Continue reading How should you study Islam?
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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… Continue reading Muharram – The month of Allah
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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… Continue reading Fulfill your purpose
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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… Continue reading When did civilization begin?
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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… Continue reading Enter Islam completely
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Auto-generated transcript: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the Messengers and Prophets, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family and his companions. From Abado. One… Continue reading Why do I need Islam
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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 hearts of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family. And peace and… Continue reading Adab is critical – 2
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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… Continue reading Adab is critical
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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… Continue reading Fatwa and Hukm
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Auto-generated transcript: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. Peace and blessings of Allah be upon the noble Prophet and the Messengers. The Messenger of Allah, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and his family and his companions.… Continue reading Power of action
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Auto-generated transcript: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honorable Prophet Muhammad and upon his companions. My dear respected brothers, sisters, elders. The topic of my khutbah today is marriage in Islam. And there… Continue reading Marriage in Islam
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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 most honorable and most righteous, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon him, peace and blessings be upon… Continue reading Beware of modern idolatry
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Auto-generated transcript: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the Prophet and the Messengers, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah. Peace and blessings be upon him and upon him and upon him and upon… Continue reading What’s my filter?
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Auto-generated transcript: My brothers and sisters, today we are living in a world where there is a constant escalation of violence and war and strife and all kinds of things and Muslims seem to be in the receiving end of everything. So the question that I get asked, you know, wherever I go is what… Continue reading Help comes for the Muttaqoon
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Auto-generated transcript: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be… Continue reading Questions for DOJ – 4.2
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Auto-generated transcript: My brothers and sisters, we come to the last question on the Day of Judgment. May Allah protect us from ourselves. In some ways, this is the most difficult one, especially in today’s world. And this question is in two parts. Allah Subh’anaHu Wa Ta-A’la will ask us, what did you do with… Continue reading Questions for DOJ – 4.1
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Auto-generated transcript: As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. So, let’s be clear to that person and to you. That what is happening is wrong. What is happening, should not be happening. The best way to do that, is just silence. People are sensitive, and they will understand. If you are silent about something, and then… Continue reading Questions for DOJ – 3.2
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Auto-generated transcript: We come to the third question. The first thing to remember is that the questions of the grave, the three questions of the grave have to do with our belief, the Aqidah. And the questions of the Day of Judgment have to do with A’maal, with our actions, deeds. The basis of the… Continue reading Questions for DOJ – 3.1
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Auto-generated transcript: We talked about the first of the four questions. Fourth question is two and one. What is the most important thing that we will be required to answer when we stand before Allah on the Day of Judgment? May Allah make it easy for us, inshallah. And as the Prophet said, the feet… Continue reading Questions for DOJ – 2
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Auto-generated transcript: We spoke about the three questions of the grave. And as I mentioned to you, the three questions of the grave have to do with our creed, our belief. What do we believe? So the first question is about Allah. The second question is about the whole Deen. And the third question is… Continue reading Questions for DOJ – 1
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Auto-generated transcript: Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wa salatu wa salamu ala ash-shadab fil anbiya wal mursaleen Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sallam. Tasliman kathiran kathira. From Abadu, my brother asked me a question just now. And he said, is cigarette smoking haram? So I answered his question, but before I answer that for… Continue reading Is cigarette smoking Haraam
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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 most honorable of the prophets and messengers.Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family,and peace and blessings be upon him… Continue reading Be One
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Auto-generated transcript: We are out here walking the rain in Ashley Reservoir.And you can see it’s coming down at a reasonable pace.It’s not heavy, heavy, but it’s still quite reasonable.And I remind myself and I remind you, just think about this.This is where reflection, Tadabbur, is so important.We just think about, okay, rain is falling,… Continue reading Reflect on life
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Auto-generated transcript: Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. My dear respected brothers, sisters, elders. Alhamdulillah this year we celebrated Eid al-Adha as one community. Everyone coming together for the pleasure of Allah SWT in fulfillment of His command where He declared Which means the believers are but one brotherhood. So make peace between your brothers and be… Continue reading Ummah First
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Auto-generated transcript: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honourable Prophet and the messengers. Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. Peace be upon you all. My brothers… Continue reading Six months
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Auto-generated transcript: Alhamdulillah. My brothers and sisters, that is why Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala taught us to make dua for guidance to the path, the Siratul Mustaqeem. The path of those who He blessed and not those who incurred His anger or were misguided. Think about this. We make this dua at least 17 times… Continue reading Dua of Ibrahim (AS) – #2
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Auto-generated transcript: Wолаazibullah khair Tawāq. My respected brothers, sisters, elders. The ayat which I recited for you from Surah Al-Baqarah, Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala said, which means, and remember when Ibrahim alayhi salam said, My Rabb, make this city of Mecca secure and provide food, fruits to its people, those among them who believe in… Continue reading Dua of Ibrahim (AS) – #1
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Auto-generated transcript: My brothers and sisters, we are looking at the third question from the questions of the grave. And the first question was, who is your Rabb? And the second question was, what is your Deen? And the third question is, what do you say about the man who was sent among you? And… Continue reading Questions #3 – What do you say about the man who was sent among you
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Auto-generated transcript: We were talking about the questions that we have to answer. And as I mentioned, I remind myself and you, there are three questions that we have to answer in the grave that have to do with our Aqidah, with our creed, with our belief. Then there are four questions that we have… Continue reading Questions #2 – What is your a Deen
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Auto-generated transcript: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers. And praise be to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family… Continue reading Questions – #1 – Who is your Rabb?
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Auto-generated transcript: Alhamdulillah we finished the Yawm al-Arafah today. We ask Allah to reward us in keeping with His Majesty and Grace and to grant our duas and to give us the opportunity for this again and again year after year. The people who are in Hajj, they have completed Yawm al-Arafah standing in Arafah… Continue reading Lessons from Hajj
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إِنِّي وَجَّهْتُ وَجْهِيَ لِلَّذِي فَطَرَ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ عَلَى مِلَّةِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ حَنِيفًا وَمَا أَنَا مِنْ الْمُشْرِكِينَ إِنَّ صَلَاتِي وَنُسُكِي وَمَحْيَايَ وَمَمَاتِي لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ وَبِذَلِكَ أُمِرْتُ وَأَنَا مِنْ الْمُسْلِمِينَ اللَّهُمَّ مِنْكَ وَلَكَ بِاسْمِ اللَّهِ اَللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ “I have set my direction firmly and truly towards Him Who created the heavens end the earth.… Continue reading Qurbani – Udhiya, Importance and Method
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