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In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. All praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the most honored of the Prophets and Messengers, Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and upon his family and companions, peace and blessings be upon them. We have the Hadith of Rasulullah ﷺ which all of us know, which is the first hadith in Bukhari. It is also the first hadith in Riyadh-ul-Saliheen of Imam al-Nabi r.a. And that is the hadith narrated by Ameer al-Mu’mineen Abu Hafs, Umar ibn al-Khattab r.a. Where he said that he heard Rasulullah ﷺ saying, Where he said that the reward of the deed is based on the intention and a person will have what he intended for. And then he further clarified and said that a person who makes Hijrah for the sake of Allah and His Rasul ﷺ, he will have the reward of Hijrah for that purpose. And a person who makes Hijrah, he immigrates for a worldly need or to marry a woman, then his Hijrah will be for that purpose and not for the sake of Allah and His Rasul ﷺ. Now obviously he is not prohibiting somebody from migrating for any halal purpose. I start saying that this is haraab, should not be done. But he is just putting it in place to say that the reward of the deed is based on the intention. I therefore remind myself and you to check our attitudes, especially our attitudes toward the teaching and learning of Islam. With what an attitude do we come to a class? Now, the reason I am saying that is because, first of all, as we see today, many class of deen is almost always sparsely populated. Where this is not the case, Alhamdulillah, it means that those people and community have understood the truth of life. But most of the time it is not. So there is a sparsely populated, few people come. And then you have complaints about how this class was for too long and it should have been shortened and so forth. So I remind myself and you, let us look at this in the context of deen. Now, when you look at it in the context of the hadiths which I mentioned to you, first question to ask yourself is why am I attending this lecture or whatever it is, right? This session, this salaka, this class, why am I attending that? Now, obviously, the within quotes right answer would be I am attending it to please Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala and to learn something about my religion which I intend to practice. Now, if that is the intention, then why would you ask for that to be shortened? Because all the time that you spend in that class is counted as Iqbala, it’s counted as worship. We have the hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam where he said that when people gather for the remembrance of Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala, this is a general statement, remembrance of Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala can be in many ways when they are gathering together to read Quran, to study tafsir, to study hadith, to talk about Islam in different ways and how to apply it in their lives and so on. All of this comes under the dhikr of, under the title of dhikr of Allah because we are doing it for the pleasure of Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala. So when Abhishma sallam said that when people gather that way, then there are malaikas, there are troops of angels whose job is to search for such gatherings and they go around the world and when they find such a gathering, they surround those people and they fill the space, whatever room or hall or something they were in, they fill the space and then they pile up one on top of the other until they reach the first heaven. So think about that when you are sitting there in the class and you look around and you find only a few people, well believe me every space in that room is filled with malaika, with angels. And these angels bear witness to what is going on and once the class is over, the session is over, the angels go to Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala and they report and of course Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala already knows and they say, Ya Rabb, in such a place these people were gathered and they were remembering you. Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala said, when you remember me I remember you, so Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala will remember those people by name on His Arsh. And then Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala will say to the angels what did they want? And these malaika will say, Ya Rabb, they wanted your ridha, they wanted your jannah and they wanted protection from jahannam. So Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala will ask them and of course all of these questions Allah knows the answer already. The question is being asked to make that a witness in favor of the person. So Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala will say, have they seen my jannah? They say, Ya Rabb, they have not seen your jannah. Allah says, if they had seen it, what would happen? Ya Allah, they would want it even more. Then Allah would say, have they seen jannah? Ya Rabb, they have not seen jannah. If they had seen it, what would happen? Ya Rabb, they would have sought your protection even more. So Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala says that you are witness, I have forgiven them, I will give them what they wanted and I will save them from what they wanted to be saved from. Then they were like, I will say, Ya Rabb, there was one man who was passing by, he just stopped for a while and then he went away. So he did not join from the beginning to the end, he just passed through. What about him? Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala says, for him also the same. That is the baraka because of the people who are there, for the one who did not even stay for the full time, the same reward for him, which is forgiveness, jannah and protection from jahannam. Now, therefore the question I ask myself is that if I am demanding that a lesson, a class, a halaqa, a majlis of zikr should be shortened, what am I asking to be shortened? Right? Please understand this thing. Obviously you might say, well you know, I don’t have time. Fantastic, if you don’t have time, get up and go away. Right? This is the arrogance today of the society that we live in, where the fact that you do not have enough concentration ability, the fact that you have a very short attention span, the fact that you can’t concentrate, in reality that is a deficiency with you, that is a weakness of yours. So what must you do? You must work on that. You must work to improve your concentration. You must work to improve your attention span because believe it or not, time, this time, last time, previous years, this year, future years, go talk to any psychologist you want. A long attention span, the ability to stay focused on one topic for a long period of time is the fundamental quality of any successful person. No one who has the attention span of a goldfish or a monkey succeeds in life. Right? You need to be able to focus on something and stay with it long enough for it to bear fruit in every subject. Take it any subject that you are studying, you have to be able to focus and stick with that, stay with it long enough. So now if I don’t have that ability, then this is a weakness that I should work on. But no, today our arrogance is such that we say, no, no, no, no, my lack of focus, my lack of ability to focus, my lack of ability to hold, to be able to concentrate, my short attention span is the norm, that is normal. The fault lies with the teacher, the fault lies with the alum, the fault lies with the qari who recited the Quran, shorten that. Change yourself to suit my like. This is the core of woke philosophy. Right? Me and me, I and what I want is supreme. And Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala called this sheikh. Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala called this sheikh. Allah said, Have you seen those who have made their desires into their God, into their object of worship? Ilahahu Hawa, their desire is their ilah. And Allah said, Have you seen those who have made their desires into their God, into their object of worship? And Allah said, Have you seen those who have made their desires into their God, into their object of worship? And Allah said, Have you seen those who have made their desires into their God, into their object of worship? And Allah said, Have you seen those who have made their desires into their God, into their object of worship? And Allah said, Have you seen those who have made their desires into their God, into their object of worship? And Allah said, Have you seen those who have made their desires into their God, into their object of worship? And Allah said, Have you seen those who have made their desires into their God, into their object of worship? And Allah said, Have you seen those who have made their desires into their God, into their object of worship? And Allah said, Have you seen those who have made their desires into their God, into their object of worship? And Allah said, Have you seen those who have made their desires into their God, into their object of worship? And Allah said, Have you seen those who have made their desires into their God, to your success in life, in every way. So, work on it. Number two, if you are sitting in a hallakah, if you are sitting in a lecture, Alhamdulillah, thank Allah for that. And when it gets to the point where you have to leave, And when it gets to the point where you have to leave, quietly get up and leave. Right? No problem. Alhamdulillah. Quietly get up and leave. At the end of that, it’s nafil. But believe me, every single nafil, every single nafil good deed, on the Day of Judgment, one of them will be the difference between jannah and jannah. That good deed on your scale That good deed on your scale has the potential to take you into jannah. has the potential to take you into jannah. I ask, I make dua, may Allah give us all these good deeds I ask, I make dua, may Allah give us all these good deeds and help us to get into jannah. and help us to get into jannah. This is the beauty of this deep. This is the beauty of this deep. And all you have to do is sit. Think about that. It is the teacher Who’s making all the effort? He or she is the one who’s doing the research. He or she is the one who’s then thinking about best to present it He or she is the one who made dua To that it should get into people’s hearts He and she is the one who’s making salah, who’s crying before Allah and so forth. You don’t know any of that and Then when they come with this with the words of Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala with the words of his Habib sallallahu alaihi wa sallam With this intention that they should do good for everybody Right You stop that me say go Finish it cut it short inna illah hain nair aadiyo But then interestingly you would not say that To somebody who is or rather we will not you will not say cut it short when you are watching a soccer match or a football match or whatever match you watch Even though you know that I know right that Not even in your dream will you ever become a professional footballer or basketball or whatnot and make millions But because it is fun So the question to ask is not Why is football fun watching football fun? The question to ask is why is the? Knowledge of Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala is the not fun. Why is Listening to the Quran not fun. Why is Reflecting on the Quran and the Sunnah and the and the Seerah and the hadith. Why is this not fun? This is what we need to ask ourselves So I remind myself and you let us get serious with our lives Let us not destroy ourselves by Trashing the Nama that Allah has given us if Allah gave you the Nama of His color and his the teachings of his Nabi salawa salam being brought to you and presented to you free of cost In a beautiful Masjid you are sitting there on the nice carpet in you know air-conditioned or eat an environmental the case might be and The the teacher has done all the work and so on so all you need to do sit and listen and if you want to trash that Please believe me a day will come when you will regret that so much so much so much and not joking Don’t do that to yourself Do not do that to yourself Was allah ha la nabir kareem al alihi wassabi and main bill ahmet iqiyam
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