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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. All praise be to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family and companions, who have been very, very obedient. What is next? Brothers and sisters, Allah SWT told us in the Quran, in Surah Al-Isra, Allah is describing the situation and the condition on the day when we will meet Allah. And Allah is saying, Allah is not saying, No, Read your book. Read your book. This book is enough on this day as a witness, as a hesaab, as an account-taker for you. What is that book? Allah SWT said in Surah Al-Kahf, People will say this. What kind of book is this? Nothing is missing. Everything is there. It doesn’t matter if you read it or not. It doesn’t matter if you read it or not. Your book is a witness, you read it and you know it. What is this book? The Quran. The Quran is not a book. It is a book that you can read and you can read. Kabira, everything is there from the smallest thing to the biggest thing. What book is this? This book is the book of our life. Who is the author of that book? The author of the book of Abu Sarmad is Abu Sarvad. The author of the book is Abu Muqbil is Abu Muqbil. The author of the book of Abu Muqbil is Abu Muqbil. We are the authors of our own books. And that is why we will never be able to deny anything in that book because we wrote it. If Abu Sarmad writes something about me, I can say, you know, I’m sorry, you were mistaken. Maybe you are my enemy. But I’m writing about myself. I always remind myself and I remind you, in today’s world, remember these ayat came in the 7th century. Truly Iman bil Ghaib was for the Sahaba. For us, Allah has made many of the things which were in the Ghaib for the Sahaba. Allah has given us the Mushahad of that. Allah has shown us those things. I remember seeing a documentary of this person who takes two phones. One phone switches off completely, totally off. And the other phone is on. He puts both the phones in his pocket and he drives around Washington from this point to that point to that point to that point. So, multiple points, 20, 30 points. And he comes back and then they go into the telephone company records and they find that the phone which was turned on tracked all the places that the person went to. He didn’t use the phone anywhere. He just went there. The phone has the tracking of that, but very interestingly, even the phone that was switched off has tracked everything. So what is so difficult to believe that Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala knows simultaneously what we are doing? If you go mentally, for example, into say Verizon, you know, at the data center of Verizon or any of the, you know, great telephone companies, for example, right? And if you could be sitting there, what would you see? You would see multiple conversations happening between people in multiple languages, in multiple locations in the world. Some of those conversations between two people who are stationary, so that means somebody is in a house or office, something in America, the other person is also stationary in his house, office, whatever it is in India. But many conversations happening between people who are in cars or who are, God knows, in planes, and they are flying, which means that their location is every instant the location is changing, yet the line does not break, the call doesn’t drop, they have a conversation. And in theory, every single conversation can be recorded, yes? Every single one of them. There’s no such thing as an unrecordable piece of public communication. If you don’t want the communication to be recorded, don’t say it, period. If you are going to say it, if you are going to send it on an email, if you are going to send it on a chat message, if you are going to send it on a phone, believe me, it is recordable. I’m not saying everything is actually recorded, maybe, may not be, but if somebody wants to record it, it is recordable. The reason I’m saying that is, so therefore, what is so difficult to believe that Allah I mean, we are the creatures of Allah, and the phone and the technology and so on is our creature, because we created it with the help that Allah gave us. If the creature can do something, the creator can do it. Yet we live our lives the way we live our lives. May Allah have mercy on us. I remind myself and you that a time will come when the door, one door will open and another door will shut. The door of the Akhira will open and the door of Tawbah will shut. Because Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, a person’s Tawbah is accepted until the gargara, until the breath comes in the throat. Because when the breath comes in the throat, it means the person is seeing Malakum Bhaut. That door is open now. The door to the Akhira is open. The Akhira is no longer Akhira, you are seeing it. And when that door is opened, this door is shut. It’s like you go on these, I used to go to the, I used to give the Jummah in the prisons here in Connecticut about 20 years ago. And one of the things that I always remember is going into the prison, you go through one door, a door behind you shuts. Only then will the door in front of you open. They will never have, it is part of the protocol, they will never have two doors open at the same time. One door has to shut and then the other door opens. And you go in there and this one shuts and the next one opens. You have to go through two or three, depending on the security level of the prison, two or three levels of security. And that’s what happens. When the door to the Akhira opens, the door to the dunya is finished. And that’s why Allah SWT said, When the bread is stuck in the throat, when the bread comes to the throat, you are standing there and looking on. You are standing there and looking on at the person who is dying, you can’t do anything about it. You cannot do anything about it. Believe me, that day will come for me, that day will come for you. May Allah SWT cause that day to be the best day of our lives. We ask Allah SWT to save us from the pain of Sakarat. We ask Allah SWT to save us from ourselves. My brothers and sisters, it is very, very important to wake up. And when we say wake up, I mean we have to get our priorities right. And our priority has to be Allah and the Deen of Allah before everything else. And very simple. Nobody has to be, I’m not saying everyone has to be an atheist, everybody has to be a Mufti, no. Alhamdulillah, if Allah opens those doors for you, by all means. But definitely every single one of us must know, must be able to read the Quran fluently. We are making mistakes. With the proper rules of Tajweed. This is basic kindergarten, this is primary school. I’m not talking about any high school. This is basic primary, kindergarten level education of every Muslim. May Allah have mercy on us. We are people who are in their forties and fifties who cannot read the Quran. It’s a shameful thing. It is very, very, very shameful. So number one, be able to read the Quran al-Karim fluently with the rules of Tajweed. Number two, to be able to pray and lead Salah, which means that we must know at least some Quran, some of it, make it enough helps to be able to recite it properly in our own Salah as well as leading Salah. And that also means know the rules of Salah. That is the reason why it’s so important to study Aqeedah. That is the reason why it’s so important to study the Huzoor. How do we pray? Know that. To know Halal and Halam. What is Halal, what is Halam? Be clear about this. Number four, to be able to do all our Ibadah confidently, which includes Khutbah to Jummah. Every Muslim male should be able to deliver a decent Khutbah for Jummah. I’m not talking about the lecture, I’m not talking about the Muawidah, you know, the advice to people. No. At least the Masroor Khutbah of the Prophet Muhammad SAW and know the rules of the Khutbah. What is it? Khutbah is not simply standing on that bimber and saying whatever you like. No. Know this. Do it properly. And the fifth one is the Hakaamul Jannais. The rules of the Janaza. How painful it is, how shameful it is that in this place I’ve seen so many times. The Janaza comes, the son is there, he does not know how to lead the Janaza Sala. It is the right of the son to lead the Salatul Janaza. Why don’t you do it? Because you don’t know. Why don’t you know? You are in your twenties, you have this education, that education, this university, that university, you don’t have ten minutes to learn how to lead Salatul Janaza. Your father spent his whole life slogging his butt off for you and you cannot even do ten minutes worth of service for him? A strange illness to do it? How to give ghusl? How to lead the Salatul Janaza? And what to do when you go to the Khabaristan? All kinds of magic happens in the Khabaristan. May Allah have mercy on us. People do all kinds of stuff. We have, Alhamdulillah, one of the simplest, most beautiful, most easy way of doing everything, including Janaza. But no matter how simple, how easy it is, it is, something has to be learned, no? It’s easy but it’s not like, you know, it won’t just happen. So please, you owe this to yourself. We do not want to face a day when we stand before Allah and we have to answer, no. You owe this to yourself. We are here, I am here, Sheikh is here. Please come. If you don’t come, then I have completed my duty. Before Allah, I am witness that I have offered. If you don’t come, it’s your problem. Please come, we will teach you. And make sure that you put the knowledge of Islam as number one priority in your life. After that comes everything else. After that comes everything else. As I told you, the knowledge of Islam that I am putting before you is primary school knowledge. I am not asking you to memorize 100 hadiths or memorize the Arbaeen of Imam Nawabi, Ramatul Ali and so on and so on. No. I am not asking you to do that and more. Minimum primary school knowledge, if this much you don’t know, SubhanAllah. May Allah have mercy. So please, let us be very sure. Make this Nia, starting right now and all the rest of it inshallah. Very, very easy. All you need to do is give maximum, no matter how slow a learner you are, it won’t take you more than a week on the outside to learn what I am telling you. Not even that much. For most people it will take you two days. And that’s for yourself. We don’t charge you a fee for this. I am not saying come here and pay me some money. Nothing. It’s free. Please come. We ask Allah, the Almighty Allah to enable us to set our priorities right. We ask Allah to make it easy for us. We ask Allah, the Almighty Allah not to make our own lives witness against us. We ask Allah, the Almighty Allah to forgive us. We ask Allah, the Almighty Allah to cover us with His mercy. We ask Allah, the Almighty Allah to open the doors of His mercy and His rahmah for us and for all our parents and our children and our spouses.
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