How important is Islam – Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Centre

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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, you had the MSA room.
And on one side of the MSA room was Friends of Marijuana Society.
This was the days when marijuana was illegal.
Before now, of course, it’s illegal.
So Friends of Marijuana Society, it was their room.
And on the other side was Worshippers of Satan.
There was a board, there was a big board on the room.
Muslim Student Association on one side, the shaitan, on the other side, the marijuana.
Free, do what you want, no problem.
You want to worship shaitan, most welcome.
Nobody will stop you.
You want to worship Allah, also nobody will stop you.
This country I’ve seen more support for Islam and more support for Islamic culture, action,
than any other country in the world, including Muslim countries.
Freedom in this country.
Absolutely no problem.
Handu ilan.
And the other side, there was a board.
There was a board.
There was a board.
There was a board.
There was a board.
But these are all a growing today.
We will stop praying to Allah when we have partially.
Well, well, we will stop praying to Allah when we’ve fully answer the prayer for Allah
when we aren’t on the right path.
We come n Bro farms and let dem Islam who Allah came is Fatima Fatima in Islam.
And to pray Al- onzee.
Good.
And everyone, let’s put it an end to all this.
We’re almost there.
Yeah, it’s the end of every Thursday section of our series.
See you again.
Because I remind myself in you that the day when we will meet Allah is rapidly approaching.
We don’t know when that day is.
Nobody has any guarantee for old age, believe me.
When the time to go comes, you go.
And there’s no coming back.
So let us be very clear.
What do we believe?
What do we do?
Our actions, our decisions, our earnings, our food, our relationships, everything counts.
Allah said nothing will be left.
Everything will be shown to you.
We ask Allah to enable us to make the
right choices. We ask Allah to put barakah in that. We ask Allah to make it easy for us.
We ask Allah to support us in that. We ask Allah to protect us
from ourselves and from shaitan and from all kinds of wasabis and all kinds of
agents of shaitan. We ask Allah to enable us to do that which pleases him and to save us from that
which does not please him.
And peace be upon the Prophet and upon his family.
May peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.

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