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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.
May peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and his family and his companions.
My brothers and sisters, once again, the Ashley of the Wire.
It’s a flux of geese.
And doing what geese do, which is, if you can see, they have appended themselves to get up the grass and stuff and the weeds at the bottom.
And everything, everyone in the universe is engaged in Ahmad, in action.
And nobody is sitting still.
As they say,
in the morning when the sun rises, whether you are a lion or if you are a gazelle, you start running.
Because if you don’t run, you die.
You get eaten or you starve.
And that’s the secret of success, is start running.
Action.
I remind myself anew that we talk about the dawah.
Of Rasulullah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.
But reflect on, think about this.
40 years, for 40 years before he preached a single ayah.
Rasulullah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, was born in Makkah.
He lived in Makkah.
He was a toddler and a teenager in Makkah.
He was a young man in Makkah.
He was in his 30s in Makkah.
It’s only when he,
was 40 that he received the first Wahi.
Now during all these years,
he lived in a society which was,
if anything,
more promiscuous,
more permissive,
more vice-filled,
than absolutely anything that we know even today.
Because in Makkah of that time,
prostitution was not only legal,
but it was so common,
that we know the hadith of
Sayyidina Ayesha Siddique Harad-e-Ranhai.
She said that if a prostitute became pregnant,
then she would just come out,
and she would just point to a man,
and say,
he is the father of the baby.
And the man accepted.
No one even contested that.
And say, I’m not the father.
Now obviously this was before,
DNA checks and what not so.
You know.
No one castigated or
criticized the prostitute.
You can say, well,
how could he do that?
Which was accepted or normal.
And the reason,
the man, whoever it was,
was pointed at and accepted,
was because,
he couldn’t be absolutely certain,
but it would have been some,
this lady was somebody he would have visited.
So he said, okay, so maybe it happened.
So the point is that,
permissiveness and
promiscuity was at that level.
Alcohol
flowed through the society like water.
Almost everybody,
illa mashallah, there were some
of the Sahaba who were not,
but otherwise almost everybody
was what today you would call
an alcoholic.
At some stage of alcoholism.
To the extent that we have the,
the saying and the call of
Sayyidina Omar Ibn al-Khattab
where he said that if Islam had not come to me,
if I had not come to Islam,
he said I would have died
either because of the effect of
alcohol or
I would have died in a,
what we would call today a bar fight.
Heard of, you know, got into a fight
because of with other people who were drinking
and I would have died.
He said Islam is what saved me.
So this is how common these things were
and this is how,
you know, evil society was.
In that society,
Rasool Allah
long before he declared prophethood,
got the title,
As-Sadiq ul-Ameen.
The truthful and the trustworthy.
He did business,
and he was,
he became known
as a good businessman.
But there were many other good businessmen.
So he was, he didn’t stand out as
the best businessman in Makkah,
the businessman who made the most profit,
the businessman who accumulated the most capital,
the businessman who had the biggest caravans.
No.
He got identified
as the most honest
businessman
in the world.
The businessman with the highest integrity.
And that’s how he also got
the proposal from Saeeda Khadija
for marriage because
she was impressed with his,
not only with his,
not just with his business acumen,
maybe not with that at all,
because she was a very fine businesswoman
in her own right.
But with his integrity
and his sadaqat,
his,
his title of Sadiq ul-Ameer,
it should be noted and remembered
that
he got it before
he announced his prophethood,
he got it before he announced Islam,
and this remained with him
lifelong.
To the extent
that even when people
went against him because of Islam
and they planned to kill him and so on,
even at that time
they had given into his safekeeping,
their valuables.
And when he
left Makkah
to go to Madinah,
he left
with those things
and he said return these to their
owners because
I can no longer take care of them.
The point I want to make for myself and you is
that to
impress Islam upon people,
to open the hearts of people to Islam,
to open the hearts of people to Islam,
you don’t always need
even the Qarnam of Allah.
Many times
a simple receipt,
a simple business transaction receipt is enough.
Naila, forgive us,
this is where we fall down.
Because
today if you ask
the general population,
their problem with Muslims,
almost invariably people will talk about
the problem with Muslims.
Our Bahamilats,
they will talk about our deities,
which are far from
impeccable,
far from
being free of
criticism.
And so I remind myself when you let us focus on these things.
It’s not simply enough to
you know make Hifz of Quran and so on.
Not as if people are doing that either,
but I’m just saying this, you know.
We don’t even pray five times a day,
forget about Hifz of Quran.
So let us focus on our Ibadat, of course,
Ibadat are absolutely critical importance.
Let us focus on the quality of the Ibadat.
Not taking pictures of
yourself in Umrah
with the Kaaba as your backdrop.
See the lack of adab,
see the absolutely, you know, disgusting
attitudes that we have got into where there is no
horbat of anything, there is no
you know sanctity
and glory and majesty.
Of anything including the House of Allah.
So the Kaaba is only good as a
backdrop
for
a picture of a person who is
holding up his hands in, you know, Dua pose
so that somebody can take a picture of him.
He is not even making Dua, he is just
holding up his hands
for somebody to take this picture.
I mean how evil and disgusting is that?
And my idea of saying this here is because if
you go for Umrah,
and if you go to the Kaaba,
please don’t do any of this.
Focus on your Ibadat,
focus on getting close to Allah .
Make shukur to Allah
that He gave you the opportunity to be there
and take full advantage of that
instead of taking pictures and so on.
Make it haram upon yourself
to pull the camera,
to pull the phone out of your pocket.
I mean I would say just leave the phone in your hotel room or something.
But even if you are so wedded to that,
you must carry it in your pocket or
maybe you want to call somebody or
somebody has to find you.
Keep it in the pocket, stay in the pocket
until you get back to your hotel room.
No, do not take it out
in
the bus of the haram
or in the
haram sharif of
Madinah. Do not
touch the phone.
Leave the phone on the roof.
Nobody needs to see your pictures there.
There is a great danger of Riya,
the great danger of showing off
and cancelling the words of the Ibadah
because
if you ask yourself,
why are you showing those pictures?
For what?
You want people to know
what a holy guy you are,
that you are in
Umrah.
What other reason can you have?
You know?
So,
people send these pictures saying,
oh, I was, I’m making dua for you.
Why are you telling me that?
Why should you send a picture of that?
You make dua.
You make dua and let people know
that you are doing dua.
If I send a picture of your dua,
it means that
I’m making dua.
You send a picture saying,
I’m making dua and it’s ridiculous.
Please let’s not
treat this teen as a joke.
As I mentioned to you,
akhlaq is everything.
And
Rasool
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
demonstrated that
long before
he got his,
he got
or he was
permitted to
take
a
tawbah
at
the
mosque
in
the
you know, give dawah of Islam, he already had a reputation for being the most truthful
and the most trustworthy persons in his community. And that’s what I need to look at. That’s
what I request you to look at. What, how am I viewed? And again, I don’t mean to go for
Facebook likes and saying what is my reputation in the community? Am I trusted? Am I somebody
who is respected for his virtues? Or am I a joke? So let’s pick this, focus on this
inshaAllah.
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