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In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. All praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honorable prophets and messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, and upon his family and companions, who have accepted him many times. And what is next? Brothers and sisters, we have heard many people talk about the fact that the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, used to encourage the youth and he gave a lot of very serious responsibilities to young people. For example, we have the case of Usama bin Zayd al-Adha al-Anu, who was given command of the army, of a battalion which was going for a Ghazwa, and in that army were some very senior Sahaba. We have the example of Musa ibn Umayyad al-Raudilan, who the Prophet sent from Makkah to Madinah as his representative. And many of the great Sahaba, many of the great Ansari Sahaba of Madinah accepted Islam at the hands of Musa ibn Umayyad al-Raudilan, including Sa’ad bin Mu’adh al-Raudilan and Hussayb bin Hudayr al-Raudilan and others. Mu’adh bin Jawal al-Raudilan, another great Sahabi, who the Prophet sent as his governor and Qadi to Yemen. And we have the famous Hadith where the Prophet was holding the bridle of his horse and Mu’adh bin Jawal was holding the bridle of his horse. And Mu’adh bin Jawal was mounted on the horse and the Prophet led the horse out of Madinah. And he gave him advice. It’s a lot of Hadiths, I won’t mention it here. But he gave him advice, he asked him questions about how he will judge the basis of judgment from which we have our basis of our Sharia, which is the Kitab of Allah, the Sunnah of His Prophet, Ijma and Khayas. And there are others. But remember one thing, Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam gave these enormous responsibilities to these young people, not because they were young. So understand that. We get sidetracked, we say, oh, youth, youth. Youth has nothing to do with it. It is the effort that those particular youths put into learning the Deen. And they came up to the standard of the Nabi alaihi salatu wasalam, so he chose them. He didn’t just randomly pick anybody. He didn’t say, okay, all 15 year olds come and stand here. No, he picked one person. That person happened to be 15, that person happened to be 17, that person happened to be 20, that is immaterial. So don’t get your priorities upside down. He didn’t pick any 20 year old. He didn’t pick any 17 year old. He picked Musab bin Umayyad, Radhe-l Anu, because he was Musab bin Umayyad, not because he was 17. So what does it tell us? It tells us that unfortunately in our society, all that our education system has done, it has postponed childhood. It has postponed childhood. It has postponed maturity. So we have 20 years old and 23 years old and 25 years old and 26 years old are still staying at home and their mother makes parathas for them and they eat that paratha and the father pays all the bills and they think they are, oh, they are cat whiskers. Seriously, they have not seen one single day of hardship in their life. They are not sweated anywhere. If you put them in one place and there is no air conditioning, they will have a fit. They freak out. This is what our education system has done, created adults who think they are children. This we have to break out of because the laws of Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala’s world don’t change because we have a Sikh society which has an education system which does not educate. What are Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala’s laws? Allah’s laws are those who make the effort, who learn, who take hardship will win. No matter which year, whether it is the 7th century, whether it is the 15th century, whether it is the 20th century, whether it is the 15th century or any century, this is the law of Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala, the one who makes the effort. Not your name, not your nasab, not your hasab, not your wealth, not your father’s name, not how much money you have. How much effort do you put into whatever it is that you are doing? And therefore I advise myself and you, I am very happy to see a lot of young people in the masjid. Alhamdulillah, spend time in the masjid. Not just spend time as in sit around in the masjid. Do something. Learn. Take responsibility. I have a checklist. If you want to see whether you are capable of responsibility, whether you are fit to be considered an adult or not, I have a checklist. Let me tell you. And this is an American checklist. How many of you do the laundry in your house? Everybody’s laundry. How many of you wash dishes? How many of you clean your house? How many of you take out the garbage? How many of you wash your father’s cars? Alhamdulillah, you are a winner. But as one kid… How many of you sit and eat parathas? Still a winner. He deserves the paratha. Nothing wrong. Alhamdulillah, if your mother is cooking, she is cooking for you. But after you eat that, how many of you go and thank your mother and say, Subhanallah, because you are here, I am getting this. You do that? You go and tell her that? Because of you, I even grew up to this stage. Because of you, I have this beautiful life in this house. Jazakumullah, o khairan, my mother. Do you say that? You are 15, 20, 20 years of past, 15 years of past and you have not said one word. And your mother, if she had not literally dedicated her life to you, I am not exaggerating, you would be dead. You would be dead. Because no newborn child can survive on its own. Simple as that, right? It will perish. Do we go and thank our mothers? So very important. Alhamdulillah, good. You are on the right path. You are coming out. You are doing the work of… starting out in the work of Deen. Monitor yourself and say, before this period, what did I know? After this period, what do I know? I am spending 10 days, 15 days, 20 days, whatever it is, you are coming out in Jamaat. What do you know more than what you began with? It’s not magic, right? You can measure it. So what do you know more? Do you know one surah more? Do you know to recite better? Which usur have you learnt? Which ahadith have you learnt? Which have you implemented in your life? What have you learnt? And if you have positive answers for all of this, Alhamdulillah, great job. Fantastic. But if you don’t have those positive answers, well I spent all this time and then somebody says, lead your salaah and my surah Fatiha itself is wrong, then what is the point of all this time that you spent? So let us monitor ourselves. All of us, I mean I am not talking, I am talking to these young people, MashaAllah, Alhamdulillah, JazakAllah, Khair, for coming. You are most welcome. Who have come from different places, New Jersey, New York and so on. But this applies to all of us, applies to me, me and you and all of us. Monitor ourselves and say, what have I learnt as I am going through life? Three more days to go before the earth completes one circle around the sun. Huh? How does that help me? How does it change my life? And that’s what I advise you to do. And if you are not following the rules of the world, then you are not following the rules of the world. How does that help me? How does it change my life? And that’s what I advise you and myself to do. Learn skills. Learn how to communicate. Learn how to deal with conflicts. You will have conflicts. You will have conflicts. There is no person on the face of the earth. If you are living in society, you will have conflicts. How do you deal with those conflicts? That’s why your success will depend the way you deal with the conflict. How do you set goals? How do you set metrics to monitor those goals? Right? How do you keep yourself motivated? One of the biggest issues, especially if Allah gives you success early in life, is plateauing. There is some hunger, there is some drive, but once it comes to a point, okay, I’ve got a nice house, I’ve got a car. Now what? Boom! How do you keep yourself motivated? So please think about all this. I don’t want to take too much of your time. Think about this. Make tawbah, make istighfar because Allah opens the doors of your rizq for those who make istighfar or tawbah. Use the time to bring in good habits, one of which is praying tahajjud. Alhamdulillah, you are in the masjid, tahajjud becomes easy, but make that into your habit lifelong. When you go back home also, make sure that you are getting up half an hour, 45 minutes before the time for Salatul Fajr begins. Pray tahajjud, read some Quran and then go to the masjid for Salatul Fajr. Make this into your routine every single day. So your day begins with the worship of Allah SWT. Then Allah SWT will make the day full of khair and barakah for us. We ask Allah SWT to help us, to get close to Him. We ask Allah SWT to enable us to do those actions which lead to His rida. We ask Allah SWT to be pleased with us and to protect us from everything that does not please Him. May Allah SWT bless his family and companions with His mercy. Alhamdulillah.
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