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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds.
And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers.
Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his companions.
Peace be upon him, and upon his companions.
From now on, my brothers and sisters, may Allah bless you.
And make this whole trip a means of great khair and barakah and blessing for all of us, inshallah.
I am saying this to you also in the way of a wasiyah,
because I do not know if I will see you on such a trip again.
So, remember this.
Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala made this world with some things easy and some things difficult.
For example, to eat whatever you see,
is easy.
To control yourself, is difficult.
To sleep till any time, is easy.
To wake up for fajr, is difficult.
To wake up for tahajjud, is even more difficult.
To speak any way you like, you get angry,
use all the foul language you heard anywhere, is easy.
To control your anger, is difficult.
To not read, to scroll your screen, you know, eight hours a day, nine hours a day, six hours a day, easy.
Not to do that, instead, use the phone only and only to call people if you have to call them.
Otherwise, do not use the phone, read actual books, which expand your mind, which increase your knowledge,
which increase your knowledge.
And, do not do that.
So, to sit in one place, and do not exercise, and end up looking like a pregnant cow, is easy.
To exercise, to break into a sweat, is difficult.
And so on.
I want you to, individually, I want you to make a list, as an exercise, I’m telling you,
make a list of the easy and the difficult.
Now, so Allah made this world like this.
Things are easy, things are difficult.
But Allah did one more thing.
Behind every difficult thing, Allah put great benefit.
And behind every easy thing, Allah put traps.
If you don’t move, and if you sit in one place and eat,
you will not be able to do anything.
You are looking at a wheelchair very early in your life.
Now, sitting and eating in one place is easy.
But spending the rest of your life in a wheelchair, is that easy?
So ask yourself, is that what you want to do?
You want to spend your life in a wheelchair?
Then go, eat.
Eat till like there is no tomorrow, because there will be no tomorrow.
And then, you will be able to do anything.
You will be able to do anything.
You will be able to do anything.
To grow up ignorant, easy.
But once you grow up ignorant, what’s going to happen to you once you become an adult?
Who will give you a job?
How will you start a business?
What kind of family will you raise?
You will have children who will look down on you.
And they will say, this is my father?
He doesn’t even have a clean mouth.
I mean, the man curses all the time.
My father knows nothing.
He doesn’t even have a clean mouth.
I mean, the man curses all the time.
My father knows nothing.
My father is an ignorant bum, which is what you will be if you don’t read.
Is that what you want for your…
Is that your role model?
You want to be a role model like that for your children?
My father is my role model of how not to be.
Is that what you want your children to say?
Your choice.
So when you scroll on the screen the whole time, that’s what you’re heading for.
You’re heading to become a father that your child will look down on.
Okay?
It’s not enough to say, respect the father because he’s your father.
No, no, no, no, no.
You have to become worthy of respect.
That starts now.
It doesn’t start when you’re 50 years old.
Starts now.
Right?
So choose.
Choose your hard.
Choose your easy.
And do that every single day.
Allah created this world with what we call laws of physics, fundamental laws.
The law of gravity, for example.
Any object free falling in space is attracted towards the earth at an acceleration of 32
feet per second per second.
This law of gravity applies on anything which is in free fall in space.
Whether that thing is a meteor or whether that thing is solar dust or whether that thing
is you jumping from a plane makes no difference.
Allah’s law of gravity applies.
So now if I want to jump, high diving, skydiving, whatever, from a plane and I don’t want to
die a miserable death, slam into the earth, what must I do?
I must understand how to deal with the law of gravity, right?
How do you deal with the law of gravity in that situation?
What do you do?
What do you need?
You need a parachute.
You need a parachute.
What did you say you?
Land in the tree.
Land in the tree.
Yeah, good, good choice.
I mean, think about that, right?
Land in a tree.
You will get a tree up some tender parts of yours.
Seriously, I’m telling you, you know, this is, you want to make fun, brother.
Go ahead, man.
I didn’t get my white beard by standing in the sun.
Believe me.
So the point I’m making is this is the time to make those choices.
And Allah made these fundamental laws.
Now the fundamental laws that Allah made with regard to the earth, we call them the laws
of physics.
Allah made the same fundamental laws or similar fundamental laws with regard to our lives.
For example, one fundamental law that Allah made is that if you want success in life,
you must be clear about your goal and you must stay focused on that goal and you must
do consistent hard work for an insane amount of time to succeed.
Three things are required.
Focus on the goal.
So for that, you must have a goal.
Consistent hard work.
Not one day I wake up and today I’m tired.
No, no, no, no.
My cheat day.
There’s no such cheat day.
Consistent hard work for an insane amount of time.
We are not talking here months.
We are talking here in decades, not even in years.
Right?
Then you get success.
Then people will look up to you.
Then people will come to ask you for advice.
Then people will pay you.
Many times people come to me and they say, you know, you are a consultant, you’ve got
a global practice, blah, blah, blah.
Okay.
You’re a consultant.
It’s very simple.
Get somebody to pay you to listen to you.
That’s it.
Very simple.
If somebody is willing to pay you to listen to you, you are a consultant.
He’s consulting you.
He’s paying.
That’s your business.
He’s paying you.
You see when that comes easy?
Try it.
Try it.
Consistent hard work.
Consistent hard work.
Consistent hard work.
Consistent hard work.
This is Allah made the law.
I can’t help it.
This is the law for anyone.
Muslim, non-Muslim, Muslim, whatever.
Clear focus on the goal.
Consistent high quality work for an insane amount of time.
Staying in there.
Showing up every day.
What is the one word for that?
Discipline.
Discipline.
You don’t have discipline, you cannot succeed.
You will fail.
No matter how many excuses you make for yourself, you will fail.
So when you go home, stand in front of a mirror.
Look at yourself in the face and say, am I looking at a winner or am I looking at a loser?
And guess what?
Your choice.
It won’t happen by you calling yourself a winner.
It will happen by choosing and saying, I want to be a winner and then working your butt
off to become a winner.
I’m not a winner.
I’m a winner.
Alright?
Allah made these laws.
Be very clear.
Final point.
Opportunities.
Opportunities are inversely proportional to your age.
Opportunities are inversely proportional to your age.
At your age, the opportunities you have when you come to my age, you might, you might be
left with one opportunity.
opportunity. Might be, there’s no guarantee to that. At your age, you’ve got 20, 30, 40
opportunities. Your choice, squander them, no problem. Or pick them, leverage your experience,
grow yourself. But as you grow older, door shut. This was a door. Two days ago, this
door opened. You came here. The sad part is, for most of you, somebody else paid your fees.
So you have no pain for that. Right? If that money came out of your allowance, if you get
an allowance, you’re going to have to pay for it. So you have to pay for it. So you
have to pay for it. And I think you tell their parents that, take it out of their allowance.
If they get one. If they don’t get one, do something. Take away their phone or something
for, you know, one month. Feel the pain of it. So this was a door which opened. I can
tell you one thing. I can tell you one thing for sure. All of you came here equal because
you all had the same opportunity. But all of you are not going back equal because you
did not take advantage of the opportunity. You did not take advantage of the opportunity.
You did not take advantage of the opportunity equally. Some people took advantage of the
opportunity. All power to you. Alhamdulillah. Others squandered it. Your choice. It is your
life. Are you going to get such an opportunity again? Allah knows. Maybe, maybe not. The
masjid may take people out. Who knows? The question is, will you be one of them? You
don’t have to die for that. I mean, you may not be here. You may travel somewhere. This
happened. That happened. I’m not talking about you. InshaAllah, may Allah give you long and
healthy life with Iman. Not that. But the opportunity may be there, but you will not
be in a position to take advantage of that opportunity. So here was an opportunity. It
was given to you. For most of you, it was handed to you on a platter, which I think
was a big mistake in the first place. But anyway, your parents made it. They had some
hope in you, saying that you will make something of it. Some of you did. Alhamdulillah. Good
for you. Those of you who didn’t, good for you.
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And some people, I don’t like Sheikh Abdullah.
I’m not asking you to marry him.
I’m telling you, exactly.
You have to like the one you’re going to marry, man.
Who the hell cares?
You like, you don’t like.
I don’t like Sheikh Abdullah.
Very nice.
I’m delighted.
The only one who I needed for me to like me,
liked me 40 years ago.
Rest of you can go to hell.
Seriously, I’m telling you.
What is this like?
I’m not joking.
You will work with people you don’t like.
You will have to work with people you don’t like
in order for your career to go ahead.
Ask Das Nagir.
If he turns around and comes back,
do you like everybody you work with?
No.
I mean, I’ve been a business consultant
20 years in industry,
another 20 years in consulting, 40 years.
There were people who I would wake up with.
I would literally wake up and say,
I hope I get the news that this guy
didn’t like me.
He died last night.
Seriously.
I mean, they are right.
But my point is,
you do not have to,
if you are going to set that rule,
that I will only work with,
I will only learn from people I like,
believe me, you’re going to be a very ignorant human being
and you will never get anywhere in your career.
You have to learn to work with people you do not like.
You have to learn to work with people
who are different from you.
What?
Chef, that man is a non-Muslim?
What?
What kind of thing is that?
You have to learn to work with people who are
different from, in every way.
Different in religion,
different in gender,
different in looks,
different in what they eat and drink.
You have to learn to work with them,
you have to learn to get along with them.
You have to work in a way where you inspire them.
That’s not going to happen by saying,
you know,
I don’t care.
won’t go to so and so because I don’t like them. Don’t go man. What does it matter?
Sheikh Abdullah will be here for as long as Allah Subhanahu wa ta’ala keeps him here.
And at the end of that when he goes away
believe me if you tell anyone who knows Sheikh Abdullah
and you go and recite Quran in that masjid
and they’ll say wallahi you were in the same masjid as Abdullah
al-Khalti for so many years and you read Quran like this?
How is it possible?
Your choice.
Your choice.
All of you have plenty of time.
Plenty of time. Because I don’t know I think most of you I know
I don’t think there’s one single one of you who cooks food in his house.
You all get free food which your mothers cook.
Right?
I cook.
You what?
I cook.
You cook? You live alone?
No I don’t live alone.
You know family? You cook every day? All meals?
Some days when you feel like cooking.
What happens when you don’t feel like cooking?
Your mom cooks.
That’s what I mean.
When I say you cook I mean if you don’t cook you go hungry.
That’s what I mean by you cook. Right?
Your mom cooks and you better go when you go home.
Go and kiss her on the head and tell her mom thank you.
Jazakallah khair that you cook and I keep me alive.
Right?
You cook as a hobby. Good for you.
I’m very happy to know that you cook with most boys don’t cook.
You cook that’s good.
But your mom cooks. That’s how you live.
So appreciate your mothers.
So you got plenty of time.
Who does your laundry at home?
You or your mom?
Who cleans the house?
You or your mom?
I didn’t ask you if you help or not.
Understand this.
I help is not enough. I help is good.
But I’m saying the day you are not there will the laundry still be done or not?
It will be done.
The day your mom is not there may Allah keep her, give her a long healthy life.
The laundry will not be done.
It will be done.
That’s the difference.
Don’t give me your.
Don’t give me those things.
I appreciate the fact that you have parents appreciate the fact that somebody pays your bills,
appreciate the fact that you get food on the table, you get clean clothes and so on and so forth and therefore you have free time.
That free time don’t destroy yourself.
By spending that free time on your phone don’t destroy yourself.
By spending that free time.
Hanging out with friends like you.
You have to find a job.
who are equally ignorant
come and sit
with Sheikh Abdullah
go and sit with whoever
you think can teach you something
and learn
we have people here in this community
take Vahid Sattar for example
he came here
ask him what he came here with
and by the grace of Allah
he built the business that he built
right
he and I have been friends
5 or 6 years before this
Zazim was born
and I have seen him
in those days
how many people have come to you to say
please teach me how to start
a business and grow a business
and he is only one person
Alhamdulillah we have
people in the same community
we have people like this
who have started from scratch
who came with nothing
and they built their businesses
Alhamdulillah
and today they are worth
mashallah whatever they are worth
and they invested
and they put money in the masjid
and they built the whole masjid
right
and they created a trust fund
for who?
and what are you doing with that?
are you learning something?
not a lot exactly
right
so you need to do that
you need to come
you need to learn
you need to understand
you need to put your back into it
please understand this
this is a completely false thing
that may Allah have mercy on you
it’s not your fault
it’s how this country
how they raise children
how the society is built
where a child from the day is born
he says oh my god fantastic
you are the fantastic
you are the best thing
you are the
you are the best thing
you are a kid
period
you are not fantastic
you are like any other kid
you are not the best thing
you are like any other kid
to become the best thing
is an opportunity you have
you are not the best thing by itself
build a child’s self-esteem
this is directly opposite of Islam
Islam says beat it up
self-esteem is called what in Islam?
nafs
what must you do with that?
destroy it
destroy it
no
Seek God to bless the weak
nailed the weak tribalism
encountered in your life.
Right?
And then 20 years down the road,
you’re going to say,
you knew but you didn’t tell us.
Why didn’t you warn us?
And I want to end with a true story
of exactly those words.
There’s a very dear friend of mine.
We were in the team plantations together.
So he told me a story once.
I had gone, we were here in Jammat.
I had gone to his place.
He was at that time living in North Carolina.
And they did a little ban.
So in that I said that we have been sent into a country
where people are by and large amenable to Islam.
They’re not hostile.
Right?
They give you, like we are sitting here
and praying in this country.
Nobody’s beating us.
So alhamdulillah.
So I said, therefore,
we have an even greater responsibility
to be a part of this.
We have a responsibility
to present Islam to them,
to introduce Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to them.
And if we don’t do that,
then on the day of judgment,
they will question us before Allah.
And they will say,
you knew but you did not tell us.
The minute I said that,
this friend of mine, he started crying.
Now he’s not the crying kind.
You know, some people, tears come fast.
For him, no.
So I got suddenly very perturbed.
I said, what happened?
I mean, I’m sorry.
Did I say something?
Why did you cry?
He said, no.
He said, I’m crying because today,
I understood the meaning of a dream
that I saw 40 years ago.
I said, what?
Dream you saw 40 years?
He said, yeah.
I said, what dream?
He said, when I first joined the tea planting industry,
they were all British.
All the managers were all British and so on.
So the routine was, you worked all day.
Then in the evening, you went to the club.
And in the club, you had to go to the bar.
You had to be in the bar.
Now, and then people would offer you a drink and so on.
So this is my friend, Muslim guy, he doesn’t want to go into the bar.
He doesn’t accept, you know, doesn’t drink alcohol.
So a lot of his colleagues, the other plant assistants, they used to pull his leg and so on.
He said, come on, man, have a drink.
And this, he said his manager, who was a British guy, always stood up for him.
And he would say, stop bothering him.
He’s a Muslim.
He will not drink.
Don’t harass him.
And so on and so on.
So he would support him.
Very nice guy.
He would support him.
So he says, one morning I was sitting in the muster.
We used to, our workday would start at 5 a.m.
So 5 o’clock we were in the muster.
So he was sitting in the muster and he sees.
So he said that day, he said, before I went to the muster, I’m between sleeping and waking.
And I have a dream.
And my dream is that my manager.
My manager is telling me, you knew, but you didn’t tell me.
You knew, but you didn’t tell me.
You knew, but you didn’t tell me.
He said, I woke up suddenly.
I said, what is this?
Why am I seeing the manager in my dream?
The manager is there in his house.
And what is it I knew I didn’t tell him?
Then he came to the muster.
He’s sitting there.
This cook is running, coming, running down.
The cook came and said.
The door is closed.
He said, manager died.
Our manager just now died.
So they used to take, the cooks used to bring us tea, bed tea.
In the morning, they would come into the, knock on the door and they would bring tea in bed.
So he took the tea.
He knocked on the door.
Nobody opened the door.
He knocked three, four times.
So then he opened the door and the manager had passed away.
And my friend tells me.
When I connected the times.
It was, or would have been the time when he’s seeing Malakul Mouth.
When his soul is being extracted.
He’s telling me, you knew, but you didn’t tell me.
You knew this day will come, but you never told me.
Right?
So think about that.
I’m speaking to you like this because I don’t want you at any point in time to tell me that I knew and I didn’t tell you.
So if you follow my advice, Inshallah, you will do very well.
You will do humongously well.
And if you do not follow my advice, then what will happen to you will happen to you.
But you will never be able to say on either case that you knew and you didn’t tell me.
And Allah is my witness.
I ask Allah SWT to help you, to be with you, to support you, to protect you from yourself.
To protect you from all the.
As from the evil and the bad.
Influences in society.
Ask Allah SWT to put Barakah in your life and Khair and to keep you safe in his safety, in his protection.
And may Allah bless the Prophet and his family.
And may Allah bless the Prophet and his family.