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In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the most honorable of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, peace be upon his family and his family. And peace be upon him and his family. My brothers and sisters, it’s very important for us to get our focus right. And as we are coming into Ramadan, it’s even more important. The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, sends this beautiful month with short time, with massive rewards. He sends this month for us to catch up with whatever we have missed out. So let us not waste this month. Let me remind myself and you that there is only one person who truly matters in this life. And that person is yourself. For each one, that person himself. This is not selfishness, this is reality. And the reason I am saying that is because that is the only person about whom you will have to answer questions before Allah swt. May Allah save us from ourselves. I will not be questioned about my wife, I will not be questioned about my children, I will not be questioned about my parents, I will not be questioned about my neighbors, I will not be questioned about all the political leaders who live today and who lived before. I will be questioned only and only about myself. What did I say? What did I do? And that is the only thing that I will have to answer. Think about it like this. Say for example, you are about to go, in two days from now, one day from now, you have a very very important final qualifying exam. And somehow somebody leaks the question paper. So now you know what are the questions that are going to be asked in that exam. Absolutely for sure these are the questions. No doubt about that, question paper has been leaked. Which question will you study for? Right? Dumb question, right? Which question will you study for? If you find somebody who has the question paper and instead of studying for the questions which he knows are going to be asked in the exam, this person is reading all kinds of other stuff, this person is studying other stuff, this person is engaged in and busy with other stuff, what would you say? You would say really you are not serious about the exam, either you believe that you are not going to have the exam or you don’t care if you pass or fail. Because even after getting the questions, if you still do the same things, if you still don’t study for those questions and you continue to be distracted, you continue to study or read about other things, then what is to be said? Now that’s exactly our situation. We have an exam which is on the Day of Judgment. We have an exam before that which is when we die. And we have been, the question paper has been given to us beforehand. There is no mystery. What are the questions that we will be asked in the grave? We know. We know for sure, there is no doubt about that because Rasulullah s.a.w. informed us. Now despite that, despite knowing that, if we still do the same old stuff that we have been doing, then believe me, who do we have to blame for that? And again, it’s not a matter of blaming or not blaming. It’s a matter, the question is, when we know something is going to happen, if you don’t do that and if you do something else, it’s completely senseless. Because as I said, it just means one or two things. Either you don’t believe it will happen, which is a matter of Akhita itself. Or you don’t believe it will happen. Or you don’t believe it will happen. Or you don’t believe it will happen. As I said, it just means one or two things. Either you don’t believe it will happen, which is a matter of Akhita itself. Or you believe it won’t happen to you or me, which is completely unreal. Or you don’t care whether you pass or fail, which is even worse. Because how would you not care? Tell me. So please, let us not fool ourselves. Let us not get sidetracked. This religion of ours, Islam, is a religion which is based, which is a practice. I have said this a million times. This religion is a practice. It is not a theory. It is not a philosophy. It is a practice. It is not about talking and telling. It is about working and showing. Literally, it is not a matter of just talking something and saying. It is a matter of showing with actual practice. So now, when we have that situation, where we have to show by practice what we are supposed to do, and show by practice what we believe in, if we don’t do that and we do something else, then what does it mean? So it is not a question of talking. It is a question of practicing. That is why in Islam there is no such thing as a non-practicing Muslim. There is no NPM. To be a Muslim means to walk and talk like a Muslim, deal like a Muslim, behave like a Muslim. It means to immerse ourselves completely in the Sunnah of Rasulullah SAW. That is the meaning of being a Muslim. And if we don’t do that, then how do we claim to be Muslims? So first and foremost, I remind myself, when you let us get real in our lives, and let us make sure that we do what we are supposed to do, and not get sidetracked by whatever is happening in the world. Islam is the name of a practice. So let us make sure that we practice Islam fully and completely, and without any compromise. I ask Allah SWT to help us to do that which pleases Him, and save us from that which does not please Him. Peace be upon the Prophet and his family and companions. May Allah have mercy on them.
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