alhamdulillah my dearest brothers and
sisters in Islam I received a a message
from a a
brother and I'm just going to read that
message out to
youum
toik this is my probably my last message
to
you as
I lie here
waiting for my last breath to go
away this is probably the last time I'm
going to be able to write to anyone and
I thought write to you so that
perhaps when you teach your
classes and when you give your lectures
you can remind
people of this last lecture of
mine you have known me for a long
time I've just been a very basic
Muslim tried to do my
prayers tried to fast whenever Ramadan
would
come tried to say my Salah did Hajj once
in my life
yeah I had children but never really
looked after them I had a
wife she wasn't the most righteous
person I never really really chose
because of
that and my children grew up not knowing
much about
Islam and as I wait
here for the Bell to go off as my life
will
end dying of pancreatic
cancer of which the doctors have said I
cannot survive Beyond this
week as a wait for the angel of
death I have only one word that comes in
my
mind and that is
Regret I just have this tremendous
regret that there's so many things I
wanted to do you
know I wanted to memorize the Quran and
never did
so I want I wanted to go for Hajj every
year but I never did
that I wanted to hug my mother but I
never did
that I wanted to teach my children Islam
the Quran get them to be righteous
people but I never did
that I wanted to have the chance to have
one more
Ramadan but I'll never get
that I wish I could be in Haram
now but I'll never get that
chance I wish I could know some verses
of the Quran to recite but I don't know
anything except the fa and one or two
other suras that I recite every
day all I can think of is huge
regret no one will remember me except
you and perhaps my own family if they
have time before they divide up my
wealth my friends have left me
my family will not remember
me I will have left nothing in this
world of
good and by Allah all I will have
done is just added another grave on this
Earth I am your
brother your Muslim
brother
Muhammad my brothers my sisters in Islam
I received a lot of M messages like
that not all of them are from people who
are about to
die but certainly the common theme of
every single person that I have spoken
to that come to the end of their life
and they have not done what they really
should be doing and they should be
persisting on
doing it's this common world called
regret they are full of regret by
Allah I wish I had done this I wish I
had done that I wish I would do that I
wish I could have done so
much but Subhan Allah they have
forgotten that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
gave them a tremendous life full of
wealth full of Time full of Youth Allah
subhah wa ta'ala gave them that
opportunity by Allah yet they never
really took it my brothers and my
sisters in Islam this message that I
read for you is from a patient of mine
in the hospital gold all Coast Hospital
Subhan
Allah this is a brother that I used to
know that accepted Islam many many years
back a new Muslim however he never
really practiced Islam he never really
studied never really learned he never
really did much with his life except
that he just LED his life like the vast
majority of
us how many of us can remember someone
who has not who is not alive today this
Ramadan can anyone remember
somebody put up your hands can you
remember someone one person at least the
someone that you remember wah that has
not attended I can see a couple of
Brothers of mine Subhan Allah I haven't
seen for a long time Amir mallah I
thought I'd never see you I'm sure you
can remember people I'm sure jazid you
can remember people that perhaps we saw
last Ramadan and we will never see this
Ramadan my brothers my sisters in Islam
we don't have to worry about the day of
judgment we really
don't because ultimately it's the grave
that is a first position before the day
of
judgment used to say what worries me is
not the what worries me is not jahanam
and the day of judgment what worries me
is my first night in the
grave my brothers my sisters in Islam
the first night in the grave is the
worst
night it is the night where our Prophet
sallallah alaihi wasallam promised and
he swore by Allah saying the following
what did he say he
said it has been revealed to me this is
an authentic Hadi inkari he said by
Allah it has been revealed to
me that you will all be tested in your
Graves that you will all have the test
and the punishment and the pain and the
sorrow of something similar to the fitna
and the test and the trial of the
Dalal so my brothers and sisters in
Islam it is irrelevant whether Dalal
will meet him in this world or not the
same level of trial will come to us in
the grave and that is on the very first
night on the very first night my
brothers and sister in Islam is when we
will feel the reality of the Grave my
friends everyone thinks that death is
easy I swear by Allah I don't know where
this comes from Death is never easy
death is never easy I've never found a
patient of mine that just passes away in
peace I've never found one patient pass
away in peace they always gurgling at
the end of their death we have to give
them hosin bromide a medicine to stop
their
gurgling as they're passing away do you
know why because of the secretions in
their voice we give them iOS bromide
which is
a a drug that basically decreases the
secretions in their throat because we
can hear them gurgling and it's very
disturbing it's very disturbing so
anyone who's passing away chronically
from anything chronic acutely of course
someone who just dies straight away
heart attack that you don't hear
anything you don't hear how they're
dying but people who are passing away
slowly like from cancer or from heart
disease that is
prolonged they die a terrible death I
have never seen one patient of mine who
dies an easy death the prophet sallallah
alaihi wasallam said an authentic
Hadith verily death has its trials
verily death has its
pain verily death has his trial and
verily death has his pain do not ever
ever think that you're going to have an
easy death somehow oh you should have
seen him he passed away so peacefully
what are you talking about how do you
know he passed away peacefully when our
Prophet s wasallam who knew the truth
said verily death has its pain perly
death has its
trials my brothers and my sisters in
Islam truly Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
created us and we are in our third of
our five different
stages first Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
conceived of us in his
knowledge secondly Allah subhah wa T
created us in the womb of our
parents third stay in this world the
fourth will be in the
grave and the fifth will be in the
Hereafter The Eternity of the
Hereafter now guess what guys with this
life of 70 years we're going to have to
purchase our
Hereafter with this life of 60 or 70
years and our Prophet said that my umah
will live for 60 or 70 years authentic
Hadith in bukari you won't live beyond
that yes one or two of us might
successfully live till 80 or 90 or 100
very rare but because you're a Muslim
and because your cultural practices your
food practices are quite similar you
will probably die at the age of 60 or 70
or maximum 80 if we can keep you
alive by some mercy from
Allah but by Allah you won't live beyond
that
how many of you are already 40 50 years
old I am
35 I know I have less
than probably 10 20 years before my
bones start aching before my my chest
starts hurting because my breath becomes
difficult before traveling becomes
unbearable before I need more sleep
before I have to take three or four
pills every day to just keep my body
healthy I know I have only 10 15 years
of productivity in my life left I have
only 15 years to do something for this
Dunya I have only 15 years if Allah
doesn't give me death before that I have
only 15 years by Allah before which I
must make my Mark I must leave a legacy
on this
world is there anyone amongst you who
has that feeling as well this feeling
that your that your life is ending and
that by Allah you will not have that
chance ever again
my brothers my sisters in Islam I swear
by
Allah as Allah is my Lord I have not
seen a single patient of mine except
that they have regret every one of them
I remember this old man 70 years old
German National living in
Australia and the man was so frail every
three every 3 4 days we would make him
better and then he would come again with
some infection or some
disease and I was like come on man just
go to a nursing home I used to tell
him so he used to say but you guys look
after me better than a nursing home
nursing home the nurse is just going to
give me medicine feed me whatever and
then just going to put me what happened
to your child my child doesn't look
after me anymore where is he he's
discovered some girl and they've run
off so do you have anybody no one at
all then I tried to comfort him and I
said you know what it's all right mate
you've had a good life you know how we
say in Australia we've had a good life
we've had a good Innings we say we've
had a good Innings good set of
games he said but I don't want to die
why not because there's nothing after
it nothing after it so this man is in
this deep
depression deep depression because
there's nothing else after
it and for each one of us my brothers
and sisters Islam are we of those people
who also think this is nothing after it
or are we of those people who think that
by Allah there is so much tremendous
blessings after
it the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam promised us promised us out of
every 1,000 people 999 will go to
Janam he said in the authentic Hadith in
Muslim out of every thousand people 999
will go to
Janam according to one
report some of the scholars said
according to one report that this refers
to Yu and
Ma and other Scholars such as IB hajar
and others said
no this refers to every single human
being Muslim and non-muslim out of every
1,999 will go to
jahannam and if they don't go to
jahannam they will be thrown into it
only to be taken out but every every 919
out of every thousand will go to
Janam do you know in the authentic
Hadith in
bukari a man stood up from the sahaba
sahabah
right everyone sahaba you know who the
sahaba are they are the best of the best
right right yes or no sahabah stood up
on that Friday and the prophet was
giving a talk and the prophet said today
you will not ask me about anything
except that I will tell you so the
sahaba stood up and he said yahool Allah
where is my place in in the Hereafter
where will I
be what do you think the prophet said in
the authentic inkari he said
Janam your place will be the
Janam this was to a prophet of his this
was to a sahaba of
his are we deluding
ourselves W are we deluding ourselves
brothers and sisters are we thinking
that we are going to
be going to go to some really great
place like those two people in Surah Ka
that Allah talks about have you heard of
the story of Surah those two people one
of them who Allah had given a huge
bustan a huge bustan a huge Garden it
was an amazing Garden because the garden
Allah says in Surah that that Garden
gave its fruits twice a year not once a
year like every Garden but twice a year
it was so amazing that it was a garden
between which a river flowed Sur
surrounded by date palm trees watered by
Allah and provided Water by that
beautiful river that ran in between the
garden it was so amazing that he would
enter his
garden and he used to say
what I don't think this will ever
finish and then he used to
say and if I go back to
Allah I will find better than this but
Allah there's no single human being
among us accept things like this
unfortunately how many of us think like
this wow look at the wealth Allah's
given us Allah really must love
me and really even if I were to die now
I think jna will be even better for
me the waiting for
me jna jna is waiting for me this is
what we feel in our
heart my brothers and my sisters in
Islam if Jenna is waiting for you ask
Allah for death right now
if you think you're going to Jenna ask
Allah for death right now ask Allah for
death ask Allah for death right
now if you're
truthful but you are lying to yourself
you don't believe it in your
heart if you believe it in your heart
ask Allah for death right
now Allah challenges the Jews in the
Quran because the Jews are the ones who
think that they're going to go to Jenna
automatically as soon as they're die
Allah
says say to them oh Muhammad
wasallam ask Allah for death if indeed
you are
truthful ask Allah for death my brothers
and sisters
Islam rather each and every one of us
knows we have not earned Jenna yet each
and every one of us knows that Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala has not written
Jenna for us yet we cannot have that
guarantee as yet we know that in our
heart
verily mankind is ever a witness over
himself even if he gives
excuses we ourselves our own souls are
enough a witness over our own actions
and deeds we don't need anyone else to
tell us we don't need the book to tell
us we know what we have
done we know how much we have done and
how little we of good we have left on
this Earth we know this my friends this
is why we don't dare to ask for death
this is why we are afraid of doing
anything that might speed up our death
because we are afraid we have not earned
Allah's Mercy as
yet so my brothers and sisters in Islam
what if this is your last
Ramadan what if this is your last
Ramadan what will you
do if these days were the last days of
Ramadan that you'd ever have the last
how would you spend
it my brothers and my sisters in Islam
is there anyone amongst us except that
he feels empty in his heart that there's
something that he that that he still
needs to do some Quran that he wants to
memorize some people that he needs to
help some excuse that he needs to earn
in from Allah subhah wa tala is there
anyone amongst us except that we must
feel like
this my brothers and my sisters in
Islam the problem with all of us is
because of the world that we live in it
is because that although we meant to
have the world in our hands
unfortunately it is now in our our
hearts the same world that we're meant
to control has now entered and crept
through our veins directly into our
hearts until it is part and parcel of
our hearts do you know what the pious
predecessors used to say they used to
say that the love of this world and the
love of the Hereafter are like two
scales in the heart of a Believer when
one side of the scale becomes heavy the
other side becomes light and when the
other side becomes heavy the other one
becomes light
if you love The Hereafter you will love
this Dunya less and you if you love this
world you will love the AK
less and by Allah you only need one
example to prove which one you love more
shall I give you a test which you will
all show me how exactly how much you
love this world and by Allah this is the
test of
sufana sufana thi
said if you want to ask somebody how
much they love this world compared to
the
hereafter then ask them how much food do
they
cook when a rich man comes to their
house compared to when a poor man comes
to their
house
yam w w this one hurt me hit me like a
knife in my heart how truthful was
sufana isn't it true Brothers how much
do you cook when you know someone
wealthy is coming doesn't matter whether
you're going to get food from him money
for him or not well wealthy Oh my he
must be really wealthy when you know
what wife cook chicken and rice and Meat
and
Fish make sure there's three or four
dishes a poor gu is coming it's all
right it's all right don't have to cook
that much it's one one dish is enough
just one Biryani that's
enough that's
enough how much do we love this world
every one of us I'm sure will answer
every one of us will show surely answer
answer that by Allah if a rich man comes
to our house we cook more food isn't
that right let's be truthful I want to
see a show of hands how many people I
will put my the first person to put my
hand that I would have cooked more if a
Rich Man Came come on show me your hands
truthful be truthful W be truthful
now the
first position before you Rectify
yourself is to recognize a
mistake recognize there is a
fault okay this is 50% of rectifying and
error is to first of all recognize that
we're
mistaken that by Allah unfortunately we
love this dun too much we've become too
attached to it we judge people according
to it we value people according to how
much they've
achieved and we love this Dunya too much
to love the Hereafter and this is what
is shackling us to this
world my brothers and my sisters in
Islam ask yourself as second
question and that second question is
this how many of you can one 100% say
Allah is happy with me
now how many of you are sure Allah is
happy with you right
now how many of you are sure that you
have definitely done a deed for which
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will never
ever punish you how many of you can do
that
I'm telling you no one can no one
amongst us if you are sure about this
that you have you might as well you
might as well just
die because that's the best state to be
in Allah is happy with you just die
right now brother ask Allah for death
straight
away but by Allah there's no one amongst
us who can guarantee
that my brothers my sisters in Islam
this question of Allah being happy with
us and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wanting
Jenna for us is a question that must
come to every one of our
minds the greatest of the
sahaba the greatest of the sahaba were
those people who used to fear Allah
subhah wa ta'ala so
much the greatest of the sahaba were the
ones who were truly worried that this
would be their last
Ramadan it was reported that Abu Bakr
used to say that I wish I was a twig
that was cut off and eaten up a twig of
a tree that was cut off and eaten up and
this is Abu Bakr the one who has
promised
Jen and it was when he read the verse in
the
Quran there is no one amongst you except
that he is heading for it heading for
what
Janam according to the of Abbas that he
fell into a coma for one
month it was the
sah this is for the Sisters in Islam so
listen sisters it was the it
was
who reported that I passed by the heart
of AA after the sun had risen and fuder
had had finished Sun had risen and 10
minutes after sun rising Aisha had
started her Salah and she was reciting
the verse of the Quran you know what
verse she was
reciting and Allah had blessed us and
Allah forgave us and Allah Allah saved
us from the terrible torment and she was
crying and then I went to do all my
day-to-day work and I finished my
day-to-day work around time before the
aan I came around towards the Masid and
I found Aisha still reciting the same
verse and she was still
crying and Allah blessed us had mercy on
us and and he saved us from the terrible
fire my brothers my sisters in
Islam there is no one amongst us here
except that Allah has already written
our name for jna or Janam no
one no one amongst us except Allah has
already put our place for jenah or
jahannam
already you know that believe that this
is what our Prophet said so the prophet
sallallah Ali wasallam said when he when
Allah subhana wa tal created human
beings he created a group and he said
I've created this group for J and then
he separated another group and he said
I've created this group for
Janam and when Malik one of the great
sahaba one of the great he read about
this Hadith it was reported that he used
to pray every single night standing up
at night and he would grab his beard
like this and he would say say oh Allah
I know you have created people for jenah
and jahannam I know you've already
decreed who is going to go to Jenna and
who will go to jahannam oh Allah tell me
which group am I
from oh Allah tell me which group am I
from my brothers and my sisters in Islam
if this was your last Ramadan how would
you spend it what would you
do if tomorrow the doctor came to you
and said you have terminal cancer and
you will not live more than 3 months and
by Allah I do this all the time when I
was in oncology the worst thing for me
as a junior doctor was having to call
patients and say they're about to
die they always left the junior doctors
to do the dirty
job unfortunately I was the one who had
to counsel patients that they're going
to
die I was the one who to tell them that
we have to cut off half their body
otherwise they'll die we have to cut
their liver out we have to cut their
pancreas out which might cut their tummy
for which they'll never be able to to
eat properly which we will have to feed
them with a tube for the rest of their
life which is going to be 6 months
maximum
anyway do they want that to
happen my brothers my sisters Islam I'm
not joking about this and there are so
many Muslims and non-muslims all of them
suffering from all of this the
statistics show that one in four people
will die of cancer so one or four of you
will die of cancer statistics also show
one in three people will die of heart
failure and heart disease so one three
of few one of three of you if not you if
not you then you if not you if not you
then
you one of three of you will die because
your heart will fail and you'll have a
tremendous pain in your chest and you
will die from that statistics
show that one in five of
you so that's cancer is 1 in four heart
failure and heart disease is 1 in
three statistics
show that one in six of you will die die
from a serious
infection because of some other
underlying disease one in six so it's
not you you you you then
you so choose which way you're going to
die it's always going to be something
not bad not
good not going to be
pleasant someone who has a serious
disease like heart failure probably has
kidney
failure towards the end of their life
for the last 2 or 3 years they not
allowed to drink much water I have an
auntie who's dying of heart
failure the problem with her is she
cannot drink more than a cup of tea if
she drinks more than a cup of tea then
she ends up with more water and goes to
her lungs and
she's dying of breath as if she is dying
of drowning so one in four of you will
die like
that one and three of you will die from
tremendous pain and because there will
be so much pain in your body so much
pain we're going to give you drugs drugs
what drugs we're going to give you a lot
of morphine and hyos
bromide the the thing that will stop you
from gurgling all the time the gurgling
of death as Allah calls it and we're
going to give you a lot of daam what is
that it's just to keep you completely
sedated like you are a
majon so one in three of you will die
like that you will never have the chance
to say
ill you know people are going to
remember this talk and say oh that guy
was scaring
us I probably
am but I'm only telling you the
truth I'm only telling you the
truth one out of two of you will never
have the chance to say at the time of
death I swear about Allah you won't how
do I know
because the people who die of heart
failure and people who die of cancer
which if you add them all together will
approximately equate to half the people
of you
here if you're dying of heart failure
you will die from either one of two ways
sudden heart attack suddenly heart
attack you will not have the energy to
even say anything sudden pain from which
you'll go down on the earth and you'll
just die okay or it will be a very very
bad death of water in your lungs so
you'll be breathing very hard this is
one way of dying you will never have the
chance to say no you will not the second
type of person is someone who's dying of
cancer that person will die because of
of a lot of drugs that we giving you and
because drugs were trying to keep you
comfortable away from the pain the drugs
will put you to sleep and you'll be in
in constant coma until you
die so one and two of you will never
have the chance to
say you won't medically speaking there's
no way no way you'll have the chance the
only chance you have my brother and my
sister in Islam is for you to say it
now
only
chance is to say it now to make that
change
now if this was your last radan this is
the time to do
it the problem is my friends this world
that we live
in do you know what the pious
predecessors they
said they said Beware of the magic of
this world for indeed the magic of this
world is worse than the magic of harut
and
marut where the magic of and marut the
two angels sent to
Babylon was to do with magic that was
separate between the husband and his
wife the magic of this world separates
between a slave and his
Lord yes
Salam and in Dubai we must feel
that how beautiful is this
world
fantastic
amazing D in its amazing Glory even the
non-muslims are surprised when they come
to this
country
amazing my brothers my sisters in Islam
this has the potential of taking us away
from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and it
has how many of us truly have connected
with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
how many of us truly can confidently Say
by
Allah there is no more anything that I
can do if I know death is
tomorrow or are you of those people who
can say definitely I can do more if
you're of those people who say I can
definitely do more then you know what
the answer is do it now there is no good
time to give sodak the time is now there
is no good time to stop praying the time
is now there's no good time to read the
Quran time is now there's no good time
to start memorizing Quran the time is
now there's no good time to to look
after orphans the time is right now
there's no good time to call your mom
and say sorry the time is right now Now
call her now and Mom I'm sorry Mom
forgive me
mom there's no good
time to say to you friend that you have
blemished and harmed I'm sorry my friend
the time is right now there is no good
time at all my friends the time is right
now the time must be
now because by Allah we don't know when
we're going to live and when we going to
die and my friends the thing that we
must be worried about is is the next
deed that we do the very next deed that
we do will be our end because you see
there is one Hadith ofam that gives
tremendous hope at the same time it
gives tremendous
Fear One Hadith that is amazing it
causes tremendous hope in the heart but
it causes tremendous fear at well as
well what is that Hadith that Hadith is
a Hadith that
says verily actions by its ending it's a
Hadith that causes me to have tremendous
fear yet tremendous Hope from Allah
tremendous hope that if I can do a good
deed next it might be my last and so
alhamdulillah my my last deed was the
best deed and so alhamdulillah Allah
will remember me by my by my last thing
I'll be raised up on my last thing
alhamdulillah but it causes me
tremendous fear that if I go back and I
haven't learned anything if I go back
and I don't change if I go back and I go
back to my last routine that I that I
was
on it may be my death comes to me when
I'm just an average Muslim and that is
it my actions are judged by my average
being that average Muslim on the last
point of my
death that's the
fear the fear is it doesn't matter what
happened in the past the hope is also
that it doesn't matter what happened in
the past the fear is that it matters the
sin that you're going to do the hope is
also that be the next Good Deed that
you're going to do will be your final
final
ending that is the real fear and that is
the real
hope he
says he
says I don't fear my past Deeds my past
sins for indeed I've repented to Allah
and Allah loves to repent Allah loves to
forgive
however what I fear is that in the very
next deed that I do my heart will cease
to command by this Quran and by this
Revelation that's the real fear the real
fear is that the very next thing that
you do will be your last deed and that
will be how your death is
sealed that's the real fear my friends
and that nothing that you have done in
the past will ever
matter the prophet wasallam said wall
there's no one amongst you
except that he will do good deeds all
his
life and that which has been written
will overtake him so he will do some bad
deed and then he will have his death and
that will be his
jahanam and there is no one amongst you
who will do bad Deeds all their life and
then before he dies he will do one good
deed and at that point his death will
come and so he will go to
jenah this is the fear and this is the
Hope as
well this is the Hadith of fear the
Hadith of
hope so my dearest brothers and my
sisters in Islam if you knew that this
is your last Ramadan what would you
do wouldn't you love to leave a legacy
on this Earth wouldn't you love to die
knowing Allah is happy with
you wouldn't you love to die knowing
that there's nothing that you can
conceivably think that you are actually
doing a proper sin wouldn't you love to
to die in a state where you you are
completely at
peace because you see it doesn't matter
there is no two there is no more
position in the Hereafter there's only
two places you can go to it's clear
there is no five places 10 places three
places no there's only one of two places
either Jah or jahannam that's it you
either going to go clearly to jenah or
you're clearly going to jahannam and if
you haven't earned enough to go to Jenna
you're definitely going
Janam and what is amazing is sometimes
when I hear Muslims that talk about
Janam is only for a small amount of
time it's like Po you know when you
touch something hot it's like o is that
what you think Janam is going to be like
Allah is going to dip you in just take
you
out is that what you think it's like I
once asked my sheh she how long is the
minimum time of Janam is there any
evidence in the Quran or in the Sunnah
of the minimum time of jahannam for
anyone that has done a deed that is
destined to go to jahannam minimum time
duration so our Sheikh may Allah have
mercy upon his name was
Abdullah he was an encyclopedia of we
used to call him the encyclopedia so he
said I've never ever read a minimum
position except one verse in the Quran
inah where Allah subhana wa T talks
about the minimum position or the
minimum time that has ever been reported
in any Hadith or any verse of the Quran
what is that what is that
verse
what did he say he
said verily Janam is a a place of
Ambush a place for those people those
people who have been evil and sinful a
place of Ambush for
them a place of dwelling for those
people who have been sinful in this
earth then Allah says
they will dwell there therein for so our
said comes from the
word as alass Al said is 1,000 million
years from our
time so the least duration Allah has
ever mentioned in the
Quran is plural ofab and aab is 1,000
million years of our
time my brothers and my sisters in Islam
Allah is amazing in his reward but he is
very serious in his
punishment Allah is very serious in his
punishment very serious you've got to
remember Allah is the one who created
Janam you've got to remember Allah
created fire that can be so hot you've
got to remember Allah can punish people
very very seriously have you seen anyone
mangled up in a car crash I see them all
the time being in the emergency
department someone mangled up in a car
crash completely smashed up so Subhan
Allah look at how Allah Allah gave that
trial to that
person Subhan Allah and you think if
this is the punishment in this world or
a trial in this world only Allah knows
what it can be in the
Hereafter so my beloved brothers and my
sisters in Islam if these words are not
enough to move you into action and into
change then by Allah you are a very very
difficult person to change and may Allah
have mercy on you because these words
are not strong enough to change
you but perhaps the following will be
enough to change you and that is knowing
how much Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala cares
and knowing how much Allah subhanahu wa
tala wants us to be
different the prophet sallallah alai
wasallam the prophet Sall wasam said in
the authentic
Hadith he
said whoever loves to meet Allah Allah
loves to meet him and whoever hates to
meet Allah Allah hates to meet
him my brother Brothers my sister in
Islam if the fear of Allah is not enough
to move you to action then let the mercy
of Allah be enough to move you to
action Allah subhah wa ta'ala tells
us oh
mankind what has taken you away from
your lord most
high what has taken us away my brothers
my sisters Islam from the Lord who has
given us so much
blessings
which of the blessings of Allah will you
deny my
friends how can you disbelieve and sin
against Allah when you were dead and
Allah gave you
life then he will give you death and
then he will raise you up
again and you'll come back to
Allah my brothers my sisters
remember Allah subhah wa tala's mercy
and his
love
suf he said I would never ever replace
Allah with my parents on the day of
judgment as my
judge I would rather have Allah judge me
rather than my parents because I know
Allah loves me far than my than far more
than my own
parents how amazing is this statement of
sufyan do you truly believe Allah loves
you more than your own parents
if you truly believe that then be
comfortable with Allah as your lord be
comfortable with his
H my brothers and my sisters in Islam
there is one answer I want you to
remember when Allah questions you on the
day of judgment do you know what that
answer is when Allah brings out the
books and says Muhammad
jazir so so
Amir you did this you did this you did
this you did this and he goes on for
thousands of hours talking about how
many sins we have done what do you say
what do you sayir what do you say ja
what do you say Muhammad what do you say
Aisha I want you to have one answer you
know what the answer is oh Allah
guilty I acknowledge all my
sins don't argue
back because you know your soul knows
how much you've
done you know what you have done my
friends Allah made our enough a witness
over us we don't need anything else we
know what we have done oh Allah guilty
guilty so my brothers my sisters in
Islam come back to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala
when was the last time you really
connected with Allah subhanahu wa taal
when was the last time you really felt
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is there for
you are you working for Allah
everybody if you're working for Allah
why the heck do you think someone else
is paying your
salary if you work for GE does IBM pay
your
salary if you work for GE does IBM pay
your salary yes or no
no what is your problem that you think
your risk is tied to this world or this
dya or this means that you have that's
it if you're working for Allah then
Allah pays your
salary then Allah
says how many times Allah
says we are the we are the Lord we are
the one who
provides if Allah you work for Allah
that Allah provides for you not this
bloody company that you're working for
it's only a tools and a
means so why are you so afraid
why are you afraid this world has
Shackled you so much because no I have
to do this I can't do this I have to
work in this job because the job is
paying my salary it's not it's Allah
paying the salary still the job is just
a means for you are tools for which your
risk will come to
you by Allah this risk would have come
to you had this job not been there as
well somehow or the other the risk will
come to
you the hands will change that's right
but the giver is still the
same The Giver is still the same so
liberate yourselves my friends liberate
yourselves if you work for GE GE pays
your salary not
IBM if you work for Allah Allah pays
your salary not
people if you work for Allah and live
for Allah Allah will look after you not
human
beings then liberate yourselves do that
which is right work for the and Allah
will look after you by
Allah yes Allah subhah wa tala provides
for Birds but not in their
nest Allah provides for the birds when
they fly
out we all doing that we're flying out
but we're forgetting who really provides
we're forgetting it is Allah who
provides for the birds and we think it
is so and so providing so my brothers
and my sisters in Islam liberate
yourselves from the shackle of of this
world liberate yourself the more I have
liberated myself the more wealth I have
ever
made and brothers over here know my
situation I was a medical student my
fourth year I gave it up I have $200
only in my pocket when I went to Medina
$200 and I bought a th that was torn I
wish I kept that th 16 R it cost me it
was actually 10 and I paid six R to just
shorten my the th a little bit that was
my only th that I had for 8 months this
is a student of Med medicine who left a
most lucrative degree and a lucrative
job with parents who look after
him to go to Medina to study there with
only $200 in my pocket I still remember
I took my wife with me illegally I took
her illegally I kept her I I used to
live in this house that was full of rats
500 R was a rent and I couldn't afford
it by Allah because the government
wasn't paying our salaries our student
sidence at that time because the price
of oil was only $8 a barrel do you
remember that time $8 a
barrel it was in 1995 1990 1998 at that
time the price of oil was $14 a barrel
$12 a bar not like it is now $880 $90 a
barrel $60 a barrel no very very less so
the first people who wouldn't get paid
is
us I still remember we used to put water
on the carpets and sleep on it because
of the heat we couldn't afford an air
conditioner or even a
fan water on the carpets and sleep
imagine having a wife from Australia
grown up in Australia who's been
pampered by her parents sleeping in that
sort
of sort of sort of uh bathroom so sort
of uh
house we used to keep our food in our
neighbors fridge because we couldn't
afford a fridge somehow by someone's
Mercy someone gave us an old
fridge it would break down sometimes and
would be all right sometimes but it was
okay because we only had two types of
food we used to buy bread and we used to
buy tomato sauce we used to eat bread
with tomato sauce you know the one real
bread you get the SLE bread here don't
you yeah the one real the hot dog type
of bread and you get one real tomato
sauce right don't you get one real
tomato sauce one dirham I'm sure you do
so we used to open it up put the one
real tomato sauce we used to eat that 8
months we ate that I still remember once
someone came back from
Australia a Hajj came back from
Australia and he bought 100 r with him
as a gift for me and I took that money
so amazed I still
remember and I went to my wife and we
said let's go P buy a
chicken so we bought a
chicken Subhan I still remember the
chicken in front of me and my wife 10 R
lot of money for us at that time and we
ate and we ate and we ate and we ate and
ate and ate and ate and ate and
ate like we were like eating like crazy
no one's talking just eating then we
looked and still half a chicken
left still half a chicken left and I
still remember I still remember it still
tell my wife
we covered the chicken up she put it
away into that stupid fridge of
ours and she looked at me and I still
remember what she said do you know what
she said she said do you think we could
do that again next
week Subhan
Allah two years after that the internet
came to
Medina and I used to have a website
called salaf website where it had a
thousand Pages am me remember the
website
yeah and I was the king of internet
because I knew more about internet in
all of Medina than anyone else because I
did that stuff so I took my stuff and I
showed it to people then I made a free
website for one sheh here one Sheikh
there then I started charging money
2,000 3,000 r that I got the money and
straight away bought a laptop laptop at
that time was very expensive right guys
remember I bought a HP
laptop very expensive 10,000 R oh my God
laptops at that time were disgustingly
expensive so I bought it 10,000 R I
still remember it my wife was very angry
why we need to buy this and that said
don't worry I've got a plan so I got the
laptop made myself a business card I
started speaking only English when I
went to my my business deals and I
started charging money like crazy how
much 30,000 50,000 100,000 a charge
sometimes my largest project I charge
300,000
$300,000 it took me only about 2 weeks
to do cuz I could charge what I
wanted and I would take money like this
to my wife and you know slap her face
with it see how it
feels my brothers and my sisters in
Islam doesn't
matter Allah will test you initially
when you want to work for his cause do
you know why he'll do that because Allah
wants to first of all remove every asbab
away from you Allah wants to remove
every single asbab away from you because
he wants to show you that ultimately
Victory is from Allah so initially when
you start to work only for the cause of
Allah and you want to do something only
for the cause of Allah Allah gives you
straight away some sort of difficulty
and fak and poverty why because he wants
to remove every sa other than Allah then
once that's gone then Allah's Mercy
comes so you know definitely all of this
is only from
I was perhaps the richest student in
Medina after the emiratis of course
where the government pays them big bucks
but I had to earn from it but I think I
made more money than them I had my own
custom designed
car no one could beat me from the stop
stop sign I'm a speed
freak Subhan Allah no one could beat me
I was perhaps myself and Yas were the
only two students we used to come to the
lectures of of our Mash would sit there
and I'd say yeah sir what you doing oh
I'm I'm going to I'm going to Hardies
all right I'll see you there and we used
to just pass by we would sit down there
and have a have a coffee and then we'd
leave we were perhaps the richest
students there he used to write books I
used to make
websites so my brothers and sisters in
Islam money comes to you the provider is
Allah if Allah has written for it money
will come to you doesn't matter where it
will come come the worst thing you could
do was run after it worst thing you
could do is work for this world remember
you're working for Allah Allah will
provide you the money if you're working
for
IBM then IBM pays the salary not GE if
you work for Allah Allah provides the
salary for you Allah will provide it for
you you have to believe
it do you truly believe you work for
Allah ask yourself this question do you
truly believe it in your heart how much
do you truly believe you know another
day a few days ago a sheh asked me that
question that Abu yusu when you have
mercy Mission and Al and you need money
what's your fundraising strategy he
asked me and I said okay you know we do
this we do that we do this sort of thing
and that sort of thing we do fundraising
here and then he stopped me and he said
what about
Allah is there actually a fundraising
strategy raising your hands to
Allah and you know Subhan Allah it's
like he slapped me he gave gave me a
slap and he taught me about a lesson
that I had never
ever learned
before and he told me the same thing if
you work for GE this is his quote he
said if you work for GE does GE pay your
salary or does IBM pay your
salary so if you work for Allah Allah
pays your
salary and then I thought about
this and I thought about how much I
connect with Allah then I remembered my
children
I have five kids my
friends and I want to tell you how they
make Dua to me Dua meaning when they ask
me something this is how they do it
ibraim let me start start off with the
first one YF Yu is my oldest one I think
the oldest children are always a little
bit soft is that correct the first child
always a little bit soft cries a little
cries too much is that
correct I don't know but I tend to find
I was the oldest one and I think it was
just too too soft I was just too soft
and I was just know little bit I start
crying so Yu he says baa BBA yes um can
I buy that thing what is the thing uh
Playstation night nice game no YF I
don't have
money and he just make that face of his
and he just turn away and he just shed
one or two tears and that's it okay this
is how he asks me then comes
Aisha Aisha is my next one she's the
eldest daughter what does she do Boba
yes you're very nice Boba and she comes
she Combs my hair touches my head W
she's just such an
unbelievable Subhan Allah she's going to
get everything from her husband
anyway mashah she does everything
touches me so Bobba how are you Bobba
can I do anything for you like a glass
of water you like some juice how about
and she T takes my shoes off Aisha what
do you want BBA can I get that present
from there no not not now I don't have
money okay BBA that's fine then she just
go away
nicely then comes
zanab look at how she makes Dua to me
make ask me something what does she do
what does she do she says baa baa baa
yes um um um there's that really nice
toy um I saw there can I please have it
pleas please please please this is she's
a really funny girl right like
that she's 7 years old and this is how
she asks me and I said no Zab okay and
then she just goes away right then this
is
ibraim ibraim doesn't talk He Just
Smiles
Boba
yes all he does is smile and I know he's
up to something naughty okay just a
smile I say ibraim no okay and he's
still smiling and going away then the
last
one Mariam how does she ask 3 years old
huh no no
no who do you think is
successful who do you think is
successful best negotiator who is it
last one she gets it all the time
because if she doesn't she's going to
kill me she won't shut
up I'm I'm going to ask you this
question why can't we ask Allah like a
2-year-old
child why can't we ask Allah and make
Dua to Allah like that
why and I thought about this look at how
she gets everything from me all the time
when Allah loves that I make Dua the
prophet said Allah loves it when you
make Dua Allah hates it when you don't
make
Dua the prophet also said authentic
Hadith
there's nothing more honorable to Allah
than
Dua the prophet also said in the
authentic Hadith in Muslim he
said the most incompetent of people are
those people who are not even capable
making
Dua why can't we ask Allah like a
2-year-old
child oh
Allah oh Allah you are the lord of the
heavens and the earth oh Allah you are
the rich and I'm the poor oh Allah I
don't want to put my hands down until
you answer my Dua oh Allah don't put my
hands down until you answer my Dua oh
Allah I beseech you oh Allah oh Allah I
need your help oh
Allah Allah Allah give me jenah oh Allah
don't punish me in jahannam oh Allah let
me see your face oh Allah right from me
safety from the fire
today oh Allah don't let me put my hands
down until until you answer my Dua oh
Allah I'm not going to put my hands down
until you answer my Dua do you know what
the prophet
said he said Allah is ashamed authentic
Hadith in Muslim he said Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala is
ashamed of his slaves when he raises his
hands up to him to return it
back Allah is ashamed of his slave when
his slave raises his hands up to him to
return it back to him
empty Subhan Allah how amazing is that
Allah is ashamed what an honorable King
what an honorable Judge what an
honorable Lord he
is my brothers and my sisters in Islam
ask Allah like a 2-year-old
child ask Allah like a two-year-old
child you will have everything you want
ask Allah like you never asked before
don't make
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like what the heck are you saying you
don't even know it's like you know zanab
comes to
me please please please please please
can I have it no so they said then you
go away is this the way this isn't the
way if Zab only persisted if YF only
persisted if IIM only persisted if Aisha
only persisted they would get their way
but they didn't neither do
we we are far too hasty my
friends Allah sometimes doesn't answer
our Dua directly you know why because he
loves to make us make Dua he loves to
hear us beseeching him and making Dua to
him he loves it that's why he waits
Waits Waits Waits Waits before he
answers it because he knows you're going
to stop making Dua as soon as you get
your thing
so my friends connect with Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala this is your
chance nothing as strong as Dua nothing
is as strong as Dua nothing is as strong
as Dua do you know how many verses in
the Quran against making Dua to other
than Allah how many
verses 500
verses 500 verses like
this
how many verses are like are like that
500 verses of not making Dua to anyone
other than Allah do you know why because
the scholars say that Dua is the best
of because wasallam
said Dua is the heart and soul of I
heart and soul of worship and the thing
that is common between all religions is
Dua it's not Salah or zakat it's Dua
Christians make Dua to Allah to their
gods
Jews make Dua even Hindus make Dua so
the common that is common to all
religions is
Dua so the greatest act to is Dua Dua is
more stronger than suud as well as the
scholars say how well because in you're
making but in Dua you make and and how
is
that oh Allah you my Lord this
is it is only you that we worship and it
is only that you that we seek help and
your raising of of your of your hands to
Allah this
is this is the names of Allah this
is so can you see how you're joining all
the elements of in Dua can you see that
in the same way you can make shik in all
of these things and this is why shik in
Dua is a worst of
shik so my brothers and sisters in Islam
connect and come back to Allah with Dua
this is the month of Dua this is the
month in which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
will not reject our Dua one Dua every
single day what Dua have you made for
today and have you been Hasty in your
Dua or are you truly making Dua for
Allah subhana tala as you should like
the 2-year-old child beg Allah Allah
will not say no to you beg Allah Allah
will not say no to you how many Hadith
do we have where the Prophet wasallam
would say that in an authentic Hadith in
Muslim the prophet
said and there was a quote in in in sah
Muslim about a boy who was a shepherd
and and he was a young boy and he was a
shepherd and his sheep were dying
because it was very dry so he raised up
his hands the prophet said this boy
raised up his hands and he made Dua to
Allah and he said oh Allah I'm not going
to put my hands down until you answer my
Dua oh Allah my sheep are dying oh Allah
only you can save them oh Allah give us
rain and so it started to
rain it started to rain until until he
gave his until Allah answered his Dua
why why could we not also do the
same my friends if you truly believe
Allah exists if we truly believe we work
for Allah then you have a direct
connection with Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala
and if you make Dua to Allah Allah
remembers you to himself if you remember
Allah Allah remembers you to
himself he says if there was only one
verse that was revealed that could show
you the greatness of Dua then this verse
would be enough which Dua which verse is
that
remember me I will remember you yesam
how
powerful Allah will remember you despite
all of the Affairs of the universe that
he is looking
after Allah will mention you to a
gathering far better than the Gathering
you're mentioning Allah subhana wa tala
in so my brothers and sisters in Islam
now was the time to connect with Allah a
time in which by Allah you are all
focused on your de
now is the time to come back to Allah
ask Allah for J he will give it to you
ask Allah for good in this and the Allah
will give it to you ask
Allah from your heart not your tongues
ask Allah you know many people they try
to be very poetic in their
Dua you know they try to be really
poetic says in m to be poetic in in your
Dua
intentionally is Mak is
disliked why is that because you're
concentrating more on the words rather
than on connecting with Allah in your
heart does that make
sense and that's the mushk with people
who just do Dua without it coming from
the heart and you can tell when it comes
from the heart when a person can't find
the
words when you can't find the words
that's when it's coming from your the
deepest part of your soul so ask Allah
in a way that by Allah only Allah knows
what's in your
heart so my brothers and sisters Islam
in
conclusion I ask Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala to remind us of his
punishment at the same time to remind us
of his beautiful Justice and his
mercy and I ask everyone to remember one
name of Allah subhana wa tala do you
know which name it
is it's the name called Al wadud
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
alwad and what is the meaning of
alwad alwad is the loving
God Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala loves his
his
creation alwad is a loving God Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala loves his
Creation The Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam once saw a a woman running
looking after her child where is the
child where is the child where is he
where is he where is he suddenly finds
the child and hugs the child kisses the
child like like he's found this this
baby that has been lost for so long
quickly gives the child something to
drink from her breast and caresses the
child like this can you imagine that
mother and the prophet
said verily Allah is more merciful more
loving to his slave than this mother to
her to her child
yeah Allah is waiting for us to come to
him Allah is waiting for us to come to
him come back to Allah subhah wa ta'ala
and don't ever be afraid of anything
don't ever be Shackled by anything
remember if you work for Allah Allah
gives the money not your not your
business your business is just a means
for it too so give and don't
care give and don't care work for Allah
and don't care money will come you are
an intelligent human being money will
come whichever way you you do it wealth
will come just work for the cause of
Allah subhah Wa ta'ala
wasallam Would Tell B who had very
little
money oh
give and do not be worry that the one
who possesses the throne will ever
withhold from you so do not ever be
worry my friends that if you work for
the cause of Allah then ultimately by
Allah that he will ever withhold from
you Allah is a possessor of the throne
if we all got together and asked Allah
for everything in this world it would
not take away from the kingdom of Allah
not even anything at all as like that
needle dropped into the ocean how much
does it take out that's it so my friends
ask and Allah will give ask and Allah
will connect with you ask and Allah will
save you from the fire and if this is
your last Ramadan
the best thing you can do is to connect
with Allah become his friend by
constantly remembering him constantly
coming back to him constantly thinking
about him constantly keeping your tongue
moist with Allah and his remembrance and
Dua that say oh Allah oh Allah have a
conversation with Allah and may this be
your greatest deed upon which you pass
away Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Knows
Best