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for
ald today's
topic seems It's a popular
title sex drugs and rock and roll
actually the title is supposed to have a
small subtitle underneath
it or is there more to life sex drugs
and rock and roll or is there more to
life now what today's talk is
not about what it's not
about is me going
through the Islamic rulings on illicit
sexual
intercourse the
psychological the
sociological
problems and evils that such a thing
causes this talk is not about going
through the Islamic
ruling on drugs and drink and all forms
of
intoxication and why they are Haram and
all the
psychological physical and
sociological detrimental effects that
intoxication has upon the individual and
the society and the
family this talk is not
about the rulings from the Quran and the
Sunnah as to why music is Haram and what
are the detrimental effects on the
individual and the Soul concerning
music this talk is about something much
more fundamental than
that this
talk is about sex drugs and rock and
roll as a philosophy as an
ideology as a mentality as a way of
thinking and a way of living and an
attitude to
life because that's what it is when we
say sex and drugs and rock and roll it
is a
catchphrase a catchphrase for a
particular mentality a particular
viewpoint on
life that people have
and this is what we want to talk
about because this stands for an
attitude to life that
says there's no
Hellfire there's no
Paradise there's no day of
judgment there's no
God you have one
life so you might as well live it
you've got one short little
life and you're not going to have
another one when you're dead the worms
are going to eat you that's
it so you might as well enjoy
life have
fun and how are you going to have fun
sex drugs and rock and
roll This Is the ment mentality and the
ideology of the western society in which
we
live the Western society which is the
consumer
Society the cocacola
culture because we don't live in a
Christian country Australia is not a
Christian country England
Europe they are not Christian
countries these are countries that have
adopted a secularist
Outlook in other words as far as they
are concerned God and religion have
nothing to do with the way they run
their lives they run their governments
and they run their business religion is
your own personal thing do it if you
want to but don't get it involved in
business don't get it involved in
politics but it's more than that and
it's more far-reaching than
that because this Society preaches and
teaches a particular attitude to
life a particular
Outlook and that Outlook
is that the way to be successful in life
the way to get through life the way to
be happy is by surrounding
yourself with the material
possessions buy this have this drink
this take
that have this
car take this
holiday and if you surround yourself
with enough of these things you will
reach happiness
and so you see we are bombarded 24 hours
a day
365 days a year with these images this
propaganda this brainwashing that takes
place have this buy this drink
this and look at the
adverse look at the
advertisements and you will see
the message that they are
conveying we used to have an advert in
England it was an
advertisement for bakadi for those
innocent individuals who don't know what
badi is it's a type of alcoholic drink
called it's a brand
name and the advert for badii this is
about 5 years ago used was a they had
one of these big posters huge ones by
the size of the stage
and on the poster was a blue
sky blue Seas White Sands palm trees
hanging down two bikini clad girls
walking down the beach and the caption
read a rainy Sunday night in pekam if
you're drinking
badi a rainy Sunday night in pekam if
you're drinking badii
a rainy night which is the worst type of
weather the worst type of weather is the
night when it is
rainy certainly it is in England anyway
Sunday is the worst day of the week
because Monday you have to go back to
work back to the 9 to 5 back to the
Grind the weekend is
finished and it's Sunday
night and worst of all you're in pekam
and pekam it's a place in London it is a
really nasty place in London a really
Grim horrible so I used to live there
actually and I tell you they couldn't
have chosen a better place to
name you know it's one of those places
if you live there it makes you wish you
you were immigrated to
Australia
right it's that bad
Australia is a very nice place so a
rainy Sunday night in pekam but if
you're drinking bakadi what will be like
everything will be fine it'll be like
you're in Paradise cuz that's what the
picture says
Paradise so you drink this drink and
you'll be
happy the Coca-Cola culture they call
it you see the adverts for
Coca-Cola you see
them there they are drinking nice cool
ice cool Coke who who this beautiful new
bile
woman blond hair perfect features
perfect shaped body the similarly a man
Rippling muscles
his
sixpack his arms Rippling Brown tanned
and the ice cool Coke and you're going
who I want some of
that it's not the Coca-Cola you
want because I mean what's Coca-Cola
it's sugar and caramel and caffeine
right it's the image that's in front of
you that Beau beautiful woman that happy
smiling people drinking the nice cool
ice cool Coke and Coke is
It Coke is
life but what's the reality what's the
reality the reality is of course if you
drink Coke you get
fat you don't look young and beautiful
it doesn't give you a six-pack it gives
you an enormous belly
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but
but it's not selling you a product it's
selling you a lifestyle it's selling you
a mentality what are it telling you
drink this and you'll be like that have
this and you'll be like that drink B
you'll be in Paradise drink our drink
you'll be so happy buy our car and along
with it you know you see the beautiful
woman the perfect family whatever may
be this is how they sell their products
but they're not only selling products
they're selling a philosophy of Life
they are selling a
mentality that is these material things
they're telling you that is going to
make you successful and going to make
you
happy and just like
Coca-Cola it's
alive it's alive
wealth does not equal
happiness wealth does not equal
success these material things do not
necessarily in any way make you
happy in fact the whole of this is a an
illusion it's a religion in
fact it's a
religion like any other
religion it has its priests it has its
Gods is it has its acts of worship and
devotion that you give to these
gods they have their prophets or
prophetesses it has its
theologians we have the theory of
evolution
the theory of evolution is one of the
great
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theological justifications for the
materialistic Society because basically
the theory of evolution is telling you
what what's it telling
us that basically we came from
monkeys all right or to be more accurate
we and monkeys share our ancestry from a
common
primate but
basically we came from the monkeys right
there's no God the created us you don't
need a God we just
evolved bit by bit stage by stage so
basically what are we we are basically
according to this Theory Advanced
monkeys really we're animals basically
we're animals slightly Advanced but
we're animals if they keep on telling us
they never TI we spend we share 98% of
our jeans with gorillas or if you AR 99%
of good
Che if you're President Clinton
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100% so that's what they tell us we are
basically Advanced monkeys right and how
do you make the monkey happy how do you
make a monkey a happy monkey give the
man monkey a woman
monkey right give him some
bananas and keep him safe from
predators and basically this constitutes
the be all and end all of what is
important in the life of a
monkey so similarly the Western Society
the consumer Society the materialistic
society that believes that fundamentally
man man is a material
being that we have evolved from this
animal and we are basically Advanced
animals slightly more complex but
basically the same so what makes a happy
monkey should make a happy human
being give the human being food give the
human being shelter make sure the human
being has some means of satisfying their
sexual
needs you know and if you can't find a
member of the opposite sex to do it
don't worry we'll legalize it now you
can do it with someone of your own
sex
okay and don't worry if the few depraved
individuals who still haven't found some
means to satisfy themselves soon they
would invent a computer with which you
can have
sex it's true virtual sex you're going
to be able to put on a
bodysuit and you're going to be able to
get married to some computer some bites
in a computer
and the bodysuit is going to have
pressure points to stimulate you
appropriately just for those people who
haven't reached happiness
yet so that's what they tell us because
every time you see now look at the
people today down in the docks in
Melbourne fighting for what huh look at
them ready to die ready to
fight joining arms the police are coming
there's Bloodshed they tell us today is
going to happen happen for what for
money these people are ready to lay down
their lives perhaps for a few dollars
more literally a few dollars more
because that to them is the source of
happiness in
life when your government comes to be
elected into Power what do they say
we're going to make the economy better
we're going to make you richer President
Clinton he got elected on what one
phrase It's the economy
stupid it's the economy the economy the
economy because that to them is what
equals happiness wealth equals
happiness they say women leave the home
leave being chained to the sink a slave
to your husband and your children go and
work work because why if we have more
people working we have more economic
output if we have more economic output
we have a richer Society therefore women
will be money have more money women will
have more money will all be more
happy that's what they say that's their
idea because to them money equals
happiness it's the equation that is
their simple
message so they always talk about
this I remember reading in The Economist
magazine famous
magazine they said the Western Society
more than any other Society in the
history of humanity has succeeded in
satisfying the material needs of
man well you know when I read that you
know I thought okay first of all it's
not true actually but secondly so
what so what because let's look at the
reality now the reality like the
Coca-Cola
advert is quite different different from
the
picture wealth does not equal happiness
at
all in fact the consumer
Society relies upon people being
miserable it needs people to be
miserable it can't stand that people
should actually be in reality content
and
happy because miserable people consume
it is miserable people who need to spend
their miserable
lives watching the
Titanic watching neighbors and home and
away I'm
serious miserable people need to fill
their miserable lives with hours and
hours of
Music fantasy entertainment fashion
intoxication why why do people spend so
much time and so much money and so much
effort in trying to escape from
reality to escape from
reality and that's what it
is Hollywood is in the business of
dreams
dreams I don't know I haven't seen that
film Titanic so I can't speak about it
but there's a film my S because everyone
was raving about I thought I had to when
someone told me what it was about I
thought I have to see
this it sounded so
stupid I said I had to see it and this
was this film Independence
Day all
right you know there were the be oh it
was fantastic you should have seen the
White House blow
up so this film you talk about escapism
and
fantasy all
right look at this these
aliens travel all the way across the
universe in this these massive massive
spaceships I mean they so big no there's
one big Mothership and from the Mother
Ship Comes The Little Ships and The
Little Ships is nearly as big as a city
and they come to destroy the
Earth but don't worry it's the 4th of
July it's the 4th of July and America
you
know has got a president who just
happened to be an ex-pilot in the Gulf
War he's well
trained
right so what happens is in this amazing
film is a he has to be Jewish right a
Jewish young boy right decides that the
way to get rid of these aliens is by
planting a computer virus upon their
spaceship so he gets his floppy disc on
which he written his computer virus
right flies up in a captured alien
spaceship which just happens to have a
second world war joystick for flying
they didn't hear these aliens haven't
heard a fly by wire right okay they have
a just happened that's very nice they
fly up there okay and they plant this
computer virus on the alien spaceship
fantastic isn't it these aliens travel
all the way across the universe can you
imagine the technology they must have
needed to amass for all of that yet in
spite of all of this these aliens didn't
have a virus checker aboard their
computer
system but don't worry it's the 4th of
July America's going to save the
day you know there used to be when I
used to go down to the Speaker's Corner
well I still do there was this little
guy
hecka he called the hecka they just come
to make Nuance but I they said something
very funny
once you said America didn't need to win
Viet he didn't need they didn't win need
to win the war in Vietnam he said they
want it in the
movies they wanton it in the movies you
know
Rambo and all the rest of it it it's but
what is it it's Fant what sort of
miserable person sits down watches that
type of stuff and actually enjoy is
it
why why the people spend that they go
and get drunk and you know what I don't
know if any of you have a university you
don't have to be at University this is
the idea of these guys having a good
time they come home 3:00 in the morning
they've come back from a night of
drinking they are violently sick and
they fall asleep you know in their own
sick they wake up the next
morning you know re I had a really good
time last night however you say it here
right whatever we saying in England we
had w we had a really good time last
night a it oh
yeah and you say to them really what did
you do I don't
remember that's why I had such a good
time
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he had a good time how did he know he
had good cuz he can't remember what he
did and look you know when you take
drugs what happens I got
stoned I was completely
wasted I was Zed I was out of it
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man I was floating on cloud n
but look at these words Stone wasted out
of
it it is describing a state of self
Annihilation that's what it is when you
have reached a state when you have
forgotten
yourself when you have removed yourself
from
yourself is this a description of
happiness is this a description of
people who are happy
no this is not a description of people
who are happy this is a description of
people who are desperately running away
from reality and the only time they can
seem to get a moment of relief is when
they escape into this world of fantasy
take away their fantasy take away their
music take away their films take away
their
drink and then you will see how really
happy they are
similarly I remember watching a
documentary about
rain I don't know if he had these things
in Australia but in England it was all a
raave to have a rave right these guys
would like meet up in the middle of the
countryside and then they would just
masch their thousands of them and they
would have music going all night so one
of these things that they would this guy
was at 7:00 in the
morning 7:00 in the morning and the guys
just still boom boom boom boom like that
little dancing you know
and this guy was standing there covered
in sweat soak through people
died they people
died and this guy was sucked and sweat
there he was and they asked him why you
do this why why did you come here he
said you know I come here I have spent I
I'm working all week I come here and
then I dance and I dance and I dance and
I dance and I keep on dancing until I
forget myself
I forget myself and I become
lost and he again he's describing the
state of almost self
Annihilation and this is what it's about
fantasy and escapism so you have to
understand that the consumer Society the
society whose people at the top of this
Society the ruling
Elite they are the ones who produce the
magazines the Fashions the
movies the
alcohol all these things that you
consume consistently and consistently
they are the ones they don't want you to
be happy they don't want you to be they
need you to be miserable because
miserable people consume miserable
people need to fill their miserable
lives with all of these things to try
and make their misery a little bit
better so in reality
it is a society that actually needs
people to be
miserable it needs them to be
miserable and it knows that the people
at the top they know
that and that is
why
religion religion in general but not
religion only in general but most
specifically Islam
is the greatest enemy to this false
lying and devious philosophy the
philosophy of the consumer Society of
the sex drugs and rock and roll
culture Islam is the greatest
enemy because Islam gives
contentment people who are content do
not
consume someone who is content okay so
my workman is 25 years old but it still
plays the
Quran it still records the lectures I go
to what do I need a more fancy one
for someone is content they're not
always looking for the latest gadget the
latest this the latest
that because they know these people that
happiness is not by surrounding yourself
with material things because the reality
is as much as you have you want more and
you never get
satisfied so this consumer Society is a
proof against itself it is a proof
against itself look and see with your
eyes look at these people who are the
idols and they even give them the name
Idols Rock Idol sex goddess they give
them a
name as if they are deities and these
are the ones they put up in front of you
as to say look this is what you want to
achieve the Stars they call them the
stars because what they're way up there
in the
heavens the Stars Reach for the Stars
they tell
you
huh they they've got everything they're
famous they're beautiful they're
rich they've got it
all but then let's look at them the
reality of these Stars these
Idols a string of them one after the
other and it's not a new thing not only
what's his name KK Cobain is that his
name the other one from Total excess or
in excess whatever it was I can't
remember his name he died here in
Australia killed okay Hutchins whatever
his name is I mean who cares
right okay the guy hung himself right
but for you know not only them let's go
back let's go back to the the Supreme
sex goddess Marilyn
Monroe huh
beautiful Rich
famous she had it all didn't she so how
did she
die
huh she killed herself she committed
suicide so if this is supposed to be the
answer to life the purpose of life the
reason of existence that surrounding
yourself with these things is the source
of Happiness where when we look at these
people who have it all we seem to find
the
opposite you look at the list of
millionaires Alexandro nasis Howard
Hughes Rockefeller the gy family read
the biographies of these people I don't
think any one of you would want all
their millions and have the life that
they had
Elvis Presley the king of rock and roll
the king handsome Rich famous woried and
adored by
people look at him 40 years old I
remember I saided I cried the day he
died Elvis Presley the king of rock and
roll 40 years
old he died from
what pharmaceutical drugs the guy
couldn't get up in the morning but he
had to take pills he couldn't go to
sleep at night he had to take pills
pills to get up pills to go to sleep
pills to make him feel good pills to
make him feel bad the guy was a drug
addict he died 40 years
old does that sound like a happy person
to
you does that sound like success to you
all of those things what it it do for
him and then you have Queen
what's that guy Freddy
Mercury Freddy Mercury suddenly
disappeared for 2 years to find out the
guy had AIDS he retreated to his mansion
and he died you know what his dying
words were his dying words Freddy
Mercury he said my friends were my
friends only because of my money I did
nothing with my life and when I die
people will forget
me and it's true absolutely true
in 20 years time they'll go Freddy
who Freddy
who is that success is that
happiness so these people this Society
is a proof against
itself it needs people in reality to be
miserable in order to
exist what could be more
false what could be more
astray than the Consumer Society this
mentality and philosophy sex drugs and
rock and roll that's the purpose of life
no what is the purpose of
life this is the question what is the
purpose of life why are we
here it's
clear that this mentality of materialism
and that we are just material beings is
false it is
false because the reality is that people
are ready to deprive
themsel of food of
shelter of the companionship or sexual
gratification they will deny themsel all
of these things these so-called things
that are fundamental to the human nature
because we're basically animals remember
but people are ready to forgo forego all
of that in order to fulfill their
fantasies to take their drugs to
drink so on and so forth they're
ready what does that
say it tells anybody who is observant
there is more to the human being than
the material that there is another side
to the human being something that needs
to be satisfied something that needs to
be fulfilled that is an internal need
this desire for happiness peace and
Tranquility is as important if not more
important than the physical needs yet
the consumer society as much as it
claims to be able to satisfy those needs
it clearly cannot do
it the more you have the more you want
you never seem to get satisfied
so what is the purpose of life why are
we here for what reason do we
exist let's think about that for a
moment do we have a
purpose think about
it if I was to ask one of you I can't
see anybody so this is my movie where I
pick someone out in the audience and you
know make them feel really
embarrassed it's just I got this black
space in front of me you know but anyway
but if I was to ask one of you who was
wearing glasses what are your glasses
for say to help me see your shoes to
protect my
feet your
clothes
right I don't know
what's could someone tell me the joke
there someone behind you
here in fact if I took every single
constituent part of your body your eyes
your hair your nose your mouth your hand
hands your feet your
legs everyone could tell me what is the
purpose of this part of my
body similarly if we went beyond that we
said the Sun the moon the
stars every one of them they have an
identifiable purpose even the humble
earthworm has a very important purpose
and helping to
therefore we want to ask this question
what is your purpose for what reason do
you
exist is it possible that every single
constituent part of your body has a
purpose and has a function but you the
totality has no purpose and no
function you carry in your pocket some
keys a piece of metal it has a purpose
and you the carrier of the keys has no
purpose why are we here for what reason
do we
exist this is the
question and it is the failure to
understand the
reality to understand the answer to this
question that is the emptiness in the
human being that needs to be filled
how can you be happy if you don't even
know the reason of your
existence how can you be fulfilled how
can you truly be at peace with
yourself surely with our minds our
intelligence all our capabilities is
this for nothing just to what eat drink
have sex listen to music watch
Independence
Day for this we is this the
reason no
surely surely there is another
reason and this is where the religion of
Islam brings the
answer
because if we have this question and we
all have this question
and sometimes it takes something bad to
happen in life for people to start
asking themselves this question because
a lot of people might say when you ask
them what is the purpose of
life they don't give you the answer what
is the purpose of life as in what is the
reason of the existence of the human
being they will say no they will think
of something which they've decided they
want to do with their life like they
want to become a
doctor right or you know the purpose of
my life is my girlfriend or my boyfriend
or I don't know to see Michael Jackson
in concert or whatever or watch
Independence
Day so that might be the purpose of your
life you think but it's the purpose in
your life
until your girlfriend leaves you your
girlfriend leaves you then you start
putting your head in your hands what's
it all
for you want to become a doctor you fail
your degree
why why what's it all for you suddenly
realize that that thing that you made
the purpose of your life it fell away
and you realized well that wasn't the
purpose of life after all that was just
some objective you had and some goal you
wanted to reach but no we want to ask
something more fundamental why do we
exist and how can we ever reach
certainty how can we ever reach definite
absolute certainty about this question
the only way is in
fact is when the one who created us and
the one who brought us into
existence tells us and informs us of the
reason of why he created us and that is
the reason and one of the reasons why
Allah he revealed the Creator the one
who created us who knows us better than
we know ourselves he revealed the
Quran to inform us of the reason for
which he created us and then how to
fulfill that created
purpose so the Quran tells
us the Quran which is from God from
Allah from the creator of all
things the Creator informs us that he
brought us into existence
and he did not create us for any other
reason
except to make
I of
him what is
I sometimes you'll find the word I
translated as worship this is a very
unfortunate translation and we don't
have an adequate word really in the
English language because when you say
Worship in English you think of you know
people think of going to the church once
a week right or perhaps not even that
perhaps they think of Christmas you know
that's it you know going on your knees
once in a while right maybe giving a bit
of Charity to the I don't know lost
Orphans of you know kakka or something I
don't know right that's worship to them
you think what life that's that's the
purpose of life to do
that is that it but this is a miss this
is not the idea
the Quran when the Quran talks about I
worship it is something much more
comprehensive much more
comprehensive and the word I or I in
Islam or Worship in Islam can be defined
as
this it is
everything which the
Creator loves and approves of it is
everything which the Creator loves and
approves of whether it is the actions of
the
heart such as love fear hope trust
reverence
or
Reliance these are some of the actions
of the
heart or the actions of the
limbs what you do with your
body so the purpose
of life the reason for our
existence is to make all of the actions
of our hearts and the actions of our
limbs actions that are those which are
actions that the Creator Allah
loves and approves
of and the only way we can know and we
can reach knowledge and certainty of
those action
beliefs
attitudes which the Creator Allah loves
and approves of the only way we can know
that is through his Revelation through
what he revealed the guidance he sent
down and this is the great Bounty and
mercy of Allah that he did not leave us
to guess he didn't he did not leave us
to wonder blindly through life
speculating but he gave us a
revelation and with this Revelation he
gave clear signs and clear proofs so
that anyone could know with certainty
that this Quran is from
him and that he guided us to all the
paths and all the ways of his pleasure
and he warned us away from all the paths
and all the ways to his dis
pleasure so that the reality of the
condition of the human being the reality
of the condition of the human being is
that no heart can find
rest no human being can find true peace
and true Tranquility
except in pure and sincere
submission to the will of Allah subhana
to his will to his laws to his
decrees and we have to understand
something very
important every human being is a
slave every human being is a slave we
are all slaves to one thing or another
thing all of us without exception
some people are slaves to Fashion some
are slaves to their work some to their
business some to their
nationality some and many are slaves to
many different Masters at the same time
many different things they are enslaved
to them believing that these things are
the source of their success and their
happiness so they follow them they do
the bidding of these things
so you see girls today for example they
think and it goes back to what we
started with they think that look I want
to be like that supermel I want to be
like El mfon M Campbell whatever it is I
want to look like her I want to be like
her because look everybody admires her
everybody thinks she's
beautiful so if I look like her then
people would admire me people would
think I'm beautiful and I will be
successful I will be happy so they're
ready to kill
themselves they do they do kill
themselves anorexia
Bia they make themselves sick they
starve themselves to death because they
want to look like this image of beauty
that has been put in front of
them and they make sure that they buy
the right clothes from the right
shots because they want to reach that
state that's what they think and is that
not
slavery is that not being
enslaved and this is the case with
everybody everybody is a slave to
something most people are a slave to
many
things but all of these Masters are FSE
Masters they will not treat their
servants
properly in fact they abandon them and
let them down they're not guided they
are really Illusions
themselves so who is better who is
better
off whose condition is a better
condition the one who is a slave to many
Masters and not only is this one a slave
to many different Masters but also each
one of these Masters is calling that
slave in a different direction One says
come here the other says no no here the
other says no there so you're constantly
torn who's better this person or the one
who is a slave to one master and
moreover this master is
wise knowing just and kind this is the
similitude this is the
example of those people who are slaves
to the world and the things of the world
world this is the example of the people
who are enslaved to the material
world they are like the one who is a
slave to many
Masters and each one calls them in a
different direction and the similitude
of the True Believer is the one who is
the slave to one Master One Lord and
moreover this Lord is rightly guided and
guides rightly with knowledge and and
wisdom and
compassion who knows us better than our
own selves except the one who created us
who knows us better than our own
selves the one who created us it is
Allah so the hearts can never find rest
you will never find peace you will never
find Tranquility you will never find
true happiness until you submit
yourself to the purpose for which you
have been
created everything else everything
else is merely you running away from
your nature you are running away from
your own nature your nature is to
worship Allah your nature is to submit
to him your nature is to be a slave to
him that is the nature of every single
human being so how can you find
happiness in anything except that and
this this brothers and sisters may Allah
have mercy on you and guide you upon
Allah's straight path this is one of the
greatest meanings
of that there is nothing worthy of
worship except
Allah that all slavery is full slavery
all worship and submission is false
except to
Allah and that you you will never find
true peace and true happiness and true
contentment in life except through
submitting to Allah and that is why
Allah says in the Quran the meaning of
which is verily certainly it is in the
remembrance of Allah that the hearts
find rest it is in Remembering
Allah obeying
him doing that which he has commanded it
in this and in reality in this alone
that you will find the true success the
true success of this life and the true
success of the life to come and may
Allah's peace and blessings be upon his
last and final messenger
Muhammad who guided us through his
example how to seek the pleasure of
Allah and how to be the perfect
worshipper of Allah and how to find the
true peace the true success and the true
happiness