Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

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  • We came to give, not to take.
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  • What did I get out of it

    What did I get out of it
    Nov 9 2024
    --- *This transcript was automatically generated by AI and may contain errors. * --- My brothers and sisters, how many of you like to have fun? Everybody ready? What is fun? Can you define what is fun? Good time? Okay, what else? So give me some examples. Example of fun or fun activity. Basketball. Basketball. Horse riding. Horse riding. Swimming. How many of you actually do swimming and horse riding? I don't think everybody does. What you do, I'm talking about. Swimming you do, okay. Okay. Water. Okay. Soccer. Okay. Anything else? Gym. Gym. Okay. YouTube. Now you're getting some truthful answers. TikTok, right? I thought we got a few people who never see YouTube, never see TikTok. When you say basketball and soccer, are you professional basketball players? Do you intend to be one? No. Point I'm making is very simple. My point is all of us have a defined number of hours, minutes and seconds on this earth. Everyone, right? We don't know the exact number. How many I have I don't know. But I know I have. So many breaths. And when I take my last breath, whether it's coming in or going out, that's it. So in this time, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala does not subtract all the time that goes into something which is not really getting me any real benefit. Right? So the things that you described, for example, tell me what is the real benefit of watching basketball for somebody who is not a professional basketball player? Enjoyment. Enjoyment. So what is enjoyment? To be happy. Right? Do you think Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam enjoyed life? Do you think he had fun? Do you think the sahaba had fun? They enjoyed life? So how can they enjoy life when they are standing in sala the whole night? Here we have a situation where the qari in Ramadan, I'm not exaggerating, I am witness to this, you all. When the sheikh, no matter how beautiful the qaraat, if the sala is three minutes more, four minutes more, five minutes more, we complain. Sheikh, please tell him to recite longer. Please tell him to recite faster. That's why I give up. I go and sit in that corner. I said, don't talk to me. Yes or no? Am I exaggerating? Am I lying? So how was Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam getting fun out of this thing? Strange, no? Same qaraat. Did the qaraat change? What Sheikh Abdullah is reciting, is it different from what came to us? Same thing. So how come he got fun out of this? How come the sahaba got fun out of this? They would stand behind the wisa sallam. There is a beautiful hadith where Abdullah was called and then the sahib was called. They came and they decided one day to pray behind the wisa sallam. So they came and stood and he, in that sala, in the whole of that sala, he recited only one ayah. Which ayah is that? Anybody remember that hadith? Which ayah did he recite? Only one ayah. He repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated. So the next day, between them they said, we should ask. He said, no, you ask, you ask, you ask. So then the sahib said to him, Abdullah was very much, he loves you more than himself, so you ask him. So he asked him, he said, ya Rasulullah, we came and prayed behind you and you recited only one ayah. Why did you recite that? Rasulullah said, I was making dua for my ummah. This was my dua for my ummah. The ayah itself, as you know, is isali salam. This is what isali salam means to Allah. Jalla jalalu wa thadey ajmaat. If you want to punish them, they are your slaves. But if you want to forgive them, innaka anthal azeez ul hake. You are the all powerful and you are the all knowledgeable and the all wise. And Rasulullah said, I was reciting it as my dua for my ummah. The point I want to make for you and me is that we live in a world where we have made society, we have made life itself so hard and harsh and toxic that we need time out to go and do something else to forget this life, to detoxify ourselves. People say work life balance. I've always found these statements to be,
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    17 mins
  • See the reality

    See the reality
    Nov 8 2024
    https://youtu.be/bK-3MVoSKi0 ---*This transcript was automatically generated by AI and may contain errors. *--- Bismillah, Wa Alhamdulillah, Wasalatu wasalamu Alaa Sharifil Anbiyaa Muhammadun Rasulullahi Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Alaa Alihi Wa Sahbihi Wa Sallam, Tasleeman Kaseeran Kaseeraa My brothers and sisters, look at the view here. Look at my view of Metinu Park in this forest. Look at the colors of the leaves and the truth of the trees. Look at the trees. Look at how they were dead, but inside them there is life. Life from Allah Almighty. Look at this beautiful scene in Metinu Park. You have seen this park and you have seen these scenes in the different videos that I keep posting of this place in different seasons. You would have seen this place completely green, where you can't even look into the forest for a few feet. But now it's open because of fall, coming into winter. See the different colors of the leaves, how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala causes these leaves to have different colors. We know the scientific explanations for all of these things, but the key thing is not to get stuck in the scientific explanation, or neither to use that to, within quotes, prove the authenticity and the veracity of the color of Allah, but to use that scientific explanation to help us to understand the Kitab of Allah and to help us to understand what we are seeing. So the question is not that how did these sumac leaves become this color. We know that they are genetically programmed to do that, but the question is, we need to look at our language. So instead of saying they are genetically programmed, we should say Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala programmed them to look like this. Because that is the actual truth. When you say they are genetically programmed, somebody did the programming, right? They didn't program themselves. The plant didn't decide that I'm going to be pink, and the other one didn't decide it's going to be yellow. Somebody did that decision making for them, and that decider was Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala chaliji lagu. And that is something that we need to keep in our mind constantly and constantly keep reminding ourselves. And then we have the evergreens, as you can see here, the pines, the coniferous trees, fuzz, casuarinas. We don't have casuarinas here, but I'm just saying these are all those trees which retain their leaf color. They retain their leaves. They don't lose their leaves and they don't change color either. They remain the way they are throughout the year. Which to me is a big lesson that external circumstances do not decide how I'm going to behave. External circumstances do not decide what I will do with my life. Winter can come, summer can come, spring can come, fall can come. Spring can come, fall can come. But if I choose to remain constant with my identity, then none of those things will change me or affect me. They will affect others. Those who were next to me are not green anymore, but I remain green. Because that is my reality, that is my identity which I will not lose just because somebody else has lost their identity. Another lesson is if you look at the praise that is given, the popularity that is there, nobody says go look at the green trees. Nobody says go look at the fall colors. Look at the colors of fall. I want to interpret that linguistically. Fall is to fall. Fall is to collapse. Fall is to lose. Fall is to fall. Fall is to collapse. Fall is to lose. Fall in a fortune. Fall in prestige. Fall in virtue. All of these are fall. And people are saying go look at the color of the fall. Meaning look at the many ways in which fall comes. To some it comes in one way, to some others it comes in another way. Yes, it is very pretty. We don't doubt, we don't deny that. Sin always looks very enjoyable, right? It seems to be very enjoyable. And it is enjoyable. If it wasn't enjoyable there would be no need to resist temptation. Temptation is temptation because it is so nice and it's so easy to fall int...
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    19 mins
  • Goals of learning – #3

    Goals of learning – #3
    Nov 7 2024
    ---*This transcript was automatically generated by AI and may contain errors. *--- In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. All praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honorable prophets and the righteous. Muhammad Rasulullah, peace be upon him, peace be upon him, and upon his family and his family. Brothers and sisters, we are looking at action points. We are looking at what is it that we do and what is the value of that. I mentioned to you the importance of starting with the Quran, with memorizing the Quran, with understanding the meaning of the Quran and then going further into the details of the tafsir of the Quran, with the intention of applying it and living by it. Next step was to read and study the life of Rasulullah, peace be upon him, and also with the same intention, which is how can I apply that in my life. Third one is look at what skills do you have? What can you do? It doesn't matter what the skill is. As long as you are learning a skill and you are doing this continuously throughout your life. Believe me, the neurons in the brain, which is what gives us intelligence, the growth of which and the development of which and the preservation of which keeps you and me away from alzheimer's. These are dependent on the exercise for the neurons is in learning new things. And believe it or not, the more difficult the thing is to learn, the more the neurons are exercised. It is painful like all exercise, but it exercises the neurons and builds them. One of the most difficult things to do is to learn the Arabic language. But that's also one of the most beneficial things to do, both in terms of what it does for the neurons, as well as, and even more importantly, the fact that you are learning the language of the Quran and the language of Rasulullah. So therefore, that is one thing. So put a metric on it and say what skill, what language, what is it that I am learning? Number one. Number two, what was your investment in it? What are you investigating? Time, money, energy, whatever. What is my investment in it? And to motivate yourself, ask yourself what is the potential gain of this? When I'm learning this, what is the gain of this? I'm learning carpentry. What is the benefit of learning carpentry? I'm learning to be an electrician. What's the benefit of that? And so on. As I told you, the skill doesn't matter. No matter what the skill, learning any skill is beneficial. And the more difficult the skill is, the more the benefit of learning that skill. So make sure that you are learning some skill or the other the whole time, as much as possible. Some skill or the other the whole time. Very, very important for us to do that. And put a metric, as I keep saying all the time, unless we are measuring, we don't know what is happening. We don't know what is happening. Unless we measure, we don't know. So make sure that you measure that. Third thing is, or third thing or fourth thing, I forgot which number, but anyway, evaluate the value of whatever you are spending time on. Say, what did I get out of this that will benefit me? So some ways of thinking about that, what did I get out of this that I can sell? Or what is it? What did I get out of this? Which gives me a skill or knowledge that is marketable. In which way does it benefit me? Now, that is a very important thing to keep in mind, because all of these are ways in which you motivate yourself and say, Well, you know, I am getting something out of this. Now, the answer is, I didn't get anything like that, but I enjoyed myself. That did yourself that you just gave up that much of your life to someone else to get rich. If you did that deliberately because you love that person, no problem. But if not, forgive me for saying that you are a sucker. Forgive me for saying that you are a sucker. So all those who sit around and watch soccer matches, basketball matches, I wonder if you are not a professional soccer or basketba...
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    12 mins

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