Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

https://youtu.be/v2Wa6C1cdgM Auto-generated transcript: As-salāmu ʿalaykum wa rahmatullāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Muhammadu Rasulullahi sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Faham abadu. Brothers and sisters, my dear brother a...

https://youtu.be/UHamiG5ea7k Auto-generated transcript: Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafil abdiyaj wal mursaleen. Alhamdulillahi Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasliman kaseeran kaseera. Abna al-Badu. My brothers and sisters, Subhanallah, I never get tired of these beautiful views of Al-Masjid al-Nabi wa al-Sharif. Once again, I'm sitting very close to the Roda Mubarak. Just behind it, a few steps away. I am thinking of the Hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. The first Hadith in Bukhari, narrated by one of the Qatab-ul-Anhu, who said that Rasulullah sallallahu...

https://youtu.be/Inc0bp3k3PI Auto-generated transcript: Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alameen, wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafil biya'i wa al-mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi, wa sahbihi wa sallamu ala alayhi wa sallamu ala alayhi wa sallam. A person says, I am standing here at the window of my room in Hilton, in Medina. And as you can see, literally, a very short walk from here, maybe just over 100 meters. This is the Masjid al-Nabawiwaye Sharif. Today, as I'm standing here, I'm thinking to myself, many, if not all of us are literally obsessed...

https://youtu.be/WxfsmWqWVSY Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim, Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alameen, wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafil abya'i wal mursaleen, Muhammadun Rasulullah, insallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi, wa sahbihi salam, tasliman kathiran kathira, amman wa ba'du. My brothers and sisters, I'm sitting, standing here, you can see right opposite the Prophet Sharif. I'm thinking to myself, here I am, this is the Prophet Sharif, over to the right from here, and little bit behind is the Rauza Mubarak. And if I turn around completely, and I'm looking now in that direction, which is the opposite, and I'm back to...

https://youtu.be/P73wmJlRdiA Auto-generated transcript:And may such people have such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such He entering the, what is also called Jannat al-Bakir. But...

https://youtu.be/RHuqcOwaSFE Auto-generated transcript:As-salatu wa-s-salamu ala ayyashah, fila mihi wa-l-musa'il, muhammad wa-s-salamu ala ayyashah, wa-l-mahdi wa-s-salamu alayhi wa-l-mahdi wa-s-salamu taslimu, My brothers and sisters, I spoke to you about brotherhood yesterday. And as I am sitting here, as Masih Darwish Shariff, looking at this beautiful architecture, I cannot help but relate it to what I said, which is, see the effect of togetherness. See the arches, see the curves of the arches, see the curves of the pattern, see how the pattern relates one to the other, and creates this absolutely beautiful image, which would not be...

https://youtu.be/ZfEUYrA0rC8 Auto-generated transcript:As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillah. Ya Rabbi al-Alamin. Wa sallatu wa sallam ala ashra min al-fiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sallam. Tasbeeman kathiran kathiran. Ummabadum. My brothers and sisters, alhamdulillah. I am in Masjid al-Nabiyyat al-Sharif. As you can see, this classic architecture, all of us who have been here are familiar with it. I also know the architecture. May Allah bring you here as soon as you want to come here. InshaAllah. You know what strikes me? Two things that strike me here...

https://youtu.be/Ir_IfT4260g Auto-generated transcript: Bismillahirrahmanirrahim, Alhamdulillah, wa bilalameen, wa salatu wassalamu ala ashraf, bi zanbi wal mursaleen, Muhammadur Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi, wa sallamu wa sallam, tasliman kaseeran kaseera. Umma baadu, for those of you who can recognize this, you know where I am, I don't need to explain, that is the bottom of the green dome, the raudha of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa alaihi wa sallam, and I am in Masjid Nabiyyat-e-Sharif, Alhamdulillah, it's a beautiful, beautiful scene. May Allah bless all the people here. What you are seeing here is the sufrat...

Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. A'lamo alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. From my Baadu, my brothers and sisters, there was a tragic accident, I think yesterday, where a bus carrying a group of pilgrims on the Mecca-Madina Highway had an accident with a, had a collision with an oil tanker and caught fire and completely burnt. And in that fire, I think about forty plus pilgrims died. They were Shaheed. And many of them, if not all of them, were...

Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wassalatu wassalamu ala al-sharafi al-anbiya wal-mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbuhu sallam. Tasliman kaseeran kaseera. Wa min baadu. My brothers and sisters, I am here in Mecca. We completed our Umrah yesterday, alhamdulillah. And we have not been able to come for, I think, for the last eight years almost. So, it was very nice, very lovely to be here and to be able to complete the Umrah. Allah made it very easy, alhamdulillah. We completed the Umrah in a very short time, alhamdulillah. Although the crowds, a...

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alameen, wassalatu wassalamu ala al-sharafi al-anbiya wal-mursaleen. Muhammad Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sallam, tasliman kathiran kathiran. Firmabadu, my brothers and sisters. Alhamdulillah, bi-zinillahi ta'ala. My wife and I, we are going for Umrah just now. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to accept our Umrah, to make it easy and to fill it with khair and barakah and to accept our duas. Inshallah, we will make dua for all of you. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to accept all your duas ...

Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wa Salatu Wa Salamu Ala Ashrafil Anbiya wal Mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Alaihi Wasallam. Tasliman kathiran kathira. Fahamabadu. My brothers and sisters, I said there are two problems with this whole issue of acquiring knowledge and the desire to acquire knowledge. May Allah protect us from shaitan. Shaitan does not leave any stone unturned and he uses everything that we do and turns it into, turns something which is potentially beneficial into something which is potentially harmful. And he does it in two ways. One of course is to prevent...

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honorable prophets and messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions. Many thanks and blessings. From now on, my brothers and sisters, one of the... Alhamdulillah, we are living in times where there is a lot of interest in Islam. I have lots of young friends of mine, some students, some not students, but people who are who I...

Auto-generated transcript:Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Now, most of the time, this is not conscious. So, we just give people permission to come and occupy, to live rent-free in your mind, in your head. Don't do that. Don't do that. Your mind is a very precious, very precious, precious thing. The mind is like a fertile field. The mind is like a...

https://youtu.be/rWvlGzItHqY Auto-generated transcript:I'm back again in my favorite place in Hyderabad, KBR Park. And as I'm walking, I'm hearing the bulbul calls. All kinds of names it has, Indian nightingale, also they call it and so on. I don't know what it is. It's a bulbul. And whenever I think about these zoological names, and I can't remember one, I console myself and say, well, I don't know or I can't recall the name of this bird, but the bird doesn't know either. I don't mean that entirely facetiously. Of course, you know, feel free to...

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the Prophets and Messengers. Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions, is very, very peaceful. My brothers and sisters, yesterday one of our dear friends, Muhammad Ali Saab, whose children were all my students, prominent among them was his son, Hassan Zeeshan, who is currently studying, doing his Master's in Mechanical Engineering in UMass Lowell, Massachusetts. He...

Auto-generated transcript:My dear brothers and sisters, in the famous hadith of Abdullah ibn Awar r.a who reported from the Prophet s.a.w. The Prophet s.a.w. took hold of his shoulder and said, Be in the world as if you are a stranger or a traveler. Be in the world as if you are a stranger or a traveler. Among the teaching stories that we hear, the story of a man who came to the house of a wise man and he saw that the house had no furniture, absolutely nothing. The story is also told...

https://youtu.be/bmGtVp8Gpe0 Auto-generated transcript:As-salāmu ʿalaykum wa rahmatullāhi wa barakātuh. Wa ṣalātu wa ṣalāmu ʿalaykum wa rahmatullāhi wa barakātuh. I am walking in Shiran Palace, KBR Park. And as you can see, they have this road. So, they installed these concrete blocks in a completely undrown chain. And then when they finished that whole work, then it rained. Heavy rain and the whole road got converted into a drain. And then somebody says, oh, how can we, we need water for the, we need space for the water to run off. So, then...

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. Peace and blessings be upon the honour of the Prophet and the Messengers, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family, and upon all his family. And after that, brothers and sisters, this morning at the time of the Hajj, I got news that one of my very dear friends in America, his mother passed away, his mother passed away very suddenly. I called him, he said, 15 minutes. She...

Auto-generated transcript:We come to the last of the principles. He says reputation outlasts riches. John D Rockefeller, he gave away 500 million in charities. He built the University of Chicago and Rockefeller University. He treated his people well with respect. And he always says money disappears, reputation echoes through generations. And your legacy is not your bank account, it is the name, the reputation you build for yourself. I'm reminded of the Gucci family slogan, which says quality is remembered long after the price is for water. Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten. He also said that...

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the worlds, and the most gracious of all the messengers. Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, and peace and blessings be upon him and his family. And after that, principle number eight. John D. Rockefeller says, reinvest everything or lose everything. Reinvest everything or lose everything. His pending rule was never touch principle. Never touch the principle. Reinvest 90% of the profits, live on 10%. He says men fail, and this is...

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Master of the 100 and the Master of the 100. Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, are very much in harmony. From the principle of number seven, John D. Rockefeller says to his son, master negotiation with this framework. Number one, understand the environment. Number two, know your resources. Number three, find the opponent's weakness. ...

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds, and peace and blessings be upon the honor of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his master, peace and blessings be upon him, are very much in agreement. Now we come to the sixth point of Rockefeller's advice to his son, which was, he said, business is war, act accordingly. Now, Andrew Carnegie was his greatest competitor in the oil business. And when they...

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the Prophets and Messengers, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family, and peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family, and upon his many, many, many. What is next? Principle number five. Rockefeller says, excuses are mental illness. Excuses are mental illness. My quote on excuses, I say excuses don't change reality. Think about it like this. ...

Auto-generated transcript:We come to Rockefeller's letters and advice to his son, Principle 4. It's a very interesting one. He says, money is fire. Use it or get burnt. And the commentator says that Rockefeller never worshipped money. He compared it to fire. He said it can warm your home or burn it down. It can feed the hungry or destroy the greedy. He donated 500 million and secured his legacy. The interesting thing to understand, as far as money is concerned, is that we live in an environment where we are taught to define ourselves in terms of money, to actually...

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to God, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the messengers and messengers of God, Muhammad and the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family and all his companions. From the book of John D. Rockefeller's advice to his son, the nine points. We have seen the first two. First of all, first point was hardship is your greatest teacher. Number two was failure plus persistence equals breakthrough. Third one, he said, love...

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds, and peace and blessings be upon him, the most merciful, the most merciful. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and peace and blessings be upon him, and peace and blessings be upon him, and peace and blessings be upon him. My brothers and sisters, we are looking at the nine letters of advice that John D. Rockefeller wrote for his son. Absolutely brilliant pieces of advice, which I thought I...

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. Peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and his family. Peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and his family. My brothers and sisters, all praise is due to Allah. One of the beauties of Islam and of winners in life is that they are open to learning from everywhere. And that's...

Auto-generated transcript:Khilal Ramadan Rahim, Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alameen, Wasalatu Wasalamu Alayhi Sharifil Abiyyil Mursaleen, Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wa'ala Alihi Wasallam, Tasleeman Kaseeran Kaseera, Faman Badu. My brother and sister, it's very, very important to think about the purification of the heart, tasiyat al-nafs, for learning Islam. People come to me and say, I want to become a great speaker. And I say, that's absolutely the worst place to start. because before you become a great speaker, you have to become a great worker, like a person who does amal, who lives by Islam. This desire to speak and the...

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. Peace and blessings be upon him. Peace and blessings be upon him. Peace and blessings be upon him. Peace and blessings be upon him. If it's hot water, it's cold. No problem. You make wudu, you come to a masjid, alhamdulillah, the masjid is air conditioned or it is heated or whatnot. You're praying on nice carpets. No hardship. If you're feeling hungry...

Auto-generated transcript:As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. And achieving success and trying. And he said, well, even after trying, if you are not successful, what shall you do? So I said to him, I say to you, that after trying, not being successful is not possible. It is not an option. Because Allah SWT said, وَأَلْلَيْسَ لِلْإِنسَانِ إِلَّا مَسَعَ Allah SWT said, there is nothing for a human being, for a person, except that which he works for. Which means that if he works for it, he will get it. The option that he worked for it, he tried, but he failed, does not exist. Allah did not say that so...

https://youtu.be/bvg4kZ_h_Mc Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Salatu wassalamu ala ashrafil amin. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahibusallam. Tasliman kathiran kathira. We see that snake coming towards here. And right now he is very successfully pretending to be just a stick. This is in KBR Park. How interesting. So he might like to hide, but we don't let him hide. So Allah Ta'ala said, Sabaha lillahi. Maafis samaawati wa maafil abda. Allah said, Every single thing which is in the heavens and on the earth praises and sends up the praise...

Auto-generated transcript: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the Prophet and the Messengers. Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family, and peace and blessings be upon him and upon many, many. My brothers and sisters, may Allah bless our scholars. One of the scholars, he said, be thankful that Allah allowed you to stand at his door. Be thankful that Allah allowed you to stand at his door. Don't...

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. Peace and blessings be upon the honour of the Prophets and Messengers, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family. Peace and blessings be upon them. And after that, my brothers and sisters, it is very important after the first prayer to do the Masnoon adhkar of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family. All the adhkar, all the dhikr the Prophet...

Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahirrabbilalameen. Wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasliman kaseeran kaseera. Fahamna ba'du. My brothers and sisters, alhamdulillah, one of my friends asked me for some advice with regard to increasing khushu in salah. And subhanAllah, this is, I am no worry to give advice. My advice is given here in the context and in the way of reminding myself. Because khushu in salah is something that, I don't know about everybody, but certainly it's something that I sincerely believe that I need to. ...

Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, this is the third part of the three-part series on decision-making in the Islamic way. Here I want to share with you a decision-making tool. And that tool is called Keppner-Tragot decision-making analysis. Keppner-Tragot decision analysis. K-E-P-N-E-R hyphen T-R-E-G-O-E decision analysis. It's there on the net also. You can read it up. I teach this in my leadership programs. Now, what they advise, they teach us a very nice method. In any decision, one of the reasons why people have difficulty making decisions is because they are not clear about what they want. And...

Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, we are on the topic of decision making or decision analysis based on the Shura method. So let's see first of all, what is the Shura method? As we said, Shura is mutual consultation or decision making by consultation. Now, there is a method to do that. And the method is that the people who are all the stakeholders for that decision must be part of the Shura. Shura is the name given to the group which is going to sit together to make the decision. So all stakeholders should be part of the...

Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, my brother and dear friend from Durban, Al-Pahla Institute, Dr. Zafar Ahmad asked me a question and before I go further and tell you what his question is and answer the question inshallah let me submit you that I dearly welcome this and especially my request to those who listen to these Fajr Reminders khatiras regularly do send me your questions don't send me fiqh questions I will not answer them I'm not a mufti ask your local mufti for any advice on the from a fiqh perspective but ask me questions about application...

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. My dear brothers and sisters, people go through what is called a midlife crisis. And this happens for two reasons. One is that when you are young and you have your life goals, most of them are more or less straightforward and clear, which is to get a job, to get a good job, to get some career progress and so on. So people work for that. And they achieve various levels of success. But once they reach a particular level, they would have achieved most of...

Auto-generated transcript:Salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. It begins with Ya'i wa al-ladhina amanu. It's a command from Allah for the believers, men and women. So Allah is saying, Ya'i wa al-ladhina amanu, anfiqoo mimma razakhnakum. Spend from what we have given you. Anfiqoo mimma razakhnakum. Spend from what we have given you. Min qabli an ya'ti ya yawmul la bay'un fihi. Wala kullatun wala ya'ti. Wala shafa'a. Wal kafirunahu zalima. Before a day comes in which there will be la bay'un. No trade. No exchange. No buying and selling. La bay'un wala...