Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wasalatu wassalamu ala ash-shaytani anbiya wal-munsaleen. Muhammad Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi salam. Tasliman kathiran kathiran. From now on, my brothers and sisters. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said in Surah Al-Hujurat. A'udhu billahi min ash-shaytan al-rajim. In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. Ya ayyuha alladhina amanu la tuqaddimu bayna yadehi allahi wa rasulihi wa attaqullah. Inna allaha sami'un alim. Ya ayyuha alladhina amanu la tarfa'u aswatakum fawqa sawti al-nabi'i. Wa la tajharu lahu bilqawli kajjahri ba'dikum li ba'd. Anta habata...

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honor of the prophets and messengers, and praise be to the Messenger of Allah, may peace and blessings be upon him and his family, and upon his family and his companions, and on many many things. From Abadu, my brothers and sisters, a very important matter that I want to speak to you about. And that is, somebody asked me this very wonderful question. The question they asked me was, they...

https://youtu.be/8g4Wt9POJOM 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 of Allah be upon the noble Prophet and the Messengers. The Messenger of Allah, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and his family and his companions. May peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and his family and his companions. My brothers and sisters, once again, the Ashley of the Wire. It's a flux of geese. And doing what geese do, which is, if...

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 Prophet Muhammad and upon his companions. My dear respected brothers, sisters, elders. The topic of my khutbah today is marriage in Islam. And there are two reasons for that. One is that this month and next month we seem to have a spate of those who are who seem to be absolutely determined to commit matrimony. So I thought maybe it's a good idea to give them some idea...

https://youtu.be/XL0am60Sq9Q 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 most honorable and most righteous, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon him, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon everyone, and upon everyone. My brothers and sisters, the thought I want to share with you is that idolatry or worshiping of idols is something that changes from time to time in the way of...

https://youtu.be/vePIGirtOqM 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 him and upon him and upon him and upon him. Peace and blessings be upon him and upon him and upon him. My brothers and sisters, it so happened that I'm out here in Ashli Yawar that we must see. One of our most favorite places for...

Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, today we are living in a world where there is a constant escalation of violence and war and strife and all kinds of things and Muslims seem to be in the receiving end of everything. So the question that I get asked, you know, wherever I go is what is the solution? What should we do? If I ask you a question, I say if you have a fire which is happening, what is the fastest way of putting out the fire? The fastest way is to cut the oxygen, right? Throw something over...

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, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Most Gracious...

Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, we come to the last question on the Day of Judgment. May Allah protect us from ourselves. In some ways, this is the most difficult one, especially in today's world. And this question is in two parts. Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la will ask us, what did you do with the wealth I gave you? And by wealth, don't imagine that this means a million dollars or more. Wealth is anything material that Allah gave us. Whether it was a million dollars or whether it was one dollar. The question will be, what did you...

Auto-generated transcript: As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. So, let's be clear to that person and to you. That what is happening is wrong. What is happening, should not be happening. The best way to do that, is just silence. People are sensitive, and they will understand. If you are silent about something, and then something much be wrong. So, silence. Don't imply that what they're doing is correct. Silence can be just silence, and not such devote in silence. Nobody. You are silent. as in not speaking, silence can also be of walking away from that gathering or, you...

Auto-generated transcript:We come to the third question. The first thing to remember is that the questions of the grave, the three questions of the grave have to do with our belief, the Aqidah. And the questions of the Day of Judgment have to do with A'maal, with our actions, deeds. The basis of the deeds is the Aqidah. It is the reason you are doing the deed. As we know from the Hadith of Hammurab al-Khattab r.a. Inna ma'al a'malu binniyat. The deed and the value of the deed is based on why it was done, on its...

Auto-generated transcript:We talked about the first of the four questions. Fourth question is two and one. What is the most important thing that we will be required to answer when we stand before Allah on the Day of Judgment? May Allah make it easy for us, inshallah. And as the Prophet said, the feet of the son of Adam will not leave the presence of Allah. Until he answers these four questions. So this is Haqq. This will happen. We ask Allah to help us. Because without the help of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, we cannot be successful here. ...

Auto-generated transcript:We spoke about the three questions of the grave. And as I mentioned to you, the three questions of the grave have to do with our creed, our belief. What do we believe? So the first question is about Allah. The second question is about the whole Deen. And the third question is about Rasulullah . Alhamdulillah, may Allah make it easy for us to pass this test because this is a test that is not voluntary, it is compulsory. Everyone who is born, everyone who lived will die and when they die, they will have to pass this...

Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wa salatu wa salamu ala ash-shadab fil anbiya wal mursaleen Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sallam. Tasliman kathiran kathira. From Abadu, my brother asked me a question just now. And he said, is cigarette smoking haram? So I answered his question, but before I answer that for you, let me expand this a little more so you understand the principle. The principle of the Sharia as far as things which are prohibited, haram, forbidden, haram. There are two principles. One, everything which is prohibited is intrinsically by itself harmful. Islam does not...

https://youtu.be/YCPmM2cP7SA 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 most honorable of the prophets and messengers.Muhammad, 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 after that, my brothers and sisters,it is very important to have a sense of history.By a sense of history, I mean, who are you in time and who...

https://youtu.be/Omw0PzXGqPY Auto-generated transcript: We are out here walking the rain in Ashley Reservoir.And you can see it's coming down at a reasonable pace.It's not heavy, heavy, but it's still quite reasonable.And I remind myself and I remind you, just think about this.This is where reflection, Tadabbur, is so important.We just think about, okay, rain is falling, I'm getting wet.First of all, nobody dies from getting wet unless you're made of salt.But other than that, nothing will happen to you.Point is not that. Point is, think about this.What...

Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. My dear respected brothers, sisters, elders. Alhamdulillah this year we celebrated Eid al-Adha as one community. Everyone coming together for the pleasure of Allah SWT in fulfillment of His command where He declared Which means the believers are but one brotherhood. So make peace between your brothers and be mindful of Allah so that you may be shown mercy. The result was beautiful where for the first time in the history of Western Massachusetts almost 5,000 Muslims prayed Salatul Eid al-Adha together. I ask Allah SWT to always keep our hearts together and enable us...

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 honourable Prophet and the messengers. Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. Peace be upon you all. My brothers and sisters, somebody sent me a very nice quote today from Twitter. And that quote was, six months from now, you can have six months of excuses or six months of progress. Six months from now, you will have either six months of excuses or...

Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillah. My brothers and sisters, that is why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala taught us to make dua for guidance to the path, the Siratul Mustaqeem. The path of those who He blessed and not those who incurred His anger or were misguided. Think about this. We make this dua at least 17 times a day when we recite Surah Al-Fatiha in every rakat of every Farsalah. Just the Farsalah is total of 17 rakats. Then of course Sunan and Nawafil and so on and so forth. There's no salah which is valid unless Surah Al-Fatiha is recited in every rakat. ...

Auto-generated transcript:Wолаazibullah khair Tawāq. My respected brothers, sisters, elders. The ayat which I recited for you from Surah Al-Baqarah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, which means, and remember when Ibrahim alayhi salam said, My Rabb, make this city of Mecca secure and provide food, fruits to its people, those among them who believe in Allah in the last day. He, Jalla Jalaluhu, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the glorious and merciful. The magnificent answered, as for those who disbelieve, I will let them enjoy themselves for a while and then I will send them to the torment of the...

Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, we are looking at the third question from the questions of the grave. And the first question was, who is your Rabb? And the second question was, what is your Deen? And the third question is, what do you say about the man who was sent among you? And the answer, of course, is that we say that he was the Rasul of Allah, sallallahu alayhi wasallam, and that we followed him. And then the question will be asked, what did you do? And the answer to that is, I read the Quran. And...

Auto-generated transcript:We were talking about the questions that we have to answer. And as I mentioned, I remind myself and you, there are three questions that we have to answer in the grave that have to do with our Aqidah, with our creed, with our belief. Then there are four questions that we have to answer on the Day of Judgment, which have to do with our Aamad, our actions. The first of those questions we mentioned and talked about that last night, and that was, Man Rabbuk, who is your Rabb? The second question is, Ma Dinuk, what...

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. And praise be to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and his companions. Peace be upon you all. My brothers and sisters, people ask me different questions. Somebody asked me today about the issues of investing in stocks. And say which are halal stocks and different bodies certify certain companies and they have different reasons...

Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillah we finished the Yawm al-Arafah today. We ask Allah to reward us in keeping with His Majesty and Grace and to grant our duas and to give us the opportunity for this again and again year after year. The people who are in Hajj, they have completed Yawm al-Arafah standing in Arafah and right now they would be in Muzdarifah, they would have finished the maybe even the Tawaf and so on. And Saeed and waiting for Yawm al-Nahar tomorrow for Eid and we also wait for Eid al-Fitr inshallah tomorrow and Eid al-Adha tomorrow inshallah. We...

إِنِّي وَجَّهْتُ وَجْهِيَ لِلَّذِي فَطَرَ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ عَلَى مِلَّةِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ حَنِيفًا وَمَا أَنَا مِنْ الْمُشْرِكِينَ إِنَّ صَلَاتِي وَنُسُكِي وَمَحْيَايَ وَمَمَاتِي لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ وَبِذَلِكَ أُمِرْتُ وَأَنَا مِنْ الْمُسْلِمِينَ اللَّهُمَّ مِنْكَ وَلَكَ بِاسْمِ اللَّهِ اَللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ “I have set my direction firmly and truly towards Him Who created the heavens end the earth. And never shall I give partners to Allah. Verily, my worship and my sacrifice, my living and my dying are for Allah Sustainer of the worlds. O Allah this sacrifice is from you and is for you.” Bismillah wallahu akbar. Allahumma minka wa ilaika, fataqabbal min … (pronounce the name of the person on whose behalf the animal is being sacrificed). It means: “In the name of Allah and Allah Almighty, O Allah, this sacrifice is from You and for You, accept the sacrifice (pronounce the name of the person on whose behalf the animal is being sacrificed) 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 an...

Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has caused us to be Muslim, be raised as Muslims. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has caused us and granted us, inshallah, and we ask Allah to do that. To grant us Yawm al-Arafah, which here in America will be tomorrow, inshallah. And tomorrow, which is the 5th of June 2025, will be the Yawm al-Arafah in America. As per the sighting of the moon, Abdul Hijjah, which was sighted widely. And this day of Arafah on the 5th of June is based on actual physical sighting of the...

Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillah. My dear brothers and sisters and elders, we come to the last of the reminders I want to make about these 10 days, and that is the days of Hajj and the day of Arafah. These 10 days are very significant because they also include the days of Hajj. And Allah SWT said about the day of Arafah, which is the day of Hajj when people are standing in Arafah. He said there is no day on which Allah SWT frees more people from the hellfire than on the day of Arafah. Hajj is the pillar of Islam...

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah. My dear brothers and sisters and elders, we are in the middle of the best days of the year that Allah has blessed us with. We thank Allah for giving us life, for guiding us to Islam and for allowing us to witness another sacred month, the month of Dhul Hijjah, particularly the first ten days, which are the most virtuous days in the calendar. These days are a divine gift from Allah for our spiritual growth, for our to earn hasanat...

Auto-generated transcript:I will tell you since you are young boys, I'll tell you a story about another young boy. And about this young boy, the story refers to these days that we are going through. This young boy was his father. He didn't meet his father. His father left him in a particular place just after he was born. And after that, the father came back when he was maybe 10 years old or something like that. And the father was in his 90s. And the father took him for a walk. And as they are walking, the father says...

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, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and his family, and peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and his family, My brothers and sisters, one of the most important things for us to do is to become grateful people. To become among the shakireen, the people who are grateful to Allah. You...

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and the messengers. Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and may Allah grant him peace, and may Allah grant him much, much peace. And then, my brothers and sisters, we know the ayat of Surah Al-Bahim. Allah, the Exalted, said, Allah, the Exalted, said, Which means, let it be announced that the one who is grateful to Allah, the Exalted, for...

https://youtu.be/YE9O2_YnEts Auto-generated transcript: Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen.Wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen Muhammadu Rasulullahi sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam.Tasliman kathirun kathirun.I am in this fabulous place called the Longmeadow Conservation Area,which is literally a stone's throw from where I live, about a 15-minute drive.And it's directly behind Bay Path University for locals who are listening to this one.And I am here with my good friend Arshad, Arshad Abdullah.Wa alaikum salam wa salam.And we are looking at a family of swans...

https://youtu.be/BTC30ZY_XpM 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 honorable prophets and messengers.Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.And upon his family and companions.And many, many blessings.Brothers and sisters, this is the second installment of the Qatira,the Fajr Reminder about the importance of or rather how to become influential in life.And I said the first one was help people.Look for...

https://youtu.be/bOzw3ViAYu0 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 is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and his followers.Peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and his followers.Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and his followers.My brothers and sisters, I'm sitting here in...

Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillah, we're looking at the incident of Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam's life where he left on the command of Allah SWT. He took his wife and their son and left them in the valley of Bakka and turned around and left. And then he made this dua. The first lesson from this incident that we learn is that of prioritizing the command of Allah SWT over any and everything else. To obey Allah SWT in every situation, whether we understand the command or not, whether we like the command or not. This command of Allah SWT to Ibrahim Alayhi...

Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. My dear respected brothers, sisters, elders. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent his anbiya alayhi salam not only as guides for how to worship him, but as guides to lead our lives in a way that is wholesome, harmonious and beneficial in this life and a means of forgiveness and reward in the life of the Akhirah, inshaAllah. Islam, therefore, is a deen. It's a complete way of life. It's not just a set of rituals of worship. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, having sent this deen, also tests us. Allah said, Ahasiban nasu an yutraku...

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 honour of the Prophets and Messengers, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family and companions. Peace and blessings be upon you all. My brothers and sisters, the number one requirement, the number one necessity that we have in this life is to be forgiven by Allah. The forgiveness of Allah is the number one thing. If we have everything else but...

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 and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions. Peace be upon them all. And after that, my dear brothers and sisters, there is a question that I keep getting asked every once in a while about whether I am willing to, and if I am not willing to, then why I am not...

Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wasalatu was-salamu ala al-sharafi al-anbiya wal-mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sallam. Tasliman kathiran kathiran. I want to deal with two questions that two different people asked me. One, a friend of mine from Hyderabad, he asked me, he said, we keep making effort, we don't succeed, we lose energy. How to deal with that? And the second one was, Umar Abd al-Ali asked me, he is in medical school. So he said, we have been given information that we will have a very important qualifying exam, which will...