Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil-'Alameen. Wasalatu wassalamu ala sharifil anbiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasoolullah ﷺ, sallallahu alaihi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Taslimun kathirun kathiruhum abaduh. My brothers and sisters, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent His Kitab, and He sent His Rasool, ﷺ, and He said about this: لَقَدْ مَنَّ اللَّهُ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ إِذْ بَعَثَ فِيهِمْ رَسُولًا مِّنْ أَنفُسِهِمْ يَتْلُو عَلَيْهِمْ آيَاتِهِ وَيُزَكِّيهِمْ وَيُعَلِّمُهُمُ الْكِتَابَ وَالْحِكْمَةَ وَإِنْ كَانُوا مِنْ قَبْلُ لَفِي ضَلَالٍ مُّبِينٍ (Quran 16:124). Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, which means, "Verily, We have blessed the believers by sending among them a Messenger from themselves." And the job of the Rasul is so that he can recite to them our ayat and purify them and teach them our book, the Kitab, and teach them hikmah, wisdom. And Allah said, and truly before that, they had been grossly misguided. I remind myself and you that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, when He sent the Quran, He also sent a teacher for that Qura...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillāh ar-Raḥmān ar-Raḥīm. Alhamdulillāhi Rabbil-'Alameen. Wasalatu was-salamu ala achrafil anbiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasoolullah ﷺ, sallallahu alaihi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasleemun tasleemun. Qamma abadu. My brothers and sisters, in the West, they do this with Christian funerals, but they also do it with Muslim funerals. Which is that, before they bury the body, somebody will say something about the person who died. And that's called a eulogy. They make a speech and they talk about this person and they say what a good person he was and all his fadail and you kn...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil-'Alameen. Was-salatu was-salamu 'ala ashrafil-anbiya'i wal-mursalin. Muhammadur-Rasulullahi sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi salam. Tasliman kathiran kathiran. And after that, brothers and sisters, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala commanded us to make dua to Him. And He promised to fulfill our dua. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, "Ud'uuni astajibu lakum." Allah said, ask Me, I will give you. In Arabic grammar, "Ud'uuni" is a command. It's an amr. So when Allah is saying, "ask Me," this is a command of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And that is the reason why Rasoolullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillāh ar-Raḥmān ar-Raḥīm. Alhamdulillāhi Rabbil 'Alameen. Wa salātu wa salāmu ala ashrafil anbiyā' wal mursalīn. Muḥammadur Rasūlullāh sallallāhu alaihi wa ala alihi wa sahībuhum sallam. Tasliman kathīran kathīran. Hamd ba'du wa abradu. Alhamdulillah. Today we are fasting for the, on Yawm al-Ashrā. And Nabi Sallallāhu alaihi wa sallam said, the one who fasts on this day, Allah will forgive the sins of one year. And this refers to the minor sins. We ask Allah to save us from all sins. All major sins have to be...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil 'Alameen. Wassalatu wassalamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursalineen. Muhammadur Rasoolullah ﷺ sallallahu alaihi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasliman kathiran kathira. Muhammadu Fadhu, my brothers and sisters, I remind myself and you of the connection between belief and action. Iman and Amal. In the Qur'an al-Karim, everywhere that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentioned Iman, He connected it with Amal al-Saleh, with good deeds. Everywhere, Iman wa Amal al-Saleh. This is the connection throughout our life. We believe in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And this is what Islam is. Islam is to return to...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillāh ar-Raḥmān ar-Raḥīm. Alhamdulillāhi Rabbil-'Alameen. Wa salātu wa salāmum 'alā ash-sharafi al-anbiyā' wal-mursalīn, Muḥammadin Rasūlullāh ﷺ, wa 'alā ālihi wa sahbihī sallam. Tasliman kathīran kathīran fa mubādā'. My brothers and sisters, I mention to you and remind myself that we are all the creatures of Allah subḥānahū wa ta'ālā. We are all the slaves of Allah subḥānahū wa ta'ālā. Whether we accept it or not. If we accept it, then we are obedient slaves. If we don't accept it, we are disobedient slaves. But the pos...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wasalatu wassalamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasoolullah ﷺ sallallahu alaihi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasliman kaseeran kaseera. Amma baduhu, my brothers and sisters, there was a friend of mine who was an instructor pilot in the Air Force. So he used to teach fighter pilots. And he said to me once that, I asked him, what happens, what do you do when you get into a problem and now it looks like you are definitely going to crash? So do you just bail out or what do you do...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil 'Alameen. Wasalatu wassalamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasoolullah ﷺ sallallahu alaihi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasliman kathiran kathira. Fahamabadu, my brothers and sisters. Alhamdulillah, yesterday we prayed the janazah for our brother and friend and elder, Mahfuz Bhai, Mahfuz Ahmad sahib. May Allah grant you a janazah for your friend without any doubt, insha'Allah. The key thing to understand, which I remind myself of in you, is that this day will come for every single one of us. And there is no guarantee about when that will come. It's no...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil 'Alameen. Wassalatu wassalamu ala ash-sharafi al-anbiya wal-mursaleen, Muhammadur Rasoolullah ﷺ, wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasliman kathiran kathira. My brothers and sisters, we were talking about the fact that Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, rahmatullahi wa ta'ala, said that every human being is a slave. He is either a slave of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, Jalla Jalaluhu, or he is a slave of his own desires, of his own nafs. And we know about the nafs. Yusufalayhis-salam, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentioned this in Surah Yusuf. Yusufalayhis-salam said about himself: "Inna an-nafsa la-ammaratun bil-su'i il...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil'alameen. Wassalatu wassalamu ala ishrafil anbiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasoolullah. Sallallahu alaihi wa ala alihi wa sahibu sallam. Taslimun kathir al-kathira. Fama ba'du. My brother and sister, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said in Surah Al-Anbiya: "Wa izta'azzana rabbukum la in shakartum la azidannakum wa la in kafartum inna azabila shadid." Allah said, which means, your Lord has announced that the one who is grateful for My blessings, I will increase those for him. And the one who is ungrateful, let him beware of My punishment, which is severe. Imam Jalaluddin Rumi, rahmatullah alayhi, he said that...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil 'Alameen. Was-salatu was-salamu ala ash-sharafi al-anbiya wal-mursaleen, Muhammadin Rasoolullah ﷺ, wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasliman kathiran kathira. Fahim abadu. My brothers and sisters, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala created us for a purpose, and He told us that purpose. And He said, "Wa maa khalaqtul-jinnah wal-insana illa liya'budu." He said, I have not created the jinn and the human beings for anything other than my worship. Liya'budu, ba maani ya'rifu: Allah's worship, and to know Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. This is our purpose. This is why we exist. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala pr...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillāh ar-Raḥmān ar-Raḥīm. Alḥamdulilāhi Rabbil-'Alameen. Wa salātu wa salāmum 'alā ash-shirāfi al-amiyyay wa al-mursaleen, Muḥammadin Rasūlullāh ṣallallāhu 'alayhi wa 'alā ālihi wa sallam. Tasleeman kathīran kathīran. Qur'ān, ba'du. My brothers and sisters, Allāh subḥānahu wa ta'ālā, in the first or second āyah of Surah Al-Ankabūt, Allāh subḥānahu wa ta'ālā said: *Ahasibannas ann yutrakuka an yakuna amanna wa hum la yufṭanun*. Allāh subḥānahu wa ta'ālā is challenging us. He asks, "Do you think humans will be left alone if they say, 'We...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil 'Alameen. Wassalatu wassalamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen, Muhammadur Rasoolullah ﷺ, wa ala alihi wa sahbihi sallam. Tasliman kathiran, kathirahumma ba'da. Brothers and sisters, there are two ways to live our lives. One is by our own desires, and the other is trying to please Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, by the way He wants us to live. The first path is full of uncertainty; it is full of potential harm because we do not know what our future holds. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said: "And perhaps you dislike a thing and it is good fo...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil'alameen. Wassalatu wassalamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasoolullah ﷺ sallallahu alaihi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasliman kathiran kathira. Fama baadu wa amratan fisrat. Alhamdulillah. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent His book and sent His Nabi ﷺ to guide us to the right path and to Jannah inshaAllah, the path to Jannah. The important thing to understand is that, see what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala taught us to ask. In Surah Al-Fatiha, which we recite in every rakat of every salah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala taught us to ask for Ihdinas Sirat al-Mustaqim. Allah subh...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillāh ar-Raḥmān ar-Raḥīm, al-ḥamdu lillāhi rabbil-'ālamīn, wa-salātu was-salām 'ala ash-sharafi al-anbiyā' wal-mursalīn, Muḥammadur Rasūlullāh sallallāhu 'alayhi wa 'alā ālihi wa sahbihi wa-sallam, taslīman kathīran kathīran. Amma ba'du, my brothers and sisters, Allāh subḥānahu wa ta'ālā is the One who controls everything, wa huwa 'alā kulli shay'in qadīr. Allāh subḥānahu wa ta'ālā is Qadīr over everything. And this is our faith, this is our belief. And when we say we have tawakkul on Allāh, we mean that we trust Allāh sub...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillāh ar-Raḥmān ar-Raḥīm, wa raḥmatullāhi rabbil 'alameen, wa salātu wa salāmu 'ala ashrafil anbiyā' wal mursaleen, Muḥammadun Rasūlullāh sallallāhu 'alayhi wa 'ala ālihi wa sahhayhi, tasliman kathīran kathīran. My brothers and sisters, a young man came to Rasūlullāh sallallāhu 'alayhi wa sallam, and he said to him, "Ya Rasūlullāh sallallāhu 'alayhi wa sallam, please give me something that only you can give me and nobody else can give me." Please give me something that only you can give me and no one else can...

Auto-generated transcript: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad ﷺ and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and his family. Tasliman kathiraan kathiraan. My brothers and sisters, one of the most critical things to do in life is not to waste time. Because time is life. Time itself is life. Muhammad Shafiq Ramatullahi said that life is a series of instants. Lamhat ke silsile ka naam zindagi ha...

https://youtu.be/F9i7E_KNtSM Auto-generated transcript: As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil 'alamin, was-salatu was-salamu ala sayyidina Muhammadin Rasulullah ﷺ, wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasliiman kathiran kathiran, wa hamdun lillah. My brothers and sisters Alhamdulillah, two days ago I was in Kerala, in the south, a place called Kundai Estate. And we were looking for elephants. It was 10 o'clock at night; pitch dark with no street lights, nothing. And it was heavily raining, raining very heavily. My friend and I were driving in a jeep, and that jeep had seen the best part of...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillāh ar-Raḥmān ar-Raḥīm. Alhamdulillāhi Rabbil 'Alāmīn. Wa salātu wa salāmu 'alā sharifin anbiyā' wal mursalīn, Muḥammadun Rasūlullāh sallallāhu 'alayhi wa 'alā ālihi wa sahbihī wa sallam. Tasleeman kathīran kathīra. Fama ba'du. My brothers and sisters, we have been talking about since yesterday regarding the issue of what happens when Allāh protects us and forgives us when we commit a sin. Now, to be anguished, to feel bad, to regret upon committing a sin is a sign of Iman. It is good news; it's a sign of...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillāh ar-Raḥmān ar-Raḥīm, al-ḥamdu lillāhi rabbil-'alāmīn, wa salātu wa salāmu 'ala ash-sharafi al-anbiyā' wal-mursalīn, Muḥammadur Rasūlullāh sallallāhu 'alayhi wa 'ala ālihi wa sahbihi sallam, tasleemun kaseerun kaseerun. Amma ba'du, my brothers and sisters, I want to remind myself anew. Sometimes, our life is going on smoothly, alhamdulillah, we are doing what we should be doing, we are praying on time, we are fasting in Ramadan, we are giving zakat and so on and so on, and then something suddenly happens, and you commit some sin, and...

https://youtu.be/0Ybh_W4lOEA Auto-generated transcript: Bismillāh ar-Raḥmān ar-Raḥīm. Al-ḥamdu lillāhi Rabbil-'Ālamīn, wa salātu wa salāmu 'alā ashrafil-anbiyā' wal-mursalīn Muḥammadur-Rasūlullāh ﷺ. Tasliman kathīran kathīra. Fammabadu? My brothers and sisters, I am sitting in my hotel room in Cochin. And this is my view, and it's a lovely view. The water is part of the backwaters from Cochin Harbour. And you can see there in the distance what are called the Chinese fishing nets. And that's what it is, the Chinese fishing nets. So what they do is they l...

A University of Kentucky epidemiologist convinced 678 Catholic nuns to donate their brains and their entire life records to science, and the autopsies he performed quietly rewrote everything modern medicine thought it knew about Alzheimer's disease. The findings have been published in JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine. Almost nobody outside the field of neurology has heard of them. His name was David Snowdon. He was a young epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota in 1986 when he had what most of his colleagues considered a crazy idea. He wanted to study Alzheimer's disease the way it had never been...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillāh ar-Raḥmān ar-Raḥīm, al-ḥamdu lillāhi rabbil-'alāmīn, wa salātu wa salāmu 'ala ashrafil-anbiyā' wal-mursalīn, Muḥammadur Rasūlullāh ṣallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam, tasliman kathīran kathīrā. Umar Badu, my brothers and sisters, we are looking at the rules of success. These are things that Allah subḥānahu wa ta'ālā sent us into this world to be successful, and to live a life which is productive, beneficial for all those connected with it—so for yourself, for people around you, and so on. Now, these rules of success: the first one...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillāh ar-Raḥmān ar-Raḥīm. Alhamdulillāhi Rabbil 'Ālamīn. Salātu wa-s-salām 'ala ashrafil anbiyā' wal mursalīn, Muḥammadir Rasūlallāh sallallāhu 'alayhi wa 'alā ālihi wa sahbihī, sal-lam 'alā alayhi wa sallam, tasliman kathīran kathīran. Amma ba'du. Yesterday we spoke about the four things that are necessary for success. I didn't mention all four yesterday, but today I will just list them for you, and then we will do them one by one. One is: do hard things first. The most difficult things; do them first. Number two is: do the thi...

Auto-generated transcript: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين و الصلاة والسلام على شرف الأنبياء والمرسلين، محمد رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم تسليماً كثيراً. My brothers and sisters, in America there is a system where when a professor retires, he gives what is called the last lecture. So it's more of a recap of some words of wisdom, his experiences, and so on. It's a very important lecture. One of the Stanford professors, Graham Weaver, had his last lecture. I was reading it; he said some wonderful things which have great relevance for us. He basically said four things: the first thing he said was "do hard things first." The secret of success is to do hard things first. I remember another lecture at MIT where this professor actually demonstrated that he brought a big glass jar on his table. He put that...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Raheem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil 'Alameen. Wa salatu wa salamu ala ash-sharafi al-anbiya wal-mursaleen, Muhammadin Rasulullah ﷺ. Tasliman kathiran kathir. Humbabado. My brothers and sisters, we were talking about the issue of how do we approach learning the knowledge of Islam. As I mentioned to you yesterday, if you approach it from a non-practical angle, meaning that you are there to listen to some lecture or you are reading a book intellectually, then you don't gain anything from it. Because Islam is the name of a practice. It is not the name of a philosophy or a theory. If there is a...

Auto-generated transcript: Alhamdulillah Rabbil 'Aalameen, wa salatu wasalamu ala ash-Sha'ifa al-Anbiya'i wal-Mursaleen, wa hamdu lillahi Rabbil 'Aalameen. Tasliman kathiran kathira. I am about to share with my brothers and sisters the first hadith in Al-Baqarah, narrated by Umar ibn al-Khattab (RA). He said: "The first thing is..." This is an important thing for us to remember because the reward is not only in the Akhirah; the reward is also in this Dunya. The reward is in the sense that what you get out of something depends on what you want from it. Why did you enter that? What's the reason...

Auto-generated transcript: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على أشرف الأنبياء والمرسلين محمد رسول الله صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم تسليماً كثيراً. My brothers and sisters, we were talking about "إياك نعبد وإياك نستعين" that we worship only Allah ﷻ and we rely only on Allah ﷻ; we seek help only from Allah ﷻ. I mentioned to you how Allah ﷻ taught this lesson to Musa عليه السلام of reiterating that there is no one worthy of worship except Allah and that we seek help only from Allah. We spoke about how it is not simply enough to say we worship Allah, but we must worship Allah and worship no one other than Allah. Now, therefore, how do you bring yourself to a state where this prominence of Allah ﷻ in our lives—the greatness, the glory, and the majesty of Allah ﷻ—becomes so important and so up-front as far as we are concerned, that we never deviate from the path? I...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillāh ar-Raḥmān ar-Raḥīm. Al-ḥamdu lillāhi Rabbil-'Ālamīn, wa salātu wa salāmu 'alā ashrafil-'ibād wal-mursalīn Muḥammadur-Rasūlallāh ﷺ. Tasliman kathīran kathīran. My brothers and sisters, Allāh subḥānahu wa ta'ālā mentioned the story of Mūsā alayhis-salām in 28 out of the 30 juz of the Qur'an, so it is everywhere but very beautifully and very concisely. Allāh subḥānahu wa ta'ālā mentioned it specifically at the beginning of Sūrah Tāhā, and He mentioned specifically what happened in the sequence of the story. So Allāh subḥānahu wa ta'ālā...

Auto-generated transcript: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the Prophet and the messengers, Muhammad ﷺ, and upon his family and companions. May peace and blessings be upon them. The question is: can I go to a restaurant where alcohol is also being served? I am not consuming it, but it is there. There is a bar or whatever. So can I go there? First and foremost, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon hi...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillāh ar-Raḥmān ar-Raḥīm, Alhamdulillāhi Rabbil 'Alāmīn, Wa salātu wa salāmu 'alā ashrafil anbiyā' wal mursalīn, Muḥammadur Rasūlullāh ṣallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam, Tasliman kathīr, Fahm ābādun. The question is: first of all, is music haram or not? Second, if it is haram, then seeing it used in content creation, advertising, and different contexts by Muslims and Muslim content creators—is this correct? If it is incorrect, is it a sin? And if it is a sin, does the punishment carry on for as long as that thing remains...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillāh ar-Raḥmān ar-Raḥīm. Al-ḥamdu lillāhi Rabbil-'alāmīn. Wa salātu wa salāmu 'ala ash-sharafi al-anbiyā' wal-mursalīn, Muḥammadur Rasūlallāh ṣallallāhu 'alayhi wa 'alā 'ālīhi wa saḥbihī wa sallam. Tasliman kathīran kathīrān. Umar Badu, my brothers and sisters, we ask Allāh subḥānahu wa ta'ālā to give us khatima bil-khayr. Because Rasūlullāh ṣallallāhu 'alayhi wa sallam said, innama al-amalu bi-l-khawātīm. He said the deed ends based on how it ends. So we ask Allāh subḥānahu wa ta'ālā for khatima bil-kha...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Raheem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil 'Alameen. Wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafil ummah wal mursaleen, Muhammadin Rasulullah ﷺ. Was-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Wa ma ba'du, my brothers and sisters, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala used two words in the Qur'an to describe the believers: Muslimeen and Mu'mineen. Corresponding with that, who is a Muslim? Who is a Mu'min? Allah Ta'ala used two other words: Iman and Yaqeen. For example, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in Surah Al-Baqarah, right at the beginning, said: "That is the Book in which there is no doubt; it is guidance for those who are mindful of Al...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil 'Alameen. Wa salatu wa salamu ala sharifil anbiya wal mursaleen, Muhammadur Rasulullah ﷺ, wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasliman kathiran kathirahum. My brothers and sisters, alhamdulillahi wa bismillahi ta'ala. We are starting the Mubarak days of Hajj. Today is the first day. Today, we ask Allah to help us do those actions which please Him. Because the actions, good actions done on these days, are the best of all the year. Because these days are more beloved to Allah than any other days of the year. So we ask Allah for that. Th...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillāh ar-Raḥmān ar-Raḥīm. Alhamdulillāhi Rabbil 'Alameen. Wa salātu wa salāmu 'alā ashrafil anbiyā' wal mursaleen, Muḥammadur Rasūlullāh ﷺ, wa 'alā ālihi wa sahbihi ﷺ. Tasliman kathīran kathīrān. Qamun badu. My brothers and sisters, we are entering, insha'allah, from tomorrow the 1st of Dhul Hijjah. So the first nine days of Dhul Hijjah—ten days total, with the tenth day being Eid—as I mentioned yesterday, represent the most important and virtuous days of the year. And the deeds done during those days, Allah subḥānahū wa ta'ālā rewards them more than He...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil 'Alameen. Wa salatu wa salamu ala ash-sharafi al-anbiya wal-mursaleen, Muhammadur Rasulullah ﷺ, wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasliman kaseeran kaseeran. Akhwan wa ba'ad. My brothers and sisters, let me do my annual reminder about Yawm al-Arafah. Because there is always this never-ending confusion about Yawm al-Arafah. Is it today? Is it tomorrow? Do we follow Saudi Arabia? Do we do this? Do we do that? So let me clarify this for you. Yawm al-Arafah is the name given to the 9th of Dhul Hijjah. If the 9th of Dhul Hijjah did not ha...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillāh ar-Raḥmān ar-Raḥīm. Alhamdulillāhi Rabbil 'Alameen. Wa salātu wa salāmum 'alā ash-sharafi al-anbiyā' wal-mursalīn, Muḥammadir Rasūlullāh ﷺ, wa 'alā ālihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasleeman kathīran kathīran. Fammabadu, my brothers and sisters. Alhamdulillah, we are in the ten best days of the year, which are the first ten days of Dhul-Khaidah, Dhul-Hijjah. And we know from the Ḥadith of Abū Hurayrah radiyaAllāhu anhu, and we also know from Ibn 'Abbās radiyaAllāhu anhu, that Rasūlullāh ﷺ said that these are the best days of the year. And any action...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil 'Alameen. Wa salatu wa salamu ala ash-sharafi al-anbiya wal-mursaleen, Muhammadur Rasulullah ﷺ, wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasleeman kathiran kathira famabadu. My brothers and sisters, we were talking about the issue of obedience as related especially to Hajj and the life and the approach of Ibrahim ﷽ and his blessed family. And I also mentioned in that context the obedience of Rasulullah ﷺ and his Sahaba, Qadidwanullahi alayhi majmain, where we spoke about the ayat of Surah Al-Baqarah, where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala revealed: *Lillahi ma fi samawati wa ma fi l-ard, Wa in tubdu...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil 'Alameen. Wa salatu wa salamu ala ash-sharafi al-anbiya wal-mursaleen Muhammadur Rasulullah ﷺ, wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasliman kathiran kathira. My brothers and sisters, roughly 4,000 years ago lived a man and then his family. And they lived in such a wonderful and strange way. And they did such wonderful and strange things that today we read the stories and you wonder what was it that moved him? Why did he do what he did? Among the things that he did was that he took his wife and newborn baby all the way fr...

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillāh ar-Raḥmān ar-Raḥīm. Alḥamdulilāhi Rabbil 'Alāmīn. Wa salātu wa salāmu 'alā ash-sharafi al-'Ambiyā'i wal-Mursalayn, Muḥammadur Rasūlullāh sallallāhu 'alayhi wa 'alā ālihi wa sahbihi ṣallam. Tasliman kathīran kathīran. Umma ba'du. My brothers and sisters, alḥamdulillah. We have been talking about the issue of istighfār and tawbah. And we ask Allāh subḥānahu wa ta'ālā to keep us in a state where we constantly make istighfār. We constantly repent to Allāh subḥānahu wa ta'ālā for our sins. And we ask Allāh subḥānahu wa ta...