 One of the great lessons from the Isra'an Miraj is the wafaa for the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. That's the greatest lesson from Isra'an Miraj. You want to take home a lesson tonight? It's a lesson of wafaa, faithfulness to our Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Because it's easy to be faithful when everything is according to how you like it. It's difficult when things are against you, against you. It doesn't make sense to you sometimes. But you're not patient enough to sit and make sense out of it or listen to it. Or say, and this is why the religion for some people is very difficult. Because they don't have the patience. No, no, it has to be my way. Not God's way, but my way. But the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, if you look at his life, it's constant qabd and bust. In spirituality of these two stations of constriction and expansion, all of creation is like that. So you have the day's expansion. You have the night's constriction. If you ever went to Umrah or Hajj, you would go to Mecca. It's constriction. It's the Haibah of the Kaaba. You're really not comfortable. You're not supposed to be comfortable in Mecca. You're supposed to be on your tippy toes. It's the haram. It's the house of God. You do your worship. You want to get out of there. You're done. Then you go to Medina. It's relax. It's just expansion. You want to stay there for the rest of your life. That's how life is. The heart is constantly pumping. Expansion, constriction. Everything in your life is like that. In your spiritual life, in your physical life, in your mental life. That's why a lot of the students say, I can't think. Writers block. It's constriction. You can't write anything. The greatest writer, they can't write something. Sometime for months. But if you look at his life, getting to the year of the ninth year, which is the year of, this is the year of Sarl, the Huzn. It was really the worst year in the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam's life. He loses Abu Talib, who is his uncle, and who is a supporter for him and a shield between him and the Quraish. He loses his beloved wife that he's been married for 25 years, a quarter of a century. Bi Khadija, who was a supporter, spiritually, mentally, physically, in every way she was there for him. He also then goes to get support from Taif. He's kicked out his stone, and he said Taif was the worst day of my life. Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He said that was the worst day of my life. But that's constriction. That's the year. And then comes the expansion that Allah rewards him for Inna Ma'a Al-Asri Yusra. Inna Ma'a Al-Asri Yusra. The Quran reminds us, whatever hardship there's ease. Whatever hardship there's ease. You just have to be patient and see the wisdom in the hardship. Allah rewards him with this beautiful night, Al-Israa Miraj. Well, he said this was the best night of my life. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam goes to the house of Umhani. Umhani is the daughter of Abu Talib. She became Muslim after the death of Abu Talib. Abu Talib died the year before. And this is the year of Israa Miraj. This is the next year. So his wife, Fatima Abu Talib's wife is a Muslim. Her daughter becomes a Muslim. Umhani. And her son becomes a Muslim. We all know that Sayyidina Ali was a Muslim in the first few days of Islam. So he goes there and he has for dinner. And they have Aisha prayer. They pray in Jama'a. And then Umhani says, why don't you spend the night here, sleep in our house? And he says, okay. So they make a match with bed for him and he sleeps. After a brief hour of sleep, he wakes up and he goes to the Kaaba. And unfortunately they have remodeled the buildings around the Kaaba. But the Ottoman, they left the mark where her house was. And you could see actually up to like five, six years ago, go to the place where her house was. You could see how much the distance between her house and the Kaaba was. So the Prophet goes to the Kaaba to worship Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala because night worship is very unique. And many people are deprived from night worship because wassallu billayli wa nasun niyam. The Prophet SAW said one of the keys to paradise is when you pray in the night when everyone is asleep. Because that is the prayer. There's no riyah in it. There's no show off. There's nothing in it except you and Allah. These are the prayer that builds connection. If you ever lost, confused, get up at night and pray. You will find yourself. Because Allah is there waiting for you to come to Him at night when everybody is asleep. It's kind of like going to... It's not kind of going to DMV in a rush hour time. And there's lines and you have to wait for six, seven hours to even get a question answered. But imagine if DMV had a special hour and said, hey, there's a special hour and nobody's there. But it's difficult because it's 11 o'clock at night. Nobody goes there. The night is open door. But nobody goes there to knock on the door of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala. So the Prophet goes and he worships Allah in the Kaaba. And he worships him and then he said a sleep came over me. This is very interesting because many stories in our tradition is that they said, I wasn't sleeping, but a sleep came over me. So what does he do? He obeys this. He knows this is heavenly. So he puts his head and he falls asleep. He falls asleep and then somebody wakes him up from the sleep. He got up. He said, I look all around and I didn't see anybody. So I went back to sleep. I got woken up again. I look all around. I didn't see anybody. The third time I woke up, this is very interesting. And he goes, it was Jibril A.S. And he said, what he did, he extended his hand and I grabbed it and he pulled me. And I just realized, see the Afghans, we always do that. I'm like, where that sunnah come from? That's from Jibril in the Prophet A.S. A lot of people in India, Pakistan, the Muslim community, you will see if you're sitting on the ground, you stand up and one person will say, you grab his hand and you pull them. That's how Jibril A.S. took the Prophet A.S. by the hand on this night of Israq Miraj, and then he stood up. And then he said, I have an invitation for you. And then he said, invitation from who? He said, from Rabbul Alameen. Wallahi, I shiver. Can you imagine getting an invitation from Allah? We get a wedding card. We get so excited, right? Invited to a banquet. We get so excited. This is a banquet. He's going to see Allah. And he says, where? He says, a place beyond places, time beyond times. We're going to cross all those barriers. And then he comes out. And he comes out. And this is very important for people to know the adab of our religion. That this deen is founded on adab. There's an animal which is outside the gate of the Kaaba. Jibril didn't bring the animal inside. Because of the sanctuary. This is a heavenly animal. Complete, pure. This is not from the mazra'ah of dunya. This is not from some garden that you go, oh, there's some stable, you go grab an animal. This is taken from a place in paradise. This is a heavenly beast that were brought down to the earth to give right to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Yet still out of the adab of the Haram didn't bring it inside the sanctuary of the Kaaba. They go outside the gate and the Prophet said, what is this? He said, this is a vehicle that Allah has chosen for you to take you on this journey. Subhanallah the asra bi adihe laylan minal masjid al haram ilal masjid al aqsa. Glory be to the one who has taken his servant on this night journey from Mecca from the Kaaba to Bayt al-Maghdus to Jerusalem. This is the Quranic verse. Isra is in the Quran, you can't reject it. You reject it, you reject the religion. The araj is in the hadith. So he says, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, this is for me. I got, once I got stopped at the border at the airport and I was interrogated for about four hours. This is back in the days, right after 9-11 when the Muslims were being interrogated for no reason. I just came from getting married overseas, so I'm like, that's the welcome congratulations you get. But anyways, one of the things that they did, the agents, they were asking me a lot of detailed questions. What were you, what was your house? What's the address of the place? How many bedrooms in this house? Which bedroom did you sleep? How many beds in that room? Like, really, to a point where you get annoyed. But I didn't know why they were asking. And then three, four hours later they came and said, what was the address of that house that you stayed? How many beds were in that room that you were sleeping? Because they know that the nature of liars is that they don't remember details. That's why liars, they never give you details. They just make it universal. Because they won't remember. You ask them the next day, they won't remember. So this is one of the things that the Prophet ﷺ did in this journey. It's the most detailed story in all of Sira. There's nothing more detailed than this story. And if it was a lie, if it was a made-up, he would have just told us, hey, I went to Isra'a Miraj, I went to Jerusalem and I went to see my Lord. Why so much detail? Because it was Ainul Yaqeen. It was eye-witnessed. Everything was eye-witnessed by him. So he goes and he said, this is the bur'aq. It's going to give you a right. And the Prophet ﷺ, if you have Urdu books on the Sira, or Farsi books on the Sira, or English, read it. They all say something really weird. They say, the bur'aq raised his hand and didn't let the Prophet get on it. And then the Prophet went back. And then he went forward to get on it. Then the bur'aq raised his hand and didn't let the Prophet get on it. And I'm like, why would he do that? Why would the bur'aq, that's bad adab to the Prophet ﷺ. Why wouldn't he let him ride it? Now, in the famous book for the Hanafi Salad al-Adham by Hakim Samarqandi, he answers this question and he says, Jibril ﷺ had a whip and he disciplined the bur'aq. And he said to him, don't you know who this man is? And he says, this man, he's Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah. He's Habibullah. He is the best of Allah's creation. And the bur'aq keeps going, praising the Prophet ﷺ. And he said, so if you look at the Prophet ﷺ sitting in the beautiful hadith, he said, there's nothing in the creation that doesn't know I'm the Messenger of Allah except the disbelieving jinn and the disbelieving man. Everything in the creation of Allah knows I'm the man. This is why when he got the revelation and Allah unveiled for him, as he was coming from cave Hirat to the house, the trees were saying, As-salamu alaykum Ya Rasulallah. The rocks were saying he could hear the trees and the rocks speaking to him. Because everyone knows him, right? Everyone knows him. So then he goes to the bur'aq. He says, so why wouldn't you let him ride you? And this is very interesting because this is a story of love. Everyone who knows about the Prophet ﷺ will fall in love with him. Sheikh Muhammad al Yaqubi in this masjid, he had a talk and he said, to know him is to love him and to love him is to know him. The more you know about the Prophet ﷺ, the more you will love him. The more you will love him, the more you want to know about him. This is the nature of the Prophet ﷺ. So he knew. The bur'aq knew who the Prophet was. He said, what if he rides me today? What if he rides me today? And on the day of judgement, he doesn't ride me. I will die from the pain of separation of Muhammad. I will die from the pain of separation of Muhammad ﷺ. This is ishq, this is love. So the Prophet told you, what are you talking about? And he explained. And they said the Prophet ﷺ, when he put his hand on the bur'aq, they said the color of bur'aq changed. Literally a blushing. And he said, I promise you, I will ride you on the day of judgement. And he started to sweat like teenagers. Love is an interesting thing. So he rode the bur'aq and the Jibril was right beside him. Now I want to think a lot of people think that the bur'aq was flapping and struggling to get from Mecca to Jerusalem now. Sa'adirah, he says, He said he rode the bur'aq who had in one hop, went to Jerusalem. He put his feet in the front and like an airplane, it went from Mecca to Jerusalem. When he went to Jerusalem, all of the prophets were brought and he led them in prayers. And he saw every prophet the way they appeared in the junior in their time. That's how he saw them, as the way Musa ﷺ was amongst the Bani Israel, the way Jesus was amongst his people. All of the prophets were amongst their people in the appearance of the junior. But when he sees them on the heavens, he sees them in their celestial reality. So do two different appearances. Then he leads them in the prayer. And this is where he gets the title of the Imam al-Rusul. We have a beautiful poem in Arabic, Ya Imam al-Rusul, Ya Sanadi, Anta Babullahi Muhtemadi. It's beautiful that people chant this poem all the time. You are the messenger. You are the Imam of all of the prophets. O Messenger of Allah, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Then he gets, then from here he gets on the goat. This is a horizontal journey and then becomes the vertical. And then the portal opens and he goes through the earthly, this dunya. And remember that this is not unique to our prophet. Not unique to our prophet, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Adam al-Islam went and Adam al-Islam, Hakim Samarkand, he says that he went on a bed that was made out of gold and 40 angels carried him. Jesus al-Islam went on the feather of the angels. Every prophet, Ilyas, Ilyas al-Islam, he went on a chariot. I just figured this out today. Like what does it mean? Ilyas al-Islam went on a chariot of fire. I was like chariot of fire. What does that even mean? I realized, you know, when you have the space shuttle, they have to have fire out in order for the speed to go up. So this was a chariot that released fire for the speed. So all of the prophets, they went to this night journey, but everybody went to the degree of their station. And this is where the prophet sees all of them in their degrees, in their ranks. So he goes to the first heaven and before entering the first heaven, there's Babul Haifda, there's this security date and there's a security guard, Ismail. And he says, has this man introduced him as he received revelation? He says, is Muhammad, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And he gives him greeting of peace and he says, welcome. Ismail has 12,000 angels under him. Each angel has 12,000 angels under him. So that's 144 million angels under one security guard of one gate of heaven. It shows us the vastness of Allah's creation. Then he goes to the first heaven. When he goes, he sees Adam alayhi sallam in the first heaven. And he sees Adam alayhi sallam was looking to his left and shedding tears and looking to his right and smiling. He said, what is he doing? He said, this is your grandfather, Adam alayhi sallam. When he sees souls of the disbelievers, they're going to, they died in kufr. He said, he looks to the left and he cries for them because they're all his children. All of human beings are the children of Adam alayhi sallam. And when he sees the believers, he smiles and he's happy that they passed through his right. And then he goes from the first heaven to the second heaven. Between each heaven, they say this 500,000 years, the distance. And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam said the first heaven in comparison to the second heaven is like a ring thrown in a vast desert. So imagine a ring you throw this in a Mojave desert. That's the size of the first heaven in comparison to the second heaven. And the second to the third is like a ring thrown in a vast desert. So all of these, just the size of Allah's creation, just the physical size of Allah's creation, he goes and then he sees all of these prophets. But what I think about this journey, as I said at the beginning, is the detailed description. He said alayhi sallallahu alayhi sallam, he had facals in his face. And as though he just came out of shower. His hair, you know, like when you have the, what they call the lazy wet hair. And he said, Musa alayhi sallam, you know, was medium height. And he had, he had a wheatish color, you know, like wheatish color, not white and not dark. And then he sees Harun alayhi sallam, he said he had a really big beard. And he said he had all his hair was gray. He described the hair of Musa alayhi sallam as wavy hair. And then he says he saw, so he describes all of these prophets really in detail. And all the visit, then he goes to, when he sees Musa alayhi sallam in the sixth heaven, and then he goes to the seventh heaven, to Baytul Mahmood. Baytul Mahmood is a house of worship for the angels. Just like the Kaaba is a house of worship for the us, Baytul Mahmood is for the angels. There's 70 angels go inside this bait and they do the Tawaf inside. We do outside of the Kaaba, they do inside Baytul Mahmood. It's made out of ruby according to Abdullah Alansari, the great commentator of the Quran. And he said, they don't get a second chance until the day of judgment. So you can imagine how many angels there are. So he sees, the Prophet sallam said, I saw a man by Baytul Mahmood sitting. I thought I was looking to a mirror. He looked like me. I said, who is that man? I said, that's Ibrahim alayhi sallam, your great-great-grandfather. And then from there, he goes to the load tree, the furthest point that any created being has ever gone. This is it. Beyond the load tree, nobody has crossed. Now, if you look at the seerah of our Prophet sallam, the first time, when revelation became in Ghad Hira, people who have climbed mountain of light, the Ghad Hira, in that area, if you climb up, you see all of Mecca. It's just a beautiful, magnificent scene. So when the revelation came, Jibril opened his wings. And the Prophet sallam said that I looked, and everywhere I was looking, I would see his wings. He covered all of the horizon from the east to the west of the junior. But according to the scholars, they say that wasn't his wings. He just opened a few feathers. The reality of Jibril was not revealed. So the Prophet sallam said on this night when he got to the seven heaven, to the load tree. So you can imagine the first heaven to the second heaven is like a ring. The Prophet sallam said the first heaven to the seventh heaven, all of them in comparison to the Arshab Allah, is like a ring thrown in the vast desert. And right now they're at the edge of this, the creation. Nothing has gone past this. Then the Prophet said, O Jibril, I want to see your reality. Show me. This is very beautifully, those who read Urdu, I should read Bali Jibril by Iqbal. He has a beautiful, really his Iqbal, Rahmatullah Ali, has an amazing mind and imagination and just such a beautiful way of expressing these. He says, I want to see your reality. And Jibril opens all his wings. They say that 600 feathers on his wings and he opened it. And they covered all of the horizons of the seventh heaven, load tree. And they said the Prophet fainted. He passed out. Maulana Rumi said that don't think that he passed out because Jibril was so magnificent. No. He passed out. This is one angel of Allah's creation. This is just one angel amongst the untold number that I've seen in the heavens. They say it's not the size of your feet, that much space without an angel making tasbih of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. He passed out just understanding the Qutr of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, the power of Allah. That's what he passed out for. In Maulana Rumi, he says he answers Jibril in here. He answers him. Because he said, don't think that he passed out because of your wings. Don't think that. He said, Ahmadar Book Sharia, He said, if my Ahmad opens his spiritual wings, Jibril would be unconscious for eternity. That's what we call Muhammad and reality. Muhammad, that's the reality of our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Then the Prophet moves forward. He goes forward from Sidratul Muntaha. Then he turns back to Jibril standing up. He said, come Jibril, come. Follow me. He said, no, no, no, you go. You are in the league of your own. I can't do this. Then he said, the Prophet tells him, he said, why don't you the one who is just showing your magnificent wings right now? Why don't you come? Come with me. Go. He said, oh, my illustrious friend, Muhammad, please understand me. If I take one more step forward from this point that I'm standing, all my wings and feathers will burn and be annihilated. This is your maqam. This is your station. It's not me. You and your Lord, I can't even move anymore. So he says, the Prophet goes forward. He goes to a point where it says there was both lens between him and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Now what happened in that night? Allah says, I gave him, revealed to him, Abdi, my servant, that which I give him. This is what happened in that night is what happened in that night. And Allah gave him the last two ayahs of Surat al-Baqarah. These are the two, only two ayahs that was revealed without Jibreel. They didn't bring him to the earth, but Allah gave him in the heavens, Amman al-Rasool al-Bima onzele ilayhim in rabbihi wal mu'mina. This is why all of the words that you read, all of the books that has the awrad, they have those two verses to read daily because of the barakah that is in those two verses. And then the Prophet SAW, Allah knows all the problems. So if you look at, and this is one of the lessons that we have to learn from this, is if you look at the Prophet SAW and that time, they had so many issues. Political issues, poverty, weakness, no support. People are just throwing trash on them. They're driving them out. They went to Abyssinia. And then all these problems are happening. There's too many problems. Too many problems. So he says, when he leaves, this is why it's so good to be from the ummah of the Prophet SAW. When he leaves, he tells Allah and Fakhreddin al-Razi in his Tafsir Kabir has beautifully described this conversation between him and Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala, where he says, everyone who goes back home from a journey, they take gifts for their beloveds. And then he said, what am I going to take from this journey to my ummah? Now you have to think about it. We didn't exist at that time. He could have said, what am I going to take to my family? Ahlul Bayt. What am I going to take from my Sahaba? Those were the people. They were all Sahaba. But the Prophet SAW's generosity shows right here. He's thinking about us. He's thinking about our children. Until the end of time. He says, what am I going to take from my ummah? And Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala, gives him the gift of Salah, the prayer. And this is why prayer, if it's done right, you have economic problem, pray. Trust me. You have physical problem, pray. You have mental problem, pray. You have spiritual problem, pray. You have financial problem, pray. Because prayer was prescribed to take care of all of the problem. Allah could have given him, you know what, go ahead. I'll send some strength for you. Give energy to the Sahaba that they can just take the Quraish out. But that's not just a solution. That solves one problem. It doesn't solve all of the problem. So the Salah is a gift that solves every issue. It solves every issue. So the Prophet SAW, he gets this gift of 50 prayers a day. Then he comes back down and Musa A.S. asks him, he said, what did you get? He said, Allah gave me 50 prayers a day. He said, your people will not do it. They're weak. Because his people will not do what he asked them to do. So he's given him really sound advice because prophets are brothers of each other. They're all brothers. He's given him sound advice. He said, go ask for ta'fiq. He's asking for discounts or something. It's embarrassing to ask for less. It's one of the most embarrassing things. So he goes and he says, if you can make it less for my ummah, they're du'afa, they're people. Allah says, okay, we'll make it 40. He comes back and says, no, 40, they can't do it. He goes back to 30. He goes back to 20. He goes back to 10. He goes back. The Prophet SAW goes back and says, Allah says, okay, make it 5. He goes back and Musa A.S. is telling you 5 is too much. And you know, he was right. A lot of people 5 prayers too much for them now unfortunately. And the Prophet SAW said, I feel embarrassed of going back and asking my, you know, I'm just, I feel embarrassed going back. But this back and forth had many, you know, had many reasons. One of the commentators said, he said that Allah wanted to give 5 prayers from the beginning. But he gave 50 because he wanted his beloved to keep coming to him, coming back to him. It's ish, it's love. He's Habibullah. He's the beloved of Allah. So one of the poets said that he called the Prophet SAW brought him to Arsh. What was the reason to bring him to the Arsh of Allah on this night of Miraj? He said, He said it was just one of his beloved. The Miraj was just an excuse. So, but the Prophet SAW comes back to the earth. And this is where we come into this story. He comes back to the earth and then they pray Fajr at Umahani's house. And he says to Umahani that, I prayed with you Aisha, but you know, I went to this journey, explained the whole thing. And I came back and I'm praying with you Fajr. And Umahani said that I grabbed his cloak and I said, please, whatever you do, don't tell the people about this. Because she knew that this is going to create, she said, by Allah, I can't speak anything but the truth. So he goes and he tells the people. And people were just like, whoa, what did you do? You went to Jerusalem? And it takes a month at that time to go to Jerusalem and a month to come back. So the two months journey, you went on a night and came back. So Abu Jahl, and this is the split of the people. And this night it becomes really clear. Abu Jahl listened, goes to the Prophet and goes, so what's the news today? And he tells him about the Islam Miraj. And he said, okay, you just hold on right here. And he's so excited because he said, you know what? I think I got him this time. And Abu Jahl's name is Abul Hakim, the father of intellect. Because he became Jahl because he was so stubborn with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. But he was very intelligent. He was very sharp. He was the wisest man of the Quraish at one point. So he says, let me go and talk to Abu Bakr. If Abu Bakr leaves his religion, everybody will leave. See, that's smart. I'm going to go to the head. If Abu Bakr leaves, everybody else will follow him. So he goes to the door of Abu Bakr and knocks like madmen. And Abu Bakr says, opens the door and he says, you know what your friend is saying? He's saying he went to Jerusalem and he went to the 7th. And I told the whole story. And he came back. You know this journey takes two months to go and come back, don't you? He says, yes. You're lying. You're lying. What are you talking about? He said, no, but I swear to you, this is what he said. This is what he said. Muhammad has said that, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. In Canaq, in Canaq Khaled, he said, if he said it, Sadaq, it's true. If he said it, then it's true. And I believe him. When he came inside in front of Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he said, tell me what happened. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, last night I was at the Hateem and Jibril came and Abu Bakr said, yes, he did. He took me on this beast, beautiful buraq, wide with two wings above the shoulder. He said, yes, he did. He said, I wrote the buraq, went to Jerusalem. He said, yes, you did. And then he said, I led the prophets and prayed. He said, yes, you did. And he said, I went to the 7th Heaven and I saw all these prophets. He said, yes, you did. And then I passed the low tree. He said, yes, you did. And the Prophet looked at me. Yeah, Abu Bakr. You're speaking as you were with me. Da'a is faith. Da'a is iman. You want to know what iman is? Da'a is iman. If you believe in it, you believe it with Haqul Yaqeen. Everything for you is Haqul Yaqeen. There's no doubt. There's no doubt. I live laa meem. Da'a liqal kitabu l-araybe fi. Hudaan li'l mutaqid. There's no doubt in this book. There's no doubt in this religion. And he said, I did. And he said, you're speaking as though you were with me. And he didn't have to be with him to be with him. He believed him. And this is when he got his title of Sadiq, the great confirmer of truth, Abu Bakr Sadiq. And Sadiq is the highest maqam in Islam after the Prophet. Because we can't be prophets. It's done. There's no more prophets after our Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. But the Qur'an talks about four categories. Menna nabi'ina wa sidiqina wa shuhadahir wa salliheen. Amongst the four groups of paradise, either the prophets, the Sadiq, the martyrs or the righteous. You have to become one of those in order to enter paradise. And the Sadiqs are the highest after the prophets. So he is Abu Bakr Sadiq. And this is why his e-man outweighs the e-man of the entire ummah. Right? But what did he have? Faithfulness to the prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. You want success? Faithfulness to the prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. You have the ummah, look at the situation that we are in. It's all because of unfaithfulness. And Iqbal Rahmatullah alayhi said that, why are you doing this? Ya Allah, he complained. And it's shikwa. And it's shikwa, he complained to Allah. He said, we are doing it. We are praying. We're fasting. We're in a masjid. We're calling the avant. We're giving our charity. We're doing all these stuff. But why are we in the state that we are in? There's no, look at that. Look at the state of the Muslims. What's the secret? What are we missing in this ingredient? What are we doing? Everything we ask us to do. And then when he gives the jawaab, he ends it with saying, kee muhammad say, wa faatunituhum terehe. Ye jahaat sheezi, kee Allahu qalam terehe. He said, be faithful. Have wafaat with Muhammad. Be faithful to the prophet. What do you want? You want power? You want dignity? You want honor? He said, don't worry. I can give you the law and the qalam. You write your own destiny on it. But be faithful to my beloved. Be faithful to my prophet. Our prophet, sallallahu alayhi sallam, came to make us human being. To make us insan al kamil, perfect human being. Then when we walk, people say, I want to be like her. I want to be like him. I don't care. There are people who became Muslim. They didn't know that God was a Muslim. I know people who became Muslim. They didn't know that the guy was a Muslim. They said, what religion are you selling? You. Because I've been working with you for six months and I've never seen character like this. I don't care. You're a Buddhist, I become a Buddhist. You're a Hindu, I become a Hindu. You're a Christian, I become a Christian. You know I'm a Muslim. You say, I become a Muslim. That's the person who's following the sunnah of the prophet, sallallahu alayhi sallam. Lip service is easy. Everybody can memorize ahadith and all these stuff and talk and say, but who's practicing the deed? And the practice is what's attractive for people. That's what's attractive. That if we walk on the prophetic path, it's a difficult path. Because it's a path of destroying your own nafs, going against your own nafs, your desires. And submitting to Allah, sallallahu alayhi sallam, and putting our prophet, sallallahu alayhi sallam, as the model. And I always tell people, it starts with our own home. It starts with our own home. There's a beautiful poem that Ahmad Saqr, Rahimullah, from LA, he wrote a poem when I first started practicing, I don't know, centuries ago. That was a poem that really affected me. It was called What if the prophet visited your house? What if the prophet visited your house? And he said, what would you do? Would you hide magazines and all these stuff so he doesn't see it? So really, what would we do if the prophet sallallahu walked into our house? Is it a prophet friendly house? Right? What about our hearts? Allah is looking into our hearts. So, if we change that, the change becomes from within and then walk on the prophetic path and take these examples of who he was, the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam and practice it. It will change your life, but you will see that other people will see you and they want to be like you. Everybody wants to be like you. If we become like the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam and everyone will love you because you are like the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam because his character is lovable. Sallallahu alayhi sallam Allah is better if you come to JazakAllah khayr. I don't even know what time it is. Sorry, if I went too long. May Allah bless all of you and may Allah protect all of you from all of the earthly and airborne diseases, inshallah, in Medhi. This be the end of this pandemic, inshallah. And may Allah protect all of the people who are in Ramadan from all of the evil and fa'zat of their time and makes them amongst salliheen, wa sallihāt, makes them amongst the people that Allah is pleased with them and the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam is proud of them under yawmu l-qayāmah. May Allah protect this community from all of the evil of our time. May Allah keep us on the path of fitr Allah in the time of confusion. May Allah protect this community from all of the evil of our time. May Allah keep us on the path of fitr