 As-salamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh Alhamdulillahi wa s-salatu wa s-salamu ala Rasulillah wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa man walah amma ba'd What are people going to say about you and about me? The day that the news reaches them, that we are no longer alive That's a reality that we all experience But we will not be here when it is experienced on our behalf We see and we hear others pass away all the time And we know our own reactions, but very few of us think about the reactions when we will pass away Almost on a daily basis, somebody, a friend, an acquaintance, a relative, passes on And the closer they were to us, obviously, the more painful it is That's human nature And the first things that happen in our own minds are the memories of the times we spent with those actual people A friend, I was just with him two weeks ago An acquaintance, oh my God, he seemed just coming to work every second or whatever A relative obviously closer And we always think of the impact they had on our lives And the legacy that they leave behind after they're gone Now, the true mu'min will be pre-planning his own or her own legacy before people are talking about it And this is in fact an Islamic commandment and reality The Prophet Ibrahim made dua to Allah And one of the interpretations of what Lisan al-Sidqin means is Oh, Allah, leave my memory to be a good one in the later generations The legacy I leave behind, I want people to think of me in the best of manners Of the Quranic du'az which we made for the righteous imam Make us role models for the believers So the Prophet Ibrahim is making dua to Allah That, oh Allah, make my legacy a positive one And subhanallah, no human being is more universally admired Across all faiths than the Prophet Ibrahim al-Salam We call them the Abrahamic faiths even Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions in the Quran That he is going to record We will record all that they will send forward and the legacy they will leave behind Whatever you've sent forward, your good deeds, your sadaqa jadia, your hasanat And what you have left behind a thar literally means your remnants Literally we will record that which they send ahead And that which they have left behind which is their legacy When they've left this dunya what remains that people will remember them by That's called a thar What are the remnants that the people have of them And Allah is saying we shall record those remnants What will my remnants be and what will your remnants be What will my legacy be and what will your legacy be We want to have the best of legacies And not because we want fame for the sake of fame No, but because we want to maximize our good deeds And the way you maximize your good deeds is you expand your influence And the way you expand your influence you have the maximum impact In a positive manner on the most number of people Both quality and quantity if possible And if not possible then quality obviously over quantity Just look at the legacies of our great ulama that came before us Sometimes I just wonder people like Where do we begin? Imam al-Bukhari You cannot give an Islamic lecture without giving some good deeds to Imam al-Bukhari You cannot give a khutba, a dars, a halaqa You cannot give a khatira, chances are Except that you're going to be quoting something That Imam al-Bukhari spent time compiling, registering, recording And when you quote that hadith and say Bukhari narrates A little bit of good deed is being added to Imam al-Bukhari He only lived 60 odd years, that's it But the legacy that he left behind is truly phenomenal And that's just again, so many examples can be given So in today's short lecture that I have I want to remind myself and all of you About three practical steps that we need to undertake In order to maximize our legacy And insha'Allah those three also explain Why certain people Allah has blessed over others Even when they're alive, it's pretty clear that they're going to leave A large legacy when they leave The first of these three, and without a doubt the most important Is ikhlas or sincerity If you want to leave a legacy Then your niyah has to be not for the people But for the creator of the people Your niyah has to be to please Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala And that's why some people get a little bit confused At the Quranic dua that I just quoted We're jalna al-muttaqina imama Oh Allah make us an imam for the believers And people say wait, hold on a sec I thought we're not supposed to seek fame You're right, you're not supposed to seek fame The Quran is not saying make me famous The Quran is saying make me a true leader For the righteous people Look at me as a role model As an exemplary person For the muttaqeen I want to be the imam The imam here doesn't mean the guy who leads you in salah No, the imam here means the role model imam Oh Allah make me a role model For the people of taqwa Yes, we want to have that level And that's why we ask Allah for that level We don't ask the people We ask Allah to give us that level of ikhlas Of true sincerity Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions When he talks about Yusuf alayhi as-salam And how he goes from the well to the jail To become the minister in Egypt The raising of the ranks And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the qira of nafih Inna hu kaan min ibadina al-mukh li-sine With a kasra Yusuf was of our servants who had ikhlas In explaining how he rose up in ranks In explaining how he went from one daraja to another to another Why did he end up where he ended up Inna hu kaan min ibadina al-mukh li-sine He was of our servants who had sincerity And that's why the level of ihsan Which is the highest level of our religion It only deals with sincerity As Hassan al-Basri said Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, radiallahu anhu Did not excel over you Simply in the quantity of his raka'at And then the number of days he fasted Pause here, full stop here Put a footnote He's talking to the tabi'un He's not talking to me and you Abu Bakr excelled over us Yes, in the quantity of salawat Yes, in the quantity of zakat Yes, in the quantity of siyam But Hassan al-Basri is talking to the tabi'un And the tabi'un Look, again a bit of a tangent here But how many raka'at can you pray in a day? How often can you fast? Monday and Thursday And then the three days of the month And then Ramadan And then there's just a set number Now, most of us I know myself we haven't even reached that level yet Obviously And that is the difference between Islam and iman Muslim and mu'min Generally speaking It's the increase of rituals But the real difference between The mu'min and the muhsin Is not in the quantity of rituals After a while you will max out From the sunnah Otherwise you're becoming excessive After a while you will max out Or else you will be like the three people Who think that the process is not doing enough I can do more than him After a while you'll max out Our Prophet says some quick quiz question How many raka'at did he pray On an average daily basis when he wasn't traveling? Quick quiz How many raka'at would he pray? All 24 hours 50 raka'at 50 raka'at a day Why? Because when he went up to Islam and Miraj Allah swt said 50 Then he went back down Up, back down, up And then finally he said For your ummah five And I'll write 50 for them But for him When the 50 command was given That was his regular lifestyle Calculated out The wajibat, the sunnah muqadah And the tahajud Exact 50 That was his daily routine 50 raka'at So it would take up three, four, five hours Of the day How much would he on average fast On average it was Monday, Thursday The three days of the month And then the extra The tent of Muharram and what not That's the average sunnah of the process Once in a while he'd do more than that So Islam to iman It's that quantity But iman to ihsan It is the quality Iman to ihsan It is a change in your ikhlas Going back to what Hassan al-Basli said Abu Bakr al-Siddiq did not go ahead of you Simply by the kathara The extra salah And a sayam But rather it was something that was in his heart It was something that was in his heart That was then manifested in his amal His heart had something that you guys don't have And that is the level of ikhlas Iman to wakku Iman Malik Ibn Anas The famous scholar of Medina He was the first person ever in the history of Islam To compile a book of hadith Meant for the other people And he called it al-Mu'ta Now you know the first person who ever does something Immediately there's copycats Immediately everybody else follows That's the nature of human society And it's always the first person who goes down As the one who does it Then a lot of people follow on Sometimes those who follow on do a better job Than the first person Actually usually that is what happens In terms of technology and writing and what not Generally the first person writes a book Is not necessarily the best one Then people build on that So Iman Malik wrote al-Mu'ta In his own lifetime People began writing other books Called the Mu'ta and this and that One of his students came and said And the student assumed Through a cursory reading That some of those other Mu'ta So he said O Iman Malik What are you going to do now There are so many Mu'ta So many Mu'tas out there What's going to happen to your Mu'ta Iman Malik said What was done For the sake of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala That Mu'ta will remain And if I now say Mu'ta That Mu'ta Say Mu'ta Every Muslim on the planet Immediately jumps to Mu'ta Iman Malik Nobody's even heard Of the Mu'ta at written After Iman Malik This is what Iqlased us Sincerity You don't do it for the sake of the people You don't do it for fame You don't do it for anything Other than the pleasure of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala That's why the smallest Of deeds can become magnificent If done for the sake of Allah Of the first Quranic revelations We're giving you this food And they give their food to the poor To the orphan, to the prisoner And they say Don't even thank us Don't even thank us We don't want your thanks We are feeding you For the sake of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala It is reported that One of the Sahaba would send Food to the poor And he would tell his servant Listen to whatever they say And any dua they make for me afterwards Then the servant would come and say Oh he made dua for you, said this, this, this Then he would repeat Exactly the same dua And give it back to him basically And then hope that Allah and Allah alone Award him for the food I don't even want your jaza Or your shukur for giving this food Don't want anything back from you I feed you for the sake of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala And that's why again We have in the tradition Sometimes the smallest of deeds Become the most magnificent of deeds In the famous story of the Lady of Il Repute who fed that dog water Nobody Saw what she did Not a single human witnessed it But Allah witnessed it And Allah knows how many centuries later Our procession Because you know this story happened in the past Before our procession It's not a Muslim story per se Meaning of the Ummah of the procession It's a pre-Islamic story Nobody even saw this incident Of this lady feeding that dog water I hope you all know this story Nobody heard, nobody saw this lady do it But Allah Azza wa Jalsa And the fact that this story Has been preserved On the tongue of the most Blessed human being who ever walked the face of this earth This hadith is reported in Bukhari Ahan Muslim Mutafaq Ali It is one of the most popular hadith heard So her action was recorded by Allah And manifested in broadcast To all of mankind And all of the Ummah to benefit from Allah Azza wa Jal knew In the battle of Tabuk Our prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam Mentioned that You know in the battle of Tabuk A lot of Sahaba were not able to go financially They couldn't afford it And the books of Seerah mentioned That the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said When they were coming back from Tabuk One of the most difficult expeditions In the history of the Seerah Read and study that One of the most difficult expeditions When they were coming back The prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said There are a group of you sitting in Medina Allah knows who they are Every single step that you took They got your Ajr along with you Even though they're not with you Because they couldn't make it They wanted to make it They had the Niyah to make it They had the Ikhlas to make it Their names are not known In the books of Seerah We don't even know their names But Allah Azza wa Jal knows their names That's what you call Ikhlas You do it and you do it For the sake of Allah You don't care whether the limelight Is on you or not It's not even relevant to you How many people are there or not Your deeds and your Ikhlas Shall be the same wherever you are That's the number one criterion Of success in leaving a legacy Number two Number two You want to leave a legacy You have to erase The ego and pride and kibir And embrace Humility Humbleness True leaders Are humble people True leaders that are genuinely respected By the ummah And in fact it's not even just the ummah These are human characteristics Human It doesn't even matter obviously we're talking about within The paradigm of Islam But the fact of the matter is these three criterion They actually transcend Islam You want to see a successful leader Inside of the faith community You will find the three things going to say In them as well And I'll give you one example It's fresh in my mind because I just came from South Africa Two weeks ago And I visited Nelson Mandela's cell On Robin Island Truly a mesmerizing experience If you follow me on Facebook I have a video of it which I was on the island for three hours It's really just I don't even know how to explain The cell, no exaggeration It's basically smaller than this area Over here for twenty years He's confined to that cell His restroom is a bucket in the corner That he has to empty himself The bed is basically some Old carpet on the floor Just twenty years living in that And in his own way Obviously He had ikhlas to his cause And it was a good cause He had humility You cannot be a respected leader Without genuinely Being that humble person To hear the stories that we heard And many of you don't know this By the way, you don't have time to go into there But on that island, Robin Island There is actually a musallah And the grave of one of the first Muslim prisoners Robin Island was known For housing Muslim prisoners Who fought jihad against the Dutch These were prisoners from Indonesia Yemen from other places And as soon as you enter the island And from the cell of Nelson Mandel Nelson Mandel actually writes about this In his autobiography The walk of something The long walk to freedom He actually writes about this That the Muslims Who fought against the Dutch They actually gave him That hope and encouragement That we are walking on the right path Human beings cannot live As slaves Human beings cannot live As second, third, fourth class citizens Anyway, the point being These three characteristics I said Transcend any faith community And the second characteristic is Humility, humbleness Not a sense of ego Not a sense of deserving something Without having given back to the community There's a beautiful hadith In Sunan al-Nisa'i Our prophet was standing on the minbar And he was actually the best And the most eloquent speaker And he used tactics that would bring The attention of the people So I asked you to look at me I'm going to do exactly what he did Our prophet was giving me the khutba And he raised his left hand And he said Man tawadah alillah Then he took the right hand Rafa'ahullah He literally used both of his hands To get the point across Whatever humbles himself For the sake of Allah Allah will raise his ranks up You want to leave a legacy? You want to be a leader? A real leader Not the leader that's in the limelight The leader that the people think is a leader A leader of the imam of the mutaqeen Then you're going to have to eliminate The arrogance The self entitlement The glory and fame The desire to want to be served Khidmah And that's why every great leader Is a servant Of his people And not somebody who pretends Or acts as if he's some pompous arrogant You know person Even if and here's the iron I don't want to mention any names But there are politicians in this world They surround themselves with those yes men They surround themselves with people Whose izzah is purchased with money So they delude themselves Into thinking that we are respected And they might even Get away with that delusion in their lifetimes Because they're paying Their izzah is purchased It's not real izzah And this is of the ironies True glory Is given to those who do not seek it One of the most ironic realities Of human existence And explicitly mentioned in the hadith True glory Is given to those who don't seek it You don't want to become famous You don't want the people to know you You humble yourself For the sake of Allah And guess what The people will love you Not that you want, that's the point You don't want it You don't desire it But it is a blessing that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives And that's why In that famous hadith Of hadith khudsi and sahib bukhari That The prophet sasim told us That when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Loves someone He announces to the angels I love so and so By name, he announces to the angels I love so and so So you love him o jibreel So immediately jibreel loves the person Then jibreel goes down To the heavens, throughout the heavens And jibreel announces That angels Know that Allah has said Love so and so So you love him as well So all of the angels love this person Then our prophet sasim said What a beautiful conclusion He said, when the inhabitants of the heavens Love the person Then those walking on this earth Will also love him When those up there Love that person Then those down here Will also love him And that is why Respect that comes That is a gift from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Humility and ikhlas Bring that about You and I do not control those who we look up to Think about it Their reputations in our hearts Is something that is a mystery Why do we respect certain people In our community and not others Even though their resumes might be the same Their degrees might be the same They might have studied the same institutions They might have attempted to do the same things And yet for reasons we cannot Explain and understand Certain people are beloved and others aren't This is Allah's blessing That he gives to certain people Where does it come from? It comes from that love That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has It is Allah's blessings So the second ingredient For success, for a legacy For leaving Is humility for the sake Of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Humbleness Don't expect that people will serve you You need to serve them And that is why the definition of ihsan As you all know ihsan Is the highest level And ihsan Is a very very rare Trait that exists One of the earliest scholars Of the Arabic language He wrote a book called Mufradats Al Quran Al Karim And he died, don't quote me Around 440-450 Hijrah So a thousand years ago One of the earliest Dictionaries Of the Quran And it is a beautiful book And in it, he says The definition of ihsan Is that you give More than what is required For you to give And you are content with receiving Less than what you should be receiving Think about that The definition of ihsan You give more than what is In any situation, in any situation There is a protocol Somebody does something for you You give something back to them How you conduct yourself There is a certain protocol A minimal that is accepted Below the minimal which is not accepted More than what the situation calls for And You are content to receive less Than your haq, your due This is how he defines ihsan Which if you think about it Is essentially humility That is what humility is So that is the second characteristic Of the three Obviously this is an exhaustive talk The third characteristic Is Sabr, patience Patience You will not leave a legacy In a millisecond You will not leave a legacy Because you were religious and zealous for one day That is not leaving a legacy A fad Will never leave a legacy A temporary enthusiasm Is not Legacy building material You want to leave a legacy You have to get down in the trenches And dig and dig and dig And then continue to dig And when you are tired of digging Take a rest and then dig again Consistency Over a long period of time That requires patience In all that you do Allah says in the Quran We made from amongst them Role model leaders We made from amongst them Those imams So when the Quran uses imam It does mean the prayer leader as I said When the Quran uses imam Allah is talking about A role model figure A true leader A legacy builder And we made from amongst them imams Why? What was their characteristic? When they demonstrated their sabr You will never become an imam And by imam again We mean that legacy builder That leader without that patience Systematic Continuous Perseverance For a higher cause The pleasure of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala And of course the blessings of sabr Are too many to mention Of them the famous verse in the Quran That the angels are going to be entering upon them And the angels are going to enter upon them From every door Beautiful that Allah talks about The people in the gardens of heaven And in fact in this particular verse Allah says that we shall combine them With their fathers and their sons And their spouses and their families All of them will be together Families will be together in jannah If they were righteous may Allah unite us And reunite us with our families So families will be together Allah says in the Quran You will be with those that have gone on And those beneath you in genealogy Your children and your forefathers will be together And the angels will be coming in From every door And they will say to you Salamun aleykum because you were patient So sabr is a necessary Ingredient To bring about that success That legacy And I want to now bring it To one of the causes Why we are here today and that is to talk about And to honor Imam Siraj and others Of that generation Some of whom have gone on And some of whom still remain And If you look at these three characteristics And you see Those pioneers Of American Islam Who laid the foundations Of these very masjid There is hardly a state and a city Except that Imam Siraj And others have traveled and fundraised For the masjid in the schools of those cities You look at these three things Number one Iqlas Let me say this We have a problem right now Big problem We seek Allah's refuge Sometimes I feel myself and others of our generation Are part of the problem may Allah forgive us And that problem What we call it is called celebrity sheikh culture Let me just be honest with you When I was growing up I mean I grew up in the 80s Born in the 70s When I was growing up There was no National Islamic figure That we looked up to I'm just being brutally honest Early 80s, no one That we really and genuinely The way that some of us look up to others Of our generation There were some people that we knew But there was no one of that caliber There was no one Who Was Mesmerizing the entire nation There was no one Who made a career Out of preaching and teaching We had du'at Who were engineers And they loved Islam They'd give da'wah Who were professors of economics And they loved Islam So they traveled to teach and preach We didn't have full time preachers We didn't I mean that's just a fact Look at those early people Who were they? People like Ahmad Sakr, may Allah bless him And bless his soul People like Jamal Badawi May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless him For the remainder of his life I'll be brutally honest here I have a sense of jealousy For that generation Positive jealousy You're allowed to be jealous for positive reason You should know Because Whatever you want to say about them You can never doubt their ikhlas Whatever you say about them You can never Double guess Why they did what they did Never! In Islam You didn't get rich being a preacher There was no limelight No stage where 10,000 people were watching you This is a fitna of our generation May Allah forgive us Imam Jamal Badawi I Spoke with him A while back And asked him to tell us some stories From the early 60s About his And going around in America and what not And honestly My jaw just dropped Listening to some of the stuff that he would tell us He said that At times When he was a grad student They would take the greyhound bus Into A city Into a place And sometimes they wouldn't even know Any particular Muslim over there So they'd open up the yellow pages And look up The name Muhammad or the name Khan Or in some other name Khan is also very common at that stage Okay And they would just random Cold call Are there any other Muslims? Or is there some place we can go and have a Gathering or what not The MSA conventions There was no isna back in the 60s The only thing was the MSA The MSA conventions would take place In graduate student houses The halaqas Would take place in the living room Of the same place where they'd sleep That night 10, 15, 20 people crammed together The notion, the concept Of grandiose banquet halls Of Tens of thousands of people I mean he told me if we got 20 people we would think this is Amazing, unbelievable There was no money To be made They'd have to pay their own money to go There was no fame What fame is there? There's no internet, no YouTube, nothing They did what they did For the sake of Allah And the brutal fact of the matter Let me say this bluntly Perhaps after them People came that have a longer CV That have more degrees From Islamic university That have memorized more mutun At that stage it doesn't exist anymore The sheer blessings Of those people and what they Accomplished We seek Allah's refuge It's not there May Allah forgive us I speak for myself I don't take the greyhound When I land at the airport Somebody picks me up in a fancy car I go to a hotel To stay the night And yes this is a career for me Because of income And I do get paid for many times that I go Today I'm not getting paid by the way don't worry But sometimes I'll be honest here Usually I get paid So yes I am guilty It is my career now By the way we need full time imams and that I mean that's the problem here We need people to have a full time career In this regard we cannot have part time But see when you have the fame The limelight The money, the fat Don't be surprised When you're going to find a type of corruption There were no Munafiqun in Makkah Why did they start in Medina There were no Munafiqun in Makkah Why? Not a single Sahabi of Makkah Was even, I mean there's just no question There was nothing to be gained By being a Muslim in Makkah You were a Muslim because you wanted to be a Muslim In the 70s, in the 80s In much of the 90s There was no fame Or glory or money And I caught that era I know this well and I'm not Astaghfirullah bragging or boasting I'm just telling you how it was I applied to Medina in 1994 And even in 1994 There was no Career to be made Out of Islam I literally thought I would come back And continue I have a degree in chemical engineering I worked at Dow Chemical I thought that I'll go to Medina for four years Five years and then come back and continue a career I had no clue No understanding that A full-time career can be made And that has pros and cons Let's be honest here Has major pros and cons When we look at Imam Siraj When we look at that generation There is no nifak in that generation Inshallah In that time frame They did it for the sake of Allah Humility Look at that humility Sleeping in the dorms With 20 other students Traveling greyhounds City to city Coming back Sunday night To go to work 40-50 hours a week Of a job that has nothing to do with Islam And that is their career What is his career as a professor? Those other people They have careers They have to live like all of us are living 40-50 hours a week And on top of that, they did what they did I once asked my father My father was one of the early pioneers In 1963 He came to Houston I asked him about those days Inviting speakers and preachers and what not And He hosted Ahmad Sakr In Houston In their annual convention Of 1971 They had an annual convention in Texas A grand total A massive number of 50 people came For the Texas MSA Think about that 50 people and they were ecstatic And they invited Ahmad Sakr To come And he told me That we all slept In the apartment complexes we lived in All of the people that came And Ahmad Sakr was hosted in the apartment complex I was born in 1971 I'm that old But the house that my parents lived in at that time They lived over there And then my dad told me point blank Because he knows I have a career in this My dad told me point blank In those days We didn't give honorariums We didn't give honorariums The concept of paying somebody to come Wasn't there Perhaps that is why Those people accomplished what They cannot accomplish May Allah forgive us for that And I said You didn't even used to give hotel rooms For the speakers And he thought for a while He said the first hotel room we ever got For a speaker was 1973 Or 1974 We invited Sheikh Qardawi to come From overseas so we thought we should At least get some money for him But no honorarium International speaker Which was a big deal For them But see Humility And patience That is how you achieve that legacy My time is up I'll conclude very simply I'm talking about big names, preachers, speakers Please don't lose Don't lose yourself In that large picture Allah does not care About how many followers you have About how many people know Your name in this world That's the whole point Of ikhlas and humility and sabr It's irrelevant Your fame in this dunya If you Manage to be sincere to Allah And consistent in your good deeds Serve the people That's all that is required And your daraja in jannah Can be much higher than many of the famous people out there Allah doesn't care about that fame And I'll conclude with that Hadith of the lady Who used to clean and sweep the masjid Those are the three characteristics In her We don't even know her name Do you know that? We do not even know her name The lady who used to clean the masjid Of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam noticed the masjid was dirty and what not Where's that lady? Oh she passed away She passed away, why didn't you tell me Ya Rasulullah she died at night We didn't want to disturb you Who knows who she is, we just buried her at night Tell me where her grave is So he walked from the masjid to baqir The only time in his entire life That we know of The only incident that we know of Where he walked from the masjid to baqir Because he hadn't prayed janaza Over that person And she becomes the only person In Islamic history That we hear of The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam Left the masjid to the graveyard To visit her grave And to make special dua for her Because he didn't pray janaza over her What was she doing, we don't even know her name But Iqlas, humility And patience and sabr She used to clean the masjid For the sake of Allah Her name is not known to me or you But it is known to him And that's what matters And he says They are dark for their people Until dua is made And Allah gives light to them So he made special dua for her So her grave is now a grave of light That special dua She cleaned the masjid in the dark Nobody saw her Because of that Allah gave her that light in the grave May Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala Allow us to purify our hearts Of any nifah, any hypocrisy May Allah cleanse our hearts of any evil Of any sincerity May Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala Make us humble, truly wanting to benefit others Without expecting benefit back from them May Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala Grant us sabr and iman And Iqlas and Tawakkur and Yaqeen May Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala Allow our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wassalam To be our one and only role model May he bless us to walk in his footsteps May Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala Grant us the shafa'a Of the Habib al-Mustafa sallallahu alayhi wassalam May he allow us to enter jannah with him And be a companion with him May Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala bless us To say La ilaha illa Allah Muhammadur Rasulullah as the final breath When we leave this earth May Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala cause us to live as Muslims To die as mu'mins And to be resurrected with the prophets And the companions and what a noble companionship they are We jazakum Allahu khayran Wassalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu