 We begin by praising Allah We continue to thank Allah and We continue to remind ourselves. We weren't made for this world and We continue to warn ourselves that we are returning to Allah We're not used to sitting in the Sun uncomfortably But are we preparing for a day that could be 50,000 years long in In the Sun We might be uncomfortable for five minutes in the Sun ten minutes in the Sun The Khalif is taking too long. It's 15 minutes. I'm uncomfortable and how about a day where People will be Sweating so much that the sweat comes to their knees or to their waist or to their chin and They're drowning in their own sweat We're not used to waiting if we have to wait in a line For five minutes we get frustrated aggravated How about a day Where the waiting might be not not five minutes not five hours not five weeks not five months not five years 50,000 years an incomprehensible number It said it's like imagine if you want to understand how long Perpetuity with perpetuity is forever. Imagine this whole earth this whole planet was filled with corn and Every year a whole year passes a bird comes and takes one corn and leaves and Then you have to wait for another year until that bird comes to take another corn And then we get the sense of how long forever is But we get hypnotized by this world and we forget to prepare for forever Our prophet humanity's teacher He said how wonderous it's so wonderous for people who believe in a home that lasts forever Yet all they do is strive for a home That lasts so temporary How odd how peculiar how wonderous We're preparing for that home today my brothers and sisters as we come on this Friday To reorient our lives to wake up our hearts To recommit our souls to wake up and remember our purpose of existence Today as we come on this Friday to repurpose ourselves to recalibrate Mike to myself Orienting myself towards a law the divine What are we going to leave with today? What calibration? What adjustment can I make today to go back and be closer to God? What can we find today as we come here to this message and we come here to this parking lot? We're coming to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala and What gift can we find what gift can we take? Insha'Allah we find something and go back because the epitome the height of foolishness and ignorance is being satisfied with myself What does that mean? I'm never satisfied. We're satisfied with my financial state or my career state or my the size of my home But why is it that we're satisfied with our spiritual state? Why is it that we're satisfied with our religious state? But everything else no, I don't have enough. I don't have more because They'll hurt themselves and they'll hurt others Why is it that insha'Allah we don't give an eight-year-old an iPhone or access to the internet or YouTube? Why because they'll hurt themselves and they'll hurt others. They don't know how to manage it They don't know how to use it And now let's ask ourselves What is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala not giving me? Because I won't be able to handle it because I won't be able to handle it and perhaps I will hurt myself and I will hurt others Min tamamin ni'mati alaika and you'll take a maya feek when we have now come a week From God's perfection to you is giving you enough To take care But depriving you from more so you don't transgress in other words. It gives you just enough Gives you just is Sometimes we want more we want more but we're like the child to Allah and less than the child and And so maybe maybe I want more but I shouldn't have more and so the idea is that I trust Allah More than I trust myself That's our takeaway point My beloved brothers that we leave today saying to ourselves. I trust Allah more than I trust myself But with how can we achieve that trust? If we want to trust a doctor, we want to see his credentials and his experience We want to see his where he graduated from his experience and how many surgeries he's done We want to trust a lawyer. We want to see how many cases he's handled successfully We want to trust an engineer. What school did you graduate from? How many bridges have you built? We want to trust a mechanic Have you have the shop you have these credentials? How about Allah's resume? Are you impressed with Allah's resume? Am I impressed with Allah's resume? Are we impressed with Allah's resume? Astaghfirullah Al-Azim the question may be bad adab from me But can we quote and quote hire Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? And the best caretaker the best protector. He's our Rob our caretaker Can we quote and quote hire him astaghfirullah for the for the Analogist language that might be bad adab and so can we trust Allah more than we trust ourselves and Understand that maybe I'm not richer and it's good for me Maybe my son got sick and that's good for me and good for him We read on Friday is that story the chapter of surat al-kahaf the cave and we see the three stories of Trusting God more than we trust ourselves where That we're in the first story Khidr radiullah alayhi salam and say the most alayhi salam he he broke he damaged a ship to help the people Damaging the hit the ship was helpful But we didn't understand until later because the damage ship wouldn't be taken and seized Unjustfully by the king So damaging Sometimes he gives you and it's deprivation and sometimes he deprives you and it's actually giving in That case he was deprived the ship was damaged But it was actually giving and in the next story in surat al-kahaf The child died he was killed But that was actually a gift to the parents may Allah be gentle with us We asked Allah to bring us closer to him with gifts and not through tests may Allah be gentle with us We are weak and tarafun hawa and tarafu al-muslada hafeen And in the third story in surat al-kahaf where the Where the treasure was buried for the for the for the young or the young children and then say to Musa alayhi salam erected and fixed the wall and It was because his parents or his ancestors were righteous So the idea is Allah says in the Quran I'll do billah minash shaitan al-rajim asa an takra who shay'an wa huwa khayrun lakum Wa asa an tuhebu shay'an wa huwa khayrun lakum Wallahu ya'lamu wa antum la ta'lamu Allah The people who have to what will entrust in God They 70,000 or so entered jannah without judgment may Allah make us from those who can trust him and rely on him Because even if we don't know the Hikmah behind something the wisdom behind something who do we know the all wise Who do we know al-hakim and that's the takeaway point my brothers and sisters that we Trust Allah. Why am I not richer? Why was my career not better? Why don't I have more money? Why am I not taller? Why are my grades not better? Why am I not handsomer? Why am I not more am I not prettier? Why am I not funnier? Why am I not cooler? Why? Allah is al-hakim and When we look at quote-unquote Allah's resume Subhanahu wa ta'ala in his majestic Subhanahu wa ta'ala great and glorious is he Then we can submit and embrace and accept And be okay with the quote-unquote deprivation We can be okay with the deprivation, but we only see it as a deprivation And we don't see it as a as a gift because of our lack of understanding of al-hakim Is that not true? Is that not right? Like the child that he doesn't understand. Why are you not giving me the knife? The eight-year-old why are you not giving me the iPhone? The 16-year-old the law says I can drive. Why don't you let me drive? Why don't you let me watch this movie? What you don't trust me children say to their parents you don't trust me And for all parents here's your answer. I Trust you, but I don't trust your shaytan. I don't trust your nefs. I don't trust the dunya and I don't trust your hawa. I Trust you, but I don't trust the dunya. I trust you, but I don't trust shaytan who's whispering in you I trust you, but I don't trust the ego. I do what cabena gem bake your greatest enemy is in between your own two sides and so This is our takeaway. This is our calibration today to say Allah didn't give me this knife Allah didn't give me this iPhone. Allah didn't give me this Ability to drive Because I trust him. He is al-hakim and this deprivation is actually a gift This deprivation is actually a gift I'll go to call you hada was tough for a lot of you will come to stuff you know, we'll go for the same Seek forgiveness from Allah for indeed. He forgives all since Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah was salatu wa salam ala Rasulillah How is it to sit in the Sun? Uncomfortable we've only been here 15 minutes and agitated uncomfortable and the weather is nice Are we we're going to a day may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala let us sit in the shade on that shade Let us sit in the shade If we can't bear 15 minutes of Sun all of us me included all of us Are we preparing for that day? Are we preparing for the true retirement? the real retirement Not the 401k that'll take care of us for a few years the real retirement Are we doing enough vikr? Are we doing enough vikr? Are we doing enough to hedge it and prayer at night where Allah asks every night who's calling me? So I may answer him who's asking me so I may give him Who wants who's asking forgiveness so I may forgive him are we praying enough for the ummah? For the refugees that are Muslims and they're begging to get into countries that are governed by even non-Muslims And they're begging are we praying for them our brothers our sisters our children are we praying for them? Are we sending Sadaqa? Are we doing our share for the ummah? Are we doing our share for the ummah? Are we living that for the true life? Are we living for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? This dunya is insatiable. It's like salt water The more you drink of the salt water the thirstier you get and you never get satiated And we keep drinking it and drinking it until we get sick and until we get sick and die And so the dunya Ta'isa abdu d-dirham ta'isa abdu d-dinar wa abdu l-khamisa Miserable is the one who chases money Miserable is the slave the servant of money and the servant of clothes and image As the world becomes more image oriented and money oriented we commit to being more God oriented We will make our home Our home Darul Islam our home a home of Islam Our home a home of Salah and prayer where we make the adhan out loud Are we doing enough prayer? And I conclude with this hadith and this is a hadith of Sayyidina Abu Huraira radi Allahu Anhu where he says What his best friend asked him to do? Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, and he says Awsani Khalili My friend my best friend asked me to do three things Awsani Khalili Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam with three three days from every month with two days of fasting We're going to do a couple of Nama or couple of Al-Urqidah radi Allahu Anhu he says My Khalil Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam asked me to do three things and we can remember them as three to one Three to fast three days a month to pray to raka'as doha in the morning and to pray witter Before I go to sleep three to one to fast three days a month to pray to raka'as doha in the morning After sunrise and to do witter before I sleep And so we will we are committed to growing our Islam Growing our religiosity and growing our spirituality until our last breath We're not gonna just stop We're gonna continue growing and we're gonna take this thing and and in conclusion We will trust We will trust Allah Al-Hakeem the all-wides. We will trust Allah Al-Kareem the most generous So if he didn't give me it's for a reason if you don't give your child It's for a reason and Allah has better reasons and we will trust Allah ar-Rahim the merciful And so now we can be more accepting of the divine decree We trust Allah He didn't give me for a reason and I accept it and I embrace it. I Accept you ya Allah Your quote unquote resume You are my Rob. I submit to you ya Allah And I accept what you gave me Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Ya Allah, we ask you Ya Allah, as we're sitting in the sun right now to shade us on the day of judgment, Ya Allah. Ya Allah, we ask you to help us taste the sweetness of your proximity, the sweetness of your closeness, and the sweetness of Islam. Ya Allah, we will continue to grow. We will continue to strive and struggle to be close to you. Our goal is to become a Wali, to become a friend of yours, so we can submit our outward and our inward to you. So we can submit our limbs, our hands, our feet, our eyes, our ears, submit them all to you so we can walk for you, breathe for you, talk for you, live for you, and die for you, Ya Allah. Ya Allah, as this world, take this world out of our heart, Ya Allah. But take it out gently, Ya Allah. Ya Allah, we submit to you, we surrender to you, and we accept what you've deprived us of, and we accept what you deprived us of, and we see it as a gift because we trust you and Hakim, even if we don't know the wisdom, you are the all wise. Ya Allah, we ask you to help the struggling people all across the world, and to remove oppression, and to help our brothers and sisters, and to use us gently, Ya Allah. And to make us that generation, Ya Allah, that revives the ummah, Ya Allah, and that revives your word, and to make our children from that generation, Ya Allah. This is why we want to live, Ya Allah. To live selflessly and not selfishly, to live for you, Ya Allah. And, Ya Allah, we will commit to fasting, insha'Allah, three days a month, to praying Tuhraq as Dhuha in the morning, and to praying Wittir before we sleep.