 السؤال التي لدي for myself firstly is who am I and why am I here so every one of us needs to ask ourselves who am I and why am I here I am a human being a human is أشرف المخلوقات the most noble of the rest of the creatures of Allah سبحانه وتعالى الله يقول في صورة التين We have created mankind in the best of postures No other creature of Allah has a better posture than ours The nose, the eyes, the ears, the mouth, the fingers, the nails The hands, the elbows, the knees Everything is placed in such a way that none of us لا matter how hard we try can think up a better place to put those organs Think about it, your hair Where would you like your beard to be? The best place is here Where would you like your eyes to be? The best place is here That's Allah's challenge Allah tells you I have made it the best Which means man you can't play with what I have done Try try to think You will not be able to come up with something better Number one Number two Allah says Indeed we have honored human beings We have honored the children of Adam Which means the human beings So the first human was Adam عليه السلام Allah created him The second human was Hawa عليه الصلاة والسلام Allah created her in a slightly different way But she was also created by Allah سبحانه و تعالى After that there was birth one after the other Allah showed us that I can create without the involvement of male or female Such as Adam عليه السلام I can create with the involvement of a male with no female Such as Hawa عليه السلام Or Eve may peace be upon her I can create with the involvement of a female no male Such as Isa عليه السلام And I can create through male and female such as you and I That's the qudra of Allah He's shown us all four probabilities All four possibilities he has shown us So when he made us why did he make us You have to ask yourself the question Why am I on earth How come people come here Birth is very hard Gestation pregnancy is very difficult Why and how come when I come onto the earth I can't remember the moment that I came into the earth I cannot And I cannot remember the time that I was in the womb of my mother But I was living There was life at a certain point 120 days The Ruh is blown I can't remember anything How come why There must be a reason Also when I was born Allah سبحانه و تعالى says لا تعلمون شيئا الله has taken you out of the wombs of your mothers Whilst you knew nothing You didn't know how to talk You didn't know how to walk Nobody ever came out of the womb of their mothers And started running or started walking It never happened The only child that came out and started speaking Was Isa عليه السلام Allah makes mention of it But that was miraculous How come I could not do anything Allah سبحانه و تعالى has kept everything for a reason I want to touch on that How come as I grow older Someone needs to look after me If they did not look after me I would have died If nobody took care of a baby that is born The baby would die Matter of time Someone needs to take care of the baby Why Also as you grow older You start learning a few words From whom From your parents And if they are not there Then from those around you Why How come I cannot just choose where I want to be born How come I cannot choose my parents How come I cannot choose which nationality I should have been How come I cannot choose to have been born in Makkah or Medina How come I cannot choose the color that I wanted to be The eyes The nose The type of hair etc Why can I not choose Why Question Also as I grew older I had these parents I didn't choose them Someone chose them for me Who was that Allah Also They taught me their dialect They taught me their language If I was living in China It was Chinese If I'm living in Trinidad You know what you speak Don't you Subhanallah It is your accent I come from Zimbabwe You can hear my accent It's a little bit different from yours But you can understand it Yours is a little bit difficult to understand But at the same time I need to ask myself Why Then I grow older Now I know how to talk Now I know how to walk Now I can start Understanding things I see everything What does Allah want from me now He wants something from me How do I know He wants something from me Because I see other people Starting to die That's what I see There were people My age They started dying My friends died A few people Someone had a health matter Diagnosed cancer Young age Leukaemia Whatever it was They passed away But that guy went to school with me Do you get the point May Allah grant Shifa to those who are struggling With any illness Say amen And then I see older people passing away And then I see healthy people Becoming unhealthy And then I am taught That this man who passed away Was stronger than you and I But he passed away Then I see people fighting For what For money How come Why didn't Allah just give me one Checkbook as I was born And said I for your life Here it is take it Why does Allah want me to work Hard in order to eat Why do I have to eat Have you thought of it We have to put something in here A few times a day We have to drink Why Why didn't Allah just make us Automatic You know Hovercraft I just press a button here Next thing I'm flying I'm going Why Why did Allah do this to us What's the purpose How come I have to eat So many times a day If I eat today I have to eat tomorrow And if I eat tomorrow I have to eat the next day And in order for me to eat I need to work I need to get money In order to get that money I have to sweat Why People say your sustenance is written How come it's written yes But at the same time I need to work for it I need to make sure I do certain things to get it Why is it that some things Are not allowed How come Why There is a reason for all this Let me take it a little bit further When I want to get married How come I propose Someone rejects Why They reject I propose I'm happy She's happy Her father says No way Not at all He doesn't speak your accent Not at all Why is it That sometimes Okay I want to get married Mashallah Things are easy Then I cannot have children Why How come I cannot have kids For example I'm talking of Just an example And how come some others They have twins Some people have triplets Why some mothers in law Are so kind And others are not How come How come You know The other day Someone sent me a message Telling me Do you know Father Becomes father in law Mother Becomes mother in law Son Becomes son in law Daughter Becomes daughter in law The wife What does she become She is the law That's what it is So May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala guide us How come Why some people have wives Who subhanallah Are the coolness of their eyes And some people They see them The eyes become red What's the purpose And vice versa as well Some people have good husbands And some people The husband is busy drinking He is liming And whatever else How come Why Why is my test like this Some people say I was so pious I tried my best I didn't miss a salah I made dua to Allah I was this and I was that But How come I have a spouse Who is troubling me And some other people They are not pious at all But they are getting everything How come Why Subhanallah How come some people die early And other people are sick And they are ill And they are not healthy And they have a life That is full of misery According to them Why is that the case I tell you now What the answer is Allah says it In Suratul Mulk Which created death and life To make you better and better And He is the Mighty and the Forgiving He created death and life To test you That's all Everything is a test From the beginning to the end Is a test From Allah Subhanahu و تعالى He chose the playing field And He chose the tests And He put you into That particular test And He says I am testing all of you He knows where we were Before we were born And He knows where we are going to go After we will die And He knows there is a better place That we will be in By the will of Allah Subhanahu و تعالى Only if we recognize Him This is why Islam is a religion Today I saw a news piece On BBC That Islam is the fastest growing religion Because There are no risks in Islam When it comes to worship Who are you worshipping When you put your head on the ground What do you say سبحان رب العالى You are glorifying He who made you ربٌ If I say glory be to He who made me Who is in control of my life He whom I am going to return to He who my sustenance is in His hand Etc Can I be risking anything No I put my head on the ground I say oh you who made me I am putting my head on the ground I will never worship anyone besides you Are you taking a risk And you are saying you are the highest Here I am I have put my head on the lowest possible ground سبحان رب العالى No religion has such a beautiful عبادة Known as سجود that we have The prostration that we have It is amazing It is a direct plug in with Allah أقرب ما يكون العبد للربه وهو أساجد The closest that a worshiper can get to his رب is when he is in prostration That's what Allah says So it's amazing This is why it's the fastest growing religion But what about us I want to give you an example The example of football Who wrote the rules of football You or someone else Someone else The fathers of football What did they say The match shall be nine minutes Am I right See everyone knows about football They're quickly saying no You know the rules Ninety minutes Now am I right Yes unless it goes into injury time Over time etc We're not going to talk about that But I want to draw up Very interesting parallel What is your job in 90 minutes What is the job When the whistle blows You dive in Into the pitch And what's your job Please can someone say it Everyone said score a goal Right If you scored one Is the match over What happens You got to keep on scoring As much as you can And you got to break history Even if the other team is so useless You can score 15-0 20-0 50-0 55-0 You will be in the Guinness Book of Records Why You did the best You guys You went through the opposition And you scored one after the other And what is the opposition trying to do They're trying to get the ball from you And they want to score Right If the opposition scores one Listen carefully Wallahi It's a very interesting example If the opposition scores one Goal And you haven't yet scored And there's 10 minutes In the meaning 10 minutes remaining Have you lost already How many of you have seen football matches Where last 5 or 10 minutes Or overtime And you find everything changes Am I right Then what happens The final whistle is blown When the final whistle is blown You can take the ball in front of the goal And you can kick it in as many times as you want Will it help you No it won't And also If you are offside What is offside It means you are against the rules You are running The ball is behind you And then you suddenly got the ball You are offside If you are offside And you score a goal Do they count it Why Because it's against the rules You have broken the rule It was a goal But it was wrong Because you did not follow the rules Now I want to go back To what I am saying You were born and I was born Our 90 minutes are from Allah Some might go injury time Some might go here there Your job is to score as many goals As you can throughout your life I read my farad Now I will read my sunnah Now I will read my nafil And if shaitan scores one goal It does not mean you lost the match You go and score another two or three Even if the shaitan scored 15 goals You score 16 Who won You won This is why there is a mizan On the day of judgment There is a scale And Allah says فأولئك الذين خسروا أنفسهم Those whose scales are heavier Than the bad The good is more than the bad 16 15 Allah says you are successful You are successful You did more good than bad And those whose scales are lighter The good deeds are lighter Than the bad You have lost yourself You have destroyed yourself You are gone Finished You know how it feels When there is And wallahi My brothers and sisters You know the world cup We have a lot of lessons from it A lot I've spoken about this once Before And I'm speaking about it again today From a different angle I want to tell you What we have to learn We have to learn that Subhan Allah No matter what happens During that 90 minutes Okay Your job is one thing You follow the rule You don't harm anyone in the process If you suddenly start punching someone What happens You get a red card You need to do two things here You make sure you score a goal And you make sure you don't break the rules In Islam As Muslims We make sure that we do as many good deeds as possible Don't harm anyone If you harm someone You get a red card What does that mean Your good deeds Go to that person That's what the Prophet Muhammad S.A.W. teaches us You're scoring an own goal You see You're scoring an own goal Make sure you don't harm people Today There is enough hatred amongst the Ummah For petty issues Make sure you learn to love one another We are part of one Jama'a We are part of a group of لا إله إلا الله من قال لا إله إلا الله دخل الجنة The Prophet S.A.W. Made a simple hadith He says whoever says لا إله إلا الله Believing in it Obviously They will enter Jannah تلفر دوس He was asked وَاِنْ زَنَا وَاِنْ سَرَق He said وَاِنْ زَنَا وَاِنْ سَرَق After the third time That's what he said He kept on repeating Whoever says لا إله إلا الله Here we're talking about You believe, right? They will enter Jannah Even if they've made mistakes In the process They seek forgiveness Allah will forgive them Imagine Shaytan Such as the opposition They score a goal And you say Look, I'm sorry So the referee says Okay, we'll delete that goal Can it happen? But Allah does that Shaytan scored a goal You say Hey, I'm sorry That was our fault The goalkeeper says Hey, I let it go down And you know what Allah says Don't worry We'll delete it Try again That's the mercy of Allah That's why he's called أرحم الراحمين My brothers and sisters Don't waste time Do you see in the football match Anyone standing for a little while And they chit-chatting They have their WhatsApp And they on While the match is going on No, there's no time for that Your life is short You don't have time to waste Two things The Prophet ﷺ says People are deceived about Many people are deceived About two things Their health And their spare time So they waste both of them While you're healthy There's no injury Start running Score a goal Another goal A third goal Don't lose hope No matter what And you know what Even if you're losing If there is That extra time The overtime They call it injury time Matches have changed I know of a match Where it was 1-0 And after a while It became 2-1 In injury time Subhanallah You must be knowing The same match Right? Right? Injury time So never lose hope A person who spends his whole life In a bad way But towards the end He does good He has succeeded And a person who spends his whole life In a good way Towards the end He does bad He has failed Just like the football Do you see the example I'm giving you? Because as we were coming here I saw Manny Ramjohn's stadium And I thought to myself I better talk about this Where Allah سبحانه وتعالى Guide us It shows us the purpose of our existence Now the rules were written by Allah سبحانه وتعالى If you are offside What happens? You are worshipping But there is shirk in your worship It's thrown out No matter what That's why Allah سبحانه وتعالى Says we sent you messengers To tell you our rules When you are on the pitch The pitch is this life Okay When you are on the pitch There are rules You cannot do what you want I cannot pick up the ball It's a handball Right? There will be a penalty I cannot just run as I wish I got to make sure everything is in order I need to wear a specific uniform I cannot just pitch up And I'm playing for Germany And I've got the Argentina uniform A Muslim has a dress code You cannot just dress like anyone And think that no, that's fine The females have a uniform The males have a uniform Your uniform When people see you They need to know You belong to this team Wallahi, it's a reality You belong to a powerful team سبحان الله I have met people I don't know what team they belong to Whether they are Argentina or Germany It's hard to say سلام عليكم To some people Because they might say Hello, back to you And then you feel like you are stumped But had they had some form of uniform And we said سلام عليكم And سلام عليكم We smile at each other And we go We are part of a team When you are part of a team That is when you score If you think you can do it on your own سيطان will dribble the ball away from you Remember that So together we will achieve We need to know That Allah سبحانه وتعالى Has told us the importance of the group We need to be together The disunity that is caused for petties Is what is destroying the entire umma سيطان keeps on trying With us every day What is his job To make us fail He wants to score against us every day So time of fajr There is a match going You are running with the ball I hope you are anyway Some of us are sleeping So you are running with the ball And what happens سيطان is running back with the ball He takes the ball away from you You take it back from him He takes it away from you Take it back The ultimate thing is You need to score that goal Get up for fajr Prove it that I am going to read my salah And that's it When you read it One goal What happens After a while you start swearing You start lying You were on WhatsApp With someone illegitimate You are not supposed to be with them What happens سيطان scored a goal Now it's 1-1 Now later on You need to rectify that We ask Allah's forgiveness We go The next thing happens I must pick up my Qur'an It's not easy I promise you one thing We are all guilty of Myself included We don't recite enough Qur'an I promise you That is something we are all guilty of Many of us We might do this Do that How many of us actually have the Qur'an With a marker in it at home And we read one page a day And we move the marker How many of us I don't even want you to raise your hands Because I know The number is very small Our relationship with the Qur'an Has been bad And it is bad And it can be better وقال الرسول يا ربي إن قوم تخذوا هذا القرآن مهجورا The complaint of the Prophet ﷺ Oh Allah My people have taken this Qur'an They have abandoned it They have abandoned its message Imagine We are the Ummah of Muhammad ﷺ We don't want to fall under that category We don't want to fall under The category of people who have abandoned the Qur'an So I call on myself and yourselves Take one Qur'an in your house Keep a marker Read one page a day Read half a page a day Read one verse a day And move the marker Move the marker Move the marker والله here a day will come Either you will complete it And start again Or either you pass away And Allah gives you a reward Based on the fact That you intended to complete the Qur'an Imagine But remember when Shaytan scores That goal against you Because you lied Because you swore Because you committed a sin You need to quickly go back Score the goal Because that is life Your whole life will continue One after the other After the other Now I tell you People say But I'm a pious person How come I got so many problems Why is my life more difficult Because if your life is more difficult Your certificate will be higher Your prize will be bigger Look When you are playing World Cup Right How many teams are there at the beginning I think they want to increase The number of teams now Right Have you heard that Everyone's nodding Mashallah We know more about the rules of World Cup Than we know about our own Dean But anyway Keep on nodding If you do know the answer That doesn't mean You must pretend like you don't know Okay So We have say 48 teams Maybe they want to increase it a little bit more Initially It's the knockout stage Right So you have teams If you're a strong team You play them And it was a walk in the park Five zero You want it Right You went to the next stage Will the team be an easier one Or a more difficult one Tell me More difficult Because now you got into the What do they call them The group stage Right Now you're in the group stage Again The initial Games will be a little bit easier You got into the quarter finals Quarter finals You're playing England Subhanallah What's happening It's going to be a tough match There's interest Everyone is watching Wallahi I tell you The angels are watching They are recording Those are cheering you on There is a force Angelic force telling you To do good Subhanallah Do good And then there is the opposition Booing you Telling you to do bad And shaitan is trying And the match is now Very heavily attended What's happening I played England Imagine I won It's going to be very very tough But guess what I'm into the semis Mashallah I'm into the semifinals And the semifinals Is very important I have to win So I will train I will practice I will get up in the morning I will run here I will do that I will fly to Tobago And I will make sure that every day I'm swimming back and forth And I'm doing this Why? I'm just getting ready for the day That the semifinals happens How much effort Subhanallah Big effort Because why? It's a very important thing So as you get closer to Allah Don't think life becomes easier He promises that it will become more difficult He promises But you will have contentment You'll be a happy person Look at Muhammad How many difficulties did he have Challenges did he face Was he ever upset Was he ever depressed Never He was content You know what he said in Ta'if He said oh Allah If you are happy and pleased with me I don't mind anything else I don't mind what's happening Subhanallah For as long as you are happy with me So that's the happiness of Allah We are striving towards it We need it to come in our direction My brothers and sisters Remember This is very interesting You suddenly The semifinals It's zero zero And ninety minutes are up What happens You get a chance You're going to overtime What happens You're going to overtime They give you I think fifteen minutes Fifteen minutes Is that right Don't pretend like you don't know Okay And then Once you have that And nothing happens They blow the whistle And we go into penalties We're going to penalties You better make sure your goalkeeper Penalties means We are now open That we just want to score this goal We're not going to run with the ball We are now standing in front of you We're going to score But the penalties are the most Decisive when it comes to winning the match So when it comes to a certain point It's you and Shaytan That's it There is adultery to be committed Right in front of me Everything is easy to do Facilitated Nobody is going to be watching What a beautiful person Etc Everything is easy going And the Shaytan is looking He wants to shoot that penalty Subhanallah And you look You take three four steps back What do you do Subhanallah Are you listening It's a tough one There is adrenaline Everyone is watching Boom boom boom And you take two three steps And you go for it And guess what happens The goalkeeper مرحباً في مرحباً أكبر في that point Your ball Doesn't go beyond the bar Subhanallah أكبر At that point It goes where it is supposed to go You know what to do You know the rules You know that if it is حرام The pleasure is going to be temporary It's going to be fake It's going to bring a lot of regret So you don't want to do that What do you do You rush towards the right thing And you make sure you've scored the goal When it was the most difficult We didn't do anything for so long And now suddenly we did the right thing My brothers and sisters You suddenly win the match And thereafter Your day comes Your day comes when you have that World Cup And everyone is holding it And everyone is excited It is very sad that I have to give this example But to be honest with you We enjoy that match We know how it works We have a more important match Known as your real life Each one of us comes in When the whistle is blown Metaphorically Each one of us has to rush In a certain direction Each one of us is on our own But we keep passing the ball Where we are told to pass the ball We help each other in our lives If you I want to ask you a question If you passed the ball And you set the goal And someone else scored the goal Who wins the whole team won Do you get it The whole team won Same applies in the dunya When you help someone to do good Allah says I'll give you the full reward of it as well Because you helped That's why When you did not help You are selfish So it's amazing How the similarities are But we understand it for one thing That is leisure and pleasure But we don't understand it for another thing That is absolutely serious Absolutely serious And I tell you every point that we learn Of that match Applies in our lives in a different way Like I said Some people live a little bit longer Maybe Allah wants them to score some more Maybe it's not yet time You know subhanallah Allah knows best When your time is Your whistle shall be blown You need to make sure you get that cup You need to make sure you get the prize You need to make sure you played Don't lose hope until the end Imagine your enemies scores one Two three You're setting three nil You can make it four three By the will of Allah You can I promise you you can Or take it to three three And then it gets to overtime and penalty And then you can win You can You can But try not to let it get to that boiling point Because you know the penalties Even the good team can lose Right Because now it's too close And it's tricky So try to score it before My brothers and sisters that is life Allah subhanahu و تعالى says in the quran او محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم We have never sent a messenger Before you accept That we have taught every one of them To convey the message That there is none worthy of worship Besides Allah So worship me alone Allah is saying Every messenger from the beginning To the end Came with one message ورشب الله alone Don't worship shaitan Make sure my brothers and sisters That we fulfill this In a way That we follow the rules Set by Allah Subhanahu و تعالى Make sure Like I was saying Allah chose the ground Allah chose where you're going to be born Because it's a test If it wasn't a test He would have allowed you to choose Allah chose what problems you're going to have Because it's a test If it wasn't a test He would tell you You choose what you want Allah chose your eyes Your lineage Your color Your complexion Your nationality Whatever else Allah chose And as time passes He's just watching you To see Even when you have wealth And power And position Allah in the Qur'an Uses the same word ليابلوكم Allah is the one who keep Who has made you on earth One after the other And in another place In the Qur'an Allah سبحانه و تعالى says Allah has raised some of you Above others Allah has raised some of you Above others In different matters Of this world In order to test you Regarding what He has given you If Allah gave you He's testing you If Allah took it away from you He's testing you How do you react Don't be upset This life is temporary Life is temporary So when you get close to Allah Allah will give you contentment Some people They have a thorn on their toe And they are so suicidal Another person's leg was amputated And they are saying At least I'm still alive Why? It's Iman It's your yakin Your conviction in Allah You believe He knows what He's doing You believe He is رب العزة والجلال He is my maker I'm going to go back to Him This world was not made in order For us to do as we please There There is another place to do that Known as جنة If we could do whatever we pleased In this world What was the purpose of creating جنة الفردوس There was no purpose Because someone would say If you were asked Do you want to go to a place Where you do what you want You say I'm already in a place Where I do what I want What was the point Allah says no In this world You don't do what you want You got to follow the rules Do what we want And Allah will give you Be happy with your fair share Of challenges and tests Maybe sickness Maybe you lost your job You're looking for a job You want a child You have a marital problem How are you going to solve it Watch your tongue Every time you swear You've lost Every time this happens You lose And so on Remember my brothers and sisters We ask Allah Subhanahu و تعالى To grant us ease And we ask Allah Subhanahu و تعالى To open our doors I want to end off By making mention of The most serious goals That are scored by the devil Number one I said it already He makes us Associate partners with Allah In any way And in every way He is trying So even if you are reading Salah You want to beautify it Because people are watching That's wrong You lose the reward Sometimes we do things Besides Allah We are worshipping trees And sticks And stones And saints Etc Etc When Allah says I've sent all the messengers In the Qur'an Allah says it in more than one place I've sent all the messengers In order to remind you To worship me alone لا إله إلا أنا فعبدوني All these messengers That came From the beginning to the end All of them I gave them one message To give you And that was There is none worthy of worship Besides me So worship me alone Be careful Because shaitan's plan When that goal is scored Against us It is more dangerous Than any other goal You can ever have Secondly Sometimes what we do is We break the rules We are offside How We fulfill a deed It may be a good deed But we added something extra Or we subtracted something So we are not following the rules of the game Who decided the rules of the game Allah And who brought those rules Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم How you should read salah What time you should read salah How what should happen Is all decided by Allah Subhanahu و تعالى So I hope and I pray We can protect ourselves from that Which is innovation In the deen of Allah Subhanahu و تعالى Because in that way We will be able to score The maximum number of goals I hope you've understood The examples I've delivered May Allah سبحانه و تعالى Accept it from me And may Allah سبحانه و تعالى Grant me steadfastness And all of us may Allah Grant us death as وحدين And may Allah سبحانه و تعالى Grant us a death as بالتبيعين Those who follow the sunnah Of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم And may Allah سبحانه و تعالى Grant us جنة الفردوس