 We begin by saying thank you God. Thank you to our maker the one who made us We're telling him thank you Then we continue to praise God. We say you're amazing our maker our creator You are amazing and Then we remind ourselves That we weren't made for this world then what world were we made for? the next life This is a temporary test Very short. Our purpose is not here, but we sometimes get distracted We get hypnotized You know like when someone is So into a video game that you call his name Ahmed Ahmed Ahmed Ahmed and they can't hear you Why because the dunya hypnotized them The world hypnotized them and people get hypnotized by different things Some get hypnotized by money some get hypnotized by cars some get hypnotized by success Some get hypnotized by the mirror and they're pretty hair some get hypnotized by their muscles. What are You hypnotized by what am I hypnotized by? so I can wake up and Remind myself that I wasn't I'm not made for this world and then We warn ourselves that we are returning to our maker and in the meantime Our maker is watching us observing us monitoring us Our maker his name is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and he put us in a vehicle That vehicle is your body. You know when you get in your car and then you get out of your car Are you your car? No, you're not the car. The car is just a vehicle that you use Temporarily for a short period of time and then it's life ends and You continue You might use the car for 10 years 5 years 1 year 15 years and then that's it and Your body is also a vehicle and so when we look in the mirror We're seeing just the vehicle and what really you are and what really I am is the spiritual heart This essence the soul and that's why we live. That's why we exist. That's why we breathe That's why we wake up Everything else a distraction unless we use the distraction to get closer to our maker Then it becomes a gift if we use the money if we use the car if we use the success if we use the mirror To get closer to our maker Then it's our friend. It's a gift. It's not a distraction. Why because it got me closer to my maker So the mirror can get me further from my maker Or closer to my maker my hair can get me Closer to my maker or further from my maker. How can my hair get me closer? How because when I see my hair I Say this is From God or I say the dua that the Prophet used to say is lost in him and he used to say when he saw the mirror Allahumma come I have sent a call key for Hassan Hulu key. Oh Allah just like you made me outwardly beautiful. Can you make my inward beautiful? Can you make my character beautiful? So I'm nice to my mom. I'm nice to my dad. I'm nice to my neighbor And you know what's interesting. This is so interesting This world who's the author of this world? Allah who's the author of you and me? Allah who's the author of Islam? Allah and you know what this author designed what he did He designed us by our nature to be annoying to each other To be annoying to my wife to be annoying to my husband to be annoying to my parents that I'm an annoying child and my I'm annoying. He's annoying. She's annoying. I annoy my neighbors. My neighbors annoy me. My boss annoys me I annoy my boss. My brothers and sisters annoy me. I know my brothers and sisters Everyone is just ah Why because this is dunya It's not Jenna and Jenna will never be annoyed Will never be sad It's Jenna so I know being annoyed is an expectation Being imperfect is an expectation, but what are you going to do when you're annoyed? With your friend with your brother with your father with your mother with your sister What are we going to do? Are we going to separate our hearts? Are we going to separate our minds separate our time? Separate our bodies not invite each other anymore separate our businesses We're stronger with each other but Iblis The father the patron the leader of Satan the devil he separated He separates and that's his job What I'll know by other come live out of it now At the spirit on what can a rubber cabal see raw? We made you to each other Annoying at the spirit. Are you gonna be patient and your maker your lord is watching you Your rub is watching you. What are you going to do? Sometimes we look at these countries that are populated by Muslims this country and that country Populated by Muslims separating from each other Or or hurting each other or bombing each other, but I want to ask all of us What about the micro bombs that we do to each other? With a little word here With a little sentence there with a little look of my eyes That I did to my friend that I did to the person in the message when his phone rang At the time of the prophet peace be upon him their message was made of gravel and sand on the floor and there was a man He didn't know any better. He came and he did number one in the mosque He urinated in the mosque and then the the the companions of the prophet peace be upon him This to protect the sanctity of the mosque and this is a special place. What are you doing? Soiling our beautiful message. So they got up they jumped and then our prophet our prophet Your prophet your teacher Your role model your leader The one who we follow in through the doors of heaven He said let him finish Urinating in the mosque What is that? What kind of worldview is that what kind of love is that? What kind of care is that? Let him finish Urinating in the mosque and when someone's cell phone rings We look at him with a stare with our eyes a deadly stare Wa khfil janaa haka lil mu'mineen Allah says in the Quran lower your wings To your fellow brothers and believers lower your wings. What does that mean? That means even Even if you're you are correct lower your wings There's enough separation. There's enough separation. There's enough separation When are we going to connect with each other and Forgive each other and overlook each other's faults. No one's saying it's easy But are we gonna be like that country that's bombing the other Muslim country? But doing it here in the message, I'm gonna bomb my brother my Muslim brother's heart By making him feel invalidated by making him feel uncomfortable When will we be able to Sacrifice ourselves for others In a poem it says Your true brother is the one who is with you And the one who sacrifices himself To help you. What is a rape of the man you thought the heck and if time has shattered you Shat that fee he shemla who liya Jama'a then your brother will scatter himself to gather you I call you only had a was the for a lot of you will a confidant Oh, you know what? We'll go through the same seek forgiveness from your maker seek forgiveness from your Lord seek forgiveness from your owner Seek forgiveness from your God for he is indeed is hearing and listening and forgives all sins I'd rather break the walls of the Kaaba than the heart of my Muslim brother or sister This is a valid principle if we had the choice To break a brick from the Kaaba wall of the Kaaba the Kaaba and Mecca or the heart of my brother No my heart the heart of my brother is so valuable to me. I Care about it and so how can we manifest these principles in our lives? You know, there's There's four types of patience in our Islamic tradition You know, there's the science and all of us need to study this with our children the father the aim the mandatory bare minimum knowledge that we need To make not to make an income which is also important not to make a living which is also important But to get to heaven. There's four types. We need to learn the science of the outward Worship It's called fiqh. We need to learn the science of truth and Beliefs which is called the Akida and we need to learn the science of the heart Which is called tazkiyah Islam iman ihsan and these are the three dimensions of our religion body mind and soul Goodness truth and beauty do the good know the truth make the beautiful and so in the science of ihsan There's diseases of the heart and every once in a while Just like we need to remove clutter from our desk or clutter from our our garage or clutter from our basements Well, there's no basements in California Clutter from we need to move clutter from our hearts and there are diseases And there's a science on how to remove them, right? So for example, there's the disease of envy when I'm jealous and I want someone to lose How do I remove that it one of the the remedies is I make dua for the person I'm envious of to get more of the thing I'm envious about So let's say I'm jealous that he has such an amazing. He's so rich. So I make dua Yeah, Allah make Omar even more rich And then it's like it hurts me so it starts to clean might scrapes the gunk of Envy this is called the science of tazkiyah The science is purification of the heart. So anyways in patients. There's four types of patients In our amazing tradition of Islam and Islam is the last living truth There's truth in other in other traditions But it's it has not been preserved like the truth of Islam in the final testament We confirm the old testament and the new testament and the final testament the Quran Which is the only finally preserved message from the same God. They all came from the same God The same messengers. They're all prophets and brothers In conclusion patients has these four avenues patients on Fulfilling the commandments that Allah commands me to do second fulfilling Paid being patient from avoiding what the prohibitions that Allah told me not to do So number one I'm patient. I do what you want Allah number two. I'm patient Whatever you say tell me not to do. I'm not gonna do it number three is Patience with a calamity a test. Oh my god. I just broke my arm. Oh my god I have to move and go to a new school and make new friends. Oh my god I just lost this precious Game that I had this this valuable thing I have to be patient with it and Fourth and this is so interesting patients with Annoying people This is real and it might be your wife It might be your husband It might be your mother or your mother-in-law It might be your father or your father-in-law, but we are Muslim That means what that means we submit to Allah and I will treat beautifully anyone Who who is annoying to me? Anyone who who's annoying to me I'll treat them beautiful It's said nicely in a in a in a proverb the one who disobeys God towards you Then obey God towards them Why because our relationship is with God So someone who you see I'm in there's a triangle I'm actually interacting with Allah and so let's lower our wings To our brothers. Let's lower our wings To our sisters. Let's lower our wings to each other and The one way to do that The one very helpful way to do that and this is a tangible Takeaway if you forget everything that I said remember this Whether it's your marriage or your mother or your father or your grandparents or your neighbors or your or your brother or your sister Or your friends or whoever the way To not be annoyed is to not look at the annoying thing Is to not discuss the annoying thing and to not think about the annoying thing and Instead look at something we like talk about something we like Think about something we like so my husband or my wife. They might have Ten beautiful qualities and they might have ten ugly qualities. Which ones am I gonna look at? Which ones am I gonna talk about and which ones am I gonna think of think of? That's a question for all of us Bismillah. Alhamdulillah. Salatu wassalamu ala Rasulillah. Allahumma khfir la al-muslimina wa al-muslimat Wa al-mu'mina wa al-mu'mina. Al-ahya'in minhum wa al-amwati. Oh Allah unite our hearts Oh Allah give us the fortitude and the strength to be to be beautiful to someone who's ugly to us Ya Allah when someone is ugly to us give us the strength to be beautiful to them Ya Allah when someone is heavy with us give us the strength to be light with them. Ya Allah when someone is Difficult with us give us the strength to be easy with them. Ya Allah when someone harms us give us the strength to forgive them Ya Allah when someone is greedy to us give us the strength to be generous to them Ya Allah, when someone pushes us away, give us the strength to connect with them. When someone doesn't invite us, give us the strength to invite them. When someone doesn't share with us, give us the strength to share with them. When someone tells us and calls us by ugly names, give us the strength to respond with beautiful names and beautiful words. Ya Allah, when someone is disobeying you towards us, give us the strength to obey you towards them and give us the strength to see you in everything, to see you before everything, to see you after everything, to see you during everything, to live for you, to breathe for you, to walk for you, to talk for you, to sleep for you, to eat for you, to blink for you, to give for you, to withhold for you, to love for you, and to even hate for you when that's the right correct feeling to do, to be generous for you and to withhold for you. Give us wisdom to do the right thing at the right time in the right way. Let us worship you instead of worshiping our own opinions. Wake us up from this domain of distraction. Wake us up from this state of hypnosis. Let us live for you. Let us see that the reality of this world, this entire universe is not worth even the wing of one mosquito in your eyes. And let us live for the next life. And let us not trade the next life for this life. Let us not trade the next life for this life. Let us not trade the next life for this life. Ya Allah, we're desperate. We call you. We call you to help us, to elevate us, to guide us. We think we know everything. We think we have everything. We think we're good enough. We're satisfied with our religious state, with our spiritual status. Ya Allah, guide us. Ya Allah, wake us up gently, Ya Allah. Wake us up gently, Ya Allah. Wake us up gently, Ya Allah. Ya Allah, let us be these gentle people that bring hearts together. Ya Allah, when people are annoying to us by the very nature of how you created us, let us have the magnanimity to smile back to them, Ya Allah. And not give them the look of our eyes to make them feel uncomfortable, and unloved, and unwanted. Give us the Muhammadan love, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the Muhammadan character, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, to be beautiful and to elevate the people that we're with. And to elevate their states, and to elevate them and make them feel good about each other. Ya Allah, we ask you for everything good that our teacher, our beloved Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, asked you for. And protect us from everything that he asked you protection from. And send peace and blessings on him. And let us stay alive through the month of Ramadan that's coming. And let us have the fasting of the stomach. The fasting from sins and even the fasting of the heart. Let us be for you and be with you and be from you and be to you and be of you. Ya Allah. Ameen, Ameen, Ameen, Ameen. Inna Allah ya'umru bil adli wal ihsani wa ita'idhar qurba wa yanha anil fahshai wal munkari wal baghi Ya'idhukum la'allakum tadakkarun. Udhkur Allah al-Azim yathkurkum wa shkuruhu ala ni'amihi yazidkum.