 In Alhamdulillah, without a doubt, without a doubt. Every word that I say here is calculated. When I say without a doubt, it means without any doubt whatsoever. All praise and thanks are gratitude for Allah, the Almighty. Why do I say that? In Arabic, the word hamd is incredible. It touches two things, at least two things. Gratitude and praise. That's how we start our day. That's how we start our Khutbah. Without a doubt, all praise and gratitude belongs to Allah, the Almighty, and the Almighty. And for that reason, we praise Him. We thank Him. We show our gratitude to everything that He has bestowed upon us, to every single thing that He has given us. Think about it. Whenever I ask this question, some of you know it's not in front of a bunch of teenagers on Sundays. When I ask a question, everyone thinks of a grand thing. Think about every single aspect of your life. You got up this morning, didn't you? You said Alhamdulillah. You were able, Allah actually gave you an opportunity to get up in good health and praise Him and thank Him and do your prayer. Alhamdulillah. Tuwanas da wa firohu. So here's how it works. Each time that we come, we fall short. We ask for forgiveness. Forgiveness from what? There are a lot of outings. There's a lot of awesomeness Allah has given you and I. Do we fulfill all that in the manner that has been given to us? Not necessarily. Not true. We ask for forgiveness for all the shortcomings. Ma'as dayainuhu. And ask for help. What do you mean ask for help? Well, there are things that are within our control. There are things that are outside of our control. Even that are in your, within your control, you always ask for help. We ask for forgiveness. We believe in Allah and we put our full trust. Unconditional trust in Him. Ma'audubillahi min shururi anfusina. We have two things within us. There are two things. There are all those outside factors that we think and we are quick to blame, say, hey, I did this because an outside factor, namely, at least, namely, shaitan, namely your number one enemy. Why your number one enemy? Because Allah said so. In His book He is your number one enemy. We're quick to blame Him because He did something. He made me do it. We say that. On the other side Allah says there's something within you that you need to control it. And that makes you do things that you don't want to do. You're not supposed to do. That's why we ask protection. Ma'audubillahi min shururi anfusina. Wa min sayi'ati an'amalina. Anytime you do this, your nafs, your self things that are within you that you supposedly have control over it, that makes you do something, it leaves a bramelessness, leaves a byproduct. And you're asking Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam protection from that. What does that mean by product? Very simple example. One of the days I was sitting there doing khutbah and haqib was giving me an amazing khutbah. One of my brothers sitting next to me, I don't know who he is, I've never seen him before. And he was doing this, constantly checking social media stuff. Young man sitting next to him sees that, oh hey, that's a cool thing to do. Maybe I should do the same thing. He gets his handy-dandy device and he does the social media stuff too, taking picture, posting in Instagram and all that. That is a byproduct of something that the other gentleman did, the other brother did. He wasn't aware of it, he wasn't thinking about it, maybe he wasn't calculating it, he wasn't, whatever it was, subconsciously and consciously, he did something out of his actions, someone else was affected and did the same thing. And we're asking Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala, protect us from this, ya Allah. Within your control, you ask from, protect. We ask god without God and we askyou, Oh believers, all of you. We don't know. Our Iman is our next elevated stage. You have been granted that. Amen Allah for that. Allah Allah calls you Muslim I want to oh believers Allah protect yourselves often you hear that it says fear Allah and I had a tough time explaining that to my students everyone thinks everyone thinks that Allah is out there to get you that's not what Allah says that's not why Allah created Allah gifted you everything that you have here that means you protect yourself in a way that you do not this appoint Allah what is an example these days when you travel you have travel by plane you have to have an ID card with you passport or some government issue ID if you travel abroad you have to have a passport with you you have to have a visa that is protecting yourself can you come back with this damage you are protecting yourself you are exercising taqwa each time that you see I read the light you do not cross the light when you are sitting there with a gun in you you are exercising taqwa you are protecting yourself from getting a hefty ticket Allah is saying it taqwa protect yourself from this pleasing Allah from the things that this creator this master of yours and mine said and giving you make sure you do not do not cross that line the way he deserved it that's a big topic that's a huge topic what does that mean the way Allah deserves it and I should be protecting myself and the companions of Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam asked Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and I immediately came according to your capacity just to leave it at that according to the capability Allah has given you make sure that you protect yourself if you understand Arabic this is a heavy word this is a heavy heavy don't you ever dare die that you forgot the rule we just explained to you that you depart this world without being Muslim that's a command from Allah a few days ago a week ago or two weeks ago or so we were blessed to have our prominent scholar Sheikh Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and he gave a lecture so I was fortunate to be in his company one day and I asked a question opportunities are rare to actually see an amazing scholar and be able to ask a question so the question I asked is this that has been bothering me I've been pondering upon that for a long time the question is asking Allah the question was do I to ask Allah for something well I hope I wasn't rude the way I put it and I'm going to put it the same way to you guys so if you know in just any age you have this little thingy here we have instant gratification anything that we want we get it instantly as a matter of fact if something is slow if a wi-fi is slow you get aggravated if something takes 0.2 seconds to download you get really aggravated as a matter of fact I was in a tangent I was in a plane and they said wi-fi is complementary we just gave it to you I'm like oh cool so I'm like hey let me log on to wi-fi what I can do the guy next to me he already believed that he deserved to have the wi-fi so it didn't work for a period of time he was so upset he was using foul language and all that what kind of thing is this that wi-fi doesn't work we already as if we own this as if this is ours the gratification is there when you order something online today you order something online you get instantly a confirmation two days later it shows up by your doorstep for a free shipment unless you want it 24 hours we want everything that fast we treat our relationship with God with Allah the same way often when we make a dua we ask something from Allah we want it right away we want it immediately we want it like what is this I ask two days ago God what happened I haven't seen a response I didn't see the delivery I didn't come to my doorsteps and often when we ask something we ask at a time of the need when we really need it when I really want that aid and I didn't study I want that God please help me out with my chemistry so I could get an aid when we desperately when we didn't do our dua and we really want to get married and we looked at someone and said oh my God this is it she is it Allah please help me out I really want to buy this car I want this house we want instant instant answer for everything so that's what I asked my sheikh he said respectfully sheikh how do we understand this what does this mean when we ask Allah what does that mean to us and when you started as a company scholars every word is so profound his answer I was expecting a 15-20 minute lecture his answer was maybe 30 seconds maybe one minute but it's had so much in it it's so much in it so much meaning in it so I came across an ayah after talking about what his response was which I'm going to give it to you in a couple of minutes or so because I don't have a lot to talk about Allah says this Allah says the translation was like this oh my God my rub my massive indeed my bones have been weakened and my head has been filled with white white hair white ashes and I've never been and I've never been in my supplication to you oh my God and happy loose translation this is about what are the prophets Zakaria what are the righteous persons in Zakaria listen to what he is saying listen to what he is saying this is the da'a this is the supplication he is asking for Allah I have never ever been unhappy never been unhappy about unhappier calling you I'm calling you with my da'a even though my hair is like white ash and I have I see weaknesses in my bones I see weaknesses in everything I do including my supplication to you I've never been Shak'i never been Shak'iya you know what is Shak'i I've never been depressed I've never ever ever been unhappy I've never ever been disappointed with your response with your delivery with what you have given me what she has not said everything is trust in God trust in Allah have a good opinion of Allah come to that come to that level of understanding that Allah has given you everything here for your benefit he doesn't get anything from your praise he doesn't get anything from your charity he doesn't get anything from your time but he has given you all that to make you happy if you have that level of understanding then you have a good trust in Allah that when he says he's going to respond to your prayer he's going to respond to your prayer from prophetic knowledge that we know, whatever we ask whatever we ask in this world anything about this world our concept has been completely upside down whenever we ask about this world we go asking never specific we have changed that to a specific I really want this house I really want an A and this the interesting part for me was that when football was playing sitting there and constantly for one hour and a half making du'at for the team to win and I was shaking my head I asked what are you doing he's like I'm asking Allah to help us to win we are in that level of understanding but fit dunya hasana is not a bait hasana is not a car hasana is not marrying someone hasana is everything is general when the prophetic thing has taught us when you ask ask general and also ask because have that level of trust in God in Allah that he will give you the best when you ask for something has happened in my life multiple times when I ask for something specific that may or may not be good for me but you have to have the trust in God that he will give you something better than you're asking that is where the purpose of the du'a is that's where the purpose of supplication is you have to have that level of relationship built already with your master that you will get an every du'a in one way or another way some way it will get accepted you will get something and here's the level of trust we need to have in God if you don't see it here you ask for something specific you didn't get it you have to have the critical pillar of our belief is to be in the next life that is in the beginning it says whoever has iman is one of the things that they believe you should have that trust that you will get it by multitudes in the next life my sincere apology again because you're not here I just had to just put something here out of top of my head if I said anything that doesn't make sense or if anyone I sincerely apologize I say this to you I say this to you ask of God for forgiveness he is the one the only one who can forgive you the only one who can give you what you're asking for so make this 30 seconds and I'm going to sit here count and ask for something that is valuable that is to ask for forgiveness thank God peace and blessings of God peace and blessings of God please in part of the Quran is this about to recite it there is one act Allah says he does it only part in the Quran this is a completely different on his own one of these days we are going to talk about it and Allah is commanding all of you to do it and we are going to do it insha'Allah you salve on the Prophet yaa salve on him and salve on him Allah is commanding all of you to pray for him to pray for him And to age of praise You are the mostnehmen of the Majlil Allah is commanding to you repay your indebted gratitude And to alright your soul in prayer it is very important the Quran is explaining his special orders The Quran is here The teacher in me doesn't allow me not to do one thing, and I've done it all the times that I've stood here, and this time is not going to be an exception. You're all going to get a homework, and here's a homework. The way Qutbahs conclude every single Juma'ah, almost every Masjid, from the Ayat of Quran, from chapter 16 and 19, I believe. Allah is commanding you, each one of you, me and Chris, that you are three things to do. And avoid at all costs three things. Here's my homework to all of you. I'm not going to translate it. I give you the address. 1690, go look it up, make it a part of your learning this afternoon. What are the three things that you're supposed to do? Ponder upon it. Don't just look into shallow translation. Ponder upon it. Incredible wisdom, and avoid three things. If there has been my life struggle, if I guarantee that you have some level of understanding these three and three, that is the success that you need. You will earn success that you have never ever seen before.