 We've reached chapter 10. So we're covering territory. The chapter of rushing to do good works. What do they translate the chapter as there? The chapter on hasten. The things to do with good deeds and encouraging the person to intend doing the good. This is the last time you told someone to hasten. And hasten when you do that. It's good to be hasty sometimes of rushing to do good works. وَحَثُ مَنْ تَوَجَّهَ لِخَيْرٍ عَلَى الْأَقْضَهِ عَلَيْبِ الْجِبْدِ مِنْ لَيْرِ تَرَدُدِ And to incite or encourage the one who would direct themselves toward good things to do it with all earnestness and not to hesitate. If you get the idea to do something and you know it's a good thing, don't give your ego a chance to talk you out of it. Because the خواتر that come to a person are three or four. The first is خواتر ربان. So divine thoughts, godly thoughts. God and then angelic thoughts and then egotistical thoughts and then shaitanic thoughts. Four different types of thoughts that will come to a person. So you're walking about your day and something pops into your head. You're going about whatever it is you're supposed to be doing going about. Something pops into your head. Where does that something come from? So by the nature of the thought we can know where it comes from if it's a divine thought. Meaning direct from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and Allah sends inspiration to everyone. It's not revelation. You're not going to start a new religion tomorrow, right? But everything is inspiration from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Even the B, the bumble bee gets wahi, right? And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala inspired the bee. You know the surah? Surah to Nahab. A divine thought is one that is about the perfection of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. The sublimity of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala drawing nearer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Right? Closeness to Allah. Getting nearer to Allah. Nearer to the messenger of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. These are direct from Allah. Second thought is the angelic thoughts. An angel came and whispered in your ear. An angel came and gave you this push to do what? Good things. Acts of ibadah. Doing good for another person. Thinking positive. Avoiding something that will put an obstacle between you and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. That thought comes from the angel. That's why it's good to be on good terms with angels. They're all around and we want to keep them around because any spot that's taken up by an angel is not available to be taken up by a jinn or a shaytan or something else, right? So, khilas. Let's see how many we can get in the room. We remember Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in a gathering. They're going to stuff the room. And they're going to pile on top of each other all the way up into the heavens, right? They get really excited about such things. We should do more of such things then. Subhanahu wa ta'ala, how many angels could we bring to the United States? How many angels could we bring to California? The angels are sitting there saying, California, really? We have not been there in the longest time, right? Alright, let's go check it out. Subhanahu wa ta'ala, the second are the egotistical thoughts. The egotistical thoughts are nafsani. They come from your lower self. That nafs, that when we say the word nafs, we mean the ego. So, it's when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala turns in the Quran, that nafs will amara. The commanding self that commands to do bad things. Okay, so Sayyidina Yusuf, alayhi salatu wa salam, alayhi salatu wa salam, alayhi salatu wa salam, alayhi salatu wa salam, alayhi salatu wa salam, talks about that. I'm not going to say that my nafs is innocent. Inna nafsala amaratun bilsum. It commands to what is bad. That's that lower ego. That lower self are the thoughts that come from there. Are the thoughts to do things that are repetitive, right? To do things that are not good with your limbs. To do things that are maybe selfish, right? And those types of things. Or to make those sins of the flesh, or the sins of the appetite, and all of those different types of things that's coming from the ego. And then there are the Satanic thoughts. The Satanic thoughts come from, right? Shay'al-Din that are working for the Shay'ban, right? So Jinn, but also human beings that are doing work for Shay'ban. And those are the sneaky ones, and sometimes the downright evil ones. And they're trying to distance you from Allah SWT. Those are the ones that bring you doubts about the unicity of Allah. And the Risala of Muhammad SAW. Those are the ones that cause you to think wrong things about Allah SWT. Those are the ones that cause people to think in conflict with proper ethics. They come from the Shay'al-Din. Right? Because what is the Shay'ban's mission? To get you, and as many people as possible, further away from Allah SWT. So here we're talking about that thought, that angelic thought, khatia, madaki, that comes to you to do something right. To do something good, SWT. And under this title, he begins, by citing the verse of Allah SWT in Surat Al-Baghraa, فَسْتَبِقُ الْخَيْرَاتِ So rush, race to do good things. And we've said before that this racing or competition to do good things is not a type of destructive competition. It means to, when you see other people doing good, you are inspired to go out and do good too. That's what it is. Not that type of competition where when you're racing, not us, not the BMX people, right? Those other people who shave their legs when you're doing like the touring, racing, the road racing, I did a little bit of that too, right? When you're doing that and the person comes up, right, and shoves something, and actually in the mountain biking, we'd have this too, when you go around the bend in the mountains and there's no crowd and no one sees you, someone might take something and put it in the spokes of your bicycle, right, and breaks it up and you flip off and get all broken up and you're out of the race, right? So that type of competition when someone puts something in the spokes of your wheels to undermine what you're doing and to break you down, okay? Or to under, you know, or to maybe even the piracy that goes on. They come over and they take all of your, you know, what it is you're trying to build and they make it hard in order so that you can't keep up in this type of thing, that sort of destructive type of competition that goes on. That's, we don't have people in the community who go and undermine others and do nasty stuff to others, right? To cause them to slip up or essentially undermine what they're trying to build vis-a-vis nela. Undermine what they're trying to build. We respect a man, we respect a woman who's working to put food on the table for their family, right? To keep a roof over the head of their family and we respect that work that they're doing but here we have a brother, here we have a sister who's trying to put food on the table of the house in Jannah and we want to somehow undermine that, right? That's not cute. It is not clever and we shouldn't clap for such a person, you know, because what is somehow seen as clever in the dunya is not going to be seen away in the Akhirah, right? If we cannot be ethical people, then, you know, really, it's just identity politics, right? So that is a destructive type of competition to undermine our brothers and sisters. That's not what is being talked about here. So when that goes on, we don't kind of say, well, Allah said race, compete with one another, you did good. So here we are competing, like, pick up basketball where there's a whole lot of trash talking and elbow here and, you know, that type of thing. If you're on the basketball court and someone catches you in the mouth with an elbow, you're like, all right, you got me, you got me, right? And then the next play, right, you might do something else, maybe on the basketball court, if that's the type of game that people want to be involved in. But now when we're working for our boss, we're handling the time, so handling them, right? We're not out to crush souls. We're not out to hurt feelings. Race, move quickly to a forgiveness from Allah SWT because in the doing of good deeds, whether they are good deeds that are an ibadah that is between you and Allah SWT or in efforts to help and relieve the distress or difficulty of a fellow person in that is a manfira from Allah SWT. Allah, once, Allah has all this ghufran to give out. It's all there, and there's no shortage. If someone runs off and gets a whole bunch of ghufran and barakat and hazanat from Allah SWT, it doesn't mean that there's now not enough to go around because so and so got it, right? The Sahaba complained to Rasulullah SWT that wealthy among us, they went and ran off with all of the ajr because they're giving all the money and all of this and we have nothing to give and the Prophet, Allah SWT, said he couldn't just speak it in sadaqah, right? In making vigour is a sadaqah and reminding people of Allah SWT is a sadaqah so there are so many ways but some people in this world they have the mentality that there's not enough to go around and therefore we have to compete we have to prevent, we have to block Allah SWT has so much good to give Subhanallah there is enough to go around and if we all operated with this plenitude perspective on life where would we get to? We wouldn't be third nations within a first nation we would be a first nation even though the first nation are the Native Americans but still we would be a leading community but we're not a leading community but we need to get back to who we are ibnat is a wufran that you're rushing to when you do something good Allah is in the assistance and the support of His slave so long as the slave is in the assistance in support of His brother that's a sunnah of Allah SWT the brother that wasn't a hadith I mean it's a hadith but it's not from the book we didn't get there, I'm moving too slowly Ma'ufiratimim Rabbika and the Jannah the jannah are these people who look out for the ish for those people who look out for their fellow man the midwan of the best of you the humanity and nasu and nas he didn't say the believers he didn't say the Muslims and nasu aiyadullah wa khayru kum khayru kum na di aiyali the people not the Muslims the people are the what is it the aiyad right we use it, the Egyptians use it for children but aiyad means the people that you put on your taxes what do you call them? the dependents so people are the dependents of Allah SWT he's supporting them and the Egyptians use that word for children it doesn't mean the people are the children of Allah SWT but affectionately because we know we're not being literal we know that the people are the dependents of Allah and the best of you are the best of you to his dependents SWT here we go and that is the Jannah whose width is that of the heavens and the earth and it was unprepared for people who have taqwa to have caution when it comes to the limits that Allah SWT has set and the first hadith in the bab he says he narrates from Abu Huraira radiAllahu anhu that the messenger Adaya SA said bak housing fatten muslim sasif so rush to do good works because there will be crises and chaoses and tragedies that will be like a piece of dark night night. Do you ever be in a dark night maybe way outside of the city? You can't see your hand in front of your face. It will be so dark people won't be able to know which way is up from down, which way is right and which way is wrong. They'll get lost. If someone gets lost in the middle of a dark night what do we do? Do we give them a lecture? Do we wag our finger at them? Do we blame them? Or do we try to help them get to a safe place? Do we try to help get them a light? Right? So if you do have a light what's that light for? To get out to those people. You think that the rescue teams that go out there and someone's you know both got they didn't get into harbor soon enough or they lost their way out on the open ocean. The helicopter comes and then you know the safety person lowers down on the cable and when he gets down and the people are like trying to stay above the water and they've been out there for hours and maybe it's winter time and they're about to get hypothermia and he gets down just close enough and he stops and he says starts wagging his finger. You know I know you shouldn't have been out here like this. Is that what goes on? When they get them back up into the helicopter do they scold them? When they get them to the hospital and treat the hypothermia are they worried about scolding them? Do you think that who scolds and maybe their parents or something like that? But really it doesn't matter at this point. The people who go out onto the highways and get people, extricate people from their cars with the jaws of life and things like that, right? It can opener for a vehicle. They're not scolding someone, right? They are fulfilling their own meaning of existence by helping another human soul. Can we like get to a point where we can be as good as a caviar that is on call and has a real job but when someone is in an extremely precarious situation hanging off a cliff, the extraction specialist that we can go out there and just because it completes me as a human being thank you for the opportunity for letting me feel like I'm still a human being because sometimes we forget. Can we reach that level or we need to wag a finger a little bit because that's what makes us feel like we're righteous? So how bad you are? So people are gonna be in the pitch black and they're not gonna know. People come up and you would not believe the stuff that they don't know that we take for granted. Left from right. There will be fit and like a piece of dark night a man will wake up in the morning as a believer and go to sleep at night as a disbeliever and another will go to sleep at night as a believer and wake up in the morning as a disbeliever. And I seek refuge in Allah that I become that person because you don't know what the next phase of your life has in store for you maybe going along thinking MashaAllah right I got it like that but you don't know what's gonna happen to you why because your faith is not from your cleverness it's a gift that Allah has given you and he did not have to. The first thing in Sunni Aqita that you learn is that no one forces Allah to do anything. He doesn't have to reward people who do good things nor does he have to punish people who do bad things. If Allah wanted to why because this is his game and this is his design. This is his test and he sets the terms it just happens to be that he set them in the way that we know but he didn't have to. If he wanted he could flip it and reward the people that disobey him and punish the people that obey him. He can do that. He promised he wouldn't and he's true to his promise but it could have been otherwise. We should not think that our faith is something we've earned. We should not think that our faith is something that comes from our cleverness. It's a gift that Allah gives and if Rasulullah SAW was telling us nobody gets into jannah by their actions and they say not even you Rasulullah he said not even me unless Allah SWT envelops me with his Rahman. We do good actions because that's if you want to find Rahman up Allah. If you want to get to the jannah of Allah the best place to start looking is where good actions are. That's why we go there. That's why we do those good actions because we know that those are the actions of the people that will gain the pleasure of Allah SWT but we also know at the end of the day that he makes the final decisions and that's scary. Isn't that the essence of Taqwa? Isn't it with both fear and hope that the believer can fly? Fear and hope is a balance. Balance is what we seek for in Allah SWT because when he built the worlds and he built the sky he set up the balance with the assignment to Benny Adam to keep the balance. It's your job to keep a balance. Let's not be unbalanced. So we keep that balance but of course if one is going to outbalance the other when you're young and healthy keep fear. That if one's going to preponderate the fear side should preponderate but when people get to the end of life or when they go into the hospital or when something goes wrong and there's a good chance that they might be close to death we flip it and we emphasize hope because not much more is going to go on after that and they have to die with a hope in Allah SWT. So we switch to hope. How we got onto that tangent? I do not know. People that are in the middle of darkness who don't think that your faith is something that you got because you're shot there. And what does he explain for why this is happening? Because he sells his Dean for some little trinket of dunya. He sells his Dean for some little trinket of dunya. Meeting? How does that play out? Some people get bought out. Some people set out. Okay, yeah. I'll go inform on people or I'll create a case against other Muslims for this, this and this. Or I'm so angry about the way I was treated in that mosque that I'm going to go on TV and I'm going to start a career that's just about attacking Islam. Yeah, okay. This person bought dunya for the price of his Dean. But what about people who for the sake of being close to money or power are willing to institutionalize not following the ethics of Islam? To make that, right, the policy, right, that we don't actually try to follow. We fall short and everything. So many things. And all of us are falling short. Why? Because we're belly-at. I mean it's in our DNA. Why? Because a loss of Hanu Ita'ala structures into our DNA, the need for his forgiveness, the need for his repentance. And that is why we exist. Every child of Adam makes mistakes. Every child of Adam sins. You see someone out there making mistakes. You see someone out there sinning. Benny Adam, right? And the best of them are the ones who love Allah and his messenger enough to find their way back and to ask Allah to forgive them. And then what are they going to do? They're going to keep on going out and making mistakes. But what we hope is this. Is that the mistakes of tomorrow are a little bit more subtle and fine too and not the mistakes of yesterday. That we learn from our mistakes. That's the hope. But how quick a learner are you? In math class maybe someone's really quick. Not me. But someone. Right? Most of you are, I'm sure, like real shelter in math. Right? Tell you. People like us, we go into humanities. Social sciences. Right? Who has benefit there? Tell you. So someone is going to be a quick learner here and a slow learner here. Okay? But at the end of the day we learn and we pass. The mathematics we have to pass to get our degrees. Right? We pass statistics to get the psychology degree and stuff like that. Right? We learn. But at what pace? If I'm real shelter in math, Mashallah, should I look down on the people who struggle with mathematics? If I'm real shelter in fasting, shall I look down on the people that struggle with fasting? It doesn't make sense. It doesn't even seem fair because a lot gifted me and then pretty much everybody is gifted somewhere. We just haven't found where that gift is sometimes in ourselves or in the other person. But everyone is gifted too. So if we're gifted in one place and someone else is not gifted in the same place, what's actually supposed to happen? A lot of finger wagging because you know what they say in my country, where I come from. Where I come from they say every time you point a finger at somebody, right? There's four more pointing back at you. Right? So subhanallah. What's supposed to happen is that we complete one another. One person is strong in this area. The other person is strong in this area. The first thing we have to do is we have to recognize and acknowledge. And then it's not a competition, right? We all carry the weight. Subhanallah. Diversely in being different is what makes us strong. Do you want in the fall? How many people have been on the east coast in the fall? Right? In the autumn. Northeast, northeast. How many people in the northeast? Right? In the autumn. You've never been in the northeast in autumn? Okay. How many people have been in northwest frontier province in autumn? But you're into here, right? I'm preferring in these days. So you'll see a picture of the trees changing colors in autumn, right? Do y'all have trees that change colors in autumn in Bosnia? Not many. Okay. But anyway, in the northeast, right? You all see pictures of this. They change all these different colors. And people love those pictures. They're absolutely beautiful in Canada. They have this effect, right? And it's the most beautiful pictures. Do we want all those leaves to turn the exact same color? Right? You know? I mean, the cedars in northern Lebanon are like really nice too. But that's part of the beauty is all of these different colors together. And that's what we should be looking for in a healthy community. Is people with different strengths and talents working together to create something that is beautiful, right? That is beautiful. Yeah, Robbie. Because, yeah, we'll move on, Insha'Allah. Second hadith. From Adi saru'ah, siru'ah, because reciting and fadhihah saru'ah, right? Siru'ah or saru'ah, Raqba tabliin ha'rati radiya'Allah wa anhuqaaal, sanlaytu wa raa nadi'i sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, bil madinat al-Aasra, fa sallamah, thum maqamah masriyan. We didn't read this last week. What hadith do we actually stop on? We did read this last week, no. Fairly certain, because he went to distribute the funds that he had in his house. We did. Where do we stop? 80 down. Got you. Okay, so moving along to hadith number three. Insha'Allah, we cover one territory that I remember. But I think we got a little bit of different perspective on hadith number one. I saw things I didn't remember from asking for hadith. Anjabir, radiya'Allah wa anhuqaaal, qaala rajulun din nabiya sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, yawma ahadin arra'aita in kutilatu fa aina ana. A man said to the Prophet Aleyhi salatu wa salam on the day of the Battle of Ahad, if I'm killed today, where do you see me ending up? And he said, fi'l jannah in the garden, fa alqa tamar'atin kunna fi yadihi thummaqatila hatta qutil. So he had some tamar'at in his hand that he was eating in order to get some energy for the upcoming battle. He threw them out. He went straight into the battle and he fought until he was killed. The steadigul khairat and rushed to a mawwafira from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, sacrifice in battle. Sacrificing one's soul in battle against people who are trying to actively harm you themselves or harm any innocent people themselves. They are in the action. They are, if you don't stand in their way, they're going to be killing people and harming people. Standing up to protect those innocent people and losing one's life in the process is a great and tremendous sacrifice. It is not a romantic motif. How good do I look in a shawar qamees and an AK-47? Masha Allah. They'll take pictures of me and put it on social media, right? Because I look good. Those romantic motifs don't exist. Nobody in Bosnia was wearing Sidwell qamees in the beginning and hardly anybody was carrying anything, right? Because people had to trade it off, right? When a person goes out for a while, right? Then he has to come back and he switches it out to his partner because there was nothing for people to defend their families and it didn't look good. People up there in tennis shoes, right? They were Afghanistan and track shoes too, but the point is that it's not romantic. It's doing something that needs to be done in the moment that it needs to be done and if for any reason, we were taught by the scholars that we studied with that the terms of the conflict seem clear. You have one armed party trying to harm another nation and people standing up to stop that harm, but unless the terms of the conflict are clearly on the side of proper ethics, and here we mean the ethics of conflict, right? Even if it is according to the terms of the Geneva Convention, that it's not lawful to participate in such a conflict. Some people get it in their head or they get so much anger that they just want to lash out at anybody they can lash out at because they're so upset about something else. These people seem to be associated with those people, but then they become murderers, they become the ones, but in their minds they have all these fantasies and they're just getting themselves into the hellfire and they're harming a lot of innocent people in the process, but sometimes a person has to stand up and just like Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, don't wish to be in that moment. Don't long to be in that moment. Don't hope to have a moment like that because you don't know which way it's going to go and you don't want to be in a situation where the person on the other side also prays five times a day. That's a seriously confusing situation. At the battle of Sufine there were Sahaba that just walked off the battlefield and just sat down and just said, I can't, I can't do this. Why? Because they were honest to Allah SWT. Don't wish for the meeting with the enemy, but if you find yourself in a situation that you did not ask for, then know that Jannah is under the shade of swords, but people rush. Just like, maybe or not just like, but akin to the idea of the Sahaba in Mecca when they couldn't take the torture and they went to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, aren't you going to pray for us? We're dying out here. They're torturing us. They're killing us. They're maiming us. They're raping our women in Mecca. And he said, there were people that came before you and they underwent so much torture until they said, when is the help? And even their prophet said, when is the help of Allah going to come? But you are a people who are in a rush and will have young people that are so angry at the images that they see on television, usually happening to some other people that they don't even know. And they're in a rush to have some type of experience that they have a fantasy about. Don't wish that Allah SWT gives you that moment that's going to haunt you for the rest of your life. Don't wish for that. Be a human being. But sometimes it comes and don't be a coward if it comes down on you. Stand up and be ready to go. But we've said in this class so many times before that there will continue to be themes in the teachings of Islam that are directly and literally relevant, maybe not to us in the circumstances that Allah has put us and they may be literally relevant to someone in the north of Syria. Somebody in another place where they have been plunged into a conflict that they didn't ask for and then maybe it becomes a literal but we're not stupid people and we're not literal people and we can understand that when Allah has placed us somewhere where that's not a choice that we have to make when we leave the house every day. That we can also, but that doesn't mean that these ahadith are shut down and there's nothing to be learned from them. SubhanAllah. This man, he sacrificed what was probably never going to be replaced for him to do something for the sake of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala and his messenger hoping to gain the contentment of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala and how many situations that this is its template might be facing our life here today. SubhanAllah. We're smart people, we're intelligent people. Read was the first of the revelation and Allah swears by the pen. La Allakum Taqilun, that perhaps you might use your intellect. We're not dumb people. Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala speaks to our intellect and also speaks to our soul and tells us not to forget the rights of our bodies or the bodies of others huh and we're smart people and we're expected to be intelligent people so let's stop acting like we're not intelligent people you know and let's embrace that the Europeans would inherit the logic that was first reported by the Greeks but not till it passed through the filters of the Arabs the Muslims who made changes in alterations that are still part of formal logic in Europe today. SubhanAllah. When an attorney has to study logic to become an attorney right or a litigator they have to study logic and what they're studying in every single country in the world including the United States and wherever else they're going to law school they're studying rules that were set up and filtered by Arab scholars or Muslim scholars some of them were not even seen of course it was not an error and he made major adjustments to logic so we're supposed to be intelligent people but it's true. We are an illiterate nation. We don't read and we don't count. Why? There's a lot of Muslims out there in the world and not all of them are educated and that's okay. So I travel according to your abilities of your weakest link don't leave people behind but the fact that we are happy and content to stand in prayer next to a person who comes from a different socioeconomic situation than ourselves that does not dress as well as ourselves that is a different color or a different race than ourselves and we see everyone like the teeth of a comb the fact that we don't mind if people are not deep thinkers we are fine to make sure that there are teachings of Islam that will embrace people at every level like the Quran when you read it there is something in it each time you read it for your level if your level is low and we have people in this country and in our who read in a sixth grade level as a fifth grade level right we got a president to read at a sixth grade level and speak at a third grade level third grade playground level right we have people who can't read at a high school level and some of them have really good jobs and make bank accounts right and then we put them in charge which is weird all of that's okay but does that mean that we also can't have a discourse that operates at just a university level of some atom right many people at university are not actually working at a university level we have something for these people and these people why because Islam is not one-dimensional is that is not black or whites we can embrace all different types of people and we can feed and nourish people at all different levels huh we don't have to run elementary school Islam you know that's not a civilizational worldview we love to remember the greatness of the golden years of Islamic civilization huh but what did the poet say they said the feta men called a canna ebbi in the matter that's a man called a ha Anna noble young man the fine young man is not the one who says my father used to be this and my father used to be that I'm sure all of us could tell great stories about our great great grandfathers and who they were and what they did but did I get satiated and satisfied by the food or the meal that was written eaten by someone else no the noble young man is not the one who said my father is this and my father is that the noble young man is the one who says here I am here's what I do subhan Allah but if we want to remember those glory days of some great Islamic civilization that no longer is then we're claiming to be people who represent a civilization if it is true that somehow there is a link by ethnicity or blood or place of origin or language of origin or by embracing something that goes beyond the physical world and having your heart linked to the heart of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam through Shahada and the resonance of alas to be run become callable now if we have that link to those civilizations let's then be people who represent civilization by thinking civilizational thoughts which we cannot do if it's just me and my friends and we all think the exact same way we need all different types of people to complete that mosaic and make something beautiful and balance out but because we can't do that all we can say is well you know the Dow has this idea of the NNA whether this you know balance and completion and all of that which is a wonderful thing but can we find it in Islam without having to call it the Dow of Islam when we're calling it the Dow of Islam it means that we've lost it and we need someone else's civilization in order to maybe find something or recognize something of our own we're not scuba we don't have the self-contained underwater breathing apparatus within our own civilization of culture right so how well we could do if we could just listen to the Dean and learn from what it wants to tell us so the idea of sacrificing one self sacrificing what is dear for something that's bigger than me for a cause that's other than me let me leave you with one idea okay there are beautiful people out there innocent people sincere people will actually believe that there are things that are more important than themselves and they are willing to sacrifice not just the extra money not just things for a tax write off but money they need items they need or sacrifice something of themselves or maybe even sacrifice a great career just to do something that they believe is bigger than themselves let's promise one another that we will not be that person who makes them feel stupid for doing that we will not be that person who steps on their soul and crushes it because they thought there were things bigger than themselves worth sacrificing themselves for let's not crush people for thinking that altruism is a real thing helping another person when there's nothing in it for me because we'll lie we have in our Muslim community people who are doing just that making people feel stupid for believing in Islam in the name of Islam that's what's going on and you want to know why people don't want to come to your message you don't you want to know why people don't want to participate in the dean or people are leaving the dean or don't want to have anything to do with Muslims we come here but we don't realize that there is a serious crisis going on out there a crisis of faith not a crisis of faith in one individual not the crisis of faith of Imam al-Lazali and me and Imam al-Lazali were kindred spirits because we're just a like a crisis of faith on a national level the only way to figure out how to deal with it after acknowledging and realizing that it's going on is to just be quiet and listen and learn something that we don't understand from the people that are suffering through it so I hope this he says in the fourth hadith Abu Huraira says that a man came to the Prophet alaihi salatu wa salam and said ya Rasulallah what's sadaka is greatest in rewards and he said and tassadaka wa anta sahihun shahihun tahshal fakra wa tahmululzina what the point of meeting this stuff anymore is we don't take it seriously and why don't we read this what is the best charity that is the charity that is best in reward and he said that you give in charity and you are healthy and not scared you're not giving charity because oh my gosh the doctors can't do anything from me but maybe a lot can step in and intervene you are healthy shahihun and you actually really just would rather hold on to your month meaning you're hesitant right we talked about that hesitation you'd really rather hold on to it you're afraid of poverty and you're hoping to become more wealthy meaning when your nefs is actually more inclined not to give that charity and you're not scared of anything that charity is the best subhanallah you don't just wait until it's too late for you to use your money and you say this is gonna go to so-and-so and this is gonna go to so-and-so right you do it before all of that happens subhanallah you don't wait until your soul is about to leave your body it's about to reach the throat and then you're willing to give it up because now you're satisfied that you're never going to enjoy it again right you do it before that happens subhanallah a lot subhanahu wa ta'ala says that Allah is in the assistance and support of His slave so long as His slave is in the assistance and support of His brother elsewhere the messenger of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says that whoever relieves the distress of a believer in this life of God will relieve his or her distress in the next life subhanallah here we go relieving the distress of another I have known women who scour the city that they live in to find the people in the most distress and when they find them they won't tell their friends where that family is one of them comes back to the group and said I found a family that lives in a cave aware I'm not telling you subhanallah I know a city where when a man dies and his mature children come to look through his estate and see what's going on and set straight his affairs after they buried him finds that there are five families that he has been supporting completely in the city and no one knew about it and then they find out that he only inherited those families from his father and the son is proud to take care of those families you find someone in distress these people get excited over that I've known cities where if someone slept in the street once in that city the men and women of that city would find that as an insult to themselves and an embarrassment that cannot be tolerated if someone needs an operation and they can't get it they would find it an insult to the city and themselves and their honor and an embarrassment that could not be tolerated when you find someone in distress this is a boon for you Allah has sent you an aid subhanallah and that person suffering in distress has done you a favor that you should be grateful for and you're just fortunate that Allah's messenger alayhi salatu wasalam didn't make you obligated to wash their feet like they deserve to kiss their hands and their foreheads because of what they brought into your life they've done you a favor and that's how the world turns and that's best that a clue illa khairat so rush to do good deeds that's what that means subhanallah but we don't think with the world view of a civilization and we don't think with a world view that is shaped by Muhammad so the law alayhi wasalam someone just said the other day they had a quiz at a university that we're out at and merced the other day they said what is the most prevalent name on the face of the earth and apparently it's Muhammad so Allah alayhi wasalam what should that mean and what does that mean subhanallah what should that mean and what does that mean at some point Muslims are going to have to make a choice am I gonna be someone who feels like I'm in the prison of Islam and I just have to try to make it as easy as I can while I'm here right because there's no escape brothers and sisters if you want out the door is open no one's saying you have to stay here a lot of clothes you have to stay here but you know if you feel froggish leave you don't have to stay here you're free you are whole you can make your own decisions and if you don't like it in here with your son the Muslims in the Dean of Muhammad so the law alayhi wasalam no one's telling you gotta stay right you turn 18 you go people have to make a decision am I stuck being Muslim or I mean am I inspired to be a Muslim do I want to rise up to that challenge and do I want to be part of the mission of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasalam huh keep laying in rahmati two portions of his Rahmah and carry water to people who need water water of what real water maybe real water metaphorical water yes indeed because Rahmah will bring dead earth back to life do I want to join the program of Mohammed's but there's a price because you know if you want to join again you know how you got to get in right how do you get into a gang how do you get into a gang what is your name say the BMX Fatima right they have to jump you in you know what it means to jump you in right so the gang has to all come together do it to the girls to the girl wants to join the game and they all you have to try to stay in your feet while they all beat you up for like a whole minute right and you and you get hot points of respect if you can stay up you're not gonna stand up right you're gonna be broken up and you're going to pee blood for weeks for a week right but that's how you get in if you really want in you'll do it so if you want to be what did he say he said to the Prophet alaihi salatu wasalaam in the middle of the night when he came out to pray to Hajjad and he jumped the Sahabi to join him into Hajjad and he said I love you Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam and he said then prepare for power prepare to be poor because if you want to be in this it's not easy it's gonna be hard and stuff that's worth anything doesn't come easy it doesn't fall in your lap like your Eman fell in your lap so get from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala but if you want to be with that you want to protect it but there's gonna be some bumps in the road I have no people who come in they said I'm scared because my life is going to well maybe Allah doesn't want me we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala but I was like the Prophet said right I complain to you of the weakness the weakness of my strength or my capacity and I don't have any solutions I can't figure out what to do next nothing seems to be working huh in a mental kidney who are you going to send me to are you gonna send me to someone who doesn't know me who's gonna treat me like garbage are you gonna give me over to be owned by my closest relatives and my closest people who are gonna treat me like a stepchild but so long as you're not angry with me but you're good health it's better for me that you give me good health and you make it easier for me that works out a little bit more to my liking and I could I could get used to that what I can have yet to come I was sourly but it would be more expensive if you made it easier and I seek refuge in you by the light of your face upon which is rectified the affairs of the heavens and the earth that you not release your anger upon me or send down your wrath on me but you can do what you want until whenever you want like a lot but I thought that I love it and there's no ability and there is no capacity and as you give it subhan Allah Rasulillah on his way out of time and what would be coming what would be the farage that will come after when he would own all of Mecca and he could destroy all of Mecca and he could bring down his vengeance on all of those people and they are eating from his hands saying what a noble soul and this world means a noble soul it could have noble souls but you have to drink from the hand of the Prophet did I literally say that are we that shallow well if all you study is shallow books and you haven't read a book right since your graduate school exams right well then maybe you will think in that way drink from the hand of the Prophet a day salatu was salam say some of Allah was selling whenever you hear his name and say a few extras and read about his behavior and read about his character and read about and learn about and stick with people who embody the character of Rasulullah salallahu alayhi was salam and it will be as if you were drinking from the hand of the Messenger alayhi salatu was salam as he's pouring out from you meanings and understandings and comprehensions from the Kotha and if you embody them with true love the Kotha and you won't just drink from a glass or a cup but maybe from his hand but whoever drinks from that Kotha will never ever be thirsty anytime after and when you drink from the teachings of the Prophet alayhi salatu was salam you feel like a thirst within you has been quenched but at some point you have to stop someone gives you the drink at some point you mature enough to look around and see if the person next to you is thirsty and share it Subhanallah it's probably enough for today may Allah bless you and bless your families and bless us and bless our family Allah give you openings and give us openings Allah make your feet firm and make us firm Allah make things easy for you and make things easy for us and Allah give courage and relief from distress and health from illness to all of the families that are around here for the sake of the Prophet alayhi salatu was salam for the love of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala may Allah bless you and have a beautiful beautiful Thursday night right