 Respected listeners, we cannot judge if any good deed we are doing is a small good deed or a big good deed. The goodness of the deed is judged by Allah SWT. That is why our pious predecessors, our elders, they will relentlessly go enthusiastically doing small good deeds with lot of enthusiasm and zeal. Because they would say we do not know in which of these small good deeds Allah SWT has kept my forgiveness. Because when they would do these big good deeds, they would rather be sitting over there and listening to one of the Khatibs over here rather than me being the Khatib over here. Because in my talk, only Allah knows if they will show off any biya or any recognition from myself hidden in it. And that is why the elders are very scared of doing good deeds. But small good deeds Allah SWT, smiling at someone, saying Jazakumullahu khayran may Allah reward you with their hearts, helping the needy, quietly making dua for someone, quietly making dua for someone. Rasulullah SAW saw a person in paradise and he asked in Jibril AS what brought him into paradise. Jibril AS said, oh Prophet of Allah, one good deed. One small good deed, oh Prophet of Allah. There was a thorny bush on the street. He removed that bush from the street and Allah did so much. He made him into paradise. Rasulullah SAW talks about a woman, an adulterous woman. She gave water to a thirsty dog. She would have said I have done so many bad deeds. What good is going to do this one good deed? But she went ahead and gave water to that thirsty dog and because of that one good action Allah SWT forgave her. If she had said, well what is this good action going to do? Should it be depriving or everlasting forgiveness from Allah SWT? And that is what shaitan, the devil does to us. He trivializes the good deeds and the bad deeds to us. Our minds are fascinating machines Allah SWT has created. When you are sitting here all kinds of thoughts come to you, looking at me, looking at the beautiful weather, looking around us, walking on the street. All kinds of thoughts come to us. And if some thought comes to our mind saying just do this good deed, shaitan says well you know it's a small thing, you know what difference it's going to make. She realizes that you're not that pious anyway. And if there's something evil, some small evil action which we think is small, shaitan comes and says we've done so many of these small things anyway, what you know how is it going to hurt? May ya'am al-suwa ayi hujaza bi Allah SWT in the Quran says every evil is being seen by Allah SWT. Every atom's weight of good you do, you will see it on that day says Allah SWT. Every atom's weight of bad you do, you will see it on that day Allah SWT says in the Quran. But then there is this law of Allah SWT, then there is this mercy of Allah SWT. Allah SWT if he wants he can judge us by the good deeds we do, by the bad deeds we do. But other law of Allah SWT is Allah SWT can forgive us with all the bad we have done, with one good deed which Allah SWT loves. Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said man qiyya sadala nafsahu amira lima ba'da al-mawt. The smart and sure person is that person who prepares for death before death comes to him or her. And a foolish person is that man qiyya sadala nafsahu amira lima ba'da al-mawt. Who follows his desires, who follows his desires and does whatever he wants to do. And then he has high hopes in the mercy of Allah SWT. And Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam called that person a foolish person. If I'm hurting myself, bleeding myself and I'm going to say I'm going to put medicine on it, he will call me a foolish person. Our elders respected listeners, any small good deed they do, that is why we should not hesitate in doing any small good deed. We do not know on which good deed our forgiveness is hidden by Allah SWT. That is why Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said even if you give a date, a single date in the path of Allah SWT to help someone with ikhlas, with sincerity, Allah SWT will reward you or reward equal to Mount Uhud, said Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Allah has created us, Allah has made us a rock, respected listeners. He could have made us a tree even better, or a flower, or even a tree even better. But Allah SWT made us human beings. He created us for eternity, for infinity Allah, for ever and ever respected. One state is going to come and you're going to die. We're just going to be transition to the next world. But then that's it. It's eternal life after that. So every good deed that comes our way, when virtue comes our way, when the good deed comes into our way, respected listeners, we should not delay or do it later and say do it later because that may never come back again to us. If I have a cold attitude, I'll do that later. I'll pray later. I'll read Quran later. I may not get that opportunity, or that as easy an opportunity as I'm having now. That is why Allah SWT in the Quran says, wassabi'u ila'u bi- raised towards the forgiveness of your Lord. Wassabi'u will be the first ones for most of all wants to do good deeds. Wa fi zahlika falyatanafa'sil mutanafi soon. And compete with one another in doing good deeds. Allah says in the Quran, khasta bakul khaira compete with each other in doing good deeds. Allah is telling us. Wa qulihahza astabu l-rahi wal-mastabu yafroo yawna qul-l-rahi Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, bili Allahu l-alameen wa salatu salam ala Rasulina Al-Dareem et-A'ala The companions of Prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, used to compete for doing good deeds, respected listeners. Said that, Umar bin Al-Khattab, razi'allahu ta'ala ahmoo always had an eye on Abu Bakr Siddif razi'allahu ta'ala ahmoo on his good deeds. He couldn't, he couldn't, He couldn't had an eye on Usmar Bin Afaa, razi'allahu ta'ala ahmoo who would Allah had blessed him with lot of wealth. He could have had an eye on Abdul Rahman Ibn Awf, r.a. to whom Allah had blessed lot of wealth. But he ignored those worldly material things and he was looking at Abu Bakr, said the r.a. And he knew that competing against Abu Bakr was a very tall order. That is why the Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam asked for anything they can bring to help the Muslims in the expedition to Tabuk, the last expedition of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Omar r.a. back to half of his wealth and brought to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam looked at his wealth and he said, Omar, what did you leave from your family behind? Omar r.a. said, O Prophet of Allah, I left half of my wealth behind. Remember, the paychecks was not a concept at the time, monthly paychecks, weekly paychecks, by weekly paychecks. They had no idea when they would get the money back afterwards. Then here comes Abu Bakr s.d. Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. When he heard the words of Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he packed everything in his house, whatever he had. Including the nails that were on the wall, he took out the nails from the wall. And then he packed everything he had. He looked at his own self and he said, the clothes I'm wearing, this could be beneficial to someone. He took out a sheet, wrapped around him and put the clothes in the back and put the bag on his back and paid to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, even though the wealth he had brought was much less than what Omar r.a. had brought. But Omar r.a. thought that this is the day I'm going to beat Abu Bakr. But when Abu Bakr r.a. bought everything he had, even though he had little with him, but he bought everything with him. And he presented to Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam asked him, what did you leave behind for your family? He said, O Prophet of Allah, I left Allah and his Prophet, the name of you behind with my family, O Prophet of Allah. The goodness he had in the little he had, respect to the districts, which brought the salams of Allah, as the wajal of Abu Bakr sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. One time Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was sitting in the morning along with the companions, Majid al Naboo. He was the habit of Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and asked them about the dreams they had the last night. Or how is everybody doing? He asked, the gathering, is any one of you fasting today? It was neither the month of Shaban or Ramadan or Rajab. None of the companions said they were fasting, except Abu Bakr sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, O Prophet of Allah, I made intention of fasting to that, I'm fasting. Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam asked, has any one of you visited a janaza, a funeral, a burial today? It's early morning time, they have just made great fortune. We bury after Zohar usually in the bay area, or in the daytime. But Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, three things that should not delay. When the time of Salat comes, when a girl who has attained the age of marriageable age and a good match comes to her, that marriage should not be delayed. And number three, when the time for burial should not be delayed for the dead body, said Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So the companions, Samia'ana wa Atana, we hear and we obey. That is why the woman who used to sleep the floor in Masjid-e-Nabui, when she passed away, the companions buried her in the night. Rasulullah said, where is the lady? I don't see her this morning. The Sahabas of Prophet of Allah, she passed away last night, we buried her immediately. So Rasulullah asked, did anybody of you visited a janaza today? Early morning fajr time. Nobody said anything. Abu Bakr sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Ya Rasulullah, there was a janaza that was going by. I joined it. There was a few people in the janaza. I joined them and I came to fajr. Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam then asked, has anybody of you visited a Sikh person today? Nobody answers. Abu Bakr sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Ya Rasulullah, such a such person was Sikh. I went and visited him this morning before coming to fajr. Then the fourth question, Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam asked, did anybody of you feel a hungry person this morning? None of them answered except Abu Bakr sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. He said, Oh Prophet of Allah, I was coming to the masjid. Abdul Rahman ibn Awu was coming to the masjid with his son. His son was hungry, had a loaf of bread and gave the bread to his son. Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam smiled and said, none of these deeds when they are done, except that these deeds will put the person into paradise. Every door of paradise we call, Marhaba, Marhaba, welcome Abu Bakr, Abu Bakr, said, Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. What kind of an awesome man he was, with respect to listeners, doing these four deeds before the fajr prayers. That is why Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, if the iman, the faith of the entire human beings is placed on one scale of the path and the faith iman of Abu Bakr is placed on the second scale, his iman will outweigh the iman of the entire ummah, said, Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. One of the khatims he was saying, I was listening to him, masha'Allah, he was saying, the iman of Abu Bakr, the reason his iman was so weighty, because the cells in the human body, Allah has created the building blocks of the human body, each of us has 37.2 trillion cells, respected listeners, 37.2 trillion cells, only Allah knows how much exactly is there, we don't have the exact count, but that is the approximate count. 37.2 trillion cells of iman of Abu Bakr, weighed on one scale and the iman of the entire ummah on the other scale, his iman will outweigh the iman of the ummah, said, Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. In spite of that, in spite of that, he would say, I wish I was a hare on the body of a mu'min, of a believer, I wish I was a blade of grass who wound the peace, who grazed the palm, I wish I was that bird sitting on the tree who doesn't have to give any account, account to Allah on the day of judgment. Abdullah ibn Mubarak, rahmatullahi wa sallam, the great Muhaddefi, he would say, I wish to live in the company of the rich people, and I was always sad and depressed, they had better homes than my home, they would wear better clothes, they had better transportation than me, I was sad and gloomy and depressed, and then I started in the company of the poor people, then I thought my house was better than their house, my clothes were better than their clothes, my transportation was better than theirs, then the depression was gone, the gloominess was gone, Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam gave us a golden, rule-respected listeners, hitting on the psychology of the human being, he said, look, at the people who don't have much as you do, then you'll be grateful and thankful to Allah, but look at those who are more pious to you for you to propel, to do more good deeds, Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, la tahkiranna ma'roofi, ma'roofi shay'in awka ma'pal, that do not be little, any good deeds, do not be little, any good deeds, said Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Mantaf Ramadhan is coming, respected listeners, a golden opportunity, the term, the golden opportunity that is created for the mantaf Ramadhan. From now on, from this mantaf Rajab, inshallah, we start, some trains have two extra salat, respected listeners. Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, that never a person tries or leaves something that is dispeasing to Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Allah will replace him or her with a better good deed. Allah will replace him doing better good deed. If you're spending a lot of time on computer or TV and you're, let's make it intentional, respected listeners, cut it down. Of course you're going to have some withdrawal symptoms from that. Straight through, I got extra salat, thanking Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam every day. Our salat should be the best time we have ever spent, that should be the greatest moment of our lives, respected listeners. One such that Allah Azza wa Jal should be the greatest moment of our lives. If I'm controlling my anger, if I'm forgiving someone, these should be the greatest moments of my life. Mantaf Rajab, 27th Rajab. Many scholars say that was the night Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam ascended the heavens, the journey of Isra and Miraj. And Allah gave him 50 salats, but he reduced it to five salats, Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, looking at all of the condition of all of us. But the reward Allah has kept people to 50 salats out of his mercy. Let us start praying five times regularly, respected listeners. We do not know what is going to happen tomorrow. Yesterday we buried a 27 year old young person from this community, San Ramon community. 27 year old. One of my friends, he was 61 years old. Yesterday we buried him too. Regular in salat. He moved from Fremont, ICF to Brentwood. Regular in Fajr and Isha sallah. He didn't show up in Fajr yesterday. The Imam and the Muslim salliz asked where is brother Kabeer, Ahmad Kabeer? They said he passed away a couple of hours ago. He was being waited in the house of Allah. That's how we should be waited when we pass away, respected listeners. Life is gonna just blink of the eye, respected listeners. Allah has given us month and month, year after year this month May Allah guide me, guide us all of us to take maximum advantage of these times.