 Allahumma salli wa sallam wa ghari kala Sayyidina Muhammad al-Mara'ali, Sayyidina Muhammad salatan wa salam ad-da'imayni, maturazimayni ila yawm ad-diyin. But after our praise and thanks to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala we seek His forgiveness, His guidance and His assistance and we take refuge with Him from the evil of our souls and from the consequence of our misdeeds. However, Allah gives guidance to an unkind misdeed and whoever misdeeds an unkind guide. I testify there is nothing and no one worthy of worship besides Allah alone, He has departments and I testify that Muhammad, the son of Abdullah, son of Allah wa alayhi wa alayhi wa sallam is a servant and messenger. We ask Allah to grant him peace and extend to him our saiyyid teachings on this blessed day and it says he is asking to grant peace to his family and his companions and everyone who follows his goodness shows his will into the meeting and the reckoning of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. And the previous khutbah I spoke about the hadith of Imam al-Bukhari where in the Prophet As-Salaamu Alayhi wa sallam the score is the same. The heart of the older person remains young with respect to two things. The love of the dunya and the prolongation of hope. I spoke a bit about what the dunya is and what is meant by the love of the dunya in that khutbah. So during this short talk I'd like to speak a bit more about the second aspect of this hadith which is what is called tul al-haman, tul al-haman, the prolongation or elongation of hope. Now the elongation or prolongation of hope fundamentally is a reference to the human being's desire to live for a very long time and that desire which also includes the desire to remain healthy or the assumption that one would remain healthy leads one to procrastinate. Accrastination which pertains specifically to one's worship. We've seen it quite often of course and especially in Muslim minds where people they don't go to perform hajj until they get older. This is for older people. You get older, then you go to perform the hajj. At least that's what it was. It was a case of knowledge coming up. Is that the attitude that Muslims have is that okay well when you get older you go to perform the hajj. Right now you do what you do. You get serious later in life. But the reality is that as the human being gets older similar to I guess we say a tree. A tree gets older and eventually becomes weaker. It doesn't become stronger. Of course we see life and death even in the course of nature. But as we get older we get weaker. So we say we get older until we get older those things that we like to do but ultimately things happen. If you're healthy then you can become ill. And if you don't become ill then an accident can happen. Unfortunately God forbid. A terrible accident can happen to you. And that's why the Prophet PBUH advised that there are two blessings that people are duped about. We're deceived about. Now many people they keep themselves out of those two blessings. Good health and free time. Health and free time. For all of us again as you, for God's of how old you may be or how young you may be then all of us of course that we are hard to make young with respect to the prolongation of hope. That is to say the hope that we'll live for a very long time. The hope that we'll remain healthy for a long time. So anything that needs to be taken care of now we'll do them later. We'll do them later. And I've talked about as well that with respect to the love of the dunya because of the love of the dunya that and the fact that the human being has been given a certain nature that jealousy is a natural part of our lives and our interactions. Imam al-Mahasi his recommendation for repelling or fighting against jealousy is to shorten or reduce our hope. He said, Reduce your hope or restrict your hope through I mean reduce jealousy by restricting your hope, by reducing the thing that you hope for. In other words, take care of business now. If you don't hope to have what others have as much, of course you're going to hope them but the idea is that it's about preparation. What do you sacrifice as you prepare to get those other things? Do you prefer the dunya of the rakhirah? Imam Ali ibn Abi Tariq, what the Ma'an is going to say and this is also the pahiyah of the Imam of Bukhariq. He says, Imam Ali ibn Abi Tariq, there are two things. The thing that I fear for you the most are two things. Following your passion or your desire and the prolongation of hope. Some talked about love in the world and the prolongation of hope. This is why I fear the most for you as believers. That you follow your hawaa, that you follow your desire, your will. You follow your fancy. Whatever you think is good, you do it. Whatever you feel is good, you do it. And this is condemned, absolutely in the Quran and the clearest of terms over and over and over. Because Allah SWT, what He loves from us brothers and sisters are acts of faith. He loves from us the rejection of khufa. He loves from us obedience. He loves from us the resistance of our passion to not disobey Allah SWT. And He loves from us to practice the sunnah, the mentioned ad-i isra'at-ul-salam, and not to innovate. If the Prophet SAW did something and he did it in a certain way, it is not our place nor our right to alter the sunnah of the mentioned ad-i isra'at-ul-salam. So it says, From ad-i isra'at-ul-salam to your sister ad-i haa. The reason I am fearful of you following your fancy is because it dissuades you from the truth. As they say, love is deafened and it blinds. And Khufa, what do you mean? Well, you said that love is deafened and it blinds. Well, you love something that you, but people addicted to things because they don't want to acknowledge it. They're in denial at first. They know they're being destroyed by their love for something harmful to them, but they aren't in denial for a very long time. That's what it does to you. That it will dissuade you from the truth. As for the prolongation of hope, it makes you forget about the hereafter. It makes you forget the hereafter. And as Abdullahi Al-Nashr says, That the chief of all sins is love of the hereafter or love of this world, love of this leading life. And the only cure for it is to feel compelled towards your Lord. This is Alayna, the thought of just speaking. He said, the hereafter or get the hereafter, it is moving, marching in advance. The hereafter means it's coming. It's coming. We don't know how close that is. That the average life span for people in this country between 75 and 80 years old from then towards the lower number, willing to hire a number. And when you think of our own lives, we look at our ages and we can think about how much time we might have on this planet. The Akhira is advancing forward. It's coming, it's close. And the world is moving and retreating. And the world is moving and retreating. Meaning, look at how old you are, 50, 60, whatever it may be, how much has already gone past. And for each one of those realms there are children. Meaning for the dunya and the akhira. That each realm has its children. So be among the children of the hereafter and do not be among the people of the children of the dunya. Because today there is work and there is no reckoning. Meaning Allah swt lets you get away with all that you do. Meaning that He reckons and says He counts your needs, records your needs, but He doesn't punish you right away. For you, Muhammad would be like Wa La Hissab. Wa Ghazal Hissab on Wa La Amal. But tomorrow there is reckoning but there will be no work. You won't have the opportunity to make up to what you lose in this world. Subhan Allah has to be again, He talks about fighting, jealousy, to reducing our sense of hope will be things that we hope for. But He also says, Wa Sa'inaa Al-Aqizan Al-Amini deriving the clean most. And seek assistance in order to reduce the things you hope for by constantly remembering death. By constantly remembering the death. One thing leads to another. And I'll conclude this with one of the prayers that is attributed to the Prophet Muhammad, Subhan Allah wa alayhi wa sallam. There are some hadiths where scholars say it is weak. However, the du'ad, the prayers themselves are, we can embrace them. Because we are careful about weak hadiths and we don't say Rasulullah salli said them. But some wise person did say this prayer. And then according to this hadith, it says, the Prophet Muhammad salli sallam said, Allahumma inna ar-uza biqa man dunya timna ukhaid al-akhira O Allah, I take refuge with you that prevents the goodness of the hereafter. wa ar-uza biqa man hayatin timna ukhaid al-amad and I take refuge with you from a life that prevents the goodness of death wa ar-uza biqa man amad in yamna ukhaid al-amad and I take refuge with you from a hope that prevents the goodness of work. Because that's what happens when we are constantly delaying and procrastinating. I'll do it tomorrow. I'll straighten up later. I'll become a wise person in the future then fundamentally we are delaying the good that will be recorded on my behalf. And it is the only type of funds that we will have with us to take with us as we need this world. So we ask Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala that he place our hearts and make our hearts attached to those things that are most useful and beneficial and most important to us in this life and the hereafter insha Allah I will say this to you and I ask Allah to show you and to ask the Muslims and the Muslims. That's all. Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Allahumma happid ilayna iman wa zayinahu fi kulubina wa karrit ilayna kufra wa tulsuka wa asian wa ja'ana min al-Rashideen Ratana, taqqal ilayna imina ta'ata samina al-Areeen wa tuwa alayna imina ta'ata Allahb al-Raheen Allahumma, Allahumma, tuwa al-Muslimin wa Muslimat wa l-Mu'mineen wa Muminat al-Hia'i minhum wa l-ammat wa dhutrna nallahu ma la'uhum yifabit wa ʿIhsaniki ya'ar al-Hamr al-Rahineen Rabba na'atina min ladunkah al-Rahma Wahiyy i'ana min hamrina al-Rashida Allahumma inna na'ulika min dunya tamna wa khayr al-Aakhira Allahumma inna na'uwilika min hayatina tamna wa khayr al-Manaat Allahumma inna na'uwilika min habadan yamna wa khayr al-Aman Rabba na'atina min ladunkah al-Rahma al-Habib al-Akhira As-Sallam to allah Astaghfirullah Wa Salam ar-Rahman al-Muslimin Wa Alhamdulillahi ar-Rahim Al-Habib