 As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh Bismillahir rahmanir raheem in the name of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, the most gracious, the most merciful Alhamdulillah wa salatu wa salamu ala Rasulillah Wa ala alihi wa ashabihi ajma'in We praise Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala We send blessings and salutations upon Muhammad Salallahu alayhi wa salam, his household, his companions May Allah bless every one of us May Allah bless the ummah and may Allah bless humanity at large I mean, my brothers and sisters We are speaking about the ten who were given News of Paradise by Muhammad Salallahu alayhi wa salam In one gathering, so there were many who were told By Muhammad Salallahu alayhi wa salam That they would be from among those in heaven In Jannah, actually in Paradise And from among them ten were in one gathering And I will be speaking to you about The youngest, the one who passed away The last of the ten His name was Saad, Ibn Abi Wa Qas But he was an uncle of the Prophet Salallahu alayhi wa salam Even though he was 23 to 25 years younger I'm sure it happens in some cases where you find People are much younger and they say that's my uncle That's my aunt, that's my grandmother Subhanallah Technically, because he was the second cousin Of the mother of Muhammad Salallahu alayhi wa salam He was known as an uncle and the Prophet Salallahu alayhi wa salam Loved him, so much so that he used to say Who from among you can show me that they have An uncle as good as mine And he would point at Saad, Ibn Abi Wa Qas Saad Ibn Abi Wa Qas was a lovely person He had great character and conduct And what is amazing is when he accepted Islam It was through a miracle Many of us, we go to sleep Subhanallah, we see a dream and we get up And it starts worrying us And sometimes we take the dreams too seriously A dream is normally connected to your thoughts And your worries A lot of the dreams, most of them don't have a meaning It's just your worries, your thoughts The ideas you have, something you might have seen Without you really noticing that your brain And your system has already registered that But sometimes we have a dream that bothers us And it repeats itself And sometimes you have a dream And you start seeing things that you saw in your dream And Subhanallah, if it does have meaning It's for you and your benefit People see dreams and they start thinking That we need to change the whole world Hang on, you need to change yourself first May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala grant us goodness So Sa'adi ibn Abi Waqas, radiallahu anhu He had some good friends Even though they were older than him And I said yesterday in Birmingham And I'm repeating it here My brothers and sisters The biggest favor you could do yourself Is to improve the quality of friends you have Biggest favor If you have a circle of friends who have High standards, good morals and values And they're concerned about pleasing the Almighty They're concerned about the hereafter You will be a beautiful person If they speak well They stay away from vulgar language They have good habits You will develop those habits Without an effort And if they have bad habits You will develop the bad habits So this is something very important And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala speaks about it Even in the Quran On the Day of Judgement The one who did wrong The wrongdoer will actually be chewing his hands Which means he will be regretting so much And he will say I will do it I will do it I will do it I will do it I will do it I will do it I will do it I will do it I will be regretting so much And he will say Or she will say I wish that I had chosen the path of the messenger And I wish that I didn't have Such and such a person as a friend of mine Because that person led me astray What does this mean? This means in our lives We have people who either show us the right path Or the wrong path And if we make them friends They have an impact upon us Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqqas Was friends with Abu Bakr Even though he was 20 years or slightly more Older than him But they were friends He got along with them He was concerned He had... He was a friend of Ali Ibn Abi Talib, radiallahu anhu Beautiful He was a friend of Zaid ibn Haritha Zaid ibn Haritha was a slave Before he was freed By Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam And Khadija binti khwailid, radiallahu anhu So he saw a dream Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqqas He was in the darkness Drowning in darkness A lot of darkness And suddenly he saw the moon in his dream And you know when you have a dark night We come from Africa We know perhaps a little bit more than you About the darkness of the night Because of the electricity problems that we face Mashallah So the dark night The moon The moonlight brings a lot A lot of light You will be surprised as to how much it brings It lights your path He saw the moon And there were people seated around the moon Subhanallah Who were they? He saw Abu Bakr, radiallahu anhu seated at the moon He saw Ali ibn Abi Talib, radiallahu anhu Seated at the moon He saw Zaid ibn Haritha Seated at the moon, radiallahu anhu And he was amazed He was impressed And he wanted to go and sit with them And he got up from his sleep Subhanallah His dream came to an end And he decided this is not An ordinary dream Let me go and find out In the meantime, Abu Bakr, radiallahu anhu Was also concerned about Speaking to his friends About Islam Speaking to his friends About Muhammad, radiallahu anhu He was such a great man Abu Bakr, radiallahu anhu That when the goodness came to him He accepted it But he wanted it for everyone else So he started reminding His best buddies and friends He says you know what Muhammad, radiallahu anhu Is definitely a Nabi of Allah Is a prophet of Allah Why don't you accept this message Look at what he is saying He is not calling towards himself Rather he is calling towards the maker alone He is calling towards the maker alone Subhanallah And he is asking us to give up bad habits And bad morals and values And calling us to worship Allah Subhanallah So they started accepting one by one Six people had accepted Islam How many? Six in total Not yet many You had Khadija bint khawailid, radiallahu anhu And the three names I mentioned And two others Subhanallah Six people had accepted Islam Sa'ad ibn Abi Bakr, radiallahu anhu As he is approaching Abu Bakr, radiallahu anhu This man starts telling him You know what? Muhammad, radiallahu anhu Is the messenger of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala He has come with goodness And we have accepted Islam Myself and this person And he started mentioning the names And Sa'ad ibn Abi Bakr, radiallahu anhu Is saying you know what? I saw a dream And he knew immediately The meaning of the dream is That I need to also join these people The moon depicted Muhammad, radiallahu anhu Those who were seated around were real men Whom he knew So he says take me to Muhammad, radiallahu anhu And the Prophet, radiallahu anhu Was seated He spoke to a few of these men Subhanallah And they accepted Islam So that was the story of how he became a Muslim He saw it in a dream Many of us see the dreams, right? Sometimes Allah sends us a message Through that dream To change our ways and habits Sometimes it's a reminder for us But we don't realize My brothers and sisters If a dream that you've had Even if it was a nightmare If it has not made you closer To Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala Then there's no point in Relating it to getting excited about it Or becoming sad about it Sometimes we become sad about a dream For what? If it was not going to change you Why sad? That sadness should draw you closer to Allah This is why when you see a nightmare You're supposed to seek the protection From the devil You're supposed to turn the other side Perhaps Subhanallah The sunnah has taught us even to give a charity If you could May Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us goodness So he was the seventh person who accepted Islam And I explained to you how Abu Bakr Siddiqueh was connected to it And how the dream was also a part of that Now when he declared his Islam Guess what happened? And it happens to a lot of those Who revert to Islam His mother who was very very close to him Decided no way No no we've heard some bad story About Muhammad peace be upon him I will never accept this Impossible And you know what? In order to make sure that He leaves Muhammad peace be upon him Because she didn't have much knowledge She did not have knowledge about Islam She only heard you know What was being said by some of the people in Quraish Which was all negative So she says I'm not going to eat I'm not going to drink Until you quit Trying to blackmail him And so what happened? He said oh my mom you know what? You don't eat You don't drink It's your loss I'm not quitting I know this is right I know what we used to do And what we're doing now I've become a much better person Purified myself No bad habits I worship my maker alone And I'm getting closer to my maker Not even to this man Muhammad peace be upon him I don't render acts of worship But rather therefore Allah alone The mother says I'm not eating Or drinking And a few days later She was literally on her deathbed So the son says You know my mother Even if you were to die a hundred times You would only harm yourself I'm going nowhere You're not going to stop me And Allah swt revealed verses Connected to the story of Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqqas radiallahu anhu with his mom وَإِنْ جَاهَدَكَ عَلَىٓا تُشْرِكَ بِيْمَا لِيْسَ لَكَ بِيْعِلْمُ فَلَا تُطِعْ هُمَا وَصَحِبْهُمَا فِي الدُّنْيَا مَعْرُوفَا The kindness to your parents And the goodness to your parents Is a duty Even if they are not Muslim The only time that you Will disobey their instruction Is when they order you to do something wrong To do something that will be a transgression To do something against the command of Allah That is when you excuse yourself From that particular command But you keep on being kind to them In every other way So respect to your parents And kindness to your parents Is absolutely an instruction of Allah And here the verse came down at the time Right at the beginning in Mecca to Mukarrama Of Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas radiallahu anhu with his mother And he used to say this verse was revealed Because of me subhanallah So the lesson we learn is Our parents are very important But we respect them We are kind to them Yes I do know some people say What happens if my father molested me Astaghfirullah In that particular case things change You have to protect yourself May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ala Make us responsible people You have to protect yourself In that particular case You may want to distance yourself Depending on what happened So Islam does not teach us that If you have been abused Or molested etc That you need to keep on maintaining a relationship Even if it was your own father Or a relative I'm just making that clear Because unfortunately it's on the rise Very sadly May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ala Grant us all protection So the respect of parents insha'Allah Extremely important we all need to learn The reason why we need to learn is This man was told you are from paradise We are looking at his life In order for us to adopt What he had So that we can also insha'Allah Be from among those Who will earn Jannah Al-Firdaus And insha'Allah we will be gathered in paradise Then later on The Prophet SAW Made a Hijra to Madinah Munawwara Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqqas Radiallahu Anhu was also from among them Who made Hijra to Madinah Munawwara Because of time I'm not going to go into all those details But something very interesting He participated in the battles In the battles with Muhammad SAW And the Prophet peace be upon him Said a prayer for him He said a dua for him On the day of Uhud The Prophet SAW says O Allah straighten his arrow And answer his supplications Straighten his arrows And answer his supplications Now the reason why I mention this Is because both things happened Whenever he took aim He always got the target Out of a single failure through his life It was the dua The supplication of Muhammad SAW Secondly Anytime he supplicated unto Allah It was accepted Subhanallah He was known as Mustajabud-Dawa Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqas Radiallahu Anhu He was known as the one whom When he called out to Allah It was granted And this shows us that There are people from amongst us Perhaps whom Whenever they call out to Allah Allah gives it to them But they don't call out to Allah For silly things Imagine if I was Mustajabud-Dawa Or you What would we say? You have a problem With someone O Allah Fix him up You know you have a problem I think a lot of the in-laws Wouldn't even exist May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Forgive us And some people even their parents They would say O Allah take them away And they would be gone That's why Allah doesn't Give it to us Because sometimes we abuse The issue of supplication When you call out to Allah Use good words You know we have people Who don't like Islam At all People who have harmed Islam For example Rather than say O Allah Destroy them Don't you think it is more godly And it is more befitting For a believer to say O Allah Guide them Soften their hearts Let them come through That's what the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him did There were enemies of Islam Such as Umar ibn Khattab R.A. Before he reverted And Who was the other man? Abu Jahl Abu Jahl was Known as Amr ibn Hisham So the Prophet peace be upon him says Allahumma Islam O Allah These two enemies Give strength to Islam By letting them see the light And coming into the fold Subhan Allah Moments later You find the story of Umar ibn Khattab R.A. We will hear it today InshaAllah And he came through And he declared his shahada How many of us are prepared To try This blessed prayer For those who don't like us To say O Allah Soften their hearts O Allah bring them forth O Allah Resolve this matter Between us Soften the hearts Rather We have a problem Where When you have a little issue With someone We say O Allah destroy them O Allah break them O Allah finish them up And what's happening We are praying that Against them And they are praying That against us Hence We see the destruction We are in today May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Grant us guidance It's a very beautiful Application In a good way So The Prophet Actually Made this prayer For It's reported that Only once Did he use it In what we would term Perhaps a way That caused A little bit of Negativity perhaps Negativity in one way And positivity in another At the time of the dispute Between Ali ibn Abi Talib And some of the others There was a man who kept Blowing Into this fitna Into this problem Trying to make it big So Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqas He was always Pure in his heart And he says To this man Don't do this It's dangerous What you're doing is You're causing a fitna Between people Listen carefully You're causing a problem Between people How many of us do that We love it sometimes We just hear something We go and say it To this one Say it to that one And with the two fight We say yes That's it It's good Because we don't like Both of them sometimes May Allah forgive us That sometimes Become our nature No Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqas Who went to this man And said You know what Stop it It's not supposed to be This way You're not supposed To be creating a problem Or making a problem Bigger If you want You resolve it Never ever It makes it bigger If it was a problem The man refused So Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqas Allah raised his hands And they say The people around him Knew that this man Whatever he says Is done He says Oh Allah Stop him in whatever way You wish Now that's not a negative Du'a A few days later The man passed away Allahu Akbar Or it's reported It's one narration Same day He was attacked By an animal And he went Now His death was written May Allah SWT grant us ease May Allah SWT grant us ease May Allah make us From among those whom Whenever we call out Supplication That is truly beneficial May he accept it And if it is detrimental For us May it not be accepted Sometimes we make a du'a For something detrimental You know A person comes to me Sometimes say Pray that Allah fulfills My dreams And I say What's your dreams I mean Your dream might be to go and Commit a big Big act That is totally unacceptable And where am I going to say Allah let him fulfill his dreams I'm not that way Or you might want to pinch You might want to steal You might want to just Plan a big robbery And you're making me say Oh Allah help him Come on So it's important for us To know That when you ask Allah You must say Oh Allah if it is beneficial For me If it is helpful Grant me Sometimes you desperately Want to get married To someone And it doesn't happen It's better for you Perhaps Allah knows That the future Hold something for you That would be otherwise Had you married this person Because Allah knows What would happen Even if You know it's amazing How the knowledge of Allah works Let me quickly mention it He knows What has happened in the past He knows what is happening And he knows what will happen But more impressive Than all of that is He knows What will not happen If it were to happen How it would have happened He knows that Subhanallah So Allah knows Had you been married to this person Then this is what would have happened But because you didn't So that did not happen So Allah will protect you from it And this is in Suratul Kahaf When Allah speaks about the story Of Musa A.S. with Al-Khidr Certain things happened And then Al-Khidr Explains to Musa A.S. That the reason Why this happened is because I was told by Allah Had I left the situation It would have been even worse So in this way What I am saying is We call out to Allah Oh Allah can I have this And can I have that in particular And then we blame Allah For not making it happen When Allah was doing you a favor By blocking it Because he knew That in the future This would have been dangerous And detrimental for you So therefore Thank Allah Thank Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala May Allah make things easy for us Let's move on You know there was something Known as the farewell pilgrimage Hajjatul Wadaa The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Had gone for the pilgrimage It was the only pilgrimage He had done Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqas R.A. fell ill During the time of Hajjatul Wadaa And you know Something amazing about the muhajireen A lot of them were quite wealthy From among them Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqas R.A. was a wealthy man And he only At that time He was still quite young Still quite young He only had one daughter He only had a daughter So he says Oh Messenger peace be upon him As you can see I'm on my deathbed Very interesting I'm on my deathbed And I only have one daughter And I've got so much money So much wealth What is she going to do with it Can I give it to charity Because she's already wealthy He must have done whatever for her He says can I give it all for charity He says no Don't give it all for charity So then he says Well can I give three-quarter of it away He says no Well then can I give half of it away The Prophet peace be upon him Says a thulu thu What thulu thu kathir Give only a third away in charity And that is more than enough Then he continues to explain He says innaka If you were to leave Your dependence wealthy It is better for you Than leaving them poor In a way that they will go around Begging from people yet you were wealthy You know what this means So many things Number one charity begins at home Subhanallah You're a wealthy person Well make sure that your kids And make sure your family members Your relatives are all okay Because you have wealth What's the point of giving the whole world And your family is poor People do that One small misunderstanding That's it I'm not giving No There are examples in the life of Abu Bakr al-Siddique The verses were revealed To say you should not do that If you're a person of honour When you have a dispute with someone That should not stop you From donating in a charitable cause Why? Because you were doing it for Allah Not for them But when you give for them You will stop giving If I'm giving you for you The day I have a problem with you I stop giving you But if I'm giving you for Allah The day I have a problem with you I continue because I was always Doing it for Allah anyway It's something very interesting So this man Sa'ad ibn Abu Bakr He then decided That he's writing up a will One third for charity The rest will go to my daughter Subhanallah The rest will go to my daughter Because of the instruction Of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam But guess what happened He did not pass away He lived on He lived on so long after that That he was the last to pass away From the ten who we are talking about That were given paradise And he was one of the last From among the muhajireen To pass away He was 80 years old When he passed away And he was 23 years younger Than Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Or 25 According to the two dates we have So you can imagine How long he lived Mashallah And yet there was a time When he was very young When he thought he's really going It happens to us, doesn't it With us the sad reality is You just have a little cough I'm going, I'm going, that's it Make peace with everyone It's good because at least You start making peace But the problem is As soon as you get better You say, no, that peace Was only connected to the fact That I thought I was going to die We're back at war May Allah forgive us We need to make sure That we make amends You don't know when you're going to go Nor do I How many times medicine Or doctors have told us That you know what 24 hours remaining 48 hours remaining And they've lived on 48 years 24 years thereafter It has happened I'm sure We have living examples In our midst of that So it goes to show Just like Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqqas Never underestimate the mercy of Allah Allah can keep you alive But you need to keep doing good And at the same time Make sure that we've learned A lesson when it comes to inheritance Make sure that we learn a lesson Let's be concerned About the well-being Of our daughters Of our daughters Many people, culturally We tend to look after Our sons And we forget our daughters Or we say When I die My daughter's okay She's married She's gone when she was married I gave her some gold And a bracelet So that's fine But you guys This is the wealth we have That is wrong From an Islamic perspective It is actually prohibited You have to take care Of your daughters You have to make sure That even if it is a token Even if you think They don't need it Wallahi You have to give it to them You have to make sure And brothers Or those who remain behind Make sure you don't Cheat your sisters And you know Of cases where They undervalue property Just to make the daughter happy A property worth 5 million Pounds for example And the brother says 500,000 pounds And the sister says 500,000 Alhamdulillah She doesn't know 4.5 million is usurped She doesn't even know that Because the figure's too big Let's be honest For the sake of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqas He used to cry a lot And he was very soft He used to cry a lot He was very soft One day the Prophet Was seated with some of his companions And he said If you want to see a man from Jannah He's the next man entering This happened a few times In the life of Muhammad One of them Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqas He walked in Subhanallah And so Abdullah ibn Amr Ibn al-Asr He was very young He decided I'm going to go And find out All about How come he's from Paradise? I also want to be from Paradise So he went And he asks him He says you know what This is what the Prophet Peace be upon him said Just before you walked in So I want to know What's your deed He says I don't really Have so many extra deeds I'm just a normal Average person Normal You know those Who are noble Always believe they are normal The minute you think That you are above others That's the very moment That you are probably Below them all May Allah forgive us Remember this We need to Ask Allah for goodness But when you get the goodness Don't let it get to your head Never Never let it get to your head If it does That's your test Fail May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Grant us forgiveness So he said Something interesting He says Three things I always ensure Are clean My tongue My heart And my wealth I make sure They are clean With my tongue I never abuse I never say anything I constantly remember Allah I use good words And I make sure That I don't hurt people With my tongue With my heart I make sure That I don't have malice And hatred for anyone No jealousy for anyone I make sure That I search And remove from it Even the speck That is beginning to show I take it out My heart is clean My tongue is clean And my wealth I make sure It is absolutely clean And pure Never pinching Never stealing Never usurping Never deceiving Nothing at all Whatever came Alhamdulillah Through hard work and sweat So those are three things We learn You want to be from paradise I want to be from paradise I promise you If you were to look after These three You would help yourself Get there By the will of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala And his mercy So that is very interesting And a very, very powerful point Sa'ad Ibn Abi Waqas Al-Rauhan who lived on For many years Mashallah Tabarak Allah He was actually The name That comes to mind When we speak about Persia And the conquest Of Qadisiya And Nahawan Etc. He was also Appointed as the Ambassador Or the leader The Amir of Kufa By Umar Ibn Khattab R.A. And at one point He was even The head of Najd Appointed by Umar Ibn Khattab R.A. Now Like I said earlier He lived up to The age of 80 He passed away in Madina Munawwara And there is a very Interesting story That I will end with Speaking about Sa'ad Ibn Abi Waqas R.A. On his deathbed His head was In the lap of his son And his son Was crying profusely So he tells His son Don't cry Don't cry You know Allah has promised us Jannat al-Firdous We've been told That by Muhammad We have hope In the mercy of Allah Sisters Pause there for a moment I want you to know That by the will of Allah You will be in Paradise By the will And the mercy of Allah You will be in Paradise And Allah will forgive us No matter what we've done We need to keep trying Never lose hope In the mercy of Allah No matter who you are No matter where you have been No matter what you have done Allah's mercy Is greater than What you've done No matter what it is But you need to Seek his forgiveness That's the only thing You need to keep trying If you don't try You will never achieve But if you try Trust me You will definitely get there If I want to get For example to Manchester I need to try I need to speak To a few of you Who's ready to take me To Manchester And I'm sure Ten, twenty people Will be ready But if I were Not to speak No one would even know If I thought No Allah's great He'll take me to Manchester The world will just Look at me And I feel like They must read in my eyes Manchester SubhanAllah Come on That won't happen The same applies to Paradise And if we look at this man He tells his son You know my son I participated in Badr When I participated in Badr I was wearing a specific clothing I want you to bring that From the closet And inshaAllah When I pass away I want you to bury me in that So when I meet Allah I will meet him When I meet Allah I will meet him With that which I had worn On the day of Badr Because that was The biggest day ever The battle of Badr Took place When there were There were only 313 of them And SubhanAllah Against all odds They had actually Succeeded May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Grant us goodness May we be from among those Who can improve ourselves There are so many Interesting points That we have From this beautiful life Of Sa'adi ibn Abi Waqas Radiallahu Anhum I've only mentioned A few And my 30 minutes are up I'll say this And peace be upon you And peace be upon you And peace be upon you And peace be upon you