 أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم إن سعيكم لشتا فأما من أعطا واتقا وصدق بالحسنة فسن يسره للسراء وأما من بخل واستورنا وكذب بالحسنة فسن يسره للحسراء وما يغني عنه مال إذا تردى إن لنا للآخرة والأولى فأنذرتكم أنت للظاق لا يصلاه الأشق الذي كذب وتولى وسيجنبها الأتق الذي يؤتي ما له يتزكى وما لأحد النعمة تجزاء إلا بتغاء وجه ربه الأعلى ولا سوف يرضى صدق الله العظيم بسم الله والحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله وعلى آله وأصحابه ومن وآله وبعد كل مرحبه هو بسبب الله سبحانه وتعالى بلسان والسلوات على محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم may Allah bless him and all his family members, his wives as well as his offspring and may Allah bless all his companions and may Allah bless all those who have struggled and strived to bring the deen to us in such a way that we are seated here this evening and may Allah keep us steadfast and make us from those who can also carry the message of the deen to our children and to those around us in such a way that insha Allah we will be able to achieve jannah in return and we will be able to be the means of others also entering jannah by the will of Allah سبحانه وتعالى my beloved brothers and sisters in Islam after three days in the bush in Zimbabwe with cows and sheep Mashallah it's very refreshing to be here in cold Birmingham for me it's quite cold so speaking about time we find there is a lot that can be said everyone says 11 11 11 it will never come back in 100 years I want to rectify that statement the second that we are living in now will never ever come back forget about 100 years and 1000 years the moment I stood up here is gone it's over it's never to return what happened in that moment is over it's written it's recorded and that's it it's either going to be for me or against me on the day of Qiyana so I need to make use of it properly I was so impressed Mashallah listening to the talks especially brother Hamouda Mashallah to be honest with you nothing we see and we strive for is from outside the earth have you ever thought of it what's the best thing you love what's it gold gold is from the ground your watch the leather is from the cow I slaughtered a few days ago yes what else your clothing well the cotton is from the farms of Zimbabwe Mashallah what else your watch your watch is made up of leather it's made up of metal which is also mind it's made up every single thing you have your shoes your phones your motor vehicles what's a motor vehicle the metal is mind the paint is taken from pigmentation from various sources what happens the leather seats are from different animals hope it's not pig inshallah and what else you have the the addometers the the the the rubber on the tires everything is from the earth we have not yet smelled what comes from outside the earth that is why we speak of the finger being put in the ocean it's not yet imaginable to any one of us so a fool is the one who thinks this is it and this is the dunya and that's it because you haven't yet even got the brain to understand what is coming this is why the sisters who say wow am I going to be with the same husband in the after that question is because you are using a human brain when you have a complete brain you want the same man 10 times over Mashallah الله أكبر why because now you know what it's all about but we get frustrated because we don't have the mind to understand and this is why we say time is so important Allah سبحانه وتعالى has taken a custom you know we are not allowed to take a custom custom meaning an oath with anything besides Allah لا تحليفوا بأبائكم من كان حالفا فليحليف بالله you're not allowed to take an oath by your father and your daughter you know some people have a habit and the custom on my daughter's head what's that that is paganism I've heard it so many times custom on my mother custom on this custom on my this and that no the hadith says whoever is going to swear an oath it should only be with Allah his name his qualities سبحان الله but with Allah himself he's allowed to take customs and he's allowed to swear an oath with anything he considers important from amongst his creation so he swears by what by time and by the token of time he's swearing an oath we're going to come to that insha'Allah and he says I started this recitation for this reason he swears by the night the night is time the night that is gone will never ever come back it's over it's gone tonight will not come back if you hear you hear if you're not here I hope you're doing something better insha'Allah this is for those who are going to hear this later on insha'Allah and then you have one نهار إذا تجن لا swearing by the day سبحان الله and Allah says so many verses of the Quran where Allah سبحانه وتعالى takes a custom he swears an oath by something to do with time because it is very very very important and this is why the old Arabic saying if you know it الوقتك السيفي إلا متقطعه قطعك beautiful Arabic saying time is like a sword time is like a sword if you don't use it to cut it will cut you الله أكبر time is like a sword if you don't use it to cut it will cut you إلا متقطعه قطعك there are different translations depending on what depth of the Arabic language you have but that's the gist of the meaning you need to use your time positively and we have so many a hadith of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم I'd like to mention one of them narrated in صحيحة البخاري نعمتان مغبون فيهما كثير من الناس الصحة والفراغ there are two gifts of Allah سبحانه وتعالى that many people have not realized or are deceived regarding its importance and its magnitude and its greatness what are the two things your health and your time your free time now here I know we are speaking of free time that's because you are meant to be occupied in that which will benefit you not in that which will not benefit you because you only live the moment once and this is why ابن عمر رضي الله عنه he used to say إذا أمسيت فلا تنتظر الصباح وإذا أصبحت فلا تنتظر المساء he used to say when you enter the evening don't wait for the morning to do something if you have to do it now and when you enter the morning don't wait for the evening if you have to do something do it now and that is why the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم also says صلي صلاة مودعين when you fulfill your Salah each time fulfill it as though it is your last Salah like the robbers have told you with a gun on your head this sounds more like Johannesburg masha Allah with a gun on your head and they tell you right your last wish you say I need to pray that will be the longest prayer ever believe me the longest the most beautiful and masha Allah if he was an honest robber to allow you the last wish he'd probably get so irritated with your delay he'd disappear so you still have another one and then you would actually miss the sincerity of that Salah hoping that someone else could show a gun to you الله أكبر I see you without the laughter people didn't really think that that was they would like someone to actually have a gun each time but Allah is closer to you than that man with his gun and Allah is closer to you than you will ever imagine than you are to yourself why then do we not take our time to read our Salah سبحان الله when Allah سبحانه وتعالى open our doors and grant us all goodness I always seize the opportunity whenever we are saying something it's a sunnah that when you're saying something and some goodness is mentioned you ask Allah to grant you from it immediately don't waste time and whenever you're saying something which has in it a little bit of fearful items or fearful mention of something you ask Allah to protect you from it so that is why no one knows when the dua will be accepted it's important for us to seize the opportunities may Allah forgive us and may Allah grant us jannah and grant us goodness and make us from those who can use time correctly you know time is so so so important we become people who are connected to what we see in the dunya we make dua to Allah سبحانه وتعالى but that dua sometimes the prayer is connected to something we want now كلا بل تحبون العاجلة وتذارون الآخرة ني بيهولد you tend to love that which is in front of you the worldly items you ask for them a lot سبحان الله we love it we do something if I were to tell you who wants a Ferrari Masha Allah I think well I'd want two insha Allah I'd want one too Masha Allah and if we were to say okay who is prepared Masha Allah let me not say donate some money to the course but who is prepared to do something if it's religious you find a few less people we ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to change that for us you know it reminds me of a joke Masha Allah for those of you who might have heard the parrot joke on the internet I see some people have gone to town with it but no problem so long as you come back from town to the varsity it's alright they say there were four parrots two belonging to a pastor and two belonging to a certain businessman the two belonging to a businessman were males the two belonging to the pastor were females so what happened is the females were used to praying every day quiet and you know asking and so on praying praying every time you see them they're praying and the other two were vulgar swearing, attitude so on everything behind money money money I'm trying to show you about prayer and dua the people pray when they need the prayer well you hear the end of the joke anyway so what happened is the pastor visited the businessman and he saw the parrots so what happened is he says look I've got a solution all the swearing and everything these parrots need good company I've got good company for them I'll bring you mine so what he did is he brought the two females and put them into the cage with the males and a few days later he visited them and he noticed that the females became similar to the males instead of them having a positive impact they stopped praying no more prayer so he asked them why did you stop praying he says well our prayers were answered our prayers were answered so Allah keeps us in the condition of need because we need to continue praying I wonder what they prayed for but anyway Allah makes it easy for us by keeping us in need so that we can raise our hands to Allah سبحانه وتعالى because sometimes what happens is the minute what we are asking for is achieved we tend to forget Allah سبحانه وتعالى and this is a verse in the Quran it's a verse where Allah سبحانه وتعالى speaks of how man calls out to Allah as though he is you know so so close to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and the minute he's given what he wants he forgets Allah سبحانه وتعالى so we need to make sure that we are from those who call out to Allah سبحانه وتعالى at all times we have a problem and the problem is many of us do not value time a hadith comes to mind where رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم says رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قبل خمس sees five opportunities before they are overtaken by five conditions and those five conditions would mean that the opportunities you have are lost or you had had were lost what are these opportunities the first one the opportunity of your health before sickness overtakes you when you're healthy that health is temporary it will definitely definitely be tested when you're away in batches or sometimes completely so you need to use your health when you're healthy make sure you do something constructive make sure you use that health in the right direction instead of waiting and then when you're sick you say I wish I could have read Salah now I'm sitting I can't even read Salah standing no we use it in the right direction the next point I'm no specific order the hadith the order of the hadith I'm not extremely certain of it but the next point being made mention of in the hadith sees the opportunity of your young age before old age overtakes you شبابك قبلها رميك when you're young you can do a lot when you're old you can do a little bit less when you're at varsity there is a lot you can achieve once you leave varsity don't be from amongst those who think wow when I was there I could have done this and could have done that and I could have you know I should have stayed away from this and my company was terrible because company really makes you or breaks you believe me your company nowadays makes you or breaks you you've got to choose your friends and you've got to expel people from your circle very very important so make sure you use that very very strictly then the next part of the hadith the prophet says use your wealth before poverty overtakes you so when you have a little bit of money use something good with it you can save it up and buy something important or you can donate a portion of it and make sure that you've done something that you will be proud of tomorrow you will not look back and say what happened I should have done this يالايتني فعلت وفالت I should have done this and I should have done that the next part of the hadith use your life before death overtakes you use your life before death overtakes you that is obvious that whilst we are alive we make the most of it Insha'Allah we try you know time time is a creature of Allah سبحانه و تعالى have we ever thought of that time is a creature of Allah our brains would need a lot of thinking to understand what I just said Allah created time and He made in it three tenses the first tense the past then the present and then the future and this is why Allah سبحانه و تعالى for Him the future is as good as done because time is nothing it is reported in a narration that time will be brought in the presence of everyone on the day of Qiyama or when the people of Jannah are in Jannah and the people of Jahannam are in Jahannam time will be brought forward in the form of a little animal and slaughtered in front of everyone and Allah will say Oh people of Jannah نعيمٌ نعيمٌ for ever and ever you will be in Jannah time is gone it's over if I were to meet you in Jannah Insha'Allah a billion years after we entered there and you would say hey you know what didn't I meet you in Aston I said yeah we did we did yeah I remember that yeah well you know what you've been in Jannah how many years have passed you're still looking young brother masha'Allah a billion years have passed a billion years how many to go what's the answer infinity we only just started الله أكبر we've only just started that's time time is gone and this is why if you look at Surat Al-Kahaf Allah speaks about his knowledge the knowledge of Allah He knows the past He knows يكون يكون is مضارع مضارع can be present or future tense and he knows that and I like to translate it this way الله knows that which was never going to happen if it were to happen how it would have happened have you ever thought about that that which is not going to happen if it were to happen how it would have happened الله knows that let me give you a quick example of that in Surat Al-Kahaf the generation of Al-Khidran موسى عليه الصلاة والسلام where he killed a little boy why did he kill the boy the boy was never meant to live his predestiny had been ending there or should I say it was destined that his life was going to end there but Allah says had he been given a life he would have been a very bad boy which means he was never ever going to live but had he lived this is how his graph would have actually moved I hope you understand my language there so this is the knowledge of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so getting back to this حديث of time it's important for us to seize the opportunity of our life before death overtakes us and in fact one of the points the fifth one the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم speaks about فراغك قبل شغولك use the opportunity of your free time before you become occupied so many times we want to do things and we don't end up doing them and then later on when we realize we needed to do them what happens there is no time to do them and we ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to make us from those who can take heed now very quickly moving through what is it that makes us waste our time and I wrote it down so we don't dilly-dally we don't waste time itself what makes us waste time let me move through this list and I think each one of us we'll find it relevant إن شاء الله it starts with me when we do not have proper objectives and goals in life we waste a lot of time we don't know what exactly we want we don't know where exactly we want to reach and we don't work towards it some people know I'd like to do this I'd like to do that and they don't work towards it if you don't work towards it you're wasting time you're wasting all your time because before you know it you would have time would be finished and you would not have achieved what you wanted so it's important for us to have proper objectives and secondly a point I touched on your company your companions they are also a big obstacle if you mix with like-minded people who have similar goals and objectives you will get there with greater ease then if you mix with those who are heading in another direction I was in مدينة المنورة for many years and let me tell you there is a specific person I mixed with that I regret not to say he was a bad man but he was not he was a person who was not as serious as I would have liked to be and as a result I feel today I could have achieved much more than I did had I had company who was like or that was like-minded I hope you understand what I'm saying and I think it's normal for a lot of people who've left especially an Islamic university or tertiary institution to think that I could have done much better in those days I could have worked harder I could have gone maybe to the Haram and sat in more Durus more lessons and so on it's important for us to make use of this opportunity now you have your ISOCs you have your various committees you have your clubs and so on make sure that you use your time constructively leave a mark leave an imprint so that it can be a sadha qajaria for you so that it can be some reward a charity that continues even after your death may Allah grant us a good death we need it seize every opportunity when I was told 11 11 11 you know so many things came through my mind I said no problem Inshallah I will be there because of that I will change things to be here today Mashallah I made a promise and Inshallah I fulfilled it however 11 11 11 strictly speaking has nothing to do with the Muslims and Islam no it doesn't we follow a lunar calendar but we seize any opportunity to speak to people any opportunity to make an impact any opportunity to create a little bit of a change even if it means 1 cm Inshallah for me every second is an 11 11 11 I told you it's never going to come back so the next point is the free time I won't talk much about that because I've spoken already about free time and how important it is to use that also being involved in that which is glamorous that which shines that which glitters and chasing it we heard about the dunya those who chased the dunya they informed you it has no end you keep running and you start sprinting at a certain time let me give you an example of the iphone you had iphone 3 Inshallah now the 3G came out you had iphone 3GS came out Inshallah when a little while later no I heard there's a 4 wow I need that so you're now running behind the 4 after the 4 the 4 something else came out then the 5 and the 6 when I was in Cape Town I asked the brothers and the children at one of the schools how many of you have an iphone 6 and 3 guys put up their hand and I said there isn't an iphone 6 it was just to prove that sometimes we already believe in our dreams I have it Inshallah that's an excuse instead of saying you're lying just say maybe you know in our dreams we saw passionate that some of us already have the playstation 7 Inshallah it hasn't even got there so when we run behind the latest when we don't have that yet it was doing our job fine that Nokia that I've got is probably a dinosaur Inshallah but it does the job what do you want from a phone you don't need the latest all the time well did you see the apps well believe me the apps as we are speaking there are thousands of apps that are being created per minute are you going to keep up with that so this is a waste of time you running behind something that does not come with you into your grave that's the difference between a Muslim and he who is not we need to have the iphone that will take us to Jannah we need to worry about the latest that will take us to Jannah you have a Quran that is out that reads for you Inshallah there you are you know you have something else that is out that is the latest that will help you increase and improve yourself you need to have time for yourself that will make you a better person your wife can say that guy is the best husband on earth then you are speaking business you don't even need a cell phone believe me to achieve that status can I add one thing if you don't have a cell phone you probably will be one of the best husbands because a lot of men are married to their phones polygamous relations Allah protect us so it's important for us to know this that there are a lot of things glamour let me give you another example some people are behind sunglasses some people are behind clothing some people are behind brand names it doesn't stop they think you know they are making things to keep the all money rolling in and we like fools keep running behind you know I pictured it once in my mind I'd seen a load of rats running behind a cheese a piece of cheese and as they got the cheese there was one smelling stronger in front so they threw this one and they carried on and they threw the other one but eat from this cheese and be full at least I hope you understand what I'm saying you've got your cheese the first cheese you've got and what happens it goes to motor vehicles and after that it goes to your spouse why? you've got a wife oh she's 1990 model I need now I need a better a later model why? you developed your habit of wanting the latest so when you see your wife she no longer appeals to you when you see your husband he no longer appeals why? just like your phone it no longer appeals I've seen a dude down the road with a better jeans half way down his butt Mashallah may Allah protect us yes, that's a problem you enter the masjid and you don't know where to make sujood believe me why? because as you're going down you know you just got to close your eyes in Salah they say it's Makru sometimes it's Farah to close your eyes especially in masjids like this and that's what we're following and that is time being wasted that is time that's definitely taking us into the wrong direction we need to wake up and we need to know it's about time we dressed properly and left a mark we don't need to just follow everybody that's doing everything that is being advertised on the television and the internet and so on no, you need to have a purpose when you do not have a goal and a purpose and an objective it is made for you and changed for you by the media that's a fact think of what I've just said when you do not have your own goals and objectives in life which are based on Quran and Sunnah and on who you are and your role that you are meant to play your objective is made by other people your friends your peers and the media in particular every time there is a movie they come up with a new type of dress code and a new hairstyle and then you have all these hedgehogs in the classroom it's a fact there's only one thing they haven't managed to do a hedgehog or should I say a porcupine can shoot some of those little arrows men still haven't developed that but very soon it might come just you head and one hair flies believe me they will come up with that and then everyone will want that I wonder where the button will be probably on the nose maybe Allah save God us do you know then we have another very important point the hatred that we have in our hearts for one another the jealousy the envy it's a waste of our time life comes once we don't have room to hate each other some people don't talk to their brothers and cousins and uncles in the end they cannot solve a problem sometimes we need to say I'm sorry even though you know you're not wrong and I've come across people who tell me I make sabr sabr sabr sabr sabr sabr how long should I make sabr for well until you die brother or sister what do you mean until I die sometimes it's worth your while to make sabr until you die إن الله مع الصابرين Allah is with those Allah's assistance and Allah سبحانه وتعالى himself is with those who bear patience be patient life is not everlasting it will stop but they are oppressing me well sometimes yes you are allowed to stand up for justice I'm not saying no you are allowed you should stand up for justice and so on but sometimes you have to bear patience patience is better for you than to stand up for justice just bear patience forgive learn to overlook weigh the pros and cons and make a decision that's better for you I want to give you one true example I was once driving in سانتون which is quite you know a posh area in Johannesburg and a lady drove into the back of my vehicle I had a Toyota Corolla that time and what happened is it was damaged quite badly and I had my family in the vehicle the boot was full of stuff and I had a lecture that I had to deliver about five hours later in a town that was about three hours away so I looked at her I looked at the damage and I said to myself this will probably cost me I think about 400-500 quid you know British currency and I looked at this lady and she says I'm very very sorry and I'm you know so on and so forth and I said what's the procedure and she recited it to me as though she makes an accident every day she says well I've got to do this I've got to call the cops you've got to wait they'll take about so long to come and they'll do this and I said wow experienced I said I forgive you ma'am repair your cars I repair your vehicle I repair mine thank you she looked what as it is when you look at someone like me you know like I walked in today immigration everybody's giving me dirty looks what's wrong you know so she looks at me she says ah thank you very much can I have your phone number for the right reasons she said look because I work and my bosses will want to know how the car was damaged anyway I ended up giving her the number and so on and the same evening I called the brothers in the city I was going to and I said look I've got a problem my vehicle is moving but it's damaged I will need to repair it so one of the brothers had a huge panel beating place and before look I was trying to gain time solely for one reason I didn't mind paying but I didn't want a thousand people so I said rather take this and look what plan Allah had in place there was a gentleman a brother who had a place for panel beating I arrived at the time of Asr he kept his whole team back they repaired my vehicle and painted it just after they redid the whole vehicle and added so many new things in it the following day after I was meant to leave he gave my vehicle back smelling of new paint with so many different extras جزاك الله خير brother how much will that be الله أكبر now why I'm saying this is because that is time management and the gift of it from Allah سبحانه وتعالى I know it's my own example but the reason I'm sharing it with you is to see that sometimes I could have I was not in the wrong I could have got my right but it will take me four or five hours I've lost this lecture I've got so much stress and tension this is why when we are doing things that are unnecessary we have a lot of stress tension in the mind so remove those things that are unnecessary we give the example of the pot each one of us we have a capacity like a huge pot and in our lives there are things that are equivalent to sand things equivalent to stones things equivalent to rocks the most important things the rocks the big ones if you put the rocks in first you will be able to get the stones into the spaces of those that the rocks have created when they're in and then you can put the sand all fit in because you prioritized but start with the sand then what happens you've got no place no place when you put the stones in the rocks are all out the most important things are out and this is why a lot of people who complain about lack of concentration in Salah I tell them you have unnecessary things in your brain take them out can I tell you what's one of the biggest and this I'm being open we speaking to young people and this is a message to carry elsewhere I'd like to hope we're not guilty of what I'm about to say because it's a big one but we we are to carry it to others one of the biggest reasons why people do not even want to read Salah is pornography may Allah protect us our offspring our colleagues our children people don't realize it has such a big impact such a huge impact on the mind on the emotions on the spirituality on everything we do on our thinking on the way we look at the opposite sex everything changes and it changes quite badly and the worst thing is we stand in front of Allah and we've lost concentration then we say give me a dua I need to concentrate my brother my sister a single dua without doing something about it will not solve your problem you need to do something about it and then make a dua together with it a lot of people say I need a good proposal give me a dua so now you give them I need a good dua but do something about it have you gone out have you spoken to some brothers have you you need to do something active about it within the limits of the sharia the same applies to passing your exams make dua that I pass well you sleep all day what do you expect you think it's just a dua if that was the case we would have all had those dua so it's important for us to know this and it's important for us really to make a difference in our lives when we have important things in our minds then those which are more important leave our minds then we have another very very important point some people have a habit of starting something before they've finished it they start something else and starting a third thing before they've finished the second when you do something do it properly complete it and then go for something else this means when you do something do a thorough job some people and I do know they start a course two years down the line no I don't want to do this course go to another one they do another course and two years down the line I don't want to do well look if it happened to you once probably maybe it was the wrong field maybe you've now chosen the right one but finish something finish it and your best bet is choose properly from the beginning I've given you an example which I thought might be closer to you but that example fits for anything in your life also what is extremely important is when we do not tolerate others we spoke about tolerance moments ago you know we're all different every one of us is different amazingly if you shave my head and I shave yours and we shave everybody's heads and we had to take a super print of the way our hair grows every one of us would have a hair print different to the other from the beginning of the creation to the end so not only are our eyes different and the thumb print different but our ears are different the mouth the teeth every single thing no two zebras are the same ask me I come from Africa amazing nothing is the same your toes your nails nothing is the same but we still get along with each other we're supposed to so sometimes we will have differences bigger than that you know you have a Muslim and a non-Muslim that's a big difference we tolerate them we're living in a country where they tolerate us and if they don't doesn't mean we don't tolerate them it is them who are displaying a quality that is a negative one we tolerate them on condition that they tolerate us to the degree that we have our religious practice and that's the norm on the globe today but for people not to tolerate someone who has a different view within Islam promote the view you have teach it debate you know talk to others about it try and let others you know people always ask me are you Hanafi you know are you Shafi are you Maliki well what difference does it make to you brother what I've said here is it correct if it is take it if it's not throw it right out and throw me with it I think it's about time we you know you can be who you are but you need to know really tolerate others when you don't it creates a hatred in your heart you think you're the only one you know the only one who's right who knows you may be wrong you may be totally wrong you may be heading in the wrong direction altogether and I tell people this when it comes to meetings that we have sometimes and you hear one guy who thinks he's so smart giving a view that's totally unacceptable and you know sitting there that you have a view that will actually make him feel that his view is nothing his view is nothing and sometimes you just let them have it their way I don't know if you know what I'm saying you know it happens even in the homes you have a spouse debating about what to cook come on I have a rule in my home I never ever decide what shall be cooked no don't just cook anything you know no food don't worry I will cook we need to be easy going people we need to be easy going people in that way you will be able to make use of your time if not your mind your emotions your mental capacity your physical capacity your health everything goes why do people depress in most cases it's because they don't know how to deal with قدر in most cases people do not surrender to the decree of Allah Islam is one of the only religions where part and parcel of what makes you a Muslim is to believe in قدر that it is from Allah you know predestiny is from Allah and still you have people why did this happen to me why you know why me I've been through this divorce why did it happen to me you know and no I'm going to fix him up and he won't see the children ever again in his life that type of behavior is just destroying our time in this dunya you won't achieve anything probably that child will be resurrected with the father on the day of qiyama then what you're going to do ya Allah I fought a court case for this man why did this happen Allahu Akbar it doesn't help well Allah it doesn't help so let's learn these lessons I know my time is probably up because I normally when I'm just warming up always up but that's what it's all about time is never enough never ever let's use it Insha'Allah in the right direction let us make sure that Allah سبحانه وتعالى meaning let us make sure that we call out to Allah سبحانه وتعالى to grant us goodness once we have used our time properly and we learn to be systematic in our life we will feel so good we will be able to achieve our goals you know we will be able to achieve something in life be happy and we will be able to make sure that every moment we have had has been used in the right direction and this is why don't wait to turn to Allah you know if we wait to turn to Allah سبحانه وتعالى if we wait to turn to Allah سبحانه وتعالى we may never ever get that opportunity so one thing we should never wait for is to turn to Allah you know the sisters سبحان الله even the brothers sometimes there's a religious decision we need to make make it now don't say okay I'm not you know holy enough I don't I still want to enjoy my life I still want to you know I cannot go for Hajj now I still need to do this no it must happen now N-O-W if it doesn't come now it may never ever come there's so many examples of it so if you want to get to a higher spiritual level let it happen now may Allah سبحانه وتعالى grant us goodness there was one one joke that I wanted to share with you on anger and I thought it was very hilarious so I said you know many times people do not relate scholars of Islam with jokes but I think our generation it's important you see there was a man and this is showing you the irritation of lies and falsehood the irritation of lies and falsehood there was a man sitting on a train now the train was a double decker train a sleeper train so he's at the top and three ladies they walked in and they sat so he's at the top and they're down there and he's hearing the discussion sitting they asking each other questions and suddenly one says how old are you now she looked 65 she says I'm 30 and this man was so irritated so irritated so irritated so now the other two knew that this was sarcasm you know she was being silly they were also very old probably a little bit younger than her so she says how old are you now instead of saying I'm 55 she says well I'm 25 so she says oh and this man is not even more irritated and so they ask the youngest one and what about you she says I'm 15 that was it the man drops down when he dropped down they said hey what's happening he says I'm just born Allahu Akbar may Allah Subhan Allah grant us goodness there's something to take back insha'Allah and I hope and I pray that we've all you know learned something from this evening I definitely have I've got a very very heavy schedule in the next few days in fact I've had such a heavy schedule from about a month and insha'Allah you know we had the Eid and we had back in Africa Subhan Allah we normally go out to the field and we I normally go out into the bush the poorest of the poor Alhamdulillah very very rewarding and you know you come out sun burnt weather beaten but it's worth it masha'Allah and I ask Allah to accept from us all the acts of worship we've engaged in please my beloved brothers and sisters remember something not only will this day never come back in our lifetime but this moment and every moment does not return never ever so make use of it and insha'Allah is such a way that it will not come back and demonize you sometime later may Allah Subhanahu و تعالى grant us goodness وصل الله و سلام و بارك على نبينا محمدين و السلام عليكم و رحمة الله تعالى