 Masha'Allah nice to share this space with you before this closure I just wanted to begin with the clarification about my education of course I had been studying for much more than once in my life and at Katerine University Masha'Allah I did have the pleasure to study there but I still haven't believed the Quran but insha'Allah I hope to one day you know by Masha'Allah I've less been blessed to memorize quite a bit of it and I completed the Kulia of Sharia although I did take classes in the traditional school as well right and so I was there they gave us a break right you know so and I was there there was some Russian students from Moscow as well who study at the and the Kharouyan traditional school but I believe that it's great to be here tonight to see a lot of you know old friends people I've been seeing for a while Masha'Allah course it began by stinking thinking the start of the worship for the invitation to come to speak here tonight as well you mentioned to me that he wanted me to speak for about 20 minutes but I'm afraid that I might go a little bit overboard because I would also speak from the heart as well and Masha'Allah is also Mr. Ahmed James we call it radical blue Masha'Allah as I mentioned before that we actually would classmates at one point at the GTU and and he didn't ask me to say this but if there's any reason to buy his book is he has books in the book they shine a song right Shala and there's any reason to buy his book is because of that poem he just read about from him I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm so fine I lost my social mercy I knew him so hey and he was in one of the most gentle souls very humble person and the beautiful brother and and actually I had multiple mini exchanges with him via text prior to his passing I mean I lost my I don't know but it's a mercy and I see you be kind to his wife as well we're here tonight of course because we are celebrating commemorating an important pivotal event in the life of the Masjid Alayhi Salatu Wasalaam see the co-name with the Qareem the master of the two planes of existence and the two weighty creatures the Jinns and men as Jinns the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam say you to co-name that he was of course the master of alam al-gayb and shahada the the realm of the scene and yancy al-murta al-malakut al-malakut and the sallallahu alayhi wa sallam as we know was that miraculous event when Allah was invited him to his kingdom and to witness the kingdom we know that on a one occasion he asked Allah to show him how he gave life back to the dead and Allah showed him in order to comfort his heart to remove any doubt from them about it but Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he showed the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam how the entire universe works the workings of this this universe and often we forget that there's an unseen realm and it really what really matters is what happens in that unseen realm we know that prior to this great event this journey from as Koran says glory be to him who took his servant by night from the masjid al-haram to the masjid al-Aqsa that masjid or that place of worship which has been abounded with blessings in order that we show him from our signs and what great signs he had been shown at that night alayhi sallatu sallam but this is also a story of love as of course the said of the rush of you highlights is this is about love and what's love look like we know true love there is their ups and downs there's mokrah or munshab munshab thus moments of of great joy and celebration and sometimes there's moments of struggle and displeasure and we are asked to bear patiently in those moments of displeasure sometimes we celebrate through giving gifts to our beloveds to prove our love to them and what was preceded by the islamic Raj was ten years of great struggle Allah called the masjid al-Ali sallatu sallam to deliver a message to his people purify God's house that's what my job is I've not come here to take away your status and your power your position I'm coming here to tell you that Allah is not pleased with seeing the worship of other things along with him and he wants his house to be purified and that's all he was asking them to do something very simple to be truly honest but they didn't believe that yes we have to do something else it can't be true that that's all he wants he has to be trying to be he has to be trying to set him up sub himself up to become the next king or the ruler or the leader of this of this peninsula but that's all he wanted at the today proven by the fatima and we know that three years prior to the islamic Raj there was a embargo there's a he saw and of the the Muslims they were almost starved to death and at the end of those three years the Prophet sallam he experienced great sadness and we know that in the books of fear I said that this is called the year said it said it's amir kuzum and pop and then contrary to popular understanding or at least important to shake it on the bottom of the site on the bottom of the bottom up it said the reason why this year is called the year said this is not because he lost his wife Khadija I said I guess it's just by the way that's making sure you should say this but actually what they people used to say very long ago after every time someone died but not only because he lost his wife and he lost his uncle Raju Allah on time I'm sorry that of course the Sunnis even though of course it's a lot about the question of the fate of our thought of the question she got city he died a Muslim what's in there say did not die what's up if no if she shaman the seerah gives the impression that they see he died a Muslim to be so young so long as best of his fate but anyway we be Sunnis we're orthodox but I thought that we know was kind to the messengers that's what's not but the point being that I'm a say Ramadhan ad-Dhoti Raju Allah on Rahmata Ali he says that it was called in the year of sadness because that was the year where in the Prophet saw as Allah he found the greatest opposition and he couldn't find an ear open to his message anymore the Quran says we know that it saddens you to hear what they say but it said it's not you that they reject they reject the signs of God we know that it's saddened you but what is interesting is after this we know he goes to talk and he's looking for after the he saw it as over because the time he's rejected by the people eventually he's pelted and finds his way to a place where he sits down he makes that special prayer that we all know that they're beautiful prayer perhaps the most beautiful prayer of the seerah Allahumma inni ashquha Allahumma inni ashquha ilayka ta'fa quwati wa qulilatahilati wa hawani'a al-nas oh Allah I complain to you the weakness of my strengths the ineffectiveness of my strategy and my debasement in the eyes of the people yeah I'm a lot of me and talk about the team on top of me oh all merciful of those who show mercy you are the Lord of the week and you are my Lord and we know the rest of the the prayer but what is interesting about this is that outside of the fact that towards the end of the prayer he says that if these things that are happening to me are not a sign of your anger and your wrath upon me do what you may with me it doesn't matter whatever of course I want things to be easy but do what you may with me and what is interesting is that we reflect upon what has happened recently in Turkey in Syria where Allahumma ta'ala grant relief to the people the Muslims and others who have been tried in that area in that part of the world is that when you see the videos of survivors and you see the celebration people are not blaming God and that they're a law but they're not rejecting Allah was despite everything as if they themselves has heard the lessons enough as well if this is not a sign of your wrath as long as you're not angry with me I'm not concerned it doesn't bother me that you do this but what's interesting is that when the Prophet ﷺ decides to head back to Makkah he eventually he reaches a place called Nakhla and he is Aireen Harith or Rajallah and they pray and that is he's reciting Allah ﷺ he sends past them a group of the jinn and then later on he tells the Prophet ﷺ about what happened say it's been revealed to me that a delegation of the jinn that they listen to the Quran and they said this is a marvelous recitation this is a marvelous book it guides to the straight path we believe in it and so we will never ascribe any partners to Allah ﷺ and reflect upon when we turn to your direction a delegation of the jinn and they were listening to the Quran and once they came to it they said they said to one another be silent and listen and then once he was finished they returned to their people there's a book that has been revealed after Musa ﷺ affirming what came before it etc it guides to the truth and to a straight path and anyway the point being that it's as if Allah ﷺ is already sending a message to the Messenger ﷺ even though or despite the fact that those in the material realm are rejecting you then those in the spiritual realm they have received you they have accepted you so first sign of consolation that the Prophet ﷺ received he didn't lose faith he was committed to his mission and then he goes back he makes his way to Makkah he spent the night in the house of his cousin Umar and then the angel comes to him of that night and then that night Allah ﷺ takes him to Mashallah ﷺ he leaves the prayer the angel shows him the maharaj and the Prophet ﷺ said there's nothing more beautiful than I have ever seen in the maharaj and it is to the maharaj that every single person when he or she dies is fixated on that your eyes when people died their eyes become fixated in certain direction what are they looking at they're looking at the maharaj and then he takes them up and when he arrives he sees a man who's observing something something's being shown to him what is being shown to him people as he they pass and transition out of this ground and then when one of them dies a kathar that man says Ruhun Khabitha, Kharajat bin Jassid bin Khabith, a foul soul that came out of a foul body and when someone died a believer who said Ruhun Khaibah, Kharajat bin Jassid bin Khaibah, a good soul that came out of a good body and so the Prophet asked Jibril A.S. he said what was this? He said this is your father, Adam he's presented with the or shown his progeny and he makes comment about them he expresses his discontent with those reject Allah S.A.W. so once again it's he just la ilaha illallah, that's his message he also eventually makes his way to what's called Babun HaFala, the gate of the guardians and at the gate of the guardians is an angel his name is Ismail and Ismail he turned to Jibril he says Jibril who is this? And then Jibril says Adam Muhammad and then Ismail responds, Allah Khabib has already been sent because all the angels are waiting to hear news of Muhammad A.S. Khatim al-Amiyya and al-Mursaleen and in every lehevani goes into the every angel they're asking him has he already been sent? He's already been sent. The angels are greeting them everybody's happy they're smiling and you're welcome and then he passes by one angel and the angel he greets him but he's not smiling, he's frowning and the Prophet thought that was strange as I was happy listen he goes to Jibril he said what was that? He says oh that Dismatic, the treasure is the keeper of Jihannam, of the hellfire and he said if he were to smile he would have smiled at you but he didn't smile at anyone. He said you're no more worthy smile than being smiled at but you. This is how he is. So then he takes him to the second heaven. In the second heaven he meets Asa bin Mariam and Yahya bin Zagaria amongst again and the third heaven he meets Yusuf al-Alih as-salam. In the fourth heaven he meets Prophet Idris al-Alih as-salam. He continues he goes to the next heaven he meets Haroon, Aaron, the brother of Musa al-Alih as-salam and then he meets Musa the sixth heaven and then the seventh heaven he meets Ibrahim al-Alih as-salam and then eventually Jibril he tells him there's a point that we have reached and only you can go I can't go there to that point. This point is the extreme limit of the universe and then that point in that place there is a great tree called Siza Ratul Muntah, the low tree of the highest point. And the Prophet says some of them he mentored into that area and in some of the narrations they say that it was as if thousands of golden butterflies appear they scab and then eventually Allah swt begins to speak to him. So Allah swt brought him into his kingdom and he leaves him and he speaks to him shows him the dominions of the heavens and the earth and then he sent him back with a gift and that gift was a gift of 50 prayers. At least to start. And we know the story goes down and Musa said no too many they won't be able to do that many. Ask him to give you to lighten your burden and he goes back and a lot. Okay 40 and goes back. There's no too many. No okay 30 okay 20 until eventually he makes it to five. This five are equivalent to 50 and then the Prophet swt of course he's too afraid to or to ashamed to return to Allah. If the Musa says it's not on this too much they won't be able to have even five. I have experienced this with my own people. So of course he returns but fundamental point is this. This is all after everything that he had come through. We know that he started his life. He never knew his father. He only knew his mother for about a year. He goes into the care of his grandfather and he loses his grandfather not very long after that then of course into the care of Abu Talib. But in his life you know later on in of all of his children all of them die except for one of them Fatima Zahra. And we pray in every single raka'a prayer we say Deena surat al-staqeen. God is truly straight path. The path of those who have received your favor or who have accomplished your favor for those people. They are the prophets. That's what these people and fundamentally what we're asking Allah of course to make us like them. In other words it's as if we're asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala not to test us but that if he does test us that he allow our reactions to be similar to their reactions. In other words we are expected to receive hardship in our lives. Moments of displeasure. The prophet said the people with the hardest tribulations, the hardest tests are the prophets and then those who are next to them in likeness and those who are next to them in likeness. So we're asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make us like them. But we look at the stories of the prophets in the Qur'an. We don't see that this is the moments of joy, the moments of pleasure and luxury. We actually have to see the opposite. I had him out of his son. I was tried by his sons. I knew how he said I was tried by his son and his wife. I knew how he said I was his wife. He rejects faith in him. Ya'u tried by his children. He was tried by his brothers. Challenging. Challenge after challenge. That would be fine. And so it is not a sign of Allah's hatred to us if we find ourselves in tribulation at times. Especially if we're not responsible for placing ourselves in those considerations. Sometimes we can place a burden on ourselves greater than we can bear. We can do it to ourselves. And when we do it to ourselves, we make bad decisions. And of course we can't blame Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. But sometimes things just come our way. And when those things come our way, that's usually a sign that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants to test us. It is not a sign of love necessarily that you get all that you want. It is not a sign of hatred that you don't get everything that you wanted. That you that you experience some struggle as part of life. But this is a sign of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's treatment of his beloved. This is a way that he treats his beloved. He will as some would say that the one affid the hypocrite Allah answers their prayers right away. The believer Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he lets him continue to pray because he loves to listen to the the please of the believers, the please of his friends. In any rate, again, I apologize for going for so long, you know, but I just wanted to take an opportunity to to just speak from my heart and reflect upon, you know, things that, you know, life is real. Death is real. All of us want to leave this world as part of life is a it's not a very attractive or please in fact to reflect upon what all of us are going to transition. We were not created for this world created for the next world and we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that he allow for us to leave this world upon him that we live upon Islam and be asked him as well that he bless and reward those who have left this world already and really, we unite all of us inshallah and Jannah and the company of the messenger Aleyhi salatu wa s-salam.