 الحمد لله الحمد لله نحمد الله سبحانه وتعالى ونستعينه ونستغفره ونستهديه ونعود بالله من شرور يا نفسنا ومسيات عمالنا من يهديه الله فلا مضل له ومن يضل الفلا هادي له وصراواته والسلامه وعلى أفضل خلق الله على سيدنا وحبيبنا رسول الله محمد بن عبد الله وعلى آله ومن والا أما بعده في عباد الله ووصيكم ووصي نفسي بتقوى الله في السر والعرنية فإن تقوى الله لا يأتي إلا بخيرا والله سبحانه وتعالى وصان في كتابه في عدة أماكن أن التقي الله سبحانه وتعالى والتقوى هو اشتناب الله هو امتذار بأوامر الله سبحانه وتعالى واشتنابه نواهيه في ظاهر وباطنة التقوى رأس الدين والله سبحانه وتعالى جعل مخافة الله سبحانه وتعالى رأس الحكمتي الله سبحانه وتعالى says in the Qur'an that he says إنني أنا الله لا إله إلا أنا فعبدني وأقيم الصراتة لذكري الله سبحانه وتعالى sometimes addresses people directly in the Qur'an other times he uses the second or the third person but in this case he's using the first person إنني أنا الله declaring that I am your God I am Allah that's what Allah سبحانه وتعالى is telling us إنني أنا الله لا إله إلا أنا there's nothing worthy of worship except الله سبحانه وتعالى me here he says except me alone and then he says so worship me so worship me عبادة and establish the prayer for my remembrance لذكري أقيم الصراتة لذكري الله سبحانه وتعالى says that the masajids are beauts في بيوتين أذين الله أن ترفع in houses that Allah has permitted to be erected for him ويذكر فيها اسمه and that in those houses his name is mentioned الله سبحانه وتعالى يسبحوا له فيها and they worship him in those houses بالغضوي والأصل غضوة in the morning the early morning period and in the afternoon period because these are the two most important times of عبادة the Prophet ﷺ mentioned the فجر and the عيشة prayer أثقل الصلاة على المنافقين they are the hardest prayers for the hypocrites the early prayer and the late prayer so these two times in particular are times even the birds if you listen in the morning early morning in the late afternoon even the birds gather in the trees and you can hear them doing their تسبية the Prophet ﷺ loved the frogs he said of all the creatures he loved the frogs the most because they did the most تسبية and you can hear them in the early morning and in the in the evening doing their تسبية so الله سبحانه وتعالى says about these people that they are رجال لا تلهم تجارة وربيعون عن ذكريداء وإقام الصلاة وإتاء الزكا that they are not preoccupied from their commerce and their trade from remembering الله سبحانه وتعالى it doesn't preoccupy them they remember Allah one of the Andrussian travelers went to Mecca and when he came back people used to ask the question what's the strangest thing you saw he said I saw an old man clinging to the Kaaba asking for dunya that was the strangest thing that he saw an old man clinging to the Kaaba asking for dunya and he said and then I went into the souk and I saw a young man in the midst of his trading remembering Allah سبحانه وتعالى سبحان الله the heart if it's connected to Allah سبحانه وتعالى it remembers Allah سبحانه وتعالى people don't think about what Allah has done for them they don't think about it they are in heedlessness people there are people now that haven't remembered God for years they don't even think about Allah سبحانه وتعالى and yet every instant is completely and utterly dependent on Allah سبحانه وتعالى your breath your lungs your kidneys your digestion everything is dependent on Allah سبحانه وتعالى he is the one who has ordered the universe he is the Qayum he is the one who has set it up Allah سبحانه وتعالى is doing everything for us and then he asked for us to do some things for him to remember him at least 5 times a day that's minimal he is remembering us in every instant because if he didn't remember us we wouldn't even exist اذكروني اذكركم that is a hire if you remember me in this way then I'll remember you if you remember me اذا من ذكرني في ملأ في خير منه من الذكرني في ملأ like this Allah says He will make mention of him in a gathering better than that gathering amongst the angels there's people unknown to everybody that are known to the angels because they're simple people that nobody even thinks about or gives them the time of day but they're up in the night before Fajr calling on Allah سبحانه وتعالى and Allah knows those people and Allah سبحانه وتعالى makes those people known to his ملأ to his assembly so Allah has given us مساجد وأن المساجد لله فلا تدعو مع الله أحدة the masajid are for the sake of Allah do not call upon other than Allah in the masajid whoever asks for says that I lost something in a masjid according to the hadith you're supposed to say don't may Allah not return the thing you lost لأن المساجد لم تبنى لهذا because masjids were not built to ask people if they know where you left your such and such they were built for Allah سبحانه وتعالى or they were bought for Allah سبحانه وتعالى people build things they don't know why they're building things somebody had an idea here and it's become another idea the architects when they built this they didn't think about qiblah but it's مقدور it's something Allah decreed people one day would be praying in this building سبحان الله people in this country you know Islam is showing up everywhere you can't get away from Muslims in America I can't when I go I see Muslims you can't get away from Muslims so even America who would have thought well actually they thought early on about Muslims here because it's mentioned in the earliest documents about making a safe place for Jews, Christians Infidels and Muhammedans Hindus Jefferson mentioned Muhammedans and Hindus that was his idea and there were already Muslims George Washington in a letter was requesting somebody to go find workmen for his plantation and one of the things he said I don't mind if they're Muhammedans why would he even mention that if there weren't Muhammedans around offering their services so there have been Muslims here from the very start but now increasing numbers and massage it are being built or bought in different places but the massage it have a and a lot of Muslims don't think about this anymore I'll give you an example the Prophet SAW that whoever does وضوء فأحسان وضوءه ولابسه أحسان ثيابه وتطيبه إذا كان عنده طيب ثم ذهبه ودانا من الإمام ولم يلغو إذا كان يذهب على جمعه يفعله جيد وضوء وفي the other رواية من اختسل يوم الجمعتي غصل الجنابتي يوم الجمع like جنابه as if he was in janaabah and then he goes to the first hour فكأنما قرب بدانا it's as if he gave a camel a big camel in sacrifice in the first hour but in this hadith he said whoever does اختصره or does the وضوء and then wears his best clothes لابسه أحسان ثيابه see like haroon we were christian before we were muslim i was a christian before i was muslim we had to wear what was called your sunday best to go to church you didn't go to church wearing a t-shirt in fact you wouldn't even think of that and if somebody did people would have stared at them shocked like why are you showing such disrespect to a house of god by not even bothering to dress appropriately by not even bothering to dress nicely one day out of the week well it's casual day at work we don't have to wear nice clothes we've been doing that all week that's not the muslims we have a sanctity to the muslims we have a sanctity to the muslims we have a sanctity to the day of jumu'a يا بني آدم خذوا زينتكم عند كل مشجيد oh children of adam ornament yourselves in every masjid where you go ornament yourselves wear nice perfume for other people the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said من أكل البقلة الثوم أو البصل والكراث فلا يقربنا مساجدنا من يأكل غارلك أو أنيان فإن الملائكة تتأذى بما يتأذى منه الناس the angels don't even like what people don't like so if you come to the masjid smelling like last night's meal and then you pray next to a person who's thinking about paradise and you remind him of hell seriously we have a problem we have a problem the masjid is supposed to be a place where you come for spiritual repose it's a place of dignity it's a place of sakina the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said if you come into the masjid don't raise your voice don't talk he said you're in prayer until you leave the masjid he said one of the signs of the end of time his voices would be raised in the masjid he said one of the signs of the end of time is people would talk about worldly affairs in the masjid you have the whole world to talk about worldly affairs leave the house of god to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so you can see islam spreading in america but the question what kind of islam what kind of islam is it going to be slacker islam is it going to be like the slacker culture that's out there or are we going to be people that still have human dignity in an age of utter and complete human degradation that's the question to ask yourselves are we going to be dignified people that dress in a dignified manner just because everybody else is dressing like that look at how muslim dressed for centuries even the poorest muslims dressed beautifully go to saeed egypt go to the swat valley go to the malaysian villages and look how muslims dressed in traditional clothes with human dignity they never dressed wearing billboards on there selling people's products that they don't even get paid to do people wearing billboards wearing all these things on there you know nikey tami hilfiger or whoever are they paying you do you have a contract you're a human billboard they pay money to put their name on billboards cardboard boxes out there they put money they give money to put their names on billboards they give money to put their names on pixelated images on the internet and yet you're allowing them for free to put their name on your body created by Allah SWT and you don't even think about human billboards total complete utter human degradation this is what's happened to bani adam the khalifa the khalifa of Allah SWT the only creature that walks upright straight mustaqeen with dignity the only creature that can articulate his needs that can complain if he has complaints that can praise if he feels he needs to praise that can give thanks and gratitude we're the only creature that can do that other creatures dogs can show some gratitude but they can't write a thank you note human beings are something exalted we're an exalted species and yet we've allowed iblis to completely and utterly abase us to rub our noses in the dirt not for the sake of Allah but to show what utterly degraded creatures we are because that was his claim he said you're choosing him over me I'm a high thing he's a low thing he's nothing and iblis has been given respite until the end of time to prove to God that God was wrong that's what iblis wants to do he wants to prove to God to Allah SWT you were wrong in choosing bani adam I would have chosen me and my progeny I'll show you really how to worship you envy and so that's his mission 7 24 7 days a week 24 hours a day to degrade human beings strip them of their ornaments make them naked the prophet SAW said one of the size of the end of time is you'll see people walking in market places meaning they're not aboriginal people where aboriginal people are like children they have a purity so they dress they have so attained they're not in market places he didn't say public he said in market in civilized places you will see people walking with their thighs fully exposed that's a sign of the degraded state of people not aboriginal people like native peoples that don't look upon each other lustfully in that way but civilized people degraded to the point where they walk around with no shame no shame shame is a beautiful thing حياء every religion has a quality and a characteristic and the quality and characteristic of my religion is modesty a sense of shame the prophet SAW they said that he was more modest than a virgin that was still cloister that hadn't come out that was his modesty SAW one day he went to the masjid and he found people in the masjid and he said ما اجلسكم what has brought you sitting here in the masjid and they said the only thing that brought us here they said الله ما اجلسكم إلا هذا that's the only reason you came and they said he said I didn't ask you in this interrogative out of suspicion but came to me and said that Allah was making mention and proud of those sitting in the masjid and wanted to see who they were and what brought them there the prophet SAW said if you come in the first hour and there's 12 hours of the day 12 in the night and they differ because we don't have 60 minute hours in traditional reckoning the hours are based on the the مغرب and عيشة so you can have an hour that's 30 minutes one part of the year and it's 70 minutes that's the way it works so when you look at these he mentions 5 hours before جمع that's the idea that فجر was at 6 o'clock and then the جمع is at 12 o'clock so there's your 6 hours but if فجر is at 4 o'clock and ذهر is at 1 o'clock then the hours are extended so that's how you have to figure it out he said if you go in the first hour which is the hour after فجر on يوم جمع until the إيمان this is what Muslims used to do he said it's as if you sacrificed a camel if you go in the second hour it's as if you sacrificed a cow if you go in the third hour it's as if you sacrificed the a kibshan it's as if he brought a kibshan and if you come in the fourth hour it's as if you brought a chicken and if you come in the fifth hour it's as if you brought an egg that's it it's as if you brought an egg and then when the إيمان comes out there's no more gifts to bring once the إيمان is out if you come at that point it's closed that's what we're giving to Allah these days the best of us are giving eggs seriously and then you wonder the state of the Muslims serious people wonder like what if you want to know where you stand with God look at where Allah is with you where is he on your list of priorities if he's number one priority then you're number one priority with him if he's number five on the list my money my wife my family whatever everybody has their priorities then that's where you stand and if he's not even in the list of priorities it's just lip service so that's something for Muslims to think about so as we embark on a new place of worship in our community may Allah make it a safe place a blessed place a respected place may Allah SWT to put respect of these places in our hearts because now this is it's consecrated for the sake of Allah SWT whatever it was before it was bought with an intention and then that intention manifest so people should think about that and then also about clothes it's you're people praying Juma there's lots of Muslims out there right now they're not even bothering praying Juma the good people we ask Allah to be amongst the good people but the good people come even if they come in less than the highest desirable state so I'm not in any way it's not to make fault or blame anybody it's just to remind people it's my intention it's not to expose anybody وذكير فإن ذكرة تنفع المؤمنين but I have to be honest with you I've mentioned this people come up to me afterwards don't tell me how to dress you know get like get hang on I'm doing it out of غيرا you know you have that word in orدو for people speak orدو غيرا غيرا is a beautiful word in Arabic because it's the idea of a protectiveness that you have for something that you hold dear and if anybody tries to diminish the respect of that thing you feel angry غيرا is that feeling that comes inside of you when you see like your family member your wife, your child being dishonored or disrespected you feel غيرا the religion of Allah is more worthy of our غيرا than anything in this dunya it's more worthy of our غيرا than anything in this dunya اللهم صني اللهم صني وصنم بارك على سيد المحمد وعلى آري وصحبي وصنم تسيم كثيرا اللهم افتح علينا حكمتك يا اللهم يا اللهم انزر علينا السكينة والرحمة اللهم أمن هذا المكان وأمن أن أمنى على هذا المكان اللهم جعنا من الجوادين على هذا المكان اللهم فقون في سبيرك على هذا المكان اللهم احفظ نساءنا في هذا المكان وفي كل مكان اللهم احفظ أولادنا في هذا المكان وفي كل مكان اللهم طهر قلوبنا اللهم جعل المساجد أحب إلينا من الأسواق اللهم جعل زيارة المساجد أحب إلينا من الأسواق اللهم إن أحب الأماكن إليك يا اللهم مساجد فجعلها أحب الأماكن اللهم افتح علينا يا الله اللهم افتح علينا وردنا إلى دينك مردا جميلة رد الشبابنا إلى دينك مردا جميلة اللهم جعل الإيمان في قلوبنا وكره إلينا الكفر ورفسوق وارعسيان اللهم جعل الإيمان في قلوب شبابنا يا رحم الراحمين اللهم إنك قد تقول كالحق إن الله ومدائكته يُصلون على المدي يا أيها الذين آمنوا وصنوا عليه وسلم تسليمه اللهم صنوا وسلم على سهدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحب وسلم تسليم كثيرا والحمد لله رب العالمين واذكروا الله يذكركم شكره ولا تكفروا واقيموا الصلاة ليذكره