 Alhamdulillah We're blessed to be alive and see these blessing moments of Shaaban and coming soon inshaAllah the month of Ramadan and I give us life to experience it But from the time that human being were created when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala willed To create he didn't have to create you will to create out of love His creation everything in the creation is in this existence out of love of Allah. There's nothing here that Allah hates If Allah hated it you wouldn't create it So everything that exists The dog in the pigs It's here in there fulfilling a purpose But amongst all of the creation Allah that the aruz of creation the bride of creation with the human being When Allah created it Told the angel With color of book a little malayka any job in the other Khalifa. I'm going to create a Khalifa a caretaker the head of all of this creation on this earth and Then when Allah created the human being and blew into the human being from his spirit It was then that we had the form and we got the meaning It was a it was a complete what did what we would call an insano camel Adam I mean Salam and then how are from Adam and then he said to them that go ahead Us concern you and your zoge was ojoka a Jannah go ahead you and your wife. You may reside in paradise So both of them were taken to paradise after being created on earth and they experienced paradise What is the experience of paradise at the essence of paradise is Saada is happiness It's a place of ultimate happiness. This is the only time that you would experience happiness in this Dunya and then once they were in paradise they experienced this happiness then They disobeyed they ate from the tree from the fruit That Allah says don't they went to that shaja to that tree and this is human nature, right? And this is all in the plan of God don't think that Allah was unaware of what was happening there Everything is in a plan of Allah. They were sent down back to the earth to do time. We're doing time here That's all it is you are in doing time at dunya seasonal movement What gender to a cafe this dunya is a prison of the believer and a paradise for disbelievers Because we're doing time and we're trying to get out with with good behavior in order to enter back to the abode of happiness Paradise so from the time that Adam a. Salaam came back to the earth He was in pursuit of what he experienced in paradise, which is happiness And this is why if you read every tradition From Socrates to Al Ghazali you would come to the same conclusion that human being we are in pursuit of happiness No matter what we do in our life is The ultimate good is to find happiness. We want to find saada. We want to live a happy life You ask anybody what everybody will I want to become a doctor? Why? Because I knew if I become a doctor I'll be happy because the ultimate goal of life Is saada is happiness So when you look at the creation everything in God's creation is happy Because they know why they were created the fact that a lot willed is enough To be happy and this is why the roses as they open up and they smile, right? And as they bloom in a lot Enjoying ecstasy is because they know that God will for him to be in this dunya and exists And the fact that they exist is because of God's will that is enough for them to be joyful and happy This is why the raindrops when they come down they come down in the state of what and dancing and In spiritual high Because they know Allah will for them to to exist This is why everything in the creation the waterfall is laughing as they're coming down What can the creation do except joy and happiness because they know that God will Allah is Allah will for them to exist. Isn't that enough reason to be happy room? He says go to hand on can I cannot chicken up? He said what can the flowers do except smiling and laughing? They can't do anything else because they know the reason for their creation Right, they know Saada Happiness, this is the reason but human being because we are people of eftia We are the creation that we have a choice We decide to be happy we decide we make ourselves miserable We live miserable lives. Who does it? We do it to ourselves And this is why the tradition our tradition is this religion this Dean the teaching of our religion is One thing find Saada you were brought here to find happiness and how do you find happiness? one of the great scholars of attack of Dean put together a formula for happiness the five things these are alama These are signs of the people of happiness and if you see these signs and those people know that they're happy And if you want to be happy The goal of this life follow these rules, and you would see how you become happy number one is to earn a soft heart through the worship of Allah In other words what he's saying is that the reality of worship of Ibadah is supposed to give you a soft heart Ibadah is supposed to make you soft and gentle the Prophet Was the gentleness of the human being he was soft and he said The nature the primary nature of a moment of a believer that he is soft and gentle This is the primary nature of a believer To earn a soft heart because sometimes our hearts are hard and you make your heart soft Through the worship of Allah if that worship is done without react without showing off that worship is for God If the worship if the session is for God that session will change your life if the fasting is for God that Fasting will change your life if you do the worship sincerely as Don't nobody is there on this planet to watch you and the only one that's watching is Allah Which is the reality of your worship? Nobody cares about your worship No matter how long you make your sense that the Muslim Nobody cares the one that cares is Allah the one that's watching you is Allah the one that's watching is the angels The untold member of angels are watching you and if your prayer is really from the heart It will make your heart soft in every act of worship no matter where they start from right? Because we have different of God we have the ticket of the town It's tough with a tongue, but it reaches the heart. This is the highest level of liquor you saw sing subhanallah Subhanallah on your tongue in One day your heart was forcing subhanallah with your tongue and It reaches the heart everything that you do you get charity with your hand Then your heart will start giving charity. It's your heart that pushes your hand to give You do thicker of your feet, which is to visit your aqarim Those family members that have a right over you Then your heart would tell you feed you need to visit your family members that have a right over you You have different I thought all everything that you do it reaches the heart The same way we do found things it reaches the heart so you can make your heart hard or soft. That's the number one Characteristics of people of sa'ada people of happiness number two is those people who shed tears From the fear and awe of God because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala manifests himself in two ways Jalan and Jamal Beauty and majesty so when you go and you see the waterfall coming down you see the beauty This is the beauty of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. He's showing you But then when the tsunami come when you see the tsunami is coming. What do you do? That's the majesty of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in both situations What do you say when you see the water for your son Allah when you see the son of your son Allah Because you see it's from the same source That on that day when we stand in front of Allah It's the day that he will show his majesty Because these things that the Prophet taught us they're not fairy tales my brothers My sisters my beloved the Prophet said What not what's it all up in Wallahi? He is not a liar Even the before when they looked at this face. He said this is not a face of a liar We disagree with him. We don't like him. We're gonna fight him, but this is not a face of a liar He said paradise is real my friend. It's not a matrix. It's not it's not a Disney movie and The fire of hell is real It's not a movie and the Serab that you have to cross over is real These are realities that each and every one of us will experience on that day These are realities that our Prophet told us so shit tears and tears only come from the heart that is soft But because people don't know the value of tears People don't know my brother. He said The army shabbat as don't let us out. I can't ask you Sahara the surah. You're my foolish This is from one of the contemporary poet Mehdi. So Haley he said that all Your tears that you shed in the midnight hours. They turn themselves into a priceless necklace of pearl Every drop of tears is a priceless necklace of pearl. He said please my friend Don't be a fool Don't sell your tears for please Don't sell your tears for the stars for the heavens and the earth If you knew the value of tears Rumi has a story in the muscle we have out of man who had a dog and his dog was thirsty and he He started crying and he's shedding tears. Oh my dog. My dog was thirsty. He's dying of thirst. Oh my dog He's just crying and shedding tears a man passed away. What's the problem? He said my dog is dying from thirst and You know, I love my dog He said you have no water. I said no, I have water, but I think for the water in tears are free and Rumi said if you knew the value of Your tears you would give all of the water of the world to that dog But we don't know the value of tears and this is why our eyes are dry because our hearts have become hard That's number two number three characteristics of the people of Happiness these are those who came late the five characteristics of the people of happiness that they don't have any desire for the dunya They don't have any desire. This doesn't mean they're poor. There are some of the richest people That means that the dunya is in their hand and not in their heart It's in their hand, but not in their heart Because once the dunya enters your heart, it will make your heart hard You have to keep the dunya in your hand. Know the reality of dunya a dunya maloona This dunya is cursed. Don't don't get too preoccupied in the dunya. This is the nature of dunya This is the nature of dunya that it pre-occupies you. Imam Shafi said He said don't let this dunya will delude you that you will live a long time This is the nature of dunya. It's a delusion Right, you will live a long time and it just have high hopes keep going keep going You will live forever But know that death comes suddenly without any notification When death comes it's not going to send you a message. It's not you're not going to get any any on your inbox Open this now. It comes suddenly without any notification and what you're going to take with you is just a sandhu a box of Your action, which is the sandhu that you're going to get buried in. That's all you're going to take it What are you going to take in the grave? You're not going to take anything with you. This is the reality. This dunya don't This dunya is Dar ul-Ghurur. It is in a boat of delusion. Don't be deluded by Wa mal-hayatul dunya Matah ul-Ghurur the Quran says this dunya the life of dunya is nothing but delusion It's a joy thing you think you're enjoying it, but it's a delusion. It's going to delude you This is Urud. Dar ul-Surud is in paradise And this is why Maulana Rumi constantly remind us do not trade Dar ul-Surud for Dar ul-Ghurud. Don't trade that boat of happiness for that boat of delusion This is delusion in comparison to the hereafter in comparison to paradise We are burning Our boat of happiness and trying to build the abode of delusion Number four is to have not to have high hopes This is a problem of people where we have a 500 years as though we're living for 500 years I'm going to do this and I'm going to do this and I'm going to do that that I'm going to do this How long are you going to be on this planet earth? The Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam the greatest teacher Inna ma-bu'aythu mu'allima I was sent as a teacher in other words. He is the greatest teacher Dar Allah has sent he drew a line in the sand for the Sahaba and he told he was teaching them He was a mu'allim. He said this is your life. You're a straight line This is this is your life right here and on top of it. He drew a line on top like a tee crossed it He said that is your Amman That is your hope This is what you want to reach and then below it. He crossed another line. He said that's your adjah. That's your death It's gonna come way before all of those goals that you have set up in life Be ready Don't have it doesn't mean you don't plan we plan what planning within the limits of our lives Our planning should be in the here for the hereafter what plans do we have for our What are our plan for the hereafter? Do we have any plans? Do we have any plans for the hereafter and that is what we want to work on we want to work on Planning for the hereafter not for the dunya because this dunya Look your risk is written. You can increase or decrease your risk All you have to do is go out and try to gather it and get it That's all you have to do. It's written Right, but what you can achieve in the dunya that you can't in the hereafter is What about it's closest to Allah and You can't do that in pattern and in the hereafter once you die You can achieve closeness to Allah after you die the only time you can achieve what about closeness to God is on the planet earth The more you worship Allah the closer you be to him on the Yom Kiyamah And this is why this life is precious for the Awliya They love this life for that one reason that I can worship Allah and be closer when I'm resurrected on the Yom Kiyamah Closeness to Qorba of Allah. So this is what they were this is their their hope From the dunya. How do I get closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala on the Yom of the Kiyamah? We are talking about the five categories of people that are people of sa'ara happiness those who have soft heart those who weep shed tears out of fear and awe of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala those who Don't have desire for the dunya. The dunya is in their hands and not in their hearts and those Who don't have really high Their goals are not for the next 200 years. The amal is not too high They control they know that they're ready for that death might come at any time last one of the five Which is I think it's the most important one and something that we are losing at the time that we are living in in May Allah put this in the hearts of Else our families in our children and our offspring into the Yom of the Kiyamah is to live a life based on Hayah on Marist Those people of sa'ara they always their life they have a life of Hayah in Marist Because at the foundation of this religion is Marist the Prophet Was the most modest of the human being he said they call the dean in Islam and Every Dean every religion has a primary characteristics and the primary characteristics of my religion is Hayah is Marist Al Hayah mean an Eman. He said that Hayah is from Eman In other words the more modest you are the more your Eman will increase It's like you put more Hayah Eman will go up automatically and he said Hayah in Eman or into twine They are together and they go together when one goes the other And this is the tragedy of the time that we are living we are living in a time as do as thou well Shall be the whole of the law. This is what they're preaching to our children. Do whatever you want Do as you please. In other words have no Hayah because they know they can't take away your religion They know that Nobody's gonna come and tell you leave your religion. You're gonna punch them in the face But they will tell you come on man. What is this? Take that off. Where come on make it Make your clothes loosen up loosen up loosen up because they know as Hayah goes So that's fate so does Eman Goes from your heart and this is the way of shaitan He wants to take your modest away from you and from your children in order for them to lose their religion and This is the foundation of our religion is Hayah the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam all of the companions his wife His children the tabi the tabi tabi you go through the history of Islam What was the foundational characteristics of all of those people that we read their lives Hayah the modest people They had Hayah lower their gaze And this is what our prophet brought to us is a religion That is modest From every aspect our lifestyle is modest our character is modest The way we dress is modest the way we eat is modest the way we walk everything about us Modesty is at every limb of our body not just our eyes not just our eyes, and this is the The five characteristics of people of Sahara and I'll end with Most people they go through depression sadness People are depressed a lot of people who are depressed and they're taking medicine prosa Medicine this will be of love from our teachers It will not cure your depression because the depression sadness is not a Psychological state. It's a spiritual state, and you cannot treat it with medicine It's a spiritual state happiness is a spiritual state of being You have to be spiritually happy in order to be happy that's how you experience happiness in life is a spirit It's not people go shopping therapy when they get depressed. No matter how much you shop You have unlimited credit cards, and you shop everything on this planet every person every car and every house and every Shoe and every name brand you buy and you put it on you you still gonna be miserable and depressed Because it's not a physical state depression. It's not a psychological state. It's a spiritual state And if you want to be happy You have to change your spiritual state You have to change your spiritual state, and the Quran is clear. We have not seen this for an Letosh car for you to be unhappy for you to be depressed That's not the reason for that revelation in other words We sent this for on for you to be happy. This is the remedy of happiness is in the book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala That's what happiness is is in the book of Allah. It's not in shopping therapy It's not in medicine the happiness in our umma, and if you look People in our umma and we see you can see this in every generation. Yeah friends that are like that they could be in a state of pain and Suffering and yet they're happy Why? Why would someone who has pain and suffering happy? Why because they know like Rumi said as Hamon Jo Kerasa died Hamon Jo is the one because they know that the one who gave them the pain is the same one who's gonna give them the healing They know that the pain came from the beloved. I'm happy Just like the rose is laughing because of the fact that Allah willed for it to exist They're happy if it comes from a hand Because they have a spiritual connection with God and this is what we're losing We're losing our spiritual connection and we're trying to remedy that through Shopping therapy through financial. It's nothing is going to bring you happiness in this world Except your spiritual connection with the divine Nothing is going to bring you happiness except your connection Spiritual connection with the divine. This is the mercy of Allah that he gives us Ramadan This is the mercy of Allah that if we waver throughout the year If we stay away if the juniors ticket is over if we lose all these five characteristics That our hearts becoming hard. We don't shit tears Our armor we want all this dunya in the common stations Right all of those happen We lose our modesty Ramadan comes It's just come let's come back together And Allah is reminding us giving us his gift of Ramadan and everybody can see people come and everyone takes on these characteristics It's it's obvious and every muscle you go you see people with all of these because these are what they call things that have been tested By generation and generation Of people to attain happiness and may Allah make us amongst the people who Reach the station of sahaja of happiness that we are happy in the dunya and we are happy to hear after And when we rise in the yawm of qiyamah The prophet is pleased with us and Allah is pleased with our action inshallah Inna alhamdulillah Man yahdiha lafala mudilla lafala yudlafala hadiya lafala wa shalala wa shalala wa shalala Muhammad al-Abdahu wa Rasulahu Arsalahu bil huda basheer al-monadheeran qaal Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala fi quran al-Mijid Inna Allahum alaykati wa salluna al-nabiyya Yuhl adina amun al-sallu alayhi wa sallim al-taslima Allahum al-salli alasina Muhammad al-Abdika wa Rasulika al-nabiyya Ummin wa ala aliyya wa sahbiyya ajma'iyin al-merhamadiki Yawakum al-rahmin wa qaalah RasulAllah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam al-hamadiki