 إن الحمد لله نحمده ونستعينه ونستدينه ونستغفره ونعود بالله من شرور الفسنا ومن سيهاتي عمالنا من يهدي الله فهو المحتد ومن يُضل فلا نتجل له وليا مُشِّلًا وأشهد أن لا إله إلا الله احتبه لا شريك له وأشهد أن محمدا عبده وصوله وصفيره من خلقه خليه بل لساله وأندل أمانه وانصح الأمة فكشف الله به الأمة فجزاه الله عنه خير عما جزا نبي عن أمة وداعي عن داود ثم ما بعد يقول الله عز وجل في كتابه الكريم يا إله الذين آمنوا اتقوا الله حق تقاته ولا تموتون إلا وهنج المسلمون ويقول سبحانه يا إله الذين آمنوا اتقوا الله وقول قولا السديد أسمع لكم أعمالكم ويغفر لكم منوبكم ومن يضع إله ورسوله فقد فاز فوزا عظيما ويقول سبحانه يا إله الناس يا إله الناس تقربهم الذي خلقتهم الذي خلقتكم من نفس واحدة وخلق منها زوجها وبث منهم رجالاً هفيراً ونساءا واتقبوا الله الذي كساءلون به والأحم إن الله كان عليكم رقيبة الله وجعلنا من المتقين وجعلنا من الصالحين وجعلنا من الصادرين وجعلنا من الوارثين والذين يريدون الفردمسهم فيها خالدون الله امين يا رب العالمين ثم أما بعد أردنا الله سبحانه وتعالى أردنا الله سبحانه وتعالى أردنا الله for his blessings that he bestowed upon us in word leader and outwardly أردنا الله سبحانه وتعالى for his blessings and his favours that are in every corner of our lives and that are in every second of existence that we exist most of Allah's blessings upon us are in the hidden we can see one or two or three and even those who are apparent we're kind of slow into recognizing them and thanking Allah for them that's why when we sit between the hands of Allah we have no complaints if we have any complaints the complaints that we have are about ourselves not from ourselves but about ourselves that we're most of the time busy we hardly thank Allah enough we hardly remember Allah سبحانه وتعالى we're grinded between the wheels of life and we allow ourselves to go in this grinder knowingly and we do not use the hands and the robe of Allah سبحانه وتعالى that he stretches to us to hold on so that we are pulled out of this ocean deep ocean of dunya سبحانه وتعالى that's the complaint of the believer a believer does not focus on the negatives in his life oh this is going wrong then you forget all the positives and you only focus on this and your dua is only for this and this usually that negative is usually something wrong going with us in dunya it's usually not something going wrong with us with our deen or Allah when was the last time you lost sleep over missing your prayers when was the last time you went into panic mode because you did not do your adhqab or tasbih when was the last time you needed to see the psychologist and the psychiatrist because you have not been pained enough when was the last time that you went into depression because you feel that you don't have real connection with Allah سبحانه وتعالى usually it's because I got the news about my health or I got the news about my wealth or something that I love who wants to leave me or I want to leave you that's when people go into panic mode none of these things are worthy of stopping your life and suspending your normal routine none of these things may Allah reward the Imam Al-Hassan Al-Basri the Imam of Basta in Iraq he said something very profound really shook me to the core he said if you haven't heard you mean Oh Fulan son of Fulana you are from the people of Hell so go to Hell if you haven't heard that you haven't heard bad news yet what bad news are you talking about even if you've lost an arm what bad news are you talking about you haven't even heard your name and if you haven't heard your name call to heaven Fulana you are from the people of Jannah so go to Jannah you haven't heard good news yet what good news are you talking about you got a job you made money you got an edit you have children any of these things can turn against you didn't Allah say Oh you who believe know that some of your children and some of your wealth are enemy to you they will be the cause that you go to Hell sometimes your own son turns against you and becomes your most valid enemy sometimes your own wealth turns against you and because of it you end up with one heart attack after another one stroke and stress and depression and this because of your own wealth your own wealth becomes your own enemy as if there is someone who is just sitting down to bother you that's the wealth you work so hard to accomplish that's why brothers and sisters this is a time of reflection we are just beginning the new Hijri year beautiful year and new year and you know this holy Hijri year the Sahaba had to meet and come up with a bid'ah a good bid'ah an innovation what shall be year number one in Islam the Muslims what shall be year so some Sahaba say the birth of the prophet some Sahaba said from the day the prophet received the first revelation some Sahaba said from the death of the prophet some Sahaba said from the Hijri and once that opinion of Hijri was pronounced all of them and read them because there became a need some people said let's follow the Roman calendar and say in the Holy Quran we shall have our own calendar their calendar is a solar calendar our calendar is a lunar calendar and Allah told us in the Quran that the number of months in the sight of Allah are 12 months in the Book of Allah that they created the heavens and the earth 4 of which are plural of Haram 4 of which are sacred months in this ayah Allah said that the number of months shall be 12 in the Book of Allah because Allah creates everything based on the record the writings of the pen that Allah created and asked it to write and write destinies and systems and physics and math and biology all of this is written by the pen that Allah created and asked it to write the destinies of the world and the specifications of the world so that in the Book of Allah the number of months are 12 months of which 4 are sacred the fact that Allah said of which 4 are sacred that means that 12 months what we are talking about in this ayah are lunar months not solar months because there is no 4 sacred solar months there is only 12 sacred lunar months and people cannot appreciate the lunar months today because they have a calendar on their iPhone you look what they you don't even have to click you just turn on your iPhone but they would pop into your face if we take all the calendars and if we take all the phones away from you and all those lunar months and I ask you and you completely lose track of time and I ask you walk outside and tell me are we in which month and tell me exactly which day of the month or the proximity you can walk all that you want especially if you are in the big area you wouldn't tell but if I ask you can you tell me where are we in the lunar month all what you have to do is wait for the night to come and walk outside and there is God's calendar in the sky marked with a moon the Arabs used to can tell the day exactly 13 or 14 or 15 just by looking at the moon even though for us right now we haven't grown up with that we can say maybe this is the middle of the month they were able to tell exactly what day by looking at Allah's creation and that's why the believers connected with Allah's creation even when you want to know the date you have to look at Allah's creation that's the significance of the lunar months and as we can see and we found out even the nations that Allah sent before us the calendar the prophets calendars were all lunar calendars and they are asking you about the christens you know the birth christens the end christens so Allah says they are asking you about the christens it's for the timings of the people and so that people can tell the timings of Hajj and all the other months but in this ayah Allah specified and Hajj so the Sahaba رضان العليم had to face two tasks task number one which years can be number one and task number two which month shall be the first month because the Arabs did not go by or محرر means that's the first month of the year no they didn't go for that so the Sahaba had to decide which month and after so many opinions they said when people come to Hajj and they go home from Hajj and look at the switch when the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said so if I go to Hajj and he performs good Hajj I'm very sure a lot of you here has just come back from Hajj it is as if he came back to the day when his mother gave birth to him or her you hit the reset button when you go to Hajj so the Sahaba said whatever happens after that reset button should be number one look at the understanding look at when you when you see everything through your Imam lenses you have these glasses of Imam and you even decide your first month of the year based on the spiritual values so here we are in the month of Muharrab and I was thinking what shall I tell you because you probably hear so many khutbas about this beginning of the year have tasks have goals write your goals all of this is good and amazing and if you can get yourself to write something that will be amazing because that is also from the Quran so writing something writing your goals is amazing but then you can write all the lists that you want and never follow up so I think what we all need before we get into the goals what you want to achieve next year versus last year because you are closer to death by one year right now is to look deep inside your heart and ask yourself one question what do I want what do I want from this life what do I want from me what are my goals start with a big big picture and don't lie to yourself don't hide yourself from yourself because be careful you are capable of doing that Allah too وقد خاد من دساعة سكسفل is the one who purifies his nafs loser is he who hides himself اجيب the word دسا شي يعني خبا عبو يعني هدت loser is he the one who hides himself يعني you hide yourself from yourself you start lying to yourself so much that you can start saying well there is nothing wrong with you I am very good I pray five times a day I have knowledge I am this I am that whatever is your mistake and you start hiding your own faults and maybe your whole family is telling you please mama we just need you to calm down a little bit you have big time short temper and you are like no there is nothing wrong with you I am just very healthy now we are putting into وقد خاد من دساعة please mama you know الله give us money not to spend it الله give us money so that we spend on our needs and the extra money is not our money we are only managers over it we are not owners people say oh our risk is big no risk is only your basic needs is the difference between income and risk is you eating, drinking you know shelter car at least are the basic needs but once you get into buying clothes every month and eating outside in the restaurants this is not your risk this is someone else's risk tell the difference between the two we are at a place where we are encouraged at a time and place where we are encouraged to become consumers if you have money you will never settle down you can't go to sleep until you figure a way to spend your money just exactly like the prophet he had an an oomplia of an ounce of gold so he lit صلاة العصر صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم he got and went to his the door that goes to his rooms he went to his room got something صلى الله عليه وسلم this is not the habit of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم so by the time they were done doing their Tasbih and their Du'a the prophet came back and sat down and started doing their Tasbih he said you also you have worried us they've never done this before he said no no no I remembered that I had an ounce of gold and I did not want the sun to set before I spend it so I went and gave it now I can come and do my Tasbih are you like that what do you want what do you want what are your goals you are a believer you can't just go day by day now we're going to go home and watch TV now we're going to watch this game now we're going to watch death you can watch all of that and you're doing something when you just go in dunya and you forgot about everything and you're just happy and everything is going normal this is called in the Qur'an غفلة you are not aware you're not awake you're not alert and believe me when death is going to hit you or a test is going to hit you is going to shake you up so much you're not going to be in a good state so how about you shake yourself so this is a coming year you know yourself listen to the people around you who love you and give you advice listen to the voice of the believer inside you listen to the angel that Allah has dedicated to you to inspire you to do good things everyone talks about the shaitan which is true we have a qaleen that is shaitan and tries to whisper to you but how many people talk about Allah he is a human an angel that inspires him to say to do something good and when the shaitan does waswasa he does ilham inspiration don't listen to the shaitan it's your choice when you listen to the shaitan or when you listen to the malak it's your choice so brothers and sisters start with deep inside you deep inside your heart and tellering a plan a plan and goals how am I going to reach to the goals that's called a plan not dreams and wishes ليس الإيمان بالتمنين ولكن وقرف القليل وصدق قبل عمل faith is not by wishing faith is that which settled in your heart and is confirmed with your actions so then listen of the khutma today before we talk about the actions what is it that has settled in your heart what settled in your heart what do you want from life what do you want from yourself what do you want from your spouse and children what do you want from them what do you want from your money what do you want what's the big picture here and once you answer that question then follow follow it with goals and plans and then Allah will inspire you insha'Allah دعنا أتركي واسبسسه الشيطان واسببسه الحبيب إِرْصَلُلْهَا أَوَعَيْهَا أَرْمَا لَقْمَا سَبِبِبَ الْأِسْبَابُ سَبِبْ لَنَا أُسْبَابُ سَبِبْ لَنَا سَبَابُ الخِوْي ربما ربما ويشكل كل عمّة اوز لانس اوز لانس حياتك يجب أن تقوم بعمل سلسلة إحدى سلسلة يتبقى و يتبقى مجرد و حياتك لا يعرف how to shut it down فإنه يصبح مجرد و فقط لأسفلك كل day we have cancer كل day there are cells that go crazy and your immune system has a spy system that knows that and it goes in cancer كل day so every day Allah is saving you that's a blessing to remember بردنا و بردنا دعونا نظر at this ummah as a male of individuals دعونا نعلم إذا كنت تبقى في حياتك فلن تذهب و نعلم من بقوة الله من خلال مدنه صلى الله عليه وسلم أنت ليس بطل من رسول الله أعلم أنك بطل من رسول الله و أنت رسول صحاب رسول الله is a calm personality تعمل على حياتك تستخدم على تفكر تفكر لكي تفكر أفضل من رسول الله تفكر أفضل من رسول الله our homes are destroyed by anger تفكر بسبب أنت أبي صمي بسبب أنت و أنت لأنك لا تفكرك أنت ليس أفضل من رسول الله تفكر أفضل من رسول الله يجب أن تتوقف your deem helps you to change that so we need to start so that our families are preserved so that not the smallest argument between husband and wife becomes a reason for divorce not the smallest argument between parents and children become a reason for kicking the child out or completely disengaging and not communicating we need to start embodying these qualities from the deep iman to justice and morals and morals and manners and good character to knowing how to work together as an ummah to supporting our masajid to supporting our ummah Subhanallah from this minbar every time a Muslim does an act of wrong an act of violence we stand up and we say Allah and his messenger Islam is free from that that's not Islam because it's one principle these are the Monks these are the Buddhist Monks with their clothes monk clothes are killing our brothers and sisters in Burma when was the last time you heard Buddhist terrorism on CNN or Fox News we're talking about 500,000 people in this place and God knows how many people left behind and the government of Burma in order for them not to have anything written so that they don't go to court later يقومون بإمكانهم أن يتركوا في موطنهم لكي يمكنهم أن يفعل شيء that is not documented unofficial لكي لا one will be caught later on. The easiest way to get out of judgement. Are all Buddhists terrorists now? Are all Buddhists in Vermas and all Burmese terrorists? I'm sure not. But there's a hack of Allah within that are staring violence against our brothers and sisters. Who's talking about that? Are you concerned? This is an umma, one umma. When you as an individual become a bitter individual, the whole umma becomes healthy and good and working together. There's Burma Task Force. For the last two years they've been sending emails. I received an email saying this, I signed this. Are you on the Burma Task Force? Are you filling applications so that the Congress and the Senate start an investigation? At least, if you can help with anything, a word and action. A Sadaqa had the dual message last week. I stood up in my message and I said all the boxes today, the donation will not go to our message. It will go to Burma. And we collected close to $10,000. And we give it to our brothers and sisters, Ekko, who have an organization here and an organization in Bangladesh. And it's already spent, the money's spent. Are you doing that as a community here? That's what makes you an active Muslim. And Allah will look at you and Allah will be pleased with you. Because from inside out you're trying to change. إن شاء الله رب العالمين, الله يلقص out. الله مهامين. الله مهامين عيزة بنا بسلام رسول فينا مسلمين. وععي بنا فيلمة تا يبحق والدين. وجعلنا من عداد فاصال حين. برحمتك يا أخم الله. الله مرحب إخوان المسلمين في أثريقنا وفي الصين. وفي كل مكاني يا رب العالمين. وعيننا على إعانتهم. وكم لنا عونا لهم حتى نكون عونا لهم يا رب العالمين. برحمتك يا أخم الرحمين. الله أم آمين. ربنا آتنا في الدل الحسان. وفي ناخرة حسان أمقنا عداد النار. الله أمقنا صلي وصلي مبارك على سين ناحبنا محمد. وأقل الصلاة. إن الصلاة تنعين في عشاد والنفاول. إن صلاة تنعين في عشاد والنفاول.