 Today, I'd like to start by going back to the basics of defining what our deen is. And so this, our deen of Islam, the deen known as Islam, is defined in a very famous hadith known as the Hadith Jibril. And this hadith is the second hadith in the collection of Imam Nawiz Abba'il. He thought that these 40 hadith are the most important hadith to the Muslim, for the everyday Muslim. And so this hadith starts, is buried from Umrah the Allah, on Umrah the Allah, who said بينما نحن جلوس عند الرسول الله عليه وسلم ذات يوم يطلع علينا قجرن شديد بياد الديامي شديد تواد الشعر. So it starts like this, that one day we were sitting at the Prophet's house, and this hadith took place about 6 months before the Prophet's house left this world. One day we were sitting at the Prophet's house, and a man came to us. And he had extremely dark black hair and extremely white clothes. And then Umrah the Allah one continues the same. وَلَا يَعْلِمُ مِنَّا أَحَدُ مَنَا بَسْمِوْمِنْ So you need to think about this, it's in the middle of the desert. And this man has completely clean black hair, completely clean white clothes. And they've never seen this man in Medina before. And he shows up. And these people are wondering who is this man? We've never seen him before, who is he? You know, we don't see any traces of a triangle on him. So they're wondering who is this man? حتى جَلَ سَا يِلَنَّا بِسُرَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهُ وَسَلَمْ فَأَسْمَدَ رُقْبَتَيْنِ لَا بْبَتَيْنِ وَوَضَ عَكْفَيْنِ عَلَا فَقْفِذَيْنِ And then he sat with the Prophet, and he put his knees against the knees of the Prophet, And he put his palms on the thighs of the Prophet, Аِلِوَ سَلَمْ وَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ He said, اُو مُحَمَدُ صْلَلَلّهُ عَلَيْهُ وَسَلَّمْ اخْبِنْي عَلِيْهُ وَإِسْرَ لَا Tell me about, ʾan ʾIslām, Tell me about submission. What is submission? So the Prophet, ṣallá Llá LlÁhu ʿalayhi wa sallam said, قَالَ رَسُلِ اللَّهِ ʾsaʸlāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam, First, Islam is to testify that there is only one God, and that the promise of Allah is his messenger. And then to establish the prayer, and then to establish Zakat, to give Zakat, to fast Ramadan, to fast Ramadan, and then to make Hajj, to make pilgrimage to Ramadan, to fast Khalifa. When your reaction is that Christian manka wants to know your life, if you have the ability to. So when you listen to the 5 pillars of Islam too, it's the five États eight stacks. In repetitions, so this is how our divine is defined, that the first part is submission, the outward, what's known as 5th, right? The outward aspects of our deity. So what he is defining to know, what works intend here here is, for us to know these five pillars, and how does that act on these five pillars. time we think we know these things but we actually don't. So it's important for us to realize that this is Afar al-A'id. It's Afar al-A'id on everyone to know first of all the shahada and what are the implications of the shahada and then know how to pray the salah, what is the rulings of the salah, what's sunnah in the salah, what's found in the salah, what breaks your salah, what doesn't break your salah. It's far on us to know these things. And then you can't make salah if you don't know, if you're not, you can't pray if you're not pure, legally pure. So you need to know the rules of legal purity. What makes your wudu, your wudu, what makes it valid, what makes it invalid, right? What breaks these things? We need to know the rules of these things. And then these are the rules of zakah. He tells us that the Prophet ﷺ says in this adiht to give zakah. And so zakah, you need to know the rules of how do you give it, who do you give it to, who can take zakah and who can't. Once he gives zakah on. So we need to know the basic fit rulings on these, right? Remember that no one's asking us to become a faqih, someone who has a vast understanding of fit, but people are, we are, we are being asked to know the basics of fit. The basics so we can complete our daily actions. What does summa Ramadan, to be able to fast Ramadan and to know how to fast Ramadan and what makes our fast valid and invalid looks recommended, how we perfect our fast, that's we need to know the rulings of that. And then what to do. To know the rulings of hajj, what makes your hajj valid, what makes it invalid. So these are the things we need to know and then whatever other aspect of fit applies to our lives, such as like if you're a businessman, you should know the fit rulings of business so you're not breaking the laws of business and we should follow a system of fit, right? Because this is the mission, this is the outward submission. So the Prophet ﷺ said this to Jibreen alayhis salam and Jibreen alayhis salam said, God has abducted, you've told it, you've told the truth. And so then they said, the Umar alilah once said, fa'ajibna anamu yas'anamu yas'anamu, we were shocked to that, first of all we asked the Prophet ﷺ and then he says you're correct when he gets the answer. So they let it go and they keep going. So then Jibreen alayhis salam says, God has abducted me out of the iman. Tell me about iman, believe, what is faith? What is, what do we have to believe? And the Prophet ﷺ says, qana anamu yas'anamu yas'anamu yas'anamu yas'anamu yas'anamu yas'anamu, we need to know who we worship, know the nature of Allah, you know, to behave, to remove the doubts of the one, the, remove the doubts that come into our minds about the one that we worship. And then believe in the angels, because the angels bring the message from Allah and that message is the kutub. We need to know the nature of the kutub and it's brought to the Prophet ﷺ and so to the messengers. And so we need to know the nature of our messengers. There are messengers we need to know that there are certain things that are possible for a messenger, some things are impossible. So it's impossible for a messenger to lie, it's impossible for a messenger not to finish what they are, not to finish the message that they've been given. They have to, they have to convey it to the people. So we should know this and this is called basic, this is called Aqidah. Aqidah is dogma. It's what you're supposed to believe, but iman is to believe in that Aqidah and to be affirming your belief in it. So now we've covered the outward, which is known as fifth, the second is Aqidah, we should know these two things. And then after the Prophet ﷺ listed this in the last one he says, he doesn't believe in the decree of Allah, the good, the bad of it. And then he says, Qadatah bini qadah sadaf, they can tell the truth. Jabeen ﷺ says that again. And then he says, Qadatah bini a'ri eqsan, tell me about perfection, tell me about beauty, tell me about purity. What is eqsan? And so the Prophet ﷺ says, Qadah an tu'mina qadah an ta'bidallah haqa annaqa tarabhu fa innam taqud tarabhu fa innam huyaraq. To worship Allah as if you can see him, as if he's that close. But if you can't see him, which we can't see Allah in this dunya, then know that he sees you in all your states. That Allah looks at you and sees you in all your states. And so this is known possibly as tazkiyyatun nafs, purification of the heart, to be perfected inside. So because Allah is the only one that can see inside of you. And so it's far enough to know what are the diseases of the heart because there's spiritual diseases in the heart that we have. It's far enough to know what these diseases are, whether we have them or not, and how to get rid of them. For example, there's hatred, jealousy, arrogance, ostentation. These are the basics of the disease of the heart that we need to get rid of. And so now we've covered these three things. There's the outward al-Islam submission, which is what you believe, which is iman. And you need to believe in the affidah. You don't just simply say that there is this thing that we believe when we don't actually believe in it. And when you truly believe in it, you see or something become a muqsin, a person who practices the exhaling, practices perfection, beauty. A person who allows themselves to be carried in a manner in which they always recognize that Allah is watching them with perfection, whether anyone else can see or whether anyone else can. And that doesn't mean that someone's not watching. That doesn't just mean when somebody's watching you, you don't do good, that you do good, but even when somebody's not watching you, and then you lie to your heart, which no one can see except Allah and yourself, you allow that to do good as well. And then the final aspect of our deen, because we are the last ummah, and this we will give in the last, Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he says, Jamin al-Islam says, Qalif al-Akhbini al-Issa'a, tell me about the last hour. And Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, Qalif al-Nas'ulu al-Akhbini al-Assa'i, the one being asked doesn't know any more than the one who's asking. So then Jamin al-Islam says, Qalif al-Akhbini al-Akhbini al-Akhbini, I'm not walking out to you about it's signs, and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, Qalif al-Akhbini al-Assa'a, tell me that that the slave girl will give birth to her mistress, and there's a lot of discussion about what that means, but the next one's very obvious. Wanta hufata al-A'ata la'alata, li'a'a shayt, allahu al-Nafi gunyan. And you see the Bedouin desert, the desert dwellers, the ones with no shoes, the naked destitute, they're competing in building tall buildings. So Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam gave us some signs at the end of times. So we should know these four things. And why I'm saying these four things? Because as we continue, we see that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam defines this as the entirety of the deen. So then Omar al-Akhbini al-Akhbini al-Akhbini says, Fumman ta'aqaf al-Abiht al-Maria, he left and he stayed for a while. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, qa'a li'a'ama atadri marisa'in, do you know who the one asking was? And then Omar al-Akhbini says, put to Allah Rasulullah, Allah is best in general better. As in you tell me. So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, qa'a la'a fa'idahum jibirinum, atadkum ya'adimah gubdeenakum. This is narrated in Sahih Muslim. So then he says that ta'a, that that was jibirin, he came to give you your deen, and your deen were these four things. The outward, what you believe, and the inward. And if you don't have, and then the signs of the last day. If you don't have these four things, you're missing an aspect of your deen. So it's important for us to look back and check with ourselves really, do we know these four things? If we need to teach someone, can we do it? So insha'Allah let's make it our mission to make sure that we know some of these four things, just the basics. So insha'Allah if you're late, basically what we discussed is what's necessary for us to know about our deen. We need to know the rulings of carrying our outward, daily actions, such as prayer, fasting. If you're a businessman, how do you carry it to business? You know, what are the rulings on these things? Just the basics. Nobody's asking us to become scholars when we're talking about our deen. So we need to know about our deen. We need to know the rulings of carrying our outward, daily actions such as prayer, fasting. If you're a businessman, we need to be asking us to become scholars when we're being asked the basics. And then to know what to believe in and what to believe in it. And then to know what the diseases of our heart are and how to remove them from ourselves. And then to know some of the signs of the last day because we have the last umma, we've been given the last prophet, so the laa al-salaam. And we should recognize that the last day is the end of times. The end of times started when the process sets up. One of the first major signs is the coming process of al-salaam. So it's been 1400 years since that happened We're coming to the end of it, so only Allah knows, we don't know when it's going to happen. So let's not let these four things leave us, we should recognize these four things and recognize that it's our responsibility to learn that. Allah says in the Qur'an, Ya Yaman Adina Amu Intan Sallallahu Alaykum Ya Tabbit Aqladaakum, or you believe if you help Allah, if you help the Deen of Allah, Allah will help you and make you firm, make your feet firm. But the opposite is also true, that if we bring humiliation to the Deen of Allah, then he's going to humiliate us and we won't be firm and we'll be put in the lowest of states. So inshaAllah let's not allow ourselves to fall to the worries of the dunya and say that we don't have time to learn these basics and let's recognize that these basics are firm on us, inshaAllah so let's bring victory to the Deen of Allah because that's how we bring victory to the Deen of Allah, that we appreciate what we've been given and we recognize that whatever we know in this world won't benefit us unless we know these four things. Because Allah is not going to ask you about your PhD in this time, He's going to ask you about these basics, these basics. So inshaAllah let's not allow the worries of this world to take that away from us. Allahumma la taj'a li dunya al-ruhamina wa la mabla gha'imina, wa la mabla gha'imina, wa la mabla gha'imina. Allahumma anta al-salam wa lika al-salam, taba'at al-jirani wa liqbab al-haym, wa adhkina dhar al-salam. Allahumma adhkina fee man ha'dayt wa a'afina fee man ha'dayt, wa taba'at al-nafi man tawallayt, wa barikna fee man a'atayt, wa qina wasif anna as-shama man ha'dayt. Fa inna kitabdi ma la iqtua alayt, inna muna yathina mawa alayt, wa la ya'iz