 إنه الغرب لله نفلق نستعيد نفلق نستهي كنا استغفره و نتب ببنائك و نكوك يونك و جلو عليك و نعةول بالله يشلوه اكتسنا و نسيات عمافنا من يهل Going to Freedom و لا نُبِلَّ له و من يُدِّل فلاها ديَّ له وأشهد على الهاء الله و حتك لا شديك له وأشهد أن محمد العبد هو رسوله والرسول الله وسلم و بارك على سيطنى محمد الندي نمي و على أللدي وسطك وسلم دسلم كثيرا يا إلم الذين آمنوا اتقبواها حق تقاتذي اتقبواها حق تقاتذي و لا تنهن إلا و أنتم مسلمون يا إلم الذين آمنوا اتقبواها و قولوا قولا من سديلها يصلح لكم عام عليكم و يردر لكم منوبكم وما يُضع إلاها و رسول الله يُفقى تفازة فلزن عواما الحمد لله و شكرا لله نعتقد الله سبحانه وتعالى و نقوم بعمله و نقوم بعمله الحمد لله و شكرا لله all the blessings that we are enjoying and experiencing it's a beautiful beautiful day الحمد لله الله تعالى has brought us together has gathered us on the day of gathering the day of Jumu'a the beautiful blessed Friday الله سبحانه وتعالى has brought us here to say to you الحمد لله و شكرا لله that this is one of the implications of his name on Jami'a الله تعالى is the one who gathers and whenever there is a gathering it is an implication what Allah it is the deed of Allah الله سبحانه وتعالى is the one that creates every gathering and so for him to gather us in this place and in this time this sacred place and this sacred time is something that we should be grateful for is that whenever Allah تعالى grants us the deed to be in a circumstance to do whatever he is where his riba is with his divine pleasure it is and this is an occasion of great joy in that alone let them rejoice say it by the great blessing of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and this tremendous mercy for that alone and just in grammar when it is brought forth before the verb it means only and nothing else but with that and that alone let them celebrate let them rejoice until the heart of the believer when there is Tawfiq when Allah سبحانه وتعالى is creating good in their lives in the life of the believer this is a joy that the believer has recognizing the Tawfiq of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and we seek Allah's pleasure that if we find ourselves in those occasions on the day of Juma'a the blessed prayer and praying our five prayers on time ideally in a jama'a in a group ideally in the Masjid if not in the Masjid then at least in a jama'a and that fasting for Ramadan speaking of sacred time and sacred place and Tawfiq from Allah سبحانه وتعالى we have just finished Bajab and Alhamdulillah this gathering is an implication of his name in Jama'a the passing of time is an implication of his names and Al Mu'akir the one that puts things forward and he is Al Mu'akir the one that delays and so with the passing of time as we experience day and night followed by day and night and month after month this is the deed of Allah this is the act of Allah سبحانه وتعالى he has put forward or put behind us from our perspective Bajab and he has put forward now Shaban and beyond that awaits us Insha'Allah the blessed sacred month of Ramadan and so this is something to be cognizant of is that Allah سبحانه وتعالى is the one who is the ranger of our circumstances and he is the ranger of our affairs and he is the ranger of our situations in our days and our nights and these days and nights are important and as we realize that we are here on new moon جمع and Ramadan is approaching and we reflect on the words of our blood messengers in which he said صلى الله عليه وسلم والجمع إلى الجمع ورومضان إلى رومضان مكفراتاً وليما بينهنة وليما نشتنب وليما نشتنب كباية وليما نشتنب كباية وليما��� المال وليما فصُّح وليما كل جMother وليما خدمة وليما كافعة وليما مكفر من المدانة إلى المدان من المدانة إلى المدان من المدانة إلى المدان من المدانة إلى المدان هذه are situations and circumstances of expiation for what's between them for our mistakes and our slips and our sins between them as long as we avoid the Qabayah the enormities of Islam as long as we avoid the major sins of Islam as long as we avoid what is outright haram okay so if we are vigilant if we are vigilant in implementing the ethics of our religion of being keen on what every dreamer began to do that have Taqwa Allah SWT align ourselves with the divine pleasure and avoid Taqwa from the Qabayah which is a shield so to shield ourselves from what Allah hates to always be in a situation that Allah SWT is pleased with and to never be in a situation that he hates if we struggle and we strive to do this then between prayers Allah تعالى forgives whatever mistakes you made between the prayers and between from Juma to Juma Allah تعالى forgives that and from Ramadan to Ramadan Allah تعالى forgives that this is tremendous, tremendous mercy and so now we have the implication of this name Al-Ghafour the one who forgives Al-Ghafar these are amazing names that we need to reflect on the names and attributes of our creators come to Allah Al-Ghafour Al-Ghafar that the one who forgives and each of these has different nuances because in the Arabic language these have different emphatic forms Al-Ghafour Al-Ghafar the one who forgives often the one who forgives even great things even major sins Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala we have to turn it in in Toba and so reflecting on these meanings that our ethics of Islam and that we want to as we come to Ramadan now as we approach Ramadan Insha'Allah is that realizing that it's the month that we reconnect with the Quran and we have to transcend this tendency of simply going to the Quran as a devotional recitation that's important the Quran is a Qira it is something to recite Allah has revealed it Quran in Arabic it is an Arabic recital and we recite it but it's not merely a recital it is meant to be embodied in the human being when our mother Aisha was asked about the character about the person of the best creation insha'Allah she said كان خلو قلو قلو قلو his person his character the way he was was the Quran this is the purpose this is the goal this is the intended outcome when we engage the Quran is to embody these akhlaq to embody these prophetic traits such that we become our freedom become the Quran insha'Allah and this is not difficult for Allah and this is not something to think that we can't realize these meanings that only a prophet can embody tough thought and everyone else has just lost no the Prophet ﷺ was sent as an exemplar for us to emulate and Allah تعالى does nothing about them he does nothing in vain for no purpose he has he has divine wisdom and his wisdom in sending us prophets on Islam جميع is for us to emulate them which is one of the wisdoms that they are human prophets on Islam جميع and the Quran talks about that why were we not sent as angels as prophets that people cannot emulate angels angels do not marry angels do not eat and drink angels do not have the human needs that we do but Allah تعالى sent prophets and messengers in our own jins as a word in our own genus at least outwardly and so we need to we have we have people to emulate and so to emulate the prophetic virtues and to avoid the biases and this is something that we want to emphasize for ourselves ourselves and everyone else is to really approach the Quran not simply to reconnect with the Quran in terms of doing the khatam not simply to reconnect with the Quran in terms of praying many prayers at night not simply to reconnect with the Quran in terms of the reciting aspect of it which is important we are not denying that but to transcend and to really engage the ethics of the Quran and to take at least one I find one vice that were stuck in find one advice that that has been embedded in our persona and to take and to take ourselves to task to remove it make it a goal some of us might struggle with some of us might struggle with speaking ill of others and the Prophet I suddenly defined it is that mentioning anything about your brother that he would not like saying anything about an absent person that they would like these are these are these are these are these are various these things and one of the calamities of our time one of the calamities of our time is that the science of our ethics the science of our practical spirituality has been removed from the public discourse and so the people are not learning the science and and one of the unfortunate calamities لن يتعلم عن هذه المتواجدات حتى لو يمكنام المعرفة only the religion in its outward manifestation and they're not learning the inward realities that must be embodied. This is a travesty of our time. And one of the violent consequences of this is that some people might be even in the company of a religious teacher or scholar and then find them back by light. This is the reality and how will the rest of us be guided and how will our children be guided if even some of the people of knowledge who have the outward knowledge they have many things memorized and they're able to teach various subjects of our religion in the outward but they have not embodied these virtues and they have not avoided these biases. And so really to take ourselves to test what does our speech like when we speak of others. So Na'isa, as I said, somebody who was once asked by his disciples give us an osina give us some advice he said don't ever open your mouth they said we can't do that we have to at least speak he said if you have to speak speak only the good don't ever speak about anyone if they're not there unless it's a praise or unless it's something positive and the Prophet he said a person might a word might come out of his mouth that he gives no attention to he gives no way to it's not a big deal and because of that and he thought was so insignificant he just plunged into the depths of the fire without even knowing and so to take ourselves to test with his sins another sin of the tongue that many of us are not even aware of as a sin which is another indication of the travesty of our time is that the science is not at the forefront of the discourse is what's called الخوف بالت and when Al-Ghazadi is حيان المدين in the chapter on vices of the tongue he discusses this and many of our ethicists have discussed this by الخوف بالت to engage in speech of what's unlawful in Islam to speak of sin to mention sin people don't know this even to mention sin is a sin الخوف بالت just to talk about sins or to must say if there's no need or benefit sometimes there's a need when a teacher or someone of authority has to advise or counsel people to warn them of a situation there's a certain diseases plaguing society we need to warn discuss these issues so that we can come up with solutions so that we can protect ourselves and our children that's excused if there's a need or a benefit but if it's just استمدع I'm just out of hanging out and oh did you hear about this and someone's who has been used to this and it's something حرام and our shakia we just committed a sin something very scary and people wonder like how come and the prayer doesn't have meaning for me how come I don't experience you know the connection with الله سبحانه وتعالى and is a dicker in my prayer how come I'm not feeling that spirituality in my soul how come when I say I love open the tukbeer suddenly it's just thinking and thought and everything in between of my dunya and my dunya and my dunya and all the things I have to do and all the people that offended me today and all the people that I'm going to sit at today and all the grudges that are in my heart and my prayer is all dicker in maps just remembrance of myself and my low state and all the pathetic things in my life and so on so insulted me and my reputation and that one picture of mine on Facebook why is my prayer filled with these things are we taking ourselves to task between the prayer are we avoiding the qadair are we avoiding the a'ra'i karam in between the prayer if our tongues are filled with the haram if our tongues are filled with vices then our prayer will not have meaning and we won't have the sweetest prayer our fasting won't have meaning our charity won't have meaning we will not when we make remembrance of Allah when we try to sit down and do dicker in our mornings and evenings it's just going to be thoughts and khawad that fill our brains and fill our minds and Allah's remembrance will just stay on the tongue the doorway to having these to having our connection with Allah infused with meaning infused with reality is to be vigilant on ourselves إتك الله حق التوقع إستقل الله سبحانه وتعالى إبن مسؤول سجاله تراني he said that أعضم الناس خطايا يوم القيامة أكثرهم خودم في البعضة أعضم الناس the greatest of people خطايا in terms of sins sins and sins and sins on يوم القيامة أكثرهم خودم في البعضة the ones that were most proliferate though the ones who engage the most in speaking of sin speaking of sin the ones who talk most about sin without any need or benefit إبن مسؤول is one of the one of the great jurists of and he wouldn't know the Hadith is it's he said it but he wouldn't have that knowledge unless he got it from the prophets how would he know something about the about the unless he and this is one of the things that on the side of his personality he hardly said father of he was so scared of the weightiness of siding the messenger in case he got the word wrong he would often teach it has his own from himself that this is something as an ethic that he learned but he was understood by students that he got it from the prophet and so taking this seriously another one is another one is a tale barrier لا يرفخون جنة تقنى the prophet says بسحى حديد the one who bears tails will not enter paradise unless Allah forgives him he's in the machia of Allah but the he won't what is tale barrier it's to convey to someone about someone else to ruin their relationship do you know what some說 about you do you know what they mentioned about do you know what they thought of your يتواجدون منها these are serious issues and then there's vice of the heart there's vice of the heart حسد how do we feel what's our initial feeling when we see someone else receive a blessing from Allah what's our reaction is there any discomfort when someone else gets that position when someone else gets that opening when someone else gets that يأغوا وحسد the Prophet ﷺ beware of حسد حسد يأقلوا من حسنات وما تأقلوا من حطب because envy will eat your good deeds just like fire will eat wood and so all of the you know if people in Ramadan are spending their nights in تراليح and reading the Quran in the day and during the Khatm of Quran these are all an extra good deed they're not watching and they have a feeling when they're fellow at work or at school or in the family or in the community get some position get some opening and they feel discomfort with that suddenly all those deeds are good كما تأقلوا من حطب like fire eats wood it destroys good deeds even the discomfort of someone else because our master say I'm expressing the tongue of the Divine the language of the Divine is the entity of my blessings why are we uncomfortable if Allah تعالى gives us blessings in someone else why are we uncomfortable الحاسد جاهد because there is no one among those who say the envier is in a way a denier of the Divine because he's not content with the decree of the one الله decree for someone else to get a position and it happens in our community and so when I was a child I memorized the Qur'an my child someone else I mean how are we where is our where is that emphatic virtue of the Qur'an the entire religion is wishing well for others لا يؤحدكم حتى يأخذوا دي أخي they might know you none of you have true iman none of you have perfected iman when the believer when the person next to him gets an opening it's a joy for them الحمد لله الحمد لله to take these meanings seriously anger what's our how are we with anger the Prophet said he said don't ever get angry i.e. for your own ego if it's not for Allah if it's for트 if you repeat it not te moved not te movedכשיו How are we with our families how are we with elder families How are we with their houses خلقهم خيركم بالأحةب what are you're crazy about وكل الناس يكنون من ذلك ادعون بأنها ملعقة استخدام رهائية ويعطون لا يكون استخدام الله ووضع لي ع事ك وستخدمه وصف الفضل يعطون العام وعلك التخيير والنيار تركوا لكنك اذا كانوا يجب أن يظلوا تركوا أنك يجب ان تكون اللعنة又 بلم يجب أن يصلحوا على الله فالأصحابة فهي يوجد بحيتها و opens up a comment that says that this is the strength of the 42 who before most spiritually to be vigorous and real of one Communic� of oneself and to take oneself to task and it has to be uncomfortable at the beginning if a person has an anger-problem it's going to be uncomfortable if a person has a problem with anity it's going to be uncomfortable لأن الشخص الذي يتحدث عنه يستطيع أن يكون أسفل ولكن لتأكيد من المؤمنة القوية والذي يعمل على نفسه خير و أحبه إلى الله أفضل أمور ضلبة إلى الله و المؤمن الدائف و المؤمن الذي يتحدث عن هذه الأشياء إذا لم يكن هناك خير ولكن بسبب مؤمنةهم هناك خير في كل شيء إحرس على ما ينفق أن تكون أفضل و أحرس على كل شيء that benefits you و ستعين لله و أتعجَط في يحرس على الله و لا تأجَط من ain't weak ولكن هذا هي مختلف من الأشياء يتأكيد من الأشياء is to be abiding in pain إحرس على ما ينفق be abiding in pain on embodying these virtues and removing these vice from oneself be abiding in pain really seek it with jiff و ستعين لله and don't think you can do it on your own أردت أن تساعدك في المنزل لتساعد ألوس مونتادا و هذا هو أفضل أن يجب أن نجد أيض هذه المساعدات في نفسنا هو أن نجعل جانيون إلى ألوس مونتادا ألو I'm very, I'm pathetic I have an anger problem with my spouse ألو I can't control my speech I fall into backbite every day ألو I'm really envious of so-and-so and I can't get it out of my heart and my mind ألو I'm your servant and I genuinely want to prove to God, help him أستعين بالله و الله تعالى He's so merciful and this is the first time that it is in the Quran أليام رحمه الله تعالى so merciful if we turn to Him genuinely there's no way He won't respond to the doubt و الله و أنت مُسْمُك مُكِهُنُهُنَا بِيجَالًا و when you make a du'a be absolutely certain that Allah will give it to you إذا ألطت تبسان للطلب فقال يُعطِس أنه إذا تُعطِس أنه not of your tongue إذا تُعطِس أنه not of your tongue فقال إذا تُعطِس أنه يُسطر to ask for something فعلاً لا نعلم who you read it و يُعطِس أنه يريد أن يُعطِس و الأسعر الذي يُعطِس أنه will give us تُعطِس to change is that we're asking for his health and change و الأسعر المفتح و الأسعر الذي يُعطِس أنه wants us to realize these meanings is the fact that they made us مُتْمِن في the first verse the fact that they made us believers يُعطِس أنه يُعطِس to grant us تُعطِس to actually believe in him especially in our time is the greatest indication he wants to take us all the way in this religion all the way to the highest realms أَبْوَلَا يَا إِمْعَا مِنْ تَتَخُونَ أَلَا إِنَّ أُولِيَا أَبْوَلَا أَلَا خُفُنْ عَلَيْنِ وَلَا وَيَحْزَدُونَ أَلِيْنَا عَمَنُونَ وَالْكَانُ يَتَقُونَ who are the people closest to Allah they believe and they can't get to come in improving themselves and the indication that Allah wanted to give them to be كَانُ يَتَقُونَ is أَلَّا دِيْنَ عَمَنُ the fact that he gave them to be to believe in the first verse and so what's that I mean that I turn to Allah but then look at the Prophet ﷺ جوامل كنن the brilliant speech to the Prophet ﷺ is that he he says إِحْرِسَ عَلَمَا يَنْدَعَا to be Adam king this is taking me it's not just sitting around and making do I and engaging all these biases no be struggle to work on oneself but seek help from Allah and then he again says ولا دائم don't be weak don't be weak be strong be real stand up to these meanings خيركم خيركم أملي you know to be the best to your to your spouse ولا دائم and so the key is إستعان بالله is to seek help from Allah but it's surrounded in the prophetic speech with means they say إستعان بالله is in the heart turning to Allah to help us in moral rectification that's in the heart and on the tongue but in terms of actually working on ourselves this is he surrounded it he prefaced it and ended إِحْرِسَ عَلَمَا يَنْدَعَا be Adam who benefits you ولا دائم ولا دائم and do not be weak ولا دائم to put me saying فَعَلُو كَانَ كَدَا لَكَانَ كَدَا وَكَدَا ولكن كل قطر الله ومن شعبه وإنه دفعه ومن شتان وكما فهم سلوحه وإسلام and do not say for anything that occurred إذا only such and such had happened and it would have been different but rather say إذا الله had decreed it and whatever he decrees come to whatever he wills comes to task because if only love opens up the door of the devil opens up the working of the devil opens up the and so this is a perfect a virtue to endless is just to be content with the decree of Allah to be content with the decree of Allah and that whatever has in our families or communities just to let go no grudges فضل الله شعبه it was decreed from الله سبحانه وتعالى and no if only open opens up the working of the devil and so to be to move forward to move forward and seek補 supplement and and to get his to fall into these spellings to get his to fall into these sins and so and so says صالت so may you know that I will prove myself and that I now and then there's an acceptance there's an acceptance that's placed down on earth for that person meaning what because such people, most of society doesn't recognize them unfortunately most of the society the people who are engaged in these vices they can't recognize those people they've worked here many times sometimes they do, but many times they don't and so many of our masters say لقد استطعتونه거 العملية للمشاملين أنه زاء and، بروتهم وهو Travelat ويسأل الله تعالى لن أبقى الأشخاص بل بزاوية أخذوا أيضاً باستمر من جهلينا صلpetto على ما أ預دت لاحضو أننا أروها سنععمنا جيد وأيها الأشخاص هاتف وفتيالة ويسأل الله تعالى لن أبقى مهم سأل الله تعالى لن أبقى المهم بلي الله تعالى لنا كبيراً بممنهة وذلك ستكون مع كبيراً وخارج المنصب في الموقف وانتو بفضل لنا اوضع الناس وانحوالي挞ق لنا بجلس لنصبح الله وانا ا تريده هذا الكلام في جرد فليو查ى نكونا ونعلم نفسنا بالمستوى وانتو بطاوما عليك فتا أن تصبح الله and that he is pleased with ربنا賢تي من دون كراحة وهي ربنا بطاوما عليك ان تصبح الله ان تصبحون ربنا ان تصبحنا وانتو عالينا انتو عالينا انتو عالينا