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  • Marriage in Islam

    Marriage in Islam
    Jun 27 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honorable Prophet Muhammad and upon his companions. My dear respected brothers, sisters, elders. The topic of my khutbah today is marriage in Islam. And there are two reasons for that. One is that this month and next month we seem to have a spate of those who are who seem to be absolutely determined to commit matrimony. So I thought maybe it's a good idea to give them some idea of what it means. And secondly, this khutbah is, and the one in Baitul Salam, is part of a global khutbah for this Jummah on the subject of Islam, which was started by the Jum'ah Talma South Africa. And for the same reason, which is the amount of absolute proliferation of marriages going bad. And marriages breaking up. So this is a very important part. It's not simply essential for the young people that every time they see a sheikh, they say, sheikh, please make dua, I should get married. And then one month later, they say, sheikh, please make dua, I should get married. And then one month later, they say, sheikh, please make dua, I should get married. And then one month later, whatever. Marriage is perhaps the most important relationship that you are likely to enter into in your life, but also the most complicated. So the first thing to get out of your mind is that marriage is simple. It's not simple. It's very complicated. And you can make your marriage and your home a heaven on earth, or a living hell. That choice is in your hands alone. By you, I mean the husband and the wife. Nobody else. It is your choice alone. And it is a choice. So choose wisely because you will have to live with it. Not anybody else. Allah said in His Kitab al-Qur'an al-Kareem, Wa min ayatihi an khalaqa lakum min anfusih, wa min ayatihi an khalaqa lakum min anfusih, And from His verses, Allah said, Allah said in His Kitab al-Qur'an al-Kareem, Wa min ayatihi an khalaqa lakum min anfusih, kum azwajah, li taskunu ilayha, wa ja'ala baynakum mawaddatun wa rahmah, inna fee thalika la ayatin li qawmin yatafakkaroon. In Surah Ar-Rum, Allah said, among His signs, and Allah called this one of His signs, Jalla Shah Anhu, and among His signs is this that He creates for you mates out of your own kind. So that, and Allah is now, mentioning three reasons for this. So that you find contentment, sukoon with them. And then He said, and therefore He puts in that relationship, mawadda wa rahmah, love and mercy between you. Inna fee thalika la ayatin li qawmin yatafakkaroon. And behold in this, there are signs and messages for people, And behold in this, there are signs and messages for people, who receive the blessings of Allah, who reflect and think, people who have intelligence. As I'm sure most of you know, if you don't know, you should be aware that in Islam, marriage is a legal contract. The khutba for the marriage and all of that is icing on the cake. The marriage is valid even if there is no khutba. It's a legal contract between two people in the presence of two witnesses after the payment of mahram. It's a legal contract between two people in the presence of two witnesses after the payment of mahram. The witnesses, the best of the witnesses is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Himself. And the ones making that contract will be accountable to Him. It is therefore essential to understand what they are contracting to do. The ayat of the Quran, which I recited before you, speaks about the institution of marriage and mentions specifically three features that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala blessed it with. Allah used three words in this ayah. The first word that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala used is sukoon. And Allah says, وَمِنْ آيَاتِهِ أَنْقَلَقَ لَكُمْ مِنْ أَنفُسِكُمْ أَزْوَاجًا لِتَسْكُونُوا إِلَيْهَا And among His signs is this that He creates for you mates out of your own kind, so that you may find sukoon with them.
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  • Beware of modern idolatry

    Beware of modern idolatry
    Jun 26 2025
    https://youtu.be/XL0am60Sq9Q Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the most honorable and most righteous, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon him, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon everyone, and upon everyone. My brothers and sisters, the thought I want to share with you is that idolatry or worshiping of idols is something that changes from time to time in the way of the shape of the idols. Now, I don't mean the idols from being marble statues of Jupiter and Zeus became the stone statues of the Hindus worship and so forth. I'm not talking about that. I'm saying that idol worship is not restricted to icons. It's not restricted to stone. It's not restricted to pictures. It's not restricted to symbols like the cross and others. Idol worship is really something where a person sees benefit or harm in others than Allah and therefore obeys that thing where he sees the benefit and harm instead of obeying Allah . And my dhalil for this is from the Quran where Allah said to the Prophet Have you not seen those who have taken as their ila? Now, Allah did not use any other word. He did not use some other word, you know, more important. Ila is an object of worship. It's a deity. Say, La ilaha illa Allah. There is no deity. There is no one worthy of worship except Allah. Right? We are not saying La Khaliqu illa Allah or La Maliqu. No, we say La ilaha. The one who is worthy of worship. Only and only Allah. Allah used that word with respect to desires. Now, usually we tend to translate desires as, you know, just the haram stuff. Somebody wants to drink alcohol or smoke or vape or whatnot and fornication and this and that. All of those things, yes. But it's not restricted to that. So desire is anything. As I said, my understanding, may Allah protect me if I'm wrong. My understanding is that the Hawa is anything which you give precedence to because you like it over Allah . Now, one of the, to me, therefore, the biggest idol that we worship today as so-called monotheism, is the Prophet. So-called modern society. Is technology. Because for us, technology can do no wrong. Our icons are people who are technology barons. Who have technology companies, who are billionaires in the technology field. They are technology manipulators, not necessarily inventors. Because that's another aspect of this. It's a combination of technology combined with wealth. Because how many people, for example, know the names of the inventors? For example, one of the things that everything or everything runs on is the algorithm. Right? Algorithms, they bring stuff to you and they choose and whatnot. How many people know where it started? How many people even know how the name came to be? How does the name algorithm come from? Where does it come from? I'm not going to tell you. You look it up. So the point I'm saying is that we are not even excited by or we are not even look up to the actual inventors. We look at the Elon Musk's of the world and others who are people who manipulate that technology, monetize that technology and make money out of that technology. Right? I'm not against the idea of that. I mean, if somebody is doing that in a legal way, alhamdulillah, if he makes a lot of money, that's fine. Let him do that. I'm just saying that what do you respect? The reason I'm saying this is because the other day somebody said to me talking about robotic surgery for bypass, hard bypass. So this person said to me, the bypass operation is nowadays being done in such and such a place by robotic surgery. So there is a, you know, non-human thing there, AI. Powered, which is actually doing the surgery. And that is saving a lot of lives. So this robotic surgery is saving a lot of lives. So this was the statement made to me. And again, the statement made to me was one of my,
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  • What’s my filter?

    What’s my filter?
    Jun 25 2025
    https://youtu.be/vePIGirtOqM Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the Prophet and the Messengers, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah. Peace and blessings be upon him and upon him and upon him and upon him and upon him. Peace and blessings be upon him and upon him and upon him. My brothers and sisters, it so happened that I'm out here in Ashli Yawar that we must see. One of our most favorite places for walk, to walk in. And I have one Omer with me. And he mentioned a book that talks about the wealth of Rasulullah . And the author seems to claim that Rasulullah , and like whatever we have heard and read about him , that he was a very wealthy. person. And it's just that he was very generous. And so the wealth didn't stay with him. And he gave it all away. Now, his generosity of course is beyond question. We know that. The question is, was he wealthy or not? And this book, this person has written. So one has to read that. I don't want to comment on that. But the point I want to say here is the importance of our attitudes, which for the most part get formed and colored very unobtrusively, very insidiously, and you know, in a very unremarkable manner. But they guide and become the filters through which we view the world. Wealth is one of them, which is that we come from a, today we come from a world and a culture which absolutely worships wealth in every sense of the term. We worship wealth. We worship the wealthy. The wealthy are our role models, irrespective of how they, forget about being Muslim or not Muslim, even non-Muslims, they are our role models, irrespective of how they earn that wealth, whether they earn the wealth in ethical ways or unethical ways. I'm not using the terminology of halal and haram because somebody might say, well, you know, they're not Muslim. So I'm saying ethical and unethical, which is applicable across the world. We don't ask any of the questions. We just say, well, you know, who are the role models, so and so. I always remember this. I remember the first time I was in India, I was in India, I was in India, I remember this half amusingly, where one day in our masjid here, I was speaking, I was doing a harasa for our youth. So we had a whole house full of young people and obviously almost every single one of them came from practicing families. Most of them from people who, whose parents come to the masjid at least once a day, sometimes more than once a day. These young people, at least the boys, if you guys see them, many of them come at least once a day. So mashallah, good, good kids, good youngsters. And my question to them, I said, name for me three of your role models. This is the, the reason I described all this in such detail was because to give you the background. So this is a meeting, a gathering in the masjid. And I was in the middle of the masjid, and I was sitting there, sitting in the masjid. The question is asked by the Imam, two people who are practicing Muslims. So I said, name for me three role models. Guess who they named? Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett. Three role models. Now, so I said, well, I appreciate your honesty. I mean, I'm not going to fool anybody. So you didn't say, Abu Bakr, and Omar, and Osman, Rabbi Al-Anuma, Raja Al-Anum. You said who your real role models are. But my question is, now you need to do the next step, which is, you question and say, why are these people role models? So take Elon Musk, for example. Take the, take space, space X. All right. Take Tesla, take anything that he is associated with, because he has this aura of being somebody who is into high technology. Ask yourself one question, which is, did he invent any of those things? And the answer is no. So you are in awe of him for what? So you are in awe of him for the fact that here, here is a businessman who takes something which somebody has invented,
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