Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

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  • We came to give, not to take.
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  • Best of the sinners

    Best of the sinners
    Apr 16 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillah Rabbil Alameen was Salat was Salam Alaa Sharifil Ambiya Wal Mursaleen Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi wa Alaihi wa Sahibus Sallam Tasleemun Kaseerun Kaseera Fahmul Baduk My brothers and sisters I remind myself when you that fasting comes to reinforce this primordial and fundamental foundational message that all virtue and blessing and success starts with obeying Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and making his will the guiding light in our lives. I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to illuminate our hearts with his light and to drive out the darkness of fear and depression and despair. As we face a hostile world it must be clear that the only source of support and protection that we can rely on is Allah. So let us repair our bridge to him. Here is what I suggest for all of us. Number one, visit the goals we set. If you did not set goals do it now. Check how you are doing with respect to achieving those goals. Number two, identify the blocks and retardants to your success and remove them. They will be for example time wasters, pointless conversation about things not in our control, low achiever friends who will drag you down to their level, distractions in your day combined with the inability to say no. Learn assertiveness and practice it. Number three, apply the start stop continue standard. What do I need to start which I'm not doing? What do I need to stop which I am doing? What do I need to continue consciously which I am doing which is good? And see on each if we are on track what are the measurable changes in our lives. Remember that metrics are evidence of existence. If you can't measure it, it doesn't exist. Good intentions that are not followed by action are useless. And four, finally having identified these turn to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala especially in tahajjud. Make tahajjud further on yourself for the rest of your life inshallah and ask for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's help to get closer to him because that is the purpose of Ramadan. Allah said, was judh waqtarib. Allah said, make sajdah and come close to me. Sajdah is the ultimate quintessential icon of obedience. You want to come close to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? There's only one path and that is the path of obedience. And that's why in the middle of the ayat relating to fasting Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala revealed, wa idha saadaka li baadiyanni fa inni qareeb wujeebu daawat ad da'ee dha da'aan fal yastajeebu li wal yu'minoo bi la'allaghum yarshudoon Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, when my slaves ask you O Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam about me, I am truly near to them. I respond to their da'aan when they call upon me, so let them obey me and believe in me and they will be guided to the right way. La'allah, which is translated as perhaps in the Quran, is at the level of yaqeen. So whenever you hear la'allahu yarshudoon, la'allahu turhamoon and so on and so forth, there's no element of doubt in that. Even though Allah said la'allah, there's no element of doubt in that. Now see this, the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the slave only asked, wa idha saadaka li baadiyanni, the person is only asking about Allah and Allah says I'm close to him. I'm close to him. And when the slave is close to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, he is in need, so he asks Allah. And Allah says, Allah assures him. wujeebu daawat ad da'ee dha daan Allah said I will give you. But two conditions, fal yasta ji boolee wa joomeen ubee. Obey me and believe in me. Obedience is the key and obedience with knowledge of who Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is engenders and strengthens belief. Obedience is proof of Iban. When the heart of the slave is illuminated by the noor of the glory and magnificence of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, it is filled with gratitude to him for all his blessings. The first and most critical of them is tawheed and then his immediate response is to make istighfar and seek forgiveness. The surest sign of khashyatullah is the frequency of istighf...
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  • Salah protects

    Salah protects
    Apr 15 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:Bismillah al-Haram, adhara-rohim, alhamdulillah, my dear respected brothers, sisters, elders. I remind myself and you that all acts of worship, all ibadahs are tools. The ibadah, the act of worship is not for itself. It is meant to achieve something. Each one has a different goal. For example, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said about the purpose of salah. Qudlu ma'uhiya ilaika minal kitabi wa qimi al-salaat. Inna al-salaata tanha'anil fahsai wal-munkard. Walazikrullahi akbar wallahu ya lamu ma'a tasna'oon. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said which means recite what has been revealed to you of the book and establish the salah. Indeed, salah deters one and protects one and separates one from indecency and wickedness from all kinds of sin. Inna al-salaata, verily the salah, tanha' takes you away from anil, from fahsai wal-munkard. From all indecencies, all shameless actions and all munkard, all disobedience of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And then Allah said the remembrance of Allah is even a greater deterrent in that because when you remember Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala immediately, you will stop doing whatever wrong action you were doing and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala fully knows what you do. So salah is a tool. If I am praying five times a day and I look at my life and I should look at my life, and I find my life is still filled with disobedience of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, then I must question my salah. Did I pray properly? How come this thing is supposed to work and it is not working in my case? Something is wrong with my salah. There was a man who used to come to Sayyidina Amar, who was very close to him. He and a farm used to grow some vegetables. He would bring vegetables for him and so on, he used to come. Then he stopped coming. And some time passed and Sayyidina Amar asked the other people, he said, He used to come so often, he used to be with us and he is not coming. They said, yeah, yeah, yeah, Amir Bominin, he has fallen into bad company. He is doing all kinds of wrong stuff. He is indulging in all sorts of haram stuff. Sayyidina Amar said, has he stopped praying? They said, no, he continues to pray. He is still praying. He has not stopped praying, but he is doing all sorts of other stuff along with the prayer. So Sayyidina Amar wrote on a piece of paper, which is that of the Quran, Allah swt forgives all sins and he accepts tauba. He wrote that on his piece of paper and he said, give this to that man and tell him to continue to pray. Now think about this, the man is doing all kinds of haram things. The man is doing all kinds of haram things. Sayyidina Amar is not saying tell him to stop doing haram. No, he says continue to pray, tell him to continue to pray. Why? Because we know the prayer is supposed to work. And sure enough, after a few days the man came back and he said, Yabin Bominin, Jazakumallahu Khair and I got your mursal, I got your message. And Alhamdulillah, Allah swt has protected me and saved me. I have made tauba, I have done istafar and I will not go back into the stuff that I was doing. Salah is a tool. The purpose of fasting is not to, it's not an endurance test to see how long you can stay away from food and so on. But to inculcate taqwa in our hearts. Qutiba alaykumu sriyamu, qala jalal wa ala ya ayyuha alladheena amanu, qutiba alaykumu sriyamu kama qutiba ala alladheena min qablikum. Limada? La'al lakum tattaqu. Fasting has been prescribed upon you as it was prescribed for those before you. Why? So that you become muttakeen. Thereby transform our lives and put our lives on the path of success in this world and the next. This is what I keep saying over and over and over again. Please understand this. Islam is not suffering in this world and Jannah in the hereafter. It is not. Islam is a beautiful life in this world and a beautiful life in the hereafter. Islam is wealth and power and authority and you name it in this world and correspondingly and far more in the hereafter.
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  • Benefit of Taqwa – #2

    Benefit of Taqwa – #2
    Apr 14 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillah. My brothers and sisters, let us put ourselves in the caravan going with Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam for Umrah. He invited us and we knew that the invitation was a result of Wahi. And so we were going with complete belief that we would be able to do Umrah. And then thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that this did not happen. That He saved you and me from this test. Because not only were Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam and the Sahaba stopped at Hudaybiya, but Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam signed a one-sided treaty and they had to return to Medina without performing Umrah. As we know from the details of the story, the Sahaba were all of them very upset and sad at this unexpected turn of events. Imagine the severity of the spiritual and emotional test they faced. To the extent that even somebody like Sayyidina Umar ibn al-Khattab radi al-Anu questioned Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam about it. Imagine the severity of this test. Here they were following Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam who they believed in, who had promised them that they would make Umrah, but it turns out that they would not be able to do that. Their desire is pure. What is purer than the desire to worship Allah? What is more pure than the desire to make Umrah? Yet they were stopped by the Horesh and refused entry into Mecca and Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam accepted this and he signed a one-sided treaty. So when Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam ordered the Sahaba to shave their heads and sacrifice the animals, nobody moved. They didn't refuse to obey, but they did not move. Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam was shocked. It was the first time it never happened before to him that he'd said something and they did not do it. But he didn't insist or repeat his command out of his mercy for his Ummah, because to deliberately disobey a command of the Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam is Kufr, it takes you out of Islam. Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam got up from where he was sitting and went inside his tent. His wife, our mother Ummah Salama nadiya Allah Anha saw his expression and she asked him, Ya Rasulullah what is wrong? He said my Ummah is destroying itself. She said what happened? When he told her, she said Ya Rasulullah this is a very severe test. My advice to you is please go out and do it yourself. Shave your head and sacrifice your animals and inshallah they will follow you. Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam took her advice and did that. On a side note, just pause for a moment and think of this beautiful relationship between Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam and his wife. He didn't argue with her, he didn't pull rank on her, he didn't say who is getting vahi, you or me. Right? He didn't do anything. He listened to her and he accepted her advice and he acted on it and so it happened. He came out of his tent and he called Sayyidina Ali bin Avithari, brother Al Anho and asked him to bring the animals to be slaughtered and to shave his blessed head. The Sahaba got up and followed his actions. Nobody argued or dissented with tears flowing down their cheeks. They shaved each other's heads and made their sacrifices. Not even one of them refused to obey Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam. When the Sahaba accepted Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam's decision and returned to Madinah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala called it a manifest victory and revealed surah al-fatih. Inna fatahana laka fatham mubeena to the end. The real victory there was the victory over the nafs, over personal desire. In this case the desire was noble and pious. It was not a haram desire. But with Allah, their obedience to him and to the Rasul alaihi sallallahu wasallam was more worthy of reward than their doing umrah. The reward was that though the treaty was for the suspension of hostility for a period of 10 years, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave Muslims Mecca itself in two years.
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