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What’s my filter?

What’s my filter?

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 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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