بسم الله أسلام وعليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته الحمد لله الحمد لله نحن نشاهدكم جميعاً لكم اليوم للمساعدة المساعدة لتأكيد من الله سبحانه وتعالى ومجمعاً للحبب العادم صلى الله عليه وسلم الحمد لله نحن نستطيع أن نسأل كل one to settle down إن شاء الله نسأل كل one to settle down so that we can get the program started نسأل كل one to take their seats نسأل كل one to bring the hearts together إن شاء الله نسأل كل one now to renew their intentions of why they're here نسأل كل one now to renew their intentions of why they're here نسأل كل one to renew our intentions of why we are here نسأل كل one to get closer to Allah سبحانه وتعالى نسأل كل one to increase in the love of Habib Al-Adham صلى الله عليه وسلم نسأل كل one to connect with our community members that we may have not seen in a long time نسأل كل one to fulfill the sunnah of spreading peace and of eating food together وكل شخص here has a need has a want has something in their life that they can't do themselves they need Allah سبحانه وتعالى's help so we encourage everyone to come together and let's take 15 to 30 seconds of silence 15 to 30 seconds of silence and whatever issue you're struggling with whatever is bothering you, agitating you bring it to your heart and ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى for assistance bring the love of the Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم into your heart صلى الله عليه وسلم بسم الله بسم الله الحمد لله we're asking everyone to take their seats الحمد لله okay so we're taking the next 15 seconds to purify our intentions بسم الله فاتحا للحبيب الأعظم صلى الله عليه وسلم أمين أمين may Allah accept الحمد لله الحمد لله بسم الله before we begin I would like to thank our sponsors for tonight's event MCC East Bay San Ramon Valley Islamic Center the Islamic Center of Livermore and last but not least Talif Collective الحمد لله we thank these organizations for coming together to make this event happen we have people from all over the bay area here tonight we have over 600 people in attendance tonight الحمد لله الحمد لله we have people from out of town so we thank our sponsors for this beautiful and wonderful event may Allah accept Insha'Allah we are going to begin tonight's program with the shimmering light Mollet Insha'Allah with the bay area Munchidin Insha'Allah بسم الله أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرهيم يا ربي صلي على محمد يا ربي صلي عليه وسلم يا ربي صلي على محمد حبيبك شافع المشفاعة يا ربي صلي على محمد على الورارض بطا الورفاعة يا ربي صلي على محمد على الورارض بطا الورفاعة يا ربي صلي على محمد على الورارض بطا الورفاعة يا ربي صلي على محمد على الورارض بطا الورفاعة يا ربي صلي على محمد على الورارض بطا الورفاعة يا ربي صلي على محمد على الورارض بطا الورفاعة يا ربي صلي على محمد على الورى ردبت وارفاي يا ربي صلى علاممحمد على الورى الردبت وارفاي يا ربي صلى علاممحمد أسمى البراي أجاها وأوساع آسما البراي يا ربي صلى علاممحمد وسلبنا ربي خير ما هي يا ربي صلي على محمد وصلبنا ربي خير ما هي يا ربي صلي على محمد وعافنا واشفي كل موجاة يا ربي صلي على محمد واصله القلبا وافو وانفا واصله القلبا واربي صلي على محمد وكف المعادي وصرف وردا يا ربي صلي على محمد نحلو في حسنك الممنى حسنك الممنى يا ربي صلي على محمد ربي ردعنا رضاك لرفاء يا ربي صلي على محمد واجعلنا في الجنان مجمع يا ربي صلي على محمد رافقنا خير خلككا جماع يا ربي صلي على محمد رافقنا خير خلككا جماع يا ربي صلي على محمد يا ربي صلي عليه وسلم يا ربي صلي عليه وسلم وابا ما تقمته عليك ويهديك صراطا مستقيما صلى الله عليه وسلم وصرك الله نصرا عزيزا لقد جام رسول افسكم عزيز علي ما عندتم حريص عليكم الحسب يا ركلت وارش العلكته يصلوا صلوا تسلي وهم صلي وسلم وبارك عليه ولا آلي صلى الله الرحمن الرهيم الحمد لله الذي يحدانا بعمده المخطار من دعانا إليه بالإذن وقد نادانا لبيك يا من دلانا وحدانا مشفع خصنا وحبانا الأطهار معدن السدك أسمى فهم صفن نجاتهما صهابتك الكرام هما تدينك أسبه ليولاه عنما هدا هاد المودة هيا جل شجالا هذا المهيب إلا وأذها والها نشبال المهيبون الذين عليهم وبذل النفوس معنا فالسيها نرعون بذكرتها المستفا إلا بهم تعش وزهبارا الأرواه تشتاقوا لقاوته إن تسهل ربها الرذبانا المهيبين كذا فاسمع إلا سيد المشفع وارهف الآذان صافتها المجتبا وهذر لقلبك يمتلي وجدانا ومثل الشباب يتفهم أمام صفن محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم إذا كانت أردت الشباب ومشاهدةها مع الشباب you're essentially following along with the biography of the Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم الله وليه وسلم ونعلم ونعلم that الله سبحانه و تعالى except the Seera song as the modern day حمزية إن شاء الله سيعمين حمد لله so it's our great privilege and honor different people have been reciting the Seera song throughout the bay area from many months now but it is our great privilege and honor to have the author of the Seera song here tonight and for us to sing it and recite it in a large gathering like this so we ask everyone to follow along إن شاء الله and to open up their hearts to follow along with the life story of our beloved Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم وَالَلَّا بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ تَدْسِينَا قَيْدِ فُرَمْتَا تَعْمَا مَسَاياَ who had not been crucified but before he was raised up to Bani Israel he said after me will come a messenger whose name will be Ahmed in the centuries I followed humankind and gone astray from the message of the Prophet and the pure and natural way Prince and pride taking God besides Allah so that his oneness was denied that he never pressed and many wrongs were seen as right blessed day in springtime in Daniel's seal Abdullah the Prophet's father never lived to see his son Hamina was honored by Allah to bear the chosen one praise and happy grace the world universe when Muhammad was born Rasul Allah Don't you want to do all 15 chapters? That was only 2 but I'm going to pass it back شيخ الله how does it feel? الحمد لله اللهم صلى الله عليه وسلم الحمد لله may Allah accept we're going to continue with the program I might not be allowed to mention this but I'm going to mention it and ask for forgiveness later but actually just to give some context on what went on behind the scenes to write the Seerah song it took شيخ الله 12 years to write this song 12 years cross-referencing making sure it was correct consulting with scholars الحمد لله so a lot of work has been put into this song if you want to support it there's major plans for it to make it into a curriculum for children to learn the Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم's life and to learn about him so you can follow the Seerah song on social media to be kept up to dates with the project may Allah accept with that insha'Allah we're going to continue with the program Bismillah اللهم صلى الله عليه وسلم وبارك عليه وعلى آله صلى الله عليه وسلم منبان الله فقال جاءكم نور فسبحان الذي أمبانا صلى الله عليه وسلم والنور طاح عبده من نبيه في ذكره عذن به من لانا صلى الله عليه وسلم الحمد المولة أما القوله فليفرحوا وغضوا به فرحايا مستمسكم بالعروة الوسطة ومعطاصما بحب لله من أنشانا صلى الله عليه وسلم لما تا كنت نبيا قال إن فسفق من غفلة أن ذا وكن يخضاي وعبر إلى أسلال رب لم يذل ينقلني بين الخيار مصانا صلى الله عليه وسلم تفترع من شعبتين إلا أنا في خيرها حتى في ذكره والنصر وتوقي لرب العرش قد أوصانا يا رب وسلم دائي وسلم وبا نعامل للمك رسول شاديك نغم سبكو سناي حر طرف شور فداكه رسول داكه رسول لا أعال سبسي أعال فزل رب العول أحسنة تا انكا جلبا الماء انكا جلق بدر شا شا ني مستاني تباري إس شي شا اتو شا نا سب بر سب سلي وسلم وابارك سلي وسلم وابارك سيدنا محمد سبهان الله يا حبيبي يا رسول سبحانه وتعال شيخ ابدولك أمو is more animated الله أكبر كيف يعني كيف لا سبحان الله this is what حبيب الله صلى الله عليه وسلم does if you look around the room you will see people from all sorts of backgrounds Syrians Lebanese Jordanians Pakistanis Bangladesh Indians Moroccans Bangladesh 18 if you have the book الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وبارك عليه وعلى آله صقد نشر الإله نعوته بالكتب بينا لنا تبيان والنبيين لما تيتكم من حكمة إنسان توصرون وتصبحون أعاولوا شافعوا مجفعون يسمع لي قوليكة نجمو بخرك بات بيكما إليكة دا بيصليكة دا بيصليكة دا بيصليكة دا نحن نفعل مجرد برسل ضهر الدين والمؤياد فأنا سأسأل كل من في 10 سنة 10 سنة ومأخير كل من يأتي هنا هل يأتي من ضهر الدين والمؤياد ويأتي من أرزان أرزان أرزان نحن لدينا كذلك سوف يقوم بعمل معنا أرزان إذا كنت أرزان 10 سنة أم here to the front إذا كنت أرزان 10 سنة أرزان أم here أم here أم here أم here شيء حسنا أرزان أرزان أرزان كطوTs أنت الله يسلوس فيس يشاين سوء براي أنت الله أنك عليه واندنما ما شاهو قد كانت ابن المصون وياريم الشهم ابن عبد منافن ابن قصين كان شعلو قد ينتلى أزز بدال تترا في سلسلاتي وصوله عدناء كغف وعلم برفوه أحملت به أمنة لم تشكو شيء أن ياخذون نسواء ربي سماق صلدا والهنش رفل أدب شارت ودن المخاض فأبترعات سبحان الله والحمد لله أكبر سبحان الله والحمد لله ولا إناها إلا الله والله أكبر ولا عبدنا بدأت دخلقي ورضى نفسه وزنة أرجه ومده زجم سلو صلى الله عليه وسلم وسلم الله يا نبي سلم رسول سلم رسول حبيب سلم رسول سلم حال أنت في الحشر أفضل يا رسول سلم طوح حاب المار حاب الجد الحسيني يا نور عيني مرحاب مرحاب جد الحسيني دشفع تشافع مرحاب جد الحسيني بدا نور وشعشع مركر رحمان نسأل يا الله وإله العرش يسمع مرحاب مرحاب يا نور عيني مرحاب مرحاب جد الحسيني مرحاب مرحاب يا نور عيني مرحاب جد ربي ففضل نوربي يا الله ب forest up شفع يا الله ربي ففضل نوربي يا الله شفع يا الله يا عظيم يا ربي شبنا لا بالمصف أجمه يا الله ربي ففضل نوربي ، يا الله بسار 끝 мыدن ربي مردًا طلع عينة all together من ثاني يا تلوة شكرا ماذا عيدًا طلع من ثاني لا هيدًا طلع البدر انسان coming with a word to be a two cow bone that's right you have brought to california nobleness you have brought to the universe nobleness that's right you have brought to our hearts nobleness that's right welcome best color to god's way peace be upon you peace be upon you peace be upon you peace be upon you peace be upon you peace be upon you peace be upon you peace be upon you peace be upon you peace be upon you peace be upon you peace be upon you peace be upon you peace be upon you الموابرق عليه ظل الله The final song we're doing Insha'Allah is the last chapters of the Sida song Written by Stad Abdullah Insha'Allah And then we will hear some words from our teachers Stad Abdullah Insha'Allah So these are chapters 13 In the Sida song 13 and 14 And 15 The last chapters بسم الله صلوا على الحبيب And by the way I just want to say I love you Baba It's my dad right there It's how I can baba love you And I love you mama It's my mom right there I love you mama That's right That's right Best people in the world Insha'Allah لا إله إلا الله لا إله إلا الله لا إله إلا الله لا إله إلا الله لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله عليه صلى الله عليه لا إله إلا الله لا إله إلا الله لا إله إلا الله لا إله إلا الله الحمد رسول الله وانهي صلاة الله أردت أن أقوم بمجموعة لأشعره بأمان أو أن أرى على مكانه من الذي يجب أن يبقى أو أن أشعره عندما أردت الأمان لذلك لن يدفعني ولكن my consolation يأتي في ما رسول الله ولكن my life was good for you my death will be good for you too I'll be shown your deeds so when I see a sin I'll pray for you and he said, oh people if you one day face calamity find your strength by thinking of the pain you felt by losing me when he missed his brothers his companions asked and who are we? he said my brothers never saw me yet believed in me long to meet the messenger that patience is the key at the start of the year after you will see him finally he will be the leader of humanity on judgment day after all he was the messenger when Adam was still clay when the prophets on that day will only say nafsi nafsi he will plead before Allah crying my umma umma ti he will bow and praise Allah and words no one before has said he'll be granted intercession as he lifts his noble head he will beg Allah to pardon us so sinner don't despair he won't take his seat in heaven till his umma joins him there Allah umma join us with your chosen prophet on the day when the world is resurrected with the souls in disarray let us gain his intercession when we're taken to account let us quench our thirst forever when we meet him at his mouth when a man once asked for heaven in the prophets company help me get you this he told him by prostrating frequently if we fear that our good deeds are few and sin stacked high above our lust hope is as he told us you'll be with the one you love because loving is believing and our faith is not yet whole till we love him more than parents, child every single soul ايه ايه such a beautiful creation mortal's eyes had never seen nor had women give birth through one sound too perfect and pristine so complete in form and meaning and from every blemish free as if he had been created just the way he'd want to be best of those who ever lived or ever walked upon the earth sinless since the blessed day on which his mother gave him birth when ever saw before and nor thereafter ever see like the prophet in his inward and his outward qualities he was one of many Adam but between himself and them was as though mankind were stones and as though he a priceless gem even if he had not come with any miracle or sign just the sight of him would tell you that he came from the divine never should be we think that by these words the prophet has been praised rather through his blessed mention it's our words that have been raised for Allah himself has praised him when he said so perfectly truly you are on a station of sublime integrity joyous tidings to those who believed when he called to Allah since he was the birth of prophet became the best combo لا إله إلا الله لا إله إلا everyone لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله 3 times together 3 times لا إله إلا الله لا إله إلا الله إله إي مدرسول الله عليه صلاة الله 2 more times from your heart last time premier heart pork presence congrats one last شاء الله the Teacher's song please follow the work and the journey as it continues to evolve into a full-on program من يجب أن يكون هناك مدينة أسكابي أردت أن نسألها بالنسبة لله أمدو لله أمدو لله أمدو لله يجب أن يكون هناك مدينة أمدو لله أشاء الله نريد أن نحاول أحبارنا أمدو لله دكتر أليا تاي ثم أسكالرنا أستادة شميرة أستادة ليلا فاكيرة أستادة رويا تاي أمدو لله أمدو لله أمدو لله لدينا so many teachers in our community that are the pillars that ground us and we don't have we can't have all of them we can't have all of them أمدو gonna بسم الله اسم لك لقد سأشاهدناِ أصاحبنا عقباتنا that are in the crowd right now that could not be on the stage with us صحباً لقد سأشاهدهم ودعواهم أحبواهم سيقول أمدو لله كاننا بخير وننحن أريد أن أعطف our main speaker for the night شيخ أبدو الله شيخ عبدالله مصرًا يساعدنا من كندا و هذا هو always an awkward part of the program because our teachers they have the prophetic humility and so they don't like it when we stand up and talk about them but everyone in the audience deserves to know who is teaching them and who is speaking to them so شيخ عبدالله مصرًا is the author of the seerah song that we just recited but شيخ عبدالله مصرًا is actually a convert to Islam from Hinduism and as you can as you may imagine that is a very big step and change to take for someone from the Hindu community you can imagine how his family reacted how his community reacted when he decided that he was going to be a Muslim you can imagine the reaction and the strong emotions around that decision and so شيخ عبدالله مصرًا knew and he realized that if he was going to become Muslim he needed to know why he was Muslim he needed to do a deep dive of this tradition and of this religion and so that's exactly what he did and behind every great man is a great woman and Mashallah him and his wife they went on a journey through various different places to attain the knowledge of this beautiful religion they spent some time at a madrasa in Trinidad they spent some time with our teacher Habib Omar in the Habayib the Ba'alouiz in Tareem and finally he ended up making it to Jordan where he studied for 12 years شيخ فريد دينغو was there as well and شيخ فرازخان was there as well and so he studied the religion to understand it better and he attained various hijazah in the religion and he worked on the Sita song that we are all now benefiting from so I'll stop there and I'll hand over the mic and ask you all to turn your hearts to turn your ears to turn your attention to our visiting scholar الحمد لله الحمد لله رب العمين وصلى الله عليه وسلم محمد ورآله وصحب يجماعين سبحانك لعلم لنا إلا ما علمتنا إن كانت العليم الحكيم اللهم علمنا ما ينفعنا وانفعنا بما تعليمنا وزدنا من فضلك عيننا تعليمه إنك على كل شيء قدير وصلى الله عليه وسلم محمد ورآله وصحب يسلم السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته هل you guys sound higher now السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته فكاتو That's more like it الحمد لله الله سبحانه وتعالى الله سبحانه وتعالى tells us in his eternal book his final testament to humanity عوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الله says قلبي فضل الله و برحمته فبذلك فاليفرح هو خير من ما يجمعون الله سبحانه وتعالى says in his final testament then say say oh prophet to the people then say that by the in the blessing of Allah in the bounty of Allah and in his mercy then in that let them rejoice it is much better with all their mass this bounty of Allah and this mercy ibn Abbas according to one of the narrations he said that the bounty of Allah is Islam that this bounty is Islam and that the mercy is the prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and Allah is telling us that in those two things in your Islam and in Allah's mercy what is Allah's mercy رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم is Allah's mercy in that then rejoice it is much better than every single thing that they amass it's better than your money it's better than your house it's better than all your cars it's better than your degrees it's better than your spouses and your children and your parents it is better than all of the titles it's better than all of your achievements it's better than all of your pleasures and your feelings it's better than every single thing that is our Islam and our prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم Allah صبحانه وتعالى has commanded us to have joy when we thank Allah for these things so we celebrate out of what out of this happiness that if it was not for رسول الله what would we be doing where would we be think about this very carefully if you weren't here tonight if you didn't have iman in your heart if our ancestors were not guided if our people were not Muslim because of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم what would we be doing what would we be worshipping how would we be spending the times of our lives we wouldn't know anything about Allah we wouldn't know anything about رسول الله and the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم when this when joy of this mercy is something that Allah صبحانه وتعالى tells us to celebrate some people will say well it's not far to do this that why was it kept in such a way in our scriptures that it didn't say line by line that celebrate the mood of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم celebrate the life of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم it's true we'll tell them this is not wajib this is not wajib to do to come and gather here today like this and to sing these songs you know why because celebrating the birth of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم Allah made that something that comes from your own volition your own choice something that is far something that is wajib you have to do it right you get reward for doing and you get punished for leaving that's the definition of something that is far in wajib with the celebration of the birth of the رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم and our thanks you only get reward you only feel that mercy because no one our prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم didn't force us to celebrate his birthday that's what the dictators and the kings of this world do the birthday of the king the birthday of the dictator رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم didn't have to tell anybody to thank Allah for the fact that he was born in fact it's the lovers it's the lovers of رسول الله who take this upon themselves no one needs to tell them that no one needs to make it no one even needs to make it a holiday no one needs to even call it a name and yet the lovers of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم are electric and buzzing with joy at the coming of Ahmed صلى الله عليه وسلم this is why this is why even the children know this even the purest of hearts know this our children over here that's why when the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم long before the idea of the idea of long before the idea of gathering together and singing long before anybody had composed a couplet in praise of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم among the olama the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was walking into Medina and as he was coming into Medina for the very first time and the unsaw laid eyes for the first time on their beloved prophet whom they believed in at a distance because they heard the revelation that was sent to him as the رسول صلى الله عليه وسلم was greeted by men ready to protect him bearing arms who had come out to see him at the edge of the city crowds of people who were jubilant and welcoming him inside people trying to grab the reins of his camel each one eager and avid that رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم comes and stays inside their home comes and stays inside their neighborhood as he was passing amidst the celebration and amidst the happiness the joy of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم being seen for the first time with your bare eyes and coming inside your city for the first time that he's passed by a bunch a group of girls who are playing with their duff these girls whom perhaps they were not the big men and women of the Sahaba and the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم heard them on a corner these soft angelic voices of these young girls who are saying نحن جوار من بني نجار يحب ذا محمد من جار that we are the little girls of بني نجار oh how amazing it is to have محمد as a neighbor oh how amazing it is that محمد is our neighbor and the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم despite all of the big chiefs who are trying to lead him from the house in the khazraj despite all of the people who are welcoming him despite all of the important people from the مهاجرين and the Ansar that were there he still turned towards those girls and he stopped and he said do you love me and they said ايو الله يا رسول الله we love you and he said الله يعلمه اني لأحب كنة he says الله knows that I indeed love you in another narration he said الله knows I love you because when you love رسول الله one time he loves you back three times when you say a simple song for him when these pure hearts even say a simple song for him he appreciates that he stops everything he's doing to listen to us he stops all of the things in the أمه and all of the affairs of the أمه to listen to his lover singing a little bit of his praises and thanking Allah for bringing the profit into our lives and this is why when رضي الله تعالى عنه he said he said that the day رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم entered Medina it became illuminated imagine the Rasool enters and it's like the lights in the city have gone up it's like a sun rises and doesn't set it's like light permeates every single thing in that city and when Rasool الله صلى الله عليه وسلم he said when he left this world he said a darkness fell over all of Medina like a darkness fell over all of Medina but the Ulama say that the blessing of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم did not go away in fact as his pure body as his blessed body touched the soil of Medina the blessings permeated not only into Medina but throughout the entire world and the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم's blessing is here and it abides and we each feel it here all the way from that blessed place and this is why what we have to ask ourselves سبحان الله that if this if this if the coming of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم's physical body is what illuminated all of Medina illuminated all of Medina then what of the heart in which the love of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم comes and takes up residence comes and becomes the place of rest for the beloved رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم and his remembrance what kind of illumination is that inside the heart and that is an illumination that doesn't go because some people will say and they will this is the kind of questions that you get around this time well you know the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was born on ربي الأول but he also left this world on ربي الأول so why don't you mark that why don't you mark that Allah commanded us to rejoice Allah commanded us to rejoice and Allah سبحانه وتعالى when he brought رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم into this world he also took him out from this world but when he brought رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم into our lives he will not leave our hearts whether in the dunya or the akhira and this is why we mark the coming of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم because he never left he never really left for someone who loves him he's always here he will always be here we're waiting to meet him we're waiting to see him and this is why the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم at the end towards the end of his life in his final illness it is said صلى الله عليه وسلم it is said in the in the Muslim out of you guys listen up to this hey cute boy sweetheart listen up hey you come you come here you come come out come sit with me you come you sit here good come come sit come sit come come you're special today come what's your name Abdullah Abdullah my name is Abdullah too you wanna come sit down here's a special spot can you stay here okay good so when the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he was in his final illness أبو بكر رد العنه he led 17 prayers on behalf of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم towards the end the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he put the curtain back he pulled the curtain back there are different narrations and when he saw when he saw أبو بكر رد العنه leading them in prayer he thanked Allah عشا says that he praised Allah for the fact that he saw his Ummah in a state in which he could leave them the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was meant to come into this world and he was meant to also leave this world but the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم did not leave until he was satisfied that he had left us upon something that we could continue on until he was confident that this Ummah was on the path of guidance that he brought us that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم this is when he said and he said in this he said something very very profound something very profound that while he is staring through the curtain in his final illness he says أحد من الناس أو من المؤمنين أصيبة بمصيبة فليعتز بمصيبته بي عن المصيبة التي تصيبه بغيري فإن أحد من أمة لم يصابه بمصيبته بعد أشد عليه من مصيبته the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said أحد من الناس من الناس أحد من الناس أحد من الناس who is struck by a calamity he is telling them this remember this anyone of you or any believer who is struck by a calamity then let them find their strength in going through that problem in their lives by the thought by thinking of the calamity that you went through and you lost me because when you think of a greater pain when you have pain in this life when you have problems in this life and people go through a lot of problems but when you think that the worst has already passed that رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم has already left this world he says think of that time that I left this world and gain your strength by thinking of that time because there will be no other calamity that is worse and harder and more intense on someone than the loss they felt when I left this world Allahu Akbar and and by corollary by you know in usul we have this idea of an understanding and opposite when you when the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم says something not only is he saying that the that the calamity of losing me is the greatest calamity but it's also saying that the blessing of having me is the best blessing you can have it's the best blessing you can have and this is why the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم about the calamity just out of mercy because when you're going through problems he's still giving you a way to hold on he's still giving you a way to hold on to strength and that's when we have the hard times but for every other time for every other time it is thinking about the fact that he came to this world thinking about the fact that he graced this world and our lives and he is always here this is why Subhanallah Subhanallah even a little bit of the celebration of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم brings so much blessing even celebrating his birth by accident even celebrating his birth when you don't even know what it's going to give you even someone who is a kafir celebrating the birth even his enemy who celebrates his birth is someone who is promised something very great with Allah سبحانه وتعالى إنساهية البخاري as we know Subhanallah it is mentioned of Abu Lahab Abu Lahab was who he was the own uncle of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم but one of his greatest enemies one of the people who opposed him to the point where when the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم came out with his message Abu Lahab whose two sons were betrothed to the two daughters of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم the pure daughters of رسول الله out of enmity he made his sons divorced the two daughters of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم and sent them back that was just the first act of enmity imagine your two daughters being sent back being married to their cousins and being sent back home because your call to Allah did not please somebody Subhanallah that's a pain the first pain in the heart of a father first of the pains that the رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم went through for our sake and Abu Lahab opposed the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم in every single way he could to the point where even Allah subhanahu و تعالى had destined this and he brought down a condemnation for Abu Lahab he brought down a condemnation that even these little children they recite in the Quran in Surah Allah and that at the same time it is said in a hadith in Sahih Al-Bukhari narrated by Orwa Ibn Zubair who was the nephew of Aisha رض العطا على عينه عنها that Orwa Ibn Zubair he mentions that Abu Lahab was seen in a dream after the passing of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he was seen by one of the family members of Ahu Bayt the commentator said that it was Abbas رض العطا على عينه the uncle of the Rasool Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم and he saw Abbas it is said that he saw his own brother and he asked what's happening with you and Abu Lahab indicated that he is in a very bad state that he is in a very difficult state in the Hellfire he said but I am given a bit of water to drink why? because of the joy that he expressed the day that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was born years and years before the revelation was to come and the Prophethood was commissioned that at that time Abu Lahab's brother Abdullah سيد Abdullah when he had passed away and his widow Amina was giving birth and she was going through the times of birth and the news came the news came of the birth of a child Theweiba the slave the slave girl of Abu Lahab came running to him with the news and said that your brother your deceased brother his wife has given birth to a boy صلى الله عليه وسلم and Abu Lahab in the tradition of the Arabs when someone brings you a good piece of news he said to her go for you are free and that's why it is said as the commentators say that this he is given on Monday according to some narrations that little sip of water because of the joy that he didn't even realize but that act of celebrating the birth of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and this is why as one poet said إذا كان إذا كان هذا كافير جاء ذمه وتبت يداه في الجحيم مخلد أتى أنه في يوم الإثنين دائما يخففوا عنه للسرور بأحمد فما الظن بالعبد الذي كان أمره بأحمد مصورا وماتم وحدا and I'm just going to put a translation a poetic translation into this if this is Abu Lahab on whom condemnation came and his two hands perished in the eternal flame yet he gets a sip of water every Monday it is said for the joy he felt when he heard about the birth of Ahmed then what of that believer who his whole life did lead in joy for the birth of Ahmed then died on توحيد if that's what Abu Lahab who's condemned in the Quran was seen in a dream and Imam Al-Bukhari would not mention this if he did not think it was significant Imam Al-Bukhari does not just put things in his Sahih like that and neither does Abbas rather than dreams like that and neither does talk about things like this unless they believe that this was the truth and if this is what Abu Lahab got in that situation then what of those people who love Rasool Allah what of those people who spend their entire lives thanking Allah for his coming that gather together to thank Allah for the birth of the Prophet ﷺ and then die with Allah on their lips and in their hearts and this is why the Prophet ﷺ now you may be thinking you may be thinking that Oman Subhan Allah that those people like the Sahaba they love the Prophet ﷺ so much they love them so much that maybe I won't be able to show that kind of love for Rasool Allah ﷺ in fact our not being there at his time was a mercy it was a mercy to us some of the Tabi'een were gathered with one of the Sahaba it is mentioned in أدب المفرد المعبر الخاري that they were gathered around and they said O you Sahabi of Rasool Allah how lucky you are to live in the time of Rasool Allah would that we could be also in the time of Rasool Allah he said don't say that he got angry do not say that because you don't know if you were there in the time of Rasool Allah ﷺ and you had to face your own father and son on the battlefield what side you would have taken but rather thank Allah that you were given that iman that love for Rasool Allah ﷺ in a way that you didn't have to go through that test and this is why the Prophet ﷺ he gave that assurance in case we lose our steam we lose our confidence that look we're so far away 1444 years away from the hijra of the Prophet ﷺ what kind of lovers are we the Prophet ﷺ was speaking to us when he said he said the Prophet ﷺ said it's a Muslim he said there are people from among the people in my ummah who are most intense in their love for me are people who will be coming after me any one of them would love and would long that if they could see me just once they would trade their family and their wealth and Ibn Hajal أسقلاني says and this is the true test of love for Rasool Allah ﷺ that if somehow you were given the choice in your heart and an angel came and said would you want to see Muhammad ﷺ if you could say in a heartbeat that I'd give all my family and all my wealth and every single thing that is to my name to see one look at Rasool Allah ﷺ then this is the محضة الكاملة the Prophet ﷺ the Prophet ﷺ in case you think in case you think that being back in those times we're missing something remember this the Prophet ﷺ and I'll close with this the Prophet ﷺ was sitting with his companions one day sitting with his companions one day but his mind wasn't on his companions his mind wasn't on the affairs of the ummah at that time his mind was thinking into the future his mind was going eons ahead eons ahead to think about those who had not been born yet the Prophet ﷺ said وَاَدِدُواْ أَنِيْ لَقِيْتُواْ إِخْوَانِيْ he said I wish that I could see my brothers I wish I could meet my brothers and sisters and the Sahaba said فقال أصحاب النبي ﷺ يا رسول الله أليس نحن إخوانك يا رسول الله aren't we your brothers he said قال أنتم أصحابي he said you guys are my friends you are my companions لكن إخواني الذين آمنوا بي ولم يروني he said but my brothers and my sisters are those who believed in me but they never saw me and this is us this is all of us over here has anyone here seen رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم and yet the Prophet ﷺ is longing to meet you in fact when we go through these trials in our life the Prophet ﷺ was dying to meet us even before we were born even before we had a chance to come on this earth or even before our ancestors and our ancestors came on this earth the Prophet ﷺ was already thinking about meeting us and what he told to the companions was not to tell the companions do you think it was to tell them no it was so they could pass it on so they could pass it on to others so they could come to us so he could tell us and we could know in our life whatever we go through that he is dying to meet us in fact he did die in order to meet us he did he had to leave this world in order to meet us that's why he told the companions معيدكم الحود your appointment time with me and you is going to be in the Haud this is not the place where we're going to meet it's going to be somewhere ahead in a station with Allah ﷺ this is why when I said رلد الله تعالى عنه رسول الله on the day of judgment all of mankind will be running around confused and scared and distraught everyone will be going where will I find you يلسل الله where will I see you he says first place you should see me is look on the sirat on the bridge over Hellfire if you don't see me there if you don't see me there then look for me at the mizan and the scales and if you don't see me there then look for me then wait for me then look for me at the Haud at the watering pool he says because those are three places on the day of qayama I will not miss being at those places so rest assured as much as we love him he loves us three times more many times more as much as we long for him he's been longing for us way before we even existed in this world and as much as we are going through our things that the Prophet ﷺ is going through it even more عزيزون عليه معاندتم it is difficult to bear the things that you go through the things that you suffer with it is difficult for him to bear الله سبحانه وتعالى says حريسون عليكم extremely eager and avid for you بالمؤمنين رأو فرحيم with the believers extremely loving and extremely compassionate so may Allah ﷻ make us of those who long to be our beloved رسول ﷺ who will drink at the hod and the fountain of the Prophet ﷺ who will be among those people that the Prophet ﷺ will love to meet will smile and for whom the Prophet ﷺ smiles wherever he is now when he is brought news of our actions by the angels وصلى الله عليه وسلم محمد ورآدي وسه فيه سلام ورحمة الله وبركات الحمد لله شكراً شيخ فرازخان for that beautiful reminder الحمد لله brothers and sisters I know it's getting late I know it's getting late I know the program is running late so please bear with us إن شاء الله there's a lot of noise coming from the back there's a lot of movement coming back and forth and we just ask you إن شاء الله to bear with us for another 10 minutes إن شاء الله as we wrap up the program الحمد لله I ask شيخ فرازخان to come to the stage إن شاء الله also we ask إن شاء الله if the parents and the children actually you guys can go back to Mama and Baba إن شاء الله you can actually thank you so much for making our mold it's so special الحمد لله may Allah bless you all and increase you all إن شاء الله we'll ask gonna get a wait a minute for all the children to get settled إن شاء الله الحمد لله الحمد لله may Allah accept me may Allah accept me may Allah accept me may Allah accept me we ask you to bear with us for another 10 minutes إن شاء الله I know it's late I know it's late and شيخ فرازخان here with us mashallah both of them were friends and classmates together in Jordan and now to see their progression in to see them here in the Bay Area passing on Fantastica to us in celebrating with us الحمد لله شيخ فرىatingol it's a very very special moment ويد murderer so introduction he's an older brother an younger brother he gets my heart and my mind right لكنه يجب أن يكون right on the basketball court as well when he gives me a chance to play with him. الحمد لله شيخ فراسخان is currently a teacher faculty member at Zaitouna College الحمد لله where he teaches these Islamic sciences and he lives here in San Ramon with his children الحمد لله he lives in San Ramon close by with his children الحمد لله and he studied the sacred sciences in Jordan so without further ado إن شاء الله we'll pass it on to شيخ فراسخان بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين وسلله منا سيدنا محمد النبي نومي وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم ربنااتنا من لدنك رحمة وهيئ لنا من أمرنا رشد السلام عليكم رحمة الله الحمد لله والشكر لله we thank Allah تعالى we ask him to send blessings and salutations upon the best of creation our master and leech lord سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and upon his family and folk and followers until the end of time الحمد لله وشكر لله that I think a lot has been said ما شاء الله tonight and so we might be replete with all of this benefit so I just perhaps will share a short reflection with the permission of Allah تعالى that the title of tonight's talk was the guiding light the guiding light and this is a description of our prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم قادي عياد that Allah mentions in his شفاء that there are different tapasir of certain verses of the Qur'an that allude to light so for example سورة طارق وسماء وطارق وماء الدراكة وطارق النجم الثقب that Allah تعالى swears by the sky and the night visitor and what can make you understand the night visitor the tarik the description the answer is النجم الثقب this penetrating star the star that's light is so intense that it pierces through darkness ثقب in the Arabic language means to penetrate a pearl to drill a hole in a pearl and so ثقب is the light is so intense that it goes through all darkness so the standard tapasir of this are the stars in the sky but قادي عياد cites one of the early imams سلمي as saying that النجم الثقب سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم that when there's darkness in the world the darkness of ignorance of the divine then his blessed light penetrates through all that darkness and brings the light of tawheed the light of لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم and in that light قادي عياد also mentions that the tafsir of the surat that with the name النجم ونجم إذا هوا ما ظل صاحبكم وما غوا وما ينطق عن الهوا إن هو إلا وحي ويوحة this sublime sura that discusses it describes revelation itself and it describes the beautiful night journey the إسراء المقراج of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and Allah SWT by the star when it sets ونجم إذا هوا and then describes the state of our prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم perfect guidance ما ظل صاحبكم he was not astray صلى الله عليه وسلم وما غوا he did not deviate وما ينطق عن الهوا he does not speak of his own desire إن هو إلا وحي ويوحة it's but revelation revealed that what is the star that Allah swears by to begin the sura and again قادي عياد says there's different tafsir the majority say it's the stars in the sky but some said it's the Quran because it comes نجومن in stages it was revealed in stages so that's another tafsir but he cites إمام جعفر إبن محمد إمام جعفر الصادق رحمه الله تعالى the great Imam of the Sunnis the sheikh of Imam Malik and Abu Hanifa and others مام جعفر الصادق رحمه الله تعالى said that the Najm here is قلب محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم it is the heart the blessed sublime luminous heart of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم الله تعالى is swearing by this beautiful heart ونجم إذا هوا and then what does هوا mean in this context the commentator رحمه الله تعالى he says that it is the manifestation of the prophet in the world صلى الله عليه وسلم and he says that perhaps it could also mean that this sublime heart it's inclination towards الله تعالى and it's the fact that it is never it is absent it is never present it is always absent from other than Allah غيبته صلى الله عليه وسلم عن الغيار that he is absent-minded from other than Allah he is always witnessing his Lord صلى الله عليه وسلم واستغراقه في حبيه and the fact that this blessed heart is immersed in the love of God the love of Allah تعالى and this is the first thing إبن إسحاب relates that the first khutbah the prophet gave before entering مدينة مناورة when traveling from قبا on the outskirts on the day of Juma his Juma khutbah that day صلى الله عليه وسلم amongst the things that he said in that khutbah أحبه ما أحب الله وأحب الله من كل قلوبكم this إستغراق this immersion of his blessed heart was one of the first teachings to plant the seed of Medina that he said love everything that Allah loves and love Allah from the bottom of your heart أحب الله من كل قلوبكم this was his blessed heart the most immersed in the love of Allah تعالى صلى الله عليه وسلم and he's teaching it to plant the seeds of Medina and so this is the najam والله العالم it's amazing and this beautiful luminous guidance that was the greatest blessing to creation صلى الله عليه وسلم was foretold in the early scriptures foretold in the early scriptures and Imam Bukhari relates in his Sahih as well in his in his أدب المفرد and Ahmed in his مستد رحمه الله that one of the early tabi'een أطائب يسار he was the Maula of Maimuna our mother الله be pleased with them he went to the companion عبد الله ابن أمر ابن العاص and asked him can you give me a description of Allah's messenger and our beloved brother Doctor Ali Atay is here I'm shy to say because it's going to site the Torah and he could probably give a profound exposition of this hadith so with his permission إن شاء الله that the noble companion عبد الله ابن عمر العاص said أجل والله إنه لما سوف نفترات ببعض سفته في القرآن he says absolutely by Allah he is described in the Torah with some of his blessed description in the Quran صلى الله عليه وسلم يا أيها النبي إن أرسلنا كشاهدا ومبشيرا ونذيرا just like Surah Al-Fattah oh blessed prophet we have sent you as a witness and a gospel the bringer of glad tidings and a warner وحرزن الأميين and a sanctuary and a guardian for the unlettered and perhaps in that context of the Torah it meant the Gentiles أنت عبد ورسولي look at the wording أنت عبد ورسولي you are my servant and my messenger الله تعالى claims the prophet for himself صلى الله عليه وسلم just like with نبي موسى وستنعتك لنفسي I have preferred you for me so too with the best of creation صلى الله عليه وسلم أنت عبد ورسولي as Allah ascribes the prophet to him in the مقام of عبودي in the Quran سبحان الذي أسراب عبده الحمد لله الذي أنزل على عبده الله الله تعالى ascribes the prophet as عبد to him سبحانه وتعالى in the Quran and the Mufasereen say this is the greatest description of the prophet in the Quran أنت عبد ورسولي سميتك المتوكل and reflect on this principle I have named you المتوكل I have named you the one who relies on Allah par excellence the quintessential reliar on the divine and this is the lens by which we can understand the entire seerah from beginning to end سميتك المتوكل I have named you the one that relies on Allah with perfection and the beautiful حديث continues ليس بفضن ولا غليد he was neither harsh nor coarse nor rough ولا سخاب بالأسواق he did not shout in the marketplace صلى الله عليه وسلم ولا يجزي بالسيئة سيئة ولكن يعفو يسفح إن ي يقبضه الله تعالى حتى يقيم به الملة العوجاء والله Won topics القيم صلى الله عليه وسلم ليس غضب المائة المنطق內ول رفلكت وانه needles كل أراوية للتوهيد لتصميم أكثر أولائي من سلاحة مخلوقه في وقته سلطة العالم بأن يقول لا إله إلا الله أن الله لا يأخذه until he rectifies the crooked nation by their saying لا إله إلا الله ويفتح به عين عمية وآذان وصمة وقلوم غلفة وانا الى الله يفتحه سلطة العالم بلا شراء البلداء وفهمات الذين يفكون ومولاناً نهائي في تفسير المجاورة بأن الحارة الملدية من صلى الله عليه وسلم لم يفكون لديها فكيف فعلنا أننا بخذنا حديث في صحي مسلم بأن الملدية قال صلى الله عليه وسلم ونحن تقفر why he makes istighfar وعناه ساعدتنا بسبب الملدية من الله 100 عام لديه صلى الله عليه وسلم في صحي مسلم وعبو دعود سبب مولاناً أنه لا يغانه على قلبه أن sometimes there's like a haziness over my heart غيين sometimes there's a haziness over my heart فأستغفر الله في كل يوم مئة مرة so I seek forgiveness from Allah 100 times one of the great imams of our tradition أبو الحسن الشادري رحمه الله he was confused by this حديث what could this haziness be on the best heart of creation صلى الله عليه وسلم and he had a dream once and he saw the best of creation he saw the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and the Prophet said to him يا مبارك oh blessed one انه غيين الأنوار لا غيين الأغيار it is a haziness of multiple layers of illumination deeper knowledge of the divine not a haziness of distraction from the divine not a haziness of distraction from the divine so even his haziness was more illumination صلى الله عليه وسلم what kind of sublime heart is this سبحان الله and yet from the mercy of Allah from the mercy of Allah from the mercy of Allah returning to this principle of توقل we see how very human he was in his perfection صلى الله عليه وسلم and we'll just conclude with this point that this luminous sublime heart was in the world fully in the world yet fully with his Lord صلى الله عليه وسلم and he experienced difficulty after difficulty after difficulty and you open any chapter of the blessed Seerah even the chapter of the greatest fat like Badr Badr الكبرى but what was the news when he returned back to Medina they had just buried رقية عليه السلام سبحان الله that you open any chapter of the Seerah and you find tragedy you find difficulty and we all have to think we're all facing our own hardships right now we're all facing our own hardships right now and that struggle can be overwhelming at times and the key is the luminosity of the Prophet's heart the knowledge of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم that his heart was always knowing Allah سميتك المتوكل one of the sheikh شك مستفى العروسي the sheikh of Azhar in the 1800s he says اعلم المتوكل من يرى الحق عز وجل في صور الأسباب realized that the mutawakil is the one that recognizes his Lord in the forms of created things فعيل المختار الجميل أشياء التي ينسيبها المحجبون إليها that recognizes Allah is the true doer of every moment and the one that eternally willed every moment that the people veiled only ascribed back to the causes in the world فيكل الامر لمن لمهو الامر ويرضع به وكيلة so such a person of توكل gives the entire affair to the one who already owns the affair and is pleased and content with him as his wakil that's the mutawakil that's the mutawakil and the prophet is the Imam of this صلى الله عليه وسلم and so go then reflect on the the time of ta'if in the year in which he lost his beloved wife our mother khadija رض العنها the one that Ibn Ishaq says that كانت له وزيرة ستقن على الإسلام that she was the deputy the minister that supported him from day one throughout Islam and that he also lost Abu Talib so the internal comfort in the home and the external political protector in the world he loses both and then he goes to ta'if صلى الله عليه وسلم and the children and slaves stone him صلى الله عليه وسلم and then he sits down and he gives a dua that shows his perfect humanity in the context of his perfect توكل his perfect humanity in the context of his perfect توكل صلى الله عليه وسلم and Sheikh Abdul Hakim Murad says this prayer is infinitely human this dua is infinitely human yet he is fully knowledgeable of the infinite سبحانه وتعالى اللهم إليك أشكوا دعف قوة وقل تحيلتي وهواني على الناس يا أرحم الراحمين أنت رب المستدعفين وأنت ربي إلى من تكلني إلى بعيدني تجهمني أو إلى عدون ملقته أمر إلنم يكن بك علي غضب فلا أبالي ولكن عافيتك here أو سعلي أعوذ بنوري وجك الذي أشرقت له الدونمات وصلوه عليه من أمر الدني والآخرة من أن ينزل بغضبك أو تحيل به سختك يحيل بسختك لك العطبة حتى ترد وراح وراقوت إلا بك صلى الله عليه وسلم this sublime infinitely human prayer صلى الله عليه وسلم or a lot to you alone do I complain of my weakness and the paucity of my resources and my loneliness before man oh most merciful of those who show mercy you are the lord of the week and you are my lord just like in the Torah it says أنت عبدي ورسولي you are my slave and my رسول so what does the prophet say you are my lord يا الله to whom will you entrust me to some far off stranger that will abuse me or to an enemy that you have given him control over me so long as you are not angry with me then I do not mind so long as you are not angry with me then I do not mind none of these difficulties I have no complaint about the difficulty I complain to you about my own need for you الافتقارو إلا الله الافتقارو إلا الله I need you ya Allah this is what he is saying صلى الله عليه وسلم ولكن عفية تقية but you're well the well-being the safety and health and goodness from you it gives me more room to operate oh صعولي I seek refuge in the light of your countenance the light of the prophet's heart is because of the light of Allah تعالى directly I seek refuge in the light of your countenance by which all darknesses are effaced and removed and by which every single thing in this life in the next is made right lest your anger to send on me your wrath come upon me you have the right to blame until you are satisfied ya Allah وَلَا حَوْرَ وَلَا قُوْتَ إِلَّبِكْ and there is no might or power except for you and this is the zikr that is غيراس الجنة it is the grass of paradise لا حَوْرَ وَلَا قُوْتَ إِلَّبِلَا that whatever we are facing we imbue this dua and imbue this zikr in facing that trial and inshallah will be illumined with some of the luminosity of the blessed prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم from the divine himself and we ask Allah to relieve all of our difficulties and to grant us عافية تامة معافة تامة في الدنيا والآخرة complete well being in this life in the next which begins with يقين absolute certitude in Allah and His majesty and the fact that He controls every atom in the universe وَصَلِّ اللَّهُمَ لَا سِدْرَ مَحَمَّدَ النَّبِرُمِ وَالَأَلِهِ وَصَحْبِهِ وَسَلِّمِ وَالْحَمْدُرِ اللَّهِ رُبِّ الْعَلِمِ بَرَكْلُوا فِيكُونَ الحمد لله thank you so much شكراً for us for the beautiful reminder الحمد لله إن شاء الله كاريامر will be closing us off with dua so we invite him to the stage we know it's getting late so just a couple of announcements number one is that babysitting is ending as soon as كاريامر's dua is finished so please go pick up your kids إن شاء الله also a big thank you to our volunteers especially Munir the volunteers who set up this beautiful stage waiting for me I'll just put it on except their efforts I mean اسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والعصر إن الإنسان لفخص إلا الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات وتواصلوا بالحق وتواصلوا بالصبر اللهم صلع على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه اللهم صلع عليه في الأولين وصلع عليه في الآخرين وصلع عليه في الملأ إلى يوم الدين كما ينبغي للجلال وجهتك ولعظيم السلطانك يا رب العالمين اللهم أجعل جمعنا هذا جمعا المباركا المرحومة وتفرقنا من بعده تفرق سالي من موفقا من الشر معصومة اللهم لا تجعل فينا ولا مننا ولا معنى شقي ولا محرومة اللهم أشف مرضانة وعافي مبتلانة وخذ بإيدين إلى كل خير وأعصمنا من كل شر ولا تجعل الدنيا أكبرهم ولا مبلغة علمنا ولا غاية رغبتنا ولا إلنا لمصيرنا يا رب العالمين اللهم احفظ هذا المكان وهذا المسجد اللهم احفظ أحبابنا وأخواننا وأخواتنا يا رب العالمين اللهم ارزقنا حبك وحب من يحبك وحب الصالحين من عبادك يا رب العالمين آمين آمين وسلام على المرصلي والحمد لله رب العالمين ألفاتح أكره أحد أخضر لدتي في هذا الموقع قمنا بتقديم أمام جوجل وقمنا بعمل جوجل والكاميرا لتساعد أترى إذا كنت تساعد today إن شاء الله تقام بك أتنعنا هناك تجربة مولد إ Event وشيخ عبد الله مصر out at San Ramon Valley Islamic Center نحن نرى أجل 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On October 5th, we celebrate World Teachers Day. Teachers are amongst the most important members of our society. They mold future generations. Great teachers have the ability to change lives for the better. They set our children up for success as citizens of our world. Teachers inspire in our children a drive to do well and succeed in life. They can be a role model and an inspiration to go further and to dream bigger. Good teachers make sure that talented students reach their full potential. Moreover, teachers can act as a support system that is lacking elsewhere in students' lives. The children of today are the leaders of tomorrow. The teachers of today ensure that our children are ready for their future. Different teachers, teaching different subjects, have the ability to shape opinions and help form ideas about society, life, and personal goals. Teachers educate children and youth in their most impressionable years. And so, teachers shape future leaders to build positive and inspired future generations. This probably means that teachers have the most important job in the world. So, let's take at least one day every year to say, Thank you, this is the least we can do. No matter where you are in the world today, Honor Teachers on World Teachers Day.


Hello everybody. Andrea here. I have been a dental professional for 17 years. I've seen many many patients and I currently have my own mobile dental hygiene practice. What I want to talk to you guys about today is something that comes up almost every day, and that is what is gum recession so I'm going to talk to you guys about what it looks like. What are some of the non severe cases what happens when it can get pretty bad how you can avoid it how you can prevent it. And what do you do once you have a gum recession, can you get the gum back. Do you need invasive surgery, all of that you guys so I'm going to talk about that now. So this is basically what gum recession is it's when the gum is not as high up along the tooth as it should be. So the gum should be high up against the tooth here is your tooth here underneath is the part that you cannot see inside the mouth or you shouldn't be able to see because that is no longer the crown of your tooth. That is now your root surface, but then once the gum becomes lower notice how this side is much lower than this side. That is a gum recession so the gum is starting to shrink down for the bottom of your teeth it's going to shrink down on the top teeth it's kind of like it. It shrinks down but it kind of looks like it shrinking up with that makes sense because the top and the bottom so let me show you guys some pictures of what it could look like. I have to mention that some of these photos, you'll see plaque, you'll see deposits on the teeth, you'll see gum recession gum issues so if you're a little bit you're you don't want to look at yucky teeth pictures, then you might not want to watch the rest of the video. Okay, so moving on here. This is I would say a more severe case of gum recession. Notice how these yellow parts of the teeth are now showing. So these parts that is actually your root surface they should be covered by your gum tissue. This is a picture because if you look at this tooth here. Notice how there's no yellow part showing the root surface of the tooth is covered, but you're starting to see some gingival inflammation so that means that the gum is becoming irritated. When the gum starts to become irritated and look like this that's not a good sign. That means there's too much plaque too much charter it's time to have the teeth cleaned because the gums are becoming irritated when you go in for your teeth cleaning. We don't just simply clean the teeth we look at the mouth as a whole to make things as healthy as possible and it is possible to have clean teeth, but your gums around the teeth are unhealthy that is possible so we keep an eye on that. So this I would say is a case of this person's gums are not healthy. They are going to start to shrink away from the tooth and eventually look like this, if the teeth aren't cleaned. They don't have gingival recession on this to the yet, but then on this to the yes they do so do you guys see the difference. So what do you do once this happens. If you reach the tooth and and the gum. In this case where they're just simply in inflamed, they need to be clean, the gums are puffy, then it's time to book in a teeth cleaning that will make all the difference. They need to take away that plaque and tartar there's likely plaque and tartar also underneath the gum line that is why the gum has become inflamed, and a dental hygienist is the only person who can clean that for you because your toothbrush, even if you try to get in there, you can't get underneath the gums very well. If you say to yourself well I'm not going to worry about it I'm going to book a cleaning in six months it might be almost too late at that point. It's never too late to have your teeth cleaned, but your gum recession could look like this very fast depending on how quick. Your gingival inflammation is so does that make sense so far you guys so at this point it is very easy to stop gingival recession from happening once it gets to this point. If you do not bring the gum back, unless you have gum surgery so what gum surgery is is they take some of your gum tissue or tissue inside the mouth.   That would be what you would want to do is to have gum surgery, but if you're not cold sensitive you're not in pain, you can manage it just doesn't look very good then I would avoid gum surgery but you can talk to your dental hygienists more specifically and they will let you know when I see a patient like this, where the gum has obviously shrunk back, I let them know I say did you know you have something called gingival recession. Often patients say to me no I have never heard of this, what is this so then I let them know what I like to do is actually put something over. This is the tooth area here called a, a desensitizer so that will actually help to protect this root surface from getting a cavity. It will help to protect the root surface in general kind of like a good hair conditioner for your hair. It's going to protect your hair it's not perfect, but it's going to help to keep the outside elements off so that's what I like to do, and I like to do that for all of those surfaces that are now exposed, and that can help against cold sensitivity because typically if the root surfaces are exposed they're exposed to the environment when they're not supposed to be, they might be more cold sensitive and if you suffer from sensitivity, it could be because this is happening inside your mouth, maybe not to this extreme, but what you need to do is book an appointment with your dental hygienist, and they will likely put a desensitizer over those areas for you so that's what you need to do. But I also say we don't want those areas to get worse.  But on the other side of things, if you're not brushing twice a day, constantly adding that protective coating of a toothpaste that can make things worse as well, so there's a very fine line. You need to brush twice a day or it's going to get worse. There's going to be more plaque, more tartar that makes it worse, but if you brush too hard and even too often, it can make it worse as well. So please talk to your dental hygienist, they can look inside your mouth to let you know for sure. So the next picture here, so this is again, just kind of showing where the gum is quite irritated, look at all of this plaque here so this white yellow plaque is making things irritated. I want to avoid that. Keep the teeth clean and have your teeth cleaned often, at least every six months, and don't brush too hard. This is a more extreme case that I wanted to show you guys again. So notice these teeth here are pretty good, like they're not too bad. There's some slight gingival recession I would say on this tooth and this tooth where this should be covered up by the gum, like this tooth here. But look at this you guys, this is bad. This is not a good case where see how all of this is covered by plaque, where look at this. The gums don't like it, they are shrinking away, not a good case. But let me say to you guys, it's never too late to get your teeth cleaned, okay? So it's never too late. If it's been 10 years and maybe your teeth look like this, do not be thinking, oh, I'm not going to get my teeth cleaned because the dental hygienist is going to yell at me, my teeth are going to look horrible. No, we will not do that. We are just happy to see you. We will do whatever we can to get the teeth cleaned. It's never too late. Even if you're in a lot of pain, cold sensitive, it's never too late. I love to see any and all patients. So you guys, I hope that helped to explain gum recession. Let me know if you guys have any questions. It's never too late. That's the best thing that I can say to you. But also it is very easy to prevent gum recession in the first place by brushing twice a day, having your teeth cleaned every six months and maybe using a different toothpaste, Teddy. Sorry guys, my dog. Teddy, Teddy. This is working from home. Sorry guys. I'm going to go. Bye for now. Let me know if you guys have any questions. Thank you. Bye for now.


So let's talk about an important result in voting theory called Aero's theorem. And what this is based on is some of the things that we would like to have as a social welfare function or as a voting system. So let's consider what some of those really desirable features are going to be. So we'd like it to be neutral, which is to say that if I rename the candidates, the election result won't change. I'd like the system to have this feature of non-imposition, which means that any candidate has some voting profile where they are the winners. We'd also like the system to have monotonicity, which is that if I have a winning candidate and there is more support for that candidate, if some people are able to retroactively change their votes to support the candidate, that candidate should still win even after this re-ranking. And then finally, we would like the system to have what's called independence of irrelevant alternatives. So if I have one candidate A who outranks another candidate B, then I can only change the social welfare function ranking of these two candidates if at least one voter changes the relative ranking of these two candidates. And perhaps the most important thing we'd like is for this system to have non-dictatorship, which is to say there should not be any single voter who can, by his or herself, completely determine the societal ranking. Nobody should have absolute determination power. It's also convenient if our system is resolute and we're able to resolve ties deterministically. It's worth noting that while our own voting systems tend to be resolute and that we do have some mechanism of resolving ties, that mechanism is often not non-deterministic, but rather is stochastic. It depends on the luck of the draw, literally. Now, there have been a number of recent elections where there is a complete tie in the number of votes for the two candidates and the winner was then decided by drawing cards, rolling dice or something similar. That was a random determination of the final victor. Well, in 1950, Kenneth J. Arrow proved the following result. Suppose I have a resolute social welfare function and I would like it to have neutrality, non-imposition, monotonistic, independent of irrelevant alternatives, and non-dictatorship. Arrow's theorem is pick four. You get to have four of these five conditions, but you cannot have all five. And this actually has a relatively simple proof. So, let's begin with an election profile where some candidate A outranks some of a candidate B. Now, by non-imposition, by a non-imposition assumption, I know that such a profile has to exist. There has to be some profile where A outranks B. And so what I'll do is I've made my decision A outranks B and I'm going to send the voters into one of two rooms depending on whether they individually ranked A over B or whether they ranked B over A. And so I have a bunch of voters and everybody in this room ranked A over B and all the voters in this room ranked B over A. Now, I'm also assuming independence of irrelevant alternatives. And what that means is that these voters can rank any third candidate C any way they want to without changing this result that A outranks B. So, however these voters rank candidate C, this fundamental feature, this fundamental result isn't going to change. And so I'll have some voters change their ranking or set their rankings and I'll rank the voters, I'll have the voters rank them this way. So, some voters will rank A more than B more than C and other voters will rank C higher than A and still higher than B and then all of these voters will change their rank B higher than C higher than A. Now, the important thing here is that all the voters who ranked B higher than A still rank B higher than A, all the voters who ranked A higher than B still rank A higher than B. So, independence of irrelevant alternatives says that if before this voting profile produced A outranking B then however I change the rank of C, I'm still going to have A outranking B. Now, here is an important question. Where does C fall? And so there's two things to remember. The system is resolute so the ties don't occur. So, either A has outranked C or C has outranked A. One of these two things has to have happened. Well, let's take them on a case-by-case basis. Suppose A outranks C. So, A outranks B, A outranks C. Now, what we're going to do is that we're going to take all of these voters who ranked C higher than A to the other room and what that's going to do is I'm going to have one room full of the voters who ranked C higher than A and then the other room is going to be where the voters are who ranked A higher than C. So, because of the way that I've set the voters up, we can just move this ballroom partition over and now I have my two rooms. Everybody here has A outranking C. Everybody here has C outranking A. Now, remember, the system is also neutral and what that means is I can rename the candidate. So, I'll rename BX, I'll rename CY and if I make those changes, neutrality says nothing changes except for the names. So, now A outranks Y, Y outranks A, A outranks X, A outranks Y. Well, independence of irrelevant alternatives means I can focus on two candidates at a time. I don't worry about a third candidate, so I'm just going to focus on A and Y and the actual ranking of X doesn't make a difference. So, I'll ignore X and so here I have an election profile. All of these people have A outranking Y. All of these people have Y outranking A. The election result is that A outranks Y and once again, neutrality means I can rename the candidates. So, now I'm going to rename Y as B. And, well, look at what's happened here. I now have a new election profile where A outranks B, but whereas before I needed all of these people to rank A over B in order for A to win, I only need this group of people to have A outranking V and then A still wins. Well, that was under the assumption that A outranks C. Well, maybe C outranks A. So, let's go back to our original situation of C outranks A. By transitivity, I have C outranks A, A outranks B. So, that means C is going to outrank B. So, this time I'm going to separate the voters into different rooms depending on how they ranked C and B. So, this time I'm going to send everybody who ranked C higher than B. I'm going to leave them in this room. And then everybody else is going to crowd into this other room where B outranks C. And, again, neutrality and independence of irrelevant alternatives will eventually get us to a new election profile where, again, A outranks B. But, again, this time I have a smaller group of voters who need to have A outranking B in order for the social welfare function to return A outranking B. Well, key idea in mathematics, anything we do once, we can do any number of times because I've been able to take a group and send some of them to the other room without changing the election result. I can continue to do that. And I can continue to send people from this room into this room without changing that election result. And, eventually, what's going to happen is there's going to be one person left in the other room. And this person says I'm going to rank A higher than B and that's what is going to happen. Now, because of neutrality, again, this means that they can put A above every other candidate. So whoever the candidate is, A defeats that candidate. And so what that means is that whoever they decide is at the top of the ranking list is going to be at the top of the ranking list. As long as we also have monotonicity. Remember, the peculiarity about monotonicity is it may be possible for some of these people who previously ranked A lower than some candidate. It may be possible for them to raise the rank of A and alter this. Well, if we have monotonicity, that's not possible. The people in here can't lower A's rank by raising it. And so what that means is this one person left in the room is the dictator and they are able to set the social welfare ranking by how they rank the individual candidates.


Azerbaijan and Armenia are closer to a peace agreement than ever. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said at the press conference in Baku where he was on an official visit. After the 44-day war that took place three years ago, there is a historic opportunity to achieve peace in the region. We believe that today, more than ever, such an opportunity to reach a peace agreement has become much more real and it should no longer be avoided. We welcome the positive progress towards reaching a permanent peace agreement and defining the borders between Azerbaijan and Armenia, he said. According to Fidan, the Armenian diaspora in the West exploits the difficult situation of the Armenian people and tries to incite some countries to take a stand against Azerbaijan. Instead, it would be better for them to direct their efforts to create conditions where the Armenian people can establish normal relations with their neighbors. The minister said he suggested that players outside the region should pursue a policy aimed at maintaining balance and normalization. The progress achieved between Azerbaijan and Armenia will have a positive impact on the process of normalising relations between Turkey and Armenia. Fidan continued. He sees no obstacles in the path of normalising relations between Ankara and Yerevan. According to him, Turkey remains fully on the side of Azerbaijan and is ready to fulfil any task within the framework of the settlement.