بعم عليهكم رحمة الله وبركاته After praising Allah and the lord of heaven and the earth the king of the kings the controller of all of these he's aware of every single feeling that passes through our hearts and every single thought that goes through our minds مافاتح الغيب لا يعلمها إله with him are the keys to the unseen and nobody knows them except him و يعلم ما في البر والبحر and he's aware of every single thing that is in dry land and every single thing that are in the depths of the ocean وما تسقط من ورقة إلا يعلمها and a leaf doesn't move on a tree except that he knows about it ولا حبت في ظلمات الأرض and a grain of wheat does not move in the darkness of the night except that he knows about it ولا رطب ولا يابس إلا في كتاب مبين nothing is wet nothing is dry except that it is recorded in a clear book خالق كل شيء he is the creator of everything and he is على كل شيء قدير he has power over all possible things after praising that individual where there is not a single person that can ever match his worth in character or in beauty to ever walk on earth I envy every rock and tree and every grain of sand that embraced his noble feet or that kissed his blessed hand رحمه الله تعالى شرف الدينة البصير أو بصير رحمه الله says in his Borda Sharifah he says فا قد نبيين في خلق وفي خلق ولم يدانوه في علم ولا كرامي that he tops the prophets in both appearance and in character they don't approach him in knowledge or in generosity he is the greatest of creation he is our beloved he is the beloved of Allah سئيلونا ونبيونا وحبيبونا محمد الرسول الله صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم I'd like to first of all express and extend my gratitude to the MCC this beautiful masjid the organization and the brothers that invited me it's always a great honor to be here I guess I'm not a visiting guest anymore it's like masha'Allah I'm coming back quite regularly so it's and it's the love of masha'Allah all of you brothers in particular I'm very extremely honored always to be sharing a stage and a platform with I'm a tarif masha'Allah may Allah bless them they are like our teacher our elder and someone who masha'Allah is an inspiration to this community an inspiration to myself as well so when we think of the Borda we think of you know people think of myself I say no think of I'm a tarif and then I'm a tarif will say think of you know and there are so many amazing people who have sort of like you know been an icon for these things so it's a great honor again I'd like to thank every single person شاء الله thank you guys for coming out I know the weather is not the best I escaped Chicago because I wanted some sun but unfortunately I only met California with some rain but it's okay and so it is what it is and that's that's the way things work this is the way الله سبحانه وتعالى for James things the the I would say don't complain about the weather so it's what Allah wants shouldn't really be complaining but I guess we're weak people and you know we want something and but this is the way الله سبحانه وتعالى works he gives us something if he wants to give it to us and if he doesn't want to give it to us then there's a blessing in the deprivation being deprived of something ابن عطا الله لسكاند رحم الله he says that when Allah deprives you of something there's a blessing in that but you want something really really badly but Allah keeps it from you there's a blessing in that the thing it's about our perspective we're supposed to see it you have to find it and if you don't find it if you continuously worry about your enough and what you want rather than looking at what Allah has done for you right then then you're going to be confused all the time and your opinion of الله won't be as strong as the opinions that the great علامان the Sufi and the Awliya would hold and that's why they were content لا خوفن عليهم ولاهم يحزنون right the Awliya Allah the friends of Allah those that are close to Allah لا خوفن عليهم ولاهم يحزنون they don't fear they don't have any sort of worry or anything like that why because the their opinion of Allah was so great that whatever Allah would have put them through they were happy and content with that so if Allah was depriving them of something you know I don't know whatever the things are that you would want in life I want a nice house I want a nice wife I want another wife سغفر الله I should not be promoting polygamy I'll get lynched by my own wife so I don't know whatever people promote or whatever desire that you have subhan Allah you know sometimes you want something and Allah doesn't give it to you but there's a khair in that and sometimes something happens in your life and you have to know that this is all controlled by Allah subhan Allah everything is controlled by Allah and we believe in our tradition that Allah creates every single action yes Allah creates action we will we have a will but so we choose to do something and Allah creates the action okay so whatever happens therefore and we know this in when we when we affirm our faith we say و القدر خيره و شره من الله تعالى that all good and bad destiny from Allah most high everything that happened it happened because Allah subhan Allah wanted it to happen I received a question the other day a young girl asked her mother she says oh well if Allah wants something to happen then why is it that people are doing so many evil things does that mean Allah wants evil to happen and it's a good question children are inquisitive and maybe it's for us to think about and the reason why Allah subhan Allah gives us a free reign for us to choose is because if he didn't then there would be no test so although Allah creates the action he gives us the choice to choose what we want to do okay and so that's why people do evil and although Allah creates the action okay Allah has given us that choice because that's the test as the Allah subhan Allah تعالى says so the Mufassirun say that's what Allah who subhan Allah تعالى that's why he's created life and death people then ask a question and this is a common question if Allah already knows what we're going to do then what's the point of Allah testing us and this is probably a question that comes into your mind when I was studying western philosophy so I did philosophy at A-Levels I don't know whether you have A-Levels or not so post school you call college in university school so we have like our grade 11 and grade 12 and 13 is our A-Levels as we call it so I studied I took on philosophy and philosophy they teach us philosophy of religion and they teach us about God all of these questions come into your mind they pose these questions to you and subhan Allah that's why some of the علماء have said be very careful before you study philosophy because if you don't have a strong grounding in عقيدة or parts of kalam then you'll struggle so they ask certain questions so for example this is a question that is posed to you and it's probably posed to your children in school or when they go maybe subhan Allah sometimes there is a generation gap and we don't realize that your children and the youth are getting question about these things but you're sitting at home and you send your child to the madrasa and to the classes but you don't realize that your children is getting brainwashed in school because you don't ask and you don't communicate with your children and this is the biggest problem these whole concepts like liberalism and everything that comes under liberalism like the LGBTQ movement and all these kinds of things and I don't mean to be politically incorrect here we're living in a country where we can't really say anything except that we can only state what Islam says about it and we state it as a matter of fact but the reason why sometimes our children are getting duped into these things is because we as parents or elders don't have a direct connection with our children regarding what they're doing and who they're accompanying in schools or universities or colleges or whatever so that's an issue so these questions even like say for example I took a class during my studies and these questions were being posed they were being asked I didn't go home and tell my dad like this is what we learned today because you think this is basically school this is what we do but thankfully my parents raised me up well enough for me to understand that and something I'm confused about I should ask so I didn't ask my father but I went and asked my teachers we were studying and this is going back I don't want to expose my age people often ask this is going back 12 to 15 years so we were studying and I was actually studying أم البراهين by Imam Sanusi it's a primer in عقيدة because what's the point of the test if he already knows what's going to happen so me and one of my friends a colleague of mine who masha'Allah went to study and he became a good young scholar as well we were there together in the class and we came up with this argument we call it the cookie jar argument so when people ask the question we say let's pose or let's give them the cookie jar argument say as a mother or as a father or as a child listen don't eat sweets don't go to the sweetsy jar so you have a jar full of candy sorry you call it candy so you have a jar full of candy or sweets and you've told your child you're not allowed to eat from that jar now what happens is you see your child crawling or walking towards that jar and you know you know for 100% 100% fact you're absolutely sure that this child is now going to get the candy he's going to get the sweets now the question is this if you're to grab the child and punish the child before he's even got the candy before he's even taken the sweet out of the jar what's the child going to say to you why'd you hit me for why did you hit me although you're absolutely sure that the child's going to go and get the candy but the child will say why have you hit me however if you're to wait the child obviously gets the candy and then you were to reprimand the child then can the child say why have you hit me no because he's actually done something which was wrong so this is actually the understanding of Allah knowing what you're going to do doesn't change the fact that you're going to do it just like the mother knows that the child's going to go and take the candy it's not going to change the fact that the child's made that choice to take the candy that's why Allah says and that's why that Allah has created death he's created life just to test you to inform you to see who's going to do good and who's going to do bad or who's going to do the better deeds the Alif Lam removed from أحسن means it's better not the best some translations say who's going to do the best of deeds it's actually the better of deeds أحسنو عمالة so that's why Allah has created this life to see who's going to do better and who's not who's going to choose to do the right things and who's not and despite Allah knowing that you're going to do it doesn't change the fact that you have the choice to do it because traditionally what would happen is that people would fall into despair and they'd be like well what's the point of life because God already knows what I'm going to do so أمازل just do anything no you still have the choice that you've chosen to come here today you're getting ajar for it each breath that you take in a masjid if you have the correct intention Allah blesses you and gives you reward for it you chose to come here just the same way you have a choice so this is why Allah has created this whole creation Allah has created it to test us this is what we're here for سبحان الله we thank Allah for inspiring us inspiring us and giving us this opportunity to come and listen to the كلام of Allah and his رسول صلى الله عليه وسلم about him so when we have these questions or we have issues regarding our أقيدة or our faith we should always question because Allah سبحانه وتعالى is very clear it's going into these matters there's no shame or blame in a person actually questioning and sometimes it's probably a cultural thing but some parents are like or don't question but you should question Allah is very clear it's an interesting كلام that we have the word of Allah where we're being asked to submit to him وتخولوا في سلمكة أفتن completely but at the same time we're also asked a question and you could argue that there's a contradiction there because if submission actually in essence means whatever happens I submit but at the same time Allah is asking to question why because submission is one element of it there's a balance that we have to find we submit to every single thing that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم came with ما جاء به النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم it's actually the definition of you know the the prophet what we come with or as a Muslim what we're supposed to have or what we're supposed to do anything that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم comes with we accept but at the same time if there's a problem there's an issue then we do or to question and think and ponder that's why Allah سبحانه وتعالى فلا يتبرون القرآن he asks do you not ponder of the Quran or are your hearts locked yeah Allah says إن كنتم صديقين and if you have a doubt bring all of your evidences if you're truthful but where do you bring your evidences where do you question فسألوا أهلا ذكر إن كنتم لا تعلمون ask the people of remembrance ask the people of علم if you don't know so it's important that whenever especially children especially you ever have a doubt you go to the right people and you question them you ask them and if they don't respond to you then go ask somebody else but don't ever leave your faith in doubt or anything in doubt in sort of something incomplete don't leave it incomplete otherwise there's always going to be issues and that's the Shaytan for you he will allow that doubt to grow and grow until it becomes detrimental so that's one element of it the other thing actually I was thinking multiple things before I came because I was told that we have to well at least the topic was speak about عقيدة and speak about belief and how the youth can sort of you know understand and there was there was a few sort of ways I could have tackled this so I was thinking in my head how do I tackle it either I go through the history of عقيدة or at least but that could be that could become very complicated and there's also the idea of what actually عقيدة is or عقيدة comes from the word عقد which means to tie a knot and our belief and our faith has to be very very tight to the point where the علامة say that your إيمان or your belief or your faith has to be 100% anything less than that is not complete إيمان and within our إيمان we have of course to understand that الله سبحانه وتعالى is one and the رسول صلى الله عليه وسلم is the final messenger so from an perspective there's a hadith which makes it very clear it's mentioned in the 40 as well حرام is very clear and this can be tackled from two perspectives either a perspective of jurisprudence through فق or even through أصول عقيدة but whatever is clear is clear and we don't waver from that for example there are people who say for example have issues with the finality of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and of course these are for some people these are people don't like to talk about it because they say it's not practical and you know children don't really let's talk about something else but these are matters of faith which need to be tackled so there are people who believe or have this assumption that there can be a prophet after the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم which is صريح كفر it's disbelief because they can't be a prophet after the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم this is categorically proven in the Quran where in the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he's been spoken about با يالله سبحانه وتعالى مكان محمد أبا أحد من رجاليكم ولكن رسول الله وخاتم النبيين yes okay the finality of the prophethood is established so that's clear that's بيين at the same time there are people who who fail to understand the attributes of Allah سبحانه وتعالى again these things are بيين so it's important that we understand that now once we understand that صلى الله عليه وسلم it's not just about understanding it's also about then submitting and then loving الله and loving his رسول صلى الله عليه وسلم but you can't love someone if you don't know them that's why we tackle it from that perspective first it's very and you've probably heard this many times before how can you claim to love someone but never if you don't know them it's actually impossible and by knowing them doesn't necessarily mean you know absolutely everything about them knowing of them is probably can just be enough but to actively make a conscious decision to think about الله and his رسول صلى الله عليه وسلم which is something that we don't do anymore you're going about your day and you're busy with work and family and whatever you're busy with how many times you actively take a moment to stop and think about Allah and think about his رسول صلى الله عليه وسلم عليه وسلم because reflection is the first step reflection leads to adoration so once you reflect then you adore and then adoration leads to love and the problem is what's in our minds what are we reflecting on what are we thinking about Morocco and the world are going to win the world cup I don't know it's not a big thing in the US soccer we might about it that's what you're thinking about what am I going to cook tomorrow for the family and all of these things that's fine these are obligations and you're supposed to think about them and we stop and we reflect just on Allah سبحانه وتعالى on just the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and what he's done for us and for that it requires us to be conscious about them conscious about them like genuinely conscious about them it's very interesting because when we hear some very scary I would say very scary أحد very scary traditions like لا يؤمن أحدكم none of you will truly be a believer that's actually although we when the خطيب or the Imam or the sheikh he's speaking and he ever quotes his hadith you think سبحان الله because it's about the رسول صلى الله عليه وسلم but لا يؤمن أحدكم that's very scary as well that you will not be a believer none of you are a believer until and there's various multiple narrations until you love the Rasool صلى الله عليه وسلم more than you love your parents the children and in another narration everything that your heart desires and when you look at other narrations for example when Sayinah عمر رضي الله عنه ورضاه he comes to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he says يا رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم I love you more than everything except myself yes and the Rasool صلى الله عليه وسلم he says عمر that's not enough and then and for عمر رضي الله عنه it was the switch of a button because he just said that and it became a حجة for us through the hadith it became a proof for us so he says okay يا رسول الله I love you more than everything including myself and that's when the Rasool صلى الله عليه وسلم replies now يا عمر now your Iman is complete loving the Rasool صلى الله عليه وسلم more than every single thing even yourself even what your heart desires is something which is actually what we're supposed to do in order for us to be complete and true believers but really really think about that reflect on that really reflect on that because there's an issue because if we're not reflecting on the Rasool صلى الله عليه وسلم enough in our day we can't even attain that love so what are you doing and by the way you can set up practical solutions in your day in order to attain that for example like we you know you know we we do this regularly where we hold gatherings of Burda for example why because these are incentives for us to come and sit and recite about Allah and His Rasool صلى الله عليه وسلم these are the things but if you're not even doing that how are you going to love Allah and His Rasool صلى الله عليه وسلم if you don't give yourself any time to reflect about Him reflect about His attribute and reflect about the Rasool صلى الله عليه وسلم and what He's done for you and that's something that we need to incorporate within our lives within our day to day that we should take time out to teach our children teach ourselves what are we going to do in our day in our daily lives wherein we can stop and think about the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم so whether it's I don't know holding a gathering of zikr or doing something like that after your Salah you know sitting on the on the prayer mat for like 5 minutes just thinking and reflecting and thanking Allah سبحانه وتعالى and thanking Him for the for the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم incorporate these small things in your life and you'll see that your life will change because that's how you will improve and increase your love for Him and His Rasool صلى الله عليه وسلم finally actually love is a very very it's an ajeeb thing that can destroy you and it can make you as well at the same time that's just the nature of love the Arabs actually interestingly had 14 levels of love and again we're very moderate in our love for Allah and His Rasool صلى الله عليه وسلم the last level of love actually is a complete annihilation where you can't even live so you kill yourself because you completely and utterly love something and that of course it's خلاف الشريعة we can't actually even get to maybe get to that level it's not Romeo and Juliet but people may get to that level but the Arabs they categorized love but we should get to a level wherein we we can't do anything except think about Allah and His Rasool صلى الله عليه وسلم yes and that's the level that we should try and aim to get at because that's extremely extremely important for us now again how do you love so this is the question now how do you increase love and what is love love's an emotion it's a feeling you can't command anyone to love someone I actually mentioned this yesterday in the gathering I said like you can't you can't command someone to love someone I can't tell you you have to love you know X, Y, Z but I made a joke yesterday I said you know like in the Daisy community they make you marry your your cousin from back home in Pakistan India they make you marry you have to marry her what do you mean I have to marry her which is Haram by the way you know عجيب why are you forcing me to marry someone you're forcing me to love someone you can't do that so that's why there's no way in the Quran loving the Rasool صلى الله عليه وسلم it's not a a fard in terms of a legal ruling but in terms of everything else it's a fard so spiritually in terms of إحسان especially it's a fard we have to love the Rasool صلى الله عليه وسلم otherwise our Iman is not complete but can you make it a tangible legal ruling no because you can't force anybody to love someone so you have to do certain things to increase your love for the Rasool صلى الله عليه وسلم because that's what's going to give spirit to your Iman to your Islam in essence yes it's actually not divorced from the idea of loving the Rasool صلى الله عليه وسلم and that you worship Allah as if you can see him and what do they say that there are certain people who remind you of Allah there are certain people that when you look at them they remind you of Allah who can remind you of Allah than looking at Rasool الله صلى الله عليه وسلم so how is it that the صحابة reach this level of they only needed to look at the Rasool صلى الله عليه وسلم and they were seeing Allah and I don't mean to say that we're not even likening the two but what I'm saying is the fact that they looked at the face of Rasool الله that reminded them of Allah that's what allowed them to reach the highest level of إحسان to worshiping Allah as if they could see him yes and we often make this this we inform you regarding the Quran and what the Quran is when I say Quran to you what's the first thing that comes into your mind tell me now if I said Quran to you what's the first thing that comes into your mind imagine the Quran what is it what's the first thing what's half the book I say Quran to you the first thing that's going to come to your mind naturally is the book it was there so when you said Quran to the companions there were only two things that they could possibly imagine the face of Rasool الله صلى الله عليه وسلم and the voice the blessed voice of Rasool الله صلى الله عليه وسلم that was that was that was إحسان for the صحابة and فإن لم تكن تراه if you cannot see Allah فإنه يراك then know that he is seeing you yes this reminds me of our conversation yesterday you know عمو عمو said to me that you know when you come towards the day of judgment this will be a time wherein people will have more visions you know and experiences and interestingly the reason for that is because إيمان and faith and all these things they can't be established through proofs really that's just supplementary in order for you to actually believe you have to have some sort of experience and because proofs and all these things are becoming scarce you know and the strength of evidence are becoming scarce especially in this day and age and this time as we are going further towards the day of judgment they are becoming very very hard to get hold of الله will increase visions for people and experiences for people so I said to عمو عمو I said may Allah make us amongst those people who experience those visions and عمو replied no you'd rather allow the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم than you see the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم because the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم having another upon you is greater than the you having another upon or looking at the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم so إحسان through spirituality to reach that you have to understand that the Rasul صلى الله عليه وسلم you make him the center point of your life so how then do you love him how do you increase that love if you want to love someone I said you have to know them number two generally if you want to love someone and increase your love towards someone or for someone you have to understand what they've done for you or if a person just favors for you it increases your love like for example the most superficial way is giving gifts to someone this is mentioned in the hadith and if I was to give you a gift that increases love between the two it's also a love language you read the Gary Chapman's five love languages one of them is gift giving yes because it increases love so you should give gifts to your spouses because it increases love but that's probably the lowest the lowest level because it's something physical it's tangible because you're doing something for someone else also acts of service doing something for someone else if you want to increase your love for the رسول صلى الله عليه وسلم you have to understand three things number one what he has done for you number two what he is doing for you and number three what he will do for you صلى الله عليه وسلم when every single one of them is equally as important and we can just briefly go through these Insha'Allah before I conclude just for us to understand what he صلى الله عليه وسلم means what is he done for us if it wasn't for him we wouldn't know Allah that's a given fact if it wasn't for him we wouldn't have the Quran if it wasn't for him we wouldn't have guidance if it wasn't for him we wouldn't have the Sunnah if it wasn't for him women would still be probably oppressed being buried alive if it wasn't for him this world would be chaos if it wasn't for him صلى الله عليه وسلم things would have been in anarchy and Allah makes this very clear in the Quran before Allah after Allah mentions the fact that Allah has favored us with the رسول صلى الله عليه وسلم he says before him everything was in complete darkness and misguidance and probably at that era it said the علماء say that it's probably the worst of eras ever just before the رسول صلى الله عليه وسلم came into this world what is he done for us he's given us structure he's given us everything if it wasn't for him we wouldn't have a purpose if it wasn't for him we wouldn't know Allah and that's probably there's nothing else I can say regarding what but there's nothing great I can say except that he's given us access to Allah he is the key to Allah that's what he's done for us how about what he's doing for you now very interestingly if you read the Quran we should have it reading the Quran just reciting the Quran and understanding the Quran I often say that when the Sahaba were told to recite the Quran or read the Quran it wasn't just something well the way we tell you or somebody tells you for example or you should recite like we did earlier we just recite don't we so when the Sahaba were doing this for them it wasn't just mere recitation it was understanding as well if the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم is telling the Sahaba for example if you do this or recite this for them it wasn't recite the way we recite and therefore that's an implication for us to understand also what we recite that's where the Sunnah actually is if I'm reading Suratul Kahf on a Friday I'm just reading it yeah you'll get reward for it of course but it's not just about merely reading it's also about understanding it why Suratul Kahf again this is just the example that's coming to my head right now why Suratul Kahf the Sunnah and what does the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم say from the fitna of the Dajjal why though how how does it read it and understand what it's trying to say and all of the stories are to do with the physical the tangible things that you can see and Allah is saying in Suratul Kahf in all of the stories right there's an underlying message that is not about what you can see that the Dajjal is preaching and teaching you it's all about what you see right but every single Surah every single story in Suratul Kahf is trying to explain to you that it's not about the tangible and the empirical it's about something beyond that it's about the intangible it's about the غيب yeah so Allah has created everything in this world to test you but it's not about what you can see so you learn about the iman of those people the people of the cave that they you know whatever they saw they didn't accept that they had enough iman strength to move away from the from the king who was telling them to worship him the first story the second story the story of the two gardeners again one gardener thought that oh I have everything because it was all tangible but the other one was saying listen there's something greater you say you know and the third story is what sorry what's that about again intangible the thing that you can't see there's a king coming at the back with a massive ship this child is going to grow up and become a tyrant therefore I have to kill him right beneath this wall is a treasure by the way that treasure they say that it was the name of Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم وامصاوي says this in his in his تفسير so why is سورت الكهف protection from the fitna of the dajal because سورت الكهف is reminding you that life is not about what you see and what you think that's what it means by I completely digressed what was I saying what is the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم what is the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم now doing for you if it wasn't for him right going back to yes reading the Quran look at if you read the Quran and you see some of the things that people would do and Allah would punish them as a result for it you'll be very very surprised because most of the things that people did in previous nations that Allah punished them for we do in this nation today and I can name you so many arrogance you know the previous nations what did they do they were arrogant they thought that they were greater than other people they killed the messengers there was a nation that was completely wiped out simply because of their love for sodomy tell me if this stuff doesn't happen in this day and age of course it happens you know when you sin why is it that Allah doesn't strike you why is it that Allah hasn't swallowed you up using this earth the earth by default wants to swallow you up anyway that's the nature of the earth والذي جعل لكم الأرض ذلولا الله says we have made this earth ذلولا we have actually humbled and subdued the earth Allah has made this earth because it is the earth it is the earth because the earth by default wants to swallow you up الله says ذلولا we have actually humbled the earth for you so walk in all of its corners walk and travel the earth so why is it that the earth hasn't swallowed you up why because what is he doing for you it's because of رسول الله because of the fact that he is amongst us now that's why the earth hasn't swallowed us up that's why something hasn't come from the heavens and from the sky and completely decapitated us why simply because of the presence of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم amongst us وما كان الله أنت فيهم that Allah سبحانه وتعالى says that I will not punish them while you are amongst them while he is here وانت فيهم that's what he is doing for you not just for you not just for me by the way for every single person that is living whether he is Muslim or non Muslim right there comes a point for every type of person regardless of who you are there comes a point in their life where as we say in the UK we say the penny drops what do I mean by that there is always a point of realization that everybody goes through whether you are Muslim or non Muslim and that point of realization is what am I doing with my life you would have gone through this realization everybody will eventually go through this realization what am I doing all my life I've been earning money I've been busy with XYZ and you think to yourself like where am I going with my life so even the non Muslim goes through that realization the penny drops for the non Muslim right sometimes it may take a calamity sometimes it may take your father passing away or your mother passing away or your grandparents passing away sometimes it may take an accident you breaking your leg or your arm or something like that but eventually everybody comes to this sense of realization but you know at that point at that point the difference between me and the non believer the difference between you and the non believer is that you have Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم so what is he doing for you now he gives you hope because no matter where you've been in your life and what you've done in your life and how many sins you've committed in your life it's he صلى الله عليه وسلم who says the one who repent from a sin is as if he's never sinned before it's he صلى الله عليه وسلم who says he says that every single صلى الله عليه وسلم will sin will make mistakes but the best of those who return so each and every single time the penny drops for you and things become difficult you have the رسول صلى الله عليه وسلم and therefore you have hope that is him صلى الله عليه وسلم that's what he's doing for you and what will he do for you will recite it anyway صلى الله عليه وسلم when the day on that day when everybody will run away from you يوم يفرر المرء من أخي و أمه و أبي و صاحبته و بني يكل امرئ منهم يوم اذن شأنوا يغني and your parents will run away from you brother will run away, your sister will run away everyone your spouse will run away from you nobody wants to know you they're only worried about themselves حتى up to the point where you go to the prophets and they say no we can't do anything until they say إنهب الى غيري go to someone else until you come to that individual what will he do for you what will he do for you and the day of judgment where everybody runs away from you you will go to him and he will intercede for you for you to go to Jannah that is our prophet and you tell me that after knowing all of this how can you not love him but the problem is look I'm telling you this is about you and just really reflect on this because the simple solution is this if you don't reflect you won't adore and if you don't adore you won't love so there's any message I can give you at the end of today and you know the tangents that I've been going on things that I've dropped here or there if there's anything I can tell you is that if there's one thing you take away that I need to increase my reflection when it comes to Allah and His Rasul صلى الله عليه وسلم and in order for you to do that you introduce certain things in your life, in the life of your children wherein they have a chance to reflect about him whether it's gatherings whether it's a small you're just around the table at home before you're about to eat and you maybe mention this is a nice thing that you can do I haven't implemented it yet because I don't have children but Insha'Allah one day you read one passage from the just before you eat you read one حدي from the just before you eat get your children to do it this translation of okay let's do something wherein you've stopped your life for a moment and you've given that time to reflect about the Rasul صلى الله عليه وسلم you've given that time to reflect about Allah yes so you do that implement small things in your life wherein it gives you that opportunity to reflect about him صلى الله عليه وسلم and it gives you an opportunity to reflect about Allah سبحانه و تعالى also recite more Quran I have to say this and how people we don't recite much Quran at all unfortunately if you find the greatest of Awliya the greatest man of Allah when they got to a point in their life wherein everything finished for them in the sense that they were old and they had done everything that they had to do the only thing that they would do is recite Quran all day every day when you would meet him all he would be doing is reciting the Quran near the end of his life literally every single day you would go to his place of rest or his shop or wherever he was and literally the only thing he would do is recite the Quran we don't recite the Quran enough so even the Borda is one thing and I'm not putting people of the Quran I'm not putting people of the Quran I'm not putting people of these things but I'm saying Quran is so so so important for your spiritual health and well-being the Quran is so important so introduce it and implement it in your life we pray that Allah سبحانه وتعالى accepts this promise we pray that Allah سبحانه وتعالى grants us the ability to truly reflect upon him and reflect upon his messenger صلى الله عليه و عليه و صحبه و سلام صلى الله عليه و سلام


So that's an interesting question and something that's been troubling scientists for many years. What we can say is that we spend a third of our lives asleep. All living creatures sleep or have some kind of light-dark inactivity cycle from the smallest single-celled organism right up to ourselves. So you know from that that sleep is essential to health and well-being. It's evolved alongside us as we've evolved underneath the sun and those circadian rhythms are essential to the health and well-being of all living things. So sleep is clearly essential. There are many theories about why we sleep. None of them are completely either true or untrue but increasingly we're realizing the importance of sleep as an active dynamic process that makes sure that our wakeful hours are efficient and effective and makes sure that our body as well as our minds are performing optimally.