Praise be to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Creator of the universe Lord of the worlds Sustainer cherisher nourisher of one and all and Salutations and blessings upon Muhammad ibn abdullahi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Blessings upon all his companions Blessings upon the four illustrious imams namely Abu Hanifatah Rahimahullah Malik ibn Anas Rahimahullah Muhammad ibn Idrisah Shafi'i Rahimahullah Ahmad ibn Hanbal yarhamuhum Allahu jami'a Blessings upon all those who have followed Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam All those who are following him may Allah make us from amongst them And all those who will follow him until the day of qiyamah may Allah make our offspring from amongst them honored ulama and respected gathering of brothers and sisters mothers and daughters As well as sons Today, I wish to speak On a very important topic may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant me The acceptance and yourselves as well That what is said comes from the heart to the heart And I make a prayer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala at the beginning of this talk O Allah, definitely we do not know anything Besides that which you have taught us for indeed you are the owner of knowledge You are most knowledgeable most wise grant us a little bit of your knowledge and wisdom. I mean we all know that In society we have leaders These leaders are there Some of us might not know how the leaders are there But in most cases the leaders are chosen and elected and selected by the masses What type of leader would we choose that question I leave for you to answer But I can help you think If you were to be asked the question what type of leader would you choose you would definitely choose Someone who has the qualities of leadership in brief Someone who is truthful who is honest who does not have bad habits Someone who has a say someone who is respected in society and community Someone whose history speaks volumes as to his goodness Someone whose goodness exceeds his bad and evil These are the type of leaders that we would elect Similarly if we did not have a say as to the imam we have in our masjid or the leaders within our own communities We would always still find that these leaders have good qualities They are not womanizers may Allah protect us And in the case of women I think I can use the word manizers May Allah save us all They are not From amongst those who are drunkards They are not addicted to drugs they have not pierced their ears as men Nor have they pierced their belly buttons and at times Some people go as far as piercing their private parts may Allah save us and protect us But the leaders of our communities and our cities and our countries Definitely do not have their private parts pierced The reason I am raising this is to make it very clear That someone somewhere is benefiting By spreading mischief on earth If a person would like to lead and he wants to be the only one Without any threat to his leadership to lead He needs to ensure that the masses are engaged in filthy activity That will ensure and make sure that they will never be able to compete with him When we are Muslims we are taught the qualities of leadership Male and female we are supposed to be honest straightforward What what we utter from our mouths is supposed to be carefully selected and chosen The words we speak must be the most beautiful of words We are supposed to be the most polite the most decent the most helpful We are supposed to be the furthest away from drinking From drugs from homosexuality From the tattooing of the body in various places From cutting our hair different sizes And from piercing the body in all silly places And so on I've just mentioned a few Because we are meant to be those who are dignified Automatically every Muslim is supposed to be a potential leader Every Muslim is supposed to be a person who can be elected into a post of leadership If only you follow this lamb and if only we were true Muslims Every single one of us would be able to control our sexual desires The inclination towards the opposite sex which is very natural Islam teaches us to harness it and to control it And to only meet your desires in a halal manner May Allah grant us chastity and modesty and may Allah protect us For this reason the hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam And remember he was the leader of leaders There is no doubt that whatever he taught was brilliance It was the height of completeness and kamal Whosoever can guarantee for me the correct use of his tongue that which lies between his cheeks And the correct use of that which lies between his thighs The private parts, male and female, I guarantee for them jannah It is a very simple hadith But it is not very easy to execute and to follow May Allah grant us the ability and acceptance to control our tongues and our private parts If you guarantee the correct use of these two You can smile all the way The malaika will come to you at the point of death and say O worshipper of Allah recite the shahada You are about to leave this earth And the last words as you leave this earth will be that particular shahada May Allah grant it to us May he take us away with a smile Why? Because every time we wanted to utter words with our tongues we asked ourselves Is this what is required? Is this what is needed? Is this what the sunnah is? Is this what the prophet would have said had he spoken And if it is not the case we should remain harsh and silent When you have used your tongue in evil Do you really think that one day when it means the most You will then use it in good But if you have constantly used your tongue in good Believe me the day it is most needed only goodness will come out of that tongue May Allah grant that to us So these are the qualities of leadership Those non-muslims who would like to lead They happen to be leading They have created a cartel Why?  They will say you are backward Let me inform you today Anyone who follows any culture Of the old times will always be a more decent person Than a person who follows the culture of his lusts and desires If you take a look at the Victorian era in Great Britain Not very long ago the women used to dress in long dresses And they used to wear hats which would cover their faces even With nets that would actually come down to cover their faces But then when those who wanted to rule saw that there is something wrong If we are to go into leadership we will have too much competition They began to sell an idea to the public Follow your desires and you will be a free person They came to this world with what is known as freedom of expression Freedom of belief Freedom of this and that freedom of choice And by selling this to the world They began to regard a person who is a gay As someone who belongs to the free world They have the right to be gay Naudubillah This is why Allah SWT speaks in the Quran Surat al-Tin Indeed we have created man in the best of postures With the best brain possible And thereafter besides those who believe We have reduced the rest to worse than the worst Besides those who believe Which means there is an exception to this If you believe and you do good deeds You will always be a potential leader The animals are regarded as worse than us They have brains They use those brains An animal if you are to train a dog And I was reading a book two weeks ago about training dogs Because we have become like animals We behave like animals So sometimes we need to read the books of how to train animals In order to train our own children It's a fact They say when you want to train a dog You must only be positive You cannot be negative When the dog does something wrong Especially if it is an Alsatian Or a dog A doberman they call it Do not punish it But when it does something correct You must reward it So it will understand That whenever I do this I will be rewarded If you are to punish it It will become more vicious It might turn on you one day Even the dogs have started changing Today with our children When you warn them they don't want a warning So what do we do now? When they do anything correct We've got to tell them well done Excellent What you've done is extremely positive This is the condition that we have dropped ourselves to If a cow is given food at half past six in the morning By a certain gentleman The minute the gentleman comes And the time strikes 29 minutes Past six without being told The cows know there is goodness from this direction They will all come to that direction Because they have understanding They've got brains also Whereas if there is a man Every day he beats a cow And he inflicts pain upon it Whenever that man is seen You will find the cows running away Moments before I came here We were talking about cows And I was mentioning to the brothers Saying do you know That if a cow has seen even once The place of slaughter The day it is being driven there It will put up a battle before it gets there It knows automatically This is an evil place All my brothers and sisters Who have gone here have not returned So even a cow understands what is good and bad But today we fall prey To the forces of the West basically Those forces that are calling us To the so-called freedoms Which are literal whirlpools of destruction Now let me take you further Would you ever vote Would you ever have an Imam of a Masjid Or vote for him or elect him If he is an open outright homosexual I see everyone says no Would you ever vote for an Imam Who has a big earring on his ear Never He can be a top reciter But if his belly is pierced And he's got a massive ring sticking out of there You won't want to listen to the Quran he reads Similarly would you ever vote For a leader in your own city here Or in your country Who is such a drunkard that half his life He doesn't know what he is saying Addicted to alcohol You wouldn't Would you ever vote For a person who is so addicted to drugs That he cannot do without it No So now those who want to lead And do not want any body to come in their way Need to think of a plan of how to suck people Into the whirlpool of destruction That of drugs and alcohol and homosexuality And this type of so-called freedom So that once they are sucked into it They will never ever be potential leaders again This is the beginning Now we should understand Oh children who are here today Oh you who will listen to me at some point or another Remember stay away as far as possible From drugs and alcohol and homosexuality Control your sexual activity Make sure it is within the confines of Islam and the Sharia Because if you do not You will then not be a potential leader Not even in your own home Will you ever be able to lead your own children in your house When you yourself Is a so-called drug addict May Allah protect us all So the first message goes out to those youngsters And those who have never tried drugs and alcohol in their lives Remember the environment out there is very pulling Whenever there is a whirlpool The waters go deeper and deeper And the entire current flows in that direction You have got to row the other way And you need greater muscle In order to row in the opposite direction May Allah grant us the rowing in the opposite direction And may He grant us the rowing Towards Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam's way of life That is the first message and I have relayed it Do not even try a cigarette The youngsters who are here today That is the beginning of destruction Those who smoke will definitely tell you That do you know what? It's a bad habit Even if your father smokes or your mother May Allah save our women folk From this very very disastrous habit They will tell you as smokers My dear son, my dear daughter It's the last thing I want you to do Because now they know they are addicted They are part and parcel of it Those who have been rehabilitated from A drug addiction May Allah protect all those who have been Involved in drugs in one way or another And save them from this habit And take them out of it They will confirm after they come out of that habit That it is the worst habit Those who are on drugs would like to leave it If only they knew how to And that is going to be the second part of this talk But as I said The first is concentrated upon those Who have not tried anything Remember don't ever make that mistake I always tell the youngsters And it is a statement that I wish you could understand And I hope you don't misunderstand it If a boy comes to me and says Do you know I have a girlfriend Or a girl comes and says I have a boyfriend And I am madly in love I can help them because The worst scenario is We can get the nikah done There is a halal way out of that That is the worst scenario But if a youngster comes to me And says you know what I am a drug addict The question I want to pose to you today When it comes to the opposite sex Allah knows that there is something within you That inclines you to it So Allah has made a halal way out So that you can fulfil those desires at some point But when it comes to alcohol and drugs Believe me There is no goodness in it at all For that reason Allah has never ever kept a halal way out of that There is no ways that that thing Can be made halal for you The only help I can offer you Is to try and counsel you To come out of that habit That is the only solution So for this reason My dear youth And those of us who have been fortunate enough Not to get into these habits The message is loud and clear Prevention is better than cure We have heard that a thousand and one times Dirhamu weqayatin khayrum minqintari ilaaj As the Arabic saying goes A small amount of effort that is required And expense that is required To protect yourself And to prevent Is better than a mountain's worth Of medication to solve the problem To cure To cure The second stage O you who are involved in this bad habit We need you You are tomorrow's leaders Leave the habit It is not too late That is the message I have When a child is young Baby The child urinates Anywhere and everywhere For this reason In order to save ourselves from embarrassment We love the child But we know That this child might disgrace us By urinating On someone's beautiful carpet In someone's beautiful car In the lounge On someone's laps So we put on a nappy On the child So that when it urinates It urinates in that nappy And does not cause a problem But do we hate a child Because they urinate Everyone will say no ways We don't hate the child But we will make sure that when the child gets To two years or three years A little bit more A little bit less We train the child Something known as nappy training And there are many accidents That will occur during nappy training Whereas You do not hate the child For making that accident You will clean it up But you will hate the urination Why am I saying this? Because we must understand That in order to solve this matter And this is the third part of tonight's lecture I want to discuss the second and third stages For those of us who are dealing with a crisis Either in our homes Or in our communities We must understand Hate the habit But remember that that person If they leave the habit Is a potential leader What is the worst habit? The worst habit that a person can have is kufr Is that not correct? Kufr is the worst habit But take a look at Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam He was seated in the house of Al-Arqam Ibn Abi Al-Arqam Razi Allahu Anhu He made a dua Allahumma A'izzal Islama Bi Ahadi Al-Umarain O Allah Strengthen Islam Through one of the two Umars Who are they? Umar Ibn Al-Khattabi Razi Allahu Anhu Or Amr Ibn Hisham Known as Abu Jahl These were two enemies of Islam Who inflicted a lot of damage on Islam Who always drew their swords For any reason They lifted up the sword And they were ready to Clatter and clash that sword with anyone And that morning Umar Ibn Al-Khattab Razi Allahu Anhu Who did not know of the dua Made by the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam And the reason I'm mentioning this Is to show us Let us make dua for those Who are engaged in another type of a bad habit Drugs Alcohol Homosexuality And the evils of today's time But we make dua for them Because if they leave that bad habit Tomorrow they can be our leaders And I'm giving you the example Of Umar Ibn Al-Khattabi Razi Allahu Anhu Because he was one of the Enemies of Islam He raised his sword And he said I am going to today Kill this Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam And boldly he marched out of his home And as he walked He was met by someone Who told him Where are you going Oh Umar With this sword in your hand And marching so boldly He said I am going to kill Muhammad Allahu Akbar And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Says in the Quran Oh Prophet do not fear Allah will protect you from the people On one side There is a man coming out To kill on the other side Allah is protecting someone Can anyone harm Someone whom Allah is protecting Nay, impossible May Allah protect us in the same way So this person who Met Umar Ibn Al-Khattabi On the road Told him Ya Umar Muhammad is very far Go to your own sister Who has accepted Islam Fatima Your own sister And that struck in his head Let me go to my sister And he pounded on the door He heard the verses being recited As he opened the door He saw his brother-in-law His sister quickly putting Some sheets The type of sheets they had At that time away And he inquired He knew this must have been the Quran Something that Muhammad has come with Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam What is it that you had They refused Because you've got to be clean To touch the Quran None shall touch it Besides those who are pure and clean So they defended those sheets With their life May Allah grant us the ability To defend the Quran From being desecrated They said Nay, you will not read this You will not touch it You are filthy He began to beat them Until they bled And when they bled He saw his sister bleeding Something went into his heart This is my blood My own blood And it's now dripping He said Look, I need to read these papers They said Okay, cleanse yourself He cleansed himself And he came Taha Maa Anzalnaa Aleyka Al-Qur'an Al-Tashqaa Illaa Tazkira Tallimayyakshaa Tanzeelam An Khalaq Al-Ardwa Wa Al-Samawaat Al-Aula Ar-Rahmanu Al-Arsh Istawa Lahu Maa Fi Al-Samawaati Wa Maa Fi Al-Ardi Wa Maa Beina Tahta Al-Thawro He began to cry This mountain collapsed By listening to three, four verses Take me to Muhammad He exclaimed Take me to Muhammad They knew that this man's heart is broken Broken Regarding the hatred he had But solidified regarding Muhammad Salallahu Aleyhi Wasallam One, the Sahaba Radyallahu Anhum in the house of Al-Arqam Ibn Abil Arqam had heard a dua On this side Omar did not know of that dua He came for damage He was one of the Stonest enemies of Islam He had the bad The most evil habit And that was the habit of Kofur But suddenly he decided He wants to be a Muslim And he had his sword And the few of them marched towards the house of Al-Arqam Ibn Abil Arqam Radyallahu Anhu And who was at the dua None other than Hamza Ibn Abdul-Muttalib Known as Asadullah The Lion of Allah He was standing He saw Omar Ibn Al-Khattab One of the most Stonest enemies of Islam Walking with his sword And a little bit of blood around With people bleeding Walking towards this house What do you think went through his mind As he saw a sword And a man Who was known to slaughter and execute anyone Walking towards this house He looked and he said Oh Allah This is Omar Look at the Sahaba Radyallahu Anhum If you intend goodness with this man Let him accept Islam And if he intends anything else Make it easy upon us to execute him here and now immediate And the swords were drawn ready in waiting Where is Muhammad? Aina Muhammad Where is Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam He burst into the room With all the Sahaba Radyallahu Anhum Ready To see what Omar does What type of guts this man had I'm sure we've heard about This nothing would stop this man from achieving What he would like to achieve And the Sahaba Radyallahu Anhum were ready To pounce on him When he looked at Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam And said And everyone said This is Omar Allah has brought him to Islam Allahu Akbar He left the bad habit Do you know what happened Immediately he looked at Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam And asked his first question Are we not on the right path? Bala The answer was indeed we are on the right path Well then Let us proudly march to the Haram To the Haram in Makkah Why are we reading Salah In the house of Al-Arqam Ibn Abi Al-Arqam We will march and we will read in public Nothing will stop us today And they made two lines immediately They made two Sufs One was led by Omar ibn Al-Khattab The other was led by Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalib And they marched re-uttering the Takbir All the way to the masjid The kufar could not say anything at all They were humbled and hushed They had to look and say Hey Omar is with them today And that was the first time in the history of Islam That Salah was read there The type of Salah Is not the exact Salah we have today Because at that time Salah was not yet made compulsory It was only given to Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam On the occasion of Me'araj Which happened later on And for this reason It was not prescribed in the masjid It could have been read anyway at the time Why did I relate this story today To show you that if you remove this bad habit Tomorrow Allah can use you to defend this deal If you remove this habit In split seconds Allah can raise your status very high By uttering those words Became one of the best To ever trot this earth After the Anbiya Alaihi Wasallatu Wasallam I can pinpoint and tell you his rank He was second after all the Anbiya First was Abu Bakr radiallahu anhu And second was Umar ibn al-Khattabi And he only achieved it because he realized That he was getting sucked into the whirlpool of evil Later on he spoke and he said Do you know we used to worship idols That we used to make of dates When we were hungry we used to eat the hand We used to eat this and that We used to eat our own gods He has uttered that and they used to laugh about it So those who have come out of drugs Will tell you do you know what We were fools We used to disturb our mothers and parents Today we are parents And we pray that our children be guided from this habit So the message here To those who may be engaged in drugs In one way or another It is never too late to turn to Allah It requires a lot of willpower It requires great willpower And you must understand Don't let shaitan deceive you Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is waiting for you And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is calling out to you Every single day He stretches his hand The hadith says What a hadith Stretches the hand of mercy every day To forgive those who have committed sin by night And stretches the hand of mercy every night To forgive those who have committed sin by day Until the sun rises from the other side And it has not yet risen Yet another hadith Proving that Allah is waiting for you O you who is engaged in these bad habits Whatever it is O you who have been engaged in zina It is time to turn to Allah Has the time not come for those who believe To turn to Allah And to turn to the remembrance of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala The question we must pose to ourselves Those who are engaged in zina Those who are engaged in the partaking of alcohol Those who might be going to the casinos And blowing their money in the wrong way How long is this going to carry on for Surely we need to prepare for life That is beyond the eternal life The hadith says Every eve, every early morning When a third of the night is remaining Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's valour descends And he calls out from the lowest heavens Saying is there anyone seeking my forgiveness That I can forgive him or her Is there anyone repenting to me That I can accept that repentance Is there anyone asking me anything That I can grant them whatever they want Most probably we are snoring at that hour of the morning Is it fair Set your alarm clock to get you up at three o'clock Not necessarily to read tahajjud We have not yet got to that stage But just to get up for two minutes in your bed Whilst you are cozy Raise your hands and say Ya Allah, I know you are calling You are asking who is there seeking forgiveness So that you will forgive Ya Allah, I am the one seeking forgiveness And feel your hair stand Wallahi, I swear by Allah I swear by Allah who has raised the skies with no pillars That he definitely calls out And he is waiting for me and you Imagine how he will feel When he is calling out Who wants to ask me something And you have set your clock to get up at that moment Just for five minutes to say Ya Allah, it's me I am weak, I need you Ya Allah I am the one who is calling out to you I have this problem, that problem Protect me, save God my children Do you know what he says I always answer the call of the caller Positively whenever he calls out to me Subhanallah How can we even feel for a split moment That Allah has not responded to our dua Inna kassami'ud-dua Zakariya aleyhi salam when he called out What did he say He said, oh Allah, I am calling out to you I know you are the one who listens and hears the du'as Allah knows your dua before you utter it He knows it from your heart And Allah knows how you would have preferred to word your dua Sometimes we can't even word our du'as Some people have complained to me That we raise our hands and we forget How to call out to Allah We forget what we wanted to say Don't worry my dear mother and sister My dear brother and elder here Remember one thing Allah knows that dua from your heart Even before you utter it But have you ever got up at that hour of the morning Just for a few minutes If you are strong enough You can get out of your bed Mekhudu Read two rakats of tahajjud A few rakats of tahajjud May Allah grant us that level But if not At least call out to him at that hour And go and sleep at five past three once again Two minutes At least you have asked Allah Now Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will respond You will feel his mercy His blessings You will feel the contentment Your day will be spent in a different way I guarantee that for you Because you know There was a communication between you and your creator There was a link He called out You called back to him And he called back to you And you called out to him again Subhanallah Imagine if you had a link With the president of this country Such that he would contact you every day And you would talk to him And he would talk to you He would never phone you in a rush Is that not correct It's when you need him You will phone him But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala calls out to you He dials your number On a daily basis All that is required of you Is to answer that communication And to speak back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala And then again We are sleeping at that hour We need to do something about this We need to turn to Allah And believe me He will grant us whatever we want So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala calls out In fact another hadith says Inna Allaha Yaqbilu Tawba Ta-Laabidi Maa Lam Yugharghir Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala always accepts the Tawba Of all his worshipers For as long as they have not got to Sakarat Shaytan comes to us and makes us feel That your Tawba is rejected It is not accepted Allah did not forgive you In Islam we are taught That when Allah has forgiven you He never raises the past It's gone and deleted So don't let it bog you down Nothing that you have committed in the past Is too big for Allah to forgive When Allah says When Allah says Qul Ya Ibadiyah Lathina Asrafu Aala Anfusihim La Taqonatumir Rahmatillah Say to the worshipers who have transgressed against themselves Never lose hope in the mercy of Allah Sometimes we lose hope in the mercy of Allah So we are going against the commands of Allah By losing hope We are insulting him He says O my worshipers I am most forgiving Most merciful When we start We say Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim We don't say Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim We always say in the name of Allah Most forgiving, most merciful We never say in the name of Allah The one who punishes very severely Never ever That is an insult to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala He speaks of Rahman And he speaks of Rahma And mercy Remember Turn to Allah It is high time we turned O you who is involved in sin The ummah needs you The people of Iraq need you The people of Palestine need you Not in person But they need you to reform yourself Because if you reform yourself And other members of the community Reform themselves That is the only time Allah will grant reformation To every community, every country And thereafter the ummah at large Allah will never transform the condition of any ummah For as long as the individuals of that ummah Do not transform themselves So if I want to help the people of Iraq I need to transform myself I need to be better with my own family members With my wife With my husband With my children With my parents With my in-laws And so on I need to be tolerant with them And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Will then effect positive change In the whole ummah Today we pick on this person And that person not realizing that The solution to it Lies in rectifying our own weaknesses So the message here Turn to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Do not fall prey To the forces of evil around us O you who is involved In selling drugs and alcohol And making money out of it Remember It is something very dangerous Why do you want to shoulder the burden Of the sin of everyone Can I tell you Can I take you down the avenue Of reality for a moment Do you know that by selling this drug You have removed contentment From your life in its totality You can have a million and a billion But you live in constant fear There is a way of coming out of this fear You just need to turn to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala You live in constant fear Anything you ever buy Will be short lived Your desires will not exist For longer than 30 minutes You will then feel remorse and regret You will live a life of gangsterism Which you will hate yourself But if you allow yourself to get deeper Into it I swear that regret Will become so strong But you will not be able to do anything about it Because of the lack of willpower You will have the dirtiest friends And you will know that your friends are dirty But because you allowed yourself To fall into this dangerous activity For the love of the rand and the dollar For that reason you will not be able To do anything about it Unless you have a strong willpower And for all I care You may be shot dead one day And suddenly you lose your life What did you gain? That is the takbir that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has declared And that is the takbir we read on the days of happiness We must understand It is the most powerful takbir you can have May Allah grant that to us And through the power of His greatness May He take out of the clutches of shaitan Even those who might be dealing in drugs I mean You are members of the ummah Insha'Allah We will try to nappy train you But come and admit your faults Don't worry We will not beat you up When you are admitting your faults We will not make du'as against you We will make du'a for you Look at Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam He did not make a du'a against Umar ibn al-Khattab He made a du'a for Umar ibn al-Khattab And what happened Umar ibn al-Khattab Came into the fold of Islam We will follow the same blessed sunnah We will make a du'a for you But don't force us to make a du'a against you By sucking away all our children Let me ask you a question Do you really want to shoulder the sin Of everyone who buys that drug from you Until the day of qiyamah No you don't Such a person may lose the dunya and the akhira And Allah says that is a clear loss Take a look at the kufar Most of them who have qualities of leadership Are not on drugs They do not have bad habits They are enjoying the dunya to a certain extent But they might lose the akhira But those who are muslimin You will be content in the dunya inshallah And Allah will still grant you the akhira But those who have lost the dunya By engaging in activity That results in them ducking and diving And hiding and living in fear Constantly for their whole lives It is a fake life And in the akhira You get absolutely nothing Do you really want that Believe me I am sent to you To convey this message to you It is no coincidence that I am here today Speaking to you It was chosen by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala A long long time ago I am here to deliver the message Of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam I will be asked on the day of qiyamah You went to this masjid Did you speak to them And I will say Ya Allah I have spoken There are witnesses here Who bear witness for me inshallah That I have delivered the goods Now the response must come from you Have you heard what was said today It is not too late to turn to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Consider the positives and negatives With your brain And you will really and deeply understand that There is more to gain by leaving these bad habits How many people have you put into pain Your own mother Your own father Your relatives Your wife Your husband Maybe your children Your grandchildren Your community members It results in shaitan getting hold of us We need to turn away from shaitan May Allah protect us and our offspring And our community members from shaitan I was saying Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam Used to constantly make Dua of guidance for everyone InshaAllah we want to follow that sunnah We will also make dua of guidance for you And for ourselves But don't force us to do otherwise If you take a look at the sunnah of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam When he was in ta'if An incident that I often mention And I wish to share it with you today What happened in ta'if He was the best creature ever to exist The best that will ever exist The most beloved to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala He went to ta'if to take the people out of jahannam And bring them into jannah That is what we are trying to do today May Allah take us all out of jahannam And put us into jannah Every single one of us We all need help in one way or another He went to remove the people of ta'if from jahannam And bring them into jannah Do you know what happened They began to beat him up Allahu Akbar They swore him They laughed at him And yet he was saying Oh people I want you to go into paradise Oh people Leave your bad ways Leave your bad habits Exactly what we are saying today They beat him up They laughed at him They mocked at him The children were even taught to laugh at him And mock And make jokes of him And run behind him As he was leaving ta'if They began to throw stones at him And Allah was watching Do you think Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala was not watching His most beloved Was definitely being watched And Allah knew what was happening The angels were watching And they were waiting for a command from Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said Oh my angels Go to this man Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam And if he orders you to crush these people Bring the mountains together and crush them For today It is too much what they are doing Allahu Akbar It was definitely too much So the angels immediately executed The pleasure of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala They went down to Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam Whilst he was bleeding And think of the droplets of blood Whose blood was this? Every drop of blood Was the most sacred blood That ever existed Every drop If lost in this manner is known as Shahid It is martyred in the path of Allah His shoes were full of blood And he was walking And the angels came to him Oh Muhammad Give us one instruction And we will crush Everybody who is here Between the two mountains Indeed I have been sent as a mercy He said Oh Allah guide this nation for definitely they do not know They don't know what they are doing They don't realize what they are doing And then he raised his hands Which had blood Imagine the angels were waiting to see What is this man going to utter? We have told him Your wish Our command basically What is this man going to utter?    Allahumma Inni Ashku Ilayka Zafaqouati Waqilla Tahilati Oh Allah I am complaining to you About my own weakness I am weak Allahu Akbar Imagine how the angels Must have felt That we are waiting for instruction Of destruction And here is Rasulullah Sallallahu alaihi wasallam Making a dua Saying Ya Allah I am complaining to you About my weakness I am weak Ya Allah You sent me to deliver a message To the people of Taif Look at me I have gone there They have booted me out of there They have beaten me Ya Allah I pray that you are not upset with me If you are not angry with me Ya Allah There is nothing else I want Which means Ya Allah I only want your pleasure This was the dua made on the occasion Of the incident of Taif That was Muhammad Sallallahu alaihi wasallam Today I make that dua Here in this masjid May Allah accept it from us all Where we say Oh Allah We are complaining to you About our weakness Look at the people On drugs around us Ya Allah we are so weak We can't even help them Ya Allah it is only you Who can bring them back to the masjid Ya Allah help us We are weak We are complaining to you Ya Allah We have no power and strength Left in us Ya Allah Let us make this dua For the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala We have a grave problem in our area We have a grave problem Over taking the muslim ummah The same religion that teaches us So much goodness The same religion That makes every single one of us Potential leaders And we have So many cabbages in our ummah May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Grant us the strength And use us to serve this deen Oh you who is involved In one way or another in evil Wallahi I tell you And I plead with you to turn back To Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala You will never regret it Come and open up Come to the imams of the masjid Go to the doctors Go to your parents And admit your errors That is the only time We will be able to help you When you have a cough And you go to the doctor You don't just look at the doctor And smile He asks you what is wrong Minimum you've got to point at your throat So he can diagnose the problem And give you some medication I work with people Who are on drugs Believe me People who are addicted to alcohol And Alhamdulillah Some of them have come out of this habit Believe you me Literally they are nappy trained It takes them a year Two years They might fall once or twice But if you know how to deal with them Through the sunnah of Muhammad Salallahu alayhi wasallam You will definitely be able to succeed By the Qudra of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala That was the second part The address to those who are involved In either taking drugs Or buying and selling it Especially selling it That is a very grave crime in Islam May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Grant us the ability to understand And the third and last part Of this lecture tonight May Allah accept it from us The address to those who are affected By someone around them Or related to them Who might be on drugs Either your child Your brother Your sister Your parent May Allah save us all What is the address to you? I want to mention one hadith There is a long hadith Regarding a man who walked into the masjid Of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam And in one corner of the masjid He urinated As he began to urinate The sahaba radiallahu anhum The very umar that we spoke about moments ago May Allah grant us their companionship In the Akhir Ameen They roared And they wanted to beat this man up And Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam Said la tazmuruh Leave him Do not stop him He might get sick If he has to hold back his urination Let him complete what he's doing Allahu Akbar Think of this in a masjid Today if someone had to come into this masjid And only expose their private parts Forget about urination I think how many bullets would be in that man's head We would lose count It's a fact honestly Especially in this area So imagine the sahaba radiallahu anhum Were told to leave him to complete what he was doing He finished And Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam Called him And sat him down And told the sahaba radiallahu anhum To go and engage themselves in getting a bucket of water To cleanse that area So that they would not all listen in To what was happening in such a way That this man would feel offended This is now counselling Counselling We need to talk We need to use speech that is positive To solve the problem If they beat him up He might have left Islam and carried on Saying you know I came here to be a Muslim As it is these people are hard and harsh They don't even understand anything I am gone Nothing achieved But the reason I am raising this habit Meaning this hadith today We have the problem of drugs We need to know how to deal with it From the sunnah Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam Has not forgotten to teach us anything Ma ataraka khayran illa wadallana alayhi Wa la sharran illa haddanana min There is no goodness that he has forgotten To show us And no evil that he has forgotten to warn us against Nothing Beautiful example La qaida kana lakum fi rasulillahi uswatu din hasana The Quran says Indeed for you Is the greatest example in Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam That is why we are mentioning this hadith He called this arabi This bedouin He called him And he said Do you know what? With a smile Speaking to him in the most calm of tones What you have done You must understand this masjid is the house of Allah Subhanallah This masjid is a sacred home of Allah The house of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala In which we should engage in remembrance of Allah In salah In the reading of Quran In these good deeds But it is not for such activity This man was so happy He understood the statement He would never repeat this again Do you know what he said out of happiness Allahummar hamni warham muhammada O ala tarhamma anaa ahada O Allah have mercy upon me And have mercy upon Muhammad And don't have mercy on anyone besides the two of us That's it Why? Because he was upset with everyone else They did not counsel him in the correct manner But for them But for them it was a moment of learning as well They noticed and believe me they heard If they didn't hear it wouldn't have got to us today Allahu Akbar So Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam told that man That you have tried to make narrow Something that is very broad and wide What does that mean? That means you are saying the mercy of Allah Must only be on the two of us That can't happen Because the mercy of Allah encompasses everything It is very broad You can't just make it narrow for the two of us So that also he solved the problem there as well Take a look at how he spoke He gave him so much hope and courage It is reported that that Bedouin became one of the purest of the Arabs after that He was always worried about how he used the toilet And how he cleansed himself and so on You can imagine So drawing a parallel from that hadith Being on drugs and being addicted to alcohol And so on and so forth These are bad habits which we need to tackle But we need to employ the most effective manner Of changing this habit And it differs from person to person Sometimes If you scold and scream and doom people They might never come back They might feel as it is I am doomed As it is I am going to Jahannam Now what's the point of going back? But if you always lend that rope to them And tell them listen Allah is waiting for you Subhanahu wa ta'ala The hadith mentions the happiness of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala When someone turns to him He becomes so happy Allahu Akbar How can Allah become happy when we turn to him? He doesn't need us But that is Allah's mercy He becomes happy He is waiting Imagine you are pleasing your Creator The one whom you are going to return to Whom you are going to return to Becomes pleased with you He is happy with you May Allah take us away In a condition that he is happy with us So we need to speak to them We need to always give them hope in turning And remember the world out there Is very very full of these freedoms So-called freedoms We can lose our children at any time Try and interact with your children We do not want And literally I am going to mention it in this masjid We don't want a cat and mouse relationship With our children anymore We need to be the best friends of our children Go out with them To places where they can enjoy themselves Within the limits of Islam And let them do it with you around them When they go out with their friends Tell them bring your friends home Come and have a party here It might cost you a little bit But believe me it is cheaper Than the difficulty that you might go through And you allow them to go to someone else's house And you don't know where they've been Guide them when it comes to the type of friends They must keep From the very beginning And help them in this regard Speak to them, smile with them Tell them how much you love them And let them talk to you openly When your child comes to you and says Mommy or daddy Today I've tried a cigarette You don't automatically explode anymore It doesn't work in most cases No one must be happy with that Because that also is wrong You need to choose the middle path Sit down and engage the brain Look at what Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam did in this hadith He sat the man down and engaged his brain In two sentences the man understood everything Engage the brain of the child Talk to them like adults My dear son And now you need to educate yourself about this Because you won't be able to speak to them Unless you know the evils of smoking Do you know such and such a person started smoking They lost their money They burnt their money They had bad habits They burnt their clothes They used to smell and stink Their wife used to complain about them So much because they never had a decent kiss from that husband May Allah grant us Subhanallah The sweetness of halal Which is also something fulfilling I mean Wallahi I tell you at times We take it for granted Puff after puff And we don't realize who is being Or who is doing all the suffering Sometimes they are silent sufferers Who don't utter anything May Allah grant us the understanding I have pointed towards the direction I hope we've understood So we need to engage the child In this sort of a dialogue According to their level And explain to them This person has actually suffered this sickness This illness Let me show you the box What it says Smoking kills Two words Smoking kills My dear son My dear daughter You tried one Don't think it's a good habit It is a very very bad habit And so on Engage the brain And inshallah Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Through engaging the brain In the method of the sunnah Of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Will also grant us success Now we have a difficulty Of someone who is already in it Talk to them and say Look my dear son If you admit to me I am not going to blow my top I want to help you I need to help you I am your mother I am your father I want to help you But admit to me Before it gets too late Who is it that is threatening you Who is it that is Gathering against you What is it that is bothering you If they open up and they say You know what I have been on drugs for the last four years Yes We might need help ourselves To come to terms with that statement But it must not make you blow up automatically It happened under your nose You must now deal with it You must be the doctor And that is your patient Subhanallah That is your patient Take a look at the doctors And the psychiatrists of this world Do you know Do you know what they do They get paid to deal with the same patient With the problems And they will suffer Counseling that patient Knowing that this patient has very little hope Until they themselves die Or the patient dies But because they are getting money in return They don't mind That's their job I read statistics which say 60% of psychiatrists After 15 years of service Themselves need help May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Assist us This is our patient Our own blood We will be paid by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Because we will be fulfilling his command Oh you who believe Save yourselves and your family members From the fire May Allah grant us saviour And don't ever lose hope In the mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala If you are to counsel your own child To accept the problem And to stand up to it And to do something positive about it And to help others in it Then remember Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala May resurrect you Right next to Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Because you also strived in a different manner But for the same cause And he might call you along to say I have heard of the efforts you have put Come and stand right next to me Allahu Akbar May Allah grant that to us And I wish to end on one note Oh you who are listening to me Remember if you are going to help Anyone who has a bad habit Come out of that bad habit For the sake of Allah Even if they are not related to you Allah will protect you and your offspring From falling into that habit It is reported That if you help an old person One day Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Will create someone who will help you When you are old If you are concerned about the sick Allah will create people Who will be concerned about you The day you are sick And if you go out to help them And you make dua for their cure And you assist them positively Regarding the cure Allah might even protect you totally From that sickness If you go to those who have aids And give them hope in the mercy of Allah Allah may protect you and your offspring From that very disease That is Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala He says You come to me a handspan I come to you a foot You come to me walking I will come to you running Hundred steps are to be taken You take one I take ninety-nine Allahu Akbar Kabeera That is Allah But we don't even want to take the one step We are lazy And we lose hope so soon And we are only interested in our own family members Not realizing this ummah Is ummah of the Shahada La ilaha illa Allah That is the Shahada We become thicker than blood We've all uttered it here Let us help each other Any member of this ummah Who is in need in help Try and help them A person who has aids Believe me you are not doomed You might be in jannah before me Than anyone else Those who have cancer At least Allah SWT Has given you the chance to prepare for death How many leave this world Without having prepared anything Nothing at all Those who have aids You might have made one or two mistakes You might have got it innocently Believe you me You are not doomed to go to jannah Most probably You will suffer once in this dunya And as you enter the akhirah You will go into such coolness That your grave may be One of the biggest Graves and the gardens From amongst the gardens of paradise And it is our duty As members of the ummah And the community To go out And hunt for these people Who are falling prey To others Who have come to them From other sects And denominations And religions Who are sucking them away Giving them sweet words And those words are fake Yet our words are genuine But our mouths seal up When there is a swear word To be uttered We are the first But when there is goodness To come out of our mouths Where are we? O ummah Of Muhammad SAW Let us effect positive change May Allah SWT Grant us the ability to change For the better And may He elevate our status May He use us to serve this deen May we be from amongst those Who can help others Come out of their problems Who can always think Of positive solutions To negative problems May Allah SWT Save our children And the youth of this ummah From drugs and alcohol And homosexuality And from the casinos And bad habits And from all forms of evil And may Allah SWT Save myself and yourselves as well May He take us through to jannah May Allah SWT Elevate our status And bring us closer to Him Every day In such a way That the last day When He takes us away We will be the closest to Him Than we ever were And may Allah SWT Make us from amongst those Who understand That when a person has a bad habit We are fighting the habit And not the person Allahu Akbar In the same way that I mentioned When we nappy train We are fighting the urination And not the little baby of ours May Allah SWT Make us all potential leaders And may Allah SWT Grant this ummah leadership That can guide it And steer it to success That will only happen Through the practice And the sunnah of Muhammad SAW May Allah grant that to us A lot can be said But I have uttered Whatever Allah SWT Has written for us to utter May Allah accept it from me And may Allah accept the listening from yourselves On this day We raise our hands in dua'at To Allah SWT Asking Him from His mercy Allahumma salli ala nabina Muhammad Wa ala ala nabina Muhammad Wa barik wa sallim Ya Allah forgive our sins We have committed so many sins Ya Allah that we don't even remember The sins we've committed Ya Allah We've lost count of the sins We've committed Ya Allah you know All of them Forgive us Ya Allah We know That whenever we raise our hands For you you forgive us Ya Allah and you grant us our wish And our dua'at Ya Allah we've raised our hands Helplessly to you Ya Allah Yet we are so hopeful in your mercy Ya Allah Without you we are helpless But with you Ya Allah There is nothing else that we need Ya Allah we know you have forgiven us So grant us the ability To feel this forgiveness To feel the mercy To feel the barakat To feel better people Ya Allah we promise and we undertake That we will never engage in any of the bad habits We've been engaging in in the past Ya Allah Ya Allah make us strong Protect us from zina Ya Allah Ya Allah whatever we've committed in the past Ya Allah forgive us We know you forgiven us Ya Allah Ya Allah we know that you always say That you never return anyone's hands Without having answered their dua'at Ya Allah forgive us Protect us from zina Protect us from alcohol Ya Allah Protect our children and the ummah From bad habits From drugs Ya Allah From all the evils that are going on around Ya Allah From piercing different parts of their bodies Ya Allah In such a way that it is Earns your wrath Ya Allah Ya Allah save us Ya Allah


This study used social network analysis, SNA, to explore the dynamics of collaboration among frontline health professionals participating in two maternal, newborn and child health, MNCH, coordination structures in a rural South African district. The results showed that the overall network structure was predominantly hierarchical, with clusters of organizations linked by a combination of district MNCH program and line managers, who served as connectors or boundary spanners. Additionally, the study found that interprofessional and intra-cluster collaborations varied, indicating the importance of small units in district functioning. Finally, the study concluded that SNA can provide valuable insight into the nature of relationships and key actors in collaborative dynamics, which can help identify system strengths and weaknesses, and ultimately improve the delivery of health services. This article was authored by Fiddley Kenyambu Mukinda, Sarah Van Bell and Helen Schneider. We are article.tv, links in the description below.