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Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

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  • Adab is critical

    Adab is critical
    Jun 30 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wasalatu wassalamu ala ash-shaytani anbiya wal-munsaleen. Muhammad Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi salam. Tasliman kathiran kathiran. From now on, my brothers and sisters. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said in Surah Al-Hujurat. A'udhu billahi min ash-shaytan al-rajim. In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. Ya ayyuha alladhina amanu la tuqaddimu bayna yadehi allahi wa rasulihi wa attaqullah. Inna allaha sami'un alim. Ya ayyuha alladhina amanu la tarfa'u aswatakum fawqa sawti al-nabi'i. Wa la tajharu lahu bilqawli kajjahri ba'dikum li ba'd. Anta habata amalukum wa antum la tash'urun. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said which means, O believers. Do not proceed. Do not go ahead in any matter. Ahead of the decree of Allah and his messenger. Do not proceed in any matter before a decree from Allah and his messenger. Which means, wait for what Allah said and his messengers have said. And then do it. Don't precede that. Don't try to preempt that. And fear Allah. Surely Allah is all-hearing, all-knowing. And then Allah says again. Allah repeats this word of command. O believers. Do not raise your voices above the voice of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Nor speak loudly to him as you do to one another. Or your deeds will become null and void while you are unaware. You will not even know but your deeds will be wiped out. Now, what is being taught here? If you see this beautiful. The Hadith of the Holy Quran. Is the issue of Adab. The issue of respect. An attitude of deep and great respect. For Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and his Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So, my question to myself is, why is this so important? Why is it so important that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, not only is He commanding the believers, which means inshallah us, to lower our voices and not speak loudly to the Rasul, like we do amongst ourselves? What's so important and why is that? And the answer to that is, that for everything, to benefit from everything, there is a system, there is a method, there is a way. If you want to benefit from that system, you have to follow that way. Otherwise, you will not be able to benefit. The way of benefiting from Islam is through adab, through respect, deep and abiding respect in the word of Allah and in the teachings of Muhammad Rasulullah. And if you don't do that, then we cannot benefit from Islam, we cannot benefit from the kitab of Allah, we cannot benefit from Islam. We cannot benefit from the teachings of Rasulullah . Now think about this, that Allah is saying, if you raise your voice above the voice of the Nabi , Allah will wipe out your deeds. What does that mean? If somebody lands on the Day of Judgment, and may Allah protect us from being that person, and you land up there on Jai'f Judgment, you spent your whole life doing all kinds of good stuff, you went for Hajj many, many times, you gave a lot of sadaqah, you prayed, you did all kinds of good things. But when you reach before Allah , nothing is there, and your book of deeds is blank, because you did not show the respect for Rasulullah , which was his due. Now, what happens to somebody who has no deeds? He goes to Jahannam. The Prophet said, I am the one who has no deeds. I am the one who has no deeds. I am the one who has no deeds. I am the one who has no deeds. Now, when this ayat was revealed, Sayyidina Omar , he was a man with a very deep commanding and powerful voice. He started, when he would then, after this ayah was revealed, whenever he would speak to the Prophet , he would mumble. He would speak in a very low voice, and he would mumble. So, Nabi asked him, what's wrong with you? Why are you speaking like this? And he discovered that he had put pebbles into his mouth. And he said, Ya Rasulullah, Allah revealed this ayah that if my voice goes above your voice, then I will go to Jahannam. So,
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  • Fatwa and Hukm

    Fatwa and Hukm
    Jun 29 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honor of the prophets and messengers, and praise be to the Messenger of Allah, may peace and blessings be upon him and his family, and upon his family and his companions, and on many many things. From Abadu, my brothers and sisters, a very important matter that I want to speak to you about. And that is, somebody asked me this very wonderful question. The question they asked me was, they said that somebody has given a fatwa to say that if you do not own your own house, if you do not own a house, then to buy your first house, it is permissible to use an interest bearing mortgage. Right? The fatwa is, if you don't own a house, it is permissible to, get a house using an interest bearing mortgage. So I thought, let me clarify this once and for all. And for that, the excuse or the logic they have given, they used two terms which are Shari'i terms. One, they said that this is, to own a house is Darurah. To own a house is Darur. Darurah is the Shari'a. Darurah is something which, if you don't have this, if you don't have that, you will perish. Right? If you don't have that, you will perish. So in that case, the Haram becomes Halat. For example, if I don't get dinner today, can I use that to eat something Haram? No. Because if I don't eat one meal, nothing will happen to me. I won't die. But if I am not able to get any food, for say three days, four days, nothing. Not one scrap. So at the end of three days or four days, that's a different level of Darurah, different level of desperation. That's understanding about the word Darurah. The second word or term they used was that, since you are living in Darul Harb, Darul Harb. So I thought, let me explain this to you. And of course, this is recorded, so you can go and listen to it again and again if you like. First and foremost principle to understand is this, that all goodness, all khair, all barakah, all blessing is only and only in the obedience of Allah . Not in disobedience of Allah. So first get this thing settled. Once and for all, settle this in your mind. Don't live in confusion that there is no goodness, goodness in the disobedience of Allah. For example, somebody asked Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam, they said, Ya Rasulullah, if there is some medicine in which there is some alcohol, there is something which is haram, which is not, you know, the whole thing is not alcohol, but Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam said, there is no goodness in what Allah has prohibited. Period. So there is no goodness in what Allah has prohibited. There is no, no evil in what Allah has permitted. So all goodness comes from obeying Allah and all evil comes from disobeying Allah. That is the first thing which I want you to understand and fit in your mind. Then let me explain the second term which is, this term which is used in the, by the scholars called Darul Harb. Now Darul Harb and so on is not part of any, is not part of the, is not in the Quran and Sunnah, but this is terminology that was later on, created by the scholars. Alhamdulillah, it's good terminology, nothing wrong with that, but you must understand what it means. There are three classifications of states, of countries, three classifications. One is Darul Islam. Darul Islam is a country which is ruled by Muslims according to the Sharia of Islam. Right? Completely everything. The civil law, the criminal law, the law, concerning family law, right? Every single thing in this country is run completely and totally 100% according to the Sharia of Islam. There is no disobedience of Allah which is permitted in that country and that country is ruled by Muslims. This is called Darul Islam. Now I won't comment on, in today's world which country is like this. I'll leave that to, I'll leave you to discover that. Number two is a country in which
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  • Power of action

    Power of action
    Jun 28 2025
    https://youtu.be/8g4Wt9POJOM Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. Peace and blessings of Allah be upon the noble Prophet and the Messengers. The Messenger of Allah, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and his family and his companions. May peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and his family and his companions. My brothers and sisters, once again, the Ashley of the Wire. It's a flux of geese. And doing what geese do, which is, if you can see, they have appended themselves to get up the grass and stuff and the weeds at the bottom. And everything, everyone in the universe is engaged in Ahmad, in action. And nobody is sitting still. As they say, in the morning when the sun rises, whether you are a lion or if you are a gazelle, you start running. Because if you don't run, you die. You get eaten or you starve. And that's the secret of success, is start running. Action. I remind myself anew that we talk about the dawah. Of Rasulullah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. But reflect on, think about this. 40 years, for 40 years before he preached a single ayah. Rasulullah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, was born in Makkah. He lived in Makkah. He was a toddler and a teenager in Makkah. He was a young man in Makkah. He was in his 30s in Makkah. It's only when he, was 40 that he received the first Wahi. Now during all these years, he lived in a society which was, if anything, more promiscuous, more permissive, more vice-filled, than absolutely anything that we know even today. Because in Makkah of that time, prostitution was not only legal, but it was so common, that we know the hadith of Sayyidina Ayesha Siddique Harad-e-Ranhai. She said that if a prostitute became pregnant, then she would just come out, and she would just point to a man, and say, he is the father of the baby. And the man accepted. No one even contested that. And say, I'm not the father. Now obviously this was before, DNA checks and what not so. You know. No one castigated or criticized the prostitute. You can say, well, how could he do that? Which was accepted or normal. And the reason, the man, whoever it was, was pointed at and accepted, was because, he couldn't be absolutely certain, but it would have been some, this lady was somebody he would have visited. So he said, okay, so maybe it happened. So the point is that, permissiveness and promiscuity was at that level. Alcohol flowed through the society like water. Almost everybody, illa mashallah, there were some of the Sahaba who were not, but otherwise almost everybody was what today you would call an alcoholic. At some stage of alcoholism. To the extent that we have the, the saying and the call of Sayyidina Omar Ibn al-Khattab where he said that if Islam had not come to me, if I had not come to Islam, he said I would have died either because of the effect of alcohol or I would have died in a, what we would call today a bar fight. Heard of, you know, got into a fight because of with other people who were drinking and I would have died. He said Islam is what saved me. So this is how common these things were and this is how, you know, evil society was. In that society, Rasool Allah long before he declared prophethood, got the title, As-Sadiq ul-Ameen. The truthful and the trustworthy. He did business, and he was, he became known as a good businessman. But there were many other good businessmen. So he was, he didn't stand out as the best businessman in Makkah, the businessman who made the most profit, the businessman who accumulated the most capital, the businessman who had the biggest caravans. No. He got identified as the most honest businessman in the world. The businessman with the highest integrity. And that's how he also got the proposal from Saeeda Khadija for marriage because she was impressed with his, not only with his, not just with his business acumen,
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