Seize the Opportunities of Life before Death

beginning with just praising a lineman handle Oh salat wa salam o allah rasool is Mustafa who are already live in October among be hoedown method Oh be a 30 al madina doctor about so once again I mean Salam o aleikum all of you I would like to begin with the words of the messenger of allah so allah and he will send them that a young fella young fella that you've got to where i am i am

translating there's no point that young mobile right that young mother led to the recommend hussein and so that's really just absolutely out of our reach what right all right sorry i'll still friendly am that we've got that days are really of three types the young mother land two three come in who she and are a day which is gone that

you will never be able to reach while you're moving laterally a to jericho homeland and the day of tomorrow the day the future which you are not certain that would you reach that future or not and then the messenger of allah sallallahu sallam said that were yeomen interfere and a day which you are in now felt animal so seize it I'd like to also stemming from the

hadith slightly change the tone okay so it is undeniably a very difficult time and with all the complexities that that brings however I'd like to kind of to kind of change the tone to a more positive type of tone that you see is in Islam from the Quran and hadith we learn

great practical wisdom this great sense of positivity that the professor Allison when he's speaking to people even about times of difficulty when he's speaking even of things like the final hour okay that is a like doomsday Leslie apocalypse this it's going to be let's say you've got the the final hour is approaching upon people in the prophecy Ali's room said in a hadith that if I can I had to come yes if somebody was just planting something and the final sir I came upon him funny

Ezra let him continue doing what he's doing it for he mentioned in a hadith that if a person was if he was eating that kanayeva look mutton he laugh and the final hour comes upon him failure feh look metal I don't like meaning go about your business with the way you meant to do things Muslims at the same time I mean everywhere all human beings and we we have the same emotions we you know and we sustain a loss naturally it is very difficult I mean we

go through the whole process of grieving and everything and that's acceptable and that's understandable however the focus should be on moving forward we should not be a people that just lament and just go over the past and just constantly I'm not saying that you are doing that but I'm trying to say that this is the teaching that we also find in the Quran and the hadith we find this great pragmatism this type of stoicism this type of like taking things like yes something happens as as the brothers

spoke earlier on I'm very I'm very well I mean I mean excellently he went through the hadith of the prophet Elijah and when he explained that the matter the affair of the Muslim Caliphate that in Asafa who you know schefren the even if he is afflicted by something bad he's just patient and if he's just grateful to Allah and if something good comes his way he's too grateful to Allah and this is the way of a Muslim it isn't about you see it isn't about the quantity of moments that you live in

your life it's about the quality of life that you live in each moment do you understand what I'm trying to say it's not about you see many like they say everybody dies but not everybody gets to live there is a difference it's about what you have achieved and what you will leave behind well I'm not as Allah says in the Quran mom am I in fairness for him because of a lot that that which will benefit the people

it will remain in this earth leaving a legacy behind I think we should all endeavor we should all kind of struggle to leave a legacy behind and somebody I believe it was Ya Ya Ya laysa from Cordoba who when he was once speaking about trying to about wishing to leave a legacy and so on and somebody tried to criticize him and they said to him you know after how do you say I need I mean yeah Haven yeah he and Lacey for those

of you slightly maybe not too familiar with him is he is one of the the key transmitters of the motto of Imam Malik he traveled to Imam Malik on two occasions he came from al-andalus went all the way to madina munawwara and he studied with the Imam and he brought back his rewire of the motto which became which is today the most prominent and you know it was most relied upon a rewire of the oldest book of Hadees we have in a Muslim world today in the world today the motto of Imam Malik and when he was doing something once and he was speaking

about a legacy and and people said to him you know yeah sure how can you kind of be speaking about this and shouldn't everything be just about like oh you know you like isn't that also a form of like almost a form of trying to kind of show off or something like if you want to leave something behind what you want people that come after you to kind of mention you and to praise you and he said if that was the case then why are the UM beer in the Quran saying to Allah what I listen a simpleton

fill our hearing and let those who come after me speak good of me that this this is what the dunya is really about it is about achieving something it is about doing something and yes along the way many unfortunate things may happen but also many amazing things will happen and each and every person has his own type of journey to go upon yet Allah has kind

of placed us in in this type of intricate web where we are linked to one another and you know somebody somebody's father and somebody somebody's brother or sister or mother whatever and we have these type of relations and this is how Allah has set us about our mystery yeah but yeah each and every individual is going about their own journey okay and they are trying to achieve and it's and that is what lazily in my lazor live in sunny in LA massage and really that what a person will have

and I know I know there is esta life amongst the folk aha and later especially within the multi-method the later automated except things like Esau Luthor were up and stuff like this however the early older man within the meth lab didn't really accept that I know this isn't a fake do you guys would fit but the thing is what I'm trying to say is that if you look at the mentality of some of the early folk AHA of the Malachy mother or the school of Medina this thing of saying you can't send rewards to other people just like that and they're not talking not to our by

the way they're talking about just sending reward what they meant by that is it highly encouraged an individual to try hard for him or herself do you understand like basically I have to like it's not about basically it's only what I do for myself that counts so I better make the most of it and this type of mentality it made people kind of go out there and do things and and people

before us have left huge legacies I mean just us today the tradition that has reached us the Quran having reached us the sooner having reached us all this the end the Sharia are all of these things that have come to us haven't just got to us I'm just rolled down to us like that people have put in some strenuous effort to kind of pass the baton on to us to kind of make it reaches the question then is what will we be doing what are we doing to take

that further that is the question when we look into historically the type of a tradition that has been left for us things that like the problems we're facing today people had over a thousand years ago you know sat down and put together principles put together rulings for Tower Hawaii you know Bobbitt so on all these things put them together so people even today we're looking at them and saying all right okay based on

that we can do this we can do this we can do this and so I would like to really set the focus and saying what are we actually doing what will we be leaving behind there is no you know there is no this isn't a perfect world nothing will be there always be problems yeah I mean it's it's interesting actually somebody said reminiscing about

Al Andalus well he said licorice a in Edom Ataman oxen fella you were repeatable Elijah in son everything when it reaches its perfection the only basically when you've hit the top the only way to happen is the only way to go now is this back down like that's it like meaning once things become perfect they'll only become deficient after that so human beings shouldn't become too complacent and content said he'll amoral

commercia had to do it that is the way things are they go round man sera who's dominant as man that whosoever is is pleased with a particular time he'll find many other times where there will be discomfort but that's life you know what will kill a young new tara we know having a mess and these days we sin between like a lhasa you know we kind of revolve them twin people but that shouldn't put anybody down you should set

people make them think okay what am i doing in my life what am i doing I was speaking earlier one about a scholar a great legendary scholar from al-andalus father abu bakr abram arabe somebody almost about 900 years ago and absolute legend and somebody that if you don't really know you should really know because you should look him up is that all the abu bakr umar be from ish billion from seville and he see this guy apart from being an awesome scholar

which he was he traveled the world and he wrote many books he wrote in stuff a seer and he wrote his his commentary upon hadith and his commentaries are in print today here's a few commentaries on the more thought recent one came into print about a few years back called the masonic but he also has a very famous legendary commentary on the german term ET which is called are that allah with e but in the he mentions a lot of like his journals so when he's traveling he's mentioning things he's saying oh yeah so like he's talking on about a hadith he's giving a commentary but he might say oh you know this one day when I was in

Damascus and this happened and for us to read that now is so inspirational because it's almost 900 years later it's a direct window into that part oh I just realized I'm supposed to be supposed to be speaking like that okay sorry so it's a direct window into that time and place and I was just saying it's interesting how he speaks because he was a student of a mammal AHA's early and it's interesting how he speaks of allah as early because he sees he comes up he's traveling with his father is going

about to these different places and it's going here is going the and in Baghdad and they he sees al-ghazali but as early is this legend in but that even is a done an absolutely done this so this guy he sees in these gatherings are like they run packed and they have run packed not just with your normal people he says that this person when he would he says that he when he was leaving let's say from the Masjid going home like from after giving his talk he

would have like 500 people like I mean like proper scholars walking him home that's an entourage that that's a legend now anyway he attended some of his the ruse anything boy these guys do anything this he is he's up there he's an absolute legend anyway years later he goes to do Hajj and he's coming back and and he's coming back he's cutting through the desert of sham and he sees this guy they're traveling through and it happens to be a

lavas Adi so here's this guy dressed in all these disheveled clothing and he's got patches on his Thorburn he's he's all of you know soul of the place and he's living in this desert living rough like a Bedouin this is towards the later part of Carly's life and he is shocked so he goes to us early and he says he says I don't know you know introducing tough know if you remember me but obviously probably don't but you know I used to come to roost in birth dad and

so on and so forth early is like okay he's saying so he says to us early well he says sheriff don't mind me saying so but was not teaching him but much better than this like Warren like meaning what on earth is this why have you done with yourself and he responds to him by basically trying to say that look like I did my piece and he says it to him like I did when I beat and he

said like he's he tries to say to him but I didn't find a suitable audience or people that appreciate it but I did my part and I moved but he says it to him in an actual point he says he just kind of comes up with this he says turret to Hamas order well Leila be Manzini world to ìletís hehe Oh William until that he says I left all those that mocking about and doing this and doing that and I've come back to fix my first of all meaning of come like I think it's a bit of time it's time now that I go back to fixing

me he says for now that be a schwa of Muharram for javi he Mehnaz elementa who are away the calf Angele that you know he says that the my passions and everything called out to me that Sheila this is what you meant to me just just relax now like maybe focus on yourself says well result Elohim hustling that happened phenomena it reversely in a surgeon focus or to Mirza he says like I like I basically did something like I did set about this thing but I didn't

find any like a suitable type of audience for it so I just broke my thing and just left but and then Ibaka deplorably spends the following years with him and proper like really studying and he always goes on to refer to him as a Danish mint which is Farsi for the genius and he goes back and becomes this legend over credible arpita's and that is what this question that is what things should be about what are we doing and I'm not trying to say I have this attitude

where I say that look we shouldn't be focusing too much on I mean I know my people might disagree with me on this but we shouldn't be in our day and age and I don't just mean us here I mean us generally in the world today and especially Muslims in the West and in especially in Europe we should be focusing on the positives not too much on the negatives don't worry about things you ain't like don't worry about things that you're doing wrong now I'm being recorded so I should watch myself right don't worry about things that you

do worry concentrate on the positives like why are you not doing some why are you not developing you learning about the Deen why are you not taking or why are you not trying to reconnect with this legacy this heritage why are you not learning about these people I mean there's a saying in English that history's history is nothing but the biographies of great people because really what is history history is nothing like I mean history

is just that people did things that's all history is that great people did something and we call that history so why are you not doing something positive why are you know when we talk about this heritage we talk about these people starting obviously with the seed of the processor Allison the Sahaba the older man the Imams the self the lady okay if we don't know about them but think about it nobody knew about them you didn't just boom you ain't just born knowing these things there's a saying I

mean in English that you know the man at the top of the mountain don't just fool thee he obviously made his way thee so the point is that if you didn't know that's not a problem but why don't we start learning why don't we start to learn about things like how do we pray how many how do you do we do how do we do these things what is what is salah what is so what is why are we and there is no excuse of trying to say you know when I stopped doing X Y & Z then I'll start learning about the good things in

Islam by meaning I'm going to stop being a bad person first that's just nonsense that's why I'm trying to say look the focus shouldn't be on the negatives it should be on the positives you should still be learning you should we still be trying to understand what is happy throughout the different categories of how these how does that how has it reached us what why not is this not a part of our tradition so why are we not actually doing anything to acquire it to learning it that's what

I mean about changing the whole focus changing the whole type of you know the trajectory really into something like this and I think that that's something we should really all go away with today and I think you have got great people here you've got great many great mashaallah on am and art and people that are participating here and other people that you've got locally within within Belgium oh I mean Marshall all of you have got connections anyway with with the Arab world and the internet full of

things and you've got local brothers trying to also teach many of you people we should go away with this message of why are we not doing something if we ain't about learning and let's develop ourselves let's reconnect with this legacy that kind of reached us okay this type of heritage because it's your own it's nobody else's I mean soon I was just saying earlier one today that we have this this thing especially in the UK which I mean we're trying to talk about like the heritage of like the Muslim heritage in let's say Allah and

the loose and so on and we're trying to revive some knowledge about that but I was just saying that here it's so much more at home for you guys not only in the sense that okay you probably I don't know if you are closer to Spain I suppose so probably you are closer than the UK but but also in the sense that the people many of them that originally were they were like like you know like motherly type of roots and and connections in that sense so it's actually much closer to you guys much more at home with all of you to be

learning about all of this that had happened what of all this history that occurred here the history of al-andalus in Europe Muslims for 800 years what they made what they showed what they left behind I mean they didn't it wasn't just nothing I mean forgot this is what I mean like we all if everybody is everybody comes in this dunya that and everybody will pass away that's not that's inevitable but if all it means is I just live a routine life and I don't do anything with my life then what's the point

I mean what's the point of anything you know like we don't you respect animals just live like that anyway they just come live this I mean you don't want to just be a number a statistic you want to do something now that you're here you know this there's actually I mean I there isn't an audience here to really understand or toe ain't no Bollywood understanding people yeah but but there is this very famous Hutu poet where he says he says in this poem that he says Raheen Acosta

marital me Dustin any that you know that my story remains untold in my heart now is they are missing Jack we Zuba Mary and neither does anybody in this land understand my like what I'm trying to say he says Lucy said to Ray aslam with da Jota he says that which was the real goal in life we stayed so far away from gay Oh Marie Aziz our Araya comedy that how this dear

life of mine just went to waste that meaning that you see things will come to an end anyway but it's about focusing on ourselves and this is why I said that each and every person that goes away should think I think in many ways you guys have got it a lot easier in the sense that you already you see the Muslim communities in or especially a large part the Muslim community in the UK don't really speak Arabic they mainly like let's say a Pakistani origin or

Asian and so on and the majority of them especially but so for them they've got a greater struggle in the sense that okay to reconnect a lot of them really to truly reconnect connect have to learn the Arabic language first and then they have to learn you know other things and try and understand things like the Quran and hadith and fear and you guys have already got the Arabic language so a huge benefit or a huge point your advantage is that you've already got that now it's just about putting in that

effort and reconnecting there is there were there's a very very interesting actually it's quite a longer see the but part of it that somebody wrote reminiscing about what the Muslims had and he says he says in neither the curtain was the Quran we're cuttin much then tallit and be a Dean about now they says that I remember and remembrance is something that keeps you awake at night and he says that such

a glory that we had in our hands but we lost it he says unmanned other - Hillel Islam if he piloting what you to look at a remark so Sanjana hahoo that wherever I look at Islam whatever part of the world I find it like a bird whose wings have just been cut off he says comes our prophet and I hadn't kunana saw brief aha but a young lacunae shaman Malik namu

he says that all that he says how many like how islamically speaking that people rude with such dignity and today the type of situation the him the people who lean over them in such such like kind of denigrating ways he says Easter Easter shuttle horrible bill ma vie for our shada who wanna know Colonel and her Martina Sina that how many especially Europe he says they saw enlightenment from the past they took lessons and it took him forward and we had a history we

have the history and nobody seems to really want to learn from me or anything says that machine now what a lot of be not be so mean the year he foresaw Burton a shuttle yeah the here you know we try and go behind like try and take lessons from other people when we've got greater we've got a greater culture a great whole legacy which we ignoring and all this does by trying to take false enlightenment it just hurts you ultimately that's what he tries to say he

he says that Yama Yama and tax ooh-ooh Porter - who was a - ottoman who welcome wha who says if anybody saw her memories to live in his lifestyle the type of clothing the type of you know disheveled housing that he had yet so kids yeah sukhasana I'll of course EE he fell upon men Patsy he was mukuru meter shell he says that how you know superpowers of the world like the Persian superpower the Roman superpower which were huge superpowers in the day need Oh

I mean how they were so shocked by this one person I'm gonna blow hot Bob all day long one and he's just a normal birth I mean it wasn't somebody so it was like a super human or something he says what la who yesh had a fire in a Seattle home that we don't Allah knows we haven't really looked into these people for after Adam yeoman for after Adam image Rahu like we've never really parted an eyelid as you say in English of these type of people or anything and

how long will we live on their legacy how long will we live on their legacy lad doridori great in you three our inner well you three perhaps our who inside that you know what that like shame on such a person that all he does is just goes on about his forefathers and if you ask him who are you he just drops his head in shame I mean II like what am I understand or body meaning that if you you know continued yes it's

good I mean these people these on a man these all this tradition it is our tradition and to be part of it to honor it to kind of pass it on is a huge you know we should take pride in that but at the same time we should try and be there as well honoring is good and I know you know I'm people and we do take you know it's because you know what what is he safe is how will I ever if I didn't he'd be missing him he that you're not not yet I did or my Jeremy you know this these are my forefathers gone bring somebody like them and yes that is a good but the thing is as well at the same time you

have to kind of do something yourself as well so inshallah I just wanted to kind of carry the faith I got carried away that's my problem but the thing is that what I really just I wanted to do was kind of change the tone - yes not in any way detracting from the gravity of the incident but trying to say that as muslims we do recognize it however we

have to always focus on moving forward okay we have to always think about okay what are we doing how are we planning on moving forward how are we planning what are we planning on doing with our own lives what like just to take you know I said no more would say that has a boom for second table and to hobble that and I don't just mean in that the hey Serb of like go like in a very I'm not just talking about oh I'm sinful I'm really bad I'm like this and that I don't mean in that sense although most of that is

part of it as well but I mean in the sense of what am i doing and if I'm not doing anything and I'm actually saying what I mean by what am i doing why am I not learning about all of this because this is really all part of something which is yours each and every person that is sitting here you know men women everybody this is what the things I've been talking about is actually a part of your very own heritage every single person here is connected to that so it's

not you know this is not something which it's not to do with just being you know it's not just a a national thing a tribal thing a racial thing it's something which spans much beyond all of that it's something which leaves you over a thousand years of rich legacy and it's about time people kind of wake up to that and they learn about it and take pride in that said you know may allah subhanaw taala give us all to

tawfiq - really - go look into these things to have a passion for these things may Allah increase our knowledge of of all of these alone that have been left for us may Allah deepen our understanding of the Quran and Sunnah in a true meaning and a more objective understanding for our day and age for and for our circumstances may allah subhanaw taala alleviate the difficulties of all Muslims especially for the Sherif with

us today and his family may allah subhanaw taala provide ease for any for each and all were going through any difficulties and may allah subhanaw taala reward everybody that's attended and especially those brothers and sisters likewise that I've kind of put this together and just really had it in their mind that we're making because the objective of this and well our might have been needs that we're trying to you know just make e make things slightly easy for a person who's gone through some hardship and the

hadith says that manifest Aqaba that you know for a moment whoever kind of makes something like a slight pain or grievance for a Muslim easy enough assalam corporal llamo TM that Allah will make it easy for for him for that person on the day of judgment so may allah subhanaw taala accept this from them and from each and every one here and does that feel of that for pulling up with me just going on and on for the past off now Salaam alaikum what off me - like - I love aircraft