Take a chance in Life

assalamu alaikum folks it's been  quite a long day i was at a wedding i thought i'd share some thoughts with you guys  firstly since it's almost wedding season a quick dua may of god bless all these couples and  the journey of life that lays ahead of them people whether it's relationships jobs  work careers economic opportunities

life presents us with choices and there  comes a time when we have to make a decision okay i want you to think back about your own lives  whether it's 10 years ago 15 years ago five years ago you must have made some decision which as a  result of today your life is completely different

have you done something else you went to  a different university you didn't turn up somewhere on a particular day and end up  meeting who's going to be your spouse or you did not i don't know you took a different  route one day and came across a job opportunity or you've read something or you decided to but your  life today is different because of that decision whether it's for better or  for worse but it's different had have you taken a different decision that day  today things would have been entirely different

so this is what it's about life presents  us with choices and we see opportunities but here's the here's here's the spanner in  the works we are creatures of habit okay of the familiar you see many people are stuck in life  in a in a job for example they don't even like

or some people are stuck in a toxic relationship  or some people but the the key issue here is that the job is simply familiar it's discomforting but  it's familiar they are in a toxic relationship but it's familiar they are suffering their lifestyle  but it's familiar you see we would prefer

the familiar even if it's discomforting we would  prefer that over the unfamiliar possibility see the familiar even if it's causing  suffering rather than the unfamiliar horizon and in many ways one could argue the word  insane is mushtaq it's derived from the word uns

which is familiarity and because of  this but this is where we have to explore the unfamiliar "an  laysa lil insan illa ma sa'a" Insan will only have that  which he or she strives for let me give you an example from the lifetime of  the prophet salallahu alaihi was sallam all too all i mean so well known to all of us the hijrah  the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam in Mecca

you are the most beloved of places to me so familiar but because of the difficulties the  struggle there was an unfamiliar possibility yathrib or as we know it Madinah  alMunawwarah (the Enlightened city) and this unfamiliar possibility that the prophet went towards went on to change  the course of human history

you and i, i'm sitting here a muslim today you  whoever wherever you're watching this because of that unfamiliar possibility the prophet  taking that route and this was not only to change the lives of people like you and  me but human civilization as we know it sometimes we have to embrace the unfamiliar  we have to take that risk in life we have to take that chance and life could be something else  and our legacy can speak for itself in the words of Mir Taqi Mir, he says: "Kahein kya jo puche koi  hum se Mir, Jahan mein tum aye the kya kar chale"

what shall we say to them if they ask that you  came in this world but what legacy did you leave behind leave you with that have a blessed day  folks, Wasalamullah alaikum, wa Khuda Haafiz.