Assalama'alaikum,
Here's a talk that I have heard from Shaykh Zahir Mahmood. :)
Umar r.a. saw a man walking with a weak posture... Umar r.a. whipped him! He whipped the man and he said "
May Allah destroy you for DO NOT DESTROY THIS DEEN." Muslims are meant to be motivating people.
You know, you're sitting at the shisha lounge..you know at the shisha lounge..
"Bro, I wanna revolutionize the world!"
"Bro we gotta take Palestine over"
It doesn't happen like that! Many of those people, Masha Allah, who are religious.. who pray 5 times salah.
But that's as far as they go and somebody has told me and you that '
WE ARE RELIGIOUS'..Somebody has told me and you that because we come to the masjid..because we have a beard..because we have a hijab.. and Alhamdulillah, these are all part of the deen. But somebody has told us that you're practising. Let me tell you
HE'S LIED TO YOU. HE'S LIED TO YOU. So we have in our minds
"I'm practising, Bro. I don't need to do anymore" The person has lied to you.
When
Shifa Bint Abdullah saw a group of people and these people spoke very softly, they walked with weak posture. She said "Who are these?" She was told that these are the ZUHAAD, the are people of abstinence. These are people who stay away from the Dunya. She replied
"I saw Umar Ibn Khattab. I saw Umar Ibn Khattab and when Umar spoke you could HEAR him. When he walked you couldn't KEEP UP with him and when he struck you, you would FEEL it."
She said " By Allah, there was no greater
ZAHID than
Umar Ibn Khattab."
Why? Because these people had sat with the Prophet Muhammad S.A.W. They had seen a man on a mission.A man who was motivated for the sake of Allah S.W.T. The sahabah say that when the messenger of Allah s.a.w. would walk, we would find it impossible to keep up with him because he was a man on a mission. He was a man who was going somewhere. He had an intention and I ask you -
WHAT'S YOUR MISSION?
WHAT'S YOUR MISSION IN LIFE? WHAT DO YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE IN LIFE? WHAT'S YOUR FOCUS IN LIFE? DO YOU ACTUALLY HAVE A FOCUS? WHAT DO YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE?
And I am speaking from an Islamic perspective.. and look there are people here who are from different levels and different standards. Every single person should have a focus. So what is your aspiration in life? If there are people here who are not praying then you need to start praying.
But you need to put a system in place, which will allow you to pray, you know you hear brothers, family members saying "OH, Uncle! I'm going to start praying soon." See him 6 months later "Uncle, I'm going to start praying soon." What have you done to start praying? What is stopping you from praying?
Is it the tv? get rid of it. is it the PSP? get rid of it. Is it you friends and your company? Then get rid of them.
(Audience in silence)
Send them a text message "there's some changes I am making in my life and if you don't hear from me again, then you're one of them."
(lols...that was a joke. everyone broke the silence with laughter)
But make a change, make a change if you're praying. How much recitation of the Quran do you do?
How much do you read the Quran? How much dhikr do you do?
How much about the deen of Allah s.a.w. do you learn?
Where do you want to be after a year?
People for business they have a 100 year business plan. You see brothers and sisters who have been practising for 10 to 15 years and they are exactly where they were.
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A story comes to mind, that a group of young men were sitting by the Kaaba. The young men were very pious young men;
Mus'ab ibn Zubayr, Urwah ibn Zubayr (Both of them are the sons of
Zubayr ibn Awwam r.a.),
Abdullah ibn Umar and
Abdul Malik ibn Marwan. All four of these were sitting by the Kaaba and they say this is a holy place, so Mus'ab ibn Zubayr says to the rest "DESIRE" "Desire Something."
They say "You start." So he says "I desire to
marry the daughter of Hussain r.a., Sukayna and the daughter of Talha ibn Ubaydullah, Fatimah. And I also want to be the
governor of Iraq." They say
Ameen.
And a time comes where he marries both of them and becomes the governor of Iraq.
Then they asked Urwah ibn Zubayr r.a. "What do you want to be?" He said "I want to be a
muhaddith" and they say
"ameen." And the time comes that he also becomes a muhaddith, his dua was accepted.
Then they asked Abdul Malik ibn Marwan "What do you want to be?" He says "I want to be the
Khalif" and they all say "
Ameen." And a time comes that he becomes the Khalif.
And then they asked Abdullah, son of Umar ibn Khattab, "What do you want to be? Tell us, what do you desire?" He says, "I desire
Jannah" and Insha Allah, he attained what he desired for.
But these men didn't just desire, they
worked for it. They made an
effort for it.