0:15 [Music] alhamdulillah ald [Music] you meet
1:15 m [Music] subhah
2:23 subhanahu waaa all Praises are due to Allah subhanahu waala we praise him and we glorify him on this blessed day of J in this special month of RAB the month of the celebration and the commemoration of the Prophet Sall
3:09 wasam and in reality the celebration of Islam because the prophet sallallah alai wasam is the greatest and the most potent symbol of Islam there is nothing greater as a symbol representing Islam than the prophet sallallah alai wasam we mentioned in the month of saer as we welcome then the month of
3:57 RAB we mention it every night [Music] we would have mid program here at the Masjid in the month of R in honor of the Prophet s. wasam and I want today in our to mention some of the great benefits of the mid many of the Great Scholars of of Islam have said that the mjus of mid is the greatest Gathering Muslims can be part
4:48 of and [Music] firstly it is an expression of thanks to Allah for the N that he has bestowed upon us the M Gathering does this there is ham or Praise of Allah Allah subhanahu wa taala reveals in the
5:41 Quran and as for the N the bounties and blessings from Allah then mention it talk about it Express Thanks for it and talking about the blessings you have in your life in a good way is an expression of [Music] gratitude for example Allah has for you to say the statement Allah has blessed me with good health it is a recognition that this n
6:27 this blessing comes from Allah the source of the blessing it is Allah many times in our life we don't or some people don't recognize the source of the blessings in their life sometimes they attribute the things they get in their life the progress in their life the good things in their life to themselves to their efforts but really and truly ultimately it is a blessing from Allah everything we have in our life so a recognition of that and therefore we Express Thanks for the N or the Bounty that Allah has bestowed upon us in our lives this is
7:14 human nature human beings do this you get some gift in your life you get some good thing in your life you're happy about it and you want to express thanks to for example the person who gave you that you're looking for a job job and you need a job desperately and someone helps you to get a job you're thankful to that person because they help you and ultimately the thanks to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so the m is his expression of thanks for the from Allah subhanahu wa taala and secondly we must also recognize that the greatest blessing and bounty in our life is the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam
8:00 this is something that we need to remind ourselves of and fill our hearts with this the greatest bounty in our lives is the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam it is immeasurable the magnitude of this bounty from Allah that comes to us in the form of the Prophet wasam really he is the one who shows us the way for salvation in the dun and in the if it wasn't for the prophet sallallah alai wasam how would we know to worship Allah and their people their people other people other civilizations religion who do all kinds of strange
8:47 things because they've not been guided they don't follow a guidance that comes to them from Allah and therefore they want to decide for themselves how to worship Allah and they do all kinds of strange things one of my shakes one of my teacher he mentioned this story to me once many years ago he said he attended an interreligious conference once in another country people from different religions leaders of different religions were there so he was in the hotel for this
9:34 conference and a non Muslim another scholar of that his religion was there they sharing the room together and he got up early in the morning for fer and he saw that this roommate who was sharing the room there in the hotel he he was already up and he was sitting down on the ground and he had a small Bell in front of him and he was shaking this Bell and meditating so the Sheikh prayed for Jan on and then late in the morning breakfast he asked him what he was doing he said he was praying
10:20 to God that is how he does it their culture have developed veloped and I wouldn't mention the religion or nothing because I don't want to point fingers at anyone or any religion that's not the point but the point is if you are not in receipt of guidance from Allah if you don't get guidance from Allah you will not be guided last night in here in the Masjid I was teaching the students from AA the AK text and we mentioned the same point whomever Allah guides that is the person who's guided is a point of AA and whoever Allah does not guide will never find
11:06 guidance so people do all kinds of strange things in the name of worshiping their Divine being whoever that is that they believe in if you go to dang Toronto in the summertime young and bl uh you you would see people sometimes you see them dressed in white robe their their heads are shaved and they have a piece of hair at the top of their head remaining there uh and and they they hitting two pieces of medals together and chanting some phrases say that's their worship of the Divine being they believe in that's their worship Subhan Allah when you look at what other people do then you realize the great Bounty that the prophet Alam
11:54 is for us we got up this morning and we knew what we had to do for for fa we know today is Friday where we have to be for jum at a time we know what we have to do M we know what we have to do we know when we get up to eat or when we're eating how we what what hand we have to use to eat you you go and meet other people and you see something different the prophet says beic eat with your right hands that's the guidance he gave you he said don't eat with your left hands Shan e with his left hand you go with other people in other culture and you see what they do you you eat it with your right hand they look at je if you're strange because they eat with the left hand but
12:40 look at the guidance from the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam these are simple examples I'm sharing with you but so you understand the great Bounty and blessing of the Prophet Alam in our lives if he didn't give us this how would we get it where would we know it from all the details in our life guided to Allah because we follow the prophet s. [Music] wasam the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is the greatest n from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and that's what we talk about the mid this mid Gathering that talks about the prophet sallallah alai wasallam you reminded
13:30 the maid is perhaps the most effective way of learning and of being reminded about the S of the Prophet Alat wasam because one of the things we do the maet is to recite poetry recite poetry at the mid reminds you about the SE of the Prophet Alat wasam one of the things one of the popular poet poem that we recite so explain to those who are
14:18 present this is the song the po poem or the Poetry that the people of Medina recited when the prophet sallallah alai wasam came from Mecca to Medina on Hijra when he did Hijra from Mecca to Medina he arrived in Medina the people of Medina came out of Medina on the outskirts and they stood up in lines and rolls to welcome the prophet the bright shining moon has come upon us and this is the symbol in in Islamic poetry to show to to indicate or denote
15:05 something or someone that's very beautiful the as opposed to there different words in Arabic language for moon and the different phases of the moon the halil for example at the beginning phase and so on but badun is this symbol of love and beauty so one of the sahabas said San I looked to the prophet his face I looked to the Moon that was shining that night so
15:52 beautiful and I kept looking to the face of the prophet and the Beautiful Moon and then I concluded without a shadow of a doubt that the prophet wasam is more beautiful than that beautiful moon so in in the M when we recite this everyone is reminded about the SE of the Prophet was and about what the sahabas did and not only in this occasion in the Hadith is mentioned in the serus mention when when when the prophet Alam came to Medina and Hijra the Muslims they welcome him he never stopped them from doing that he never told them it's B never told him that he encouraged them
16:38 to do it he encouraged them to do this is the prophet wasam when he came back from Gaz to tabuk also it's mentioned when they came back from the Expedition and he arrived in Madina once again more Muslims now because more sahabas are there now they all came out the people of Madina came out to welcome the prophet Al and they also recited [Music] so refers to a mountain range and outskirts of Medina and through that mountain range runs the the the path where the road from Mecca to Medina anyone coming from Mecca to Madina will go come through those roads through the Mountain Ridge a huge mountain range which is still there in Medina now you go you see
17:24 it it is incumbant upon us it is wored upon us to express thanks and gratitude because the one the one who comes and calls us to Allah subhanahu wa taala the one who's inviting us to Allah the prophet Sall it's incumbent upon us to exess exess express thanks to Allah so this is what happen in the M the knowledge is transferred and this is one of the ways in which Islamic Sciences Islamic knowledge is transferred through
18:13 poetry in all the different Sciences of Islam they're what are called mutun mutun that summarizes or codifies that knowledge that science and this is how you would transfer knowledge you want to do Arabic grammar the Arabic language when we would study that the teacher the Sheik would let you memorize the Alia of Imam Malik Alia is a poem of Alia means Al of 2,000 lines of poetry that contains all the rules of Arabic grammar you memorize it and then the shake explains to you what it mean and that knowledge remains with you for the rest of your life
18:59 is a very effective system of Taj Taj recitation of Quran lines of poetry that tells you the rules of tajid of of [Music] Hadith this is the way of this is our tradition poetry is an integral part of our tradition it is not b and those who say it is they are destroying Islam from within be mindful about this and be mindful of them so the m has this great benefit as well transferring knowledge to you Subhan Allah in places like the city of Fez in
19:46 Morocco in the kaarin which is the second oldest university in Islam after Alazar Sharif built by a Muslim woman they have practice their their muled every day and part of that M they recite Quran and they have a practice they recite one J of the Quran every day so by the end of the month they finish the recitation of Quran if the month has 29 days they'll do two ju finally to do the if the month has 30 days one J in the final day to do theam and their children as young as 10 years old who would attend that M it from when they're babies and young child growing up 3 four
20:34 5 years and by 10 years old they would memorize the entire Quran without going to a hi school just by being there every day listening to it every day every day they grow up in that culture they memorize the Quran this is the benefit of the mid that it instills in us an amazing culture an amazing heritage that we should have and this is why the scholars have said the mid is the greatest Gathering you can be in support it let your family be part of it let your children especially come out and be part of it so that they can grow up in this culture in the culture of M love of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam love of the Prophet sallallahu
21:20 alaihi wasallam so Allah subhanahu waala says [Music] if you love Allah in this rhetorical question it's not that you the believer has an option not to love Allah we love Allah but it is to draw our attention to it you love Allah how do you express your love for Allah love and follow the prophet s wasam love and follow the prophet
22:06 sallallah alaihi wasallam Allah will love you then when you love the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam Allah will love you Subhan Allah and when you love the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam Allah will forgive you your sins Subhan Allah look at the great benefit of loving the prophet Sall was and when when you truly love the prophet Alam you are propelled you are inspired to live his Sunnah in your lives and so today I want to tell you
22:54 love the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallah alaihi wasam love him and love his Sunnah and the m is the vehicle towards achieving this Noble objective may Allah bless us with with love of the prophet and with with love for the sunah of the Prophet s alhamdulillah
23:39 [Music] continuing with our nightly mid uh program for the events of Rabil will tomorrow night Saturday night we have a special uh mid starting from 6:00 p.m. I want to encourage you to come out uh bring your family especially your children so that they can be part of
24:25 this Noble Gathering majus inshallah there are some important events that we are planning coming up soon I want to uh share this information today with you so hopefully you can plan your time to attend and participate on Sunday February the 2nd uh we are having a special sacred knowledge seminar this is a one day intensive seminar from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Sunday February 2nd and the theme of this seminar is a matter of life and death uh so in this seminar many
25:13 important practical things will be discussed uh including the conditions U during illness before death during death after death what you should do or you should say how if anyone in your family passes away what do you do what do you recite how do you prepare them immediately after that uh for for burial for janaza the Gul that has to be done on the body how it's done uh we'll have demonstration for both males and females two separate sessions during the seminar to show you how to do that how to wrap the body with a caffin uh
25:58 how to do the burial of the uh Muslim deceased what to say when you lowering the body in the grave when the body is in the grave after and so on what to recite after you finish covering the grave uh what do you do after what about the the the the the Journey of the soul in the bar what happens in the Barak the life of the Grave what happens at Resurrection what happens at uh and thereafter so many important things will be discussed I want to encourage you to register today with the volunteers in the back inshallah for the the special sacred knowledge seminar the Intensive
26:46 one day program inshallah on February Janu February the 2nd insh we need some sponsors to support this program and we've divided the sponsorship into shares of $50 please make a pledge today to sponsor this program the second item the following week the 9th of February Sunday as well uh we having a special Milad program here featuring say fudin suari uh who is from Pakistan and he is uh a very famous not kaan reciter of kns and KAS he'll be here and other speakers as well um so we want to invite you to
27:33 reserve that date that's the 9th of February Sunday uh for this special program in coordination with Islamic Supreme Council of Canada and Islamic Forum of Canada so February the 9th inshallah at 5:00 p.m. uh and the following Sunday 16th of February that weekend is the Family Day weekend here in Ontario so on that Sunday we're having a our annual usra that we have every year the special family program uh tickets are available today please get the tickets uh from Brother Usman and C Raman and the other volunteers inshallah um and we also need sponsors for the expenses of this program we've divided that into $50 each we hope you
28:19 can make a pledge of one or more shares today inshallah the salaat project continues remember to recite your salawat for the prophet Alam I announced the s project the Sunnah project today try to implement at least one Sunnah in in your lives inshallah by next Friday and every week we can introduce a new Sunnah Implement a new sun in our lives because of our love of the Prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam uh our TV program tomorrow 3:30 on Channel 9 Islamic school 10:30 tomorrow morning tonight we have the special Quran classes uh for adult the adult program for all of you inshallah parents grandparents brothers sisters uh starts at 700 p.m.
29:06 every Friday evening the Quran classes to teach you to read Quran memorize Quran Taj of Quran tap of Quran and other quranic Sciences inshallah um we have requests for Dua um my father Brother Ali Baku was here every week at the bookstore uh he's ill he he had be rushed to emergency 2 days ago um so please make Dua for him we'll make Dua for him if you can call him or visit him that would be good inshallah uh sister Aisha 11 years old uh passed away this week um in Trinidad we make Dua for her inshah uh shik Kabir who's here today we want to make special Dua for him he's leaving uh in a few hours to go for umrah uh and he decided to
29:53 come here and pray Juma with us and then he leave from here to go to the airport for his flight to to go for Omar we make special Dua for him and request him to make special Dua for us as well and we make special Dua for Kazi Bashir sa who's here with us today may Allah bless him with good health and long life inshallah please remember to visit the donation boxes before you leave today so you can respond to the appeals that we've mentioned may Allah bless you
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