my brothers and sisters have you ever noticed how you have a fisherman who fishes all day and he catches one fish or two and he goes back the next day and he catches again one or two sometimes he catches nothing but he will still go back and the quality that they say the fisherman has is patience am I right or wrong the same guy will come home and yell at his children he will be screaming in the most impatient person regarding his food his drink his tea and everything else what happened have you noticed this let me give you another example from amongst us they are golfers what will they do they will spend all morning hitting a ball and walking kilometers on end behind a small ball I think this size here and they enjoy it but the same guy will come home and he will make you come from a room far away to pass a remote that is meter away from him you notice that but you walk kilometers behind the ball and that was okay you notice this yes it's quite ironic isn't it but that is man you will engage inwi the entire month of Ramadan but you will be lazy for two units of Sal notice that see where we're heading we just ended the month of Ramadan we will Fast the entire month staying away from food drink and we will be impatient when it comes to one one simple matter after Ramadan sometimes even in Ramadan we have abstained from food in totality during Ramadan during the daylight hours but we will become so cross if there is a delay in the food or if something's wrong with the food for example something minor a little food got burned slightly the salt or whatever else it may be more or less where is the discipline where is the discipline the month of Ramadan has gone by the Prophet Muhammad sallah am speaks about the six fasts after that in the month of shaal and I promise you one of the beautiful benefits of it is that you continue in I and there is a Sunnah fast of three every month during the 13th 14th and 15th of the lunar calendar as well as two every week if you are going to do it on a Monday and a Thursday all of this is to instill the greatness of character conduct discipline Iman and help you engage in Acts of worship earning closeness to not just in Ramadan but even out of Ramadan we are now in the months of Hajj but notice how Allah gave us from the month of Ramadan straight into the months of Hajj because he wants us to continue don't be like the fisherman who says you've got to have a lot of patience you know I went with some of those fishermen to kba which is up north northern Zimbabwe and I just lasted a few hours and I told him guys you catch the fish I'll do the eating inshallah they say you you don't have the patience I said I have patience the real patience not just for fish Subhan Allah fishing patience is just an enjoyment they say when the fish catches the type of joy you get is unmatched I tell them when you catch your Sal the type of joy you get is unmatched the two units of Sunnah of f is better than the whole world and whatever it contains not just a fish or two that whole ocean Subhan Allah if you're a fisherman or a golfer and I don't mean any disrespect to you you should be ashamed of yourself if you cannot get up for Salat or if you're impatient when it comes to what the Imam is Reading in Salah or if you don't have that discipline in your life for your connection with Allah but you have it for a ptime may Allah grant us goodness and it's not only them it's all of us we require a lot of focus think about things one of the things that keeps me focused is I tell myself on the day of judgment Allah will show me my book and Allah will show me everything I've done may Allah forgive us that's a powerful statement because on the day of judgment you will see it that I asked Allah to forgive me oh Allah forgive our sins oh Allah grant us Jenna through your mercy mean every time I say something or do something I like to tell myself Allah will show you this deed you're standing in Salah and you're enjoying it Allah will show you your Deeds not just the bad Deeds The Good Deeds as well and Allah will tell you something very very powerful read your book here's your Deeds check them out and you know what you decide after that what's going to happen to you you can be a person against your own self making a decision take your own accounts there's your Deeds look at them and I sit and I think wow well look at all these videos we've made you're going to watch them you're going to see them look at all the Salah you've read look at the Quran look at the dress code look at the discipline Allah will show it to you Allah will say watch your own Deeds every time you make a video remember it's either going to make you decide for yourself or against your own self that's what I tell the ticktockers and the instagrammers instagrammers and the YouTubers and the facebookers and the twitters Subhan Allah When We Were Young call people a twit they'll give you a nice tight slap mallah now they all twitters Allah grant us EAS so you see your video my brothers my sisters The Young and the old when you made that video just watch it watch it again if you would not be proud to watch it in front of Allah and make a decision heaven or hell just delete it please did you get the point what is social media become about like I've said before and I'm talking about this because it's becoming a major problem where people are not guided as to how I should use this I want to tell you it's simple ask yourself I'm going to watch this in front of Allah would it be okay or not and Allah is going to tell me decide for yourself or against yourself you yourself today can take the account of your own Deeds here they are let's see what you're going to say which way do you think you should head watch this and then you're watching it where do you think you're going to go that's all nothing else with that question you already know what to do what not to do you're a m you're a Believer you're going to go back to Allah it's not too late you're alive click the delete button and say oh Allah forgive me and it's over and it's gone and you won't see the ones you've deleted and sought forgiveness from because it's wiped up accountability that's what it is so it becomes all about showing displaying shaking your body and that's it Subhan Allah doing silly things in order to get what likes likes you shook yourself totally from top to bottom you showed people how you can twitch not only your ear but the nail on your toe Subhan Allah you could move it and it could make you know a movement Subhan Allah and you got 10 million likes and you were so excited one dislike from Allah is enough for you to say delete it Subhan Allah that's all this is irony because on one hand we want to please Allah we say we're good Muslims we he say don't judge me but Allah will tell you yes no problem judge yourself the criminals on the day of judgment when they see their own Deeds Allah will show them and all of us our own Deeds if the people are criminal they will utter a negative comment against themselves you know what they will say what is it with this book there is not a small deed nor a big deed except it is here it is here in my own book and Allah says judge for your yourself you used to tell people on Earth Don't Judge Me Yes judge for yourself so as much as what I've just said is very serious but it's not too late you're breathing you're okay you're okay your lungs start packing up and you start thinking of things what happens Subhan Allah does not give you enough time to even say goodbye to your own family so you might not have the time to delete or to make the Toba just do it now Ya Allah forgive us just be responsible enjoy social media in a responsible way that's it in a way that you know if I were and when I do go back to Allah we are all going anyway and Allah shows me and says how many videos you made you say well a few million in the case of some the way they go on okay just watch them and decide where you supposed to be going will you be able to watch them how are you dressed what are you saying what are you doing and so on I don't want to say what are you shaking that's it what type of words are you using you know the f word is being used the only f word we should be using is food masallah may Allah grant us ease so my brothers and sisters we must be responsible Allah blessed us with the month of Ramadan that is a month in order to make us just like the fishermen who are supposed to be learning patience if a man goes out and fishes and doesn't catch a thing but comes back home with the lesson of patience he is a successful fisherman because he came home and he's okay he's fine he's very patient mashallah where did he learn it from when a woman says my husband is a ficial we should all be knowing that this man is cool as a cat mashallah right but nowadays how it works is the man tells you I wish my wife was a fisher woman because of the impatience we've all developed the same applies with a person who plays a sport we are dedicated I want to tell you something social media and I'm not meaning all I'm teaching is responsibility that's it use it m by all means but be responsible what would happen on it is we sit and learn moves we learn words have you learned the word of Allah no I don't know I don't know but you know all the dirty songs of today and the songs are becoming dirtier and filthier the words that are used are cheaper than the word cheap Subhan Allah they are terrible if you were to know what is going on and what words they are saying and what our kids are learning they tell you SN it and lip syn it w one day Allah will show you that video with those words the reason why I've taken up time to tell you this my beloved children my loving mothers and sisters and brothers and fathers is because we don't want to enjoy on Earth and find regret on the day of judgment we want goodness in this world and goodness in the Hereafter that will only come with responsibility you don't need to be dirty to enjoy you don't need the likes if they are coming with the dislike of Allah W they will be too expensive people say this person made a lot of money because they got a lot of likes fair and good but what did you get the likes for was it something reasonable responsible and permissible we're not even saying dawa we're not even saying something that was a great we're saying permissibility was it something permissible if the answer is yes good news to you Mah you earned goodness and inshallah you leave behind a decent reasonable Legacy but if it is coming at the expense of your relationship with Allah cut it out you don't need it you're going to go back to Allah all those likes will be the same likes that will that will like each other regarding the entry of where they entered in the Hereafter CU they don't like you to tell them that you know what jahanam is a reality Hellfire is a reality people don't like to hear that but it is a reality Allah grant us goodness so we need to lead by example and one of the problems is it's a vicious circle if someone did Evil and the rest of us did not like it they would calm down when someone does good and moral upright things and people loved it it would encourage them to do more but the world has turned Topsy Turvy the other way around you do evil everyone loves it and they prod you to do more you do good people don't even like it they'll tell you stop being a nun Subhan Allah stop being a nun may Allah grant us ease you know the children nowadays you can't tell them my child don't wear this clothing nowadays they become depressed they require a psych psychologist because of how you just corrected them so what do you do you need to commend the good that they're doing oh my child you look lovely in this beautiful dress the day that they dressing beautifully in modest dressing so when we commend the good behavior and high morals and values and lovely dressing we will will automatically instill a smile within our own children and the children of others you're looking beautiful mashallah tab but what do people do today you show your body parts they say Subhan Allah brother you're supposed to be saying you said the wrong VI here right that's a fact they you you show them more you're wearing something that is really from a religious Islamic perspective you could have done so much better but they will still patch you on the back and say wow so the next time what do you do you tear off another part of the jeans and then you come to these people and say you guys are so backdated today's world we wear torn jeans go to the shop I never knew a time would come but it came a while back and you see clothes that are torn and ripped to pieces are more expensive than those that are not Subhan Allah they literally take a a nice pair of jeans they rip it up and they call it ripped jeans and what you pay a th000 grand more for that one because why because they ripped look at how the world has turned we are Allah will show you your ripped jeans and you in those R jeans and Allah will say check your Deeds watch what you did you Strat your Strat W how look how it happened look what occurred check yourself out and then decide what is it that you think I should do with you today may Allah have your I feel the heat I feel the heat cuz everyone's really worried but the good news is Allah is the most merciful the most forgiving the most kind the most beneficent the most loving etc etc etc so what you need to do is Allah is waiting for us to say I'm going to be responsible from today on and I'm going to make sure that I do that which is good I'm going to commend and I'm going to say a good word to those who are doing good and I will either keep quiet or remind those who are doing bad because when you see something unacceptable from the point of view of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and the teachings that he taught us it would be equally sinful to prod them on Pro them on meaning you've passed a comment that made them produce more such videos more such content and material because there is a market for it what's the market well when I produce this everyone's consuming so for as long as there is a market and consumption for that type of material and you've made it such that you're part of the consumers they will be producing more you share the guilt in the same way that a person who shows someone towards goodness will receive goodness as well if a person shows someone towards bad they will receive the sin so may Allah make us responsible may Allah grant us goodness my brothers my sisters keep calling out to Allah seek the Forgiveness of Allah he will forgive you and just remember the day you're going to meet with Allah many times the who recite the Quran read this verse am I right and after that the names of Allah happen to be in the next verses we know it isn't it especially here in Cape Town where they've memorized a lot immediately they would know oh I know what's coming next masallah that ver actually is telling you oh you who believe be conscious of Allah develop the correct relationship with Allah and each one of you should be concerned about what you are going to be presenting tomorrow that's exactly what I said today golfer or fisherman no matter who you are think about what am I going to be presenting tomorrow Allah gives you the chance to discipline yourself such as the month of Ramadan you're not supposed to be saying bad words uttering hurtful words you're not supposed to be having malice jealousy eny Etc clean your heart clean your act clean your words in the month of Ramadan so that when Ramadan goes you are a much better person than you were before Ramadan I need to be a better person now than I was prior to Ramadan if that is the case good news to you you have actually achieved but if I'm not what was the point what's the point what a nation what a negative Nation who only worship Allah during the month of Ramadan Ramadan comes and Mah we become Muslim why you call those who work for you you say come here all those fridges with that Scotch whiskey and whatever else please must all go out the Moon is cited you call the same people back put it back what is that but it's happening the bad habits people say I can't do this it's Ramadan oh oh is it if it's Haram even out of Ramadan is the same Haram Allah grant us success protection good lesson a discipline yourselves at home be patient with everyone your children they may do things they are your kids be patient with them speak with respect they will learn respect address them in a beautiful way they will address others in a beautiful way they should not witness that you are abusive to them or to anyone else when I said this once someone commented and said no they must witness the abuse because they must know how to deal with it no if that's the case they must witness all the sins so that they must know to deal with it no if something comes in front of them you can guide them and tell them this is not how it's supposed to be done but if you're doing it and perpetrating it yourself you should discipline yourself they should see how you extinguished a fire that was about to start not that you started the fire it burnt the whole house and you say my son I hope you learned a lesson he'll tell you Dad you still haven't even learned the lesson what you telling me Subhan Allah so my brothers and sisters the are these are the favors of Allah upon us they say and may Allah bless all of us with children who are the coolness of our eyes I mean they say when you have children of your own you become a bit more patient because they test your patience it's Allah who's showing you hey that's my child you used to yell at the children of others and say things and so on and Subhan Allah Allah gave you your own children and you had to be quiet because why Allah showed you in your kids that you have to control yourself a little bit and this is why those who point fingers at the kids of others and happen to accuse them or abuse them in one way or another need to be careful because Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala will settle that score within our own Circle we don't want that to happen the same applies to everything Allah settles scores Allah settles the score now people are sitting and thinking but what if I did something bad what if I've already done so much the thought the [Music] same he thought the same he said I want to accept Islam but look at how much I've done that was so negative I want to turn to Allah the prophet Sall wasallam says Islam will wipe out the evil that you did before the same applies with TBA and the repentance Allah will wipe out what you've done before so don't worry Allah is great don't let Shan make you think for a moment that I am out of the mercy of Allah because shatan comes to us and makes us doubt the mercy mercy of Allah you came in you did your Salah then Shan says that Salah wasn't accepted tell him keep quiet my Salah was for a merciful Lord not for a devil Subhan Allah Shan makes you start doubting are you clean or not clean I don't think you were clean and then you say no I was clean no I don't think you were clean and then you start saying what H Shan I'm not going to entertain you my lord doesn't need this act of worship he just needs me to do my best it's me who needs the act of worship my Lord is merciful he will accept my act of worship with a few errors in it perhaps but I will not entertain you oh devil even for a moment otherwise he will cause Havoc people say I have doubts in my mind you know I have bad thoughts of Allah and his rasool that means Shan is working on you and he's making you think these bad thoughts all you've got to do is say oh Allah forgive my bad thoughts I Shan is tempering but I know you are Subhan Allah you are most forgiving most merciful most kind most understanding most compassionate most loving and I worship you Allah won't hold it against you when you're trying your best human beings are attacked by shatan indeed and so you have sometimes bad thoughts evil thoughts something crosses your mind fight them meaning just ignore them or push them aside and keep pushing them aside and they threaten to come back push it aside again and again and a day will come in a short span of time where they will stop coming because you know what you strengthen your Iman it's quite normal sometimes because shatan is going to attack you anyway so it's quite normal to be not to be on 100% because none of us are you may be on 50 60 70 by the will of Allah work on it strengthen your IM and that's why when you read the Quran and you sit in lectures and you do the of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and you engage in I and you do your Salah automatically your belief and your faith and your conviction is strengthened strength we struggle you know why we struggle because a pandemic has overtaken us people have lost their health they've lost their loved ones they don't know when when they are going to go and at the same time they've lost their jobs and their incomes and many times people are not as healthy as they were before and it's quite depressing unless you have Reliance on Allah rely on Allah completely keep trying and relying on Allah why do I say keep trying because Allah gives you capacity and he tells you use capacity to do what you believe is beneficial for you and the rest is on me don't worry I'll make sure it happens I'll make sure it happens the prophet says a strong believer is better than a weak believer but there is goodness in both there is some goodness in both but a strong believer is better and more loved by Allah than one who's weak both in their faith and physically that's why I say make sure you go to the gym inah just make sure that particular gym doesn't divert towards Shan himself that's what Shan does you use you use an excuse going to the gym and then what happens you've gone to more than just the gym Shan gets hold of us and at the gym we meet himself and so we start misbehaving with the excuse of the JY that shouldn't happen may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us protection but be fit and strengthen your IM at the same time the Hadith says you will be more loved by Allah and you are better because you're strong you take care of your health and you take care of your spirituality you take care of your closeness with Allah subhah waala seek the help of Allah everything you want to achieve beautiful verse you alone we worship you alone we seek help from so seek the help of Allah and work hard towards achieving what you know is beneficial for you whether it's a job whe whatever else it is even if it is marriage you want to marry someone work hard to achieve it you need to talk to people you need to strive you need to perhaps try and convince this person that person you need to make sure things are happening go out work achieve perhaps earn something and then you're ready and Mah The wedding will happen you don't just sit in the morning in the Masjid and say oh Allah make it easy for me let that Uncle come right now and sit next to me and understand what's in my brain and tell me it's okay it's cool it's done that's not going to happen nobody will understand that you're asking for something absurd but you can say oh Allah I'm going to go I'm going to try soften the hearts open the minds let them accept me Subhan Allah and help me so that I can sustain myself my family and we can have children who will worship you we will teach them to do the right things so that when we die our own children are a and a charity that is continuous for us do you know what's a sar a charity that outlives you is known as a sakar a charity the benefit of which outlives you is a so if You' invested in your children by spending time with them and teaching them and being with them and you've died and they continue the good guess what you continue to get a reward because you invested in something the reward of which or the benefit of which lasted longer than you so this is what we need to do my brothers and sisters work hard to achieve that which you believe is beneficial for you and then the Hadith [Music] says and according to one narration the same narration says once you've tried hard and once you've done what was in your capacity leave it in the hands of Allah then if something happens or doesn't happen don't say oh if I did it this way then maybe that that wouldn't have happened and if I didn't do it that way then perhaps that would have happened if if if if don't use the term if because if will open the door of the devil Shan will start tampering with your mind and you become a patient what type of a patient you become a person who is confused in your head about the plan of Allah let's not let that happen you tried your best it didn't happen no problem continue it was better for you and let's move on you tried your best it happened better than you expected mallah thank Allah be humble remain calm Subhan Allah I want to end off by saying no matter what Allah has given you be thankful he gave you more thank him thankfulness when Allah gives you a lot whether it is power position wealth looks Health whatever it may be is by humbling yourself and worshiping Allah as a slave of Allah that is thankfulness to Allah and when Allah has not given you thankfulness is to look at the few things he has given you and show gratitude and never never to give up hope in the mercy of Allah until the day you die because if I wanted something and I continued crying to Allah for that thing or those things and I never ever got it in the world and I die in the condition where I still didn't get what I was asking Allah for but I continued to ask Allah for those things guess what the minute I die I will see a massive reward in Lear of all the asking that I engaged in to Allah so you can never lose by asking Allah oh Allah grant me this oh Allah grant me that Allah grant me that you know when you didn't get any of what you asked when you die Allah will say you worshiped me every day you believed in me and you wanted things I knew they were not good for you I didn't give you but right now tell me what you want you have it what would you like you should aim very high do you know what's the highest aiming the companionship of Muhammad Sall done Subhan Allah may Allah grant us all the companionship of Muhammad s Ali wasallam May Allah grant us the highest levels of Jenna may Allah grant us goodness and patience may Allah help us to develop ourselves and be responsible when we use social media may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala help us be responsible Even in our day-to-day lives may Allah make us disciplined beautiful souls who can actually be true ambassadors of Muhammad sallahu alaihi wasallam and may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make our lives easy for us Grant cure to those who are sick and Ill protect us from sickness and illness Grant Mercy to those who passed on and have mercy on us the day he takes the wait