YOUR EXISTENCE BEFORE BIRTH

foreign [Music] my brothers my sisters if you take a look at Allah almighty's plan many times people forget that before birth before they were born We Believe all of us were with Allah but we don't remember as sophisticated as we are right now we don't remember the day we were born or the first few days or even the first year perhaps does anyone from amongst you remember anything themselves not that you were shown a video later on but you remember yourselves anything from the first year from your birth put up your hands we want to hear about it anyone okay no one I want to say today we are so sophisticated we begin to question the maker and then we begin to disbelieve in the Hereafter and we tell ourselves when I die it's the end of everything that's it I'm on Earth without a purpose I'm just here you know to enjoy myself and do whatever I can no no we are believers with all due respect to those who perhaps feel that way Believers don't feel that way we believe we are too sophisticated to just disappear one day when I die I will get an opportunity to do the things I wanted to do that I was unable to do on Earth and how I know I'm going to be able to do them is because today I'm seated here or I'm standing in front of you for example and there is so much in my life that I wanted to achieve but I couldn't I want to meet you for example I want to talk to you I want to spend a little bit of time getting to know you and perhaps enjoying a few share you know sharing a few Beautiful Stories or moments and whatever it may be and I have not had the opportunity to do that but I'm so sophisticated I have feelings I have emotions there are people I love there are people perhaps I didn't get on with there is Injustice that has also happened that I'd like to see the justice of and at the same time I have my own blood my progeny subhanallah that is continuing I have my children may Allah bless those who don't have children with children but we have children we have perhaps grandchildren like you unfortunately discovered but at the same time subhanallah I won't forgive you guys man come on but at the same time what a question come on guys right but at the same time subhanallah I know for a fact that if any one of my children were to pass on may Allah protect us or if I were and it's going to happen die you know what we have to gather somewhere we have to get together again we have to come together I want to give you this evening a powerful example some of you might have heard it in some of my talks but I have to say it because for me this is what actually means so much it's called the membrane that's the title of what I want to say the membrane do you recall the day that you were forming in the womb of your mother no you don't do you recall the day that you were a droplet of semen finding its way to be fertilized absolutely not some might say how could you even say that well the Quran says that so I'm not embarrassed to say it the Quran says we created you from a droplet I don't recall I don't remember a thing but because I now know that I was there I'm in awe of the maker wow it didn't go wrong every one of us was a champion at one stage why because that was the droplet of semen that actually won the race fertilized you won you came on earth a winner remember this it's a very important statement I say this because as we developed I'm sure we enjoyed the warmth of the womb and I'm sure we were so fortunate to be fed and sustained without any effort no effort whatever did you make nothing you were sustained by whom by a miracle wallahi by a miracle she was sustained you were provided for you were protected if your mother did not eat guess what nutrients were taken from her in order to make sure that you were okay she would have struggled but not you it's a miracle and guess what you began to grow in size mashallah and organs began to form and a few weeks later boom boom boom they could see that the heart is pumping and they were excited that was you subhanallah that was you masha'allah and guess what happened you swam all over you enjoyed certain things and you went this way that way if someone had to hit your mom's belly you didn't feel it it was cushioned you were in a fluid that was filled with goodness I'm sure at that particular juncture as much as I don't remember but I'm sure I was in the best possible place enjoying swimming all over Carefree nothing to worry about like you see little children do they even care where they pee they don't even care they look at you and say hi Pete that's if they could talk right and standing there all warm fluid going down their legs they don't care do they but it's a reality so Carefree you didn't know what came in what went out nothing but you grew and as you Grew Older as you grew larger should I say the place you were in became narrow more and more narrow and so you found it difficult to move at some point what must have been going through your mind and mind I Can Only Imagine let me tell you what I thought about I said to myself perhaps at that time I must have been thinking hey it's getting a bit hard to move around here wonder what's going to happen I'm growing bigger all the time it's getting more and more tough until there came a time when I couldn't move you know as you kicked your mother could feel it ask those who are expecting may Allah make it easy for them they'll tell you the kicks sometimes hey kick first kick normally it's at 120 days First kicks why because we believe that's where the soul is blown in so even though you have a heartbeat prior to it islamically we say that that's a muscle that just starts pumping doing its job from the very beginning not necessarily depicting life in a way that we are today and that's why we have hearts that continue pumping Way Beyond the death of a person and we also have people who remain alive Way Beyond the pumping of their hearts does it make sense to you [Music] in the case of transplants a guy's heart stopped functioning they replaced it with a person's heart who's gone and buried so he is functioning on someone else's heart and his heart is gone the guy who died is alive and the guy who's alive is dead sorry sorry I hope you understood what I just said right so the pumping of the heart in Islam does not necessarily depict full life there comes a point when there is life but subhanallah at that juncture the kick happens and then you know it continues further and further and then there's a time when you think that's it it's over I think it's everything's finished everything's over that's it I'm imagine if there was a person who didn't even believe for example didn't even believe and they said that's it it's all over and guess what one big push and you were out in a world that you never dreamed would ever have existed wow it was so so different that you began to cry what was there between you and this whole life a membrane what was that membrane the womb of your mother that's it between you and something you never dreamed of which was going to be called the life of the Dunya it was just a membrane you had to cross one membrane for you to witness something today you don't remember but you know you went through it some of us now even have videos of it and photos of it that was you when you were born and you all scrunched up small and this is so good we wonder what's so cute about that anyway besides the fact that it's Titi so small and teaching is the word I learned in London by the way [Music] so subhanallah it's amazing what happened when you thought there was nothing to come something came what came a life a life I didn't expect I and when you were in the womb if I was in the womb of my mother enjoying everything and I said one day I'd like to have more of this I'd like to have more of this oh I love this I wonder what's happening your mother was busy eating sweets and chocolates whatever it might have been silly example but if you enjoyed anything there the moment you cross the membrane everything you left behind became not just irrelevant but became such that if you were to be told would you like any of it you would say yuck agreed if I told you anything in your womb that you enjoyed would you like someone now you say hey don't even talk about it you're about to have a meal man mashallah agreed so whatever you like there the moment you cross the membrane hey what's here is something totally different for the first time I'm going to see my mother the one in whom I existed and I look and wow and there's a connection I feel that and I'm lifted and I'm kissed and I'm hugged and everything happened and I grew older and older and older and Allah Almighty tells you in the same way you're going to cross another membrane one day into a life that's going to be Everlasting and you're going to be in the same all wow as you grow older and you you are terminally ill may Allah grant us all cure or your bones are aching and you start thinking I'm going to go a Believer is told don't worry just prepare for the day by trying to achieve the mercy of Allah because the mercy of Allah like I said in my earlier speech is what is going to bring you into Jannah Paradise so if I think for a moment that you know what I earned all of everything the loss is mine because Allah has already proven to you and you know about the first one that the end all did not happen it actually was the beginning of something awesome has already proven it to you we did it once we're going to do it again what is he going to do again now when I get to the end of this life and I start thinking hey this is the end of it I'm old I'm 80. in the case of some I'm perhaps a little bit more than that what's going to happen Allah says you know what it's gonna be you have to cross the membrane what is it it's such a thin membrane the moment the flesh comes and you cross it you're going to be oh I should have gotten here long back man subhanallah where am I floating I'm somewhere I can't describe it for you right now besides a little but it's going to be a good place because you're a good person you reach out to others you're kind you're you're caring you're amazing you don't abuse people you don't harm them you're disciplined that's what Islam is all about that's what faith is all about it disciplines you I'm worshiping my maker alone and I'm respecting all the creatures that he made because he made everything else and I'm going to be an asset not just to my family to society to community to humanity at Large and then what happens as I grow older and older I have hope in the mercy of Allah and I know across the membrane and now there's a question that just comes to my mind because I mentioned it if there was something you liked here on Earth unfortunately the Hadith says material items you're not going to find them there why the same Yak will be said on the other side [Music] if you go to paradise here's Muhammad peace be upon him telling you know in it there is that which no eye has ever seen just like how the first membrane Crossing happened right there is that which no eye has ever seen no ears have ever heard and no heart has ever imagined it hasn't even crossed your heart in the Arabic language they say the crossing your heart but we say cross your mind it didn't even cross your mind why because if I say anything material today that I like and I can't afford many of us say inshallah I'll get that in Jannah don't we say that we do it's normal human thing to say I don't have it I can't afford it but inshallah in Jannah my sister my brother even in this world if you're given life you will not want the same thing some of the older people here long back there was a car called there was a mo what was the the motor vehicle of the age in the 1960s the best of the cars what was it called afford a certain Ford right and imagine you say don't worry we can't afford it we'll get in Jannah today in 2020 do you want that fault no you don't you yourself do not even want what you desperately made do I Allah give this to me in Jannah if you were to get it in this world now you still won't want it how's that because that's the nature of this world the world is in the eyes of Allah he says you know what it's only a means it's a means the lazier you're becoming the more Allah provides you with technology hence the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him didn't have any of the technology we have today in terms of the internet and running water in a tap and the cars and them and the aircraft and so on but he is the best of creation the most noble of all Messengers of Allah if there was any value to any of that in the eyes of Allah he would have first given it to him and then everyone else so it inter means it's a means of getting aside do not become too attached to anything you found on this don't become too attached to it you learn to to take give and subhanallah reach out don't get too attached you're going to lose it well no matter what it is if you found it on Earth you're gonna lose it one day may Allah Almighty help us but when you get something in the Hereafter it is said even the people you're going to meet you will recognize them because Allah allows you to recognize them but the way they look will be will be perfect that's why when the normal statement we hear people say you know what if I'm going to get my husband in the Hereafter in Jannah I don't even want to go there we've heard that a lot and then we have to explain my sister don't worry about all of that because the Hadith says when you get to the other side whatever you wish for you will have Oh you mean I'm not going to get the same guy I didn't say that I didn't say that I am saying from now you're already determining what exactly you know the yuck factor think about that you're going to go to the other side you'll see all the guys you're gonna choose a guy and Allah will tell you that was your husband in the world by the way wow okay I'll take him back it's okay that's fine mashallah so this is what's happening Allah will grant us something beyond our imagination you don't worry you don't stress people ask me wallahi more and more are asking me is my cap going to be in Paradise with me and I said Allah will give you something Way Beyond your imagination let's go there because one of the traps of the devil is while we are worried about what we are going to get them we forget that we still have to get there so rather than forgetting that I got to get there first it's like someone saying a guy actually asked me you know my girlfriend will she be in Jannah with me I said are you going to get there in the first place bro she might be there waiting for you and you might be somewhere else right it's possible this is why we say work hard towards achieving the pleasure of Allah I said it many times this evening work hard towards achieving the mercy of Allah we all have our struggles I struggle with so many things I would not be in a position to share with you my struggles Beyond a point because at times they're embarrassing I'm a human so are you without exception all of us there are certain things we may do or have done that are probably embarrassing to even share with the closest people to you that's because you're a human but Allah knows and you know what do I do as a result I need to know don't let any statement of any person on Earth make you despondent from the mercy of Allah no matter what Mark you might be in according to the people for as long as you know you're trying to improve yourself as an individual every single day my sister my brother you are heading in the right direction never mind at what pace um have hope with that hope base The Hope on something I cannot just have hope and say I'm hopeful but every day I'm involved in things that are far away from the mercy of Allah and the hope but I'm basing it on the fact that I'm trying I'm a good person I believe I'm decent I'm kind I do have weaknesses I need to work on this and to say for example my anger my jealousy my whatever else it may be I need to work on my prayers I need to work on my dress code I need to work on my connection with Allah I need to work on my relationships I need I know I need to work on all of these things but am I working on some of them at least the answer is yes well then good news you know what we're all as work in progress so am I why should I stand in front of you and pretend like I am the pope no I'm not subhanallah but my brothers my sisters one of the best ways of earning the mercy of Allah is to constantly seek his forgiveness if the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him who did not really need to do that did it up to a hundred times a day surely you and I need to do it more than that oh Allah forgive my shortcomings oh Allah forgive all my brothers and sisters for whatever shortcomings they may be having the sins we've committed knowingly and without knowing the sins that are major the sins that are minor the sins that are hidden the sins that are apparent may Allah forgive all of us because my brothers and sisters in the end of the day Allah almighty's Mercy is what will get us to paradise and at the same time the goodness that is within you should never be eclipsed by anything else maintain it Allah looks for any reason to get you into Jannah we know that from the Hadith earlier I gave you an example of a guy having Mercy on a dog and Jannah someone having Mercy on a cat and Jannah then there are verses of the Quran that say people will be protected from Hell Fire because of a donation they made it's it's in the Quran have you read Surah Allah says should we tell you those who are going to be saved from Hell Fire they are the ones who believed and spent in his cause so Allah says amazing the people who gave that's the first thing mentioned did you give yes so what did I do well let me explain what I did Allah blessed me in a certain way and I used the blessing I was given to earn the mercy of Allah so now that I've got the mercy of Allah Allah says you know what you gave and you are conscious of us and you believed so Paradise is yours subhanallah there is so much hopelessness on Earth today so many tragedies so much happening as I grow older there is a concern there is a concern that one day my eyes are going to close [Music] so what can I do I can either become depressed about it and I can either start thinking the Lord on the Lord is not even going to have mercy on me because I'm such a terrible person or I can actually say no I am trying and I've been a decent person yes I've faulted if Adam that's another thing that really really moves me and inspires me can I word it as bluntly as possible listen to this Allah sends Adam and Hawa may peace be upon him in fact he created them and he told them one thing he just said do not eat from this and that's exactly where they ate from oh wow see how bluntly I worded it Allah told Adam and Hawa do whatever you want besides this tree Don't Go Near Don't Go Near the tree guess what they did they went near the same tree you had no thousand instructions like I have and we all have you only had one o my forefather and you went for it but you know what the lesson was the minute he said oh Allah forgive me he was forgiven the question is do I say oh Allah forgive me genuinely that's the question that's the lesson is Way Beyond you and I in rank but there was a reason why Allah chose whatever happened to happen it was a lesson for all of us to say o children of Adam you will falter the best of those who falter of those who go back in Repentance often all the children of Adam they will ER they will falter they will sin and the best of those who often sin are those who often repent that's the meaning of it may Allah Almighty forgive us have hope my brothers my sisters have hope but in the process never allow yourself to develop a chip on your shoulder don't ever look at someone and tell yourself I'm better than them you might be in one way but you may not be in another Thousand Ways learn to greet each other learn to respect each other learn to talk to each other learn to honor each other Allah will grant you honor learn to open the doors for others and create ease to the degree that Allah has allowed you and Allah will create ease for you in this world and the next there are so many narrations I could speak about that would actually confirm that the prophet salallahu has said it so many times whoever creates ease for someone Allah will create is for them in this world and the next whoever gives a person who owes them money a little bit of time Allah will give them time in the Hereafter Allah will give them respite in the hereafter mashallah some people are nodding their heads so much it feels like they owe people money but it's okay pay them back please as soon as you can but at the same time if you give someone time masha'allah Allah will grant you from his Mercy so go easy on the people we're all struggling trust me everyone you see has their own story you don't know it so don't judge them you have never walked in their shoes you don't know how they got to where they've gotten to I tell you earlier we heard brother Rahim say you get a reward just by your intention imagine if I intend to do something Grand and in the process I passed away Allah says I will give you the reward as though you achieved it already and if that's the case you might see someone seated right next to you and you're thinking this person seems to be far from Allah number one you are not Allah number two you don't know the heart number three shaytan has just got out of you and number four they might have already arrived at a rank far higher based on the intention and the struggle and the commitment more than anything else I want to become a hafith so I start I'm learning aversity one verse a day that's very little by the way but if I'm learning adversity and for example one Jews I still have 29 left and I pass away I am resurrected as a half if that's Allah why I was dedicated there goes the Hadith says my brothers my sisters why don't we just say I want to be a happy I'm going to learn a verse a week I'm making it so easy for you right I'm gonna learn a verse a week learn it repeat it say it again and again and again and again I swear 52 weeks down the year is gone you only know 52 verses but because of the dedication the commitment the fact that you didn't miss it the day you die if you are if you have completed it good news if you haven't completed it even better news you know why Allah chose to take you away he knows when you were going to go had he kept you you would have finished he says I'll just write it as though you finished it subhanallah Allah says everyone will get a reward based on their intention for as long as you are genuine here we are my brothers and sisters my time's up although they've told me loose ended but you know what we all need to eat inshallah [Music] Allah Almighty grant us goodness and ease I really I've enjoyed myself the last three days and today masha'allah I'm super excited to have seen my brothers and sisters anyone who'd like to still donate and pledge towards the good causes you can always do that online you can scan the barcode that's there inshallah and you can still make a donation here and there you can also go home and encourage others inshallah if you'd like it's been so nice to have spoken to you inshallah if we don't get an opportunity to meet in this world perhaps Allah will grant us that opportunity in the Hereafter and until we meet again we say Allah have you ever wished that there was a Muslim version of YouTube or Netflix well we have created one the one Islam TV app has no adverts and is safe to browse for your peace of mind watch hundreds of high quality produce Islamic reminders or on videos stories of the prophets Hot Topic debates and so much more four to eight new videos are 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Length: 30min 24sec (1824 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 25 2023