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Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. All praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds, and peace and blessings be upon the most honored of the prophets and messengers. All praise be to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family and companions, who have been very, very obedient. What is next? Brothers and sisters, Allah SWT told us in the Quran, in Surah Al-Isra, Allah is describing the situation and the condition on the day when we will meet Allah. And Allah is saying, Allah is not saying, No, Read your book. Read your book. This book is enough on this day as a witness, as a hesaab, as an account-taker for you. What is that book? Allah SWT said in Surah Al-Kahf, People will say this. What kind of book is this? Nothing is missing. Everything is there. It doesn't matter if you read it or not. It doesn't matter if you read it or not. Your book is a witness, you read it and you know it. What is this book? The Quran. The Quran is not a book. It is a book that you can read and you can read. Kabira, everything is there from the smallest thing to the biggest thing. What book is this? This book is the book of our life. Who is the author of that book? The author of the book of Abu Sarmad is Abu Sarvad. The author of the book is Abu Muqbil is Abu Muqbil. The author of the book of Abu Muqbil is Abu Muqbil. We are the authors of our own books. And that is why we will never be able to deny anything in that book because we wrote it. If Abu Sarmad writes something about me, I can say, you know, I'm sorry, you were mistaken. Maybe you are my enemy. But I'm writing about myself. I always remind myself and I remind you, in today's world, remember these ayat came in the 7th century. Truly Iman bil Ghaib was for the Sahaba. For us, Allah has made many of the things which were in the Ghaib for the Sahaba. Allah has given us the Mushahad of that. Allah has shown us those things. I remember seeing a documentary of this person who takes two phones. One phone switches off completely, totally off. And the other phone is on. He puts both the phones in his pocket and he drives around Washington from this point to that point to that point to that point. So, multiple points, 20, 30 points. And he comes back and then they go into the telephone company records and they find that the phone which was turned on tracked all the places that the person went to. He didn't use the phone anywhere. He just went there. The phone has the tracking of that, but very interestingly, even the phone that was switched off has tracked everything. So what is so difficult to believe that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala knows simultaneously what we are doing? If you go mentally, for example, into say Verizon, you know, at the data center of Verizon or any of the, you know, great telephone companies, for example, right? And if you could be sitting there, what would you see? You would see multiple conversations happening between people in multiple languages, in multiple locations in the world. Some of those conversations between two people who are stationary, so that means somebody is in a house or office, something in America, the other person is also stationary in his house, office, whatever it is in India. But many conversations happening between people who are in cars or who are, God knows, in planes, and they are flying, which means that their location is every instant the location is changing, yet the line does not break, the call doesn't drop, they have a conversation. And in theory, every single conversation can be recorded, yes? Every single one of them. There's no such thing as an unrecordable piece of public communication. If you don't want the communication to be recorded, don't say it, period. If you are going to say it, if you are going to send it on an email, if you are going to send it on a chat message, if you are going to send it on a phone, believe me, it is recordable.