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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, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honorable prophets and messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, and upon his family and companions, who have accepted him many times. And what is next? Brothers and sisters, we have heard many people talk about the fact that the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, used to encourage the youth and he gave a lot of very serious responsibilities to young people. For example, we have the case of Usama bin Zayd al-Adha al-Anu, who was given command of the army, of a battalion which was going for a Ghazwa, and in that army were some very senior Sahaba. We have the example of Musa ibn Umayyad al-Raudilan, who the Prophet sent from Makkah to Madinah as his representative. And many of the great Sahaba, many of the great Ansari Sahaba of Madinah accepted Islam at the hands of Musa ibn Umayyad al-Raudilan, including Sa'ad bin Mu'adh al-Raudilan and Hussayb bin Hudayr al-Raudilan and others. Mu'adh bin Jawal al-Raudilan, another great Sahabi, who the Prophet sent as his governor and Qadi to Yemen. And we have the famous Hadith where the Prophet was holding the bridle of his horse and Mu'adh bin Jawal was holding the bridle of his horse. And Mu'adh bin Jawal was mounted on the horse and the Prophet led the horse out of Madinah. And he gave him advice. It's a lot of Hadiths, I won't mention it here. But he gave him advice, he asked him questions about how he will judge the basis of judgment from which we have our basis of our Sharia, which is the Kitab of Allah, the Sunnah of His Prophet, Ijma and Khayas. And there are others. But remember one thing, Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam gave these enormous responsibilities to these young people, not because they were young. So understand that. We get sidetracked, we say, oh, youth, youth. Youth has nothing to do with it. It is the effort that those particular youths put into learning the Deen. And they came up to the standard of the Nabi alaihi salatu wasalam, so he chose them. He didn't just randomly pick anybody. He didn't say, okay, all 15 year olds come and stand here. No, he picked one person. That person happened to be 15, that person happened to be 17, that person happened to be 20, that is immaterial. So don't get your priorities upside down. He didn't pick any 20 year old. He didn't pick any 17 year old. He picked Musab bin Umayyad, Radhe-l Anu, because he was Musab bin Umayyad, not because he was 17. So what does it tell us? It tells us that unfortunately in our society, all that our education system has done, it has postponed childhood. It has postponed childhood. It has postponed maturity. So we have 20 years old and 23 years old and 25 years old and 26 years old are still staying at home and their mother makes parathas for them and they eat that paratha and the father pays all the bills and they think they are, oh, they are cat whiskers. Seriously, they have not seen one single day of hardship in their life. They are not sweated anywhere. If you put them in one place and there is no air conditioning, they will have a fit. They freak out. This is what our education system has done, created adults who think they are children. This we have to break out of because the laws of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's world don't change because we have a Sikh society which has an education system which does not educate. What are Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's laws? Allah's laws are those who make the effort, who learn, who take hardship will win. No matter which year, whether it is the 7th century, whether it is the 15th century, whether it is the 20th century, whether it is the 15th century or any century, this is the law of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the one who makes the effort. Not your name, not your nasab, not your hasab, not your wealth, not your father's name, not how much money you have.