00:00Bismillah.
00:04As-salamu alaykum.
00:05As-salamu alaykum.
00:06As-salamu alaykum.
00:07Rahmatullahi ta'ala wa barakadu.
00:19Make it short and sweet, inshallah.
00:21We hope it will be sweet. Short, anyway.
00:24In the name of the shaytan rajeem.
00:29Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim.
00:32Wa hua radhi.
00:34Yor Sayyidu, riya da bushra bainu yada rahmati.
00:39Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
00:41He sends the mercy wind.
00:45He's sweet.
00:48He sends the smell of the rain coming, the mercy rain.
00:53Out in front of the rain, you can smell it coming.
00:56Now, holy months are approaching.
00:59I mean to say not the smell of rain, but the smell of mercy.
01:04Coming, Allah's mercy.
01:05Rajab, Shaban, Ramadan.
01:08Rajab, Shabrullah, Shaban, month of Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
01:14Ramadan, month of the Ummah.
01:17He's coming next week.
01:19Next, later till Jummah, Thursday night.
01:23It's going to be Friday.
01:24It should be later till we arrive.
01:26The night of hopes and wishes.
01:30The night that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
01:36was transferred from his father to his mother's womb.
01:41There was a story.
01:42There was a story.
01:43I remembered it tonight.
01:44I was going to say it to Imam Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
01:46But I forgot.
01:48There was a story for the father of Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
02:00Allah bless you.
02:02Allah bless you.
02:03Raheem Allah.
02:04There was a woman in the tribe.
02:17Always, she saw something about him.
02:20She wanted to marry him.
02:21Every time he was coming, she was coming to smile at him.
02:27She saw something.
02:30Then Laylatul Ralaib came and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
02:40he was transferred from his father's,
02:44his umli wa tarÄib,
02:47through his father's fluid to the mother's womb.
02:51And the mother became pregnant with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
02:57And the father was coming after that, walking along.
03:02And he saw that woman, but the woman ignored him.
03:08That woman that was always friendly before ignored him.
03:12And finally it happened again and again.
03:16He said, finally he said to her,
03:18what's wrong?
03:19You used to smile to me.
03:21He said, because I was seeing with you a light before.
03:24I know there's going to be a holy one coming from you.
03:27I wanted to carry that light, but it's gone now.
03:30Goodbye to you.
03:33Like that.
03:35Alhamdulillah.
03:37Allah, increase our love for Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
03:42and for Allah Almighty through these holy months.
03:45Love Allah and believe in his Prophet.
03:48Allah give you a double portion of mercy.
03:50We were talking about an ayat also.
03:55In Surah al-Talaq,
04:02when ye taqi Allah,
04:05ya jellukum makhraja,
04:08makhraja.
04:10Here's Allah,
04:12who has taqwa.
04:14How you can define taqwa?
04:16How we're going to say what's taqwa?
04:19Fear of Allah,
04:20love of Allah,
04:21awareness of Allah,
04:22to be with Allah.
04:25All kinds of meanings.
04:28Who has that?
04:29Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
04:31who turns to Allah,
04:32who trusts in Allah.
04:34Allah makes for him or her a way out
04:37from their difficulties.
04:39And the ayat goes on to say,
04:41provides for them
04:42from sources they couldn't imagine.
04:46There is in economics,
04:49I don't know of any economists there tonight,
04:53they have closed system and open system.
05:00Most of them believe now in a closed system.
05:03There's only so much.
05:06There's only so much
05:08from the bounty of Allah.
05:10So only so much oil.
05:12Only so much gold.
05:14Only so much crops.
05:17Only so much,
05:18only a limited amount.
05:20We have to take as much as we can.
05:22We take from the other one.
05:25But Allah says,
05:26don't think like that.
05:27No one has control over the bounty of Allah,
05:30except Allah gives
05:32to whoever he likes as much as he likes.
05:35Shaykh Nazim used to say,
05:37if the whole world was covered with iron plates,
05:41and the sky was also covered with iron plates,
05:43don't be in doubt for your rizq.
05:47We're trying to digest that and make it live through our hearts.
05:54Tawakal Allah.
05:56Tawakal Allah.
05:58Tawakal Allah.
06:00An old man came to Shaykh Nazim in London one time,
06:03outside of Peckham mosque.
06:05He said,
06:06I have to move
06:07from London up north
06:10to Birmingham
06:11or some place north,
06:12in the north of UK
06:13or Scotland,
06:14I don't know.
06:15What I'm going to do?
06:16He said,
06:17say, Tawakal Allah.
06:18Tawakal Allah a hundred times.
06:21Trust in Allah.
06:22Trust in Allah.
06:23May Allah
06:24open for all of us,
06:26our ways.
06:27Make us to be trustful for Him.
06:29Loveful for Him.
06:31Turning to Him.
06:32Believing in Him.
06:33Relying on Him.
06:35Running to Him.
06:37And open our ways in Holy Rajab.
06:41First night should be next,
06:43Saturday night going to be Sunday, I think.
06:47Should be the first night of Rajab,
06:49Sunday the first day.
06:50He was able to fast, fast.
06:53Shaykh Nazim said,
06:54if you're fasting from eating and drinking,
06:58that's easy.
07:00The fast I'm asking from you,
07:01fast from bad thinking,
07:03from bad speaking,
07:04from bad looking,
07:05from bad doing,
07:06from bad,
07:07from anger,
07:08from jealousy,
07:09from greed.
07:10Fast from those things.
07:12May Allah make it possible for us.
07:15We're intending,
07:18may He make us to complete our intentions,
07:21to reach,
07:22to come up.
07:25I think in the khutbas of Shaykh Ismail Haki,
07:30there is,
07:31at the beginning of Rajab,
07:33a caller calls out in heavens,
07:37all believers,
07:39come up,
07:40rise up,
07:41rise up.
07:42And Allah grant us,
07:43to come up in these months.
07:45and Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
07:47he said,
07:48when the wind is blowing,
07:50when the wind is favorable,
07:51open your sails,
07:52and move,
07:54sail.
07:55Heavenly sails,
07:56heavenly wind.
07:58May Allah grant us,
07:59to catch that heavenly wind,
08:01in Rajab,
08:02Shaban,
08:03Ramadan,
08:04first holy night,
08:05next week,
08:06this time.
08:08May He make us to keep it.
08:09Insha'Allah,
08:10Bi-Harmat al-Habib,
08:11Bi-Harmat al-Fatih.
