Al Ibaad ur Rahman – 5

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of the worlds. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala sent Ramadan 4, which is to make us rather Rahman, to make us Mutakoon, to make us people of Taqwa. The people of Taqwa are the special slaves of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. We look at the last three qualities out of the nine that Rasulullah said, that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala mentioned in Surat al-Furqan. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala said, Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala said, Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala said, One of the critical to success matters is prioritization of things that we choose to pay attention to and those we choose to ignore. Focus is the art of ignoring the fluff. The reason we must do this and why it's critical is because all resources are finite. Nobody has unlimited resources, nobody, period. So they must be preserved and leveraged to get the maximum benefit. Out of these resources, time is the most valuable because not only is it finite, but we don't know how much we have and when our clock will stop ticking. Above all, time is not renewable. Once gone, it's irretrievable, it's irreplaceable and so it is invaluable and precious. Everything else we can get back. Money goes, money can come back. Health goes, health can come back. Not time. But seems to be that in today's life, we spend time as if it was a never-ending river. The two places where we waste time the most are entertainment and argument. A lot of that entertainment ranges between useless and valuable. A lot of that entertainment ranges between useless and I'm not trying to be unkind. The value of anything is to look at it and say, what did I get from this? And if the answer is you got nothing from it, tell me if it's useful or not. So most entertainment that we have today ranges between useless to actually haram. Arguments are worse because they are worse than haram because they strain and break relationships and they achieve nothing in the real world. Many times that I, I mean I have many friends, many, many close dear friends. But people with whom on some very important matters, I am on the complete opposite. Total opposite. I mean there's a friend of mine who has a Muslim name but he's atheist. But he's one of my closest and dearest friends. I make dua for him. I learn a lot from him. He's a naturalist. He's a world-class naturalist. But so on and so on. He does not see the signs of Allah's mercy and nature. But he's a very close friend of mine. So we, first rule, we never have arguments. Secondly, if we have, anytime it comes to that, and Hanzele, he's also a wise man. The question I ask myself and the question I assume he asks himself is do I want the friend or do I want the argument? Do I want to win the argument or keep the friendship? It's simple as that. Same thing in marriages, even more in marriages. Do you want to keep the marriage or do you want to win the argument? Decide. You can't have both. Utterly useless. You win the argument, you lose the friend. You lose the argument, you lose anyway. So what's the point in arguing? Especially arguing about things over which we have no control, absolutely. And just think, just reflect. You know, this is something that we need to do. Reflect what are we arguing about. 90% of the time it's politics. Most of those who argue about politics won't even go to vote. The one thing you can do, because they're also, they argue, what is the point of voting? This one is also bad, that one is also bad. This one is also bad, that one is also bad. So what is the point of you arguing? He's voting hara-li Islam. His whole life, everything he's doing is against Islam. He's earning haraam, he's eating haraam. Voting, is it according to Islam? Please. Walk away. Allah ta'ala gave us two legs. If you had one leg, I say hop away. I have two legs, walk away. Just walk away, just go away, go away, go away, go away. Malkhshat, walk.