Power of action

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Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds.
Peace and blessings of Allah be upon the noble Prophet and the Messengers.
The Messenger of Allah, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him,
and his family and his companions.
May peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and his family and his companions.
My brothers and sisters, once again, the Ashley of the Wire.
It's a flux of geese.
And doing what geese do, which is, if you can see, they have appended themselves to get up the grass and stuff and the weeds at the bottom.
And everything, everyone in the universe is engaged in Ahmad, in action.
And nobody is sitting still.
As they say,
in the morning when the sun rises, whether you are a lion or if you are a gazelle, you start running.
Because if you don't run, you die.
You get eaten or you starve.
And that's the secret of success, is start running.
Action.
I remind myself anew that we talk about the dawah.
Of Rasulullah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.
But reflect on, think about this.
40 years, for 40 years before he preached a single ayah.
Rasulullah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, was born in Makkah.
He lived in Makkah.
He was a toddler and a teenager in Makkah.
He was a young man in Makkah.
He was in his 30s in Makkah.
It's only when he,
was 40 that he received the first Wahi.
Now during all these years,
he lived in a society which was,
if anything,
more promiscuous,
more permissive,
more vice-filled,
than absolutely anything that we know even today.
Because in Makkah of that time,
prostitution was not only legal,
but it was so common,
that we know the hadith of
Sayyidina Ayesha Siddique Harad-e-Ranhai.
She said that if a prostitute became pregnant,
then she would just come out,
and she would just point to a man,
and say,
he is the father of the baby.
And the man accepted.
No one even contested that.
And say, I'm not the father.
Now obviously this was before,
DNA checks and what not so.
You know.
No one castigated or
criticized the prostitute.
You can say, well,
how could he do that?
Which was accepted or normal.
And the reason,
the man, whoever it was,
was pointed at and accepted,
was because,
he couldn't be absolutely certain,
but it would have been some,
this lady was somebody he would have visited.
So he said, okay, so maybe it happened.
So the point is that,
permissiveness and
promiscuity was at that level.
Alcohol
flowed through the society like water.
Almost everybody,
illa mashallah, there were some
of the Sahaba who were not,
but otherwise almost everybody
was what today you would call
an alcoholic.
At some stage of alcoholism.
To the extent that we have the,
the saying and the call of
Sayyidina Omar Ibn al-Khattab
where he said that if Islam had not come to me,
if I had not come to Islam,
he said I would have died
either because of the effect of
alcohol or
I would have died in a,
what we would call today a bar fight.
Heard of, you know, got into a fight
because of with other people who were drinking
and I would have died.
He said Islam is what saved me.
So this is how common these things were
and this is how,
you know, evil society was.
In that society,
Rasool Allah
long before he declared prophethood,
got the title,
As-Sadiq ul-Ameen.
The truthful and the trustworthy.
He did business,
and he was,
he became known
as a good businessman.
But there were many other good businessmen.
So he was, he didn't stand out as
the best businessman in Makkah,
the businessman who made the most profit,
the businessman who accumulated the most capital,
the businessman who had the biggest caravans.
No.
He got identified
as the most honest
businessman
in the world.
The businessman with the highest integrity.
And that's how he also got
the proposal from Saeeda Khadija
for marriage because
she was impressed with his,
not only with his,
not just with his business acumen,