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Juz 19: Make the Prophet ﷺ Your Best Friend | Sh. Ammar Alshukry
What kind of friends are you surrounding yourself with? Are they the ones who inspire you to follow the path of the Prophet ﷺ, or do they pull you away from it?
Join Sh. Ammar Alshukry with hosts Dr. Omar Suleiman and Sh. Abdullah Oduro as they reflect on the timeless lessons of Juz 19, guiding us to evaluate our friendships, realize our blessings and be grateful for them, and do things solely for the pleasure of Allah to attain a pure heart.
This episode features a special poem by Sh. Ammar Alshukry about Sudan.
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings.If you're looking at friends that remind you of the Prophet ﷺ, that manifest a part of the sunnah or the seerah of the Prophet ﷺ that you wish that you could have. Let us not forget that we're being tested through gratitude, and so that gratitude needs to manifest in our worship of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Prayer is a means of purification of the heart, and purification of the heart brings more prayer. As-salaamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh everyone. Welcome back to Qur'an 30 for 30, alhamdulillah we're in Juz 19. We want to remind you all, especially as we come into the last 10 nights, we ask for your support for Yaqeen. You know subhanAllah there is more support that we get at Yaqeen in these last 10 nights than any other time of the year. So please do automate your donations, whatever the amount is inshaAllah Ta'ala. We're doing this for the webathon, but we need your support. I hope you see the way that the work has elevated year after year after year, and that is by the fadhl of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and all of you contributing, alhamdulillah. So click the link below inshaAllah Ta'ala. And today we have a special guest, Shaykh Ammar Alshukry, Sudan's finest. MashaAllah man. You've got like the full- Just a guy from Sudan, that's it. Not the finest, mashaAllah. I mean, man, like you came prepared. I came with my Sudanese shawl, and I came with my- He's got all these shoes, man. He's not wearing the right ones, man. I came with the markoob. He's not wearing the right ones. The cheetah skin ones. This is the one that, you know, animal rights activists won't be upset at you at. Are you sure? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's leather, but it's not the snake skin, it's not the python, it's not the cheetah. This is- It's the cow. Yeah, this is okay. You killed the cow. I didn't kill anything, alhamdulillah. It'll get you to admit to it on camera. First of all, we need a shot on these special socks that Shaykh Omar is showcasing right here, man. Hey man, we got Palestine and Sudan. We got Sudan, Palestine, and we got men's warehouse over there. Official sponsor. Official sponsor men's warehouse. Oh, yeah.
All the time. Men's warehouse, please support Yaqeen during the last 10 nights. They do me right. Every time I walk in, alhamdulillah. You should get at least, like, two free bags, you know. I hope so, man. I go there a lot. So, you spent, like, the whole last year ready for this moment. Yes. We called you out on your lack of Sudanese shoes last year. Last year, you guys caught me slipping. I was on my way to travel, and this year I came ready to go, masha'Allah. Look, I even got the- You know a person who's Sudanese, if you can zoom in, if you see a little bit of ashiness on the ankles, that right there, that is Sudan right there, man. We West Africans, we got it too, man. Alhamdulillah, man. It's good to have you back. Masha'Allah. What you got going on with Al-Maghrib? I'm the director of Al-Maghrib, obviously, and we're launching a lot of projects. Alhamdulillah, we launched Al-Maghrib Studios, and this Ramadan we're doing a beautiful series on the names of Allah. I'm continuing the series that I did last year on the names of Allah. Detailed series on Juz Amma. And Al-Maghrib course on Juz Amma as well, alhamdulillah. So it's been beautiful. We're continuing to just try to make Islamic education easy and accessible throughout the world. You did some shorts on- On the names of Allah. On the names of Allah for Yaqeen. Then you ghosted, then we couldn't find you. No, no, no. Apparently you were shopping for shoes. I didn't ghost. I didn't ghost. I'm right around. Alhamdulillah. It's kind of hard to get to Dallas. That's all, you know. When you're in Houston and you've got to go to Dallas, you've got to like- All right. You have to move up. Oh my God, you've got to hype yourself up to get to Dallas, man. Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. It's good to have you, Shaykh. Alhamdulillah. It's my pleasure, man. We reward you for all that you do. We're looking forward to hearing your insights. Alhamdulillah. I mean, we are now in Juz' 19, as we said, and subhanAllah, the ajza' have been flowing so smoothly and beautifully, where every lesson is just building on the one before it. In Juz' 18, we talked about this idea of setting your priorities right, and this idea of not
being distracted by the wealth of this world, and by your children, and by worldly things. And there's nothing that distracts people away from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala like people, right? Bad friends will often be the cause of that distraction. There's a reason why it's called peer pressure, right? They'll call you to do things that your soul knows it shouldn't do, or there are lowly things that, you know, you actually want to do, but your higher aspirations, especially in Ramadan when you're trying to have a lifestyle change, not just pray more tahajjud, not just, you know, fast more, but you're actually trying to have a lifestyle change, it always calls you back to that, that peer pressure, that social environment. And the lesson that I want to lead off with is, let the Prophet ﷺ be your best friend. Last time I talked about this idea of competing with yourself, and always seeing yourself as first place. There's one person ﷺ, that's always there, that sets a perfect example in every single facet of your life. And if you make yourself not a competitor, but a follower of the Prophet ﷺ, because you can't compete with him, and you don't look at your social norms, but you look at the sunnah norms, you look at the Prophet ﷺ and how he lived his life, and you say, that's how I want to be, and that gives me something to constantly strive for ﷺ, to constantly be better in this regard. And that actually becomes the basis for your friendships. So you're not just looking at friends that are not sinful, or that don't cause you to be sinful, but you're looking at friends that remind you of the Prophet ﷺ, that manifest a part of the sunnah, or the seerah of the Prophet ﷺ, that you wish that you could have, and you want that to rub off on you. So the verse that I'm looking at is in Surat al-Furqan, and it's very interesting when you look at this verse in 27, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, وَيَوْمَ يَعَضُّ الظَّالِمُ عَلَى يَدَيْهِ يَقُولُ يَا لَيْتَنِي اتَّخَذْتُ مَعَ الرَّسُولِ سَبِيلًا يَا وَيْلَتَى لَيْتَنِي لَمْ أَتَّخِذْ فُلَانًا خَلِيلًا
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, And beware of the day that the wrongdoer will bite his nails in regret, and actually bite his hands, right, I mean imagine the sight of someone so nervous that they're biting their entire hands, their entire fists, and saying, oh how I wish I had followed the way of the Messenger ﷺ, woe to me, I wish I had never taken so and so as a close friend. Now here's the thing, if you're reading the verse, you know, in our sense, it's not going from the day that a person would say, I wish I would not have taken this person as a friend and taken this person as a friend instead. It immediately goes to the Prophet ﷺ. Now there's an immediate seerah manifestation to this, and then there's a timeless manifestation of this. The immediate seerah manifestation is Uqba bin Abi Mu'ayt, who had a chance to be one of the first Muslims. This was a powerful man from Quraysh. He was a person who used to always put on a feast. Anytime he traveled, he'd come back, and he'd put on a feast, and he would call the noble ones of Quraysh, and who nobler than our Prophet ﷺ. So he used to frequently invite the Prophet ﷺ to his house to eat with him when he would come back from a journey, as he would invite Abu Sufyan and those of that class to eat with him. And on this occasion, he invites the Prophet ﷺ over, and the Prophet ﷺ says, wallahi, I will not eat your food until you renounce shirk, until you say la ilaha illallah. And under that pressure of the Prophet ﷺ, and his fitrah, he said, you know what, I believe in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and I follow the Prophet ﷺ. And then the peer pressure of those shayateen, subhanAllah, of shayateen al-ins, that tried to pull him away, the Abu Jahls of the world that said to him, are you really following Muhammad ﷺ? That peer pressure got to him, and to prove himself, he comes back to the Prophet ﷺ, not as a follower, but to spit at the Prophet ﷺ. So this is the same man, I mean, you talk about a man who really is a slave of peer pressure, like he shows up in the seerah always as a slave of peer pressure.
The famous story of putting camel intestines on the back of the Prophet ﷺ, collapsing him in front of the Kaaba, where Fatima (رضي الله عنها) has to come and remove the guts of that camel off of the back of the Messenger ﷺ. That was him, because Abu Jahl said, who's going to do that to the Prophet ﷺ? He said, I got it, I got it, I'll do it, I'll do it. So he's a slave to that peer pressure, and that leads him to go from potentially being a sahabi, a companion, upon whom we would say (رضي الله عنه), and who would be in paradise with the Prophet ﷺ, and instead an enemy of the Prophet ﷺ, and imagine on the Day of Judgment, how dumb he's going to feel. I mean, there's no two ways about it, right? How much of an idiot he's going to feel like. I could have been up there with Abu Bakr and Umar and Uthman and Ali. Here I am now, in the bottom of hellfire with Abu Jahl, Abu Lahab, and the likes of them. Why? Peer pressure. So there's an immediate seerah manifestation here, and may Allah protect us, but then there's the rest of us, and there's that sunnah lesson as well. Look, when you're looking at a friend and you're saying, how sinful does this person make me? And, you know, they're not that bad, like, yeah, I'm going to backbite a bit, yeah, I'm going to go to some gatherings that maybe I shouldn't go to, yeah, I'm going to listen to some things I shouldn't listen to, I'm going to see some things I shouldn't see when I'm around this person. They're going to sully my soul a bit, right? They're going to taint me a bit, but it's not going to be to a point where it makes me not a Muslim anymore. That's a low bar. A higher bar is, this person reminds me of Allah and the Messenger, ﷺ, and the Prophet, ﷺ, is my best friend, and, you know, to see the Prophet, ﷺ, as your best friend, your potential neighbor in Jannah, right, is just a powerful way to frame all of your friendships, and to make that the standard, and then also to give yourself constant competition, because you're never going to be a better father, you're never going to be a better brother, you're never going to be a better leader, you're never going to be a better friend, you're never going to be a better slave of Allah, ﷺ, than the Prophet, ﷺ. So when you're talking about the race, he's always ahead, ﷺ, calling you to follow him along in that race to Jannah, let the Prophet, ﷺ, be your best friend, that way you don't need anybody else to inspire you, you just need others to fall in line with the person that already inspires you, ﷺ, and seek to be on that path alongside them, and may Allah 'azza wa jal allow us all,
the three of us, and all of us that are watching this, and that are a part of this, may Allah 'azza wa jal allow us all to be on that path with our beloved Messenger, ﷺ. It's interesting, there's always going to be those people, and you wonder why, you know, I converted to Islam, there's some people you would say, okay, now I have this message, I'm going to talk to this person, they're going to come to Islam, it's going to be easy, they're relatives, but then you also have those relatives, friends, that you say to yourself, no, there's not going to be any way that this person may come to Islam, so you have those individuals that will always try to hold you down, and it could be because of envy, it could be because of the arrogance from the envy, and you would have thought that that person would be the one that Allah chose to guide them, but when you look at Allah's choice, you realize that it's all within the hands of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and there's a small window of me to do the work, and that is what is so beautiful about the faith and the aqidah, the belief in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, that you don't rely on yourself as a mushrikun during the time of the Prophet, ﷺ, until today. It's important to know that, because when we as Muslims always try to be our best, and we try to set an example for people, we have to know that ultimately it's Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala that will ultimately turn the hearts of the people, so sometimes we may see some of our youth, the parents try their best, but then the youth has to make that decision within themselves, from the du'a of the parents, and the du'a of the friends and family, to where that individual will eventually come around, bismillah wa ta'ala. I was thinking about the verse in Surat An-Naml, I love that story very much, Sulayman (عليه السلام), and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, just even before getting to the du'a of Sulayman, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala describes Ayyub in Surat Sad, and he says, inna wajadnahu sabiran ni'mal abd We found Ayyub to be incredibly patient, what an excellent slave, innahu awwab, he often comes back to Allah.
And I know that with everything we've been watching in Gaza, and what's been playing out all over the world, Sudan included, and we see the absolute resilience, and the way that people are ascending, and meeting the test that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is placing, it's left a lot of us feeling very deficient in our iman, like we can't possibly be near them. And yet, beautifully, when you think of Ayyub and his patience, and his endurance, and how Allah praised him, if you were to think of the prophet who had the exact opposite life experience of Ayyub, it would be Sulayman. Sulayman was completely blessed, he had a kingdom the likes of which nobody ever seen, and yet Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says about Sulayman, in the same surah, Allah says, wahabna li Dawud Sulayman, ni'mal abd innahu awwab. What an excellent slave is Sulayman. The exact same phrase that he used to describe Ayyub in his patience, he describes Sulayman in his blessing. And so, what is the du'a that Sulayman makes in Surah An-Naml? Sulayman, (عليه السلام), he says, as he hears the description, or the discussion of the ants, rather, he says, Lord, give me the ability to encompass showing gratitude to you. And so Sulayman, with great, not with great power comes great responsibility, but with great blessing comes great gratitude. And Sulayman, (عليه السلام), when you look at his life, you see somebody who is exceptional in his gratitude to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, because he realizes that the blessings that he received were exceptional. And that phrase, by the way, awzi'ani an ashkuru ni'matak, oh Allah, give me the ability to encompass. When you go to al-Masjid al-Aqsa, may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala allow us all to go with it being free and unoccupied, ameen, ya Rabb al-alamin. When you go to the mihrab, you'll find the script that was written by Salah ad-Din (رضي الله عنه). And I have the script here, and it's something very beautiful. Salah ad-Din kind of sources that du'a of Sulayman.
He says, in the name of Allah rahman rahim, the renewing of this blessed mihrab has been ordered as well as the reparation of al-Masjid al-Aqsa by the servant of Allah and his protectorate, Yusuf ibn Ayyub, Abu'l-Mudhaffar, the conquering king, Salah ad-Din, Salah ad-Dunya wa-d-Din. Due to what Allah has conquered through his hands in the months of the year 583, he invokes Allah. And this is the part here. He says, wa yas'al Allah. He says, and he asks Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, ee za'ahu shukra hadhihi na'ma. He asks Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to give him the ability to encompass this blessing. He's sourcing it directly from the du'a of Sulayman. And so the question then becomes, how does Sulayman show gratitude? When we're looking, we see maybe two or three things that I'll point out quickly. Number one, he asks Allah for it. Rabbi awzi'ni an ashkuru na'matak. Oh Allah, give me the ability to encompass showing gratitude to you. So asking Allah to make you grateful. And we know the Prophet, ﷺ, told Mu'adh ibn Jabal, don't forget to say after every salah, this is something that we should all take home immediately from today if we don't do it now. Oh Allah, assist me in remembering you and showing gratitude to you and remembering you and thanking you and worshiping you beautifully. That's number one. Number two, the second thing is that Sulayman (عليه السلام), he doesn't let the blessing distract from gratitude to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. He doesn't let the blessing distract from the remembrance of Allah. And so we have in Surat Sa'd, he's distracted by his horses for a portion of time until he forgets the Asr prayer. And so what does he do? He gets rid of the distraction completely. And you might look at that and that's like excessive. Imagine if a person is watching a game on a big screen TV and then they get rid of the TV because they missed the salah. But that is the level of gratitude that Sulayman is showing to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Allah says, ya ayyuha allatheena amanu la tulhikum amwalukum wala awladukum an dhikri Allah. Do not let the blessings of wealth and children distract you from the remembrance of Allah. And then the third thing, and this is really just incredibly high level. In Surat An-Naml, Sulayman witnesses a magnificent feat. He's asking for the throne of the Queen of Sheba to be brought from Yemen to Jerusalem. And so a man brings it in the blink
of an eye. Now, 99.9% of people, if they witness such an incredible feat, they would say, oh my God, how did you do that? Just like we're amazed that Steph Curry's shooting ability, and we're amazed that Ronaldo's shooting ability, and we're amazed that this person's business acumen, and we fall in love and we become amazed with the person. But what's Sulayman's immediate response is he says, hatha min fadli rabbi liyablooni aashkuram akfur. This is from the blessing of my Lord. Not, you're so amazing, you're so eloquent, you're so talented, you're so skilled. He sees behind every great feat of a human being, that the power of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is behind that blessing. He always remembers where blessings come from. And that's the point. Two ajza' ago, by the way, we just talked about that idea. So everyone gets tested with good and bad, like what a test of good. Absolutely, what a test of good. And so for us, when it comes to to bring it back full circle, the test that we're seeing other people go through, through patience, let us not forget that we're being tested through gratitude. And so that gratitude needs to manifest in our worship of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, our dedication, our recognition of blessings, our everyday blessings, and showing gratitude to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and asking Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And then I'll end just because I know Shaykh Abdullah loves my poetry. Shaykh Omar is kind of iffy about it. I'm iffy about your shoes, not your poetry. Not the poetry. So I have a poem about blessings and gratitude, and it goes like this. The pen was commanded to write everything until the day of judgment. It wrote and wrote. It wrote that Adam would be fashioned and created by the hand of God, that he would inhabit paradise and be expelled. It wrote that Noah would build a ship that would deliver him and a few of those who believed in him to safety from a flood that would drown the height of mountains. It wrote of a mother in fear, yet with unbelievable courage, placing her baby in a basket in a river and that baby growing under the watchful eye of his maker to save his people from unspeakable horrors. It wrote that David would be a king, have a son named Solomon, that he would be carried by the
wind, make minions of the jinn, and that he would have a kingdom the likes that the pen would not write for anyone after his dominion. It wrote of a miraculous birth under a date palm tree, a baby speaking to his mother's accusers, his first words written, I am the servant of God. He gave me the book and made me a prophet. His name was written Jesus, the son of Mary, and that he would be marked for death. And it was written everything that they would say about him. It wrote of an orphan boy who became a shepherd, who became a merchant, who became a prophet. His name was written to Muhammad ibn Abdullah, ﷺ. It wrote the names of his enemies and it wrote the names of his friends. How blessed are his friends that their names be written by his. It wrote of incredible feats of his ummah. Tariq ibn Ziyad entering a land that would capture its imagination for a thousand years. Salahuddin, a stone's throw away from Jerusalem. Imam Ahmed emerging from prison, the most famous man in the world. It wrote of incredible lows, the killing of Omar, the sacking of Baghdad, the accusation of Aisha, 12 million dreams being shackled on ships traversing the Atlantic where they would be decreed to die. But some dreams don't die. They transform into songs that are sung on the breaths of slaves from one generation till the next, until freedom rings. It wrote of colonization and the world that would come to be. It wrote of the lightest love and the heaviest grief, blinding rage, incredible generosity. And it wrote the names of my parents, stories of childhood mischief and who they would be and how they would meet and all of their seeds. And it wrote my name and it did the same for me. So I neither long for days of past glory, nor fear days of future loss, because all that is written shall come to pass. Instead, my job is to be patient upon hardship, grateful upon blessings, and that I be in one state or the other until my story is through because the pen has been lifted and the ink has dried. That was good. JazakAllah khair. MashaAllah. Allah accept. That was so good that the AC turned off. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. SubhanAllah, interestingly mentioning the Prophet ﷺ as our friend, you know, it's very, very beautiful because that is a manifestation of Muhammad Rasulullah.
Understanding that he is given the message by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And that message is to literally save your life. It's to save your heart. It's to purify your heart. It's to bring forth the seed that nurtured by the actions, i.e. his sunnah that has been given by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will give us that qalbun salim. I mean, this is the month of Ramadan, brothers and sisters, I'll never forget. Here in Houston, one of my mentors, SubhanAllah, he was reaching out to a brother. And then, you know, I asked him the question like, don't y'all have like a beef? Don't y'all have like a problem? He said, look, Ramadan's a month, man, we got to get over ourselves. Islam is much bigger than the both of us. And that is so important. The task that I have for each and every one of you, reach out to someone that you may have a problem with, at least send them a text, give them a gift. The Prophet ﷺ said, tahaadu tahabbu, something, this can be a sign of the qalbun salim. And this is the du'a, a part of the du'a that Ibrahim (عليه السلام) mentioned in the chapter of Shu'ara when you look at verses 69, roughly through 89, when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentions to talk about the story of Ibrahim. And long story short, he's calling his father, he's calling the people to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, he's calling them to Islam. And then he starts to describe Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, if I was to be sick, then he would cure me, for example. But then he says, oh, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, he turns to Allah himself and makes du'a. After he's calling the people, giving them da'wah, he makes du'a after the da'wah. And this is important because prayer is a means of purification of the heart. And purification of the heart brings more prayer. So when we see how Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, within the sharia, the deen of Islam, when we try our best to be our best with this religion, with this way of life, this is how our heart becomes pure, stays pure, and can be an illuminating factor for everyone else. So Ibrahim (عليه السلام), he mentions, oh Allah, do not make me from those, do not rise me up with those on the day that they will be raised. And then he says,
yawma la yanfa'u malun wala banun illa man atallaha biqalbin salim. What day is this? The day that the money nor children will benefit anyone except the one that comes with a pure heart. The pure heart is the heart initially, the heart that recognizes the oneness of Allah See, it's important for us to understand the good deeds that we may do culturally, it may be seen as something that is good, that is commendable, but what is most important is that it is anchored in the tawhid and the oneness of Allah. I did this because God loves it. Simple. I did this because God loves it. And this is important. If the Prophet ﷺ is the one that we look to for an example and a means of guidance, then practicing that will make our hearts clean and pure. And having Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is the ultimate one that we do it for. This is what will purify the heart and as a result of that can purify the hearts of others. How? When Ibrahim (عليه السلام) was calling the people to Al-Islam, you notice that he was by himself, he was by himself, but that was a means of strengthening him and a means of his du'a later being accepted to where we go to this valley, a valley that has no vegetation. But we see now that we all, tahwi ilayhim, all of our hearts come to this blessed valley. When one goes through the sacrifice, when one goes through this and these trials and tribulations is a means for our hearts to become pure. So the worship of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, having him as our initial reason for doing everything, as the Prophet ﷺ said, that actions are judged upon intentions. If our intention is to please Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, for him to be happy with us and everything else trickles down from that. If that is our approach in life, that is the means to having a qalbun salim. And lastly, the qalbun salim, the heart that is pure or the heart that is free from any sicknesses
and in this particular case, the diseases of the heart. Going back to what I mentioned to you when I was speaking to the brother in Ramadan, fighting that disease of jealousy, fighting that disease of hatred, fighting that disease of jealousy and hatred that may lead to racism or discrimination because of those beliefs that you have, transcending that and allowing Islam to be the guiding light through that, that is what leads to a qalbun salim. Let's be honest, there are some Muslims out there that they believe in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, but they are certain about a certain genus of people, a certain group of people, a certain type of people. Islam came to transcend that and on the day of judgment, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will make all of that clear and that's why Ibrahim (عليه السلام), so beautiful that he mentions this in conclusion of his du'a when explaining this day of judgment, that we will all go before him, illa man atallaha biqalbin salim, because you will be brought to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, you will be brought to him and your heart will be examined, deeds exposed, and I was going to end, eyes shut closed, but you know, I'll leave the poetry to you. No, no, it's okay, man. No, no, just give it one more time, just go ahead. With our deeds examined, I can't even remember, man, you got it. With our deeds exposed and our eyes shut closed. Allahu Akbar, our deeds exposed and our eyes shut closed, yeah. I don't know where that was going. Masha'Allah, masha'Allah, that was good. So just to wrap up, takeaway, your lesson. With the pure heart comes pure prayer. With great blessings comes great gratitude. And let the Prophet, ﷺ, be your best friend. You know, SubhanAllah, I was thinking, the last juz was, don't let your children and wealth distract you from Allah. And this juz, the day that your wealth and children will not benefit you, except for the one that comes with a pure heart. So pure heart sees through the distractions in this life, a pure heart reaches Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in the next life, without any diversion. And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala bless you all. Shaykh Ammar, what else you got for us, man? Any last reflection to take us home? I know you already dropped your poetry.
Usually you leave that for the end. I mean, I always have poetry. I have one poem on Sudan, if that's okay. Yes, please. I'll just do one on the hometown. But I think every African, and maybe beyond that, can also relate to this. It goes... Why'd you point to me? I'm just saying, I mean... Hey man, have you not seen my ancestor's report? I haven't seen your DNA report. I'll show it to you, insha'Allah. So it goes, I'm from where kids smile sweet and nails me, where the sun always shines, and grandfathers tell tales of golden times, and grandmothers say prayers that always rhyme. I'm from that tagalia and robe, and women wrapped in taubs, hand-scented with sandalwood and sesame with henna for decor. And everybody's got an idea or a plan that'll fix Sudan for sure. I'm from where people still sleep outside, and stars still fill the sky, and family ties are a notion deep and thrown. Meals, grief, and happiness are never shared alone, and kids chase cars to welcome people home. And your cousins are always trying to keep your clothes and run your phone. Because we're all family folk and kin with sun-coated skin, and 500 is the amount where your family count begins. I'm from where people's dreams are worldwide, and go way beyond the country where they reside, if only because home is beautiful and broken. So to survive, we have to leave by any means, by any token. Gotta run away, can't stay. We just pray for better days. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala grant better days to Sudan, and Palestine, and Lebanon, and all over the Muslim world. Allahumma ameen, and grant us security here in our home country. Ameen. JazakAllah khair. Ameen, Rabbul A'lamin. Appreciate it. JazakAllah khair, everyone. We'll see you all, inshallah ta'ala. Reminder, once again, to sign up for the last 10 days and to attend the webathon. As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
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