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Juz 1: How to Be Sincere with Allah | Sh. Belal Assaad
With the arrival of the blessed month of Ramadan, we renew our intentions and reflect on the legacy we wish to leave behind. How sincere are we in our actions? How do we hold ourselves accountable? How can we practice what we preach, and in doing so, earn Allah’s guidance?
Join Sh. Belal Assaad with hosts Dr. Omar Suleiman and Sh. Abdullah Oduro as they reflect on Juz 1 of the Qur'an, discussing how we can cultivate humility, receive the gift of guidance, and nurture a sincere heart.
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings.As-salaamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh everyone, welcome to Qur\'an 30 for 30 once again. May Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala bless your Ramadan, may Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala make this a month truly of the Qur\'an for you and may Allah azza wa jal allow us all to connect to his book in this month and to connect to him in this month and may Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala accept all of our deeds in this month of Ramadan. Allahumma ameen. We have a very special series of Qur\'an 30 for 30 for you this year bi-idhnillahi ta\'ala. I want to remind you all to tune into the Ramadan series as well bi-idhnillahi ta\'ala which is based on Kitab al-Ruh, the book of the soul and it is truly the other side to so much of what we\'ve been encountering in this world around us. And so I pray that you will watch that with your family insha\'Allah ta\'ala and that you will tune in with us as well every single day as we reflect on a juz bi-idhnillahi. This year dear brothers and sisters we\'re doing a hundred life lessons from the Qur\'an and so it\'s going to be a little bit different. We will each share a reflection but with that reflection we\'ll have a life lesson but we want to remind you all insha\'Allah to tune in and we also want to invite you to donate. I hope that you see the incredible work that goes into Yaqeen, making Yaqeen a possibility and insha\'Allah ta\'ala as we start Ramadan, the month of Sadaqah, you can automate your donations from now bi-idhnillahi so that you can directly be a part of cranking out this type of content that benefits people bi-idhnillahi ta\'ala all over the world and Yaqeen is always for free and so insha\'Allah ta\'ala it is free and it is free for you to participate in as well and we pray that you\'ll invest in it insha\'Allah ta\'ala as you always do. Alhamdulillah we have with us beloved brother Shaykh Belal Assaad, hafidha Allah My absolute pleasure Ya Shaykh Omar, jazakum Allah khair, my absolute pleasure. Shaykh Bilal is a brother from another mother alhamdulillah, someone who a deep deep deep connection to, always love having you on Shaykh, always love being in your company, always love your insights. I think that probably the best episode of Quran 30 for 30 in history was the one where you came on for Surah Yusuf, that\'s of no offense whatsoever to all the noble guests that we\'ve had but that episode resonated with people I still hear about it to this
day of Surah Yusuf and your reflections on Surah Yusuf. So this time we want to kick off the series with you insha\'Allah ta\'ala, we wanted you to be episode one and insha\'Allah ta\'ala to be a huge part of what we do but may Allah bless you. Shaykh Bilal, originally Lebanese, lives in Australia, we\'re doing this in the UK alhamdulillah. All the way in the UK, from down under to all the way in the UK alhamdulillah, I\'m very well, I\'m very well, may Allah bless you, thank you for your kind words. So for me, talking about the Quran is what enters the hearts of every believer truly and because the Quran always speaks to you, the Quran is always addressing you and one of the biggest things the Quran has ever done for me other than helping me through tragedy and hardship as was in the last episode in Surah Yusuf is keeping me in check. Ever since I was a kid, I remember one time I was in a Quran halaqah, reciting Quran back in Lebanon when I was only about 15, 16 years old and two boys came up to me and asked me religious questions. I had no idea why they came to me specifically. Being 15 or 16 years old, you don\'t think that you are a person of religious guidance or some shaykh or scholar at all. I\'m just sitting there learning tajweed and halaqah of the Quran yet for some reason Allah let these youngsters come to me. They asked me some religious questions and I knew how to answer some and some I didn\'t. Alhamdulillah, when I was very proud and I told my mother and father and they were very proud and among the first things that my mother and father told me were, son, if Allah Subhanu Wa Ta\'ala is going to put you in a position, then remember that he\'s going to test you first with it. Don\'t take it as if you are more special than anyone else.
If Allah gives you knowledge of the Quran, he gives you a nice voice, he gives you the ability to talk and reach the hearts, then know that it\'s from Allah, don\'t you ever think it\'s from you. Now my father emphasized this to me because he used to remind me that speaking about Allah\'s deen means that Allah Subhanu Wa Ta\'ala may be using you, however, the shaytan can come to you and make you destroy all of that with a mere feeling of or belief that you are better than others. You may think that you are Allah\'s favoured and that you are above others and so riyaa, which means showing off, feeling that you are superior to others, can destroy all your work. You could be preaching and doing all this amazing work for 50, 60 years of your life and then you\'re reminded of the verse in the Quran which hit me a lot, which is in Surat Al-Baqarah in Juz 1, verse 44, till today, this verse hits me after every talk. The ayah is, أَتَأْمُرُونَ النَّاسَ بِالْبِرِّ وَتَنْسَوْنَ أَنفُسَكُمْ وَأَنْتُمْ تَتْلُونَ الْكِتَابَ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ How can you command people to do goodness, actions of goodness and birr, righteousness, and forget about yourselves while you are the one who is reciting the book? Do you not ponder or think? Of course, this verse came down to the children of Israel way before, when they received the Torah, preached to people and forgot the teachings of the Torah upon themselves. Are we going to fall into the same problem? It hit me every time as Allah is my witness. أَتَأْمُرُونَ النَّاسَ بِالْبِرِّ You\'re always commanding people of good. Okay, don\'t forget about yourself. Have you prayed your prayers properly?
Have you read your Qur\'an today as you told people to read? Are you treating others the way you told others to treat others? How are you towards your parents? How are you with your money? How are you with your children? How are you with your friends? And I remember attached to that is one day my father telling me a hadith which shocked me till today. I also wake up to it and get slapped on the face with it just to remind me that among the first whom the fire shall be ignited with on the Day of Judgment are three. Among them is a person who fought in the path of Allah and died in the path of Allah. The second one is one who donated in the cause of Allah apparently and the one who learnt knowledge of Deen and taught it to others all his life. And that the Prophet (ﷺ) said, the first one will be said, well, you only did it so that people can call you a hero and a mighty man who fought with chivalry. And you, oh, donator, you only donated so people can call you so-and-so of a name, generous donator, and you wanted that legacy to live on after you. And you, oh, knowledgeable man or woman, the scholar, you taught your knowledge so that people can call you Shaykh or scholar or alim or wow or this or that. And how often do we hear that? One time I was giving a talk and I was about 21. And a brother comes up to me and says, I want to be able to have a voice. I want to be able to talk like you. I asked him, why? Haven\'t you got other skills that Allah has given you? Why do you want only that? He says, because I want people to listen to me. He said, this position that Allah has given us is the most scariest and frightening position for only those who knew. I can be preaching and my entire work, all my efforts go to vain because of my intentions. Do I want people to listen to me or not? Do you really want to go down that path?
This privilege is not something that a person is given because they necessarily deserve it, but to be tested with it. Will you pass with it? Like any other risk, whether you\'re given wealth or business, friends, family, children, status, reputation, giving knowledge and nice voice in Qur\'an is also a test. And your taqwa will determine whether you pass it or you fail. May Allah make us among the Muttaqin. So the lesson is practice what you preach. Practice what you preach and have taqwa in your life. There is a du\'a which remedies all this. We always use it. It\'s attributed to Imam Ali (رضي الله عنه), Allahumma la tuakhidhni bima yaqulun, O Allah do not hold me accountable for what they praise me with, wa astaghfiruka mimma la ya\'lamun, forgive me for the things that they do not know about me in secret, wa ij\'alni khayra mimma yadhunun, make me better than what they assume of me. I ask Allah subhana wa ta\'ala to make us among them. Ameen. Jazakumullah khair. SubhanAllah, that lesson of practice what you preach and you ended off by saying you have to have taqwa and taqwa is piety and the output of piety is the abandoning of sins. And Allah subhana wa ta\'ala says, alif lam meem dhalika al-kitab la rayba feeh hudan lil muttaqeen. This is a guidance for the people of taqwa, a guidance for the God-fearing. So I was going to make my lesson, guidance is free, but I\'m going to actually just tag it on to yours. Yours is practice what you preach. Mine is practice and you will learn. Practice and you will learn. What that means is that Allah subhana wa ta\'ala has not made guidance so cheap that anyone can access it whenever they want. If you think of any sustenance in life, if you think of any blessing in life, Allah subhana
wa ta\'ala makes it so that you have to earn it and guidance is earned. Guidance is something that you seek from Allah subhana wa ta\'ala and then he unlocks. Now none of us ever get to a point where we are fully deserving of that guidance from Allah subhana wa ta\'ala, just like none of us ever fully get to a point where we are deserving of any blessing from Allah subhana wa ta\'ala. But Allah subhana wa ta\'ala in his mercy gives to the one who strives. And in the case of this guidance which we are asking Allah for, the Qur\'an starts off, people forget surah al-Fatiha is a part of the Qur\'an, like they make it a part of the salah but it\'s not a part of the Qur\'an, like you tell people, what\'s the beginning of the Qur\'an? Surah al-Baqarah. It\'s like no, it starts with al-Fatiha. People forget it\'s there. Al-Fatiha starts with you asking for it. You\'re asking Allah for guidance. And Allah is answering you and saying, I\'ll give it to you but, but what? Hudan lil muttaqeen. It\'s not going to come for free. You have to want it. And your actions will show whether or not you truly want it. Now subhanAllah what makes this so profound is that Allah subhana wa ta\'ala is saying you have to relinquish the sins because taqwa means leaving off that which is sinful and Ramadan is an exercise of taqwa. Fasting is an exercise of taqwa. Kutiba AAalaykum al-siyam kama kutiba AAala allatheen min qablikum laAAalakum tattaqoon so that you can gain taqwa. The end of that taqwa is, wa li tukmilu alAAiddata wa li tukabbiru allaha AAala maa hadaakum. The end of that taqwa is a celebration of Allah\'s guidance and Allah is telling you in the beginning of the Qur\'an, guidance is for those who have taqwa. What does this mean at a practical level? Your eyes will not be honoured with seeing that which is pleasing to Allah subhana wa ta\'ala for what it truly is if you\'re dishonouring your eyes by constantly looking at that which is not pleasing to Allah subhana wa ta\'ala. Your tongue will not be honoured with dhikr, with true reverence of Allah if you are dishonouring
your tongue constantly with those sins. It\'s weighing it down, it\'s polluting it, it\'s tainting it. Your heart will not be gifted with true guidance and the opening of that heart to appreciating that guidance if you are polluting the heart as the Prophet (ﷺ) mentions to us, right, the spot that it leaves, the stain that it leaves, Allah azza wa jal says kalla bal rana ala quloobihim maa kanu yakthiboon. Why are the hearts being stained? Because of what they used to do. How do you stop doing that which causes your heart to be stained? You stop sinning. What\'s the result of that? Taqwa. What\'s the result of taqwa? Guidance. Hidayah. It\'s a gift from Allah subhana wa ta\'ala. So the greatest consequence of your sin as far as this world is concerned, is the loss of guidance, is losing your way. The greatest consequence obviously in the hereafter is Allah azza wa jal\'s punishment. May Allah protect us from hellfire, Allahumma ameen. But in this life, you lose your way. You know subhanAllah, I remember one of our teachers, may Allah subhana wa ta\'ala preserve him, he said the worst thing that happens after you sin is that Allah azza wa jal allows you to sin again. Like Allah says go, that\'s what you want? Go ahead. If that\'s what you\'re after, take it. But when you seek guidance, Allah subhana wa ta\'ala not only opens up your heart to that guidance because you are seeking it, and seeking it by practicing upon what you\'re learning, Allah subhana wa ta\'ala gifts you with the next stage of it. And when you taste the sweetness of any of those guided actions, because I think it\'s very important what you said, it\'s not like we ever get to a point where we\'ve arrived. Where else we do one good Ramadan and we put it in the book, so khalas. We fasted once, we\'ve arrived, it\'s like you got a degree. I fasted Ramadan, I went through this boot camp, I got a degree. It\'s not like you arrive and you\'re there. It\'s that you have to keep on trying to arrive because you\'re never really there. But when you taste what closeness to arrival is like, then you\'ll feel less tempted to
fall back into those actions that pull you away from Allah subhana wa ta\'ala and cost you that guidance. So may Allah azza wa jal make us from the guided, and may Allah guide us to what\'s necessary to appreciate that guidance. Ameen, Ya Rabb, to add to that, Shaykh Omar, when you mentioned al-Fatiha, oh Allah grant us the guidance. It also says al-sirat al-mustaqeem, al-mustaqeem. So you know, mustaqeem means consistent, and we always go up and down. Sometimes we\'re here, sometimes we\'re there, but we want to meet. The last breath, being on a consistent path, because you don\'t know what changes. So we have to be aware with this taqwa. And you see it in the ayah which I recited before. It says, wa ista\'eenu bis-sabri was-salah, seek help in prayer and patience. And it is too big except on those who are present in their prayer, and conscious in their prayer. And then Allah reminds you about the hereafter, wattaqu yawman turja\'una fihi ila Allah. And so fear a day or prevent yourself from being punished or harmed on a day when you will return back to Allah. So again, this keeps us in check, doesn\'t it? We don\'t want to build a bridge where I move other people along to paradise, but I fall, subhanAllah. And at the end of the day, you and I will be judged by ourselves. Therefore, clear our way, and then Allah subhanAllah will make your hereafter a success, bi-idhnillahi ta\'ala. Bi-idhnillahi ta\'ala. And subhanAllah, I mean, you know, practice what you preach. أَتَأْمُرُونَ النَّاسَ بِالْبِرِّ وَتَنْسَوْنَ أَنفُسَكُمْ Do you call the people to birr and forget about yourselves? And then practice and you will know. I want to talk about practicing to leave a legacy. You know, being consistent in that act to where it has an athar, it has an effect. It has some level of influence on those around you. And with the qadr of al-Khaliq, with the predestination of al-Khaliq, the creator, the sustainer, the maintainer, al-Razzaq,
is that he puts people around us from the faculties and the wisdom that he uses to do that by children and family. And I really want to capitalize on the verse in chapter al-Baqarah, verse 127, where Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala talks about Ibrahim (عليه السلام). All of us know the Ka\'bah and we understand that the Ka\'bah is at Baytullah and it is the house of Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala that we hope to go to at least one time in our life and make qasd and make hajj to that place and make tawaf around there and to praise Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala with this blessing. And Ibrahim (عليه السلام) was the one that built this house upon the qawa\'id that were placed there earlier. When Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala mentions the statement of Ibrahim, but it was Ibrahim around the individual that Allah placed in his responsibility, the responsibility to take care of Ismail (عليه السلام). And that\'s by his Qadr, where Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala says, Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala mentions, he says, and recall, recall on Muhammad and recall all of us to think and remind ourselves. Now, when he\'s saying is for you to think about the event that\'s going to take place and to derive the lessons that come from it to where you\'ll be able to inculcate it in your life. And here it\'s a practical lesson subhanAllah upon practicing to leave that legacy by doing what you say, not only lip service, but actually acting it out with your progeny, with your children. And as we know subhanAllah when talking about this, it always reminds me of what\'s termed as rites of passage for young men, particularly when young men have to see men in order to be men. They have to understand what it means to be a man and women and young girls as well. But particularly what we\'re seeing happening now with a lot of what is taking place with our youth and for them, there\'s a detachment of the adults, primarily their fathers and even their mothers and their uncles, etc. From the stimuli and the things that are around us that can distract us from our main purpose of life
is to practice what Allah has given us in this framework of the sharia, of this belief, of this connection, this intimate connection with Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala, which is manifested and shown through the sharia. And from that is Ibrahim building the most blessed house on the earth. Allah says, And recall when Abraham and Ishmael raised the foundations of the house. So Abraham is with his son, (عليهما السلام), raising the foundations of the Kaaba, building the Kaaba or rebuilding the Kaaba that some would say upon the foundations that were originally there. He\'s rebuilding it again with his son. So the first thing is he\'s spending time with his son and that is the strongest way to leave a legacy. Number one. Number two, he\'s practicing what he preaches by working for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala. So he\'s raising the foundations of the house and he\'s praying. So while he\'s doing the action, he\'s calling on Allah and he\'s calling on Allah to accept it from him, which shows that he doesn\'t think that he has this individual authority. Rather, what he is doing is by the pleasure of Allah, by the strength of Allah, by the permission of Allah, the Ithn of Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala. And he\'s calling on him. What is that indirectly doing? It is teaching Ishmael. My son is seeing me do the act at that particular time. And I\'m calling on Allah, relying on Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala. As many times, you know, when we go to family gatherings or we sit, you know, with the men and the children go in the other room and they don\'t know how it is to have a conversation. When we see like Abdullah ibn Umar (رضي الله عنهما), when he was sitting with Umar al-Khattab and the Prophet (ﷺ). And he gave the example of the mu\'min. He said, what kind of tree is like the mu\'min? And Abdullah ibn Umar, he knew the answer. But then Umar al-Khattab, they left. And Abdullah ibn Umar told his father, he said, it\'s a Nakhla. Because the Prophet (ﷺ) answered the question and said, it was like the Nakhla, like the palm tree. So when Abdullah ibn Umar and Umar al-Khattab left,
Abdullah said, I knew the answer. And Umar al-Khattab was like, if you would have said that answer, it would have made me so happy. But Abdullah seeing the response of his father, being proud of him, Abdullah sitting with the companions (رضي الله عنهم), spending time with the men. Ibrahim (عليه السلام) is with his son, teaching him how to do an action that requires strength, that requires patience, that requires stress, requires stress. At that time, simultaneously, he\'s calling on Allah. Rabbana taqabbal minna. Oh Allah, accept it from us. I mean, look what he\'s doing. He\'s building a masjid and he\'s asked, Oh Allah accept it from me to show him the importance of ikhlas and sincerity. I mean, there\'s moments where we\'ve seen, and hopefully it\'s with our own children to where the person said, man, how did you learn that? How did you get this skill? They say, I learned it from my dad. That makes the heart of a father, and he just melt when they say they\'ve learned it from my dad. My dad is my hero. So Ismail is learning this from his father and Allah is saying, Oh Allah accept it from us. And then he says, Innaka anta as-Sami\' al-\'Alim. That verily you are the all hearing, the all knowing. Teaching him about Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala by the two beautiful names amongst his beautiful names and attributes. As-Sami\' al-\'Alim, the all hearing of my du\'a. You are not present. We can\'t see you, but we know you are present. And al-\'Alim, you know my intention. So this is a way of teaching all of us, but Allah is showing it through the window of a father with his son doing the most blessed thing, building a masjid for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala. And that is how one can effectively leave the legacy by practicing what Allah has given you, recognizing that it\'s from Allah and doing your best to fulfill that form of guidance that he has given you. Because as you know, as a scholar said, when we say guide us to the path, guide us to the path. But even though we are Muslim, sometimes we may not practice what we preach.
So while we are in this form of guidance, make us of those that act upon this guidance consistently to the best of our ability, constantly calling on Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala. And that is how, insha\'Allah, we practice to leave that legacy with the ones that Allah has placed in our responsibility. So become a model of guidance. Become a model of guidance. Yes. There are a few things that I would tell people, subhanAllah, and it\'s a beautiful reflection. One of them is that a good way to do tadabbur on the Quran, to reflect with the Quran, is to take the good qualities that are mentioned, and then look at the stories that are mentioned in the same context. So for example, take the beginning qualities of the believers, and then look at the family of Ibrahim (عليه السلام). because Allah azza wa jal brings him in. And then say, okay, how was Ibrahim (عليه السلام) from the Muttaqin? How was he from? الذين يقيمون الصلاة How was he from? ويأتون الزكاة ومما رزقناهم ينفقون How does he match these qualities? And you start to see, okay, this is so beautifully manifested. And then when you see the hypocrites and the disbelievers, you look at the bad stories that are there. You say, okay, this is Iblis acting just like Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta\'ala said, that those who reject the guidance would act. And this is why Iblis got to this place. This is why Bani Israel got to this place. So you can start to see the way that those qualities were modeled for good or for bad. And subhanAllah, another thing that immediately struck me, Shaykh, is that you were talking about, you know, the hadith of the three people that end up being in the hellfire first. Ibrahim (عليه السلام), all of the good things that could be said about a person are said about him. We say it about Ibrahim (عليه السلام). We say, شجاع We say he\'s brave. We say he\'s knowledgeable. We say he\'s generous. We say he\'s selfless. Because if you\'re doing it for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta\'ala and for Allah alone, and there\'s no fear of your intentions being compromised in that process, Allah will make your name known. Allah Azza wa Jal will make those qualities known. And they will not be testimonies against you
on the Day of Judgment. And that\'s the fear is that for some of us, may Allah protect us. Ameen, let\'s be very clear that those who are at most risk are those of us who are in the capacity of da\'wah, especially in this hyper camera focused world. In the spotlight. We\'re in a spotlight, right? So these qualities might be said about us and they might become testimonies against us on the Day of Judgment. In the case of Ibrahim (عليه السلام), he didn\'t seek the qualities being mentioned amongst the people. So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta\'ala mentioned those qualities to the people. And they will be mentions for him on the Day of Judgment as they are mentions in the Quran. And so truly when you do for Allah, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta\'ala takes care of everything else. And the tragedy is that we betray guidance often because we think that something else will give us the fulfillment that Allah has promised us through that guidance. So may Allah keep us amongst the guided. Allahumma ameen. Guide us and keep us amongst the guided. Ameen. Thank you, Sheikh Omar, Sheikh Abdullah. The story of Ibrahim (عليه السلام) always touches the heart, doesn\'t it? And just reflecting on that story and seeing how these prophets and messengers have really reached the amazing heights, yet you see the du\'a that he\'s mentioning here that it just struck me, Sheikh Abdullah, that when you recited it again, that he\'s saying, he\'s saying, Oh Allah, make us true submitters to you, me and my son. Had they not already gone through the ultimate test of submission? I mean, he told him, put your son and basically you\'re gonna have to slaughter him. Put the knife to his neck. And then they said, A testimony came from above the heavens. They have truly submitted and still Ibrahim (عليه السلام) is humbling himself saying, Oh Allah, make us among those who are truly Muslims to you, like Yusuf (عليه السلام). Make me, even in the back rows of the group of the righteous and they are the top of the top and look at us sometimes. These things really humble us again. And what a beautiful feeling it is
to be humble, isn\'t it? SubhanAllah, it\'s always reflected as we always got a lot to do and a lot better to become and Alhamdulillah, may Allah accept our deeds and all the people who do good deeds. Check like the du\'a of As-Siddiq. It\'s so easy to imagine Ibrahim (عليه السلام) making that same du\'a. Like it\'s a natural fit. Like you could see Ibrahim (عليه السلام) making that du\'a that Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala not punish him for what we would be saying about him of good. Like you can see the prophets embodying these things in the most beautiful of ways. And just to make a note that it\'s not all gloom and doom to say that oh, I\'m always at risk of not having my deeds accepted or anything. So sometimes it\'s not wrong to feel proud of your good achievements and your dawah. You know, Allah says, celebrate your good deeds. You know, if I come and say, well, Sheikh Omar, today I donated, subhanAllah, and I was so happy about myself. And I told my mother, I told my father because I\'m proud of it. It\'s not considered showing off. So, you know, to feel proud of your good deeds is a good thing against the shaitan. Or to say it in order to encourage other people will help you. So sometimes you have to fight, insha\'Allah, in a reverse psychology as well. But to keep ourselves in check is crucial. And the more you are in the spotlight, the more you do find yourself in a world of fame, the more we have to check ourselves. May Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala assist all of us in doing so. Ameen. And I think, Sheikh, to make it practical for everyone who is not in the spotlight, perhaps you\'re going to the masjid more in Ramadan than ever before. You\'re reading Quran more. The appearance of righteousness upon the Muslims takes us all in Ramadan. And so, it can hit all of us, right? And so, don\'t think, oh, those poor mashayikh, they\'re in trouble. Everyone has to...
Everyone has to hold themselves accountable. Social media. Social media. Social media is the place... It gives everyone a spotlight. That\'s it. That\'s game over if a person can\'t monitor it over there. But on a positive note, there is good in this ummah and this generation, alhamdulillah. There are those who are truly humble and they only want sincerity and honesty. They\'re thinking about their hereafter. And the taqwa I see is rising more and more in the coming generations. I feel in the past five years, there has been a great change, alhamdulillah. May Allah bless this ummah and this generation of people like yourselves. And thank you for having me on here as well. Thank you, Sheikh. Our time is up, Sheikh. Well, we loved having you for episode one. We hope, insha\'Allah ta\'ala, that you\'ll be with us frequently, bi-idhnillahi ta\'ala. And for everyone, please do tune in, insha\'Allah ta\'ala. Every night, we will keep it, insha\'Allah ta\'ala, to just this short dose of half an hour, insha\'Allah ta\'ala, max, for you all to benefit from these reflections on the Qur\'an from our guests. May Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala bless you all. Reminder to tune in. Reminder to donate. And see you all tomorrow, insha\'Allah. Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu. Al-Fatiha.
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