What did I get out of it

Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

--- *This transcript was automatically generated by AI and may contain errors. * --- My brothers and sisters, how many of you like to have fun? Everybody ready? What is fun? Can you define what is fun? Good time? Okay, what else? So give me some examples. Example of fun or fun activity. Basketball. Basketball. Horse riding. Horse riding. Swimming. How many of you actually do swimming and horse riding? I don't think everybody does. What you do, I'm talking about. Swimming you do, okay. Okay. Water. Okay. Soccer. Okay. Anything else? Gym. Gym. Okay. YouTube. Now you're getting some truthful answers. TikTok, right? I thought we got a few people who never see YouTube, never see TikTok. When you say basketball and soccer, are you professional basketball players? Do you intend to be one? No. Point I'm making is very simple. My point is all of us have a defined number of hours, minutes and seconds on this earth. Everyone, right? We don't know the exact number. How many I have I don't know. But I know I have. So many breaths. And when I take my last breath, whether it's coming in or going out, that's it. So in this time, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala does not subtract all the time that goes into something which is not really getting me any real benefit. Right? So the things that you described, for example, tell me what is the real benefit of watching basketball for somebody who is not a professional basketball player? Enjoyment. Enjoyment. So what is enjoyment? To be happy. Right? Do you think Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam enjoyed life? Do you think he had fun? Do you think the sahaba had fun? They enjoyed life? So how can they enjoy life when they are standing in sala the whole night? Here we have a situation where the qari in Ramadan, I'm not exaggerating, I am witness to this, you all. When the sheikh, no matter how beautiful the qaraat, if the sala is three minutes more, four minutes more, five minutes more, we complain. Sheikh, please tell him to recite longer. Please tell him to recite faster. That's why I give up. I go and sit in that corner. I said, don't talk to me. Yes or no? Am I exaggerating? Am I lying? So how was Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam getting fun out of this thing? Strange, no? Same qaraat. Did the qaraat change? What Sheikh Abdullah is reciting, is it different from what came to us? Same thing. So how come he got fun out of this? How come the sahaba got fun out of this? They would stand behind the wisa sallam. There is a beautiful hadith where Abdullah was called and then the sahib was called. They came and they decided one day to pray behind the wisa sallam. So they came and stood and he, in that sala, in the whole of that sala, he recited only one ayah. Which ayah is that? Anybody remember that hadith? Which ayah did he recite? Only one ayah. He repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated. So the next day, between them they said, we should ask. He said, no, you ask, you ask, you ask. So then the sahib said to him, Abdullah was very much, he loves you more than himself, so you ask him. So he asked him, he said, ya Rasulullah, we came and prayed behind you and you recited only one ayah. Why did you recite that? Rasulullah said, I was making dua for my ummah. This was my dua for my ummah. The ayah itself, as you know, is isali salam. This is what isali salam means to Allah. Jalla jalalu wa thadey ajmaat. If you want to punish them, they are your slaves. But if you want to forgive them, innaka anthal azeez ul hake. You are the all powerful and you are the all knowledgeable and the all wise. And Rasulullah said, I was reciting it as my dua for my ummah. The point I want to make for you and me is that we live in a world where we have made society, we have made life itself so hard and harsh and toxic that we need time out to go and do something else to forget this life, to detoxify ourselves. People say work life balance. I've always found these statements to be,