Power of action

https://youtu.be/8g4Wt9POJOM 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, maybe not with that at all, because she was a very fine businesswoman in her own right. But with his integrity and his sadaqat, his, his title of Sadiq ul-Ameer, it should be noted and remembered that he got it before he announced his prophethood, he got it before he announced Islam, and this remained with him lifelong. To the extent that even when people went against him because of Islam and they planned to kill him and so on, even at that time they had given into his safekeeping, their valuables. And when he left Makkah to go to Madinah, he left with those things and he said return these to their owners because I can no longer take care of them. The point I want to make for myself and you is that to impress Islam upon people, to open the hearts of people to Islam, to open the hearts of people to Islam, you don't always need even the Qarnam of Allah. Many times a simple receipt, a simple business transaction receipt is enough. Naila, forgive us, this is where we fall down. Because today if you ask the ...