Expect the best from Allahﷻ

Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

Auto-generated transcript:Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic34 Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic This is very, very important to keep in mind because what happens especially today, only bad news sells. So almost everything you hear, whether it's on television, whether it's on social media, whether it's on newspaper, is all negative. It's all negative. So many people died, this happened, that happened, demolished, war, this not. So our whole mind, the mind and the body gets affected, heart and mind gets affected by what we see. That's the reason why it is so important to make sure that you see the right things. And I have a principle that I try to follow, which is that I don't look at anything that I cannot control. So for example, I don't watch any of the Palestine videos and stuff because what is good about watching a child being killed, tell me? What is good about seeing a building being demolished and mothers crying their guts out because their children are blind in front of their eyes? What's the good of that? I can't control it, I can't stop it. I would gladly do anything to stop it, but it's not my control. So by looking at it again and again and again and again, all that it does is it drags me down. What I can do is to make dua to Allah SWT, which I do constantly, Alhamdulillah. What I can do is, you know, if there is any relief things going on or whatnot, I can donate to that, which I try to do to the best of my ability. But other than that, I don't watch all this stuff. And that's why I tell people don't even have a TV in the house. We don't have. We haven't had a TV in our house for the last 35 years. We are probably the only house in America which has no TV. No TV? We never had. The past 35 years. Alhamdulillah. You don't miss anything because there's nothing great about consuming content which is created by somebody else for their reasons. And you are, all you can do is consume. In front of the TV, you have no control. You're just consuming that content and it's damaging your life, it's damaging your heart, damaging your mind and nothing you can do about it. So throw out the televisions. They'd make a record or a video smashing the television and then post it on YouTube. You probably get some money for it. Only bad news. The reason I'm saying this is because what then happens is, a friend of mine tells me, I'm working for this company but I won't know what will happen in the future. I said, of course, nobody knows. He said, no, no, no, but you see, one man in this company was sacked just overnight even though he had been working there for 25 years, just like that. So I don't know what will happen to me. So I asked him, I said, how many employees does the company have? He says, 5,000. I said, how many got sacked? One. Now you want to look at that one person who got sacked or you want to look at the 4,999 people who did not get sacked and where do you link yourself? What can happen to me? What is the likelihood? Law of averages says that what happens to the most is more likely to happen, right? So what's likely to happen to you? Nothing. You will be happy. Like, 409. One man got sacked. We don't even know why he got sacked. God knows what happened there, right? Allah knows best. But the tendency, the mental tendency, it drags you to the negative. So I remind myself when you don't get into this spin, Allah said, I am for you what you expect me to be. Expect the best from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. My chef used to say, in this country you don't see that because there are not enough poor people I suppose. At least not where we live. But in my country we have on Eid days and so on, so on we have tam am. So you cook a lot of food, usually it's biryani, so you cook biryani and then there is Sufarah Dastakhan and anybody can come and sit and eat. Anybody, from the street, anywhere. People know that this is happening here,