Actions are proof of Eman

Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

https://youtu.be/5KnVlYA7TKE Auto-generated transcript: In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the Universe. And peace and blessings be upon the Prophet Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah. And peace and blessings be upon the family of the Prophet Muhammad. Muneer and I have reached kind of halfway mark also in this trek around this beautiful lake. And we're having a discussion and talking about certainty. And I was saying to Muneer that just walk, take slowly, walk slow motion. Just see Muneer's steps. What is he doing? He's taking a step forward. Now, when you're taking a step forward, ask yourself, what am I doing? What you're doing and what anybody is doing is you are consciously taking a decision to upset your equilibrium. Because the safest position for a person is to stand squarely on his feet, the width of his shoulders, his feet apart, the width of his shoulders and stay there. Don't move. That is the safest position. But if you take that safe position, then you are not going anywhere. You're going to be standing in one place until you drop dead. So that safe position is safe, but it's not of any use to anybody. So what do we do? We consciously lean forward. Just walk and see. You can practice this yourself. When you're walking, what are you doing? You're consciously leaning forward, knowing that you will fall, knowing that there is a chance of you falling. And then automatically, it has become automatic. When you were a little kid, one year old, one and a half years old, it was not automatic. You had to do it. You did it consciously. But automatically, your leg comes forward and stops you from falling. That is called the process of walking, to consciously choose to lose your equilibrium. Put yourself in danger of falling and then move the other leg to stop yourself from falling. If by some chance, your other leg gets caught in the carpet or somebody trips you or something, you will fall. You will actually fall flat on your face, right? But you walk because that is the only way that we can get ahead. Nobody says, be safe, don't walk. No, you have to walk. So we were talking about the attitude that we have to learning Islam. And I am talking about people like me and people like probably most of you who are listening to this podcast, people who have been born Muslims. In my family, I know that my ancestors have been Muslims practically from day one. From my mother's side, they came from Madinah and from the time of the Vizier Salaam. So they have been Muslims for 14 plus centuries. On my father's side, they came from Central Asia. So they were probably Muslims from maybe what, a thousand years or something like that, 1200 years. So Muslims for generation after generation after generation. We never saw anything else. We never saw anything other than Islam. We never saw our parents, grandparents, whoever worshipping anyone. Now that's a good side of it. But the problem side of it is that therefore we don't have enough value for Islam that Allah Almighty is going to give us. And by enough value I mean that we think it just, it's like the air you breathe or the culture or the mother tongue we speak or something, it just happens. And it's okay if I, you know, don't know all the ins and outs of the culture, it doesn't matter and so forth. So we don't take trouble to learn. One of the simple things that we were talking about is that we see in our mothers are here, children of the Afghan refugees who are here, small children, we're talking about little children who are, you know, seven years old or something. Those kids, they read Quran much better than the children of the Arabs. Even though the children of the Arabs are listening to, hearing Arabic all the time, their parents, grandparents all speak Arabic, they have Arabic channels running on the TVs and everything else. But they have not learned to read Arabic. Nobody taught them,