Auto-generated transcript:I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Satan.
In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful.
Indeed, Allah and His angels send their blessings upon the Prophet.
O you who believe, send your blessings upon him and give him your blessings.
O Allah, send your blessings upon our Master Muhammad and his family.
As you sent your blessings upon Ibrahim and his family.
You are the Most Glorious.
O Allah, bless Muhammad and his family.
As you sent your blessings upon Ibrahim and his family.
You are the Most Glorious.
My brothers and sisters, we are on the series of lectures on the Seerah of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
With an idea of understanding how the Seerah can help us to be successful in this world and the next.
So today we talk about...
One of the most important elements of the religion.
Which brought about enormous change.
And that is the way we deal with money.
See, today people talk about how the world has changed.
How ethics and morals have gone down the drain.
And how we have so-called leaders who are...
I don't even want to waste my time thinking of expletives for them.
But...
So we have all these things.
Now the question is, how did it get that way?
Just go back in history.
Think about this.
Imagine that you are listening to a conversation about...
Say, a conversation at the time of a Sahaba.
Or a conversation later on in Tabi'in.
Tabi'in.
Tabi'in.
Tabi'in.
Tabi'in.
Tabi'in.
Tabi'in.
Tabi'in.
Tabi'in.
Tabi'in.
They are talking about people in their own families.
They are talking about their fathers, their grandfathers.
Maybe they are talking about people who are respected in their society.
Two things I want to look at.
One is, who are they talking about?
And what about that person do you think they are saying?
So the people they are talking about, who are those people?
The great warriors, great scholars.
When we read the stories of Salaf, so and so was a Zahid.
He prayed so many rakat of Salah every night.
So and so, with the wudu for Isha, he would pray Salatul Fajr, which means he didn't sleep
the whole night.
Not on one day.
That was his routine.
So and so, when he was the Khalifa, that entire period of 10-12 years, he did not sleep lying
down.
Whole period.
He did not sleep lying down.
He would sleep, he would take a, he would hold a stick like this and rest against the
wall, standing.
Or he would sit and he would just doze like this.
Done.
Fumiliated.
Few minutes of that, done.
Back to work.
So what are the stories?
Sahawat.
Donating money.
And going there for the work.
And so on.
These were the stories, right?
These were the stories that we were told.
And believe me, this thing lasted for a long time.
I remember when I was growing up as a child.
I was a child.
We heard stories like this.
We heard stories like this about our children, our parents, our grandparents.
Today, for example, one of the biggest problems, one of the major, major problems is what is
called helicopter parenting.
Right?
The parents are whoring like this over the child 24-7.
Children are not left alone for one second.
They cannot get bored.
They're constantly engaged.
They forget that brain was not created for this constant simulation, continuously, which
is what the phones are giving you.
And we think this is parenting, constantly, never leave the child alone.
When I was growing up, in my teens, I was 16, 17 or something like that, I would go
from Hyderabad where we lived to a place called Adilabad, district Adilabad, the actual village
was called Pembi, which was a journey of almost the entire day.
I had to change three buses, three different places, and last two miles I had to walk through
the...
fields.
Black cotton soil which sticks to the shoes, so I take the shoes off and walk barefoot,
two miles through the fields.
By myself, no phone, I couldn't reach there and call and say I reached safely.
There was no question of writing a letter, it wouldn't get posted, it wouldn't come.

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