Sajid Umar – Be the Best
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“Be the Best in whatever you do”, a talk for kids and parents. Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil alameen wa Salatu was Salam ala rasulillah who Allah Allah He also be a drummer in my back.
All praises belong to Allah subhanho wa Taala and peace in salutations v upon Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
When we hear the word Mohammed, what should we say?
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, how are you all today?
Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Are you Allahu Akbar?
Why are you not Allahu Akbar?
You are having the delay and Allahu Akbar? How are you all today?
And Allahu Akbar Mashallah. I'm so happy to be here with you all today. Mashallah. Because you all such special? Little boys and girls, Mashallah.
Did you know that you special?
Did you know that he's special?
Are you sure? Who told you?
Your parents told you? Your parents told you? Are you sure?
And how do you know they were telling the truth?
Because our parents don't lie, isn't it? Mashallah, no, they were telling the truth you all special Mashallah. barakallahu li kun
je like Sri Lanka.
I also like it. It's my first time coming here. First time coming here but it's very wet. very humid. I sweat a lot here. So as for this big fan, to be here, but it's not helping.
Mashallah, Mashallah, do you guys sweat here.
You also sweat or if you sweat that I have to sweat because I'm not from here. I'm not from here. I lived in
different countries a country which is known as Zimbabwe where I grew up
And that has a different type of temperature and climate. And then I lived for many years in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which also has a different type of climate. It's hot, very hot. Sometimes the temperature, what's the hottest temperature? you've you've experienced?
35 degrees Celsius. 4042 42 Which one?
He was turning around. You, you you 4242 Well, in reality it can get up to sometimes close to 60 Yes. 60 some heinola. But you don't sweat there.
You don't sweat. Is that possible? That it can get so hot and you don't sweat? Is that possible? Yes, it is. Why? Because there is no water. Riyadh is in the middle of the desert.
You know how you you are in the middle of the ocean.
Right. Sri Lanka is in the middle of the ocean. Right Riyadh's in the middle of the desert, everything around it the sand. Everything around it is sand. So there's no water. It's very dry. So you don't sweat. It's hot. But you don't sweat. We just use an air conditioner. It makes the room cold. your air conditioner is
really? Alright, so we use the air conditioner. And we Okay, and when we go outside, it's hot. Like you know when you go into a sauna? Have you been into a sauna? No, you haven't, isn't it? Who knows what a sauna is? Put up your hand if you know what this one is. Put up your hand. Nobody knows what a sauna is.
a sauna is a very hot room, a room which is very hot, where you go inside so that your skin can rest as they say it sweats and it becomes cleaner. When you grow older. You know what the sauna is? insha Allah insha Allah insha Allah insha Allah so in Riyadh, we don't sweat. Here we sweat so I'm dealing with the humidity this another country I went to which feels like Sri Lanka is Malaysia feel similar? you sweat a lot to you become wet. It's as if you barfing the whole day. You need a towel, isn't it? By Mashallah. Mashallah.
Do you know what day or what days we are in right now?
Monday.
And other than Monday,
are you sure it's Monday? No, it must. It could be Sunday. Are you sure it's Monday.
Now you're not sure? Are you sure it's Monday?
Somebody said? No. Who said no.
You're not sure. What's the date? What's it today? What what's the day to day?
Saturday.
Today's Monday. Okay. And what Islamic month are we in? Who knows? Yes. The month of Hajj or the hedger will hedger the month of the ledger Mashallah, what's your name? Ayesha salami. Amazing name we have my wife's name is Aisha
she's not here but inshallah I hope to bring her to your beautiful country one day inshallah and my two little boys I have a young boy's name is Abdullah whose name is Abdullah here. Wow, Marcia, are you half of the law full of the law? Would you hand up high? When when you when you get asked a question and you know the answer was put your hand up high. If you put it half then it's like you 5050 I'm half of July and I'm half nuts. Abdullah? Who's a whose name is Abdullah? Mashallah. So I have a young son. His name is his name is Abdullah and he's three and a half years old. Three and a half years old. Who's three years old here?
Nobody How come?
I was the youngest person here. Who is the youngest? You How old are you? Five, Masha Allah. Is anyone younger than five here? How old are you? who is younger? Who is smaller than five? Who is smaller?
So we have to use baby language who's smaller? Who's smaller than five?
How old are you?
Yes.
Six. Okay, so we are young. This student is five is that correct? The youngest is five
or the younger ones are not here. So Pamela you know, Mashallah. I was just saying everyone that I've noticed in Sri Lanka, they look young. Yesterday I met a 50 year old uncle. I honestly thought he was in his 30s. And I think the secret and martial law even the younger, the younger
Hear Mashallah. And some of the brothers who are hosting me I think the secret is in my opinion is that you live by the water and eat a lot of fish. So it makes you young people you eat fish
you eat fish with bones inside no you take out the bones I don't think she's good for you but I don't always eat fish. I asked me why.
asked me why. asked me why.
Let me tell you why. Because when I eat I don't like to work.
When I eat fish I have to work has to take out the bones and eat that that's working. I want to eat so I eat chicken there's no bones in the chicken.
You like chicken as well?
Who likes fish more than chicken?
Who likes chicken more than fish? hamdulillah so we friends we friends Mashallah.
So Mashallah was saying that when you live in the coastal areas, I noticed people look younger, and they seem happier.
Is that true? Yeah, I think so. I think so. Because even when I travel, the Middle East, but I traveled to the countries in the Middle East that have a coast, the people they seem happier and friendlier. I don't know. This is my observation. May Allah keep you happy?
See, I mean,
do you don't you don't want to be happy.
Alright, so we in the months of when the months of hedge hedge and what days are we in right now? Are we in the first 10 in the second 10 are in the third?
Or the fourth 10
can they be for 10s? Faustian there's only how many days in a month?
3030 days in a month. Right? And what's 30 divided by 310? So we have how many? 10s?
Three. That's your math lesson for today.
That's your math lesson for today. Bye. So you have 310s in the month of the ledger. Which 10 Are we in the first 10 the second 10 or the third year?
Who says first 10
and who says second 10?
A Who says that? 10.
And who says fourth? 10
Mashallah, you the most active participant student Mashallah, your hand is always up? Very good Mashallah. Mashallah, we in the first 10 days of the hedger when the first 10 days first 10 days, and I think in Sri Lanka I just started isn't it? I just started martial law. Now, who do you Who can tell me something special about these first 10 days? Who who's who knows something special that your parents might have told you that your teacher might have told you?
Stand up what's your name?
Erica. Mashallah. I have a beautiful voice commercial law. They allow me to carry
say I mean, I mean, what do you want to be when you grew up?
Half is Masha Allah, may Allah make you have it? I mean, what else do you want to be?
A pilot say pilot? No, but we all want to be pilots. When we small.
I didn't ask you but you stand up and tell us Yes. pilots. handler can stand up as well. So he wants to be a pilot outcome. What do you want to be when you grew up? engineer? Why?
We would do that. The albizia laughing was yesterday. Someone said they want to be an engineer and we asked him why you had that you had the talk. Masha. Allah What did you learn from the talk yesterday? Stand up. Tell us what did you learn?
Explain to children Yes. What else?
vision Wow, Masha, Allah, how old are you?
nine years old and for the people at home who are watching on the camera. nine year old he said he learnt about having a vision yesterday. Mashallah. What did you understand when we spoke about having a vision?
thinking what to do before you do it. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. I must be a very good teacher. What do you think?
Mashallah, excellent, excellent. You and what do you want to become when you grow up?
Our
hardware engineer, what's the
computer engineer Marshall of law? You know, before I went to study Islam, my first degree was in computers as well. Do you know that
Didn't know that I even had a computer company that I started while I was studying.
And you know what I called it because I was a small I was younger than not that I'm very old now. But that old but I called it micro was the like the name. Micro was. The word was sounds nice, isn't it? Yeah. Mashallah, because why I called it micro was I was small. I was young that time I was like 18 years old. And I thought to myself, you know what?
At 18 we all young and we teenagers, we want to name which is fizzy? Isn't it?
We want to do with which is fizzy? So I thought was means wizard, which means we do some miracles. Right? We do some, we make, we wipe our hand over the computer and the computer is fixed.
Right? Not that there's any wizardry, but was at which means fast, as well. So I wanted people to know that my company fixes computers fast, faster than the other companies I called it. microwaves But anyway, that's history. That's history. But May Allah make you a computer engineer. I mean, and May Allah make you a engineer? I mean, you want to be a what type of engineer Do you want to be a building? You want to become you want to build bridges? Mashallah, Mashallah, I love the aspirations that you have in your school. Keep up the good work Mashallah. It's very nice to see the children here in city Lanka. Yes. What What do you want to say stand up?
You want to be a doctor Allahu Akbar. Why do you want to be a doctor?
You like to be a doctor? Why do you like to be a doctor? Who told you it's nice to be a doctor?
Your mother, Masha Allah, may Allah make you a doctor as well. Okay.
And your father. So every day you wake up, they say you must become a doctor. Really?
We make you a doctor. I want you not to be any doctor. I want you to be the best doctor. Okay, okay. Mashallah, yes, we must always be the best. always aim to be the best, right? Because
Allah gave us the best of everything. Do you know that? Do you know that? Allah gave us the best of everything. Allah gave us the Quran, which is the best book?
correct or incorrect?
I can't hear you.
Correct. And he gave us the best score and to the best profit correct or incorrect?
Which profit?
Correct. And how did he give this Quran to Muhammad? sallallahu alayhi wasallam using the best
gibreel and he is the best. Best Angel. So best, best best. And then he used the best language which language? first language? And he revealed it in the best month? which month?
Is that? Not the best month? And in the best night? Which is the best night?
There is not the best? Yes. And in the best city which city? Messiah so everything is the best, isn't it? Right? And in this Quran, Allah said that you are the best of all people of mankind. Do you see that? So what does that mean? What does that mean? You can sit down now what does that mean?
You have to be the best in everything that you do. If you want to be a doctor, you must be there.
And if you're not the best doctor, what are you going to do?
Give up? No. Try your best to be the best doctor, the best doctor. And if you're going to be an engineer, what are you going to be any engineer? You're going to be the best engineer. Correct and you What are you going to be
the best word engineer Hi everyone Stand up. Stand up. Stand up. Put your hands in the air. Quickly Quickly Quickly. touch your toes.
Now this is not a p exercise stand up.
I want you all to say after me. I
always going to be
best. Best. Best. Excellent. Excellent.
Say off to me. I I'm going to
Be
child and student and Muslim
hamdulillah and everything
Mashallah, Mashallah. You see, so Allah gives us the best of, of everything. And these days that we in this month of the ledger these 10 days, these days are the best of all days in the whole year. Do you know that? Which is the best day of the week?
Friday, which is the best month of the year,
which is which is the best 10 days of their
hedger these days now. Why is it the best Why? Because Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that
there is no good deeds that you do
during any time of the year.
Besides these 10 days, which are more
beloved to Allah, which are more beloved to Allah, if you do something in these 10 days, then that is better than doing that something in any other day. Right? So we must be good to our parents every day, isn't it? Isn't it? If you be good to your parents during these 10 days, you get even more rewards than any other day? Did you know that? Did you know that? No. Now, you know, do you know?
Are you
very good? If you be a good student, during these 10 days, you get more rewards than being a good student during the other days. Did you know that? Now you do, isn't it? So you must be the best. Make sure you be as good as you can be, especially every day of your life, and especially during these 10 days. Do we agree? Is that a deal? And I'm gonna ask your teachers afterwards to see if you are very good. If you are naughty, or if you are
nice. Are you going to be naughty or nice? Nice. Okay. Now, also why these days are the best days. Because during these days, we have something known as the day of alpha who knows about 30 of our alpha. Put up your hand if you know about the day of alpha.
Okay, the day of alpha is the best day in the year. It's the best day in there. And why is it the best because Allah is so happy with the people who go for Hajj.
He's so happy with them
because they all go has you have your parents gone for Hajj?
whose parents has gone for Hajj? Mashallah, yes, yes, your parents went for Hajj.
You also went to and for Hajj here. You
You didn't go when you big inshallah. inshallah. inshallah. Bye.
They never took you.
Okay. Okay. And what about this young man who's facing the back? How did you go for Hajj?
How did you go for Hajj? Yes. No, no, no, you
with your parents. When did you go for Hajj?
in Oman, how can you go for it?
You must have gone for O'Mara.
That's called omura. That's called omura. Yeah, but it's similar. It's similar. It's similar. So you know, when our fathers were the two white klutz. Have you seen your father were the two white plots. Right? And they go around the cover? Yes. Yeah. Seven times. Yes. Yes. So that's when you go for Hajj. So because Hajj happens in these days, ally is happy with the people who go for Hajj. But Allah is also happy with us. Why? Because in these 10 days, we also do good deeds, we become good boys and girls. We don't shout back at our parents. We listen to what they say. We listen to our teachers. We do our homework, isn't it? And we help other people? Do we help other people? Yes, we
must always help other people because this is from the lessons of hedge. Hedge teaches us many things to be good people. And it teaches us to help other people. Do you help other people?
Are you sure?
Is it good to help other people?
Who told you it's good?
Your mother martial law. I want to tell you a story. Do you like the story? Let me tell you a story about
Helping one helping each other helping each other. They said one day, there was a king once upon a time, a long time ago, in another land mazzilli Lanka,
there was a king. And this king was a very nice person is to help people. But he had two brothers, who were very greedy.
They were very selfish. They used to sell
fish.
Is that what you call a fish? Salah? Hmm?
very smelly fish valia
what do you call a fish? Salah?
Selfish? No, no, no. selfish.
fisherman Yes, fisherman. A selfish person is a person who only thinks about himself. When you have a plate of sweets and chocolates, he takes all the sweets for himself. And then he runs away so you can catch him. And then he hides in the corner and eats it by himself. If the plate of chocolates come, he takes all the chocolates. So that is called the selfish person. So he he had two brothers who were very selfish whenever the king used to have a big party and invite everybody to come and
eat. They used to come first and finish all the foods.
They were greedy. They were greedy. So what the king said the King said, Wait, what we have to do. I need to teach these people a lesson.
Right? So what he said was he said, he told his gods that I want you in the middle of the night to go and pick them up from the house and bring them here. So as they were sleeping, the gods went and picked them up and brought them to
to the king. And the king sent them to the basement. You know what the basement is? Yes. Do you have basements here in
a basement is the ground floor the underground underground.
The Underground floor of the building? Right? But we put a huge table of food for them. All different types of food. What are your favorite types of food?
Chicken, ice cream, cake, chocolate, strawberry? toffee.
All these things which are bad for your teeth. What else?
Bread, right. Apa you like apples? Wow. Orange.
Watermelon?
mangoes
strawberries, babe so he had all this. Marshmallows? Yes, he had all these things on the table. So they saw the table. They were so excited. Because now we don't even have to fight for the food it's only asked to hear and we can eat all the food. So what did he do? He said all this food is for you. But you can only eat it was two conditions.
Two conditions the first condition is you use a spoon which is one meter long.
one meter long, like this rule over here Mashallah look at this ruler, this ruler is one meter long. So he said you have to use this food, Mashallah. And he said the second condition is you have to hold the spoon from the end. You can't hold the spoon from here.
You have to hold the spoon from the end. That's the only way you can eat this food. All right. So they were two people so they needed to one meter ruler so Mashallah your school also has another one meter ruler here Mashallah. So, I want one boy one girl to come up to the front who's going to come up? Come come stand up here. type you come. Yes. Mashallah. Stand up, you hold this. And you hold this. Right? The spoon. The place to take the food is here. And your place to take the food is? is here. Okay? Now.
Now, it let's see how you eat from the place the spoon in your mouth. How are you going to do it?
How are you going to do it? You know you have to hold from the end do only from there. How can it go into your mouth?
It's impossible.
But there's all this food are you going to eat it come and try harder. Try
Try.
Impossible, Masha impossible by five now
these two brothers or this brother and sister, the whole night they were trying, and their mouth was watering with all this food and the stomach was rumbling. And now the whole night now they're hungry. The morning came and they're really hungry. They're really hungry and they can't eat the food. So what did they decide to do? They decided to stop being greedy. And they decided to start being selfless meaning they started to think of one another. That look let me not worry about my stomach only let me worry about my brother's stomach. And this is they said, let me not worry about my stomach. Let me worry about my brother's stomach. So what did they do? They fed each other. So
you see, comes down over here. See, he can feed her and you feed him. Let's see.
Alhamdulillah Did you see? Did you see that? when they when they started thinking of each other? What happened?
They had they had food to eat. You see? Thank you very much. Let me have these rules before you poke somebody else.
Did you like that story?
Did you like the story?
How much
100% Really? You too kind? You're too kind you do Okay, so what's the moral of the story? What did you learn from the story?
Don't be greedy. And what else?
Don't be selfish and what else?
Don't think about yourself and what else? how others. Exactly? Exactly. And Hajj teaches us all these things. What else did you learn?
in Riyadh, Mashallah.
Oh so you it was unfair advantage that you knew the answer? commerciali very clever. Mashallah. Mashallah, when did you live in Riyadh?
Are you on vacation? Okay, where do you live in Riyadh? Where do you live in Riyadh which exits melas Mashallah. Near city in St. Shari city Mashallah. Okay. Do you like your school in Riyadh? Yes. Mashallah. Mashallah, so, did you like that story? You learn a lot of lessons. Okay. Now, hedge teaches us all these things, which teaches us all these good things. Don't be selfish. help other people. Don't be greedy. Be good people. Don't think about yourself. Do you see that? Excellent. Excellent. So make sure every day of your life you look after these lessons, okay? And especially when during these 10 days, say shala
Okay, does that cool? Okay, and now what I want you to do is when you go home today, you're going to tell your parents mommy Daddy, come here. Sit down. I want to tell you a story.
And you're going to bring to one meter long rulers now
you don't have all right. Then get a long stick.
Okay,
okay. All right. And I want you to tell your parents this story. Can you remember the story? Can you remember it? All right, I want you to tell them the story and I want you to tell give you a mommy a stick and your daddy a stick and tell them to eat tell them to eat and see if they can eat or I deserve to allow hated I love you all and I'm gonna miss you all but inshallah life Allah brings me back to Sri Lanka and your school allows Mashallah. Mashallah such a nice school and Eman schools and I love this really, it's so touching. I feel like taking it home with me.
But I'll leave it here when I come back next time. How's that? I'll come visit you inshallah. Will you be happy if I came back?
Excellent. Salam or aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.
Let's see what our young sister had to say here. Yes.
You want to recite Quran? You You want to recite all of us, okay. Let's do that.
Excellent lie that I'm so touched Mashallah and everyone knows it's so wild and everyone was even shaking their heads in reading like they even were understanding it Did you understand what you read? Mashallah you speak Arabic. Really? Why didn't you tell me I would have spoken to Arabic
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Khadija
I love it being with children with children there's no rules hamdulillah it makes life lighter. Mashallah, may Allah bless you all Baraka Who is your favorite resizer
mishary Rashid, who has who has another favorite designer yes shokri Mashallah, yes. So today's is my favorite as well. Who else
who
who can read like today's come who can read and come and read for us
who can read likes today's
Should I try first then you try?
Should I try?
But on condition somebody else comes to try after me.
Okay, so I'll try first and someone will come after me. Okay. All right. Let me let me try. I'll try okay.
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