1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,399 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 2 00:00:03,399 --> 00:00:11,560 Within the embrace of Allah, happiness pours into the hearts. 3 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:15,689 Seek ever-greater closeness to the Most Merciful. 4 00:00:15,689 --> 00:00:18,690 The Muhammad Ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Musa Mosque. 5 00:00:18,690 --> 00:00:21,690 Proudly presents: 6 00:00:21,690 --> 00:00:24,690 The Musk of Discourse. 7 00:00:24,690 --> 00:00:27,690 By Sheikh Usama Bahr, may Allah preserve him. 8 00:00:27,690 --> 00:00:35,689 Everyone who obeys the Divine dissolves into the sweetest of feelings. 9 00:00:35,689 --> 00:00:37,689 What has passed is gone. 10 00:00:37,689 --> 00:00:44,820 I do not know why some insist on clinging to the past, 11 00:00:44,820 --> 00:00:48,820 And persist in weeping over what has already transpired, 12 00:00:48,820 --> 00:00:53,920 And dwelling in prolonged sorrow over the griefs and pains that occurred therein. 13 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:57,920 Why, then, this attachment to what has elapsed and vanished? 14 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:02,920 Is it rational for a person to remain imprisoned in the cell of the past, 15 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:05,920 Forgetting the freedom of the present and the future? 16 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:12,109 Islam always calls upon the Muslim to look forward, toward the Hereafter. 17 00:01:12,109 --> 00:01:15,109 For what has passed is finished, 18 00:01:15,109 --> 00:01:18,109 Serving only as a lesson and a warning. 19 00:01:18,109 --> 00:01:22,109 The door to the past must be bolted shut, never to see the light, 20 00:01:22,109 --> 00:01:24,109 Because it has passed and ended. 21 00:01:24,109 --> 00:01:26,109 Neither sorrow can restore it, 22 00:01:26,109 --> 00:01:28,109 Nor can anxiety mend it. 23 00:01:28,109 --> 00:01:32,109 It is impossible to reverse a tear that has fallen from the eye, 24 00:01:32,109 --> 00:01:36,109 Just as it is impossible to return a child to the womb of its mother. 25 00:01:36,109 --> 00:01:38,109 Some wise people say: 26 00:01:38,109 --> 00:01:41,109 "The past is to be folded away, not recounted." 27 00:01:41,109 --> 00:01:45,109 So why do some people abandon work and diligence, 28 00:01:45,109 --> 00:01:50,299 Claiming that the past justifies their stagnation and surrender? 29 00:01:50,299 --> 00:01:54,299 Reading from the ledger of the past is a waste of the present, 30 00:01:54,299 --> 00:01:56,299 And a tearing apart of one's efforts. 31 00:01:56,299 --> 00:02:00,299 Allah the Almighty mentioned in His Noble Book 32 00:02:00,299 --> 00:02:02,299 The accounts of the nations of old, 33 00:02:02,299 --> 00:02:04,299 And He, the Almighty, said: 34 00:02:04,299 --> 00:02:12,300 ﴾That was a nation which has passed on. It will have [the consequence of] what it earned, and you will have what you have earned.﴿ 35 00:02:12,300 --> 00:02:19,490 ﴾And you will not be asked about what they used to do.﴿ 36 00:02:19,490 --> 00:02:21,490 From this verse, we understand 37 00:02:21,490 --> 00:02:24,490 That the past has passed and ended, 38 00:02:24,490 --> 00:02:27,490 And there is no benefit in dissecting the corpse of time 39 00:02:27,490 --> 00:02:30,710 Or trying to turn back the wheels of history. 40 00:02:30,710 --> 00:02:32,710 Whoever returns to the past 41 00:02:32,710 --> 00:02:36,710 Is like one who grinds flour that is already ground, as the saying goes. 42 00:02:36,710 --> 00:02:40,740 Rational people do not look backward, 43 00:02:40,740 --> 00:02:42,740 Nor do they turn their gaze to the rear, 44 00:02:42,740 --> 00:02:46,740 Because the wind blows and moves forward, 45 00:02:46,740 --> 00:02:49,740 Water springs forth and flows forward, 46 00:02:49,740 --> 00:02:52,740 And the caravan travels forward. 47 00:02:52,740 --> 00:02:54,740 These are the laws of life. 48 00:02:54,740 --> 00:02:56,740 So for those who oppose them, 49 00:02:56,740 --> 00:02:58,740 And for those who turn backward, 50 00:02:58,740 --> 00:03:00,740 Nothing in life changes; 51 00:03:00,740 --> 00:03:03,740 Rather, it is we who must change. 52 00:03:03,740 --> 00:03:05,740 Allah the Almighty said: 53 00:03:05,740 --> 00:03:10,740 ﴾Indeed, Allah will not change the condition of a people﴿ 54 00:03:10,740 --> 00:03:15,740 ﴾until they change what is in themselves.﴿ 55 00:03:15,740 --> 00:03:18,740 Therefore, fix your eyes upon what is in front of you, 56 00:03:18,740 --> 00:03:20,740 And do not cast your gaze backward, 57 00:03:20,740 --> 00:03:23,740 Lest you stumble on the path and fall. 58 00:03:23,740 --> 00:03:26,740 Let hope be connected to your footsteps, 59 00:03:26,740 --> 00:03:29,740 To guide you along the correct path, 60 00:03:29,740 --> 00:03:32,740 And enable you to set forth with full confidence, 61 00:03:32,740 --> 00:03:35,740 To reach your goal and your objective. 62 00:03:35,740 --> 00:03:38,740 Would that every worker, youth, and striver, 63 00:03:38,740 --> 00:03:40,740 Every patient and persistent soul, 64 00:03:40,740 --> 00:03:43,740 Would direct their gaze toward the distant horizon. 65 00:03:43,740 --> 00:03:46,740 There is no harm in taking lessons from the past, 66 00:03:46,740 --> 00:03:49,740 And there is no harm in taking from history 67 00:03:49,740 --> 00:03:51,740 An opportunity to correct one's mistakes. 68 00:03:51,740 --> 00:03:53,740 The harm lies only 69 00:03:53,740 --> 00:03:56,740 In imprisoning ourselves in the corridors of the past, 70 00:03:56,740 --> 00:04:00,159 Instead of setting out toward reform and construction. 71 00:04:00,159 --> 00:04:03,159 These are concepts that have faded in an age 72 00:04:03,159 --> 00:04:06,159 From which the sun of the future never sets. 73 00:04:06,159 --> 00:04:09,159 Yet some among us wish to block 74 00:04:09,159 --> 00:04:12,159 The light of the sun with their own hands—but how could they ever do that? 75 00:04:12,159 --> 00:04:15,159 For every morning, the sun calls out: 76 00:04:15,159 --> 00:04:19,160 "This is a new day, and tomorrow is a promising future." 77 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:22,160 So leave behind the tales of bygone times, 78 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:24,160 And turn toward life, 79 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:26,160 For what has passed is gone, 80 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:28,160 And what has passed will not return.