Auto-generated transcript:As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
May the Lord of the worlds be with you.
And peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah, Muhammad and the Messenger of God,
and his family and friends and his family.
Peace and blessings be upon him.
Now we are walking in Ashley and with me is Zeeshad and Atiba.
Who are both cousins and I have the pleasure of meeting Atiba for the first time and Zeeshad of course.
For many many years now. Alhamdulillah.
And as we shall see, very very beautiful place.
Truly reminds us of what Allah mentioned about Jannah.
We ask Allah for Jannah inshaAllah.
The leaves are about to turn colour.
So some signs of that colour we are seeing.
But I know how what this place looks like another month.
So we are completely transformed place.
Very beautiful.
Very very even more beautiful.
We are talking about the issue of virtual reality.
So we are talking about Apple's what is it called?
Vision Pro.
Vision Pro.
Vision Pro which is a virtual reality supported device.
And you wear it like a pair of glasses.
And then it shows you all kinds of videos and images which
you can see in the virtual reality.
I mean it's VR so it looks real.
And I was reminding myself and my brother said that we don't have to go to technology to understand this.
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is showing this to us every day.
What appears is not what is.
There is a difference between the appearance of something and the reality behind it.
And we see it throughout in life.
You know some people who we think are friends.
The way they talk to you, the way they sit with you, they invite you for dinner, for lunch and this and that.
And then suddenly, Allah protects.
But you discover that they are stabbing you in the back.
Right behind your back they are talking stuff.
And behind your back they are trying to stab you in the back.
So I am always very happy when I hear that.
Because it means now I am getting some free good deeds.
So I don't confront them.
The guy invites me for a meal, I am very happy.
I never refuse free food.
So I go have the meal.
I make sure he eats first so I know it's not poisoned.
But other than that, I say Alhamdulillah, please go ahead stab me in the back.
And do as much Zaheer as you want.
Because all that is good deed for me.
And you cannot harm me.
There is no one who can harm and no one who can benefit except Allah.
So what do I care?
Similarly we have, so appearance is something, friendship.
Reality is enmity.
Similarly, you see, you take the things in Israq.
Many times people say, you know, this is not convenient, that is not convenient.
The usual moons, not moon sighting but moon fighting arguments.
About saying why should we wait so long to see the moon.
Why don't we calculate?
And this is the modern world.
This is a combination of ignorance and self-importance.
Because calculations are nothing new.
The Hindus have had a calculation calendar for the last 3000 years.
So there is nothing new about calculating.
People have done, Egyptians had a calculate, moon, lunar calculations 5000 years ago.
Because lunar calendars are nothing new.
It's not as if the Arabs invented it.
Lunar calendars have been there long before the solar calendars.
Julius Caesar was the first one to bring a solar calendar.
It was called the Julian calendar.
So the point is that if you don't read history, then you have no clue what you are talking about.
But anyway, so nothing new about that.
But moon fighting.
So arguing about, you know, which, which, whatever.
What organization should you follow?
I mean, all of this is for the sake of convenience.
So why should we sit in the masjid till 11 o'clock at night waiting for a sighting report to come from California or wherever?
But we don't ask this question.
When the World Cup was being played in Qatar, because of the time difference, it was 2 o'clock in the morning or 3 o'clock in the night.
And people sat.
And they didn't just sit for one hour.