Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the Prophets and Messengers.
Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions, is very, very peaceful.
My brothers and sisters, yesterday one of our dear friends, Muhammad Ali Saab,
whose children were all my students, prominent among them was his son, Hassan Zeeshan,
who is currently studying, doing his Master's in Mechanical Engineering in UMass Lowell, Massachusetts.
He passed away.
And so I went to the Janatah last night after Isha.
We asked Allah to forgive his sins and enter him into the Janatah for those without his Saab,
to fill his Kaabar with his Nuh, and to give Sabah to his family.
Mashallah, beautiful family, beautiful people.
As I was there in the cemetery, the thought came to my mind about what do I want to be remembered for.
That particular cemetery in Masjid al-Baqi in Hyderabad has,
many of my friends in it, some relatives, some friends, some very old, very good friends.
They all, thoughts about them flashed through my mind.
That when I think of each person, what comes,
foremost, what is the first thought that I think about them?
What is the first thought that comes?
What do I remember them for?
There is Ikram Hai in that cemetery,
with Ahmadineen Sheikh Imam Saab.
And the thing that I remember,
soon as I mention him, soon as I think about him,
is how he used to come for Salatul Fajr.
To our Masjid.
Even when he had,
started, he was getting, you know,
physical health problems,
he would get in his car and he would drive.
And once or twice it's, the car got knocked here and there because of his driving.
And we used to tell him, please, don't come on your own.
And, and,
may Allah bless Saib, he was there always, he would bring him.
And Saib would tell him, look,
you know, if, someday if I'm not there,
because Saib had to travel and so on, so,
he said, then don't go that day.
But no, Ikram Hai would come.
No matter what.
Until he completely got incapacitated, he could not come at all.
So the first thing I remember about him is,
how he used to come for Salatul Fajr.
Salatul Fajr.
There is my dear, dear friend Zulfi in the same cemetery.
And the thing I remember about Zulfi is his big smile.
And the love and the affection that he had for me and I had for him.
There's some, I mean, losses are losses,
but there's some losses which are very, very,
very, very serious and you literally feel them in your heart.
And Zulfi is one of them.
Zulfi's father passed away in Kuwait.
And after that, I had gone to Kuwait for some programs.
And Zulfi said to me, he used to call me Yawar Bhai,
like everybody else.
But after his father passed away,
he said to me, can I call you Baba?
Now what do you say to that?
I said, there's no honor that is superior in my view,
than that, that Allah is giving me through you,
Alhamdulillah.
And in that same cemetery is another one of my dearest
and closest ones, Adnan Mahmud,
whose death was such a shock.
I was in Vermont, the Arabic courts,
when I got news that he had died.
And so on.
I don't know.
I don't think I will ever recover from that shock.
He, that day was like,
I mean, I tried to force, obviously control myself and so on,
but everybody noticed.
People came and sat around me.
They said, what happened?
Something has happened.
What's happening?
What's, you know,
why are you looking like this?
And the thing I remember about Adnan is,
is always this tremendous sense of confidence.
And he's always used to say,
Allah is the one who gets our things done.
Allah is the one who gets our things done.
Allah is the one who gets our things done.
Similarly, there's another dear friend of mine,
Alhamdulillah, may Allah grant him a long and healthy life.
Imtiaz Beg, who lives in Mysore.
Imtiaz also has this thing.
For everything.
Allah is there.
Anything,