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My brothers, my sisters, each time we have a motivational evening certain faces are here all the time.

So Mashallah, Mashallah, I think if this was a football club,

you'd be my probably, probably my greatest fans, but the last match was lost.

Mehla Granthas is.

My brothers, my sisters, you know the Prophet Yusuf or Joseph may peace be upon him, Ali, his Salam.

That story has in it tremendous benefit.

Many lessons, a lot of motivation and it is repeated because Allah Almighty says that

it is the best of stories, the best of what you could narrate in terms of a story

wherein you are going to derive real life benefit.

Look, one of the primary points that we actually learn when Allah Almighty has written great success in your life.

When Allah Almighty has written great success in your life, perhaps you will have to go through much negativity according to you

to get to the ultimate success that was destined for you.

So what you're going through right now is just the path, the path to what?

To the ultimate success.

Look at Yusuf, Ali, his Salam, each time we read the story and look at it from a different angle, a different dimension.

It impacts upon our lives.

What I'm about to say today, I can guarantee you that most of us, if not all of us, would feel, yes, this relates to me.

What is success according to you and I?

Well, as believers on one hand, there is success of the hereafter that is far more important than the success of this world.

But the success of this world is very important for us because we are human beings living on earth.

We'd like to have something, we'd like to be okay, we'd like to be comfortable, we'd like to have ease,

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