Abdal Hakim Murad – Between Two Hopes

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thinkers Bismillah Alhamdulillah wa salatu salam ala Rasulillah.

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I'd like to talk today about hope and hopefulness.

This is what we call a jet in our religious vocabulary.

Men Cana Yara drooly Allah He for in Agile Allah healer at all a

Sunday all alim, however, hopes for the meeting with a lot that

time is coming. He has the hearing and the knowing

and this Rajat this hopefulness, to take so many forms and so many

that it should in fact, be the air that we breathe. And it's

different from

other kinds of hope that take up are other times or shadow times.

So Rajat is the hopefulness of Allah's mercy and the looking

forward to his forgiveness and two good things blessings in this

world, whereas what we call 10 Mende kind of vain hopes idol

hopes but a min now Allah Allah

Elijah is an expert on if so however whatever now a lot this is

a Hadith okay you Salman dad, and if so, who Amina Lima about the

most intelligent person is he who calls himself to account and works

for eternity what follows death? Well, it is a woman about I never

said Well, how about a minute Allah and the loser.

Inadequate is the person who allows his ego to follow its

desires and then just hopes that Allah will kind of forgive him or

bring a good outcome. That's vain hope. That's a wrong attitude. So

in a sense, we go in our lives, not just between fear and hope,

but also between two kinds of hope, a good hope and a bad hope.

And the ego is very good at producing false hope. Not really

very good with my prayers, but I hope Allah will forgive me, oh,

I'm not very good at this. But in sha Allah, it'll come all right,

or it's the gamblers hope, in a sense, the gambler knows that the

odds are always stacked against him, otherwise nobody would be in

the industry. But still, he has this vain hope maybe the scratch

card will bring me a new car won't be a millionaire. This is the to

many, this idol hope, which is very Islamic and is often based on

the wrong kind of understanding of

divine power.

So the believer between Roger and hope, hope and fear, but also

between Roger and Tammany, in our good times, we just hope for

Allah's mercy and through actually acting in obedience to Him. And in

our bad times, we mess up and we just Well, I know it's a gamble,

but I'm gonna gamble with God and hope that this comes out all

right. And very many of our sins are accompanied by this too many

I'm gonna do this bad thing because I'm feeling depressed and

down and I'm going to do it and Allah will forgive me for Rahim,

forgiving, merciful, this is something that can

facilitate sin.

Now, one of the great messages of Scripture is that Allah subhanaw

taala brings about apparently unlikely hopes.

Who would have thought that the Israelites would be rescued from

Iran? Very unlikely, who would have thought that Noah had his

people would be delivered? Who would have thought that the

Blessed Virgin Mary would be vindicated when she comes with the

apparently illegitimate child to face the music back in Jerusalem?

Who would have thought that Satan the use of in the depths of the

well would ever have had any kind of life but all of these

flowerings come about through people not losing hope? Yes, is a

sin.

The holy Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam can do hypothetically,

he used to love optimism. In other words, we are doing what we can as

Muslims, and we hope that things will come right. And we look at

the dark state of the world. But we hope that there'll be a new

dawn and this is, this is what keeps us sane. And scripture is

saying if you do that in the right spirit, don't underestimate the

divine power to achieve any kind of outcome, even these amazingly

unlikely ones.

So, one of my favorite

Islamic CDs at the moment, prophetic praise and some of you

will have heard about it which has. It's really a celebration

from around the world of different voices who are in love with with

holy prophetic presence and Allahu alayhi wa salam and

semi your stuff is on that alley killer, but there's a song that I

particularly like is my favorite, which is by Donald wants to be

Ali, where he really talks about the kind of long history of the

story of the Holy Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasallam in terms

of his Abrahamic ancestry, so old Abraham was God's true friend.

I've got the lyrics here. I'm not gonna sing it for you. Did wife

and son to him commend truisms and God did both defend and on the

twain did mercy send the sages seeds to admit the weeds of

Jerome's vein and heathen deeds, but God kept clean that string of

beads of profits can no idle heeds. So here the lyrics are

saying that parent hopeless exile Hotjar and kid out in the TRAPPIST

desert, with nothing to drink through not getting way to

despair, the wonder of London unexpectedly happens and it's

still happening. We drink from it ourselves behind a lot. And then

despite that, as it was spiritual desert into which they have been

projected, surrounded by drilled home and key Nana and ignorant

pagan tribes,

with nobody, by God to support them. Still, through that trust, I

build the Kaaba shrine of monotheism in the middle of

Arabian wastelands and paganism, as the purest place on earth. And

despite the inrush of paganism into the harem, Allah subhanaw

taala brings out of that obscure, partly hopeless story in the

middle of nowhere, the greatest prophecy the greatest Scripture,

the greatest civilization, the world has ever seen that wonder.

So that's the old song and I'm very,

very hopeful on the basis of this Allah subhanaw. Taala wishes us to

be people of Rajak

people of hope and in the

current circumstances of the Ummah, we need to remember that

the OMA has been through hard times before many times

we think of the disasters in Baghdad.

But then, perhaps we forget what it would have been like

800 years ago when the Mongols Hulagu sacked the city of Baghdad

and trample the Khalifa under the whose forces and filled the river

with all of the great books of the Muslims precious beautiful

manuscripts so that the horses could ride across the great river.

The river was full of books, the city on fire, the women raped the

city destroyed, ethnic cleansing on an inconceivable scale

mountains of skulls and then silence after Daraa salaam dermal

filler for the greatness of what was the greatest city in the

world. silence or ruin smoking rubble. And then what happened?

The Mongols converted Islam upon the love to the efforts of the

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the people of tariqa. And then they become great upholders of

Islam. So the great enemies come over to the truth. But how was

that made possible? Because the automat had Sabha and had Rajat i

They never despaired and the thing that will carry us through this

period in the history of the Ummah, is not despairing, not

succumbing to depression and anxiety. But having confidence,

Allah subhanaw taala is the one to whom everything returns. Allah

Illallah he took zero or more. So if Rajat was possible for her and

Izmail are leaking in that vast, arid desert, should be possible

for ourselves and this is how Allah wishes us to be knowing that

he is the author of history, and that there's always a dawn after

every nightfall. So may Allah subhanaw taala in this month of

Ramadan, make it a time of new beginnings for us and keep us on

the straight path which is the path of the Raj and not the path

of too many insha Allah polyclonal fecal coliform income person mo

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