Abdelrahman Badawy – The Patterns of Allah
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The speaker discusses the history and characteristics of Islam, including the use of the um danger to make it easier for people to forget things and the return of Islam with planting seeds. They stress the importance of not giving up on progress and friendships, and provide examples of patterns of Islam, including a return to planting seeds. They also briefly touch on the return of planting seeds and the culture of planting seeds for the future.
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So of course, I want to begin in
the name of our creator subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
In the name of Allah ta'ala I
begin.
All praise and thanks belong to him.
And may his peace and blessings be upon
his final messenger Muhammad and all those who
follow in his footsteps.
And we ask Allah ta'ala to make
us amongst them in this world and in
the next.
All right.
So first off, it's a great honor to
be back here with you guys.
If I don't know if you recall, it's
been about, I think, two years or so
since I've been back.
So alhamdulillah.
Wonderful community.
And I pray that Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala unites us always on khair and then
unites us in the ultimate gathering in the
next life in the highest levels of Jannah.
So it's always great that we meet and
we depart for the sake of Allah and
nothing else.
And I pray that that is in our
hearts.
So we take a moment to renew our
intentions.
We are here on a Friday night, taking
time out of our weekend, relaxing in the
house of Allah as a believer's heart should.
But we are also spending time with the
book of Allah so that the angels can
surround us and they could sit amongst us
so that Allah's mercy can descend upon us
and so that we can get up from
our gathering at the end of the night,
inshallah, maghfurin, with our mistakes and our sins
and our shortcomings forgiven, inshallah.
We are also performing ribat.
Intidharu s-salah ba'da s-salah, fathalikum ar
-ribat, fathalikum ar-ribat, fathalikum ar-ribat.
The Prophet ﷺ said, awaiting one prayer after
the next, meaning remaining in the masjid from
one prayer to the next and performing some
sort of worship in that meantime, whether it's
reciting Qur'an, praying sunnah, attending a lecture,
etc., etc., doing something beneficial for your akhira,
that is considered ribat.
Anybody familiar with the concept of ribat?
It is a form of jihad.
It is basically the frontiersmen, the people who
guard the Muslim borders.
And this is a physical action, like people
who would actually go out and guard the
Muslim borders, the Muslim army, or so on
and so forth.
So, the Prophet ﷺ said, when you await
a prayer after another prayer in the masjid,
so what we're doing now between Maghrib and
Isha, inshallah, and you spend that time doing
something, ibadah, then you get the reward of
having performed ribat.
So, that is a great reward that I
would not pass up, inshallah.
Alright, what is our title today?
What's our topic?
Patterns of Allah.
How many of you guys have heard this
phrase before?
What do you think, if you give me
one line, what do you think this topic
is about?
I want to hear, I like interaction, I
don't know, you know.
Last time we were here, we interacted quite
a bit.
Sorry?
Isma' Allah al-Husna.
Interesting.
So, the beautiful names of Allah.
That's not our topic, but I'm very curious
to see, I'm glad to see that other
people's minds are going elsewhere.
Yes?
Plans of Allah.
Yes, the plans of Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala that may be different from our plans.
Yes, sisters, any ideas?
The patterns of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Alright.
So, this entire lecture and discussion is based
on a phrase that I've become, I have
to admit, I've become quite obsessed with in
the past year.
As you know, we are almost at the
one year mark since the genocide began against
our brothers and sisters in Gaza.
May Allah ta'ala lift their shackles of
oppression.
May Allah accept their shuhada.
May Allah give them ease after hardship and
grant them victory over their oppressor.
And may Allah punish the oppressors in this
world and the next.
So, for the past year or so, with
this difficulty that we are watching on a
daily basis happen to our brothers, not just
there, our brothers and sisters, but elsewhere, I've
become quite obsessed with the concept of sunnat
Allah.
The sunnah of Allah.
So, first of all, the word sunnah, when
you hear the word sunnah, it brings someone
to mind.
Not Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, it brings
the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
If somebody tells you, I'm following the sunnah,
immediately, and they stop right there, immediately say,
well, the sunnah of who?
The sunnah of Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
I'm following the sunnah means I'm trying to
act as he did, I'm trying to speak
as he did, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, I'm
trying to dress as he did, and so
on and so forth, right?
Okay.
So, that is what the word sunnah comes
to mind.
Have you ever defined the word sunnah?
The sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
Can you define it for me in English?
You know, it doesn't have to be exact,
but we always just say sunnah, we all
know what you mean by it.
Give me a translation in English.
Example, lifestyle.
What else?
Yes.
The way, way is great.
Sunnah is a good translation.
Wait, what else?
It's in the title.
The pattern, there you go.
I think you knew that, you were waiting
for them to say it.
The pattern, right?
Sunnah of Rasulallah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
What are the patterns of his behavior?
If he did something often enough, we say
that's his sunnah.
And he did it for a reason.
He didn't just do things, sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, out of thin air.
He did it because it was pleasing to
Allah.
So we say, I want to follow his
example, his way, his pattern.
Right?
I want to follow his routine.
Another translation that you might find is system.
I want to follow his system.
He carried himself in a way, right?
Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
It wasn't randomized, it was a system of
behavior.
He was kind to those who were harsh
to him, but he also was not weak.
There was a limit to that.
Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
He had a system of generosity.
He had a system of worshipping Allah, being
grateful to Allah.
This was all a system, right?
So that's another translation of the word sunnah.
So, the phrase that I said, I've been
really focusing on this past year, sunnatullah.
The sunnah of Allah.
The pattern of Allah.
The system of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Now let me ask you, what gives me
the right to use the word sunnah for
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala?
If we're only used to it being said
about Rasulullah ﷺ.
It's in the Qur'an, right?
sunnatallahi filladhina khalaw min qabli walantajida lisunnatillahi tabdila
One of the most powerful ayat.
First of all, this exact phrase in the
Qur'an is repeated several times.
And I'll translate it in just a second.
The word sunnatullah, the sunnah of Allah, you'll
find it probably over ten times plus minus
in the Qur'an.
And your homework inshaAllah is to go look
for that phrase in the Qur'an and
see every time it's mentioned, the context.
The ayahs before it, the ayahs after it.
What is Allah referring to as His pattern?
What is Allah referring to as His system?
It's very important.
Like we talked about in Jum'ah.
Who was here in Jum'ah earlier?
The second Jum'ah.
We talked about the five examples, we mentioned
three of them, in which Allah says, wala
tahsabanna Don't you dare think XYZ.
We said that your homework is to go
look for the rest of them because I
need you to meet me halfway.
I want you to be so curious about
the Qur'an and say, I need to
go look into that myself.
I need to spend some time poring over
the words of my Creator subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
So yes, what gives me the right to
say the word sunnatullah?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said it in
the Qur'an, sunnatullahi filladheena khalaw min qabli
walantajida lisunnatillahi tabdeela One such example is in
surah number 33, ayah number 62.
For those who are writing, surah 33, ayah
62, that's one of the many examples you'll
find.
You can go research it inshallah.
What does it mean?
Such has been Allah's pattern with those who
passed away before you and you will never
find any change to Allah's pattern.
sunnatullahi filladheena khalaw min qabli This is the
pattern of Allah in the people who passed
on before.
walantajida lisunnatillahi tabdeela You will never find any
change in the pattern of Allah.
When Allah ends the ayah with, you will
never find any change to the pattern of
Allah.
Such strong wording, right?
Allah could have said, this is Allah's sunnah
in the past people and it will be
Allah's sunnah in the future people.
Allah could have worded it like that, correct?
Statement?
Statement.
But Allah said, this is Allah's sunnah in
the past people and you will never find
any change to Allah's sunnah.
This wording evokes something else in you, right?
What else?
It's not just a statement, it's also what?
A challenge.
Thank you.
Exactly.
It's a challenge.
Allah says, you will never find a change
in Allah's sunnah.
So basically in other words, go look.
Go see as the world changes in front
of you during your lifetime.
Or go look into any other stories after
the Qur'an has been revealed.
The Qur'an was revealed 1450 years ago.
There's been 1450 years of history.
Allah says, check.
See if Allah's sunnah changed in those times.
Or has the Qur'an been belied?
Has the Qur'an been proven false?
You will not find any change.
And Allah says, this challenge is for you
as you are living right now.
In your own life, in your small scale,
between you and your nafs and your fights.
You know, fighting your nafs to get better
and to climb and to become better.
That's your small circle.
Expand the circle a little bit.
Include your family now.
Allah has given us some sunnahs with regards
to families.
You find it in the Qur'an and
the sunnah.
You won't find a change to that sunnah
either.
Expand that past your family to your community
like this lovely one over here.
How communities form.
The ups and downs of communities.
The downfalls, the potholes that we could run
into, that other people have run into before.
It's all the same.
You will not find, وَلَن تَجِدَ لِسُنَّةِ اللَّهِ
تَدِّيْلَ It's a challenge.
You won't find a change.
Now expand the circle even more to the
whole world.
Well, first of all, sorry, to the ummah,
and then to the whole world at large.
Allah says, and I'll give you a little
bit of a hint.
Most of the times when this verse is
mentioned, sunnah Allah, it's talking about al-ummah,
the nations, and the ups and downs and
the pitfalls that we can fall into.
It's talking about these things because these things
really occupy our hearts and our minds, right?
And that's why I was saying, I've been
really focusing and kind of fixating on this
topic for the past year because when I
see difficulty in my own life, on a
personal scale, we can rationalize it, our hearts
can understand it on an easier level, right?
If you're not eating healthy, and then you
start getting illness, or your body is weaker,
you can add 1 plus 1 equals 2.
You're driving reckless, God forbid, you get into
an accident.
It makes sense, like your brain understands, hey,
I don't like it, I'm unhappy, but I
understand.
But when things happen on a great scale,
and a major scale, and we see videos
of babies having been blown up in Gaza,
may Allah Ta'ala grant patience to their
parents.
I don't even have to say may Allah
forgive them, those are babies.
They're in Jannah sitting with Prophet Ibrahim as
we speak.
May Allah Ta'ala reunite their parents with
them.
And may Allah give us the honor of
joining them.
If He sees that much good in us,
may He grant us that honor.
And if we are not there yet, then
may He grant us that honor of reaching
that level in Jannah.
So, when you see that, it's just so
hard to swallow, so hard to process.
So I kept asking myself, what's happening?
What is the message Allah is teaching us
here?
There has been difficulty before in our ummah's
history.
But living through it and seeing it, makes
it much more real.
And it's an unfortunate thing to say, because
it should be real already, but we are
humans after all.
So I kept telling myself, well, spend more
time with the Qur'an.
There's something in there.
And boy, was there something.
There's plenty every day, every single day.
The sunan of Allah.
And I'm gonna give you guys examples to
make it more clear.
So Allah Subhanu Wa Ta'ala, that tells
us what it is.
The pattern of Allah that you will find
in the Qur'an and the sunan.
Now let's cover the why.
Why should you study the sunan of Allah,
the pattern of Allah through the Qur'an?
It's quite simple.
Patterns repeat.
That's it.
I want you guys to memorize that phrase.
Patterns repeat.
If Allah just told you, I have given
you the blueprint in the Qur'an.
I have told you the patterns that happen
on a societal level.
The rise and fall of nations.
What leads to fall and what leads to
arise?
I've given you that in the Qur'an
and the authentic sunan.
So Allah says here, and you will not
find any change to these patterns.
Meaning, there's a secret command in there too.
What is that?
Allah says, these are the patterns and they
won't change.
What's an action item we can take?
We'll follow it, sure.
And when you know about a pattern, it's
playing out, it's occurring.
You know a cycle.
Everything is cyclical.
Everything moves in cycles, right?
Anybody here, for example, if you, let's see,
you've trained for martial arts, right?
And you've drilled something a thousand times.
And you see, your coach taught you, or
you've seen a thousand times in fights, when
a person moves his leg that way, and
his shoulders perk up, he's going for the
right hook.
That's a pattern, right?
So you've seen that a thousand times.
What do you do as soon as you
see those, like your brain is already looking
for those patterns.
As soon as you see that shoulder perk
up, what do you do?
You start defending exactly what you think is
gonna happen, and guess what, you're gonna be
right.
To other people like myself, untrained people, we
say, my God, that is magic.
This person, how did they do that?
They're just so good.
Yeah, they are, but they've studied.
They've poured over this.
They've acknowledged the pattern before it came to
play.
Because it's come to play a thousand times
before.
So the same concept exists in the Qur
'an.
Allah says, أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَابِ
الْفِيلِ أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِي تَضْلِيبٍ Haven't you
seen, look at the wording, أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ
فَعَلَ Haven't you seen what Allah did to
that army of elephants when they tried to
attack the Kaaba?
Didn't He foil their plans and ruin it
completely?
What's the message in this story?
Is the message that anybody who tries to
attack the Kaaba will be destroyed?
Is that the message we're supposed to be
taking here?
No, absolutely not.
In fact, the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
prophesized, he warned us that the Kaaba will
be destroyed again in the future.
And he said the last, the final time
that it gets destroyed it will not be
rebuilt.
This is the signs of the Day of
Judgment.
I'm not saying we let the Kaaba be
destroyed.
I'm saying that's not the message to extract
from that surah.
أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رُبُّكَ بِأَصْحَابِ الْفِيلِ You
need to keep studying.
You need to keep reading tafsir.
You need to read other surahs and other
stories in the Qur'an.
When Allah tells us what happened to Fir
'aun.
قَالَ أَنَا رَبُّكُمُ الْأَعْلَى He said, I am
your Lord Most High.
He rejected sign after sign after sign.
And then, what happens?
When things, one pattern that you can combine
between surah Al-Fil and the story of
Fir'aun, Pharaoh and Musa Alayhi Salaam, is
that, this is a classic example that you
will find outside of Islamic heritage as well.
And it's a sign of Allah SWT, a
sunnah of Allah, is that it is always
darkest before dawn.
This is a recurring message in the Qur
'an.
It is always darkest before dawn.
What happens in the story of Prophet Musa
Alayhi Salaam?
فَلَمَّا تَرَٓاءَ الْجَمْعَانِ When the two parties saw
each other.
So, if you're familiar with the story of
Prophet Musa Alayhi Salaam, Allah commanded him to
take Bani Israel, his people, and escape with
them.
And Fir'aun chased them with the biggest
army and they were completely outmatched.
Another pattern of Allah.
The believers, the sincere, are always outmatched technologically.
And they're always outmatched in terms of physical
and material things.
But that never avails.
And that is never the reason, that never
gets in the way of their victory if
their Iman is strong enough.
So, Fir'aun and his army are chasing
Musa and then they reach what?
A complete dead end.
It's an ocean.
We don't have boats.
We don't have anything.
We're on foot.
So what did the people say?
قَالَ أَصْحَابُ مُوسَىٰ إِنَّا لَمُدْرَكُونَ Some amongst the
people of Musa said, What's going on here?
We've been following you all this time and
like going through the desert.
It's not like we read the story in
10 minutes.
It feels like it happened so quick.
This is a struggle.
This is a huge journey.
And then they go, Okay, now what?
We're at the shore.
We have no boats.
They said, قَالَ أَصْحَابُ مُوسَىٰ إِنَّا لَمُدْرَكُونَ We're
surely going to be caught.
You completely deluded us.
You lied to us.
We're here.
We're going to die.
After all this?
This is how the story ends?
So Prophet Musa A.S. said to them
what?
He said, قَالَ أَصْحَابُ مُوسَىٰ إِنَّا لَمُدْرَكُونَ He
said, You think Allah S.W.T. left
me all the way to this point so
you can just let us die here?
That's not how it works.
He was so tapped in to the pattern
of Allah S.W.T. He knew that
this is the part where Allah does something
miraculous.
He knew that this is the part where
Allah saves the believers.
And that's exactly what happened.
Allah told him, Hit the sea with your
stick and then you guys know the rest
of the story.
The people who gave up just a moment
ago, within the hour, Pharaoh was drowned and
they were saved and Pharaoh was no more.
The huge history of Pharaoh oppressing them was
over within the hour.
They lost their faith one hour before the
victory.
They gave up.
They gave up with one hour to go.
Why?
They couldn't see.
They couldn't see where it goes from here.
They couldn't see the pattern of Allah S
.W.T. It is always darkest before dawn.
When Abraha, the tyrant king, wanted to draw
people's attention to him, he kept getting more
and more arrogant.
He got more and more wealthy, more and
more powerful.
Eventually he said, You know what?
For my final trick, I gotta destroy the
Kaaba.
When I do that, then they're gonna come
to my place.
It wasn't the fact of course destroying the
Kaaba, the house of Allah S.W.T.
But it was the culmination of pride coming
before the fall.
Which is also a message, a pattern of
Allah S.W.T. that you find not
only in Islam, you find it in the
previous scriptures as well.
Pride comes before the fall.
When you see the enemy of Allah S
.W.T. get more and more and more
arrogant, the ulema used to say that when
they would see the enemy of Allah S
.W.T. reach peak arrogance, there would be
some Bushra, as difficult as it is to
observe and to deal with, there would still
be a part of their heart that received
the Bushra, received the glad tidings.
There would actually be a little bit of
happiness and excitement started to form in their
hearts.
Because they said, this is the sign.
This means that their downfall is coming and
it's close and it's going to be magnificent.
Because Allah never allows the tyrants to lose
all their power in just an uncinematic way,
if you wanna put it that way.
Allah demolishes them.
And I want you to mark my words.
And inshaAllah, if Allah gives us life, you
will see it within our lifetime, bi-idhnillah.
Falsehood that took a hundred years to build
and trillions of dollars to build, it gets
wiped away within a couple of years.
فَأَمَّا الزَّبَدُ فَيَذْهَبُ جُفَاءًۭا وَأَمَّا مَا يَنفَعُ النَّاسُ
فَيَمْكُتُ فِي الْأَرْضِ Allah says, the froth, the
garbage, the rubbish, it goes away as if
it never were, like it just floats away.
وَأَمَّا مَا يَنفَعُ النَّاسُ فَيَمْكُتُ فِي الْأَرْضِ Whatever
is of benefit to the people will remain.
And it will stay, it's foundational.
And as I said, you will see this
in your life.
The falsehood that reigned for so long, it
goes away much quicker and people wonder, how
did that happen?
But that is the sunnah of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
Okay.
What value...
So, we talked about the concept of the
sunnah of Allah.
That's the what, right?
Now, let's talk about the where.
Where, of course, where can you find the
sunnah of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala?
Two places.
Number one is the Qur'an.
And number two is the sunnah of our
beloved Prophet ﷺ.
The Qur'an, Allah has filled it with
stories.
And I want us to just really absorb
the fact that these are not just stories
to tell ourselves.
They are not just stories that have one
value and that's it.
Like, okay, strengthen yourself through this.
The Prophets ﷺ, they went through some hardships,
so you will too.
That's good, that's layer one.
But there is never just one layer in
the Qur'an, never.
And like we said, it's Allah's claim, not
mine.
Allah says, you will not find...
These are the patterns of Allah, you will
not find a change in any of these
patterns.
So study these patterns through the Qur'an
and through the sunnah.
When you go through a story in the
Qur'an, the story of Talut.
Right?
Talut was King Saul of Bani Israel.
The people of Israel, the Jews.
So, what happened with King Saul?
What was the whole story?
Allah tells us the whole story about him
and his army and he told me you're
not allowed to drink from the river.
What's the point of that story?
That's your job.
Go read it and say, I'm very curious,
I've heard that name.
And he's mentioned in the Bible, he's mentioned
in previous scriptures as well.
But I've never given it time to say
like, well, what's the point?
Why did Allah mention that story?
When you read the story of Al-Ahzab,
which is mentioned in the Qur'an, there's
a whole surah named after it.
Surah number 33.
Which was the biggest army Arabia had ever
seen surrounded the believers in Al-Madinah.
The Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and the
believers.
And actually in that, you will find the
value that the patterns of Allah give you.
So now we covered the what and we
covered the where.
Where can you find these patterns?
In the Qur'an and the Sunnah.
Okay, now let's cover the why.
Why should I study the divine patterns of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala?
Why?
When I'm reading, I read the Qur'an.
Alhamdulillah, we read the Qur'an here.
Many of us, our initial intention is, I
want to get some hasanat.
Every letter in the Qur'an, I get
10 hasanat.
Right?
So that's a good layer one of your
intention.
But that should not be your only intention.
You should have layer two and three and
four and five.
One such layer should be, I'm looking for
patterns here.
I'm looking for lessons.
I want Allah to teach me.
I'm opening up my heart and my soul
and saying, Allah, inspire me.
Allow me to get better.
Allow me to get wiser.
Give me strength.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will fulfill
that.
So, why should you study the divine patterns
of Allah?
Two reasons.
When you study the divine patterns of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, it gives you two
superpowers.
Superpower number one is that you will be
significantly better able to process what's going on
right now, the present.
When you see what's happening to our brothers
and sisters in Gaza.
When you see it going on for a
whole year, and it's escalated, it's been going
on longer than that, 75 years plus.
And now you're saying, well, no, something's got
to give.
It's got to change.
And it's not changing.
Some people, and I'm sure you guys have
perhaps even spoken to such people or heard
of such stories.
Some people in this, what's been going on,
they've lost their faith.
Right?
They said, I don't believe in God if
this can happen.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala revive the
iman in their hearts.
Some people, this same difficulty they're going through
caused them to lose their faith.
Others who were already born Muslim and away
from the faith and so on, it strengthened
their iman.
The difficulty reached peak levels and they actually
came back to Allah, decided to start praying
and so on.
They've been Muslim their whole life.
They didn't pray, nothing.
I know this for a fact.
Allah is my witness.
People come to our masjid and said, this
is my first time going to the mosque
in Ramadan.
I've been Muslim my whole life.
And they say, why?
It's because of what's happening in Palestine.
I see the iman of those people.
And I just said, this is something.
I felt something in my heart and my
soul.
I've been praying ever since.
I've been taking my deen seriously ever since.
I've been learning about Islam.
Now that's just the born Muslims.
What about the people who've accepted Islam?
وَرَأَيْتَ النَّاسَ يَدْخُلُونَ فِي دِينِ اللَّهِ أَفْوَاجَةً And
you see the people entering into Islam in
droves.
I have never, in New York, I have
never seen more people accepting Islam than this
past year.
Have you guys had this experience here?
Sheikh?
It's subhanAllah al-azim.
It's like every week and in Ramadan it
was like 3, 4, 5 per week.
Last Ramadan.
It's something, something remarkable.
It's like the rock bottom is hit.
And we pray that the ummah doesn't go
any lower.
And the exact opposite is happening.
People are entering into Islam in droves.
And when you ask them, and you've seen
the interviews online, but you've seen them in
person, they go like, I gotta know what
those people in Palestine, like what's keeping them
strong?
How can they look at everything lost and
say, Thank God.
Alhamdulillah.
How can they have, I was misled about
these people.
I was misled about the Muslims.
I was misled about what Islam is.
And the opposite occurs.
Allah says in the Qur'an, Those who
disbelieve, those who reject faith, they will continue
to spend their wealth to create obstacles between
the people and the path of Allah.
Allah says, they're gonna spend it.
Then they will regret every single dollar they
spent.
And then they will be defeated.
And that's exactly what we're watching.
Everything is backfiring.
All the tools that they meticulously put in
place to create fasad, social media tools, and
censorship, and this and that, and the institutions
that they use to control the people, like
different colleges and this and that, it all
backfired.
It all backfired.
The biggest irony, or one of the tons
of ironies, was the amount of smearing that
they've been doing to Ivy League schools in
the past few months because of the protests
were very powerful there.
They've started to smear their own schools that
they built up for generations.
You're the ones who use these places to
say this person is high and mighty, and
he got a degree from this place, so
he must be better than all of you
guys.
It was an elite club.
Now that the elite club backfired on them,
they're smearing their own clubs.
Anybody who goes there is this or that.
They'll never get a job again.
These places are over-exaggerated anyway, and they
never were that good to begin with.
It's like, you guys created that reputation.
It reminds me of another pattern of Allah
in the Qur'an.
يُخْرِبُونَ بُيُوتَهُمْ بِأَيْدِهِمْ وَأَيْدِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَاعْتَبِرُوا يَا
أُولِي الْأَبْصَارِ Allah says, they destroy their homes
with their own hands, and the hands of
the believers.
So, take note, O people of sight, Allah
says in the Qur'an.
It's so powerful.
So many patterns.
You turn to any page in the Qur
'an, I promise you, if you reflect deeply,
you'll say, this feels like it's happening right
now.
I'll give you an example.
This example happened during the battle of Al
-Ahzab, the battle of the confederate armies.
Basically, the biggest army Arabia had ever seen
surrounded Medina.
The Muslims were so few in number, and
they were betrayed from within.
And so many armies that had nothing to
do with the believers, they had no beef
with the believers, they joined in.
Because Quraysh, the biggest and strongest of the
enemies, and the biggest and strongest of the
disbelievers said, Hey, join us, join us, because
there's worldly benefit in it for you.
Extremely familiar.
So, they all surrounded the believers, and the
Muslims were outnumbered severely.
And they said that this has to be
the end of Muhammad ﷺ and his people.
We gotta finish these people once and for
all.
So, the biggest army that Arabia had ever
seen, extremely familiar story.
They all gathered together, and they said, let's
get rid of the believers once and for
all.
Okay.
So, there was...
In Surah Al-Ahzab, Allah tells us two
reactions back to back.
And this is by the way, Surah number
33.
So, inshaAllah, you go spend some time with
it and reflect.
Biggest army Arabia had ever seen surrounds the
believers.
Severely outnumbered, betrayed from within.
It feels like it's completely wrapped up.
Allah tells us, here's two reactions back to
back.
First one.
وَإِذْ يَقُولُ الْمُنَافِقُونَ وَالَّذِينَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ مَرَضٌ مَا
وَعَدَنَا اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ إِلَّا غُرُورًا And remember, when
the hypocrites and those in whose hearts is
a disease said, Allah and His Messenger did
not promise us anything but doubts.
Or delusions rather, but delusions.
مَا وَعَدَنَا اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ إِلَّا غُرُورًا Every single
thing that God and His Messenger promised us
was a delusion after all.
A'udhu Billah.
When did they say this?
At the moment when they're like, wait a
second.
Didn't you say in the Qur'an that
we're gonna get victory?
Didn't God say, haven't you been telling us
O Muhammad ﷺ that we're going to win
and win?
You keep saying that.
Look at this.
In a few moments we're gonna be surrounded
by the entire army of Arabia and we're
done.
They're gonna not only kill every last one
of us, they're gonna kill us twice.
And they're gonna take all our women and
we're done for.
Medina is theirs.
They fell for the propaganda.
So Allah mentions two categories.
I was about to say they lost their
faith but I want to make sure our
distinction is very clear.
وَإِذْ يَقُولُ الْمُنَافِقُونَ وَالَّذِينَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ مَرَضٌ Allah
says two types of people said this, that
God and His Messenger promised us only delusions.
The first is the hypocrites.
They had no faith to begin with.
They're pretending to be Muslim for personal gain.
The ummah unfortunately is rampant with such people.
May Allah guide them to Islam and protect
us from their evil and their harm.
Second category, I want you to focus on
this one.
May Allah protect us from it.
وَالَّذِينَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ مَرَضٌ Those who have a
disease in their hearts.
Corruption in their hearts.
Illness in their hearts.
This is a believer.
This is a person with iman.
But it was a hidden defect.
And during good times you can't tell that
there's a hidden defect there.
Right?
It's not tested.
It doesn't come out.
So that could go on for years and
years and years.
And you know about it.
You have signs from Allah but you keep
putting it off.
I don't pray my prayers.
I believe in Islam.
I like it.
There's love of Islam in my heart.
But I don't pray my prayers.
I know it's a bad thing.
One day inshaAllah.
I do this haram.
I do that haram.
I don't have my act together.
And it's a secret mistake.
But your iman is still there.
But it's a disease.
And the disease festers.
And it grows.
The problem with that is that when go
time occurs, when things get extremely difficult, and
you're like, Okay, now I'll work on my
faith.
You have no guarantee.
The illness might win out.
The secret hypocrisy might win out.
And you might be like, You know what?
I'm lending an ear to the hypocrites who
are saying, This ummah is finished.
And we were wrong all along.
And forget all this.
May Allah protect us from that.
So Allah says, The hypocrites who were gone
were terrible to begin with.
They never had any faith.
And those who have illness in their hearts.
So may Allah ta'ala heal any illness
in our hearts.
And may Allah give us the wisdom and
the sincerity to look inward and say, I
gotta work on myself.
Allahumma ya muqallibal quloobi thabbit quloobana ala deeni.
Allahumma musarrifal quloobi sarrif quloobana ila ta'atik.
Always make dua.
It's one of the most common duas of
our Prophet ﷺ.
In which he used to say, Oh Allah,
you are the one who changes the hearts.
Or you are the one who controls the
hearts or moves the hearts around.
Keep our hearts firm on your faith.
Because we need that.
And if Allah doesn't guide our hearts and
keep us firm, then we will not have
it.
So that is reaction number one.
Same exact scenario.
The Muslims are surrounded in Medina by the
biggest army ever.
We have isha in a few minutes.
So reaction number one.
God and his messenger deluded us.
We're done for.
Reaction number two.
Same surah.
walamma ra'al mu'minuna al-ahzab qaloo hadha
ma wa'dana allahu wa rasooluh wa sadaqallahu wa
rasooluh wama zadahum illa imanan wa tasleemah Allahu
Akbar And when the believers saw the ahzab,
the huge army.
So they saw it physically.
They didn't just hear that it's coming.
Armies took forever to march.
And by the way, some of the army
was marching from the north.
Medina is in the southwest or the west
of Arabia.
So people were coming from the south, were
coming from the north, and were coming from
the east.
So it wasn't just one big, it was
a nonstop marching of armies.
They're like, when they saw it with their
eyes, which should be the breaking point, that
was actually the strong point.
They said, Allah says, when the believers saw
the companies, the confederate armies, they said, hadha
ma wa'dana allahu wa rasooluh This is exactly
what Allah and his messenger promised us.
wa sadaqallahu wa rasooluh And they spoke true.
That's exactly what they said.
They've been warning about this for 20 years.
Here it is.
And then Allah says, wa ma zadahum illa
imanan wa taslimah This experience did not change
anything in their heart.
It did not increase anything except, it did
increase one thing.
It didn't increase anything except, it increased their
iman, and it increased their submission to Allah,
their taslim, which is the same root word
as Islam.
So their iman did not just stay level
through the difficult time, the hardest time ever.
It didn't just, I mean, that would have
been good enough, right?
To keep your iman the same level as
it is during the good and the bad
times?
Hey, I'll take it.
That's great.
No, Allah says, no, no, no.
The hardest point that they ever faced, their
iman went up.
Allahu Akbar.
It's a superpower.
So, what did Allah mention here that tells
us that they were alert of the patterns
of Allah?
That that was the reason that they were
able to strengthen their iman during the toughest
time.
It's mentioned in the ayah.
Let me repeat the ayah.
And when the believers saw the confederate armies,
they said, this is what Allah and His
Messenger had promised us before.
And Allah and His Messenger spoke the truth.
And this did not increase them in anything
except faith and acceptance.
What's built into this ayah that proves to
you that it was the pattern of Allah
that they were tapped into?
Yes, they said, Allah says what they said,
what the sahaba spoke with their own tongues.
They said, well, this is exactly what Allah
and His Messenger promised us.
And it's exactly what they said.
So, even though it's a tough situation, my
iman can only go up because we were
warned about this and here it is.
Sadaqallahu wa Rasuluh.
Allah spoke the truth and His Messenger ﷺ
spoke the truth.
One more thing.
And this is not mentioned in the ayah
just yet.
Because they knew that this low point would
occur, they also knew what next stage was.
They know exactly what it means when the
ummah gets completely surrounded.
The sahaba, they said, oh, we were told
this would happen and we would reach our
lowest point.
And we were told, be patient anyway and
power through because the next point is the
victory of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Right?
And this is mentioned in many times in
the Qur'an.
One such example in Surah Yusuf, Allah says,
حَتَّىٰ إِذَا اسْتَيْئَسَ الْرُّسُلُ وَظَنُّوا أَنَّهُمْ قَدْ كُذِبُوا
جَاءَهُمْ نَصْرُنَا فَنُجِّيَ مَنْنَ شَاءُ وَلَا يُرَدُّ بَأْسُنَا
عَنِ الْقَوْمِ الْمُجْرِمِينَ And when the messengers despaired
and their people thought that their messengers had
been denied help, it was then that our
help came to them.
And we saved whomever we willed and our
punishment is never averted from the wicked people.
حَتَّىٰ إِذَا اسْتَيْئَسَ الْرُّسُلُ Understand this ayah.
This ayah like shakes me.
اسْتَيْئَسَ الْيَأْسِ Despair.
The messengers felt despair.
Messengers are human too, right?
They have a promise from God, but they
are human just like me and you.
They feel sadness, they feel fear, they tie
it into taqwa, they override those feelings, but
they feel them.
حَتَّىٰ إِذَا اسْتَيْئَسَ الْرُّسُلُ وَظَنُّوا أَنَّهُمْ قَدْ كُذِبُوا
The people thought that the messengers were after
all not going to receive help.
Maybe we're all going to die.
Maybe the faith ends here.
Maybe the end of the road ends here.
Maybe this is where it goes.
إِنَّا لَمُدْرَكُونَ The people who followed Musa A
.S. It looks like we either drown in
the water or Firaun slaughters every last one
of us and there goes everything.
This whole story ends.
All that nine signs from God, it just
ends like this.
They completely lost it.
The messengers did not lose their faith, but
they reached the level of sadness and despair.
حَتَّىٰ إِذَا اسْتَيْئَسَ الْرُّسُلُ وَظَنُّوا أَنَّهُمْ قَدْ كُذِبُوا
Allah says immediately.
جَاءَهُمْ نَصْرُنَا It was at that moment that
the victory shows up.
Allahu Akbar.
It was at the moment where the elephant
showed up right at the Ka'bah where
Allah said, you're not moving one more step.
Right?
It was at the exact moment when Suraqah,
who was not Muslim at the time when
he was looking to catch the bounty, catch
Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam on his way
to Hijrah.
It was right when he saw the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam that Allah told his horse,
you do not take one more step.
And Suraqah later became Muslim.
This is Allah's pattern, subhanAllah.
It is always darkest before dawn.
The tyrant reaches peak arrogance before they get
destroyed completely.
It is the sunnah of Allah.
It's how Allah willed for this test to
happen.
So, when you're aware of this pattern, just
like the Sahaba were during the Ahzab, they
said, هَذَا مَا وَعَدَنَا اللَّهُ رَسُولُهُ Not only
did Allah and His Messenger promise us that
this difficulty will occur, and here it is.
So, we already increased our iman.
But, there's no way I'm giving up right
now.
Because I know exactly what comes next and
I know how close we are to it.
Why would I give up now?
The tides have turned already.
And don't forget, at the beginning, when the
tide turns, when you hit rock bottom, what's
the only direction you can go?
Up.
However, you don't win right away.
You have to climb.
But why?
What good will it do you to give
up on the way up?
You should have gave up on the way
down.
Right?
If you're gonna give up at all.
Why are you giving up on the way
up?
The tides have turned.
Right?
I've never seen people more awake than they
are in this era.
And awake to the lies and the propaganda
and so on.
Do you guys agree with that or not?
Am I just saying that?
I've never in my life, seen the people
at large, Muslim and non-Muslim, more awake
to the propaganda than this past year has
confirmed.
Don't give up on the way up.
It's the wrong time.
You missed your boat.
And it was a terrible boat to begin
with.
You might as well keep climbing.
Right?
We'll pause now, inshaAllah, for Adhan.
Bismillah, alhamdulillah, wa salatu wa salam wa rasulillah.
So just a few more minutes, inshaAllah.
And I wanna open the floor for questions
after, as we prepare for Isha.
So, in conclusion, there are...
The Qur'an is absolutely full of pattern
after pattern after pattern.
You can apply it, as we said, to
any of the circles of influence in your
life.
You and yourself, and your never-ending fight
to grow spiritually and so on, between you
and shaytan.
And then you expand the circle within your
family, you expand the circle within your community,
within the ummah of Islam, and then within
the whole world.
And Allah says, وَلَا اَنْتَجَ لِسُنَّةِ اللَّهِ تَبْدِي
اللَّهِ Go ahead and look.
You will not find a single change to
the patterns of Allah.
Tap into the patterns, and then you'll say,
Okay, I realize why Allah told us the
story of al-Fil, Ashab al-Fil, the
elephant army.
I realize now why Allah told us the
story of Ashab al-Buruj, the people in
Surah al-Buruj, and so on and so
forth.
You just gotta keep reading.
These stories apply to not only externally, by
the way, to our enemies, they apply to
our ummah as well.
When you ask yourself, Why is the ummah
in such a state?
And more importantly, what can we do to
get out of it?
It's all right there in the Qur'an.
وَيَوْمَ حُنَيْنٍ إِذْ أَعْجَبَتْكُمْ كَثْرَتْكُمْ فَلَمْ تُغْنِي عَنْكُمْ
شَيْئًا On the day of Hunayn, the battle
of Hunayn, you were so proud of your
numbers.
فَلَمْ تُغْنِي عَنْكُمْ شَيْئًا And it did not
benefit you whatsoever.
It's right there in the Qur'an.
And you know the famous hadith, authentic one,
about, يُشَكُوا أَن تَدَاعَ عَلَيْكُمُ الْأُمَمِ That one
day the Prophet ﷺ said, The people will
gather around you the same way that they
gather around a plate of food.
Each of them offering one.
No, you take this one.
No, no, no, I insist.
You take that one.
That's what they did with the Muslim countries,
didn't they?
They drew up the lines, the Sykes-Picot
agreement.
They said that the meeting lasted half an
hour when they drew up the lines for
the Middle East.
But French and British and these people, they
sat down and said like, So, yeah, where
do we draw the lines for Syria?
And they said, Oh, yeah, you know, they're
just like coloring books.
So, call this place Syria.
Give them flags that all, the colors are
all the same, it's just different, we put
it backwards.
Let them be proud of each flag and
let them feel divided and conquered.
And that's that.
So, the Prophet ﷺ said, They will gather
around you the same way that people gather
around a plate of food.
And the Sahaba said, Oh, Messenger of Allah,
Ya Rasulullah, Oh Messenger of Allah, Is it
because we're going to be so few in
number at that time?
He said, No.
بَلْ أَنْتُمْ كَثِيرٌ كَغُثَاءِ السَّيْلِ أَوْ كَمَا قَالَ
صَوْرِ السَّلَامِ He said, No, you'll be plenty.
You'll be so much like the foam or
the froth that shows up on the sea.
Literally everywhere you look, there's foam on the
ocean.
He said, You're going to be so much.
That's not the problem at the time.
However, Allah will remove the fear of you
from your enemy's hearts.
They will not fear you anymore.
And in your hearts, Allah will place wahan.
You will have wahan meaning, حُبِّ الدُّنْيَا وَكَرَهِيَةُ
الْمَوْتِ The Prophet ﷺ said, This is his
words, You will have too much obsessive love
with this world and you will fear death
or hate death too much.
Meaning you're too materialistic.
Until you fix those things, the ummah will
not wake up again.
It's not a matter of numbers.
We have numbers.
We have 2 billion.
It's not a matter of armies or tanks.
How many tanks are there in the Muslim
world today?
Their only function is to attack the Muslims.
How many armies do we have?
What purpose do they serve?
How much wealth do we have?
Some of the most wealthy countries on the
planet are Muslim majority countries.
Those things are useful, but only useful in
the hands of people with iman.
That's the missing ingredient.
The ummah, and before we were called Muslims,
the Bani Israel before us, and the people
of Isa ﷺ, and every follower of the
Prophet, they were all outnumbered.
They were always outnumbered.
And Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was outnumbered at Badr.
And they were outnumbered at the battle of
Ahzab.
And those were the most decisive victories of
the ummah.
The numbers are good, but they're only useful
in the hands of people of iman.
Otherwise, they are irrelevant.
Victory will come without the numbers.
Victory will come without the wealth it always
has.
Prophet Musa ﷺ was outnumbered.
Prophet Ibrahim ﷺ was alone.
إِنَّ إِبْرَاهِيمَ كَانَ أُمَّةٌ He was an ummah
by himself.
Where did I get all these stories from?
Right from the Qur'an.
Another pattern of Allah ﷻ.
I want you to focus.
Open up the Qur'an and say, I'm
looking for patterns.
I'm going through difficulty.
I'm asking why.
Why did this happen?
Why is this happening?
And more importantly, what comes next?
And how do I prepare?
Pick up the Qur'an and start reading.
Very soon you'll come up to a pattern.
Number one, and number two, and number three.
And guess what?
Some days this one will appear to you.
And you'll have a question.
The story of Talut, Surah Al-Baqarah.
King Saul.
Why did he pass through that river and
tell them that you can only drink one
sip or don't drink at all?
What does that have to do with anything?
Why did Allah mention this story?
Why is...
I want to know.
I want to know.
That was a decisive moment in Bani Israel's
history.
King Talut.
In his army was Prophet Dawud ﷺ.
Who killed?
David killed?
Goliath.
Another example of being outnumbered, outmanned, outgunned.
Who was the stronger army materialistically?
Goliath or David?
Goliath.
Who won?
David defeated Goliath.
David ﷺ, right?
The story repeats.
The pattern repeats.
If you are not tapped into the patterns
of Allah, you run the risk of, God
forbid, losing your faith when times are most
tough.
When the fitna strikes the hardest, you run
the risk of making the mistake وَإِذْ يَقُولُ
الْمُنَافِقُونَ وَالَّذِينَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ مَرَضٌ مَا وَعَدَنَا اللَّهُ
وَرَسُولُهُ إِلَّا غُرُورًا أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِن ذَلِكِ You
run the risk of being like the hypocrites
and those who have a disease in their
hearts.
When the times got tough and you needed
your iman the most, you didn't have it.
Because you didn't build it.
The Prophet ﷺ said, تَعَرَّفْ إِلَى اللَّهِ فِي
الْرَخَاءِ يَعْرِفْكَ فِي الشِّدَّةِ Get to know Allah
during times of ease and He will know
you during times of hardship.
He will imbue you, He will give you
iman and resilience at the hardest times like
the people that we see in Gaza.
May Allah Ta'ala lift their oppression.
May Allah Ta'ala lift the oppression of
our brothers and sisters in Lebanon and Syria
and Yemen and Burma, East Turkestan and Sudan.
It's so sad the list grows and you
fear that you forget something and you offend
people.
May Allah Ta'ala lift the shackles of
oppression from all our brothers and sisters.
May He use us to lift their shackles
of oppression.
May He use us for khair and not
replace us.
اللهم استعملنا ولا تستبدلنا Jazakum khair guys for
your attention.
I pray that we planted a seed here,
a hunger to go read the Qur'an
with a different light and a hunger to
go and see what patterns will I come
across and what power will it give me,
what value will it give me, Inshallah Ta
'ala.
With that said, Inshallah, I'll open up the
floor.
We have, let's say, about 10 minutes or
so.
We can open up the floor to questions
or comments, Inshallah.
Anybody brave enough wanna go up first?
I see some movement.
By the way, I was only able to
mention I was only able to mention 2
or 3 which gave me hope dealing with
what we're dealing with now as an Ummah.
But the Qur'an is like, you'll never
run out.
There's always something to reflect on and say,
Oh my God, this is exactly what Allah...
هذا ما عدنا الله ورسوله وصدق الله ورسوله
That should be on your tongue as well,
Inshallah.
Yes, brother.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Revival.
100%.
Absolutely.
I think, crucially, JazakAllah khair for mentioning when
the Crusaders took Jerusalem, Palestine for almost 100
years, 80 plus years.
And the Muslims, by Allah's permission, recovered it.
And of course, at the helm was a
person very famous.
Salahuddin Al-Ayubi, rahmatullah alayh.
It is crucial for us to read that
story and to understand it.
What led to the downfall of the Muslims?
And what led to the recovery?
What did Salahuddin do?
Where did he learn?
Who contributed, by Allah's permission, to the presence
of a person named Salahuddin?
It was not just him.
He gets to be at the helm and
I pray that he gets the reward.
But I believe in my heart, with full
iman, that there are people who we don't
know their names, who are getting more reward
than Salahuddin, radiAllahu anhu, rahmatullah.
Because they're the ones who built this person.
They're the ones who, by Allah's permission, of
course, they invested in the next generation when
things were lowest.
That is something that, honestly, inspires me quite
a bit.
The Prophet ﷺ said, if you see the
Day of Judgment starting, and in your hand
is a plantling, you were about to plant
something, a tree, and the Day of Judgment
has started.
You can see it.
What did he advise us to do or
command us to do?
He said, plant it anyway.
The first thought you'll have is like, why
on earth?
It takes 5, 10 years before a tree
can grow and have some fruits.
What a waste of my time to plant
this tree.
The world's ending.
He said, no, no, plant your tree.
Because how do you know?
Maybe that's your perception.
700 years ago or, yeah, 800 plus minus,
when the Mongols were massacring the Muslims, the
Mongols destroyed and decimated the Muslims.
Did you know that several reputable respected scholars
at the time said in their books, and
their books are still there till today, they
said, this is most likely Gog and Magog.
They fit the description.
They have not left a single city standing.
It really seems like the end of times.
It's over.
And of course, that was hundreds of years
ago.
It was not over.
Anybody here about the Mongols today, do they
exist?
They became Muslims.
Nobody saw that coming.
Nobody saw that coming.
How is it ever going to end?
How are we ever going to get power
over these Mongols?
They became Muslims.
It wasn't a straight 1 plus 1 equals
2.
In two years, it was over.
But the bottom line is, the people at
that time, they could not see further.
It was as if the day of judgment
had come.
And they had plants in their hand.
They could have planted seeds.
Maybe the next generation will be able to
benefit from it.
Maybe it's not over.
Maybe my perception is, a lot of times
in our era, and I've made this mistake
as well, we're like, oh my God, it's
over.
They're going to have a nuclear war.
We're all going to die.
And the world ends tomorrow.
What's the point?
When you reach that level of what's the
point, you've gone too far.
The Prophet ﷺ said, no, plant seeds.
Your perception is that it's over.
A million people before you had that perception.
And they were wrong.
You might be right.
But you also might be wrong.
Plant the seed anyway.
I believe that the generation prior to Salahuddin,
rahmahullah, are more rewarded than him because they
planted seeds when not really seeing where it
can land.
Hope had reached an all time low and
they said, we're keeping hope anyway.
And we're going to build a school.
Salahuddin went to an Islamic school.
And there was people who invested in that.
And there's people who ensured that that kept
going despite feeling like, almost like what's the
point.
I think that generation, the what's the point
generation who keep planting seeds, I think they're
the biggest heroes of all.
The unnamed, unsung heroes.
And if Allah wills for that, if Allah
wills that that's our generation, I'm going to
plant, I'll tell you what I'll do.
I'm going to plant as many seeds as
I possibly can so I can be, if
Allah wills, I can be a hero in
the next life.
And you guys can join me in that.
And perhaps maybe we'll be the Salahuddin generation,
which I think is very likely.
Wallahu alam, of course.
So Jazakallah brother who mentioned that yes, it's
not just the seerah and the classical traditional
stories in the Qur'an and Sunnah.
It's Al-Andalus.
700 years of Islamic Spain.
I'm sure, and this is not an insult,
I'm sure most of us here could not
write half a page about 700 years worth
of Islamic Spain.
True or false?
It's like wait, 700 years of our heritage?
We should be able to talk about it.
We should be able to know what went
up, went down.
What brought them down ultimately?
We don't know.
Salahuddin's time, what brought them down, what brought
them back?
These are patterns that repeated over and over
and over and over.
And the sooner we tap into them, the
sooner we'll know what's our duty right now
and what's our next steps inshaAllah ta'ala.
As well as it will help us cope
with what's going on so we don't lose
our faith inshaAllah.
Any other questions or comments?
Please feel free.
You can grab the mic or just call
out.
Going once?
Alright, I'll stop at once then.
Alright, Jazakum Khayran everybody.
I think we have a few moments left
for Isha.
Thank you so much for your attentiveness and
may Allah ta'ala place this gathering in
our scales on the Day of Judgment.
May Allah unite us always upon Khair.
BarakAllahu feekum.
SubhanakAllahumma wa bhamdik.
Nashhadu an la ilaha illa ant.
Nastaghfiruka wa natubu ilayk.
Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi ta'ala wa barakatuh.