Stories of Duas from The Quran #28
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The speaker discusses the story of the prophet Assyrian Federalist's surah number 28, which describes the birth of the prophet's son by his mother. The story is a captivating story and is discussed in detail. The transcript describes a woman who was approached by a man from the Israelites and describes her behavior. The story also touches on the importance of trustworthiness and integrity in relationships with Allah, and the cyclical nature of society. The speaker emphasizes the importance of recounting all experiences and learning from past moments, and offers to help with the situation. The speaker also mentions upcoming events and a natural event happening at the event.AI Generated Transcript ©
Welcome, welcome everybody.
Alhamdulillah.
May
Allah accept all of our ibada. Welcome to
everybody who still thinks it's Ramadan.
These are the Ramadan warriors.
May Allah accept from y'all.
I saw an Eid party tonight somewhere. Really?
You said you ran into an Eid party.
I did. I literally I was like it's
Ramadan still. They're like eat Mubarak. I was
like we are
I'm way
behind. Alhamdulillah. No.
And,
so may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
continue to
grant us opportunities
to seek his forgiveness and seek his blessings
in the closing moments of this blessed month
of Ramadan. Ameen.
So,
continuing on with our series here,
for the last 10 nights
where we are talking about,
the stories of dua in the Quran.
And
the story of dua that we're going to
be talking about tonight
is from the life of the prophet Musa
alaihis salaam.
And this particular,
dua
and the story that leads up to the
dua is in surah number 28,
suratulukasas,
which literally means the surah of the stories.
And it goes into a lot of detail
about different events from the life of Musa,
alayhis salaam.
And I always struggle with trying to kinda
summarize everything. I'll try to summarize it best
I can, but it's also, like, a very
captivating story.
And I'll ask Wissat to, you know, chime
in anytime he feels it's necessary.
So,
Musa alayhis salaam,
he is born
amongst Bani Israel, the Israelites.
They are enslaved
by the pharaoh Firaun, for 100 of years,
generations on end.
And when Musa alaihis salam is about to
be born, the pharaoh has this dream where
he sees that
a child born amongst the Israelites
will one day grow up
to topple him.
He becomes
paranoid
and maniacal
and he basically issues an order
to massacre
every male
child, every baby boy that is born amongst
the Israelites.
They're
murdering and killing babies.
And
the mother of Musa
becomes very concerned and worried. What's gonna happen
to my baby?
Allah
inspires divinely within
her Allah tells her that
nourish
and feed your baby.
When the time comes and you feel like
you can hear them that they're now starting
to come through your neighborhood,
then you take the baby,
the boy, you put him inside of
a basket,
a container
and you put it into the river
and you
floated down
the river Nile and
trust Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says trust me.
I'll take care of him. I'll bring him
back to you. I'll make him a prophet.
She does exactly
that. Firaoun's wife, the pharaoh's wife, who later
on we learn about more about her, She
becomes a very pious, righteous woman, the prophet
Salati. Some say she's one of the women
of paradise.
She finds him,
and she immediately falls in love with him
and is taken by him.
So she takes him in and she raises
him as one of her own,
Like her own child.
And so Firaoun can't really touch him. So
now Musa alaihi salam grows up, the Quran
kind of fast forwards to
Now he's a grown man.
And he occupies this very interesting kind of
place.
He knows that he is from amongst the
Israelites. I didn't go into the detail, but,
basically, Allah arranges that Musa alayhis salam, the
baby,
will not nurse from any woman.
Until finally, the sister of Musa, who's been
kinda, like, keeping track of where he is,
she says, I can bring you a lady
who will be able to nurse him because,
you know, she's
she's very blessed in that way.
You know, she's very good with kids.
And they she brings her mother, Musa's mother.
And when Musa Alaihi Salam starts nursing from
her,
then she gets hired, she gets paid to
nurse and take care of her own baby.
So now
but nonetheless, it's known that Musa alaihis salam
is from the Israelites. This young man Musa,
he is from the Israelites, like, ethnically, that's
where he belongs to, the B'nai Israel.
However, he lives in the palace of the
pharaoh,
and he was raised as kind of like
the adopted son of the pharaoh.
So he has all the privileges of the
ruling class,
but while it's always there, there's always kind
of like a but or an asterisk
that basically says, but he does belong to
those
people, the slaves.
And he grows up in this kind
of place, strange kind of place.
The Quran tells us that one day,
he goes into the marketplace and he's strolling
through the marketplace and there is a man
from the pharaoh's people
and then there's a man from the Israelites.
Now, typically, 99% of scenarios, if a man
from pharaoh's people and a man from the
Israelites
are getting into something and there's kind of
a problem going on between them,
more than likely 99.9%
of the time,
the man from the pharaoh's people is probably
oppressing
the man from Bani Israel. That's how it
works.
Okay?
So
Musa
sees that. He walks over there and he
goes, hey, why don't you leave him alone?
And the man from pharaoh's people,
he's like, I know who you are.
You're pharaoh's wife's pet.
You ain't one of us.
You can't talk to me like that
Just because you get to live in the
palace
because the pharaoh's wife is fond of you
You don't get to talk to me like
that? And he gets up in Musa alaihi
salam's face and he's like pushing him and
shoving him and he's in his face
Even
our religion, the prophet taught us that we
have the right to defend ourselves
So Musa alaihis salam in a move of
self defense he pushes him and shoves him
off
Now, number 1, Musa is very strong And
number 2, it's one of those freak accident
kind of situations where the guy
falls and then falls in such a way
where it breaks his neck or something like
that, and the man dies on the spot.
So Musa Alaihi Salam did not murder anybody
but he was involved in the freak accidental
death of the man.
Okay?
So that happens
Not a lot of people are around That
one man from Beni Israel who's who Musa
Alaihi Salam came to his aid He was
there He runs off.
Of course.
He runs off. And then
Musa alayhi salam is kinda like I don't
know what to do in this situation. So
he leaves.
A few days later Musa alayhis salam is
going through the marketplace again and he sees
the same man from Bani Israel, the same
guy
fighting with somebody else in the marketplace.
And Musa alaihis salam
goes to him. Musa alaihis salam's nature is
such we learned from another story in the
Quran about him where
he when something's wrong, he has to say
it immediately and he's very blunt about things.
That's his personality, his nature.
So he goes up to the man and
he goes, you again?
Why are you fighting with everybody?
Every time I've only seen you twice, and
both times you were fighting with somebody.
What's your problem?
And the man,
because he exposes how low of character he
is,
he shouts out into a busy marketplace,
Musa, don't kill me
like you killed the other guy the other
day.
Everybody there hears.
Musa alayhis salam
backs away
and then goes home.
Sometime later,
one of the ministers of the court of
the pharaoh
comes to Musa
and he says to him that, look
I want what's good for you.
They're talking right now. They just had a
meeting.
And pharaoh
has always hated the fact that he had
to look at you
as the people who he oppresses and he
enslaves
But his wife
just
raised you like her own, like a son,
so so he has to put up with
you. He's always hated that. And now, he
feels like this is his opportunity.
They're going to kill you. They're going to
make an example out of you. You need
to leave now.
You need to get out of dodge. You
need to flee.
So that's what Musa alayhi salam does.
Musa alayhi salam just takes off.
And he travels and he travels and he
travels and he travels and travels and travels
until he reaches this area
that's very lush and green.
It's like
forests,
trees,
rolling hills.
Beautiful place
But not home
He's left everything behind, everyone behind He doesn't
have anyone He doesn't have anything
All he's got is a shirt on his
back
And he arrives into that place
he finds a tree,
he sits under
the shade of the tree,
and while he's sitting there,
he sees that there's a well
and there's a crowd of people there and
they're all shepherds because it's that kind of
our area, right? It's all like, green and
pastures and things like that So everyone there,
primarily, they work as shepherds They all have
animals and flocks
So, he's sitting there, watching a bunch of
people go to a well and pull water
for their animals
And then, he sees that kind of behind
from the crowd, there's 2 young ladies
that are quietly kind of standing there and
waiting,
but they're having, you know, the crowd is
huge around the well and they're just kind
of waiting there and waiting, and waiting, and
waiting. And so, while he's sitting there under
the shade of the tree, he sees somebody
who can use some help.
So he gets up and he goes to
them and he says
that
What's what's can I help you with anything?
Is everything
okay? And they say, yeah They said that,
we're waiting to get water
to provide to our animals
And before you ask why is somebody from
the household, why is our father or brother,
etcetera,
not here instead of us,
because that'd be more ideal
Well, we don't have any brothers
and our father is very elderly
He can't do it anymore
So, we help out
And we have to do everything ourselves.
So Musa
says, let me help you. They're like, no.
No. No. We don't need it. And he
says, no. I insist. Let me take care
of this.
And he takes the buckets and then he's
able to kinda get in line and kind
of, you know, push your way into the
crowd.
And he's able to get there sooner rather
than later and fill up the buckets for
them and then bring them back to them.
And he's like, I can carry this to
your home. And they're like, no. No. No.
We can carry the buckets, but thank you
very much for just kind of getting into
the line and pushing your way in there
because we're not gonna do that.
And
we appreciate it very much.
And they leave on their way. And Musa
alayhi wasalam goes and sits back down under
the shade of the tree.
And while he's sitting there,
and his stomach is growling
He hasn't eaten days
He's sleepy. He's tired. He's falling asleep, dozing
off. He hasn't slept. He's been on the
run.
He's a fugitive.
He smells terrible He's sweaty,
dirty
Travelling for days non stop
His clothes are messed up and he has
literally nothing. He doesn't have a cup. He
doesn't have an extra shirt. He has nothing.
And he's just sitting under the shade of
the tree
and he makes du'a to Allah
And Usad will elaborate on the du'a.
But
just
it won't make sense unless I just at
least just mention the dua. He says, my
lord, I am desperately in need of whatever
you can provide to me.
Little while later,
one of the
young ladies
who he had helped with the water
shows up
and stands kind of at a distance
and says, Excuse me sir
Can you,
come to our home? Our father would like
to speak to you because they went home,
and their father said, How did you get
back so quickly?
And they said, Well, there was this
gentleman,
and he helped us, and he filled up
the buckets for us, and all of that,
and he was very respectful,
and he didn't crowd us, he didn't make
us feel uncomfortable,
And
the father says, well, that's very nice of
him. Did you pay him something? Did you
go no. He wouldn't accept any payment. Well,
then can you go and get him? At
least let me express my gratitude to him.
Invite him over.
So she says our father would like to
speak to you. So he says, okay.
So then Musa alaihis salaam goes to their
home
and he goes and he sits down and
they have dinner together and they talk and
things like that, where are you from and,
you know
And after some time,
the one of the girls says to her
father
that,
that, why don't you hire him, dad?
We have a big farm.
We're actually not,
you know, making enough as much as we
could. We have a big farm. We own
a lot of land, but we can't do
it. You can't do it. Hire him. He'll
basically pay for himself.
He'll eat, you know, what what what he
earns himself.
And
so the father says to Musa alayhis salaam,
leans in,
says, young man,
you seem to
be honest and have integrity
and decency.
I have
an idea.
He says, here's my idea.
Number 1,
you're going to marry my daughter,
As long as you all like each other,
of course. Alright?
All the brothers just woke up. They're like
Yeah. They're like, what? Who's daughter? Yeah.
And so as long as, you know,
y'all
are okay with it but I'm saying that
I'm okay with it. And I'd like to
facilitate you marrying my daughter.
Number 2.
I'm going to give you a job.
You're gonna work here on my farm.
And number 3:
of course, you'll have this relationship with me
and I'll teach you everything that I know.
And
in one moment,
Musa 'alay salam, who had nothing and no
one,
he just was provided a family.
He was just given a job,
a home,
a roof over his head,
bread on the table,
and he was provided a mentor, a teacher
that the narrations tell us. Abdullah ibn Abbas
tells us it was none other than the
prophet of God Shuaib
So in one moment
Allah gives Musa
a family,
a home, a job,
and a prophet
as a mentor
and teacher.
And Allah
basically provides him
the perfect life.
And
something I'll share with you,
Abdullah bin Mas'ud
great companion of the Prophet
He said this area, by the way, where
this whole story happened is called Madyan.
Abdullah bin Masood
says that after we read this in the
Quran and the prophet told us about
it, he said I traveled to Madyan.
I went there
and I searched around and I spoke to
the locals,
like the the religious people
who maintain these traditions.
And he said, I asked him, where
is the tree
where Musa alayhi salam sat and made that
dua in the Quran?
And he said they pointed me to a
tree
and he said
that whole area looks one way and then
that tree is an oasis.
That tree,
everything around it is remarkable, beautiful. There's there's
a spring bubbling up over there. The tree
is humongous. It's the oldest thing in the
area. And it's like Allah
blessed it and preserved it because of the
dua that Musa
made there. And when he made that dua,
Allah sent his mercy down upon it.
And it made that place very very special
from the mercy and the blessing of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. So that's
the backstory.
Right?
He's in
this the most
difficult moment of his life.
And inside the most difficult moment of his
life, he makes his dua
and then
his life becomes an absolute dream.
And now
we'll spend a little time reflecting on and
understanding
what's the dua that he made. I just
gave you like a very basic rough translation,
but let's get into it and deeply reflect
upon
what du'a he made and what he was
actually saying when he said these words and
how he was communicating to Allah.
So this story is
layered. You know? There's levels to this as
they say. Prophet Musa alaihis salaam, as Shahidun
Nasr mentioned,
is
even though
he is,
chosen as a messenger, he has not yet
received
the charge of messengership.
This is all happening before he's received
the official position and the official anointment of
being a messenger of Allah. But one of
the things that's interesting about
this story and even other stories of prophets,
for example,
the what was the the the title or
the titles that were given to the prophet
Muhammad
before he received wahi was that he was
known as a Sadiq and Al Amin.
He was the one who was always truthful
and he was the one who was trustworthy.
And if you look at the words actually
that
one of the daughters of Shar'aib describes prophet
Musa with,
he actually she actually says
that you should hire him because he is
2 things. Number 1, he is,
strong
and he is also trustworthy.
And so this trait or these traits, right,
of trustworthiness,
of honesty, of integrity
These are things that by definition,
a person who wants to be close to
Allah
and a person who hopes and expects to
be taken care of by Allah, that these
are non negotiables.
A Muslim person, the prophet salallahu alaihi wa
sallam, he said in in many narrations,
in different ways to the effect of a
Muslim cannot be a liar.
A Muslim cannot be a person who is
dishonest,
who does not have the trust of the
people around them. And when you see the
way that Allah ta'ala tells us the story
of Satan and Musa 'alayhi salam,
there are so many elements. And Sheikh, of
course, did a wonderful job telling it, that
where Musa alsalam was able to maintain and
demonstrate his integrity
even in moments that could have become precarious.
They could have become dubious.
Right? When you see someone who needs something,
forget the whole, like, male female dynamic, just
anyone. When you see someone who needs something
and they are unable to take care of
their need,
you know,
part of the mind and part of the
way that the nefs might work is to
leverage that vulnerability
for your own benefit.
Yeah. What's in it for me? As they
say, cui bono. Who who benefits? Right? If
there's somebody who's unable to reach something and
they call, hey, Abdul Rahman, can you grab
that for me? I'm like, every man has
his price.
Right? Yeah. I can I can I can
grab it off the top for you? All
the tall guys know what I'm talking about.
You know?
Is everyone ask for help for something? And
there's a part of each person's nuffs that
is like,
you know, what can you do for me?
Right? Are you gonna
hook me up? Are you gonna get this
for me? Are you gonna take care of
that for me? When you see Musa, alayhis
salaam, here, one of the things that really
sticks out about the story
is that before
before he even calls upon Allah in this
way,
he does
the right thing
and he does the most generous, the most
magnanimous thing. He does it in pure sincerity.
And the lesson from that is this,
Allah
rewards
sincere people
when they do things with zero attachment for
any reward whatsoever. In Surat Al Insan, Allah
mentions the characteristic of people who feed others,
you know, feeding others. And this is a
crazy story. We used to organize and we
still do till today in some way, but
more frequently we would go to Masjid Islam
downtown and they would have the weekly
food
distribution
where they would have different organizations that would
sponsor or even cook. And they would box
the food and then they would hand it
out. Anyone in South Dallas can come and
can get free food. And then there was
even these racks of clothing that they would
take donations. They would clean them. They would
make them nice. They would hang them up.
And people could come. Anybody. Doesn't matter where
you or who you are, where you're from,
what religion. They could come to the masjid.
They could get a box of fresh food
and they could pick out some new clothes.
Right. Or to them would be new, would
be refreshed clothes. Right. And I remember being
there
and I remember we would sit at the
tables and we would talk and we would
have conversations with the people that were there.
And I remember out of nowhere,
one of the guys who's there, not Muslim,
he said, I like y'all better than the
churches.
I was like, you know, thank you. You
know?
We appreciate that. Right? You know?
But I asked him. I said, what makes
you say that? He said, because listen to
this. Human beings are so perceptive.
Like,
we can see and smell and sense things
from miles away. Integrity is one of those,
like, immutable traits.
He said I'll never forget this. This is
back when I was at INTJEC.
He said,
when we come here to get food and
to get some clothes,
you guys don't make us do anything.
Like, we don't have to do anything.
When we go to the church,
they make us listen to a lecture.
They make us sing.
They make us pray with them.
And then after all of that
then they say, Okay. Food is served.
And again, like, is it is it like
the worst thing?
Right? Yeah. We could do that. Right?
Yeah.
Right?
Is it the is it the worst thing?
I mean whatever. Like you know, it's a
it's it's a stylistic difference. Right? I mean
obviously we're right. But anyways,
it's a stylistic difference. I mean, I'm not
gonna say that having people pray and stuff
is wrong, but, you know,
it's distasteful. And I think it goes against
spirit of what Allah wants and what his
messenger wants and I have proof for it.
Because in Surat Al Insan, Allah Ta'ala, when
he describes when we feed people, he describes
those people who say what? They say,
That one of the traits of these people
who take care of those in need is
they say, we have only fed you for
the sake of Allah alone.
We don't want any reward. Anything that you
can give us, we want nothing and we
don't want you to even thank us.
Like, don't even thank us because we are
just conduits of Allah.
We are just doing good because Allah allowed
us to do good. In fact, I remember
Sheikh Habenaser taught me this hadith when we
were reading the Arba'een of Shawwalhi Allah Dhillahi.
He said, There's a famous narration
that the hand that is above
is better than the hand that is below.
It's common narration that people talk about when
they talk about the virtues of sadaqah.
The one that is giving
is typically seen as the better than the
one that is asking.
But there was an interesting commentary that I
remember Shaykh brought up to me one time
and he said I want you to think
of it in this way.
He said,
when the person is giving charity to the
person who is asking,
part of the ethic
of the one who's being charitable
is to preserve the dignity and the honor
of the one that they're serving.
Muslims are never taught to demean and diminish
the honor of people.
Right? That's why Aisha Radhe Luhanha was given
the title Umpleeb.
She used to
perfume
the coins and the money that she would
give in charity
because she said that it would go to
Allah before it went to them but also
it was an honoring way of giving charity.
You know, my mother my mother and father
always used to give.
They used to go to the bank and
trade in crumpled bills for fresh crisp ones.
Just thinking on that on that level. So
Sheikh Abdul Nasr said, he taught me when
you give charity to somebody,
don't make them hold their hand out like
this.
You understand? Can we see this? Camera, we
got this. Okay. Don't make them hold their
hand out like this
instead
because then what they're doing is they're begging.
We make dua like this because we're begging
right? So you're making them come to you
saying please give it to me.
Instead of giving it like this, instead of
me being like this, if sheikh is donating
the phone to me, sheikh
hands the phone to me like this
and gives me the honor of saying thank
you very much.
The hand that is above is better than
the hand that is below. The one who
is giving charity is not better than the
one who's receiving charity.
In Islam, we don't believe. We don't believe
that just because you're giving charity, you're better
than the person who's receiving it.
We never ever thought that. In fact,
we
thank
the ones
who take charity from us because if it
were not for them, we would not be
given the virtue of that deed.
And so now you have Sayid Musa
alaihis salaam who's in deep need.
I mean Sheikh described it. He is
immersed in need.
He is on the run. He has nothing
but he sees someone else who's in need.
And he could have pre negotiated all of
these terms. I'll get you the water
but I need a job and I wanna
marry one of you. You pick.
They do it differently, old school. Right? Maybe
bring it back. I don't know. Anyways, right?
They do it differently. He could have done
that. He could have done that.
And for them, they need water like that
would have but you know what? That's not
the ethic of a believer.
We don't attach conditions to our virtue.
We don't make our goodness conditional.
Then what are we doing?
We're transacting with khair?
No.
We do it for the sake of Allah.
Sayyidina Musa, he does this for the sake
of Allah.
He takes care of what they needed. They
leave.
They're gone.
He he doesn't even I mean, to be
to be honest, he doesn't even know who
they are. Didn't get a name. Nothing.
They leave. After they leave, he goes and
he sits in front of Allah Ta'ala or
under the tree,
under his Lord, and he says what to
Allah
He
says that oh my Lord
Oh Allah, my Lord.
You know, sometimes it hits you as well
when you've just done something good.
How desperate you are.
Like when you help someone, you realize you
also need help.
Sometimes that's how it works. The world is
so cyclical like that.
Like sometimes you don't have a job but
you were able to introduce your friend in
a different degree or a different career to
someone who got them a job.
And then they're like, hey. Thanks for hooking
me up.
And you're like, I'm still broke.
You know what I mean? Life is so
peculiar like
that. And it's at that moment once you've
demonstrated and proven your integrity
that your du'a becomes unobstructed
because you've shown Allah, oh Allah, I have
nothing.
I'm not going to use anything besides you
to solve my problems.
If I were to leverage people
and hold them hostage
for any good that I could do, if
I were only gonna do favors if people
could return the favor,
then it's not me truly seeking anything from
you. I'm seeking it from them.
But oh Allah I wanted to demonstrate to
you that regardless of what I have or
don't have, I'm gonna do the right
thing. And then after that,
oh Allah I hope that as a means
of my dua being accepted you accept this
sincere deed that I've done.
And what does Allah promise?
Allah promises
that if you do the right thing
and you don't hold anyone hostage for your
goodness and then you seek from Allah with
humility,
Allah ta'ala will not only give you what
you're asking for, he'll give you much more.
Allah Ta'ala gave him Sheikh Abdul Nasr mentioned.
Allah Ta'ala gave him, in this scenario,
a job,
a family.
Right? Not just a family, not just a
wife, but also
amazing father-in-law.
Right? An incredible like, we talk about the
in law joke, in laws, this and that,
but your father-in-law is a prophet of God.
He's still not yet been anointed. You see
Allah's wisdom. It's so
amazing. He's still not yet been given that
title officially. He's chosen by Allah, but he's
not been activated as a prophet yet.
You have a father-in-law who's a messenger of
God. You now have
a wife
who is an incredible person raised by a
messenger of God.
You now have employment. And interestingly enough, subhanAllah,
in the discussion
after she the the, you know, the daughter
says to her father hire him,
who who who we know from the hadith
is prophet Shur'aib alaihis salam. He says to
Musa alaihis salam that I wanna hire you
for 8 years
or
you can make it 10 if you want.
And I've always found that interesting. Like why
was it that he said 8 or 10?
Like I need you for 8 at least
but if you want you can do 2
more. It's like when you sign a contract
and there's like an option clause.
Right?
It's interesting because when you look at the
way that it's worded and the way that
it's laid out,
he's guaranteeing him not only
8 but he's saying that I can take
care of you for even longer than that.
You're always gonna be taken care of.
Whatever you need.
And it's up to you. You decide. Imagine
being You went from a position where you
had no choice in your risk. You were
broke
to now you have options.
You have a couple different options on the
table. I can take this for 8 years
or I can do it for 10 years,
and maybe I can counter offer and say,
let's make it 12.
And he says, sure.
You went from nothing to having more than
something. This is the generosity of Allah. And
then Musa, alaihis salam, he agrees to the
terms.
Says that's between you and me. Whatever term
I fulfill, that's going to be what I
will I will keep my word. There will
be no obligation on me beyond that. And
he says Allah is a witness to whatever
we say. And then SubhanAllah
Allah ta'ala skips ahead in the narration or
in the narrative in the story
that Musa alaihis salam had completed his term.
And at this point, he's married,
he continues on his journey, he leaves the
the the the situation of work that he
had with his father-in-law
And this is now where prophet Musa
ends up going into the Sacred Valley of
Atua.
And this is where he sees off in
the distance after perceiving himself to be lost.
What he sees off in the distance on
this hill on this mountain
is a fire.
And he says to his wife at the
time, he says,
let me go
and see what's up with that fire because
fire in the wilderness typically means campfire,
which means people, which means guidance.
If I need to know where I'm going
and I'm lost, these people, they probably know
where they are where we are. Let me
go ask them for help.
And he says,
let me go over to them.
Maybe they can give us
some
directions.
Right? They can give us some stuff.
He says,
In a different verse he says, Or maybe
they can give us some guidance
from this fire. He thought he was gonna
get directions. What he actually got was hidayah
from Allah.
He goes to this fire
and the fire speaks to him or the
voice emanates from the fire and speaking to
him. And this is Allah Ta'ala
his first now speaking interaction
with Musa who we call Kari Mullah, the
one who spoke or the one who Allah
Ta'ala spoke to.
And Allah Ta'ala gives him now at this
moment the charge of messengership. But I wanna
summarize with what Allah Ta'ala says in the
end.
Allah Ta'ala, he calls out to Musa and
he says, oh Musa, it is me Allah
the Lord of the worlds.
He demonstrates through a miracle. Sayyidina Musa throws
down his staff. Allah Ta'ala commands the staff
to move like a snake,
right, which will end up happening
at some point later in the story with
prophet Fira'un.
And after he demonstrates this miraculousness to Musa,
Allah
does something phenomenal.
Allah
in recounts
the entire story of Musa's life.
The entire story of Musa's life. I believe
it's in Surataha. Yeah. He's zaflakkir and shirk
changed it for me. What a wingman.
Changes it for me. Okay?
So he approaches
and Allah calls out to him.
He tells him,
I'm your lord. Take off your sandals because
you are in a sacred place now. You
know when you come to the masjid, what
do you do?
Take off your shoes because you're coming to
me Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And then he says,
I've chosen you. So listen to what I'm
go what is revealed to you or what
I I have revealed to you. I am
Allah. There is no god except for me.
No one worthy of worship except for me.
So worship me alone and establish
prayer for my remembrance.
The hour is going to come.
My will is to keep the time of
that and the location of the details hidden
so that every soul can genuinely strive and
be rewarded
with sincerity for their efforts.
And then Allata'ala
he continues the conversation with Musa and he
recounts the entire history of what Musa, alayhis
salam, went through.
He tells him that I was there with
you
despite the fact that you felt like you
were alone when you were going through the
persecution
of your people. I was there with you
when you were struck
with fear at that moment when you had
to become a fugitive. I was there with
you when you had to hightail it and
leave the community and find safety and sanctuary.
I was there with you when you felt
like you were lost.
Every step of the way,
I know about every single detail of that
moment.
Why did Allah Ta'ala restate all this to
prophet Musa alaihis salam in this way? Because
sometimes when we are alone or when we
are in need, we feel like Allah is
not with us.
If Allah were with me, I wouldn't be
in this scenario.
But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells every moment
of weakness and vulnerability to prophet Musa.
I want you guys to think about yourself.
Think of your moments of weakness.
Allah ta'ala,
imagine him telling you, I was with you
when you got rejected.
I was with you when you got fired.
I was with you when you got divorced.
I was with you when you lost a
child.
I was with you when your parents passed
away. I was with you. All in one
moment, Allah is recounting every difficult moment that
Musa alaihi sallam has been through.
And then he finishes with what is maybe
my favorite eye in the Quran.
He says,
wastanatukalinafsi.
He says all of this, everything
that you have been through
has been a preparation
for me.
This is now when Musa became a prophet.
The tafsir of this verse as short as
it is this phrase, I
have
fashioned you.
All of this was part of your preparation,
for myself.
The tafsir of this is so powerful.
Everything you go through has a purpose.
Every moment of rejection, every moment of difficulty,
every moment of prosperity,
and every moment of constriction,
there is something there that is preparing you
for Allah.
Every second that you live
is preparing you for the next second.
And only the ones who are wise and
who are sincere
are the ones who will understand
that what they're going through is a preparation
for Allah.
You know, one of the great challenges in
our era
is to realize that life is not pointless.
Life is not meaningless. It's meaningful.
Every single thing, every single day, every single
opportunity whether it's attained or missed
has meaning.
The gift that we have is that we
believe in a book
that was given to us and brought to
us by a messenger
that was sent down from Allah
that tells us that he promises us that
every single moment has meaning,
but not every human being has that.
And Muslims, because we believe that every moment
has meaning, we are different,
and we're able to be people that make
the right decisions
at the right times and do the right
things in the moments that call for them
and avoid those things that are evil when
we are tempted to do them because we
know that those moments are not isolated.
They are accumulated.
And what we do ends up being who
we are.
And this is what prophet Musa's message and
his mission started as. And obviously we know
that this was the preparation
for him to go and meet and face
the ultimate test for him which was to
stand in front of Firaun and to challenge
him in the moment of
uh-uh the greatest perhaps challenge of his life
which was to invite Fir'awn
and to teach Fir'awn about the true religion
of Allah and to contest
his tyranny and his kufr, his disbelief
in front of everybody which of course is
an entirely different story for another different time.
But this dua
this dua is so remarkable
because it begins with sincerity.
It in the middle, it finds itself being
a admission of need,
and then Allah
tells Musa
that this need that you are in
is actually part of your preparation.
And if you didn't have need you wouldn't
be prepared.
We ask Allah to Allah to give us
this perspective
and to be able to embrace the need
that we have as a means of preparation.
Sheikh do you have anything you want to
share with us?
In closing I just wanted to mention that
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam in a narration
towards the end of his life, he said
a statement
that is so fascinating.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam, towards the end
of his life, he said,
My lord taught me and he taught me
well
My lord trained me
and he trained me beautifully
Sometimes we're going through something,
but it's preparing us for something so much
greater.
But if I give up right now,
if I
lose my cool,
if I
opt out,
I don't know what I've I don't know
what I'm depriving myself
of further down the road.
I could
be destined for greatness.
Allah
could intend to utilize me
for something remarkable,
earth changing, life changing.
But
I might end up
sabotaging
my own self.
Muzaddi Islam's situation was tough. No doubt.
He was on the run.
They were after him. He had no food.
He had no clothes. He had no money.
He had no supplies. That's a tough spot.
But Allah
put him in that spot
so that he could handle it correctly.
Well, I desperately need whatever you can give
me right now. Whatever you will give me
right now, I'm in need of it. And
he put his faith and trust in Allah,
and Allah
brought him through that beautifully.
The family, the job, everything we talked about.
And
but look where Allah look what Allah destined
him for.
Look where Allah brought him.
And as Asad said, these are each of
these stories is a whole discussion unto itself,
but look where Allah eventually brought him. He's
standing in front of the ocean
with 70,000
innocent people
trying to escape persecution,
a bloodthirsty
horde and an army behind them.
And in that moment,
that earlier moment
taught him what to do. He didn't freak
out. He didn't lose his cool. He didn't
run away. He didn't lose his hope. He
didn't lose his courage.
But he turned to Allah
and Allah told him what to do. He
walked out into the ocean until the water
was at his chest, and he took the
staff in his hand and he said, in
the name of Allah. And he struck the
ocean with his staff and the sea split.
The ocean parted.
The Quran says each side of the ocean
was like a mountain.
When they stepped foot on the floor of
the ocean the Quran says
The dirt was dry, it was dusty.
Allah made the water separate from the dust,
from the dirt on the floor of the
ocean.
Allah prepared him for that moment through this
earlier moment.
We will all have our own moments.
We pray that Allah does not test us.
But this is life.
Allah is saying, I am going to test
you. It's going to happen. That's what this
world is for.
But whenever you're in a moment,
in a test,
think about what could be waiting for us
down the road.
What kind of greatness?
What kind of contribution?
What Allah
has destined us for?
And that'll make it easier to live through
this moment and handle this moment more correctly
and properly.
And that's just training us for a much
greater moment.
My lord taught me.
Allah trained me, and he trained me well,
beautifully.
May Allah
train us and teach us beautifully.
And
I know it's a serious moment, but I
can't help myself.
I'm, like, half expecting
after we get done to go outside and
see a bunch of dudes sitting under trees,
but I had to.
They're like
in the mountains. He's like I forgot the
rest of the dua. Yeah.
Marriage. Marriage.
Yeah. Fakir.
Fakir. Marriage. Fakir.
If you do if you do meet a
potential father-in-law, don't
say you're faqir. That's a good thing to
say to Allah but not to a father-in-law
who's asking if you can take care of
her to his daughter. I'm faqir. I'll take
care of her.
But you need to hire me for 8
years.
We ask Allah Ta'ala to accept from us
and allow us to take the lessons from
this beautiful book and to apply them to
our own lives. We ask, Allah, Ta'ala, to
make these last couple of nights of Ramadan
be the nights that we benefit the most
from. May, Allah, Ta'ala, make these moments that
we see at the conclusion of this beautiful
month be the sweetest moments.
That they have this fragrance of acceptance from
Allah
and that we are able to
finish off all of the aspirations and goals
that we had for this month. And we're
able to celebrate on the day of Eid
knowing that we did our best
and that we got up and we picked
ourselves up and we failed and we kept
going and that Allah's mercy and His forgiveness
is greater than our mistakes. Ameen, Ameen,
zazakam al Khair everybody.
Just a couple reminders. We have, of course,
tomorrow night our continuation of this series. We
have 2 more sessions inshallah.
Tomorrow and then Monday. Monday as well we
have a special event. It only occurs here
at Qalam every 375 years.
It's No I'm just joking. But no but
apparently this this eclipse is quite the miraculous
thing.
All the hotels in Dallas are booked out.
I don't know if you guys have seen
this but like if you try to find
a hotel room people are flying into Dallas
because apparently it's in the line of visibility
for,
the solar eclipse. So if you
want to join us on Monday we're gonna
be doing a a sunnah
of this,
you know I want to call it a
natural event but Allah Ta'ala's
design of nature
it's known as the eclipse prayer
the Salatul Khosuf.
And it is going to be performed. Shereldin
Asher is gonna be there with us inshallah.
It's gonna be here Monday at 1:40.
So if you wanna join us inshallah there
will be, the prayer of course itself and
then there will be
an explanation
of the story behind you know did this
happen in the life of the prophet
salallahu alaihi wa sallam? What were the circumstances?
How did it happen? What did we take
from it? And then Insha'Allah, of course, there
will be Duhur at 2 PM as well.
Insha'Allah.
So that's happening on Monday.
Also
our Eid prayer will be on Wednesday inshallah.
And I know that I'm not trying to
get us ahead of ourselves but I know
people are planning it Sunday tomorrow.
The goal is for us to have we
have definitely for sure one Eid prayer at
9:30.
That's the big one with the community festivities
afterwards from 10 to 12, but we also
are
gearing up for an early Eid prayer at
7:30
Insha Allah. Just to give the option for
those people who are
gonna be more available at that time or
those who maybe have to go to work
that day.
7:30 inshallah
which will be basically right after Fajr. Fajr
it ends at 7:10 that day. The sun
rises at 7:10. And so inshallah it'll be
shortly after that. It'll be a shorter aid
prayer,
with less of a crowd. So if you
if you can make it and it's flexible
for you, we'll have a prayer at 7:30
and then we'll have our main prayer the
community festival 1 at 9:30 insha'Allah.
From 10 to 12 we're gonna have the
food outside,
the petting zoo for the kids,
insha'Allah. We're gonna have face painters and all
that kind of stuff, insha'Allah. Okay? So just
a little bit of an update, housekeeping. Jazza
Al Mulkheir and everybody. Barakal Afiqum. We'll be
going back to the prayer formation.
My favorite formation in the football offense book,
the prayer formation.
So the sisters can go back to the
prayer area for them, and then the brothers
can come here across. And then we'll have
our qiyam prayer starting in just a few
minutes. So 12:45. It's 12:41 right now, 12:45.
Ahmed, and Hafid Nain Beig.
Ahmed, and Hafid Nain Beig.