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The hosts of today's reassurance podcast discuss the importance of vulnerability and desperation in the Bible, as it is the foundation of success and power. They also talk about the story of the miracle of Isa, which is a step in the way to retirement of Islam, and the importance of leaders and teachers not overs interrupting boundaries and creating false accusations. The complexities of Islam, including the transition from one perspective to another, the emotional impact of the story, and the importance of faith in connecting with others is also discussed. The speakers emphasize the need for a child for all and the importance of knowing one's own values and showcasing a gift.AI Generated Transcript ©
Everybody for joining us here on this 29th
night of Ramadan, the last of the odd
nights of this,
this year's
most beautiful month for us, Alhamdulillah.
We are, insha'Allah, gonna continue with our series.
We, of course, have 2 left tonight and
tomorrow night. Inshallah for those of you again,
who weren't here last night, we're having the
eclipse prayer tomorrow before Luhr,
around 1:40. So if you wanna get here
early, just maybe you can even watch the
Eclipse from here and then, you know, kinda
catch a little bit of it and then
come inside and pray.
Insha'Allah. And then there are 8 prayers on
Wednesday. So I'm just making those announcements now
so everyone's aware.
Tonight's du'a tonight's story of du'a from the
Quran
is
a
it's a master class
on really what is the fuel
and what is the,
you know, the the the engine behind what
makes your supplication to God so
real and authentic. And that is
the tone of vulnerability and desperation.
When
scholars talk about the etiquettes of making du'a,
the etiquettes of supplicating to Allah,
they speak about the external etiquettes,
you know, things like it's better for a
person to be in a state of wudu,
a person should be facing the qiblah,
a person should be, you know, this this
this, maybe after they pray 2 rakats of
of nefal, etcetera. Like, there's all these external
etiquettes.
But then the scholars also introduce the internal
etiquette,
and they say that the person should be,
for example,
repentant. The person should be in a state
of of of,
penitence to God, giving some charity, right, preparing
oneself in that way. But the one that
you always find at the beginning of the
top of that list is the person has
to be in a state of
humility and desperation and vulnerability with Allah.
And that desperation of vulnerability
is exemplified
by today's du'a. So Shaykhavan Assur Insha'Allah is
gonna give us some of the background, the
context, and then we're going to go through
the
dua itself.
One of the greatest miracles that this world
has ever witnessed
and it was the
second
greatest manifestation of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's might
and his power
on this
earth,
after the creation of Adam alaihis salam
was
the birth of 'Isa alaihis salam. Jesus.
Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
says in the Quran
That the example of 'Isa
according to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
is similar to the
example
of Adam
Because ultimately both of them demonstrate the same
thing.
They demonstrate
the fact that
all the different mechanics,
all the different means that lead to a
particular end
They are only valid
because Allah
made them valid.
They only work
when Allah allows them to work.
But they need Allah,
but Allah doesn't need them.
The means
the means need the permission and the order
and the command of Allah. The power of
Allah to be inserted into the means.
But the power of Allah is independent
of the means.
Okay? That's why, you know, and again may
Allah
bless,
you know, families or couples with,
healthy and pious, righteous children.
And may Allah
make it easy for those who,
want to have children and Allah has not
written children for them. May Allah make that
easy for them. Say,
And so I I wanna use this as
an example because Allah uses Allah presents this
as an example to us in the Quran.
But I don't mean to be insensitive by
using it just simply as an example.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says
Allah grants a daughter to whomsoever He wills.
And Allah grants a son to whomsoever He
wills.
And some people,
they have sons and daughters
And whoever Allah wills, He grants them no
children.
It's all from the will and the permission
of Allah
So
but the point I'm trying to make is
you can have a young, healthy,
fit couple
that will not have children,
because the means are there but the for
whatever Allah
wisdom is and we trust Allah's wisdom.
But Allah had not granted
the permission for them to have children
or
none of the circumstances
could be there.
Like Mariam
a
young lady
who is not married
has never
had an intimate moment
with a man
and yet
she finds herself pregnant
and then gives birth to a child miraculously.
So
that is one of the great stories of
the Quran and one of the great moments
of the manifestation of Allah's might and power
on this earth.
Why am I talking about that?
Because in the Quran, Surat Maryam, Surah 19,
when Allah wants to tell us the story
of the miracle of Isa,
the miraculous
birth of Isa
without a father,
Allah first primes us for that story
by telling us another story that is also
miraculous,
but it is
a step
on the way to that great miracle.
And so what was that first miracle that
led to that bigger miracle?
It was the prophet Zakariyah
alaihis salam.
The prophet Zakariyah alaihis salam was
he is a prophet of Allah,
Zechariah,
Zakariyah.
He was,
a prophet of Allah. He was the imam
of his people.
He was actually
where he was he resided in Baytul Maqdis
in Al Quds in Jerusalem.
He was the imam
and the leader of the believers at Al
Masjid Al Aqsa.
And he was devout and he was dedicated
and he was amazing.
And he served
the religion, and he served the people his
whole life.
And
when he got to
and him and his wife, they never were
able to have children.
They didn't have any children. It's what Allah
had willed.
And he got to a very very old
age
and he knew that
he was in his twilight
years.
He knew that
the return back to Allah
the ultimate retirement
was on the horizon.
He could sense it. He could see it.
He could feel
it. But he was worried about the community
Because he said that, 'I've poured my life
into the community.'
The Muslims, the believers.
And I'm worried about leaving them without somebody
to guide them,
somebody to take care of them.
So
I'm concerned about that.
And I don't wanna get too much caught
into the weeds here, but his dua is
very interesting. Right? He says,
He presents a problem. He says I'm not
confident in the people that I'm leaving behind
to be responsible, to be in charge. My
wife was not able to bear children, so
please rent me a son.
Okay?
There's a little bit of a nuance point
and that is
that, well,
why does it have to be his own
son that he would leave in charge? Somebody
might think nepotism. That's not the point. The
point is I my own child, I can
teach and I can mentor and I can
guide and I can mold
100%.
But why couldn't you do that with the
student?
Well, because there's always a difference
in a good way
that
I'll give you all an example.
My teacher,
my Sheikh, Mustimaman Naim
He passed away about almost 4 years ago
now
I had the privilege and the opportunity of
learning from him, studying
with him, and being under his, like, tutelage
for 32 years.
And he
he was not just my teacher, but he
was basically
the
kind of, like, religious guide for even my
parents.
But it was fascinating.
He would always respect that fact
that I had my parents.
So I would go to him and I
would say,
Sheikh,
what do you think I should do about
x, y, or z?
And he would always say, you should talk
to your parents.
What did your parents have to say?
And he would insist on knowing what my
parents had to say. Funny thing was my
parents what they had to say was,
and
they would just toss me back and forth.
Right?
Until finally then he would relent and then
he would, you know, sometimes sometimes sometimes he'd
just pick up the phone and he'd call
my dad.
He would just pick up the phone, and
he'd call my dad. He's like, yeah. Nasir
was asking me about etcetera, etcetera.
I told him to, you know, talk to
you, and my dad would say, no, actually,
I told him to talk to you. He's
like, I just wanted to make sure. I
just wanted to check. He always respected that
fact. So anyways, I'm getting too much into
the weeds here, but there's a there's kind
of an interesting point here about
the ethics of
really remarkable leaders and teachers
that they don't overstep the line. They don't
overstep their boundaries.
They're very mindful. They're very respectful.
Alright?
So Zakariyah alaihi salam said ultimately I can't
100%
mold somebody who isn't my own child.
So, oh, Allah, I ask you for that.
He makes his dua. He's asking for that
because he's concerned about the community after him.
But they had lived the whole life. Even
Cathid in one narration mentions Zacariel was 70.
One narration mentions he was a 100 years
old.
He lived his whole life.
But he finally reaches this moment at the
age of 70 plus
when it's biologically
impossible.
That's the point
at which he reaches that point of desperation
and he begs and he pleads and he
insists and he demands
Demands in a humble way. I'm using that
word.
It's used in the Quran,
which base it's used in a hadith of
the prophet
which
basically means you like grovel and beg. You're
like
you know, holding on to
the curtain. You're holding on to the
clothes.
You're holding on to the door handle. And
and you're saying, I'm not gonna let go.
I'm not gonna let go. I'm not gonna
let go.
Please, please, you have to help me.
What inspired him at that
point in life to take
this approach and be so insistent and demanding
and desperate?
And it's a very powerful
moment
and you see how all these stories interact
and intertwine with one another.
We were talking about Asa when I started
off the great miracle.
Asa's mother is Maria.
Mariam was the niece
of Zakariyah.
And
Zakariyah, the prophet, the uncle of Miriam,
was her teacher and her mentor.
As a prophet, as the imam. He was
her teacher and mentor, and she would study
with him and learn,
read the scripture,
the Torah,
and she would serve al Masjid Al Aqsa
She would take care of the masjid
And Zakari al Aqsa is an old man.
We've visited Masjid Al Aqsa
and there's a corner of Masjid Al Aqsa
that is
dedicated,
commemorated
it commemorates it. It's
memorializes
this moment from the Quran.
It's called the mihrab of Maryam.
She used to go and worship in a
corner of Al Aqsa.
And one day Zakariya is an old man,
70, 80, 90 plus years old.
Aang's walking around
Alexa,
just taking a look at things
and he goes to check on Maria and
make sure everything's okay. She's doing her homework.
She's studying, praying
and when he goes there
He finds her with a
basket of fruit in front of her
And the fruit
was out of season
and from out of the region.
Out of season out of region.
It wasn't the season of that fruit and
that fruit did not grow in this entire
region.
And yet she has a basket of it
in front of her.
He said, Oh, Mariam.
How'd you come by this?
How?'
And she
responds he's asking her the question, not that
he doesn't know he's a prophet of God,
but he's asking her as a teacher.
Like when the teacher asks you the question,
What does this word mean?
Right? And these students are kind of like,
What? He doesn't know? Of course I know.
I'm asking you.
I know what a istishan means. You tell
me what it means.
Alright? Oh, this got real for some of
those zul students.
I hear them in the back. Alright?
So but
So he asks her as a teacher,
How did you come by this?
She says Allah provided it.
The angels would literally come down and bring
her that basket of fruit
as she worshiped Allah.
And she recited her homework back to our
teacher.
She said that Allah provides whatever he wants
to whomsoever he wants, however he wants, whenever
he wants, however much he wants.
Allah provides. Period.
No qualifiers. Allah provides. That's it. That's the
end of the sentence. Full ishta.
Alright?
There's no qualifiers to that. Allah provides. We
always we always have the qualifiers. That's our
problem.
When he hears that,
he says, SubhanAllah.
100 on the homework.
But also,
we all always seek inspiration from one another.
We always should. Never ever close yourself off
from inspiration.
Never do that.
Always learn. Always listen. Always reflect.
And so what he does is he immediately
takes that
gem
and he goes to another corner of the
masjid, his corner where he would sit and
worship, And there's a corner of Masil Aqsa
that commemorates that spot,
the Mihrab of Zakariyah
And these verses
are written right there.
Zakariyah alaihi salaam stood there and he made
dua.
And he said,
My Lord
grant me
beautiful, righteous children
And
indeed,
you hear all the duas of a person.
Immediately on the spot. He hadn't even put
his hands down and the angel came to
him.
He's still praying there.
And gave him the good news that Allah
is going to grant you a son.
Allah has already named him for you, Yahya.
And he will be a leader of the
people as you need it.
And he will be
dignified and modest and humble
And he will be a prophet, a righteous
prophet of God
So this is the story
and Ustad is going to share with us
the dua. And as he mentioned
that
the topic of dua in the Quran
and more so the how to,
how do you make dua? How do you
actually do it?
The dua of Zakariyah
that is shared in the Quran
is like a case study of it, and
our scholars have used it to
extrapolate,
to to extract from it
how the dua should be made.
Please listen benefit.
So this dua is actually,
memorialized in different places in the Quran
or the referencing of Zakariyah calling out to
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. One of the places
that we find is in Surat Al Anbiya,
which is the 21st chapter. Another place that
we find Zakariya making du'a to Allah is
in Surat Surat Maryam which is the 19th
chapter.
And you have
interestingly, again, it's
anytime you hear the same story being repeated
either in the Quran or the Hadith.
When I say same here, I mean a
different account or a
different lens
of that same moment. It's similar to, like,
when you're watching, for example, a movie and
then there's one lens or you're watching ta
dum's broadcast.
Can we do the switch real quick? Can
you guys show me? So this is one
ah, there we go. That's it. Nice. Masha
Allah. Alright. Oh, there we go. Alright. So
you see how we're able to switch perspectives
like that? When you read the same story
but in different places in the Quran, that's
what's happening.
So you're able to see one lens which
may be the front and then you see
the side and then you see the, you
know,
the other angle, the back and all this.
And Allah is giving you like a 360
degree view of this moment.
So you can better understand
and better appreciate the nuance and the complexity
of what's going on. So in Surat Al
Anbiya,
Allah Ta'ala says,
This is one element of the dua and
you hear one element of desperation here.
He says, oh Allah,
dear God,
my lord,
don't leave me
childless, aka alone.
Don't leave me
without a successor,
without somebody to
teach
and train and be my companion.
And a lot of times, like Sheikh just
mentioned, there is the technical side of this,
which is, you know, historically speaking,
the way in which lineage carried forward
tradition or trade or or skill
was through apprenticeship of a child.
So you have, like, oh, my father was
this and so I became this.
Right? And you still see this today with
some industries
like businesses.
Families that are running businesses
tend to,
you know,
deliver the business responsibility to the children as
they get older and then it kind of
goes and that's why they say it's a
family owned business.
Right? Sheikh knows. He always told me about
the Maimon culture.
Maimans, I just saw a bunch of they
see these who roll their eyes.
Sheik said that when when Maimans become doctors,
it's like an immensely disappointing thing for the
family
because you you you cut off the family
business. You work for somebody else. You work
for somebody else. We all work for Allah.
Okay. So
so,
we shouldn't be laughing. That's actually a true
statement. So
it's so he's he's he's begging Allah, don't
let me be
childless and alone.
And the technical side of it is true,
but we also have to understand that there
is you know, Sheikh Mahmoud was sitting here
on the 27th night, and he was explaining
that beautiful moment when he was talking about
becoming a father or a parent, a mother,
and
how
the ceiling of your emotional capacity
is changed when that happens.
And you discover
new things about your own self.
And this is something, like Shaykh mentioned, that
it's it's a form of rizq from Allah.
Children
themselves are a form of provision from Allah.
Some may have, some may not have. May
Allah give them healthy and righteous to whoever
wants them, You Allah. Amin.
But this is a desperate cry from a
person. He's not only speaking from the realm
of technical.
He's speaking emotionally.
Like, I feel lonely.
I don't want this to be my legacy.
I don't want this to be the end.
But the main driver of this that we
find in the other
chapter
is what? And I'll it's kinda skipping around
a a little bit.
He says what? In Suvam Maryam,
I am worried. I'm afraid
of who's going to carry on the faith.
His primary concern is not his business nor
is it even his own emotional vulnerability.
His primary concern is what?
That he wants someone to inherit
this message of Islam,
the true message of God
so that this lineage cannot just exist
but exist with the purpose of faith
of connection to Allah
and being a conduit
of connecting others to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And this is why a lot of people
here like, I don't know how many people
here have kids. I know that a lot
of us, you know, roots and kalam tend
to attract the the audiences that are kind
of either in the stages of being single,
engaged, newly married and then some of us,
MashaAllah, like have kids but a lot of
people who don't have kids when you're in
this stage we start talking about this you
like check out. I remember because that was
me.
My son Musa is 7. 8 years ago
when people talked about kids I'd be like,
alright. Like wake me up when you're done.
But remember
that and we've talked about this.
The legacy that you hand off to your
child is prepared before you have that child.
Like, you can't give what you don't have.
The one who is empty can't give.
And so
even though you're hearing a story about a
person begging for a child for the purpose
of carrying on the legacy of faith and
even though that might not resonate with you
immediately,
I want you just to simply fast forward.
I mean, doesn't it feel like the era
of COVID was just yesterday? Can you guys
believe it was 4 years?
Can you believe it was 4 years ago?
I was, like, I was I I was,
like, convinced that that was a lie. Someone
told me, I was like, no. There's no
way.
4 years ago we're April right now. It's
April 2024.
It was in March 2020 when everything started
to really
screech and, you know, to a halt.
So
how quickly will the next 4 years go?
You and I are so convinced that this
season, this stage, this form of life that
we're in right now is gonna be forever,
but the next 4 years will fly by.
And before you know it,
you're gonna have this thing in your lap.
And then before you know it that thing
is gonna be talking to you.
Asking you for Pokemon cards.
Asking you and then eventually asking you, who
is God?
And you're sitting there looking eye to eye
with a 7 year old
wondering why they're asking such thoughtful questions about
their creator
and realizing that I didn't prepare myself
well enough to be able to hand off
the flag of this faithful lineage.
May Allah protect us.
And so Zakariyah is calling upon Allah for
a child for all the reasons. Right? There
is a technical side to it. There's definitely
an emotional side to it, but all of
it is driven by this concern about who's
gonna carry on this message.
I can't be the last one in my
lineage.
The light of faith cannot turn off with
my name on the family tree. It has
to keep going.
And so Allah Ta'ala he says,
We answered him and we gave him Yahya.
This is the name that Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala chose
for his son, for the son of Zakariyah.
And he says, and we
gave this child to his
wife. We made his wife able to carry
this child. But Allah Ta'ala then describes them.
When they were approaching the dua, like one
of the things the context of their of
their desperate plea
was not that they were negligent,
flagrantly sinful, unrepentant people and then suddenly, oh
Allah, can you can you get this for
me? Thank you. And then going back to
their negligence,
they primed and prepared their supplications
by being connected to Allah on all times.
In the heart work we're going over the
Hadith of Ibn Abbas, famous narration.
One of the narrations of that hadith, one
of the versions of it that says, remember
Allah in times of good and he will
remember you in
difficult
times.
So Allah is describing this here.
They
used to encourage and raise and and and
this sort of culture, this family culture of
doing good.
Maryam is making dua to Allah
in the corner of a masjid as a
student of knowledge.
Zakariyah is a prophet of God and a
teacher of a people.
This goodness that they surrounded, immersed themselves in
is what is actually impacting and affecting the
supplication that they're making to Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
And they would call upon us. Lesson number
3. When you make du'a to Allah, you
have to have 2 emotions.
Number 1,
you have to have optimism.
You have to be hopeful
because you're calling upon the one that can
answer anything. But number 2 is you have
to have a level,
a level of and I say this carefully.
You have to have a level of
I don't wanna say fear in the same
way that we're scared of spiders.
Not me. Right, guys?
Or you're afraid of heights. That's a different
kind of fear.
This fear, when Allah mentions fear in the
Quran,
it's fear of what? Of loss.
When Allah tells us to fear him, when
God says fear me or fearing this this
relationship with Allah is hopeful and fearful, You're
not fearing God like you're afraid of heights
or spiders. You're afraid of Allah
letting you drift away from him,
and now you have no rope back to
him.
Because what's more afraid? Have you guys ever
seen a child that's lost?
Have you see do you see how absolutely
just
covered in fear they are?
That's the fear Allah is talking about.
Fear Allah like that.
When a child can't see their parent anymore
and they're, like, scanning the room looking to
see
and they find maybe a person that was
wearing a similar color and they run to
them and then they're only disappointed to see
that it's not their parent.
That's the fear of Allah that we are
supposed to be gleaning that off of.
And so he says that
they called upon us
And with us,
as a result of this desperation
and this hope, they always came to us
in a state of utter humility.
Now Zakariyah himself in Surah Maryam, he describes
this with his own words.
I want you guys to listen to this.
I'll never forget the first time I heard
Sheikh teach this. You know, I think it
was at a an intensive,
like, what?
It was 13 years ago. Wow.
I'm gonna hold the jokes because it's it's
sad.
13 years ago when Sheikh first taught
this du'a of Zakariyah, it's the first time
I ever heard it like this.
Zakariyah is calling upon Allah and
he's saying it so
I mean, the only word to describe it
is just
like unfiltered.
Like you just talk to Allah about your
greatest fears,
your weaknesses.
He's not hiding anything.
You know, if you meet someone and you
need something, you don't show your full hand
because you're afraid that they might take advantage
of you. Right? I really need this ride.
But I could always Uber.
Your banking out is empty, brother.
That Uber driver is not gonna drop you
off until the payment goes through. You really
do need this ride.
And the human to human request is always
hedged
for honor.
We always hedge our human to human requests
because we're afraid of being embarrassed.
Hey. Hey. Are you are you available?
Yeah. Why? You know, don't worry about it.
And then you're like,
no. No. Tell me what you need. No.
I'm good. I'm good. Don't worry about it.
No. Tell me. Oh, okay. Well, if you
insist.
We're hedged for embarrassment. We don't wanna embarrass
ourselves.
I don't wanna be so completely desperate to
you because I don't wanna be needy.
No one likes to be surrounded by needy
people except for Allah.
Allah loves your neediness.
He loves it. Not because of some
some godly,
you know, I I feel bad even saying
it. But sometimes people who don't understand religion,
they're like, this is a very narcissistic God.
No, dude. This is what God wants to
give you,
What narcissist wants to give without any reward.
You can't do anything for Allah. He's telling
you come to me so I can give
you and you can't even repay me.
It's not narcissism. Have you guys ever met?
Have you seen what narcissism looks like? They
have no interest in giving you anything.
They just want you to give everything to
them.
So Allah wants us to come to him.
Why? Out of recognition
that he is the one who will in
the same way that you can't wait to
meet the person that you have a gift
for.
That's why Allah wants you to show up.
You know how when you have a gift
for somebody, you're like, I can't wait to
see them. I hope they come. I hope
they come today so I can give them
this gift. Allah is saying, come to me
so I can give you this gift.
Zakaria says,
my bones
have become
basically, they're turning to dust.
And my hair,
if you look at the definition or the
translation,
it says my hair has turned white
but it actually is referring to, like, the
whiteness of a flame.
My hair has been lit on fire
because it's so,
like, just absolutely
my hair is just gone like toast. Like,
I, you know, I used to have this
nice we're so we were talking about this
upstairs. Actually, used to have this nice full
colored head of hair and now
it's just gray. It looks like it was
burnt to a crisp. When you look at
like a field after it's burnt, after there's
a fire and it's just like straw that's
dry and just destroyed.
He's listing all the reasons
why from, like, a biological standpoint, this should
not happen.
I'm old, I'm incapable,
and I'm completely out of my league when
it comes to making this request.
But then as Ibnata'allah says,
when you call upon Allah,
don't
think about you, think about God.
If you think about you, you'll come up
with a million reasons why this shouldn't happen.
Because you know what?
Truthfully,
none of us really deserve it.
If I'm making du'a calling upon Allah and
talking about myself the whole time,
I'm gonna arrive at the conclusion that I
kinda suck.
And really if I'm going off of my
own merit,
there's no real reason for Allah to give
me this.
But then he changes the topic just like
ibn Atsawalla
who knew the Quran, he was a scholar
of Quran, he knew. So he's summarizing for
us beautifully.
When you make dua, don't talk about yourself.
Talk about who? Allah.
Allah tells us in the Quran
that the beautiful names
belong to Him so call upon Him by
them.
Talk about Him not you.
So He
says,
I
have never
despite the fact that my bones are breaking
and my hair is white and there's no
reason
in this material world why I should be
able to have a child at this stage,
but there's one thing that's true. Just like
all that's true, there's one thing that's truer
and that is that, oh, Allah, you've never
disappointed me before.
Science
is your creation.
You control it.
You decide what is possible and what is
impossible.
You know, when when when I
talk to like physicians, some of you might
be here right now. My brother's a doctor
as well. When I talk to physicians,
I am always blown away
by
how many moments they have in a given
week
where
whatever they guessed based on their best judgment
or estimate,
whether it's
chances of survival, chances of this, chances of
that,
that those guesses are ultimately proven just to
be guesses.
Of course, some of them are well estimated,
well advised and they fall within the formula
of our own speculation. Sure, that happens.
Just like the
weather. It might rain. It might not.
But there are so many moments I feel
where a lot,
especially in the world of material science,
where he reaffirms and proves over and over
again
that your guess is good but it's just
a guess.
And you have to come you have to
be satisfied with that.
And there's no place better for a person
to rely on that than when they're making
dua to Allah,
and this is an example of that story.
Your dua to Allah
is only as good as your desperation to
him.
And your desperation of him
ignores all other factors
except that he is the one who's capable
of answering what you're praying for.
There are so many reasons why you shouldn't
have what you're praying for.
Some of those reasons might be literal,
technical,
institutional,
parameter based. They might have actual
documentation or policy. You cannot get in. You
should not do this. You cannot do that.
And you can be able to point,
you know, line 5 a says that this
for sure will not happen,
but Allah is the creator of line 5
a.
Allah created the person who wrote that policy.
Allah is the one who controls
the intellect and the capacity of the person
who even ideated and formed the thought of
that policy.
And so what then do we say about
that one, the one that we call upon?
This is why when
the prophet
was making his hijrah, his escape
from Mecca to Medina with his companion,
Abu Bakr,
and they were in the cave hiding from
those that were chasing them down.
Abu Bakr looks at the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, and they see each other and
the cave is a very shallow mouth cave,
Qarasaur.
And it almost looks like
the cave is so shallow
that the people that are looking for them,
if they simply like glanced,
just you know did the whole scanning of
the area. If they glanced they would see
the legs and the feet of the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and Abu Bakr as Siddiq.
Abu Bakr notices this
and he says
to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam this exact
line, if they look down, they will see
us.
Abu Bakr is speaking from the lens of
the material world.
He's not a prophet
and everyone has their human moments.
He's the best
of the non prophets, Abu Bakr
But everyone has their human moments and he's
scared not for him but for who? For
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
You Rasool Allah, if they look down, they'll
see us. The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
looks at him and he says to him,
He says,
What would you say? What do you think
about a scenario where there's 2 people
but the third that is with them is
Allah?
Allah memorializes this in the Quran,
and He says, at that moment,
When he said to his companion, don't be
afraid Allah is with us. The next ayah,
Allah taught us is what? At that point,
Allah sent down this Sakeena upon the heart
of Abu Bakr as Siddiq,
and his heart was tranquil. No fear.
Because he realized
that, yes, there are people chasing us, but
there is one that controls the people who
are chasing us.
We ask Allah to give us this certainty
and this conviction
and this trust
and this confidence in our du'a, this desperation
that drives us only to Allah and none
other than Allah. We ask Allah Ta'ala to
accept from us all of our prayers and
Allah to give us a connection to Him
that is unwavering,
a line to Him that is unshakable
and a connection and
a a a
We ask Allah to give us moments with
Him that reaffirm
why we go back to Him time and
time again.
That we never lose hope or faith in
Him, but when we think of Him, we
think that He will always come through for
us.
The one thing I was just thinking about
as was beautifully explaining it,
we talked about
was so elderly.
Asad was beautifully translating his dua. My bones
are crumbling. My hair
is all white.
You know what Allah tells us when Allah
did give him a son? Now, how does
like a 90 year old man raise his
son?
You know what Allah
tells us? Allah
tells us,
just so that I
quote it properly.
I don't misquote it.
Yes.
When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us that
Allah granted him a son
miraculously,
beautifully,
Allah says
Because he was the son of these elderly
parents,
Allah made him extra humble, extra kind, extra
gentle.
Ain't that fascinating?
Allah made him extra kind, extra humble, extra
gentle.
Not like a normal kind of rowdy, rambunctious
teenage boy.
Because he's got a 100 year old dad.
Yes.
Like your son?
So
so
Allah
made him extra
kind and gentle.
So understand that, as Asad was saying, ask
Allah, pray to Allah,
don't hold back,
Don't doubt Allah. But then also know
that if Allah that
whatever Allah provides you, He provides it perfectly.
What you need, how you need it, when
you need it, where you need it, and
so have that kind of faith and trust.
Tomorrow as I said we have
around 1:30. Get here 1:30
Bring your glasses, please. We don't need like
people blinding themselves
tomorrow. It's you know, I guess it's a
very very dangerous enterprise. So we don't have
glasses here, by the way. Don't show up
if you're looking for glasses.
I mean, I can sell mine, $1500 right
now. But, tomorrow, inshallah, then Dhulhur prayer. Make
your intention to come for Dhulhur because that's
actually the that's actually the one that should
be attended by everybody. And then tomorrow night,
of course, is our last night of tarawih
prayer
for this woman.
Last night of tarawih. Feels like we just
started yesterday.
And we'll conclude,
and then we have our last
qiyam as well. So please stay stay with
us for the qiyam prayer. Right now, it's,
12:39.
We'll start the Qiyam prayer at 12:43,
insha'Allah, as we get back into the prayer
to reset.
to reset.