Illuminated Tarawih Khatirah Night #15

hamdu Lillahi wa Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah WA and he was happy he Mehreen As salam Wa alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatu

Shala let's go ahead and get started.

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to the other side.

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So we usually don't use this mic for the talks because it has the echo on it per Mohammed is hawks request.

No, no, he didn't request it but but at the same time, obviously he doesn't quite have the same

you know, so we for the talks. I particularly don't want any echo, but inshallah it's not as loud so we'll go ahead and use it today since mashallah, we have a lot of folks here today. Okay. So as I was saying Bismillah Alhamdulillah. Let's go ahead and get started in sha Allah. So continuing with our series titled illuminated where we are looking at many of the ayat in the Quran that talk about the concept of nude light, and today inshallah we're going to be looking at sudents Ibrahim, we're going to stay in Surah T Brahim. Surah. Number 14, I in number five, is still in the beginning of the sutra, where Allah subhanaw taala tells us about the Prophet Musa alayhis salam. And we've seen

this before where Allah subhanaw taala will reference the prophets of the past. And, you know, tell us about similarly how revelation came to them, and how that served as a light of nude, the light and the newest of eemaan for the people. So Allah subhanaw taala says, We're not going to honor Salah Musa Biya Tina, that indeed We sent Moses with our signs. And this refers to a lot of the different miracles and the different signs the message that the Prophet Musa alayhis salam was sent with our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was similarly given many signs and miracles as well to help him communicate the message and to help convince the people have the truth of the message. The

interesting thing, where whenever we're going through these verses, I'd like to kind of touch on a couple of the nuances to find our points. What's very fascinating and unique is that the signs the miracles of the Prophet Musa alayhis salam were things of a more physical nature, miracles of a more physical nature, the Prophet Musa Ali Salam had a staff that would turn into a serpent, and then the serpent when he would grab it would return back to being a staff. The Prophet Musa alayhis salam would take his hand, and he would press it under his arm, and when he would bring it out, it was glowing. The Prophet Musa alayhis salam when he preached to fit our own and his people, and they

initially would not listen even and even give it a chance to message that different miraculous things started to occur that in the Quran talks about it for so not only can we do fun, there were torrential storms that did not desist until they came to Musa alayhis salam. And they said, okay, okay, we'll listen to what you have to say, just please make this stop. First, I'm not able to find out while Gerrard that there was an infestation of locusts. Well, come on, there was an infestation of lice and other kinds of, you know, bugs and pest, what the Father an infestation of frogs, what dumb, all their water was turning to blood. Right. So there were all these signs, miracles of a more

physical nature.

However, with our Prophet sallallahu, alayhi wasallam, there were some of these miracles and signs of a physical nature, particularly amongst them. There's a there's a category which is called tuxedo LED. This was a common reoccurrence in the life of the prophet salatu salam, and that was there would be something very scarce. And it was a miracle of the prophets, Allah determined that he would pray he would make dua and he would ask Allah and that little bit would become a lot. Right fame. Many famous stories that we've all heard of the bowl of milk with Abu Zubaydah is barely enough milk for one person to drink. The prophets Allah invites over 70 companions, they are all able to drink

to drink from it to their

Will and there's still milk leftover. So there were miracle physical miracles of this nature. However, in large part, the miracles of the prophets, Allah, the miracle of the Prophet Joseph was not of a physical nature per se, but it was more of a miracle of Revelation. The Quran is the ultimate miracle of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. That something so remarkable, so astounding, so breathtaking, so powerful. I mean, you can summarize it by saying, God is talking

for Allah to speak, and to send his words to the creation

and allow the creation to interact with something divine, his speech, his words, that's the great miracle of the process. And unless the poet says, John Wu and Bill iOttie fan Summit, would you not be keen to have enough at one study me

that he says that the prophets came with their miracles, but when those prophets departed, those miracles also departed. But you came with a book that will never expire that will never leave.

And so that is the miracle of the Quran. And that's so here, I attina it says the signs of Allah, for us to sign that's why the verses of the Quran are called is not the same word for miracle, the same word for signs, because these are the ultimate signs in the ultimate miracles that we've been given. So Allah then tells us that we sent to the Prophet Musa alayhis salaam, with the signs in the miracles and what was the purpose? What was the objective? What was the mission? What was the goal and rich karma coming of the lumati Elan knew

that remove your people extract your people pull the people out from the layers and layers and layers of darkness that they are buried under.

And bring them into the singular glowing illumination, the light of faith and Iman.

And then Allah subhanaw taala says something very interesting. He says, well, that good home, be a yummy Allah

and remind them and I'm going to translate it here literally for a moment. And then I'll explain what it means. And then Allah told the prophet Mousavi, some remind them remind the people, your people of the days of God,

the days of God, what does that mean? Right. So

many of the Vaseline and the scholars explain it.

I felt that if Imam even cathedra Allahu Taala he wrote on this very eloquently.

And he says,

with a good home, be near me here, let him remind them of the days in which they experienced the great blessings of God.

Chi Raji he he Yahoo ministry frown. How he pulled them out of the servitude and the slavery the clutches of fit on what God he was told me, he watched me

and he rescued them from the oppression of fit home, and the

divine violence of fit own. We're in je Yahoo and I do with him. And he rescued them. From not only Pharaoh but also the enmity, the animosity, the anger of Pharaoh. What Kulfi he lamented Bara and how he split an ocean. He split the sea for them so that they could walk through on the floor of the ocean.

What does leave me He got one bill, her mum, and when they were walking through the desert, with no end in sight, nowhere to take refuge that Allah sent in clouds to cover them so that they would be comfortable as they made their truck. We're in Italia. aligment Medina was Silva when they were wandering through the desert.

And there was no not there are no natural resources, no food that Allah subhanaw taala sent down food from the heavens to feed them every single day.

Illa Hadees Ali Camino Nyan and the blessings of Allah subhanaw taala go on and on and on.

That's it. There's a similar narration as well from our deliberate Ibis in a way you have no god that the prophets a lot he said them explained himself. He said well, that kid obey Yeah, Milla Binney, I'm Allah, He terracotta Allah, that these are the blessings of Allah.

And so right here is the first point that I want to make here today is that we're talking once again about this concept of coming out of the darkness and coming into the light.

Being able to capitalize and capture the illumination that faith provides

But the first step of doing that is, the very first step is you have to become cognizant, you have to become aware, you have to remind yourself of your blessings.

That as long as a person lives and exists in the state of frustration, as long as a person lives continuously in this state of ingratitude,

just not satisfied, not content, not happy. There's a kind of misery that overtakes a person, when a person who is not aware not cognizant of their blessings, and they can take a moment to slow things down, sit and reflect and realize how blessed they are. There's a kind of misery that takes over. And that misery leaves a person in the darkness. It's a wall that you have put up between yourself and the light, that the light is shining right outside of that wall. But I can't seem to get through. But that wall is not put there by anyone else other than yourself. And so that's why Allah subhanaw taala told Mousavi salaam, you have to bring them out from the darkness into the light. But

what they have to do is they have to remember the blessings of Allah.

They have to remember the blessings of Allah, that's their job. And then once they realize the blessings of Allah, that's the opening of the door, they've opened the door, now you can walk them through the door, but you got to get up and open the door.

And then Allah subhanaw taala reminds us in the FIE Danika the ITIL equally suberin chakra is the eloquence of the Quran, how Allah subhanaw taala summarizes everything up so beautifully so succinctly. So precisely. Allah says that, indeed in this, there are eye opening realizations, like this can change your life.

But you have to embody two qualities, two characteristics. And that is the bar and shockula right and both of these are what we call is one mobiola. Right? These are the these are emphatic nouns, it means that you have the first one somebody comes from somebody, you know, somebody means to be patient, right to have some restraint. But it's saying somebody's not, don't just be patient, be very patient,

have a lot of restraint, be resilient. And then shellcode comes from Sucre, which means to be grateful to have gratitude. But it's not just saying, just simply have gratitude, saying be extremely grateful, and a little nuances. Sebata means to be very patient. shellcode means to be constantly grateful.

And in that is a promise of Allah that Allah will not test you often. But when he does test, you, hold your tongue.

Allah will not test you, there will be more blessings and there are hardships, there will be more good times and there are bad times.

We're not prophets. We're not prophets. We don't have that kind of expectation of us. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was blessed with seven children.

He buried six of his seven children.

Six of his children died in his lifetime.

Those are prophets.

Ibrahim Ali Salam was being told leave your family in the middle of nowhere. Then he's being told sacrifice your son.

Then he's been in before that he was told you're gonna be thrown into a fire.

Good luck.

Let's see how you handle it. Subhan Allah, those are prophets.

Right Musa Ali Salam, there's an ocean in front of him and an army behind him.

Death seems inevitable. And Allah says walk into the ocean until the water reaches your knees, and then say Bismillah and tap the water with your stick.

Walk into the court of one of the most vicious, oppressive, tyrannical,

barely human individuals that has ever lived

and walk up to him

and tell him that he's wrong.

In his face like this point out and say you are wrong.

Those are prophets. Allah will not tell us like that.

So Allah says, there won't be many moments where you have to practice patience. But when those moments come far and few between, be very patient,

but blessings all the time.

So constantly be grateful constantly be grateful. Every day, five times a day.

Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil aalameen.

reflect and think on

Your blessings and thank Allah for your blessings. And to conclude,

they're all mentioned a couple of things. There's a beautiful Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,

in which the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says in the Emerald movement, clearly he adjuvant

there's many there's a few different variations of this in the adjuvant Umbrella Movement in in Umrah, hula hula who hate

la Yatta the Allahu La hookah Illa Khanna hate

that the affair of the believer the life of a believer is a remarkable thing.

It's a remarkable thing. Why everything that Allah decides for the believer is good for him.

Everything that Allah decides for this Muslim is good for him or

in a Saba to see the raw for Saba kind of heightened level. If Allah has decreed that some hardship should come to his or her life.

They practice patience and that is beautiful that is good for them. Why not Saba to sutra and if Allah has decreed that something good something easy occurs in their life shook out on a kind of heightened level. They are grateful and that is good for them. But Allahu Taala he said, Yeah, I'm gonna have to do I've been doing now I'm gonna have to die me I'm allowed to do

that the best servant of God

is the slave of Allah the servant, either Julius savara. Whenever he or she is tested, they are strong, they are resilient, they are patient, what are you that are what you that are to your chakra, and when they are given something than this Al Hamdulillah and they thank Allah. So may Allah subhanaw taala give us all the ability to constantly reflect on and remember the blessings of Allah. May Allah subhanaw taala give us strength and resilience in our faith. And may Allah subhanaw taala illuminate us with the with the light and the new everyman May Allah give us the ability to practice everything we've said and heard Subhanallah he will be humbly he Subhanak alone, we have

Nick Nisha to Allah Illa illa Anta, the software governor to be like, I have a couple of quick announcements, if everyone can bear with me for just another 30 seconds. Inshallah. First and foremost, as I mentioned that Joomla I have been practicing my own kind of sub, I have practice constraint, at the behest of my friends that you hear our column. But I very humbly and very, you know, kindly, and,

you know, at the same time, very emphatically present before you that Al Hamdulillah

this entire endeavor that you have before you, the campus, the masjid,

all the scholars, all the knowledge, all the good and the hate that you're experiencing here. This is a part of a big bigger vision and a bigger mission, and hamdulillah by the grace and mercy of Allah subhanaw taala always first. But then secondly, through the support of the community, we've been able to get this far.

There's a whole lot more that we in sha Allah I plan on doing and hope undoing, and all of that will be for the benefit of the community for your benefit. So we asked you to inshallah be our partners in this endeavor, and secure your own sadaqa Giardia by contributing to the work that we're doing in sha Allah. So if you go to either the website support column.com On your way out, you can stop at the table, there are boxes, there are kiosks there where you can donate as well you can go to the website and donate as well. But we asked you to Inshallah, during this blessing month of Ramadan, to give to contribute to donate, and secure your soda Giardia so that we can continue to do this work

and do even way more work than we're already doing. Alhamdulillah insha Allah when Allah says I can unlock it and the second thing I wanted to mention quickly is that in line with that

100 lights the weekend it's the month of Ramadan. So on the weekend, we try to you know, do a little bit more because we know people have a little bit more time and a little more flexibility. So in sha Allah we have a lot of we have a lot of programs this weekend that you can benefit from first and foremost right now when said All we ask that all we will resume you can continue to pray inshallah with the taraweeh but at the same time we have a program at roots. That's called Ramadan nights, where every Friday night we have one of the scholars here alone today we'll be sharing mokotjo Smith Inshallah, where they'll be having a discussion, this discussion is mainly geared towards the

college students in our community hamdullah we try to provide different programs for different demographics in the community. So any of our young brothers and sisters who are here in sha Allah, please come back there and join us for the program. And after that program is done by

Due to time data we will be done here as well. Around 1130 11:45pm We're going to have the late night tafsir session on that we have every Friday Night Dinner Milan with again, Chef Miguel inshallah he'll be sleeping tomorrow. So

So chef me got it will do the late night of sheer session covering the verses of iman the ayat about faith and faithfulness from the Quran from the book of Allah. So a lot of programs here tonight Inshallah, we hope that you'll join us Baraka Luffy confront Malik on October

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