Abdullah Hakim Quick – Friday Decoded

			For the Islamic State of Toronto, this is my one hustle and you are listening to Friday decoded.
		

			This Friday, Chicago locking quick delivers an astounding speech at the Institute, urging all
despite hardships, losses and the many trials of life to stay optimistic, he draws some relevant
parallels of how we see hardships versus how we should see hardships, a lot begins this mighty
chapter,
		

			reminding us all humanity and not just Muslims, the whole of humanity,
		

			be conscious of your Lord.
		

			For surely the quaking of the hour, will be a terrible thing. When you prepare your publishes, you
often go back to specific events are happening to you.
		

			Yes, it is reported the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him, when he would give his quick bus, it
would be very relevant. And sometimes you and his eyes would get read and sometimes even raised his
voice, he spoke as though there was an army just behind the mountain, you know, near Medina. In
other words, you know, very relevant very real. And so, normally when I prepare my footage, I do try
to attach it to something that is actually happening right now in the community. And of course, if I
can use myself as an example, then that even has more meaning, you know, to the to the people who
are listening, because, you know, you in a sense, you know, become an example of what you're talking
		

			about.
		

			We are feeling fear,
		

			fear being created by a media, or fear in the streets, Islamophobia.
		

			And now Muslims, even in our beloved land in Toronto, in Canada, even under attack, just for the
fact that they are Muslim.
		

			Women, feeling pressure and being under attack just because they are covering their head, as the
women of the righteous. We are also feel feeling in the Muslim world hunger.
		

			Hunger is widespread, all of humanity, but we as Muslims are seriously feeling this. In the
heartlands of Islam.
		

			There is a loss of wealth, many of the countries that were
		

			rich countries have been turned into poverty stricken zones,
		

			the loss of life. And personally, most of us have lost somebody even within the past year
tshabalala. Your hope today was about hardship, loss, and almost kind of about griefing, like the
Islamic way of griefing.
		

			Talk to me a little bit about why, why you've selected such a hope of today. Well, today coincides
		

			with a number of Satterfield, you know happening in the Muslim community right here in Scarborough.
		

			And that is that our own check out Matt quickie. His brother,
		

			who was also a scholar, has just passed away on the fifth of August. And also one of our brothers
angrily Yes, Muhammad was from Jamaica, was a publisher and, you know, active Muslim for years, 40
years, you know, here in Toronto, he just passed away
		

			four days ago. And, you know, coupled with the general situation in the world, I thought that it was
interesting, you know, to note that this is part of the predictions of the coming of the Day of
Judgment, you know, that there would be a lot of quitting and a lot of
		

			terrible things happening and a lot of trials and tests, you know, for, for the world, and
especially for the most
		

			certainly a difficult topic to talk about. Talk about loss and grief
		

			and difficulties that, you know, people are going through, tell me why this is an important thing
to, for Muslims to understand, especially nowadays.
		

			Well, it is crucial, because we are literally going through state of loss. I mean, if you look at
the world right now, you'll see that we are the most embattled community, probably in the whole
world. We have more refugees than any other religion or group. We have more failed states. You know,
and Yemen. It's, you know, one of the biggest disasters in terms of disease, cholera, Central
African Republic, Syria, you know, the losses of people I mean, the Uighur Muslims in China and you
know, you can just go on and list
		

			Know the things that are happening to Muslim. So it's important for us to be able to channel that
energy, that negative energy into something positive. So so this is really what you know, we're
dealing with our reality, and trying to make something positive come out of it. So our response to
the hardships, our response to the fear that is around us, or suppose it fear,
		

			our response to the hunger,
		

			our response to the loss of wealth or loss of lives, has to be the response of a sabihin.
		

			The patient people and part of Saba is being steadfast,
		

			persistent, to persevere, and that steadfastness is couched in optimism, positivity. Because if we
were pessimists, if we thought negative about things,
		

			then we would be literally destroying ourselves. The word husband or husband, you know, the concept
of sadness or grief, or sorrow,
		

			you know, as a noun, or as a concept is not really used in the court and to describe believers that
they should be sad that they are in a state of sadness.
		

			It's the opposite, you know, because this word itself does not appear on the Quran. And the only
time that forms of it appear,
		

			is when it's being forbidden. So in other words, the Quran is saying Don't be grieved, don't be
sorrow. Don't be sad. Because sadness and sorrow. It can lead to depression and you know what I
mean? I have felt this myself. We all feel this. You feel sad. You just feel negative, you feel in
grief. And if that continues in your life, it has an impact on your mind and on your body.
		

			Check even okay am Rahim Allah, you know who's actually saying you know, don't ruin your happiness
with worry. Don't ruin your mind with pessimism. In other words, being negative. And he said don't
ruin your success with deception and don't ruin the optimism of others by destroying it. And don't
ruin your day by looking negatively back at yesterday,
		

			which is a very good advice. By the way, don't be negative about things
		

			you know, because you're actually destroying yourself and you can be affecting other people you
know, who are around you
		

			try to look at things in a positive way because you know, there are positive things happening. And
the process of them used to tell us you know, you should always look at people who are you know, not
as well off as you. So, trusting in Allah, depending upon Allah and, you know, trying to find, you
know, peace and acceptance of all situations, you know, can keep the heart of the believer
		

			happy, in other words, optimistic and positive.
		

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