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I think the idea of

bravery being

evaluated

after the onset of fear

is very valuable. Right? Yeah. So for example,

we don't believe in superstitions in Islam. Right?

We have good assumptions of Allah always. We

don't care about seeing a black cat. We

don't care about walking under ladders. We don't

care if there's a 13th floor or the

Friday lands on the number 13 on some

Gregorian calendar or or a Israeli one. Right?

Yeah. But even mister Udd radiAllahu an, he

says something very profound.

He said a pliara, which is like to

to notice something that is interpreted by everyone

as a bad omen and so

sort of, like, makes you pause. Mhmm. Right?

Like a a discomfort, an anxious pause. He

said, this happens to everybody.

He said, as for the believer,

He insists on dismissing it with tawakkul. Right?

Mhmm. And also the hadith narrated by Ahmed

Rahimahullah,

where the prophet

said, Shaitaan and the devil, of course, he

sort of incites fear all the time. Right?

Evokes and elicits fear. He said he sits

on every path for the son of Adam.

Mhmm.

He decides to become a Muslim

and he tells him you're gonna leave the

religion religion. So he defies him and becomes

Muslim. Mhmm. And then he decides to migrate.

He's gonna say, you're gonna leave your homeland

and your livelihood. And he defies him and,

you know, migrates. And then the time for

jihad comes, and he tells him,

she's gonna remarry and your kids are gonna

be and he defies him and he does

it. Right? And so the issue of it's

gonna hit. Right? It's get you're gonna get

some tough questions when you knock on the

girl's door. Right? Mhmm. But I I have

Shajay, I'm gonna sort of put my best

foot forward, put my trust in Allah, and

I'm gonna brave the storm. That's what I

think Yeah.

People, you know, they they have this idea

of, look, is that the answer to my

istikhara? Like, any sort of friction or discomfort

or, like, is that a bad sign? Right.

That's where bravery is tested. It's after you

take that step. It's a muscle. Yeah. You

know, I'm acting like I'm I'm mister brave

over here. I'm just, you know,

like

No. But, like,

I I I remember one time, one of

the masha'ikh, he said to me something that

was really cool. He said there was a

guy in a Muslim army. Right? And of

course, like, this bravery is not just about

sort of bad the battles, even though the

Muslim man especially should be battle ready and

ready to protect his family more so than

anyone else. Right?

That hinges on him and is expected of

him. But he's in this in the army

and he's like

panicking. Like, I really hope this war doesn't

happen. Like, I hope, you know, like, they

send a messenger, envoy, emissary saying, you know,

we're calling it off. We're gonna do it

after Christmas, not right now. So

he says and, like, every day they're inching

closer and closer, and he's just fretting at

this point.

And he says, like, they send a volley

of arrows from enemy lines, and it just

misses his face.

And

it lands by his, you know, right behind

him and kills a snake that was, like,

camouflaged in the sand right under him. Wow.

Awesome. So

it just hit him like, wow. Why? Why?

Why? Why? Why all this fear? Like, it

was his time,

not mine.

So let's not over, you know, calculate this.

I love it. We're gonna be a little

bit pragmatic. Right? But let's not over calculate.

And little by little, you know, I remember

doctor Mohammed Simeon Mukhatim, one of our masha'a

and psychiatrist actually.

He says he used to always tell the

students of knowledge never belittle,

anyone

because perhaps Allah put a certain person through

so many bouts of fear in their life.

Even like a traitor, he subjected himself to

bankruptcy so many times perhaps unintentionally, of course.

And so he developed

more bravery and trust in God than someone

who's picking it up at a theoreticals in

the books and giving lectures about it.