Abdullah Oduro – Iman Cave – Paralyzed By Bad Signs Watch This
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The speaker discusses the concept of bravery, which is the ability to overcome fear and achieve success in life. They use the example of a Muslim man who defies his partner and migrates to Islam, leading to a "haste for his followers." The speaker warns against overestimating bravery and suggests that bravery is a muscle that is tested after actions. They also mention a doctor who developed bravery and trust in God.
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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.