Abdullah Oduro – Nightly Reminder 02-11-2023

			Haman hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa sallahu wa cinema back on the novena Muhammad wa ala Alihi, WA
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			sha Allah I want to cover a dua inshallah to Allah that many of us here and I want to go over it
piece by piece in sha Allah for numerous reasons. The first reason is that we hear it a lot. So I
think it's important for that which we hear a lot that we understand what it is in English, but more
importantly we understand how it has an effect on our life and how that understanding can bring us
closer to Allah subhanho wa Taala by being aware of his properties in our lives in sha Allah which
is strengthened strengthens our belief in him insha Allah Tala
		

			over firstly when the Prophet sallahu wa Salam is mentioned in Hadith and even Rama Rama Allahu and
Houma there is in a Tirmidhi and some scholars say that there's weakness in the chain of narration,
but we hear this a lot so the in the meaning inshallah is correct
		

			it's the DUA and it's when I used to say that it was very rare that the processing would leave this
off saying this particular da and imagine this in a gathering before leaving the gathering. And it's
the DUA that we know we hear at school notes it's Allahu Akbar Samina been associated matter who
will be he'd been an Alabama mouse Yeah, take a mentor I take him out too but they're gonna be
genetic women in the back end metal when Elena masa dunya, it is a long dua pretty long to us. I'm
going to go over it piece by piece in sha Allah Tada. And I think it's important because we may hear
it, or we may recite it in the Witr Prayer, particularly when we come up after a record. So when
		

			they talk about keynote at Witter, this is the day that is made and we hear this a lot in Ramadan.
		

			So firstly, the first part of it is where the prophets Allah Salam said Allahumma oxen Lenna Minh
has sciatic Oksanen admin cost sciatic matter Hulu B bayonet or bayonet mount sciatic Oh Allah give
us a portion of your crush of the hush hush hear from you have this there we say awareness coupled
with fear of you. Matter Hulu behaved Boehner now obeying Him out see a tick that which you use as a
shield between us and sinning. Marcia tick any sinful practices against you. So this is important.
The first part is where the promises awesome said Allahumma and Allahumma means Oh Allah, it is a
cry out to Allah subhanho wa Donna and I want to say a cry out to Allah. Because this Allahumma is
		

			an expression of need. It is an expression of need to Allah subhana wa Taala if it is an expression
of need to Allah, that means that you are deprived without it.
		

			So when we hear the term Allah Houma remember that as it is, it is an expression of depravity,
meaning that whatever I'm going to ask you of, I am in need of it. And if I don't have it, it can
compromise the strength of my faith, the strength of my concentration on you undivided attention
		

			to you. So Allah Houma is Oh Allah, you're calling out to Allah subhanho wa taala. And this call is
a call of need, just as we think of someone, a young child that may call out to to their mother, and
they call out in a certain way to where the mother knows or the father knows, okay, my child needs
something.
		

			When they learn method and Allah has a much greater example, example. Then the process of selling
said X and Lana me minha sciatic a portion for us.
		

			Fear or we say mindful, knowledgeable fear. And the scholars mentioned the difference between
hashish and half hush here and half, half is fear.
		

			And some would go even further and saying that it is fear of something that is going to happen in
the future.
		

			Right. And the what what in sadness is that from what has happened in the past that's why last ones
on says left hopefully I lay him while they're home. Yeah, the noon there is no feet no fear nor
shall they grieve. Grieve is after an event
		

			That is, one doesn't anticipate or one. And fear is a fear of something that is going to happen in
the future.
		

			But Kusha is fear with knowledge. And really the the translation in English doesn't do it just
justice. It is hope bit tell them well, age love.
		

			It is a form of mindfulness and fear that is founded from knowledge and understanding and
magnification of the one that is feared.
		

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			he said is that taqwa, and that's why the meaning of Taqwa fear is not really an accurate
translation. Because Taqwa is where one has the mindfulness of God. And that mindfulness serves as a
shield against the evil deeds. So the the connection with Hashem and Taqwa is that anyone that has
the Akasha of Allah subhanho wa taala, it's expected that they will have more Taqwa. Right, because
chocolate comes from a client, which is like a shield, which is like a shield in Russia is an action
of the heart as well. So what is a COVID edge LAN? Inhofe big law or big toweling, and we say the
word tell me when when we're in St. Jude we say subhanallah. Alvin, great to Allah, which is the
		

			most great or the magnificent one. Right?
		

			The Tao of him of Allah subhanho wa Taala is not only greatness in him and recognizing His Majesty,
it is as we talked about before when we were reading the book from your claim, it is Tel Aviv and
Munna he was a woman, you are making great the deen of Allah subhana wa Tada. So when one sees
what's going on, for example, with our brothers and sisters in Palestine, and Afghanistan, and Libya
and Morocco, in all these, the Uighur Muslims are hanging Muslims all around the world.
		

			Making great making Allah subhanho wa Taala is ability great in your life, is understanding that
this is done with a divine wisdom,
		

			cutter.
		

			And I think that's the most important pillar of our Amen. Now, particularly with our youth that are
in college, recognizing that this was done for a divine wisdom, because when we make our intellect
		

			or our experiences magnified, great in our life to where it is predominant over our attitude
		

			per day predominates over our interpretation of the event. That's where it can be problematic.
		

			This is very important. And this distinction is very important. As some psychologist mentioned,
there's a difference between
		

			we have an immediate impulse feeling and a belief.
		

			So if a bad event happens, you're sad at the beginning. It's a feeling
		

			but how will you interpret that event that is based on your belief?
		

			A bad thing happens. I interpret it as something that just happened in the universe. Right? Because
I don't believe in a deity or I may believe in a deity because I'm told to so when a bad thing
happens, whether with me or with a group of people that I don't want nor do they want ie what is
happening in Palestine for example, I interpret it as what
		

			I interpreted as How can a merciful God do this? His name is Aurora man. And I was told that his
mercy is continuous. I learned a man Rahim there are slight differences that are a man is one
particular event and our him could be Muslim here it is continuous. But what's this?
		

			Right, what is this? How is this the case? If I believe that he is a rock man, he is the Merciful?
This is going on with a lot of Muslims in many situations. Right? child dies, how is that merciful?
		

			How many of you been asked this question I've been answered in many times by Muslims or non Muslims.
But how do we interpret that event that relies on your belief, particularly your aqidah your belief
in Allah subhanho wa Taala that is why the quarter is very important.
		

			This is something that has happened and that's what the Apostle saw him when he was playing in the
Hadith Jabril he said and took me nobody has highly he was Cherie, and to believe and the
predestination, that which is good and that which is evil from it. And even the concept of evil is a
whole
		

			A Chapter. Why do people suffer is for a divine wisdom. And there are many reasons things that we
can look at our life, we see the the percentage of evil, quote unquote, that takes place on the
earth, compared to that which is good, you will never know evil unless you know good, which shows
the existence of good many things that we see as evil ends up being good for instance, volcanoes, it
may be something that is not what we want and may be deadly, but it has an environmental benefit.
Many of these things that we understand from quote unquote, evil. So hucha is Tel Aviv of Allah
making a lot of great in his life, particularly what we're facing now, making great discovery of
		

			Allah, which requires from us patience,
		

			patience with what is going on. And that's why last went out of mixing the chapter of Bukhara and we
will test you with fear, hunger, loss of wealth images, what do you say at the very end, or best
share?
		

			A sobbing and give congratulations to the patients Alladhina either Asada to Mercy button ALU. In
alila heat we're in a large room, those that if they were afflicted by something they say rarely
with, if you're afflicted by a trial,
		

			they say Verily We are for Allah and to Allah, He will return. So Allah the price of some said,
axiom then I'm in the Cushitic matter who will be bending there will be an amount see what you serve
as a shield between us and between sinful practices. Why the mouse here, when you don't have this
hush here, you don't have this great fear of Allah because of his greatness, or due to his
greatness. It may be that you may prefer something else over the greatness of Allah, over the choice
when I say the greatness particularly in the color, the choice of Allah,
		

			you prefer your own understanding and interpretation over the choice of Allah subhanho wa Taala and
that's where it can become a mount sia
		

			because one can give up on Allah. When can give up on what Allah has chosen?
		

			One may ask when is the help of Allah coming? I've been told about this I've made to our listener we
made to our within these past 20 Something days, and it's getting worse.
		

			To our one puts their hands up, call about a lot. They wouldn't just put their hands up and listen,
because I'm done with this. I'm dealing with this religion. I'm dealing with this Dean. How many
family members have I had, no
		

			matter who we bein in that Robina MAUSI attic. So this is very important portion of the DUA. The
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam started off by asking Allah to bless him with Kushtia to bless
him with fear which is founded in the greatness and making the loss magnification of Allah subhanho
wa Taala in our life, because making a lot of great in your life will serve as the only means
between you and between a sinful practice which is ultimately it is our belief in Allah that keeps
us firm. And that keeps us stable. And I want to use this word stable because sometimes all of us as
Muslims may be affected individually or collectively by that which will shake the foundations of our
		

			faith to me last month Allah make us of those that have this firm Akasha and allow the knowledge of
him to increases in our culture really is with the knowledge that increase our fear of him inshallah
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