Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – A Message of Condolence for Our Friends in Texas

Our

brothers and sisters

and many others

are being,

they're suffering in

Texas, for example. It's a really interesting,

really kind of shocking

situation that with all the pandemic and that's

going on, really, people are stressed. And then,

okay, when you're in India, Pakistan, or any

other third, world country, you expect that the

lights are gonna go off, and you've got

kind of things in place to deal with

that.

Right? So you've got generators,

and you can deal with it. Right? There's

all backups and everything like that, and you're

used to it, so there's no surprise element

there. But when it happens to

a first world country,

place like Texas, where you don't generally get

those kind of freezing weathers anyway because it's

generally a warmer area.

So you lose your lights, you lose your

electricity, you lose your heating,

subhanallah.

You lose the water because the water is

not from, you know, your natural sources that

you just go and get it from a

ground well. It's actually through a whole system,

and all of that is gone. So now

what's gonna happen? People have found it very

tough. You know, I've heard from some people

from their people. I found it very tough.

But I think at the end of the

day, with the our response to that for

people I mean, just still as an example.

Right? This could happen anyway. Our response to

that should be that

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, he brings whatever he

wills. I mean, the the virus which,

nobody expected that to affect so many. In

our lifetime, we never expected that. These are

things that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala wants to

do. And we have to understand that they

could be much worse.

So this is this is nothing compared to

what could have happened and what does happen

in many other parts of the world. It

should teach us empathy. It should teach us

that we need to rely on Allah more

than anything else. We've had reliance on all

of these,

organizations and all of these setups that we

have and we relied on them. Well, this

has just woken us up to the reality

of this dunya, that you can't really rely

on all of these things. Alhamdulillah, they work,

they work. If they predictably work, alhamdulillah, we

thank Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. But if they

disappear, we need to be prepared for it.

And the good thing about this is that

if we're prepared for it and we deal

with it with dignity in front of Allah

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and we do sabr for

the few days or whatever it may be.

Right? May Allah, you know, bring it back,

then it's a source of huge reward. Otherwise,

it's a source of punishment.

So that's gonna be a punishment for some

people who are freaking out and who don't

know, so they're being punished by it. But

for other people, it's a source of purification.

It's a source of teskea. But the only

way that you're gonna be able to deal

with matters in life, you know, forget just

Texas but anywhere, that anything that happens in

life, the last 3 of our talks have

been on this subject. Right?

And they should be on Zamzam Academy soon

if they're not there already. But the main

thing is that we need to know Allah

more. Once we know Allah more, it becomes

much much easier to deal with

unpredictable events, surprises in in our life, difficulties.

It becomes just easier. Allah has given us

a full vision, a full way, and a

full paradigm to understand this. But if you

don't know Allah, you don't know your religion

well enough because you've been

just, focused on building the dunya, developing the

world, developing your businesses, developing your personal lives,

you know, in terms of this world, then

you're not we're not faced with these. And

the biggest calamity we're gonna face is in

the hereafter. It's gonna be on our deathbed,

in fact. We have to be prepared for

these things. So go and educate yourself. Take

some classes of Islam about Islam from good

you know, listening to motivation lectures is good.

It just motivates you. But what's the next

step?

People need to understand that you can't just

listen to religious lectures for the rest of

your

life. That's just first step.

After that, you're supposed to go and take

something, a class on fiqh, a class on

aqidah, a class on spirituality,

a class on the tawheed and oneness of

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

That will give you an understanding what the

religion wants from us and what we need

to be doing.

That's why it's very rare. Take this opportunity

to understand. And those who are not in

Texas and other places, you know, the reason

we use the example of Texas is because,

you know, maybe a third world seems too

far, but Texas seems like home. You know,

that it could have happened in London. It

could have happened in Birmingham. It could have

happened in New York. It could have happened

anywhere.

So use this opportunity to get closer to

Allah, to do Azkar, to remember him, to

have that everyday

connection with Allah and to learn more. Because

only with learning more that you'll be inspired

to do more.

Right? And,

you know, generally motivation lectures,

they they talk about general ideas, general things.

But you need to get more deeper

into these things and into our religion. Make

it yours. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala make

it easy

and and, make this truly a source of

purification, elevation, and remove the difficulties that we

are all having. And may Allah allow us

to be stronger believers than weaker believers.