Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Don’t be Depressed You do not Know Your Future
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The topic I want to deal with today, I think it's an overdue
topic.
And the reason for it is that our entire life revolves around this
belief. And if we have a mistaken belief in this regard, it actually
will spoil a person's life. People who commit suicide have a problem
with this point, with this subject with this issue. Anybody who
commits suicide, out of desperation, despondence,
hopelessness, depression, this is that this is the antidote for
this. This, all of those things are symptom that a person hasn't
understood this particular issue.
What I'm going to speak about is not stories, what I'm going to
speak about are not accounts, there may be a few accounts here
and there. But the main thing that I'm going to speak about is a
concept to understand for that you'll have to be awake on this
New Year's Eve.
It's not going to be fireworks. But it's going to require some
interaction, it's going to it's going to require your
understanding, because it's not just a story that I'm going to
tell you it's going to require to really understand and reflect over
what our understanding of this particular subject subject is. The
subject I speak about, I mean, you've seen the post that says
color and destiny predestination. Now, right from the outset,
predestination is one of those topics that people kind of
mentioned.
half heartedly or without full knowledge about some people will
mention it that it's something that we can't deal with, we can't
go into the depths about which is true. It's not allowed to do for
example is a Hadith.
In Which Imam tell me the
relates this Hadith from Abu Huraira the Allahu anhu, that once
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
came out from his room we were sitting in the masjid. So if this
is the masjid, the Prophet sallallahu, His room was there.
And one day the prophets Allah some suddenly appeared, and we
were there discussing in this heated manner, we were discussing
cada Destiny
when he came in, and he saw this for her, the Baja Mirage Gunda,
who got under my foot VFE what he Hubbard Romain, he was so angry,
he was so angry that it is as if
a pomegranate seed had been crushed on his cheeks.
You know, that's the resemblance that's been mentioned here. And
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, alpha omega two. Is
this what you've been commanded to do? This is what you've been
ordered to do to discuss these things at this level in this kind
of fashion, and behavior or sell to Aleikum? Is this what I've been
sent to you for to discuss these kinds of issues? In the Maharlika
mankind a couple of
Hanaa Turner's that will fill armor.
We huddle among the people before you were destroyed. The lives were
spoiled.
They were punished, you know, you could understand this in many
ways, when they began to discuss and engross themselves in this
issue as to Alikum as them to other income alert another Oh,
fee. I insist upon you. I insist that you do not you do not debate
this issue.
Now because of this hadith, because it serum in Asad, Allah is
definitely one of the secrets of Allah as
As the amount have discussed, that it is something which if you try
to go into depth and try to reconcile every aspect of it, then
you will come out either as a fatalist or an absolute proponent
proponent of absolute free will. And both of those extremes. It is
a secret of Allah subhanaw taala when certain scholars, for
example, Maddie could not have the Allahu Anhu Rahim Allah reports
that there's a famous scholar of his time, his name was EOS if no
more IWEA he says, somebody asked the us even more Avia Mara Yuka
Phil Qadr What's your opinion about predestination? What a
question. So as even a more a more obvious, eternity? My opinion is
my daughter.
Like an absurd answer to an absurd question. I'd rather be concerned
about my daughter than other because there's not something I
can deal with. And then what you meant by that is why are animals
simplier animal several who Illallah nobody knows it secret
except Allah subhanaw taala.
So now, what are we going to discuss today then?
Well, we need to discuss it because there is a certain amount
of knowledge that Allah has provided us about it. Through the
narrations, numerous iterations is all chapters in the books of
Hadith kita will cover it's there in parts of Kitab al Iman, the
chapter on cover, and the prophets of Allah some discusses many
different aspects about this. And the reason why this is so
important is because much of the effect of the Depression today is
because of a misunderstanding and an ignorance about this.
First and foremost, the reason why there is predestination or the
fact that there is predestination is because Allah subhanaw taala
knows about everything that is gonna happen.
What is predestination, predestination, Destiny,
predestination, essentially, is the grand plan of Allah subhanaw
taala, from pre eternity, from the endless furthest reaches of pre
eternity, about what he wants to do in this world. So basically,
today's program where we're all sitting here today was an absolute
knowledge of Allah, before
it occurred. Before even you and I were born, before our grandparents
were born. It was as if Allah had seen this already. So the fact
that it's taking place today doesn't make any difference to
Allah subhana wa Tada. It's almost it's it is not it is almost it is
as if it's already done. It's a done deal. Because time doesn't
apply to Allah, we move in time. We are like in a garden, we are
like in a garden where we can do what we want within certain
limitations within that garden. But we can't do anything beyond
that garden. So this world, the amount of power, that limited
power we have, that is how much we can function in. And beyond that
we can't. And our time, if I asked you a question, what is time? How
would you define time? Time is something we use all the time. But
what is time? How would you define time, time is defined today, time
is defined today by the clock 24 hours, or 12 times two, I prefer
to 12 times two than the 24 hours personally, but 12 times two or 24
hour clock is a very recent phenomenon about 4050 years old
before that the clocks used to work differently. Time essentially
all it is it's a relative, it's a relative, its relative state to
something happening. And because the starting of the day and the
ending of the day, the beginning of night, us so evident phenomena
around us, they are realities that we can't miss, we generally go by
that. Otherwise, time can be measured by when people come back
from hajj when the crops grow when it's the shortest day of the year.
But generally, because the sun rises generally at a predictable
rate, predictable time, we generally measure it based on
that. And we've taken those times and kind of split it into number
of hours, number of minutes, and so on and so forth, just to make
it easy. That's essentially what time is. Time is just the relative
distance to something in time. That's what it is. Essentially,
it's like units. If you take a ruler, you take a ruler, and you
see the centimeters on there. And you see the the lines for each
centimeter block unit. So essentially, time is just
according to that. For any one of us. We suddenly appear in one of
those units, we stay for a few units, and then we disappear and
we've gone right likewise with everybody. They come into those
units. There's the unit before that they weren't there. They only
started in this next unit and they carry on and then they end and
they go Do you understand? Yeah.
If you understand it, everybody understands it. And that's the
great thing about it. What's your name?
Abdurrahman. There you go. That's why I'm the wrong machine. But
this name is going to Allah. Abdul Rahman Abdullah. That's why
Raman Cabinda,
seven of the Rockman that's what you are. Right? That's where we
all are. Anyway, when it comes to Allah subhanaw taala, he doesn't
fit into these these units, because there's not enough units.
There's not enough units to encompass him, he's before any of
these units, do you understand? Very difficult for us to really
understand because everything that surrounds us, comes into being and
perishes, it starts to exist, and then it ends is existence. That's
what we're so used to that, that is very difficult for us to
understand the concept of infinite,
infinite, pre eternality and post eternality. But anyway, let's get
to something else. Now. Allah subhanaw taala, hence, knew
everything, there's a hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu. And he says
that 50,000 years before the creation of the world, Allah
subhanaw taala created the pen, the column, and he created the
divine tablet Allahumma foods, and he said to the pen, right booktube
mother up tube, what should I write your your Allah, and Allah
subhana wa Tada says, Write everything that is going to occur
until the Day of Judgment. Now where did that pen, get the
knowledge, from, to write everything until the Day of
Judgment, obviously, from the knowledge of Allah, which
encompasses everything to happen until the day of judgment, and
beyond that, because beyond that is eternity, Janet and Jahannam
are forever. Nothing can encompass that only the knowledge of Allah
because he is eternal. But we're getting into realms that are very
difficult for us to understand. So let's get back to the point that
50,000 years before the creation of this world, Allah wrote
everything down that was to occur. Now the question that arises
is that everything that is written in the divine tablets is occurring
in the world because Allah knew what was going to happen. So then
doesn't it mean that we should not be responsible for the good or the
evil that we do? Because we're just going according to plan,
right? Everything just seems to be going according to what's written.
So why should we then be rewarded for any good that we do, or
punished for anything evil that we do? Well, let's introduce a new
concept here of free will.
Now, first and foremost, you know what free will is free will is the
ability in us to do what we want when we want to a certain degree,
for example, everybody that's sitting here today, you came here,
by your own will, you weren't literally dragged into here with
while you're protesting, unless your friends did drag you in here,
or unless your father did drag you in here, right. But still, you had
the ability to resist, you came in here with a will, they may have
been encouragement that you came here with your free will. Now we
understand free will, free will is established through two different
ways. Number one, it's established by our experience, we feel free
will none of us feels forced, food is sitting there, we don't feel
forced to eat, and we can't help our hands getting down there and,
you know, taking the food and we make that choice to do it. Right.
So we feel that we experience it, you when you shake your hands
voluntarily, a normal person gets his hand and shakes it
voluntarily. That is freewill. You also have people in this world who
are who have Parkinson's disease, for example, they can't help
shaking their hands, even if they want to stop they can't their hand
shakes involuntarily. So there's a clear difference between an
involuntary shaking of the hand and a voluntary shaking of the
hand. Another thing is that when you're walking on level ground,
you are just walking. You can to a certain degree, control your pace,
try walk walking down an incline or a hill. And suddenly you have
less control over your pace. Yes, you can stop. But if you're
walking, you are still being helped because of gravity as we
call it. So clearly, we understand that that is where you have
freewill. But you see that there's some other influence there as
well. Right? However, freewill is established. And it's only because
the human has free will. That there is Jonathan jahannam. If
there was no free will, there'd be no point of Jannat and jahannam.
The grand scheme of things the way they are, is because it's an part
of that is that Allah gave us free will to make our decision because
Allah says Rama who
We're gonna be Vala Milla lobbied I am not one to oppress even in
the least my servants, I will not oppress at all, lie overly shame
Allah does not oppress even the slightest, Allah will only punish
us for wrongs that we have committed. Nobody will go into
hellfire thinking that they have been oppressed or wronged or
put in without justice, they will realize the wrongs that they have
done because Allah only is just and nothing else. Allah is just
there's no opposite, you know, unfair doesn't apply to Allah
subhanaw taala.
So because of the fact that we have freewill, there is paradise
in this * or this * in paradise. And because of that, we
have freewill. You can see it either way. It's the grand scheme
of Allah subhanaw taala. Now, once we've established freewill,
then how is it possible that we exercise our free will, our
volition, our choice? Right? We're independent and autonomous in
doing so. But then it's all written. It's already written. So
how have we got free will when it's already written? Whatever
we're doing is in accordance to what's written, and what's written
is in accordance to what we're doing. So how do you understand
that then? You've got your free will, and you experienced it?
Nobody is Does anybody deny Free Will here? Right now? Nothing? Has
anybody I mean, there were groups who denied it theoretically,
practically, you can't? Because you know, you feel free will? Then
how is it possible that you're going according to what's written
in the divine tablet in a local math booth? Once I was, I would
say, in a half guilty sense. I was
racing down the Moto, the highway in California, the freeway, one on
one on the coast. And I was stopped by I was only going about
80 miles an hour, by the way, right, which in England is
nothing. Generally people 80 is kind of like tolerable, people go
90 and 100. But in America, that was a big deal. Because 65 is the
limit in California in most places. So he was a bit. Now for
some reason, I was coming back and this police stopped me.
And I said a few things to him. I said, you know, please stand over
there. He says really, it's your free. It's your it's your destiny.
So I said, Okay, what's what's destiny? So we had a little chat,
and I explained
this understanding that I'm about to give you about destiny as to
how it goes in accordance with what's written, how it is destiny.
He still gave me a ticket. He appreciated what I mentioned, but
he still ended up giving me a ticket because that was the
destiny. Right? That was my destiny at that on the day.
Now, what happens is going back to that question, how do you
reconcile the fact that everything has been written, but we still
have freewill, and we don't feel forced, the reason is simple.
Whatever Allah had written in that divine tablets, if you understand
this, it will make a lot of things simple for you, then inshallah you
will not feel doomed. You will not feel depressed, you will not feel
as if you know your future, because nobody does. Nobody does.
Whatever is written in there is written based on the knowledge of
what Allah knew.
Right? The knowledge of Allah, of what we were going to do with our
freewill. So for example, what's your name, brother,
Allah knew the brother Osman, when he comes into it, I'm going to
call you off man. If you don't mind.
When he comes into this world, he's going to be doing this this
this this with this free will. He's going to come to Masjid Abu
Bakr on this New York New Year New Year's Eve with his free will. And
that's what Allah wrote, he will do this with a Free Will he will
do this you know, it was a descriptive detail, not
prescriptive, not that of man has to do this use of has to do this.
And Abdurrahman by has to do this. He didn't write that. That's not
what it was written. If it was written in that fashion. Zaid has
emailed or Antiva clarifies this clearly, if it was written like
that, then that means we would be compelled, compelled, wouldn't
have any free will. But we experienced the free will. And
that's what's written only because Allah knew what we were going to
do.
I'll give you another example. If you're a teacher, you've taught
somebody for a year or two, you under your kind of understood
their capability. come time for exam, what you did was before the
exams, you wrote down what you predicted, you predicted some
grades of this. Then after that, they go take the exams, the tests.
After the test, you get the results, and you compare your
results. Sorry, you compare the actual results with your
predictions, you will see that most of it is very similar. You
can still make mistakes, because we're human beings. We don't
really know the future. We think we can speculate about our future.
So they will be very similar. We may have missed out in something
right? This guy was a straight A student, but for some reason on
that day, he messed up, but most of the others were the same,
right?
with Allah subhanaw taala there's never a mess up. It's absolute
knowledge 100% There's never a mistake or an error at all. So
whenever he knows it's because for him, time doesn't apply to me.
It's like the whole universe is less than, you know, imagine you
have one of those medicine, medical capsules, Medic medicine.
Imagine an entire an entire universe taking place in there of
bacteria, you can get 1000s of bacteria on a pinhead. So imagine
that scope. Now, again, Allah is even beyond that. But just
understand the entire universe is taking place in me What difference
does it make? And that's not even a proper example. Allah is beyond
us. But we must understand that what's written is not
prescriptive. It's descriptive. Allah wrote what we were going to
do with our free will because he knew what we were going to do with
our free will we end up doing exactly according to what's in the
divine tablet, because Allah knew what we were going to do with our
freewill. So now, do you feel more free now? Do you feel less
compelled? Hamdulillah? Now let's understand a few things. What is
the whole point of destiny than
destiny, then in that sense, is our belief that Allah has planned
and knows and is in control of everything before it occurs?
That's the belief we have, what benefit does this belief give us
then?
What benefit does this belief give us? It gives us the benefit.
Because
Destiny Kedah predestination has not been established or instituted
to destroy people's ambitions and goals. How so? Only if you have a
misunderstanding of it, how can it be?
It is not to destroy our ambitions, our goals and our
desires. Right. Rather, it is to allow bygones to be bygones. It is
to help us not cry over spilt milk. It is to help us get back on
our feet after that stumble or fall and carry on and keep trying.
Why do I say that? The reason I say that is because
a few things. Number one.
If the misunderstanding people have is that if certain things
start going wrong in their life, they've had a series of events
which have gone wrong in their life. They had an accident, they
were supposed they made a proposal and they lost that proposal. They
didn't get the job. They were looking for three setbacks. And
suddenly you start thinking that your world has ended. Aren't you
still getting your food? Aren't you still surviving? Aren't you
still breathing? Aren't you still living in this world making salad
worshipping Allah, just because some things are affecting us
monetarily, or in terms of position, or some or it's not
going according to how we want it, we suddenly feel like God hates
us, we suddenly feel like it's the end of the world, it suddenly feel
like I'm finished. There's other people, they have had a setback,
something bad has happened in their life, or they've just led a
life of 10 years of sin. And now they feel that there is no way for
them to
repent and to turn around and to become better. And that's a big
fallacy. Who told you? How do you know what's written for you? Oh, I
am doomed. I am finished. Metal Garban though. I am a sinner. I am
going to * anyway. So let me just do this as well. That's what
people say, What difference is it going to make? I'm going to *
anyway. That's what people say. Now the biller How do you know who
told you so which angel told you so not even an this divine tablet?
Right, which is probably
the closest that we could probably get to the knowledge of the Unseen
because beyond that is the knowledge of Allah which is even
more a greater repository of the unseen, the divine tablet, it
mentions in the books of Arcada that not even the closest of the
angels know what's going on in there. Not even the greatest of
the angels are privy to what's going on in there.
Now, the divine tablet when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam when went on his ascension mirage. In one of the Hadith, it
mentions that he came to a place where he could hear
the Saudi UCLA mill Mata Iike. He could hear the screeching of the
pins of the angels. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam heard
the screeching of the pins of the angels. So what are they writing?
Essentially my understanding of this is this that you have the
divine title alone muffles
Now in the local mafia with everything is described as to
what's going to happen. So what happens then is that angels are in
charge of administrating the affairs of the world. That's why
feature time and answer time you have a shift change of angels
feature time and other time you have shift or change in the day
angels in the night angels, they come and they shifted that time.
And there are angels that bring about the punishment in the world
bring about the crops in the world bring about the rain in the world,
and the different things that occur around the world. So what
happens is, it seems as if the next week, the next day or two,
the next week, the next month of information pertaining to a
certain issue is released to these angels. So then they do so the
whole set of all the knowledge, all that nobody has absolute
access to everything that's in that in the divine tablet, but
they have access to however Allah subhanaw taala as much as Allah
wants of the next month, or two or a year or whatever the case is,
depending on who it is to administrate that. This is how
Allah wants it to happen. Okay, but nobody knows everything in
there. Now, the other thing is, as I mentioned, nobody knows that if
I'm going to die at the age of 70, or 80, or 90, or whatever it is
how I'm going to die. The reason the prophets of Allah ism
explained these things very clearly, there's another Hadith of
Rasulullah sallallahu, which says that a person acts like a person
from hellfire, which means he does sins, it seems like he's given me
all his life, then there's only a hand span very short distance left
between him and jahannam. And it just seems like he's going
directly zooming straight for that direction. He's going to hit the
wall anytime now. And suddenly, it changes because Allah knows him to
be good instead of evil. And thus, he does a good turn at the end of
his life ends up in Janet's is literally like somebody's about to
have an accident, he gets saved all of a sudden. And yet on the
other hand, the prophet still awesome also said, some people all
day life, do the deeds of the people of janma. So they do good
deeds. They don't seem like they're ever going to enter
hellfire.
And right at the end, when it seems like they're just about to
gain entry, they mess up.
What a sad scene. Now, good ole life, mess up at the end, bad all
of their life suddenly do one good deed, and they end up in general
for example, time of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, there
was a man. There was a battle raging the prophets Allah him is
there, a man suddenly comes in he says, I want to take part in his
battle. He was not a believer. He was not a Muslim. The Prophet saw
some said fine, you can take part but at least embrace the faith
first. And he said Allah Allah and Allah say the Shahada. He said the
Shahada.
He said the shahada, no salah, no fasting knows that God nothing
entered the battle and was martyred. And the prophets of
Allah Islam said, I mean, luckily Elan Moogerah Catherine, so little
did he do but so great reward did he acquire. So that's a last
minute scene. Now just to put our hearts at rest that we're doing,
hopefully we're trying to do good all of our life, then.
If we mess up at the last minute, as there are stories of that
nature, while the other might have mentioned that from observation,
from observation, and through trust in Allah subhanho wa taala,
what we realize is that it's generally the people who are
heading for that wall, the evil ones that become right than the
good ones turning wrong, that seldom happens, that seldom
happens. It's a possibility that the good person also become bad,
but it's generally the bad who become good. So because good
begets more good, and evil begets more evil. So if you're going to
do good iClone insha Allah become better. So is a chance because
everything is open to chance in this world
that they can happen that's why we say Robina led to the Cubana bear
there is a Daytona well habla Milan Khurana in the central hub
of Allah do not cause our hearts to deviate, become crooked after
you've given us guidance. Very important to have the Quran so now
somebody then asked the Prophet sallallahu Sallam a question after
he mentioned this scenario to them for female Amaroo ya rasool Allah
Buhari so you say the Buhari and his puppy when I'm going to be out
of school Allah, what is the point of doing deeds then, if it's all
written, and at the last minute it can take a swerve, then what is
the point of deed? The Prophet sallallahu sallam said Emmylou for
Columbia, Salima Haleakala that know you keep doing the deeds and
trying and making your effort for the direction you want? Because
every person will be facilitated in the direction that has been
destined for him. Now, this tells us there's a hadith I'm gonna read
to you right now. sahih hadith of Muslim this poor
To the whole situation into perspective, it tells us that
predestination is not there to cause you to become hopeless and
despondent. Right, because nobody knows the end. Even if your whole
life has been going bad for you, it doesn't mean that your end will
be bad. And that's why the end part has the most significant the
hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam says, in normal atma
Lubell, Hawa team actions according to the ending states,
actions are according to the end state, the final state, how was
that that's what you're going to action is going to be taken.
That's the beauty of a believers actions and intentions, that you
could turn everything around, you could wash away all the sins, and
that's why the Prophet sallallahu sallam said utter a boom in them
becoming Lambada that the one who repents from sins is like the one
who has no sins from before. Some scholars even say that that person
may even be superior to a person who doesn't have any sense, in
some cases, because of the act of Toba, that raised his status. In
fact, I saw his wonder about this. But recently, there's been a
number of studies a number of studies on the mind, how the mind
is wired with all of these neurons, millions, billions of
neurons. And according to this particular study, it shows that
you are different when you are 14 years old, to and you are 20 years
old, though you have the same carry a body that you have been
given in this world to us, this body will be destroyed and
decomposed in the grave or however we die, in the hereafter will be
given a new body from some basic elements of our body, but us who
we are, who are you as an individual who wants what does?
How do you define an insertion? According to this new study, it
says that because of the way our mind is made up with all of these
neurons, and so on, and the changes that keep taking place,
you are a different person when you're 30, than when you are 20.
For me, that makes a lot of sense, because the professor was said,
the person who REPENT from sin is like the one who had no sin. So
you could have had 30 years of crime, criminal nature, sin upon
sin, worse person, and you then make Toba, you go and perform a
hedge, you go and sit in the right company, and you desist from that
life, you're a different person. Now in your mind. That's why the
Prophet sallallahu some also said, if somebody has committed a sin
and then repented, and then you go and start censoring them for that
sin, taunting them for it, you will not die until Allah also
engrosses you in that sin, which is a very dangerous thing, because
we're supposed to give people the benefit of the doubt if Allah can
forgive. And if the prophets of Allah Islam can say, the one who
REPENT from sin is like the one who has no sin, then what right do
you and I have to go on tour and somebody from a sin that he could
have seen sought forgiveness from? That's very important to us.
That's a humbling fact. If Allah forgives, if the province of Assam
is telling us not to turn somebody, then who what right do
we have to do this? Now let me read this hadith of Sunni Muslim
to you. The Prophet sallallahu sallam said, mineral curvy, how
you don't what Allah He may not derive the stronger believer, the
stronger believer is superior and more beloved to Allah than the
weak one, meaning physically stronger as well. Right, not just
Eman, stronger, but physically stronger. That person is more
beloved to Allah, because he can do more. Right? And then the
Prophet sallallahu sallam said, well if he couldn't deny it, but
both have goodness with them because they've got belief, belief
is so valuable. Preserve it, very valuable. Both of them have
goodness. Now the prophets Allah some tells us the most important
thing is Allah, Maya and Farooq. avidly search for what benefits
you
look out, go after make efforts behind what benefits you What is
he telling us here? If it was that just sit back and let the talk
need to take place, and you're not part of the top deer? That deer is
independent of you it is independent, but we are all part
of the system. And what we are required to do is to work hard if
we were not and it wasn't we were supposed to be just puppets with
no volition whatsoever. Then the prophets Allah will not have said
you should avidly look and seek what is beneficial for you What
are attaches, do not ever give up. Do not become feeble. Do not sit
back and be laid back and do nothing you're supposed to
actively try.
Then the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, Look why in a Saba cache on
Fela taco and the fall together, can cover.
Don't if something does afflict you if something doesn't go up
wanting to plan and it goes wrong, then don't start saying, oh if I
did it this way, then this would have happened. If I did this, then
this would have happened. But say Condor, Allah, Allah destined
this, this was Allah's plan, whatever he wishes, he does Masha
file. This is the destiny of Allah. This is the plan of Allah,
whatever he wants to do, he does. The province of Assam said the
reason why you shouldn't say if this if the if this if this is
because for in the load of the hammer the shaper if you keep
saying if if if it opens the door for shaitan. And eventually you
will start complaining against Allah and you will become
depressed. Now, let's understand this hadith, this hadith does not
mean that you shouldn't learn from your mistakes. Of course, we must
learn if I made a mistake. And that caused the accident, then
don't do that again. Right? If I go and start driving without a
license, then that's a bit stupid, isn't it? I don't know how to
drive I grab my dad's car and go out. Man, obviously, he's gonna
cause a problem, right? So I must learn from my mistakes. But if
something wrong happens, you spill some milk don't become depressed.
It's not the end of the world. You don't know that. You see, whenever
something wrong happens. it depresses us. it depresses us for
example, I'll give you an example. If you go out collecting for the
masjid, for example. And the first guy gives you know, I don't have
any money. I've already donated. And the next thing gives you two
pounds. And the third guy gets you five pounds. And the next guy
tells you I don't have any money, then you feel like why don't I
just take 1000 pounds from my own bank account. It's easier than
going to 1015 people and they only give me 50 pounds at the end of
it. Right? Is it depressing? That's the way the world you have
one setback and you feel depressed you think the world becomes dark
around you and you start feeling like everything's become dark.
Now. On the other hand, if you went to collect and the first guy
give you my Yes, biblical 500 pound check.
2000 pound check and I'll give you another one next week. Yeah, let's
go to another person, let's go to another person. Good begets more
good. It just makes you more enthusiastic. The point here is
that
we need to avoid feeling depressed and despondent and hopeless.
Because the prophets Allah Psalm is clearly saying, try your best
to get what benefits you do not sit back and feel feeble while
attaches. And do not keep saying if this if that forget about it.
You know the people who keep going on about the past. They suffer the
most the people who keep going on about the past, they suffer the
most. That's why forgetfulness is a baraka of Allah, it's a
blessing. People who cannot forget the evils of the past bad
experiences of the past. They should pray to Allah to make them
forget. Because all they keep seeing in front of them is the
evil of things. That's what they remember. And if it wasn't for
forgetfulness, imagine how sad our lives would be. You know, have you
ever felt the pain you feel when you lose something when you lose
someone, but that pain recedes it becomes lighter as the days go by.
If that pain stayed the same every time you lost Can you imagine the
number of pains you'd be feeling? You lose your grandfather,
grandmother, another grandfather, another grandmother, a friend.
Father, imagine five griefs all feeling the same way we'd never be
able to survive. Allah's plan is wonderful. But if anybody
forcefully wants to remember the evil, we must remember it. No, get
rid of it, forget it. Look positively. That's how rewire your
brain. It's a possibility even scientists are telling you now,
let us look at this. Anybody who becomes so depressed because of
something or anybody who feels that I shouldn't do anything I
should just be laid back and everything will happen. Both of
these are extreme fatalists these are wrong. This is not what Allah
wants. Allah wants us to try. That's why let me read from Surah
Al Hadith to you another verse which clarifies this Masaba me
mercy but in Filardi, wala fie and full SQL in Luffy, Kitabi, middle
cobbly and Nevada, in Nevada, Allah Allah He is here. This is so
wonderful, he says, Allah says, Any masiva any affliction any
calamity, which hits the earth, or which afflicts you directly,
anywhere in the world, or you directly all of it has been
written in a book before we even created you exactly what I
explained before. All of that has been written in the vertical Adela
here see you, this is simple for Allah. This is simple for Allah,
what is the point of this stuff? What is the benefit of all of this
being written beforehand, now look like kala So Adam, for Kumada for
who? Bhima
wala hula, your Hebrew coulomb of that info is for two benefits.
Number one, so that you do not feel you do not feel sorrowful.
You do not become depressed over what you do not get something
misses you
If you miss something, don't become depressed. Understand that
this was written for me, there's a benefit in me not having this.
That's the benefit to know that if Allah doesn't want us to have it,
we're not going to have it. Now, before you don't have it before
you miss it, do you know that you're gonna get it or not?
If something may come to you next week, there's going to be they're
going to, they're going to announce the winner next week.
They're going to announce the position next week, you've
applied. Now, do you know what that decision is? No, we don't
write we the promises. He was telling us try. Okay, we tried. We
didn't get it. Now, you know, you don't get it. Now you realize that
that's what Allah wanted from you. But you can't say from beforehand,
Oh, nobody ever gets that I'm not gonna get it as well try. Believe
me, in my life. I've,
and I'm sure all of us have come upon many of these kinds of
roadblocks. Where there's a determination, there's a culture
of certain people getting something, if you try, Allah will
give it to you. If it's good for you, Allah will give it to you.
Against all odds, believe me against all odds, I will relate to
you a story in which I had a doctor that slept next to me is a
young surgeon, and he had an amazing story. An amazing story.
He got a B's and C's in his GCSE is not the most wonderful, GCSE,
not the most wonderful GCSE results in his A levels. I don't
think he got many A's in here. I don't think he got any A's in
that. All right, B's and C's.
Now, somebody tells him, he's, he gets in, he finally takes up a
course to do with medical science, but not medicine, not dentistry,
not optometry, something else I forget exactly. But a lower you
know, where the rejects kind of go in King's College, he gets in
there for this kind of, you know, this low end course. Somebody
tells him at the end this lecture of his tells him that then you
should become a doctor who is aware, am I going to become a
doctor who's going to accept me for a medical medicine position
with the grades that I have? And with the course that I'm doing
says no, you should try. Try internally first in King's
College. Right? Because same college, you might accept you. He
tried rejected, says no, you should try the other universities
around the country. He says okay, fine. He was trying, you see, he
didn't give up. Now everything is against him is anything for him.
Everything is against him. But there's somebody that Allah
provided to give him a bit of him and aspiration. So what he does is
he writes to 25 universities around the country. 25 of them,
no, sorry, he first applied to three universities, you know,
through UCAS, he got rejected. Second rejection, right? That's
four rejections altogether. Now, he's still told no right to the
universities around the country. He writes to the universities. How
many of the 25 Give him give him an acceptance? Not a single one.
Right now, that's how many rejections 25 plus three plus one
that's 24 rejections.
Right? Sorry? 29? Yes. 29 rejections. Now, what
you can apply again to Kings is allowed to apply twice. The guys
that apply again to Kings. So he applied again. And I think this
time he didn't hear anything.
Yet. Now his exams are finished. His mum booked him a holiday
through teletext. This was in the 80s, early 1990s. You know, Teddy
takes, right? If mom didn't know, this place in Rhodes, books him a
holiday on this play Island, you know, this nightclub place that
everybody goes to just just to dance and drink and women. And
that's all it is. She didn't know, she books him and a friend, a
close friend of his right now they're going they go to the
airport, they get to the airport and roads, and they're going into
coach and they start hearing all this, boom, boom, boom, boom,
boom, and he's thinking what's going on here, and then suddenly,
at that stop, they say, they give his name and his friend's name,
this is your destination. Now he's hating it, because all there is
down there is the drink and dancing all night and, and then he
discovers about secrets. He discovers that his friend, this is
the perfect place for him. He loves to drink. This was his best
friend. This is a side that he did not know about his friends. Right?
And this guy loves to drink and womanizer and everything is
enjoying himself and this guy is trying to stop and the guy is
pleading with him his friend district just let me go let me go.
This is my time. And this person is in *, essentially. So
sometimes I've had to bring him back drunk in a headlock
essentially like this.
Now, imagine it on this island, you find yourself if you did
anything wrong with everything that's freely available for you.
Right who's gonna find out? Your mom is never going to find out no
What are you ever going to find except you and your friend is
going to know and he's already doing it. So why should he tell
anybody?
But no, he kept straight. This was taught, he goes, I did not feel an
inclination to do anything. When we got back he got I broke up with
a friend, a friend, you know, it was not a friend anymore.
Essentially, I lost a friend in that. I came back the next day,
the results came out the next day. And I got an acceptance. After all
of that, my mum comes up to me with a letter or his dad, I can't
remember exactly. He was accepted in King's College to do medicine.
And today, he's carried on. He's a bone surgeon, and he deals with
except F. Formula One, he does a lot of the sports sports
personalities. Now he's saying I came from no good GCSE, no good a
level marks to 29 rejections to then an acceptance. And then he's
a surgeon, and mashallah, he's such a wonderful man. Right? Now.
How do you fit further into all of this? He kept trying, number one.
But what Allah subhanaw taala wants to see is your
Righteousness, righteousness, the benefit that comes from
righteousness is amazing. The benefit that comes from
righteousness, it will provide you benefit from where you would never
think I give you another really weird example.
There's a mother as a student he's studying in another country in
India, he's studying in India, right? He finds out that in the
village where he lives, he finds out from a close really close
cousin of his that there's a loose girl in town who has committed
Zina right. Now, this is one of the bad things about, you know,
recently there was this WhatsApp message posted that went around
saying 45% of girls in US universities have committed Zina
and drunk and this that and other most of you must have seen that. I
think that's such a disservice. It is so disingenuous, and I think
it's very harmful, Xena is something that needs to be kept
concealed. And the reason is very simple. The one of one of the
causes, they say, for the sexual revolution and openness of sexual
appetite and vices and everything else that started in 1960s and
70s. Is because they a lot of people say it's due to the Kinsey
report. This is an Indiana there's this organization that does a Dr.
Kinsey who started coming up with all of these statistics saying
this many people have fantasized about the worst of things, animals
and young boys and young girls, and this, that and the other. Now,
when you listen to this, when you hear this, and you've had similar
found fantasies or bad ideas, sometimes shaytaan has put them in
your mind. And because the mind is open to these things, shaytaan can
put any thought in your mind, right? Our job is to just repel
them and to gain piety so that they come out. However, when you
read that, oh, other people, you know, sometimes when you feel it's
a taboo, I think like this, I must be such a bad person to think like
this. But when you see 50% of people think like this 80% of
people think like this, what are you going to think, hey, that's
normal? Do you understand? So I think it's very disingenuous to
put this out, it doesn't help people to think that that thing is
going to make people stop committing Zina is not going to do
that is going to actually make people think, oh, there's so many
other people doing it. It can't be that bad. Do you understand?
They'll find more people that way. Anyway, this mother is a student
who's studying the dean. But the shower desired is a young man, you
know, shower has overcome this person. So this friend of his
says, I can get her for you. I'm being very open. He says he can,
you know, he says he can get her for you. So the guy says Yes, next
time is too late. Now, the next time might come back in a holiday,
then have her ready. Right.
So the next time next time we'll have time off. I can't remember
the exact details. But when he comes back the next time, he's
fully ready for it. He's been waiting for this. He's never
committed Zillah never been right. But now he's really ready for
this. And you know what happens? For some reason, that girl had to
be somewhere else at that time.
Right? Despite all the planning, she had to be somewhere else. So
his his holiday is miserable.
But then he says this is a story he relates afterwards obviously.
He says that after that several years passed by then he gets
married. And he says Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah that never occurred
on that day. Because today when I get married, I am mashallah a
chaste individual who has never committed Zina beforehand. That
would have been the stumbling block. And once that would have
been done, it would have been done so many times. But Allah preserved
him, he was ready for the thing I'm trying to tell you here. He
was ready for it. He'd made up his mind. It was all planned. He was
looking forward to it. But Allah protected him by making that other
factor absent. Why? Because of the deen that he was studying. That
saved him. He didn't know that the Quran in his heart is a harvest of
the Quran, right? The Quran in his heart saved him.
Well, that's what I say that if you do
Good for people, that Allah will provide the benefit of that from
the factors that are not in your control. Those benefits will come
into your children as well. And there are so many people who are
absolute Jah Hill and ignorant individuals who can't even read
Quran properly. But today they are sitting as a son of movies. And
she called Hadith because of the goodness of their heart and their
respect for knowledge and the respect that they had for other
people. Because we have freewill. We have this window of freewill
right. But there are two things which govern our freewill. One is
internal factors. And one other second is the external factors.
What do I mean by that? I've got free will to do what I want.
However, I could wake up that morning, after deciding to go
whatever wherever I want, for example, if I wanted to go and see
the fireworks, but then suddenly I get up and I feel I feel I've got
a bloated stomach. Right? I'm having to run or I've got
diarrhea, for example, or somebody's sick with flu.
You can't go anymore. Full decision to go. But internal
factors have stopped you. Right. Another one is like the case of
that person about Xena his full decision. Free Will decision but
the external factors didn't work out. So external factors are in
the hands of Allah. internal feelings, what makes you sick? Why
do you feel tired some days, all of a sudden, some days you feel
fresh, some days you feel close, some days you feel far. All of
that is from Allah subhanaw taala. Yes, we have free will. But we
have not absolute power. Absolute power is in the hands of Allah. We
have free will, but not absolute power. That's why do as many good
deeds as possible. And you will see the benefits of that come from
IG places where you won't even realize and you try to do the
best. Now just read a few more Hadith you that tell us that
Quranic verse I mentioned about
whatever mercy becomes in the world or in your person it's in,
it's in a book that's written from before we even created you. That's
what Allah says. That is very simple for Allah. Now, he mentions
why, the kala that so Allah Martha tecum, this is so that you do not
you do not become sorrowful over what misses you. Once you've
missed it, then Halla sets, that was what Allah wanted. So you can
fall back on to the fact that Allah loves us. And he didn't want
us to have that. That's why we don't have it. But before we,
before we lose it, we have to try for it because we don't know
whether you're going to lose it or not. It's only after you lose it
that you must feel this way. Number two, well a tougher Habima
article. And if he does give you something, then don't start
attributing it to yourself. Don't start exalting. Don't start
boasting, thinking, I achieved this, this was me I am better than
everybody in the world. I am the superior being No, do not exalt
What are tougher. Who am I talking to? Not exactly what Allah gives
you. Because Allah subhanaw taala does not like all of those who are
arrogant and who are conceited. That is the purpose of destiny. If
you lose something, well, that's what Allah had in store for us.
He'll give us something better. That's the way a believer thinks.
Now
let me give you an example of
if you are about to do something wrong, there's a lot of people who
say Well, that's what Allah has destined for me. Right? somebody
commits haram. Oh, because Allah destined for me to do it. I'm
gonna do it. That's part of my destiny. How can you say that?
There's a another beautiful Hadith that is related by Imam Bukhari
and Muslim from Abu Huraira. The Hola, Juan. It's a debate or a
discussion rather, kind of a very interesting discussion between
Musa alayhis salam and his great great grandfather Adam Alayhis
Salam. It shows you the great softness of other Malay salaam,
and it shows you the boldness of Musa alayhis salam. And look what
happens. The prophets of Allah Islam said her, the Musa, the
Malays salaam had a discussion or a debate with Musa Ali salaam,
Musa alayhis salam said, until the a harsh the nurse, Amina Jana, be
them big wash data whom
it is you who caused people to come out of gymnasts and you made
them unfortunate
what a bold statement to make to other Malays around you cause
everybody to come out of Jannah because of the error that you
made, right. He obviously didn't say say it in that kind of a
sarcastic way obviously. But it's a very bold statement in that
sense. And you made them all unfortunate because they're not in
Janet's. Now look at the way this compassionate father, our great
grandfather
The response for cada Adam nimasa until the stuffer, Allah will be
decided that he will be Konami you're the one who Allah specially
selected for his messenger ship and to speak to you specifically
what kind of Allah who Musa crema at the loo Mooney Allah Amarin
cutterbar Hula, hula Allah your cobbler. And yeah, hello Connie
Are you censoring me and taunting me censoring me for something that
Allah wrote that I was going to do before I was even created?
Now the question here is, is an other one a Salam using duck deed
as an excuse,
or the Melissa is using Tractatus? And he says, Are you blaming me
for something that Allah wrote for me to do before I was even
created? In fact, in another version of this hadith, it says a
loony Allah Ameen. kodra Allahu Allah Coppola and Yolo. County
Barbarina. Armen, are you blaming me for something that Allah wrote
for me to do predestined for me to do 14 years before He created me?
Are you blaming me for that?
Now let's look at the judgment of the Prophet salallahu ideas and
Profit and Loss I'm set for Hajj, the mimosa, or the Muslim bee to
Saudi slamming that debates meaning he overcame his argument
why he's using Qatar, you're not allowed to use Qatar to justify a
wrongdoing. Alright. It's simple. You can do it after the fact. You
can use Qatar to feel better after the fact you can use it before the
fact you've got an opportunity to sin. You can't say well, that's my
destiny. I'm going to do it. As somebody came to Amara, the island
he went to drink is because of destiny on one of them says well,
I'll hit you and and and punish you also according to the destiny
of Allah subhanaw taala. Right, because it's destiny once you've
done it right now, you cannot use it. Oh, this is my destiny. That's
what I'm going to do this haram that's the way I am. No, if you've
done something in the past, done and dusted. That's my destiny.
Now, future is a different destiny. That's what this hadith
teaches us. Very important. Okay, now let's look at a few Hadith
about this. There's a hadith recorded by Imam Bukhari and
Muslim the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, Man Sabra who a noob
settle up SatoLA houfy risky, where you insert hula hula fee, a
35 year seal Rahima who
anybody who pleases that they be given expansion in their
sustenance, expansion in their wealth, their sustenance, they
Rosie risk, and they be given more
length in the stay in the world that could mean longer life, for
example, right? Then what does does he do? If he wants Baraka in
those things, he should be good with his kinship.
Go and do some color color. Don't feel bad about going to visit your
relatives, be good with your relatives, your blood relatives,
tie the knots of kinship, you will get Baraka, you will get increase
expansion in your risk and in your lifespan. Now, of course, there's
two meanings here, it could be that you get a few extra years, or
you get this many more pounds or food or whatever. Or it could mean
that the amount that you do get you get more barakah in it. So
it's either quantitative or qualitative. At the same time, it
is talking about a change though. So if it's written you're going to
get this much then why is it that you can change it? Right number
two,
there's another Hadith narrated by Imam Tabara and he which it's
mentioned in the title he and the sadaqa. Tell Muslim? Does he do
filler Omar what that means that a su way of have Allah, Allah Hu b
b, el Kebir, AlFar sadaqa, voluntary charity any kind of
charity
of a Muslim, it increases your life.
It increases your life. It removes a bad death it repels a bad death
you give sadaqa it will repel a bad death. And Allah will remove
your arrogance and conceit by it. Again is talking about change by
action. How does that relate to other number three. Now the Hadith
related by taba Ronnie and Hakeem again in Al Bella our dua.
Calamity and Doha. So calamity is being sent to you. Right? It's
about to afflict you. Accident shortfall, lose your job, whatever
it is, and do ah, that you've just done
by in a summer you will have the actor to learn. They become locked
into battle between the heaven and earth.
They become locked into battle between the Heaven and Earth
imagined calamity coming down. They are going up and it stops it
there. It keeps it fighting there until
where it will Bella Coppola onionsand your DUA will prevent
this calamity from coming down upon you. So again, what's going
on here? What is written? If it's written how is this being
unchanged is a simple answer to all of this is not as complicated
as you think.
Okay, now
let's understand that this divine tablet we spoke about in which
everything is written, There are two types of things written in,
there are things that are written in two types. There are two types
of duck, the one is called Duck, the rubrum. And another one is
called taqdeer Moloch. Don't worry about the Arabic words. One is
called the firm destiny. And the other one is the contingent
dependent destiny, that's all you have to remember, the firm one
will never change, the day you are going to be born is not going to
change for you. There's a number of other factors that are not
going to change. Right? The duck the moral luck are those things
which go with those Hadith if a person makes dua. It says in
there, it's like, you know, in your and this is a very bad
example, but just to conceptualize, you know, when
you're playing a game, and it has many levels, and it's a
complicated game, where if you go this way, and you complete this,
then it opens up this side for you. And if you go this way, then
it opens this door for you. And there's a whole different world.
Do you understand? So in the,
in the divine tablets, the two options are written there? Is he
going to be good with his relatives or not? That's what the
angels see. And it said that if he is good, then give him this much
expansion. If he is bad, then give him Don't give him expansion.
That's what they can see. Now the person with his free will, is
good. So the rest of this is opened up. He is good. Expansion.
Okay, let's close this door. Let's carry on with this way. This is
exactly what Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran, yam Hala, who
Maya Shah where you fit. Allah erases what he wants and keeps
firm what he wants. This is exactly here. But we're in the WHO
Amal kitab. But he has the mother of all the books, which is the
knowledge of Allah in there, nothing changes. He knows whether
you are going to be good about it. He knew the track you are going to
take anyway. But what's written in the divine tablet is in this form.
So according to the angels and you in the creatures, there's that
possibility of increase or decrease? Do you understand just
for us to be able to interact with that, but Allah knows what we're
going to do. That's why you make dua, how do I affect it? I'll give
you an example.
There is another Hadith which is related by Buhari again. The
Sahaba asked the Prophet salallahu Salam ya rasool Allah and listen
to this carefully said Ya rasool Allah, Allah ate a duet and Nevada
we
were rockin master key we were to connect Akiba held the root domain
Cuadrilla, he che and
now all the possible things you could use to change something,
right? They ask the Rasul Allah, you know, these medicines that we
take, and we use to cure ourselves with, or the rakia that we do,
that we use to cure ourselves with, or the abstinence, you know,
when the doctor tells you don't eat this don't eat that is
supposed to help you, you know, that's too cold for you, that's
too hot for you. For example, what about the abstinence that we use?
Does that change Qatar in any way? Look at the answer. What do you
think the answer is? For Canada, him in Qatar, Allah, they are all
part of the culture of Allah, that Allah knows you're going to use
this. That's how it's, he knows what you're going to do. That's
how it's all factored in. But for us, we don't know. For us we take
it as it comes. That's why don't ever think you know, what's going
to happen after 10 years? Because you don't know you don't even know
it's gonna have to borrow, right? The element of some other taxi
bajada you don't even know what you're gonna earn tomorrow. So how
can you think you are doomed and you're going to die going to *?
How do you know that there is enough time enough place in the
Goodship jumpship? Come on, brothers, there's enough space
here. It's empty. There's lots of space, right? So that's why people
stood should stop feeling depressed, as bad as their life
has been as sinful as they have been. Because it's all part of the
culture of Allah. That's why Allah, Lucy says that, you know,
among all of these factors, Dawa
abstinence rokeya, the most powerful is dA, but it's still
another factor. Just as these things could be used by Allah to
so called give you an excuse to do something. For example, you know,
when you make a vow,
if this happens, I'll give this much money to the masjid. If I
come first in my exam, or if I get this job, then I'll pay 1000
donation to the masjid. Right. Now, does that really change the
technique for you? Because you're gonna give 1000 Allah says, Yeah,
please, you know, I need that. 1000 No, the Prophet sallallahu
sallam said, nothing happens. According to Allah, nothing
happens for you. It's just a way to remove wealth from a bucking
person.
Right, because you're only going to give as much as you think is
valuable to you. So it's just giving well I mean, nothing is
going to change, but if that makes you feel good Al Hamdulillah. So
when you look at it from the human being, that all of these factors
come into play, but from Allah subhanaw taala. He knows it.
All. And that's why the best way to explain the relationship
between us and Allah is that we have to just focus on us. We feel
freewill, we feel it, we experience it, we know it. And
there's two verses which I forgot to mention that prove it. Allah
which I read right in the beginning, Allah says, work will
help. Komarov become.
Say that truth is from your Lord Firmen Shah affiliate min woman
SHA affiliate for whoever wants, they can believe whoever wants
they can disbelieve Allah is giving choice. That's the choice
that people have been taking in the world, none of us insert will
insert the first one from certain calf, this one sort of insulin in
the heat of gira. This is a reminder, from insha Allah that
Allah be sebelah whoever wants they can find a path to Allah.
Whoever doesn't want they don't have to find a path. So it's the
choice is ours is Allah and Farrokh just try to do the best
for yourself. That's why Allah subhana wa Tada says, we're
calling MaryLu for say Allahu Allah can you say say oh Prophet,
you do your deeds, make your efforts, try hard. Allah is going
to watch you. Allah is going to watch you Oh my god. Hola. Hola,
yo creo que la Hebe nobody knows the Unseen. Walmart can Allah Who
nuclear Kamala Liebe sort of Ali Imran Allah says, Allah doesn't
have to make anybody privy to the unseen. Allah is not going to
reveal the unseen to anybody. That's his knowledge. That's his
knowledge.
Now we must avoid bad things possibly coming to us and a bad
ending. Because Allah does say in sorted sod want to be ill,
however, for you will the cancer be the law, don't keep following
your lowly desires and your Caprice so that it will misguide
you deviate you from from the Path of Allah. So you might think that
you're doing well good but you keep doing these little wrongs.
They will eventually affect you they could affect you because
Allah may hate something of that you do like that and just wash
away everything. So we need to try to be further Mirza who Azov Allah
Kuba, whom Surah to serve Walla Walla del Carmen faceting. It's
when they do when they cause some crookedness that Allah
made their hearts crooked. It comes from us first before Allah
will gullible Rana Allah Kurumi him, their hearts have become
rusted totally, because of some deed that the Furby Maka sabich
Globacom is because of what you did. So remember that, if you keep
doing good, Allah will provide the baraka in these other factors that
will come to you. And that's why I give you another one example.
Right? Another one another one example, how Allah works in so
mysterious ways, right?
I went to when I went to India last time, I visited the doctor
beforehand. And he gave me three different tablets, one of those
tablets, he said, I'm giving you a double size, because I want you to
take 500 grams or something. So if I give you the double ones, I'm
not gonna give you 750, I'll give you the 1001. So you can break it
in half, so you can only have half. Now, I was in a big rush
beforehand. So I got the medicine. And then I had the two diabetes
medicines. I went to India, and one of the diabetes medicines,
which are only supposed to take 50 or 500 grams, I can't remember
anymore, right.
I ran out of so I went to a chemist. And I said I want this
particular medicine. He gave me the medicine. And little did I
know that these are double the size? Because you know, I didn't
know, right? So
I may have taken it one day. But the next day I suddenly it
occurred to me that the doctor had told me only take half of this.
I thought half of this, but I was confused, but I thought to be
safe. Okay, I'll just break him in half and half half. I come back
home after a few weeks. And I check and I you know, I jeep. I
was totally wrong.
But I was right. It's really weird. But I was wrong. But I was
right. The reason why I was wrong is it was not this medicine. He
told me take half of he had given me the right amounts I'd run out
of them. The ones I bought were double the size. I was caused to
think that these were the ones he had spoken about. Thus I started
taking the right amount which was half the base. Do you understand?
Because when I came on I saw the other way which I didn't have to
take them right that that was the one he told me to take half of.
But do you see how Allah works? Now I wish he did this for me all
the time and all good things. Right? This is just a random to me
random, but to Allah subhanaw taala calculated example. This is
the way Allah works behind the veil. For me, I was thinking now
what's wrong with my mind, but that what's wrong with my mind was
a good factor. Because it saved me from taking doubler because
Though it's what you call those, it lowers your blood sugar. So you
could actually become hypo glycemic. And you know, faint if
you take too much of those tablets because it just drops your blood
sugar, right?
IgM how Allah subhanaw taala works, and I'm sure everybody has
factors of unexplainable things, you don't know how many calamities
you have, and I have been saved from just because you do regularly
you do too, you may be doing to ask for success in your exams, you
may be doing the odd to get married to such and such a person,
or to get this done the other, that thing hasn't come to you, you
still haven't got that thing, right. But every dua that you
made, has stopped a calamity from coming to you. Now, if you say I
don't know that, because I haven't seen the record of all of these
things, then just don't make the offer a while and see what
happens.
I don't think you want to risk that. But believe me, every dollar
that we make every good deed that we do, there's a benefit from it,
there's a benefit from it. And the only time wrong will happen to us
in our mind, is when Allah wants it to happen. Now, when I, when I
got a bit, when I did pause a bit about talking about death. The
reason is that, according to Allah, our death is written,
according to Allah and His al Kitab. But because I was speaking
about the divine tablets, the divine tablet will, could have two
options in there, that if he's good with his kin, give him
another five years. Or it could also mean give him more Baraka in
the 60 years that he already has. But if you remember the story,
when other Melissa was shown all of his progeny, and he liked the
look of Tao that is, right. When he was shown in, in after he was
created, he was shown all of his progeny, and it was a person with
a spark, who's that he says, oh, that's the who that is. He says
give him 40 years of my life.
So when 40 years were left of other Muslims life, Adam ism kept
thinking he had his full life he forgot afterwards. Right? And the
angel of death comes to him and says, time to go, this is why I've
got 40 years left. You and I can't say that. But he knew in the
prophets at all and other people are told when they're gonna die
sometimes. Right? So he's about you gave that to though that
Islam.
He says Nasir Adam, or the Muslim forgot. So his ummah forgets as
well. All right. But anyway, clear, that's an interesting
story. The main thing is that keep doing do not become depressed. All
those people who are listening to this sitting at home, wherever and
you are depressed about something and you think nothing is going
right. Your job, your responsibility is not to think the
worst. You could have had 1015 2030 years of the most evil.
Believe me, I've seen a guy I've seen a guy what happened is we
were going from Stockton, we were we were going from Sacramento in
California to
I believe Stockton or Lodi or somewhere like that, and a friend
of ours, right, who was going through some bad time, had gone
through a bad divorce. And he had older children. And his wife was
just causing massive problems, because through the children, one
of those really bad scenes that happened. And he was always kind
of depressed, right. But he always stuck with good people he did. His
dad did pray and everything like that. And I used to feel so sorry
for him. I used to feel really sorry for him. What happens is
we're going and we all got into the cars, he got into the wrong
car and ended up in another session. Right? And after that
later on, he's brought back here. And then he says to us, he says
that's the story of my life.
What happened today is the story of my life. I try to go somewhere
I end up somewhere else. Right. That's how he felt at that time.
hamdulillah today, after so many proposals and things, he's found a
good woman to marry. And subhanAllah his two children who
have been corrupted by their mother have both turned to Islam
properly, even though in his absence. His dad your prayer has
prayed has definitely paid off. Because I know he used to cry and
pray. He's a wealthy man. But I know he used to do this today
after 10 years, and I've known him for about 10 years but after 10
years, I can say he's a happy man today. He's a happy man today
Allah has shown him happiness because he did not give up. He did
not give up. That was the story of his life then today he's a
different person. Remember you can be a different person. You can be
a different person never give up. Allah has so much ability and
nothing is beyond his control. Allah subhanaw taala help us work
through that Oh Anna and Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen
so make a quick to Allah Mantis Allah willing because Salam Turok,
the other generally with the Quran Allah how many
medical studies
Allahu Ahad Nana Yamuna, you know he landed Subhanak in La Quinta
Hammond avoiding Oh Allah except our to our house. Oh Allah except
our please. Oh Allah
We are sitting here have Allah we have many issues in our life of
Allah we have committed many misdeeds of Allah. Our hearts are
polluted of Allah if people are to realize what's going on in our
hearts and what we do in our, in our in our lives, people would not
want to be with us. But Allah, we pour these hearts out to you in
front of you because we know Your Mercy knows no bounds. Oh Allah we
are sitting in this Masjid today, when many people will be outside
and drinking away this night. Oh Allah. Oh Allah, although this is
by Your grace that we're even sitting here today. Oh Allah if
you had not wanted it, we would not be here. Oh Allah, you have
made all of these factors easy for us. Oh Allah, if you have brought
us into this Masjid tonight. Then Allah grant us also forgiveness
before we leave, Oh Allah, it's not beyond you. If you brought us
here and allowed us to sit in this blessing house of yours. You know
Allah your blessing can also come upon us and can come with us. Oh
Allah, Oh Allah purify our hearts of Allah make them the way you
want them to be of Allah we try and we fail. Oh Allah we can. Oh
Allah grant a strength, grant a strength. Allow us to understand
what is to our benefit and allow us to make that effort of Allah
because your mercy. Oh Allah is great. Your rivers of Your mercy
are constantly flowing. Oh Allah, we just need a drop of that Mercy
of Allah. Why should we be deprived of Allah? Oh Allah. You
even told Musa and Harun Ali salam to speak softly to somebody like
Pharaoh, who used to call himself God. Oh Allah. He used to say hon
Kamal, Allah, Oh Allah, we are Your believers who Say Subhan
Allah, Allah. Oh Allah, even the worst of us when he prays, they
pray to you, they prostrate to you. Oh Allah, we got nothing, not
much to show. The only thing we've got to show is that we relate to
you. We worship you, we call you our God and Allah we know your
mercy will help us. Oh Allah, we know your mercy will help us.
Otherwise sins have become part and parcel of our life to such a
degree that we don't even think their sins anymore. Oh Allah,
they've become part of the norm of our life. calamities are
surrounding us. challenges come about, Oh Allah, we ask You for
strength. We ask You for connection with you. Oh Allah
bless those who made this program possible. Bless all those who are
sitting here. Bless all those that are listening and couldn't be
here, but are still here with us in spirit. Now Allah bless all of
those that are listening to this. Oh Allah grant us all forgiveness,
grant us all Baraka in our lives of Allah protect us and our
children until the day of judgment from all the evils and challenges
that are out there. And Oh Allah, we asked you for nothing less than
genital fear those, even though we are such great sinners, but Allah
grant us the ability and the baraka, oh Allah and we ask you
for one final thing that you send your abundant blessings in our
messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa salam, and you grow into
this company in the hereafter. Subhan Allah because Allah isn't
here. I'm ILC funa was salam ala moana, Serena Al Hamdulillah.