Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Du’a and Taqwa Miracle

Another example, a friend of mine, again, who was in my community, he

used to work for a. And he does, he works for a software firm

accounting software niche niche.

And he's been with them for a number of years. He's a very good

employee of theirs and so on. And he had a mortgage on his house.

Now interest based mortgage, he's been trying to come out of it for

a number of years, I know, he's been trying to pay off as much as

possible, so he doesn't have to involve himself in the fuser,

right, that, you know, we've had so much problems within the last

several years with the whole economy coming down because of

the, you know, the leverage and so on. Anyway, so he wants to get

himself out of this.

He probably makes a decent amount, maybe, you know, $100,000, maybe

more, I don't know. But he came to visit me two years ago. And he

says, This is what happened.

In Ramadan.

I was really praying to Allah, that helped me really relieve me

of this debt. Right, relieved me of the steps. And it just occurred

to me one evening, one night, that you know, what, he came up with a

crazy idea. And believe me.

It was, I mean, when you hear it, he wrote an email to his manager

to his boss of the company. He says,

I know this sounds crazy or whatever. But, you know, this is

what my proposal is, can you pay me for my whole year salary

upfront, and then I will work for free for the next 12 months?

So if that's $100,000, for example, can you pay me $100,000

within the next week or two, because I've got a mortgage to pay

off. And then I'll work for free for the rest of the 12 months

fulfilling my contracts, which boss is going to do that for you?

Right, which boss is going to do that for your brother wouldn't do

that for you? Right? You know, so I don't know, you know, blah,

blah. So he writes his email, there's no harm in it. The worst

he can say is no, he's not going to throw him out of the company.

Right. So the next morning, he goes to work.

I don't even remember if you remember who he is, you know, what

his anticipation was. His boss meets him at the door. He says,

you know, gone see the finance department, we've got a proposal

fee. We thought there must be something maybe they give me you

know, 10,000, extra 20,000, whatever it goes to them, they

said, Look, this is what we're going to do for you. We're going

to give you your yearly salary upfront.

That's what he asked for. Right? He got it says dumbstruck already,

your whole year salary upfront, then, for the next 12 months,

we're gonna give you 50% of your salary for the next two years,

which will make up your next year's salary, so that you're not

without a salary for any of these months.

So full salary upfront for this year, the next year salary cut

distributed over the two years, over the 24 months.

This is something this is not out of, it is not our book, it's not

medical, believe me, this is what happened. This is what he told me

himself.

What I'm trying to say is that as Muslims, we call to a higher

power, we believe

we are we are occasional lists, which means that everything that

happens in this world, including a leaf that follows God is behind

it. God is not a mundane entity, a passive entity. You know, some

people believe that God, there is no God, then you've got those who

believe in God, they some of them believe that God created

everything, gave each thing its intrinsic ability to do what it

does. And then he's taken a back seat. Out of those some people

will believe that God can interfere and yet there are others

who believe that God cannot interfere. But as Muslims Wallah

yeah who do who have the will now what are you loving him? If you

just read the throne verse in the Quran, one of the most powerful

verses of the Quran tells you, Allah is in control of everything,

every movement that takes place, and it doesn't. It's not it

doesn't wear him out. It doesn't tie him for us. We would think,

well, let's delegate. We get more work done before Allah, He can do

countless and multiple things together one any one time, and he

can be permitting things to happen. That's just who God is.

And we must not make him any less than that. We must not make him

any less than that.

And Allah subhanho wa Taala says, God says in a Divine narration and

in the Vani RDB,

which means I am as the servant thinks of me, I am as the servant

thinks of me, which means that if you think God can do this for you

and your reliance is there, then it will happen. Now, that does

mean for higher things to be achieved, it does require a higher

set of reliance, which needs to be learned