Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Du’a The Essence of Worship
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Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim.
hamdulillah who have been either mean or Salatu was Salam ala
Sayidina Muhammad what are the early he will be of our
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My dear respected brothers and sisters As Salam aleikum, wa
rahmatullah wa barakato.
The topic I was given for today is
I forget the exact official title, but it's something to do with
Doha. I'm sure Doha is something which
everybody resorts to. And if you go and speak to a bookstore, as an
academy, or any of these other places, you will probably find
that one of the most frequently selling book will be $1 book. And
there's no end to them, but hamdulillah people are so
interested in to us, it's something that people resort to
all the time. Now, the thing is that the people of Makkah, at the
time of the loss of Allah Hardy, who was salam, with some very
important message that the prophets of Allah is important to
them, and not just to them, but also to the philosophers and those
who had kind of a Hellenistic philosophical view of God and
Allah subhanho wa taala, and the way this world works, and so on
and so forth. So, essentially, what you had is that the people of
NACA, they did not believe in speaking about one Allah, they had
so many intermediaries that if they if anybody way that okay
Allah who was the WHO Ishmael Kulu boom, if Allah subhanho wa taala,
was mentioned alone,
then
those people who don't believe in the hereafter, their hearts would
feel really bad. They wouldn't like the mention of Allah subhanaw
taala alone, they had so much love for the intermediaries for these
idols, that they have stood in between themselves and the one
creator. So they obviously did not believe in calling Unto Allah
subhanaw taala directly, they will actually go and maybe make an
offering to one of these idols and then ask whatever they have to do.
Allah subhanaw taala tried to give them an understanding that that's
not the correct way, then you have the philosopher's. Now, their
thing was a bit different. Their perspective was that Allah
subhanho wa Taala had created this world. And unfortunately, this is
a kind of a modern perspective as well, in the sense that there are
people who think they believe in God, they believe in God, but they
think that God is passive. They think that He created everything,
and now he's taking back seats, in the sense that he cannot intervene
anymore in the affairs of the universe. Unfortunately, this is a
belief that prevails through many religions, not as a religious
belief, but as a belief within the religion held by certain
individuals or groups within that religion. It's something that you
will, the more materialistic you become, that is how that is where
you get to because you're unable to reconcile the existence of good
and evil in this world. Um, let me leave the theological aspects
because that does get a bit complicated. The main thing
though, is that they would never call Unto Allah subhanaw taala
directly because they thought Allah subhanaw taala had created
everything. Everything had come from Allah, and now he was not in
the picture, he could not intervene, everything had its own
ability. So fire has its own ability to burn, etc, etc.
So the prophets of Allah had to deal on many fronts. But
initially, what the prophets Allah some did was what is up everybody,
Anthony for in the courage to show that Allah subhanaw taala is
close, that when My servants ask you about me say that I am close,
would you do that with $1? Either they earn and I respond to those
who call on to me whenever they call on to me to show that Allah
subhanaw taala is there he's available in his clothes. Number
two,
to give them an understanding that the real bestow of good and evil
is none other than Allah subhanahu wa Tada. And thus Allah subhanho
wa Taala says
that in the loveliness that goodwill and actually well after
the Roman Lunella, Himalayan federal cola took, do not call on
to anyone fun to those asides from Allah subhanho wa taala, who
cannot benefit you or who can deny the harm you. So trying to remove
that distorted understanding that harm and benefit came from these
idols? Number three, that if you don't ask Allah do your Creator.
Remember they used to believe that Allah is the Creator. But then
they had brought all of these people in between. So then he
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam established for them that
Allah actually gets angry with you if you don't ask him. All of this
relates to us as well. All of this relates to us as well. So then,
in the Linus, tech guru and I birded on a birdie said
Who's gonna Johanna muda hearing those who are too arrogant to
worship, my worship, then they will enter into the Hellfire in a
state of total failure and loss.
Minh in numerous other Hadith I'm going to have to wrap this up very
quickly because we have very limited amount of time, the
prophets of Allah Allah Himself added manlam Yes, Allah, Yehuda
Bardi.
Whoever does not ask Allah Allah gets angry with him. How many of
us is Allah angry with? When's the last time that we seriously did a
proper dua from our hearts. Not just that we raised our hands and
said a few things that we've memorized. But where our heart
connected with Allah, we had that intimacy, where we actually
understood that everything can only come from Allah, and not only
in the time of grief, but also in a time of thankfulness, when we've
actually thanked Allah subhanaw taala how many of us actually
include gratefulness to Allah subhanaw taala in our doors, we
all turn to Allah subhanho wa Taala when there's a difficulty,
but how many of us dedicate a portion of our dua just to thank
Allah for the numerous bounties that He's given us and the
bounties that Allah subhanaw taala has given us an infinite, because
he's given us life in this world and Iman by which we can earn
paradise. He's given us the fact that he's happy with us by being
making us Muslims. And the bounties in Paradise will be
eternal forever. That bounty on its own is uncountable, because it
will be forever. So how many of us dedicate even 10% of our dollars
just to sit and thank Allah for a few of the bounties make this as
part of our dua? I mean, this is something that we all need to do.
Now, when you look at the two hours of Rasulullah sallallahu,
some of the books are filled with them. You've got many huge
collections by mom no elf car. Yo me well, Leila ignore claims
collection. Ignacio nice collection is numerous collections
of doors, the doors of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam from a
perspective of Arabic literature. For those who are connoisseurs of
language and understand language, from a grammatical perspective, a
perspective of eloquence and impact of the words that are used
of the expressions that are formulated of the conciseness by
which the Prophet salallahu Salam is asking what he's asking, right
straight to the point, great conviction, right, just a powerful
dua, they stand on their own. The doors of Rasulullah salAllahu
alayhi salam, if you were to study them independently, you will find
that they stand in a position of their own, because what you have
in the doors of Rasulullah sallallahu, that you will have not
having anybody else's do ah, is the fact that you have got the
conviction of a messenger speaking, you've got the light of
Prophethood within it. And you've got the servitude of the highest
servant ever to live in this world. So you've got the greatest
art, the one who had recognized his position with ALLAH SubhanA wa
Tada Subhanallah, the SRB Abdi that's the individual who's
speaking, he's got that conviction, he's got that can
confidence of a prophet, and the light of a messenger. When those
things come together, then eloquence of language, the Prophet
sallallahu sallam said, I was divinely granted the power of
speech, to say things in very short to say things in very few
words, but that could mean so many meanings, called the jerami on
Kelim, OTT Java, me, I'll call him as the Prophet sallallahu sallam
said, Come ability to formulate comprehensive statements.
So when you look at these doors, a few words, but they include
everything, and we're going to look at a few of these doors. And
believe me, by the end of this, if you do not want to start making
these doors, then there's something there's a problem with
us. Because they're so comprehensive, that if just one
day, we're making these doors every day, if just one day one of
these doors to be accepted our life of this world and the
Hereafter is sorted.
It's done, because you will understand from the comprehensive
nature of the DUA. This may be something that you haven't heard
before, I'm not giving you total heat towards dua by giving you the
Hadith that speak about you probably heard of the many times,
we're going to go into the doors and we're going to look at what
Rasulullah sallallahu is saying. Now,
if you look at the details of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
salam, you will see the eloquence one other thing I'd like to
clarify this probably a question on many people's minds that in
order to do Gujarati, and I'm not sure in in Bengali, but you can
let me know when we speak to Allah subhanho wa Taala when we make dua
to him, we actually use instead of saying to them or we actually say
to
right, I don't I you know, instead of using like the kind of royal
plural the respective plural we speak very casually, very
informally. You say to
As much as and the reason for that even though you're speaking to
Allah subhanho wa Taala has this been in anybody's mind is this
question occurred to anybody? Yeah. The reason for this is quite
clear. This is such an intimate and a personal moment that all
barriers are broken. It's to make us understand that we're speaking
to Allah subhanho wa taala. We've got access to Allah, Allah has
made us close and he's brought himself close that asked me what
you want. Ask me informally break down these barriers, speak without
any pretense and speak as you would speak when you need
something, recognizing your your servitude and your need. Because
when you make dua to Allah subhanho wa Taala it's the highest
form of worship. The prophets of Allah Himself said a door
neighbor, or a door. Who will do our is Eva dA is the kernel of
Riba. When you're asking Allah subhanaw taala for your need. How
is that worship? You recognize worship as something that you do?
When you're showing respect to someone? When you're doing
something for someone to worship them? Why is it that when you're
asking them for your personal need, ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada,
you're asking Allah for your personal need, how does that
become worship? The reason it becomes worship is because in
fact, the most awesome said it's one of the highest forms, it's the
essence of worship, the essence, the kernel of something. The
reason is, when you make solid, your mind could be somewhere else.
When you're doing anything else, your mind could be somewhere else,
you could have a different intention. But if you're making a
serious dua to Allah subhanaw taala, what is the dua then the
only reason you are making that die is because you recognize your
need, and the only one that can accomplish that need for you is
Allah. So you are putting him in a higher position that you are doing
in any other than in any other situation. That's when we're
talking about a serious a good, serious dollar that you're making.
So one needs to recognize that that's the power of dua. Now let's
look at the Prophet sallallahu Allison's dua.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam has become a bit despondent
with the people of
Medina of Makkah. Makara. They're not listening to him. They have
opposed him, this is during his monkey life. He decides to go to
PA F. I don't want to go through the whole story of five because
it's probably something that all of you have heard. Right? Anybody
not heard the story of five
people are going to be embarrassed to say it.
Okay? Higher to sahab, actually Hezekiah to Sahaba for de la mala.
The first story in there, right? One of your friends should point
it out. If I have time afterwards. I'll explain it to you. Okay.
Because I'm not here to tell stories today. He went into ta F
and he came out. He felt in a state of failure because they had
pelted him with stones. He'd gone there to give them guidance,
right? I'm speaking to an Australian brother.
So
sorry,
Ridwan. Surely mashallah, I got a friend now.
With one year my friend from now, okay.
So he goes in there to make Dawa to the three tribes, the three
chiefs, they don't listen to him, they gave him these weird answers,
he comes out, forsaken thy strength, send the street urchins
after him. He is coated in blood. He goes and he takes refuge in
this orchard outside the city. Now put yourself into that position.
And think how you would be feeling? What would your emotional
state be? What was the state of your heartbeat? That you've gone
there because you felt despondent with your own community? You
thought these people would listen to you? But they didn't listen to
you as well. Now you've come out you're caked in blood. Would you
be angry? Would you be sad? What would you be? What kind of a
failure would you feel? Think of the state of Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam at the time. However, this is his daughter to
Allah subhanho wa Taala that you can imagine that any dua that came
out there from Rasulullah sallallahu his heart would be so
powerful would be so perfect in what he was speaking about. And in
what he was discussing. This is his dua, he says Hola, Houma, la
Kirsch Gu Darfur, Guwahati welcome letter healty will hawan er the
nurse and Dr. hamre he mean untolerable most other I feel
we're under rugby in the kidney in a bar Eden Yetta. Johanna Guney
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Shaka Zulu Matt was Sahaja he Umbra duniya will mean yeah
Hendren a Yehovah book what a yen Zilla be Sarthak laka
wala Quwata illa Beck. And if only you could understand this from
directly the Arabic language you would appreciate the eloquence the
impactful nature, the direct nature of this dua. This is what
the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam said
Oh ALLAH unto you, did I do I complain of my weakness?
Of my helplessness and of my loneliness before men, OH Most
Merciful, of the Merciful. He's blaming himself. He's blaming his
own weakness is not that they didn't listen to me. You didn't
help me. Imagine your state.
When the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam came out of PIF,
something else had taken place, which is mentioned in the story is
the angel of the mountains had come by if he's in a valley, and
the angel does that,
out of compassion for rasool Allah Salah and seeing what had happened
to him, give me the order. And I would have these two mountains
come together and crush everybody in everybody that's between them.
Now, anybody else may have thought that that would be a great idea,
but Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was obviously on a whole
different level with this. So this is the dua that he reads, not to
repeat the DUA again, but the translation if you ponder over the
translation, you should understand what the Prophet sallallahu was
saying. So firstly, he says, Oh Allah unto you do I complain, my
weakness,
of my helplessness, and of my loneliness before men that they
don't respect me, almost Merciful of the merciful, You are the Lord
of the week.
You are, my lord, into whose hands will you entrust me and to some
far off stranger who will Ill treat me or unto some foe who you
have given power over me. If you are not angry with me, then I
cannot.
But for your favoring hope, for it is the broader way.
I seek refuge in the light of Your countenance whereby all darkness
is illuminated, and the affairs of this world, and the next are
rightly ordered. Lest you cause your anger to descend upon me,
he's still fearful that he hasn't done his job sufficiently. After
all of that, after being penalized for it, being persecuted for it,
he is still feeling that he hasn't done enough that he is, it's his
lowliness among the men. And he's saying, as long as you're, you're
happy with me, then I care not about anything else. So he says,
lest you cause your anger to descend upon me, and your wrath to
be said to me. It is yours to reproach me, to turn me off, it's
yours to reproach me until you are well pleased. There is no power,
no mind except you. Only a man who understands his level with Allah
and the level of Allah, above all, of the universe, only that person
could say something like this.
And it's $1 that you and I can use, especially if you're in the
field of Dawa and you have gone somewhere and it hasn't worked out
for you, and you're feeling bad and you're feeling in fact, angry,
because you went out of your way to show your kindness. You went
and favored them, you help them, you assisted them, and you did
whatever you could and they still rebuked you. This is the dua This
is our response, because it's all in the hands of Allah subhanaw
taala. Let's go forward to alpha, alpha is that day of the year when
shaytaan is not seen more despicable at any other day.
shaytaan stands on the sides and he sees the people. He sees the
Mercy of Allah subhanahu wa taala depend descend upon the people in
such abundance, that he is seen as so humiliated, meaning shaytaan
become so humiliated, so despondent, so hopeless, that he
could mislead anybody on that day because Allah subhanaw taala wants
to just shower everybody with mercy. Now on that day, you are
responsible. You've got 124,000 Sahaba, who have embraced you who
have embraced your religion. This is the Prophet salallahu Alaihe
Salam I'm speaking about. Now, imagine on that day, you're among
124,000 people, the majority of which are probably clad in white
clothing, all the same in front of Allah subhanaw taala, totally, in
a level of submission, a level of
emotion, the emotion, emotional connection with the divine, what
is the dua that's going to come from a messenger at that time?
What what words could come out of the mouth of a prophet of Allah, a
messenger of Allah? Now I say, a prophet and a messenger, because
you should realize that there's a difference between the two. Not
all prophets were messengers, there were only 330
You know 315 messengers that those who brought a new way and you
should hear like Ibrahim and Musa and Isa and Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, otherwise how do not listen I was not a messenger,
he was just a prophet.
So the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam was both. This is the dua
that he makes it out of.
He says hola Houma in Nikka Tessmer Ocala AMI what tarama
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Colleen, we are here on monotreme.
Just look at the way the promise of Lawson frames his words. What
he says first, that he positions himself. If you if you look at any
of these doors, he's not saying Oh Allah, this happened forgive me.
Oh Allah just give me this give me this. He doesn't go into asking
straight away. He builds up the story he he shows what exactly his
position is. You have to praise Allah, you have to show who he is
and what you are and why you're asking him. So look, this is
this is what he says, Oh Allah, you can hear my speech. You can
hear me speaking. You see where I am and my situation and my
circumstance, you know, my inside and my outside, you know, my inner
self, and my external self. None of that is hidden from you. If
none of that is none of my matter, none of my matter is concealed
from you. I am the afflicted one, the poor and needy one, the one
who is seeking your support and your help and your refuge, the one
who is in pain and who is trembling, the one who is
confessing of my sin, the one who is confessing of my sin, I ask
you, like the poor person asks you and I intrigued and pray to you
humbly like the humiliated sinner prays to you.
He's really showing that I need your help. I am making dua to you
like the humiliated sinner, his emotional state of a humiliated
sinner who just feel so bad. How would he pray to Allah subhanaw
taala I pray like that to you, I pray and then he carries on he
says I make dua to you, the daughter of the afflicted one, the
one who is in need, the daughter of the one who's
the daughter of the one whose neck is bowed down in submission to
you, the one whose tears have have flowed for you, the one whose
whole body is in humility in front of you, and the one whose nose has
dropped on the ground.
You have to put yourself down.
You can't act arrogantly in front of Allah subhana wa Tada. This is
the messenger that greatest of Allah's creation is doing this.
Then he says oh Allah Allah journey we do our Eco shopping you
Oh Allah do not fail me in my doors. Like don't not respond to
me. And be merciful, be most merciful and compassionate to me.
Oh the Best of those who are asked the Best of those who people ask
and the Best of those who give. Now you think that door is not
going to be accepted?
Have we ever made a door like this? And this dua is not
copyright. It is not exclusive. You can take it and make it
and if you want this dua go to zamzam. academy.com This all of
this selection is available on the download in some some academy.com
It's it's an anthology of die you can download these doors from
them. And people have been asking what do I book should we read?
You get a dua book take the Hizbul outcome of Melania curry, you can
get it from us or Academy, you can get it from most other bookstores
is an English translation available as well. The Sheikh in
there has compiled all of the comprehensive dollars from the
Quran and the Hadith. And then at the end, he finishes off with the
blessings on the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, you
just have to read read a part of it every day.
You could finish it in a week or you could finish it in a month.
But I make dua to Allah subhanho wa Taala that he gives all of us
to tofi to take that book or any other book that you have a
comprehensive two hours, and to make a litany and a regimen of
reading it every single day, however many we read, whether it's
a page, because can you imagine that all these doors of Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wasallam. If we are to make them all over the
course of a week, or a month or even a year, and then one day
those doors are accepted. Each one of these is so powerful, if this
door is accepted, oh Allah don't make me fail in my dua to you. If
just that one dua is accepted, it's done.
It's made for us
there's another two I'll show you a few comprehensive dollars of
Rasulullah saw just to teach us the etiquette of Da through the
doors of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa Salam is another dua.
Let's imagine you've got a limited amount of time. You've got a short
amount of time to make a DUA, what are you going to ask for and what
are you not going to ask for? What are you going to miss out and what
you get, what are you going to focus on in a short amount of
time, let us call the messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
let us quote one of his doors where everything is included in a
matter of a few words, because he is the master composer of doors.
He knows how to make a dua he knows what words to use, he says,
Allah Who maniac duck word no Abdic wobbu ametek
over Allah, I am your servant, and I am the son of Your servant, and
I'm the son of your female servant. So you have to frame
yourself as Who are you, I am your servant, and I am also the son and
I am the son of your male and your female servant as well. So even my
parents are Your servants.
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And he carries on He says, My forelock is in your hand, I am
subject to your decree. Your decision is justice in itself. It
can't be anything but whatever you decide a new decree is justice in
itself. And then he says as a Luca because the Ismene who are like us
are made to be Nosek oh and delta houfy kita IC o alumna who had a
min Hulk IC, O is 30 behavioural millionaire in the UK, and the
journal Khurana neurosurgery Warabi Akanbi, which has many was
the herba HMI, the professor Lawson knew what to what to use to
make dua to Allah Subhan Allah to get his dua accepted, he uses the
names of Allah subhanho wa taala. This is what he says. He says, I
asked you by every name that is yours. I asked you by every name
that is yours, I don't have to say all of them, I just asked you by
every name that is yours, which you have named yourself with, or
which you have revealed in your book because there are certain
names that are mentioned in the Quran only some, not all, which
you have revealed which you have revealed in your book, those which
you have taught to any of your creation, they may not be in the
Quran, but you may have inspired somebody else with the knowledge
of God that name or which you have kept to yourself. Those names you
haven't revealed to anybody. And you've left the knowledge of that
to yourself, in the knowledge of the Unseen. I asked you with all
of those names, that you make the Quran, the light of my breast, the
springtime of my heart, the removal of my sorrows, and the
departure of my worries.
Now, if this die is accepted, the Quran is ours.
The love that we want for the Quran that constantly our rhythm
or keep telling us about that only comes in Ramadan for some of us
that will become ours.
Another dua
this one really shows where he encompasses everything.
As always, he starts with praise for Allah subhanho wa taala. Now,
this should have taught us one lesson that we're not going to
jump into asking him something like real despicable beggar,
right? We're gonna ask him like a pious beggar. Right? So we're
going to praise him first we have to have some dignity. Right? Allah
likes dignity. La ilaha illallah Halima al Karim Subhan Allah Hera
Bellagio Aleem Alhamdulillah Hirak Bella and the mean as a Luca Mooji
Bhatia romatic as a Luca Mooji birth your automatic well as a
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could be eaten lotta dar lism been ill forth with a human for
register, whether handwritten here like a red dot here like a written
Kadota or handwriting
He says, There is no god but Allah, the forbearing, the most
generous, you're attracting that generosity. The forbearance.
Forbearance means somebody who sees your faults and still
overlooks them. So you're saying, Oh Allah, you're the forbearing.
You're the Generous One you give.
And remember, Allah loves to be praised.
And the proper source knows that. That's why in the hereafter as
mentioned by the previous speaker, he wasn't able to mention in
detail that the prophets Allah or some when he goes to intercede, he
will fall in such and praise Allah with absolutely new and unique
praises which Allah subhanaw taala would have inspired him only on
that day, Allah wants to be praised by them.
Anyway, he says, the most generous Glory be to Allah, Lord of the
Exalted throne, to show that he's got the might of everything that
our two most and most powerful, omnipotent being, Praise be to
Allah, Lord of the Worlds, your control is on the arch and also of
the worlds. I asked you only after this disease start to ask him. I
asked you for that which evokes your mercy. The general dua I want
all of those things which will bring about your mercy for deeds
which bring your forgiveness
for the benefit for the benefit of complete piety.
Not sometimes I'm pious, and sometimes I'm not complete piety,
from safety from all error.
Do not leave me with any sin, Unforgiven, any worry not removed
by you, or any need that is pleasing to you without fulfilling
it. Most Merciful of those who show mercy. What's left in this
door? Does it leave anything? The dunya and the aka is done no
grief, full piety. Everything
another da similar. Allahu Allah Slendy Dini Allah the who are Esma
to Emery was literally duniya your Latifi hamara she was literally a
hero to Latifi Hama ID, which I didn't hire to zero that can leave
equally high wage earner in moto Rohit and Lehman condition.
This one
is talking about the affairs of both this woman here often a
lookup comprehensive This is, Oh Allah put right for me my
religion. I never have confusions then about my religion. Is this
the true opinion? Is this the opinion? I am away from all of
this confusion? I am absolutely confident about my religion, which
the which is the preservation of my affairs. Put right for me my
worldly life in which is my existence my religion is sorted my
dunya is sorted and put right for me my hereafter to which is my
return now my akhira is sorted make life and increase for me in
every good and make death for me a release from every evil
it's a die you find in Sahih Muslim.
Now which what has he left here? You've sorted your deen sorted you
hereafter made the dunya good made the accurate a place to go.
A few very small ones.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
just
such ability to say the right things. This one is
Allahumma John said he roti Hiram In other
words, you're either near the Saudi
Oh Allah make my inner self superior to my outer self.
Because the inner self is a bit more difficult to deal with the
outer self. You just have to put yourself you know, be confident
enough and sort yourself out.
Make my inner self superior to my outer self and make my outer self
righteous.
This is a struggle we have the men keeping beards and the right
clothing. The women are covering themselves and everything but it's
an internal turmoil. Nobody knows about hamdulillah if our sins of
our hearts were to be exposed to people, we can show our face. May
Allah protect us and forgive us. But this is the way to strengthen
our inside over our outside that always understands this. He
understands the human dilemma. And thus he is saying our inside
should be better than our outside. Oh Allah make it such.
Finally another thing. How is it that you can be respected by
people? But then that respect not lead you to arrogance and pride
and making you feel that you're better than someone else?
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam in his this door visit says
Allahu majali fee I knew Sahira which I'll be the unit nurse, it
could be wrong.
Oh Allah make me small in my sight, but make me great in the
sight of others. If we are small in our site, it doesn't matter how
great people think we are, we won't become dislodged. We won't
become arrogant. But it's the Doha The Promise of Allah Islam is
dealing with paradoxes. He is reconciling between opposites. He
is dealing with things that seem confusing. How does greatness come
with us feeding us feeling arrogant? How do we deal with that
situation? If we can just feel that we are small in the sight of
Allah subhanaw taala. And people respect us and hamdulillah at
least they will not humiliate us, they won't take our rights from
us. They respect us and respect is a good thing. But self respect is
a good thing. But arrogance is a bad thing. And this is what this
is seeking protection from. Another thing is that when we're
young, mashallah, we can do many things. Remember, you guys start
putting your hands into your pockets, because this is there's
going to be a fundraiser after this. I'm just preparing you for
that. That's why I'm taking a few more minutes. Even though I've
been given my card to get off this chair.
When we're young, we have the ability to earn
what happens when we have the ability to earn we can spend in
the path of Allah subhanho wa Taala we could use things in a
good way. What happens when we become old and we can't earn any
more? And we haven't given sadaqa in our earlier days, what's gonna
happen? Look at what the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam look
at his dua to Allah subhana wa Tada Allahu Madang, Hira Rumery
words
which are unclear or Amedy Hawa tema, who, which I'll hire a yummy
yo mama Alcock. Subhanallah he's asking for the best of the best.
He's saying, Oh Allah make the best of my life, the last part of
my life.
Why do we want it that we want the last part to be when we're
disabled, we can't do anything the promise that Allah means to make
dua for protection from evil old age, Allah mania or the becoming
of the Haram in an era, the era of the Romo that I be returned to
evil old age, it's saying we do our dua to Allah is oh Allah make
the last of my life, the best of my life in your sight. That
doesn't mean that right now it's going to be bad. Now it's good.
But that's going to be better. It's all relative. So you mustn't
feel that we're trying to discount this side for that side. No, this
side is good and great, but that one is just better the last of the
life is this the best. And then, and the my the best of my actions,
my final ceiling actions, those actions which I do just before I
die.
Just if this die is accepted, your whole life is great, because it's
guaranteed them because it says that in normal mode, we'll have
our team actions according to their endings, their ceiling
states. And finally he said, make the best of my days you enjoy your
day hear you enjoy your day day. You look forward to a good day, oh
Allah make the best of my days, the day I meet you.
When you will look to me with your mercy and your compassion. And you
will tell me to go to paradise without any questioning, I mean
and about the provisions in the sustenance Allahumma AUSA the
speaker or they are in the Kibera Sydney one Kaito a Rumery Oh Allah
make the broadest of your sustenance on me.
When I'm old,
open up the doors of your sustenance on me the broadest when
I'm older. I don't mind getting a lot right now. But I want the most
when I'm when I'm old.
And when I'm about today, why? Because then you can give sadaqa
that doesn't mean you don't give sadaqa right now.
Because only by giving sadaqa right now that we're going to
train ourselves to give in greater sadaqa then otherwise we're going
to be miserly. Believe me, who finds it difficult to pay 10
pounds in South Africa.
Just put your hand up slightly so I can kind of just see. All right,
no problem. I used to feel that way as well. Probably still feel
that way. Sometimes.
What you do is close your eyes. Right like kind of close your
eyes. Pull out your wallet. Take out 10 Take out 15 pounds. So if
10 pounds your problem, take out 15 pounds.
And just give them like just just just get angry and just give you
right
For the next time, it will be easier for you, believe me,
personal experience.
Now, if your problem is 50 pounds, and you always want to get better,
don't worry.
If your problem is 50 pounds, mashallah you earn a living and so
on, then take out 60 or 70 just just take someone just look at you
know, Sharla nicely, money, just take up 70 pounds, you know,
pretend you're going to do something else with it. Right?
It's going towards your next iPad or whatever, right? I don't
believe in that religion, by the way. So you take out 70 pounds,
and then just give it
we're going to do this right? Whatever your challenges, whatever
your threshold is, let's do more than that.
But believe me, that's the way to because once you've given out 15
pounds instead of 10. And if you can get really angry, get give 20
pounds. Believe me next time. 10 pound will be peanuts for you.
That's the way you just have to open up your heart. It says that
you're restricted. It's about restriction of the heart. At the
end of the day, it's just imagine your heart is restricted to push
it open a bit. The only way you can do is give it a jerk. And
that's by putting on 20 pounds if 10 pound is a problem for you. And
Allah subhanaw taala will give it back to you. I know a young kid he
gets two pounds a week.
He gets two pounds a week spending money.
His father gave it to took him to domestic football club and there
was some collection from Pakistan taking place outside he puts a
pound in there. That's 50% of his salary he just put in there
Subhanallah pray for that brother. That's 50% of his salary. May
Allah give us all the trophy? Tawana and then hamdulillahi
rabbil aalameen again, just to reiterate, you can get a
collection of this because many people normally ask him that Oh,
can you read the file for me? It's there on zum zum academy.com You
can just download it and print them out inshallah make dua for me
make dua for the organizers and all people who are suffering
around the world as well. They really need our doors minimum and
inshallah our help and our assistance. And number two, get a
copy of any Dr. Book, but the one of the best you could get as a
husband or home and start reading a bit every day. Okay?