Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Harun Rashid and the Sandcastles
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Alhamdulillah we are believers. And this is something we all share
the fact that you're sitting in the masjid today. The Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that if you see someone coming to
the masjid often, Then bear witness that he is a believer,
give shahada that he's a believer. Otherwise it's not easy to keep
coming into the Masjid. I know in Ramadan, it becomes a bit easier.
But generally for a person who comes often to the masjid. He must
be a believer. We are all believers, we all have Iman, we
all mean me noon mini mean that's that's the word.
But what does it mean to be? Min? What are the demands of iman? If
we have Iman, what should it do to us? What should it do for us?
So if you look at the books of Hadith,
one of the first chapters in many books like in Sahih, Muslim, the
first chapter is kitab. Al Iman, after his introduction is Kitab
Elohim. And the book of iman, that's a very long chapter. It
takes a very long time to go through all of those Hadith in
there. But he explains every aspect of iman, how you define
Iman, what Iman consists of what image should make you do what it
should prevent you from doing.
It talks about what nullifies Iman what strengthens Iman, what
weakens Iman,
and so on and so forth. We don't have time for that right now.
And the issue of the Ducati that you speak about.
It's a bit of a heavy subject. That's why I thought in the last
time we have, but I will tell you if you go to the website zamzam
academy.com The whole one hour 15 minutes, topic is there. It's
called Don't be depressed, you don't know your future. So it
literally speaks about the inshallah in a very satisfying
way. Right and that will inshallah hopefully answer all of your
questions. If you don't, then email me. So that's that one is
done. Don't be depressed, you don't know your future. Right?
That's what it's called on zamzam. academy.com. So now, what we want
to do today is we want to understand that we as believers,
me known, what is the demand that we have, I'm just going to pick a
few Hadith and this will give us an understanding and inshallah
refresher. It will also make us understand our strong points, and
maybe our weak points so that we can improve them because Ramadan
is the time when we want to gain taqwa and get closer to Allah
subhanaw taala. So, the first hadith is an amazing Hadith
because this is the same Hadith that I used once when I was in an
interfaith program. So we were having an interfaith program and
what happened is they said, Okay, now, maybe one or two Christians,
one or two Jewish people, one or two Muslims, get together and make
small groups and then exchange some points from your faith. So we
got together, and
the Christian person who was there, she shared something and
there was a Jewish person and when it came to Islam, I shared the
following Hadith, which is a sign narration, the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam said, the Agile been the unreal movement in umbra,
who couldn't who hire
what a amazing
and astonishing situation it is for the believer, meaning the
believer is in the most amazing situation. He has the most
excellent situation because anything, anything, he goes
through anything that happens to him, it can be good for him.
Well as America, what he said, luckily, I had an ill in
this, nobody but a believer
has this potential. Only a believer has this excellence. Now,
this is so true. And I'm not saying this just because I'm a
Muslim, you know, and you are something and there's a good point
and you like say, Yeah, this is the true point, just because
you're biased. This is not being biased at all. The only way you
can have a stress free life is by belief in Allah.
That there's somebody to take care of you that if I'm wronged in this
world,
I know there's going to be an afterlife. Sometimes I'm walking
through these major stations or something and you see all of these
people, very influential people with their big brief, briefcases
and walking, you know, and you think Subhanallah if they're
is a person who is oppressed. He's been cheated. He has no way to get
his rights because he's weak.
If he did not have belief in God and an afterlife and the Day of
Judgment, can you imagine the depression he would be?
Why would they commit suicide because they feel that they've
been cheated. There's nothing worth living for. But if you have
belief in Allah subhanho wa taala, that he is the just, he never
oppresses on the day of judgment you will get because our real life
is the hereafter. See, as soon as you understand that our real life
is the life of the hereafter, this life suddenly becomes a bit less
important, less critical, it is still important because the only
way we can benefit in the hereafter is by making an effort
in this life. There's no doubt about that.
There's a hadith that's related from Tulsa ignore obey the law of
the hola Juan.
I'm going to try to bring in everybody's topic. A bit at least
Tala ignore obey the law of the Allah when he's one of the Ashura
MOBA Shara.
He was one of the most generous Sahaba as well and very wealthy
Sahabi as well. He says that there were two people in the community
who became Muslim around the same time, they became Muslim and
Islam, Muhammad Jamia and they became Muslim at the same time. So
you imagine two people, two recent converts. One of them used to just
try more. They became Muslim and they used to practice but one used
to just try more. The other one he used to do his obligations and
everything was a practicing person, but the other one just
used to make even more effort. He also was a warrior in the path of
Allah he used to go in jihad.
The person who used to try more he became a martyr. Now according for
the Sahaba, to be a martyr was one of the highest levels you could
get to be a shaheed. As we know, in Islam to be a Shahid is a very
high position.
So the other person, he stayed alive for a whole year afterwards,
and then he died by natural means the second one year afterwards, by
natural means.
So, everybody's thinking that the shade must be in a higher place,
no doubt, right, because Shahid has a very high place, don't hide
and obey the law says, One day I am in a dream. I am in my dream,
and I see that I'm by the door of paradise.
And I suddenly see both of these individuals, these two convert
these two recent converts, and
we're waiting outside paradise, the doorman of paradise suddenly
comes the the doorman, the bouncer, whatever you want to call
a paradise right? And he lets in one of them first. I was surprised
that he let him the one who died later. The one who died on his bed
the one who died natural cause he let him in first because I was
expecting the shade to go in first.
Then he left the Shahidan. When those two they went in, then they
saw me they said Look, you can't come in yet you can't join us yet
you've still got your life to finish off. When I woke up in the
morning, I was just so surprised by this dream that I mentioned it
to a few people that you remember those two brothers in our
community. You know, I saw them in my dream and you know, the Shahidi
actually went into paradise later, and the other one went first. So
people started talking about this and eventually the news reached
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam So the Prophet Solomon
said why are you so surprised for didn't he live an extra year? Yes.
Didn't he have an extra Ramadan said Yes. Didn't you make extra
Salah during that time said yes. So then
every extra bit we have in this world is capital.
It's that much more value if you use it right especially Ramadan.
So we are in this Ramadan Mashallah.
So, for a believer, every situation of him is great.
The profits and losses and carried on saying that if he experiences
good times, something good happens mashallah, you have a child, you
have a new job, new house new car, mashallah you spent Ramadan very
well. You did some lot of worship give a lot of southern but
whatever you built a masjid, you establish some acetyl hamdulillah
and you do sugar
that is good for him. That will take you close to Allah, you're
enjoying your life. Imagine I'm just enjoying a wonderful meal.
I'm enjoying a wonderful meal. That's my pleasure. It's something
I'm enjoying. I do sugar I get reward for it.
I get I do sugar. I thank Allah. So I get closer to Allah even
though I've just enjoyed myself.
I just get married.
Right? I've been married a long time, but I'm saying somebody just
got married. I mean, even if you've been married a long time,
and you do you give sugar for your wife, because I'm speaking to the
men.
You do sugar for your wife or your children. You're enjoying. You get
rewarded for it.
It's good for you, it takes you closer to Allah. Some people get
to Allah just by making sugar.
On the other hand, if a person has a bad time, some affliction, maybe
a leak in the house, car broke down, got a bit of a bit hurt,
whatever feeling hungry in the day, and they do sub,
then that is good for them. Now our life is generally between
these two anyway, you're either going to experience some pleasure
and goodness, or you're going to experience some difficulty,
setback, calamity. This is what we must do. Because at the end of the
day, when the focus is on the next life, it becomes easy. That's why
this can only be for the believer otherwise, for a non believer who
doesn't believe in Allah, they, why should they be patient for
what is going to drive them because they have only this world
to live for.
So that is, when I mentioned this hadith those people were amazed
this Christian woman was there, she's like, this is one of the
most amazing things that I've ever heard. These are just one of the
statements of the prophets of Allah. So now this is telling us
that one aspect of a believer is that they are in control all the
time. If they're having good time, they're making sugar and if
they're not having good time they're making southern generally
suburb is people understand because you're in difficulty you
have to ex lover, but when we're having a good time when there's no
problems, to make sugar, sugar is a lot more difficult because we
don't remember, we're too indulgent, we're too engrossed in
our pleasure. So Inshallah, if we can also make chicken just get
free raw rewards just get close, it's a vehicle to paradise.
Inshallah. That's the first thing.
So that's what it means to be a movement. Now you see the value
number two. The second Hadith I want to mention is we also have
some prohibitions as a believer. So the prophets Allah is again
using the word EMA and the Prophet saw some said, la escena Zanny
Hina is an EVA who are McMinn what is Robin Hummer? He nyesha Well,
who am I mean? Well, ah, yes, rock, what is Rick Hina yesterday
coho salmon, three things.
A fornicator does not funny, Kate, wait, he's fornicating. While he
is a believer, likewise, the one who drinks does not drink while
he's a believer, the one who steals does not steal while he's a
believer. Basically, there's many ways the MaHA Dehaene have
explained this Hadees but saying that a believer must not do any of
these acts. Because as a believer, they can't be stealing, they can't
be fornicating and they cannot be stealing. So what does this hadith
mean? That doesn't mean that if you phony Kate steal, or drink,
that your iman will be lost? We don't necessarily believe that.
Because our belief is that if you do a major sin, it's a sin. It's
not good for as long as you believe it's wrong to steal or to
drink. Right? As long as we understand that, in one Hadith, he
mentioned that when a believer
commit Zina, his email actually comes out and it's in Sahih
Muslim, and it's like a cloud above his head.
What does that mean? One interpretation is that
Iman says, If you're going to commit Zina, you can't men cannot
commit Zina, if you are doing that if you are fornicating, I'm out.
Then as soon as they finish, as soon as they finish stealing or
doing the bad deed, the emotion comes back in. The danger here is
that if it's done too many times, and the man might want to just
stay outside and be lost completely. Because if you keep
throwing something out or pushing something out or discouraging
something, then eventually you might say, look, there's no point
and eventually that is where things go, Allah preserve us. But
the other meaning that some Allah ma taken another meaning here that
the Eman is your iman is so valuable, that even though you are
making a mistake, and you're committing a sin, the Imam is
coming out and acting as a protection from the punishment of
Allah over here.
Because when you're committing fornication, Allah subhanaw taala
could be punishing you so the Imam goes out to protect you.
One thing about drinking I just want to mention fornication
everybody knows is haram even though unfortunately, many people
are involved in it because it's so easy nowadays. It's in the in the
in the times of immorality and unjustified and licentiousness
that we're living in it is very easy, unfortunately. And we ask
Allah for preservation the person who can on the day that he gets
married can think that Alhamdulillah I have not committed
Zina in my life, you should do a lot of sugar to Allah.
And a person who can just say I've never committed Zina, even though
I am married or whatever, because it's just so easy nowadays. And
the drinking aspect, I just want to mention something about that a
lot of people think drinking is could be harmless or just one one
glass of wine, one beer with friends. When I've had to have a
business meeting, they say then sometimes you know I just to fit
in one one glass of beer. It's not a big, big problem. How
per hour after work, we just one and I just I wash my mouth out I
make Toba, you know and I don't do this I'm not addicted to it. You
know how dangerous drinking is?
According to their alma they say that there's a few sins. I mean
everything is there's lots of sins, but there's a few sins which
are so deadly, even though they may not seem so that they actually
prevent you from receiving chemo on your deathbed even if you're a
Mormon.
Even if you're a believer, and drinking is one of those when
you're about today you may not get the Kadima because of that's how
dangerous is that's why this is Ramadan, Allah forgives
everything. And Allah writes people to be freed. In the nights
of Ramadan May Allah make us one of those may Allah make us one of
those. So
now you can understand a movement is also the one who avoids these
cardinal sins. Number three.
A believer is not just a believer is interacting with others because
we are social creatures. We're human beings, we deal with one
another. So the next Hadith about a believer, the Prophet sallallahu
sallam said Allah, you know, I had to your humbly agree him or your
holiness. Again, Iman, none of you can be a proper believer, have
proper faith, Iman, until he loves for his brother, what he loves for
himself.
If everybody can start doing that, we'd have less jealousy, less
enmity, and less negative competition in the world.
So if I want something for myself, then I should also have in my mind
that I'd like to help somebody else. That means I can't be
jealous. That means I'm not going to prevent you from also getting
something good. I just want it for myself. I'm not going to, I'm
going to make sure nobody else finds this deal. There's a deal on
right now I'm not going to tell anybody else.
In fact, I'm going to go on buy all out, like empty the shelves
out. Right? So I'm not going to tell anybody else because It's buy
one get three free today, right?
Now, what's amazing here is that some of the other mentioned how
deep this hadith goes, said some hola ma say that this hadith does
not just mean that you must like what you like for yourself, you
must like for others, so you must like good for them? No, you must
actually, you must actually want that your brother, your sister if
you're talking, you know
actually have better than
how do you understand that from this heavy? They're saying that
this hadith means that you must want better for your friend than
yourself better for your brother and sister than for yourself.
Okay, I can understand they have the same as me. Why better?
Because Does anybody understand why it's in the Hadith?
Think
I like to interact a bit. wake people up and so anybody have an
answer for me?
Well, look, if generally speaking, people want to be the best.
So if that's what I like for myself and the province Lawson is
saying that you can't be a proper believer, like, unless you like
for your brother, what you like for yourself. And if I like to be
the best myself, then I should. That means that I should like my
brother to be the best.
Amazing, isn't it? In such a short statement. The prophets have
always sent me saying a lot more than what we just see initially.
So if I want to have the best garment, then I should hope that
my brother has the best garments. That doesn't mean that I'm gonna
have a bad garment. He might just have something better. But that
doesn't mean I'm going to have a bad one lot of people may think
that if he's got better than I'm gonna have bad no opposite of
better is not bad that offers you're better. He's good. All
right. So can you see now a believer, his personal state
whatever happens to him is doing sugar sober, stable, not being not
having too much grief and depression. Right? Number two, not
committing sins. That's a believer not committing sins. Number three,
he is good with every his conduct his behavior, his love for his
brothers and sisters. Excellent. Can you see that picture which is
emerging over the believer? We just have to kind of reflect on it
for ourselves not like Oh, that guy's like this. So that guy's
like, how much of this am I doing? Where can I improve? Alright,
number four.
Number four, and number five that related? I'm going to mention to
Hadith here.
Number four is law you'll the prophets of Allah Islam said law
you will the whole movement again movement law you'll the whole
movement mean Johanna noir Hayden Martin.
A believer is never bitten from the same hole twice.
Now that's not so well known.
A believer should never be bitten from the same hole twice. What
does that mean? What is it trying to say?
Give me an answer. Somebody might make the same mistake again. Yes.
Don't make the same mistakes. Don't
Don't be cheated from the same place twice. Don't be conned by
the same place twice, for example, for example, one of the things
that Muslims were quite
lost a lot of money in are pyramid schemes schemes.
Now, when you've seen one pyramid schemes, then you should know the
rest are all the same. That's why they call pyramid schemes because
the money just goes to the top. Everybody else is just providing
money.
They tell you that you go to this website, and you just click,
click, click, click, click, and you'll make money. So in the
beginning, you make a bit of money. So you put more money in.
And then eventually, you don't make any money because it all
falls.
Now, they've kind of stopped right now, three, four or five years
ago, they were like two, three, and then now they've stopped
because everybody knows about them. Then wait, wait for about
five years when everybody's forgotten to start another one
from Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, Utah somewhere, I don't know where
they come from all the time. But be careful of the make hard earned
money don't try to make these kinds of money Don't be cheated
from the same hole twice. And why Muslims? I don't know if more
Muslims are involved in this, but a lot of Muslims were involved in
it. And I think one of the reasons is that the machine is a nice
recruiting ground for that.
Right? Because it's a nice social base, you meet some people so
often you don't meet people just once a week, you meet people like
every especially if you come for Salah Hey, brother, you know, this
is a really good deal. You know, you only have to put two undertone
in the beginning. And then look, I've made this much money and so
on.
And what mean is never bitten from the same hole twice, right? Yes,
there's another Hadith, which says a minnow here rune Karim. And
again, the movement. The movement is one who could be deceived, but
is honorable. What does that mean? benevolence, meaning the believer
is the one who doesn't chase off the small small issues and cause
problems for no reason. It looks at the bigger picture. So give you
an example. We used to supply books to a
a bookseller.
So he was a tough businessman, maybe a bit of a dirty businessman
in a sense, because as soon as he sees your stuff, he says, Oh, this
is inferior products. This is not so good. Oh, I can get them
cheaper somewhere else. I mean, I'm the one who's producing the
books. I mean, how can you get them cheaper anywhere else? But
have you noticed in business, they say this just to diminish the
product in your site so that you give a cheaper price. It's a very
dirty business. I don't I don't, that's a very bad way. You need to
do honest, bargaining on his bargaining is fine. But you can't
cheat. You can't lie. And you can't give false guarantees and
promises. You know, when you go to some countries, and it doesn't
guarantee anything happens, you bring him back 100% Money return.
Right? And they don't really give it back to you if you go there.
Right? It's just and then in Muslim Canada, they swear an oath.
That's why this broker said the last time he prevented this
prohibited list, you don't swear wrong off just to sell your
product.
So
another friend of mine, he also had supplied the person with some
books. And he purchased the books, but then to get money from him was
very difficult. So one day, after maybe several months, I asked my
friend I said, Have you got your money from him? He says, You know,
I've given up it's not worth it. It's not worth it. Because then
the time it takes to call the person and try to get the money.
I'd rather do something thicker, I'll probably get more.
So here this is a moment speaking that look it's a waste of time or
you small argument with somebody you don't do that small arguments.
You just leave it so they benevolence an honorable that's
why they're letting it go. So letting it go letting something go
is not being deceived, because you know what the situation is, but to
be cheated and walked over and deceived. This is not a believer
as well. A believer should not be gullible. A believer is innocent,
but he's not gullible and should not be deceived. A believer should
be intelligent. So now it's talking about can you see how the
prophets of Allah some defined belief for every aspect? Okay, the
next one
is a Hadith that is not well known. It's related by Imam Ahmed
and a number of others. This is very interesting. Again, this
relates to behavior. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
Abdullah Amara, the Allah one is released in the province of Allah,
some said, by the one in whose hand is my soul while at the end
of So Mohammed Embiid.
In methanol movement, he's giving the example of a believer here.
What is a mock mean? Like what is an example and a parable of a
movement is likoma 30. nephila is like a bee.
Movement is like a bee.
We generally understand bees to be these buzzing little insects
flying around and maybe you have to be careful, they don't sting
you. Right? But it's the prophets Allah ism is saying, A believer is
like a bee. Now remember using wasps, which are worse than bees,
you have to remember that what's that more deadly than bees? Bees
have a good function, right? They provide a very noticeable
function. I mean, what's every creature of Allah has a function
in the world
But
he explains, he says the particular aspect of the B that
the believer should be like, is the Akella uban. Well, what are
the uban? Well, what can I phelim Texel? Well, I'm to say
the bee if you look at the way it functions and it produces its
honey says that the bee goes and it only seeks out the most pure
nectar. So Akella human, it consumes only the purest.
You don't see bees hovering around fifth,
you see flies, but you don't see bees there do you? Bees you'll
only see buy flowers, the pollen and the nectar. That's what they
go for. And then it produces
the most excellent products. So what it takes in is pure and what
it gives out is pure. Can you see now the parable what a good
believer is supposed to be, they need to consume and take, acquire
and receive only the pure and whatever they produce whatever
they say whatever they do, whatever they give whatever
interaction they have, should be pure. And then the prophets
philosophy explained. Well, what got the beat goes and settles. If
you ever seen a bee the way it
if you've ever seen a feed a bee, the way it goes on settles on to a
flower, he actually does not sit on the flower. It doesn't settle.
It hovers around it and it takes that's why he's saying phylum
taxi. The bee does not damage any of the very delicate strands of
that flower. The central nervous it's very delicate, the bee will
just hover around it and check it now next time. Don't get too
close. Right? Check it out next time you see it just hovers around
and takes its pollen. It's amazing how Allah has fine tuned it like
that when I'm to sit and it does not cause destruction. Hence a
believer should not be doing that earlier. A believer should be
excellent in every sense, not like a fly that goes and finds filth to
sit on. So a believer should not be one who goes it's like the
other example is that the nightingale when he goes into an
orchard a garden and he will look for the best of the flowers, he
will sit there and he will sing and a pig if you let that loose in
a garden it will go and try to find the dirtiest area and gone
eat and the muck. So let us not be like the second creature that
we're every time we want to speak bad about somebody always indulge
in the in the facade of somebody. But let's talk about the good.
That's a believer. And the final Hadees that I want to mention is L
higher or shorter buttermilk and Eman the Prophet sallallahu sallam
said higher and chastity modesty bashfulness is part of iman. So
chastity which should prevent us from doing since. Can you see now
how the Prophet salallahu Salam talks about a believer in his
state in his interaction, avoidance of sins, in his business
in his dealings in his life. This is what a believer we ask Allah
subhanaw taala to make us like this. Now Iman, what we have to
understand about Iman, is that the more the rule is that the more a
person understands the value of the Iman, the more they will
protect it, the more they will value it the less they understand
their value, the less they'll be concerned about it. So give you an
example. A major scholar of Hadith and a great way of Allah from Imam
Abu Hanifa Steiners name is Sophia and authority. Rahmatullah hurry
Big Mo had this one day he was seen crying. So che Why are you
crying for? So he picked up a piece of a pig tubers grain of
wheat, a grain of wheat is actually smaller than a pea.
Right? And he said, I have not disobeyed Allah even this much. So
then why are you crying for that? Because while I have not disobeyed
Allah even this much, I don't know whether this gift of this gift
will stay until I die.
Now think about it. The only reason he's crying even though
he's not done anything wrong. The reason he's crying is because he
thinks I might do something wrong, I may lose this beauty of my
faith. We have done maybe so much wrong, and we don't even cry. We
find it difficult to cry now to us. Why can he cry is because he
sees the value of it. He doesn't want to lose it. We ask Allah to
give us the same value. And the final story I want to mention is a
classic story.
Everybody's heard of Harun Rashid, the great Abbas in college, one of
the biggest
he ruled from Baghdad, he ruled
you know, numerous areas. One day him and his wife, what's his
wife's name?
I'm probably gonna say the lake
Zubaydah, there you go. So his wife's name is Isabella. She was
an amazing woman. She did so much work during her time, that there's
a Zubaydah Canal, which is just outside of Makkah, that the Hajaj
in that time is to find it.
didn't get water she built a canal an aqueduct system to supply the
hydrogen that part of that is still there Right? She did a lot
of other stuff. But anyway they both walking on the seashore
sand and there was a guy in the time who was a bit
of a interesting person to say the least. He said some very wise
things but he used to act very different from others eccentric
Majutsu in a sense, his name was balloon.
So as they're walking through, they see this grown man balloon
making sandcastles or palaces houses out of sand. Sand castles.
You guys make sandcastles? Right. So Haroon Rashid asked him, What
are you doing? Right? Imagine you see an adult person making some
costumes? What are you going to think? So how do I say What are
you doing? He says, I am making palaces of Jannah. And I'm selling
them for one dinar each. Just one gold piece each. I'm sending them
for how to receive this from your business man. It's like man who's
going to buy a castle of yours? You know, for one day now who's
going to pay that? So he carries on he walks away. Zubaydah comes
along and she asks him the same question. He says, I'm selling it
for Edina. Right, Dina is a gold piece, right? So he says, Okay,
I'll buy one. So she bought one, she gave it to him. Maybe solder?
Gosh, she thought whatever she thought, you know, because you
know, you see these poor people they're trying to sell. So you
know, you go to third world countries, they help you park a
bit. They just go like this. And then they ask you for money.
Right? So you should give them money because at least they've got
an excuse of a job. There's others who just stand and beg at least
these guys are trying to help. Right? So
she gave him a DNR bought the costume and then walked away. I
mean, she didn't take it home. She just bought the customer walked
home. Now how do I know she goes to sleep at night, and he sees a
dream.
And in his dream, he is in Jannah. And he comes upon this major
Palace major, major palace. And it says Zubaydah on there that it's
her palace. So he says Can I go in and check? Because he's the king?
I mean, he's the Sultan, he can go in wherever you think so is it No,
you can't come in. This is the way this is your wife's. You can't
come in there. When he wakes in the money, he feels very, very
bad. Right? And he realizes what this is trying to tell him. So the
next day he goes out and he's hoping that balloon is making
sunglasses.
And sure enough as he gets their balloon is making sandcastles.
This is what are you doing says I'm making these castles which
under these these palaces of Jannah. Right? He says I want to
buy one today. He says yes. Today the price is that your kingdom.
So he says yesterday was one dinar and today is the kingdom what's
Why did the price suddenly go up? And this is what Barnwell says? He
says
yesterday, it was based on the unseen. It was Iman believed,
today it's Iman,
Billy Akin.
That's the difference. Now, while this story could be whatever it
could be, whether it's true or not, Allah knows best hold on
machine. That's his story, classic story. But at the end of the day,
the point and wisdom he underscores is the secret of our
faith is a Lavina you may know and believe, as Allah tells us, right
in the beginning, a lot of things that we just spoke about today are
unseen. And some of you are saying you really believe it's the same
as believing in unicorns. Like you want to believe you can't find
believe in a unicorn. I don't have to believe in one. But no, there's
a lot more to that because we feel our faith, this experience. It
makes us feel better in this world. It gives us something to
live for. It allows us to not be depressed, it allows us to be
stress free because we understand that Allah is going to look after
us especially in the hereafter. So, this is our iman will say this
is the month of Ramadan. Let us ponder and these are just a few of
the narrations that define who are believers. We may be very strong
in one aspect but in another aspect we may be weak We ask Allah
to improve us and enhance us and complete us and make us complete
believers so that all the Hadith inshallah relate to us while he
read that one on your hamdulillahi rabbil Alameen.
Make a quick dua, Allah Houma and the salam Amin Castellaneta,
Bharatiya dal Jelani when a Quran, Allah who may or you yaka Yun Rama
tikka, Mr. Heath Allahumma, Hannah Yemen, La ilaha illa, Allah
Subhana Allah in condemning authority mean, just Allah who I
know Mohamed Amma Hua, hello, O Allah, we ask You for Your Mercy
of Allah we ask you for your blessings of Allah, this is the
month of your blessings. This is the month of Your Mercy of Allah.
This is the month of generosity of Allah. Look how much people are
spending in the path of Allah. Look how much people are feeding
during this month of Allah. Look at the generosity people are
expressing during this month. Oh Allah your messenger sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam used to be the most generous during this month
when he would be reading the Quran with Gibreel Ali Salam. O Allah,
this shows that you are more generous than all of Allah. This
is a very generous time for you
Allah you have closed the doors of hellfire and opened up the doors
of Paradise. You've locked up the shayateen of Allah we now ask you
that you forgive us all of our sins, that you purify all of our
deeds of Allah that You cleanse our hearts of Allah we ask you
forgiveness from those sins we've committed, knowingly or
unknowingly those we've forgotten those which are old and those
we've never made Toba from our Allah but especially those which
have now become part of our life and we no longer even consider
them sins anymore. Oh Allah grant us the required knowledge and
understanding and discernment of Allah allow us to be closer to
you. Oh Allah make your obedience beloved to our hearts. Oh Allah
make your disobedience hated in our heart. Oh Allah we ask that
you write us in this month of Ramadan to be freed from the
Hellfire of Allah make us closer to you this Ramadan than we've
ever been. Oh Allah we've done many Ramadan's before, but oh
Allah make this Ramadan better than any Ramadan before it. But
Allah above all we ask that you keep us close to you even after
Ramadan Oh Allah do not allow us to go back to how we were before
Ramadan answer Ramadan finishes. Oh Allah protect us from the 11
months afterwards as well from the shaytaan of Allah we are tired of
fighting against the shaytaan of Allah we've seen in this world
that when people when children can no longer look after something
they give it to somebody else they give it to their parents to look
after. Oh Allah we're tired of fighting against the shaytaan of
Allah we need to protect our iman which is the most valuable thing
we have of Allah We ask that you look after our iman for us, oh
Allah you preserve Iman for us. Oh Allah help our brothers and
sisters around the world who are facing subjugation and persecution
of Allah removed their oppression and subjugation from them. Oh
Allah removed the problems and bring back insomnia to the in some
Oh Allah bless all of those who have established these masajid and
monarchies and Institute's for us, oh Allah protect them from all of
the problems that they could face. Oh Allah, we ask that you accept
from all of us and grant us sincerity. And we ask that you
send your abundant blessings on our messenger Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, and that you grant us his company in the
hereafter. Subhan Allah be carbonized at your mercy Fonasa
Lebanon sitting on him