Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Seeking God’s Mercy during the CORONAVIRUS
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our dear friends
and brothers and sisters, we are clearly going through some very
unprecedented trials at this point.
This virus which is going around is produced some very difficult
challenges. And for a lot of people, for a lot of people, they
feel like this is unsurmountable
ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada has, in no way in any place in the Quran
assured us that you will never go through any difficulties. In fact,
I'm not particularly Eskandari mentioned that when a difficulty
arises, when a loss occurs, when there's a problem, then just
understand that that's the nature of this world. So whenever
something occurs in this world, if we're understanding and
comprehending that it's inevitable that this world will produce
something like this, because there's no assurance and guarantee
provided
that no such loss will occur, then we're no longer so surprised. And
at this point, there's just huge despondency and hopelessness going
through the communities, it's as if some people have resigned to
the fact that they are definitely going to die.
And while for a person to be prepared to die is a wonderful
thing. If they make the right choices, they make the right take
the right measures in their life to purify themselves, to remove
their debts to clear their balances. That's very important to
clear your balances at any time anyway.
But this sense of hysteria,
that's where the bigger problem is.
Muslims should be willing to die because it's inevitable, it's
gonna happen. There's no difference of about about it,
there's no doubt about it. And whether you die today or tomorrow,
inevitably, it's going to happen at some time or the other anyway.
So
it's important time to give to raise the hopes because that's the
way we're going to get through this in sha Allah with some
strength to build the strength to work in harmony to assist one
another.
And shaytan is always around. So shaytaan uses these moments, these
occasions every occasion, in fact, to try to create some kind of
discord, disunity, weakness, and weakness is something that we need
to avoid. We need strength, strength through unity, some
mutual advice.
We need to assist one another, we need to raise each other's hopes,
condemnation, just because somebody may not be doing what you
want them to do or what you think is right even if it is right.
Because by condemning someone you don't exactly get them to change
in you try to convince them in a way that's going to get to
somebody's hearts. So today, what I want to do
is to try to provide some hope and nobody can provide us better hope
than Allah subhanaw taala and His Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, Allah subhanaw taala is the creator of this universe. He's
the creator of everything that goes on. He's the administrator of
the affairs of this earth of this world of our lives. Everything
that's happening here is done through his will through his
predetermination and for the ultimate wisdom.
And while it's created huge bewilderment, including everybody
from the government down as to how to deal with this, what should be
our way forward? We're all learning,
unprecedented that Masjid should have so few people to pray and
know people to pray, messages being shut and so on. These are
unprecedented times. So what exactly does the Prophet salallahu
Alaihe Salam say about this? So before I translate and explain the
verse that I read earlier, I'm going to explain some of the
Hadith that are related to this. Firstly, there's a hadith related
by Imam Bukhari and Muslim who related from Abu Seidel who do the
Allahu Anhu that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
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aka Usaha Ilica for Allah who behind in Hatha Yoga, it's a very
important Hadith. It's something that we need to keep in mind all
the time. What the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is
saying here is that any Muslim who experiences any form of hardship,
any form of difficulty, whether that be a runny nose, whether that
be shortness of breath, whether that be a headache, a cough, and
not even oneself, but a difficulty that they see, and they feel
because their loved one is going through this. They see a loved
one, an elderly person in the family who's going through
difficulty. So any Muslim and I said, this is the richness of this
tradition, that it's not just what you feel for yourself, and
something being afflicted by oneself, but even the affliction
of one another. If that's going to preterm you, then look at what the
promise allows me saying that any Muslim who experiences any
hardship, discomfort, worry, sorrow, grief, distress, pretty
much everything you can think of, I mean, all of those words are
very similar anyway, but any sort of worry, grief concern, even a
thorn prick, smaller stone prick,
Allah will make an atonement for their sins. Now, if you put this
in perspective of this world, you think, Well, what's purification
of sin got to do with this world you need belief to understand this
belief in the hereafter. Because for a believer in the Hereafter,
the ultimate success called me noon. The ultimate success for a
believer is the purity of the Hereafter, satisfaction of God,
pleasure of Allah, which is assisted by being purified Toba.
So, all of these things are being used as an excuse to purify one
sins, when the person is less sin. When a person has less sin, there
are huge benefits, you're carrying less burden. It's carrying less
filth, if you give sins.
If we give sins a physical
entity as such, and we have so many sins were numbered by them.
We're burdened by them. We find it difficult to move, we're not
flexible enough. We're not Swift, we're not fast enough. When you
remove the sins, when you remove filth from yourself, you feel
cleaner, you feel lighter. And insha Allah by that the blessing
or curse.
And that's what's very important that we're getting a few three
purification, as long as the understanding is correct, the
perspective is right. Somebody's going to complain through these
things, then it's the difficulty.
Where, in fact, the hype, the reality, the hype, there's aspects
of hype, there's aspects of reality, you know, there is the
aspect of toning down something, there is an aspect of hyping up
something, we're not denying that there's a reality out there,
people are dying, there's no doubt about that.
And the projection showed that up to 80% of the population could
catch this, although Hamdulillah, the majority, according to the
predictions are going to get better. But we're going to lose
quite a few people. That's a projection. And that's
understandable, according to what's happened in other countries
like Italy, China, etc. that trajectory is understood that
study, it's like saying, tomorrow it's going to rain. Right. Or when
you look at your weather apps, it shows you the next seven days, in
fact, it shows you the next 15 days or even more of a projection
of what may happen. And that's completely fine. Because everybody
knows that estimation.
That's estimation, you can adjust your life accordingly. But lots of
times we've seen lots of times we've seen that even the weather,
right? Even tomorrow, it does not rain, even the same day where the
projection is that it will rain at six o'clock. There's hardly any
rain, things can change. And I'm saying this, this is something I'm
going to speak about later in more detail in another talk, to just
show instances in our history, where things seemed inevitable.
There was imminent, danger, unavoidable. Everybody thought it
was it. But when people ran to Allah subhanaw taala when he
started giving charity, when he started to glorify Allah, and seek
forgiveness for their sins to remove that filth that was
preventing the Rama from coming down, that Subhanallah there was a
change. Now, that is something that we really need to think about
today. And consider for ourselves that this the worst of it can be
avoided. The worst of it can be averted. Some people are
definitely going to die. There's no doubt about that. We may
ourselves be inflicted, but we can still change the projection.
That's a possibility. Because nobody can say for certain that's
going to happen. These are estimations and we need to have
that hope, at least for ourselves so that we can inshallah any
Even psychologists will tell you that
huge amount of depression, despondency comes from one's
perspective. When enough people tell you they do gaslighting is a
concept that you are sick, for example, there was a teacher. And
there was a really smart kid in the class and that teacher, you'd
never used to miss a day. That teacher used to come in every day,
regardless of what was happening outside, right, regardless of what
virus was outside, or whatever the case is. That's a bit of an
exaggeration. One of the smart kids, he decided that we're going
to play a trick on the teacher. So he told a few of the students what
to do. So when the teacher came in,
he said, or he met him by the door of the school or something, he
said, Mr. So and so like, you know, you look, you look a bit
pale today, or you teach you you have a fever, are you sick? So the
teacher immediately in his normal way is like, No, I'm completely
fine. Go get go and sit in class. And then as he carries on, there's
another student that comes up and says, Mr. Smith, or whatever his
name was, are you okay? Today? You You don't look very well. And
again, the teacher said, no, no, I'm completely fine. There's
nothing wrong with me go and sit in class, I'll see you in class.
Now, we're human beings. So suddenly, the, there's now a
slight doubt that crosses the teachers line.
When he gets into class, another one or two students say the same
thing. And now it's solidified. Now he's got 40% or 50%
idea that he's got a problem. So you can tell now his face has
changed. And the way he's teaching is different.
I think then somebody else says it. And finally he decides, they
decides that he calls his calls his wife, or he goes home
eventually goes home. And he says, I'm so sick, you need to get me
bank ID and so on and make me some soup or whatever. And his wife
looked at him said, You're not sick. What's wrong with you? You
got no problem? Said No, all the students are telling me in the
class that I'm sick, and you have no mercy on me. You have no love
for me that you're you're saying this made him sick. So that's why
it's very important to keep optimistic. Of course, we
understand the projections, we expect the worse, but we need to
insha Allah prepare, take our precautions, but the hope needs to
be up. And that's very important. So this hadith tells us that if we
do go through difficulty through ourselves, our loved ones,
Inshallah, it's an atonement of sins. When you see the silver
lining, when you see a benefit coming from something, then it
actually makes you feel like it's worth it. One of the greatest
sense of depravations is when you think that you have to go through
a suffering for nothing. What's the benefit of the suffering? I'm
not getting anything out of it? Why should I try?
That's really detrimental. That's why in Islam, there's a hope is
huge. That's why the promise of awesome said it will mean fine
Umrah who couldn't live who hate.
Right for a believer is an astonishing matter what a
wonderful state status it is for the believer that any matter they
go through whether it's good prosperity, or difficulty and
loss, it's good for them, but they have to make sure they do sugar
and suburb
that takes the difficulty and elevates it to a state of
purification and a source of reward for the people. The next
one he said I want to quote is from Jabra the Allahu Anhu the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said this is Buhari
generation called Allahu Subhana wa Tada. If delight to have the
Happy Birthday here from Masaba. I want to meet him our agenda.
Obviously, you read it in this case, this is specifically about
the eyes, but we can get an understanding from this. The
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, when I afflict so
this is the promised home speaking from Allah that Allah said that
when I afflict my bondsman, meaning when I afflict my slave,
with his two beloved possessions, generally out of all of the
senses, we have the eyes are very important because they're
multifaceted. They provide stimulus for many different
things. So, if I am to afflict my bondsman in the eye, so they have
eye problems, or they lose their eyesight,
and then he exercises patience. So in the stands, that is something
worth being patient for. That's the secret here. Do we understand
that there's something behind this? There's a wisdom behind this
that we may not understand. But at least I know, I want to use this
to the best I'm going to take this opportunity. I'm not going to lose
this opportunity to get the reward from Allah so he's patient.
Then Allah says, I will grant him Jana, in lieu of this.
Yet another Hadith
is the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, as related from
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almost say that don't curse, fever, fever is going around it's
seems to be one of the symptoms do not curse fever. I know it's
debilitating fever is debilitating. When you have fever,
you don't feel like doing anything. In a hot room you feel
cold. These are it's quite a
it's quite a challenging
illness. The prophets Allah is and said that don't curse fever for
you remove the sins of the Adam in the manner in which the furnace
removes rust from iron that's intense, because to get iron
purified or any other or purified, you have to put it into a kiln or
a furnace.
And that purifies it. So the idea here is that this is a sense of
purification and we must embrace that because otherwise we have
nothing
to be patient for
another Hadith
and so the Allahu Anhu reports that the prophets Allah or some
said
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And so the Allah one who is saying here that the prophets, Allah
Hassan said,
if a Muslim is afflicted now this has to be a Muslim, because
they've got the essential element of belief of how to have a
perspective here is a Muslim is afflicted with a bodily
affliction, any kind of illness in the body. And of course, this
virus is actually affecting the body, an angel is addressed and
Angel is ordered
to continue recording any of the pious deeds that he had been able
to do in a state of good health. So if this person was coming to
the prayer, and now the, the Masjid is not, you know, the
Masjid is out of bounds, because people are told to pray at home,
you know, for good reason.
There's people out there who are feeling really bad about this. In
fact, one of the messages we got yesterday from someone is that
it's affecting my belief that I can't go to the masjid. But
obviously, this has been taken in for good reason, according to good
advice, right? According good practical advice that that's why
you know, we many massage and severely restricting people,
right, entirely leading, right. And so people who feel bad about
this, they must realize that whatever reward they used to get
from going to the masjid in sha, Allah, Bulgaria home for free,
that's the generosity of Allah subhanaw taala. I mean, the
government is saying that, you know, we're gonna give this much
percentage of your salary if you can't work and so on and so forth.
Allah subhanaw taala has declared this that you get your rewards.
Of course, there's a certain stimulus, spiritual stimulation
you get from the masjid May Allah subhanaw taala give us that
sitting at home.
So the angel is told that you need to continue writing any other good
deed that needs to do whether that be other work that they would do
now they're sick, maybe right maybe they're not sitting at home,
but they're sick, and they can't actually physically get up and do
the prayers that the extra prayers that they used to do the fasting
that they used to, you know, the knuffel optional fasting, they
will get the reward inshallah.
Allah subhanaw taala has his whole system in place.
And then the prophets Allah Some said that, if Allah then grants
him recuperation, meaning if Allah kills him afterwards,
he will then cleanse him
and purify him. So this difficulty that they just went through the
sickness, illness in the body that they went through or any loss that
they suffered, it will actually if they get out of it, then they
purified, it's been purified from it just being sent through a
washing machine.
On the other hand, if he grants him death, then he will forgive
them and give mercy to them. Subhanallah if somebody dies
through this, they are a form of Shaheed
The second category of Shaheed which who are considered to be
those who do not die on the battlefield, but they die in
unusual circumstances, which is a lot of people. There's about 17
different categories mentioned in this regard.
And one of them is those who die with a stomach illness through a
plague. Now, this is not quite a plague, right?
But it is something nearing that. So it's definitely unusual
circumstances that consider the motto from the past they will rise
on the day of judgment as a matter and that for anyone
Let us read the Quran sunnah. Now tradition will know that Mata has
some of the hugest the greatest rewards,
enviable rewards, enviable rewards.
So you're not dying. If people die, they're not dying for
nothing. And you know, what's the most amazing we're gonna have
loved ones, right? We probably all know of someone somewhere who's in
hospital right now who may have passed away. Right and this is
going to happen, whether it's a virus or not, people are gonna
die. Eventually we're gonna die, our parents will die if they
haven't already, right, our children will pass away. And
what's amazing is that anybody who dies is a shitheads. Anybody who
dies in a difficulty like that, they are going towards a better
place.
It's very difficult for us because we're losing someone we can't see
the beauty and the and the bliss that they're going to their time
in this world is up.
Their time in this world is up.
But we can't tell the goodness that they're going to the
prophets, Allah some said talk for too many loads. For the true
believer.
Their gift is death. Because their true belief makes them understand
the hereafter be to be superior to this world.
The more you think this world is so important, in comparison to
that this world is important. This is where we reap where we do our
good deeds and we solve for the hereafter. So we're not
diminishing this world. But this world is never going to be
superior to the hereafter. For a believer, Paradise is amazing.
So for a person who understands that, and now the world is
insignificant in the eyes, then death is finally the entry point
that gift for them.
So they're gone, but obviously their loved ones. They find it
difficult.
The same father, the mother, the friend, the shave that you had
around you, that assisted you that guided you.
That was a support for you as gone. They've gone to a better
place for them. It's perfect. It's different perspectives.
But this is to give us more hope. Number five, the next heavy Helena
mentioned is from Muhammad Abdul Hadi the salami who relates from
his father and his grandfather, that Rasulullah sallallahu sallam
said in the lab that either Saba Cutler who Amina Allah He Mozilla
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somebody, a very some high lofty status, which they don't have the
deeds to reach, but for some reason for some thing that they've
done, Allah wants to give them a high status and they know that
they're going to achieve that, but they don't have the actions, the
deeds the hard deeds to do that with
ypt Allahu Allahu, he just said ofii murder of you well,
this is the concept of suffering in Islam. This shows you the
wisdom of why suffering takes place, some suffering takes place.
Allah subhanho wa Taala will test that person will challenge that
person with regard to something of their body, or their wealth, or
their children. They will undergo that test, they will be a loss.
They will be some debilitation, they will be suffering, but Allah
the Prophet also said some masa Bara who Allah Dalek SubhanaHu,
Allah Marik what you believe or who elmen Zilla this Allah D sub
Oklahoman Allah until through the sub and the patience because Allah
gives them patience, they will be able to reach that status that
Allah had appointed for them. This tells you that our trial, like
anything that we are suffering, whatever that may be,
the nature of it is going to be defined by our reaction.
So if we respond with complaints, and despondency, then it's most
likely a punishment for us. If we respond with a stick fire, that
maybe it's to do with some of my sins and to seek forgiveness for
them, and thus this tribe will go away, then that is purification.
And thirdly, which is the ultimate is received, this is from Allah,
He wants to get me somewhere, I'm going to be patient, I'm going to
deal with this. I'm going to keep my hopes I and there's something
in this for me, then this is exactly what the professor Lawson
said. Because Allah they will give you the software if you don't have
the sub, ask Allah for it that Oh Allah, Do not deprive me Do not
make any of those who you give difficulty to or difficulty comes
upon. And you don't give them patients because that is truly
wretched.
ask Allah for patients. And the way to do this is that don't wait
for the suffering, to ask Allah for that and start off with
wretchedness with despondency. This is what we're trying to do.
We're trying to build that immunity right now. Through these
iterations, the process also is telling us and that's why we're
putting this out right now.
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that this is the way to build hope perspective to see things
correctly. So if we are struck, I mean the thing 80% of people are
going to maybe go through this. So, it is extremely important that
we get our perspective right, our faith right. So that if it does
happen,
we deal with it. And insha Allah psychological benefit of this is
that when a person knows that they are doing something wrong, like
cancer sufferers, so many so much research, I have my own mother's
example. May Allah have mercy on her, that when she fought, she
fought for 10 years, over 10 years, and martial law she managed
to overcome. That wasn't written yet. Eventually when death was
written, then she had to go, may Allah put her in a high place,
genital filled dose. So Allah gives Sabra. Allah gives Saba
then, that hadith was related by Imam Ahmed and Imam Abu Dowd. The
next hadith is related by Imam Timothy from jugglery Allahu Anhu.
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This is intense. The Prophet sallallahu sallam said that the
people who had well being in this world Afia they weren't affected
too much on the Day of Judgment when they will observe those who
were afflicted.
Now
you see, if you look around in your circle of friends, one of you
or more whether that's yourself or someone else, if I just look
through people I know, one more one or more of you at least, are
going to be those who are always running into some kind of trouble.
Whether it be an accident, loss of job, suffering in their family,
but there's one friend I know, you know, I've known him for now
probably nearly 20 years. And whether sometimes an accident
sometimes it's a children's issue or whatever. But the calmness is
the another person or very close to me who's gone through some
major financial difficulties. And so many times I was worried that
anybody else in that situation, you hear their stories that they
commit suicide, like huge financial difficulties. I don't
pray that upon anybody.
But Allahu Akbar, the Imam, that this person has the sub, you'd
never see a line of grief on his face, never seen him, you know,
never seen him words.
His explanation of things will tell you that there's difficulty
intense difficulty, no doubt, never seen a line of worry on his
face. And now I can say seven years, the difficulty, at least
seven years of intense difficulty. He kept doing his work. He kept
doing his religious work as well that he was doing with pure
complete diligence, complete diligence. I don't think a lot of
people would have survived that. Not at all. Allah gives them that
patience. There's just some people that have more or less but that's
what it's this hadith is saying that those people who hardly had a
difficulty and may Allah because of those who don't have
difficulty, to be honest, because it's difficult in this world, may
Allah also give us the armor to take us high. But look at this is
that there will be people who will have been of those who have no
difficulty in this world, we're generally have wellbeing on the
Day of Judgment, when the people have difficulty will be given
their reward for their difficulty, free reward for the difficulty,
just patients right to the patients. They would then wish the
people of Apphia and well being with then wished had the
flesh been totally stripped in this world using strippers, iron
combs knives,
that the reward they're getting is huge, because now they understand
that the hereafter is everything. The world was a transitory place,
a temporary about a pass through a causeway. This is the real one.
But that's so difficult for the majority of us to fathom. This
world is everything for us. Everything. That's why whatever
happens here matters so hugely. That's why for a believer it's
absolutely necessary
to build the vision of the Hereafter, to understand the
hereafter. To understand why in the RV Rotella heal Haiwan they
will be able to go through this with ease inshallah. I mean, in
the past, we've had plagues throughout history throughout the
time starting from the timeless how through I'm going to be Allah
Hornstein a huge plague where literally 1000s of Sahaba 1000s of
the believers of that time
I'm passed away. Other times in 1.5 million people just in one
city were killed through a plague Egypt has gone through. So much of
this difficulty, if you look at the history is during the time of
the mob, Luke's and others were people were reduced to eating
animals like cats and dogs because it was just nothing.
Subhan Allah
so this is Allah's way in this world. We just hope Allah spaces
that Allah has a good plan for us.
May Allah have a good plan for us, may Allah allow us to
deal with this in the best way. And finally, the last Hadith I'm
going to quote to you today is actually the Allahu Anhu reports
that the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam said,
either cathedra as a noble act, by the way the previous Hadees was
from terribly this hadith that I'm going to quote is from Imam
Muhammad Musa and again, that either Kathrada Zulu will Abdi
Wallonia con la Houma, Yuka Fierro Homina Amel, Abdullah Abdullah who
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So I actually alone reports that of course, a lot is some said,
when a person sins become immense, they become too much. And Allah
has good in store for them. Allah has
has a good
has goodness in store for them. But these people, they don't have
enough deeds to automatically
expiate for these wrongs. They're not making enough Toba, they don't
have enough deeds even to do that.
Then Allah subhanahu wa taala will give them some grief, he will test
them with some grief, so that the purpose of it is purification, all
of that gets purified for them. That's why today is a time of huge
reflection. You know, I'm not as to be honest, I don't want to be,
I don't want to make it even more difficult for people. But I'm not
even worried about the interim period of the virus, it's a
concern. But I'm worried about where this could lead to.
Right, mostly, most people are just focused on getting through
this period of difficulty of the virus, and illnesses and sickness
and people die. I'm more worried about what comes later. Wallah who
and what Allah has in store for such a small thing. And it's not
even as critical as some of the other viruses, but they just
didn't spread as fast enough, or as much, but they're more deadly.
You don't survive them. This one, most people apparently will
survive. But it's just spreading fast. So everybody, you know, most
people are going to be affected in some way or the other way
themselves or somebody else. But more what I'm worried about is
what's happening in the world
economy,
the luxury luxurious lifestyles that we have,
what's gonna happen to that
that's something we need to really start with, this is going to be an
adjustment. Maybe going back to basics. I just visited bangala had
to go to India, two weeks ago,
about one and a half weeks ago, two weeks ago for a very important
conference that we'd worked very hard for.
And I started off from a state that one of the very one of the
poorest states of India is Bangalore, West Bengal. And I was
taken to a village about an hour or more from Calcutta and
mashallah, I mean
the, the scholar we stayed with mashallah, you know, he travelled
a bit so he was able to, you know, make it feel like home for us. But
he said, people don't drink milk here. They don't have the money.
They drink black tea.
Indians don't drink black tea. Right? They like the dude Patheos
essay, but these people so my friend Mongolia is saying but
don't people want to have milk is there's no there's just no habit.
They can't even have custom habitat milk like an essential.
They just have black tea in the morning.
They don't have goat meat. Hardly ever because it's just too
expensive. goat meat mutton is just just not there. They may just
get some other meat otherwise it's vegetarian. Now, they they're not
going to be really impacted by the except maybe the sickness and
illness, that aspect of it, and the medicine and so on. May Allah
help them system. But otherwise, they're not rushing to the stores
to buy stuff. They don't have toilet paper. Right? They don't
need I mean, I mean, a lot of Muslims around the world, Western
countries and other places they use water anyway. Right?
So there's no big deal for them in that sense. They don't have to
rush for you know, hand sanitizers and that kind of stuff. This is
probably not even on their radar.
It's us where we already
Since the shortages, companies are going bust, people are going to be
losing their jobs are already now government is providing stimulus,
how long for?
When things like that happen when people are in a sense of
desperation, I mean, America is putting out a trillion dollars,
that's unprecedented amount of money that they're going to try to
push him to keep the product because they understand is a very
difficult situation.
So to be honest, the this is the immediate issue we're looking at,
but it's what's to come after that, potentially, possibly, is
what we really need to prepare for. And without the man, we're
nothing.
Without Iman, we're nothing without cutting back under
consumerism, it can't carry on, it's just been going on for too
long.
Because there's going to be less products, there's going to be less
things less luxuries that you're going to be able, I mean, when we
say luxuries, those luxuries are no longer luxury, they're everyday
essentials for us luxuries are becoming essentials for us.
Already companies saying that they're going to literally cut out
non essential products, manufacturers are going to focus
on essential products, it's just a readjustment to the basics, maybe
that's a good thing.
You're gonna have to embrace these things, to be able to manage them.
I mean, subhanAllah, Venice Canals, you can actually start
seeing the fish now.
Because there's just less people messing it up.
Right, maybe there's going to be less plastic, so the oceans will
become cleaner.
I mean, look at what kind of
curse the fish has been given to humanity.
Because we know they do offer us
it says about the political elite, the one who studies the deen of
Allah to be able to help others and sustain them had the hater no
filma
up to including the fish in the ocean, pray for them, because
they're providing goodness in the world.
And maybe we've just not done our part
could be so many reasons, we've not done our part. The whole
aspect of cleansing cleaning the ocean is just a few years old.
So maybe now the oceans, the water, the fish, the sea
creatures, and others can breathe a sigh of relief, that will be
less consumption will be more considerate and careful. And if
we're still not,
then we have to be worried.
We have to start taking it easy. There has to be a multi pronged
approach to dealing with this, raise our Imam understand the
nature of these things.
And focus on what our professor was told us of how to live in this
world. Just because mashallah things are available, you can
literally Amazon Prime Instant gratification, same day or next
day delivery of things, and thus we just buy. And again, if we need
something we buy, but just to buy by buying
it's gonna have to stop.
can't carry on like this. There's a reason that this virus has
happened. Like, can you imagine it about maybe infects an animal,
somebody consumed the animal. There's lots of years of how
exactly that happened, is carried most likely by a bat. Who can you
know, inflicts a certain animal, that animal is then sold for its
meat, you know, like a normal, it could be a cow or whatever it is,
and somebody eats it, and then it spreads from there.
And it gets to other parts of the world. This could have happened 50
years ago. It could have happened 20 years ago, but it happens
today. Something that's so simple.
Why didn't it happen before? There has to be a power behind this.
There has to be a timetable here.
So we need to start understanding the awesomeness of Allah's power.
Through a small virus. It's literally like war situation
without a war.
And when you're in that situation, people get confused. It's a fitna.
That's why there's been various reactions. The government has made
mistakes, right? Lots of people have criticized the government and
others, they could have various different things. Masjid have made
mistakes, right? Some have decided to keep open. So undecided close.
You know, there's various opinions. We do not need people to
start condemning one another right now. It's not useful.
We need to stop that.
This is not a moment to do politics. And I'm not saying
everybody's doing politics. There's people who like especially
some doctors, I mean, they're overworked. I could completely
understand their frustration. They're seeing it from one
perspective. You have to remember scholars have to see from a varied
number of people because they're responsible in front of Allah.
And if they make a mistake, they made a mistake.
Right? Anybody can make a mistake, but
Let's not, you know, if we want to advise one another, the best way
to advise one another is to do it through politeness, compassion,
and care, then the other person is more likely to accept what you're
saying, if you're going to go and start condemning people, right for
the what they've done, or for what they haven't done, in your
perspective, even if you're right, you don't expect them, you know,
that's not the way people accept criticism. And what's the point we
need to support one another, in this case, to get out of this, we
need to support one another. So what's the point of this?
If frustration should be vented to Allah, use the right means to do
things. But to basically, you know, the social media, we need to
stop using that for the wrong thing today. Social media is a
luxury in many cases, you know, the constant WhatsApp bombardment
of information about the virus and this happened, then it's not
useful, you know, now, most people I think, now who've been on there
for this long know everything related, that's important, at
least, you don't need to be on there 100 times a day or more, to
basically get the little trickle of Bite Size, dopamine inducing
messages,
go pray to Allah subhanaw taala, make some dua have a, there's a
lot of people who are at home children at home husband, wives at
home,
can have to get a timetable,
timetable of how to make this time productive.
How to make this time productive, otherwise, marriages are going to
break down.
There's a lot of families who are not used to being together for so
long. They may even be in a confined space, they may be
social socially awkward with one another, if that's the right term
of family, awkward, whatever you call that.
That's more important look after your own families and people
around you.
How are we gonna look after all our elderly who are really
vulnerable, where you can't even go and give them a hug? You have
to avoid that?
How do we keep the morale up?
How do we how do we do that? That's why I think it'd be
wonderful if we can make certain timetables for ourselves of what
we want to achieve during this time. And a big part of that needs
to be a stick for seeking forgiveness from Allah.
introspection, like complete introspection, not just about our
sins and stuff like that, but about our way of life, about our
perspective about the people we've wronged, that we may still be
wrong about people that we owe money to we another important
aspect of this is
clearing our balance, this is the time to clear our balance because
nobody knows, just because you're 30 years old, you're not going to
die. Now, I'm not trying to create history here, but anybody can die,
if not from the virus on some other reason. But this is the time
to clear our balance, which basically means clear our balance
from money that we owe, if we basically use up somebody's
property, whether that be land, or whatever the case is we've got
silly arguments with people just for a bit more than that you don't
even need to be honest.
You know, subhanAllah, there's certain countries in the world
where people own land, because they move to this country now, but
they own land in those countries. And the market is dead anyway.
Right? They can't sell it, nobody's buying, but he's still
holding on to it and breaking down families.
Then not speaking to their own brothers and sisters,
or their cousins, because of this little BIT bit of land. If this
current situation is not going to teach us then I don't think any
anything can teach us until we die and then it's too late.
To just make amends, take a hit the prophesy. Lifesum said that
whoever avoids a disputes, even though knowing that they're
correct. And generally in this, everybody thinks that correct
anyway. So even if you think you're correct, even if you know
you're correct, and you avoid the dispute, and you just resolve it,
despite that, you basically just defuse it, you get a place in the
middle of Genda
worth it, that is worth it. You see the solution of everything is
to understand the hereafter
which is our inevitable home that we're going to be there for a very
long time. So get rid of those kinds of silly disputes really the
silly they might be big in money, but their city seriously. And
number two, fasting that we must keep we get the car outstandings a
cart is it your money is going to be affected. If you haven't given
the cadmium and purified your body's Zakka the words Academy's
purification, purification of a person who gives a cup
purification of their wealth. A Hadith in Sahih Muslim said
Zakat is essentially what they give out is wasI, who am
worldliness is the dirt of the welfare people because in all of
our wealth in exactly it comes from has a bit of impurity in it.
And if that is not removed, it's like a virus that will affect it.
And there's a cure for this virus, there's a cure for that virus,
which is to give out the money to just separate it,
you haven't given the card gives the card in fact, forget Zika, we
need to give sadaqa because some other cause comes the anger of
Allah or sadaqa to put feet over the barrel.
And number three,
forgotten the numbers here. But number three is our Salaat. We're
gonna have time now. So let us determine how many slots we've
missed. Since we've become mature. Let us think about that.
And with that calculation, whatever estimation whether that
be one year full of Fudger, or all the prayers since we became you
know, we didn't pray for two years, or three years. We used to
pray sometimes, whatever, just make an estimate, start off with
some working estimate, and then start making up those prayers.
I'm not going to repeat that here. But on zamzam Academy, we should
have a talk on how to make up the cooperators and the strategies and
the hacks to do this well, but you've got time now. This is what
we need to turn to and inshallah we will come out of this better
than we were before. In sha Allah, we need to do these things so we
will come out better and before we'd be stronger than before in
sha Allah, closer to Allah subhanho wa Taala that's why the
Hadith says that if Allah takes them out, they will be purified
and forgiven. They will be purified. And if we have to go
then we'll be forgiven at least that's what we need to do right
now. So we ask Allah subhanaw taala to assist us and help us the
messages being the message being shot to so many programs and
everything like that Imams should basically and committee should
actually provide other means like we're doing right now. Where this
is just the broadcast, right to the homes and online and other
places. So education inspiration go look for it if you can't get it
go look for it, because that's going to meet you're going to need
it otherwise you're going to be
the House Situation is going to be difficult you know when would
somebody think staying at home would be so difficult Allah make
it easy Allah make it easy. Allah hum and the salam Amin Casilla
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studies. Allah Maya Hannah and we ermine Illa Illa and Subhan Allah
in the Quran I mean, what do you mean? Just Allahu Ana Mohammed and
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Have your mercy upon us. Oh Allah, we are in desperate need of your
mercy. We're always in desperate need of your mercy. or Allah we're
in need of your forgiveness of Allah. This is what what's going
around is create has created a lot of despondency
of Allah a lot of difficulty has people suffered of Allah We ask
that you remove us from this of Allah in the past there have been
so many afflictions that seemed inevitable but Allah you turn them
away. Oh Allah, we ask that you turn this away from the people of
the UK, our Allah that you make our deeds worthy of this of Allah
that you employ us in such deeds. You use us in such deeds that are
beloved to you, of Allah that you allow us to wake up from our
negligence, our heedlessness of Allah and you do not deprive us
further of Allah, we ask You for complete Apphia we asked you for a
complete Avia. We asked you for a permanent RFP and well being. And
then above all, we ask that we ask that You grant us the ability to
thank you for your idea of Allah so far, you have given us more
than so many others in the world. There are people who are suffering
in various parts of the world before this virus it has of Allah.
Now we are feeling some of this pain of Allah. It's for a lot of
people it's even worse than the war that people have gone through.
That despite being despite having peace on the roads, despite having
no
no aeroplanes and fighter jets bombing and showering down there
bombs upon people. Oh Allah, people are carrying inside their
homes of Allah We ask that you strengthen us of Allah that You
grant us harmony between us, that you allow that you do not allow
the shaytaan to create acrimony between us and hatred, and for no
reason of Allah that you allow us and guide us to make the right
choices in the right decisions. Oh Allah, these are difficult times
and a lot of people are confused. Oh Allah, they are torn between
various different demands. Various different tensions of Allah allow
us to make the right choices and the right the right and do not
punish us if we make the wrong choices of Allah we ask that You
grant us understanding you grant us discernment you
You grant us your closeness of Allah we ask you for your love and
the love of those whose love will benefit us in your court. Oh
Allah, we ask that you really allow us to use this time to
purify ourselves, and not just ourselves but our lives from the
excesses that we become used to, Oh Allah, the excessive
consumptions that we become used to the excessive indulgences that
we've become used to, oh Allah the sins that we commit, by the very
wealth that you give us, oh Allah do not make whatever you have
given us, a source of burden for us source of sin for us, a way of
taking us away from you, oh Allah make it a Rama for us. Oh Allah.
We ask that, despite the fact that children will not be able to study
in the mess in in the Madras as a masjid, and in their schools and
other places, that Allah you grant from your haven from your rave and
from the realm that treasures and powers of your unseen away to
allow them not to be not Not to be left useless during these times.
And to do that which is good for them and allow the parents and
others the Tofik and enablement to prepare well for this, oh Allah
allow there to be a spirit of mutual assistance and harmony in
the communities here of Allah so that we can assist one another,
and that Allah put into our hearts, the desire to want to help
others of Allah, those who have heard it, or Allah put into their
desire to share with others of Allah grant us the word Quilon at
Mad grant is the workload and reliance upon you, O Allah,
suffice us suffices with what you have given us, give us complete
satisfaction with what you give us. So given what you have given
us so that we don't feel that we have we don't have much and we
also do what other people are doing, Oh Allah, we ask that you
allow the baraka and your blessings to be spread far and
wide. So everybody can receive your blessings of Allah O Allah,
we ask that You grant us blessings in our homes, in our health of
Allah above all, in our iman, what Allah there are people who are
becoming despondent because they don't understand your workings.
And the way you administrate the affairs of this world of Allah
grant us a true understanding of these things of Allah grant us to
our true understanding of these things of Allah allow our leaders,
both our immediate Muslim leaders, our council leaders, our country
leaders to do the right thing. And to do that, which is in the best
interest of everybody, oh Allah and to also think about the wrongs
and incorrect things and devices which have become prevalent in
society to remove those and to actually think about those and to
remove devices and to cut down and curb all the wrongdoings that are
taking place. Oh Allah we asked you for true understanding and
disregard of Allah assist us and help us we have nobody but you are
Allah, this small virus is going around causing such a havoc to so
many lives of Allah. These are parts of your vast army of Allah
you have been so patient until now. Oh Allah, you have been so
patient. Now this has been released of Allah We ask that you
allow us to come out of it with the best of it of Allah with the
best of what it holds. And Allah do not allow us to succumb to the
evil of it. And do not make us of those who this is a punishment for
but Allah make this a source of Rama for us. Make this a source of
mercy for us. Oh Allah make this a source of mercy for us. Oh Allah
make this a source of mercy for us. And Allah allow us to come
closer to during these times and thereafter make the sorts of
adjustment a positive adjustment for our lives of Allah further
we'd like to request your special your special mercies to be upon
those who are on the front line, who are delivering the food who
are in the hospitals, the doctors and others who are working
overtime, depriving their own families and their personal lives
to do that which is which is needed at this time. There are the
formula granddam greater him or grant them greater strength and Oh
ALLAH anybody else who's working to work hard with this, oh Allah
especially the orlimar give them give us the give us the required
to give us the required energy and the perspective to be able to hold
people's Iman up. Oh Allah that the doctors are extremely crucial
at these times. Oh Allah, we ask You for special strength, special
strength so that we can work in harmony and work on this well
Subhan Allah because Allah is that the mIRC phone was salam ala l
Mursaleen. Al Hamdulillah.