Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Talk from Arafat
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So my dear brothers and sisters Alhamdulillah we are finally here
for the combination of our H program. This is the main one of
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height.
This is what this is where people come for the autofire is the time
when we make it or break it, of this touch. So may Allah subhanho
wa Taala facilitate this day for us and make every moment of it
very precious and very, very, very, very blessed. So I want to
discuss one aspect of Orissa, which is the dua we're here for
the US. Now Allah subhana wa Tada, I don't know if any of you any of
us have thought about this. If anybody has thought about this
outcome, we're going to have about seven hours, we're going to have
about seven hours for dua
we're gonna have about seven hours for DWIs anybody can raise that?
Can you make the volume?
Come? Is there any better?
Is that better?
So brothers and sisters, as we were saying that one of the main
features of our hajis today in our fights, the main feature is out of
enough.
And one of the main features of our alpha is the God that we make.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam mentioned how the shaytaan
is never seen in any more despicable and humiliated state,
and a degraded and a complete pletely hopeless state than on the
Day of Arafah, where he stands on the outskirts, and he sees the
sheer amount of Mercy descending on the Hajaj on the hajis. And he
just recognizes that he can't do much today and that everybody is
going to be inshallah forgiven. Everybody is going to be bless it,
and everybody is going to receive the right amount of Allah subhanaw
taala, that this special day will come very far. Now, if anybody's
wondered why we need seven hours for dua, I mean, nobody people can
make a dua in half an hour maximum. I mean, how long is your
DUA every day? Five minutes, 10 minutes? Why do you need I mean,
okay, if we really extended maybe we will extended to half an hour
or one hour, why seven hours. So what Allah subhanaw taala has done
on this day, is he's giving everybody a blank check. He's
giving everybody a blank check. And what that means is that he's
saying, you know, most people don't use checks anymore. But when
you could use checks, you write down whatever amount you want, and
Allah is saying, I'm gonna give you a big check. And you can write
down I'm gonna give you seven hours to write down
an awful lot, it must
be
three, why
as we were saying, Allah subhanaw taala has given us a blank check.
Allah has given us a blank check and seven hours to write it as
much as you want on there. So if you make dua, and then you get
tired of making dog
Do you want to rest you want to eat something that's fine. Then
after that, you start thinking again and adding extra. What you
can do is stop making the offer our selves first, then we make to
offer our families then we make to offer for our friends and other
people. What I have done is this people in my family and friends
who have actually sent me they add to our list of 1520 dwarves we
have enough time Mashallah. So there's no need to be stingy. I
don't want to get you guys on the phone. But if you want to ask your
close family to send you their shopping list of Gods from Allah
subhanaw taala. Because Alhamdulillah out of our entire
families, maybe it's just one or two of us who've been accepted to
come here. We don't want to be stingy with that we want to make
that dog. I remember once I did not go for Hajj, and I had some
trouble going on in life. And then suddenly, after a few weeks,
suddenly everything started opening up, meaning things became
easier. And I was wondering why what happened all of a sudden, and
I realized this hashtag.
And I just realized that somebody in Haiti is making dua for me, and
mashallah, these doors are very, very, very, very powerful. So what
exactly is DUA and how do we maximize the possibility of our
dua being accepted? Because that's what's important. We're gonna sit
here for Inshallah, seven hours or whatever it is, stand up, sit
down, and make dua and keep thinking and asking Allah for more
he's willing to give because Allah has endless to give. So that was
important for us is to ask ALLAH SubhanA wa taala. How much do you
ask Allah, you ask Allah as much as until you get satisfied?
Because look, we've come hydrate, we've paid a lot of money, we've
made a lot of effort, we've gone through quite a bit of difficulty.
When do you know? And when are you going to feel that yes, this was
worth it. Today's the day to make it feel worth it. That today's the
day to make it feel like yes, I've got what I wanted to come here
for. So until we don't get that satisfaction, keep asking from
Allah subhanaw taala. Now the thing is that Allah subhanho, wa
taala, he can change anybody saved any time that he wants. And every
moment of the six, seven hours that we have, is so powerful,
every moment every second of it, that it can turn the most, the
greatest sinner, the biggest criminal, into the biggest value
of Allah subhanaw taala and the biggest Friend of Allah subhanaw
taala in a moment, as long as that sincere plea and sincere request
goes to Allah subhanaw taala so regardless of how much we consider
ourselves to be sinners, this is the day that's Every second is so
powerful, that it can change that sinner into the greatest threat of
Allah subhanaw taala and nothing is too difficult and beyond Allah
subhanaw taala so remember that and call Unto Allah subhanaw taala
with absolute your team and trust and believe that Allah is Mukhtar,
then Allah is called that Allah is Kadeem, he has absolute ability to
do all of that. Now you have to remember that whenever
Allah subhanho, wa taala, he can change whatever he wants. If we
want something to happen in our life, we have to do two things.
Number one, we have to take the measures to do that if we're
hungry, we have to get some food, look for some food. If we want a
headache, we're looking for some medicine or something. However,
there's always something else that always is a condition as well. We
may eat that food, but sometimes we don't feel satisfied. We take
the paracetamol but a headache doesn't go away. That's why Allah
subhanaw taala has also to accept us has to also give what he wants,
what we're asking him for. So always there's two things one is
we do our part, we expect Allah subhanho wa Taala or we expect
from him that he will do his part of actually giving us what he
wants. So
Allah subhanaw taala is Will is what is always going to prevail.
For example, the son of goo and a Salam, even though his father
wanted him to be saved, did everything he could to make him
come with him. But Allah subhanho wa Taala did not want that it did
not happen. So remember, we can try whatever you want. But If
Allah doesn't want it to happen, it's not going to happen. So
that's why our trust has to be not on us but on Allah subhanaw taala
our trust has to be that Allah is going to accept that da it's a
it's a really powerful thing to do that that's when our doors
inshallah will be expected, accepted. Inshallah, we have many,
many other examples about this, that Allah subhanaw taala has not
kept in efficacy or effect in anything, but he is the one who
gives effective whatever he wants, I can eat something now, but it
may not help me because Allah doesn't want it to do so. I may
try to do something using every means possible but it will only
happen if ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada wants you to happen. The Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said to our is Google EVA or, or who
will Eva do our is Eva dA is the colonel of worship. When I used to
think about that before I never understood it.
because when we making dua, it sounds like you're asking
selfishly, for something for yourself. So how is that worship?
Worship is offering something to Allah, when we're making dua, we
usually asking for ourselves. So when I heard this hadith finally,
what I understood is what the other man explained, is that to
our if you do it properly is a worship. Because there is the
recognition that we don't know anything. We don't have any
capability. And we recognize that only Allah can give. That's why
we're asking him. Otherwise, why would we be asking Allah if he
can't give us and if we can do it ourselves. So that is the meaning
that that is when to our becomes a worship. And if our daughter has
become worship, instead of just requests or dictations, then that
is when it's going to be the case. For example, there's somebody who
makes the doll and he says, oh, Allah, give me blessing in my
business. I've got this issue, get rid of it. I need to get my
daughter married. Oh Allah let you know, find her a good husband. And
then after that, after two weeks, none of that happens. We get angry
on Allah. We get angry on Allah, is Allah Our slave that we can
just bought some oldest to him and dictate something to him and
expect him to do it? That's not what happens. We We ask Allah
subhana wa Tada.
And we ask him in a way with humility, so always ask Allah. If
you look at the two R's of the Prophet sallallahu antigos. Always
in his comprehensive doors, he started off with praising Allah,
Oh Allah, I am your slave, I am the son of yours, I am the son of
your male slave, son of your female slave. My heart is
submitted to you my neck is my neck is submitted to you doesn't
Allah know all of that already? When he does, but we're just
setting the scene to confess that we are have that today is the day
of humility and confession and absolute submission in sha Allah,
then Allah subhanho wa Taala will give us
now you have to remember that when it comes to other human beings,
right? Even Even people who love us, and they're willing to help
us, eventually they become tired, eventually they need themselves.
But Allah subhanaw taala is never in needs, Allah can always give.
So that's the difference between ask asking somebody else and
asking ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. Now asking, remember, Allah is the
wealthiest Allah who well, honey moving, Allah is the wealthiest if
you go to a wealthy person in this world, and you're asking for one
pounds, you think you're crazy that way? You coming to me for
that?
Why are you coming to me? For one pound, right?
We just have somebody here who can just direct everybody this way.
You guys
can go that way. Otherwise, they won't come in here. Come and sit
here.
Just don't.
For example, I was once with a very wealthy person. And we were
walking in central London and somebody asked him for something
he only had, he had no money and no change or no money. So I said
it's got to I've got a problem. He said, No, no, we have to give at
least five pounds, to a normal beggar five pounds. Because for
any wealthy person is seen as lowly to get something less. Allah
is the honey, the money. So ask him for as much as you want. Don't
ask him for less. Ask him for as much as you can, and as much as
you want. That's what we're going to do this in sha.
Allah gives. You see when humans give, they only give to their
lovers. They only give to their connections Allah gives to his
lovers. Allah gives to his worshipers, and Allah gives to his
enemies. All of those who deny Allah who reject Allah, he still
gives them to eat. He still gives them life. He still gives them
everything. This is the God that we've come for. This is the Allah
that we've come for you.
If humans are unhappy with somebody, they don't give Allah
subhanaw taala gives regardless of that situation, Allah gives
regardless of that, in fact, Allah says, as the sheikh mentioned
earlier, the prophet Sallallahu Sallam told us that Allah loves to
be asked, and the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, Whoever
doesn't ask Allah Yoda by name, he's gonna get angry on him. So we
may have spent our life being so independent, doing our own stuff,
thinking that we have enough money in position and so on. So we do
whatever we want. But this is the day when we are asking Allah
subhanaw taala and we're gonna ask him as absolute beggars. Now,
remember in this world, have you seen beggars? They make you feel
sorry for them? How do they make How do beggars make you feel sorry
for them, they make a special face. They twist their fingers,
right? They stand in a way they make themselves look so
vulnerable. Right and
I think that is what we need to do in front of Allah. So we need to
show our vulnerability of Allah only you can help us, nobody else
can help us. All other doors are closed. If we can inshallah show
Allah subhanaw taala, our, you know, our system like that, for
example, there's a story that as a little kid, he is given, like,
some cakes or something, to sell by his mum on one of those
trolleys. You know, you've seen those in other countries, little
kids go around selling things. So there was a sheikh who was sitting
there, a sheikh, a big, big worry of Allah. And he owed a lot of
people money, because whenever he needed to help somebody who would
borrow money from someone, now he was sitting there and somebody
came to ask for his money back. So the Sheikh said, sit down, another
person came in, he said, I want my money back my debt, I want it
back. So he said, sit down, there was like five or six people
sitting there. Now, suddenly, this kid comes along, this child comes
along with that, full of what it was a cake, so whatever you sell
him, they call him over and he said, serve all of these guys.
I'll buy everything from you. So the kid must have thought I'm very
happy. I can just sell everything in one go. I've made my money for
the day. So he served everybody and he said, Okay, where's my
money? He said, sit down.
Everybody sit down. So now after a while, they're all sitting down
and then suddenly, this child started crying. Why is he crying
because he's thinking that my mom's gonna kill me this shake is
just told me to give everybody my cakes. He's not paying any money
keeps telling me sit down. He started crying. As soon as he
started crying, somebody comes along and gives the shaker bag and
he says here this is a gift for you. And Sheikh said this is
exactly what I was waiting for. I was just waiting for somebody to
cry. I was just waiting for somebody to cry. This kid cried
the Mercy of Allah has descended and now money has come and he paid
everybody and everybody got there. I don't know if that will work for
us, but inshallah announcement that the one who is like this, the
one who
is guilty of this, please, he should leave so that at least the
rest of us can get the mercy and Allah can send the rain.
Nobody stood up. Nobody stood up.
But the rain started.
Can you believe that nobody stood up, but the rain started and Musa
Islam is surprised and astonished. What's going on?
Where's this guilty person is supposed to be a guilty person.
Where is he?
Afterwards, when he asked Allah subhanaw taala. Allah said, I have
kept him veiled and covered until now, nobody knew who that man was.
And when you told everybody that there's somebody like this, he
prayed to me for forgiveness, and I forgave him. I don't want to
reveal him anymore.
So maybe there's many people here who are there's at least a person
here, who's gonna do that kind of Toba from their sins. Many of us
feel that way. There were so bad people. And this is the time that
Allah doesn't want to humiliate anybody, Allah subhanaw taala
doesn't want to cause anybody any, you know, humiliation is the time
that he wants from himself. Now look at this. Sometimes for the
men, they'll understand this, that mothers love their children, and
they said, My child, my child, my child, sometimes if the child has
been misbehaving in the whole day, and the father comes home from
work, what does the mother say? Your child did this is no longer
her child anymore. Subhanallah you know, no longer her child anymore.
However, Allah subhanaw taala is known to have is has more mercy
than all the mothers of the world. Allah let me repeat that Allah has
more mercy than all the mothers of the world put together and all the
mothers that ever existed.
And he still says in one of the most hopeful verses in the Quran,
call ya if Eva de Alladhina Astra for either unforeseen
Oh, my servants, who have transgressed against themselves,
Oh My servants who have done wrong. A mother is not wanting to
call that childhoods at that point. But Subhan Allah then Allah
still says, This is my my servants who have transgressed against
themselves. Now takana tuna Rahmatullah.
Do not become despondent, in the Mercy of Allah. Allah forgives
everything in the light
of Jamia, Allah forgives everything.
That's why the Prophet sallallahu Sallam told us that this journey
of yours is going to be a journey that you can come back from like
the day your mother gave you birth.
And our offer is that day. I mean, it can happen anytime. To be
honest, it could have happened in Mina already. But if it doesn't
happen in our phone
Then Subhanallah when is it going to happen? They still must
deliver, let us know under estimate was delivered, there was
some doors of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam that
would not accept it in our majority will, but some were not
that were then accepted and was deliver. But the bulk of the doors
were accepted here. These places are amazing. There's a story about
a guy. He's from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh. He works here for many
years.
And I'm talking about a story from 20 years ago, when you had normal
phones with answering machines, not mobiles, home home phones. He
came to the Kaaba. He came to the Kaaba, and he got to the multos of
which is the place between the door of the Kaaba and the stone,
the black stone in the door, and he made to his family's back home
in another country. Instead of Allah. I want my children to be a
half of the Quran. He just made that dua, even back home after his
o'mara to wherever he works in Saudi Arabia. And there was a
message on his answering machine at home, you know, the typical old
answering machines they used to have in those days.
His wife had left him a message, saying, you know, I just went to
the local Karissa to take our children to start their hips.
There was no planning on this, he made a dua there and that door was
accepted. When I came for my first page in 2001, we had four brothers
with us, one brother, and I was thought I was living in America
then Brother Mohammed, his name was really nice brother, he had a
wife who's Mexican convert. She didn't wear hijab, and he had a
cholesterol issue. When I asked him after returning that, what,
what's the benefits you got from that? He said, Al Hamdulillah, my
cholesterol issue is gone.
And number two, when he turned up when his flight landed at LAX, the
Los Angeles Airport, his wife came to pick him up
with a hijab
and she wore hijab since
his doors
so
this is a place for the giving and the taking, mashallah so many
people will give you things. So many stories are you know, we have
a short amount of time, but there's so many stories of actual
practical stories of all of your doors being accepted here. As long
as you're not asking for some crazy, impossible something
because then you're just trying to test Allah does. Allah doesn't
like that. It's anything reasonable, which Allah subhanaw
taala wants you to have, you will get it in sha Allah, remember to
us are not accepted. They accept all doors accepted door is a
worship on to us accepted. Remember that. Don't ever think
that your door is never been accepted. However, this is very,
very important. Okay, this is very important. I'm going to give you
an example, if if there is back in London, if there's a very special
car that is on sale, only one person can buy it, I want to buy
it.
You want to buy it, and she just wants to buy it. We're all making
dua, we're all making the same effort. You guys tell me who
should Allah give it to? Me? What's your name? Brother,
Mohammed or Sheikh Yunus? Who should he give it to?
Whoever Allah loves? What about if he loves all of us?
Whoever asked the most, we're all asking together the absolute same
way, who should Allah give it to?
Whoever needs it the most. So now this is this is the secret of this
issue. Allah will give it to whoever he knows is going to be
most.
most beneficial for in the long run, we can only see now we can
only see now, Allah sees the future, I might get the car, I
might drive it too fast. Or I might start showing off with it.
Brother Mohammed, maybe he won't. So it's bad for me. Maybe it's
good for him. Allah knows the future. So we're asking them as
much as we can. But it's up to him, because he knows the future.
But what he will do is he will reward you for what you've asked
Him, He will give you something else in return. If this is not
good for you to have right now. Because we are where we're not
very experienced. We don't know the future. Sometimes we get
things that we really want and it messes us up. It makes us worse.
Allah knows all of that. And he wants us to benefit. Right? So
that's why Allah gives it Allah has to look after the entire
universe. I make dua for something, you may go over the
same thing. How can Allah give it to both of us? We're not going to
share it, are we? Right? So Allah will give it to whoever it's the
best in terms of running the world. So ultimately, if we've
made the US so much for something and we realize
If we can't get it, then instead of complaints that your ally
submit to your best plan, I'm satisfied with your decision. But
until then we're going to ask for it. Don't ever stop asking, right?
Until you realize this isn't for me. I realize now anyway, so to
finish off now, because my time is nearly finished, to finish off.
Now, as I said the hutch, this is the culmination point, and how
much should you pray to Allah,
you should pray until you feel satisfied. That you know, I've
made this trip worth it's
not five minutes or one hour, we need to pray and pray and cry and
cry and plead until we feel satisfied. That you know what this
has been what this is, if I've done whatever I could have done
whatever I could, okay, not 10 minutes of God, that's different
for anybody, however, it's going to be several hours or whatever.
And Allah has given us these multi hours, so that we can come back
and think of some more. So what we're going to, what we're going
to do is they will be inshallah we planned some collective doors as
well. Also between three and five o'clock, we have a reading of one
of the most comprehensive to our collections. So after everybody's
done their doors, right, the individual doors, family doors,
etc. Whoever wants they can join us for this reading of these, I
don't know how many hundreds of doors all in one go. Most of them
from the Quran and Sunnah. Inshallah, because they're very,
very comprehensive, otherwise you can carry on with your own dua or,
or you know, do whatever you want, but this is we'll be doing that
inshallah on the side here, as well. And then there'll be some
collective doors as well. Insha Allah, Allah subhanaw taala bless
us all on this day. And as I said, it starts off the door, the best
thing to do, that's what the Prophet salallahu Salam did, he
stood up outside, and that's when he made the DUA standing in the
sun. Now, I'm not going to say you do that for five hours, because
that we're not used to that, right. So what you do is you go
outside, you stand for as long as you can making dua, then you come
into the shade. Right? You come into the shade you make go out
there, and then after that you come inside and stand and make dua
there. And if you get tired of standing up and sit down and make
dua, lie down and make life you want to just keep it going, and it
doesn't have to be just to up and you get tired to make it do all
you do some Athan, just don't waste time. Don't go on your
phone. Don't worry about what Liverpool are doing today or
Manchester United. I don't even know if they're playing or not.
Right. But that's not what we're worried about. Okay. Can you make
to offer Liverpool some people are going to ask the Hodo a La Quwata
illa biLlah. That's what I'm going to say. All right, but the main
thing is don't waste your time today. Right? Just sleep if you
have to, if you feel like wasting time to sleep, at least is a
neutral state.
My name is Abdul Rahman, the servant of the Most Merciful One.
That's my name. Abdurrahman Mangueira, that's my name. Now my
website is some some academy.com
Okay, just like a love hero. Inshallah. We'll leave you to it.
Get ready for Salah because we're going to be praying solid. Soon in
sha Allah does not come off here on a sinner mighty Kumar.