Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Seekers Of Guidance Part 26 Appreciation of what you Have and No Resentment over what you Do Not
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The speakers discuss the success of Allah Sub banna Al, the health and wellbeing of individuals and their families, and the importance of social interaction and avoiding distraction during daily activities. They also discuss the issue of "roat competition" and the importance of managing one's life and lifestyle to control one's finances and stay in control. The speakers emphasize the importance of not giving up and focusing on one's interests, and encourage listeners to grant their accomplishments and bring their surrounding.
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim
Al hamdu Lillahi wa Al Hamdulillah Robben Island Amin was Salatu was
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We thank Allah subhanaw taala in the beginning.
And at the end, may Allah subhana wa Tada allow our entire lives to
be
filled with sugar and gratitude to him at every moment for us to
acknowledge and to recognize, and then to openly thank Allah
subhanho wa Taala for what He has given us.
Allah subhanaw taala has given us security. And thus we can get up
in the morning, we can go out by ourselves, both our men, our
women, even our children to a certain degree,
and feel a sense of security that we will get from point A to B, we
will get to our destination without too much of a problem.
This we take for granted because we've experienced this and enjoyed
this for a very long time.
However, there are many parts
of the world where many people live. And unfortunately, this is
not the case.
In fact, in many places, people are having to move away from their
homes for the sake of safety,
shelters and other places where you have to share with many other
people.
And clearly,
when you're not in your own surroundings, and within your own
environment,
that could be so destabilizing.
So then you understand the baraka and the blessing
of having your own place.
feeling comfortable feeling at home, feeling confident, feeling
in control. So Allah subhanaw taala has given us hamdulillah
security and may Allah subhanho wa Taala maintain that security and
extend that security to all the people of the world. Number two,
Allah subhanahu wa Tada has given us health.
Allah subhanho wa Taala has given us access to
hospitals, to doctors, to good treatment, state of the art
equipment, some of the best specialists in the world. Other
people come to our countries to paying huge amounts of money,
because they think the treatment is better here. And in many senses
it is because in terms of medical health, it's very progressive.
Again, this is a another thing to be thankful about. Plus in the UK,
for us, at least for the current time,
we have free health care. You don't have to even pay to go to
see a doctor regardless of how wealthy you are.
There's a bit of a waiting time and we criticize. But at the end
of the day when you experience life in another system, where you
have to pay for everything. And you actually have to think twice
about whether you should go to the doctor or not. Or whether you
should get a particular surgery or an operation or whether you should
do a treatment or not. Do you have enough money to spare for that.
And thus people end up doing treatments only for the most
extreme circumstances most emergency in only emergencies in
many cases. So this is all a bit of a waiting time there's a bit of
somebody involved. But
really it is something to thank Allah subhanaw taala for then
Allah subhanaw taala has given us on top of that.
Our daily sustenance, I don't think anybody goes to sleep at
night without having had his share of food, his or her share of food
and having fed ourselves and our children.
And probably also in most cases also knowing that for the next 20
days we find as well, maybe even for the next 30 days.
That is not the case in many places either.
There have been people going from those areas in Burma to other
places and they've been walking with their children and they
haven't eaten for two or three days. And here we have access to
food so easily.
But still we criticize food. Thus food should not be criticized the
promise of a lorry cinema Alberto Ironman,
he never criticized any kind of food.
One is you do an academic criticism if somebody asks you
how's this food compared to this? But in terms of saying hey, this
is really bad, I'm not going to eat it. If he didn't like
something and you know naturally human beings like certain things
they prefer certain
things that they don't prefer certain things that's a human
thing. And the Prophet sallallahu sallam was a human being. And
thus, in some cases, he abstained from eating certain things. He
just says, this isn't, this is not again, this is not this is not
something that conforms to my nature. This is not something that
I have a taste for.
I have a, I feel a bit of a revulsion towards a certain type
of food. And so he abstained from eating it, but others ate it. So
it wasn't that the Prophet sallallahu Sallam just ate
anything. No, he was careful and considerate about what he ate.
But if he didn't like something, he would just avoid it without
criticizing it. So we have Alhamdulillah we have our daily
sustenance, we have security and we also have our sense of
health Hamdulillah. So we ask Allah subhana wa Tada we express
our gratitude to him. Because these are extremely important
things to understand. We hamdulillah haven't suffered in
the natural calamities as well, like people have had some people
are being displaced by human beings, other people are being
displaced by natural means. So you have this around the world, both
in progress, pro advanced countries, both in island
paradise, places that are considered to be paradise,
where totally everything is destroyed.
So there's a lot for us to think Allah subhanaw taala for
now, what we need to do is something which is very difficult
is to kind of extract ourselves from the laws of the world,
extract ourselves from the demands of the world in a sense that it's
not our main concern. It is impossible for us not to be
interactive, not to be interacting with the world with the dunya with
everything that goes on around us because we are human beings where
we come from other human beings, and we are responsible for concern
continuing the cycle of human of human birth and human progression.
That's our responsibility. The Prophet sallallahu sallam said,
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Of course, he's addressing the men in this particular gathering. So
he said, marry those women which are very loving,
and those who are very productive, who are very fertile. You wouldn't
know that. But you would know that from their family, that they have
a lot of children in their family, they don't have an issue of being
barren. And then the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, because I
will,
I will boast of my huge number. On the Day of Judgment, I will take
pride I will take pride in my large number and extensive onma On
the day of judgment. So it is actually recommended to progress
the OMA in that regard and to procreate.
So
we are human creatures, we have been told of responsibilities
towards others. If a person doesn't care about their neighbor,
if a person is not concerned about their neighbor than that person is
considered to be unsocial in Islam. The Prophet sallallahu
sallam said, if you've got a bit of food, and you've just got a bit
of meat, because meat is an it's, it's expensive. So if you've only
got a bit of meat, that's fine, just add a bit of extra water
because water will be easy to come by. It's not saying add extra
meat. But if you've only got a limited amount of meat, add a bit
of extra water, make a more watery soup, and then share something
with your neighbor.
So we're told to be social.
humans interact with other creatures. And we've obviously in
this country replaced animals with cars and many other things.
We have
technical gadgets and appliances and so on and so forth. But we're
essentially told to interact it's a human nature to do that the
professor wasn't and remain within the city.
Yes, for short amount of times there will be a retreat even in
Islam. The retreat that we have now which is a tick off is
actually with people.
But just restrict yourself in the masjid with the believers.
In fact, we were told once in our lifetime, that you must go for
Hajj
and Hajj is a massive social interaction.
What is the baraka and blessing of going for Hajj? What is the focus
is that the House of Allah subhanaw taala is there so your
focus must be that
and when you're the whole challenge is that there's such a
huge number of people doing the work
that you could very easily get distracted what somebody is
wearing, how somebody is reading something, and a lot of people
read things in various different accents and
various different mistakes they make. They do crazy things. But
how are you able to walk around doing that tawaf and focus on
Allah subhanaw taala?
question that arises is that why you told to do it in this
particular way?
anti clockwise, seven times?
Well, this is all within the wisdom of Allah subhanaw taala,
that there has to be a set and fixed amount and method of doing
something. So that it could be a uniform thing, otherwise it
becomes arbitrary. And then somebody may end up just doing one
round, somebody may end up doing 20 rounds, somebody may end up
doing 70 rounds.
Somebody just last year in hudge. For some reason, he thought that a
tawaf was
seven rounds, meaning seven dwarfs, and thus seven times seven
needed 49.
Somebody called him he says, I'm doing to off several hours later,
he called him again, I'm nearly finished. What have you been doing
all day? 49 times around.
So arbitrarily, people could make such mistakes. So there's a sense
of conformity, a point of focus.
And the closest that you can get to Allah subhanho wa taala. Though
you the closest you get is with worship and with riba that But
humans like to touch things that like to look at things.
And they relate to these things, they relate by sense and touch. So
we're told to get to the Kaaba, the house of Allah subhanaw taala,
and told to go around it. But the whole point there is, then we're
told that your focus is not the bricks of the house, because
really what is the Kaaba, though it's always for the for as much as
we can remember, it's always had a building there. But the building
was longer. It was actually rectangular before in time,
Ibrahim Ali salaam until time, the prophets of the Lauricella and
that it was made smaller because they had less supplies.
So what is really the Kaaba is that area that extends all the way
up to the seventh heaven. So that location is the Kaaba.
And the angels have their cover on the seventh heaven,
we're at least lucky that we can go and do tawaf, many times, the
angels only get to do it once in their lifetime, every day 70,000
get to do it, and then there's, they don't ever get a chance to do
it again.
So that is a focal point for every Muslim to go to.
Now, what happens there is that when he gets very busy, the more
people there are, you then have to manage yourself.
So we're told to learn interaction management of our halacha or
character,
somebody is going to shove you somebody's going to push you
whether they intended or not. And it's actually very interesting
that they're the ones who get angry that somebody's you know,
maybe somebody because he you know, you don't know who's pushing
really sometimes it just carries on, carries through people. And
then somebody turns on language, a suburb suburb.
And somebody tells him You do suburb because
you're the we're not doing Southern, you're telling him to do
somebody in an angry tone. So why don't you tell him in a relaxed
way, you need supper. So it's gets confusing as to who is really
doing someone who needs to do somebody, it's it gets really
confusing.
There was one person that was observed doing the walk right by
the Kaaba
this year.
So he was going right around the cover in a very, very busy time I
did throw off at that time as well. It's very, very busy. You
hardly had room to move, especially if you're inside. He
was doing come around, he was very tall, he had a shot here it is
head covered. And he was just crying. And he was just walking.
And essentially, he was walking at a very slow pace.
He was walking at a very, very, very slow pace. And the person in
my group who saw him, he said it was just amazed that there was
nobody touching him.
Everybody was just kind of leaving a space around him. And he was
going slower than everybody else. And just crying just totally
absorbed in something else. He wasn't caring about anybody was
just walking on his own, you could tell that his tawaf was purely for
the sake of a light seemed. And thus, because of that.
Nobody was touching him, they would just go past him to actually
leave him space. So almost like Allah subhanaw taala had created a
halo around him. And thus he was just moving along. And this person
who was with his family had three children with him and his wife he
was just amazed at at the scene when everybody's hustling and
bustling around. Imam Maha CB says he says while I'm under
Minjerribah humble who will earthhero
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hula hoop, Amara dunya
whoever listen to this carefully he says that and know that anybody
who makes their concern the hereafter, Allah subhanho wa Taala
will suffice them in their matters of the dunya.
Now don't jump to conclusions immediately, in a negative sense
saying that oh, this is trying to say that just focus on the
hereafter just worship, worship, worship, and don't do any work,
sit at home and just do Tahajjud prayer and Sherlock in the daytime
and read Quran and so on. That's, that's what a lot of people jump
to conclusion to from such a statement. But that's not what the
statement is saying, isn't it saying that make your concern the
hereafter hum, hum is a worry concern, you're, you're you're,
you're worried for something, you're interested in something,
your ambition for something, that it concerns you, it moves you, it
forces you to do something about it, that entire concern should be
for that era. And Allah subhanho wa taala, then will suffice you
for your dunya. So, I would read this by saying that the more your
concern is of the Hereafter, that is in proportion to that Allah
subhanaw taala will suffice, you have the dunya.
So if your concern is, to a certain degree of the archaea, I
think you will get that much benefits. It essentially Tawakkol
this, this and this, and is underpinned by our code and
reliance in Allah subhana wa Tada. What does he mean by
what what does it mean? That you must make your concern the
hereafter.
Making you concern for the hereafter doesn't mean that you
don't do anything for this world. You do, you get a job.
And you go out.
You don't do like some dry people who think that they're doing this
correctly and say that, because it's some men because it's a mixed
environment outside, then I can't go on work.
And then they sit at home and waste their time.
Or some people there's one case I came across where the husband
didn't go to work, saying that it's a mixed environment, he can't
find the halal job like that. So he sent his wife out who wore a
niqab to work.
So you do get some crazy manifestations of these
misinterpretations of these things. They're just saying you do
what you have to do of the world while avoiding the Haram and doing
the halal and getting a job and everything, but your focus must be
the hereafter. In terms of your main concern.
There are many different types of employees, you will see. Some of
them are always concerned about a pay raise. If they do any extra
job, they expect a bonus. Others have an interest in their job,
their focus is that they want to see the company succeed.
Some may not care about the company as much, but they like
challenges. And they just like to do things in the best way
possible. They may not have any affinity for somebody may work for
British Gas, somebody may work for some other company BT, for
example, they don't really care about the outcome is too big for
them to be concerned with they just a small factor in the entire
company. But they just like a challenge and not for the money.
They just have Masha Allah, Allah has made them in a way that they
just like to sort things out and do things well, regardless of
that.
So you get different types of people.
So the focus needs to be the hereafter. Now, one of the
problems that we've seen, I've got a friend who worked for British
Gas. Then he moved over to some another energy provider.
And what he realized is that he was made in this case, he was
pulled over by the other company, as a manager, as a team manager
for installing. What do you call them? Smart meters, this is a new
thing in England that all houses should have smart meters
eventually. So the energy companies are rolling them out. So
they're hiring a lot of people. So he was working for British Gas for
that purpose. But then he got movie he he was pulled over by
this other company, as a manager of a team that does that. And what
he realized within there is that his boss, who's an Englishman,
he puts him in charge of the several people, among which
there's a few of subcontinent people, some Pakistani brothers
and others.
And what had been happening in that company, is that
they were using the racial card, every time that somebody tried to
discipline them. And they were the idea. The whole idea is that you
get six meters fitted in a day. That was the goal. That was what
everybody should be doing. They were just about doing one or two.
And then they were just like this just can't do any more than that.
Anybody who tried to dissembling correct them
Give them hearing whatever the case is they played the racial
card. So the hire manager was just very frustrated that he couldn't
do anything, he can't get them out because the union, and so on and
so forth. So now this brother was a very decent brother, he was
brought in, and he was made in charge of them.
And he realized that he's got all the problematic people, and he
sussed out the situation.
He's studying, he's telling me that one of the guys who's causing
this problem is a guy with a big beard, who prays all the salads,
very religious in that sense, or is talking about religion.
But when it comes to the work,
you can tell when some somebody clocks in because they all their
system is tracked because of the events and so on, so forth. He's
supposed to start at eight in the morning, he starts at 10 in the
morning,
takes off goes home for Salah, etc, etc. And you can track
everything because the van is tracked, and so on and so forth.
Finally, he gave them He gave them the ultimatums, he talked to them
and everything. And eventually, some of them actually just left,
their free ride was over.
But what it does is that it actually creates
a resentment towards a certain category or ethnicity of people,
because of the way certain people deal.
Now, if their focus was really the Ark era,
then them doing this was completely wrong.
They're saying some of them, not all of them, but some of them are
saying they were you know, and they pray and everything else. But
it means that they're just fulfilling one action of the deen.
They're not fulfilling another action of the beam. One of the
dimensions of the deen is that a bar that is the worships, they
seem to be very strong in their worship. But when it comes to the
more omelet, the dealing and how you should be good in your
dealings, that's just completely wrong. So the money you're earning
is haram. A portion of the money and much of the portion of the
money you're earning is haram.
So this is the problem that we really need to take care of. And
this is I wouldn't say this is a Muslim problem. A lot of people
reduce this to be a Muslim problem. It's more of a ethnicity
problem.
It's just that we're people who come from certain countries where
it's just a cutthroat competition with these kinds of things. And
it's just about swindling one another.
It's just one of those kinds of things. Sometimes, you don't
necessarily see Muslims from other parts of the world doing the same
thing.
Certain people from certain communities, whether they're
Muslim or non Muslim, they just bad at coming to places on time,
in general, but that's not the case with others. We had this
discussion in Hajj. So everybody thinks that because they're
Indian, it's an Indian problem. Because they Pakistani, it's a
Pakistani problem, because it's because they
I've even had discussion with Jewish colleagues and say, Oh,
this is a Jewish from Jewish Jews always come late. But is it a
Jewish problem? Do you understand? Everybody conflicts it? But then
we were talking with some there was a Cypriot Turkish brother
there. He says, Yeah, when he says, I went to a Pakistani
wedding once or Indian wedding once. And it said on the card, six
o'clock, I got there, and there's nobody there not even tables were
laid out.
Right?
So we're used to going on time, he says, we get there, it's all done,
you know, it's already and everything. They're Muslim as
well. And these guys are Muslim as well. And likewise, you get that
so each person has an individual challenge. If the focus is the
hereafter, then it helps to alleviate a lot of problems in
this world. Because when you know there's a hereafter to go to which
you have to work for. And if you've been oppressed, then you
will get
Allah will reward you there and give you your right therefore,
that just makes life easier to live in. So he says that, no, no
clearly that whoever makes his focus that are here, then Allah
subhanaw taala will suffice him in his matters of this dunya
as is mentioned in a hadith, the pharaoh whom in whom it dunya,
must atone for in for in a woman Carnatic dunya Akbar Rahami he of
Shala who Allah hito Yatta who were Tjaarda fakra. Who Bina IE on
Carnatic, Akira to Akbar hum Mahi, Gemma Allahu Allahu Umrah or Jaya
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free yourselves from the concerns of the dunya as much as possible.
That is added that as much as possible, it may be difficult for
you to be not concerned at all because you know somebody when you
don't have food to feed your family, you're going to be
concerned.
My assessment of the world is that there are certain people that
Allah has just tested
whether they're religious or not. They generally are just not very
good at making money.
Right and
There are certain people who are just good at making money,
meaning a sufficient amount of money, whether they're religious
or not.
Because they see opportunities.
And there are certain people
who Allah has given a golden finger to whether they're
religious or not.
Do you understand and they just mashallah only see opportunities
and it's just been running in the family and they just don't know
how to do it. It's an environment that's created.
What the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is saying that you must
free yourself from the concerns of the dunya as much as possible,
knowing that it may be difficult to completely free yourself. But
as much as possible. How do you do that?
The only way you can do that is by thinking of the past when Allah
subhanaw taala has assisted us and helped us. Despite our concerns,
despite having nothing at our disposal, Allah subhanaw taala has
helped us read the Quran with thought reflection, and see how
Allah has helped communities and just build that trust in Allah
subhanaw taala. And that will help us then he says, anybody who makes
the dunya his greatest concern?
How do you make the dunya your greatest concern?
What do you think?
How do you tell that somebody's greatest concern is the dunya.
That means they never they never think of the hereafter.
The hereafter This isn't figured everything of this is just focused
on. What am I going to do? What am I going to do for myself? What am
I going to do for my children? Right? It's just these massive
concerns, and there's a never ending concern in the world, you
can never be satisfied. So the majority, their greatest
discussion, their greatest focus is the dunya.
Now, very simply put, somebody when it's solid time, I'm going to
the masjid.
And they believe that they actually believe that Allah
subhanaw taala will provide them.
They actually believe it since it experienced it and feel it. The
other one was a believer who makes the dunya his greatest concern
also believes in the realm of just theology, this theological belief
that yes, I do believe that Allah will provide. But in actual
experience, it doesn't happen.
If you feel yourself jealous of somebody else, because they're
doing better, they did an investment or you lost out, or
they had an opportunity and you didn't get it. Right, oh, they
just got a better job and you didn't, or they've got a better
house and you haven't, then this means that generally speaking, we
are suffering from greater concern of the dunya.
If we see other people with more, but we think Al Hamdulillah, Allah
has given me and I'm satisfied with what I have. He's got more, a
lot more than I have. But hamdulillah I've got, look, I've
got money, I get my food, I get my clothing, I get my hamdulillah get
my salad Hamdulillah I wouldn't mind some more.
But I'm satisfied with this. I'm not jealous. I don't feel bad. I
don't feel resentment. That part is important.
A lot of people come up and this is this is their big issue in
life. You know, when they start getting worried when they listen
to things like this. And they start actually wondering where
they are. That's when they start realizing, hey, my feeling of
resentment is a bad thing. They don't like it. feeling of
resentment is bad, especially when you can't do anything about it.
When you can't do anything, what I mean by when you can't do anything
about it is that where you can't reach that person's level that you
are envious of. It makes you feel even bad if it makes you feel even
worse. And that's why Allah Allah Maha scuffie. He mentioned that.
How astonishing is Allah's plan for this world, that for the
hassad he has made the punishment, all within it's all self contained
punishment, because that person will suffer, suffer because of his
resentment towards others of what they have.
That needs to be eradicated. By focusing on what we do have,
because if Allah wants you to give us what they have, then we can ask
Allah.
But if we feel resentment, this is the problem. So that's why
the Federal human human at the federal human human would denier
muster item. Anybody who's for whom the dunya is the greatest
concern, then Allah subhanho wa taala.
Will will actually extend for him will spread out for him, his his
estate.
He will give you a lot more in terms of the dunya
and you will then be just trying to run around to put it all
together and keep it in control. And you'll actually have no
Focus on the hereafter. So you may get more of this world, but you
will be restless,
you will just be day and night focused on that. And while you may
see substance and have it and possess it, you won't be able to
do much with it. Because you'll be so busy, we running from one end
to the other to try to do it.
If you make the dunya that's just the nature of it, the more you get
into it, the more you want it, the more the more opportunities that
arise. And you know, anybody will tell you that the more Where do
you get business opportunities from by sitting at home, or by
actually going when you meet a supplier, you meet, you have 10
suppliers, you talk to them, and they say, oh, there's this new
product coming, okay, I need to start that line as well. And a few
months later, another one tells you hey, this is really great
product that's coming in from China or Malaysia, whatever it is,
you start that product. Now, these are all various different
management concerns. And generally human beings are greedy. So they
just try when they don't do it slowly. And then you just running
around and then you get more engrossed. Now if you have some
concern for the akhirah finished, you're in this major dilemma now
that I've got the dunya that I was feeling resentful about, but I
have no time for anything else. And then it's only those that
Allah gives Sophie to that escape out of there, able to manage this.
Sometimes Allah forces you to do it.
And when Allah foresee if he if he likes you for some reason, you've
made some sincere dua, then Allah will force you out of that you
feel very bad leaving your business, you will feel bad,
really, really bad. closing it down or, or winding down. But the
adjustment will be very tough, but inshallah at the end if Allah
loves you, and Allah has given you a trophy, and you've asked Allah
sincerely, he will force you to do this.
Otherwise, it's just not going to happen. Then he says, We're Gera,
fucka Hubei Nene. And he will place his poverty in front of his
eyes, which means that the fear of poverty, the fear of having less,
will always be in front. The fear of need will always be in front of
him. So there is just like, he's got a hat, a headpiece, with
poverty on a essentially with with with poverty on a wire in front,
and he just can't catch it up, but it's always there.
That's what happens such a person, woman garnethill, our hero to
Akbar Rahami he and whoever's focus, whoever's greatest concern
is that akhira again, Akbar in Arabic is a relative term, Akbar
mean shape, greater than doesn't mean you can't have no focus for
the dunya you do need a bit of focus to get somewhere.
But if your greatest focus is that then even when you're doing dunya,
you will actually think of akhira.
Right? So if your greatest concern is the akhira, then Allah subhanho
wa Taala will Gemma Allahu Allahu Umrah, who,
and you know how beneficial that is, Allah will combine and gather
and bring together his affairs.
What does that mean? In other words, they will become
manageable.
Allah will allow him to manage and give him Baraka through that
management, he won't have to run around, he won't have no he won't
be supposed to just have any time. But Allah will make Baraka in his
business or in his affairs, and thus he'll have control over them
so he can manage his time better, and his lifestyle better, where
Giada Hina, who feel called me he and Allah will place in richness
and independence in his heart. So you feel independent, you feel in
control, you feel self enriched,
requires an effort to change that in mind. Anything just first, I
think in a practical sense, let us just focus on
just taking stock of what we have.
Don't look at what anybody else has look at ourselves in a vacuum.
Do I have enough? Am I getting enough? Am I in control? Okay, I
may have a debt, but am I in you know, am I doing things that will
manage my affairs and I'm going to be in control that is what's most
important.
That's how you start. As soon as you start comparing yourself with
others, then the dunya becomes our greatest concern. So always look
at ourselves as what Allah has given us. And this will give us
Inshallah, the opportunity to thank Allah. And that's why, if
you look at Surah to Doha,
this is exactly what happens. The Prophet salallahu Salam was the
why he stopped after the initial few revelations, the why he
stopped, and they used to give him a lot of comfort, but now they
stopped. People started saying that you're shapen has abandoned
you meaning referring to Allah subhanaw taala. Now the biller,
then when Allah subhanaw taala revealed it was what the * a
lady either soldier, right? Allah tells him that you must number
one, remember that once you found an orphan and Allah looked after
you, once you found in need and Allah
gave you when to fall found in need of guidance and Allah guided
you. So hasn't Allah helped you in the past? So think about that. And
then what am binaire material? Then he says that what a messiah
for leather, no one will your team of Allah Dakar, go and actively do
something. So the active active duty is that you do something for
the orphans, you do something for the poor. And then lastly, Allah
says, Well, I'm Binette material because I had this, that the
bounties of your Lord you must proclaim them.
So if you have bounties of your Lord, acknowledge them, otherwise,
we will live our life with so many bounties. But we will never
acknowledge them because we always think we don't have enough so we
don't see them as a bounty, we will want to see something else as
a bounty. When we get that there's a bigger idea, we get that there's
another opportunity. So this is all in the wayside. We don't
really get to appreciate and enjoy our bounties. When you see
something as a gift, you start enjoying it. When you see
something as just something of the path and something bigger is a
bounty than then you don't get anything out of it. You don't
enjoy it.
May Allah subhanaw taala grant us that Sophia can really as the
Hadith mentions that may Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us that
richness in our heart and allow the greatest of our focus and
concerns the hereafter.
So that helps us to control our focus on the dunya Lahiru Darwaza
annual hamdulillahi rabbil Alameen Lama and is willing to sit on the
little jewelry will Quran. Allah whom they are how you yaka Yun
Bureau medical study Allahumma salli wa salam ala Sayyidina
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chrome yah yah a you have Allah we ask You for Your Mercy of Allah we
ask you for your blessings of Allah we ask you for contentment,
or Allah we ask you for forgiveness of Allah we ask you
for a heart free of attachment to all others of Allah we ask you for
our heart to be attached to you. Oh Allah, we ask for your love and
the love of those who love you. Oh Allah we ask you for blessing in
our life. Oh Allah we ask you for strength in our iman. Oh Allah we
ask you for health. This both spiritual and physical health of
Allah grant us our grip make our greatest concern that our hero Oh
ALLAH mica is our greatest concern that akhira Oh Allah, we ask that
you gather our affairs together, you allow us to be in control. You
allow us to have time for our akhira and make that our greatest
concern. Oh Allah For how much longer we'll be doing well and
chasing around the dunya the way we are of Allah. Whether we like
it or not, Oh Allah, we ask that you make us of those who are
focused on the hereafter. Oh Allah, each one of us here wants
that. We find it very difficult. There are many obstacles in our
life of Allah both mentally, both physically, socially, Oh Allah, we
ask you for a conducive surrounding for our focus on your
obedience of Allah make your obedience beloved to our heart. Oh
Allah make your disobedience hated in our heart of Allah, we ask that
you also do this for our progeny until the day of judgment of Allah
that you protect us, our children, our progeny, our progeny, until
the day of judgment that they, our spouses, our children, our family
has become a source of gladness for our eyes. Oh Allah. We ask
that you grant us beneficial knowledge of Allah that you
protect us from redundant knowledge from useless waste of
time of Allah today, there are many things that are available to
us that are very close to us that take our time away from what is
useful, both from a worldly perspective both from an accurate
perspective of Allah we ask you, that you make our focus the
hereafter so that we don't waste our time that we focus on doing
the right activities of Allah make us of those who help and assist
others who help themselves and who help others. Oh Allah allow us to
be of those.
Like who the Sahaba how the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, train them, Oh Allah, we ask that You grant us the baraka,
that the blessing that you have granted to the Sahaba and to the
great people before us, oh Allah make us of those who are close to
you. Oh Allah bless us in all of our endeavors of Allah bless us in
our permissible endeavors of Allah allow us to choose only that which
is right. Oh Allah you be our guide in this world of Allah allow
us to make you our guide and to follow Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam allow us to bring the Sunnah, sunnah, the Sunnah acting
in our home the Sunnah interaction in our home the Sunnah 14 Our home
of Allah, you make us of those who you and the prophets Allah Allah
is and will be satisfied with on the day of judgment, and oh Allah
do not make us of those who the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam will repel from his watering place on the day of
judgment of Allah. We call ourselves believers. We call
ourselves followers of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa salam, O
Allah when we make
a pro
stration it is only to you and nobody else. Oh Allah, however
broken We are however we are however deficient we are and
clearly we are deficient, Oh Allah, we are still your servants.
But Allah we have gathered here on this Sunday morning for this
purpose. We could have been doing so many other things. You gave us
the trophy to come in the first place. We thank you for this. Oh
Allah we are extremely grateful for this. Oh Allah. Allow us to
unite together in your name for your vicar for your remembrance
and bless this gathering of Allah do not let any one of us return
from here without being forgiven, without being forgiven and all of
our needs being met of Allah, O Allah. We're not at that stage
where alpha is our greatest concern. But Oh Allah, we ask you,
we asked you that you make it like that. And you give us the fruits
of that, Oh Allah there are people sitting here. Some of them some of
us may be involved in various different forms of griefs and
worries and problems and challenges in their life. Oh Allah
remove those challenges and those problems, Oh Allah, whatever
people have come here for whatever, whatever intention
people have come with, Oh Allah fulfill those intentions, fulfill
those and grant them the baraka and the blessing. Oh Allah grant
them baraka and blessing. Oh Allah, there are people here who
have various challenges maybe with their children, maybe with their
work, maybe with their married lives of Allah in whatever
situation it may be. Oh Allah remove those problems and grantors
Baraka in whatever good we are doing. Oh Allah allow us to focus
on the positives in our life. Allow us to focus on the goods
that you on the good and the bounties that you have given us.
Oh Allah do not make us of the ungrateful ones do not make us of
the unfortunate ones do not make us of the wretched ones. Oh Allah,
Oh Allah make every stage of the Hereafter easy for us, and allow
us allow us on on our deathbed to say the creme de la ilaha illa
Allah and on the Day of Judgment, be happy to meet you and you'll be
happy to meet us. Oh Allah, we ask you to send your abundant
blessings on our messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam and grant us his company in the hereafter. Subhana Arabic
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