Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Understanding Divine Decree Predestination Qadr
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If there was no freewill, there'd be no point of Jonathan jahannam.
The grand scheme of things the way they are, is because it's an part
of that is that Allah gave us free will to make our decision because
Allah says Rama, who Avila Mila lobbied I am not one to oppress
even in the least my servants. I will not oppress a tall, lie
overly shame. Allah does not oppress even the slightest, Allah
will only punish us for wrongs that we have committed. Nobody
will go into hellfire thinking that they have been oppressed or
wronged or
put in without justice. They will realize the wrongs that they have
done because Allah only is just a nothing else. Allah is just
there's no opera, you know, unfair doesn't apply to Allah subhanaw
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My dear respected friends Salaam Alaikum
Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.
The topic I want to deal with today, I think it's an overdue
topic.
And the reason for it is that our entire life revolves around this
belief. And if we have a mistaken belief in this regard, it actually
will spoil a person's life. People who commit suicide have a problem
with this point, with this subject with this issue. Anybody who
commit suicide out of desperation, despondence hopelessness,
depression, this is that this is the antidote for this. This, all
of those things are symptom that a person hasn't understood this
particular issue.
What I'm going to speak about is not stories, what I'm going to
speak about are not accounts, there may be a few accounts here
and there. But the main thing that I'm going to speak about is a
concept to understand for that you'll have to be awake on this
New Year's Eve.
It's not going to be fireworks. But it's going to require some
interaction, it's going to it's going to require your
understanding, because it's not just a story that I'm going to
tell you it's going to require to really understand and reflect over
what our understanding of this particular subject the subject is.
The subject I speak about, I mean, you've seen the poster it says
color and destiny predestination. Now, right from the outset,
predestination is one of those topics that people kind of
mentioned.
half heartedly or without full knowledge about some people will
mention it that it's something that we can't deal with we can't
go into the depths about which is true. It's not allowed to do for
example is a Hadith.
In Which Imam tell me the
relates this Hadith from Abu Huraira the Allahu Anhu that once
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
came out from his room we were sitting in the masjid. So if this
is the masjid, the Prophet sallallahu, His room was there.
And one day the progress blossom suddenly appeared and we were
there discussing in this heated manner. We were discussing Qatar
destiny.
When he came in and he saw this for her the Maha Mudra which got
under who got under my foot bfhi What he Herbert Romain, he was so
angry, he was so angry that it is as if
a pomegranate seed had been crushed on his cheeks.
You know, that's that's the resemblance that's been mentioned
here. And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, after we
have omitted them, is this what you've been commanded to do? This
is what you've been ordered to do to discuss these
Things at this level in this kind of fashion and behavior or sell to
Aleikum. Is this what I've been sent to you for to discuss these
kinds of issues? In the Mohalla command Karna Coppola calm Hina
Turner's that will fill armor.
We huddle among the people before you were destroyed. The lives were
spoiled.
They were punished. You know, you could understand this in many ways
when they began to discuss and engross themselves in this issue,
as I'm to Alikum as them to other income alert another Oh, fee. I
insist upon you. I insist that you do not. You do not debate this
issue.
Now because of this hadith, because it said Rahman Asad Allah
is definitely one of the secrets of Allah, as the other man have
discussed, that it is something which if you try to go into depths
and try to reconcile every aspect of it, then you will come out
either as a fatalist or an absolute proponent proponent of
absolute free will. And both of those extremes it is a secret of
Allah subhanho wa Taala when certain scholars, for example,
Merdeka bananas are the Allahu Anhu Rahim Allah reports that
there's a famous scholar of his time was named was as if no more
Harvia he says, somebody asked the us even more Avia Mara you can
feel cutter. What's your opinion about predestination? What a
question. So as even a more a more obvious, eternity? My opinion is
my daughter.
Like an absurd answer to an absurd question. I'd rather be concerned
about my daughter than other because there's not something I
can deal with. And then what you meant by that is why are animals
Cipla animals, several who Illallah nobody knows its secret
except Allah subhanho wa taala.
So now, what are we going to discuss today, then?
Well, we need to discuss it because there is a certain amount
of knowledge that Allah has provided us about it. Through the
iterations, numerous iterations, this whole chapters in the books
of Hadith Gita will cover it's there in parts of eatable Iman,
the chapter on cover, and the prophets, Allah Lawson discusses
many different aspects about this. And the reason why this is so
important is because much of the of the Depression today is because
of a misunderstanding and an ignorance about this.
First and foremost, the reason why there is predestination or the
fact that there is predestination is because Allah subhanaw taala
knows about everything that is going to happen.
What is predestination, predestination, Destiny,
predestination, essentially, is the grand plan of Allah subhanaw
taala, from pre eternity, from the endless furthest reaches of pre
eternity, about what he wants to do in this world. So basically,
today's program where we're all sitting here today was an absolute
knowledge of Allah, before
it occurred. Before even you and I were born, before our grandparents
were born. It was as if Allah had seen this already. So the fact
that it's taking place today doesn't make any difference to
Allah subhana wa Tada. It's almost it's it is not it is almost it is
as if it's already done. It's a done deal. Because time doesn't
apply to Allah, we move in time. We are like in a garden. We are
like in a garden where we can do what we want within certain
limitations within that garden. But we can't do anything beyond
that garden. So this world, the amount of power, the limited power
we have, that is how much we can function in. And beyond that we
can't. And our time, if I asked you a question, what is time? How
would you define time? Time is something we use all the time. But
what is time? How would you define time, time is defined today. Time
is defined today by the clock 24 hours, or 12 times two, I prefer
to 12 times two than the 24 hours personally, but 12 times two or 24
hour clock is a very recent phenomenon about 4050 years old
before that the clocks used to work differently. Time essentially
all it is it's a relative, it's a relative, its relative state to
something happening. And because the starting of the day and the
ending of the day, the beginning of night, us so evident phenomena
around us. They are realities that we can't miss. We generally go by
that. Otherwise, time can be measured by when people come back
from hajj when the crops grow when it's the shortest day of the year.
But generally, because the sun rises generally at a predictable
rate, predictable time, we generally measure it based on
that. And we've taken those times and kind of split it into number
of hours, number of minutes, and so on and so forth. Just to make
it easy, that's essentially what time is. Time is just the relative
distance to something in time. That's what it is. Essentially,
it's like units. You take a ruler, you take a ruler, and you see the
centimeters on there. And you see the lines for each centimeter
block unit. So essentially, time is just according to that. For any
one of us, we suddenly appear in one of those units, we stay for a
few units, and then we disappeared. We've gone. Right?
Likewise with everybody, they come into those units. There's the unit
before that they weren't there. They only started in this next
unit, and they carry on and then they end and they go Do you
understand?
If you understand it, everybody understands it. And that's the
great thing about it. What's your name?
Abdurrahman There you go. That's why I'm Michelle but this name is
going to Allah of drama and Abdullah that's why
Rahman Cabinda
servant of the rock, man, that's what you are. Right? That's where
we all are. Anyway, when it comes to Allah subhanaw taala. He
doesn't fit into these these units, because there's not enough
units.
There's not enough units to encompass him, he's before any of
these units do you understand? Very difficult for us to really
understand because everything that surrounds us, comes into being and
perishes, it starts to exist, and then it ends is existence. That's
what we're so used to that, that it's very difficult for us to
understand the concept of infinite,
infinite, pre eternality and post eternality. But anyway, let's get
to something else. Now. Allah subhanaw taala, hence, knew
everything. There's a hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu. And he says
that 50,000 years before the creation of the world, Allah
subhanaw taala created the pen, the kalam and he created the
divine tablet Allahumma fools, and he said to the pen, right booktube
mother up to what should I write your your Allah, and Allah
subhanho wa Taala says, Write everything that is going to occur
until the Day of Judgment. Now where did that pen, get the
knowledge, from, to write everything until the Day of
Judgment, obviously, from the knowledge of Allah, which
encompasses everything to happen until the day of judgment, and
beyond that, because beyond that is eternity, Janet and Jahannam
are forever. Nothing can encompass that only the knowledge of Allah
because he is eternal, but we're getting into realms that are very
difficult for us to understand. So let's get back to the point that
50,000 years before the creation of this world, Allah wrote
everything down that was to occur. Now the question that arises
is that everything that is written in the divine tablets is occurring
in the world because Allah knew what was going to happen. So then
doesn't it mean that we should not be responsible for the good or the
evil that we do? Because we're just going according to plan,
right? Everything just seems to be going according to what's written.
So why should we then be rewarded for any good that we do? Or
punished for anything evil that we do? Well, let's introduce a new
concept here of freewill.
Now, first and foremost, you know, free will is free will is the
ability in us to do what we want when we want to a certain degree,
for example, everybody that's sitting here today, you came here
by your own will, you want, literally dragged into here with
while you're protesting, unless your friends did drag you in here,
or unless your father did drag you in here? Right. But still, you had
the ability to resist? You came in here with a will, there may have
been encouragement, but you came here with your free will. Now we
understand free will, free will is established through two different
ways. Number one, it's established by our experience, we feel free
will none of us feels forced food is sitting there. We don't feel
forced to eat and we can't help our hands getting down there and
you know, taking the food and we make that choice to do it. Right.
So we feel that we experience it, you and you shake your hands
voluntarily. A normal person gets his hand and shakes it
voluntarily. That is freewill. You also have people in this world who
are who have Parkinson's disease for example, they can't help
shaking their hands even if they want to stop they can't their hand
shakes involuntarily. So there's a clear
difference between an involuntary shaking of the hand and a
voluntary shaking of the hand. Another thing is that when you're
walking on level ground, you are just walking. You can, to a
certain degree control your pace, try walk walking down an incline
or a hill. And suddenly you have less control over your pace. Yes,
you can stop. But if you're walking, you are still being
helped because of gravity as we call it. So clearly, we understand
that that is where you have freewill. But you see that there's
some other influence there as well. Right? However, freewill is
established. And it's only because the human has free will, that
there is Jonathan jahannam. If there was no free will, there'd be
no point of Jonathan jahannam. The grand scheme of things the way
they are, is because it's an part of that is that Allah gave us free
will to make our decision because Allah says Rama who Avila mala
beads, I am not one to oppress, even in the least of My servants,
I will not oppress at all lie of the limb shape. Allah does not
oppress even the slightest, Allah will only punish us for wrongs
that we have committed. Nobody will go into hellfire thinking
that they have been oppressed or wronged or
put in without justice. They will realize the wrongs that they have
done because Allah only is just and nothing else. Allah is just as
no opposite, you know, unfair doesn't apply to Allah subhanaw
taala.
So because of the fact that we have freewill, there is paradise
in this * or this * and Paradise and because of that, we
have freewill. You can see it either way. It's the grand scheme
of Allah subhanaw taala. Now, once we've established freewill,
then how is it possible that we exercise our free will, our
volition, our choice? Right? Where independent and autonomous in
doing so. But then it's all written? It's already written. So
how have we got free will when it's already written? Whatever
we're doing is in accordance to what's written, and what's written
is in accordance to what we're doing. So how do you understand
that then, if you've got your free will, and you experienced it,
nobody is there's anybody deny Free Will here? Right? I don't
think there's anybody I mean, there were groups who denied it
theoretically, practically, you can't. Because you know, you feel
free will? Then how is it possible that you're going according to
what's written in the divine tablets in a local math booth?
Once I was, I would say, in a half guilty sense. I was racing down
the Moto, the highway in California, the freeway, one on
one on the coast. And I was stopped by I was only going about
80 miles an hour, by the way, right, which in England is
nothing. Generally people 80 is kind of like tolerable, people go
90 and 100. But in America, that was a big deal. Because 65 is the
limit in California in most places. So he was a bit. Now for
some reason, I was coming back and this police stopped me.
And I said a few things to him. I said, you know, please stand over
there. He says, Well, it's your free. It's your it's your destiny.
So I said, Okay, what's what's destiny? So we had a little chat,
and I explained
this understanding that I'm about to give you about destiny as to
how it goes in accordance with what's written, how it is destiny.
He still gave me a ticket. He appreciated what I mentioned, but
he still ended up giving me a ticket because that was the
destiny. Right? That was my destiny at that on the day.
Now, what happens is going back to that question, how do you
reconcile the fact that everything has been written, but we still
have freewill, and we don't feel forced, the reason is simple.
Whatever Allah had written in that divine tablets, if you understand
this, it will make a lot of things simple for you, then inshallah you
will not feel doomed. You will not feel depressed, you will not feel
as if you know your future, because nobody does. Nobody does.
Whatever is written in there is written based on the knowledge of
what Allah knew.
Right? The knowledge of Allah of what we were going to do with our
free will so for example, what's your name, bro?
Allah knew the brother Osman, when he comes into the I'm going to
call you off man. If you don't mind.
When he comes into this world, he's going to be doing this this
this this with this free will. He's going to come to Masjid Abu
Bakr on this New York New Year New Year's Eve, when his free will.
And that's what Allah wrote, he will do this with his free will he
will do this you know, it was a descriptive detail, not
prescriptive, not that off man has to do this use of has to do this.
And Abdurrahman by has to do this. He didn't write that. That's not
what it was written. If it was written in that fashion. Zaid has
emailed or Antiva clarifies this clearly. If it was written like
that, then that means we would be compelled, compelled, wouldn't
have any free will, but we experienced the Free Will
And that's what's written there only because Allah knew what we
were going to do.
I'll give you another example. If you're a teacher, you've taught
somebody for a year or two, you under your kind of understood
their capability. come time for exam, what you did was before the
exams, you wrote down what you predicted, you predicted some
grades of this, then after that, they go take the exams, the tests,
after the test, you get the results, and you compare your
results. Sorry, you compare the actual results with your
predictions, you will see that most of it is very similar, you
can still make mistakes, because we're human beings, we don't
really know the future, we think we can speculate about our future.
So they will be very similar. We may have missed out in something,
right? This guy was a straight A student, but for some reason on
that day, he messed up. But most of the others were the same.
Right? With Allah subhanaw taala. There's never a mess up. It's
absolute knowledge. 100% There's never a mistake or an error at
all. So whenever he knows, it's because for him, time doesn't
apply to me. It's like the whole universe is less than, you know,
imagine you have one of those medicine, medical capsules, Medic
medicine. Imagine an entire an entire universe taking place in
the eye of bacteria, you can get 1000s of bacteria on a pinhead. So
imagine that scope. Now, again, Allah is even beyond that. But
just to understand the entire universe is taking place in me
What difference does it make? And that's not even a proper example.
Allah is beyond us. But we must understand that what's written is
not prescriptive. It's descriptive. Allah wrote what we
were going to do with our freewill because he knew what we were going
to do with our free will we end up doing exactly according to what's
in the divine tablet, because Allah knew what we were going to
do with our free will. So now, do you feel more free now? Do you
feel less compelled? Hamdulillah? Now let's understand a few things.
What is the whole point of destiny than
destiny, then in that sense, is our belief that Allah has planned
and knows and is in control of everything before it occurs?
That's the belief we have, what benefit does this belief give us
then?
What benefit does this belief give us? It gives us the benefit.
Because
Destiny Kedah, predestination has not been established or instituted
to destroy people's ambitions and goals. How so? Only if you have a
misunderstanding of it, how can it be?
It is not to destroy our ambitions, our goals and our
desires. Right. Rather, it is to allow bygones to be bygones. It is
to help us not cry over spilt milk. It is to help us get back on
our feet after that stumble or fall and carry on and keep trying.
Why do I say that? The reason I say that is because
a few things. Number one.
If the misunderstanding people have is that if certain things
start going wrong in their life, they've had a series of events
which have gone wrong in their life. They had an accident, they
were supposed they made a proposal and they lost that proposal. They
didn't get the job. They were looking for three setbacks. And
suddenly you start thinking that your world has ended. Aren't you
still getting your food? Aren't you still surviving? Aren't you
still breathing? Aren't you still living in this world making salad
worshiping Allah? Just because some things are affecting us
monetarily, or in terms of position, or some or it's not
going according to how we want it, we suddenly feel like God hates
us, we suddenly feel like it's the end of the world, it suddenly
feels like I'm finished. There's other people, they have had a
setback, something bad has happened in their life, or they've
just lead a life of 10 years of sin. And now they feel that there
is no way for them to
repent and to turn around and to become better. And that's a big
fallacy. Who told you how do you know what's written for you? Oh, I
am doomed. I am finished. Metal Garden though. I am a sinner. I am
going to * anyway. So let me just do this as well. That's what
people say. What difference is he going to make? I'm going to *
anyway. That's what people say. Now the biller How do you know who
told you so? Which angel told you so not even an this divine tablet?
Right which is probably
the closest that we could probably get to the knowledge of the Unseen
because beyond that is the knowledge of Allah We
which is even more a greater repository of the unseen, the
divine tablet, it mentions in the books of Arcada that not even the
closest of the angels know what's going on in there. Not even the
greatest of the angels are privy to what's going on in there.
Now, the divine tablet when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam went on his ascension Miraj. In one of the Hadith, it
mentions that he came to a place where he could hear
the Saudi UCLA Emile Mata Iike, he could hear the screeching of the
pins of the angels, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam heard
the screeching of the pins of the angels. So what are they writing?
Essentially, my understanding of this is this, that you have the
divine title alone mouthfuls, now in the local mafia with everything
is described as to what's going to happen. So what happens then is
that angels are in charge of administrating the affairs of the
world. That's why future time and answer time you have a shift
change of angels for your time and also time you have shift or change
of in the day angels in the night angels, they come and they shifted
that time. And there are angels that bring about the punishment in
the world bring about the crops in the world bring about the rain in
the world, and the different things that occur around the
world. So what happens is, it seems as if the next week, the
next day or two, the next week, the next month of information
pertaining to a certain issue is released to these angels. So then
they do so the whole set of all the knowledge, all the nobody has
absolute access to everything that's in that in the divine
tablet, but they have access to however Allah subhanaw taala as
much as Allah wants of the next month or two or year or whatever
the case is, depending on who it is to administrate that. This is
how Allah wants it to happen. Okay, but nobody knows everything
in there. Now, the other thing is, as I mentioned, nobody knows that
if I'm going to die at the age of 70, or 80, or 90, or whatever it
is how I'm going to die. The reason the Prophet sallallahu
Sallam explained these things very clearly, there's another Hadith of
Rasulullah sallallahu, which says that a person acts like a person
from hellfire, which means he does sins, it seems like he's Janome
all his life, then there's only a hand span very short distance left
between him and jahannam. And it just seems like he's going
directly zooming straight for that direction. He's going to hit the
wall anytime now. And suddenly, it changes because Allah knows him to
be good instead of evil. And thus, he does a good turn at the end of
his life ends up in Janet's is literally like somebody's about to
have an accent, he gets saved all of a sudden. And yet on the other
hand, the prophets are awesome. Also said some people all their
life, do the deeds of the people of Ghana, so they do good deeds.
They don't seem like they're ever going to enter hellfire.
And right at the end, when it seems like they're just about to
gain entry, they mess up.
What a sad scene. Now, good ole life, mess up at the end, bad all
of their life suddenly do one good deed, and they end up in general.
For example, time of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam there
was a man, there was a battle raging the prophets Allah ism is
there. A man suddenly comes in he says, I want to take part in his
battle. He was not a believer. He was not a Muslim. The prophesy
Muslim said fine, you can take part but at least embrace the
faith first. And he said Allah Allah and Allah say the Shahada.
He said the Shahada.
He said the shahada, no salah, no fasting knows that God Naveen
entered the battle and was martyred. And the prophets of
Allah Islam said, I'm Isla Khalil and Uji raka Theon, so little did
he do but so great reward did he acquire. So that's a last minute
seem now just to put our hearts at rest that we're doing, hopefully,
we're trying to do good all of our life, then.
If we mess up at the last minute, as there are stories of that
nature, while the other might have mentioned that from observation,
from observation, and through trust in Allah subhanaw taala,
what we realize is that it's generally the people who are
heading for that wall, the evil ones that become right, then the
good ones turning wrong, that seldom happens, that seldom
happens, it's a possibility that the good person also become bad,
but it's generally the bad who become good. So because good
begets more good, and evil begets more evil. So if you're going to
do good, it can only inshallah become better. So is a chance
because everything is open to chance in this world,
that they can happen. That's why we say Robina led to the Kulu BANA
birthday
eterna well habla Milla Don Khurana in the intro herb, oh
Allah do not cause our hearts to deviate, become crooked after
you've given us guidance. Very important to have the Quran so now
somebody then asked the Prophet salallahu Salam a question after
he mentioned this scenario to them for female Amaroo ya rasool Allah
Buhari so you have a saleable cardio needs for female I'm gonna
yada school Allah. What is the point of doing deeds then? If it's
all written, and at the last minute it can take a swerve, then
what is the point of deed? The prophets of Allah some said
Emmylou for Columbia, certainly Mahalia, Carla, that know you keep
doing the deeds and trying and making your effort for the
direction you want. Because every person will be facilitated in the
direction that has been destined for him. Now, this tells us
there's a hadith I'm gonna read to you right now, say sahih, Hadith
or Muslim, this puts the whole situation into perspective, it
tells us that predestination is not there to cause you to become
hopeless and despondent. Right, because nobody knows their end.
Even if your whole life has been going bad for you. It doesn't mean
that your end will be bad. And that's why the end part has the
most significant hadith of Rasul Allah Allah says, in normal man
who will have a team actions are according to the ending states.
Actions are according to the end state, the final state, how was
that that's what you're going to action is going to be taken.
That's the beauty of a believers actions and intentions, that you
could turn everything around, you could wash away all the sins, and
that's why the Prophet sallallahu sallam said utter Ableman of them
becoming Lambada, that the one who repents from sins is like the one
who has no sins from before. Some scholars even say that that person
may even be superior to a person who doesn't have any sense, in
some cases, because of the act of Toba, that raised his status. In
fact, I saw his wonder about this. But recently, there's been a
number of studies a number of studies on the mind, how the mind
is wired with all of these neurons, millions, billions of
neurons. And according to this particular study, it shows that
you are different when you are 14 years old, to when you are 20
years old, though you have the same carrier body, that you have
been given in this world to use, this body will be destroyed and
decomposed in the grave or however we die, in the hereafter will be
given a new body from some basic elements of our body, but us who
we are, who are you as an individual who wants what does?
How do you define an incision. According to this new study, it
says that because of the way our mind is made up with all of these
neurons, and so on, and the changes that keep taking place,
you are a different person when you're 30, than when you were 20.
For me, that makes a lot of sense, because the prophets of awesome
said, the person who REPENT from sin is like the one who had no
sin. So you could have had 30 years of crime, criminal nature,
sin upon sin, worse person, and you then make Tober you go and
perform a hedge, you go and sit in the right company, and you desist
from that life. You're a different person now in your mind. That's
why the Prophet said Allah awesome, also said, if somebody
has committed a sin and then repented, and then you go and
start censoring them for that sin, taunting them for it, you will not
die until Allah also engrosses you in that sin, which is a very
dangerous thing, because we're supposed to give people the
benefit of the doubt, if Allah can forgive. And if the province of
Allah Islam can say, the one who REPENT from sin is like the one
who has no sin than what right do you and I have to go and talk to
somebody from a sin that he could have sought forgiveness from.
That's very important to us. That's a humbling fact. If Allah
forgives, if the promise of awesome is telling us not to turn
somebody, then who what right do we have to do this? Now let me
read this hadith of Sunni Muslim to you. The Prophet sallallahu
sallam said, Men will copy her you don't want to have boil Allah, he
may not derive the stronger believer, the stronger believer is
superior and more beloved to Allah than the weak one, meaning
physically stronger as well. Right, not just Eman, stronger,
but physically stronger. That person is more beloved to Allah,
because he can do more. Right? And then the Prophet sallallahu sallam
said what he called LinHai youth, but both have goodness with them
because they've got belief belief is so valuable. Preserve it, very
valuable. Both of them have goodness. Now the prophets Allah
tells us the most important thing is Allah Maya and Farooq. avidly
search for what benefits you
look out. Go after make efforts behind what benefits you What is
he telling us here?
If it was that, just sit back and let the talk need to take place,
and you're not part of the deal, that there is independent of you,
it is independent, but we are all part of the system. And what we
are required to do is to work hard, if we were not, and it was
we were supposed to be just puppets with no volition
whatsoever. Then the prophets Allah would not have said, You
should avidly look and seek what is beneficial for you What are
charges do not ever give up. Do not become feeble. Do not sit back
and be laid back and do nothing you're supposed to actively try.
Then the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, Look, why in a Saba cache on
Fela taco and the fall together, can recover.
Don't if something does afflict you? If something doesn't go
according to plan, and it goes wrong, then don't start saying oh,
if I did it this way, then this would have happened. If I did
this, then this would have happened. But say, God, Allah,
Allah destined this, this was Allah's plan. Whatever he wishes,
he does Masha foreign, this is the destiny of Allah. This is the plan
of Allah, whatever he wants to do, he does. The Prophet saw some said
the reason why you shouldn't say if this if the if this, if this is
because for in the load of the hammer the shaper, if you keep
saying if if it opens the door for shaytaan. And eventually you will
start complaining against Allah and you will become depressed.
Now, let's understand this hadith, this hadith does not mean that you
shouldn't learn from your mistakes. Of course, we must learn
if I made a mistake. And that caused the accident, then don't do
that again. Right? If I go and start driving without a license,
then that's a bit stupid, isn't it? I don't know how to drive I
grab my dad's car and go out. Man, obviously is gonna cause a
problem. Right? So I must learn from my mistakes. But if something
wrong happens, you spilled some milk don't become depressed. It's
not the end of the world. You don't know that. You see, whenever
something wrong happens. it depresses us. it depresses us for
example, I'll give you an example. If you go out collecting for the
masjid, for example. And the first guy gives you no, I don't have any
money. I've already donated. And the next thing gives you two
pounds. And the third guy gives you five pounds. And the next guy
tells you I don't have any money, then you feel like why don't I
just take 1000 pounds from my own bank account. It's easier than
going to 1015 people and they only give me 50 pounds at the end of
it. Right? Is it depressing? That's the way the world you have
one setback and you feel depressed you think the world becomes dark
around you and you start feeling like everything's become dark.
Now. On the other hand, if you went to collect and the first guy
give you my Yes, bilkul 500 pound check.
2000 pound check and I'll give you another one next week. Yeah, let's
go to another person. Let's go to another person. Good begets more
good. It just makes you more enthusiastic. The point here is
that
we need to avoid feeling depressed and despondent and hopeless.
Because the prophets Allah Psalm is clearly saying, try your best
to get what benefits you do not sit back and feel feeble while
attaches. And do not keep saying if this if that forget about it.
You know the people who keep going on about the past. They suffer the
most the people who keep going on about the past, they suffer the
most. That's why forgetfulness is a baraka of Allah, it's a
blessing. People who cannot forget the evils of the past bad
experiences of the past. They should pray to Allah to make them
forget. Because all they keep seeing in front of them is the
evil of things. That's what they remember. And if it wasn't for
forgetfulness, imagine how sad our lives would be. You know, have you
ever felt the pain you feel when you lose something when you lose
someone, but that pain recedes it becomes lighter as the days go by.
If that pain stayed the same every time you lost Can you imagine the
number of pains you'd be feeling? You lose your grandfather,
grandmother, another grandfather, another grandmother, a friend.
Father, imagine five griefs all feeling the same way we'd never be
able to survive. Allah's plan is wonderful. But if anybody
forcefully wants to remember the evil, we must remember it. No, get
rid of it, forget it. Look positively. That's how rewire your
brain. It's a possibility even scientists are telling you now,
let us look at this. Anybody who becomes so depressed because of
something or anybody who feels that I shouldn't do anything I
should just be laid back and everything will happen. Both of
these are extreme fatalists these are wrong. This is not what Allah
wants. Allah wants us to try. That's why let me read from
certain Hadith to you another verse which clarifies this Masaba
me mercy. But in Filardi wala Fie, unfussy come in La vie, Kitabi,
middle cobbly and Nevada in the vertical Allah Allah He is here.
This is so wonderful he says Allah
As any masiva any affliction, any calamity which hits the earth, or
which afflicts you directly, anywhere in the world or you
directly, all of it has been written in a book before we even
created you exactly what I explained before. All of that has
been written in the diary card Allah Hiya, see you. This is
simple for Allah. This is simple for Allah. What is the point of
this stuff? What is the benefit of all of this being written
beforehand? Now look Lika Illa. So Adam, for Kumala, for who? Bhima
wala Hola, hola, yo, hey, buco Lamb of that info hole is for two
benefits. Number one, so that you do not feel you do not feel
sorrowful. You do not become depressed over what you do not get
something misses you, you miss something, don't become depressed.
Understand that this was written for me, there's a benefit in me
not having this. That's the benefit to know that if Allah
doesn't want us to have it, we're not going to have it. Now, before
you don't have it before you miss it. Do you know that you're going
to get it or not?
If something may come to you next week, there's going to be they're
going to, they're going to announce the winner next week.
They're going to announce the position next week. You've
applied. Now, do you know what that decision is? No, we don't
write we the promises understanding us try. Okay, we
tried. We didn't get it. Now you know, you don't get it. Now you
realize that that's what Allah wanted from you. But you can't say
from beforehand, Oh, nobody ever gets that I'm not gonna get it as
well try. Believe me, in my life. I've,
and I'm sure all of us have come upon many of these kinds of
roadblocks. Where there's a determination, there's a culture
of certain people getting something, if you try, Allah will
give it to you. If it's good for you, Allah will give it to you.
Against all odds, believe me against all odds, I will relate to
you a story in which I had a doctor that slept next to me is a
young surgeon. And he had an amazing story. An amazing story.
He got a B's and C's in his GCSEs not the most wonderful, GCSE, not
the most wonderful GCSE results in his A levels. I don't think he got
many A's in here. I don't think he got any A's in that. All right,
B's and C's.
Now, somebody tells him, he's, he gets in, he finally takes up a
course to do with the medical science but not medicine, not
dentistry, not optometry, something else I forget exactly.
But the lower you know, where the rejects kind of go in King's
College, he gets in there for this kind of, you know, this low end
course. Somebody tells him at the end this lecture of his tells him
that then you should become a doctor. Because where am I going
to become a doctor who's going to accept me for a medical medicine
position with the grades that I have? And with the course that I'm
doing? There's no you should try. Try internally first in King's
College. Right? Because the same college you might accept you. He
tried rejected, says no, you should try the other universities
around the country. He says okay, fine. He was trying, you see, he
didn't give up. Now everything is against him is anything for him.
Everything is against him. But there's somebody that Allah
provided to give him a bit of him and aspiration. So what he does is
he writes to 25 universities around the country. 25 of them,
no, sorry, he first applied to three universities, you know,
through UCAS, he got rejected. Second rejection, right? That's
four rejections altogether. Now, he still told no right to the
universities around the country. He writes to the universities. How
many of the 25 Give him give him an acceptance? Not a single one.
Right now, that's how many rejections 25 plus three plus one
that's 24 rejections.
Right? Sorry? 29? Yes.
29 rejections. Now what
you can apply again to Kings is allowed to apply twice. The guy
said apply again to Kings. So he applied again. And I think this
time he didn't hear anything.
Yet. Now his exams are finished. His mum booked him a holiday
through teletext. This was in the 80s, early 1990s. You know, Teddy
Tech's, right is mum didn't know, this place in Rhodes, books him a
holiday on this play Island, you know, this nightclub place that
everybody goes to just just to dance and drink and women. That's
all it is. She didn't know. She books him and a friend, a close
friend of his. Right now they're going they go to the airport, they
get to the airport and roads and they're going into coach and they
start hearing all these boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, and he's
thinking what's going on here and then suddenly, at that stop, they
say they give his name and his friend's name. This is you
destination. Now he's hating it because all there is down there is
the drink and dancing all night and, and then he discovers about
secrets, he discovers that his friend, this is the perfect place
for him. He loves to drink. This was his best friend. This is the
side that he did not know about his friends, right? And this guy
loves to drink and woman eyes and everything is enjoying himself and
this guy is trying to stop him. And the guy is pleading with him
his friend, just wait, just let me go, let me go, this is my time.
And this person is in *, essentially. He says sometimes
I've had to bring him back drunk in a headlock essentially like
this.
Now, imagine it on this island, you find yourself if you did
anything wrong with everything that's freely available for you.
Right? Who's going to find out? Your mom is never going to find
out. Nobody ever is going to accept you and your friend is
going to know and he's already doing it. So why should he tell
anybody?
But no, he kept straight. This was taught he goes I did not feel an
inclination to do anything. When we got back he got I broke up with
the friend a friend. You know, it was not a friend anymore.
Essentially. I lost a friend in that. I came back the next day.
The results came out the next day. And I got an acceptance. After all
of that, my mum comes up to me with a letter or his dad, I can't
remember exactly. He was accepted in King's College to do medicine.
And today he's carried on. He's a bone surgeon, and he deals with
the except F. Formula One. He does a lot of the sports sports
personalities. Now he's saying I came from no good GCSE, no good a
level marks to 29 rejections to then an acceptance. And then he's
a surgeon and mashallah, he's such a wonderful man. Right now. How do
you fit cutter into all of this? He kept trying number one. But
what Allah subhanaw taala wants to see is your Righteousness,
righteousness, the benefit that comes from righteousness is
amazing. The benefit that comes from righteousness, it will
provide you benefit from where you would never think I give you
another really weird example.
There's a mother as a student he's studying in another country in
India, he's studying in India, right? He finds out that in the
village where he lives, he finds out from a close really close
cousin of his that there's a loose girl in town who is committed Zina
right. Now this is one of the bad things about, you know, recently
there was this WhatsApp message posted that went around saying 45%
of girls in US universities have committed Zina and drunk and this
that and the other. Most of you must have seen that. I think
that's such a disservice. It is so disingenuous, and I think it's
very harmful. Zina is something that needs to be kept concealed.
And the reason is very simple. The one of one of the causes, they say
for the sexual revolution and openness of sexual appetite and
vices and everything else that started in 1960s and 70s. Is
because they a lot of people say it's due to the Kinsey report.
This is an Indiana there's this organization that there was a Dr.
Kinsey who started coming up with all of these statistics saying
this many people have fantasized about the worst of things, animals
and young boys and young girls, and they start on the other. Now,
when you listen to this, when you hear this, and you've had similar
found fantasies or bad ideas, sometimes shaytan has put them in
your mind. And because the mind is open to these things, shaytaan can
put any thought in your mind right? Now our job is to just
repel them and to gain piety so that they come out. However, when
you read that, oh, other people, you know, sometimes when you feel
it's a taboo, I think like this, I must be such a bad person to think
like this. But when you see 50% of people think like this 80% of
people think like this, what are you going to think, hey, that's
normal? Do you understand? So I think it's very disingenuous to
put this out, it doesn't help people to think that that thing is
going to make people stop committing Zina is not going to do
that is going to actually make people think, oh, there's so many
other people doing it. It can't be that bad. Do you understand?
They'll find more people that way. Anyway, this mother is a student
who's studying the dean. But the shower desired is a young man, you
know, shower has overcome this person. So this friend of his
says, I can get her for you. I'm being very open. He says he can
you know, he says he can get her for you. So the guy says Yes, next
time is too late. Now, the next time I come back in a holiday,
then have her ready. Right?
So the next time next time we'll have time off. I can't remember
the exact details. But when he comes back the next time, he's
fully ready for it. He's been waiting for this. He's never
committed. Zillah never been right. But now he's really ready
for this. And you know what happens? For some reason, that
girl had to be somewhere else at that time.
Right? Despite all the planning, she had to be somewhere else. So
his his holiday is miserable.
But then he says this is a story he relates afterwards obviously,
he says that after that several years passed by then he gets
married. And he says Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah that never occurred
on that day. Because today when I get married, I am mashallah chaste
individual who is never committed Zina beforehand, that would have
been the stumbling block. And once that would have been done, it
would have been done so many times. But Allah preserved him, he
was ready for the thing I'm trying to tell you here. He was ready for
it. He'd made up his mind. It was all planned. He was looking
forward to it. But Allah protected him by making that other factor
absent. Why? Because of the deen that he was studies that saved
him. He didn't know that the Quran in his heart is a harvest of the
Quran, right? The Quran in his heart saved him.
Well, that's what I say that if you do good for people, that Allah
will provide the benefit of that from the factors that are not in
your control. Those benefits will come into your children as well.
And there are so many people who are absolute Jah Hill and ignorant
individuals who can't even read Quran properly. But today they are
sitting as the son of MFIs. And she called Hadith because of the
goodness of their heart and their respect for knowledge and the
respect that they had for other people. Because we have free will.
We have this window of freewill right. But there are two things
which govern our freewill. One is internal factors. And one or the
second is the external factors. What do I mean by that? I've got
free will to do what I want. However, I could wake up that
morning, after deciding to go whatever wherever I want, for
example, if I wanted to go and see the fireworks, but then suddenly I
get up and I feel I feel I've got a bloated stomach, right? I'm
having to run or I've got diarrhea, for example, or somebody
sick with flu.
You can't go anymore. Full decision to go. But internal
factors have stopped you. Right. Another one is like the case of
that person about Xena his full decision. freewill decision, but
the external factors didn't work out. So external factors are in
the hands of Allah. internal feelings, what makes you sick? Why
do you feel tired some days, all of a sudden, some days you feel
fresh, some days you feel close, some days you feel far. All of
that is from Allah subhanaw taala. Yes, we have free will. But we
have not absolute power. Absolute power is in the hands of Allah. We
have free will, but not absolute power. That's why do as many good
deeds as possible. And you will see the benefits of that come from
ajeeb places where you won't even realize and you try to do the
best. Now just read a few more Hadith you that tell us that
Quranic verse I mentioned about
whatever mercy becomes in the world, or in your person, it's in,
it's in a book that's written from before we even created you. That's
what Allah says. That is very simple for Allah. Now he mentions
why the kala that so Allah Martha, this is so that you do not
you do not become sorrowful over what misses you. Once you've
missed it, then hulless it's that was what Allah wanted, so you can
fall back on to the fact that Allah loves us. And he didn't want
us to have that. That's why we don't have it. But before we
before we lose it, we have to try for it because we don't know
whether you're gonna lose it or not. It's only after you lose it
that you must feel this way. Number two, well a tougher Hobbema
attack him and if he does give you something, then don't start
attributing it to yourself. Don't start exalting. Don't start
boasting, thinking I achieved this, this was me, I am better
than everybody in the world. I am the superior being No, do not
exalt What are tougher Halima adequan. Do not exalt with what
Allah gives you. Because Allah subhanaw taala does not like all
of those who are arrogant and who are conceded. That is the purpose
of destiny. If you lose something, well, that's what Allah had in
store for us. He'll give us something better. That's the way a
believer thinks. Now.
Let me give you an example of
if you are about to do something wrong, there's a lot of people who
say Well, that's what Allah has destined for me. Right? somebody
commits haram. Oh, because Allah destined for me to do it. I'm
going to do it. That's part of my destiny. How can you say that?
There's a another beautiful Hadith that is related by Imam Bukhari
and Muslim from Abu Huraira. The Allah one, it's a debate or a
discussion rather, kind of a very interesting discussion between
Musa alayhis salam and his great great grandfather Adam Alayhis
Salam
It shows you the great softness of other Malay Salaam. And it shows
you the boldness of Lusardi Salaam. And look what happens. The
prophets of Allah Islam said her, the Musa are the Malays salaam had
a discussion or a debate with Musa Ali salaam Musa alayhis, Salam
said, and the lady a harsh the nurse, Amina Jana, be them big
wash data whom
it is you who caused people to come out of Janet's. And you made
them unfortunate
what a bold statement to make to other Malays around, you cause
everybody to come out of Jannah because of the error that you
made, right? He obviously didn't say say it in that kind of a
sarcastic way obviously. But it's a very bold statement in that
sense. And you made them all unfortunate because they're not in
Janet's. Now look at the way this compassionate father, our great
grandfather response for cada Adam nimasa until the stuffer Allahu
Biddy sila t you won't be Konami you're the one who Allah specially
selected for his messenger ship and to speak to you specifically
what Allah Allah Who Musa Colima at the loo Mooney Allah Amarin
cutterbar Hola. Hola. Hola, yo a cobbler. And yeah, hello Connie.
Are you censoring me and taunting me censoring me for something that
Allah wrote that I was gonna do before I was even created?
Now the question here is, is an other way salaam using duck deed
as an excuse?
Or the money Sam is using taxpayers and he says, Are you
blaming me for something that Allah wrote for me to do before I
was even created? In fact, in another version of this hadith, it
says a testimony Allah Ameen. Katara Allahu Allah Coppola, YOLO.
County Barbarina. Armen, are you blaming me for something that
Allah wrote for me to do predestined for me to do 40 years
before He created me? Are you blaming me for that?
Now let's look at the judgment of the Prophet salallahu ideas and
professionalism said, for Hajj, the mimosa, other Muslim be to
Saudi slamming that debates meaning he overcame his argument
why he's using Qatar you're not allowed to use Qatar to justify a
wrongdoing. Right? It's simple. You can do it after the fact. You
can use Qatar to feel better after the fact you can't use it before
the fact you've got an opportunity to sin you can't say well that's
my destiny I'm gonna do it. As somebody came to I'm gonna be
alone he went to drink is because of destiny on what anyone says
well, I'll hit you and and and punish you also according to the
destiny of Allah subhanaw taala. Right, because it's destiny once
you've done it right now, you cannot use it. Oh, this is my
destiny. That's what I'm going to do this haram that's the way I am.
No, if you've done something in the past, done and dusted. That's
my destiny. Now, future is a different destiny. That's what
this hadith teaches us. Very important. Okay, now let's look at
a few Hadith about this. There's a hadith recorded by Imam Bukhari
and Muslim the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, Man sobre, who a noob
set up SatoLA houfy risky, where you insert hula hula fee authority
for La Salle Rahima. Who?
Anybody who pleases that they be given expansion in their
sustenance, expansion in their wealth, their sustenance, they
Rosie risk, and they be given more
length in the stay in the world that could mean longer life, for
example, right? Then what does he do if he wants Baraka in those
things, you should be good with his kinship.
Go and do some color color. Don't feel bad about going to visit your
relatives, be good with your relatives, your blood relatives,
tie the knots of kinship, you will get Baraka, you will get increase
expansion in your risk and in your lifespan. Now, of course, there's
two meanings here, it could be that you get a few extra years, or
you get this many more pounds or food or whatever. Or it could mean
that the amount that you do get you get more barakah in it. So
it's either quantitative or qualitative. At the same time, it
is talking about a change though. So if it's written you're going to
get this much then why is it that you can change it? Right number
two,
there's another Hadith related by Imam Tara Annie which is mentioned
in the title he and the Saudi cattle Muslim. Does he do filler
Omar what that means that a su way of hubba hubba Allahu B. B al
Kubra. Eligible for sadaqa voluntary charity any kind of
charity
of a Muslim, it increases your life.
It increases your life. It removes a bad death. It repels a bad death
you give sadaqa it will repel a bad death. And Allah will remove
your arrogance and conceit by it, again is talking about change by
action. How does that relate to other number three, another Hadith
related by Tara
Honey and Hakeem again in albala, our
calamity and dua, so calamity is being sent to you. Right? It's
about to afflict you. Accident shortfall, lose your job, whatever
it is, and do ah, that you've just done
by in a summer you will or the UK that Elon, they become locked into
battle between the heaven and earth.
They become locked into battle between the heaven and earth.
Imagine calamity coming down, they are going up, and it stops it
there. It keeps it fighting there until
wet Pharaoh, Bella Coppola onionsand, your DUA will prevent
this calamity from coming down upon you. So again, what's going
on here? What is written? If it's written, how is this being
changed? is a simple answer to all of this is not as complicated as
you think.
Okay, now,
let's understand that this divine tablet we spoke about in which
everything is written, There are two types of things written in
there are things that are written in two types, there are two types
of duck, the one is called Duck, the rubrum. And another one is
called taqdeer, Moloch. Don't worry about the Arabic words. One
is called the firm destiny. And the other one is the contingent
dependent destiny, that's all you have to remember, the first one
will never change, the day you are going to be born is not going to
change for you. There's a number of other factors that are not
going to change. Right?
That duck the moral luck are those things which go with those Hadith
if a person makes dua. It says in there, it's like, you know, in
your and this is a very bad example, but just to
conceptualize, you know, when you're playing a game, and it has
many levels, and it's a complicated game, where if you go
this way, and you complete this, then it opens up this side for
you. And if you go this way, then it opens this door for you. And
there's a whole different world. Do you understand? So in the,
in the divine tablets, the two options are written there? Is he
going to be good with his relatives or not? That's what the
angels see. And it said that if he is good, then give him this much
expansion. If he's bad, then give him Don't give him expansion.
That's what they can see. Now the person with his free will, is
good. So the rest of this is opened up. He's good. Expansion.
Okay, let's close this door. Let's carry on with this way. This is
exactly what Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran, yam Hello whom
Ayesha or where you fit. Allah erases what he wants and keeps
firm what he wants. This is exactly here. But we're in the
Houma al Kitab. But he has the mother of all the books, which is
the knowledge of Allah in there, nothing changes. He knows whether
you are going to be good about it, he knew the track you are going to
take anyway. But what's written in the divine tablet is in this form.
So according to the angels and you and the creatures, there's that
possibility of increase or decrease, do you understand just
for us to be able to interact with that, but Allah knows what we're
going to do. That's why you make dua, how do I affect it? I'll give
you an example.
There is another Hadith which is related by Buhari again. The
Sahaba asked the Prophet salallahu Salam ya rasool Allah and listen
to this carefully said Ya rasool Allah, Allah ADA a duet and Nevada
we have
well rockin master key we have what to connect Akiba. Hello, Tara
Domaine Karela, in Cheyenne.
Now all the possible things you could use to change something,
right, they ask Dr. Salah you know, these medicines that we
take, and we used to cure ourselves with, or the Rukia that
we do, that we use to cure ourselves with, or the abstinence,
you know, when the doctor tells you don't eat this, don't eat that
is supposed to help you, you know, that's too cold for you, that's
too hot for you. For example, what about the abstinence that we use?
Does that change Qatar in any way? Look at the answer. What do you
think the answer is? For Canada, him in Qatar, Allah, they are all
part of the Qatar of Allah, that Allah knows you're gonna use this.
That's how it's, he knows what you're going to do. That's how
it's all factored in. But for us, we don't know. For us we take it
as it comes. That's why don't ever think you know what's going to
happen after 10 years? Because you don't, you don't even know it's
gonna have to borrow. Right? We're gonna have some other taxi bajada
you don't even know what you're gonna earn tomorrow. So how can
you think you are doomed and you're going to die going to *?
How do you know that? There is enough time enough place in the
Goodship jump ship? Come on brothers. There's enough space
here. It's empty. There's lots of space, right? So that's why people
stood should stop feeling depressed, as bad as their life
has been as sinful as they have been. Because it's all part of the
culture of Allah. That's why Allah Lucy says that, you know, among
all of these factors Dawa
abstinence rakia
The most powerful is dA. But it's still another factor. Just as
these things could be used by Allah to so called give you an
excuse to do something. For example, you know, when you make a
vow,
if this happens, I'll give this much money to the masjid. If I
come first in my exam, or if I get this job, then I'll pay 1000
donation to the masjid. Right. Now, does that really change the
technique for you? Because you're going to give 1000 Allah says,
Yeah, please, you know, I need that. 1000 No, the prophets of
Allah Islam said, nothing happens. According to Allah, nothing
happens for you. It's just the way to remove well from a bacchanal
person.
Right? Because you're only going to give as much as you think is
valuable to you. So it's just giving Well, I mean, nothing is
gonna change, but if that makes you feel good, Al Hamdulillah. So
when you look at it from the human being, then all of these factors
come into play, but from Allah subhanaw taala, he knows it all.
And that's why the best way to explain the relationship between
us and Allah is that we have to just focus on us, we feel free
will. We feel it, we experience it, we know it. And there's two
verses which I forgot to mention that prove it. Allah which I read,
right in the beginning, Allah says lacunae will help Komarov become,
say that truth is from your Lord. FURMAN SHA, Ophelia mean woman SHA
affiliate for whoever wants, they can believe whoever wants they can
disbelieve Allah is giving choice. That's the choice that people have
been taking in the world, none of us in Serotonins, and the first
ones on certain calf, this one sort of insulin in the heat of
gira. This is a reminder, from insha Allah that yulara be sebelah
whoever wants they can find a path to Allah, whoever doesn't want
they don't have to find a path. So it's the choice is ours is Alhama
and Farrokh. Just try to do the best for yourself. That's why
Allah subhanaw taala says, we're calling MaryLu for ser Allahu
Allah can you say say oh Prophet, you do your deeds, make your
efforts, try hard. Allah is going to watch you. Allah is going to
watch you. Oh my god. Hola. Hola. Yo, creo Comala Liebe nobody knows
the Unseen. Wilma can Allah Who nuclear come Allah Liebe sort of
Allah Imran Allah says, Allah doesn't have to make anybody privy
to the unseen. Allah is not going to reveal the unseen to anybody.
That's his knowledge. That's his knowledge.
Now we must avoid bad things possibly coming to us and a bad
ending. Because Allah does say in solid solid one to be ill,
however, for you will the cancer be the law, don't keep following
your lowly desires and your Caprice so that it will miss guide
you deviate you from from the Path of Allah. So you might think that
you're doing well good but you keep doing these little wrongs.
They will eventually affect you, they could affect you, because
Allah may hate something that you do like that and just wash away
everything. So we need to try to be further muzza Who Azov Allah
perubahan Surah too soft Walla Walla del Carmen faceting. It's
when they do when they cause some crookedness that Allah
made their hearts crooked. It comes from us first before Allah
will kalaba Marana Allah connubia hymns, their hearts have become
rusted totally, because of some deeds that the Furby Marchesa but
Globacom is because of what you did. So remember that, if you keep
doing good, Allah will provide the baraka in these other factors that
will come to you. And that's why I give you another one example.
Right, another wedding, another one example, how Allah works in so
mysterious ways, right?
I went to when I went to India last time, I visited the doctor
beforehand. And he gave me three different tablets, one of those
tablets, he said, I'm giving you a double size, because I want you to
take 500 grams or something. So if I give you the double ones, I'm
not gonna give you 750 I'll give you the 1000 ones, you can break
it in half. So you can you know, only have half. Now, I was in a
big rush beforehand. So I got the medicine. And then I had the two
diabetes medicines. I went to India, and one of the diabetes
medicines which are only supposed to take 50 or 500 grams, I can't
remember anymore, right.
I ran out of so I went to a chemist. And I said I want this
particular medicine. He gave me the medicine. And little did I
know that these are double the size? Because you know, I didn't
know Right? So
I may have taken it one day, but the next day I suddenly it
occurred to me that the doctor had told me only take half of this.
I thought half of this but I was confused but I thought to be safe.
Okay, I'll just break him in half and half half. I come back home
after a few weeks. And I check and I you know ajeeb
I was totally wrong.
But I was right. It's really weird. But I was wrong. But I was
right. The reason why I was wrong is it was not this medicine, he
told me take half of he had given me the right amounts, I'd run out
of them, the ones I bought, were double the size. I was caused to
think that these were the ones he had spoken about. Thus, I started
taking the right amount, which was half the base. Do you understand?
Because when I came on, I saw the other movies, I didn't have to
take them. Right, that that was the one he told me to take half
of. But do you see how Allah works? Now I wish he did this for
me all the time and all good things. Right? This was just a
random, to me random, but to Allah subhanaw taala calculated example.
This is the way Allah works behind the veil. For me, I was thinking
now what's wrong with my mind, but that what's wrong with my mind was
a good factor. Because it saved me from taking doubler because it's
what you call those, it lowers your blood sugar. So you could
actually become hypo glycemic, and, you know, faint if you take
too much of those tablets, because it just drops your blood sugar,
right?
I keep how Allah subhanaw taala works, and I'm sure everybody has
factors of unexplainable things. You don't know how many calamities
you have, and I have been saved from just because you do regularly
you do too, ah, you may be doing the art for success in your exams,
you may be doing the art to get married to such and such a person,
or to get this, that and the other, that thing hasn't come to
you, you still haven't got that thing, right. But every dua that
you made, has stopped a calamity from coming to you. Now, if you
say I don't know that, because I haven't seen the record of all of
these things, then just don't make the offer a while and see what
happens.
I don't think you want to miss that. But believe me, every dollar
that we make every good deed that we do, there's a benefit from it,
there's a benefit from it. And the only time wrong will happen to us
in our mind, is when Allah wants it to happen. Now, when I, when I
got a bit, when I did pause a bit about talking about death. The
reason is that, according to Allah, our death is written
according to Allah and His elemental kitab. But because I was
speaking about the divine tablets, the divine tablet will could have
two options in there, that if he's good with his kin, give him
another five years, or it could also mean give him more Baraka in
the 60 years that he already has. But if you remember the story when
Adam Melissa was shown all of his progeny, and he liked the look of
Tao that is, right. When he was shown in in after he was created.
He was shown all of his progeny, and there was a person with a
spark, who's that he says, oh, that's the Huda restaurant. He
says give him 40 years of my life.
So when 40 years were left of other Muslims life, Adam ism kept
thinking here this full life he forgot afterwards, right? And the
angel of death comes to him and says, time to go says why I've got
40 years left. You and I can't say that. But he knew in the profits
at all. And other people are told when they're going to die
sometimes, right? So he said, But you gave that to though that Islam
he says Nasir Adam, or the Muslim forgot, so his ummah forgets as
well. Alright, bye. But anyway, that's an interesting story. The
main thing is that keep doing do not become depressed. All those
people who are listening to this sitting at home, wherever and you
are depressed about something and you think nothing is going right.
Your job, your responsibility is not to think the worst. You could
have had 1015 2030 years of the most evil. Believe me, I've seen a
guy I've seen a guy what what happened is we were going from
Stockton, we were we were going from Sacramento in California to
I believe Stockton or Lodi or somewhere like that, and a friend
of ours, right? He was going through some bad time. He'd gone
through a bad divorce. And he had older children. And his wife was
just causing massive problems because through the children, one
of those really bad scenes that happen. And he was always kind of
depressed, right. But he always stuck with good people he did. His
dad did pray and everything like that. And I used to feel so sorry
for him. I used to feel really sorry for him. What happens is
we're going and we all got into the cars, he got into the wrong
car and ended up in another system. Right? And after that
later on, he's brought back here. And then he says to us, he says
that's the story of my life.
What happened today is the story of my life. I tried to go
somewhere I end up somewhere else. Right. That's how he felt at that
time. hamdulillah today, after so many proposals and things he's
found a good woman to marry, And subhanAllah his two children who
have been corrupted by their mother have both turned to Islam
properly, even though in his absence. His dad your prayer has
prayed it has definitely paid off because he
Know he used to cry and pray. He's a wealthy man. But I know he used
to do this today after 10 years, and I've known him for about 10
years. But after 10 years, I can say he's a happy man today. He's a
happy man today, Allah has shown him happiness, because he did not
give up. He did not give up. That was the story of his life, then,
today, he's a different person. Remember, you can be a different
person, you can be a different person never give up. Allah has so
much ability and nothing is beyond his control. Allah subhanaw taala
help us work through that Oh Anna and Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil
aalameen.
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