Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – When is the Help of Allah
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medics, whatever you are here Mashallah. It's nice to have
medics as opposed to computer science guys all the time.
No offense to anybody. Just normally, whenever you ask a
Muslim, what are you doing is that I'm doing computer science.
I don't know if that's the easy way out or we do need computer
guys. But
but then you don't want the other extreme either way. In America
where I was there for a number of years, every hospital that you go
to there has to be a doctor Hussein or a doctor hand
by hand every Muslim well, especially the Indian Pakistani
parents.
They want their children to be
a doctor
or a liar.
I mean, they Indian Pakistanis will understand that they change
everything from Hyundai becomes Honda. Right? So Doctor becomes
doctor and lawyer becomes a liar. So you said any lies here?
Anyway,
I guess it's a serious subject. So may Allah subhanho wa Taala give
you a bargain, whatever you're doing, may Allah give us all good
intentions in what we're doing. I think that's the most important
thing. So whether you're being a doctor or whatever, Allah give us
a good intention. I had a friend of mine who also became a doctor
we did we memorize the Quran together at the madrasa at the
seminary. And then he went on to become a doctor. He went on to
become a medical doctor, to Liverpool University. But I
remember when seeing him afterwards, he said, he said to
me,
I'm going to specialize in tropical medicine. I said, Why
tropical medicine, he says, well, much of our problems in the world
where Muslims, Muslims live, the kind of in tropical climate. So
this is just an additional specialization so that I can do
it. I can I can be of service to all believers, to all Muslims,
around the world, people in general. But that's essentially
what we're speaking about to have a good intention in whatever
you're doing, when you have a good intention and what you're doing
your your work is filled with Baraka. Because at the end of the
day, for us, intention is more important than anything else. I
think, based on that, let's just explore one other idea. There are,
if we understand success, right? I mean, everybody's sitting here. I
mean, if you're in King's College, I mean, I'm assuming that you're
here to be successful. You didn't just kind of stumble in here.
Right? You came here because you wanted to be successful. And I
think it's supposed to be a good university. Right? So as is
probably better, but you know, because that's where I am. But I'm
sure it's a good university. And
in order to be successful, I mean, you can look around, and you'll
see people, and you might think they're successful, because they
show the appearance of a successful person. You know, they
seem to have everything going for them. They seem to maybe be in the
right places, maybe they're dressed very well. And maybe
they're driving something that looks successful. The way they're
dressed, the way they've got their rings on their hands or the kinds
of bags they're carrying, the kind of dress they're wearing the coats
that they're wearing, the kind of gates and the walk in which
They're walking. So they look like they're very successful. That's
what you call a Surah Surah of success, right, which is the
picture the image, right? The apparent facade of success. Now to
tell the truth with regards to Allah subhanho wa Taala success is
really something else. Success is that success, which translates to
success in the Hereafter. And I think that is if we keep that in
focus, we will be successful, we will be truly successful, we could
then have the best of this world and the best in the hereafter.
Allah subhanho wa Taala There's a very famous door which is related
by many of the collectors, it's a very famous to, I'm sure many of
us know it. Robina Tina fit dunya, Hassan Warfield Herati has worked
in urban Nora, our Lord give us the best in this world.
Hassan give us the good the Excellence in this world, and in
the hereafter as well, because that's really what true success
is. Because this life is, as we know, it's very short.
I understand we're looking to the next 5060 years, and we expect
that we might die on average, when we were about 70 or something
because that's when people generally die, the average. But
you all know and we know and we know this very, you know, we know
this as much as anybody else that we could die anytime. The real,
the real life is the hereafter and that will be perpetual. There's a
hadith that's
related by Bukhari and Muslim from Sal iblue, Saturday, the Saturday
or the Allah one said that we were sitting with Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi wa salam and a person passed by, and he looked
successful. You know, in this day and age, you'd say that he went by
in his, you know, he went by in his Corvette, you know, California
highway roof, you know, roof up with something next to him.
Right.
Stereotypical, isn't it?
So he goes, you know, just success you can just see it wreaking I
mean, I remember once I was at this program, and we were staying
at the hotel, and we went to the store and there was one of the
Muslim guys, one of the Muslim guys and you could just tell in
the way he was doing everything he just thought he was it. Something
we want to use here in England, he thought he was it, right? But
really, the way he pulled out his wallet and it was this really
special wallet that way he pulled out his credit card and or some
kind of platinum credit card. And you could just tell with the rings
on his finger. And you know, it's really, really funny with some of
the Indians is that when they become wealthy, suddenly you start
seeing Gold is gold on them. Right the men it's just kind of really
weird. And it's generally the Hindus do this a lot because
Muslims are not allowed to have gold men, men are not allowed to
have gold women can. But then you see the men doing this as well.
It's kind of the sign wondering second ring third ring ba barrack
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one is, as you say that the surah the surah that out would facade of
success. And that's not really true success in such a person went
by, and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam asked about, he
said, What do you think of this person? What's your opinion about
him, so that they responded that, you know, he's such a person that
when he speaks, people will listen to him. If he goes and proposes
somewhere, people will give them his daughter, there'll be more
than happy to do it. He can go in anywhere and get a daughter, if he
puts a word in, that word will be taken with value. So if He
intercedes for you, if he if he puts a word in, you will get into
that place, wherever you're trying to get into the province of Allah
and just remain silent. Then there's another person that went
by and this person apparently was opposite to this person. He seemed
to have disheveled hair, His clothing was all over the place.
He seemed very poor. He just seemed just like an extremely
destitute individual and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam asked about him, what do you think about him? Now remember,
this is all going by the outward appearance, isn't it? So he asked
about him. And the people said, Oh, he's such a person. If he
speaks, people won't even want to take him seriously. They won't
listen to him. If he goes and asks for somebody's hand in marriage,
they probably won't give them his daughter's. If he goes and
intercedes and puts tries to put a word in for you. They'll they
won't accept it. And then the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam he made his observation after they had made that apparent
observation, the exterior or external or the observation on the
external aspect of things, the way people deal with these things in
the world. He made his spiritual and esoteric observation. He said
that this this first man, if there was a whole world full of them, he
wouldn't be as much of a value as the second man.
And there's another version which says that there are such people
like this who if they saw this hadith of Muslim, lo Oksana Allah
Allah healer Abraha, wrote by a Shatha about Rama through the
middle of were below Oxfam and Allah Hila Bharara which means
that there are certain individuals who are totally disheveled you
would throw them out of your house if they came to your house, right?
They're just in such a state, but their connection with Allah
subhanho wa Taala is such that if they swore an oath on Allah, Allah
I would fulfill that oath for them.
I mean, these are very rare individuals. But if they said what
law he is going to rain today, Allah will send the rain because
he loves them so much not because they control Allah. But it's
because they Allah loves them so much.
Now, let's go back to the time of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam. See the whole focus about when this question about when is
the help of Allah subhanho wa Taala going to come? I think it's
very important for us as Muslims today, especially living in this
time and age when we see so many problems, which we seem to feel as
though they are only to do with Muslims. I mean, not just the
manmade problems, not just the conspiracy theories. But when we
when you also look at natural problems, like I mean, until a few
years ago, you you saw that most of the earthquakes were to do with
Muslim countries. Right? It happened in Iran, it happened in
Turkey, it happens in India, it happens in you know, mostly Muslim
countries until it happened in New Zealand. Right? Then the Muslims
really thought, well, it's not just us, right? So when you talk
about natural phenomena, natural problems, calamities, and you look
at other calamities, it's just like we were on the receiving end
at this point in time. However, if you, if we're going to judge, if
we're going to judge situations based on our lifespan, and only
things that we have witnessed, and only those things that have
happened and occurred during our life, then that's not a very good
way of looking at it. At the end of the day, we as human beings,
our Adamic race, we are part of a very long, long tradition. And if
we look at just from 1400 years ago to what has happened, there's
no time in half an hour here to explain the ups and downs. And and
and what Allah subhanaw taala has done for this ummah, and where
this OMA had gone and the precarious edges that had gone to,
I mean, for example, there are Omar mentioned that there are two
individuals who have saved God that does Omar at a time when it
was a critical, such a critical situation that this Omar could
have been destroyed, Islam could have been the face of the face of
this earth. And it could it could have just just been totally wiped
out. There were two individuals, the two that they mentioned. One
is Abu Bakr Siddiq are the hola Juan and these are just the
highlights. These are just the major issues what happened after
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam passed away. And even during
the final days, the final time Rasulullah sallallahu, alayhi
wasallam, all of these imposters came up, they wanted to call they
wanted a piece of the pie as such, they thought this is a great way
to attract attention to get a following. So then you had all of
these people after the Prophet sallallahu arias and passed away
even more imposters Musa Abdulkadir Salem from the Hanafi
tribe he was he'd already started declaring himself a prophet. So
this corrupted a number of individuals, especially in the
south of Arabia, there were a number of people or a number of
tribes rather than in those days, it wasn't individuals because it
wasn't a time of individualism. It was a time of tribalism, where one
person became a Muslim of the O's or the husband's, the whole tribe
followed even the munaf 18 they you know, they had they'd had to
declare Islam outwardly, because it was a time when you just follow
the leader, right? We no longer live in that time, right? fathers
and children, mothers and daughters things totally
differently, right and then even argue about it. But in those days,
it was different. So you have all these tribes that gave up their
Islam in different ways. There are some some said that we're just
going to give up the religion completely. Others said that we
will not give up the religion but we won't pay a cut. So we'll kind
of personalize it. We don't like soccer. We don't like paying Okay,
fine. We're not gonna pay zakat. So we're gonna personalize our
religion, cut and chop it and workers to do the Allah wants and
has been bullied, or the Allah who won. And this was all dealt with.
So this was a precarious time because had they been allowed had
these imposters been allowed to succeed, then you would have had
many, you know, it's not wouldn't have been the way it is today. You
know, we would not have been sitting here and speaking about it
that way possibly. Then later on. There was another intellectual
challenge. Again, it was an intellectual challenge. This was
from the philosophers this was from Hellenistic philosophy. And
this effected OMA at that time it was atma Dibner humble, the great
Imam who stood up and he managed to save God because all of the
other aroma they either had to just say what the what the king
wanted to hear to be to safeguard their life or they were killed.
Imam Ahmed, even though humble was the only one Rahim Allah may Allah
Shower him with his with his mercy. He was the only one that
stood up to this he got flogged for it, he got beaten for it, but
had he not stood up that way. The common people would may have lost
their faith as well at that time, and they would have gone into
this, this religion of that is more based on reason. Only, as
opposed to spirituality and the divine understanding the divine
message from Allah subhanho wa taala. Again, it's not a time to
go into those in detail, but there's been huge problems if you
look at Mercy lochsa We're better off today than it was before
Salahuddin Rahima hula Manish has managed to liberate that place for
about 80 to 90 years not a Salatu was performed in the in the Masjid
Al Aqsa, there were all sorts of things going on around there. They
used to use the site parts I mean, I visited they used to use that
marijuana the safe place to put horses and pigs and other things
in
There was a cross on top of the Cobra to Sahara, there was not a
solid, not another nothing people had been massacred and killed. I
remember when lane pool says that when the Christians or when that
when the Crusaders overcame Jerusalem, the carnage that they
said the carnage that that took place was what was such that the
horses were knee high in blood. And I just couldn't understand
this. How can you have so much blood that your horses are knee
high and only when I visited Jerusalem that could I get an
understanding understanding of this. And the reason for this is
that the streets there is still an old city. The great thing about
Jerusalem today is that when you go into Old Jerusalem, you
actually go in from the Bible Shamea you know from the Damascus
Gate or from some of the other guests that Damascus Gate is the
most popular one. You go in there, and it's literally a walled city.
And then a masjid is within an enclosure as well. And the streets
are narrow, the streets are narrow. A normal car probably
could not drive through there. Now you can understand how the blood
must have been and how many people were killed, as opposed to that
sallahu Dean after 80 to 90 years when he liberated liberated that
place. It was a totally different scene when he liberated that
place. People were allowed to go. It's not a time to speak about
Salahuddin Rahim Allah may Allah subhanho wa Taala bless him and
may Allah subhanho wa Taala give the ability to the women of today
to be able to produce Salahuddin, for us that is extremely important
people who can rise up and do things in the correct way to to to
give elevation and a lot of Kenny Mattila to the Muslims.
So
when you look at our history, it's extremely important for us to look
at history. So when you look at history, then you see another part
of our history. You see the Tatas when they just swept through all
of these cities Bahara some, you know, Baja, samarqand, Harrods,
all of these great cities that had produced all of the great
scholarship you know, today, we owe it to the Central Asian area
where today You hardly hear about any scholars. Your Buhari came
from where he came from Bukhara, which is in Uzbekistan, your your
your pyramid he came from Uzbekistan pyramid is at the
bottom border of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan today, right your your
Muslim imam Muslim and Nisa booty he came from Iran to the north of
Iran, a Buddha with a sigil study he came from see Stan Stan, which
is again, kind of south east of Iran border of Afghanistan. This
is the area where some of your greatest scholars have come from.
I mean, they many scholars, so few that came from Sham and relatively
speaking with the big names that we know about ajeeb Hakeem and
Nisa booty another one from Nisha pool. I mean, Dara Mia, all of
these great, great, great, great, great scholars. I mean, there are
just so many that we know about so many we don't know about. However,
when the Tatas came down in their carnage, they swept through the
area such that when you had a whole city bustling with maybe
700,000, you know, 700 400 300,000 people, they erased everything to
the ground such that in one place, 17 people came out of the rubble,
can you imagine that? We haven't had any mass massacres like that,
Al Hamdulillah. I'm not trying to say that the Mecca massacres of
today, we don't need to worry about, I'm just saying that we
need to do something about it, but not in a depressed way. Because
when you try to do something, when you're depressed, you don't do it
correctly, you don't do it rightly. Because we don't know
what we're doing. We're not in control of our senses. Our reason
needs to be our reason, and our spirituality needs to be playing
its part and we need to put things in an understanding of what Allah
subhanaw taala wants from us, we need to try to realize what Allah
subhanho wa Taala wants from us, and why this is happening. And I
think this is the most important thing. So I don't want to paint a
picture of too much optimism or too much pessimism. I don't want
to paint a picture of such despair, that it's all lost,
because it's not, there will be ups and downs, we mustn't think
and there's a lot of people who think that this is the end of it.
If you think this is the end of it, then look at what YBNL Athena
says, ignore Loteria is a very balanced historian. But when he
talks about the way the tortoise came through, and ravage that he
his voice is shaking, you can see it in his writing. If you were
there, you'd be seeing you'd probably be crying, his voice is
shaking. That's a theater, a very balanced individual who knows how
to write. And he's one of the great historians. This is the case
with many of our historians, when you look at all of the biblical
themes, and all of these other groups of scholars and when they
write about these things. So you think that this is bad what we're
having today? No, it's not. It's bad, it is bad, but it's not bad,
relatively speaking. That is why you must realize that we must have
our hooks in Allah subhanaw taala, that if we do the right thing,
Allah will bring us out of this. And that is what I want to get to.
If we do the right thing, Allah subhanaw taala will bring us out
of it because we've been at worse situations. We've been in worse
times and circumstances when you thought that it's going to die.
It's going to end today. We are having many we have many
challenges in front of us by both ideological, both in terms of just
massacres. I mean, look at what's going on in Burma, which is quite
crazy, serious. Subhanallah I mean, I don't know how much to
tell you about Syria when I was studying there. It was so tense. I
mean, only the foreigners right? Only the foreigners if you're bold
enough can can you know can live a decent life there. Can you
imagine?
Living in a regime when you don't know that the third person with
you is a Mahabharata, right? Which means a spy. It could be your own
brother, it could be your own family, every third person
basically what Allahu Allah obviously not something we can
substantiate. But it was crazy because we would we would speak to
somebody about something that just boarded under political and they
will say, yeah, he had an umbrella you him gonna this would be their
answer. Oh brother this this matter does not this matter does
not. It does not concern us course it concerns you. But this is the
way they could get out of it. Because I could be a Mahabharat
for them. Right. I could be somebody spying on them. Such
great individuals very mysterious, just such a beautiful place. I
could say I mean, I've traveled to Syria. At that time I traveled to
Jordan. I traveled to Beirut, and I've traveled to Egypt. I've
traveled to many Muslim countries. Believe me the new war in Syria
was amazing. And you can only put this down to the fact that
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said Allahumma Burdick Lana
fish Amina. I haven't been to Yemen, but I would expect to see
something similar in Yemen, because the province that allows
me to offer these two places, I mean, subhanAllah at that time, I
don't know how it is now. But Damascus was a very small city you
could travel around there we used to go to study in the German in
the German an ummah we in the great Ahmed Masjid where isa Ali
Salaam is supposed to come, we check up the result on Halaby
that's where we were studying, right reading our Quran to him.
Great scholars, the masajid I mean, you won't find this in most
of the other Muslim countries that masajid have lectures, the Masjid
have de Roos going on every day after fajr after Asia after a
different salah. It's just an amazing place to be. The people
generally are decent. People are very kind, very generous, soft
hearted people. I mean, you could tell this, I mean, at that time, I
guess it was really good because you didn't have a Pizza Hut there.
You didn't have Coca Cola there. You had nothing. The only Coca
Cola or any foreign brand that you could find was actually those
smuggled in from from Beirut. Right? It was that was it? It was
just like it seems so backwards, but it had been preserved the Iman
had been preserved, it seems. I mean, Subhan Allah may Allah
subhanaw taala make it easy for them. But these people they've
risen and in sha Allah, may Allah subhanho wa Taala make them grant
them great success. May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant them great
assistance Medina so Allah Allah in the nostril Allah He could even
Allah subhanho wa Taala says that the Nasir and the help of Allah
subhanaw taala is extremely close. Allah subhanho wa Taala mentions
in the Quran, the horrible facade will feel very well body we
Marchesa, a the nurse knew the Cahoon bada Lydia mu, essentially,
that's what Allah subhanaw taala says very clearly, there is a
facade there is corruption, that has become prevalent in, in the
borrower and the borrower, both in the oceans and on the land, in the
form of casinos in the form of Haram is taking place, the Muslims
are involved in as much as anybody else. I mean, you look Subhanallah
in Palestine, I mean, I hate to say this, but Israel is not
allowed to from the last time that an Israeli Arab Muslim, one of our
brothers would come to America, right, who lives in Israel proper,
right? He's got an Israeli passport. He mentioned that it's
illegal in Israel to have a casino. The casino is in the
Muslim land.
Right? It may be frequented by them, but SubhanAllah. And again,
you know, May Allah help out Palestinian brothers as well,
because I'm sure this is not what they all want. Right? This
probably happens, I'm sure this is not in person. This is probably in
the West Bank. Right? And I'm not sure if it's still there. But
you've got these things happening, whether it's on land, or whether
it's in the ocean, it doesn't matter these things. We're all
part of it. I'm part of it, everybody is part of it. I mean,
when you look around you we don't we don't say Allah subhanho wa
Taala anymore. Allah subhanho wa Taala is there. I mean, there was
a battle that took place, after a sort of loss and Allahu Allah for
some time, the Sahaba was still there. Now, this was such a battle
with the Romans where the Romans were, were out doing the Muslims
by a huge proportion, there was there was there was no match,
right? There was no match. And normally in mentions about the
Arabs, especially the Sahaba and the Arabs of the time, they were
very interesting. In the middle of the battle when it would be at its
most fiercest moments, right in at its most fiercest moments, you
know what they would do? They would start reading poetry. They
will start singing poetry. This was to, to raise their morale to
spur them on to give them some bravery. Subhanallah This is what
the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam himself did do you know that when
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam during the Battle of who
name when after, after the conquest of Morocco and the
Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam went to the horrors in South
America, Mikado Rama and then the sum of the Muslims. A lot of
Muslims had just come into Islam after the conquest, and they all
went many of them were not very strong yet these were all people
who just newly entered into Islam. So as they got there, they were
thinking at Jabba Tonka throw to him, Allah subhanaw taala says
they hugeness in number their abundance, made them feel
conceited. Oh, today we're going to walk over these people. You
know, we're going to tremble them. I mean, in battle of butter, we
were 313 Compared to 1000 in the Battle of Ohio 1000 compared to
two or three
1000 I mean, subhanAllah we were this much in this battle, we were
this much in this battle. This one, we're going to walk over
these people this is going to be a walkover. But Allah subhanho wa
Taala doesn't like that Allah wants your reliance to be on him
because he is the one who we are slaves of. And once we lose that
servitude, even if part of us lose that servitude, that we're in for
it, that's the problem. We all bear the consequences of this.
That's why a lot of mutual funds mutual advice, mutual mutual
counseling is extremely important, because that is what keeps us all
proper. So in that one, what happened is suddenly as they got
into this valley, they were suddenly attacked with with with
arrows and the people of housing they were they were very, very
good marksman. And the Muslims just dispersed. They they
scattered but the Prophet sallallahu I used them with a band
of individuals, Abu Sofia and even know half, who is his cousin
brother and I bacilli along with his uncle. They were the only ones
and I busted the law while the Allahu Anhu is trying to pull him
back. The Prophet salallahu Salam is not even on a horse. He's
actually on a mule, which is not a battle animal, but it just shows
his bravery and he is going closer and closer. And he is saying an N
B EULA Khatib and Abner Abdul Muttalib I'm a prophet that does
not lie. I am the son of Abdul Muttalib I am not a prophet that
lies I'm the son of Abdulmutallab. This was just coincidentally from
Allah subhanho wa Taala that this came onto his tongue Prophet
sallallahu sallam was not a poet. He was not a poet, but this was
something that came on his tongue. I know the Allahu Anhu used to say
an a la vie some money on me haidara
Would you say like La Fille ha Bertie curry almanzora, he would
in the middle of the battle, he would say that I am the one who my
mother has called me the Hadar the fearsome lion. She's named me the
fearsome lion, right? That like the like the lion of the jungles,
that is very, very dreadful to look at. This is what he would say
in the middle of a battle than the others as well, they had these
amazing poetry that they would say in the middle of a battle just to
split them up. However, in this one battle, in this particular
battle, it became such that they were surrounded, they were
surrounded by this enemy that was
a multiple of the number that the Muslims were in multiple of that
number. And they they said this is when it was such a bad state. Look
what look what he explains that the narrator he says this was such
a bad state, that we forgot our poetry. That is what that is what
he says, we forgot our poetry. That is how bad it was. And
everybody was just Yarrabah. Mohammed. Yeah, robber Mohammed.
Oh, lord of Muhammad. That's what came to our tongue. And suddenly,
we see that from the heavens, the angel start to descend.
We see the angel start to descend. And that's it. They were, they
were saved. I mean, it's a long story. But again, we're just we're
just scanning these these issues today. That if Allah subhanaw
taala wants to help he can help in the middle of something like this.
Can you imagine it was so bad that he says that on Sunday, he you
know, it made us forget our poetry, how bad could it be? But
Allah subhanaw taala took them out of it. That's on a, I mean,
there's many incidents like this, many incidents like this, where
the Prophet sallallahu some prayed and things happened.
That is on a on you can say on a macro level, if we look on a on a
micro level, we've got examples. I'll give you one simple example.
Especially for our sisters here as well. I should have the Allahu
anha is, is watching the prophets of Allah sons head, the prophets
of Allah. Some always had long hair, he only shaved his hair on
he had smaller when he went for hydro Amara, right three or four
times that he did that all the other times he always had long
hair up to his shoulder sometimes I should have the Allahu Anhu used
to sit down and comb it. She used to wash it on this occasion.
What's related is that there was a Sahaba, whose name was hola been
to Salah hola been to her husband came one day her husband had some
had some illness or some problem. She was a very she was old. They
were both old, right in an advanced age. But she she was a
very beautiful woman and her husband. He unfortunately had
developed some kind of illness. He called her to him and she refused.
She just didn't feel like it. So what he said to her
he because she was refusing so he said to her auntie Alia Calvary to
me, you are to me, like my mother's back. You're just like,
my mother's back to me, just like my mother is haram for me. And my
mother's back is haram for me that I can go to my mother Mother, you
know, in a sexual way, right? You're like that. Now this was a
way of palak of divorce in the jar. Helia that would be another
way that Paula could be given during jarhead here and this was
such a bad produc such a bad divorce that you couldn't it was
irreconcilable. It was a revocable you could not come back together
again. That was the Joe Hillier tradition. She was extremely
perturbed by this her husband was also have an assignment. And she
she said, Well, what's the outcome? Now? He says, Well, you
know, I can't come close to you now. You know, we're haram and
each other we're not married anymore. He said what's gonna
happen to our children? We need our you know,
We need to be with each other. And he felt really bad because this
just came out of his tongue because, you know, she was
depriving men when men are sexually deprived, something
happens. Right? So he felt extremely great and ADAMA, right.
Just in case women don't know men, just explaining, right. So,
anyway,
so he felt extremely remorseful, very regretful. And what happened
then is he says, Well, that's it. So she goes, she says, I'm going
to go to school, Allah salAllahu Alaihe Salam, she went Rasulullah
sallallahu sallam. Now look how casual This is. You go to a
scholar, his wife is I mean, this is a woman who is going his wife
is there washing his hair, I should have the hola Juana she's
washing one side, there's a lot of hair, right, one side of his hair.
And she's listening. And as she's washing the hair, and then you
know, probably combing it and grooming it. Hola comes and she
says, This is what happened. You know, we've been together for so
long, we've got young children. And I was I was a very wealthy
woman. I was a very good woman, I had a great family with me as
well. And now when all my wealth has been spent, right, and I spent
it on my family, right, she'd been married for she'd been married as
being a very good woman from very good family, a very wealthy woman
and so on. Very beautiful woman said now that all of that has
gone. My family, the one that used to support me, they no longer are
there anymore. They've all you know, they've all dispersed or
they've died out or whatever the case is, I need my husband. Can
you give me a fatwa? What is the hook and for me, the Prophet
sallallahu wasallam said, had him tRNA you are haram on him? She
says please, I mean, what is this? I can't live like this is the
hiring theory. The professor Larson just gave her the answer.
Because until now, there was no hukum there was no ruling that had
come on this particular type of divorce. So not divorced, this
particular type of statement. It's called the heart in Arabic. It's
called the hall, right, the heart and ILA these are two types where
you say these weird things. I'm not going to come close to you
anymore. Or you're like my mother any in terms of not me being haram
for you, you being haram for me, right? If somebody says that the
hokum now is different, right, and we need to thank hola for it, or
the Allahu anha. But she just kept and she's, she's now she's now
saying, but look, it's this situation. I mean, I've got my
children that they I need them, I need I need my husband together to
be with me. Otherwise, we're going to both be wasted in this world.
It's not going to work for me and everything. And the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam just told her look, you're you're
Ramona, you're haram and your husband, your haram and your
husband, you're prohibited on your husband. And then she kept talking
to the Prophet salallahu Salam, she's like, you need to do
something for me. Look at it again. Right? Look at the masala
again, you know, look at it again in there must be something about
it. So eventually, the prophets Allah, then she began to scream,
she began to shout.
She says, I'm going to complain to Allah subhanho wa taala. A school
will Allah I'm going to complain to Allah subhanahu wa taala I'm
going to complain to him of my poverty of my my inability, my
weakness that I can't live without my husband like this. I mean,
subhanAllah look at this is on a micro level, an individual wants
something to happen and look what happens. So she's like, this would
have sudo allah sallallahu alayhi wa salam, and she started looking
up to the heavens and you can just expect she's probably when you're
Allah, this is and she started making dua to Allah subhanho wa
taala, as she started making dua to Allah subhanho wa taala. And
she said, Allahu mushkil Eleague Allahumma for unzila Allah
discerning a B HC
look at her daughter, she says Ya Ya Allah, reveal something on your
messenger
reveal a hukum on your messenger reveals something on your
messenger look at the persistence that she's speaking with. So I
shall be the Allah one had been caught up. She had finished that
one side and she went to the other side to do the other hand, she
wasn't paying attention fully. She says, right. She says I was
listening to some of it. I wasn't listening. You know, I was
listening to half of it or whatever. I wasn't listening
properly. But then what happened is
she again started talking to rasool Allah, Ya, Allah, look at
the matter again, consider it again. And then I showed the Aloha
saw that was sort of LaSalle Allah who recently dropped his head. And
ye, the revelation had started to descend. She said, she said to
her, Listen, take it easy now. Can you not see what's happening to
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he's receiving a
revelation. When the ye finished. When the revelation was completed,
the professor Lawson raised his head. And he said, he said to her,
all the A's Oh, Jack, go go, go, Go and call your husband. Go and
call your husband because Allah subhanaw taala has just revealed
some verses for you.
has just revealed verses for you and what were the verses God the
Semia Allah will call will allottee to jadie Luca fees we
have Atish techie Illa Allah Walla who yes mountain with the HA ora
Kuma in Allah has me I'm bossy. What is the what is the verse God
sent me Allah who called allottee to God Luca Zoji. Ha, the way
Allah subhanaw taala I mean, this is a verse many verses when they
start, they start off you have Lavina and Manu are people who
believe Yeah, you have nurse Itakura bookroom Subhan Allah you
said behold Allah
So be smart optical Allah attack a hadith Allah Russia, this one
starts, but semi Allah, Allah subhanahu wa taala had has
certainly heard indeed Allah subhanho wa Taala has heard Kohler
Katsumi Allah Kol allottee to the look of his own Jaya, and now you
see the Quran is based on brevity Quran is very concise. Allah
subhanho wa Taala doesn't waste his words, but here he is saying,
Indeed Allah subhana wa Taala has heard the one semi Allah who
called Katsumi Allah Who goal ality to journey Luca xojo. Look
at the way he describes her, the one who was arguing with you he's
heard the speech of the one who has been arguing with you about
her husband, can you imagine what must have been in her heart that
she she argued like this. And Allah subhanaw taala reveals a
verse about it. And then he says that Allah has indeed heard and I
shouldn't be alone says I was listening. I was half listening. I
wasn't really paying attention, glorified, B Allah, that he heard
all of these things. He is hearing everybody's everybody's
statements. Whenever we make a statement, he hears all of this.
So called ality to judge the look of a soldier what the key il Allah
and she was complaining to Allah subhanaw taala with a sticky Illa
Allah, Allah who yes met with the Hora Kuma Allah subhanaw taala was
listening. Look how much detail is being provided. I mean, look how
much detail is being provided so that it remains for eternity in
the in the words of ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada and Allah subhanho wa
Taala was listening to your conversation. He was listening to
your conversation while Laurie is married to Howard Akuma in Allah
and Allah subhanho wa Taala is are listening one.
So if a verse could come down if help from Allah could come down
for an individual, a woman who wants her husband back, and she's
there, she's taking a look at it again. She could have just gone
back, okay, her last finish. You've given me a fatwa I'm going,
we need to thank her because then the hokum that came down is that
when a person does this, they have to make a thorough, they have to
give a expiation, a penalty, and then they can be back with their
wives again, it's not like the time of Jehovah so that the jar
Helia time custom was then abrogated due to the benefit of
this single woman. And Allah subhanaw taala reveals this
description about her.
So actually, the Allahu anha praises praises her a lot.
Finally, I just want to mention a final story, because we don't have
the time it's been a very, very short moment. But the verses that
I read ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada says, II and SOCOM Allahu Falabella,
calm, if, if Allah subhanaw taala is to help you, then nobody can
overcome you, Fela hollybrook There is nobody there is not an
individual to overcome you. If Allah subhanaw taala helps you
when you will come. But if Allah subhanho wa Taala is to is to
humiliate you where he is to take away his assistance from you. Then
Thurman de la vie and Soto coming back, then who is there that can
help you after Allah? Who is the one that can help you then besides
Allah subhanaw taala Allah subhanho wa Taala then says I'm
Huseby to him and that whole agenda, what am I Tico methyl
Latina Holloman? publikum. But
do you really think that you will enter into paradise, whereas
events like those examples like those that have taken place among
the people of the past, they haven't occurred to you yet. When
you hear about when you heard about individuals who are who
whose bones would be separated from their flesh, and they would
that would still not detract them from their religion will be
persecuted, sawed in half as Allah subhanaw taala mentions in other
sources and verses in the Quran. Those kinds of things haven't
occurred to you yet. We're not giving you a guarantee of peace in
this world. Essentially, Allah is saying, These things are going to
happen to you as another verse in Bukhara says, while another one
can be che in mental health, you will Jewry we're not in the middle
and we're early will enforce your Thammarat we're going to certainly
test you while another new one come with the new tequila which is
for emphasis. We're going to certainly certainly test you test
you give you trial, be che in mental health just a bit of fear,
in your wealth in your children in your crops in things that are
important to you. But well, Bashir is sobbing, give glad tidings to
those who are patient and Lavina either Asaba to masiva, who went
some kind of calamity afflicts them? They say in the law, we're
in Illa hero Jiun they say we are for Allah. We are and we're going
to return to Him. Willa ICARDA him Salah to Murghab Rahim Rama these
are the people whom Allah subhanho wa Taala sends His blessings upon
and His mercy and they are the most successful ones.
I'll give you one last story. Write one final story, which is I
think it's very important. It's about a derby. A Derby are those
who came after after the Sahaba Malik IGNOU dinar
Monica Medina, I mean, we, most of us would probably not consider
ourselves to be as bad as him. And that's why I'm mentioning this
story. Because at the end of the day, individually, each one of us
needs to become better people. How can we help? How can we expect the
help from Allah subhanho wa Taala when we live in Haram all day
long, when our eyes are watching the most haram things, how can we
see Allah, if at nighttime, that's where we're watching, where our
minds are constantly thinking about gaining the Haram acquiring
the Haram doing the Haram, when our minds are polluted, our hearts
are polluted. And this is a you know means of Toba that I ask
Allah subhanaw taala to give me and to give all of us so that we
can make that change, and we can attract some of the Mercy of Allah
subhanho wa taala. Manny, given the dinar, he says that I was such
a bad person I used to be drunk. I used to be a big this big
disobedient individual. I used to oppress people I used to, I used
to take people's rights. I used to take usery I used to indulge my
money, essentially, I think he was an extra exhortation racket used
to beat people up used to get money of them used to give money
on interest. And you know, you know, the worst of the people that
you can think about. And I used to do all of these things. So as I
grew older, I decided I should get married. Right? And I need to have
children. So he said, I found a wife. And I'm going to cut this
very short. I said I found a wife. And Allah gave me a daughter whose
name was Fatima. And as Fatima was growing older, her love came into
my heart, even my son love her to bits. I used to love her to bits.
But the there was a blessing about this daughter of mine, because as
she's growing older, I am becoming slightly more connected to Allah
subhanaw taala. He's saying he's really is confessing his state.
And then he says that Fatima, she became two years old. And when she
she used to come to me, and I used to have a, you know, a glass of
beer or something glass of wine in my hand. And she used to just come
take it. And I loved her so much. And she knew and she used to take
the glass and just spit it out.
Right. And I never used to do anything, because it's something I
wanted to do. It came to the age of three, and she passed away. And
that gave me such a depression. And one day, my shaytaan he says
shaytani my shaytaan told me that you know, to get out of this
depression, you need to drink. Now, I mean, we can relate to
this. I mean, this is what a lot of people go through today, they
turned to drink because of depression. Right? He said, You're
going to drink today. So he said today, I'm going to next I started
drinking and I drank and I drank. And I went into some kind oF
stupor into into some kind of a hallucination or whatever it was,
I saw all sorts of dreams. Finally, I saw that the world had
changed around me, it was the day of judgment, the seas had become
fire. And people were all around, people were all around, suddenly,
I was called suddenly, my name was called. And as soon as my name was
called, just imagine this day, as soon as my name was called,
everybody from around me just suddenly disappeared. And I found
myself alone, in this big may done in this big field or whatever,
this big plane. And suddenly, in front of me, I see this major,
big, gigantic snake coming towards me and I started to run. And I ran
in the other direction. And there I saw this old, decent, sensible
looking individual, but it looked very weak and old. I went up to
this I said, Can you help me the snake is gonna go off to me is
going to is going to, he's going to get me he says, I'm really
sorry, I can't help you. I'm too weak. I've got no ability, but go
in that direction. So I went in that direction. And then as I run
towards it, I suddenly see fire. So what I'm going to jump into the
fire if I go that way, I'll be in the fire. If I go the back way the
snakes gonna get me I quickly ran back to that man. The old man said
you need to help me. He says, Look, I can't help you. But go in
this other direction now go towards the hills. So he says they
will hills on that direction. As I went towards the hills. On these
hills, I suddenly noticed all of these young boys and girls, and as
soon as I got closer, they were saying Fatima, your dad Xia Fatima
your dad's here.
So as soon as I got there, suddenly my daughter came to me
and I recognized her. And I recognize my three year old
daughter, she came and she came in. She sat in my lap the way she
used to do in the world. And I said to her, yeah, Fatima. Explain
to me what's going on here? She said, don't worry about it. I'll
take care of this. So what she did was she as the snake came closer,
she she she pushed it out the way and the snake disappeared. And I
was surprised. And I said to her Yeah, Fatima what's happening? Who
is the old man? He said the old man are your good deeds. You don't
have too many of them. You didn't really do much you haven't built
him up. That's why his old weak and frail and he can't do anything
for you today. What is that snake? Then? Those snake that snake is
your major deeds are your Iam your bad deeds are your sins that is
what you you nurtured and that is why they are after you. And he
said if it wasn't for you, And subhanAllah look, Allah subhanaw
taala gives us children who can be our Saviors for us. He said if it
wasn't for you, I would not have been successful on this day. And
then suddenly he wakes up out of this nightmare. absolute
nightmare. He wakes up and it's Fajr time he takes a bath and he
says Wallah. I'm going to make Toba now, and he goes to the
masjid. He goes to the masjid and actually
If I missed one part of his daughter, she said to him when he
sat her down said What's all of this? He said LM yet needed Lavina
Manu and Dasha Cordoba homolytic Rila humanas elemental Hawk, wala
yaku Ken Levine, otro Kitab Amin, Kabul, Fatah de Mille Emma do
focus at Kulu boom work a theorem University cool. Basically what
Allah subhanaw taala is saying here hasn't come hasn't a time
come for those who believe who have who have the belief online. I
heard that they had come to this Deen to Allah subhanaw taala for
the fear of Allah subhanaw taala are they going to be like the
people of the past who a long time passed, and their hearts just
became hard. And believe me this is what I feel that is happening
today for us in the in the in what we're in the way we are living,
our hearts have become hard. And we could be a source of problems
for the Muslim brothers and sisters around the world. It could
just be time before it happens to us. These people are essentially a
shield for us. And so that was why we must do everything that we can
for our brothers in Syria and in Burma in Palestine everywhere else
as well. So she mentioned the ayah when I got up and I went to the
masjid that day, it may be his first time in the masjid for a
very long time if ever, and he says ajeeb the Imam was reading
Surah Al Hadith and this verse he was reading. After that he became
one of the greatest deputies Monica Medina, you'll hear about
him quite often. This story is actually related by IGNOU Kodama
humbleness, Kitab Otowa been right? And then he would stand
outside the masjid every day and he would try to counsel people
he'd say, oh person, such and such a person to Bill Allah go back to
Allah or such in such a person go back to Illallah that's why I want
to say to all of us today, Allah subhanaw taala promises one thing,
right? Allah promises one thing, he says that, you know, if you
start committing sins, and you start and they start piling up,
right, so you've committed 20 cents, 30 cents, 40 sins, whatever
it is, and they go up to the heavens, and it fills up the earth
with it. And then Allah says that if you come to me with Doba, with
repentance, I will forgive you. I will forgive you. How many are our
sins enough to fill this theater? Right? How many of our sins Allah
is saying, you fill the world with your sins, if you fill that fill
the heavens with your sins, I will forgive you because that's who I
am. I am I have more mercy than your than your mother has your
mother only uses from the 1% of mercy that I've given in this
world, I have the 99% of the mercy that I will treat you with, we
need to make dua to Allah subhanaw taala we need to we need to
rectify ourselves, we need to make repentance so that we become pure
individuals, then whatever we do, will become more powerful. We can
then avert the punishments of Allah subhanaw taala, we can then
help other people. And at the end of the day, we can complain about
our, our rulers of the world, and and the Muslim and non Muslim
rulers. And we can speak about the Arab Spring and we can speak about
the coming of Maddie and we can speak about all of these things.
But at the end of the day, it has to start from us because our death
is closer to us than any Maddie is than any Yama is because our karma
is when we die. And may Allah subhanaw taala give us the ability
to correct ourselves first and to really focus and to avoid the
Haram and to make Toba for our sins that we have committed in the
past. May Allah subhanaw taala give us Baraka in the things that
we're doing in the projects that we're doing. May Allah subhanaw
taala bless all the brothers here who have been to Syria and Who've
you know, mashallah was really happy to hear that, you know,
you've been five times well, at least sheffey He's been five times
I mean, I'm sure there's others who have been as well that's
really amazing for me, I'd love to go back. You know, I really missed
that place after I finished studying then I came back, I just
haven't been able to go back in sha Allah may Allah subhanaw taala
open it up very quickly and make it one of the best places
inshallah Baraka la frequences Alchemilla here. Welcome to Darwin
and in hamdulillah
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