Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Wisdoms behind the TurkiyeSyria Earthquake
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu lillah wa Salatu was Salam
ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi H marim.
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Allah, but a thorough Himalaya and the moon. So what we've had is, I
just spoke to somebody who was I know somebody who lives in one of
the areas where the earthquake took place.
The good thing was that they lived in a house, they said that at four
o'clock, they had to wake up. They were they had to wake up, they
were woken up by the trembling.
And they were trying to make it as fast as they could outside,
outside out of the house. But they could hardly get out of the house
because the ground was shaking so violently under their feet. That
he found it difficult. They literally ran out. And what she
said is that this felt like the day of judgment, because you know,
on the Day of Judgment, it says that people will be naked.
And she said that women had to run out without hijab, people who wear
niqab even had to run out, she says, I was lucky, I had a garden
to go into, but others waiting, apartment buildings and others.
They said, they said nobody was looking at anybody else.
Everybody's it's not one of those things where something bad
happens, but it didn't happen to you. So it's okay, it happens to
everybody. So everybody's filled with tremor is a feeling of just
being overwhelmed, overpowered so there's nobody who's confident at
that time, because it's not something that anybody can have
experience with. And think that they've got control over. You
know, when it comes to a car accident, the people involved in
that car accidents are going to be in that state of fear. But the
surrounding people they won't be because they didn't have the
accident. But this is
something that affects everybody. So nobody feels confident at that
time. Nobody feels confident. That's what this does. This is an
overarching effect that Allah subhanaw taala creates. And from
this, we understand that when the ground is settled, as it usually
is that hamdulillah that's a blessing of Allah and Allah
actually tells us about this in Surah two half of verse 64, where
he says,
Allah who led the journey, the local man or the Quran, Allah,
Allah is the one who made this earth a dwelling place for you,
where you can stabilize yourself and live with some kind of
predictability. That is not a constant movement around by I
forget which place it was, it was universal. So when I was doing
California, Universal Studios, or I can't remember which theme park
it was right? And there was a
ride in there called an earthquake right.
And I was in like two minds should I go there just so that you can
feel how it is to understand how the punishment how it could be a
punishment how the day of judgment as a as an APR for that?
Or, obviously people went in there for for enjoyment. It's not a
place for enjoyment. If you I mean, maybe you could say that is
halal to go in there just so that Allahu Akbar, you get a taste of
how it's going to be on the day because in Zilla the sorority
shaitan are we that's gonna be the tough one. So literally, this is
what this person said. She said that Alhamdulillah we survived but
a whole friend of friends, family, they were crushed to death.
They're gone.
It was about 20 miles away, they're gone, they finished.
Allah subhanaw taala says again, in Surah number a mandala Karara
who is the one who has made this earth and ground for you to be
stable as a dwelling place and then he put in the unharmed and
rivers and everything of for your needs, which are the Fiat
overseer, and has put mountains in there to peg the earth to the
ground properly.
stability of the Earth is a blessing of Allah let us not take
it for granted.
There's smaller earthquakes sometimes. What I mean by that is
have you seen where there's been a number of discos dance halls and
the floor just caves in?
definitely wouldn't want to be in there.
To be honest, I'd rather be in an earthquake than a dance floor that
caves in that's just the wrong place to be. Allah protect us.
Those are many septarian collapses there's a sign of the Day of
Judgment is that they will be septarian collapses. The ground
will open up in multiple places.
So then, what we have to understand is
The tremors of the ground that these people experienced.
They're supposed to be tremors for the heart, to give us an
understanding of what this is all about. We have to make some sense
of this. They happen for a reason we better make some sense. We
can't be confused about this. It didn't happen to us. And I've been
thinking for a while that hamdulillah Al Hamdulillah Al
Hamdulillah. In the UK, we don't get a lot of these extreme
circumstances. We don't have hurricanes here. We don't have
these violent storms too often. We don't have tsunamis. We don't have
earthquakes. I'm not asking for we're an island, a big island but
we're an island I don't know what Baraka there is here, hopefully
there is a we don't get even America. Every year there's a
storm that's hit Alabama that's just whipped through right,
Florida and other places. We don't get anything. Earthquake,
California, I used to live there felt an earthquake there twice.
But we don't get anything at hamdulillah do Shakur do Chakra
The chakra, thank you, Allah for giving us out here.
So we have to make some sense of what's going on here. Because
we're all affected by this in some level or the other. It's a natural
disaster. So La Ilaha, Illa, Allah, so many people have been
killed 20,000 people is not a small number, and more. So many
have been wounded who have not been killed, they've been wounded.
So many have been rendered homeless without anything. So so
many people have been left without loved ones, so many orphans, so
many widows. So many people lost their children.
Can you see any good in any of them? What's so good about that?
What's the wisdom in that? That's just pure destruction. This is how
some people are going to look at it says pure destruction. So
what's the good in there? Usually you can't see good in a
destruction, can you?
And that's what we want to try to look at. Because every action of
Allah is sophisticated and elaborate, and very subtle things
happen in there.
So anybody who can't see anything and can't make sense of this can't
be a believer, because his believers are taught to do this.
Believers have a manual of this world of every event. Is this the
first time an earthquake has taken place? No, there's been
earthquakes throughout history. And they will continue to be
earthquakes, you can't escape them, you might be able to escape
was
because there was a man made, you may be able to escape tyranny, you
may be able to stop tyranny, you may be able to stop violence
committed by people, you may be able to stop genocides, but you
can't stop an earthquake. You can't stop storms, these are
natural things. So the best policy is that we're going to have to
embrace them, we're gonna have to understand them. We're gonna have
to understand what to do with them. Because not something you
can stop, and they are reality. If they're reality, then we better
get our perspective, right? Our perspective, right? So I think the
first thing we have to start off with is a verse of certain Bokaro.
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across the mineral M while you were fusi with thermal rot.
That's what Allah says in Surah Al Baqarah, were surely going to test
you surely surely going to test you. It's an emphatic statement
he's making they're not we're gonna test you. Literally Allah is
saying, we're surely going to test you. By using well and a blue one,
rather than just one a blue icon.
We're surely going to test you how are we going to test you with a
bit of fear every now and then
every now and then there's going to be a fair bit of fear,
then there's going to be a bit of a hunger that you're going to have
to suffer once in a while.
We're also going to test you with a bit of
deficiency
and a shortage of wealth. Sometimes you might lose your job
and struggle.
Or you may just find a job.
And of course, a decrease of lives, you're gonna lose loved
ones.
And then of course, other things like Thammarat fruits for the
farmers and crops for the farmers or prophets.
But then Allah subhana wa Tada. So in days, very clear. We're going
to test you. Don't be deceived. Don't think that you can live a
life without any difficulty, not even the prophets. Allah He was
salatu salam, not even the prophets and that kind of life.
They were tested. They went through many, many struggles, the
prophets of Allah is over the last 10 to 15 days, was sick
for over a week. He was sick with huge fever and his daughter
Fatima. The hola one is like, what kind of a fever is this one car
About about,
oh, what a pain of my father What pain of my father and he says
Subhan Allah, the Prophet SAW said, Lakota Barilla a beaker bury
the head of the meal. There's going to be no pain after this day
for your father.
Why? Why do we have pain in this world? Anybody who makes this
world his final and only abode, they're going to struggle
because they want to make this place the best that they can be
for enjoyment. But this has been places never been a permanent
place or the only place or the main place for believers.
Our main places Jana,
and in Jana, there's no problems in Jana is just full enjoyment.
Never a bit never even a Blick no nothing, but in this world is
going to be suffering. So a lot of suffering has to do with
psychology. As very simple a lot of suffering how to deal with
suffering is to change your mindset
is to change your mind. In fact, it nata Allah and his country.
Rahim Allah says in one of his wisdoms, he said,
Allah sends you difficulties and harms at the hands of your loved
ones, and through the world. Why? So that you don't become too
comfortable with them. And you keep your focus on Allah because
he's the only one who can give you what you really want. He doesn't
want us to feel comfortable in any situation in this world except
with him. That's Allah. That's what he wants. This is this place.
So for a believer
they will see what Allah's plan is the professor Lawson said I
genuinely am really Macmillan for in the umbra, who couldn't know
who hired the who hire hadith of Sahih Muslim. What are the
astonishing status for a believer because every matter of his
whatever happens to him is all going to be good. Many all works
out to be profitable for you. You've just been in a calamity
when you came out of it with some profits. How do you do that? You
had a good time. You just enjoyed a wonderful meal, mashallah, you
did knifes you had a good meal. But you came out of it good. How
do you do that with some profit with some reward? How do you do
that?
So the point is also explained, he said that when
a difficulty reaches them, a calamity reaches him and his
patient, that's good for him. You've come out with profit
because patients gives you his reward.
And, you know, there's people that good business people they sell
those who make profit, both in high and lows. They know exactly
what to do. Well, this is the economy of Allah for the
hereafter. And if you've just enjoyed your meal, you've just
enjoyed something, whatever it is, but you remember Allah them said,
Thank you Allah for this, all sugar is to Allah, you're going to
be rewarded for that meal as well.
You just enjoy the halal bead, right? You're going to be rewarded
for that. That's the philosophy of Islam of reward in any situation.
And he said, Folks, I'm sending this, this is not for anybody but
a believer.
This is for nobody but a believer.
Simple example. My mother died of cancer Rahimullah. After 10 years
of cancer, she passed away. I take solace and comfort in the fact
that she is a Shaheed
she is a martyr because she died of these stomach illnesses. Right?
In which is one of the things mentioned as a martyr. I take
great comfort and solace with that makes it easy for me, doesn't it?
An atheist whose mother passed away after 10 years of suffering,
what's he going to think of that?
miserable? What a bad life? What do you get at the end of it?
Nothing. You die, and there's nothing? What's the point of that?
They might turn around to me and say, You just thinking that to
make yourself feel good.
Genuine question. You're just thinking they just makes you feel
good. So my response to that is, is there a problem with that? Can
I feel good? Can I have a philosophy that feels good,
because neither you nor me know what's going to happen in the
hereafter. But at least I think it's going to happen it makes me
have a better life and this world doesn't make me miserable. Makes
me be able to deal with the difficulties that come around.
I'm not anti better off because I said most of calamity is
Psychology. If you know something's gonna come up, like
you know that this car has certain problems that this many miles and
then it happens like okay, I knew that was coming. And there's
another car they promised you so much.
And then after you have a problem in there, you're going to be
really angry. If you expect something, it just makes life
easier. That's already more than half because a lot of cycle
there's two there's two brothers or two sisters born in the same
house, same food, everything. One just deals with calamities better
than other, same calamities, same issues, same setbacks. So we're
going to have to learn that this is Allah's plan with these things.
Why is it Allah's plan? Because we know Allah that he's in
charge around, he's not made this world V abode. The final abode is
just a temporary place there's going to be difficulties in, you
know, on stations in flights. It's not like even first class, you're
gonna have an issue.
People go on first class hudge five star hotel right in front of
the hub is only five star. As long as you're in the dark, though hate
intercontinental as soon as you get out, you're part of everybody
else.
Trying to get to the gala, you were part of everybody else. Not a
leaf in this world drops that Allah doesn't know about. That's
mind boggling. Think about that.
How many leaves drop in autumn,
in off one tree, and multiple trees on a street in an area in a
country around the world. He knows simultaneously.
Every leaf that's dropping
simultaneously at one time he knows every tree every leaf that's
dropping and what purpose that leaf is dropping for and what's
going to happen and he knows it all. Marta school told me what
occurs in Ileana
every single insect that's crawling in your garden you don't
even know. But Allah knows it all. He can hear it, he can see it at
one time. It's mind boggling. Don't even try to understand it.
There's no logic that will explain that to you. Because that's just
such a multifaceted beam. Wallah yah Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo hoo, my wo
rd you love him. So he knows exactly what he's doing. And the
other thing we know through physics is that everything in this
world is interconnected. Everything has an action and a
reaction. Let me give you an example. You buy a car for
yourself, right? A shiny new car you buy for yourself, you don't
care about anybody else. You bought the car, put it outside
your house? And you're like, I don't care. You know? I don't want
any I don't want to show it to anybody or whatever. Can you stop
your car having an effect on someone else? No one is your body
to show up. That's one thing other you bought it for yourself? You
can't stop that car from affecting people in multiple ways.
Somebody's going to see it and get jealous of you
can't hide a car? What's the point of hiding a car, you know, you're
gonna drive it, somebody's gonna see you in it. So one guy is gonna
get jealous. Another guy is gonna say Marshall, I'm so happy for
you.
These are just things they're going to think about. Right?
variously, oh, I want one of those. Oh, I don't want one of
those. Are they going to critique it? multiple things that anything
you do has multiple reactions, right?
The world is a quantum place where everything is interconnected. So
when it comes to matters like this, what do we have to do as
believers then?
Well, number one, we need to understand that it's from Allah
subhanho wa taala. And when we can't understand the wisdom,
because the wisdoms are multiple, and I'll try to explain some of
that to you. We have to consign the matter to Allah. Okay, Allah
leave it to you. I don't get it. I know why Hekla did what he did.
But I don't know why the earthquake came.
I can give you possible reasons.
Right? I can tell you why violent people do what they do. Because
that we can answer because we're human beings and we can understand
one another. But we can't understand why Allah does that.
But we can have some ideas.
I just want to clarify something in between. There is a scientific
explanation for for calamities, like
all of these calamities, like earthquakes and tsunamis, there's
a science behind it, right? It tells you that the plates, they're
grinding against one another and so on so forth. Does that make a
difference? Does that make a difference to anybody? That Okay,
a scientist is going to feel good that okay, you know, they
understand the mechanics behind it, the dynamics behind it. So,
okay, you know, I get to know, why did it happen there on that day at
that time? Four o'clock in the morning is when it happened. She
told me. Then she was in class.
We with us, and she had to run out of the house again at 10 o'clock.
10 o'clock in the morning, a second not a tremor, but a second
full fledged earthquake.
Why did it happen at that time? Why didn't it happen two years
ago? Why didn't happen in five years? Why didn't happen there?
Who knows that? That's Allah's timetable. He knows all of that if
no Tamia 700 years ago, Rahim Allah had a scientific example of
gases accumulating in the belly of the you know of the world and then
they expand and crack things about what Allahu Allah they had that
but that doesn't make a difference because it's Allah was creating
all of that to happen,
allowing it to happen at that time.
Anyway, let's look at some of the wisdoms and so what could be some
of the wisdoms we're just making an effort? Our best effort is what
are some of the wisdoms of why these calamities occur like
earthquakes and so on? The first one I think, I think we have to
say is what Allah says 182 medullary Hill, Khalida is just to
remind us that you don't have that much knowledge. You have a lot.
You know a lot you're trying your best but you don't have
Everything, there's so much that is undiscovered. And there's just
some realms which you're not going to get. So it's just to Hume hum.
Make us humble, that you don't know everything.
So don't think you know everything. Subhanallah Look at
this. You know, when COVID started when the virus was around, did you
hear what the world leaders are saying the politicians, we're
going to beat this.
We're going to deal with this. We're going to fight this and
we're going to beat it. Did you remember that rhetoric at the
beginning? How long did that rhetoric continue for? After 789
months, a year that rhetoric was gone? It was like, Well, this is
overwhelming. This is a different beast here. Right? This is
something a lot more serious. It's very humbling. Very, very
humbling.
So number one, he tells us how less knowledge we've got number
two, it follows on from there what Allah says, well, holy cow
insanitary Eva, that humans have been created weak. So it tells us
that we're weak. It shows us our weaknesses, our vulnerabilities
Subhanallah our weakness and vulnerabilities. When Allah wants
to do something, nothing, I said we might be able to protect
ourselves from others, but not from Allah's natural causes.
Number three, it's a test for the believer, this test for everybody.
I'll expand on that a bit more. It's a test to see how you're
going to react. I'll explain reactions later, right. I'm going
to leave that for a while. Number four,
the b1 dilhari.
This is a wake up call for the heedless. I guarantee you, there's
people there who've realized what low value of life is and what they
should do. People who are procrastinating have seen others
crushed, who never got a chance it was in the middle of the night.
They never got a chance to Toba or repentance. And these people are
going to start doing that they've started doing that already. Right.
So this is a wake up call. These calamities are supposed to be Wake
Up Calls, how many Wake Up Calls do we need?
How many Wake Up Calls do we need?
Allah says in surah Teresa, all of this is you know we learn all of
this from the Quran. For every one of these, the Quran tells us
something so to Israel, verse 59, Allah says, Woman, look, see, look
at the weaver.
You know, these signs, these are signs from Allah. Allah putting
his mark, that's what he's mark is every moment if you're oblivious,
he'll say I'll show you this month. We only send this except to
create fear.
Allah subhanaw taala also says, you have the overall boom in
Zillow, this already show you all now the old people. Oh people feel
your Lord have consciousness of your Lord because the tremors and
the earthquakes and the shaking of the final day is going to be a
mighty, a very mighty and Action event, an enormous event.
And then Allah explains the ALMA Corona del Lumo the RT m or Darth
watada o kulula. The Hamlet Hamlet, what Tirana suka suka
Allah He Sinead, there were many women who gave birth during this
time. Allah says that there is going to be so traumatic that
pregnant women will
have miscarriages. They'll drop their children.
People will become old due to the fear. There are three types of
reactions to this three types of broadly speaking, there's, if we
can categorize it in one way there's those people who
forget Allah. They don't remember Allah when they have prosperity,
but they only remember Allah when they have difficulty. So one of
the reasons for difficulties to bring you to Allah.
And you know, when things are going to well I get worried. Like
literally when you understand Allah Zina and like when things
are happening to Well, I remember contacting my one of my shakes my
teachers, a few months ago and something really good happened. I
was like, I'm just fearful that this is a test from Allah. Clearly
everything's a test. But he commonly said no, no, no, this is
a gift from Allah accept it as a gift, be thankful to Allah
subhanaw taala but when things go too well, for a long time, I do
get worried. And I think you should be because why why should
you get worried? We don't want to dismiss the gifts of Allah. No,
that's wrong is when you can't dismiss the good you have to be
thankful. But what you what what happens is this. The philosophy is
this or the the idea is this, that there's a concept of st branch,
where Allah allows people to enjoy and they get, they become worse
off. They get so you see because when you have too much goodness,
you get a false sense of security, and assurance and comfort. So
there's nothing
keep us on our feet. So what happens is that you just start
feeling like you're cool and fine. And you forget about Allah and you
start allowing yourself to become a prey to the mischief of your
resources and money, you become overconfident.
So we have to be worried about that. They say that if you're
having too many blessings, and you're not getting closer to
Allah, but you're getting further away, that's a problem.
Allah protect us from that. We ask Allah for Alfia We ask Allah for
ease, right? And we ask Allah for piety, right? We don't, we don't
want comfort and we're getting further from Allah because that's
not beneficial at all.
So Allah sends this and the reaction of the people is that
okay? Well, Allah wants these people to remember him, so that
hopefully they can remember him in their prosperity as well because
you eventually develop a certain idea towards Allah when you can
start thinking more. Number two, are those groups who remember
actually that they should have been the first group are those
people who remember Allah both in good and bad times. So they're
gonna remember a lot even in this time, and they're gonna they
remember like, other times, so that's just another group. And
then the third group are those people even in calamities, they
don't remember what kind of people are those, that people with messed
up ideology?
Totally off track. Allah does not figure in the idea in the
in any of their philosophy. And that's the worst of it because
good or bad, you still denying God? Allah speaks about this in
the Quran does very well. Let me mention the verses multiple verses
in the Quran where Allah subhanaw taala talks about those who forget
Allah, but when they're in the middle of an ocean or a calamity
overcomes them and they feel submerged and overwhelmed. They
start calling Unto Allah, Tao, you know, they start putting on to
Allah and then when Allah gives them refuge takes them back to the
coast back to safety, they forget Allah ago.
We got that right. But then we also have this group, they don't
remember Allah. Allah says, follow Allah is jahanbakhsh sunnah Dorado
when our
power and our calamity comes upon them, Why could they not just
humbly become entreating Allah? How could they not humbly agreed
Allah become humble?
Well, CAcert Kulu boo, the hearts and become hard,
was the yellow shaytaan America and we are maroon and shaytaan is
adorned for them and made, what they do their practices, their
abilities, their influence their positions, Allah shaytaan has made
that adorned for them so they think of that as sufficient for
them. But it's blinding them.
Then Allah says in another verse one oh Rahim now Huacachina, the
human during the lead up to returning ammo. These are those
people who Allah says when we save them, when we bring them back to
security, we have mercy on them. And we remove and open up the
difficulty that was on them, they go right back into their tyranny.
They go right back into their tyranny. So now let's try to
answer this question. There's a lot of people who are who will be
saying and who have said that such things are punishments
are these things punishments is an earthquake or punishment?
Is a storm and is a tsunami of punishment.
Again, that's a very simplistic way of looking at it. Yes, it
could be a punishment, but it could be complete mercy, like what
what are you talking about? Its mercy. How can all this carnage
that has taken place all of these lives have been lost homes that
have been totally destroyed homeless people living in swimming
pools and, you know, on the sides of roads and all that you're
saying, that is mercy of them?
Yeah, there is definitely mercy. There is lots of stuff in there.
How is it mercy? You know, those type people who died and they were
good, they have just taken the shortest path to paradise.
Shortest Path to paradise.
Because they died through hidden in Arabic had the moon which means
by being literally crushed, that's one of the categories of martyrs
mitres of forgiveness Subhan Allah
if they had believed in the right idea, Masha, Allah, they are gone.
matassa rota legal Jana. It's one of the most shortest paths to
paradise. And that's our real world. So who cares about this
world and right, that answers a lot of questions. That's how it's
mostly for some people. But within that same place, there's going to
be people who are evil, and they've not had the opportunity to
be to to Tober and repentance, because they were given enough.
Or when I'm not I'm miracle, Maya that goofy him into that car.
We're just a common Nadine. Haven't we given you enough life,
enough of your age in which anybody who wanted to take a
reminder could have taken a reminder and the warner came to
you and you still didn't get it?
those guys that always close now. So that's a punishment for them.
For other people,
it's a life changing wake up call. Those people have survived.
They've seen this. They've taken it to heart. It could happen
again. It happened within six or eight hours again, it could happen
again.
And I want to go properly this time. If I'm gonna go, I want to
go right. I have to be ready, because he might be me next, the
people have.
That's city. What's it called again? Gaziantep, which is the
pistachio capital of the world. They make some of the best
pistachio baklava. So it's a punishment for some people within
that same locality. It's a source of mercy because we believe in the
Ohana to be the real life, right? They've gone from the miseries of
this world. They were there people who didn't have a job who are
struggling. I've just Subhanallah my cousin's daughter is married to
a guy from Gaziantep
Indian and Turkish.
And he's just come to the UK and he said that it was so expensive.
We used to, we wish we are sharing two eggs between three people when
he came in England, and he saw that two eggs like wow, what are
you doing? That's how much the poverty is there right now.
Because of inflation and so on to expertise so expensive.
People who are suffering like that they've gone with a straight
ticket in Sharla to paradise if the monsters mashallah
for others is a life changing wake up call. So not everybody is
subject to God's wrath. God's draft is a wrath is there but not
everybody is subjected to it, Allah is very, very elaborate.
He's very loving can do multiple things at once, in one thing that
he does, there's multiple purposes that it serves. So now everybody
at the end of the day, those who died in there, everybody's going
to be resurrected, according to the intention. Because the
intention of the believer is the most powerful thing.
One of our great scholars ignore Josie, he writes that I want to be
the greatest scholar, I want to know the most about Quran and
Sunnah. But I also want to be wealthy in the world and have lots
of resources. And I also want to wake up for the hygiene and do
lots of EBA, I want to be the best of everything. I tried to do this,
I have shortcomings here. But I tried to do this, that loses. And
he says it's a struggle. But then the beautiful part that he ends
this with, he says, we're going to keep trying. And when we die, at
least Allah is gonna raise us with the intention of what we had of
everything, Allah, we raise us with the good of all of those.
That's why intention is very, very important. We have to sort our
intentions out. So everybody in that sooner everybody in that
earthquake who have died will all be raised according to their
intentions, and according to the sum
of their life.
So what is our job in this case, then?
What is our job in this case? Just before that, you know, in our
case, if we have a little issue, anybody has the little issue, or
big issue?
How do you determine whether it's a punishment? How do you determine
whether it's a elevation of your status, that Allah wants you to be
closer to him? Or another purpose? How do you figure that out?
Very simple test, Inshallah, this will be useful for us, it will
help us if you have a difficulty, like let's just say that your car
broke down, and you just can't get it fixed, or it just broke down.
Or there's a leak in your house and you can't find it's costing
you money and effort and time, or you got to a wrong bill and you
have to be on them for hours. You know, trying to correct it. These
are all calamities, aren't they? How would you react to that? If
you react and you start complaining did Allah only find me
not so and so look, that guy's okay, it's only me and so on. That
know that this is a punishment for you.
That's the way to tell this is a punishment for you wants you to be
punished for this and put into pain.
Okay, rather than saying that you think I know why this has
happened? You don't have to tell anybody, but I know why. You know
what, last week, I was bad to someone. So I committed that sin.
I was a bit loose in x, y and Zed. I said so and so. I did. I miss my
fajr I miss my prayers. I miss my Jumuah I know why this is Toba
stuff, federal law state fall Dolberg. Come back to Allah.
That's mashallah, that calamity was for purification. Punishment,
purification. Now, another option is calamity happen. Like why is
this happening? Because that's what they're there to create a
thought process. So what is that thought? You know, I can't
remember doing anything better handed. I've been very good. For a
while in sha Allah. I can't remember. You know what? I'm just
probably not
doing enough so Allah wants me to speed me up elevator for higher
deeds. Because if you look which obedience which of the five
obligations is to say which of them the highest the highest you
would fasting Salat,
Hajj zakat, which one has the highest reward? I would argue that
it's fasting.
Not to put down salad salad is a huge one. You know why fasting is
higher? But Allah says, fasting is for me, and I will directly reward
you for it. What does that mean?
What am I right that, you know, for all the worships the angels
that we have? They have a certain score sheet. So for Salah given
this much reward if he has more taqwa and sincerity and difficulty
in doing and then you get bonuses, so there's a base reward for every
worship, and then you get the bonuses. That's why they usually
say like, if you do a short prayer, after sunrise, it's like
an ombre means the a short prayer with all of its bonuses is
equivalent to the base reward of a Omura. But of course, if you go
from there, you're gonna get the base reward plus, do you
understand this calculation? See, when it comes to fasting? Allah
says, angels don't have to deal with that. I'll reword that
directly. Because fasting can only be for me. What do you mean,
fasting can only be for me? What does that mean? Because if you're
really fasting for Allah,
then you will stay hungry. If I'm fasting to show people, I don't
have to stay hungry, I can eat in secret and just show you I'm
fasting. So if you're staying hungry, then it must be for Allah
to some level.
Right? So Allah rewards and what is fasting? It's patience, is
abstinence and patience. So Allah says, rubbish shade is sobbing.
You know, when Allah subhanaw taala said that we're surely going
to test you that first verse, I read about it. Number one, the
compassionate human health. Allah didn't tell us what to do, he
says, give glad tidings to those who are sobbing, the patient ones
who when a calamity reaches them, they say Alladhina either Asaba
Tomas Eva Carlo in alila.
We belong to Allah forget my car breaking down. Why am I so worried
about my car should be I need to get it fixed. But at the end of
the day, I'm going to go back to Allah, imagine if I went, I don't
even have to worry about the car then.
I am Morton, I'm going to die. I'm going to be finished. We're in at
Raggio and I'm gonna go back to Allah. That's why you know, when
we read this, when somebody dies, we don't read it as a dua for
them. We do it for us. It's a reminder for us, okay, they're
gone, but I'm going to be gone as well. That's what I need to be
worried about. And then Allah says, will eagerly he sought out
to me rugby him war Rama, upon these people are the blessings of
Allah, those who be patient
and Allah's mercy. Allah has promised you blessings and mercy.
What would I call muster? And these are the guided ones, because
they know how to react to this philosophy. Theology is very
important. Okay, so now,
what's our job? When we're survivors? Alhamdulillah we're
survivors because that could have happened here. Nobody, there's no
guarantee they won't happen anymore.
But as a survivor anywhere in the world, wherever you are listening,
what is our job as believers? I'm gonna give us five things for us
to do. Number one.
Allahumma, Sanjana, Sita make dua for those who have died, that may
Allah forgive them. If they didn't go with the right amount, may
Allah forgive them, because inshallah that's going to be
helpful now. May Allah forgive them. Number two,
for those who have survived, but who are troubled and who are
injured and who have lost, then we make dua for their well being,
their stability, their recovery.
Number three, we just don't make the offer them but we do
everything else. Literally. I had a thought the other day, can I go
to Turkey and help?
All right.
I don't know what to do. But can I just go there? Will I be just
causing a nuisance be a nuisance? Do I need to know what to do?
Right? Can I go on help?
If not, let me send some money. Let me send something else. Let me
encourage others, whatever you can do, that's our job that will help
us inshallah.
And number four, number four, forgiveness for ourselves, so that
any calamity that comes to us, we're at least free of sin.
Because that's what it's supposed to teach us that they many of them
went without a moment of consideration, a moment that they
could have prepared or paid off something. And number five,
abundant gratitude that Allah kept us safe. And may He keep us safe,
abundant gratitude. And number the number six oh Allah give us
satisfaction with your decree whatever it is that you
is the most anybody who learns satisfaction with the decree of
Allah that Allah say, that person is never going to agree with this
word allah whole family him whatever means alone or in this
world or the hereafter because Allah did it. Allah knows best.
You know what is the Arabic word for calamity?
Mercy Bella Bella, which is the test actually, but that means test
masiva Do you know where the word masiva comes from?
Osama UCB ESA button which means to hit the mark. You know, when
you're doing both
archery bow and arrow, archery or shooting practice.
When somebody hits the mark,
they say a subject. You got it right me and you hit the mark
masiva is the thing which hits the mark. It wasn't intended for
anybody else. It was intended for me.
It was intended for whoever it was so
rather Bill Kadar satisfaction with the decree of Allah is the
only way out of the space, which means to be satisfied with the
decree of Allah. How did you get that? You have to know Allah more
that he never does anything randomly. He does it for a reason.
So if it's a difficulty, well, maybe he wants to wake us up.
Maybe he wants to give us good. Maybe he wants to reward us. Maybe
he wants to bring us closer and he's gonna give us patience. If
you have patience to deal with a calamity. That's a good sign. It
goes back to those people with reactions. We don't have any
patience and you freak out. That means you don't know solver. You
don't know how Allah works. So that's why you figure you have no
trust in Allah. You have no knowledge of Allah. You can't rely
on Allah You Don't Know Allah is kindness, Mama, who will learn in
little arbete Allah says He is not an oppressor even a smallest
amount to His servants. Wala yachvili Murghab Buka ohada You
Lord will never oppress you. He gets you something well maybe it's
Masada can be mercy, but in America but a vehicle maybe could
be as I said, the second reaction is there is because of something
you did that's why you're having that calamity make Toba and get
back to Allah is a good job. He's even reminding us because if he
doesn't remind us He lets us be bad then we just gonna get worse.
So satisfaction with the decree of Allah is a very high attainment.
May Allah give us that may Allah give us that may Allah make it
easy for us. We ask for the greatness.
We ask that Allah allow us to understand his greatness, we ask
that Allah subhanaw taala forgive and bless all of those people and
accept them as martyrs who have died, right? The Muslim they
mashallah you know, the believing area. Number two, that we ask
Allah subhana wa Taala for stability and recovery and
patience and perseverance for those who have left behind. May
Allah allow us to ask for forgiveness and purify ourselves
and allow us to be share caring, and people have gratitude for what
He has given us. And as I said, people in this country have to be
very thankful to Allah. Why? Because we literally enjoy being
of the top five to 10% of the world, prosperity, the way we
live, literally. I mean, if you've ever thought of that, well, you've
just taken it for granted. Compared to so many the bulk of
the countries of the world, we enjoy a lifestyle of the top five
to 10% That's huge. I'm not complaining about it. I just want
to thank Allah for it. That's what I want to do, because without
thinks, we're going to we're going to squander this and we're going
to do this the wrong way. We want to be grateful to Allah. May Allah
subhanaw taala business on
by the way, one thing you said that they were sleeping so they
already sleeping, that just reminds me of one thing make sure
we do our doors before we go to sleep. So you know the whole
purpose of reading some of these doors is literally just to re
affirm our faith in Allah. Allah when you lay down what do we say?
What's the dwarf when you lay down on your right hand side where
anybody knows
that's the basic law Mr. Mica Muto Oh ALLAH in your name do I live in
de right? But what about when you say he went to when she like what
for what to somebody earache? This is I hear Buhari you should learn
this door. It's an amazing door said that. When you take your
place in your bed. Be on your right side and read this to our
alarm in the asylum to Neff See, like Oh Allah, I've just submitted
my knifes to you. Well, we're just to which he like. And I've faced
mine and I've directed my face towards you will for what to Emery
like and I've also consigned my affairs to you.
Rather button we're Roberton a lake. In all earnestness and
desire for you and in all of you.
La Melda Allah mangia Minka. Illa lake. There is no escape or refuge
from you except to you
and to be kita because of the observant I believe in the book
you have revealed and will be in a vehicle lady or CELT and with the
profit you've sent, that's it. You've died on faith.
They say that if he doesn't wake up, great. You've died with the
Kadima. So, let us not, I was just in a country right now, where they
didn't have scholars for over 100 years. It's amazing how they even
kept their feet didn't have the scholars that they had the basic
knowledge from the 1870s in Guyana
and the one old man I met his and they kept themselves like they
even married Hindus, they started marrying Muslim Hindus Indian
stuck together, but it will keep their faith. You know what this
all meant to me is that my parents told me read Calima Allah Allah,
Allah, Allah before you go to sleep
that kept him Subhanallah believers. So we need to do this
man read the two hours before you go to sleep.