Abu Bakr Zoud – When All The Doors Are Closed
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All
praise and thanks belongs to Allah
And may the peace and blessing of Allah
be upon his servant and final messenger, Muhammad
As to our followers,
dear respected brothers and sisters in Islam, Assalamu
alaikum Warahmatullahi
wa barakatuh.
Assalamu alaykum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh Wa Alhamdulillah,
Allah has given us another opportunity to meet,
we ask Allah
that He never deprive us of each other
in this worldly life and most importantly we
ask Allah
to gather us in a better place than
this world
and that is in the paradise. We ask
him
to accept for us and to forgive our
sins and our shortcomings.
Brothers and sisters in Islam, we're all aware
that tonight's
lecture is titled When all the doors have
closed.
And what we want to discuss tonight is
a powerful
du'a that Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam teaches
his Ummah,
and this is a du'a that is an
alternate solution to every single problem that you
and I will ever experience in life.
But before we start with this Dua, we
need
to readjust
and restart
our minds
on the importance of having a connection and
a relationship with Allah, Azza Wa Jal.
Brothers and sisters in Islam,
when all the doors have closed
and that could be in any aspect of
your life,
In terms of relationships,
let's say your relationships with people are not
working,
and every time you establish a relationship it
closes.
Maybe the doors that are closing in your
face are doors related to your financial affairs,
your businesses, your wealth, your job, your health,
whatever the case may be. The doors are
closing and they are shutting closed in your
face.
When all the doors have closed,
This is a sign and a message from
Allah
If you do not read what Allah Aso'ajal
wants from you, you will fail miserably.
And if you read the message of Allah
Aso'ajal
correctly,
then this door was only closed that Allah
Azzawajal
will open another door for you.
The message
when every single door on earth is closed,
the message to you and I is that
Allah Azzawajal
wants you to rush towards him and to
re establish that relationship with him.
Because if all the doors on earth have
closed,
then the doors of the heavens remain open.
They don't close.
Imagine there was a tunnel
and there were doors on the left and
on the right of it
and you began to run to the closest
door you want to exit out of it
And the door would close in your face,
and the doors on the left of the
tunnel and the right of the tunnel begin
to close. What happens? You are forced in
one direction,
and that is the direction to the light
at the end of the tunnel. Think of
it like that, when every worldly door has
closed,
you are forced
to keep moving
until you re establish that relationship with Allah
and you enter through the doors of the
mercy of Allah
Brothers and sisters in Islam,
this is the message that you and I
are supposed to read and this is what
many Muslims suffer today.
You know one of the problems that Muslims
suffer today
is that they open the news and they
see a bit of news
of events that are happening globally.
Then they flick to social media and they
flick through their reels and they see
the filthy state of some of the Muslims.
They see the sins, they see the corruption,
they see the oppression,
they see the injustice and what happens to
the average Muslim?
He loses hope. He loses hope in Allah
and he sees that the doors have closed
and he gives up. He says there is
no solution for the world. Have you seen
already comments people putting putting and saying just
nuke the world already? People are talking like
this. They're saying what's the point? Everything is
closed. We've lost
hope in humanity.
There is no need to exist anymore.
People are talking and they're saying at this
point I just want to not exist anymore.
What kind of hopelessness is this? This is
not allowed for the believer to settle with
such hopelessness in his heart.
So this is what Muslims suffer across the
world.
They look on their social media
and that's the kind of emotion and feeling
that they will have in their heart after
they consume all this content that is out
there. Brothers and sisters in Islam, yes,
there may be no hope on earth.
There may be no hope with anyone on
earth.
People are just like you and I, we're
always in desperate need of each other and
services of each other. So there may be
no hope on earth. Maybe the doors are
closed and shut on earth.
But did you once
tell yourself to look up to the heavens
and remind yourself
that the doors of Allah Azza Wa Jal
remain open and they never close?
Brothers and sisters in Islam, our soul
needs Allah Azza Wa Jal 24
hours of the day,
7 days of the week.
It cannot survive without Allah
The soul is ultimately from Allah.
The soul was given to you by Allah
So it desperately needs Allah
because it came from Him.
Whereas if you were to observe the body,
the body it came from the earth. It
was made from organic matter on the earth.
So
the the body is always in need
of what the earth produces of water and
crops and vegetables and food and so on
for its survival.
But the soul cannot survive without Allah
Hence the desperate need for the sleeve
to turn to Allah
And I tell you something brothers and sisters
in Islam,
if you distance yourself from people,
those that you love, you see each and
every single one of us, you have people
that you love in your life, whether family
or friends and so on. If you choose
to distance yourself from them,
you become you become to feel isolated
and lonely and sad and worried and depressed.
These are the feelings that will be instilled
within you if you distance yourself from loved
ones.
Imagine then the state of a person
who distances himself from Allah, from his Lord,
from his maker, from his creator.
What kind of misery would he be feeling
in life? Sometimes the misery that you're feeling,
the answer is very simple. It is a
relationship that you're supposed to establish with Allah
and turn back to
Him. Brothers and sisters in Islam,
every single prophet and every single messenger
had doors closed in his face.
Every single prophet and every single messenger,
doors closed. Look at the situation of Ayub
He lost his family,
he lost his health, he lost his wealth,
he lost his health to the point where
he couldn't even get out of his bed
to relieve himself, his wife had to carry
him.
He lost his reputation
among his community, they all ran away from
him because they feed he might have a
disease that we may contract.
This was Ahib
imagine the doors are closing in his face.
What did he do in this situation? We'll
get to it.
Ibrahim
the doors closed in his face as well.
When the people got a hold of him
and they were ready now to throw him
in the fire and he could not run
away. Halas, he is going to face torment
for punishment in this life and that is
the fire.
So the doors of this world life closed
in his face.
If you look at the situation of the
people of the cave that Allah
mentions their story in the Quran.
The doors closed in their face literally.
The society was out to get them and
they wanted to stone them to death because
they avoided
the worship of idols of the king at
the time.
So literally they end up in a cave
and they were fugitives of the law.
And where are they going to go? Where
are they gonna get their food from? Where
are they going to get their water? Where
are they going to get their supply? Where
are they going to go?
So the worldly doors have closed in their
face and they're stuck in a cave.
Allah
tells us also about Nuh
and how the doors closed in his face
as well. When Allah
would command him to build a ship, an
ark in the middle of the desert
and he's been giving dua to his people
950
years and no one is answering, no one
is responding.
What's the solution? The door has closed.
If you were to observe the case of
Maryam
also. The doors had shut completely in her
face.
She's now carrying this newborn.
She's going back to her people and obviously
they are
all going to accuse her of a Sinawal
Arayadu Billahi.
Imagine that. Imagine you being innocent
from a sin and then you're accused of
it
and you're not able to prove your innocence.
That is the worst type of oppression you'll
ever face. Accused of something you never did
and at the same time you don't have
anything in where you can prove your innocence
from this matter.
So there you go, doors are shut in
her face. Look at the situation of Assia.
The wife of Firaun,
literally the doors are closed in her face
and she ends up being beaten on the
ground by the army and the soldiers of
Firaun.
And you observe the situation of Musa
and he's a fugitive of the law. He's
on the run as well and they want
him killed.
Where is he going to go? What's he
going to eat? Where is he going to
sleep? What kind of cloth is he wearing
at the time?
All of this,
the doors are closed in prophets' faces, worldly
doors.
Like in Yitzfin you see the situation of
Lut alaihis salam as well. He's living living
among a community
that is becoming filthy every single day.
People in his society,
a corrupt, a filthy men are sleeping with
each other, and he's among all of this
filth and this corruption.
What is he going to do? The situation
seems to be very impossible. I cannot do
this anymore.
So brothers and sisters, why am I giving
you these examples to tell you that you're
not a bad person if doors are closed
and shut in your face. You're not. Some
people read the message of Allah wrong. They
say the doors are closed in my face.
Every time I try to do a halal
business, dear Allah shuts it. Every time I
want to pursue a halal marriage, Allah shuts
it. Every time I want to do this
and I want to do that it's closed.
Well people much before us better than you
and I doors were closed also in their
face. The only difference here is that they
read the message of Allah right and they
acted exactly how Allah wanted them.
And that's what you and I are supposed
to follow. So let's revisit these examples and
see what happened.
Very quickly, are you
We told you, the doors are closed in
his face.
He turns to Allah
through a dua, through the remembrance of Allah.
My Lord.
He says my Lord I feel the pain
I'm feeling it.
And you're the most merciful Allahu Akbar. And
soon later Allah
opens up the doors for him. He gives
him his health again, his wealth again, his
children again. People come back to him Allahu
Akbar. It's like nothing had closed in his
life before this.
He read the message right, the relief came
from Allah as Sohajal. You notice the situation
of Ibrahim as
he is being thrown in the fire. Hasmoo
Allah
wa dehamaluakeem.
He remembered Allah as Sohajal. He called to
Allah, he understood
that the doors were only closed.
So that Allah
forces him in the direction of his Lord
And that's exactly what he uttered,
An instant relief will come, the fire becomes
cool and peace upon him, and he exits
the fire. And
he migrates to Allah
What an amazing story of Ibrahim alaihis salam
afterwards. The people of the cave,
the doors are sealed, they're shut, they're in
the cave. What are they going to do?
They look at each other and they say,
O Bara,
Tila Miladunkar Rahma Wahee Lanaamin Amrinah Rashada,
O Allah
grant us a special mercy from you.
Because here on earth, we've given up hope
in everyone. But from you, we haven't given
up the hope.
And make our situation flexible,
make it easy for us. Allah
instant relief at that moment causes them to
sleep for the next 300 plus years, looking
after them all that time. Allahu Akbar. Adore
will cause so that it forces you to
renew that relationship
and to utter that relationship you have with
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Nuh alaihis salam
Once the situation became difficult and corruption and
filth all around him, he turns to Allah
with a dua.
My Lord, save me and my family from
the filth that these people are doing.
Instant relief and Allah
opens a door and he exits this situation
altogether. Unu
the same thing. When all the doors have
closed and he lost hope in his people,
he turns to Allah.
My Lord,
I've been overtaken
by my people.
I've become defeated among my people.
Give me victory.
Instant relief comes and Allah
grants him victory. You look at the situation
of Maryam
and she comes and she approaches the people
and she says to them, when the doors
have closed, who's gonna save you from that
situation
when your chastity and your dignity has been
accused?
How are you gonna save yourself from this
situation? The doors have closed.
She would say at that time,
She said to her people, I've made a
commitment to Allah that I will remain silent.
I will not speak to a single human
being from today. What does that mean? Meaning
the only one I will speak to is
Allah Rasool Hashem.
Therefore once again when the doors were closed
the only one she's interested in keeping communication
and talk was with Allah
You look at the situation of Assia
under the torment for beating and punishment of
Firaun and his army.
And at that moment when the doors were
closed what did she say?
My Lord
build for me a house.
Hindak.
I want to be neighbors with you. Build
a house right beside you.
Save me from Firaoun and his people.
And save me from the wrongdoers and the
evildoers.
And that's the same situation with Musa alaihis
salam. Musa alaihis salam I told you the
doors are closed. He ran away from Egypt
because the army was coming to come after
him. They want him dead.
So he comes out. He has no clue
where he's going. He's got no compass, no
GPS to guide him through this desert.
But then he turns and he says, Allah
says about him,
He left Egypt
scared and worried.
And now, Musa alaihis salam is a human
being, he experiences these emotions.
The doors were that shut and sealed
that he felt lonely, he felt worried and
scared.
Yet the
and he was anticipating,
awaiting something.
And then he said,
Once again, he turned to Allah with a
dua. He said, my Lord, save me from
the wrongdoers, from the evildoers.
Instant relief will come. After 8 days of
travel in the desert, he will find his
work opportunity with Madyan,
and he will do service in that community,
and he'll eventually marry the daughter of Shu'aib
in that community, and his life continues from
there.
So brothers and sisters in Islam,
I intended to give you a lot of
examples at the beginning,
so I can show you
that these prophets, and not all of them
were prophets, some were noble righteous people,
but one thing,
one common thing among them all
is that when the doors shut in their
face,
they all were quick to recognize and realize
that the doors of the heavens remain, and
they would turn to Allah
calling on to Allah
for his mercy and for his relief.
And this is exactly what the believers should
be doing when the doors have closed.
Because Allah says,
Allah
says, These are the people that Allah
has guided,
so follow in their guidance.
Follow their guidance.
For what an incredible and an amazing journey
to begin tonight with and that is to
remind each other and to encourage and inspire
one another that when the doors have shut
in your life, in any aspect of life,
the believer is supposed to read the message
of Allah correctly
and that Allah wants
you to turn to him and further that
relationship
and implore him and beg him
for what you want in your
life and worldly affairs. Brothers and sisters in
Islam,
especially
in the last 3rd of the night,
in when Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he
says,
When the last
3rd of the night remains
which approximately is about 2 a. M.
When that time enters
Allah Azzawajal
descends to the lowest heavens Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And then he opens the doors of the
heavens.
He opens the doors of the heavens.
Then he stretches his hand out.
All of this we believe in. How it
happens?
The knowledge of this is with Allah
Then Allah
will say
Is there anyone
that is asking?
Is there anyone that wants anything
so that I may give him?
And it's one thing for Allah to say,
is there anyone asking?
And it's a completely another thing for Allah
to say, is there anyone asking for something
so that I may give him?
You see this, so that I may give
him, we learn from this that at that
time a dua is a guaranteed accepted dua.
That's what we learn from it. Allahu Akbar.
Imagine a king in this world of life
came too and said brother, sister,
is there something you want and I can
give you at this very moment?
What does that mean? Yari, it means ask
and you will get what you want right
now. You will get it.
You are part Surah
Allah
remains
repeating this until
Azan Al Fajr.
Imagine this your Lord
seeing
and repeating throughout the entire thought of the
night.
Do you want anything so I may give
you? Do you want anything so I may
give you? The one who is serious
and really troubled and bothered in this multi
life
would be up at that time praying and
asking Allah
And the one who is not bothered and
troubled by anything
would most likely be asleep at this time.
So don't complain
and don't be confused
when you sleep through this time
and you're still in shock. How come my
worldly affairs haven't changed yet?
Maybe you make the change first. And I
tell you something,
you don't have to be up
from your bed in a state of wohoo
in your salat.
And I often say to my brothers and
sisters in Islam
a dua doesn't require a dua
doesn't require you facing Al Qibla. A dua
doesn't require for you to be in a
salat.
A dua requires a present heart and that's
it.
So at 2 AM, if you feel like
it's too cold for you to get up,
raise your hand from your bed and ask
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for that which you
need.
If you feel like your sins
are bothering you and this is the case
for all of us
And that they are what is sealing and
shutting the doors? Because most likely that's the
case.
Then Allah Azzawajal is also asking is there
anyone out there seeking forgiveness so that I
may forgive him?
So these are
this is the real relationship
that the sleeve has with his Lord, especially
at this time. Cannot go twice brothers and
sisters in Islam. You know, when Jibril comes
down, it's lay little Qadr. What do you
say about the night in where Allah himself
comes down?
You might think you might think that, Wallah,
if Allah comes down there has to be
a special event
and it should be happening once every 10
years.
Like it's happening every single night.
Why? This is Allah teaching us that you
are in need of Allah
every single night
and every single day. This is why He
would come down every single night
so that I'm available for my sleeves, for
my servants.
And this is an intimate type of relationship.
Otherwise, Allah
always answers a dua of a servant any
time of the day and the night. But
when you're serious about your problems,
you will make sure that you are before
Allah
in the times he loves for you today,
standing before him
Of course, there are times more virtuous than
others
and that last part of the night is
the most virtuous part of the night.
So brothers and sisters in Islam, we pay
attention to this matter.
And I tell you something.
We said at the beginning of the talk,
when all the doors have closed,
we talk to Allah
through a dua. And I'm gonna tell you
something here that I find quite dangerous.
Among
the many words that the youth and others
speak,
sometimes I get this. Sometimes I get this.
And this thing is growing now.
And perhaps you've heard it.
Sometimes people say,
brother,
this and this and this is happening.
And I've tried this and this. Please tell
me something other than Dua, Salat and Quran.
Have you heard this or not? Tell me
something other
than a Dua. And I say brother, I
don't I don't give in to these things.
The moment I hear this, I say brother
repeat what you said.
I will give you something other than a
Dua.
Yani, what guidance do you want me to
give you something from the Bible? Yeah. Now
I tell you what solution is there. And
to Muslim Allah, you're not a Muslim.
I'm telling you these are prophets
and these are noble people.
And in the most pressing
situations,
when the doors are shut close,
they would
All of them.
So what are you Yaniyah, what are you
looking for? A magic pill? Doesn't exist. Doesn't
exist on the market.
Your medicine is to turn to Allah.
You've turned turned again. You turned again. Turn
a 3rd time.
Keep turning every time you turn. Allah loves
this.
Imagine
this is a problem that exists in your
life
that is forcing you to turn to Allah
and re establish this
this relationship with him. That's the beauty of
the entire situation.
Imagine the problem didn't exist and the door
never closed. How heedless would you be? How
far away from Allah
would you be? Often we ask why did
Allah create problems in this worldly life?
Why couldn't have you created us like how
he created Adam in the paradise
with the extra free life,
calamity free life. Of course Allah could have
created this on earth for us. Definitely he
could have, but how heedless would have made
us? How tough would have the heart become?
You would have seen no purpose to talk
to Allah
You would have found no desperation to talk
to Allah
And as a result, you would have seen
that all of us would have been doomed
and destroyed on the day of judgment.
So no, we'd rather a life that Allah
created with its pains and calamities,
but it leads us to Allah
and to the paradise, then a life stress
free keeping us away from Allah and eventually
ending up in a position that is no
good. So we ask Allah
to allow us to appreciate and understand this
meaning.
Brothers and sisters in Islam,
I tell you something.
Your relationship with a dua
would say a lot about your relationship with
Allah.
The more dua in your life, the stronger
a dua in your life,
we can already tell and that's a good
sign for you to know that your relationship
with Allah is strong.
And if your relationship with the dua is
weak, heck, once a while,
then that means that your relationship
Allah understand and take this as I'm saying
to you as I'm saying it to you.
Understand it like this. When you make a
dua that you're talking to Allah,
When you have very little Dua in your
life, I don't know. Is it can you
say about this person you said, I don't
enjoy talking to Allah, so
I don't really find any need to talk
to him now. Whenever I got something, I'll
talk to him. Is that what he's saying?
The one that abandons a and has very
little dua in his life?
I'll tell you an example. Give you an
example so you can understand.
If you were to ask me
about someone I know
and I and you said to me how
is brother so and so? I said to
you all, Alhamdulillah is very good, but I
spoke to him every day.
What are you gonna think? You're gonna think
that my relationship with with him is very
strong. Right?
Imagine you asked me about the same brother,
and I sat there and he told me
how is he. I said, well, my brother
man, last time I spoke to him was
I think just before Ramadan,
was good there.
Automatically, what does that tell you about my
relationship with him?
It's not as strong. Yeah. It's there, but
it's not strong.
If I said to you, I'm Allah speak
to your brother every day, mashaAllah. I see
him at the cafe. I'll talk to you,
mate.
There's a well established relationship.
Brothers and sisters in Islam, to Allah belongs
the highest of examples.
Your dua says a lot about your relationship
with Allah, and
this is why,
a dua is in a salat.
A dua is in the mornings, a dua
is in the evenings, a dua is in
the evenings, a dua is after the prayers,
a dua is before the salat.
A dua exists
many times during the day and many times
during the night
so that Allah
helps us and enables us to strengthen our
relationship with him
brothers and sisters in Islam.
A dua that I want to share with
you, InshaAllah Ta'ala we're going to Yaani,
we have about half an hour left with
each other, we're going to go through it
We're going to come out with amazing results
InshaAllah Ta'ala.
Brothers and sisters in Islam,
this is a dua
that Nabi
taught his daughter Fatima
And
this dua
is supposed to be said once in the
morning and once in the evening.
That's how important it is.
Some people, they're on medication,
and they have to take the pill twice
a day.
The morning and the evening Afghan work like
that,
2 doses a day.
If you miss them,
you're going to feel pain and the day
and the night is not going to be
right.
A dua
was mentioned in the hadith of Anas ibn
Malik
He said
that Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said to
his daughter Fatima
He said, Fatima,
what prevents you
from doing and listening to that which I
want to advise you of?
Well, nothing is stopping
her, but this is a means in how
to capture the attention of the listener.
It's like if I was to say to
you, I got advice for you for you.
Why don't you listen to my advice?
You say, what do you want? What's your
advice? Tell me. I'll be a lot more
excited. So Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam does this
with his daughter Fatima radiAllahu anha he
says to her,
whenever you enter the morning which is after
Salat and Fajr,
whenever you enter the evening, which is a
asr time,
then sing.
He says to her, say,
O the ever living,
O the Sustainer of all things,
I seek help and assistance
through your mercy.
Rectify
and perfect all my affairs.
And do not entrust me. Don't leave me
to myself
even for the blink of an eye. Allahu
Akbar, once in the morning, once in the
evening. Not only that,
but Anas
also mentioned
that whenever Sunabbi
experienced a calamity of any sort,
he would say
So this is not only said in the
morning and in the evening, but it's also
said when the doors have been closed in
your face.
Brothers and sisters in Islam,
this is advice
from the greatest of mankind,
which is Nabi
And who did he give this advice to?
Who?
Fatima Radiallahu Anha, who is also known as
what?
She is also known
as Sayyidatuh
Nisayi
Al Aalameen
Sayyidatuh
Ahlil Jannah.
She's the master and the chief of woman
and she is the master and the chief
of the woman of the paradise.
So the greatest man on earth
giving advice to the greatest woman on earth,
Allahu Akbar.
How much more important is this Dua for
you and I
From the greatest to the greatest,
even we are in desperate need
of this Dua,
more importantly,
understanding
this Dua
and even of greater importance
saying it in its right times and asking
Allah
through this dua. Brothers and sisters in Islam,
The name of Allah,
the all
living,
the sustainer of all things.
This is known
as.
The dua begins by 2 great names of
Allah.
And when a dua begins with the name
of Allah
this is known
as
means seeking a way to Allah
and the best way to seek a way
to Allah is to call onto him through
his names.
And this is the etiquette of a du'a,
this is the best type of a du'a
that begins
with you asking Allah through his names first,
then your request comes later.
Don't you find this to be the very
same pattern in the first Surah of the
Quran?
Surah Al Fatiha?
Surat Al Fatiha has a dua, you know.
But Surat Al Fatiha did not begin Allahu
Akbar.
That's not manners.
Al Fatiha began with a praise of Allah
All Priests Belongs TO the Lord of the
Walls.
Can you see how many names of Allah
we've mentioned so far?
5 names of Allah We began by praising
Him.
Afterwards came
So this dua follows the same pattern and
this is the best type of a dua.
But I tell you something, in addition to
this, what makes this dua unique
is that
are actually
the greatest names of Allah,
and this is proven in a hadith.
Abu Umam Al Bayhili who said,
the greatest name of
Allah. That if you were to ask Allah
through this name, he will definitely give.
He said that the greatest name of Allah
is found in 3 of the Quran.
Surat Al Baqarah, in Surat Al Imran, and
Surat Al Ba'al.
If we were to look at these 3,
we're going to find 2 of Allah's names
that are common and repeated in these 3
Therefore the greatest name of Allah
is Al Hayyul Qayyum as mentioned by an
imam ibn al Qayyum
So we're off to a powerful start in
this dua.
And why are they the greatest names of
Allah
They said because the name of Allah Al
Hay and Al Qayyum,
they combine and they gather within them
all the attributes and the actions of Allah
Al Hayyum.
So when you say Al Hayyum, you're actually
also
calling out to Allah through his name Al
Aleem, Al Hakim, Al Khabeer,
Al Wadud, Al Kareem
because he's Al Hay.
So Al Hay
necessitates
that he's also Al Aleem, Al Qadeer, Al
Hakib, Al Khabeer, and all these names and
attributes.
That's why they were the greatest names of
his
Brothers and sisters in Islam, Al Hay.
They're all living.
The one who knows Allah through his name,
Al Hay, will find an immense
and an abundant amount of peace and comfort
and serenity in his life.
I wanna give you an example.
And imagine with me, a child,
a young child
comes up to his father,
and he says, dad,
if you want to die,
who's going to look after us?
Who's going to pay our bills?
Who's going to feed us?
Who's going to drive us around and look
after us and take care of us?
The child is scared. He's worried, and he's
speaking to his father like that.
And I pause here for a moment
to say to you that, wallahi, this is
not a situation to be imagined.
This is actually something that is actually happening.
We ask Allah
to bring immense relief and aid to our
brothers and in Gaza and around the world.
But now imagine with me this father
looks back at his child and he says,
son,
I'm alive.
I'm living.
Don't worry about this.
How much comfort is put in this child's
heart the moment he hears from his father
that he's alive and living? Son, don't worry
about these things. Move on.
To Allah
belongs the highest of example.
You might be sitting alone in your house
in the corner of your room
thinking and worrying with Shaytan is exaggerating
the matters for you.
How am I gonna live? Where am I
gonna live? What am I going to buy?
My work, my job, my relationships,
who hold this and that, my health
and Allah Azarajal from above is telling you
I'm Al Hayd.
So long as I'm alive, you don't have
to overburden with these stresses and these matters
in your head and in your mind.
SubhanAllah.
And you know
when the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam died,
Al Madinah was in all sorts of chaos.
Umar
threatened to kill anyone who sent the messenger
is
dead.
Uthman
fell to the ground and he was crying.
Ali couldn't control himself. These are the best
of the companions.
And the rest of the companions were all
over the place.
Some rushing to Al Madina, Al Nas radiAllahu
anhu is saying Al Madina has become gloomy
and dark and black.
And if runs in chaos,
Abu Bakr
took the Imbar and he addressed the people.
You know what he said?
He read an Ayah and afterwards he said
to them
He said to them whoever was worshipping Muhammad
then Muhammad has died
And whoever was worshipping Allah,
then Allah is the all living.
Doesn't
die.
He reminded the people of the name of
Allah, al Hayy, and he restored peace and
tranquility in the entire society.
Shift the name of Allah
what it's supposed to do.
It's supposed to bring a tremendous amount of
comfort and peace and tranquility in the heart.
Imagine
companions
that didn't know how to respond
the moment they heard the name of Allah,
they settled down.
Allahu Akbar,
when you say You Hayth, you're reminding yourself
before the day begins
that you're supposed to rely on him
to fulfill your affairs and your matters,
and that you're supposed to accept whatever comes
from him of decree. He's
You know, when I asked you the question
brothers and sisters, why do you rely upon
Allah?
Do you know why do you rely upon
Allah? Why?
In this Ayah, Allah told us the reason
for why we should rely upon him.
He
said
He said rely on the All Living, the
one who doesn't die.
So anyone that ever asks you ever again,
why do you as a Muslim rely upon
Allah? Your answer should be
because he's all living and he never dies,
that's why I rely upon him.
And I give you an understanding for this,
If you rely on other than Allah
then you're relying on something that perishes and
is destroyed
because nothing
lives,
outlives Allah
there's no such thing.
So if I relied on someone or something
to fulfill a certain matter
and this person dies or this thing perishes
and it's destroyed,
I'm left with unfinished business.
Or I can't, I got to move to
someone else.
If you relied upon Allah and you put
your trust in him,
then Allah never dies.
So you have relied upon a strong source,
Your matters will get fulfilled.
They will be completed.
If you rely on other than him, then
the moment that thing is destroyed or dead,
do you have unfinished business? How are you
gonna finish your your duties? How are you
gonna finish your businesses?
Who's gonna be out there to hear you
again?
That's why we rely upon him because he's
the all living.
So
teaches us that we rely upon him.
Al Hay
is opposite to Al Mayyid.
Hayyid is opposite to the dead.
Hayyid is the ever living that possesses complete
life, unlike human beings. Look at us, humans
and jinnkind and animals.
We all are high as well. We're living,
but our life is very very very incomplete.
There was a stage where we didn't even
exist.
Look how deficient your
your life is.
Then there comes a time where we will
not
exist, we will die as well.
When you sleep that's considered death. When you
get sick the life is not complete.
When you're heedless of Allah azza wa Jal
your life is missing at that moment. So
our life is up and down, up and
down when we say about Allah Al Hayy,
meaning Allah
is Al Awwalwal Akhir.
He's the first.
1st
meaning he does not have a beginning.
He doesn't have a beginning.
No one came before Allah and no one
existed with Allah,
because if something came before Allah or existed
with him, it would have been a Lord
with Allah or it would have been a
Lord before Allah.
So Allah is Al Awwone,
he does not have a beginning
and Allah is Al Aghir Farayshba Adakashay.
He's the last.
What does the last mean? What does it
mean? It means
when everything is perished and destroyed, he remains.
He remains.
When everything has been destroyed and perished, he
remains.
This is the name of Allah Asoahu
Al Hai. So So he has no beginning
and he has no name,
that's why from his names is Al Hayd
This is the name of your lord. How
much strength
does this give the believer
to know that the one of the names
of your Lord is Al Hayd. Look at
every other Lord that is worshipped on earth.
What is it? An idol?
People worship a cow, some worship monkeys,
some worship other human beings,
some worship the dead,
some worship a man made law,
people are different in their worships, like all
these things that are worship besides Allah,
they are not Hay,
they are not Hay.
Something is dead, something is living, something is
imperfect, something has no control over himself like
a statue or an idol,
like in how much strength does it give
for you and I to know that we
worship Al Hayy,
Al Hayd,
the all living doesn't have a beginning, doesn't
have an end.
And brothers and sisters in Islam,
even prophets, they would use the name of
Allah Al Hayd when calling their people to
Allah and to Al Islam.
Look at the case of Ibrahim alaihis salam.
He comes to his people, and he says
to them
you know what he says to his people?
He says,
When the people were worshiping idols, he said
to them,
Do these idols
listen to you?
What's he telling you? He's telling him your
idols are dead,
they don't listen, they don't respond.
As for my Lord, He's Al Hayd,
He hears every call I call out to
him You see, this is an effective way
to call others to Al Islam through the
name of Allah
Al Hayd. How can you worship something that
is dead? How can you worship something that
doesn't listen to you?
Also means the one who gives life.
Who gave you and I life other than
Allah
Allah
gives life in whichever way He wants.
There was a man that was killed
intentionally
among Bani Israel
and Bani Israel didn't know how to solve
the murder case.
So Allah
said to them, commanded them, take a cow,
slaughter it,
take a piece of it, a limb of
it and throw it on the dead person
and they did that
and this dead man
was resurrected
by Allah's permission, Al Hayy.
He said to them this man
killed me and then
he went back to being dead. This is
a story Allah mentions in the Quran.
Al Hay can
give life the way he wants, however he
wants.
And the greatest
life that Allah would ever give mankind,
and ready to listen to this?
Life upon Iman and Islam.
That's the greatest life Allah will ever give
you. Allah in the Quran, he says
Allah
speaks in the Quran about a person who
is dead.
They say
He's dead
with disbelief.
And We gave him life.
Here in this Eil, life means life upon
Islam and
And then We made for him light,
light meaning the guidance of the Quran.
He carries this light among mankind and he
spreads the guidance and the light to people.
This is the type that Allah praised. But
notice when Allah referred to the Iman of
this person, he said,
we gave him life. So when you say,
what you're calling onto is saying, oh Allah,
give me life.
Give me the greatest life of all and
that's life upon Iman and Islam maintain that
state of Iman within my heart.
Al
Qayyum
Al
Qayyum
always
comes
with
the
name
of
Allah
Al
Qayyum
is
Al
Qayyum
is the one who sustains himself and sustains
others.
Al Qayyum
is the one who doesn't rely and depend
on anyone rather all his creation depend on
him
That's Al Qayyum. He's independent of everyone.
He creates them. He takes their life. He
sustains them. He provides them. He guides them.
He helps. He assists them. He does everything
for them. That's Al Qayyum
Allah is the maintainer of every soul.
Each and every single one of us here
depends on others in one way or another.
A baby depends on the mother for survival.
A child depends on his parents for survival.
Children depend on their teacher for education.
A wife
depends on her husband for him to fulfill
his financial responsibility
for her to live.
The man
depends on his work,
that they provide work for him and they
pay him in order for him to live
on earth.
But Allah
is Al Qayyum, he doesn't depend on anyone
at all.
Imagine I told you brother, sister, I want
you to be 'aqayyum'
for your street today.
Just, what is for your street? Say from
the beginning of your street to the end
of your street, 'Be 'aqayyum' for your street
tonight. What does that mean? It means provide
for everyone tonight in your street,
solve all their problems,
listen to all their requests, you have to
understand everything in every language they're speaking about.
Also you need to regulate everyone's blood pressure,
their temperature,
the function of their organs,
look after every bird, after every insect in
that street of yours, just that one street,
after every cat, after every dog, the ants,
the insects, everything.
Can you do that?
Imagine that we told you 2 streets.
Oh, we said to Yaqi Half a street.
Your own house only. I mean just look
after yourself.
You cannot.
Al Qayyum
maintains everything at one moment.
Not just your street or your suburb,
not just the city,
or the country, or the continent, the entire
globe and everything in existence in the heavens
and in the earth and everywhere
the eyes of man have never observed and
seen yet.
That's the name of Allah, Azzawajal, Al Qayyum.
Al Qayyum, you cannot do a single thing
without Al Qayyum. You cannot wake up in
the morning without Al Qayyum.
You cannot eat and digest your food without
Al Qayyum.
You need
for your heart to be rectified and purified
from sins.
Well, you need
health. You need
and you need him every aspect of your
life.
And after you call on to Allah with
these two great names of his
and remember we said whoever calls onto Allah
through these two names, his dua is accepted.
And that we need to sometimes change our
attitude we have for a dua.
And I love probably the best attitude out
there was the way your Umar Abu Al
Khattab
worded it.
He said,
He said, I don't carry a concern for
whether Allah accepts my dua or not.
I don't care about this because Allah
has already guaranteed that he answers and he
responds, the way he sees befitting.
I carry the worry and the concern of
making the dua,
that's the concern and the worry that you
and I should have is making the dua,
the worry about its response, Allah heard you
and Allah gives you according to how he
sees befitting for you, Shufa Dua is not
like Uber Eats.
Uber Eats, you get your app, you make
your order, you send them through,
and you expect what you ordered to come
on the door. If it doesn't,
you get angry, you get upset, I didn't
order this.
Why now? I want the refund. Well, you
called, and you make your complaints. No problem.
A dua is not like that. A dua
is not
I didn't ask for this, Your Lord. Where
is what I asked for? It doesn't work
like that.
As I said to you, relationship with Allah.
It's a worship a worship.
Every time you call onto Allah until you
earned a lot of reward, you earned the
pleasure of Allah. Allah wants to hear from
you. Keep going more and more.
What What are you what are you expecting?
Expect all good from Allah.
Expect good.
Don't expect what you asked.
Do you know what's good for you? If
you know one of the dua is
Oh Allah I ask you from all forms
of goodness. And why you're asking Allah back
if you knew what was good for yourself?
Used to make this dua. Why is he
asking Allah for all goodness if he knows
what's good for himself?
The word, the dua itself is teaching you
that you don't know what's good for you.
So ask it from Allah
and then put your trust in Allah and
whatever comes is good.
Now Nabi teaches us to practice the worship
of
through your mercy alone, I seek help and
assistance and aid.
What is
Have you ever heard of the worship
Istiqaata in your life?
Al Istiqaata
is one of the highest types of Dua
when asking and begging Allah's Surajal, Al Istiqaata
it's called.
Al Istighafa
is
means to seek relief
and help and aid and assistance and support
from Allah azza wa Jal that he save
you from evil and calamity and fitan and
sin and facade and corruption that is around
you. That's what Al Istiratha
is.
It comes from the word hoth and rayf.
Rayf means rain.
But I want you to imagine a group
of people
stuck in the desert, all their livestock and
their crop is in the desert,
and there is absolutely
not a drop of rain that has come
down for the last month or 2, and
they are literally about to dye them and
their crops and their livestock if no water
comes down.
So they begin to ask Allah for rain.
What is the state of people
that know they are living their final hours
on life
if water doesn't come down from the sky
right now? What is their state when they're
making Dua?
This this is the most sincere of Dua
that comes from the heart,
the most sincere type of Dua.
When the rain comes down, that rain is
called Raif.
So Al Istighatah is like that. When you
are in an absolute
desperate situation, you are covered and immersed in
danger.
That if Allah's mercy is not bestowed and
showered upon you at that very moment, you
are doomed and destroyed forever. This is the
worship of Al Istighatah.
And
how important is this du'a, especially in this
day and age,
And how important is this dua, especially in
this day and age that we are living
in, brothers and sisters in Islam. And I
want to take you to a moment in
the life of a Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam in how he practiced the istighafa
so he can understand.
Brothers and sisters in Islam, there are things
that just don't have a solution.
There are things
that just don't have any solution on earth
whatsoever.
Nothing at all.
0. No one can do anything for you.
Nothing can do anything for you.
The only solution is above
and
no one else.
And I tell you something.
Today, of course, we observe the situation globally,
and we see hundreds and hundreds of videos
from our brothers and sisters in Rasulullah
bless them and give them aid and victory
and support.
But literally, you come to a point where
you say, Allah,
what is the solution?
What is the solution for these oppressed
people?
There is no solution.
There's nothing on earth that is of solution.
Every court has failed. Every justice system has
failed. Every human being has failed. Every power
and whatever any of these people can bring
together
has all failed.
Nothing has worked.
Did you and I
think of al istihafa
in this moment
or not?
The solution lies in Al Istighafa. I take
you to a moment in a seer of
Nabi salallahu alaihi wasallam is out on the
Battle of Badr
ready to face the disbelievers for the first
battle ever major battle in Islam.
Situation was desperate. It was difficult. Nabi salallahu
alaihi wasallam only has 314
companions with him and they're not even ready
for war. They don't have their proper weapons.
They don't have their proper swords.
Their arrows are not even sharpened because they
didn't expect this battle altogether.
They didn't have the finest of fighters with
them. They just all of a sudden Allah
wants to war to happen.
A thousand of the enemy of Allah is
coming towards them,
well
equipped, trained
with the best of their swords, backup, everything
you need for a war they have it.
Many horses and so on. As Sahaba they
have 1 horse with them, 1 horse.
What are you gonna do?
There's no backup?
Wait. Who are you gonna call that? Nothing
backup that's coming from Al Madina? No special
armies come nothing is coming.
Nabi
arrives the night before.
So then what does he do?
He says
he says, by Allah,
I did not hear anyone seeking anything more
intense than what the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam was seeking from his lord on the
day of Badr.
He faced the Qibla,
he raised his hand.
We're making dua. We have three ways. You
either do this
like this
or like this
and there's one more common
and that's like this, well that's right
up here
and Nabi
that night he would raise his hand facing
the Qibla the whole night
Fajah Alayhtif he would say, O Allah,
fulfill what you have promised me. O Allah
grant me what you have promised me. He
would say, O Allah,
we are a group of Muslims. If we
are destroyed today, you will never be worshipped
on earth ever again. These are the Muslims
here. If they're gone, then Islam is finished.
And he would continue the entire night to
the point where the cloak he was wearing
fell off his shoulder,
that's how high his hand was up in
the sky.
Abu Bakr radiAllahu anhu comes from behind, takes
the cloak down from the ground and he
puts it on the shoulder of the messenger
sallallahu alaihi wasallam and he said
He said Messenger of Allah this dua is
enough
and Allah will grant you what he has
promised you.
You see this situation?
Allah, when he spoke about it in the
Quran, he said what?
When you were seeking Istiraaath
from your Lord, when you were seeking Allah's
help and aid and support,
was the result.
He answered you.
I will send you a 1,000 angels in
support.
Allahu Akbar brothers and sisters in Islam, allahi,
sometimes mafi'ak, there is no worldly solution at
all. When Nabi salallahu alaihi wasallam was making
this du'a, he knew we don't have the
best weapons, we don't have horses,
no backup is coming, we absolutely have nothing,
0 0 0 on earth.
No solution from there, bus. That's it. The
only solution left.
And he engaged in the worship of alistikhaaf
of Allah a s s a a j,
did not fail him.
I think
and I am certain one of the greatest
things that we are in desperate need of
right now in this day and age is
al Istighafah.
We ask Allah Azza wa Jal through his
name Al Hayyul Qayyum
that he grant assistance and support to our
brothers and sisters in Gaza and wherever they
are oppressed.
But that doesn't lift the burden from you,
brothers and sisters. Everyone tonight in his dua
here, there is very important to raise your
hand.
And then ask Allah to
send his mercy upon your brothers and sisters
in Islam.
My brothers
and my sisters,
when Allah
spoke about
in the Quran and
something incredible as well.
He spoke about
the rebellious child
and the parents and how they dealt with
him.
And I tell you, Wallahi, this is something
that is on the rise in this day
and age as well.
How many parents have complained from their rebellious
children?
Hadah, my child doesn't listen to me. My
child raises his voice on me. I cannot
control him. He does what he likes. He
does what he wants. What's his solution? I
took him to the shirk. I took him
to Al Masjid Al Quran and Mahdi. Nothing's
working. Oh, nothing's working? Come. The same situation
in the Quran. Allah says,
Allah speaks about a rebellious child
that came to his parents and said to
them
That's a word of insult and abuse towards
his parents,
then he kept on going and said
He rebels against his parents and he says
why do you keep promising me that I'm
gonna come out from my grave? The kid's
an atheist,
he doesn't believe in Allah and resurrection anymore.
And these are the generations that have come
way before me where? They're still in their
grave, no one's come out.
Allah now speaks about the parents.
What do we do with him? We've advised
him. We've warned him. We took him to
a shirk, a school, Islam, took him.
Nothing's working.
Don't look for too far.
Up to the heavens is your solution.
Ask Allah,
Beg Allah, implore Allah,
speaking up your situation to Allah, enough. People
are not going to do anything for you.
Wushaiq doesn't have a magic spell that he
can say to your child and will instantly
change him and make him a righteous man
overnight.
Leqin into your situation and your solution and
Allah That's
how Al Istiratha
was mentioned in the Qur'an.
You seen these pressing situations where there is
just no worldly
solution at all?
Often we forget this.
That's why the need for us to remind
each other about this importance of of of
You're you're imploring, you're begging Allah's mercy
because if Allah descends his mercy upon you,
There's nothing for you to worry about what
your situation is. You're enveloped with the mercy
of Allah doesn't matter what you face now.
You've earned your success.
We're coming to the end.
Now the dua,
oh, Allah, rectify and perfect all my affairs.
You know what that means? You know how
comprehensive this dua is?
When you say, oh Allah, rectify,
fix,
correct
all my affairs,
it means, oh Allah, fix everything for me,
My faith, my heart, my limbs, my organs,
my cells, my sleep,
my eating, my house, my income, my friends,
my relatives, my work, my studies, my spouse,
my business,
my relationships,
my health, my afterlife,
the life in the grave, each and every
single aspect of life is included in this
dua.
Whether you can remember these things as making
the dua or not, they are all included
in your Dua. How beautiful of a Dua
is this?
You see the importance of it? Every morning
and every evening, and whenever you're faced by
a calamity,
very important brothers and sisters in Islam.
My lord, fix,
but then hang on. If you want Allah
to fix your situation,
to fix your affairs,
fix your relationships, your iman, your this, your
that, your wealth, your business, your partner,
you gotta do one thing in return,
and that is that you need to fix
your relationship with Allah. Right?
How do we fix our relationship with Allah?
One thing.
It's called
Have you ever heard this in the Quran?
In the the righteous deeds. Why were the
righteous deeds called?
It comes from the word
means to fix something.
Righteous deeds
are called salihad
because they fix your relationship with Allah.
Every salat fixes your relationship with Allah.
Every salakah
corrects
that broken relationship with Allah.
So if you want Allah to ask for
you, if you want Allah to fix
things that are going wrong in your life,
then fix between you and him.
How? By doing
above the list your obligations,
above the list of salat.
Then Allah
will respond and give you that which you
asked for.
Didn't he say
I answer the Dua of the caller whenever
he calls,
but then he said
answer
me. He said I'm answer you then he
said answer me.
This is why a dua between Adhan and
Iqamah is an accepted dua, right?
If you didn't know that, know this. A
dua between Adhan and Iqamah is accepted. You
know why?
Because when the Mu'adhim said,
He said,
you came,
you answered Allah.
So now you're in a position where Allah
will answer you. That's why dua was accepted
between them.
Then you've answered what you've come, you're ready
to
engage in the commandment of Allah and pray.
Finally, And my lord, don't entrust me. Don't
leave me to myself even for the blink
of an eye.
And this implies the desperate need that the
slave has for his lord.
In every single moment of your life, you
need him.
Means Allah, I surrender.
I will not rely on myself even for
the blink of an eye. There is nothing
there is nothing less in time than the
blink of an eye.
And you're asking Allah, don't allow me to
rely on myself
even for that much.
Because if I was to rely on myself
for a split second, I will be doomed
and destroyed.
If you rely upon yourself, you know what
you did? You've relied on a weak human
If you rely on yourself, you've relied upon
a weak source. You'll become doomed, gloomed, and
destroyed.
How important is this dua, especially in this
day and age this day and age of
of technology and advancements?
A person might be deceived to think that
he's in control of everything, and I rely
upon myself.
It's all under my control.
And
I got myself to where I am in
law because of my experience,
because of my contacts,
because of my years of study.
I've built my empire because of my experience
of knowledge.
Wrong. Don't do that.
And that this is opposing the meanings within
You're only where you are by the success
of Allah Azza Wa Jal and nothing else.
SubhanAllah, hack people Allah mention
until the people when the people start thinking
that they are in control of everything, that's
when Allah will destroy them. That's why it's
important never to rely upon yourself.
SubhanAllah.
Why that? Very important because how many people,
how many people
chose to rely on themselves
and fell into major doubts and sins.
Some people
they say,
no. No. Trust me. Trust me. It's just
a glance. I'll just look at this image.
It's on
social media. It's just a glance. I know
myself. I won't fall into anything Hawaam.
How many of these ended up falling into
And I trust myself. No. No. I'm just
gonna listen to this podcast
between someone and someone discussing some advanced matters
related to faith and ideology.
Then I'm not gonna be affected. I'm just
gonna listen. Trust me, I know myself. I
won't be affected.
Then he gives his e to poison.
Then afterwards,
I have doubts about Allah. I have doubts
of the afterlife. And who told you to
listen to that? Why did you poison yourself?
Why did you expose yourself to to these
things? Why did you trust yourself?
You see, brothers, had a this is this
is what it is. So that's why
you don't want to rely upon yourself at
all, and this is why Sheikh Muhammad Ibrahima
Rahim he
asked,
he was asked once can a person rely
upon himself? Are we allowed to say I
trust myself, I believe in myself?
It is a very famous thing that goes
around people and they say believe in yourself,
trust yourself.
He said it is haram for a believer
to say such a thing. Where's the evidence?
Here, this Dua
Don't entrust me to myself even for the
blink of an eye.
And that's your nafs.
Your nafs calls to sin and foolishness.
If you relied on yourself, that's where you're
going to end up in. So, Yaani, it
is very important that we seek Allah's
help through this Dua brothers and sisters in
Islam. We're coming to the end of our
lecture,
and we remind you all that this is
the Dua
taught, few words,
the greatest of mankind
to the greatest of women
as a solution
whenever the doors are shut in your life.
And don't just leave this Dua
for when you're faced with a pressing matter.
Say it every morning
and every evening
you train your tongue upon it so that
whenever you're faced with a difficulty you will
automatically
remember this is the dua to go to,
this is what I would turn to Allah
through these words and then I tell you
I share something with you personally. You know
the afgharos Sabahul Masa are about 24 afghar.
For those of you that don't know what
I'm even talking about,
then you're missing out on a lot and
I recommend for you to go online to
a course that I delivered over 2 years,
It's called an explanation of the morning and
evening of Gaut. In about 30 lectures, I
explained them all, but don't worry.
24 might seem too much for a lot
of us, especially if you're new to this
concept and worship.
So personally, when I'm pressed for time and
I'm not able to say all 24,
I have anchors. There are 3 that I
always have to say, and I cannot compromise
on them no matter what I'm in. Number
1,
Number 2,
3 times each.
Preferably first,
then then again
and then again.
And finally, this
one.
And if you read something of the morning
and something of the evening,
then you are considered that you have said.
And if you have times on the weekends,
then you sit down and you say them,
oh,
and they have immense benefit. All you have
to do is listen to the first lecture
I gave on that series
for you to be introduced to this powerful
worship
that you will realize afterwards,
how did I live all my life without
this? So brothers and sisters in Islam, we
ask Allah
to grant us goodness, to grant us mercy
and success.
We ask him,
to grant relief to our brothers and sisters
in Gaza, in occupying Palestine.
We ask him,
to bring his justice
upon them. We ask Allah
that he accept from us all. He forgive
our sins and our shortcomings.