Adnan Rajeh – Dealing with Turbulence of Time 3
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The concept of turbulence and how it can affect one's life is discussed, including the book "The hadith" which focuses on specific aspects of the story and the importance of seeking refuge in the face of difficult situations. The "one's fitna" meaning everyone can collectively see the events happening in the town of town, but everyone can see the visible events. The "one's fitna" hidden, meaning everyone wants to seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek seek
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Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, walhamdulillahi rabbil alameen
Allahumma salli wa sallim wa barak ala nabiyyina
wa habibina muhammadin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi
ajma'in wa ba'd Yarwi al-imamu muslimun
fi sahihihi an zayri ibn thabit radiyallahu anhu
qal Qala al-nabiyyu sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi
wa sallam The hadith tonight, collection Imam Muslim,
narrated by zayri ibn thabit radiyallahu anhu And
the theme of dealing with turbulence or fitna
or fitan is what I'm going to be
covering over the next couple of weeks until
we start talking about the Ramadan prep which
will happen probably sometime early February Actually, we're
running out of time It's only a couple
of weeks left, subhanAllah Seven weeks and then
we'll be talking It'll literally be Ramadan, subhanAllah
How time flies It'll be our fourth Ramadan,
by the way, in this masjid Imagine that,
four Ramadans It's almost the same amount of
time I spent at LMM during Ramadan, four
years Anyways, this concept of fitan, turbulence is
the reason that I'm talking to you about
And I want you to maybe even take
interest in this and go and look In
all the books of hadith, you'll find that
there's a chapter of fitan And usually, the
context for these chapters are talking about specific
aspects of Armageddon or the apocalypse or what's
going to happen in the future or what
happened at some point in our past the
future of the Prophet alayhi sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam So these hadith become very contextual and
we lack the ability to actually learn things
from them And that was my experience with
them growing up and going to university even
and learning and studying them was always very,
like this is something that I didn't get
that personal effect from them So I'm trying
to maybe narrate them for you with the
intention of maybe giving you a little bit
of a different angle on them so that
you can benefit from them And this is
what he said alayhi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
in this hadith So
two things The first thing he said here
alayhi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is seek refuge,
and this is the point really seek refuge
in Allah from turbulence, from difficulties meaning when
you are facing something that's difficult you're facing
a fitna, a musibah, a hardship, a misfortune
something that's making it difficult for you to
get through your day something that's weighing on
you, a burden that you're carrying you seek
refuge in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala you
turn to Allah, he's the one who's going
to save you from this he's the one
who's going to help you deal with it
that has to be the reflex meaning the
reflex feeling when I'm in a fitna is
I turn to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
if that's not the reflex feeling then there's
something wrong and look how he adds the
things that are apparent that people see and
the problems that no one sees how many
people are sitting here right now who are
dealing with musibah, who are dealing with a
fitna that is heavy, that is sitting on
his chest that is burdening his day that's
on his shoulders, that's on his mind and
they can't get rid of it, and it's
tiring them and it's making it hard for
them to live and they have to put
on a front how many people are like
that?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the Prophet alayhi
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam teaches the sahaba, you
turn to Allah for that seek refuge in
Allah from these problems Allah will strengthen you,
will help you will allow you to move
along will get you to the position where
you're capable of getting through them this is
what we're supposed to see as this is
the Islamic equation for it so the Prophet
alayhi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is not just
talking about what's going to come later and
the sahaba problems and the umu'is and
abbasids no, no, just fitna in general it's
going to happen so seek refuge in Allah
from them the ones that are apparent and
everyone sees the ones that we all, you
know what's happening in Gaza and continues to
happen that's a fitna for all of us
we all collectively all together, right?
but then there's a fitna that it's only
you it's hidden, no one sees it you're
on your own so you seek refuge in
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because he is
the one who will grant you that and
then he talks about the second one now,
contextually we can spend some time talking about
who this figure is or, just take the
word remove any context for it and just
listen to what he's saying dajjal the word
dajjal is someone who what is dajjal?
dajjal is lies, right?
it's like horrible lies lies, but the reason
dajjal is dajjal is abundant lies it's like
high quantity lies maybe not high quality, but
high quantity this guy is spitting out lies
the whole time very quickly, it's not one
or two lies it's a lot of lies
that's a dajjal that's why dajjalun are usually
historically, the people who sit there with the
bakhoor and the thing and they tell you
that you have a kitab they give you
all these talas put it under someone's pull
a hair out of the behind of a
goat and put it in the milk of
a sheep and then put it together and
then if you do this then this person
will end up loving you yeah, all the
dajjalun well, I'm looking at the kalakib and
they're just not lying for you all this
everything they're saying is a lie everything probably
even the salam alaykum at the beginning is
a lie, everything is a lie so ta
'awwadu billahi minad dajjal seek refuge in Allah
from people like that seek refuge in Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala from the one who
lies lies to the point where you stop
being able to figure out what is truthful
and what is not seek refuge in Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala from the lying that
will become so abundant that you won't be
able to fish out the truth from it
all so when you yes, there's a context
to who is a dajjal and I accept
that for sure, it's important but sometimes just
listen to what he's saying alayhi salatu wasalam
and learn from the linguistics of what he's
explaining because there's always a lesson there from
him alayhi salatu wasalam who afsahun nas he
is the most articulate of all so yes,
there's a specific person and there's a story
that will happen later on during the time
of ease yeah, it's fine most of us
memorize this as kids I'm not, I don't
but just the word, dajjal the one that
will come and lie to you will lie
to you so much that you start believing
it and you lose sense of reality and
you lose sense of truth you start slowly
deviating away because you're believing all these lies
that are being spat at you and you're
just lacking the ability to filter through them
seek refuge in Allah from that because no
one can protect you from that except from
Allah and you'll see this in life you'll
run into people they've learned so many lies
they've accepted so many lies there's nothing you
can do for them and you know, you
run into someone they're so lost it's like
they can't even hear you it's like you're
calling upon them and they're in a different
they can't hear it because it's just their
ears are cluttered with all the lies that
they've accepted in their lives and that's a
scary thing it's a scary thing to think
that we are subject to that as well
so, as the Prophet said تعوذوا بالله من
الفتن مظهر منها وموطن تعوذوا بالله من الدجال
say as he commanded صلى الله عليه وسلم
يرى امام مسلم في صحيحه عن زيد ابن
ثابت رضي الله عنه قال كنا جلوسا مع
رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم فقال تعوذوا
بالله من الفتن ما ظهر منها وما بطن
فقلنا نعوذ بالله من الفتن ما ظهر منها
وما بطن ثم قال تعوذوا بالله من الدجال
فقلنا نعوذ بالله من الدجال صدق رسول الله
صلى الله عليه وسلم سبحانك ورحمتك شكرا لا
اله الا انت استغفرك وتوب اليك وصلى الله
وسلم وبرك على نبينا وحبيبنا محمد صلى الله
عليه وسلم