Adnan Rajeh – Performing Dawah – Outreach #15

Today's hadith found the collection of ma'am Tell

me the narrators by Jabra ibn Abdulla radiAllahu

anhu where he says that the Prophet Sallallahu

alaihi wa sallam said that a person does

not fully believe until he believes in the

decree of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, the good

and the bad. And until he knows that

whatever has come to him was always going

to come to him and was never going

to miss him. And whatever has missed him

was always going to miss him and was

never was never going to come to him.

Believing in the decree of Allah Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ala is one of the 6 pillars of

iman as we all know. And when Jibreel

alaihi wasalam asked the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam,

So believing in

in the decree of Allah

is one of the 6 pillars of iman,

and that is the meaning of this hadith

that a person does not truly believe until

they believe

in in all 6 in all 6 of

these pillars.

But believing in the part of believing the

decree of Allah

is knowing that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is

capable of doing anything that He wants. And

that if Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala wants something

to happen, He will pave the way for

that thing to happen. And that if Allah

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has decreed something, it will

happen regardless of whether or not people want

it to happen. Look at the story of

Musa and Faraun for example.

Faraun,

he saw a dream

and the magicians, the sorcerers, the people that

were with him, they told him that the

meaning of this dream is that the fall

of your kingdom is going to be on

the hands of a child that is born

in Bani Israel.

There's only really 2 options, either it's a

true dream or it's a false dream. And

if it's a false dream, it doesn't affect

you. But if it's a true dream, then

no matter what you do, you won't be

able to change the decree of Allah Subhanahu

wa ta'ala. And that is one of the

points that Faraun was missing. So what so

what did Faraun do? He started killing every

male newborn child that is born in Bani

Israel. Why? Because he was scared

that the child that would be the reason

for the fall of his kingdom would be

born. So that is what Faraun wanted, but

Allah

wanted something different and Allah

had decreed something different. So by the Qadr

of Allah, that child was born and Faraun

raised him. And he spent his money on

him and he lived in his palace. And

then when that child grew up, the fall

of his kingdom was on the hands was

on the hands of that child. And that

child was Musa Alaihi Salam.

So we all want we all want different

things, but Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala does does

whatever

he wants. And the lesson for us is

what the prophet said

in the hadith that we mentioned in the

beginning,

know that whatever has come to you was

always meant for you and was always going

to come to you, was never going to

miss you. And whatever has missed you was

never meant for you and and was never

going to was never going going to come

to you. And sometimes,

you know, we you you might have a

a goal that you have set out to

achieve or a dream that you want to

accomplish or you have 1 or 2 things

that you are constantly asking Allah subhanahu wa

ta'ala for but it just doesn't

doesn't seem

to becoming

does just doesn't seem to happen. Know that

the situation that you are in is the

best situation for you and that know that

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is capable of giving

you what you want. And know for a

fact that if you had the ability to

choose what was going to happen to you

in the future, if you had the ability

to change the future and choose whatever you

wanted to happen, then you would not choose

except what Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala has already

chosen for you. And Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala's

choice for a person is better than that

the person's choice for themselves. And wallahi, Allah

is more merciful to you than you are

to yourselves. And that's why Umar ibn Khattar

used to say,

He

would say, I don't

mind waking up on a situation or waking

up on something that I love or something

that I hate because I don't know which

one of the 2 there because I don't

know in which of these 2 there is

good for me. So these are just some,

some things to keep in mind. I hope

that was a benefit sha'liarwi. And Imam