Ahsan Hanif – Build Your Resolve and Courage

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			we live in increasingly complex times, where we face challenges that are not only becoming greater
and bigger, but that they are changing rapidly as well. It is part and parcel of our lives now, to
know that we as Muslims in our religion, Islam is under the microscope.
		

			These events that took place last week in Las Vegas are an example of that. The way that the media
portrays an incident when a Muslim is involved and a non Muslim is involved. When Islam comes into
the equation, and a Muslim is involved, the reaction around that incident and both of them are
equally wrong, when there is violence and injustice being involved. But the way that the reaction is
is far different. There is a reality that we have to face, the rise of Islamophobia within our
communities, within our countries within our societies. It is something that all of us have to
contend with. With all of this backdrop, and all of this going on. It is increasingly important for
		

			all of us, each and every single person sitting in this Masjid and listening to this hotbar that we
know how to build our resolve and our courage. We know how to have that determination and
steadfastness that we need in Muslims in order to fulfill the command of Allah azza wa jal when he
said addressed in each and every single one of us in the Quran, here you have levina Armando po and
for Sakuma alikum. nowra are you who believe Save yourselves and your families from the fire. There
is a role as a father, as a mother, as a husband, as a wife, as a son, as a daughter, as a brother
and a sister. It is our role and one of our first priorities in this life that a large engine has
		

			placed upon our shoulders, that we together within our families and our family units, were able to
support one another, to save ourselves and our families from the fire of *.
		

			But in order to fulfill the commandment, in order to be able to do and reach that milestone, we need
to know how to build our resolve. Because in times of trial, in times of difficulty in times of
challenge, those people who don't have strong resolve, who aren't don't have their feet firmly
planted in the ground, they don't have a state of steadfastness amongst them. And no doubt that is
from Allah subhanho wa Taala first and foremost, and then through our own efforts, but those people
don't have that you find that they are people who wobble. People who who are shaken, people who just
go whichever way they pulled or they're pushed. And that is why the Prophet said to us sallallahu
		

			alayhi wa sallam he foretold from the signs of your opinion is that we will suffer these trials and
these challenges, and they will be big challenges, major issues that we will have to contend with
the companions who heard the Hadith the companions who listened and had that narration firsthand.
They said O Messenger of Allah, I mean thinlit Newman is is it because the Muslims of that time, at
that time and that place they will be few in number is it because they are the minority, there are
few in number, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam now we're lucky for you, they will be many
number, over a billion strung across the world 1/6 on 1/5 of the planet, there are there will be
		

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			same, but they will be like the froth of the ocean and the sea. The froth of the ocean is when you
have the waves and you see those bubbles at the top that's the front of the ocean is where the
seaweed is taken right and left, back and forth, wherever the current pushes and pulls it. And
that's how the vast majority of us have become. There's a challenge. There's a trial there's an
issue that we have to face and we don't know
		

			Which Way to go, we don't know how to respond. Because we didn't take the time and putting the
effort to build our resolve and our email. Allah subhanho wa Taala. In the Quran he gives the
example of many prophets and many messengers. Many of them will, some of them their stories are
mentioned explicitly and, and many of them we don't know by name, laptop or cell now this will
probably come in woman personally kiwami normal I'm not so Sonic, we have sent before you all
messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam we have sent before you many prophets and many
messengers, some of them their stories have been narrated to you, and others, the stories have not
		

			been narrated to you, you don't know who they are. Allah azzawajal gives us those stories, those
that are mentioned and rated in the Quran, so that we can take lessons from them. We can learn and
benefit from them. We take them as their role as our role models, because one thing that all of them
had in, in connection with one another one thing all of them had in common was that all of them
suffered trials and tribulations. All of them went through challenges. All of them had to navigate
through this dunya. And from amongst all of those prophets and messengers, allies there were just
selected five and a large so we'll call them the Ola azim the messengers and prophets of high
		

			resolve and determination. Allah calls them people of resolve. Those five are our Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, and the prophets know Ibrahim Musa and recently him salatu salam. Allah azza wa
jal says instructing the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and the Muslim community at large force
mural karma sobre Allah, Allah Islam in a Rasul, be patient, as those messengers of strong resolve,
will patient, follow their footsteps be like them. So how do we build our resolve? How do we take
that courage, that strength, that sense of strong Eman so that when those trials and we're facing
them on a daily basis, and it's not just at that major overview level of the problems that we face
		

			as a Muslim oma, or even as individuals, within our families, with our parents, with our children,
with our spouses, with our friends, within our communities, and our families, with our neighbors
with our money, and our health? All of these issues are trials, they are problems that we have to
face head on. But how do you build that resolve?
		

			Allah zildjian saw earlier in Milan, verse number 186, when he speaks about the context of the
battles of burden are not those challenges that the early Muslims faced in those early years of
Islam, the difficulties, the trials and tribulations, which when we compare our situation, when we
compare what we are going through currently, and you put that into perspective, and you compare it
to what they went through in the time of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. Our sacrifices and
our issues seem to pale into insignificance. They're nothing in comparison. I mean, Alonzo, just
keep it that way and keep us safe. May Allah Subhana Allah protect us and our families and our
		

			communities. And that's why they are examples. That's why Allah azza wa jal chose them to be the
companions of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, because they would be tested, and they would
be told, so alive zildjian when he instructs the community of Muslims, and by extension, Nia new has
people who will take them as role models. Allah azza wa jal gives us two things that we need in
order to build that resolve and that courage to have that sense of the bat of being firm and
steadfast upon our religion by the permission of Allah azza wa jal, Allah subhanaw taala says in the
conclusion of the verse 186, we're in torsby rule what a taco for in Nevada come in. asmin Amore.
		

			And if you have patience, and you have piety, then indeed that is from the Isom of all offense. That
is how you build your resolve the old Isom, this is how you get the answer. This is how you build
that resolve that courage, that determination, by having patience, and by having piety, those
Muslims, Allah zildjian is telling them that you need patience and you need piety. But Allah brings
forward patience before he does piety. He gives preference and he gives patients first and then he
mentions piety, because you need to know how to be patient in times of trial. When trials come, you
need to know how to exercise patience. That's the first rule of a trial that you don't just react
		

			just because something has come to you. You're not trigger happy. You're not someone who acts before
they think you're not someone who makes a decision before they go back and they take that decision
and they portray it or they place it against the text of the Quran and the Sunnah. And know is it
something which allow wants and loves and is pleased with or is it something which Allah will be
displeased with. You need to have patience. When those Muslims used to come to the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in the early Mexican days and they were suffering persecution
		

			And torture, they will being split from their families, their wealth and their property and their
positions will be taken from them and justly, they will be tortured. They will being tortured
physically in pain. Some of them will being killed unjustly. They would come to the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasallam. As is collecting, say al Bahari in the habit of hubbub, not arataura,
viola Wang, when they came to the prophet SAW Allah while he was still in wants, he was leaning in
the shade of the Kaaba. And he said, O Messenger of Allah, Allah to Allah, Allah Allah, Allah to
sponsor Lana, would you not make dua for us? So messenger of Allah? Will you not seek Allah's help
		

			and assistance for us? You know, what we're going through, you know, the challenges that we're
facing, you know, the persecution that we're suffering, why don't you ask Allah to help us? The
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam set up and he said to them, they're indeed from those who came
before you, a hole would be dug, and a man will be placed in that hole, and a soul would be bought
and he would be sewn in half. But still, he wouldn't leave his religion. And from those people who
came before you, a man would be bought and a metal comb would be taken, and his skin and flesh will
be raked from his bones. But still, that would make him leave his religion. Will Akina come on the
		

			stage in one, but you are a people who are hasty. You need to exercise patience. You need to have
that sense of patience. Allah azza wa jal tells us in the Parana has he been nursing in your truck
or in your home life turn to the people think that they will simply make the claim of Eman they will
say we believe and then they will be left without being tried and tested. Well awkward for 10 Levine
I mean, probably him and I'm not sure what you we tested and tried those who came before them. For a
lemon alone levina Sadako. Lemon will carry mean so that Allah would make it known, those were
truthful, and those who are untruthful. Every single person is tested, and their tests were greater.
		

			And their tests and trials were far more than what we are experiencing within our lives and within
our current situation. Allah azza wa jal describes them and he says Mr. toman, sir, raw was zero,
they will be afflicted with trial and with calamity and with the friction was on zero, and it would
be shaken to their core. This isn't a small issue that they were dealing with. It wasn't just
something that they would be able to pass by. If they let time Just go. It is something that would
shake them to the kozun. Zero is the same word in the Arabic language that is used for earthquakes,
to show you the gravity to show you give you the imagery of how difficult to raise. And that's what
		

			exactly a large religion says in verse 186. In Surah Al Imran, he tells us to have patience and
piety. But if you look at the beginning of the verse, Allah subhanho wa Taala lays out this fact as
bare as daylight, but to below one Effie and wildly common physical and over surety, you will be
tested in your lives and in your wealth, you will be tested. It is a part of your religion that you
are tested. And the result of the way that you are the way that you react to that test. Your
reaction and the way that you deal with that test. That is the result that Allah azza wa jal wants
to see how you deal with these issues. And with these problems, you have people when a test comes to
		

			them, because their resolve is already so weak, because their foundation is so fragile, because they
are so volatile, they go from one extreme to another. And they have no sense of balance. They have
no sense of perspective. They don't know how to ground themselves, because they haven't taken the
time and put in that effort to do the homework. The homework is the piety that Allah azza wa jal
will mentioned we will speak about shortly. Allah xojo says of a shorty you will be tested and you
will be trained. And if anyone were to have been saved from tests and trials and affliction,
calamity and problems, it would have been the prophets and messengers of Allah He was started to
		

			ascend up would have been our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, but he lost wives and he lost
children. And he lost close family members. He had problems with his community and he had issues
that he had to deal with. Amongst the Muslims. They were hypocrites in Medina and so on and so
forth. And then he was waging battles and wars against the enemies of Islam. All of this whilst his
father was he's the husband, whilst he's a friend, once he's the Imam of the community was this
giving the hot boys on Friday whilst he's doing every single other thing that he needs to do? Alli
Salatu was Salam.
		

			Indeed, you will be tested in your mouth and in your families in your lives, whether it is my own
Amina levina, altron kitanomine, publikum wamena, Levine ash Rocco, Evan kathira. And the second
thing is not only that you will be tested, but the second thing is that you will be harmed also.
Part of the test and part of the process of going through trial is that sometimes your heart
sometimes you come out unscathed by the permission of Allah through His mercy
		

			blessings. But sometimes you're harmed. And indeed you will hear from those who are given the
scriptures before you, and from those who disbelieve, you will hear much harm, much evil. The
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam as we know used to walk in the streets of Mecca, and they will
ridicule and mock Him, they would call him names. And not only would they call him names and say
that he was a magician and a sorcerer, that he was crazy or a madman, that he was a poet and so on
and so forth. But then a large soldier would reveal verses of the Quran that would be recited in the
Salah that the Muslims of the companions would recite as they're reading the Quran, verses of the
		

			Quran that take those statements, and they place them there in. They call you a messenger of Allah
crazy. They see about you that you're a poet. They say that you're a madman. So not only does the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam hear this on the streets of Mecca from his enemies. It is also
mentioned within the Quran, you will hear much harm, you will hear much evil. The things that they
used to say about the Muslims, the things that they used to say about the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wasallam during his lifetime and after his lifetime, throughout the generations of Islam and till
today, the things that people say about our Prophet, son alone while he will sell them there is my
		

			charm. And if that is how the prophet SAW Allah, Allah He will sell him is being treated, the more
about me and you the early days of Medina is collected Allah Bihari, the hadith of Assam a bluesy
that on the Allahu anhu I never be when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would go to the
different groups of people as they were sitting in their majelis. And in the gatherings, he would go
to them to speak to them about Islam, to teach them about their religion, he would take the
initiative salallahu alayhi wasallam. And he would go to those people, but the hypocrites when he
would come to them, they would say, oh, Mohammed, this is something which is good. But why do you
		

			come to us? You're bringing the dust with you because he would ride on a camel or donkey and the
dust that would come because the desert, the dust that would come in the hooves of his animal. They
would say Why'd you bring dust? You're disturbing our measureless you're making dust, you're causing
issues. Why don't you go back to your place, and when we need to welcome to you. And this would
upset the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he's coming to teach them about their religion is
coming to the cart to guide them to Allah subhanho wa Taala. And this was the response that he would
receive,
		

			you will hear much harm other than kathira and that is when a large surgeon says what interest
bureau but if you have patience, what a tuck when you have piety, you fear Allah subhana wa Taala
for in Nevada come in as me more than indeed that is from the greatest of affairs,
		

			that you have patients and that you have piety that you're conscious of Allah subhanho wa Taala that
the way that you respond in those challenges and in those trials, in those times of calamity and
yes, in those times of ease as well. It is in accordance to what is pleasing to Allah azza wa jal.
You've already done that homework, you've already taken the time to learn about what pleases Allah
azza wa jal, so that when the time of calamity strikes, you know how to deal with it. When the time
of calamity comes in is too late. My dear brothers and sisters to try to learn what to do. It is too
late for you to try to protect yourselves and your families. And this is unfortunately something
		

			which has become all too common in our times, that we don't really spend enough time learning about
our religion. We haven't learned how to give our own families and our own children, that Toby and
that upbringing that nurturing that record that they require, in order to give them a firm footing
as well. So that when those issues or when those trials comm I will families will emulate the
families of the companions of the Allahu angama Jemaine that even though they were shocked and they
were shaken to the core, they were still able to stand firm and upright because by the blessings of
Allah azza wa jal, Allah azza wa jal gave them the bat he gave them steadfastness. He made them firm
		

			upon their belief in the man. So when you have Taqwa of Allah azza wa jal, when you fear Allah
subhanho wa Taala. When you know that your life span is limited, that your days are few in number,
that you will stand before Allah and Allah will hold you to account for every single action and
every single word that came from him. That gives you a zone. It gives you determination and courage.
It tells you that even though Yes, you're going through trials and difficulty perhaps, perhaps
you're suffering harm and a great amount of harm. It is limited, and it is not the final picture is
a temporary phase and Allah azza wa jal for every single small amount of harm that comes to you. As
		

			our Prophet told us and Allah while he will sell them, even a foreigner pricks you, Allah subhana wa
Taala will expect your sins, but you have to have that resolve. You have to have that patience and
that piety. That combination is important and crucial in order for that result to take place in the
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			Allah subhanho wa Taala tells us this cologne Epson, the EPA to mount every single social taste
death, old and young male and female, rich and poor, Muslim and Muslim, every single living thing
weaving thing will taste death. We're in number two a phone that will draw from your monthly ama.
And then you will be given your full recompense your fuel with your full dues on the Day of
Judgment. That is when a large zildjian will look at your deeds and your actions, the way that you
react, the way that you interaction, the way that you dealt with these issues. And these trials and
allonzo agenda will give you your full compensation for Minzy Harney now, so whosoever is drawn back
		

			from the fire, will decree that agenda and is entered into paradise for the fires, then they have
indeed attained victory. They are the successful and the large zildjian mentions both because both
are great blessings of Allah. Not only do you enter into Jenna, but you are taken away from the
fire. Both of them are great blessings and weight rewards from Allah subhanho wa Taala. Woman higher
to dunya in LA Metatron, Aurora, and this one, the world of this life is nothing except for me
adjust and play.
		

			Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in what is authentically established from him, he passed by
a grave with some of his companions. And he said to them, who is the person in this grave, who is
the person of this grave, so they told him Fulani been full and so on. So the son of soon so the
Prophet said, Son, Allahu Allah, He will send them by Allah, to Allah cars are more beloved to him
right now than everything else in this life. And in this world. If he could just come back and play
two records in the other generation, he said, Son, Allah, Allah, you will send them to wreck two
records, that me and you, we will think to be nothing insignificant, they are fast, they're not even
		

			slow, they're not even long. There are two quick, short records, to play those two is more beloved
to him than everything else in this world. Because this is what will count. And this is what will
matter. So when we have our families and we come together with a vision and a goal of saving our
sons and our families from the fire, and we come together and learn to build our resolve, so that
when we have these issues of, of, of problems that we're facing these trials and these challenges
that we're encountering, were able to come together to support one another. We're able to come
together to help one another. We're able to remind and advise one another, we have built within our
		

			sounds that combination, that formula of taqwa and sabar of patience and piety, so that we are able
to inshallah, by the permission of Allah subhanho wa Taala be steadfast in those times of trial. And
that is why the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam from the most common and frequent dwis that he
used to make, even though he's the Messenger of Allah, and even though a large dogen had already
given him that divine protection, and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had that bath and that
firmness from Allah subhanaw taala for lesson for me a new to teach us, one of his most common to us
was yamasa bittel allume submittable behala denecke Well, the one who makes the hearts firm, make
		

			our hearts firm upon your religion, US Allah subhanho wa Taala to give us the bat, to make us and
our families firm upon this religion, and to protect us and our families from the traps of shavon
and to help us to navigate through the trials that we face in the challenges that we encounter.
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Sleeman kathira my back when we look at the lives of the companions of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wasallam or the Allahu andromache Marian, and I don't mean just them as individuals Abubakar as an
individual and as an individual or as a man and rd as individuals. But I mean them as family units.
Abubakar Viola who I'm with his children are the rhodiola who, with his family, the companions and
		

			their families, their spouses and their children, you see the way that they would come together
times of difficulty and trial. When you look Can you take an overview of the Sierra those 23 years
of profit one, and you look at the challenges and the calamities and the difficulties that we found
that early generation of Muslims, the companions of the Allahu angama Jemaine, there were times when
they lost battles and wars. There were times when their loved ones were killed and martyr there were
times
		

			When they were harmed and persecuted, every single type of trial that you can imagine someone within
that community went through someone within the community encounter, but the way that they would
overcome them, the example that they give to us the resolve and the determination that they will
have, it is something which is the lesson for us. I don't have the time to go through examples and
go through the lives of those companions. But we need to be more proactive. We need to take the
initiative, we need to take the reins in our hands, and take out the time and effort to research
ourselves. We can't always expect to be spoon fed. We don't live in a time when we don't have the
		

			luxury for us to be able to go and take everything someone comes and feeds us everything. If you're
not going to take that initiative for yourself and your family, then that is a problem that you will
have to deal with. Ultimately, our Prophet Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, but you will be our
man if you turn the paper in leading Muslim, your speaker Roger Luqman and William C. kathira. Oh,
you must mean and we'll speak okay Pura, you'll be lucky enough to be out of the minute. Dunya be
hasty. perform your deeds, your good deeds hasten with good deeds. Before trials come, like the
pitch darkness of the night. Meaning that there is no streetlights, there's no moonlight, there's no
		

			stars trickling in the sky. It is pitch black, dark, you can't see where you're going. You can't see
where you're stepping. You can't see the pitfalls that are in front of you. That is the time that we
live in. Where it is difficult to know the difference between right and wrong. Unless you study and
you learn and you equip yourself. You don't know which way you're going and which direction you're
being pulled in. The Prophet Toler sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is for telling us, this is something
which is telling us the prophecy, a person will wake up as a believer, and by the evening they will
be a disbeliever. Or they will be a believer in the evening by the morning, they will be a
		

			disbeliever they will sound their religion for one of the world in games. Because when trials came
to them, they didn't know how to react to those trials. They didn't know how to make themselves firm
and steadfast. They didn't know what they were doing. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in a
hurry to have him sell him out of the Allahu anha. In what is collected on sexual Buhari, he was
sleeping with him Santa Maria Allahu Allah and he woke up in the night, he woke up and he was
afraid, fuzzier and he woke up and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said Mother undzer Allah
whom you know, Husain when Mother endoluminal Fitton, how many of the treasures that Allah has
		

			caused to descend upon the earth, and how many other trials that have also come to the earth, man up
to slavery, but who gerat who will go and wake up my wives, who will wake them up why, so that they
can play during the night pm Leyland to hedgerow, they can pray the night prayer, or backhousia
thing for dunya idea to Philadelphia, because perhaps a person is closed in this life, but they will
be naked on the Day of Judgment. Perhaps in this life, you enjoy the blessings of Allah subhanho wa
Taala. But you didn't use those blessings to come close to Allah, you didn't build your resolve and
your courage and your determination with patients and with piety. So on the Day of Judgment, you're
		

			naked, you don't have any good deeds, you have nothing to present before Allah subhana wa Tada. You
want someone who was able to keep yourself and your family safe from the fire. These are important
issues that we need to think about, that we need to plan from. There is a great responsibility upon
our massagin upon our Islamic centers and our mosques upon our homes, upon our religious leaders.
But there is also a great responsibility in each and every single one of us as Muslims as well as
parents as elders and years, youngsters as a community until we come together and we face these
challenges and support one another. It is something which will make this whole community or
		

			communities shake from the very foundation was a large soldier that he makes our face easy for us.
And that Allah subhanaw taala protects us from every single type of evil trial. And that Allah
zildjian gives us patience and piety. And that allows zones and allows us to see the truth for what
it is and also for what it is and he enables us and guides us to what is good for us in this life
and the next Subhanallah because I'm on the phone I was alone when I will mousseline will
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