Akram Nadwi – Uncovering Miracles

Akram Nadwi
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The title of "immaterial" in the Bible highlights the importance of showing proper Islam in court and avoiding false rumors. The success of magic in relation to people and the importance of showing proper Islam in public is also emphasized. The speakers stress the need for people to be aware of their beliefs and follow the rules of Islam, shaping their voice to reach the people, and learning from the story of the woman in the story. The importance of science in understanding one's nature and the " women's conspiracy" is also discussed at the University of Qatar.
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious,

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the Most Merciful.

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Allah said, I did not create the jinn

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and men but that they might worship Me.

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Allah said, We have honoured the children of

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Adam.

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Allah said, The most honourable of you in

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the sight of Allah is the most righteous

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of you.

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Allah said, So be upright as you have

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been commanded.

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Allah said, And the Prophet, peace be upon

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him, said, Whoever comes to me as a

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friend, I will give him permission to go

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to war.

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Respected brothers and sisters, inshallah I'm going to

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explain to you the meaning of karamat.

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What karamat means, very often people translate the

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word karamat as miracles.

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That you know the people do, so I'm

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going to explain that inshallah in detail.

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And what is its importance in the religion.

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How important it is.

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So first thing is, there are a few

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words people keep using.

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So there is one word you must have

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heard, mu'jiza.

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Like the prophets have mu'jiza, miracles.

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Another word is karama.

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And another word also they use, that is

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called istidraj.

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Generally what they mean by mu'jiza is,

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Those signs which are not usual.

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And they happen at the hand of the

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prophets and messengers.

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So that is like a proof that this

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person is supported by Allah.

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He is not supported by shaitan or by

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jinn because what he does, shaitan cannot do.

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Devil cannot do.

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So Allah, like Musa, peace be upon him,

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when he comes to Pharaoh, So he asks

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him, what is your sign?

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And then he throws his stuff, stick, and

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it becomes a snake.

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So magicians cannot do that.

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When magicians came to, you know, come back

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to fight Musa, peace be upon him, They

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surrendered to him.

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Similarly Isa, peace be upon him, you know,

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he used to cure people.

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He used to make dead alive to somebody

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who died.

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And Isa, peace be upon him, with the

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permission of Allah, peace be upon him, Will

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bring him to life.

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So you can see there are many, many

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miracles happen at the hands of the prophets

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and messengers.

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Some of them are mentioned in the Quran.

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And important about these signs is that nobody

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else can do.

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So that is proof that this person is

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supported by Allah.

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It is not from, you know, from any

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devil or anything like that.

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So that is what people call in the

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Islamic terms as mu'ajiza.

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Though this word mu'ajiza does not occur

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in the Quran or Sunnah.

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What Allah mentions is ayat.

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Ayat means those signs which lead you to

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Allah.

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You know really this only can happen because

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of the power of Allah and because of

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the knowledge of Allah.

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So that is called ayat.

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Like for example, sun is an ayah, moon

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is an ayah, And human beings are also

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ayat of Allah.

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So nobody can make human being like that.

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So if you study human being, it will

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take you to Allah.

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It will lead you to Allah.

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If you do research about the sun and

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moon, it will lead you to Allah.

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You can see ayat means leads.

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So nobody can make them.

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And they are from Allah and they lead

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you to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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So some of those miracles happen at the

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hand of prophets and messengers.

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Not with their will.

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Allah does.

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Whenever Allah wants, He can do.

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So that is called mu'ajiza.

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Then there is karama.

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Karama means something small which normally does not

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happen.

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So Allah does for some reason.

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Like for example, you have little food, small

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amount of food.

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And you got ten people coming to your

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house and very small.

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So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives so

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much barakah inside this small little food, That

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it becomes enough for so many people.

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So that is also karama.

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Because generally that food was only enough for

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one person, And now ten people are eating,

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twenty people are eating.

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So that happens with the prophets, messengers, everybody.

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So that is called karama.

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Karama means respect and honor.

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That's what karama means.

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The word karama in Arabic means respect and

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honor.

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So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala respects people.

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Out of their respect, He does something like

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that.

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So people can do.

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Sometimes you are traveling on a ship in

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the sea.

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And it is about to drown.

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You make dua, O Allah save us.

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And then He saves you.

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Though there is actually no sign to be

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saved.

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It's more likely you're going to drown.

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But you ask Him, He saved you.

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That's also karama.

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You know, things like that.

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So that is called karama.

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Generally people say karama happens at the hand

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of believers.

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Allah does with the believers.

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Not prophets and messengers.

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Other than prophets and companions of the Prophet.

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Pious people.

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They can have karama.

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Like Umar, once he was giving a speech.

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And his army was fighting somewhere very far

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away.

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And within the speech, he directed the army.

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Move to the mountain or something like that.

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And they heard his voice there.

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So sometimes you stay here.

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And somebody else can listen.

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Or like Yaqub.

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When Yusuf sent his shirt to him.

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He said to his children, his family people.

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I can find the smell of Yusuf.

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Yusuf was very far away.

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But he could smell him.

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That Allah made.

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Otherwise, when Yusuf was thrown in the well

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of Canaan.

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When Yaqub lived, he never smelled anything.

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And now he's smelling the shirt from so

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far.

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Why?

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Allah did this.

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If Yaqub had any power.

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He could have smelled Yusuf.

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When Yusuf was in Canaan.

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In the same place.

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But he could not smell.

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So that is what people call karama.

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If something like that happens with unbelievers.

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People call it istidraj.

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Istidraj means.

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Allah wants to test him.

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And to make him become more arrogant.

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I can do this.

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Antichrist will come.

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He will make many things.

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Which we call miracles.

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He will make somebody dead alive.

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He can do so many things.

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So that is not because Allah loves him.

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It is istidraj.

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Allah is making this.

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So he becomes more and more arrogant.

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The punishment will be more heavy.

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So something which is extraordinary.

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Unusual.

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That also can happen.

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At the hand of unbelievers.

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People who worship shaitan.

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Iblis.

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They also can do something like that.

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And that is called istidraj.

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This is how the people have divided.

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These words.

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Miracles.

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Karama.

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Istidraj.

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But if you look in the Quran.

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I want to teach you.

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If you look in the Quran.

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You can find the word karama.

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In the Quran has been used.

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In two different meanings.

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One is.

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The first thing.

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Karama means honour.

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That you keep in mind.

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Karama means honour, respect.

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So kareem means honourable person.

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Respected person.

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He is called kareem.

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Karama is the honour.

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The respect that human beings have been given.

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By Allah.

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There are two types of karama.

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Is it clear?

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Karama that Quran mentions.

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That human beings have got a karama.

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That karama is how many types?

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Two types.

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One karama is.

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That Allah gave to everybody.

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Or some people directly.

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Without their effort.

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Like Allah.

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The way he made us.

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He makes us to ride horses.

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Horses cannot ride us.

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But we ride them.

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We can make ships.

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And travel on the sea.

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Allah said karama.

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We gave you this respect.

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You can make ships.

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So this is one of the karama.

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If there is a river.

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I don't know how.

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If there is water.

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And you see that I just walk on

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the water.

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It will become big news.

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Everybody will come and see.

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If I want to make demonstration.

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That tomorrow at 6 o'clock in the

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morning.

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I am going to walk on the water.

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Then all the people will come.

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And see it and it will become big

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news.

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But you know what.

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Allah said.

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Bigger karama.

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That if somebody makes a bridge.

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Over the water.

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Or somebody makes a ship.

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That not only me.

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Many people can travel.

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You must be hearing.

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That such a Shaykh.

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He was going.

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And there was a river.

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He just walked on the water.

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Then after that nobody walked.

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But somebody comes.

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Makes a bridge over the water.

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How many people walk?

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Hundreds of people.

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So tell me which one is better karama.

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The Shaykh who walked on the water.

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Or the one who made the bridge.

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The one who made the bridge.

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That what Quran keeps saying.

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That we gave the human being.

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Ability to make ships.

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So now not only one person.

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So many people can travel on the water.

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Now you have heard a story.

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A Shaykh comes.

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And he flies in the air.

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So there was a Shaykh.

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You know.

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Very famous.

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But his wife did not believe that he

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is a Shaykh.

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It is very difficult to convince your wife.

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That you are a pious Shaykh.

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She did not believe that he is pious.

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Or he is a Shaykh.

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One day.

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He wanted to convince his wife.

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That he is a really great Shaykh.

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So what he did.

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He flew over his house.

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From the air.

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And then he came to his house.

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His wife said.

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You say you are a Shaykh.

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I saw a Shaykh today.

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He was flying.

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He said no.

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I have seen with my eyes.

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That he was flying.

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When he got sure.

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That she has seen.

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He said don't you know.

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It was me.

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She said that is why you are not

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straight.

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You are not flying straight.

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She found something.

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You can make anything.

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The thing really is.

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The people who made aeroplanes.

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Tell me.

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Now millions of people fly.

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I can fly.

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If you fly over a house.

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A Shaykh.

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Just you.

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One person.

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Now people make aeroplanes.

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How many people fly?

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Millions of people.

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I say I am sitting here.

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And I can talk to my house in

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India.

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Miracle.

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But they make telephones and all those things.

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And millions of people talk.

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Isn't that a miracle?

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You say I am sitting here.

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I can see my father in India.

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They make TV and all those screens.

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Everything.

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Now even on the phone.

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You can talk to them.

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Isn't that a miracle?

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So that Quran mentions.

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Quran says the way I made human beings.

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It is actually honor and respect.

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I gave them ability.

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They can do so many things.

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The way Allah made human beings.

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That is a miracle.

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Your mind is a miracle.

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The way you walk.

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The way you talk.

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The way you study and learn.

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Loving the people.

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Hating the people.

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It is all a miracle.

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One miracle that Quran keeps mentioning.

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The honor that Allah gave to human beings.

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By nature.

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By creation.

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The way he made them.

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Cows cannot do this.

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Human beings invented aeroplanes.

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Can a cow make it?

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Can a donkey make an aeroplane?

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Can a monkey make an aeroplane?

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No.

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Human beings made it.

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Who made this?

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Allah gave karama.

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We gave human beings karama.

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Respect.

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Now they walk.

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They travel in the sea.

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They ride horses.

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Camels.

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Ships.

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Everywhere in the world.

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They are moving in any direction they want.

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So Allah said this is a karama that

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I gave to the people.

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So this is one type of karama.

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That is given by Allah.

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The second type of karama is the respect

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that human beings attain by their effort.

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That is what Allah said.

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What he gave is not important.

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That does not make you important.

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Because that importance is given by him.

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What is important is what you do.

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So like for example you have a possibility

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to cheat, to steal.

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But you don't steal.

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No.

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My lord has forbidden me.

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I must be firm.

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I don't steal.

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Time comes for the prayer.

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You are busy with your work.

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You leave your work.

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Come to the prayer.

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You have a possibility to have sexual desire.

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Men or women.

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You can do whatever you like.

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But you say no.

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My lord has forbidden me.

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I can't do this.

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And then you turn away from that desire

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and follow the way of halal.

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That is the real karama.

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That is what Allah said.

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The most respected, the most respected, most honorable

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among you are those people who are more

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fearing of Allah.

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If you fly in the air, it does

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not make you nearer to Allah.

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Otherwise all the falais will be wali, awliya.

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Have you seen any falais become awliya?

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Because falais, all the falais fly, all the

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birds fly, do they become awliya?

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No.

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Flying does not make anybody nearer.

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If I start flying in the air, nothing

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will happen.

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And if you say subhanallah, you become nearer

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to Allah.

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Because subhanallah is your action.

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You have done something.

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Your effort, is it clear?

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If you are patient, somebody makes you angry,

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somebody criticizes you, but you hold yourself.

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Don't become angry.

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That is your achievement.

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But the problem really is we people don't

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want to do anything.

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So that is why in the Quran there

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are two types, two major attributes of Allah

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mentioned.

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If you understand them, you will understand how

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this world functions.

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And you understand the difference between believers and

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unbelievers.

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You understand the difference between enemies of Allah

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and between the friends of Allah.

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Between awliya of Allah.

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Who are awliya of Allah?

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If you understand the difference between these two

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attributes of Allah.

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What these two attributes of Allah are in

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the Quran?

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One is Allah is Rabb.

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Have you read this word in Quran?

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Alhamdulillah Rabbil alameen.

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Quran keeps bringing the word Rabb so many

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times.

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That is Rabb.

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Sometimes Quran uses the word Ilah.

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La ilaha illallah.

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Musa a.s. got revelation.

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Allah said to Musa a.s. La ilaha

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illa ana.

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Sometimes Quran refers to Allah as Rabb.

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And sometimes Quran refers to Allah as Ilah.

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So understand the difference between both of them.

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Allah as Rabb means like a father.

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A father in the house he provides accommodation,

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food, clothing, everything that children need.

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He is a father of his sons, his

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daughters.

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So whatever need they have, he brings it.

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You know if he has economic problem, he

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is going to earn more money.

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Sometimes some people do two shifts.

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They think it is their responsibility to look

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after their family.

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So a father and a mother, whatever they

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do, they spend so much time.

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Why they do?

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Because it is their children.

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It is their family.

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Even if their children did not do anything,

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did not benefit the child, a father still

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he will do.

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Still he loves them.

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Mother loves them.

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So that what is the relation of Allah

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to the people.

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Rabb, he is the creator.

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So Rabb means he is the creator, master,

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sustainer, loving the people who made you.

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You are his family.

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In this matter, the people are Allah's family.

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In this matter, believers and unbelievers, they have

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no difference.

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Even Shaitaan.

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Who made Shaitaan?

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Who made Iblis?

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Allah.

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And Iblis said, O my Lord, make my

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life longer.

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Allah said, okay, I am going to do

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this.

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He said, Rabb, O my Lord, if you

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say my Rabb, it is a really big

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thing.

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He is the Rabb of everybody.

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Men, women, believers, unbelievers, pious people, unpious people.

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He is the relation to everybody like his

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family.

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He will give food to everybody.

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Not that if you are kafir, you die.

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No.

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He gives food.

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Like there is a story, Ibrahim A.S.

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You know Ibrahim A.S. He is, the

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Quran says, he is imam of all the

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prophets.

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Allah S.W.T. says in the Quran

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that Allah attested Ibrahim in many many things.

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And Ibrahim passed all the tests.

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So Allah said to Ibrahim, O Ibrahim, I

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am going to make you imam, leaders of

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all mankind.

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Meaning is, after you, any prophet, any messenger,

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anybody comes, they must follow you.

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Now there can't be a messenger unless he

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follows Ibrahim.

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There can't be a prophet unless he follows

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Ibrahim.

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You can't be a good believer unless you

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follow Ibrahim.

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Can you make a new hajj?

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You have to do the hajj to the

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house of Ibrahim.

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Did Prophet Muhammad S.A.W. make a

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new hajj?

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No.

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He had to do the same hajj where

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Ibrahim made.

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That's why Quran says, O Prophet Muhammad, then

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we reveal to you that you must follow

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Ibrahim.

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The Prophet Muhammad has been commanded to follow

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who?

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Ibrahim A.S. All the prophets, Musa A

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.S., Isa A.S., Dawood, Sulaiman, everybody must

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follow Ibrahim A.S. So Deen is Deen

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of Allah and Millah is Ibrahim.

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You must follow the way of Ibrahim.

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Everybody has been commanded.

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The chosen man.

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And Allah says in the Quran, Allah has

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made Ibrahim his friend.

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Friend of Allah.

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Very close to Allah S.W.T. The

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story of Ibrahim A.S. means Ibrahim never

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liked to eat food alone.

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That his way was.

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He's a very rich man.

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Ibrahim A.S. is one of the richest

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person.

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The whole valley is full of sheep and

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animals.

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He's a rich man.

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So many slaves.

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But at the same time he is really

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loving Allah.

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Worships Him so closely.

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Ibrahim after being so rich, still one thing

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was he was very generous.

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Like when I just come to him, he

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does not ask him, are you going to

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eat or not?

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Just he goes and slaughters a calf and

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brings.

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They say no, we don't eat.

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But he didn't ask them.

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Ibrahim is a very generous person.

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One of the things in his generosity was

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he never liked to eat food alone.

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Unless he has guests, he cannot eat.

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And then few days passed, no guests.

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So he was really upset because he remains

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hungry.

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Can't eat anything.

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Then he saw somebody passing by.

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So he said, you know, can you do

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a favor?

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Come and have food with me.

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The man himself was hungry.

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So he was very happy that somebody offering

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food.

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So when Ibrahim put the table, the food,

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everything properly, Ibrahim asked him to eat.

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This man started eating food without mentioning Allah's

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name.

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Did not say bismillah.

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Ibrahim said, on the table of Ibrahim, food

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of Ibrahim, you don't say Allah's name.

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How can Ibrahim accept something like that?

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People eat in his house and they don't

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mention his name.

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Ibrahim said to him, you know, you're eating

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and you don't mention the name of the

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one who created you.

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The one who gave you food, you don't

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mention his name.

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The man said, I don't believe in him.

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I am fire worshiper.

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I don't worship your lord.

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Ibrahim said, if you don't worship my lord,

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you can't sit with me on the same

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table.

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You can't eat my food.

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I can't give my food to those who

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don't worship my lord.

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Mushrik and kafir, I can't feed them.

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And then he made that man who was

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about to eat, Ibrahim made him to leave.

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And he left.

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The revelation came to Ibrahim alaihi salam.

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Oh Ibrahim, this man, I have been feeding

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him for 60 years.

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And you could not even feed him for

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one time?

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I have been feeding for 60 years.

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Who gave him food?

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I.

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And now he comes to your house for

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only one food and you rejected him.

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You made him to leave.

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Then Ibrahim realized his mistake.

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He went after the man and asked him

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to forgive.

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This is how Allah is.

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Allah is the lord of everybody.

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That's why if you hurt any human being,

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even a believer, Allah will be upset.

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If there is no reason, you cannot hurt.

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Even you cannot hurt animals.

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Even you cannot destroy that tree.

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If you cut a tree unnecessarily, it is

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a crime.

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Quran mentions it is a crime.

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It is fasad fil arda.

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It is creating disorder, corruption and mischief on

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the face of the earth.

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You are not allowed to do this.

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Because Allah is, you are not the lord.

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You are slave.

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You must behave properly.

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Is it clear to everybody?

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So in this world, there is only one

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lord, Allah.

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There is no other lord.

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Everything that is happening is because of him.

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When unbelievers become king, he becomes king because

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Allah made him.

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You know, when a believer, an unbeliever in

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an aeroplane, he does this because Allah made

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it.

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Allah is the lord.

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Everything is done by him.

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Everything.

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Whether believers do, unbelievers do.

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He gives space for everybody.

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He looks after everybody.

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Actually, sometimes he gives unbelievers more than the

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believers.

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So that is, he does as a lord.

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Whatever he does as a lord, that does

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not make you nearer to him.

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Because he does this.

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So if he makes you king of the

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world, somebody becomes president of America, that does

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make him nearer to Allah?

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No.

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Because this happened to you, I gave you

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this kingdom, as a lord.

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Whatever Allah does as a lord, it does

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not make you nearer to Allah.

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Never makes.

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Shaitan.

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Who made shaitan?

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Allah.

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Who gave all the things to shaitan?

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Allah.

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Is shaitan nearer to Allah?

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No.

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So this they understand.

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Even if shaitan asks Allah, he will listen

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to him.

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Allah said even kuffar, unbelievers, they ask me,

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I listen to them.

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Even somebody does zina.

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Zina is the worst crime after the shirk.

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If somebody does zina and he asks Allah,

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Allah will listen to him because he's a

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lord.

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As a lord, he listens to everybody.

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It reminds me of a story of India.

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So near Delhi, there's a city, that's called

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Meerut.

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Have you heard the name?

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I've been there many times, Meerut.

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So the story's from Meerut.

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There was a poor man, he had a

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son.

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The son used to play with the children

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in the village.

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And other children, they have got a bike.

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So they use bike.

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This boy had no bike.

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So he came to his father and said,

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my father, every child has got a bike.

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I also want to get a bike and

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play with them.

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The father said, you know I'm a poor

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person.

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I cannot afford.

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So the son went.

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Son is son.

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He's just a boy.

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Then after a few months, or maybe one

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month, he comes to father and says, you

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know, I'd like to have a bike.

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Everybody has bike.

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I don't have bike.

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The father said, no, I said to you,

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you know, I can't afford.

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Then again, son goes and this and that.

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And then after a few days or maybe

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a few months, he comes again.

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Desperately, he says, my father, everybody's got a

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bike.

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Buy for me a bike.

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The father said, I told you, I cannot

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afford.

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I don't have.

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Then the son said, you are my father.

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If I don't ask you, who should I

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ask?

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Then the father became quiet.

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Went somewhere, borrowed money, whatever, and he got

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the bike.

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He gave the bike.

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When you say, my father, that is changed.

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Because fatherhood means to look after you.

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To provide your needs.

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When you say, oh, my father, that simply

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means that he must do.

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When you say, oh, my mother, oh, my

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mom, she has to do whatever you ask.

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Even if she does not have ability, she

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will do that.

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When you say, oh, my lord, oh, my

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rab, then you have challenge.

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Then he must, otherwise, how is a rab?

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He cannot be rab if he does not

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provide your needs.

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Even when shaitan says to Allah, oh, my

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lord, make my life longer.

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And make me to survive until the day

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of qiyamah.

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That he says.

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So Allah says, okay, I listen to you.

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I accepted your request.

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So Allah as a rab, he's the rab

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of everybody.

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Believer, unbeliever.

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But whatever he does as rabubi, as rab,

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it does not make anybody nearer to Allah.

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Does not give you real karama.

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You could become king, but kingdom cannot make

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nearer to Allah.

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You can own the whole universe.

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You can become biggest power on the face

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of the earth.

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Being the president of the, you know, most

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powerful country in the world.

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It does not make you anywhere nearer to

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Allah.

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Whatever Allah does as a rab, it does

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not make anybody nearer to Allah.

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Though there's so much karama.

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He made us to ride the horse, airplane.

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Karama is there, but this karama does not

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make you nearer to Allah.

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This karama does not make anybody nearer to

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Allah.

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Understand this thing properly.

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And that's why we keep failing.

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Sometimes we give actually somebody handsome, you become

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proud.

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Being handsome is not your achievement.

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Who did it?

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Allah did.

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Thank Him.

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Whenever you have more favor, it becomes more

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obligated to thank Him.

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Because you did not make yourself.

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If He gives you more money, it does

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not mean that He likes you more.

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Actually it becomes more obligated that you must

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obey Him.

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If He gives you more power, it does

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not mean that He likes you more.

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He wants to test you more.

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Whatever He does as a rab, it is

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more testing you.

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It never sign of nearness to Allah.

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Never sign of closeness to Allah.

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Like you know, we people become very much

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excited that my son has become 10 year

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old, 20 year old.

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Let us make a nice birthday party.

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Everybody comes and congratulate him.

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And going to make, ask him to cut

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the cake.

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So happy.

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But think really, who made him 10 year

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old?

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Did you make him 10 year old?

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Did son make himself 10 year old?

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And tell me in this world, is there

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anybody who after 10 year will not be

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10 year old?

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After 10 year, everybody will be 10 year

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old.

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Nothing to do with your son.

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Even animal, your son lies all the time,

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10 year, still be 10 year old.

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After 10 year, everybody will be 10 year

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old.

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So what you have done?

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In what sense you are celebrating?

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Did you achieve anything?

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Did you make anything?

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But your son achieve something.

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For example, he memorized the Quran.

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He passed the exam.

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He does something.

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That achievement.

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That different matter.

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But being 10 year old, nothing to do

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with him.

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Allah the Lord.

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Everybody after 10 year will be 10 year

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old.

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Once the child is born, whatever he has,

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he will get anyway.

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So understand, whatever Allah does as a Rabb,

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it does not make you nearer to Allah.

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Maybe it increase your responsibility.

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Having more money, having more power, having more

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space, owning the whole world, it does not

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make you anywhere nearer to Allah.

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So that one case, there is respect people

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get as Allah being a Rabb.

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Allah being a Rabb, whatever he does, it

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is a favor, but it is not your

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achievement.

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You don't get anything.

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Second thing Allah attributes what?

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Ilah.

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Ilah means he is ma'bood.

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He is mu'tah.

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He must be obeyed.

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He must be worshipped.

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As Ilah commands you, he says, worship me.

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Wa abud rabbaka.

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Worship me.

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Pray for me.

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Wa la rabbaka.

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Quran says, fa salli la rabbaka.

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Pray for your Lord.

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Or do sab sabr.

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Wa la rabbaka fa sabir.

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So if you see in the Quran, his

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commands are ayat Ilah.

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So he says to Musa al-Islam, O

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Musa, la ilaha ila ana fa abudni.

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O Musa, there is no ma'bood, no

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ilah other than me.

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Worship me.

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That is where actually comes your real honor.

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Now when he says do, and you do

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it.

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And when he says don't do, and you

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stop yourself.

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That is achievement.

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That is what real karamah is.

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If Allah says to do something, then do

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it.

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If Allah says don't do, then don't do

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it.

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That is what real karamah is.

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Is it clear?

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So when somebody comes to the masjid, it

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is karamah.

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Coming to the mosque is karamah.

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If that time your friend flies in there,

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who has more karamah?

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The one who comes to the mosque.

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The one who's flying there, nothing.

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But people will follow him and say how

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amazing it is.

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Allah did this.

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He didn't do anything.

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But coming to the mosque is your choice.

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You have two choices, whether come to the

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mosque or not to come to the mosque.

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And Allah said not come, and you listen

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to him, it is karamah.

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You know, you have every opportunity to do

00:30:52 --> 00:30:52

zina.

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But you say no, my lord did not

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like zina.

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He says in the Quran, it is ugly.

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It is hated.

00:31:01 --> 00:31:02

Very bad.

00:31:02 --> 00:31:03

I can't do this.

00:31:03 --> 00:31:06

You stop from that, Allah loves you.

00:31:06 --> 00:31:07

It is real karamah.

00:31:08 --> 00:31:10

You could cheat, but you did not cheat

00:31:10 --> 00:31:13

because your lord does not like cheating.

00:31:13 --> 00:31:15

That's karamah.

00:31:15 --> 00:31:16

You could bite people.

00:31:17 --> 00:31:19

Like somebody mentioned to me, there are some

00:31:19 --> 00:31:22

people in this world who always make videos

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against this person, that person, and then everybody

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enjoys and they watch it.

00:31:26 --> 00:31:27

Do you know what happened?

00:31:28 --> 00:31:30

All good deeds that you do, it goes

00:31:30 --> 00:31:31

to that person.

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You say, no, but he has done this.

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That's what bite-biting means.

00:31:36 --> 00:31:38

If I do a sin, and then you

00:31:38 --> 00:31:41

enjoy that and tell everybody, so I did

00:31:41 --> 00:31:43

sin, but now you also do sin.

00:31:44 --> 00:31:47

By talking to the people about my sin,

00:31:47 --> 00:31:48

you are doing sin.

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And if your sins are more than me,

00:31:50 --> 00:31:51

then your good deeds will come to me.

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Just think, really, that what we are doing,

00:31:55 --> 00:31:55

really.

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Unless Muhammad does not like bite-biting, and

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does not like people to spread that in

00:32:01 --> 00:32:04

the society, he loves people, then stop.

00:32:04 --> 00:32:07

If somebody bite-bites to you, stop.

00:32:08 --> 00:32:09

Run away from there.

00:32:09 --> 00:32:11

No, I can't do this.

00:32:11 --> 00:32:12

Lie?

00:32:12 --> 00:32:13

I cannot lie.

00:32:13 --> 00:32:15

Somebody wants to accuse a woman.

00:32:16 --> 00:32:17

People do very easily.

00:32:18 --> 00:32:20

It is one of the major sins, to

00:32:20 --> 00:32:22

accuse a woman of evil.

00:32:22 --> 00:32:24

It is in the Qur'an.

00:32:24 --> 00:32:26

The Qur'an says it is buhtan, not

00:32:26 --> 00:32:27

allowed.

00:32:27 --> 00:32:29

People must have four witnesses.

00:32:29 --> 00:32:32

Otherwise, they will be punished.

00:32:33 --> 00:32:35

And it is a very, very strong thing.

00:32:35 --> 00:32:37

Like this happened in the time of Umar

00:32:37 --> 00:32:39

al-Khattab, when Umar was the khalifa.

00:32:40 --> 00:32:43

One of his governors in Iraq was Mughira

00:32:43 --> 00:32:44

ibn al-Shu'aba.

00:32:45 --> 00:32:46

Do you know his name?

00:32:46 --> 00:32:48

Mughira ibn al-Shu'aba, one of the

00:32:48 --> 00:32:49

great companions.

00:32:51 --> 00:32:54

After leading Isha prayer, he went to the

00:32:54 --> 00:32:56

house of a lady, a woman.

00:32:57 --> 00:33:01

So another companion, Abu Bakr, he got in

00:33:01 --> 00:33:02

doubt that he has gone to do zina.

00:33:04 --> 00:33:05

But he knows if he goes and sees

00:33:05 --> 00:33:08

it, he is going to be punished because

00:33:08 --> 00:33:09

he needs four witnesses.

00:33:09 --> 00:33:12

So he called three people, to now four.

00:33:12 --> 00:33:14

And they went and they saw whatever they

00:33:14 --> 00:33:14

saw.

00:33:15 --> 00:33:17

Then Abu Bakr wrote to Umar al-Khattab

00:33:17 --> 00:33:21

in Medina that your governor Mughira has done

00:33:21 --> 00:33:21

zina.

00:33:23 --> 00:33:25

And we are four witnesses.

00:33:25 --> 00:33:28

Umar became alarmed that how can it be

00:33:28 --> 00:33:28

possible?

00:33:28 --> 00:33:30

Then he called Mughira and he called all

00:33:30 --> 00:33:33

four people to Medina to witness.

00:33:33 --> 00:33:38

Umar asked everybody separately, each one of them.

00:33:38 --> 00:33:40

So Abu Bakr said, yeah, I saw him

00:33:40 --> 00:33:40

doing zina.

00:33:41 --> 00:33:43

Second person said, yeah, I saw Mughira doing

00:33:43 --> 00:33:43

zina.

00:33:44 --> 00:33:46

Then the third person said, I saw Mughira

00:33:46 --> 00:33:47

doing zina.

00:33:48 --> 00:33:50

Then the fourth person, Ziyad ibn Abi, he

00:33:50 --> 00:33:52

said, I saw them in the same blanket.

00:33:54 --> 00:33:55

I didn't see him doing zina.

00:33:55 --> 00:33:57

I saw them in the same sheet.

00:33:58 --> 00:34:02

Umar said, then everybody said that I'm lying.

00:34:03 --> 00:34:05

I'm going to punish all of you because

00:34:05 --> 00:34:07

it is only three people.

00:34:07 --> 00:34:10

Then everybody was striking 80 lashes.

00:34:11 --> 00:34:13

And then he said to these people, tell

00:34:13 --> 00:34:13

that you are liar.

00:34:14 --> 00:34:16

Otherwise, your witness never will be accepted.

00:34:18 --> 00:34:19

Then three people said, we are liars.

00:34:20 --> 00:34:21

Umar said, okay, now you repent.

00:34:21 --> 00:34:23

Your witness will be accepted.

00:34:23 --> 00:34:25

Abu Bakr said, I'm not lying.

00:34:25 --> 00:34:28

Umar said, you cannot witness in the court

00:34:28 --> 00:34:29

after this event.

00:34:29 --> 00:34:30

And then Abu Bakr used to say to

00:34:30 --> 00:34:32

the people, don't bring me to the court.

00:34:32 --> 00:34:33

Umar has forbidden me.

00:34:34 --> 00:34:35

That how Islam is.

00:34:35 --> 00:34:37

You can't spread a rumor.

00:34:37 --> 00:34:39

You can't say about anybody unless it is

00:34:39 --> 00:34:40

proper proof.

00:34:40 --> 00:34:44

Even three people doing zina is still not

00:34:44 --> 00:34:44

zina.

00:34:45 --> 00:34:47

Still you are not allowed to say unless

00:34:47 --> 00:34:48

it is four.

00:34:48 --> 00:34:50

Four means the whole society basically.

00:34:50 --> 00:34:52

It means that somebody does zina in public.

00:34:53 --> 00:34:55

If somebody does zina hiding, how can it

00:34:55 --> 00:34:56

be four people?

00:34:57 --> 00:34:58

That how Islam is.

00:34:58 --> 00:34:59

People's honor, respect.

00:34:59 --> 00:35:01

I'm trying to say the second thing that

00:35:01 --> 00:35:03

Quran keeps talking is Allah.

00:35:04 --> 00:35:06

Allah means he's ma'bud.

00:35:06 --> 00:35:07

He's mu'tah.

00:35:07 --> 00:35:08

He must be obeyed.

00:35:08 --> 00:35:11

Whatever he commands you, mu'tah.

00:35:11 --> 00:35:11

That what Quran says.

00:35:15 --> 00:35:17

That what real karamah is.

00:35:17 --> 00:35:20

Real karamah is to know Allah is Allah.

00:35:21 --> 00:35:21

Not Allah is Rab.

00:35:22 --> 00:35:23

That even shaitan does.

00:35:24 --> 00:35:27

Believing Allah is Rab, even shaitan does.

00:35:27 --> 00:35:29

Even Iblis said, oh my Rab.

00:35:30 --> 00:35:34

Making Allah Rab does not make you believer.

00:35:35 --> 00:35:36

Does not make you to go to paradise.

00:35:37 --> 00:35:39

If somebody says my Rab is Allah, it

00:35:39 --> 00:35:40

doesn't make a difference.

00:35:41 --> 00:35:42

Shaitan also says.

00:35:43 --> 00:35:45

Is there anybody worse kafir than shaitan?

00:35:46 --> 00:35:46

No.

00:35:46 --> 00:35:47

He says my Rab.

00:35:47 --> 00:35:50

What you need to do is make him

00:35:50 --> 00:35:50

Allah.

00:35:50 --> 00:35:52

That's why no messenger comes and says la

00:35:52 --> 00:35:53

rabba illallah.

00:35:53 --> 00:35:55

Has any prophet asked you to say la

00:35:55 --> 00:35:56

rabba illallah?

00:35:57 --> 00:35:58

All the messengers ask you what?

00:35:58 --> 00:35:59

La ilaha illallah.

00:36:00 --> 00:36:02

Every messenger has only one thing.

00:36:02 --> 00:36:03

La ilaha illallah.

00:36:03 --> 00:36:07

No one worthy to be worshipped other than

00:36:07 --> 00:36:09

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

00:36:09 --> 00:36:13

When people worship him, when people obey him,

00:36:13 --> 00:36:14

that is the real karamah.

00:36:15 --> 00:36:18

That's why ulema used to say al istiqamatu

00:36:18 --> 00:36:20

fauqal karamah.

00:36:21 --> 00:36:23

Being firm on the path of Allah, obeying

00:36:23 --> 00:36:27

Allah, knowing halal and haram, avoiding the haram,

00:36:27 --> 00:36:29

that is above any miracle.

00:36:31 --> 00:36:33

If somebody flies and you are one who

00:36:33 --> 00:36:37

don't backbite, you are in eye of Allah

00:36:37 --> 00:36:39

million times better than this man who's flying.

00:36:41 --> 00:36:43

Flying in the air does not give you

00:36:43 --> 00:36:43

any importance.

00:36:44 --> 00:36:46

Actually even one subhanallah.

00:36:46 --> 00:36:49

If you say subhanallah and you see me

00:36:49 --> 00:36:53

flying ten years already in the air, that

00:36:53 --> 00:36:56

person who said subhanallah in one minute, in

00:36:56 --> 00:36:58

eye of Allah, he's million times better than

00:36:58 --> 00:37:00

me flying all the life in the air.

00:37:00 --> 00:37:02

Flying in the air does not give any

00:37:02 --> 00:37:02

value.

00:37:03 --> 00:37:03

Nothing happens.

00:37:04 --> 00:37:07

If I walk on the water and you

00:37:07 --> 00:37:09

say subhanallah, the one who says subhanallah is

00:37:09 --> 00:37:11

nearer to Allah than the one who walks

00:37:11 --> 00:37:12

on the water.

00:37:12 --> 00:37:14

Understand that why there are hadiths of the

00:37:14 --> 00:37:18

Prophet ﷺ that when people say subhanallah, one

00:37:18 --> 00:37:22

subhanallah fills all the space between the earth

00:37:22 --> 00:37:23

and the heaven.

00:37:24 --> 00:37:25

Can you count how much it is?

00:37:25 --> 00:37:29

One subhanallah fills all the space between the

00:37:29 --> 00:37:29

earth and the heaven.

00:37:30 --> 00:37:30

One subhanallah.

00:37:30 --> 00:37:31

Same alhamdulillah.

00:37:32 --> 00:37:33

Because this is ibadah.

00:37:34 --> 00:37:35

This is what your achievement is.

00:37:36 --> 00:37:37

That what makes you nearer to Allah.

00:37:39 --> 00:37:43

There's a poet in India, you must have

00:37:43 --> 00:37:45

heard the name of Amir Khusro.

00:37:45 --> 00:37:46

Do you know Amir Khusro?

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So in India the biggest poet of India

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has been Amir Khusro.

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From early Islam until our time, there has

00:37:56 --> 00:37:59

been no poet in India equal to Amir

00:37:59 --> 00:37:59

Khusro.

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In Urdu language you have got like Ghalib

00:38:02 --> 00:38:02

and Iqbal.

00:38:02 --> 00:38:05

But as a whole, Persian, Arabic, Urdu, all

00:38:05 --> 00:38:08

these languages, the best poet is who?

00:38:08 --> 00:38:09

Amir Khusro.

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Amir Khusro said in one of the poetic

00:38:12 --> 00:38:21

words, O believer,

00:38:22 --> 00:38:25

O the one who worships Allah, obeys Him,

00:38:26 --> 00:38:30

you say your value is this world and

00:38:30 --> 00:38:30

hereafter.

00:38:31 --> 00:38:34

If somebody gives you this world and hereafter,

00:38:34 --> 00:38:35

they can buy you.

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That's your price, that you say.

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No.

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Raise your price.

00:38:41 --> 00:38:42

You are still cheaper.

00:38:43 --> 00:38:44

Nobody can buy you.

00:38:45 --> 00:38:48

This world and hereafter cannot buy you.

00:38:48 --> 00:38:49

You are more expensive.

00:38:50 --> 00:38:52

A believer is more expensive than this world

00:38:52 --> 00:38:52

and hereafter.

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That's how a believer is.

00:38:54 --> 00:38:55

A believer in the eye of Allah is

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so precious, you cannot imagine.

00:38:59 --> 00:39:01

People who worship Allah, that is real karama.

00:39:02 --> 00:39:04

The real honour comes there.

00:39:05 --> 00:39:08

So understand properly that don't worry if you

00:39:08 --> 00:39:08

don't fly.

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Because flies also fly.

00:39:12 --> 00:39:12

So don't worry.

00:39:13 --> 00:39:15

If you don't walk on the water, don't

00:39:15 --> 00:39:15

worry.

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Because even the fish swim.

00:39:17 --> 00:39:18

So are the fish Waliullah?

00:39:18 --> 00:39:19

Are they Waliullah?

00:39:20 --> 00:39:23

Real Waliullah is obedience of Allah.

00:39:23 --> 00:39:25

Real Waliullah is Taqwa.

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That is real Waliullah that Allah has made.

00:39:28 --> 00:39:31

So what we are saying really is obedience

00:39:31 --> 00:39:31

of Allah.

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That's why the prophets come, messengers come.

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But sometimes these real people, chosen people, Allah

00:39:39 --> 00:39:40

loves them.

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So sometimes He will do to these people

00:39:42 --> 00:39:45

something which generally people don't do.

00:39:46 --> 00:39:48

It's because Allah wants to put their love

00:39:48 --> 00:39:49

in the heart of people.

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Sometimes, not always.

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If there is somebody in the world who

00:39:53 --> 00:39:55

worships Allah, obeys Him, and He has no

00:39:55 --> 00:39:58

miracles, it doesn't make any difference.

00:39:59 --> 00:40:00

This person is nearer to Allah.

00:40:01 --> 00:40:04

But sometimes for some people, Allah will make

00:40:04 --> 00:40:05

some miracles.

00:40:06 --> 00:40:07

Why He does this?

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It's out of His own wisdom.

00:40:08 --> 00:40:11

Sometimes there is a desperate need, something happens,

00:40:11 --> 00:40:12

so Allah supports him.

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But this support does not make him nearer

00:40:16 --> 00:40:18

to Allah compared to other believers.

00:40:19 --> 00:40:22

Could be somebody has no miracle, he's nearer

00:40:22 --> 00:40:23

to Allah, then those are miracles.

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Miracles are made by Allah, given by Allah.

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During British rule in India, there was Hindu

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ruler in one of them.

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Because India was divided into so many states.

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Some states were owned by Muslims, some were

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owned by Hindus, and most of India was

00:40:43 --> 00:40:44

under British rule.

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Even those which were owned by Muslims and

00:40:46 --> 00:40:48

Hindus, they basically are under the supervision of

00:40:48 --> 00:40:51

British king or queen.

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In one of these Hindu states, once an

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alim came from Yemen.

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When he came there, so Allah, for some

00:41:03 --> 00:41:06

reason, Allah helped him.

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So there was a fire, and this man

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said, la ilaha illallah, and walked over the

00:41:13 --> 00:41:13

fire.

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So then, you know, it was a big

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thing.

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Then he did another death.

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At that time, even the Hindu ruler and

00:41:22 --> 00:41:25

people, ministers, everybody seeing that he walks on

00:41:25 --> 00:41:26

the fire.

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It became big news.

00:41:28 --> 00:41:31

Even the newspaper at that time, it published

00:41:31 --> 00:41:32

the story, came everywhere in India, that this

00:41:32 --> 00:41:33

person walked on the fire.

00:41:35 --> 00:41:38

Then the next day, the Hindu ruler said

00:41:38 --> 00:41:41

to this Muslim, that we are amazed, you

00:41:41 --> 00:41:44

know, and can you show it to my

00:41:44 --> 00:41:44

mother?

00:41:44 --> 00:41:45

Because she was not there.

00:41:45 --> 00:41:47

She wants to see.

00:41:48 --> 00:41:50

So he said, you know, I'm not somebody

00:41:50 --> 00:41:50

who shows.

00:41:51 --> 00:41:52

This happens only because Allah wanted.

00:41:53 --> 00:41:54

Now I can't do.

00:41:55 --> 00:41:57

For some reason, Allah made me to, this

00:41:57 --> 00:41:58

happened, I cannot do.

00:41:59 --> 00:42:01

I'm someone who made shows.

00:42:01 --> 00:42:02

I cannot do this.

00:42:03 --> 00:42:04

So sometimes it could happen.

00:42:04 --> 00:42:05

Sometimes you can see.

00:42:05 --> 00:42:07

You know, the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,

00:42:07 --> 00:42:09

has a little food, and so many people

00:42:09 --> 00:42:10

can eat.

00:42:10 --> 00:42:15

Like in Ghazwa Khandaq, Ghazwa Khandaq, Muslims were

00:42:15 --> 00:42:19

very desperate, 1400 Muslims, or maybe more than

00:42:19 --> 00:42:19

that.

00:42:20 --> 00:42:21

Unbelievers are surrounding them everywhere.

00:42:22 --> 00:42:26

And Quran says a very, very tough time

00:42:26 --> 00:42:27

for the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.

00:42:27 --> 00:42:29

And once, the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,

00:42:29 --> 00:42:31

the companions came to the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi

00:42:31 --> 00:42:35

wa sallam, and they uncovered their belly.

00:42:36 --> 00:42:37

Everybody has got one stone.

00:42:38 --> 00:42:40

Meaning they're so hungry, they cannot stand.

00:42:40 --> 00:42:43

They tie a stone on their stomach so

00:42:43 --> 00:42:44

they can at least move.

00:42:45 --> 00:42:47

The Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, you know,

00:42:47 --> 00:42:49

removed his shirt, and he has got two

00:42:49 --> 00:42:50

stones.

00:42:51 --> 00:42:52

That how hungry they are.

00:42:52 --> 00:42:53

This is real karma, really.

00:42:53 --> 00:42:56

For the sake of Allah, being firm in

00:42:56 --> 00:42:59

his path, still obeying him, not leaving his,

00:42:59 --> 00:43:00

that is the real thing, really.

00:43:01 --> 00:43:02

That you become so firm.

00:43:02 --> 00:43:06

The Quran says, be firm as you have

00:43:06 --> 00:43:07

been commanded.

00:43:08 --> 00:43:09

So he was the Prophet.

00:43:09 --> 00:43:12

So then Jabir, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, said,

00:43:12 --> 00:43:13

I really felt very bad.

00:43:13 --> 00:43:14

The Prophet is so hungry.

00:43:15 --> 00:43:18

So he went to his wife and asked

00:43:18 --> 00:43:19

her, do you have anything?

00:43:19 --> 00:43:21

So she said, yeah, I got a small

00:43:21 --> 00:43:22

sheep.

00:43:23 --> 00:43:23

A small goat.

00:43:24 --> 00:43:25

So it will be enough for the Prophet.

00:43:25 --> 00:43:26

A few people with him.

00:43:26 --> 00:43:29

If two, three people come, I can slaughter,

00:43:29 --> 00:43:30

make some bread, they can eat.

00:43:31 --> 00:43:33

So Jabir comes to the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi

00:43:33 --> 00:43:36

wa sallam, and says, my wife is cooking

00:43:36 --> 00:43:38

some food, so you and a few people

00:43:38 --> 00:43:39

around you can come.

00:43:41 --> 00:43:42

The Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, said, oh,

00:43:43 --> 00:43:45

all the people of Khandab, come to Jabir's

00:43:45 --> 00:43:45

house.

00:43:46 --> 00:43:47

Fourteen hundred people.

00:43:48 --> 00:43:50

Jabir became very worried that now they will

00:43:50 --> 00:43:51

come and there's no food.

00:43:51 --> 00:43:54

He went to his wife and said, you

00:43:54 --> 00:43:56

know, you ask a few people, and the

00:43:56 --> 00:43:57

Prophet is coming with all the people.

00:43:59 --> 00:44:02

So his wife said, did you tell him

00:44:02 --> 00:44:03

that, you know, only a few people?

00:44:03 --> 00:44:04

He said, yeah, I said.

00:44:04 --> 00:44:05

He said, then don't worry.

00:44:05 --> 00:44:06

Then he knows.

00:44:07 --> 00:44:08

And then the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,

00:44:08 --> 00:44:11

came and he asked Jabir, don't remove, you

00:44:11 --> 00:44:14

know, the pan in which you're cooking the

00:44:14 --> 00:44:14

food.

00:44:14 --> 00:44:16

Don't remove it until I come.

00:44:17 --> 00:44:18

And then he came and he made some

00:44:18 --> 00:44:21

dua, and then they kept bringing the food

00:44:21 --> 00:44:25

and bread, and groups of the group eating

00:44:25 --> 00:44:27

and eating until everybody become full.

00:44:28 --> 00:44:31

So Allah put a barakah a little bit

00:44:31 --> 00:44:31

there.

00:44:32 --> 00:44:34

But did it happen every day for the

00:44:34 --> 00:44:36

Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, that suddenly food

00:44:36 --> 00:44:36

comes?

00:44:36 --> 00:44:36

No.

00:44:37 --> 00:44:38

Many times he was hungry.

00:44:38 --> 00:44:39

So many times.

00:44:39 --> 00:44:41

This Allah does sometimes, not all the time.

00:44:42 --> 00:44:43

The Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he spent

00:44:43 --> 00:44:44

so much time in hunger.

00:44:46 --> 00:44:49

Companions as well, like, you know, Abu Hurayrah

00:44:49 --> 00:44:52

says, for a few days I was hungry.

00:44:52 --> 00:44:53

No food.

00:44:54 --> 00:44:55

And I could not even walk.

00:44:56 --> 00:44:57

I was lying on the ground because I

00:44:57 --> 00:44:58

could not walk properly.

00:44:59 --> 00:45:00

So then I saw Umar coming.

00:45:01 --> 00:45:02

So I said, okay, let me ask him

00:45:02 --> 00:45:03

a question.

00:45:04 --> 00:45:06

And by the time he'll answer, his house

00:45:06 --> 00:45:06

will come.

00:45:07 --> 00:45:08

So then he'll ask me, come on, have

00:45:08 --> 00:45:08

food.

00:45:08 --> 00:45:10

So I asked a question, intention was not

00:45:10 --> 00:45:11

to know the answer.

00:45:11 --> 00:45:13

And Umar answered.

00:45:13 --> 00:45:15

And when the house came, Umar did not

00:45:15 --> 00:45:16

ask him to come inside the house.

00:45:17 --> 00:45:17

He left him.

00:45:17 --> 00:45:19

Maybe Umar also did not have anything.

00:45:19 --> 00:45:21

Then Abu Bakr came.

00:45:21 --> 00:45:22

He said, I asked him the question.

00:45:23 --> 00:45:25

And Abu Bakr answered me, but did not

00:45:25 --> 00:45:26

ask me to follow him to his house.

00:45:27 --> 00:45:27

Hungry.

00:45:27 --> 00:45:29

Then the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, came.

00:45:29 --> 00:45:31

So I asked him the question.

00:45:31 --> 00:45:32

So the Prophet smiled.

00:45:33 --> 00:45:34

Because he knew it was not a question.

00:45:34 --> 00:45:35

He was hungry.

00:45:35 --> 00:45:36

The Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, said, okay,

00:45:36 --> 00:45:37

come to my house.

00:45:38 --> 00:45:39

I followed him.

00:45:39 --> 00:45:41

The Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, asked his

00:45:41 --> 00:45:43

wife, is there anything to eat or drink?

00:45:44 --> 00:45:46

So his wife said, there's one bowl of

00:45:46 --> 00:45:46

milk.

00:45:47 --> 00:45:48

The Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, said, okay,

00:45:48 --> 00:45:49

bring it.

00:45:49 --> 00:45:51

And then he said to Abu Huraira, go

00:45:51 --> 00:45:53

and ask all the people in the masjid

00:45:53 --> 00:45:54

to come.

00:45:54 --> 00:45:56

Abu Huraira said, I was so hungry.

00:45:56 --> 00:45:58

This bowl was not enough for me.

00:45:58 --> 00:46:00

And now he asked me to call all

00:46:00 --> 00:46:01

these people.

00:46:01 --> 00:46:03

And when I call them, what will happen,

00:46:03 --> 00:46:04

he's going to ask me to serve them.

00:46:05 --> 00:46:05

So I'll be the last person.

00:46:06 --> 00:46:06

Nothing will be left.

00:46:07 --> 00:46:09

But there was no way other than to

00:46:09 --> 00:46:09

obey him.

00:46:10 --> 00:46:11

I went and I called all these people,

00:46:11 --> 00:46:12

nearly 70 people.

00:46:13 --> 00:46:13

They came.

00:46:14 --> 00:46:16

The Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, asked Abu

00:46:16 --> 00:46:19

Huraira, give the food, drink to everybody.

00:46:19 --> 00:46:21

One person drink food.

00:46:21 --> 00:46:24

Second person, third person, until everybody full.

00:46:25 --> 00:46:27

Then the Prophet said to Abu Huraira, now

00:46:27 --> 00:46:28

nobody left other than you and me.

00:46:29 --> 00:46:29

You drink.

00:46:30 --> 00:46:31

Abu Huraira drank.

00:46:31 --> 00:46:32

The Prophet said, no, drink more.

00:46:33 --> 00:46:33

He drank.

00:46:33 --> 00:46:34

The Prophet said, no, drink more.

00:46:35 --> 00:46:37

So he said, I don't find any place.

00:46:37 --> 00:46:38

There's nothing to go.

00:46:38 --> 00:46:39

I can't do more.

00:46:39 --> 00:46:41

Then the Prophet was the last sallallahu alayhi

00:46:41 --> 00:46:42

wa sallam to drink.

00:46:43 --> 00:46:44

But it does not happen every day.

00:46:44 --> 00:46:47

Then his wife said, so I'm hungry.

00:46:48 --> 00:46:52

Like once, the hadith in Sahih Muslim, somebody

00:46:52 --> 00:46:54

came to the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,

00:46:55 --> 00:46:55

and a tailor.

00:46:56 --> 00:46:58

A tailor was there and he made food.

00:46:58 --> 00:47:00

He was a poor person, so he made

00:47:00 --> 00:47:00

little food.

00:47:01 --> 00:47:02

So he said to the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi

00:47:02 --> 00:47:05

wa sallam, I want to invite you to

00:47:05 --> 00:47:07

come to my house and have dinner with

00:47:07 --> 00:47:07

me.

00:47:08 --> 00:47:11

The Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, said, my

00:47:11 --> 00:47:15

wife, Aisha, called maybe people think the Prophet

00:47:15 --> 00:47:16

is very greedy.

00:47:16 --> 00:47:17

Somebody asked him to come and he said,

00:47:18 --> 00:47:20

no, my wife, if you invite me to

00:47:20 --> 00:47:22

your house for dinner, and I said, no,

00:47:22 --> 00:47:23

I invite my wife as well.

00:47:24 --> 00:47:25

The Sheikh is very greedy.

00:47:26 --> 00:47:27

I asked him and now he wants the

00:47:27 --> 00:47:27

whole family.

00:47:28 --> 00:47:31

So he said, you and the Prophet, no,

00:47:31 --> 00:47:32

my wife as well.

00:47:32 --> 00:47:33

He said, no.

00:47:33 --> 00:47:34

Then the Prophet said, no.

00:47:35 --> 00:47:36

Then he went.

00:47:37 --> 00:47:39

Then again he came and said to the

00:47:39 --> 00:47:40

Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, please come to

00:47:40 --> 00:47:41

my house for dinner.

00:47:41 --> 00:47:44

The Prophet said, wahabihi, my wife as well.

00:47:44 --> 00:47:45

He said, no.

00:47:45 --> 00:47:46

The Prophet said, no.

00:47:48 --> 00:47:49

Then the third time came.

00:47:49 --> 00:47:50

Then he said, yes.

00:47:51 --> 00:47:53

So just think really, sometimes people could think

00:47:53 --> 00:47:54

how is it possible?

00:47:55 --> 00:47:57

The Prophet is so nice, so kind.

00:47:57 --> 00:47:59

If somebody invites him, why he insists to

00:47:59 --> 00:47:59

call his wife?

00:48:00 --> 00:48:03

The reason is noble people, if they know

00:48:03 --> 00:48:05

their family is hungry, they can't eat.

00:48:06 --> 00:48:06

Impossible.

00:48:07 --> 00:48:09

If you invite the Prophet and his wife

00:48:09 --> 00:48:12

is hungry like him, then can he eat?

00:48:13 --> 00:48:14

Impossible for him to eat.

00:48:15 --> 00:48:17

You want to feed him, will he be

00:48:17 --> 00:48:17

happy?

00:48:18 --> 00:48:19

He can't be.

00:48:19 --> 00:48:20

Even if you have little food, if you

00:48:20 --> 00:48:22

share it between him and his wife, he'll

00:48:22 --> 00:48:22

be happy.

00:48:23 --> 00:48:24

But if you only give food to him,

00:48:24 --> 00:48:26

not his wife, he can't.

00:48:26 --> 00:48:27

That is a lesson for us people.

00:48:28 --> 00:48:30

Many people go for dinner and all those

00:48:30 --> 00:48:32

things and leave their wives behind, their family.

00:48:32 --> 00:48:33

It's not the right way.

00:48:33 --> 00:48:36

Take your wife, be with the family.

00:48:37 --> 00:48:41

The Prophet said, she as well?

00:48:41 --> 00:48:42

So the man said, now yes.

00:48:43 --> 00:48:45

Anas narrated the story.

00:48:46 --> 00:48:48

When he said yes, then the Prophet or

00:48:48 --> 00:48:51

Aisha they become so happy and they went

00:48:51 --> 00:48:54

to the house of this tailor, pushing each

00:48:54 --> 00:48:54

other.

00:48:55 --> 00:48:56

Aisha pushing the Prophet and the Prophet pushing

00:48:56 --> 00:48:57

Aisha.

00:48:57 --> 00:48:58

They're so happy.

00:48:58 --> 00:48:59

This is a good family.

00:48:59 --> 00:49:00

They're happy.

00:49:01 --> 00:49:02

This really is a Prophet that did not

00:49:02 --> 00:49:04

get this thing every time.

00:49:05 --> 00:49:07

But Allah does sometimes because he loves these

00:49:07 --> 00:49:07

people.

00:49:08 --> 00:49:09

It happens to them, it happens to the

00:49:09 --> 00:49:11

believers, it happens anytime.

00:49:12 --> 00:49:13

But the real thing is what?

00:49:13 --> 00:49:15

The real thing is obedience of Allah.

00:49:15 --> 00:49:16

That you must obey him.

00:49:17 --> 00:49:18

Don't commit any sin.

00:49:19 --> 00:49:22

What the ulema have been saying is that

00:49:23 --> 00:49:26

karamat of awliya means this thing will happen.

00:49:26 --> 00:49:27

This is true.

00:49:27 --> 00:49:29

But it does not happen with their power.

00:49:29 --> 00:49:31

It happens when Allah wills.

00:49:32 --> 00:49:34

So in this matter there are so many

00:49:34 --> 00:49:38

stories, you know, all over the world.

00:49:39 --> 00:49:41

But the problem really is whenever the stories

00:49:41 --> 00:49:45

of miracles happen, all the ulema write.

00:49:46 --> 00:49:50

Most times, basically 90% it all lies.

00:49:51 --> 00:49:52

People just make up.

00:49:53 --> 00:49:54

You know.

00:49:54 --> 00:49:59

Somehow misunderstanding, lying, somebody says something, people understand.

00:49:59 --> 00:50:02

Most times, all the time, it's like that.

00:50:03 --> 00:50:05

And you always see these stories happen when

00:50:05 --> 00:50:08

the society where there are less learned people.

00:50:10 --> 00:50:13

The people who are learned, if you study

00:50:13 --> 00:50:16

the life of Abu Hanifa, do you ever

00:50:16 --> 00:50:18

find Abu Hanifa flies?

00:50:19 --> 00:50:21

Did you see Abu Hanifa walks on the

00:50:21 --> 00:50:21

water?

00:50:22 --> 00:50:22

No.

00:50:22 --> 00:50:24

Read the biography of Malik.

00:50:25 --> 00:50:27

Did you ever see Malik went to Medina,

00:50:27 --> 00:50:29

Mecca to do Umrah, did not have enough

00:50:29 --> 00:50:32

time, and he closed his eye and opened,

00:50:32 --> 00:50:32

he was in Mecca.

00:50:33 --> 00:50:35

But you find a sheikh in Punjab.

00:50:36 --> 00:50:37

What will he do?

00:50:38 --> 00:50:39

He says, he doesn't pray.

00:50:40 --> 00:50:41

So ask him, why don't you pray?

00:50:41 --> 00:50:42

He says, no, I don't pray with these

00:50:42 --> 00:50:42

people.

00:50:43 --> 00:50:44

I pray in the Kaaba.

00:50:46 --> 00:50:47

So you see, that I say.

00:50:47 --> 00:50:51

And people go, my sheikh, he has got

00:50:51 --> 00:50:55

a miracle of what they call means the

00:50:55 --> 00:50:57

earth has become narrow for him.

00:50:57 --> 00:50:59

So he just steps in the Kaaba.

00:51:01 --> 00:51:03

Why it only happens in Punjab?

00:51:03 --> 00:51:05

Why not in Kufa and Basra?

00:51:05 --> 00:51:06

Why not in Mecca and Medina?

00:51:07 --> 00:51:08

Only Punjab people do this.

00:51:09 --> 00:51:13

I read a book written by Ghulam Sarwar

00:51:13 --> 00:51:15

Lahuri, book in Farsi.

00:52:46 --> 00:52:49

So he said to one of his student

00:52:49 --> 00:52:54

that, you know, make sure that nobody comes

00:52:54 --> 00:52:55

to meet me at this time.

00:52:56 --> 00:52:57

If somebody comes, ask him to wait for

00:52:57 --> 00:52:59

me because I want to have some rest.

00:52:59 --> 00:53:01

Even if Khadir comes, even if Khadir comes.

00:53:02 --> 00:53:03

He just said like that.

00:53:03 --> 00:53:05

Even if Khadir comes, don't let him to

00:53:05 --> 00:53:05

come.

00:53:06 --> 00:53:10

And then he was waiting there, and somebody

00:53:10 --> 00:53:11

came and said, I want to meet Sheikh.

00:53:11 --> 00:53:12

He said, no.

00:53:12 --> 00:53:15

Sheikh has, you know, said, no, nobody can

00:53:15 --> 00:53:15

come.

00:53:15 --> 00:53:16

He insisted.

00:53:16 --> 00:53:18

This man asked him, what is your name?

00:53:18 --> 00:53:19

He said, my name is Khadir.

00:53:19 --> 00:53:20

He said, you are the one, he said.

00:53:21 --> 00:53:21

Don't allow him.

00:53:22 --> 00:53:23

So, you know, just happened his name to

00:53:23 --> 00:53:24

be Khadir.

00:53:25 --> 00:53:26

So now you can make any story, you

00:53:26 --> 00:53:28

know, people also have Khadir name.

00:53:29 --> 00:53:30

But how can be that Khadir, you know,

00:53:31 --> 00:53:33

more likely he died because, you know, Khadir

00:53:33 --> 00:53:34

was there.

00:53:34 --> 00:53:36

We never see Khadir coming in Battle of

00:53:36 --> 00:53:37

Uhud or Badr.

00:53:37 --> 00:53:39

He never meets Professor Lawson.

00:53:39 --> 00:53:40

He never meets Abu Bakr Siddiq.

00:53:40 --> 00:53:42

He never meets Umar.

00:53:42 --> 00:53:44

He never meets Abu Hanifa, Malik Shafi.

00:53:44 --> 00:53:47

And suddenly, after 1,400 years, he is

00:53:47 --> 00:53:50

everywhere, in every field of India and Pakistan.

00:53:51 --> 00:53:52

So why he's so keen to be in

00:53:52 --> 00:53:52

India and Pakistan?

00:53:53 --> 00:53:55

And why he is so keen to be

00:53:55 --> 00:53:55

in our time?

00:53:55 --> 00:53:56

Why he didn't come?

00:53:56 --> 00:53:58

So many, many stories, if you go, really,

00:53:58 --> 00:53:59

so many problems.

00:54:00 --> 00:54:03

Imam Zahabi, Rahimullah, also said, among the awliya,

00:54:04 --> 00:54:06

those who people say very pious people, among

00:54:06 --> 00:54:10

them, you know, the people, you know, those

00:54:10 --> 00:54:12

whose stories of miracles are more true is

00:54:12 --> 00:54:13

Abdul Qadir Jilani.

00:54:14 --> 00:54:17

His stories are more true compared to other

00:54:17 --> 00:54:17

people.

00:54:18 --> 00:54:20

But even his stories, more than 90%

00:54:20 --> 00:54:21

are invented.

00:54:22 --> 00:54:25

People make a story so much you cannot

00:54:25 --> 00:54:25

imagine.

00:54:25 --> 00:54:27

I'll tell you a story how stories are

00:54:27 --> 00:54:27

made.

00:54:28 --> 00:54:31

Once I went to, from India to Bangladesh,

00:54:32 --> 00:54:36

for a Tabligh-e-Ijtema, you know, gathering.

00:54:36 --> 00:54:38

They have biggest Ijtema in Bangladesh.

00:54:39 --> 00:54:40

So I went with a group of the

00:54:40 --> 00:54:41

ulama.

00:54:41 --> 00:54:41

I was not the leader.

00:54:42 --> 00:54:44

I was younger, but somebody was leading.

00:54:44 --> 00:54:45

We went there.

00:54:45 --> 00:54:47

We spent two weeks in Bangladesh, Tabligh, and

00:54:47 --> 00:54:48

those things.

00:54:48 --> 00:54:51

So when you come from Bangladesh to Indian

00:54:51 --> 00:54:55

border, so you have to get a raksha,

00:54:55 --> 00:54:59

you know, people pull it, and then you

00:54:59 --> 00:55:00

cross the border.

00:55:01 --> 00:55:02

My raksha was the first.

00:55:03 --> 00:55:05

So when I crossed the Indian border, and

00:55:05 --> 00:55:07

this is Indian village, mostly Hindu.

00:55:07 --> 00:55:08

Actually, nearly everybody Hindu.

00:55:09 --> 00:55:11

So some Hindu young boys came to me

00:55:11 --> 00:55:13

and said, we are going to build a

00:55:13 --> 00:55:15

temple, and we are collecting money, to give

00:55:15 --> 00:55:15

some money.

00:55:17 --> 00:55:19

So, you know, I just wanted to be

00:55:19 --> 00:55:19

clever.

00:55:19 --> 00:55:20

So I said to him, you see the

00:55:20 --> 00:55:22

person who's coming behind me, the big sheikh,

00:55:23 --> 00:55:23

he's our leader.

00:55:24 --> 00:55:24

Go and ask him.

00:55:25 --> 00:55:27

So they left me, and we went.

00:55:27 --> 00:55:30

And then, you know, sheikh came, and we

00:55:30 --> 00:55:32

traveling together, came to Lucknow.

00:55:32 --> 00:55:33

Nothing happened.

00:55:34 --> 00:55:35

Then somebody came to me after one or

00:55:35 --> 00:55:36

two weeks.

00:55:36 --> 00:55:39

He said, when you came from Bangladesh, something

00:55:39 --> 00:55:40

happened on the border.

00:55:40 --> 00:55:41

I said, nothing.

00:55:42 --> 00:55:43

He said, this sheikh who was with you,

00:55:44 --> 00:55:45

he has given a speech in the mosque

00:55:45 --> 00:55:47

of Lucknow, that he was coming from the

00:55:47 --> 00:55:50

border of Bangladesh, and when he came there,

00:55:51 --> 00:55:53

Hindus came with him, to him, with a

00:55:53 --> 00:55:56

sword and knife and all those things, to

00:55:56 --> 00:55:57

kill him.

00:55:57 --> 00:55:58

And he said, fear Allah.

00:55:58 --> 00:56:00

Then all the swords and all the knives

00:56:00 --> 00:56:02

fell on the ground, and he came safely.

00:56:03 --> 00:56:05

So I said, actually, I was the first

00:56:05 --> 00:56:05

person.

00:56:06 --> 00:56:08

And I, there are no sword, no knife,

00:56:08 --> 00:56:08

nothing.

00:56:09 --> 00:56:11

Just a few Hindu boys just wanted money.

00:56:11 --> 00:56:14

So simple story, I was just collecting money,

00:56:14 --> 00:56:16

became sword and knife and all those things,

00:56:16 --> 00:56:18

and he said, fear Allah, and everything falls.

00:56:19 --> 00:56:21

This is how the stories are made.

00:56:21 --> 00:56:23

You know, you can see all the time,

00:56:23 --> 00:56:25

really, people, and then after that, what happens?

00:56:25 --> 00:56:28

The people start believing, and then it spreads

00:56:28 --> 00:56:28

everywhere.

00:56:29 --> 00:56:30

Very often, this happens.

00:56:31 --> 00:56:33

Tell me, you read so many stories of

00:56:33 --> 00:56:34

people flying there.

00:56:34 --> 00:56:36

So why does that happen all the time?

00:56:38 --> 00:56:39

Isn't there any awliya now?

00:56:40 --> 00:56:41

So we can see there's somebody flying in

00:56:41 --> 00:56:43

there, somebody walking in there.

00:56:43 --> 00:56:45

I'm not saying it cannot happen, but I'm

00:56:45 --> 00:56:46

trying to say, the most time, it is

00:56:46 --> 00:56:48

like, nothing.

00:56:48 --> 00:56:49

Generally, what happens, small thing.

00:56:50 --> 00:56:51

You know, the Prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,

00:56:51 --> 00:56:53

when he did hijrah, he was in more

00:56:53 --> 00:56:56

need to fly to Medina.

00:56:56 --> 00:56:58

But Allah did not make for him.

00:56:58 --> 00:57:01

He had to hide, you know, in Ghar

00:57:01 --> 00:57:04

e Thawr, Cave of Thawr, then traveling, so

00:57:04 --> 00:57:04

much trouble.

00:57:05 --> 00:57:09

If Allah give people power to fly, the

00:57:09 --> 00:57:10

one who needs to fly more is the

00:57:10 --> 00:57:11

Prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.

00:57:12 --> 00:57:14

But he didn't go flying.

00:57:15 --> 00:57:16

So many time, he came from Medina to

00:57:16 --> 00:57:17

Mecca, never flying.

00:57:18 --> 00:57:20

He went to Tabuk, on the border of

00:57:20 --> 00:57:22

Syria, never really flying, nothing.

00:57:22 --> 00:57:25

Abu Bakr Siddiq sends his army, nobody flying.

00:57:26 --> 00:57:28

They don't walk on the water.

00:57:28 --> 00:57:29

But you find many, many stories.

00:57:29 --> 00:57:32

One of the stories I'll tell you is

00:57:32 --> 00:57:34

great Sheikh, Sheikh Saadi Shirazi.

00:57:34 --> 00:57:35

I've heard his name.

00:57:36 --> 00:57:39

He's a Sufi Sheikh, a poet in Persian

00:57:39 --> 00:57:40

language.

00:57:40 --> 00:57:42

There are few people, they are greatest poet,

00:57:42 --> 00:57:43

one of the Sheikhs.

00:57:43 --> 00:57:44

I love him.

00:57:44 --> 00:57:46

I wrote so many articles about him.

00:57:46 --> 00:57:47

I read all of his books.

00:57:47 --> 00:57:49

But in his book also, there are stories,

00:57:49 --> 00:57:50

amazing.

00:57:50 --> 00:57:53

So he said he was in Baghdad, and

00:57:53 --> 00:57:57

he was going to cross the river, Dijla.

00:57:58 --> 00:58:01

And there were boats, and he saw Sheikh

00:58:01 --> 00:58:03

Shihabuddin Suhrawardi.

00:58:03 --> 00:58:06

Sheikh Shihabuddin Suhrawardi is a big Sufi Sheikh.

00:58:07 --> 00:58:10

He saw him, he also waiting to go

00:58:10 --> 00:58:11

to cross the Dijla.

00:58:12 --> 00:58:12

But Sheikh had no money.

00:58:14 --> 00:58:15

And I had only money to pay my

00:58:15 --> 00:58:16

fare.

00:58:16 --> 00:58:18

So I had the boat, and I was

00:58:18 --> 00:58:19

riding the boat.

00:58:20 --> 00:58:21

When I was in the middle of the

00:58:21 --> 00:58:25

water, then I saw Sheikh floating over the

00:58:25 --> 00:58:29

water, you know, standing on his prayer mat.

00:58:29 --> 00:58:32

Sajjada, he made, and float like that.

00:58:32 --> 00:58:34

So I said, how do you come?

00:58:35 --> 00:58:38

He say, you know, you came by this

00:58:38 --> 00:58:40

boat, and I came by Allah.

00:58:40 --> 00:58:41

Allah brought me.

00:58:42 --> 00:58:44

So he said, but nobody else reports, nothing.

00:58:44 --> 00:58:45

Just one person said.

00:58:45 --> 00:58:48

So if this story like that, then Baghdad

00:58:48 --> 00:58:51

has many people, many ulama, many masha'a.

00:58:51 --> 00:58:53

Nobody knows other than this person.

00:58:53 --> 00:58:55

So you always find, really, the story like

00:58:55 --> 00:58:55

that.

00:58:56 --> 00:58:57

And people love this story.

00:58:57 --> 00:58:57

Why?

00:58:58 --> 00:59:00

Because there's no responsibility, nothing to do.

00:59:00 --> 00:59:03

See, always understand, most of these things, really,

00:59:03 --> 00:59:06

even the truth, they are, you know, very

00:59:06 --> 00:59:07

rare, very, very few.

00:59:07 --> 00:59:09

And they don't happen such a big scale.

00:59:09 --> 00:59:10

They happen small thing.

00:59:10 --> 00:59:12

Like, you know, sometimes Allah gives barakah in

00:59:12 --> 00:59:12

your food.

00:59:14 --> 00:59:16

Sometimes you are, you know, in need of

00:59:16 --> 00:59:18

food, and you are in a house, you

00:59:18 --> 00:59:20

have no food, and somebody knocks your door,

00:59:21 --> 00:59:21

and brings food.

00:59:21 --> 00:59:23

At the time when you're needing.

00:59:23 --> 00:59:24

So Allah does like that.

00:59:25 --> 00:59:29

You know, I mentioned, I think, time, maybe,

00:59:29 --> 00:59:31

if you have some question, and then after

00:59:31 --> 00:59:32

that, we start again, insha'Allah.

00:59:33 --> 00:59:35

So if there are any questions we ask,

00:59:35 --> 00:59:37

then start, you know, next thing, insha'Allah.

00:59:37 --> 00:59:37

Insha'Allah.

01:00:00 --> 01:00:01

I'm going to let the brother ask questions.

01:00:04 --> 01:00:06

Yeah, I'm going to start to teach from

01:00:06 --> 01:00:08

one topic to another.

01:00:08 --> 01:00:10

So I said before that, if people have

01:00:10 --> 01:00:12

any question about what I've been saying, please

01:00:12 --> 01:00:12

ask.

01:00:13 --> 01:00:14

As-salamu alaykum.

01:00:14 --> 01:00:16

Thank you very much for such an inspiring

01:00:16 --> 01:00:16

talk.

01:00:17 --> 01:00:20

My question is, like, as you mentioned, that

01:00:20 --> 01:00:22

the karama are not something which is happening

01:00:22 --> 01:00:23

all the time.

01:00:24 --> 01:00:27

But when you concluded, you mentioned, there are

01:00:27 --> 01:00:30

many stories where people tell the story, and

01:00:30 --> 01:00:32

we don't know the authenticity of them.

01:00:33 --> 01:00:35

So if we look at this from the

01:00:35 --> 01:00:39

point of view where you mentioned that karama

01:00:39 --> 01:00:41

can happen, but they are not repeated.

01:00:42 --> 01:00:47

So how can you validate the authenticity of

01:00:47 --> 01:00:50

those stories, which could have happened, but they

01:00:50 --> 01:00:52

are not repeated all the time?

01:00:53 --> 01:00:54

They're not repeated.

01:00:54 --> 01:00:59

Yes, so like, for example, that one chef,

01:01:00 --> 01:01:03

there was a fire, and that chef said,

01:01:04 --> 01:01:07

with the blessing of Allah, he said something,

01:01:07 --> 01:01:08

and it stopped.

01:01:09 --> 01:01:15

And now, whoever was the ruler of that

01:01:15 --> 01:01:18

area wanted to show it to his mom,

01:01:18 --> 01:01:20

and he asked that, can you repeat it?

01:01:20 --> 01:01:22

But the chef said, no, I cannot.

01:01:22 --> 01:01:24

And so same as for those stories.

01:01:25 --> 01:01:28

It could have happened, and now people narrated

01:01:28 --> 01:01:32

them, and then after that, other people want

01:01:32 --> 01:01:33

to see it, and they cannot do it.

01:01:33 --> 01:01:36

So is there any way, like, one can

01:01:36 --> 01:01:37

validate them?

01:01:37 --> 01:01:38

Yeah, this is a good question.

01:01:38 --> 01:01:39

I now understand it.

01:01:39 --> 01:01:42

So basically, you want to say that it

01:01:42 --> 01:01:45

could be possible, some miracle happened, but it

01:01:45 --> 01:01:45

does not happen again.

01:01:47 --> 01:01:47

That's true, really.

01:01:48 --> 01:01:50

So first thing to understand is that whatever

01:01:50 --> 01:01:52

miracles happen, Allah does.

01:01:53 --> 01:01:55

You know, he can, actually the way things

01:01:55 --> 01:01:56

are happening, from Allah.

01:01:57 --> 01:01:59

You know, my eyes see Allah's power.

01:02:00 --> 01:02:02

If now my nose starts seeing, do you

01:02:02 --> 01:02:03

think miracle?

01:02:03 --> 01:02:05

If Allah can make eyes see, why cannot

01:02:05 --> 01:02:06

make nose see?

01:02:06 --> 01:02:07

He does whatever he likes, really.

01:02:08 --> 01:02:11

But sometimes when something not usual, against habit,

01:02:12 --> 01:02:13

the people make it very, very big.

01:02:14 --> 01:02:16

So karama is power of Allah.

01:02:16 --> 01:02:18

He does whenever he likes.

01:02:18 --> 01:02:20

But the way of Allah is he does

01:02:20 --> 01:02:21

not break his rule.

01:02:21 --> 01:02:22

Why?

01:02:22 --> 01:02:24

Because he wants the people to follow the

01:02:24 --> 01:02:26

system, and within the system, they become pious.

01:02:27 --> 01:02:30

Because if he starts breaking the system, then

01:02:30 --> 01:02:31

human being can say, no, you did not

01:02:31 --> 01:02:32

do for me.

01:02:32 --> 01:02:33

How can I worship you?

01:02:33 --> 01:02:34

This person, you loved him more.

01:02:34 --> 01:02:37

He wants to have same system for everybody,

01:02:37 --> 01:02:38

same way for everybody.

01:02:39 --> 01:02:41

I'll now use that and come nearer to

01:02:41 --> 01:02:41

me.

01:02:41 --> 01:02:43

The prophets will have same problem.

01:02:43 --> 01:02:45

Messengers will have same problem.

01:02:45 --> 01:02:46

He's not going to change.

01:02:46 --> 01:02:50

For example, you can see, Allah wanted Musa

01:02:50 --> 01:02:53

and his people to enter into Palestine.

01:02:55 --> 01:02:58

So the command came from Allah, do jihad,

01:02:59 --> 01:03:00

and I will support you.

01:03:00 --> 01:03:02

I'll help you, and you'll be victorious.

01:03:02 --> 01:03:05

So Musa said to his people, Bani Israel,

01:03:05 --> 01:03:08

that let's go and fight these people.

01:03:09 --> 01:03:11

So his people said, no, they are qawban

01:03:11 --> 01:03:12

jabbarin.

01:03:12 --> 01:03:15

Palestinians are very mighty people, strong people.

01:03:15 --> 01:03:16

We can't fight them.

01:03:19 --> 01:03:24

Oh, Musa, you go, and your lord goes.

01:03:25 --> 01:03:26

You two fight.

01:03:26 --> 01:03:28

When you win, then I will enter.

01:03:29 --> 01:03:31

So Allah could have made Musa to win.

01:03:31 --> 01:03:33

Again, alone, Musa could fight alone, and he

01:03:33 --> 01:03:33

could be a winner.

01:03:34 --> 01:03:35

But Allah said, no.

01:03:38 --> 01:03:42

Oh, Musa, now they can't enter into Palestine

01:03:42 --> 01:03:43

for 40 years.

01:03:44 --> 01:03:45

Allah has a law.

01:03:45 --> 01:03:46

He wants to.

01:03:46 --> 01:03:48

Allah is not our slave.

01:03:49 --> 01:03:49

He's our master.

01:03:50 --> 01:03:50

We are his slave.

01:03:51 --> 01:03:53

You know, we have to do whatever he

01:03:53 --> 01:03:53

commands.

01:03:53 --> 01:03:57

And here, within the system, he has made

01:03:57 --> 01:03:59

such a way, really, it becomes more than

01:03:59 --> 01:03:59

a miracle.

01:04:00 --> 01:04:02

Like the Prophet Muhammad did not break any

01:04:02 --> 01:04:02

system.

01:04:03 --> 01:04:06

Within the system of Allah, he conquered Mecca.

01:04:06 --> 01:04:10

Then his followers established empire, you know, Syria,

01:04:10 --> 01:04:13

Iraq, Egypt, and then actually up to India,

01:04:13 --> 01:04:16

from India to Spain, all who are rule,

01:04:17 --> 01:04:19

all Muslims, rule many, many years.

01:04:19 --> 01:04:21

India remains under Muslim rule more than 800

01:04:21 --> 01:04:21

years.

01:04:22 --> 01:04:24

Spain remains under Muslim rule nearly 800 years.

01:04:25 --> 01:04:28

So such expansion, you know, there's nothing.

01:04:29 --> 01:04:31

Muslims understood the power of Allah, his sunnah,

01:04:31 --> 01:04:33

his way, and they use it, Allah help

01:04:33 --> 01:04:33

them.

01:04:33 --> 01:04:36

Allah wants people to understand the system and

01:04:36 --> 01:04:37

follow that with the name of Allah.

01:04:38 --> 01:04:38

He will help you.

01:04:39 --> 01:04:40

Now, see Suleyman al-Islam.

01:04:41 --> 01:04:43

Suleyman al-Islam's kingdom, Allah did with a

01:04:43 --> 01:04:44

miracle.

01:04:44 --> 01:04:46

He made the jinn under his control.

01:04:46 --> 01:04:47

They've been linked to him.

01:04:48 --> 01:04:50

So Allah, for a reason, Allah did this.

01:04:50 --> 01:04:53

But tell me whose kingdom survived more, the

01:04:53 --> 01:04:55

Prophet Muhammad's followers' kingdom or kingdom of Suleyman?

01:04:56 --> 01:04:58

Kingdom of Suleyman did not last.

01:04:58 --> 01:05:00

After his death, divided.

01:05:00 --> 01:05:02

Very quickly finished, not remain.

01:05:02 --> 01:05:04

Though at all best, if you follow the

01:05:04 --> 01:05:07

system, the way Allah did, that's more powerful.

01:05:07 --> 01:05:09

That people don't, the way Allah, like for

01:05:09 --> 01:05:12

example, European people or Western people, they invented

01:05:12 --> 01:05:13

aeroplane.

01:05:13 --> 01:05:15

So they understood how the system of Allah

01:05:15 --> 01:05:16

works.

01:05:16 --> 01:05:17

And they used it.

01:05:18 --> 01:05:19

The whole world is flying.

01:05:20 --> 01:05:22

But if you don't learn how Allah has

01:05:22 --> 01:05:24

made this world, and you just want Allah

01:05:24 --> 01:05:26

to make a miracle, and you fly.

01:05:26 --> 01:05:28

Yeah, it could happen sometime maybe.

01:05:28 --> 01:05:29

But not going to last.

01:05:30 --> 01:05:30

Nobody can follow you.

01:05:30 --> 01:05:31

Nobody can do this.

01:05:32 --> 01:05:33

So what I'm trying to say is the

01:05:33 --> 01:05:35

way of Allah, he does not want to

01:05:35 --> 01:05:36

break the system.

01:05:36 --> 01:05:39

But he does it sometime, whenever he feels

01:05:39 --> 01:05:41

a need, whenever he thinks it's going to

01:05:41 --> 01:05:41

help people.

01:05:42 --> 01:05:44

But the way people claim all the time,

01:05:45 --> 01:05:46

that I'm suspicious.

01:05:46 --> 01:05:48

Because if that happens on the scale that

01:05:48 --> 01:05:51

you say, then everybody should see something.

01:05:51 --> 01:05:52

Why nobody sees?

01:05:53 --> 01:05:55

Then nobody, all the stories don't exist.

01:05:55 --> 01:05:58

Actually, the people who don't have miracles, they

01:05:58 --> 01:06:00

actually are more powerful in this world.

01:06:00 --> 01:06:02

You with all miracles, nothing.

01:06:03 --> 01:06:05

And those who have no miracle, they have

01:06:05 --> 01:06:06

more power.

01:06:07 --> 01:06:08

Because the way Allah has made, it has

01:06:08 --> 01:06:09

more power.

01:06:10 --> 01:06:12

If you learn the system, you become more

01:06:12 --> 01:06:14

powerful within the system.

01:06:14 --> 01:06:15

So it's not that I'm denying it.

01:06:16 --> 01:06:18

I'm saying, you know, if somebody said, somebody

01:06:18 --> 01:06:20

flying in the air.

01:06:20 --> 01:06:22

So I will say it needs to be

01:06:22 --> 01:06:22

witnessed.

01:06:23 --> 01:06:23

That I'm trying to say.

01:06:24 --> 01:06:26

If nobody can witness, how just I can,

01:06:26 --> 01:06:28

you know, rely on the report.

01:06:29 --> 01:06:31

Nobody else sees, especially flying in the air.

01:06:32 --> 01:06:33

It'll be a huge thing.

01:06:34 --> 01:06:36

You know, at least hundreds of people will

01:06:36 --> 01:06:36

see.

01:06:37 --> 01:06:40

Nobody sees, except one person who's reporting.

01:06:40 --> 01:06:41

How can we believe in that?

01:06:42 --> 01:06:44

We have to understand this thing.

01:06:44 --> 01:06:47

So, as I said really, even if you

01:06:47 --> 01:06:48

fly to what?

01:06:49 --> 01:06:50

Even flies fly.

01:06:50 --> 01:06:52

Even bees fly to what?

01:06:52 --> 01:06:54

If you flew, it's not proof of anything

01:06:54 --> 01:06:54

really.

01:06:54 --> 01:06:55

People think it is proof.

01:06:56 --> 01:06:57

It's not really proof.

01:06:57 --> 01:07:00

Sometime Allah can give it, this power, even

01:07:00 --> 01:07:01

to unbelievers.

01:07:01 --> 01:07:02

For some reason, because he's Rabb of everybody.

01:07:03 --> 01:07:03

He's Lord of everybody.

01:07:07 --> 01:07:09

We're going to, inshallah, go between sisters and

01:07:09 --> 01:07:10

brothers.

01:07:10 --> 01:07:12

There's a microphone on the sister's side.

01:07:12 --> 01:07:13

So inshallah, sisters can ask a question.

01:07:14 --> 01:07:14

Then I'll come back to the brothers.

01:07:17 --> 01:07:17

Assalamu alaikum, Sheikh.

01:07:19 --> 01:07:22

My question is about, you said earlier, as

01:07:22 --> 01:07:24

you were defining the word Rabb.

01:07:25 --> 01:07:27

I had a question in my mind around.

01:07:27 --> 01:07:30

So, if even non-believers like Iblis can

01:07:30 --> 01:07:33

invoke, you know, Allah as Rabb, and if

01:07:33 --> 01:07:36

he can give them infinitely, because he's Al

01:07:36 --> 01:07:37

-Wahhab, right?

01:07:37 --> 01:07:39

Then how do we kind of reconcile that

01:07:39 --> 01:07:42

with sometimes even as believers, you know, for

01:07:42 --> 01:07:44

example, if we commit a sin, Allah may

01:07:44 --> 01:07:46

not answer some of our du'as, or

01:07:46 --> 01:07:49

maybe our risk is blocked as a result

01:07:49 --> 01:07:52

of a sin that we've committed, or things

01:07:52 --> 01:07:52

of that nature.

01:07:52 --> 01:07:54

So how can we reconcile that, that, you

01:07:54 --> 01:07:59

know, non-believers can invoke Rabb and kind

01:07:59 --> 01:08:00

of get what they want?

01:08:00 --> 01:08:03

But then as believers, at times, we go

01:08:03 --> 01:08:04

through some of those hardships.

01:08:04 --> 01:08:06

How can we reconcile that in our mind?

01:08:06 --> 01:08:09

I'm sorry, I couldn't, my voice is not

01:08:09 --> 01:08:10

very clear to my, can you repeat the

01:08:10 --> 01:08:10

question?

01:08:12 --> 01:08:13

Yeah, sure.

01:08:15 --> 01:08:18

Yeah, because the voice for me, yeah.

01:08:19 --> 01:08:31

So, she's basically saying that committing sins

01:08:31 --> 01:08:32

and our risk is blocked.

01:08:38 --> 01:08:39

Oh, that's a good thing.

01:08:39 --> 01:08:42

So, the question is that unbelievers ask Allah,

01:08:42 --> 01:08:44

and he responds to them.

01:08:44 --> 01:08:46

And believers ask, and sometimes Allah does not

01:08:46 --> 01:08:47

listen to them.

01:08:47 --> 01:08:48

That's the question.

01:08:48 --> 01:08:51

You know, whenever Allah responds to the people,

01:08:52 --> 01:08:54

it has many, many reasons.

01:08:54 --> 01:08:55

Many, many wisdom behind that.

01:08:56 --> 01:08:57

We cannot comprehend them.

01:08:58 --> 01:09:00

So sometimes it could be possible that a

01:09:00 --> 01:09:03

believer commits a sin, and he asks Allah

01:09:03 --> 01:09:04

to help him.

01:09:04 --> 01:09:05

He does not help.

01:09:06 --> 01:09:07

The reason is not that he cannot help

01:09:07 --> 01:09:07

him.

01:09:08 --> 01:09:10

The reason is he wants to alert him.

01:09:11 --> 01:09:13

That, you know, you are my slave, you

01:09:13 --> 01:09:13

commit sin.

01:09:14 --> 01:09:15

Alerting him so he can repent it.

01:09:16 --> 01:09:17

Allah wants to help him.

01:09:17 --> 01:09:20

So, like a father, sometimes son ask him,

01:09:22 --> 01:09:24

son disobey him and ask him some help.

01:09:25 --> 01:09:27

He can help him, but he does not

01:09:27 --> 01:09:29

help to remind him that I'm angry with

01:09:29 --> 01:09:29

you.

01:09:29 --> 01:09:30

I'm upset with you.

01:09:30 --> 01:09:32

You know, correct yourself because this is going

01:09:32 --> 01:09:33

to harm you.

01:09:33 --> 01:09:35

So, this is the bigger rahma.

01:09:35 --> 01:09:38

If Allah does whatever he want, he can

01:09:38 --> 01:09:40

do that, but it's going to harm you.

01:09:40 --> 01:09:41

Then you never can correct yourself.

01:09:42 --> 01:09:44

So, actually, if Allah does not do what

01:09:44 --> 01:09:46

he want, that is a sign that he

01:09:46 --> 01:09:47

likes you.

01:09:48 --> 01:09:48

Understand properly.

01:09:49 --> 01:09:51

If Allah does what, whenever people get what

01:09:51 --> 01:09:55

they desire, that is very, very dangerous in

01:09:55 --> 01:09:55

the Quran.

01:09:56 --> 01:09:58

That simply means Allah does not like you.

01:09:59 --> 01:10:01

When Allah likes people, what he does, he

01:10:01 --> 01:10:04

sometimes does what they want and sometimes does

01:10:04 --> 01:10:05

not do.

01:10:05 --> 01:10:07

So, they're reminded all the time to be

01:10:07 --> 01:10:09

connected to Allah, ask him, respect to him.

01:10:10 --> 01:10:12

So, whenever you make dua, it is not

01:10:12 --> 01:10:13

accepted the way you want.

01:10:13 --> 01:10:14

It doesn't mean you're not going to be

01:10:14 --> 01:10:15

accepted.

01:10:15 --> 01:10:16

Allah just want to test you.

01:10:17 --> 01:10:17

Are you still my slave?

01:10:18 --> 01:10:19

Do you still love me?

01:10:19 --> 01:10:20

Are you still attached with me?

01:10:21 --> 01:10:24

You know, I remember a long time ago,

01:10:24 --> 01:10:28

maybe 10 years back, I made three duas

01:10:28 --> 01:10:29

asking Allah.

01:10:32 --> 01:10:35

And things didn't happen either, but still I

01:10:35 --> 01:10:36

kept asking.

01:10:36 --> 01:10:38

Then shaitan comes to me, what purpose to

01:10:38 --> 01:10:38

ask?

01:10:39 --> 01:10:39

I said, no.

01:10:40 --> 01:10:41

Whenever I ask, I get reward.

01:10:42 --> 01:10:45

And reward is much more important than what

01:10:45 --> 01:10:45

I'm asking.

01:10:46 --> 01:10:48

A single reward, at least I'm getting the

01:10:48 --> 01:10:49

reward.

01:10:49 --> 01:10:51

And second reward I'm getting is my belief

01:10:51 --> 01:10:53

in Allah, that even if my duas are

01:10:53 --> 01:10:55

not accepted, still he's my Rabb.

01:10:56 --> 01:10:57

Still I am attached with him.

01:10:57 --> 01:10:59

And then after one year, all three duas

01:10:59 --> 01:11:00

are accepted.

01:11:00 --> 01:11:02

So, as you see, I got what I

01:11:02 --> 01:11:04

wanted, and I got so much reward of

01:11:04 --> 01:11:07

asking Allah, and then at the same time,

01:11:07 --> 01:11:08

my belief became stronger.

01:11:09 --> 01:11:10

So, Allah wanted to test.

01:11:10 --> 01:11:13

So, sometimes he does not give you because

01:11:13 --> 01:11:13

he likes you.

01:11:14 --> 01:11:16

There's a story, Sheikh Saadi has mentioned in

01:11:16 --> 01:11:19

his book, Gulistan, I think, or maybe Bostan.

01:11:19 --> 01:11:21

He mentioned one of his books, these two

01:11:21 --> 01:11:21

books.

01:11:22 --> 01:11:26

Somebody used to worship Allah every day, especially

01:11:26 --> 01:11:28

in the night, all the night awake, the

01:11:28 --> 01:11:30

hajj, and praying for 50 years.

01:11:31 --> 01:11:33

You know, make 50, he becomes 50 years

01:11:33 --> 01:11:33

old.

01:11:34 --> 01:11:35

And asking Allah.

01:11:35 --> 01:11:37

So, one day, a voice comes from heaven

01:11:37 --> 01:11:37

to him.

01:11:38 --> 01:11:39

You are wasting your time.

01:11:40 --> 01:11:42

You have been worshipping me for such a

01:11:42 --> 01:11:44

long time, nothing has been accepted.

01:11:45 --> 01:11:46

All a waste of time.

01:11:47 --> 01:11:50

So, then the person said, whether it is

01:11:50 --> 01:11:54

accepted or not accepted, I still will do,

01:11:54 --> 01:11:56

because I have no door other than your

01:11:56 --> 01:11:57

door.

01:11:57 --> 01:11:58

No way to knock.

01:11:58 --> 01:11:59

I can't go anywhere.

01:11:59 --> 01:12:00

It is just your door.

01:12:01 --> 01:12:03

Then the voice came, everything you did, we

01:12:03 --> 01:12:05

accepted, all of it.

01:12:05 --> 01:12:06

I just wanted to test you.

01:12:06 --> 01:12:08

How good you are in Ibadah.

01:12:09 --> 01:12:11

Allah, the door is always open.

01:12:11 --> 01:12:13

When people ask him, he does.

01:12:13 --> 01:12:16

But sometimes, he just does differently.

01:12:16 --> 01:12:17

He wants to test you, are you really

01:12:17 --> 01:12:18

a believer?

01:12:18 --> 01:12:21

You know, or just a slave of your

01:12:21 --> 01:12:21

desire.

01:12:21 --> 01:12:22

He wants to test you.

01:12:23 --> 01:12:26

That reminds me of the story of Rabia

01:12:26 --> 01:12:27

Basariya.

01:12:27 --> 01:12:30

You know, a female, a woman, a saint.

01:12:31 --> 01:12:34

So, her story is, in her time, there

01:12:34 --> 01:12:38

was, you know, a big alim in Basra.

01:12:39 --> 01:12:40

So, he used to say to the people

01:12:40 --> 01:12:42

that, keep knocking the door.

01:12:43 --> 01:12:45

One day, the door will be open.

01:12:46 --> 01:12:47

Means Allah's door.

01:12:47 --> 01:12:49

Keep insisting, keep asking, keep praying.

01:12:49 --> 01:12:51

One day, Allah will open his door.

01:12:51 --> 01:12:53

So, keep insisting, keep knocking the door.

01:12:53 --> 01:12:56

One day, one day, the door will open.

01:12:56 --> 01:12:58

So, Rabia Basariya said, his name was Salih

01:12:58 --> 01:12:59

al-Murri.

01:12:59 --> 01:13:01

So, Salih al-Murri used to teach people,

01:13:01 --> 01:13:02

keep knocking the door.

01:13:02 --> 01:13:04

One day, the door will open.

01:13:05 --> 01:13:07

Rabia said, oh Salih, how long are you

01:13:07 --> 01:13:08

going to keep teaching the same thing?

01:13:09 --> 01:13:11

Tell me when the door was closed.

01:13:11 --> 01:13:13

The door of Allah never has been closed.

01:13:14 --> 01:13:15

What purpose is knocking the door?

01:13:15 --> 01:13:16

It is always open.

01:13:17 --> 01:13:18

All the time open.

01:13:18 --> 01:13:19

Allah's door never.

01:13:19 --> 01:13:22

When you ask Allah, he gives you.

01:13:22 --> 01:13:23

He gives you more than that.

01:13:24 --> 01:13:27

You know, if you come to my house

01:13:27 --> 01:13:29

and ask me one penny, one pence.

01:13:31 --> 01:13:35

Even if I'm a very miser person, one

01:13:35 --> 01:13:35

pence, nothing.

01:13:35 --> 01:13:37

I'll say, one pence, nothing, I'll give you.

01:13:38 --> 01:13:41

If all the people in this universe, they

01:13:41 --> 01:13:43

ask Allah whatever they desire.

01:13:44 --> 01:13:48

All their desire, all their questions, is less

01:13:48 --> 01:13:49

than one pence for me.

01:13:50 --> 01:13:50

He's creator.

01:13:50 --> 01:13:52

He just says, and everything is there.

01:13:53 --> 01:13:54

So you think he will not give?

01:13:54 --> 01:13:56

He's creator, he's master.

01:13:56 --> 01:13:57

He said, don't ask anybody other than me.

01:13:59 --> 01:14:01

So that is why Sufyan Thawri says, Allah,

01:14:01 --> 01:14:03

if Allah does not give you, it's not

01:14:03 --> 01:14:04

that he does not want to give.

01:14:04 --> 01:14:06

He's not giving, also he's giving.

01:14:08 --> 01:14:10

When he does not give you, that also

01:14:10 --> 01:14:10

is a gift.

01:14:12 --> 01:14:13

That's a gift in another way.

01:14:13 --> 01:14:14

He wants to increase your iman.

01:14:15 --> 01:14:17

He wants to keep that to give you

01:14:17 --> 01:14:18

on the Day of Judgment, when you need

01:14:18 --> 01:14:18

more.

01:14:19 --> 01:14:21

When people will see all du'as which

01:14:21 --> 01:14:24

are not accepted in this world, how much

01:14:24 --> 01:14:27

reward in the hereafter they will desire, if

01:14:27 --> 01:14:28

none of their du'as have been accepted.

01:14:30 --> 01:14:32

So always understand, when Allah gives you what

01:14:32 --> 01:14:34

you want, it is his gift.

01:14:35 --> 01:14:37

When Allah does not give you what you

01:14:37 --> 01:14:39

want, that is also Allah's gift.

01:14:40 --> 01:14:43

He's giving his gift, and he's not giving

01:14:43 --> 01:14:43

gift.

01:14:43 --> 01:14:45

He's so generous, you cannot imagine really.

01:14:46 --> 01:14:49

So this is always understand, Allah's gift is

01:14:49 --> 01:14:49

so much.

01:14:50 --> 01:14:52

Actually, when he gives people whatever they like

01:14:52 --> 01:14:53

as believers, he gives them more.

01:14:54 --> 01:14:57

That is saying, I don't like you, because

01:14:57 --> 01:14:59

I don't like you, just get what you

01:14:59 --> 01:15:00

want.

01:15:00 --> 01:15:03

But when he does not give, that means

01:15:03 --> 01:15:04

he wants you to be attached with him.

01:15:05 --> 01:15:06

Actually, this is the reason why Allah created

01:15:06 --> 01:15:07

the need.

01:15:07 --> 01:15:09

He created the need so people can be

01:15:09 --> 01:15:10

connected with Allah.

01:15:11 --> 01:15:13

If he gives you whatever you want, nobody's

01:15:13 --> 01:15:14

going to worship him.

01:15:14 --> 01:15:15

Then you can't get paradise.

01:15:15 --> 01:15:17

Because he loves you, he wants you to

01:15:17 --> 01:15:18

be connected with him.

01:15:19 --> 01:15:20

What was the next question?

01:15:23 --> 01:15:24

Peace be upon you, Sheikh.

01:15:25 --> 01:15:26

Yeah, we have a question.

01:15:27 --> 01:15:32

Sheikh, Jazakallah khair for coming and sharing knowledge.

01:15:32 --> 01:15:36

I'm kind of curious to know, what is

01:15:36 --> 01:15:39

the benefit, please teach us what is the

01:15:39 --> 01:15:42

benefit that we can get by learning about

01:15:42 --> 01:15:47

the miracles of the Awliya in the past?

01:15:48 --> 01:15:51

Or maybe now, like what is the benefit?

01:15:51 --> 01:15:53

There's so many other things that we hear

01:15:53 --> 01:15:54

from Masha'ikh.

01:15:55 --> 01:15:59

But this specifically, like, you know, what is

01:15:59 --> 01:15:59

the lesson?

01:16:00 --> 01:16:04

What is the benefit of learning about the

01:16:04 --> 01:16:08

miracles that happened in the past from the

01:16:08 --> 01:16:10

Awliya, Awliya Karam?

01:16:11 --> 01:16:12

Yeah, that's a very good question.

01:16:13 --> 01:16:15

What is the benefit that we learn about

01:16:15 --> 01:16:17

all these Karamat and miracles of the Awliya?

01:16:18 --> 01:16:20

So first thing, as I said in the

01:16:20 --> 01:16:24

beginning, always keep in mind, miracles don't make

01:16:24 --> 01:16:25

you nearer to Allah.

01:16:25 --> 01:16:27

Because that Allah does.

01:16:28 --> 01:16:29

So that can happen.

01:16:29 --> 01:16:31

What makes you nearer to Allah is your

01:16:31 --> 01:16:32

own ibadah.

01:16:33 --> 01:16:35

You know, even one SubhanAllah is much, much

01:16:35 --> 01:16:37

greater, much precious than all those things.

01:16:38 --> 01:16:40

So then why we need to learn all

01:16:40 --> 01:16:42

the miracles if they have no, you know,

01:16:42 --> 01:16:43

they have no virtue?

01:16:44 --> 01:16:46

If a miracle does not make anybody better

01:16:46 --> 01:16:48

than the other person, why do we need

01:16:48 --> 01:16:48

to learn them?

01:16:49 --> 01:16:51

The reason we're learning them, so we understand

01:16:51 --> 01:16:54

really that sometimes Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

01:16:54 --> 01:16:57

helps people from where you cannot imagine.

01:16:57 --> 01:16:59

And he said in the Quran, so you

01:16:59 --> 01:17:01

have some stories, so you know this Allah

01:17:01 --> 01:17:01

subhanahu wa ta'ala happened.

01:17:02 --> 01:17:02

You don't deny.

01:17:03 --> 01:17:04

Sometimes it can happen to you as well,

01:17:04 --> 01:17:05

in different forms.

01:17:05 --> 01:17:08

If people don't know this thing, if this

01:17:08 --> 01:17:10

happens, what will happen, they will do shirk.

01:17:11 --> 01:17:12

So they will say, oh, this person must

01:17:12 --> 01:17:14

be a magician or must be having a

01:17:14 --> 01:17:16

jinn with him.

01:17:16 --> 01:17:17

So when you know really it is from

01:17:17 --> 01:17:20

Allah, not from anybody, you avoid the shirk.

01:17:21 --> 01:17:22

So when it seems to be more exact,

01:17:23 --> 01:17:24

to all these karamat we learn, that's why

01:17:24 --> 01:17:25

we believe in angels.

01:17:26 --> 01:17:28

Why belief in angels is so important?

01:17:29 --> 01:17:32

Because when rain comes and you make dua,

01:17:32 --> 01:17:35

you know really Allah sends angels and that

01:17:35 --> 01:17:35

happens.

01:17:36 --> 01:17:38

If you don't believe in angels and angels

01:17:38 --> 01:17:41

are Allah's agents, then that what actually jinn

01:17:41 --> 01:17:43

and shaitan do, they want to put in

01:17:43 --> 01:17:46

your mind, you know, I do, shaitan does,

01:17:46 --> 01:17:48

or somebody who's possessed by shaitan, he does.

01:17:49 --> 01:17:52

Like that's what dajjal is going to do.

01:17:52 --> 01:17:54

So when we people don't understand this, the

01:17:54 --> 01:17:56

dajjal will say, I'm the Lord, because I

01:17:56 --> 01:17:57

do all those things.

01:17:57 --> 01:17:58

Whatever Allah does, I can do.

01:17:59 --> 01:18:00

So we know really, you know, sometimes this

01:18:00 --> 01:18:02

thing, so if somebody does, for example, a

01:18:02 --> 01:18:04

shaykh does this thing, you know he's just

01:18:04 --> 01:18:04

a man.

01:18:05 --> 01:18:06

This is happening because of Allah.

01:18:07 --> 01:18:08

So knowing that this thing is important, we

01:18:08 --> 01:18:10

know really it happens, but it does not

01:18:10 --> 01:18:12

happen by that person.

01:18:12 --> 01:18:13

It happens only because of Allah.

01:18:14 --> 01:18:15

So we are not going to worship him.

01:18:16 --> 01:18:17

We are not going to obey him.

01:18:17 --> 01:18:19

And if he's a pious person, we can

01:18:19 --> 01:18:20

know Allah is supporting him.

01:18:21 --> 01:18:22

But if he's not a pious person, Allah

01:18:22 --> 01:18:24

is testing him and testing other people by

01:18:24 --> 01:18:24

him.

01:18:25 --> 01:18:27

So knowing that this is important, so you

01:18:27 --> 01:18:29

don't fall in the shirk and you don't

01:18:29 --> 01:18:33

start respecting these people more than they deserve,

01:18:33 --> 01:18:34

knowing that it does everything.

01:18:35 --> 01:18:38

Otherwise, the truth really is, when sun rises

01:18:38 --> 01:18:41

from the east, it is the eye of

01:18:41 --> 01:18:41

Allah.

01:18:41 --> 01:18:42

Who made it?

01:18:43 --> 01:18:45

When you see with your eyes, that's the

01:18:45 --> 01:18:46

miracle of Allah, that's the sign of Allah

01:18:46 --> 01:18:46

subhanahu wa ta'ala.

01:18:47 --> 01:18:50

But sometimes he breaks to remind you the

01:18:50 --> 01:18:53

way things are happening because of me, because

01:18:53 --> 01:18:54

I'm the one who break it.

01:18:54 --> 01:18:56

I can do different other way.

01:18:57 --> 01:18:58

So that reminds you.

01:18:58 --> 01:19:01

The reason we learn, we cannot be misled.

01:19:01 --> 01:19:03

So nobody can claim that they do.

01:19:03 --> 01:19:05

Nobody can claim that they are Lord.

01:19:05 --> 01:19:06

Like the Hindu people.

01:19:07 --> 01:19:10

Once in UK, you know, one of the

01:19:10 --> 01:19:14

Hindu temple, Hindu people claimed that, you know,

01:19:15 --> 01:19:18

when we offer milk to our idol, he

01:19:18 --> 01:19:19

drinks it.

01:19:20 --> 01:19:23

And now crowds, you must have heard the

01:19:23 --> 01:19:23

news.

01:19:23 --> 01:19:27

So everybody going and giving the milk to

01:19:27 --> 01:19:28

the idol and he drinks it.

01:19:29 --> 01:19:31

So people said to me, so I said,

01:19:31 --> 01:19:32

how to prove that he's the Lord?

01:19:33 --> 01:19:34

Why Lord will drink milk?

01:19:35 --> 01:19:35

I also drink milk.

01:19:36 --> 01:19:36

I'm your Lord.

01:19:37 --> 01:19:39

How I can become Lord just by drinking

01:19:39 --> 01:19:39

the milk?

01:19:40 --> 01:19:42

Just figure it, just people want to play

01:19:42 --> 01:19:42

with.

01:19:42 --> 01:19:43

So if something like that happened, they want

01:19:43 --> 01:19:46

to show that this is extraordinary power.

01:19:46 --> 01:19:48

Allah is the one who does everything.

01:19:48 --> 01:19:50

So maybe sometimes he want to test people.

01:19:50 --> 01:19:52

And more likely he has given this to

01:19:52 --> 01:19:53

Shaitan just to test people.

01:19:53 --> 01:19:54

So we know this thing.

01:19:54 --> 01:19:56

But Hindus don't believe in this thing.

01:19:56 --> 01:19:57

So they believe power comes from the idol.

01:19:58 --> 01:19:59

The idol is doing.

01:19:59 --> 01:20:00

Idol does not do anything.

01:20:01 --> 01:20:04

Drinking milk does not make anybody Lord.

01:20:04 --> 01:20:06

Allah make all human beings to drink milk.

01:20:07 --> 01:20:07

He gave the power.

01:20:07 --> 01:20:09

He can also make an idol.

01:20:09 --> 01:20:11

But more likely it was a trick.

01:20:12 --> 01:20:15

Like Sheikh Saadi has mentioned that once he

01:20:15 --> 01:20:15

came to India.

01:20:16 --> 01:20:19

And Sheikh Saadi was nearly 800 years before

01:20:19 --> 01:20:20

us, 800 years.

01:20:21 --> 01:20:23

So he said he came to India and

01:20:23 --> 01:20:24

he went to the temple of Somnath.

01:20:25 --> 01:20:26

You know Somnath in Gujarat.

01:20:27 --> 01:20:29

So the biggest temple of Hindu people.

01:20:29 --> 01:20:30

He said he happened to be there.

01:20:31 --> 01:20:32

And it's all Hindu.

01:20:32 --> 01:20:34

So he pretended to be Hindu.

01:20:34 --> 01:20:35

He is there.

01:20:35 --> 01:20:37

And just do everything that a Hindu does.

01:20:38 --> 01:20:41

So one day he argued with a priest

01:20:42 --> 01:20:42

about idol.

01:20:42 --> 01:20:43

They don't benefit.

01:20:43 --> 01:20:44

They don't do anything.

01:20:44 --> 01:20:45

How can we worship them?

01:20:46 --> 01:20:48

So he thought, oh, he must be Muslim.

01:20:48 --> 01:20:49

So they wanted to kill him.

01:20:49 --> 01:20:50

They said, no, no, I just said this

01:20:50 --> 01:20:52

to test you that how strong you are

01:20:52 --> 01:20:53

in belief.

01:20:53 --> 01:20:54

So they became happy.

01:20:54 --> 01:20:56

They said to me, you said they don't

01:20:56 --> 01:20:56

do anything?

01:20:56 --> 01:21:00

One day every year, this big idol raises

01:21:00 --> 01:21:02

his hand, make dua.

01:21:02 --> 01:21:04

And then all India come, Hindu people come,

01:21:04 --> 01:21:05

and they raise their hand.

01:21:05 --> 01:21:07

And whatever they ask, it accepted.

01:21:07 --> 01:21:08

He raised his hand.

01:21:09 --> 01:21:10

Sheikh Saadi, I become very surprised.

01:21:11 --> 01:21:12

Really, how can an idol raise hand?

01:21:13 --> 01:21:16

So I waited for that day when all

01:21:16 --> 01:21:17

Indians are coming to Somnath.

01:21:18 --> 01:21:20

And the priest took me in front of

01:21:20 --> 01:21:20

the idol.

01:21:20 --> 01:21:23

And then a moment came when the idol

01:21:23 --> 01:21:24

lifted the hand.

01:21:25 --> 01:21:27

And then all Indians are crying and weeping

01:21:27 --> 01:21:29

and raising their hand, so happy.

01:21:30 --> 01:21:34

Sheikh Saadi said, what I did, I kept

01:21:34 --> 01:21:35

looking around.

01:21:35 --> 01:21:38

So I found there is like a well

01:21:38 --> 01:21:41

or something underneath of the idol.

01:21:41 --> 01:21:44

And there is a rope tied with his

01:21:44 --> 01:21:44

hand from inside.

01:21:45 --> 01:21:47

This person sitting there, he pulls it, and

01:21:47 --> 01:21:48

the hand is lifted.

01:21:49 --> 01:21:52

So then, a long story, you can see.

01:21:52 --> 01:21:54

Sometimes people play tricks, many of the things.

01:21:54 --> 01:21:56

But even if it happens, we are not

01:21:56 --> 01:21:57

going to discuss.

01:21:57 --> 01:21:58

Even if it happens to what?

01:21:59 --> 01:21:59

Allah does.

01:22:00 --> 01:22:00

He wants to test you.

01:22:01 --> 01:22:03

Just by drinking milk, you worship someone?

01:22:04 --> 01:22:05

Then you worship me.

01:22:05 --> 01:22:06

I also drink milk.

01:22:06 --> 01:22:08

So this is the reason why we study

01:22:08 --> 01:22:08

this.

01:22:08 --> 01:22:10

So we know really, if things like that

01:22:10 --> 01:22:11

happen, nothing big.

01:22:12 --> 01:22:12

Allah does.

01:22:13 --> 01:22:13

Nobody else does.

01:22:13 --> 01:22:14

We don't worship these people.

01:22:15 --> 01:22:19

But unfortunately, many Muslims start worshipping these priests,

01:22:19 --> 01:22:21

these sheikhs, these peers.

01:22:21 --> 01:22:22

They think, oh, the miracle happened.

01:22:23 --> 01:22:24

They must be having some power.

01:22:24 --> 01:22:25

They have no power.

01:22:25 --> 01:22:26

It happened.

01:22:26 --> 01:22:29

Many of these people, those who have miracle

01:22:29 --> 01:22:32

happened with them, they are needy like us.

01:22:33 --> 01:22:33

Same need.

01:22:34 --> 01:22:34

They can't do anything.

01:22:36 --> 01:22:38

InshaAllah we'll take questions from the sisters.

01:22:41 --> 01:22:42

As-salamu alaykum.

01:22:43 --> 01:22:46

JazakAllah khair for all the good information and

01:22:46 --> 01:22:47

knowledge that you've shared.

01:22:47 --> 01:22:50

Like you mentioned, so many episodes from India

01:22:50 --> 01:22:54

and all the misconceptions, being an Indian, from

01:22:54 --> 01:22:55

an Indian origin, being raised there.

01:22:56 --> 01:22:58

I know what you're talking about, and I've

01:22:58 --> 01:23:00

seen and heard them firsthand.

01:23:00 --> 01:23:05

And what do you suggest for somebody who

01:23:05 --> 01:23:07

wants to unlearn everything?

01:23:08 --> 01:23:13

And also, maybe share that with family back

01:23:13 --> 01:23:14

home, with people back home.

01:23:14 --> 01:23:17

How did you unlearn those things that were

01:23:17 --> 01:23:18

around you?

01:23:18 --> 01:23:20

And also, how did you share that with

01:23:20 --> 01:23:22

the people, and so on and so forth?

01:23:23 --> 01:23:24

Can I just repeat the question?

01:23:32 --> 01:23:33

First hand.

01:23:34 --> 01:23:34

Now she wants to.

01:23:48 --> 01:23:50

It's the people who claim to have miracle.

01:23:51 --> 01:23:56

Not the miracle, the high goal of people.

01:23:57 --> 01:23:59

All of these miracles and the Rama and

01:23:59 --> 01:24:00

the Auliya.

01:24:00 --> 01:24:02

So how do you unlearn all of this?

01:24:03 --> 01:24:05

Yeah, that's a very, very important question, really.

01:24:05 --> 01:24:09

The thing really, in India and Pakistan, Bangladesh,

01:24:09 --> 01:24:11

even actually people who have come from our

01:24:11 --> 01:24:15

country, in England, there's so many wrong understanding

01:24:15 --> 01:24:17

and problem, really, you cannot.

01:24:17 --> 01:24:20

Anything happen, somebody is possessed by jinn.

01:24:21 --> 01:24:22

Jinn is there, and this is there.

01:24:23 --> 01:24:25

It all lies, tricks, so much tricks are

01:24:25 --> 01:24:26

going on, really.

01:24:26 --> 01:24:28

I've gone deep in many of these stories.

01:24:28 --> 01:24:30

So this is very important thing, that to

01:24:30 --> 01:24:34

teach people, don't believe in this thing.

01:24:35 --> 01:24:36

They have misled so many people.

01:24:37 --> 01:24:40

You know, somebody came from India, in one

01:24:40 --> 01:24:42

of the month of Ramadan, in the north

01:24:42 --> 01:24:45

of England, and he claimed that he had

01:24:45 --> 01:24:48

got 30,000 jinn following him.

01:24:49 --> 01:24:49

How many?

01:24:49 --> 01:24:50

30,000 jinn.

01:24:51 --> 01:24:52

And he can cure anything.

01:24:53 --> 01:24:54

So women used to come and consult him.

01:24:55 --> 01:24:56

For one hour, he used to take 1

01:24:56 --> 01:24:57

,000 pounds.

01:24:58 --> 01:24:59

So he made all the money from here,

01:24:59 --> 01:25:00

then he went back to India.

01:25:01 --> 01:25:03

Somebody asked me that this Ali came from

01:25:03 --> 01:25:05

India, 30,000 jinn.

01:25:05 --> 01:25:07

So I said, actually, all these people are

01:25:07 --> 01:25:07

stupid.

01:25:08 --> 01:25:11

If this person has got 30,000 jinn,

01:25:11 --> 01:25:13

nobody sees jinn, he should control India.

01:25:14 --> 01:25:14

He should take care.

01:25:15 --> 01:25:17

Indian army only fights those who see.

01:25:17 --> 01:25:18

Jinn nobody can see.

01:25:18 --> 01:25:21

If somebody got 30,000 jinn, you can

01:25:21 --> 01:25:21

rule over the world.

01:25:23 --> 01:25:23

Just think it.

01:25:23 --> 01:25:25

And this person coming to beg money to

01:25:25 --> 01:25:29

England, and from these women, because they're needy,

01:25:29 --> 01:25:32

they're desperate, you take 1,000 pounds.

01:25:32 --> 01:25:34

If you have 30,000 jinn, your army,

01:25:34 --> 01:25:35

nobody can see.

01:25:36 --> 01:25:38

All these people say, I possess jinn and

01:25:38 --> 01:25:39

all those things.

01:25:39 --> 01:25:41

I said to them, you know, in India,

01:25:41 --> 01:25:42

there's so much problem happened to Muslims.

01:25:43 --> 01:25:44

Why can't you help?

01:25:44 --> 01:25:46

It all lies, made up.

01:25:46 --> 01:25:47

I've seen so many stories.

01:25:48 --> 01:25:50

Really, we need to help people.

01:25:51 --> 01:25:53

It all lies, made up.

01:25:53 --> 01:25:54

All these people say it's a miracle.

01:25:54 --> 01:25:55

None of them are miracles.

01:25:55 --> 01:25:56

They're made up.

01:25:57 --> 01:26:00

In my village, there was a lady.

01:26:00 --> 01:26:01

She was from my family.

01:26:02 --> 01:26:05

So she had this jinn, and his name

01:26:05 --> 01:26:06

was Naseem.

01:26:06 --> 01:26:08

So all the family is scared that this

01:26:08 --> 01:26:11

jinn comes to her, and she becomes like

01:26:11 --> 01:26:13

man, speak in the voice of the man,

01:26:13 --> 01:26:14

and all those things.

01:26:15 --> 01:26:18

So I just was a student in Lucknow,

01:26:18 --> 01:26:20

so when I came, I said, when jinn

01:26:20 --> 01:26:21

comes, tell me.

01:26:21 --> 01:26:23

Though I was not an alim, but I

01:26:23 --> 01:26:24

did not believe in any of these things.

01:26:24 --> 01:26:25

I knew it was all made up.

01:26:26 --> 01:26:27

So they called me when jinn came.

01:26:28 --> 01:26:31

So I came, I asked, and she was

01:26:31 --> 01:26:32

speaking like a man.

01:26:32 --> 01:26:33

I asked, what your name is?

01:26:33 --> 01:26:34

She said, my name Naseem.

01:26:35 --> 01:26:36

So then it came to my mind, let

01:26:36 --> 01:26:39

me ask the question that this lady knows

01:26:39 --> 01:26:40

answer.

01:26:40 --> 01:26:42

And then I asked those questions, which she

01:26:42 --> 01:26:44

will not know, but jinn should know.

01:26:44 --> 01:26:46

So I asked a small question about village

01:26:46 --> 01:26:48

and everything, and she was speaking like a

01:26:48 --> 01:26:48

man.

01:26:49 --> 01:26:52

Then I asked questions which she could not

01:26:52 --> 01:26:53

know, but jinn should know.

01:26:54 --> 01:26:55

Then jinn disappeared.

01:26:56 --> 01:26:57

She became normal.

01:26:57 --> 01:26:58

She said jinn has gone.

01:26:58 --> 01:27:00

So I'm waiting there, waiting there, there's no

01:27:00 --> 01:27:00

jinn.

01:27:01 --> 01:27:02

As long as I was in the village,

01:27:02 --> 01:27:03

jinn never came.

01:27:03 --> 01:27:04

Nothing.

01:27:05 --> 01:27:06

So many stories.

01:27:06 --> 01:27:09

One of my friend, his name was Azir,

01:27:09 --> 01:27:12

he's still in Dubai, he's working, he's a

01:27:12 --> 01:27:12

teacher.

01:27:13 --> 01:27:14

So he said to me when he was

01:27:14 --> 01:27:17

a young boy, his family wanted to make

01:27:17 --> 01:27:19

him to study in a particular school.

01:27:19 --> 01:27:20

He did not like that school.

01:27:20 --> 01:27:22

He wanted to go to a different school.

01:27:23 --> 01:27:24

But they forced him, so he pretended that

01:27:24 --> 01:27:25

he got jinn.

01:27:25 --> 01:27:28

And there was a mosque known to be

01:27:28 --> 01:27:28

mosque of jinn.

01:27:29 --> 01:27:30

So he said I used to go and

01:27:30 --> 01:27:31

sleep there all the night.

01:27:32 --> 01:27:33

Everybody now believes that I got jinn.

01:27:34 --> 01:27:36

One day I run away from my house

01:27:36 --> 01:27:36

to another city.

01:27:37 --> 01:27:39

My brother went for looking for me, and

01:27:39 --> 01:27:41

he got me, and then he made me

01:27:41 --> 01:27:42

to sit on the bike behind me.

01:27:43 --> 01:27:44

So I said to my brother, the jinn

01:27:44 --> 01:27:45

is pulling me.

01:27:46 --> 01:27:48

My brother said, that's why the bike is

01:27:48 --> 01:27:51

so difficult to move, orbit.

01:27:51 --> 01:27:54

Then they made me to my admission in

01:27:54 --> 01:27:54

the school I wanted.

01:27:54 --> 01:27:55

I became normal.

01:27:56 --> 01:27:57

He said now I said to my family,

01:27:58 --> 01:27:58

it was all fake.

01:27:59 --> 01:27:59

I made up.

01:27:59 --> 01:28:00

They don't believe.

01:28:00 --> 01:28:01

They said, no, you got jinn.

01:28:02 --> 01:28:04

You know, the world actually has so many

01:28:04 --> 01:28:05

problems.

01:28:05 --> 01:28:07

You know, I tell that, that I'm trying

01:28:07 --> 01:28:08

to, Allah does not do this.

01:28:08 --> 01:28:08

Why?

01:28:09 --> 01:28:11

Allah wants the people to understand the sunnah,

01:28:11 --> 01:28:11

his way.

01:28:13 --> 01:28:14

The way in this world Allah has made,

01:28:15 --> 01:28:17

Allah has made everything very clear.

01:28:17 --> 01:28:21

Whenever you have problem, follow the procedure Allah

01:28:21 --> 01:28:21

has made.

01:28:21 --> 01:28:23

That's what he wants, with the name of

01:28:23 --> 01:28:23

Allah.

01:28:23 --> 01:28:25

If you do that, you'll be happy.

01:28:26 --> 01:28:28

So if you are hungry, what the way

01:28:28 --> 01:28:28

is?

01:28:29 --> 01:28:30

Eat food, that's all.

01:28:30 --> 01:28:32

If you don't eat food, you'll behave very

01:28:32 --> 01:28:33

badly.

01:28:33 --> 01:28:34

Allah has made this way.

01:28:35 --> 01:28:37

If you are hungry, the procedure is, follow,

01:28:37 --> 01:28:38

eat the food.

01:28:38 --> 01:28:41

If you fall ill, what the procedure is?

01:28:41 --> 01:28:42

Go to a doctor, consult him.

01:28:43 --> 01:28:45

And now you say, I got jinn and

01:28:45 --> 01:28:45

this and that.

01:28:46 --> 01:28:48

So this is not, Allah has made the

01:28:48 --> 01:28:48

world like that.

01:28:48 --> 01:28:50

Allah made the world on a set, clear

01:28:50 --> 01:28:54

procedure to believers, people, Muslim, human being, Muslims

01:28:54 --> 01:28:55

or non-Muslims, they can follow it.

01:28:56 --> 01:28:58

Otherwise, this world never can run.

01:28:58 --> 01:29:00

So this is not run by these people.

01:29:01 --> 01:29:04

But at the same time, I say, some

01:29:04 --> 01:29:06

time can happen, some small miracle.

01:29:06 --> 01:29:08

But the world is not all these miracles.

01:29:09 --> 01:29:10

The way Allah made itself is a miracle,

01:29:11 --> 01:29:11

the way he made.

01:29:12 --> 01:29:14

So learn how it works, and follow the

01:29:14 --> 01:29:14

procedure.

01:29:14 --> 01:29:16

You can see, all the learned society, there's

01:29:16 --> 01:29:17

no jinn.

01:29:18 --> 01:29:20

Jinn only is in the society where all

01:29:20 --> 01:29:21

the ignorant people are, because they believe in

01:29:21 --> 01:29:22

these things.

01:29:22 --> 01:29:24

If they follow the procedure, nothing will happen.

01:29:24 --> 01:29:27

If they go to doctor, and people make

01:29:27 --> 01:29:28

up all this, they say, oh, somebody possessed

01:29:28 --> 01:29:29

by jinn.

01:29:30 --> 01:29:32

And the imam comes and he reads the

01:29:32 --> 01:29:33

Quran, and then he's lifted.

01:29:34 --> 01:29:36

So I said, how would it be jinn?

01:29:36 --> 01:29:39

Why can't you say really that he behaved

01:29:39 --> 01:29:40

in a way I don't know how to

01:29:40 --> 01:29:41

explain?

01:29:41 --> 01:29:44

But relate to jinn, what is the proof

01:29:44 --> 01:29:44

of that?

01:29:44 --> 01:29:48

Sometimes people have got illness, a phenomenon, which

01:29:48 --> 01:29:50

don't know how to explain to the citizen.

01:29:50 --> 01:29:52

It's a miracle, anything.

01:29:52 --> 01:29:54

No, understand, there could be an explanation.

01:29:55 --> 01:29:56

Some other people know, you don't know.

01:29:56 --> 01:29:57

Ask the learned people.

01:29:59 --> 01:30:01

So that way, the best thing really is

01:30:01 --> 01:30:02

what the prophets do.

01:30:02 --> 01:30:04

Learn from them how to worship Allah, obey

01:30:04 --> 01:30:09

them, and follow the procedure that Allah has

01:30:09 --> 01:30:09

made.

01:30:09 --> 01:30:10

You'll be safe.

01:30:10 --> 01:30:13

If you don't follow the procedure, anybody can

01:30:13 --> 01:30:16

come and corrupt your mind.

01:30:17 --> 01:30:19

Every time, really, because it's full of the

01:30:19 --> 01:30:19

stories.

01:30:19 --> 01:30:22

People say, my wife got jinn, because somebody

01:30:22 --> 01:30:23

came to me, an alim.

01:30:23 --> 01:30:25

So he said, my wife has got jinn.

01:30:25 --> 01:30:26

I said, why, what problem is?

01:30:27 --> 01:30:29

He said that, you know, she becomes angry

01:30:29 --> 01:30:30

and fighting and all those things.

01:30:30 --> 01:30:31

She has got jinn.

01:30:31 --> 01:30:33

I said, no, it is your problem.

01:30:33 --> 01:30:35

You don't know how to make her happy.

01:30:36 --> 01:30:37

So now there's fighting happening.

01:30:37 --> 01:30:38

So you blame that jinn.

01:30:39 --> 01:30:40

It is your problem.

01:30:40 --> 01:30:41

Correct yourself, you should be fine.

01:30:41 --> 01:30:43

If you love her, she'll be loving you.

01:30:44 --> 01:30:45

So if she's doing all those things, there

01:30:45 --> 01:30:47

must be some reason in you.

01:30:47 --> 01:30:49

And you now accuse her that she's got

01:30:49 --> 01:30:49

a jinn.

01:30:50 --> 01:30:52

So people just easily blame it to blame

01:30:52 --> 01:30:52

the jinn.

01:30:55 --> 01:30:55

Jazakallah khair, Sheikh.

01:30:57 --> 01:30:59

I know there's a bunch of questions both

01:30:59 --> 01:31:00

on the brothers' and the sisters' side.

01:31:00 --> 01:31:02

Inshallah, we'll take a break, because it's past

01:31:02 --> 01:31:04

11.30. For 15 minutes, inshallah.

01:31:05 --> 01:31:06

And then please be back.

01:31:06 --> 01:31:07

It's 11.40 right now, so please be

01:31:07 --> 01:31:11

back around 11.55. And please be on

01:31:11 --> 01:31:12

time, because we're gonna start at 11.55,

01:31:12 --> 01:31:13

inshallah.

01:31:14 --> 01:31:16

There is tea outside, so please go grab

01:31:16 --> 01:31:18

some tea and get freshened up and come

01:31:18 --> 01:31:19

back.

01:31:19 --> 01:31:20

We'll have more time, inshallah, for Q&A

01:31:20 --> 01:31:21

at the end of this session.

01:31:21 --> 01:31:21

Jazakallah khair.

01:32:01 --> 01:32:02

Jazakallah khair.

01:49:58 --> 01:49:59

Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim.

01:49:59 --> 01:50:01

Please come nearer, please come nearer.

01:50:01 --> 01:50:03

And also you can come nearer, come nearer.

01:50:03 --> 01:50:04

So you can hear properly.

01:50:06 --> 01:50:07

Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim.

01:50:08 --> 01:50:10

So let me repeat properly.

01:50:10 --> 01:50:12

I taught you Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

01:50:12 --> 01:50:13

has got two attributes.

01:50:14 --> 01:50:16

Rabb, and he's also Ilah.

01:50:17 --> 01:50:21

As a Rabb, he is creator, master, sustainer,

01:50:21 --> 01:50:25

provider for every human being, for every animal,

01:50:25 --> 01:50:27

for every creation, everything belongs to him.

01:50:27 --> 01:50:28

He does as he likes.

01:50:29 --> 01:50:33

His doing does not make you become more

01:50:33 --> 01:50:34

beloved to him.

01:50:34 --> 01:50:35

He does whatever he likes.

01:50:36 --> 01:50:38

He can make somebody rich, he can make

01:50:38 --> 01:50:40

somebody poor, he can make somebody more handsome,

01:50:41 --> 01:50:43

he can give people more power.

01:50:44 --> 01:50:45

He does for a purpose, he wants to

01:50:45 --> 01:50:46

test everybody.

01:50:46 --> 01:50:49

So whatever he does as a Rabb, it

01:50:49 --> 01:50:51

does not make you nearer to him.

01:50:52 --> 01:50:54

There's no sign that you are more beloved

01:50:54 --> 01:50:56

to Allah than other people.

01:50:56 --> 01:50:57

You always understand.

01:50:57 --> 01:50:59

So don't be proud of those things.

01:51:00 --> 01:51:00

Don't be arrogant.

01:51:01 --> 01:51:03

Actually, you should fear more.

01:51:03 --> 01:51:05

If Allah gives you more power, that is

01:51:05 --> 01:51:07

a sign he wants to test you more.

01:51:07 --> 01:51:08

You have more responsibility.

01:51:09 --> 01:51:12

If Allah gives you more wealth, it means

01:51:12 --> 01:51:13

he wants to test you more.

01:51:14 --> 01:51:17

Whenever favors of Allah are more, then testing

01:51:17 --> 01:51:18

is more and more.

01:51:18 --> 01:51:19

More responsibility.

01:51:20 --> 01:51:23

So as I mentioned, whatever he does as

01:51:23 --> 01:51:25

a Rabb, it does not make you nearer

01:51:25 --> 01:51:26

to Allah.

01:51:26 --> 01:51:29

What makes you nearer to Allah is those

01:51:29 --> 01:51:31

matters where he commands you.

01:51:31 --> 01:51:34

He says do this and don't do this.

01:51:35 --> 01:51:38

So when you obey him, you become nearer

01:51:38 --> 01:51:38

to him.

01:51:39 --> 01:51:41

He loves people when they listen to him,

01:51:41 --> 01:51:42

not because you benefit him.

01:51:43 --> 01:51:46

It means that you trust in him that

01:51:46 --> 01:51:48

he's commanding you what benefits you.

01:51:48 --> 01:51:51

So when he asks us to pray, the

01:51:51 --> 01:51:52

prayer does not benefit him.

01:51:53 --> 01:51:54

The prayer benefits me and you.

01:51:55 --> 01:51:56

So why he becomes happy?

01:51:57 --> 01:51:59

He becomes happy that we accepted his advice.

01:52:00 --> 01:52:02

In what makes me good, I know Allah

01:52:02 --> 01:52:04

told me and I listen to him.

01:52:04 --> 01:52:05

That's why he's happy.

01:52:05 --> 01:52:07

My slaves, they trust in me.

01:52:07 --> 01:52:09

They believe in what I say, so I

01:52:09 --> 01:52:11

will give them more and more.

01:52:11 --> 01:52:13

So always be on this thing.

01:52:13 --> 01:52:18

Your ability to become nearer to Allah, nobody

01:52:18 --> 01:52:19

can take away from you.

01:52:20 --> 01:52:21

Understand properly.

01:52:21 --> 01:52:24

Even if you are in the will and

01:52:24 --> 01:52:26

people have taken from you all the freedom,

01:52:26 --> 01:52:30

still you have best ability to become nearer

01:52:30 --> 01:52:31

to your Lord.

01:52:31 --> 01:52:34

The space that Allah has given you, the

01:52:34 --> 01:52:36

time that he's given you, whatever he gives

01:52:36 --> 01:52:39

you as your Lord, it does not affect

01:52:39 --> 01:52:39

you.

01:52:40 --> 01:52:42

It's always in your hand.

01:52:42 --> 01:52:44

You can become nearer to Allah in any

01:52:44 --> 01:52:45

condition.

01:52:46 --> 01:52:47

If you're the poorest person on the face

01:52:47 --> 01:52:49

of the earth, still you can be nearest

01:52:49 --> 01:52:49

to him.

01:52:50 --> 01:52:51

If you're the weakest person on the face

01:52:51 --> 01:52:53

of the earth, you have nothing really.

01:52:53 --> 01:52:55

Your hands are paralyzed.

01:52:55 --> 01:52:56

You are blind.

01:52:56 --> 01:52:57

You are deaf.

01:52:57 --> 01:53:00

Still you can be nearer to Allah than

01:53:00 --> 01:53:02

those who see, than those who have ability.

01:53:03 --> 01:53:07

Your ability to attain nearness to Allah, nobody

01:53:07 --> 01:53:09

can take away from you.

01:53:09 --> 01:53:12

Everybody shares the same thing Allah has given

01:53:12 --> 01:53:12

to everybody.

01:53:13 --> 01:53:15

That what we need to, that what real

01:53:15 --> 01:53:16

karama is.

01:53:16 --> 01:53:19

That what Quran says, inna karamakum wa indallahi

01:53:19 --> 01:53:20

atqaakum.

01:53:21 --> 01:53:22

The people who have got the most karama

01:53:22 --> 01:53:25

are those people who fear Allah more.

01:53:26 --> 01:53:28

If you fear him more, he loves you

01:53:28 --> 01:53:28

then.

01:53:29 --> 01:53:31

It does not mean he's going to make

01:53:31 --> 01:53:31

you king.

01:53:31 --> 01:53:34

Because the real kingdom, the real kingdom is

01:53:34 --> 01:53:34

hereafter.

01:53:35 --> 01:53:36

That Quran makes.

01:53:36 --> 01:53:37

The real kingdom is not this world.

01:53:38 --> 01:53:39

The real kingdom is when he gives you

01:53:39 --> 01:53:40

paradise.

01:53:40 --> 01:53:42

And Allah SWT said in the Quran that

01:53:42 --> 01:53:45

when people will come to him and he's

01:53:45 --> 01:53:47

pleased with them, then he will give them,

01:53:48 --> 01:53:50

you know, na'iman wa idha ra'ayta

01:53:50 --> 01:53:54

thamma ra'ayta na'iman wa mulkan kabira.

01:53:54 --> 01:53:58

When you see my favours upon believers, ra

01:53:58 --> 01:54:01

'ayta na'iman, you will see favours upon

01:54:01 --> 01:54:04

the favour, wa mulkan kabira, and a huge

01:54:04 --> 01:54:05

kingdom.

01:54:06 --> 01:54:07

You know, what Allah has hidden for the

01:54:07 --> 01:54:10

people that they have judgement, this world cannot

01:54:10 --> 01:54:11

be anything really.

01:54:12 --> 01:54:14

In one of the hadiths of the Prophet

01:54:14 --> 01:54:17

SAW said, you know, I know the last

01:54:17 --> 01:54:19

person who will enter paradise.

01:54:20 --> 01:54:21

Last person.

01:54:21 --> 01:54:23

The people ask the Prophet SAW, who is

01:54:23 --> 01:54:24

the last person?

01:54:24 --> 01:54:28

He said, when everybody, you know, those who

01:54:28 --> 01:54:29

go to paradise, they will go to paradise.

01:54:30 --> 01:54:31

People of the hellfire go to hellfire.

01:54:32 --> 01:54:33

Intercession will happen.

01:54:34 --> 01:54:37

All the angels, all the prophets, messengers, pious

01:54:37 --> 01:54:37

people will intercede.

01:54:38 --> 01:54:40

Many, many sinners will go to paradise.

01:54:40 --> 01:54:42

From the hellfire, they will be saved as

01:54:42 --> 01:54:43

they go to paradise.

01:54:43 --> 01:54:46

There will be somebody in the middle of

01:54:46 --> 01:54:49

the hellfire, and his face will be opposite

01:54:49 --> 01:54:50

of paradise.

01:54:51 --> 01:54:53

So after many, many hundreds, thousands years after

01:54:53 --> 01:54:56

that, one day he will say, oh my

01:54:56 --> 01:54:59

Lord, can you turn my face towards paradise?

01:55:00 --> 01:55:03

So Allah SWT will say, oh my slave,

01:55:03 --> 01:55:05

I will do that, but promise that you

01:55:05 --> 01:55:07

are not going to ask anything else, anything

01:55:07 --> 01:55:07

more, anymore.

01:55:08 --> 01:55:09

He said, I promise.

01:55:09 --> 01:55:12

Then Allah SWT turn his face towards paradise.

01:55:12 --> 01:55:15

Then after many, many years, he'll say, oh

01:55:15 --> 01:55:18

my Lord, if you can make me nearer

01:55:18 --> 01:55:18

to paradise.

01:55:19 --> 01:55:20

In *, I just want to see.

01:55:21 --> 01:55:23

Allah SWT will say, oh my slave, I

01:55:23 --> 01:55:25

will do that, but promise that you're not

01:55:25 --> 01:55:27

going to ask anything more.

01:55:28 --> 01:55:29

He said, I promise.

01:55:29 --> 01:55:30

Then he'll be there.

01:55:30 --> 01:55:32

Then after many, many years, he will ask,

01:55:32 --> 01:55:34

oh my Lord, can you make me to

01:55:34 --> 01:55:35

go around to see paradise?

01:55:37 --> 01:55:38

Allah will say, oh my slave, I will

01:55:38 --> 01:55:40

do that, but promise that you're not going

01:55:40 --> 01:55:41

to ask again.

01:55:41 --> 01:55:42

Can you keep asking?

01:55:43 --> 01:55:45

So then Allah SWT will make an angel

01:55:45 --> 01:55:48

to take him around paradise, and he will

01:55:48 --> 01:55:49

see if people are there enjoying.

01:55:51 --> 01:55:53

After coming back from paradise, he will be

01:55:53 --> 01:55:53

quiet.

01:55:54 --> 01:55:55

Now he's not going to ask anything.

01:55:56 --> 01:55:58

Then many, many years after, Allah will say,

01:55:58 --> 01:56:00

oh my slave, this time you kept quiet.

01:56:00 --> 01:56:03

Every time you broke your promise, this time

01:56:03 --> 01:56:04

you're not asking anymore.

01:56:05 --> 01:56:06

He said, oh my Lord, how can I

01:56:06 --> 01:56:07

ask you?

01:56:07 --> 01:56:09

I saw paradise, it's all full.

01:56:10 --> 01:56:11

There's nothing left.

01:56:12 --> 01:56:14

So, you know, I did not want to

01:56:14 --> 01:56:16

ask you something you can't do.

01:56:17 --> 01:56:19

So Allah SWT will say, oh my slave,

01:56:19 --> 01:56:23

I've given you, you know, a paradise bigger

01:56:23 --> 01:56:25

than, 10 times bigger than the earth.

01:56:25 --> 01:56:26

10 times bigger than that.

01:56:27 --> 01:56:29

So he'll say, oh my Lord, you are

01:56:29 --> 01:56:32

Lord, and you are making this joke with

01:56:32 --> 01:56:33

me, fun with me.

01:56:34 --> 01:56:36

Allah SWT will see that then, he'll get

01:56:36 --> 01:56:39

a paradise 10 times bigger than this earth.

01:56:39 --> 01:56:40

That is last person.

01:56:42 --> 01:56:44

Allah the creator, he's not finder.

01:56:45 --> 01:56:48

The understanding that everything, this world happened because

01:56:48 --> 01:56:48

of him.

01:56:49 --> 01:56:51

That's why the dua is the most powerful

01:56:51 --> 01:56:51

thing.

01:56:51 --> 01:56:54

Ask him, he, you know, for example, if

01:56:54 --> 01:56:56

you ask me something, I have to find

01:56:56 --> 01:56:57

it, then I give you.

01:56:57 --> 01:56:59

If you ask me, oh, can you ask

01:56:59 --> 01:57:01

this rich man, help me?

01:57:01 --> 01:57:02

So I have to go and ask him.

01:57:02 --> 01:57:03

Maybe he helps me, maybe he does not

01:57:03 --> 01:57:03

help.

01:57:04 --> 01:57:05

I cannot do anything.

01:57:05 --> 01:57:07

I have to find any resources.

01:57:08 --> 01:57:11

When you ask Allah, he does not find.

01:57:11 --> 01:57:12

He does not ask anybody.

01:57:12 --> 01:57:13

He creates.

01:57:14 --> 01:57:14

What he does?

01:57:15 --> 01:57:16

He says, be, it is there.

01:57:17 --> 01:57:20

Anything he wants, that he says, you know,

01:57:20 --> 01:57:22

he's not that he, he solves the problem.

01:57:22 --> 01:57:24

He creates a solution.

01:57:25 --> 01:57:26

He's not find a solution.

01:57:26 --> 01:57:27

You come to me, oh, I've got difficulty

01:57:27 --> 01:57:28

problem.

01:57:28 --> 01:57:29

How can I solve my problem?

01:57:29 --> 01:57:30

I say, oh, I don't know.

01:57:30 --> 01:57:32

Really, it is such a difficult question.

01:57:32 --> 01:57:33

I don't know how to answer.

01:57:33 --> 01:57:36

Come to Allah, he will create solution.

01:57:36 --> 01:57:37

He's the creator, he's the maker.

01:57:37 --> 01:57:38

He makes everything.

01:57:39 --> 01:57:40

That how powerful he is.

01:57:40 --> 01:57:41

Everything is handed.

01:57:42 --> 01:57:44

The way things are happening, made by him.

01:57:45 --> 01:57:47

If he sometime break the system, he does.

01:57:49 --> 01:57:51

But his way is, he made a sunnah.

01:57:51 --> 01:57:53

He made normal way so people can follow

01:57:53 --> 01:57:54

the procedure.

01:57:54 --> 01:57:57

If you want to fight your enemy, this

01:57:57 --> 01:57:58

is the procedure.

01:57:58 --> 01:58:01

Make an army, trust in me, be strong,

01:58:01 --> 01:58:03

and then I will help you.

01:58:03 --> 01:58:06

If you want to seek knowledge, come, find

01:58:06 --> 01:58:09

learned people, study with them, spend time, I

01:58:09 --> 01:58:09

will help you.

01:58:10 --> 01:58:11

Follow the procedure.

01:58:11 --> 01:58:13

But this thing that, you know, you hear

01:58:13 --> 01:58:15

the story in India, there was a preacher

01:58:15 --> 01:58:15

in India.

01:58:16 --> 01:58:17

I have attended the lecture.

01:58:18 --> 01:58:20

So he used to say that he was

01:58:20 --> 01:58:23

born, you know, in a family, nobody learned.

01:58:24 --> 01:58:26

So he was ignorant, nothing.

01:58:27 --> 01:58:29

And then he just earned like labor work

01:58:29 --> 01:58:32

in Bombay, in the house of the people,

01:58:32 --> 01:58:33

earning money.

01:58:33 --> 01:58:36

And he saw a majdoob, a somebody, you

01:58:36 --> 01:58:39

know, like a maid, eating khichdi.

01:58:40 --> 01:58:42

And then when he eats, drops in the

01:58:42 --> 01:58:47

same, you know, container, and his saliva also

01:58:47 --> 01:58:47

falls.

01:58:48 --> 01:58:49

He asked me to eat from that.

01:58:51 --> 01:58:52

And I, nobody will eat really, because the

01:58:52 --> 01:58:55

saliva's falling and all dirty, and his hands

01:58:55 --> 01:58:56

were very dirty.

01:58:56 --> 01:58:57

So he said, I ate.

01:58:58 --> 01:59:00

And when I ate, I became learned.

01:59:01 --> 01:59:04

Tell me really, if this Allah meant, then

01:59:04 --> 01:59:06

there's no need for a madrasa, school or

01:59:06 --> 01:59:09

college, just find somebody eating khichdi, you need

01:59:09 --> 01:59:10

to become learned.

01:59:10 --> 01:59:12

Then the Prophet, Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, does

01:59:12 --> 01:59:13

not need to teach anything.

01:59:13 --> 01:59:15

Just said to everybody, come and eat my

01:59:15 --> 01:59:17

leftover, you become learned.

01:59:18 --> 01:59:19

He did not make procedure like that.

01:59:20 --> 01:59:21

He can do that, but he does not,

01:59:21 --> 01:59:23

he wants people to follow the system.

01:59:24 --> 01:59:26

He wanted people to follow the procedure properly,

01:59:26 --> 01:59:27

to always understand this thing.

01:59:28 --> 01:59:29

This is very important to understand really.

01:59:30 --> 01:59:31

That's why we people are struggling.

01:59:32 --> 01:59:34

We see unbelievers are doing much better.

01:59:35 --> 01:59:37

You know, for example, if a kafir has

01:59:37 --> 01:59:39

got a field, a farm, and I am

01:59:39 --> 01:59:40

Muslim, I got a farm.

01:59:42 --> 01:59:45

The kafir and a believer works hard, you

01:59:45 --> 01:59:48

know, follow the rule, you know, water his

01:59:48 --> 01:59:50

field, and everything, you know, he knows what

01:59:50 --> 01:59:53

seeds are there, looks after that, you know,

01:59:53 --> 01:59:54

his field will produce.

01:59:55 --> 01:59:58

I am a believer, I say, you know,

01:59:58 --> 01:59:58

I love Allah.

01:59:59 --> 02:00:04

In the time of the, you know, growing

02:00:04 --> 02:00:06

the seed, I just come to masjid and

02:00:06 --> 02:00:08

make dua and pray all the day and

02:00:08 --> 02:00:10

night and never go to my field.

02:00:11 --> 02:00:12

So maybe I get some reward because I'm

02:00:12 --> 02:00:15

praying, but my field will do nothing.

02:00:15 --> 02:00:17

Because this is not the system of Allah.

02:00:18 --> 02:00:19

System of Allah is something else.

02:00:20 --> 02:00:22

I should work hard like him, but at

02:00:22 --> 02:00:23

the same time trust in Allah subhanahu wa

02:00:23 --> 02:00:24

ta'ala.

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That he wants.

02:00:25 --> 02:00:26

If you are running a family, you have

02:00:26 --> 02:00:30

a family, wife, children, so the way is

02:00:30 --> 02:00:31

not that you leave them and just spend

02:00:31 --> 02:00:32

time in the masjid.

02:00:32 --> 02:00:32

No.

02:00:33 --> 02:00:36

The prophets used to say that every prayer

02:00:36 --> 02:00:41

at home has more reward than the mosque

02:00:41 --> 02:00:42

except for the prayer.

02:00:42 --> 02:00:43

Have you heard this or this?

02:00:44 --> 02:00:46

All the prayers at home have more reward,

02:00:47 --> 02:00:49

you know, than the masjid except for the

02:00:49 --> 02:00:50

prayer.

02:00:50 --> 02:00:52

That way the companions, all these people, they

02:00:52 --> 02:00:53

need to rush to house.

02:00:53 --> 02:00:53

Why?

02:00:54 --> 02:00:56

Because he wants people to spend time with

02:00:56 --> 02:00:56

their family.

02:00:57 --> 02:00:59

Now you want your family to do well,

02:01:00 --> 02:01:02

to be happy, and you spend time in

02:01:02 --> 02:01:02

the masjid.

02:01:03 --> 02:01:04

They're not going to be happy.

02:01:04 --> 02:01:05

Your family will not be good.

02:01:06 --> 02:01:07

And you think, oh I worship Allah, I

02:01:07 --> 02:01:08

obey him.

02:01:08 --> 02:01:09

No, you are not worshipping him.

02:01:10 --> 02:01:11

Because the prophets said, you spend time with

02:01:11 --> 02:01:12

your family.

02:01:13 --> 02:01:15

When Imam says salam, you should rush to

02:01:15 --> 02:01:15

your family.

02:01:16 --> 02:01:18

Do your sunnah there, so they see you.

02:01:18 --> 02:01:19

You are present there.

02:01:19 --> 02:01:20

Allah wants you to follow.

02:01:21 --> 02:01:22

Don't make Allah your slave.

02:01:23 --> 02:01:26

Don't make all the time, you know, Allah

02:01:26 --> 02:01:27

does on my behalf.

02:01:27 --> 02:01:28

He's not going to do on your behalf.

02:01:29 --> 02:01:30

You need to do.

02:01:30 --> 02:01:31

You have to pray your prayer.

02:01:31 --> 02:01:33

You have to know how to run the

02:01:33 --> 02:01:33

family.

02:01:34 --> 02:01:36

You have to learn how to, you know,

02:01:36 --> 02:01:37

how to earn money.

02:01:37 --> 02:01:38

You have to learn this thing.

02:01:39 --> 02:01:40

He made system, he gave everything.

02:01:41 --> 02:01:42

You know, I tell a story.

02:01:44 --> 02:01:47

So somebody said, I'm not going to eat

02:01:47 --> 02:01:48

any food.

02:01:49 --> 02:01:51

Because if Allah feeds everyone, he will feed

02:01:51 --> 02:01:52

me as well.

02:01:52 --> 02:01:54

So I want to see how Allah feeds.

02:01:55 --> 02:01:57

So he left his home, went to a

02:01:57 --> 02:02:00

forest, sat there like that.

02:02:01 --> 02:02:03

I'm going to see how Allah feeds.

02:02:04 --> 02:02:06

He's sitting there one day, second day.

02:02:06 --> 02:02:08

There are some people passed by, seeing this

02:02:08 --> 02:02:09

person sitting.

02:02:09 --> 02:02:11

They say he must be saint, must be

02:02:11 --> 02:02:12

wali, must be shaykh.

02:02:13 --> 02:02:14

He's so pious, he does not look anywhere

02:02:14 --> 02:02:15

sitting.

02:02:15 --> 02:02:18

So they went to their house, asked their

02:02:18 --> 02:02:21

wife to make nice biryani, very good smell.

02:02:21 --> 02:02:23

Then the person brought the, you know, full

02:02:23 --> 02:02:27

of the, you know, container, biryani put in

02:02:27 --> 02:02:27

front of the person.

02:02:28 --> 02:02:29

The smell is coming.

02:02:29 --> 02:02:30

But he said, I'm not going to eat.

02:02:31 --> 02:02:32

I want to see how Allah feeds.

02:02:32 --> 02:02:34

Biryani is there, smell is coming.

02:02:34 --> 02:02:35

But he's sitting like that, not eating.

02:02:37 --> 02:02:39

Then after that night come, people who doing

02:02:39 --> 02:02:41

robbery, they pass by.

02:02:42 --> 02:02:43

They say, it's fine, the smell is so

02:02:43 --> 02:02:44

nice food, let's go.

02:02:45 --> 02:02:47

They came there, the smell is there, food

02:02:47 --> 02:02:47

is there.

02:02:47 --> 02:02:49

But this person sitting, they thought this person's

02:02:49 --> 02:02:50

clever.

02:02:50 --> 02:02:53

He must have put poison inside and he

02:02:53 --> 02:02:55

wants us to eat and then we die

02:02:55 --> 02:02:57

and he take all our money.

02:02:57 --> 02:02:58

He's clever person.

02:02:58 --> 02:02:59

Let's feed him first.

02:03:00 --> 02:03:02

So they took biryani, forced in his mouth.

02:03:03 --> 02:03:04

And then he ate.

02:03:04 --> 02:03:05

He did not die.

02:03:05 --> 02:03:06

Then they become happy and they eat.

02:03:07 --> 02:03:08

Yeah, so Allah can do this.

02:03:08 --> 02:03:10

But this is respect for human being.

02:03:10 --> 02:03:11

This what human being is.

02:03:11 --> 02:03:13

Allah say, I gave you respect.

02:03:13 --> 02:03:15

Meaning is, use your mind, use your hand.

02:03:15 --> 02:03:17

How nice it is that you use your

02:03:17 --> 02:03:20

mind, cook the food and then after that,

02:03:21 --> 02:03:23

make in the plate, eat with your hand,

02:03:23 --> 02:03:23

say Bismillah.

02:03:24 --> 02:03:25

Isn't that more honorable?

02:03:25 --> 02:03:28

Somebody comes and force in your mouth and

02:03:28 --> 02:03:31

goes inside and you think, that also Allah

02:03:31 --> 02:03:31

said.

02:03:32 --> 02:03:32

Who made your hand?

02:03:33 --> 02:03:35

The way Allah has done is much better.

02:03:36 --> 02:03:37

You know, more respect.

02:03:37 --> 02:03:39

He said, I gave respect to human being.

02:03:40 --> 02:03:42

This is what Allah loves people.

02:03:42 --> 02:03:44

You know, already has given you mind.

02:03:44 --> 02:03:45

Use the mind.

02:03:45 --> 02:03:46

Use your hand.

02:03:46 --> 02:03:47

It's much more.

02:03:47 --> 02:03:53

He said in Quran, We create the mankind

02:03:53 --> 02:03:54

in the best structure.

02:03:55 --> 02:03:56

This is the best structure.

02:03:56 --> 02:03:57

Otherwise, why he gave you hand?

02:03:57 --> 02:03:59

Tell me if everything Allah has to do,

02:03:59 --> 02:04:00

then don't need for hand.

02:04:01 --> 02:04:03

He wanted to show you that you can

02:04:03 --> 02:04:04

do something.

02:04:05 --> 02:04:06

Otherwise, we don't need hand.

02:04:06 --> 02:04:08

If we don't need to work, we don't

02:04:08 --> 02:04:08

need mouth.

02:04:09 --> 02:04:10

If you don't need to eat, then you

02:04:10 --> 02:04:12

know, food somewhere else.

02:04:13 --> 02:04:15

The way he made really, he want to

02:04:15 --> 02:04:17

respect us and respect all the people.

02:04:17 --> 02:04:19

That how Allah has made this.

02:04:19 --> 02:04:20

Like, you know, there's a story.

02:04:21 --> 02:04:24

In this, in Rasool Qushari and all the

02:04:24 --> 02:04:24

story.

02:04:24 --> 02:04:26

Everywhere, this story comes.

02:04:27 --> 02:04:31

That, there are, there was a person.

02:04:32 --> 02:04:33

He was traveling.

02:04:35 --> 02:04:36

But he has made his oath.

02:04:37 --> 02:04:39

He is not going to ask anyone to

02:04:39 --> 02:04:39

help.

02:04:40 --> 02:04:42

Though Allah's command is, when you need, you

02:04:42 --> 02:04:43

ask people help.

02:04:43 --> 02:04:44

Human being also from Allah.

02:04:44 --> 02:04:45

The prophets used to ask help.

02:04:46 --> 02:04:48

Prophets also used to borrow money from people.

02:04:49 --> 02:04:51

This person made oath, I'm not going to

02:04:51 --> 02:04:52

ask any help from anybody.

02:04:53 --> 02:04:54

He was walking, and there was well.

02:04:55 --> 02:04:56

He fell down in the well.

02:04:57 --> 02:04:58

Now he's going to die.

02:04:59 --> 02:05:01

But now he want to shout to people.

02:05:01 --> 02:05:03

But he's going to know, I made promise,

02:05:03 --> 02:05:04

I'm not going to ask anybody help.

02:05:05 --> 02:05:06

I only trust in Allah.

02:05:07 --> 02:05:09

So he remained there.

02:05:10 --> 02:05:11

Then somebody was passing by.

02:05:11 --> 02:05:13

It came to his mind that, you know,

02:05:13 --> 02:05:14

call them so they can save me.

02:05:14 --> 02:05:17

Then again he remember, no, he's made oath.

02:05:17 --> 02:05:18

He's not going to ask anybody to help.

02:05:19 --> 02:05:19

Only Allah.

02:05:20 --> 02:05:20

He remained quiet.

02:05:21 --> 02:05:23

These people, they saw there's a well.

02:05:24 --> 02:05:26

And you know, maybe sometime animals come, something,

02:05:26 --> 02:05:27

they make a dirt.

02:05:27 --> 02:05:29

Let's put a rock over the well.

02:05:29 --> 02:05:30

So no animal can do.

02:05:31 --> 02:05:33

And now they're going to put the rock

02:05:33 --> 02:05:33

there.

02:05:34 --> 02:05:34

He's going to die.

02:05:35 --> 02:05:36

It came to his mind to shout.

02:05:37 --> 02:05:38

Then again he remember, no, I have promised

02:05:38 --> 02:05:40

not to ask anybody to help other than

02:05:40 --> 02:05:40

Allah.

02:05:41 --> 02:05:42

He remained quiet.

02:05:42 --> 02:05:44

Then after that, a lion comes.

02:05:44 --> 02:05:46

As the people write a story, a lion

02:05:46 --> 02:05:49

comes and he removes the rock and puts

02:05:49 --> 02:05:49

him out.

02:05:50 --> 02:05:52

And then a voice come to him.

02:05:52 --> 02:05:55

We save you from danger by danger.

02:05:57 --> 02:05:58

So it can happen.

02:05:58 --> 02:05:59

But this is what human being is.

02:06:00 --> 02:06:01

Just think really.

02:06:02 --> 02:06:02

He will get sin.

02:06:03 --> 02:06:04

So people say, why Allah save?

02:06:04 --> 02:06:05

Because Allah saves everybody.

02:06:06 --> 02:06:06

Even sinners.

02:06:07 --> 02:06:08

He, this person doing a sin.

02:06:08 --> 02:06:09

If he died, he'll be sinful.

02:06:10 --> 02:06:12

Because when you fail there, you must ask

02:06:12 --> 02:06:12

people to help.

02:06:13 --> 02:06:14

Who made these people?

02:06:14 --> 02:06:14

Allah made them.

02:06:15 --> 02:06:16

Allah made a system.

02:06:16 --> 02:06:18

When you need to help, some help, ask

02:06:18 --> 02:06:19

people.

02:06:19 --> 02:06:20

Allah is the one who make it.

02:06:20 --> 02:06:22

But no, I'm not going to ask anybody.

02:06:23 --> 02:06:24

So this is a very bad manner.

02:06:26 --> 02:06:27

If Allah helps, it does not mean Allah

02:06:27 --> 02:06:28

is happy with you.

02:06:28 --> 02:06:29

He helps for a reason.

02:06:30 --> 02:06:32

So this person has been saved by this

02:06:32 --> 02:06:33

person is sinful.

02:06:34 --> 02:06:35

Because he did not follow Allah's way.

02:06:36 --> 02:06:36

Allah's system.

02:06:37 --> 02:06:38

So always understand this thing.

02:06:39 --> 02:06:41

That we have to be slave of Allah

02:06:41 --> 02:06:41

subhanahu wa ta'ala.

02:06:42 --> 02:06:43

Follow system of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

02:06:43 --> 02:06:45

Properly, then he's saved.

02:06:46 --> 02:06:50

So as I mentioned to you, that believe

02:06:50 --> 02:06:52

in Allah as Allah.

02:06:52 --> 02:06:53

Be a slave of Allah.

02:06:54 --> 02:06:54

Obedient to him.

02:06:55 --> 02:06:56

Worshipper of him.

02:06:56 --> 02:06:56

Pleasing him.

02:06:57 --> 02:06:58

Be humble.

02:06:58 --> 02:06:59

Don't become arrogant.

02:07:00 --> 02:07:01

Allah will love you.

02:07:01 --> 02:07:03

That's what, that always is there.

02:07:04 --> 02:07:07

But sometimes, you know, it can happen that

02:07:07 --> 02:07:10

for some reason, he can do differently.

02:07:11 --> 02:07:12

There are so many reasons for that.

02:07:12 --> 02:07:13

But I'm not going to explain, because I've

02:07:13 --> 02:07:14

explained some of those things anyway.

02:07:15 --> 02:07:16

I want to teach you another thing from

02:07:16 --> 02:07:17

here.

02:07:17 --> 02:07:22

And that is, very often many stories, they

02:07:22 --> 02:07:24

have been made to look like a miracle.

02:07:25 --> 02:07:26

They actually are something else.

02:07:27 --> 02:07:28

You know, they are normal stories.

02:07:29 --> 02:07:30

Normal things also from Allah.

02:07:30 --> 02:07:33

But we always create something else to teach

02:07:33 --> 02:07:33

them.

02:07:33 --> 02:07:34

They're not there.

02:07:34 --> 02:07:38

So for example, like the Quran mentions, that

02:07:38 --> 02:07:43

when Maryam alaihissalam is born, so she is

02:07:43 --> 02:07:44

a clever girl.

02:07:45 --> 02:07:46

Very young age.

02:07:47 --> 02:07:51

Whenever Zakariya alaihissalam became her, you know, like

02:07:51 --> 02:07:54

a supervisor, sustainer, you know, guardian.

02:07:54 --> 02:07:56

Quran says that, you know, we gave the

02:07:56 --> 02:07:59

guardianship of Maryam to Zakariya alaihissalam.

02:08:00 --> 02:08:04

So Quran says, kullama dakhala alaiha zakariya almihraab

02:08:04 --> 02:08:06

wajada indaha risqaab.

02:08:07 --> 02:08:10

Whenever Zakariya used to enter into mihraab, he

02:08:10 --> 02:08:13

would find a risk with Maryam.

02:08:15 --> 02:08:17

So now people, Quran does not say anything

02:08:17 --> 02:08:17

else.

02:08:18 --> 02:08:20

Quran says, he would find there is risk

02:08:20 --> 02:08:21

next to Maryam.

02:08:22 --> 02:08:25

Now people write stories that in the time

02:08:25 --> 02:08:27

of the, no season.

02:08:27 --> 02:08:28

There's no season for apple.

02:08:29 --> 02:08:30

He would find apple there.

02:08:31 --> 02:08:32

There's no season for grapes.

02:08:32 --> 02:08:32

There's no grapes.

02:08:33 --> 02:08:34

When he comes there, he sees Maryam has

02:08:34 --> 02:08:35

got grapes.

02:08:36 --> 02:08:39

The fruits of, those fruits we don't have

02:08:39 --> 02:08:40

season, it is there.

02:08:40 --> 02:08:42

Tell me where Quran says like that.

02:08:42 --> 02:08:43

Does Quran say no season?

02:08:44 --> 02:08:47

Does Quran specify what risk is?

02:08:48 --> 02:08:51

We just gave a meaning which Quran, which

02:08:51 --> 02:08:51

not there.

02:08:52 --> 02:08:53

Why can't you see normally?

02:08:54 --> 02:08:57

What is happening is, when Zakariya alaihissalam comes,

02:08:58 --> 02:08:59

he talks to Maryam.

02:08:59 --> 02:09:02

Maryam talks nicely, with full of the wisdom,

02:09:03 --> 02:09:04

about Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, about his

02:09:04 --> 02:09:06

praising Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

02:09:06 --> 02:09:08

So many thing, how she makes dua.

02:09:09 --> 02:09:10

This is a great risk.

02:09:10 --> 02:09:13

Quran mentions risk, not only for the food.

02:09:13 --> 02:09:15

Quran mentions risk for everything.

02:09:15 --> 02:09:18

Meaning is, whenever Zakariya comes, he always find

02:09:18 --> 02:09:22

Maryam so clever, talking so nicely, with them

02:09:22 --> 02:09:22

coming.

02:09:23 --> 02:09:24

He was surprised.

02:09:24 --> 02:09:24

Who?

02:09:24 --> 02:09:26

She has no teacher.

02:09:26 --> 02:09:27

Nobody's there.

02:09:27 --> 02:09:28

How she learns those things quickly?

02:09:29 --> 02:09:31

So he becomes surprised, because he wanted son

02:09:31 --> 02:09:34

like that, who can be so wise, so

02:09:34 --> 02:09:34

clever.

02:09:34 --> 02:09:37

So he said, Maryam, how you become so

02:09:37 --> 02:09:38

wise?

02:09:38 --> 02:09:41

Every time I come, you have some new

02:09:41 --> 02:09:41

hikmah.

02:09:42 --> 02:09:43

Like sometimes you see, your son is very

02:09:43 --> 02:09:44

clever.

02:09:44 --> 02:09:45

How do?

02:09:45 --> 02:09:47

So he said, I read this book, that

02:09:47 --> 02:09:47

book.

02:09:49 --> 02:09:52

Sometimes people will say something, which you think

02:09:52 --> 02:09:53

it is so great.

02:09:54 --> 02:09:56

So every time, because he's so impressed by

02:09:56 --> 02:09:58

the wisdom of Maryam, by her cleverness.

02:09:58 --> 02:10:02

So he asked Maryam, Ya Maryam, Oh Maryam,

02:10:02 --> 02:10:03

where did you get this from?

02:10:03 --> 02:10:07

Maryam said, My Lord gives me, He teaches

02:10:07 --> 02:10:07

me directly.

02:10:08 --> 02:10:08

All this.

02:10:09 --> 02:10:11

Then it came to mind of Zakariya alaihi

02:10:11 --> 02:10:13

salam, if I can have a son like

02:10:13 --> 02:10:15

her, who has this wisdom, you know, and

02:10:15 --> 02:10:19

learning from Allah directly, you know, and then

02:10:19 --> 02:10:23

when I die, then somebody will be among

02:10:23 --> 02:10:24

Jews, who can teach them.

02:10:24 --> 02:10:26

Because there are prophets, my son just think

02:10:26 --> 02:10:28

that after our death, my reform should continue.

02:10:29 --> 02:10:31

If I die, reform finish, what happened?

02:10:31 --> 02:10:33

Then he made du'a in the prayer,

02:10:33 --> 02:10:36

Oh my Lord, give me a son like

02:10:36 --> 02:10:36

Maryam.

02:10:36 --> 02:10:38

Then I just called him while he was

02:10:38 --> 02:10:40

in prayer, that you got a son, whose

02:10:40 --> 02:10:42

name is Yahya, and same attributes.

02:10:43 --> 02:10:43

You see?

02:10:44 --> 02:10:46

The way it is, it is more miraculous.

02:10:47 --> 02:10:49

That is, isn't learning better than having just

02:10:49 --> 02:10:50

apple and banana?

02:10:51 --> 02:10:54

I don't understand why people think, if you

02:10:54 --> 02:10:55

get a banana, it is miracle.

02:10:56 --> 02:10:58

If I'm sitting here, a banana drops from

02:10:58 --> 02:11:01

there, people say, oh, great Shaykh, because he

02:11:01 --> 02:11:01

got banana.

02:11:02 --> 02:11:04

Why don't you think really, what I'm teaching

02:11:04 --> 02:11:05

is, it's also coming from Allah.

02:11:07 --> 02:11:08

Who made me to learn?

02:11:09 --> 02:11:10

Who gave me mind?

02:11:10 --> 02:11:11

Allah gave me.

02:11:11 --> 02:11:12

Why this is not from Allah?

02:11:13 --> 02:11:14

Why this is not sign?

02:11:14 --> 02:11:16

The way you people think, it is from

02:11:16 --> 02:11:16

Allah.

02:11:17 --> 02:11:19

Why only from Allah can be a fruit

02:11:19 --> 02:11:19

like that?

02:11:20 --> 02:11:23

So sometimes we unnecessarily invent stories, which is

02:11:23 --> 02:11:24

not there.

02:11:24 --> 02:11:25

Quran does not mention.

02:11:26 --> 02:11:30

Similarly, in the story of Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam.

02:11:31 --> 02:11:33

Ibrahim's story, very simple story, but it's a

02:11:33 --> 02:11:34

very powerful story.

02:11:34 --> 02:11:37

That the story is, that Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam,

02:11:38 --> 02:11:42

said, Oh Allah, Rabb-e-Areni, kaifa tuhjil

02:11:42 --> 02:11:42

mawta?

02:11:43 --> 02:11:46

Oh my Lord, show me, how do you

02:11:46 --> 02:11:47

bring the dead alive?

02:11:48 --> 02:11:50

And Allah said, Alhamdulillah, Allah helped me to

02:11:50 --> 02:11:51

understand this story, when I was a student

02:11:51 --> 02:11:52

in Nazatul Ulama.

02:11:52 --> 02:11:56

It came to my mind, I believe that

02:11:56 --> 02:11:57

Allah makes dead alive.

02:11:57 --> 02:11:58

I will not be asking this question.

02:11:59 --> 02:12:00

If a dead becomes alive, I'm not going

02:12:00 --> 02:12:01

to be surprised.

02:12:02 --> 02:12:04

Because I believe, if I see dead, if

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in the Day of Judgment, Allah will make

02:12:05 --> 02:12:06

everybody alive.

02:12:07 --> 02:12:08

Not a big thing, I believe.

02:12:08 --> 02:12:09

Ibrahim's so great.

02:12:10 --> 02:12:13

Bigger, he's the Imam of all the prophets.

02:12:14 --> 02:12:15

Why will I ask a question like that?

02:12:15 --> 02:12:17

That question came to my mind many, many

02:12:17 --> 02:12:17

times.

02:12:18 --> 02:12:20

That how Ibrahim can ask something like that?

02:12:20 --> 02:12:23

Even I, weakest believer, I understand this, Allah

02:12:23 --> 02:12:24

makes dead alive.

02:12:24 --> 02:12:25

Why Ibrahim needs to see it?

02:12:26 --> 02:12:28

That somebody comes and cuts things in pieces,

02:12:29 --> 02:12:31

and they make I believe without seeing anything.

02:12:31 --> 02:12:32

Do I need demonstration?

02:12:33 --> 02:12:33

No.

02:12:34 --> 02:12:35

Not that I, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,

02:12:35 --> 02:12:37

I ask Allah, oh Allah, I can't believe

02:12:37 --> 02:12:38

that you make dead alive.

02:12:38 --> 02:12:39

Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sends the

02:12:39 --> 02:12:41

birds, and somebody comes and makes them pieces,

02:12:41 --> 02:12:42

then they become alive.

02:12:42 --> 02:12:43

So I say, oh, this is how Allah

02:12:43 --> 02:12:44

makes alive.

02:12:44 --> 02:12:45

Actually, I believe without that.

02:12:46 --> 02:12:47

Alhamdulillah, without seeing anything.

02:12:48 --> 02:12:49

And most of you believe like that anyway.

02:12:50 --> 02:12:52

It came to my mind, then Alhamdulillah, then

02:12:52 --> 02:12:54

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala opened my, the

02:12:54 --> 02:12:54

question, not this.

02:12:55 --> 02:12:57

Ibrahim believes, that's why Allah subhanahu wa ta

02:12:57 --> 02:12:59

'ala says, awalam to me, don't you believe

02:12:59 --> 02:12:59

Ibrahim?

02:13:00 --> 02:13:01

He said, no.

02:13:01 --> 02:13:05

I want my Iman to increase, because prophets

02:13:05 --> 02:13:06

always want to have more and more.

02:13:07 --> 02:13:09

What he wants to exactly do really?

02:13:10 --> 02:13:12

It is not that he want, he does

02:13:12 --> 02:13:13

not know that Allah makes dead alive.

02:13:14 --> 02:13:16

He just, he has another question, which actually

02:13:16 --> 02:13:18

only prophet can ask.

02:13:18 --> 02:13:21

He wants to see, how Allah does this.

02:13:21 --> 02:13:23

Allah makes dead alive, but what he does,

02:13:23 --> 02:13:24

that dead become alive.

02:13:24 --> 02:13:26

He wants to know that secret.

02:13:26 --> 02:13:27

Is it clear?

02:13:27 --> 02:13:30

What he does actually, he become alive.

02:13:30 --> 02:13:33

Like for example, you ask me a question,

02:13:33 --> 02:13:34

I answer.

02:13:35 --> 02:13:36

So you know I answer the question.

02:13:37 --> 02:13:38

Then one day you say that, oh Sheikh,

02:13:38 --> 02:13:39

I ask you so many questions.

02:13:39 --> 02:13:41

Every time you answer, tell me how do

02:13:41 --> 02:13:41

you find answer?

02:13:42 --> 02:13:44

So then I'll say, I read this book,

02:13:44 --> 02:13:46

that book, this book, and that how find

02:13:46 --> 02:13:46

answer.

02:13:46 --> 02:13:48

So this is a good question.

02:13:49 --> 02:13:51

The question of Ibrahim is not, that Allah

02:13:51 --> 02:13:52

makes dead alive or not.

02:13:52 --> 02:13:54

He knows that, even I know this.

02:13:55 --> 02:13:58

The question is, when Allah makes dead alive,

02:13:58 --> 02:13:59

how it happens?

02:13:59 --> 02:14:00

What he does?

02:14:00 --> 02:14:01

So Allah swt want to teach that.

02:14:02 --> 02:14:04

First he want to remove any misunderstanding, that

02:14:04 --> 02:14:04

Ibrahim is believer.

02:14:05 --> 02:14:05

He has no doubt.

02:14:06 --> 02:14:07

But Ibrahim want more knowledge.

02:14:08 --> 02:14:09

He wants to know how I do.

02:14:10 --> 02:14:12

So Allah said to Ibrahim a.s, okay,

02:14:13 --> 02:14:14

take four birds.

02:14:14 --> 02:14:15

Who?

02:14:15 --> 02:14:16

Arba'ata minatta.

02:14:16 --> 02:14:17

Take four birds.

02:14:18 --> 02:14:19

Fassuruhunna ilayka.

02:14:20 --> 02:14:22

Sara yasuro does not mean to cut.

02:14:22 --> 02:14:25

Sara yasuro is from sur, fayda nufiqa fissur.

02:14:25 --> 02:14:26

It means a voice.

02:14:27 --> 02:14:29

You know, when the qiyamah will come, angel

02:14:29 --> 02:14:33

will, you know, shout in the horn, and

02:14:33 --> 02:14:35

then the whole universe will start.

02:14:35 --> 02:14:36

Then again, and everything will be right.

02:14:37 --> 02:14:40

Fassuruhunna ilayka ilayka ilayka to you.

02:14:40 --> 02:14:43

Meaning is, make these four birds become familiar

02:14:43 --> 02:14:44

to you.

02:14:44 --> 02:14:45

They recognize you.

02:14:46 --> 02:14:47

They know your voice.

02:14:47 --> 02:14:49

Get four, like you know, people who raise

02:14:49 --> 02:14:49

the birds.

02:14:50 --> 02:14:51

What they do?

02:14:51 --> 02:14:53

They get the birds, they talk to the

02:14:53 --> 02:14:56

birds, and birds know the voice of their

02:14:56 --> 02:14:56

master.

02:14:56 --> 02:14:58

To make them to know your voice.

02:14:59 --> 02:15:01

And then put them after that in four

02:15:01 --> 02:15:02

different direction.

02:15:02 --> 02:15:03

Every direction.

02:15:03 --> 02:15:04

And then call them.

02:15:06 --> 02:15:07

They will come to you.

02:15:07 --> 02:15:07

They will not go to anybody else.

02:15:08 --> 02:15:10

If I go and call, birds will come

02:15:10 --> 02:15:12

to the master who the voice they know.

02:15:12 --> 02:15:13

Go and then call them.

02:15:14 --> 02:15:16

All these birds will come to you running.

02:15:17 --> 02:15:18

That how we do in the Day of

02:15:18 --> 02:15:18

Judgment.

02:15:19 --> 02:15:21

When all the people are in the grave,

02:15:21 --> 02:15:24

one voice from me, all the souls recognize

02:15:24 --> 02:15:25

me.

02:15:25 --> 02:15:26

All the souls recognize me.

02:15:26 --> 02:15:29

When I call, all the souls will come

02:15:29 --> 02:15:29

running to me.

02:15:30 --> 02:15:32

All the birds will assemble, and they will

02:15:32 --> 02:15:33

come running to me.

02:15:33 --> 02:15:36

The Quran says, faidahum qiyamuhum ghurun.

02:15:36 --> 02:15:38

Just one voice of Allah will make all

02:15:38 --> 02:15:39

the things differently.

02:15:40 --> 02:15:40

Reassemble.

02:15:41 --> 02:15:42

So that one.

02:15:42 --> 02:15:44

And that actually also, Ibrahim wanted to know

02:15:44 --> 02:15:44

this thing.

02:15:44 --> 02:15:44

Why?

02:15:45 --> 02:15:47

Because Ibrahim is soon going to build a

02:15:47 --> 02:15:49

house in Makkah, the Ka'bah.

02:15:50 --> 02:15:52

And Allah is going to command him to

02:15:52 --> 02:15:52

make adhan.

02:15:53 --> 02:15:55

Ibrahim can think really, what is adhan?

02:15:56 --> 02:15:56

Who's going to listen?

02:15:57 --> 02:15:57

Who's going to hear?

02:15:58 --> 02:16:00

Allah wants to show him that as I

02:16:00 --> 02:16:02

make all the dead alive, I will make

02:16:02 --> 02:16:04

your voice to reach every soul.

02:16:04 --> 02:16:05

Every soul recognize you.

02:16:06 --> 02:16:09

Millions of people, after your death, will come

02:16:09 --> 02:16:09

to this house.

02:16:10 --> 02:16:12

Everybody will surrender to your voice.

02:16:12 --> 02:16:16

They will say, yes, just use the adhan.

02:16:16 --> 02:16:18

When he says adhan, Allah said to Ibrahim

02:16:18 --> 02:16:20

as-Salaam, adhan fil nasib al-hajj.

02:16:21 --> 02:16:25

Ya'tooka rijalan wa ala kulli dhaamirin ya'teena min

02:16:25 --> 02:16:26

kulli fajjin ameeq.

02:16:26 --> 02:16:28

O Ibrahim, make adhan.

02:16:28 --> 02:16:31

People will come running to you, walking on

02:16:31 --> 02:16:35

the feet, riding the camels, horses, anywhere.

02:16:35 --> 02:16:36

You don't worry.

02:16:36 --> 02:16:38

Your voice will be spread.

02:16:38 --> 02:16:40

Your announcement of the hajj will be spread

02:16:40 --> 02:16:40

everywhere.

02:16:40 --> 02:16:42

I will make arrangement.

02:16:42 --> 02:16:43

I did this.

02:16:43 --> 02:16:45

So the story was connected to this thing.

02:16:46 --> 02:16:48

Don't you think this is so nice?

02:16:48 --> 02:16:49

This is more prayer.

02:16:49 --> 02:16:53

Don't you think really to make birds in

02:16:53 --> 02:16:55

so many pieces and then Allah makes them

02:16:55 --> 02:16:56

alive.

02:16:56 --> 02:16:57

This is what Ibrahim needs.

02:16:58 --> 02:16:59

Just think Ibrahim.

02:16:59 --> 02:17:00

Ibrahim is Ibrahim.

02:17:01 --> 02:17:04

Even people like me, they know this thing.

02:17:05 --> 02:17:06

We are basically unnecessary.

02:17:07 --> 02:17:09

I have meanings which do not exist there.

02:17:10 --> 02:17:12

So many, many things which in the Qur

02:17:12 --> 02:17:13

'an actually have very clear meaning.

02:17:14 --> 02:17:17

But somehow, because of our narrow mindedness, what

02:17:17 --> 02:17:19

we make something else.

02:17:20 --> 02:17:22

So the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, you know,

02:17:22 --> 02:17:26

sometimes what happens is, you know, I see

02:17:26 --> 02:17:29

you and oh, I saw you are so

02:17:29 --> 02:17:29

tired.

02:17:29 --> 02:17:31

You wake up all the night.

02:17:31 --> 02:17:32

Don't work so hard.

02:17:32 --> 02:17:33

Sleep in the night.

02:17:33 --> 02:17:35

So Shaykh has miracle.

02:17:36 --> 02:17:37

How Shaykh knew the time I wake all

02:17:37 --> 02:17:38

the night?

02:17:39 --> 02:17:39

No miracle.

02:17:39 --> 02:17:41

I just saw from your sign.

02:17:41 --> 02:17:42

Allah has made signs.

02:17:42 --> 02:17:44

I know that you work hard in the

02:17:44 --> 02:17:45

night.

02:17:45 --> 02:17:45

Nothing miracle.

02:17:46 --> 02:17:47

Just I see.

02:17:47 --> 02:17:49

And it becomes true that you think I've

02:17:49 --> 02:17:49

got a miracle.

02:17:50 --> 02:17:51

Allah has put signs in this world.

02:17:52 --> 02:17:52

People can read them.

02:17:52 --> 02:17:53

People understand them.

02:17:54 --> 02:17:56

Most time what happens, this is what happens.

02:17:57 --> 02:17:58

But people interpret differently.

02:17:58 --> 02:18:00

Sometimes I come to Shaykh.

02:18:01 --> 02:18:03

I have a question and Shaykh answers.

02:18:05 --> 02:18:06

Shaykh can read the heart.

02:18:07 --> 02:18:08

This question I did not ask him, but

02:18:08 --> 02:18:08

he answered.

02:18:09 --> 02:18:11

The reason he's answering is because he knows

02:18:11 --> 02:18:12

what people have problem these days.

02:18:12 --> 02:18:13

So he answers.

02:18:13 --> 02:18:15

And one of the problem could be in

02:18:15 --> 02:18:15

your heart.

02:18:15 --> 02:18:17

But other people don't have the same problem.

02:18:17 --> 02:18:18

So they don't say any story.

02:18:18 --> 02:18:19

You make a story.

02:18:19 --> 02:18:21

I came to the Shaykh and he had

02:18:21 --> 02:18:22

a doubt and he answered.

02:18:23 --> 02:18:24

But tell other people, did they have doubt?

02:18:25 --> 02:18:25

No.

02:18:25 --> 02:18:27

To them it is normal question, normal answer.

02:18:27 --> 02:18:30

The reason it become miracle to you because

02:18:30 --> 02:18:31

you have got your mind.

02:18:32 --> 02:18:34

Whenever we teach, many time I teach and

02:18:34 --> 02:18:35

students come to me.

02:18:35 --> 02:18:37

Oh, Shaykh, I had some question, but you

02:18:37 --> 02:18:37

answer in the speech.

02:18:38 --> 02:18:39

Did I read their heart?

02:18:40 --> 02:18:40

Did I read their mind?

02:18:41 --> 02:18:43

I know really when I teach a subject

02:18:43 --> 02:18:45

like that, what are the questions can come

02:18:45 --> 02:18:45

here.

02:18:46 --> 02:18:47

So I answer those questions.

02:18:48 --> 02:18:50

Sometimes some questions are in your mind, some

02:18:50 --> 02:18:51

questions in your mind.

02:18:51 --> 02:18:53

And now all of you go, Shaykh is

02:18:53 --> 02:18:53

a Wali.

02:18:54 --> 02:18:56

You know, I don't know really.

02:18:56 --> 02:18:57

Shaykh could be in the hellfire.

02:18:57 --> 02:18:58

You don't know this thing.

02:18:59 --> 02:19:02

The reason he's answering because even unbeliever will

02:19:02 --> 02:19:02

do the same thing.

02:19:03 --> 02:19:05

So very often that's why they're saying in

02:19:05 --> 02:19:09

Persian language, Piranami parand, muridami paranand.

02:19:09 --> 02:19:10

You know pir?

02:19:11 --> 02:19:12

Pir means saint.

02:19:12 --> 02:19:13

Saint don't fly in there.

02:19:14 --> 02:19:15

It never happens.

02:19:16 --> 02:19:19

The disciples make stories that Shaykh was flying.

02:19:19 --> 02:19:20

People make.

02:19:20 --> 02:19:22

I was once in my village.

02:19:22 --> 02:19:24

Somebody comes, he said, oh, Shaykh, you know

02:19:24 --> 02:19:24

everything.

02:19:25 --> 02:19:26

You know all my heart.

02:19:26 --> 02:19:29

Because whenever I think you know, I said

02:19:29 --> 02:19:30

to him, don't lie.

02:19:30 --> 02:19:30

I don't know anything.

02:19:31 --> 02:19:32

Just making up.

02:19:33 --> 02:19:34

You know, don't tell people like that.

02:19:34 --> 02:19:36

I don't have any idea what you think.

02:19:36 --> 02:19:38

If I say something which happens, same thing

02:19:38 --> 02:19:40

as you say, it is just because, you

02:19:40 --> 02:19:40

know, I'm a teacher.

02:19:41 --> 02:19:42

The teacher know what the questions are there.

02:19:43 --> 02:19:43

Nothing like that.

02:19:44 --> 02:19:45

I said this very clearly.

02:19:45 --> 02:19:47

So other people don't start thinking that Shaykh

02:19:47 --> 02:19:47

really knows anything.

02:19:48 --> 02:19:49

We don't know really.

02:19:49 --> 02:19:51

We even don't know what happened in our

02:19:51 --> 02:19:51

houses.

02:19:52 --> 02:19:54

Could be one of my children, my daughter,

02:19:54 --> 02:19:54

she's rebelling.

02:19:55 --> 02:19:56

And I don't know how to solve the

02:19:56 --> 02:19:56

problem.

02:19:57 --> 02:20:00

I am as helpless as anybody of you.

02:20:00 --> 02:20:01

It could be possible that I give you

02:20:01 --> 02:20:03

advice and you solve your family problem.

02:20:04 --> 02:20:05

But I don't give you advice.

02:20:05 --> 02:20:07

My family has still the same problem.

02:20:07 --> 02:20:08

I can't solve it.

02:20:08 --> 02:20:10

It all from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

02:20:10 --> 02:20:11

understand properly.

02:20:11 --> 02:20:14

The real miracle is to learn what Allah

02:20:14 --> 02:20:16

says in the Quran, to learn what the

02:20:16 --> 02:20:18

Prophet says in Sunnah, and follow that.

02:20:19 --> 02:20:20

Even if the things don't happen as you

02:20:20 --> 02:20:22

want, still follow them.

02:20:22 --> 02:20:25

Because the fruit will be unimaginable.

02:20:25 --> 02:20:26

Just do what you want.

02:20:27 --> 02:20:30

It doesn't matter whether you get what you

02:20:30 --> 02:20:31

desire or you don't get.

02:20:31 --> 02:20:32

It doesn't matter.

02:20:32 --> 02:20:34

Actually, when you don't get what you desire,

02:20:34 --> 02:20:36

it's more likely Allah is more happy to

02:20:36 --> 02:20:38

you because he wants to reward you more

02:20:38 --> 02:20:38

and more.

02:20:38 --> 02:20:42

Don't worship him like the greedy people.

02:20:43 --> 02:20:46

Every time, like people, they say, I went

02:20:46 --> 02:20:49

to the masjid, made dua, nothing happened.

02:20:50 --> 02:20:51

Don't be like that.

02:20:51 --> 02:20:52

Trust in him.

02:20:53 --> 02:20:55

Allah wants you to ask him and then

02:20:55 --> 02:20:56

trust in him.

02:20:56 --> 02:20:58

There was a poet in India, Mirza Ghalib

02:20:58 --> 02:20:59

Dehlavi.

02:20:59 --> 02:20:59

Do you know his name?

02:21:00 --> 02:21:01

Mirza Ghalib Dehlavi.

02:21:02 --> 02:21:03

He's the biggest Urdu poet.

02:21:04 --> 02:21:05

Nobody equal to him.

02:21:06 --> 02:21:07

And really amazing poetry.

02:21:08 --> 02:21:10

But no prayer, never prayed.

02:21:11 --> 02:21:12

No fasting.

02:21:12 --> 02:21:15

In the month of Ramadan, Muslim rulers used

02:21:15 --> 02:21:18

to call him, come spend Ramadan with us.

02:21:18 --> 02:21:18

Nice and warm.

02:21:19 --> 02:21:21

He'll say, no, no, Ramadan in Delhi is

02:21:21 --> 02:21:21

so nice.

02:21:22 --> 02:21:24

Iftar party is so great and all those

02:21:24 --> 02:21:24

things.

02:21:24 --> 02:21:26

Meaning he does not want to go to

02:21:26 --> 02:21:27

some people where he has to fast.

02:21:28 --> 02:21:29

It's in his house, it's free.

02:21:29 --> 02:21:32

No fasting, no prayer, and always drinking.

02:21:33 --> 02:21:35

So wine, he used to buy, but he

02:21:35 --> 02:21:36

didn't have money.

02:21:36 --> 02:21:39

So sometimes borrowing the money in debt, he

02:21:39 --> 02:21:40

got in the prison.

02:21:41 --> 02:21:42

And how are people going to get money

02:21:42 --> 02:21:44

if you don't have any job?

02:21:45 --> 02:21:47

So one time it happened, there was no

02:21:47 --> 02:21:49

money to buy wine.

02:21:50 --> 02:21:52

So then it came to his mind, let

02:21:52 --> 02:21:55

me go to masjid and ask Allah, go

02:21:55 --> 02:21:55

to pray.

02:21:55 --> 02:21:57

So he went for the prayer, Zuhr time.

02:21:57 --> 02:22:00

And he came earlier, so he prayed four

02:22:00 --> 02:22:01

rakaat sunnah.

02:22:02 --> 02:22:03

When he finished four rakaat sunnah, one of

02:22:03 --> 02:22:06

his friends shouted from outside the door that

02:22:06 --> 02:22:07

we got the wine for you.

02:22:08 --> 02:22:09

So he left the masjid.

02:22:09 --> 02:22:11

The imam said, now you came, at least

02:22:11 --> 02:22:11

do fard.

02:22:12 --> 02:22:14

He said, no, my needs have been fulfilled

02:22:14 --> 02:22:14

by sunnah.

02:22:15 --> 02:22:15

I don't need fard.

02:22:16 --> 02:22:16

Sunnah is enough for me.

02:22:17 --> 02:22:19

So you know Allah can do this for

02:22:19 --> 02:22:20

you because he does not want your fard.

02:22:21 --> 02:22:23

He just wants you to be misled.

02:22:24 --> 02:22:26

So try to understand, if Allah does not

02:22:26 --> 02:22:28

accept, does not do what you want, it

02:22:28 --> 02:22:29

does not mean he does not give you.

02:22:30 --> 02:22:31

He's giving you more than that.

02:22:31 --> 02:22:33

Actually, you're being attached with him, that's a

02:22:33 --> 02:22:35

bigger favor than getting what you want.

02:22:37 --> 02:22:39

Connecting you with himself is the biggest favor.

02:22:40 --> 02:22:43

If Allah disconnect you, that is problem.

02:22:44 --> 02:22:45

You know, if you have got a sheep

02:22:45 --> 02:22:48

and goat and look after that properly, you

02:22:48 --> 02:22:50

have rope in there, it means you love

02:22:50 --> 02:22:50

it.

02:22:51 --> 02:22:53

But one day if your goat says, oh,

02:22:53 --> 02:22:55

my master, you know, I feel very bad

02:22:55 --> 02:22:56

really, free me.

02:22:57 --> 02:22:58

So you cut the rope, free.

02:22:58 --> 02:22:59

What will happen?

02:22:59 --> 02:23:01

Then wolf will come and eat it.

02:23:02 --> 02:23:05

And if Allah connects you with himself, it

02:23:05 --> 02:23:05

means he loves you.

02:23:07 --> 02:23:09

You make dua, he does not accept, he

02:23:09 --> 02:23:12

still make and say, whatever happens, I will

02:23:12 --> 02:23:13

remain loyal to you.

02:23:13 --> 02:23:15

This loyalty to Allah is the biggest favor.

02:23:16 --> 02:23:19

It is much better than any kingdom that

02:23:19 --> 02:23:20

you remain loyal to Allah subhanahu wa ta

02:23:20 --> 02:23:20

'ala.

02:23:20 --> 02:23:23

That's why he creates a need in the

02:23:23 --> 02:23:23

heart of people.

02:23:24 --> 02:23:25

So don't worry if you have problem.

02:23:26 --> 02:23:29

Sometime, you know, you have, some people are

02:23:29 --> 02:23:29

blind.

02:23:30 --> 02:23:30

Some people have difficulty.

02:23:30 --> 02:23:32

Some people have problem in their family all

02:23:32 --> 02:23:32

the time.

02:23:33 --> 02:23:35

So they become upset, sometimes depressed.

02:23:35 --> 02:23:35

No, don't do.

02:23:36 --> 02:23:40

If this is from my Lord, I'm happy.

02:23:42 --> 02:23:43

You know, like one of the Urdu poet

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says that, you know, that, oh, my Lord,

02:23:49 --> 02:23:52

you know, you gave life to me.

02:23:52 --> 02:23:54

Now you ask me to give to you?

02:23:55 --> 02:23:56

It's so easy, it's your gift.

02:23:57 --> 02:23:59

So just think of how much Allah has

02:23:59 --> 02:23:59

given you.

02:24:00 --> 02:24:02

From that, if he has created some problem,

02:24:02 --> 02:24:03

he gave you two eyes.

02:24:03 --> 02:24:05

If he takes one eye, still one eye

02:24:05 --> 02:24:05

is there.

02:24:06 --> 02:24:06

It's his eye.

02:24:06 --> 02:24:09

Still you got ear, still you got mind.

02:24:09 --> 02:24:11

So many things from him, he's testing you.

02:24:12 --> 02:24:15

People always look what they lose and what

02:24:15 --> 02:24:15

they don't have.

02:24:16 --> 02:24:18

Look really, still you have so much favor.

02:24:19 --> 02:24:22

Sheikh Sadiq, Rahimullah Tala, went to the masjid.

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And in India, if you hear, people are,

02:24:25 --> 02:24:27

you know, much more noble, not in India.

02:24:28 --> 02:24:30

In India, if you've got a good pair

02:24:30 --> 02:24:33

of shoes and you take it outside door,

02:24:34 --> 02:24:34

you can't find it.

02:24:34 --> 02:24:35

When you come back, it's stolen.

02:24:36 --> 02:24:38

So one of my friend in Lucknow, another

02:24:38 --> 02:24:40

three or four, he's an old ulama.

02:24:41 --> 02:24:42

He used to come to the masjid.

02:24:42 --> 02:24:44

So he used to put one pair of

02:24:44 --> 02:24:46

the shoes on this side, the other somewhere

02:24:46 --> 02:24:46

else.

02:24:47 --> 02:24:48

So I said to him, why do you

02:24:48 --> 02:24:49

make all this difficult thing?

02:24:50 --> 02:24:52

He said, because thieves don't steal one pair.

02:24:53 --> 02:24:54

So I made this thing so they can't

02:24:54 --> 02:24:55

steal.

02:24:55 --> 02:24:57

I remember once I bought very nice shoes,

02:24:58 --> 02:25:00

very precious, in Bombay.

02:25:01 --> 02:25:03

I went to pray masjid.

02:25:03 --> 02:25:04

I came, it was stolen.

02:25:05 --> 02:25:06

It's a very common thing.

02:25:07 --> 02:25:09

That's why people don't come to masjid with

02:25:09 --> 02:25:09

good shoes.

02:25:09 --> 02:25:12

They have the ugliest shoes they've got, they

02:25:12 --> 02:25:13

bring the most, nobody can steal it.

02:25:14 --> 02:25:16

So Sheikh Sadiq, Rahimullah Tala, so early, 700,

02:25:17 --> 02:25:19

800 years back, he said, I went to

02:25:19 --> 02:25:22

the mosque and when I came back, the

02:25:22 --> 02:25:23

shoes were stolen.

02:25:24 --> 02:25:26

So what Sheikh Sadiq said, alhamdulillah, thank to

02:25:26 --> 02:25:29

Allah that my shoes are gone, but not

02:25:29 --> 02:25:29

my feet.

02:25:30 --> 02:25:31

See, your feet is still with you.

02:25:32 --> 02:25:33

So just think really, you only look at

02:25:33 --> 02:25:36

the shoes, but don't think really the shoes

02:25:36 --> 02:25:37

are still with you.

02:25:39 --> 02:25:41

One of my teacher, Mawlana Abu Rifan Nabi,

02:25:41 --> 02:25:45

Rahimullah Tala, so his story, we were there,

02:25:45 --> 02:25:48

so people used to come and sell leather

02:25:48 --> 02:25:52

socks because people think leather socks, you can

02:25:52 --> 02:25:52

wipe.

02:25:53 --> 02:25:55

So ulama love this thing, leather socks.

02:25:55 --> 02:25:58

So he also came to buy, and when

02:25:58 --> 02:26:01

this man, the seller, he tried any shoes

02:26:01 --> 02:26:04

on him, any sock, it does not fit.

02:26:05 --> 02:26:06

So then he become tired.

02:26:06 --> 02:26:08

He said to Sheikh, I can't do anything

02:26:08 --> 02:26:10

to help you because your feet are bent.

02:26:10 --> 02:26:14

So Sheikh said, thank for Allah that my

02:26:14 --> 02:26:15

feet are bent, but not my mind.

02:26:17 --> 02:26:19

If feet are bent, mind is there.

02:26:20 --> 02:26:23

Sheikh Sadiq mentioned that somebody, he was deaf,

02:26:24 --> 02:26:27

not deaf, he was paralyzed, eyes had problem,

02:26:27 --> 02:26:29

all the illness.

02:26:29 --> 02:26:31

And he said, alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah.

02:26:32 --> 02:26:33

So Sheikh Sadiq said to him, what do

02:26:33 --> 02:26:34

you just think?

02:26:34 --> 02:26:36

Nothing is right in your body.

02:26:36 --> 02:26:38

Your hands are paralyzed, your legs are like

02:26:38 --> 02:26:38

that.

02:26:38 --> 02:26:40

You know, why you say alhamdulillah?

02:26:41 --> 02:26:42

He said, at least he gave me the

02:26:42 --> 02:26:44

tongue with which I can praise him.

02:26:45 --> 02:26:48

Think really, people don't, and when you do

02:26:48 --> 02:26:51

sabr, sabr has more reward than anything else.

02:26:51 --> 02:26:53

Allah said in the Quran, inna allaha ma

02:26:53 --> 02:26:54

'as sabireen.

02:26:56 --> 02:27:00

So very often in England, many women come

02:27:00 --> 02:27:00

to me.

02:27:00 --> 02:27:01

So there are so many women.

02:27:01 --> 02:27:03

Women come to me and they complain to

02:27:03 --> 02:27:05

me that my husband is so bad and

02:27:05 --> 02:27:08

he creates so much problem and life is

02:27:08 --> 02:27:09

full of the problem.

02:27:09 --> 02:27:10

What should I do?

02:27:11 --> 02:27:12

So I said, you know, if your husband

02:27:12 --> 02:27:16

has problem and you are patient, then Allah

02:27:16 --> 02:27:16

is next to you.

02:27:16 --> 02:27:18

Allah says in the Quran, inna allaha ma

02:27:18 --> 02:27:18

'as sabireen.

02:27:19 --> 02:27:20

So tell me, who is better, your husband

02:27:20 --> 02:27:20

or Allah?

02:27:22 --> 02:27:23

Allah is better than your husband?

02:27:23 --> 02:27:23

Allah is with you.

02:27:24 --> 02:27:27

When husband is harsh to you and you

02:27:27 --> 02:27:29

are patient, Allah becomes with you.

02:27:29 --> 02:27:31

And Allah says, inna allaha ma'as sabireen.

02:27:31 --> 02:27:32

Allah is with those who do patience.

02:27:33 --> 02:27:35

If husband becomes angry, give him more food

02:27:35 --> 02:27:37

that you make Allah nearer to me.

02:27:38 --> 02:27:38

You should be happy.

02:27:39 --> 02:27:42

Whenever a problem happens, when a difficulty happens,

02:27:42 --> 02:27:43

you should solve the problem.

02:27:44 --> 02:27:46

But you have no idea how any problem

02:27:46 --> 02:27:47

can make you nearer to Allah.

02:27:48 --> 02:27:51

When you do sabr, inna allaha ma'as

02:27:51 --> 02:27:51

sabireen.

02:27:51 --> 02:27:53

He said to his prophet, wa li rabbika

02:27:53 --> 02:27:54

fasbir.

02:27:54 --> 02:27:56

For your Lord alone, do sabr.

02:27:57 --> 02:27:57

He does.

02:27:57 --> 02:27:58

These are the real karama.

02:27:59 --> 02:28:01

Difficulties come, you are firm.

02:28:02 --> 02:28:02

That is real.

02:28:03 --> 02:28:06

You can do sin, but you stop taqwa.

02:28:06 --> 02:28:07

That is real karama.

02:28:08 --> 02:28:09

That is like Yusuf al-Islam.

02:28:10 --> 02:28:12

He could have done sin, but he stopped

02:28:12 --> 02:28:12

himself.

02:28:13 --> 02:28:15

That's why he said, inna hum man yattaqe

02:28:15 --> 02:28:18

wa yassabir, fa inna allaha la yudiu'a

02:28:18 --> 02:28:19

zalmuhsireen.

02:28:19 --> 02:28:22

Those who do taqwa and sabr, they are

02:28:22 --> 02:28:23

muhsin, they are good doers.

02:28:24 --> 02:28:25

That Allah tells.

02:28:25 --> 02:28:27

Always understand really, the real karama in this

02:28:27 --> 02:28:29

world is to fear Allah.

02:28:30 --> 02:28:31

Real karama is to obey Allah subhanahu wa

02:28:31 --> 02:28:31

ta'ala.

02:28:31 --> 02:28:34

Real karama is, don't lose your temper.

02:28:34 --> 02:28:35

Don't be angry.

02:28:36 --> 02:28:38

Real karama is, don't lose hope.

02:28:38 --> 02:28:41

Always, like you know, Allah subhanahu wa ta

02:28:41 --> 02:28:43

'ala, Ibrahim al-Islam, when he got good

02:28:43 --> 02:28:44

news that he's going to have son.

02:28:45 --> 02:28:47

So he said, how can I have son?

02:28:47 --> 02:28:50

That you know, I am old, and my

02:28:50 --> 02:28:52

wife is better, how can?

02:28:52 --> 02:28:53

So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, are

02:28:53 --> 02:28:56

you lost all the hope?

02:28:56 --> 02:28:57

So he said, no.

02:28:57 --> 02:28:59

wa man yaqnatu min rahmati rabbihi illa baalak.

02:28:59 --> 02:29:00

Who can be?

02:29:00 --> 02:29:02

Always have full of the hope.

02:29:02 --> 02:29:04

Any condition happen, trust in your Lord.

02:29:04 --> 02:29:05

Be happy.

02:29:05 --> 02:29:07

You will see, he will solve your karama

02:29:07 --> 02:29:09

from where you cannot imagine.

02:29:09 --> 02:29:13

He says in the Quran, that man yattaqillaha

02:29:13 --> 02:29:16

yaj'allahu maqraja wa yarazuqhum min haythu la

02:29:16 --> 02:29:17

yahtasib.

02:29:17 --> 02:29:20

Those who fear Allah, Allah makes way for

02:29:20 --> 02:29:21

them, a way out.

02:29:21 --> 02:29:23

And then he gives them from where they

02:29:23 --> 02:29:24

cannot imagine.

02:29:24 --> 02:29:26

He gives from, you cannot imagine how he

02:29:26 --> 02:29:27

solves the problem.

02:29:27 --> 02:29:29

But he wants to you, this is real

02:29:29 --> 02:29:30

karama.

02:29:30 --> 02:29:32

So anyway, the simple matter is really, that

02:29:32 --> 02:29:35

in this world, Allah has done something as

02:29:35 --> 02:29:37

a Rabb, and he wants us to do,

02:29:38 --> 02:29:39

as believing in Allah.

02:29:40 --> 02:29:42

What he loves is, he loves those people

02:29:42 --> 02:29:43

who make him Allah.

02:29:44 --> 02:29:47

Obey him, worship him, please him, ask him,

02:29:48 --> 02:29:48

trust in him.

02:29:49 --> 02:29:50

That is the real karama.

02:29:50 --> 02:29:53

And those people who do well, they are

02:29:53 --> 02:29:53

better.

02:29:53 --> 02:29:54

That is the Quran.

02:29:55 --> 02:29:58

Wafidhalika fal yatanafasil mutanafisoon.

02:29:58 --> 02:30:00

If you want to compete, compete in this.

02:30:00 --> 02:30:02

You do sabr, I want to do more

02:30:02 --> 02:30:03

sabr than you.

02:30:03 --> 02:30:05

You have taqwa, I want to have more

02:30:05 --> 02:30:06

taqwa than you.

02:30:07 --> 02:30:10

If you do this, you cannot imagine how

02:30:10 --> 02:30:11

much Allah will love you.

02:30:11 --> 02:30:13

And if Allah loves you, nobody can harm

02:30:13 --> 02:30:14

you.

02:30:14 --> 02:30:16

And if Allah loves you, don't worry if

02:30:16 --> 02:30:16

nobody else loves.

02:30:16 --> 02:30:18

I just say a story, and finish and

02:30:18 --> 02:30:19

you can have a question.

02:30:19 --> 02:30:20

A story from India.

02:30:21 --> 02:30:23

There was a Sufi disciple in India.

02:30:24 --> 02:30:27

The Sufi people's way is, when they want

02:30:27 --> 02:30:29

to do something, they always consult their master.

02:30:31 --> 02:30:33

Because they want to consult their master.

02:30:33 --> 02:30:36

So this Sufi disciple, he wanted to do

02:30:36 --> 02:30:39

some traveling somewhere, but his master was not

02:30:39 --> 02:30:39

there.

02:30:40 --> 02:30:41

So he said, okay, I don't have my

02:30:41 --> 02:30:42

master, let me go to a Hindu master.

02:30:43 --> 02:30:45

He went to a Hindu master, that you

02:30:45 --> 02:30:48

know, I'm going to travel, and I want

02:30:48 --> 02:30:49

to take your advice, because my master is

02:30:49 --> 02:30:50

not there, you advise me.

02:30:51 --> 02:30:53

So Hindu knew what Muslims believe.

02:30:53 --> 02:30:55

So he said to him, do you know

02:30:55 --> 02:30:55

Allah?

02:30:57 --> 02:30:58

He said, of course I know Allah.

02:30:58 --> 02:31:01

He said, if you know Allah, then don't

02:31:01 --> 02:31:02

worry if you don't know anyone else.

02:31:02 --> 02:31:05

If you know Allah, then don't worry if

02:31:05 --> 02:31:06

you don't know anyone else.

02:31:06 --> 02:31:08

Then he asked a question, does Allah know

02:31:08 --> 02:31:09

you?

02:31:09 --> 02:31:10

He said, yeah, of course Allah knows me.

02:31:11 --> 02:31:13

He said, if Allah knows you, then don't

02:31:13 --> 02:31:14

worry if nobody else knows you.

02:31:15 --> 02:31:15

Just keep in mind.

02:31:15 --> 02:31:18

If you know Allah, don't worry if the

02:31:18 --> 02:31:20

whole world doesn't, you don't know them.

02:31:20 --> 02:31:23

If Allah knows you, don't worry if people

02:31:23 --> 02:31:23

don't know.

02:31:24 --> 02:31:25

He's the doer.

02:31:25 --> 02:31:26

He's the one who does everything.

02:31:27 --> 02:31:29

Yusuf was in the well, and his family

02:31:29 --> 02:31:29

does not know.

02:31:29 --> 02:31:30

Tell me, who saved him?

02:31:31 --> 02:31:32

Allah saved him.

02:31:32 --> 02:31:35

If Allah knows you, don't worry if nobody

02:31:35 --> 02:31:36

knows you.

02:31:36 --> 02:31:39

If you know Allah, then don't worry if

02:31:39 --> 02:31:40

you don't know anyone else.

02:31:40 --> 02:31:42

Allah is the one who trusts.

02:31:42 --> 02:31:44

Hasbuna Allah wa ni'mal waqeel.

02:31:45 --> 02:31:47

Allah is enough for us, and he's the

02:31:47 --> 02:31:49

one really we trust in him.

02:31:49 --> 02:31:50

So I'll stop it here, and if you

02:31:50 --> 02:31:51

have any questions, please ask.

02:32:09 --> 02:32:11

The brother back here had his hand up,

02:32:11 --> 02:32:12

so I'm going to go there, and then

02:32:12 --> 02:32:13

that brother, and then that brother, and then

02:32:13 --> 02:32:14

those sisters.

02:32:14 --> 02:32:15

So we'll go sisters and brothers.

02:32:15 --> 02:32:16

Yes, sir.

02:32:18 --> 02:32:19

Jazakumullahu khairan, salamu alaikum.

02:32:19 --> 02:32:20

Walaikum salam.

02:32:21 --> 02:32:23

So I have the question, like, you know,

02:32:23 --> 02:32:26

when you...

02:32:26 --> 02:32:28

Some people see good dreams, or like, you

02:32:28 --> 02:32:31

know, they're in a good amal and everything,

02:32:31 --> 02:32:32

and some people do not see.

02:32:32 --> 02:32:35

Like, for example, we know that some people

02:32:35 --> 02:32:37

see the dreams of Rasulullah s.a.w.

02:32:38 --> 02:32:41

Is this an alamat or a sign that

02:32:41 --> 02:32:44

if you are a good person or your

02:32:44 --> 02:32:47

amal is good, then you see the good

02:32:47 --> 02:32:47

dreams?

02:32:47 --> 02:32:49

But if you don't see, does it sign

02:32:49 --> 02:32:50

that you're not connected with Allah s.w

02:32:50 --> 02:32:52

.t.? How does you interpret it?

02:32:52 --> 02:32:53

Yeah, you know, dream is one of the

02:32:53 --> 02:32:54

important things.

02:32:54 --> 02:32:58

Many, many people, you know, refer to their

02:32:58 --> 02:32:58

dreams so much.

02:33:00 --> 02:33:01

The first thing, let me make very clear.

02:33:02 --> 02:33:05

If you worship Allah and obey him, and

02:33:05 --> 02:33:08

then you see in dream that you are

02:33:08 --> 02:33:10

hellfire, don't worry, you're in paradise.

02:33:12 --> 02:33:15

Dreams don't make anyone to go to paradise

02:33:15 --> 02:33:16

or to go hellfire.

02:33:16 --> 02:33:16

Is it clear?

02:33:17 --> 02:33:20

What makes you, what you do when you're

02:33:20 --> 02:33:21

awake, not when you're sleeping.

02:33:22 --> 02:33:25

Whatever happens when you're asleep, that does not

02:33:25 --> 02:33:26

make anything for you.

02:33:26 --> 02:33:27

What it makes is when you're awake.

02:33:27 --> 02:33:29

When you're awake, tell me what you do.

02:33:29 --> 02:33:32

If you obey your Lord, don't worry, you're

02:33:32 --> 02:33:32

in paradise.

02:33:33 --> 02:33:34

Even if you see in the dream every

02:33:34 --> 02:33:37

day that you're hellfire, don't worry, it's nothing.

02:33:37 --> 02:33:38

It's another test from Allah s.w.t.

02:33:39 --> 02:33:42

The simple matter is it doesn't matter what

02:33:42 --> 02:33:43

you see in dream.

02:33:43 --> 02:33:45

What matters is what you do when you

02:33:45 --> 02:33:46

are awake.

02:33:47 --> 02:33:50

Second thing is dreams are just after.

02:33:50 --> 02:33:51

They're not more fear.

02:33:51 --> 02:33:52

What after means?

02:33:53 --> 02:33:55

Dreams are effect of causes.

02:33:57 --> 02:34:00

They themselves don't, dreams don't make you to

02:34:00 --> 02:34:00

go to paradise hellfire.

02:34:01 --> 02:34:03

It simply means something maybe in your life

02:34:03 --> 02:34:04

needs to be corrected.

02:34:05 --> 02:34:07

Dreams are, if you want to see good

02:34:07 --> 02:34:09

dream, I'll tell you easy way.

02:34:10 --> 02:34:14

Before sleeping, do wudu, pray two rakah, do

02:34:14 --> 02:34:16

zikr sleep, good dreams.

02:34:16 --> 02:34:19

If you want to say bad dream, then

02:34:19 --> 02:34:23

put urine on your body, dirty everything, don't

02:34:23 --> 02:34:25

pray, sleep, shaitan will come to you, all

02:34:25 --> 02:34:26

bad dreams.

02:34:27 --> 02:34:27

That was fine.

02:34:28 --> 02:34:29

Dreams are just effect.

02:34:30 --> 02:34:31

They are not cause.

02:34:31 --> 02:34:33

Dreams don't cause anything.

02:34:34 --> 02:34:35

They're only effect.

02:34:35 --> 02:34:37

Cause is what you do when you're awake.

02:34:38 --> 02:34:41

Always remember, don't worry about, forget the dream.

02:34:41 --> 02:34:43

Even if you see in dream you are

02:34:43 --> 02:34:46

in hellfire, don't worry you are in paradise.

02:34:46 --> 02:34:48

Even if people hate you, you come to

02:34:48 --> 02:34:50

shaykh and he does not like you.

02:34:51 --> 02:34:52

He angry with you.

02:34:53 --> 02:34:55

If you are good to your lord, don't

02:34:55 --> 02:34:56

worry, shaykh does not know anything.

02:34:57 --> 02:34:57

Allah knows.

02:34:58 --> 02:35:00

So don't, sometimes people say, oh, my shaykh

02:35:00 --> 02:35:01

did not like me.

02:35:01 --> 02:35:02

It means I'm, but no, you are not

02:35:02 --> 02:35:02

bad.

02:35:03 --> 02:35:03

He does not know you.

02:35:04 --> 02:35:05

Maybe he has not seen.

02:35:05 --> 02:35:08

Don't judge on the basis of these things.

02:35:08 --> 02:35:08

Is it clear?

02:35:09 --> 02:35:10

You are what you are.

02:35:11 --> 02:35:12

Nobody can change you.

02:35:12 --> 02:35:17

Any shaykh, any alim, any dream, your wife,

02:35:17 --> 02:35:19

your children, they cannot change you.

02:35:19 --> 02:35:21

If they're not happy with you, it is

02:35:21 --> 02:35:21

their problem.

02:35:22 --> 02:35:23

You are what you are.

02:35:23 --> 02:35:25

Always understand what I really do.

02:35:26 --> 02:35:28

If you do pray fajr, you are a

02:35:28 --> 02:35:29

good person.

02:35:29 --> 02:35:30

If you pray zur, you are a good

02:35:30 --> 02:35:31

person.

02:35:31 --> 02:35:32

If you pray asr, you're a good person.

02:35:32 --> 02:35:35

If you eat halal, you're a good person.

02:35:35 --> 02:35:37

If you avoid haram, you're good.

02:35:38 --> 02:35:40

Then don't worry if all the people in

02:35:40 --> 02:35:42

Dallas see that you are in hellfire.

02:35:43 --> 02:35:44

Don't all of them lie.

02:35:44 --> 02:35:45

Their dreams are lying.

02:35:46 --> 02:35:47

You are in paradise.

02:35:47 --> 02:35:50

Because that one, Allah never said, if people

02:35:50 --> 02:35:52

see you in dream, hellfire, you are hellfire,

02:35:52 --> 02:35:52

no?

02:35:52 --> 02:35:54

He said, if you do good deeds, you're

02:35:54 --> 02:35:55

paradise.

02:35:55 --> 02:35:57

Bad deeds, hellfire.

02:35:57 --> 02:35:59

So why don't you trust in Allah subhanahu

02:35:59 --> 02:35:59

wa ta'ala?

02:35:59 --> 02:36:03

So always remember, what matters is what you

02:36:03 --> 02:36:05

do when you are awake.

02:36:06 --> 02:36:08

What you see when you are sleeping, it

02:36:08 --> 02:36:09

doesn't make any difference.

02:36:10 --> 02:36:11

Nothing happens to you.

02:36:11 --> 02:36:12

In the day of judgment, Allah will not

02:36:12 --> 02:36:15

tell you, oh, you have been seeing all

02:36:15 --> 02:36:16

bad dreams, go to hellfire.

02:36:17 --> 02:36:18

Is it going to happen?

02:36:18 --> 02:36:19

No.

02:36:19 --> 02:36:21

Allah will say to you, you lied, you

02:36:21 --> 02:36:25

wronged people, you were unjust, unkind, you did

02:36:25 --> 02:36:27

not pray, you did sin, go to hellfire.

02:36:28 --> 02:36:30

But there is no single judgment in the

02:36:30 --> 02:36:32

day of judgment based on the dream.

02:36:32 --> 02:36:32

No single.

02:36:32 --> 02:36:33

So why are you so much worried?

02:36:34 --> 02:36:35

Don't worry about that.

02:36:41 --> 02:36:41

As-salamu alaykum.

02:36:42 --> 02:36:42

Wa alaykum as-salam.

02:36:43 --> 02:36:46

So you are mentioning about the means, that

02:36:46 --> 02:36:49

Allah uses means to help us and provide

02:36:49 --> 02:36:50

for us.

02:36:50 --> 02:36:54

But oftentimes, what happens is that we caught

02:36:54 --> 02:36:57

up with the means, and we appreciate the

02:36:57 --> 02:36:59

means more than the source.

02:36:59 --> 02:37:01

For example, when we get sick, and we

02:37:01 --> 02:37:04

go to doctor or take medicine, and we

02:37:04 --> 02:37:06

praise the doctor or the medicine and completely

02:37:06 --> 02:37:09

forget about the source, we see Allah subhana

02:37:09 --> 02:37:09

wa ta'ala.

02:37:10 --> 02:37:13

So how can we help ourself focus on

02:37:13 --> 02:37:14

the source?

02:37:15 --> 02:37:17

And how can we help our children and

02:37:17 --> 02:37:20

our family members to focus on the source

02:37:20 --> 02:37:22

instead of the means?

02:37:24 --> 02:37:26

I don't understand the question.

02:37:26 --> 02:37:27

Can you say, do you understand the question?

02:37:39 --> 02:37:44

You know, in this world, means and end,

02:37:44 --> 02:37:46

both are created by Allah.

02:37:48 --> 02:37:50

You know, this is the end, and these

02:37:50 --> 02:37:52

are the means lead to the end.

02:37:54 --> 02:37:56

End is by Allah, means are by Allah,

02:37:57 --> 02:38:00

and means lead to the end, that is

02:38:00 --> 02:38:00

also by Allah.

02:38:01 --> 02:38:01

Is it clear?

02:38:02 --> 02:38:03

But it's not guaranteed.

02:38:04 --> 02:38:06

It could be possible that people follow all

02:38:06 --> 02:38:09

the procedure, but still they don't get end

02:38:09 --> 02:38:10

result.

02:38:10 --> 02:38:12

It's still follow, it's still possible.

02:38:12 --> 02:38:13

I think many time happen.

02:38:13 --> 02:38:15

There are so many people, they come to

02:38:15 --> 02:38:18

the madrasa, they learn, and they make effort,

02:38:18 --> 02:38:19

still they are not learned.

02:38:20 --> 02:38:21

They make it, they're very sincere people.

02:38:21 --> 02:38:22

They want to do something.

02:38:23 --> 02:38:25

Many people come, Quran says that people who

02:38:25 --> 02:38:28

do zikr of Allah, their hearts are content.

02:38:29 --> 02:38:30

People come to the mosque, they pray five

02:38:30 --> 02:38:32

times a day, they read the Quran, hearts

02:38:32 --> 02:38:33

are not content.

02:38:34 --> 02:38:34

It sometimes happen.

02:38:35 --> 02:38:37

To always understand the means are created by

02:38:37 --> 02:38:39

your Lord, and ends are created by Him.

02:38:40 --> 02:38:42

And the connection between means and end is

02:38:42 --> 02:38:44

also made by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

02:38:44 --> 02:38:46

You know, if things go as you think,

02:38:47 --> 02:38:48

it's from Allah.

02:38:48 --> 02:38:51

If they don't go the way, it is

02:38:51 --> 02:38:52

also from Allah.

02:38:52 --> 02:38:53

You have no fault.

02:38:54 --> 02:38:55

You follow the means.

02:38:56 --> 02:38:58

If that does not happen, don't worry.

02:38:58 --> 02:39:00

Allah has another test for you.

02:39:00 --> 02:39:02

You come to the mosque, pray.

02:39:02 --> 02:39:05

Somebody will say that when I pray, tears

02:39:05 --> 02:39:07

come from my eye, and my hearts are

02:39:07 --> 02:39:09

moved, and I'm like in heaven.

02:39:10 --> 02:39:11

You say, oh, I pray, nothing happened to

02:39:11 --> 02:39:12

me.

02:39:12 --> 02:39:13

It means my Lord is not happy with

02:39:13 --> 02:39:13

me.

02:39:14 --> 02:39:15

No, nothing.

02:39:16 --> 02:39:19

By crying, and by His heart being with

02:39:19 --> 02:39:21

all those, nothing happens, from Allah.

02:39:22 --> 02:39:24

If you pray five times a day, even

02:39:24 --> 02:39:27

if you don't feel any content, no itminan,

02:39:27 --> 02:39:30

nothing, still you're near to Allah.

02:39:30 --> 02:39:32

Just do what He commands you, simple matter.

02:39:33 --> 02:39:34

Whether end result comes or doesn't come, because

02:39:34 --> 02:39:36

He's testing everybody differently.

02:39:36 --> 02:39:39

If you come to the mosque, if you

02:39:39 --> 02:39:41

come to the prayer, your family becomes a

02:39:41 --> 02:39:42

problem.

02:39:42 --> 02:39:44

When you leave the prayer, everybody's happy.

02:39:45 --> 02:39:46

You say, oh, then why should I pray?

02:39:47 --> 02:39:48

It means there's something wrong in the prayer,

02:39:48 --> 02:39:48

no.

02:39:49 --> 02:39:50

Test from Allah.

02:39:50 --> 02:39:52

You still go for the prayer, even if

02:39:52 --> 02:39:53

your family's not happy.

02:39:53 --> 02:39:56

From that unhappiness, Allah's going to create something

02:39:56 --> 02:39:57

good for you.

02:39:58 --> 02:39:59

Don't look at these results.

02:40:00 --> 02:40:02

Always follow the procedure.

02:40:02 --> 02:40:03

That I'm trying to say.

02:40:03 --> 02:40:04

Don't go to the end result.

02:40:05 --> 02:40:06

End result is from Allah.

02:40:07 --> 02:40:08

Sometimes you don't get it.

02:40:08 --> 02:40:12

But what is important, the asbab, means always

02:40:12 --> 02:40:14

follow the right procedure.

02:40:14 --> 02:40:16

If you fall ill, go to doctor.

02:40:16 --> 02:40:18

Maybe you die, don't worry.

02:40:18 --> 02:40:20

But if you don't go to doctor, it

02:40:20 --> 02:40:20

will be sinful.

02:40:21 --> 02:40:23

When you are hungry, eat food.

02:40:23 --> 02:40:25

If you don't eat food, it will be

02:40:25 --> 02:40:25

sinful.

02:40:25 --> 02:40:28

But maybe, when you eat food, you also

02:40:28 --> 02:40:28

die.

02:40:28 --> 02:40:30

Don't worry, it can happen.

02:40:30 --> 02:40:33

You know, when you are, you know, time

02:40:33 --> 02:40:35

for the prayer comes, go for the prayer.

02:40:35 --> 02:40:38

Even if you don't feel any nearness, you

02:40:38 --> 02:40:41

know, don't feel any feeling, anything happen, don't

02:40:41 --> 02:40:43

worry, feelings are not religion.

02:40:43 --> 02:40:44

Religion is obedience.

02:40:45 --> 02:40:48

You do what Allah commands, then forget any

02:40:48 --> 02:40:48

feeling.

02:40:49 --> 02:40:51

Feeling sometimes He gives to make you happy.

02:40:52 --> 02:40:53

Sometimes He takes away to test you.

02:40:53 --> 02:40:55

So He says, oh, do you worship me

02:40:55 --> 02:40:56

for feelings?

02:40:57 --> 02:40:59

If you don't have feelings, don't worship me.

02:40:59 --> 02:41:01

Prayer is not like poetry.

02:41:01 --> 02:41:02

In poetry, we do like that.

02:41:03 --> 02:41:05

If sometimes I don't feel well, I read

02:41:05 --> 02:41:06

Hafiz, Shirazi, poetry.

02:41:07 --> 02:41:08

Oh, it doesn't work out, it doesn't move

02:41:08 --> 02:41:09

my heart.

02:41:09 --> 02:41:11

Okay, leave Hafiz, let me read Iqbal.

02:41:11 --> 02:41:12

Now I'm fine.

02:41:13 --> 02:41:14

Prayer is not like more creation.

02:41:15 --> 02:41:17

Prayer is obedience, it's not convenience.

02:41:18 --> 02:41:21

Whether you like, don't like, whether you're sleepy

02:41:21 --> 02:41:25

or you're hardship, family has got, somebody died,

02:41:25 --> 02:41:28

don't worry, just do what your Lord commands.

02:41:28 --> 02:41:29

That what He want to, He want to

02:41:29 --> 02:41:32

see you obey Him, even if it is

02:41:32 --> 02:41:33

not convenient to you.

02:41:33 --> 02:41:36

Even you don't get any pleasure, no happiness.

02:41:36 --> 02:41:40

Pleasure and happiness are not action to make

02:41:40 --> 02:41:41

nearness to Allah.

02:41:41 --> 02:41:44

If people pray and they feel happy, this

02:41:44 --> 02:41:47

happiness does not make nearness to Allah.

02:41:47 --> 02:41:49

Happiness is another reward from Allah.

02:41:49 --> 02:41:50

What makes nearness to Allah?

02:41:51 --> 02:41:52

That you obey Him, that's all.

02:41:52 --> 02:41:56

Always understand, always follow the procedure properly.

02:41:56 --> 02:41:57

Always look at the means.

02:41:57 --> 02:41:59

Allah commands me, come to the mosque, I

02:41:59 --> 02:41:59

come.

02:42:00 --> 02:42:02

He commands me to fast, I fast.

02:42:02 --> 02:42:05

He commands me to get married, I get

02:42:05 --> 02:42:05

married.

02:42:05 --> 02:42:07

Though when I marry, always problem.

02:42:08 --> 02:42:11

I got married, my husband fighting me, divorced

02:42:11 --> 02:42:11

me.

02:42:11 --> 02:42:13

Okay, I marry another time, Allah commands.

02:42:13 --> 02:42:16

I keep marrying and always fighting happens.

02:42:16 --> 02:42:18

Don't worry, you are getting all reward.

02:42:18 --> 02:42:19

He divorce you, you get reward.

02:42:20 --> 02:42:21

You get difficulty, you get reward.

02:42:21 --> 02:42:23

And you keep marrying, you get also reward

02:42:23 --> 02:42:24

because you obey Allah.

02:42:25 --> 02:42:27

It's not necessary that you marry and everything

02:42:27 --> 02:42:27

happy.

02:42:27 --> 02:42:29

No, sometime could be, sometime not.

02:42:30 --> 02:42:32

What is necessary is that follow the means.

02:42:32 --> 02:42:34

He commands you to get married, get married.

02:42:35 --> 02:42:37

But married life is not good, it is

02:42:37 --> 02:42:38

test from Him.

02:42:38 --> 02:42:40

It could be possible that you marry and

02:42:40 --> 02:42:41

you don't get any happiness.

02:42:42 --> 02:42:43

Don't worry, still you're getting reward.

02:42:44 --> 02:42:46

Always understand, follow the procedure.

02:42:47 --> 02:42:48

Follow the means.

02:42:49 --> 02:42:50

Do what your Lord commands.

02:42:50 --> 02:42:52

Earn the fruit, leave to Him.

02:42:53 --> 02:42:53

Trust in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

02:42:53 --> 02:42:54

That is what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

02:42:54 --> 02:42:55

loves from the people.

02:42:55 --> 02:42:56

Is it clear?

02:42:58 --> 02:42:59

As-salamu alaykum, Abdullah Sheikh.

02:43:00 --> 02:43:02

I had a question where I heard before

02:43:02 --> 02:43:05

that when the prophets, they showed the miracles

02:43:05 --> 02:43:08

like the marjaza, like you described, and the

02:43:08 --> 02:43:10

people that they were showing to, they denied

02:43:10 --> 02:43:11

that.

02:43:11 --> 02:43:14

Then usually the case was that Allah subhanahu

02:43:14 --> 02:43:16

wa ta'ala, they destroyed or He punished

02:43:16 --> 02:43:17

those people.

02:43:17 --> 02:43:19

Is that always true?

02:43:20 --> 02:43:23

Because when the moon split, it didn't seem

02:43:23 --> 02:43:25

like Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala punished those

02:43:25 --> 02:43:25

who denied.

02:43:25 --> 02:43:27

And also, if you can just share a

02:43:27 --> 02:43:29

few words about what motivated you to write

02:43:29 --> 02:43:33

the biography of the 10,000 female Hadith

02:43:33 --> 02:43:34

scholars.

02:43:34 --> 02:43:37

You know, this understood really, Allah subhanahu wa

02:43:37 --> 02:43:40

ta'ala created human beings and gave them

02:43:40 --> 02:43:43

mind, and gave them a true nature.

02:43:44 --> 02:43:46

He wants you to use your fitrah, your

02:43:46 --> 02:43:49

nature, and your reason, and get guidance from

02:43:49 --> 02:43:50

Quran.

02:43:50 --> 02:43:51

He wants you to work hard.

02:43:52 --> 02:43:54

I sent you a message, I sent you

02:43:54 --> 02:43:57

a messenger, read his biography, read the Quran,

02:43:57 --> 02:43:59

use your mind, use your fitrah.

02:44:00 --> 02:44:02

See really, the Quran teaches what fitrah is.

02:44:03 --> 02:44:05

If you do that, you'll be guided.

02:44:06 --> 02:44:06

That's what Allah does really.

02:44:07 --> 02:44:09

Allah does not want to force anybody that

02:44:09 --> 02:44:10

become believer.

02:44:10 --> 02:44:12

So when you said, oh Allah, give me

02:44:12 --> 02:44:14

a miracle, that in the sun rising from

02:44:14 --> 02:44:16

east, if it rises from the west, I'll

02:44:16 --> 02:44:17

believe.

02:44:17 --> 02:44:18

This is a very bad manner.

02:44:18 --> 02:44:19

Then why he gave you mind?

02:44:20 --> 02:44:23

He said, is there enough science in the

02:44:23 --> 02:44:23

world?

02:44:23 --> 02:44:25

Allah said, my science in this world is

02:44:25 --> 02:44:28

so much, you can imagine, he said, if

02:44:28 --> 02:44:32

all the seas, all the oceans become ink,

02:44:32 --> 02:44:35

and all the trees become pen, and you

02:44:35 --> 02:44:39

write my science, the pens will finish, the

02:44:39 --> 02:44:41

oceans will finish, my science will not finish.

02:44:42 --> 02:44:44

The problem is not that you don't have

02:44:44 --> 02:44:46

science, the problem is you don't think.

02:44:46 --> 02:44:47

That Quran keeps saying.

02:44:48 --> 02:44:49

So Allah says, oh, bring a miracle.

02:44:49 --> 02:44:51

Allah says, why you want a miracle?

02:44:51 --> 02:44:51

Isn't it enough?

02:44:52 --> 02:44:54

What I made, isn't that your thing?

02:44:54 --> 02:44:55

If I make it, you're still not going

02:44:55 --> 02:44:55

to believe.

02:44:56 --> 02:44:57

And that happened.

02:44:57 --> 02:45:00

Pharaoh has so many miracles, he did not

02:45:00 --> 02:45:00

believe.

02:45:00 --> 02:45:02

Until he drowned, then he said, I'm going

02:45:02 --> 02:45:02

to believe.

02:45:02 --> 02:45:03

Allah said, no, it's too late.

02:45:04 --> 02:45:06

To always understand Allah, the way is to

02:45:06 --> 02:45:07

address your mind.

02:45:07 --> 02:45:10

If you use your mind, understand your nature,

02:45:10 --> 02:45:12

there are millions and millions of science in

02:45:12 --> 02:45:16

this world to teach you Allah is your

02:45:16 --> 02:45:16

Lord.

02:45:16 --> 02:45:19

Even in yourself, your eyes, that he says

02:45:19 --> 02:45:21

in the Quran, if all the oceans become

02:45:21 --> 02:45:24

ink, and all the trees become pens, and

02:45:24 --> 02:45:27

you write Allah's science, Allah's science will never

02:45:27 --> 02:45:27

end.

02:45:27 --> 02:45:29

I teach people, you see this smallest finger?

02:45:31 --> 02:45:33

If you make all the scientists, all the

02:45:33 --> 02:45:37

doctors, all the clever people come together, and

02:45:37 --> 02:45:40

teach you what finger means, this smallest finger.

02:45:40 --> 02:45:43

This smallest finger always will be bigger than

02:45:43 --> 02:45:44

their knowledge.

02:45:45 --> 02:45:48

Whatever people know about this finger, this finger

02:45:48 --> 02:45:49

has more than what they know.

02:45:50 --> 02:45:54

Even one finger has more reality, more meanings,

02:45:54 --> 02:45:57

more secrets than the knowledge of all human

02:45:57 --> 02:45:57

beings.

02:45:58 --> 02:45:58

That's how Allah made.

02:45:59 --> 02:46:00

Now you want something else?

02:46:01 --> 02:46:01

Why?

02:46:01 --> 02:46:03

The problem is not that there's not enough

02:46:03 --> 02:46:03

science.

02:46:03 --> 02:46:05

Problem is you don't think.

02:46:06 --> 02:46:07

Problem is you don't want to understand really.

02:46:08 --> 02:46:11

There are enough science, more than enough, but

02:46:11 --> 02:46:12

we don't want to understand.

02:46:12 --> 02:46:14

Second part of your question is that why

02:46:14 --> 02:46:17

I wrote the book, Biographies of the Women.

02:46:19 --> 02:46:21

So in a story, very simple really, but

02:46:21 --> 02:46:23

Alhamdulillah it helped a lot.

02:46:24 --> 02:46:28

The story in 1994, 93, I was reading,

02:46:29 --> 02:46:31

I used to read British newspapers.

02:46:32 --> 02:46:35

So there are some articles about women in

02:46:35 --> 02:46:36

Islam, but very negative.

02:46:37 --> 02:46:40

Basically they're blaming that all the backwardness of

02:46:40 --> 02:46:42

Muslim women is because of Islam.

02:46:42 --> 02:46:43

Islam is responsible.

02:46:44 --> 02:46:46

The Muslim women are not learned because of

02:46:46 --> 02:46:47

their religion.

02:46:47 --> 02:46:49

It came to my mind that when I

02:46:49 --> 02:46:51

was studying Hadith, there are so many women

02:46:51 --> 02:46:52

who narrate Hadith.

02:46:54 --> 02:46:56

If I put a biography of those women

02:46:56 --> 02:46:58

together, it will be answered to these people,

02:46:59 --> 02:47:02

and also it encourages Muslim women to learn

02:47:02 --> 02:47:02

more and more.

02:47:03 --> 02:47:04

So that's how it started.

02:47:04 --> 02:47:06

It was not a project by anybody.

02:47:06 --> 02:47:07

It was just myself, you know, my own

02:47:07 --> 02:47:08

interest.

02:47:09 --> 02:47:12

Kept doing, reading the sources, manuscripts from here

02:47:12 --> 02:47:13

and there.

02:47:13 --> 02:47:14

So when I started doing this, it started

02:47:14 --> 02:47:15

growing.

02:47:15 --> 02:47:17

I really wanted more, more, more, more.

02:47:17 --> 02:47:21

It never ends, until because nearly 10,000

02:47:21 --> 02:47:23

women, nearly more than 40 volumes.

02:47:23 --> 02:47:27

So I remember once, when I was about

02:47:27 --> 02:47:30

to finish it, not to finish it, so

02:47:30 --> 02:47:33

I was in Qatar, Sheikh Yusuf Qardawi, you

02:47:33 --> 02:47:34

know, I met him, so he said to

02:47:34 --> 02:47:36

me, give a talk in his masjid, ask

02:47:36 --> 02:47:38

me to give talk about this project.

02:47:38 --> 02:47:39

What I did, I gave talk.

02:47:40 --> 02:47:41

So he said to me, when is it

02:47:41 --> 02:47:41

going to finish?

02:47:42 --> 02:47:44

I said, you know, still I'm doing research,

02:47:44 --> 02:47:45

you know, more information keeps coming.

02:47:46 --> 02:47:47

I don't know when it's going to finish.

02:47:47 --> 02:47:49

He said, no, I'm asking you to stop

02:47:49 --> 02:47:52

now, and probably, otherwise it's never going to

02:47:52 --> 02:47:52

finish.

02:47:52 --> 02:47:53

Stop now.

02:47:54 --> 02:47:55

So then I have a talk in the

02:47:55 --> 02:47:56

University of Qatar.

02:47:57 --> 02:47:59

So I gave talk, and then somebody, you

02:47:59 --> 02:48:01

know, I said there that I wanted to

02:48:01 --> 02:48:03

continue, but Sheikh Qardawi had asked me to

02:48:03 --> 02:48:04

stop.

02:48:04 --> 02:48:05

Now I'm going to stop it.

02:48:05 --> 02:48:07

So one professor stood up, he said, this

02:48:07 --> 02:48:09

is also men's conspiracy against women.

02:48:10 --> 02:48:12

They don't want more women's name.

02:48:12 --> 02:48:13

So that I stopped.

02:48:14 --> 02:48:15

Otherwise, there are more names.

02:48:16 --> 02:48:17

And people are doing more research.

02:48:17 --> 02:48:18

They say, really, your book does not have

02:48:18 --> 02:48:19

so many women.

02:48:19 --> 02:48:21

So every region has got more women than

02:48:21 --> 02:48:22

my book.

02:48:23 --> 02:48:24

It was just the first thing one person

02:48:24 --> 02:48:26

did, and I don't know all Muslim language.

02:48:26 --> 02:48:28

I don't know Indonesian language.

02:48:28 --> 02:48:29

I don't know Malay.

02:48:29 --> 02:48:31

I don't know African language.

02:48:31 --> 02:48:32

I don't know Sri Lankan language.

02:48:33 --> 02:48:34

Even I don't know Indian language.

02:48:34 --> 02:48:34

I know only Urdu.

02:48:35 --> 02:48:36

So that's so.

02:48:36 --> 02:48:37

I don't know Central Asian.

02:48:37 --> 02:48:38

I don't know Turkish.

02:48:38 --> 02:48:41

So my book really information is only those

02:48:41 --> 02:48:43

which I could find in Arabic, Urdu, and

02:48:43 --> 02:48:43

Persian.

02:48:43 --> 02:48:44

These are language I know.

02:48:45 --> 02:48:46

But Turkish language, I don't know.

02:48:47 --> 02:48:48

Uzbek language, I don't know.

02:48:48 --> 02:48:49

So there's so much information now.

02:48:49 --> 02:48:51

People are making research in those regions.

02:48:51 --> 02:48:52

So more and more information coming.

02:48:56 --> 02:48:57

Okay, yeah.

02:48:57 --> 02:48:58

Yeah, we've come nearer, please.

02:48:59 --> 02:49:10

Yeah, yeah.

02:49:10 --> 02:49:13

I took admission here in Surah Salam as

02:49:13 --> 02:49:13

well.

02:49:13 --> 02:49:13

Yeah.

02:49:13 --> 02:49:15

But the timings were, because it was 3

02:49:15 --> 02:49:17

a.m. here in Dallas time.

02:49:17 --> 02:49:18

I couldn't continue.

02:49:18 --> 02:49:20

I want to go on the path, but

02:49:20 --> 02:49:22

what stops me is I'm a mother.

02:49:23 --> 02:49:24

Do I have to choose between being a

02:49:24 --> 02:49:28

good mother, making, raising good Muslim kids, not

02:49:28 --> 02:49:29

follow the path myself?

02:49:30 --> 02:49:32

Or can both of them go together?

02:49:32 --> 02:49:34

Yeah, that's a good question, really.

02:49:35 --> 02:49:37

You know, the sister is asking that she

02:49:37 --> 02:49:40

really wants to learn and study and difficulty.

02:49:40 --> 02:49:41

There are also, you know, Islam is true

02:49:41 --> 02:49:42

that we teach.

02:49:42 --> 02:49:43

Timing is different.

02:49:44 --> 02:49:45

But also, she has family.

02:49:45 --> 02:49:46

She has children.

02:49:46 --> 02:49:47

She has to look after them.

02:49:48 --> 02:49:50

So how can she do both of them?

02:49:51 --> 02:49:53

So, you know, this is really very important.

02:49:53 --> 02:49:53

That I tell people.

02:49:54 --> 02:49:56

In my book, you got 10,000 women.

02:49:57 --> 02:49:58

But it's not easy.

02:49:59 --> 02:50:00

For a man, it is easy.

02:50:00 --> 02:50:01

You know, if your son wants to travel,

02:50:02 --> 02:50:03

okay, go and learn.

02:50:03 --> 02:50:05

Your daughter wants to travel, you say, no,

02:50:05 --> 02:50:06

no, stay at home.

02:50:06 --> 02:50:08

You know, because you're not safe.

02:50:08 --> 02:50:10

For women, there's more problem.

02:50:10 --> 02:50:15

Everywhere, especially Muslim society, women have more difficulty

02:50:15 --> 02:50:16

than men.

02:50:17 --> 02:50:17

It's still there.

02:50:17 --> 02:50:19

And also, sometimes women have divorce.

02:50:20 --> 02:50:22

And when they're divorced, children are with them.

02:50:23 --> 02:50:24

Nobody look after them.

02:50:24 --> 02:50:25

In my book, there are women.

02:50:25 --> 02:50:27

They are divorced, children.

02:50:27 --> 02:50:29

You know, my book does not mean to

02:50:29 --> 02:50:31

all women have, you know, very good condition.

02:50:31 --> 02:50:33

Every difficulty that you see in the society,

02:50:34 --> 02:50:34

those women had.

02:50:35 --> 02:50:37

It's still women manage to learn.

02:50:37 --> 02:50:39

It's a really big achievement.

02:50:39 --> 02:50:40

Big, big sacrifices.

02:50:40 --> 02:50:42

So I'm certainly telling you, no doubt, it

02:50:42 --> 02:50:44

is very difficult, really, to be a mother,

02:50:45 --> 02:50:48

to have duty, to raise children, but at

02:50:48 --> 02:50:49

the same time, to learn as well.

02:50:50 --> 02:50:50

This is so difficult.

02:50:52 --> 02:50:53

But when you trust Allah subhanahu wa ta

02:50:53 --> 02:50:56

'ala, and make effort, he opens door for

02:50:56 --> 02:50:56

you.

02:50:57 --> 02:50:59

So now in our time, you know, all

02:50:59 --> 02:51:02

these mothers, they got enough time to be

02:51:02 --> 02:51:03

on social media.

02:51:03 --> 02:51:05

They got enough time to be on WhatsApp.

02:51:06 --> 02:51:08

They get all this time, and they're still

02:51:08 --> 02:51:08

mothers.

02:51:08 --> 02:51:11

So I don't understand, really, why after being

02:51:11 --> 02:51:13

a mother, you can't spend time to learn,

02:51:13 --> 02:51:14

to read the Quran, to study.

02:51:15 --> 02:51:17

Still you can do, but when you do,

02:51:17 --> 02:51:18

Allah will help you.

02:51:18 --> 02:51:21

So from now on, make sure, my teacher,

02:51:21 --> 02:51:23

Abu Hassan Nadeem, rahmahullah wa ta'ala, used

02:51:23 --> 02:51:24

to advise us, when we went to Turma,

02:51:25 --> 02:51:26

don't read newspaper.

02:51:27 --> 02:51:29

Don't listen any radio.

02:51:31 --> 02:51:32

Become as you don't exist in this world.

02:51:32 --> 02:51:33

Just do what you do.

02:51:33 --> 02:51:36

And after that, when you come back, world

02:51:36 --> 02:51:37

will be still the same.

02:51:37 --> 02:51:39

If you don't read newspaper, nothing happens.

02:51:40 --> 02:51:42

I said, that I tell to people, that

02:51:42 --> 02:51:45

if you don't know the news, nothing will

02:51:45 --> 02:51:45

happen.

02:51:45 --> 02:51:48

And the news that you need to know,

02:51:48 --> 02:51:49

it will come to you anyway.

02:51:50 --> 02:51:58

An Arab poet said, What you don't know,

02:51:58 --> 02:51:59

people will tell you.

02:52:00 --> 02:52:02

Any important news that you need to know,

02:52:02 --> 02:52:05

if for example, in your country, Trump becomes

02:52:05 --> 02:52:05

president.

02:52:06 --> 02:52:08

Even if you don't follow any news, somebody

02:52:08 --> 02:52:08

will come and tell you.

02:52:09 --> 02:52:10

Isn't like that?

02:52:10 --> 02:52:11

So don't worry.

02:52:11 --> 02:52:14

If you don't watch news, nothing will happen.

02:52:14 --> 02:52:15

The world is still the same.

02:52:16 --> 02:52:17

So don't think that the world depends on

02:52:17 --> 02:52:18

my reading news.

02:52:19 --> 02:52:21

Don't think that if I don't, you know,

02:52:21 --> 02:52:23

follow WhatsApp, the world will finish.

02:52:25 --> 02:52:27

Even WhatsApp will not notice that you don't

02:52:27 --> 02:52:27

use it.

02:52:28 --> 02:52:30

So leave all those things, leave all the

02:52:30 --> 02:52:36

interests, you know, be content with yogurt, fruits,

02:52:37 --> 02:52:37

cucumber.

02:52:38 --> 02:52:41

Most time we may spend is kebab, samosa,

02:52:41 --> 02:52:43

biryani, all tasty food.

02:52:43 --> 02:52:44

Two, three hours.

02:52:44 --> 02:52:46

My mother used to make legs of the

02:52:46 --> 02:52:48

sheep whole night.

02:52:49 --> 02:52:51

But if you don't make a leg, then

02:52:51 --> 02:52:51

whole night's safe.

02:52:52 --> 02:52:53

Unnecessary property.

02:52:54 --> 02:52:56

If you don't eat biryani, still you can

02:52:56 --> 02:52:56

live.

02:52:57 --> 02:52:58

People can live on the cucumber.

02:52:58 --> 02:52:59

Actually, you'll be more healthy.

02:53:01 --> 02:53:02

Why all Indian people are suffering?

02:53:03 --> 02:53:04

Because they eat wrong food.

02:53:04 --> 02:53:05

It's all poison.

02:53:06 --> 02:53:07

You know, all the Indian food basically make

02:53:07 --> 02:53:09

people fight and make so much problem.

02:53:10 --> 02:53:12

The simple thing is don't spend time in

02:53:12 --> 02:53:12

the kitchen.

02:53:13 --> 02:53:17

Buy the fruits, buy cucumber, and, you know,

02:53:17 --> 02:53:18

yogurt, milk.

02:53:19 --> 02:53:22

Most time you can live without cooking.

02:53:22 --> 02:53:23

So it will stay with you.

02:53:23 --> 02:53:25

Make dua, Allah will help you inshallah.

02:53:25 --> 02:53:27

We stop here because I think we have

02:53:27 --> 02:53:27

to go somewhere.

02:53:28 --> 02:53:29

So, is it true we stop?

02:53:29 --> 02:53:30

As-salamu alaykum.

02:53:30 --> 02:53:31

JazakAllah khair to everyone.

02:53:31 --> 02:53:32

I know there are a couple more questions

02:53:32 --> 02:53:34

but inshallah sheikh has to leave.

02:53:34 --> 02:53:35

It'll be a qalam night so you might

02:53:35 --> 02:53:37

have an opportunity to ask questions there.

02:53:38 --> 02:53:40

So, 6pm.

02:53:40 --> 02:53:42

With that, JazakAllah khair sheikh for everything.

02:53:45 --> 02:53:47

JazakAllah khair sheikh for everything.

02:53:47 --> 02:53:48

Inshallah we hope to see you again.

02:53:49 --> 02:53:50

And we really benefited from your knowledge.

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