Ali Albarghouthi – Ramadan Motivations #01 – The Story of the Cow

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			smilo would hand in now Salatu was Salam ala rasulillah early no cibjo salaam salaam aleikum wa
rahmatullah wa here what I care to ask a lot of but I didn't mean to bless this Ramadan for all of
us and to accept our fasting, I know some of us have not yet concluded their first day of fasting
and some of us have and they are about to start the second one. So no matter where we are, at this
moment, ask Allah to make it easy to accept it, to facilitate it, to answer and accept our data. And
to bless us into a greater good of an act of righteousness of things that help us in this dunya and
help us in the future I mean, insha Allah This is where we're going to be doing in sha Allah
		

			throughout the month of Ramadan if Allah as of Jun enables us and gives us the strength and the
ability to continue, which is every single day we will do daily motivations 10 minutes in sha Allah,
in one day we will focus on a story and the benefits of that story from the Quran. The next day will
focus on Hadith from the messenger salallahu alayhi wa sallam hoping in sha Allah through all of
this to keep us connected and motivated, enlightened for us to learn something new, and maybe
discover something in familiar stories and discover something and Hadees that we have heard before
that we can inshallah benefit from practically for our day in on our Ramadan. So our appointment
		

			today in sha Allah, which is the first meeting the first lecture, the first motivational and
inspirational story is the story from Surah Al Baqarah.
		

			The story of the cow, and it's famous because the story itself,
		

			lens or gives its name to the entire Surah Surah Al Baqarah. Right comes from the story from the
story of an Bukhara
		

			and they know that we know the story and know that we've read it so many times. But what I want you
in sha Allah for the next few minutes, is to try to imagine that you haven't read it. Imagine that
you've meeting this story for the very first time.
		

			And when you're reading this story, the first thing I don't know if you've noticed it or not, you
begin this story from the middle not from the beginning, a lot. So that begins the story from the
middle. Now from the beginning. He delays the beginning all the way to the end, and only in the end
you'll discover what has happened and why Allah Zoda is asking them to kill that count.
		

			But we begin by why Allah musala told me where Allah says that Moosa is telling his people that
Allah commands them to slaughter this cow. We don't know why. The only thing we encounter is moose,
asking his people slaughter this cow, and that people going back and forth with him.
		

			And he sat down to ask him why how describe it and Are you making fun of us until the end where he
describes it info and he sit down and they go and they slaughter it reluctantly, Allah tells us. Now
ask yourself, why is it that Allah azza wa jal delays the story, the beginning of the story to the
end, and we meet them in the middle having this argument.
		

			It is as if Subhan Allah that Allah is that it is telling us and this is the feeling that you get
when you hear that story. It does not matter why. It does not matter what's happened before. What
matter is, is that if Allah commands you in the La Jolla amuro commented bajo Baqarah Allah commands
you to slaughter a cow when you keep hearing this from Musa and he said I'm coming to the people.
Your reaction as a person of faith as a person who loves it Allah loves mu Sadie cinema is to say
what is stopping you from doing all this? If Allah is commanding, and a lot once you're not to
notice the why of it. But notice the command itself that is regardless of why Allah was asking them
		

			to do it, they were supposed to do it. The y is irrelevant, once Allah is asking
		

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			this is about trusting Allah subhanho wa Taala
		

			This is about the fact that even though you cannot connect all the dots, even though especially if
you're an overly irrational human being, you don't see the connection between A and B. But Allah
tells you there's a connection between A and B. Once you believe in Allah, once you trust Him, once
you love him subhana wa Tada, you will see the connection between A and B or believe that it is
there even if your eyes cannot see it. Because then if you were to know at the end,
		

			at the end, that the reason why Allah had asked him to do this was that someone who was killed and
they were searching for the killer and Allah asked them to slaughter a cow. You as some of them may
have wondered, What is the connection between this and that?
		

			Someone has just died and we want to find the killer and you come to us with the news that Allah is
asking us to slaughter a cow. Now, if you are a person of faith who believes in Allah azza wa jal,
it does not matter how Allah is going to reveal the killer, how Allah He will solve this problem.
What matters is that at this moment, when you ask Allah, the response was do this.
		

			And once you do it, Allah zodion will guide you to the solution, no matter how Allah will guide you.
But you believe that if you listen to Allah, now, Allah will guide you to the solution, then this is
about trusting Allah subhana wa Tada, believing in a lay believing in the unseen, believing in what
you cannot see, but Allah can see.
		

			And so if they trusted Allah as origin, they would immediately followed his command, slaughtered the
cow discovered the killer, and they would not have gone to all of these stages of describe this cow
describe the cover, describe what it does help us to find it as the Sahaba of the messenger
sallallahu wasallam. I've said, if at the beginning of that Command V would have slaughtered any
cow, it would have been sufficient.
		

			But they complicated the matter for themselves. And so it got complicated for them, until it is said
in the * until it is said, because of the repeated questions. Right, that choices were limited
increasingly, as they asked for more and more details, until it was only one calvet they could
slaughter and they had to pay its weight in gold.
		

			But the cows waiting gold, the owner of the cow would not sell it until they would give them the
weight of that cow in gold. Whereas if they had complied in the beginning, they could have
slaughtered any cow when it would have been sufficient. Now they took a piece of the cow, they hit
the dead body with it, he rose from the dead and he said so and so killed me. That connection was
with Allah zildjian.
		

			Now, a lot of us write have stories? And yes, we may not we may know the beginning of the story and
the middle of the story, but the end is missing in our life. Meaning some of us know our problems.
We know I know I have a problem. And I don't know the conclusion. Where is the solution going to
come from? How will Allah help me? How will I guide me to what is going to save me from harm? I
don't know. I know the beginning of this story. Because it's my story. I know how it started. I know
what I'm going through at this moment, but I don't know the end of the story. And our situation is
not unlike the situation of Ben we saw he with Moosa and he said, if you're going to give your
		

			problem to Allah azza wa jal, you're supposed to trust Him, like Ben who is smart enough supposed to
have trusted Allah zildjian. And if Allah is trusted, He will guide you in unexpected ways to add
benefits you you may not be able to see it, but Allah sees it.
		

			You may not be able to connect all the dots, but Allah Zoda knows how a sacrifice is going to reveal
the killer. And Allah will know how your sacrifice will lead to your salvation or you will need to
lead to your recovery or protection from harm or to the answer of your dua. Allah knows it. If you
cannot see it, Allah sees it. So we may not have Moosa and he said, I'm coming and telling us Allah
is asking you to slaughter a cow. But if you have a problem, and you read in the Koran or you hear
from Prophet Mohammed Salah Why are you a citizen that Allah is asking you to stop this particular
sin, or to make more or to pray or to give sadaqa and your mind or somebody comes and tells you how
		

			is this going to solve my problem? Remember the story of Al Baqarah, the story of the cow because
once you listen to Allah azzawajal, Allah zildjian will release you from sin and pain and hardship
and sickness, and we'll answer your door and we'll guide you to your benefit in this life and in the
next one, but what he wants from you and me is
		

			Not objections and rebellion. What he wants from you and me is to trust him subhanho wa Taala. And
when you trust Him, He will guide.
		

			Now there are other benefits that you can find in that story, right?
		

			One of the benefits of the story is that if you are a person who is reminding people to come closer
to Allah, reminding them to stick to righteousness to avoid sin, you will be mocked and ridiculed.
You will be rejected. As Musashi, Santa was ridiculed and was mocked was, in fact hurt. And in this
particular story, what do they say to me, Sally is set up a tetrahedron Who's Who are you making fun
of us? Are you kidding? Which is completely offensive offensive when speaking to a prophet of Allah
xeljanz. So if Moosa was accused like that, if you're going to give someone advice, expect that at
times, they may mock you, they may reject it, they make me make fun of you. So accept it, expect it
		

			and continue to give them advice for their benefit.
		

			for their own benefit, why did more Sally said I'm continue to give advice for their own benefit to
save them, even though they harmed him, he did not quit, and he did not give up on them. So there is
benefit in that if you love someone, so
		

			give advice for their sake and expect that they may be ignorant and too shallow at that moment to
realize the benefit that you're giving to them. And additional benefit in it is that if we reject
the last command, and keep fighting with it, this only complicates our own lives. It doesn't harm a
loss of a job. It doesn't harm other people, but complicates our own lives. The story or the proof
of that is in the story. Because when we saw it, as we said, if they have just listened to Moosa
from the first time he said slaughter, they could have slaughtered and bought any cow. And it could
have solved this problem sooner because they kept resisting Musa alayhis salaam. There live got more
		

			complicated progressively, the more that they delay the last command, the more that they delete,
saying yes to Allah. So if we meet Allah azza wa jal in the Quran, and he says something to us. We
encounter from Hamad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in the Sudan, he says something to us. And we keep
saying no to them. No, no and no, we're only doing that each day. We're complicating our own lives
and inviting more harm and more more difficulty. Whereas if we just say, send me an hour altana we
hear and we obey Allah azza wa jal, Japan of water Ana salt problems as quickly as we respond to him
subhanho wa Taala. So our compliance means also our comfort, surrendering to Allah zodion is our
		

			joy. Resisting use upon our data complicates us, complicates our relationships complicates our image
and complicates our life in general. So the story of the people of them, when who is eat and the
story of the cow is very significant, because it tells you something about the entire surah but it
tells you something about our relationship with Allah as a surgeon and our trust. And another
benefit in it
		

			is that sometimes Allah xojo will solve your problems unexpectedly. Not in ways that you can expect
or fathom or calculate. There's a dead body, how is that how is the killer going to be revealed?
Allah only knows that dead comes back to life. And he says so and so killed me. Now, my problem, how
will it be solved? How will I get my job back? How am I son or daughter be cured? How will my
relationships will be reformed? How will I talk again to my parents? How How will I survive? How
will I survive my depression? How will I survive my Ramadan How will anything happen? You may not
see it, you may not be able to understand it. But if you trust Allah and you give your best to him,
		

			subhana wa Tada. The solution is with him. And a lot of times it comes unexpectedly in ways that
that will surprise you.
		

			So it's not only based on reason, or based on calculation, it is based on how Allah has lived and
wants it to be solved.
		

			So trust him subhanho wa Taala has been researched. You're supposed to trust him when Moses said
slaughter a cow. And sometimes that cow is something that is dear to us. Something that we need to
give up for the sake of Allah xeljanz that cow sometimes could be a sin. That's a cow sometimes
could be subtle, or that we give that cow could be sometimes something or soda that we're supposed
to offer. Do this for the sake of Allah. Don't and you will not be able to see or expect the
consequences.
		

			But trust him and the consequences are with Allah soldier. So as a lot of but alameen or hammer
Rahimi to make us of those who, when they hear a loss command, they see some no after Anna and they
believe that if they obey Allah that they will see the greatest benefit from him subhana wa tada in
the hereafter Most importantly, but in this dunya as well and they will see it with their own eyes
in ways that they expect and ways that they do not expect. So we ask Allah but Allah menial Allah
make us of those who rush to your obedience and rush to listen to you unless the rush to listen to
your to your Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and allow us and strengthen our email when we see
		

			the beautiful karmic consequences of listening to your hammer Rahimi to begin with comfort with our
hearts but also to see physically around us signs of your power and size of your Rama and signs of
your mercy are better and I mean, so in sha Allah, we will be meeting with you even the law but I
mean every single time every single day at this at this time 630 in sha Allah pm Toronto time 6:30am
Malaysia time in sha Allah, each day we'll talk in sha Allah beaten enough for no more than 10
minutes in sha Allah No, I went to about 15 Today we'll try to keep it to about 10 minutes in sha
Allah so today we did a story from the Quran. Tomorrow in sha Allah will pick one Hadith from the
		

			messenger sallallahu it was sitting on we want to take that Hadith and say how can we use that
Hadith for today in sha Allah then the day after will be another story then the day after will be
another Hadith and so on until then we conclude the month of Ramadan we also have Bella Allah media
Allah make the month of fasting easy for us make it a fasting of a man with at serb make that
praying night praying Ramadan easy for us and make us those who perform it amen and YT server those
will fast email and YT server reminders Hello but allow me to continuously make dua in the month of
Ramadan during the day and during the night. And remember brothers and sisters you have an accepted
		

			to every single day and every single night. So take advantage of it. What do you want to ask a lot
of but I mean, ask him and keep asking him make us Europe an enemy of those who remember you often
make us a robot eliminate those who do righteous good deeds connect us to the Quran makers of those
who give sadaqa make use of those who take make dua for other Muslims make it so those who stay away
from sin makers of those who are trusting you rely on you and who love you more than they love
themselves. I mean your hammer Brahimi will see you in sha Allah Nila tomorrow at the same time does
happen Allahu Allah Subhana Allah will be handing a shadow under either hand and as the funeral
		

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