Ammar Alshukry – Allah ALLOWS It To Happen – And Here is WHY
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The speaker discusses a story about a king who was supposed to be a good judge of people. The story involves a Magician who killed a beast and advises not to let disbelievers convince him that he is the only one who can kill him. The book "Amidst the Darker we'd Go" by Kenneth Lee highlights the benefits of praising actions and events that occur in the past, such as the deaths of people and the loss of lives, as a means of apologizing for past mistakes and mistakes. forgiveness and loving actions are also important in addressing past mistakes and mistakes.
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Allah says do not think, do not let
the disbelievers think that we are giving them
respite, we are giving them delay, we're giving
them rope, we're giving them time out of
goodness for themselves. It's not good for them.
We are only giving them that time so
that they can increase in their sin. We
are only giving that time so that they
can add more crimes to their * history,
so that they could add to that the
bombing of hospitals and the killing of children
and the killing of mothers and the killing
of journalists, and all of these hideous crimes
that you could not imagine that they were
capable of doing. I'm giving them respite so
that they could fill it with all of
that.
And they will have painful punishment.
They will have humiliating punishment. Alhamdulillah. Assalamu alaarsalayam.
I want to speak about the people of
the ditch.
And this is a story that Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala mentions
in Surat al Buruj.
But Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam details it
in an authentic hadith reported by Muslim.
And he describes in a lot of detail,
but I just want to give you a
summary. Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says that
there was a king who lived before us,
meaning before the sahaba,
and it's understood that it was after the
time of Isa ibn Maryam. So in that
period between Isa alaihis salam and rasulullah sallallahu
alaihi wasallam, there was a king who commanded
people to worship him,
and he had a magician. He had a
court magician,
and that magician was getting old and he
told the king, he said, listen. If I
die,
all of this magic that I know is
going to die with me. So, go and
find me a boy who I can teach
this magic to.
And so, they do. They find a smart
boy and the magician is teaching him magic.
And this boy, when he would be coming
to the magician,
there would be a monk that he would
pass by
and he liked what he would hear from
the monk. And so, he would stop by
and he would ask him questions. The addition
by says.
And he would ask him about Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
And he would get delayed
at the monk on his way to the
magician. And when he would get delayed, the
magician would beat him. And so the boy
complains to the monk and he says, whenever
I get delayed with you, this guy ends
up beating me. And so the monk told
him and he said, If you get delayed
at the magician, tell him that your family
delayed you. You got delayed at home. And
if you get delayed with your family, tell
him that the magician delayed you. Either way,
both sides. Try to avoid the beatings.
And the boy does.
And on one day, as he's walking down
the path that he always takes,
the path was blocked by some terrible beast.
The prophet
doesn't mention what the beast was, but it
was something that was scary. And so, the
boy said, and the the the path had
been blocked off. Nobody could pass. The boy
said, between him and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
he said, Today, I am going to know
who is better, the magician or the monk?
And so he said, Oh Allah. If the
monk is better, then kill this beast. And
he threw the stone.
And the stone killed the beast.
The boy then went and he told the
monk what happened. And this boy has not
even reached the age of puberty yet. He
was pre pubescent. That's what the word fatah
means in Arabic.
And so, the monk says something incredible. He
says to the boy, this boy that he
himself had been teaching, this boy who didn't
know anything
about Allah
until the monk taught him. He said, he
recognized something that indicated incredible humility. He said,
Today,
you are better than me.
He says to the boy, today you are
better than me.
You are going to be tested. And so,
if you are tested then don't inform anybody
about me.
The boy begins to perform miracles.
He would ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to
heal people. If people came to him, the
blind and the leper,
they would come to him and he would
tell them, I don't heal. Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala is the one who heals. But if
you believe in Allah, then I will make
dua to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and he
will heal you. And he would do that.
Long story short, the king finds out
and he begins to find out who are
the people who believe. And he kills the
monk and he tries to kill the boy
a number of times and the boy, every
time Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protects him. The
details are in the hadith. We don't have
the time for now, but eventually the boy
tells the king, after surviving multiple assassination attempts,
he tells the king and he says, Listen,
I know a way for you to kill
me, if you're really trying to get rid
of me. And that is you gather everybody.
Gather everybody in the town.
And then you crucify me.
And then you take a bow and an
arrow and where everybody can see you and
everybody can hear,
say, in the name of the Lord of
this boy.
And then and only then will your arrow
be able to strike me. And so the
king, out of his desperation, he did exactly
what
the boy told him. He gathered everybody. Everybody
witnessed.
And then everybody could hear him say, in
the name of the Lord of this boy.
And he let the arrow go. And it
killed him. Now, when everybody heard the king
say in the name of the Lord of
the boy, they said, They said, We believe
in the Lord and the boy.
This was exactly
the nightmare that he was trying to avoid.
And so, now, he had a bigger crisis
than the boy believing, the entire society believing,
and so what he did was he now
resorted to a desperate tactic and that was
to build trenches and to fill them with
fire and whoever
refuses
to recount their belief or to recant their
belief, then they will be thrown into that
fire in those trenches. They will be burned
alive.
And people didn't recant.
And people were thrown into that fire. And
the prophet Muhammad
concludes by saying that there was a woman
with her child and she hesitated
because of her child.
And the child spoke and said, my mother,
be patient because you are upon the truth.
These people were all killed.
It was a genocide that happened. It was
a stain on human history.
And I wanna share with you just 4
points of benefit from Surat al Buruj that
talks about this
episode. Number 1, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
Cursed are the people of the trench. These
people who committed that act.
And then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, later
on in the surah He says,
This is amazing.
Allah says the only reason why they were
hated is because they believed in Allah al
Aziz al Hamid.
Many times we don't pay attention to the
names of Allah. We just kind of memorize
them at the end of a verse. But
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions 2 names. Number
1, the mighty. Number 2, the praiseworthy.
The mighty indicating to us, the scholars mentioned,
indicating that he had the power to stop
it.
This was not because he was unable. Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala could prevent a genocide in
Gaza today. He could prevent massacres in Sudan
today. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala could present could
protect massacres in the Congo. Allah
could protect from murders in Houston. Allah
is not overpowered
by evil.
He is Al Aziz
and he allows for it to happen and
he is Al Hamid. He is praiseworthy in
allowing for it to happen. He is praiseworthy.
How is Allah praiseworthy in allowing for it
to happen? Because the consequences are praiseworthy.
When that person is killed and they are
a martyr and they enter into Jannah, that
is a praiseworthy consequence.
And when the criminal
has the worst of crimes recorded on their
ledger, so that they meet Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala with that, that is a praiseworthy consequence.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
says, Allah says, do not think, do not
let the disbelievers think that we are giving
them respite, we are giving them delay, we're
giving them rope, we're giving them time out
of goodness for themselves. It's not good for
them.
We are only giving them that time so
that they can increase in their sin. We
are only giving that time so that they
can add more crimes to their * history,
so that they could add to that the
bombing of hospitals and the killing of children
and the killing of mothers and the killing
of journalists, and all of these hideous crimes
that you could not imagine
that they were capable of doing, I'm giving
them respite so that they could fill it
with all of that.
And they will have painful punishment.
They will have humiliating punishment. So, don't think
that that delay is good for them. So,
number 1, Allah subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells us
that he is mighty and that he is
praiseworthy.
Number 2, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
The one who to him belongs the dominions
of the heavens and the earth and Allah
is a witness over all things.
Even if there's a media blackout, even if
there's a media blackout. Even if nobody knows,
even if they won't tell, even if you've
been able to get them to sign a
a non disclosure agreement, even even even
Allah is a witness over all things.
And that is comfort for everyone who has
ever been wronged and is unable to share,
unable to speak, unable to articulate,
unable to get their dignity back, unable to
get their justice in this life. Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala is a witness over all things.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
in the ladheenaamanuwa
I'm jumping through the surah, but the third
point here is, in the ladheenaamanuwaamilu
salihat
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, those who believe
and do righteous deeds,
they will have gardens underneath which rivers flow.
That is the great victory. And it's interesting
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala doesn't mention,
the great victory anywhere else in the Quran,
except in Surat Al Buruj. After describing this
episode that I just described to you, Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala calls it the great victory
even though on the outside it is the
great loss. It is the great loss of
life.
It is a people who have been exterminated.
It is a cause of sadness every time
you read about it in the history of
books. Every time you see it play out.
But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is not dealing
with the dunya. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
dealing with the dunya and thereafter together and
he is telling us that that is a
great victory. As long as you are able
to exit out of this life
and be told to enter into paradise,
then you've
won. And it is the great victory.
The greatest victory is that a person experiences
the pleasure of Allah.
However it is that they experience the pleasure
of Allah. Whatever gets them there. Abu Bakr
radiAllahu anhu has a beautiful statement. He says,
He says, there is no goodness in any
goodness that leads to the hellfire and there
is no evil in any evil that leads
to paradise. And the last thing that I'll
mention from Surat Al Buluj is for the
oppressor themselves.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
That's an amazing pairing. It's incredible. Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala says, he is the
forgiving and he is the loving.
What if I am the one who did
wrong? What if I harm someone? What if
I caused someone incredible grief? What if I
caused someone incredible pain 5 years ago, 10
years ago, 20 years ago, however long it
was, and I'd repented,
And I worry about the effects of this
sin. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, He is
the Ghafoor. He is the Wadud. He is
the forgiving.
And, you know, when we forgive, human beings,
it might take us a very long time
to forgive somebody.
And even that might require a lot of
work, a lot of therapy. But Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala says
and and to be able to love that
person again, that's that's really hard. To forgive,
I might get there. But to love again
like it never happened,
and so when Allah
says that he is the forgiving and the
loving,
that is an incredibly
inspiring statement to let us all know that
there is no one who is alive. This
is what we believe. There is no one
who is alive on this earth right now,
who is not only beyond
being forgiven by Allah
if they turn to him, but there is
no one who is beyond being loved by
Allah.
He is
Allah is the forgiving and the merciful. And
so we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for
his love and the acts that will garner
us his love and the love of those
who he loves and we ask Allah
for his mercy.