Fatima Barkatulla – Be positive – Expect Good from Allah – Husn adh-Dhan Billah

			personal one.
		

			Personal one meaning having a positive belief, positive thoughts about Allah subhanho wa Taala
expect good things from Allah from your Lord. You know, he created you, He made you. He didn't just
leave you to fend for yourself. He gave you so much.
		

			Expect more good things to come to to yourself. Right Allah Subhan Allah Allah tells us in the
famous Hadith, pudsey, he says, I am as my servant thinks I am. I am as my servant thinks I am Chef
Abdullah, my Sinhala bird are happy that Allah when he was explaining this hadith, or at least this
for this part of the Hadith, I am as my slave thinks I am. He said, It means a person should think
good of his Lord. He should have hopes and expectations from Allah that Allah will make his wishes
come true for him. He should not be heedless or negligent or say, I called upon him and he did not
answer me. Right? We don't sit there feeling as though you know what we're asking for is not going
		

			to be fulfilled. But rather he should have good thoughts of Allah azza wa jal and be persistent in
supplicating. To him, he should not be lazy or heedless. And Allah Allah loves for his slaves to
supplicate to make dua to him, because dua is worship, I am as my slave thinks I am. Means I expect
Allah subhanaw taala to have good in store for me. When I make dua, either Allah subhanaw taala will
answer that door immediately. Or he will save something for me maybe in the future, he's delaying
the answering of that door because he knows that there's a better time for me to have that thing. Or
he's going to replace that thing with something better, that I hadn't even dreamed of, that I didn't
		

			even know was good for me. Or Allah subhanaw taala will save it for me in the hereafter. Right? My
dua will never fall out the biller on deaf ears stuffer Allah of course, my daughter is not falling
on deaf ears. Allah subhanaw taala hears me every time I call, he appreciates that he appreciates
the call of the caller, when they call that call will result in good for you. So have conviction and
have full belief that Allah subhanaw taala has good in store for you.
		

			And having this kind of mindset, what it does is it stops you from being paralyzed by circumstance
and events, right? You're not going to be deflated. Because of the things that are happening around
you, you know that Allah subhanaw taala is going to help you figure a way out, even when you're
trying to achieve high things, and you're a person of high aspiration. You know, the thing that
really makes people of excellent stand out from other people is that when an obstacle comes their
way, they don't just sit down and say, Oh, well, you know, that's the end of that. That's the end of
my high aspiration. You know, I'm just gonna give up now. Because I've got this huge obstacle,
		

			there's no way out. The people of excellence and high aspiration, they would say, there's this
obstacle, let me look at it, let me analyze it. And Allah subhanaw taala is going to help me
overcome this, I'm going to find a way out, because Allah has given me a mind and he's given me
whatever resources I have. And I can make the most of those resources in order to figure a way out.
Right? So having that kind of positive belief and positive understanding an attitude towards Allah
subhanho wa taala. And, and just just take a look at what humanity is capable of. If Allah subhanaw
taala is on their side. Look at use of Ali Salam, he was a slave boy in a foreign land, torn away
		

			from his parents. But Allah Subhana Allah took that little boy and turned him into the highest
minister in the land, the treasure of a whole country. Right? The Prophet salallahu alayhi salam
took a group of desert dwellers who nobody could care less about a group of people in the desert, a
whole civilization that the greatest superpowers on earth at the time, were not even bothered to try
and conquer. That's how early little and lowly the Arab people were seen as in that time, in the
eyes of the super
		

			powers that were around them put the Persian Empire and the Roman Empire.
		

			But what did he do? What was he able to do?
		

			He turned them into the greatest civilization that this earth has seen.
		

			As the historian said, If greatness of purpose, smallness of means and astonishing results are the
three criteria of human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So it's not that the Prophet sallallahu wasallam had, you know, a huge
amount of means, or that he had amazing skills that that were above and beyond other people. Of
course he did. He did have characteristics that were above and beyond anyone, but it's not that they
weren't you know, he was handed these things on a plate when he was born. But it was that he had
complete conviction in the mission that was ahead of him. complete conviction and complete belief
		

			that Allah subhanaw taala would give him success. And we must do that as well because we are the OMA
of that same Muhammad SAW Allah
		

			the Almighty
		

			dollar worth is more