Fatima Barkatulla – Expect Good From Allah

			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 yourself. Right Allah, 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. I've done my
single Ubud happy that Allah when he was explaining this Hadith, or at least this for this part of
the study, 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 a lotta Allah loves for his slaves to supplicate to make dua
to him because he is worship I am as my slave thinks I am. means I expect Allah subhanaw taala to
have good install for me. When I make dua, Eva, 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 gonna
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, Allah will save it for me in the hereafter. Right? My daughter will never
fall out of below on deaf ears stuff for a love, 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 the call that call will result in good for you. So have conviction and have full belief
that loss of anatella 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 excellence 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 going to 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 gonna help me overcome
this, I'm gonna 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 and attitude towards Allah subhanho
wa Taala. And just just take a look at what humanity is capable of. If Allah subhanaw taala is on
their side. Look at Yusuf alayhi salam, he was a slave boy in a foreign land, torn away from his
		

			parents. But a lot of Allah Allah took that little boy and turned him into the highest minister in
the land, the treasure of a whole country. Right? The Prophet sallallahu Sallam took a group of
desert dwellers who nobody could, you know, 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 any little and lowly. The Arab people were seen as in that time, in the eyes of
the superpowers 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
		

			job
		

			by setting up a small village