Fatima Barkatulla – Teen Session 3 – Three Lessons From Ibrahim

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			Mancha to LA I don't need a production machine. I'm sure everyone's familiar with her and her work
may allow her to continue to rise according to his way and allow her to be a beacon of light for us
as women. So a follow up. Okay, this will learn 100 Allah wa salatu salam ala rasulillah sisters a
Salam alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
		

			I know that brother Omar, like for so many years has been and his team have been working hard, you
know, really putting a lot of effort into talking about and focusing on youth. And it's amazing
because actually the story of Hajj and the story of Ibrahim alayhis salam reminds us that one man,
and his vision and his daughter and his efforts can bring about can move mountains can do amazing
things, you know, because Ibrahim alayhis salam, if you think about the beginning of his story, or
the beginning of his story with a smile, and the story of Hajj that we know,
		

			he took his baby son, and his wife harder, his only son at the time, and left them in the middle of
a desert where there was nothing, right. So sometimes, you know, when I think about when, like,
today, when we're seeing this beautiful, you know, youth club, and in Sharla, when it's renovated,
it's gonna get even better. And who knows, one day, they might even be a whole building, there might
even be a whole, you know, set of buildings focused on the youth, right? When I see all of this, I
think Subhana Allah, you know, how something can begin as an idea, or as a speck, just in somebody's
mind, you know, and due to their bars due to their efforts, amazing things can happen. And sometimes
		

			we look at society, we look at amazing institutions. You know, you might have heard of amazing,
famous institutions like Oxford University, or Eton College and these types of places. And when you
and even like some of the biggest hospitals in London, when you look at their history, they started
off with maybe one person or two people, setting up a little school or setting up a little, you
know, little hospital, a little place to help poor people. And then slowly it grew and grew and grew
until it becomes like a massive institution that, you know, people are in awe of. So all great
projects begin like that. And I think the story of it, Brian melisande reminds us of that, that
		

			today, that same place where Ibrahim alayhis salaam left that little baby and his wife, which was in
the middle of the desert, no water, nothing. Today, that same place is a city that is the most
visited city in the world. It has the most amazing supply chains, when it comes to, you know, its
economic center, sopran, Allah, you know, every type of product, every type of business exists in
that city now, right. And millions of people, it's the most visited place on earth.
		

			And at the time of Ibrahim alayhis salam, when he left his baby there when he left Roger that, he
could not have imagined what it would become, right. But that's the thing people have imagined
people have taught kulani man, they don't need to see the results in front of their eyes. In fact,
they don't even need to see the fruits of their efforts in their own lifetimes.
		

			They know from these stories from the example of these great people that Lost Planet Allah has given
us in the Quran, that something that you could start today, you might not see the effort, the fruit
sorry of that effort in your lifetime, you might never see the fruits of that. But many generations
later Subhanallah the fruits of that effort will bloom in Sharla. There will be progress, they will
be fruits.
		

			And so let's look at the story of Ibrahim alayhis salam. And I want to draw really three major
lessons from that story. So the three key lessons I want to share from the story of Ibrahim and he's
Salaam
		

			Number one,
		

			sacrificing something today
		

			is essential for our success tomorrow. Sacrificing today is essential for our success tomorrow. In
fact, sacrifices are actually just investments. You know, sometimes we think I, those of us who are
mothers, we think we're sacrificing so much sacrifice so much time, or you might do something for
someone, and you might have to lose out on something that you wanted to do. And you see that as a
sacrifice, as if you've almost like you've lost something. But no sacrifice is actually an
investment into the future, either into the future in this world, or in the future. In the next
world. It's never just one sided. It's never that you've just lost something. And it seems to be a
		

			motif throughout the Quran throughout history, that Allah Subhana Allah expects from human beings,
some kind of sacrifice. And so we see that Allah subhanaw taala, asked the Prophet Ibrahim Alayhi,
salam to sacrifice on so many levels. The first was, he told him to leave his wife and his baby in
the middle of the desert, as we mentioned. And you know, as he was walking away from them, and
remember, mica was nothing, there was nothing there. There was no place called maccha that time.
		

			And as he was walking away from them, we know that Tiger asked him, you know, or you can leave us
you just leaving us here. And she was panicking a little bit. But then she asked him, did Allah
commanded you to leave us here? And he said, Yes. And so she said, Then Allah will not let us you
know, be lost, alone will not leave us.
		

			And so she had to work, even though she couldn't see anything tangible in front of her eyes, that
would make her have to work, right. And that's an amazing lesson for us, that we might have to
sacrifice something. And we can't even imagine or see the effects of that, the benefits of that. But
because we know Allah commanded us to do something, right, whatever it is that Allah has commanded
us, there's something good in it, and we will get some benefit from it, whether we can see it or
not. And whatever Allah has forbidden us from, there's something evil in it, even if we can't see
it, even if we can't tell what that evil thing is.
		

			One day, we will realize one day we'll see the fruits of our living that thing that a lot forbade.
		

			So Brian Malik Salam made a sacrifice that day, in that he left the most beloved people to him, and
especially his son, who had he had been wanting a son for so many years. He left them in the middle
of the desert, imagine the amount of a man that it takes to do that. And imagine the amount of email
it took for her to say, then Allah will not forsake us. If Allah commanded us to do something, he's
not going to forsake us if we OBEY Him.
		

			So sacrifice on that level. Then again, Ibrahim alayhis, Salam had to sacrifice when his son came of
age, when his son came of age. And Allah commanded him to through dreams, he commanded him to
sacrifice his son to literally sacrifice. Right. And Ibrahim alayhi salam, even though it must have
been so difficult, he walked with his son. And his son said to him, he told his son about his dream,
and his smile, look at the image of his smile, he said to his father,
		

			do as a lust do as you have been commanded, do as you have been commanded my father. So Pamela, and
then when he got to the point where he was about to literally sacrifice his son, okay, which is to,
you know, basically swore to him?
		

			Allah subhanaw taala, prevented that from happening. And
		

			he told him to sacrifice a sheep or a ram instead.
		

			And so still, until today, that motif, that symbol, that symbolic gesture of sacrifice, giving up
something that you love today, it still remains with us, doesn't it? Because sisters, even apart
from the sacrifice that we do in, you know, and we give the food to the poor, or we give it we eat
from it, we give it to others, apart from that sacrifice of one of the kind of things that human
beings love the most right, which is meat. Eating meat is like seen as a luxury right? Apart from
that, in every single area of life. Isn't it true that we have to sacrifice something today in order
to have
		

			Something for tomorrow. Right? So for example, if you want to be fit and healthy, we have to
sacrifice our impulses today, right? Yes, we feel like eating chocolate cake every day. Yes, we feel
like you know, drinking fizzy drinks. But if we want to have good teeth, if we want to look after
our health, we're gonna have to control ourselves and make a level of sacrifice today, in order for
success tomorrow, if you're a student working hard at uni, or school or, you know, college,
		

			you might feel like watching TV all day, right? You might feel like just playing or going out with
your friends or whatever it is social media, but you're gonna have to sacrifice that impulse today.
By studying, right? Doing things that might not be very easy doing things that might take a lot of
focus a lot of effort.
		

			Why, so that you can reap the benefits of that tomorrow. And you can think of that in every area of
life. Any anyone you see who is successful, they've had to sacrifice something, something of their
impulses, you know, they had an impulse to do something now to be lazy to do waste time. You know,
to procrastinate, whatever it is they they sacrifice that and they worked hard and strove against
that impulse in order to gain something tomorrow. So the first lesson from the story of Ibrahim
alayhis salam that I want to focus on is sacrifice today
		

			for success tomorrow, we can all reflect what is it that I could
		

			give up today? Or what is it that I could control my impulses regarding today, in order to have
success tomorrow.
		

			The second that I want us to focus on is
		

			making the law and obeying a lot today can change everything for you and your family and your
community tomorrow in the future.
		

			Ibrahim Alayhi Salam
		

			as he left
		

			hotjar and his son in the middle of that desert, he made the sapan Allah He said Robin in a scan to
mean Luria TB word you know ATVs that are in, in the basical, Mahara robina loopy masala Tata fudge,
I'll have a determiner na Sita, who Elaine was up who Minister marotti la la home, yes guru, our
Lord, I have settled some of my children, my descendants, my family in an uncultivated Valley, near
your sacred house. So it was in he knew that this was the spot where the ancient sacred house that
other many Salaam had, once built had been.
		

			And then he said, robina Our Lord, so that they may establish the salaat.
		

			So make the hearts of people inclined towards them, and provide for them from from your fruits that
they may be grateful.
		

			So even then, Ibrahim Alayhi, salam, he made this beautiful day.
		

			And just think about this boy, he's saying, this place that has nothing, Oh Allah let, first of all,
he said, I want my family to establish the Salah. In other words, I want them to be people who obey
Allah and worship Allah.
		

			And that should be our primary concern. The sisters in our lives in the lives of our families, the
establishing of the worship of Allah, which is the purpose of our creation. So he said to Allah, the
whole reason why I've left them there is for them to to obey you and establish the Sala. And then he
says, so a lot, make some hot people's hearts inclined towards them and provide for them and look at
the result of the dua of Ibrahim and a Salah that today
		

			Subhana Allah,
		

			our hearts are all inclined towards Mecca. the hearts of a billion people in the world are inclined
towards them towards them in answer to that desire. And in history as well. Throughout history,
we've had that right. The most visited place, the most visited place of pilgrimage in history is
Makkah. And even at that time, you know, the tribe of Judah home, or some Arab tribes were passing
by and their hearts inclined towards them.
		

			So look at how Allah answered the door of Ibrahim, that that became the most beloved place on earth.
		

			And secondly, he said, Let our law provide from your fruits and so very soon after
		

			At that time, you know, within a few generations, maca became a flourishing city, it became the
center of Arabia, the most important kind of place where the economy of that whole area relied on,
right, relied on the caravans of Makkah. And even today, the supply chains, the economic supply
chains of Makkah amazing, are very advanced. Everyone wants their products to be there, because the
world comes to Makkah, right? So look at the answer to Ibrahim alayhis. Salam, and realize from
that, the outdoors are very powerful, or the other very powerful that the US we make today are very,
very powerful.
		

			For tomorrow, even in things that we can't imagine, and I'll share with you that one of the two
hours that I've always made that I've always had amazing results from this
		

			is
		

			and I made this to our when my son was a baby, and I wanted him to be a half of grant and we didn't
have any health teachers, or any mosque that had any hidden costs. And I was not here for them
myself. I couldn't really see how I'm going to do this, okay, in the middle of London, Northwest
London. But I made this door and hamdulillah I just saw that the doors started opening. And the
other I would make is, Oh Allah. And then I would tell I would say to Allah, the thing that I want,
the thing that I'm dreaming of, I want my son to be a half of the Quran, oh, I want this thing to
happen. I want to have a wonderful marriage, I want to have this or I want this to happen. And I
		

			can't see how I could achieve that. But nothing is impossible for you. Yeah, Allah, nothing is
impossible for you. You know how to make this thing happen. So Oh, Allah, allow me to achieve my
goal. Allow me to achieve my goal. And you see within that door, there is so much in Charlotte so
much imagine in that door, because what you're saying to allies, I don't know. And you know, you
know more than me, I am weak and you are strong Allah, you you can make, you can move mountains if
you want. And I am weak and needy, and I need your help in this big vision that I have for myself or
for my family.
		

			So my sisters, I want us to realize the importance and the power of our to us today, for tomorrow,
and also the power of obeying Allah. You know, when we obey Allah, at the time, it might seem
difficult, you know, when we were, hey, job on a hot day, when we pray, even though you know, we'd
rather be doing something else. We've got loads of other things that we could be doing. When we,
when we fast in Ramadan, even though we've got exams, and it's hard. All those things that we do
when we obey Allah. It's as if Allah is keeping a note of that, that my servant did all of these
things. Then one day in the future, you will reap the benefits of that, you will reap the benefits
		

			of that. Because Allah Subhana Allah never forgets. Even if nobody noticed, the good thing that you
did, your parents didn't notice. Your family didn't notice. Nobody gave you any appreciation.
		

			A lot is appreciating it. A lot is noticing.
		

			And Allah subhanaw taala. He knew and he he knew the sincerity of Ibrahim alayhi salam. And he saw
his obedience, constant obedience, his willingness to sacrifice his son, his willingness to obey
Allah even though it's so difficult.
		

			And because of that loss of Allah made millions of people around the world now, every single day, we
make dua for Ibrahim that way. And we say along my son, Mohammed, Allah, Allah, Mohammed kamasan,
later, Ibrahim, Ali Ibrahim, Mohammed Ahmed, we make dua for Ibrahim, we mentioned Ibrahim Alayhi
Salam
		

			that shows you how much I loved him that he caused a whole nation of people
		

			to praise Ibrahim and to make glorify Ibrahim and his progeny until the end of time. So Pamela, that
so the second lesson is making go out and obeying a lot today can change everything for you and your
family and your society in the future. The third lesson that I want us to focus on when it comes to
the story of Abraham is
		

			when we set out to do something good shaitan will try to stop us. He will do whatever he can to try
to stop us by telling us not to. Okay, and we must fight actively against
		

			His whisperings. So when Ibrahim Alayhi Salam set out with a smile to sacrifice him in a particular
place, we know that shavon came in three different spaces, three different places to try and stop
them, right? To try and avert them from being alone. And what did they do? They picked up stones and
they started throwing them at shavon. So that was physical shaytan was physically there, trying to
stop them, for us so panela every single day, when we want to obey Allah, or when we have a dream,
when we're trying to do something for the sake of Allah, when we have something, some goal that we
want to do for Allah shaitaan will come and he will constantly constantly speak to us and say to us,
		

			don't do this. You're gonna miss out on this, you're gonna miss out on that. You know, Allah is
merciful. You don't need to do this low forgive you. So many excuses. Shaytan will put in our minds
and so many tricks to avert us from the straight path. So we have to through the story of Abraham
become alert. The first thing is to be alert that Chopin is there, right? he is, he has that nature.
He wants my downfall as a human being. He doesn't want to see me successful, he doesn't want to see
me abating Allah.
		

			So be aware of that, and then fight shape on actively, because it brought about Islam, he fought
shape and actively right by by actually stoning shape on. And that's why we do the stoning of the
jamara. Figuratively, right?
		

			How do we fight shape on actively the way that we in our everyday lives which fight shaytaan
actively is to put up as many doors as we can, between us and sinning? Right? Just think about for
example, Allah Subhana Allah has forbidden for his right is forbidden illegal relationships. It's
forbidden Zina.
		

			In order to prevent us from falling into that. And some of us we might not ever be able to imagine
how can somebody fall into that?
		

			Allah Subhana, Allah put so many guidelines, so many rules, that would prevent us from even going
close to Zener. So if a person feels afraid of falling into a sin, they should put up as many
batteries as they can. And that is how we fight shavon. So in the example, I gave illegal
relationships, we don't we're never alone in a room with somebody of the opposite *, right? We
don't have chitchat, you know, relaxed relationships and chit chat with somebody of the opposite
*, we avoid
		

			being in mixed gatherings, right? We observe a job, we lower our gaze, right? We,
		

			we get married, right in order to protect ourselves. So there's so many things that we can do. We
don't look at her arm things. We don't read about her arm things, you know, even reading about
people doing her arm things. It has an effect on our heart, it desensitizes us to those evil and
sinful things. So to find shavon, if that is your weakness, or if that is something that you're
worried about, to fight shaytan in that department, you have to put up the barriers, to stop
yourself from coming anywhere near that.
		

			It could be something else, whatever it is, whatever the area is that you need to find a bond with,
you need to put as many barriers up as possible. It's a little bit like, you know, when they say
when you're trying to lose weight, right? They say just don't have
		

			things in the house, don't just don't have, you know, foods that are bad for you in the house. If
it's not in the house, then you're not going to be tempted, right? So as Muslims, we don't believe
in having temptations in front of us and then preventing ourselves from those tend to be
temptations. We believe in avoiding having those temptations near us in the first place. Right.
		

			So that's one way putting up as many barriers as possible. Another way is to surround yourselves
with good people. You know, the company we keep affects the way we think affects the way what we're
willing to do, and what we're willing not to do. And it affects the way we connect with Allah
subhanaw taala if we're around people who love Allah, who connects with Allah, then we will do that
as well. We're more inclined to doing that. If we're around people who are constantly thinking about
this world dunya you know, looks beauty or all the kind of superficial things and that's what we're
gonna be
		

			MSDN and that will never give us happiness.
		

			So those are two just two ways that we can fight shape on putting up the barriers, strengthening
ourselves and having good company. Another way to protect ourselves from shaper is then whatever
shavon is trying to tell us to not do that we should be doing.
		

			put even more effort into doing that good thing, put even more effort into doing it and doing as
best as you can do it excellently. So that tripod has nowhere to go.
		

			So, dear sisters, those were three lessons key lessons that I wanted us to focus on, on the story of
Abraham, I'm going to repeat them again the three lessons number one sacrifice today for success
tomorrow. Number two, make making the law and obeying a lot today can change everything for you and
your community tomorrow. And number three, when we set out to do good shaytan will try to stop us by
whispering and we have to actively fight against his whisperings in order to be successful.
inshallah, I hope that that has benefited you. I will leave you with with those thoughts so prodigal
lahoma will be handed a shadow Allah ilaha illa and does have to be like you can be whatever you
		

			want to be.
		

			never listen to those who kill your dreams.
		

			He will set you free.
		

			He will put it by and make you feel invincible.
		

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