10 Lessons from the Quran I Learned in Gaza
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The speakers discuss the importance of staying focused on the situation and not feeling hopeless or helpless. They emphasize the need to show the wisdom of Islam and not give up. The importance of patient and staying on the right path to achieve prosperity is emphasized. The speakers stress the importance of testing one's health and behavior to determine if they are healthy or sick, and stress the need to learn and wake up to handle fear.AI Generated Transcript ©
Apology for the delay,
but we have a dilemma to pray Maghreb
or not to pray Maghreb, basically.
So what I decided
next week we're gonna do, we'll go back
to 7.
So at least we finish and we'll pray.
Right? Because it's I was literally running to
get here. And, of course, every traffic almost
was red, but half of them were red.
So just
a reminder for everybody, Insha'Allah, next week we'll
move to back to 7, and then the
program today because it's 10 points, I don't
think I'll finish half of it, so inshallah
will be part 1 today, and then if
Allah
will be part 2 next week.
So,
of course,
we're gonna
keep reminding ourselves
about what is happening in the world around
us and let alone in Gaza. I don't
want anyone of us, number 1 me, is
to just becomes
the norm. Oh, Gaza again.
Okay. You know, we get bored. Human beings
get bored, and we get very much used
to it. Even if you go to the
news now,
right, like, if you see, everything is now
becoming more important. Like, I I looked this
morning, and at least it was number 7
or 8,
although when I got a text from Gaza
was a really bad night.
SubhanAllah.
So for us, at least, we really need
to keep reminding ourselves,
reminding, thinking of them, making dua for them,
see what you you can do, and then
keep talking about it. And on Sunday, subhanAllah,
I arrived home, and the first thing I
get when I opened my phone was a
text from Gaza saying,
please tell all the pass this to all
the team.
Alhamdulillah,
biameen. Even if we're not gonna do anything
that we see, but at least we are
making them happy
and making them feel that they there's people
who care about them. Anytime, any of us,
especially when you feel lonely or you're alone,
and suddenly you feel or you see text
message or a phone call or somebody says
something that there's somebody cares about you.
You're not the only one. Let alone if
you are living the way they are living
and all this
suffering they are going through. So keep doing
it. Don't
feel tired, don't feel bored, and don't feel
hopeless or helpless.
Both is not allowed.
Absolutely hopeful,
latayi suma rahillah
and which is one of the verses that
I kept reminding myself and they reminded me
of it. And the other thing is never
feel helpless. There is always things you can
do. You have a tongue. You have a
brain. Then you can do something. You have
a hand. You can type. You can do
something.
Right? I mean, you're seeing how many things
have changed. Yes. It took 7 months,
but it's
changing. Right? I mean, you all are reading
about what is going on in Colombia.
This is unheard
of. This is unheard of
8 months
ago. Right? And who's doing it? It's the
students.
SubhanAllah.
So keep keep doing it. Say you Allah,
it's the time you decide not to me,
but I know
this is gonna happen.
So what I wanna share with you, I
was, like, just debating, do I go by
the Quran or I go by the way
I felt and I saw?
I'm gonna go by the way I felt
and I saw.
And the first thing which is the following,
and, subhanAllah,
many are reaching out now that a lot
of people wants to go to Gaza.
SubhanAllah.
I can't tell you how many text messages
I got since I came back.
So far, what we know is only the
people who are in the medical field or
very few exceptions.
Right?
However, I wanna say this to everybody. If
you really wanna go
and Allah did not allow you, you will
get the reward.
It's not like you're faking it. You really
wanted to go and you couldn't go whatever
the reason, even if you were in the
medical field and you couldn't go,
then Allah will reward you. There is a
hadith of Rasul alaihi salatu wa sallam anytime
you need you wanna do something and then
something happens and stopped you and you really
feel bad about it,
remember this hadith. He was coming back from
Uzwah Tabuk, from Tabuk Expedition, and he was
coming back to Medina, he was looking at
Medina and the sahabba around him, the companions,
right, and he looked at them and says
They're in the city of Medina.
There are people living there. They didn't go
with them. They were coming back.
Anytime you're gonna go up or you're gonna
go down,
meaning whenever you are in and out in
the journey,
right,
they will get the same reward.
And of course the Sahaba looked at him
and
says They're staying there. They didn't go through
any of the difficulties we went through,
and he said
The reason they didn't come out
because
they had an excuse that prevented them, not
an excuse they made because the munafiqeen, the
hypocrites, that's what they do
we're busy with our children and our wealth,
those they really wanted,
so anytime you're really planning to do something
for the sake of Allah, you took all
the measures, you really want to do it
and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala put a block
and this is what they kept, the first
thing they kept reminding us from the moment
they said, all the papers are ready. Book
your ticket. This is how we know it
is happening,
It was Wednesday, and we are flying on
Saturday.
They said book your ticket. Still with booking
the ticket, they said.
Still, you may not go.
And I kept reminding myself of this hadith.
So for those of you who really I
mean, I had you the other day came
to me and says, how can I go
to
Allah insha'Allah will reward everyone
according to their
niyyah, according to your intention? So the first
thing I wanna
remind everybody is there's a verse in Surah
Al Nahal. It's a 3 verses together, but
who the last one is is what I
wanna focus on, but I have to tell
you because the the one before because usually
you need to know the concept why.
Right? Allah is talking about the
the disbelievers.
They made an oath,
very forceful oath. Allah always says
with a lot of of efforts.
Allah will not give life to those who
died.
And you normally you stop here because the
next is Allah is answering.
Yes, he
will.
Right? Why?
There, they will find out
that who was right, who was wrong.
And
those who are disbelievers, they know they were
liars.
This is not about Gaza. Now
the one that I actually lived with it
as we were in that
car going,
like, going in that trip. We haven't yet
arrived.
Our saying
lishay into anything
idha
oradna, if we wanted.
An nakkoolalahu,
we just say
be
and it
is be
done. Why I'm saying this? Because this you
can apply it
as you are in the trip or during
or when you are leaving.
It is all under Allah control,
And even when you read the commentary on
this verse, they tell you Allah allows it.
SubhanAllah. I was reading and I was like
SubhanAllah. I mean, Imam al Tabari when he
wrote it, he didn't even know there is
anything that's gonna happen in Gaza, but he
was saying when Allah wants something,
he doesn't have to do anything.
And
this is very common commentary on this
Kun for those of you who know Arabic
is
and doesn't take a breath,
They say the order of Allah,
not only the order, not only allowing it,
but happens, done,
the same space between this kaafnoon, this letter
and this letter, how much space?
Nothing. Nothing literally. Kun, ka noon.
They say all the matter of Allah is
between this.
What did I learn?
If Allah wanted the war to stop, he
would have done it.
Now that doesn't mean Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
would want these people to die
or to suffer,
but how do I respond?
He has a wisdom.
That's when
things doesn't make sense externally,
I need the names of Allah,
I need the names of Allah because the
names of Allah are chain,
it's not one here or one there, they're
all connected,
for example as we study Surat Youssef if
you remember the most common two names
and Surat Yousaf is Al Aleem Al Hakim
All Knowing All Wise. So if Allah wanted
this not to start,
He doesn't need to, subhanAllah, for you and
me to take a birth.
If He wants this to stop, He would,
but there is a reason. I don't know.
Maybe most of us will not know but
that doesn't mean there isn't a reason
1 2 the reason is very good
but I don't know it because it's way
beyond
my
comprehension.
3,
whenever you want to do something and you
took all the measures and you really worked
on it, don't someone looks at you and
says it's impossible.
Don't you ever take this word.
The response, natural response for you and me,
if Allah wanted this gonna happen,
which I never thought I will be able
to enter to go to Gaza, to be
honest with you. I didn't even
I mean, I wanted, but like many of
us we wanted, but really it's gonna happen.
I mean, I've visited Palestine so many times
before,
and every time I wanna go I every
time I go on there and I say
I wanna go to Gaza, the response right
away is no this is this is very
difficult we're not gonna go there.
There was no word, there was nothing, so
peace was what you hear, ghazah, before October
7. But when Allah wanted it,
which is very difficult,
He made it happen,
and he made it happen. I didn't. He
made it happen within 2 days,
and that's not even I mean, kompe yukon
is even shorter.
So you and as we were there and
I was looking at everybody there and all
the tragedies and all the things, and I
was like you Allah,
if you want this all can change,
but I'm not questioning your wisdom.
Just show us
or keep us going, and this is what
we all need to know, just keep going
that Allah is allowing it to happen and
he's allowing it to continue for a reason,
and that's actually you hear it from them
not from me.
So one of the things you keep saying,
they keep reminding you,
Allah allowed it to happen,
there is a hikmah,
there is a reason for that, I bring
this and apply it on my life because
that's why it is 10 lessons from the
Quran I learned in Gaza, but what does
it mean here? I don't live in Gaza.
For each one of us in this room,
remember this, when you want something, it's not
you gonna do it.
That mean
he didn't want it, period.
Stop arguing
and stop blaming
who?
Others,
someone,
somebody, a human being, my boss,
my spouse, my children, stop it.
Just learn
Qadrallama
Shafa Haj. Allah decree and what he decree
it's gonna happen, he just didn't want it,
and if you're really feeling uncomfortable about it
talk to him and says you Allah show
me,
I know there is a wisdom behind this.
It's just very difficult for me to swallow
it. And one thing I want to all
of you, if it is very difficult for
me and you to swallow it, and we
are living here in our comfort zone, what
do you think they are?
What do you think they are? I mean,
I got text messages on Sunday after I
came back from there. I mean, I was
like,
I definitely need these messages. Like, we're supposed
we should send these messages.
Right? They send you back.
And even one of them says remember that
verse we talked about? Don't forget that verse.
And I'm gonna maybe today or next week
I'll share it with you, and they reminded
me on the verse. So the first thing
is
Kun Fayakoon, he allowed it to happen, he
allowed me and whoever is going, alhamdulillah, went
and came back and now going, and then
if he wants to stop it, he will
stop it.
The second one which I heard it again
and again and again and again in the
Tarawih,
As I said to you last week,
they have fiqh of the Quran. They not
only they memorize the Quran, they have the
fiqh, they know the Quran
because
they don't read too long, they read maybe
a 2 or 3 verses, but every verse
is related to what they are going through,
and the first one I heard that as
we arrived,
literally as we arrived and we entered they
were playing the Isha and we went,
and is the following which is in Surat
Al Baqar, so 3 of them
Many of you know this verse.
Oh, who you believe, for the young generation
or those who don't know Arabic,
all you who believe, you and me,
pay attention to the words Allah use, especially
those of you who know Arabic. What does
mean?
Seek
help. What does seek help mean?
I need help,
right?
That means what I am going through I
can do it with what I have. I
need help.
I need something external to help me, and
what did he say? Sa'in will be Sabri
Sabri here patience,
some scholar tells you is fasting,
was salaas sala
in Allahama as Sabri
Allahuvali
is with
those who are patient,
meaning
they practice patience.
Let's take it 1 by 1 because again
I heard this all the time there,
and I was like SubhanAllah,
You hala Adhina aamanu all of us,
when I say sTa'inu as I said just
a little bit meaning
most of the things
if not all of the things we cannot
do it at all.
And this is very opposite to the day
and age we are living,
especially for the youth. When do they teach
you?
I can do it, it's mine,
I did it,
I didn't,
I didn't. Allah puts barakah, blessing, in my
efforts
because there's 10 people like me put the
same efforts, but they couldn't.
It's not because they couldn't, Allah didn't allow
it,
so ista'inu be sabri, why?
And he is not talking about anything,
this verse later on is he's gonna explain
why he said this.
When do I need patient?
When do I need to import if you
wanna use the word Import
patient or remind myself you need to be
patient. When?
When?
In difficult times. Right?
That's it?
No.
When it is also going your way.
When it is going your way,
everything in life is the way you want
it. You applied to this job, you got
it. You want to get married, you did.
Your husband is the best one. Your children,
mashaAllah, TabarakAllah.
You want to go anything you want, you
want to buy the house, Allah sent it,
made it easy.
You need patience.
Why? Everything going my way.
Anybody knows? Because we all think of patient
is when I go through difficult times,
but why do I need patient when I
am here so I can absolutely understand? The
people in Gaza, of course they need to
be patient,
but why do I need to be patient
here?
Living comfortable.
Why?
Yes? Because you never know whenever if you
ever go to the same
I never know things can change. That's true.
But
Because we we believe that everything is happening,
because of the still we don't have we
feel like we have a control over this
life. So we feel we have a control
over us, but we don't.
No, there is bigger one, applies to us.
Asabra I Badha, of course, it's act of
worship, But I I I'm giving you the
clue. The clue is I'm living here.
I need patience
when I am living in prosperity
to stay on the right path,
to stay on the right path
because nirma,
blessings,
prosperity,
getting everything you want,
sooner or later
will take you away from Allah.
A sabru,
and this is just a quote about sabru,
about patient. There's 3 kinds of patients.
Scholars will teach you this. Sabr
on
a calamity, people
Sabr al al Masiyyah I need to be
patient not to disobey Allah and there is
Sabr al Ata'a I need to be patient
to obey Allah For those of you who
fasted yesterday,
how easy it was.
It wasn't,
right? Honestly, it wasn't. I was like, I
kept reminding myself you just fasted 30 days,
but it wasn't, SubhanAllah.
And you needed to keep reminding yourselves, ta'eemu
Bissabriwasala,
Allah loves fasting, 6 days of shawah, all
these to keep going, but it wasn't easy.
I need patient.
Which one is the hardest one?
The people of Gaza
or us?
Absolutely us.
Because to be patient
and keep obeying Allah,
keep fasting when everything around you is available
is way harder.
So Ramadan, that's what we have in Ramadan.
I need to be patient,
remind myself
of everything
good,
and I need salah to keep me connected
because I can't be patient unless I'm connected
to Allah. In case you wonder why these
2 together.
Right? Why didn't Allah
Because I need these 2. The more my
salah, the more I'm connected with Allah. The
more I am connected, the more I am
patient.
You all know this verse. Right?
What does it mean?
Allah is with those who are patient. What
does it mean?
You all know the verse. Anybody doesn't know
this verse in this room? Everybody, show me
hands. You all know the verse?
What does it mean?
In Allahama Sabri means what?
What does it mean Allah is with me?
Of course Allah
with us, and of course Allah is seeing
us and hearing us, but what does it
mean when He says Inallaha
specifically?
So if we are here, all of us,
only one person is real patient
in the sight of Allah. Allah is with
her,
but Allah also with us,
but with her especially.
What does it mean? Yes?
I'm sorry. I yeah?
You can perceive him and you're connected with
him. That's true, but it's deeper than that.
Hadima'i
al Khasa they call it. For you to
know when you when you read in the
Quran Ma'a with there is two kinds of
Ma'a. There's 2 kinds when Allah is with
me. There is a general
Allah with all of us,
and there's a special
Sayyidna Musa
when all the people behind him
were so
afraid,
that is it. They are behind us. They're
gonna come and catch us. What did he
respond? He said,
My Lord is with me. He is gonna
guide me.
You all know this? What is the next
the next verse?
Fa'uhayna
ila Musa amirduribyaasaqalbaah.
Immediately Allah told him immediately.
You have a stick,
hit the sea, see what's gonna happen.
That's the special
Ma'ih that's the special connection when Allah looks
at everybody
and says she's special
I'm going to guide her through something everybody
else doesn't see it because the people with
Musa did not see Usayidna Musa saw. Are
you with me?
So to be to get to be with
Allah in this special way, I need to
be patient.
I did see this in Wazza
Inna Allahama Sabri I'm not gonna say stayinu
Sabri wa Sabri, it was there, but I
saw how Allah is with them.
Now how is that?
I didn't see Allah Subhan'a
but I saw
their response
to the calamities
and to the test, the real tests
and how they are responding there is no
way
a human being
can
live this
and respond this way
by Allah. You have your children, the children
2 or 3, right?
Nagging what somebody want to say this, the
other one want this, the other one and
you lose it
and you get upset. You have tomorrow an
exam, and you get very anxious. Right?
Why the people of Hazaw and not?
Honestly, I didn't see anxiety
which is the norm here.
I didn't see depression.
I'm sure later on Allah knows, but at
this moment of hunger, of fear, of bombing,
of the,
the drums, and they're fine. Children are playing.
Adults, if they are healthy, they are taking
care of the adults,
and I thought of this verse,
when Allah is with me,
special
looks at you or me,
special, I'm gonna react in a special way,
I'm gonna perceive it in a special way,
and then
the next two verses we lived it.
Don't
you say to those who are killed for
the sake of Allah,
Dead.
Right? And then
malahiyaaandarabeem
yuzafun, for sure they are alive.
Not a single person who died there,
they did not the word martyr,
shahid,
on their tongue like you and me and
say good morning, salaam alaikum, how was your
day?
Every two words the third is martyr, every
two words the third is shahid.
Not a single family, a person I talked
with did not lose 4, 5, 6, 7,
and I'm talking about oh, my sister.
I mean, this this one of the,
persons who
works in the hospital brought his wife to
meet us, and the wife young,
maybe 20 I don't know, in her twenties.
And then he said,
her sister, all her family died.
And I was like, you can see, like
your face is mine, and they were talking
to us. He said, yeah, they were all
having getting ready for iftar.
She said,
oh, I forgot something. I don't remember what
was it. I'm gonna go and get it.
The children followed
her. She looked at the children and says,
no. No. Go back. Stay with daddy.
Daddy and his parents, I'm gonna come back.
She come back.
Everybody was dead.
And when the sister of course she was
crying, I mean we're human,
but when they were telling the story, if
it is me I cannot even say the
story, and this is like a 3 4
days ago, it's not like 6 months ago.
Inna Allahama sabri.
The word comes off at her martyr,
martyr, shuhada,
engabla, this is what you hear.
It's like the natural.
Literally you see the Quran
in action
and then the verse that lived with me
from the day I enter to the day
I left
you will be tested.
And it's scary for us because that
this verse,
you will be tested, didn't come for the
people of Ghazza only,
it came to all of us that means
we are too.
We say in little bit
how fear
and you're gonna lose wealth
and people
with Tamarat
and vegetation,
and the same thing, Obasheus,
sovereign.
Give glad tithing to those who are patient,
8 days
food was a luxury,
Sleep,
good luck. You sleep because you're tired,
and you don't know if you're gonna wake
up or not. The norm.
Less money, talk to everybody. They lost everything.
Everything.
Like homes, I'm talking about material things. They
lost it.
Fear?
Fear. You live between the drones or you
live between the bombing. You choose which one.
And if there is nothing now, you're very
afraid because is it coming to us or
not?
We will test you.
And then
I live in between these 2. I like
I separated them and I was looking and
I said, you Allah, he gave This is
I see it around me in every spot
in the hospital
where we were because we lived most of
the time in the hospital. We didn't go
out. I mean, if you go out, you
have to go maybe maybe 3, 4 feet
and you have to come back.
Then Wabashir is sobering, and I look around,
and I kept asking myself,
and each one of you, may Allah not
test us with this You Rabbi Ami, but
each one of you ask yourself this,
honestly,
if you are the person who is living
in Gaza,
will you be Bashar Sabri?
Will
I and you be Bashar Sabri
if I cannot be patient
because the temperature
is a little bit less than my comfort
zone,
or the food
is not what I want, or my friend
did not do this or that, How will
I live with this all
major things completely out of your comfort zone?
I don't want to say we're going to
be tested, for sure we're already tested,
but we need to practice,
lessons take,
you need to train yourself adults before youth
to know what patience mean.
It is not always my way or the
highway
as they say here,
it is whose way?
It's Allah's
way, so when things doesn't go the way
I want, I say You Rabbi it's Your
it's Your earth,
it's Your people,
it's Your home, it's not mine,
it's Your wealth,
wabashir
sabri
and give a glad tiding, what is the
glad tiding of sabr?
Jannah.
They say
the people who are sovereign,
a Sabreem is not one day, now I
learned that lecture and then alhamdulillah I learned
something, I'm gonna go tomorrow on Sabreem, Thursday
I forgot back to square 1. Sabri meaning
it become your
constant
nature, habit. It's not nature but you will
work on it,
to be patient, not necessarily you're born as
patient, It's something you gain. I can I
can become patient, and one of the best
way to make you patient is
fasting?
Fasting because it controls you. You I'm sorry.
It's you control yourself. Wabashir is sovereign give
glad tidings. They say the people of Sabur
who were really tested in dunya,
tested in the negative way, not in the
positive way,
They say when they see the result
and the reward from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
you know what they say?
Does anybody knows?
I'm sorry?
No, no, no, no, that's easy,
that's easy, no,
no, no, no, When they see this in
Jannah, when they see the rewards,
they say
we wished, listen to what I'm saying,
we wished
that our skins
were picked up
with the pickups, you know, the pickups that
you that woman use, you know, to clean
your face from extra hair. We wish
How painful it is when you start picking
pieces from the skin.
They say we wish we had that from
what Allah gave us,
the people of Ghazid they know this,
they always think
of the other life,
Us,
most of us,
what's the focus?
Today and tomorrow and Thursday and the next
week and then summer and then next year
and Allah knows and I'm planning for the
next 10 years really, do I know I'm
living tomorrow?
And then the next one you hear it
all the time
Now you hear this all the time, Indas,
what I'm gonna get when I'm really sober,
practice it,
salah,
and I'm connected with Allah,
Allah told them Ulaaikar,
not you and me, those.
So go back to these verses in Surat
Al Baqarah, it's 155
I think, Go back and see what they
did,
and Allah says Ulaika. When I say Ulaika,
I mean, when I say Ulaika, I see
this, you're not included. If I say you're
not included, meaning special,
what I'm gonna get?
Not in Akhirah. He didn't say anything about
Akhirah. Pay attention to the verses. He just
came out of Ramabah.
Ula Ika Alayhim, salawatumurabi
Those
who practiced patient,
focused on the akhirah,
used sabr and salah to make them patient,
connected with Allah,
they will have special salah from Allah, special
du'a from Allah, wa Rahma loving mercy from
Allah only for them, and the best part
Wa'ulaikumu
muhtadum
Those are the one who's guided.
So when you see the woman her, she's
seeing her 3 children dead,
and she holds them, she's crying, she's a
human being, but nothing comes out
of the mouth, or no actions
that is not pleasing to Allah because she
is guided.
What is guided? Guided to do the right
thing in that moment.
Wa ulaika mu muqtadu,
and this is why I kept saying to
myself
will I respond the same way?
As you walk around, literally, as you walk
around, you see this whatever I shared with
you last week, and this was not our
day. This was 8 days. The norm scenario.
The norm. You go to the ER, somebody
comes in either dead or somebody comes in
bleeding or the one one hand is lost,
and then you keep seeing and seeing this.
Am I gonna be?
Right?
When the weather changed, like 3 months ago,
I think if I remember well, there was
a possibility of a tornado or whatever. Right?
We were Mu'tadu.
It was a test, it's a severe weather,
right? We were Mu'tadu, we were guided,
we have practiced Sabr and Sala, and we
are with Allah, so when the test comes
in, I wouldn't say I'm ready, but my
response will be the way that Allah wants
me.
So take home message
especially from this,
we all will be tested.
This dunya hadhi Daruktila,
that's how they call it.
This dunya Daruktila,
this life is a place of a test,
and the test in 2 ways because I
don't want you to keep thinking test is
bad.
So if I'm healthy, I'm not tested.
If I am sick, I'm not tested.
Both.
What does that mean?
When you are healthy, alhamdulillah, all of us
now, right? Meaning I can see,
I can think, right, I can walk, doesn't
matter what else but at least the major
ones.
I am tested.
What are you doing with this health?
And when I am sick,
I can't do what the healthy people
do.
I am tested
how I'm gonna respond.
So the test is different like when you
have 2 desserts,
they're all desserts,
but one is this, one is that
and one people like and one people doesn't
like, but in both ways what does Allah
want from me when I'm eating dessert?
He wants me to be
grateful.
When I am being tested,
I have everything, I'm tested, I don't have
anything, I am tested. The response needs to
be the same. Question for everybody.
May Allah not test us the same way,
which one is better,
us in the sight of Allah,
Us
or the people of Uzza?
I want to hear it.
I'm sorry?
Why?
Okay. So the people of Gaza. Why?
I'm sorry?
No habibati. This is what I wanted to
change. Don't you think their test is worse
than us?
No.
You will be asked about the luxury.
You know what's a name?
The luxury?
You think the luxury is a is a
home on the beach?
Sayyid Nabla Nabba said
the naim,
the drink
of a cold water when you are thirsty,
the sip of a cold water when you
are thirsty, this is Naim, Latus Saloon Naoma
is an An Naim, You will be asked
about that.
So which one is better? Which one in
the sight of Allah
responding to a test? The test of ghazah
is tough
externally
and our test is
not tough externally,
but it's both tests,
and he's waiting for the response.
Why?
Which one? Stuffer. Which one is tougher?
Which one failed?
And which one did not fail?
One person, raise your hand.
Yes, Mariam.
I can't hear you.
It's not about here.
It's about response. Hear about action.
Hear about action. Of course it's taqwa if
I'm thinking of Allah,
right?
Which one is better?
Our
test
is
better.
Our test is better? Because we have so
many
distractions
at the moment that we can get ourselves
occupied and do it. Forget a lot very
easily. But if we keep steadfast still and
If if if if
are we?
Are we focused? Again, because
the goal of this, maybe it's gonna be
next week and the week after is not
only to fear for the people of Azza
because that's how this is taken.
What did I learn?
Why did Allah just brought this to my
life?
And I'm living it
day by day.
Now we used to live it through the
social media. Now we are living it through
people going and coming back, and they saw
and they share. What does he want from
me?
That's the most important thing. Right?
Now what I need to do is the
following.
Identify your test,
And the test, again, is not negative always.
What test you are going test of health,
test of wealth,
test of beauty,
test of children,
test of a good spouse,
test of education,
test of religion,
test of being religious,
test of being half of the Quran.
These are all tests. How do you respond?
How do you respond?
If I am gonna respond in a way
not pleasing to Allah, I failed it.
So if I am busy collecting
and enjoying
all the time, doesn't mean don't enjoy. Walatan
sanasiba kaminat dunya. Don't forget your share from
dunya. The people said to Qaroon,
multimillionaire,
billionaire,
don't forget your share from dunya. But number
1, what Allah gave you,
us
One question,
all this, where is akhira in your daily
life?
Healthy.
You have everything.
Doesn't matter. You have a 1 bedroom apartment
or you have a house. You have a
you have
a roof as the I still remember that
surgeon
who looked at me and says, oh,
we're living in Paris,
and here I am
living in Paris,
half a room,
the half is full with furniture, the other
one only for her, the son sleeps outside,
and the bathroom don't ask me how many
people are using it. And she read
the face, me and doctor Henna with me,
and she said if you only saw where
we were, at least there is no bombing
on our head.
So when Allahuha lana bluewanakum
we are all tested,
how are you responding?
How are you responding?
And don't you think,
and this is to everybody myself number 1,
when Allah keep giving us
that mean we're okay,
or Allah loves me, by the way, the
sign of love of Allah is never rudumia,
otherwise he would have given it to Rasul
alaihis salatusa.
Right?
We'll give them more time, let them collect
more sins.
So here I am when I see this
clips coming from Gaza,
right, and somebody says alhamdulillah and they're dead
in front of them or the whole house
is destroyed, you've seen that very famous clip
in the beginning, it says alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah and
Alhamdulillah
now he his response some
response is exactly what Allah want, now when
I have a house
and I don't have
and I'm not living in a war and
I have no issues and I look around
and I see beautiful everything around me, what
is my response?
Is it Alhamdulillah
the way He pleases Him or Alhamdulillah tip
of the tongue?
Did you see my point? Because that's how
we learned.
The other one and I want to probably
gonna end up here is when Allah said
again
Why You Rabbi?
This is in Surat Muhammad all the way
at the end. Why?
No! Why why I'm tested? Allah doesn't love
me, it has nothing to do with love,
has nothing to do with love because there's
nobody Allah loves more than the prophets, right?
Sayyidina Musa, Sayyidina Ibrahim and Rasool alaihi wasalam
who has tested more.
But Allah says
we will test you so we know who
those
will struggle
for the sake of Allah and don't think
again of struggle
the harsh way, you know what's the biggest
struggle? When you are the only woman who
wears hijab in your school,
when you are the only woman who dress
properly in the middle of everybody in August
because it is hot and you still cover.
You are you are struggling
when everybody around you
looks different, tells you who you are, what
are you doing to yourself, and you're steadfast.
And now I am struggling,
and I need a lot of patience to
stay
on the straight path.
And I in the midst of everything I
was seeing, I was like
what is the big deal for the woman
in Gaza to wear hijab? Everybody is wearing
hijab,
everybody,
but come here,
Come here. Whether a Muslim or a non
Muslim,
you are a minority,
let alone a minority among
minority,
lana blue one naku.
We are all tested.
In in adversity, we are tested, and in
prosperity, we are tested. The question is, how
are you responding?
So remember this anytime now, I hope when
now you're seeing
the the scenes that's still coming from gazah,
now you start to reflect on yourself,
Not only them and praise them and make
dua and do everything we need to do,
but the most important thing, I cannot face
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and he made me
live this
for 7 months now and Allah knows how
long it will
take,
and then I learn nothing
and I change nothing,
then I have a problem.
Then please forgive me, my
faith is fake.
I'm talking about the the real connection. I'm
not talking about being Muslim, no, alhamdulillah,
but by being the real Muslim faithful believer,
If nothing changed,
same,
then I have a problem,
then all this in front of me did
not change me,
Subhanahu wa'alahe will look and says what else
I'll do to you people?
That's why another concept in the Quran
kept coming to me
says walk on this earth.
What does it mean see?
Si.
Si,
and he puts many
things after
many things.
So you when you see this for the
last 6 months and you are
not walking physically in Earth, but you're seeing
it, it's coming to us within a second,
Right? As if I traveled and then came
back,
and
see.
What did you learn?
These are all questions I'm throwing it to
everybody because that's how we need to react.
What did you learn? What did it change
in you if anything?
And if it didn't change anything, You way
do I say this to myself,
woe on me.
And again I'm not trying to make you
feel bad, but we need to really learn
and wake up so we are ready,
we are ready if Allah test us, may
Allah not, but if He want koon fayakoon
we already
are prepared and ready.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala make us among
those people who listen to the word of
admonition
and, you Rabbi, benefit and help. May Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala not test us the way
that he is testing them. May Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala not test us in any way
that we are
not able to use this test to get
to Dunna and to get close to
Just a reminder, next week will be at
7 o'clock, InshaAllah, be it, Miliya. We will
it, Miliya.
it, Miliya.