Haifaa Younis – Do you ever sense how powerful your Dhikr
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Second 1,
which all of us
failed.
What? What?
What is?
Plenty.
What is plenty?
I need you to think of doing a
thing. Think of my daily life. What is
something plenty?
When you say I drink a lot of
coffee.
Right?
Or
I whatever you you what is a lot
mean?
Is it 1 time? 1 time. 2 times?
I remember his name. How many times? All
the time. All the time.
All the time. Right? And he says, remember
Allah.
Say Allah
plenty.
Why?
This is amazing how the scholars, SubhanAllah, but
let me let us all think because when
we think it's gonna come to you. Why
do I need to remember Allah and I'm
scared to death
and I don't know what is the person
in front of me will do. Let alone
for sure.
Again, people of Gaza, for sure,
everything external is saying
there is no chance. Right?
But why do I need to remember,
The
2. I give you strength. Wait. Wait. Wait.
Stay steadfast and remember Allah plenty so you
will be successful.
I translate.
But why? Are you with me?
Basically, turn it around because this is how
you learn this deen.
What will the dhikr of Allah,
the remembrance of Allah will do to me
that will make me successful? How about this?
I'm I'm I'm turning the question.
Right? So he said you will be successful.
In the Quranic
terminology is not you may be. They may
be translated
to you may be, but in the Quranic
language, you will.
It's for sure.
Now the question, Yani, what is the dikr?
Convince those
that you say, you Allah, SubhanAllah,
And
they will
stay strong.
You and me maybe because we grew up
on it. But convince somebody who was born
raised here, you say
and you stay strong.
Really?
Why?
I will gonna feel,
verily by the remembrance of Allah. The heart
will reach serenity. But you can tell me,
what does serenity has to do with me
being successful?
You're right. I'm trying to take you deeper
because once you understand
the connection,
the action will come right away
and will become natural.
In anything
you are afraid or worried or unsure
or feeling anxious or feeling unstable,
the remembrance of Allah. They say the following,
and this is from an imam al Qutobi
which I really loved. I even put it.
Number 1, he said,
this dik of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, he
said, the dik, the remembrance of Allah, any
word.
You Allah, SubhanAllah, astaghfirullah,
use your word, use your language, doesn't matter.
Number 1,
he
said, when I and you are scared
or anxious,
what is which part of my body is
scared?
The heart. And this is exactly what it
says.
The remembrance
of Allah
in general
help calm the heart because of the verse.
Barely with the remembrance of Allah, you feel
calm. And I'll share with you something happened
to me very recently in the weekend. Now
set number 2.
So okay. So my heart
is now calm,
but nothing changed outside.
See, I'm I'm making you think you're all
looking at me. It was like, what is
she saying?
Right? Because our problem, please forgive me, we
just memorize things.
We don't go deeper.
It's when you go deeper
it's gonna have a profound effect on you
and you will have the Yaqeen, the certainty.
So he said,
The heart will not stay
calm and serene
if the tongue is afraid.
He's making the connections.
SubhanAllah
but if the tongue is calm, house calm
by the remembrance of Allah instead of saying
I can't do it, this is way too
much, oh you should see my heart,
now I'm very
shaky. My heart is following shaky
Versus if my tongue is saying Astaghfirullah
and I'm thinking of it,
and I'm thinking of it. You know why
you may have doubt in what I am
saying?
Can I say it and you're gonna show
up next week?
Because we don't do it.
We don't
do it. Where is the
in our daily life?
In our daily life. I haven't tried it,
but if you tried it,
and I've tried it 2 times.
Is 1 time I was extremely sick in
the plane
when I was coming back,
sick like a dog.
Right? And I I had a fever and
boom pain, and you're talking about international flight.
So I maxed on the Tylenol. I can't
take any more Tylenol, and I did not
have Ibuprofen.
So I called the flight attendants, and she
said, I'm sorry, but the rules, we we
don't have it in the plane, and I
do have it in my purse. She was
very honest, but I can't give it. That's
the rules.
That's the rules. Okay.
There is another 8 hours to get here.
And the only thing I remembered,
how much of my time
I keep it for your
And the hadith came to my mind.
If you're gonna do it all the way,
your worries will be removed.
And for the next 2 hours
I was doing only salal al nabi
I don't have anything else left nothing
So what happened? Did I feel better?
No.
Because I'm still having fever.
Well, what happened?
The nurse come no. The the nurse the
other flight attendant
came to me and says, are you okay?
I said, no. I am not. I just
need Ibuprofen.
She looked at me and says, listen. I'm
not supposed to give it to you, but
I will give it to you.
This is not someone told me a story.
This is me. I took the 2 tablets.
I was able to sleep. Once you sleep,
and I remembered this is what I was
trying to tell you when we when we
know Allah
by the remembrance of Allah hearts get serenity.
But when did you practice it?
In daily life.
When you practice what you are learning,
is gonna come to you when you really
need it without even thinking
so that's what he's saying he said unless
the tongue is
calm but working, meaning with the remembrance of
Allah, the heart will not be calm. And
then look at the other 1.
SubhanAllah
and amazingly and these these scholars Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala and then
he said
not remembrance of Allah by words,
but remember what Allah will give you when
you stay standstill.
So when I am so afraid
again going for interview I have an exam
this is the exam time you're giving the
graduation
ceremony. Any of these things.
If I remember
not the dhikr now, if I remember what
is the reward
when I stay when I struggle to stay
calm,
he's gonna make me calm.
That's the third meaning. Yeah. I mean, you
remember the reward of what you are doing,
not waiting for the result. You think of
the reward.
And then he said here, he said that
the proof is
there is no excuse, and I want you
today, if you left to learn nothing, just
remember this plan, this sentence.
He said there is no excuse
to not remember Allah.
Okay. We all know that, but then he
brought this verse from the Quran.
He said when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in
Surat Maryam
told Sayyidina Zakariyah,
right?
He said,
You Allah give me a sign. He said,
Your aya, your sign not to speak for
the next 3 days.
And then what did he tell him?
He
said,
Right? And then,
I'm sorry, Hadfi al Imran,
meaning use your hands and give signs.
He told him don't speak.
Did you get it? When I was reading,
says Allah.
How many times I've read this verse?
He told him don't speak
yet remember Allah.
If we all in this room,
in our daily life,
make the dhikr a practice,
If I ask anyone in this room,
what is the thing that we do it
without even thinking?
It's a it's it's a habit. What is
it?
For the youth, check your phone 1000000 times
a day.
Right? Nobody texts you. That doesn't take your
check.
Right? True?
For the not very young,
but youth in heart.
What is the thing we do it without
even thinking?
Your 9 o'clock coffee,
your breakfast.
Right?
Quickly getting up because you have to go
to work. You don't think of it. You
don't think of it. You need to go
to work. Right?
That's habits.
But for zikr to come, what do I
need to do?
Put everywhere in the car, in here, reminder,
and you've
Allah knows how much. That's the change.
If it becomes part of my life, becomes
natural. For example, many of us
Muslim when we say something beautiful what do
we say? SubhanAllah
or when you are surprised subhanAllah
I was not I'm I didn't have to
think. It just came. Right? Or someone tells
you, you did you did that. You say,
it's for Allah.
Right?
What is that?
Natural.
But how many of us
doing nothing
and I say
I'm saying it.
No no reason to say it, but I'm
saying it.
Or for example,
like, Spalla today, I saw a turtle in
the lake.
And I just it it blew my brain
because I haven't seen big ones. I've seen
the small ones like, you know, the children
or the kids have it and a bit
amazing. But this 1 was a big 1
sitting in the middle of the lake.
And then I was looking and I say,
Assalamu alaikum.
Now you do. You do because all of
them are in zikr of Allah except us.
I said the The
turtle put out I didn't know the color
of the, like, the limbs of the turtle.
I haven't seen it.
And the turtle put the limbs out.
They're green they're so much similar to a
lizard
and I said
exactly SubhanAllah
So here we are back
the people of Gaza.
Now don't forget all this.
When you speak to them, at least the
1 I saw,
there is the Allah's word
in between every 2 to 3 sentence.
It's part of them.
As I said, remember last week, I told
you Quran is part of them.
Quran is part of them. They have now
in the tense, they send me pictures,
recent.
In the tense, it tends for Quran.
Review if you're half of, if you're not
half of half of. There's nobody does, Yani.
Let's come and read the Quran. They all
read amazing.