Haifaa Younis – Surah Al Kahf – Part 3 I The story of people of the Cave
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Welcome again, everyone. It's lovely to see you
all here.
On Tuesday night. I brag about you when
I travel. So just to, you know, like
in the middle of all, you don't know
what's the traffic. It's parking lot, the highways,
and they come at 7. So
I hope you stay like that. Right? Insha'Allah
bihibnilah.
Hamdullah arablaamin. And actually next,
Tuesday,
alhamdulillahrubalai min, I would like everyone after Marub,
of course if you can, is to stay
but not here because we're gonna have an
open house in the new building. We're gonna
be opening inshaAllah next week, so you're all
welcome.
I'll show you the place, alhamdulillah, turn to
be. I think it's beautiful, I think, but
insha'Allah it is and may Allah Subhanu wa
Ta'ala make it for his sake and his
sake only. And may Allah Subhanu wa Ta'ala
make us all grateful
that he gave us an opportunity to learn,
let alone a woman education center for all
of us. It's just the beginning, InshaAllah we
have a lot of plans in the future
if Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala allowed it. So
don't forget everyone
in your du'a and may Allah reward everybody
who helped in this. There's a lot of
people in this community who really coming forward
just to help. Anything you need just let
us know. So alhamdulillah, rabbilahim.
We're gonna continue with Surat Al Kahf. I
hope I hope and I pray and I
ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala that at least
this Friday when you read Surat Al Kahf
was different than last week,
insha'Allah.
And as we said, we started by the
name it's Al Kahf because Allah wanted us
to remember the Kahf, but why did he
want us to remember the cave?
And as I said last week there is
so many stories here why it is not
the Qurnayn, why it is not Musa, why
it is, not the man or the 2
men of the garden. Allah wanted us specifically
to remember
the
cave. And when you think of the cave,
if you're not thinking of the Sura itself,
what is cave usually? Cave is usually a
place which is small, scary.
Right? And you don't go to to a
cave and you live there. Normally you go
to a cave and if you're gonna go
and enter usually,
just to see, yeah, just to see what
is going on, and you want to leave
right away unless you're afraid and you wanna
go and hide. But usually cave is not
something you will say, oh, Alhamdulillah, I found
it. So usually I was like, okay, I'm
gonna go. Because it's scary, it's cold,
usually there is no windows, you don't see.
So it's not something I feel comfortable.
But Allah wanted me to remember this.
And this is the main, actually, message of
the story,
and you're gonna be all surprised. I wanna
say it in the beginning because I don't
wanna the time will not allow us. Whenever
you are tested in your deen and everyone
in this room and everybody listening to me,
we are all being tested in our deen.
Different levels.
And one day we are fine, the next
day we are tested. The same day in
the morning we are absolutely fine, only in
the evening the opposite
Wake up for Fajr, we're absolutely fine. I'm
so happy I'm a Muslim. I go to
work, and I am bombarded by all these
fitnas.
And the fitness is not the test only,
it's the temptations, and I like to translate
fitness to temptation.
Temptation, I don't want to be different than
anybody else. I want to be like like
everyone, right? And that's why we see sometimes
we are uncomfortable. Sometimes I said, and not
all of us are uncomfortable,
you know, even with our names or the
way we look. Right?
So the main thing Allah is reminding us
that you will be tested in your deen.
You're gonna be
almost daily or whatever? You're gonna have this
choice to make, which I always say it,
obey Allah or not. Not necessarily disobey Allah,
but not doing the best.
Whether by the way, whether at home, whether
you are alone in your room, whether you
are people, whether you are invited, even in
the Masjid,
Everywhere we are being tested,
but tested not necessarily in the negative way,
sometimes in a good way.
And this is why I want you all
to remember that test is not always negative.
You think it's the people of Gaza only
are tested?
We are tested more than them.
And you can say, you really? Of course.
Because all this luxury I
have, he's gonna ask me, what did you
do with it?
Right? I gave you a beautiful place.
I gave you a beautiful home. I I
gave you a city which is the best
weather. I gave you the best whatever. I
gave you health. I gave you wealth. What
did you do with it?
That's a huge test. But we don't look
at tests. This is why sometimes I don't
like use the word test because you always
think of it as negative.
So when the back to Al Kahf, the
main message of the story of Al Kahf
is what?
What do I do when I am tested
with my deen?
What do you do?
Talk to me. Forget the the the story
for a second. Each one of us, you
all nodded your head
when I said we are tested,
tempted
by not following what Allah wants me because
what is around me. True or false?
What do we do?
Let me put it in a nicer way
so you you don't feel like, what is
he saying? What do I do
to stay strong? Because that's the message of
the story.
No. He would not have called it Al
Kahf.
He would not have called it the cave.
No.
No.
Think of Al Kahf.
Yes. Isolate yourself. Isolate yourself.
Stay away
from the sources
of tests.
We are not strong.
Nobody
end of the story of Al Ka'f,
the advice is Turasu alaihis salatu wasalam, not
to you and me. Imagine me and you.
And he
said,
practice patient because you know this is not
easy.
And he said wasber, it's an order. It's
fa'ilu amr in the Arabic language.
Stay
strong
by practicing patient, but by what? By being
with those people who will remind you of
Allah.
It's an amazing way how Allah is saying
it. Those people are always in remembrance, meaning
you could be not remembering Allah, but of
course this is Rasool alaihi was said.
But you and me
and everybody ask me this. SubhanAllah. This is
like 3 or 4 questions. I think if
I go to the moon, I will get
hear this question.
And one of them is how do I
stay strong? And my first answer is company.
And the company is not necessarily physical,
us.
Who do you follow?
Who do you like?
Who do you share?
These days, we are bombarded by social media.
Most of us, especially the youth, spend more
time on social media than they spend time
with their friends even.
So the message of Suratul Kahf is you
will be tested in your deen.
There's always gonna be this decision.
Do I do this? I like it. I
love it. Not pleasing to Allah,
Or I'm gonna do what's pleasing to Allah
but it's very difficult. I'm gonna be the
only woman. I'm gonna be the only man.
I'm gonna be the only person. I'm not
I've said this many times. I remind usually
the youth. I mean, maybe here is not
maybe in Irvine, but there's places where this
girl is the only one who wears hijab.
Is that boy is the only boy in
this 1,000
school that he doesn't have a girlfriend,
or he doesn't *, or he
and you don't look at me as this
is not real. This is real.
This is everywhere.
What can this boy do or this young
girl does or me and you? Because we
are failing also.
You live here longer, you will get numb.
It's norm.
So number 1 is patient.
Number 2 is your company.
3rd, I love it. He and I wanted
to start with the last message of this
of the which is basically the verse 28.
This is how you stay strong in your
deen.
Don't say I'm not gonna get affected. You
will be. Nobody will not get affected.
Every time I see a girl or a
woman,
all her company, she is the only one
who wears hijab,
and everybody around her doesn't unless she is
extremely strong.
Gradually,
gradually, you see the hijab changes. You all
are nodding your head.
And then may a lot you can come
this side. There's a lot of chairs on
this side. So basically or let's say you
are with people who don't pray, and you're
the only person who pray.
You're the only person who go to the
masjid
and the negative. You're the only boy
and all your friends
does a, b, c, d, e, f, g
of the haram.
First step in the change, you know what?
You will accept it.
The first step in the change is not
you're not gonna do it yet. You're gonna
accept it.
You start defending it. 1st, I accept.
2nd, I defend. I justify them what they
are doing.
3rd, I will
start debating.
And 4th,
I will end up the same thing.
This is why you want to stay strong
in your deen when we talk about community,
community. I'm not talking about people who speak
the same language
or people who eat the same food.
Those are beautiful community, but that's not necessarily
the people who's gonna keep me strong.
The real community I and you need as
Muslims living in the West, living in the
time of temptations is you surround yourself with
the people who are definitely ahead of you
in your deen,
and you are jealous of them.
She can do this. If she can do
it, I can do it.
But don't surround yourself with the people who
are 5050
or no.
You will be weak.
Hadid this is and again, I'm gonna read
again I the verse 28. Remember I told
you Al Kaaf has 4 main stories and
in between a complete different story. Every story
at the end of the story is the
summary.
Because normally, okay, this is the problem. What
I'm gonna do about it?
Okay. I'm tested in my DNA. What I'm
gonna do about it?
So for you as especially mothers here,
if you are surrounding yourself
with people,
women,
from the same community, same background, but they
are not as strong as you, don't blame
your daughters.
Don't blame your daughters when you don't like
their friends because where you are, you those
friends should be better than you. Are you
all with me?
Start with yourself before you start preaching the
others because nobody will listen.
So here he's saying to him,
Rasool alayhi wasalam, the verse 28,
wasb ibnafsik, practice patient, is not easy.
I think that the hardest thing these days
and age, wallahi, to stay strong in your
deen.
And I I every time I remember the
hadith, the the time is gonna come, the
person who's holding to his or her deen,
like somebody is holding
a hot cold. It's painful.
It's hot. You're the only one. So number
1 is patient.
Then you start be patient with those who
are not fun.
And this actually,
this verse was revealed because the Rasul alaihi
salatu wasalam, the people, the rich people of
Makkah, came to him, and there was this
poor people on the other side, and he
they said to him, we don't want to
be with those people.
Money.
This is how we divide people. Money. Money
and power.
And Allah says no, on the contrary, the
rich people they are taking
not but to us, and he went and
with the people who are poor, but they
are strong in their deen.
And please forgive me, but I'm gonna be
very honest with us. In the Muslim community
in general, the first reason we have friends
is what?
Honestly, I wanna hear it from everybody.
Is where do they come from?
They speak the same language.
They eat the same food. And then you
get upset when your kid when your children,
their friends are American
because the they are American.
Am I right?
I have to practice
what I tell them.
I choose my friends because those are the
people who are gonna keep me strong and
pull me up.
Not in dunya,
pull me up in akhirah. So he this
is what he said. Stay with those people.
Be patient. Stay with those people who remember
Allah morning evening, and then you redoonawaja.
This is beautiful
terminology of being sincere. You redoonawaja, you only
see Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And if you
translate
literally, it's they want His face.
How do you say you want the face
of Allah? But this is a figure of
a speech, meaning you're seeing only Him.
You're not seeing what people are saying.
You're not listening to what you are saying
to yourself, What these people will say about
me,
until you see Allah. You're reduna waja.
And walata'adu aynaqa anhumda. Then don't
see
beyond
them. I'm translating literally, but then I'll explain
it to you. So there's 4 4 things
Just stay strong in this deen. Number 1,
be patient.
2,
choose your company.
The company has to be people who remember
Allah morning evening, meaning
not necessarily they do nothing, but they are
always with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
When the time for for salah they will
tell you let's go and pray.
When there is a haram they say no
no no no no no no. Yeah, everybody
is doing it, but that's not pleasing to
Allah. 3. They are focused on Allah in
their journey. You redo na'aja.
4. The negative. Don't.
Do not pass them and look at others.
And those who are the others, you read
read the verse. You
read Why do we pass, or we don't
like those people who are less fortunate than
us,
but they are stronger than Nadim? Because they
don't have the duniya.
Or you go to their house,
2 bedroom apartment,
look at their car. Oh, they didn't go
for vacation.
Right? And the more the
place where I live is more materialistic
or there is lot of money, it gets
even worse.
Sometimes it's better to live in a community
that they are not very rich.
But it's also good to be in a
community which is rich if they are generous
because then they will help you in building
where you want to be.
So four things. Right? And the 5th one.
He,
it's all of this in one verse. 5th
1. Walatotaaman
akhallnaqalbahuandekrina.
Do not obey
or follow. Totaahi usually obey, but also follow
anybody
who is not remembering Allah. Doesn't mean remember
Allah all the time, but Allah is not
their priority.
And he followed
his own desire.
Wakanaumruhu
furuTa, and their matter was shattered.
Let's go back again because I'm gonna focus
on this today.
Now you know why Allah said to read
Al Kahf every Friday.
Because every Saturday I am tested, or every
Sunday I am tested, or every Monday,
Right? Saturday, Sunday I'm tested with the community.
I get invited, I go this, I go
that.
Monday,
welcome to school or welcome to work, or
even if I don't work and I don't
study, welcome to my daily life taking care
of my daily
need.
I go to the grocery shop, I'm tested.
Everybody looks at me,
and all the assumptions comes in.
That's when the the word be comfortable in
your skin that we all use in this
country, what does it mean?
What does it mean when somebody says I'm
very comfortable in my skin? What does that
mean?
Anybody?
No. It's not about confidence.
No.
The the youth, you know that. You should
know that.
Say it in a better way. Here here
end up in loving yourself, but there is
a reason for loving yourself.
Who
you are. Be happy with your skin color.
Be happy with your religion.
Be happy with the way you look.
Be happy where Allah puts you. He puts
you rich, alhamdulillah. He puts me poor, alhamdulillah.
He puts you, I have 2 parents, alhamdulillah.
He puts me, I have 1 parent, alhamdulillah.
That's what it is comfortable in your skin.
It's a figure of speech.
You are fair alhamdulillah. You're dark alhamdulillah.
Green eyes alhamdulillah.
Doesn't matter. I'm completely different than everybody else.
He put me there.
Because the moment I start looking at the
around, and that's what is happening these
days, the misery starts
and the disobedience of Allah starts.
So five things again. I'm gonna repeat again
and again and again, and then I will
take you back to the story.
Number 1 is patient.
Number 2, your company.
Choose them, and I'm talking to parents before
the children.
Very important. It doesn't matter what language they
speak.
It doesn't matter. We are all creation of
Allah.
Jahannakum shawubanwakaba'ilalita'arafu.
I remember one time one person said it
in my face,
and that time when where they had phones
and I was answering the phones and I
was speaking in English every time, says don't
you have anybody who speaks Arabic as a
friend?
Of course I do, but I do also
not. And I remember when I was studying
overseas, they say, how do you define yourself?
I said, I'm the Muslim woman.
I don't care what I was born. I
don't care what color is my passport. These
are all trivial things, changes. I mean some
of you lived it.
The most important thing is you are the
Muslim person
comfortable in that skin.
Is it easy?
Absolutely not, And that's why the advice is
from the one who created me and you,
and from the one who knows
how not easy it is. Otherwise, he would
have said, what's wrong? What is the issue?
Why did he tell them go and stay
in the cave?
The most uncomfortable place to be is a
cave,
but it is the most comfortable place to
practice your dhi.
It's amazing, and hadil kaf is literally to
blow your brain when you when you see
how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala feels us, I
call it. He knows what we go through
in every single day. Five things. Be patient.
Choose your company.
Then the company has to be people who
remember Allah day and night, and they are
focused on Allah day and night. The question
always has to be, I always ask people,
is that gonna get me to Jannah? I'm
doing it. If it's not gonna get me
to Jannah, okay.
If I can do it, okay. If I
can do it, okay.
But I'm not going to be so
keen and dying and upset,
and something may, may not. I'm not talking
about only haram. I'm talking about other things
that is not a priority.
Person who's focused on Allah, you redo na
wajah.
Don't wait for praise from people. Don't wait
that people
put you in certain categories. They change their
mind within 5 minutes.
I remember somebody, one of my friends said,
SubhanAllah,
her son became very famous, and she said
before anyone knows him they used to call
me the mother of.
When he became famous,
no, no, she said,
yeah,
when you they used to see me, they
said her son is the name, and then
when he became very famous, oh,
the other way around. They used to define
him by her. When he became famous, now
they define her by him.
Really? The same person?
The same person, the same look, the same
everything. That's how people are,
And people are you and me, by the
way. I'm not talking about somebody living in
Alaska. It's us.
So patient, choose your friends, those who will
take you closer to Allah. Focus on Allah.
You redo Noajah. Don't look at other people.
Don't look at what they are doing.
Don't put them down. Don't put them up.
Leave them. It's between them and Allah.
Allah is gonna take us accountable, not me
and you. As Sayyid N Ali says, I
am if I was told my parents will
take me accountable, I would have said no.
I want only Allah.
Why?
Why?
Because he's most just. Exactly. Because the only
one who's just.
Parents depends.
Okay? So don't look at other people what
they are, what they are doing. What will
happen if you're gonna follow those people or
follow their own desires? You will lose your
matters, and that's what we are seeing these
days. We have identity crisis,
and if you think we don't then you
are not living in this country.
Identity crisis.
We have.
We don't know why we're here. We have
anxiety. Muslim community, a lot of anxiety. Why?
Why?
Because we're not comfortable with our skin, one
of the reasons.
And I don't know they are I want
to be them, but I'm not. I want
to be this, but I am not, and
that's creates a lot of issues
in us, inside us. Unless Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala, honesty I always look at the youth,
and I say well why I don't know
how this woman keeps her hijab and goes
to school?
Or that young man goes to school and
he stays the way Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
wants him.
You know the pressure?
So alhamdulillah,
5 things. So if you go to them
back now to the story, what are you
gonna find?
Fitiatun aamanubi rabbihim.
Young men
believed in Allah
only because where they lived, the king believed
in Allah, the people believed in Allah, but
they also believed in idols. Just the same
story as with the Rasool alaihis salatu wa
sallam. So what happened?
The the king told them you need to
prostrate to that, to those
Idols.
And they didn't.
They left.
Left.
Hadi leaving,
leaving,
immigration,
migration
is the best thing Allah will give you.
And by the way, migration is not only
physical. Some of you are majority of here,
we all migrated at one point.
But what about you?
Why do you want to migrate? Everybody is
coming here. Why do you want to leave?
But you migrate from the disobedience to Allah
to the obedience of Allah. That's the real
hijrah
because he said it alayhis salaat wa salaam.
He said, da hijrah tabad al fath.
After the conquer of Makkah, there is no
more migration.
Walaq and Jihad.
Be
the struggle that we all face. I'm not
talking about fighting. The daily struggle.
So they said, you know what? We can't
be here.
So when your child comes to you and
says, I don't want to be in this
school,
and when you sit down with them and
find out the reason,
don't brush it because all your friends, their
their kids are in this school, or this
is the top notch school, or whatever whatever.
They need to leave. They need to leave.
And when we leave, we sacrifice. How many
of us sacrificed when you left your country?
And you came in here with 0
majority, and then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, alhamdulillah.
So they left,
stayed for how long?
Now the
miraculous
or the miracle Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did.
How long they stayed in the cave?
Just a second. Did you raise your hands?
No?
Right?
Right? Okay. Who wants to tell me?
Bismillah.
300.
What is $300?
And what kind of a years? That's not
the number in the Quran.
What is the number in the Quran? Raise
your hand. Raise your hand. Oh please. So
Allah says,
309.
Why 309?
Just a did you raise your hand?
Keep reminding you. Okay.
Be patient.
Right. So there is 2
we go by
2 calendars.
Right? Living in the west, we go by
the lunar.
We go by
Gregorian,
which is, for example, now it's 2,024.
What is it in the
lunar?
1440.
1440?
6. Is it 6 or 5? 6. 6.
14. Yes. Because we are we started the
New Year. What is the difference between them?
Every 100 years
every 100 years, there's a 3 years difference.
Memorize this.
Every 100 years,
there's a 3 years difference. So 309.
Okay?
309.
Lunar
or not? What is the 309?
Lunar. Lunar. Exactly. 309 is lunar. That's why
when you said 300, you are right, but
you didn't tell me 300 what?
Right? So they stayed now think of that.
Now back to the story. They stayed in
the ka, in the cave,
309 or 300 in our own, now what
we follow here.
Now if have you seen somebody?
Probably not, but you may may have seen
picture. Right? What happens to us after 6
months if I die?
Decompose?
Absolutely.
Decompose completely.
Nothing left in me. That's there how Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala created us. Maybe only one
part bone will stay, which where we're going
to be
brought back again.
But they stayed 309.
The same as they are.
They entered the cave.
Tayyim. But what how did they stay?
Number 1, the cave was not completely closed.
The cave was open.
Why I'm saying this? Allah didn't say it,
but He gave us clue.
Look at you as if you've never read
Alkaaf,
Right? And everybody when I asked you that
last week, do you read Al Kahf every
Friday? Everybody raised their hand and they're so
happy.
What?
Okay.
So the cave fine. I'm gonna stop asking
you. I'm just gonna give it to you
today.
The cave actually was open from certain areas.
They were in the middle of the cave.
Right?
And the
dog
was in at the entrance of the cave.
So they were sleeping,
sleeping. Allah made them sleep 309.
309.
So why Allah talked about the sun?
You
see, when the sun rise,
it will move
away from their right, and when it's where
sunset moves away to the left. Why?
Because when if there is if I'm exposed
to the sun or you, we're gonna wake
up.
Why do you put
the eye cover? Why do we sleep in
the night easy? Why do you turn off
all the lights? Because sun is a stimulus
to us.
So this is again one of the miraculous
nature of this story. So Allah put them
in semi open place,
cave,
no food,
no drink,
nothing, and they slept to 309
or 300 in our
calendar,
and they were so scary.
And
he said the
if you will see them.
You
will be scared to death if you see
them.
Why?
Because they were sleeping,
but they are not sleep they are not
dead,
and the the dog was actually opening,
and the dog at the door was actually
sleeping in a way, I don't know on
the back or on the front, but the
the arms
are extended.
So imagine you come in here, again when
you read the Quran, especially the stories, think
of it. You come in here, right, and
you're gonna see
number of young people because the number is
not well known, and they are all sleeping
in one area in there,
and there's a dog there, and for 300
years.
Scary
because if they are dead, they will not
stay like that, and if they are not
dead, why they are not awake?
Why they are not awake? Because that's the
sign of Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la, that's the
miracle of Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la. He brought
them back.
We made them wake wake up.
Right? And they were talking to each other.
Kamalabitum, how long you know when you wake
up? I'm sure you all have been, you
know, sometimes like, where is it morning? Is
it evening? What room I am? Right? And
they said, where are you? How long you
stayed? They were talking to each other. So
they said, Yaw Umana O Babayom. It's probably
a day or a 2 because we entered,
there was sunrise and now
it is sunset,
and then they said go and find food,
hungry,
and be nice and gentle,
right, or do it in disguise so nobody
knows you and bring some food.
Then Allah made the people of the town
after 300
years
imagine this is you and me.
Where will we be after 300 years? Who's
gonna remember us?
Right? But Allah made it. That's why there's
a lot of miracles in the story.
And Allah says, Why
after 300 years?
Because Christianity at that time had already spread
to when they came out But why 300
years? Why not 400?
Exactly.
That khalas. This is what where you when
you get to points,
and this is another lesson we all gonna
learn, when I get to a point in
Deen
where, you Rabbi, please forgive me, it doesn't
make sense to me.
The answer is you're not gonna understand everything.
If Allah said it, it's true,
and I'm gonna beg him to make me
understand, but I'm not gonna argue about it
or brush it because I don't understand it.
Because always, like, why 300?
And even the other argument which is in
here is what?
Now the number.
3 and the dog is 4. No no
no.
5 and the dog is 6 and there
is a wow in between.
Right? And then no no no there are
7 I'm sorry the last one is 7
and there is
a That's the message now.
Allah knows.
Very few knows.
Why didn't he tell me the number? You
know, when we are reading story,
I love the details. Give me details. Why
didn't he give me the number?
Absolutely, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter if they're 1 or they're
10 or they're 20 is not gonna change
the message of the story.
Why we have no names?
Same thing.
My name, and I think I shared this
with you last week, once I die
my name is gone. Even before they buried
me,
nobody will call me by my name.
Nobody will say bring hayfa.
They will
say bring the body
and see how much akhna we make a
big deal about our names.
So the name is not an issue. He
didn't tell me the name.
Only thing he told me that they were
young men.
It.
That's it. Why young men? Because usually the
trials and temptations
for the young men
is way more than the girls in certain
part,
but that doesn't mean we are not tested
or there is no temptations for us.
Next thing for us,
as you go in this, right, and Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala here as you go in
said something we all, may Allah forgive us,
use it so lightly.
It's in the middle of the story.
This verse is to him because he didn't
do it.
It's not to you and me. Of course
it's you to me, but directly it's not
like tell them.
It is to
him because he said it.
They asked him about 3 things. Remember last
week? They asked him about 3 things. The
kuffar of Makkah. They asked him, right? Tell
us about those young people who went in
the cave. Tell us about that man who
went right and left or west and east,
and tell us about the soul. And he
said, I'll tell you tomorrow.
He didn't say insha'Allah.
15 days no answer.
They made fun of him, alayhis salaam,
oh, you said tomorrow. Where is tomorrow?
So here you go.
When we say Insha'Allah, what do we mean?
I wanna hear it.
In general. Okay. Let me ask the youth.
I'm gonna put you on the on the
spot all of you Adar. When your mom
says Insha'Allah means
it's not gonna happen.
SubhanAllah
Here you go. Right? Are the boys is
it the same?
Absolutely.
To certain extent, I heard it from some
youth. Insha'Allah. Yes or no?
Right?
What does that tell me?
Again, I don't wanna be very hard, but
it's sad.
If I am the Muslim,
I am the practicing bi'idnillah,
I am the one who believe in this,
and then I use it completely opposite to
that way.
Don't you say something.
Look at the word Allah says.
Don't you say to something you're gonna do.
I'm
gonna do it tomorrow except Allah who wills.
Why?
What is he teaching him alayhi salatu wa
salam and teaching you and me?
It's not in my hand.
I'm but I made the intention.
It's not no, I don't want to say
no, okay Insha'Allah.
So they don't argue with me. What did
I teach them?
What did I teach them when I practiced
this?
What did I teach them when I said
insha'Allah
and that they understood insha'Allah is no.
I have,
may Allah forgive me and you,
changed
the intention that Allah taught me this.
The
mean, I'm telling myself, I'm telling you it
is not in my hand or yours.
I'm gonna do everything I can to do
it, but if it didn't happen, Allah didn't
want it because the final
control is in Allah's hand.
Did you see the meaning of insha'Allah?
And by the way, it's you have to
put alif and n separate from shaa.
For those of you who know Arabic, it
is not alifnuwishin.
It is 2 separate words. This is actually
a major mistake, Hadi.
InshaAllah.
If Allah wills.
Meaning, I believe
that whatever I do
is not gonna happen
unless Allah wills it.
But doesn't mean I have no intention of
doing it, and then I say inshallah.
It's the the word had became no value.
May Allah forgive us.
We need this needs to change because I
don't want these after 20 years.
For them insha'Allah
means nothing.
For them insha'Allah means nothing. It's not the
real intention
they intended. Wa la taqoolanalishain
innifaa'idhun dalikagada
illa'isha'Allah.
Taib how about if I forget?
That's what he said to him,
and if you forget, say it later.
And say Insha'Allah Allah. See Insha'Allah Allah will
not make me forget again.
These are very small things on daily basis,
my beautiful sisters,
but we don't pay attention to it. That's
why we are struggling.
All these small, small, small things
and you apply 1, add to 1, add
to 1, add to 1,
we become much stronger.
Allah didn't tell me insha'Allah just so I
make fun of it. You Rabbi, please forgive
me.
But he knows I need
every 2 seconds I need wallahi, every 2
seconds I need a re reinforcement I call.
I need something to remind me, and this
word,
insha'Allah, if Allah wills, SubhanAllah.
And then he tells you in between
another thing to keep you strong.
Let's see if anybody will know. How many
of you know have memorized sort
Right?
What is in between
after he finished?
He told us they stay 309
and then don't say anything, and then he
says
read the book of Allah, and he didn't
say Quran.
I love how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala changed
the words he used
for with the Quran or even with the
Rasul alaihi salatu wasalam, he used different names
because names gives you different feelings at the
moment, and he's saying to him you're gonna
get weak, all of us, watluma'ohi
ilayka min kitabi rambik.
Read, so when I look at this, right,
we all say it's Qur'an, and we're so
much used to it.
Versus I'm gonna tell you, please bring for
me the words of Allah.
How are you gonna feel when you go
and pick it up?
Oh, words of Allah.
And that's what he's telling him.
The book of your Lord.
Laamu biddali kalimati,
nothing is gonna change. Last but not the
least, two things. There's a beautiful hadith,
I love it,
And it was
Abdulham,
Amrud Nalaas,
he said, we were sitting with the Rasul
alaihis salatu, it's very applicable to our days.
He said we are sitting with the Rasool
alaihis salatu alaihis salam,
and temptations and trials were mentioned.
And now you're talking about the Sahaba, companion,
best time, sitting around the Rasulullah,
what is the issue?
Not you and me living,
And
the the subject of test trial
were mentioned,
and he said
the following,
and it is as if he is between
us today.
When you start seeing people don't keep their
words,
and they are not any more trustworthy.
And they became like that, meaning
disagree and fight
between them.
He's talking about us Muslim. This is one
of the
signs
People don't keep their word,
and people are not trustworthy anymore, and then
people disagree all the time.
So say,
so what do I do?
And this is for all of us.
What am I gonna do? He said 3
things.
Number 1,
stay home.
Number 2,
control your tongue.
And number 3,
practice what you know.
Stay away from what you don't know. And
this is the best advice at the end,
worry about yourself.
Don't worry about the others.
Look at us. What what is it in?
El Zimbaitik.
Wadaankamrulamma.
What do we do? Look at us when
we are sitting together. What do we talk
about?
Number 1, too much socialization.
What's elzembetok
mean? Of course I'm gonna I have to
go to work. I have to go to
the I have to go and do my
data. I have to go to school. I
have to go my daily things. Alzabaytik mean
kadan on your social interaction.
Right? Allahu Akbar. And we have sometimes you
get invited for breakfast or lunch or dinner
on a Saturday or on a Sunday.
Right? I'm not talking about the rights of
the Muslim. Rights of the Muslim have a
different story. He didn't say this, but when
we are sitting together, what are we talking
about? Look at it. He said, khudmatarof,
talk about things you know, don't talk about
things you don't know. What do we do
normally?
Everybody gives their opinion,
whether in deen, whether in dunya, whether in
medicine, whether in anything. Everybody is
knowledgeable.
2nd,
what did he say?
Something you know, stay away from thing you
don't know.
And
control your tongue. You don't have to talk
about everything.
And these days, people who are quiet, they
say, what's wrong with them?
Oh, they are depressed.
Right? Yeah. They do. No.
No.
One day Insha'Allah I will do for you
Shamal That's
how they described him.
He had long period of
silence,
quietness.
And then talk about
your own issue. Basically, worry about yourself,
What will save me these days? And I'm
not talking about only the test we are
living here. Everything happened around us in the
world.
Right? He said the same thing.
Control your tongue. Don't talk about things you
don't know,
let alone giving fat to us, let alone
judging people, let alone backbiting.
That's another version of it.
The house is your house is more enough
for you.
And the last one,
cry because you are sinning. Don't worry about
people, what they are doing.
Don't worry about the people. I get always
these questions, my family, my this, my that.
And I was like, don't worry about that
people. Are you perfect?
How much we need to change?
Worry about myself.
And then I and I keep saying this
to everybody, when you really change, youth,
adults, when we really really change and we
are sincere with Allah, now you will see
how you will be effective, and people will
be
following you or wanna be like you.
But if I am fake, may Allah forgive
me, and I just talk and I don't
do it,
it's it's not gonna be effective.
Hold your tongue.
People
just speak right and left,
accuse people, say negative things about people, and
they are just sitting doing nothing.
Socialize. It's nice to know people, but that
shouldn't be day and night,
and including the youth, and by the way
socialize
is also on online,
virtual.
No. Learn to live with yourself.
You know when they say love yourself, you
just said it? That's what it also mean.
Love yourself. You're comfortable with you. So what
I'm gonna do alone? I was like, talk
to
yourself. You're not crazy.
Talk to her honestly.
2
things.
Don't worry about what people are doing. She
is that, or he is that. Don't worry
about them.
Think of all them, the sins that I
and you are doing or the other one
is worry about only the matters
that matters you, not about everything. Everybody now
talks about politics, so everybody talks about whatever
whatever.
Here, one advice, this or this and that,
but I'm not gonna keep going, going, and
going. We're not gonna change anything.
So Al Kahf, remember now, when you read
it on Friday, Allah is telling you
that tomorrow,
you come out of Jum'ah, you're gonna be
tested on your deen. What should you do?
Leave.
Leave the company,
Leave the people around you. Leave those who
are with you on social media.
Hold and look for, and don't tell me
there is not no good people. There's plenty
of good people.
Maybe I'm not looking for them, I haven't
asked Allah,
and don't look at others
and keep
attached to Allah's remembrance and Allah's book, and
He will protect you. I hope now when
you read this Friday, bi'idmila, when you read
the story of Al Kahf, it's gonna tell
you, it's talking to you and me, all
of us. Subhanakallahuwala
bihamdikashaduallahuwala
ilaha illa
Any questions?