Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Prophetic Guidance on Strength & Resilience Scarborough 04052024
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The speakers discuss the importance of fasting, healthy attendants, and physical strength in empowering one's health and success. They stress the need for everyone to practice healthy and rewarding life, and emphasize the importance of physical strength and commitment to physical success. The speakers also emphasize the importance of avoiding distraction, doing small small things, and maximizing gains in sports. They stress the need for a clear eye to see the path and avoid victory, and provide advice on how to handle unexpected events and handle emotions and ego.
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This
last leg of the fast is a very
precious one
for so many reasons.
Not the least of which is that
the nest is most imperiled and most endangered
in this moment.
It is weakened the most in this moment.
It is
most compromised in its ability
to starve the
The idea that we have in Islam
that is taught to us by the messenger
of Allah
is that the person's dean
and the person's dunya,
they're like 2 cowards.
If you make one of them happy, the
other one's gonna necessarily be upset with you.
Looking at the crowd, it seems perhaps not
everybody can relate to this
example. But trust me, if you make one
happy, the other one's gonna be upset.
The problem with
life
is
that
oftentimes
we over nourish
the body
and we starve the glory to death.
Think about your fast as what
your fast fast is Allah, Allah, feeding your
roof.
Allah feeding your palm.
Allah
feeding
your heart.
The sweetest
and the most nourishing
of drink,
of food,
and it is making you stronger and it's
making you a better person.
Don't ever think about the difficulties you go
through
in fasting as losing something.
Rather look at what you're gaining.
Why? Because if a person were to eat
constantly,
which sadly some of us do,
if they were to overeat, to oversleep, to
over rest, what would happen to the body?
A person's physically would be correct.
If a person were to
starve the body, a person would become erect.
The proper nourishment of the body is essential
for any sort of healthy or happy life
like that. The fast
as well as the other ibadat and as
well as in particular the other that a
person goes through in the course of their
deen. All of those things are nourished.
They
are strength for the for the
rule. Summarizes
Maslidih,
this precept of this teaching of Islam,
will delegate me in one verse.
He said,
Close your eyes.
Close your ears and close your mouth.
If closing those things for a certain amount
of time doesn't start to make the light
of the haqq apparent to you,
then you can laugh at us and say
this entire deen is the waste of your
time.
But there's a reason why people fast
again and again, year after year.
Even though
Munafiq flavored Muslims
will oftentimes complain about the fast and talk
about how it's impractical.
So you have kind of secular, these gonna
be type people who will oftentimes deride it
for the last century or so have derided
beef, faster go along. All the new practicals
say it's gonna harm this, it's gonna harm
that.
It's gonna cause problems to the economy. It's
gonna cause problems to the populace. It's gonna
cause this problem. It's gonna cause that
that problem.
But on the flip side, you have all
sorts of catheters who are fasting. They don't
just
abstain from food and drink from
dawn to sunset.
They go 2, 3, 4 days without eating.
Why?
Obviously,
as a form of ribaaba, as a form
of worship of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, this
is invalid. But
as a form of taqiyah and as a
form of empowering the Ruq, it's
great amount of spiritual power. Shaitan has a
lot of spiritual power.
Shaitan has mindful of Allah
He knew what to call Allah to Allah,
what to make du'a, and his du'a's in
a certain in a certain circle were actually
answered.
Obviously,
he benefited very little and ended up drowning
himself in a greater loss.
But there are many people out there. There
are many people out there. Their charm, their
charisma, when they speak, people listen to them.
When they walk in the room, people notice
them. When they speak, people listen to them.
Has anyone here remember?
Anyone should be with
father. Right?
This is the sifat Surah Al Manakkuk on
these two things that that that you're impressed
with them physically and
when they speak, people listen. This is is
is the believers in that Surah?
No. It's It's
attribute of what?
Spiritual power is something I mean, you have
a choice what you what you do with
it. You use it for good or you
use it for evil or do you use
it to waste time or do you use
it for your entertainment? What do you do
with it? That's up to you. You know,
some one person will be
physically strong person and they'll use it to
change the world for the better. Someone else
will, like, I don't know,
play basketball for a living. I have no
idea.
You can use it for whatever you want
to, But this is a special time. Why?
Because this is the time in which
the Nasdaq is at least able to obstruct
the ability for the to take the spiritual
nourishment, and this is the time when the
is at its most powerful.
So I would like to take
this opportunity to share,
some words of the rasul salallahu alayhi wasallam
with all of us in the hopes that
inshallah, it will be an inspiration for us
to do those things and to listen to
those things that otherwise we're not in a
mood to do, don't want to think about
and don't want to take,
any inspiration from.
It's a hadith of Sahih Muslim narrated by
strong believer is better and more beloved to
Allah to Allah than the weak believer.
Strength here is in all forms. Obviously, the
the of it is what physical strength.
The first thing that usually comes to people's
minds when they hear this hadith
is physical strength.
So let's start from there.
Sadly sadly,
we have drank the Kool Aid of defeat
so deeply into our hearts.
That somehow or another, I hear this from
many people who are born into Muslim families,
who come from Muslim cultures.
That somehow we're, like, genetically inferior to other
people.
Like, do you know who the actor and
master race is? Is it black people? Is
it white people? Who is it?
Everybody has a rue like another person does.
Everybody
has, nafs like another person does.
Everybody has bones that are clothed with flesh.
There is no achievement that another human being
has done that is not possible for you.
But look at the way we talk.
Someone goes to the hospital to say, DC
genes.
What?
White people don't ever die?
Black people never die?
Arabs never get sick.
But we've internalized this
mentality.
Why? Because we drank the kool aid of
defeat. Look, your enemies can defeat you physically,
but nobody can defeat you inside of your
heart.
The weakness that we have starts from here.
The weakness that we have starts from here.
Otherwise, more often than not in human history,
the slaves are physically more powerful than their
masters are. But the slaves are weak where?
This is a problem.
This is a problem that we made it
okay
for ourselves to be weak.
So the first meaning, and this is not
the only meaning, and I don't think it's
even most profound
meaning. But the first meaning, the easiest one
to understand is that we have to make
a commitment and a dedication to physically be
stronger.
If you cannot stand up straight,
then do what you need to in order
to stand up straight. If you cannot walk,
then do what you need to do in
order to walk.
Don't be so defeated in your mind. Say,
look, I'm like bedridden on a couch. I
weigh £700.
Okay. Your first
goal is to get to £650.
Trust me, that that's the 50 that £50
is the easiest one to lose.
Little by little, you can get to wherever
another human being has got.
Don't drape the defeat inside of you. What
did the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam say? He said that the
strong believer
is
better and more beloved to Allah than the
weak believer, even though there's good in both
of them. The of iman is such a
pure,
such a pure gift that Allah ta'ala has
given that nobody who has it inside of
their heart can be called a bad person.
However, there are great nations
between between believers. Not all believers are the
same.
So the first thing
that you should do right now in your
physically weakened state, but spiritually strengthened state
is what
make tovah from this internalized defeat, this internalized
weakness.
If you're in middle school and some other
kid, like, bullies you or, like, pushes you
or whatever. Right? You have something you can
do about that
other than go home and cry. If somebody's
booing you at work, if somebody's pushing you
around at work, on the street, in school,
in the must wherever it is,
You have something you can do about that,
but you have to get started on
it. That requires that decision is it needs
to be made where it needs to be
made where? Inside inside the heart. And then
what happens, it flows from there into the
physical limbs and into other areas of life.
It flows into the mind. People are physically
weak. People are mentally weak as well.
Sometimes the most unintelligent and the most stupid
of students end up becoming the greatest of
masha'ik. Why? Because they have to try that
much harder in order to understand those concepts
that other people do. And through the barakah
of making a habit of trying harder,
they keep trying harder and harder and harder
until they become more intelligent than everybody else
around them.
This is witnessed in his kids. It's also
witnessed in secular learning. It's also witnessed in
madrasah learning. It's witnessed in every single field.
A person has to embrace this idea of
struggling and fighting against their weakness and not
run away from it.
In this state where the body is weakened,
don't say that I'm
weak because I'm fasting.
Person has this idea, I'm fasting. I can't
do this today. I can't do that today.
Sure. There are definitely physical parameters that a
person should pay attention to.
If the last, like, 7 times you went
for a 7 mile run while fast and
you passed out, maybe, like, go for the
run after iftar or, like, you know, cut
it back to 3 miles or something like
that.
But this adidas that a person has this
idea of weakness in the face of challenges,
this is ridiculous. Rather, a person oftentimes
doesn't know their true strength until they get
pushed to a limit like this.
So I'm I'm,
a person, you know, even people who like
me and have a good opinion of me
usually
out of common sense try to stay far
away because I do things like this.
So when it's time to fast, I'll take
my kids. I'll go they're they're sleepy, they're
tired.
So let's go. We're gonna go for a
5 mile walk.
Why? Just in order to show them that
it's the thing that makes all of this
system work. It's not food, it's not drink,
it's not money, it's not rest, it's not
sleep.
Obviously, it's bad to abuse the body, but
you should know also that you have abilities
that are connected to more than just physical
things.
But if you don't push yourself in the
physical realm,
you won't know any of these things. The
doors won't open to any of these things
to you. How many times did the companions
with the Allah Ta'ala on them? Did they
go out in the path of Allah Ta'ala
and fight an enemy that they're matched in
with numbers?
Very rarely.
The one time that's most
well
known and enshrined in the text, the nasa
of the Quran, the battle of Hunayn.
Allah
himself says that when on the day of
Nain, when you are impressed with your numbers,
And it's very clear, they saw it with
their own eyes. It's their numbers weren't the
thing that were what that was there to
Give them victory. Rather, what gave them victory
is the method of Allah ta'ala to the
point of
That you're not the one who threw when
you threw it, rather it is Allah who
threw it. How will you know that until
you try it?
So don't use this fast. Don't use the
fact that you wake up for fajr, don't
use the,
the fact that you can't get a job
at the bank or you can't do this
haram thing or that haram thing as an
excuse inside of your mind and inside of
your heart for your defeat.
Rather, have
that every single hookah of Allah is what?
There for your benefit. That the sacred Sharia
is like the umbrella and the shade of
Allah Ta'ala's mercy on you.
If you really don't believe that, then why
are you Muslim in the first place?
There were generations before us of people who
believed it, and Allah
gave them victory over their enemies. Allah gave
them glory to the place, to point that
people go and visit the buildings that they
made. They go visit the books that they
wrote with their own hands. Why? Just because
the
the the the the splendor of Allah ta'ala's
madad, it's visible in even the most mundane
of things that they used to do.
In this
hour, don't feel weak,
rather feel strength. Feel the strength of Allah's
mother that's sustaining you through it and make
the decision, I'm going to be strong. Make
the decision, I'm going to be strong and
make the decision, I'm going to struggle in
order to be strong. And this decision is
not what? Something that you're doing just because
you wanna look good at the beach in
time for summer.
It's not good because you want to, like,
impress a girl you wanna marry.
Although, you will necessarily have to do that
at some point.
In fact, once you marry her, you're gonna
still have to keep impressing her. Otherwise,
life is gonna get really bad really quickly.
But that's a different topic.
Not because of any of those reasons. All
of those things will happen by the way.
But for what reason? Because of the love
of Allah and because of the deen. Not
that the deen is what makes you weak,
rather the deen is the reason you are
strong.
It's the reason you struggle to be strong.
It's the reason you idealize being strong, and
one day it will be the reason that
you are strong.
Take this excuse outside of, out of your
heart and throw it to the side.
The Rasulullah
alaihi wa sallam continued.
He said, be very avid.
Be very avid for the thing that benefits
you.
What are we avid for?
We're avid to, like, go to restaurants?
We're avid to go on,
like, really plasticky touristy vacations.
Look, the Muslims used to have the word
the word for tourism in Arabic is siaha.
Right?
The word or some form of it, some
permutation of its root is there in the
Quran.
But the siaha that's in the Quran is
what? It's
going
to ponder over the ayat of Allah ta'ala.
It's like a spiritual journey. It's what? It's
going
What is connected to the of the Quran?
It's what of the sunnah of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. What is it? Going
to visit the salahain and keep their company,
the righteous, the pious.
We're going to seek knowledge.
It's not this plastics, you know, 6 days
and 7 nights 7 days and 6 nights,
in a place where you just, you know,
eat stuff that's bad for you and
kind of celebrate and worship laziness.
The
of the Quran,
of the Kitab and Sunnah is also enjoyable.
It's also memorable. It also gives you memories.
And this plastic is, I guess, will give
you some memories as well. But the inside
of them, they're they're very different.
One is something radiant and with light and
the other is just plastic. It's garbage. It's
like a candy wrapper. You know, once the
candy is done, you throw the wrapper away.
One would hope that the the is like
the candy. But the is like the wrapper.
It's a complete defeat.
Rather, be
means what? Be greedy.
Be what? Be greedy.
Like a glutton.
Like an obese glutton looks at a meal
and has certain thoughts about it.
Like a lecturer
looks at the object of his desire or
her desire
and has certain thoughts.
You have to use vocabulary sometimes because if
people understood what you said, they would be
upset that you said in the masjid. Right?
Like a like a a a a a
a a covetous person looks at money and
has certain thoughts.
You should look at those things that benefit
you and have these thoughts.
Now the problem with this is where we
need to look some remedial steps. We need
to, first of all, understand what is it
that benefits you.
There are things that benefit you in the
material world as well, by the way.
And to look with
desire and with greed
for things in the material world is I
mean, the
intuition of iman
makes a person understand why it's not a
good idea.
But still I tell you to be greedy
and
avarice for the
benefit of this world, of this dunya.
Still better than to be greedy for those
things that have no benefit for you in
this world and the hereafter.
It's still better than your your desire, your
greed being for food. Food. It's still better
than your desire, your greed being for food.
It's still better than your desire, your greed
being for flashy and shiny things, buying 1
pair of shoes, and 2 pair of shoes,
and 3 pair of shoes. At some point
or another, this used to be something that
we would chastise women about, but now they're
men doing that. They say, oh, look,
we would chastise women about, but now they're
men doing that. They say, oh, look, I'm
a sneakerhead. You're not a sneakerhead, my brother.
You're a *.
Keep one good pair of shoes and go
for a walk, go for a run, go
go to the gym, lift. If you know
how to play ball, if you're a baller,
I don't personally have much respect from basketball
very practical sport. You know, we're talking about
be, greedy for the thing that benefits you.
But at least you get somewhat of a
workout. It's not a complete waste of time.
Go put on your one good pair of
shoes and go play.
But to sit at home to watch another
place and play.
This is not the fitting of a believer.
I apologize for not being the cool shaykh.
Nowadays, there's a market for, you know, people
who are cool shaykh, youth director type guys.
So, oh, you speak English. We want you
to talk to the youth. I said, I'm
gonna tell the youth. I'm gonna tell the
youth, look, you know what were the sports
at the sahaba radiAllahu ta'ala who used to
excel at?
They used to have wrestling matches with each
other. They used to race with one another.
They used to race on,
on on horseback and on camelback. They used
to
have
with like archery, with like marksmanship,
things like that.
If you want to get into those sports,
I want to get into those sports with
you as well.
When I was in high school, I didn't,
I didn't play basketball. I I was on
the wrestling team.
But the idea is what you should have
agreed and avarice for the things that benefit
you.
And having greed for the things that benefit
you in the dunya is still one step
better than having greed for the things in
the dunya that are complete waste of time.
They're just a waste of time. I don't
know how many people were here in the
Jummah Bayan Bayan that I gave earlier in
the day. But really, human beings are experts
in being able to make time pass without
getting anything done. Those types of things a
person should be very afraid of those things.
The the days of someone's life should pass
them by, and that's all that happens. And
there's a there's a hijab that we have
even as religious people.
Because sometimes we're able to do more than
what we're doing, and we still
waste time. Because you can waste time in
the absolute sense. Obviously, the person who spends
the entire Ramadan playing video games and doesn't
fast, pray or anything, that's an absolute waste
of time. But there are relatively some time
as well.
I suspect that there are many people who
are here in Iqaf,
whether for the entire 9 to 10 days
or whether for just a shorter duration.
But you can also waste time in
In a general sense, in an absolute sense,
it's not a waste of time. You're still
fasting. You're still in the house of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. You're still, I guess, listening
to someone saying something good, something of benefit,
etcetera.
But you couldn't have done more. This idea
of greed is what always wanting to do
more.
Saying what and this is one of the
beautiful things. I I really it's funny because
nowadays people have about
and shit, like, nothing is like haram or
or bakru anymore. Everything is just like you
start at and then it's all shit. Right?
So one of the things I love about
having a is it's not a in the
sense that this particular form of, like, rosary
the prophet
used. Although the companions
used to count their as a car on,
like, date stones and on knots in a
in a in a in a rope or
whatever or in a in a string or
whatever. But one of the things that I
love about this is what you at least
get to quantify. Make sure that you at
least did what you did yesterday.
If you didn't do what you did yesterday,
then to know how much to make up
the next day.
To have a goal that now it's Ramadan,
I'm good to increase.
I'm gonna put on gains. Right? That's what
lifters say. Right? So I'm gonna put on
gains.
You know, their their their, hearses what? For
my end for that thing that benefits you.
They're avid for games. They don't want to
go to the gym and, like, squat the
same, like, 200, you know, 200 some odd
pounds every time they go. They wanna
move up £10, £5, £1, half a pound.
If they fall down,
£5 and look and see what I did
different. Am I sleeping enough? Am I eating
enough? Am I doing this right? Am I
doing that right? All of it is what?
It has to do with the
that a person has for their benefit.
And then further the messenger says,
and seek help from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
because it's hard, it's not easy.
You have the option, you have the ability,
Those of us that Allah blessed us with
the ability to read the Quran with some
fluency,
you have the ability to make of the
Quran in these 10 days.
Those who read with more fluency, it may
be 2 times, 3 times. Those of you
who are hafad, you have the ability to
make of the Quran every other day, every
day.
People have the ability to do all of
these things.
Ask Allah Ta'ala for his help. Make dua
to Allah Ta'ala to help make this happen.
Look, there are a couple of issues with
when it comes to du'a. One is that
du'a is an act
of worship. People don't understand why it's an
act of worship
because they feel greedy. Like, I'm asking Allah
for this. I'm asking Allah for that. I'm
asking I feel ashamed to ask from Allah.
This is the wrong way of thinking about
it. Someone asked, Hazratan,
and I'm sure you're all,
you're all familiar with the anecdote, but it's
worth it bears repetition.
Someone asked
once that, why do we need to make
du'a when allata already knows what we need?
And he says, the reason for your dua
is not to inform of Allah Allah of
your needs. He already knows what you need.
The reason you make dua is what? Is
to show your slave who to Allah Ta'ala
that you're asking him and you're not asking
somebody else.
Once you understand that, now you realize why
that the dua is the core the the
core of our worship.
It's the idea that you ask Allah to
Allah, he's you you with the conviction that
he's the only one who gives, nobody gives
it other than him.
The more you ask, the more he loves
you. Why? Because it's the it's it's more
recognition that he's the lord and you're the
slave, and that there's no god except for
him.
So seek your help from Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. Allah Ta'ala is the only one who
makes it happen. Allah Ta'ala is the only
one who makes it happen.
Very few people even nowadays,
that graduate from Madrasah will get to reading,
Al Muqalam.
But the standard Sunni position is we don't
even believe in cause and effect.
What what causes the earth to be illuminated
in the daytime?
Is it the sun? No. It's Allah.
What causes the,
moon to be
what causes sun to be eclipsed
on the day of the eclipse on Monday?
Is it the moon?
No, it's Allah.
This entire system of causes and effects is
occasionalism.
It's something that what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
made a certain system
to operate
with certain connections. All of them are contrived.
He's the one who makes them happen.
This is why miracles are also possible because
sometimes all the time mixes the system up
in order to what show us certain things
that we need to understand.
Otherwise,
the creation of Allah there are gaps in
it. There aren't any gaps or inconsistencies inside
of them.
Without straying too far into a calamatic discussion
that will it's really a rabbit hole. It
will take,
you know, until after, we,
to to to discuss with them. This is
one thing I love about our brothers, Masha'Allah.
They get to the point, even though they
don't understand what they're saying or why they're
saying, but
taught them to say the right thing and
they get the spiritual benefit even if they
don't always get the intellectual benefit, which is
what everything happens because of Allah. And
which is what everything happens because of Allah.
Everything happens.
That's Allah is the one that makes everything
happen. A, it's true.
But on top of that, the benefit for
you and for me is what? That in
recognizing it and then asking him not only
do we get the things that we want.
But the whole point of the dua is
what? Is it your commanded Allah is the
master. You're the slave. I'm the slave.
We're commanded to worship him.
So he said, this is an act of
worship
make Dua. So we fulfilled the command.
The fringe benefit on the side is as
as a reward for fulfilling his command. He
gives you whatever you ask for, which is
kind of cool.
It's kind of amazing, masha'Allah.
And people have asked for great things, and
people have been given great things in the
Ummah, rasoolallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
To the point of Surakah bin Malek,
he he came to say, Naamr alayhiallahu anhu,
he said that he said that, you know,
on the day that the treasures of Kisilah
were brought to Madinah Munawar, I said the
prophet said that I would wear the I
wear the bangles and the the the the
the sector in the robe, the the imperial
robe of the Persian emperor. So said,
here, put it on him.
How are how is this even possible in
their mind? Can you imagine that?
It's even more far fetched than a random
Yaqub Patel Ismail Patel sitting this much as
becoming prime minister in 10 years.
But they asked, they had big dreams, you
know. They weren't the people who were like,
yes, because I keep Raza, I'm weak.
And because I'm a Muslim, I have to
be weak and that's it. And they just
kinda like stuck themselves in this like little
cage inside of their heart. Rather this is
because of Islam,
I'm going to be strong. If you're going
to be a king, you have to be
prepared in order to rule over your kingdom.
If you're going to be master and boss,
you have to be prepared to rule over
whatever it is that Allah gave you.
So they were thinking along these lines. The
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam taught them to
think along these lines.
And then rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says,
don't be overwhelmed.
And if something afflicts you,
don't say, oh, if I had only done
x y z,
then things would have
been better in such and such way.
This is really important. This is a trait
that we refer to in English as resilience.
A believer is what is resilient.
Rasoolullah
at some point got a molar tooth knocked
out of his mouth.
Did he go home and cry and say,
maybe I'm not in the meeting?
Maybe this, maybe that. There were some companions
that this distress came to them.
And there are other companions that said, what?
If the Rasulullah
alayhi is on even if they did make
him shaheed,
then
what point is there for us to stay
behind now? We should go and join them.
What is it? It's this
idea that what one small momentary temporary setback
is different than ultimate defeat.
Don't be
overwhelmed.
Conquest,
battle, these are great things for great men.
Let's start with more basic and simple things.
You like your girl
and you ask her to bury you,
and she laughs on your face and says
no.
You said the types of things that that
you you deal with us, like, imams that,
you know, deal deal with, like, the practical
things in the real world.
I want to embarrass such and such a
boy, but my mother and father said absolutely
not. And now I don't wanna eat and
drink anything. I don't want you. In fact,
even religious people you pray 5 times a
day, you make bigger, you sit and do
so, halakat, and do all of my things
like that. You know, at some point or
another,
you have to understand also that these things
are not like defeat. First of all, aid
doesn't even mean that you can't get married.
You still can get married.
But even if it doesn't mean you can't
get married, it's not the end of the
world.
Imagine that
the battlefield, like, companions will be wobbled, who
fathers are seeing their sons shayered in front
of their eyes. Sons are seeing their father
shayered in front of their eyes. People are
witnessing panic and pandemonium. Do you think their
companions only have one who won every single
battle that they run to? Absolutely
not. 100%
absolutely not.
Can you imagine the
the
battle of Muhtar?
33
commanders in a row
or shahid in the power of Allah until
the 4th had to take the flag
and
organize an order regime.
They still didn't beat the the enemy by
the east. They survived.
Still, retreat has to be in an orderly
fashion. Otherwise, it turns into a route.
The army at the end of the day,
they live to fight again. They live to
tell the story another day.
If they had had this fear paralyzed
them inside, that we're completely defeated, we can't
win ever again.
Then what happens? Ironically,
army
in Iraq
during the raid of the war in the
in the eastern part of Iraq against the
Persian,
Empire.
The two armies were on the opposite sides
of the Forath of the Euphrates
River.
The Persian engineers built a pontoon bridge across
the river.
And they sent an emissary to the missile
commander and they said, do you want to?
You want us to cross and give the
fight to you on your side, or do
you want to cross and give us the
fight on our side?
The Muslim commander
in a bout of confidence
said we'll cross and give you, a fight
on the other side. And
the battle did not go well for them.
And what was worse was that the Muslim
soldiers, they cut the bridge from behind them
in order to
show bravado in order to instill inside of
them. There's only one option, which is victory.
We're not going to be able to escape.
And, sadly, life doesn't work that way all
the time.
So the Muslim commander
who took from the
original
commander of that army
I think it was, saying the Muthana,
he actually had to order his troops to
go and repair the bridge.
And
he said when you cross in retreat, cross
slowly and cross with some sort
of control. Why? Because if you cross,
wouldy nilly, if you cross in a chaotic
and disorderly way, what's gonna happen?
More people will fall off the sides and
they're gonna save.
Defeats happen. Guess what? The next battle, the
same thing happened. Persian engineers built a bridge
across the Euphrates.
They asked you what to cross and do
us battle on our side, or do you
want us to cross and give you battle
on your side? They said, you know what?
We gave you new cross one time. Once
your turn, you guys cross on the side
of the one.
The point is is though when you're losing,
when you're getting parrot, when you're getting pummeled,
when you're getting trashed
at work, when your first pitch falls apart,
when you're, you know, first attempt at, like,
you know, getting in shape falls into injury,
when your first, you know, shift turns out
to be a fraud and a charlatan and
a cheater when your first this when whatever
your whatever your attempt happens and it's while
it's happening, it feels like there's no more
good left in in life.
It feels like there's no more good left
in life. This is all defeat. You should
just ride it off, run away, hide in
the cave. What did the messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam say?
They said, you know, by the way, that
first that that first battle that I mentioned
in which the Muslims were defeated, many of
the many of the soldiers in that army
actually fled without permission.
And they
they then hid from their commander,
What did he say? He wrote a letter,
a general letter to all the soldiers of
the army in the field.
He said that whatever calamity befalls you, befalls
us as well. And we experience your tragedy
with you.
If something bad happened, we're not here to,
like, beat you up and, like, give you
a hard time. Just come back. Inshallah, we'll
do better next time.
This is very powerful advice because what happens
is that people oftentimes their emotions and their
ego get invested so much in their deen
that they think that a lot because I'm
pious, because I have pure intentions, and people
do have pure intentions
sometimes.
They think that I'm owed a victory the
first time and when it doesn't happen, they
what? They give up and they run away.
What did the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam
Well, in
a if you are afflicted with something, if
things don't go right the first time, if
they don't go right sometime,
don't be like, oh, I did this wrong,
I did that wrong. Maybe that was what's
supposed to happen.
This is a hadith of Sahih Muslim. I'll
give you a hadith of Sahih Bukhari. When
you read it that would be in Khairan.
You should. Whoever Allah wishes good for, Allah
afflicts them.
Sometimes you did everything right, and Allah
will
make you suffer defeat.
So many reasons. Sometimes it's to have sins
forgiven so that you don't get punished in
the hereafter.
Sometimes you have no sins you already made
from all of them. It's just so that
he can increase your rate. Sometimes it's to
give you a greater benefit that you were
unaware of, that you wouldn't have been able
to get if you had just gone along
your path because Allah knows more than us.
Allah's knowledge is better than our our knowledge
is more complete than our knowledge. His choice
for us is better than our choice for
ourselves.
So don't be that person where things don't
go your way. You freak out and just
whatever
panic. If it happens,
let it pass. And then once you get
control of yourself again,
then what? The rasulullah
alaihi wa sallam says, instead of saying, you
know, oh I did this, I did that,
and if I hadn't done this, then this
one that would have happened, and this and
that wouldn't have happened. Rather when you suffer
when you suffer affliction,
then
say, Say Allah measured out something
and what he wished to happen had come
to pass.
Whatever happened was supposed to happen and it
happened in the best way possible. Just because
you don't understand why right now is irrelevant.
You'll see one day why.
This is a
actually,
a a a a figure of speech that
the Arabs used to this day.
Usually what what they'll say is they'll say,
They'll they'll omit the in the middle. It
also makes sense like that.
The they mentioned that it makes sense in
with the without the without the without the
without the
This is subject to the omnipotent power of
Allah Whatever you wish to happen came to
pass. It's okay. It's okay.
The Ottoman Empire was a great ride while
it lasted, then it ended. It's okay. It
doesn't mean that Allah hates the Muslims now.
The empire,
wonderful while it lasted.
Things are a little bit tougher now. It's
okay.
There's a benefit in this as well. There's
a hikmah in this as well. Good will
come from this as well. Don't just say,
oh, look, we took such a bad beating,
this bad thing happened to us, that bad
thing happened to us, and we're gonna run
away now.
Look what's happening in Gaza. No person would
no human being, Allah
gave a fitra, would ever want that to
happen.
But you already see how much good is
coming from it.
Well, if I could push a button and
end it right now. If I could push
a button, go back in time, make sure
it never happened, I would have pushed it.
But still you see how much is coming
from all of
Afwaj Akwama people are entering into Islam.
The
the the truth of what of the the
the the deceptions
street corner and yell and scream that our
enemies are liars, nobody would have believed them.
So Allah made them do such
thing that they stand on the street corner
themselves and they tell everybody. By the way,
you know I'm a liar.
All of these things, when they happen,
just say
and then for tomorrow make a better plan
and keep keep keep keep on trying. May
Allah
give us. May Allah make us from strong
believers. May Allah make us from the strong
believers. May Allah make us from the strong
believers. May Allah
show up our weaknesses. May Allah give us
to be the people who asked from him.
May Allah protect us from ever having a
trial or tribulation that is so harsh on
us that we become overwhelmed. May Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala forgive us for those times that
we abandoned the field where we should have
been been there. May Allah forgive us for
those times that we ran away when we
should have been there and give to do
better the next time. May Allah
put this
this this this cool coolness
and this this gentleness and the sweetness in
our hearts that when we see something happen,
whether it's sweet or whether it's bitter, that
we know that this is
your
and you did what you wished and that
makes us happy even if otherwise would not
make us happy.
The last half hour will be for people's
personal.
Right?
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people.