Hisham Jafar Ali – Names Of Allah And His Attributes #13 The Ultimate Provider
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The speakers discuss the importance of man and woman in providing risk and guidance to avoid risk. They emphasize the need for guidance and giving gifts to people, as well as the importance of trusting oneself and others. The speakers also emphasize the need to be mindful of one's risk and not give too much risk. They stress the importance of being ambitious and not just for the future, but also for guidance and connection to Allah.
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Today's name is a name that we need
to learn about, especially in a climate that
we live in at the moment.
There was supposed to be two names, but
I realized
I would have to spend today's time just
on 1.
If you look at the headlines today,
all you can see
is that the biggest companies are laying off
their employees.
You can see the prices
of bread, of oil,
of gas, petrol going up.
You see things get more expensive. You see
people being kicked out of their homes. You
see uncertainty in the job market. You apply
to a 100 jobs,
and you don't get a call back.
In fact, someone steals your number to sell
you a washing machine.
Desperate times.
We have a world right now that's been
thrashed economically,
and that uncertainty
can get into the mind
and make us worry, make us stress.
And because of the breakdown of our iman,
that is why today's name is the name
of Allah, Razzak.
What are the root letters of Razzak?
What does that mean? What is rizq?
The arabs
Go on then. Provision. Okay. You say provision.
Yes, you tell me.
Provision.
Okay. Yes. Sustenance. Sustenance. Good. These are the
ways these are the the ways that this
name has been translated most frequently.
The Arabs would say classically,
What are they describing?
Does anybody know how a bird feeds its
children, its chicks?
Yes.
It literally put it literally puts the food
into his mouth. Correct.
Correct. If you watch documentaries,
the way that a pigeon or an eagle
would feed its children, the baby birds, is
that the baby bird will open its mouth,
and the mother will
basically feed put the food in the child's
mouth with its mouth. Beak to beak.
Yes? This is what the Arabs used to
call rizq.
It's when the food is placed inside your
mouth
without you having to do anything to earn
it.
And then rizq later,
you know, become a more wider usage of
the word.
Anything that's given,
but particularly food.
Why food?
Because it's the basis for life. Without food,
we would all die.
So providing someone
what gives them life, what makes them breathe
and survive,
this is what the word rizq became used
for, and particularly when it came to food.
But then it became used in wider language
for any kind of good thing that I
give someone.
Now
I'm going to give you the aya, and
you have to tell me what is the
risk what's being provided here.
Okay?
Deal? Okay.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the Quran,
he's talking about the prophet Sharib alaihi sallam.
He says, Sharib alaihi sallam says,
My people,
can't you see if Allah has given me
clear proofs?
And he gave me beautiful rizq.
I don't want to go against the things
I'm preaching to you.
So this is shayeb giving dawah to his
people. He's inviting his people to Islam. And
while he's inviting them to Islam, he says,
Allah gave me beautiful rizq. What's he talking
about?
Butter chicken?
What's he talking about? Yes. I think he's
talking about food. You think he's talking about
food? So they're saying to him, Shoaib, you
should worship idols. He says, guys, how can
I worship idols when Allah has given me
beautiful
food?
Go on. Life.
Life. Okay. Yes. What else? Yes?
Clear proofs.
But he already mentioned the clear proofs. And
then he said, and
he gave
me beautiful risk.
So,
is it general?
I don't know. You tell me. Yes? Yes,
Sheikh. Guidance. Guidance. Guidance.
It's what the majority of tafsir scholars say.
Is that when
al Shayb alaihi salam is talking to his
people, and he's talking about and he's saying
to them,
how can I worship idols when Allah has
given me beautiful rizq?
Majority of tafsir scholars say that it's not
referring to the food that he has at
home.
But the beautiful risk that Allah gave him
is guidance.
That's what brings him to life.
That's what helps him survive just like food
helps you and me survive.
Can there be a greater risk than this?
Now I'll give you another ayah. Of course,
some of us will say, no. He's referring
to food. And he's saying, Allah has given
me so much food, so blessings, life, food,
all these things. How can I then disobey
him? That's another opinion.
But going with the majority,
risk guidance can be risk.
Okay? The prophet Muhammad salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
when he's asked about his first wife Khadija.
There's a famous statement that he has with
this word in it. Anybody know?
Hashem Mohammed memorized all the hadith related to
marriage? Yes, ma'am?
You asked fathad? Yes, sir.
In your razik to hibaha.
Allah has given me the risk of loving
Khadija.
Sorry, Habib.
Mandatory part of the lesson.
Allah gave me the risk of her love.
So love can be a part a form
of risk, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
is saying. Okay. Now I'm gonna give you
another example.
Another example.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the Quran,
Those who migrated for Allah's sake and then
they died, they were killed or they died,
Allah will definitely
absolutely 100%
give them a beautiful risk.
And Allah is the most beautiful provider.
So we're talking about someone who is migrating,
let's say from Makkah to Madinah, and then
they die.
And Allah's promising them rizq.
What rizq?
Jannah? What do you think?
Jannah?
Jannah.
Okay. They're saying it's paradise.
Because he's dead, so Allah can't give him
food. Right?
So can it benefit him?
Who can give me a verse
that proves that it's jannah? Yes?
I've I've
Yeah. That he's promising these people who died
for his sake while migrating.
Yes.
Mhmm.
Masha'allah. Very good. We don't have the cash
today, Sheikh. But your cash, insha'allah, is is
your rizq, In the
Allah. Yes.
Says don't think that those who died in
his way are dead.
But they rather they are alive with Allah.
They are being provided for. Provided for with
what?
Not with chicken tikka masala.
Not with biryani.
They are being provided for. Allah left it
open. We don't know all the mysteries of
paradise and all the mysteries and the beauties
and the blessings that Allah would provide is
left open.
But also the other proof is the next
verse.
Allah says when he talks about these people
who migrated and died in his path, who
knows the next ayah?
Allah will give them entrance to a beautiful
place.
That is the risk he's going to give
them. So risk
can be the love love of someone else.
Risk can be guidance from Allah. And risk
can be after the afterlife. Can be jannah.
Can be paradise. Can be provision from Allah.
Right? So initially,
people have a very narrow understanding of risk.
Food on the table. But Allah
shows us that actually the risk is is
much wider than that.
We, in our understanding of risk,
we misunderstand
the meaning of Arrazak.
Because we think Arrazak is the one that
gives me food.
So if I'm talking to Arrazak, I have
to ask him for food.
And if my risk is low, that means
I'm I don't have food in the fridge,
I don't have money in the bank.
No.
When Allah provides,
he provides much more than money.
He provides you love.
He provides you paradise.
He provides you guidance.
And there might be somebody who is low
on the wealth side. They don't have that
much money in the bank. But
they are richer than all of us combined.
Because their riches are not material.
Their riches, their real estate, their property is
in the afterlife.
Their riches is in the riches of their
heart,
in and the richness of their connection to
Allah.
And
my Shafi'i used to
say, knowledge is a risk. It's a provision
from Allah.
So don't think
because my bank balance is low, cause I
live in a deprived neighborhood, I don't have
a nice car, that Allah didn't give me
a risk. No. He gave you risk. And
the first risk he's gave you is that
you're listening to this.
This is the greatest risk.
Guidance from Allah. This is the greatest risk.
Why is it the greatest risk? If I
give you Biryani
and I give you guidance from Allah, why
is guidance from Allah greater than Biryani?
Yes.
Then biryani.
How is it better? I eat biryani. I
enjoy my biryani. What are you trying to
say? Yes.
Uh-huh. The guidance from Allah is a risk
that never ends.
It's a provision that never stops benefiting you.
Whereas my biryani, they say digestion cycles take
about 6 hours. And then whatever biryani is
there,
is gone.
Right? But the guidance from Allah is the
risk that never ends. It's a provision, it's
benefits never end.
Imagine if I could give you a plate
of biryani but you could keep eating from
it and it never ended. That would be
some kind of risk. But inshallah, we will
we will meet and we will gather around
this biryani in Jannah. Jannah.
May Allah make us from Now, enough about
biryani, back to our razzak.
We talked about risk. What is the meaning
of risk? We said risk is greater, it's
wider, it's more broad than just food.
Now, what does that mean for our razzak?
Arazaq is on the pattern Fa'al,
which means that Allah gives the risk frequently,
and he gives a lot of it. That
is the nature of Allah. Allah is always
providing.
Not just food,
but everything else that he gives us if
we just think.
And the greatest thing Allah provides us is
guidance. Now tell me something.
Allah is a razzak or a razzik. He's
a provider.
But can human beings be a razzik as
well?
Can human beings be a provider? Yeah.
I think
so. Allah provides
in a
In a different way? Yeah. In a lesser
way. Okay. Very good. What's your name, Habibi?
Mohammed. Muhammad. So he says, yes human beings
can provide but not the same way Allah
provides. Can anyone give me an eye in
the Quran
where Allah says human beings are giving risk?
That's okay?
Of the family?
Yes. On that topic?
It's close to that topic?
Anybody? It's a tough question.
Allah is talking about orphans.
Right?
This is when the orphans
are not of age, they've not matured yet,
don't give the orphans their inheritance money just
yet,
but provide them from the inheritance money.
But what is the difference
between you and me providing
and the provision of Allah? We said it's
lesser. Fine. What exactly? What's different? Yes.
Beautiful. So human being is not really providing
from nothing. They're just moving the provision around.
They need Allah to provide for them first.
Good. Yes.
Okay. We need means to provide.
If I say to Muhammad, Muhammad, I need
a £100,
but teleport it to me through your brain.
No, he can't. Right? It's gotta be cash.
It's gotta be a bank. We need some
way to provide, but Allah can provide
without the means. Allah can provide directly if
he wishes. Yes.
Mhmm.
But then the human beings need to His
provision. Okay. Good. Human beings need to pray
from Allah's provision. Yes.
Basically When you say basically, I know you're
gonna make a complicated point.
But you can tell me the point anyway.
All the means. Oh, the human beings are
the, are sometimes the, the means. Mhmm. So
if it's just the means, then
Whenever it could be really beautiful. If human
beings, we are the means of provision. Right?
If you got a paycheck, you're working for
me. You get your paycheck from me.
I'm just a means to pass the money
to you, but I didn't provide you in
the first place. Yes.
Right. Human beings need food just as the
person they are giving needs as well. So
we are needy.
We need rizq, and the person we're giving
to needs it. What about the intention behind
giving?
Let's say I give you some I give
you a gift. It's for you, Habibi.
Yes.
What could be my intention?
Maybe I want to marry your daughter.
Right? Human beings could have agendas.
Right? Could have motives.
Right?
Yes. I go give Sheikh our imam, Sheikh
Mohammed Ali, gave him a gift.
And inside the gift, underneath, there's a letter.
Please let me lead Maghrib Salah. Yeah. I
could have my my motives, my strings attached
to the rizq. Right?
When
some countries
give a lot of charity to other countries,
1,000,000 and 1,000,000 of dollars,
they call it international aid.
Then when the time comes, they say, well,
now you have to do what we tell
you to do. This is a rizq with
strings.
Strings attached. Yes.
Yeah. And that,
that
all
Mhmm. Doesn't doesn't
need anything from
So the provision Allah's giving was not dependent
on something from firaoun.
Umar Razi mentions seven reasons why Allah's risk
is different from our risk. Allah's provision is
different from our provision. And I just want
to point to one of those
matters. One of those
one way of understanding the rizq of Allah
and the provision of Allah.
But to tell you that, I have to
tell you a story.
A story about a woman
in Palestine.
A story about a
woman who was praying
in Masjid Al Aqsa.
Which woman is this?
Mariam.
In Surah Mariam, Allah informs us something about
Mariam.
Mariam is a devout lady. She's worshiping Allah.
She's in Masjid Al Aqsa.
And who's looking after Mariam? Who's her caretaker?
Yes?
Zakariyah.
Now every time Zakariyah alaihi salam enters upon
the door, opens
the door, and he sees Mariam alaihi salam,
What does he see? Anybody knows? Food. Food?
What kind of food?
Out of season. Sukkar. Chicken Sukkar?
Lam Sukkar. No. What what food does Zakaria
alayhi salaam see with Mariam alayhi salaam? Yes.
Fruits. Fruits. What kind of fruits?
Out of season. Out of season fruits. So
she's getting winter fruits in the summer and
summer fruits in the winter.
Now Zakariyah alayhi salaam asks her asks her
the question.
Whenever he entered her worship place, he found
with her rizq.
Where did you get this from?
This is the time before co op, before
Tesco.
Where did you get this from? Before next
day delivery.
Right? So the delivery man couldn't come through
the window.
And if she got the fruit, he who
would have seen where she got it from?
Where did you get this from?
What does Namaria Malayalam say?
It's from Allah.
Allah provides
whoever he wants
with no calculation,
with no limits.
I want to give you some context before
I give you the punch in the face
in this story.
Zakariyah alaihis salaam
has no children.
Zakariyah alaihis salaam has been asking Allah for
a child for a long time,
but it's not happening.
Allah hasn't given him a child yet.
Anybody's heart, I'm not talking about Zakariya alayhi
salam, but you and me, eventually we give
up.
Eventually we give up.
Zakariya alayhi salam,
after so many years of asking for a
child, he doesn't have a child, but today
he sees something strange.
He saw that Allah provided Mariam alayhi salam
fruits
with no means,
out of season.
And you know what he realized?
Really,
Allah can give you anything
if he wants to give it to you.
And so standing in the room while looking
at Maryam and looking at the fruits,
Zakariyah alayhi salaam makes dua.
While standing in front of the fruits, Zakariyah
makes dua.
He gets a realization.
If Allah can give her fruits
out of season, from nowhere, they just appear,
then can Allah not give me a
son? He said, oh Allah,
gift me from you
a beautiful progeny.
You are the one that hears our calls.
And immediately.
The angels called out to him straight away
while he was standing there in prayer.
While he was in prayer.
Allah congratulates you with a boy named Yahya.
Sometimes
you need to see it to remember.
There's a reason Zakariya alayhi salaam asks Allah
for a child the moment he sees the
fruits.
Sometimes we forget
Allah can give you
provide for you with no cause, with no
means, with no limitations.
If you ask me today, Hisham, give me
this laptop.
Hisham, can you please give me £500?
The first thing I do, I calculate how
many save how much savings do I have
in my bank account. Can I afford to
give this to him?
Someone invites you to a wedding. You say,
how much should I give them? £50? £30?
What's the budget for the gift? We always
calculate. We always budget. Allah doesn't calculate.
Why doesn't Allah calculate?
Why isn't he worried? Yes. Because you have
unlimited resources. Allah has unlimited resources.
Allah tells us in the Quran about this
difference.
I made a mistake in tilawah.
Anybody correct me?
Allah says,
oh humans,
if you owned everything Allah owned,
if you owned the heavens and the
earth, you would still be careful with you'd
be tight *.
You'd be scared if I give, what's gonna
be left? If you own this universe, you
would be like that.
Human beings are miserly. They're tight *. They
calculate. They over calculate.
How much gift should I give to this
person? You know, one of the funny cultural
things that we have, in my culture anyway,
if you visit a wedding, Asian Southeast Asian
wedding, there's someone at the door with a
notepad.
Any anybody can tell me what that person
is doing?
Yes, Aslan, tell me.
Every person that comes to the wedding, let's
say you come, you give me £20.
This person writes down, Abdullah, £20. Muhammad come
give me £50. This person is writing, Muhammad
£50. You know why?
Hasan, tell us why.
When I go to Abdullah's wedding, then I
have to give him £20. When I go
to Muhammad's wedding, I have to give him
£50. This is our culture.
Somebody sitting there with a notepad
so that you don't give more than what
not even 1 pound more than what the
guy gave you.
Your your someone came and give you a
wedding gift, you're gonna give me exactly that
wedding gift one day. And in Sahar, you're
at to be hisab.
Human beings, we give with lots of hisab,
calculation thing, budgeting. How much should we give?
No. That's too much. That's too But what
does Allah give?
This phrase that Allah gives without calculation, without
recourse, without worry of what's in the bank
account, this phrase comes in the Quran
7 to 8 times.
And one of those times,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala talks to you and
me.
Allah says,
believers,
those who claim to be believers, be conscious
of your Lord.
Those who did good, in this world you
will get good.
And Allah's land, Allah's earth is vast.
Those who are patient in this world will
get a reward with no calculation. You know
what that means? Anybody ever heard of a
blank check?
A blank check. You know what a check
is. Right?
These days, we don't have checks. Right? Because
we all do mobile mobile banking. Right? There
was a time when there was a thing
called a check,
where if I wanted to give you £500,
I would write £500
only, and I'd give you the check.
You go to the bank, you cash it
in, and you get that money in your
account.
Imagine someone gives you a blank check.
However much money you want, go and cash
it in whenever you want. This is what
the meaning of That
means we should not be conservative when we
ask Allah.
Nothing is impossible for Allah.
Ask Allah.
Beg Allah.
Plead to him.
Because those you those who have to worry
about what they have, Allah is not one
of them. Those who will calculate what you
asked, Allah is not one of them. Those
who have a agenda in giving you, Allah
is not one of them. Allah wants to
give you, but he wants you to ask.
That's what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in
the Quran.
If you ask my slaves about me if
Muhammad Muhammad,
if my slaves ask you about me, tell
them
I'm close.
I respond to someone when they call me.
You have to call first.
Let them respond to my invitation.
And be certain I will give.
If you want from Allah's risk, you have
to ask.
And one of the greatest reasons to receive
the risk of Allah
is
to be close to him.
Over here, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
Who receives Allah's risk? Allah here says the
patient ones. Those who are patient will get
Allah's risk without any calculation.
But elsewhere in the Quran, Allah says something
similar.
Whoever is conscious of Allah, Allah will find
them a way out.
He'll provide from you from the place you
least expected it.
You never expected to provide it from here
and he provided it for you.
People think this ayah is talking about
money. When someone loses their job, they say,
If you have if you have taqwa, if
you fear Allah, if you're conscious of Allah,
you'll get a job tomorrow. And that's not
how it works. Because rizq is not just
job and wealth and money.
Risk could be the guidance from Allah.
Risk could be the pleasure of Allah. Risk
could be that you have no job in
this world and you have no money, but
you have a big property base in paradise.
That could be rizq as well.
So don't twist the meanings to money in
this world. People sometimes do a talk, the
many ways to get risk from Allah.
The risk of Allah is not limited to
wealth.
Someone asked me the other day, he says,
what dua should I say to maximize my
income? He wants me to give him some
kind of a spell. He says it, you
razzak, you razzak, you razzak, a hundred times.
He wake up the next day, and, all
the stocks he invested in have gone triple.
That's not how it works.
If you ask Allah for rizq,
He might give you a a righteous spouse.
If you ask Allah for rizq, He might
save you from an accident. If you ask
Allah for rizq, He must play might place
in your heart love for the messenger sallallahu
alaihi wasallam. If you ask Allah for rizq,
he might make you die a death that
ends you in paradise.
Death could be rizq.
Yes.
What does Allah say in the Quran? Don't
think that those who died in the path
of Allah have really died.
That death was a rizq from Allah. Allah
provided for them something far better than what
they could fathom.
Don't limit your understanding of risk.
What are the mindsets that we should have
when we understand this name Al Razzak?
The first thing.
When you really realize Allah's name Al Razzak,
you become more generous.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the Quran,
Give them for the money that Allah gave
you.
This is my bottle of water.
If I realize I didn't earn this,
I didn't do a thing to earn this,
But
Allah provided it for me through means I
cannot fathom.
Now if somebody in the audience is thirsty,
then I should realize I am the means
to provide water for them.
Allah is providing them through me.
And I should not look at how much
water is left in the bottle.
Because where did it come from?
I didn't produce it. I didn't dig it
out of the ground. It didn't rain from
the sky and I caught the water. Allah
provided it for me. And if I give
it to someone else, Allah will provide me
as well.
This wasn't mine in the first place. I'm
living on borrowed money. This is borrowed water.
It's the masjid's water. Literally, I took it
from the room, the media room. It's not
my water bottle.
So if I can I can get it
from there, and I give it to Muhammad,
surely Allah will give me more water? We
become more generous, more giving, less tight *.
Economic uncertainty, this environment that we live in,
it makes us more careful with our money
because we're scared.
We have a fear.
We're worried.
Are we gonna pay the bills? We're not
gonna give sadaqa this month. Why?
I need those £10.
My gas and electric bill is going up
every month. I need to put the radiator
on. I need those £10. I can't give
it to this person or that person on
the masjid.
But if we believe, if we know for
sure, this wasn't my £10 in the 1st
place, I am borrowing it. It is a
loan from Allah.
It's easy. It's not mine in the 1st
place. Here you go.
We become more generous.
The second mindset that we get from the
name of razzak.
We stop thinking that wealth comes from my
efforts.
We start to remember that wealth
is only according to how much trust we
have in Allah.
When Karun, Korah,
one of the leaders of Banu Israel,
Allah swallows him in the earth. That's his
punishment.
Who can tell me one of the things
that he said to do with risk?
Yes.
He said,
he make the risk
risk by himself and I will not
Exactly. He thought that his wealth all came
from himself.
What's the Arabic? Who can give me the
aya?
I was given this wealth, this bank pass
because of me and my hard work and
my CV, my efforts, my degree.
Something to do with Allah. So Allah sucked
him in the air. Okay. Habibi, where's your
risk now? Where's your hard work and efforts
and your CV and everything you did now?
Where you gonna go?
How does Ahmad taste?
That's what happened to him.
Because he over relied on himself. We are
people now, we've a generation where we
we give a lot of credit and confidence
in ourselves, in our efforts, in our job,
in our CV, in my hard work, in
me.
We don't forget that ultimately it is Allah.
And if we know it's from Allah, then
we would rely on him. We wouldn't rely
on the paycheck. 1 of my teachers,
Allah, may Allah have mercy on him. He
used to say something to me.
He used to say, Hisham, when you leave
your house and you lock the door,
ask your heart. Phenomenal thing. May Allah bless
you on him. He said, ask your heart,
am I relying on this lock to keep
my house safe?
Or am I relying on Allah to keep
my house safe? I said, what do you
mean? He said, you know,
you could rely on the lock,
and the whole house can burn down in
a fire and leave the door standing.
Where was your lock?
We put a lot of
trust in these things. Locks, jobs, paychecks, people.
We have to relieve ourselves from the and
if you do put trust in these things,
you become more anxious and more depressed and
more stressed. Why?
Because all these things, you can't rely on
them.
They're not reliable.
One day, your house alarm works. The next
day, there was a glitch in the system.
Sorry. You lost your TV, your plasma screen
TV, 52 inch. It says you're right. Shouldn't
have bought 1 in the first place.
When you trust people, things, processes, you will
be anxious. You'll always be anxious,
and you'll be living on antidepressant medication
because you put your trust in something that's
shaky. It sinks. It's unreliable.
But if you put your trust in Allah,
Allah always comes through.
That's why the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
said in
If only you trust Allah the way He
deserves,
He would have provided for you like He
provides for the birds.
They wake up in the morning with an
empty stomach, and they go to sleep at
night with a full stomach.
May Allah make
us those who trust and rely upon him.
So we said the first mindset is?
Sorry?
The first mindset that the name of Razar
gives you,
you become generous.
2nd mindset,
you trust Allah. You stop trusting people and
processes and companies and banks and this. You
trust Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And the third one,
it makes you ambitious.
You know, Muslims, we have very modest ambitions.
You ask some you pick someone off the
streets, a Muslim brother or Muslim sister. What's
your ambitions in life? I wanna get a
minimum wage job. Yeah, Sheikh.
One of your prophet, Sulaiman, alayhi salam, when
he made dua, he said, oh Allah, give
me a kingdom nobody has ever had. That's
how that's how you should make dua.
The prophet says, salallahu alayhi salam If you're
asking Allah something,
ask Allah something, ask him for the penthouse
of Jannah, Firdaus. Don't ask him for the
bottom.
So I ask you,
what do you want to achieve on this
dunya? And you say, I want to get
a BTEC.
No, Sheikh.
You should be the PhD from Oxford.
You should be the you know, at the
United Nations. You should be the biggest business
person in Manchester.
You should be ambitious
because you know Allah is going to provide
for you, not yourself.
So you should ask Allah ambitiously.
Not just for the afterlife, but in this
world too. Allah wants us to be people
who look after this dunya and who benefit
from this dunya.
Don't forget your part of this world. Be
ambitious when you ask Allah,
but ask him so you can benefit others.
Don't ask him because you're greedy.
Oh, I want a Lamborghini. Why? So I
can drive on the day of Eid on
Windsor Road and show people how what sounds
my engine makes. No. Don't ask Allah. That's
not ambition.
That's foolishness.
This lack of intelligence.
Be ambitious
because the one who provides for you will
give you a blank check.
So why are you asking for £5?
The check is blank. Write whatever you want
because he will give you bikharihisab.
The 3rd the 4th mindset.
So he said, it makes you more generous.
It makes you trust Allah. It makes you
ambitious.
And last but not least,
it makes you not lose hope in Allah.
You know,
many people, most people on earth today,
your economic situation, your financial situation, you didn't
choose it.
There are people,
99.8%
of the wealth of England is owned by
a group of 2, 3000 people.
Most buildings, assets, things in the UK is
owned by there's a lot of inequality.
Most people have nothing, and then there's a
tiny portion of people who have
who own everything.
In this situation, you might become somebody with
negative thinking.
What's the point? Why should I work hard?
Where am I going anyway? It doesn't matter.
Allah chose for me to be poor, I'm
just gonna be poor for the rest of
my life. Allah tells you in the Quran.
Allah gave people different levels of risk.
Not by their choice, by the choice of
Allah.
Does that mean they are more pious?
If you have more money, does that mean
you're more pious?
What does Musa, alayhis salam, say to Allah?
Oh, Allah, you have given Firaun and his
people all this money and all of this
power.
How? Oh, Allah.
They will then use all of this money
and power to destroy and to misguide people.
This is the proof in the pudding.
Rizq is not just money and food.
The greatest risk is guidance.
Knowing Allah is a razaq makes you hopeful.
That wherever Allah has placed me in the
ladder, am I wealthy? Am I poor?
Both are a test.
If you are wealthy, the test is harder.
Do you know why?
Yes. Tell me. So you don't show off
in biragan. Sorry? So you don't show off
in biragan. That is the test, that you
don't show off in biragan. But why is
the test of being wealthy
harder than the test of being poor? Yes.
Because when you're because when you're poor Mhmm.
You you truly feel like you, you need
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Yes. But that's why
when you when you're rich, you think you
don't need anyone. Allahu Akbar. So so
So
so after that,
you start to know It gets to your
head. Yes? If you're if you're poor, the
hunger in your stomach will tell you you
need Allah.
And you rate you know you're being tested.
But when you're wealthy, you don't realize you're
being tested.
You don't realize that what you have is
a test from Allah and Allah will ask
you for it.
And that is why we should not always
be eager and excited by material goods.
Because with it comes a test. And yet
at the same time, the prophet
said,
How excellent is it for a righteous person
to be wealthy? That's a brilliant thing.
Not a bad thing.
But the wealth should be in our hand,
not
not in our heart.
And with this, we come to the end
of today's lesson. Who's gonna tell me
the mindsets
that we should take from the name of
Allah Al Azzaq?
Gentlemen,
don't let the kids shame you. Don't let
them embarrass you. We need some of the
uncles as well. Some of the older ones
as well. Yes, Hadid?
To to be generous. Mhmm. Arazaq means you
feel generous. Yes, Hamid.
Rely on Allah.
You rely upon Allah. Not on yourself, not
on your CV, not on your salary.
Yes. Yes.
Being ambitious. You be ambitious.
You don't think small, you think big. Yes,
Ami, at the back. Sorry?
You think,
optimist. You become
you don't be hopeless. Yes. You are hopeful.
You have hope in Allah because Allah has
provided when people had nothing. Yes.
You become enslaved to Allah and not enslaved
to Earth.
You eat to live, you don't live to
eat.
Yes?
I have a few more one liners but
I save them for the future sessions.
Any more? I was gonna ask you about
that. You said 7.
No. There's 7. Razi said there's 7 differences
between Allah's risk and human risk. Yeah. But
the mindsets,
I think are 4.
They came on the spot, so I don't
know how many I said in the end.
But inshallah, we'll see when you come. And
one last thing before you all go.
I'm going to tell one last thing before
you all go. Ibrahim alayhis salam.
When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala go tells him
to go to the desert, middle of the
desert, nothing there.
He does ask Allah for risk.
But can anyone tell me was that the
first thing he asked Allah, the second, or
the third, or 4th?
Was it the first?
He thinks the first thing Allah asked him
is rizq. Anybody else?
I think
first he said
Mhmm.
Good.
Yes, Akhmed?
Uh-huh.
So in what rank did risk come?
3rd place. Imagine,
if you go to a desert,
the first thing you're gonna ask Allah for
is Allah, let me live and eat some
food and water.
What's the first thing Ibrahim, alayhi, salam, asks
Allah?
Salah. Salah. Imagine.
Oh, Allah. I've left my family in a
place with nothing, no vegetables, no land, nothing
next to your house.
What's the first thing I need from you,
oh Allah?
Oh Allah,
make them people who pray salah.
This is the greatest risk
is to be connected to Allah.
You might have no food, you might have
no money, you might have no people, but
if you have Allah, you have everything.
Oh, Allah make the hearts of people gather
to them.
2nd thing. Oh, Allah give them community.
Before he asked Allah give them food, give
them people who love them. Because where there's
community, there's fruit.
And 3rd,
provide them with fruits.
What's the last thing I want you to
all go home with?
The greatest rizq you can have,
the greatest thing Allah can provide you is
a connection to him. And if you don't
have that, you have nothing.