Hisham Jafar Ali – Names Of Allah And His Attributes #18 The Guide
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The importance of guidance from Allah Subhan Bu cancellation is discussed, including the use of GPS and other devices to achieve guidance. The guidance is not just a list of actions and steps, but rather a series of actions and steps that require effort and dedication. The speaker emphasizes the need to trust Allah and show proper deeds, as well as the importance of not giving up on one's beliefs and not giving up on others. The speaker also emphasizes the need for effort and passion to achieve guidance and the importance of sweating to achieve it.
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Alhamdulillah. First of all, I want to thank
all of you for attending even though we
are in the last leg of the fast.
When most of us are most tired and
most hungry, may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala replace
your hunger with the fulfillment
and the quenching of your thirst in jannatil
nayeem. Ameenya Rabbilah. Ameen.
In the beginning of Ramadan and we are
in the beautiful month of Ramadan,
we always see that the Masjids are more
full, that people's hearts are more inclined to
the worship of Allah.
People are seeking, searching, looking for something. Ramadan
gives them the moment. It gives them the
opportunity to come and seek.
But what is it that they are seeking?
What is it that they are looking for?
Today we are going to cover the name
of Allah,
Al Hadi,
the one who guides,
the guider,
the one who shows us the way.
There's only one dua,
only one supplication
that is obligatory
on every Muslim to ask Allah
17 times a day.
To ask Allah for guidance. Imagine for a
moment,
you're stuck in the middle of the desert.
You have nothing to eat, nothing to drink,
or you are stuck drowning under the sea,
you don't have oxygen,
the time for salah comes.
Even though you need food more and you
need drink and you need survival,
the only thing it's obligatory on you to
ask Allah
is for hidayah, for guidance.
Uhdina
asrath almustaqim,
guide us the straight path. Yes, Habibi.
Al Hadi.
Al Hadi.
Allah's name Al Hadi
in its form as a name came in
the Quran twice.
So to Hajj Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
and Allah is going to be the guide
for the believers to find the straight path.
And elsewhere in Surat Al Furqan,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
For every messenger Allah created enemies,
but Allah is enough
as a guide and as a helper.
What does the word guidance mean? When we
are asking Allah for guidance,
what are we asking him for?
You know, what does it mean to seek
guidance from Allah?
To keep us on the straight path till
the end. Mhmm. To keep us on the
straight path till the end. What exactly does
that mean? Yes. To to keep our hearts
Okay. To keep keep our hearts inclined to
Islam. Okay. Let me ask a more specific
question.
Is knowledge
and guidance the same thing? Alaim
and alhidayah.
If I know something, does that mean I'm
guided? When I'm asking Allah, Allah guide me,
am I saying give me more knowledge?
Does more knowledge mean more guidance?
Yes. Tell me.
Beautiful.
You might have a lot of knowledge, but
you don't benefit from that knowledge.
So that means,
tell me, can the correct knowledge
be a reason for you to be misguided,
for you to get lost?
No. Did you say no?
No. Yes.
Okay. He's saying the right knowledge will always
lead you to the right path. Do we
know somebody, anybody in the Quran who had
the right knowledge
but
they they went down the wrong path? Yes,
I can.
I'll go, yes. He understood that my prophet
Musa alaihis salam, he said he knows everything.
Okay,
Jameel, but this is not the exact one
we're looking for. Someone who knows something,
but that knowledge led them down the wrong
path. Correct knowledge. Yes.
Harun.
Harun. Iblis.
Sorry. What are you saying?
Okay.
Abu Talib, the uncle of prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. Okay.
See, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, first he talks
in the Quran about the Jews and the
Christians.
When what they were expecting,
a new messenger, a new prophet to come.
They knew that he's a real prophet. They
were expecting him to come. But when that
knowledge came to them,
correct knowledge,
they disbelieved in it the moment they saw
it.
He knew that Moses is a messenger,
Yes. Arrogance.
The feeling of being better, being too high.
I can't submit.
I'm too high. I'm too great.
It is not knowledge, just knowledge that gives
us guidance.
Because today, we live in a world where
we have information overload.
Anything you want to know is available on
the Internet,
the good and the bad.
And just the fact that a person might
have access to the right knowledge doesn't mean
that they will be guided
because guidance comes from Allah.
He is the guide. You might know do
we know people who memorize the Quran but
are doing major sins? Yes. Do we know
people who know all who've studied and all
of this stuff and then they disbelieved?
Yes.
Because knowledge doesn't mean it's guidance.
There are people who knew the truth.
What stopped them from being guided?
What stopped Firaun from being guided? What stopped
the Jews from accepting the truth
and acting on their knowledge?
Okay. He's saying arrogance. He's saying envy. What
else? So what are all of these things?
They think the messenger is not worthy of
having okay. But all of these things that
were mentioned,
vulman wa'luwah,
hasad,
envy, jealousy, arrogance, pride, what are all of
these?
Are they types of food,
types of book,
types of chemicals? What are they? Yes. Diseases
of the heart. They are diseases of the
heart.
The obstacle
that stops us from achieving guidance
is our heart.
Always.
That's why when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala talks
about guidance, He talks about the heart.
Who will complete the ayah.
Yes.
When Allah describes that, there are some people.
He has opened up their hearts to receive
guidance from Allah because you have to be
accepting of guidance.
Allah can give you all the evidences, all
the proofs, all the information,
but if your heart doesn't accept the guidance,
it'll become a brick wall.
Nothing will come through.
That's why Allah
says, Those people whose hearts are too hard
to accept the truth,
They are lost. They are misguided.
They will never come to the right path
because their own heart refuses the truth. They
decline it. They reject it
regardless of how it comes.
Allah
guidance is of multiple levels.
There's different levels of guidance.
But for us to understand these different levels
of guidance, I'm going to ask you a
hard question.
Are we ready for the question?
In the Quran,
there are 2 verses, 2 ayahs. They seem
to contradict each other, but they don't contradict
each other. I want you to explain to
me how. In one ayah in the Quran,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
Oh prophet Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa sallam,
you cannot guide someone just because you love
them.
Yeah. This is one ayah.
And another ayah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says
to Surah,
Oh Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, you are
guiding people to a straight path.
Now there seems to be a contradiction here.
One verse Allah is saying, Muhammad, you can
guide people. Another verse he's saying you cannot
guide people. So what is it? Can the
prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, guide
or is he unable to guide? Which one
is it?
Yes. But he can guide for only the
Okay. He can guide with the help of
Allah. I want a more specific answer. Yes.
Okay. He can guide you by showing you
the way.
But
Allah can put guidance in a person's heart.
Yes.
Okay. Allah is the one who opens their
heart to make some more accepting of Islam.
Yes.
Acceptance from the other person. Okay. Allah is
the one who gives acceptance from the other
person. Is that what you're saying? The other
person also has acceptance. The other person has
to accept the guidance. Okay. Good. Yes.
Okay. The prophet has to show them the
path, but then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grants
them the ability to actually apply it. Okay.
There's a saying in English,
you can bring the horse to water,
but you can't
you can't force it to drink.
This first level of guidance is guidance meaning
showing them the path. When you're driving on
the motorway,
imagine GPS doesn't exist. What do you look
for?
Signs. You look for the signs.
Now, you want to go on the m
6. Is it possible for you to take
the wrong turn to go on the m
56? It's possible.
But the signs show you which way you
should be going, gives you direction.
This is the first level of guidance
at Dalil wal Irshad
to show you this is the way.
But it cannot can the sign, the green
sign on the motorway, can it come down,
grow legs, force you to turn in the
right direction? It can't.
It can only show you the direction. It
cannot make you drive in the right direction.
This is the role of the messenger sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
Do you think the prophet is happy with
that?
Do you think he's happy with that role?
He shows you the way. You're gonna go,
go. You don't wanna go, don't go. You
think he's happy?
Who can tell me a proof if the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is very sad
when he sees people
not follow the the the right directions?
Yes.
Beautiful.
It is it is a big deal for
the messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam when he
sees people going astray. When he sees he
tells them go this way and this will
walk in the opposite direction.
He cries at night for them. He cries
for his ummah.
He is upset at the misguidance of people.
He is deeply sorrowed
and and to the extent
to the extent that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
says
Your level of sadness is so severe you
might kill yourself
just because they didn't follow the truth.
But that is his role. In alaikah,
ilal balar, you can only convey, you cannot
convince.
And in the distance he sees his son.
In the far distance.
How many of us we can relate to
this? We have a son, a brother, a
cousin, a friend,
who
we wish that they followed the right way.
We wish that they prayed. We wish they
came to the we wish they fasted.
But from far, we can only watch them
go
to drown slowly but surely.
As Nuhal alayhi salam looks at his son,
he calls out to him.
My son,
my small child,
please come on the ship and don't drown
with the disbelievers.
Father, it's okay.
I'll hide behind this mountain that will protect
me from the water.
My son, nothing can save you today except
the mercy of Allah.
And the wave came between them.
And he drowned.
Imagine the sadness of the father watching his
child drown. How many fathers there might be
over here, whose children are on drugs, whose
children don't pray salaam al jis. On the
way to this class, I was talking on
the phone to a mother and I take
these calls every other day.
My children don't pray. My children do this.
They're on drugs. My children want to leave
Islam. My children are severely depressed. She's in
the hospital. He says Allah doesn't exist. What
do I do? I did everything. I told
them, I asked them, I helped them, I
guided them, but the environment, the school, the
class, their friends back you know, the sadness
in a parent's voice.
You don't know. You have to speak to
a parent like that.
The despair,
the concern of a parent for the child
is unparalleled.
And all they need to do is to
remember.
Even the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam could
not guide his uncle.
He could only show him the way. People
have to walk in the direction they're walking.
You and me, we can only show them
the message. We can only nudge them, prod
them, explain to them.
But we have to remember
Allah is the only one that guides.
The first level of guidance that Allah gives
us in the Quran
is that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala places within
us tools so that we know who he
is so we can find him. Let's say,
for example, my brother here wanted to go
to Sheffield.
I said, look, brother.
I don't know my way around this town.
I'm new here. I don't know the way
to Sheffield. But you know what? I'm going
to give you a tool. This is called
GPS,
satnav. Take this.
I don't know the way. I cannot show
you the roads, but this tool will give
you the way.
Similarly, the first level of guidance,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala places within us tools,
the eyes, the ears, the mind.
These tools, they are the compass that shows
us Allah
Every human being is born with this level
of guidance.
Whether they see revelation and prophet and Quran,
doesn't matter. Within human being, there is something
in our DNA,
in the chip. You know, when you buy
a new phone, there are some applications already
installed. You can't uninstall them. You can try.
You can't uninstall them. 1 of those in
our fitra, Allah installed within us a desire
to know Allah, a hunger for meaning. Why
am I here? Where am I going? What
is all of this? Where did it come
about? Human beings desire to know Allah. This
is the first level of guidance. Allah gave
us the tool, the GPS. It's in our
system.
The second
the second tool of guidance
is the wahi, revelation that Allah sends.
This revelation tells us exactly what we're supposed
to do, where we're supposed to go, how
we are supposed to be. It is the
information, the knowledge that gives us the guidance
if we follow it.
But there's a third level.
And this third level, no prophet can give,
no human can give another human being. It
is solely in the hands of Allah, which
is
the tawfiq.
You have the ability
to quit smoking,
but you don't. You have the ability
to stop watching those things, but you don't.
What is going to get you to stop?
Ultimately,
it is the help of Allah.
Allah places some light in your heart and
he gives you the motivation and the strength
to overcome
that difficulty, that obstacle, that sin. That third
level is only from Allah and no human
can give it and no human can claim
it.
But here is the question.
This hidayah, this guidance from Allah,
is it just random?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala just chooses one random
yeah. Him. I'm gonna give him hidayah. Him?
That's okay. Leave him.
Is it random or are there ways
where we can get the guidance of Allah?
Are there asbaab?
You know, if I told you for example,
money.
Money is not the cash bag of cash
is not gonna drop from the sky.
You and me both know if we want
to pay our bills, what do we have
to do? We have to make a CV,
apply for jobs, go to job market, you
have to get skills.
We know there are means and ways to
get risk.
But what about Hidayah?
Many of us act as though
guidance is something random that Allah just drops
into your heart out of the blue.
You find somebody smoking outside the masjid at
salatah. Brother, come inside.
Yani, you have another cigarette in your pocket.
After salah you can continue. Come for salah.
Brother, when Allah guides me, I'll stop. Okay,
Habib, no problem.
Yeah. As you see see a brother and
a sister walking, holding hands on the road
and you know they're not married, look, Habib,
look. Why don't you enjoy this relationship while
married? Look, when Allah guides me then
yes? Salah time comes, salah time goes, find
1 uncle. He's not praying, salah. Uncle, salah.
When Allah guides me then I will start
praying. Okay. Here's the question. Yes? Why don't
we deal with your with wealth in the
same way? Why don't you just sit on
the couch at home and say, when Allah
grants me wealth, I'll become wealthy?
Why is it that you're sweating and bleeding
and tiring and exhausting yourself to earn this
living to pay your bills?
With risk,
we will sweat because we know you have
to take the steps to get it. But
with hidayah, guidance from Allah, we think just
by sitting and holding hands and singing songs,
we'll do nothing. Put the telly on, put
your feet up, Allah will guide us.
How does the guidance of Allah come?
Are we supposed to seek it? What's the
evidence of that we are supposed to seek
it? How do we seek it?
Okay. He's saying dua. This is one beautiful
way. What's the evidence that we have to
make dua for guidance?
It's the only dua Allah told us we
must make every day, 17 times a day.
Dua.
But dua is just one means.
Okay. Knowledge. One way to see the guidance
of Allah is to seek the correct knowledge.
Yes.
Okay. Nawafil, praying salat. Okay. This
comes under the idea of
working hard for the guidance.
There's a word for this in the Quran.
Starts with j, not a popular word.
Yes? Fox News doesn't like this word.
Yes, jihad.
Who can tell me where Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala says, if you do jihad, I will
give you guidance?
This ayah, I want you to stop with
me for one moment.
We said one way for you to get
guidance is to ask Allah.
But also in a hadith could see in
Sahih Muslim
All of you are lost except the ones
I have guided.
Ask me to guide you.
I will show you the way, but you
have to ask me. It doesn't come free.
They say in English, you don't ask,
you don't get. So if you don't ask,
how is Allah gonna give you the guidance?
Okay. This is the first thing. 2nd one,
jihad.
I'm not asking anybody to pick up arms.
Yes.
The majority of times in the Quran when
jihad is mentioned, it is not
regarding
physical fighting. The majority of times jihad comes
in the Quran.
In this ayah, Allah says,
this is the only ayah
Allah promises guidance
with 3 emphasis.
He can say
but he says
These are letters in Arabic used to emphasize
100%,
definitely,
100, guaranteed I will guide you if you
do this thing. What is the thing?
What does it mean?
To struggle,
to fight, which enemy? Who are you fighting?
That's yourself. Yourself.
Our greatest enemy is ourselves.
I'll give you an example.
You are somebody who doesn't pray salah.
That's much how we're all in front of
the presence of the muttaqeen.
You are somebody you want to pray the
night prayer, qiyamullil,
after Ramadan regularly.
But
Allah is not guiding me. What step can
I take?
You have to struggle and fight yourself,
the first thing.
When it comes nighttime, 9 PM, you like
to turn on the television and watch some
TV serials until midnight. Then you say, oh,
Allah is not waking me up for tahajjud.
Okay. First step. Right? Let's sacrifice the TV
serials. Watch for 10 minutes. Turn it off.
Go to bed early.
Yeah. It's easy for me to say this.
Right? It will take you 6 months to
do it.
Because it's really jihad. To say no to
yourself is a jihad. It's a fight.
It's
tough. It's not easy.
And then to have a light dinner
and then to put 3 alarms on and
put them in different places. This is all
jihad. You're fighting yourself.
If you do all of these steps,
Allah
will 100%
let you enjoy the sweetness of tantra.
But did you fight yourself? Did you try?
Did we struggle?
Where there is no struggle, no reward. There's
another English saying, no pain,
no shawarma. Sorry. No pain, no gain. Yes.
Sorry. I'm hungry, so shawarma always comes to
my mind. Yes?
No pain, no gain. If you do not
struggle for Allah, Allah is not gonna show
you the way. He's not gonna give you
Ikhlas, not gonna give you tawfiq.
Anytime you want the guidance from Allah for
something specific,
I want Allah's guidance to become someone who
prays in it. I want Allah's guidance to
become someone who's good character, well mannered. I
want someone's Allah's guidance to stop this sin.
The first question you have to ask yourself,
what have I done
to fight myself
to achieve this?
How much you fight yourself,
that is how much Allah will make it
easy for you.
You want something to be you work hard,
Allah makes it easy for you.
This is the second way to get the
guidance from Allah. Al Mujahada, you have to
fight.
The third way
to get the guidance of Allah
is to trust Allah
Often we put too much trust in ourselves.
We think we are the ones. Right? We
invented the vaccine. We invented the telescope. We,
human beings, we think too much of ourselves.
But Allah says, if you want the guidance
from Allah, you have to start trusting him.
You know, when you're driving and to yeah.
Today, my son asked me while I was
driving.
I had the GPS on, the satnav.
He said, how do you know that the
computer is telling you the actual correct road?
I
said, actually, I don't know.
I'm just trusting it. It could be taking
me to Sheffield,
but I want to go to Furqan Masjid.
I I just trust it.
If you want to Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala's
guidance, we have to trust
Whoever
trusts in Allah,
he has already been guided to the straight
path.
What does that mean I have to trust
Allah? You know,
sticking on the straight path is a hard
job
because to say yes to Allah, you have
to say no to 10 other things.
I'll give you an example with earning money.
We want to earn a halal income. Right?
Somebody comes to you. Oh, register yourself on
one address, register your wife on another address,
pretend you're not married, you both claim benefit,
you'll you'll become rich.
Yes, but that's the money of people who
have no money that I'm taking.
Am I okay sleeping at night doing that?
You have to say no to them.
Somebody else comes to you. Oh, it's a
get rich quick scheme, dropshipping Amazon, eBay, buy
this, sell this, do some scam. You'll become
rich in 10 days. You have to say
no. It's hard.
Someone else comes to you.
It happened to me once. Car just parked
in front of me. The window rolled down.
Someone tucked one hand out with
a packet of weed in their hand.
Do you want to make some money?
You have to say no. It's hard. When
you're hungry and thirsty to say no to
a way to make money is hard. You're
laughing now because you're in ease.
Ask the person who cannot pay rent.
When somebody comes to them and tempts them
with something haram, it's so hard to say
no.
This is how the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
He drew a straight line.
And he drew many
squiggly lines around it and he said this
is the salatul mustaqim,
and these are all the other paths you
could have taken,
and every path
Somebody sitting there advertising to you, come.
Every path away from the salat al mustaqim,
the straight path.
The path of sin, the path of immorality,
the path of *, the path of haram
income, the path
of disobeying your parents, the path there's so
many other ways to go.
Everywhere you look, someone's advertising to you to
jump into one of the other paths.
You have to say no 100 times.
And you know what? When you say no,
you have to trust this was good for
me. Allah
will look after me.
I might be hungry tonight,
but 1 £1
of halal income is better for me than
£1,000,000 of haram income. For that, you need
trust.
You need to trust Allah.
Allah promised you something and it's going to
come true. But you need to trust him,
he will give you the patience. You need
to trust when Allah
tells you to do something, it's only for
your for your good, for your right outcome.
If you don't trust Allah, you will lose
your way.
So the ways of getting guidance so far,
we have reached 3. Who can tell me
the 3? Dua.
Dua,
jihad,
and trusting Allah.
Trusting
Allah.
And there's a 4th one.
Al Inaba,
to constantly turn back to Allah. Inaba in
Arabic, Inaba you need to make a u-turn,
detour.
You're going in one direction, you realize, oop,
wrong way. I take the u-turn. Not the
illegal u-turn that all of us do, the
legal u-turn, you know, when you're allowed to
do the u-turn. Yes? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
says in the Quran,
Allahu
Allah selects
to come on his path whoever he wishes.
And he guides to the path,
whoever keeps coming back to him.
If we want the guidance of Allah,
we cannot give up.
Every day, there is a 1,000 other temptations.
You go to watch a video by some
Sheikh about a Quran recitation. In your suggested
videos, there'll be 3 haram things waiting
for
you. Yes? You go to the masjid. On
the way to the masjid, there'll be 6
temptations pulling you here and there.
If we want the guidance of Allah, we
have to have the strength to turn back
to him when we lose the way.
Guidance from Allah doesn't mean that we will
always be walking on the straight path.
It means 100%
everybody in this room, you're going to take
the wrong turn at some point in time.
You are going to take the wrong turn
in your life.
Every son of Adam is a sinner.
Your GPS, when you're on the motorway, sometimes
it loses signal. You're driving in the dark.
You have no clue where you're going. But
when it wakes up, it tells you there
is a way back. There's always a u-turn.
Part of seeking the guidance from Allah
and receiving his guidance
means we have to always realize
the backdoor is always open.
The door to Allah is not one way,
it's two way.
You can always come back.
As my good friend said
last time, if you take
A 1000.
1,000 steps from Allah,
it only takes One step. One step to
come back.
This is the third. So dua
and
jihad,
fighting yourself and
relying upon Allah, tawakkul and
inaba to turn back to him again and
again.
Don't measure your guidance by how perfect you
are. This is wrong.
Measure your guidance by how many times you
fell down and you got back up. You
fell down, you got back up. You fell
down, you broke your ankle, you took 3
months, you came back.
This is the sign of guidance from Allah.
Guidance doesn't mean you're always perfect, always in
the good zone, always bring salah with kushoor,
kamal No. Guidance means
when you lose your way, you get distracted,
you get tempted,
you break down in front of Allah like
a child who lost his mother.
Mama, I want to come back to you.
Open the door for me.
You break down in front of Allah with
sincerity, this is the sign of your guidance.
The The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
very often he will make dua for guidance.
Who can tell me some duas other than
hidayasilalmustaqim?
You don't get you don't get away with
the easy one where the prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam asked Allah subhanahu ta'ala for guidance.
Yes. Oh Allah, you are the turner of
hearts.
Let my heart be firm upon your deen.
This is the most frequent dua that the
prophet will make. What else?
Sorry?
Okay.
The dua of witr that we all hear.
Oh, Allah, guide me from those you have
guided. What else?
Yes. But this is not dua for guidance,
this is dua for forgiveness.
Yes?
Beautiful. Beautiful. Allahu may'ini as alukalhuda, watukawal
aafa wa'lagheena. Oh, Allah ask you for guidance
and taqwa
and chastity
and self sufficiency.
And one of the duas of the prophet
he would make
when he would begin salah, you know when
you say Allah straight away there's a dua
that you make.
One time the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
one of the dua's he made, it's a
long dua,
but I'm just going to choose the one
relevant to us, the part that relevant to
us.
Or Allah, guide me to have the most
beautiful character.
Nobody can guide me to this character except
you.
And take me away from bad character.
Nobody will take me away from bad character
except you.
Any other duas? Yes.
Okay. Allah, help me to remember you and
be grateful for you and to worship you.
Yes.
Beautiful Surat Alimran. Oh Allah, do not misguide
us after you have shown us the right
path.
One of the very important mindsets we have
to have when we know Allah is al
Hadi,
we have to give credit for our good
deeds to Allah.
Yes. You're here in the masjid.
What brought you here? Your intelligence?
Your righteousness?
Your smartness? Your God consciousness? What brought you
here to the masjid?
Allah.
When the prophet, salawasalam, in the battle of
Khaybar,
when he was digging the trench upon the
battle of the trench, but, when he's digging
the trench with his companions,
he used to sing a line of poetry.
Who can tell me this line of poetry?
Alhamdulillahi
laddi
Hadana.
You're too far today. You're too far. It's
okay. It's okay.
If it was not for Allah, we would
never have found guidance the right way. We
would never have given sadaqah. We would never
have prayed. We have to go home today
really, really believing this is true.
If it was not for Allah
and the help of Allah and the guidance
of Allah,
you and me, right now, we could be
dealing drugs.
You and me right now we could have
been in a club. You and me right
now we could have been doing something haram
if it was not for Allah.
Allah says, don't think too much of yourselves.
Don't say, me, I did it. I am
so righteous.
I am pious.
Masha'Allah.
No.
Humble yourself.
Anything good that came from you is from
Allah.
Be grateful to him. Who opened your heart
up to him? Who's the one who showed
you the way? He did.
Knowing Allah is al Hadi, you should be
you and me, we should be grateful to
Allah for every tiny bit of worship he
gives us because this is a blessing he
can take away.
And one of the signs,
one of the ways for
for us to go in the wrong path
is when we start to think it is
me that did all of this. Who can
tell me somebody in the Quran
that thought all of his goodness was from
himself,
and Allah
swallowed him up in the earth?
From the people of pharaoh, pharaoh of Egypt.
He said, all of this stuff I have
is from my intelligence.
So what did Allah do?
Swallowed him up in the earth. Where's your
intelligence now, Habibi?
Dig.
You can't dig?
Where are you gone?
We have to really realize anything good from
us
is from Allah.
And this give gives us humility.
And this also gives us mercy when we
look at somebody else. It makes us
realize you are not better
than somebody else. There's nobody you are better
than and I am better than. Because when
we look at them, you know what can
happen?
If we look at somebody and we look
down at them look at this guy. Look
how he prays. His salah is like a
yoga session. What is this?
Look at my salah. I pray salah like
the salihin.
Come. Sit. Watch me for When we start
thinking, we look at we think, what is
this guy? What is that person? Look at
that hijabs. Half the hair is sticking up.
Look. When we start looking at people like
this, we look down at them.
You know what could happen?
Allah can guide them
and Allah can let us go down the
wrong path
and we die on a state of disbelief
and they die and they go to the
highest act of paradise.
Never ever feel arrogant.
Never ever look down at another believer because
what you are upon is from Allah. And
you never know they could die on a
better stage, in a better place
than you and I. Remind yourself and myself,
when we see somebody far from Allah and
we think we are closer than Allah, remember,
they can die in a state, in a
situation better than you and me, and we
can die regretting.
That one moment of arrogance can lead us
to jahannam.
Never ever belittle another believer.
As the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said.
Never look down, Never think little of somebody
else because
the roads could be swapped one day and
you could end up in the wrong way,
in the wrong path.
Allah's name, Al Hadi, the guide,
it reminds us
that ultimately
there are so many people in this world
where we really we feel pain because we
don't we wish we wish
that they would take one step towards Allah,
but they don't want to.
Allah's name Al Hadi comforts us. It consoles
us
that that guidance
was never in our hands in the 1st
place,
that we should leave that to Allah.
And the the image that we get from
the most scary scenario is the scenario of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam as he
watched who died in disbelief. Who did he
watch?
Abu Talib, his uncle.
You know, Abu Talib is not like any
uncle.
When everybody left the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, he protected him. When everyone rejected him,
he owned him. When everyone expelled him from
Makkah,
he gave him wealth and food.
Everything in this world, he gave him.
But
there's just one thing.
And there's here a secret to how to
reach guidance.
As Abu Talib is on his deathbed, and
the prophet says,
you am or uncle,
please
leave what you are believing in and die
upon.
Who is the one that reminds Abu Talib
and
who encourages him to die a disbeliever?
Who's sitting next to him? Abu Jahl Abu
Lahab.
Bad company.
You and I, we could think we are
the we could desire guidance more than you
are right now desiring shawarma.
You could desire guidance
with such a hunger.
But
if your friend circle
are the wrong friends,
this is one of the best ways to
end up in the wrong place.
One of the best ways for Allah's guidance
never to reach you.
Look on your right, look on your look
at your 2 best friends.
My my father, when I was growing up
forgive me, you know, I as when I
was growing up, I had at one point
in time, I had I was around the
wrong group of friends.
And so one time, my father drove past
us, me and this group,
and I came home.
He didn't let me enter the house.
I'm waiting outside, 52 degrees Celsius,
sweating,
sweating.
Then he opens the door.
He just says one sentence to me.
Tell me who your friends are, I will
tell you who you are. I don't want
to see around those guys again.
That was the last day. I need the
air conditioning. So that was the last day
you saw me with those people again.
Tell me who your friends are, I will
tell you who you are. Al Hadi, Allah
guides through means that we never expected.
Never underestimate
any means of guidance
and never underestimate
any means of misguidance.
Those people who we are around, we think,
oh, yeah, I'm going to guide them.
There's only 2 options. Either we are influencing
them or
they are influencing us.
And it could be that our friends
and our close company are the reason for
us going down the wrong path.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us of
those who are guided.
I'll leave you on one last story and
then inshallah you can all be rid of
me for the day.
Guidance requires effort from you and I.
If we want Allah's guidance, we have to
be accepting,
excited, eager, putting effort in to get that
guidance.
Allah says in the Quran,
Those who made effort
to get the guidance of Allah,
they sweated for Allah's sake, he made it
easy for them to achieve taqwa and he
increased them in their guidance.
One of the most phenomenal examples of this
is the time of Musa alaihis salam.
Musa alaihis salam is in this war with
the magicians
and they he throws his stick and they
throw their sticks.
And the moment his snake starts eating their
snakes, they have a realization.
Knowledge comes to them.
This guy is not doing magic.
He's doing something else.
This is not magic.
Now,
Firaun, he knows this as well, but he's
rejecting it because of something in his heart.
These magicians,
the moment they realized the truth,
they didn't just accept the truth. What did
they do?
They fell down in sajda.
Fa'ul kiya saharatu
sajidin.
They just fell on their faces.
We
believe in Allah, Lord of the worlds.
The Lord of Musa and Harun. Look at
the immediate submission to Allah.
Immediately.
You know how hard that is to sacrifice
your ego, sacrifice your position in society,
sacrifice your arrogance.
And despite every you know the threat is
going to come. It's not gonna be you're
not gonna have a nice easy exit with
a red carpet
to fall on your face in sujood.
What does Fir'aun say?
You believed in him before I gave you
permission?
I will chop your arms and legs off
from behind
and then I will crucify you.
Are you scared?
Are you terrified?
And what do these magicians say?
We don't care.
Look at this.
This is the guidance from Allah.
They fell in sajdah to Allah.
Allah gave them gifted them such a strong
certainty. You know, you and me,
you know, if somebody came and threatened us,
look, if you don't give up, Islam, I'm
gonna chop your arms and legs. You say,
look, whatever religion you say, I'll accept this.
No problem, brother.
Let me breathe.
Look at the strength Allah gave them, the
strength.
They did sajdah to Allah. Allah gave them
such a strength. They said, we don't care.
We are going back to Allah.
We just hope Allah forgives our sins because
we were the first to believe.
The magicians of Musa alayhi salam teach us,
if you take
one step, one moment of sincere submission to
Allah,
Allah will give you a strength to worship
him, a confidence to believe in him,
a level of certainty
that you could never have imagined. But you
have to take the step.
You have to take the step.
Allah's guidance does not come free.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said,
Allah
The guidance of Allah is expensive,
but are you going to spend what's necessary
to receive it?
This is the question I leave all of
you on.
Allah's guidance is there but we have to
sweat in order to achieve it. Yes, Habibi.
I just want to tell you, like,
to emphasize on the story of Prophet Muhammad.
So before he
and actually, they fled the paradise
after.
The difference between the pharaoh of Egypt, Firaun,
and these magicians is just one thing, what
is in their heart.
If you show Allah sincerity in your heart,
Allah will show you something you never expected.
Allah will show you moments of compassion and
certainty and iman that you never expected.