Hussain Kamani – Ramadan Reflections Day 22

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			Allah subhanho wa Taala in the Quran.
		

			When he mentioned the creation of the human being,
		

			he mentioned that we created the human being in the most beautiful form.
		

			And then when, in one verse, Allah subhana wa tada mentioned that when we created the human being,
we honored the human being, and we honored the human being over the other creation. So Allah
subhanho wa Taala made the human being very beautiful. And the creation of the human being is so
beautiful that when we look at it, it amazes us from the way Allah subhanho wa Taala has created all
the departments within our body, the mind is there, then you have the heart is there and then the
liver is there and the kidneys are there and the lungs are there, and every part of the human body
is fulfilling its responsibility. And there's so much to reflect over when it comes to human body
		

			alasa which tells us in the Quran, when I met the fucker roofie unfussy him that do not reflect over
yourself, if you just reflect into yourself, you'll find the greatness of Allah subhana wa Tada. But
with all of this, with all of the beauty, and with all the greatness that Allah has created inside
us, we as human beings are still very weak. Alonso just says in the Quran, the holy cow insano, the
iffa, the human being was created weak. And as a part of our weakness, we experienced this weakness
within ourselves every so often. Sometimes you try your absolute best to prepare for an exam. But
then you end up failing it.
		

			You think to yourself, I did everything possible? Where did that weakness come from? How did I feel
it? Sometimes you try your absolute best to make a relationship work. But then at the end of it, it
just doesn't work. Sometimes you try your absolute best to change a person's mind, in terms of their
religion and their understanding of God. But then you feel again, and at life we realize every so
often that we have so many weaknesses within ourselves. You can do whatever you want. But if Allah
subhanahu wa tada doesn't help you, you will not be able to make the payment on that mortgage. You
just can't do it. You can do whatever you want. You can work double shift, triple shift whatever you
		

			want. But if Allah subhanahu wa tada doesn't help, it just can't happen. There was a friend of mine,
he said to me the shift.
		

			A few months ago, I had first time in my life $48,000 in my bank account, how much
		

			he's a young guy. And I was like, wow, that's for American born kid putting 40,000 together is a
good amount of money. Mashallah, right? In America, we can we can save that kind of money. But he
said, The unique thing is that I thought to myself that very soon, for the first time in my life, I
will actually have the pride in saying that I now possess $50,000. But it's been four months since
that day, and now my account is $42,000. It just won't go up. I'm trying to do whatever I can I
save, I save I save, but it just won't pass that it says if I wanted to pass that threshold, but
alasa was just doesn't want it to pass that threshold. And here I'm at battle with a being that's
		

			way beyond me. And I realized that I'm just gonna leave it to Allah subhanho wa Taala. So we have
weaknesses. And it's not only us, sometimes we we go too hard on ourselves. And when we see our
relationships aren't working out, or when we see that our kids aren't obedient to us, or when we see
that our parents are not obedient to us, you know, aren't listening to us. They're not
compassionate. They're not showing that empathy to us. We think that it's us in life is so hard on
me. And why is it so difficult for me, and there's no purpose in life for me and Allah subhanho wa
Taala isn't listening to me, when the reality of the matter is that's not true. Allah subhanho wa
		

			Taala test those servants of his who are most beloved to him, as parents sometimes are worried about
children. Now what's gonna happen to my child? Will my child be obedient? Or will he be disobedient?
we as parents can do whatever we want. We can give them the best education we give them the best
friend group and do all the good things. But at the end of the day, if Allah subhanho wa Taala has
found otherwise there is nothing we can do in the world. And we see this in the story of new honey
Salah. There is no father that can be their father like a prophet of Allah. But at the end of the
day, his son Allah azza wa jal mentioned that he died without a man he died without Islam. There is
		

			no doubt that no honey syrup didn't fulfill his responsibility. But yet, Allah subhanahu wa tada is
the one who accepts it Allah subhana wa tada is the one who gives, we see in the story of a body set
up such a great prophet of Allah.
		

			But yet he is suffering from an illness and he's weak. And just as we realize that no matter how
much the doctor tries at the end of the day, who is the one who gives cure
		

			Allah, Allah He This is very true. There are so many times this has happened that doctors have given
up hope that there is no hope in this person. But when Allah subhana wa tada wishes to cure someone,
he is a no need of a surgical tool. Allah subhanho wa Taala is a no need for any radiation. Allah
subhana wa tada is a no need for a doctor or hospital. But Allah subhanho wa Taala wishes to give
cure, he gives cure in mysterious ways and amazing ways beyond our imagination. And a human Islam he
realized that we're his community gave up on him because his community actually took his body and
they left it by the dump area. And when he realized that his family gave up on him, his community
		

			gave up on him and he was just so low on himself. He turned to the one that always gives to the one
who calls on Tim and he said it'd be in the mess any of the
		

			oh my lord difficulty has come to me and you are the one who gives mercy unicity said I'm give up
hope on his people. And he left. You know, sometimes we give up hope on our own. We give up hope in
our community, we give up hope on our family, we give up hope on our children, we give up on each
other. But that's not our job to give up hope. We don't have the right to give up hope that's the
whole thing. Our job is to only try try try and if we feel like we're not doing anything, just
continue trying you can't give up hope that's not in our control. We can't give up on people and
give up hope on his people and he left and allows that we just had a had a fish smaller him a whale
		

			swallow him and when he saw that in the fish and we're we're all the way to the bottom of the sea
and the stomach of the whale was touching the seabed and it was it was kind of the rocks on the
ground imprinting on the stomach. And Eunice Ali Salaam was very weak at this point. He hadn't eaten
for days he was going very weak inside there. And now he thinks to himself that I made a mistake. I
shouldn't have done that I shouldn't have given up hope on them. Then he's thinking I need to call
them Allah but then he's thinking to himself, look how bah Look how low I am in the earth. I'm at
the bottom of the ocean. You know how can I call that love from here and then when he lies in the
		

			ground, he hears he hears the stones doing this we have Allah subhana wa tada Allah which I
mentioned in the Quran is our final Falcon mushroom facade, facade hamaca minimal Hadid fall Docomo,
Emily falola Anna who can aminal Sabine, he heard them during the speech. So he started doing this
Me too. He sort of he started praising Allah. And what was his praise to Allah La La Land. So
Hanukkah in the continental parliament, I was weak or LA you are not weak. I was the one that was an
oppressor and then allows him to gel he gives him health again, Allah azza wa jal, it gives him
everything back again. And there are so many stories in the Quran of this nature. We have to
		

			remember as human beings that we are also weak, and there are so many things that we will try. But
ultimately we're going to end up giving up because we do not have the strength to do it. That's why
there is one thing that is very powerful for a believer, which is making dua to Allah subhanho wa
Taala. Whenever you make an effort, whenever you have parmelia, along with a tabula you must also
have camillia You must have acceptance from Allah subhanho wa Taala. You must always make dua to
Allah azza wa jal, your law is like a weapon for you. No matter how strong the army is, in your
opposition, they will fall if you have a connection with Allah subhanho wa Taala. If you can make
		

			the water law, otherwise we can become the nuclear, we can hold all the nuclear power in the world
we can become the superpower of the world. But will it not be our wait will be nothing if we have no
connection with the last panel with Donna? I'm not saying that those who are proactive in the field
and doing a lot of work on establishing the Muslim community on the greater scale that they're doing
wrong. That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that we need to all go on that field, but at
the same time, we need to pray to Allah subhanho wa Taala. We need to establish a firm relationship
muscle quantum with Allah. Because if we haven't learned this from the past five days for the past
		

			five reflections, then I'm not sure when we're gonna learn this, that it's not about numbers. It's
not about strength. If it's anything, it's about how our relationship is the loss of Hannah Montana.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is one day sitting with a bus with your loved one. And
loving that bus is a very young kid. How do you do that when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
passed away of the love now bus was just reaching the age of maturity, maybe 1112 years old. So when
they he was, you know, he was that he was walking he was riding the animal with the prophets of
Allah. It was no we closest had eaten his alibi. And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
		

			all young man I will give you some advice. Listen carefully.
		

			And then he said yes, messenger of Allah. And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said to him,
very beautiful honey, right? He said what he does what he does, first Allah. When you ask ask Allah
subhanho wa Taala first, while I'm Anil omata legitimate alien Pharaoh can be shaken linnaean for
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			If the entire nation gathered together to give you something that Allah has not written for you, can
they give it to you? Impossible. And whatever is the law of the ruka machine, and if they gathered
together to harm you on something that a lot has not written for you, then can they harm you?
Haven't we learned this from the story if you put on him on nice and ominous made alleys around,
that he's taking the knife and he's running, he's running it over his son's neck, but now the knife
loss effect? Have you guys ever heard of that before? Right? Even the knife is losing its effect
because he has lots of cartilage on his side. And let's say you're going to him it cinema is being
		

			launched in the fire. Okay, he's being launched in the fire. And when he lands in the fire, people
are expecting him to be roasted. They aren't even expecting to see his ashes. But then they see him
Elisa walking out of the fire without any harm on him at all. Along Aquila li la, who is the one
that's helping him How is Allah subhanaw taala helping them we have to learn to make dwad Allah
subhana wa tada we have to build a connection with Allah subhana wa tada the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam teaches us in a very beautiful Hadith the footsy
		

			that allows origin says that if all the insaan all the jinn gathered together in one plane, in one
large fields, from the beginning of mankind, till the end of mankind of billions and billions of us
gathered together in one large plane, and we asked Allah at one time whenever we wanted in one
second, we asked a lot for whatever we wanted. One of the small kids could have asked her what Lucky
me a billion Xbox. You can ask for whatever you want. Allows origin says if I gave every single one
of you whatever you wanted, how much would that deduct from my kingdom
		

			not even equivalent to a needle being dipped inside an ocean. You know, when you're flying over the
ocean and instead of plain international flight, you open the window and it's water and you close
it. Few hours later open it again. It's still water you close it. Few hours later you open it again,
you know how wide the ocean is. And then imagine the depth of the ocean, all of that. And then what
happens is you take a needle, dip it inside How much does it deduct from the ocean?
		

			Anything Someone may say one drop but when you pull that needle up what happens to the drop? Even
that falls right back inside. Nothing is deducted from the kingdom of Allah subhanho wa Taala The
only thing is that we need to learn to ask Allah subhanho wa Taala when we ask a lot there are
certain benefits. The first thing when we make the ATO Allah we learn how weak we are.
		

			Until you don't make the auto law you will never realize how weak you actually are. And trust me
everybody knows that their weakness no matter how how nice Your house is or how big your how
beautiful and expensive your car is, you know your cars and houses can't hide your need to Allah
subhanho wa Taala because you remember when you go for that job interview you still go to mommy
sobbing I don't know man and say to him, Chef, please make the law that I pass my job interview Yes
or no? Right? And he's still a wake up at the 100 salon, raise your hand saying Oh Allah, I need
your help for the job interview. But it's interesting as soon as as soon as we pass the job
		

			interview, who's the first person we forget?
		

			Allah subhanho wa Taala we make a lot of a low will I have to pass the MCAT I have to get into med
school my dad was this only I'm dizzy. I have discipline running in my veins there's no other way I
can't become a you know an educator. I can't be a psychology these are all like scum. I have to be
doctor and when you're passing that MCAT you make a lot of love leave I have to be doc roll up. He's
have to be doctor. And as soon as we pass it, guess we forget first.
		

			Allah subhana wa Tada. He's the first person we forget. And the testimony to that is that we use our
exams as excuses for missing our Salah. We use our exams as excuses for not fasting. We use our
career as excuses for not having children. We use our career as excuse for not getting married. We
use our career as excuse for engaging in haram what happened to you begging from Allah subhana wa
Tada. So when you ask a law you learn how weak you actually are. The second benefit of asking Allah
subhana wa tada is you learn how great Allah subhana wa tada is, you learn of your weakness, and you
learn of the greatness of Allah. Allah azza wa jal says lahoma Kali.
		

			Right? Allah azzawajal says we're in the home authority, la la la Illa. Who, that Allah azzawajal
forget about the treasures belonging to Allah even the keys to the treasures belong to Allah subhana
wa tada you can access the charges of Allah without the keys and allows him to possesses those kings
as well allows within possesses those keys as well. Look how much we are in need of Allah subhana wa
Tada.
		

			The third thing that we learned from making the model Allah subhana wa tada is that when we make dua
to Allah, we don't lose anything we actually gain. If we ask from other people, we degrade
ourselves. If I was to stand up here right now, instead of the community members that I need to buy
a house, and I need someone to help me finance it privately from the community. I've just degraded
myself. You guys understand that? By asking people you show them that you need them and you drop
your value. But when you ask a lot, you drop your value.
		

			God raise your value. The reason a lot of witnesses know Quran, Allah Masha Allah subhana wa COVID
Allah D and Guevara
		

			for enamal OCD usera with every difficulty that comes east, in Nevada city surah with every
difficulty there is ease Via Ferrata fossa. After when it's time for you to stat when it's time when
you're alone for you that first time when you're alone, fun substan in front of a line prayer, what
you love and hastin towards your Lord, because the way through difficulty the way you get ease is by
running to Allah subhana wa tada not running to other people. You gain it through going to Allah
subhanho wa Taala and it's very interesting not to be poet he says either study called Belvoir for
coffee and I'm not sure for Indian author any final final use rabina Casa de irata for courtesy he
		

			he says when times become hard and life focus on the surah Allah Masha either said the BeagleBone
either said that because
		

			because when you look at the sooner you see the word you sort of surrounds tourism's ease surrounds
difficulty, when you ponder over that, that there's ease, and then there's a little difficulty and
then there's more ease, for it will make you very, very happy. So when we, when we lower ourselves
in front of Allah, we realize that it doesn't actually degree this, it elevates us. You know, the
army poet, he says, Let us Allah Nobunaga Adam hajah do not ask from the son of Adam have any need?
What's that? Illa de ababu la caja asked as the one whose doors are never closed. A lot of
instructors who Allahu Allah becomes angry if you stop asking him when he Adam Hina us and the son
		

			of Adam, when you ask them, they become angry. If you asked me if I asked you, we become angry. But
if we stop asking the Lord, that's when Allah subhanho wa Taala becomes angry. Okay. And the last
thing is that when we make the lotto Allah, we build a very solid, intimate relationship with Allah,
my teacher used to always say that if you want to see how solid your connection is, with a lot, it's
a very easy thing.
		

			Just go and see how long you can make do out without getting tired.
		

			You know how sometimes when you go to a foreign state, you go to like, you know, I don't know,
somewhere, someone weird, like Arkansas or something, okay? When you go there, you go to visit a
friend. And it happens to be your friend's cousin is getting married. And he says to you Come with
me, have you guys ever been in that kind of situation? We're in where you're in a different state
and your relative, a friend says, I have someone else getting married, come with me. And you go to
that wedding, and when you go to that party or wedding, you're the only person there and you don't
know anyone. And all of a sudden the tablecloth becomes very interesting. And the carpet patterns
		

			are not very relevant. And you're realizing the different depths you have any watching and thinking
where did they get this done to you know, kind of Harlan will either be alone he knew all the
bruises in his body. You're thinking of all the different times which happened where and all the
most weird things become interesting. And you just keep asking yourself, when can I get out of here?
into the people that are at your table? Only kind of conversation you can make with him as someone
they can brother, how are you? What's your name? What do you do? Mashallah. Sonico brother Howard,
are you what do you do? Mashallah, Sorry, brother, how are you? That's all we can say. That's what
		

			happens with most of us and what the only thing that comes to your mind is, I gotta get out of here
because this is very awkward. Yes or no? I gotta get out of here because it's very awkward. That's
what happens to most of us when we come to the masjid. We raised our hands in front of a lot. Oh,
allow your great Oh, allow your first will allow your last. Oh, allow your greed. Oh, allow your
first we don't know what to say. It's so awkward. And then we keep looking at the clock. We're
looking at the carpet. Look, it sounds reading a lot. Everything when we get out of here. When do I
get out of here. When I get out of here. Your dad comes 10 minutes late to pick you up. You're
		

			swearing at your dad underneath your breath. Oh my god, I can't believe he's laid again. And it's so
awkward. All we're trying to do is get out of there. We have to ask ourselves is our connection with
Allah awkward. And with when you're with your friends, if you're sitting with some friends, someone
that you love, your wife, your children, your good friends? Do you look at the time, every five
minutes every two minutes. Sometimes the entire night will pass by and you'll say Wow, I didn't
realize six hours went by because you don't get tired of speaking to friends. And this is what
happens to those who are friends with Allah. They don't get tired from asking from Allah subhanho wa
		

			Taala. So this is something we can gauge ourself with the power of our law and how long we can make
the law to Allah subhana wa Tada. I met one scholar in a in Hutch with this island.
		

			I believe it was two years ago, three years ago, we were in Madina munawwara We just finished giving
our regards to the those buried in the in the graveyard of Medina menorah. And when we were going
back to our hotel we just gave Salaam to the prophets of Allah how it was set up and we were
leaving. And when we were passing by when we were going to a hotel when I saw one shift, and I
recognized the shift because I had seen that shift almost 10 years ago in Bombay. His name is shift
money. And I saw him I said shift when he said yes. I said look, we've come with a group of young
men and young men right here and sisters love what decisions were there and we came for Hajj. Can
		

			you please give us some advice and some hot Allah He gave some very good
		

			Advice. You guys want to hear the advice?
		

			Actually, I didn't prepare to give it to you guys. Let me see if I can find it pretty quickly. It
might be in my notes somewhere.
		

			I'm not going to find it okay to leave, but maybe another time. I'll give you guys advice. It was
some very good advice he gave at the end of that advice. One thing that he said was that he said at
the end of that advice, he said, in my group, we have a competition to see who can make to offer
longer.
		

			You guys ever heard competitions who could remark on on who could read more follow up? He said, we
have competition to see who could make to offer longer. And he said the longest law minute our group
so far was a sister who made law if I'm correct, if I remember correctly, he said for nine hour
Street.
		

			How many hours we were in Madina munawwara in which the Maybelline is telling us that there was
eight to nine hours ceilings, can we imagine eight to nine minutes First of all,
		

			when the amount is making the Quran we're saying Yeah, law, please let the mom Have mercy on us. The
lenders are getting the most the sources are going to be hard. I'm standing at the back. I'm
sweating. We're making lame excuses. Eight, nine minutes that is and you're eight nine hours. So we
pray that Allah subhanho wa Taala gives us a thief to learn to make law offers, understand the
importance of making the law and there is no time in the year in which it is so important to learn
to make dua, then the last 10 nights of Ramadan. Is that true or false? So we're going to focus on
learning how to make one inshallah and the next few reflections
		

			okay that Allah subhanaw taala gives us the fifth to understand what has been said. So bottom line,
the use of Hanukkah, llama, Shadow ally line and stuff come into play. After the honor
		

			ceremony come to light on over