Kamal El-Mekki – 2 REASONS Why Allah Gives Victory at the END
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The Texan thircan period is a cycle where victory comes at the end of a cycle and the ease of victory is measured in time. The importance of testing one's faith and understanding the ease of victory is emphasized. The complexities of victory and ease in the beginning of the Texan thircan period are discussed, emphasizing the importance of listening attentively to the message of Islam and not feeling any loss.
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I'm about the title of my lecture is
teaching victory
principles
to young Muslims.
So right off the bat, I wanna let
you know that victory principles
are not related to calling 911,
giving something a low rating on Yelp,
or posting it on social media.
It might be related to that, but I'm
not here to talk about that. I wanna
mention 2 points.
Okay? That's for the entire lecture. Two points,
things that are related to victory
and the nature of victory,
and when it happens and when it comes.
You've all heard the expression
light at the end of the tunnel.
So the question is, why is the light
at the end of the tunnel? Why can't
we have lights at the beginning of the
tunnel and refreshments at the middle of the
tunnel? Even the expression, those who made it
up, they understand how it works
because
victory comes at the end,
and I would argue at the very end.
If victory comes at the beginning, then there's
no test.
If victory comes in the middle, it didn't
heat up yet,
but victory comes at the very end.
And
look at the example of Hajar, when Ibrahim
alaihis salam left Hajar
in the desert
with her infant son Isma'il.
When did the ease come from Allah ajawajal?
She ran out of food. Did the victory
the ease come then?
No. Because there's still food in her belly.
Then she ran out of that food. Then
she had no more milk, but there's still
milk in the belly of the baby. He's
still not hungry yet. Then that food ran
out. Then the baby started crying from the
pain of hunger.
And then the angel came, and then the
tribe of Jurorhom came. The angel came and
showed her the well of Zamzam. The tribe
of Jurorhom came and settled, but it was
at the very end. Not the minute she
ran out of water, the minute she ran
out of food or milk, but at the
very end.
And it always comes at the very end.
Even in the story of Lot, alayhis salaam,
the angels came to him,
and you know the story of Lot. He
was said to a people
who did not,
rent homes. They were
homeowners.
Right?
We have to be careful these days.
Right?
So
so
when they came,
they came in the form of handsome young
men, and now his town people are trying
to come into his house. So he the
whole day, this is from Maghrib until around
Fajr time, he's trying to barricade this door,
negotiate with them, tell him, fear Allah, don't
embarrass me. And he's trying to barricade the
back door and the windows and all that
stuff. And then when it was close to
Fajr time, the angel said, by the way,
we're angels.
Don't worry. They're not gonna come in here.
Nothing's gonna happen. And you and your family,
you're gonna leave.
If our Lord Alaihi Salam, our Lord Alaihi
Salam said, why don't you tell me that
from the beginning? You saw me running around
trying to close doors. You could've
I could've made you ribs. We could've had
a nice night. Instead you had me running
around panicking. Why didn't luke alaihis salam say
that? Because he knows how it works. He
knows the ease comes at the very end.
And at the very end, after an entire
night of panic, the ease came.
And Allah
mentions this in a verse in Surat Al
Baqarah. Allah
says, It's like it you rather you think
you're going to enter Jannah,
meaning without being tested. That's why then Allah
says,
And then
so you think you're gonna enter Jannah without
being tested
like the nations before you were tested.
The scholar said Al Baisa
is affliction in your wealth and daraat is
affliction in your body. Wazulzilu,
so they were afflicted in wealth and in
health.
And
meaning they were shaken and moved from one
place to another.
And to the
point that to the point that the Prophet,
not Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa sallam, but from
the nations before, whoever their prophet was, he
and his followers will say,
When is the victory of Allah coming? They're
not
doubtful.
They're saying, let it come.
They experience so much difficulty to the point
that they're saying, when is the victory of
Allah coming? Let it come. And then Allah
says So what it's showing is that
you have to go through difficulty, and it
comes the ease and the victory comes at
the last moment to the point that even
the prophet and his followers were like, when
is it coming? We we experienced so much.
We went through so much.
And as the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam when
he was asked,
and which of the people are tested the
most?
The the prophets are the ones who are
tested the most. Then the righteous, and then
it goes into varying degrees before
based on the people's religiosity.
But the people who are tested the most
are the prophets of Allah,
and we see their examples.
Khabab
the companion, Khabab al-'Arat. He was one of
the companions,
and he was a mehfil. He was an
example in how much he suffered, and he
was tortured.
You know, the eyewitnesses says the mushrikeen got
stones and they made them red hot. Then
they removed his clothing and they made him
lie down on these stones. And the eyewitnesses
said nothing would extinguish the fire except the
fat from his back
melting and putting out the flames.
Khabab, 20 years later, takes off his shirt
in front of Umar ibn Khattab when Umar
is the Khalifa. And Umar can't believe it.
Umar said,
So what is this? What happened to you?
You couldn't believe it. So this is whom
we're talking about. Khabab
after he went through all the torture, he
says, we came to the prophet
when he was reclining under the shade of
the Kaaba,
and they didn't
complain. They didn't say,
look at my back. Look what they just
look what they said. They said
Anything wrong with what they're saying? They said,
will you not ask for victory from us?
Will you not make du'a for us? That's
all they said. And it's kebab of all
people and those who were tortured of all
people. And the prophet sat up and he
told them that nations before you, they would
dig a hole in the ground, they'd put
a man in it, then they'd bring a
saw and they'd start to cut him in
half, and that would make him leave as
religion. And they would bring a man and
they would bring like a rake or something
like a steel comb and they would
peel the flesh off his bones and that
would not make them leave their religion.
But sure, people who are hasty.
Can you imagine? Prophet saying this to Khabab,
to the early Muslims who were tortured in
Mecca. You're hasty. So the lesson is that
it's gonna take a while. He's telling them
we're in the beginning. This is the Meccan
period. We're not we didn't even go through
enough.
So he's teaching them and he's teaching us
after them that victory comes at the end.
It the the ease doesn't come right when
you experience some kind of difficulty,
and that translates into all other aspects of
our lives. Right now, we when it comes
to dua, we want to make dua, and
by the time we finish, there's a package
next to us
faster than Amazon Prime. But
everything is instant. We're in a rush. We
want things to come quickly, victory to come
quickly. But look at our prophet, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. His headache was twice as bad
as the average person's headache. He had to
walk long distances. He would bleed. You lost
your luggage while on a trip? The prophet
lost his luggage on a trip.
You have a bad neighbor? The prophet had
3 bad neighbors. Yeah. And whatever you're gonna
go through, he went through it. And he
went through worst.
If I said right now who has a
neighbor that's your mortal enemy and you hate
each other and you get into fights and
call the cops on each other and a
few of you put your hands up. Then
I said okay Who which of you has
2 neighbors that are your enemies? And then,
like, 3 people put their hands up. Then
I said, okay. Who has 3 neighbors? Because
that's the maximum you can have. Right? Who
has 3 neighbors that are his mortal enemies?
And one guy puts his hands up.
Let's be honest. What are we all gonna
think?
I bet you he's the jerk.
There's no way you have 3 bad neighbors.
I bet you there's something wrong with this
guy. Right?
I mean, what are the odds that you
have 3 bad neighbors had?
Three bad neighbors. He went through all this
as a lesson for us.
And then here we are. The minute we
experience some difficulty,
that's it. We think it's gonna be over
soon. No. You gotta wait. You gotta be
patient. You gotta struggle through it a little
bit. So that's my first point, is to
recognize
that victory comes at the end.
Ease comes at the end. There is difficulty.
You're pushed to the breaking point perhaps.
But then there is the second point, and
the second point is that victory and ease
comes when there's no one left in your
heart except Allah
You know? And and there are many situations
when you turn to Allah
and your hopes are not linked to any
other human being. You know? If and may
Allah give you all good health and your
family members as well. But if someone comes
and says, you know, we've done everything we
we can, there is there is no solution.
There's no other doctor that has a cure,
there is no hospital that's better for and
there's just nobody, no human being. At that
point, what do you do? So your heart
now has no attachment to any human being
and your heart is attached to Allah
alone, and you call Allah alone. And all
your hopes are on Allah
not this other doctor, not this other institution,
you're done.
And that's the the second point I wanna
make. Victory comes when there's nobody left in
your heart except Allah
alone.
And there's a story I'll use to illustrate
this. This happened to one of the early
Muslims, a righteous man by the name of
Ubad Asayrafi
al Baghdadi.
He said, I was sleeping fast asleep in
my bed,
and a man came to me in the
dream.
And the man says,
get up and assist the one who is
distraught. He's in a state of sadness and
distress.
So in the dream, I asked the man,
where will I find him? He said, just
get on your riding animal and wherever it
stops, you're gonna find him. So he woke
up and got and I love I love
the obedience of people in the if this
happened to you now in the dream to
go and help this person in distress, would
you just start your car and start driving
around Houston?
I'm like, ah, just I would have best
thought of him.
It was just a sheila. He just got
up. He got on his riding animal.
Alright? And he he wasn't even steering. It
was like a Tesla.
It just started
it just started taking it. So he said
that animal just kept going throughout the streets
of Baghdad, alleyways, streets, and then suddenly it
stopped in front of this masjid. And I
went inside and there was a man making
dua.
So he says I went to him and
there's the man told me I have children
and I have this and I have no
money so I came here to make dua
to Allah
Now if that happens to you, you think
this is a righteous person. Right?
And this is a friend of Allah
and I'm gonna be there for this friend
of Allah. And that's exactly what Ubad Asayrafi
al Baghdadi
did. He told him he said, listen.
My name is Ubad Asayrafi
al Baghdadi.
Anything you need, you look for me.
I'll I'll be at your service anytime. And
this is the point of the story. You
know what the man said to him? He
said,
He says, you want me to leave the
one who got you out of your bread
your bed.
Laid and brought you to me in the
darkness of the night and then go to
someone else.
You see this man? There was nobody but
Allah azza wa Jal in his heart and
that's why the ease came to him. Even
when the man came to him and he
said you can come to me at any
time. He said why would I come to
you
and leave the one who got you out
of your bed and brought you to me?
If I give you a choice,
okay, you can go to someone or they'll
give you any time. Any cash you want,
they'll give it to you. Any amount.
Or a service, they bring it to your
door. Which would you take?
Like, I gotta go get the cash or
just the doorbell rings?
They'll get the door. It's the cash again.
He was late. I'm gonna give him 2
stars on Yelp.
I hate Yelp. The point is
when there's nobody left in your heart, those
are my two points. Number 1, victory and
ease comes at the very end, not at
the beginning, not at the middle, but at
the very end when you're fully tested. And
number 2,
victory and ease comes when there's nobody
left in your heart and your heart completely
turns to Allah
alone with nobody else. We ask
Allah to grant victory to Islam and to
the Muslims.
For listening attentively.