Maryam Amir – How Allahs Reward is Amazing
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The speaker describes a story of a man who found a place to sleep in the presence of a baker and eventually found a place where he could sleep. He found a place where he could stay for the night and eventually found a place where he could sleep. The speaker explains that the man had always asked for forgiveness and that his forgiveness is linked to all of these benefits.
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Once, I was driving, and I made a sharp turn. When I made that sharp
turn, I hit a curb, and when I hit the curb, my tire actually became
flat, so I had to pull over and hamdullah. After this, the spare
was on. I needed to go to a specific tire company to get the
tire fixed. This company had a warranty with the tire I had, and
it was in a city I had never been to, like, 40 minutes away from
where I was. I had just moved to that city, and when I got to the
company and found out that it would take a few hours, the first
thing I did was looked for a masjid so that I could spend time
in the masjid. While I waited, I was hoping that there was a masjid
somewhere in the city that maybe I could somehow get to. And Subhan
Allah, there was a masjid walking distance from where I was. I
walked to the masjid. As soon as I entered the masjid, there was an
older uncle sitting and he looked up and he saw me,
and he said,
Are you? Are you the sister who spoke at the conference last
weekend? And I was like, I'm I did. I spoke at a conference the
weekend before. So I said, Yes. And then he said I was looking for
a way to contact you. I have been asking people how to get a hold of
you, and noone had any idea of how they can connect with you. And
Subhan, Allah, you're walking into the masjid right now. And I
thought, Allahu, Akbar, I've never been to this city. I've never been
to this Masjid. It was like a 40 minute drive away from where I
was. I had to get a flat tire, and I had to go to a specific tire
company so that I could go somewhere that would be close to
this Masjid to meet this uncle. This uncle spent every single day
in the masjid. He was always in the masjid, worshiping and
welcoming worshipers there. He had grown children, and this was his
time, the way that he spent his free time, not that he was retired
and Subhan Allah, I thought about how the story of Ahmed Ibn Hanbal
and the baker. Imam Ahmed, he was traveling, and he looked for a
place to sleep, and he went to the masjid looking to sleep there. And
when he tried to sleep there, the guard of the masjid actually
refused to let him sleep there. He didn't know that it was Imam
Ahmed. He dragged him out of the masjid, and there was a baker
across the street who heard all of this commotion and who invited
this, you know, man who's trying to find a place to sleep, Imam
Ahmed into his own home so that he could sleep there for the night.
When he was there, Imam Ahmed noticed that the baker constantly
made istachla. He was constantly asking for Allah's forgiveness,
for ALLAH asking for Allah's forgiveness, constantly
remembering Allah and everything that he was doing. And so Imam
Ahmed asked him. He said, Have you noticed any benefits or any
blessings from you? Constantly making this istalkhar. And the
baker said, I've had every single one of my dua answered, every
single one except for one dua, and that is that I want to meet Imam
Ahmed.
When Imam Ahmed heard this, he replied with Allahu Akbar, I am
Imam Ahmed and Subhan Allah. How just like this, the way I felt
like I was dragged to meet this person in the masjid, Imam Ahmed
was dragged to meet this person who was hoping to meet him. Now,
the story of Imam Ahmed actually is not an authentic narration.
Well, we're going to take the wisdom that comes from it, because
it's based in Quran, when no halahi Salam tells his people in
Sura No How to be that him in him the cool to still fear Rob back
home in the who cannot refer you to alaykum, neither a William did
a come the amwali. Why come? Amwala? Come and anharo, so no
halahi Salam is telling his people ask for Allah, tell his
forgiveness. For ask for Allah. Tell his forgiveness. He's going
to bring rain, he's going to bring provision. He's going to bring
wealth. He's going to bring the children that you're asking for.
Ask for his forgiveness, because his forgiveness is directly linked
with all of these benefits and these blessings. The concept of
constantly asking for the forgiveness of Allah is one that
the Prophet sallallahu Sallam teaches us will open doors for us
from places that we don't know. That when we ask for his
forgiveness constantly, he opens the doors for us, these doors from
places that we know when we don't know just open.