Maryam Amir – Inspirational stories, Allah’s love, and duaa

I mean, Barbara can see, well, Salah, ala Rasulillah. When I had

the incredible blessing of sitting one day in the Haram during Hajj,

I saw that there was a woman who was going around holding a bag of

items and passing them out to people around her, and then I saw

that she handed them to a woman whose clothing looked like she had

been wearing that particular garment for a very long time, not

just, not just on the trip, but consecutively for a very, very

long time.

When this woman got that packet,

she lit up. Her whole entire face. Just got so excited. And then she

said, Is this a must have? Is this a must have? And the woman who

gave her the packet, she looked so stunned and embarrassed. She said,

No, this is like a hygiene kit and food that she was just giving out

to people. And so this elderly woman who looked like she had been

maybe struggling in some part of her life, maybe that was an

assumption from myself, just looking on she, she held on to

that woman, and she said to her, please get me a must have. Please,

please get me my own Quran. This woman was in hajj, in the Haram,

close to the Kaaba, and what she wanted, she just wanted a copy of

the Quran. We hear stories like this, of people who seem like

they're so in love with Allah, who seem like they're so in love with

the book of Allah in hajj, I saw an elderly couple in their 80s,

both extremely frail, and the wife was pushing her husband in a

wheelchair. She was holding their entire duffel bag in one hand. She

said, this is everything that they brought for hedge in one duffle

bag together, and she was trying to push her husband's wheelchair

with such difficulty, just slowly pushing as much as she could. And

Subhan Allah, what brought them to hedge? What brought them to hedge

was the same thing that brought a 90 year old couple who were in the

newspaper that year because they had saved since they were in their

20s. For 70 years, this couple had saved money to go for hedge. A few

years later, there was a woman whose entire savings that she had

been able to spend for Hajj came from collecting cans and recycling

them from different from different garbages in her city, Subhan

Allah, in hajj, I saw an elderly woman who took zemz water, and she

was sitting in front facing the qavada in masjid and Nabawi, and

she took the water, And she just put it on her eyes, asking Allah

to cure her. And I heard a woman who is praying, begging Allah out

loud, saying, oh, Allah, bring my son back to me. Bring my son back

to me. We hear these stories of people who go to the Holy Land and

they come to Allah with their entire heart, and they're asking

Him for His mercy and His help and his and and his healing. We hear

about these stories, and we think, look at those blessed people. Look

at those righteous people. But what you don't realize, what we

don't realize, is that Allah has chosen you, has honored you with

being here on yomula Arafa, cognizant of him today, you might

be struggling because you don't feel an emotional connection. You

might not always feel like the spiritual sweetness. It might have

been a long time since you actually shed a tear, if ever,

because you just longed for Allah, Subhanahu wa. And yet, out of His

mercy, He doesn't tell us to force ourselves to cry, to taste the

sweetness. He tells us to focus. Allah asks us to do the actions,

and those actions are what bring us closer to him. And of course,

we work on our hearts and we work on our sincerity as much as

possible. But you who is surrounded by your kids right now

and they're yelling your name while you're trying to prepare

isfar and listening to this series at the same time, or you who is in

your room and you've been struggling with depression and you

don't know how to move forward, and you keep hearing you just need

to pray more, and it's not working. Please seek therapy. But

every single one of us has a different reality, and we look to

other people, and we think, if only I could do those things, I

would be righteous. If only I had that then Allah.

Would answer my dua, not realizing that Allah subhanho wa Taala is

answering you by the mere fact that he says whom that

he has chosen you to be a part of this ummah for a reason that Imam

Al ta mentions that you might not even see for your own self. So on

this blessed day of Arafat, take a moment to realize that when you

might feel like you are not worthy to Allah, the very people who I

mentioned in the beginning, who were in front of the Kaaba, who

were in mission in napawi, probably came with their own pain,

with their own struggles, all of them feeling like I'm not worthy

for Allah Ya. Allah kept opening the doors of mercy for them, just

as he opens the doors of his mercy for us, not because we are worthy

of His mercy, not because we've done anything to deserve his

mercy, because whether or not you feel like you are deserving of

Allah's mercy. He is a Rahman anyway. He is Al Kareem anyway. He

is the generous anyway. So instead of obsessing over the fact that we

don't feel like we're good enough, start focusing on the fact that he

is who he is. Because when you're in the middle of it and you're

still trying to maintain that connection on the autofa on a

Monday, despite the fact that you have school, despite the fact that

you have everything going on at work, and you're still trying to

maintain that connection the fact that you wish you could have

fasted today, but you couldn't.

Don't you realize that you are an embodiment of the aya? Well, in

that

my life, my sacrifice, my death, my prayer, everything. Swati, my

prayer, well in the swallati, wanasuki, my sacrifice, WA Mach

ya, WA, Mati, my life, my death, and everything in between is for

Allah, and of course, you remember that when you're in front of the

Kaaba, but the fact that you still remember that when you are

anywhere but is a testament to your love for him. And if you feel

that love for him, it's because he's put his love in your heart.

We're going to take a moment, Inshallah, to ask Allah, on this

blessed day, y'all Robin, Allah can come to Can I invite you?

Tonic, Allah, salimah, Allah Nabi and a wahabina, Muhammad, Allah,

Ya rabbinah, oh, Allah, we're here on this blessed day, on a day that

you have honored us together. Ya Rabbi Ali, mean we come to you, Ya

Allah, we come to you, and you told us, oh, the only as the jib

ala come pray to Me and I will respond to you. So here we are, Ya

Allah. We are praying to you, allahum of the Prophet salallahu

alayhi wa sallam told us a he told us, pray to Allah and be certain

he will respond. So Ya Allah, here we are praying to you, Allahu

Allah. Every single one of us has needs of our hearts. Every single

one of us has needs of our hearts. You, Allah, answer the needs of

our hearts with even more than we know how to ask for in a better

way than we can imagine. And Ya Allah, honor us with being of a

hammer. Rahim Allahu, Ana, keep us firm on your deen, make us of the

people of the Quran whom you love and Ya Allah, bless our brothers

and sisters who are vulnerable. Oh Allah, bless our loved ones.

Allah, make us all of the people that you choose that you use for

your sake. Forgive us on this day, not just us, Ya Allah, please

don't just forgive us, Ya Allah, but forgive every single person

that we love, Ya Rabbi, and enter us into third. Jose Allah, Be

ready his Abu Assad Allah abbana Robin, you has an abuna Ava Binna,

Allah Arab,

because if you turn us away, who is going to answer us? Answer us.

Ya Rabbi, answer us. Allah among we are certain in you, ya rabbina

Because of the people that you love and forgive us. Ya Rabbi, I

mean so behind was Alamo Salim alhamdulillahi, and it means if.