Mikaeel Smith – In His Footsteps #14
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So now
we're just waiting for the live stream to turn on shortly.
Before I start, there was a young brother, cinnamon,
who he used to come to Holika him and his brother. And
he got a rare form of cancer, like three or four months ago, and
Hamdulillah I got to see him last week, Friday. And he just passed
away earlier today, in the LA when I live here Rajang.
So,
you know, we never know hamdulillah these gatherings are
truly truly so beneficial for our hearts, y'all.
These gatherings are like, literally soul food for us. These
gatherings where we talk about those schools that Allahu alayhi
wa salam. And we have to really on a deep level, I don't know if the
livestream started, I'm just starting and
we have to really on a deep level, connect our hearts to Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, because the Prophet sallahu wa
Salam is that guide. He's that light, he's that guide. Right. And
his life is a number that is an example. In every portion of your
life in every moment of your life. You have to have the capacity to
tap back into him sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
And,
and I truly mean that in your highest moments, and what you
think are your lowest moments, so much as you can connect back to
the Rasulullah sallallahu, alayhi salam, so much, you will be able
to get through those difficult moments persevere, and as I said
before, not just survive hard moments, but truly thrive in hard
moments. truly realize that Allah is making you and elevating you in
those deepest, darkest moments. Those darkest moments aren't dark,
if you truly gain from them what God wants you to get from them.
But you have to have that, that that example before you have had
to face difficulties, you have to have that example in front of you
of how to handle hardship. In our last session, we talked about what
was called Ahmed who was in the year of sadness.
And this was a year in which the Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam he lost two critical people he lost, maybe most importantly,
Khadija, the Allahu anha. And we have to understand that what she
meant to him because only when you understand what she meant to him,
will you understand what he lost in that moment when he lost her.
He came down the mountain after receiving revelation scared
worried. But she was the one that fortified him she was the one that
gave him strength.
And if there's any dua you make, and I'm speaking to the Shabaab
right now, one of the greatest do eyes is you make a dua Allah give
you a spouse that will help you on your deed.
A spouse that will complete your deen Forget the money. Forget the
looks, looks fade, gravity hits us all y'all
trying to say
money comes in goes.
If you marry someone for money, when the money goes, where's the
love?
If you married someone for looks, when the looks goes, where's the
love? But if you married someone and you ask Allah Allah gives me
someone that will complete my faith and helped me get close to
you and be my Khadija for me. You got the world.
You got the world you got everything.
And so Sudha LaSalle I send them after coming out of the boy cup,
three years, three years of a boycott, where the Quraysh they
weren't letting any resources in
so similar to Lhasa.
And it was so hard that it broke Khadija she was aging, but it
broke her even more and she passed away. And the Hadith are so clear.
The Prophet wasn't like this, this stoic robot that was so connected
to Allah that nothing hurt him he hurt. He felt pain and he taught
us especially men.
He taught us that there's nothing wrong with pain. There's nothing
wrong with tears. It's not it's not. It's not strong to suppress
its strength to allow yourself to feel and release that in a way
that pleases Allah.
And so when he lost Khadija Roddy, Allah Juan, he didn't leave the
house. For more than a week he couldn't go out.
That's how much his heart was broke.
And, and he taught us something. People aren't replaceable.
Yes, you will have good people come back into your life. Yes, you
will have people that will, will will be there for you in moments
you'll lose people. But you can never replace a human soul.
And the most valuable thing that we have are the sacred people, the
special people around us. So what are suicides sell them he lost
Khadija. And that that name should just give you goosebumps if you
understood what she meant, how strong she was.
And then he lost Abu Talib.
And that was hard because seditious loss was losing a
movement.
She has a house in Jana. She's a believer, but something that some
of us struggle with.
Are some of our family members haven't converted. We've given
them Dawa. We given them Dawa. I remember when I first converted.
My uncles and aunties be funny sometimes. Yeah. I'd be like,
Yeah, my mom's not Muslim that you'd like give her dollar.
I'm like, yo, it ain't that easy. It's not just like, Oh, you want
to come like, it? Ain't that easy? There's a lot of baggage there. Is
it? There's so much there? So he worked on Ableton Live, he worked
on him, he worked on him, he worked on him so much.
And in that last moment,
see, it wasn't that Apple thought it didn't know the truth. I will
thought they knew the truth. But the pressure of the society, the
pressure of what people think and this is what I was trying to
impress last week, that when are we going to mature to a level
where we stop caring what people think about us?
Because you think it's temporal, but it's a quality inside that
will lead you up into your last moments of life. What are people
going to say? What are people going to say? What are people are
gonna say? Who cares about people? What are they going to say when
they see you walking into agenda? That's what you should be
thinking?
Hey, I wish I roll with her. I wish I roll with him.
Just don't worry about what people think.
And something there's see that's not easy for us though. Some of us
have been searching for recognition, searching for to be
recognized for so long, that we seek it out from anyone and
everyone.
But you got to recognize one thing for somebody to hook me up because
the inika the kunena have patience with the Command of your Lord
because Allah is watching Allah's eyes. Allah is watching Allah is
with you.
So I'm on host and it's called the year of sadness. That was at that
was this year of his life when he lost two critical people. One that
protected him outside, had his back, but didn't believe and the
other one who was his his, his rock inside the house, the one
that he held and she helped him
through all of the days of rejection
you know, one more thing I want to share. Everyone be trying to get
married. After everything's all figured out.
You know, I'm talking about Amen.
Amy's got a job to whatever whatever the like, Yo, you got to
have the gig ready? You got to have the house ready. You got to
LA Yo, you gotta grow together. You got to do the one bedroom
joint.
Yeah, share the same car. You got to Khadija was there in the
roughest moments.
She was there in the toughest moments, but that's where the love
was made. That's where the bond was real.
Tell you let's get back on the Sierra.
Y'all want some marriage advice? Let's focus.
So now,
before I get into this, you have to understand
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is his life. He saw his
life as nothing for the sake of God.
What do I mean by that?
In the lush dot Amin and Mina and Fusa Hawala, whom the Anala
homeowner, Jana, indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers,
their lives and their wealth in exchange for agenda. Everything of
his was put on the line for the sake of Allah.
The prophesy centum had presented himself to over 40 tribes of
Arabia
Yeah, when I say presented that means he went up to them he's
knocking at doors. Who La ilaha illallah c'est la ilaha illallah
toeffler C'est la ilaha illallah and everyone's slamming the door
in his face. But it wasn't about him see me and you it's about me
and you.
It's about how we feel for him. It wasn't about him anymore. It was
about the cause of Allah it was about pleasing Allah that was it.
So what happens?
The prophets of Allah Azza wa sallam, his uncle passes away and
now the Quraysh are unleashed on him.
Because people thought it was his protection. It was a tribal
society. I will thought it was a check. No one can touch it. Anyone
from the godfather? You know, I mean, you'll see that it's how you
love him, you know unto him, well,
no one could touch him. But when I will die, they passed away. Oh,
could HR say free game? Who's gonna stop us now?
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam made a decision.
And then they Raiders they say lemma halacha Abu Talib when it
passed away,
the Kadesh up their their attacks against the Prophet salallahu
Salam.
They went further than they ever went before the prophets. I said I
made a critical decision. He realizes that the coolish they're
not helping, and it's only getting worse. So he makes a decision. He
says I'm gonna go to the neighboring city 100 kilometers
away. But if
I'm gonna go to the neighboring city, that maybe I can go there
and get some support. See, I need that support. I need that back. I
need that in this tribal society. I need someone to protect me
still. So he says let me go to thought if 100 kilometers away.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he leaves and he leaves
walking.
You know why he didn't take a camel or even a mule? Because this
trip was low key. The trip was low key no one could know. He couldn't
let the kurush No, oh, I'm going to the next city to get some new
people. Now we're not going to let you do that. So he leaves walking
because if he's walking, it looks like he's not going far. So he
leaves walking but he's not alone. He has Zaid ibn and Mohamed
Zaid ibn Mohammed. Later on his name is changed to zeta Benny
Hadith. Who is aid. Zaid is the one who chose the prophesy Salam
over his own family. Khadija he was he was in bonds he was a
bondsman he was owned by Khadija is that he's a gifted him to the
prophets I said of the Prophet freedom. And his family came and
he said no, this man Mohammed is special. This was before
prophethood This was before pro he said this man is special. Baba,
Uncle I love ya. But no one can talk this man Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa salam. So the prophesy Selim is with his son.
This is like his son. And they're walking 100 kilometers in the heat
of Arabia alone. And I want you to understand as he's leaving,
there's nothing behind me there's no protection. He's just looking
for the next opening the next way to spread this message.
So, he left him and ZEDA been hadiza
looking for help from the tribes in five, hopeful that some of them
would accept this message and help him
he arrives and thought if
and when he reaches thought if the first thing he goes is to the
leaders, three leaders, they were all brothers. He goes to these
three leaders let me let me start at the top let me start with the
notable because if they accept the message the whole city is going to
support me.
So he goes through each one of them.
He reaches them and he speaks to each 111 on one one to one for
jealous a la him rasool Allah He He sat down before them what
Kalama home and he spoke to them about helping him in his deen and
protecting him and sticking with him. He gave them Dawa.
The first one he looked at the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, and I want us to imagine the gentleness, the forbearance I
want you to imagine the prophets character. This is a gentleman, a
forbearance man.
And there's a proverbial hostage. There's a proverbial type of
hospitality that the Arab showed, but they didn't show that. The
first one looks at the prophets of Allah who it was salam he says,
who are Yamato to Theobald kava and cannula who are Celica
He says if Allah sent you, I will tear up the the curtain of the
Kaaba. I want to look at you.
Some Allahu alayhi wa salam.
The second one, he goes and talks to him, he sits with him. He
brings up dialogue he's giving him Dawa.
The second one he says, I'm out with jet Allah who I hadn't your
single Gradec he says what Allah couldn't find anyone better than
you to give this message.
Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
Lo que lo and behold, 1400 years later, he didn't realize what he
was rejecting.
The most well known name around the world use name is Muhammad.
And what he said at that moment
was, Allah couldn't find someone else. It was arrogance. It was
arrogance.
The third one, he had some real weird logic. He says Wallah, he
likes to kill me. I don't want to talk to you. I don't want to talk
to you. Let him continue to assault me in Allah. If you are
actually a prophet from God, you're too big to talk to I can't
talk to you.
And if you're not, then why would I talk to someone who's just
making it up weird logic
the prophets of Allah Azza wa sallam
he he got up from these three people and he says listen
okay, you haven't accepted inside zoom fuck to meet fuck to move
money. He goes but hear me out. Please don't tell the Kool Aid I'm
here right now. You have to understand the politics. If the
Kool Aid come to find out that Mohammed sigh Salam went to
another city to get help against us.
How can I ever go back
with Katie Hara suicide Salam and you Bella coma.
The prophesies Salam, they sent someone by the way immediately to
tell the Kurdish immediately
for karma be taught at Ashra Iam for 10 days. He stays in thought
if now, just talking to everyone. One by one putting his honor on
the line. He doesn't matter anymore. The message is what
matters. And that's the that's the key here. I read a narration that
says if you want to know your status in the sight of Allah, just
look at Allah status in your site.
Yeah, in filling me
if you want to know where you rank in the sight of God, where does
Allah rank in your site? Do what do you put before Allah? What do
you put now the villa before Allah? What do you put after?
In a practical level time for Salah entertainment becomes before
that Game Six, five, whatever, I don't even know where we are right
now.
What do you put before Allah subhana wa Tada
versus what you put Allah subhanaw taala before truly ask that
question deep.
So he stays there calling everyone that was his style. He gave Dawa
to everyone
in La Jolla, la he Kalama who he would speak to them for them ug
boo. But the leaders they saw him giving Dawa. And this message
always affected the young folks. This message was powerful. Because
the young people have, they can see the potential of this message.
So they started to fear the impact of this message on the youth of
yesterday. A youth of thought if so, what do they do? They say
yeah, Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa Salam o clergyman belt, Deena,
leave our city now. But they didn't just let them leave.
They got all of the
super high
ignorant folk.
They got all of the rough people.
They got all of the silly heads. Why be doom?
You said? You said behind why you say he's gonna be for them to
curse the prophets. Allah. It wasn't just leave. It was harass
him. It was get in his face. Make them never want to come back.
Who sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the one who stood at nights in
prayer and said Almighty Almighty, the gentle one that was worried
about everyone's pain. They were in his face cursing him, cursing
him. I happen to scroll today I saw a video of some young Zionist
in the face of people of Philistine
and I'm like Subhan Allah. If these aren't the chosen people of
Allah, I don't know who are
step by step following his sunnah. I know it's hard
so
They started cursing the Prophet and they're, they're spitting in
his face and they're yelling at him.
Hit that each time I lay him nuts and they're crowding him. You have
to see it. You have to picture it. You have to picture this man who
was the epitome of kindness and gentleness.
Some Allahu Allah, he was salam.
And he's taking this
for Waka Fula, who's suffering, they stand in two rows. On the way
out of the city, they stand in two rows.
Fella ma Mara, and they forced the prophesy set them to walk down the
middle of the two rows.
What yada yada originally he was a young woman in La Rocca, the Houma
Bill has been Ijarah say they start to pick up rocks and they
start to throw them at the ankles of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam
like like subhub bone, you know, bone on bone. how painful that is.
So they're throwing the rocks at the ankles of the prophets I send
them and the narration says that whenever the Prophet either as
Lukka to Hey Jarrah. Yes, I do Elan out whenever a rock would hit
his his ankle, he would fall to the ground. He wasn't just walking
through. He would fall to the ground and he would cover up but
then they would take two people to stand them back up and force him
to keep walking.
So yeah, who's gonna? The other day he were you team owner who is
standing back up and force him to walk? Well, whom you have Hakuna?
Well, who womb Yup, hakuna.
As I read this.
It really makes me think about how worried I am.
I'm worried about what people are going to look at me weird. The
Prophet sacrificing everything and rocks are being thrown at his
feet.
They've been in hot water. He's not alone, his his Mohib His
beloved Son, who he's known for the last 20 years.
He's there and he's covering the profit as much as he can.
He's covering the profit. Imagine this is your father. What would
you do you're covering however you can until he himself was hitting
the head.
The prophesy Salam finally makes it through that, that that those
two rows and blood is just flowing down his legs flowing down his
body.
And he collapses in a garden outside of the city.
He gets to this garden
and they've been harvested is cleaning the blood off. He's
tending to the wounds of the Prophet so I Salem
and the prophets of Allah Who are they will sell them after he's
cleaned off.
He does will do with some water.
And he stands up and he prays to the car
Tuukka
Wallahi we have to beg Allah to give us the love for Solana a love
for prayer that whenever things are are dark or difficult or hard
when life is throwing rocks at you.
Financial rocks, emotions, emotional rocks, absentee parents
style rocks.
So you all of us have rocks being thrown at us. But what do you do
in that moment? Where do you where do you go? Do you go to a dark
place?
Or do you gain inspiration from Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam.
So they live in Hadith as cleaning him off. The Prophet makes will do
when he stands up. He prays to their carts, and he makes a DUA.
This dua is a dua that shook the heavens.
He says
Allah Houma
O Allah
in the Ushguli lake for Kuwaiti
Oh Allah,
I complain to you about my weakness.
My weakness your ally, I should have did more for you. I should
have tried harder for you ya rasool Allah.
I complain about my weakness will tell it to heal it. I complain
about my ability, inability to plan better to strategize better,
I complain about my weakness Yola.
Well, Hawaii Island NASA. I complain about how low I am in the
sight of people. Yeah, Allah.
Yeah, are hamre he mean he never forgets Allah is Most Merciful.
feeling the pain of those difficulties. He still focused on
Allah subhana wa it's either and this is what I truly this is what
we have to get from this moment. Even otol skandi he says
if when God holds
is back something from you.
If you gain understanding from him holding back, then truly His
holding back was giving.
Again,
if God holds back something, and through that holding back, you
gain understanding you gain insight into who you are what God
wants from you, you gain insight, you know, sometimes we struggle,
you go through a hardship and the question everybody asks is, how do
I know if this struggle is a punishment for God? Or if this is
something lifting my status in the sight of God? The answer is easy.
If the hardship pushes you back to God, Allah was lifting your
status. But if the hardship pushes you away, you give up prayer, you
give up this you give up, then that might have been a punishment
for some sins you did before you. But that tells me something that's
inspiring because that tells me no matter what the hardship is, I
have the potential to make that hardship, a way to lift my status
in the sight of Allah.
So in this moment, the prophet size to them never loses sight. On
who Allah is yah, or Hamra. He mean
and Tara terrible monster that I've seen, YOU ARE THE LORD OF THE
WEEK people.
He's speaking about Himself in this moment. I have no one in
Mecca. I have no one in thought if I'm in between two places how many
of us right now feel like we're in between two places
I don't got this place. I don't got that place. I don't know where
I'm going. That's where the prophet was right in this moment.
And this is why I say we connect our hearts to the prophesy Salam
because how many times if it's not right now, you know, you've been
through it where you felt like you were in between two places you
don't even know where you're going.
But what do you do in that moment? This is what you do.
He says, I'm terrible. Monsters are thin.
We're Antara b
He says Elam and tickle Looney
Yeah, Allah it this is something else we got to learn. Yeah, we got
to learn just to talk to Allah.
You got you ever heard a stat of Murphy's laws in Ramadan? My man
is just talking to a lot.
We were too formal into ah, were like or been a teenager for dunya.
Robbing Allah to say, Yeah, cool. Read those to us. But where's your
personal? Yeah, I need a job.
You're gonna be protecting me from haram. Y'all help me. Where's your
personal talk to Allah?
Where's that personal relationship? Allah is waiting for
you. He won't leave you on read promise?
Promise the only one that won't leave you on read? Leave you not
think
the point I'm trying to make is notice the style of the DUA. He's
just talking to his rub.
He's just talking to his rub. He says Isla mentor Colonia de la
ilaha Eden
it's a Gemini Yola Who who are you putting in charge of me? Some
foreign person? He's speaking about five. Some foreign people,
you're putting them in charge of me?
Oh, ILA I do in my lifetime. And he's speaking about quotation or
my enemies are you going to give them control over meet ya Allah?
Where who?
He says, and this is the climax of the DUA. And this is where we have
to ask ourselves,
he says it lamb. You Yaqoob aleja verbum Illa Mucuna Vika Allah Yaga
Boone Fela Valley.
He says your Allah, he's hurt. The wounds are still fresh. The blood
is still dripping. My son's head has a head laceration in it from
rocks for protecting me. I'm in the middle of the desert. I'll
have nowhere to go. In that moment. In that moment. He says
Guess what? You're up. If you're not angry with me, I don't even
care.
You know what that means?
That means
I was speaking to a friend
and he said something deep to me.
He said he had to go through something difficult.
He knew it was around the corner and he had to go through it.
And he said he was so scared of it.
He said but there was a moment where
I let go of it and just completely focused that Allah was in control.
And he said the moment I did that, everything came what he expected
it came but he was good.
He was good.
The moment he let go and put God's pleasure above every here's my
question to you
If you lose your job, if you lose status, if you lose wealth,
but you got Allah's pleasure, and I want you to ask yourself deep
inside, what have you lost?
Now, here's the I'll put it in a different way. I'll give you the
best job.
I'll give you the sickest house.
I'll give you the wealth. But you just got to live a life that Allah
is displeased with who's gonna take it?
Is it worth it?
No. This moment is heavy. Because what he says is, at the end of the
day, this is hard. But what's harder for me and I what I won't
deal with, and I can't is your anger with me? That's it.
He says, y'all Allah. If you're not upset with me, if you're not
angry with me, I can go through this. But then he says Subhanallah
he teaches us he goes, Well, I can ask you to stay here. Oh, sadly.
He says but tranquillity would be real nice right now.
Look how he follows it up. Like I'm okay. If this is where you
want me to be right now. Because wherever Allah puts you, there's
something you're supposed to learn from that moment.
And if you learn it, you're elevated.
Al Hajj Malik el Shabazz
lowest point, criminal drug dealer, pimp everything you name
it
lands up in the second lowest point.
But from there
from that lowest point.
That's it.
That's it.
That was it. He says, Well, I can well, I can offer you a toolkit
here. Oh, so really? I love to do all because he's not like,
sadistic. Like, yeah, I love pain.
No series is so beautiful. He's not saying Oh, I love pain. Like
y'all I just keep punishing law. That's not the Sunnah. He's
saying, I want what you know is best for me in this moment. As
long as you're not an angry with me, I don't care what you put me
through.
This only you know you can only do this. When you truly truly have a
connection with Allah and you know who Allah is.
When you know who Allah subhana wa Tada is.
Like I said, if Allah holds back, but through that holding back, you
gain understanding, then his holding back was actually given.
That's what it was.
I will be naughty watch HC. He says, I seek refuge in the light
of your of you Allah. The light which
takes away all darkness. When I read this dua, I thought about the
darkness that comes in us when we go through difficulties. When
we're put through hardship, there's a darkness that comes
inside, our hearts shrink down and we feel small as an ant and we
feel like the world is collapsing. The only way to bring light to
that is through connection to Allah in that moment.
You can be in the darkness of a cell. You can be at the darkness
have a bit
of an open air prison.
But that connection with Allah will bring light to the heart.
He says,
the light of you which brings goodness to the dunya and akhira I
seek refuge that your anger ever come down. He's not focused on the
pain. He's not focused on the loss of job, the loss of spouse, the
absentee parents, whatever you're going through. It's not about
focusing on that. It's about focusing on Allah.
He goes, I seek refuge from your anger. And Allah Allah Sokka took
Well, uh Hola Hola, Quwata illa avec
un all Pio power and might is with you.
In that moment, the prophet sighs Salam, he made this dua and it was
a heavy dua. It was the Habib of Allah, making a heartfelt dua in
his lowest moment.
And in that moment, the Prophet says sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
for a heart to see I lifted up my head.
I lifted up my head
and I saw
a cloud coming felt like a cloud coming close to me.
And when I looked closer, I thought it was Gabriel.
That's my guy.
That's That's my comfort right there.
By Gabriel wasn't alone.
There was another angel he's like, who is he?
Who's like I never seen another angel I seen you before. I never
seen another angel.
Paula Gabriel speaks to the prophets. I send them Jabra eel.
He says in Allah Tada, send me out Tolu Komik luck. Allah has heard
what your people said to you. Doesn't that feel good to know
that Allah heard the other side too. He didn't start off by saying
Allah heard your DUA. He goes, Allah was watching the whole
thing. Allah is there for you. Allah heard what they said to you.
What Mara do alayka Allah heard how they talk to you.
What are their data lake medical devel Allah has sent this angel of
the mountains
for top Morrow who will be my shift to fee him. Do what you
want, tell him what you want. If you want the mountains over
thought after crushed thought if and five be done
for you Habibollah that will happen in this moment because of
what they've done to you.
That's yours.
For now, Danny medical GBL the angel on the side, the angel of
the mountain he spoke he spoke to me for Salim Ali, he gave salam to
me said I want to come yeah rasool Allah.
The Prophet gave Salam back to the angel of the mountains.
He said yeah, Muhammad, in Allah the semi of bola CalMac. Allah has
heard what your people said, I'm the angel of the mountains. Allah
has sent me to do whatever you command. And then he gave him a
look like he gave him like what I can do. He goes if you want these
two mountains can be crushed over them and they will be destroyed in
this moment.
You know, if we don't sacrifice for the Dean
our machinist may be full, but it won't be transgenerational.
If we don't, the amount you sacrifice for the dean, is how
deep is gonna go on your progeny?
Hear what I'm saying? The amount you sacrifice is how deep is going
to go after you.
Were you when you're AMU you old and your grandkids running around?
Whatever you sacrifice when you were young, that's how deep is
going to keep going.
How do I know that in this moment?
The Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam he says
I mean what was this man's heart like?
My ankles still hurt.
My son's head has a laceration like okay, I'm hurt you hit my
son.
You hit my son.
My ankles hurt. I'm *.
My pride is just nothing my my name.
I'm humiliated in a whole city.
I can't even go back because of y'all.
I want you to connect to his heart in this moment.
Because here's the deal. You're gonna go through dark moments but
will you become darkness?
You'll go through hard moments where you become hard. Will you
stay soft? Will you say gentle? Will you stay compassionate?
That's the key. That's the key A lot of us we've gone through very
difficult moments. Unspeakable hardships.
I'm talking about family trauma, drama. Trauma, economic mental.
We've gone through so much.
But will you make hard times make you hard? Will you say gentle like
he did.
What does he say? He says Belle La la la? No no.
Our job do I have hope. He never lost hope and people he never lost
hope and people
are jus and Yahoo joola who made us lebih him? Me Abdullah wala
used to be he che he goes Nah.
I got I have expectations and hope that Allah subhanaw taala will
bring
from their progeny. People that c'est la ilaha illa Allah, this is
the yo Okay, so a sign of like maturity. Like when you know you
old when you start thinking of generational wealth. Like when you
were young, you'll think about that. Let me get 401k like you
won't even be thinking about generational wealth. But when you
get older, you'll be like, Man, my kids, I'm gonna try to leave some
money for them. You start thinking about generational wealth, a sign
of spiritual maturity. You start thinking a generational faith
you start thinking a generational faith
You start thinking about how we can invest in people. I had a
friend of mine say, he was like, this Masjid is right in the hood.
He's like, we had people, young, young people, non Muslims, they
will come over, we will help them, help them pay their rent. Let them
come to the masjid, whatever we would help them.
And other people from the community will be like, the money
you're spending could be spent on like parking lot, a new bathroom,
Masjid chandeliers.
You know how it'd be just so we can be a little bit you'll beat
the other Masjid.
Like, no, he's like, No, we're investing in these people. A
friend of mine. He said, we invested in these youngsters they
were 1617 when they went through life and hit rock bottom, they all
came back to the masjid. All of them except Islam. Because who was
there for us? Your Muslims were there for us?
A sign of spiritual maturity, as you start thinking of
transgenerational faith.
What seeds can I plant right now?
That other people will sit under the shade of that tree?
The prophets of Allah Who are they he was wa sallam, so beautiful.
The prophesy Salam in this moment, he goes, No, no, no, no. I have
hope that from their progeny will come people that worship Allah
subhanho wa taala. And in the end, the angel then looks at him Subhan
Allah. The angel looks at him and he says and come some knock out a
book, or Ufa Rahim, the angel says you are just as your Lord said you
are or Ufa Rahim comes compassionate and merciful. This
reminds me of a verse locked by didja comb or solum and full
sequel as he is on Allah Hema on a tomb Hadees so not a convenient
meaning and I don't move forward Rahim Allah. Allah says about the
prophet in the Quran. Indeed there has come a profit from you to you
as easily either he might I need to. He is deeply hurt by what
hurts you.
He's deeply worried about your welfare, your well being he it's
not about him. That's what I began with. For the prophesy. Selim. It
wasn't about him. It was about this message. It was about other
people. I season I lay him out on it too. How do you Sonali come he
wants to good for you. Hadees means he wants good for you.
That's all he was worried about? How can I give good to other
people
about Ooh, for him the meaning or for him and his Most Compassionate
and Most Merciful. Before I go forward, the message for me in
this is there are going to be dark times in life.
Let's all come to that and understand it. Let's all mentally
prepare for it. But what we learned from this moment is that
you have to have an unwavering, unwavering connection with your
Lord so strong, that you're able to see through the pain
and find that lesson.
And guess what I'm gonna say something else and then we're
gonna go forward.
This thing something you know, this, you know, like muscle
memory.
Muscle memory, when you play a sport, you practice it over and
over again to gain muscle memory. Because when the game time comes,
you're only going to do what you practice.
Right now if you're in a position of like, Aafia, tranquillity,
things are good. You got to prepare this right now. Because
when game time comes, only thing that's going to kick in is what
you practiced. Does that make sense?
Because when the moment comes, I can't give this dark to you. When
the moment comes, of a difficulty, when that moment comes, you only
going to fall back on what you practice in your heart.
So you got to you got we have to work on this deep inside
the prophets of Allah who today was salam.
He's laying in this garden.
The story is not over.
He's in this garden, and he doesn't realize that the garden
that he collapsed in was the garden of two of his, like, arch
nemesis. These are Qureshi people that are against him. They had a
garden far out, but it was their garden.
So he collapsed in the garden of the two sons of an Obeah.
And they're watching they saw the whole thing. They're in their
garden, and they see him come in * they see the whole scene.
They watch him pray, they see the whole thing breakdown.
They had a young teenage servant maybe in his 20
Nice.
They say to the servant here there's a tray of grapes can you
take these grapes and just give it to that man over there. Just give
it he tell him to eat some of this food.
The servant he he picks up the tray.
His name is desse
Fila address sumach Weatherby he puts the drapes on the tray and he
comes and he puts it in front of the prophesy selling the profit is
sitting down on the ground. He's in really rough shape.
His heart is great, but his body is in rough shape.
He brings the grapes and he puts it down in front of the prophets
of Allah Who are they who was salam?
And he said to him, cool, please eat some.
The Prophet so Latif Saddam looks at IDAs he smiles at him. And the
Prophet takes his hands and he puts it on the grapes and he says
Bismillah Bismillah R Rahman Rahim right before he started to eat
Bismillah
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when the when the when the prophesy centum said Bismillah, ar
e in the name of Allah. For another I dust a dust just was
taken aback. And he looked at the face of the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa salam.
And he says, well, Allah He, in the heart that kala Maya Kulu
Allah has a valid bellette. He goes what you just said, People
here don't speak that way. Those words you say? People don't say
that. They don't speak that way. Bismillah in the name of Allah
before you eat
the prophesy Salam, he looks at him. He says, Where are you from?
See, some of us. When we meet failure, we're so blinded by the
failure. We can't see the small victories.
The prophets I send them gave to give Dawa to a city he gave to
give Dawa, to these notables. But that didn't happen. But now
there's 120 year old servant
in his face talking to him.
And the Prophet realizes, oh, there's a soul here.
There's a soul here that can be saved.
Maybe Allah took me out of this city and through those streets
just for this one. Man, this one boy.
Football or suicide said I mean a beloved answer. Where are you
from? You know, small talk. Got to build the connection report.
He sends me an IEP lead answer. Where are you from?
Yeah, I guess. Well, not Dino. What religion are you
calling us Ronnie? He goes I'm Christian.
Well and I'm in Ireland. Nanoha. I'm from Manoa Iran.
For call rasool Allah Prophet says back he has the grapes. The
Prophet says Ah
man, Katya to Ragini Salah Yun has been metab he goes oh, yeah,
that's the city of of Jonah.
Deus, it's up
you know, you know you go for hide sometimes. The Hijab is about to
leave, may Allah bless them and Allah accept their hugs.
Inshallah, if you're going to keep us in your doors, inshallah you go
for Hajj sometimes and you meet someone, and you ask them where
they're from. And if they named the right place, all of a sudden
you're like this.
If they named the right place,
you know, where are you from? Ethiopia. Amen. Say I'm from New
Orleans. Oh, that's my guy. All of a sudden you don't even know each
other.
You tight? So the prophesy sent me goes Oh, no, no. That's the city
of Jonah. Yeah, yeah. He goes
on that's why you delete Eunice What do you know about
what you know? What do you know about Jonah? What might you
delete? The unis What do you know about Jonah?
He goes,
Oh, Wallah, he. He he says he continues he goes, Wallah, he
looked at the courage to mean when I left the city, there were only
10 people that still remembered who Jonah was. How do you know?
The men Aina out after and enter. How do you know Jonah bend Mattel?
Well, until only He Almighty only your unlettered you don't read?
Because he knows because all the items pretty much don't read. He
goes, How do you know this man? You don't get text messages. You
don't get up there. How do you know this? You've never been
there.
The prophets I seldom he says so beautifully. That he is my
brother.
That's my brother.
Who in the Wii U and we're Anana V. He's a prophet. I'm a prophet
of Allah.
In that moment,
For kappa does the same feet and ankles that were just being hit by
stones are now being kissed by a Deus. He fell down he's kissing
his feet kissing his feet.
The two sons are A B are they watching from a distance and one
of them hits the other? He says you just lost your slave bro
he's done brah
you lost him on baby he's done. He's done.
A das comes back over to his
two masters whatever.
Bala.
There he says, fella my job. My dad's father. They said way luck.
Why are you kissing this man's head in his hands in his feet? The
same feet hit by stones less than five hours ago are being kissed
by the loving mouth of a servant.
Isn't that beautiful?
Isn't that beautiful?
See, don't let the blindness of what you think is failure cause
you to not see the small victories that Allah has put there for you
that aren't even small.
He we shut down. We shut down. The moment there's a failure you on
the way out. Somebody is excuse me. I was wondering if I had a
hard day today. Let's talk tomorrow.
Not
Today is my rough day. I gotta reset. The prophesy. centum is
still ready. He's still
available for because he sees the sacredness of the soul of that
person. And there's an opportunity for a dyer.
Yeah, Robbie
sallallahu alayhi wa salam.
They say why are you kissing this man's head? This man's feet this
man's Why were you what's wrong with you? He says yeah, say you
Moffett on the other Rogers. He goes yeah, don't get it. There's
no one on the face of the earth better than this man. You don't
realize who he is. I see who he is.
LaTonya Alemany be Amarin, ma alum who Elana V. He spoke to me on
stuff. Only a prophet would know the way he spoke. I know he's a
prophet of Allah. fall away hakea. I does. They said I does. Stop,
stop.
Stop. Your Dean is better than his Dean. He ignored them.
He ignored them.
They left thought if they left the garden and as they're leaving
they'd have any Haditha. He asked a question.
He says where are we gonna go in Mexico we can't get in.
We can't go back to Mecca. I already explained that to
everyone.
And in that moment,
the prophets of Allah they was salam Listen to these words. kafer
to the Hulu, I lay him. How are you going to go back to Mecca?
Well home aka Juca they kicked you out? Yeah, Zaid in the la hija at
only my Tara Farah Genua Maharaja and he said they don't worry Allah
will make a way out for us on breakable things, faith and trust
on breakable. And my message to me and you is when someone is coming,
you keep talking about their hardships. Don't place it back on
Oh, did you try this? Did you put in another application? Maybe you?
Maybe you switch your recommendations. You need to be
that voice of Allah will make a way out. Sometimes people just
need someone to tell them that again. Sometimes you just need to
hear that one person go, bro. Do you forget what lies like? Yeah,
you're right. Okay. hamdulillah be that person for someone. Be that
person. So in this moment, the Prophet sallallahu wasallam. He
says, Don't worry Allah subhanaw taala will find a way out for his
prophet.
We're going to wrap up spent about an hour we'll wrap up. So there's
one more thing I just want to share, which is
this was literally the hardest moment in the Prophet's life. So
the Allahu alayhi wa sallam.
I showed her the Allahu Anhu she later asked him Yato sort of what
was the hardest day? And he said, Oh, the day of your people,
meaning the people of Mecca and Tov, did they they kick me out. I
thought this was the hardest day. But I want you to realize
something.
Right after this hard day, came the insula and miraj what is the
SR and Mal Raja is when Allah subhanaw taala took the Prophet up
to the seven heavens. He took him up to the seven heavens for a
meeting to him one to one. There was a clear indication there.
The fact you know what a fats means? It means the opening
The facts that comes right after the hardest moment, y'all.
I'm telling this because in this room right now, there's some of us
that are what seems like our hardest moment I know.
But you have to understand that the Prophet went through this, but
he passed the test and immediately after then the elevation came.
Then he was lifted up.
And the third The second thing I want to say is you have to say
this do our every morning and every evening, are you already are
the two Billahi Raba or Bill Islami, Dina will be Mohammed and
so I Salam, Nabil Matsuda, I'll translate it for you. What are the
two biller here but I'm pleased with Allah. It doesn't matter how
good the day is how bad the day is, you say it
are the two Villa here but I'm pleased with Allah. I'm pleased
with Allah. I'm pleased with Allah just lost the job, please was
ALLAH.
I'm pleased with Allah. The proposal didn't work. We started
off on marriage, right? Yeah.
It didn't work. You thought everything was gravy met the dad
and everything. And I was juggling. What are the two been?
What are the two bills? Or the two bills? Rob? I'm happy with Allah.
As my lord. Number two. Well, Bill Islami Dena, I'm happy with my way
of life and that I'm not even happy. I'm pleased with it. I'm
pleased with it. Yes, I don't do as much as I could. And I don't
always do what I should. But I love this way of life. See, a lot
of us don't say it because we're like, Well, I'm not living up to
it doesn't matter. You love it. You love the deen you love Allah
you love go to school, and your love will conquer the sins that
you do.
Your love will conquer all of that. But shaytaan tells you how
dare you say you love Allah. You love the deen when you're not
practicing that? That's even more of a reason to say no, I love it.
One man came to the prophets of Allah it was salah. And he said
Alma are you hibel poem Allah Melaku be him. A person loves a
group of people but he can't reach their level
the prophesy centum said Enter my men had an ummah and then I had a
person who will be with those that they love. Imam Abu Hanifa he used
to say, Oh hey, bizarrely in our last two minimum lol Allah and
yada yada and even whom I love righteous people, but I ain't one
of them.
Maybe Perhaps Allah will then make me one of them.
Hold have have have. Don't let your sin stop you from saying what
are the two Billahi Rubba Obon Islami Dena and last but
definitely not least.
What are the to
be Mohammed? So I said I'm gonna be on Rasulullah and I am pleased,
honored, privileged to have Mohammed sai Salah as my prophet
in Messenger
May Allah subhanho wa Taala allow us to get through our dark moments
and see the beauty in them. May Allah alleviate the difficulties
that we are going through. May Allah make it easy for us to find
the lessons that he wants us to learn in every difficulty all of
those who are in difficulties and struggling Yet Allah we ask you to
make it easy for them your hamara he mean your Allah we ask you your
Allah, we ask you to alleviate their suffering and make it easier
Hamidullah human yeah Allah whatever hardships we have the
Allah Ya Allah we turn to you and we beg of you you're hammered
Allah He mean We beg of you to make it easy for us and allow us
to learn what you want us to learn through those difficulties your
Allah Ya Allah we Allah we asked you to give us a love of your
hubby Bahamas sigh Salam Allah we ask you to give us the ability to
use his life as a as an example by which we gain light on how to live
and walk every day of our lives. Yeah Allah we asked you to have
mercy upon the soul of someone who just passed away that Allah we
asked you to give his family suffered Jimmy dolla we asked you
to elevate his rank forgive his sins to Allah we ask you to give
his parents suffered Jamil in these hard moments your hamara
Eman Subhan Rebecca Rebecca is here is the phone was salam ala l
Mursaleen. Will Hamdu lillahi rabbil aalameen She's welcome
Allahu Clara. May Allah accept from everyone in sha Allah to
Allah. Salam aleykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh
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