Mohammad Elshinawy – Never Give Up Early On A Good Result Stamina
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Inna alhamdulillahi ta'ala nahmaduhu wa nasta'eenu
bihi wa nastaghfiruhu wa na'udhu billahi ta
'ala min shururi anfusina wa sayyi'ati a'malina
May yahdihi allahu ta'ala fala mudhilla lah,
waman yudhlil fala hadiya lah, wa ashhadu an
la ilaha illa allahu wahdahu la sharika lah
wa ashhadu anna muhammadan abduhu wa nabiyuhu wa
rasuluh Ya ayyuha allatheena aamanu attaqoo allaha wa
qooloo qawlan sadeeda yuslih lakum a'malakum wa yaghfil
lakum dhunubakum waman yuta'i allaha wa rasulahu
faqad faaza fawzan azeema Ya ayyuha allatheena attaqoo
rabbakum allathee khalaqakum min nafsin wahidatin wa khalaqa
minha zawjaha wabatha minhuma rijalan kathiran wa nisa
'aa wa attaqoo allaha allathee tasa'aloona bihi
wal arhaam inna allaha kana alaykum raqeeba walaqad
wassayna allatheena ootoo alkitaba min qablikum wa iyaakum
an ittaqoo allaha After praising Allah Azza wa
Jal and testifying to His unique oneness and
to the finality of prophethood being in Muhammad
salallahu alayhi wa alihi wa salam and after
reminding myself anew of the taqwa of Allah
to be conscious of Allah Azza wa Jal
subhanahu wa ta'ala the glorified, the exalted,
the mighty and majestic and after welcoming my
brothers and sisters to the house of Allah
over the last 11 months brothers and sisters
it would be difficult to imagine that anyone
of us has not resisted the thought of
why is this taking so long ever since
the events in Gaza have begun almost everyone
thought it would be like the 5 or
4 previous wars on the people of Gaza
these massacres that take place over and over
again we never thought it would take this
long for better or for worse and so
people have reacted in a whole bunch of
different ways but I want to present you
with a question a challenge what if it
needs to take this long because Allah knows
this is the only way for us to
stay awake to stay connected to stay committed
to stay invested to finally liberate Palestine may
Allah allow us to see it in our
lifetime may Allah allow us to see it
in our lifetime but how do we sustain
where do you find stamina from because if
we're also being very honest we're losing steam
a lot of us at least the vast
majority of us why are we losing steam
we have to turn to our faith and
remember that the help of Allah Azza wa
Jal is almost near and that He Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam said يضحك ربنا من قنوط عباده
مع قرب غيره that our Lord laughs in
a manner befitting His Majesty from those who
lose stamina those who lose steam though His
change that He's about to effect for the
better is so close the hadith says and
they said Ya Rasulallah our Lord laughs He
said yes they said لن نعدم من رب
يضحك خيرا then we will never miss out
on a good outcome from a Lord who
laughs and you know the verse in the
Quran that ends with أَلَا إِنَّ نَصْرَ اللَّهِ
قَرِيبٌ the help of Allah is near what
does this mean it's important to revisit this
for a second it will give you stamina
because it cannot mean that it's coming any
minute coming any minute what you get, what
you want any minute instant gratification that's not
this world that's the next world but you
have to go through a test world to
get to that world in fact that's exactly
how the ayah begins it says أَمْ حَسِبَتُمْ
أَن تَدْخُلُوا الْجَنَّةِ do you think you'll just
stroll into Jannah وَلَمَّا يَأْتِكُمْ before their first
comes to you مَثَلُوا الَّذِينَ خَلَوْا مِن قَبْلِكُمْ
the likes of those who came before you
مَسَّتْهُمُ الْبَأْسَاءُ وَالضَّرَّاءُ وَزُلْزِلُوا they were afflicted with
suffering and they were afflicted with poverty and
they were stricken with so much until they
were shaken to their core حَتَّى يَقُولَ الرَّسُولُ
وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مَعَهُ until the messenger and those
that believed with him started saying meaning to
themselves meaning resisting the thought that we were
talking about earlier saying to themselves مَتَى نَصْرُ
اللَّهِ when is the help of Allah coming
that's when Allah said أَلَا إِنَّ نَصْرَ اللَّهِ
قَرِيبٌ certainly the help of Allah is near
meaning it's not on your clock never doubt
never let the doubt seep in it will
ruin you and ruin everything you're working on
right it will jeopardize your hereafter and you
will not be a service to yourself or
anyone around you in the dunya either so
it cannot mean near meaning it's going to
happen in an instant no it means Allah
can bring it in an instant it means
that Allah has already ordained that at a
particular instant the qadr has already passed the
pages have dried the ink is set that
there is a moment He has already set
when it will happen and it also means
that for those who believe in Him He
will help them through it bringing us back
to the theme of stamina the theme of
going on because you know let us talk
about ourselves here many of us cannot watch
the images anymore ok you can't and I
think everyone you know has probably slowed down
in the building of awareness and the shares
and just the following altogether I want to
tell you because it is good for you
to know this it's ok it's actually very
normal it's actually very normal to find yourself
unable to put up with all of this
trauma day in and day out in fact
the Prophet ﷺ even though it was his
brother Jafar ibn Abi Talib was considered his
brother ok and he was the one that
was hearing the news of him being killed
live it was being live streamed to him
ﷺ you know the authentic hadith of Anas
that when the battle of Mu'tah took place
when the Muslims were facing what they faced
in Jordan 600 miles away against the Byzantine
Roman Empire the Prophet ﷺ is standing on
the minbar on the pulpit telling them Zayd,
his adopted son has fallen and Jafar took
the flag and Jafar has fallen and Abdullah
ibn Rawaha has taken the flag he's saying
this while the tears are flowing down his
cheeks ﷺ and Abdullah ibn Rawaha took it
and he was taken down and then one
of the swords of Allah grabbed it Khalid
ibn Walid and Allah will allow for victory
at his hands Allah supported the army through
him he saw it live yet he was
the one that went to Jafar's family and
he said to them or said to the
people about them first اصنعوا لآل جعفر طعاما
فقد أتاهما يشغلهم prepare some food and bring
it over to the family of Jafar because
there has come to them what has preoccupied
them they're emotionally paralyzed they have a right
they have a right to grieve he validated
their grief he gave them room to recover
and then three days later he visits them
ﷺ and he says to them I don't
want you to cry over my brother after
today meaning let's try we're not going to
be able to move past it but let's
try to start moving with it we're not
going to forget it altogether but we're going
to move right?
and he brought his son the son of
Jafar Abdullah ibn Jafar he brought him over
and he himself shaved his head meaning we're
not going to sit here and act like
we're angry at God no, we're going to
move on life has to go on there
are things that must be done and so
he gave them room to grieve and so
I want to tell you you as well
don't be too hard on yourself the fact
that you could not watch these images anymore
some people are like the Prophet ﷺ right?
they have it in them in the middle
of the trauma to be supporting everybody else
and you know from the people of Gaza
people like this his son is the one
massacred and he's telling everyone Allah has honored
him don't cry over my son right?
some people are just like that late last
year an imam from New York City messaged
me very good friend of mine he said
to me Hamad I have promised myself not
to cry in front of the community but
when I'm home when I'm alone I'm not
okay that is already impressive it's already impressive
that you have enough certainty and enough serenity
you're Sakina with Allah Azza wa Jal that
you can actually control yourself to a time
where you're okay venting right?
taking care of everybody else and then you
go you pour your tears out to Allah
Azza wa Jal or you speak to one
of your friends in private this is incredible
this resembles what the Prophet ﷺ showed us
is possible when Yaqub ﷺ says innama ashku
bathi wa huzni ilallah I don't complain of
my bath you know what bath is?
you know satellite broadcasting it's called bath the
mubashir broadcast right?
so they say that bath is like when
the emotions overload and they have to go
somewhere if I have to speak I speak
to Allah right?
the stuff that gets bottled up I only
give it to Allah Azza wa Jal I
don't need to speak to anyone else that's
very beautiful and some people are like that
here and there but other people they should
not be too tough on themselves don't live
with this they call it survivor's guilt or
whatever you're going to call it right?
imposter syndrome that I'm not a good person
because I'm not following every single day no
no no you are a believer and you
are a person that Allah loves because you
feel the pain you have compassion in your
heart in fact the Prophet ﷺ said khaaba
abdun wa khasir man lam yaj'al Allah
ta'ala fi qalbihi rahmatan lil bashar the
servant is lost the servant is doomed if
Allah does not portion for him some compassion
for all of humanity in his heart because
then you are disqualified for Allah's mercy there's
no mercy in your heart and so take
it easy on yourselves so that you can
rejuvenate you need a breather it's fine to
get back to work we're not distracted from
it right?
we're recovering for it for the sake of
I'm not doing anyone a favor by burning
out I'm not doing anyone a favor by
numbing you force yourself to become numb with
overexposure brothers and sisters this is the genius
of our deen this is why he said
give them room let them let it out
and then we sort of get involved in
proceeding with our lives you know they even
say and I'm not going to speak too
much to this that the way Allah created
your body your heart and your mind know
you're in trouble and they find a balance
they force you into a balance it's a
survival mechanism like when you're cold the brain
tells you you're cold start shivering right?
so you heat up when you're hot the
brain says to the body you're hot open
up the pores let some sweat out so
you can cool down it's going to bring
you to a balance likewise when you see
these images your brain your heart knows it's
not a movie it knows this is real
they are massacring our children in front of
us this is not easy and so you
will do one of two things you will
either become numb to it right?
you will become numb to it or you
will stop yourself from becoming numb to it
by stepping away for the sake of the
cause not for the sake of forgetting the
cause and being self-centered just going on
with my little life the
second factor though time will not allow me
to elaborate much brothers and sisters that I
want you to keep in mind because we're
just getting started right?
I want you to keep in mind is
one of the things that eats away at
your determination there's actually so many studies you
can see this in students in school you
can see this with anyone in everything one
of the things that eats away at your
stamina eats away at your determination is this
sense of being incompetent right?
I just I can't do anything so why
do I want to keep involving myself in
a dead end?
if I can't help then I don't want
to know I don't want to be involved
this is just natural right?
you don't like to feel like you're a
failure so if the threshold is too high
if there's no success there why?
consciously or not this is the way we
operate and so I want to tell you
do not let shaytan use that against you
you know even like I felt the Muslim
community was becoming depressed and so I did
my own little experiment and I found that
people that are in marketing know it far
better when you keep sharing these images to
build awareness of course the intention is correct
of the atrocities and the genocide people stop
engaging them and then you put a success
story there like the boycotts are working or
you know this university has divested it goes
everywhere which shows you the people are thirsty
for a sense of competence oh we can
do something and I'm telling you Wallahi you
are doing things you just zoom out a
little bit Wallahi you are doing things the
worst thing that can happen in this moment
is for you to think there is no
point and that is why we need to
continue to circulate among ourselves not just validating
it's okay to grieve it's okay to take
a breather and come right back but also
this notion of there are success stories you
know of course the people of Gaza are
the ultimate success story yes or no ultimate
success story as one of the mashayikh said
they are being murdered by devils and received
by angels may Allah accept our martyrs and
honor their ranks but even look at their
resilience look at their defiance in the face
of the whole world's superpowers stacked up against
them look at their resilience what do you
mean someone restored someone's blown off jaw perhaps
you've seen the images using the wire that
tiny flimsy metal wire from a COVID face
mask she pulled out the wire and she
reinstalled his jaw that had fallen off and
it healed what do you mean you don't
have tools and you made some makeshift homemade
machine to get fresh water we can drink
out of the salt water incredible what do
you mean you're charging your phone to give
the world a little bit more coverage of
exactly what's happening inside using the battery pack
of a dynamite that didn't explode and they
charged their phone with it and they've of
course inspired the rest of the world they've
inspired all of us and that inspiration has
been a success that we're beginning to see
brothers and sisters whether you boycott Starbucks or
not the CEO was fired because of your
boycotts McDonald's was in a denial no it's
not because of the boycott they lost 7
billion dollars to date and they admit that
one of the largest reasons was because of
the Muslim boycott they said Samsung has pulled
out its operations in Tel Aviv Samsung next
Intel has halted a 15 billion dollar project
there American Airlines has shut down all flights
till April these university encampments that were spreading
like wildfire the universities that are divesting from
arms deals and otherwise or research that works
to that or corporations that indirectly contribute to
it everywhere you go and all of you
as well you know like in the middle
of a war when the prime minister of
the Zionist state is making phone calls like
a mad man I need to talk to
the owner of Facebook I need to talk
to the owner of Instagram I need to
talk to the owner of Tik Tok I
need to stop this I need to stop
that you know why brothers and sisters 100
years ago a union was established called the
world the union of Jewish students right connected
to the world Zionist organization the first president
of that union of Jewish students globally which
was a Zionist project was Albert Einstein they
knew that the path forward was the universities
right and it crumbled right in front of
them in less than a year they lost
all grip the social media algorithms were fighting
you brothers and sisters it was so hard
to get engagement that means you were putting
in 10 times the amount of work to
build awareness and people are starting to see
it despite the shadow banning despite the fighting
right people are getting cracked people are getting
fired left and right and people are getting
reinstated left and right look at these lawyers
look at these students look at these doctors
I lost track of the names I wish
we could compile them because we need this
to know oh it's working كيف تصبر على
ما لم تحط به خبرة Allah Azzawajal says
how can you put up how can you
have perseverance when something you can't grasp so
I need you to grasp that you're okay
for needing a breather and I need you
to grasp brothers and sisters that it is
working don't stipulate results to get involved you
don't know how all the dots are going
to connect Allah will connect them stay invested
stay involved do your part be honored that
Allah has chosen you to revive this cause
and it's revived and as much as I
would like to end with an ayah or
a hadith I cannot help but recall the
very first prime minister of Israel it is
reported about him that he famously said the
elders will die and the youth will forget
and we have not forgotten and we will
not forget and the memory is as alive
as ever how we raise our children how
we discipline ourselves upon Allah's great deen how
we mobilize because we are not outnumbered we
are out organized how we put our petty
secondary differences aside how we move forward will
determine how much Allah honors us and He
has already shown us some of the fruit
perhaps because He knows we need to see
that perhaps He knows our weakness so may
Allah strengthen us out of weakness and may
Allah unite us out of division and may
Allah Azza wa Jal use us for His
great cause and not replace us deem us
worthy to be His servants worthy of His
pleasure worthy to serve play a role in
the liberation of Al-Nasjid Al-Aqsa in
Palestine Allahumma Ameen and may Allah heal our
wounds in every corner of the world may
Allah return this Ummah to the Quran He
sent for it and may He honor the
world with the Quran He sent in it