Morad Awad – Funny Story to Remind You to have Tawakkul in Allah
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The speakers discuss the scariest moments of their trip, including a plane crash and the fatality of all on board. They emphasize the importance of trusting pilots and fearless behavior, as well as the need for fearless behavior. They also talk about the importance of trusting pilots and the need for fearless behavior.
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Hello, I just wanted to
do a short reminder, because it's been a long time since we did
that. Right. And 100, I've been traveling the past couple of
Fridays, so, so,
spot a lot, I just wanted to
when I was traveling, I recalled
something that happened to me in the past. So for those who didn't
know, I lived in Saudi Arabia. And I worked as a teacher and one of
the universities in Riyadh, in Saudi Arabia. So, you know, I
would often just tell my, my wife and kids yeah, let's pack up.
Let's, let's go somewhere.
And I'll just drive, you know, book a hotel somewhere. So at that
point, I told my family, we're going to Medina, we're just going
to spend, spend our, our time there and cello. So
on our way there, I see like a busted airport sign, somewhere in
the middle of the desert, right? Close to the city called Coliseum,
right. And I'm like, yo, no way there's an airport in this barren
desert. You know, there's, there's nothing as far as I can see. And
it says the airport next exit, and I'm looking, and there's nothing
there. So me, I'm a very curious person. And I always take a lot of
detours when I'm traveling out of sheer curiosity, you know, so I
just took the exit. And I'm like, Okay, let me see where this
airport quote unquote, is. So I pulled up to this little building,
about 1/4, the size of epic, right? And I pull up to it, and it
turns out that that's the airport. Right? There's literally one, you
know, table. And I look in the back, and there's some like, you
know, planes that look like they're being worked on, and
planes that looked like a junkyard of planes, basically.
And I'm like, No way. This is a functional airport. And I go in
and I see a whole line of people. And they're all Egyptian. Right?
And I'm like, Oh, snap, man.
This place is operating. Allahu Akbar. So my wife is Egyptian. So
I'm like, Kalasa these my people, you know, so I went, I went in.
And
I asked the teller in the front, I cut the line, just ask a question.
And I'm like, guys, is there a plane that's actually leaving?
They're like, yeah, we're leaving in 45 minutes. There's a plane
going to Cairo. I'm like, seriously? How much and they gave
me some like, very cheap price, like, like $300 or something. $200
some, something very cheap. Don't make how many seats do you have?
They're like, Yeah, we got our last two seats on my chair. Got
me, my wife. We got two kids in our lap. There was no rules, by
the way. We just put the kids on our left. So like, you know, so I
paid for the tickets and I come out. My wife was waiting for me.
It's like, okay, fair. When I took it took me like 10 minutes, come
out. And I parked the car. She's like, where are you going? I'm
like, I want to show you this airport. Let's bring the luggage
and go. And then all of a sudden, we're on this line. I'm like,
Yeah, we're going to Egypt.
And she's like, but what about you know, our plans? I'm like, no, no
has gone. We're gonna go see your cousins and your family and
everybody call us. I changed my mind. So we went.
And you know, at that moment, I was happy. But then when I saw the
plane,
it was a whole different ballgame. Well, Leia one, it was one of the
scariest. It was one of the scariest moments of my life. We
right in this plane, it's all gassing up, we had to walk about
half a mile to get to it. And then we went up the stairs that were
all squeaky and stuff. And then we get into this plane we're sitting.
And all the people along robotic there mainly from the side part of
Egypt, right? And they got their own lunches and dinners and they
got their own cheese and bread and everybody, they're just having a
good time. The Egyptians are very happy people, you know, they make
a delightful moment out of anything. Right? So So everybody's
just chillin. And there's stuff coming out of the vent looked like
guess it wasn't the AC gas. Right? It's some other leak. I don't know
what it is. And I'm an engineer. So I just had a hunch that there's
something wrong with this plane.
They try to turn on the plane and it's not turning off.
And then I hear this loud sound. And then it turns off,
the pilots come out, or two young Egyptian men and they they open
the cabin where we put the luggage all the way in the front.
And they take out this manual that looks like it's like the man the
engineer manual of the plane. And they're looking through it and one
is like, I think this is the problem. The other ones like Nah,
man, it has to be this one.
Wallah and they're just debating what the problem is.
Just and I'm looking at my wife, and nobody cares what's happening.
They're all eating and having fun and joking around kids running in
the aisles. And I'm like, I'm telling my wife, you know, honey,
I think this is our last flight ever, you know?
So here's my advice. Let's not talk, because we know how marital
talks go. Okay, so let's say she had, and just stay quiet for the
rest of the flight hamdullah they turned on the plane, it was the
loudest plane ever, you know, had the outside propellers. And, you
know, when it took off him did a he drifted a little bit on the
runway, he's obviously practicing on us before he gets a job in a
decent airline. So it takes off. And you know, somehow, when we
land, he also drifts a little. And he almost misses the whole runway,
runway, and SubhanAllah. We make it there. We make it there in one
piece, hence why I'm standing before you today. So
at that moment, I realized how
deficient
I wasn't toward Allah, Allah subhanaw, taala.
Right. When we write a plane, we put our full trust in the pilot,
right? They could do anything. We don't know their credentials
qualifications experience that they have, but we know it. It may.
It may be like, they may not be trained enough, right? But because
we think that, okay, they're flying a plane, they have to be
trained.
Right? How many times did we ask about the pilot's credentials?
When we took a flight on American Airlines on United, whatever it
is, right? We don't ask, we just expect there to be a certain level
of like a certain criteria.
You at that moment, I realized one thing that stuck with me until
today, that if Allah is steering my life,
and he wrote
my code demo, I thought, he wrote everything, what we're going to
do, and what we're going to leave behind us, what's going to happen
to us now it's going to happen to us, and he's taking care of us all
the time. And not only that, but he sends angels to protect us from
the evils that may fall upon us. We're gonna sit on a half hour,
right? Allah sends protectors around his were in Allah's
protection all the time.
How can we be said, from what Allah wrote for us,
or the direction that our life took, or a calamity that befell us
when the one who's steering it, we should trust way more than that
pilot who's flying that plane, and we're trusting our life with
right or wrong? So when we, when we're living our life, we should
know that the one that is steering us and taking us to different
points and stations, is probable Alameen
is a Rahmani Raheem no other.
So when something happens to us know that it's the most merciful
thing that could have happened to you. If you're a believer when it
happens to
when a calamity befalls and something happens and you say, a
shadow Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah Muhammad Rasul Allah, Yara
Bureau helped me then know that Allah has taken care of you. Don't
worry, it seems like it's worse than it is. But ultimately, you're
not going to know. You don't understand. Allah's wisdom is way
beyond ours, but it's good for you.
Right? And subhanAllah it took a crummy plane like that, to teach
me that lesson in life. And sometimes we never know. Right?
For someone else, it could be a crummy car, or a bus or something
else. Right or a train. But you know, everyone has their moments.
And in sha Allah to Allah, this is a moment for us to realize how
merciful Allah is in his decree with us and for us, does that come
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