Can A Disease Be A Gift

You find

a certain brother, he says himself, I did

not used to pray. I have money. I

have power. I have everything.

I have

superb life,

and so I did not use to pray.

He says, one day,

I felt a pain in my stomach

and I thought perhaps it might be something,

you know, maybe a little bit of gastric

or whatever it might be, something I ate.

He says,

the next day the pain was still there.

I decided let me go to the doctor.

He went to the top doctors. The doctor

had

all the checks

and they diagnosed him with what? With cancer.

May Allah grant cure to those who are

suffering with cancer. Say, Amen.

And the doctor told him, you know, you

don't have much to live

because there is no guarantee. This is aggressive

and it's very bad.

He says, I told that doctor, who do

you think you are?

How can you decide that I have very

little to live? Are you God Almighty?

Suddenly, he's talking about God Almighty, but all

these years, he says that I didn't even

think of God Almighty because I had everything.

Are you God Almighty?

The doctor says, hey. Hey. Hey. Let's not

go there. I'm only giving you what the

results are of your own, the tests, and

so on. And I'm telling you from my

experience

that this is what it is. He says,

when I left and I came home and

I shared it with my family and I

realized what exactly happened, he said,

for the first time in my life,

I washed myself

and I stood on the sajada. You know

what's a sajada? A prayer mat. I stood

on the prayer mat and I faced qibla,

and I said, let me offer 2 units

of prayer and change my life.

So he offered 2 units of prayer,

and he said, I cried in sujud. Oh

Allah, cure me. Oh Allah, cure me. Oh

Allah, cure me. You are the only one

who can cure because medicine

has already given up. But he says my

life

turned around within 3 days.

I was so healthy, and suddenly,

the 3rd day, when the results were out,

it was

a total end of everything in my eyes.

My money meant nothing any longer. I was

no longer happy to see my cars

and my houses and my businesses

and how much they were bringing back every

day just because my stomach was paining. That's

all.

Just because my stomach was paining.

And so what happened?

He says, I cried in Sujood

begging Allah to change

this condition and to make it

such that the next test he has will

be cancer free. Oh Allah, You are the

giver and the creator of miracles. Create for

me a miracle. Cure me and so on.

He says,

after the two units of prayer, I cried.

I

made tawba, meaning he repented to Allah. I

led a life. I forgot you, and here

you are. I am begging from you and

you alone, oh Allah.

He says he fulfilled

the salah in the evening.

Early morning he was in the Masjid looking

for who? The imam. The sheikh.

Oh,

this sheikh.

He was the same guy who they used

to treat very roughly.

You know, sometimes they treat very roughly. The

sheikhs, they are not paid sometimes in the

sense that they are not looked after. When

we when they are delayed by 2 minutes

in salah, they will complain, hey, next time

don't read too long.

I don't know if it happens in

sulk,

but I think it happens in other places.

By the way, brother, while SK stands for

Sultan Qudrat. Masha'Allah.

Am I right?

Do you call it SK?

Yes. Masha'Allah.

There it goes. You see? I didn't know.

I just guessed because in the Philippines they

love to put abbreviations.

So,

he's looking for the imam. He says, after

salah, I greeted the imam. He was. He

had a big smile, and I was looking

very sad,

and then he says,

I heard some guys

some guys

say

I heard some guys say in the background,

look who is in the Masjid today.

You understand what that means?

Look who is here today. Meaning they are

surprised. They are shocked.

One guy

said, look who lost his way today. Allahu

Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Which means we don't expect

this

rich, wealthy, powerful guy to be in the

masjid. We don't expect him today. Maybe he

lost. He's lost. That's why he's here. Now

obviously, I want to correct that because

it is wrong to say that to someone

who comes to the Masjid. No matter what,

even if they have never been there, it's

wrong.

It's wrong. You need to encourage them. You

need to bring them through and say, mashaAllah.

Welcome them. It's the house of Allah.

So what happened? He

says, I was so embarrassed, but he says,

I was shivering. I said, Imam, I need

to talk to you privately.

I need to talk to you privately.

And so the imam says, no problem, my

brother. Come forth. And as he sat and

as he sat with the imam telling him

that in the last 3 days my life

has changed. I have one result and this

is the sickness that I have. The imam

says, my brother don't worry. Allah is a

Shafi.

Allah is the cure. You need to drink

Zamzam. You need to have hope in Allah.

You need to start with black seed. You

need to have a juwa. You need to

you know what these things are. Right?

You need to have pure honey. You need

to do this. You need to have an

alkaline diet. You need to whatever the imam

was saying, he said a lot of things.

So the brother says that

the imam said one thing

that woke me up.

He says, brother,

there is one of 2 things that can

happen to you. Either Allah gives you cure,

so you live for a few more years

before you will still go back to Allah

anyway because those without cancer have also died.

Right?

And he says or if Allah did not

cure you in the worldly sense, He will

cure you in the heavenly sense because if

you die as a result of the sickness

now,

thank Allah He gave you the chance to

turn to Him before you died. Allahu Akbar.

If you die suddenly,

so many people, they die suddenly. They did

not have an opportunity to repent.

They did not have a chance to turn

back to Allah. They did not have a

chance to say I'm sorry for what I

did. They did not change their lives.

They led a life, for example, far away

from from their maker. They are now going

back to their maker. Is that better or

is it better to have an opportunity to

change and to turn? So when Allah has

given you a diagnosis of a disease, a

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disease, a disease, a disease, a disease, a

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So when Allah has given you a diagnosis

of a disease that is considered terminal by

worldly standards,

remember it is a gift of Allah.

He's giving you a chance. Are you going

to turn to me? Because you know what?

It's enough.

It's enough to lead your life. What are

you going to achieve? What are you going

to get? Every day you are committing a

sin, the same sin repeated again. Every day

you are doing bad things. You don't ever

read the Quran. You have never prayed. You

don't ever do the right thing. You are

out doing the wrong things, whether it is

intoxication, whether it is whatever else it may

be, the gambling, the

intoxication, whether it is whatever else it may

be, the gambling, the losing of money, the

abusing of people. You've been doing wrong things

all along.

I want you to change your life. Here

is a beautiful opportunity.

I want you to be diagnosed

a disease that

medicine is going to give up and tell

you we cannot

cure you so that you can turn to

Allah because He is the curer.

He says at that juncture, when I listened

to this imam, my life changed permanently and

I said, oh Allah,

even if You cure me, I'm not going

to change

to go back to my bad ways.

I will remain steadfast

even if you cure me because sometimes

what happens to us?

The Quran says

that when man

is in trouble, he calls out to Allah.

And when Allah

alleviates the trouble and the struggle,

he forgets Allah as though he never ever

called out to Allah before.

Oh Allah, help me to pass my exam.

Oh Allah, help me to pass my exam.

I have an examination

this evening or tomorrow or this coming week.

Oh Allah, I have examination tomorrow. Help me.

Grant me the

ease. Make me pass, oh Allah. What did

you do? You made your Fajr. You made

your Duhr. You made your Asr. You made

your Maghrib. You made your Isha. You read

your Quran. You did your dhikr only because

of one silly

examination.

As soon as you got your result and

you have all A's, what did you do?

You had a party where there is alcohol,

where there is

dancing, and enjoyment to the degree that everything

is free. And you know what? Everyone was

just forgetting Allah. You forgot to say, oh

Allah,

I thank you for answering my dua.

You see the difference?

You see the difference?