Mufti Menk – Hope in the Mercy of Allah

			Alhamdulillah
		

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hodja wash hadoo Allah Allah Allah Allahu la sharika wash. Mohammed Abdullah he rasuluh ma ma ma ma
Qin Rasulullah alameen
		

			Allah de Boer Isa el amor de Waal as well as the terra cotta Allah hace
		

			la ilaha
		

			illa Allah sallallahu wasallam albaraka Allah, Allah Allah Allah He was happy he Omen, Salah
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			every time we get a chance to speak to one another, and to remind one another about goodness, the
first point that we should be raising is the development of the connection with Allah subhanho wa
Taala. It is always important for us to build this relationship with Allah it is known as taqwa of
Allah He, if you notice in the Quran, every time Allah says, Allah, which means develop the
relationship with Allah be conscious of Allah be fearful of his punishment and hopeful in his mercy.
That is part of the meaning of taqwa. May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us this beautiful
relationship with him such that when we fulfill the instructions, we do so with pleasure, with
		

			happiness, with great zeal, and when we stay away from the prohibitions that make him angry, we do
so also out of the love of Allah subhanho wa Taala.
		

			My brothers and sisters, when Bella live, Nora Ba, da da Allahu anhu, at the beginning of Islam was
being tortured. He was being dragged in the hot sand on the hot stones, and he was being harmed.
		

			He kept on repeating I hadn't. I had, I'm sure, we have heard that.
		

			at that juncture, he had no idea what the future held, but he had hope in the mercy of Allah. He did
not know that a day will come when he will be given the honor of calling out we are then in the same
Mecca in the same Masjid on the same caliber
		

			in the vicinity of which he was being punished and penalized.
		

			at that juncture, right at the beginning, he didn't give up but he knew that Allah has a better
plan. When victory came it came sweeter than he expected it
		

			when Abu Bakr Siddiq robiola one
		

			and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam together with a few were being persecuted in Mecca,
Tomoko Rama Subhana, Allah, the companions
		

			had conviction and hope in the mercy of Allah. But they didn't know exactly how Allah had planned
the victory. That victory was sweeter and better than they had ever imagined.
		

			When Musa alayhis salatu wa sallam was faced with the Pharaoh, the destruction of the Pharaoh and he
used to kill the boys. And he used to commit and perpetrate the most heinous of crimes.
		

			They didn't know exactly in what shape the victory would come over when it would come. But they knew
that Allah had promised them ultimate victory.
		

			They continue to have hope in the mercy of Allah.
		

			And this is why when they pray to Allah to say, Oh Allah, when is this victory going to come? And
Allah subhanho wa Taala responded to the call of Musa alayhis salam and Harun Moses and Aaron May
peace be upon them. Color coding, O g, but Dawa tokuma festa akima wala Debbie
		

			nice Sabina Levine Allah
		

			we have indeed answered your prayer. So now
		

			We want you to be steadfast the mercy of Allah the help of Allah comes to those who are steadfast.
But their journey to developing the closeness with Allah at times has in it the challenges of this
world. We should never lose hope my brothers and sisters remains steadfast. No matter what we are
going through it will never be worse than what Bilaal ignore a BA have a loved one who went through,
did victory not come to him. Did he not see days he didn't even imagine he would see.
		

			We cannot have gone through worse than what the prophet Musa alayhis salam went through. Did he not
see victory and Allah tells him, your da has been answered. It has been answered.
		

			Yet the destruction of the pharaoh only came years later. In the interim, Allah told him Do you know
what be steadfast you and your brother, don't lose focus. My brothers and sisters, the challenges
you have on earth should bring you closer to Allah and not take you further away from Allah subhanho
wa Taala.
		

			Whatever hardship, be a financial hardship, be it a difficulty in your workplace or with your health
with your family, no matter what it may be.
		

			Never lose hope in the mercy of Allah, it must not take you away from Allah, it must bring you
closer, Allah told those whom he loves, who have been through more than anything you will ever go
through. Allah told him, don't worry, we know Subhana Allah, you just be steadfast, we will take
care of the rest. When the time is right, you will taste the sweetness of victory in a man in a
manner that you didn't even imagine. Many times we look at things that happened to us that seem to
be negative. We don't even realize those are sometimes the most positive things that have ever
happened to our lives.
		

			Take a look at any crisis, any problem that has happened within the life of a believer, if you see
you will find the pearls within that problem. You will find the goodness within that issue on a
broader scale within a period of time you will see the light if you remain steadfast. So Allah tells
musala is salatu salam don't follow the path of those who don't know, don't follow the path of those
who don't know you remain steadfast. As for those who don't know, they follow the path of
transgression, they become angry, they start questioning Allah, I know of people who've lost their
children, I know of people who don't have children, may Allah subhanho wa Taala make it easy for one
		

			and all remain steadfast, you are not the first person with that problem. There are billions of
others who have had the same problem in the past and even worse, but the difference is they were
steadfast. They never lost hope. They died with hope. And ultimately, the victory that they got with
* their dose was far greater and sweeter than any difficulty and hardship they went through
during this life.
		

			What's the worst thing that can happen to me?
		

			In fact, it is the best thing that could happen.
		

			From a worldly perspective, we say it's the worst. But from a heavenly perspective, it's the best.
What is it?
		

			Die. If I were to die because of my sickness, my problem, my illness, and May Allah protect us all
if you were terminally ill with cancer or whatever it may be. May Allah grant you Shiva through his
miracle. Part of the mercy of Allah is that he will take you away and ultimately you will go to
Geneva we always tell people you want to go to Geneva they say yes, you want to die they say no. So
how are you going to go to Geneva so behind Allah.
		

			So Allah says, hang on, we know if you die with hope and are in the Vani Abitibi I will treat every
one of my slaves according to how he perceives me. You remember the mercy of Allah you have hope in
the mercy of Allah in the forgiveness of Allah, Allah will treat you with that hope with that mercy
with that forgiveness. But if you think no way, Allah is not going to have mercy on me. He that is
an insult to Allah because he says he is often Rahim Ramadan, we're doing a foreigner etc, etc,
forgiving, Most Merciful, most compassionate, etc, etc. And you are saying No, you are not what type
of Indian salt is that against the law?
		

			May Allah grant us that beautiful hope in his mercy.
		

			Look at the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu sallam. They told him bad things. They said evil things they
plotted against him. They tried to kill him. They tried to do whatever they didn't succeed. And
Allah subhanho wa Taala says,
		

			Allah kadina llamo
		

			casado cabbie my aku
		

			fossa be hemmed in a big welcome
		

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			we know that the statements they are uttering the bad words they are saying are hurting you, we know
that they are hurtful words, your heart is being narrowed your chest sorry, your chest is being
narrowed because of the hurtful words that they are saying we know that what is the solution sub be
behind the Arabic declare the praise and glory of Your law? declare it. Someone swore you you say
Alhamdulillah? Is it possible? The problem with us when someone swears us we don't know the
guidance, we don't even have hope in the mercy of Allah, we swear them back with a double swear
words of Allah, we swear them back. They called us one animal we call them 10 animals what what was
		

			the difference of Allah, it just shows our vocabulary is a little bit wider and broader than this.
That's not what a mock mean is. Someone swears you and you can smile. And you can say Oh Allah guide
him. He doesn't know that is a true believer, you have hope you are living with a smile on your
face.
		

			You don't need to get angry. Anger will destroy you. It will destroy your health. It will destroy
your relationships, you will end up oppressing your children and your family members without
realizing it's because someone said something to me today. And I didn't like it. I vented it on
those I love the most. So you have a problem now at home. Because of what you didn't realize what it
was. But if you learn to let go and have hope in the mercy of Allah, perhaps Allah will guide this
person will law he my brothers and sisters there are so many examples of people who caused and
committed blasphemy against align his Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam and Allah guided them to
		

			the deen and they came through Subhana Allah in such a manner that nobody would have imagined this
victory. Even in our own lives. I can give you so many examples of some of those people. You might
even though some of them, but this has been from the very beginning. So why is it that I get angry
and upset when Allah Himself knows people who bless him him? At times He guides them and he brings
them to the dean take a look at Harley Davidson. Well, he didn't
		

			take a look at this man. He says there is no place on my body without the mark of a weapon. And yet
he didn't die in the battlefield. And prior to Islam, he caused a lot of harm to the Muslims, but
there was hope in the mercy of Allah. The Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam said mommy through her
lineage.
		

			A man with a brain of highly valid, so intelligent, so powerful, he cannot be ignorant of the fact
that Islam is the true religion. Subhana Allah, the DA What happened? This man came through shocking
everyone was shocked prior to that they were other sharks but they knew the Sahaba of the Allahu
knew. Don't underestimate the mercy of Allah, the mercy of Allah. Allah says while he was he at
		

			the mercy of Allah, absolutely.
		

			Bro broad
		

			the mercy of Allah subhanho wa Taala absolutely broad. It has encompassed everything. That's the
mercy of Allah subhanho wa Taala. We ask Allah subhanho wa Taala to have mercy on us,
		

			my brothers, my sisters,
		

			without lengthening much,
		

			I wish to remind you of something very interesting.
		

			The difficulties can be divided into many different categories, but two main categories those in
this world and those of the hereafter. I promise you the difficulties of this world if you manage
them correctly, as a believer, you will never have difficulties in the hereafter.
		

			Some people who don't manage their difficulties and hardships in this world properly. Allah speaks
about them by saying hasura dunya while Sierra, their Lika, who will husana moving, they have lost
this world and they have also lost the afterlife. That is indeed a clear cut loss. Would you like to
be from among those? No. So don't lose hope in the mercy of Allah. No matter what you've done. Don't
let shaytan bog you down. But ask yourself a question. In the same way that I don't like people to
do wrong to me, do I do wrong to others? That's a very powerful question because many people want to
be protected from harm but they don't protect others from their own harm.
		

			And this is why the prophets
		

			Bala Salaam on more than one occasion has spoken about how a true Muslim is He Who doesn't use his
tongue or his hands to harm anyone.
		

			And Muslim woman Salim al Muslim una Missa Neha de and in another narration, a Muslim man Salah
Manasa.
		

			One narration actually says a Muslim is the one whom the other people are saved from the evil of his
tongue or his hand, which means no verbal abuse and no physical abuse.
		

			One narration speaks of the Muslims protecting the Muslim in in that way, making sure you don't harm
and the other one speaks about mankind at large. And there are verses of the Quran that speak about
mankind at large. There are other narrations that speak about mankind and law at larger layer
Hamidullah human layer homina. Allah does not have mercy on the one who doesn't have mercy on the
rest of the people. Are you a merciful servant of Allah? Are you really a merciful servant of Allah?
Do you have mercy in your home with your children, with your spouses, with your daughters with your
brothers and sisters?
		

			If you would like the mercy of Allah, you need to show the quality of mercy at least to others. Many
of us do not have a relationship with our own children. A young boy came to me a few moments ago in
this Masjid and told me I have a question to ask you. And I told him, this is not a q&a session. He
says there are five minutes remaining. I said no problem. What is the question perhaps life and
death. He said, You know, I want to choose a certain field. And my father, my mother want me to
choose a certain field and I really don't want the field they want. I am so interested in something
else. What do I do?
		

			at that juncture, I wished I had a small tablet I could give him so that suddenly his problem would
be solved. But that's not possible.
		

			What can I say? develop a relationship with your parents, talk to them, talk to them again, convince
them tell them I'm not keen on this and that, and my beloved parents listen to your children. Every
day, we have hundreds of young girls telling us My father is forcing me to marry my cousin every
day. And we have hundreds of divorces every day telling us that I didn't want to marry the person I
married. I was in love with someone else. Aston Villa, I am not condoning what they may have done.
But I'm telling the parents something is wrong with the way you brought up your children. Either.
You were too hard and you didn't understand how to communicate with your children. And you don't
		

			even understand the rights that Allah gave you and what he did not give you How can you impose How
would you like it if five years down the line your wife tells you I never wanted to marry you. I was
in love with the neighbor. And you know what my father forced me to marry you How would you feel?
This is a difficulty and a great hardship. We need to have hope in the mercy of Allah. Let the
children communicate with you if what they want is not haram facilitate it for them. My brothers and
sisters, if Allah allowed it, who are you to disallow it? What type of a big deal Do you really
think you are? Do you really think that Allah told you these children are your ownership like you
		

			own money? Even the money you don't own? The law? The children belong to Allah, Allah gave them to
you temporarily just to see what you would do. Are you going to do what we asked you to do? Or
you're going to do what your whims and fancies want? Many of us do what our whims and fancies want.
		

			Are you ready to follow the Hadith of the prophets of Salaam when he tells you either a document or
bernadina hula hula hoop as a widow? When someone comes to you with a proposal, you study his Allah
and His Deen if it's okay, let it happen. Subhana Allah unconditioned that they both would like to
do it right on condition that they both are interested. Let it happen with us. No, no, no, no, you
can't. When you were five years old, I promised you to our to my brother's son, it's over you cannot
let that happen. Five years we are living now in this dunya in this world, you have created the
disaster not only for yourself, but for your future generations. May Allah protect us. I am not
		

			condoning children to go and do their own thing. My beloved children, you must involve your parents
in your lives in the big decisions you have to make. Those are your parents they've taken care of
you. They've loved you, they brought you up, you must involve them. But my beloved parents learn to
understand a little bit and understand don't create hardship for people allow will create hardship
for you in the dunya and in the era.
		

			When you create ease for someone, Allah will create ease for you. So as much as we would like to
have hope in the mercy of Allah, through our difficulties in this dunya we need to make sure we are
not the point of suffering.
		

			Have someone else. Remember that sometimes at your workplace, you are a boss. So what you do is you
start oppressing the people, you don't greet them, you don't talk to them. You don't you treat them
as though they are not human. If that is the case, you're not going to go very far. Allah will catch
you.
		

			change your attitude. What is it costing you to smile to greet the man who's cleaning the street.
The other day, I saw a clip online of a man who was cleaning the street and they got him reciting
the Quran so melodiously that it would put me to shame also, somehow Allah circumstances have driven
such a pious person for Halloween sustenance, to clean the street to earn a few coins. Yet his
qualification with Allah is higher than almost the entire Masjid.
		

			And people don't want to greet him. People don't want to talk to him. People look at him and they
throw sybella they throw dirt on him to say you clean it, take it and they don't realize he may be a
friend of Allah. Akbar.
		

			He may be a friend of Allah. Have you beaten him? The bonus was yours, not his love.
		

			Learn to greet people you don't know who is closer to Allah. We judge people based on material
items. The men the perfume, smells nice Salam aleikum. That was salam to the road.
		

			Salaam Alaikum. That was salam to the cufflinks into the pen into the car. The same man if he were
to come with tattered clothing, we would not even say why they come mussalam if he greeted,
		

			and we want hope in the mercy of Allah. We are not having mercy on others. We don't even acknowledge
people.
		

			My brothers and sisters, we ask Allah Subhana Allah to Allah to grant us goodness.
		

			What beautiful lessons we have from the struggles of not only the companions of the Prophet SAW
Selim or the Prophet sallallahu Sallam himself, but even from the previous prophets. Go and look at
their lives, each one of them struggled, because Allah chose that for them had Allah wanted he would
not have let it happen. But the lesson was for us, their struggles, draw them closer to Allah. Our
struggles sometimes draw us away from the mercy of Allah, we lose hope in the mercy of Allah. And on
top of that, our struggles are such that we have made others struggle as a result of our existence
on Earth. If that is the case, how do you expect solutions to the difficulties that you are going
		

			through when you your problem when you yourself are the source of difficulties and problems against
others? May Allah help me Firstly, to become a better person? And then all of us May Allah help us
to become a better person if you walk out of this Masjid today, and you have made a firm intention
that I'm going to be a much better person in my character in my relationship with Allah we have
succeeded by the will of Allah barakallahu li walakum ano asuna. Whenever anyone here come the MFI
him Amina achema aku Kohli hada was done through La Jolla. Welcome Melissa in Muslim enough us who
know Java, don't carry