Mufti Menk – How Allah Turns The Hearts

			I sit and I think of the Sahaba
		

			sometime, and I wonder the type of connection
		

			they have. Yet, moments before that they were
		

			at war with each other.
		

			They were at war with each other. Umar
		

			ibn Khattab
		

			was known as the notorious man in Makkah.
		

			And do you know what? When he came
		

			through to accept Islam,
		

			Hamza ibn Abdul Muttalib was standing at the
		

			door
		

			and he sees this man, a bit of
		

			blood and his weapon and whatever else and
		

			he says, where is the prophet?
		

			The minute you say the prophet, you know
		

			that this man
		

			imagine how intelligent the people were.
		

			Because you're addressing him respectfully, you acknowledging his
		

			status. There goes.
		

			You are acknowledging his status. Where is the
		

			prophet? Aina Rasulullah. Where is the prophet of
		

			Allah?
		

			So Hamza ibn Abdul Muttalib was allowing him
		

			in, obviously. These were big big men.
		

			And he says, oh Allah, this is Umar.
		

			If you intend goodness, let him accept Islam.
		

			And if he intends anything negative,
		

			make it easy for us to overcome him.
		

			Let him in. He looks at the Messenger
		

			sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
		

			A few moments prior to that he was
		

			planning the murder of the Prophet peace be
		

			upon him. How did Allah turn the hearts?
		

			When he declared his shahada, the embracing,
		

			it happens in such a way that
		

			there is
		

			instant love after tremendous
		

			hate only by the power of Allah.
		

			Allah is all able and all capable of
		

			creating
		

			love between you and the one you hate
		

			and dislike
		

			in an instant. That's Allah. Allah is all
		

			able and capable. And Allah is most forgiving,
		

			most merciful.
		

			Allah can create it. He has done it.
		

			So they utter the Shahada. There's an embrace.
		

			The same weapon that was about to be
		

			used for something else is now a means
		

			of defense of the same Islam.
		

			Within one moment,
		

			who did that?
		

			It was Allah.
		

			Make this dua. Oh Allah, in whose
		

			hands lies the strengthening of the heart.
		

			Oh Allah, who is the strengthener of the
		

			heart, strengthen our hearts upon the deen and
		

			not away from it.
		

			Make Dua.