Mustafa Khattab – 18 Allahs Attributes AlHadi I
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The historical significance of Islam is discussed, including the story of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, who opened the heart to accept Islam and eventually became a Muslim. The challenges faced by Islamists see their religious beliefs as the only option and the potential for their peers to influence their actions. The speaker provides examples of how Islamers have been pressured to go for Islam and have been given incorrect information to push their beliefs.
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Today we'll be talking about a new
attribute, one of the qualities of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala
and before we talk about that attribute,
I'll give you a story.
This is a true story that happened in
the US many years ago,
and,
the person in the story,
he was a new Nazi, a white supremacist
guy in the US. You see them now
in the news all the time, they go,
they protest against immigrants and refugees and stuff,
they walk around with a beer, and they
have a shotgun, they stand in front of
the sajid, and they are protesting because they
are afraid that refugees are going to come,
and immigrants, and they take their jobs. So
here for example we have John, he dropped
out of grade 5,
He's walking around with a beer
and he doesn't have an education. He can
hardly read and write because he dropped out
of grade 5 and he's protesting and he's
afraid that Muhammad Khan, who's come from Pakistan
and he has a degree in rocket science
is going to steal his job.
Are you following?
Okay.
So this is the kind of guy he
was a white supremacist
he hated Asians and he hated Africans,
especially Africans.
Because he's a white supremacist, remember? He's a
new Nazi.
So one time he was very abusive and
he had a fight with his mother and
it was not the first time. So one
thing led to another he pushed his his
mother and she fell down. She hit her
head against the wall, and, he had to
leave the house. Because if he waited the
police would come and they would arrest him.
So, he thought while he was leaving the
house, if I go to my best friend's
house they will come and they will, you
know, arrest me.
The last thing they will think that I'll
be there or at this place is the
library. They have a public library in in
that town or that city in the US,
so he said if I go to the,
the library no one would ever think that
I'm here.
Right? So he went there, he got inside
the library, and he was sitting there, and
he noticed something. Everyone in the library, all
the young men and women, they were reading.
And he was sitting there like a zombie,
not reading anything,
so he said this is attracting attention to
myself, I have to read something. He pulled
a book, a random book from the shelf,
and he started to read and it turned
out it was the Quran.
He started to read it at the beginning
of Fatiha, Surah Baqarah, eventually Allah
gave him Hidayah, and he became Muslim.
And in this true story,
he accepted Islam Alhamdulillah, he became very good
to his mother, and the good ending of
the story is, he married a sister from
West Africa. So remember at the beginning of
the story he hated Africans, he hated blacks,
ended up marrying a sister from Africa. So
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala changed his life completely.
So the quality of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
for today is Al Hadid, the Guide. Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is the one who gives
Hidayah.
Sometimes you see someone they have a good
heart, no Hidayah.
Like in many, according to many narrations Abu
Talib for example, he was very good to
the Prophet SAW, always protected,
but according to most narrations
he didn't accept Islam. You see someone like
Umar ibn Khattar
Some of the people at the time of
the Prophet SAW, they said, Omar will never
accept Islam until his dad's donkey takes Shahad.
That bad it was.
Next thing he took Shahad.
So Hidayah is in the hands of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. It's not how a person
looks or how they behave
the hearts are in the hands of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
is able to change all hearts.
If Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
If Allah wants to give you Hidayah, He
will open your heart to accept Islam.
But if He doesn't want you to accept
Islam, He will make your your chest very,
you know, restricted
and it is very difficult, it is like
you are taken to the, to, you know,
to the heights, you can't breathe, which means
uptight.
So your heart is closed and you don't
accept Islam. So Hidayah is from Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala and Allah is giving us a
proof in the Quran.
You see for example someone
like the wife of Lut Alaihi Salam, she
was living in the best house with a
Prophet Lut Alaihi Salam,
and she became Kafir and she died as
Kafir.
And another woman, she lived in the house
of the worst man, one of the worst
people of all time, Fira'ul,
and she became Muslim, and the Prophet SAW,
she said she is one of the best
women in Jannah. Right? So Hidayah is not
from the Prophets, it is from Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. And you see another example,
Ismail alaihis salam Fisura Safat His dad told
him, I saw the dream, I want to
sacrifice you, let's go.
So he's giving up his life,
so his dad is telling him I saw
the dream I want to sacrifice you, what
did he say?
He said Jaldi Jaldi let's do it, Gedalim
let's go let's do it.
An Nuh alaihis salam in Surahhut
he saw his son struggling with the waves
in the flood, and he said, let me
save your life.
The the opposite of the story of Ismail,
his dad said let me sacrifice you, he
said, let's go. He died from Allah, And
you see in the story of Nuh and
his son, he said Okay, let me save
your life,
he said No, thank you.
The mountain will save me. I I won't
die. You see? So Hidayah is coming from
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So it is Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala who gives Hidayah to the
people, not us.
If Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala loves you, He
will open your heart, and we thank Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala that many of us here
were born into Islam, because I see the
stories,
when people read about Islam,
and they are not happy with whatever religious
beliefs they have, they look into different religions.
Islam is always at the bottom of the
list,
most likely because of what they see in
the media about terrorism, about, you know, and
so on and so forth. So Islam is
the last option they have, but if Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala wants to open their heart,
they accept Islam, and there are so many
challenges that face them.
Once you are on the Suratul Mustaqim,
and we keep making Dua to
Allah 5 times every day in our salah,
Ihdinas Surat al Mustaqim Keep us on the
Surat al Mustaqim
Staying there is also a challenge, it is
Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la who keeps you in
the Surat al Mustaqim
and the Prophet SAW says in the authentic
hadith Al Qudsi,
if Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala loves you, and
He puts you in the Surat al Mustaqeem
He kuntussam I will lavi yasma'awhi wa Basarawhi
lavi yupsarubhi I will become your eyes with
which you see, I will become
your ears with which you hear. In other
words Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will become your
guide, and He will guide you to the
best in this life and in the next.
And the last thing that I'll talk about,
Hidayah in Akhrah,
Aqra. In Jannah Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will
guide you to your Palace in Jannah, so
you will go. You don't have a GPS,
you don't have an address, you'll go straight
to your place in Jannah, as if you
have known this place forever. So Muhammadu
wa'udhikiru mujanata
arafahalam.
He will take them to Jannah,
having made it known to them their places
in Jannah. This is the Hidayah in Afrah,
we ask Allah
to make us among those who will go
to Jannah.
So the question for last night is still,
unanswered. No one has been able to send
the correct answer,
so I'll give the question again, if you're
able, we'll give you the reward. In the
Quran Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is saying Muhammad
SAW. Laiisaaleka hudalum innaqalata dimalahbat.
Hidayah is not in your hands.
However, at the end of Surah Surah Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, Wa in Nakala tahdi
ila Suratil Mustaqim. You Muhammad, you give Hidayah
to the Suratil Mustaqim. So how do you
explain this? Is he a guide or no
guide? If you know the answer you mail
me before tomorrow asr atibamustafa
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Jazakulullah The answer is very easy inshaAllah. Assalamu
alaik.