Mustafa Khattab – Allah Works In Mysterious Ways
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Okay.
So
Thank you.
A couple of days ago, I was watching,
I like the National Geographic.
Who likes National Geographic?
Okay.
Because,
personally, I feel like I learn a lot
from animals than from a lot of humans
that I meet.
But anyway,
there was one scene in the video that
I was watching. It It was about Puranas.
Yeah. And for some reason, it reminded me
of something that happened on Wednesday.
Puranas.
Right?
The brother, Ibn Astawi,
he was here. He gave a nice talk
about his family, about how he became Muslim,
and all of a sudden, we're all over
him, like piranhas.
Right?
So,
so, insha Allah, and we'll we'll try to
give a good image of the school, And,
Yeah. I think it it's a sign of
love for the brother.
You know? You love him and everything, but
give him some space. You know? Make Dua
for him. You know? Say Allah may Allah
reward you, but don't jump over him. You
know? It's not it's not the best image.
Right?
But I'm not here to talk about Quranas,
I'm gonna talk about something else.
Right?
I will talk about something related to Qadr.
Who can tell me what Qadr means? Qadr?
Yes. Yes. Faith.
Faith and destiny.
We spoke about Qadr before,
we said that each and every one of
us here has a plan.
I have a plan,
Sister has a plan.
Brother here has a plan. But Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala has the ultimate plan.
Donald Trump has a plan. Everyone has a
plan.
Does it work all the time? No. If
it is the Qadrullahi,
it will work. If it is not the
Qadrullah it will not work, no matter what.
We gave the example before
the story of Ibrahim 'alayhi salam and the
fire. The fire should work, but when they
put him in the fire it didn't burn.
Ismail
the knife should cut, but Qadarullah,
it didn't cut.
In the story,
like the staff of Musa Alaihi Salaam,
Asal.
If it is the Qadarullah for the Asal,
to break out water from the rock, Surah
Baqarah. The water came out.
In Surah Taha, he used the same stave
for the water to dry up,
you know, the partition of the sea, the
partitioning of the sea. So, in the first
instance
water came out, in the second instance
the water became
dust and dry. This is the Taqadurullah.
In this story of Musa 'alayhi salam again,
Pharaoh
saw that dream. You know the story. He
saw a dream
of a boy from Bani Israel and his
destruction will be at the hands of this
man from Bani Israel. So he started to
kill all the boys,
except for the one
he was supposed to kill. Not only that,
he raised him in his own
house.
This is the talarullah. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
You will realize this insha'Allah every step of
your way. That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala works
in mysterious ways.
Sometimes we make plans
and it doesn't go according to the plan
because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has something better
or something,
more beneficial for you in store. So you
should always be pleased with the father of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. I'll give you stories.
I know some brothers.
They would be looking for a wife for
like 5 years. They are desperate to get
married.
They go to every single event they have
in town. Nothing.
Their mommy and their auntie, they visit every
house to look for a sister for them.
Nothing. Right?
They go to salaatul Jumah, they're coming out,
they see a sister who is this.
So Allah
works in mysterious ways. Another
example
to see
This
is the
the mind of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. He
does things that that are not our according
to our plan. We go according to his
plan, but he doesn't go according to our
plan. Because his plan is better than ours.
So we have been asking people to sponsor,
classrooms in the school because Insha'Allah, we would
like to expand the schools.
They, we have the potential
to be
alongside,
ISNA, Olegrove,
these big schools, we would like to be
like them. Why not? Or better than them.
Why not? We have the potential. Insha'Allah, we
can do it together.
So I'm asking people in the community we
have take classrooms from,
KJ
KG to, grade 8.
Then we have the library and the bookstore.
So I'm trying to get sponsorships
for each one of the 12.
Each is $25,000.
Right?
So if someone
pays $25,000,
we put their name on the classroom as
sponsors.
Okay.
So
Saturday,
salata asked, I was not supposed to be
here. I was supposed to be somewhere else.
I was at ISNA, they had an open
house. I was running around with the family
doing different things.
But I had to be here for Salatul
Asr. Someone said I need to talk to
you, so I came.
A brother
drove 3, 4 hours to be here in
Mississauga to take care of something.
He lived somewhere else. So he drove 3,
4 hours to be here,
and for lunch he went to maybe Bamyan
Kebab,
and after he finished, like,
20 minutes before us, he googled a place
to pray, a masjid.
So sure enough, Anatolia came up because we're
only 1 minute
drive from Bamiyan Kebab. Right?
He came here
10 minutes to gohan salah to us, He
had some time, so he was looking around
in the hallway, and we have the poster
for the classroom sponsorship in the hallway, on
the stand.
He read it,
and he came to my office. I was
in the office, and he said, I'll give
you 25,000
just for my mom and dad.
So Allah brought him all the way to
here. I've been making announcements almost every Jum'ah.
You know, some people came, but some people
are hesitant, and they have different plans. And
this brother came all the way, 3, 4
hours drive. Allah brought him all the way
to pay the 25,000.
Allah
works in mysterious ways.
Another example I saw another story of someone
who was a senior officer in the
US
military.
So,
he fought in different places of the world,
maybe Iraq, Afghanistan, I don't remember.
He said in the video
that he went to a masjid to blow
it up.
This is what he said in the video.
And he said he went there Jum'ah, this
is where when they have the most people
in the Masjid, you know?
And he said he sat inside and eventually
he listened to the Khutba
and at the end of the story he
himself became Muslim. Right? Allah
works in mysterious ways. You never know.
One last exam. One last exam.
This is a true story that happened in
Saudi,
many years back.
Pakistani brother
is working there. Who is he from Pakistan?
Raise your hand.
Yes. Where is his feet? Yeah. You're not
from Pakistan. Okay. So, no, you're an Egyptian.
I know you're not Pakistan,
but we love Pakistani food.
So the brother was working in Saudi Arabia.
Right? He didn't have any friends over there.
I'm not sure if it was in Mecca
or somewhere else.
So what happened? The brother
died in Saudi, the Pakistani brother. They brought
him to the masjid for.
He didn't have any friends over there because,
of course, the majority are Saudis.
Yes. They have different nationalities, but the majority
are Saudi. So they brought him to the
masjid for Janazah,
and if you have seen, if you have
been to Saudi, they the way they do
Janazah, they have, a board, a piece of
wood, flat, and
they wrap the body in white and halas.
They don't have big caskets and and all
these things. So they brought his janazah,
and they brought another brother
from that area,
rich brother.
So everyone came for the Janazah of the
Saudi brother. He's a local, his family is
there, friends are there.
So they say that literally,
more than 5,000 people came for his Janazah.
And only 3, Char, 4 brothers came for
the Pakistani brothers Janazah.
They prayed Janaza for both of them at
the same time, and at the end, they
took the bodies. Of course, the Pakistani brothers,
3 or 4, they took the body of
the Pakistani brother to one graveyard.
The Saudi brother, his family, friends, more than
5,000 people, they take his body, they went
to another graveyard.
Okay.
So remember, the Pakistani brother, his body was
carried by 3, 4 people only, because they
didn't have many friends over there. The other
Saudi brother, more than 5,000 people went with
him to the grave,
and,
after he buried him,
some imam were there, and they were making
God for the brother, You Allah forgive this
man in the grave.
Everyone was sitting there making dua for them,
they're asking Allah to forgive them, and and,
you know, they stayed there for about half
an hour making dua for that person in
the grave.
Before they left, and before they put dust
on the grave,
one of the children of the man who,
the Saudi brother who passed away went inside
the grave to look at the face of
the father and kiss him on the forehead,
which is acceptable Islamically because, Abu Bakr
did the same thing to the prophet Sasser.
And covered his face, he kissed him on
the forehead.
He went inside the grave, he opened,
who did he find?
A Pakistani brother.
So they took his body by mistake,
and more than 5,000
people were making dua for him, were asking
Allah to forgive him, whereas the Saudi brother
was carried only by 3, 4 people, they
took him to another graveyard.
So
the son of this,
you know, Saudi man, he said to his
brother, are we gonna look for the other,
you know, the Janazah? The other he said,
no. No. No. They we paid Janazah for
him. You know, he's already buried. You know,
Khalas.
Let him to rest and Khalas will go
home, make God for both, and Khalas alhamdulillah.
Allah works in mysterious ways. He cannot imagine.
So all we need to do, just put
your trust in Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, and
do what you need to do, and Khalas,
leave it to him. We ask Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala to give us the best in
this life and the best in the life
to come, and give us sincerity in everything
we say and do. We'll see you tomorrow.