Mustafa Khattab – Closer to Allah 18 Hard Times 2 Ramadan 2011
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We spoke last night
about acceptance of the Khan of Allah
and we said that acceptance means to be
grateful
at good times and prosperity,
and to be patient at difficult times or
adversity.
So it may happen
that the difficulty or the marching that befalls
you is a sign that Allah
loves you.
Maybe Allah
is punishing you for a sin that you
committed in this life, so that Allah
will not expose you and humiliate you in
front of all you
humans,
from the time of Adam till the day
of judgement. Maybe Allah
will punish you
between him and you. So what? Nobody knows.
Or maybe Allah
will test you with a hardship,
with a difficulty, so that Allah
will raise you little in Jannah.
The Prophet
said in an authentic hadith collected by the
Nizari, narrated by Adam Sypnimatic,
that the magnitude
of the difficulty
comes in accordance with the magnitude of the
reward.
So the more or the bigger the hardship
is, the bigger or the greater the reward
is.
Then the Prophet
says, if Allah loves someone,
He will put them to to test.
Those who are pleased and happy with the
Ka'il of Allah Allah
will be pleased with them. But those who
are displeased
and those who protest and question the Ka'il
of Allah
Allah will be displeased with them.
So
always
accept
the
Maybe something will happen to you, and you
think it is the worst thing that has
ever happened to you, and it turns out
to be one of the best things that
has ever happened to you.
And maybe you love something, thinking that it
is the best thing that has ever happened
to you, and it turns out to be
the worst thing that has ever happened to
you.
We heard several times before that some people
miss the flights,
and they go home
crying every step of the way. The first
thing in the morning, they read in the
paper that they, the plane crashed.
And all the people on board were burned
to death or they were drowned in the
ocean and eaten by sharks and crocodiles.
Yeah, crocodiles don't live in oceans. But anyway,
it
happens. So you shouldn't protest. Maybe Allah
is hiding something good for you in this
hardship or this difficulty.
If you get far from a job, maybe
Allah
has a better job, a better pay paying
job in store for you. You shouldn't protest,
and you should always thank Allah
for everything.
And Nabi
Yusuf
alaihi wasalam,
The Prophet had 7 children,
he buried with his own hands 6 of
them in his lifetime,
and he was always accepting, and he was
always grateful to Allah
Maybe Allah
will test you with something to give you
something
Abu Salam died,
she used to make his du'a to say
to Allah, you belong and to him who
shall return.
O Allah,
support me in this difficult time and give
me something better than what You have taken
from me.
Then, and she used to smile every time
she said the dua, and she used to
say, who is in the Muslims is better
than Abu Salam? She got married to the
Prophet
and he is a 1000000000
times better than Abu Salam
Allah Abu Faiz. Very
briefly, this story is about a King and
his assistant, and his assistant followed him like
a shal and he was a wise man.
So every time something bad happened to the
King, this was his assistant always said, Maybe
it is something good. And he accepted with
a smile.
So one time, they were out hunting in
the jungle, and
the king cut his finger.
So the wazir, the assistant smiled, and he
said, maybe,
maybe it is something good.
So the king got so angry, got so
mad, what is wrong with this guy?
When they went to the palace, the doctor
told the king, You will have to come
off your finger, otherwise the illness will run
through your body and you will you will
die.
So when they come off his finger,
the king was crying, and the wazee was
sitting to the side smiling. And he said,
Alhamdulillah, maybe it is something good. So
when the king saw him, he was so
mad,
they cut off my finger, and this zombie
dude is standing to the side and smiling.
He's laughing at me. Okay?
Throw this idiot in the prison.
So they dragged him to the prison. So
when the king ordered this man man to
prison, he accepted the news with a smile,
and he said,
maybe it is something good for me that
I will go to jail.
A week later, the King got out on
his own to hunt in the jungle by
himself, and he was seized by pagans.
So they took him to offer him as
a sacrifice to their idols, al Islam.
They tied him, and they were about to
butcher him as a sacrifice
to the gods,
and they found out that he is missing
a favor.
And they said, okay, this,
this offering doesn't count because it's missing a
finger. So the entire name, they threw him
away,
and he went running to his palace, and
he was smiling and laughing all the way.
So they released the waziriyah system, and he
said, Now I know that missing a finger
was something good for me. Otherwise, I'll I'll
be dead by now.
But what about you being in jail
being something good for you? And he said,
You know that I follow you like you
like you shadow. If I went out with
you, they would have taken me, and they
would have killed me and offered me a
sacrifice to the thing. So it was something
good for me and for you. So you
have always to accept the Qud of Allah
with a smile.
The question for yesterday, if the Sheikh is
reciting in the Tarawmiri, and you couldn't recite
Fatiha after the Sheikh,
do you have and you couldn't recite the
Fatiha, so does your
Wa
Ta'ala
says,
Listen attentively so that you may achieve the
mercy of Allah
The winner for today is brother Atif.
Where is brother Atif?
So if someone,
2 weeks after Dayid, they realized they haven't
changed the Zafar field. Can they still pay
it 2 weeks after the Eid? If you
know the answer, it may be before tomorrow.
That would be lovely.