Mustafa Khattab – Put Your Trust in Allah TAWAKKUL 1 1

I bear witness that there is none worthy

of our worship except Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

And I bear witness that Muhammad Sallallahu Wa

Ta'ala is the seal of the prophets

So sometimes, some of the brothers and sisters,

they come to my office and they complain

because they have been through a lot of

hardships and difficulties,

or they complain that things have been very

tight for them.

Or some of them, they ask for a

fatwa to do something haram or sell something

haram because,

they are looking for this provision.

And I

remind them, put your trust in Allah

and don't complain to the people.

Imam al Qayin says, those who complain to

the people about Allah

Look what Allah is doing to me.

They don't know Allah, and they don't know

the people.

Imam Al Khaim says,

those who know Allah would never complain about

Him. And those who know the people, they

shouldn't complain to them. They can't help you

in any way.

So the meaning of tawakul, we're putting your

trust in Allah is

your heart relies completely on Allah

for bringing about something good or removing a

hardship.

And this is what we are called repeatedly

in the Quran and in the sunnah of

the prophet

That whoever puts his trust in Allah Subhanahu

Wa Ta'ala and is mindful of Allah Subhanahu

Wa Ta'ala and is doing what is right

and is is avoiding what is wrong, then

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala would take care of

this person

and open ways for him or her

beyond their comprehension.

And sufficient is Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, as

a provider.

The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says, if

you put your trust in Allah

wholeheartedly

and properly,

then Allah

will provide for you just like He provides

for birds.

They go out in the morning with their

stomachs empty, and they come by the end

of the day with their bellies full.

So in the authentic hadith narrated by Abdullah

ibn Nasruw, may Allah be pleased with him,

he said that the prophet

said in Muslim Abi Dawood that whoever

is afflicted with a hardship,

then he puts his trust on the people,

they will let him down all the time.

But if you put your trust in Allah

subhanahu wa ta'ala, then Allah will take good

care of you.

So putting

your trust in Allah is the only thing

or the first thing one of the first

things that the prophets

learned from Allah

This is the first training they get.

The ABC of prophethood

is to put your trust and rely on

Allah

If you look at the story of the

prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,

he lost his father while he was in

the womb of his mother.

His mother died when he was 6 years

old. Then he lost his uncle, his grandfather.

Every time someone took care of him, died.

And the scholar said the reason is so

the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam wouldn't say

father

or mother or uncle or grandpa,

but he will always say, oh, Allah. Help

me. And he will always ask Allah to

help him.

So Ibn Al Qayyim says

that you see this

concept of

putting the trust on Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

in the story of Adam and Yusuf Alaihi

Salam.

When Adam Alaihi

Salam wanted to live for eternity in paradise

or in Jannah,

and he ate from the tree.

And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala told him, don't

go there. Eat from anything else except this

one. So the shaitan came to him and

said, if you want to live for eternity,

eat from this one.

So Adam, alaihis salam, put his trust on

the tree and not on the lord of

the tree to stay

eternally in paradise, and he was kicked out

immediately.

Also, in the story of Yusuf, Joseph, in

the Quran, in Surah Yusuf, When Yusuf alaihis

salam wanted to get out of prison

by getting a waspah

from the Saqi al Malik to go to

the king and tell him about Yusuf, so

he would get out of prison. What was

the punishment?

He stayed in jail for several years.

If only he said, oh, Allah, get me

out of here, he would have been taken

out of prison. But he put his trust

on the king and not on the king

of kings.

There are several reasons why you should put

your trust in Allah. Number 1, Allah

is the creator.

He is the provider. He is the sustainer.

He is the one who gives,

not other people.

And Allah

is not happy with you when you ask

the people who can afford helping you, and

he is the only one that can help,

but you don't ask him.

It's sala bifari

and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, who will let

me yafluqul aspa'a,

why you said me good aspa'a.

The second reason Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is

the one who controls

the laws of this world.

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala controls the laws of

biology

and physics and all these laws. But He

is not controlled by them.

So if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala intends for

something to happen, it will happen

even if it is not logical for you.

And if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

intends for something not to happen, it will

never happen even if,

you know,

it doesn't work that way. For example,

Firtasat

Ibrahim alaihis salam

al

So for example, if you look at the

story of Ibrahim Alaihi Salam,

when he was thrown into the fire,

the fire lost its ability to burn.

Bi'il milan.

In the story of Musa and his people,

Moses, when they were crossing the Red Sea,

the water lost its ability to drown.

In the story of Isma'il alayhi salaam and

his father, the story of the sacrifice,

The knife lost its ability to cut.

In the story of Jonah, Yunus alayhi salam,

when he was in the belly of the

whale for several days, the belly of the

whale lost its ability to digest.

I

will get the opposite.

In the story

of

The opposite, you will see in the story

of Aesah Alaihi Salam, Jesus.

Of course, we know for every human being

to be created and to develop into a

human being, you have to have a man

and a woman or a male factor and

a female factor.

So in the story of Isa, Jesus alaihi

sallam, the male factor is not there. He

has no father.

The opposite happened in the story of

John the Baptist, Yahya alaihi salam, and Isaac

Isha.

The the female factor is not there.

The mother of Yahya alaihi salam, she was

80 years old when she conceived him as

a baby.

What is more difficult than this is in

the story of Ashaq, Azzat alaihis salam. His

mother, Sarah

Sala, she was 90 years old when she

conceived him.

So,

basically, the lady got no eggs.

And I ain't talking about

monopos. I'm talking about monostop

completely.

You see what I'm saying?

So the female factor is not there. Why

is

more

miraculous

than these two examples is the case of

Adam alayhi salam? He had no father and

he had no mother.

If you fall sick, there's nothing wrong if

you go to the doctor and get some

medical assistance,

but you have to put in your your

head that Allah

is the one who gives you recovery,

not the doctor, not the medicine.

The doctor and the medicine is just a

means for Allah

to cure you.

If Allah

sends risk or provision for you through your

manager or boss at work,

Your boss is not the provider. He is

just the FedEx man.

He is just conveying

or giving you the money that was sent

to you by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

A

man came to the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa

sallam, and said, oh, prophet of Allah, when

it is time for prayer, when I go

to the Masjid, should I leave my camel

loose, or should I tie it and put

my trust on Allah? So the prophet

said, tie it and put your trust on

Allah.

So when you come to the masjid, don't

leave your car running outside with your keys

inside and say, I put my trust on

Allah.

Believe me, tomorrow morning it will be in

Toronto.

You have to put your trust on Allah

subhanahu wa ta'ala.

And what is meant by this hadith is

you have to do your best and Allah

subhanahu wa ta'ala will do the rest.

But if you remain idle, if you sit

in your house, and you say Allah is

the provider, Allah

helps only those who help themselves.

In conclusion, put your trust on Allah

Do your best, and Allah

will take care of the rest. Thus Allah

will take care of the rest.