Mustafa Khattab – Ramadan Reflections 21 The Power Of Dua
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Speaker 1 discusses the importance of praying for Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, as it is the only one who can help people. They explain that people can make their own assumptions based on their own language and that Islam is not a monolith. They also mention that people can use different tools during their trip to different countries and encourage those who have a computer to do different things at the same time.
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I voted today,
so I encourage everyone to go and vote.
I'm not gonna tell you who I voted
for, but,
you just look at the different candidates and
the different parties and look for the party
that
that stands for our rights and and, you
basically this election is kind of tough, so
you have to vote for the best of
the worst.
Today inshallah, I will talk a little bit
about dua because I got a question earlier
today about dua and here's the thing when
I make dua to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
If I'm looking for a job, I say
Allah give me a job if I'm, you
know, if
if someone wants to get married, they say
Allah give me a wife or a husband.
If someone got laid off, they always pray
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in difficult times
and so on and so forth. And the
question was I feel very selfish, like
I'm turning my relationship with Allah
into a crisis lion. I only call him
if I need something. Right?
And the answer was this is what Allah
is for and if you look at the
Quran
all the Prophets made dua to Allah
So Zakariyah prayed for a son, Nuh alaihi
salaam prayed for assistance, Muhammad sas salaam prayed
for help.
And every Prophet prayed for something different,
in this life. One of the names of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentioned in the Quran,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
The meaning of a Samat
He is a master
that everyone is asking for help, that everyone
needs, that everyone relies upon, but he doesn't
need anyone. This is the meaning of a
Sayyid
And also when you read in Surah Al
Rahman, he says, Aluhu Memphis Samawati,
Womamfi'ar, Allah
is the one that everyone stands in need
of.
Everyone needs him. Even Haftar, the people who
deny his existence,
they stand in need of him, even if
they don't pray to him.
Yani, people are calling Marx, and people are
like Stalin and Lenin. They say that God
doesn't even exist,
but they still need him for the breath
they breathe. They still need him for the
food they eat and the water they drink,
even without asking Him. But because He created
us,
He provides for us in in this dunya.
So when you pray to Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala, you make dua
to Him
from your own perspective, yes, you are asking
for this and this and this. But from
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's perspective, you are not
being selfish, you are doing the right thing.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala loves it when
people make dua to him. And as I
said before,
from the,
in the sight of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala,
when people make dua to him, they acknowledge
his 99 names and attributes.
So when they say Allah give me this
and this and this, they, acknowledge that Allah
Subhanahu wa ta'ala
is the one in charge.
He is the one who is in charge,
and he has everything in his hands. So
Allah
is 1. You are praying to the one
who is in charge.
You pray to the living because you don't
pray to the dead. And you acknowledge that
Allah
is 1 because you're not praying to anyone
else. You acknowledge that Allah
hears and sees everything.
You acknowledge that Allah
is Al Azak. You acknowledge that Allah
is in control. He is running the show.
So you're praying to the 1
So this is from the perspective of Allah
and He loves it and He's telling us
in the Quran Make dua to me all
the time Make dua to me, all the
time Make dua to me, I'll answer your
dua. And what is amazing about Dua,
like, when I look around here in this
Masjid, you guys see see each other's back.
Right? But I see you guys from the
front.
So I see in front of me a
mosaic of people and nationalities
when we stand in salah.
And when I talk to you, like, before
or after salah,
hey. How are you doing, Kaifah Halak?
Ab Kesihin, Nasilson,
you know, you know, Skowon and so on
and so forth. Everyone speaks a different language.
And when you make dua to Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala, you make dua to him in
your own language.
So now imagine if someone is making dua
to Allah in Arabic, in English, in French,
in Urdu, in Somali, whatever language you speak.
And people are making dua to Allah
in every country, in every continent.
So people in, Brazil, they are making Muslims.
They are making dua to Allah
Like people in France
and Muslims in Egypt and people in Afghanistan
and people in China, and Muslims in Shimon
Ekom, everywhere. In every country, in every continent,
everyone is making dua to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala in their own language. And when you
think about it,
the way it works, it is not like
we're all standing in a line and everyone
will get,
the answer for dua in the order of
their arrival, like first come first serve. It
doesn't work like this with Allah
Like some of the Alama, they mentioned the
story of the man,
during the Hajj. He was the 1st to
come to the Kaaba and he made dua
and he said, You Allah, answer my dua
before they overwhelm you with their dua. It
doesn't work like this with Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. So 'alib Nabi Talib and some of
the sahaba, they said the way that Allah
answers your dua in dunya, the way he
gives you risk, he's giving risk to everyone
at the same time, he's answering dua for
everyone at the same time, and he's judging
us all at the same time.
Now, if if you have a computer in
in your house, you can do different things
at the same time. You can watch a
YouTube video,
you can start a Microsoft Office, you can
listen to an audio, you can do different
things, calculate at the same time, and this
is our creation. It does several things,
multitasking at the same time. We're talking about
our creation.
What what about our creator?
We ask Allah
to accept all of our dua and give
us the best in this life and the
best in the life to come. We'll continue
this line of thinking, tomorrow, inshallah.
The question from last night was,
it says in the Quran that Allah
revealed the Quran
But we know that the Quran was revealed
over a period of 23 years.
So the answer is Allah
revealed
beginning of the revelation was
but it continued for another 23 years. So
just like when you moved to Mississauga, you
moved on a certain day, but you have
been for here for a long time. So
we'll talk about the day of arrival or
the beginning of your stay here, and the
winner for tonight is doctor Usama.
It's for you
So the question for tonight, say, for example,
you're traveling to Afghanistan,
Zendaba,
and you are going to break your fast
because you can't fast. It's a long travel,
and you need to break your fast. When
do you break your fast? Do you break
your fast at home before you leave? Say,
for example, your flight flight's at us. You
are leaving a door. Do you break your
fast at home, or you break your fast
at the airport? If you know the answer,
email me before tomorrow. Ask her at [email protected].
Yeah. Okay. The same