Mustafa Khattab – Ramadan Reflections 21 The Power Of Dua

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