Mustafa Khattab – Taraweeh Gems 5 Inspiring Story
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I'm truly near.
I answer the dua, or I respond to
the dua of whoever prays to me. So
let them pray to me and obey me
so it will be rightly guided.
So today, inshallah will focus a little bit
on this ayah that talks about Dua. We'll
continue this discussion
and we mentioned that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
puts this ayah about Dua and the ayah
inside the ayah that talk about Ramadan before
and after
to show us that dua'at Ramadan is very
powerful and it is very important and it
is very beloved to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
In this hadith, the prophet says,
There
is nothing
more pleasing to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala than
du'a,
that you raise your hands and pray to
him and say,
So in this beautiful hadith, the prophet
says, Allah has hired from you.
Whenever you raise your hands asking for something,
your hands never come back empty. You have
to come back with something because Allah has
Hayat. If you go to him and ask
him, he will have to give you something.
Of course, there are several requirements for dua.
Of course, you have to eat from halal.
You can
Whenever he made dua to Allah, he always
accepted his dua. Why? He said because I
always ate halal. This is why Allah accepted
my dua.
Whenever you pray to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
make sure you keep making dua to him
because some of us will make dua for
a couple of minutes and said look I've
been making dua for 60 seconds and my
dua has never been accepted.
No. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala yep but in
dua malam yajalahadukum
Allah will accept your dua as long as
you are consistent, you keep asking him.
But
if you get tired or if you say
okay I pray but Allah has never accepted
my dua then maybe Allah will not accept
your dua. Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
says when
you make dua to Allah
put in your heart and your in your
mind that Allah will accept your dua. If
this is what you have in your heart
then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is better than
your expectations.
But you make dua and say well maybe
Allah would not answer my dua He would
not answer your dua because whatever you think
of Allah he is better than that.
So always keep making dua to him if
he doesn't answer your dua in one day
or after a week would make dua for
a month or a year, right? Keep making
dua to him and I mentioned in one
foot but this is something we need to
learn from little kids.
If they want something from you candy or
a lollipop or something
they bug you, right? Daddy daddy the the
whole day mommy mom you can't sleep, you
can't pray, you can't eat, Right?
Even in the washroom they are after you,
you open the fridge, they pop out of
the you know, they bug you. So eventually
you have to give it to them just,
you know, to satisfy them. If
you want something from Allah, you have to
keep asking, you have to keep asking Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala eventually
He will give you whatever you're asking for
if it is the best thing for you.
I'm gonna conclude with
a special story about Dua of Ramadan
and I'm not sure if you heard this
story before. I know this, brother from Egypt,
and English was his weakness. Right?
He graduated from high school, and he spoke
English with an accent, a heavy accent like
most Egyptians. Right? Do we have Egyptians here?
Okay.
They speak English. Okay. Egyptians are good. Okay?
Egyptians are good. Okay. Egyptians
are okay.
So,
in high school because they were teaching them
horrible English in high school, they were not
taught by experts or anything so their English
was very bad. Heavy accent, right? So I'm
gonna give you a couple of examples of
the words they studied in high school.
It's too much, it's too much, stomach.
It's too much. This is how they studied
the word.
Deliquis,
you know the word delicious?
Exactly. So this is how they were taught.
He made it to college, English it was
his weakness, right? And his friends they used
to make fun of him, the teachers used
to to ask him to give him why
because his English was horrible.
So,
this brother it was Ramadan
and he decided to do something about his
English because it was terrible.
So he decided to talk to someone, one
of the top class, you know, top of
the students in the class so he can
learn from them to, you know,
to do conversation with them so he can
pick up some English and learn from them.
So that other brother,
Muhammad,
told him, well your English is so bad
if I speak with you in English you
are going to spoil my English. Right?
So
that how horrible his English was. Right?
So that brother
that day,
that night made Dua to Allah and he
said, You
You arabu alaalameen
there is nothing impossible for you, it is
not difficult for you to help me speak
good English and I make a promise to
you. If you help me speak English I'm
gonna use it for dua, to make dua
to Islam.
That was back in 1997.
4 years later, this brother graduated from Al
Azhar, and he was the top of the
class, excellent grades,
and he was appointed within a few week
weeks as a teacher at the department, and
he was the top student in the whole
department.
That brother, Mohammed, who refused to speak with
him English in English a few years before,
failed in the last year.
That brother, several years later, traveled to North
America.
He has ever been since working in Dawah.
He has seen a lot of people take
Shahadah
and he has received his,
masters and PhD in English. And as a
matter of fact, he's working as an imam
in North America now and he has done
a fantastic translation
of the Quran into English.
I see this brother every day, especially when
I look in the mirror. I look him
in the eye. This brother is me.
So nothing is impossible for Allah. So you
have to
ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to help you
and it doesn't matter what it is, Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala would help you if you
are sincere
and if you do your part,
do your best and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
will take care of the rest. We ask
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to help us make
dua to Him and ask Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
to give us the best in this life
and the best in the life to come.
So the question for last night was Surah
Tun You. Surah Tun You. Surah Tun You.
The bees. The bees. Surah Anya.
I've been receiving a lot of emails.
Most of them are correct, especially my sisters.
Very few brothers
sent the answer, especially,
Fahim Khan. But,
hopefully, he will win this week. Okay?
But the winner today is sister,
Batool Tuntar.
Oh, no way. So is my
sorry. One one day.
I'll make dua.