Nadim Ali – Don’t Chase The Dunya
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The speakers discuss the importance of recognizing and thanking oneself for one's success and contributions to society. They share their experiences of disobeying their supervisor and paychecks, as well as their use of "has been" to prepare for difficult situations and negotiate with people who have been patient. They remind them of the importance of being the one providing for them, even if it is their immediate supervisor.
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In the Islamic terminology, we use a word
ham to express that, and it is exclusively
meant for Allah.
But there are many other forms in which
Allah praises himself.
One of
them
is. Blessed. Clean.
Blessed.
And he says of himself,
That blessed is the one who created
death
and then life.
So that he will reveal to you. He
already knows it, but he will show you
which of you is better
has a better deed.
And then he says elsewhere,
the
comes around.
That in those he plays
a sign,
aya,
for those who either want to think
or those who want to show shukkuk to
Allah.
Just in observing the day come and go
and the night come and take each place,
we should express shukr to Allah.
But he says the importance
of all that and everything he created is
for our benefit.
And then what does he want in return
from us?
He created
everything
perfectly,
strictly balanced.
No
second guesses in this creation.
And because he's,
that means he begins everything without a template.
Someone may create the best car possible, but
they do not create it from vacuum.
They created it from a template that exists.
And even if we go and say the
first person to make a car, to design
the car was the first creator or the
first inventor of the car. He did not
invent it out of a vacuum.
He got the idea of the car for
all the donkeys they were riding.
That's why the car has 4 wheels and
the donkey has 4 wheels.
He didn't device it out of nothing.
If it is the aircraft, they like the
ideas from the birds.
And if it is the the the the
submarine,
they like those from the ocean animals.
And before they came with these things, Allah
had already asked, suhanahu wa ta'ala, had already
told us about them in the Quran.
He says in that
after telling us everything that we benefit from,
he tells us of how he gives us
food from the earth
and then how he brings the sun and
the moon to give us rest and activity.
If you wanna appreciate this, turn your day
into night and turn your night into this,
see how much time it will take you
just to get sufficient rest.
In other words, if you are a day
person, if you decide to work at night,
you there is no way during the day,
it doesn't matter how many curtains you put
around. You still feel like you are in
the day.
But when the love brings his night,
you don't need any artificial devices to feel
rested at night.
So he goes beyond that and tells us
that
that he created
just as he has described everything else, he
created
the,
save us, that's Nuh,
from the flood with the boat,
and then created
for him similar to those that you write.
So no human inventor
is an original inventor
because it is based on the template.
But our last invention beginning with you and
I and everybody else
did not come from the template.
So what is the reason for all this?
For our benefit?
And for what in return?
So we may recognize and be grateful to
him.
So we
may recognize and be grateful to
him. And what does he want? As to
recognize him,
I
have no created man in gin except that
they will worship.
That's all he asked for.
And because he's so merciful, he doesn't say
worship me 247.
Just a few hours a day.
Very few.
And if you can accomplish that, you have
the rest of the day for yourself.
So I wanted to use a story that
I read from your brother.
He has passed away.
Was
a a writer from,
Kuwait.
Passed away quite recently. I think his name
was Abdullah
He says,
as a reminder to himself and all of
us,
he said, why are all these struggles?
He says, note
Bring the body. Where is the body?
We wanna talk about coming for your last
ritual with the.
No more reference to Muhammad.
Come.
And then he says,
yes, people will stop their work and come
to visit.
But
it doesn't matter how much anybody
cries for you.
It's only gonna be for a few days,
maybe a few weeks,
maybe a few months.
When it's more than 6 months,
we
seek for them psychological
care.
But these were people who care for you.
But if they are in a state of
mourning you for more than 6 months, we
find them help so they can move on.
And if Allah bless you with wealth
and give the people you leave behind wisdom,
they give it out in charity.
Yes. Of course, they take their share as
defined by Allah, but they give it out
in charity.
And that is the best thing that can
happen for you, whether they give it out
in charity
or they share it as Allah has ordained.
And even when they do that, you are
still accountable for how you got it.
Account for.
Of a cent you would have come for.
Yet he said from the beginning that before
you were born,
every flesh of food you will have eaten,
every place you will have walked to,
any achievement you will have made
has already been written.
So how can the quest for that which
has already been given
detract you from the obedience of the one
who gave it?
You sign up for a job
And the boss is in the penthouse.
And he says at 5 o'clock, this is
what I want at this place. Your paycheck
is $500
a week.
It doesn't matter who else is do what.
When it's time to do what he wants,
you can do that first. Even if it's
your immediate supervisor because it only makes sense.
He pays
the bills.
He rides a check. So his way is
final.
But in our case, we all agree. No
no one amongst us doubts that Allah is
the one who provides for us. No one
ever doubt that.
But sometimes, we have to disobey them
to eat.
Because in that instant, we forgot that he
is the one who provides.
So disobeying him is the most logical way
at that time to just get in that
piece of food.
But how often have we watched the stories
of people who have been patient and have
not disobeyed
him?
Things turn around.
And if they don't turn around, it is
only preparing you for a better day.
If you are somebody who deals with jewelry,
the blacksmith knows that the hotter their fire
and the longer the metal stays in it,
the better it comes out.
And that's the way Allah has designed us.
Otherwise, why would the Rasulullah
go for weeks or months without
any food being cooked in this household?
And that and that did not only happen
when he was in a weaker position.
It continue to happen
when you have about a 10th of the
known well under his feet.
When you had a 10th of the known
well under his feet,
he still
slept hungry.
When we speak of wealth,
we cannot
overlook
Abu Bakr Sadiq
and Osman bin
Osman bin Affan
pages a wealth
as soon as he enter Madinah.
And he and pages a very beautifully.
It was the only one that well, that
had good drinking water.
Tasty drinking water.
And it belonged to a Jew.
So he negotiated with this person. He thinks
I'm not selling it. So what I would
do, I'll send the right to use it
to
you.
So I and my family, we use it
today, and the Muslims use it the next
day or this few days, and they use
it the next. And he accepted the offer.
And we all know that that wasn't the
only offer, the only
instant that he spent feasibility.
You could in buying the freedom of many,
many early
believers,
including Bilak Rabban.
So this well,
after he finally became
very awesome.
So there was a rich person.
So was Abu Bakr Siddiq.
But they also slept hungry.
One of the commentaries when I and your
granddad says,
and you will be questioned about what you
do with the benefit,
any benefit that Allah gives you. Many of
us say
that
it was
a very small piece of food.
One day.
Was hungry. He couldn't find anything to eat
and he went to the house of
and he didn't have any to eat either
and they both ended up at the House
of of man and they have just a
tiny piece of food that they shared among
themselves,
maybe a few days
and after they finished eating it,
he read this
I think in our time, the way we
may like it to is just that I'm
hungry and I come to your house and
you don't have anything and we go to
the house and they don't have anything
and they give me a few cakes.
One that, given how hungry I am, I
know I can finish it alone.
But we have to share it among 3,
4 of us. And after we have shared
it,
you say, wow. I'm not sure what you
did with this benefit.
That thing wasn't enough for me alone. That's
how we will say.
But the lesson we should learn from you
this is that this was a rich person.
So the brother said because of all these,
don't chase the dunya at the expense of
your arkula.
Because if you are not from a good
household,
instead of giving what you left behind for
charity.
Or splitting it as a day,
it may be the main reason
that they fight them amongst themselves
for the rest of the tent.
Something you struggle for.
You are accounting
rendering an account of that to Allah, and
it is a cause of fitting out amongst
the people you left behind.
It's very possible. It happens all the time.
So the brother
reminds us of all these, a very beautifully
written advice.
And the only reason why we could say
his name or we had to say his
name is because he gave us this reminder.
Otherwise, this is just another.
So Allah says
in
the positioning
alternating
positioning of day, night, night, day
is a sign for those.
What is one of the signs?
It is our
march
towards
the Africa.
Fortunately,
he did not give.
There is no formula for it.
None.
It is not the person who is old
that passes
nor the one who is young nor the
one who is sick
or the one who is most healthy. There's
no formula to it and there's no place
to it
and there is no.
Just nothing can predict
it. And it is as possible today
as it was yesterday
or the day before. So what do we
do? It's
just to be ready.
And it's not asking for a whole lot.
When you stand for Sarat, make it and
make it sincere.