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The concept of "has been asked" is used in the Quran to describe actions taken by Allah, including inviting others to his path, asking for personal intervention, and requesting help. The duality between "has been asked" and "has been asking" is discussed, as it is a way to achieve personal and professional satisfaction. The importance of fulfilling personal and professional goals is emphasized, and the concept of "naught" in the Quran is discussed as a way to build a sense of agility and humility. The importance of asking for good things in the life of the next life is emphasized, and sponsor students are encouraged to help students reach their goals.AI Generated Transcript ©
I've been thinking about how to present,
the parable today that belongs to Surah Surah
Ra'ad,
and it's the 14th ayah of Surat Surat
number 13, ayah number
14. That includes a very brief parable, but
it's a very heavy reality that Allah has,
and a very heavy concept that Allah has
summarized in,
this ayah. So what I'm gonna do is
first try to elaborate that concept, and then
kind of show you how Allah is talking
about that concept in brief language.
One of the great features of the Quran
is brevity. What that means is Allah will
say something very brief,
but that brief
small comment will include an entire world view
inside it.
Right? So I I'm just gonna take a
little bit of time to explain that world
view that's encapsulated
in the opening comment
of this ayah,
could be translated
that he alone owns
the true call, one way of looking at
it. So it's,
or, you know, so so he alone owns
the true call,
or it could be he alone deserves to
be called on in truth. So there's kind
of multiple meanings here. But I wanna start
with something very basic.
Take you guys with me on this journey,
and get you inshallah to the same place.
You see, I'll I'll start with a parable
and or an example of my own.
Let's just say you were driving and you
had a flat tire.
Right? And, you had to pull up to
the side of the road, and now you
need help,
you know, changing your tire. So you get
out of the car, you have a spare
in the back, and you start, you know,
you have a jack, and you start lifting
the car,
and you start working on replacing the tire,
but you couldn't lift it anymore. You could
only lift it so much,
but you don't possess the strength
to go any further.
And so at this point, you've done everything
you could, and you needed additional help. And
somebody was passing by, and you said, hey,
Could you help me out for a second
over here,
because I'm I'm not able to do anymore?
And you asked for help
at the point where you were done
exhausting your resources.
Right? So you did everything you could, and
then you asked for somebody else's help.
This
kind of help, when you have already done
your part,
and then you're asking for somebody to help
finish the job, basically,
That's actually called in Arabic.
Is one of the Arabic words for help.
It's the same word we use in the
when we say
It's the same origin word.
Another example of something similar. So the idea
By the way, just to compare, if you
had a flat tire, you pulled up to
the side of the road, continue to sit
in your car, and somebody walking by you
said, hey, could you I have a flat
tire, you wanna help me out? I'm just
you know, it's a little hot outside so
I'm just gonna stay here, but you please
do help me out. That's not istiaana. You're
not seeking aoun because you're you didn't do
your part.
You're just you're asking for help without any
contribution of your own. You understand? Okay.
Similarly, you have the concept of
the help of Allah
to ask for help from Allah. Okay?
The the word is actually used originally in
the Arabic language for military aid.
It's not just used generally, it's used for
military aid. So for example, there's 2 armies,
you know, back in the day, 1 army
showed up on one hilltop, the other one
showed on the other hilltop, and they just
slid down and they clashed into one another
and one of them is losing, the other
one's winning, etcetera. And then a reinforcement arrives,
from the side,
you know, aiding 1 of the 1 of
the armies.
Right? And just coming from the side and,
reinforcing them. That would be Nasr. That would
be additional help. Right? So there are multiple
concepts in the Quran that illustrate the same
reality.
Allah's help comes
and Allah's
Allah responds
and helps in some way, but the first
step has to be taken by
the believer. In fact, the Fatiha begins that
way.
It's it's actually
You have to do the the try to
do it yourself, and then you ask Allah,
then you're in a position to ask Allah
for help. So there's this reciprocity.
The subject is made extremely clear in places
like Surat Al Baqarah, where Allah says,
I will respond Allah says Allah talking about
himself, he says, I respond to the one
who calls
whenever they call.
Whatever call they make, whenever they call, I
respond immediately.
Therefore, they should also respond to me.
So now you're asking Allah to respond to
you, and Allah is saying, and you should
also be responding to me. So it's a
two way street.
So what I'm trying to get at in
in the Quran, Allah and and I wanna
contrast this with other religions.
In the Quran, our relationship with Allah is
actually reciprocal in some way.
We ask Allah,
and Allah is also asking us.
In fact, we start by doing what Allah
asks, and that puts us in a position
to ask Allah.
Okay? Now,
let's take one more step along these lines,
and this again, a different kind of analogy
before we get to this, this ayah.
And that is that,
you know, what you ask for, what you
want in life,
a lot of times, if not all the
time, it's determined by
what your goal is.
If, for example, there's a young man whose
goal is to be selected for a football
team.
Let's say that's his goal.
If that's his goal, then what does he
want? He wants the right kind of coach.
He wants the right kind of training schedule.
He wants the right kind of nutrition.
He wants the right kind of sleep schedule.
He wants the right kind of regimen. He
wants the right kind of improvement.
If you ask him, what do you want?
Well, I want these kinds of shoes, or
I want this kind of opportunity, or I
want this kind of a coach. This is
what he wants. He's not gonna ask you
for a PlayStation. He's not gonna ask you
for, you know,
you know, a new shirt or something. He
because that's not on his mind is I
gotta join this team.
So all of his wants, all the things
that he needs to fulfill that ultimate dream,
every every other thing that he desires is
in line with that.
It's in line with that. So once you
have a goal in mind,
then your wants become aligned with that goal.
And sometimes even when we give people presents,
right, you can give people if you don't
care about people, you can give them useless
presents or re gift.
People give you useless stuff like blenders, and
then you give it to them. So you
could do that. But if you care about
somebody and they're just, for example, they're just
joining university,
or they're just, you know, they're just about
to go on, you know, some business trip
or something, you get them something that helps
them in school, like you get them a
new laptop or something or you get them
something that actually helps them in their purpose.
Right? So we we we want things
based on goals.
We want things based on goals. Now, what
happens to someone who doesn't have clearly identified
goals? Someone who says, Yeah. I My goal
is I want to be happy.
Okay. Well, if that's your fuzzy goal,
then what's gonna happen? Well, you know what?
Today I want ice cream because that'll make
me happy. And tomorrow I want a video
game because that'll make me happy. And today,
you're gonna keep coming up with new things,
and guess what? None of them will do
one thing that you want, which is what?
Make you happy. You'll have ice cream and
still be depressed.
You'll play you'll you'll get this, that, or
the other, you'll still be because you're no
closer to any kind of target.
Right? When you when you when you acquire
something that you wanted,
and it even takes you 1 inch closer
to your goal, you feel like that was
worth something.
It got you somewhere. But when you're aimless
and you have no
no real objective,
then even if you get things you want
in the moment, it didn't lead to anything.
It didn't it wasn't part of a bigger
picture. You understand?
So now, let's with that with these couple
of concepts in mind, let's come back to
this ayah. Allah says
which can The word
can actually mean 2 things.
Can mean a call.
Okay. A call. So Da'wah tul Haqq is
me calling on Allah is actually also Da'wah.
So it's another word for Dua.
Many people here are familiar with the word
Dua.
Dua in Arabic is another word for Dua.
So when I do a Dua to Allah,
I'm actually doing a to Allah also. Okay?
So call to Allah asking Allah for something,
asking Allah for something, that's one obvious meaning.
The other meaning, because the is
interesting in that way, or then the in
the beginning, the
it also refers to Allah calling on you.
So you have 2 things merged in this
phrase,
you're asking a love for something
and Allah says the only one and how
does this ayah help us understand that concept?
Allah is saying in the end when you
ask for something
the only time you really truly ask for
anything is when you've asked Allah. Anything else
and anyone else you ask is actually not
even asking. It wasn't even really asking because
it didn't count for anything. It was empty.
It was thin air. The only one who
ever responds to you is actually Allah.
So, the
true call that is ever made is actually
only ever made to Allah.
On the flip side, Allah is also saying
that the call to live the demand that
is made,
the true demand that is made, how should
you live, what is expected of you? No
one else is calling you to do something
that is more justified and rightful than Allah's
call on me. Like what Allah is asking
me to do, what Allah has invited me
to do, the way Allah has invited me
to be, that's real. Everything else is fake
in comparison.
So there's this duality in this phrase.
Now there's a relationship between those two things.
Imagine just by visual because I'm I'm I'm
borrowing a visual from another Surah in the
Quran when Allah says
He he wasn't able to climb the mountain.
He wasn't able to scale the mountain. So
let's take the
image image. Allah wants me to climb a
mountain. Let's use that image. Okay? Allah wants
me to climb a mountain.
If that's the call Allah
made, climb this mountain,
then you know what? That became my objective.
And because that became my objective,
now I'm going to ask Allah for things
that help me fulfill that objective.
Now I'm gonna ask Allah for strength. Why
am I asking Allah for strength? It'll help
me climb that mountain. I will ask Allah
for
better lung capacity because as you climb up,
you start running out of breath because it's
gonna help me climb that mountain. I'm gonna
ask Allah for the kind of shoes I
can use to climb this mountain or the
kind of rope that I can use to
climb this mountain, or the hook, or a
teacher, or a trainer, or partners that can
help me scale this mountain.
Right?
Or recovery from injury if I've slipped and
I can get back up and keep climbing
on this mountain. Everything I'm asking Allah for
has to do with the mission Allah set
me on, and now I'm asking him in
line with that.
Think of
Musa
when he was sent to challenge Firaoun.
What did he ask Allah? He said,
You Allah expand my chest.
Because expanding chest means I won't have anxiety.
Because he knows he's going to someone who
masters in causing people anxiety. That's his expertise.
He could make you feel nervous, he can
make you feel anxious.
He's about to go take on the world's
greatest superpower, Wayasiddli Amri.
He has a problem speaking himself,
He wants to make sure that whatever he's
going to say is understood by everybody.
He might feel alone and intimidated
Everything he's asking for
is actually because Allah said,
That's the mission. Now that he's been told
to climb that mountain,
everything he's asking for is in line with
that mission. Now many of you have heard,
Usada, I've heard that you should ask Allah
for everything.
The hadith says even a shoelace you've heard
that before ask Allah for everything even a
shoelace
therefore I ask Allah for a new car
and I ask Allah for you know a
new this or a nicer that or because
the hadith says ask even for a shoelace.
Yeah. But you're not looking at the whole
picture.
If that shoelace is going to help you
tie your shoe better so you can climb
that mountain, then ask for the shoelace.
It's not in isolation. Randomly, I decided to
ask for a banana, and then I asked
for a shoelace, and then I asked for,
you know, Velcro shoes or whatever.
That's not the point that's being made. The
point that be that's being made is once
you embark on that journey towards Allah,
then whatever you need to successfully
embark on that journey, you ask Allah for
whether it's small or it's big.
Everything is in line with that journey.
And you're asking Allah to remove things from
your path that will distract you from your
goal.
The problem The the the What I want
you to understand here is,
it's as if first Allah set my eyes
on a goal
and because I became clear about my goal,
the nature of my duas
changed.
The nature of my What I'm asking What
I'm begging Allah for changed
because my objectives have entirely changed. Just like
I was telling you, the young man who
wants to join a football team, the things
he's going to ask for are not going
to be the same as some other young
man who's not trying out for a team.
It has no goal in front of him,
he just wants to enjoy his summer vacation
or something like that. They're not the same.
And in fact, even if you get temporary
joy without having a larger objective, you might
enjoy it very temporarily but the feeling of
emptiness settles in very very quickly.
But when you actually get purposeful
purposeful prayer,
then even if it's a small thing, because
you know it's working towards a larger goal,
you appreciate it, you thank Allah more for
it, and it takes you it propels you
even further.
This is the the one of the great
hikam carry captured inside
Now let's compare this to other religious worldviews.
In other religious worldviews, I speak of them
sometimes in condescending terms. I don't mean to
be condescending to other religions, but I do
want you to understand
with other religious traditions. Some of you heard
my today,
before you fell asleep.
I was talk talking about when when the
Israelites
cross the water, they cross the water, and
now they've escaped Firaun,
and they have their prophet with them who's
shown them multiple miracles, and they pass by
a village, you know, that
used to sit in front of idols and
meditate.
They passed by this town that was idol
worshiping and they sat by idols and meditated
and they said
can you make us a god like this
one? The I mean, these guys are this
is pretty good stuff. Can we have one
of these too? Why can't we have it
like that? You know? Why why is it
that they wanted that? Because I I want
you to understand
and understand the the the the nature of
consumer religion.
Consumer religion. Consumer religion is I have a
The only reason I worship a god
is because that god will give me something
I want.
Okay? So I go to I go to
this God and I'll, you know, put some
milk in front of it and put some
whatever flowers in front of it and you
know, do the thing and the candles and
all of that stuff. And then I'll tell
him I really want my uncle to die
because if he doesn't die, then I'm not
gonna get the village the the the the
the horse. My dad signed it off to
my uncle. I'm next in line, so I
really need him to
die.
And the the uncle is right next to
him. He's going, I we really need my
nephew to die because
now it just depends who's gonna push who
off the mountain in the from the temple
or whatever.
But
the the idea is you're you're turning to
a God because you have a wish
and you're going to worship and sacrifice and
do whatever and in exchange your wish will
be granted. So
duas
Dua In other religions, Dua is actually just
a wish. It's a wish list.
You go to that god with your wish
list and you say god I want to
marry this girl or I want to marry
this guy or I want to do this
or I want my you know, some lady
came to me. I can't some things just
traumatized me for life, man. This lady came
up to me. She said, what do you
do if Allah never answers your dua? I
was like, what dua is this?
She goes I've I've made I fasted and
made this dua I've prayed tahajjud and made
this dua I went to the haram I
did umrah I did umrah in Ramadan and
made this dua Allah is not answering my
dua I was like, which is this? Can
you tell can you tell me a little
bit about it? I'll go to the side.
You know.
She goes, yeah. I really want my daughter
to marry this boy, and she says, no.
I made so much dua.
And so and Allah is not answering my
dua. So so you believe
that you have a wish
and Allah should answer your dua by handing
you a psychological remote control. You can press
like him
and point it at your daughter and your
daughter's entire personality will change because you asked
Allah to exert control on another human being.
Our Messenger was told
You are not in control over other people
but you, lady,
want to ask Allah to hand you control
over another living soul
because you want them to do something you
want and they don't want it. How dare
they?
And you're like, Allah is not answering my
dua. You know what that is? Allah is
not granting my wish.
That's not a dua.
And you know where these kinds of duas
come from? They come from a lack of
real purpose.
Your purpose is much letter much lesser. Oh,
if she marries this boy, then that's a
really rich family then we get to say
we married in this rich family or my,
you know, my my cousins will be happy
or this one will be happy or this
one will say this and this. That's your
goal. Your goal is very low and because
your goal is low, the things you're asking
Allah for are in line with that low
goal. That's what's actually happening.
When you set your goal higher, the things
you ask Allah for are going to be
higher.
And so you find a lot of people
setting their goals low,
and then asking for lower things
of Allah,
and then getting frustrated with Allah that he's
not giving me what I want Because now
we're turning our religion
into consumer religion. We want Allah to We
place the order,
especially in the odd nights of Ramadan. We're
gonna place a lot of orders. You know,
we're gonna make our wish list and we're
gonna come to Allah. And if that doesn't
get answered, then hey, come on. What's going
on over here?
I'd even I, you know,
the masjids around the country,
they get they get the people in their
boards, or if you have an office line
or whatever, it gets
overrun. Right? Which one is the night of
Dua again? Is it tomorrow? Is it today?
Listen, because I have a list. I gotta
I gotta get through my list.
Right? And we have this this concept we've
we've developed this conception
of how the things we want in this
dunya,
that's what the deen is for.
The purpose of the deen is to ask
Allah for things we want in this dunya.
That was the purpose of every other religion.
When Allah says, Allah alone owns the true
call. What is Allah's call?
Allah's call is to be ready to meet
Him.
That's Allah's call.
Is actually ultimately
Allah is inviting us to be able to
meet Him on judgment day, to not be
among the people that Allah says about them,
He won't look at certain people on resurrection
day, and he won't purify them. He doesn't
want us to be from those people.
He says,
Some places some faces will be lit, they'll
be lit, they'll be illuminated,
staring at their rub. He wants us to
be those people.
If
that's the goal, I need to meet Allah.
That's the goal that's been set. Then my
duas are in line with that. And I'm
not saying you become a saint and you
don't care about anything in this life. That
is not what I'm saying at all.
In fact, now what what I'm saying is
2 things become inseparable.
2 things become inseparable, the blessings of this
life
and how the blessings of this life are
connected to the blessings of the next life.
How?
We go around the the the Kaaba,
and we get to a certain portion of
the haram,
and the the Kaaba, and we're doing tawaf,
and we say
Give us the give us beautiful good things
in this life, and give us beautiful good
things in
the next life. In this life, in the
next life.
That's not asking for 2 separate things actually.
We're asking for one thing. We're asking for
good things in this life that lead to
good things in
the next life. If you get good things
in this life that have nothing to do
with good things in the next life, that's
a problem.
And that's why right before that dua, insulbul
Bakar Allah says
There's among these people who say, You Allah,
give me in this world,
give me this girl in marriage, give me
this car, give me this job, give me
this money, give me this, give me this,
give me this, give me this, give me
this.
Dunya says they have no portion in the
akhira.
And you would imagine if that that dua
is saying that aya is saying don't ask
about dunya, but the next ayah made you
ask about duniya again.
Why? Allah is teaching us that we should
be asking for things in this world that
benefit us in the next world.
What this also does
is that it teaches me humility,
a lot of humility.
I can be very sure about what I
want.
I can be very sure about what I
want,
but I don't know that.
I feel it. This is what I want.
You Allah, if I have this, I will
be a good servant. I will fulfill my
purpose towards you. I will be able to
do good. You Allah, just give me this.
And Allah could in His wisdom decide, no
actually you think you want this and you
think this is the best thing for you
but it's not, and I won't give it
to you. That can happen.
That can absolutely happen. Nuh alaihi salam must
have thought that if son if his son
becomes a believer, it's the best thing ever.
Father and son will do Dawah together. The
deen of Allah will be served.
Allah decided, No. I'm not gonna give you
that dua.
Ibrahim alaihis salaam must have decided that the
one who makes the idols his father, if
he becomes Muslim, then the entire shirk manufacturing
industry
in the region will shut down. This is
great.
What a great aid to Islam
and I'm sure he asked for the guidance
of his father. Allah didn't answer that prayer.
So Allah responding,
Allah responding is on Allah's terms not on
our terms. We ask to the best of
our ability but we have to have a
level of humility that Allah's plan is better
than what we can ask
And we cannot say, You Allah, you didn't
answer according to my wishes,
my thinking,
my strategy. We have to develop a humility.
I also add something else to this concept,
and that is we have to develop a
sense of
agility.
Agility means I asked Allah for something, I
don't see that Allah is giving it to
me. Right? I asked Allah for one door
to open, and that door is not opening.
I keep asking, I keep asking, and that
door is not opening.
And for 5 years I'm frustrated with Allah
because Allah is not opening that door.
You know what? Maybe in those 5 years,
I chose
to become blind to the 100 other doors
that Allah opened because I don't want any
of those, I want this one.
I'm stubborn with I'm telling Allah this door
or nothing else.
I'm being and then I'm saying Allah is
not answering me.
You ever see a bird that's trying to
get out of a window, but one window
is closed and the other one's open, and
it's smacking its head into the glass?
I I feel like sometimes we're that bird
and we're like, You Allah,
Come
on.
Just turn a little bit
and get out.
There's another door opened.
No. But that's not the one I want
though.
Because we have we have our own stubbornness.
A human being is asking for something bad
for himself very convinced they're asking for something
good
It could very well be you hate something
but it's good for you. It could be
something you love but it's bad for you.
Allah
knows you don't know.
So now,
having given you
that opening let's see what Allah is saying
about this
that in the end truly if you have
asked you've only truly asked Allah the word
one one more introductory comment on the meaning
of the word
actually also means to invite
invite someone. When you honor someone and you
invite them to your home, that's also.
But is also used when you need somebody's
personal help.
So for example, in the Quran you
have Right? Like if you needed help, for
example, fixing something in your home and you
call a bunch of guys, hey I need
to move some furniture,
can you come over? Right? That's also dawah,
that's also calling somebody for the purpose of
help.
When you're using the word dawah with Allah,
It's as if you're asking Allah's personal intervention,
personal involvement in in whatever it is that
you're doing.
You you want Allah to intervene and Allah
to take part in what it is that
you're doing. Just like Allah wanted Himself
to invite you, Himself to His path. Now
you're asking inviting Allah Himself
to come to your aid, and it's as
if Allah is saying, and there's nobody in
the end who responds to you except me
anyway.
There's nobody else. In reality, Al Haqq here
referring to reality. In the end, nobody responds
to your call except Allah.
And those who they call other than Allah,
they cannot even begin to respond to them
with anything.
They have no ability to respond.
Now the analogy. Now the the parable that
Allah gives.
Like the one who has
his hands open, stretched out,
to reach to the water,
to reach water that it can come to
his mouth,
but it will never reach it.
It will he'll never reach it. Now this
image can be understood multiple ways. So let's
go through these multiple ways. We'll start with
an image that Ali
painted. The painting
Ali painted with his words describing this ayah.
Imagine somebody at the mouth of a well.
The water is deep inside, you're at the
top of the well,
and there's no rope or bucket or nothing.
Right? And you really need the water. You're
traveling in the desert, you're dying of thirst,
you got to the tip of this well,
you need the water. So you just kind
of lean over
and are trying
trying to get to the water.
You're like, I think I felt something.
And it was because it it's too far,
bro.
It's too far.
Right? So that's one image. Like, those who
call on other than Allah are engaged in
something as silly as the guy who's leaning
over in a well, trying to reach the
water with his arms, and the water is
way down there. Like, if you if you
actually actually think about that, it's the image
of somebody acting really stupid.
That's that's what the image is.
You know?
And then another way to understand this imagery
is a mirage like in Surat An Nur.
Somebody's traveling in the desert, they think it's
water,
And they just stick they stick their hand
in the sand.
Right?
As it's not there
because it's a it's an illusion.
And you're you're looking at that and say,
how stupid is this guy?
And then another the third way you can
think about this is somebody who even does
reach the water but when they reach the
water,
they keep their palm open. If you want
to drink water, you do this.
You make a cup out of your hand,
you close your fist a little bit, right?
You close your palm a little bit. But
imagine somebody
who's it keeps slipping out.
He's never gonna reach it. He's not gonna
reach his mouth.
This is the example of someone who asks
other than Allah, who doesn't
ask rooted in
They keep asking for things and running into
desperation. The image captures stupidity.
It captures desperation.
Somebody who's desperate, somebody who's who's acting ridiculous.
They don't even they don't they're and they're
doing something
that no sensible person would would do,
but they're doing it anyway. They don't even
know why they're doing it, like no reasonable
person would do this.
You'd have to have lost your mind to
be able to do something like that. And
so he says,
And the call of the call of just
believers,
it doesn't fall anywhere except in complete waste.
It goes into complete ruin.
We have to learn to make dua to
Allah purposefully.
We have to acknowledge
first.
And then based on that,
we make our duas.
Now let's look at
the duas in the Quran. Look, I have
duas to Allah. I I make dua to
Allah for my family, my parents,
you know, my spouse, my children,
etcetera. I make dua for, you know, for
myself,
you know, I have different kinds of duas
I make to Allah. And then there are
duas that Allah has always have taught us
in the Quran.
Right?
Because it's as if you know if you
look at the story of Adam he
was sent down to earth he was really
ashamed about what happened
He was so ashamed he didn't even have
the words.
So Allah says,
like Allah gave him brought him into contact
with words,
because he didn't even know what words to
use. And then Allah taught him the words
to say, and then Allah accepted his Tawba.
Right?
In that sense, when Allah says you
about the Quran, Allah teaches you what you
couldn't have known yourself.
Allah teaches you what you could not have
known yourself.
What Allah is also teaching us is these
the duas that Allah has given us in
the Quran. The things that prophets ask for
that by extension we ask for. Or the
things like for example
That there is wisdom in those prayers.
You're asking you're you're asking Allah for something
so smart
that it's actually endorsed by Allah Himself.
It's as if Allah who made me
and made you, who knows us better than
we know ourselves, like he asks,
doesn't he know who he created? Then now
that he knows who he created, he says,
by the way,
here's what you should ask for yourself.
Here's what you should ask for yourself. Like
just put that in perspective. Here's what something
I want to ask, and here's Allah recommending,
by the way, if it was me, here's
what I would ask.
Put this in another analogous perspective.
You have something you want to eat and
then your trainer or your nutritionist or whoever
tells you, here's what I recommend you should
eat.
You wanna take some medicine? Your doctor tells
you, hey, by the way, here's the prescription
that you should be following.
You wanna sign the contract for a real
estate deal or whatever yourself? Your lawyer says,
here's what I recommend. Who you're gonna
trust? Yourself? No. No. No. I just I
got this.
No. You're gonna take the lawyer's word serious,
the doctor seriously,
the trainer serious. You take all these people
serious because they know better,
They know
better. We If one acknowledges Allah knows me
better than I know myself,
then what I should be asking for myself,
there has to be a level of acknowledgement
and humility in me that says,
I need to ask Allah what he recommended
I ask him.
That's I need to give myself to that.
And then other things that I want to
ask will come under its shade.
In fact, I would even argue the dua
that Allah has the other that Allah has
taught us in the Quran. The different dua's
Allah has taught us in the Quran they
are
so encompassing and they're so complete
that anything you would have asked for is
covered anyway
Like there's nothing you could have come up
with that you would have asked for that
isn't already
incorporated in the perfect
requests
that Allah taught us to make in His
book.
SubhanAllah.
And then now compare that to the Dua'ul
Kafir. Who are the kafireen calling to? The
dua'ul kafirim now has two meanings. By the
way, notice the word was used for Allah
and there's 2 words for in Arabic, and
and Allah separated His Word
from the
at the end He didn't say
He said
He said, distinguishing the 2 as if they
are 2 completely different things.
Like even verbally they're not given the same
word even though they're synonymous in some sense.
They're separated. But even
is 2 things. It's what the asks for
is gone to waste And what they're asking
you for is just waste. They're also calling
you to something.
The leader also call like Allah is calling
to something, the kafir is also calling to
something.
They're also inviting to something and Allah is
saying when they ask
to their false gods or each other, it
goes to waste and whatever they're calling you
to is nothing but going to waste.
I'm really excited that we've made this much
progress in our, our journey through the parables.
Tomorrow is actually one of my probably favorite
parables in the Quran, inshallah, also from Surah
Rad. So those of you who can make
it tomorrow, I know I know a lot
of you came out tonight, Friday Friday night
Islamic fever, I get it. But,
if you can make it tomorrow, Insha Allah,
please do try and make it tomorrow because
that tomorrow night's a special
parable
that's also, part of Suratul Ra. So I'll
conclude with that today.
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