Omar Suleiman – Finding Solace Through Patience And Wisdom
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The speakers discuss the negative impact of seeing people who have been stolen from their families and the need for a transfer of comfort. They stress the importance of finding one's way to achieve their goals and finding a way to protect themselves from cargo attacks. They also emphasize the need for people to practice empathy and control their emotions in order to achieve success. The speakers stress the importance of trusting one's knowledge and actions to achieve success and expansion of Syria.
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What if I no longer can find the
motivation to act because I don't have the
capacity to understand Bismillah wa alhamdulillah wa salatu
wassalamu ala rasulillah wa ala alihi wa sahbihi
wa man wala Dear brothers and sisters I
wanted to reflect today upon the relationship between
two qualities that subhanAllah connect to our full
being in incredible ways and they are the
qualities of patience, as-sabr and Wisdom al
-hikmah now before I get there I want
to start off with the fact that many
of us are hurting when we see the
martyrdom of our brother Khalid Nabhan May Allah
accept his shahada and may Allah allow him
to meet his Beloved soul in Reem to
meet his beloved Tariq to meet all of
those whom he lost from his family and
all of the shahada of Gaza and Beyond
them all to meet the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wasallam while he is pleased with him Allah.
I mean Many of us are reeling when
we see that a man like that has
been stolen from us, but we're also finding
comfort when we see the smile on his
face that transcends even life and subhanAllah as
we're looking at what is happening in Syria
where we've seen people come out from the
dungeons and People who have been able to
return home after Long years of displacement and
we're finding joy for our brothers and sisters
in Syria It's important for us to also
take a step back and to recognize things
have only gotten worse for our brothers and
sisters in Gaza And things continue to be
worse in a Sudan and things continue to
get worse in places like Yemen And so
it's important for us to take a step
back and to remind ourselves Not to turn
away from those places of devastation Because we
now see a place of victory would hem
the denial of the enemy But instead to
transfer that same hope that we now have
seen fulfilled in Syria And of course is
still early may Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala allow
it to be completed But to see that
same hope transfer to other parts of the
ummah, especially Gaza, especially Palestine now Building on
that.
Here's what I want to talk about We
have a tendency to be impulsive and when
we are impulsive we can be impulsive with
our hearts We can be impulsive with our
thoughts.
We can be impulsive with our tongues we
can be impulsive with our actions and I
was reflecting on these two treasures that the
prophets I some mentions of qualities and How
they particularly relate to Gaza today and to
the various things that we are saying today
that could shut us down potentially if we
don't Understand how to understand if we don't
understand how to understand and they are the
qualities of a suburb and in Hikmah and
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam when he
speaks about a suburb when he speaks about
patience the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam mentions when the authority I had been
out on that No one is given a
gift a treasure that is greater Khairan what
else that is greater and more?
Expansive than a suburb that patience is the
most precious blessing that you can have and
what the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is
Referring to is not just the reward that
comes with patience, but also the perspective, you
know They're in a not talk about this
idea of OSA.
What is expansive about patience?
It's expansive and that it can make all
of your qualities beautiful It's expansive and that
it can make you patient with your desires.
It can make you patient with tribulation It
can make you patience with your good deeds
so that you actually see them through so
it's expansive in that sense But it's also
expansive in that it gives you an expanded
view on the world.
That's around you.
It expands your perspective now in the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in one narration from
Abu Hurayf All the allotted and who talks
about Hikmah when he talks about wisdom and
Hikmah to Wallet and moment Hikmah is the
lost property of the believer It's a treasure
and whoever finds it then it is for
him They have the greatest right to it
when they find it And so you have
this idea once again of a treasure patience
is the most expansive treasure that a person
could have Hikmah is the lost treasure that
you should be pursuing and seeking your entire
life and trying to find wherever you can
pursuing it everywhere now I want you to
think about the output of Hikmah and the
output of Sabr and how these two things
are related Especially when we see things that
otherwise could shut us down Emotionally as well
as intellectually and of course worse than all
of that spiritually Sabr protects you from being
impulsive with your desires It protects you with
being impulsive with Tribulation with responding in a
way that's not favorable to your akhira in
a way That's not pleasing to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala and could stop you from
being impulsive When it comes to your good
deeds because you don't see that they are
Yielding the results that you wanted them to
yield right away.
And so you give up halfway through and
you don't demonstrate resilience Sabr stops you from
being impulsive in that regard.
It stops you from being impulsive with your
reactions Hikmah also stops you from being impulsive
how so Hikmah stops you from passing judgments
on a situation that is premature and That
will essentially shut down any type of action
that could potentially come out of that and
Stunt your growth of understanding of the situation
that's in front of you Hikmah allows you
to take a step back So if you
think about what Hikmah actually is what wisdom
actually is it comes from Hakam It comes
from the the horse's reins you hold your
horse back You allow yourself to govern your
thoughts you allow yourself to govern your tongue
That's why most of silence or most of
Hikmah is actually silence as the ulema teach
us that a Person who can practice a
slump they can practice Silence in the face
of something that everyone else has commentary on
that In fact is wisdom a person holding
back.
There's a narration that's attributed to the manner
of Hakeem alayhi salam that if speaking is
from silver then silence is from gold and
so most of your wisdom is being able
to Hold your tongue and to wait to
see a situation unfold and in the process
of holding your tongue and holding your thoughts
You allow your perspective to grow because if
you think about what silence allows you to
do silence allows you To let things play
out further before you speak on them It
allows you to grow your perspective on something
and to see things through and Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala Rewards that silence that deep ponderance
by giving you deeper perspective And so you
don't act too quickly.
You don't think too quickly.
You don't pass judgment too quickly You don't
speak judgment too quickly And especially when it
comes to Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala these two
things can sometimes actually be interchangeable If you
think about Musa alayhi salam and al-khadr
alayhi salam when al-khadr alayhi salam says
to Musa alayhi salam Innaka lantastati'a ma
'iya sadara That you will not be patient
with me.
He wasn't talking about Musa alayhi salam's inability
to be patient with great tribulation He was
talking about Musa alayhi salam rushing to judgment
in regards to a situation and Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala was Expanding the wisdom of Musa
alayhi salam by exposing him to greater Perspective
and so what does this mean for us
in this present day and everything that we're
witnessing today?
I hear many people saying Understandably in the
midst of their despair Look, I just don't
get why this is happening and it's too
much and I can't understand it And I
feel like I can't do anything anymore.
I feel like I'm being shut off So
you see the direct tie between wisdom and
patience?
You see others subhanallah who have this deep
trust in Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala whose entire
Perspective is derived from the knowledge that Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala is always Planning and so
long as Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala has the
greater picture then I am able to be
Patient with that greater picture and in the
process, you know what Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
rewards that patience with he rewards it with
wisdom And so Allah as a result Exposes
to you a greater part of the picture
so that you start to see things With
more clarity because you're not allowing your emotions
to clot your judgment You're not allowing the
deep pain that you Understandably have because Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala tells you to have empathy
Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala tells you to feel
for your brothers and sisters But you're not
allowing that empathy to shut you down to
where you lose clarity of the situation None
of this means that your heart doesn't break
none of this means that your tongue doesn't
speak But it means that your heart breaks
in a way to where you present it
to Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala To put back
together that you speak only that which is
pleasing to Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala even when
you can find no words because of everything
that is happening that your thoughts as They
start to get darker.
You remind yourself Allah No, no Samadhi will
order that Allah is the light of the
heavens and the earth that Allah subhanahu wa'ta
'ala is The only solution that I have
to clear my mind to clear my heart
so that I can continue to move forward
So patience stops you from being impulsive in
regards to your actions Wisdom stops you from
being impulsive in regards to your thoughts and
somehow I just want to share this Because
it was something that I found remarkable.
I was speaking to someone who I find
to be Deeply wise who I find to
be deeply optimistic about the situation always and
I feel like Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala has
gifted him With so much, you know, he
was sitting with someone who was complaining about
the current situation Understandably, so Israel's opportunism the
fact that they are now occupying greater parts
of Syria Even though they were occupying many
of those parts before but people are now
waking up to that and they're expanding into
that territory Gaza seems to be shrinking The
cost seems to be this the cost seems
to be that and he was saying look
this is going to be haired but if
they're not he had such a Spin, you
know a positive outlook on this that it
was remarkable to me he said if they
occupy more than this will make them occupiers
of Greater than just the Palestinian people and
in the process in the process You will
have more people that will rise up against
the bidden light on and if they occupy
less Then this will be a means of
their retreat and Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala will
show them that retreat will come from different
directions as well He was able to point
out something in everything now.
You don't have to present a precise optimistic
outlook on everything But the idea of being
optimistic Because you know that Allah subhanahu wa'ta
'ala is in control the idea of trusting
Allah's sight over your eyes is what allows
you to have Wisdom the idea of trusting
Allah's knowledge over your knowledge is what allows
you to have wisdom and the idea of
trusting Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala reward over your
impulsive Reaction is exactly where the gift of
patience comes in and so no believer is
given a treasure that is more Expansive than
patience and with that great expansive treasure of
patience is that lost?
treasure of wisdom and so the believer is
able to proceed with Clarity to proceed with
steadfastness now think about the Shaitaan and I
had to menace Shaitaan Haste is from the
devil and haste being from the Shaitaan means
that hasty thoughts are from the devil that
Hasty deeds are from the Shaitaan that Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala calls you instead to proceed
with a sense of urgency But to not
let that urgency be a transgression of the
boundaries that he has put on your thinking
on your emotions on your actions In moments
where we feel so caught up in the
devastation that we are seeing, you know It's
the only way to really deal with Here
right now is to know about the hereafter
is to know about the Akhira that if
we were Relegated to this box of this
dunya to this box of this world Then
we would all be in my research on
one cap.
We would all be in this constricting life
this constricting Suffocating life because we don't understand
that there's more to the outside of this
box But what gives us hope will handle
a lion of alarming is that not only
is the box that's in front of us
not as clear to us as We may
think it is but that what is outside
of the box is so much greater than
what is inside of the box May Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala grant us patience.
May he grant us wisdom.
May Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala grant us steadfastness
May Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala allow us to
proceed with clarity with action with that which
is pleasing to him even when we find
the most devastating things happening to our brothers
and sisters in Gaza and When we want
to shut down may Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
allow us to instead move to the next
level of our action allahumma Ameen.
Jazakum Allah khairan.
Wassalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh