Omar Suleiman – The One Who Created the Night Stars

			Surah Tunis, which personally is one of my favorite sutras in the Quran, and particularly the first
page and a half, it is Subhanallah, one of the most beautiful elucidations of Allah subhanho wa
Taala on the creation of the heavens and the earth, the sun and the moon, and the way that that
creation comes into being once again, and the way that the believers go from a place of being
connected to Allah subhanaw taala and they have called them as Slidell when they have their promised
reward, and they're promised position with the loss penalty later on. And one of the things that
you'll notice about Surah Yunus and you'll notice about the Quran, especially as it's speaking about
		

			creation is this emphasis on the night sky, this emphasis on the sky. So who Allah the Giada Shamsul
Leah and welcome Murano Raja cadavre humanas in return them or others see Nina what he's up Maha
kala Houda Illa will help. This is just one of the verses where last time I mentioned, the orbits
when Allah azza wa jal mentions the creation of the sun, the creation of the moon, the notion of how
we benefit as humanity from the way that all of these bodies function in perfect harmony, for our
benefit. And so that we can come to know Allah subhanaw taala, which is the greatest benefit that we
can have as mankind. And subhanAllah. This idea of the night sky, the stars, you'll notice there's a
		

			lot of emphasis on looking up at night and the stars. And this is something Subhanallah that for us
maybe we have a hard time connecting to because of the light pollution around us. We don't look up
and see stars, the way that people in the desert used to look up and see stars. And I want to
connect this specifically to what we spoke about today in the hutzpah about this connection to the
sight of Allah subhanaw taala alone when a person is in the deserts, and I want you to just put
yourself there for a moment, no artificial light, and you're in the desert. And it's the darkness of
the night. Imagine how much more intense your piano Laila is going to be if you wake up in the
		

			middle of the night in a desert.
		

			And you go and you pray by yourself with no artificial light around you. Just think about how
intense that Salah is naturally going to be the peace, the connection to Allah subhanaw taala and
you look up and you see that you feel that connection, where it's just you and him subhanho Its ad.
On the other hand, also one of the things that was known to the Arabs and of course Subhan Allah The
night is the time of the devils and the time of those that wants to be like the angels. It's the
time of those who sink to the level of the shale theme. And the time of those who aspire to be like
them at ICA. So time where sins take place, historically speaking, right. And so the shameful deeds
		

			that would not fly just because of the natural honor of the Arabs at the time. Right. They didn't
have nightclubs and things of that sort. But certainly the shameful deeds were easier to take place
under the night sky as well. Also the hypocrites with which we've just finished reading about in
quite, you know detail in sort of the Toba, write to them federal Asia, we don't need to go there.
No one sees you when you come to Fajr and Aisha imagine if you came to Fajr and Isha in pitch black
every single day SubhanAllah. And so the believers saw it as a moment of intense striving, the
hypocrites sought as a moment to where they could intensely avoid any type of worship sleeping, and
		

			then they'll show up at the hotel and also so that they can be seen so they can still be counted
amongst the Muslims. So the night is a very particular set of a very particular concealer that Allah
subhanaw taala has created for us and there is a saying from the self they used to have a poem
amongst themselves, either Hello Toby Reba tin feeble nuttin. When NAFSA Daria tune Isla Luciana
Yanni Fustat human novel Isla de Wakulla in La Vie halacha wala Irani. This was a poem that have
been Rajab Rahim Allah says that many of the set of use to recite that if you find yourself alone,
in the darkness of the night, and the knifes the self starts to agitate and says here's your
		

			opportunity. No one's watching you now. Then restrain yourself and be shy from the sight of the Lord
and tell your enough's Yeah, enough's. Oh self or soul. In Allah. The Holika wala Irani, the One who
created the darkness sees me Who do you think made the darkness? Who do you think created that
darkness for you? Who do you think think created that citta that concealer that cover for you to
where you could choose to aspire in complete privacy and stillness or you can choose to do the
shameless deeds because you look around and you see, no one else is looking. It's kind of hard to
discern what took acid. You know, I remember the CD. You all know what a CD is right? I just want to
		

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			Sure, CD was this disk for the kids that you put inside a machine and it plays things before things
were on us. Actually, surprisingly, even USBs are an unknown name.
		

			Sheikh Mohammed Sharif Rahim Allah, one of the first lectures, in fact, I think might have been the
first lecture I ever heard from him, was called in the middle of the night. Does anyone remember
that lecture? It remembers it, you remember it? So in the middle of the night, was one of the first
lectures that it is the first lecture I think I heard from Chef Muhammad Sharif Rahim Allah, it's
over 20 years old, Subhan Allah. And when they were introducing an Maghrib Institute, they were
passing around the CDs in different communities to get introduced to this idea. And I remember the
story that he started off with And subhanAllah I happen to come across that story in the law when I
		

			was preparing for my hotel today, where a man apprehends a woman in the middle of the night, and he
takes her to the side. And as he has bad intentions, he says to this woman who fears Allah subhanho
Tirana Maronna, Ill Killa cap. Look, no one sees us except for the stars. No one sees us except for
the stars. And she says to him, with full conviction for a&m Will co Kealoha. Where's the one who
made the stars? Where's the one who made the stars? And the man was shocked. He was terrified.
Because that thought struck him for a moment. Who created your privacy? Who created your privacy?
And what unique test has Allah given you with your privacy? You know, subhanAllah we live in a time
		

			where privacy is one of the greatest fitness that we have in our lives, privacy, private messaging,
private browsing. Privacy has become entirely compounded in terms of fitna because of the digital
era.
		

			And you have to ask yourself, Who made that cover? Who created that privacy for me? And if Allah
subhanaw taala, concealed me, What is Allah subhanaw taala testing me with and the way that you
overcome that, and this is a lot of what we spoke about in the hotspot today is that you actually
start to use your privacy as intimate moments with Allah subhanaw taala rather than distant moments
from the creation where you feel like you're safe to do the most shameless of deeds.
		

			That yeah, Allah. No one is watching us right now watching me as I can worship you alone, not yet
Allah or no one else sees me right now. So I can disobey Allah Subhana Allah to Allah, I can do
whatever I want. And you think about the mindset and how shaitan tries to play with a person. You
look around, and everything is about this idea of being secluded. And the believer uses that
seclusion because he understands or she understands that Allah created that seclusion for a very
specific purpose in your life. And so think about yourself as you're going through these verses in
sha Allah and especially in Surah, Yunus. And as we continue, especially in Mechi, Quran even in
		

			just the AMA, that emphasis of don't you look up and you see the stars? Who do you think made all of
that? What do you think created that darkness, the One who created the light created the darkness,
the One who created the sun created the moon, the one who gave you vision during the day, gave you
the inability to see the world during the night so that you could focus on what is beyond this world
during the night. Because that is the time as an Imam and pm Rahim Allah spoke about the time that a
person cuts their greatest distance to Allah Subhana Allah to Allah, the travelers in the night, a
safe it's the time of travel, the time of travel, the time that the hearts traveled to Allah
		

			subhanho wa taala. So find ways if you can in sha Allah to Allah and this is a challenge for all of
us to actually ascend in privacy rather than descent because the majority of people will descend in
privacy, but the few will ascend in privacy. May Allah subhanaw taala allow us to be even better in
our private lives than we are in our public lives. On May Allah Subhana Allah to Allah make us
amongst those that are pleasing to Him when we are seen only by him and when we are seen by him and
other than Him as well along I mean, is that gonna fade or somebody's gonna
		

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