Omar Suleiman – The Powerful Prayer of a Mother

			Dear brothers and sisters, the last few days in Dallas have been very interesting few days in this
last week has been an interesting week within Dallas, with many discussions that involve some
serious theological components as well as political components. So idea of forgiveness versus
justice, this idea of accountability. And the beautiful gesture of the brother of both them john,
who was murdered when he showed forgiveness for the murder of his brother, and what that means in
terms of justice and accountability, and humanizing, I think more so the family of a person who was
wrongfully gunned down while he was sitting in his own home, sitting on his couch, eating ice cream,
		

			when an officer walked in and shot him dead twice, or shot him twice to his death, and sparking the
first conviction of a Dallas police officer since the 1970s, where an officer played Russian
Roulette in the mouth of a 12 year old boy and blew his head off and got five years for that. And
this was the first time that we had a conviction, even though it was only for 10 years, have any
sort of recourse for that, not taking into consideration the hundreds of people that have been shot
dead in the last five decades, between those two cases. And so Pamela, there was the mother of both
of them, john, and a mother that captures the sentiments of what you would expect in terms of pain
		

			from a mom who not only raised her child, to be safe, but to be successful, and prosperous. And if
you've gotten a glimpse into the dynamics of that family, you will know that that is a family that
was extremely protective of their children. And somehow I just spent my last moments with her. I
just came from that where she's the family is going back to St. Lucia. And she told me something I
didn't know because we talked about the police shootings that happened in July 2016. She said that
her son had actually moved here, just two weeks before July 7 2016. And she remembered him standing
on the balcony of his condo taking videos of all the police driving around downtown, and sending
		

			those those videos and those pictures back home and how scared she was for him from those moments
that she was afraid. And she thought at that moment, I should pull him back. Because it's not a safe
place for him to be and some kind of law. What ended up happening to him two years later, was that
he would be murdered for no crime of his own. And you see a mother that that Raleigh, that will
express in a very raw fashion, her pain at the injustice that she suffered. And not only that, but
throughout this entire year was putting forth mothers of police brutality victims that had not had
the chance to speak in front of a camera like she did and saying you should talk to this mother. And
		

			you should talk to this mother. And you should talk to this mother, a mother who found out about her
son being murdered. While she was sitting in the lobby of the DPD of the Dallas Police Department.
They did not even have the decency to notify her that her son was killed. She found out through her
phone watching a press conference with the police chief that her son was killed. And she ushered
forth mother after mother after mother and said, listen to them, because you haven't listened to
them for all of these years, and you should listen to them. And these statements that she throw.
last statement I heard from her today, if any of you saw the press conference where signs were held,
		

			remember so and so the victims of police brutality, and she said let me hold the sign for my son,
because I want to hold my son, when she said just a few days ago on his 20 what would have been his
28th birthday, that to lose a child is to feel the pain of labor in your womb, again. she expresses
it very in a very raw manner and very articulately, and in a way that a lot of mothers that had lost
their children could relate. And you watch that person and you watch the pain and you watch the
inability to move on and you think about what type of mercy that Allah has put in the heart of a
mother for her child.
		

			What type of mercy and love and perspective that Allah has put in the heart of a mother for her
child.
		

			So much so that she connects that experience to the moment she gave birth to him. And the power of a
woman calling out and yes, I know someone might say well, she's not Amina Eliza, the Prophet slicin
um said that was a Muslim, that the the daughter of an oppressed person they have been How have been
a light hijab there is no veil between that supplication and between Allah even if the person that
is making the drought is not a believer, as long when they call upon Allah and they call upon the
law and they and they say Oh Allah calling out in pain and oppression. There is no hijab, no veil,
whether that person is Muslim or not.
		

			And then there's another
		

			elements of this, someone might be seeing that insane shift. We've already dealt with Kashmir and
there's too much going on right now for me to really care about the situation seriously, enough moms
that look more like my mom or look more like my wife or that sound more like something that
reasonably could happen to me. And I should be focused on that because I don't have the capacity for
that. And I remind you that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in the midst of us were in the
midst of a battle on an expedition
		

			saw a red bird that was flying over the Sahaba
		

			looked up at that red bird in distress. And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said men feather
I heard the Hebrew Allah
		

			who has distressed this one with her child?
		

			Allah, He didn't say the bird is mad. Men federa meaning if you took the sentence of the prophets
lie Selim, it would you could think he was talking about a human being and the Sahaba might have
thought maybe he's talking about a human being when he says it in that fashion month. He'd be one of
the one who distressed this one with her child. He was talking about a bird in the midst of a major
tragedy and the tragedy in the midst of a major expedition. But the prophets lie some notices a bird
complaining about her child.
		

			And one of the Sahaba took the egg or took the child from the nest. And the Prophet slice of them
said, Look, do ha ha wanted to give her back her child, give her back her child, even the profits of
the lice. And I'm seeing that an animal a bird in the midst of that was caught because there's
something about a mother with her child, even when it's not even human.
		

			That connection of Rama that one part of Allah's mercy, that covers the entire existence, as it is
here that we experienced now, the 99 that we hope with the light out of the rest of which we will
experience in the ophira a llama mean that Allah would cover us in that exclusive mercy that is far
more encompassing, that's encompass that small portion here that's encompassed how much of it is
encompass
		

			my mother, to her child, a parent to their child, and particularly specifically, a mother to her
child, Muslim or non Muslim, human or not human. There's that connection that Allah subhanaw taala
puts there that's extremely special. And the Prophet sallallahu Sallam taught us to honor that
connection, Allah teaches us to honor that connection in so many different ways in the program, and
then you see down to them of the room and the the the the cry of the oppressed, the do out of the
oppressed. And you see those images broadcast constantly that numb us. But you'll see the death of a
woman, a mother in Philistine or the drama of a mother in Kashmir, the drama of a mother from the
		

			lawyers oppressed and mom talking about her child. And you think how near is that supplication to
Allah subhanaw taala. And you don't want to be on the other side of that.
		

			You do not want to be on the other side of that drought. You know, you hear the drought with a
prophet, the saying of the Prophet slicin I'm tucking you down to the mudroom fear that you're out
of the transgress fear that you're out of the oppressed. And you might think that the Prophet sly
son was talking to Abu Jamal, the prophet sly son was talking to more either bingeable or the Allahu
anhu, as he was sending him off to Yemen,
		

			a great companion, a great a one of the fuqaha, one of the jurists of the companions of the greatest
of the companions and saying, Be careful, don't transgress because a lot of times we think of
volume, and we think grands, your mind immediately goes to, you know, to to Egypt or Syria or
wherever,
		

			not the potential that I might provoke the death of someone against me. And that person is connected
to Allah subhanho wa Taala unknowingly made me transgress on somebody else's rights backbite
somebody which is a transgression, which is a form of volume, and they call out to Allah subhana wa
tada against me.
		

			Allah protect us from ever provoking that type of a deal against this ever provoking that type of a
cry against us. But I want to stick to the do out of the parents,
		

			prophets. lysozyme says in the Hadith and a Timothy mentioned three types of drugs that are
accepted, he mentions that within Muslim, the call of the oppressed, he mentions el musafir. He
mentions the one who is traveling and then the Prophet sallallahu wasallam mentions and while it
Allah, Allah de Waal it Allah Allah de, which means the father on his son but it actually expands to
the parents for their child. It encompasses both, both parents, like the prophets license and
another narration which is also authentic. There are two wildly Dane Allah whether the Hema the
drama of two parents on their
		

			Child. And though it says either one or the he, the prayer of a parent against the child.
		

			It also encompasses the prayer of a parent for the child, as the scholars of Hadith has might have
mentioned, oftentimes you read the opposites not of the meaning, but the implied from ahaadeeth. And
so if the Prophet slicin mentions and accepted prayer against, then that means the opposite of which
is for and so just as you should fear the Doom of the oppressed against you, it could be that the
doer of the oppressed for you, you're saving is you're saving on your monthly ama, when you support
someone who is Muslim, when you support someone who is oppressed, and they make their app for you.
So the implied meaning can be drawn from it as well. And there is a potency of that prayer against a
		

			child as well the Prophet slicin I mentioned that said there were other unforeseen costs What are
other logical mana unwelcoming, sudden authentic added, don't make your I don't pray against
yourselves, or your children, or your wealth because it could be accepted, you might say it in
anger, and especially the more severe implication of this, which is to actually take an oath or a
covenant to take the mean, an oath that you know, that implies cursing your own children, because it
could be accepted and you might say it in anger. You might say it in a moment. But be careful, don't
make that against your children. Don't let that become a form of your discipline because Allah
		

			listens to the death of the parent when the parent makes in regards to the child, be careful.
		

			Don't let that become a part of your anger. Instead, make sure that Allah guides them in your anger.
Don't make dua that Allah punishes them, even when you're upset, because it has potency. We have the
story of jurij that the Prophet slicin mentioned to us that I'll summarize, or I'll paraphrase
because of time, where there was a righteous man added a person who worship the law non stop.
		

			But he, he did not listen to his mother when his mother called out to him one day
		

			to take care of a very small task.
		

			And she prayed against him that Allah subhana wa tada would not let him die until he met a Zani
until he met an adulterous.
		

			Later on, Some time passed, and a woman came claiming that door age was the father of her child.
		

			her age was put through a massive trial. The end of it was his innocence, because he was innocence.
But Allah answered the door of the mother against him and clarified his innocence, not having two
conflicting scenarios, in that, in that situation where you have a potent prayer and you have an
innocent human being so there is something to the death of a parents against the child and May Allah
subhanaw taala protect us from ever being on that side of where we anger are displeased. Our parents
justly, or our parents are justified are justly angry with us, or we do something unnecessary to
trigger their anger. And they and they do that may Allah subhanaw taala never allow us to be amongst
		

			those who have that made against us from our parents love them. I mean, so the opposite implied?
What does it mean to actually get the dirt out of your mother
		

			when your mom or your parents will actually say, Oh Allah, and they'll have something that is
favorable to you implied in that.
		

			In this video I'm going to use at some point I had the from Sahil Bahati,
		

			the entire collection of Sahih al Bukhari and that legacy and what it means to the oma would not be
possible without the daughter of a mom.
		

			A very simple one. It's not simple in the nature of the request,
		

			but it was natural, and how it flowed from her heart to her tongue.
		

			Her child was blind. And she made due to a loss of high notes out of that Allah cured the blindness
of her son and a loss of hundreds data center the good news that her son had been cured through
Ibrahim RT Islam or a you know, seeing about a manisa in a dream giving her that bush or giving her
that glad tidings.
		

			And she wakes up and she goes and she sees her son and her son could see and everything that we have
from Emmanuel Bahati.
		

			Every single time a hadith is narrated from him every single time. One of his works that is not
typically ascribed to him is of benefit to the oma, it goes back to that Do I have a mom? It goes
back to that supplication of a mom for her child. She didn't know that she was making history. When
she was making that she was just making her out for a lot of care her son, she wasn't implying she
did not say oh luck cure him, so that he
		

			can compile the greatest book man written book in the history of mankind she didn't do that. She
just said Oh Allah cure him she made out of love for her child that a lot cure him and a lot
answered her.
		

			And we all have her to thank for that. And of course beyond that absolute gratitude going to Allah
subhanaw taala but the vehicle of that cure was the death of the mother of a memorable hottie Rahim
Allah.
		

			It's a way in which a person removes their greatest sense of bustle the Allah tala annual man came
to him and confessed of a major sin and he responded somebody said omocha Hi, is your mother alive?
		

			And he said no. So he just said then go seek forgiveness from Allah subhanho wa Taala. Why did you
ask if his mother was alive? That's what the children that's what the students asked him. Why did
you ask him if his mother was alive? He said because I don't know of a greater act of obedience to
Allah subhanaw taala than
		

			the one a person honors their mother. I can't think of anything else that could possibly expiate a
sin that heinous, a sin that major like goodland walidah like him honoring his mother. It is the
greatest way to honor Allah subhanho wa Taala even if your mother is directly telling you to disobey
Him
		

			in the situation of Sodom and who castle the Allahu taala,
		

			whose mother took an oath that she would not eat or drink and she would not wash her hair or go
inside her home until he left Islam. Can you imagine that type of torture to say
		

			that his mom says to him that I will not eat drink, comb my hair, remove lice from my hair or get
out of the Sun until you renounce Islam. And Allah sends down a verse ordering him despite her
ordering him to curse her to curse Allah subhana wa tada to curse him, despite her ordering him to
curse Allah Subhana Allah, Allah orders that he honor her
		

			and even mentions in the ayah uncertain
		

			or Selena insanity Valley day he Santa hamara to Omaha Cora roboticle Kota, Mohammed,
		

			Salah funa Chahal mentioning that look, she carried you we have ordered excellence to both of your
parents and then specifying the mother, that she carried you in pain, she gave birth to you in pain.
She fed you in pain, she nurtured you in pain. She went through all of that for you. She deserves
that honor. Even in that situation, she deserves that honor. And so it is the way in which the
scholar of this webinar bustle the law analysts on expiation for a major sin, and even Cofer is not
enough
		

			for Allah subhanaw taala to remove the obligation from you to honor her.
		

			It's that significant that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, when a young man comes to him to
join the battle, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam sends him back to his mother and mentions
Jenna at her feet greater than even that moment. What is it about? That, Dora? What is it about
that? Ekrem? What is it about that honoring and what what is the the limit to the potential of the
bulk of the blessing that could come in one's life as a result of that honoring of a parent, and
organically having a drop made for you know, if you notice, any of the stories that I've mentioned
thus far that I will mention, no one actually goes to their parent says make do out for you puts
		

			their head down and says, Put your hand there, even though you can do that. It's good. But it comes
in a natural response to hikma and tackling
		

			to the service of the parents and to the honoring of the parent that they make that for you. But
they supplicate for you.
		

			And there's this incident that's very, that's very prominent, because it's the Prophet sallallahu he
was sort of mentioning someone who he did not meet but that the companions would meet and the
Prophet slicin I'm saying if you meet this man, then solicit do out from him and ask a loss of than
asked him to make you out for you. And who was this man?
		

			It was a man by the name of voice Academy from Yemen. Allah subhanaw taala be pleased with him
		

			who never got to meet the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and what held him back from coming to
the Prophet sly salon was his mother.
		

			Why was he so special? Why would the prophets lie Selim, not only make your app for him and
mentioned him or have that inspired to him?
		

			Even though he never came to the profit slice in them because what held him back from actually
physically joining the profit slice lm was his honoring and service to his mother. And the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam told the companions if you meet this man, if you see him, then you will
recognize him while also making mention of his virtues while they allow the anvil and ometer
mahapatra the allowance
		

			And when the Hajaj would come from Yemen, goes to these people and ask them is always amongst you is
always amongst you is a waste amongst you until finally they point to this meant always. And almost
all the a lot of Thailand who goes to him says, Are you always Sivananda? He says yes. And he starts
to inquire further about his tribe about where he's from. And he said, Did you have leprosy? And you
recovered from it except for the spots? That's the size of a dental home, meaning Allah cured you
from leprosy, but you have a spot, which is to remind you of that blessing of a cure. Yes. So every
time he asks him, yes, yes. And he says I heard was sort of lost on the lahardee was, some of them
		

			say that they will come to you always Sivananda from the reinforcements of Yemen, he had leprosy
from which he recovered, but a spot the size of a Delhomme, he has a mother and he honors her, and I
swear by Allah, that if he were to swear upon Allah subhanaw taala, if he was to take an oath upon
Allah, Allah would honor that oath.
		

			Just because of that, that one thing that he does,
		

			he was not cognizant of his place in history, just like the mother of edible hottie did not know the
implications of what she was doing when she was praying for her son. He did not know the
implications of what he was doing when he was serving his mother. He thought he was just the guy in
Yemen that was serving his mom, and that was doing basically admah.
		

			And as a result of that, almost all the time, who asked him to pray for him, and almost all the
alongside and Who said that? Where are you headed? He said Kufa, Iraq. He said, Can I make you a
governor of Kufa and I appoint you to an office or something? All of this honor. Why? Because Allah
honored him through that, who knows what his mother would say about him or to him when he would do
so?
		

			There is another young man from Yemen, who the Allahu taala, who accepted Islam along with to fail
in a dose may Allah be pleased with them, this young man who came back to the Prophet slice lm from
a dose from the tribe of a dose and accepted Islam.
		

			And he as he brought his mother with him to Medina, can you imagine the pain of Abu hurayrah when
he's coming to meet the prophets lie Selim, his mom is cursing the prophet SAW the lohani with
		

			his mom would dishonor the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam and refuse to believe and I've heard I
don't know the law and who came to the profit slice I'm in pain and he said, he held us to the law.
She says these things about you and it's hurting me. I don't know what to do.
		

			prophets lie Selim did not say Well, here's a sword.
		

			Go take care of that. The prophets I said them did not say you know, this, honor her this obey her
say something to her. prophets I send them saw the pain of Abba Hodeidah.
		

			In wanting that he died for his mom so bad and responded to the request to make do out for his
mother.
		

			As the lots of guide his mother and avoided all the time on who goes home and he can hear the water
running.
		

			She was taking a shower. And when she finished taking a shower, she was doing listen.
		

			She told about her a lot a lot of time I know a shadow La Ilaha Illa shadow ana Muhammadan rasul
Allah
		

			accepted Islam right there,
		

			Navajo to the law and who is so full of joy. And this man who is from so far from the people of the
Muslim May Allah Subhana Allah grant he Daya to all of our parents, those of us in this madness and
beyond, who who wants so badly he died for their parents may have lost contact except that they're
out from you.
		

			And he saw that moment he got to receive that so he got her a Boston he got her a place a garden,
home, and everyday after Salah go to the message of the Prophet slice them and then he'd go visit
his mother.
		

			And every single time he'd finished with his mother, you would say to her when he would greet her
and say I said I'm on a key only piece beyond to my mother. She would say why because Salaam to my
son and then he would say that a hammer came out of that nice Avira Oh Allah have mercy on her the
way she raised me when I was a child and she would respond to him home Can I borrow any kaviraj and
oh, my Lord, honor Him and have mercy on him the way that he has dignified me and obeyed me in my
old age. And you imagine that was the dude out of Ohio that he would hear five times a day from his
mother, that an O Allah, have mercy on him.
		

			Because of the way that he treats me in my old age, I guarantee you again, I will hold on all the
time who not knowing his place in history at the time. Every one of our will be Allahu anhu does not
equal in the sight of who what what it was like to hear that from his mom every day.
		

			Rob good hammelmann Robert hambo chama Barra, Annie Kabira oh my lord have mercy on him
		

			the way that he wanted
		

			me in my old age, your brothers and sisters, that single
		

			so precious. I want to end on a few concepts with this.
		

			There is no limit to that there is no limit to that supplication of appearance.
		

			There is a narration and it has no center that has no chain. So I'll put that out there but it has a
beautiful lesson that Musa alayhis salaam, asked the last panel to Allah Salallahu salam, Mohammed
Rafi people generally asked Allah Who is my companion in paradise. And so he was told about this
particular man and he goes to see this man.
		

			And he's a note, you know, he doesn't he's not known. He's anonymous.
		

			At least as far as Musan was concerned to the public, and he goes, and he spent some time with this
man, he asked his permission and all he would see is that every day this man would save the best
food, the best water that he would collect, he would do what he could and then he would enter upon
his mother and he would serve her every single day.
		

			And Musa Islam asked him what what that what was happening in that process and he said every single
time I serve her, then she makes this day
		

			and he does not know that it's Musa Islam in front of them that she makes this to
		

			Allah Medina, what are the how the Oh Allah make this son of mine If Neha Rafi comosa, Phil Jenna,
the companion of Musashi Salaam, the companion of Moses and Jenna, some how to love, the death of a
mother could even get you the companionship of a prophets, that lesson is valid. The doer of a
mother could get you the mention of a prophet and the Prophet civilize them as in the story of
always and more than all of that it could bring Baraka in your life and acceptance in the Hereafter,
in ways that nothing else can. So what does this mean for us, number one, that Baraka is induced,
that blessing is induced through natural service you don't, that's not, you don't call your mom or
		

			dad now and say make you out for me.
		

			Take it as a lesson for you to do things that will naturally induce a good deal. That's the first
thing.
		

			Number two, if your parents are not alive, then just as when they are alive, you are to honor them
with that goodness than honor them with good deeds in their name, that Southern ajaya a continuous
charity, those good words, those good two hours, those good mentions,
		

			and those deeds will reach them and on the Day of Judgment, they will be holding those good deeds
that you did on their behalf and testifying in front of Allah subhanaw taala for you in the
nighttime. So that door is not shuts. And the last thing I want to speak to because it frequently
comes up in the community, the mother in law.
		

			None of these Holton bugs are excuses for oppression. All of them speak to a norm and a lot of times
when the mother in law's mentioned, it's like oh, no, well, that's not my mom.
		

			If the daughter of a mother can bring that much better kind of person's life, you better want your
spouse to get that out from their mother, husband and wife part of your making your spouse a more
complete Muslim and getting that and getting that bollock in life that has effects for you. And
potential with law. That potential pleasure in the Hereafter is when they get those two apps from
their parents, don't see your mother in law as an opponent in that sense of edema because it may be
the Sigma that your husband or wife gives to their mother that brings that Baraka in your married
life and in your life in general and your acceptance in the hereafter don't see them as opponents.
		

			Help your spouse honor their parents. Allah subhanaw taala allow us to honor our parents and the
loss of hundreds and allow us to be a force in honoring mothers in society and fathers in society.
May Allah subhanaw taala allow that to be on our scale of good deeds and May Allah subhanho wa Taala
accept the prayers of our parents for us. May Allah subhanaw taala accept our to ask for them a
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