Rania Awaad – When You Feel Low Call Allah By His Names
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The speaker discusses a video of a woman calling Allah by his name, Ar-Raheem, and how it is a sign of her struggles with du Telecom. She explains that du Telecom is a means of change and that it doesn't matter how sinister you feel. She also talks about a woman who called Allah by his name, and how she was advised to not say his name.
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Then call Allah by his name, Ar-Raheem.
And maybe it's some other struggle.
Maybe it's some other issue that you're dealing
with.
Call Allah by the names that you call,
that they're meant to be called when you're
struggling with something, right?
We learn, رَبَّنَا آمَنَّا فَغْفِرْ لَنَا وَارْحَمْنَا وَأَنتَ
خَيْرُ الرَّاحِمِينَ Feel free to take pictures of
this, to have this, we're recording this inshallah
ta'ala.
But there's so many du'as that are
beautiful that capture the different names of Allah.
This is one that we're taught because it
comes directly in the Qur'an.
Oh our Lord, we have believed so forgive
us, have mercy on us.
You are the best of those who are
merciful.
When you call Allah by his names, it
doesn't matter how sinful you feel.
It doesn't matter how many times you feel
like you've messed up and you have this
issue that just does not seem to be
getting better.
He's capable of changing everything and anything.
Never, ever, ever downplay the power of du
'a.
Do everything you possibly can and we go
through things, one, two, three, these are optional
things you can do.
But never downplay the power of du'a
when you think you've tried everything you can
possibly try.
Then one year in one of the conferences,
a sister came up and she said, Dr.
Rania, you don't recognize me?
And I do this very often.
And she's like, I'm so-and-so.
And I'm like, so-and-so?
Wallahi, I truly, truly could not recognize her.
It's as though someone, I don't know, she
didn't do any cosmetic surgery or anything like
that.
But it was like her face was completely
different.
And she said, oh, I have to tell
you, I need du'a.
And I thought I'm going to hear the
same story that I've been hearing for many
years.
And she said, but this time it had
to do with her daughter.
And I said, khair.
And she said, she got in a terrible
car wreck.
Oh, subhanAllah.
And she said, oh, no, no, no.
She's okay now.
I said, okay, alhamdulillah.
But you have to understand that is a
good thing.
And I said, how could a car wreck
possibly be a good thing?
And then she said, when that happened, the
person who had hit her was a drunk
driver.
And for whatever reason, it snapped.
Her husband, who'd been in this like alcoholic
stupor for so long, snapped him out of
it.
And when you know somebody who's been drinking
for a long time, you can't just sort
of cold turkey very easily.
You cannot.
SubhanAllah, it takes time.
But this man, cold turkey.
And then she points over there where the
masjid was.
And she goes, he's there.
And I was like, he's there?
This man who like refused to pray, who
refused to like everything.
And we would say counseling, refused counseling, imam,
talked to imam, refused imam, wouldn't even step
foot in the masjid, was literally in the
muslimah.
And she said, he cold turkey, stopped the
alcohol, got clean, got better, started praying.
And he was now fully involved in this
family.
After years and years and years and years
of complaints.
And she said, you always said the power
of dua.
And I thought, la ilaha illallah.
I mean, not always do you hear the
full ending of a story necessarily.
But this was amazing.
Truly amazing.
And something you don't necessarily always expect to
hear.
And so even when you feel like a
person, you're going to give up on them,
don't.
Because Allah doesn't give up on us.
Even if you've given up on yourself about
something, don't.
Because has not given up on you.
Right?
And even if you feel like your sins
are mountains, there is nothing mountainous to Allah.