Rania Awaad – When You Feel Low Call Allah By His Names

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.