Rasul Suluki – Having a Good Opinion of Allah
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Alhamdulillah.
We are
grateful to be back in these gatherings.
We've
had a little
travel
and,
travel is
a real misery,
and there's benefit in it, but there's a
real misery in it when you're getting older.
Oh And it takes you a long time
to recover from it nowadays
We ask Allah's help
But we
had some experiences
inshallah. We
share one with you
And that was we went to Senegal
and to visit
in law family, meet the family of my
niece.
And
while we were there, they took us on,
you know, the usual tourist
realms. And we went to
Gori Island, which is the island from which
that they
captured
Africans were taken
from
Africa to America
and they showed us the
the dorm of no return
where
that was the door that they went through.
And I was thankful
to allow that I was Muslim and I
hadn't taken this trip when I wasn't.
Because
when you see
the place where people were
At all.
Oppressed
and brutally
just treat
it
without knowing Allah.
It will put you in a different, very
different place.
And,
I think that's what happens to people
when they revisit places like that, and they're
not grounded
in Deen,
because unless you recognize
in going there that
Allah
is the Doer,
and you have a good opinion about Allah
you will tend to look
at who did this,
to place the blame
on someone for this atrocity.
But when you
know that Allah is the doer,
And the fact that
you have a good opinion about Allah,
that
looking from my own eyes,
the whole situation happened so that I could
be a Muslim.
That
Islam would come to me. Yeah. I don't
that there may be other products that happen
for other people,
but
we have to see that
Allah intended good,
and good came out of it.
And this is in everything in our lives,
in fact,
because
people have met with
atrocities in their lives and
all kinds of traumas and terrible things that
they've witnessed with their eyes.
Also,
what the people of Gaza are experiencing, seeing
right now is
beyond beyond.
But
even in that,
it is to know
that
the Law is the one who
is
arranging all of these things,
and that there is a wisdom
and there is good in it for the
believer. As as I said,
the beautiful thing about the believer is that
everything is good for him. If he's
if he gets
something good, he's grateful. And if he gets
something difficult, he just want he has
singing.
And so,
if you focus on what was done,
it will just make you angry,
and it will make you
get hard on other people who you place
the blame on.
Yeah.
But if you
realize
that there's some purpose and Allah knows best
what it is
and that He intends good for you.
You can benefit from it,
and then you have to let it go.
And that's what all of these things that
happen in your life, you have to let
them go,
and don't revisit them. Don't go into,
you know,
how it happened, and all that. It's best
to leave it
behind you
and move forward,
and people say, oh, that's such a hard
thing.
They say,
oh you know, you don't know what I
suffered.
Well it's repeating it over and over and
over again
that makes it really a torture for you.
In that.
So the minute you put it beside behind,
whatever lesson you can learn from it, whatever
benefit you can get from it, get the
benefit, and then leave the rest. Don't
continue to,
you know, repeat it over and over again.
So
that was
the that was the trip to Senegal.
It was really
there's there's one other thing, and then I'll
I'll stop because
I could go on.
But, SubhanAllah,
this is one thing again I was glad
I was Muslim when I went to the
Muslim era,
because when you go to the Muslim era
and you're from the US and you converted
to Islam,
Agreed.
You are expecting when you get to the
Muslim land to just see Islam at its
finest,
you know,
just oh boy, you know, this is the
land of the Muslims and they're just, you
know,
this is where we are. This is our
place.
And whether you go to Saudi, whether you
go I don't care which city it is
you go to.
You see the McDonald's, you see the
Burger King, you see, you see all of
these
people dressed like they dress here, and they're
moving like they move here, and
you say,
wow, where's
the Muslim
country?
But then Allah swtaba
like a desert. He puts oasis.
Yeah.
Like Al Maqasid is an oasis.
Yeah.
That all around it is desert.
There won't be a lot of oasis. There'll
be a few.
In Senegal, it's Toaba.
Really a beautiful city.
I said to me there's nothing in Senegal
but Tooebe.
There's nothing in
Pennsylvania
but El Nacosha,
and there's nothing in a lot of places
except that there's these gatherings where these people
are.
And that's what we have to focus on,
those places.
And we have to benefit from those places,
and then we can travel through the desert
and
survive,
Insha'Allah, and thrive in those conditions. So
Insha'Allah,
you know, whether it's the Muslim country or
it's this
US country or any Western country,
It is we have to find these places
and then attach ourselves to it and the
people in it.
And then Insha'Allah,
wonderful things will happen for us, and we'll
see the beauty
because we'll only be looking at these places
and not the rest of the desert. So
may Allah give us, you know, Tawshi, and
help us with this.