Rasul Suluki – Sincerely Seeking Allah

Alhamdulillah.

Wassala Tawasalam.

Ananabe Muhammad

and Sallallahu Alaihi Wassala.

Alhamdulillah.

I could echo

what has already been said

because

El Maqasek is

like an oasis

for a lot of us that don't live

in the area.

We have to kind of travel

to to get here.

Well, just like someone who's thirsty,

someone who's thirsty,

and they find an oasis, then you

you know where it's at. So whenever you're

traveling, you always make your way back there.

I don't know what to convey.

I usually convey something that I'm dealing with.

This

Friday,

I have to go into one of the

prisons

and do Jummah.

And,

it's a very different experience from being in

front of you,

but there are similarities.

And the similarities

are that there are always people

sincerely seeking Allah.

And sometimes,

you can be overwhelmed,

as you will in a prison,

that there's so many

that don't appear that way.

And you may say to yourself,

as has been said to me,

why waste your time

on these people?

I've heard that,

I don't know how many times,

from people,

Muslims.

In fact, one Muslim officer

told me, why do you do this?

And

SubhanAllah,

you know, you

give them an answer,

different answers at different times.

But it all boils down to

discharging

what Allah has given you.

So you free yourself

from withholding

benefit from people.

It's never your job

to manage people's lives

or to see results.

The worst thing you can do is to

look for results

in your work of Dawah

because that's not your

realm.

That's Allah's realm.

But our realm

our realm is to discharge

calling them,

and more importantly,

being an example

to them.

And I know I'm not

what they think,

but Allah has allowed them to think it.

And I have to say a stoke for

a law. Help me, Allah, to be what

they think.

But this is the job of every Muslim

in every aspect

of your life.

You don't have to be

a chaplain in a prison or imam or

a teacher or

any title.

All you have to do

is exemplify

the messenger of Allah salallahu alayhi wa sallam

in every place that you are.

And then you leave the rest to Allah.

And this goes for our children too.

It is that we present to them this

deen,

and then we leave it to Allah.

And we never give up on them

thinking that

they turned away from this land.

Because in most cases, we'll leave this world

before them,

and we don't know what Allah has in

store for them.

So my dear brothers and sisters in Islam,

don't think for a minute

that your

Dawah is not having an effect

because

Allah does give you some signs.

He has someone that comes to you and

says,

what you said to me

had such a tremendous impact on my life.

And I'm always saying, I wonder what that

was

because

I can't remember

what word that was, but Allah made that

word. And that's with everything else. Allah is

making it happen.

Our responsibility

is to give

and leave the rest to Allah.

So we ask Allah to make us the

givers

and the ones who

love him and love his messenger

to the point that we want other people

to love him and love his messenger.