Sadullah Khan – Life Lessons from the Stories of the Prophets

It refers to an incident about a shepherd, a shepherd who was also

a prophet, a prophet who was Colima, the one whom Allah spoke,

of course Musa alayhis salam. And here Allah engages Musa in the

dialogue. Allah says to him, when Martin can be a meaningful yah

Musa, what is in your hand in your right hand or Musa? Just by the

way etiquette? Note the tone with which Allah distance Musa didn't

say Musa is in your hand. He says, what is in your hand or Musa? Just

the way the question is phrased indicates the degree of endearment

and respect. What is in your hand Oh Musa and Musa Ali salaam

replied Karla here soy. It is a stick a staff

at our co worker who should be Ha, me well, the FE Hama Ali Mukuro

it's a staff sometimes I lean on it. And sometimes I Thresh the

bushes so it My sheep make go and eat the shrubs. And

I also have other uses for it.

Allah then system kind of alkie Hi I'm Musa. Throw it down or Musa

Alka, he flew down for either a year or two and that lifeless

piece of wood became a moving serpent.

Just the stories long sort of dimensions, just that part. What

are the lessons we learned from that? Only that

they stick on a staff when found laying on the ground somewhere, no

one will be interested in it, no one would desire to possess it or

fight over it.

But nonetheless, that lifeless piece of wood, like when we die,

in this world, we have life. That piece of wood was once a part of a

loving branch of a breathing tree. It believes it had fruits and

flowers. It provides sustenance, and shelter for those who sought

it shade. But also, once it's kicked away from the tree, it was

rendered lifeless, but not necessarily worthless.

This is the staff, not insignificant by the way. There's

many users and Musala mentioned some I lean on it, I clear the

path with it. But you can also defend yourself with it. You can

beat up danger with it make fire to provide heat or energy with it.

You can guide it's a guide for the blind to identify their

surroundings, and to detect detect their way is a means of preventing

injury when going through a rugged or harsh terrain. It helps you

when you're climbing up a hill or down the mountain, it can knock a

fruit from a tree, which is far to reach so you may eat from it. When

Musa Ali Salam is asked about the staff, he says what he does with

it, I lean on it and use it for my sheep and cattle to have my sheep

to make their way through the bushes for them to eat. And then I

have other uses for it. But it was also his vocation. It was the

instrument that he used for his living. So it's more than just a

simple Shepherd staff. It was a personal tool for Musa Ali salaam,

and more importantly, it represented his labor, it

represented his life, it represented his livelihood.

Now, Allah showed Musa Ali Salaam and all of us through Lusa in the

story of the staff, or the incident of the staff, that being

connected to Allah can make you reach beyond the ordinary.

Being connected to Allah can make you reach beyond the ordinary,

this what you call the significance of association, the

significance of association to use a another example. Or simply the

raindrop from the sky, which quote in your hands, pure water to

drink, most nourishing

water to drink the liquid of life. If that same dose of water falls

in a filthy gutter is not worthy of washing your feet with it. That

same cup of water, if it falls in the boiling surface, it evaporates

encourages, if it falls on ice, it becomes frozen. If he falls on a

leaf, it shines like a diamond and he falls into a oyster it can

become a bomb.

It depends with what the drop becomes associated. That same drop

is existence and worth depends on what and with whom it associates

itself. Therefore, the staff of Husar is basic, seemingly

insignificant piece of wood, an instrumental Musala salon which he

uses for his work as a shepherd, yet, it could outdo the

machinations of the magician's eventually, and even the defeat

the power of the federal the stick when thrown by moosari CERAM

turned into a serpent and overcame the snakes of the magician's. He

stuck the rock later on in the Quran. The rocks and water flowed

from it. And also he stuck it onto the water in the sea opened up all

that with the same stick.

At the same time, we learn Allah, the Lord of the heavens and the

earth. He is also the Lord of the deadwood.

He was also the Lord and he's the Lord of the trees and living tree

from which this branch came before it became Deadwood.

And all things are subject to Allah's commands. The staff of

Musa transformed into a steak, into a snake and back into a

staff.

It caused the Red Sea to pot or whichever water it was. But it was

only a staff in Musas hand, but it could defeat and paralyze an

enemy. But the power does not lie in the staff itself. It's rather

with Allah, the Creator, who gave everything the ability and

capacity.

One of the important things we learn from this as well is the

paradigm shift. When Allah asked Musa what is in your hand, Allah

knew of course Allah knew better than Musala salaam to make him

realize what you feel you can do with it. And when I'm busy with

you, what I can make you do with it, you look after the sheep you

find find the way you lead on it. I can make you bring down an

empire who the stick. So Allah Chang Musa alayhis salam

restaurants paradigm, about the way he looked at his staff, Allah

was transforming his view of that stick that staff which was his

vocation, no longer was it a symbol to have Musa in his and it

was now representative our and a symbol of authority.

A key component in the life of Musa if you look at the life of

Musa his brother Harun is involved. There's literally still

I'm involved. There's a federal involved, and there's a stick

involved. It's part of the life in the story of Musa is one of the

important characters in the life of Musa alayhis salam. The

question we need to realize, what is our stick? What is our staff?

What is our hidden skill? What is our unknown talent, which will not

be fourth.

We can use our potential. Each one has a potential and we learn from

this Musa alayhis salam story. Maximize your skill, even if it is

a piece of Deadwood. A call call Jada was tougher Allah. wa salam

aleikum wa rahmatullah.