Safi Khan – Soul Food For College Students Prophetic Prayers #04

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The importance of telling Allah about his experiences and the benefits of life is emphasized, including the difficulty of telling him about his actions and the culture of Ta'if where the Prophet gives a donation to the church. The speaker also discusses a "will" incident where a man buried and prayed in a church and said, hey, you know, this is a place where people are supposed to go, but they were like, no, this is a place where people are supposed to go, but they were like, no, this is a place where people are supposed to go, but they were like, no, this is a place where people are supposed to go, but they were like, no, this is a place where people are supposed to go, but they were like, no, this is a place where people are supposed to go, but they were like, no, this is a place where people are supposed to go, but they were like, no, this is a place
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Okay In the name of Allah, and praise
be to Allah, and peace and blessings be
upon the Messenger of Allah, and upon his
family and companions.
Peace be upon you, everybody.
How's everyone doing?
Good?
Praise be to Allah.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds.
So, welcome.
Welcome again, once again.
And praise be to Allah, everyone here.
Happy to have you guys, mashallah.
My boy Ibrahim, mashallah, is in the crowd.
It's always...
Umrah, when you do umrah with people, you
never really forget those people, mashallah.
So, praise be to Allah, Ibrahim is one
of our attendees at umrah.
So, praise be to Allah, Allah connects the
hearts in different ways, right?
You talk about people that have shared experiences
with you, you never ever forget those memories
and those experiences.
So, praise be to Allah.
So, inshallah, we're going to be continuing on
with our weekly series at Soul Food, where
we talk about the prayers of the prophets,
right?
The past few weeks, we have been going
through a really amazing kind of series of
du'as, starting with the du'a of
Prophet Adam, alayhis salam, and then week two,
we did the du'a of Prophet Musa,
alayhis salam, and then last week, we did
the du'a of Ibrahim, alayhis salam.
So, we're kind of like setting up for
this incredible kind of, you know, moment in
which we ask ourselves, like, who's the next
prophet?
Who's the next of Allah's messengers that we're
going to kind of reflect over their words?
And so today, you know, I thought to
myself that the best person, and subhanAllah, we're
kind of going through like a little bit
of like a trajectory here, which is we're
going through du'as of challenges, du'as
of desperation, du'as of people who found
themselves in difficult times, and because of that,
they asked Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sincerely
to get them out of the situation that
they're in, or just even venting, venting and
talking about what's going on in their life
right now.
The du'a today that we're going to
go over is a du'a that I
don't really expect anyone to really memorize because
it's too long, but the merit of this
du'a is so incredible.
This du'a actually is a du'a
that was named by the scholars, okay?
That tells you literally, like thematically, this du
'a is very, very memorable.
Even if it's a little bit longer, it's
memorable because of what it's asking for.
The du'a is called du'at al
-mustada'afeen.
Du'at al-mustada'afeen literally means the
du'a of those who are weak, okay?
And subhanAllah, if you think about this, the
phrase mustada'afeen, it means a person who
doesn't really have anywhere else to go.
They are asking out of a desperate kind
of situation, a circumstance.
They're asking because they themselves feel like, I
really can't really turn in any other direction
besides Allah.
I don't have the power to conquer anyone
or anything in this point in my life.
I feel like all of the cards are
against me.
I feel all of the people around me
are against me.
And so the only way that I can
think to myself to make meaning out of
this situation is to accept my own weakness,
is to accept my own weakness and call
out to the one who put me in
a situation of weakness, but for a very
particular wisdom, right?
And so this is called du'at al
-mustada'afeen.
Anyone know who made this du'a?
Anyone know?
This du'a was stated by the Prophet
ﷺ himself.
So we're going to be inshaAllah going through
this du'a of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
today and it's going to be very, very
touching and it has an incredible background behind
it, actually which we're going to read through
together.
We're going to read through a certain chapter
of the seerah together today.
Of course, obviously the goal of the series
is not the seerah particularly, but today inshaAllah
we'll have the opportunity to read through a
couple of pages of the blessed life of
the Prophet ﷺ.
And of course if anybody's ever, there's a
very famous statement that if you want to
love Allah, start to learn how to love
the Prophet ﷺ because if you love the
Prophet ﷺ in the way that he deserves
to be loved, you will eventually love Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala in the way that
he is deserving of being loved as well.
Allah and his messenger, right?
There are so many ayahs of the Qur
'an where they're paired together, one after the
other.
Obey Allah, obey his messenger.
One who loves Allah's messenger will love Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
There is this kind of tie that they
have with one another, the Prophet and Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And so you see by kind of understanding
and appreciating his life, you begin to really
open up the abwab, the doors of mercy
for yourself because you realize, I mean sometimes
people will not be able to, and this
is one of the blessings of Prophets to
begin with, if Allah never even gave us
Prophets to begin with, it would be that
much more difficult on a human level to
be able to connect to this religion, right?
It would just be Qur'an, it would
just be theory, it would be kind of
like a sense of creator talking to his
creation, but through that Allah gave us mediums
like the Prophets, human beings who are able
to breathe and live and eat and sleep
and feel emotions just like we do.
And this is one of the greatest mercies
of Allah, right?
That he gave us so many of these
examples and of course the greatest of which
was the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
So inshallah we're going to go through his
dua today.
So what I want everyone to do inshallah
is we're going to kind of start reading
this together and we're going to inshallah make
some beautiful beautiful sense out of this incident
that took place.
So this incident that took place, I'm going
to kind of set a scene for you
guys, right?
This dua was made, and anyone in here
ever heard of the year of sorrow, the
life of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam,
right?
The year of sorrow, what was that?
Why was it categorized as the year of
sorrow?
The year of sorrow was because, sorry, yeah,
go ahead.
Very good, very good, very very good.
So he perfectly defined it, right?
The year of sorrow, was because his own
wife Khadija radiallahu anha, she passed away.
Literally, I want you guys to think about,
like you're one rock in your life, right?
The person who believed you through thick and
thin, never ever disappointed you in terms of
their loyalty, was always with you through every
situation that you ever experienced in your life,
that one person, also subhanallah, happens to be
the mother of his children, right?
The one who nurtured him and took care
of him, right?
The one who basically after he came down
from the mountain of nur, the mountain of
light, after Jibreel visited him for the first
time, she was the one that covered him
up and comforted him and concealed him and
told him that everything's going to be okay,
right?
And she, radiallahu anha, effectively actually the first
person to actually accept Islam in the community
of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
She passed away, okay?
After she passes away, you know sometimes subhanallah,
this is kind of like a human, it's
almost like human nature.
When one person who's close to you passes
away, there's really never replacing that person.
Everyone agree with this, right?
If a person in your life that you
love passes away, there's no replacement of that
person.
And I don't even think people are looking
for a replacement of that person.
No one ever thinks, well, you know, my
mother passed away, so now I have to
find somebody who's going to fill the void.
No, no, no.
Your mother will never be replaced by anybody.
It's impossible.
Your father will never be replaced by anybody.
Your friend who you had who may have
passed away will never be replaced by anybody,
okay?
But what the human tries to do is
that they try their hardest to find ways
to be happy, right?
Who can I latch myself onto?
Who can I find some sort of comfort
in during a time where I don't have
the person that I normally have?
And for that person, the Prophet ﷺ was,
after Khadijah, it was his uncle Abu Talib.
And the tragedy of the story is that
after Khadijah passed away, Abu Talib, some of
the ulama, some of the scholars, they say
within a few weeks even, within a few
weeks, his own uncle Abu Talib passes away.
Who was Abu Talib?
Abu Talib, although he wasn't Muslim and he
died as a non-Muslim, he was the
one who saved his nephew from so much
pain, from so much pain.
Anytime any Qurayshi like, you know, lead or
leader would try to harm the Prophet, Abu
Talib would step in front of him and
say, no, no, no, you can't.
You can't hurt my nephew.
He's my nephew.
You want to get to him?
You have to go through me.
That's the type of relationship that they had.
And then Abu Talib passes away.
So now I want you to think, just
kind of chronologically look at this.
The Prophet ﷺ lost his father before he
was born.
He never met his dad.
Lost his mother at age six.
Loses his grandfather at age eight.
Loses his wife.
And now loses his most beloved family member
left, which was Abu Talib, his uncle.
So five very, very just difficult, tragic deaths
that take place.
And you ask yourself, isn't one enough?
Aren't two enough?
God forbid three.
Think about five, right?
And by the way, just FYI, the Prophet
ﷺ and Khadijah, I didn't even add this
into the mix, but the Prophet ﷺ and
Khadijah themselves, while she was alive, they actually
lost children together.
So like I didn't even mention the kids.
So man, you think about tragedy, you think
about loss.
I mean, there is no one who lost
more than him ﷺ.
And if a person like that, if a
person like that, who was tested to that
extent, to that degree, can continue to turn
back to Allah and say, Allah, I love
you.
Who are we?
Who are we?
When we go through a difficult year or
a difficult month, who are we to turn
our backs on Allah?
When, subhanAllah, the loss of parents, of children,
of spouses, of uncles and aunts, I mean,
you name it, every person he loved, he
eventually lost in his life.
This is why, subhanAllah, you talk about the
phrase خير الخلق, the best of creation.
There is a reason why that title was
given to him.
Because you push humanity to a degree where
you think that they will break.
There is no way this person will never
come back from this.
And he kept bouncing back, he kept bouncing
back, which proves what?
The human potential is immense.
The human potential is immense.
Yes, we're weak.
Of course we are.
مصداعفين.
We're 100% مصداعفين.
We're weak.
100% we're weak.
But at the same time, Allah created us
strong.
Allah created us strong.
There are other creatures possibly that would completely
give up after these types of shatterings.
But the Prophet ﷺ kept on chugging along,
chugging along, chugging along.
And so, at this point, after the loss
of his wife and his uncle, this is
where this incident took place.
And so here it says, the author here,
he says, after a period of time without
protection, without protection.
Why was that protection no longer a possibility?
Because of the death of Abu Talib, right?
So there was no protection.
There were literally people, I don't know if
you guys knew this, but after Abu Talib
passed away, there were people who came up
to the Prophet ﷺ and they grabbed him
by his collar.
They grabbed him by his collar.
They were like, hey, who's going to help
you now?
Who's going to protect you now?
Your uncle who had like a name in
the community, who had some clout, who had
some kind of like, he had some sort
of push and pull with his aura.
He's not here anymore.
Who's going to save you now?
And they used to mess with him like
that physically for the first time in his
life because Abu Talib was no longer there.
And so he says, the Prophet ﷺ began
searching for sustainable options outside of Mecca.
His reluctance to do so for so many
years, despite the increasing hardships, truly demonstrates the
prophetic method of patience and perseverance.
The Prophet ﷺ took inspiration from Prophets before
him such as Nuh, who gave da'wah
to his people for 950 years.
However, without the protection of his uncle, the
Prophet's life was in imminent danger.
And so hijrah was imperative.
So the Prophet ﷺ realized now, he goes,
I can't really afford to sit and just
kind of stand idly by in Mecca.
I have to go find other places.
It's like when you in your own life,
you don't feel safe in a certain place
anymore.
You've got to switch schools.
You've got to bounce.
You've got to leave.
Why?
Because that place isn't a suitable place for
you anymore.
That place isn't a good place for your
heart anymore.
Although that place may not be inherently bad,
but it's just not the place for you
right now.
You talk about people who leave town for
certain reasons.
It doesn't mean the town is evil.
It means that you, for your own growth,
you have to move a little bit.
Moving is not bad.
I always tell people, moving, starting a life
and starting anew, it's not a bad thing.
Start somewhere fresh.
Begin life somewhere fresh.
This is a sunnah, by the way.
The Prophet moved to Medina to have a
fresh start, to give his community hope, to
start anew, to begin something again.
And so he goes, the closest prominent city
to Mecca was Ta'if.
Little kind of personal proud moment.
For the first time, alhamdulillah, I got to
visit Ta'if in my life this past
December.
It's a beautiful city, by the way.
Beautiful, beautiful city.
It's about, if you drive from Mecca right
now, it's about like an hour and 15,
hour and 20.
You can drive outside of Mecca and reach
Ta'if.
Ta'if is a city of mountains.
It is thousands of feet above sea level.
It's mountainous.
I'll show you guys a picture, inshallah, I'll
add that in a class today.
But it is mountainous.
It's not easy, and I want you guys
to think, you're like, yeah, I just talked
about driving.
You can drive there an hour and 20,
an hour and 15.
I want you to think about walking.
Walking there.
Walking an hour and 15-minute drive, that's
not easy.
And so he said, between tensions and peace
treaties, the two competing cities enjoyed a love
-hate relationship.
The people of Ta'if were intimately aware
of the people of Mecca and vice versa.
It's kind of like having a competitive brother
that lived next to you.
You're like, you just stay there, I'll just
stay here.
Just stay in your own lane.
That's the type of vibe that Mecca and
Ta'if had with each other.
And so he says, Ta'if was therefore
an ideal base for the Prophet to explore.
He took Zayd ibn Haritha and covertly traveled.
What does covertly mean?
Like in secrecy, right?
He didn't tweet about it.
He wasn't like, all right, heading to Ta
'if, right?
Like, wish me luck, here we go, right?
Follow me, you know, like that classic TikTok
voice?
Like, so you guys were asking me about
my day.
No, no, he didn't vlog his way to
Ta'if.
He didn't TikTok live his way to Ta
'if, okay?
He's like, so you guys were asking me
what it's like to live in Mecca.
It's unbearable, gotta leave.
No, no, he went to Ta'if in
a very, very secretive manner.
Why?
Because, very smart by the way, if Mecca
knew that he was going outside, going to
other towns, they'd be like, what's he up
to?
What's he up to, right?
It's like that kind of like insecure auntie
in your family.
What is she doing, all right?
Like, what is Zaynab Bedi doing?
What is she doing, right?
Like, why do you need to know, man?
Just live your life.
But like, you know, think about this, right?
And by the way, the Quraish were very
insecure.
They were very insecure.
Why were they insecure?
Because they knew that there was some juice
behind what this guy is saying, right?
Think about it.
I want you guys to psychologically break this
down.
If somebody was just talking crazy, and they
were like, you know what?
Since you're not listening to me, I'm going
to go to the town next over and
talk to them.
You're like, go ahead, try.
That's what a person of confidence would say.
But a person who's insecure, they'd be like,
no, no, no, don't leave, don't leave.
We want to keep you here.
What are you really saying?
You're saying that you're the one that's actually
insecure.
You don't want them to leave because you're
afraid that if they go out, people will
start listening to what they have to say.
This is that insecurity, the Quraish.
Another example of this, why did they try
to kill him before he left for Medina?
Think about that.
Why did they try to kill him?
If you hated a guy so much for
talking about la ilaha illallah, this idea of
one God, why won't you just say, good
riddance.
Go, leave.
Leave us in Mecca alone.
Go to Medina, do whatever you got to
do.
Why were they trying to hold him hostage?
Because they were afraid.
Deep down, they were in fear that what
he's saying actually is going to appeal to
people.
So he takes Zayd ibn Haritha.
By the way, the reason why Zayd ibn
Haritha would not alert the authorities is because
Zayd ibn Haritha, people used to call him
Zayd ibn Muhammad.
He was almost like the adopted son of
the Prophet.
He was almost like a part of the
Prophet's family.
So he's like, yeah, he's just going out.
The Prophet didn't take a horse, he didn't
take an animal with him.
He went on his own two feet.
So if you think about it, if I'm
packing up the car and leaving Daos tomorrow,
and I have a bag, a carry-on
or whatever, you'd assume that I'm going out
of town for a couple of days.
But if I'm just walking out of Qalab
and walking onto the street, what are you
assuming?
I'm going to come back.
I'm going to be back probably the same
night.
So this is the way that he had
to covertly travel with Zayd ibn Haritha.
And so he goes and he meets with
these people.
The leaders of Taif were led by one
particular person, but he had three sons.
And that one kind of ruler refused to
talk to the Prophet.
So he said, you know what?
My three sons will speak to you.
So the Prophet says, presented the message of
Islam, but all three brothers rejected the call
with the utmost contempt, disrespect, and disdain.
Not only did they reject him, they rejected
him with this passion, with this extreme hostility.
It's one thing to say no to somebody.
When you have a solicitor at your door,
they come and they're like, hey, can I
sell you this?
And you're like, no, thank you.
I'm good.
Thank you.
Or a majority of people don't even answer
their door anymore.
But let's say, for example, you're walking through
Target, and you see that one guy selling
Spectrum Mobile data.
Y'all know who I'm talking about.
Like, why do you make dua for these
people?
Or against them, I don't know.
But they're in the middle of the aisles.
They're selling Spectrum.
They're selling Reliant Energy.
And they're like, hey, who's your energy provider,
by the way?
Most people are like, nah, I'm good, man.
Sorry.
You start acting like you don't know English
for some reason.
Imagine one person's like, hey, man, back up.
I'm going to make dua against you and
your entire family.
You'd be like, whoa.
Relax.
Habibi, calm down.
Sometimes I have to treat the people of
Mecca and Medina when it comes to selling
itera in the malls.
Stop.
They don't only react to the Prophet in
a rejection.
They're hostile.
What do they say?
Literally, it says here, one of them replied,
if God chose you to be a prophet,
then I might as well tear down the
curtains of the Kaaba and remorse myself.
If you're telling me that you're the Prophet
of God, I'm going to go straight to
the Kaaba myself and I'm going to tear
down the cloth, the qiswa, is what they
call it.
I'm going to tear down the qiswa, which
is basically, it's like a suicide mission.
If you're going to Mecca and try to
disrespect the Kaaba, even with the idolaters, they
would try to hurt you because they would
still revere the Kaaba, even if it wasn't
for the right reason.
He's like, I'm going to bet you're another
prophet.
Then another one goes, has Allah not found
anyone better than you?
It's like a personal, personal insult.
You're preaching to me about religion, man.
You?
God doesn't have anybody besides you?
You're the one who's telling me about religion?
They're trying to take personal shots at this
point.
The last one, subhanAllah, if you think about
this, I'm going to share something interesting.
The last brother who spoke back to the
Prophet, he also rejected, but he didn't reject
in the same way that the first two
did.
Look at what he says.
The third one, he goes, I cannot speak
to you because if you really are a
prophet, you're too holy for me.
Because if you are a prophet, you're too
holy for me.
And if you're a liar, then you're too
beneath me to deserve a response.
So he kind of stays neutral.
What we call in Arabic, he gives like
a shart.
A shart is like a condition.
He goes, if, if you are a prophet,
man, you're too good for me, man.
You shouldn't be talking to a guy like
me.
But if you're a liar, then I don't
even want to give you the time of
the day.
But he never said you are something.
He goes, if.
Do you want to know something interesting?
This last brother, by the way, eventually accepted
Islam.
Can I tell you something crazy about that?
What lesson does that prove to you all?
If you even leave the door cracked open,
Allah will find a way to get Islam
to you.
You leave the door cracked, Allah will get
you Islam.
Just don't shut the door.
Leave it slightly open.
Did the last brother in any way say
that, yeah, I'm ready?
Yeah, let's go ahead.
Bismillah, I'm ready for my shahada.
I'm ready to testify that you're the right
prophet of Allah.
No, no, he didn't say that.
He said, if.
If you're a prophet, you're too good.
If you're a liar, then I'm not going
to give you the time.
He just gave a small indication that he's
not as hostile as his two other brothers.
And because of that small sign, Allah said,
know what?
This person has Iman in their heart.
You can tell this person has Iman in
their heart.
This is the beauty of Islam.
You ever feel that like, man, I'm beyond
the reach of Iman?
There's no way a guy like me, a
girl like me, a person like me, there's
no way that I'm ever going to reach
any sort of piety in my life.
No, no, no.
Don't ever count yourself out.
Allah has guided people who were way, way,
way worse than any of us ever have
been.
If Allah can make a person like Sayyidina
Umar ibn Khattab, the man who wanted to
kill the Messenger, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, himself, and
if Allah can make him the ameer of
the believers, who are you and me to
ever doubt that we can achieve certain things
in terms of piety in our lives?
Sometimes we are our own worst enemies.
We say like, yeah, no way, man.
I can't go to Qalam.
Are you kidding me, bro?
Like, me?
No, no, no.
I can't go there.
Me?
No, no, no, man.
I'm not like a I can't pray.
I can't make dua.
Oh, yeah, the dua of the person who
goes to the Masjid every day, that's better
than me.
Don't count yourself out.
Don't count yourself out, okay?
So, despite all of these insults, the Prophet,
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he remained dignified in responding.
He says, okay, if you've rejected my message,
then I just have one request of you.
That's all he asks.
He says, I have one request of you.
I'm not here to like convert everybody to
Islam.
That's not what I'm here for.
I just have one request.
My request is just do not tell the
Quraysh that I'm here like soliciting any sort
of like political power.
That's not what I'm here for, by the
way.
The Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, always preface that.
I'm not here to like gain any sort
of like favors with you all.
If don't, you don't have to tell the
Quraysh that I came here.
And even if you do, you can just
tell them that I came here just to
talk about Allah.
That's it, okay?
So, he remained diligent, okay?
And so, even though the Prophet was rejected
in the most vile manner, he remained in
ta'if for another week.
And he was just kind of hanging out,
okay?
This provides invaluable insight into the prophetic methodology
of da'wah.
The Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, would always approach
the elite class first, as they have most
influence over the society.
That said, Allah made it clear on many
occasions that the sincere masses are not to
be ignored and neglected.
One such example is in Surah Abasa.
He frowned and turned away because the blind
man came to him, interrupting him.
You never know, perhaps he may be purified,
or he may be mindful, benefiting from the
reminder.
As for those, as for the one who
was indifferent, you gave him your undivided attention,
even though you are not to blame if
he were not purified.
So, subhanAllah, this is a particular ayah about
a blind sahabi, Abdullah ibn Ummat-Tum, who
wanted to learn about Islam, but the Prophet,
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, was speaking to some dignitaries
of Mecca, and he didn't give Abdullah ibn
Ummat-Tum attention right away.
So, Allah corrected him and said, Ya Rasulullah,
don't neglect the people who are beneath the
elites.
Those might be the people who are worth
Islam, and the people who have money, and
popularity, and wealth, and all that stuff that
we value, that human beings value, those guys
might not be it, okay?
And so, it says here, no one converted
in five.
I want you guys to think about this.
Net zero.
You go to five, y'all ever tried
to do something in your life, like you
went all out, studied all night, did whatever
you had to do, prepared for the interview,
you went, and what you got was like
a bagel.
Nothing.
It was just absolutely zero.
It was a nothing burger.
Right?
Like, you come back feeling absolutely deflated.
What did I even go there for?
I just wasted my time.
Right?
You go, and you invest time, and Subhanallah,
like you time, effort, money, gas, all that
stuff, and they tell you, we'll reach out.
We'll let you know.
Right?
And that reach out never happens.
And so you tell yourself, wow, that was
a waste.
That was a waste of my time.
I'll tell you something, Subhanallah, from this story,
one thing you'll learn, nothing is actually really
an ever, actually ever a waste of time,
truly.
If Allah allowed you to experience time, and
an experience in a certain way, there's a
reason, there's a hikmah, behind why that experience
took place.
I remember, Subhanallah, somebody told me one time,
like, even my sins, my dhunub, the sins
that I committed, yes, I repent for them,
but I actually tell Allah, ya Allah, you
allowed me to experience some sour moments in
my life, because of a particular reason.
I now appreciate the khair, I appreciate the
good, I appreciate the halal, because I know
now what darkness looks like.
Sometimes you can't appreciate light if you've never
seen what darkness is.
Sometimes you can never appreciate the winter if
you haven't gone through the heat of the
summer.
In the winter time, why do people in
Dallas go outside, and they're like, alhamdulilah rabbil
alameen, right, like, snow, ice, oh my god,
isn't it beautiful?
Right, like, and like your midwestern northern friends
are like, are you okay?
It's like one centimeter of ice, like, why
are you so excited?
How can you explain to them, that if
you were to like, crack an egg on
your sidewalk, mashallah, you would have in five
minutes.
Those New Yorkers don't know about that.
Right, like, the people from New Jersey don't
know about that, forget about Canada, man, like,
Canadians?
What do y'all know, man?
Like, y'all are getting maple syrup straight
from a tree, like, we gotta go through
trials down here.
So like, how do you explain that?
Why?
Because you've experienced the opposite.
You know what it's like.
You know what it's like, okay?
And so at this moment, subhanallah, there's a
reflection here.
Said that Aisha radiallahu anha, she asked the
Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam one time, was
there a day more difficult for you than
the day of Uhud?
The day of Uhud, by the way, was
the day in which the Prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam lost a good amount of his
community in that battle.
It was a very tragic day for the
Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam, but also a
great day of learning.
So Aisha, she said, is there any day
more difficult for you than Uhud?
And the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam, he
says, yes, indeed.
Your people hurt me greatly, and the worst
of it was the day of Aqabah, the
day and particularly the day of Ta'if.
The day of Ta'if hurt me greatly.
It was a very painful day for him.
And again, I want you guys to imagine
all of this is happening after Khadijah and
Abu Talib passed away.
Very fresh, very raw still, okay?
So one of the things here, subhanallah, is
right over here, okay?
So, here it says, numerous benefits can be
derived from the manner in which the Prophet
answered this question.
First, the fact that the Prophet described the
incident of Ta'if as more traumatic than
the battle of Uhud, where he was physically
injured and his life was threatened, indicates that
severity of emotional distress, even the Prophet acknowledged
emotional pain as bigger hardship than ferocity of
war.
Okay?
So now we'll go down inshallah to the
bottom here, alright?
When the Prophet escaped, okay?
When the Prophet escaped, mobs and finally found
some shade.
So basically what happened, I'll give you the
long story short.
As he was leaving, the people of Ta
'if were like, hey, we gotta make sure
that this guy never wants to come back.
We gotta make sure he never wants to
come back.
He thinks he can just come here and
just talk about this god of his.
We gotta make sure that upon leaving, he
never wants to revisit our place ever again.
So what do they do?
These three brothers, they basically hire the more
lowly, you would almost call them the mob
of Ta'if.
People who don't have anything better to do
with their day, they tell them, hey, go
outside of the city.
As he leaves for Mecca, as he leaves
for Mecca, he'll go back on foot.
He's gonna be slow.
As he goes back for Mecca, I want
you guys to basically create two lines, two
rows of people, almost like an escort.
And I want you to pick up the
rocks and the stones around you, and I
want you to throw it at him as
hard as you can.
But don't kill him, just make sure that
you're torturing him.
And you know how heinous this was?
They even got the kids of the city
involved.
They said, hey kids, you wanna make a
fun game out of today?
Go grab some stones and throw it at
that person.
They don't know who he is.
So the kids just start throwing.
They start throwing and throwing and throwing and
throwing.
And I'll tell you guys, subhanallah what, it
got to the point where some of the
narrations say that the amount of rocks that
were thrown at the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam,
were so many, were so many in number
that he began to, you know like sometimes
when you walk on gravel?
Is it different than walking on like normal
road?
Yes.
Why?
Because gravel sometimes makes you slip because it's
like an uneven surface.
He began to slip on the road because
there were so many rocks being built underneath
his feet.
And not only that, but the stones that
began to be thrown at him would start
to hurt him.
And they would only throw, look how vicious
these people were.
They started to throw at like his lower
body.
Because if you hit somebody with a rock
at their head, it actually might cause like
a fatal blow.
But we're not trying to kill him.
Why?
Because if we kill him, it's gonna start
a war between Mecca and Taif.
These people are already trigger happy.
We can't kill one of them, but let's
make his life *.
So they started throwing at his body, his
torso, his waist, his legs.
And they did this for kilometers on end.
Kilometers on end.
Zayd ibn Harithah looked at the Prophet and
said, Ya Rasulullah, let me cover you.
Let me cover you, let me cover you
up.
So he literally, like a human shield, literally
he came over the Prophet and covered him
up with his body.
Ya Rasulullah, let me stay in front of
you.
I can't look at you like this.
And the Prophet started pushing Zayd away.
Zayd, get away from me.
Get away from me, Zayd.
Ya Rasulullah, why?
They're gonna kill you.
And the Prophet says, no, Zayd.
They're not gonna kill me.
They know who I am.
At the end of the day, the Prophet,
he came from a very well-known family.
They're not gonna kill me, Zayd.
But who was Zayd?
Zayd was a what?
He was a freed slave.
Do you think an Arab at that time
would bat an eye twice to kill a
slave?
No, no, they would do it.
But he said, Zayd, they're gonna kill you
to get to me.
They don't look at your life the same
as mine.
They're gonna kill you if they can get
to me.
So get away from me.
Ya Zayd, I value your life more than
they do.
So he told Zayd to get away, and
Zayd watched in horror as they pelted the
Prophet with stones.
And this happened for a time, a period
of time.
And it happened so much so that finally,
what happened was that at the end of
all of this, the Prophet and Zayd got
to this farm in Taif where both of
them essentially collapsed from the pain that they
went through.
They collapsed, they fainted.
And Zayd, when they fell down, Zayd said,
and I'm gonna be a little bit kind
of like a trigger warning here because I'm
gonna share something that's a little bit kind
of difficult and graphic for somebody to mention,
to think about.
Zayd said that when they got to this
farm, when they finally collapsed and they fell
down because they couldn't carry on anymore, the
Prophet used to wear sandals.
That's like his choice of footwear, he used
to wear sandals.
He said that his sandals, he tried to
take them off, but they were glued to
his feet because of the amount of blood
that was on his foot.
So he had to like tear off his
sandals from his feet.
And from like the loss of blood and
whatever, they basically both essentially kind of like
were almost in and out of consciousness.
And at this point, the Prophet in this
moment is when he made his du'a.
This is when he made his du'a.
And I want you guys to look at
the nature of the du'a and I
want you guys to think about the inspirational
nature of this du'a that the Prophet
ﷺ mentioned.
This is the du'a right here.
And inshallah I'm going to share it with
you guys and we're going to go through
it inshallah line by line.
The first part of the du'a, this
is du'at al-mustada'afeen, the du
'a of those who are weak.
The Prophet ﷺ he begins and he says
Allahumma, Allahumma ilayka ashku du'afa quwati He
says, O Allah O my Allah O my
Rabb, O my Master ilayka ashku du'afa
quwati He says, to you alone I complain
of my own weakness, Ya Allah.
To you alone I complain about my own
weakness.
Look at my status, Ya Allah.
Look what state I'm in, Ya Allah.
I have nothing.
I have nothing.
I'm covered in my own blood.
I'm sitting and I've fallen in a random
farm in Ta'if.
Look at my state.
I'm complaining to you, Ya Allah.
There's no one else here that I can
complain to.
But Ya Allah, I trust you to hear
my complaints.
And then he says waqilata hiilati He says,
the scarcity of my resources.
Like, I don't have anything.
I don't have any food or water, Ya
Allah.
I'm here.
I have no plan.
I don't know what direction I'm going in.
You know, sometimes we think to ourselves that,
like, these prophets must have had it all
figured out.
They must have had it all made in
the shade.
They knew exactly what their next move was.
And for the majority of time the prophets
were very calculated.
Yes, they knew.
They were very intellectually capable.
But at this moment, the prophetism is showing
you, I don't know.
I don't know what I'm doing.
How many of you guys believe in the
fear of the unknown?
Of what's to come?
The fear of the future?
Five years down the line?
Ten years down the line?
What is my life going to look like?
This is it right here.
waqilata hiilati.
I have no resources.
I have no plan.
I have nowhere to turn, Ya Allah.
And then he says, wahuwani alannasi ya arahmarrahimin.
He says, and my humiliation before these people.
O Allah the most merciful.
Because I've been humiliated by these people, Ya
Allah.
Look at the way they just handled me.
Look at what they just did to me.
What did I do?
I went there to just tell them la
ilaha illallah.
That's all that I wanted.
How many of you guys ever feel?
Be honest with me.
And you don't have to answer this by
raising your hands.
But how many people in their mind have
in several instances in their life they've felt
misunderstood?
Think about it.
How many times in your life have you
felt misunderstood?
I didn't mean that.
I didn't want that.
You completely misread my intentions.
You misread what I wanted.
If you had known my intentions, you wouldn't
have treated me like that.
I'm sad.
I'm heartbroken because you chose to abuse me
and harm me and be rude and mean
to me because you assumed that I wanted
something else but you're misunderstanding my intentions.
So he says to Allah, Ya Allah, these
people misunderstood me.
And he says, Ya Rabb al-mustada'afeen,
the lord of the weak and my lord
too, wa rabbi.
Allah, you know subhanallah, the prophet, he hints
right here that Allah is not just the
lord of those who are pious and strong
and Allah is not the Allah of those
who have their life together.
Allah is not just the Allah of those
who have their game plan A, B and
C and D.
Like if I don't get into med school,
I'm going to go into engineering.
If I don't get into engineering, I'm going
to get into software tech.
If I don't get into software tech, I'm
going to get into whatever else like business
management.
Allah is not only the Allah of people
who have their life together.
Allah is the Allah of people whose life
is in shambles.
Allah is the same Allah who is the
Allah of kings and the Allah of slaves.
Allah does not reserve his mulk, his kingship
to be for those who know what they're
doing always.
Sometimes you're laying in bed at like 1am
at night after you scroll on TikTok for
2.5 hours and the CEO comes on
your For You page and tells you to
go to sleep and you're laying there like,
what am I doing with my life?
And there's moments where the human beings thinks
to themselves, like man, Allah would be so
ashamed of me, like does Allah even want
to associate with me?
And at that moment, I want you to
know that Allah is the one who the
Prophet ﷺ at this moment called Anta Rabbul
Mustada'afeen.
Allah, you are the Lord of those who
are weak.
And at that moment, you are a weak
person.
You feel weak.
You feel small.
You feel like there's no one that's going
to understand.
If a human being saw you, right?
You just like destroyed a bag of Doritos
like you didn't eat dinner, grilled dinner, right?
Like, you ate like a pack of Skittles
and like some Hot Cheetos that night.
Takis, right?
Like, no, no.
You think to yourself like, I don't want
to be presentable to humanity right now.
At least know that Allah still wants you.
Allah still wants to be your Allah.
Allah will never take himself away like that
from you, okay?
And then he says, to whom have you
entrusted me, ya Allah?
To one who does not care for me?
Or one or have you appointed me my
enemy as a master of my affairs, ya
Allah?
So he's now talking to Allah, ya Allah,
why would people treat me like that?
Sometimes we think to ourselves that if you're
a religious person, you can't question anything.
You can't question why.
No, no, no.
People who are pious don't shy away from
questioning why.
They ask why.
But you know what they also acknowledge?
Pious people ask why, but then they also
say ya Allah, I know you know why.
That's the recipe.
Pious people don't say, why Allah?
Why Allah?
This doesn't make any sense.
I don't even know if you know, ya
Allah.
No, no, no.
The pious person says, ya Allah, why?
I don't get it, but Allah, I know
that you have a plan.
But I don't get it.
It's okay to say, I don't get it.
I don't get it.
Why am I a senior?
And I'm 26.
Why?
Why am I like an XXL senior?
I don't know what it would be, like
a super, super senior.
Why am I still struggling to find my
passion and my career?
How many of y'all right now in
this hall right now, you have no idea
what your career is going to be still.
Think about it.
I have no idea, man.
And then you have this 18-year-old
hotshot next to you in class.
He's like, yeah, so I got like a
5-year, 10-year plan.
You're like, mashallah, right?
That's good for you, brother.
For me?
No, not me.
You know?
This is the sign.
I don't know why, but I know Allah
knows why, okay?
And He says here, subhanAllah, He says, so
long as you are not angry with me,
ya Allah, I don't care.
Allah, if you're not angry with me, then
I'm happy.
Even if other people are angry with me,
Allah, if you're not angry with me, my
heart is at peace.
He says, your favor is abundant for me.
I seek refuge in the nur bi wajhika,
the nur of your face, ya Allah, by
which all darkness is dispelled and every affair
of this world and the next is set
right.
Lest your anger or your displeasure descend upon
me, ya Allah, ghadab, your ghadab, your anger
is upon me, ya Allah, that's the only
time where I'll actually start to worry.
Is Allah angry with me?
I don't care if my professor is angry
with me.
I don't care if even sometimes my own
friends are angry with me.
If Allah is happy with me, that's all
that I care about.
He says, I desire your pleasure, ya Allah,
and your satisfaction until you are pleased, ya
Allah.
And then he ends, he says, la hawla
wala quwwata illa billah.
He says, there is no power wala quwwata
and no might illa billah, except with you,
ya Allah.
He ends the dua with that.
This dua, guys, subhanAllah, this was a dua
that was heard in the heavens.
You know what happened after this dua, by
the way?
After this dua, Angel Jibreel, alayhis salam, he
came to the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam.
Jibreel, alayhis salam, by the way, I don't
know if I ever told anybody here this,
but Jibreel's relationship with the Prophet, salallahu alayhi
wasalam, was like a very older brother.
He's like, hey man, someone messed with you?
So he hears this dua, and Jibreel, alayhis
salam, comes to the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam,
ya Rasulullah, what happened?
And the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, is bloodied,
covered.
And he makes this dua, and Jibreel, he
says, ya Rasulullah, you give me one, one
signal of permission.
You tell me one signal, you give me
one sign.
And what did I say Ta'if's geographical
terrain was?
It was?
Mountainous.
He says, ya Rasulullah, you give me one
sign.
I will make the mountains that surround Ta
'if, and I will make them collapse on
itself.
These people will, you wouldn't hear a whisper
about these people in human history.
I can delete them off the face of
this planet, ya Rasulullah, give me one sign,
because of what they just did to you.
And the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, he says,
ya Jibreel, I don't want that.
Even if these people treated me so harshly,
what's to say that their kids one day
will not say la ilaha illallah?
And even if their kids don't say la
ilaha illallah, who's to say that their grandkids
don't say la ilaha illallah?
Can I tell you a funny incident?
So I was in Ta'if in December,
and one of the most famous masjids, or
probably the most famous masjid in Ta'if
is a masjid called Masjid Abdullah ibn Abbas.
Ring a bell?
Abdullah ibn Abbas is a very famous sahabi
of the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam.
His grave is in Ta'if.
He died in Ta'if, okay?
So we prayed in Masjid Abdullah ibn Abbas.
A beautiful spot, inshallah.
I'll show you guys some pictures as well,
inshallah.
After we were done with our dhuhr and
asr salah, we went outside, and one of
my responsibilities as an instructor on these trips
is to kind of give lectures in these
historical sites, okay?
So after we got done with praying, we
went outside of the masjid, and it was
right next to the sign of where Ibn
Abbas was buried.
And so I had 60-70 people around
me, and the majority of them obviously were
from America, right?
They're people that traveled with us from here
over to overseas.
And so I was kind of like giving
this lecture over there, talking about the dua
'at al-mustada'afeen, talking about the dua
'at of the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam.
I said, can you imagine that this is
a place where people pelted the Prophet, salallahu
alayhi wasalam, with stones?
They cursed the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, and
now look, one of the most beautiful masjids
in the entire world is a masjid that
we just prayed in.
And it was hilarious.
All these local, like Saudi or Khaliji people
were just like walking by, and I was
like, yeah, these people, they abused the Prophet,
salallahu alayhi wasalam 1,500 years ago, and
they're just stopping, they're like, they're like listening
into the lecture, but subhanallah, can I tell
you something that was really beautiful?
At that moment I was scared, because I
was like, oh my god, like I'm never
going to be able to come back to
Saudi ever again.
This is it for me, Safi Khan, it's
over for you at this point, right?
They're never going to grant you another visa.
So, after it was over, can I tell
you something?
There was a brother who came to me.
He was a local, he was a ta
'if local.
He came to me and he says, he
says, ya imam, he was speaking to me
in like very broken English and like kind
of partial Arabic.
He was like, ya imam, he goes, anta
min Amerik?
I was like, naam.
I was like, yes, yes, I'm from America.
He says, he goes, you remind me of
why I'm Muslim.
He goes, he goes, he goes, I said,
what do you mean?
He goes, my ancestors could have possibly been
a part of this.
And it was because of this, Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala guided us, and it was
because of the rahma, the mercy of the
Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam that I'm here
today, praying my dhuhr and asr in a
masjid that was named after one of his
companions radiAllahu anhu.
So you see the way that Allah turns
the tides.
It was because wa ma arsalnaka illa rahmatan
lil alameen.
That these people were spared that day possibly.
They were spared that day.
If you got an angel saying that I'm
going to destroy you, there is nothing that
can stop you.
And the Prophet said, no Jibreel, no.
Don't do that to them.
And so because of this, subhanallah, this dua
was one that was heard in the heavens,
right?
The lessons from this dua are many, we'll
end with this inshallah.
The lessons were many.
Number one, that it is not only appropriate,
but encouraged to turn to Allah and complain
to him about your situation and your circumstances.
Some people feel bad.
Is it really good?
Is it really okay to tell Allah about
my hal, about my situation, about my circumstance?
Is it okay?
Is that good adab?
Is that good etiquette to tell Allah that
I'm going through something that's difficult?
Shouldn't I be grateful?
Nu'afila akuna abdan shakura.
The Prophet said, should I not be a
grateful servant?
Yes, all of that can be true.
But guess what?
Allah is the best one, the best one
to tell about whatever you're going through.
Before it reaches the ears of people, you
should actually tell Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
If there's a need that you have, sa
'alta, fas'alallaha.
If there's a question that you have in
your life, fas'alallah.
Ask Allah.
Fa'itha, if you have a need, fasta
'in billah.
Ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for that
need.
The mistake that we make as human beings,
guys, is that we run to people before
we run to Allah.
We run to our friends before we ever
get a chance to talk to Allah.
Talk to Allah before you run to your
friends.
Because if, and subhanallah, there's a, by the
way, a multitude of benefits of that.
If it wasn't for Allah, what friends would
you have to run to?
If it wasn't for Allah, what therapy would
you be able to go to?
If it wasn't for Allah, what mentor would
you be able to seek advice from?
Go to Allah first before you go to
anybody else.
Not saying that you shouldn't go to other
people.
Go to Allah first.
Okay?
The second is, know that if Allah is
pleased with you, nothing else matters.
If Allah is pleased with you, nothing else
matters.
If you're good with Allah, I'll tell you
something.
You will be good with other people in
your life.
And if there is, per chance, a moment
in your life where you're good with Allah
and maybe somebody is upset with you, it's
always going to be temporary.
It's never going to be permanent.
The Prophet ﷺ makes this promise, by the
way.
If you sacrifice something in your life for
the sake of Allah, it is only guaranteed
for you that Allah will replace whatever you
sacrificed with something that's better.
It's guaranteed.
A friend that you had to kind of
like slowly part ways with because they were
bad for your deen, they were not a
great influence for you, so you had to
kind of take on people that were a
little bit better for you, Allah will replace
that person with people that are exponentially better
for you.
There is never a decision that this person
makes for Allah that ever is regrettable.
I've never heard that in my life.
I've never heard a person at the end
of their life say, man, I wish I
didn't pray that one Salah.
I wish I didn't make that one decision
for the sake of Allah.
No, no, no.
It's actually always the opposite.
It's always the opposite.
I wish I had one more minute on
that prayer rug.
I wish I had one more minute sitting
with my teacher.
I wish I had one more minute giving
Sadaqah.
It's in the Quran.
People will say, give me one more minute,
Ya Allah.
Give me one moment, Ya Allah.
If Allah is pleased with you, nothing else
will matter.
Lesson number three.
If Allah has given you a task, understand
that you have full ability and trust from
Allah Azza wa Jal to do that task.
The end of this story is actually beautiful
because after this Dua was made, everyone asked,
well, what happened?
You know what happened?
We'll talk about it real quick InshaAllah before
we stop class.
This is what happened.
After this Dua was made, this Dua ended
with a beautiful moment where when the Prophet
sat down for shade, he did not realize
that the land belonged to his Quraishi uncles,
Utbah and Shaybah ibn Rabi'ah.
They had witnessed this brutal expulsion from Ta
'if and felt pity on their kin, as
well as a sense of tribal pride.
They decided to gift him some fruits from
their orchards.
They sent one of their servants.
His name was Addas.
Let this name be very, very familiar with
you.
It's a companion by the name of Addas
radiAllahu anhu.
I actually, Alhamdulillah, went and saw this exact
same place where this happened.
So like when we were doing the tour
of Ta'if, this is where the tour
guide, he said, this is majority of Riwayat
mention that this is exactly where the Prophet
was sitting with Zayd ibn Harithah when Addas
radiAllahu anhu approached.
So he approached, he was an Iraqi Christian
and by the way, Ta'if, you know
like fruits that are indigenous to a certain
land, right?
So what's indigenous to Ta'if is, anybody
know?
Grapes.
Very random, right?
Super random.
You'd think like dates or like, you know,
something that's more kind of like desert, right?
No, no.
It was grapes.
They grow grapes like no tomorrow.
It's insane, subhanAllah.
It was probably because of the elevation, the
cooler temperatures up there.
So they grow grapes there and Addas radiAllahu
anhu brought a platter of grapes to the
Prophet and the Prophet accepted the gift and
he said, Bismillah, before he took his first
bite.
Addas, he said, he goes, yeah, yeah, yeah,
you know, he didn't know his name at
that time.
He says, yeah, what's that phrase that you
just said?
What did you just say?
And the Prophet said, this is something my
Lord has taught me.
He goes, where are you from, ya Addas?
He said, Addas, he goes, I'm from Nineveh.
It's an area of Iraq.
You know what other prophet is from Nineveh?
Yunus Alayhi Salaam.
So he goes, this is, the Prophet said,
this is the city of Yunus Alayhi Salaam.
Yunus Alayhi Salaam.
And Addas goes, how do you know about
Yunus?
How do you know about that?
And Addas, at that time, was a lone
Christian in these lands, surrounded by pagans, with
no knowledge of any Judeo-Christian prophetic lineage.
The Prophet said to him, he says, how
can I not know Yunus?
He's my brother.
He's my brother.
We're both prophets of Allah.
As soon as the Prophet uttered this statement,
Addas immediately began to kiss the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam in adoration.
And at this point, he says, his two
masters, Uthbah and Shaybah, looked at from afar
in bewilderment.
When he returned, they shouted.
He goes, why are you kissing his hands
and feet?
What just happened?
Addas, he goes, oh my masters, there is
no one better on earth than him.
For he told me things only a prophet
could know.
And they responded, oh Addas, he has bewitched
you from your religion.
Your religion is better than this.
And later on, when the battle of Badr
commenced, Addas was asked to fight against the
Muslims, to which he responded, you want me
to fight that man who was sitting under
the tree?
By Allah, the mountains could not harm him.
In a truly bold move, he refused his
master's command, who both met their death in
the battle of Badr.
Imagine that.
Addas, by the way, ended up Alhamdulillah, accepting
Islam.
I want you guys to think of something.
He went to the city of Ta'if
to try to like, explain Islam to like
thousands of people.
Who did he end up influencing?
One slave.
One slave was influenced that day about Islam.
But it was because of that one heart
that was softened to Islam, that possibly Ta
'if is a city of believers today.
I want you to think about that.
Dua is a catalyst for change that is
not possible without it being made.
This is the power of what dua can
do for you in your life.
Do you think the prophet ever thought to
himself that that moment that he made that
dua that yeah, Ta'if is going to
be a beautiful city and it's going to
become Muslim and people are going to love
coming here and praying here and making dua
here and visiting here?
No one ever thought that.
But your duas can allow the impossible to
become possible.
Because why?
The impossible was by your standards.
The possible is always something that Allah Subhanahu
wa ta'ala can make happen.
Right?
So this is what our duas can do,
inshallah.
So this is the dua up here.
Again, anyone can look it up, inshallah.
It's called dua tul mustada'afeen.
The dua of those who are weak.
Inshallah, I encourage you.
It's a little bit of a longer dua,
but I encourage everyone to take their time.
Go back.
Reflect.
Do some tadabbur.
Reflect on it a little bit, inshallah, on
your own free time.
And just highlight it.
Which parts of this dua are really effective
and they appeal to me?
Which part of my life do I need
to make this dua?
And perhaps there are segments of the dua
that I want to use in my own
personal duas and mix and match, inshallah, within
my own life.
So this is the dua of the Prophet,
salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
We ask Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to
make us of the people who trust and
rely upon Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala in
both strength and in weakness.
We ask Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to
always always put our hopes in His pleasure.
We ask Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to
always guide us back to Him no matter
what life throws at us, whatever circumstances that
we're going through.
We ask Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to
always return us back to Him.
We ask Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to
allow us to learn from the blessed example
of His Habib, salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
We ask Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to
allow us to follow in the footsteps of
the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
We ask Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to
strengthen our duas with the influence of the
duas of the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
And we ask Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
to forgive us in any moments of shortcoming
that we've had, in any moments in which
we've neglected Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala in
our lives, in any moments where we've fallen
short of giving Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
the rights that He deserves.
We ask Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to
forgive us, and we ask Allah Subhanahu wa
ta'ala to accept from us رَبَّنَا تَقَبَّلْ
مِنَّا إِنَّكَ أَنْتَ السَّمِعُونَ عَلِيمٌ وَالسَّلَامُونَ عَلَى
الْمُوْسِّرِينَ وَالْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ Jazakum khairan
everybody for being here insha'Allah.
We're going to host a really, really awesome
program tomorrow night.
It's going to be our monthly college fireside.
It'll be outside insha'Allah tomorrow.
The weather seems to be beautiful alhamdulillah.
It's probably going to be like a crisp
like 60 degrees tomorrow night.
So insha'Allah for all of our kind
of college, MSA community, we'll be here insha
'Allah tomorrow at Roots.
We'll just be outside for a fireside session
insha'Allah.
It's going to be at 6.30 insha
'Allah.
So make sure you're here at Roots tomorrow
at 6.30. We'll see you all then.
Salatul Isha' is going to be at 8
.15 so we have about 4 or 5
minutes so I would encourage everyone to head
over insha'Allah to the masalah.
JazakAllah khair.