Sajid Ahmed Umar – Ramadan 2024 #14 How to Deal with Hardships
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The speaker discusses the um severity of the prophet sallali alaihi wasallam's message, which is a "we are not individuals" and a "part of a collective." The message is to build a "we are not individuals" and a "we are part of a collective." The message is to see opportunities and build a "we are not individuals" and a "we are part of a collective." The speaker concludes by thanking everyone for watching and expressing their love for Islam.AI: Transcript ©
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said this, Umma
is one body. When one body is affected,
the other body reacts with fever and sleepless
nights, and it's part and parcel of iman
for us to feel pain.
My dearest brothers and sisters in Islam, may
Allah bless you all and bless our month.
And may he accept what has passed and
bless what remains. Ameen.
Ramadan is
always a special month. And I welcome you
all to our Ramadan
series for this Ramadan 14/45.
We did call it Ramadan Nights, and then
I traveled to another part of the world
and the night became day. So, Alhamdulillah,
it is Ramadan days as it currently goes.
Brothers and sisters in Islam,
as we experience this Ramadan, perhaps we are
experiencing
it at the most difficult
time in our lives. Perhaps this Ramadan has
come,
during the most difficult year
of our lives. Well, at least in my
life, I don't recall
a harder year that the Ummah, Muhammad, sallallahu
alaihi wasallam, has gone through, at least in
my lifetime.
You know,
if we just reel back,
the weeks months,
we had,
not so long ago, the Turkish earthquake. And
that brought all sorts of worry and concern
and,
you know,
no doubt opportunity
as well in terms of being there for
the ummah, to the ummah, Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam. And then we had,
the Libyan floods and then the Moroccan
earthquake, or perhaps it was the Moroccan earthquake
and then the Libyan floods. It was really
back to back. And then the debacle in
Sudan, and Allah make everything easy there. That's
still going on. And as this is going
on,
in the front of our minds and not
the back of our minds, we have the
plight of of our brothers and sisters in
Kashmir. I mean, even though,
you know, their reality isn't being broadcasted to
our phones and our screens. Honestly, they are
going through a great trial. May Allah make
things easy for them. Ameen.
And we have the Rohingya, subhanallah, still displaced
in their numbers,
in Bangladesh and other lands. Subhanallah. Subhanallah.
Subhanallah. And then we have the political strife
in Pakistan,
and then Gaza happens. Subhanallah. So it's been
one thing after the other. And, you know,
we obviously need to live upon having this
ummah mindset.
This,
mindset whereby we are,
we are not individuals, but we are part
of a collective.
And as the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said,
this Umma is one body. When one body
is affected, the other body reacts with fever
and sleepless nights. And,
it's it's it's it's part and parcel of
iman for us to feel pain. So it
has been a painful year. But the purpose
of this video is not to paint gloom
and doom because this ummah is an ummah
of resilience.
It is an ummah,
that lasts.
It is an ummah that is sustained.
It is an ummah that will rise above
and not be risen over. This is an
ummah
that knows
that a seedling
has to penetrate
the darkness
and hardness
of the soil patiently
with perseverance
until it finally breaches
the
surface of the soil before it, alhamdulillah,
tastes the warmth of, the sun and the
coolness of the air. And it will sprout
and grow into a tree that will last
more than a century.
SubhanAllah.
This is the reality of this Ummah. And
accordingly, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam likened the
people
of Iman to the date palm. Masha'Allah Tabarakallah.
This firm
standing
structure. We must call it a structure.
Structure. Amidst the desert, subhanAllah,
living through desert storms,
living through
dry spells that last months, subhanAllah,
But it stands tall. It stands
strong. It gives
shade. And
in the hottest time of the year, it
produces,
dates, subhanAllah,
dates filled with nutrition and the necessary sugars
to sustain life. This is the description that
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
likened with the people of Imaan too. This
is the parallel he ran between the believers
and the dead palm. So this is who
we are, my dear brother and sister in
Islam. And as such, we are in a
month that we call kareem, we call
generous. And this ummah is indeed a generous
ummah. It is generous in all aspects because
this is an ummah that doesn't see the
o of obstacle. It is the ummah that
sees the o of opportunity
amidst every obstacle. It is the ummah that
sees the opportunity
to build jannah when an obstacle presents itself,
and an opportunity to build Jannah in a
way like never before. Because when things are
normal, we build Jannah in a particular way.
But when push comes to shove and we
stand up and be counted,
we build Jannah
as well, albeit in a different way. This
is the reality of the Ummah Muhammad
My brothers and sisters in Islam, the month
of Ramadan is kareem and generous. And it
is a month that comes to remind us
that we shouldn't be in a sabbatical. The
month of Ramadan is in a month in
which we go to sleep. SubhanAllah. And we
limit our activities because we feel that we
are away from food and drink and our
sleep patterns have been affected. Rather, this is
a month that,
is not just business as usual, but, subhanAllah,
even more business
than usual. And that is the business with
Allah
and the akhirah. The Battle of Badr was
fought during the month of Ramadan. And the
opening of Makkah, it is said to have
been during the month of Ramadan. We don't
see, subhanAllah,
messages from the sahaba that can Ramadan be
postponed
or can, the opening of Makkah
be postponed because it is Ramadan.
Ramadan comes and calibrates us end to end.
It's an end to end calibration. SubhanAllah.
It's come to tell us that, oh, Muhammad,
Ramadan is not a month to be in
a sabbatical, and your life is not one
that allows you to be in a sabbatical.
Islam needs you. The Muslims need you. And
we are all collectively part of the solution.
And I want to tie this message to
that earlier
presentation we gave on that verse in Surat
Atoba, in which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in
effect teaches us that there is no retirement
age in Islam. This is the reminder for
this episode and the message for today. May
Allah
forgive our past and bless and inspire our
futures and make us a people that are
counted, a people that rise and are never
risen over. I love you all for the
sake of Allah. Until next time.
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