Sajid Ahmed Umar – Ramadan Reminders 2019 – Episode 03 – Pixel Vs Picture

			Assalamu alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh Welcome to Ramadan reminders episode three brothers and
sisters in Islam last night we spoke about a goodly word and Allah subhanho wa Taala says, well, who
do you mean alcohol? He describes the people of Paradise as those who are guided to a goodly word La
ilaha illa Allah. So make sure you do not belittle any instruction in any action point from
yesterday's episode because sometimes we feel the tongue is very small as a creation from the
creation of Allah subhanho wa Taala. So its effects are small. No, this is a small creation, but it
is complex. It has the ability to send us to gender and it has the ability to send us to the
		

			Hellfire May Allah make us from the people of alpha dose amin and save us from ever going near the
hellfire. I mean, in today's episode brothers and sisters in Islam, I want to share with you a
reflection from two ideas that are similar in the Quran, one in pseudo Baqarah and one in Surah Nisa
in sort of tillbaka in Ayah number 216. Allah says what I said and Takahashi, who hated lecom what I
said to him, butia overshadow lecan Allah tells us this ayah after speaking about jihad, and
speaking about striving in the path of Allah subhanho wa Taala. And Allah says, perhaps after you
receive this instruction, you've read you, you you have this feeling of, you know, you have disliked
		

			you dislike something Allah says, but there's great goodness in it for you. Right? Right. And then
Allah says, and sometimes you like something, but there's evil in it for you. And then Allah says
will love the atom of law always knows when to die the moon and you always don't know when there's a
when when looking at your knowledge versus the knowledge of Allah subhanho wa Taala Allah subhanho
wa Taala as knowledge will always come out on top, Allah always knows and you always don't know. So
here we see after last panel who Allah commands towards something that does have or you know, it can
be considered stressful to the physical self, it can
		

			be considered something difficult on the physical self. Allah says yes, sometimes there's a
difficulty that you are wary about that you don't like, but there's goodness in it for you. Right.
So this is related to physical difficulty, whether it's to do with our wealth, whether it's to do
with ourselves, then in Surah Nisa, in Ayah number 239. Number 19. Rather, ID number 19 in Surah
Nisa, Allah says for inquiry to Mohan fossa and Takahashi
		

			wager Allah houfy hyaluron, Katia Subhana Allah, in this particular I have lies talking about
emotional difficulty, right, emotional difficulties, not as physical as the other difficulty that we
discussed in the eye and so to bucha. And this is addressing the spouses, husbands who may have
wives that they dislike Allah says, sometimes you patient in maintaining the marital relation, and
Allah says, we will give you great goodness from the patience that you have shared. And the same
applies to the wives as well that sometimes they dislike their husbands but they are patient in
maintaining that marriage and great goodness comes from it, maybe it's a righteous child, that will
		

			be a means of both the parents entering the highest gender, because we know on the DFP ama when
everyone gets into gender, then if the sun is at a higher or daughter is at a higher agenda, and the
parents are at a lower agenda, Allah will raise the parents to the height and rank of the children
Subhana Allah, right, this is a gift from Allah subhanho wa Taala to keep the families together,
because gender will only be gentle when we together with our beloved ones. Right? So Allah is saying
even in emotional distress, right in non physical stress, Allah says, being patient through it,
sometimes will yield situations with heinola beyond your imagination, there's great goodness that
		

			will come from it. Now this these you know this idea and these two is they are absolutely amazing as
are all the ayat in the Quran. In fact when we look into the second idi and sort of the Nisa we see
it offering an explanation of something mentioned in the ayah in Surah Baqarah because in Bukhara
Allah says, I said and Takahashi
		

			Allah says you may dislike something but it's good for you. But in the iron Surah Nisa, Allah says,
Hey Ron khedira it's very good for you. So hon Allah. So, you know the the mentioned in in Surah
Nisa is qualifying the mentioned in Surah Baqarah. Such that we can translate the ayah again and say
that Allah subhanho wa Taala says that sometimes you dislike something and it is very good for you
that from that situation, there's a very good thing for you and brothers and sisters in Islam. You
can think of matters in your life that Subhanallah you thought as even as much goodness came from
it. And in the Quran. We have many examples. We have different
		

			of use of alayhis salaam being thrown into the wild by his brothers, but that was very good for
himself and the Ummah for later on 50. plus years later, he became the minister in Egypt and was the
only one qualified to run the country during seven years of rainfall, that at the end, they had
enough food not only to feed Egypt for seven years during the years of drought, but to feed
Palestine as well. Had he not been in the world 50 years before, as a rough figure, millions would
have died. Right? We have the story of Musa alayhis salam, the mother was resistant, obviously, any
mother would feel what a mother feels when she has to take her child and put her child in a basket
		

			and let this basket flow, you know, float and flow down the river, not knowing what's going to
happen. But Subhanallah look at the goodness in that, that it was that act that led to great good in
that Moosa came and establish justice on earth, and the mighty tyrant, was defeated with the will of
Allah subhanho wa Taala. You know, and there's many lessons like this throughout the Quran. These
are just some that
		

			that I'm sharing with you. There's also you know,
		

			a quick thought that comes to mind the story of Hitler and Mussolini Sam, when when Hitler killed
the boy and Moosa questioned his actions. And Hitler explained his actions that he was under
instruction from Allah subhanho wa Taala. And that this boy was going to grow up to be the distress
of his parents, and his parents were righteous. So Allah was going to take this child at an age
where he wouldn't be accountable, so that the parents can be with the child in Paradise, and then
replace this child with another child that will grow up to be righteous, and also be the coolness of
the parents eyes, so hon Allah, so things are not always as they seem, brothers and sisters in
		

			Islam, must always remember in life, we only have the pixel, we don't have the picture. And we can
never ever understand the picture just from a pixel. But as life moves on, more pixels are given to
us by Allah subhanho wa Taala. And things become more clear, things become more manifest, and we
start realizing that Subhana Allah earlier on, we were not in difficulty, in fact, we were in
goodness. And had we known then what we know now we would have chosen for ourselves that which Allah
subhanho wa Taala has chosen for us and this is what the buyers used to say, the buyers used to say
that whatever you're going through, know and understand that whatever Allah does, he does good that
		

			if Allah opened the door for you, and showed you all the options, and told you to pick from the
options, you would pick for yourself, what Allah has picked for you, because that is the best
option. And with this, understand that don't belittle your daughter to Allah subhanho wa Taala.
Don't Some people say, you know, yes, I'm making dua to Allah subhanho wa Taala. And the opposite is
happening. Right? That is Allah subhanho wa Taala, answering your da, don't think Allah is not
answering your da, he's giving you that which is better, because had you known you would have
changed your daughter in the first place. So Allah has taken your daughter, your daughter has
		

			reached a law, he has accepted your dryer? And he's answered it in a way that you would have asked
for initially, had you known the outcomes have you had the picture rather than the picture? I leave
you with these words, to ponder over. Obviously, action points are part and parcel of our modern
reminders. And you got to sit down and analyze your data, analyze your life, the difficulties that
you went through and figure out the goodness that came out from those difficulties. And also think
about, you know, the times in the recent past that you've been battling to deal with certain
circumstances and situations and it's been bringing into your life much stress, maybe, you know,
		

			it's a football team that you're supporting that to penalize not getting the results maybe it's a
promotion that you're looking for that you know, it's not just happening maybe it's to do with exams
that you you know, you you're trying to get better grades in and it's not happening but you making
every effort and you're making and the situation is not
		

			converting into one that pleases you. Don't be stressed about it. Don't be sad about it. The end
this was Allah effort is in your hands You carry on knowing I said and crochet, a hula hula comb
that perhaps you dislike something and it is very good for you. Well, I said to him, Boucher,
overshadow Lockman. Perhaps you love something. But it is really, really bad for you. And remind
yourself at the end of your contemplations on La Jolla, lm one two letter and a moon that Allah
always knows best. And we don't know I just happen to know him brothers and sisters in Islam until
tomorrow night. May Allah give us life and preserve us in his obedience. I mean, Salam Alaikum wa
		

			rahmatullah wa barakato.