Salah Mahmoud – Sunday Morning Seerah- 9.8.24

Today, I'm going to give you a lecture

on how to make the most of the

time you have left in your life.

So Allah made him free from that which

they said, and he was a disobedient to

Allah and to it.

O you who have believed, fear Allah and

speak a just word.

He will correct your deeds and forgive you

your sins.

And whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger has

certainly attained a great success.

Indeed, We have presented the Trust to the

heavens and the earth and the mountains, but

they refused to bear it, and we were

afraid of it, and man bore it.

Indeed, he was ever unjust and ignorant.

That Allah may punish the hypocrites and the

hypocrites and the polytheists and the polytheists, and

that Allah may forgive the believers and the

believers.

And Allah is ever Forgiving and Merciful.

A

'udhu

Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem.

Thank you for coming.

Our Shaykh is right here, Shaykh Fazal.

He's just finishing his Tisha, the last Raka.

He's almost done, so please stay in your

places.

Just give him a minute.

Jazakum Allah Khair.

We'll take it afterwards, Inshallah.

The breakfast is ready, Inshallah.

We will let the sisters know in a

couple of minutes, and then when Shaykh Fazal

is done, the brothers will come and join

us.

He's in the Tisha hut.

Just give him a minute, please.

Jazakum Allah Khair.

We thank Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most

Merciful, for giving us this opportunity to be

here and pray Salat in Jama'ah for

Fajr.

We ask Him to continue to keep us

sincere and steadfast in this journey of life.

And we ask Him to make us among

those who are righteous at all times, at

ease, and during times of difficulty.

For indeed, we are living in a time

where an individual is confronted with many different

types of difficulties that they never thought once

would be ever possible.

Whether that would be with regards to temptation,

with trials, tribulations, with one's own family members,

with children, with neighbors, in the workplace, different

types of difficulties, to such a point that

a person sometimes is in awe.

And they ask themselves, O Allah, why so

much difficulty?

O Allah, when will it end?

O Allah, it looks like I'm the only

one being afflicted, and everyone seems to be

in ease, or at ease.

And these questions sometimes come to mind, although

we try to fight it, and we try

to push back, and continue to be sincere

and steadfast, and have patience, we always look

for answers.

And if you look for answers, look no

further than the hadith of the Prophet ﷺ.

It's a very beautiful hadith of the Prophet

ﷺ, where he said in a hadith of

Mus'ab ibn Sa'id, may Allah be

pleased with him and his Prophet, he said,

I came to the Prophet ﷺ and said,

O Messenger of Allah, which of the people

get tested the most?

Which of the people are in the most

difficulty?

The Prophet ﷺ said, He said, indeed the

Prophets go through the most of difficulties.

Then those nearest to them, those who are

nearest to them in iman, and so on

and so forth.

A person will be tried in accordance to

the level of deen, the level of iman

that the person has.

Allah will never test you beyond what you

are capable of.

And know that if Allah ﷻ has tested

you with a matter, Allah ﷻ tested you

with the wisdom behind it, that you are

capable, and you can fully overcome that difficulty.

A person will be tried in accordance to

the level of their religion.

If a person is very firm in their

deen, they're consistent in the masjid, they're consistent

in the circles of knowledge, they're consistent in

remembering Allah ﷻ, and their religion is very

strong, Allah says, the Prophet ﷺ said, his

tests will become more and more severe.

And if he is very brittle with regards

to his religion, he will be tried in

accordance to the level of his religion, of

his iman.

The Prophet ﷺ said, those tests will continue

to go and continue to stay until a

person is walking on the face of this

earth, and he does not have any sins

upon him.

Allah will continue to test a person to

purify him, and continue to test him to

elevate him, not to harm him.

In another hadith of the Prophet ﷺ, hadith

of Suhaib ibn Sandan, may Allah be pleased

with him, The Prophet ﷺ said, He said,

how wonderful is the matter of a believer,

for indeed the matter of a believer, or

the affairs of the believer, all of it

is in good.

And it is very important, he said, this

does not go for anyone but a believer.

Not just anyone, only a believer.

If prosperity comes to him, he thanks Allah

ﷻ, or she thanks Allah ﷻ, and that

is good for him or her.

And if difficulty comes upon them, they are

patient, they are steadfast, and they continue to

hold strong to the Deen of Allah, and

he said that is good for them.

Brothers and sisters in Islam, if you are

tested in any way, regardless of how difficult

that test is, always remember that Allah ﷻ

is all wise.

Always remember that Allah ﷻ is all merciful.

Always remember that Allah ﷻ is all knowing.

If He is all wise, there is obviously

wisdom behind testing you.

And what is wisdom in general?

How can we even define wisdom?

Wisdom is to put the right thing in

the right place at the right time.

That is wisdom.

And Allah ﷻ is complete in wisdom.

And so if it is happening to you

at this point in your life, there is

wisdom behind it.

Allah ﷻ is all merciful.

So along with that wisdom, there is mercy

in it.

And He is merciful upon you, upon your

family, and everyone else that is afflicted by

that test.

Even the animals and the insects, how they

are afflicted, Allah ﷻ even takes them into

consideration and puts them into the equation and

has mercy upon them as well.

So He is all merciful and He will

not harm anyone in any way.

Rather, Allah ﷻ looks for an excuse to

admit someone into Jannah.

A person remembered Allah ﷻ, remembered the greatness

of Allah ﷻ and shed one tear and

Allah ﷻ gave him Jannah because of one

tear.

And He is all-knowing.

You may say, why did this test come

now?

Why is this happening now in my life,

in my business, in my family?

Why now?

Allah knows the past, the present, the future,

the impossible.

If it was to be possible, the outcome

of that, Allah ﷻ has full knowledge of

your situation and every other person in this

world.

Allah says in the Qur'an, أَلَا يَعْلَمُ

مَنْ خَلَقَ The One who created you, the

One who sustains you, the One who fashioned

you.

Is He not fully aware of everything that's

happening in this world?

Rather, He is.

So if you put these three attributes of

Allah, and we can mention so many more,

wisdom, why is this happening?

Allah has wisdom in it.

Allah would not do it without wisdom.

So then you get patience.

Why is this happening now?

Allah ﷻ is merciful.

Allah ﷻ, I pray to Allah ﷻ, I

beg Allah ﷻ, I come to the masjid,

I try my best, although we are weak

and we make sin, I try my best

to be the best person I can, and

Allah knows my heart, and Allah knows I

want good.

So Allah looks at me with mercy, and

I know Allah ﷻ is all-merciful, so

therefore there is mercy in this test that's

happening.

Allah is all-knowing.

Maybe there are certain angles of this test

that I'm not looking at in the right

way, but Allah ﷻ knows of the seen

and the unseen, and how it will impact

my life 20 years from now, and maybe

the lessons that I will learn will help

the whole ummah, or maybe the whole community,

and I will get the reward for it,

for being patient, and as a result, it

will help me for my akhira.

Allah is all-knowing, so it gives you

patience in this dunya, and during those tests.

There's a very beautiful hadith of the Prophet

ﷺ, that he said, Allah gives this world

to those who love and those who don't

love.

Allah ﷻ, He gives this worldly life, all

the riches that you see, all the glamour

and beauty, Prophet ﷺ said, He gives it

to whom He loves and whom He does

not love.

A person doesn't make one sujood their whole

life, and Allah will give them their whole

dunya and what's in it.

And a person makes sujood night and day,

and is worshipping Allah, and crying to Allah,

and Allah ﷻ gives them something very minimal.

Because the skill, the skill is not how

much dunya you have.

Allah gives the dunya to whom He loves

and whom He doesn't love.

وَإِنَّمَا يُعْتِي الْإِيمَانُ وَالدِّينُ مَنْ أَحَبُّ He only

gives this iman and the religion to only

those who He loves.

He just doesn't give it to anyone because

it is very precious.

He only gives it to those whom He

loves.

فَإِنْ أَعْتَى اللَّهُ لَعَبْدَ الْإِيمَانُ وَالدِّينُ فَقَدْ أَحَبَّهُ

If Allah ﷻ has given you iman and

given you the deen, regardless of how difficult,

how much difficulty you're going through, regardless of

how long it's been, always remember that so

long as you have iman and you are

holding on to the deen, Prophet ﷺ said

Allah loves you.

And if we know Allah loves us, then

that difficulty becomes ease.

Knowing that the Creator is pleased with you.

Knowing that the Creator is aware of exactly

what's happening in your life.

Knowing that the Creator tested you and can

take away that test in a matter of

seconds.

Knowing that the Creator is always there and

always listening to your du'as.

Knowing all of this brings ease and comfort

to the heart.

And through these hadith of the Prophet ﷺ,

we find ease in them.

And we're able to keep strong.