Shadee Elmasry – Is Your Job Blocking Your Dua
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The speaker discusses the importance of avoiding disobeying Allah and the need to focus on the essence of one's job. They also mention the importance of keeping the job and not doing things that are not important. The speaker emphasizes the need to avoid disobeying and focus on the job.
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How do we get our dua answered? The first precondition is rectify
your wealth. why did why is it that food and wealth
and clothes is a prerequisite to this and
it doesn't necessarily the food you eat and the dot you make what
is the connection here? The connection is that the food you
eat results from the wealth that you earn. The wealth you earn is
what you do every single day all day, right? You wake up in the
morning, where's the first place you had? You had to work and you
spent all day and the bulk of your energy is spent at work. And how
many days do you go to work every day? Five days a week, 50 weeks a
year. So you disobey Allah all that time. You are in constant
nonstop disobedience of Allah. So the morsel of food that is haram
is a result of somebody who devotes his life to disobeying
Allah. That's why your earning is the precondition of your day. How
are you going to come and ask me a question when you bother me every
day? All day you wake up plotting against my plans, I have plans and
you all day work against my plans. You have the nerve now to ask me a
question. No matter how desperate you look, the prophets of Allah
who it was said them said, rubbish.
Perhaps there is a man imagine there is a man know dusty and
disheveled muck through the minute have wept rejected by people Are
you still feeling bad for him? He has nobody but Allah raffia only a
day he lifts his hands up in a summer not here. If he had dropped
like saving him was what we talked about this is called Draw an empty
*. This is a good draw. This is absolute desperation.
Here cool we are up here up.
The Prophet here has listed four reasons why your dog would be
answered.
Here dusty and disheveled. That means I'm a traveler I'm away I'm
poor. Here look pitiful. You look someone would have sympathy for
you. rejected from people's homes, more sympathy for you. You're
rejected. You put your hands up that is one of the reasons Allah
subhanaw taala because you put your hands up and another reason
that Allah accepts your dog is you call you say yada yada and Allah
loves to hear his slave say yada yada.
And still his door is not answered why? After all the reasons for
draw are there.
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prophets I said them then said his clothes is haram he is nourished
from haram. His wealth is haram. How is he going to receive an
answer? When he says his wealth is haram? His food is haram that
doesn't mean he accidentally ate pork. It means his job.
The way he earns his money. Every day he wakes up disobeyed Allah
until the evening, wakes up the next day disobeyed Allah until the
evening. So you have to make sure your job is held on what is what,
what is the meaning of your job is had a means the essence of the job
is hella it doesn't mean that sometimes something haram comes up
the essence of the job to give an example. I work out a grocer as an
example.
Working at a grocers Hello.
One day out of 100, the grocer says to me, Hey, I need you to
leave off forget the fruits and vegetables. I need you to go get
that shipment of pork and put it
on the shelves. Because your colleague is not here to that you
need to do that job. So that is a job essentially tell him I'm just
working in fruits and vegetables. That request is haram. So you can
keep that job but just don't do what is haram. You just don't do
that portion of it.
That's the portion you don't do. In contrast, a liquor store. The
entire essence of the business is haram. The essence of the this
business this transaction is haram is the Hey,
you're an electrician, right? Could you change the light bulb
for me here? Go up there and change this big light bulb. I
don't want you to touch the wine. Just change the light bulb. You
can't do that.
Why you're contributing to something the essence of it is
forbidden. So you have to understand that's the nature of
choosing a job. You don't choose a job or not based on what may
happen. You choose on the essence of the job.
A nurse
Hello. But the moment they ask you to shut the door with another guy,
that moment you have to not have you have to avoid that as much as
you can.
Now what happens if I if I don't avoid it?
Then you give some sadaqa make us too far make Toba but you also
have a brain, you have a tongue, you can talk, you go and tell the
boss I can't continue to do this. This was one time thing. When it
happened, I can't do it again. If you don't do that, then you get a
problem. And he says no, no, no, it's just part of your job
description.
Every Tuesday you're on porque
tinius Alka now I can't do this job.
Okay, you go to the nurse's station.
I know I knew a guy who said he's training to be a misuse.
Massage therapy for like people who are injured and things like
that.
So he said like, when Where do you work? He said I work in like one
of these places that they give physical therapy. I said so 19
year old girl with a groin injury during the job.
Is that started cracking up? But how could you not ask this
question of a massage therapists for injured athletes? There are no
70 year old athletes.
Every athlete is nice and physically fit. Okay, every
athlete is young. Okay, who are you massaging?
Yay.
What body part is injured? Most athletics happens with legs and
thighs and calves. What are you touching all day and all night
like this? You better make your job
or else your job your job is not going to be answered.