Shadee Elmasry – Nothin’ But Facts 7 Reasons Why Dua Delayed
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Smilla Rahmanir Rahim Al hamdu lillah
wa Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah he was the woman WADA Allahumma
salli wa barik ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi
wa salam, ala Sleeman Kathira lot yesterday we talked so much about
Toba about DUA and its acceptance. Now nobody should ever have a
doubt for not one second, that a dua is not going to be accepted it
is always required. When we face a lot out of out of edit with him,
if you truly understand Allah properly and you approach him
properly, you can not approach him with doubts.
The DUA is not just from Allah, there are conditions that come
from us to
from Allah subhanaw taala is one side, there are preconditions that
are coming from within us.
It's not just about Allah, that many people say I saw this door
and it said such and such and everyone guaranteed it's going to
be answered. But I called upon it and I didn't get a result.
Everyone says this at some point in their life. It's not just about
what comes from Allah. It's about what comes from us. Don't you
remember the Hadith of the prophets I send him said,
A man he is so disheveled and so poor, and he's knocking on
people's doors. And he's begging Allah putting his hands up, asking
Allah to Allah for help. End, the Prophet gave us an image that
everybody would help this person. Even the most wretched and
arrogant and miserable and stingy person would have sympathy with
this person. But the drawers never get answered. Right. So then Allah
subhana wa Tada says,
his income His food was haram. What he drinks is from the Haram,
what he wears is from the Haram, what does he mean by that? It
means
his earning his livelihood is all haram haram haram.
Where is he going to get and they used to jeopardy that Allah saying
how is this person going to be answered? In other words, the
mechanism that issues the DUA, the antenna, it's broken.
You go to someone's out in the old days, you don't remember this, but
in the old days, you might see it in the movies or your grandparents
know about this, if you wanted to watch TV, you had this box, and it
had these two antennas. Okay?
If you go to someone's house, and the antennas are broken, and the
saying a TV doesn't work, I can't get the signal. How are you going
to get a signal when the antennas broke?
And Allah to Allah told prophets I said, I'm told sad, if whenever
you woke us, when he asked, Oh Messenger of Allah, what I want
from Allah is that my daughter answered. Now, if I want one thing
from Allah is that my daughter answered? Brilliant request,
because that's the DUA if you get that one dua answered that will
get everything answered. Right. Prophets I send them said to him
one thing about the matar muck, you stage up data
out of mop hammock make make sure that your food is headed to eat
right your dogs will that be answered? A person's got to make
sure that the income that he the job that you guys have has to be
had that the money that you're going to get has to be handed we
don't earn from entertainment. We don't earn from unless there's a
function to it. Or there was writing things for stories for
people that have a basis maybe there's probably room for that. We
don't earn from river we don't earn from supporting river
supporting River. In other words, I don't do that a bit itself, but
I write the software by which they do it. No, that doesn't work
either.
Okay, and so we have to look at what our actual job is. And then
you have to sometimes you have to backpedal you got to find another
job sometimes there was a man in in Egypt
and he got and he was in a hotel working in a hotel and half of you
know Egyptians they work in the tourist industry, right because
that's their biggest source of income is the site's the pyramids
and all these and then the they got shadow mache and all that, all
that stuff. So the guys working in this field
And it dawns on him one day that he's selling alcohol. Right in
these hotels or I don't know, whatever he came was haram. Right.
I don't know what goes on in these hotels in Sharm el Sheikh. So he
goes to the great scholar and preacher Muhammad Metalia, Shara
we, and he says to him, this is my job. Is this income halal or
haram? He says it is haram.
So he says then, okay, what I'm going to do is I'm going to look
for another job.
And when I find another job, I'm going to quit this job, right? I
mean, common sense says, You don't quit your job when you have
nothing to land on. Right? That's what common sense says, but
sometimes, Allah Allah gives us a different law. There are two sets
of laws. There's the law that you have in your mind, which we call
common sense but Allah has his own law.
And this time he comes he says this to the chef, I'm gonna look
for another job, but I'm actually gonna and then I'll quit this job,
the shifts that you have no, you flipped it around. Allah Subhana
Allah says, well may attempt Allah your agenda Houma. kraja. When
Allah when you have whoever has taqwa, then Allah will give him a
macro edge or macro edge means a way out.
When you have when you have Taqwa first. So you're flipping it, you
want to find the way out first and then have fear of Allah. No, it
doesn't work like that. Because now we haven't proven anything.
Then sometimes Allah wants you to take a leap.
And when we take a leap, you gotta believe in it. Right? You have to
have full faith, that that's a law that Allah put there. Just like
trading with Allah, if you're a need. If you're short on bills, if
you're if you're financially strapped, what's the best way to
get out of being financially strapped?
Go out, take some of your money and given in sadaqa it's it's
rationally counterintuitive, right? You say to yourself, oh,
that doesn't make any sense. Of course. That's what we think we
think it doesn't make any sense. But Allah gives us another law.
The Quran is a book of spiritual laws. If you give out to Allah to
Allah, you did trade, you just did business with Allah, you always
are going to win. You're always going to receive back a kickback
of wealth, that's always going to happen. Right? So there are these
spiritual laws that we have to look into. So guess what happens?
This man he is he?
He thinks about it, and he says, Alright, call us if this is what
Allah wants, and that's what we're gonna do. So he goes in and he
sends his resignation letter the next day next morning, but the
resignation letter, I can't do this job. I don't want to discuss
why but I can do it. Right.
Very shortly thereafter, the man gets a job with triple the salary
in Madina. Munawwara. Madina, Munawwara right where the you're
living next to the Prophet now said Allah, Allah, it was on them.
And that's the reward of Taqwa. You never make a sacrifice for
Allah, except that what you gain back is always going to be 10
times greater. Now listen to this.
Another person.
Time of Sedna Musa someone's saying alright, what if we give a
lot of silica? We're still stuck. Okay, listen up.
Time I've said no Musa. They had a drought. Same thing. There's no
money. Their money for them was the rain. They get rain. They eat,
get
the greenery comes up. They eat from the greenery. The greenery
attracts animals, they hunt the animals, they eat the meat. All
right, and everyone's happy. Alright, greenery comes up also
means twigs, right? That you could break down leave them to dry a
little bit and then use them for fire. Okay, so
there's a drought and the time of Satan the Musa. And everybody
comes together and save the Musa does salats and it's just got it
is a special prayer in which you pray to Rakas good. And then Imam
turns around. And he the crux of it is to make Toba you have to
repent. Right and then the Imam puts his shawl from whatever side
he's wearing a shawl to the opposite side as a symbol of
change. All right. So he said no Musa does is to Cara now when a
prophet does this declutter you're gonna expect a response right? No
response. Nothing happens. Right? Nothing happens and sit and ALLAH
SubhanA wits and Musa starts making dua again no rain, because
if it's this guy is done right. You should get rain before you get
home. That's the That's how it works. Before you arrive home you
should get rain. So Allah, Prophet Musa silently beseech his Allah,
he said, Oh Allah. We've done the is Takata exactly how you taught
us. And we've made the Toba
but we haven't gotten rain.
Not Allah subhana wa Jalla speaks to him and says there is someone
in this
Got in the gathering
that has not made the Toba they have not made it so far.
So said no Musa announces to the people, he said, oh people there
is someone in this gathering who was a Aussie, he's a sinner.
Right now you think of yourself, well, isn't everyone a sinner? No,
not everyone is counts in the sight of Allah, the label of a
sinner. If you repent, you count as a 10.
You count as some repenter not as a sinner. So that's the
difference. The sinner is someone who doesn't make Toba. So he says,
Oh Musa, there's someone and Musa said, oh people's, there's someone
here that's a sinner and that's why we're not getting rain.
Immediately when he said that it started raining.
Then Musa was perplexed everyone was perplexed say no Musa walked
away from the people said, Oh Allah, you said that there was
someone who was a sinner in this gathering,
and ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada said, Yes, as soon as you made that
announcement, that man,
his heart, made it Toba. He intended with his heart, he put
his head down and he said, Oh Allah stuff for Allah for all my
sins,
making stuff for Allah. He made it so far. And immediately I gave you
the rain. Then Musa de Salam is perplexed at who is this person
that Allah is paying attention to when speaking to and he said, Oh,
Allah has told me who is this person? So I can go see him. I
want to know who this person said no, he was extremely curious said
no Musa. They said that Allah subhanaw taala says, Oh Musa
so 32? Who will? Who will? I'll see Shifu what?
I concealed him, when he was a sinner, you think I'm going to
expose him now that he's made repentance? So Allah, so sometimes
the delay in our DUA and everyone has to have a DUA, you have to be
thinking about something and having a goal and reaching for
something. And this is the best idea is to seek from the funnel of
Allah to Allah.
When we're getting a delay in the answer, it's oftentimes because
there's some remnants of things that we have to make us to fall
for. And if you can't think of what is it that I have to make
that you still fall for you do is still fun.
Now, here's the thing, sometimes, even when ALLAH has forgiven us,
there's still there's one thing is the forgiveness. There's another
thing is the damage that's been caused by that sin inside of a
heart that we have to mop up. How do we mop it up? Well, how do you
mop up stuff in this world? Soap and water? Right? Well, what's the
soap and water of the heart, it's new, it's new. So you just need
more a bad with the intent of washing away the effects. So
there's the sin, which Allah will forgive your your sinful intention
easily, just by Eisteddfod. But then there's the stain that you
left the damage. Sometimes that has to be washed away first before
we can receive the fall of Allah Wisenet. Reason being is that when
you receive the front of Allah Now what do you owe, you owe gratitude
that gratitude needs, amen, because to have is a lot harder
than to be a half not, when you're a half not, it's an easier test
than being than having a lot of things, it's actually a much
easier test. Because when you have not all you have to do is be
patient. You just have to accept your your your situation, and be
patient. And you have to clench your teeth and get through. But
when Allah gives you and you become wealthy, and you become
good looking, and you become handsome, or pretty, and you have
a gorgeous wife, and now you have a lot of money, and you have an
income stream, and you look great, and everything has come together.
Now the world opens up to you. It takes a lot of discipline not to
go astray when that happens. And that's why being rich is a bigger
test than being poor by so many people are poor, much more there
are more people that are poor than that are rich, because Allah is
protecting them. What is the province I save them say about
paradise. He said, I saw it's all filled with poor people. They had
a lesser test, Allah protected them from that test. Okay, he
protected them he went, he looked into the hellfire. So all the rich
are there. It's a harder test to be rich. When you see someone
rich, you have to sympathize for them. Right? You got to look at
someone that said this person's got so many options. Even the one
who avoids the Haram with his wealth. He's too distracted
counting his wealth.
to even do a bad they don't have they have a hard time advancing
spirits and not because they're doing something haram because well
takes up time. You got to manage your wealth. You got to have
accountants you got to sit down a regular poor person, a regular
even middle class people today that barely making it right. They
only look at their account a couple of times a day. They get
upset because it's zero or near zero and they start making dua
they're benefiting actually spiritually, right. They're upset,
but look what they're not doing.
They're not engaged.
isn't so much it is a protection. And then once people make it now
all of a sudden that draw of desperation is gone. You never
need to be nothing's pushing you to that draw. So oftentimes is the
point being is that so many times the DUA is not answered because
the effects and the traces of the sins need to be wiped away. First
you have to wipe away the traces of the sins. And how do you do
that one of the best ways it's generally a bad and if you don't
know what what is my sin then it's general Toba and general job it is
by La ilaha illa Anta Subhanak in the consumer of violin mean 40
times a day
40 times a day. Right.
was still fairly them because the baby Hamdi Rebecca will actually
you will incur Subhanallah he won't be handy 100 times in the
morning 100 times at night is one of the best of God for Toba Subhan
Allah we have d in the morning 100 times And subhanAllah we have d at
night 100 times.
Another one
was so fiddly them because well in what we know and what we net is to
make us too far for others. Reason being is that when you make a
certain fondness for somebody, when you make any dua for
somebody, all your angels, they say, Well, let me follow and for
you is the same thing. And so there was one of the Tibbett in he
said,
all my dogs are answered. He said, they said how do you know he says
because when I make dot for others, and the angels repeat that
dot for me and their dog is always answered, and that's true. Do I
have angels is always answered. So make dua for others. When you make
dua for others, it removes also, like jealousies, enmities
competition, right? What do you want to do I want to be
successful. Make dua for your counterparts for your friends,
your colleagues, neighbors, your your brothers and sisters, make
dua for them to be successful, you'll be successful, right? Why?
Because all those medica they respond that drive back down to
you, and how many minutes it could do have around you say North man's
head need says 10.
One on this side, one on the other side, one behind you, one in front
of you, that's four, and then five, and then one, two, guarding
your eyes that seven, then one that's simply writing the Salah
and said, I'm on the Prophet. That's what eight and then there's
two more. Can you remember what they are but the hadith of Satan
Othman says there are 10 angels around a person at all times.
Okay? So you're gonna get 10 meta, saying, Well, let me through. And
likewise for you.
was so fun to learn a lot get off with Rahima. So we're told that
call upon Allah with the names, the 99 names, and one of these is
yoga food era him. So when a person is making Toba, he should
always be constantly calling yoga for era him. Here's a question
came in says if possible, can you please explain the Hadith that
says the best worship is waiting for footage? That's true. So you
got time. So sometimes Allah to Allah has answered you to whether
it's salvation
from something or gaining something, right? And he's got
he's answered you, you're gonna get it. But now it's just a matter
of time. Everything's got to fall into place. Okay. Now what do you
have to do all of your a bad is just wiping away those sins wiping
away that's in there. Why is the province I send them say,
or this hadith, which I can't remember off the top of my head,
but I trust that. In other words, the meaning of it is waiting for
the salvation because waiting means that you have a man.
Waiting means you fulfilled everything you could do, there's
nothing else I could do. Right? There's nothing else I could do.
And so but I just have to wait. So you're just trusting. And Allah
loves trust. Allah, Allah loves that somebody has trust, and that
someone has Amen and they have faith, then they're believing.
Okay? And that even though there's nothing there's like, oh, there's
like a desert there are no sign of anything coming but you still
believe that it's going to come that's what Allah loves. And
that's why that waiting no matter what happens I'm going to get this
I'm going to wait and I've done everything I could do. All I could
do now is just wait
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especially if they say this in the last third of the night. All
right, that is
from the Quran. All right, I'm gonna do
Nana folk for Lana bluebella What Kannada Banagher beautiful dua
from the Quran and whoever says it in the last portion of the night
and will inshallah be given paradise or here's a question from
Amen zipper she says when I do is still fun to do art for the
Muslims of the West was creeps in making me question if by making
stuff up for others, I'm giving something away. Right which is I
know wrong. How do you overcome such a thought very simply by like
you're not wasting your time or giving anything away by the simple
remembrance and reminder that
every time that you ask something for somebody else, your 10 angels
are asking the same thing for you.
So there's no way you lose you're, you're in a constant state of
gain, right? When that happens, you're probably gaining more by
making dua for others and making dua for yourself. You make it for
yourself, we're all selfish and Allah and they accept or reject.
But if you mingle it with Salah on the Prophet and do out for others,
right, then guaranteed there's, you're going to receive the same
back and remember, right dua is not just the answer from Allah,
the mechanism of the DUA, which is our soul souls has to be right, it
has to be correct. That means there can be no doubt, that means
the income that we receive must be Hello.
And that means our toboe must be strong. Right and sometimes we
just it's just a matter of time, that you we have to erase the
traces of sins and sometimes it's just a matter of time because
circumstances have to occur at Allah doesn't use force
circumstances have to naturally occur and align themselves that
for Allah's Will to occur be or to be complete. Alright, to be
complete. Alright, what is the best do not to read while going
through hardship, learn to Subhanak in the Continental Army,
for sure how to overcome feeling of not worthy of Allah's mercy.
You don't have to overcome that we aren't worthy. That's why it's
called Mercy. Word nobody's worthy. We didn't do anything to
exist, right? We're actually not worthy. But Allah is merciful.
He's kind, he's generous. That's it. That's how it is take it and
benefit from it and use it and be grateful. That's all that's what
this whole creation is. So I problematize him said, no one
enters Jannah by their actions, they said Not even your messenger
of Allah, not even me.
Except if Allah showers me with his mercy, and who's our mercy,
the number one mercy Yeah, see, that's a hadith. There's another
Hadith prophesy, Selim says, Good, and the Ramadan Muda. Um, the
guidance that's been sent down as a gift. So the more you attach
yourself to the Prophet, you're attaching yourself to that mercy.
Let's take a look at this question from escaping purgatory.
Hopefully, we can do that. I mean, we don't have a concept of
purgatory. But we do have the out off which is a mountains for the
people where 5050 In their deeds, I keep making this to vontobel for
a bad habit. And I keep going to back to it. Any advice on what to
do to stop it willpower is low at the moment. For those who have
some kind of addiction, you will there's only one cardinal rule
from getting away from addiction. You don't quit. That's it. And
there are some sins that Allah keeps with you, to test and to
strengthen your persistence. That's it. So you only have one
cardinal rule, don't quit. Don't ever quit making Toba and you must
believe, absolute belief, if Allah to Allah wills to change me at
this moment, he can change me at this moment, you're not going to
change yourself, we're going to change. Allah is going to change.
We just have to make ourselves worthy of receiving that
generosity. Okay? And we do that by never quitting. See Allah you
will have the who, that Allah loves the art, he just won't go
away. He's persistent, he persists, he persists. That's
allowed.
This is what Allah loves. And Abdullah who he just doesn't stop,
okay? This isn't a hadith per se, but it's an agreed upon principle
and Allah who is who he just never stops, okay? And if you don't have
this habit, you won't go far in Dean or dunya. If you if you have
the habit of giving up, then you're faithless. You're gonna
have faith, even in the dunya whether it's a championship or a
business or some record that people set you ask them, Well,
what was it that how did you make I just didn't give up? Right?
Whether it's Dean or dunya not giving up. That's the only thing
that matters. There is a question from Hudson Maga. He says, Is it
permissible do is Takata and Salah Hajj every night for something you
can do more than every night because these things are DUA and
so therefore you could do them alongside with every Sunday you
can make the intent you have your Sunday prayers your new weapon
becomes a lot is jahana or salata, Raja
alright.
Rosina says how
do you deal with the question doubts when you're not sure where
they stem from how to stop fearing that your path back to him is
closed? You have to gain knowledge. You got to read, read
and knowledge will open you up to realize what is the path of Mercy
say now I used to say, I know the pathways of Heaven better than the
pathway the pathways of Earth, which means he knows how to draw
near to Allah gained forgiveness, getting st Jabba to draw near to
Allah better than he knows how to do you know the ways of this world
of making money and power and politics, right? So you just have
to keep learning you have to keep studying Wiswell s is removed by
thicker and thicker knowledge knowledge studying gotta always be
reading and listening to lectures, is there a DUA and protection from
the app and showing off of course, simply all I remove from my heart
yet, that's how simple it is removed from my art purify my
heart from India and Grammy philos and the constant recitation of
cuckoo Allahu Ahad. It breeds a philosophy and a person. A free
slave says Can Baraka be put in a relationship where both parties
have fallen into sin together? Yes, if they both make Toba
together, simple as that Allah does not expect us to be perfect,
but he does expect us to make Toba
Zahra say it says I was told only Nadia prayer can be down with this
Takata and hagit not the Sunnah prayer
I think she meant night prayer maybe can be down with done with
his Takata no you can for Zara say it's question you can combine is
Takata and Sunnah of motherhood for example, is is Salam hija with
you know another sunnah you can combine them it can be one in the
same so I make intention that the Sunnah of motive, or sunnah of
Lahore and is Takata at the same time, nothing that she meant yes.
No, it doesn't have to be separate. Right? So now maybe the
one of us have a different rule allow them because the Hanafi is
they have different rules regarding cinema, Ghana prayers,
like you're not even allowed to skip them without a reason. You're
sinful if you skip them without a reason. It says or Alia says how
do you know if our Tov is accepted?
You know that your Toba is accepted by number one, the fact
that you have initiated the Toba. The fact that you started making
Toba is a sign that Allah has wills for you to remove your sins.
And when you keep doing Toba so much, that you start to transform,
right? You make Toba so much that you actually started and you're
changing. Everything batches, changing, your outlook is
changing, your habits are changing, until you've changed so
much that you can't even remember the sins that you used to do.
That's a sign that Allah has erased them from the book of
deeds.
Um, has a mother says Just to follow up if we keep going and
don't really find a solution to a problem to see any sign of
acceptance, you just keep going. Yeah, you haven't find a solution.
Now the solution may come later. Right? So it requires patience.
You just have to keep going. Right? If you if you want it,
don't stop. That's the simple rule. If you want the solution to
a problem, if you want to reach a goal. You love it so much. You
keep thinking about it. Keep praying for it, you keep going.
All right. And you just have to have that summer. Because what is
what's your other option to quit? Are you going to be any happier if
you quit? Then waiting for a solution and trying like another
option? I always think about this way. Well, what's what's my other
option? I'm not happy. I wish I can have my result now. But what's
the other option to quit? Right? Quitting is far worse. Right? What
am I going to do when I quit? Right just mope around and feel
sorry for myself.
This is how can we know if a gut feeling is from Allah? You wait
with the book and the Sunnah. That's it you that's how you do
it. I saw a post about reciting some verses of students and Kevin
and other students can't remember the details. Yeah, there are
certain sutras that
you read a certain times such as milk at night calf every Friday.
What is the best way to wake up for tahajjud now this is first of
all make Toba during the day. Just make general is too far before you
go to sleep. And as a little trick, drink a bunch of water not
too much but a decent amount of water right before you sleep and
set your alarm clock and one of the other is going to wake you up
because if your alarm clock doesn't wake you up, wetting your
bed will wake you up. And so when you get up to go to the bathroom,
you just while you're there you make will do and you you pray
you're to hedge it. Rosewater 748 says how do you be a good friend
to someone who is homosexual without doing wrong by Islamic
principles?
You're gonna You can be a kind person but you have to remember
you're on the religion
Have your friends. So if you want to spend a lot of time with
somebody who is openly disobeying Allah, then you have to think
about that at the same time.
Someone who's an alcoholic, I guess if they're penitent about
it, then we can befriend them if the repentant they just have this
problem that they get drunk every once in a while, but they make
Toba Okay, fine, then, but as soon as, but if they're not penitent
about it, then we don't befriend them. But if we're stuck with them
or around them, then all you do is just treat act with prophetic
kindness. And that's it. What else can you do? But if they're
influencing you, then that's a problem.
Someone says about what is what is the last hour of to hedge it to
the best of dua, is the one in the middle of the night when
everyone's asleep? The prophesy centum said Joe Finley right When
Everyone's Asleep. Sometimes Phaedra is late in like six
o'clock, sometimes later, even for short windows in the fall. And you
get up for to hedge it but everyone's already awake. So you
missed jofan late so jofa, late middle of the night is when DA is
best heard. Is it true of someone
do sin and secret their good deeds or what to say not not not if
they're doing it in secret, because they're embarrassed if
they're doing a sin secretly because they're embarrassed.
That's actually a sign of Amen, because they know it's wrong. And
then they make Toba afterwards, then that does not wipe away good
deeds. If they make Toba is their importance in studying one of the
four scholars if you're going to study FIP, write
formally, like Chapter Two Chapter Two Chapter Two chapter you have
to follow one of the four methods. If you're going to go to medical
school, you have to apply to one medical school you can't go to
three different medical schools and just take a class here and a
class they're in a class here, right? Or you're gonna go to a law
school you're gonna go to one law school, you're not going to go to
multiple ones. So likewise, when you study the law, you're going to
study one method
best you ought to be free of debts.
Okay, that's adults into a debt. The best to get rid of debt is
still far because Allah says unsuited to new financial stuff. A
lot of black women who can offer your system recommend rara women
it could be M word with an even range. I love them from Jeannette
and Jaleco, Mahara. That all of your you're gonna have great
amount of wealth
is gained when people are in constant is too far.
To be it says, What are your thoughts on secularism, secular
ideologies, and Muslims should never be attached to any secular
ideology. Even if you find that there's some benefit and wisdom,
there's always something right and some wrong well, whatever is right
find it in Islam. Right. And then all you need is Islam.
So secular ideologies, they don't, they're not going to benefit
ideologies that bring you some morals, or how to live or how to
have a good life, they're always going to be an admixture of good
and bad, and most of the results are negative. So if you're
inspired by one of them, that's fine, read about it, and find what
matches it in Islam, then you just have it in Islam. If you're not
studying FIP, and you're an average Muslim, no problem.
Is there about should you go around looking for the difference
between the scholars, if you start reading about the differences of
the scholars, you're no longer an average Muslim. You're becoming a
student of knowledge. In that case, you become that educated,
then you pick a method and you stick by it, okay. But I don't
think that anybody should be an average Muslim when it comes to
PETA. Because as the questioner said, secularism and Islam, I
mean, these days, you can't really be an average Muslim anymore. You
got to study, everyone's got to study their ideas floating around
the internet and coming to us from all sorts of places, and we got to
be able to filter these ideas. There are secular ideologies
coming every day, you got to be able to filter these ideas. And
you got to be learned today, can you be not tech savvy, everyone's
got to be you got to know how to use technology today. It's not the
olden days, where you could have not tech savvy, I don't know how
to use a computer, let me get my grandson to do it. That's not
those days are done with same thing in doctrine and belief and
copy that you can't be ignorant of these things. You got to be
knowledgeable. All right, everyone has to be studying today. And the
student the difference between when you become a student of
knowledge, the student of knowledge, he starts interrogating
the sources of his knowledge. And I'm not going to study with this
person. I'm going to study with this person, not this book, this
book. And then he gets a curriculum and you ask the
scholars and they give you a curriculum, alright, you want to
study off data? These are the books you study and you go about
it one chapter at a time systematically. All right, can
anyone today not be health conscious? If you're not health
conscious, you're going to be in taking so much junk. You're gonna
get sick, you're gonna die, right? You got to have a degree of health
conscious
snus, you gotta you gotta know that when the ingredients is a
paragraph this big, you probably shouldn't need it. Right? You got
to know how to use computers and the Internet, you got to be aware
of things, right? You got to be financially savvy, too, because
the cost of living today, it's like ridiculous, right? You got to
be financially savvy at a young age.
Alright, right. It's almost like literacy. No button today. And
today, the ideas that are coming to us from commercials from
Netflix, from movies from Disney. All right, the messages, you got
to be able to pinpoint them. This idea is going to lead to this to
this to this is going to lead our family astray. It's gonna ruin us,
right? There's no reason there's no, it's not even possible
anymore. For a person to just be let me just be the average Muslim,
and go and then a quote that hadith or the saying of Ahmed bin
Abdulaziz, and many scholars later on, the best faith is the faith of
the old lady. That's in the things that don't have any doubts, like
belief in Allah and His angels and prophets. Right? Not belief in or
the saying that, you know, the Sahaba didn't question to discuss
these things. So I'm not going to question though. What was the
method of the sahaba? The method of the Sahaba was when a problem
arises, they answer it, they solve the problem, when a theological
issue comes up, and a matter of debate comes up in our world, the
method of the Sahaba is to solve it. Right? So that's why these
things are so important. And it's, it's critical for somebody don't
go around being somewhat naive, and thinking Let me just go
and be that average Muslim. All right, what when we dream people,
how passed away did we met them?
They are when you do have someone who died. That means that Allah
has allowed that soul to come and give you a message. And the dreams
the words of the dead are always true. By the way, if you get an
animal talks to you or someone dead talks to you, righteous are
not Muslim or Catherine what they say is true because they've
entered an abode where only the truth is spoken. Not not
falsehood. Alright. The question is based on the first video you
posted, does the soul travel after death in the browser? Yes, it
travels and it can travel back here and give messages to the
people.
Zuhair Memon we have a lot of memes in New Jersey it's a huge
family advice for an MSA president on programming for Muslim college
students.
I'll tell you the class A good update a class that teaches and is
So Noah Jamal
is Salawat equivalent is still far Salawat is different from it's
still far and we should do both we should never just do one you
should do is solo out on the Prophet and is still physician
Abdullah official says is there is this question that keep disturbing
me alright there is a question that keeps disturbing me that when
Allah created bliss, his disobedience and arrogance was his
nature and his nature is again a creation of Allah know his
disobedience. And arrogance was became his nature after he chose
it. You see, this is how it works. You You're the yup pathways in
your brain, you choose a certain route of behavior. You choose it
one time two times 10 times 100 times 1000 times you continue
making that decision and that choice and then Allah starts
helping you that's out of his justice you persist it you're
gonna get Allah's help now now it becomes part of your nature. All
right, so he chose
is not he wasn't created Eve nobody's created evil. You choose
that thing. Or your parents teach you how to be good or how to be
evil.
Cudi, you seek you write is having a really blasphemous thoughts,
unintentionally a sin. None of your thoughts are sins. Only if
you speak about it, and you act upon it. Okay. And you believe it.
So the thoughts that come into your mind are no different
according to the scholars, as the strangers you see in the street,
when I'm walking in the street, and I see a terrible human being
or a naked human being, right? My my sinful No, it's not my problem
that they're walking on the street. I'm completely innocent.
And I see them in front of me. Okay, no, it's how can I not see
them? But if I keep looking at them, then I'm sinful. That's why
the prophets I said the first gays you're is you're not sinful. The
first gays means that when I saw them, how can I look at something
that I haven't seen? Right? So the first gaze is when you see them?
Then after that, if you intentionally look at them, right,
then you're sinful. Likewise, the firt the thought that you get in
your head you're totally innocent. If that if you then act upon that
thought and and sit and talk about it and believe in it, then that's
a problem.
So it's a good question though.
Is
As a result of proper lack of practice, it could be a result
that your mind you don't have enough vicar you need to do more
liquor.
It could be, and it could be just the result of being around people
who are no good. All right, let's see what we got here. Zhi Shan
says, Are we as humans paying the price for bliss is disobedience?
No, not at all Allah has in has willed that at least be our test.
Okay. And if it wasn't a bliss, it would be someone else. But Allah
has willed that we'd be tested. Why so that he could see our
reaction to the test and reward us accordingly. Without a bliss we
could never attain ranks.
Zohar, it says flaws of Islamic school education and what we can
do to improve the quality at the community Islamic school
education, they're doing what they can, but the most important thing,
if to be Islamic, is to have a really good Islamic Studies
program with scholars with a curriculum. Right and and that's
not easy. That's something that people don't know who to hire. A
lot of these people started to some schools and they don't, they
don't know who to hire, they don't know what how to set up a
curriculum, right? It's easy to go online, get a curriculum for math
and science and find people to teach them but to teach the
Islamic sciences that's why we need these these colleges and
schools to churn out people who understand the curriculum. So
therefore you can start taking kids up and up and up. Right and
and they could they could come out like having finished America in
Islamic law finished the at least to middle to complete level and
Arpita right and be strong and then they can go to college face
questions on secularism and SEC all these secular ideologies and
be able to like ninjas at this
discard them left and right. Right so that's the thing, the biggest
advantage if they can do this
Alright, so I look Morrissey says I'm the Hulk. Is it true
that the prophets I send them would be would do seven days still
fought in a sitting or is it in a whole day there's to both
narrations
that means he did a lot of his Tofa How do you cure doubts when
making dua is by remembering the verse of Allah subhanaw taala,
only STG bloco call upon Me I will answer me answer you and the
Prophet saying, oh, Allah and to move to notability job have
certainty. And if you have trouble having certainty, do more a bad
and avoid sins, do a lot of worship. And avoid sins so the
certainty can settle in your heart. You got to pan right and
you need though you need to cook you need to that food to settle in
the pan you need to put some olive oil, you need to clean the pan,
right? You want to fire set fire to a log you need to dry the log.
If it's wet, it won't set fire. Alright, so you have peed
certainty with the promises of Allah, they only settled in a
clean heart. So we all got to clean our hearts by doing a lot of
a bed, and a lot of vicar and a lot of dA. Couple more questions
before we wrap up. How do you advise someone close like a family
member about sin they're engaging in which they know is very bad
when opening such a topic may push them further away from the Dean.
It depends on the relationship. If you're an older to a younger, it
really depends. And sometimes if you feel that they're going to go
further away, then you have to tread very carefully. Okay. And if
they're older than you, then it's more difficult. Okay.
All right, let's see how to come over or how to overcome
overthinking.
Right. How do you overcome overthinking?
That's a pretty general question. And
I think we over overthink when we don't know, when we don't have
certainty. So I think that's when you strengthen your certainty on
something. You don't have to overthink. There was a man who
came to me a medic, and he said, let's debate I want to debate you.
He said debate me on what he said on Sharia, mimetic said then why
would I have a debate? This is because maybe I have some
knowledge that you don't have, right? And I'll convince you and
then what happens if I convince you He said, If I If you convince
me I'll follow you. If I convince you you follow me Mattox and what
if a third person comes and debates both of us? He says, then
we will follow him. He said, What religion is it that we keep
changing our opinions? So oftentimes we overthink and we
jump around because we don't have knowledge or knowledge isn't
certain and isn't firm. Right? But once you make your knowledge
certain and firm, you don't have to jump around. That's why a
mimetic never debated anybody had no need to debate anyone. Right.
He was certain with his knowledge, why? Because his sources of
knowledge were so strong
Who was his spiritual father? Imam Malik Cena Jaffa Sada, right? How
do you have real hope in this time when we're in the end of times
things are going to end badly.
Things are gonna end there are bad things are going to happen in
general, that does not mean to you as a specific person. That's a
big, Good to Great question. Because it's all negative, right?
You go out there Saudi, they're having Halloween, they're having
concerts 750,000 people, this is one of the biggest concerts for a
washed up rapper, or I don't even know who the guy is, right?
Everyone else knows. But the guy's like washed up. He's not even the
big name. I mean, to me, if I don't know about him, he's not a
big name. Right? Because I'm only going to know the big names, I
don't follow these things. So only you know, the big names. It's like
the people on the fringe. They're the measure of who's a household
name. So anyway, I don't know, maybe he's a big guy, big deal,
but I don't, I have never heard of him in any event, but this guy
attracts 750,000 for a washed up dude.
And Saudi Arabia, and yet, ombre and Hajj is reduced to 60,000
people for Hajj last year. And you're all going to go and
prohibit all sorts of gatherings, for thicker indeed, they're all
prohibited, and they're going to have that gathering. So yes,
things are going to get bad in general. But that doesn't mean
it's gonna get bad for you. And in fact, the path the doorway to
Allah is not wide open. It's wide open. Why? Because they're empty
the road to Allah is empty.
Right? When was the last time you had trouble finding a good seat in
the mosque? never exaggerate or empty? Right? In some cases, that
100 on some cases, they're full, right? And masajid are always
increasing. Because the number of Muslims are increasing, but you
never have a hard time. Oh, there's a class. All right, let's
sign up before we know it gets booked. It's never going to be
booked, right? It's not like a Knicks game or a football game, or
a soccer game where tickets get booked quickly. Right You're gonna
lose tickets know, the path to Allah right now. It's open. It's
all left lane now. All right, meaning we're all moving fast. And
so in Hola. Todos is is holding those people more dearly, I
guarantee you, they're more dear to Allah subhanahu Azeez to Allah
to Allah than in previous times. In previous times, the path to
Allah was packed. Those are the good errors, right? The early
times of Islam, even if there were wars and bad kings, but in
general, the goodness was it was packed, there was traffic jams on
the way to the path of Allah subhanaw taala. Okay. Even one of
them I think it was see down the river. He said that I examined all
the pathways to Allah or maybe it was out of control to Jay Lani. He
said, I examine all the pathways to Allah, the path of knowledge,
the path of charity, the path of jihad, to all the pathways of
Allah, the fasting, the worship, and I found them all packed, they
were filled with people a lot of competition, he said, but I found
one pathway, that the door was empty and open and easy to go
into. That was the path of humility. So I went the path of
humility and I found it was easy path to Allah. So for QD UC, I
would say that the path of Allah to Allah today it's the highways
open and there is ample
room and for individual Muslims to have a great life it's a principle
of Allah if you live by Allah, you're gonna have a great life
even if you're right in the middle of the lions den. Which we all are
the whole world is lions den. What English book would you recommend
reading regarding Aki, the
English book regarding Aki the I would recommend a book called
the clear light and * and movie in by images a, it's called the
clear light and Newton movie in an hour, I guess recommend my own
book on Safina press.com called key to Paradise because I gathered
in it so much from different sources that Hamdulillah that
people can benefit from. So again, it's called key to paradise. I
sort of forgot about it for a second there. But key to Paradise
is a is a summary, a good summary, but it's got a lot in it too. And
it's got some reputations in the back too. And a glossary and
everything and you can get it at Safina press.com It's in draft
form, but it's still very beneficial. Right? In other words,
it's like a an official publication, but it was there for
the students to read that we have in the local mosque. So you can
get it at Safina press.com
Hi there. It says how do you balance feeling optimistic and
hopeful that Allah will answer your DUA and feeling of sadness,
that when dua isn't answered, very simply remove that second part and
simply say, there's still more I have to do until it gets answered
more cleaning out the traces of my sins and two really, really
strong, we got to be able to control our
thoughts, any thought of doubt? We got to remove it, replace it by
remembering Allah to Allah has promised us and the Prophet has
promised us, okay? And have that absolute certainty and then put
the blame on ourselves. Okay, we haven't cleaned off our sins yet
clean off more sins. All right, keep scrubbing away
and be optimistic and also put yourself this well what other
options you have quitting and being said no, but it's so I have
no other option except to keep believing. Right and sometimes
things take a lot. I'm Guy messaged me, he said you were
talking about dua a long time ago. So I started making dua for
marriage because marriage is the number one subject of dua.
He said, I prayed for two and a half years,
two and a half years. And Allah answered me, and he said, I
married the most beautiful woman, okay.
Two and a half years, that's a long time to have hope.
Rosewater says it's okay to use chosen pronouns with the intention
of making the non binary people feel comfortable.
How would you make them feel comfortable when you use the
pronoun in their absence?
This is one thing I never understood. I want to be referred
to as they, okay, I'm going to refer to you when you're not
around.
What difference does it make, right? But I allow them I would
only do that if my job I'm not to be quite honest with you, that
side of the world and that side of the universe, the catering to
their feelings. Sounds very harsh, but it's the really the last of my
concerns, right? Because it's sort of absurd to be quite honest with
you.
That my speech about something that is like a completely
objective fact. Now unless the person has come, I'll tell you
what, then this is my fifth if the person this is the chef a and
Medicaid FET to on this, if the person has completely eliminated
all markers of masculinity, and they have now put on themselves
including the surgery everything, all the markers of femininity,
then yes, then you're going to call them by you're going to treat
them in Sharia as a female. All right, I asked my shift this shift
say Bootsy gave this fat to him which he told me this, that the if
all of the markers of agender are removed from a person. Okay?
This is not my festival by the way. I'm just telling you. It's
six eight Ramadan booties festival that is online, you can find it
Christianne Vicky, who's on Instagram. He's the one who
pointed it to me. That's a chef a opinion, the medical opinion by
Sheikh Mahmoud should be if all of the markers of of being a man such
as having facial hair, okay, having a deep voice, having a
member, essentially having the private parts of a man, if all
these things have been removed from a person, having hair on your
chest, etc. You've been well, you don't see people's chests anyway.
But all that stuff is gone.
And yet, now they have a softer voice, they have * and they
have done a surgery and they don't have a penis anymore. Okay, or
then they will be treated as a female, the act that they did is
sinful. And if he's not a Muslim, then
I mean, that's
a whole nother thing, right? And then they're not going to follow
our shooter in the first place. Let's say if even it's a Muslim
who does that
it's sinful what they did.
Now that they've done it, they will be treated as that by the
Sharia, even if they were born a different gender, right doesn't
mean it was okay. But that's how they will be treated. So you might
be surprised by that fatuous, but that I was surprised by it myself
but that's what a defense way is. So now if someone comes up with
the new what they call
like cosmetic pronouns or whatever custom pronouns
I'm not interested in playing make believe with you.
I would always have also been biller embedded in our minds,
though cleaner your heart the more a good opinion of Allah will be
established. So avoid sins do a lot of a Betta and Toba. The
cleaner your heart is okay. The more the easier that hosting have
been is like a seed and it grows and it dies and it grows and it
dies. Why is it growing and dying because the soil may not be good?
It's not getting enough sunlight and it's not what getting water so
purify your soil, water it with decurrent and a bed and expose it
to the signs of Allah. Alright, ponder this. Keep pondering Allah
and His greatness and hosting have been grows in the heart like that.
Zach Kira says I can't sleep early, which does not help for
tahajjud please advise, drink, drink water, that you're gonna
force you to go to the bathroom
and wake up in the middle of the night. It's probably not healthy,
but it works. Zuhair says advice on programming for Muslim college
students topics methodologies.
I answered a question for the MSA and I said it to class, a class on
secular ideologies, learning, studying, studying, studying, I
don't care about anything else. All anyone else could do all sorts
of fun stuff. But the most important thing is the hard part
which is studying, right studying updated. Okay. Getting a teacher
pooling your money together if it requires funding to get that
teacher All right, get him through zoom. him or her there's a lot of
us you out there that are women
that can lead Holika that can teach. Whether it's through zoom
or physically, education, that's all that matters.
Are there any teachers that you recommend it Toronto?
All I know in Toronto is photos in a band. That's all I know, in
toronto, toronto. I'm not connected to the Toronto scene. So
I don't know what's going on there. But I all I know that he's
there. And he runs a great website. I met him once I think
for us, but I know him from the internet. from way back, we
exchanged messages online. How do you get out of in decisiveness for
basic things or even good deeds and activities to do when you have
too many choices? Again, knowledge, right? Knowledge,
certainty is always based on knowledge. So if you got a lot of
questions about things, that's because your understanding of them
is pretty much even. So start learning more about your choices,
and learning and learning more about what about yourself? Well,
what is it that I truly want here? What am I actually seeking here?
Right?
What am I actually seeking here? And that's what's going to help
you come to a conclusion so knowledge of my own intention
first.
All right. All of that helps with indecision, like what do I truly
want? And the knowledge that if I want something I have to eliminate
all the other distractions?
All right, can loot I guess? colludes says do these do those in
the life of bars or have any knowledge about this dunya in the
sense are they aware about this realm? Yes, they could be and they
could not be it depends on what Allah Tala allows for them they
could be and they could not be for example, we know the prophets I
said them is fully aware
of his ummah and everything that is happening to them
all right, i i that says mercy and I
can't remember my French right now. Whatever is the response from
from in French. Merci. What do you see? What's the You're welcome?
All I know is Bonjour. MX jpg of says is earning one's income from
entertainment haram if yes, does that mean most of artists,
musicians, etcetera, income is haram? In general? The answer is
yes. But in the world we live in today, there's probably some room
where if it's something that you're filling in a void for the
Muslims, then probably there's room for that probably, and Allah
knows best but in general, entertainment, being an athlete,
etcetera, that's not income that's permitted the Prophet he
disallowed income from games, and
the Quran
forbade income from low, low.
Alright, but there's probably some room
for that when it comes to like an Islamic sphere. Because we do have
the this the world we live in. And there there is a void for certain
things that like stories to be told, or even casinos and things
like that, then Insha Allah, there's room for that. Lily Shire
1010 says, What does the hadith of strangers mean today? Oh, that's a
great question. Because strangers were to the to the to the people
who don't have Allah and His Messenger were strangers, because
when we analyze things we analyze things in the equation is the
existence of God and His Prophet, and the existence of afterlife. So
our analysis of things is very strange to them. Because
everything we do, part of our the equation of our decision making is
Allah said, His Messenger said, and there's an afterlife, and
there is a spiritual consequence. The rest of the world does not
have that in the equation. Therefore, our results will be
very different from everyone else's results. That's what it
means that we're going to be strangers, that they don't
understand our line of thinking, right? They don't understand the
man that a Muslim has. Right and they don't use that's not part of
their equations. And so that's how we end up as strangers.
obssessed says, Please save this. Yes, they're all going to be
saved. Or what is it a stranger, and we'll return to being straight
lamb has already returned to being strange if he asked me, right,
that it's looked upon as something odd. And
but there's a great reward in that. All right, let's take one
more and then we wrap up. So this last question is from Siddhartha.
Gazelle says why Muslim countries do not care about Afghanistan? How
can Muslims you guys are they don't care about Afghanistan?
Because they don't have I don't think any of these countries, they
really have the faith, right.
All right, I don't think they have the faith to face all the
consequences. That's gonna come raining down on them.
You know, once they support Afghanistan, they're gonna get
they're gonna lose all the aid. And so
yeah, it's sort of a judgment to say that they don't have that
faith but what else can we say? They don't or they don't have the
ability one or the other. They don't have the faith or the
ability to face the consequences of
supporting anyone connecting connecting to Afghanistan. They
people just don't want to touch this like hot potato.
House authentic is fickle. Akbar 100%. You should read it and study
it. What book Am I reading from today? I read today a couple of
Hadith from Imam and Noah's book of God, which I recommend. This
should be in the library of every Muslim, right? I don't know if you
can see this. Alright, the book of remembrance by Imam nawawi. You
should get that this is the translation with the Arabic that's
why it's so big it's translation with Arabic and some no and
transliteration too. So if you don't read Arabic, you can read
the DUA transliterated, right.
Would you want to read from key to paradise? Yeah, we can read from
key to paradise next time we meet. Good.
All right, folks, Zach Kamala Cara Baraka Lo Fi comm was more than a
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