Shadee Elmasry – Preconditions for Dua Being Answered EP. 3 Ramadan 2024

Shadee Elmasry
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The speaker discusses the importance of acknowledging one's neediness and not just hoping for something, as it is not possible to achieve it. The speaker also talks about the importance of forgiveness and showing one's weaknesses to avoid failure. The speaker also promotes a video on their YouTube channel and encourages viewers to subscribe to their YouTube channel.
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Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim I can't tell you how many times people

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tell me I'm not good enough. I did this I missed that. You tell them

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that the your solution is indot You need to make dua alongside

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with your actions. They saw I can't I'm not good. That's for you

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guys, people, the misogyny is not true. There's really only one

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cardinal sin that will get your DUA unanswered, and that is that

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your wealth is earned through means that are 100% forbidden.

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Not one deed here or there but your entire livelihood is from

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forbidden means well why did the Prophet mention that because aside

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from that, a sin by itself will not cause a person to not be able

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to face Allah subhanaw taala now let's take a look at this

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logically. You think that Allah Tada will not give you something

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because you're not that good.

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Allah to Allah has already given you and is continuously sustaining

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for you something far better than what you were asking for your own

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existence. Your own existence had came into being and you had done

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nothing for it. You had done no worship for it. And on top of

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that, you went and you committed wrongs and you forgot about a lot

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and you live that whole life yet he sustained you. Your heart keeps

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beating your eyes, keep working is what you're asking for. Put it on

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one scale, put your heart on the other scale, which what you're

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asking for what marriage, a job, a car, money, whatever it is, people

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are always asking for, or your heart. Well, he's already given

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you your heart every day. He is the real sustainer of all things

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he's not he made a clock and he lets it run by itself. He sustains

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it at every minute. At every second you're being sustained. So

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Allah has already given you precedent of his generosity. If

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that's the case, nobody has to worry about being perfect before

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they face Allah to Allah with dua. On top of that the greatest sign

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of humility. The greatest repentance is to admit one's

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neediness to Allah subhanaw taala. As we're going to show in another

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video, Allah Allah has made synonymous dua with worship. So if

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you think because I'm benefiting from this, it's not worship,

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you're making a mistake, because when I'm making asking Allah for

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something, I'm admitting my neediness. I'm admitting that he's

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there. I'm believing in him. I know that he hears I know that

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he's generous. So you're actually reviving and rectifying your

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entire belief system with one act, the prophets I seldom called it

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the essence or the muck of a bad so a person doesn't need to be

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somebody who is perfect in order to face ALLAH SubhanA wa Izadi

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taken analogy with your worst your worst enemy. If you see your worst

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enemy just got rammed by a car at his on the side of the road half

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* limping, and he asked you for a ride, aren't you going to

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give him a ride to the emergency room, your worst enemy? Likewise,

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when you come to neediness with Allah, it doesn't matter what your

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background was what your past was. Allah is more merciful to his

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human creations than a mother is to her baby. There was one time

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the prophets of Allah when he was, was passing by prisoners of war

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after a battle, and he found a mother with her baby. And she was

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afraid that she's a prisoner of war. She's just taken with her

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whole tribe. And she's sitting there with her baby, she's afraid.

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And the Sahaba were reassuring her that we're not going to do

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anything to you or your baby. Like, you're just happened to be

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here now, but you're gonna be released. So the prophesies

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settled and looked at her concern and worry for her baby. And he

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said, Is there anyone who cares more for anyone than a mother to a

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child? They said, No, no, nobody. He said Allah cares more for his

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creation than this mother for her child and a mother for a child is

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the most forgiving of human relationships. One time the

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Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam came upon a child who was very,

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very bad to his mom. He was a youth like a teenager. He was very

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bad to his mom. So he was sick. On his deathbed the Prophet saw, I

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saw him said, Are you pleased with him? She said, No, I'm not pleased

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with the province. I said, Pray for him. Be pleased with him.

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Forgive him because he's about to die. If you don't forgive me go

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sell fire. She said, No, he was very bad to me his whole life.

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Prophesy seven said, okay, good. You don't want to do that. Go get

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the fire, go get the firewood and he got the Sahaba go get firewood

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and she's watching what's happening here. The Prophet went

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got firewood and start to light a fire under his bed. He said, Let's

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burn him now. So he doesn't burn in * fire for Infinity

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eternally. She looked at his stops. Enough Enough, I forgive

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him I forgive him. So when she saw the actual pain that's about to

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come to her son. Okay. And the Prophet was just doing this to

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encourage her to show her what the fire is like immediately she

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forgave him. No human relationship is more merciful and your mother

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would not expect perfection from you, your mother would forgive all

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your sins. By analogy, Allah is multiple folds more merciful than

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that. So a person should not have this misconception that dua is

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only for the pious and it's not for sinners. If you liked the

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