Shadee Elmasry – Purification and Prayer Class #6 2of2
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The speakers discuss the importance of learning about natural language and finding the right person to pray. They stress the importance of finding the right person to pray, staying focused, and finding the right person to pray. They also discuss the importance of science and belief in the spiritual experience of Allah, as well as the importance of acceptance and embracing challenges and obstacles. The speakers stress the need for people to study and believe in Allah's attributes, and emphasize the importance of acceptance and embracing challenges and obstacles.
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And also people are still finishing up plays.
So what what we're not passing these quizzes up
just to give you an idea of where your situation material so far
what you might need to refresh, and it'll help studying towards
any final tests. Questions like this probably beyond that.
So
we're just gonna go over them quickly. The first question, the
four preconditions of prayer are
the first one
give us one of
the other one.
So it's time purity of self imposed purity placed in
determining the development. So those are the four preconditions.
The three types of water, the first is tough, and then tagging.
And the third
is computer. So the first two purifying, that's water that you
can use to make wudu. Also, not only is purity drink to other
things, but it also serves to purify yourself if you need to
make the rules. The second type is taught and it's pure, which means
you can drink into the beginning, you can use it for cooking. But
it's not purifying, meaning that it's contaminated enough that it
doesn't count for me can do it. And the last is not just says that
word is impure. And the reason that I was interested in spoilers
as soon as possible
to have the four obligatory body parts of you do.
Face is one hair can't. It's actually hands up to the elbow, so
the horn,
feet. And
so again, the floor or their face, your hands and arms up to your
elbows, your head and your feet.
This last one should be pretty easy for everybody. What are the
five obligatory prayers?
Remember, just
like
prisoners, that was the first letter, oh, that's like a mnemonic
tool that you use.
Alright, so the first one,
pleasure.
It's more important than the rest.
So all five of 100% obligatory, they carry the same reward and
punishment.
There are some prayers that people miss sometimes. So there are
Hadith emphasizing the importance of doing this. Like for instance,
there's Hadith and
oh, I'm sorry. Part of the question was, is there one that's
more important than the others? The short answer is no. They're
all equally important.
The reward of doing them is the same for all and the punishment
permission is the same.
However, some prayers because of just the way that things are,
people tend to miss sometimes people oversleep sometimes.
Also the prophets of Allah wa salam emphasized in more than one
of the day, the importance of sort of us.
This is one of the that's one of the things that's in this bonus
question.
So to us is particularly important. He said that it's the
career that distinguishes the believers from the hypocrites, and
I'm paraphrasing.
So, all prayers are equally important. But just know that
sometimes there's a tendency to miss certain ones maybe because
you're busy in the middle of your day, or because you're asleep or
because you fall asleep early before you pray.
And if you have one of those issues that you're facing, try to
make a plan for coming in if you're falling asleep before you
crash, and sleeping through the night to try to pray as early as
possible. If you're having trouble waking up in the morning, set like
a third and fourth and fifth alarm if you're sleeping through all of
those
when I heard when she says like a half a gallon of water before you
go to bed and get up
really,
when you make the dish before
you're too tired.
So with
the sisters asking about the witch, which is the slaw that's
after, it's the Sunnah prayer, but it's strongly emphasized. For most
schools, it's what's considered a sunnah Morocco, which is a highly
emphasized Sunday. For the Hanafi school. They actually say that
it's legit, which means that it's a it's obligatory to a lesser
sentence, not for so that it's absolutely obligatory but it is
still something that you have to do on leaving it off.
regularly for the how to film school is simple.
Yeah, I mean, what's important is that you're able to get these
factors.
The senators are very important in their usefulness. To them, they're
actually good for us. It's a blessing that we have.
But as long as you're able to do your five, focus on that, and then
if you can expand it in and the sun does, then that's, that's
useful as well. But just make these your main focus.
And if you find the strength to do the other ones, and that's good,
too.
So again, what it is considered, basically an obligation and one of
the four schools that had a school, such that if you leave it
off regularly, without an excuse, you're sinful,
but the other three main schools hold that it's just an emphasize,
and not just,
but it's not simply to me.
So how many people just by show of hands, were able to get something
for the bonus question?
Alright, so the reason I put the bonus question is that we're
learning a lot of a lot of information,
rulings, explanation of the rules, why we do certain things, what the
things are that we have to do, what's permissible, what's not
permissible, what the parameters are, what's our practice.
And all of that is absolutely essential. However, it is also
really important that we be able to tie these things to the
tradition,
to be able to find the link for why we do the things that we do
with where that source comes from. And the Hadith that Sheikh Sharif
listed here in chapter two is pages eight through 10. In your
book,
every single one of them is vital.
You should read them again, if you haven't read them since we went
through them.
And tried to, I don't mean memorize, like the whole chain of
transmission and where it's found and in which books have EEG and
the exact wording. But try to learn some of these, even if it's
just the short ones. Just try to try to try to commit some of these
to memory. Just so that if if anybody ever asks you something
about the prayer, or if you have a question yourself, you can refer
back to this in your mind. You don't have to open a book, you'll
be able to know something like the prophets of Allah alayhi wa sallam
said, Indeed, the five prayers remove sins, just as water removes
dirt. It's very short. It's simple. But it's, it's it's
something that that is an encouragement. And it's a way of
time, what we're doing today, to the lifetime of the process,
and to that community to what they were doing. And there's so many of
them, even the short ones, like the key to Paradise is the ritual.
Or
anyone who deliberately skips a prayer has forsaken his faith. An
explanation of that is that he's turning his back on his Eman and
is at risk of it being stripped away doesn't mean that he's lost
his Eman. But it's, it's a way of turning your back, you know,
deliberately, like you're just sitting there, you know, I'm not
going to pray, I refuse
to it's a bad place to be. And so you should know that all of this
has been addressed. And if you look through these, and there's
many more in the books of Hadith, you'll see that almost everything
that you can think of regarding the curse has been addressed in
one form or another. And any challenges that you might be
facing have also been addressed. Sometimes just by saying, just by
a word of encouragement that the Prophet gave was so
nice.
So So there's, there's no one, like the Hadith that I just
stated. Or there's, there's another one, which is
the difference between a person
a Muslim and non Muslim does the prayer for the thing that
distinguishes the Muslim from the painting.
In a sense, it's literally right, because the law, especially what
we have today, we're really the only people that are doing this,
you know, five daily prayers every single day, preferably in
congregation, and it's a specific type of law, right?
So there's a literal sense of that. We're the only community
that that really does this, but also in a figurative sense.
The prayer and the commitment to the prayers, what separates you
from losing is what's keeping you in the deed and what's keeping you
from losing your faith. So anybody that completely abandons the
prayer, while technically still a Muslim, they've lost like the
biggest connection that they have. All right. So this is this is our
opportunity every day five times a day to you know, reconnect with
our true purpose, which is to be the servant of Allah and Allah has
asked you to pray and even the motions of the prayer express that
servant
so a person that's completely abandoned that turn their back on
it has lost like a huge part of your religion.
I have a question about home.
So, is there water
And
let's just say I didn't realize were supposed to say I put in that
habit over right. But I didn't wake up to, like mom.
Is there for family, some school? So?
That's a good question. So the question is
the question in case anybody didn't hear it is when you miss a
prayer or a group of prayers, is there an order in which they have
to be made up? The answer to that is, if it's a day's prayers, an
entire day five, you have to make those up in the morning. So say
you went to sleep, you're going to pray, and you wake up and it's
already that time, pray them in order before you pray a shot.
Anything more than a day's worth, just make them up. However, you
probably can't, whenever it's easier. So there's people that
have years of prayers,
weeks, or whatever it is,
if it's a day or less, make them up a quarter. So if you miss two
prayers, you're working in Prego Ross, we got caught up, announced
a lot of time, prayers over in your offspring before you pray. So
make up an order if they're within that day. Now, like what you said
to cancel by Monroeville if I would, if I ever get in the course
of me making up my two other prayers, let's just say the
flaming into that before locker man. If I said to do the same,
that's a good point. So you're supposed to make them up in order
and I'll give you an even better example I'm just using to squat so
you missed it close to the end of hospital time right oftentimes
about to go out you should still pray over first and less it's
going to make you also miss awesome so if you only have enough
time to pray those forecasts are so awesome. Pray those and then
make up the dollar afterwards. But if you there's still enough time
to make that prayer and pray the one that you missed and the one
that said it's time and that's if you're right at the edge of
missing the second one is always praying the ones that can guide
him into less than a day or less right. So the rule is if it's a
day or last may come up in order and if you're getting close to the
end of the current prayer, only do that if you can still make the
current plan it's time
and your questions
okay all right, so we're working chapter I think 17 right
was going to take on reading news.
So, so regarding this, the obligation is to make a reasonable
effort to find
if you were
if you're completely cut off from like, looking outside for some
reason, you can't see where you're at, you have no idea what the
direction is, you're probably just gonna have to take a guess from
your best estimate. If you can go outside you can look up at the sky
and see where which direction the sun is setting or which way it's
moved or something to that effect something that would give you some
idea or you could look outside you know that there's south and that's
so do your best effort to find out where it is if you will completely
wrong
and there's still time for that prayer repeated if it's after the
prayer you don't have to repeat it
over
right
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series
is really supposed
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phrase with great chest and
why like?
To jump in here, so
the sub section here is that there's five distances that you
might be starting from directing side
How to these distances inside. Obviously, if you're inside your
preachers, any any of the walls, so there's four wars, the square
structure, any of the walls is fine because you're actually
inside of it. You can't pray on top of the cabin. I think we
discussed that last week. But praying standing on top of the
tower, you can't pray there, you can stand there. It's not it's not
hard to stand there. But you can't pray because there's a camping
phase. Now.
If number two in the hunter shave that describes this, the the
mosque structure that's in Mecca built around the Kaaba, if you're
in that structure, we direct yourself towards the covenant. So
whatever side of it you happen to be on. So if you see pictures of
prayer in Mecca, you'll see that it's actually like a circle going
around, and everybody's facing towards the building.
And when it says, turn your chest because that's, that's, that's
really the direction of the prayers, right, it's the way that
your body split up towards. So if the column is this way, you square
your whole body, and don't just turn your head towards it.
If you're in Mecca,
itself, when not in the month structure, you pray towards the
mass adoption, even covers a little bit this way. And so as
you're getting towards that monster structure, and it's, it's
pretty big,
it's pretty big structure, then that's your direction. And if
you're outside, but still within half the distance of the Earth,
we're further than that.
Then if you were to take a map and divide it into four pieces,
wherever Mecca is you take towards that direction.
So if you're like, say, in Turkey, right, it's not that far from
there, you see, you cut the section reserved, for that's the
direction that you're praying. Now, the fifth one
is going to be some discussion.
At this point, the spirit will persevere your spirit into a
better
possibility, depending upon
whether to turn into land current observations in this audience.
So, so if you look at a globe or a map,
Jersey is actually north, as far as latitude metrics, and
obviously, it's towards our east. So just looking at a map, it seems
like it's southeast. And there are some studies that days about
position as someone at home and there are even some restaurants
even here in New Jersey that are directly Southeast
Asia is a concise
experience,
rather
curious and ready to leave.
So this is the majority view, because most messages that you go
to are going to be directed in America are going to be directed
northeast.
The reason for that is that there are physical. So that straight
line that you go north to southeast, you'd actually be
having to travel directly through the earth to do that. Right. So
it's not an it's not it's not actually realistic direction. So
what what the weatherman have determined the majority of them is
that you follow what would actually be the shorter distances,
which is to go north east. That's what the to take plane in Mecca.
That's what you can take as a great circle. Right? Exactly. So
if you were to fly if you were going to fly from here to Mecca,
you would fly northeast because it's actually closer
so 1400 years ago, the Muslim world was not that big. It was
big. The Muslim world grew really quickly. But it wasn't all the way
over here yet. So it's something that's really just come on.
So that number for that happy this is to Mecca. Most places in the
Muslim world where that close doors there were some exceptions
even but most places were that close to where the general
direction was what you really need to find out who's your president?
Oh, she said it 14 years ago, is that what people did? And they
figured out calculate that the shortest distance was the
Northeast or do they go just a general direction
and so so that's what we're doing now because we're calculating by
the shortest distance not necessarily we would like if the
Earth was flat what it would look like
and the next
so she actually close the Senate because it's true.
If your your calculation of what direction to pray is pretty wide.
So if
If the direction is this way, and you're facing this way, you're
still within within a legitimate direction. If a cube was here and
you're facing this way, you're also still within the majority. So
if it's, if it could be either one of those things going this way, so
it's perfectly fine. So we should get the point, the point is making
this, definitely try to figure out the correct color and be as exact
about it as possible. But both are acceptable positions. And any
position within that.
You know, semi circle is also legitimacy. So don't go crazy
about, you know, going to have to turn like, one degree this way. I
want to be that way.
Yes, I'm sorry, no, no. Questions are good.
Choices
Where did that leave Scotland?
Where this this one is gonna come from?
Well, I'm gonna have to double check it. But my understanding is
that as people started moving away from from Arabia,
they needed to figure out what the Qibla was. So he just kept praying
in that in that direction, direction. So if they traveled
east, or if they traveled south into Africa, or if they traveled
west, towards north Africa to the Bronco, they just prayed in the
direction that they came from. So just the general direction?
That's a great question. I don't know where that yeah, I don't know
what I don't know why that decision.
was,
I think that might be a modern, that might be a modern thing. And
I'm sorry, I really don't know. But I'll find out for sure.
My understanding is that once you get past half the distance of any
place on the globe, the actual curvature of the earth starts to
come into play into what's going to be the closest direction,
that's when you start having to go like your flights, or you start
taking whatever the shortest distances even if it's not the
most, like the most direct route.
Why?
Net se, well, they're both, that's why they're both out.
Majority, though, they might have taken the position that it's
whatever is the shortest distance
what you're supposed to, so that the earth is a globe, right, and
you could actually play pretty much in any direction and
eventually spin around and get to wherever you're going. Right. So
the shortest distances would be the most direct to face.
Who's I mean, if you're, if you're in Mecca, right, you can turn your
back on the cover. And since the earth is spherical, you actually
would, if you traveled in that direction, eventually arrive to
the one on the other side. But that's not actually the shortest
distance
with the most direct
anybody else?
Alright, so this is a defining point in the book.
And this is where we start getting really into the the description
and the explanations of the laboratory prayer.
I think that's actually a good place to stop. So we can we can
cover that that section or
you can start that section question.
So
any other questions?
Anyone? Keep in the car?
So you should? That's good question.
If you if,
if you have a legitimate reason to not pray standing up, as in to
say,
you don't have to strengthen your legs, or there's real danger. If
you step out of your car, then you can pray something now. But it's
not new. If there's any chance that you can actually just pray
normally, then
I know that a lot of people feel more comfortable doing that. You
don't want to stand out obviously, if they're like on the side of the
road.
It's a bit of a judgment call. Because I think what we're talking
about earlier,
should should just be aware that you're not giving yourself
excuses, and ways out of doing things in an easier way when it's
not absolutely necessary. If you feel that it's absolutely
necessary, and you really feel like you'll be in danger. If you
carry out outside, that's fine. But if it's just out of shyness
and embarrassment, and that's something that you'd have to try
to overcome
any deeper
Can anyone fabricate? More likely than like, so you don't even need
a printer. Right? Right. So one of the headaches that's covered in
here
the entire Earth is is is a prayer is a solid piece of prayer for the
Muslims. So you can pray on anything as long as it's clean.
If you want to lay something out and pray on it, then that's fine
too, as long as it itself was awesome.
any impurities on any of the tests. So you can lay out a scar
if you can lay out
a cloth.
I was telling Shadi recently that I have a friend of mine was
Turkish, who, who had a bunch of leather ferrets, and he kept in
his car, specifically for praying outdoors, we don't wear the ground
might be uneven, it might be wet, it might be gravity, the leather
is pretty thick, and it's resilient and to use that for a
rock and I prayed with him once on McDonald's parking lot, it was
really, really helpful. It's not a single flat spot, and Turkish fits
all.
So So yeah, you can pay on anything as long as it's not
something that's just silly.
So
it's valid,
because I don't like sort of
you display for the medicine group.
Since you're here watching the dividing of the Earth into half
the distance, you're more than half the distance that a recent
recent life.
What this just realized that if you think logically, like
logically that que se,
but
but because of the
spiritual nature, what you see jets fly, the shortest distance
actually is northeast, you have to go up and then down because the
spherical on each of the earth. So then six side or a booty of Syria,
when he wanted to sort of judge between two groups. One was
praying SES and other praying northeast. So then they were
having a conference. And they disputed over that. So he given
the solution. He said, If se ne is valid, the due east has to also be
so just prayed to ease. So that's what it was on DCS first guys.
Oh, yeah, electricity as
well. And what do you derive from that is that basically, the bigger
principle they draw from that is that when you're more than halfway
across Mecca, then all you need is one of them either has to waste,
it's got to be used as waste.
Are they sort of forced into it? Because most of us haven't been
here, except recently. So the question didn't really pop up
until recently, that have ever since been really like, if you
look at the 1900s, before the 1900s. There were innumerable
sums, really in Europe, in large numbers, enough to think about
this question. So all the muscles were in a small pocket. So when
they spread, the more they want some spread, the more new
questions come up. But this was one of the questions.
So that's
interesting for celebrator. But it's one of the reasons why you
see like, the malakian Hanafy schools that have a lot of rulings
for a lot of unique situations. And it's because those two
mountains, we went out from the center of the Muslim world I
encountered other populations, other religions, and
the issues just came up. It's all about how to deal with them to
come up with a world where if you look at the chat very humbly,
often you'll find that
there really is a very limited to stuff that was actually occurring
in the early part of the school.
It makes sense. The more you attract, also the more technology
changes grow, we have to catch up in the sense that not to change
anything in the past, but you're going to be brought questions that
are
that our new, all sorts of new questions are gonna come up. The
way people are having children is a question that came up various
ways. For example, if a woman a woman now you can take the egg of
a woman, sperm of a man and put it in a third woman
that's possible right going on right
now can also do this right? And they answer they have to come up
with an answer that there happens to be no we can't do this. They
can't We can't have two moms with
You can have one apparent mob and then one biological, it's gonna
cause confusion in the lineage and in the child. So all these types
of things are always coming up at the same moment is one of his
claims that it's gonna be really messed up
a couple years.
They said, monitor
us
probably use an example of pattern
analysis analogy, and I was ready
to make a decision. That was like the same method Quran Hadith,
analogy. And then overall arching purposes of the religion was the
purpose of religion.
One of the purposes of religion is to protect people's lineage. So
every child, he's got to know who his mom is, without doubt who his
dad is without doubt. Because once a kid has doubt on who his mom or
dad is, because it hurts them so badly, they're scarred for life.
You could do adoption.
But the kid still has to know who his dad is, you can't tell him
your mom or
your dad, he's got to know who his mom and dad is. If, if that
information is there, or he has to know that you're not. But you can
treat him like
you don't you want to hide from the kid, it's very important for
people to know who they are really.
But oh, well, you
when I might have missed it, or when it was all in all directions,
right?
They
would talk about like how you would assess the direction. If you
were in a moving vessel. Like if you're in a plane, or you're like
in a train, particularly how you would assess the direction and how
you would negotiate were
sort of playing.
Nowadays, almost all the planes, they'll give you a flight, kind of
relax, right? Let you know where you are.
With like a little map, so you have a good idea of where you are
right now. And so figure the direction from that possible, you
should know which direction. So if you're flying from here to Mexico,
you still kind of know,
if you're flying to Europe, or if you're flying out to East Asia,
right, you find out far, you're still going to have an idea where
you are in the world at that time. So that's going to be your
direction. So there's no woman on the planet.
Like Neil or
So shall we had some good explanations on what you do, and
you make your best effort.
So if you can get out there in the aisle, and it's like, you know,
it's like Saudi airlines or something, and you're gonna be
okay with the
Saudi airlines, they have a mosque in the plane, Saudi airlines, they
have a little mosque in the back of the plane flesh.
If you can't attract the attention. So if you can't do
that, and you can't afford to fly, first class will let you do
anything you want.
Because you're paying so much money.
So stand up in bow, and sit for the portion that you would
normally be making suju. If you've been that's a problem, because
you're flying.
You're flying to Texas, during like, the Tea Party convention,
was the one that
says Be as discreet as possible, but you know, make a judgment.
Again, you know, and it's it was the, it's been the issue since we
started today, the first chapter with with the issue of the first,
always make, make that judgment.
And just try to be as honest with yourself as you can, because you
don't want to always be giving yourself more dispensations that
we need, but also don't put yourself in a precarious situation
when the dispensation is available. So be honest and know
that you have enough strong SWAT take the take the disposition,
because it's there for a reason. I mean, I mean, one of the things
that that comes up to me, I guess, we need to talk about is that all
like, what a lot of things I think about this stuff in advance,
always certain things I make fun of, like, we have
a situation, what am I going to happen and when they're, you know,
downtime, like I think that I need to be responsible in the same way.
Right? And think like, even when I'm looking up like, Yo, Zack I'll
be doing a marathon because if I can put him on on the timeline,
like why would I do with myself and situation, but that's actually
a great deal. Like I gotta think about
When I'm traveling, so am I really you're
just like I think about other stuff they got to do that
that's a great point. You know what it even simple things forget
about booking a flight Right? Like you have to go somewhere
and Maghrib is 10 minutes away can you afford to wait the 10 minutes
and pray at home rather than be on the road and the goals how to
pray?
Or if you're planning if you're planning to go somewhere you know
on a Friday Can you time so that your new investor and you can make
up your mind and
things of that nature? So yeah, pre planning has always been was
that
entire if you're like traveling traveling so if you're going a
certain distance absolutely
Wait 4848 40 Miles
sorry, about an hour Yeah, it's usually about an hour to travel
but so so if you're gonna go to like somebody's house like 30
minutes away
if you can afford to wait those extra 10 or 15 minutes to actually
pray rather than be on the road and then you can do a traffic and
now you're on the road for over an hour is still at a distance to
combine computers
Yeah.
Yeah. So if you can pre plan if you could make more like I related
to you earlier, but she actually say you know, keep a stone in the
car and a bottle of water, you know, just for contingencies
any of the walls
facing like, let's say the side of the wall, there's somebody
outside, outside
well, also even outside of the cover, right? So say this, this is
this is a this is the cover right? And there's going to be rows of
people in there praying in like a concentric circles all the way
around. So these people are facing this way and these people are
facing the same thing.
You couldn't make a face to a wall facing another way.
Which is kind of nice to actually go out into the top
Saudi police officer if you have like a lot of money or prestige or
so guests, yes.
Nothing
I think they say underneath it is a treasure. Because it's one of
the signs of that at the time. He said
the camera is destroyed by the
end of time. No.
He's just destroyed by men king and he under this great treasure
underneath it. So it couldn't be transmitted
before us, it has nothing to
do there's nothing in the actual camera, except stills that will
hold up the news. There's actually nothing
that's a good point.
Right now
you know, I get the imagery that even if you were to try and pray
towards whatever the actual center would cause a big building, but it
doesn't look that big. But if you were to try to pray towards the
center, you were still in one of the walls. You just when you're
saying that turn your back on that center of
religion I like
it is,
you know,
it's a very scientifically and that's true. You know, there's a
lot of books written about the science and the Quran or the
science and stuff like that. And those are useful for a lot of
reasons. But
most importantly, there's nothing in our in our books that
contradict anything that we've learned up to this point about
science and scientifically, there's no contradiction
whatsoever. And sometimes someone will have made statements we
learned this in the Quran means such and such a thing and then
later scientifically that scholars were wrong. But that doesn't
necessarily mean that that was an interpretation of something. Like
one one good example is there's there's an item for and it talks
about the bees producing honey from there, too.
Right, your stomachs.
And one of the one of the one of the scars of tafsir.
explanation, Ron said that that really meant his legs that were on
his midsection, right. And later on, it was discovered they're not
attracted is from their stomach, honey bee moms. So
if he was a great scholar, but he made an association he took, he
did the best he could with the scientific knowledge that they had
at the time and said, it's gonna mean such and such, when in fact
that actually
how they know about the work
so I sort of button in here, no, it was very helpful.
If you don't have any other questions, I want to tell him that
sort of a little story, or something a little refresher?
Is there any other questions for Alex versus
particularly complex is
not as easy to get someone else
to?
Do
there's a verse in the Quran and it's very important for us to
think about
which ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada says, Do people think that they will
make a claim to faith and not be tested. And this is something that
is one of the verses that we should think about all this
thinking about a lot. And one of the reasons for this is that
if we believe for every attribute of Allah, every attribute of Allah
that we genuinely believe,
and we know that there are collections of 99 names, right,
and I name is, we should
try to get those and study them. But for every one that we believe,
our belief is just a statement of willingness to believe.
Right, just like someone who gets a job, they give you if they, if
they want you to do the job, but they actually don't want to commit
to you, right?
They give you something called like a statement of employment.
It's not a real contract. It's just a statement of intent. Right?
It's not It's meaningless, they can fire you at any time.
But when our words are like that, it's just a statement.
Then we follow it up with with actions, followed up with little
actions, start believing in Allah is generous, then you start giving
from your wealth, believing that Allah is going to give you back,
believing that He will give you back. But the true test of faith
or the true belief in that attribute of Allah, it comes out
when he himself manifests it to you.
It's really hard to grasp, because I've even every time I've said,
someone said to him, how do you know God so well. He said, I only
know God by how God made himself known to me. So what does he mean
by that? What he means by this is that
when we believe an attribute is one thing, but when Allah Himself
manifest that attribute to us, so what does that mean? For example,
Allah azza wa jal, he's the savior. One of his names is that
he salvages people, he saves them.
It's one thing we all believe in that but has anyone ever been for
example, drowning?
Right, and then a wave just push you up.
Your Cat Stevens uses
it as a well known story that he was, went to all Catholic, went to
Bible school and did all this stuff had no effect on him
whatsoever. But then one day, he was drowning.
He was drowning. And then he shouted out, God, if you save me,
I'll work for your, I'll work for you.
I'll devote my whole life to you. And immediately upon his saying
that a wave came and pushed him onto the short he was saved. Then
he changed his life around. So you see how much words were taught to
him in the Catholic schools, years and years of teaching, teaching,
teaching, teaching, but what actually entered into his heart
and changed his life and gave him real beneath this belief, and now
experience, right? So there's one thing between belief and now
there's experience. So now he's experiencing
the experience, what does it mean that God exists? Likewise for us,
but for us, the key is this.
You're never going to experience a loss and that Allah exists in a
comfortable way.
It there's always got to be some challenge. If you believe in
Allah, that Allah is all powerful, and you always tell yourself a lot
do anything he wants, you will never truly believe that unless
you're in an impossible situation between a rock and a hard place,
and you don't know how to come out of it.
Right? So when we are we have to look at our situations, whenever
we're in such a position, right? That's at the moment. Now that
that moment, Allah can manifest as is his reality to his power to
you. Right when you're in difficult when you're in financial
difficulty, then his generosity manifests when when he pulls you
out of it, when you're between a rock and a hard place. This is why
the Pete, the elders of the past, they used to observe the youth and
the people, these observe the people, if a guy just lives a
regular average life, right, and nothing happens, they sort of,
they don't bother with. But the incentive guy, for example, starts
getting sick.
More sicknesses than car accidents, then more sickness,
then poverty, they know the name of Allah, the patient, right? It's
sort of He's soaking it all. He's being patient, or a person who is
in between a rock and a hard place, right? And he's having this
type of issue. Then they watch and they watch this person remain
steadfast, doesn't waver. See, if you waver, it's like, you walked
out of the movie theater, you're not gonna see the end.
You're not gonna see it, right? So but if you stay stay steadfast,
that Allah subhanaw taala, he pulls you out, he changed, he does
something you never imagined him to do. Right? And that's when the
true name of Allah azza wa jal, or the true power of God comes
becomes clear to people, when the impossible becomes a possibility.
So for this reason,
when we look at the divine attributes, and we when we live,
we Muslims, we break down all the barriers that your brain puts up,
your brain puts up barriers, I can't give charity, because I'm
going to need this money later. That's a barrier that your brain
put up, tear it down. I don't I can't do this, because XYZ is
stopping me. I really can't do it. Right.
That's a barrier your brain put up anything that you want, as
possible, put it down, right.
So this is something I've thought of, because I this is something I
am. Most believers at one point or another, they're going to
experience something like this. The key is to stay steadfast. And
wait until Allah wishes to bring out the results. We don't force it
ourselves. And I remember myself
when I was 17, and I had a sort of childhood hero, right, was
starting up a
full summer trip to Morocco. To to like a camp, a full summer
teaching people Dean, and I wanted to go so badly. But there were
maybe a couple of 100 applicants. And I didn't know what what would
make my applicant pass my application pass. But that's
someone who was so dramatic, because you wanted something so
bad that you're going to die if you didn't get. And that's what I
was in. So halfway through, I got that they I met the sheikh in
Brooklyn, in February, Sheikh Hamza Yusuf, he said to me, he
said, Come to my program. I said, Great. Oh, how do I get here about
there's no internet at the time. He said, it'll be advertised. It's
going to start in July. Okay. And it's going to be more. So I'm
waiting. I'm waiting for an advertisement to pop up on the
wall.
No advertisement pops up. I happen to run into someone, right? Who
knows about this. So I got the application. I got filled out the
whole application sent it right probably in my mind is all
running. I sent it to the wrong address. Right. Months passed.
Once passed. I got an A word from finally I talked to someone I ran
into a guy who debated me about Christianity. So I called up this
guy said, You're Chris, I need to ask you a question. He said, Look,
forget your question. Where's your application? Right, they never got
your application. So I had to redo it. If that Christian guy hadn't
debated me at work, I wouldn't have ever called that other guy.
So one thing leads to another. So I sent the application again.
Again, I sent it this time it arrived again, I got no response.
And now we're getting like literally weeks before the
program. And this is Morocco and it's not something like you just
gonna drive over the next day. So
another situation happened in which I ended up having to call
someone for some other reason completely. And
They said, Oh, you, you wrote your phone number wrong on the
application. Right? You wrote your number off. And they're trying to
call you because they want to shortlist you. And they want to
interview you for it. And so if it wasn't for that, whatever that
other situation was, I wouldn't have ever called that guy who knew
about the situation. Because back then there's no email, there's no
Facebook, you can connect with someone at any time, right? So I
ended up giving him my right number. And eventually I got the
call did the interview.
And then eventually, I got into it. But that's something I
remember that was this chances are so slim, and there were so many
obstacles to it. That seemed like it's never gonna happen. Like,
literally, it's never gonna happen. But then these events when
they unfold, they show you there's no way that this is actually an
accident. Allah is there and he's powerful. He only rewards people
when they're sincere, and they do things right. But the thing is,
you got to do it, right. You can't take shortcuts. So this experience
point and the point of my message here is experience. And so
difficulties challenges, obstacles, welcome them and
embrace them. Because through challenges is how we have
experiences and you should have an equation in your head no
challenge. No fake. No, no different than a workout, no pain,
no gain. In this world, no challenges, no failure. There's a
there's a guy in the community is maybe 20 years old, but when you
talk to him, he's like 40 years old. He's so responsible. So
mature, takes care of his mom, goes to school, goes to work, pays
his mom's bills and doesn't speak English. Right?
That boy, the mob said you know this bush I always feel sorry for
the boy because his dad abandoned. The dad abandoned the boy just
went back to Egypt. So that hurt
someone had or someone said, you don't you see things differently I
see things completely differently. I say God took away your husband
but he gave you a man. He made your son a man because he had to
he had no challenges no faith, no obstacles, no failure, so
inshallah embrace your obstacles embrace your challenges and know
that Allah is there watching and he'll get you to where you want to
be even in the
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