Shadee Elmasry – Understanding The Response to Dua EP. 30 Ramadan 2024

no ultimate set is that sometimes Allah may wait in his granting you

what you're seeking until all the worldly means are finished until

there are no more worldly means. Right? Why is that? It's because

so you can see that when it happens it only happened by Allah

meaning that you end up in a situation you're seeking something

you use up every single worldly means there is to attain to that,

until there's nothing left no other avenue. And you admit to

that only then does Allah grant a chi Why is that so that you know

that this was from Allah, and when you know it's from Allah, you

know, it's blessed.

Whereas if I attained it through my efforts, I may end up in a war,

like a type of self aggrandizement, a type of praising

myself and I may start to attribute the success to myself,

rather than attributing it to us what happened with Sedna, Musa

Benyus, right? He tried every single possible means, when there

are no more means that Allah said walk towards the water army behind

you water in front of you. Now, whatever happens, you're finished

waters in front of you, the armies behind you. So now when Allah

saved them, they all should see it's Allah who saved us and nobody

else. The next one is, is so that Allah subhana wa, tada can love

you. Because while you're waiting, it's a type of pain. Waiting is a

type of pain. And when Allah to Allah wills to love somebody in to

draw that object near he tests them and tests our pain. Pain is a

type of test. So to have that pain, what does it do? It elevates

your rank, pain elevates rank, if you handle it properly, if you

handle it by worshiping a lot more and being better, and seeking how

can I handle this better than it's an elevation of your rank, if you

handle it without doing any of that, but you still also don't do

bad deeds, you're just suffering, neither have you gotten better,

nor have you gotten worse. And in that case, it's a forgiveness of

your sins. And if you handle the pain, by committing sins, and not

by being patient, and obedient, then that's punishment. Okay, so

that you can know what is my situation with Allah, when he

keeps me waiting? That's pain. How do I handle pain? Okay, so it's an

opportunity to get your sins forgiven, and to elevate your

rank. The next one is, perhaps you're smug in your prayer,

perhaps you You did everything but you feel smug about the situation.

And so this wisdom says that Allah may delay the answer your prayer

so that you can attain the level of it there are that the waiting

becomes so painful, it pulls out of you a desperation into others.

Once a young man he couldn't ever get married, no woman he wanted

would ever marry. Every time he proposed to a woman. She said no.

And he sometimes would go long stretches not finding anyone who

proposed to. So he finally now started to change his tactic and

he would propose to women that he imagined he gotta be a slam dunk.

A woman for example, she's older with three kids usually type a

woman like that she's not a lot of people will propose to her one

time he even proposed to someone handicapped, that very few people

would propose to you that he proposed to them. She said no to

him to finally he stood in the last third of the night and he put

his hands up and that when you put your hands all the way up in the

air, like this guy, this is called if the head that if the head is

the most desperate of dua, and he attained the rank of editing will

borrow someone. Then few days later, after that IP T had

proposed to him a sister wanted to propose to her. He said this

lady's sister's out of my league, in her family, in her

attractiveness in her social standings. She's way out of my

league, and it happens people pass a judgment on themselves. She's

beyond my level. He said, just propose you never know she

accepted. After all, that sometimes you see a woman and you

see a man and you think Subhanallah he must have done some

good deeds. That's the only explanation right? In this case,

the man made a dua either that or she committed some sense.

Sometimes it's just like that you can avoid it too. Sometimes Allah

keeps you waiting because you have a smugness, you're never broken

and Allah wants you to be more thoughtful, more thorough

desperate in your desire and in your requests should never

hesitate to be desperate with Allah it's a good habit to get

into the next one is that it's to decrease your attachment at Tada

look, sometimes a person is way too attached to what they're

seeking he are going to ruin it number one, and it's not good for

your heart number two most importantly it's not good for your

heart too much attach into now we've been talking about da da is

always about something right? But really the end result of DA should

be nearness to Allah. So sometimes our da makes us weak we become too

attached to the created thing that we're seeking. And that's a

problem and other than not pleasing to Allah that level of

attachment so that when you finally get it if you're not cured

of that level of attachment, notice I'm saying level of

attachment in me don't believe in just come 100% detachment

otherwise 100 Dead detached from my kids. Okay, so it gets run over

and I don't shut it tear. It's not human. It's not normal. It's not

the Sunnah. So some attachment is part of life in the Quran tells

the you must love Allah and His Messenger more than these

other things. So it's admitting that we love these things. And

that a A means that we would not disobey Allah for the sake of

these things, we will not decrease our worship of Allah for the sake

of these things. So if our attachment is way too much than

when we receive this thing, we're not going to do good. We're going

to do bad with disobey Allah for the sake of preserving this thing.

Alright, so you finally get to marry the woman of your dreams.

Now you're following around like a puppy. You forget about a love

forget about striving, forget about Dawa. Forget about the

massage and that's not what Allah wants for you. That's not what's

pleasing to Allah, you can have what you're seeking in a balanced

way, in a way you haven't lost the hook of Allah and your number one

attachment remains to be Allah subhanaw taala. So this is again

to decrease and rectify your level of love of the creation so that

Allah to Allah remains to be the sole source of your attachment.

Next one is very interesting. He said that perhaps your DUA is

already answered, but it just hasn't borne fruit yet. So you ask

Allah Tada for a successful business, perhaps you already are

doing that business, but it just may take 10 years in order for it

to come into fruition. So you may be alright let me get rid of this

business and find another business business not working. Let me find

another business and you keep failing at those other businesses

are and nothing's coming up. When in reality you have the business

that's going to have your opening but it just hasn't come yet. The

next wisdom they say is that waiting is a form of a bad into

our own Faraji a bad or the Prophet sallallahu sallam said

waiting for relief is in fact, a type of worship and one of the

Hadith about when does Allah laugh as Allah laughs at the abt who is

waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting, and finally the night

right before Allah's Will is going to come to him, he gives up it

says the Allah to Allah laughs at this app through he was like

minutes one day away from waiting and he finally just gave up that

Allah grants him what he was looking at, he shouldn't give up.

But this is just one case that Allah is describing here but into

the odd will Faraj is an act of a bad at waiting is an act of about

a wise act of a better because it shows faith. I believe I don't see

it but I believe and is it the first sign of a believer you'll be

doing a bit of hype is to believe what you don't see. I don't see

the Promise of Allah Allah promised me but I don't see it.

I'm gonna hold on to that promise. Remember Prophet Musa and Haroon?

40 years waiting and 40 years not seeing one sign of anything that

would take down the ground. Did he see a big weapons shipment

companies right now? Did he see it frowns army collapse? No. Did he

see another enemy come to destroy for nothing? Yes, there were the

nine plagues, the nine signs but it didn't decrease the power of

Fatone nor increase the power of the peninsula. I didn't see any

sign that this is going to happen yet. One day it happened. So

antiviral Faraji a bad also are good theater Rila learning to be

content. This is something I always think about what happens

when I do get it. Maybe I'm going to go and become the same old,

whiny, unhappy person anyway, how many times that happened in your

life the moment I get this new house that's it I'm going to be

happy I'm going to be content alright, you get the new house in

two weeks, he forgot that a cinema house you're back to your old same

whiny self you marry this person is the person that I want to marry

my whole life is going to be perfect. Now, after three weeks

you're fighting. Now after three weeks is like you're walking

across each other in pjs and you look terrible. All of a sudden all

the mystique is gone and all the flowers gone. You're back to being

discontented. So how about perhaps the delay is to teach you a lesson

on how to be content without it as Chef he said if you learn to be

content without something then you can enjoy it. But if you can't be

content without it, then you're going to be its slave you will be

the slave of that thing. If you cannot be content without it so be

content without it doesn't mean I don't want it doesn't mean I'm

detached from it but it's a different skill. It's a skill of

the heart learn to be content so that with or without this thing,

I'm good I'm not going to collapse I'm not going to have a crisis

this delay is for you not against you so you can learn how to be

content next is more and more legit. Allah to Allah loves them

when a judge of His slaves and you love this thing so much that you

will pray for hours and hours and hours to Allah for it. But what

happens if Allah gives it to you? No more Salah no more Munna jets

no more intimate prayer and supplication so that Allah Tada

would love to delay this job for you so that you can have more

manager to the point that when a job becomes part of your life,

even when near DA is answered, you're going to continue in the

same state of manager. Now your Eman is here. You now you received

your gift, your demand doesn't drop you keep your Eman at the

same level. And in fact it increases so that this took

training it took you you're not having what you what you want, and

still keeping up those prayers. Then when you have it. You'll

still keep up the gratitude as opposed to you prayed very well

you got it right away. Now all of a sudden you're gonna stop. That's

the benefit of delaying the job. Next is they said host Nova nebula

learning to have a good opinion of Allah because many people their

ego acts up and they get mischievious and they start

saying, Oh Allah is torturing me. He's playing games with me. He's

me.

Kimi wait while this waiting? Why can't I just be treated like an

adult? You're dealing with Allah subhanaw taala. So you have to

have hosts no one, you have to have a good opinion of Allah,

everything that Allah does for the obedient servant of Allah for his

believing servant is for his own good. So now you have to

extrapolate these. That's what we're doing here. extrapolate all

this goodness. Next I'm going to quote gelada Gina Rumi, I very

rarely quote who may have to read a lot of his books, but this one

is amazing. Joe Dean Rumi says there was a man praying and

praying to Allah subhanaw taala. He said, Oh Allah, every time I

call upon your name, you don't answer me. Where is my answer? He

hears the voice. He says, oh my servant. My answer is every time

you say the word Allah, meaning, just the fact that you are praying

for something means you are in the job, Oh Allah, you are in the good

graces of Allah, he wouldn't let you call upon his name, if you are

in his good graces. And in fact, your calling and your DUA is

better for you even than what you're going to be given. So a

person should imagine and should have the Sakina to know as long as

I continue in this draw that I am in the good graces of Allah,

anyone in the good grace of Allah eventually he will be generous to

him. And lastly, so that you never get bored is extremely important,

extremely important feature of a Muslims life is you never get

bored. So you made dua for a reason. But Allah wants to elevate

your motivation and elevate you're motivated by not granting you your

your wish until you learn that Da is something that you should get

used to never leaving off with the same intensity whether he gives

you or doesn't give you when he gives you an after he gives you

and this is the way of that if enough into the IRA fina biller

they, they live long enough to know that and to experience that

our dua will not just be arrest upon the motivation of desire nor

rest upon the motivation of fear but rather will be for the sake of

Allah alone. It's panic Allah homo Byham decrescendo Allah in in

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