Shadee Elmasry – Why should I make Dua EP. 2 Ramadan 2024
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The next misconception people have is that dua is only for the weak.
There was a time when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, his
army was extremely strong.
And this was the Battle of grenade they had already taken Mecca. Now
they're going to take this twin city of Mecca of thought, and for
the first time the Muslim army overwhelmed their enemy. And as a
result of that, the Sahaba were not busy with Da and dhikr. And
asking Allah for help. And what happened, they actually started to
lose the battle against this weaker enemy, they started to lose
the battle to the point that the Prophet was so some Allah when he
was setting was surrounded by only seven or nine companions, until
Allah subhana wa Tada bought the Sakina down upon their hearts
again, and they remembered Allah and had victory.
Now contrast that with the Battle of better, the Battle of beds or
the muscles, we're not losing that battle, not even for one second,
from the moment the battle began, until the end, it was a complete
rout, although they were the weaker one, outnumbered by three,
three to one. But what happened before that battle the entire army
all day, and all night before that, was making dua. And so this
concept that Da is only for the weak is a big misconception. And
what we need to why we need to, even if we're in a state of
strength is that dua is servitude to Allah, it's showing you your
humility to Allah. And it's also reminding you who is the real DOER
of things, we have no power in and of ourselves. And when we're
apparently strong when we have resources when we have numbers.
When we have wealth, when we apparently looks stronger than our
enemies, we're actually forget being veiled from our true
reality, which is that we're very weak. This is actually a fitna or
a tribulation or a misleading from the actual truth. It's a test we
appear stronger than somebody else. So we forget our neediness
with to Allah subhana wa Tada. And that's the whole point. The whole
point here is that if you think that dua is only for the weak,
you're actually not realizing that you're always weak. Even when you
have all the trappings of power, how many ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada
says, Major, big armies have lost to small armies, why no one truly
has power. And if you imagine yourself to jet power, you're on
falsehood, right? You're you have a misconception of reality. And
that's going to lead to bad results. So this concept of
imagining that we don't need help is the first misconception. It's
the it's the foundation of this misconception that drives for the
weak, while the misconception that you're not always weak, we're
constantly weak. Imagine how much of our body we have no control
over, you don't have any control over your heart, you don't have
any control over your stomach, you don't have any control over your
brain, you don't have any control over little tiny viruses that
could enter your system at any time. You don't have control over
the passengers of the other drivers on the road, who can rail
into you who could be drunk who could be texting, you have control
over your use of your own wheel or so we imagine get, but you don't
have control over the passengers, other drivers on the road. If you
think about how much we're in need, you realize we are
constantly always in need, you have no control over the electric
company and when the electricity is gonna go down, you have no
control over the water when they're gonna test it and when
you're gonna have do something and you lose water, you just have no
control over our lives. And that's the actual reality. Everything
else is a Rama from Allah Allah that He veils us from that.
Otherwise we'd be too nervous all the time. But when we think about
dua, we have to always remember how powerless we are. So the
conception that dua is only for the weak, in a sense, it's
correct. And the reality is, we're always weak. There's no other
category, every creature is in absolute dire need.
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