Walead Mosaad – Session 7 Beautiful Islam
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Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.
Smilla rahmanir rahim. hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen
Allahumma Salli wa Sallim wa Barik. Al Murthy raw materials. I
mean, so you didn't know or more than that. What have you been
called with the unique qualities it a little more hygiene. What's
your feeling was Naveen was at when they add them on to Mohammed
bin Abdullah, while early he was Hobie, one Wila from Ahmedabad. So
thank you see you for helping with these sessions. And we are in the
seventh session, I believe beautiful, the stem of a planned
eight with the night Allah. And we have been thus far, looking at
topics that I would say bridge between our belief and our
practice, or a bridge between our creed and our spirituality. And we
had initially chosen these topics based upon consultation, in the
sense that I think many people feel that there is some sort of
gap between the two, often times in most religious discourse,
including football Jomar, Friday Sermons, and, and a lot of I think
of the
content that we're seeing online as of late, obviously, as a result
of the, the pandemic and social distancing, I think a lot of it
traditionally has dealt with exhortation to practice to,
to thinking about the ramifications of not having proper
belief, or not having proper or credible sincerity in the acts
that we do, whether they be acts of obedience, or whether it be
relationships, and so forth. So what we were thinking about is to
kind of address maybe this gap,
as we've seen in terms of content being addressed and look at, you
know, how could we positively look at this subject?
How can we look at our faith, our practice, our belief, and then
our, what we'd like to call spirituality, or striving, our
salute, our growing in, in, in Maratha, and growing in knowledge
of a lost part of the Haida. We know from Crete, that Allah
subhanaw taala is
essentially incomprehensible, but we know him via his signs and via
his air yet, and via his,
to Jelly, yet, to use one of the terms that is often used in the in
the books of this type of discourse. So the agenda yet then,
basically is a manifestation of all of the divine names and
attributes of Allah subhanaw taala. And then we see those
things, in reality, such as reality is nothing but the to
Juliet are the manifestations of the divine names and attributes of
God. In other words, there is no God but Allah subhanaw taala, and
there's actually no presence and no being really, except the last
part of that. And that's what they mean by that, not that they are
denying the existence of in motion with that knowing the existence of
things that allow me to exist, but when seen, the greater picture of
why they're there and how they are there, and what makes them remain
to be there. Then there is no other way to look at except these
are, the two Giulietta ismat was effect. So there's a tie look or
there's a connection with Allah has power and Allah's Will and
Allah is knowledge. In some sense, Allah has speech, when he says to
something, convey a cool be and it is and so forth. So last session
we looked at, I think, Zik, or remembrance of Allah subhanaw
taala is one of the ways to
help us to not just obviously remember a lost battle data, and
to be in the presence and remind ourselves to be in the presence of
Allah subhanaw taala. But really as a means towards Taqwa as a
means towards greater and better practice greater and better
relationships, if they are driven by
a sincere soul seeking of God and the Divine Presence of Allah Spano
Tata, then Allah subhana, Allah is the One who is going to aid us in
that he is the one who's going to facilitate things for us and
whenever we feel we are dependent upon our own efforts. Things feel
very heavy and weighty and perhaps intractable and impossible. And
whenever we rely on the mercy of God and His bounty and his favor
and His grace, then things look much more optimistic. Because
Allah subhanaw taala is capable of anything. Allahu Allah collusion,
so do so.
That's kind of one way to bridge between belief and practice is to
not just
acknowledge that intellectually, but to really imbibe that and as
we said before have Volk and Masha had. So like a history or
something that's almost a sensual, based upon senses, understanding
of it. But here we're talking about spiritual sense and not
physical sense. So as if you are tasting it as if you are seeing
it. And this is the meaning of Zen that we talked about from the
hadith of Gibreel that he said and tabula rasa and Nicotra worship
God as if you see him. So the comparison to physical sight was
not by coincidence, because that shows him modality or a higher
way. And so anyway, let's call it worshipping Allah subhanaw taala,
of of endeavoring to being in the presence of the all encompassing,
and majestic divine. So this session, I want to address a topic
that I think often gets in the way of what sounds like this, what I
would call very beautiful and lovely and
enticing way to be about oneself and about one's existence and
views or views with Allah subhanaw taala. But there are things that
are challenges that get in the way. So I think one of those
things that we often
see as a hindrance,
but can actually be a means rather than a hindrance to having a
better understanding of God is trials and tribulation,
trials and tribulations and fit and well, were they, as they're
referred to, or let's call them adverse circumstances, let's call
them
difficulties, let's call them challenges, setbacks.
You know, ebbs and flows, some people say hills and valleys, so
there's up and down, and there's things that go your way. And
things that don't go your way and we talked about the could undo and
supplication last time, and we said that supplication is very
important to enter into and we said that one of the secrets to it
is to not be
wholly invested in the outcome. In other words, you make this
application you make the DUA, but not to be completely invested in
the outcome, because the outcome is not up to you. But what is up
to you is to ask to begin with in a large immuno, hypogeum and
regimental fatahna. Allah is beautiful, and he loves beauty and
seek him via beautiful ways, or edumedia will be beautiful in the
follow up in the way that you ask.
So I think in connection with that, we often ask when we find or
we think we find ourselves in trouble,
and in difficulty, and you know, we call upon Allah subhanaw taala.
And sometimes, when things are going pretty good, we don't think
much about calling upon Allah because we think things are fine.
So I don't need him in this instance. But when sickness comes
about when some sort of loss comes about, then we are more fervent,
newly, right? Well more fervent in Dubois and the Quran points out
this
very kind of common in the central aspect of the human condition.
That when we are blessed with Nam and blessings, we forget Allah
subhanaw taala. And then when we are faced with a challenge,
the Quran describes our dua is rude who are in the audience.
Do I read any tall and wide supplication that we make when we
are faced with affliction? And, you know, the seller they used to
say,
to Dina Vasavada, whether I can,
or Molina while I'm not sure.
We were faced with trial and affliction, and we were patient,
because, you know, what else could we do? Or it's easier to do that.
And yet, when we have things going our way, then there is a lack of
gratitude. So, you know, forbearance and gratitude are
generally seen, conventionally seen as the kind of the two,
counterweights or the two essential aspects of how we deal
with our human condition and our human faults and the circumstances
that don't always go our way. We should be grateful when we feel
like things went our way. And we should be patient and forbearance
when we feel things didn't go our way. So
tied into this is an essential, one of the six essential
aspects of belief of greed and this also going back to the
Jibreel Hadith. The Prophet SAW Selim answered this when he when
he was asked about excavated Nyan and II Men telling me about Amen.
What is a man? He said a man told me builder he was really cool to
be he
was a
woman that Kathy Williams will ask
While Caudalie higher he was already, so to believe in Allah
and His messengers and the Scripture, the books that were
revealed to the messengers, and the angels, and the Last Day, the
day of judgment and the sixth thing called Al Qaeda theory, he
was already he
and cover hierarchy where shall we so the other is the Divine Decree,
often translated as divine decree, theory he or she already, both the
good of it, or what we deemed to be good of it, what shall we and
that which we deemed to be bad or evil, and that is an essential
aspect of Islam. And essential aspect of Eman obviously, but it
is also acknowledged as being one of the
most challenging ones to come to terms with.
So the other five, obviously believing in Allah subhanaw taala
and believing His messengers and the Quran and the other scriptures
that reveal to the other prophets and the angels because the Quran
tells us there are angels even though we cannot perceive them.
And the last day of judgment, also something we cannot perceive, but
we can see the signs that is coming, and we've been told that
it is going to come eventually, but as Tom Ferry he was sure even
the way that we translated it's not a straightforward translation.
We talk about later to Claude insha Allah next month in the
blessed month of Ramadan, sometimes translated as the Night
of Power, but it is it is it the color in power or is it the light
of destiny? What exactly is meant by clutter in that particular
sense? And what is meant by clutter theory he was already and
then we have this other word that's often used in conjunction
with color called kadar.
Right that is found in the theological books books of
theology, so to believe in the color and the color
you know, and the you know, people in Muslim countries who speak
Arabic they have a common phrase when something happens condado a
lot of Condor Allahu Allahu
Allah Masha Allah Allah You know, so it means you know Allah has has
destined this he has decreed this a lot of and he made it gentle
Yeah, and it could have been worse or called the Allahu Masha
Allah,
masha avocado, so I'm not sure what my fat so Allah Samantha also
has destined or decreed whatever has happened. So we should take
solace in that.
But
I think all Muslims, if not many of them, believe in this and
obviously acknowledge this, but coming to terms with it, I think
is something else. So the books, the books have test gear. And when
we were referencing here, the hiccup of hypnotic secondary and
when we go through some of them this session to talk about how
does how spiritually How does one reconcile
to come to terms with other and all and when things don't seem to
go one's way and you have some times different approaches.
And in general when they talk from a Saluki or Teskey standpoint of
how to deal with cola, or Kadar, usually the word that is used is a
real law Bill caught up on radar bill called out to be contented
with the decree or what Allah has decreed.
And then the question becomes what does it mean to be contented?
Exactly, with the decree, Jonnie What if a decree is something that
Allah seems to dislike or not command to? Obviously Allah
doesn't approve of injustice, and of undue suffering of people as a
result of oppression as injustice. And the Quran says, Well, I
ordered the body heal cough, the muscle Quran, whether you are a
medical coder, and he has not at all D He is not pleased that
contented with the Cofer people rejecting any rejecting Allah,
anybody of His servants. So, there is no Riddle of Allah in that. So
how can then can we have an expectation of real law? lapped
right if Allah is not contented with the cover of his a bed or
some of them, then is there an expectation that we still have
reliable control? Because at the end of the day, we say that Allah
subhanaw taala coalition included with our Lady condado Allah, He is
the one who in his and just Incidentally, the difference
between color and color, sometimes they use interchangeably but
sometimes they refer to one having a connection with the divine
knowledge, the omniscience of Allah subhanaw taala one with his
omnipotence with the divine power of a lost battle Tada. So they're
both
sometimes interchangeably, but they they they are
addressing specific aspects so nothing happens without Allah's
knowledge and without Allah subhanaw taala allowing that thing
to happen with the divine power so whether we say that's the cloud or
that does the one or the other, it's not really that important for
our discussion here.
So, if Allah smart Allah is not contented with something,
how can we be contented with it? And this is where then they begin
to talk about something called a readable cada WaterAid have been
marked the
two different things. So a lot
is actually to say a little bit although is actually a riddle. I
Neela
what is the Quran say about the alarm and what otherwise the Lika
demon Kasyapa Radi Allahu Anhu Murad who and who are the Allahu
on whom? Allah has contended with them? Yeah, Anita believers, those
who will enter the paradise
what I'll do is I'm who Janya and in this panel Todd dedica Lehmann
Kashyap, that is for the one who has Kasha of his Lord. So, in
Arabic we know that verbs can be made
quasi transitive with a prepositional article? I don't
want to be too complicated but you know if
you know when we say you know the to be shaped
you know I am pleased with something or I am pleased little D
to mean a shape I am pleased from this thing you can say that in
Arabic Oh lordy to initiate right I am pleased also with this but in
a different sense. So
you know if I said to someone
has started domini and we'll call the Medaka che and Kulu
if I said someone Arabic, I thought la Mini
and called the Malacca che and that Kulu would you be pleased
from me? In other words with me, I won't translate from me. But this
is what it looks like in Arabic. Would you please with me? If I
were to give you something to eat?
So here this specific question is being asked a lot, I mean, a
sheet. So from this particular thing, so it's not really being
pleased with me that we're looking at. I'm talking about a very
specific thing I might do for you.
So it's actually what I can put forward to you. That's what you're
pleased with.
Versus if I were to say to my mom or someone, someone like that, NT,
Ra DSN or the tune I need
Are you pleased with me? So here I'm not asking like how often do I
call or not something specific like that, but in general,
general terms me as a as a cat in me as a being as human being as a
person. Are you pleased? In that sense? That's different. Versus if
I were to say hello, hello DT though. Cottonwood, Lackey,
Cheyenne. Cooley, would you be pleased if I gave you something to
eat? That's different. So should Akbar he talks about this a little
bit in, in the photo heart and he says that
we as believers should have more aspiration than to have a Rila
mean Allah.
In other words, we're waiting the things that Allah Subhana Allah
can do for us the things he can grant to us? Are they finite? Or
are they infinite?
Because we're talking about here and our theta and monkey net
mumkin it means the things that Allah could possibly do, they are
infinite. There's many, many things to look and grant us both
in this life. And in the next beyond our even our wildest
imagination, of all of the favors and the things that Allah can
grant to us.
So when Allah Allah says to the Prophet will code rugby, Sydney
Elma?
This is addressed to the Prophet so I said, and because it's cool,
in the singular, MacArthur, second person singular, will code rugby,
Sydney. And so, the prophesy centum How would you I'd kill him.
And he is the greatest of the Hulk. Right? He has been given
this facade and this beautiful way of, of Dawa, whether Elizabeth
Robbie hibel Hickmott when Marina del Hasina and Siraj and Munira
and so much we can say about our profit sources, but despite all of
that, Allah subhanaw taala instructs the prophesy said we'll
call drop visit me and I say to my Lord, Increase me in knowledge.
Why, knowledge of what exactly? Knowledge of the Sharia Well,
everything that needed to be revealed to the private sorry said
in terms of our actions, in other words that hakomi Sharia law
Kamisha was revealed. And then we have mechanisms afterwards, like
analogous reasoning and class and other things that we
And those things that are not specifically addressed during the
prophetic period, they can be addressed later on. So maybe not
that type of knowledge, but we'll revisit the assignment a lambic or
element, thank you no knowledge of God, that knowledge of the Divine.
If Allah is infinite, as we said, and everything about him is
infinite, then the knowledge of God's can is also ultimately
infinite. So you can never know too much about Allah subhanaw
taala so this address to the Prophet SAW, I sent him a quote
Robbie said, Amen. It's a way of raising our aspirations and
saying, Do not just be pleased with whatever you think you got
from Allah subhanaw taala. But ask for more weather in Chicago to
bless he then Nico.
Allah instructs us weather in Chicago to lazy then nickel. And
if you are grateful, I will increase you. So why would we not
have an aspiration for the increase? If it's things that are
good, an increase in Taqwa an increase in Althea and well being
both physical and spiritual,
an increase in even aspiration itself and Him for allah subhanaw
taala. An increase even in to help others and an opportunity to help
others and maybe even an increase in wealth if your intention is to
use it in the manner that Allah Subhana Allah has decreed and
instructed.
So his point was,
our riddle should be focused at Villa I need, as the verse says,
Radi Allahu Anhu or other one. So we are pleased with the whole
package as it were. So everything about Allah we are pleased with,
and his decree, what actually manifests itself in the dunya as
we live is one of those aspects. So anytime that He decrees
something, it is because we are
pleased with Allah in general.
But that does not necessarily necessitate that we are pleased
with every single manifestation as it were, or let's call it an MCL D
as I mentioned earlier, the content of that manifestation
manifestation because of Allah says about himself in Hola, hola,
I uploaded a video where the other video was not pleased with the
cover of his bed, then obviously, we should not be pleased with that
which Allah is not pleased with. So certainly, we should also not
be pleased with COFRA like that, with the disbelief of some of his
servants. So we're not pleased with that. And we're not pleased
with injustice, and we're not pleased with oppression, and we're
not pleased with any of those things. But at the same time, we
are all the overall Deena I need a
lot of the only law which means we recognize that none of this
happens without all those penalties. So
there's one of two paths here. So you may see what some of them are
called the one called the silver lining or the blessing in
disguise. And you know, these are terms other faith traditions have
used and we generally can use them too. So if you see that, in
something that generally it was not pleasing, right, like a
calamity, or suffering or oppression or something like that.
Then Allah subhanaw taala maybe has opened a window for you. And
you're seeing as he sees, because everything that Allah does from
the divine perspective is correct.
Is Beautiful is just, even though we may define it, based upon what
he has told us and revealed to us, but from our very limited human
perspective, as unjust. But from the divine perspective, it's
always just it's always right. It's always beautiful. It's always
perfect. And if Allah gives you some of that in your heart, right
and opens that up for you, then
you know, say Alhamdulillah you've seen that. But if he hasn't, then
go with the hukou then go with the legal ruling.
Wait, that's evil, that's oppression. That's wrong. We're
not saying the first group doesn't say it's wrong. They also say it's
wrong but they also have a more of a direct appreciation or Masha
hadda of the link between that particular thing that
manifestation and its connection to Allah Spano Tata, and maybe
they see the silver lining or the blessing in disguise or Allah in
and that can only come about by Cashman and mocha Shiva. Allah
unveils that to you, Leo, like when when did that happen? There's
no better story than a leader who Musa Ali's
Musa no fader right. We read it every Friday and sort of the
gaffer there's a reason for it. So what did the leader of the solder?
What did he do?
Well, the things he did were rejected by the Shediac. And
certainly by the city of Musa of Moses, Allah, he said, he killed
the young boy, he didn't do anything wrong. He bore a hole in
the ship that could have sunk as a result.
They went to a town that they just asked for basic guest hospitality.
They were not granted that and then they rebuilt a wall for them,
and they even take any reward for it. Things that didn't make sense
from the perspective of the outward legal route
Me in the shittier. But this app does saw that Allah subhanaw
taala. Right gave him knowledge that even Musa he said that Moses
didn't have. So what did he told him? And then he revealed because
there were only three incidents because he only was patient for
three revealed the reasons behind them. So the He bore ship in the
hole, and slightly impaired it not to sink but so that the evil
ruler would not dispossessed those people of their ship.
Yeah, who the cool is Fe that was right, he was a usurper. And so he
saw the ship was damaged. It'll say, I don't want it move on.
And the young boy in the knowledge of God, which was revealed to
Alexander, he was going to be grew up to be an evil person, and who
would have been true very trying for his parents and everybody
around. And so that was something from the divine perspective, even
though Huxley knifes Zakia. Right, which is what was said to him,
hey, the left says okay, yeah. What did he do? What harm did he
do? Why he's a young boy, he's not even Calif. But in the knowledge
of God, right? Then this is what he knew was going to happen. And
so consider his Sharia right, which is also his mole him and
Allah subhanaw taala revealed to him to do these things. He didn't
do it on his own volition either. Even though most of our automat
say he was not a prophet, per se, but he was a CD.
And then the wall that he rebuilt while underneath was a treasure
that was going to be for orphans who were being oppressed by that
village. And that they would recover later. So
if Allah gives you sort of this fiddly, and sometimes people get
this in one instance, and one particular thing, and sometimes
you may see in hindsight, right, sometimes late years later, you're
like, you know, that thing that I really wanted to happen, it didn't
happen, but hamdulillah if it did happen, then I would not be in the
frontline Annamma I would not be in this great grace and virtue and
bounty that Allah spent Allah has given me now, but I would have not
known that back then.
And so forth. So that's what basically, kind of,
in terms of,
of color and clutter, and even I thought it's secondary, he has
several
heckum that we kind of, selected here to go through to look at kind
of how should be my, you know, my practical striving, or what we
call su Luke, just kind of struggle with myself coming to
terms with, you know, things that I find to be objectionable in my
life or maybe even in somebody else's life. And there's a
difference between the two, between things in your life and
things in other people's life. So it's actually okay, for things to
happen to you that you don't like and then you feel bad about them
or you wish they didn't happen. It's not a rejection of the of the
doctrine of the law of Adobe.
Right? What you have an issue is with the mchardy, right? The Mufti
is what is in the content of what Allah has decreed. You don't have
a problem with the decree or right and sometimes Allah decrees for us
so that we can go back to the career and raise our hands in
supplication into and beseech Him and implore Him to improve and
change our condition. And maybe that was the whole idea. And
that's one of the blessings, hidden or otherwise, that may be
behind that particular thing. And so, you know, we shouldn't feel
like a sense of, you know, we've abandoned a particular doctrine
when something happens and we feel in our heart, we don't like it, I
think that's natural. It's okay not to like it, and it's okay to
try to change it.
And, you know, the more Inshallah, that we become reconciled with,
you know, the meanings of love and muhabba of the Divine and, and
gratitude and contentment and so forth, then, the more we'll be
able to,
to recognize these things, and even the Prophet SAW I said, he
had lost in his life, he lived a very difficult life.
He lost children, which is one of the most difficult things that
anyone could ever go through. And when he lost his young son,
Ibrahim, he said
in the line, that attachment was
one of the Kulu Ilana villa
on my show, I may shed tears and my heart is sad, but I only say
that which is pleasing to Allah subhanaw taala. So the first part
the tears and the husband had any could be
either Merida been MK the so the content of the decree you know,
the prophesy system obviously would like anyone else who would
want to have his son live and grow up to be a man and see him grow up
who wouldn't want that? So you your desire for that doesn't mean
that you have a problem with the color of Allah.
But that's why the province was set and then said at the end,
well, an Akula. Ural de la Pena, but we don't say anything except
that we please our Lord. In other words, we recognize this comes
from the Lord we recognize this comes from Allah subhanaw taala.
So
Let's look at some of these HECM first one I would like to share
with you
where if not says that toggle menu and your collegial gut mean
highlighting the star Milica female see where fellow or other
the star medica means lady Raj. So this is not directly related to
cover up, but I think it is one of the
kind of the fruits of it, when we're when we're when we're
addressed with it. So it says, Do not ask him or seek that he takes
you out of a situation so that he may use you in another one, hola
Yanni follow or other Lester American radio Raj, because if he
so desired, he would have used you in that way without taking you out
of the situation.
So again, I refer to our lack of imagination or failure of
imagination. Sometimes even when we look at possibilities of
things, we become very limited. And we think that the only way
that this situation will change or that my situation will change, or
that I will be on the receiving end of the things that I am
seeking
123 has to happen. And so then we pray and we supplicate for 123
Because that's the way we see that the situation is going to work or
it's going to change or it's going to be in the
the the positive outcome that I'm looking for. So we've now thought
is reminding us slow down a little bit. Laptop Liu Minh, who I knew
who the Joker I mean highlighting the star Monica fee messy. So he's
asking showing us how to ask don't ask for him to take you out of a
situation so that he can use you. In other words to get the outcome
that you're looking for. Because if he wanted to give you that
outcome or outcome or use you in that way he could have he can do
so without taking you out of the situation you're currently in
charge. And so to me that speaks like a little bit lack of
imagination.
And the Quran addresses that kind of infers that subtly in the
verse, or many Attila the Ajala who Maharajah warriors zuku
Men Hi through Leia. And whoever has stopped over Lasota Allah
will take him we'll give him a mock Raj.
So it's not saying spying the massage find the exit look for the
exit yourself. have Taqwa
be God fearing be God conscious. And Allah will take care of that.
Allahu Yogen Laquan McDonald you will not find the exit he will you
will paint the exit for you. You will see it clearly. Well Zuko
mean HIFU ly artisan
and also he will sustain him or give him sustenance from that
which he did not expect. In other words that which he did not
imagine.
I could translate that just as easily that which he did not
imagine. You didn't imagine it was going to come from that place. But
it can right because
you know don't be like those of the bendy straw eel. The one
malerkotla haka country is called them ends and Allah Allah Bashir
naman Sheikh
Mercado la caja de they did not give Allah his proper do Hakata
duty he is rightful do when they said he did not reveal anything to
a human being
lack of imagination Allah revealed to human being how's that
possible? And this was one of one of the Hickock one of the false
arguments that courage also advanced like how Who were you?
Yeah, Mohamed Salah Salem that you receive why from the summit from
God and who are you amongst us and how can God speak to a person?
These were the these were the arguments that they put. So
seeking the right way asking the right way. And we spoke last
session about some of the prophets that they didn't actually ask but
it was more like having a Munna Jaya, right having a conversation
with the last panel data which is a type of thick
unis in the belly of the whale.
And subhanAllah can you control middle volley mean? Right there is
no god but you are the lungs from from those who did wrong. Right?
It's a conversation with Allah subhanaw taala.
Musa alayhis salam when he gets to Meridian and he sits under the
tree and he's tired and he doesn't know where to go. But I'll be in
the Lima and delta have been hiring for three years. Oh my lord
from that which you can send down upon me I am so needy off. And of
course our Prophet Muhammad sorry Salam and the postman of her death
afterthought if one of the most difficult days of his whole
mission and his life in Namibia compete with other women for that
valley.
And if you're not angry with me, then I'm not concerned about all
of this is what's happening. So obviously, here, this is prophets
and messengers, and they are expressing themselves and they
were in these difficult situations. And you can see that
certainly there's an emotional component component to it, and
that they had, you know, had expressed desires for something
else but they never lost focus with a loss plan.
Hold on. That's the whole idea. So whatever adverse circumstance
comes, we don't want to go into a state of Jezza, which would be a
sort of
unwieldy panic, because we feel forsaken, and that there's no way
out and there's no solution and the thing is completely, so
uncertain and so hopeless.
No prophet ever felt that ever.
They always knew that they're with their Lord and the Lord's will
with them, but only allowing one other one Musa said
is his his back to the army of Pharaoh and her men charging down
upon them and in front of him is the Red Sea. And they're stuck and
his people said in the law mudra code
in the lammeter Cool colors, the mudra corner here so we could do
what can we possibly do now?
What did Musa say to them in Maya Robbie say a headin
what seemed like a hopeless situation completely hopeless. And
maybe not at the expectation even of Moses himself Musa they set him
in Nairobi say howdy. My Lord is with me, He will guide us
and that's when the miracle happens.
And our own prophet Muhammad SAW Selim in the cave of our Hara.
And Abu Bakr Siddiq says all they have to do is look down and
they'll see us.
Record we're done.
What are the prophets are seven c'est la terre Hassan, in Allaha.
Now I know that there hasn't been a lot of mana do not grieve. Allah
is with us. And some of them said, this shows the McCollum of the
Prophet SAW Selim as the greatest of the Muslim even more than
Moses, because Moses, what did he say in my rob this ad? He said,
Allah is with me, not with us.
And maybe it's an easy shot, I know sooner that they crossed the
Red Sea. Then they take a golden calf as a god and they start
worshipping it. But who's in the cave with the Prophet sorry, so
Walker city,
Yanni, Allah of the sahaba. So he said that he has an in the law.
Hi, Matt. I know. Yeah. And he's with me and with you. Yeah. Babak
while you're watching some of ours.
So let's look at another one.
And this one, I think, captures the meaning of law. I need to be
pleased with Allah.
Where even I thought says it laptops in Veronica be Healy
Edgerly WASPI for Huseyn Veronica B Healy, Edgerly Mamilla T Mac,
for her la weathercock Illa hasna will help us the Laker Illa
Manana.
If you cannot have a good opinion to have hospitals on V let agilely
was he because of what you know of his wass of what you know about
the attributes and and how Khalifa and reality of God for Huseyn
Vonda KB he originally Mr. miletti he mac then at least have a good
opinion of God because of the MaHA Mela, the way he has treated you
for * I was in LA Hasina has not given you except Good. Well as
the Laker Illa Mina, and he has not sent for you except graceful
and beautiful favors and bounties minute.
So here also looking at two different McCombs, the one the
first one is higher, as you did was, had an elderly law, I Neela.
Of Law, I knew that. So no way. This is the last panel, Tyler my
very breath, I have to be grateful for as long as I can continue to
talk and live and I wake up the next morning that in of itself is
miraculous, from my perspective, because it didn't have to be and
it was a choice by God and he's continuing to choose it. And so
how can I not be contented with that? How can I not be pleased
with that? What Allah subhanaw taala everything about Allah
Subhana
Allah and Allah right villa with Allah in general. The second
column is closer to Allah Amin Allah right so if you're not at
that point Yeah, you don't really see Allah you don't have more
shahada then at least look at what he's given you. Right the edge de
Mamilla T Mac at the Avila min Allah He has given you is good ma
mela he has given you these favors these bounties. Most of the time,
things are easy for you is not enough also to have a good opinion
of a lost battle data that we're hosting the lung, instead of
always looking at the worst outcome and thinking of the worst
things that are going to happen and all of the future
uncertainties that you don't know how they're going to go when you
dwell upon them and dwell upon them and keep thinking about them.
Well isn't enough to have horsnell One biller of his wass of the way
that Allah is and also hospitals and biller because of all of the
gifts and favors he's has sent your way and continues to send
your way
Allah says in the Hadith of the footsy and underline the abitibi
in the Quran if you never see the call to Phoenix you will not go on
if you manage photography met in Al Amin I am at the good opinion
of my slave if you remembers me within himself I remember him even
if you by yourself and if he remembers Me amongst others that I
remember him also amongst others in a greater setting than that
even
that sort of Hadith
the next one maybe gives us the the silver lining part or the
hikma wire things why is my life feel like up and down? And not
always great and some challenges some nice things? Even in the same
day? I could feel those two feelings and what did they call
them? What he says if not basata Okay, Leah you the Utica mug Club
World Cup adacko Kayla, your true coca milepost Raja and Homer kala
takuna Alicia in doing
so bustle Tata he's giving you bust he has expanded you This is
when you feel like everything's great and things are going my way.
Kayla, you please are Mankad so that you will not always be in a
state of constriction in a state of God right when you feel things
are not that great.
Well Kappa Delta and he puts you in a constricted state. Kayla your
true kaka Amal bust. So he doesn't always leave you in that expansive
state which mistakes can be made there as well
with Raja and humor and he took you out of both of them. Kala
Hakuna de che and Duna
and he took you out of both of them so that you would not be for
something other than him other than Allah subhanaw taala so it's
not actually about the hat
at all, in fact that that island maklumat because they say and
maklumat McKenzie will while Mohib
and maklumat McKesson will howl my way. So the McCollum is something
you strive for you work for it's more permanent, or semi permanent,
takes work. So that's the salute. Well, while mower head
will hold our head and the hat, which is the Savior, right, it's
you're moving towards a greater knowledge of God, these are things
or gifts from a last month it gives you so you can't really earn
them. But they're given to you.
Allah has already started also, you know, in terms of your sense
of preparedness for them. So, club then Buster as well.
So constructiveness or expansiveness, they're like a just
a temporary state feeling that you have. And he took you out of both
of them. Allah who you have to be loyal to do what he told you out
the Quran, that's the verse in the Quran, Allah He gives you hope,
then he gives you just what he told you out, but you are
returning to him. So he took you out of both of them, Caleb to guna
the shade into the hill, so that you are not about anything except
the law. Because you may be a worshipper of the hand. You may be
a worshipper of the bust.
What does Allah say about bus specifically for this law was
allowed.
Fill other lab or other nasty lab battlefield art, I think that it
was like that, the meaning anyway, if Allah were to give bust to
everybody in their XOC in their sustenance, lab, Battlefield
Earth, they would have sold corruption in the earth.
So they're stuck D, right, you are giving exactly what's right for
you.
And so even when we asked about what is we want risk on West,
right, we want to have white substance and easy but at the same
time, we don't want it us to lead us astray. We don't want us to put
us in a place where we forget about Allah subhanaw taala and so
Allah subhanaw taala the complete opposite, right, because you
incompetent construction or expensiveness. But he wants you to
be about him. So not about the hand, not about the feeling, not
about the spiritual euphoria. And then you keep searching for that
but to be about Allah subhanaw taala. So you worship Him in the
dark and you worship in the light, you worship me in the heat and
you're screaming the cold. You worship Him in the summer and you
wish to bring the winter
circumstances are good circumstances are not so good.
That's the idea.
So, next, I want to look at some of the hicom that deal with the
concept of
giving in deprivation.
There is
in Protestant evangelicalism, at least that I'm aware of.
There's something called the prosperity doctrine, I believe.
And basically that says
one of the signs
means that God is pleased with you is if you're in good health, and
you have wealth and you know, and things are going your way. And so
the more wealth that alog that God gives you them, the more he is
pleased with you. And so far the prosperity gospel I think they
call it so we don't believe in the prosperity gospel at all.
Prosper prosperity, or at least outward prosperity is not about
accumulation or Possession of money or things or anything like
that. It's about
the quietness and serenity of the heart at whatever circumstances
thrown your way. That's the true winner. This is what the prophets
I said have said in that Molina,
Lena neffs, true. Wealth is the wealth of the soul. So the soul to
be able to adopt and interact and reconcile itself with these
difficult circumstances. That's a true wealth. And sometimes that
translates into what you think is deprivation is actually
a gift. And what you think is a gift might be different way to
provision. And this is one of the hiccups when I thought, a very
short one he says Robomow, ATAKA, Fermanagh or Obama Nanaka for our
talk, perhaps he has given you but he has really deprived you. And
perhaps he has deprived you but he has really given you. So
deprivation from distraction is not deprivation at all, it's
actually a blessing.
And
being given things that we call blessings, much wealth, and
prestige and status that we look at as blessings, may be actually a
deprivation because it deprives you perhaps from, quote, mean
Allah subhanaw taala, from having a closer relationship with Allah
subhanaw taala. And maybe it will lead you astray. So in that sense,
we don't know which one is best for us. And we should just ask for
that which is best, you know, look at the idea, the supplications of
prophets are said and they're also very general most of the time,
along the 18th of dunya Hassan atta, will say that he has
nothing, nothing other than not, what more do you want after that?
Give us the good of this life and the good of the next life and keep
us from the hellfire. If all those three things went well for you,
what more would you want? What could you possibly ask for? And so
his supplications were simple, but they were comprehensive and
general, right? You very rarely do you find the prophets I send them
supplicating something very specific.
That did happen on the eve of better, right and he even there
was a plea from the prophets, I send them to Allah subhanaw taala
you know, if if we are perished in this battle, then you will not be
worshipped on this earth and this is also you know, Kobe this
Malaysia this type of conversation on the Prophet Carson was having
with Allah much in the same way that happened
earlier years before in thought if and in the same way that Moses had
in the same way that Eunice it send this away same way that you
buy, they said I've had any millennial don't want our camera.
I mean, right I've been touched by door by by harm. One thought Homra
I mean, but you are the Most Merciful. So see the
acknowledgement of the difficulty of the MACD back to that point
again, in the millennial door. This is Doral, I'm not happy with
being so sick, that I can barely move
when I can, well enter our camera I mean, what enter our camera I
mean, but you are the Most Merciful of those who shows mercy.
So you never lose sight the avocado. So there's always a
little bit of color even if there is difficulty contending with the
MK D the content of the decree this is a crucial crucial point
and very crucial for Muslims today also because we do see a lot of
injustice in the world and oppression and and things and many
of these issues now coming to the forefront and and being you know,
very strongly vocalized about and so forth, but we should never lose
sight that Allah has everything in control.
Right we should never lose sight that somehow we've been given a
rotten world and we live in a rotten time
you know men letter super data and
this is how this could see. You know, it's Allah's words revealed
in a hadith don't curse the time I am the time
the lady one AHA by my hand in America metrical. His Majesty is
the day in the night. So why do you curse the time don't say oh,
we live in the worst time ever.
Or to say while we have the worst people were the worst people alive
or this is the worst generation. Men Men call it a headlock ins how
Alico
another Hadith of the Prophet SAW, I said, Whoever says that people
have been destroyed or that the worst is the worst of them.
Because it's only a reflection of what's in his or her own heart.
That's what they're seeing. So basically, they're seeing their
own reflection. But if you have good
Your heart then you'll see the good in others. And while there is
much that can be improved there as much that is good, as well. Just
it's good enough to also to be just alive. That's also
a great, great blessing. So perhaps he gives you and he's
really it's a deprivation, if it's distracting from from Allah, and
perhaps he has deprived you outwardly but he is actually
giving you a blessing, because it's bringing you close to
Allah subhanaw taala.
And there's another hikma connected to this, that gives us
well, let's dig a little deeper. How do we know something is a
deprivation? Or how do we know something is a blessing? He says,
allow thought women are hungry hitman, while men are men, Allah,
He said,
allow for women, unhealthy Herrmann. So being given something
by people is deprivation,
and being deprived by Allah is a Zen.
It's excellent. It's a blessing. You might say, well, how does that
work? How do I know Allah gave it to me? Or the people gave it to
me? Or how do I know that Allah deprived me or the people
deprived? Me?
Doesn't? It's not about
the discerning who gave and who didn't? It's by discerning in your
heart, who do you see as the giver, and who do you see as a
driver. So if you see everything from Allah, subhanaw taala, then
everything that you receive, and everything that you feel like you
don't receive, it's all blessing, it's all thought. Because you see,
as the one who's giving you is Allah subhanaw taala. But if you
are expectant of things from people, and you are in your heart,
you're wishing that people would do with you or give you certain
things, then that the show Wolf, right, the third law that
covetousness for what people possess, that's her man and of
itself, that's deprivation.
Right? Because now your heart is tending towards people who have no
power of their own.
Now,
whether you look over them,
they have no power to benefit you or no power to really harm you or
damage you but your heart thinking so isn't this a sign of
its deprivation. So if you see the giving from the Hulk, it's hard
man, you deprived your heart of its association and connection
with the Creator. And if you see everything from Allah subhanaw
taala. Then even when you feel like you don't get things, but you
see that Allah is the One who deprived you of that, then it's a
gift. Because you see Allah subhanaw taala is the one who is
the sovereign over
all things.
So I think I will stop here. Shalom is just about an hour is
the law.
Watercolor fuchal is a common law. Here are some of the of course
there's a lot going on with a frequency that
Allah subhanaw taala and you have difficulty moving ahead in many,
many men with Islam and so when, when will, what are the biller?
He's one of the other auditor analysts in the whole US Eric
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