The Only Thing I Can Rely On
Date:
Channel: Waleed Basyouni
File Size: 24.79MB
Related
- Tahir Wyatt – Resurrection
- Kamil Ahmad – The Nature Of Fasting #1
- Murtaza Khan – Vices Series #35 – Shaking Hands with the Opposite Gender
- Mohammed Hijab – Little Girl Humiliates Israeli Military
- Bilal Dannoun – Excellence Of Generosity And Spending In The Good Cause
- Taimiyyah Zubair – Seerah 24
- Mufti Menk – Lessons from Abu Bakr RA
AI Generated Summary ©
The importance of praying for Islam is emphasized, including the need to be mindful of one's actions and not to allow others to tell them they have been praying for Islam. The speakers also discuss the importance of praying for oneself and his army, as well as not always asking for specific things. The importance of praying for everything, including healing and opportunity to speak to the Lord's name, is emphasized, along with the need to have full faith in the Lord's name and not just for personal gain.AI Generated Transcript ©
All praise due to Allah and his praise
and blessings and peace be upon our prophet
Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, his family, his companions
and his followers until the day of judgment.
I bear witness that Allah is the only
one worthy of worship and Muhammad salallahu alaihi
wa sallam has lost and final messenger.
My brother and sisters,
When a person
goes sometimes in a time
where there's so much
pain, so much
difficulties,
when a person
call and he only can hear the echo
of his own voice,
and he only can hear
his whining, his own whining,
and feel his own tears.
At that moment,
the only thing you say,
Allah. When your sins are so heavy
or too many.
When you feel like your heart is taken
over by darkness,
when you know that when you would your
bad habits
became so strong
and so tight on you that you can't
quite you can't change.
And you feel like,
you know, I'm doomed.
And at that point, the only thing you
can say,
When you see things around you, you have
no control over it.
Terrible thing. Horrible things
in the world,
and you feel powerless.
When you hear people screaming and confused
and a lot of confusion
and no clarity
and even sometimes no hope
in this materialistic
world,
or in this world,
and these materialistic things and means that you
deal with,
at that
point,
you call and you say,
When rich people rely on their wealth,
when strong people rely on their health,
when powerful people rely on their status,
when country rely on their armies,
when people rely on their supporters
and fans,
and their,
you know,
the people around them, their family members or
whatever.
But sometimes you feel that the the believer
feel that all these
things are useless.
And the only thing that I rely on
is
You say
and Allah immediately answer your answer answer your
dua.
There's no distance when it comes to Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And Nabi U Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam said
There is nothing more honorable
in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's eyes.
There is no more honorable
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala than a dua,
than supplicating.
Praying and supplicating is something
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala honored so much and
honored the person who are asking him.
And that's the complete opposite of us, human
beings.
Because Allah not like us. Human beings when
you keep asking them,
they get bored.
You didn't know how my kids are driving
me crazy. Baba. Yes. Baba. Yes. Baba. Yeah.
You know? You get tired. Mama, you know,
I want this. I want this. I want
this. I want this. I want this. You
know what? I'm not gonna give it to
you. Or I'm gonna give it to you
just to get rid of you.
Subhanallah.
If somebody comes and ask any see how
our nature. Somebody comes and I need help.
They come again I need help. Come again
and I need help. You'll say Khalaq, I
can't help you.
You know I'm sure you guys bored of
me how many times I asked you to
donate to the masjid.
That's the nature of human being.
And Subhanallah!
Allah is so merciful that He's not like
that.
That actually is the opposite.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala human being get angry
and frustrated when they ask, Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala is actually angry at those who never
pray to him.
Allah loves to see you praying to him
and ask him and say as many as
you what time you want.
And, You animin karam, Allah
one of his generosity that Allah open that
door for you 247.
It doesn't matter midnight
or it doesn't matter in the midday,
in the early day, the end of the
time, your day time,
sunset, sunrise, whatever. 20 4 7 this access
you have. Give me anything in the world
like that.
That willing to have that access for you.
And guess what? It doesn't matter how old
are you,
and it doesn't matter what your background is,
or it doesn't matter even how good you
are to him.
Allah
even answered the call of those who are
in distress,
even if they are non believers, even if
they are sinners.
What what kind of mercy and what kind
of generosity is this?
I will say, I don't know if you
heard me saying this before, you know how
when you call customer service and they tell
you your
your call would be answered in the order
it was received?
Can you imagine if you prayed to Allah
and the angels that your call would be
answered in the order it was received?
And the beautiful things everyone feel,
that he is calling Allah personally.
That's one of the beautiful things about this
month of Ramadan.
It's the month of Dua.
That's why Allah
in the middle of the verses that speak
about Dua, Allah
says,
It's beautiful what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said,
When they ask you about me,
I am near. He didn't say, Tell them,
You Muhammad, I am near. Because Allah don't
want anyone in the middle.
He said, I am near immediately. Just call
upon me.
You don't need anyone to teach you to
pray. That's why they say, there is no
atheist
in the foxhole.
I don't know if you know what that
expression means.
Foxhole is basically the trench you dig when
you're in the fight.
They said, there is no atheist in that
position.
Because everybody pray to God at that point,
because they see death in front of them.
So the point is that this concept of
dua is something so honorable.
And I remember once
watching
an interview for a rich
businessman.
He was asked about his experience, how he
makes his 1,000,000 of dollars, blah blah blah.
And he mentioned a story that he walk
into once to a masjid, and he says
somebody was in a very desperate situation, praying,
crying. So he approached him and he said,
What can I help you with?
What can I help you with?
And he said to him that, you know
my wife in the hospital and in that
country, you have to pay for the service,
only free hospital for national people, But if
you're a foreigner, you have to take private
hospital.
So he said, I don't have the money
to pay for her.
And she has to remove her gallbladder or
something like that.
Whatever that amount was very easy for him.
The man said, he was asked by an
interviewer, give me something that you will never
forget in your life. Something like an incident
that changed the way you think about your
life.
And he mentioned this story.
He said
that when he told me that, I gave
him the money. And
I give him more, and he said, No,
I only want
the amount that I need.
Then he said, Alhamdulillah.
He thanked Allah, then he thanked me. He
said, I was impressed by the man. 1st,
he is not greedy.
2nd, he thanked Allah before he thanked me.
He said, I really noticed that and I
appreciate it. So I felt like, you know,
this is a trusted man. So I took
my personal business card, which is my personal
number. I said, this is my personal cell
phone, no secretary, nothing.
And you call me whenever you need help
and I will always be there for you.
He said, Thank you, I don't need your
card.
And he didn't take it.
And I was wondering, I said, Why? He
said, when I need help, I will call
the one who brought you to me.
He said, at that point, the first time
in my life,
to feel so small and for so little.
I feel this man is like a giant.
You know why he's a giant?
Because of his trust in Allah.
He became a giant to my eye because
the way he relied, the way he in
the side of Allah
There's nothing more honorable than a du'a.
A du'a
is based on admitting your weakness and his
completeness.
Admitting your need,
and admitting that he is in no need
of anyone.
Mutarif
Mutarif was debate. Is he companions or he
is a very young companions or maybe successors?
There is a debate, but just to know
where he fits in history. He's in in
that, you know,
best generations he lived. His father is a
great companion.
So he's a very wise man.
He's one of the wisest people you can
ever read about. Anyway,
I
was looking at the good deeds, and I
found that there are so many good deeds
to do in Islam, in Sharia. So many
things bring you closer to Allah.
If you want to pray more, if you
want to fast more, if you want to
donate more, if you want to read Quran
more, whatever a good deed you want. You
want to be more to your parents, you
want to do good, you know, to to
your mom, to your father, whatever. To your
children, to your family, to the humanity, whatever
good deeds you can think of. It's all
in the hand of Allah.
And he said,
If Allah
open your heart to do that good deed,
you will do it.
That's right. Allah is the one who guide
you to it.
He said, All these in the hand of
Allah, and you have no power
or authority over what Allah has in His
hand,
when He controls.
Except, the only access you have to this,
is through one access which is to pray,
You Allah, grant me this. You Allah, give
me this. You Allah, open my heart for
that.
So I realized at that point, that all
goodness
comes from a dua.
All good deeds comes from can be approached
through a dua.
Allah said pray for me and I will
answer you.
Lived in a time in the Crusader time
or the war.
And when you when you are in the
war, what do you think? And me as
a president now imagine the president
and the Amir,
and he is in a war with the
crusader.
Who the one that you would care for
the most to to support and to increase?
Your army, your generals.
He used to spend good amount of money
on the student of knowledge and the righteous
people even if they are poor. And if
they are not generals, they are not soldiers.
If you support your soldiers
with this money, they will be more happy.
He supports them but he said, I increase
the money for them.
I'm seeking victory,
not only through my generals and army, but
also through those people who I support.
He was asked, How?
Those people fight for me while you're sleeping
in the night.
Because those people stand up in the night
and pray and make du'a.
They shoot arrows that never miss the target.
While your arrows sometimes miss the target and
sometimes hit the target.
This call is the catabolic of the weak.
The weapon of that
mu'mid. The dua is there like the arrow
that you shoot.
You know, sometimes the arrow go far away
that you don't see it hitting the target,
but it would reach its target at one
point.
May Allah subhanahu wa'ala make us among those
who honor a dua
and be honored by
I want all to remember that not always
the best thing for you is what you
specifically
ask for.
Not always. You might ask for something and
you think it's the best for you and
it's not.
You might have to pray for something to
happen to you in this world and you
think that, why I didn't get it?
And I want you to remember
that Allah
sometimes He does not give you what you
ask,
Because Allah
knows that this thing that you ask for,
it will be something bad for you in
the future. You might pray for child and
you never got, or a boy and you
got, not forgot, or a girl and you
never got. Because Allah knows if you get
it,
you're.
It might be a cause of so much
fitna for you in the future,
or that money would have corrupt you, or
that position would have corrupt you, or that
career would not be the best for you.
So many times, Allah knows the future which
is you don't know. Allah knows what never
happened. If it happened, how it looks like.
Things never happen. If it happened, how it
would look like.
That knowledge of Allah
is what have saved you.
Also sometimes Allah does
not give you what you want, and in
return
what happened, Allah
save you from something bad what's supposed to
happen. Because if any dua that you pray
was not answered, Allah
will make the dua the reason for protecting
you, maybe from a disease, more from accident.
Your dua push away the calamities
that might strike you.
And
told us, So when you make a du'a,
Allah, when He does not answer you with
the particular thing that you ask for, Allah
give you in return rewards.
And Allah knows that you need that rewards
in the day of judgment more than whatever
position or car or a child or whatever
luxury things, or or non luxury thing you
need, or even life, or healing.
And Allah
knows that what those people need in the
day of judgement is way more than what
they need in this dunya. That's why Allah
have saved it for them.
People on the day of judgement would say,
I wish all my du'a was not answered,
and I got it in a form of
reward.
Not only to save you from hellfire but
also to elevate your status in jannah.
Sometimes he didn't give you what you want
because Allah sees that there is maybe a
source of Haram income.
Maybe there is you're missing your zakat, you're
not giving it properly.
Maybe there is a shahu, a haram desires
in your heart have taken over. And He
kept you away from what you want because
He want to see you praying more.
Coming closer to Him.
Maybe there is some connections you supposed to
do with your cousins,
uncles, relatives,
brothers,
sisters,
in laws.
You cut ties with people you're not supposed
to cut tie with.
And Allah
hold back from you so you connect, so
He can connect you with what you want.
So you reevaluate
your
basically your relationship with people.
Allah grant that answer. Not the salim, the
timeline that you have for yourself,
it is for his timeline.
Not necessarily for the particular thing you ask,
but for how he wants to give it
to you. And you might say, what's the
point? The point is that Allah will never,
you will never be more wise than Allah.
You will never be more merciful towards your
own self than Allah.
You never will claim that you know yourself
better than Allah. We discover ourselves every day.
So if he knows you better, and he
more wise than you, and he's more merciful
than you, you should have full trust.
When you raise your hand and you said
And
finally, I wanna say, my brother and sisters,
all the thing that make dua powerful
is how much your heart believe in what
you're praying for.
I'm not the best fan of that of
the
example he's giving,
but but it makes a point. He told
him, sometimes I feel I'm I'm not worthy
of answering my answer.
I'm not very good Muslim, whatever.
He
said,
Iblis, the Satan prayed to Allah after he
became Kafir. He said, You Rabb, defer me
and delay my time until the end of
the day. And Allah answered the dua
You don't think he will answer the dua?
No matter what sin you do, you're not
gonna be worse than a dua.
So don't worry, pray.
But better than that,
what once
said
He's a great scholar. He's known to be
Mujaba
70 times in Arafat.
70 times.
He prayed in Arafat,
Don't make this the last time we meet
in Araf.
He prayed Last Hajj he made, he was
90 years old.
At that night he said, Why didn't you
make the dua?
Oh Allah, don't let this the last time
we meet.
I fall shy, I'm too old, halas, and
time.
He died after Ramadan, before Hajj
Anyway, so
he said,
once
be good and I will end with this.
Whenever you make that, I want you to
remember this.
That before you even pray to Allah, I
want you to know that there is other
people who have prayed in your behalf.
He is once so the man said, Who
are they?
The first one are the angels surrounding
the throne of Allah.
The higher you are,
the closer to Allah you are, the higher
level you are, the better you are. So
the one who is the closest to Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, the angels.
Where is it? He said, didn't
you read what Allah said in the Quran?
Quran?
The carrier of the throne making stafar saying,
Allah forgive the believing men and women.
The believing, the believers.
He prayed for the believing men and women.
Ibrahim prayed for you.
Again, for believing men and women. And Muhammad
Ask for forgiveness, send them for believing men
and women and he did
I want you in the end of this
month when you make dua, you have full
conviction
that Allah
hears you,
near you
And the dua is about the connection.
It's about that opportunity to come closer to
him. It's about opportunity to be able to
speak to him.
It's not about the answer.
My main concern, Umar said, is the dua,
not the answer of the dua. Because Allah
will not let it go to waste.
May
Allah forgive our sins and may ask Allah
in this gathering. None of you have something
that you wish to have in this dunya
and in the.
That it is good for him and for
his his family unless Allah grant you that
thing. And I ask Allah
to grant us healing and grant us,
honor in this life and the next. And
I ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to make
it easy for our brothers and sisters who
are suffering around the world, and to make
it easy for those who are in need
of help, All kind of help, and I
ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to forgive the
dead.
dead.