Waseem Hendricks – When In A Dark Space How Allah Responds To Our Call
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The speakers discuss the struggles of human beings to acknowledge their actions and admit their truth, emphasizing the importance of showing compassion and faith in oneself. They also discuss the importance of showing humility and acceptance in public, as it is linked to the spiritual teachings of Islam. The AGM in Jannah is planned, and people are encouraged to register for the upcoming elections and help register. The speakers stress the need for individuals to show faith in Islam and show the beauty of Islam to others.
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living in examples, things that happen. We find ourselves in dark
spaces. We want to take our own lives. We find ourselves in dark
places. We become angry. We become violent, right? We change our
attitude towards others. Our families are suffering. Our
friends are suffering. Those who are not friends, how they come
short at the end, our workers, everybody suffers because of my
situation. Allah subhanahu wa gives us answers. Allah subhanahu
wa says, when we are trialed and tested, what should we do? What
does a believer do? A believer says, In lahi WA, Ina Ilahi WA,
Raji
Ratu, Allah Abu Lang to Allah Abu best, the situation that I'm in is
a taste and the triumph from Allah.
And if it is, I die like that. I die like that. It is from Allah.
And if it is, I'm cured. Alhamdulillah, ala kulli Ha, in
every condition, we thank Allah subhanahu wa. And Allah subhanahu
wa says, In you are the Most Merciful of the says, in Allah,
you are the Most Merciful of the Merciful.
He places
trust in Allah, and he believed in Allah's mercy. And Alhamdulillah,
Allah subhanahu wa, he answers, is Allah? SubhanaHu wa says, FASD jab
Allahu, Faka, shafna, mabihindur,
rahmat, Amin, Indiana, Wadi krali, Deen, ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala say,
so. We responded to him and removed what afflicted him, of
adversity. What? What? What is this? Allah trialed him, and Allah
wanted to see not that Allah doesn't know Allah knows. Allah
trialed him, and Allah subhanahu wa test him till that moment where
your Imaan hangs on that lost. You know, subhanAllah, there's nothing
for me. Look, how I look. I'm depressed.
What can what bitter can happen? I'm already on this low. What did
Ayub Alayhi Salatu was he placed his trust in Allah. He
said, Allah, you are. You are a Rahman. You can show compassion.
You can show mercy. Assist me,
subhanAllah and Allah. Subhanahu wa he answers it. Allah removed
his afflicted, his affliction, in his in his State of adversity, and
we gave him back his family and the like thereof, with him as
mercy from Us and the reminder for the worshipers, who's the
worshipers is the reminders for us. Look at Ayu, if your child is
struggling with something, don't say, Oh Allah. How can you test
me? Why my child? This is not how we ask questions. We say, Oh
Allah, we accept, but Allah, assist. How ya walaina amanu, how
does the people of Imaan as Allah is the enubi Sabri was Salah with
patience and perseverance and in prayer and in Salah, and we cry
and we ask, Oh Allah, please. This is the way of true believers. And
in another narration, Allah subhanahu wa says,
What? What a nun?
Who is that *? Anybody knows? Who is that *?
We don't know who's the *. He said, Nabi of Allah. Who was he?
Nabi? Who? Nabi in the fish, in the belly of the fish? Nabi Yunus
alays, another name for
May Allah, Subhanahu wa Nuh, the name for Nabi Yunus, alayhi,
salatu, assalam. Allah subhanahu wa says, is the Habana Alan tako,
dira Ali, Fana, fidumati, Allah, ILAHA, Illa and subhani,
kuntumina, volimin. Look at this. And Allah subhanahu wa says
Muhammad Sallam mentioned the man of the fish who was in the belly
right when he went off in anger and thought that we would not
decree anything SubhanAllah. Sometimes we think that we can
hide from Allah. We do with anger what we do, and we think there is
nobody that watch us. There's nobody that can take us to account
Allah, subhanho, wa taala, Luka. Allah knows his creation.
Allah sent such examples that even say the best cream of the crop
again, he said, Nabi of Allah. He became angry with his nation. Why?
Because they didn't want to listen to him. La Ilaha, illallah, if
people don't want to listen to us, we told tangtrums, I'll tell you a
little bit about me. I need this, and I achieve this, and I am that.
Masha Allah, it is a Nabi of Allah,
yes, a Nabi of Allah. Allah, show you. Who are you and who is the
NABI of Allah.
Mean, you thought that, masha Allah, you know, I'm so angry with
these people. I'm just going to leave me a.
They want to listen to me. And Allah says that he thought that we
would not decree anything upon him. But what did Allah do?
And he called out within the darkness. So Allah allow him to be
swallowed and to be thee in the belly of
the of the particular animal, the fish, 40 days and 40 nights.
And what was the crying of this particular individual realization
and
that is so difficult for us to realize, no, I'm wrong.
Never do we want to be wrong. But as I
but more than about he said, from about you,
it's never but, you know, I think that my approach was maybe a bit
wrong. It was me. And how does Allah teach us through these great
individuals, the best that walked on the surface of the earth? What
did he say? La ilaha illa And subhanAllah,
Allah, you alone. Do we worship. You are the only deity.
Subhan glorify, and glory be to you. Allah, you are perfect. I
admit my shortcomings. I am imperfect. I am a being. The two
always commit error, but you, Allah, you are perfect. SubhanaHu
in me, really, I could to be naval. I mean, I'm a wrongdoer.
I've oppressed myself. I'm the one that Done, done wrong here. It's
not them. You could have said, Yeah, but Allah, you know they,
they didn't listen. I said, You are one, ya, Allah, I said that I
am your messenger. Allah, Allah, they didn't want to listen.
Realization. Realization is what I
heard. That is the most difficult thing for us as human beings
today, to admit that we are at fault,
to admit that we are at fault. Rasulullah is an example to this
as well. At five, when he went past, they stoned him. Everything.
The blood started flowing. He stopped the blood and everything
he went through the whole process. At the end, Malaika came and say,
should, should we bring these two HELOCs together and we will
destroy them. Ya Rasulullah, just give the command. What did he say?
Did Allah send you? No. So why are you coming to ask me that I am not
a Nabi that has been sent to destroy people and to curse
people. But what did he do after that?
He He complained to Allah about his weakness, not the weakness of
the people, not because the people did this and the people did this.
Ya Allah and the police, Ya Allah, through my weakness, they could
not see Imam,
what an example is this to us. Oh Nabi yung one that you love in me.
I love him so much, so dearly. There is so much example in his
lifestyle and in the lifestyle of Nabi Yunus Alayhi Salatu assalam,
how to make dua La Ilaha, Illa and
ya. Allah, you are one. You are the one that I worship. Allah
alone. Subhan, You are perfect. Allah, I am so full of faults in
the Kun tu Minas mean, Oh Allah, I appreciate myself. I'm so wrong.
What I have done is so wrong. Ya, Allah, please forgive the person
that I've done this too, and forgive me.
Examples. Jemaah, to Muslimeen, if you're in that dark space, he has
the answers. The first point is to accept our weakness, accept our
wrong.
Do we know what will come from this? Do we know what happened
after Nabi Yunus alay salatu assalam accepted this and Allah
set him free again? What did he do? He was rejuvenated. He was
that servant of Allah that went out with all his might and effort
and everything that Allah has given him, his energy and he
poured into calling to Allah
and be obedient to Allah. And
his calling was such a Dao that people could feel it, because
where did it come from? Now, before this was anger,
it was despise. Why are they not listening? It is as if he could
do. Is
that not how we feel? Sometimes we know that we can do and if it
doesn't happen, that is what, you know, triggers. Hey, why are they
not listening? Why are they not listening to me? I am the one that
they're supposed to listen to. And we, we throw tantrums, but that is
out of anger. But when it change, when that energy is being, you
know, directed into the correct space, Allah, doesn't I can't do
anything. Now is a different story. Now I give my Darwin. Now I
speak in such a way that Allah, but the two you placed me here, so
I'm going to do what I have to do. I'm calling out, ya, Allah, you do
the job.
Is that not going to be better?
That's why one of my teachers, they always used to say, stress is
from shaytan. Depression comes from shaytan. Yes, it exists. No
problem, it exists. But shaytan is the one that spikes that where you
feel down and you stay in that hole, that dark space that you are
stress and that comes from Shaytaan.
Time, because Allah gives us answers when that stress come,
I don't have finance. I feel that I need to do, is it not true? I
need to run out. I need to ask more, not the creator of the
creation. I need to ask somebody to help me. The creation becomes
important, Allah. Don't like that.
Allah likes to be the most important in your life.
Allah wants us to turn to Allah.
Allah want you to show that complete brokenness in front of
Allah there and Allah boast at the moment. Look at where is his head
at the lowest that it could be on the ground crying only to me,
testifying that I am his Lord, and Muhammad is his messenger.
SallAllahu said, look at him, boasting to the Malaika. And what
does Allah say?
Allah, you alone. I worship you alone. I seek help from what
happens then? Now Allah says. Allah responds that This is
between me and my servant, and I will grant him what Mahi wishes.
That is Allah. Every day you read this, do you think this? When you
say, Alhamdulillah, Rabbi, lame, know that Allah say, Oh, look at
my servant, Hamid Ali, he's praising me. Rahman ir Rahim, but
jadani. Look at him. He's insulting me. Place me on a high
level. Stare in awe. This is not for you to know. My Malaika is
between me and him.
How high Allah, place you at that moment, your Lord Allah says this
about you and I while standing in Salah in humility. How does the
believers do it? In humility, Salah is not I'm standing there
pushing my chest out and showing everybody senior. Ekazefajay,
oh. Ekazeva, Fajr. Ekazeva doer, I'm the guy. No, that's not,
that's not what Allah wants. But aflamin, Allah say the people of
the believers, they will be successful when
Allah, when they stand in Salah with humility, accepting that this
is Allah Who placed me here. It could have been anybody standing
here, but he's not Allah. So it is not for my lips and my mouth to
speak, yes, dawah must be there. Come to the masjid brothers,
please. This is the best place on the earth that dawah must be
there. Senior akasi May namasim, no, that's not right.
We have no right to say that. But what we must do Aman, we must
invite to Allah's house. The Prophet invited to his house. The
Prophet Sallam also said, the people that don't come to Allah's
house, I would have taken the wood myself, go to their houses and
burn their houses down. Na Raso, Sal also said that, so don't take
make a loop only and say, no, no, nobody can judge me. I can make
Salat home. You must make salah. The basjid. You must come to
Allah's house to make salah. That is what Allah has decreed for the
male believing men, the women in mashallah, there is facilities for
them. They can come in sha Allah, if they are able to, if not, they
can make Salat home. There is no punishment for them. For us, there
is Subhanallah, there is warnings. There is warnings from our
messenger, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So Allah, Subhanahu wa
responds in Allah says, First jab and Allahu wana Jaina, says first
meaning, how beautiful. Allah responds. Allah tell us so we
responded to him. Yunus Ali, Salatu was Salam and saved him
from distress. Imagine Allah placed you in a dark hole for 14
days and 14 nights. You don't know whether you're going to live or
you're going to die, or what. God, there's nothing. But somehow Allah
sustained you in that belly. Because he didn't become hungry,
Allah still sustained him in that dark space. Allah narshti, and is
that not happening to us when we in the dark space, we still eat.
You still sleep, no matter who you are, Allah still key. Allah show
you love even in the dark space. And Allah say, we've saved him
from distress. We took him out of that hole
in order to encourage him again to go to say that don't worry, you're
not perfect. We are the perfect beings, but we will look after
you. We'll shower you with our mercy. What did Allah say? Waka
daali, kanun Ji, mukminin, Allah says, and thus do We save the
believers and we reward them?
Allah is the one jamaatul Muslimeen that can save us.
Our children might be in distress today. We are in distress today
because of situations.
I can't stress this more. When Allah tests, you don't feel that
you are failure.
Don't feel that you are that person that nobody cares about.
You know what Allah cares Allah, Subhanahu wa that when Allah
tastes a servant of Allah, Allah loves him. He.
How much you must not love Allah.
How much taste do you go through life? And we think our taste is so
difficult, look at the taste of our abiya,
the best of Allah's creation. Look at the taste that they trial. Try
to equate it. We can never equate it.
We go through a small little problem in life.
People don't like me.
My children is disobedient.
You know that's that's a true one. Our children don't listen to us.
So what is it? We depend on ourselves. We depend on others,
advices, but we forget to turn to Allah.
Turn to Allah. Look at Luth, alaihi, salatu as how must they
feel? How did they feel? Look at nu ALA.
Imagine your own Allah. Tell you they are not from your family.
They are disobedient. They don't make salah, they don't listen to
the call of Allah. And this is how we need to speak to our children.
Teach them you don't know by Allah go.
The law of Allah will be and it will stay, and we will not change
it.
Who do you think you are?
I am the Father and you are the son. I am the Father, and you are
the daughter. I am the mother, and you are the son. I am the mother,
and you are the daughter, and you will listen.
Where's the men of this ummah,
Sharad, Allahu, subhana wa Taala answers. Allah is there for us. If
we do what is right,
we stick to Allah. SubhanaHu wa is light at the end of the tunnel. We
will see it,
whether it is in this life or the next,
but we will definitely Subhanallah, be blessed by Allah,
Subhanahu wa and Allah will give us the AJR for that. So today is a
great lesson for us. Jamal, many of us will be trialed. We will be
tested. We will go through difficult times in our life, but
at that time, know that Allah gazes upon us. Allah is looking at
us, and as Allah is answered to those great beings before us,
Allah will answer to us. There's no different Allah today. It's the
same Allah. And if you look at the test that comes around, it's
similar,
right? Allah subhanaw taala, if you look at the history, it
repeats itself all the time.
If I think about our time today, it's very close to the time of
jahiliya. It's
very close to the time of jahiliya. The Haqq is in front of
us. We deny it, idol worshiping. It's here.
Bring our children alive. It's here.
Children
not
being respectful to elders, elders not showing mercy to the young.
These are things that happen jahiliya.
May Allah forgive us. May Allah allow us to be that strong nation
again, because Wallahi, we will see through history it repeats
itself. So today we might feel that Islam, it looks in our eyes
as if it's low, but somehow we must realize that Allah is in
control, and Islam will be once again at such a time where by no
household will be able to live without saying
illAllah Muhammad Rasulullah. We have a part in this. We need to
live our life accordingly. We need to show the beauty of faith in
Islam. And if people see that within us, we will be able to
inshaAllah be instrumental in for them, coming out of their dark
spaces and seeing the beauty of the deen of Islam. And Inshallah,
Allah will say, as Allah says, Waka Dali, kanun, Jill, Munin, and
Allah is the one that will save us and reward us as believers
inshaAllah, Amin. May Allah save our children. May Allah save us
from our difficulties that we are in let us inshaAllah, be of those
who put our complete trust in Allah, Subhanahu wa. Let us try
and learn our history. Let us go through our history. There will be
challenges. Jamal to Muslim. We are human. Allah promised us we
would we'll be challenged. But if you pass the challenge, there is
nothing greater than Jannah, nothing greater than Jannah.
Achieving gender no matter you know you can be that last guy
declares the jannatchi. You've got the smallest of Jannah, but
there's fine. I'm in,
I'm in, brother, I'm in here. I lost the Bucha after your what
shameful
that small gender to I don't know what's small. You can't actually
equate small with Jannah, because Jannah will always be used huge.
But the last guy with the weakest of iman, he will have the smallest
Jannah, but mashallah, you will say, Alhamdulillah, just for
putting my foot into Jannah,
I'm in.
Let it not be you and I.
It has been the forefront,
and the banner of Muhammad in front, walking through the doors
with him, Salah. I mean, that's what we strive for. I mean, Allah,
bless you. All inshallah to
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us Inshallah, I mean, ya rabal Alami, and then we had a brother
that traveled from Bangladesh to come and visit his family after
many years, brother ruhl Amin, who's a elder and a father, he was
a half year of the Quran. He just visit a few days, and Allah took
him away. SubhanAllah. Allah took him all the way from Bangladesh,
come and close his eyes here, the southern tip of South Africa, and
buried here, subhanAllah, we ask Allah, Subhanahu, WA grant him the
highest place in Jannah, in sovereignty, contentment in the
hearts of the family members. I mean, Amina, rabal, Alameen, and
then Inshallah, just a note, a very important note for our
community. Inshallah, to Allah, for those who are in our
community, we have our AGM coming up, and our
website is mashallah active, and we need people to register for the
elections. If there's no elections, then the executive
that's here now, they will just carry on, jamat, they will just
have to carry on because there's no people that will be able to
nominate. So we need everybody that's here inshallah to register
and come on the day of the AGM Inshallah, to Allah and come and
listen to what has transpired throughout the two years that has
passed, and where we are at and where we need to, where we
heading. Inshallah, to Allah and be part of this. We know our
Masjid is grown so beautifully, and the mahabha and the mawada,
the love and the beautiful, beauty of the Brotherhood has come become
so nice. Let us partake in all these activities, because we all
can contribute positive to our Masjid. This is our Masjid in the
northern suburbs. It became a hub Masha Allah. We had a Hajj exposed
that transpired. It happened in Al Majhi, 250 people, and many people
on the waiting list, but we couldn't accommodate. We need your
input. What can we do to better this? Inshallah, right? We have
beautiful people on the executive we have people that can also serve
Masha Allah, so come out see what is or we don't need to also, you
know, it doesn't mean you served it. That's the only time you work,
even if you don't serve. You know, serve Allah's house. Serve it for
the sake of Allah. Bring your expertise and Inshallah, come. Let
us sit down and let us work towards embittering our community.
And Inshallah, the website is www, dot panorama. Masjid, PA, no.
Rama, P, A, N, O, R, A, pay, no. Rama Maji do.pmct.co.za,
and inshallah. You can follow the Proms there and register, be it
nilahita, barakawata Allah, and nominate also whom you would love
to nominate. Inshallah, may Allah, bless this community to grow from
strength to strength. Amin ya Ramin in May Allah, bless you All
inshallah with a Juma Abu barakah, barakah masuk.
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