Yahya Ibrahim – Salaam Britain Journey with the Quran: Surat al-Baqarah Ch 2 Vs 214

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			So you're gonna be continuing with the series. Today, right? Welcome to the law. We're continuing
our journey with the Quran and hamdu lillah wa salatu salam ala Rasulillah Salam, Allahu Allah He
was sent them well that for those of you who have been tuning in week after week and come to be that
each and every Wednesday for tsunami, Britain, we have a section of discussion that relates to a
verse or two from Sorrell to the Buffalo. And today hamdulillah we're looking at verse 214, of the
second chapter of the Quran, Surah 10, buffalo, Allah Subhana Allah to add in his Most Generous
		

			generosity and greatest wisdom, also does Subhan Allah to Allah challenges at times in life. And
Allah subhanho wa Taala gives us the example of those who are better than us to reassure us that on
account of some of the difficulties that we encounter, encounter in life, this is not a sign that
Allah has turned away from us, or that Allah has departed from us, or that Allah Subhana Allah has
left us to our own devices or that he's unaware of our condition. I'm hearing to our door and please
of assistance, rather Allah subhanho wa Taala strikes for us the example of our nebagamon pendants
of Allah who it was sending them, his companions and those who were with him as being those who were
		

			more virtuous than us more connected to Allah and us. And however they did endure, also much greater
than us. Before I recite the verse I remind you of the Hadith of the EBU Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
wa salam, where Allah says, either Allah had the patella, that when ALLAH SubhanA, Allah to Allah
adores one of his creation. When Allah has love for one of his, his creation, He tests the veracity
of their faith makes them even more pure in their calling out to him, put them in a place where they
rely ultimately most sincerely upon him. And if they remain firm upon that, Allah summons the angel
Jibreel who is also commanded to love them. And Allah brings down Kaboul acceptance upon this earth
		

			for that individual, that even their enemies they will find within their encounter of him and
inability to bring greater harm than what is written for them. Allah subhanaw taala says in verse
214, we ask Allah for his protection from the accursed, straight on to the villa administrate on the
regime, and has it become there's a number of verses that begin like this. Did you actually think,
did you assume what made you think this would be the case and has it come and tell the whole agenda
Willem Mallya? Tikal method Lavina. Holloman complicated, do you think that you will just be able to
walk into paradise to be admitted into gender without having been first tested and proven yourself?
		

			As was done by those who came before you?
		

			Did you think that you were special somehow mircette hormonal Betsa or what the raw was zero Hetalia
Punarvasu. When Medina M and Omar who matter an awful lot, those who came before you, they were
afflicted with suffering and adversity, to the point that they were violently shaken. And even the
messenger in the believers amongst them would cry out, when will the help of Allah? When will the
support of Allah when will the deliverance from Allah arrive? Allah in a masala Hikari? Truly,
indeed, surely, in variably, without doubt, Allah Subhana Allah to Allah support is always near
Subhan Allah, how needy I am and you are for hearing this incredible statement of Allah Subhana
		

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			Edenic Athena collects the statements of the Sahaba describing some of these important words in this
verse, Allah Subhana Allah Allah says Mr. toman said that the people before us even before our evil
comments I send them that they were made to taste they were made to touch and set which means it is
a state of poverty or loss that you had gain and it departed from you. Number two, what the rock
which means
		

			illness and affliction and an ailment that you had held and you find inability, that you had power
and you find weakness that you had position and standing and you find fracture and inability to put
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			it is to the very point that they would be shaken to their core, it's as if they were violently
shaken that the earth beneath them shifted. One of the important dimensions of our Quran is that we
are ordered to ask Allah in the very beginning to lead us to a Sirata stuck in the straight path.
		

			It's actually a poor translation for the concept of Mustafi. Musa Kleem. It's not just a straight
path, it's not just straightforward. Rather, what it means is that it is a path that is well
balanced, if I was to translate in the most comprehensive sense. Allah's asking us to ask him, oh,
Allah, lead us to a path that is well balanced in life, where I'm not in excess, nor am I in
deficiency, where I'm not going to extreme nor am I being neglectful, where I'm not asking for what
I shouldn't, and I'm not neglecting the needs of providing to others what I should have Serato
stalking the well balanced, well traveled road is where Allah Subhana Allah invites us to be in the
		

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			the Sahaba, the Prophet of Allah, and that Sahaba and the prophets of Allah before him, they used to
ask Allah for the same thing. So Allah quotes to us this statement of their would at a SLM where he
would say or have been after the Carlina Sabra with them bit academica one sooner and they'll call
me caffeine, oh Allah shower down patients upon us in our hearts, make our feet firmly planted in
the earth and give us support against those who rebel against the truth of belief in you, oh Allah.
Why do we ask for our feet to be in support and held down and firmly planted on the ground? Because
Allah warns us that the earth beneath us that at times we assume is solid, we assume that we are
		

			upright, we are assumed that we are standing tall, that there's nothing really that can shake us or
bring us to our knees. And Allah Subhana Allah to Allah here lets you know that he will at times
cause you to be so violently shaken, that there will be upheaval in my life and yours, with my
family or my employment or my education. May Allah protect us from the fitna of faith, the dua of
the prophets I seldom Allah whom Allah teach and feed net and happy demeanor of Allah don't make the
violent test of our life. Don't make the the test that you bring upon us that it shatters in quakes
and shakes our faith. The prophets I send them teaches us that we will be shaken or Obinna cesspit
		

			of them and plant our feet for this will have a they hear this verse where Allah says to them, that
the messenger and the Sahaba that came before you, they would ask their Prophet when is Allah's
victory? This would be something that the Sahaba would also have in their heart at times, they would
see themselves on that battle of they would see the siege of Gaza. They would see moments when they
were weak in Mecca annex from the rest of the citizens. They were not allowed to have any trade or
commerce or weddings. There was no no there wasn't even the ability to share food with the even as a
donation because of their starvation and hunger. In the authentic hadith narrated by Lima Muslim
		

			hubbub, about the Allahu Anhu he says to the prophets, I send them in that moment of tiredness and
weakness, when they have everything surrounding them and against them. He says of messenger of
ALLAH, why do you just invoke ALLAH ask Allah to get rid of these people? Why don't you just ask
Allah to remove them as no update and others before you do? And that way we can begin a new the
prophets I send them said in nicomekl Winter statue dude, surely you are in earnestly hurry people,
those who came before us, sometimes their skin would be removed on trying to take them away from
faith, but they would maintain the course. And I swear to you by the Almighty Allah the prophets I
		

			seldom says lay your Tinman Allah who have the deen this matter that I've been sent with will come
to fruition to the point that a person will ride from the base of Arabia from huddle of mouth, all
the way to where we are in Mecca today. sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, and will have no fear of
an enemy SallAllahu it was said
		

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			Use, surely with hardship, you find ease. Surely it is through hardship that you come to know what
is ease and surely you come to know sweetness after having understood what was sour and bitter. Now
Allah subhana wa Tada has made it the Sunnah of life, the circumstance of all of our lives, that
there is no one Lenna way to win an amen. That is a day that is prosperous for us and the day that
is counted against us.
		

			But the measure of our success is that we remain well balanced in equilibrium with ALLAH SubhanA.
Allah ends this ABC will Lavina Amman numerical matter and not sort of law that they would say when
is the victory of Allah adhan, Allah answers Allah. Allah doesn't say to the prophets, I seldom say
to them pull in the masala Hikari in many places in Nakuru and when there is this request, when is
Allah's victory? This is something where Allah answers directly. Allah wants you to know in the
maghoma I am with you, Moses and our own I'm with your own of Muhammad, I'm with you. Yeah, Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa salam, I am always seeing and hearing and observing. And as darkness sets, I
		

			know that there is the rising of the sun. And just like there is the the setting of the sun that
there will always be the sunrise, what Doha when Layli is a serger by the breaking light, and by the
over passing of the darkness, when fed you by the daybreak and the dawning of a new day was Shem see
what to have? All of these are imageries to give a new beginning a new chance and to let you know
Allah will always be with you. So Allah is the one who answers Allah doesn't say Paul say to them
Yeah, Mohamed salah. Hmm, Allah says Allah in Nasir Allah He carried, the deliverance from Allah is
at hand. Allah's help is always near. Allah is always with the Bibi.
		

			Allah Subhana Allah Allah sends us this verse to cool, some of us in moments of overheated Vnus and
over tiredness and over illness, Allah Subhana Allah wants us to know that he is always observing of
our condition. And I leave you with three wisdoms that we take from this area that were taught to me
by my elders and teachers. The first of them is to know that Allah Subhana Allah loves an
individual, even if they find themselves in what they think is a displeasing circumstance, perhaps
they may hate something and Allah knows it is best for them. Number two, that Allah Subhana Allah
Allah never burdens a soul more than he can withstand more than it is equipped to manage and to free
		

			itself from that hardship. And number three, always remember that Allah support is always near
because Allah is the One who is always near. Allah is never more distinct from you than just one
simple invocation. Jaco Valley is Salam you would say, in a magical bethey was me Illa Allah, I
raised my complaint, my sole role only to Allah subhana wa.
		

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			really, really one of my favorite reflections
		

			on that, and it's just, it's such a beautiful mind. I think so many of us we go through so many
things when we actually just remember to rely a lot.
		

			It's okay, so it was such a beautiful reminder. Thank you so, so much, what would you say to people
who are still in that mix of despair, to really help them to draw closer back towards Allah.
		

			We are taught from the Quran that we can't do it alone. And it's not enough to just simply say,
Allah is with me, Allah is enough, I will just ask Allah for help. In fact, what we see in the habit
of the prophets of Allah in the habit of our who hematite seldom is that Allah has set for him
		

			Sahaba who are there to assist them. Even on the hijab of the prophets, I seldom he doesn't go with
alone. He has a companion who travels with him, he plans a strategic exit out of Mecca. He is very,
you know, insightful in the path that he's going to take to make sure that he stays safe. It becomes
really important for us to build a network of people who are relying on a reliable in our
circumstances, it doesn't necessarily mean of course, then there are going to be the you know, even
religious people or even people from our faith, when the prophets I send them Synthesia
		

			Have a to Ethiopia, the king of Ethiopia at the time and the Joshi the Nagus of Ethiopia was not a
Muslim, but he had a quality of being fair and just an open the prophets I seldom said go to that
man, he is a person now you're a lot more into who I had nobody will be treated unfairly he will
give you a fair hearing. So the prophets I seldom has this ability to put forward for us this
example that we need others in our life to assist us. The second thing is to recognize not just that
I need other people, but I also need to work within my own ability not to remain patient as
impassive, or inactive. Sadly, the word patience in English it means to just you know, be patient,
		

			meaning just sit and don't do anything, right. When you say to your child, okay, just be patient,
I'll bring you your food, you're saying don't move around, don't ask for it anymore. Just sit there
and be quiet. But the word patience and allaby doesn't is not is not the English equivalent. Sob is
an active process. It is that you are going out to make the qualify change that you are seeking.
		

			Sometimes, you know when when people say to me shift I've been making, you know, I've been making
dua that Allah helped me with this or you know, we're, we're interested in you know, we've been
trying to have a child for a few years, and they say, Okay, you making dua to Allah, you've given
charity, you're looking after orphans. Now I want you to show Allah that you trust Allah, go out and
think of baby names go out and, and maybe even you know, shop for something where you say, you know,
if it's a boy, it's this, it's if it's a girl, it's this, put a demonstration that you believe that
ALLAH SubhanA, Allah to Allah can can bring about your DUA. So there's this testament within you
		

			that Oh Allah, I am reliant. And if it's not this year, or next year or the year after, I am hopeful
in you, oh, Allah, anything does not happen. My radar and my contentment is in the journey, not just
in the outcome. So those are two things that I always try to encourage young people. First, don't go
it alone, you always need a support network, you need cheerleaders, you need people who love you,
you need people who are, you know, empathetic to your circumstance that you can confide in. And
number two, you need to understand that there are things we can all work on in our life, there are
things that you and I have been given by Allah in our hands, that can make a huge difference, if we
		

			actually take critical care of our own responsibilities, and show a testament of our faithfulness in
Allah by demonstrating that we trust and have to work well upon him, not just in our job.
		

			I mean, it's amazing that you've mentioned so many things here, because Southerner is one of those
and misunderstood concepts that we you know, quite often, people are suffering because they are told
to constantly have suffered, but then going back to what you've mentioned, with having the worker
having that faith that things will change, that your Dwarves will be accepted. You know, having that
balanced approach is is really important. shape do you think there's a message that you could share
with everyone who's listening in? Or even the Imams of our Masjid?
		

			How can we achieve this balance in our Islamic institutions, academic and, you know, privacy?
		

			I think one of the things that I encourage in my school, I'm an assistant principal at a large multi
campus School of Hamdulillah we have nearly 1300 students at one of the most important strategies
that we have is to allow people to learn to hyper correct, and hyper correction means that a person
at times needs to taste some of the bitterness of a mistake or a bad exam, the road or, you know, a
miscalculation, or whatever it is, that causes them to say, Whoa, is this what it feels like to
fail? Is this what it feels like to not succeed? Is this what it feels like to to not do the right
thing? And is this the way out of it? And now how do I prevent myself from it? So one of the
		

			powerful lessons that you always see in the spirit of the Prophet Muhammad, Sai Selim, is that at
times he just sits back and allows people to mature within themselves and a very vivid example is in
the masjid of the prophets. I said them were one prayer is equal to 1000. There were two men who
begin to verbally curse each other. In the holy presence of the prophets, ISON and as a prophet
		

			sat the prophets I seldom turn to the Companions he can see them he can easily get up and say, Stop.
This is the house of Allah, how dare you. But the prophet turns us will have any says I know a
statement that if they were to say it with genuineness asking Allah for its protection, this extra
anger that's upon them with depart. And he said they should say, oh, there'll be nothing in a
shaytani R rajim. Oh, Allah protect me from the Shaitan in flaming me even more. Now one of the
great filler, Jura, you know, juristic points of this hadith is that the Prophet saw somebody doing
something wrong, and did not immediately get up and correct them in the way that you and I think is
		

			the right way to correct you know, you get up to intervene. But perhaps if the prophet does that,
and one of them is so hot and so overheated, he said, Just leave me alone. You don't know what
happened. And it could ruin them in their in how they mistreated the prophets. I said, Lim, so it
becomes really important for us, especially as leaders to allow people the scope and the capacity to
learn to correct hyper correct that they correct in a way that causes them not want to return to the
mistake that they have made. And that is a really important educative process. It's a very important
Islamic pedagogy that we have as Muslims. And it's something that we really do need to encourage
		

			within our families within our communities, within our masajid within our relationships, as husbands
and wives, within our young, married couples, who Subhan Allah by year three, something like 69% of
couples in their third year, by third year, they are beginning to separate from each other. And the
Muslim community is soon catching up to those natural averages. May Allah protect us?
		

			And then I mean, and that's it, isn't it? panela when we reflect that there really is an answer to
everything, when you're saying that we can turn because they are the blemish of television, there's
Subhanallah, there is an answer for everything, everywhere we turn, there's always something that we
can do. And I love that you've touched on
		

			this advice being for the young married couples as well, because often these are the segments that
are neglected. And yet when we raise awareness toward this so so empowering, and something that
we've been conversating today that you touched on as well is the advice towards raising the
children. And obviously,
		

			as a kind of ending closure, specifically towards where helping with patience and open communication
is involved towards especially what you've been talking about a day, what today sorry, what advice
would you share that we can keep these conversations happening, help them to be read upon patients
and understanding that everything is fun.
		

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			a lot of what we see in society is a reflection of what people consume. So you know, if, if our
children are left unfettered to consume garbage, then we can't expect that our house isn't going to
be littered. So if they're, you know, on their phone, it's an unfettered kind of existence. And I'm
not asking you to, you know, to pull away their phone, but I'm asking you to engage in some of the
things that they are viewing. And to understand why these are things that are being broadcast into
our homes, you know, I would never leave my daughter's window, my son's window unlocked in an in an,
in a bad neighborhood. You know, before I go to sleep, I'd lock all the doors, I block all the
		

			window I put on the house alarm. But if you're leaving your children who are young and
impressionable, to have their phone in their bedroom at two o'clock in the morning, texting and
chatting with people, you might as well leave the window and door open. Right? So those kind of
practical tips that you'll hear from Muslims and non Muslims are really, really important for us to
rise up and do better. I know, it's easier just to let them do whatever they want to do, at least
they're out of my face, at least they're not bothering me, at least they're not getting into trouble
and you know, harming each other and my kids aren't as bad as those people's kids, right? That's
		

			kind of the mindset that we have. But that isn't the mindset of growth. That's a mindset of not
wanting to sink. You know, we're just treading water. I just don't want to drown. So let's just,
let's just, everybody just do their own thing. But our Dean encourages us to go a little bit further
than that.
		

			I think it's important to have those difficult conversations now to protect them in the future as
well. So 100% I know my kids don't like it, but 9pm phones are gone. They're with me. They don't
have access and it's like you say why leave the windows? Why leave that opportunity there where they
can
		

			equally equally as well. It's not just their phones, it's our phones with them. So in my home you
know my
		

			iPhone, my wife's phone every all of it, it goes into one box because it's very difficult to command
with respect when you continue to do what is you know, nobody's on their phone at nine o'clock for
work right you're not on your phone at nine o'clock at night because of work and it's work message
and if it even if it is, it's a five minute thing, if it's a five minute phone call, but when our
children see us, you know just constant with that it becomes a greater offense and it's more
difficult to command them to good.
		

			Amazing, amazing one that has so much for coming on sharing so much insight. I definitely have taken
away so much so honestly, thank you so much for your time. And it is now time for a commercial break
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