Asr Khatirah – Seeking The Removal Of Trials

Today we have dua,

from the Quran number 21,

chapter 44, Surat Al Duqan.

From Surat Al Duqan, aya number

12.

Aya number 12. And that is asking Allah

subhanahu wa ta'ala

to remove trials.

The story let's read the ayat first and

then we'll talk about the story insha'Allah

wa ta'ala

starting from ayah number 10.

Wait then, oh prophet, for the day when

the sky will be will be veiled

in haze clearly visible like smoke.

Overwhelming the people, they will cry. This is

a painful torment.

Our Lord, and that's where the dua is.

Our Lord,

remove this torment from us and we will

certainly

believe.

How can they be reminded when a messenger

has already come to them making

things clear?

And then they turn away from him, and

they say he is, he's insane,

and he's learning from somewhere.

Allah subhanahu wa'ala said that we shall remove

this torment

for a while, but you are certainly you

are certainly gonna return back to your old

ways.

When that major

strike

and major punishment comes in Namuntaqimun,

that will be a moment of revenge.

Now,

this ayat comes in the context of Surat

Al Duqan.

Allah Subhanahu Wa'ala revealed Surat Al Duqan in

Mecca, and the reason for that,

When the Prophet SAWAYSALLAM TRIED WITH the PEOPLE

of Makkah, they rejected him,

they harassed him, they claimed he's insane, they

claimed this, they claimed that, they rejected him

completely.

The prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam he reached

that moment

when he was so distressed because of that

rejection

of theirs. So, he made dua against his

people.

You Allah, he says I ask you to

bring them

sinin like sinin Yusuf,

which means Yusuf alaihi salaam what happened there

Ajima? At the time of Yusuf alaihi salaam,

what happened to the people of Egypt?

Famine and drought.

So, there was drought for years

and there was famine, and then Allah subhanahu

wa'ala relieved them afterwards.

So, he made dua. So, in that year

or that season, it became dry.

They went through drought. They went through famine,

and they were suffering.

So, then they came to the Prophet Sallallahu

Alaihi Wasallam. Lhaidun Sal Bukhari,

Abdullah Masur radiAllahu anhu arba who was in

Mecca.

He said, so

the people were suffering

and they start making, you know, pleading with

the Prophet

like look,

if you relieve us from this, we shall

believe.

We should be okay. As Allah mentioned over

here,

remove this punishment because

we will certainly believe.

So, Abdullah Mas'ud came to the prophet

salallahu alaihi wa sallam,

which means Arab.

They're dying. It's

too much.

Udur Allah, ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to

relieve them from this. So, the Prophet made

dua for Allah

to relieve that and Allah did. However,

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala documented in the aya

that they shall certainly go back again to

their old ways.

Hamani wa salljama'a

we go through difficulty, we go through hardship,

we go through trials sometimes, may Allah protect

us all from these trials

But we go through all of this and

then we make all these promises to God.

You Rabbi, I swear. You Allah, I vow.

You Allah, I promise you. We make all

these vows, all these promises that if you

do this, I'll take care, I'll do this,

I'll do that. And then Allah Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ala, he removes us from that, removes that

punishment or actually that trial. But what happens

to many of us? Many of us, unfortunately,

go back again to their old ways.

Why? Because Al Insan was called Insan

because we forget.

Remember the story of Yusuf alaihi salam when

he was in prison? And, one of those

prisoners came to him and says, you know,

I had a dream and I see that

you are a righteous man. Could you please

interpret my dream?

And he told him that I saw myself

squeezing,

making juice out of grapes

because you're gonna be you're gonna be, serving

the king.

And as he was leaving,

he told him, listen,

don't forget about

me. Could you please talk

to your king about me?

The man, of course, he gave Yusuf all

these promises. Absolutely, of course, how could I

forget you? You You're the one who gave

me that hope, you're this, you're that. All

these promises.

But the moment he left prison and he

saw

the joy of life, what happened to this

man?

He

forgot about

he stayed there for a few years. Alaihi

Sallam.

So similarly,

when they vow and they promised that everything

is gonna be okay, back okay, we shall

believe, but they refused. So Allah

says

that's when they turn back again to their

old ways.

He's getting this information from somewhere, he's just

insane, he's crazy.

Allah says,

we shall remove that punishment,

we shall remove that trial right now, but

for a while, not for long.

And then he says,

because we know you're going to certainly go

back to your old ways.

When that moment comes, the true, tremendous, true

trial comes.

You shall see our revenge. Some alhamdah, they

say that was in Dunya, which was Badr,

the Battle of Badr. Some they say, no,

this is actually delayed for them until the

akhirah on the day of judgment.

Now, so what was that dukhanah that they

were seeing? What was that haze that they

were seeing? Because of the famine, and the

hunger, and the drought, people started seeing miraaz.

And, obviously, in the sky, it is so

dry that they just they start seeing haze

that cover in between them

and the sky.

So, when they look at it, they see

what is that? And, they realize this is

the punishment.

This is the punishment. So, that's one way

of looking at it. Some other they say

no, this actually

speaks about a punishment

yet to come.

That punishment

will be coming in the future as one

of the signs of the day of judgment

and they refer to it with the with

the wind that Allah

he promised that he would actually that smoke

will come on the day of judgment

and people will be exposed to that fire

and that smoke as a punishment for them.

So, whether it's something in the future or

something happened in Mecca, the du'a that was

made there.

Our Lord removed this torment from us, We

will certainly believe. By the way, who said

this duay, Jema?

Who said the duay? The kuffar.

The people of Quraysh.

What did they say? Rabbanah,

our Lord.

So, did they really believe in God?

Yeah. Jumaan, did they believe in God?

Of course they did.

But what was their mistake? What was their

problem?

Worshipping other than him. Allah says in Surat

Yusuf,

Allah subhanahu says about them,

that yes, many of them they believe in

God,

but they worship someone else with him,

which means they knew in their hearts that

Allah is the creator, the maker, the sustainer,

all these beautiful attributes of the Lord, But

when it comes to worship,

they dedicate worship to somebody else. That was

their major, of course, sin and that's the

shirk that Allah

would never accept. So, when they say, our

Lord, because they

acknowledge him, they acknowledge him, but they worship

someone else beside him

In that moment, as you can see, moment

of distress,

what kind of dua did they have? A

very sincere dua.

Because they knew nothing else is going to

help them. These guys are not helping them,

only Allah will. So, they made sincere dua,

but then they betrayed that dua again, and

they went back to their old ways. May

Allah protect us from the So, the dua

statement.

statement.