Optimism In Difficult Times

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ilaha illallah Hua hola Shetty Keller will shadow under Mohamed and Abu do humara sudo yeah you hola Xena Amano taco la haka to call to Walter moto Illa. To Muslim on, Amma bad dear Muslims in Surah use of which ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala has called the best of all sutras. There is one particular incident and ayah that we will inshallah to either use as the beginning of our hotbar today, when the brethren have use of go to Yahoo. And they say to him, give up hope, Stop daydreaming that Yusuf is going to come back. Stop thinking that one day you're going to get your son back, give this up, and they criticize Yahoo. And they said that after altered Kuru use of cognitive total collusive

activity, Autobahn outer corner minute Harlequin, are you going to constantly talk about use of use of use of until you're going to go crazy or until you die? Give up Stop daydreaming that Joseph is going to come back. And Jacoba his Salam spoke to them from a wisdom and a trust and an optimism and a dignity that can only come from Iman in Allah subhanho wa Taala He says, Yeah, Benny had Habu Fattah has this room in use of a word. go oh my children go and discover any news you can go and try to find use of despite all odds, it's been 30 years I've never heard one whisper of his existence. It's been 30 years I've gone blind from crying from use of but I'm not gonna give up hope and use of

coming back to me is horrible. Go my children. Fanta has such room in use of bring me any news of use of go and see if you can find him here him smell him. While he he will take us through Mill Road

and do not give up hope in the blessings and mercy of Allah. Do not give up hope in Allah changing the situation. Then, even though he's gone blind from crying out of fear and anguish, even though 30 years have gone by, even though his own children have betrayed him. Still, he teaches them a principle of Islam and Iman in a hula yea assumere Rohilla he ill Komal calf Iran. Nobody gives up hope in Allah's Mercy except a coffee. Nobody becomes pessimistic except the coffee. The more men can never be pessimistic, the more men will always have hope in Allah. despite all odds, despite everything turning turning against him. The world might seem bleak and black. There doesn't seem any

news. any light at the end of the tunnel. It doesn't matter. The Mothman never loses hope. In Allah's mercy, only the calf can possibly lose hope in Allah's mercy. From this incident, we will begin our holdover and some points we can extract from this beautiful anecdote. First and foremost, it demonstrates that having positive thoughts having optimistic thoughts against all the odds, it doesn't matter what the world says. It doesn't matter what the children of Yaakov say. It doesn't matter. The whole earth has not given you a glimmer of hope. We don't care. We believe in Allah subhanho wa Taala and only the kafir gives up all hope. As for the movement who believes in Allah,

there will always be optimism. And so we learn optimism is not just something that is good to have. Optimism is linked to Iman, when you have Iman you will be optimistic and Allah subhanho wa taala. When you have Eman, you will always look at things in a bright manner.

That's it last in Allah subhanho wa taala. A second point we derive is that looking forward to good news and being optimistic does not change the sadness of a situation. Jacobi sad Yaqoob is grieving Yaqoob is crying. Yeah cold has gone blind from crying from 30 years. That does not affect his Iman. That has nothing to do with iman. It is not a sign

weakness to feel sad. It is not a sign of weakness to feel anxious. It is not a sign of weak came on to keep on crying, crying, crying, that has nothing to do with having good thoughts and Allah having trust in Allah Having personally been in Allah sadness is one thing and good thoughts is another Yaqoob is sad, but he still has good thoughts of Allah. Yes, the situation is bleak. Yes, it looks overwhelming. Yes, we feel anxiety, but still, our hearts turn to Allah subhanho wa taala. A third point of benefit is that this optimism we're talking about? This having good thoughts of Allah subhanho wa taala. It is a act of worship that emanates from the heart, but it does not affect an

impact the plan and the action. It is a spiritual construct, it exists in the world. It is not shown in the actions how so Jakob is sitting at home expecting a miracle he wants us to come back, and he is expecting a miracle. But that miracle will only happen when you put in the effort. And what is the effort? Oh every son of mine goes spread forth in the Earth. Each one of you go in a different direction. Each one of you go and search for use of ask the people where is use of Fatah has said zoom in use of the miracle does not happen when you sit at home and do nothing. The miracle does not happen by mere Ibadah and dua no rabada, and do eyes The first time you do it. After that you have a

plan, you have an action, you have an agenda you do Oh children go and search for use of the searching for use of has nothing to do with the Tawakkol of the heart. So when you put your trust in Allah, when you have good thoughts of Allah subhanho wa taala. That doesn't mean you just sit back and expect a miracle. The Miracle might indeed happen. But it's only going to happen when you have the plan. How do we find about use of how do we get from point A to point B, this is how we do that we plan we plot we have an agenda. We have an action item, we have a series of to do lists, but our heart is attached up there. So yeah, cool, tells his sons go and search get me any news of use of

that is the action. That is the planning. And that has nothing to do with the state of the art. And so we learned from this as well, that the action of the cult, the Tawakkol and the hope in Allah has nothing to do with the actions in this world. We're still going to plan we're still going to think how do I get from point A to point B? What is the mechanism to do so and we will try to do our best even when we think there is no hope we still put in the effort even when we don't see any solution. Can you imagine put yourself in Jakub shoes 30 years have gone by they haven't even heard a rumor of his existence. Not even a whiff of where he is still he puts in the plan still he says Go and search

for you. So this is what the Movement does. You never give up you always try and you know maybe that trying is not the correct thing to do. But as long as it is within the Shetty as allowance you have to do what you do and Allah will bring the miracles from his side you have no option what else is Yaqoob gonna do there is no internet and cell phone there is no tracking device. All he can do oh my son's go spread in the land. See if any of you can find any news of use of Allah has set up you have to do what you have to do and you leave the rest to Allah subhanho wa taala. We also learned from this anecdote from this incident. We also learned from the story in the Quran, that the people of

Iman and Taqwa they inspire others with optimism, and the people who don't have Eman and don't have knowledge, they are the pessimistic naysayers. It was the children of Yaqoob. It was the brothers of use of who did the volume to use. And yes, Allah forgave them. So know that Allah forgave them. But still, their level of Eman is not like Yusuf and his father, their level of knowledge is not like Yusuf and his father, even if Allah forgave them at this stage, especially they have committed a sin and what do they say to your code? What do they say? Stop having hope. Stop being optimistic, are you going to keep on thinking of us so till you go crazy, we learn here Yaqoob is giving optimism

his sons who did the crime are giving pessimism and will law here we see this in the around us. Now. Wallah, he we see Al had the fossil, the clear distinction between people of Iran and the opposite of that you have people of Eman and Taqwa they're encouraging they're pushing forward and you have the opposite. The naysayers the critic mongers, all they can do is cause fitna and whine and moan and complain and have no benefit whatsoever. This is exactly like the story of Jacobi here. The P

Pull up eemaan they exude optimism, positive energy. They make people move and shake. They bring people together, they have an agenda and plan and the people on the opposite spectrum, all they can do is make fun of and criticize exactly like the brethren of yaku making fun of Jakub making fun of their father and saying, Are you gonna go crazy? Are you gonna go mad just doing always moaning and grumbling about? Yeah, about use of Alayhis Salam. So what do we gain by simply criticizing and not doing anything? This is not the methodology of the real people of knowledge. It is not the methodology of the followers of the prophets. It is not the methodology of the people of Iman and

Taqwa and notice our brothers and sisters, bring being having good thoughts of Allah bringing optimism to the table. This is a core value of all the prophets of Islam. It is a core value of Eman. Look at any story that involves any type of incident in which the prophets one some good the Prophet Ibrahim alayhis salam, the Prophet Ibrahim alayhi salam, he did not have a child until he was 110 years old. He's waiting for a child more than 100 years he's waiting he has gone old, his wife has become sterile, barren, she cannot give birth and he's still making dua for children so much so that when he's making dua, he himself says as the Quran says, Woman young cannot be a

lowball Lord, who can ever give up hope of Allah's Rama except somebody who's misguided, who can give up hope of Allah Allah, I'm still hopeful of Allah's Rama even though I'm 100 and my wife is 90, even though technically there can be no children, I'm still going to have my hope in Allah who can give up hope of Allah as Rama except the misguided except those who are lost. And this is a constant theme Zachary. And the same story applies in the Quran as well. Zecharia himself was making dua to Allah for children. Even though his hair has gone white, his bones have gone grown feeble. The Quran tells us the story of Ibrahim as a child as well. Ibrahim has a child when he's against

him rude. He's against the entire world. And at that stage, there was no Muslim on Earth other than this teenager, Ibrahim, at that stage, all of mankind was lost. There was not a single person of Islam in the entire whole earth except for Ibrahim, there are no armies that can come and help there is no help. He is a 13 year old boy and he has the Emperor Nimrod he has the greatest army and Nimrod is making fun of him Nibiru than his own father are on one side and we all know the story when he's thrown into the fire he says has spoon Allahu Annette Milwaukee, Allah will take care of me and Allah is all I need to take care of me has one Allah that's all I need when everybody will

kill and if Allah helps me that's all I need help of. And therefore Allah says, Allah now to Cooney burden wa sallam and Allah Ibrahim Oh fire be a coolness and a comfort for Ibrahim Allah subhanho wa Taala reply to the plight of Ibrahim alayhis salam in the incident of Eisav as well the same incident the same vicar was done the same formula was said when the people of Medina was surrounded by the entire armies of Arabia and the Sahaba themselves began to palpate in the Quran says we're Bella ruble Hannah, this is in the Quran. Your hearts were in your chest, your hearts were palpitating, there was so much anxiety but demote me no one said her word and Allahu wa rasuluh was

Sadhak Allahu wa rasool Allah promised us this is going to happen there's going to be tense times Allah promised us we know this is going to happen. We put our trust in Allah. By the way, notice once again, having fear does not go against Iman, you're gonna have fears surrounded by the army, being anxious, being worried being scared, that does not negate Eman, you conquer that and you turn to Allah subhana wa Tada. And the Sahaba said, has spoon Allah who when their mother will kill her spoon Allah who when they were killed. So this notion of being optimistic, this notion of having the best thoughts of Allah subhanho wa Taala it actually involves a number of concepts. And we have

given and I have given it other people have given multiple hookbaits about all of these concepts. I'm going to quickly summarize for our own benefit so that we understand at least there are three or four different concepts that come together. First and foremost, it is the concept of tuffa all of optimism. This is a part of eemaan being optimistic is a part of Imana as a Prophet sallallahu sallam said, secondly, it is the concept of Raja and Raja means you are hoping Allah will give you good this is Rajab, what total June Allah mentions you're hoping for something so having a good hope in Allah isn't a job. Number three has not been in Allah having good thoughts of ALLAH SubhanA wa

Taala has not one minute Eman having good thoughts is from Iman and number four. And the one concept that combines all of them is the reality of Tawakkol of putting one's trust and up

Most complete trust in Allah subhanho wa Taala once again number one is to follow optimism. Number two are a job and all of these are quranic and Hadith. That means you want Allah to give you something that is good, you expect ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala to give you something number three is personally one in Allah, good thoughts of Allah. And number four is Tawakkol which summarizes and combines all of them putting once trust in Allah Subhana Allah to Allah and where does the work could come from. And by the way, each one of these four if you think about it, they are linked to one another. When you have to a code, you will have good thoughts of Allah when you have good

thoughts of Allah you will expect Roger when you have a job, then you're going to be optimistic each one leads to the other and each one feeds into the other. So if you understand these concepts, you will inshallah Allah overall impact your life in a positive manner. Where does all of these ideas and concepts come from? Where do they become stronger? How do you strengthen your Tawakkol, your Raja, your Novant? All of this is linked to one simple reality. If you know who is Allah, you will feel optimistic in Allah. It's simple as that. If you know who is Allah, if you have strong Iman in Allah subhana wa Tada automatically the whole world will change your your vision of this world will

change. When you understand Allah is Malik and Allah is Rob. And that's why when Allah talks about Tawakkol he brings in imam in him for example, Allah says in the Quran while Allah He had to work Curlew in control mode meaning if you have Iman, don't worry put her to work Quran Allah subhanho wa Taala Allah says in the Quran, what telecoil Anil Hey, Allah de la jolla moot, put her to work cool in Alhaj the one who never dies meaning how can you not put her to work Quran Allah subhanho wa Taala when he is the one who is high and everything around is going to die everything around will perish. Allah Subhana Allah to Allah says when Marlena Alana taka Allah Allahu wa hada and a super

learner, how can we not put her to work Quran Allah, when Allah has given us all that we need and guided us to Islam, how can we not put out to work Quran Allah when Allah has given us all of this. So Allah links to work cool in belief in Him. And when you have that level of Tawakkol of Rajab of Krishna vision, when you have that level of optimism, it doesn't matter how bleak the world is. It doesn't matter how bleak the whole Dounia appears, your heart is going to boom, optimism. Your heart is going to inspire the people around you notice when Musa alayhis salam when Musa is told to flee from fit own. When Musa takes his followers and who were his followers. They weren't an army, they

were peasants. They were the average people, civilians, and they're running and fleeing from fit out and fit our own is galloping on his horses fit our own has all of the world's superpower, all of the weapons, all of the media, all of the arsenal and agenda is with Fidel and Musa and the civilians are fleeing for their lives. And they come and they see in front of them the Red Sea, and the people of Musa say on the one hand is the Red Sea, on the other hand is frown and his army, the people of Musa the Bani Israel, they say in them with the raccoon, we are gone. Whereas last, there's nothing again, lack of iman, again, low knowledge again, they don't have that level of Musa so when they see

the red sea on the one side and fit out on the other. They say everything is lost. He's going to catch us and he's going to execute us in another mudra cone. Musa at this stage does not know how Allah will save him. But he knows Allah will save him. He knows he has to work with in Allah with the Red Sea in front of him and fit out on his army behind him. Musa cries out color that's not going to happen, calla they're not going to get rid of us in Nehemiah bisa Dean, I have my rug with me, he shall find a way out for me. This is what you call optimism. This is what you call to look cool. It doesn't matter. You have the superpower behind you and you have the ocean in front of you.

If you have Allah that's all that you need. And Musa said in Marya rugby, my Rob is with me, he's not going to abandon me. He's not going to leave me like this. And so when Musa demonstrated that Eman, Allah blessed him with the miracle, the miracle might come indeed, but it's only going to come when you're fleeing and when you're doing what you need to do. And Allah says to Musa Assad finger staff in the Red Sea Fanfan maganda Kulu Farrakhan Qatada LVM, even the Red Sea is going to open up and you will find a way out. And the same goes with our Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam when he was fleeing from the Quraysh in the hijra, and he has no army there are no armed guards with

him. The Quraysh have given a massive bounty of 100 camels dead or alive. The

entire place of Makkah is streaming with people to try to find him. And we all know the story that Abu Bakr and our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, they find a cave, that small cave, that cave of thought, and they sit there for two, three days until finally one of the search parties goes and sees them and Abu Bakar himself not out of care for his life out of love for the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Abu Bakr begins to tremble, and he says, yeah rasool Allah, if they look down, they will see us and once again, this is what the note of Imam does. This is what you're picking up on your trust in Allah does in the darkness of the cave. The light of Eman shines out. Yeah Abubaker

Malvan Luca Bethanien Allah Who Talita Houma Oh Abu Bakr What do you think of two people what will happen to them when Allah is the third of them that yeah, Abubakar lotta Zan in Allah humma Anna Yeah, Abubakar lotta Hassan in Hola Hola, Marina. Don't worry. The Prophet sysm is consoling Abu Bakr even though Buchan is worried for the Prophet's life but he is consoling yeah Abubaker Don't worry, Allah is with us. Allah is with us. This is the attitude of the believer, in spite of all that is happening in spite of all the negativities in spite of all the superpowers coming, we put our trust in Allah subhanho wa taala. And when we put our trust in Allah, Allah subhana wa Taala

will give us what we want in this dunya and for sure, in the era, so many incidents and stories from the Sierra and after the Sierra, one very powerful anecdote, and of course, without a doubt, the prophets have the highest level. And so yes, we're going to be truthful here and say, the miracles of the prophets are a different level. Don't expect the Red Sea to be part of it for us, fair enough. But even the righteous shall be given miracles. This is the reality karamat we call them even the righteous they will be given Allah, Allah's response into our will come and a beautiful story from our post theater. They are after the death of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam so

many incidents in the life of the Sahaba one of them very beautiful incident, the cousin of the Prophet sallallahu I knew he was selling them the Howard he Rasul Allah has obeyed him not I won the companion and the cousin of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, one of the first to embrace Islam, one of the national MOBA, Shara Zubaydah on his deathbed. He called his son Abdullah, and he said, Oh, Abdullah, I am not worried about anything in the eyes of Allah. I have good thoughts of Hola. But there's one thing that I'm worried about. And his son said, what Oh, my father Zubair, he said, I am leaving debts that I have to pay off to people, I'm leaving debts that I have to pay off

to people. So make sure you pay off my debts as fast as you can make sure that you get rid of my debts. And he told his son Abdullah, sell this land, sell this land do this and pay off my debts. Then he said, and remember zubaid and his son Abdullah, they were both physically fit. They were powerful people. They were from the elite of the Quraysh Zubayr. He says to his son, and if you don't have enough money to pay off my debts, then seek help from my master. Abdullah says I was shocked. My father is saying seek help from my master my Mola seeker, so I said, Oh Alberty who is your Mona? So first time I'm hearing you have a molar? You are from the Qureshi who is your molar?

He said, Allah is my MO Allah. Allah is my MO Allah, and Allah will take care of my debts. And so Abdullah said, when he passed away, I sold the land and it was not enough for the deaths. So I turned to Allah I raised my hands and I said, Oh Mola of Zubayr o Mola, Zubayr. Ma, my father said you would take care of his deaths. So I'm pleading to you making dua to you on behalf of my father, that you take care of his deaths. And Abdullah says Wallah, he not a day went by, except that risk came from here and there without even me knowing from where and I paid off the debts of my father. This is the reality of Tawakkol of Houston oven of optimism. When you have good thoughts of Allah

when you put your trust in Allah. When you always think Allah azza wa jal will take care of me. Then Allah azza wa jal will show you in this world that which will bring comfort and in the ark era will of course be Allah is everlasting reward May Allah Subhana Allah Allah bless me and you with to the Quran and may make us of those who it's versus they understand and applies halal and haram throughout our lifespan as scholars forgiveness he was will ask him for his love of food and the ramen.

hamdulillah All praise is due to Allah, the One and the unique. Here is when we worship and it is his aid that we seek. He is the Lord of the oppressed, and he hears the prayer of the week as to what follows related to this concept of having good thoughts related to this concept of being optimistic. There is something in our Shetty or that we should all be aware of. And that is some

People have translated in English as a good omen, a good omen Alpha lesson, and this is something that is allowed in our Sharia. Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, There is no such thing as bad luck. There is no such thing as bad omen, but I love good omens. They said what is a good omen? He said, a good vision that you see or a good phrase that you hear he gave an example, this hadith in Bukhari. What does this mean a good omen, and what are we to make of this reality? So firstly, realize all Muslims, we do not believe in anything superstitious. We are people of eemaan, where people of Tawheed were people who believe in La ilaha illallah, Muhammad Rasool Allah, if

something happens, we don't read in a negative a black cat crosses our path or umbrellas opening in the house or anything from every culture has its hits, its you know, superstitions, we don't believe in any of this. There is no such thing as negative superstition, nothing, we don't believe in it. But we believe in the opposite. What is the opposite, the opposite is a good omen. A good omen is anything that happens around you of the natural world, or amongst your family and friends. Anything that happens that you read is a sign from Allah, that Allah wants to give me good news. Allah wants to cheer me up, Allah has given me hope, when I thought there is no hope this is a part of iman,

this is all legit and good and anything that brings hope can be used for this why? Because having good thoughts of Allah is a part of iman. And so when you read in good thoughts, so an omen around you, you are simply exemplifying eemaan You are showing you have Eman. So you may and you should read in positive omens and there are many examples for this from the trivial to the bigger than that. So suppose you're making dua right now it's a cloudy day, suppose we're making dua to Allah subhana wa Tada for something good. Then we open our eyes and lo and behold, we see the sun, we see the brightness coming down, we say Oh, this is a sign that Allah azza wa jal will change my

situation from gloom to light. This is Iman, this is doe Heath, this is the essence of Imam why, because you're having good thoughts of Allah. So what's the problem in that having good thoughts based upon something that even the name of a human being our Prophet sallallahu, either he was setting them even used to read in good news and good omens from the names of people when somebody would come? So for example, in the Treaty of Arabia, three, four or five emissaries came, and none of them they were able to finish the treaty then Sohei Ibn amor came and Sohail comes from the Arabic sir hula, which means to make easy the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says, Sohail has

come, Allah will make things simple for us. He read in a good omen. Sohail has come, this is a good news. Now, Allah will make things easy for us and indeed when Sohail came, that was when they able to break the ice and have the Treaty of Arabia. Therefore, brothers and sisters read in good omens to whatever you want, but don't ever read a negative, there is no negative sign. There is no evil omen. There is no such thing as bad luck or bad superstition, but we do believe in everything that is positive to conclude this whole hood but our brothers and sisters memorize that beautiful Hadith Bootsy which is in Sahih Bukhari sahih. Muslim, our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said on our

endeavor near abitibi, I am as my servant thinks, I am with him. So whoever has good thoughts of me, I shall fulfill those good thoughts with regards to my relationship with him. And whoever thinks evil of me well, then that will be how he will be finding his other so have good thoughts of Allah have Krishna Vaughn in Allah subhana wa Tada regardless of how bleak the situation is, regardless of if you think all doors are shut in your heart, always be optimistic and realize, even if your particular happiness is not shown in this dunya This is an important point here because maybe what you want is not going to be given to you, your optimism will be rewarded, your optimism will bring

happiness in this dunya and especially in the akhira. This is an important disclaimer and caveats. Maybe some of you are battling issue of finances, issue issue of health, maybe our brothers and sisters and has other battling for a long time. We don't know when the victory will come. It doesn't mean they shouldn't have good hope. They must have good hope we must have good hope. And even if we do not see victory in our lifetimes, our good hope is giving us another victory. A victory of optimism is in this dunya a victory of the life mate being made easier to live and most importantly, the victory of attaining Allah's pleasure. In other words, optimism will always be fruitful II

Even if what you are optimistic for if that particular thing doesn't happen, that is not a failure and optimism no you will be successful when you are optimistic and Allah and put you to work Quran Allah and there are no exceptions to that Allah who need the iron for aminu Allahu Allah that I fail Jambi them then Allah wala Herman Illa for Raja wala Deignan Illa Colita What am I do on Illa Shia feta while I see Ron Illa your serger Allah my friend Anna well if one intelligence of Hakuna been Iman, what a treasure I feel COVID alumina Linda Linda Dena Amano Robina in Cairo for Rahim Allah whom is an Islam one Muslim in Allah who is an Islam old Muslim in Allah Houma Adana are the Islam

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