Yasir Qadhi – The Five Step Prophetic Plan of Action

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			and hamdulillah All praise is due to Allah subhanahu wa taala we praise Him and we seek His help.
And we seek refuge in Allah from the evil of our souls, and the consequences of our actions. Indeed,
whomever ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala guides, none can misguide. And whomever he chooses to leave a stray,
none can guide him back to the straight path. I bear witness and I testify that there's no deity
worthy of worship, other than Allah Subhana Allah to Allah. And I bear witness and I testify that
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and how shimmy Hora she allowed OB is the final prophet and
the most perfect worshipper to ever walk the face of this earth. As to what follows ALLAH SubhanA wa
		

			Tada reminds us in the Quran to be conscious of him. When he says in the Quran, Yeah, you heard
Athena Aminata. Allahu Akbar to RT what automaton 11 to Muslim moon or you who believe have Taqwa of
Allah. The way that it is befitting you have Taqwa of Allah and do not die, except in a state of
submission to Him. Do your Muslims. Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was blessed with the
most concise and the most succinct, and the most precise speech, and every single Hadith and every
single UTTERANCE OF HIS contains many jewels of wisdom. In today's brief hookah, I will shed light
on one very powerful Hadith that tells us a methodology about how we should go about doing
		

			something. I call it the five step prophetic plan, the five step prophetic plan, what exactly did
our Prophet sallallahu I, they he was setting them tell us how to do something, how do we accomplish
our goal? How do we get from point A to point B, this beautiful Hadith, which was reported to the
Sahaba Muslim, summarizes no matter what your goal might be, every single methodology, every single
milestone has been laid out. The hadith goes as follows. And I will go phrase by phrase, and we will
pause it every phrase, our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, A man on Hawaii, hi, you don't
have Boyd Allah, he may or may not die for Fucoidan higher. This is point number one.
		

			The believer who is strong, stronger, is better and more beloved to Allah than the believer who is
weak. And there is good in the both of them. The first point, the believer who is stronger is better
than the believer who is weak, stronger, and what stronger in what stronger in anything stronger in
any aspect of the inner dunya. The one who's a man is stronger is better than the one who's a man is
weaker. The one who has a talent in a field, who is better in medicine, better in engineering better
in whatever it might be his beloved to Allah than the one who doesn't have that or if he couldn't
hire and there is good and everybody, if you have talent in one field hamdulillah If not, don't
		

			worry, you have good and somewhere else, and there shall be a talent and somewhere else. So point
number one, strengthen your own aptitude, what you're good at, know what it is, and then make sure
you're good at it. Try to be the best what he couldn't hide and realize there is good in every one
of you. Every one of you has a talent and a strength that the other does not have. So if you are
talented in one area, if Allah has blessed you to be a good doctor. If Allah has given you the
aptitude for business, then hamdulillah go for it and strengthen that aptitude. Make sure you have
the necessary degrees, the education, make sure you have a strong resume, make sure you have the
		

			experience of mineral karoui High you don't want to have with Allah Minh and movement of life, your
resume had better be strong, you're not you're not going to get anywhere without having those
talents. So the first thing strengthen your talents know what they are and make sure you're good at
them. And this means both deen and dunya. This means in Eman and Taqwa be the best that you can, and
this means in the Forte's of this world. This means in the knowledge of this dunya know what you're
good at and be the best in it even physically, mentally, the strong
		

			Not men, it is good to be physically fit. It is good to be healthy is better than the one who is not
physically fit. And there is good in all everyone has a talent that the other does not have what he
couldn't hide. Don't trivialize yourself if you're not good at one area because you will be good in
another area. This is the way Allah created us who Allah digikam Allah if Allah wa for about a
confocal Bogdan Dora Jatin, Leah Balu confirmar takom he has raised some of you over others in
various areas, every one of us is raised over other people in some areas, every one of us has
something the other does not have. So step number one, recognize your talents, know what they are,
		

			and then strengthen them. Make sure you're the best in that field. And this means dear Muslim, this
means that Allah subhanho wa Taala wants you to be good in this deen and in this dunya all too
often, there is a misunderstanding that if I'm religious, I need to cut off from this dunya no rot
burner Atina fit dunya Hasina Woodfill Irati Asana, we want the dunya. And we also want the arciero.
We want the best of this world. And we also want the best of the next world. Islam is definitely
primarily about purification of the heart, nobody can deny that. But Islam is also about building
civilization. Islam is also about physical strength of this dunya Islam is also trying to indicate
		

			that we are a true civilization. And that's why for the majority of this almost history, the
majority of our history Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah, we really were the most prized civilization,
the most technologically advanced, the most intellectually superior, producing the greatest amount
of everything, whether it's books, whether it's libraries, whether it's technology, this is the bulk
of our omens history, only the last three 400 years things have changed. So a minute, are we we want
to be that moment. That's point number one. Point number two, our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said the Hadith in Arabic, middle Kobe Hiren Allah minimum in life if you couldn't, then the
		

			Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, that is Salama Yun Farrokh This is phrase number two,
		

			be eager to gain what will benefit you. So once you recognize your strengths and talents, once you
know what they are, and you've developed your resume or you're developing it, now you need to have
be eager to benefit to gain that which will benefit you. This means we need to have a vision. And we
need to have a desire to move from point A to point B. Don't be happy with status quo, whatever it
might be. Don't just accept oh well I have a difficult life no work to change that life. Desire what
is beneficial for you? And one second, every phrase is deen and dunya by the way, so be eager to
desire what will benefit you so be eager to be a righteous Muslim, be eager to pray, memorize the
		

			Quran, have no doubt about that, but also be eager to live the best life for you and your children.
be eager to have the best that is read and baraka and and yes, we want to have this and we want to
have plenty of it which is going to be our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said near Malmo Sala
and Raja Sala How beautiful is Helen wealth for a good man? How beautiful is halaal wealth and Marlo
saw that beautiful island wealth for Raja Sala. Isn't it better for the OMA to have wealth and is
that and glory and righteous people are able to benefit other people? Yes, we aim for that. How are
we going to get there? If we don't have division? It is sila Ma Yun Farrokh be eager. That means you
		

			have to have fortitude, courage, desire, look at where you're heading in life and desire to head
there have that Harrison Arabic heteros means you have a strong desire, you are very eager, you have
to have a passion for where you want to go. That's stage number two. So no, you know your strength.
Now you have that vision. Where do I want to go and you have to have a strong vision and you want to
be able to get there ahead of sila million Farrokh. So many of us and especially our youth
SubhanAllah. It says if they're living cut off from the real world, they're immersed in whatever
they are, whether it's the games or ps4, whatever it might be, they have no vision Days turned into
		

			weeks, weeks turned into months, and nothing is accomplished. And I speak to the youth here. How can
you be content with that status quo, be eager to gain that which will be beneficial to you? It is
Allah million folk that stage number two, every Muslim should have a vision. And you know what, it's
okay to modify your vision. It's okay to update it. Maybe you'll have a vision when you're 20. And
when you're 30. You realize I need to change no problem, but you have to have that vision. Suppose
you wanted to be a medical doctor and it so happened you didn't get into medical school and Allah
change your direction you went somewhere else, no big deal. But you have to have that vision in
		

			either million folk that stage number two. Number three was staring Biller, seek the help of Allah
subhanho wa taala. Seek the help of Allah in choosing that vision, deciding that vision and then
undertaking the journey towards that vision at every step of the way before even your undertake the
step have esteana with Allah yaka, yaka Nesta in what Stein Billa seek Allah's help what does it
mean seek Allah's help? Again, deen and dunya every phrase of this hadith can be understood from the
religious paradigm and from the worldly paradigm and that's the beauty of this hadith. What's there
in Bella is the ANA with Allah azza wa jal has multiple ways. Most obviously, Yak and Yak understand
		

			do we ask Allah is help. We ask Allah has helped throughout every single part of our journey from
the beginning to the end while we're in the middle one we even get there we thank Allah and ask for
even more is to in Billa dua is the weapon of the believer always make dua for what you want always.
When was the last time do your Muslim you raised your hand and ask Allah for the mundane issues of
this world. But we should ask Allah because nothing will come to us unless Allah wants it by asking
Allah we indicate our servitude, our Eman we indicate Allah is the Rob and we are the Motobu Allah
is the medic and we are the mum look when we ask Allah for each and every item that we need when we
		

			ask Allah subhana wa Tada for our deen and dunya we are indicating our servitude to Allah Our mother
I should have the Allahu Ana famously remarked, if your shoelace breaks, make dua to Allah for a new
shoelace. Because unless Allah has willed you get a shoelace. You're not going to get another
shoelace. Even a shoelace if it breaks make dua Yara make it easy for me to get another one. Nothing
is trivial in Allah's eyes, because you are indicating you understand who is Allah and you
understand who you are. So one of the ways of Astana is to another way of Astana is prayer was the
ENO the subsidy was salah. Prayer is another mechanism of esteana. When we have our vision and goal,
		

			we know where we're headed. We had better be regular in our prayers. There is no Baraka in life
without prayer. What's the point of the dunya? If you don't have the deen, what's the point of all
the money in the bank account if you're not praying regularly, so of the ways of Astana is Salah.
Another Especially important is to honor his Salah to istikhara which is one of the most neglected
tools that we have in our weaponry every one of us has an arsenal in the eyes of Allah that we can
use every one of us has some positive that we can do and of the things that we do not recognize of
the greatest gifts of Allah is salata. istikhara This is one of the mechanisms of his piano so that
		

			is harder What is your vision you've decided to pray is too hard or is this the right vision for me
or not? Every step of the way prays to Hara which way should I go? Yeah, Allah left or right Should
I take this path to get there or that path? Oh Allah, you know, praise the Hara. All too often is
too hard or is hardly ever prayed. Many of us think you only pray it for marriage for example, know
anything important. You're changing your job. You're undertaking a degree you even moving from house
to house No problem. Pray is the harder your job is this better for me or not? You know, you're
demonstrating is staying biller. This is stage number three. All of you should memorize this. By the
		

			way, this is the Prophetic plan. Stage number one, strengthen your talents. Stage number two, have a
vision have a goal know where you're going. Stage number three, ask Allah's help throughout the way
and I mentioned that has multiple mechanisms. Number four, what Tychus what a powerful, beautiful
phrase, literally two words that ages. And it means don't give up. Subhanallah don't give up. Don't
throw in the towel. What just do not just say ah, I'm not going to get there. Never lose hope in the
Mercy of Allah subhanho wa Taala if plan A fails, move on to Plan B, Plan B the door shut. Calculate
Plan C, Plan C doesn't happen Colosse rethink and go back to the drawing board and try a Plan D but
		

			whatever you do, what I just don't give up. Because
		

			Allah azza wa jal knows what is best for you. And perhaps your plan a wasn't really best for you.
And plan B was better for you. But you wouldn't get to Plan B until plan A's door was shut in your
face. And only when plan A's door was shut and you realize I can't do this anymore. Then you try
another route. Then you move on to Plan B. You do not know how to get to the goal, but you have an
idea. You put your vision and plan you try your best to get there. If it doesn't work, go back and
try again. If that doesn't work, keep on trying. And in the process one of two things is going to
happen without a doubt. Either the correct path will eventually open up and you're only going to be
		

			there because Allah put you there because you kept on trying ABCD kept on being eliminated until
		

			Finally you got to plant E or F or whatever it might be, and that plan worked. Or along the way,
another opportunity arose for you. And that opportunity would only have happened when you tried for
the first one, and you didn't realize it's not in your best interest. Suppose, for example, that you
had your eyes on a particular job or particular opportunity at a company that you thought was best
for you. So you sent out your resume, you thought you've done everything you followed the five step
plan, we're going to get to stage five, you followed all of this you made this dynasty harder. You
have your solid resume, and you've made dua to Allah you think Allah I have this I know I'm going to
		

			get this this is the best job for me. And you tell your family and friends you spread the word and
shall I'm going to get that job. Guess what? You didn't get it? A month goes by your friend calls
you says, you know, did you get that job? No, actually I tried but okay, you know what, I have
another friend he's looking for such and such a person, he fits your characteristics, why don't you
send me your resume, because and that ends up happening, the job that was better for you in the long
run, because plan a failed, but you still attempted to do it. And you sent your resumes out. Allah
azza wa jal allowed Plan B to happen, even though you didn't plan for Plan B. This is the reality of
		

			what attaches. You keep on doing and doing and doing and you leave the result to Allah but you have
to do because the way that Allah created this world, is that yes, Allah azza wa jal, indeed, is the
suburb but and he is the one who will eventually give. But Allah has also told us what is the way to
get to the seven. What is the way to get to that end goal? And unless and until you use the road to
get to the goal, you will never get to the goal. Allah azza wa jal does not just even miracles, He
doesn't do them without some effort from the one upon whom it is happening. Even when Allah parted
the Red Sea for Musa What did he say to Musa it but a bow sock hit the Red Sea with your staff?
		

			Madame is in labor, she has no food, it's the winter season. Allah could have just sent down some
fruits he said to Miriam it has said um, well who's the lucky budget in a shake the tree than the
fruits are gonna fall? Even a miracle? It is conditioned upon some effort for the Prophet to do it.
This is the Sunnah of Allah azza wa jal. So if even the miracle is conditioned upon some effort, how
about me and you when we want much smaller miracles, we have to put in the effort is certain Billahi
while Taj has never give up, point number five.
		

			Point number five is a psychological point. It is a frame of mind in case you don't get what you
want. What are to Hola, Nellie Shay in low unni file to Casa La Kanaka. When I can hold a door Allah
Who am I shall fall. Point number five is do not devolve into an attitude of despair and defeat.
Don't despair. Never say when you don't get your goal. Oh, if only I had done this, the situation
will be different. Never go back and say what if, what if what if learn from your mistakes, but
don't dwell on your past. Don't allow a past failure to cause you to what I chose to stop doing
anything. No. Don't allow a past failure to cause you to become incapacitated. While coolant cliche
		

			and do not say to anything, if you don't get it, if only I had done this, something else would have
happened. Instead say a dot Allah wa phi.
		

			Recognize here that Allah is the one who says configure cocoon and Allah has cutter is written and
the low helmet for the pen has been lifted and the ink has dried. So you put in the effort but you
don't know what isn't my fault. If you don't get it in the end of the day. Don't blame anyone if you
have followed the right path. Don't dwell in the past. Learn from your mistakes if there is a
mistake, and then move on and go back to the drawing board and continue. But don't despair. And
don't blame the past and don't dwell in your failures and don't go down the road of depression and
of self blame. No, you put in the effort you did your best, then you say that Allah Who am I shall
		

			file Allah has decreed is always going to be in effect and what Allah wanted happened.
		

			This shows us the benefit of belief in other
		

			How can the one who believes in other ever go down the route of self blame? How can the one who
believes in other not understand that Allah is molecule molk hold on your sleeve and Illa Khattab
Allah Who Lana, nothing is going to happen to me except what Allah has decreed for me who are Molana
who mo learner. Do you understand what it means when Allah is saying I am your Mola Mola means
protector and carer Mola means I'm going to take care of you. Nothing is
		

			is going to happen to me except if Allah azza wa jal wills, and Allah is the One who is in charge.
And Allah is my MO law. So I have full trust in Allah. And this is where he man and other and the
man in Allah's names and attributes comes into full force here. Whatever happens happens by the will
of Allah. And even if the goal I wanted doesn't happen, Allah has a goal that is better for me. And
I swear to you, brothers and sisters, Allah He deep down inside, every one of us knows this from
your own life. Go back to a past calamity 1015 20 years ago, even five years ago, go back to a time
where you're wondering, why is this happening? What is wrong? What did I do some and it's okay to
		

			have a self reproach in the sense of coming closer to Allah. Every single calamity that has happened
in your life, eventually, you see, you know what, that calamity was actually a blessing in disguise.
It allowed me to gain some skills or patience or fortitude. It allowed me to reassess this and that
it showed me some issue in my life, and I'm a better person in a better place because of that issue.
When it happened. I didn't understand why, when it happened, I kinda sorta made me a little bit sad.
It's okay to be sad. By the way, you can be sad if you don't get what you want. But don't blame,
accept the loss other and move on. Don't dwell in the past and realize, Allah azza wa jal has a
		

			plan. And Allah's plan is always better than your plan. Allah's plan is always better than your
plan. As long as you follow the route and you follow the proper methodology, then hamdulillah
whatever happens happens for the best and Allah is harder. You must accept it you must understand
his wisdom and trust in His wisdom and then move on to the next plan and insha Allah Tada A time
will come in your own life, when you will understand why that door was shut. Why that issue
happened. Why whatever caused you that sadness it happened because it will be in sha Allah Tada
blessing disguise our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, amazing are the affairs of the
		

			believer for everything that happens to the believer happens for his good, amazing or the affairs of
the believer. Amazing. No believer is never a loser. If good happens, he thanks Allah and and
hamdulillah and if a negative happens he is patient and even in that Al Hamdulillah Allah rewards
him. So this beautiful Hadith sums up for us our life's methodology, the framework of how we get
something done. Number one, middle Covey know your strengths and strengthen them have the best
talents that you're good at. Number two is Isla Maya and Farrokh have that vision and goal number
three is to in biller seek Allah's help number four never give up well attack just keep on doing and
		

			doing and doing and number five don't dwell in the past don't go back to their note what happened
happened and accept Allah Xia clean and other and know that Allah's plan is better than your plan.
May Allah subhana wa Tada bless me and you within through the Quran, and may make us of those who is
versus the understand and applies head out and hold on throughout our lifespan. I ask Allah for
forgiveness, you as well ask him for his love for and the Rahman Alhamdulillah. All praise is due to
Allah, the One and the unique. He alone it is when we worship, and it is his aid that we seek. He
revealed the Quran to the Prophet salallahu it he was seldom and He taught Adam how to speak as to
		

			what follows. Do your Muslims, it has been almost two years since the pandemic has begun. And even
as we speak, and even every time we think the pandemic is over Subhanallah something else happens
and it is further delayed. And throughout the world, we have lost so many people. For these last two
years. I speak for myself when I say extended family and friends are no longer amongst us in these
last two years. In our own community. I don't know how it is in yours in our own community almost
weekly, there are now geneticists taking place. If this calamity will not wake us up to the reality
of life and death. If this pandemic is not going to rub home, our finite mortality, then what will
		

			dear Muslims, our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam reminded us that we should constantly think of
death, not so that we become morbid, not so that we go down some depression and whatnot. No, we are
told to remind ourselves of death so that we live the most productive life
		

			by reminding ourselves of the finite ending of this dunya and the beginning of the infinite life of
the next because for us, that is not the end. That's the whole point here. How can we be morbid when
we realize that is not the end? It is the beginning of a new chapter, it is the beginning of an
eternal chapter. So we are reminded to be constantly aware of our mortality. So that's our life of
this dunya
		

			becomes more productive, we accomplish more, we waste less time, we have higher visions, we have
good family and friends, we do the best of this dunya and then the next we prepare for the
inevitable end. That is the reality of why we are told to prepare for our death. And this pandemic
that is around us. In some ways, everything is a blessing in disguise. So we also say yes, indeed,
this is also a blessing in disguise, even though it is painful, and yes, it is painful. But perhaps
some amongst us might reassess our lives and lifestyles, perhaps some amongst us will change for the
better because of this reality. And if we do so, then we'll Llahi we have been saved even if the
		

			pandemic takes us because the real success is not to be saved from the pandemic, the real success is
to have a pure heart. But for the Hammond Zakka, that's the real success does Skia to knifes. So if
we're able to accomplish that via recognizing what is happening around us, we turn over a new leaf,
we live a righteous life, we accomplish the most that we can we set the highest goals and we strive
to get there then on Hamdulillah that person has been saved even if he dies in the pandemic. But as
for the one that this entire pandemic has been completely ignored and lost upon him. And these last
two years, maybe even more than this three years, Allah knows when it is as if nothing happened, he
		

			took it as a joke, then Subhanallah even if he lives through the pandemic, it is as if that life was
of no value to him. So dear brothers and sisters, every single thing that happens around us, there
is a lesson for us. And there is a point for us to ponder over. And there's so much wisdom This is
not the time have given many hold was about the pandemic when it began two years ago, you can listen
online to have at least four or five books about the wisdoms of plagues and pandemics about how we
as Muslims should be looking at this reality. But the point I want to stress here today in this part
of the hook book is that after two years, if our hearts are still as hard as they were two years
		

			ago, then we'll Llahi I'm being honest, what else is going to make our heart soft. If we still
haven't renegotiated our relationship with Allah, if we're still upon a methodology and lifestyle
that is distant from the reality of how we should be, then what will cause us to change them. Yeah,
need to lead Hina Ahmed, who hasn't the time come for the believers, that their hearts become soft
at the remembrance of Allah hasn't the time come? What else is going to wake us up other than this
reality that we see around us? So remind myself in all of you to assess our lives before it is too
late to assess them, and to make an account of ourselves before others will take account of us and
		

			to prepare for that inevitable which is indeed inevitable? When Marja anally Basha de Mille clinical
hold. We did not give immortality to anybody amongst you. FIA Mytho, for human Holly Dune, if you
are a pseudo Allah are going to pass away, do they think they're going to live forever? What a
powerful verse. If Allah were to give immortality to anybody, it would have been our Prophet
sallallahu it he was selling that's why he speaks him in the singular Alpha emitter, for whom will
Holly dune if you are rasool Allah are going to taste death. Do they think they're going to live
forever? None of us is going to live forever. None of us. But we have one life to live. And those
		

			lives are not all equal. Some lives are worth more in the eyes of Allah and there's dunya we're all
equal, but in the eyes of Allah, some lies have more Baraka than others. And we have to achieve the
maximum Baraka the maximum legacy, the highest vision so that we have the best of this dunya and the
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