Yasmin Mogahed – Night Of Destiny – Bradford

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Allah Allah He was Sophia Jemaine Arab Israeli Saudi westerly Omri wahala lok, the Tamil is any of
Coco Kohli.
		

			So, if Dahlia was competing with low blood sugar, I'm really competing.
		

			We were just speaking about house panel light. Speaking in Ramadan is quite a challenge. Because
typically we either have to talk to people who are starving, or people who are in a food coma, if
it's depending whether it's before or after thought.
		

			But Bismillah.
		

			So, this topic today or this theme, is one of Les little cards. Now one of the meanings of a lot of
cards is the night of power. And I want to talk a little bit about power in this concept of power.
But but not the kind of power that you know, tire and seek or Feroz seek, I want to talk about a
different kind of power. And that's the real kind of power, the internal kind of power. Because you
see, as Dahlia pointed out today is the beginning of one of the most sacred one of the holiest times
of the entire year, these Knights are the most, the most holy of the entire year. And so what I want
to do is I want to take a moment and talk about what is what is the significance of, of this knight
		

			and of these knights and of this, of this particular time of our lives. And that is that this is a
time if we, if we want to talk about power, we have to talk about change, because one of the things
about about life in general, is that the only time you know like, how are you going to know that
something is dead, whatever it is, whether it's a plant or a tree, or a human being, the way that
you know that something is that is that it stops changing. So this concept of change is directly
related to life. If we are alive, we must continue to change and we must continue to grow. And it's
only when we die, that we stopped growing and that we stopped changing. So this whole idea of you
		

			know, somebody really wants to
		

			you know, sometimes when your friend is not happy with you, and they want to like kind of like a jab
at you, you've really changed.
		

			And it's like considered an insult always right. What do you mean? No, I haven't No, I haven't.
Well, why are we so afraid of change? Change is part of life. And in fact, if we are not changing
that it's an indication that we have died. If somebody is not growing, then it's an indication of
death. It's not a good thing. And so what we want to do is we want to learn about change. But how
does change happen? Allah subhanaw taala gave us the formula for changing the quarter end. In Aloha,
aloha euro Maverick Coleman Hatoyama. And for him, this is the formula for changes is this area
within this area? Is it something extremely revolutionary, and that is this every time we get in a
		

			situation we don't like? So whether that situation is our community, whether that situation is
personal, whether that situation is global, international, political, financial, emotion, whatever
that situation is, we always tend to get into situations there will come a time in our lives when we
get into situations we don't like and situations that we want to change yes or no.
		

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			I'm big on Do you guys know this? I'm big on.
		

			Yes. enthusiasm. It's like Okay, good. Good. Cuz I remember they told me that Bradford community
last time I complained that y'all were just blank faced. But you guys are gonna prove us wrong.
Right? Okay, awesome.
		

			So so we get to situations that we don't like we get to situations in our lives that we want to
change. So this is a very important question, how does change happen? Where do we seek power? And
the answer to the question of how change happens is in this in this formula, this secret magical
formula in the law has led you how you may be Coleman Hathaway or maybe unfussy him. Indeed, a law
does not change the condition of a people until they change what is inside themselves. This formula
can be applied to everything, this formula can be applied to our political situation, this formula
can be applied to your your personal problems, your your emotional problem, every single issue that
		

			we have, this formula can be applied to it. And we can always look into every single situation and
figure out what do I need to change? And by the way, this is just a side point. This is what made
Adam alayhis salam, and at least one of the things that that made them different. Because at a time
when they both you know Adam alayhis salam was told to do something or or not to do something. And
he did it. He was told not to eat from the tree, right?
		

			It please, was told to bow so he's given a commandment. It believes refused. And Adam slipped
		

			listening. Fair enough. But there is a very significant difference in them that happened after and
that had to do with how they viewed the situation and then how they responded as a minor who salon
didn't try to blame it please, which is very interesting because it would have been very easy
because even a law said that a police made them slip.
		

			it bleeds made them slip. But as omalizumab didn't blame employees, he blamed himself. He said in
now Valentina and fusina were in Nam takfiri, Lana water hymnal and akuna Minal Casa de indeed we
have done what we have wronged our own selves. You know, when you fight with your siblings, and it's
always like, it's his fault, or it's her fault, right? When you were a kid, hopefully.
		

			Now it's fighting with your spouse, but anyways,
		

			it's always it was always the other person's fault, right? No one ever said, You know what, Mom, I
completely take full responsibility. It was completely my fault. And I started it. And I'm very
sorry. Typically, that's not how the conversation went. Typically, it was it's her fault, or it's
his fault, right? And so we always want to put the blame outside of ourselves. This is this is,
unfortunately, this is part of our neffs. Right? Well, this began with shaitan. This began with a
belief that he did not take responsibility for his mistake. He did not take responsibility for his
he did not humble himself. Instead, he actually is blaming a lot interesting enough. He's actually
		

			saying because you have kicked me out, you know, when we have this victim mentality. Do you ever
heard of that? No, we would know anything about that. Right? That victim mentality and please
started that. At least started a lot of things. He started racism. He started you know, he set the
precedent for so many of our diseases. But here, he is not taking responsibility. He's not humbling
himself. Instead, he's fine. He's not saying it was my fault. He said it was your fault Yella, you
kicked me out of genda. And because you kicked me out of Jenna, I'm gonna do this, this and this to
your slaves. That's what he said. But what did add them Elisa Lam said say in now Valentina and
		

			fusina. Indeed, we have wronged our own self. He is taking full responsibility for his mistake.
Enough alumna and fusina were in lam takfeer Lana water handle an akuna Minal Casa de Indeed, we
have wronged our own selves. And if you don't forgive us and have mercy on us, we will be among the
losers. So he is humbling themselves, and he's taking responsibility. So what happens to add the
monies to them? Well, number one, he gets forgiven. He gets forgiven. And number two, he goes to
Earth as a prophet. That's intense. That's pretty different than what happens at least Yeah. blank
faces. No, good. I'm getting not. That's pretty different than what happened to at least Yeah.
		

			Okay, awesome.
		

			All turning into honors, it's awesome. Okay, so um, so it's very, very different. it bleeds it leads
became cursed forever, and Adam became a prophet. And this essential difference of humbling and
taking responsibility. So internally, we have to change. If we want to change externally, how can
that change start to happen? So all of us, most of us aren't quite happy with our political
situation, Dahlia spoke a bit about Islamophobia. You see, the thing is about Islamophobia. The
thing is about a semi phobia is we speak a lot about the problem itself, right externally, and we
need to talk about that. But there's a very interesting Hadith of the prophets, I send them
		

			something that the Prophet says that I'm taught us more than 1400 years ago, okay? Now listen to
this, this, this Hadith, it's very, very interesting because the in this Hadith, the prophets I send
them is talking about a political situation, he says that the people will soon summon one another to
attack you. Sound familiar? will summon one another to attack you, as people summon one another to
share in their dish. So we're going to eat soon, right? You don't want like, especially Back Home
Depot for Oman. So you have these huge plates. And people sometimes share in that. So they call one
another. But this is they're calling one another to attack us, as people call one another to share
		

			in their dish. All right. And then the companions are asking, Is it because we will be small in
number. So they're assuming that power comes from number rights? So they're saying is it because we
will be small in number? And the prophets I send them says no, actually, you'll be larger number.
Sound familiar? You will be large in number, but here's what's gonna happen. So so far, the prophets
I said it was talking about a political situation. Yeah. But then what does he begin to say? Then he
says, then he says that something he described the situation further, and he says that you will be
large in number, but you will be like the froth on the ocean. If you've ever seen like waves, or the
		

			sea or any kind of large body of water, there's these bubbles, like scum that comes on the top of
the ocean and it has no
		

			Wait, the thing about the scum, the the bubbles on the top of the of the waves is that it just goes
wherever the tide takes it, you know, it doesn't have any self determination. If you were to explain
it, he said that the oma will be like that
		

			sound familiar, that the owner will be large in number but weak, extremely weak and we'll be you
know kind of just going with the flow weak like that and if you were to you know try to like hold
that scum or those bubbles it has no substance, it has no substance, he compared the own at that
time. To that end, he said something else very important, he said that Allah will remove the fear
from the hearts of your enemies, and he will put something in your heart Now, this is the disease I
want you to focus on. He said he will put one in your hearts and the and the companions as what is
what happened. And he defined it like this. He said Hope it dunia will call out here to mouth.
		

			Simple as this hobbit dunya the love of dunya walk are here to mount the hatred of death. What is
the prophets I send them talking about? He is describing a political situation. And he is diagnosing
it spiritually. It is a political situation we started out by being attacked. Yeah. And then he
defined he he diagnosed it spiritually. He said there is a disease in your hearts. And that disease
of a weapon that disease of hope. adonia will curl hate and mouth is what's going to make you weak.
And because of that your enemies, they will summon one another to attack you, like people call one
another to share from their dish it is that which will make you weak. So when we talk about power,
		

			real power is internal power. real power comes from the inside. But how do we get that power? And
how do we get that change? How can we start to change internally, I'm just going to talk about four
points or four types of power in terms of this path. First, the power of the heart, the power of the
heart. One thing that we learned from the prophets I send them is this is a very, very important
principle. And that is the prophets I send them he describes in in after a long I had a hadith about
rules how Tom and Hillel at the very end of the Hadith, he says something very, very important. He
says in nothing just said the motor club. Indeed in the body, there's a lump of flesh, either solo
		

			hat if it is set, right, Solihull, just to the corner the entire body is set right?
		

			What is the first sir that and if it is corrupted faster than just to do kulu? The entire body will
be corrupted. Allah Hale called, indeed is the heart. What do we learn from this? How do we learn
that despite what we may think about the mind, and various other things, the heart is the master of
the body, the heart is the master of the body. Because if you if you fix the heart, as the Prophet
slicin is teaching us, if you if you fix the heart, you fix the rest of the body. If you corrupt the
heart, you corrupt the rest of the body. And by the way, people say no, no, you know, this whole
argument of mind? If no, it's the mind, the mind is a slave to the heart. What do I mean by that? I
		

			mean that we use our intellect and our ability to make plans based on whatever's in our hearts. So
if in my heart is a disease of greed, then I will use my mind to get power to get up. If in my
heart, there's a disease of, of wanting power of one, etc. So it's so what I do is I use my my mind
as a tool to obey my heart. So the key is what's in the heart? What kind of heart does a person
have? This is the master device. So we got to work there. That's the point. We got to work on the
heart. Now some people might say, Okay, then I wear my hijab and my heart. Right? Or, I fast in my
heart, I don't know, you know, but the problem with that is that we forget something very important.
		

			And that is that our actions affect our heart, just as our heart affects our actions. It is not a
one way thing we went when we went Allah subhanaw taala says that the heart is the master of the bot
when the prophets I said, um, teaches us that the heart is the master of the body. Why he says that,
when you fix the heart, it will fix the rest of the body, it will fix the rest of your actions. So
there is a direct relationship between our actions in our heart, and it's it goes both ways. Because
we're told that what we do, puts a stain or or cleans our heart. So what we do affects our heart,
and our heart affects what we do. So that's another thing to keep in mind that there's that two way
		

			that there's a two way relationship between the heart and action. Similarly, in addition to that, I
want to point out every time Allah subhanaw taala in the Quran, talks about the believers or talks
about a man for example, what does Allah say, and levena and I know
		

			Well, I'm in a solid heart. I mean, not every time but a lot of times Allah subhanaw taala connects
these two, that those who believe and who do righteous deeds. So the two go together. All right. So
we have the power of the heart, we have the power of focus. So this is the second one I want to talk
about. There is a power in focus, there is a power in what you focus on. And there's this principle
that if you keep in mind, it really changes your life. And that is that whatever you focus on grows,
		

			whatever you focus on grows, what do I mean by that? The more you focus on something, the bigger and
bigger and bigger it gets. Make sense. So what that means, for example, is if I, if I'm a type of
person who focuses on problems, do you know anyone like that?
		

			If I'm the type of person who focuses on what's going wrong, what's the barrier? What's the problem
you had? I mean, if I'm that type of person, then my problems get bigger and bigger and bigger. And
it's if there's like, sometimes we'll be, there'll be like one problem in our life, right? Just like
one really huge problem. And what do we do? We focus on it, right? So we start thinking about it, we
start talking about it. Basically, we just that's all we do is obsess over it, what happens to it?
Does it go away? Does it get rid of it grows. And that's the problem with with what we focus on
grows. If we are a problem focused people, then we are going to become surrounded by our problems,
		

			we become consumed by our problems. I don't honestly think there's a better example of this concept
than the story of Musa alayhis salaam in front of the Red Sea. Because in this story, you have these
two types of these different types of focuses. It's essentially a lot showing us different types of
focuses. What do I mean? So you have you have Musashi Salaam, standing in front of the Red Sea, and
you had he's with his people, Benny, israelian, right. And then you have a superpower army
approaching from behind them coming coming to them, and in front of them is the Red Sea. So what's
happened now? They look pretty trapped. It looks like a pretty bad situation, right?
		

			So what happens in this, Allah tells us what happens. phenom Mathura and Gemini call us harbor Musa
in Lamu. dracoon. So when the people of Musa check out the situation, they say, indeed we will be
overtaken.
		

			You know, when you and I collectively as a community, if you know personally, when we face a
problem, Has that ever happened? Okay, you know, when we face a problem, and we feel trapped, and
then we say there's no way out, and we feel like there's no way out and we say enameled raccoon, and
we feel another inanimate raccoon, we feel like we will be overtaken. That's it for us.
		

			Do you know why that happens?
		

			Do you know why Benny is thought he said enameled raccoon. Because Benny Isreal eel was focused on
the army and on the Red Sea. Benny is slow Ian was focused on the problem. Benyus while he was
focused on the barrier. Benyus, Ian was focused on the wall, you get it? And so the obstacle was
their focus, and all the answers because they were focused on the obstacle, they didn't see any way
out. And so they said, Indeed, we will be overtaken in Alamo dracoon. Then Allah contrasts and shows
us a different paradigm, a different focus. And that was the focus of musasa then guess what he
says? Call Allah Kela he says, nope.
		

			They're saying we're going to be overtaken you guys a lot of us feel this way. Especially right now.
We feel like we're being kind of like surrounded and encroached upon and our enemies are calling one
another to attack us like people call one another to share from their dish. We're feeling that Yeah,
we're feeling that and and this attack doesn't have to just be physical attack and literal attack,
but every kind of attack, every kind of attack.
		

			Whether it is it is it is financial, whether it is it is actual physical attack whether it is in
your in your self worth and daddy as Dahlia was saying, in just how you view yourself as a community
in your Islamic ID. These are all attacks, we feel this, but the question becomes what are we
focused on? Because musala salaam was focused on something different. He wasn't focused on the
problem. He wasn't focused on the Red Sea. He wasn't focused on the army color candle
		

			He said, No, no, by no means are we going to be overtaken on a kennela. In my IRA beside him. He
said, Indeed, my Lord is with me. And He will guide me through. And that was it. And that was it.
Because his focus was not on the Red Sea. His focus was not on the army, his focus was not on the
problem. His focus was not on the barrier, or the obstacle, or the Trump or the whoever. Yeah, his
focus was on Allah.
		

			You know, I'm so sorry. I'm tired of hearing about all the fear. What if Trump gets elected? What
Guess what? Even if Trump gets elected, Allah still there?
		

			Get it? Like, yeah, I get it. Like I get it. He's, he wears a strange to pay. And I know he's
strange. But at the end of the day, like, that's all I see, that's all I see.
		

			But at the end of the day, guess what? A lot is still there. Allah will still be there. Allah will
always be there. He was there at the beginning, he will be there at the end. And sometimes we lose
focus. Sometimes we lose focus, and we focus on the problem. I get it. He's a problem. I get it.
		

			But why are we focused on the problem.
		

			And when we focus on the problem, we become more and more afraid, and become more and more paralyzed
by fear. Because fear grows when you focus on it. Similarly, when you focus on hope, and when you
focus on the light, it also grows. And that's why Mussolini's Salaam was able in that situation to
not be afraid. He was able to say, No, he didn't even shake like he wasn't, he wasn't shaking. He
said, by no means No, we won't be overtaken, because my Lord is with me. That was the reason why he
wasn't afraid. It wasn't because he's really strong wasn't because he had that awesome staff. It
wasn't because of the means. It was because he saw a lot. And then Allah guess what Allah did? Allah
		

			split the Red Sea. So what did I do, Allah made a way out in such a way that no one could imagine.
That's what happens when you focus on the lights instead of the darkness. Because I can sit here and
I can say, Oh, my God, it is so dark right now. It is so dark right now, oh, my God, the lights are
off, oh, my God, or I can work on going and getting a candle and and bringing some light to the
room. So that's why we have to be very careful in terms of what we focus on.
		

			The other thing I want to point out with regards to focus is the power of focusing on what's
positive, the power of gratitude. One of the most, you know, the things that if you just kind of
look at psychological research, if you do like a scan of psychological research, one of the most
powerful things that they found in terms of well being in terms of treating depression, is the power
of gratitude, the power of what you focus on just just writing down five things that you're grateful
for every day, can treat depression, just that. That's what they found in studies. So the point here
is that we can either be a people who are very negative, and focus on what's going wrong, and what
		

			they voted yesterday.
		

			Or we can focus on what's right, we can focus on the light and the hope, because again, at the end
of the day, Allah is still in charge. Allah is still in charge. Kela in my era beside him, we have
to remember that today because yes, we see armies approaching. And we see barriers and we see
problems and we see the Red Sea. But we have to have that understanding that Allah is with us. And
yes, He will guide us through.
		

			Finally, here's what I want to say.
		

			There is a power to remembering that our goal should be hope. And our goal should be excellence. But
be careful making your goal perfection. Be careful of making your goal perfection. I want to point
this out because in so many of these discussions, the people I speak to at these gatherings tend to
be people more on the practicing side. So that's why I try to emphasize this more. A lot of times
what happens among the practicing community is that we have this false notion of perfection. That
for me to be a good person, I need to be a perfect person. That the moment I make a mistake, it
means I should give up. Because I was supposed to be perfect and when I'm not perfect, I fall into
		

			despair. The reason I point this out is because I really hate shaitan Okay, and
		

			This is one of his favorite tools. It is one of his favorite tools to make us think that we're
supposed to be perfect. Ironically, we wait a minute, but shaitan wants us to to be really bad. No,
by making us believe that we're supposed to be perfect. He has set us up for despair. Simple as
that. Just make this person think that they're supposed to be perfect. Their family is supposed to
be perfect. their spouse is supposed to be perfect. Their community is supposed to be perfect. And
then the moment things go wrong, you give up and you want to just you know, Okay, forget it. This
whole idea of
		

			um,
		

			she did what? She wears hijab, and she did what?
		

			You mean, she's a hijab, and she did XYZ, you know what I'm saying? Ever heard that before? Or, you
know, she, it's this idea that once you, for example, wear hijab,
		

			you become an angel, and you're not allowed to be human anymore. And so what we have done in this,
I'll tell you what we've done, when we act that way. Oh, and my, my absolute favorite. She might as
well just take off her hijab.
		

			Do you know why that upsets me so much? Because it's someone saying, just stop trying. You know, I'm
saying like, you you weren't good enough to try. It's so bad. It's so bad. And when I say things, I
say things like that I am aiding shaitan against my sister. When I say Oh, she did this mistake. So
she might as well take off her hijab, that is completely, absolutely screenplay written by shaitan
absolutely signed off by him because what it is, it's an idea of all or none, right? Oh, you
couldn't be perfect. So you know, you should just take off your hijab, or you couldn't be perfect.
So just stop praying, you know, this idea of I'm being a hypocrite, you know, this hypocrite idea,
		

			oh, you're gonna commit that sin, and then you're gonna go pray, or you're gonna commit that sin and
then you're gonna go to the masjid. You might as well just stop praying. Because you're being a
hypocrite. Why am I saying this? Why am I saying this? Because this becomes a block and a barrier to
changing internally. Why am I talking about change, because we will never change as a people. Our
condition will never change until we change until I change. So that's why I'm saying you might not
think this is relevant. What does this have to do with Trump or what is this, it has everything to
do with our situation until we change inside and we start having hope and we stop having despair,
		

			things will not change externally. In the law, you Hiram abiff Coleman, hatha yoga mat, the unfussy
him, we have to we have to come back to fighting despair, because I really, really believe that one
of our biggest problems is despair. One of our biggest problems is despair. We look around us and we
see darkness. We look around us and we see armies we look around us and we see the Red Sea. And then
we we become hopeless. We look at ourselves and we and we're like, You know what? I might as well
stop trying. And this happens because we have the wrong expectation. So finally what I want to do is
end with this, realized that hope is not in who gets elected. Hope is not in a political situation.
		

			Hope is not even in your own deeds, but put your hope in Allah subhanaw taala Kela in Nehemiah
beside in according Callie Heather was stuck for lonely welcome in our funan Rahim subhanak
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rahmatullah wa barakato.