Yousef Bakeer – Lessons From Their Stories

Be conscious of him. We should be aware of him. And we should

protect ourselves from his punishment and his wrath. And we

shouldn't allow ourselves to die, except in a state of la ilaha

illAllah Muhammadan rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.

I begin my hotbar by asking Allah Who subhanaw taala first and

foremost, to send blessings and prayers to our beloved prophet

muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Allahumma salli wa sallam

one and Mubarak, Al and maybe in our Habiba Muhammad, Anwar Ali, he

was happy he was telling him to Sleeman Kathira My Dear Brothers

and Sisters in Islam as salam aleikum, Warahmatullah

wabarakatuh.

In surah, hood, Allah subhanho wa Taala has revealed a very

important area towards the end of the surah. Allah subhanho wa Taala

says Wakulla nakasu alayka mean embarr Rosalie, Manu Thap be to be

here for ADEQ.

He said, O Muhammad, will reveal to you the stories of the prophets

before you to make your heart firm.

And then he says, Allah subhanaw taala says, What Maori Latin was

equally remote meaning and also we actually send these Stories of the

Prophets as reminders to the believers, as listens to the

believers.

And then,

if you look at the time, when this idea was revealed, you will find

that Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was going through

tremendous hardships. We call this and this year I'm hosting the year

of sadness. When Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was in

desperate need of support of everyone in the early age of

Islam, and Muslims were just a small weak group of people.

And at that time, the goddess by this boycott, were basically they

were excluded and isolated from the community.

No one is allowed to do any business with Muslims. No one is

allowed to marry from Muslims at that time. It was a such a hard

time. And in addition to this, this small group of people putting

more pressure on the Prophet, mata masuleh When is the victory of

Allah?

We're in a very bad situation right now. What's going on?

When this is going to be, you know when this is gonna become to an

end.

And then in addition to this prophet muhammad sallallahu alayhi

wa sallam lost his, you know, support system. His wife Khadija,

now the Allahu anha. And his wife Khadija meant Allah to the Prophet

sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.

He just found a comfort

in his wife Khadija a support. And all of a sudden, when he was in

desperate need of this support, he lost his wife. That was the

attorney the internal support. And the external support was his

uncle. He used to defend him and he used to defend actually the

Dawa. He also lost his uncle.

At that time.

The Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu sallam was in a situation when

he didn't know how there is going to be way out after this.

How's that gonna be possible?

In addition to all of this, the Quran was, was not revealed to the

Prophet. So he was in a, in a situation where he was he was very

sad. brothers or sisters, the beauty of Allah sending prophets

as human being like us, because we share some characteristics with

these prophets.

We feel this sense of belonging that we, we can we can actually

share some of their feelings, because they're not angels,

they're prophets. They're actually humans. At some point, they got

sad. At some point they got you know, excited to get happy, they

share these characteristics like just like us.

And so Allah subhanaw taala. After this, he actually revealed the

next Surah after servitude, which was suited for use of Alayhis

Salam. Then Allah started to teach Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi

wa sallam a big lesson.

And this lesson lesson was about hardships and how to navigate

hardships. So Allah and this Surah Surah Yusuf, he adds

Should we call this surah one of us and of course one of the best

of the stories and for the sake of the time, I can just go over this,

this, this tremendous situations and incidents that took place in

the life of Prophet Yusuf. And Allah was speaking about it with

details with the minor details to show Prophet Muhammad sallallahu

alayhi wa sallam the path of the righteous and the prophets and

what they went through.

So he showed him how used to be the childhood of Prophet Yusuf

alayhi, salam, and all of this maliciousness and hatred and an

anger that his siblings have towards him.

And then, since his childhood is facing tremendous hardships, being

thrown in a well and after that, being in a palace of the king of

Egypt, and all of a sudden from someone from noble family, someone

from a prophetic family, Prophet use of his father's Prophet

Yaqoob, Prophet Yahoo was Father as Prophet is half and Prophet is

heartless father is Prophet Ibrahim great lineage, masha

Allah, and all of a sudden he had to be a slave, treated like a

slave. In addition to all of this, he now had to face a sexual

harassment. And you know, the most difficult thing for people that

they have honored, and they have great reputation is to accuse them

with anything that has to do with morality.

And Prophet us have had to deal with this.

And the hardships continue Allah and so that use of, again, like

the I mentioned at the beginning of the hotbar, Allah is showing

prophets use of his story for Prophet Muhammad, to make his

faith firm, and for all of us to take it as a reminder.

Then now he had to be thrown in jail. And if you ask anyone in

prison, the ones who suffered the most are those who are not guilty

of anything, they're totally innocent, and they had to pay for

something that he did not do. And that was exactly the situation of

Prophet Yusuf Alayhi Salam.

And then, after all of this journey of hardships and

tribulations, and difficult times, that Prophet Yusuf Alayhi salaam

went through Allah has showed him light at the end of the tunnel.

Allah has should showed him the way out. Now, Allah has made his

way to the palace. Allah has given him this high post in Egypt at

that time the Minister of Finance, Allah Allah subhanaw taala put him

in such high position for dunya Well, Astra.

And then Allah has, you know, revealing this is that talk about

the life of Prophet Muhammad Salah a Prophet Yusuf Ali salaam to

Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.

And then finally, after this set the year of sadness, Allah

revealed soon at a bar

what Baja well lately either Sasha, Mao a darker a book, our

malerkotla You know what Baja means? A Doha is the light the

first light of the morning, that breaks the darkness of the night.

Because when we go through these hardships, through these difficult

times, we don't see a way out. Everything is dark.

But the Promise of Allah Allah subhanaw taala is that there is

going to be a light at the end of the tunnel. That's the promise.

And so there are some lessons that we should glean from the story of

Prophet Yusuf alayhi salam, and animal husbandry Prophet Muhammad

Sallallahu sallam. And number one is every one is tested.

Everyone in this in this room, every single one in this room is

going through something

going through a hardship going through difficult time.

And so when we go through that, we have to acknowledge something very

important because some people beat up themselves and think that this

is really a sign of weakness of Eman. But Allah is punishing me.

Allah subhanaw taala is making me through going through this may be

loss of wealth or health or a child family issue.

It could be in any form of shape.

And sometimes we beat up ourselves and think that Allah subhanaw

taala is angry with us.

And the result of this sometimes we lose hope in Allah subhanaw

taala.

So what Allah wants to see from us in this difficult time, is that we

show gratitude to him. We accept

Baptists, we get patients with these difficult times and how to

get patients. You never say, Why me? Why should I go through all of

this? Why should I face all of that? If you don't question

yourself with this, you are among those who are slavery.

And of course, it's not a weakness of Imam because we just mentioned

that the prophets and the messengers sallallahu alayhi

wasallam they went through the same thing.

We went through this difficult times. Number two, which is very

important, I end up my first husband salah, my first half good,

but inshallah with this is that if there are no hardships, there is

no development.

No hardships, no development.

Prophet Yusuf alayhi salam, from this naive child who wanted to

tell his siblings about the dream,

to now the, the Minister of Finance at the prophet from Allah

subhanaw taala, he had to go through all of this, to be fully

developed to be the Minister of Finance.

So let's think about it this way. Allah has put these hardships for

us to develop, and to grow.

The last point in sha Allah Huhtala

part of our anxiety and depression

when we get into social media and Instagram, Facebook, is that we

look at people's lives. And we feel this, you know,

in a weakened sea of our lives and our, our, the way we look, we feel

that we're not enough why people are having so much you know, so

much goodness, they're mashallah have fancy, like fancy cars. And

we look at this, these pluggers and we look at these, you know,

these tick tock, you know, activists and we look at these

famous people, we look at these rappers and all of this

Lamborghini the hand and all of these temptations they had, and we

think this is really the life that they live. And we think that

they're not tested from Allah subhanaw taala. And we look at

ourselves, and we and we feel insufficient.

The lesson from the story of Prophet Yusuf, the Allah wants to

tell us that every single one in this planet will face hardships

located in Santa Fe Cabot, no matter what circumstances you

have, no matter who you are, at the end of the day, you have to go

through this nature of life. And the difference between the

muslimeen

and the other is that the and we understand that this is has a

divine wisdom behind it, and we believe in it, and we go through

it.

So may Allah subhanaw taala make us among those who understand the

divine wisdom behind the hardships and may Allah subhanaw taala make

us among those who are Sabreen with Allah subhanaw taala has

blessed us with Akula Cody had our stuff Allah have you want to?

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