Yousef Bakeer – Lessons From Their Stories
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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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