Yousef Bakeer – Quranic Dua For Difficult Times

was salam ala Rasulillah. While early he was so happy he won my

Wallah. It's a pleasure and joy to welcome you all tonight for the

DUA at night. And this time is going to be a little bit different

be the light to Allah, it's going to be more conversational in

nature. And on that note, I want to ask our dear beloved shift use

of Bucky, if you could tell us a little bit of a background of this

week's Hadith and what makes it so special and so unique

sokola he'd rather Temen Allah subhanaw taala bless you. And I'm

glad that I get to be here in this conversation with you and

Hamdulillah. So this

is, as I mentioned, and stated in Surah Baqarah, Allah subhanaw

taala says, in Allah, we're in that era as your own. And the

translation of this

indeed, we belong to Allah subhanaw taala. And we should

return back to him.

And Subhan Allah, I thought of this die because a convert came up

to me after a Janaza prayer. And he asked me this question, I hear

the Imam saying, in Allah when Allah has your own, by don't

really understand why the Imam keeps repeating over and over. And

then people, you know, saying to each other, the same exact verse.

And I'm wondering, what does that even mean?

My answer to him was

a man called to be said that this is Mel J. Linda will Messiah.

So this is for those who are going through calamities and hard times.

And so it's Melcher. myalgia, is a very powerful and beautiful words

in Arabic language. And I can translate it into a comfort. So

those who are going through hard times, the may find comfort,

reciting this.so, in that Allah I told them in Allah, it means that

we belong to Allah. We're living in his kingdom. And we are His

servants. So He does what He wills. And then we're in LA here

as your own. So the first part is actually what Islam is all about

submission to Allah subhanaw taala surrender to Allah subhanaw taala.

And then the second part, in that we're in that you lay here as your

own, we are refreshing our faith. We're saying that in one day, we

will go and meet Allah subhanaw taala. And this is crucial,

because in the times of calamities, some people questioned

the existence of Allah and say, why this is happening to me. So

Allah is reminding us here, we should, we should say we should

actually bring this clean and certainty that in one day, we will

go back to Allah subhanaw taala. So it's sort of refreshing our

faith.

And this is Subhanallah what what Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam

taught our mother on Musallam when she was going through kind of the

same hardships and hard times, he actually told her this.

Actually, if you could just tell us a little bit more about the

about our mother home sell him out of the Aloha Aloha, and the

circumstances under which the Navy slice and I'm Tada This beautiful

Yeah, so Subhanallah almost cinema was the one of the first woman who

actually reverted to Islam in the early early age of Islam. And

almost selama got to migrate to a few of your first and then she

came back to Makkah, and then she did their second migration to El

Medina. But before

leaving Mecca, that tribe of her husband figured out that almost

Salama and Abu selama both of them are leaving to Almudena. So they

actually decided to take their son selama away from both of them.

And, And subhanAllah that was that was heart breaking to to almost

Salama and Abu Salam, and the forced Abu Salama to leave Mecca.

So at this point, almost Halima was all alone. She away from her

own son and away from her own husband.

And subhanAllah you know, like when we go to a mall and some and

you know, we don't see our kids around, you know, we panicked we

actually you know, our hearts you know, beats very fast and it the

fact that you imagine that your son is away or your daughter is

away from you, is actually very tough. So, almost I'm I couldn't

handle this. So in a daily basis, she used to go to the same spot,

same spots, where the took her her son and cries and weeps

and tell

After one year, after one year of this, they decided finally, to

give to give her her some back. When that happened, she left

smackAh to El Medina, and then another calamity hits where her

husband got injured in the Battle of birth.

And just, you know, think about what's in her mind at this time,

at this point, you know, this is a hobby, I went through a lot. And,

and and on that, and, you know, on the deathbed, she told her

husband, you know, if one of us dies, I promise you, that I will

never remarry again. I will never remarry again. And then her

husband told her in sha Allah, Allah would replace you with

someone better than me. And then he passed away.

Now, almost selama are the Allah Allah, Allah, she, you know, she

started her new now, new journey of hardships being a widow, in

that society was not easy at all. Being in this society, a divorced

woman, or I'm sorry, a widow, who her husband is gone, and no system

support around her and she has to figure it out things on her own is

very tough. And then Subhanallah Prophet Mohammed Salah Salem, came

up to her and told her this

he told her say in Allah we're in Elijah Raj room and then there is

actually the second part of this die is from the Sunnah it's it's

it's as beautiful as this as this part. Prophet Muhammad Salah Salem

told her say Allah who met journey fie Musa Betty was listening Hi,

Ramona, Oh Allah, reward me, reward me for my calamity, and

replace me with something better. And subhanAllah. After this Abu

Bakr Siddiq proposed to her and she rejects. And then amagno,

Hatha proposed her and she rejects and then the Prophet himself

sallallahu alayhi wa sallam proposed her, and she accepted and

she, she, she became omal Momineen, almost, not the Allah,

Allah, Allah on our Da, what a beautiful ending to a story that's

filled with so much sadness, initially, so much grief, and so

much loss. What's an important lesson that you think we can

derive from from her powerful journey?

So Hala, this is one of my favorite daughters Wallahi

I think one lesson that we can unpack from the life of

our mother or masala

is the fact that we, we tend to have the psychology of

deprivation, like we blame ourselves too much. When we go

through calamity. We beat our beat up ourselves and we say, you know,

I could do better. Why this is you know, like, I would never get

something better than this. I we blame ourselves a lot. We feel

guilty about so many things that we have done in the past. And

sometimes we go to the extent that we think that this is a punishment

from Allah subhanaw taala. A calamity could be a punishment

from Allah. And we actually apply this as this is Allah is punishing

me.

But this dua, Allah subhanaw taala, wants to wants us to flip

the script, Allah here is telling us say, oh, Allah reward me for my

calamity, and replace me with something better. So now you're

shifting the psychology of the provision to a psychology of

abundance. You're now asking Allah subhanaw taala to replace you with

something better and to reward you. So this is this is very

powerful, that almost salamati Allah on her, she applied it and

Allah has given her this award Subhan Allah

subhanaw taala before we we get I know, we have to get to what

everybody's been waiting for the prizes. I'll just ask you one last

question. Shekinah you mentioned that this is your favorite dua.

What why?

This is my favorite. Because Subhanallah since very young age.

One time I I was, you know, asking my parents to to give me a cat,

right to buy a cat for me. And finally, after so many times

asking over and over and over my pet my father gave me that cat And

subhanAllah after a few days

My cat died.

And I was very, very sad I was very sad about this. And I

actually started you know, crying the entire day. Then my mother

came up to me and said,

say in Allah, what is your own and then say along my journey, few

musi batini Allah reward me for my calamity, while lifting the higher

omega and replace me for something better.

15 years later,

my mother passed away. And, and my mother Subhanallah she, she was, I

was very, very close to her, she, she used to review with me the

Quran, she used to be my teacher, and she used to be, you know,

teaching

Quran in the masjid, she she used to be very active in the in that

community Subhanallah and then she was fighting cancer and, and the

day that she passed away, was very devastating for the entire

community.

And

subhanAllah you know, if these thoughts start to come to mind,

like we could have done better, we could have changed the doctor, we

could have moved her to a different hospital hospital. And

Allahu Allah, He shifts him in what healed my heart because it

was hard. It was I was heartbroke what healed my heart was the words

that she told me in that Allah were in LA here's your own

Allahumma journey he musi. But he was listening Hi Ramona, that came

to mind over and over saying, We belong to Allah, it's his kingdom.

And we shall return back to him. And may Allah word me

Oh Allah, the word me for what I've lost, and replace me with

something better. And subhanAllah you know, the one thing that she

used to teach me is that leave a legacy. Oh, it was she was always

telling me leave a legacy And subhanAllah every time you will

notice that most of my talks are about leave a legacy. And every

time I talk about this, I can imagine that this reward that word

of those who are listening to these talks are following her

Subhan Allah Tala every time I recite the Quran every time I

pray, every time people hear the words of Allah subhanaw taala this

word is actually following her. So may Allah subhanaw taala have

mercy on all of our mothers and our parents. I mean Alibrandi

Lahoma I mean you're up and may Allah Subhana Allah have mercy

upon your mother who taught you and therefore you're teaching us

and May he accept this from her as a southern Nigeria may have so

much mercy upon her subhanho wa Taala that he entrusts her into

genital for those be Lady He said without any taking into account

and unite you with her and your whole family and all of your loved

ones yada but I mean just like them, okay, and and botica Lo Fi

calm and now we're gonna move on to the prizes.

This Mila so there is a question for the young

young men and women in the room and then there is a question for

the others because they got mad at me last time. So I have to

accommodate everybody. So I'll start with a question for the

adults don't like to say elders because you know, you still use

Mashallah.

So what is the real name of OMO selama body Allah Juana the real

name of OMO Salama or the Allah on

and you cannot say shut up

yes brother

No, Xena Binta hush is the wife of a salsa salaam right but her name

is hint though, but what's her last name?

I mean, you will get praised Don't worry.

Her Her name is hint bint or my year hand been to omega you get

your price and shallow towel.

Now now the question for you. I'll answer you this after after the

question Salah My question for you guys. Now

what was the date

of last Saturday?

Last Saturday we didn't even have a class so I was trying to trick

you. I mean, the last one it was two weeks ago. So what was the DA

and the translation? Yes brother.

Okay, he already knows the Arabic version Mashallah.

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Hello Coleman, Catherine Takbeer I want you to say it in the

microphone Mashallah. Because everybody has to hear Sundar

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Baraka Luffy calm chef and Al Habib, Chef Yusuf. Before we end I

want to remind everybody or inform you rather that next week we're

not going to be having a duel at night but we'll have one in two

weeks on March 12. Saturday, March 12. That's going to be the last

day and the 10th Day before we take a break for Ramadan via the

light hits Allah so hope you can all join us there Subhanak alone

behind the curtain a shadow Allah Allah Allah and minister Fuuka

went to Lake wa salam aleikum wa rahmatullah Hurtado barakato