Yousef Bakeer – The Duaa Of TaIf A Beacon Of Patience And Resilience
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The importance of protecting oneself from punishment, bad behavior, and the Prophet sallahu alayhi in the history of Islam is discussed. The Prophet had to use his emotions to navigate through difficult situations and build his emotional resiliency. The importance of having a strong relationship with Allah and balancing personal expression with others is emphasized. The need for people to support and empower the message of Islam is emphasized, as well as preserving and protecting brothers and sisters in Syria.
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It means that we should be conscious of
Allah, we should be aware of Him and
we should protect ourselves from His punishment and
His wrath and we should never die except
in a state of la ilaha illallah Muhammadur
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
I begin my khutbah by asking Allah first
and foremost to send blessings and prayers upon
our Rasul, our Nabi, our Habib sallallahu alayhi
wasallam.
Allahumma salli wa sallim wa an'im wa
barik ala nabiyina wa habibina muhammadin wa ala
alihi wa sahbihi wa sallim tasliman kathira.
Allah says in the Quran inna allaha wa
malaikatahu yusalluna ala nabiyyin ya
ayyuha allatheena aamanu sallu
alayhi wa sallimu taslima.
Allahumma salli wa sallim wa an'im wa
barik ala nabiy al ummi al habib wa
ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallim tasliman kathira.
Amma ba'd my dear brothers and sisters in
Islam, assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
Recently, alhamdulillah, we got the honor to visit
Madinatul Rasul, the city of our beloved Prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
And today's khutbah is about the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wasallam.
And we came and visited Mecca, Al-Mukarramah.
And subhanAllah, the haybah, the just the greatness
of Ka'bah when you just first look
at it, it is something that me and
you need to experience more often, because you
will never feel this way anywhere else.
And then we got the honor to go
and to visit around Mecca, visit Masjid Quba,
the first masjid in Islam, Jabal-e-Uhud,
the Mount of Uhud, Maqbarat al-Shuhada, all
of these great places.
And as we go through the streets of
Mecca, I paused for a second, and I
asked myself, what was so unique about the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam during that era, that
time?
By the way, we were in a place
where that was the foundation of Islam.
Islam was founded there.
So it is not just a historical place,
but it's more than just history.
It's about us.
It's about Muslims.
It's about the world.
That's a very unique place.
And I asked myself, how did the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasallam go through this, psychologically?
What exactly his mind was at, as he
goes through the challenges?
I mean, al-Ta'if is a place,
is the destination where the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wasallam seeked refuge from all of what he
was going through during his time in Mecca,
at the beginning of the Dawah.
And I just wanted to know what was
going on in the mind of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
I paused and I reflected on this.
And then subhanAllah, you would realize that the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam went through this rollercoaster
of emotions.
High and down, up and down.
The Prophet built this emotional resilience.
And we wanted to know, and we still
want to learn from the Prophet, how he
developed that emotional resilience.
How?
I mean, before the hijrah, before even the
Dawah, before he received the Wahi, he was
in ease.
Everything was going amazing to the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wasallam.
And at that time, he used to be
reflecting a lot.
He used to go to the mountain, to
the cave of Thawr, and he used to
reflect a lot in this concept of higher
power, of Allah Azza wa Jal.
And then things got even more exciting for
the Prophet, because he received the Wahi.
Now he is the Prophet.
Now he got an honor that no human
got in the history, or will get in
the history of human history.
I mean, he's the Prophet of Allah and
Khataman Nabiyeen, the last messenger.
What an honor.
So, at that time, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wasallam emotionally was very, very high.
Now, there is a turning point of the
life of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam, and
that is the response of the people of
Mecca at that time.
It was not expected.
The Prophet thought that the mission would be
a little easier.
But then things got very tough on the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
People rejected him.
People mocked him.
People mocked his companions.
People persecuted him and his companions.
Tortured him and his companions.
Humiliated him and his companions.
You see where he was at, and then
now things are going down.
And then after this, he figured that I
will go and seek help from the people
of Ta'if.
I will make hijrah.
I will quit everything.
I will go and I will seek help
from the people of Ta'if.
It's about 70 to 80 miles from Mecca.
Walking, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam had to
reach Ta'if.
And when he reached there, the response of
the people of Ta'if was nothing better.
It was no better than the response of
the people of Mecca.
Even worse.
People started, you know, the chiefs of the
tribe of Ta'if started to actually send
these little children to go and to mock
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
And torturing the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
Rejecting his Risalah.
Now the question would be, how did the
Prophet go through all of this?
Because after this, things got much better.
The hijrah of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam,
and after the hijrah, the welcoming energy that
he got as he is embracing, you know,
the Dawah in Madinah and the people from
Madinah were just beautiful souls that welcomed Prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
And then massive people entered into Islam.
You see here?
Up and down, up and down.
But there has to be something very unique
that made the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam able
to go through all of these changes.
There has to be something unique that doesn't
come from nowhere.
Where his mind at as he is going
through these steps, these turning points of his
life.
What he was thinking about, the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wasallam.
How did he define his relationship with Allah
versus his relationship with the people?
It's a question.
That was what was going through my mind
as we are visiting these beautiful places, Makkah
al-Mukarramah and its surroundings.
And that's the million-dollar question.
How do you define your relationship with Allah
versus your relationship with the people?
To build this emotional, this resiliency.
How do you define both relationships?
Well, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam, when it
comes to his relationship with Allah, meaning he
took Allah as his companion.
Regardless, we're going through ease, Allah is with
me.
We're going through a difficult time, Allah is
also with me.
Allah is my companion.
He is with me in this journey.
The 60 years, 70 years, 80 years, maybe
more, maybe less, Allah is with me.
We go through this turning points of our
life, Allah is with me.
It doesn't matter.
Allah is with me.
And by the way, this is the only
thing that you can actually control.
Your relationship with Allah Azawajal, nobody can control
it.
No one.
It's you.
That's an internal power that Allah has given
me and you.
No one can intervene in this relationship.
You have absolutely full control and full power
over your relationship with Allah Azawajal.
Faith is something internal, something invisible.
It's inside you.
You want to be with Allah, nobody's gonna
stop you.
You want to be away from Allah, it's
your choice.
Your relationship with Allah, you define it.
You get to define it.
It's up to you.
The Prophet and how he made it, Allah
is with him.
Before dawah and after dawah.
Yes, he didn't know that much about Allah
in the way that he knew after the
wahi, for sure.
But he knew that there is higher power.
He knew that Allah is up there and
he know that there is Allah who controls
this world.
And therefore, he is the most powerful and
I'm powerless.
So I would rely on the powerful over
the powerless.
I will rely on the limitless over the
limited.
I will rely on the most merciful over
the ones who sometimes we lack mercy.
It's just like the human being traits.
This is the one who you should rely
on.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam figured it.
And he relied fully on Allah and he
was his companion.
And beautifully Allah said in the Quran, that
if you take Allah as your companion, Allah
will be your companion.
Allah will be closer to you than your
own vein.
This is how he described it in the
Quran.
Allah is closer to you than this vein.
Do you want this relationship?
That's the question.
How do you define it?
It's up to you and me.
How we define this?
You want Allah with you in this journey?
This is what the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam did.
Now, his relationship with the people is a
very interesting one.
Very interesting one.
It's a bit complicated.
Why?
Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has set
us in this earth to rely on each
other.
You can't live alone.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam gave a
beautiful analogy about this.
He said, a wolf would not go and
eat a sheep that's walking away.
Actually, would eat a sheep that's walking away
from its flock.
Group of sheeps are walking.
A wolf wouldn't attack all of them at
once.
A wolf will wait for the moment where
you are alone and attacks you.
That's why Allah said in the Quran.
He said, in the journey of patience.
In the journey of patience.
Meaning what?
Meaning you're going through a difficult time in
your life and you want to maintain that
patience.
You want to build this patience.
He said, you need to be among people
who will remind you by Allah good people.
That's the support system that we talk about.
You can't be alone.
You can't make it alone.
The Prophet wouldn't even make it alone.
The Prophet needed the Sahaba to spread Islam.
That's number one.
Do we need people around us?
Absolutely, yes, absolutely.
You can't make it alone, my dear brothers
and sisters.
So yes, that's number one.
Number two, do we fully rely on people
the same way that we rely on Allah?
What do you think?
No, we don't.
Because we know that Allah has created us
limited, with limited capacity.
We have our own flaws, our own weaknesses,
our own shortcomings.
Who is the one who doesn't have shortcomings?
Allah Azza wa Jal.
That's why we say fully rely on Allah.
This is up to you and me.
But then when it comes to people, yes,
we need people around us.
But do we rely fully on the people
the same way we do rely on Allah?
No.
And understanding this, you will never be disappointed.
You'll never be disappointed from your family, from
your friends, from your, you know, from your
co-workers.
Knowing that everybody has a capacity.
You yourself has your own capacity.
Me, myself, I have my own capacity.
You define this.
By the way, that was the moment when
the Prophet made dua during the Ta'if.
He said this.
Basically, he said this.
He said, اللهم إني أشكو إليك ضعف قوتي
وقلة حيلتي وهواني على الناس.
أنت رب المستضعفين وأنت رب.
Beautiful dua.
It's a long dua.
We really want you to check it after
khutbah.
Beautiful dua.
He said, اللهم إني أشكو إليك ضعف قوتي.
Ya Allah, I complain to you.
My shakwa is to you first and foremost.
I fully rely on you, Ya Allah.
أشكو إليك ضعف قوتي وقلة حيلتي.
And the lack of means and resources.
I'm limited.
I'm limited.
وهواني على الناس.
And my struggle with my relationship with people.
وأنت رب المستضعفين وأنت ربي.
And Ya Allah, you're my Lord.
You're my Lord.
The Prophet here is defining the relationship with
Allah عز و جل versus the relationship with
people because at that time, people of Mecca
put him down, people of Ta'if put
him down.
And yet the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم
maintained good relationship with people, by the way,
because, you know, the growth of his relationships
with people after this in Medina and how
Islam thrived is through the jama'at, through
the people.
But he knew that at certain points, it's
Allah.
No one else.
I will turn to Allah.
I will seek help from people around me.
But ultimately, I will rely fully on Allah
عز و جل.
He said أنت ربي.
Beautiful.
He didn't say أنت إلهي, by the way.
أنت ربي.
Because إله, there's a difference here.
أنت إلهي, أنت ربي.
أنت إلهي means like you are the Lord
and I am the servant.
So now we're talking about rights and obligations
and your rights over me.
And no, no, no.
He chose the right word.
أنت ربي.
رب is the one who takes care of
something.
A caregiver.
So as if he wants to say to
Allah, Allah, you're the one who's taking care
of me.
I'm not now talking about rights and obligations.
No, no, no, no.
I'm talking about you are my رب.
You are the one who controls me and
who takes care of me.
And I'm coming to you for help and
support.
May Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى make us among
those who will embody the character of the
Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم.
آمين يا رب العالمين أقول قولي هذا وأستغفر
الله لي ولكم يا
الله we ask you to preserve our brothers
and sisters in Palestine.
يا الله we ask you and we beg
you to bring an immediate relief to our
brothers and sisters in Palestine.
يا الله we ask you to preserve our
brothers and sisters in Syria.
يا الله preserve them يا رب العالمين.
يا الله bring them back to their home
safe and sound يا رب العالمين.
Bring those refugees that they suffered for years.
يا الله we ask you to bring them
home safe and sound يا رب العالمين.
And ya Allah we ask you to preserve
our ummah, our ummah of your حبيب صلى
الله عليه وسلم.
اللهم صلي وسلم وأنعم وبرك على نبينا وحبيبنا
محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم تسليماً كثيراً وآخر
دعوانا أن الحمد لله رب العالمين وأقيم الصلاة