Yousef Bakeer – Where Is Allah’s Help For The Palestinians
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Paymo salatu salam ala Rasulillah. While early he also he was salam
to Sleeman Kathira, rubbish. Rouhani Saudi was certainly Emery
was a little awkward with Emily Sandy of Kahakai.
One of the very few times where I feel very overwhelmed, to put a
speech together.
And that is, because of the
devastation
of the one of the greatest events that's happening in the world
right now. In the Holy Land of Philistine, we ask Allah subhanaw
taala to alleviate their suffering neuroblastoma.
But I pushed myself and said, you know, you have to put the emotions
on the side. And you have to make logic take over. And that was the
exact advice I gave one of my students who came up to me and had
very sensitive and crucial questions about what's going on,
in the Holy Land of Philistine. He had five questions. And I spoke to
him and I actually took his consent to actually speak about,
you know, the concerns that he had without, you know, or keeping his
name anonymous. But I figured that this is crucial for our community
to be aware that our children, our youth have questions and have
doubts and have concerns about what's going on over there. So
it's not only sensitive over there to the people of Philistia also is
sensitive to our youth here living in the West.
So we had five questions, and hopefully inshallah I can cover
one of his questions and today in tonight's call, and Inshallah, to
Allah, He will have full hotbar on Friday Inshallah, about some of
his concerns.
The first question he had, he told me, that he has a family in
Philistine and
it's unfortunate that his house got demolished, got bombed. And he
lost family members.
May Allah subhanaw taala, accept them era balala mean, and show
them with mercy and every single one who passed away during this?
This, this, this calamity that's happening? Faustina Rabbil
Alameen?
So he said,
he had a very,
very sensitive question. He said, Where is God from everything
that's happening?
Why Allah doesn't help the people follow? See,
he had that question.
That was that was, that was a concern? He said, Where's God
from? From everything that's happening right now? Why Allah
does not support those who are getting killed in a in a daily
basis?
Where is Allah from the annihilation of the people of
Philistine?
I was, was a tough question.
And the danger of this question is actually get you to go further
than this. Eventually, if you have no logical answer, it will
actually lead you to a greater thought that we don't want to
have.
And my answer was, give him three points.
The first point, I told him,
how do you define
Allah's help and support?
How do you define it?
He told me, I define it according to what's happening now. Hospitals
are getting bombed. People are dying. So I don't see support from
Allah.
I told them this is the issue.
Because if you think about the current moment, if you think about
the current moment, then yes, I will agree with your logic. But
it's never about the current moment.
When Bilal Radi Allahu Anhu his meat was cooked in the hot sand of
Mecca.
And Omega was standing right above his head, torturing him. If you
look at this current moment, you would never say that Allah has any
good plans for the Muslims, or Allah has no support for the
Muslims or Allah is not going to help them Muslims. If you look at
the moment, when Amalric NASA was tortured to the point that he was
forced to insult Allah, and he came to the Prophet
And he was crying and he said to the to the Prophet, I'm in big
trouble and the Prophet sallallahu Sallam calmed him down. And he
told them that you're seeing this not very thoroughly, you don't
believe in what you're saying. So if in I do find out if you go back
and they force you to say, just say it, it was really weak state
status of the Muslims at that time, was very weak. And if you
look at the current moment, you would never think that there is
any help or support from Allah subhanaw taala. Fast forward a
little bit. If you look at the hotel, ubia 3d, Alma Katara, the
Allah Allah had the same concern. He looked at the prophet and he
looked at Abu Bakr and you told Abu Bakr What is this treaty all
about?
I don't want to I don't accept this agreement. I don't think it's
fair. I don't think it's even you know, it's actually giving Islam
as
Where's where does it what is that? And he actually was angry.
And he told the prophets Allah Allah Islam, Allah Allah Huck,
aren't we with the truth site? And the Prophet told him yes, we are.
And then he said, Allahu Allah bottom are they in the falsehood
side? The Prophet said, yes, they are.
Then he says, Amen. And then why are we accepting a DNA if he
didn't know why we're being inferior? Where's Allah from this?
And then the Prophet sallallahu Sallam calmed him down Abu Bakr
Siddiq calmed him down. They were visionary the we're seeing the
full picture they were not judging only the current moment. And guess
what happened after this? Fat hamaca the conquest of Mecca. If
you were to ask Billa Radi Allahu Anhu at the moment where he was
tortured. Were we're people after 1500 years, we'll be in Dallas,
Texas, praying salata, Russia and having Cawthra and practicing the
religion that Islam will thrive and grow, that Muslims will be
almost 2 billion people, they will actually spread La ilaha illAllah
Muhammad Rasul Allah round the globe, he wouldn't even be able to
process this. Why? Because it just the moment you're looking only at
the moment, the current moment
if it's a video, and the video started from the torture of Bilal,
and ends today, and you take the first minute of the video, and you
judge the entire status, according to this first minute, for sure,
there is no support of Allah and help of Allah if you only take
that first minute,
but it is beyond this current moment. This is our belief. My
belief is that Allah subhanaw taala will support a volley of
Muslim in Allah subhanaw taala will support them and Allah
subhanaw taala will punish the transgressors. This is the Sunnah
of Allah subhanaw taala as Allah says in the Quran, Len Peggi deli
Sunette Illa heeta de la Allah will not change his sunnah. The
transgressors will pay for the return for the injustice. It's a
fact.
And that leads me to the second point. We don't get to mandate,
Allah support and Allah's help, according to our own terms. We
don't get to tell Allah, where is your support now? I want your
help. Now. I want your help on my own terms. No, you don't get to do
that. We live in Allah's universe. And Allah is more hate because
Alicia, that's a belief that we have, that Allah is in full
control. And Allah is Adam. And Allah is just, Allah is just an
Allah is capable, and Allah is in control. And that's part of our
belief, part of our Arcada. So we don't get to mandate that. Rather,
we turn the mirror to ourselves, and we say, what are we going to
do to help the cause? You see, now it's a shift. Now we're actually
flipping the script. We're not thinking about where Allah was
from all of what's happening rather, what am I doing exactly?
To help that cause? Because guess what, Allah subhanaw taala will
show a way out, but then it will be about ourselves. Did we do
right? During this time or not? This is a moment where you may lay
Lu Li You miss Allahu habito Minato Allah filters people during
those times.
Are you going to be with the side of the transgressors? Even though
they're actually maybe it's
means that they're in power and in control. Or you're going to choose
the hack, even though it seems that it's weak. It's a moment
where Allah filters people. So again, we turn the mirror towards
ourselves. And the last point I told him,
for the victims, for those who lost family members, I told him,
you know, like, mathematically, if you add any value to infinity, it
will equal what? Where's the math guy math guys here, infinity.
If you add temporary pain and temporary struggle, to eternal joy
and happiness and peace and and pleasure of January, Allah
subhanaw taala, it will equal infinity
with the first dip of those children, that they got murdered
during this times the first dip in Jana, they will forget about all
of the pain and all the struggle, and all the crying and all the
separation from their parents in the dunya. The first dip, they
will forget about all of this. And Allah is added, so he will
actually go, you know, following those who transgressed during this
time, they will not get away from this, if it's not from dunya. And
that's our our part to call them out, and to actually speak out,
and to actually educate ourselves about the cause and about the
history of Philistine then in the akhira as well. dunya and akhira
in sha Allah with that. So that was my short answer. To my dear
brother, young brother who came up with this question. We had a long
discussion and I wish that inshallah Allah will be able to
deliver part of it during the hotbar. I asked you and I urge you
to have those discussions with your children. To sum up
everything I said, don't look at the current moment. It's beyond
the current moment, zoom out a little bit and look at the bigger
picture. Muslims where Muslims at now, where we were and where we're
at, that's number one point. Number two point don't mandate
certain thing on Allah because we live in his universe rather, turn
the mirror to yourself. Number three, educate yourself and do
your part about the you know, struggle of our dear brothers and
sisters and full of sin. Allah subhanaw taala alleviate their
pain Rabbil Alameen May Allah subhanaw taala accept those who
got murdered in genital for those who are Abdullah Al Amin, and heal
and give speedy recovery to those who are injured the Camila Grameen
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aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.