9- Everything is under God’s Control - Commentary on Dua Makarim al-Akhlaq - Sayed Saleh Qazwini

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[0:35]i would like to begin by giving you all my condolences on

[0:42]the martyrdom anniversary of imam muhammad who his martyrdom anniversary coincides with

[0:54]the seventh of the day like tomorrow and tonight is the eve

[1:02]of the martyrdom of this great imam who was responsible for spreading

[1:07]the knowledge of rasoolallah also the 8th of the day after tomorrow

[1:25]is the day of the shahadah the martyrdom of muslim the cousin

[1:33]and the confidant of imam and hussain who imam hussain sent him

[1:39]to kufa and after the people of kofa gave him allegiance killed

[1:48]a arrested muslim and killed him while hussein was on his way

[1:53]headed to while he was on his way headed to iraq he

[1:58]received news that muslim had been killed now we will we will

[2:04]continue inshaallah with what we began and this is the ninth session

[2:09]that we've had on the commentary on the beautiful dua that has

[2:18]came to us through imam zain and abedin alaihissalam the imam whose

[2:24]name and title is the adornment of the worshipers and it is

[2:31]no surprise that we have this beautiful dua the dua of the

[2:34]honorable traits where the imam alayhi salaam teaches us the best manners

[2:42]through his supplication through speaking to allah subhanahu wa so we come

[2:47]to nuan he reminds us in this portion of the of the

[2:53]dua that we will cover tonight the imam speaks about the power

[2:59]of allah one of the qualities of god is that allah subhanahu

[3:06]ta'ala is the omnipotent allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the all-powerful allah

[3:20]the omnipotent meaning this is one of the qualities of god is

[3:25]that allah is the all-powerful no one is more powerful than allah

[3:30]and he has unlimited power because the moment allah subhanahu ta'ala if

[3:37]you limit the power of god then he's not god anymore so

[3:40]allah is the one the absolute who has unlimited power and that

[3:49]is al-qaeda so when we know when we are speaking to allah

[3:52]and we know and we acknowledge that we are worshiping and we

[3:58]are obeying a lord who is that brings comfort to the believers

[4:05]when you know that everything is in the hands of god that

[4:10]brings you comfort because you know that the solution is in the

[4:16]hands of allah and allah is also the most knowledgeable if allah

[4:20]decided to deal with me in such a way this is because

[4:23]god knows what's best so i surrender to the will of allah

[4:28]subhanahu tahadah and allah has destined for me because no one can

[4:31]go against what god has destined for them this is why allah

[4:38]is meaning allah subhanahu ta'ala whatever allah wants will go and if

[4:43]we want it if it is its agreements with what allah wanted

[4:47]it will go but if it's not it will never happen no

[4:50]matter what we do it will never happen so knowing that god

[4:58]is the most powerful it's comforting in one sense and it also

[5:02]keeps us in check when you know that there is a power

[5:06]that is stronger than you a power that will hold you accountable

[5:09]you're going to be very careful the moment people start minimizing and

[5:16]not caring about the power of allah and not thinking about the

[5:21]repercussions of their actions that's when people start misbehaving that's when people

[5:24]start oppressing this is why you see in some countries as soon

[5:29]as the police the force are not are not you know available

[5:34]the looting and the stealing and the crime rates go up so

[5:39]power is not a bad thing power is a good thing but

[5:43]the power has to be just and this is something that we

[5:44]find with allah allah is the all-powerful and he is just so

[5:50]now in this portion of the dua the imam reminds us he

[5:57]reminds us of the power of allah he says he says oh

[6:20]allah bless muhammad and his family and we see that in every

[6:24]new segment of the imam and then he says let me not

[6:38]be oppressed while you can repel it from me meaning allah you're

[6:42]the one who has the power so you have the power to

[6:49]protect me if i'm being oppressed allah subhanahu ta'ala has the total

[6:55]authority and no person in this life can get things their way

[6:58]without allah so he says oh allah i turn to you when

[7:03]i'm oppressed in times of difficulty i turn to you o allah

[7:11]let me not be oppressed and let me let me not oppress

[7:20]others while you have the power to restrain me means oh allah

[7:25]you are the powerful so protect me from oppressors and also protect

[7:31]me from being an oppressor a lot of people don't do that

[7:36]sometimes people they're always asking allah protect me from this oppressor and

[7:40]this oppressor and this person but do people times do a dua

[7:46]asking allah oh allah don't let me be an oppressor many people

[7:49]don't do that god and this is why this is called the

[7:53]honorable traits because the imam pays attention and brings to our attention

[7:59]certain qualities that we have to ask allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for

[8:03]don't allow oh allah don't allow me to sin stop me before

[8:10]i go further away and falling into the oppression he says he

[8:17]says oh allah don't let me be an oppressor while you can

[8:23]stop me a lot of times we do do all we want

[8:24]certain things in life i want people say i want to be

[8:30]a multi-millionaire i want to be a president i want to be

[8:32]a king i want to have power i want to have authority

[8:34]you know that sometimes when allah does not give you that power

[8:38]that thing that you're asking for the thing that makes you very

[8:43]powerful very strong that is perhaps allah's way of protecting you so

[8:48]that you don't become an oppressor so that you don't fall in

[8:52]the traps of shaytan and oppress one of the scholars he used

[9:00]to say we don't have the power of haroon the man who

[9:02]who killed he was the khalifa and he killed the imam musa

[9:06]he was a tyrant he says we don't have the power of

[9:11]haroun this is why we curse haroon if we have the power

[9:14]of harum we might become like so we have to be very

[9:17]careful so here the imam is saying oh allah protect us so

[9:23]that we don't be become oppressors and then the imam moves on

[9:34]he says let me not be misguided while you are able to

[9:41]guide me oh allah the guidance comes from you i cannot guide

[9:46]myself i can't help myself i am in need of allah is

[9:51]in the hands of allah this is why we have to ask

[9:56]allah every day every day in our prayer what do we say

[10:01]guide us o to guide me to the right path the path

[10:14]of those who you have guided and you have blessed not those

[10:16]who are astray every day this is a reminder we have to

[10:22]remind ourselves this when we're praying and when we do this this

[10:27]is a reminder that the guidance the real guidance comes from allah

[10:32]doesn't come from yourself it doesn't come from anything else true guidance

[10:36]comes from allah if you're guided if you're doing something good this

[10:41]is because god is blessing your life and you have to thank

[10:46]allah for that blessing allah that is the person who is guided

[10:59]al-mahdi the one who is the guided one woman and the one

[11:09]who allah does not guide the one who allah lets go astray

[11:13]then no one will be able to guide this person can someone

[11:16]else guide you if allah does not guide you this is why

[11:21]we have to ask allah for the constant guidance my dear brothers

[11:26]and sisters someone might say i'm already guided i follow the bait

[11:29]i follow the quran i follow the prophet i pray i've been

[11:33]to hajj i do this why do we need to constantly ask

[11:36]for guidance because guidance is a continuous thing it's like electricity the

[11:41]moment electricity or the internet cuts off that's it you're disconnected so

[11:47]you need to make sure that you have the constant guidance you

[11:51]need to make sure that the guidance is continuous until the moment

[11:55]we die there are a lot of people they were guided at

[11:58]one point in their life and then later on maybe at the

[12:02]end of their life they were misguided maybe they made a wrong

[12:06]decision and iblees took them away shaytan took them all there are

[12:10]many examples of this some of those who are with the prophet

[12:13]some of those who were in the battles with the prophets but

[12:16]later on some of you are going to turn back over your

[12:25]heels so we have to constantly ask for the constant guidance and

[12:30]then he says he says oh allah you are the powerful you

[12:39]are the one who will protect me from the oppressors protect me

[12:42]from being an oppressor you're the one who will guide me oh

[12:46]allah keep me from becoming poor and in need of others we

[12:51]are always in need of allah there's no question about that we

[12:55]are al-fakhar we are constantly in need of allah no matter how

[12:59]rich you are in this life you're you're poor and you're in

[13:03]need of god but he says don't make me be in need

[13:07]of other people especially those people who want to take advantage of

[13:10]me people who want to abuse me people who don't have my

[13:13]interest in mind let me not be poor while with you is

[13:21]abundance my dear brothers and sisters the real sustenance comes from the

[13:31]rest comes from allah a lot of times we're running after our

[13:36]dunya we're running after sustenance and we start chasing this person and

[13:39]that person here and there and we forget that it's allah some

[13:44]people they delay their prayer some people they don't pray some people

[13:48]they don't do their obligations you tell them hajj they say no

[13:52]no next year next year next year who knows you have a

[13:56]next year my dear brothers and sisters last year some people i

[14:00]told them go to hajj they said next year say yet i

[14:04]promise you next year we'll go this year there's no hatch we

[14:09]have no guarantees my dear brothers and sisters but some people they

[14:12]put off allah they compromise god and their duties to god even

[14:18]though it is allah who gives you the risk and the happiness

[14:20]and the sustenance and everything that you have in this life for

[14:23]the sake of this dunya here in allah to make the person

[14:36]reciting the dua acknowledge that the real sustenance comes from god and

[14:42]no one else and then the imam moves on he says and

[14:52]let me not be rebellious while my existence is all from you

[14:56]how can i oh allah you protect me you protect me from

[15:02]going astray from being rebellious because everything that i want in my

[15:07]life is from you how can we transgress when all that we

[15:10]have is from allah subhanahu ta'ala one of our great scholars he

[15:19]narrates this hadith from amir and minion who was narrated from one

[15:22]of the companions of amir and women by the name of al-asbad

[15:27]he says a man came to amir and he tells him i

[15:32]want to sin i have no control of my desires i want

[15:36]i always want to i crave the sin some people are like

[15:38]that they have no control he says i crave it and i

[15:44]want to sin so the imam alaihissalam tells him if you don't

[15:47]obey your lord then don't eat from the sustenance that your lord

[15:52]gives you don't eat from it so here the imam says and

[15:57]let me not go astray when everything that i have is from

[16:01]you and then the imam tells him and if you obey the

[16:06]enemy of god then leave the kingdom leave the dominion the monk

[16:09]of god and go to another kingdom can we do that today

[16:14]someone doesn't like the tax laws of the united states they will

[16:17]go to another country they will go to a different country they

[16:20]don't like the president of this country they'll go and live somewhere

[16:23]else the laws of this country don't apply when you go somewhere

[16:27]else but can i say i don't like the laws of god

[16:29]and i'll go to a different kingdom i'll go somewhere else that's

[16:33]not possible because allah and then he says and if you are

[16:41]not satisfied with the you're not satisfied with the destiny that allah

[16:46]has given you then just simply ask for a different god is

[16:50]that possible of course the imam is making the man realize that

[16:55]no all my sustenance is from god i'm under the dominion the

[17:00]mulk of god and there's no escape from the government of allah

[17:10]asking for forgiveness and pardon because after you come to the realization

[17:15]that everything is in the hands of god the power and the

[17:19]sustenance and the wealth and the hidayah and everything is in the

[17:25]hands of god so he says your forgiveness we have to seek

[17:43]the forgiveness of allah before anyone else before anything else and i

[17:47]aim for your pardon your afu and i yearn for your forbearance

[17:57]and i have confidence in your kindness and then he says i

[18:16]come to you asking for forgiveness for pardon for forbearance for kindness

[18:23]but i haven't done anything to deserve that what have we done

[18:27]when we ask allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in another dua you see

[18:32]that imam says oh allah don't treat me with your justice but

[18:37]rather treat me with your mercy and kindness because if allah were

[18:41]to treat us with his justice we would all die what have

[18:47]i done what good have i done in my life that would

[18:49]deserve paradise everlasting paradise we worship allah for a few years compared

[18:57]to allah has given us we haven't done much so he says

[19:02]oh allah i haven't done anything for though i have nothing with

[19:14]me which entitles me to your forgiveness and nor is there anything

[19:18]in my actions which would make me deserve your pardon what have

[19:20]we done my dear brothers and sisters compared to what allah has

[19:25]given us we haven't done anything if you sit and you try

[19:32]to count all of the blessings of god you would never be

[19:33]able to count them all so here we're acknowledging that we are

[19:40]powerless oh allah i'm powerless i'm under the mercy of god i

[19:45]haven't done anything to deserve the kindness i'm under your mercy if

[19:49]you want to be merciful with me then be merciful with me

[20:03]he says and i have nothing after i judge myself when i

[20:07]want to come and look at all of my good deeds that

[20:12]i've done i see that my bad deeds my misdoings my lack

[20:14]of bad maybe i haven't done something bad but i haven't done

[20:20]enough good he says after i judge myself i see that i

[20:25]have nothing except your grace the only thing that i look forward

[20:33]to is for your grace and bless muhammad and his family and

[20:38]be gracious to me now here the imam says because when you

[20:45]do salawat and you see throughout this dua there's constant salawat upon

[20:51]muhammad because when you do salawat that is a dua that allah

[20:58]will surely accept why because allah says upon the prophet or you

[21:11]people who believe send your salutations this is a that is definitely

[21:15]accepted so he says he says send your salutations upon muhammad accepted

[21:27]and along with that make me a part of muhammad and be

[21:32]gracious with me here this is the etiquette of dua that we

[21:36]learned from the imams do salawat say allah muhammad muhammad so that

[21:50]this dua is accepted the first part of the door is accepted

[21:53]allah is surely more generous to if he accepts the first he

[22:00]will accept the last part of the dua and then he says

[22:26]give me the success give me the ability give me success for

[22:31]that which is most pure and employ me in what is most

[22:40]pleasing to you meaning oh allah i have no power you use

[22:42]me to something that is good ask allah o allah bring me

[22:47]closer to you make me be one of those who speak with

[22:51]guidance who have piety who are pure who do things that satisfy

[22:58]allah subhanahu wa ta'ala you make me the way you want me

[23:03]to be you mold me the way you want me to be

[23:06]and guide me to that path and then he says let me

[23:22]walk on the most exemplary path and let me live and die

[23:30]on your creed meaning allah make my life be a life that

[23:34]makes you satisfied with me and make my death be a death

[23:39]that also makes you satisfied with me and my death be on

[23:44]the death of hidayah on your on your creed allah my dear

[23:51]brothers and sisters we need to constantly ask allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

[23:55]for the blessing and for the guidance and we conclude by asking

[24:01]allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to bless you all once again my condolences

[24:05]to you all on the martyrdom anniversary of imam muhammad

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