God is on Your Side - Sheikh Usama Abdulghani

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[0:00]arabela alameen wa sallahu wa salam o allah sayidina wa Maulana Abul

[0:14]Cozumel Mustafa Muhammad Allah elevated by Obinna paranal mas so mean lasya

[0:23]Mubarak Allah Allah ravine guru hey our waffle alumina the whole Fida

[0:25]rubbish roughly sadly we are certainly Emery warlock determinedly Sonny of Tahu

[0:30]Tully so our first question is in shawl of the mic is

[0:35]okay everybody can hear my voice properly ok now tonight's modulus inshallah

[0:39]is being held in honor of imam al hassan alayhi salatu was-salam

[0:46]and after the modulus inshallah there'll be a lot Maya I encourage

[0:49]brothers and sisters to participate inshallah in that let Mia unfortunately I

[0:54]wasn't able to prepare the mossad in particular for the imam so

[0:57]instead of doing that i'd like to mention just a few words

[1:02]about this imam imam al hasan alehissalaam is very much an misunderstood

[1:07]the imam by many of the shia misunderstood and sometimes misrepresented sometimes

[1:13]what happens is unfortunately i find this is the case when believers

[1:18]are trying to do their responsibility to stand up against oppression to

[1:22]speak out let's say we're here in this country and ever we

[1:26]have a responsibility to at least speak out against oppression where it's

[1:30]a free country you can speak out some people in order to

[1:33]discourage the believers from doing their responsibility they tell you why is

[1:37]everything Imam for saying with you there are different approaches sometimes we

[1:42]take the approach of imam hasan not approach of imam hossein so

[1:47]what are they doing they're making it out as if one of

[1:53]the moms was a pacifist imam hasan and the other imam he

[1:57]was for instance belligerent he was always in your face oh and

[2:00]that couldn't be further from the truth we believers we say this

[2:07]they're all one or all of our little bit alayhim as-salam are

[2:10]one more living under different circumstances all trying to do the exact

[2:17]same thing what are they trying to do the same thing that

[2:20]imam mahdi alayhi salam will do all of them were trying to

[2:26]establish the kingdom of God on the earth all of them were

[2:28]Mujahideen all of them were brave that treaty that Imam Hassan made

[2:33]the treaty that's very we're all heard about the treaty he was

[2:39]Imam Hassan's Imam during that time Imam Hussain's Imam Imam Hussain is

[2:42]also one of the people who's the signatories of the treaty so

[2:45]it's not like they heard no they were both there during the

[2:50]time of the treaty and if Imam Hassan was there during the

[2:52]time of Imam Hussain he would have definitely written RZA now cuz

[2:56]they're all one naught so having said that part of tonight's discussion

[3:03]goes back to what you and I need to do to get

[3:04]ready for the living imam the Imam of the time I mentioned

[3:10]last night that the Imam is as strong as you and I

[3:14]and I mentioned the verse where Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala said that

[3:19]he assisted the Prophet been necessary he with divine help what Bill

[3:25]momineen with the believers whenever you and I are strong the Nima

[3:29]the mama is the same he's all they're all one nor the

[3:32]followers make the difference and if you remember in the story of

[3:38]imam al hasan before he goes over and signs the treaty at

[3:41]first he goes to wage war with marleah the muslims don't support

[3:49]him imam hasan he gives a a lecturer what about fiery Hopa

[3:52]he tells them that i'm ready to go over and fight the

[3:58]muslims say we want to stay alive the muslim not imam hasan

[4:01]and one of the people came over and was criticizing the imam

[4:07]that you humiliated us you gave over the government to this tyrant

[4:10]and the Imam said well I said if I had Unser if

[4:15]I had helpers I would have fought day and night so a

[4:21]lot of times it goes back to us and that's what we're

[4:23]trying to get right on these nights to learn those promises of

[4:28]God what it is that God expects from us so we can

[4:30]be strong and we can be game changers for our Imam please

[4:33]send us Allah what Allah Muhammad well Ali Mohammed now tonight's talk

[4:45]is about one of those beautiful promises of allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala in

[4:51]the quran the purpose of this promise like many of those other

[4:55]beautiful verses of the quran is that god wants us to develop

[5:03]an islamic mindset part of developing an islamic mindset is that you

[5:08]and i believe based on ayat of the Quran that everything is

[5:12]going to be all right no matter what our current situation is

[5:19]no matter what difficulties we're facing no matter how powerful the enemy

[5:22]how big the obstacle what problem we're dealing with it could be

[5:25]in my personal life my family life I could be dealing with

[5:28]health issues I could be fighting against a tyrant attalia whatever it

[5:34]is you and I are supposed to believe that in the end

[5:37]it's gonna be alright it's gonna work out for us very very

[5:41]important for us to believe some of our senior Lama have called

[5:47]developing this mindset the mindset of hope it's gonna be alright it's

[5:52]gonna work out they've called it our greatest jihad our greatest job

[5:57]why would it be our greatest job what do we find from

[6:02]our Lama they say if you have hope if you believe things

[6:05]are gonna work out that's the key that unlocks all the other

[6:11]locks that's what keeps you going that which keeps you putting one

[6:14]foot after the other in the end it's gonna be okay it

[6:15]counts God sees so developing this mindset it's very very important and

[6:23]we're gonna try and do that tonight by focusing on this particular

[6:28]promise of God but first a salat allah muhammad wa ala muhammad

[6:37]the promise that we want to focus on tonight is a promise

[6:44]of God where he says that he's with us Allah the Lord

[6:48]of the universe the creator of all is with the believers God

[6:53]is with us God supports us he's right next to us he

[6:59]helps us believing that God is with us is very important I

[7:04]want to share four points about I'm gonna share the verses of

[7:07]the Quran the idea being you and I later we look at

[7:10]these ayat of the Quran ourselves it's not just an inspirational speech

[7:13]you and I have learned something from the poor ah later only

[7:19]share this to other with other believers will be speaking to believers

[7:22]moat minion may not who are going through difficulty you and I

[7:25]want to say God is on your side but having looked at

[7:29]the ayat of the court are having understood God's promises so the

[7:33]first point about this and I'm gonna give you the word of

[7:38]verse of the Quran is that you see that God is going

[7:39]to be telling his nabi he's gonna tell this prophet of God

[7:48]about this promise to comfort him our prophet and this story is

[7:52]going to be going through an unbelievable task omission impossible something you

[7:58]can't succeed it and God reminds him of his presence I'm with

[8:05]you don't worry it's gonna be okay where is that story the

[8:09]story of Nabi Musa Nabi Musa has a mission now and he

[8:16]has to go face Pharaon what's the backstory here Nabi Musa if

[8:21]you remember their own had been looking for Moosa from before he

[8:25]was born looking for him to kill him before he's born Musa

[8:32]gets born Allah makes Musa grow up in the house of Pharaoh

[8:35]after that when Musa gets older he kills a man if we

[8:43]remember this part of the story accidentally kills a man he leaves

[8:46]he flees Egypt and he's wanted by the authorities he has a

[8:54]death warrant there looking for him he runs and now he has

[8:57]to go back and liberate who the children of Israel and he's

[9:00]gonna liberate them from someone who has been holding them a slave

[9:08]within that Pharaon has a god complex I act of the Quran

[9:11]an Arab Pokemon Allah I am God so a megalomaniac looking for

[9:19]this man in particular been looking from before he was born and

[9:22]then now you have to go over and go back to him

[9:25]and say what tell them let the church Bani israil Bowl so

[9:28]naturally it's it's natural they would be concerned Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala

[9:33]tells this story more than once in the Quran nabi musa now

[9:38]and Nabi Harun both they're going to go over and face this

[9:41]man this terrible tyrant so I want you to pay attention to

[9:46]the Arabic of the verse and see what God says this that

[9:48]I want to min I want to mention two verses from sir

[9:51]26 14 and 15 musa speaking so both of them we have

[9:57]our mission now be Moosonee we're gonna go over to face their

[10:00]own while at home are like yeah humble they've got something over

[10:04]me I've done something according to them I've killed this man I'm

[10:12]wanted Moose's concerned what for a harmful and yuck to loon I'm

[10:16]afraid they're going to kill me what does God say Paula Cala

[10:24]God said never father hey Bobby ayah Tina you to go with

[10:31]our signs with our ayat now the part that we have to

[10:38]pay attention to in my own most a my own truly we

[10:41]are with you we're listening why be afraid who are you afraid

[10:46]of I don't care if it's fair our own I don't care

[10:49]who it is God I'm listening I'm watching I'm seeing you take

[10:55]care of business go with our ayat don't be afraid if you

[11:01]have God on your side what is it what difference does it

[11:04]make the number of the enemy the size of the problem God

[11:07]number one number two the anbiya allows prophets they believe these promises

[11:14]and they would act on them I want to give you another

[11:20]story from the verses of the Quran the prophets believed these promises

[11:24]they would act on them the situation would seem impossible nobody can

[11:28]make it out we're going to lose the prophets will say no

[11:31]God's with us where's the story it's from our Prophet Muhammad sallallaahu

[11:35]late while he was alone Allah Allah come on we're all in

[11:41]common so brothers and sisters you are familiar with the story of

[11:45]our prophet and you remember that he had to make his era

[11:51]and he had to flee Mecca so Mecca is where the the

[11:54]home of Quraish the most powerful of the tribes perish they're looking

[12:00]for the Prophet everybody on the lookout to get the Prophet to

[12:06]kill the Prophet right his life is in danger he flees he

[12:10]goes when he leaves they send bounty hunters to hunt the Prophet

[12:15]down the Prophet escapes he goes over to a cave the bounty

[12:23]hunters come right outside the door of the cave so there's no

[12:25]expect where are you going to go where you we're gonna leave

[12:29]they're right outside there up to the mouth of the cave its

[12:33]natural his companion he panicked what did the Prophet say this is

[12:37]the words of the Prophet Sura 9 verse number 40 God the

[12:42]Prophet says this let Taha'a an don't be worried don't get scared

[12:46]don't worry don't panic in la hermana truly Allah is with us

[12:54]if allows with us why would I be concerned it's okay yes

[12:59]from the outside it a cave we can't escape bounty hunters the

[13:03]tribe looking for us but if God is with me what's the

[13:08]concern point number 3 the NBR the profits you're gonna see from

[13:14]the verses of the Quran when things got hairy when the situation

[13:21]got difficult when there are companions there us hob they were going

[13:27]to panic the anbiya would remind them of this promise of God

[13:31]the NBA will remind the the Muslims at that time of this

[13:35]prophets of God I want to give you the story from the

[13:39]life of Nabi Musa so now B Musa in this part of

[13:44]the story what happens is that he has command now to take

[13:47]Bani Israel and to run to escape he's going to escape when

[13:53]he is escaping Pharaon the same one who says I'm God he

[13:57]knows that they're leaving he gets his army and they're chasing the

[14:04]bani israel so Bani Israel the children of Israel are running escaping

[14:08]men women and children trying to escape and now the Horde of

[14:11]their own is coming after them chasing after them what's in front

[14:18]of them the sea so they're running to the sea their own

[14:20]chasing him it's natural people like where are we going when is

[14:23]the help gonna come people panic we're gonna get taken we're gonna

[14:29]get killed what did Nabi Musa say ayat of the Quran surah

[14:32]26 verse number 62 Nabi Musa says this Pawlik allah moosa said

[14:43]never in Amara be say ya D truly My Lord is with

[14:46]me say ya Dean he's gonna guide me why would I panic

[14:53]why would I be scared God is with me fourth point this

[14:59]is also very important the fourth point is that this promise is

[15:03]also there for you and I not only for the MBA not

[15:10]only in those difficult situations God the creator of the unit's universe

[15:14]has given us the believers this promise in the Quran also this

[15:19]one let's look at surah number 16 this is one of the

[15:26]places more than one place he mentions the promise I'm mentioning one

[15:30]of them sir is 16 and verse number 128 what does God

[15:33]say to us in Allah malady nautical truly Allah God is with

[15:44]those who practice taqwa God mentions two conditions over in this verse

[15:49]what one leve in a home more say known those people who

[15:54]good do good acts Duke acts of kindness so yes the promise

[15:57]of God is with us of course we have a responsibility what's

[16:00]our responsibility God said taqwa what does that mean you and I

[16:07]have to practice Islam also we have to implement Islam we can't

[16:14]be picking and choosing with Islam my favorite parts of Islam I

[16:18]do this but this is also Islam I refuse to do that

[16:20]no imam ali said al islam who it s leave Islam as

[16:28]submission it's a package deal whatever is watcher but we have to

[16:38]do no exceptions all of Islam all of his love so what

[16:41]happens you and I now now having heard this and seen these

[16:47]verses of the Quran no matter what our challenge is if it's

[16:49]that we're facing our own personal demons sometimes I'm dealing with the

[16:56]habit I want to break something that I'm doing I know they

[16:59]me well being Allah this is not right to do Allah doesn't

[17:03]like this Shaitaan threatens me he makes it seem this is too

[17:06]big you've always done this you're never gonna be free of this

[17:11]curse you're gonna be committing this sin maybe that's the challenge no

[17:15]maybe it's another challenge sometimes in the family sometimes dealing with our

[17:24]spouse our children other relatives it's a big challenge I remember one

[17:28]time I was in Iran and this taxi driver was talking to

[17:31]me he told me he said that having a bad relative we

[17:35]everybody agrees is very difficult he said our bad relative is like

[17:41]a mush did door you can't burn it you can't sell it

[17:44]it's just there I'm doing could be a problem I'm dealing with

[17:51]a relative it could be finances it could be health whatever it

[17:54]is it could be social political whatever is the momentum Amina does

[18:00]their responsibility without fear God's on my side what happens is a

[18:07]lot of times want meaning and want may not forget that gods

[18:11]on their side they make big mistakes we have a hadith from

[18:18]our prophet and he's telling you my ally he talks about three

[18:21]o'clock eat rates that people have three bad traits that won't mean

[18:25]are not supposed to have and he says all of them have

[18:32]one route let's look at the hadith he says wa la mia

[18:37]Ali no this o Ali and Nell job now cowardice one bull

[18:41]being stingy I should be spending I'm not so one cowardice the

[18:45]other one being stingy well Haris being greedy sometimes the person should

[18:52]be content he says all of these are one they have one

[18:55]trait hadiza to moi Heda they all are one trait and they

[19:00]go back to one root cause what's the root cause of all

[19:02]of these things why is it sometimes I should be brave I

[19:06]should trust in God I don't sometimes I should spend I'm stingy

[19:09]sometimes I should say enough is enough I keep working and more

[19:12]more MORE why he says it all goes back to thinking badly

[19:19]of God I don't think God's on my side I don't think

[19:22]Allah is gonna help me I have to have my own back

[19:27]I can't trust God I can't trust God so the thing is

[19:32]you and I want to make sure we keep these promises in

[19:34]the beginning or right there in front of us we ought we

[19:39]remind the same way we reminded ourselves of that other verse that

[19:42]we're up to the task that we read yesterday and also this

[19:46]one that God's with us we're gonna remind ourselves otherwise we can

[19:50]sometimes we'll get scared we embarrass ourselves later on we look back

[19:54]we say why did I make that terrible mistake I heard a

[19:59]story that definitely in Charlotte's not true it's about a town in

[20:03]Iran called Tabriz Tabriz so what happens is in Charlotte's not true

[20:07]they said once there was this elderly couple and they were living

[20:12]in their house and a thief came to the house and the

[20:13]thief came and he broke down came inside their house and he

[20:18]started stealing and the couple was inside and they looking and watching

[20:21]the man steal all of their possessions but the old man was

[20:23]scared he told his wife he said don't say anything and Shalala

[20:27]he won't see us so the man goes he's stealing all of

[20:30]their possessions and he turns around he sees them people are looking

[20:35]at him he says I can't have witnesses I'm gonna have to

[20:38]kill you guys so he comes over he's gonna say I'm gonna

[20:41]have to kill McKenna witnesses he tells the lady says what's your

[20:47]name the lady said my name is Fatima so I can't kill

[20:49]you my mom's name is Fatima then he turns to old man

[20:53]he said what's your name the old man I was thinking to

[20:54]himself he said I don't know what his dad's name is he

[21:00]said my name is lizanne feh but my friends call me Fatima

[21:06]we're not so well we don't want to humiliate ourselves we want

[21:08]to remember God is on our side God strong if we fer

[21:14]if we forget the promises of God then we make those big

[21:16]mistakes so now we want to develop that emotional relationship with God

[21:23]and believe that a loss of heart the creator of the universe

[21:25]is on our side if we want to develop that and want

[21:31]to feel that and want to act on that one of the

[21:32]things you and I need to work on is the idea of

[21:36]how much is it that God cares about us there's a lot

[21:41]care about us are we just a number - God hears so

[21:46]many servants all over the world does he know me personally is

[21:50]he concerned about me as an individual this is very important for

[21:54]us to keep in mind and what are we gonna try and

[21:57]do is to discover this by looking at the example of our

[22:01]little bait because our low rate alayhim as-salam there the / fake

[22:05]representatives of God on the earth if you want to see the

[22:11]Rama of Allah but in a corporal form you look at a

[22:15]little bit you want to see the kindness of God you look

[22:16]at our obeyed and then you say okay if I've know better

[22:21]like this how much God be he's a hammer rock I mean

[22:25]so I'll give you an example there's a man telling a story

[22:27]and his name is Abu Habib he lived in the time of

[22:32]the 8th imam abu hobby so abu habib says that once I

[22:34]had a dream and in my dream I saw us Ulala mohammed

[22:40]salah they were all of us allah i'm not well in common

[22:44]in my dream the Imam the Prophet came to the local mosque

[22:50]he came to the local mosque so like everybody else I would

[22:53]have wanted to go over I came to see the Prophet I

[22:56]came over I saw that the Prophet was eating a particular type

[23:03]of dates so I came to the Prophet and I said salams

[23:05]to the prophet and the Prophet reached inside his bowl of dates

[23:08]and he gave me some of those dates so in my dream

[23:12]I counted the dates and I saw that there were eighteen days

[23:17]and I realized I woke up after that I realized that I

[23:19]have 18 years to live eighteen days eighteen years to live he

[23:24]says the next day no sorry 20 days later 20 days later

[23:29]I was working on my farm when I was working on my

[23:34]farm I got the news that Imam Reza is in town they

[23:37]said he said that local mosque the local mosque where I'm stood

[23:42]he's at that local mosque people were visiting the Imam so he

[23:45]said I went over to the mosque to also see the Imam

[23:49]and he said when I went to go see the Imam I

[23:52]see that Imam sitting there and he has the same kind of

[23:57]dates I saw the Prophet had in his dream I say salams

[23:59]to the Imam the Imam says come forward the Imam reaches inside

[24:05]the dates and he gives me dates now I'm like over I

[24:11]count the dates I see it's 18 I'd say yep not a

[24:12]soul Allah give me more dates said if profit have given you

[24:23]more dates I would give you more dates so the Imam you

[24:25]and I how is our relationship like with the Imam the mom

[24:32]knows us personally even our dreams it's mentioned hadith how do you

[24:40]say this when you fall sick we fall sick when you make

[24:43]do all we say are mean if you don't make dua we

[24:48]pray for you so the relationship between us and the Imam is

[24:52]like that if that is how the Imam is then Allah was

[24:58]our camera honey how much does he care for us how much

[25:04]is he concerned about it's very important for us to keep this

[25:08]in mind so the instructions of a debate now are that you

[25:12]and I no matter what our situation is never met anything make

[25:19]us bitter towards God never get angry at God always think good

[25:24]of God God cares about you he's looking for you he wants

[25:30]to help you always make sure you think good of him this

[25:33]is what the Imam says I sent have the Nabila think good

[25:38]of God always thinking good of him no matter what the situation

[25:42]no matter what we're going through no matter how long we've been

[25:45]dealing with the situation God's good if you and I can adopt

[25:54]this trait it can lead one to be raised with the NBR

[25:59]with god's prophets as mentioned hadith that once in the time of

[26:05]nappa Dawood nabi Dawood what happened was he was told by God

[26:08]that there is a young lady a young lady in the community

[26:13]and she is going to be raised with you and being your

[26:16]Darja in paradise the rank of the Prophet Nabi Dawood Nabire Dawood

[26:25]was curious and he went to go see her and see what

[26:27]she was like there lessons in this for us he went to

[26:31]this young lady and he started asking her about her mom what

[26:33]is it that you do do you always make a thousand rakaats

[26:38]of Salah too fast what do you do so she told him

[26:42]our mom but when she listened to the arm of the Imam

[26:44]ordinary it wasn't anything that would blow you out of the water

[26:47]then he said something else he said tell me about your Nia

[26:53]tell me about you and God what do you think about God

[26:57]she said this she said no matter what situation I'm in when

[27:02]God brings me into a new situation I was in one situation

[27:08]I got and the other hadith they talked about the same incident

[27:13]poverty affliction Bala no matter what it is no matter what it

[27:16]is with the new situation I'm always happier with God then I

[27:24]was in the previous situation I know I serve a good god

[27:28]he's good no matter what I'm going through he cares about me

[27:32]when he heard that he realized that was the secret that's what

[27:36]her secret wasn't he said this for all navidad spoke hassel now

[27:43]then no Keeble la jolla was what really was a secret what

[27:46]was special not all of the arm all you were doing your

[27:50]watch about that was great but what was special about you but

[27:52]you always thought good of God you always believed that you served

[27:59]a good gun now a couple of things for us to keep

[28:01]in mind one of the things you and I have to keep

[28:04]in mind is that Allah Subhanahu WA table I don't know how

[28:08]many of you have children I have children alhamdulillah Allah blessed me

[28:12]with children and I have two little twins little itty bitty boys

[28:15]one year old one thing that you do as a parent want

[28:21]to use this for us to get to know God one thing

[28:22]you do as a parent is sometimes your baby may want something

[28:27]but that thing isn't good for the baby the babies think daddy

[28:31]is cruel he want that for instance let's say little kid wants

[28:34]to go and take a fork and plug it into a socket

[28:37]you as a loving parent you're gonna take the fork you say

[28:41]no you can't maybe the little kid be jumping up and down

[28:45]I want to for they understand God looks out for our best

[28:49]interest he looks out for I'm shooting the hadees' for it so

[28:55]we have that deep understanding of ahlulbayt and of God God looks

[28:58]out he has mentioned that there's different types of service I'm gonna

[29:01]give you part of the hadith he says some of my servants

[29:07]are like this in order for their Deen to be straight in

[29:09]order for them to make it so they make it on the

[29:15]day of judgment these individuals need me to give them wealth money

[29:19]to make sure they're healthy I know that's what they need that's

[29:25]what's gonna keep them on the path so he said so I

[29:27]test them in that way I test them I give them money

[29:31]I give them out I give them I give them what they

[29:35]need he says other servants are different some of my servants I

[29:38]know if they give them wealth and money and there then they

[29:43]will leave the path they'll forget about me they won't be making

[29:47]those new odds he says so I test those individuals with that

[29:51]God looks at the hadith continues he says for some people their

[29:58]test is a ibadah if Allah gives them the trophy let's say

[30:01]- makes a lot to live let's say to do some of

[30:05]those big important that would affect them negatively instead of remaining humble

[30:11]they'll get arrogant I test them in that way so in answer

[30:14]God Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala looks out for our best interests what

[30:22]do we really need not do what we think we need I

[30:23]think I need this job I think I need to get married

[30:27]to this person I think I need to buy a house right

[30:31]now God says what does they really need I give them what

[30:33]they really need so they stay close to me so they make

[30:37]it in the last day very important for us to keep in

[30:39]mind so you and I have to do something when we're in

[30:43]the middle of Bala and difficulty and challenge and things are going

[30:48]sometimes our situation is so difficult we can't even explain it to

[30:51]anybody we can't even tell anybody about so difficult you and I

[30:55]have to remember that God sees us God's watching God cares God

[31:02]never forgets us he never forgets us I want to share a

[31:11]story that's not true no story that's not true they said once

[31:14]is not true once there was a lady and she was in

[31:20]the Opera in the hospital having an operation she had a heart

[31:22]attack is not true she had a heart attack when she had

[31:26]a heart attack she started talking to God she said God is

[31:29]this it and God said no you've got 40 more years she

[31:34]got out of the hospital she hummed it she went over she

[31:36]got a tummy tuck she was got it cosmetic surgery she's looking

[31:40]good hamdulillah she came outside the hospital and then a truck came

[31:44]and the truck hit her and it killed dirt and she went

[31:47]back to God and she was like God I thought you said

[31:51]I had 40 more years and God said what's that you I

[31:54]didn't recognize you we don't believe that about God we don't believe

[32:02]God ever forgets us he always knows our situation the ayat of

[32:10]Quran says this let who those who sin at all while I

[32:13]know neither sleep overtakes God God doesn't slumber always there always watching

[32:20]always caring always looking so if that's the case that God always

[32:29]cares always looking always watching then you and I we need to

[32:33]make sure we don't put God in a box sometimes people put

[32:38]God in a box god I want this I want it like

[32:40]this I want it to be this person I want it to

[32:43]be this house and this time instead of praying to God an

[32:48]accident God but staying humble in the hadith is what God says

[32:51]in the hadith he says Jelena Adam o son of Adam I

[32:56]tear a knee FEMA I'm not a talk you obey me when

[32:59]I tell you to do something you make sure you listen to

[33:05]me and you obey me while a 2-hour limni my ghostly hawk

[33:07]don't teach me what's good for you don't in a box don't

[33:12]tell me how to do things sometimes allah subhanahu wata'ala his dream

[33:18]for you is bigger than your dream for yourself you and I

[33:22]are thinking if it was just this this would be great God

[33:25]says no when I look at big picture for your life if

[33:29]I keep you from this blessing and I give you another blessing

[33:31]it's better for you let me give you another story that's not

[33:38]true not true they said what's this cat it died and it

[33:41]went to paradise a cat went to paradise and when the cat

[33:45]went to paradise then one of the angels came over to the

[33:49]cat and he said that what can I do to make your

[33:50]life better and the cat said you know I had a hard

[33:54]life when I was in the dunya you know we'll really be

[33:57]nice the malla the angel said don't even say anything I know

[34:00]exactly what you need and he brought him a wonderful fluffy pillow

[34:03]then after about six days later some mice died and they went

[34:11]to paradise and when they went to paradise then the angel greeted

[34:13]them he said Arlo assalam welcome to paradise he said what can

[34:18]I do to make your life better and the angel said well

[34:20]we're in the dunya we would always be running always being chased

[34:23]sometimes cats chasing us sometimes dogs chasing us sometimes ladies with brooms

[34:28]chasing us always running the angel said I know exactly what you

[34:31]need don't say anything more and he gave each one of them

[34:37]a tiny pair of rollerskates a few days later than the kit

[34:39]he came back to the cat and yaks the cat he said

[34:42]how are you doing how's paradise the cat said paradise is wonderful

[34:46]but just when I thought things couldn't get any better I discovered

[34:52]the meals on wheels sometimes God's plan for us is better than

[34:58]anything you and I have planned I want to give you a

[35:02]true story there was a man who came I'm gonna mention this

[35:05]later I'm gonna mention who it is later he came to America

[35:10]as an immigrant I mean immigrated to America this young man he

[35:14]was very talented in sports and it was his dream to play

[35:20]baseball his dream was that one day I'm gonna play for the

[35:25]Detroit Tigers he was very good in high school very very good

[35:29]in baseball and then what happened he went overseas he went in

[35:33]the military he came back when he came back then now the

[35:36]Detroit Tigers offered him a job in the minor leagues and he

[35:42]was doing very well he was playing baseball a four year contract

[35:45]after the minor leagues you go pro he's thinking things are very

[35:48]good and then he suffered a major knee injury when he suffered

[35:55]that major knee injury he can't play baseball anymore huge step back

[35:59]so disappointed he moves back in with his dad his dad tells

[36:02]him he says that look you're not gonna make money playing baseball

[36:05]anymore I need you to get a regular job you can stay

[36:09]here at my house but ain't you to get a regular job

[36:13]he starts searching trying to find a job trying to find a

[36:15]job trying to find a job he can't find a job finally

[36:18]he tells one of his friends he's like look my dad wants

[36:23]me to find a job right now there is no job even

[36:27]if you don't have a job giving me a job I just

[36:29]want to be out of the house for a few hours show

[36:31]my dad that I'm working his friend owned a pizza store so

[36:36]he would go in for free he would make pizzas in this

[36:42]friends restaurant for free he got so good at making pizzas he

[36:46]ended up opening his own restaurant later on he ended up opening

[36:54]another restaurant a third restaurant today he owns Little Caesars he also

[37:01]owns the Detroit Tigers his dream was to play for them God's

[37:05]dream was bigger so you and I want to keep that in

[37:10]mind that allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala he knows what's really good for us

[37:14]the same verse that we had from Quran yesterday where God told

[37:18]us in the Quran facade and Takara who Shia voyage ala llahi

[37:22]he Hayden kathira sometimes you and I we dislike something we think

[37:26]something is so bad it's unfortunate surah 4 verse number 19 but

[37:34]actually God says I put a lot of hair in that so

[37:37]the thing that you and I need to keep mine whom we're

[37:39]going through difficulties were going through Bella is that we have to

[37:45]learn to trust God's timing God's timing is perfect he knows what

[37:50]we're going through he knows when to provide the relief he knows

[37:56]where our best interests lie and he's concerned about us because that's

[38:03]the case he gives it to us when the time is right

[38:07]so think about a believer who's like this gods with me on

[38:11]my side he cares about me but his timing is perfect I

[38:15]want to give you a true story you and I know that

[38:18]the ayah the Quran teaches us that those who are killed in

[38:23]the way of Allah are alive ayat of the Quran this is

[38:26]surah 3 verse number 169 what does God say well at subhanAllah

[38:33]vina Kuti luffy's sabili llahi' i'm wata don't consider those people who

[38:38]were killed in the way of allah as i'm what they're dead

[38:41]they're not connected with us what does God say bal aha on

[38:47]Endura be him you're as a fool rather they're alive promise of

[38:51]God in the Quran true story there was a young man the

[38:56]Sheikh who was telling this story is one of the senior ulama

[38:58]in Iran and he was telling the story on national TV and

[39:02]he said I've checked this story out to make sure it's accurate

[39:04]he says what happened was there was a young man and this

[39:12]young man was good guy working trying he only had a two-year

[39:15]degree by the way this guy two-year degree and this guy was

[39:21]trying to get married and he kept trying and he kept being

[39:24]rejected and kept trying and kept being rejected kept trying kept being

[39:27]rejected till finally got to the situation that he lost hope but

[39:32]then he met a girl and he was like this is the

[39:33]girl that I want to marry and sha Allah this is the

[39:36]girl so we went over to the girl and he spoke to

[39:40]her about marriage and the girl told him no I'm not interested

[39:42]and he was so hurt he was broken his poor guy the

[39:47]guy is the son of Shaheed by the way he was broken

[39:52]later on he calls the girl he's like why did you say

[39:57]no the girl said you know what your father he went to

[40:00]the Battlefront he shaved I went a father-in-law who's alive you don't

[40:07]have fear father with you and that really hurt him that broke

[40:12]this young man that evening when he went to his room he

[40:17]goes over to his room and now he picks up the picture

[40:18]of his father and he starts talking to his father and he's

[40:24]soul angry and he told his father he said you went you

[40:26]left and you left my mother with five orphans we grew up

[40:31]on our own why did you even go to the battlefield why

[40:34]did you do this fussing crying complaining he says at that time

[40:41]I went to sleep and normally he would never go to sleep

[40:43]at that time he went to sleep early and he sees his

[40:48]father the Shaheed and the dream so swather sees him in the

[40:50]gym he says why are you complaining about me why are you

[40:54]doing this I did what was Wan Jia this was the fatwa

[40:58]of the Imam Imam Khomeini gave this weapon I had to go

[41:01]was watch it he said don't say these words these words hurt

[41:05]me the young man says in the middle of the dream I

[41:11]see Imam Khomeini scum and so many of the Shahada and he

[41:14]said him awful man he came right over next to me and

[41:16]he said that why is it you're criticizing your father why criticize

[41:20]him criticize me it was my thought what he was doing his

[41:24]responsibility he says in the middle of the dream you know how

[41:30]many he went over so many choix were there and he won't

[41:33]home and he said you one of the Shahada he said you

[41:36]marry your daughter to this young man and the shade said of

[41:42]course in the dream the young man goes over and acts as

[41:43]a Shaheed he's like what's your address he gives an address he

[41:48]wakes up from his sleep he goes and tells his mother he's

[41:51]like mother I had this such and such a dream we need

[41:54]to go to this place the address he's gotten from the dream

[41:59]so second sharla may be Charla hey let's go they go the

[42:02]next day based on that address that he got in the dream

[42:06]when they show up at the house he says what's so strange

[42:10]is the family welcomes them in the mothers like bismillah come on

[42:13]in as if they'd known him for years he said I'm sorry

[42:18]but do you know me she said my husband the Shaheed he

[42:24]came to me in my dream last night and he said this

[42:26]particular daughter give her a marriage to this sky and later they

[42:34]got married so allah subhanho wa taala his timing is perfect he

[42:37]knows what we're going through the thing is to trust him and

[42:40]go through it as he said assalamu alayka ya bob de la

[42:45]voix allah allah o allah tejal epiphanic ali khamenei salam Eliab Adam

[42:52]ma petite Robert really no one knew ha assalamo alpha saying wa

[42:56]ala ali abdel 4 saying allah allah dhu-l for saying well as

[42:59]Harville for saying sallou ala muhammad wa al him from

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