How Do I Know if God Has Answered Me? - Sayed Saleh Qazwini

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[0:00]foreign Allah alhamdulillah alhamdulillah foreign foreign foreign respected yesterday last night was

[2:40]the eve of the eve of the 23rd of the holy month

[2:45]of Ramadan and Muslims all over the world were supplicating were praying

[2:53]we're asking Allah for forgiveness and the eve of the 23rd has

[3:01]a special significance as I mentioned last night in my lecture it

[3:05]is called Leila till johani because a man from the companions of

[3:13]rasulullah he told the prophet I could only come once what day

[3:17]what night should I come and worship so rasulullah tells him to

[3:23]come on the eve of the 23rd and this is why when

[3:24]the Muslims they used to see him coming from out of the

[3:28]city coming to the Masjid and worshiping they would know that this

[3:35]was so we ask Allah to accept the duas of the in

[3:38]to forgive us for our sins for our faults and so that

[3:45]we can truly change our change our destiny to a better one

[3:50]now there are several points I wanted to mention one is that

[3:57]there are some narrations that says meaning that a day like today

[4:05]the day of Qatar meaning the day of the 23rd is similar

[4:08]to the eve of the 23rd and this there these narrations they're

[4:16]meant to get us to be in the habits of not just

[4:19]saying I'm going to worship one night and then that's it I'm

[4:23]going to go back and my life is going to be back

[4:25]to normal in fact should change me it shouldn't just be one

[4:31]night where I do Dua and then everything goes back to normal

[4:36]I should become a trans there should be a transformation within me

[4:41]as an individual and not only but the last 10 nights of

[4:47]the holy month of Ramadan now we're in the last 10 nights

[4:54]will be next week so the the last 10 nights of the

[5:00]holy month of Ramadan this is we're at the end of the

[5:02]marathon this is not the time to quit this is not the

[5:07]time to stop in fact this is the time to put more

[5:11]effort this is the time to read more Quran this is the

[5:13]time to try to do most Ras according to the narrations in

[5:18]the last 10 nights of the holy month of Ramadan he had

[5:21]his mattress on the floor something he would sleep on his farage

[5:24]he would wrap it he would roll it and he would put

[5:28]it aside and he would spend the night in ibadah exhausting himself

[5:32]so the Muslims they would tell him why are you doing this

[5:38]this is too much for you he would tell them should I

[5:43]not be a thankful servant should I not show appreciation right now

[5:47]during the month of Ramadan Allah forgives the sins should I not

[5:54]thank him for that should I not show the appreciation to Allah

[5:59]now there's a very important question that many people ask especially on

[6:06]a day like this after a night of ibadah and that is

[6:09]how do I know if God has answered me how do I

[6:16]know if Allah has forgiven me is there a way to know

[6:23]that Allah has accepted my prayers and answered me yes there is

[6:27]a way first of all we should always have faith the Allah

[6:33]listens to us we should always have faith that Allah answers us

[6:40]and Allah forgives us act one of the greatest sins is to

[6:47]doubt whether God will forgive me or not that is a sin

[6:50]in itself because that is losing hope and the mercy of Allah

[6:55]and Allah says in the Quran Allah says in the Quran do

[7:04]not give up hope in the mercy of Allah Allah forgives all

[7:12]of the sins so there's no sin that Allah will not forgive

[7:16]yes there's one in the Quran and that is when someone Associates

[7:23]a partner with Allah and the reason why the person who is

[7:27]a mushrik their tawba will not be accepted is because they're not

[7:30]asking Allah they're asking something else they're asking someone else but if

[7:35]you are sincere and you're genuine and you're truly turning to Allah

[7:39]then Allah will forgive you so I have to believe that God

[7:45]will forgive me this is one I have to believe that God

[7:49]will answer me and God is capable of answering me second my

[7:53]dear brothers and sisters once in order to know whether my Dua

[7:59]whether my supplication whether my prayers have been answered or not it

[8:04]all depends on me and that is that my lifestyle has to

[8:09]change if I do not go back to the bad habits if

[8:14]I do not go back to the sins then that means Allah

[8:18]has forgiven me but if I go back right away as soon

[8:21]as I do the Amal and then the next day I go

[8:25]back to the sins I go back to the same lifestyle same

[8:27]bad habits then that means I was not sincere and Allah has

[8:32]not forgiven me because Allah says oh you people who believe repent

[8:46]to Allah return to Allah but let it be sincere do not

[8:50]be someone who's deceitful do not be someone who's disingenuous would you

[8:55]like someone to come and apologize to you and then the next

[8:59]hour they go and they do exactly that which upset you does

[9:03]that make sense this is sometimes we're like that we come we

[9:08]ask Allah we do Dua we ask for forgiveness one day later

[9:12]we go back to the sin now what if someone says what

[9:17]if later on after months or years then that means Allah has

[9:20]forgiven you for that period of time now you need to seek

[9:23]Toba again now you need to seek forgiveness again but you have

[9:27]to let go of the bad habits the habits that do not

[9:31]allow the sins to be forgiven and this is one of the

[9:37]ways to know whether Allah has forgiven me if I see that

[9:40]there was change then that means Allah has forgiven me another point

[9:44]my dear brothers and sisters is that if I want to know

[9:50]if God has truly listened to me answered me and forgiven me

[9:52]I have to begin a cleansing process a detox process right now

[9:58]if someone has for example a heart problem clogged arteries in the

[10:03]hearts they go to the doctor the doctor will give you the

[10:08]medicine but the doctor tells you you have a long process to

[10:11]clean the heart to clean these arteries to fix the problems and

[10:19]here this means that we have to fix say oh Allah forgive

[10:21]me for that and it's not going to be fixed I need

[10:27]to go and fix my problems I need to go and mend

[10:32]these issues that I had if I have not prayed if I

[10:34]had not prayed that means I need to make up the prayers

[10:38]if I have not fasted I need to make up the fast

[10:42]if I have not given my zakats and My Humps I need

[10:47]to give it then Allah will forgive me there is a companion

[11:43]of Imam Assad the companion of Imam Sonic His name is he

[11:56]says there was a man who used to work with the government

[12:00]at that time with the omawi government at the time and this

[12:04]person used to commit all of the sins he was a person

[12:09]who was far away from Allah and he used to commit many

[12:14]of the sins he says I went to him and I tell

[12:18]him what do you want to change yourself when do you want

[12:21]to change these habits it's time for you to make a change

[12:24]in your life he said the man he tells him I have

[12:30]a lifestyle it's really difficult for me to change however if you

[12:34]ask your master meaning he tells them if you ask Imam is

[12:39]there a way is there a pathway to forgive me maybe he

[12:44]will answer me maybe there's a way that the Imam he will

[12:47]bring a solution so he says so he says the man the

[13:07]man who was living a sinful lifestyle he tells Abu basil he

[13:11]tells him introduce me to your Imam maybe he will teach me

[13:17]a way where I will be forgiven and cleansed of my sins

[13:21]Salaam and probably was in Medina he says I went to Medina

[13:32]and I saw the Imam and then he is the father he

[13:40]tells him tell him tell him that Jack Philippine Muhammad says Imam

[13:49]says that he made a promise he tells him let go of

[14:00]the bad habits stop the wrong and I will guarantee Paradise free

[14:06]foreign lifestyle and I will guarantee you Paradise he said the man

[14:35]started to cry and the man he said is this true really

[14:38]the Imam will guarantee me Paradise he's the grandson of the prophet

[14:46]and everything that he says is the truth so then he he

[14:49]says then I will do that I will do that he says

[14:56]the man changed the man he didn't just do his father the

[15:02]man left his job the job that was working with the government

[15:05]that was Haram money he loved it and then he said I

[15:12]went a while later and I see that this man he has

[15:17]given back all of the wealth that he has unjustly taken it

[15:21]from people you're working for a oppressive government he's probably taken money

[15:25]from this person and that person here and there he says I

[15:30]went and I saw that his house was empty and he was

[15:33]standing at the door he didn't even have clothes on because he

[15:37]had given up everything he had given up everything because he knew

[15:40]that everything that he owned was Haram everything that he owned was

[15:45]from harammani he says I went right away with some of the

[15:48]friends and we bought him some clothes we got him some food

[15:53]because this man has nothing now he did a 12 hour he

[15:55]became empty because everything that he had was built on the Haram

[15:59]he said a while later I heard news that this man is

[16:06]dying this man he was doing the Toba and he came to

[16:08]that so he said I went and I visited him he says

[16:17]he said I was sitting next there and he was going through

[16:21]the moments of death then he fainted and then he woke up

[16:31]and then when he woke up he looked at me and he

[16:33]tells me he woke up and he tells him your man and

[16:43]kept his promise with me the man he saw at the moment

[16:48]of death he saw Paradise at the moment of death he saw

[16:51]that Allah has forgiven him so he came that close and he

[16:56]said he kept his promise he says I was going to Medina

[17:05]and I went the first thing I knew I go and I

[17:06]visited Imam he says as soon as I opened the door of

[17:11]the house I have one foot in the house and I'm not

[17:14]in the house yet and I'm sad that he saw me as

[17:18]soon as he saw me he says he says I kept my

[17:25]promise with your with your friend and this shows that if a

[17:33]person is truly sincere in their Toba this person is truly sincere

[17:37]then Allah will answer the dawn Allah has promised to answer the

[17:43]laws another very important Point how do I know that God has

[17:49]answered me how do I know that God has forgiven me and

[17:52]that is that instead of just focusing on the past and cleansing

[17:57]the past we have to also focus on a brighter future make

[18:01]your tomorrow make your today be a good day if I had

[18:06]problems with my prayer in the past that doesn't mean that I

[18:08]should have a problem with my prayer tomorrow if I had problem

[18:12]with my fasting in the past that doesn't mean I should have

[18:14]a problem tomorrow if I had a problem with my parents with

[18:17]people fix this since what is remaining of your life and if

[18:22]we change our lifestyle we change these habits then Allah will cleanse

[18:31]us Allah says in the Quran foreign so here Allah says uphold

[18:45]the three daily prayers the three daily wives of prayers that you

[18:49]have and then right away Allah says the Good Deeds if you

[18:58]live a lifestyle of good habits a good lifestyle where you are

[19:02]not committing sins or you're not doing Haram then Allah will forgive

[19:08]you now my dear brothers and sisters another very important question the

[19:13]first question that we asked is how do I know God has

[19:15]answered me another one is what if God doesn't answer my prayers

[19:21]so people they say I've been doing Dua for something it's been

[19:23]many years now and I haven't gotten what I wanted why isn't

[19:28]God answering my why isn't God answering my prayers well of course

[19:35]this is this requires more time because the Dua there's a methodology

[19:41]of asking Allah turning to Allah and we need to keep in

[19:45]mind that that's why God is God and I am me is

[19:50]going to always answer me for everything that I wanted then that

[19:59]means where's the and where's the Lord Allah one has the most

[20:02]knowledge Allah is the most knowledgeable so sometimes I ask for something

[20:09]but I don't know my best interest in mind as for something

[20:13]that ends up hurting me I as for something that ends up

[20:19]harming me or harming other people and Allah does not answer all

[20:21]of our duas because our knowledge is very limited Allah is the

[20:27]one who has the unlimited knowledge in Allah knows what's better for

[20:34]us Allah says in the Quran sometimes for evil thinking that they

[20:47]are going to offer something good we don't know maybe I'm asking

[20:50]for money but that money ends up harming me maybe I want

[20:56]to go on a vacation I want to go in a particular

[20:59]place and that ends up hurting me maybe I want to marry

[21:04]a particular person I'm that person is going to be bad for

[21:08]me so Allah does not answer my dog and then we get

[21:10]obsessed why isn't God answering us has not been answered right now

[21:33]this is better for me because because God knows what is best

[21:37]so this is sometimes because Allah knows what's best that's why the

[21:42]God is Not answerable Another Time it doesn't have to do with

[21:44]God Allah says I will answer you well I have a lifestyle

[21:50]of bad habits that come in between my Dua being answered if

[21:54]I'm not changing my life my God how's that going to be

[21:58]answered I'm asking for hidayah I'm asking for guidance but I'm not

[22:01]taking it when it's coming to me I'm rejecting it I'm living

[22:06]a sinful lifestyle this is why Allah the sins they come in

[22:25]between the Dua being answered the sins they blocked coming down the

[22:30]sins block our Dua from reaching Allah so we have to we

[22:37]have to cleanse ourselves from the sins then our duas will be

[22:43]answered and another very important point when it comes to Dua is

[22:46]that we have to be patient Allah doesn't function the way we

[22:52]want some of us we want something right now and it has

[22:55]to happen right now Allah says no I will give you the

[22:58]best for you at the right time for you that is the

[23:01]time that I will give you you have to be patient Allah

[23:05]tells Musa when they cross they cross the the ocean Allah says

[23:14]oh Allah save us Allah tells them you and your brother Arun

[23:23]your husband answer Ed for 4 .

[23:28]for 40 years there was none eventually Allah answers Allah wanted to

[23:34]test them so we have to also keep that in mind Allah

[23:36]is a wisdom and the way things are we ask Allah to

[23:43]accept all of our duas to cleanse us to make us from

[23:48]those who benefited and took advantage of these holy nights of the

[23:54]month of Ramadan people [Music] is foreign foreign Muhammad Ali while Sharif

[25:50]Muhammad brothers and sisters our religion our Islam is not just spirituality

[26:01]and prayers and Dua and a personal relationship with God religion is

[26:08]a lifestyle Allah wants you as a religious person someone who praise

[26:15]someone who fasts someone who goes to had to be a good

[26:21]person to be a person who is a good family person a

[26:23]good husband a good wife a good brother a good son a

[26:30]good Community member and someone who defends the oppressed as well in

[26:35]Islam standing against Injustice is a religious Duty standing against oppression and

[26:45]joining the good and forbidding the evil speaking to the London and

[26:49]not answering to the call of the volume of an oppressor this

[26:56]is a religious Duty the one who is quiet in a time

[27:07]where they have to speak quiet in a time where they have

[27:11]to speak against Injustice this person is like a shaitaan shaytan so

[27:16]we need to make sure that our Salah and our ahmal and

[27:23]our Deeds have an impact on our lives if my prayers do

[27:28]not have an impact on my life if my prayers don't make

[27:30]me a person who defends the oppressed then why has my prayer

[27:34]done for me my prayer is supposed to change me as a

[27:37]person if I've been praying but I'm still quiet I don't say

[27:46]anything I see something wrong I see something and I remain quiet

[27:49]then this is wrong we have to speak out against the injustice

[27:55]and this is the meaning of a prayer that a person truly

[28:02]benefits from and we have a duty we have a duty to

[28:05]speak out we have a duty to defend the oppressed today in

[28:10]some societies they want people to live a secular lifestyle what does

[28:14]that mean that means you go to the church you go to

[28:18]the mosque you go to the synagogue you pray and then live

[28:21]your life however you want but in Islam it's like that it's

[28:27]not like that in Islam my prayer and the way that I

[28:28]live my life they're all connected with one another they're all attached

[28:31]to one another and that means that if I'm praying now I

[28:37]have to remember those who are in need those who are suffering

[28:40]and I have to defend the oppressed now if any of you

[28:53]saw a moon color as any one of you saw something wrong

[28:59]then you have to try to change it foreign and if you

[29:11]can't with your hands or with your tongue then you do it

[29:16]with your heart at least in your heart you should know where

[29:18]the heart is and where the battle is and then he says

[29:24]so my dear brothers and sisters we have a duty to if

[29:31]we see oppression we have to speak out and our imams he

[29:36]was a man who he stood with the oppressed always we remember

[29:43]the million in his past nights you know as a person who

[29:48]stood always would be oppressed against the oppressors he says if all

[29:54]of the Arabs as all of the Arabs they gathered to fight

[30:00]me I would not run away why because I have to defend

[30:05]the oppressed I have to defend those who are suffering those who

[30:09]My Religion teaches me to stand for this is why is known

[30:15]as the father of the orphans the father of the oppressed this

[30:21]is and if we are sincere and true followers of this great

[30:26]man and followers of Islam then we have to also do the

[30:32]same it says it says I heard from rasulullah he says if

[30:45]any one of you sees an oppressive Tyrant that is breaking the

[30:51]boundaries of God breaking his Covenant with God Allah and this person

[31:02]does not say anything then you will be with that Tyrant Allah

[31:05]will bless you with that title now my dear brothers and sisters

[31:09]there's a lot of Oppression going on right now and this this

[31:15]last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan has been declared by

[31:23]Imam Khomeini as the day of goods the International Day of goods

[31:27]and every day here right now every day there's this month is

[31:31]for this people a day for this group of people there should

[31:35]be a day for the oppressed there should be a day for

[31:37]a a place this is a place of prophets this is a

[31:53]place of NBR this is a place where the Revelation was revealed

[31:57]but now it has become a place where there's oppression going on

[32:03]every day where tyranny is going on every day and we as

[32:05]Muslims we have a duty if we can change the situation then

[32:11]we change it if we can't we have to speak out against

[32:13]it speak out against it right now you see every day the

[32:18]occupying Israeli forces every day they're crossing the boundaries every day they're

[32:24]Crossing every year they keep crossing the red line because they see

[32:27]everyone's quiet because they see they got a green light from America

[32:33]they have a green light from Congress and Europe these countries that

[32:37]stand for democracy and they stand for the oppressed supposedly but now

[32:43]all these years there's apartheid going on and they occupy Palestinian areas

[32:50]and you see they remain quiet so my dear brothers and sisters

[32:55]yesterday we all did Dua and we have to pray for the

[32:59]Muslim we have to pray for the oppressed but we have to

[33:02]also act we have to also have action by itself without action

[33:08]will not do much and there is a a protest or a

[33:11]gathering going on and this happens every year at 6 pm today

[33:16]at the Henry Ford Centennial library on Michigan Avenue we ask you

[33:20]all to go and support and be there but this shouldn't just

[33:25]be a protest every year we're protesting and it's not doing something

[33:28]if you have political influence if you have Financial influence any type

[33:33]of influence you have you have to use that to defend the

[33:36]approach another point my dear brothers and sisters and we we've been

[33:40]talking about this here in this community for the past week is

[33:46]that as you see this place has been rented and it's going

[33:50]to be one year that we've been in this place and alhamdulillah

[33:54]this is a good problem to have but we have reached our

[33:58]capacity at many levels where the Sunday School it's become very tight

[34:02]for them many programs we have to limit the space when we

[34:07]have celebrations for the births of the imams for some of the

[34:10]events and some people when they see that the space is tight

[34:13]they don't come because they people want a comparable place to worship

[34:19]people want a place where they could gather so the members here

[34:23]they have we have embarked on inshallah trying to find a permanent

[34:28]location that is suitable for the community for the growing community and

[34:32]inshallah the focus is on families the focus is on youth but

[34:37]we cannot do that on our own we cannot do that on

[34:42]our own as a community we all have to stand together we

[34:44]have the collective responsibility of building Islam for the future Generations don't

[34:50]to be asked about my children and my grandchildren and the and

[34:54]the family after what did I do to make sure that we

[35:00]pass on this beautiful religion when do we do to pass on

[35:02]the beautiful message of the azerbate to our children and our future

[35:06]Generations what did we do to tell others about the religion of

[35:11]Islam and this Center here this is the only center for the

[35:14]followers of the other baits anywhere west of Dearborn Heights so you

[35:17]have people coming from Ann Arbor we have people coming from Ann

[35:22]Arbor every day we have people from Novi from from Plymouth we

[35:25]have people from Northville from Livonia from other places they're coming here

[35:30]and they're benefiting so we have the collective responsibility my dear brothers

[35:36]and sisters so I have two requests one is that I want

[35:39]everyone to go and tell your family and tell your friends to

[35:44]try to collect the funds so that eventually we can purchase something

[35:48]we were looking at last we were looking at a church but

[35:52]there's not that many churches here there's one church that's for sale

[35:57]and Plymouth and it's 0.3 Acres it's very small there's no parking

[36:02]space our second option is to purchase a piece of land and

[36:04]if we purchase a piece of land then you can build a

[36:07]gym on it then you can build classrooms then you could do

[36:11]so much with it there's so much that you can do for

[36:14]the future of the community so what we have what we're requesting

[36:17]and we want you to participate in this and also tell your

[36:23]family and your friends well we're requesting for the 99 Names of

[36:28]Allah there are 99 Names of Allah for each name give five

[36:34]thousand dollars if you can and if you can give more on

[36:38]behalf of your mahomin on behalf of other people this will be

[36:42]a Sada kajaria meaning that we will be buried in our Graves

[36:47]we will be dead and people will come here and they will

[36:49]pray and we will receive the tawab this is what Sada kajari

[36:54]is we receive the benefit we receive the reward so this is

[36:58]one and then another tier a second tier of support is app

[37:02]for the 114 surahs in the Quran there's 114 surahs in the

[37:09]Quran for the name of one Surah give three thousand dollars if

[37:13]we reach 99 names and three thousand at 114 then there's a

[37:19]piece of land that we're looking at now it's not for sure

[37:21]we don't know if this will go through but if this goes

[37:25]through then this would be a blessing if it does not go

[37:27]through then we will remain looking until we find something for the

[37:30]community eventually something has to be found so my dear brothers and

[37:35]sisters we have these forms where where are they we have we

[37:38]have these forms right here bring the forms the forms here please

[37:44]I want you to try to take one or to take more

[37:45]to fill them out and if you could not give five thousand

[37:50]or three thousand you could give less that's it that's that's okay

[37:53]as well and I mentioned earlier that Adam meaning that today the

[37:58]day of tal in many narrations it says that the reward is

[38:03]like the eve of the so you could still have the opportunity

[38:06]to benefit on this holy day during the holy month of Ramadan

[38:12]we're trying to continue this until we reach our goal also another

[38:16]point inshallah now that the timing is around 1 30.

[38:21]so we're going to start every week inshallah at 1 30 instead

[38:23]of you know changing it by the minute we will begin at

[38:27]1 30 please try to be here next week Friday might be

[38:29]eight so inshallah we will we will announce and wait for the

[38:36]announcements and we ask Allah to bless you all to accept all

[38:40]of our duas Allah foreign foreign [Music]

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