Night 10: Understanding Sickness: Gods Unlimited Sick Days - Sayed Ahmed Qazwini | Ramadan 2024

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[0:02]Alhamdulillah.

[0:20]for [Music] illuminate your malis and your hearts for the love of

[1:02]respected scholars, brothers and sisters, we discussed the hadith of Imam last

[1:18]night.

[1:17]the hadith where the Imam mentions three very important favors of Allah

[1:28]subhanahu wa ta'ala each one of those is followed by a more

[1:33]important and we mentioned if allahel blesses someone with these three benefactions

[1:42]you really don't need anything else and if Allah subhah denies someone

[1:51]these three benefactions then life becomes very difficult.

[1:56]The im began with the first of those three.

[2:00]The first the im says amongst the of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

[2:09]his favors is abundance of wealth and I explained what abundance of

[2:17]wealth means last night it doesn't mean having millions of dollars it

[2:22]just means having enough money for you to live a decent life

[2:29]so that you can provide for your family pay your bills, your

[2:33]rent or mortgage and live a dignified life.

[2:38]This is basically that you don't feel too cornered and pressured because

[2:46]of the expenses that you face.

[2:51]So this was the first that I alam spoke about.

[2:57]But then the im we said he goes on to speak about

[3:04]a second which is greater than he says and greater greater a

[3:21]blessing than abundance of wealth is having good health physical physical and

[3:29]mental health.

[3:30]You can enjoy life, brothers and sisters, to a degree if you

[3:36]don't have an abundance of wealth, but you're healthy.

[3:41]There's many things in life that are free to enjoy.

[3:44]Having a nice conversation, going to a sah that you're enjoying with

[3:55]your friends.

[3:55]This is doesn't require much money or wealth and you can enjoy

[4:01]it just as much as any wealthy person.

[4:04]Seeing some natural parts of the world if you're lucky enough to

[4:09]live next to an ocean.

[4:10]So, this really doesn't apply to us here in Michigan in this

[4:17]area.

[4:16]But let's say you go on a road trip with some friends

[4:20]up north.

[4:22]The scenery that you see is the same scenery that a wealthy

[4:26]person sees.

[4:27]Yes, maybe they'll have a nicer lodge so that they could sleep

[4:30]and spend, but at the end of the day, there's many things

[4:35]that you can enjoy without having to be wealthy.

[4:40]But the opposite isn't true.

[4:44]Meaning if Allah gives you an abundance of wealth but no health,

[4:51]it's very hard to enjoy anything in this dunya.

[4:54]If Allah subhana wa ta'ala gives you all the treasures of the

[5:01]world, but you have this very difficult disease, you're sick, you have

[5:06]to be in the hospital all the time, you have to be

[5:11]taking medication, you're not going to enjoy your wealth.

[5:12]Many times you're not even allowed to eat this, to do this,

[5:17]to go here, to do so many things that we naturally do

[5:21]in life.

[5:22]So, Im Ali says having good health, body, and also mental by

[5:35]the way.

[5:37]So when the im speaks about this also includes our mental health

[5:44]because inshallah tomorrow night I'll get to the third when the Imam

[5:49]mentions the third and that's the greatest we understand that any type

[5:56]of physical or mental health is meant by the second So let's

[6:04]say you have the best physical health and Allah has given you

[6:10]wealth but you don't have the mental health you have anxiety you

[6:14]have depression you have some sort of mental disorder that will deprive

[6:24]you from enjoying anything in the dunya I remember a couple of

[6:29]weeks ago I was watching the Piers Morgan and he was talking

[6:34]to someone.

[6:36]They were discussing something about wealth and how happy it makes you.

[6:41]So the guy that he was interviewing, I forgot who it was,

[6:46]he said something around these lines that many times wealth will come

[6:57]with a cost and the cost of that wealth, especially if it's

[7:01]a lot of wealth, it will come at the cost of mental

[7:06]health.

[7:07]and he started mentioning some examples and then Piers Morgan he agreed

[7:13]with him.

[7:15]He told him that most of the rich and wealthy people that

[7:19]I know are miserable from the inside.

[7:23]Meaning you may not be able to tell that they're miserable.

[7:25]They're laughing.

[7:28]They're smiling for the cameras, but deep down they have depression.

[7:32]They have anxiety.

[7:33]They're not happy.

[7:36]They're not content for one reason or another.

[7:37]So if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives you wealth and he gives

[7:45]you health, physical health, but there is no mental health.

[7:49]You're not enjoying it because of these different reasons, these different sicknesses

[7:55]that also afflict the human being.

[7:59]then you will not enjoy whatever Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has given

[8:08]you.

[8:09]I remember a couple of years ago there was a a very

[8:13]famous story of someone who made a game.

[8:16]He created a game for kids.

[8:17]I think it was called, if I'm not mistaken, Minecraft or something

[8:20]like that.

[8:24]and some big company, I think Microsoft, bought it from him for

[8:31]$2 billion.

[8:30]$2 billion.

[8:32]And this was a guy who lived on like 34,000 a month.

[8:37]Very average life.

[8:38]So he received everything that we dream, right?$2 billion dollars just out

[8:47]of the blue.

[8:46]And he started living the life.

[8:50]He went and he bought this huge huge mansion on the on

[8:53]the ocean and all these expensive cars and a private jet and

[8:56]the whole nine yards.

[8:59]If you remember, this was on the news maybe six, seven, eight

[9:03]years ago, something like that.

[9:06]Three months after living that extravagant life, three months Dear brothers, we

[9:20]do have a kids program.

[9:21]If you can, please take them.

[9:22]Inshallah, they can benefit their three months after he started living the

[9:37]extravagant life, he tweeted.

[9:40]I don't know.

[9:41]Do they say tweeted or did they say exed right now?

[9:43]I'm not sure what I'm supposed to say, but he tweeted back

[9:48]then when it was called Twitter, "I'm bored.

[9:53]I don't know what to do." And everyone was surprised.

[9:57]You're bored?

[9:58]Come on.

[9:58]Got to be serious.

[10:00]You just got $2 billion.

[10:01]And then when he was asked, he's like, "Okay, I bought everything.

[10:08]I did everything that I wanted to do in my wildest dreams.

[10:14]Okay, now what?

[10:12]I'm bored.

[10:14]He didn't have much family members.

[10:15]He didn't have that many friends because he, you know, when you

[10:18]become wealthy overnight, you don't even know who's your real friend anymore.

[10:23]You don't know.

[10:24]Are they just opportunistic people who just want to be your friend

[10:28]because you're wealthy now or are they genuine friends?

[10:32]It's it's hard.

[10:32]So sometimes what happened is with people that they swiftly become wealthy

[10:38]is they start to push away all their friends because they're confused.

[10:44]They don't know who's that genuine friend versus the opportunistic friend.

[10:48]Three months later, he was bored and he got depressed.

[10:54]He had the wealth.

[10:54]It seems like he was healthy physically, but he felt like he

[11:00]has no more purpose in this life.

[11:02]So he says that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives you these subsequent

[11:11]each one that is greater than the one before it wealth after

[11:18]that my dear brothers and sisters is something that we all strive

[11:33]drive to achieve and to maintain having a healthy life, leading a

[11:38]healthy lifestyle.

[11:39]But like I mentioned last night, we mentioned this and we ended

[11:46]on it.

[11:45]We realize the hard way many times in life that staying healthy

[11:51]all the time is not possible.

[11:55]And that's because sickness, illness, disease, may Allahel protect you from all

[12:03]of them, is an intrinsic part of life.

[12:07]Allahawel engineered this life to include sickness.

[12:10]You hear about some people who want to end all sickness, all

[12:16]diseases.

[12:16]It's not possible, brothers and sisters.

[12:18]It's like someone who says, "I want to end pain in this

[12:23]duny." The only way to really end pain and sickness is to

[12:27]ask Allah to take away your soul and go to paradise.

[12:29]Why did Allah create and we're trying to create the Jenna here?

[12:34]It doesn't make sense.

[12:37]Allah has designed the best Jenna.

[12:39]Yes, mitigate, help those that are in pain, those that are sick,

[12:43]of course, but to try to eliminate every source of pain and

[12:49]suffering in this world, that's not even possible because this is not

[12:55]why the dunya was created or how it was engineered by Allah

[12:59]subhanahu wa'ta'ala.

[12:59]So sickness is an intrinsic part of life.

[13:02]It's unseparable from life.

[13:06]From the day that we're born until we die, how many times

[13:09]do we get sick?

[13:10]How many times do we get ill?

[13:15]All different kinds of viruses and sicknesses and illnesses and they take

[13:21]a toll on us, brothers and sisters.

[13:22]When when we're sick, even if it's not something serious, it takes

[13:28]a toll on us.

[13:28]I think everyone here, everyone can attest to CO.

[13:34]I don't think anybody here could say that, you know what, I

[13:38]did not get sick.

[13:38]Maybe you never tested, but almost everyone got sick with CO.

[13:43]Some worse, some better.

[13:43]We know how terrible it feels when you're sick.

[13:47]The fever, you can't move, you have no appetite, your entire body

[13:51]is aching, you're bored many times, right?

[13:54]One of the problems of of getting sick sometimes is boredom because

[13:59]you don't go to work, you don't go to school, sometimes you

[14:02]have to go to the hospital and you just get bored.

[14:03]What do I do?

[14:06]So sickness is something that we hate, something that we fear that

[14:09]we try to get rid of.

[14:13]As we said, let's eliminate sickness in life.

[14:15]But as I mentioned last night, my dear brothers and sisters, sometimes

[14:22]Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala's greatest mercy and blessings to us comes in

[14:29]the form of sickness.

[14:30]Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's gift to believers comes disguised as sickness.

[14:41]And there are so many traditions from Allah and from theatam that

[14:47]try to give us a different perspective on sickness and illness.

[14:54]In one hadith, the prophet sallallah.aihi wasallam says when we're sick, all

[15:14]we do is what?

[15:15]We do dua to Allah.

[15:18]Ya Allah, cure me and cure me and cure me.

[15:21]We say it so many times that maybe because of how much

[15:24]we annoy Allah, he's going to say, "I'm gonna cure you just

[15:29]so you stop annoying me." So we just want Allah subhana t

[15:36]to c quickly cure us.

[15:35]Allah says, "As for the believer," and all of you here are

[15:38]believers.

[15:40]He says, "If the believer only knew the benefits of being sick

[15:49]and how great that condition is for him, and we'll explain how."

[15:54]Then they would never ask Allah to cure them.

[15:58]They would see that the pain and the struggle and the suffering

[16:01]is worth it.

[16:03]Because we human beings, we have high tolerance when it comes to

[16:08]suffering and pain.

[16:08]It's just your psychological attitude.

[16:11]It's your attitude.

[16:14]If if you think that it's worth it, then you'll easily cope

[16:19]with it.

[16:21]But if you don't understand why it's happening, you don't know what's

[16:25]the benefit, then you become so impatient.

[16:28]The greatest evidence to this is look at how much trouble we

[16:35]go through in life and we're completely okay with it.

[16:40]We are happy with that trouble.

[16:43]For example, this is mostly not only but mostly with guys.

[16:50]Sometimes I'll I want to say I'll go to the gym but

[16:55]I'll be lying.

[16:56]So I watch on, you know, on YouTube people in the gym

[16:59]and how hard they work.

[17:03]When I see two hours of just lifting weights, of running and

[17:09]then the the sweat, I don't know how many gallons of sweat.

[17:14]And they're having fun.

[17:17]They're listening to some music.

[17:17]After those two hours, they come out even happier than they were

[17:24]before.

[17:22]While in reality that was a torture session.

[17:27]It was a torture session.

[17:30]What's so nice?

[17:29]What's so cool about that?

[17:33]It's not fun.

[17:32]But why do our youth Why do so many people love going

[17:38]to the gym?

[17:38]Why?

[17:40]It's not comfortable.

[17:43]It's the most miserable place to be.

[17:45]just carrying weight, carrying weight, carry and bringing pressure and and and

[17:51]pain on your body.

[17:54]But why do we enjoy it?

[17:55]You know why?

[17:57]When they start seeing those biceps, when they start seeing those muscles,

[18:02]they're like, "It's worth it." So, what makes them patient?

[18:09]Not only patient, what makes them enjoy the pain?

[18:11]Enjoy.

[18:12]Yes.

[18:13]Enjoy the pain.

[18:14]the results, the reward.

[18:17]So we human beings are very patient.

[18:21]Sometimes you ask a brother to wait five minutes, they can't wait

[18:26]five minutes.

[18:28]They want to scream, they want to leave, they want to explode

[18:33]because they have to wait in line or they have to wait

[18:37]for an appointment or something.

[18:38]But he was just at the gym two hours and he was

[18:42]so patient there.

[18:43]It's because this weights, they don't understand what's the point of it.

[18:51]They're impatient.

[18:51]And not just with going to the gym.

[18:57]So many things in life, brothers and sisters, sometimes also once again,

[19:00]you'll see on the on the internet, some ladies, right, that go

[19:08]to the salon, like there's a wedding.

[19:11]They'll spend three or four hours under the mercy of some other

[19:15]lady of poking them and putting all this makeup and doing their

[19:19]hair.

[19:19]Honestly, it's a torture session.

[19:23]Three, four hours.

[19:24]Don't move.

[19:25]Don't do this.

[19:27]But why are they so happy?

[19:28]Not just happy they're paying, I hear sometimes three, four, $500 for

[19:32]that torture session.

[19:36]Why?

[19:34]Because once they look at the mirror after they're done, they'll be

[19:40]happy.

[19:41]They'll be content.

[19:44]It was worth it.

[19:44]How are they so patient there?

[19:45]But then with some smaller things, salah takes too long.

[19:52]The lecture if we exceeded five minutes, oh, the lecture took too

[19:56]long.

[19:57]You were last week you were sitting four hours doing your nails

[20:00]and your hair and your makeup and all that and you were

[20:05]okay with that and you were paying $500 for that $300.

[20:07]What happened to you?

[20:09]Where did all that patience go?

[20:13]When we don't value something, brothers and sisters, and we don't understand

[20:17]what we're getting out of it, we become so impatient.

[20:21]One minute becomes like one hour.

[20:23]And the opposite is the same.

[20:24]When you value something, when you understand what this will buy you,

[20:30]what this will get you, you become so tolerant, you become so

[20:36]patient, you become like prophet Aub as we'll speak about inshallah because

[20:41]you understand that it's worth it.

[20:42]So with that brothers and sisters if we understand the benefits of

[20:50]sickness, illness and disease, we will be much more patient, tolerant and

[20:58]appreciative of even the times when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tries us

[21:04]with sickness.

[21:04]So inshallah I'll discuss this tonight and tomorrow.

[21:14]So let's analyze the different types of sicknesses that Allah subhana t

[21:20]may afflict us with.

[21:21]Scholars state that there are two types of sicknesses or two reasons

[21:28]why we get sick.

[21:30]The first is a selfinflicted sick sickness.

[21:35]Sometimes we get sick and this is many times because of our

[21:40]own actions.

[21:42]It's our fault.

[21:43]We feel angry with Allah subhana wa tala and we complain when

[21:49]it's all my fault.

[21:48]Allah has nothing to do with it.

[21:52]When we did not engage in healthy behavior, I don't exercise.

[21:57]I'm not active.

[22:00]I smoke.

[22:02]Correct?

[22:03]And most importantly, when my diet is not healthy, I eat whatever

[22:07]I find on the shelves, then I get sick.

[22:12]I'm surprised.

[22:13]Ya Allah, why am I sick?

[22:15]Are you mad at me?

[22:18]No, Habibi, I'm not mad at you.

[22:20]You're just going to Walmart and Target and all these stores too

[22:26]too often.

[22:26]You're buying too many things that you don't need.

[22:29]So many of the sicknesses, brothers and sisters, it's because of our

[22:35]food.

[22:35]I read once in a report that up to 20% 20% of

[22:40]today's deaths, people that die is because of poor diet.

[22:47]Meaning that they it's not that they did not have food like

[22:49]the people of GZA.

[22:51]There's people that die because of malnutrition, not enough diet.

[22:53]And there's people that die because they're eating the wrong foods.

[22:56]And this happens in the wealthy countries.

[23:00]20% of deaths because we don't eat the right foods.

[23:05]We eat too much or we're not eating the healthy foods.

[23:09]And most of the sicknesses today, the diseases, you can trace them

[23:13]back to what you ate.

[23:16]And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam mentions this in one hadith.

[23:20]He says, he says your stomach is the house of sickness.

[23:28]Meaning it's a sickness producing machine.

[23:31]You put food into it, it gives you sickness.

[23:35]if you're not giving yourself the right food.

[23:37]And it's becoming worse and worse every year, brothers and sisters, because

[23:43]we are deviating from the original natural foods that Allah subhana wa

[23:47]ta'ala has created.

[23:46]The natural foods that Allah has created, if you eat them in

[23:50]moderation, they're all good for us.

[23:56]And that's why Allah says in the Holy Quran, eat and drink

[24:00]from the of Allah, but do not what?

[24:03]Do not overdo it.

[24:05]Do not overeat.

[24:07]When you overeat, this is when the problems start.

[24:10]The problems start when we overeat.

[24:14]And when we start eating processed foods, unnatural foods, refined foods, foods

[24:17]that only Allah knows what chemical process they have went through in

[24:25]the labs and then we eat them.

[24:29]We get sick.

[24:28]Or else the natural foods of Allah subhana wa tala, they're all

[24:33]good.

[24:32]There's a hadith I believe from ima where he says dieting there's

[24:37]all these sorts of diets what to eat how much to eat

[24:42]calories carbs so on so forth the im says dieting is not

[24:44]about not eating you can eat it's not even limiting the types

[24:51]of food that you should eat it's about what it's about restricting

[24:56]not eating too much now today you might say well there's a

[25:01]lot of unhealthy foods yeah because those aren aren't natural.

[25:04]But if you eat the natural foods that Allah, as we call

[25:09]them, the organic foods today that Allah has created in moderation, you

[25:13]will not need to stay away from anything.

[25:16]Why do I have to stay away from red meat?

[25:19]Why do I have to stay away from carbs?

[25:21]Why do I?

[25:22]It's because I did something wrong in the beginning.

[25:23]I messed up the system.

[25:26]I ate too much in the beginning or I was having the

[25:29]wrong combinations of the nutrients and now I can no longer my

[25:32]stomach can no longer tolerate for example carbs or else who said

[25:38]carbs are bad even sugar the natural sugar not the ones that

[25:40]they sell in the stores that I don't even know how they

[25:43]make even that one brothers and sisters it's healthy for you there's

[25:46]nothing wrong in it as long as it's in moderation but when

[25:49]sugar is placed in everything even probably in the water that we

[25:54]drink that's why now we're afraid of sugar and it has such

[25:58]a bad reputation.

[25:58]So anyway, most of the sicknesses that we see, it's our fault.

[26:08]They are caused by us by poor diet, by smoking, and some

[26:13]other bad habits.

[26:13]And then there's the second type of sicknesses that scholars state, no,

[26:17]these aren't really our fault.

[26:21]Many people who get cancer, I mean, what did they do?

[26:23]Some may be smoking leave smoking to the side.

[26:26]But a lot of people that receive that get diagnosed by cancer.

[26:31]They let such a healthy lifestyle.

[26:37]They didn't do anything wrong.

[26:40]Sometimes it is the crime or the mistake of one individual and

[26:43]then a whole population suffers of sickness.

[26:46]So it's not my fault.

[26:48]It's not like I could have prevented it like CO.

[26:51]How did co start?

[26:52]First they said it was bats.

[26:56]Remember came from bats.

[26:56]Then they said it was that weird animal, the pengalin, not penguin,

[27:00]panggalan.

[27:01]And then I I read something about raccoons.

[27:04]And then all these theories started to come out.

[27:09]Then some believed that it was made in a lab.

[27:10]Wherever it came from, the point is most of the people in

[27:14]the world, they had nothing to do with it.

[27:17]It wasn't their fault that this pandemic spread and there was no

[27:20]way to hide or run away from it.

[27:22]Even if you went and lived in a cave in the middle

[27:26]of nowhere, CO followed you and it managed to get you sick.

[27:29]So in those situations, I can't say, well, you know what, it's

[27:35]my fault.

[27:34]No, these incidents, brothers and sisters, are what the scholars call and

[27:43]the ims of They are a test from Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala.

[27:48]This is the sickness that Allah manufactured and want there to be

[27:54]in the dunya.

[27:56]Not the other sicknesses that are inflicted by us.

[28:00]Not all the heart attacks and the diabetes that you see today.

[28:04]That's all our fault.

[28:07]Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wanted some level of sickness in this dunya.

[28:12]But that's only when it's not our fault.

[28:15]A pandemic, you know, they used to have the plague every couple

[28:19]of years.

[28:21]It would spread and it would kill half of the people in

[28:24]the town, 1/4, one/3.

[28:28]And they wouldn't even know how it started.

[28:29]So this brothers and sisters, second type of sickness that we cannot

[28:34]eliminate.

[28:34]We can try our best, we cannot eliminate.

[28:38]This is a test from Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala.

[28:42]Many individuals when they hear about these types of sicknesses I am

[28:50]diagnosed with cancer and there's no explanation clear explanation or all these

[28:56]other difficult sicknesses and diseases MS and um maybe sometimes even diabetes

[29:01]and it's not my fault.

[29:02]Sometimes it's genetics it just runs in your family.

[29:06]Many people assume right away that this is punishment from Allah subhanahu

[29:11]wa ta'ala.

[29:12]Allah subhana wa ta'ala is angry at me and thus Allah is

[29:19]punishing me and thus we get very disappointed.

[29:22]One of the first questions that come to our mind is what

[29:27]did I do wrong?

[29:27]I believe in Allah.

[29:30]I do the wajabat.

[29:30]I'm a good person.

[29:32]I'm kind.

[29:33]I'm why does Allah subhana t afflict me with cancer?

[29:35]Now what's the problem with that?

[29:37]We see it as a punishment.

[29:41]Well, is it punishment?

[29:42]Sometimes for some people, yes, Allah may punish them through sickness, but

[29:48]the majority of cases and specifically for the believers, it is not

[29:54]punishment.

[29:55]It's exactly the opposite.

[29:56]The prophet says it is from Allah's mercy.

[30:00]That was the hadith that I mentioned.

[30:05]If the believer knew what Allah has in store for him, the

[30:11]benefits of being sick, you would never ask Allah subhana wa ta'ala

[30:19]to cure you.

[30:19]Now, one might say, "What are these benefits?

[30:22]How am I benefiting from sickness?" There are so many benefits, brothers

[30:28]and sisters, that we see very evident in sickness and disease.

[30:35]And I'm speaking mostly morally and spiritually.

[30:39]Number one, one of the benefits of sickness is that for a

[30:43]lot of people, and I'm talking about the difficult sicknesses, not just

[30:47]why I got a flu or a cold or something like that.

[30:51]If I go through a difficult illness, disease and sickness and I

[30:56]make it alive, I don't die, I don't end up dying or

[31:01]it's a terminal sickness that I have to live with.

[31:05]One of the benefits, brothers and sisters, is that most of the

[31:09]time or many times it is very effective at changing human beings

[31:19]for the better.

[31:20]You know how you have these activists, they become advocates for disease

[31:26]patients.

[31:27]Some of them are famous.

[31:28]They travel all across the world speaking about cancer, speaking about diabetes,

[31:35]whatever it may be.

[31:37]They try to spread awareness.

[31:40]They will fund raise for those patients.

[31:42]Almost every single one of them.

[31:44]Why are they doing that?

[31:45]Did they just wake up one day and they felt holy?

[31:48]They felt nice and compassionate towards those sick individuals.

[31:55]Almost every single one of them becomes an advocate because they themselves

[32:04]had to go through that pain and suffering.

[32:05]Now that they can feel it, now that they can feel what

[32:12]that individual feels from the suffering, they become empathetic.

[32:17]They become appreciative.

[32:17]If they want to help these individuals so many of the of

[32:23]Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that are taken for granted we are reminded

[32:29]of them and we appreciate and value them once we are sitting

[32:32]in the hospital.

[32:34]That's why these individuals after they come out they come out a

[32:38]changed person.

[32:39]The small things in life that you and I take for granted

[32:41]and we never think about.

[32:42]Spend a week in the hospital and you'll start to value them

[32:48]so much.

[32:49]the basic things in life that you never even think about just

[32:52]going out and having coffee with friends if your disease and your

[32:55]sickness does not allow you from doing that.

[33:00]I remember once I went to one of the states here in

[33:04]the US and there was a brother who they shared a story

[33:11]with me who had cancer.

[33:11]He had a rare form of blood cancer leukemia.

[33:16]And uh they would tell me to do dua for him all

[33:20]the time.

[33:21]I remember.

[33:22]So I didn't meet him until the end.

[33:25]I was there for about 10 days.

[33:26]And towards the end of my trip, I went and met him.

[33:31]Before I met him, I saw his pictures.

[33:35]So when I went and met him, I was, you know, I

[33:38]had an image in my head.

[33:42]But the person I saw was very, very different, way skinnier.

[33:46]half the size.

[33:48]His face was so pale.

[33:52]He had absolutely no hair.

[33:53]A son, a complete different person.

[33:55]And it's as if he had aged like 10, 15 years.

[33:59]And probably it was 6 months apart from the image from the

[34:01]picture that I saw.

[34:03]And when I saw him in his house, I saw him with

[34:09]his father.

[34:11]I sat down and he started to explain to me how it

[34:14]started.

[34:14]how he was diagnosed.

[34:17]He said it was the month of Ramadan one year like now.

[34:19]We went and played basketball with some friends.

[34:22]He says, "All of a sudden, I got this very, very, very

[34:27]bad back pain.

[34:28]It was so bad that they had to take me to the

[34:32]emergency room.

[34:34]The doctors without doing much tests, they just assumed it was just

[34:37]some spasm or something normal.

[34:39]They just gave me painkillers, rest, and they let me go.

[34:44]They discharged me.

[34:44]He's like the next day once again playing basketball it's even worse

[34:51]I collapse they take me again now the doctors are worried so

[34:54]they do some tests the doctor he comes to me and he

[34:56]asked me he was I think about maybe in his close to

[35:02]30 years old he asked me what are you doing right now

[35:08]in life he said I told him I just finished my pharmacy

[35:10]school and I'm working on opening u my my own pharmacy and

[35:16]I'm very excited and and all this and that and I just

[35:20]got married last year.

[35:20]So, alhamdulillah the beginning of his of his beautiful years.

[35:26]He's like, "The doctor told me, sorry, brother.

[35:28]Sorry, sir, but you're going to have to leave your career, possibly

[35:34]even leave your family because you're in for a very difficult journey."

[35:37]And this is when he broke the news.

[35:40]He told me you have not only cancer but you have the

[35:44]the rarest type of cancer which is not really treatable and you

[35:49]have to prepare yourself for a neverending the guy was very pessimistic

[35:55]the doctor a neverending episode and journey of constant back and forth

[36:01]to the hospital he's like my life shattered right in front of

[36:06]me I was completely destroyed I was in denial as he says

[36:12]you know denial is a river you know they say in in

[36:14]Egypt right that's the level of denial that you that you get

[36:21]into so he says alhamdulillah when I went home now he says

[36:25]alhamdulillah my mother and father were with me and they're like we

[36:28]will be with you every single step I went next week for

[36:34]the first session of chemotherapy and they were with me the whole

[36:41]time and it was painful and every session was more painful than

[36:44]the other.

[36:45]He said I started to gain weight in the beginning because of

[36:48]some medication and then I started to lose weight, lose the hair.

[36:53]I did not even want to wake up in the morning.

[36:54]I couldn't leave my bed.

[36:58]I hated my life.

[36:58]I hated everything.

[36:59]Imagine you wake up and the only thing that's on your schedule

[37:04]is chemotherapy.

[37:04]It's a terrible life.

[37:06]Brothers and sisters, ask Allahel to protect you from that.

[37:08]But at the same time, look at the other side, the bright

[37:12]side.

[37:13]He's like, I went maybe after 10 or whatever sessions I was

[37:20]in the hospital waiting to get my treatment.

[37:23]I see another older lady.

[37:26]Now my mother and father are with me.

[37:28]And this lady, older lady is also getting treated chemo.

[37:30]And she starts to talk to me and my mother and she's

[37:36]smiling and laughing in such high spirits.

[37:38]And I start to talk to her and I'm not really in

[37:42]the mood.

[37:42]I realize this lady is all alone.

[37:47]She lives like 40 minutes away.

[37:49]She has to take the bus to get here every single time.

[37:52]And it's not one bus.

[37:54]She has to change the bus like two or three times.

[37:56]And I have my parents driving me like a king every single

[38:00]time.

[38:01]Nobody calls to check on her.

[38:03]Nobody asks about her.

[38:06]Yet she's in such high spirits.

[38:07]He says, "I couldn't believe how she was able to keep and

[38:13]maintain that type of attitude and personality.

[38:16]Look at the look at life in that way." And he's like,

[38:22]"When I left, I was so inspired to become like that lady

[38:29]that every single time I would wake up, my excitement and joy

[38:34]was to go to the hospital from that day on so that

[38:39]I can spend time with her and learn from her." He says,

[38:42]"I learned so much.

[38:44]I learned how to be an empathetic person, a compassionate person.

[38:47]I learned patience from her.

[38:49]I learned how to appreciate everything in life just by being with

[38:55]her a couple of times.

[38:55]He got cured, alhamdulillah.

[39:00]And just like I said, he's also working with advocates and and

[39:03]uh cancer research and whatnot.

[39:05]So he says the greatest blessing in my life was that cancer.

[39:08]Yes, it was torture.

[39:11]It was pain.

[39:12]It was difficult.

[39:11]It was very very difficult even on my mental health.

[39:16]But he's like I'm a completely new person.

[39:18]The old me and the new me nothing alike.

[39:23]Sometimes brothers and sisters it takes some very difficult things in life

[39:31]for the best for the best versions of ourselves to appear.

[39:34]And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tries the easy way but it just

[39:43]doesn't work until a sickness forces me to become that compassionate kind

[39:49]humble individual.

[39:50]Now there's a hadith from where he says in the he said

[40:02]imagine a world where there was no pain and no suffering and

[40:07]no sickness.

[40:11]What would prevent him from committing sins?

[40:14]And the point that the Imam makes is there are so many

[40:23]people that are drowning in a life of sin far away from

[40:26]Allah subhana wa ta'ala and the only thing that was able to

[40:32]save them was an illness was a sickness was a disease because

[40:37]sicknesses brothers and sisters they humble us the strong mighty human being

[40:45]loud human being.

[40:46]He loses all his power, loses his voice, loses his strength and

[40:54]he is humbled.

[40:54]He becomes literally down to earth and it teaches them a lesson.

[41:00]We start to change.

[41:02]And I've heard many brothers, many individuals who've told me how their

[41:06]sickness may not have been very severe, how it completely changed them.

[41:11]There was a brother who said once I had a very bad

[41:12]habit, haram habit.

[41:15]I couldn't stop until once I got diagnosed with a very bad

[41:19]disease.

[41:20]He said that disease was my was my wakeup call.

[41:25]It completely transformed me.

[41:26]I never missed a salah ever again.

[41:30]I would never backbite.

[41:33]I would never listen to music.

[41:34]I would never do this and that.

[41:36]Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants to rescue me from that life of

[41:39]sin.

[41:40]He sees me as miserable.

[41:43]But everything he does just doesn't work.

[41:47]I don't listen.

[41:45]We read in dua.

[41:48]He asks me, he calls me, "But I'm busy.

[41:51]I'm not listening." Okay.

[41:54]Allah says, "You know what?

[41:56]Let me send him some gifts.

[41:58]Gifts that we see as real gifts, money, wealth, let me send

[42:01]him family, kids.

[42:03]What do we end up doing?

[42:04]Send even more." Allah subhana wa ta'ala sometimes he sees that the

[42:11]only way that he can bring me to him is through that

[42:12]sickness through that virus through that disease.

[42:16]So is it because he loves me?

[42:18]Is that punishment?

[42:19]He is it because he hates me?

[42:20]No.

[42:21]He loves me.

[42:22]He wants me to turn to him but he just can't grab

[42:26]my attention unless it happens the hard way.

[42:31]Then the imam says, Some of us, brothers and sisters, we would

[42:50]never turn to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

[42:52]If it wasn't for pain, if it wasn't for our bad days

[42:56]because when we're having our good days and we're busy, we don't

[42:59]even have time to think about Allah subhana wa ta'ala and thank

[43:01]him.

[43:02]When do we get some time?

[43:06]when I have to take a sick day, a sick week, a

[43:08]sick month, and I'm bored and I don't know what to do.

[43:13]This is finally when I have some time to think about Allah

[43:16]subhanahu wa ta'ala.

[43:19]So, this is one of the benefits, brothers and sisters, of sickness

[43:25]in general.

[43:23]It's sometimes Allah's way to tell you, I'm waiting for you.

[43:29]Turn to me.

[43:28]You're too busy in life.

[43:31]There's nothing else I can do but to afflict you with this

[43:33]sickness so that you turn to me.

[43:35]But this is much better for you.

[43:38]If Allah didn't love me, he would just leave me in my

[43:42]in my sleep in the but it's because he loves me.

[43:48]He does that to me.

[43:49]Another benefit of sickness, brothers and sisters, is that with sickness comes

[43:59]forgiveness.

[43:58]Every time we become sick in this world, in this life, Allah

[44:04]subhanahu wa ta'ala erases some of our sins.

[44:08]There's a hadith from he says he says the hours that you

[44:28]endure pain either because of an injury, either because of a sickness

[44:32]or what not.

[44:36]They have a benefit.

[44:39]That pain has a benefit.

[44:39]What is it?

[44:41]It eliminates and erases those hours that you spent sinning.

[44:46]Every single time that we become sick, it clears one month, two

[44:56]months, three months, whatever of your sins.

[44:59]Don't you realize some sicknesses are reoccurring?

[45:02]They have seasons.

[45:04]Why is that?

[45:06]It's not just a coincidence.

[45:08]It's because we human beings always need an opportunity and something to

[45:17]purify us, something to remove our sins.

[45:20]So Allah subhana wa ta'ala is like, you know what, every year

[45:24]there's the cold season.

[45:24]That's a good time for me to purify my or else he's

[45:31]not going to repent.

[45:30]And even if he repents, his sins are much faster than the

[45:37]pace that he can repent.

[45:39]How many times do we repent to Allahhana?

[45:41]We know repentance is easy and you just have but do we

[45:46]do that?

[45:45]Take away.

[45:46]How many times during the year do we really sit down, think

[45:51]about our sins, shed a tear, and cry?

[45:53]Takes you 10 minutes.

[45:53]But how many times do we do that?

[45:55]We're lucky if we do that five times a year.

[45:58]Allah subhana wa ta'ala knows that we're not going to do it

[46:00]much.

[46:01]We're too busy.

[46:03]So he's like, you know what?

[46:04]Sickness here, an injury there, and that will keep you clean, fresh.

[46:10]The prophet says he says some people the prophet says that their

[46:25]sickness will eventually eliminate all their sins.

[46:29]They'll become sinless pure because of how much they got sick.

[46:35]These people are the ones that on the day of judgment will

[46:41]be envied.

[46:39]Envied.

[46:40]Yes.

[46:40]Now in the dunya we feel bad for that person who we

[46:46]call him disabled who has this terminal illness.

[46:47]But on the day of judgments that person will be envied because

[46:51]we will see it was worth it.

[46:53]Remember how I said we human beings if we realize what we're

[46:55]getting from the pain then we become much more patient and excited.

[47:02]We realize that it was worth it.

[47:04]I don't know why I went and I got the flu shot.

[47:05]I was such an idiot.

[47:08]Allah was sending the flu for free and I went and I

[47:09]blocked it and now I have all these sins to pay for

[47:13]it.

[47:14]I'm not saying don't get the flu shot.

[47:15]No.

[47:16]Try your best to stay healthy.

[47:17]Go to the doctors.

[47:21]But realize that when you do get sick, there's a purpose behind

[47:24]that.

[47:25]That it's not an accident.

[47:26]It's not because Allah subhana wa ta doesn't love me.

[47:30]It's not because I did something wrong.

[47:33]In fact, I'm doing everything right.

[47:34]If you don't get sick, this is when you have to question.

[47:37]Does Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala not want my sins to be forgiven?

[47:43]That's why he has given me such good health.

[47:47]This is how used to see sickness, pain, and suffering of the

[47:53]dunya.

[47:54]Change your perspective brothers and sisters.

[47:56]It will be so much easier for you to cope with.

[47:58]Tomorrow, inshallah, I will continue and speak about some more benefits of

[48:03]sickness.

[48:04]And one of the most beautiful of those benefits is what we

[48:09]titled the lecture, but we'll get to it tomorrow inshallah.

[48:12]The sick days that Allah gives you.

[48:15]What do we mean by that?

[48:16]How are they unlimited?

[48:18]Inshallah, we will go over that tomorrow night.

[48:21]We ask Allah subhana wa ta'ala to bless us to accept our

[48:26]to grant us the best to grant us whatever he deems appropriate

[48:32]whether it is sickness whether it is a health of course we

[48:37]all prefer health but if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sees that it

[48:43]is better for us to go through some trials and tribulations through

[48:47]sickness then we fully and wholeheartedly accept and embrace whatever Whatever comes

[48:52]from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala may Allahel accept your fasting all your

[48:58]hasten the reappearance of our and let us end by reciting fat

[49:04]for all the believers that have passed away after a loud salawat

[49:07]for Muhammad and al Muhammad Mad.

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