Night 11: Understanding Sickness: Prophet Ayoub As Inspiration - Sayed Ahmed Qazwini | Ramadan 2024

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[0:03]Alhamdulillah.

[0:22]must illuminate your malice.

[0:49]and your heart with a loud salawat for Muhammad and Al Muhammad.

[1:00]Respected brothers and sisters, we mentioned the last few nights the hadith

[1:12]of Imam where he says amongst the greatest blessings that Allah subhanana

[1:19]wa ta'ala can give anyone is health when you are free from

[1:22]sickness and illness and pain and injury.

[1:25]But at the same time that Im Ali says health is amongst

[1:32]the greatest blessings of Allah [snorts] sallallahu alaihi wasallam says that sickness

[1:38]is also a blessing for the believer.

[1:41]So how does that work?

[1:45]Health is a blessing and sickness is from the mercy of Allah

[1:48]subhana wa t'ala.

[1:50]Such that the prophet said if the believer knows how much good

[1:54]is in the sickness he's getting out of the sickness and the

[1:57]illness that he is in he will never ask allahel to cure

[2:02]him.

[2:03]So how does it work?

[2:03]This is the beautiful system of Allah subhanana wa ta'ala for the

[2:07]believer.

[2:08]No matter what he does to you, no matter what falls upon

[2:13]you, it's for your own good.

[2:15]Is narrated saying, he says, I'm so surprised at how spoiled the

[2:21]mu is.

[2:22]M like every single one here, anything that Allah writes for him

[2:28]or her, it's for his own good.

[2:30]If Allah writes health for you, it's for your good.

[2:32]If Allah writes sickness for you, it's also for your good.

[2:36]If Allah writes wealth for you, it's for your good.

[2:39]If he writes poverty for you, it's all for your good.

[2:41]And the point that the Imam is highlighting is a believer can

[2:48]never lose in this dunya.

[2:48]As long as he what?

[2:49]As long as he stays attached to Allah.

[2:52]No matter what happens to you, it's good.

[2:55]Whether it is wealth, whether it is poverty, whether it's health, whether

[2:59]it's sickness, but the condition is if you're a believer and you

[3:05]submit to Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala.

[3:06]So how is sickness a blessing?

[3:09]We mentioned number one sometimes we said last night that Allah subhanahu

[3:17]wa ta'ala afflicts us with a sickness with a disease in order

[3:21]for him in order for Allah subhana wa ta'ala to save us

[3:27]from the swamp of disobedience and sin that we are stuck in.

[3:31]You see, health is good, but sometimes health may lead to bad

[3:40]results.

[3:41]Why?

[3:39]If you're always healthy, you're always strong, eventually what tends to happen

[3:48]is you start to feel invincible, you start to feel immortal.

[3:53]I'm strong.

[3:53]I never need to go to the doctor.

[3:57]I don't need any pills.

[3:59]My physical capabilities are at their climax.

[4:01]Sometimes we get carried away, brothers and sisters, when our health is

[4:08]prolonged, meaning there's a long time without any sickness.

[4:14]And what happens there is we fall into the state of you

[4:18]go into cruise control.

[4:20]And once we fall into the state of this is when everything

[4:25]that is bad and evil starts happening.

[4:28]Why do we many times forget about Allah?

[4:31]Why do we h struggle in praying?

[4:33]Why do we forget about our why is it sometimes we become

[4:38]so arrogant?

[4:38]It's because we feel invincible.

[4:42]We don't feel that there is a need for Allah subhanahu wa

[4:45]ta'ala.

[4:46]If you are not sick and you're strong every single day, it's

[4:49]not that easy to remember I need Allah.

[4:51]When do you remember you need Allah?

[4:53]When you fall sick in your bed.

[4:54]This is when you remember that I'm a weak human being and

[4:58]I need Allah subhana wa tala.

[4:59]So Allah wants to take you out of that cruise control of

[5:03]sin and disobedience.

[5:03]He wants you to focus a little on Allah on your so

[5:08]he'll send the sickness.

[5:08]So that will be a reality check.

[5:10]Don't just look at the mirror and admire your looks and your

[5:16]muscles the whole day.

[5:17]Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will make you weak one day.

[5:22]Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala even your looks, he will take them away

[5:25]from you certain days.

[5:27]For those individuals that are in the teenage years, one of the

[5:36]worst things is when you wake up and you see a pimple

[5:38]on your face, right?

[5:40]This pimple, brothers and sisters, is something that you should thank Allah

[5:45]for.

[5:46]Do you know why?

[5:48]Because it's a reality check from Allah.

[5:52]Allah wants to tell you, don't be too consumed by your body,

[5:58]by your smooth and beautiful face.

[6:01]Don't be too distracted by it such that you think this is

[6:08]going to continue forever.

[6:08]Allah will send that pimple to remind you this is the dunya.

[6:13]Focus on more important things not just your face.

[6:15]You spend an hour putting makeup.

[6:17]How much did you spend with Allah subhana wa ta'ala?

[6:20]You see how Allah subhana t sometimes he has to put these

[6:24]things that are bad.

[6:24]But is it because he hates me?

[6:27]No.

[6:26]Because he sees I'm obsessed with my looks.

[6:28]I'm obsessed with my muscles.

[6:32]I'm obsessed with my entertainment, my iPhone, my social media.

[6:35]So he has to sense some distractions, some disruptions and these disruptions

[6:42]are good.

[6:41]So they wake you up.

[6:44]The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is narrated saying in a hadith, if

[6:54]it wasn't for three things that happened to us human beings, we

[7:00]would never put our head down.

[7:02]We would always be so arrogant and proud.

[7:06]Number one, he says sickness.

[7:07]Sickness humbles you.

[7:10]It brings you down to your heels.

[7:14]Number two, poverty.

[7:14]Poverty also humbles us.

[7:15]And number three, elote, death.

[7:19]The fact that we know we're going to die one day.

[7:21]No matter how arrogant and mighty someone is, they know that they're

[7:26]going to be placed in that grave.

[7:28]Why does Allah subhana t do that?

[7:30]So that you become humble a bit and not so arrogant.

[7:32]The prophet says with all these three yet you find the human

[7:38]being is so arrogant yet the human being is so forgetful of

[7:42]Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and feels so powerful and invincible sometimes there

[7:48]I I noticed this there are some people who don't want others

[7:53]to know when they're sick they feel like it's a stigma because

[7:57]what they have a reputation of being very strong of being very,

[8:02]you know, they might call it as being very tough or whatever,

[8:07]but it's most of the time arrogance.

[8:10]They don't want others to know that they got sick.

[8:12]Do you remember a couple of years ago when the president when

[8:17]I think of arrogance, I don't know why I just right away

[8:21]I see Trump's face.

[8:22]You might disagree with me.

[8:25]You might like his policies, but you know, just the way that

[8:27]he talks and nobody can fix the economy and nobody but me,

[8:32]nobody.

[8:31]It's I mean, it's just arrogance at its highest level.

[8:34]Remember when he got CO how he kept it a secret and

[8:40]he didn't want anyone to know why?

[8:41]Because CO humbles you, brothers and sisters.

[8:45]Disease and viruses humble us.

[8:48]And this man cannot tolerate being humbled.

[8:52]The worst thing for the arrogant person is when he feels weak.

[8:57]Allah subhana wa ta'ala sends sicknesses and viruses sometimes to remind you

[9:04]not to be so arrogant.

[9:05]So that was number one we spoke about last night.

[9:08]Number two, we said the second benefit of sickness and why Allah

[9:11]subhana wa ta'ala designed sickness to be a part of life.

[9:13]And remember I mentioned this clear distinction.

[9:16]There's two types of sicknesses.

[9:18]Some they are selfinflicted.

[9:21]It's when I eat bad food, when I don't eat healthy food,

[9:25]and I don't care about my health.

[9:26]That is not the sickness that Allah subhana t wanted for us.

[9:31]That's our fault.

[9:31]We're speaking about the second type of sickness when it's not your

[9:34]fault.

[9:35]When it happens without a known cause or it's not my fault,

[9:40]it's somebody else's fault that did something like that person that went

[9:44]and ate that bat uh soup or whatever it was, and then

[9:46]everyone else on Earth had to pay for one guy's bat soup

[9:50]meal.

[9:51]So is it my fault?

[9:52]No.

[9:52]But there was nothing I can do to prevent it.

[9:56]We're speaking about these times when it's not your fault.

[10:00]It just happens.

[9:59]This is from Allah subhana wa tala.

[10:02]He wanted this.

[10:04]The second benefit of being sick.

[10:06]Next time you're think about it in this way is that with

[10:10]sickness comes forgiveness.

[10:11]Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala knows that we're always putting a heavy load

[10:18]on our back.

[10:17]Sin after sin after sin.

[10:22]How many times do we repent?

[10:24]Rarely.

[10:24]So allahel sends these sicknesses.

[10:27]So they shave off, they remove the load off our back.

[10:30]And that's why there are some people who die from a disease.

[10:36]You'll find that they're battling cancer or some other disease and they'll

[10:41]spend the last months, sometimes years of their lives in the hospital.

[10:45]These people, we feel very sorry for them.

[10:49]But these individuals, brothers and sisters, on the day of judgment will

[10:53]be the happiest people because when they die, they die 100% pure.

[10:57]What else is left for Allah subhana wa tala to hold them

[11:03]accountable for?

[11:01]They paid for everything through the sickness.

[11:05]So when they die, they literally die an angel.

[11:09]No sins at all.

[11:10]They're going to be happy on that day.

[11:12]They're not going to be so sad.

[11:15]Why?

[11:16]I was sick my whole life.

[11:17]I had this problem.

[11:17]I had this injury, I had this pain, they will realize that

[11:21]it was worth it.

[11:22]So this is number two.

[11:25]It doesn't stop there.

[11:25]Number three, and this is one of the most remarkable aspects of

[11:30]sickness is the sick days that Allah subhana wa ta'ala gives us.

[11:36]If any of you work here, you know that your employer is

[11:43]legally supposed to give you, they have to give you at least

[11:46]five, six days a year.

[11:50]It's very lousy.

[11:51]Just five.

[11:54]Meaning those five days, 40 hours, if you were sick, you are

[11:59]entitled to stay home, rest, and you will be paid.

[12:04]But it's capped at what?

[12:04]I mean the minimum five days.

[12:08]You might be lucky.

[12:08]You work at a better company.

[12:09]They'll give you 10 sick days, sick days, paid sick days a

[12:15]year.

[12:16]Or even better, maybe 20.

[12:16]Have you heard of any company that gives you more than 20

[12:19]sick days a year?

[12:21]Paid sick days.

[12:23]25.

[12:22]What's beautiful about the system of Allah subhana wa ta'ala is that

[12:30]he himself has devised a sick day program.

[12:31]What do I mean?

[12:33]You see, when you're sick, you need to rest.

[12:38]You can't focus on your job.

[12:39]So, you're home resting, recovering, and you're getting paid.

[12:45]So, you don't have to worry about the bills.

[12:46]But after 5 days, six days, seven days, when you run out

[12:53]of your sick days, now your stress intensifies.

[12:57]Why?

[12:58]If you're not getting better, not only do you have to put

[13:03]up with the sickness now, you're so consumed.

[13:06]How am I going to provide for my family?

[13:09]How am I going to pay my mortgage?

[13:13]Especially if you have a a a terminal disease, your job, your

[13:16]employer isn't going to care.

[13:18]Even if they're merciful and nice, they're like, you know what?

[13:21]We can't just pay you for free 5 days, 10 days, 20

[13:24]days, but sorry, we have to let you go.

[13:26]So now you have to put up with the fatigue, with the

[13:28]pain, with the struggle of the sickness.

[13:29]In addition, how am I going to pay my bills?

[13:34]That just destroys you mentally.

[13:34]Allahawel has a very similar system, but way more generous.

[13:40]When we're sick, brothers and sisters, sometimes the sickness prevents us from

[13:44]some good deeds.

[13:47]Some good deeds that we're accustomed in doing.

[13:50]I never miss it.

[13:53]But one I can't go because I'm sick.

[13:56]The lectures I come every night.

[13:58]One night I can't come because I'm sick.

[14:01]I recite dua dua every Thursday night.

[14:04]I do volunteer work.

[14:07]Any good deed.

[14:07]Sometimes you'll not be able to do that good deed because of

[14:11]a sickness.

[14:11]You feel terrible.

[14:13]You're sitting in bed.

[14:14]You wish you were there helping, reciting dua, listening to the lecture,

[14:20]whatever good deed that you were doing.

[14:24]Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala does not let that tawab that you used

[14:26]to do go in vain.

[14:29]He counts it for you while you are resting in your bed.

[14:31]One day it's narrated the book of alki.

[14:34]The prophet was sitting with his companions.

[14:37]All of a sudden they saw Allah smile.

[14:40]The prophet smiled.

[14:42]His companions asked him what happened yasoolah.

[14:45]They knew was coming all the time.

[14:48]So something good happened.

[14:49]The prophet said, "Just now I was informed of this.

[14:54]Two angels from Allahawel, they came down by the order of Allah.

[14:59]Allah ordered them to go and watch and observe a particular person,

[15:05]what good deeds he's doing and record it." Now you might ask,

[15:11]what's the purpose?

[15:11]Don't we all have two angels that write our good deeds and

[15:15]bad deeds?

[15:14]So why did Allah subhana send these two specific angels?

[15:18]Now the hadith does not indicate but what we understand from this

[15:22]hadith is Allah subhana t has different layers different groups.

[15:25]So there's the two angels that are entrusted for every single individual.

[15:29]You have two private angels just for you.

[15:33]One for your good deeds one for your bad deeds.

[15:36]In addition from time to time Allah sends other angels maybe higher

[15:39]level.

[15:40]They come and they make sure maybe that these angels are what?

[15:43]Doing what they're supposed to do.

[15:44]They're not missing anything.

[15:48]So they come and they record what you're doing.

[15:50]So the prophet says those two angels, Allah sent them to check

[15:56]on someone.

[15:55]They went to his prayer rug.

[15:58]He has a specific place where he prays every day.

[16:01]And by the way, this is something very good.

[16:05]Make it a habit that when you pray, pray on a specific

[16:11]area in your house and then from time to time change that

[16:17]area every month in one corner in one area.

[16:21]Why?

[16:20]Because the traditions tell us on the day of judgment that piece

[16:26]of earth the ground that you used to pray on will testify

[16:29]for you in front of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

[16:33]He used to pray on me in this area.

[16:37]So scatter your salah so that you have all these different positions

[16:40]and areas that are testifying for you on the day of judgment.

[16:43]So anyway, they tell Allah subhana wa ta'ala they Allah sends them

[16:49]they go to the place that's designated for the salah of that

[16:53]person for the dua wherever he used to do and they find

[16:58]that he's missing.

[16:58]He's not there.

[17:01]They look, they search, they can't find him until they go in

[17:06]his bedroom.

[17:07]They see that person is lying down on the bed sick and

[17:14]they can't do anything.

[17:15]So they go back to Allah and they tell Allahawel these two

[17:19]angels.

[17:20]Ya Allah we went and we just like all the time just

[17:26]like the habit that this person has.

[17:28]We thought he would be on his prayer rug.

[17:29]We thought he would be in the masjid.

[17:33]We thought she would be sitting in this specific seat in the

[17:36]masjid.

[17:36]You know there are even some people when they go to the

[17:38]mosque they sit in the same place every day.

[17:40]Some days you see they're not there.

[17:41]You're like is everything okay?

[17:44]I hope they're fine, you know, because they rarely miss.

[17:48]So they notice that that place is empty.

[17:52]They tell Allahel they weren't there doing their but we found them

[17:56]that they're sick.

[17:58]You had made them sick, ya Allah.

[17:59]You had tied them up in sickness.

[18:02]So what do we do here?

[18:02]Allah says they were not doing their daily because of the sickness

[18:11]that I brought down upon them.

[18:12]They say yes.

[18:15]Allahel says whatever they used to do on a normal day in

[18:18]which they were healthy write it for them.

[18:20]No matter how long their sickness takes one day, two days, 5

[18:27]days, 6 months, five years, let it be a terminal disease.

[18:30]I started a good habit today.

[18:34]I said, alhamdulillah, this Ramadan I'm going to start attending salah J.

[18:38]I attend two or three times, then I fall sick and I

[18:40]can never know.

[18:42]for the rest of my life, Allah will write meat because the

[18:44]reason I'm not going is because of the sickness.

[18:47]If it wasn't for the sickness, I would have went.

[18:50]How beautiful is that, brothers and sisters?

[18:51]And it's completely unlimited.

[18:54]One day visited Salman Farham.

[19:07]Imm Hussein Ali narrates this hadith.

[19:11]Imam Ali visits Salman al Fari because he heard Salman was sick

[19:18]and Salman was absent.

[19:19]So he went to visit Salman the great companion of Allah.

[19:25]He sat down next to Salman and he asked him a question.

[19:30]He told him that was the title of Salman.

[19:36]How do you feel in this sickness?

[19:39]Salman was a very wise and pious man, very righteous man.

[19:45]So he told Im Ali, alhamdulillah, I praise Allah, Allah a lot.

[19:59]Not just a little, you know, he's just saying that because it's

[20:03]what he's supposed to say.

[20:04]I praise Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala a lot.

[20:07]Salman is wise.

[20:10]He knows that the sickness is rahma from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

[20:15]to him.

[20:16]But then he tells im Ali, but I do complain from one

[20:23]thing, not from the sickness.

[20:27]I complain of boredom.

[20:30]I miss you.

[20:32]I'm bored.

[20:32]When you're sick, you just have to lay in bed the whole

[20:36]day.

[20:36]It's sometimes it's boring, especially if you're someone that's active.

[20:40]Salman, he's always with Im Ali Alisam, praying behind him, spending time

[20:44]with him.

[20:45]He's out.

[20:44]So, he's has to spend the whole day just lying in bed.

[20:50]He tells Ali, "That's my only issue is that I am bored."

[20:55]Im Ali gives him a remarkable reply.

[21:00]He tells him, "Yeah, Salman, do not be so bored." And then

[21:04]he explains to him what happens to the believer when they are

[21:10]sick, bored in their bed, waiting for the shifah from Allah subhana

[21:14]wa tala recovery to come down.

[21:15]Listen to the hadith of Im Ali.

[21:20]The IM told him, "Any one of my the SH of Ali.

[21:32]It is the greatest honor, brothers and sisters, to be a Shia

[21:38]of Im Ali.

[21:40]And being a Shia of Im Ali is decided through your actions,

[21:45]not just through your words, not just because I was born into

[21:48]this family, then you're automatically a Shia.

[21:52]You're automatically a Muslim if you're born to a Muslim, to Muslim

[21:58]parents.

[21:57]But you do not inherit the ta of your parents.

[22:01]Listen carefully brothers and sisters.

[22:02]My parents may be the best sh I will not inherit any

[22:08]of that automatically.

[22:09]To be a Ali is a position that every person has to

[22:16]earn.

[22:16]Follower.

[22:17]How do you be a Ali?

[22:18]You act like I Ali.

[22:21]You speak like I im Ali.

[22:23]You follow the teachings of Imam Ali.

[22:27]Obviously you cannot be like IM Ali but at least try try.

[22:30]The imam himself on the member one day he said look oh

[22:36]people you cannot be ali you can't ali is something else but

[22:38]at least try don't give up try to be honest try to

[22:44]be faithful to Allahh try to pray your salah on time try

[22:47]to stay away from haram you may slip a few times you

[22:51]may not be successful all the time but at least make it

[22:55]a goal the problem is many of us it's not even on

[22:56]our to-do list it's not even on our bucket list it's not

[23:00]something that We even strive to become like Imm Ali Alisam.

[23:04]I want to become like this athlete.

[23:07]I want to become like this singer.

[23:08]I want to become like this.

[23:08]Do you want to become like Imm Ali?

[23:10]You're not going to become like Ali.

[23:11]But do you want to?

[23:14]Is that even something that you wish?

[23:17]When you put it in your head and you strive and you

[23:19]work for it, at least you'll become 1% of IM Ali.

[23:23]And that's amazing.

[23:22]If I can be 1% of Ali.

[23:26]So the Imam said says he tells Salman any one of our

[23:33]Shia who faces an injury pain any type of suffering sickness that

[23:39]will be purification from their sins as we spoke about.

[23:44]So the Imam is telling Salman I know you might be bored

[23:49]but it's worth it.

[23:52]You're being purified.

[23:51]So Salman he asks a question.

[23:53]He says, "Is that the only benefit?

[23:57]We will have our sins cleansed." Salman rarely used to sin.

[24:04]He was very close to the level of being almost infallible.

[24:08]So, Salman is sitting there and you know what?

[24:10]I don't really sin that much.

[24:12]Probably couple of times a year.

[24:16]So, am I really benefiting from that?

[24:18]For sinful people, they should wish to always be sick because it's

[24:22]works for their benefit.

[24:22]But if I am not a sinful person and that's very very

[24:26]rare.

[24:27]We all are sinful individuals.

[24:28]Okay, I want more than just my sins being washed away.

[24:34]Imam replies to him.

[24:35]He tells him, "Look at how the system of Allah works.

[24:45]When we become sick or we suffer any type of injury, automatically

[24:51]the purification you're given, every minute of pain, of struggle, Allah will

[24:58]remove sins slowly off your back." However, do you get rewarded in

[25:05]addition to sins being forgiven?

[25:06]Does your status go higher in the eyes of Allah?

[25:10]Im Ali says that does not come for free.

[25:13]It's not automatic.

[25:12]You just need to do one thing.

[25:15]What is it?

[25:16]Be patient.

[25:18]If you are patient, Allah not only forgives your sins, but in

[25:22]addition, you're having two of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala systems working in

[25:27]your favor.

[25:29]At the same time that your sins are being forgiven, Allah is

[25:32]writing reward for you.

[25:36]Constant reward and elevating.

[25:37]You're just going up up up higher in the ranks of the

[25:43]believers just because you are what?

[25:44]You are patient.

[25:45]So he tells this to Salman.

[25:49]Patience brothers and sisters when we are sick is not as hard

[25:57]as you think.

[25:57]There's a hadith from where he explains what it means to be

[26:04]patient.

[26:04]He says the one that becomes sick.

[26:13]Whoever becomes sick and they are patient and they accept what's happening

[26:22]to them.

[26:22]Every night, listen carefully.

[26:27]Every night of sickness, Allah gives you how much?

[26:33]We spend it 100.

[26:35]We spent seven, eight, nine hours.

[26:37]We're told it's greater than how many nights?

[26:40]How many?

[26:42]Nobody knows?

[26:45]1,000 months.

[26:47]So 30,000 nights.

[26:50]So 30,000 nights is how many days or how many years?

[26:55]Almost 80, right?

[26:57]the greatest night out of the year.

[27:03]You have to spend it in right it's not it's easy but

[27:04]I mean you have to do something the [snorts] it's gonna take

[27:10]about an hour two hours the three suras of the Quran do

[27:16]somear but it's worth it you're getting 80 years of im says

[27:20]one night that you're sick but you're patient and I'll explain one

[27:24]second but you're patient Allah gives you the reward of 60 years,

[27:33]60 years.

[27:34]So when you're sitting in bed, you're bored, you may be suffering,

[27:40]you have a cold, a fever, pain, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala on

[27:43]that night that you sleep because you can barely even get asleep

[27:47]when you're sick.

[27:49]Allah will give you 60 years of as long as you're patient.

[27:51]So the Imam was asked, "What do you mean?

[27:53]HOW DO I ACCEPT?

[27:55]HOW DO I BECOME a patient individual?" The imam [snorts] in this

[27:59]hadith and another one he explains he says do not complain to

[28:02]Allah.

[28:03]Do not complain to anyone.

[28:05]When people come and visit you or when you see people after

[28:10]that don't start complaining the whole time.

[28:12]Oh man, you don't know what happened to me that night.

[28:14]I couldn't sleep.

[28:16]It was such a terrible night and I saw nightmares and I

[28:19]was sweating and this and that.

[28:23]First of all, who cares?

[28:23]Second of all, most people don't really care, right?

[28:27]They may act polite.

[28:27]Second of all, don't do that because once you complain to the

[28:30]created, you lose the from the creator.

[28:36]You are allowed to complain, brothers and sisters.

[28:38]But complain to Allah only.

[28:40]Tell him, "Ya Allah, help me.

[28:44]Ya Allah, I need strength from you.

[28:47]Ya Allah, bring down your cure upon me." Do not object.

[28:49]Some people will object.

[28:52]Why, ya Allah, I spoke about this.

[28:53]Why is this happening?

[28:54]Why am I not getting cured?

[28:55]Allah subhana t tell tells you because I love you.

[28:58]YOU SIN WAY TOO MUCH.

[29:00]I want to elevate your status.

[29:01]You think with your lousy salah you're going to get to paradise.

[29:03]You know salah that from A to Z it's all incorrect and

[29:09]fast and there's absolutely no concentration.

[29:11]Allah wants to take me to paradise to a higher level.

[29:14]He says there's that's the only way.

[29:17]There's nothing I can do.

[29:20]Everything all the other opportunities you turn down.

[29:21]You don't come.

[29:24]You don't even show up to any programs to the masjid Ramadan.

[29:28]You're busy in sahas and doing this and that.

[29:32]So Allah says, you know what?

[29:32]I'm going to force you to go to paradise by what?

[29:37]By sending sickness.

[29:37]That's because he loves me.

[29:40]So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the hadith, he says, do not

[29:43]complain to other human beings and do not object to Allah.

[29:49]You can tell other human beings that you were sick.

[29:50]You're just informing them.

[29:54]But do not complain.

[29:54]The Imam says, "If you can withhold the venting," and I know

[30:01]this is very hard for some people.

[30:03]They love venting.

[30:02]Venting, you know, it's it's a way to relax.

[30:06]It's a way to let out all that stress and grief.

[30:10]You can vent, but vent to Allahel.

[30:11]This is what the imams would do.

[30:14]The prophets anytime they would have problems, anytime they would have any

[30:18]type of suffering or difficulty in life, they would vent to Allah.

[30:23]But don't object to Allah.

[30:24]Tell them, "Ya Allah, ya, ya Allah, you are the one that

[30:26]can do miracles.

[30:28]You can change everything.

[30:30]Give me patience." All you need is patience, brothers and sisters.

[30:34]If Allah gives you patience, you can withstand the greatest of the

[30:39]sicknesses and diseases.

[30:39]That's all you need.

[30:41]You know, MS, it's narrated that he used to read a dua,

[30:44]a beautiful dua.

[30:45]He used to say, "Ya Allah, do not make me too sick

[30:51]such that I collapse, nor keep me healthy all the time." He

[30:59]doesn't want pure health all the time, nor sick all the time.

[31:05]He asks Allah, give me something right in the middle.

[31:08]Some days I'm sick, so I start appreciating your favors.

[31:15]And some days I am healthy.

[31:19]So on those healthy days, I can use those healthy days to

[31:27]worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to really value what I lost when

[31:30]I was sick.

[31:32]So we have to experience both.

[31:34]Brothers and sisters, you will never appreciate your health unless you become

[31:38]sick.

[31:39]You will never appreciate all the beautiful organs that Allahawel has given

[31:44]you until one of them starts malfunctioning.

[31:47]Inshallah allahel doesn't need to take you to that level so that

[31:54]you start to appreciate him.

[31:54]But if if if it had to be and that was the

[32:00]will of Allah know that it's for your own good.

[32:01]So he asked Allah subhana wa ta'ala the best dua is ya

[32:06]Allah mixed sickness with health.

[32:07]Some days I'm sick, some days I am healthy.

[32:12]This is the best for your spiritual well-being.

[32:16]So anyway, I im Ali going back to that story tell Salman

[32:23]if you're patient and you complain only to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,

[32:28]not only will Allahawel forgive your sins, not only will Allah write

[32:36]for you whatever good deeds that you were naturally doing but you

[32:40]cannot do because of your sickness, Allah will even write you more

[32:44]good deeds that you never even did.

[32:47]And this is a notion that you will never find but with

[32:51]Allah.

[32:52]Brothers and sisters, imagine if your employer tells you, "If you come

[32:57]to work eight hours, I'll pay you $100.

[33:01]But if you're sick in your bed, I'll pay you $300." Which

[33:07]one would you choose?

[33:10]Well, you might say, "Which sickness?" Right?

[33:12]Which sickness?

[33:14]And how many days?

[33:14]Well, maybe a week of sickness.

[33:16]That's worth it.

[33:19]I'm not doing anything.

[33:19]I'm just sleeping on my bed.

[33:22]And I'm getting paid.

[33:24]I'm not just getting paid.

[33:25]I'm getting paid double, triple what I would get paid if I

[33:31]would go to work.

[33:30]This is what happens to a believer when they get sick.

[33:35]Allah says, "Look, on a normal day, you spent that night praying,

[33:40]reading Quran.

[33:42]Tonight you're sick.

[33:43]Not only will I forgive your sins, I'll give you the ofat.

[33:49]I'll give you even more and you didn't pray.

[33:52]Is it better to be sick, brothers and sisters, or healthy all

[33:57]the time?

[33:57]Be healthy all the time, you're just preventing denying yourself from all

[34:00]that beautiful free thaw.

[34:03]But to be sick all the time is also tough.

[34:05]So that's why the dua of MS says, "Ya Allah, let me

[34:10]be sick some days and let me be healthy some other days."

[34:14]And this is exactly what Allah does to most people, right?

[34:17]There's nobody, very rare, people are sick their whole life.

[34:22]And I don't think there's anybody that's healthy their entire life.

[34:26]And that's why everything, brothers and sisters, that comes from Allah subhanahu

[34:30]wa ta'ala, appreciate it.

[34:33]Thank Allah for it because Allah is only doing it for my

[34:36]own good.

[34:38]I may not understand until the day of judgment.

[34:41]There's a hadith that I read.

[34:42]It's so beautiful.

[34:43]You know, in the month of Ramadan, I mentioned this and we

[34:46]hear this every year.

[34:49]What's beautiful about Ramadan and what makes it unique and remarkable is

[34:52]that when you breathe, Allah writes for you.

[34:54]Subhan Allah.

[34:55]And when you sleep, Allah counts that as there's a from where

[35:03]he tells im Ali, he tells him, "Yeah, Ali, the one who

[35:10]is sick, injured, in pain, what do they do sometimes?

[35:14]They moan.

[35:15]They moan.

[35:18]They'll be saying, "Ouch." Making some noises because of the pain.

[35:22]The prophet tells im Ali a sick individual that moans Allah writes

[35:35]that as long as you do not complain to people only to

[35:43]Allah hadith a beautiful hadith from im he says when those two

[35:49]angels come to see what you're doing after they're informed by Allah

[35:53]subhana wa ta'ala.

[35:55]Of course, Allah knows that this person is sick and he's not

[35:59]doing their Allahawel now he turns to these two angels.

[36:02]The one on your right that writes your good deeds.

[36:03]The one on your left that writes your sins.

[36:06]He looks at the one on the left and he gives that

[36:10]angel on the left who I sure all despise because he's constantly

[36:13]writing our bad deeds.

[36:17]He tells that angel, "As long as Abidi, the servant of mine

[36:22]is sick, you have no right, r i g ht, to write

[36:26]w r i t e any sin against this individual, as long

[36:32]as he is sick, because I made him sick, do not write

[36:36]any sins." Now, does that mean you can go on a sinning

[36:37]spree if you're sick?

[36:40]No.

[36:41]Don't abuse Allah's mercy because Allah is smarter than you.

[36:44]Allahel wants you to feel better emotionally.

[36:47]That look, I'll be more forgiving.

[36:50]I'll be more lenient because you're sick.

[36:53]That doesn't mean take that as an excuse to commit every haram

[36:56]in the book.

[36:58]And then he orders the one on the right.

[37:01]He says, "You yell get to work.

[37:02]The other guy can rest.

[37:03]Get to work and start writing worship for this man." So the

[37:07]hadith says that angel looks at you and you're just in your

[37:09]bed not doing anything and you're just making all these noises and

[37:13]you're moaning.

[37:12]Allah what do I write?

[37:15]All he's doing is making these annoying noises because of the pain.

[37:18]What do you want me to write?

[37:19]Allahawel tells him those annoying voices to you they are to me

[37:24]write.

[37:27]And then the prophet says sometimes the pain is so severe you

[37:34]start screaming.

[37:33]That is also a couple of months ago, some of you heard

[37:37]about the story.

[37:39]One of the brothers of our community, he was studying in another

[37:42]state.

[37:43]A very a very tragic incident happened where he was injured his

[37:48]leg and they had to amputate his leg.

[37:52]A young man studying in another state, they had to amputate his

[38:00]feet, his leg, and this is above the knee.

[38:01]and he spent I think two or three months in the hospital.

[38:09][snorts] I spoke to one of the relatives of this young man

[38:11]19 I think or 20 years old very promising future in front

[38:18]of him.

[38:20]He lost his leg.

[38:21]I spoke to one of his relatives after he went and visited

[38:25]him from here from Michigan in the hospital.

[38:28]I said how is he doing?

[38:29]Is he is he okay?

[38:31]Okay.

[38:31]And it was probably like a couple of weeks after the amputation.

[38:35]They said, "Say it.

[38:36]It's the worst place to be, just to be by that person.

[38:41]It's so heartbreaking." I said, "Why?" They said, "Because he is shouting

[38:45]the whole time." Said, "Why?" He said, "Because of the pain." I

[38:50]said, "There's no painkillers." They said, "There are painkillers, but even painkillers

[38:53]have a limit.

[38:56]You can't just keep on giving those high doses.

[38:57]you could you're only allowed to have you know this much within

[39:01]an hour or two hours and it's not enough.

[39:04]So what does he do?

[39:04]He just shouts.

[39:06]He's not complaining to anybody.

[39:08]HE JUST SHOUTS OUCH THE WHOLE TIME.

[39:11]The prophet says every time that person shouts and screams Allah writes

[39:17]that asik and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wrote that entire stay in

[39:23]the hospital as every minute every night of it.

[39:27]So yes, you suffer, you go through a lot of difficulties, but

[39:30]in the end it's worth it.

[39:33]And anytime brothers and sisters, we speak about patience in the face

[39:42]of sickness, the most inspiring story or one of the most inspiring

[39:45]stories that we are told of in the Quran is the story

[39:53]of prophet Aub.

[39:53]It is so touching.

[39:55]Allahel speaks about this prophet Aub in multiple verses.

[40:04]Aub was the son-in-law of Ysef.

[40:08]Ysef the king, the prophet.

[40:10]Some traditions say he married the daughter.

[40:15]Some say the granddaughter.

[40:15]His wife obviously was the most beautiful woman of her time because

[40:21]Ysef is her father.

[40:23]Yousef was the most beautiful person Allah ever created.

[40:26]So that's I you see you know I'm related to Ysef.

[40:31]That's where anyway.

[40:34]So I'm not related to Ysef.

[40:42]I'm joking.

[40:42]So Aub has a perfect life.

[40:49]He's a prophet but he was rich.

[40:51]He owned massive lands.

[40:53]He owned all this livestock, the most beautiful wife.

[40:57]And he had all these children.

[40:59]Some traditions 10 children.

[41:03]I saw a tradition that says 18 children.

[41:03]So he had the best life possible.

[41:07]The shaitan [snorts] is envious.

[41:10]He can't stand it.

[41:13]He sees this guy has the best of both worlds.

[41:14]He's living like a king and he's a prophet.

[41:17]It doesn't make sense.

[41:20]Where's the suffering?

[41:20]See, it's not brothers and sisters, it's not easy becoming a prophet.

[41:23]The prophets of Allah have the most difficult lives.

[41:27]Trust me.

[41:29]You think your life is miserable.

[41:30]You think your life is tough.

[41:32]You think you're suffering.

[41:32]Every single prophet suffers more than every other nonprofit.

[41:38]That's why they become prophets is because of their patience and their

[41:42]dedication and their resilience.

[41:44]So the shaitan, he starts complaining to Allah.

[41:47]He says, "Ya Allah, the only reason Aub is such a good

[41:52]person and he's always praying on time and he's thanking you because

[41:54]you gave him everything.

[41:55]If you give me everything, I'll do the same." Allah tells him,

[42:00]"No, I know." Aub Aub is a genuine person, not opportunistic.

[42:03]Shaitan keeps on complaining.

[42:07]Allahawel decides to try Aub with a very difficult test to show

[42:14]that aub is a true gem.

[42:17]So all of the sudden one day Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala takes

[42:23]away all his property.

[42:23]There's a huge fire.

[42:26]He loses everything.

[42:27]They tell him all your lands, your orchards, the animals, anything you

[42:35]used to own all died, all gone.

[42:38]The hadith that's narrated, you know what he did?

[42:40]quickly went to sujud and he thanked allahel.

[42:45]He thanked allahel such that the angels of Allah were impressed.

[42:52]Sometimes brothers and sisters I tear my $20 shirt or dress and

[42:56]I'm complaining for an hour about it.

[42:59]Loses everything and he does sujud thanking Allahawel.

[43:03]He said Allah gave it to me.

[43:06]Allah can take it back whenever he wants.

[43:08]I didn't lose anything.

[43:08]It wasn't mine to begin with.

[43:10][snorts] Soan, he's like, "Ya Allah, well, you just took his property.

[43:18]What about his kids?

[43:18]He has all these beautiful kids.

[43:20]He's going to rebuild his business again." So Allahel in one day,

[43:27]you see how the test of prophets is so difficult.

[43:29]The shaitan starts what?

[43:34]He starts messing with you and he starts to focus all of

[43:40]his animosity against you because for most of us the shaitan doesn't

[43:45]have time for us.

[43:44]He has smaller working for him.

[43:48]He sends them to us.

[43:49]But the prophets of Allah and the imams know he knows that

[43:51]he has to go after them and he can't.

[43:58]So Allah takes all of his children.

[43:58]Just one day something happens, an accident.

[44:02]Every single child of his dies.

[44:04]They're not children, sons and daughters.

[44:06]10 or 18 depending on the different narrations.

[44:09]They tell him the the news.

[44:11]They break the news.

[44:14]If you're told that one child is sick in the hospital, what

[44:16]do you do?

[44:18]Imagine if you're told that every single son and daughter just died.

[44:21]What does he do?

[44:22]Once again, he goes to sujud.

[44:24]He says, "Allah, you're the one that brought them to this dunya

[44:30]and you're the one that took them back to you.

[44:32]They're not dead.

[44:33]They just move to a different life.

[44:35]I thank you, Ya Allah." The shaitan is so aggravated.

[44:38]What's up with this guy?

[44:40]There's nothing that will break him down.

[44:42]He asks Allah subhana t for more for more suffering for a

[44:50]and Allah knows Aub can take it.

[44:52]So then poverty begins to strike.

[44:55]He has no food to eat.

[44:59]Then he starts getting sick.

[45:01]He can't move his hands.

[45:04]He can't move his feet.

[45:05]He can't do anything until he becomes fully paralyzed and in pain.

[45:11]The only thing that he could do, the only thing that was

[45:13]functioning in his body, his eyes, he could see his ears.

[45:17]He could hear and his tongue, he could speak very slowly or

[45:22]else he was on the floor.

[45:23]So now he cannot even get food for himself.

[45:29]His children are all dead.

[45:32]The community abandon him.

[45:37]You know why?

[45:38]Because they start saying if Aub was really a prophet and Allah

[45:44]loved him, Allah would not take away all these good things from

[45:48]him.

[45:48]And this brothers and sisters is what really hurt Aub.

[45:52]You know there's a tradition from one of the imams where he

[45:54]says after au after this entire story A aub was asked what

[46:00]was the most difficult test that you went through losing the children

[46:04]losing you know the poverty the the humili he said the worst

[46:07]thing was the gloating of my own socalled religious community we thought

[46:14]you were religious we thought you were a prophet this is what

[46:20]really broke his heart and I've heard Some people who go through

[46:25]difficulties, disease, sickness, they have a a a child who is handicapped

[46:30]and they tell me that the pain of what people say about

[46:38]us behind our backs and sometimes no even in your face, no

[46:41]shame, is more than the pain of the actual disease or virus

[46:45]or the problem that we have.

[46:46]We don't know brothers and sisters how much damage this tongue can

[46:49]do when we speak about other people and we start to give

[46:54]all these interpretations.

[46:54]Why is this business going down?

[46:56]Why is his health going down?

[46:58]Why did he get divorced?

[46:58]Why?

[46:59]Why?

[47:00]Always giving it bad interpretations.

[47:03]He became sick.

[47:04]He can't eat.

[47:06]His wife, her name was Rahma.

[47:09]So either the daughter of Ysef or the granddaughter.

[47:12]She wants to provide for her husband.

[47:14]She doesn't want to leave him.

[47:17]Very righteous woman.

[47:17]You know what she started doing?

[47:19]She was the daughter of Ysef King.

[47:21]They were so wealthy.

[47:25]She started working as a maid just so she can buy enough

[47:29]bread for her and her husband.

[47:29]That's how their life became.

[47:33]Yet they were so thankful to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

[47:39]You know what's really heartbreaking?

[47:42]The tradition says that one day his wife she went to serve

[47:48]in another house.

[47:50]They told her we don't need you today.

[47:52]She wanted to go serve some nobody wanted her.

[47:55]Nobody even wanted her to work as a maid because they're like

[48:01]this is a cursed family.

[48:01]God doesn't love them.

[48:05]So she found a salon somewhere far, a woman's salon.

[48:08]And she went and she asked the person there, "Can I work

[48:13]here and help you?" The lady said, "Sorry, no, we don't.

[48:17]There's no need." But she said, "But maybe I can help you

[48:20]somehow." How?

[48:21]She says, "Can I see your hair?" So that lady that owes

[48:25]the salah, she says, "Can I see your hair?" The wife of

[48:27]Aub, she says, "Yes." She looks at her hair.

[48:30]She sees it's very good, nice hair.

[48:31]She's like, "If you sell me your hair, I'll give you this

[48:34]amount of money." My hair?

[48:36]sell it to you?

[48:38]She's like, "Yeah, I can sell it as a wig and make

[48:41]a lot of money, so I'll I'll pay you for it." And

[48:42]she wasn't even paying her that much.

[48:43]She thinks it's a very difficult decision.

[48:47]What do I do here?

[48:50]She does not complain once.

[48:51]She says, "Fine, take it." She sells her hair so she can

[48:55]buy some food for Aub the prophet and herself.

[48:58]And she goes back home.

[49:00]when Aub found out his heart was so broken that he knew

[49:04]his wife had to sell her hair just to bring him food

[49:11]and then some of those so-called worshippers those monks they came to

[49:16]visit Aub and they're like yeah Aub's going on what sin did

[49:20]you do that Allah is doing this to you know how many

[49:22]years he was suffering seven years the hadith says seven years and

[49:29]not once did he ask Allah ya Allah Allah cure me such

[49:31]that his wife the hadith says asked him you're a prophet ask

[49:36]Allah to bring that end to this misery he said I'm embarrassed

[49:39]to ask Allah to cure me said why how many years did

[49:45]Allah give me those good days how many they were more than

[49:48]seven years they were let's say 20 years whenever my sickness becomes

[49:52]longer than my good days that's when I'll ask Allah to cure

[49:56]me I'm embarrassed I'm ashamed to ask Allah subhana wa ta'ala Not

[50:00]once.

[50:01]Can you believe that?

[50:01]He asked Allahawel to cure him.

[50:02]He was just praising Allah all the time.

[50:05]But when those so-called worshippers came and they started to stigmatize him

[50:10]and what sin did you do?

[50:11]This is when he turned to Allahawel and he did a dua.

[50:18]Allah records his dua in the Quran.

[50:19]What did he say?

[50:23]When he told Allah and he cried to Allah subhana wa ta'ala,

[50:36]ya Allah, you see my situation.

[50:39]You see all the tragedies and the pain and suffering and you

[50:43]are the most merciful.

[50:43]He did not even ask Allah to cure him.

[50:46]He just said, "Ya Allah, you see what I'm going through and

[50:50]you're so merciful." As soon as he made the dua, Allahel, he

[50:54]sent an angel.

[50:57]He erupted.

[50:59]The angel erupted a a like a well or a spring right

[51:02]by his feet and he took from that water and he poured

[51:07]it on Aub.

[51:09]As soon as the water fell on Aub's body, he recovered just

[51:17]like day one.

[51:20]And Allahel CURED HIM OF ALL HIS SICKNESSES.

[51:23]See the next verse.

[51:25]Allah says, Allah says that I answered his dua and I relieved

[51:32]them of his misery.

[51:36]And then Allah resurrected his sons and daughters, all of them.

[51:42]And he gave him more kids.

[51:43]and he gave him his property and everything that he has lost.

[51:48][snorts] And then allahel ends the verse by saying that let this

[51:55]be a lesson a reminder for all those that worship Allah all

[52:01]those that claim to be righteous that when you are in a

[52:06]state of despair and you're suffering allahel can also help you and

[52:10]save you.

[52:11]But sometimes Allah wants you to be patient so that you can

[52:15]reach those high levels of iman and be with the prophets and

[52:18]imams.

[52:19]May Allahel grant you all the best in this world.

[52:24]May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accept your may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

[52:27]forgive us of all our deeds.

[52:29]Anyone that is sick, ya Allah, we ask you to give them

[52:35]patience, to give them patience and resilience and to eventually cure them

[52:39]and elevate their status.

[52:39]And let us end by reciting surah fat for all the believers

[52:44]all the and that are in need after a loud salawat for

[52:47]Muhammad and al Muhammad.

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