Nothing Comes Without Struggle - Sayed Saleh Qazwini

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[0:00]was.

[0:18]Alhamdulillah.

[0:20]Alhamdulillah.

[0:29]forham.

[0:59]Aliuhammed Ali Muhammaduhammed Ali Muhammad [Music] [Music] My dear brothers and sisters,

[1:51]we understand from this verse in Kaboot that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

[2:01]will guide you towards the haya and towards guidance.

[2:11]You need Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to reach your end goal.

[2:15]Allah says in the Quran to reach your ultimate goal in life

[2:26]which is to be on the path of God to have Allah

[2:32]subhanahu wa ta'ala pleased with you.

[2:35]You are in need of guidance.

[2:37]That means that I cannot be guided on my own.

[2:43]just on my own I cannot be guided.

[2:48]I need Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for the guidance and this is

[2:52]why every day we ask Allah guide me to the straight path.

[3:01]This is why we say alhamdulill God is the one who guided

[3:07]us to the faith.

[3:07]I would not have been guided on my own.

[3:10]And we need to understand that anything good that we do this

[3:16]comes from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

[3:18]This is the first point.

[3:23]To be on the right path, you need the support of God.

[3:28]Number two, Allah says in the Quran, to reach your ultimate goal,

[3:36]which is to be with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and have God

[3:40]pleased with you.

[3:42]Does it just come for free?

[3:43]Does it just come without difficulties, without pain, without challenges?

[3:48]No.

[3:49]Allah says in the Quran, you have to strive, you have to

[3:54]struggle, you have to put effort in order to be on the

[4:01]right path.

[4:03]So we understand that nothing comes for free in this dunya.

[4:06]If I want to have a strong family, if I want to

[4:10]have a good career, if I want to be healthy, if I

[4:12]want to have a business, whatever it is, I need to struggle.

[4:18]Well, when it comes to haya, when it comes to guidance and

[4:21]being on the path of God and having Allah subhana wa ta'ala

[4:27]pleased with me, similarly, I need to struggle.

[4:31]And we understand that when it comes to our daytoday life, we

[4:35]struggle every day.

[4:35]There are people they get up from morning, the sun has not

[4:41]come out yet, and they come home and the sun has set.

[4:43]They're working all day.

[4:46]You ask them why.

[4:46]He says I have to work.

[4:48]They have to work.

[4:48]They have to struggle.

[4:51]I need to make a living.

[4:52]We understand that we must put effort for this dunya.

[4:57]But some of us we find it very difficult to understand and

[5:00]comprehend when it comes to the we expect the haya to just

[5:06]come for free.

[5:04]We expect the guidance to come for free.

[5:08]We expect to have that spirituality and go to heaven and have

[5:11]our duas answered without any struggle whatsoever.

[5:15]But that is not how it works.

[5:19]You need to struggle just like you struggle for the you have

[5:25]to struggle and strive for the and you have to pursue certain

[5:31]things.

[5:30]What are the important things that we must pursue in life?

[5:35]You ask an average person, you tell them, "What do you chase

[5:41]after?

[5:42]What do you pursue in your life?" They'll tell you, "I pursue

[5:46]wealth.

[5:47]I pursue my money.

[5:47]I pursue my career." This is probably the number one thing that

[5:52]everyone pursues.

[5:54]And this is something that is okay.

[5:57]Every single one of us, we have to make a livelihood.

[6:01]We have to make a living.

[6:03]But is it the most important thing to pursue?

[6:06]No.

[6:07]The hadith of he tells his son he tells him there's two

[6:23]types of sustenance.

[6:26]There's one sustenance which you chase, you go after, and you have

[6:29]to work for.

[6:31]But there's another type of sustenance that you don't even need to

[6:34]pursue.

[6:34]You don't even need to strive for.

[6:36]You don't even need to work for.

[6:38]It has been destined for you.

[6:39]And it will come to you.

[6:40]Whether you work for it or not, it will come to you.

[6:45]He tells him if you don't go to it, it will come

[6:56]to you.

[6:54]You see most of the most of the sustenance that we have

[7:00]in our life it's actually sustenance that has come to us my

[7:04]parents my family my children all of that I don't need to

[7:10]work hard for it Allah subhana wa ta'ala sends it my way

[7:12]and most of the sustenance that we have in our life it's

[7:18]because God has sent it to us so do I really need

[7:22]to have that stress and that anxiety over pursuing risk, over pursuing

[7:27]sustenance when sustenance has already been promised to me.

[7:29]Allah subhana wa ta'ala promises me that my sustenance for as long

[7:35]as I'm alive is going to continue to pour down upon me,

[7:38]continue to come down upon me.

[7:39]However, while the majority of us, you ask a person, what do

[7:45]you pursue in life?

[7:45]They say, I have to get rich.

[7:47]I have to make money.

[7:48]I have to pay the bills.

[7:48]I have to do this.

[7:50]I have to do that.

[7:50]We're pursuing wealth.

[7:53]But there are more important things that we must pursue and they

[7:57]will not come to us if we don't pursue them.

[8:01]So what are the things in life that I need to go

[8:06]after and will not come for me to me for free will

[8:07]not come to me if I don't run after.

[8:09]So risk will come to me.

[8:13]There is a type of risk that will come to me even

[8:14]if I don't go after it.

[8:17]But there's something else that is probably even more important than risk

[8:22]and sustenance that I have to chase and go after.

[8:24]Number one, knowledge.

[8:27]Knowledge is something that you have to pursue.

[8:31]It's not something that will come to you.

[8:34]Can I just sit idle and exp and and expect to have

[8:38]my knowledge increase?

[8:38]No.

[8:38]But maybe I could sit idle and I could have passive income.

[8:43]That's something that could happen.

[8:45]But knowledge will never come in a passive way.

[8:47]Knowledge is something that you have to seek.

[8:50]You have to work for.

[8:52]You have to strive for, you have to put effort and time

[8:55]and energy.

[8:57]This is why we say seeking knowledge meaning you have to work

[9:02]for it.

[9:04]You have to seek it.

[9:08]And says, "Seeking knowledge, meaning going after it, pursuing it is an

[9:19]obligation upon every Muslim, male or female.

[9:21]But seeking risk is not an obligation because there's a type of

[9:27]risk that will come to you.

[9:28]Yes, you have to work for your for to make a living,

[9:32]but the risk is already guaranteed for you.

[9:35]But seeking knowledge, it's not guaranteed if I'm just sitting idally.

[9:39]I need to go to it.

[9:39]I need to strive and work for it.

[9:41]And this is why we see Musam.

[9:46]And last night we were explaining this verse.

[9:47]Prophet MS who's a prophet of God.

[9:51]Allah tells him there is someone more knowledgeable than you.

[9:55]And MS who's a grand great prophet of Allah from the prophets

[9:59]he sets off on a journey to seek knowledge.

[10:08][Music] He says I'm not going to quit.

[10:14]I'm going to seek that knowledge and I'm going to find that

[10:16]knowledgeable person.

[10:18]What does that teach you?

[10:19]That teaches you that there are certain things that are more valuable

[10:22]than wealth.

[10:24]There are certain things that are more valuable than having money and

[10:28]one of them is seeking knowledge.

[10:30]Seeking knowledge is something that you have to pursue.

[10:34]You don't wait for knowledge to come to you.

[10:35]You have to go to the knowledge.

[10:40]Number two, another thing that we have to chase and we have

[10:43]to pursue and we have to go after and this dunya is

[10:49]our imam.

[10:49]Your im is someone that you have to go to.

[10:52]Your im does not come to you.

[10:57]You need to go to your im.

[10:58]And Allah says in the Quran on the day of judgment we

[11:07]will summon everyone by their im.

[11:09]That means every person needs to know who their im is.

[11:12]Every person needs to know who they follow.

[11:14]And you have to go to the imam.

[11:17]This is why when Imam al Mai rises, may Allah hasten his

[11:23]reappearance, will he come to the people or will he make an

[11:25]announcement and people will go to him?

[11:28]People will have to go to him.

[11:32]We will have to no matter how busy, no matter how busy

[11:34]my schedule is, what's going on in my life, if I want

[11:38]to be with my imam, what do I have to do?

[11:41]I have to drop everything and I go to my im.

[11:44]And this is the same thing that happened with Ali.

[11:48]After the death of s they came and they said why didn't

[11:57]fight for power why didn't he go and tell people follow me

[11:59]here and follow me here and force them and cause wars the

[12:04]same way others did his philosophy was different why because he says

[12:09]they tell him why don't you go and chase the power the

[12:15]way other people are he tells them I heard a hadith from

[12:18]He says, he says, "You, oh Ali," and this is narrated in

[12:29]many sources.

[12:31]He says, "You Ali, you are like thea." People go to thea.

[12:34]Thea does not go to anyone else.

[12:36]You are like the [Music] to him tells him if they come

[12:52]to you and they seek you because you are the more knowledgeable

[12:54]one.

[12:55]You are the more valuable one.

[12:56]If they seek you then you accept them but if they don't

[13:01]come to you then you don't go after them.

[13:03]You don't go after them.

[13:05]They won't be worthy of having an imam like Ali.

[13:08]But on the day of judgment, everyone is in need of their

[13:13]im and everyone needs to stand behind their im.

[13:17]Everyone will have to stand behind their imam on the day of

[13:25]judgment.

[13:23]So these are some examples of certain things that we have to

[13:29]pursue in life.

[13:28]Yes, I pursue wealth, but to a degree it's not as important

[13:33]as we make it seem like because risk is two types of

[13:38]risk.

[13:36]is one that you seek but the more important one is the

[13:40]one that seeks you.

[13:40]I don't need to chase it.

[13:43]I could have passive income but knowledge.

[13:45]Can I have passive knowledge?

[13:47]No.

[13:48]Knowledge is something that I have to seek.

[13:50]Same with your imam.

[13:52]I can't just sit idle and expect to be a follower of

[13:57]my imam.

[13:55]I need to prove to my im that I am a loyal

[13:59]and devout and sincere follower.

[14:01]That's how I prove that I'm a follower of the imam.

[14:04]And inshallah in the second we'll give an example of someone who

[14:08]pursued that and that guidance through one of the companions of allham

[14:31]Muhammad Allah Alhamdulillah.

[14:41]Alhamdulillah.

[15:17]Aliham.

[15:20]Aliuhammed.

[15:44]Hassini Hussein Muhammad Ali Muhammad Hassni Shar [Music] Continuing the discussion on

[16:18]haya guidance which we mentioned that guidance is something that Allah subhanahu

[16:25]wa ta'ala grants it does not come for free and guidance is

[16:29]something that you have to work for guidance is not something that

[16:33]I don't pursue and it just comes to me, I need to

[16:37]pursue it.

[16:39]I need to chase it.

[16:38]I need to go after it.

[16:43]And if Allah subhana wa ta'ala in this verse that we began

[16:47]with if someone is sincere in finding guidance with a true believing

[17:02]heart with genuine sincerity Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will guide you to

[17:07]the truth no matter how far your odds might be no matter

[17:10]how low your odds might be to being guided.

[17:14]If someone is truly sincere, Allah will guide them.

[17:18]This is the rule of Allah subhana wa ta'ala.

[17:20]Don't think that Islam for example is only for those people who

[17:27]were with near the prophet and close to Islam could be for

[17:32]someone that you don't even imagine one day this person being a

[17:36]believer yet people will become believers.

[17:39]And this is what happened with Islam.

[17:41]There were people who were close to the prophet, the people of

[17:47]Mecca, Abu Lahab, the uncle of the prophet.

[17:49]They were close to the prophet.

[17:51]They should have been the first people to believe.

[17:54]But they were, some of them did not believe and others fought

[17:59]for many years.

[18:01]While there were others that were far that when you think about

[18:04]it, this per you'd say this person is very far from Islam.

[18:09]Yet they believe in Islam and they take it.

[18:11]This is why my dear brothers and sisters, one rule especially for

[18:15]us Muslims living in a predominantly non-Muslim society, don't ever don't ever

[18:22]assume that someone is not worthy of haya.

[18:25]No matter where they come from, no matter what their language is,

[18:28]no matter what their background is, don't ever assume that they're not

[18:33]worthy of guidance because they might be more accepting to the truth

[18:40]than the people who you think are born with the truth and

[18:44]people who you expect to have the truth by default.

[18:48]And one of the most beautiful stories of one of the sahab

[18:54]of shows us this verse.

[19:01]Those who strive and struggle for our cause, they will definitely find

[19:07]it.

[19:08]You just need to have a pure heart.

[19:10]You just need to have that sincerity and Allah will guide you

[19:14]to the truth.

[19:17]And this companion was Salman Pharisee.

[19:20]Salman al- Farese.

[19:20]He was not born in the Arabian Peninsula.

[19:22]He was not from Mecca.

[19:23]He was born in the Persian Empire to a family of Zarastrians.

[19:30]They used to worship the fire.

[19:34]And Salman, he used to be he was born in a house

[19:37]that his father used to take care of the fire and maintain

[19:41]the fire of the Zerastrians.

[19:44]And his father one day he summons him, he tells him, I

[19:49]want you to go and bring me something.

[19:53]So Salman leaves the temple and he is in in his city

[20:00]they say from Isahan and he is he is walking out and

[20:03]he meets a group of Christians.

[20:07]At that time Christianity was a new religion.

[20:08]It was it hasn't been very long maybe 100 years 200 years

[20:16]300 years from the time of uh from the time of Isaam.

[20:20]So Christianity was very close to the truth.

[20:23]It was a very logical it hadn't been deviated the way later

[20:29]on it deviated.

[20:28]So Salman he's young he sees the group of Christians and right

[20:35]away he feels attracted.

[20:35]He sees that this message makes sense monotheism and it's close to

[20:41]so he starts listening to them and he wants to join their

[20:45]faith.

[20:46]He goes to his father.

[20:46]He tells his father I want to be with the Christians.

[20:51]His father punishes him.

[20:51]He scolds him and he tells him, "You're trapped here." And he

[20:58]ties him up and he keeps him in the temple, the Zarastrian

[21:03]temple.

[21:01]Now, Salman, when you taste the truth, when you taste freedom, you

[21:09]can't go back to how life was.

[21:12]So, Salman, he made it his effort and he put all his

[21:15]effort so that he leaves and he escap escapes.

[21:18]He sends in one way or another he sends a message to

[21:23]these people the Christians at that time and they come and they

[21:27]rescue him.

[21:28]They come and they rescue him and he ends up leaving the

[21:30]temple and he ends up leaving Persia and he goes all the

[21:36]way to the hub of Christianity at that time which was Damascus.

[21:40]He goes to Damascus and there he is living with the priest,

[21:48]the high priest of the time and he is taking in that

[21:51]knowledge.

[21:52]He's consuming that haya and that knowledge and after he he goes

[21:58]there then he travels to get higher levels of knowledge.

[22:03]He goes to an area by the name of Nusin which is

[22:09]on the border of Syria and Turkey.

[22:11]And there he meets the high chief, the high priest and he

[22:16]is being taught under that high priest.

[22:18]Many years pass, many years pass and Salman has become an expert

[22:25]in Christianity.

[22:25]Before that high priest dies, he tells him, "Oh, Salman," of course

[22:30]his name was not Salman at that time.

[22:32]It was Ruseba.

[22:35]He tells him, "Oh, Rusebah, I want you to go and pursue

[22:39]that final messenger." And it is going to be around this time

[22:45]that the final messenger is going to reveal himself in the Arabian

[22:50]Peninsula in Ythre.

[22:50]So, Salman, the man dies and Salman, he finds a caravan.

[22:56]Look at the struggles.

[22:56]He left his father.

[22:59]He was imprisoned.

[22:59]Now he comes here and he keeps pursuing the knowledge.

[23:04]You have to strive for the cause of God.

[23:06]He goes and he finds a caravan.

[23:10]He tells them, "I brought my food with me.

[23:12]I have money I'll give you.

[23:14]I want you to deliver me to Yreb." Of course, how is

[23:16]he going to travel in the desert?

[23:19]He needs a caravan.

[23:20]the caravan.

[23:22]They tell him okay.

[23:21]They take him and once they reach close to the borders of

[23:28]Ythre, which later on becomes Medina, that caravan, they turn against him.

[23:34]They come and they enslave him and then they hand him over

[23:37]to the to a Jewish tribe in in Ythreb.

[23:41]They hand him over and they say he's a slave.

[23:44]And if he tells you he's not a slave, he's lying.

[23:49]So they they sell him to that Jewish tribe in so now

[23:51]Salman who was a free man born in the Persian Empire he

[23:57]goes to Damascus then he goes to now he is a slave

[24:03]in to a Jewish tribe he's working and he ends up working

[24:09]in the farms dates and he makes these straw mats the as

[24:13]he's doing that one day he hears a group of the Jews

[24:18]years probably pass.

[24:18]He hears groups of the Jews talking.

[24:20]They say they say to each other, "Do you know what these

[24:26]fools," the people of Medina, the Ansar who were the at the

[24:28]time they invited the prophet, they the Jews, they say, "Do you

[24:34]know what these fools what they did?

[24:36]They invited a man from Mecca from Quraysh and they accepted him

[24:40]as their prophet." and and Salman is listening and he tells them

[24:46]this is who you are waiting for as well.

[24:48]You the Christians, you are waiting for the Messiah.

[24:51]You are waiting for this man, the prophet in this area.

[24:53]They tell him be quiet.

[24:56]You have nothing to do with this.

[24:57]He hears more news that there's this prophet.

[25:01]He's in Medina and and Salman he's also in Medina in a

[25:07]different part and he was a scholar.

[25:08]He knows that this prophet has signs in him.

[25:11]So he takes some of the dates that he had.

[25:14]He because he used to grow his own dates.

[25:15]He takes some of the dates that he has and he goes

[25:22]to see these dates that he had they were they were charity.

[25:26]And he knows that this prophet does not take sodaka.

[25:31]He takes a gift but he does not take charity.

[25:34]So he doesn't tell him.

[25:35]He comes and he gives it to him.

[25:37]The prophet tells him I'm sorry I can't eat that.

[25:39]And then he comes behind because the prophet had a mark on

[25:47]his back, the seal of the prophet.

[25:49]He comes back knew what Salman was doing.

[25:53]He lowers his shirt and then Salman sees the prophet and right

[25:58]away he says, "I bear." >> He says, "I bear witness that

[26:05]you are the messenger of God." And then he begins to tell

[26:08]Allah his story.

[26:10]He wants to tell him his story.

[26:11]Allah tells him, "You don't need to tell me your story.

[26:15]I know you.

[26:14]You are Salman." And he name he changed his name into Salman.

[26:21]Now Salman has found Allah, but he's still a slave.

[26:23]He goes back to his slave owner and he tells him, "I

[26:28]want the freedom.

[26:29]I want to leave you.

[26:29]I want to be with Allah." He tells him if you want

[26:35]to leave me you have to give me 300 date trees 300

[26:42]palm trees.

[26:40]So Salman comes to and Allah along with the Muslims they plant

[26:48]300 trees and within two years Salman hands over these 300 trees

[26:54]and he comes to he comes to the prophet on the fifth

[27:00]year after the h and then that year was the battle of

[27:04]the trench.

[27:05]The Muslims were scared.

[27:08]You have group of people attacking them from the north and group

[27:11]attacking them from the south.

[27:12]They don't know what to do.

[27:15]How are they going to defend themselves?

[27:17]Salman tells them, "Let's dig a trench." This was an idea that

[27:19]no one has thought of before.

[27:20]None of the Arabs knew before.

[27:24]He tells them, "Let's dig a trench." And they dug the trench

[27:27]and they defended themselves.

[27:28]After that battle ended, the Ansar, they said, "We want Salman to

[27:35]be from us." And the muajarin they said no let him be

[27:36]from us because he migrated not from Mecca but he migrated the

[27:42]said no he was from so he's from usoolah tells them he

[27:45]is not from you and he's not from you salman is from

[27:56]us and salman reached that high level of knowledge because he came

[28:01]and he joined the religion of Islam based on based on understanding.

[28:05]He became an expert in Christianity, an expert in Judaism.

[28:13]And then he came and he joined Allah told him, "Oh Salman,

[28:18]I'm going to make you brothers with Abu Dari." And then he

[28:21]tells Abu Dar, "Oh Abu Dar, I've made you brothers with Salman.

[28:26]But you have to listen to Salman and you have to obey

[28:28]Salman because Salman he reached that level of Islam based on understanding

[28:34]based on and based on and this is why Salman was one

[28:42]who was nurtured with that knowledge." And after the death of the

[28:47]prophet, many people left the B.

[28:49]Many people left.

[28:50]They come to Salman.

[28:52]They tell him, "Oh Salman, many people left Ali.

[28:55]Why did you not leave him?

[28:57]You're older than him.

[28:57]You're much older than him.

[28:59]You could leave him.

[29:00]You don't need to follow someone who's younger than you." He tells

[29:04]them, "I heard from the one who loves me.

[29:13]then this person has to love and therefore I heard and I'm

[29:20]going to remain with my dear brothers and sisters this is a

[29:27]story of someone who achieved that guidance someone all the way from

[29:34]the Persian Empire he made it all the way from zerastrianism to

[29:38]Christianity being enslaved by a group of Jews and then he he

[29:42]he came This teaches us that haya and guidance is very achievable

[29:48]as long as you have a pure heart and as long as

[29:52]you strive for it.

[29:52]It does not come for free.

[29:55]Nothing comes for free.

[29:55]We have to strive and struggle for it.

[29:58]My dear brothers and sisters, we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to

[30:02]increase our haya to support us when we are on the path

[30:07]of the hak.

[30:07]You ask Allah subhanana wa ta'ala I want to be on the

[30:11]path of the truth and you show sincerity and Allah subhanana wa

[30:15]ta'ala will support you in that you just have to make an

[30:19]effort you just have to strive and the hadith says you take

[30:24]one step just one step towards Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Allah subhanahu

[30:30]wa ta'ala will take 99 steps towards you just need to take

[30:33]that first step you just need to make an effort you just

[30:35]need to put it in your int attention that you will strive

[30:40]to find the huck and the truth.

[30:43]My dear brothers and sisters, we are living in a time where

[30:46]our faith, our morality, our religion, our ideology on life is constantly

[30:57]being tested.

[30:56]Constantly being tested.

[30:58]You send your kids to school, they're being tested.

[31:00]You go out to work, you're tested.

[31:04]You watch TV, you're tested.

[31:05]We're always being exposed to test.

[31:07]This is why we have to ask Allah for the guidance and

[31:09]for the haya.

[31:11]And we have to support that which supports our haya and supports

[31:16]our guidance and the guidance of our children.

[31:19]My dear brothers and sisters, I want to remind you all the

[31:22]alhamdulillah we got the site plan approval was already accepted for the

[31:28]building and now the engineers are working on getting the MEP the

[31:33]mechanical, electrical and plumbing and once we have that we are going

[31:39]to be able to groundbreak but we cannot groundbreak if we do

[31:43]not have the money if we have not raised enough money.

[31:46]And this is one of the ways that we could increase our

[31:48]tiat.

[31:49]We could increase our haya maybe not for me but for my

[31:52]children for pre for for next generations that will come and that

[31:59]will benefit and that will acquire their religion.

[32:00]And I wanted to remind you that we have out of the

[32:07]alhamdulillah 500 prayer spots at $5,000 each.

[32:10]We have 83 spots left.

[32:10]We have 83 spots.

[32:13]We could definitely if every person takes one, pledges one and you

[32:17]could pay it from now until the spring.

[32:20]They say inshallah maybe by spring we'll be able to do the

[32:24]groundbreaking and that will really help us achieve a great a greater

[32:27]goal and it will bring us closer to our goal inshallah.

[32:32]May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala increase our and give us the to

[32:36]do that which is good.

[32:41]Alhamdulillah.

[32:39]And we ask Allah subhanah wa ta'ala to bless our shuada, our

[32:47]martyrs to give healing to those who have suffered in the last

[32:51]war in Gaza and Lebanon.

[32:55]We pray for the m and we ask Allah subhanana wa ta'ala

[32:57]to make us from the m and to give us the strength

[33:03]to stand with the hak.

[33:14]Raheem.

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