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Allah forgive us the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him waited patiently he kept on dedicatedly
reminding the people to say hang on this is the path this is Allah this is the way and
he did not lose hope and he continued the same message over and over again in different
words if you look at the reminder of Salah how many times does it appear in the Quran
anyone knows where allah says establish your Salah we all know it's more than once it's
more than twice it's quite a few times the reason is Allah is telling you hang on there
are so many different times and places in the Quran and weddings because one of them
may affect you as you reading the Quran we are taught to read it from cover to cover
say for example and this is something unique to also taught by mohammad sallallahu sallam
the hearts of the people are not the same every day and they fluctuate and change so
grab that heart when it's at a point where it is going to absorb what's coming in the
direction of it in terms of spirituality in order to give it a good message so I'll give
you an example you're busy reading the Quran at the beginning of Ramadan and masha'Allah
you excited and so on and you're reading the meaning of it and Allah tells you to establish
your Salah establish your prayer and it didn't really hit you that much because as it is
you're reading taraweeh and you're going on and on and on and then when it comes to the
second half of Ramadan you start softening up a bit because you know with us the month
of Ramadan you climax at the end right at the beginning everything is still okay about
29 days 28 days to go hey it's only six days to go let's get serious that's how Ramadan
is it's unique it's you know it's like a long race long race a marathon near the end everyone
becomes more serious to say now we've got a whim hamdulillah not to say we weren't running
at the beginning but to be honest as time passes you read it again they may come a time
of the day that will be different they may come something that's happened in your day
that particular day that has made you think from a different angle something that might
have happened in your life that makes you feel this is the time for me to change this
is the time for me to turn and then you turn and only turned because that message was repeated
in a different wording at a different time but it was the same message Subhan Allah if
you ask yourself you know these Imams who come to talk to us these scholars who come
to talk to us perhaps the halaqaat that we have that are a reminder for us if you ask
yourself what is the message to be honest it's always the same message always it's telling
you to get closer to Allah to become a better person to improve yourself to worry about
what's to come after death and so on all of the messages are the same but the way they
are worded different the timings different I believe that there are certain times of
the day when people are more receptive to religious instruction perhaps I believe perhaps
like at this time here the evening early evening it's a very blessed time early morning very
blessed time you know the early hours of the morning subhanAllah you and Allah imagine
reading a book listening to a talk and suddenly it strikes a chord as they say you changed
the same way you can change have hope in the rest of the people the rest of them everybody
can change that is the sunnah of muhammad sallallahu sallam he always had hope let me
give you another example a companion we spoke about this morning by the name of Holly didn't
Walid Elmi Villa lovely Allah and powerful man I'm sure we've heard his name okay after
the Battle of hood and after the treaty of hudaibiya the Prophet SAW Allah sallam called
his brother who was already a Muslim and he was already in Medina and said where is Kali
imagine the man is gone he's in Makkah the man is not even in Medina the man just fought
us the man is part of the enemy but the Prophet peace be upon him who's calling his brother
says where is holid so the brother is answering to say ok you know a simple answer the prophet
sallallaahu salam says mommy threw her leading Neerja holu islam he says a man like harlot
so intelligent so bright he's got such a mind he is an expert he's got a top brain he cannot
be ignorant of the correctness of his LOM that's all he said Prophet peace be upon him
is saying this man no matter what he's done he didn't harp on the fact that you know in
wood there were 70 people martyred and in this is what happened in the other war and
hardly did this and nothing of that nature he's a leader he has home he's waiting for
the turning point that's a Sunnah that's part of the serie and it is consistent throughout
the life of muhammed sallalahu salaam absolutely all the time right up to the end he had hope
including his uncle Abu Talib who was a man who did not accept the faith but the Prophet
peace be upon him on the deathbed of this man Abu Talib he goes to him and says o my
uncle utter one statement and I will fight your case on the day of judgement what was
that hope waiting for the turning point hoping for a turning point even at the last moment
that's a sunnah so hardly didn't Walid the Prophet peace be upon him says he will not
be ignorant of it because he has such a tough brain he will be will definitely be thinking
about it in the meantime Allah alone knows what's happening to Holly the mill worried
he's considering he says no these people are so dedicated they are so kind yes we fought
them yes I have the wrong perception of who they are that's what's happening today on
the globe as well a lot of people don't know much about Islam a lot of people look at it
with skepticism because what do they hear exactly what Holly didn't well either bill
migaila and oddly allahu anhu heard before islam he actually went out to fight the muslims
and what happened because of the hope because of the goodness because of the kindness because
of the character and the conduct of the rest of the muslimeen and so on he continued meaning
he started thinking about islam no way this is a religion it's a faith but he had one
problem what was the problem I've killed people I've committed sin I've committed so much
I've harmed I've done I don't think I'm going to be forgiven it took him a bit of a while
he built the courage to come to madina munawwara and when he came in the Prophet peace be upon
him knew what was happening he knew he had a feeling this man is coming in he's going
to declare his faith but Harley dumela leader of the allahu anhu did not declare his faith
immediately he had a question he had a question to ask what was the question or messenger
I've done so much what's going to happen to that I've committed sin you know what I did
him or heard and so on the details he says what's going to happen to that and the profits
of a salon says yeah harlot inland Islam I adieu Bhumika blah o holid islam the fact
that you are entering the fold will delete all the bad that you've done in the past guess
what the good is carried through so panama the bad and the evil is deleted wiped out
gone
subhanAllah he says he asked the question again he got the same answer he asked the
question a third time he got the same answer then he stretches his hand he says on that
condition I bear witness you are indeed the Messenger of Allah none worthy of worship
besides Allah and you are the messenger of allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala sallallahu alayhi
wasallam this was how Holly did 9 when he entered the fold of Islam look at the beauty
look at the goodness but did the Prophet peace be upon him say no that's an enemy Lana to
lie and a las curse on him he's a right off his it's over we do that with Muslims we do
that with Muslims this person is like this that one is like that this one is a goner
what are you talking about it just depicts the condition of our own hearts and this is
why I say be patient wait for the turning point in others