As-Salamu Alaykum, Dear Brothers And Sisters. It'S Sunday: Quite Lovely, But
You Know When Your Mind Is Not In The Right State, You Are Not
Going To Feel The Sunshine In Your Heart, Right?
So I Had The Same Situation;
I'Ve Been Through : A Couple Of Weeks; Many Different Reasons
I Felt Very Upset And Worried For No Reason, You Know, When
I Try To Know Like Specifically What Kind Of Problem That
I Have.
I Don'T Find Out. But Naturally I Felt So Bad In Many Different
Ways. So What Happened Last Friday...
I Went To Jumah Prayer In East London Mosque.
That Time The Shaykh Performed The Khutbah
Which One Made Me Totally A Different Person.
From The Khutbah ... It Explains The Current Situation // Circumstances We Go Through
Because Of The Corona Pandemic
A Lot Of People They Got Financial Issues, Health Issues,
And Many Other Issues Even The Social Relationship...
So It Was The First Visit After The Pandemic
Because I Went To Far East Asia For Three Months
I Was Stuck Over There.
So His Statement Did Explain
How We Can Overcome This Situation
He Said There Was A Great.................
I Believe He Was The Sahabi/ Companion Of The Prophet (Saw)
Muhammed (Saw) Asked Him "Tell Me Three Things You Love From This World"
You Are Ganna Listen To His Voice Anyway Later...
Will Explain Everything...
I Love Three Different Things In This World In This World.
First The Hunger That I Have, Second The Sickness And The
Third And Last One Was The Death.
So Our Prophet Muhammed (Saw) He Was Quite Shocked And Surprised.
He (Saw) Asked Him
Everybody Hates These Three Things Or Are Scared Of These Three Things
Why You Love Those Things...
So We'Re Going To Listen To This Video And Find Out Why He
Did Say That..
So Let'S Start And Listen To It
Finally...
I Feel ....You'Re Going To Feel Peace In Your Heart And Most
Of Your Problem Which One Has No Reason In The Background
Because This World Is Temporary
Anyway, I Feel You Want To Have The Same Feelings Exactly
Sunshine Like This In Your Heart And This Spread Out And
Wide Like The Ocean. So Let'S Listen, As-Salamu Alaykum: Jazakallah Khair.
What Is Allah'S Wisdom Behind These Troubles And These
Difficulties? What Is Allah'S Decree/ What Is His Qadr?
What Is His Decree?
And What His.... The End
What Is The Objective Of Allahs Decree From Our Perspective?
Dear Brothers And Sisters, Allah'S Decree Is Divided
Into Two Kinds That Which Is... Apparent
And Manifest Before Our Eyes And That Which Is....
That Which Is Concealed And Hidden From Us. What We See
Is Our Experiences: Our Experiences And The Events And The
Incidents That Occur In Our Life.
This Is The..../ This Is The Apparent.
And What Is The ....What Is Hidden Is What We Cannot See?
Allah Has Decreed That We Cannot See That We Must Accept
And The Believer Must Be Pleased With, Why? Because There Is
Only Good Associated With It For The Believer.
There Is Only Good In Our Allah'S Decree For The Believer.
Everything We Experience.
From The Apparent Decree.
We Make A Judgement On.
We Decide Whether It Is Good Or Bad. If It Brings Us Happiness,
We Consider It Good/ Good And If It Brings Us Sadness,
We Consider It Evil, We Consider It.... We Think Of It As Bad.
But What Is Bad And What Is Good?
Our Power Of Comprehension Is No Absolute; Its Limited.
So We Judge Our Experiences And Events Based On Their Opposites.
We Think Something That Is Good.
We May Think Something That Is Good To Be Evil
And We May Think Something That Is Evil To Be Good.
So For Example, We As Humans, We Consider Poverty...
We All Consider Poverty To Be Something Bad.
We Think Poverty Is Something That Is Bad Because We Compare
It To Wealth And We Think Wealth Is Good, But What Is
Not Absolutely Good Because Allah Gives It To The One He
Loves And The One He Hates, He Gave Wealth To Suleiman
Alehissalaam And A Kingdom That No One Can Ever Match And
Allah Loved Him And He Gave Wealth To Firaun And Karun
And He Hated Them. Therefore Wealth In Of Itself Is Not
Something That Is Good Inherently.
Poverty Also It'S Not Something In Of Itself That Is Bad
Why? The First People To Enter Paradise Will Be The Poor And
The Rasul Sallallahu Alehiwassallaam Make Dua...
Allah Made Him Of Them.
Why? So He Can Enter Paradise Immediately And First.. Less To
Be Accounted For. So Proverty In Of Itself Is Not Evil.
We Consider ..We Consider That Death... Beyond Death...
There Is No Greater Evil.
That Is The Greatest Evil.
But Martyrdom/Martyrdom The Means To Attaining The Highest
Stations With Allah Is Only Achieved Through Death.
Therefore Death Cannot Be In Of Itself Something Evil.
There Is.. This World My Dear Respected Brothers And Sisters...
Has No Absolute Good And Has No Absolute Evil.
The Scholars Say The Allahu Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala May Test...
May Test A Person With Wealth, May Test The Person With Wealth
Knowing That If He Tested Him With Poverty That Person Would
Not Have Been Patient. So Wealth Was Better For Him And Allah
May Test The Person With Poverty Knowing That If He Tested
Him With Wealth, He Would Not Be Grateful. So Poverty Was
Better For Him
And Allah May Test Somebody With Disease Because If He Was
Tested With Health, He Would Tyrannize And Oppress Therefore
Disease Was Better For Him And A Person May Be Tested With
Health Because Allah Will Know That If He Tests Him With
Disease, He Would Not Be Patient.
So Health Was Best For Him.
He (Swt) Tests Us With What We Can Cope;
Nevermore Allah Tests
Us With What We Can Handle And That Is Why We Must Have Yaqeen/
We Must Have Certainty In This. The Practitioners Of
The Heart
They Say If The Veil Were Lifted; Meaning Allah Revealed To
Us His Plan; If The Veil Were Lifted, The Believer Would Melt
Out Of Love For His Lord And He Would Not Lift His Head Out
Of Frustration Due To His Gratitude For Allah (Swt)
Allah Who Loves You,
Who Cherishes You, Who Is Merciful With You Wants Only Good
For You O Believer And Umar (Ra) Said As A Result
Of This Deep-Rooted Belief And Certainty.
He Said If The Hijab/ If The Curtain Were Moved Then The Believer
Would Not Choose Anything Except What Allah Has Decreed For
Him...Allahu Akbar, You Think That Many A Time We
Say If I Could Do It This Way, If I Change Things But If
Allah Revealed To You The Grand Plan/ The Master Plan, Then
You Would Prostrate Out Of Gratitude To Allah When You See
That The Plan Allah Has Made Is Better Than Any Plan, All
Of Mankind Can Come Up With But Allahu Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala
Reserve The Knowledge Of This Plan And The Wisdom Behind
His Decree For Himself And Didn'T Reveal It To Us To Test
Us Who Will Endure With Patience And Who Will Be Grateful
For The Blessings. We Do Not Know And Allah Said, Allah
Said Or The Messenger (Saw) Rather
He Said They Believer He Sees Everything As Good.
An Astonishing/ An Amazing
Is The Affair Of The Believer. If He.. If He Comes... If He Experiences
His Positivity And Happiness, Then He Is Grateful And That
Is Good For Him.
If He'S Afflicted With A Calamity/ With The Difficulty Then
He Is Patient And That Is Best For Him.
Why? Because That Believer, My Dear Respected Brothers And
Sisters, He Responds To These Events In His Life As Though
The Veil Has Been Lifted.
He Has Reached .... The Knowledge Of Certainty.
He Has Achieved The Level Of Eshan To Worship Allah As
Though He Could See Allah. He Responds To Every Incident As
Though The Hidden Decree Is In Plain Sight Before Him. This
My Dear Respected Brothers And Sisters Is The Pinnacle Of
Faith. And Therefore We Must Look For The Good, We Must Look
For The Good In The Perceived ....
The Experiencer Is Perceived To Be Evil.
And Also Look For The Evil In The Experience That We Perceive
To Be Good.
How Do We Do That?
We Search For The Wisdoms, They Brothers And Sisters, Search
For The Wisdom.
Look At What You Were Deprived Of And Then Think How The
Setback Was In Fact The Trigger For Something Far Greater
Than You Had Planned.
Look At The Wealth Of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala May Have
Deprived You From And Think Maybe I Would Not Have Been Grateful
Had I Been Given It Then You Will Know That It Was Actually
Evil For You.
Abu Dharr Al-Ghifari (Ra) Was Such A Man.
Abu Dharr Al-Ghifari (Ra), The Noble Companion Of The Messenger
Salallahu Alayhi Wasalam Was An Example Of Someone Who Saw
The Good In What People Considered Evil. The Messenger Sallallahu
Alehiwassallaam Asked Him In Front Of All Of The Companions.
What Do You Love From This World?
And He Said I Love Three Things From This World. I Love Hunger,
And I Love Sickness And I Love Death. The Messenger
Salallahu Alaihe Wasalam Said To Him These Are Not Things
People Love.
So Explain Yourself.
He Said If I'M Hungry, My Heart Softens. If I Am Sick My Sins
Decrease And If I Die, I Will Meet My Lord.
This Was The State Of The Companions, My Dear Respected Brothers
And Sisters.
They Feard The Evil In What People Think Is Good And They
Looked Forward To The Good In What People Thought Was Evil.
And Of Course It'S In Our Nature To Love
What Is Good And Hate What Is Evil, But How Do We Know What
To Love And Want To Hate? Take This Rule My Dear Respected
Brothers And Sisters.
The Good That Leads To The Hellfire Is Absolute Evil.
And The Evil That Leads To Paradise Is Absolute Good.
Do Not Look At The Beginning But Look At The End.
Do Not Look At The Star Of The Story
But Look At How It Concludes.
The Beginning Is Temporary
But The End Is Everlasting. So Our Judgment On The
Events We Experience Are Not Based On Our Current Feeling
But Rather What Leads To And What It Leads To Is The Standard
My Dear Respected Brothers And Sisters.