everyone welcome back to the faith
revival so i fly a lot i'm always on
planes and one of the things that i
notice is that every time there is
turbulence uh you've got those
first-time flyers or people that aren't
accustomed to flying and they start
panicking and it's always interesting
because you can see people kind of laid
back watching their movies reading their
magazines working on their laptops
whatever it is having conversations but
then as soon as the plane starts to
shake
everyone starts to make durat basically
in their own way they all start to pray
people start freaking out except for
those that are used to being in
turbulence and as soon as the seatbelt
sign
goes back off and the plane stabilizes
then the movies go back on people kind
of relax again
and
everyone feels safe and secure once
again
and subhanallah that reminded me of what
allah
even the worst disbelievers those who
have no faith in god
when they are drowning in the ocean if
they if they find themselves in that
darkness they will call upon allah
sincerely allah says
when a person is dying and they start to
scream for help god help me right
anyone in that
state of desperation can call allah
the worst human being to ever walk the
face of the earth firaoun called upon
allah when he was drowning so anyone can
repent and call upon allah when allah
sends them those moments now here's the
thing
those moments are catalysts think about
all the times that you almost got in a
car accident or maybe you did think
about all those
close
calls and sometimes those times where
you could have very well died or
something very bad could have happened
to you but allah saved you right and it
was just a moment of a second
all of those are catalysts think about
that time that you came to a realization
about your sins and your state before
allah and you felt like you really
needed to make a change in your life or
you were listening to a khutba or you
were hearing you know some sort of
lecture online and you felt like now is
the time all of those are catalysts
here's what allah says about them
isn't it time for those who believe to
soften their hearts to the remembrance
of allah and the truth which he has
revealed and allah says
don't be like the people of the book who
came before you
where a time passed between that
catalyst that moment that allah sent
them
a time passed a prolonged period went by
and their hearts went back to once again
being hard
and they resorted to or they returned to
their disobedience
what happens many times is that a major
shakeup a major moment comes in our
lives where allah subhanahu ta'ala
invites us to wake up
and when we don't heed those calls or
when we only heed them temporarily until
we once again feel like we're back in
the normal flow of things we are not
capitalizing on those opportunities
imagine if um
when he went to his sister's house and
he found that she was reciting the quran
imagine if um
after reading the quran and being
touched by surah taha said let me go
home and think about this for a few days
then i'll see what i'm going to do the
shaitaan would have got the best of him
but instead he went straight to the
house of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
and committed himself to him there was a
time before when he saw the prophet
salaam in front of the kaaba and he
heard the prophet saw islam reciting
quran and he was touched by it but he
didn't act right away so instead he
allowed the shaitan to capture his
thoughts and in his situation you know
instead of going and believing in the
prophet saw islam he decided to go kill
the prophet saison the difference
between the first time and the second
time is the way omar utilized the
catalyst the way he utilized the moment
and immediately committed himself to the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
meaning what when those moments come
where allah invites you
to
shake up your iman
to actually you know re-establish that
connection with him to to step into
that next realm to kick it into the next
gear when allah invites you to that if
you don't act with immediacy
time will pass you'll go back into your
raffle you'll go back into your
heedlessness and your heart will once
again become harder and not only will
become harder but it will become more
difficult for the next moment to
penetrate because every single time
you're missing out on those
opportunities the next opportunity has
to be that much more dramatic so think
about the wake up calls allah sends you
don't wait for the next one capitalize
on the one that has currently been sent
to you or that you've recently been been
given by allah and
change your life and re-establish that
connection with allah do not let time
pass from that original moment to where
your heart once again can harden and
iman finds itself outside of the heart
may allah protect us and may allah keep
our hearts soft and not allow us to miss
out on his wake-up calls and allow us to
draw close to him at all times and to
always have that connection with him
see you next time