In The Previous Episode We Spoke About Zakariya May Peace
Be Upon Him When He Was Informed That His Wife Was Expecting.
He Asked Allah For A Sign Because Obviously He Wanted To
Face The People With Goodness And He Didn'T Want To Face
The Negative Words Of The People. What To Do? Allah Subhanahu
Wa'Ta'Ala Taught Him The Most Amazing Thing That Many Of
Us Take For Granted.
Listen To What Allah Says In Verse Number 41
He Says Oh My Rabb, Give Me A Sign, Allah Says Is That You Should Not
Speak To People, Silence, Be Quiet.
Don'T Even Try To Respond, Be Totally Silent.
Don'T Speak To People For Three Whole Days, Meaning For A
Period Of Time And Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Says Remember Alalh A Lot
And Praise Him, Worship Him In The Morning And In The Evening.
So Keep Worshiping Allah, Keep Praising Allah And Remain Silent.
Don'T Talk To People.
This Matter Is Too Big For You To Resolve.
We Will Resolve It For You. Brothers And Sisters In Times
Of Crisis A Lot Of Us Like To Talk A Lot.
Be Careful Speak Less, Praise Allah, Worship Allah Morning
And Evening And You Know What? Only Say That Which Is Beneficial.
Sometimes If You Have Been Falsely Accused, The Result
Of It Or Should I Say The Matter Is Made Worse When We Speak,
When We Try To Clear Ourselves.
Sometimes You May Have To Remain Silent.
Sometimes People May Refute You, They May Say Bad Things About
You. It'S Okay In This Age Of Social Media.
You Don'T Need To Respond To Everyone.
It Says More About Them Than It Does About You.
So The Crisis You'Re Facing About People Saying Bad Things About You
Online, Sometimes The Solution Of It Is To Keep Quiet.
Sometimes Just Get Offline, Sometimes Switch Off And You Don'T
Need To Respond.
Sometimes You'Ve Read It.
Let It Be A Source Of Laughter Because That'S Not
Who You Are.
It Says More About Them Than It Says About You And Subhanallah
My Brothers And Sisters,
This Is A Powerful Lesson That We Learn When Something Positive
Happened. You See When Someone Earns A Lot Of Money People
Say They Are Selling Drugs Or Someone Has To Say They'Re
Cheating The Taxman Whatever Else They Say.
These Are Hurtful Words, People Have Nothing Better To Say,
At Times Your Response To Them Might Make Matters Worse.
Keep Quiet When You Know, You May Not Be Able To Say Something
That Will Solve The Problem Leave It To Allah.
Sometimes We Try To Clarify And People Misunderstand The
Clarification Which Requires A Further Clarification And
That Too Is Misunderstood And It Goes On Vicious Circle.
So Instead Rather Avoid All, Of That Praise Allah, Worship
Allah, You Know Your Relationship With Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala
And Guess What? Allah Will Take Care Of The Rest. The Same
Applies To Marry; Maryam When Allah Told Her And This Is The
Next Verse When Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Tells Mary We Chose
You Above The Others.
So What We Want You To Do Is
We Want You To Worship Your Lord.
We Want You To Be In Prostration And Bowing.
And Continue To Do That, Which Means Be Regular In
Your Prayers.
This Allah Is Advising Those He Chose.
So If Allah Has Chosen You And I, We Will Automatically Be
Empowered To Pray To Be In Prostration And To Take Our Time
When We Bow.
So Let'S Engage In That My Brothers And Sisters And We Will
Be Granted The Comfort. We Want Goodness, Don' We?
Well, The Goodness Is Achieved By Following What Allah Told
Those Who He Loved And Who Loved Him Back,
Subhanallah And This Is Why Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Repeats
All Of This In The Quran, So We Can Be Inspired By What Allah
Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Has In Store.
Let Me Explain, Sometimes People Plot Out Downfall.
Sometimes People Plan Against Us.
It Happens.
Sometimes People Say Cutting Words, Cutting Remarks Are Past
Sarcastic Sometimes, People Try Their Best To Irk Us. They
Try To Make Us Angry And Upset.
I Promise You Keep Your Cool, Develop Your Relationship With Allah.
That Is A Crisis.
Yes Indeed, But You Will Achieve Comfort In The Midst Of
The Crisis From Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala When You Have Understood
The Plan Of Allah.
This Is Why Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Says In The Same Surah'
Surah Al-E-Imran Verse Number 54, He Says
They Plan And Plot And Allah
Plans And Allah Is The Best Of Those Who Plan Subhan Allah,
Sometimes The Planning And Plotting Of Your Enemies Is The
Very Source Of Your Ultimate Success.
You May Succeed As A Result Of Having Lost A Job By Earning
So Much More Than You Would Have Had You Maintained That
Job And The Examples Go On And On Remember Lay Your Trust
In Allah, No Need To Fret And Panic About The Whole Situation
When You Know Allah Is The Best Of Planners. People Plan Against
You. People Plot Against You. Don'T Worry Allah Is Watching
He May Allow A Little Bit To Happen.
But Ultimately You Will Win Because Allah Is The Best Of
Planners. However, What Is Dangerous?
You Should Not Be On The Other Side. Don'T Plan And Plot The
Downfall Of Others Because You'Re Planning And Plotting Against
Allah, Remember That. So As Just We Need To Provide Comfort
In Times Of Crisis When We Are Being Planned Against. We Need
To Also Teach People Not To Plan Against Others Because Then
You Are Part Of The Crisis.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Always Make Us A Part Of The
Solution And Never A Part Of The Problem.
So My Brothers And Sisters That Is The Favor Of Allah.
He Gives Whomsoever He Wishes. When Allah Speaks About All
His Favors And All The Goodness And All The Blessings, Allah
Subhanahu. Allah Says In Verse Number 73 And 74 Of The Same Surah He Says
That All The Virtue And Goodness
Belongs To Allah.
It'S In The Hands Of Allah.
He Gives Whomsoever He Wishes And His Subhanallah,
His Knowledge Is Very Encompassing.
It Encompasses Everything And Then He Continues To Say
It Is Allah Who Gives Specialized Gifts To Whomsoever He Wishes
Allah Chooses Whomsoever
He Wants For A Certain Gift And Then The Gift Is Given. So
Don'T Become Jealous Of People And Don'T Plan And Plot The
Downfall Of People And On The Other Hand Don'T Become Depressed
At The Planning Of Others Against You, You Protect Yourself
By Reading The Prayers Of The Morning And The Evening And
At The Same Time Develop A Good Relationship With Allah And Leave
The Rest In His Hands.
He Is The Best Of Planners, No Need To Stress Over What Others
Are Doing When You Have Allah With You Because Even If They
See Temporary Success According To Them, It Will Be A Direct
Lead To Your Ultimate Success And Not Theirs.
So This Is Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Later On, You Know,
People Do Engage In Sin, People Do Faulter, People Do That, Which Is Wrong.
That Itself Is A Crisis And Sometimes People Go Very Far
In Turning Against Allah, In Doing Things That Are Unacceptable.
Sometimes People Believe And Then They Disbelieve And Then
They Come Back To Belief And Then They Go Back To This Belief
And So On And Sometimes Life Is Full Of Difficulty And Hardship
Such That Some People Lose Faith Through The Hardship While
Others Find Their Faith Because Of Similar Hardships.
It'S Amazing.
So Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala When He Speaks About The Punishment
Of The Hereafter.
He Speaks About How Dangerous And How Painful It Is.
He Then Says
V. 89 Of Surah Al-Imran When Allah Says Except
Those Who Return To Allah In Seeking Forgiveness, And They
Do Good After That.
Allah Is Most Forgiving, Most Merciful,
Most Forgiving All The Time. That Is Amazing To Think Of The
Forgiveness Of Allah After You'Ve Done The Most Absurd Things
And To Imagine That Allah Will Forgive You At The Blink Of
An Eye And Even Quicker Is Something So Comforting To The
Soul. Don'T Let Shaitan Make You Think Otherwise This I
Will Be Repeating Throughout The Entire Series Because Many
Of Us Need Hope In The Mercy Of Allah.
He Is The Most Merciful, The Most Kind, The Most Forgiving, The
Most Compassionate Etc.
I Want To End Of Today'S Episode By Saying In Verse Number
92 Of Surah Al-Imran Allah Tells Us How To Achieve Righteousness.
You Want To Be Righteous.
Well, I Tell You Some People Are Striving In Order To Earn
That Which Will Benefit Them In This World.
Some People Are Striving In Order To Earn That Which Will
Be Beneficial For Them In The Hereafter.
Some People Are Striving To Do A Bit Of Both.
Sometimes I Tend To Love Certain Things While I'M On Earth.
As A Human Being I Draw
So Close To Certain Things That I Become Attached, Attached
To The Degree That I Would Become So Depressed If I Were
To Lose It And Allah Warns Us To Say Don'T Be So Attached.
Yes, You May Be Attached But There Must Be A Limit To It.
If It Is Material Items That You'Re Attached To Then Allah
Says To Achieve True Righteousness Spend Those Things, Give
Them Away Spend That Which You Love The Most.
If You Want To Truly Achieve Closeness To Allah And True
Righteousness Listen To What Allah Says In Verse Number 92
You Will Never Achieve True
Righteousness Until You Spend From That Which You Love.
And Whatever You Spend Anything That You Spend Allah Knows About It.
So People May Not Know, Allah Knows. Spend That Which You Love.
When You Get Too Attached To Something Material,
I Promise You Try This.
Give It Away, Give It Away In Charity And Give Another One
Away And The Third One Away That Which You Love The Most
When There Is Too Much Attachment And You Give It Away.
There Is A Sense Of Comfort You Derive And Contentment That
Is Unmatched, Nobody Can Describe That.
So This Is Something People Are Facing A Crisis Of Attachment.
You Get Too Materialistic.
It'S All About Amassing Things.
You Have 45 Perfumes, 50 Pairs Of Shoes, So Much In Terms Of
Clothing, Learn To Give Away And Give Away The Good Stuff
Sometimes, Don'T Be Attached To Those Things Because Your
Happiness And Sadness Will Not Be Connected To Allah. May
Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala'S Attachment Be Of Most Interest
Importance For All Of Us