The story of Robert Dilla. You know who
that is? No, you don't. Cuz I do.
Three months ago, I gave hudba in Fort
Worth. I haven't been to that masid in
four or five years. And they invited me
for some reason. And I went and I gave
hudba there. My hudba was about dua. An
Egyptian fellow comes up to me, a young
man came up to me afterwards. He goes,
"Allah fulfilled my dua today." And I
said, "What's your dua?" He said, "My
dua was that Norman Ali Khan should meet
Robert Dilla." I was like,
"Are you Robert Dilla?" He goes, "Nope,
I am not Robert Davilla. Robert Davilla
is my friend, but I think Allah is
fulfilling my dua." I was like, "Fire
away. I want to know." Robert Davilla is
a young man who lives in a town 40
minutes past Fort Worth. He's a He was a
farmer, young guy, and he was hit with
some sort of genetic disorder that
kicked in later on in his life. and he
became paralyzed from the neck down.
And he was he's actually he lives in a
nursing home. Uh most people in that
nursing home are 90 years, 100 years.
They're really really old people. And
then there's, you know, his room where
he's paralyzed, neck down. He's the only
30ome year old that is in the nursing
home. Okay. And he's been in that
nursing home for the last 10 years.
His family got a computer for him that's
voice activated so he can give voice
commands, put a headphone on and Google
stuff and search stuff so he can surf
the web and find information in his
room. In his room and by the way staunch
Christian family, the minister comes and
prays for him every every you know every
week and things like that. And his best
friend was in the bed next to him. One
of his best friends. He became best
friends cuz he met him at the nursing
home. This person was also paralyzed and
he needed a new liver. Okay, a liver
transplant. He was waiting for a liver
liver transplant. and they used to talk
about, you know, God and things like
that all the time. They were good
friends. Finally, his best friend got a
call that there's a donor available for
the liver.
So, he's so excited. He goes, "Robert,
I'm going to miss you, but I'm going.
I've got a I've got a donor." So, they
take his friend and they go on the into
the operation. And his friend died at
the operating table.
Now, his friend uh who's also a
Christian, the the deceased friend, his
sister took one of the the amulets of
his friend, a crucifix, and she gave it
as a gift to Robert. This is a reminder
of your old buddy. So, he hung it on the
side of his hospital bed.
Robert Dilla lives a pretty decent life
and there the nurses take care of him.
He's a happy guy. And one day, he goes
to sleep and he sees a man in his dream.
That man says his name is Muhammad.
And he says pointing at the crucifix,
God did not send messengers so they
would worship the messengers. God sends
me sent messengers so they could you
could worship God. And Jesus was just a
man. He walked in the markets and he ate
food.
He walked in the markets and he ate food
and the dream stopped. He only knows
that Jesus was just a man. He knows
there's a man that named Muhammad that
said that to him. He said that
messengers came so people could worship
God and not the messengers. This is all
he knows. So he starts googling
Muhammad.
He finds Islam.
He takes shahada.
When he takes shahada, he wants to learn
about the Quran. So he goes on these
chat sessions and finds somebody needs
to teach me Quran. He finds a brother in
Egypt that he gets together with on
Skype to try to learn Arabic, learn the
Arabic alphabet.
Once he learned the Arabic alphabet, he
learned to recite the Quran. He
memorized 10 suras from his hospital
bed.
Then he said, "I'm beginning to memorize
the Quran and I'm beginning to learn
about this prophet, but I need to
understand the Quran." So he starts
googling how to understand the Quran.
And for some reason, he ends up on my
videos
and he starts watching my stuff
and he watched almost everything.
And then he told and then here's the
other here's the kicker. In the nursing
home there was an Egyptian fellow that
used to come in and do some rep you know
repair work. The Egyptian fellow has his
own awesome story. The guy had basically
lost faith. He wasn't religious. The
nearest masid to him was 50 mi away. So
he didn't really go to Juma much anymore
but he felt a spiritual v void. So he
started going to the church just to feel
closer to Allah.
It's raised Muslim. He goes to the
church just to feel closer to Allah.
He's passing by Robert's room one day
and he hears.
So he walks into his room and says,
"Robert, what are you listening to?"
Robert says, "Nothing. That was me." And
the guy says, "You're a Muslim." He
goes, "Yeah, I became Muslim." And now
this friend is in shock.
How does Allah guide someone in the
middle of church town, USA in a nursing
home with a crucifix on the side of his
bed that he doesn't even have the
physical strength to move and the guy
himself says, "I want to come back to
Allah."
So he tells him about his, you know, the
friend he found online, Norman Ali Khan.
So the Egyptian fellow starts watching
my videos and then he says, "I wish I
could meet him one day." and he says,
"Okay, I'll I'll pray for you." And
after 5 years, that Egyptian friend
shows up at the same masid that I
haven't been to in four years. And after
Jumar says, "I think Allah wants to
fulfill my friend's dua and my dua." So
I said, "I think he does. Let's go." So
I took a few of us and we went and we
met with Robert. We had a beautiful
conversation with him and inshallah uh
for uh for Eid, we're going to go to his
his nursing home again. They were
actually the nursing was pretty shocked.
You're all here to meet Robert. Yep.
Yep. Uh why do you want to meet him? Uh
he's an inspiration.
Like, okay, let me check if we can. And
they had to call theos the the hospice
administrator and all this stuff. And
then eventually let us in. And Robert's
in shock. And then I meet Robert, we're
talking and I was like, hey, Robert, so
I heard you memorized some suras. He
says, "Yeah, can you recite one for me?"
So he recited.
Not one of us was not crying. We're just
in tears. When when somebody turns to
Allah,
when somebody turns to Allah, don't
worry about the means. Guidance will
come. Balance will come. I want to tell
you some more about Robert cuz young
guys are here. Young guys that play
basketball, young guys that are healthy,
young guys that have ambition.
I told you what's his paralysis from
where to where?
Neck down. He has a special wheelchair
that has to hold pretty much every part
of his body in place. He can't just sit
in a wheelchair. It holds his neck and
it holds every other part of his body in
place because he has no control over his
limbs. And he has to have a special van
where the wheelchair locks in so that if
it goes through a bump or whatever, he
doesn't, you know, receive the shock.
So, he made a request he wants to go to
the Friday prayer.
They didn't have the special van, so
they put him in a regular van. And so he
went to the regular van and a few bumps
and his spine got even more hurt. He
went to Jumra. He came back in
excruciating pain and they said, "I'm
sorry, Robert. You're no longer able to
sit in your wheelchair. You're going to
have to stay in your bed for the next 6
months at least. If you see recovery,
then you can get back up again." I met
him in those in that span. He had
already been in that bed for for 3
months already. And the reason he was in
that bed is he went to the Juma prayer.
And he told me about the Juma prayer. He
said, "I've never felt more peace in my
life than I was in that masid." And you
know what I'm going to do, brother Nan?
When I can I can sit in my chair again,
I'm going to go to Jama.
I'm going to go to the masid because
I've never felt like that before.
There's someone who has nothing but
control over his his mouth and his eyes.
And he says, I only find peace in the
masid. And here we are.
These massagid, I don't care what
ideology, what school of thought, what
they're talking about in the masid, what
fitna is there. I don't care. It's still
Allah's house. Just go to pray. Don't go
there to talk to people. Go there to
talk to Allah.
Just go to talk to Allah. You're not
You're just going for you and Allah.
That's it. That's it.
Other things will come, but you're not
going for them. You're just going there
to find peace. You'll become different
people. If Allah can guide Robert Dilla,
Allah guide everybody. And then he said,
you know, sometimes I wonder why Allah
put me in this position. And then I say
to myself, what am I kidding? Allah has
given me so much. I am so grateful for
what he gave me. And if this is the way
he was going to bring me to Islam, it's
all worth it.
So worth it. You have Muslims that lose
a little bit of health and they say,
"Why is Allah doing this to me?" And
this man, I mean, if you would think now
nowadays, atheists argue because of
suffering there is no God. If one man
has a position in a position to say I I
don't believe in God. If there was a
guy, why would I be in this position? It
would be Robert Dilla. That guy would
say, I don't believe in God. If there
was one, why would I be in this mess?
And yet, he's in this position. And I
have never seen a face with more N.
Never. I've never seen a face that has
more contentment on it. He's so
satisfied with life. He's so happy. He's
just happy.
The last
seven or eightbas I've given are
actually based on one sentence per each
on one sentence that he said in his
conversation. Is that profound?
He's he's a teacher to me. I consider
him a teacher. He's my sheh. Somebody
says who's your sheh? I say Robert
Dilla.
Really? Is that a is that a pizza place
or no? You know you know
people the guidance is all around us.
You don't have to get worried about
what's not there. There's plenty there.
You know what Allah did for the people
of the cave.
You know, he even guided them in where
to sleep. You know, he even guided them
on where to turn. As the sun was coming,
they turn away from it. As the sun came
from the other side, they turned the
other way.
Allah will guide you in your sleep when
you make dua to him.
He'll even guide you in your sleep.
Every toss and turn will be guided by
Allah. Can you imagine who's we
shouldn't be skeptical in Allah's
guidance. We shouldn't worry about how
am I going to find balance. No, that's
Allah's job to guide you. Your job is to
talk to him. Your job is to get sincere.
That is the message I have for you. That
is how we're going to find balance
honestly. It's you know and if once you
do that, once you become sincere to
Allah, Allah will open doors. Allah will
give you friends. Allah will give you
teachers. Allah will give you access to
resources. All of which are going to
bring you closer and closer and closer
to him and to the truth and make life
better for the people around you. This
is really the gist of what I wanted to
share with you. I don't want to speak
longer. I've spoken too long already. I
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