so I'm on the plane yesterday and I'm
actually quite tired and you know I was
ready to knock out on the plane and
right after we take off I started
hearing some crying around to me and
it's not the crying of the baby that
goes my way it was an adult crying so I
kept looking around who is this person
crying moping and sobbing you know for
like a long time so eventually I get up
to walk around I'm like I need to see if
this person is okay so I walk about
three rows back and I see a grown man
you know maybe well into his thirties
well into his forties he is crying and I
thought to myself subhanAllah you know
maybe someone died you know maybe he got
divorced maybe something happened so I
let it be and I went back to my seat I
was like in Charlotte I'm like you know
Mela rectify his affairs whatever it is
sometime later on I see this guy get up
and he goes towards the back and I
thought you know what let me start up a
conversation with him because you'll
notice that when people are in their
darkest moments that's like the best
time to give them Dawa so I went to the
back and he's asking for a glass of
water or something to drink
and I too asked for something to drink
so I asked him you know I hope you don't
mind but I saw you crying is everything
okay with you and again I'm expecting
you know I got robbed someone died
something happened he goes to me I was
watching a movie and I just couldn't
stop crying like okay that's interesting
you know I've heard about women and you
know our sisters crying while watching
movies but a grown man you know this has
to be intense so I asked him what he was
watching he tells me I was watching the
vowel
do the sisters know what the vowel is
like you know the number one like chick
flick hard times right now so I'm like
okay what about the movie made you cry
and he goes you know this guy was so in
love with his wife that you know he was
in love with her they got into an
accident she lost her memory
and she could not remember him
and he tried so many different things to
win her love back but she just couldn't
remember him and got even worse not only
did she not remember him but she
remembered her previous memories before
him so her old boyfriends and you know
her old life before him that's the only
part she remembered so now that she's
come out of this you know amnesia
she's only remembering a life without
him and he's finding it very difficult
to adjust and took custom too but he
keeps trying his best he takes her back
to the same restaurants he takes her
back to the same places takes her back
to the you know the same vacations and
he just can't win her love but he
doesn't give up and then towards the
ending she you know she doesn't get her
memory back but she starts to love him
again and I thought to myself the only
thing that made this man be truthful and
you know sincere to his wife was the vow
that he made when they got married and
at that time like really that's all it
took to make you cry
but I was like in solidarity and I'm
like I'm glad everything's okay and I
really didn't know what to take the
conversation after that I'm like how do
you give a person down it's like you
know we're all created by a love but you
know that's like a fictitious story I
don't know what to do each other next
time but I did have a moment of
reflection at that time you know the
main concept of this movie was this vow
that he made and how he lived up to it
my dear brothers and sisters we have all
made vows to Allah subhana WA Ta'ala
Allah subhana WA Ta'ala tells us in
surah Araf verse 172 and remember when
Allah subhana WA Ta'ala extracted from
the children of Adam their loins from
their backs and made them testify less
to be Arabic whom am I not your Lord and
they said qalu bala' Edna indeed we have
testified so that on the day of
judgement we will not be able to say
that we were heedless of this affair
that allah subhanho wa taala
is our creator and sustainer and that
was one of the first things that came to
my mind the Vava devoured the covenant
that we made with allah subhanho wa
taala
greater than any vow that a husband
makes to a wife or a wife to a husband
or a mother to a child or any other
really
yet you see when it comes to Allah
subhana WA Ta'ala Shaitaan has won this
battle in distancing us from Allah
subhana WA Ta'ala so I want to dedicate
to this talk to loving Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala again I want to dedicate this
talk to getting to know Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala again in hopes that we can
fulfill our vow to Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala no matter what happens in Our
Lives no matter how bad that amnesia
gets no matter how bad the accident we
will always know who Allah is and why we
love him let's start off by how Allah
subhana WA Ta'ala commands us of this in
the Quran the famous verse that all of
us know here we've heard it many many
times
where Allah subhana WA Ta'ala says wah
wah dr. l-jinna wa l-'insa illa llah
Budong that i did not create the mankind
in Jin except for my worship the
greatest master of the quran abdullah
bin a busload allahu ta'ala anhu ma he
said about this verse that to worship
Allah subhana WA Ta'ala is to know Allah
subhana WA Ta'ala meaning that the
greatest form of worship that we can do
is to get to know who Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala is because once you truly know
what loss subhana WA Ta'ala is you
cannot help but to worship Allah and to
love Allah and to venerate Allah subhana
WA Ta'ala likewise Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala tells us in certain hasha one
Articuno Kennedy Nana so la havana home
and foster home
Allah Iike home on fire corn that allah
subhanho wa taala tells us and do not
become of those people who forgot Allah
subhana WA Ta'ala
so Allah subhana WA Ta'ala made them
forget themselves indeed these people
are the transgressors
now there's two points in this verse
over here
the first point is when Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala says do not be of those people
who forgot Allah now unless you find one
it just doesn't give you a problem he
gives you a solution as well so the
solution to having forgotten Allah is
that unless I know what either goes on
to tell you who he is
two verses later when he goes on to
tellus and these three beautiful verses
who Allah is which starts off with who
Allah Allah Allah Allah Allahu Alem will
they be what she heard that if you are
Rahman or
who Allah Allah Allah Allah Allahu al
malikul quddus alarm on momento Mohammed
Aziz Al Jabbar al Aziz Al Jaber Al Motta
Kabir subhanallahi American who Allah
who'll call a quandary on Mosul we're on
our own as my own personal you sub
bahala Hamas a Marathi when armed when
aziz al Hakim in these three verses
Allah subhanAllah our wine reminds us of
who he is so the people who forget Allah
get to know Allah subhana WA Ta'ala
again through his names and attributes
but a lot of my know what Santa teaches
is a second lesson and this is the
logical proof in terms of why we need to
know Allah subhana WA Ta'ala we're
constantly told that this journey of
life is about self-discovery discovering
who we are discovering ourselves but
unless I know what to either tells us in
this verse that in order to truly
discover who you are in order to truly
discover your potential you need to
discover who allah subhanho wa taala
is first because you will become a
manifestation of the things that you ask
allah for a manifestation of the things
that you obey allah with a manifestation
of those things that you plea allah
subhanho wa taala for so in order to
truly discover who you are you need to
discover who your creator is because if
your Creator is filled with generosity
he will create generosity in you if your
Creator is loving he will create love in
you if your Creator is pardoning then he
will instill pardoning inside of you as
well so do discover who you are and who
you should be you need to realize and
learn who your Creator is so this in
summary is why we need to know Allah
subhana WA Ta'ala firstly the
commandment of Allah secondly it's about
discovering who we are it's about
discovering where we stand in the world
it's about discovering are we really the
moral and ethical people that we claim
to be because all good comes from Allah
subhana WA Ta'ala alone so now let us
take a look at who allah subhana wa
ta'ala actually is the most glorious
name of allah subhana WA Ta'ala
is Allah and this is the primary name of
Allah subhana wa
and the name Allah comes from Allah the
worshipped alma Abood so Allah is a
signification of our worshipping of
allah subhanaw taala and you will see
that the reason why allah subhanho wa
taala chose this beautiful name to
constantly be used in the quran to
constantly be used to call upon him is
to remind us of our relationship with
Allah subhana WA Ta'ala to my remind us
of our relationship with Allah subhana
WA Ta'ala so our relationship with Allah
subhana WA Ta'ala is one of worship one
of servitude we were created to remember
Allah to venerate a lot to love Allah to
make such that - a lot to make lokor to
Allah this is our relationship with him
and this is why throughout the Quran
Allah subhana WA Ta'ala uses the term
Allah to remind you that the one that
created you the one that sustains you
the one that you call upon is the only
one that is worthy of your worship now
one of the unique things about the name
of allah jalla Feola there are a lot of
us do not know about is that the name
Allah is one of the greatest names of
Allah subhana Allah the messenger of
allah salallahu alaihe salam tells us
that indeed Allah subhana WA Ta'ala has
a name that if he was to be called by it
he responds if he's to be asked by it he
gives and all the 40 opinions that exist
two of them are the strongest they are
al high and alcohol being the first
opinion and Allah being the second
opinion and Allah subhana WA Ta'ala
knows best but it seems that Allah is
the stronger opinion because if you look
at the do ayahs that the message of
allah sallallahu are they were seldom
mentioned that mentioned the greatest
names of Allah all three of them
mentioned Allah but not all three of
them mention and high Anelka Youm so
when you call upon allah subhana wa
ta'ala call him by this name and you see
the miracles that allah subhanho wa
taala performs this Lord that we talk
about Allah he is Allah because he
possesses every beautiful name and every
beautiful attribute and he is worthy of
our worship because he possesses these
names so you see that it becomes
circular in nature that we can only
worship
who possesses all the beautiful names
and attributes and since we worship Him
than buying necessity every beautiful
name and attribute must belongs to him
subhanahu wa'ta'ala
let's look at another name of allah
subhana wa ta'ala
allah subhana wa ta'ala is unloaded the
loving and the beloved bring it back to
the movie when i asked the man you know
why was he crying one of the things he
mentioned was that I wish I had a love
like this in my life and I thought to
myself finally at that time that no
matter how much love you have in this
life from your friends from your spouses
from your parents from everyone else in
this world you will always have a void
in your heart that can only be fulfilled
by the love of allah subhana wa ta'ala
and this is what ibraheem o allah he
goes on to mention that indeed in the
heart is a void that can only be
fulfilled with the love of allah subhana
wa ta'ala and a lot of us don't realize
this a lot of mankind does not realize
it so that void that they find in their
heart they try to fulfill it with the
desires of this world whether it be
through wealth whether it be through you
know women whether it be through
everything else they try to fulfill it
through desires but they notice that
they become more empty and more empty as
these desires are fulfilled they'll see
that you'll try to fulfill it maybe with
alcohol with drugs but where does that
lead them and leads them along the same
path they'll try to fulfill it with
every each and every single thing but it
won't be fulfilled because that portion
of your heart was created to be loved by
allah subhana wa ta'ala along a
proclaimer him o allah he gives a
beautiful example he says the love of
allah in the heart of the believer is
like a tree the love of the believer for
allah subhanho wa taala
is like a tree its roots are the fear of
allah subhana wa ta'ala its trunk is
humility for the sake of allah subhana
wa ta'ala its leaves is modesty from
Allah subhana wa ta'ala and the fruit
that it's beard that it bears is
obedience of allah subhana wa ta'ala so
you'll see that our whole relationship
with allah subhana wa
it revolves around love and this is why
I've not claimed him Allah he gives his
other famous example and parable that
our journey of worship towards allah
subhana wa ta'ala is like that of a bird
whose head is love and its two wings are
fear and hope
now what is a bird without a head it is
not going to survive it's not going to
be able to fly similarly our journey to
Allah subhana WA Ta'ala if it is not
begin with love then our journey will
not progress and that is why I began
with illudude to remind us of this that
Allah subhana WA Ta'ala loves us and he
wants us to love him as well and this is
one of the unique names of Allah subhana
WA Ta'ala were not only selasa behind
what's on of the subject but he is the
object as well so when we talk about
ar-rahman he is the one who shows mercy
he's not the one who has mercy shown to
him when we talked about that allah
subhana wa ta'ala is alpha and alpha for
he is the forgiver but he is not the one
who is forgiven but when it comes to
alwa dude not only subhana wa ta'ala is
he the loving but he is the beloved as
well Allah subhana WA Ta'ala tells us in
the Quran that there's not a tree except
that it glorifies Allah not a bird
except that a glorifies Allah not any
one of Allah's creations except that it
is glorifying for him except that we do
not understand their glorification
listen to the hadeeth of the messenger
of allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
where he says the skies shake the skies
shake and creak and they have the right
to shake and Crick because there's not a
distance of four fingers except that an
angel is making a rock or an angel is
making a centre and angels mating king
priam to allah subhana wa ta'ala and
this will continue till the day of
judgment this is the love that all off I
know it's either created for him now our
question arises where is our love for
Allah subhana WA Ta'ala didn't Lahaina
we'll learn that by the end of the
discussion we move on to a city then
allah subhana wa ta'ala is the one who
covers up and this is a beautiful
example for all of us there are lots of
behind what other created us with our
deficiencies created us with our
mistakes but with these deficiencies
these mistakes allah subhanho wa taala
covers us up just like we use clothes to
cover up our bodies during the time of
musa alayhis salaam rain stopped to come
down it ceased to descent and a drought
came about so people came to Musa and
they said ya Musa you speak directly to
your Lord would he not go to him and
speak to him and ask him for rain to
come down so most of us to allah
subhanho wa taala and he asks him o
allah time has gone by and rain has not
come down what is the reasoning behind
this so Allah subhana WA Ta'ala tells
him that there is an individual in the
community who has not sought forgiveness
from allah subhana wa ta'ala for 40
years and up and until this person
leaves rain will not come down so tell
this person to leave and then rain will
come down so moosa aleihsalaam goes back
to his people and he tells his people
all people there is an individual from
amongst all of you that has been
committing sins for the last 40 years
and not once has he repented whoever he
is let him leave our community so that
the rain can come down so that we can be
nursed once again and then you can
imagine in the gathering like this no
one moves no one gets up but then
miraculously the rain of allah subhana
wa ta'ala starts the descent and people
start to wonder what happened Moosa just
said that until someone leaves the rains
are going to come down but no one came
down but no one left so Moosa he said I
am he goes back to allah subhana wa
ta'ala and he asks him o allah you said
that the rain will not come down up and
until someone leaves but no one left and
the rain started to come down at that
time Allah subhana WA Ta'ala tells him
something so profound he said my slave
made such a sincere repentance I
couldn't help but forgive him I couldn't
help but forgive him so moosa
aleihsalaam being the slave of allah
he's curious who is the slave of allah
that god forgiven by allah subhanho wa
taala perhaps i can benefit from him as
so he asks him oh Allah who is this
individual that you have just forgiven
and pardoned and allah subhanaw taala
goes on to tell him o musa i concealed
his sin while he was a sinner and did
not expose him do you think that I shall
expose him now that he has repented
Allah Allah is a sathya the one that
covers up my dear brothers and sisters
no matter what sin that you may have
Allah subhana WA Ta'ala covers that sin
it is between you and Allah and that is
why the messenger of allah salallahu
alaihe salam has told us that all of his
ummah will be forgiven except for those
who exposed their own sins because allah
subhanho wa taala while knowing that sin
that you committed he covered it up for
you so who are you to go and expose that
sin so take advantage of allah subhanho
wa taala being a sathya that allah
subhanho wa taala did not expose you and
turn back to allah and repent to him
sophiana Buena one of the great Imams of
the Salaf he said be grateful to Allah
subhana WA Ta'ala that Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala did not create an order for our
sins wherein if indeed there was an
order for our sins none of us would be
able to sit next to another and it's the
type of order that you kind like mask
with deodorant or like acts or anything
thoughts you know that's a big blessing
from Allah Spinoza haha
let us talk about al mujeeb the one who
answers all supplications Allah subhana
WA Ta'ala tells us what about the unnie
for in the Caribe og Buddha were to die
either than then if my slave asks about
me tell them that I am near I answer the
supplication of every supplicate ur let
me share the story of a sister with you
she says it was the first day of Ramadan
and my father had a heart attack while
he was in the Masjid so they take him to
the hospital i hurry to the hospital and
I'm looking at my father and I see this
beautiful old man the man that took care
of me when I was young the man that
changed my diapers the man that took me
to school the man that tried his best to
grind me every single thing that I
desire and
realized what a terrible daughter I was
to him at that day so I made dua to
Allah subhana WA Ta'ala
and I said o Allah please grant him life
so that I can show him the same
righteousness that he showed me analyst
behind the words Anna brought him out of
the heart attack and gave him life for
for for four more months in these four
months she did everything she possibly
could from cooking for him cleaning for
him driving him to his appointments and
he wish or desired that he had she would
be the one fulfilling it but at the end
of the four months she starts to realize
that spinal 'life is really getting
difficult for my father he can't go to
the bathroom on his own he can't breathe
on his own
and while it's great to have him around
the house it's unjust of me to want him
to keep being alive but be suffering at
the same time so she makes dua to allah
subhana wa ta'ala that oh allah please
do not let him leave this world except
in a state of obedience to you so the
day of Jummah comes four months later he
goes out for salat o Jamar he comes home
with his friends and his family and it's
as if he's perfectly fine perfectly
healthy nothing is wrong at all he
spends the whole day together with his
family and friends they pray salat
Elisha and the father excuses himself he
says I'm feeling tired so the youngest
daughter she takes him upstairs and not
even five minutes go by but she starts
shouting everyone come upstairs everyone
come upstairs
so everyone goes upstairs and you can
imagine as if you're walking into that
room and it is your own father that his
spirit is leaving his body his eyes are
gazing up towards the skies and his
spirit is leaving and as that is
happening he's saying in the lillahi wa
inna ilayhi rajion in there lillahi wa
inna ilayhi Raja in and in there he was
in the in a he Raja home and those are
the words that he dies with now you
think to yourself subhana Allah who
could have planned such a death it was a
loss vanuatu odda when that daughter
made dua for her father
think about our prophet yunus
alehissalaam
when he's stuck in the belly of a whale
he's been swallowed whole without being
chewed he's stuck inside what recourse
could he possibly have to get out of
this predicament to get out of this
situation is he going to fight his way
out is he going to fight his way out
what is he going to do in your darkest
moments you have no recourse except to
turn to allah subhana wa ta'ala and look
at what allah subhana WA Ta'ala says to
Yunus alehissalaam when you know that at
least and I'm called out Vinod F of
almighty allah subhanaka inni countrymen
of allah mean that he called out in the
depths of the darkness
oh Allah there's no one worthy of
worship except for you I have been of
those who oppressed themselves he called
out to Allah and then the sunnah of
allah subhana wa ta'ala is that he
always responds with that which is
equivalent or that which is better so
now when Allah subhana WA Ta'ala
responds to Yunus he is obviously going
to save us and they said I'm he's from
his slaves from his prophets what Kazan
he can that Jane there who may never
come and thus we saved him from that
which was calling him sad and causing
sadness and sorrow but that is the
equivalent response of the call of Yunus
there has to be something greater unless
the behind the what rather goes on to
tell us what kadali kind Angele moot
meaning that just like a la semana what
they are the same do units are they said
I'm in his moments of darkness he will
save all of us we just need to have the
same recourse call out to Allah subhana
WA Ta'ala and Allah subhana WA Ta'ala
will show you who I will mujeeb is the
one who responds to supplications let us
talk about our logic we have a
predicament in our communities that
people are not getting married so you
have you know a thousand sisters and you
have 300 brothers there's a shortage of
brothers and people aren't getting
married one of the worries that the
brothers have is that perhaps I'm not
financially stable and one of the
concerns that sisters are raised with
the brothers is that you're not earning
enough money for me so it becomes
circular in nature but let me share
something with you my dear brothers and
sisters a loss behind the words Allah
makes a promise in the Quran where he
tells us for sofa you honeycomb Allah
that Allah subhana WA Ta'ala will
provide for you now when does he say
he says this when the people of madinah
they stopped wanting to marry the orphan
girls they wanted to marry the women of
noble lemon lineage the women who had
wealth and they left away the orphan
girls because they were poor and the
Sahaba themselves some of them were not
rich so we're trying to get rich through
a marriage Allah subhana WA Ta'ala tells
them that put some faith in Allah go
ahead and marry the orphan girl for so
far unique whom Allah that Allah subhana
WA Ta'ala will grant you sufficiency and
he shall make you rich this is our Razak
Allah's messenger sallallahu wasallam
tells us that if the children of Adam
were to put their trust in Allah just
like the bird then Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala would provide for them just like
he provides for the bird
that leaves its house early in the
morning looking for food and then comes
back home fulfilled not looking for
anything else being sufficed my dear
brothers and sisters when we talk about
our Lazar he is the one that provides
for us all I want you to think about how
did you get to the state that you are in
right now Allah subhana WA Ta'ala
provided you with parents that provided
that provided for you but how about the
rest of the world they didn't have the
same luxury you got to your state right
now because our Razak provided for you
and you will go even further when a
Razak continues to provide for you so
put your trust in our Razak when you
seek your sustenance do not ever think
that by cheating or by partaking in the
RIBA your wealth will increase but no my
dear brothers and sisters that wealth
will only increase when al razaaq says
it should increase so put your trust in
Allah subhana wa ta'ala and he will
cause it to increase my dear brothers
and sisters the names and attributes of
allah subhana wa ta'ala are many but i
want to go back and conclude with one
simple point knowing who allah subhana
wa ta'ala is when allah subhana wa
ta'ala uses the term allah
throughout the quran and uses his names
and attributes throughout the quran it
is a reminder for us that let us riff
left on those names and attributes to
get closer to Allah subhana WA Ta'ala so
when our Eman goes down one of the best
ways to increase it is by turning back
to the Quran and looking at those names
and attributes and looking how allah
subhana wa ta'ala uses those names and
attributes and that is how you will get
to know allah subhana wa ta'ala allah
subhanho wa taala created you to long
for him Allah created you to desire him
Allah created you for one moment and one
moment only and that moment is the day
where you will meet allah subhana wa
ta'ala throughout this day you're going
to hear a lot of information and I say
information because it doesn't turn into
knowledge up and until you act upon it
and this is just a reminder for myself
and everyone else over here we do not
come to these conferences for the sake
of mere entertainment and for the sake
of passing the day but come to these
conferences for the sake of getting
closer to allah subhana wa ta'ala I'll
conclude with one last story that
perhaps it may enlighten you and
enlightens myself I was in this
beautiful city of Medina and I was
sitting with one of my teachers I was
reading a text to him and the habit of
Saudi Arabia in general not just Medina
is that wherever you're going even if
it's a short distance you're going to be
zooming down like it's a 30 kilometer
zone you're dropping like 130 so we're
going like 130 kilometres an hour no
one's wearing their seat belts very
unsafe very dangerous and as you were
driving away from the university the
teacher halts his car and goes to a
sudden break and I go jerking forward
and I'm like whoa what just happened you
know no one Christ by no one you know
there's no reason to stop why did he
stop and they say if he stops the car he
gets out of the car he walks and he does
something and then he comes back into
the car so I couldn't you know resisted
I had to ask me I said what was that all
about what did you just do and he says
you know navaid allah's messenger
sallallaahu ano salem he tells us that
the lowest form of a man is to remove
something harmful from the
pathway and I saw a glass bottle and I
thought to myself subhanAllah what if
someone gets injured while stepping on
it or whatever do the heat of the Sun it
explodes and like pops a tire or
something of that nature now that
wouldn't of itself it blew my mind but
what came next subhanAllah I could not
understand how such people still live in
this world Spinola he says you know
navaid the greatest moment in our lives
what we hope for is that meeting with
allah subhanaw taala
and you never know what that deed is
that will allow you one extra second one
extra minute one extra hour to look at
the beautiful face of allah subhanaw
taala
and for you to express yourself at that
time that o allah i struggled in this
world for your sake o allah i held on to
this deen
well like hot coals for your sake o
Allah I sacrificed I lived and I died
for your sake and Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala being a Shakur the one who
appreciates he will say o my slave for
you is this paradise and everything else
that your heart covets and desires my
dear brothers and sisters that is Allah
longed to meet him and he will long to
meet you
may Allah make the most beloved and best
of our days the meeting with Allah
subhana WA Ta'ala I mean there's a Kulak
Ireland was salam alaykum warahmatullahi
wabarakatuh