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ameen, Today's Kaaba is dedicated to a very unique
individual mentioned repeatedly in the Quran.
It's Maryam Solomon Allah and the reason I decided to give a
hubba on some aspects of her life that Allah highlights in
the Quran are actually inspired by a question.
Somebody asked me this week, somebody came to me this week
and said that they've had a very close relationship with Allah
since childhood. And that they make Dua, they've
been Dua to Allah from a very early age praying to her job.
And even even you know, when they were a teenager and they
whatever they asked a lot for something, a lot provided.
This person actually had a pretty tough life, you know,
father, passed away at an early age.
No brothers. And this is, this woman has
lived a pretty lonely life, and basically decided to really
truly depend on Allah. And so, as she grew and
developed in her, her years, she found that Allah miraculously
answers our prayers. Every time she asks a love for
something allies never left her prayer unanswered.
She developed this Reliance and this closeness with Allah and
would always turn back to a lot anything.
I mean she needs something she goes and prays to like ours and
she makes daughter to a lot. So really beautiful connection.
She had with a love of where the question.
Come from. The question came from a fact
that more recently, she went through quite a series of very
unexpected difficulties in life and she decided that she is
going to increase her about that to Allah and increase her
drawers because her problems have also increased.
So You figure the more your problems increase the more
you're going to ask a lot of help you solve your problem and
so she does that and she prays like she's never prayed before
fasts like she's never fasted before.
Begs the Lark, Rise to Allah sheds tears before Allah like
she's never done before. But the problems keep getting
worse, they don't they don't get any better and she starts
thinking to herself, maybe Allah is not happy with me because
before I used to pray and everything used to get answered,
I've never had this problem before.
Every time I had a need I turned back to Allah and Allah All of
my problem but now I'm making God after thy after do I and I
continue to beg. Align, my problems are not
getting solved. They're only getting worse.
What could possibly be the reason and in her mind the
reason was I must have done something wrong.
Allah must no longer be answering my prayers because
somehow I've been disqualified. I no longer I'm not in Ella's
good books anymore. The reason I decided to give
this quote by is that this is a very common notion that can
creep into somebody's mind. We make Dua every human being
mixed on. We're expecting that Allah is
the which it will give us an answer.
We're hoping that Allah will solve our problem.
There are two kinds of dollars, basically, for most of us, the
one kind of Dora and though I'm talking about the ones we make
for ourselves. One kind of do is we want a
problem that we have right now to be solved, we have an issue,
we have some circumstance and we want Allah azzawajal to protect
us from falling into a worse problem, to secure the good
things that we have excetera and of course, we make Dua for our
future. We make dough out for ourselves
our children and to take care of things in the future.
You'll lock things are good right now.
Your luck, keep them this way, preserve what we have here, you
know, these are the kinds of dogs that we make for ourselves.
The thing that I wanted to highlight is and I've talked
about this in another football, but today's foot by slightly
different on a slightly different note, and that's why I
chose Maryam sonali have. But the first thing I wanted to
highlight is a quick reminder to all of you is that your dog
getting answered immediately or not getting answered.
Immediately has nothing to do with whether or not Allah is
happy with you. It has nothing to do with that.
There is no connection between those two things.
And even if there was a connection, you will never know.
You cannot guess what? The reason is, you know, you
have the case of nooh alehissalaam who was a very
loving father. He made.
He made that. Why he invited his people to
Islam for 950 years? Can you imagine you think he
made duaa for his son? You think he made the offer his
wife all those years or he didn't care about them.
Someone who cares so much about his Nation they spit on him.
I insult him and he goes back to them and makes to offer them 950
years. You think he ignored his own
son, his own wife, all those years of Doha and they didn't
change. Isn't that the case?
Does he blame himself you up? Maybe I didn't do something
right? Or maybe Allah, stop listening
to me. The reason I'm starting with
that is people that were much better than we are much much
better than we are. We're also, they also have
similar problems. There are parents in the
audience that make Dua for their kids and they see That their
children are going away from the religion.
They're going down a dark path, and they can't control it and
they're making do offer them and they're not seeing that their do
is being answered, and now they're getting frustrated.
There something wrong with me. Why isn't Allah answering?
Well, you're not the first one to be put in that position.
Our messenger. Are they sought was Salam.
Made lots of dough. Are you don't think he made duaa
for his uncle's his family? You don't think he considered
Abu lahab when he made the offer guidance.
And if he did despite all of that, loving God Allah azzawajal
himself, tell him in mechelen that let that demonic but you
don't get to guide who you love, you know.
There are people among us, they are children among us who wish
their parents or their Elders were acting in a more guided way
I've met. So many young people whose
parents are in a Haram explicitly, Haram business and
the children, the Son and the daughter is trying to tell the
father and the mother. Please get out of this.
We're dependent on you. You're paying my college
tuition. You're providing for us, but
you're providing for us. Us from Haram income and I'm not
in a position to provide for the family, right?
No, but this is wrong and then they're told you're being
disrespectful, you shouldn't talk back to your parents etc,
etc. Now it's the flip side.
It's the children. Making Dua for the guidance of
their parents but things aren't changing.
Things are where they were these frustrating situations happen
and then on top of that or situations like Health Calamity,
not just family problems, but Health Calamity, or you can't
find a job. You have money problems and
you're making dog. To Allah, you ask yourself.
I see even did are take off last year and I kept making daughter
and I didn't pick my head up from such the all night long and
still, I have this problem. Still, it didn't go anywhere.
So the first thing I want to remind myself in all of you is
that profits, profits. I didn't want to.
Listen, I'm all over that much before us, Allah mentions, their
do has consistently in the Quran and Allah also mentions their
problems consistently in the Quran.
You don't think, for example, the yaakov alehissalaam.
Aam the father of twelve Sons made real for all of his sons.
And especially for his son. Yusuf when he lost his son,
Yusuf, you don't think he made duaa for a use of safety that
use of should come back home. That he could spend, he could
look at his beautiful son once again.
We know that he cried so much, he lost his eyesight and yet,
but I know who he lost his eyes over crying over his son, and
all of those do ask for so many years, going answered.
And then they eventually they get answered.
You don't think that the mother the mother of Musa alaihi Salam
when she put her baby in the water?
And it do the river. Just takes the basket away.
The basket could flip over anytime.
And how do you know the basket is waterproof?
How do you know, it's not going to leak?
How do you know, if I kind of hit a rock and it's done, you
know, it's you're throwing something in a river, it's not a
job. It's a baby in a river.
You don't think that mother is making duaa to Allah and notice
the difference. In that case, in the case of
Moses mother she makes to Allah to Allah in a few hours later.
She is reunited with her son, just a few hours later.
Later by the time the baby is hungry for the next meal.
He's back with his mother and in the other case, with the case of
Yusuf alayhi Salam, he was separated from his father, but
he wasn't reunited with his father.
For many years for many, many years we are going to go through
difficulty in life and are all of our problems are not going to
be solved because we made a Dua to Allah, understand the reality
of Dora. What is the purpose of dawn?
We often consult, we often confuse.
The ha with Talib Taliban Arabic means to ask for something.
To demand something. Dora means literally to call.
That's what it means. The out to come.
I called you. I invited you.
I cried out to you. This is Dora when we make duaa
to Allah, sometimes in that do how we are making demands, it's
true. We're making requests but we
should never forget that all of those requests.
You know, what they are at the end of the day, it's a humble
slave of Allah, turning back to Allah and begging Allah to help
him with whatever problems. Mmm, but it's more than Allah
solving your problem. It's just the act that you
communicated with a lot. That's the most valuable thing.
The fact that you actually Engage The Lion conversation
that is the goal in the end, whether or not Allah will solve
your problem. Media, immediately is a separate
problem, and I want to share just a quick thing about that
than I come to Muhammad Ali. Sometimes you go through
problems and you ask yourself, what is my fault in all of this?
Why do I have to go through this problems?
What did I do to deserve this? Yes.
Let me ask you this Yusuf Ali Salim was a child right?
A Child by definition is innocent What did the child do
to deserve being kidnapped? What is the child ever done to
deserve being thrown inside of a well in the middle of the woods?
What is it child ever done to deserve being sold as a child
slave in a different land? What is that yet?
When he grows up as a young man, what did he ever do to deserve
being thrown in jail? Over a false accusation.
And he spent many years in jail, not because of something he did,
he was innocent and he spent all those years in June, he went
through situations in life. That if anybody else went
through those situations, you'll say life is unfair man.
Where you going to do? Life is unfair.
You know but you know what happens to a Believer.
They don't just say life is unfair.
They say Allah is unfair Allah Allah I did that to him yet.
Allah says, in Surah yousuf, Allahu Hollywood Allah Allah was
overlooking everything he did in his decision.
Every decision that was made for use of Allah was dominating that
decision overlooking? That decision how sometimes you
and I go through difficulty because Allah knows something
better is coming. Sometimes that better thing that
is coming is for you. Sometimes it's for somebody
else. Sometimes, it's not for you,
sometimes it's for somebody else, sometimes the benefit of
your difficulty will come back to you.
The return will come back to you, while you are still alive.
Sometimes the return is meant to come back to you.
After you go, go back to Allah. What happened with you so far.
Lisa, my father was separated from a child.
It's a tragedy, isn't it? But imagine if he was never
kidnapped, he would never be in the will, if he was never in the
well, he would never end up in Egypt.
If he was never in Egypt, he would have never grown up there
and been thrown into prison. If he was never in prison, he
would have never met those two guys.
He met in prison whose dream, he interpreted, if he never met
those two people, one of them who got to live and go back to
the king and when the king saw a dream a strange dream he would
have never said wait I know someone who can help interpret
your dream and If that never happened and you know what?
That dream was seven, good years in the country and seven years,
there's not going to be any crop and he produce any Harvest.
People are going to starve to death if Yusuf was not in prison
and he Salam. And then was taken out to
interpret that dream. At that time, there would have
been an economic Financial social crisis in the country and
hundreds of thousands of children would have starved to
death. One child suffered for a few
years but because of that child suffering Allah, as plan was to
save a lot of families. A lot of fathers and mothers
from losing their children to starvation because of the plan
that Yusuf alayhi Salam. Came back when he interpreted
the dream and interpreted the dream and gave.
When he became the treasurer, I have a friend, some of you might
have heard of him. His name is Robert Davila.
I asked the sister about him. If she knows it, when she said,
yes she's heard of him, the man can't move any part of his body
other than his face. He can't move any part of his
body. What did he ever do to deserve
that nothing? But how many people have
accepted Islam? Because of his disability?
How many people have just heard about that and have come back to
Allah? How many people that were
ungrateful in life even though they were Muslim, they were only
Muslim by name and decided to submit their heart back to
Allah. Because that man is sitting in a
bed His suffering, his pain becomes guidance from millions
of people, you understand sometimes the difficulty you and
I go through is actually a small price to pay for a lot of, hey,
a lot of good that will either come to me now or it will come
to me in the ahead. I will come to me after I go
back to Allah. So, our drawers are not the same
as placing an order. Now, I get to Maryam Salam
alaihi, and I really, when she spoke to me, I remembered her
because the thing with Maryam salami, how was work even when
she was young, her birth was strange.
It was mentioned in the Quran. Not many people's birth is
mentioned in the Quran. And, you know, the mother was
expecting a son but she had a daughter instead.
And Allah says, they said the karuk alonza, you know, which
has a multiple multiple layers of meaning but I'll just
highlight Not one of them. This boy this girl is like no
other boy. This girl is special and by the
way please remember those words next time?
Any of you if you're expecting a child and that you were hoping
and your mother was hoping and your father was hoping and your
extended cousins were hoping, it's going to be a son and you
have a daughter. You remember that Allah didn't
highlight the birth of a child like he did the worth of Maryam
salaam alaikum. It's an honor to have a
daughter. It's a gift of Allah to have a
daughter, and it's actually the behavior of the Eddie Coon to be
upset that you had a daughter. What language who most want than
one who work at him. His face turns dark and he's
depressed. This swallowing his upset
attitude because he had a he had a girl girls are a blessing from
Allah azzawajal an honor and said disrespect not only of the
gift of Allah but of the ayat of the Quran, when you're upset
that you had a daughter you should we should be mindful of
that. But that's on a side note, this
child is born. She's actually given a special
place in what was then the central House of Allah.
And zakariya alehissallaam used to take care of her and every
time he used to come to visit her, to make sure she's doing
okay, because she was dedicated living in the house of Allah.
Good Lama Dalai has a career in the hottest and every time he'd
walk in he'd see, fruits food in front of her and he said where
did you get these fruits? These fruits, a don't even grow
here. And these fruits aren't even
from this season. These fruits grow in the winter.
This was going to some, are you have them in offseason?
Where did you get them from? She would respond collet who
have been in the LA. These come especially from
Allah, these fruits come to me from Allah.
Imagine somebody who's doing. Pause are answered in a way that
special delivery from the sky of food for this woman.
And so when the sister was telling me her daughter's get
answered in life. I remembered mudiyum said I'm an
ally and how miraculously Allah would intervene and provide for
even matters? Like food things that we can get
up and get ourselves. She didn't even have to get up
for that. Very special child, very special
woman. And so about this woman, what I
wanted to share with you is later on in life, what happens
to her. When she's a young woman Angels,
visit her, tell her that she's going to have a child.
The first thought in her mind. I'm not married.
How what do you mean? I'm going to have a child.
Let me, I'm Sesame. Bashar, no man has ever touched
me. What in the world do you mean?
I'm going to have a child together, a leaky color who are
Ibuki? That is how your master declared
it. It's, I'm sorry, we're just here
to deliver the news. We're not here to negotiate.
Whether this is going to happen or not.
That decision has been made. You're having a baby Now she's
in shock. What am I going to do?
She's going to turn back to Allah and hope that this will
not happen to her, which it's going to happen.
And I'll fast forward a little bit for you.
Just so you appreciate what happened to this woman.
After she had the baby after, she had the baby and she came
back to her town. The entire community that looked
up to her as a as a Haida as a spiritual Woman as a woman of
worship and I bother someone who even the prophet of their
community. Academia had endorsed, she will.
She grew up under the tutelage of zakariya alehsalaam, all the
Masjid Community is standing there.
She's walking back with a baby and they all start collectively
together. Start humiliating How could you
do this? What have you done?
Can you there are there women in the gym are today?
No Muslim woman. No Muslim woman can ever imagine
being in a situation where she's holding a baby and somebody's
telling her that child is not legitimate.
She cannot imagine that kind of humiliation.
No muslim and none of us can imagine that kind of accusation
for our sister, for our mother, for our daughter.
We cannot imagine that pain is beyond us.
For the human for the Muslim, our dignity is greater to us
than our life. Are the sense of dignity.
Allah give it has given us is more valuable to us than even
our life. And she knows that when she goes
back with this baby, that's what they're going to say.
It's one thing that they might be saying it behind her back
there, saying it in public in front of her in front of her.
Now I want to take you back to how she dealt with this problem
because no amount of Doha she made is going to change.
What Allah has decided. Allah has decided that she has
to face this. She has to stand in front of
this. And what does she do?
When the child comes as she's about to deliver the child?
She says? Yeah, you can admit to cobbler
hase. she says, if only if only I could die before this happens,
Hopefully, I die giving birth. That's she's it's all on her
mind because that will be an easy escape from what is coming.
There is no other place in the Quran.
Anybody ever wish for death? This is the only one think about
that. Why is it there?
Allah azza. Wajal is acknowledging that
sometimes people go through such traumatic, humiliating
situations, where they wish they were dead.
Even that happens, that's how extreme her situation became,
and a like knowledge that and recorded that in the Quran.
Yah late enemy to come the Hada. I read this and I was just in
shock. Like, how did she just say that?
You know, our messenger, I didn't salatu was-salam told us,
Nia Tom, and Ariana had a who I had to come out.
None of you should ever wish for that.
You should not wish for death. That's not something you should
say casually. And she's actually now wishing
for death. Why?
Because this is an extreme case. This is a crazy situation.
And so, you know, the humiliation she will face is far
worse than death. So she says, she'll eat any meat
table. There are going to be this is in
the Quran for a reason. There are going to be people
that are going to be in humiliating situations and
there's no getting out of it. There are going to be people
that are going to have to face their family that are going to
have to face false accusations that are going to have to face
up to a mistake, they made in the past who knows?
And they're going to have to face that kind of trauma.
And they'll have to find comfort in the example of Maryam,
selamun Alia, but she didn't stop there.
She said, well couldn't do not. See am Lancia two words Nessie.
Ian Mencia, it was incredible words Nessie in Arabic, they say
file and fill these two thousand, they say Niecy.
Also in one car ignition. Another carelessness.
Ian, this is similar to dip. The in the Arabic language, you
have two kinds of words and Diplo and must War.
Nessie and Muncie. The first of these words is
actually used, I wrote this down for you.
Well are you alluding capture live in LA orientalism For an
animal for a goat or a ram. You don't call it dip back until
it's ready to be slaughtered. It hasn't been slaughtered yet
once it is slaughtered. It's called the be it's called
mu not before before it's called them.
She uses two words, common translation say I wish I was
dead. I wish I was forgotten.
That's what the translation says.
But there are two words of being forgotten.
One of those words, nescient actually means I wish even
though because she's away from the mustard, right?
She's not back home. Home.
I hope nobody ever misses me. They don't even ask the
question. Where did Maryam go?
I wish I could be invisible. Forgotten from people's memories
right now and nobody even has the thought of me, this is
Nessie. Nobody even thinks I existed
there are people that go through the kind of depression and
anxiety where they don't come out of home, they don't leave
home, they don't pick up phone calls, they don't answer or text
messages, they get anxious being around people, they're going
through so much trouble. AMA that they wish they were
forgotten as a matter of fact, even if somebody knocks on the
door, they say, I wish they didn't remember me.
I wish I didn't have to face anybody.
They want to just crawl away away away away.
But just be by themselves. This is nescient.
And I'm and she's hoping already that she dies and nobody even
comes looking. And then later on, even if years
go by and nobody found out what happened to her, when seein,
she's completely forgotten, there's no memory of her in the
future either. I hope nobody thinks of me right
now and I become invisible in the future.
Also, I wanted to highlight This Woman's trial because this is a
woman of drama whose daughter has used to get answered
immediately. She used to didn't even have to
ask for food and in years to come and this is the situation a
lot puttering. This is the trial that Allah put
her think about that. This is not because Allah hates
her. This is not because a lot forgot
about her. This is not because Allah wants
to humiliate her, this is actually all of this.
Ended up becoming a la honoring her.
All of this became a la honoring her.
What was her humiliation? Her humiliation was people are
going to say you had this child without being married.
You had a harem child. That's what people are going to
say and what was the child's name?
You know, his name was Elisa. There is no other prophet and
the Quran who when Allah mentions their name, he honors
their parents also. Except Lisa, he's of no Maryam
is happening. Maryam, he's helping them over
and over again. He saw the son of Maryam.
Do you find Muhammad, the son of
Abdullah? Do you find Yahoo the son of his
hack is hack? The son of Abraham use of the
son of your community. You find these?
No, no, every time a lot Honors that messenger and they start or
not every time a multiple times, when a lot Honors that
messenger, he honors his Other. And by the way, this is
important. Because for the Arabs, when you
say even and for the eve of the somatic people, when you say,
even right after Eben, you mentioned the father's name.
You mentioned the father's name, your last name comes from your
father. Allah goes out of his way to
remind people that know he has no father and we are going to go
out of our way to honor that mother at a sub.
No, Maryam every time Allah mentioned that humiliation for
another reason and I close with that.
I told you last time and earlier on in this club are sometimes,
your pain is going to be a relief for other people.
You're going through difficulty because it's meant to Serve a
greater cause than yourself and you will be the sabotage area
for them. You'll be aware of goodness for
them. This is the pain of medium Sarah
Maria every time a woman has humiliated every time a woman
has falsely accused every time a woman wishes she was dead then
to face what she's supposed to face.
Then she's going to find comfort in erisa in medium salaam
alaikum and every time she finds that Comfort the rank of Maryam
rises again and again and again and again Hannah Le Our
daughters are a means by which we connect to Allah are, those
are not a means by which this world becomes Heaven, this world
is going to be full of Trials, people.
That were much better than we are had difficulty in life.
That's okay. The colloquial in sanofi Chabad,
we created all human beings and toil and labor and struggle.
Struggle is a part of life, the purpose of the law is to help
you and me deal with those struggles and to never forget
that Allah is with us. Whether it's hard times or easy
times may Allah would have not because people that lose faith
in Allah. As always, you'll honor us and
and make help us remember that no matter how much people try to
humiliate you, people try to put you down, people insult.
You like it in medium said, I'm gonna be huh?
Allah still honors. You there's a big difference
between what people say about you and what Allah thinks about
you. Because if you go up by what
people said, then Maryam was the most humiliated insulted person
in society. And if you go by what Allah says
she's one of the most honored women in all of human history.
So we go by what Allah says, Allah is the one who honored us.
We'll look at coronavirus Adam. We honored the children of Adam
You may Allah azzawajal make us dignified before Allah azzawajal
before he makes his dignified before.
People markkula who developed until Colonel Hakim, whatever
anyway accountability, what's it called?
Hakeem Ahima Cafe was salatu. Was-salam ala nabina, Muhammad
Ali. He was in a lot.
A lot, a lot.