Becoming a Friend of Allah - Sh. Omar Suleiman | Lecture

this year was the most special of anything I've ever seen an auto fo for those of you that haven't seen the clips it's the year that it rained in Auto fo and subhanAllah I've had the opportunity to go for a hedge for over a decade and I've never actually seen rain in Auto fo and to actually create the scene for you before I even get into the subject of the Altima if any of you have been to hedge in the last few years you know how it goes on the day of Arafah everyone prepares themselves for drought they get themselves ready for that day they say I'm gonna go find a mountain and I'm gonna stand on a mountain first they get two out of fun there's a shock that it's not a mountain it's actually a nice open space a plane and there's Mountain there there are mountains and hills but it is not amounts in the entire area model cos alpha and everyone gets ready to make those donuts to make those prayers and if you've been in the last few months you know that the heat quickly humbles you you start making dry for about an hour and then you have people passing out out of heat exhaustion because they underestimated the Sun and they end up instead in the tents and a lot of people end up spending the entire time in the tents making John just because of it gets so tough so this year as out of began the exact same thing happened as last year in the year before it was hot everyone was excited in the beginning and then the heat humbled people into their tents and then somehow I lost something happens about two hours in these clouds formed I actually I'd say about an hour and a half in these clouds formed over all of them and it was very distinct that these clouds were only over the area of ha'la'tha these millions of people with their hands raised to the sky pleading to Allah for their personal and for the collective for their dunya and for their ocula for their worldly life and for the hereafter for acceptance and for forgiveness and then you had these clouds that formed and clouds at that time in the days of Hajj can be very scary as well because people are very vulnerable if the weather gets bad then people have no buildings - retreat - so it doesn't rain there usually it's very unlikely for its ever rained there in that desert it truly is why didn't I D these are a place where fruits and vegetables don't typically grow up grow where it doesn't really rain and so you know people if it really rains bad then it can get very dangerous for people and so on the clouds form they can be quite intimidating but these clouds form over the area of Arafah and a light drizzle starts to come and then subhanAllah that's where the rain starts and the rain that came down on the day of Arafah on the people that were there in hedge was so extraordinary so refreshing it brought everyone out of their tents and if you took a moment to just peek around you all you saw was everybody outside standing up with their hands up like this no one was sitting no one was an attempt the rain hits you from this way and then the rain hits you from behind you and it was heavy enough to cool off the entire day of Arafah and at the same time it wasn't too heavy to where it became dangerous for the people that were outside there was lightning and the lightning actually struck there's the light that the main light source the lightning bolt actually struck it directly and lit up all the lights at one time you saw it happen in front of my own two eyes and you have this scene out of a movie and you just have suddenly the exact opposite if someone were to tell you this would be the scene 30 minutes before that you wouldn't believe it that's about a lot as that day was special and I ask Allah again to accept it not just from the people there but for the entire Ummah for everybody that you're out was made on behalf of on that day and for everyone who fasted that day and reaping the rewards of out of us that's going as that's taking place can't help but wonder who is here this year who is this guest of Allah who are these guests of Allah that this incredible scene was created for the benefit of everybody and that's actually what I want to focus on for a moment there are people that attained the status with a lot to wear they are the friends of allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and there are different levels of friendship and there are different things that could happen for people when they actually attained becoming friends of a loss of hundreds on that status there's an exclusive status there's an exclusive tier which is a halide which is a bla he marathi his salaam first Brahim irani his salon de special exclusive friend of allah subhana wa ta'ala where allah chose ibrahim re-summon someone says you know you you go through the story of ibraheem alehissalaam and you hear all of these things that he was put through and i know that the days of the hedge are over and you guys like we've been hearing what was about Rajamani salaam for the last few months or for the last month but pay attention to this for a moment you you see the stages of him already something you go did it really have to be that harsh did he really have to go through this and this and this and this and this and that but here's the thing Al Houla or to attain that status of halide Allah empties out everything and fills that only with Allah subhana WA Ta'ala that heart has to be elevated to a place where it is only a loss of Hanoi Tata and everything is cast within that love of Allah subhana wa tada so what he went through with his father of course there was compensation for that what he went through with his son with this Mariotti his salaam the story doesn't end with the sacrifice of his Mariani his salaam a loss of henry tata gives him of course many children after that right many sons after that so not only did he not lose this married arti he set up allah blessed him with many children after that so allah replaces what he loses in the prophet sallallaahu any who sent him said that the first person to be dressed on the day of judgment would be a balaji Marni's salam because of how he was stripped and thrown into the fire and allah subhanho wa taala would honour him first on the day of judgement with the garments as he proceeds to the place of assembly so everything gets replaced and there is a good ending to all of this right but all of that why Allah cleared out everything for Ibraheem Hani Salaam when you are chosen to be a hélène of Lawson Hinault Atalla there have to be extraordinary steps things that no other person will be put through things that no other person will be put through even if you see a dream of you sacrificing your son you're not supposed to sacrifice your son no one else goes through this stuff it's Allah elevating he chose about him on Islam and elevated him to a particular spot and the tests were unique because his station was so unique and it's exclusive or it has a degree of exclusivity because the Prophet SAW Allah and he was said I'm said if I was to take a colleague from my Ummah a friend from my Ummah it would have been Abu Bakr Siddiq all of the allahu ta'ala anhu but Allah has already taken me as a halide so even Abu Bakr it will be a long time who cannot ascend to that spot with the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he's the Sadiq he's the best friend of the Prophet slice of them amongst the people but the Prophet slice them said Allah has chosen me as a hadith and once you're a loss honey no one else is in that relationship and we have people like that in our lives and if you look at the hadith because it's often just translated as friend the Prophet slicing them says that a person is on the on the Deen of who you are on the religion of your Helene philander ahead oh c'mon you Holland so look to who you take as that special friend not someone you just hang out with every once in a while but you really when you take time when you start to spend a lot of time with someone your love your priorities and your likeness starts to to become in you know starts to become the same they start to synchronize so Haneen is a very special thing that Allah gives to bahi Mattias Saddam to the prophet sallallaahu Salam then there is this level of we nya that a person becomes Eleni of allah that doesn't mean that sudden that you see a dream and then you wear a turban and then everyone calls you a lily and you're a willy and you get to put it in front of your name like a credential Veolia of allah these close friends of allah are very much so scattered amongst the people and you don't know who they are and that's what makes this so interesting you don't know who all uvula is in fact some of the olia of a lot of themselves don't know that they're olia of allah they don't quite understand how much a lot loves them and how they could have ascended in those ranks and there are three ways that they're intimate mentioned that a person attains that status of wilayah of that special friendship with a loss of hana hana the one that the prophet sallallaahu are you sort of narrated in a hadith Qudsi that allah has said morality well ii afore cut evan to Hubal held that whoever takes a when II of mine someone that is that beloved to me of mine that special friend of mine as an enemy I will wage war on him may Allah let us be the one II and not the one being having war waged upon them by a loss of Hannah which I had a long I mean that's both very beautiful and very scary at the same time because again because the Oh Nia or apphia they're hidden a needle the alone tada and who said Allah has hidden two things amongst the people he's hidden his pleasure in his good deeds so you don't know which of the good deeds is the one that unlocks his pleasure and Allah has hidden his onea as special friends amongst the people you don't know who you're dealing with literally you don't know who you're dealing with when you're dealing with that person that also doesn't mean a person goes out and commits major sins and says well I might just be that Leni of Allah no no there's a person that's striving to reach that position and then there is the person that has that unlocked for them in the allah says whoever reaches that position i will wage war on the one who harms that person and I am AHIMA whole Asif how many nations how many nations have been protected or destroyed because of a while' within them or against them one or two people that Allah holds in such high regard in such high standard now there's something instructive about this the takeaway from this is not just that I'm just going to sit back and hope make their Allah make me already there are three things that allow a person to attain that state the first one is that you do you fulfill the obligations and you do good until you taste the sweetness of that good which is the pleasure of Allah and that becomes your unique driving force in life the pleasure of Allah the lid law of Allah becomes your exclusive driving force in life it becomes your drive it becomes momentum attaining his pleasure and that's how the hadith goes one Metapod wobble ard vishay I'm really a member of Torah - who are they you don't come close to Allah with anything more beloved than fulfilling the OP doing your obligations right praying on time fasting doing the things that Allah tells you to do fulfilling the obligations and then you get closer to him with a no aphid you taste the sweetness of the obligations and now you start to do the voluntary deeds cut him until Allah loves you until Allah loves you with that exclusive special love and when Allah loves you that way come to summer of another yes tomorrow be Allah becomes the hearing with which you see with which you hear the sight with which you see the hand with which you strike the the way that you walk everything Allah becomes you become entrenched in that pleasure of a loss of a note on and seeking that pleasure of allah subhana wa ta'ala and it becomes your exclusive driving force there is no second it's just the pleasure of allah that's one way of reaching that status with allah where the little of a lot of the pleasure of allah is what drives you to all of your good deeds through all of your good deeds so that you keep on doing more and more and more and more and you can't get enough of it because you tasted the sweetness of prayer now five times is not enough anymore taste of the sweetness of fasting now all Mabon is not enough anymore it tasted the sweetness of hedge hedge is not enough anymore I need to go to Omaha as soon as I get my foot on that plane in Jeddah or Medina yeah when am i coming back when do I get to come back for Ramadan are you making plans already for the winter thinking about when's your next chance if Allah locks up for you some people never go but their hearts are there and Allah is accepting it for them they never get a chance to go there but their hearts are there and connected to it so a lot unlocks these things for you and you taste the pleasure of those good deeds and that becomes the driving force the second one is that the sincerity of your repentance it's actually a more sudden one a person makes the sincere repentance to Allah so I know it's a Honda for Allah subhana WA Ta'ala because of the loss of Hannah Matata and the pleasure of Allah in repentance completely removes the effect of the pleasure of that disobedience to Allah subhana wa tada so that's where you find those a hadith about a person who was in major sin and then suddenly switches the pleasure of Allah overwhelms any type of pleasure they used to get from that disobedience and now they are calibrated in that way and so they immediately rise in status with allah subhana wa ta'ala the third one is when a lot tests you with a major tragedy a lot takes away something from you and through that tragedy you do a t sub which is to seek the reward and the reward is a loss pleasure and you try to seek that pleasure from a loss of hana hana and that's what sees you through that tragedy and that again becomes the way that you contextualize all of your tragedies and all of your tribulations that a person would reach that status of wilayah this panel law you find these stories of the son up in the past you've got examples of all of these you've got that there's a man that I'm the loving I'm boss of the ilan saadon who said that one day or that the people were out making is to stop they were asking Allah for rain and they were in drought for a very long time and as they were out asking a loss of Hannah Matata for rain that all of these these these righteous people were making drought were praying and it was a long time that rain did not come and then it not vassal the alongside on who said I saw this man an enslaved man who had no status in society in the corner of the marketplace and he had his hands raised in the corner and he said allahumma inni al kabir obk an alien in important ah o allah i ask you by your love for me that you allow rain to come upon all of us what audacity that person has to ask Allah with that type of a job he knows that worldly status is not what conveys confers status on a person but he had a special status with a loss of Hannah Matata so he said llama and yes and ok b obk an alien all I asked you by your love for me that she would allow rain to come upon all of us I mean our boss of the alarm and who said I was the only one close enough to that man where I could hear his dua and as soon as he finished making that Durai it started to rain upon all of us and I looked at him and I thought who is this man subhanAllah simple servant of a loss of Hirota he wasn't Adam he wasn't a scholar he wasn't giving hot bus he wasn't someone that was known he didn't have any prominence but he had a status with allah and that was to the benefit of everybody else that was over there Muhammad Amin makanda rahim allah tala he said that one in medina we went six months without rain and he said well lie the people we're asking allah subhanho wa taala and that i went next to the cabin and I saw this person unknown person grabbing to the cloth of the Kaaba and he said yeah and like like now and complete sincerity drenched and then it started to rain on the people in Medina there's one of the son of who was on a ship and the the you know I mentioned this in the prayers of the pious series one of Munna Jonathas said if and as the cloud started to form and all of these these wind started to blow the ship around and people were worried and he was in complete calm he said yeah Allah you have showed us your PUD Zahra you've showed us your power so show us your pardon show us your mercy and your pardon and then suddenly everything calls if a person reaches that position it's special and sometimes again you don't know that's level one level two which was that a person has a sincere repentance is what snared in a towaway beam by beam pedometer him Allah Ta'ala the story of musa alayhis salaam and the disobedient one from Benyus ye were musa alayhis salaam a prophet of allah was amongst the people and they suffered from a drought and he asked the loss of hundreds out of for rain and it didn't come so he called upon allah subhanho wa taala and he said yo dub what is it why is the rain being withheld from us so a loss of Hannah Montana says there's a hug there's there's a servant of a loss of Hannah Hannah amongst you who has been challenging me with his mafia challenging me with his disobedience and the rain has been withheld because of him so moosa' he said I'm gathered the people and he said he called out to the people and Bennie you saw I said who is it whoever that person is that's been challenging a loss of mine oh it's our honor stand up seek seek forgiveness repent to a loss of Henrich IATA we're all suffering because of you and that man in those moments feeling as humbled as he was calls upon a loss of hundreds on and he says yeah Bob you've kept me protected you've covered me and sheltered me and my disobedience for all of these years so yeah Allah accept my repentance I'm turning back to you he was so humbled that Allah cared enough about him you see when Allah calls you back to Toba cared enough about him to send that message to him he knew it was him said yaha you covered me all of this time I seek your forgiveness Estela don't kill a - blue lake started to cry to a loss of Panama's and he started to repent to Allah and he sought his forgiveness and as he did that the rain started to fall and Missoni his saddam he asked the loss of Hannah he said no one came forward yell of no one came forward so how come the rain came what happens and a loss of Hanna ho Tejada says ya Musa I covered that man for all of these years in Marcia and disobedience you think I'm going to expose him in law and he's in obedience and the same person for whom the rain was forbidden for you it now came down for you Subhan Allah that one moment that person upgraded their status with allah subhanho wa taala by turning back to allah and prioritizing the pleasure of allah over all all of whatever disobedience he was committing enough to forbid that entire Ummah is the disobedience even mentioned no because it doesn't matter it doesn't matter what the nature of the disobedience is it doesn't matter how bad you've been or what you've done because the laws mercy is greater than all of that as long as you're now going to recalibrate and seek a lost pleasure over all of that then that's what counts and that last one a lot tests you with something so severe so harsh and you turn to our loss of Hanoi Thailand you seek his pleasure through that a lot takes something away from you that you thought you could not live without a lot takes away what I never do I'm not gonna be shaming and Hopey well jury were not for Seminole and while he will unfussy with them a lot well that I saw bit in Allah says you'll be tested with your safety you'll be tested with your health you'll be tested with your family you'll be tested with your sustenance you'll all of this uncertainty things are going to be things are gonna be all over the place what this is Sabbatini but give glad tidings to the patients when you walk around and head you see people without legs you see people without arms you see people in poverty you see people some of them their pain is apparent on them people being carried on the backs of others people that are that do not have the ability to see that have to have someone it's already difficult enough for a young healthy person to walk those days of hedge you see people that have all sorts of ailments and someone has to walk them around you see people trip and fall you see people collapse because they can't walk that many miles a day in that heat you see obvious pain in health you see poverty around you and for how many people that are walking around an auto fun hedge this year their pain was completely silent no one knows what that person's been through can run into someone in front of the messages of the prophet's life that were pray next to someone and then you don't know what that person's been through and you don't know why Allah chose them to be there or why Allah chose you to be there or what they're calling a a lot with and what their status with allah subhana wa ta'ala is we have such an arrogance by the way as western muslims that we project on them look at these people they can't even form a line look at you you can't even pray and they pray all night in the huddle they have faults and we have faults but you don't know that person's status you don't know their circumstances and they call upon Allah and invoke Allah subhana WA Ta'ala and no one knows who's around them if you start talking to people you hear their pain in this messages right now we don't know each other's pain we don't know what everybody's going through we don't know the struggles that we're having with family and health and wealth and all that we don't know what struggles were having with career unless you know someone very intimately and they're talking to you right you don't know as a pal Allah you know what was there this year at hutch the families of the martyrs of Christchurch New Zealand and some of the survivors the families of the show had that if you walked past them I ran into Aziz the hero of Moses on or in Surrey and talked to him there and if you saw him you just think he's just another Avani man walking between safa and marwah like everybody else and this guy Allah knows what his status is in the site of a loss of Hannah Hannah walking and doing Vika dwith his slippers in his hand just like anybody else Allah Allah Allah these special people lost their families of Juwanna sitting here just like you and their families were taken from them and they're there in hedge almost all of them were there in hedge this year and if you saw them well I you would not recognize them you wanted to know them you see these people and you think it's just an under head sheet and these are people that put their loved ones in the ground for Allah and Allah called them to hedge this here the brother was seeing who was in a coma when we went to Christchurch because he shielded his daughter what seems shielded his four-year-old daughter and when the massacre happens and he was shot nine times holding his daughter and the last memory he had before he went into a coma was getting to the hospital and his daughter was in blood and he was in blood and he said take my daughter don't worry about me and when and then he collapsed and he went into a coma well when we went to Christchurch what scene wasn't awake he was in a coma when he woke up three weeks later he started shouting for his daughter and when they told him that your daughter is okay because of him didn't last she survived he didn't believe them he had to see her and she turned five in the hospital right there in a hospital bed next to him and they were at heads this year they were at had to see her if a lot is shy from the hands of a servant who could have disobeyed him and turned to him for those few moments then what about that person who gave it all for Allah and there are people the prophets I mentioned Shaheed and young she added out of a martyr that could be walking and those people were there saying Allahu MA and they could have been right next to him you didn't even know ESCO Los Pinos odds accept our dear hearts to accepted your eyes of all of those for whom had she was made on behalf of and your heart was made on behalf of to accept all of the good deeds of the first ten of the judges that we're done and to forgive us for our shortcomings Aeschylus Ponte it's a comfort to show had that to elevate the show had that and the families of the show had done we asked to lost panna cotta to accept all of our good deeds and forgive our shortcomings Elana I mean I blue probably had those stuff lined up and recited missing in fest stuff you don't know who little Rahim you

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Published: Tue Aug 20 2019

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