Sheikh Wahaj Tarin - The Light in the Darkness [The Prophet ﷺ Conference] - Light Upon Light

[Music] so they tell me that you need light to see so that if i were to turn off the lights or imagine i put you in a dark dark tunnel where there is no light so that you're in total darkness darkness to the level that you can't even see your own hand and then imagine i place certain obstacles in your path so imagine i put a bit of broken glass here and i put a bit of sulfuric acid there and i put a scorpion here and i put a snake there and then i tell you listen walk through this tunnel for me and because you're engulfed in darkness and you can't see your right from your left and you're trying to navigate blind you'll start walking but pretty soon i'll hear you scream you'll scream when you get cut by the glass you'll scream when you get burnt by the acid you'll scream and you get stung by the scorpion you'll scream when you get bitten by the snake you're in pain in agony you're being battered and bruised why because you don't have light to navigate through the difficulties of the tunnel and in a similar way we were navigating through life without light guessing trying to go through the school of hard knocks and guessing we camped through a lot of difficulties can you imagine looking for our lord we guessed that our lord was a rock so we used to worship stones you remember the days when we worshiped stoned muslims because there was no light remember the days when we used to try to marry our sisters and bury our daughters and remember the days when we were perpetually intoxicated and remember the days when families were won and lost because of a gambling debt that we had to pay and that darkness we lived and in that darkness we try to navigate the challenges of life and as a result of our guesswork we suffered night and day until allah bless in his infinite kindness sent us a light [Music] verily they come to you from the majesty of allah light light in this verse is in reference to the character of the majesty of the rasool so allah sent us a prophet a light to help navigate the challenges of life to show us right from wrong to show us our lord we used to worship stones so he came and freed us from those shackles and took us from the worshipping of creation to the devotion to the one that created the creation and if we were to give mountains of gold in charity just to show gratitude for this gift alone we wouldn't be able to meet the requirements of this gift alone and the rest of life he showed us to be kind to look after the orphans he taught us how to have humanity how to give sadaqah how to pray how to fast he taught us right from wrong he was the light that guided us but when people are in darkness for too long the eyes get accustomed to the darkness that darkness becomes normal to you the pupils dilate you get a degree of comfort in that darkness and if someone were to come to you and flick on the light because your eyes are used to that darkness that light seems strange to you so you try to resist it because it feels strange and that's what happened to someone the guidance cam they found this light strange the quran says and they found it strange that a warner has come to them from amidst them would they make the 360 idols that we worship these gods into one god this is a strange phenomena so they found this guidance this light strange and then you saw them trying to blow it out because that's the same reaction that happens when you turn the light on to eyes that are accustomed to darkness the initial reaction is to try to avoid it to try to shun it to try to shut it to try to blow it out so the quran says [Music] they wish to blow out the light that allah has sent with their mouths [Music] his religion will honor and exalt his prophet even today you get people whose eyes are comfortable in that darkness trying to blow out this light of truth and subhanallah you even see leaders who are trying to distract from their failures of leadership by trying to insult or attack this divine truth that can and in the process i recognize dear ones that it causes a lot of heartache and a lot of distress to mind in your hearts as people who love and honor this prophet and who love and honor this religion and who love and honor this way of life so i tell you two things listen to me insha allah two things number one the first diamond that was found in africa or in south africa was a little rock that kids were playing with they didn't know its value but it was shiny and lustrous and a person saw it and was attracted by it and asked to purchase it not knowing that it is a diamond so the family that had it whose kids were playing with it they gave it to him for free that this is a rock and that was a diamond and the biggest diamond found in sierra leone was a diamond found by a young teenager and the teenager didn't know its value so he gave it to the person he was working for and it was sold for millions of dollars dear ones because the person who had the diamond in his grasp didn't know its value would didn't take from the value of the diamond it just highlighted the ignorance of the one who gave it away for such a meager price and the same way those who don't know the majesty of the prophet those who don't give him his worth and his honor they don't do the service to the prophet they do a disservice to themselves because they have a diamond that they don't know it's worth and it's value so that's the first one dear ones um feel sorry for those who don't know your prophet and pray that allah open their hearts and guides them to understanding the value of the man that came to save them secondly dear ones don't let despondency affect you because it is written where this religion will end up the prophet sallallahu and he showed me its west and its east and i saw the faith of my nation cover its east and its west and this religion will touch whatever the rays of sunshine touches this is a matter decreed and written documented uttered by the prophet inspired by allah great things are in store for this deen so don't let a moment of people's inadequacy deter you don't let them depress you don't let them create anxiety on you alhamdulillah that we have him as a prophet and alhamdulillah that we have this as a religion may allah bless you my allah guide you my allah god you it has been an honor being with you keep your brother in your dua assalamualaikum warahmatullahi [Music] foreign muhammad a

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Length: 12min 19sec (739 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 03 2020