The Story of Hajar: Uncovering Certainty in Uncertainty - Sh. Omar Suleiman | Lecture

dear brothers and sisters as we go into these blessed days of the Hodja a lot of the focus and attention will naturally be on ibrahim alayhis salam on Abraham peace be upon him and he is in the Quran Ibrahim he is in some of the garage Ibrahim he is an amazing figure one who we take our ritual from our Deen from the great-grandfather of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam who resembled the prophet sallallaahu and he was selling most and the prophet's license way resembles his way the most this is millet abeequm ibraheem' this is the way of your father ibraheem alehissalaam the Hajj is a commemoration of ibraheem alehissalaam when you pray you mentioned ibraheem alehissalaam and every single salah we got this man in so many different ways and there's something about that that i want to focus on had it not been for the tests and trials that ibrahim alaih-is-salaam endured and the way that he endured them many of the reasons that he is celebrated for would not exist in the quran and in our history let me repeat that in a different way as ibrahim Anees salaam was going through his trials not only did he bear his trials with such patience and such nobility and sooth and truth and this loyalty and and you know gratitude to allah subhana wa ta'ala as he went through those trials those trials became the means by which he was elevated became the stories that we tell that are in fact the reasons that he is honored he is first honored by revolution and by being mm bia the father of the prophets and a person who did much good but if you look through his life much like many of the prophets that we find in the quran the reasons for his honor traced back to his most his most difficult moments his lowest points and how in his lowest points he had the highest iman and faith and that's why we celebrate him though the stories that are told in the quran and the sunnah of the prophet salallahu alaihe wasalam and the thing about abraham hiding his salam is that everyone in his family has a perspective and all of them have a very similar story of tribulation and trial that is unique to them but it all comes together to make this beautiful family so from the perspective of ibraheem alehissalaam you have a prophet that is rejected by his people rejected by even his father despite being the most eloquent of the prophets as even Cathy avahi mullah mention of Safa am BIA despite being able to articulate intelligent arguments despite the reputation he had with his people he leaves his people rejected by every single person in the town except for his wife sada the perspective of Sabra and the ending was not pretty the ending is him being thrown into stripped down and thrown into a fire and a lot protecting him from the burning of that fire but the pain of being stripped down by your father and thrown into a fire in front of the people that doesn't depart by the fire being made pool for a brought him out of his Saddam that's painful and only having your wife sada to travel with you outside of that place there's the perspective of sada being married to ibrahim alayhis salaam being his only follower in his town being childless in that situation with no sight of anyone that would that would that would take over after they depart from this world that would inherit the prophethood of ibraheem alehissalaam late into their age they didn't leave how lon when they were young they left after many decades of humiliation and struggle and they start to make this journey and then the other people start to become a part of the story each one of them having a very unique perspective and one that requires a lot of patience and trial and tribulation then comes Hajj Allah then comes it's naive then comes is Haqq then comes Yaakov and Yusuf it's a legacy of tribulation and patience shown in that tribute as each one of them goes through a different struggle that is unique to them but completes this family of sith of truthfulness and patience and so I want to actually view the story of ibraheem alehissalaam today from the perspective of hodja hodja is a very unique person in the quran innocent of the prophets lice Allah her intervention into the story is so different most of the time when you look through the stories of the prophets you see that the believers themselves the prophets themselves are rejected and then end up in a situation where they are hostage to an oppressor like Yusuf Adi has said I'm going from being the favorite son to being a slave and a prisoner most of the time the Prophet is put at the mercy of someone else ha job story is very different she has the opposite cycle she is put at the mercy of a prophet and his wife and then put into the spiral of uncertainty and has to figure it out along the way in a very unique way to her perspective and in a way that we can all take lessons of conviction and certainty in times of deep uncertainty so where does this woman come from and what is her legacy and what is her perspective in this entire story of her intervention into this legacy of ibraheem alehissalaam the ending of it is at no point on these 24 hours on any day of the year is she not being honored and celebrated inside this woman who could have died rejected and forgotten instead is honored like no other woman in history with people constantly commemorating her patience and her ritual all the time tell me when you could go to Surrey and not find someone doing that the legacy is the Prophet so I said I'm telling his followers that one day you're going to go to a place called mussaf Egypt and treat the people with a special type of love because they are the descendants of our mother on this Marian Hodja alayhis-salam so there's special people because they descend from the same special woman that I descended from this is a woman from muscle how does she come into the story of ibraheem alehissalaam brahim was traveling with his wife saba to find a new place to settle and to give dower sada is a righteous woman and as Sarah goes with ibraheem alehissalaam they pass through muscle and there is a pharaoh and mustard a tyrant and this is a long hadith and Behati that explains the story this tyrant this Pharaoh and muscle that takes two attractive women kills their husbands and takes them for himself and so ibraheem alehissalaam and he was asked about her he said she is my sister he was not lying because she is his sister in faith and the pharaoh called sada because she was a beautiful woman and he took Sarah into his palace and he began to approach her Sarah made Loulou as she was taken into the palace of this Pharaoh and as the man started to approach her she called upon allah subhana wa ta'ala with a beautiful job she said o allah if you know that i followed you and your messenger only in obedience and in accordance with the truth meaning I'm not just a believer because I'm married to Allah he mighty his Salam you know that I am a mock Mina you know that I'm a believer that was willing to take on the struggles in my unique way if you know that I was truthful in following your messenger ibrahim alayhis salaam and in abiding by the truth then protect me from this man as he started to approach her and she made that dira he was overcome by a temporary paralysis he froze and something started to happen to his body and then she said o allah if he dies the people will say that I killed him and then they'll kill me so don't let him die just hold him back from me so he's stuck and he can't touch her but he's not dying because sada is saying don't let him die because of the people walk in and I'm here and there's a dead Pharaoh then that's the end of me and my husband so then he unfroze he regained his ability he started to approach her again she made deraad to Allah subhana WA Ta'ala a second time and it happened to him again except this time he's shaking became more severe and so she said o Allah he dies people will say I killed him so don't let him die just protect me from his harm so Allah protected her again third time he comes out her ass again with the same thing he's not learning his lesson she made you're against him again and the shaking became more severe she said o Allah don't kill him because the people will say that I killed him and then they'll come from me and my husband instead what happened is when he came out of at the third time he called his guards he says luckily tomb Aleya shaitana you sent a devil to me this woman is not a normal woman she's a gym she's a devil he said so get rid of her and her Ejim give her compensation send someone with her to get her away from me so she doesn't harm me he became afraid of her harm said get her away and give her something too the engine was hajjali was a slave girl named Hodja now her name is not actually Hajj opsi Ajab just means a compensation a reward Hodja literally means ha uh digital key here is your reward so how do means your reward so he said take her and you and you and your brother leave get out of here please no harm intended and no harm reciprocated does leave so she smiled and she said Allah protected me Allah protected me from the tyrants and gifted me with hajjali so they took Hodja with them Hauser is not a believer yet this is not the story of a prophet being taken as a slave this is the story of a woman that was in the house of the Pharaoh serving the Pharaoh like hacia but under very different circumstances he's not the the wife of the Pharaoh she's just the servant girl in the palace of the Pharaoh has no idea who Ibrahim is for all she knows Sabra could indeed be the shaitana the demon that the Pharaoh thinks she is so says take her with you so they travel with hodja hodja observes the Iman the belief of the BLA Hammadi his salaam and sorrow Hodja becomes a believer by witnessing it and just like sorrow was truthful in her Iman Hodja was truthful in her Iman Sarah goes from being the servant of the Pharaoh to being transferred as a servant in the household of a prophet to now being married to a prophet ibrahim alayhis salam takes her as a wife she gives birth to is married she's a believing woman now look at the change of her status look at the change of her status how many more women were there in the palace of the Pharaon but a lot chose her for this remarkable journey to be brought in in this way and she has a child is married brahim and sada had not been able to conceive for all of these years and a loss of Han or Tejada gives them marine now this is where if you start to read narrations and stories and things start to come into play you can misconstrue the situation because the next part of the story is that someone would say that sada said get rid of her take her to the furthest desert and abandoned her over there that is not the Islamic conception of the story yes Sarah had Athena then she was jealous of Hodja but Brahimi his Saddam would not go and abandon sahaja and his and her child and his child because sada asked him to do so and we'll know this later on in the story from a very direct question did Allah command you to do this so Brahim alehissalaam takes haja this believing woman and her son is married and he takes her to Mecca and the child to Mecca at that time the Kaaba is buried under the dirt under the sand the foundations of the Kaaba that ibraheem alehissalaam would be told one day to raise it's there but it's buried under the sand the foundations of the Kaaba are there ibrahim alaih-is-salaam knows he's in sacred territory he knows that in this vicinity there is baytullah haram there's the sacred house of a loss of hannah to allah where when ibraheem alehissalaam doesn't ask questions if cara de hoo boo hoo Aslam cada asked them to you know blah demean Allah tells him submit he says I submit he doesn't ask more questions he just goes with it and he takes her job as commanded by a loss of a note on Miss Mary to Mecca crude mountains hot deserts no water no buildings no tried to settle it and ibraheem alehissalaam sets up a little area for them leaves them with some dates a little bit of water and then great sadness of rahim ideas salam starts to walk away imagine how painful this was for ibraheem alehissalaam all the dots he had made for a child and you got to leave him in a desert he would not have his hack for 13 years by the way so it wasn't even like immediately the response came from a loss of henna he came home and he had a child through sada and his half no 13 years over a decade before he would have another child after he made you out to a loss of hundreds Atta for all of these years and now you have to walk away from Hodja and his married brahim Adi his Salaam as he's walking away Hodja like any woman would to any human being would do she says what are you doing are you going to leave me here he wowed them later these that are in later Dima in a place where there's no fruit no vegetation no water what am I doing here what's gonna happen ibrahim alayhis salam is overwhelmed with emotion and he can't answer her and then Hajj or says to him Allah America be hava did Allah command you to do this did Allah command you to do this brahim Ronnie his Salam signifies yes nods his head or points or gives her the signal that yes this is a lot commanding me to do this I'm not doing this out of my own desire this is a lost command hi job at that point does not say to him well in that case at least do this do this this is not fine I'll forgive it you can go but make sure you do this this this and that first house owned at that point with full conviction full certainty she says even valuable your own alone she said then Allah is not going to lose his people I'm not worried them complete Sakina complete trust complete tranquility imagine this situation here she's gonna be left in the desert with a baby no one around her but she says Allah does not lose his people brahim Hadees salam walks away with great sadness as he disappears from her sight this is where many of their in amounts say this is exactly where imagine the moment of the brahim already saddam now behind the mountain where it turns back and he can't see his wife and his child anymore and he says lumbini askin to the deity be wildin lady these are an end of a cycle Muharram oh my lord I've left my family there around your sacred home again it wasn't built yet raised he doesn't know where but it's somewhere here I've left them here oh Allah in a place where there's no vegetation where there is nothing to even physically sustain them ravenna do chemo salah oh allah allow them first and foremost to be sound in their faith let them establish the prayer and then he makes dinner to a loss of Hannah - Hannah photography determine an asset FYE lay him let some the hearts of people come towards them let them incline towards them now sometimes the dura is so sincere and a lot accepts the dura in a way that you can't even imagine because ibraheem honey his saddam and saying that perhaps it's just the tribes let the tribes find him let let thee let the people find them and take care of them but ibraheem alehissalaam would have never imagined this level of honor that she has in the hearts of people that we are commemorating her how many thousands of years later and celebrating her and celebrating her great grandson muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in the way that we do what does the Femina thumb a lot and let them have some fruits let them have some sustenance as well so provide for them oh Allah now subhanAllah as this happens now we know later on in the story the tribe of Judah will come a tribe will see that there are some birds flying around and they will know that there is water later on in the story but the tribes come they settle they end up with it with the civilization a small civilization around them but at this moment dear brothers and sisters Hodja when she says Allah will not let us go to waste Allah does not lose his people at this moment when hogr goes back Hodja is demonstrating and encompassing some of the most beautiful ayat the most beautiful verses about what it means to trust in moments of uncertainty Hodja is demonstrating what the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said and there in the vanity be I am what my servant expects of me I am what my servant expects of me you expect good from Allah Allah will give you good so when she calls out and she says that Allah will not let us go to waste Allah does not lose his people that is and our end of on Abdi be demonstrated I am what my servant expects of me first the one in Allah good expectation of Allah second thing is this Romania tequila Maharaja well your azúcar man - are you Tessa the one who's conscious of a loss of Hannah Matata Allah will always make a way out for them and provide for them in ways that they never would have imagined or experienced when she goes back now and she's looking at her baby and the Sun is getting hotter and she has no water and there is nothing coming from sight and she's there standing next to a sofa looking around running around for her baby and at no point questioning her faith at no point calling out to Allah like oh Allah enough completely certain that Allah is going to provide for her and the Prophet sallallaahu and he was the SAS he's running around looking for mountain to mountain imagine no one in Mecca no buildings in Mecca no tribes and Mecca it's a hard sight to imagine going from Mountain to mountain top calling out seeing if there is even a distant traveler she raises her head they either gibreel she sees debris dar-es-salaam and debris daddy his Salaam simply strikes the ground with his heel and Zam Zam starts to pop out he struck it so deep that we're still drinking from that strike today the prophet's lie sallam smiled and he said ma him alone miss mary may allah have mercy on the mother of his naive because when the water started coming out she was afraid would that it would come out burst out and then it would dry up on the surface so she carved out the area of zum-zum to contain the water and said had she not done that Zemzem would have touched every part of the earth may allah have mercy on the mother of his Mary she carves it out she drinks from that water and she starts to suckle her son is married complete confidence and trust in allah subhana wa ta'ala and then Jill home sees the the birds flying around and they say well we're birds fly around there must be water so they start to settle around her they ask permission to settle around her and zum-zum and the rest of the story is as we know it that history but dear brothers and sisters I want you to connect yourself to the story moment through the perspective of Hodja nodding his Salam and what she went through in that moment how she is honored the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam thousands of years later would stand on sulla and by the way Zemzem is right next to sulfa it's closer to suffer than it way closer to suffer than it is tomorrow wa the prophets I Salaam with thousands of years later her great-great-great-great grandson would stand on that same mountain of suffer and he would call out to the people to believe and all of the people that he thought loved him turned their backs on him and walked away imagine that painful moment of the prophets lies I'm standing on sofa that type of loneliness is different he calls out to them and says if I was to tell you there's an army on the other side would you believe me said of course Yura saw the pan I mean the trustworthy the truthful we always believe you're a Messenger of Allah you never lied to us and then he says that I'm a Messenger of Allah and they turn away from him his uncle curses him locks him and they turn away and the prophets lice I was standing alone on sofa and watching everyone turned their backs on him and walk away this is not a Brahimi body his Saddam turning his back and walking away from Hajj already has said I'm out of the command of Allah subhanAllah but think about him standing in that spot and watching the people turn their backs on him in the same place that Haj Allah was left completely alone thousands of years later and then the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam triumphs two decades later he comes back and he stands on sofa again and this time thousands and thousands and thousands of believers around him surrounding him as he stands on a sofa and the prophets like some remembers I stood in this spot twenty years ago and everyone turned their back on me but here I am now and there are thousands of believers from all over not just the people of Mecca the people of Medina and all over Salman al-farsi so hey a Rumi people from all over the world sitting in front of him and the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam being remind by Allah as he reminds of a loss of Hannah Montana that's so long as you have that certainty in Allah that it doesn't matter what your circumstances are Allah does not lose his people Allah does not lose sight of his people Allah does not let the reward of his people go to waste Allah does not let his people in despair Allah does not lose his people the prophets I said I'm had to go through that moment of lowness to be celebrated in that moment of Highness the prophets I son was humbled in that moment his head down asking the people did I deliver the message to you properly asking Allah Allah many beloved allama fresh said Oh al I delivered the message oh allah bear witness to it but he had to go through that moment of hardship to really appreciate that moment that he was in now and guess what when we go there and we do Safa and Marwah I'm sorry you know what we say the prophets my son made wonder at as he would go through the drive between safa and marwah is all from your heart in your language whatever you want to say but the one prescribed your the prophets why sanam says at Safa and Marwah every time and teaches us to say la ilaha illa llah wada and Jezza wada wanna surah Abdullah has a man Sabah whatta there is no god but allah alone and Jezza wada He fulfilled his promise to her job and to the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and to aspire to make of him a great nation and He fulfilled his promise to the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam to support him and to make of him a great nation wanna surah HMDA and he supported his servant he gave victory to a servant when everyone else turned away and it was only Allah Allah gave victory to his servants wah has Amman Saba wada and Allah alone destroyed all of those that sought to oppress the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that came from all regions to oppress him instead Allah brought believers to him from every direction dear brothers and sisters the lesson from all of these prophets the lesson from all of these stories and all these perspectives is that if Allah has you under his control and his protection whether you're standing on a mountain or you're sent into a sea whether you're in a palace or you're in a desert the same circumstances matter nothing to allah subhanahu wa tada because Allah subhana WA Ta'ala does not let his people in loss may Allah subhana WA Ta'ala have mercy on our mother Hodja send his peace and blessings upon our Father Ibraheem money his Salam and our prophet muhammad sallallahoalyhiwasallam and grant us those same characteristics and traits and allow us to shine in our darkest moments so that our highest moments are actually in the hereafter may Allah subhana WA Ta'ala forgive us when we question and see us through every difficulty Allah I mean a palooka Leo there was stuff below you like Emily said must him infest us throw in the hole before Rahim you

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Published: Mon Aug 12 2019