Those Who Depend on Allah - Mufti Menk

when allah has given you the capacity to pick up your phone and look for jobs online from your phone but you say no i rely on allah that is false reliance the hadith says tie your camel then say i rely on allah upon all conditions we send blessings and salutations upon muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam his household his companions we ask allah to bless them to bless all those who struggled and strove over the generations in a way that today we are where we are we've taken the goodness from them they indeed deserve our prayer for blessings may allah bless them bless every one of us bless our offspring those who come up to the end and may allah grant us all every form of goodness amen my brothers and sisters you and i know that we were created by a creator and you and i know that life will not last forever you and i know that we are going to die one day whether we like to talk about it or not it's a reality that's definitely going to come it's going to happen you know you're going to go and you don't know when i know i'm going to go i don't know when now when i came on to the earth it's something amazing and unique just like when you came onto the earth our parents were looking forward to having us those of you who don't have children may allah bless you with offspring who will be the coolness of your eyes say amin the excitement within parents of the good news of having a child or being expecting a child is such that it cannot be described it needs to be felt it needs to be felt in most cases especially the first child you're expecting this first child there is a lot of excitement there is a little bit of uncertainty normally the mothers will tell you you know when i was expecting i didn't know i just hoped in the mercy of allah i just knew that so many others have been through this so i can also do it but as your belly begins to grow and as the fetus begins to grow within you as much as you're happy that the fetus is okay and it's growing and it's beginning to kick and it's painful and it's hurtful and becoming heavy and my back is sore and i cannot sleep anymore but there's excitement to say masha'allah i'm going to be a mother there is an underlying fear what is the fear how is this going to come out subhanallah you see what's going to happen here i wonder subhanallah that is quite normal to be worried to be concerned how is the labor going to be but guess what because you know of so many others who've gone through it you you know within yourself i'm going to cope i'm going to manage some keep on thinking i can't do it if you keep on thinking you cannot do it you will still do it but you're going to struggle because you didn't have that faith you didn't have that conviction we who believe we know that's the plan of allah allah will help you allah has chosen that way and that path whether it's through cesarean section or a normal birth you and i know that it has to happen and allah will facilitate it and as painful as it may be the moment you see the bundle it's called a bundle of joy subhanallah you tend to forget things i remember telling my wife or asking her is it true that as soon as the baby comes on to you you forget everything she says temporarily may allah grant us i don't know if that's the same answer around here with some of our moms which means yes you are happy you are excited it is a sense of relief masha'allah but as the child grows she says i'll never forget what i went through no way and you know what the second time there is a similar fear the third time there is a similar fear with the excitement so what will help you there is something that will help you if you don't have it you will struggle what is it the conviction the faith the reliance upon allah allah made me billions of people have been born exactly the same way i'm going to do it by the help of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala if you rely on allah that is the most powerful act of worship and indeed you should lay your trust and reliance totally and wholly upon allah if you are a true believer or if you are true believers if you are true believers you need to rely holy totally on allah i've only shown you the beginning of man's life the life on earth when you came onto the earth for example your own parents had to rely on allah if they didn't they would struggle with anxiety they would struggle with depression and depression is not always caused by lack of reliance in allah subhanahu wa ta'ala but at times that is a contributing factor we need to understand you don't have to add worries that you don't need to add in your life or upon your brain your mind and your system and even your heart you rely upon allah he will definitely take care of you if allah can take care of the smallest of creatures don't you think you're bigger than that [Music] it [Music] there is nothing that moves on earth except that allah has guaranteed its sustenance nothing that moves on earth except that allah has guaranteed to provide it what it needs subhanallah this includes the ants the ants that you and i don't even see and the little mosquitoes subhanallah that irritate you and i if that sustenance is written in your blood subhanallah there's nothing you're going to do about it it's going to come and get its portion so eat less sweets masha'allah may allah grant us goodness allah says in the rest of that verse that allah knows its place that it's going to come through and where it's going to leave from everything your birth and death is determined by allah everything is already prescribed predestined by allah you rely on allah allah says he will provide for every single one all his creatures what they need the problem with us we become depressed because we have what we need but we want beyond what we need there is a difference between what you need and what you want what you want allah didn't guarantee he's going to give you what you need allah will give it to you subhanallah it's amazing so what do you actually need you don't need the luxuries you don't need so much and whatever else you probably need a little bit of food to survive some clothing to cover yourself a little place that you can actually sleep even if it happens to be under a tree if that's what allah has written he's provided you what you need but what you want allah still says i will give you as much as i would like to give you you work hard i will still provide you know what to show you that i will actually give you more than not only what you deserve but more than what you need and then it's a test to see will you share with others will you talk to others will you communicate with others will you help others not only financially and materialistically even by speaking to them sometimes talking to someone is more valuable than a million pounds because you've spoken to them you've moved them you've changed their lives people say you know what you've changed my life well i tell you what you need to start changing the lives of others in whatever way possible sometimes within our own homes we don't even talk to each other because we forget that reaching out to people primarily starts with speaking to them subhanallah so if you rely upon allah and you understand that allah created you number one he will provide for you he will definitely give you there's no way that allah can forget you when he's provided for the ants when he listens to the discussion of the flies amazing subhanallah so look at what allah says if you are true believers you rely on allah correctly your reliance should be fully on allah you shouldn't be worried take cognizance of the fact that allah is in charge i always say when things happen your way say alhamdulillah when they don't happen your way say alhamdulillah twice because they are happening according to your boss who is allah your maker subhanallah i was reading an article of a sister 1979 having arrived some of you might have seen this having arrived from syria into america and she had a little delay because she refused to take off her scarf in order to take a photograph and what happened they missed the connecting flight and as they missed the connecting flight they later discovered that that flight was involved in a crash and everyone died how many of us have been saved by being delayed we get angry sometimes agitated because of something that went wrong according to us but according to allah nothing ever went wrong subhanallah someone can bash your motor vehicle completely you walk out with a smile yes it doesn't mean you say it's okay it's okay sometimes it's not okay no we can get out with a smile and still claim what we have to and still say you were wrong yes i know you were wrong but it's called an accident no one did it purposely but we come out of the vehicle as though they did it intentionally come on subhanallah may allah grant us ease and guide us don't be angry when things don't happen your way because in that case something is wrong with your belief in allah it's not strong enough you need to believe that allah was in charge if you plan to do something you desperately wanted to marry someone you wanted a specific business you wanted to buy a specific house you wanted to do something you needed a specific dress you wanted to attend a specific function and it did not happen your way thank allah double because it happened his way and he took over he saved you from something and even if you don't realize what he did for you at the time the fact that you're happy with what allah decided for you would actually earn you closeness to allah allah decided it for you so don't worry you've lost out on nothing the only time you blame yourself is when allah has given you the capacity the ability to do something that is beneficial for you or to protect yourself from some harm and you sat back and said well if it's decreed let it happen like the lazy lot of today who sit at home and make dua oh allah i've been reading five salah a day i'm getting up for tahajjud oh allah help me help me i need sustenance oh allah i need a minimum of a thousand pounds a week that makes it 52 000 pounds a year not a bad salary actually so oh allah give me a thousand pounds a week and you're sitting and you just your hands are raised and your hands are raised and you're pious that pious is mistranslated it's got to do with pies maybe meat pies subhanallah because you cannot sit in your room when allah has given you the capacity to pick up your phone and look for jobs online from your phone but you say no i rely on allah that is false reliance the hadith says tie your camel then say i rely on allah allah gave you the capacity you cannot leave your motor vehicle open with all your pounds dangling from here and there and everything else you know that's valuable in your vehicle and you say i rely on allah and allah alone he's going to take care of my car while i tell you what when you come back everything will be stolen from the car and your car will be gone as well why you were foolish so this is why we say when allah gave you the capacity to do something do it use your brain use your energy that's why the hadith says always always work hard to achieve what is beneficial for you did you hear that work hard to achieve what is beneficial for you and seek the help of allah and never give up subhanallah that's called proper reliance on allah i locked my car i did whatever i could still someone bashed broke the window and stole something i say alhamdulillah to perhaps make use of something that was stolen maybe to stolen from me so this is all the help of allah you need to understand how allah works if you believe you definitely will be a happy person always you'll be content ajaballi min the affairs of a true believer are amazing why are they amazing when good comes in his or her direction he's happy she's happy and thanks allah i'm thankful to allah how do you show gratitude to allah by the way not just by saying o allah i'm grateful and then we sin against allah day and night even if you didn't say oh allah i'm grateful but you fulfilled your prayer you ful you tried your best to obey what allah has instructed you you tried your best to abstain from prohibition because allah has provided for you in that case its true gratitude unto allah true gratitude is when you are trying to get closer and closer and closer to your maker and i'd like to believe that every single one of us without exception within us we have it that we want to get closer and closer to allah as time passes don't we anyone who doesn't want to get closer to allah as time passes please show us your hand nobody masha allah that's what i expected because it goes to show deep down we love allah and guess what i have good news for you today allah loves you too subhanallah we're seated here we want to hear a motivation we want to feel like we're believers muslim we're good alhamdulillah we're trying i know that allah loves us because he's provided for us much more than we actually need much more than we deserve at times if you take a look at how strong we are myself included we need a lot of attention we need so much of help we need to improve ourselves from so many different angles and you know what allah still provides and he still gives and he gives you more and he gives you more and he gives you this happiness and that happiness may he never make us from those who transgress as a result of the gifts that he gives us but still he keeps giving us even though we transgress look at how merciful allah is how can you not rely on allah how can you not trust allah when allah has promised you things and allah has delivered those on those promises allah says i'll take care of you allah tells us don't doubt people don't doubt people don't suspect for nothing yes if there's reason to suspect you may do so but only if there's reason if there's no reason you don't suspect people you don't spy on people allah says leave it to us don't spy on people because if you spy we want to teach you something allah says to us i am the most merciful the most forgiving someone might have committed a mistake i will forgive them they will change their lives they will become how many of us have been weak in the past and we've committed sin and we've changed our lives and we no longer commit those sins but we would be embarrassed to admit what type of sins we've committed in the past many of us don't you agree imagine if someone had to spy on you and knew what you were up to they would never forgive you or they would never look at you with the eye of positivity ever because they knew what you were up to but your life has changed you're genuinely a changed person only allah understands that i tell you my brothers and sisters the whole world will let you down absolutely everyone will let you down but allah will not let you down allah says my worshipper i will forgive you by you just asking me for forgiveness even if your sins were as much as would fill from the earth to the skies you want to hear the words if your sins had filled from the earth to the skies full of writing meaning if they had filled that whole space that's how many sins you came with on the day of judgment but you came without associating partners with me you worshipped me you tried i can forgive your sins without even being bothered it won't really affect anything at all on my side so allah is telling us oh son of adam no matter what you've done have hope in my mercy oh son of adam your acts of worship benefit you they don't benefit me so trust that i will accept them from you did you try yes i tried accept it don't let the devil come to you and make you lose your faith in allah you have faith in allah what is the faith in allah he is the loving the most merciful the most forgiving the most compassionate that is who allah is have you ever thought about it when we say bismillahi the first words as we're reading the quran what do we say bismillahi ar-rahmani in the name of allah what did he choose as the ultimate of the first two names for us to be repeating what did he choose number one what's that the most merciful the entirely merciful he is merciful even upon those who don't deserve his mercy subhanallah that's what the meaning of and then he says he has a specialized mercy for those who believe they will feel that mercy because of that belief and conviction when you're convinced with allah when you rely on allah when you know that the good that came to me is definitely a blessing from allah and the test and the bad that came to me is also a blessing from allah and the test then you have true belief then you're a believer but if you think the bad is always a punishment it's not it's not you know we have tsunamis we have natural disasters we have death we have so many other things disease sickness a lot of these things are actually a blessing from allah yes it can be a punishment it's all got to do with your own condition someone said oh look at allah punishing the people of indonesia because of what they've been doing and i got up and i said it's my duty to tell you that that is not necessarily a punishment what about those who died while they were in sujud what about those who died while they were trying to read quran what about those who were decent people who died and they were martyred or perhaps killed in that natural disaster can you ever say that it was the punishment of allah no it was not it was the mercy of allah upon them they died in a good condition how many of us would like to die in sujud i would like to die in sujud yes so if allah took you away in sujud no matter how he took you away but isn't it a blessing of allah you'll be resurrected perhaps in a similar way and people say that guy was punished you see because he died natural disaster you don't know it was the mercy of allah but if someone was in the disobedience of allah at the time that's between them and allah may allah not do that to us so it could be the same disaster could be a punishment for some and a mercy for others depending on how you are and those who have survived it depends on the condition of your heart those who have survived it depends on the condition of your heart subhanallah if you're a happy person if you're ex if you're always happy and you make the most of what's left with you then you're definitely a believer you believe in allah it's definitely a means of closeness to allah how many of us when we've had disease and sickness have we become better muslims wow so isn't that a sign of the mercy of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala it softened us it made us fulfill salah and how many of us once we get cured we're back with our old ways and habits may that not happen to us may we always be from those whom when we are cured we change our lives as well and not just sickness people cry for things to allah oh allah i need a child i need a child and mashallah after eight years 10 years 12 years 14 years i know 18 years i've known of one case they they were blessed with a child subhanallah may allah bless all of us with children i mean even if you're not married just say amen you might be laughing why i can tell you why when you say oh allah grant me with good offspring who will be the coolness of my eyes it's like a full package it means firstly in order to get that i need a husband right so that's included in it okay and i need it's like if you if you don't have a job and you say oh allah help me to buy a lovely expensive cup just an example right it means you're firstly going to have to get a job and earn the money or something's going to have to happen for the money to come to you right so in the same way when you say oh allah grant me pious offspring it means allah get me the best spouse and thereafter with us give us the good offspring so it's an all-inclusive two-in-one like the shampoo organics okay may allah grant us ease so my brothers and sisters rely on allah i want to give you one example i didn't realize that i've already just got eight minutes left but i think i'm going to overshoot today it's not like we come to cardiff every day you know they've got a long break the reason why there's a very long break is there's two salahs there and the timing's a little bit awkward people are saying why is the break so long i can tell you because we don't want to go out for a salah come back and then go back for another salah and the timing is so short rather have that little break you can have a snack we can do a few other things read the next salah and then come back that's why it's a little bit longer so bear with us be happy inshallah be happy allah grant us ease may allah open our doors i'll give you an example you see allah's promise is true [Music] oh people allah's promise to you is absolutely true [Music] who can there be more truthful than allah regarding his speech regarding what he has said regarding his promise when allah promises us jannah and paradise and goodness he says this is a promise that you can ask allah about you can hold him responsible to the promise he's made allah said whoever seeks forgiveness i will forgive them if you have sought forgiveness and you go on the day of judgment you can ask allah oh allah i sought forgiveness my forgiveness you won't even need to ask allah do you know why it will definitely be that your sin is wiped out don't lose hope don't let shaytan trap you to make you believe otherwise now let me tell you allah promised you unfortunately sometimes man is such we're ready to believe another person but we're not ready to believe allah give you an example beautiful example okay so you're looking for a job and suddenly you find a job and they tell you listen you're gonna be paid you're gonna be paid how much what's a good salary per week let's say what's a good salary can someone say yes 150 son i think you're a bit too young mashallah okay say it 500 pounds a week it's a good salary okay someone's offering you 5 000 pounds a week and they tell you we pay you monthly so what's that how many weeks four weeks 20 000. 20 thousand a month oh subhanallah and what's the job it's simple you can just work at home it's just online you gotta do x y and z that's it when you're done you're okay so you're working online a few hours and what's happening every day you're excited the fact that you got the job was so beautiful you put your signature on there or even if you just took the word for it you're so excited finally and ultimately someone has promised you that after 30 days you're gonna get 20 000 in your bank account wow wouldn't you be excited i think i would right so now what happens when 20 days pass you're so excited because you can start smelling the pounds mashallah right 25 days you can start smelling the perfumes you're going to be buying with those pounds masha'allah right 28 days and you're so excited you're starting to plan your outing and how you're going to take your family and what you're going to hope it's halal inshallah but whatever else you're going to be doing you start planning everything you're excited because someone's promised you you work 28 days 30 days i'm going to give you the salary and you work hard and you're dedicated and you wouldn't like to lose the job and you don't want someone else to take over from you and you don't want someone else to prove that they're better than you so that you can be replaced you don't want any of that you work so hard and exactly 30 days later a few hours delay and you're getting excited you want to think of whether i should call management my money is not reflecting and i need and i've got this commitment and that commitment and suddenly bing you get an sms 20 000 in the bank and you say wow mashallah now we can do what what happened what happened you worked hard for 30 whole days believing another human that he's going to give you some reward after your job but when allah promises you that after you work i'm going to give you you don't believe allah you don't believe allah allah says we promise you if you believe and you do good deeds we're going to give you a good life if you try to discipline yourself we'll give you a good life remember happiness in this world is not connected to that which is temporary it's not connected to that which is haram that which is prohibited because it will only give you moments of pleasure but long term it's going to come back to haunt you may allah not do that to us unless you've repented sometimes even if you've repented from a worldly perspective it could come back to haunt you how many people have tattooed themselves and later repented to allah the sin is totally forgiven but if it's a permanent tattoo guess what happens as forgiven as you are as sinless as you are as spotless as you are you're still going to be having a big tattoo somewhere because it was permanent tattoo you did at the time when you were sinning it doesn't mean you're not forgiven someone might say well remove it no sometimes it's more harmful to remove that if you can remove something that's not really permanent then let it be but if it's a big one you you will have to live with it even though in the eyes of allah you're a clean worshiper of allah but you had to live with the mistake you made the same applies sometimes we pay for things on a worldly basis but in the eyes of allah we don't allah says you know what i've forgiven you so when allah has promised you jannah if you do x y and z rely on allah believe him have hope as you grow older and as you become subhanallah as you grow older and as you become terminally ill perhaps may allah grant us all cure but there is only one way to survive that having hope in the mercy of allah you've been through a divorce you've been through so much you someone's diagnosed you with something you don't know what's going to happen you can either be cured or you can either lose your life either way i have a hope in the mercy of allah ultimately i'm going to die i want jannah i have hope in the mercy of allah that i'm definitely going to jannah and inshallah we meet each other there say amen in the company of muhammad salla sallam i'm convinced i'm totally convinced because i'm not going to enter jannah through my deeds it's just my trial but the mercy of allah is what will get us into jannah it's the mercy of allah it's not my deeds allah doesn't need anything you know what allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala says o son of adam if all of you were together upon the highest level of piety and the person who's the most pious ever all of you on that level it wouldn't increase in my kingdom even a droplet nothing nothing increased and if all of you were as sinful as the most sinful person on earth it wouldn't decrease from my kingdom even up droplet nothing it's allah rely on allah he loves us he made us do are you trying yes i am the magicians at the time of moses musa alaihissalam one sajdah after which they were executed how many suju did they fulfill one that one sajdah allah forgave them and granted them jannah how many so jude have you and i done don't you have hope in the mercy of allah don't you have hope in the mercy of allah keep trying when you falter don't lose hope shaytan makes you lose hope seek forgiveness again and again and again subhanallah but when allah promises you masha'allah you need to make sure that you believe that promise of allah allah is the most merciful from this day we should change the way we look at things we need to look at things positively not everything is negative yes if you have a tough situation at home you should do something about it in a good way but don't become despondent don't lose hope in the mercy of allah allah knows he's going to give you and that's why one of my favorite verses in the quran is in surah allah says very soon your lord shall give you so much until you become satisfied that will be in the dunya and the akhira or just in the akhirah just in the hereafter so what i know i'm going to get it from allah i want to end with with the last thing my brothers and sisters the uncertainty that i mentioned right at the beginning when a child was being born i'd like to look at it from a different angle say they were twins within the womb as the womb is stretching and as the little fetus or the both of them are growing when they started off they were very little they had the whole world around them they thought it was that's it the galaxy's ours they didn't know it was just a womb you're inside the belly of another human who happens to be your mother and and you think that wow i can swim across the whole ocean right and then you start growing and what happens you're fighting for space and then you grow more and more and what do you think the only thing you've seen is whatever is coming into you perhaps when your mom eats something you can feel it right so you must be thinking oh i hope that mineral comes in i'm just guessing okay i hope that that vitamin comes in i hope this thing happens there must be something that made us happy at the time because we started kicking at a point and sometimes it kicked a little bit more to say yeah let it come let it come you know subhanallah whatever happened but as we became such that we couldn't find space to move it was like gosh what's going to happen now i'm sure it's the end of everything anyway nice to have known your buddy right nice to have no new buddy goodbye there's nothing else to come that's what probably may according to some have happened right guess what that was wrong totally wrong because according to those two because they haven't seen the real world out there they thought that was it and as they grew and they thought it's the end and they must have said their last goodbyes and whatever suddenly pop and what happened wow i can't believe it you made it too hi subhanallah yeah we're here it's so big it's huge we thought that was huge this is real man yo we're gonna be here for a long long time the same thing repeats itself later on in your life and mine when you become older or you or you're on your deathbed you have to have hope and conviction in the same way that we spoke about those in the womb one day pop and you're going to say everyone's crying that i'm dead but yay i'm in jannah man subhanallah don't you think that's going to happen by the mercy of allah allah promised that to you so don't become despondent wow i'd like you to think deeply about what i said don't become despondent what's the worst thing that could happen to you you're going to go back to allah it's not the worst thing that's the jannah you're going to get be convinced rely on allah believe allah you need to know that those who truly believe when the verses of the quran are recited to them their hearts tremble their hearts tremble and you know what happens to them it boosts their iman it strengthens them and they rely totally on allah and believe what allah says may allah grant us all goodness i've overshot by four minutes and five seconds but that's fine may allah foreign do

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Length: 34min 46sec (2086 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 05 2019