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0:00Allah says,
0:04"Don't become weak and depressed."
0:08When a believer goes through crisis,
0:11instead of the crisis becoming a reason
0:13to lose inspiration, the crisis becomes
0:16the fuel to become far more motivated
0:19than ever before. Allah would not give
0:21me a crisis unless he wants me to rise
0:24even higher. That's the mentality Allah
0:26wants. Allah says, "I want to see who
0:29really believes in the unseen." Allah
0:31says, "That's why I gave you a hard time
0:34because I wanted to see how many of you
0:36can still believe in the promise of
0:38Allah even when you don't see it."
0:43[singing]
0:51Alhamdulillah.
0:53Alhamdulillah.
0:55Adam,
1:42Alhamdulillah.
1:51Alhamdulillah.
1:57Alhamdulillah.
2:16Wasam.
2:57of regime.
3:12forch.
3:47To start today's I would like to
3:50introduce you to a word that happens
3:52only a few times in the Quran.
3:55Uh the word is wa alan.
4:00The ayah that I recited to you also
4:02includes this word. In the Arabic
4:04language, the word vahan is used for
4:06instance when a when a bird eats
4:10something infected and it becomes sick
4:12and it can't fly anymore. So it tries to
4:15take off and it can't take off anymore.
4:20So it it ate something sick sickening
4:22and it's no longer able to fly. So it
4:24became disabled. The bird became
4:26disabled. the became the the way the
4:28bird is they say
4:32when someone is not able to find the
4:34energy to do work. They're trying to do
4:36the work but they can't do it. They're
4:39they're not able to get up or they can't
4:40find the for example you might be having
4:43mental block. You're trying to type your
4:44report and nothing's coming to your
4:46head. You're experiencing it's a kind of
4:49temporary paralysis that happens.
4:53Similarly, when someone has weak grip,
4:55they're not able to grab something and
4:57hold it tight. Their hands have become
4:58weak. They say
5:04someone who is someone who doesn't have
5:05a good grip. Doesn't have a tight grip.
5:09This word is used in a very interesting
5:11way in the Quran. Like for example,
5:14tells Allah,
5:17"My bones have become weak. They don't
5:19respond anymore." It's almost like they
5:22I in my mind I'm getting up but my body
5:24says wait right so it doesn't react the
5:27way that I need it to react. It's almost
5:30slowly becoming paralyzed. So that's how
5:32he describes his old age that his bones
5:35are too weak and too rigid too slow to
5:39react to respond.
5:41This is also not just a physical state.
5:45This is also a mental state
5:48is also a mental state. And for example,
5:52but before I go to the mental state,
5:54understand something about the physical
5:55state also. When a when a mother is
5:57pregnant, when a woman is pregnant and
5:59every month the burden becomes heavier
6:02and heavier, first trimester, second
6:03trimester, third trimester, Allah says
6:10that his mother carried him one weakness
6:12on top of another weakness. What that
6:14means is she becomes less and less able
6:16to get up, less and less able to do the
6:19normal things she was able to do, less
6:21and less able to turn from one side to
6:23another side when she's lying in bed.
6:25Her she slows down her physically, she's
6:28slowing down and becoming less capable.
6:31From this comes the idea that we just
6:35like when you eat something bad and you
6:37become sick like the bird or a woman is
6:40carrying a an entire another human being
6:42in her body and it slowed her down. The
6:45same way you can experience wan when you
6:48become depressed.
6:51You can experience wan because you saw
6:53something that took away your
6:55motivation. Your inspiration is gone.
6:58The Sahabah
7:02were with the prophet sallallahu alaihi
7:03wasallam right next to him in the battle
7:06of Badr and they saw the angels
7:10help them. Some of them would report
7:12that we would we would slice our sword
7:14but before the sword could touch we
7:16could see the enemies already cut. And
7:18Allah talked about how he sent an army
7:20of angels to help the Sahabah. This
7:23inspired them. They were inspired.
7:26But when you get to the battle of
7:29when you get to the battle of
7:32the prophet himself sallallahu alaihi
7:34wasallam is almost killed. There's even
7:38rumors spreading that he's already been
7:39killed. And when he he was unconscious
7:42when he woke up his face was filled with
7:45blood because if you accept all of the
7:47reports he was injured at least in three
7:50different places in his face. Even an
7:52arrow went through his jaw, took out one
7:54of his one of his uh went through the
7:56helmet into the jaw and took out one of
7:58his teeth. And there's even reports that
8:01the Sahabah like Ali who had to take mud
8:04and make a mixture and patch his face so
8:06the bleeding would stop. Right? This
8:08this had to happen. And of course all of
8:10this happened because in the beginning
8:13of that same battle is the
8:17Allah will say himself in the beginning
8:20you were destroying the enemy. You were
8:22winning. They were running. This is what
8:25was the beginning of was Muslims were
8:28winning. Allah talks about that in the
8:29Quran. So we were also motivated.
8:32But then of course we know that a
8:33mistake happened and some people left
8:36their position and then they came from
8:38behind. And everybody here knows the
8:39story. Allah in great detail describes
8:44what the not just what happened, how the
8:47Muslims felt.
8:49How the Muslims felt and actually what
8:52they felt was wah. The feeling that they
8:56had at that time was wah. The reason I
8:58want to share this with you is that this
9:00story is not just about the battle of
9:03this is a story about how to overcome a
9:06devastating situation.
9:08Whether it's a devastating situation in
9:10your family, it's a devastating
9:12situation in the country, in the
9:14economy, a state of war, whatever
9:16devastating situation happens that in
9:19the in the beginning you were full of
9:21hope, everything was going well,
9:22everything was going exactly according
9:24to plan and all of a sudden everything
9:27turns around and all of your hard work
9:30disappears and your own leader, your own
9:33inspiration is injured. Imagine the next
9:35week sallallahu alaihi wasallam has to
9:38lead the prayer and he's giving the and
9:40everybody's looking at his face full of
9:43injuries
9:44right and they're sitting there looking
9:45at the and they cannot they can they
9:47always remember what happened they can't
9:49forget what happened right and his maybe
9:51his voice is also changed because of the
9:53injury the way he speaks is no longer
9:55the normal way that he speaks until the
9:57injury recovers and they can hear the
9:59pain in his voice and that becomes the
10:01voice of every everybody gets depressed
10:03and what ayat came in this time of
10:06depression
10:07In this type of no inspiration, what of
10:10the Quran came? Allah says,
10:14he says,
10:18don't become weak and depressed.
10:21Number one,
10:23as if Allah knows we are already
10:25depressed.
10:26He knows we're already feeling
10:28paralyzed, right? We're already feeling
10:30like what's the motivation for me to get
10:32up now? And in that moment, he says,
10:35him. Then he says a lot of times the
10:39word is described as sadness but is more
10:43than sadness in Arabic is when something
10:46becomes hard on the infi.
10:49So for example if there's a if there's a
10:52a person dies their physical body starts
10:55becoming stiff. This is actually on the
10:57inside of the body right. So this is
11:02the the the stiffness or the hardness
11:04inside something. This is describing
11:07extreme feelings. It could be sadness.
11:10It could be anxiety. It could be
11:11depression. It could be fear. It could
11:14be doubt. All of those things can
11:16actually be.
11:18So first thing Allah says is your
11:19inspiration went away.
11:22And when your inspiration goes away then
11:24all these negative feelings start taking
11:27place replacing the positive feeling
11:29right because if the container is empty
11:31somebody something will fill it so it no
11:33longer it it no longer has positive
11:36feelings so it's flooded with negative
11:38feelings
11:40and you start becoming petrified you
11:42start becoming hard inside
11:44Allah says
11:47don't become don't become victim to
11:49these two things you will be supreme you
11:51will win, you will be on top if in fact
11:53you truly truly believe in.
11:57Then Allah gives a motivational speech.
12:00He says
12:05if an injury has touched you and the
12:08word for injury normally is or in Arabic
12:13which is injury. Allah uses the word
12:15with a here in this ayah is an injury
12:19that goes inside the flesh all the way
12:21to the bone. When it reaches the bone
12:23that becomes
12:25Allah is saying the injury that you
12:27experience is not small. I know it cut
12:30you deep
12:35but you have to understand your enemy
12:38they also have a
12:40this time you got a last time in Badr
12:44they got a
12:46this time you lost many of your most
12:48precious Sahaba
12:50last time they lost some of their most
12:51important leaders
12:54exactly the same thing happened to them
12:56but look at them they're still motivated
12:58to fight you.
13:00They were the They were supposed to be
13:02depressed. They were supposed to lose
13:04all hope. But now they're coming back
13:05three times stronger than last time
13:08because the loss did not make them
13:10depressed. The loss made them more
13:12motivated.
13:14And Allah says, and what do they
13:16believe? They believe in shik and they
13:18became motivated. You have iman. You
13:20should be much more motivated than them.
13:23So what is Allah doing? Allah is reverse
13:26engineering crisis.
13:28When a believer goes through crisis,
13:31instead of the crisis becoming a reason
13:33to lose inspiration, the crisis becomes
13:36the fuel to become far more motivated
13:39than ever before. Allah would not give
13:42me a crisis unless he wants me to rise
13:44even higher.
13:46This is the formula.
13:52Allah says, "These are days that we flip
13:55between people. Sometimes Allah will
13:57give your enemy victory. Sometimes Allah
13:59will give you victory. But the victory
14:01will not be permanent. Your goal, my
14:03goal in this life is not victory.
14:06Because Allah himself says he keeps
14:08switching these days between people. I'm
14:11reminded even on the day of Makkah when
14:13Makkah was conquered. You would think
14:15okay Islam won finally all the enemies
14:18have been defeated. All the problem has
14:21been solved.
14:25All the people so many people are
14:27entering into Islam victory. Even then
14:31Allah revealed inah that there are many
14:34inside the people who are Muslim
14:40many of them are are sick with
14:42hypocrisy. You don't even know who they
14:44are. Allah knows who they are. The goal
14:47of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
14:48wasallam was to give iman to the world.
14:52And even at the end after the victory of
14:54Islam, Allah says actually even some of
14:56your followers don't have iman. They
14:58have
15:00which means you can never have 100%
15:02victory. There's no such thing. There's
15:05always going to be victory and loss and
15:07victory and loss and victory and loss.
15:09What do we find? Even soon after the
15:12passing of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
15:13wasallam, there's extreme difficulty
15:16among the Muslims, even among the
15:17Sahabah. Extreme difficulty. Then we
15:20find a period of great expansion of
15:22Islam. Many of us are Muslim today
15:25because of the expansion of Islam. Then
15:27there's decline of Islam. Then there's
15:29expansion. Then there's decline. Then
15:30there's expansion. So we we know
15:33something about the way the the the
15:35sunnah of Allah. It's always up and
15:37down. The situation is always up and
15:39down. It's never up only and it's never
15:41down only. So Allah says, why does he do
15:45this? Why does he keep not giving us
15:49good times permanently?
15:51Why give us hard times and then good
15:53time? He says
15:56in this ayah
16:04Allah wants to see who actually
16:06believes.
16:08Allah wants to expose who actually
16:10believes. What does that mean? It's easy
16:11to believe when everything is
16:13alhamdulillah.
16:15It's hard to be hard to be have high im
16:18when everything around you is
16:22when everything around you is but it's
16:25harder to have imah wants to see who has
16:28ims in hard times because that's real im
16:33is not when your team is winning
16:36you're a strong fan when your team is
16:38losing you leave the stadium
16:41right that's not real Ian if you're a
16:43real true believer even if your goal 10
16:46100 10 you're still stating there until
16:47the last minute because you're a true
16:50believer that's the mentality Allah
16:53wants Allah says I want to see who
16:55really believes in the unseen really
16:58believes in the unseen because victory
17:00is seen and when there is loss and
17:03there's difficulty then you don't see
17:05the help of Allah you don't see it when
17:08you don't see it it's harder to believe
17:09it Allah says that's why I gave you a
17:12hard time because I wanted to see how
17:14many of you can still believe in the
17:16promise of Allah even when you don't see
17:19it
17:25and Allah wanted to purify those who
17:28believe in Arabic
17:31is when you purify gold when you purify
17:35gold now gold is different when you
17:37purify for example when you're cleaning
17:39rice it's easy you just put water and
17:42you rinse the rice and all the fibers
17:43and everything else comes comes out,
17:45right? Easy to clean rice, easy to clean
17:49clothes. You can use some soap, some
17:51water, beat it, done. You can't clean
17:54gold that way. Gold, the impurity inside
17:58gold is not on the surface. It's deep
18:00inside.
18:02You can't access it. The only way to
18:04purify gold is you have to put it under
18:07extreme heat and you have to melt the
18:11gold and then deep inside the impurity
18:14the rock or the steel or whatever else
18:16was inside will burn and will get out
18:19and then you get the pure gold. Allah is
18:22saying to the Sahabah, I will put you
18:25under extreme heat circumstances
18:29because the benefit is there is
18:31something deep inside you that's not
18:32pure and the only way to get rid of it
18:36is extreme heat, extreme difficult
18:39situations.
18:41On the outside, a difficult situation is
18:43all always a problem. On the inside,
18:45Allah is saying a difficult situation
18:47purifies you.
18:50It removed some of the things that you
18:52would never know were there if
18:55difficulty didn't exist. If the
18:56temperature didn't exist on the outside
18:58it looks like gold, right? It just it
19:01looks like pure gold.
19:07And this is how he will eliminate people
19:09who didn't have iman to begin with. Some
19:11people when you when you burn the gold
19:13there was no iman inside. There was only
19:15a rock. Well, those people will be
19:17eliminated. Those people will be
19:19removed. They no longer want to believe.
19:21There are people who when they go
19:22through a difficult situation, they say,
19:24"I don't want to be a believer anymore.
19:26I don't want Islam anymore." Well, Allah
19:29says, "Yeah, that was the idea. Goodbye.
19:31There's the door."
19:33The the whole plan was to get rid of
19:35those people because they're only
19:38Muslim. They're only believers when it's
19:41convenient.
19:42Allah has no need of them and the um has
19:45no need of them.
19:48Then Allah says,
19:51this is the same ayat. He says to the
19:54Muslims, now you think you're just going
19:56to walk into Jenna? You think it's so
19:59easy to just enter Jenna?
20:02And then Allah says, uh,
20:07Allah has not yet exposed who among you
20:10really struggles and he hasn't exposed
20:12people who stay on target. I'm giving
20:16you a different translation of a for the
20:18purpose of this discussion.
20:21When you stay on target, imagine you're
20:24walking somewhere and it starts getting
20:26very windy, you keep walking. It starts
20:28raining, you keep walking. It gets very
20:30hot, you keep walking. It gets very
20:32cold, you keep walking. This is called
20:33subar.
20:35That's what sar is. In other words, the
20:38circumstances change, the weather
20:40changes, the environment changes. You
20:43have a target, you don't change. You
20:45keep moving towards your target.
20:47You don't change your direction because
20:50the situation changed. You stay on the
20:53same direction. That's called Allah
20:56says, "You think you can just walk into
20:57Jenna if I don't see you want to walk
20:59straight into Jenna? Let me see how
21:00straight you can walk in this life with
21:03the changing web."
21:06Then he describes
21:09something important for all the Muslims
21:12to understand.
21:14We it's easy for us to say ya Allah give
21:16us jah give us
21:19and give us shahada in your path. They
21:23were young sahaba who became Muslim
21:25after.
21:29So they never saw
21:31and then
21:33was preparing for
21:36and the strategy was we should stay
21:38inside Medina and defend against the
21:41kufur.
21:43Some of the young Sahabah said yasool
21:45Allah we didn't get to go to
21:48we want to enjoy shahada. Let's go to
21:52let's go meet the enemy in the
21:54battlefield because we want to face the
21:56enemy and have the same honor that the
21:59Sahabah in
22:01because they were excited to become
22:03shahim. Allah talks about these
22:07these young men. He says
22:13you were the same people that were
22:15wishing for death
22:17before you met death.
22:21So in theory you were very excited to be
22:23aim until you saw death
22:29and when you saw death you were staring
22:32at it and you couldn't stop looking like
22:35uh
22:36you were shocked.
22:39It's easy to be motivated without being
22:42put in the situation.
22:46Don't become overly excited and say big
22:48things when you know you don't know if
22:51you're ready for th those things or not.
22:54Allah knows whether you're ready or not.
22:56So even though their motivation is
22:57sincere, they were not ready. And Allah
23:00says you were not ready. And then of
23:03course all of their motivation came from
23:05the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
23:07And now the prophet sallallahu alaihi
23:09wasallam is rumored. The rumor is he's
23:11been killed. The rumor was he's been
23:13killed. And he was almost killed.
23:16Allah says
23:18Muhammad is nothing but a messenger
23:20sallallahu alaihi wasallam as much as we
23:23love
23:25the message of Islam is bigger than
23:30Allah's personality sallallahu alaihi
23:32wasallam
23:34even if he died that is still not
23:37justification for you to lose motivation
23:41that's what Allah tells them this is how
23:43strong your iman in Allah must be even
23:46ifas is not there sallallahu alaihi
23:48wasallam even then you keep going
23:54messengers came before him too
23:57if he died if he was killed
24:02you're going to turn back if the prophet
24:05died your motivation is gone
24:12and whoever turns back they cannot harm
24:15Allah in any way. They're only harming
24:16themselves.
24:19Allah is going to be great. Allah will
24:21compensate. Allah will reward people who
24:23were truly grateful. Meaning they were
24:25grateful. They even saw for one day.
24:29That was enough for them. Now they can
24:31carry that motivation for life. They
24:34don't they don't say until he comes and
24:36personally motivates me, I'm not feeling
24:38motivated.
24:39Now we live in the age of the an
24:41addiction to motivation. People want to
24:43see something inspiring on Tik Tok. You
24:45want to see something inspiring on
24:47YouTube and then your inspiration goes
24:49low, you got to see it again. Then it
24:51goes low, you got to see it again,
24:53right? And guess what? You're never
24:55inspired because that's not how
24:58inspiration comes. It comes from
24:59conviction.
25:01They're being told even the most
25:02inspiring human being that ever lived,
25:04sallallahu alaihi wasallam, even if he
25:06leads, you still remain on this on the
25:09track.
25:17And then Allah says
25:21it's not allowed for anybody to die
25:22except Allah wants them to die.
25:26This is written for all of us. There's a
25:28limited time that we're here. Allah just
25:30wants to see if we stay on course or
25:32not. This this passage that Allah gave
25:35us inah Iran one ayah after the other.
25:38In the end, Allah just told us the final
25:40motivation.
25:47Whoever wants the reward of this life,
25:51we will give it. Whoever wants the
25:54reward of the next life, we will give
25:55it. What does this mean? If you want the
25:58reward of this life, then you join the
26:01winner. If you want the reward of this
26:03life, you run away from the loser.
26:06The moment things become difficult, you
26:08go where things are easy because you
26:10want the reward of this life. You want
26:12the reward of the next life, you stay on
26:14track. Many of you younger folks, for
26:17example, you want to get in better
26:18health. Yeah. You want to lose weight,
26:21you want to become more fit, etc., etc.
26:23Yeah. Right in front of you is a
26:25chocolate cake.
26:27It looks good. You're looking at the
26:29chocolate cake. The chocolate cake is
26:30looking at you.
26:33If you eat it, it's going to feel good
26:34right now.
26:36But you say, "No, I have to wait 3
26:38months until I fix myself and then I'll
26:41look at the chocolate cake. I'll avoid
26:43it." The only way you can get real
26:47reward is if you deny immediate
26:50pleasure.
26:52You have to stop yourself from immediate
26:55impulses to get to the final outcome.
26:58This is true in a person's personal
27:00life. This is true as a nation. This is
27:02true as you know a student. This is true
27:05as an ummah, an entire um we have to
27:08think long term and we have to stop
27:10jumping at every new opportunity and
27:11say, "Okay, we just want this one. We
27:13just all we care about is this. All we
27:15care about is this." Then we have no
27:16real journey. We have no real agenda.
27:26Finally, inshallah, I'm going to leave
27:28you with a dua that Allah taught us. How
27:30do you build this kind of
27:33maturity? Because in the end, this
27:36entire is about maturity, right? How do
27:39you stay constant and have in your dean
27:43and you don't let the situation make you
27:45fluctuate? This is the dua that Allah
27:47gave us of the people before us.
27:54Our our master forgive our embarrassing
27:57mistakes.
28:00and forgive our extreme decisions.
28:04Sometimes we overreact and we do extreme
28:06things. Ya Allah forgive our sins.
28:08Forgive the excess or extreme actions
28:10that we take in our decisions
28:14and make our feet firm. Make us stable
28:21and aid us against help us against
28:22disbelieving people. This is the dua of
28:26this is the dua that when you're in
28:28depression and you feel unmotivated and
28:31you feel and you feel and you feel
28:34what's the point now I don't have any
28:35inspiration. Well, here's a dua for you
28:38because the what the people at
28:40experienced is much more depressing than
28:41what you and I can experience. Much more
28:44depressing. And this dua was for them.
28:46So this dua is definitely for us.
28:55This is ayia number 147 of Alan. Make it
28:59a point to memorize this dua for
29:01yourself. Inshallah tala it will help
29:03you and may allahel raise all of us from
29:05any of the depression or sadness or par
29:08paralysis we might be feeling and make
29:10us an umah that's truly truly believers
29:12and never experience a state of
29:14weakness.
29:21Alhamdulillah.
29:38regime.
29:56Allham.
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30:54to help me help them and give the gift
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