Beisse Miler rahmani Rahi in the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the
most merciful, heard a lot low heard. Part Excellence presents lessons from the
stories of the prophets by Mufti Ismail even Mursa mank Yusef Ali his Salam.
Part three Joseph, Peace be upon him. Part three abarakata Smilah Rahman Rahim
alhamd Alamin was salahtu salam or alah ashrafil helmahin nab a Mouhammad alah earli he
was happy, he ajamahin we're bad. All praise is due to our loss.
Sub Hannah huata Allah. Blessings and salutations upon Muhammed salalah Ali he was
seldam. We ask a loss sub Hannah huata Alah, to bless him and
to bless the noble and pure family of his, and to bless all his
companions, and to bless every single one of us, to bless our offspring
those who come up to the day of Kayama. The ala subnahuwat Alah.
Keep us steadfast on this dean, beloved brothers and sisters in Islam. We
have been going through the life story the most beautiful story in the Quran.
As the Quran says as alas sub hannahuata Alah says, this evening in Charlah,
we will complete the story. Yusuf Alai is Salam or the prophet Joseph,
May peace be upon him. He had had a plan to keep his
brother in Egypt where he was and the other brothers. From amongst them,
one decided to stay back because he said, we had promised our father that
we will bring this other brother back, whose name was Binyamin or Benjamin.
And because he is not with us, I am too embarrassed. I cannot
face my father. I will not be able to go there. You people
go there and talk to him. And when they went to their father,
they told their father, you can ask the people we came with. Your
son was a thief. He stole and this is what happened. And the
father says, a a la mumin alla him a la ta lamun. I
know from Allah that which you don't know. He says, my patience is
very, very beautiful, and we made mention of this yesterday. Now they
had already told him that, look, there is no point in keeping on
remembering Yusuf, because he told them go and try and look for you and
the brother. Yeah Anihabu fata has saso me oh soufar, while as mirrah
in in, I assume your raw in in uncomunk. He told him,
Look, my children, I am instructing you to go and try and look
for Yusuf and his brother, and don't lose hope in the mercy of a
loss sub Hannah hawat Alah. For indeed, the only people who lose hope
in the mercy of the Almighty are those who disbelieve. Now a lesson for
us in life, we lose hope small things, small matters, lost a
job, lost hope, lost a wife, lost hope, someone passes away,
lost hope. What is this? Malsub Hannah hawat Alah. Grant us
strength in our belief because the Koran says, and this would not have been
in the Koran if it was wrong. The Koran says, no one loses
hope in the almighties mercy besides the one who disbelieves in him. And why
is this? Because Allah says a rahman in Rahim, he is the most
forgiving, most merciful. So if Allah is the most merciful, how can
me or you lose hope in the mercy of alass of hannahua to Allah.
This was something for the brothers of Joseph made peace be upon him yusuf alaihi
saaland it was impossible to them. They got rid of him a long time
ago. He was gone. But here's the father, still with hope.
And years had passed, it is reported. Some historians say twenty five years,
some say thirty years, some say forty years. Some take it as
far as eighty years having passed. Whatever it is, decades had passed,
and here is the man with hope in a loss of hannahwa alah, making
to av every day, day in day out without losing hope. How many
of us when we make do ar to a loss of hanahwat alah for something,
we say, yeah, Rabbi rabiya Allah, grant us, grant us.
And after a few days we start losing hope. You know, I
don't have this. It's been so many years past, and I'm making to
ur to Allah, it's not coming we Allah. He I swear by Allah
that dua on its own, together with the hope, is an act of
worship that would probably qualify a person free entry into paradise, So don't lose
hope, because it is a sign of belief that a loss of Hannah Howat
Alah wanted us to make do us. So we are making to our.
So here you have a nabe of a loss of Hannah howat Alah making do
aur for another nabee who was his son of a loss of Hannah awat Alah,
meaning the nabee of a loss of Hannah awat Alah. Use of Alat
is salah, tou was sellah. So the children decide, okay, this
father of ours, we know that he's just keeping on mentioning the same thing
again and again and again, and he is just saying it. They even
told him, you know what, you'd better stop uttering all this because you'll
die saying this. You know, sometimes when we get irritated, we tell
someone why are you repeating this? You'll die saying this, which means when
are you ever going to stop saying it? Is it dead that's going to
make you stop? So this was roughly the question they asked their own father.
But when they needed food again and they found the drought was prolonging,
the drought was long, and they didn't have much merchandise to go and pay
for it because although it was subsidized and they had their own plan. We
don't have the details of what exactly the plan was, but they had to
pay something minor and collect the grain and come back. So now they decided.
You know, our father, he has now turned blind. Why because
of his concern and because of his tears. Too much crime can mess up
your eyesight, and at the same time, together with worry and stress,
it can also cause deterioration in your eyesights. Malas subanahwa ta Allah protect us
from stress, and may alas subnahwa ta Allah protect us from crying for nothing.
But we should be crying for the sake of Allah sudhanah Allah. Some
people they watch a movie, they start crying, but you read Huran and
they don't want to cry. Well, Lahi, you see Anthony Quinn being
murdered and the tears in the eyes that man was paid and what you're seeing
is ketchup or tomato sauce. It's not blood. And here's the people are
crying la hu akbar. And when you tell them a verse of the Koran,
it doesn't shake them. May Allah make us from those whom when the
Koran is read, oh hey dand I mean that's a sign of iman.
When the Koran is recited, the power of it goes straight down your spine
and you feel it on your hey. This is a sign of iman.
The Kuran says it. And we've mentioned the verse. Let's repeat it in
malm mean ala either don or la hujil and color boom what either toni andiam
yeah to zada tom ima are on beahm yaw. The true believers are those
whom, when Allah is mentioned, their hearts tremble, and when the verses
of the Kurana recited, it increases their belief in a loss of Hannah hot
alah. Their conviction is increased and they lay their full trust in a loss
of Hannah how Allah. In another verse, the losses allaha zala asan al
Hadi think it a bam matthanim in hu ju no dun leavina sha or on
bahom beautiful description dom mataliino juno doom, color boom, loving can Allah has
revealed a beautiful book that has in it verses that are repeated many times.
We have in the Poran verses that are repeated many times, a beautiful book
with similar verses that the skins of those who purely believe in Allah they tighten
up with goose bumps when they hear these verses, and after that the skins
loosen up, the hearts softened towards the remembrance of Allah. What a beautiful
description of the poran. I'm sure we felt it. Annahuwat Alah accept it
from us. So Yusuf alihi Salam sitting in authority in Egypt, and his
brothers walk in, and a loss of Hanahuatala says they now spoke to him
Phalamdakluli. As they entered, he obviously noticed that their condition is slightly different
than now. Somber they are. They are now more humbled and so on.
You can notice when a person has prolonged difficulty, they are humbled shanata
grant as humbleness without difficulty. We must not wait for difficulty to come in
our lives before we land on the ground. No, we should Inshallah be
on the ground the proper level humbleness, humility, mantawada alillah. Here Ahulah.
We've mentioned the hadith. Whoever humbles themselves for the sake of Allah Allah
will raise their ranks subhana Lah, and whoever wants to be proud and arrogant,
Allah drops him down onto the ground. So alas is carl yeah ha
lazizumasana ah oh you who is in authority? Oh Aziz? He was given
a position. It was known as al Aziz. He was the one in
authority. He had the say and the clouds in Egypt was given because of
his knowledge. From this we also learn they called a man from the prison
in order to lead them, because they gave that authority to the one whom
it is most deserving, or to the one whom it is most deserving.
Upon we learn from this, don't be shy to make as your leader the
one who deserves the post and who is able and capable, even if you
and he might not be looking eye to eye. This is what happened here
with us. No, we will propel into positions of leadership those whom we
know they are our friends. If they become leaders, we'll make money out
of it. Then we love that leadership. Or if they become powerful,
then our agenda is served. Mallah protectors. Remember Rasulu la Saselam speaks about
destruction, and he says either with sid al amru Ela ri ahlihi fan Taisha.
When authority is given to the one who is inappropriate for that position,
then you can wait for the hour, which means Karama is coming. There
are two interpretations to this. Anything that is given to a person who doesn't
deserve, or who doesn't know, or who is incapable to look after or
to be in authority over it is the end of that particular item. It
is the end of that committee. It is the end of that country.
It is the end of that company, It is the end of that business,
it is the end of that family. When you put at the top
someone who doesn't know anything about it, it's over. That is one of
the meanings of the Hadid, which is an authentic narration of Rasulu la allah
Ahasulam, and he warns us. Secondly, when you notice on the globe
that all goes in authority are people who know nothing about that particular field,
you must know Kayama is also very close. The world is going to come
to an end. So you have a person leading the most powerful country in
the world reading a book upside down, you know there's a problem. Malasub
hanahawat Alah Safeguardess really Malasu hanahawat Alah, open our doors and grant us a
deep understanding, because if that is happening everywhere across the globe, then really
we have a crisis. People who don't know how to solve a problem are
made our betrators in order to solve people's problems. What is that? So
this is one very important point we learned from the story of Yusuf Adai Salam.
They did not have pride in them. That's why they succeeded. If
that king was too proud, he would have said, no, that man's
an inmate. How can we bring him in here and give him authority even
over us? They told him, do as you want. Yesterday I was
speaking to one brother from Syria who is sitting in our midst and he says,
my father, he farms olives. And he says, you know,
every time he used to. This is a true story, the brother told
me yesterday. Here he says, every time we harvested the olives and we
wanted to squeeze them and so on. The shelf life or the life of
that olive was very short. In a short time, it would become unusable.
So my father decided to follow Sura Yusuf where Yusuf valet is Salam told
this king that that corn, meaning the wheat, leave it on its corn,
don't take it out, save it whilst it's on its corn, and
you will be able to use it seven years later. So he says,
what we decided to do, leave the olives with the branch and the leaves,
and then we found its shelf life was increased amazingly. Now the same
applies to lichies in our part of the globe. The same applies mashallah to
maize. They leave it covered, everything closed, exactly as it grew.
The shelf life is longer automatic, natural nature. From Allah who inspired use
of aalet Salam to say this? It was Allah, Well, lie when
I heard it. The brother was talking to me there, and I said,
in Challah, I will have to say this because it's important and it
is true. We know it in our lives as well, but it's in
the Koran. We take it for an't it. It's a lesson we learn
now. Yusuf adahi Salam. He hears them saying, oh, as ease,
we have been afflicted. Our family has been afflicted by some harm.
We have been harmed. Meaning we are in a situation that is very difficult.
Baby a team USA and we have come with merchandise to pay for our
grain. But our merchandise is not even grand. It might not even be
enough, and it won't be of the proper quality. So firstly, we
are suffering. We are going through a lot of turmoil in our family.
There's a lot of problem. There is difficulty for our feel and ala alaina.
So grant us our ration and just be charitable, give us a sadakakabar
alain. Grant us charity. Be charitable, charitable in the sense that one
brother of ours, you got him with you, please send him with us.
And another thing is overlook the fact that our merchandise is not that grand.
Please still give us this grain and let us take it and go with
Now this is a blood brother. He couldn't take it more than that.
Now he's the blood brother. He needs to know because obviously you see that
he feels. My brothers are now asking me and they are telling me that
we have a problem back at home and this is the situation. He looks
at them and he says, karla hala alim to mafaal to be Usuf is
Tumjahino. He says, I want to ask you one question. Do you
know what you did to Yusuf and his brother? Whilst you people were ignorant,
They were shocked. Why nobody knows about Yusuf, No one, It's
either them or Yusuf himself. When he said that, they immediately knew this
man is Yusuf Carlo innakala alta Yosuf. Are you Yusuf allah an aosuf ai
god man Allah? While in in my attack, WHI else bill for in
Allah Allah? Are you doing a jo almini? He says, I am
yoursuf, and this is my brother. Indeed, Allah has blessed us in
so many ways, and definitely those who bear patience, those who are conscious
of Allah and bear patience, Allah will never waste the reward of those who
do good deeds. So he immediately spoke to them. He says, look,
yes, you are right, I am Yusuf. This is my brother.
He didn't now try and speak to them arrogantly. He just told them,
look, I want to tell you something. Allah always rewards those who
have two qualities in them, the quality of takua and the quality of sabal.
You need to have both those qualities. Allah will not waste your deeds.
Alasuhnahwat Alah says, Maya Taki whyls bid. You need takua, you
need the consciousness of a lasub Hannah hawat Alah, and you need the suburb
You need patience, you need perseverance. It's important for us all to know
that success does not come without consciousness of Allah, and success will not come
without patience. I want to pause here for a moment and tell you something.
The Sura was revealed in makatul Mukarama when alasub Hannah hawat Alah chose a
moment and the time to reveal the Surah. The prophets all Allahu Alesalam had
just lost his wife, the most beloved to him, Kadija Tabinti Hueli d
Rady Allahu Anha, this great woman Kadijah Raddi Allahu Anha. He had just
lost her. And then he loses his uncle Abu Talib, who had been
a pillar of support. And then he goes to Taif and he is beaten
up in Taif and he comes out of tha If meaning they blasphemed him,
or should I say they really disrespected him In Thai if in the greatest way
possible physically, they tried to harm him, and they tried to Alasu anahwa
tala protect us all. And as he comes back, Alas says, we
are going to reveal to you the most beautiful of stories. Here is the
story. So the story of Yusuf Alai is Salam was revealed in what is
known as amul Husen, the year of sadness, that is the same year
that the prophets all Allahu Alahu was Selam was taken up to what is known
as mihaj also a gift from Alasu ana Awatalah. And Alas says, here
you bear patience, oh Muhammad Salallah Ali is Slam. Look how long this
man suffered Yusuf alai Islam. Look what he went through. And Alas says
He also says, if you have takua and sober, Allah will not to
waste the reward of those who do good. Layu do by our means to
waste to go in vain. Allah says no, if you have takua and
sabber, your reward will come. But just be patient. Lahu Akaba and
Mohammed sarala A Salam was so happy. The story brought a lot of comfort
to his heart. Sala lah alai so yusuf a Salah was salam. Immediately
he paused, These people uttered words kanu tlahi lakad sarah kalami in in kunalahati
in. They said, Walahi, we swear by Allah, Allah has elevated
you above us. We were definitely wrong in what we did. Now look
at how they had planned his downfall. They wanted to kill him. They
threw him in the well. And what Allah did as a result, he
raised those pole if he raised this man so oh Hi above these people,
that they food depended on him after a loss of anahatta, they had to
come begging with a bowl like this to say we need food. Tasadaka alina,
give us a charity here. Look, so this is why I never
planned the downfall of someone. There is a chance that through that planning they
will get a lot of success. Look at Mohammad saraalaha Allah. He was
seldom They planned his downfall in Mecca. They literally threw him out of Makanaugabilah.
And what did that result? In the great migration the Hidra. The
doors were opened to another territory of Madina Munawara, and Islam grew from Medina
far greater than these people of Macca ever dreamt of. Until one day he
came back to Mecca victorious. And I'm going to mention that in a few
moments here Yusuf Adai Islam tells his brothers immediately he didn't wait for more words
of praise, and he didn't start patting himself and saying, right, you
see now, I'm going to punish you. You see this. No,
there was no word, no time for that, no negative word. He
immediately says, lad atiba alain kum on yam yaofilak whuhamon Rahimi, no blame
upon you today. I don't want to know anything. It's all over,
forgiven and forgotten. Let's talk about something else, Lahu Akbar. And he
started talking of the shit. He says, I'm really I'm taking out my
shirt because I've heard what happened to our father. He's lost his sight.
Take this to him, and isha Allah, when you cast it over him,
his eyesight will return by the will of Allah. So Hannah hawata Anna.
Now Muhammad saraalahu Adah. He was Alam when he came back to Mecca
victorious, exactly the same way he didn't come, you know, standing and
beating drums and telling people I'm winning and so on, and raising his hands.
Nothing. He was down on his camel. His head was so down.
He was in sujud He was in to Judo subhana lah. His head
was right down. It was almost touching the back of the camel. S
La lah alai. He was seldom and he entered thanking Allah sudhanah alaiy Allah,
You've granted me victory over these people who have prepared armies to come and
fight me, who have tried to kill me, who have killed so many
of my companions, my relatives, my cousins, my uncles, so many
of them have been murdered, mass murdered by these people. Ya Allah,
Today you are giving me victory. He looks at Korajh Yeah, Mashara Korash,
mother Taruna and nefa Ailumbkul or people of Korash. What do you think
I'm going to do to you today? They were at his mercy, really,
because he had one hundred thousand he was. He came in with a
large army. There was no ways they were going to face him after so
many years, similar to what happened to us off Alai Salam. So they
looked at him and their leaders told him, we hope that it is something
good, because you are Ahun Karim wabunu ahink In. You are an honorable
brother, the son of a noble man, an honorable brother. He says,
I am not going to tell you anything besides what Joseph told his brothers.
What use of Alai Salam told his brothers La tati by alai Kumuliam,
no blame upon you today I habu and tumutu lakal go. All of you
are free. So La lah Ali he was seldam. He sought no retribution.
S La lahu Ali, he was slam. There were a few criminals
who were dug out. The rest of them were let loose, nothing to
be mentioned. So many of them accepted Islam on the occasion of that fatah
and that victory because they were witnessing in the bee of Allah. Sala lah
ALIHI was slam Allah suhana Alah Granta's lesson. This lesson we also find it
in Surah Yusuf. He tells his brothers no blame on you. Today,
Allah will forgive you, for indeed He is most forgiving, most merciful.
You see for a unco tivas what to nei be alikum agine mine, take
my shirt, Go and place it on your father, Cast it over him
in shah lah. His eyesight will become clear once again. And bring the
whole family and come here. They were suffering. There they expressed their sadness
and their condition. And here he is saying, bring them all and come
and live in Egypt. Come so a loss of Hannah, howat Alya say,
is now we take him the scene back there where yakub ad is Salam
was the father. He couldn't see. He had lost his sight. Whether
it was a cataract or what have you. Only Allah knows best exactly what
it was. But what we do know somehow the sweat of use of alaih
his sadah to a Salam, it had resulted in the cure of these eyes
by the will of a loss of Hannah. Howat Ala for your information today,
as we're speaking, there are studies in the Western world as to how
some of that which is found in the sweat of a human being can be
used to cure the cataract Subhanaa. And these are studies that are at a
very advanced stage. You can actually check it out. The world is now
just a little global village and you can see what we're talking about. It's
amazing, it's amazing. We spoke about all of us moments ago from Soda
Yusuf. Now we're speaking about these eye drops and something to do with the
eyes. Suba Ala Grant is understanding. So alas is oulama fasoli cola boom
in elajiduri a yosufa la la ollafiedo carutalai in a cola fi Balaliclucardi him.
On one hand, the caravan is leaving Egypt, going towards Yakub Balai his
salam with the shirt, and on the other hand, yakubala is salam so
many hundreds of kilometers away, is saying, oh my people, I know
I can't see, but I can definitely smell Yusuf. I can smell him.
I can smell him. He is coming near and the people around him
are saying, no, man, you are fildala kadim. You just have
this obsession and what you've been saying all along for all these years, you're
just repeating it, and it's probably something that you're going to now need to
forget because this is out of a question. And suddenly the caravan appears love
Akaba Palam alashiro Ala fed dabas adam a coulacum in lam in allah him alaalamo
on Akaba. When the caravan came, they took the shirt and they cast
it over him, and his eyes became clear once again, and the story
was manifest open loud for everybody to read. He says, Oh, my
children, oh my people, didn't I tell you I know something from Allah
that you people do not know. Now the children are embarrassed because they need
to face their father years of what they did for your information. Had they
not done what they they did, where would you sub Ali Slam have been
alas Ubhanahuatla's plan was such alas as they planned and we had a plan.
And look at the end of that plan. In another place in the Koran
alass Wama kaum Karamama Karnam Karamla shown found Kayakana kibant my kiddy him in another
place in the Quran regarding another Nabi. But we want to use that example
here. Allas says they planned and alas subhanahuata Allah planned without them even feeling
what the plan of Allah was. So now look at the outcome of their
plan. It resulted in their own destruction. Akaba. When people plot against
you or against me, don't worry when we should be worried when we plot
against somebody else. This is when we should be worried. Why we should
not engage in that type of behavior and that type of activity continue. We
are always taught when you see a crooked line, don't waste your time trying
to straighten it. Draw a straight line next to it, and walk away.
Those who are passing by will say that's a crooked line. This is
a straight line, and they will also benefit from it. But if you're
going to fight your whole life trying to plan and plot and do this and
do that, people will look at you and they think you're also part of
the crooked line. Now alas sunnahuata Alakranto's goodness and safety. So alasu hanahwat
Ala says, these young men who were the sons of Yakuballeh Salam yeah Abana
in Kunakati in oh our father seek forgiveness for our sin. We are definitely
wrong. We were totally wrong. At least they're admitting the sin. Now
alas Hannah Allah grant us the ability to admit our sins and to repent to
Allah before it is too late. We need to turn to alasu Hannah Hawatana.
This evening again powerful verses. We have read in the Quran so many
that it is impossible for us to talk about all of them in a few
minutes. But in a nutshell, it is important for us to turn to
Allah alasis. The verses we read this evening in the Taruha alas is kulla
kumun pharah in far to min ALMAUTI will katon way the land to matterna in
Kranila Ohhammad sal lah al Seldam. Tell them that it will not benefit you
at all if you think you are going to run away from death or from
being killed or dying in the way Allah wants. And if you think you
have missed death, you should know that you still don't have to die.
Many of us are saved from a car crash. We come out unscathed,
and sometimes we were sick and ill. The doctors gave us two hours twenty
hours and what happened. It's now twenty years. We're still alive. It
has happened many people. But death has to still come to you no matter
what. This is what Alla is saying in the Qur'an that if you think
you ran away from death, don't worry. It is still behind you.
It has to come al MoU to babunkulu na si da Riloh. Death is
a door that every single person has to enter. There's no ways that you
can run away from it. So prepare for that day. Well, Hi.
A winner is the one who abstains from sin. A winner is the
one who constantly sacrifices for Allah. We spoke about Takua and suburb and we
said that is what will result in the success of a human being. Ala
Granta's success. So Yakuba Salam tells his sons calas Ola Kumra be in Allah
Rahim. He says, I will ask Allah to forgive you because he is
most forgiving, most merciful. Now the wedding here is very powerful. They
didn't say, Oh Father, forgive us, Oh Father, seek Allah's forgiveness
for us, Oh Father, seek Allah's forgiveness for us. We were wrong.
The father is Annabe. He says, I will seek the forgiveness of
Allah for you, because he is the owner of forgiveness. Suhannah Ala,
grant us forgiveness. Now the beauty lahu akbar. They all left and everyone
was excited, and they started the caravan set out and they're now going to
eat and a loss of Hannah. Howat Ala is describing yusuf aalet Sadam preparing
to now meet them. And as they're entering Palam mad a dayo sofa ah
Elia callad mislai shah along a meani what of lash so jada look at the
scene alas is the parents came in, the brothers came in. They all
walked in. Yusuvalet Islam was so happy to see his parents, masha law
and you can imagine the emotions and a loss of Hannah. Howatla says,
they raised him upon a throne and he they had prostrated down prostrated and he
looks and he sees father, mother and eleven brothers and he says, yeah,
abati ha that o we no yaya mean comble de ja'lah and be hal
call oh my father. This is the meaning of that dream that I had
had a long long time ago. Allah made it come true. I see
the sun, the moon, and eleven stars. Today, my mother,
my father, and here the eleven brothers. Now it is prohibited for us
to put our head on the ground for anyone besides Allah in our Shariah,
in the law that has come with Muhammed Salahu alaih was Alam, your head
goes on the ground solely for your maker, nobody else, whoever made you,
whoever you're going to return to, that is the one and only.
But in that Shariah, in order to acknowledge the level and the status of
a person, out of respect, they bowed down and they engaged in sujud.
Obviously with us, it's not allowed because people might ask how come they
did sujud? So we need to clarify that. So Allah suhnahuata ala,
then says Yusuvaleh is Salam. He was one of the most powerful men you
could have. He had the control over the Egyptian Empire, the Kingdom of
Egypt. Powerful. It was one of the biggest and the most powerful of
the time. And he had so much wealth. He was the one giving
to everybody, and he had lots of good looks smash Allah. He was
the most beautiful human being you could have, so handsome, given from alaso
hannah Awa to Alah. He had wealth, he had authority, he had
everything you could think of. He had his parents now were here. He
had his brothers. They solved the problem in a minute. How did they
solve the problem? I need to pause there for a moment by one man
who was right for giving those who were wrong totally, and he says,
listen, don't bring it up again. It's over. Forgive and forgotten.
That's how you solve your problems in your houses. That's how you solve your
problems with your brothers and sisters. That's how you solve your problems with your
in laws and outlaws. Yes, you know they always use the term in
law because I think that's where the lawyers come in Allas of Hannahua to Allah
grant a savior. I don't know why we look at people with skepticism.
There is no need to do that, not at all. You need to
have a clear heart. Life is too short to make our heart murky and
dirty. Open it. Forgive. When you forgive, you are liberated.
Liberation meaning you feel free, you feel let loose machi Allah. But if
you don't forgive, you hold baggage, and it holds more, and it
ties you with chains, and you feel so down, and you at night,
you are feeling so stressed. Why your heart has not forgiven? This
is what you learned from the story of Yusuf aaleh Isalam. If he wanted,
he could have executed them, because he was in authority and they wanted
to kill him. They could have gone for whatever you'd like to call it
in terms of crime. He could have executed them all. But no,
he just looked at them and said, no problem, no blame upon you
today, don't worry a lie's most forgiving, most merciful. That's the last
and the first thing he ever said about it. He never spoke about it
again. And he lived with them so well. He gave them dwellings in
Egypt. He let them do as they please. He made them people who
were looked up to now in society and community. He never went around telling
the whole world that, you know, these are my brothers. This is
what they did. You go back to the next man. You see these
brothers of mine, the crooks. You go back to the next man.
You see these brothers of mine. They wanted to kill me. You go
to the next one. You see these brothers of mine? Why spread stories
all over? That is our weakness, the weakness of man. Let us
learn a lesson from the story. No point in going to complain about your
own brethren to everybody else, not at all. We need to learn a
lesson. Allah Subanah howat Alah. Grant has a good lesson. So here
you have a powerful man. He's holding absolutely everything, and he says to
his to his father, he's making mention of the gifts of Allah Subanah howat
Alah. He says, this is the meaning of my dream. Number one.
Number two. He continues and he says, well, are the ahsanabi
is a Trajani mean a siegin? And Allah has really done me a favor
by removing me from the jail. Stop and think about what he's saying.
He says, Allah has bestowed a favor upon me by removing me from jail.
He didn't say, Allah punish me by letting me go into the jail.
Although he went in wrongly, he was jailed. He looked at the
positives and he says, Allah blessed me by taking me out of that negativity
a love akhabar. How many of us are prepared to look at the positives
in our lives and ignore the negatives. It will really enhance us emotionally,
mentally, physically, spiritually. Look at the positives in life. Stop harping
about the negatives in your life. You are being blinded by two negatives from
another one hundred positives in your life. Why there are so many points of
goodness in your life that really we all sometimes take for granted. May Allah
open our eyes. May he grant us the ability to be thankful like Yusu
Ali Sarama. And then he continues and he says again, look at the
power of his words. He says, w jaabikomminan badu. And Allah has
really blessed me by bringing you people from those rural areas and bringing them here
from the desert you came in. Allah bless me. He didn't say Allah
punished me by separating me for so many years from you. He didn't say
that. Look again, how positive his thinking is. Then he says,
mean badi and azara chipan baini bahina equity. This all happened after Shaitan caused
a difference between myself and my brothers. Remember we spoke a few days ago
about one young boy from amongst us who said that sometimes we can just blame
Cha'than for our problems and solve our matter, which means, if I got
a problem with you, you can say, look it was Shathan, and
I can say look it was Shathan, and the two of us come together.
At least we got Chathan to blame. Yusuvala Sada'm blamed Schathan. He
says, look, my brothers are good, Shathan is bad. Chathan is
the one who was this problem. It is solved. We've taken Chipan out
of the equation. So now the two of us are united. Whenever you
have disunity, you need to know Chaithan is playing the quicker. You identify
Chithan and remove him, and eradicate him, and take out your pride and
come back down to the earth. Then the problem will be solved. Alasupnahwata
Allah grant a solution to our Madison problems. In Rabi Latiful Maya Shah,
the power of the Quran, the power of the words of these prophets of
alas Supnah hawata Alah. And after that he makes it to up. Sitting
right at the top, he says, rob b oh my rub, oh
my rub, God monkey ALAMII had it falsamaiti, Well, oh my rub.
You have granted me so much in terms of authority and kingdom. You
have given me so much, all this power that I have, all this
kingdom that I have, all this authority that I have, and over and
above that, you gave me knowledge of certain items that other people do not
have the knowledge of. One of that was he had the knowledge of the
interpretation of dreams. Someone seen a dream, they could go to him and
tell him, we've seen this dream. He was able to tell you exactly
what the meaning of the dream was. Look at this surah, beautifully,
it starts with a dream. The prison is so a dream. The king
saw a dream, and when the prisoners saw if it was interpreted, when
the king saw if it was interpreted, and the main dream which started the
surah, ends the surah with an interpretation physically of that particular dream. It's
all about dreams. Now he makes it die, He says, alamton him
lahadif. Then he says fa thera samawatim oh Allah, you are the one
who created the skies in the earth. I might have clout, I might
have authority, I might have power, I might have wealth, I might
have good looks, I might have good health. All this means nothing when
it comes to your own power and might. You are the giver, youah
Allah, You are the one who gives. You are in supreme control.
You made everything in the first place, us and our surroundings. Everything has
been made by you, your Allah. This was a statement of Usu alai
Islam. Then he says uh tauali ye lah Akama. You are my wali.
You are my protector. The word wali it means a protector. You
are the only one who protects me. You are my guardian. I will
not seek protection from anyone, but you are Allah. So I am asking
you something. You're Allah. I want a favor from you. You are
Allah, tawafani muslima al hakoni Bisali. I want two things from you.
You are Allah. I want you to cause my death in the state of
submission to you. I want to be a slave of yours. I want
to be submitted to you, your Allah. And I want you to join
me with the pious whom you have chosen and selected lahu akabar, what a
powerful do are We should also be making the same to add yea. Allah,
You've given us clothing, You've given us food, You've given us goodness,
You've given us so much. You've given us all the positives. We
have so much from Allah. Tawafana Muslim, and all heckona is salahei Muslimina
we all heckona is salahim oh Allah grant us death in a condition that we
are Muslim Muslim meaning what is the meaning of Muslim? A one who surrenders
to Allah. The one who surrenders to Allah grant us death in that condition.
He knew that all this is not going to last. All this I
have here, I need Allah more than anything else. I need to start
preparing for my death. But he was more powerful than any one of us.
He had much more in any way than every single one of us put
together. Loah akabar, use of valetsanam. And he's still preparing for his
death. He says, Allah, who akabar ya Allah, I want you
to grant me goodness. And this is when Alasu hannah Ala says to Muhammed
sah Mohammed, seldom we have favored you that he came in like, these
are the stories of the unseen, which you haven't seen. We have revealed
them to you. Mac Neither you knew any of these stories, nor any
one of your people knew these stories before we revealed it to you. So
the lesson Alas says fuss b lo akabar so bad patience. Alas Hannah Ala
is telling Mohammad, tell them to bad patience. This is in another place
in the Koran where alas hanah Howat Alas says, first bird, so bad
patience. The lesson The moral of the story be patients, don't worry.
Goodness comes to those who wait for it. Those who are stead first don't
lose hope in the mercy of Allah. And in this particular, Sura Alas
is wama cotaladaihim ajma am rahum wahumam ko. You were not there when those
brothers were planning their plot against Yusuf Alahi Salam. You were not there when
they were doing all that, But we told it to you, as though
now it feels like you were there. All of us who sat and heard
the story, couldn't we picture it in our minds? That is the gift
of Allah. So hannahawa to Alah and Alas is still wama akara stadim,
meaning, no matter how hard you try, the majority of people won't believe.
May Allah make us the exception. May He make us those who believe.
May He make us those who learn a lesson. May He make us
those who constantly learn from the Puran. There are so many lessons we've derived
from Soura Yosuf. There are still more lessons, but in Sharlah we will
leave that for another occasion tomorrow. In Charloah, we have an appointment by
the will of a Las Supannah. Howate Alah, Yeah, with the life
of a U ballet Saddam and you know sah to Saddam alas Supana, howate
Ala keep us to Then was slaa who is selling them? Abarak and Hammed
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