Kiss miler rohimn Rohi in the name of Allah, the most gracious, the
most merciful, heard a lot low heard power excellence presents lessens from the stories
of the prophets by Mufti Ismail even Mussa menk a youth Ali his snam and
unus ale his saram job Peace be upon him and Jonah peace be upon him.
Aboukata smilay rahmani Rahim al Halamin was Sarah to salamalah ash feel healthyjimain nab
a Mohammad alah Ali he was habijamahin a a bad All praise is due to
a loss of Hannah hauwat Alah. Blessings and salutations upon Muhammed Salah Alam.
We ask alas sub hannahuata Alah to bless his entire family, the most pure
and noble of all families. And we ask a las sub Hannah hawa ta
Alah to bless all his companions and to bless every single one of us.
To bless our offspring those to come up to the day of Kayama. We
Allah bless the Umah at large, beloved brothers and sisters in Islam. This
evening in Sharlah we will be going through the verses in the Quran related to
two of the prophets of a loss of hannahuata Alah, and the first one
is profit A y b alaihi Salah towards Salam, known in the English language
as job May peace be upon him. We will use the Arabic in sh
Allah referring to au ballet his sala to a Salem. He was a abe
sent by a lass Subhanah hawata Aalah. But the Qur'an does not make mention
of the details of his people and the message because alas Subhannah Hawatalah wants us
all to learn a different type of a lesson from the tests which were put
into the life of Ayu ballehisala to a Salam. Firstly, who was he?
He was from the direct descendants of his hak alaih is Salam, which
means he came from the family of Ibrahim aleaihi sala to a Salam, and
his wife was one of the direct descendants of the prophet Luke alaihis sala to
a Salam according to some narrations. In fact, no, his his wife
was one of the direct descendants of the prophet use of Alaihisala to a Slam,
and her name, according to some narrations, was Rahma Rahma, and
his mother was from the descendants of luth alaihi sala to a Salam. In
a nutshell, the point being made is he had a very very high lineage
in terms of spirituality and connection to the prophets of a lasso hannahawat Alah.
He was a very very good looking man. He had good health given by
a lass of hannahuata Alah, and over time Allah bestowed him with favors.
He had a quality. He would thank a lass of Hannah houat Allah upon
all conditions, and he would always say, whatever condition Allah keeps you upon,
be thankful and be grateful. Alhamdulillahi allahkulihal as we have been taught,
we praise Allah, we glorify Him upon all conditions. The only condition we
are seeking his protection from. We say juanaudu billah him in Hali alin na,
we seek the protection from Allah, or we seek the protection in Allah
from the condition of those who shall be cast into the hell fire. So
Prophet ayubadah Issaalah to asalam alas of hanahwat Ala says in the Koran cor abdana
Ab. Remember the story of our messenger or our worshiper, a yub loaho
akbar and Alas of hanahwat Alas is in another place in the Poran w Auba
iv nada Raba. Remember when a yub called out to his rob when a
yuba let his salad to a Salam called out to Alas of hannahawat Alas.
So what actually happened. He was granted good health, he was granted lots
of wealth. He was given live stock as well as large tracts of land,
and he was owning so much, and he had many children offspring.
So mash Allah, he had good health, he had children, and he
had wealth. These are the three main items that people are searching for in
this world. And Alas of hanahwat Ala blessed you by Sarah to Salam with
all three, and he was thankful. Now, there are some narrations which
make mention of how the angels were making mention of this worshiper that he's only
praying to Allah because Allah has best blessed him with so much. And Chaithan
says, if Allah takes all this away, he will stop worshiping Allah.
Those narrations. We don't know whether they are authentic or not, so we
will keep them aside. We want to stick to what we know is factual.
Alass of Hannah Howat Alah decided to test a you b aalihi salah to
a Salam. To see this worshiper of mine, who is in constant ibada,
who always thanks me, who always thanks upon all conditions. I want
to see if the condition changes, does he remain on that same path of
his So Alas of Hannah Howat Alah decided Akbar to take his wealth away.
So as time passed very quickly, he lost his livestock, he lost his
he lost his wealth, he lost absolutely everything, everything gone. He was
still thanking Allah. Yeah, Allah, I praise you on all conditions.
Not a day did he complain to a loss of hannahua to Alah. Not
one day did he complain to a loss of Hanah Howat Alah. The prophet
ay aalih Salah to as Salam. And thereafter Alas of Hannah Houwat Alah decided
to test him further. So Alas of Hannahawat Alah took his offspring away one
after the other. They were all gone. They all died in front of
his eyes, all of them. And he had been given a lot,
so Hannah lah one after the other. With every one, he would say,
we all belonged to Allah. Whatever he has given to us was always
his. If he took it away, it just returned to who it belonged
to. Always. This is Allah alas of Hannah ho t Alah, the
owner of everything. What I have got, what you have got, Where
did it come from? It came from Allah. If he wants, he
can take it now, or he can take it later, or he may
decide never to give you to someone that is the owner Allah layus alo amahafailoh.
He is never going to be asked what he does because he is the
creator and the decider. So Alas sub hahnahwat Alah found after testing a yob
allai his salah to a salam now with the second line of attack, if
we can call it, Alas suhnahwat Alah found him to be grateful. He
still says, Yeah, Allah, you have still given me, and I
thank you, and I praise you, and I remain in your worship and
I continue with my work. So alasub hanahawat Alah decided to test him finally
with something very very difficult, very difficult. And remember, Rasulu Salam says,
the Ambia the profits of Alas suhnahwat Alah, their tests are far more
difficult than the tests of the ordinary people. And then from amongst the ordinary
people, those who are doing the work of the Amba, their tests will
also be more difficult than the layman on the street. Alas Suhnah, what
ala make life easy for us? May he not test us with tests that
will be too difficult for us to pass, but rather, may he test
us with that we will pass in shah lah with flying colors. So Alas
subhanah howat alas is then we decided to take his health away. Now,
the health is connected to two angles, firstly the outward and then the inside.
So you have organs that can go bad. People might not notice quickly,
but you have the skin also that goes bad. When a person has
organ failure, a lot of the times people will still come and greet him
and talk to him and so on. But the minute the person has an
outward sickness and illness blistering from top to bottom, people begin to develop a
distance because they think we might be infected by this. It may be contagious,
and so on. So alas subhanahwat Alah tested him with both those until
there was a time when nothing was operating besides his heart and his tongue.
And he still used that tongue to remember Allah. And he still used that
heart. He never allowed it to lead him to frustration against a lass.
Subhanah awa to ada. This is a lesson for us, my beloved brothers
and sisters. We get sick, we get a flu, we get a
cough, we get an agitation for a while, and we start making do
ah. We start with our pills and with our medication, and after a
while we say, what's wrong? Allh is not curing me? How we
lose hope in a week? In two weeks? This sickness lasted for a
long long time. Some narrations say it lasted seven whole years. And a
certain narration says that the people around him began keeping a distance until they decided,
we need to remove this man from here. And you find even his
own friends they stopped coming. And one narration says that his wife, after
some time, asked him a question how long is this going to last?
That made him so upset, so upset because to him, he was surrendering
to the degree of Allah subhanah awa ta Allah. Yes, he might have
been trying in his own way whatever he wanted to within the limits of a
loss sup hanahwa to Allah, but he never wanted to question the degree of
Allah suhnah how to Allah. That was not in his nature. And he
was very upset that his own wife is asking how long will this last?
Now, let's be honest, how many of us ask the question? A
lot of the times we get irritated and we say, how long is this
going to last? How stofa? May Allah forgive us. We may do
our positively to Allah, and you leave it in the hands of Allah.
When we are in law sick, we ask Allah, Yeah, Allah,
Grand chiefa to all those who are ill, Yeah, Allah, Grand Chief.
To all those who are ill, we ask a lasu hanah howa to
Allah, And we might go to the doctor and try and you know,
get some medication within the limits of a lossupnah howa to Alah, And then
we leave the rest in the hands of a loss of hannah hoa to Allah.
Imagine for seven years. So he asks his wife a question, how
long did Allah bless me with goodness? She looked at him and she said
eighty years. For eighty years, you had goodness, You had health,
you had wealth, you had offspring, you had everything. Now how many
years is he testing me for? She looked at him, and she says,
the last seven years. So how do you want me to lose hope
in the mercy of Allah when I haven't even reached power with what goodness I
had In the difficulty I'm facing, it's not even equal. This is seven
years, and that is eighty years of goodness. How can we become upset
with Allah when he gave us almost a whole life spanful of goodness? A
lesson for us. Sometimes we suffer a loss one after the other and we
don't realize thirty years we were smiling, we were happy. Now Allas is
another ten years. We want you to go through some turbulence. We want
to test you, like I normally say, people say, why does Allah
take things away? What Allah says in the Qoran, he will test you
in every way. He tests you with addition and supplection. And I've said
that here before that when you get a mathematics test. There's not only the
plus sign that they test you with. What is one plus one? You
know, five plus three, ten plus fifteen? That's not all. They
also ask you what is fifteen minus ten? Because they want to test you
the negatives as well, to see do you know how to subtract? The
same applies alas subhana what Allah tests us with addition, subtraction, multiplication,
division, Whatever he wants, he tests and he tests it all round.
This is why Alas say is ahassi banasutracokonu ahmana wahumlah. You've done guadakatan,
go belie him. While I are a lemon alone leadin a sodako, while
ia a lemon and alas is ali flamm. Do the people think it is
enough for them to say we believe and then Allah will not test them?
Alasays we have indeed tested those before you, meaning we will test every single
one of you. So bahana lah. Do they think it is enough for
them to say we believe and then they are not tested? Alas is no
when you say we believe, Alas is, now we want to test you
in order to know who is truthful in their belief and who is just claiming
my lips that I'm a believer. So many of us we say I'm a
Muslim, But do we live our lives? According to Islam? These are
golden opportunities. This is a blessed house of a loss of Hannah. Howat
Alah, we are in the blessed month of Ramadan, in the second half
of the month of Ramadan. Let us make a resolution. Yeah Allah,
we will turn for your sake here and now leave our bad ways and habits
malas of Hanah. Howat Alah open our doors? So are you bad?
His salah to as Salam Allah makes mention of how he tested him and alas
of Hanah. Howat Alah says he told his wife, you can't tell me
this. If I get better, I'm going to lash you one hundred lashes.
Now he made that statement. The statement came out because it showed how
powerfully he was connected to the surrendering of to the degree of a loss of
Hannah. Howat Alah that when someone uttered the statement from his closest relatives,
saying how long is this going to last? It made him upset, so
he uttered the statement, I will last you one hundred lashes, and it
is reported that she also found it very difficult. She found it very difficult,
and so on. As time passed. One narration says she actually decided,
I'm now going I can't handle this anymore. But we stick to the
narration which says it got to a point almost breaking point, almost breaking point,
and he calls out to a loss of Hannah. Ala Alas says,
why iba iv Nada, Rumba and nimasania borrow ourhamorrahhimi. Remember when our servant
a U called out to us telling us that oh our rub, oh my
rub allaho akaba, oh my rub, evil has touched me. Evil has
touched me. And yet you are are the most forgiving, most merciful,
which means cure me. Allah, you are most merciful, and evil has
touched me. Your mercy will dictate to remove that evil. Alas is subhan
arabil allah Fastajabalah. We responded, We responded that call. How now in
another place in the Koran, alasubanahwat Ala makes mention how alas is what cob
remember make mention of our slave. Look at the word used abdena our slave,
our worshiper. Are you is Nada Arab. When he called out to
his rob and Himsenia Chiapan ubinus Biendaba. He called out to say, look,
Chapan has definitely harmed me with this and that with difficulty, with hardship,
with sickness, in wealth as well as in health, loss in wealth
as well as health. And Alas Subhanahwat Alas says, we told him when
he was standing. His wife was not there at the time. She was
concentrating on something else. And Alas says, all could be regionic, which
means strike the ground with your foot. That's the least he could do.
Strike the ground with your foot. See what happens. So he struck the
ground with his foot, a spring gushed water. Cold water started gushing from
his feet. Alas says motasabery, don't Sharab, this is cold water for
you to wash yourself with and to drink. So as he washed, his
blisters started disappearing. As he drank, the internal organs came in order again,
to the degree that in a short space of time his skin was renewed,
totally, renewed, totally a new man Akaba and his internals were made
again as good as they were before, and even better by drinking this water,
my beloved brothers and sisters, we also have water similar to that.
We have a gift of zamzam. We have the well in makatul Mukarama.
Remember it serves the same purpose. The haditha of the prophets of Allaha Sudam
he says, zamzam is for whatever intention it is drunk with, and for
so if you're drinking it with the intention y'allah kuremi ya allah this Yallah,
it will Inshallah serve that purpose for as long as you have that yaqin and
conviction in your heart. May Allah subhanahuata Allah grant us from that gift.
We don't take zamzam for granted. Wellahi, it is water that is a
gift from Allah suhanahwat Alah. This particular water was different from zamzam, but
it served similar purpose where he got cure, and amazingly, when his wife
came back, she looked, she says, where is are you? Who
are you? But you look very similar to him. Marshallah. He says,
I am a you Allah granted me. Ko. Now, there was
a time, according to one narration, there was a time when the people
around him were saying Allah doesn't love this man. If Allah loved him,
this wouldn't have happened to him at that time. And he continued. He
says, never, I know that when Allah tests a person, he tests
him this way as well. And he continued and he persevered. So Alas
says, we tested him one, We tested him two, We tested him
three with the most difficult tests, and he passed one, he passed two,
he passed three. Then Alas says, okay, here's your dua,
here's your water, as a gift, just by striking your foot on the
ground, so hannah lah. Then Alas says, war I heaven Allah allaho
a mean flamm ahmad were they own in al Bab. After that, not
only did we return his health to him, but his family. We gave
back family members double than what he had before in a short space of time.
Alasses, we gave him double what he had before. And aalyases we
gave it to him as a blessing from us and as a reminder for those
who sound intellect those who want to take heed, Now, how do we
take heed? Alasuhnahu ala grant is a lesson. When Allah has tested you.
When you are patient, the reward of that suburb is so great that
there is no ways I can describe it to you. Alas is in Amaya
fassa birona ajor a Allah recompenses the one who engages in patience and suburb in
a way that is unlimited, unlimited. It is reported that when a person
is sick and ill and they are patient about it, and they continue,
and if they die in that condition, or when a person who was sick
happens to die on the day of Kiyama, when they see the reward that
they accumulated solely by sitting and being patient, they will say, why didn't
you keep us sick all our lives? We could have accumulated much more so,
don't lose hope when you have a slight sickness here or there, terminal
or not. We ask a lot to grant shifa to all those who are
sick. Yes, it is an act of worship to go and see cure,
but at the same time it is also an act of worship whilst the
cure is being sought, that we bear patience. The same applies when you've
lost your loved ones. Look at it, but you bada is Salam.
He lost all his children, all of them, and alas of hannahawat Alah
says, we gave him a gift. We gave him his children, and
we multiplied them by two, a gift of a loss of Hannah hawata Alah.
Imagine, Lou Akaba, look at this gift of a loss of Hannah
hawat ala. When we have lost a loved one, remember one thing.
A loss of Hannah hawat Allah will grant you so much much goodness in return,
so much that we cannot describe it. Allah says, Brad's up,
without limits, unlimited reward you will receive. But don't question the degree of
Allah. Yeah Lah, you took my child away? Why no, don't
ask Allah? Why say yeah? Allah? Say what rasulu la sallah A
seldom said he held his son Brahim whilst this rule was being taken away,
And a tear rolled down the eyes of Muhammad salah a he was seldom and
the Sahabah, the Allah and whom are watching, And he looks and he
says, in alilah him allahum, what couldn't who will be agent Mussama?
He says, definitely, for Allah is what he has taken away and it
belonged to him in the first place anyway. And he says everything has a
fixed time. And the Sahaba the Llah and Hum asked him, Yeah,
rasula lah Salahah slom, we see you are crying. We see a tear
rolling. He says, I'm not questioning the will of Allah. We are
happy at the degree of Allah. But these tears in namahi a ahmatun ja'lah
Halalah Rohamma. This is a sign of mercy that Allah has placed in the
hearts of those who have a little bit of mercy. So Alas of Hannah
hawata Alah, help us to distinguish between the tears of sorrow that we are
going to miss someone and so on, and that tears of mercy and on
the other hand, tears of anger and being upset with the degree of a
loss of Hannah. Hawat Alah. May we never be on that condition.
So alass of Hannah Howat Alah says, he now returned the health of a
yu valet Salam. And as he is bathing in the sadiitis and sahel Bahari,
as he is bathing without his clothes on his bathing, alass of Hannah
Hawat Alah sent locusts that fell from heaven from Jenda, and they came pure
gold. Locusts falling pure gold. This is a correct narration. And he
started gathering them, and he was thankful to Allah. Alas Subhannah Hawatala asks
him, Oh, are you you know we will take care of you.
Why are you gathering these locusts? He says, yeah, Allah, this
is mercy from you. I must gather it. Subhanahlah. So Alaris stored
his wealth in a miraculous way, health in a miraculous way, wealth in
a miraculous way, and Alas Subhannah, Hawat Alah gave him children again in
a miraculous way Subhannahlah. And this is why Alas Subhannah Howatla says he had
one issue, one more issue. He swore that he would lash his wife
one hundred lashes if he was cured. Now he's cured, so Alas Suhannah
Howat Alah revealed to him what would be a dical devil. Alas is,
don't break your promise. He will show you a way out. You can
take a little bunch full of grass like branch, very light and use that
to whip alassis. So imagine now you're taking a few bundle a bundle of
little grass, and you're using that it has no pain, but you are
not breaking your promise. Look how Allah taught him away out of this because
he was genuine. He did not make a cussom for some silly reason.
But it was because of Allah and because of his love for a loss subhanah
houata alah. So Allah showed him away out alas shup hanah houata Alah,
show us also ways out of our problems and messes, subhanah lah. Sometimes
really we have caused our own mess and sometimes we are stuck in it.
Believe me, this is the month of Ramadan. If you are sincere and
you want to come out of your mess, we Allah, you can walk
straight out of it by the mercy of a loss of hanah. Howatana.
Just call out to Allah and head back to the straight path, and you
see how the doors will swing open one after the other. So a loss
of hanah. Howat Ala makes mention of that. Then at the end a
lasses la in awajadnahu salvia nit malaberdo in our we found him to be very
patient. What an excellent worshipper of ours. Indeed, he was off returning
to us. Look at Allah praising a yu balleh is salah to a saram.
Now for Allah to say we found him patient, imagine what type of
tests he must have been through. When Allah declares the slave of ours was
an excellent worshipper, he was so patient. We tested him and we found
him to be patient. And Allah says, in noahu awab. The word
awab means one who constantly returns to Allah suhanahwa to Allah. Everything he returns
to alamea la suhanna to Allah. Make us from those who returned to him
at all times. So that was a yu balleh sala to a salam.
It is reported that he lived for many years, ninety three years. Some
say he had twenty six children and so on. All these figures we actually
do not have them from solidly authentic narrations, so we will not make mention
of the details of it. But we do know in a Naturhall Allah blessed
him in such a great way. Subhanahwa Allah bless us too. But remember
for the blessings of alas subhanah, howat Alah to come in our direction.
We need to also strive and struggle their patience. And you need to know
that not every day will be rosy. One day you will have difficulty,
one day you will have ease. Yao mun laka why yooman alaika. A
day for you and a day against you. One day will be in your
favor, the other day will be against you. Alas subhnahwat Alah speaks about
it in the Quran. Famlan alama or me a karaman well amala is me
ahan calla alass As for man when we grant him, when we give him
by testing him, or in order to test him, we give him a
lot. And then after he says, oh, my Lord has honored me.
And when we start taking things away in order to test him, he
says, my Lord has let me Down's disgraced me. Alass Is, Nay,
that's not correct. Allah tests you. If you have a business,
you have to suffer a loss one day. It cannot be profit all the
way down. No. Alas says, we want to see can you adjust
your life once again to what it used to be many years ago? And
still thank Allah to say I still got more than what I used to have
thirty years back Laho Akaba. Let's move to another prophet of Alas sub Hanah
Howataila, the prophet Unus ali h Salah to a Salama. He's also known
as the Noon. Why is he known as the noon because a noon would
mean the big fish. So he is the companion of the fish or of
the whale, the huge fish. What happened to him? A beautiful story,
amazing story. Alass of Hannah Hawatala sent the prophet Junus. In English,
we would say Jonah, may peace be upon him. Alass of Hannah
Howatala sent this prophet to certain people. It is reported close to Iraq or
within Iraq, within what we know as Iraq. And Alas of Hannah Hawatala
instructed him to guide these people, to call them towards Allah and to warn
them of the previous punishments and to tell them that Alass of Hannah howat Alah
can send you this punishment and that punishment, and he can send you in
the same way he sent the previous nations and so on. And he started
his work as an abe of a loss of Hannah Hawatala. And he worked
and he started calling his people. They were just more than one hundred thousand
people, and he started calling his people, but they were not listening to
him. And if he got irritated with them in the sense that his patience
was running out, they started saying things and exactly how the others used to
do they started doing. So he decided, you know what, I'm not
winning with these people. Let me go away. I might find other people
somewhere very very far away, and I might call them and they might come
into the fold. They might listen. Now a loss of Hannah Howatala had
not instructed him to go away, but he wanted to go to spread the
Dean because he really wanted people to accept. Nobody was accepting, so that
irritation made him go. So as he went, he decided, right,
I'm upset, I'm angry. I'm going, and I'm going so far that
I want to jump into a ship and I want to go somewhere far away,
over across the ocean, across the sea. So as he arrived at
the coast, there was a laden boat which was now going. He jumped
into it and he was gone. It had goods and suddenly Marcia lah they
went into the sea, and then the wind started blowing and then the storm
started gathering, meaning sabhana lah. The ship started rocking, and after a
while it started sinking. And when it started sinking, the people decided,
we need to get rid of our goods to make it light. So they
started throwing one by one the goods. Everything went out, Everything was gone.
The ship is still sinking. The boat is still sinking. We don't
know the exact size of it, but it was laden. By this time,
all the goods were out. Now they looked at the people. They
said, there's only one way of being faith. We need to draw lots.
We need to draw lots. Now, drawing lots meaning they had their
own system, whether it was you know, whatever dies or whatever it was,
whether they put the names in a hat and picked out one, whatever
it was. They decided, we are going to choose this method, and
whoever's name comes, we're throwing him out one by one. So they gathered
everything. They picked out first person's name Unus. They looked at him.
They said, no, this is a good man, and he's a blessed
man, and he's, you know, really an asset to the people on
this boat. So let's try again. So now they tried again. When
they tried again, and a last hannahwat Alam mix mention of this in the
Koran. When they tried again, amazingly they picked out the name again.
It was his name. They looked at him. They said no, no,
no, no, can't be. Let's try again third time. So
they trying again third time, and after they picked the name out, they
saw it was his name for the third time. So he looked. They
looked at him. They said, okay, that's it. Sorry, but
you're gonna have to jump off. So in the middle of the sea,
bismila rahman Rahim and he jumped out, and as he jumped out, Allah
suhanahwat Alah instructed a whale to eat him, to take him in. So
the whale opened its mouth, and as he was in the water battling probably
with the water, the whale came in and big gulf when he was in
it. Now you can imagine water must have gone in. He went in
with it, and he was now in the belly of the whale, unconscious,
lying there. And then he gets up after a while. And let's
make mention of the verses. Allah makes mention beautiful verses in the Oan.
Well, then hamdavan Ala Alas is the noon, that man of the the
companion of the big fish. When he went away, Remember he went away
angrily. He was upset with the people, and he thought that Alas sub
hanahwat Alah would not get to him in punishment. He thought, alas not
going to punish me, because I'm going away, But I'm going for the
right reasons. I want to go and call other people to the to the
to the cause or to the path. So he says, Alas sub hanahwat,
alas not going to hold me or hold this against me, and he
won't do anything to me. And Alas is no. We are all able
and capable. In another place, Alas sub Hannah, howat Ala says,
and it's amazing. Well in nayonu sala almsani. Indeed yunus or Jonah,
may peace be upon him, is from the messengers. We believe he's a
messenger of Alasu Hannah Ala alas is is abakauni mashon fassahamaakan I mean almoda how
the money he jumped into the laden ship. Do you remember al saying he
jumped into the laden ship. And then when they drew the lots, his
name kept on appearing. So when he jumped off alas as we instructed the
whale to eat him. Now what happened as he gets up, he obviously
started noticing difficulty, because you can imagine what's in the belly of a whale.
These fish, they normally don't chew whatever they eat. They just gut
the whole thing and it digests inside the belly beautifully. So he started slowly
but surely, feeling that these enzymes are getting the better of me. Here
his clothes were gone in a little while, digested, and now the skin
started slowly and he called out to Allah, so Hannahua to Allah. He
fell prostrate sujut in the belly of a whale, in the darkness of the
night, the bottom of the sea. And what do ha? He made
a powerful do ho, so powerful that it's mentioned in the Quran. And
when the Sahaba of the Allahu Anhuma asked Muhammed Sallah, all was an abjaasu
la Lah? Can we use the same dua? He said? Why not?
Allah says what kadai kanunjin, meaning that is how we will save those
who believe. So you can use those words. Up to this day we
are taught to use that dua. So what was the dua? Firstly,
Alas says Finada Filmati, he called out in the darkness, the darknesses the
plural of darkness is used. Why there were three darknesses. One is the
darkness of the belly of the whale, two is the darkness of the depth
of the ocean or the sea, and three is the darkness of the night
dark Nobody would ever find you there today when they want to rescue people whose
meaning who have been maybe a catastrophe at sea or something an accident or a
plane crash, and the people are over the sea, they've got to wait
for the following morning because they cannot see. But here, Alas says,
in this darkness, when he prostrated, he says, yeah, Allah,
I am the first human who is engaging in your worship in this place,
the belly of a whale, the darkness of the ocean right down underneath,
And here I am in prostration for you, your Allah, your Llah.
What I did was wrong? What did he do? He went away?
He left his people there. Allah sent him to those people, and he
went away. So this was the dua lie Ellah in Aah suber haahak subahnaka
in kun to mean a volume. There is none worthy of worship besides you
are Allah. Indeed, I am from amongst the wrongdoers. Your law have
mercy on me. He's asking, Allah, I am amongst the wrong doers,
none worthy of worship, but you, you are the only one who
can save me the conviction. He had a loss of Hannah, Howat Alas
says, shortly. Now there is a difference of opinion as to how long
he remained in the belly of the whale. I need to say that that
is not too important. What is important is he was in there. He
made a dua to Allah. When a lass of Hannah Howat Alah instructed the
whale to split him out, he was spat out. So Alas says,
there was a reason why we accepted his dua. He called out to Allah
and the duaur was accepted. Analysis there was a reason why we accepted the
dua. Fallawollah and who can I mean Ala must have been in La Labitafi
balcony he elaomi ubathun. Had he not been from amongst those who constantly remembered
a loss of Anahuatlah in Tesbi, he would have probably remained in the belly
of that whale until the day of resurrection. Now there are two sis of
this particular verse. If you look at the wedding, it says, had
he not been from those who constantly remembered a loss of Hannah howat Alah.
That means prior to this he every time he remembered Allah, every day he
remembered Allah. Always he engaged in the acts of worship. He was conscious
of a loss of Hannah houat Allah. He engaged in his test be hat
in praising a loss of Hannah howat Allah on a constant basis daily. So
that is why. Now when he called out to Allah, Allah responded to
him straight. And it is reported in one narration that when a person does
good deeds, it goes up to a loss of Hannah houat Alah, it
goes up to a loss of Hannah howat Ala. The angels take it up.
Allah knows that it has happened. But the angels are making taking a
record. Why in order to hold it for you or against you by a
totally independent source. Someone might want to argue now to be love with Allas
supannahawa to Allah, and they will say no, alas says, here's the
witness. If someone says still, no, Allah, say right, let
your hands speak. Alas says this in the poran. If someone still says
no, Alas says, okay, let your legs bear witness against you,
and so on. So the angels take it up. So every day they
used to take up this prayer, and that evening too, they took up
the prayer of Unus Alai is Salam. But they say, yeah, Allah,
is this not this worshipper? Every day we bringing his deeds up.
Today we're hearing this call a week call from the bottom of the ocean.
Yallah, isn't it him? Alas says, yes, it's my worshipper.
It is Unus. So look, the moral of this is if you are
close to allahs subphannaha to Allah at times of ease, Allah will rush to
you when you are in difficulty. We've said it before, the raf ill
Allah hel Rahai yeah rifkfi shit dat. You you get close to Allah when
your days are easy, the day a difficulty comes, you will find Allah
rushing in your direction. That is what happened to you, no Alam,
and that was the dua he made, and a loss of Hannah hot alas
is fabnah lara who sat. We caused him or the whale to release him
onto the coast, and he was very sick, sick in the sense that
his skin was quite eaten and he was naked. That is what the verse
says. He was not clothed and the sun was affecting him, and his
skin needed some form of remedy. So alasa is we gave him a gift.
What was the next gift? Look, when Allah cures you, he
does not just leave something. He cures you completely. We always say Shifa
and camilla and agilan. We ask Allah for complete immediate cure. Hana hot
Ala grand cure to those who are sickened. In so Alas of Hannah hot
Alas is well a naaaa al call. And right next to him, we
caused a little tree to grow of a plant yakathin. Now what is yakutine?
They say it is from the God family. So this plant grew,
and as it grew, two three things happened. He covered himself, he
benefited from it, and he was cured subhan Allah and Alla says, we
sent him back to his people oursel Now in am Atilina, as he done,
we sent him to one hundred thousand, or more than one hundred thousand.
He went back to his people. When he went back to his people,
he was shocked. Why was he shocked? Now? When he was
away, the Adab that he promised started hovering. They saw dark clouds,
dark clouds coming. And they had known the stories of the previous nations,
and they had seen these dark clouds. All of them looked at it.
All one hundred thousand and more, how many ever they were. They looked
at this dark cloud and they all agreed that this is the Adab that was
promised to us by Yunus. So they all believed in him, every single
one of them, without an exception. This is the Nabe of alas hannahwat
ala hum. His whole Umah accepted the message, the whole omah so alas
subhanna howatalyasi is faa manu famatau in a him. They all believed. So
we granted them enjoyment for a little while, up to a fixed time la
Akabar. And in another place in the Koran, Allah makes mentioned beautifully of
how they accepted and alas is what the benefit of that exception was. When
they accepted Islam fallouna can At coronatunah man At fanaha Ima in La Karma yunus
lamman Kashef n an Humada bel kiziefil Hyat in Dunyah Ina Alasses. Was there
any nation whose acceptance of the message after seeing the punishment helped them? When
they accepted the whole sale. Besides the people of Urus, there was no
one else Alasses. When they saw the punishment of Allah, they accepted.
All of them believed in alass of Hannah Hawatla Alasis. We diverted that punishment
and we granted them joy for a little while. So this goes to show
that alass of Hannah Hawatala gave them a chance that he did not give others.
What was that chance when the punishment was coming and they said, we
believe, he then took it away Akabar. Why because there was not a
single person who did not believe. Take a look at the others like Abu
Jahal. It is reported that when he was being killed in the battle,
he tells these people around him, you know what, I'm dying now,
but cut my head from the bottommost part of my neck so they can see
how big my head was Later on, I look at this, look at
this, and the prophets Allallah Alai Yourselam says this one was worse than Pharaan,
at least Parauan. As he's drowning. He says, I believe,
I believe now in the God of Moses and Aaron akromelas peace be upon the
messages. But this one, Abuja, not even so. Alla subhanahwat Alah
grant us goodness. And this is why to this day, the dua of
the distress we should know Allah, here's your call, my beloved mothers and
sisters, my beloved brothers. Really we need to know the darkness of the
night, in the furthest part of the world, in the bush of anyway,
wherever you are, whatever it is, remember Allah's hearing you. You
whisper Allah, here's you. And I want to draw your attention to something
beautiful. In the Koran about these two messengers, the exact do a,
the request is not even made mention of. They didn't say, are you
palais Salam. There's no mention in the Koran that he said, ish fini
cure me. He just says, yeah, Allah, I am wrong.
You are more merciful. You are the most merciful. Allah already knew this
means he wants cure. Allah cured him. You knows, Alai Salam,
what happened. He didn't say, yeah, Allah cure me. The Koran
doesn't make mention of that. The Koran says, he just said la e
la illah Anta, you are alone the one who is worthy of worship,
no one else Subahanakah, glory be to you in me kuntumina BALI mean I
was definitely from amongst the wrong doers. Yeah, Allah, I am from
the wrong doers. The moment he said that Allah had mercy on him.
So to admit your guilt is prime. Prime. Allah already knows what you
want. He's put you in that condition. But Koran does not make mention
of how you and Saleh Salam or Ayub said ya Allah, I am wrong.
So now I really desperately urgently want your cure. That bit at the
end, we don't hear of it in the Koran. This is the power
of Allah. As we hear Allah sub Hannah hawat Ala knows what we want
to utter in Dua, even though sometimes our eloquence is not good enough.
To say what exactly is in our hearts? Allah knows you say, Yallah,
you see the difficulties I have, You know them better than I do.
Yallah, you are most merciful laho akaba. That is now a dua.
Because sometimes we need things we don't know how to weard it. And
the point that has just come to my mind also that we can close on.
Take a look at the wife of a yu by the Salad who was
salam. She served him, she was dedicated many many years. Then she
asked that one question. Fair enough, the question was asked. Thereafter everything
happened that Marshall light was all sorted out. But bring it to our lives
today, whether it is in marriage or at home or anywhere else. A
small thing goes wrong and a person says, right, I'm fed up.
You can't afford me anymore. I want to go home. Well, Allah,
he's happening today. You take a look at young girls, young boys.
More so, I'd like to advise the young girls don't think that when
you get married you just must look for a man who already is a millionnaire
and everything, and there's a jigsaw puzzle and you the last puzzle to just
come in fitt in and everything's going to be okay. That's not how it
works. No, you're going to marry someone, he'll probably have stages and
steps. You'll have days which are good and days which might not be that
good. And it's all up and down. And that's how it is.
Subhannah Lah, we ask a lost Subannah hawatala to grant us goodness. Even
those who are wealthy, they will come a day. When you suffer a
loss, they will come a day. It depends how you take the loss.
Sometimes you have a person very very wealthy, multimillionaire. He suffers one
hundred thousand and he's depressed. Whereas there is a man who's got fifty n
Now someone says you owe me sixty. He's ten rands behind, and he's
still happy. He says in Charlotte, Tomorrow, I'll come with your ten
runs La hu akaba Alla subhana a la grand is a deep understanding all Lahi,
these are the days to be thankful to Allah. Tomorrow we have an
appointment with Mussali Salah to a Salam story insha Allah by the will of Alla.
Until then, as La La who was Alambara Kalamhammad Sabana lah be Hamdi Sabhana Klahomamdila