WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:12.519 Kiss miler rohimn Rohi in the name of Allah, the most gracious, the 2 00:00:12.599 --> 00:00:31.440 most merciful, heard a lot low heard power excellence presents lessens from the stories 3 00:00:31.480 --> 00:00:47.679 of the prophets by Mufti Ismail even Mussa menk a youth Ali his snam and 4 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:57.799 unus ale his saram job Peace be upon him and Jonah peace be upon him. 5 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:07.239 Aboukata smilay rahmani Rahim al Halamin was Sarah to salamalah ash feel healthyjimain nab 6 00:01:07.480 --> 00:01:11.640 a Mohammad alah Ali he was habijamahin a a bad All praise is due to 7 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:17.359 a loss of Hannah hauwat Alah. Blessings and salutations upon Muhammed Salah Alam. 8 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:22.799 We ask alas sub hannahuata Alah to bless his entire family, the most pure 9 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:26.760 and noble of all families. And we ask a las sub Hannah hawa ta 10 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:30.040 Alah to bless all his companions and to bless every single one of us. 11 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:34.200 To bless our offspring those to come up to the day of Kayama. We 12 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:40.079 Allah bless the Umah at large, beloved brothers and sisters in Islam. This 13 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:45.840 evening in Sharlah we will be going through the verses in the Quran related to 14 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:49.879 two of the prophets of a loss of hannahuata Alah, and the first one 15 00:01:51.239 --> 00:01:55.359 is profit A y b alaihi Salah towards Salam, known in the English language 16 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:59.920 as job May peace be upon him. We will use the Arabic in sh 17 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:04.560 Allah referring to au ballet his sala to a Salem. He was a abe 18 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:08.360 sent by a lass Subhanah hawata Aalah. But the Qur'an does not make mention 19 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:15.759 of the details of his people and the message because alas Subhannah Hawatalah wants us 20 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:20.919 all to learn a different type of a lesson from the tests which were put 21 00:02:20.919 --> 00:02:25.199 into the life of Ayu ballehisala to a Salam. Firstly, who was he? 22 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:29.560 He was from the direct descendants of his hak alaih is Salam, which 23 00:02:29.560 --> 00:02:32.919 means he came from the family of Ibrahim aleaihi sala to a Salam, and 24 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:38.080 his wife was one of the direct descendants of the prophet Luke alaihis sala to 25 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:45.719 a Salam according to some narrations. In fact, no, his his wife 26 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:50.199 was one of the direct descendants of the prophet use of Alaihisala to a Slam, 27 00:02:50.599 --> 00:02:55.199 and her name, according to some narrations, was Rahma Rahma, and 28 00:02:55.360 --> 00:02:59.479 his mother was from the descendants of luth alaihi sala to a Salam. In 29 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:04.280 a nutshell, the point being made is he had a very very high lineage 30 00:03:04.639 --> 00:03:08.400 in terms of spirituality and connection to the prophets of a lasso hannahawat Alah. 31 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:14.199 He was a very very good looking man. He had good health given by 32 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:17.719 a lass of hannahuata Alah, and over time Allah bestowed him with favors. 33 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:23.039 He had a quality. He would thank a lass of Hannah houat Allah upon 34 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:28.520 all conditions, and he would always say, whatever condition Allah keeps you upon, 35 00:03:28.919 --> 00:03:34.319 be thankful and be grateful. Alhamdulillahi allahkulihal as we have been taught, 36 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:40.599 we praise Allah, we glorify Him upon all conditions. The only condition we 37 00:03:40.719 --> 00:03:46.319 are seeking his protection from. We say juanaudu billah him in Hali alin na, 38 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:52.400 we seek the protection from Allah, or we seek the protection in Allah 39 00:03:52.520 --> 00:03:58.000 from the condition of those who shall be cast into the hell fire. So 40 00:03:58.039 --> 00:04:04.639 Prophet ayubadah Issaalah to asalam alas of hanahwat Ala says in the Koran cor abdana 41 00:04:04.879 --> 00:04:16.199 Ab. Remember the story of our messenger or our worshiper, a yub loaho 42 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:23.079 akbar and Alas of hanahwat Alas is in another place in the Poran w Auba 43 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:28.879 iv nada Raba. Remember when a yub called out to his rob when a 44 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:31.160 yuba let his salad to a Salam called out to Alas of hannahawat Alas. 45 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:36.639 So what actually happened. He was granted good health, he was granted lots 46 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:42.879 of wealth. He was given live stock as well as large tracts of land, 47 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:47.120 and he was owning so much, and he had many children offspring. 48 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:50.800 So mash Allah, he had good health, he had children, and he 49 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:57.879 had wealth. These are the three main items that people are searching for in 50 00:04:57.920 --> 00:05:01.040 this world. And Alas of hanahwat Ala blessed you by Sarah to Salam with 51 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:06.120 all three, and he was thankful. Now, there are some narrations which 52 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:12.079 make mention of how the angels were making mention of this worshiper that he's only 53 00:05:12.120 --> 00:05:15.800 praying to Allah because Allah has best blessed him with so much. And Chaithan 54 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:19.439 says, if Allah takes all this away, he will stop worshiping Allah. 55 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:24.040 Those narrations. We don't know whether they are authentic or not, so we 56 00:05:24.120 --> 00:05:27.920 will keep them aside. We want to stick to what we know is factual. 57 00:05:28.519 --> 00:05:32.079 Alass of Hannah Howat Alah decided to test a you b aalihi salah to 58 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:36.959 a Salam. To see this worshiper of mine, who is in constant ibada, 59 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:42.879 who always thanks me, who always thanks upon all conditions. I want 60 00:05:42.920 --> 00:05:47.040 to see if the condition changes, does he remain on that same path of 61 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:54.079 his So Alas of Hannah Howat Alah decided Akbar to take his wealth away. 62 00:05:55.879 --> 00:05:59.800 So as time passed very quickly, he lost his livestock, he lost his 63 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:03.600 he lost his wealth, he lost absolutely everything, everything gone. He was 64 00:06:03.639 --> 00:06:08.240 still thanking Allah. Yeah, Allah, I praise you on all conditions. 65 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:12.360 Not a day did he complain to a loss of hannahua to Alah. Not 66 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:15.680 one day did he complain to a loss of Hanah Howat Alah. The prophet 67 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:20.639 ay aalih Salah to as Salam. And thereafter Alas of Hannah Houwat Alah decided 68 00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:27.040 to test him further. So Alas of Hannahawat Alah took his offspring away one 69 00:06:27.079 --> 00:06:29.680 after the other. They were all gone. They all died in front of 70 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:31.600 his eyes, all of them. And he had been given a lot, 71 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:39.600 so Hannah lah one after the other. With every one, he would say, 72 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:44.920 we all belonged to Allah. Whatever he has given to us was always 73 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:46.879 his. If he took it away, it just returned to who it belonged 74 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:51.199 to. Always. This is Allah alas of Hannah ho t Alah, the 75 00:06:51.279 --> 00:06:55.920 owner of everything. What I have got, what you have got, Where 76 00:06:55.920 --> 00:06:58.399 did it come from? It came from Allah. If he wants, he 77 00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:00.560 can take it now, or he can take it later, or he may 78 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:06.560 decide never to give you to someone that is the owner Allah layus alo amahafailoh. 79 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:11.399 He is never going to be asked what he does because he is the 80 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:16.639 creator and the decider. So Alas sub hahnahwat Alah found after testing a yob 81 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:20.600 allai his salah to a salam now with the second line of attack, if 82 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:25.160 we can call it, Alas suhnahwat Alah found him to be grateful. He 83 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:28.079 still says, Yeah, Allah, you have still given me, and I 84 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:30.639 thank you, and I praise you, and I remain in your worship and 85 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:34.439 I continue with my work. So alasub hanahawat Alah decided to test him finally 86 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:43.000 with something very very difficult, very difficult. And remember, Rasulu Salam says, 87 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:46.759 the Ambia the profits of Alas suhnahwat Alah, their tests are far more 88 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:51.480 difficult than the tests of the ordinary people. And then from amongst the ordinary 89 00:07:51.480 --> 00:07:56.360 people, those who are doing the work of the Amba, their tests will 90 00:07:56.399 --> 00:08:00.160 also be more difficult than the layman on the street. Alas Suhnah, what 91 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:03.920 ala make life easy for us? May he not test us with tests that 92 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:07.000 will be too difficult for us to pass, but rather, may he test 93 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:11.199 us with that we will pass in shah lah with flying colors. So Alas 94 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:13.959 subhanah howat alas is then we decided to take his health away. Now, 95 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:20.519 the health is connected to two angles, firstly the outward and then the inside. 96 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:24.160 So you have organs that can go bad. People might not notice quickly, 97 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:26.639 but you have the skin also that goes bad. When a person has 98 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:31.040 organ failure, a lot of the times people will still come and greet him 99 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:33.600 and talk to him and so on. But the minute the person has an 100 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:37.159 outward sickness and illness blistering from top to bottom, people begin to develop a 101 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:41.919 distance because they think we might be infected by this. It may be contagious, 102 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:46.399 and so on. So alas subhanahwat Alah tested him with both those until 103 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:50.840 there was a time when nothing was operating besides his heart and his tongue. 104 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:56.559 And he still used that tongue to remember Allah. And he still used that 105 00:08:56.639 --> 00:09:01.159 heart. He never allowed it to lead him to frustration against a lass. 106 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:03.440 Subhanah awa to ada. This is a lesson for us, my beloved brothers 107 00:09:03.480 --> 00:09:07.600 and sisters. We get sick, we get a flu, we get a 108 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:11.279 cough, we get an agitation for a while, and we start making do 109 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:13.799 ah. We start with our pills and with our medication, and after a 110 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:18.440 while we say, what's wrong? Allh is not curing me? How we 111 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:22.519 lose hope in a week? In two weeks? This sickness lasted for a 112 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:28.440 long long time. Some narrations say it lasted seven whole years. And a 113 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:35.399 certain narration says that the people around him began keeping a distance until they decided, 114 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:41.200 we need to remove this man from here. And you find even his 115 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:46.919 own friends they stopped coming. And one narration says that his wife, after 116 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:50.000 some time, asked him a question how long is this going to last? 117 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:56.600 That made him so upset, so upset because to him, he was surrendering 118 00:09:56.639 --> 00:10:01.360 to the degree of Allah subhanah awa ta Allah. Yes, he might have 119 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:03.679 been trying in his own way whatever he wanted to within the limits of a 120 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:07.320 loss sup hanahwa to Allah, but he never wanted to question the degree of 121 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:11.639 Allah suhnah how to Allah. That was not in his nature. And he 122 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:15.799 was very upset that his own wife is asking how long will this last? 123 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:18.759 Now, let's be honest, how many of us ask the question? A 124 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:22.120 lot of the times we get irritated and we say, how long is this 125 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:26.799 going to last? How stofa? May Allah forgive us. We may do 126 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:28.720 our positively to Allah, and you leave it in the hands of Allah. 127 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:31.879 When we are in law sick, we ask Allah, Yeah, Allah, 128 00:10:31.039 --> 00:10:35.240 Grand chiefa to all those who are ill, Yeah, Allah, Grand Chief. 129 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:37.240 To all those who are ill, we ask a lasu hanah howa to 130 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:41.000 Allah, And we might go to the doctor and try and you know, 131 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:45.000 get some medication within the limits of a lossupnah howa to Alah, And then 132 00:10:45.279 --> 00:10:46.519 we leave the rest in the hands of a loss of hannah hoa to Allah. 133 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:52.159 Imagine for seven years. So he asks his wife a question, how 134 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:56.080 long did Allah bless me with goodness? She looked at him and she said 135 00:10:56.240 --> 00:11:01.679 eighty years. For eighty years, you had goodness, You had health, 136 00:11:01.799 --> 00:11:05.519 you had wealth, you had offspring, you had everything. Now how many 137 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:07.960 years is he testing me for? She looked at him, and she says, 138 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:13.320 the last seven years. So how do you want me to lose hope 139 00:11:13.320 --> 00:11:18.399 in the mercy of Allah when I haven't even reached power with what goodness I 140 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:22.240 had In the difficulty I'm facing, it's not even equal. This is seven 141 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:24.840 years, and that is eighty years of goodness. How can we become upset 142 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:28.279 with Allah when he gave us almost a whole life spanful of goodness? A 143 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:33.960 lesson for us. Sometimes we suffer a loss one after the other and we 144 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:37.000 don't realize thirty years we were smiling, we were happy. Now Allas is 145 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:39.720 another ten years. We want you to go through some turbulence. We want 146 00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:43.519 to test you, like I normally say, people say, why does Allah 147 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:46.039 take things away? What Allah says in the Qoran, he will test you 148 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:50.320 in every way. He tests you with addition and supplection. And I've said 149 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:54.960 that here before that when you get a mathematics test. There's not only the 150 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:58.240 plus sign that they test you with. What is one plus one? You 151 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:01.960 know, five plus three, ten plus fifteen? That's not all. They 152 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:05.320 also ask you what is fifteen minus ten? Because they want to test you 153 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:09.679 the negatives as well, to see do you know how to subtract? The 154 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:13.799 same applies alas subhana what Allah tests us with addition, subtraction, multiplication, 155 00:12:13.960 --> 00:12:18.360 division, Whatever he wants, he tests and he tests it all round. 156 00:12:18.639 --> 00:12:28.679 This is why Alas say is ahassi banasutracokonu ahmana wahumlah. You've done guadakatan, 157 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:35.639 go belie him. While I are a lemon alone leadin a sodako, while 158 00:12:35.639 --> 00:12:43.320 ia a lemon and alas is ali flamm. Do the people think it is 159 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:46.399 enough for them to say we believe and then Allah will not test them? 160 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:50.919 Alasays we have indeed tested those before you, meaning we will test every single 161 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:56.399 one of you. So bahana lah. Do they think it is enough for 162 00:12:56.480 --> 00:12:58.840 them to say we believe and then they are not tested? Alas is no 163 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:01.799 when you say we believe, Alas is, now we want to test you 164 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:07.399 in order to know who is truthful in their belief and who is just claiming 165 00:13:07.399 --> 00:13:09.360 my lips that I'm a believer. So many of us we say I'm a 166 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:13.399 Muslim, But do we live our lives? According to Islam? These are 167 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:18.679 golden opportunities. This is a blessed house of a loss of Hannah. Howat 168 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:22.320 Alah, we are in the blessed month of Ramadan, in the second half 169 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:26.159 of the month of Ramadan. Let us make a resolution. Yeah Allah, 170 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:30.960 we will turn for your sake here and now leave our bad ways and habits 171 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:35.039 malas of Hanah. Howat Alah open our doors? So are you bad? 172 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:39.159 His salah to as Salam Allah makes mention of how he tested him and alas 173 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:43.519 of Hanah. Howat Alah says he told his wife, you can't tell me 174 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:46.480 this. If I get better, I'm going to lash you one hundred lashes. 175 00:13:46.519 --> 00:13:50.919 Now he made that statement. The statement came out because it showed how 176 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:56.559 powerfully he was connected to the surrendering of to the degree of a loss of 177 00:13:56.559 --> 00:14:01.440 Hannah. Howat Alah that when someone uttered the statement from his closest relatives, 178 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:07.519 saying how long is this going to last? It made him upset, so 179 00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:13.559 he uttered the statement, I will last you one hundred lashes, and it 180 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:16.480 is reported that she also found it very difficult. She found it very difficult, 181 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:20.600 and so on. As time passed. One narration says she actually decided, 182 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:24.240 I'm now going I can't handle this anymore. But we stick to the 183 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:28.639 narration which says it got to a point almost breaking point, almost breaking point, 184 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:33.120 and he calls out to a loss of Hannah. Ala Alas says, 185 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:48.519 why iba iv Nada, Rumba and nimasania borrow ourhamorrahhimi. Remember when our servant 186 00:14:48.600 --> 00:14:52.360 a U called out to us telling us that oh our rub, oh my 187 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:56.919 rub allaho akaba, oh my rub, evil has touched me. Evil has 188 00:14:58.000 --> 00:15:01.440 touched me. And yet you are are the most forgiving, most merciful, 189 00:15:03.159 --> 00:15:07.919 which means cure me. Allah, you are most merciful, and evil has 190 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:11.759 touched me. Your mercy will dictate to remove that evil. Alas is subhan 191 00:15:11.879 --> 00:15:20.039 arabil allah Fastajabalah. We responded, We responded that call. How now in 192 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:28.600 another place in the Koran, alasubanahwat Ala makes mention how alas is what cob 193 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:35.000 remember make mention of our slave. Look at the word used abdena our slave, 194 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:41.000 our worshiper. Are you is Nada Arab. When he called out to 195 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:48.519 his rob and Himsenia Chiapan ubinus Biendaba. He called out to say, look, 196 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:54.799 Chapan has definitely harmed me with this and that with difficulty, with hardship, 197 00:15:54.840 --> 00:16:00.440 with sickness, in wealth as well as in health, loss in wealth 198 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:04.799 as well as health. And Alas Subhanahwat Alas says, we told him when 199 00:16:04.799 --> 00:16:08.600 he was standing. His wife was not there at the time. She was 200 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:15.120 concentrating on something else. And Alas says, all could be regionic, which 201 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:18.399 means strike the ground with your foot. That's the least he could do. 202 00:16:18.919 --> 00:16:22.519 Strike the ground with your foot. See what happens. So he struck the 203 00:16:22.559 --> 00:16:29.600 ground with his foot, a spring gushed water. Cold water started gushing from 204 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:38.840 his feet. Alas says motasabery, don't Sharab, this is cold water for 205 00:16:38.960 --> 00:16:45.879 you to wash yourself with and to drink. So as he washed, his 206 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:51.200 blisters started disappearing. As he drank, the internal organs came in order again, 207 00:16:51.840 --> 00:16:55.879 to the degree that in a short space of time his skin was renewed, 208 00:16:55.919 --> 00:17:02.519 totally, renewed, totally a new man Akaba and his internals were made 209 00:17:02.679 --> 00:17:08.680 again as good as they were before, and even better by drinking this water, 210 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:12.920 my beloved brothers and sisters, we also have water similar to that. 211 00:17:15.400 --> 00:17:19.119 We have a gift of zamzam. We have the well in makatul Mukarama. 212 00:17:19.400 --> 00:17:26.200 Remember it serves the same purpose. The haditha of the prophets of Allaha Sudam 213 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:30.720 he says, zamzam is for whatever intention it is drunk with, and for 214 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:34.640 so if you're drinking it with the intention y'allah kuremi ya allah this Yallah, 215 00:17:34.680 --> 00:17:38.000 it will Inshallah serve that purpose for as long as you have that yaqin and 216 00:17:38.079 --> 00:17:41.920 conviction in your heart. May Allah subhanahuata Allah grant us from that gift. 217 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:47.359 We don't take zamzam for granted. Wellahi, it is water that is a 218 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:52.599 gift from Allah suhanahwat Alah. This particular water was different from zamzam, but 219 00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:59.920 it served similar purpose where he got cure, and amazingly, when his wife 220 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:03.880 came back, she looked, she says, where is are you? Who 221 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:10.799 are you? But you look very similar to him. Marshallah. He says, 222 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:12.759 I am a you Allah granted me. Ko. Now, there was 223 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:17.640 a time, according to one narration, there was a time when the people 224 00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:21.079 around him were saying Allah doesn't love this man. If Allah loved him, 225 00:18:21.160 --> 00:18:23.720 this wouldn't have happened to him at that time. And he continued. He 226 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:29.240 says, never, I know that when Allah tests a person, he tests 227 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:33.079 him this way as well. And he continued and he persevered. So Alas 228 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:34.960 says, we tested him one, We tested him two, We tested him 229 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:40.599 three with the most difficult tests, and he passed one, he passed two, 230 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:42.480 he passed three. Then Alas says, okay, here's your dua, 231 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:45.960 here's your water, as a gift, just by striking your foot on the 232 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:52.759 ground, so hannah lah. Then Alas says, war I heaven Allah allaho 233 00:18:53.039 --> 00:19:03.599 a mean flamm ahmad were they own in al Bab. After that, not 234 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:07.480 only did we return his health to him, but his family. We gave 235 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:14.240 back family members double than what he had before in a short space of time. 236 00:19:14.319 --> 00:19:18.160 Alasses, we gave him double what he had before. And aalyases we 237 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:23.799 gave it to him as a blessing from us and as a reminder for those 238 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:27.319 who sound intellect those who want to take heed, Now, how do we 239 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:33.599 take heed? Alasuhnahu ala grant is a lesson. When Allah has tested you. 240 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:37.079 When you are patient, the reward of that suburb is so great that 241 00:19:37.240 --> 00:19:41.960 there is no ways I can describe it to you. Alas is in Amaya 242 00:19:42.160 --> 00:19:52.559 fassa birona ajor a Allah recompenses the one who engages in patience and suburb in 243 00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:56.799 a way that is unlimited, unlimited. It is reported that when a person 244 00:19:56.920 --> 00:20:00.880 is sick and ill and they are patient about it, and they continue, 245 00:20:00.400 --> 00:20:03.880 and if they die in that condition, or when a person who was sick 246 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:08.519 happens to die on the day of Kiyama, when they see the reward that 247 00:20:08.680 --> 00:20:15.279 they accumulated solely by sitting and being patient, they will say, why didn't 248 00:20:15.319 --> 00:20:18.640 you keep us sick all our lives? We could have accumulated much more so, 249 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:22.440 don't lose hope when you have a slight sickness here or there, terminal 250 00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:26.039 or not. We ask a lot to grant shifa to all those who are 251 00:20:26.039 --> 00:20:29.039 sick. Yes, it is an act of worship to go and see cure, 252 00:20:29.359 --> 00:20:32.160 but at the same time it is also an act of worship whilst the 253 00:20:32.279 --> 00:20:34.960 cure is being sought, that we bear patience. The same applies when you've 254 00:20:36.039 --> 00:20:37.680 lost your loved ones. Look at it, but you bada is Salam. 255 00:20:37.960 --> 00:20:41.759 He lost all his children, all of them, and alas of hannahawat Alah 256 00:20:41.759 --> 00:20:45.200 says, we gave him a gift. We gave him his children, and 257 00:20:45.279 --> 00:20:48.519 we multiplied them by two, a gift of a loss of Hannah hawata Alah. 258 00:20:48.599 --> 00:20:52.160 Imagine, Lou Akaba, look at this gift of a loss of Hannah 259 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:56.240 hawat ala. When we have lost a loved one, remember one thing. 260 00:20:56.640 --> 00:21:00.039 A loss of Hannah hawat Allah will grant you so much much goodness in return, 261 00:21:00.400 --> 00:21:03.640 so much that we cannot describe it. Allah says, Brad's up, 262 00:21:03.880 --> 00:21:07.960 without limits, unlimited reward you will receive. But don't question the degree of 263 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:11.240 Allah. Yeah Lah, you took my child away? Why no, don't 264 00:21:11.240 --> 00:21:15.119 ask Allah? Why say yeah? Allah? Say what rasulu la sallah A 265 00:21:15.400 --> 00:21:22.519 seldom said he held his son Brahim whilst this rule was being taken away, 266 00:21:22.519 --> 00:21:26.359 And a tear rolled down the eyes of Muhammad salah a he was seldom and 267 00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:30.240 the Sahabah, the Allah and whom are watching, And he looks and he 268 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:37.680 says, in alilah him allahum, what couldn't who will be agent Mussama? 269 00:21:37.839 --> 00:21:44.480 He says, definitely, for Allah is what he has taken away and it 270 00:21:44.599 --> 00:21:49.279 belonged to him in the first place anyway. And he says everything has a 271 00:21:49.359 --> 00:21:52.799 fixed time. And the Sahaba the Llah and Hum asked him, Yeah, 272 00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:56.799 rasula lah Salahah slom, we see you are crying. We see a tear 273 00:21:56.880 --> 00:22:00.680 rolling. He says, I'm not questioning the will of Allah. We are 274 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:06.480 happy at the degree of Allah. But these tears in namahi a ahmatun ja'lah 275 00:22:06.519 --> 00:22:11.160 Halalah Rohamma. This is a sign of mercy that Allah has placed in the 276 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:15.039 hearts of those who have a little bit of mercy. So Alas of Hannah 277 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:19.680 hawata Alah, help us to distinguish between the tears of sorrow that we are 278 00:22:19.720 --> 00:22:22.599 going to miss someone and so on, and that tears of mercy and on 279 00:22:22.680 --> 00:22:26.680 the other hand, tears of anger and being upset with the degree of a 280 00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:30.240 loss of Hannah. Hawat Alah. May we never be on that condition. 281 00:22:32.480 --> 00:22:37.640 So alass of Hannah Howat Alah says, he now returned the health of a 282 00:22:37.759 --> 00:22:41.920 yu valet Salam. And as he is bathing in the sadiitis and sahel Bahari, 283 00:22:42.400 --> 00:22:48.559 as he is bathing without his clothes on his bathing, alass of Hannah 284 00:22:48.559 --> 00:22:55.559 Hawat Alah sent locusts that fell from heaven from Jenda, and they came pure 285 00:22:55.640 --> 00:23:00.960 gold. Locusts falling pure gold. This is a correct narration. And he 286 00:23:02.039 --> 00:23:07.359 started gathering them, and he was thankful to Allah. Alas Subhannah Hawatala asks 287 00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:08.839 him, Oh, are you you know we will take care of you. 288 00:23:08.920 --> 00:23:11.279 Why are you gathering these locusts? He says, yeah, Allah, this 289 00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:15.920 is mercy from you. I must gather it. Subhanahlah. So Alaris stored 290 00:23:15.960 --> 00:23:19.559 his wealth in a miraculous way, health in a miraculous way, wealth in 291 00:23:19.640 --> 00:23:23.519 a miraculous way, and Alas Subhannah, Hawat Alah gave him children again in 292 00:23:23.640 --> 00:23:30.079 a miraculous way Subhannahlah. And this is why Alas Subhannah Howatla says he had 293 00:23:30.119 --> 00:23:33.039 one issue, one more issue. He swore that he would lash his wife 294 00:23:33.039 --> 00:23:37.359 one hundred lashes if he was cured. Now he's cured, so Alas Suhannah 295 00:23:37.400 --> 00:23:47.759 Howat Alah revealed to him what would be a dical devil. Alas is, 296 00:23:47.799 --> 00:23:51.920 don't break your promise. He will show you a way out. You can 297 00:23:52.039 --> 00:24:00.400 take a little bunch full of grass like branch, very light and use that 298 00:24:00.359 --> 00:24:04.880 to whip alassis. So imagine now you're taking a few bundle a bundle of 299 00:24:04.920 --> 00:24:10.720 little grass, and you're using that it has no pain, but you are 300 00:24:10.759 --> 00:24:15.519 not breaking your promise. Look how Allah taught him away out of this because 301 00:24:15.559 --> 00:24:19.640 he was genuine. He did not make a cussom for some silly reason. 302 00:24:19.720 --> 00:24:23.240 But it was because of Allah and because of his love for a loss subhanah 303 00:24:23.240 --> 00:24:27.119 houata alah. So Allah showed him away out alas shup hanah houata Alah, 304 00:24:27.359 --> 00:24:32.559 show us also ways out of our problems and messes, subhanah lah. Sometimes 305 00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:36.559 really we have caused our own mess and sometimes we are stuck in it. 306 00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:38.559 Believe me, this is the month of Ramadan. If you are sincere and 307 00:24:38.720 --> 00:24:41.599 you want to come out of your mess, we Allah, you can walk 308 00:24:41.640 --> 00:24:45.039 straight out of it by the mercy of a loss of hanah. Howatana. 309 00:24:45.440 --> 00:24:48.359 Just call out to Allah and head back to the straight path, and you 310 00:24:48.440 --> 00:24:53.359 see how the doors will swing open one after the other. So a loss 311 00:24:53.400 --> 00:24:56.839 of hanah. Howat Ala makes mention of that. Then at the end a 312 00:24:56.920 --> 00:25:15.039 lasses la in awajadnahu salvia nit malaberdo in our we found him to be very 313 00:25:15.200 --> 00:25:19.400 patient. What an excellent worshipper of ours. Indeed, he was off returning 314 00:25:19.480 --> 00:25:23.519 to us. Look at Allah praising a yu balleh is salah to a saram. 315 00:25:25.039 --> 00:25:27.240 Now for Allah to say we found him patient, imagine what type of 316 00:25:27.319 --> 00:25:32.519 tests he must have been through. When Allah declares the slave of ours was 317 00:25:32.599 --> 00:25:37.200 an excellent worshipper, he was so patient. We tested him and we found 318 00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:40.599 him to be patient. And Allah says, in noahu awab. The word 319 00:25:40.640 --> 00:25:45.960 awab means one who constantly returns to Allah suhanahwa to Allah. Everything he returns 320 00:25:45.960 --> 00:25:48.400 to alamea la suhanna to Allah. Make us from those who returned to him 321 00:25:48.440 --> 00:25:52.119 at all times. So that was a yu balleh sala to a salam. 322 00:25:52.279 --> 00:25:55.839 It is reported that he lived for many years, ninety three years. Some 323 00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:59.319 say he had twenty six children and so on. All these figures we actually 324 00:25:59.400 --> 00:26:03.440 do not have them from solidly authentic narrations, so we will not make mention 325 00:26:03.599 --> 00:26:06.640 of the details of it. But we do know in a Naturhall Allah blessed 326 00:26:06.680 --> 00:26:10.680 him in such a great way. Subhanahwa Allah bless us too. But remember 327 00:26:10.720 --> 00:26:12.519 for the blessings of alas subhanah, howat Alah to come in our direction. 328 00:26:12.880 --> 00:26:17.839 We need to also strive and struggle their patience. And you need to know 329 00:26:18.519 --> 00:26:21.720 that not every day will be rosy. One day you will have difficulty, 330 00:26:21.920 --> 00:26:25.440 one day you will have ease. Yao mun laka why yooman alaika. A 331 00:26:25.559 --> 00:26:27.680 day for you and a day against you. One day will be in your 332 00:26:27.759 --> 00:26:32.599 favor, the other day will be against you. Alas subhnahwat Alah speaks about 333 00:26:32.640 --> 00:26:48.160 it in the Quran. Famlan alama or me a karaman well amala is me 334 00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:56.160 ahan calla alass As for man when we grant him, when we give him 335 00:26:56.240 --> 00:26:59.160 by testing him, or in order to test him, we give him a 336 00:26:59.240 --> 00:27:00.799 lot. And then after he says, oh, my Lord has honored me. 337 00:27:02.039 --> 00:27:03.799 And when we start taking things away in order to test him, he 338 00:27:03.839 --> 00:27:07.279 says, my Lord has let me Down's disgraced me. Alass Is, Nay, 339 00:27:08.200 --> 00:27:11.599 that's not correct. Allah tests you. If you have a business, 340 00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:15.440 you have to suffer a loss one day. It cannot be profit all the 341 00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:18.400 way down. No. Alas says, we want to see can you adjust 342 00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:21.519 your life once again to what it used to be many years ago? And 343 00:27:21.640 --> 00:27:23.440 still thank Allah to say I still got more than what I used to have 344 00:27:23.559 --> 00:27:29.400 thirty years back Laho Akaba. Let's move to another prophet of Alas sub Hanah 345 00:27:29.440 --> 00:27:33.200 Howataila, the prophet Unus ali h Salah to a Salama. He's also known 346 00:27:33.279 --> 00:27:37.680 as the Noon. Why is he known as the noon because a noon would 347 00:27:37.799 --> 00:27:41.799 mean the big fish. So he is the companion of the fish or of 348 00:27:41.880 --> 00:27:47.279 the whale, the huge fish. What happened to him? A beautiful story, 349 00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:52.599 amazing story. Alass of Hannah Hawatala sent the prophet Junus. In English, 350 00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:56.240 we would say Jonah, may peace be upon him. Alass of Hannah 351 00:27:56.240 --> 00:28:02.839 Howatala sent this prophet to certain people. It is reported close to Iraq or 352 00:28:02.880 --> 00:28:07.240 within Iraq, within what we know as Iraq. And Alas of Hannah Hawatala 353 00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:11.319 instructed him to guide these people, to call them towards Allah and to warn 354 00:28:11.400 --> 00:28:15.279 them of the previous punishments and to tell them that Alass of Hannah howat Alah 355 00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:18.759 can send you this punishment and that punishment, and he can send you in 356 00:28:18.839 --> 00:28:22.079 the same way he sent the previous nations and so on. And he started 357 00:28:22.279 --> 00:28:26.119 his work as an abe of a loss of Hannah Hawatala. And he worked 358 00:28:26.359 --> 00:28:29.599 and he started calling his people. They were just more than one hundred thousand 359 00:28:29.680 --> 00:28:33.039 people, and he started calling his people, but they were not listening to 360 00:28:33.119 --> 00:28:37.720 him. And if he got irritated with them in the sense that his patience 361 00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:41.759 was running out, they started saying things and exactly how the others used to 362 00:28:41.839 --> 00:28:44.759 do they started doing. So he decided, you know what, I'm not 363 00:28:44.880 --> 00:28:48.359 winning with these people. Let me go away. I might find other people 364 00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:51.720 somewhere very very far away, and I might call them and they might come 365 00:28:51.799 --> 00:28:56.359 into the fold. They might listen. Now a loss of Hannah Howatala had 366 00:28:56.400 --> 00:28:59.400 not instructed him to go away, but he wanted to go to spread the 367 00:28:59.480 --> 00:29:03.400 Dean because he really wanted people to accept. Nobody was accepting, so that 368 00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:07.920 irritation made him go. So as he went, he decided, right, 369 00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:11.359 I'm upset, I'm angry. I'm going, and I'm going so far that 370 00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:14.759 I want to jump into a ship and I want to go somewhere far away, 371 00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:18.799 over across the ocean, across the sea. So as he arrived at 372 00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:21.799 the coast, there was a laden boat which was now going. He jumped 373 00:29:21.799 --> 00:29:26.920 into it and he was gone. It had goods and suddenly Marcia lah they 374 00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:32.599 went into the sea, and then the wind started blowing and then the storm 375 00:29:32.720 --> 00:29:37.359 started gathering, meaning sabhana lah. The ship started rocking, and after a 376 00:29:37.400 --> 00:29:41.200 while it started sinking. And when it started sinking, the people decided, 377 00:29:41.240 --> 00:29:44.640 we need to get rid of our goods to make it light. So they 378 00:29:44.680 --> 00:29:48.839 started throwing one by one the goods. Everything went out, Everything was gone. 379 00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:52.119 The ship is still sinking. The boat is still sinking. We don't 380 00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:56.000 know the exact size of it, but it was laden. By this time, 381 00:29:56.079 --> 00:30:00.200 all the goods were out. Now they looked at the people. They 382 00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:03.079 said, there's only one way of being faith. We need to draw lots. 383 00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:07.039 We need to draw lots. Now, drawing lots meaning they had their 384 00:30:07.079 --> 00:30:11.960 own system, whether it was you know, whatever dies or whatever it was, 385 00:30:11.119 --> 00:30:14.359 whether they put the names in a hat and picked out one, whatever 386 00:30:14.440 --> 00:30:17.519 it was. They decided, we are going to choose this method, and 387 00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:22.039 whoever's name comes, we're throwing him out one by one. So they gathered 388 00:30:22.079 --> 00:30:25.759 everything. They picked out first person's name Unus. They looked at him. 389 00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:27.480 They said, no, this is a good man, and he's a blessed 390 00:30:27.559 --> 00:30:32.079 man, and he's, you know, really an asset to the people on 391 00:30:32.160 --> 00:30:37.480 this boat. So let's try again. So now they tried again. When 392 00:30:37.480 --> 00:30:41.000 they tried again, and a last hannahwat Alam mix mention of this in the 393 00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:44.759 Koran. When they tried again, amazingly they picked out the name again. 394 00:30:44.799 --> 00:30:48.160 It was his name. They looked at him. They said no, no, 395 00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:51.000 no, no, can't be. Let's try again third time. So 396 00:30:51.160 --> 00:30:56.440 they trying again third time, and after they picked the name out, they 397 00:30:56.480 --> 00:30:59.319 saw it was his name for the third time. So he looked. They 398 00:30:59.319 --> 00:31:00.119 looked at him. They said, okay, that's it. Sorry, but 399 00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:03.680 you're gonna have to jump off. So in the middle of the sea, 400 00:31:04.039 --> 00:31:11.960 bismila rahman Rahim and he jumped out, and as he jumped out, Allah 401 00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:18.279 suhanahwat Alah instructed a whale to eat him, to take him in. So 402 00:31:18.440 --> 00:31:22.640 the whale opened its mouth, and as he was in the water battling probably 403 00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:26.480 with the water, the whale came in and big gulf when he was in 404 00:31:26.599 --> 00:31:30.599 it. Now you can imagine water must have gone in. He went in 405 00:31:30.680 --> 00:31:33.799 with it, and he was now in the belly of the whale, unconscious, 406 00:31:33.880 --> 00:31:38.880 lying there. And then he gets up after a while. And let's 407 00:31:38.920 --> 00:31:42.480 make mention of the verses. Allah makes mention beautiful verses in the Oan. 408 00:31:44.440 --> 00:31:57.400 Well, then hamdavan Ala Alas is the noon, that man of the the 409 00:31:57.519 --> 00:32:04.079 companion of the big fish. When he went away, Remember he went away 410 00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:07.799 angrily. He was upset with the people, and he thought that Alas sub 411 00:32:07.799 --> 00:32:10.839 hanahwat Alah would not get to him in punishment. He thought, alas not 412 00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:14.319 going to punish me, because I'm going away, But I'm going for the 413 00:32:14.400 --> 00:32:16.720 right reasons. I want to go and call other people to the to the 414 00:32:17.079 --> 00:32:22.240 to the cause or to the path. So he says, Alas sub hanahwat, 415 00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:24.039 alas not going to hold me or hold this against me, and he 416 00:32:24.160 --> 00:32:28.880 won't do anything to me. And Alas is no. We are all able 417 00:32:28.920 --> 00:32:31.039 and capable. In another place, Alas sub Hannah, howat Ala says, 418 00:32:31.160 --> 00:32:38.000 and it's amazing. Well in nayonu sala almsani. Indeed yunus or Jonah, 419 00:32:38.039 --> 00:32:42.319 may peace be upon him, is from the messengers. We believe he's a 420 00:32:42.319 --> 00:32:51.319 messenger of Alasu Hannah Ala alas is is abakauni mashon fassahamaakan I mean almoda how 421 00:32:51.400 --> 00:32:59.640 the money he jumped into the laden ship. Do you remember al saying he 422 00:32:59.720 --> 00:33:01.880 jumped into the laden ship. And then when they drew the lots, his 423 00:33:02.119 --> 00:33:07.079 name kept on appearing. So when he jumped off alas as we instructed the 424 00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:13.079 whale to eat him. Now what happened as he gets up, he obviously 425 00:33:13.119 --> 00:33:16.200 started noticing difficulty, because you can imagine what's in the belly of a whale. 426 00:33:16.400 --> 00:33:22.160 These fish, they normally don't chew whatever they eat. They just gut 427 00:33:22.200 --> 00:33:28.880 the whole thing and it digests inside the belly beautifully. So he started slowly 428 00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:32.359 but surely, feeling that these enzymes are getting the better of me. Here 429 00:33:34.200 --> 00:33:38.519 his clothes were gone in a little while, digested, and now the skin 430 00:33:38.759 --> 00:33:45.319 started slowly and he called out to Allah, so Hannahua to Allah. He 431 00:33:45.480 --> 00:33:52.839 fell prostrate sujut in the belly of a whale, in the darkness of the 432 00:33:52.960 --> 00:33:57.039 night, the bottom of the sea. And what do ha? He made 433 00:33:57.680 --> 00:34:00.799 a powerful do ho, so powerful that it's mentioned in the Quran. And 434 00:34:00.960 --> 00:34:05.759 when the Sahaba of the Allahu Anhuma asked Muhammed Sallah, all was an abjaasu 435 00:34:05.839 --> 00:34:07.639 la Lah? Can we use the same dua? He said? Why not? 436 00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:13.519 Allah says what kadai kanunjin, meaning that is how we will save those 437 00:34:13.519 --> 00:34:15.599 who believe. So you can use those words. Up to this day we 438 00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:19.440 are taught to use that dua. So what was the dua? Firstly, 439 00:34:19.480 --> 00:34:27.039 Alas says Finada Filmati, he called out in the darkness, the darknesses the 440 00:34:27.119 --> 00:34:30.840 plural of darkness is used. Why there were three darknesses. One is the 441 00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:34.360 darkness of the belly of the whale, two is the darkness of the depth 442 00:34:34.440 --> 00:34:37.280 of the ocean or the sea, and three is the darkness of the night 443 00:34:37.679 --> 00:34:42.039 dark Nobody would ever find you there today when they want to rescue people whose 444 00:34:42.440 --> 00:34:47.000 meaning who have been maybe a catastrophe at sea or something an accident or a 445 00:34:47.079 --> 00:34:50.639 plane crash, and the people are over the sea, they've got to wait 446 00:34:50.679 --> 00:34:54.559 for the following morning because they cannot see. But here, Alas says, 447 00:34:54.639 --> 00:34:58.599 in this darkness, when he prostrated, he says, yeah, Allah, 448 00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:07.280 I am the first human who is engaging in your worship in this place, 449 00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:13.360 the belly of a whale, the darkness of the ocean right down underneath, 450 00:35:13.840 --> 00:35:16.599 And here I am in prostration for you, your Allah, your Llah. 451 00:35:16.960 --> 00:35:22.039 What I did was wrong? What did he do? He went away? 452 00:35:22.119 --> 00:35:23.960 He left his people there. Allah sent him to those people, and he 453 00:35:24.039 --> 00:35:36.840 went away. So this was the dua lie Ellah in Aah suber haahak subahnaka 454 00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:45.079 in kun to mean a volume. There is none worthy of worship besides you 455 00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:50.760 are Allah. Indeed, I am from amongst the wrongdoers. Your law have 456 00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:53.360 mercy on me. He's asking, Allah, I am amongst the wrong doers, 457 00:35:53.760 --> 00:35:58.000 none worthy of worship, but you, you are the only one who 458 00:35:58.079 --> 00:36:04.400 can save me the conviction. He had a loss of Hannah, Howat Alas 459 00:36:04.440 --> 00:36:07.719 says, shortly. Now there is a difference of opinion as to how long 460 00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:12.039 he remained in the belly of the whale. I need to say that that 461 00:36:12.199 --> 00:36:15.039 is not too important. What is important is he was in there. He 462 00:36:15.159 --> 00:36:19.599 made a dua to Allah. When a lass of Hannah Howat Alah instructed the 463 00:36:19.679 --> 00:36:22.079 whale to split him out, he was spat out. So Alas says, 464 00:36:23.000 --> 00:36:29.360 there was a reason why we accepted his dua. He called out to Allah 465 00:36:29.960 --> 00:36:32.519 and the duaur was accepted. Analysis there was a reason why we accepted the 466 00:36:32.599 --> 00:36:40.320 dua. Fallawollah and who can I mean Ala must have been in La Labitafi 467 00:36:40.559 --> 00:36:51.880 balcony he elaomi ubathun. Had he not been from amongst those who constantly remembered 468 00:36:51.880 --> 00:36:57.679 a loss of Anahuatlah in Tesbi, he would have probably remained in the belly 469 00:36:57.719 --> 00:37:04.079 of that whale until the day of resurrection. Now there are two sis of 470 00:37:04.159 --> 00:37:08.840 this particular verse. If you look at the wedding, it says, had 471 00:37:08.960 --> 00:37:14.840 he not been from those who constantly remembered a loss of Hannah howat Alah. 472 00:37:14.880 --> 00:37:20.039 That means prior to this he every time he remembered Allah, every day he 473 00:37:20.159 --> 00:37:23.280 remembered Allah. Always he engaged in the acts of worship. He was conscious 474 00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:27.519 of a loss of Hannah houat Allah. He engaged in his test be hat 475 00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:31.599 in praising a loss of Hannah howat Allah on a constant basis daily. So 476 00:37:31.760 --> 00:37:35.880 that is why. Now when he called out to Allah, Allah responded to 477 00:37:35.960 --> 00:37:40.199 him straight. And it is reported in one narration that when a person does 478 00:37:40.320 --> 00:37:45.639 good deeds, it goes up to a loss of Hannah houat Alah, it 479 00:37:45.800 --> 00:37:47.400 goes up to a loss of Hannah howat Ala. The angels take it up. 480 00:37:47.440 --> 00:37:52.760 Allah knows that it has happened. But the angels are making taking a 481 00:37:52.840 --> 00:37:57.119 record. Why in order to hold it for you or against you by a 482 00:37:57.239 --> 00:38:02.280 totally independent source. Someone might want to argue now to be love with Allas 483 00:38:02.320 --> 00:38:06.119 supannahawa to Allah, and they will say no, alas says, here's the 484 00:38:06.159 --> 00:38:07.760 witness. If someone says still, no, Allah, say right, let 485 00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:10.719 your hands speak. Alas says this in the poran. If someone still says 486 00:38:10.760 --> 00:38:14.039 no, Alas says, okay, let your legs bear witness against you, 487 00:38:14.239 --> 00:38:16.960 and so on. So the angels take it up. So every day they 488 00:38:17.039 --> 00:38:21.800 used to take up this prayer, and that evening too, they took up 489 00:38:21.880 --> 00:38:23.599 the prayer of Unus Alai is Salam. But they say, yeah, Allah, 490 00:38:24.039 --> 00:38:28.320 is this not this worshipper? Every day we bringing his deeds up. 491 00:38:28.440 --> 00:38:31.440 Today we're hearing this call a week call from the bottom of the ocean. 492 00:38:31.519 --> 00:38:35.280 Yallah, isn't it him? Alas says, yes, it's my worshipper. 493 00:38:35.880 --> 00:38:40.000 It is Unus. So look, the moral of this is if you are 494 00:38:40.079 --> 00:38:46.000 close to allahs subphannaha to Allah at times of ease, Allah will rush to 495 00:38:46.079 --> 00:38:50.519 you when you are in difficulty. We've said it before, the raf ill 496 00:38:50.519 --> 00:38:54.440 Allah hel Rahai yeah rifkfi shit dat. You you get close to Allah when 497 00:38:54.480 --> 00:38:59.360 your days are easy, the day a difficulty comes, you will find Allah 498 00:38:59.519 --> 00:39:04.000 rushing in your direction. That is what happened to you, no Alam, 499 00:39:04.119 --> 00:39:07.280 and that was the dua he made, and a loss of Hannah hot alas 500 00:39:07.400 --> 00:39:20.880 is fabnah lara who sat. We caused him or the whale to release him 501 00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:22.880 onto the coast, and he was very sick, sick in the sense that 502 00:39:23.239 --> 00:39:28.519 his skin was quite eaten and he was naked. That is what the verse 503 00:39:28.559 --> 00:39:34.480 says. He was not clothed and the sun was affecting him, and his 504 00:39:34.639 --> 00:39:38.000 skin needed some form of remedy. So alasa is we gave him a gift. 505 00:39:38.639 --> 00:39:42.320 What was the next gift? Look, when Allah cures you, he 506 00:39:42.440 --> 00:39:45.920 does not just leave something. He cures you completely. We always say Shifa 507 00:39:46.039 --> 00:39:52.800 and camilla and agilan. We ask Allah for complete immediate cure. Hana hot 508 00:39:52.840 --> 00:39:57.239 Ala grand cure to those who are sickened. In so Alas of Hannah hot 509 00:39:57.360 --> 00:40:07.440 Alas is well a naaaa al call. And right next to him, we 510 00:40:07.719 --> 00:40:13.800 caused a little tree to grow of a plant yakathin. Now what is yakutine? 511 00:40:14.079 --> 00:40:17.480 They say it is from the God family. So this plant grew, 512 00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:22.360 and as it grew, two three things happened. He covered himself, he 513 00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:24.880 benefited from it, and he was cured subhan Allah and Alla says, we 514 00:40:24.960 --> 00:40:30.280 sent him back to his people oursel Now in am Atilina, as he done, 515 00:40:31.199 --> 00:40:35.159 we sent him to one hundred thousand, or more than one hundred thousand. 516 00:40:35.440 --> 00:40:37.039 He went back to his people. When he went back to his people, 517 00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:43.280 he was shocked. Why was he shocked? Now? When he was 518 00:40:43.360 --> 00:40:49.679 away, the Adab that he promised started hovering. They saw dark clouds, 519 00:40:50.079 --> 00:40:53.360 dark clouds coming. And they had known the stories of the previous nations, 520 00:40:53.760 --> 00:40:58.079 and they had seen these dark clouds. All of them looked at it. 521 00:40:58.639 --> 00:41:02.440 All one hundred thousand and more, how many ever they were. They looked 522 00:41:02.480 --> 00:41:07.800 at this dark cloud and they all agreed that this is the Adab that was 523 00:41:07.920 --> 00:41:13.440 promised to us by Yunus. So they all believed in him, every single 524 00:41:13.480 --> 00:41:17.360 one of them, without an exception. This is the Nabe of alas hannahwat 525 00:41:17.360 --> 00:41:24.760 ala hum. His whole Umah accepted the message, the whole omah so alas 526 00:41:24.800 --> 00:41:32.480 subhanna howatalyasi is faa manu famatau in a him. They all believed. So 527 00:41:32.639 --> 00:41:37.559 we granted them enjoyment for a little while, up to a fixed time la 528 00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:42.840 Akabar. And in another place in the Koran, Allah makes mentioned beautifully of 529 00:41:43.039 --> 00:41:46.519 how they accepted and alas is what the benefit of that exception was. When 530 00:41:46.519 --> 00:41:59.400 they accepted Islam fallouna can At coronatunah man At fanaha Ima in La Karma yunus 531 00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:14.159 lamman Kashef n an Humada bel kiziefil Hyat in Dunyah Ina Alasses. Was there 532 00:42:14.400 --> 00:42:21.239 any nation whose acceptance of the message after seeing the punishment helped them? When 533 00:42:21.320 --> 00:42:24.719 they accepted the whole sale. Besides the people of Urus, there was no 534 00:42:24.800 --> 00:42:30.320 one else Alasses. When they saw the punishment of Allah, they accepted. 535 00:42:31.159 --> 00:42:36.920 All of them believed in alass of Hannah Hawatla Alasis. We diverted that punishment 536 00:42:37.119 --> 00:42:42.599 and we granted them joy for a little while. So this goes to show 537 00:42:43.440 --> 00:42:46.159 that alass of Hannah Hawatala gave them a chance that he did not give others. 538 00:42:46.320 --> 00:42:50.760 What was that chance when the punishment was coming and they said, we 539 00:42:50.880 --> 00:42:55.440 believe, he then took it away Akabar. Why because there was not a 540 00:42:55.599 --> 00:43:01.199 single person who did not believe. Take a look at the others like Abu 541 00:43:01.320 --> 00:43:06.760 Jahal. It is reported that when he was being killed in the battle, 542 00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:10.400 he tells these people around him, you know what, I'm dying now, 543 00:43:10.559 --> 00:43:15.519 but cut my head from the bottommost part of my neck so they can see 544 00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:17.559 how big my head was Later on, I look at this, look at 545 00:43:17.599 --> 00:43:22.559 this, and the prophets Allallah Alai Yourselam says this one was worse than Pharaan, 546 00:43:22.599 --> 00:43:24.679 at least Parauan. As he's drowning. He says, I believe, 547 00:43:24.760 --> 00:43:30.199 I believe now in the God of Moses and Aaron akromelas peace be upon the 548 00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:37.000 messages. But this one, Abuja, not even so. Alla subhanahwat Alah 549 00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:39.599 grant us goodness. And this is why to this day, the dua of 550 00:43:39.679 --> 00:43:45.360 the distress we should know Allah, here's your call, my beloved mothers and 551 00:43:45.480 --> 00:43:50.400 sisters, my beloved brothers. Really we need to know the darkness of the 552 00:43:50.519 --> 00:43:54.000 night, in the furthest part of the world, in the bush of anyway, 553 00:43:54.519 --> 00:44:00.119 wherever you are, whatever it is, remember Allah's hearing you. You 554 00:44:00.159 --> 00:44:04.400 whisper Allah, here's you. And I want to draw your attention to something 555 00:44:04.480 --> 00:44:08.239 beautiful. In the Koran about these two messengers, the exact do a, 556 00:44:09.800 --> 00:44:14.920 the request is not even made mention of. They didn't say, are you 557 00:44:15.039 --> 00:44:17.039 palais Salam. There's no mention in the Koran that he said, ish fini 558 00:44:17.280 --> 00:44:20.559 cure me. He just says, yeah, Allah, I am wrong. 559 00:44:20.679 --> 00:44:22.840 You are more merciful. You are the most merciful. Allah already knew this 560 00:44:23.000 --> 00:44:29.199 means he wants cure. Allah cured him. You knows, Alai Salam, 561 00:44:29.280 --> 00:44:31.760 what happened. He didn't say, yeah, Allah cure me. The Koran 562 00:44:31.840 --> 00:44:35.679 doesn't make mention of that. The Koran says, he just said la e 563 00:44:35.760 --> 00:44:38.800 la illah Anta, you are alone the one who is worthy of worship, 564 00:44:38.920 --> 00:44:44.760 no one else Subahanakah, glory be to you in me kuntumina BALI mean I 565 00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:46.880 was definitely from amongst the wrong doers. Yeah, Allah, I am from 566 00:44:46.920 --> 00:44:51.440 the wrong doers. The moment he said that Allah had mercy on him. 567 00:44:51.679 --> 00:44:55.360 So to admit your guilt is prime. Prime. Allah already knows what you 568 00:44:55.440 --> 00:45:00.239 want. He's put you in that condition. But Koran does not make mention 569 00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:05.320 of how you and Saleh Salam or Ayub said ya Allah, I am wrong. 570 00:45:05.559 --> 00:45:08.000 So now I really desperately urgently want your cure. That bit at the 571 00:45:08.119 --> 00:45:12.480 end, we don't hear of it in the Koran. This is the power 572 00:45:12.760 --> 00:45:19.400 of Allah. As we hear Allah sub Hannah hawat Ala knows what we want 573 00:45:19.480 --> 00:45:22.719 to utter in Dua, even though sometimes our eloquence is not good enough. 574 00:45:23.239 --> 00:45:27.679 To say what exactly is in our hearts? Allah knows you say, Yallah, 575 00:45:27.880 --> 00:45:30.360 you see the difficulties I have, You know them better than I do. 576 00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:34.039 Yallah, you are most merciful laho akaba. That is now a dua. 577 00:45:35.079 --> 00:45:38.119 Because sometimes we need things we don't know how to weard it. And 578 00:45:38.239 --> 00:45:40.880 the point that has just come to my mind also that we can close on. 579 00:45:42.480 --> 00:45:45.519 Take a look at the wife of a yu by the Salad who was 580 00:45:45.559 --> 00:45:49.960 salam. She served him, she was dedicated many many years. Then she 581 00:45:50.079 --> 00:45:53.760 asked that one question. Fair enough, the question was asked. Thereafter everything 582 00:45:53.800 --> 00:45:58.159 happened that Marshall light was all sorted out. But bring it to our lives 583 00:45:58.400 --> 00:46:02.440 today, whether it is in marriage or at home or anywhere else. A 584 00:46:02.480 --> 00:46:06.119 small thing goes wrong and a person says, right, I'm fed up. 585 00:46:06.159 --> 00:46:08.360 You can't afford me anymore. I want to go home. Well, Allah, 586 00:46:08.400 --> 00:46:15.000 he's happening today. You take a look at young girls, young boys. 587 00:46:15.239 --> 00:46:19.360 More so, I'd like to advise the young girls don't think that when 588 00:46:19.440 --> 00:46:22.880 you get married you just must look for a man who already is a millionnaire 589 00:46:23.360 --> 00:46:27.199 and everything, and there's a jigsaw puzzle and you the last puzzle to just 590 00:46:27.239 --> 00:46:30.039 come in fitt in and everything's going to be okay. That's not how it 591 00:46:30.119 --> 00:46:34.960 works. No, you're going to marry someone, he'll probably have stages and 592 00:46:35.039 --> 00:46:37.000 steps. You'll have days which are good and days which might not be that 593 00:46:37.159 --> 00:46:39.719 good. And it's all up and down. And that's how it is. 594 00:46:39.760 --> 00:46:44.880 Subhannah Lah, we ask a lost Subannah hawatala to grant us goodness. Even 595 00:46:44.960 --> 00:46:47.360 those who are wealthy, they will come a day. When you suffer a 596 00:46:47.440 --> 00:46:51.679 loss, they will come a day. It depends how you take the loss. 597 00:46:52.079 --> 00:46:55.000 Sometimes you have a person very very wealthy, multimillionaire. He suffers one 598 00:46:55.079 --> 00:47:00.199 hundred thousand and he's depressed. Whereas there is a man who's got fifty n 599 00:47:00.519 --> 00:47:04.400 Now someone says you owe me sixty. He's ten rands behind, and he's 600 00:47:04.400 --> 00:47:06.639 still happy. He says in Charlotte, Tomorrow, I'll come with your ten 601 00:47:06.719 --> 00:47:12.000 runs La hu akaba Alla subhana a la grand is a deep understanding all Lahi, 602 00:47:12.320 --> 00:47:15.280 these are the days to be thankful to Allah. Tomorrow we have an 603 00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:19.039 appointment with Mussali Salah to a Salam story insha Allah by the will of Alla. 604 00:47:19.119 --> 00:47:24.079 Until then, as La La who was Alambara Kalamhammad Sabana lah be Hamdi Sabhana Klahomamdila