to bless them to bless every one of us
to grant us forgiveness during this
beautiful beautiful season and we ask
Allah
to be pleased with every one of us I
mean my brothers my sisters every one of
us has needs we call out to the almighty
how do we call out to the Almighty we
need to seek the Forgiveness of the
Almighty we need to praise him we need
to express our dependence on him his
independence from us the fact that he
has what we want we call out to him very
humbly we use the most beautiful words
we send blessings and salutations upon
Muhammad sallam at the beginning and at
the end and we make sure that we obey
Allah's instruction thereafter and when
he gives us something we must be
thankful to him also we show gratitude
to the Almighty we must show gratitude
to the almighty for what he has already
bestowed upon us we're going through the
supplication of the Prophet Ayub and I
made mention of a Hadith of the prophet
salallahu alaihi wasallam in the
previous episode where he says that
those who are tested are the ones who
are closest to us and then the others
are tested less and less and less
and a person is tested he Bears patience
until he moves on the earth without
without a single sin on his back so this
is actually a bonus from Allah saying
that you will definitely be forgiven as
a result of the tests if you are to Bear
patience remember one thing don't
question the decree of Allah no matter
how difficult the hardship is take it in
your stride remember that the good days
will always follow and remember that if
you are being tested there are others
who are better than you who were tested
with that which was bigger than the test
you have may Allah make it easy for
every one of us I now want to move on to
the prophet yunus
he was also known as the noon then noon
you know the one who was swallowed by a
fish the type of fish we don't know
there is a great discussion about what
type of fish it was the reality is it
was a fish and he was swallowed by it
very quickly and very briefly he was
sent by Allah to certain people he
called out uh you know he called them
towards Allah they did not listen so he
decided you know he was upset
he was upset with them so he walked away
thinking that you know what it's okay
Allah is not going to punish me because
I tried my best and now I'm going away
not realizing that Allah would cause
something to happen for him to return to
his people because the message still
needed to be completed and delivered in
in the way that Allah
had wanted it to be
so Allah makes mention of something very
interesting that this man called out to
Allah he called out to Allah at his time
of need when exactly was the time of
need you see he jumped onto the ship and
the ship was sinking so they had to ask
some of the people to jump over
subhanallah subhanallah it's very tough
may Allah not test us with this so they
knew this man was a good man they
started they wanted to draw the lot so
every time the number came onto this
he was asked to go out the first time
the people said no let's try again they
tried again it was his name again they
tried a second third time it was his
name all the time so they asked him to
leave he jumped in he was swallowed by a
big fish and it was Darkness Darkness
and the fish went right down to the
bottom of that ocean and it was very
very dark darkness of the whale the
belly of that in fact fish I called it a
whale but the more accurate term is a
fish and darkness of the the the lowest
thought of that particular sea or ocean
and in that Darkness he called out to
Allah now there is an amazing narration
that I want to make mention of that
speaks of regarding this Dua
Allah says in the Quran in Surah verse
number 143
had he not been from among those who
always used to praise Allah he probably
would have stayed in the belly of that
fish until the day of Resurrection which
means because he used to praise Allah
every day on the ordinary days
the day he needed it Allah responded
immediately it goes back to a narration
of the prophet
he says
get close to Allah get acquainted with
Allah during your days of ease and Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala will be acquainted
with you during your days of difficulty
this reminds me of yunus
had he not been from among those who
used to always praise us declare our
Tasmania he probably would have stayed
in that condition right up to kriyama so
this goes to show my brothers and
sisters praise Allah during your days of
ease when nothing is really wrong praise
Allah search for the gifts of Allah upon
you and thank Allah for what he has
bestowed upon you when you don't have
hardship when you don't have hardship so
that the day you have a hardship and you
call out to Allah Allah will definitely
rush to your assistance like the prophet
salallahu alaihi wasallam has taught us
in
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remember the prophet yunus
when he left his people he was upset
with them and he went away thinking that
Allah will not punish him because he
went away from people who he had he had
delivered the message to and they didn't
listen to him and then he found himself
in a certain condition we spoke about
that condition and he called out to
Allah in that Darkness
what did he say just like we heard about
the Prophet
this Prophet known as eunus the prophet
Jonah may peace be upon him he too did
not ask Allah to remove him from the
hardship he only praised Allah and
declared that I was wrong I did
something wrong
subhanallah that's all he says and Allah
loved that so much you know when you
admit your sin when you admit your error
to Allah Allah loves it a person who
wants to earn the Forgiveness of Allah
one of the conditions is to admit that
you were wrong
so we as Muslims do not confess our sins
to anyone we confess them to Allah Allah
alone no matter what you've done it's
your secret between you and Allah
no Sheikh no Imam no scholar no priest
no husband no wife no child no one no
one needs to know the extent of the sin
you've committed between you and Allah
you need to know it Allah needs to know
it and you ask Allah's forgiveness you
confess to all to Allah saying oh Allah
I committed the sin I did wrong I regret
it I'm seeking your forgiveness I'm not
going to do it again the minute those
four conditions are met the sin is wiped
out so this is uh the noon uh yunus he
is saying uh
you know he called out to Allah saying
there is none worthy of worship besides
you
subhanallah
I indeed was from among those who
wronged myself I I was a wrongdoer I did
wrong
so Allah heard this beautiful Dua this
Dua has in it
three different aspects that's what
makes it so so powerful
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foreign mean there is none worthy of
worship besides you indeed I have
committed something wrong I have wronged
myself I've done something wrong
subhanallah
what's the power of the Dua let's look
at the three different angles of it the
first is declaring that Allah is the
Lord he is the owner he is the only one
worthy of worship no one else is going
to help me this is my Lord I worship him
alone he is the only one worthy of
worship you know if we take a look at
the translation of in the English
language all of us would say there is no
one worthy of worship besides Allah if
you think about what you've said you
realize that that means you will only
render acts of worship to Allah because
no one besides Allah is worthy of being
worshiped so that is the first aspect of
it where he is uh
humbling himself to Allah declaring that
Allah is my maker he is the one who has
definitely
you know owned every aspect of worship
he is the only one owed worship and fit
to be worshiped then he says subhanak
so he started off by saying
you know none worthy of worship besides
you subhanaka subhanaka is the
glorification of Allah glory be to you
so he's actually now declaring the
greatness of Allah he's saying
non-worthy of worship besides you and
the word subhanaka is actually
worshiping him he's worshiping Allah I
won't worship anyone besides you here I
am declaring a statement that is filled
with worship I'm saying glory be to you
we wouldn't say glory be to anyone else
you know it's just subhanallah no one
would say glory be to another creature
of Allah that's subhana is owned only by
Allah
so he's declaring that worship and the
third thing he is saying
I am now admitting my sin I was wrong oh
Allah I'm wrong so these are the three
things one is he's declaring Allah alone
to be worshiped two is he's then
worshiping Allah alone and three is he
saying I was wrong I did something that
I'm not supposed to be doing I'm not
supposed to have done
and this is why the prophet salallahu
alaihi wasallam tells us in a Hadith
narrated by Imam Ahmad and also appears
also a Hadith
let's listen very carefully it's a very
powerful narration
says
the supplication of eunus when he called
Allah from the belly of the fish
no one will ever
no muslim will ever call Allah with the
same words except that Allah will
respond that call to that call
amazing
you want a guarantee of a response from
Allah here's the Dua Allah
of worship besides you o Allah glory be
to you indeed I am from among the wrong
doers I did wrong and in your heart you
know what it was in your heart you know
what you want because he was in the
belly of that fish he knew I needed to
get out of here I needed the help of
Allah I needed to be saved somehow so
he's he wants to be saved he wants to
return back to where he was and he's
thanking Allah so my brothers and
sisters this is a powerful Dua and this
is why Allah says
foreign
we responded his call and we saved him
from that sadness and the sad condition
he was in and that is how we save all
the Believers
an amazing Dua of yunus and something
we've learned again is he didn't say oh
Allah take me out of this condition o
Allah he just declared the praise of
Allah he declared that oh Allah Allah
alone is worthy of worship and he says
oh Allah what I did was wrong so Allah
says we responded by by removing him
from his sadness anyone who is faced
with sadness you may use this Dua it is
a beautiful wording that is mentioned by
Allah in the Quran and it was definitely
spoken also by the prophet yunus
may Allah grant us a beautiful
understanding I want to move on to the
prophet Musa
what a great prophet of Allah the
prophet Moses may peace be upon him he
is the one who's mentioned the most in
the Quran his story takes up a large
part of the Quran many surahs many
chapters have the story of Moses or part
of it and a lot of his prayers are made
mention of you know he was Young And as
he was young he grew up when he was
growing up
uh in the first or second episode we
spoke about how he punched someone and
as a result the person died immediately
he admitted his fault
what did he
says
he says oh Allah
I've wronged myself look at the words o
Allah this is from the the handiwork of
the devil
oh Allah if you don't forgive me I'm
going to be a loser
subhanallah so to admit your sin is one
thing then you call out to Allah you
know you can blame shaytan for
everything because shaytan definitely is
at work all the time but
it's a good gift for a Believer to blame
the devil so that he comes out of it you
know I always tell people who are who
don't get along with each other that
what a great gift it is when you can
just say no my brother you know shaytan
came to me and shaytan made me do this
and shaytan made me do that and the
brother said yeah yeah I I know I
understand shaytan came to me too and it
was and then you Embrace each other and
you hug each other and you sort your
problem out and who was blamed shaytan
shaytan although sometimes we do become
Little Devils ourselves but may Allah
not let that happen however it is not
wrong to blame shaytan because even in
the Quran we are taught that the
prophets of Allah also said that was
shaytan you know look at Musa he says
this is from the handiwork of the devil
I'm not this way this is not me you know
I shouldn't have done this and I
shouldn't be doing this so that was
something that we had already spoken
about but as a result they began to look
for him and he left the city upon the
advice of a man who came to him saying
if you want to be saved you need to now
leave the city as he's leaving the city
he called out to Allah now sometimes we
are faced with a situation where you
know we are no longer at a workplace
sometimes we're no longer weak we if
you're an expatriate somewhere you're no
longer working somewhere or you just
lost your job or you need to leave for
some reason
depending on what it is you might take a
lesson from what happened to Musa
so Musa here says
and I'm just going to read the verse
verse number 21 of Surat al-qas Allah
says
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he came out from that City he was
fearing and he was watching
he said oh my God save me from the
nation who are oppressors from these
wrong doers from this group of people
who are wrong doers oh Allah save me
from them so he the Dua is
a beautiful I can use it you can use it
if ever we would like to ask Allah to
save us from a specific people oh Allah
protect us from this group of people who
are wrongdoers the Sinners you know the
Pharaoh and the likes they had committed
and perpetrated heinous crimes they were
killing people and they had done so much
and he is saying oh Allah saved me from
these people and then Allah says
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because now he was heading in that
direction
he made a Dua he says oh my rub I I hope
I have hope in you that you will guide
me to the best of past to the
straightest of paths
now when we are making a
uh decision when we're trying to go to
another city when we're opening a new
business when we're going for a new job
etc etc we ask Allah oh Allah guide us
oh Allah I have hope that you will guide
me to the best decisions sometimes the
decisions are tricky we don't know
exactly what decision to make look at
Musa he's forced to leave behind
everything he's going on his own perhaps
a little bit of provision that he has
and he is leaving
and he's saying oh Allah I I have hope
in you that you're going to guide me to
the straightest of paths to the best of
decisions so he says
let's fast forward a little bit so he
gets to Midian he sees these ladies he
helps them with uh the quenching of The
Thirst of their flock and thereafter he
makes a Dua to Allah he as he's
reclining under the tree he asks Allah
uh something else
he says
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that is
a beautiful verse that Allah makes
mention of when
I am in dire need of any goodness that
you are going to send in my direction
right now
subhanallah
oh my Lord
I am
for anything good that you are going to
send in my direction in great need I'm
in great need of anything any form of
goodness so whether it was food or drink
whether it was material no matter what
it was and he did not know exactly
what's going to come in his Direction
but as a result guess what happened
Imagine This
remember that Dua
as a result Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
bestowed him with someone who comforted
him by listening to his story number one
and this shows us that when you have a
trustworthy person that you can relate
your story to or you can you can trust
with what's happened it's good sometimes
to speak but remember to you need a
trustworthy person Musa did not just
speak to anyone and everyone Musa did
not just come and say words to anyone he
met that you know this is what happened
that's what happened but rather what he
did he called out to Allah to help him
and then he found someone he could trust
and after that he told this man the
story
and there were a few signs that he saw
that would prove that that would prove
that this person is actually genuine you
know and after that he found a confidant
then he found a job subhanallah he got a
job as a result of this Dua the job
lasted 10 years and after that he found
a wife subhanallah so marriage came
first he found a very good friend who
became his father-in-law so marriage and
his boss which means he found a job
subhanallah if people are looking for
jobs looking for spouses looking for so
many things
oh Allah whatever goodness you're going
to bestow upon me I am in desperate need
of it right now subhanallah
and we repeat the Dua and there are so
many other supplications it's not just
this one now someone might ask how many
times should we repeat that Dua a lot of
people ask me a question you know uh
there's this Dua in the Quran how many
times should I repeat it you know
someone told me to say it a hundred
times I've heard of someone who told
another person to repeat it to ah one
million times I want to tell you
to put a figure at how many times you
should make the Dua is usually not in
the Hadith of the Prophet salallahu
alaihi wasallam when it comes to the
vikr and the remembrance of Allah you
have the prophet salallahu making
mention of a hundred times uh you know a
certain Dua a certain certain
remembrance or the subhanallah
alhamdulillah 33 33 33 or 34 Etc or
three times four times uh certain
in the remembrance of Allah but when it
comes to Dua a supplication
you say it with conviction even if it's
once twice ten times a hundred times
there is no fixed number you need to
call out to Allah based on your
conviction until you are happy that I've
called out to Allah and you might want
to repeat it and repeat it again at
every moment that you think about it you
may repeat it it's permissible there's
no cap and there's no recommended number
by the prophet salallahu some people
might recommend numbers but that's not
from the prophet salallahu I would
advise you to follow your heart and to
quench The Thirst that you have within
you to call out to Allah and keep it
going with Allah
don't lose hope look at this man he's
asking Allah he's just been driven out
of his City he enters a new city he's
been very helpful that shows us when you
help people and when you help even those
who are who might be strangers with
goodness you know when you help people
with goodness obviously we're living in
countries where it's not so easy
sometimes to just help any stranger but
there are signs you will get that this
is a legitimate cause when you help
people the chances of your Dua being
accepted are far greater than if you
were just to be selfish and make Dua oh
Allah help me help me but you are not
ready to help others
Allah continues to help his servant
until that person is occupied in helping
another remember this my brothers and
sisters so we call out to Allah here is
the man he just helped someone he was
desperate he says
Allah sent him a wife Allah sent him a
job Allah sent him a confident and a
friend and thereafter Allah
gave him prophethood my brothers and
sisters what beautiful lessons we've
just learned from this
I'm looking forward to seeing you again
with the next episode where we will be
looking at more of these supplications
from Revelation until then
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