WEBVTT 00:00.031 --> 00:05.857 [SPEAKER_00]: You spend your life in the spot of standing firm, standing for the cause of Allah. 00:06.277 --> 00:10.741 [SPEAKER_00]: Is there any outstanding story that stands out in your life from all the others? 00:10.922 --> 00:17.648 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, yes, there's one, and I'll share it with you. 00:17.668 --> 00:29.700 [SPEAKER_00]: The theme of tonight, as you can see, is standing firm in times of uncertainty. 00:30.187 --> 00:32.871 [SPEAKER_00]: that you can't be, what you can't see. 00:35.215 --> 00:36.176 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to say that again. 00:37.398 --> 00:42.125 [SPEAKER_00]: Psychologists say that you can't be, what you can't see. 00:43.627 --> 00:52.220 [SPEAKER_00]: Human kind performed best when they have the desired competency modelled in front of them. 00:53.863 --> 00:57.949 [SPEAKER_00]: So I will take from where my dear brother 00:59.110 --> 01:04.156 [SPEAKER_00]: and put before you an example of standing firm. 01:05.898 --> 01:12.486 [SPEAKER_00]: For those of you that want to check, this is in the book of Sifat-O-Safwa by Imam Al-Jauze-Rahim Allah-Hutāra. 01:14.128 --> 01:22.778 [SPEAKER_00]: And many years ago, one of the ugliest points in human history is referred to as the Crusades. 01:24.480 --> 01:26.603 [SPEAKER_00]: So the Crusades were a time 01:27.173 --> 01:33.981 [SPEAKER_00]: when both the church and the state decided to plan the Muslim lands. 01:35.662 --> 01:51.300 [SPEAKER_00]: So soldiers from Europe came into Muslim lands into the holy lands and around it, and killed and mined and destroyed and ruined, whatever they could in their wake. 01:53.502 --> 01:55.965 [SPEAKER_00]: And as is the son of the Gholar Shilmajid, 01:57.262 --> 02:10.198 [SPEAKER_00]: Whenever wrong, like that raises, Allah al-Rabbal-Azha rises up from the Ummah, those that will raise the banner of resistance and standing firm. 02:11.760 --> 02:18.088 [SPEAKER_00]: One such man was Abu Qudama, a shayami, Rahimahullah Hata'ala. 02:19.549 --> 02:25.817 [SPEAKER_00]: So this righteous scholar started to preach 02:26.978 --> 02:41.011 [SPEAKER_00]: and in the masjids, for the people to rise up, resist fight back, and he would go masjid to masjid, and encourage motivate, wake the people up. 02:43.373 --> 02:44.795 [SPEAKER_00]: And in this, he spent his life. 02:47.737 --> 02:56.125 [SPEAKER_00]: And once, he was in Medina Al-Munawara, sitting in the masjid. 02:56.813 --> 03:13.229 [SPEAKER_00]: And he said, Sheikh, you spent your life in the spot of standing firm, standing for the cause of Allah, the standing to resist occupation, is there any outstanding story that stands out in your life from all the others? 03:13.409 --> 03:26.702 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, yes, there's one, and I'll share it with you. 03:27.155 --> 03:33.014 [SPEAKER_00]: with meat, the forces that had come to occupy and loot and plunder most of the lands. 03:34.258 --> 03:35.342 [SPEAKER_00]: The Crusaders. 03:36.925 --> 03:59.760 [SPEAKER_00]: And in that city, he says, I went and talked in the message and I motivated and encouraged people to spend in the path of Allah and take up arms in the path of Allah and defend the honor of Islam and the Muslims and the young and old accepted and young and old responded and people that couldn't respond gave from their pockets in their wealth and this happened for a few days on end and 04:00.972 --> 04:06.239 [SPEAKER_00]: Then one night, I went to my resting place to my house, to my property, to my rental. 04:07.100 --> 04:09.524 [SPEAKER_00]: And once I was there, I heard a knock on the door. 04:11.947 --> 04:18.356 [SPEAKER_00]: So when I heard a knock on the door, I thought to myself, who is this Simon H. foreign land? 04:18.396 --> 04:20.979 [SPEAKER_00]: No one knows me here. 04:20.999 --> 04:27.368 [SPEAKER_00]: So I went down, checked, opened the door in a lady, fully clad, wasn't front of him. 04:28.563 --> 04:34.714 [SPEAKER_00]: And she gave me a note in a little bank and didn't say anything and walked up. 04:36.838 --> 04:44.732 [SPEAKER_00]: So he says, I opened the note and then the note that said that I heard you speak in the message today about it. 04:45.033 --> 04:52.149 [SPEAKER_00]: standing firm and standing in the path of Allah in resisting occupation and fighting for this righteous cause. 04:52.209 --> 05:00.066 [SPEAKER_00]: And I don't have any male members left in my family, my father and my husband died last year in this campaign. 05:01.209 --> 05:03.193 [SPEAKER_00]: And I don't have any wealth to give you. 05:04.777 --> 05:08.422 [SPEAKER_00]: So I looked at, but I want to contribute, and I want to be part of this. 05:08.442 --> 05:24.186 [SPEAKER_00]: So I looked around and found the most valuable two things I have, and these were the two braids of my hair, so I've cut this, and I've knotted it into a rope, and now, put this rope and put it on your horse, and maybe it could be my contribution to this campaign. 05:26.326 --> 05:39.363 [SPEAKER_00]: So Abu Kodama Shami says, I was fascinated by her conviction and why her stance and why her history and why her legacy because already a father has gone already, a husband has gone. 05:40.204 --> 05:47.474 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, I slept next morning, the army was leaving and they were heading out towards the campaign. 05:49.557 --> 05:54.443 [SPEAKER_00]: And he says, I was riding with the rest of the Muslims. 05:55.233 --> 05:58.916 [SPEAKER_00]: going to confront the crusaders. 06:00.477 --> 06:04.181 [SPEAKER_00]: And I noticed a young bride are coming behind me. 06:05.141 --> 06:11.647 [SPEAKER_00]: And calling out, yeah, ever for Danayah, ever for Danayah, asking Allah's name, hold on a bit, hold on a bit. 06:11.667 --> 06:14.830 [SPEAKER_00]: So he said, I told my friends, you go ahead or just speak to this young man. 06:14.850 --> 06:17.132 [SPEAKER_00]: And it was I tear it. 06:18.393 --> 06:19.534 [SPEAKER_00]: And I said, how can I help? 06:19.694 --> 06:24.598 [SPEAKER_00]: And he said, I want to join your campaign. 06:25.709 --> 06:32.395 [SPEAKER_00]: The young man that, let me see, if you are old enough, I'll let you join the campaign. 06:33.216 --> 06:37.800 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're too young, then excuse yourself and go back. 06:37.820 --> 06:40.762 [SPEAKER_00]: So he said, the young, the lad uncovered his face. 06:42.484 --> 06:46.748 [SPEAKER_00]: And uncovering his face, he said it was us, though you were looking at the moon. 06:48.549 --> 06:54.855 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, right, your spaces go. 06:55.763 --> 06:59.114 [SPEAKER_00]: So, what you use, and with piety, radiant vise. 07:00.780 --> 07:06.921 [SPEAKER_00]: But he looked on the 17th, 16th, so I said young, young man, this is war. 07:08.335 --> 07:10.419 [SPEAKER_00]: don't you have parents to go and be with? 07:11.161 --> 07:13.025 [SPEAKER_00]: So he said, my mom has sent me here. 07:13.045 --> 07:16.031 [SPEAKER_00]: And I don't want to return back empty handed. 07:16.051 --> 07:16.812 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to join. 07:17.193 --> 07:19.017 [SPEAKER_00]: And I have been training and horse riding. 07:19.598 --> 07:21.582 [SPEAKER_00]: And I have been training in the hearts of more. 07:22.083 --> 07:23.706 [SPEAKER_00]: And I am a half of the Quran. 07:23.746 --> 07:24.488 [SPEAKER_00]: So let me go. 07:25.209 --> 07:27.053 [SPEAKER_00]: So I go, Godam, I said, I said, OK. 07:29.075 --> 07:35.486 [SPEAKER_00]: And Abu Pudama says, every way we carried, this one was the best, most energetic of us. 07:36.247 --> 07:39.052 [SPEAKER_00]: He was the one of us setting up first, helping first. 07:40.014 --> 07:42.739 [SPEAKER_00]: And when we set camp at night, many of us were fasting. 07:43.841 --> 07:45.343 [SPEAKER_00]: So he said, food is on me. 07:46.325 --> 07:49.210 [SPEAKER_00]: I am the one that will prepare the food you guys want to eat. 07:50.202 --> 07:58.572 [SPEAKER_00]: So because he didn't want people to be affected by the smoke and this and that he set his little fire place a little far and then he started preparing. 07:58.632 --> 08:03.318 [SPEAKER_00]: But then time went by and the young boy is not coming back. 08:04.619 --> 08:19.197 [SPEAKER_00]: So his friends told him, he says, listen, can you go and see what is happening to the young man? 08:20.527 --> 08:27.134 [SPEAKER_00]: next to the fire, put his head on the rock, his fallen asleep because long journey tired. 08:29.116 --> 08:35.824 [SPEAKER_00]: So Abu Kodama says, I thought, I am a skinest diet, I'll cook instead for you, so that people can eat. 08:36.484 --> 08:42.250 [SPEAKER_00]: So I started preparing the food and I'm keeping an eye on him, because he's in my line of sights. 08:44.413 --> 08:50.179 [SPEAKER_00]: And he says, as I am cooking, I saw the young boy smile, like any sleep he's asleep. 08:50.716 --> 09:00.426 [SPEAKER_00]: and his smiles, and then his smiles more, then he does a little giggle, and then laughs, and then wakes up. 09:00.446 --> 09:02.529 [SPEAKER_00]: So when he wakes up, he sees a book, put down my speaking. 09:03.250 --> 09:08.035 [SPEAKER_00]: So he goes, uncle, sorry, I fell asleep, let me do this, he goes, no, no. 09:08.055 --> 09:10.337 [SPEAKER_00]: Tell me, tell me the dream, what did you see? 09:10.377 --> 09:12.399 [SPEAKER_00]: He goes, leave this book, put down my leaves. 09:13.220 --> 09:15.943 [SPEAKER_00]: Because I asked you, and Allah's name, tell me what you saw. 09:17.605 --> 09:18.546 [SPEAKER_00]: So he said, 09:19.538 --> 09:23.324 [SPEAKER_00]: I saw that the hour had been established, the Amahos had come. 09:24.666 --> 09:28.271 [SPEAKER_00]: And we were entering Janna, and I was of those entering Janna. 09:28.371 --> 09:38.606 [SPEAKER_00]: And it was as diverse as saying as the Ahadid say, and beauty so bewildering that the mind would go crazy just looking at them. 09:38.626 --> 09:47.740 [SPEAKER_00]: So because I'm entering with the Scroud, I see two young girls pointing at me and saying, 09:49.205 --> 09:53.271 [SPEAKER_00]: The husband of Margueria, so I looked at them, I have never seen beauty like this. 09:53.852 --> 09:55.495 [SPEAKER_00]: So I said, are you Margueria? 09:55.935 --> 09:59.921 [SPEAKER_00]: And they go, no, we are one of her maids, one of her servants. 10:00.642 --> 10:01.904 [SPEAKER_00]: She's in that palace there. 10:02.906 --> 10:03.186 [SPEAKER_00]: Go. 10:04.468 --> 10:13.001 [SPEAKER_00]: So I went into the palace and I saw a brick of silver in a brick of gold and pillars. 10:14.023 --> 10:17.608 [SPEAKER_00]: And then I saw a room of red gold. 10:19.816 --> 10:27.306 [SPEAKER_00]: And he describes its beauty, and he says, then I saw a lady standing in the middle of that. 10:27.326 --> 10:33.514 [SPEAKER_00]: And he says, yeah, Abba Qadama, if Allah had allowed my eyes to go, it would have gone from her beauty. 10:34.895 --> 10:39.141 [SPEAKER_00]: And if Allah had allowed my mind to go, I would have lost it just in her beauty. 10:40.463 --> 10:43.967 [SPEAKER_00]: So she looked at me and said, or friend of Allah, 10:44.116 --> 10:49.804 [SPEAKER_00]: I am yours in your mind, so he says, I moved forward and she moved back. 10:49.864 --> 10:52.108 [SPEAKER_00]: She said, no, you still have some time. 10:52.889 --> 10:55.032 [SPEAKER_00]: We will meet tomorrow at Voha. 10:58.337 --> 11:11.035 [SPEAKER_00]: So naturally, happy smile, we go, what else would you smile at? 11:12.280 --> 11:22.671 [SPEAKER_00]: The campaign started, the battle started and I looked for the young man and he moved into the forefront, like at the front of the line. 11:22.751 --> 11:28.377 [SPEAKER_00]: So I went to him and I said, young man, this is battle. 11:29.799 --> 11:42.152 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not like you have imagined, there's blood and bone here, broken limbs and cut, it's 11:42.689 --> 11:54.121 [SPEAKER_00]: and the battle started and it continued and by vuhor time the enemy was afooted and they fled and the Muslims started to look for the fallen and look. 11:55.843 --> 12:04.231 [SPEAKER_00]: And he says, I looked around and I found a voice calling out Cole Abu Kodama, Cole Abu Kodama. 12:04.272 --> 12:09.557 [SPEAKER_00]: So he goes, I saw him hurt and in his last 12:12.642 --> 12:31.743 [SPEAKER_00]: So he goes Abu Kodama, taking this from me, promised me this, tell my mom that the gift she presented to Allah was accepted, and I have achieved what my father and grandfather achieved before me. 12:33.585 --> 12:36.068 [SPEAKER_00]: So Abu Kodama says, who is your mother? 12:37.010 --> 12:43.657 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, the lady with the braids, the one that gave you her hair to put on the holes. 12:45.198 --> 12:47.040 [SPEAKER_00]: And then he starts smiling. 12:47.120 --> 12:48.862 [SPEAKER_00]: He goes, Abu Qadama, she's here. 12:48.902 --> 12:51.645 [SPEAKER_00]: Marwia, sitting above my head. 12:51.685 --> 12:55.869 [SPEAKER_00]: And it is us, I had seen it in my dream. 12:55.909 --> 13:04.418 [SPEAKER_00]: And then he, Rahimah, who passed away and went and shot a lot to the mercy of his Lord. 13:06.254 --> 13:16.107 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want misunderstanding of the story because the point I am trying to raise is a point of standing firm. 13:17.929 --> 13:34.270 [SPEAKER_00]: And what details I want you to notice is notice that the grandfather was on this part and the father was on this part. 13:35.701 --> 13:40.527 [SPEAKER_00]: And when those two had died, had passed away, standing firm. 13:42.008 --> 13:44.231 [SPEAKER_00]: The mother could have waved it. 13:44.251 --> 13:49.697 [SPEAKER_00]: She could have got busy with nice shoes and fancy aviars. 13:51.099 --> 14:05.235 [SPEAKER_00]: But stonch firm, so that even without them, 14:07.915 --> 14:10.197 [SPEAKER_00]: And then there's a lot of lessons for all of us. 14:10.637 --> 14:17.143 [SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ hadith and forms us that human kind are like mad in mind. 14:17.784 --> 14:22.428 [SPEAKER_00]: Like as in, if it's a gold mind, gold keeps coming out of that mind. 14:23.128 --> 14:26.531 [SPEAKER_00]: You'll not get copper out of it, it's a gold mind. 14:26.551 --> 14:36.960 [SPEAKER_00]: And if it's a copper mind, copper mind will keep coming. 14:37.362 --> 14:41.708 [SPEAKER_00]: We leave behind this generation who will keep holding on to the Dean. 14:42.469 --> 14:51.141 [SPEAKER_00]: Me and you must bring Dean into our minds to the level that it becomes the inspiration and aspiration of our kids. 14:53.684 --> 15:01.615 [SPEAKER_00]: And when the men are not able to, they are gone or they vary or they falter, 15:02.185 --> 15:11.296 [SPEAKER_00]: The women should be at the level to keep the torch burning and keep the flag high and keep the family going and keep the children on that path. 15:12.117 --> 15:16.943 [SPEAKER_00]: In Alhamdulillah, we have people like that in our community. 15:18.185 --> 15:23.872 [SPEAKER_00]: I saw in my experience a young mother, she lost the husband at the young range. 15:24.973 --> 15:31.281 [SPEAKER_00]: And she had four or five kids left behind. 15:32.324 --> 15:49.603 [SPEAKER_00]: such a committed mother to the cause that the kids grow up with Qur'an and that kids grow up beside this and that kids grow up off out and get this a sing ula focus that they grow up to become assets of the dean in a legacy of their father. 15:51.065 --> 15:59.935 [SPEAKER_00]: So, dear ones alhamdulillah in this country, there's peace and safety and security and prosperity in Allah blesses and keep with y'arab. 16:01.197 --> 16:08.874 [SPEAKER_00]: And standing firm for me and you was not the same as standing firm for Abu Kodama in those that were there, but the themes are the same. 16:08.914 --> 16:10.999 [SPEAKER_00]: The themes are the same. 16:11.059 --> 16:18.936 [SPEAKER_00]: Each one of us, each husband, each wife, each father, each mother. 16:20.063 --> 16:27.977 [SPEAKER_00]: must live so that the children see Dean in us, because as I started, you can't be what you can't see. 16:28.798 --> 16:35.329 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah let them see goodness in us, and Allah Allah is the bring them up to be the goodness of your eyes and the delight of your hearts. 16:35.349 --> 16:42.662 [SPEAKER_00]: Fakul-Dumapul-Dumapul-Dumipul-Dumipul-Dumipul-Dumipul-Dumipul-Dumipul-Dumipul-Dumipul-Dumipul-Dumipul-Dumipul-Dumipul-Dumipul-Dumipul-Dumipul-Dumipul-Dumipul-Dumipul-Dumipul-Dumipul-Dumipul-Dumipul-Dumipul-Dumipul-Dumipul-Dumipul-Dumipul-Dumipul-Dumip