[SPEAKER_01]: Allah is closer to you when you are in more pain.
[SPEAKER_01]: Allah is closer to you when you are in more hurt.
[SPEAKER_01]: Allah is closer to you the more you suffer actually.
[SPEAKER_01]: So when you're fasting and going through that suppression of your desires,
[SPEAKER_01]: And you have that tiredness and exhaustion.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yet you are striving, making Jihad against your desires.
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot tells us I'm always close.
[SPEAKER_01]: Which signifies everything else in your life.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want you to think about anything else in your life that is painful.
[SPEAKER_01]: Allah says in the Quran,
[SPEAKER_00]: In Surah number 2 verse 186, Allah addresses the prophet Muhammad, Salallu alayhi wa sallam.
[SPEAKER_01]: and says, in brackets, I'm a Ahmed, when my servants ask you about me, indeed, I am quite near.
[SPEAKER_01]: I hear and respond to each single supplication, each single prayer, each single call,
[SPEAKER_01]: of the caller whenever he or she calls to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: So let them respond to me, let them respond to my call and believe in me, put their trust in me, that they may be guided, they may be guided to the best of what they yearn for, to the best of what they're searching for, to the best of what they're requesting.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they may be guided out of the predicament therein and find the good that they're looking for.
[SPEAKER_01]: My brothers and sisters, this particular verse of the Qur'an, when you read it in the Qur'an, it appears between two big verses.
[SPEAKER_01]: Does anyone know what these two big verses talk about?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's in Saurat al-Bakara?
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a verse that talks about, it seems like it's totally different topic, then it goes into this verse and it goes back to the same topic.
[SPEAKER_01]: Does anyone know which topic it's about?
[SPEAKER_01]: It starts with an R, not Riba, Ramadan, Fasting, Fasting Ramadan.
[SPEAKER_01]: The reason the scholars say that Allah's panel at the Isla placed this verse straight after talking about fasting Ramadan is because among the closest you are to Allah is when you are worshipping Allah and among the best types of worship is when you are restricting your food and your pleasures for 30 days fasting for the sake of Allah's panel at the Isla.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then Allah says,
[SPEAKER_01]: And if my servants ask you, and when my servants ask you about me, tell them about me, I am always definitely close.
[SPEAKER_01]: Allah is closer to you when you are in more pain.
[SPEAKER_01]: Allah is closer to you when you are in more hurt.
[SPEAKER_01]: Allah is closer to you than more you suffer actually.
[SPEAKER_01]: So when you're fasting and going through that suppression of your desires,
[SPEAKER_01]: And you have that tiredness and exhaustion, yet you are striving, making your head against your desires.
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot tells us I'm always close, which signifies everything else in your life.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want you to think about anything else in your life that is painful.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and we cannot survive without food and drink.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yet, in a time when given, when we're giving it up, just for a few hours in the day, a lot tells us I am close, meaning any time you suffer.
[SPEAKER_01]: any time you go through tragedy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Remember, I'm near.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're not alone.
[SPEAKER_01]: All celebrations.
[SPEAKER_01]: And look at this verse when you read it even more carefully.
[SPEAKER_01]: Listen to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Whether it's a al-Qaiba, D, this, an elongation of the word.
[SPEAKER_01]: And sometimes Allah says Aiba, D, a shortening of the last letter, D. And in this one, He says Aiba, D extends it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Arabic is very precise language.
[SPEAKER_01]: A. Verdee gives two meanings.
[SPEAKER_01]: The first meaning is a lot is calling out to those who are close to him already, who believe in him.
[SPEAKER_01]: He calls them in a form of possessive noun, you are mine, you are close to me, special to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the second meaning of extending the word E, it means it's all encompassing everyone.
[SPEAKER_01]: everyone, anyone who asks about Allah, Muslim or non-Muslim, anyone because we are all servants of Allah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So even the disbelievers, if you ask about Allah, Allah says, I'm near.
[SPEAKER_01]: But he is even nearer to the believer because the believer has chosen to be nearer to Allah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then you find in the same verse Allah says, O jibu, I always respond to the caller of the caller.
[SPEAKER_01]: In the Arabic language usually the common sense will tell you that you would say, if they ask me for anything I will respond.
[SPEAKER_01]: But in this verse Allah says, I respond first to the caller of the caller.
[SPEAKER_01]: Allah answers you before you ask him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Normally you should be asking and then Allah gives you, but Allah says, I will give you when you ask.
[SPEAKER_01]: This means the moment you intend and you move and just mumble with your mouth.
[SPEAKER_01]: Allah is already responded before you finish the sentence.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is how close Allah is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Before you finish the sentence Allah is already responded.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is why in this Arabic language you have the scholars looked at it very carefully is it?
[SPEAKER_01]: Ujibu, I respond.
[SPEAKER_01]: For what?
[SPEAKER_01]: Dawa.
[SPEAKER_01]: Every single request.
[SPEAKER_01]: Dawa, singular.
[SPEAKER_01]: No matter how small or big, you know, Dawa is like saying, Namla, an ant.
[SPEAKER_01]: Who cares about ant, an ant crawling somewhere in the world?
[SPEAKER_01]: Your door can be as seems as insignificant to your anyone else, as the crawling of some ant in some desert in Sahara.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, are they ants in Sahara?
[SPEAKER_01]: It should be.
[SPEAKER_01]: somewhere in the outback, you're a little a small as an ant, a lower respond to it, but respond means that he will give you what is best for you because human beings don't know what is good for them and what is bad.
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't know the future.
[SPEAKER_01]: We might think this is good, but I'll learn knows it's not.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so what do you do?
[SPEAKER_01]: Since a lot promised that he will respond,
[SPEAKER_01]: And when he knows that what you're asking for is not good for you, Allah is not going to let it go.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've got to find a solution because he made a promise and he doesn't go against his promise.
[SPEAKER_01]: Allah says, in Allah Allah, you're going to leave for Wada.
[SPEAKER_01]: Allah never contradicts his promise.
[SPEAKER_01]: So our messenger Muhammad ﷺ, he explains that his way, we take the words of our Prophet ﷺ to explain further.
[SPEAKER_01]: He says, whenever someone asks a lot for anything, he will give it to them.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll use the shodahadith in one of three ways.
[SPEAKER_01]: Either he will give you exactly what you asked or prevent exactly what you asked to be prevented.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or if he sees that it's not going to be good for you, he will ward off something tragic in your life from you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or he will save it for you for the year after for your salvation.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because we may ask Allah for something and later on find out, we shouldn't have.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because we are emotional beings.
[SPEAKER_01]: Allah says in the Qur'an,
[SPEAKER_01]: man hastes in his supplication to God sometimes, while they are in a state of pessimism and negativity.
[SPEAKER_01]: So for example, it might be angry, it might be emotional, it might be frustrated, it might be upset, and we make a door out of emotion when a lion knows this is not good, and a lot says, and his hasty wants it quickly, now,
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
[SPEAKER_01]: Meaning, only if something happens, this will happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: But Allah says, either, dhan, not if they call upon me, when?
[SPEAKER_01]: What does that mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: Either it means a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: No matter how many times you call, how many of you, nothing will affect the kingdom of Allah from responding to each and every single one of you.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Prophet ﷺ tells us hadith al-Qudsi, hadith which Allah said, it's in between the verse of the Qur'an, between hadith of the Prophet, hadith Qudsi, divine hadith, that Allah spent the Isle says, oh my servants, if all of you human beings and all your genes from beginning of creation to the end of creation of all time, each one of you asked me for something the size of whatever,
[SPEAKER_01]: I can respond and give to each and every one of you whatever you ask without my kingdom diminishing even a drop.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Allah's Pantaheiler responds to all.
[SPEAKER_01]: And one more thing about that verse, Allah said O Muhammad, and he's addressing the Prophet ﷺ, and when my servants ask you, because what happened, why did this verse, why was this verse revealed?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like there's a context to it, there's a story behind it.
[SPEAKER_01]: The companions of the Prophet peace be upon him approached the messenger of Allah one day, and they said, O messenger of Allah,
[SPEAKER_01]: is Allah fire away so that when we call upon him we should shout, or is He close so that when we call upon him we should whisper.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Prophet ﷺ said he is close so whisper and then this verse was revealed and when my servants ask you about me I am always close.
[SPEAKER_01]: I will respond to the single tiny call of the call when they call upon me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then Allah brings the condition.
[SPEAKER_01]: Say, if I respond to your call, Allah is saying, shouldn't you respond to my call, Allah says.
[SPEAKER_01]: So respond to my call, complete the puzzle.
[SPEAKER_01]: Complete the connection.
[SPEAKER_01]: Meaning respond to my words, believe in me, secure your faith in me, put your trust in me, obey me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why obey Allah?
[SPEAKER_01]: Allah doesn't need us to obey him.
[SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't need anybody to obey him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Subhanahu Ata Ali gets nothing out of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: He created us.
[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't need us.
[SPEAKER_01]: We need him.
[SPEAKER_01]: But Allah wants you to connect to that which is best for you because Allah, that's who he is.
[SPEAKER_01]: He is the merciful, the loving, the caring.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is us to turn away from Allah, Allah doesn't turn from us.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is us who walk away my brothers and sisters.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is not Allah who walks away.
[SPEAKER_01]: We are the ones who walk away.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Prophet ﷺ told us again in Hadith Qutzi which Allah revealed.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said,
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, my servant, intercarrupta ilayya shibran, if you come closer to me, one palm-length, the corruptu ilayka bihadiran, I will come closer to you and arm-length.
[SPEAKER_01]: When atatani, mashian atatukaharwala, if you come to me walking at a walking pace, obviously this is a metaphor, I will come to you, pacing fast.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if you come pacing fast to me, I will come to you running.
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot wants us more than what we want him, but Allah knows what he created, and he knows we are sometimes impatient, sometimes forgetful, sometimes out desires take over, sometimes sinful, or follicle insernal dhaifah, Allah says, the human being was created naturally weak.
[SPEAKER_01]: Meaning, they're full of emotions and desires, and they're always struggling with it, and that is why Allah rewards us For every one good deed that we do, minimum tenfold to multiply by ten Up to 70 up to 700, but when we do a bad deed, he only counts it as one So Allah has balanced everything out, is the Justin Fee And he forgives And he is the only one who will not judge you On your past, if you have sincerely returned in your repentance, and he will open doors for you Even if you're repented at thousand times
[SPEAKER_01]: Allah says in the Qur'an in Allah your Hebbu tawabin, where your Hebbu mutatahirin, Allah loves.
[SPEAKER_01]: Those always want to return to Him again and again and again.
[SPEAKER_01]: And He loves those who love to purify themselves.
[SPEAKER_01]: Purify themselves doesn't just mean physically, but also mean mentally, spiritually, in your conduct and character.
[SPEAKER_01]: You may have done things that are considered dirty and you want to clean yourself from the dirty acts and words and past.
[SPEAKER_01]: Allah says He loves those who want to purify themselves.
[SPEAKER_01]: So this is how we get closer.