[SPEAKER_00]: It's not surprising considering the climate of fear and pessimism and anxiety that prevades and reverberates in politics, in social life, in modern media, that the likes of Max Rosa, a academic at Oxford University, who carried out a global study,
[SPEAKER_00]: and his findings suggest that pessimism is on the rise globally.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that some of the most pessimistic nations in the world are the so-called developed nations of the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: He mentions a statistic that suggests that only 6% of the global community believe that the world is becoming a better place.
[SPEAKER_00]: 94% of his sample of Americans that he is,
[SPEAKER_00]: They believe that the world is becoming a worse off place as time continues and elapses.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the same dismal fingers apply in Australia and here at home in Europe as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pesimism, or in Arabic we may call it a tasha um, is on the rise.
[SPEAKER_00]: And therefore, it is not surprising that Allah Subhan Allah in his utmost, hekma wismim when He sent Prophets and Messages, whose primary roles were to convey to him the oneness of Allah Almighty to the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're also required to transform their communities.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was necessary that Allah Almighty would endow them with the certain traits and the behavioral attributes and the qualities needed for them to lead and to inspire change and to transform and reform their people.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's exactly what Allah Almighty gave them.
[SPEAKER_00]: You will find that with the prophets and the messengers, they were different in many things.
[SPEAKER_00]: There were different in the countries they were sent to.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were different in the languages they spoke.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were human beings.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there were common denominators across all of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: There were certain traits that every single prophet and messenger shared with his brother.
[SPEAKER_00]: On the other side of the continent, they were identical in certain behavioral traits and qualities.
[SPEAKER_00]: For example, they were all sent by the same God, Allah Subhanahu al-Tahni.
[SPEAKER_00]: a lot of them were given miracles, all of them taught to heed the oneness of Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: All of them were men of Anana, trustworthiness, they were all men as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: And one of the common denominators across the board, every prophet shared this quality, every prophet had to possess this quality at very high dosages as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was the quality you've come to speak about this afternoon.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the quality of taffat would.
[SPEAKER_00]: Optimism.
[SPEAKER_00]: To think well in Allah Subhan Allah to expect the best in him when every other voice is a voice of pessimism.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those are the voices, the voices of optimists, that we love, and we gravitate towards, especially when negativity becomes widespread.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those are the voices we admire.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those are the voices we secretly wish to adopt as our own.
[SPEAKER_00]: The voice of the optimist, is especially when negativity prevails.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you were to do a quick scan of the Prophets and Messengers, you see it.
[SPEAKER_00]: They are identical in their phenomenal optimism when everyone was down and doubting.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whether you speak about the Prophet of Allah, Ibrahim, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, who found himself launched into a tower of fire, built just for him and in the middle of the fire as his clothes burnt because he didn't.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, hasamun Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: when I am in what you know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah Almighty is enough for us and He is the best disposer of affairs.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah, optimistic, despite being in the middle of flames.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or you speak about the Prophet of Allah, Moussa'a, Alayhi salatu wa salam and the story is well known.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who escapes from the tyranny of the Pharaoh, with his community of Benny Israim behind him is a formidable army.
[SPEAKER_00]: of the Fira'oun, that may be the superpower of the era, and ahead of you are the deep waters of the Red Sea.
[SPEAKER_00]: You and I, we hear the story, it's not so amazing because we know how it ends, but empathize with the Prophet of Allah, Musa'a.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because he didn't know how it was going to end.
[SPEAKER_00]: All he knew is that I have a Lord who I think, well of he is Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'alan, the Prophet of Allah, Musa was optimistic.
[SPEAKER_00]: Falammatara al-Jamani, Allah said, when the two camps could now see one another, the upcoming army could see the people of Muza and the people of Muza can see the army Falammatara al-Jamali, they are now within sight of one another, Al-Ashabu Muza, the companions of Muza, they said, in Al-Mudraqoon, they're going to reach us.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Muza Ali, he said, he said,
[SPEAKER_00]: Inna Mahayar Abhi, my Lord is with me, say, you are doing He shall guide me.
[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't say, my Lord is going to split the sea for me because He didn't know what's going to happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what He does know is that Allah is the truth.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah is with me and He shall guide me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the rest, as they say, is a history, you know how the story ends.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fahahina Ila Musa, and Ilduri Biasal Al-Bahar.
[SPEAKER_00]: We then inspired, as a result of this, Dumousa, to strike the sea with his staff.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fan Falaq, so it split.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fakayana, Kullufirkin, Cataldaladim, and every one of the two parts of the sea became a firm mass like a mountain.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they crossed La ilaha illallah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Optimism.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or the prophet of Allah Ya'aqub, alaihi salatu wa sallam jakeb, the father of Yusuf.
[SPEAKER_00]: Imagine we touched upon some of this in our depression lecture.
[SPEAKER_00]: He'd lost his favorite sallam Yusuf, alaihi salatu wa sallam, and he'd grieved over him for many years.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then maybe a decade and a half or two without hearing a word from Yousaf.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now he's a man.
[SPEAKER_00]: And He was comes to him that his other sunbini Amin has been detained in Egypt.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Prophet of Allah, Ya'qub, his body is on the verge of buckling.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to die because of grief.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I am sure that if a clinician today in the modern world was to assess the health of Prophet Yakube, that where he would have had no doubt that these are the clear signs of depression.
[SPEAKER_00]: Extreme depression.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, do you know someone who cried so much until he lost his vision?
[SPEAKER_00]: But of course, there's not the depression of despair.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the depression of hope and optimism, but there is grief.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is sadness, but there is no despair.
[SPEAKER_00]: and at the heart of the travesty Prophet Yaqub says to his sons, Yadani, my sons, it have a go.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the hassas who amin use with Allah, go and ask about useful and his brother, try to find them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wala Ta'ay Asuna Ra'Allah, and don't despair from the mercy of Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Inna Hulayai Asuna Ra'Allah, he illa al-Qaumul kafiroun, it's only the disbelieving people who despair from the mercy of Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Haji.
[SPEAKER_00]: You'd think that it will be the sons who will be consoling the father.
[SPEAKER_00]: You'd think that it will be the community that would consult the individual.
[SPEAKER_00]: You'd think that it will be the ones who can see, consoling the one who'd lost his vision because of grief.
[SPEAKER_00]: You'd think it will be the perpetrators, the sons who would consult the victim of the father.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yet it's Yaqub who is consoling his sons and saying to them, beware of ever despairing from the mercy of Allah, that's not the quality of a believer, that's the quality of a disbeliever.
[SPEAKER_00]: or whether you fast forward to the greatest of all optimists that history has ever witnessed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, now that an hour Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, Allah Almighty, he was said to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, you lie, Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Count with me, he was a man who lost his mother at the age of six years old.
[SPEAKER_00]: He saw her die in front of him when they were coming back from a visit to his uncles.
[SPEAKER_00]: Before that, he'd lost his father.
[SPEAKER_00]: He never met a dad, so he was an orphan.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was taken into the care of his grandfather, whom he loved so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: And by the time he had grown attached to him, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala took his grandfather away from him as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: How much could a man endure?
[SPEAKER_00]: And then he was put into the care of his uncle Abu Talib.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he became very attached to Abu Talib.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in one year, Allah Almighty decreed that he would take away from him Khadija, the most beloved of human beings to him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And his uncle Abu Talib is exterior form of defense.
[SPEAKER_00]: In one year, at a time when he needed them the most.
[SPEAKER_00]: and they called it the year of sorrow.
[SPEAKER_00]: He would see his companions carpeting the battlefield in defense of his honour and in defense of the religion of Islam.
[SPEAKER_00]: He would lose every one of his children.
[SPEAKER_00]: He would bury them with his own hands.
[SPEAKER_00]: Imagine.
[SPEAKER_00]: And only one of them would survive, Fatima, and even she was told by him that you will be the first to pass away after I die.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that happened six months after he passed away.
[SPEAKER_00]: She passed away.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Allah compensated him with grandchildren al-Hassan al-Hassan and he would kiss them and he would sniff them and he would carry them on the pulpit when delivering the khutbah.
[SPEAKER_00]: He loved them as his own.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yet jibril would tell him that both of them will die in a very harrowing deflator on in their lives and he would tell them just that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pain and grief.
[SPEAKER_00]: And stones would be hurled at him when he would come back from the trip of Allah if to invite them to Islam.
[SPEAKER_00]: And his ankles would fill his shoes with his blessed blood.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ali, he is allowed to Muslim.
[SPEAKER_00]: He would be accused with respect to his intellect and his mind and his honour and his dhalah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Salal Jazoor, the intestines of camels would be placed on his neck and back as he prostrated to Allah and Salah by the pay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Al-Ralqaba bin Al-Abi Mu'ayt would suffocate the Prophet ﷺ and he was springing to Allah until our Prophet almost breathed his last, and towards the end of his life, his blessed feet were no longer able to carry him and he would find the need to pray sat down because of the bashing in that people had given him as our other eye, as she said, and despite all of these things combined, what was his motto in life?
[SPEAKER_00]: Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim, Bismillahi r-Rahim, Bismillahi r-Rahim, Bismillahi r-Rahim, Bismillahi r-Rahim, Bismillahi r-Rahim, Bismillahi r-Rahim, Bismillahi r-Rahim, Bismillahi r-Rahim, Bismillahi r-Rahim, Bismillahi r-Rahim, Bismillahi r-Rahim, Bismillahi r-Rahim, Bismillahi r-Rahim, Bismillahi r-Rahim, Bismillahi r-Rahim, Bismillahi r-Rahim, Bismillahi r-Rahim, Bismillahi r-Rahim, Bismillahi r-Rahim, Bismillahi r-Rahim, Bismillahi r-Rahim, Bismillahi r-Rahim, Bismillahi r-Rahim, Bismillahi r-Rahim, Bismillahi r-Rahim, Bismillahi r-Rahim, Bismillahi
[SPEAKER_00]: and victory comes with patience, and every difficulty that comes your way is accompanied with two forms of ease, Allah, no human being was an optimist like the Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaikum, and history will never witness an optimist like him ever again.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he transformed lives.
[SPEAKER_00]: Tate, for example, the battle of Ahzab, the battle of the Confederates, the alliance that happened five years after the migration to the city of Medina, an army of 10,000 men strong besieged the city of the Prophet, Sallallahu alaihi wa-sallam, marrying in mind that 10,000 was probably more than the population of Medina back then.
[SPEAKER_00]: with its men and with its women and with its elderly and with its goats and with its sheep and with its camels, 10,000.
[SPEAKER_00]: This had never, a Arabian peninsula had never seen a number like this before.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Muslims had dug a trench in the entrance to the city of Medina, at the top, to the northwest of the city, to prevent the alliances from coming in.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they had depended upon the Jewish Tribal Banu Koroida on the south to protect the Muslims from allowing the pagans a rear entrance into the city.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was harrowing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah Almighty describes the terror of the Muslims and the non-Muslims during this time.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, if J'a'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u
[SPEAKER_00]: was with Zillos in Zayla and in Shedida and they were shaken on mighty shaking.
[SPEAKER_00]: And at that moment the pessimists began to speak.
[SPEAKER_00]: On this occasion they were the Monafi Qun, the hypocrites.
[SPEAKER_00]: They began to doubt Allah Almighty and they saw the proverbial, the proverbial glass as being have empty, not have full.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if Yakuunun Munafi Huna Walladina Fiyakunubi him maradun wa adan Allahun wa Rasuluhu Inavarura when the hypocrites and those who had an illness in the hearts began to say look at how they're moving the media machine.
[SPEAKER_00]: When the hypocrites and those who had an illness in the hearts they began to say what Allah Almighty and His messenger promised us was just delusional.
[SPEAKER_00]: Astaghfirullah wa Ataubili, pessimism.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the end of Islam.
[SPEAKER_00]: There can be no day after this night.
[SPEAKER_00]: But how did the optimists respond?
[SPEAKER_00]: The companions of the Prophet ﷺ who drank from the springs of optimism from our messenger, alaihi satu wa salam and inhaled the urge of optimism from him.
[SPEAKER_00]: How did they respond?
[SPEAKER_00]: Wa lam nara al-Mutminoon al-Hazabi al-Ashad.
[SPEAKER_00]: When they believe is so the Confederates,
[SPEAKER_00]: they saw the alliances, Qadhu Hadam wa Hadam Allahu wa Rasululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululululul
[SPEAKER_00]: And I want you to imagine now, the Prophet ﷺ during this moment, when people can't even go out to urinate in peace, they are fearing a stray arrow or a spear from the alliance worse, besieging the city, news is given to him that there is a rock in the trench, we're unable to break it and we need to overcome it in order to complete the trench.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said to his companions, show me where it is, so they showed him directions, and he picked up his axe, and he descended into the trench.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he said Bismillah, in the name of Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he hit it, and our Prophet ﷺ was a strong man.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was no pacifist.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was a man who would exercise.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was strong.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was physically fit.
[SPEAKER_00]: He would eat healthy.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was the bravest of men.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was a warrior.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ali, his salatu was salam.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we take pride in that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he hit the rock, and a third of it fell.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he said, Allah, who, at what, listen to his words, bury the mind, it is dark.
[SPEAKER_00]: The future is uncertain.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's tying rocks to his stomach because of hunger.
[SPEAKER_00]: And death is almost certain.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, Allahu Akbar, O you, mafiyat mafiyat mafiyat iha sham, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar,
[SPEAKER_00]: great to Syria, the greatest empire on planet earth at the time, at that moment of vulnerability and weakness, the existential threat in the thick of it, the Prophet ﷺ would pluck out opportunities to demonstrate his optimism in Allah Jalla Jalla.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was a leader and thus should be the Muslims today as they see what is happening in Al-Masjidul-Aqsa.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is when we promote values of optimism and by Allah we have seen it.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, I have just been given the keys to a sham.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah, He, I can see the red palaces of a sham from the places where I stand right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, the second time, and He says, Bismillah in the name of Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And He hits it the second time, the second third of the rock breaks off.
[SPEAKER_00]: And He said, Allah, who Akbar, O'atl-e-Tul-Mafatiha, Fares, Allah, He inni, La'ob-Sirul-Nadayin, O'ob-Sirul-Azrahal Abyat-Min-Makani,
[SPEAKER_00]: And by Allah I can see the madah in the cities of Persia and I can see its grand wide palace from the place where I stand.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then he picks up his axis a second time and he hits it and the rest of the boulder now is reduced to rubble and he says, what?
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah wa akbar or atlead to nafati hal yaman Allah has just given me the keys to yaman.
[SPEAKER_00]: They weren't Muslims at the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have just been given the keys to yaman Allah, he in need of absolute.
[SPEAKER_00]: Abwahaha min s-san'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a
[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't see the conquest of Hashem, he didn't see the conquest of Persia, he didn't see the Islam of the people of Yemen, which shows you that as an optimist and as a leader and every one of you are leaders, you don't need to see the fruits of your labor.
[SPEAKER_00]: you need to lay the groundwork.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what we need to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: And whether that happens in our children's generation or the children's generation, it doesn't matter.
[SPEAKER_00]: What matters is that you lay the groundwork and you show Allah Almighty good expectations and you think, well of Him, and that is the behavior of an optimist.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't rush the outcomes, you don't rush the results.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was year one, year five after the Hijara.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fast forward to year eight after the Hijara, you have the Battle of Hunein, a very difficult moment in the life of the Muslims, read about it in chapter nine of the Quran.
[SPEAKER_00]: Abu Dahu'u'u narrates in his son-in on New Thought, you have Sahalib Nul hal-baliya.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said that we were travelling once with the Prophet ﷺ on the day of Hunein, on the day of the Battle of Hunein.
[SPEAKER_00]: We traveled for a long time, till we camped in the evening, and had a lot of time for prayer, came.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fajah Afaris, a horseman came rushing to us, and he said, oh Messenger of Allah, in the name of Allah, I left earlier.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wa raqayi tu jaba la qadah wa qadah, and I ascended such and such mountain.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I saw that on the other side of it, the entire tribe of Hawazin have arrived and they brought with them their animals, their livestock, their sheep, their men and women.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hawazin was one of the most fear tribes of the Arabian Peninsula.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they have brought out the entire tribe to annihilate the Muslims.
[SPEAKER_00]: How would you react in such a situation?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, let me show you how our Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallahu alaihi wa sallahu alaihi wa sallahu alaihi wa sallahu alaihi wa sallahu alaihi wa sallahu alaihi wa sallahu alai
[SPEAKER_00]: The narration said Fataba Sama, he smiled and he said, Qilqa, Aranim atul Muslimina, Radha Nisha Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said to him, oh, what you saw will be the beauty of the Muslims tomorrow in Shala.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't worry, all of it will be the beauty of the Muslims tomorrow in Shala.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he ﷺ would say about what the Muslims should say, what their war cry should be.
[SPEAKER_00]: If they are attacked at night, he said, in Bu'iyyit-tum-faliyyakun-shiyyawru-kum-hamim-laiyyun-salwam.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you are attacked at night, make sure that your war cry is hamim, they will not be given victory.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hamim, they will not be given victory.
[SPEAKER_00]: A shaykhani, he says, this is a demonstration of optimism in that the enemy will be defeated.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he would say to his Sahaba, at a time of fear, as muslim narrates in Nallahaz Yawali and Allah Almighty has drawn the two ends of the earth for me to see.
[SPEAKER_00]: Farahaytul Masha'a-Rikaha wa-Marrari-Baha, and so I saw the east and west parts of the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wa-in-Nal-Mati-Misa'yab-Luvumun-Kuhaha-Maz-Wayali-Min-Haha, and I saw that the kingdom of my Ummah will reach as far as what I was made to see.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah, Allah, Optimism, Ali Hustallah, to a sinner.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it wasn't just during times of war and military confrontation that he was optimistic.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I began with these examples because usually this is where people express pessimism the most when Fira and Anziety is at a peak.
[SPEAKER_00]: But in other times as well, when he would visit the ill for example, he would ensure to cover up the dark side of the illness and to demonstrate the luminous side to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Abdullahimna Abbas, he said that the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallallam once visited an old Arab Bedouin man who was fevering.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallallam satan next to him when he said to him laba sallam, he said, he said, don't worry.
[SPEAKER_00]: You will not be harmed by this illness.
[SPEAKER_00]: It will only purify you from your sins.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mashallah Optimism is going to purify you from your sins.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the Arab Bedouin man was a pessimist.
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you saying is going to purify me from my sins?
[SPEAKER_00]: No.
[SPEAKER_00]: Belhiyah Muhammad A'for.
[SPEAKER_00]: Al-A-Shaykhin Kabir.
[SPEAKER_00]: Tuziruhul Quboor.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, No, this is a fever.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's going to increase.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's going to boil me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's going to drive the old man to his grave.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the Prophet ﷺ said to him, for now I'm even.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: It will be as such.
[SPEAKER_00]: In other words, if this is your poor expectations of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, then let it be as you expect of Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anah, I'm the one, the Ibu Dibi, Allah said, I will be just as you think of me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will be just as my worshiper assumes me to be, for liya'vunna be mashah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So let him assume whatever he wants.
[SPEAKER_00]: Think well of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
[SPEAKER_00]: You are sure that you're going to die and you have no expectation of Allah,
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you remember, well, actually, I don't think anybody will remember.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe some of our elders are of elders, Egyptian are of elders.
[SPEAKER_00]: You'll remember, Anwar Wagdi.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, for Anwar Wagdi, because he's an Egyptian director, where he was an Egyptian director, an actor, and a script writer, died in the 50s.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they were once interviewing him about the comparison between illness and wealth and well-being, which one is better.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he said something that would cost him his life.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, and I'm scared to even repeat these words, just in case Allah answers their dua.
[SPEAKER_00]: But Allah, I'm not intending this as a dua.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just conveying the news.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, yarab me at al-Fjinnay'u s-arat'an.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, oh Allah, give me 100,000 Egyptian jinnay'a.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't mind if you give my body cancer as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah,
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu
[SPEAKER_00]: And she was trembling, she was in pain.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said to her,
[SPEAKER_00]: And in this way, all the Hibu Khatayahs came from the Hibu Al-Qiru Khabat Al-Hadid.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, because the Fiva expiates people since, it removes you from your sins.
[SPEAKER_00]: The same way the Athanas purifies iron from its ore.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah Allah Akbar, what an optimist he was, alayhi sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallahu sall
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, our Prophet ﷺ was so keen to elicit optimism and demonstrate his good expectations of Allah that he would even change the names of countries, the names of cities, the names of valleys, the names of children and men and women from down-trudden meanings to meanings of positivity and activity, because names can affect personality.
[SPEAKER_00]: As if Malkaim Rahimah, who lies it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So when our Prophet ﷺ migrated to the city of what we call today Medina, it used to be called Yatrib in the past.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yatrib from the road at Tathrib.
[SPEAKER_00]: At Tathrib it means to blame, to reprimand, it has a negative meaning.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, this will be called the city of Taaba or the city of Taiba.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the good city, the pure city Medina to Taiba.
[SPEAKER_00]: A good omen, and therefore he would change the name.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he once came across a valley.
[SPEAKER_00]: He asked about the name of the valley as he traveled with the companions.
[SPEAKER_00]: They said, this is called Shia Mudbalala.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the valley of misguidance.
[SPEAKER_00]: The valley of string.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, we will call it Shia Mudh.
[SPEAKER_00]: He daia.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the valley of guidance.
[SPEAKER_00]: Positive and optimistic land in Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he came across the name of a land that was called Afra.
[SPEAKER_00]: Afra, Afra, it's in description to the color of debt.
[SPEAKER_00]: Afra, he said, we'll call it al-Qadilah.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the Greenland.
[SPEAKER_00]: Inshallah, we hope a level of talented Green.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's called the Greenland.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he came across a tribe by the name of Benu Muqwia, the tribe of misguidance and deviation.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, you are called Benu Rishdha, the tribe of reason.
[SPEAKER_00]: You are the tribe of reason.
[SPEAKER_00]: A girl, a young girl, her name was Aasliya.
[SPEAKER_00]: What does Aasliya mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Not A, C, A, A, A, A, C, A, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A, C, A,
[SPEAKER_00]: So the prophet said to him, your name is Sahel, meaning ease.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, I will never change a name that my father gave me.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, he just meant some man, he, I can't change a name that my parents gave me.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the prophet said, I sent him, of course, to enforce him.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a recommendation.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, Sa'aidi bin Musaib, who is the grandson, he said, Fahma Zalati al-Hazoonatufida, ha'at al-A'an.
[SPEAKER_00]: And as a result of this decision on my grandfather, harshness and difficulty has been passed down from generation to generation.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very la'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a
[SPEAKER_00]: Another Sahabi by the name of Nekira, meaning the unknown one, he said your name is Ma'roof.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're the known one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Another one, his name is Rafil, meaning the heedless one.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, your name is Ahil, you are the intelligent one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Another one, his name is Al-Muttajya, meaning the one laying down.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, your name is Al-Mun-Bahif, the one who is filled with activity and the one who is moving and doing things, you are Al-Mun-Bahif, La ilaha illallah, positive, even in the names of cities and in fact he would take optimism from the names of people when he hears it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you remember when the Muslims were standing at the gates of Mecca trying to go in to do their omra and the pagans didn't allow them.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they were now negotiations between the Muslims and the pagans to discuss a treaty called the Treaty of Haudaibia.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it wasn't getting very far.
[SPEAKER_00]: A mystery was being sent from both camps and they were struggling to agree on attempts and conditions.
[SPEAKER_00]: Till finally, a man, by the name of Sahil, son of Amr, approached the Muslims from the pagan side.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam
[SPEAKER_00]: So this is our religion.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Sahaba of the Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, learned their optimism from him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that was why when Amirul Mumin Omar became Khalifa years after the death of the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, some of the Muslims from the city of Qufa Iraq sent a letter to Omar consulting him about the idea of making a military campaign to Phaja.
[SPEAKER_00]: Remember the prophecy of Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, all those years ago, it's now being discussed.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Omar wants to know, is this a good idea or not?
[SPEAKER_00]: So he said to the messenger who brought the letter from Iraq, what is your name, by the way?
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, Koraybun, Wafar, Koraybun, Sanov Wafar, Koraybun.
[SPEAKER_00]: His first name, which means nearness.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wafar, his family name, which means victory.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nearness, and victory, Omar took a good old man from that, and he said Al-Afarun Khalibun insha'Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: This means that victory is near insha'Allah, just from his name, plucked out an opportunity of optimism, La ilaha illallah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that led up to the great Battle of Karisia, one of the great battles of Islam, perhaps the most pivotal battle after the Battle of Bedir, which opened up the entire land of the Persians to the Muslims.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so, Asim Ibn Amrattemi, he can thought he said, I am the most honorable of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, his understanding was that he's going to be killed.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he puts his life on the line.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's the most honorable of the Muslims here in this delegation.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so, the emperor, he took a basket of that of soil, and he placed it on the head.
[SPEAKER_00]: of Aslim to embarrass him to humiliate him, if it carries this, are you now the most honorable?
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you now the most honorable to mock him?
[SPEAKER_00]: And Aslim said yes, I'm still the most honorable, even with the basket on my head.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said to him, you know, the emperor said, if it wasn't for the fact that messengers are not executed, I would have slain you right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Leave my ladder, I have nothing for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so the Muslims ran out of the court of Cosros, and they were ecstatic, they were optimistic, why?
[SPEAKER_00]: What do you think?
[SPEAKER_00]: Why do you think they saw this as a good old man, as a sign of optimism that Allah will give them victory?
[SPEAKER_00]: How can't?
[SPEAKER_00]: Any thought?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: They might find new land.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, what else?
[SPEAKER_00]: Think about it, Asim, is running out of the court of Codros with the basket of Persian soil on his head.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because of the soil.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what's the good old man there?
[SPEAKER_00]: It means that it was a sort of version of the non-perjured people.
[SPEAKER_00]: Shifted?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: Precisely.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a panola.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well done for getting that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't have thought about it unless I knew the end of the narration.
[SPEAKER_00]: They ran out of the court of Cultural Celebrating.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they went to Saudi Nabiwakas and they said they have just given us the land of Persia.
[SPEAKER_00]: they have just given us the land of Persia.
[SPEAKER_00]: And how did the pluck out of this understanding of optimism, the soil of Persia that his carrying on his head?
[SPEAKER_00]: If that was me, I would have cried, he's embarrassed me, he's humiliated me, he'd become a personal vendetta, I couldn't sleep at night, maybe I need an antidepressant, or I'd be so upset and feeling insecure, the companions are thinking in different ways, these are that this is their behavior of an optimist, and this led to our seven or so grueling days of battle in the Battle of Cardicea, and the land of pleasure became a land of Islam.