WEBVTT 00:00.031 --> 00:13.568 [SPEAKER_00]: You also follow Salam ends up in no body in the eyes of people hidden away as a slave, and that's it, as if he was made to just vanish from the world, and then he is accused. 00:13.615 --> 00:14.817 [SPEAKER_00]: And then he is abused. 00:15.438 --> 00:23.593 [SPEAKER_00]: And then his reputation is put on the line that he was, he seduced the treasure's wife and women started making accusations against him. 00:23.613 --> 00:26.258 [SPEAKER_00]: And then people started to speak badly about him. 00:26.278 --> 00:28.502 [SPEAKER_00]: And then he says, my Lord, the prison is better. 00:28.783 --> 00:30.646 [SPEAKER_00]: Then what they're calling with all of this is happening. 00:30.666 --> 00:32.670 [SPEAKER_00]: He never said that, not once. 00:32.650 --> 00:36.654 [SPEAKER_00]: Did he turn around and say, what did I do to deserve this? 00:37.314 --> 00:38.856 [SPEAKER_00]: So long as he's done the right thing by Allah. 00:39.236 --> 00:46.082 [SPEAKER_00]: He ends up in the dungeon, not just the prison in the dungeon, like the dungeon is right at the bottom, and he was with criminals. 00:46.703 --> 00:48.004 [SPEAKER_00]: Does he deserve to be with criminals? 00:48.344 --> 00:57.132 [SPEAKER_00]: And in there, he continues to give Darwin, so he continues to be religious and following Allah's Mount Daal as ways and calling his inmates to deen and Islam the right path. 00:57.152 --> 01:02.657 [SPEAKER_00]: And after only Allah knows how long he comes out and then suddenly the change happens. 01:02.637 --> 01:05.802 [SPEAKER_00]: You, my brother and sister, you, your birth. 01:06.643 --> 01:08.526 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you think that you were born by a mistake? 01:09.106 --> 01:09.247 [SPEAKER_00]: No. 01:09.647 --> 01:10.829 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me ask you then a question. 01:11.249 --> 01:16.317 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you know what the chances were for you to be born in the first place? 01:16.797 --> 01:20.663 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you know what the chances are for you to be born each and every one of you? 01:20.643 --> 01:24.450 [SPEAKER_00]: The scientists have already done the calculation, it can look at up its effect, the probability. 01:24.971 --> 01:25.673 [SPEAKER_00]: What are the chances? 01:25.993 --> 01:28.358 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you even imagine what the chances are for you to be born? 01:28.839 --> 01:36.834 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell you, they are 1 in 400 trillion, 1 in 400 trillion chances for you to have been born. 01:37.415 --> 01:41.824 [SPEAKER_00]: And what I mean by that is by multiplying the odds 01:41.804 --> 01:45.954 [SPEAKER_00]: of one specific sperm, fertilizing with one specific egg. 01:46.175 --> 01:54.796 [SPEAKER_00]: The chances of your father's forgive me the sperm and your mother's egg to meet at that precise time and for everything for them to meet and to come to that point. 01:55.478 --> 01:55.739 [SPEAKER_00]: Where? 01:56.320 --> 01:57.062 [SPEAKER_00]: You. 01:57.042 --> 02:02.929 [SPEAKER_00]: Those that egg and that sperm come together and you are born, is 1 in 400 trillion chances. 02:03.490 --> 02:21.092 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, and if I take it even further than that, the chance of your specific, you know, the specific sperm and your specific and the specific egg to meet over the history of this world from the first human being, till now, is 1 in 400 quadrillion. 02:21.072 --> 02:25.440 [SPEAKER_00]: chances, like a little loan, just the mother and father being married. 02:26.001 --> 02:32.212 [SPEAKER_00]: The chances of you being born you from your own mother and father is 1 in 400 trillion. 02:32.933 --> 02:38.423 [SPEAKER_00]: And then from the first human being till now, the chances of you right now are 02:38.403 --> 03:05.220 [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever 100,000 or million years for you to be born as Muhammad or Fatiha, the person you are, is 1 in 400 quadrilion, the improbability, astronomical improbability of all your ancestors meeting and having children in the precise time that they were born in the way they did, leading to your unique genetic makeup and combination and eventual conception is 1 in 400 quadrilion. 03:05.352 --> 03:19.233 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's in science, but what Allah tells us is that he precisely and deliberately caused all of it so that you can be born at this time deliberately and precisely. 03:19.673 --> 03:20.454 [SPEAKER_00]: There is no mistake. 03:20.775 --> 03:22.037 [SPEAKER_00]: There is no mistake. 03:22.057 --> 03:24.981 [SPEAKER_00]: Please, my brother and sister, if you are honored that much, 03:24.961 --> 03:29.270 [SPEAKER_00]: and you have been chosen through all that to be born and Allah created you. 03:29.731 --> 03:39.473 [SPEAKER_00]: And then you are I, we don't put our Eman, our true belief in Allah, we don't trust in Allah's Pano at the A'ala, in His commands and prohibitions and in His guide. 03:39.874 --> 03:42.379 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't turn to Him, then what is left? 03:42.477 --> 03:44.422 [SPEAKER_00]: of what you and I deserve anymore. 03:44.442 --> 03:45.084 [SPEAKER_00]: What is our honour? 03:45.104 --> 03:45.725 [SPEAKER_00]: What is our dignity? 03:45.746 --> 03:46.487 [SPEAKER_00]: What is our purpose? 03:46.507 --> 03:47.009 [SPEAKER_00]: Who am I? 03:47.410 --> 03:47.671 [SPEAKER_00]: Who you? 03:48.132 --> 03:49.255 [SPEAKER_00]: You and I do can decide. 03:50.057 --> 03:53.305 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah says in the Qur'an, Wa min and nasi ma'yabud Allah ha'ala harf. 03:53.987 --> 03:58.258 [SPEAKER_00]: Among people are those who worship Allah as if they are walking on the edge of a cliff. 03:58.238 --> 04:25.444 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I'll say I 04:26.116 --> 04:39.387 [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, some people think that God must be loving them because we say, oh, if that person's successful in his job or his business or his marriage or anything that's going good in their life, sometimes we think that God must love that person. 04:39.848 --> 04:41.712 [SPEAKER_00]: But really, it's a test. 04:41.692 --> 05:05.742 [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of giving us something is a test and taking away something is a test and neither of them is better than the other except based on how you react to it And then Allah says for in Al-Saba who shawr, in Al-Saba who Al-Harifin, for in Al-Saba to fit in Al-Saba to fit in Al-Saba to fit in Al-Saba to fit in Al-Saba and when a calamity a test or a trial be falls him in klulaba al-Awaqi, he falls right off the cliff 05:05.722 --> 05:10.907 [SPEAKER_00]: Qasir Adunya, well-earcherah, he loses out on this dunya and the endah hereafter. 05:11.047 --> 05:21.938 [SPEAKER_00]: The alikah wal-quswan al-Mobin, this is a true loss, meaning that they live their life on the edge of barely, barely being on a lost side, barely obeying Allah. 05:21.958 --> 05:28.765 [SPEAKER_00]: And when something goes wrong, why me, why did God do that to me, all my prayers, what did I ever do? 05:29.105 --> 05:35.391 [SPEAKER_00]: And then they become rebellious, that's what it means to fall off the cliff, because they've always been on the edge. 05:35.371 --> 05:39.899 [SPEAKER_00]: So, sometimes we don't reflect on our own actions and our deeds. 05:40.460 --> 05:41.722 [SPEAKER_00]: We have to repent sometimes. 05:42.182 --> 05:44.767 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes Allah SWT takes away something from us. 05:45.368 --> 05:49.555 [SPEAKER_00]: When he knows that giving you something is making you go more astray. 05:50.036 --> 05:51.979 [SPEAKER_00]: So, sometimes it may take something from you. 05:51.959 --> 06:21.966 [SPEAKER_00]: sometimes he may make you go through different trials and you know brethren sisters at the end of the day this world has created on trials and and calamities but what is what you are sure about is that a lot is Aalim when Hakim he is all knowing he is all wise everything is in its place you know the story of Yusuf Ali Hesselam, Yusuf Joseph in Sordat Yusuf you know we see the calamities that Yusuf Ali Hesselam and his father Yaqub 06:21.946 --> 06:33.777 [SPEAKER_00]: what great trials they went through, the father, messenger of God, the son, also messenger of God, not just normal prophets, they were among the most important of all prophets. 06:34.437 --> 06:40.202 [SPEAKER_00]: And we see what calamities they went through, from the people they love, their own family, their own children. 06:40.643 --> 06:51.953 [SPEAKER_00]: And Yusuf Ali Selam, I went to point something quite interesting here. 06:51.933 --> 06:55.880 [SPEAKER_00]: And the sun and the moon bowing to me, or prostrating to me. 06:56.281 --> 06:59.126 [SPEAKER_00]: His father, Al-Qubal, is Salam, system immediately. 06:59.467 --> 07:01.150 [SPEAKER_00]: Do not tell your brothers about this dream. 07:01.430 --> 07:03.514 [SPEAKER_00]: He knew that his brothers were spiteful, jealous. 07:04.155 --> 07:09.064 [SPEAKER_00]: They had pride in them in the sense that they had a superiority complex. 07:09.044 --> 07:24.133 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, do not tell your brothers, because their brothers will interpret it as a favor, even though they can see that his father is already treating Yusuf Ali's son and a little bit more love, because he knew he was a messenger of God and wasn't in the Al-Qubbs choice. 07:24.113 --> 07:26.977 [SPEAKER_00]: Yakubali Salam didn't give the meaning of the dream. 07:27.558 --> 07:30.102 [SPEAKER_00]: Nor did Yusufalei his Salam know it's meaning. 07:30.483 --> 07:32.306 [SPEAKER_00]: Does it say anything in the Quran in the beginning? 07:32.766 --> 07:34.489 [SPEAKER_00]: Where he says to him, I see a dream was still a little. 07:34.930 --> 07:38.635 [SPEAKER_00]: It was a teenager, still a young adult, and he says to his father, I see this dream. 07:39.036 --> 07:41.059 [SPEAKER_00]: Or maybe even 10 years old or 12 years old. 07:41.039 --> 07:49.093 [SPEAKER_00]: Neither Yakube's father tells us the meaning, nor does Yusufai sayon tell us the meaning, but what instead does Yakube alayhi sellem satin? 07:49.534 --> 07:57.428 [SPEAKER_00]: First of all, he says, don't tell your brothers who are spiteful, but then, because then they will plot against your terrible plot, but most more important than that. 07:57.408 --> 08:02.474 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah SWT says to us something special about that dream that you saw. 08:02.514 --> 08:03.355 [SPEAKER_00]: This is from Allah. 08:03.775 --> 08:05.137 [SPEAKER_00]: He is going to choose you. 08:05.557 --> 08:07.079 [SPEAKER_00]: He is going to choose you. 08:07.560 --> 08:13.086 [SPEAKER_00]: And he will teach you the meanings of dreams and some unseen things. 08:13.727 --> 08:15.449 [SPEAKER_00]: So knowledge and choice. 08:16.090 --> 08:20.295 [SPEAKER_00]: And then he tells him, in the end, in Narab-Bakalim and Hakim. 08:20.835 --> 08:24.900 [SPEAKER_00]: Indeed, your Lord is all knowing, all wise. 08:24.880 --> 08:26.863 [SPEAKER_00]: Why does Allah say here? 08:26.903 --> 08:33.813 [SPEAKER_00]: And why does Allah say those two names in particular about himself in this context? 08:34.374 --> 08:37.459 [SPEAKER_00]: Why does He say, He is the all-knowing, the all-wise? 08:37.479 --> 08:41.104 [SPEAKER_00]: And why does He say, Ya'aqq about He says, Rabbiq, you're Lord. 08:41.184 --> 08:42.847 [SPEAKER_00]: Why don't say Allah, for example? 08:43.408 --> 08:45.030 [SPEAKER_00]: Because look at what's happening here. 08:45.571 --> 08:46.332 [SPEAKER_00]: Rabbiq. 08:46.312 --> 08:59.267 [SPEAKER_00]: Robbek, your Lord, gives the meaning of care, care, compassion, overwatcher, watching over you, guiding you, providing you, protecting you, so he's going to protect and guide you. 08:59.788 --> 09:04.654 [SPEAKER_00]: Aliim, we don't know the meaning of your dream yet, yourself. 09:04.674 --> 09:09.940 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, you don't know, but do you know who does know, your Lord, who is watching over you? 09:09.920 --> 09:12.463 [SPEAKER_00]: All you need to know, it's very subtle. 09:12.944 --> 09:16.929 [SPEAKER_00]: Every word from a prophet, a messenger, is very subtle yet precise. 09:17.589 --> 09:30.325 [SPEAKER_00]: You're Lord, so he's telling you also, all you need to know right now is that the one who guided you with this dream, even though right now you don't know, you can't comprehend it, you can't understand it, all you need to know is his your Lord. 09:30.305 --> 09:32.327 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's not just anyone who gave you this guidance. 09:32.387 --> 09:33.649 [SPEAKER_00]: He is the one who is going to care for you. 09:33.809 --> 09:35.291 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you trust that he is going to care for you? 09:35.591 --> 09:35.852 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. 09:36.452 --> 09:37.674 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you trust in his guidance? 09:37.774 --> 09:38.034 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. 09:38.475 --> 09:42.459 [SPEAKER_00]: Are you prepared and ready to go through some hardships along the way? 09:42.559 --> 09:48.406 [SPEAKER_00]: And not assume bad of your Lord and continue to just go by Allah's way and not assume bad of him? 09:48.867 --> 09:49.107 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. 09:49.247 --> 09:49.407 [SPEAKER_00]: Why? 09:49.427 --> 09:50.409 [SPEAKER_00]: Because he is a robber. 09:50.729 --> 09:52.431 [SPEAKER_00]: So then he says to him, Alim. 09:52.411 --> 09:55.718 [SPEAKER_00]: He knows the meaning of this dream. 09:56.179 --> 10:00.188 [SPEAKER_00]: Not only does he know the meaning of this dream, he knows the future of it where it's going to lead. 10:00.649 --> 10:05.058 [SPEAKER_00]: And all the things that are going to happen along the way, don't think he's not, he doesn't know. 10:06.041 --> 10:11.753 [SPEAKER_00]: And Ali, again, prolonging at meaning, there's going to be a long road ahead of you. 10:11.733 --> 10:16.783 [SPEAKER_00]: So when we say Allah knows brothers and sisters, it means that there's a long, sometimes a long road ahead of you. 10:17.203 --> 10:19.748 [SPEAKER_00]: It might not happen right now, but can you hold on? 10:20.269 --> 10:23.395 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you trust in Allah and continue on your journey until it does happen? 10:23.836 --> 10:32.172 [SPEAKER_00]: Because that's the condition, because on that journey your Lord is going to choose you, but to choose you is going to have to make you learn things. 10:32.152 --> 10:47.260 [SPEAKER_00]: And in order to learn things, you're going to have to go through things, up and down, then he says to him, Hakeem, after he knows all of these things, he is choosing and is going to put everything exactly where it should be. 10:47.781 --> 10:48.763 [SPEAKER_00]: So now we've got four things. 10:49.324 --> 10:53.772 [SPEAKER_00]: Number one, there is a guide, follow your Lord's guide, his commands and prohibitions. 10:53.752 --> 11:04.209 [SPEAKER_00]: Number two, you know that it is your Lord, therefore it's going to protect you and guide you, don't ever turn on God, don't rebel, don't think of him badly, keep going. 11:04.630 --> 11:11.241 [SPEAKER_00]: Number three, you don't know what's going to happen yet, but you do know that the all-knowing is aware. 11:11.722 --> 11:12.242 [SPEAKER_00]: He's got you. 11:12.663 --> 11:13.785 [SPEAKER_00]: He knows 11:13.765 --> 11:14.566 [SPEAKER_00]: What's going to happen? 11:15.107 --> 11:17.429 [SPEAKER_00]: Number four, he's going to put things in place. 11:18.070 --> 11:24.117 [SPEAKER_00]: So on condition that you do your part, you do what's right, you repent to a life, you do the wrong, don't go off his path. 11:24.597 --> 11:26.680 [SPEAKER_00]: Now be patient and persevere, keep going. 11:27.521 --> 11:31.205 [SPEAKER_00]: And number five, if I may add, do not decide your fate. 11:31.745 --> 11:32.486 [SPEAKER_00]: That's very important. 11:32.747 --> 11:33.347 [SPEAKER_00]: I will repeat it. 11:33.788 --> 11:36.651 [SPEAKER_00]: Do not decide your fate. 11:36.631 --> 11:40.156 [SPEAKER_00]: I get a lot of people asking me on lying and in person. 11:40.676 --> 11:44.642 [SPEAKER_00]: If it is the God of Allah that I will never, for example, get married. 11:45.022 --> 11:46.124 [SPEAKER_00]: Does that mean this or that? 11:46.404 --> 11:48.046 [SPEAKER_00]: Why are you asking that question? 11:48.927 --> 11:49.608 [SPEAKER_00]: You're still living. 11:50.149 --> 11:54.655 [SPEAKER_00]: How do you know that the God of Allah has destined you never to be married? 11:54.675 --> 11:59.101 [SPEAKER_00]: How do you know the God of Allah has destined you to live a life of this or a life of that? 11:59.702 --> 12:02.445 [SPEAKER_00]: Anything you think about, do not decide your fate. 12:03.046 --> 12:06.030 [SPEAKER_00]: How can we just jump and go ahead and think as if we know? 12:06.196 --> 12:10.224 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't know the God of Allah, we don't know Allah's faith and what is written for us until it happens. 12:10.745 --> 12:14.453 [SPEAKER_00]: And even then we don't know the wisdom behind them, just keep trusting and Allah keep going, keep going. 12:15.215 --> 12:18.441 [SPEAKER_00]: So then Yusuf Ali is Salam, he keeps going on that journey. 12:18.922 --> 12:27.580 [SPEAKER_00]: And we see him getting thrown in the well and then he gets bought as a slave and he's taken away from his family and his brothers. 12:27.560 --> 12:39.651 [SPEAKER_00]: make it out like he's been killed by the wolf and they're light to their father and the father and now doesn't see his beloved son to the point where it's so long that he becomes so sad and that it affects his eyesight. 12:40.031 --> 12:44.195 [SPEAKER_00]: Yarkovay Selam had vision impairment as a result. 12:45.036 --> 12:57.567 [SPEAKER_00]: Yusuf Ali Selam ends up a nobody in the eyes of people hidden away as a slave and that's it 12:57.547 --> 13:14.930 [SPEAKER_00]: And then he is abused and then his reputation is put on the line that he was he seduced the Treasurer's wife and women started making accusations against him and then people started to speak badly about it And then he says my lord the prison is better than what they're calling for all of this is happening. 13:14.950 --> 13:16.973 [SPEAKER_00]: He never said that not once 13:16.953 --> 13:20.977 [SPEAKER_00]: that he turned around and say, what did I do to deserve this? 13:21.618 --> 13:23.140 [SPEAKER_00]: So long as he's doing the right thing by Allah. 13:23.540 --> 13:30.388 [SPEAKER_00]: He ends up in the dungeon, not just a prison in the dungeon, like the dungeon is right at the bottom, and he was with criminals. 13:31.009 --> 13:32.310 [SPEAKER_00]: Does he deserve to be with criminals? 13:32.650 --> 13:41.340 [SPEAKER_00]: And in there, he continues to give Darwin, so continues to be religious and following Allah's Mount Daal as ways and calling his inmates to deen and Islam, the right path. 13:41.320 --> 13:46.370 [SPEAKER_00]: And after only Allah knows how long he comes out and then suddenly the change happens. 13:46.971 --> 13:54.105 [SPEAKER_00]: And we all know the rest of the story ends up becoming the treasureer of Egypt, and then everything turns around. 13:54.526 --> 13:58.333 [SPEAKER_00]: And even in the end, he doesn't boast about it. 13:58.313 --> 13:59.775 [SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't lower his guards. 14:00.356 --> 14:04.462 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, Arabic, My Lord, How the earth ate an iminal milk. 14:04.483 --> 14:05.925 [SPEAKER_00]: You have given me of this kingdom. 14:06.385 --> 14:08.809 [SPEAKER_00]: And you taught me, I learnt an imitat, we will ahadith. 14:08.829 --> 14:11.093 [SPEAKER_00]: You taught me some knowledge of the unseen and dreams. 14:11.593 --> 14:16.882 [SPEAKER_00]: Feltar of Samawati Wal-Arbht, over the one who has originated the heavens and the earth out of nothing. 14:17.362 --> 14:20.507 [SPEAKER_00]: Antawali, if it dunya, you are my guardian in this world. 14:20.908 --> 14:22.971 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, 14:22.951 --> 14:35.731 [SPEAKER_00]: though a funny muslim and allow me, grant me the gift of dying as a muslim, a submitter to you, what a heavenly beside a hen, and let me follow in the ranks of the righteous in the hereafter. 14:36.092 --> 14:43.103 [SPEAKER_00]: No boasting, no arrogance, just, you know, even in the end, my Lord continued to bless me. 14:43.083 --> 14:47.790 [SPEAKER_00]: We see the same thing happening with Moses, Mussali, Selam, and Al-Hada, that's a very famous story. 14:48.030 --> 15:02.070 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to repeat the whole story, but for those of you who know it, about the arch or the ship which he wrecked and the boy which he killed and the people whom he helped, those boys in building the wall that was falling down. 15:02.571 --> 15:08.199 [SPEAKER_00]: We all know the story, the way he did, where this man did certain things, which Mussar Moses could not bear patience with. 15:08.760 --> 15:12.465 [SPEAKER_00]: And the only problem there was that Moses did not know 15:12.445 --> 15:26.322 [SPEAKER_00]: Deep knowledge has the knowledge that God had given to that other man, because Allah says that in the Qur'an he says there is a man whom we have given knowledge from ourselves which Moses didn't know and Moses wanted to go and learn that knowledge. 15:26.583 --> 15:32.310 [SPEAKER_00]: But because of the lack of knowledge, he himself could not be patient enough to bear what he had seen. 15:32.290 --> 15:39.794 [SPEAKER_00]: He kept forgetting, and in the end, he gives him the answers to why he did what he did, and then we find the wisdom behind it. 15:40.196 --> 15:42.992 [SPEAKER_00]: So my brothers and sisters have persevering some patience as a lost