[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet peace be upon him, you know, he said, I find that so peculiar and strange and amazing, the state of a believer, no matter what happens to them, whether it's good or bad, they're managed to find that there is good in it, no matter what.
[SPEAKER_00]: If good happens to them, they are thankful and appreciative and grateful to Allah, and when bad happens to them, they are patient and persevering, and this can only be for a believer.
[SPEAKER_00]: It could be forgiveness from Allah from the struggle that you're going through, that because of the pain you went through, Allah compensates you by forgiving all your past sins.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah says in Surat Al-Hashr, he is a selam, he is the peace, the source of peace.
[SPEAKER_00]: And also a selam means the one who is free of any imperfections, the one who is free of any fault, everything about him is perfection.
[SPEAKER_00]: All his attributes are perfect, all his qualities are perfect, Allah, a selam, while everyone has imperfections, everyone has shortcomings, everybody does wrong things, Allah never does wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah never makes mistakes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah's creation is all intentional.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah's creation is deliberate and He never makes mistakes in what He has decreed and destined everyone to be in the place that they're in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah does not make mistakes in this universe and He puts everything where it's supposed to belong.
[SPEAKER_00]: The way this entire universe operates is perfectly within His destiny and so
[SPEAKER_00]: There are no mistakes.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are no shortcomings from a lost panel of what the Ailer and he is the most just in everything he does.
[SPEAKER_00]: We, as human beings, however, we don't know everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: We don't know what's really good for us in perfection.
[SPEAKER_00]: We make mistakes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes we have doubts.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes we have questions in our heads which we just can't find closure to.
[SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes there are things that happen around us that we may think that
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe Allah is, you know, doing the wrong thing, or maybe God forbid, we think that the shaytan comes to us and says, maybe this punishment from God, this is not fair.
[SPEAKER_00]: These things can happen to us, but I believe it in Allah's prahdala, who knows his name, As-salam, the peace, the peaceful, the harmonious will never think badly of Allah's prahdala, even when things don't make sense to them.
[SPEAKER_00]: My brothers and sisters, a loss of Hannah Huerta is the source of all peace and it also means that whenever you look around you and you find that you're feeling a moment of tranquility, a moment of peace, you look at the birds flying in the sky.
[SPEAKER_00]: You look at the clouds, peacefully travelling above you on gliding.
[SPEAKER_00]: You look at the sun and about how it rises and sets and the moon, how it harmoniously orbits around the earth.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you look at the sense of peace when you look at birds and animals and how they are harmonious in your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you feel like that, remember the name of Allah, as-salam.
[SPEAKER_00]: It means that whenever you experience peace, harmony and sense of belonging in this world, when you feel that things are working for you, when you feel that this world is serving you and that you, this little humble human being who is smaller than an anter an atom compared to the world and the universe around us.
[SPEAKER_00]: and that Allah has rendered this world to serve you, the sun rises and sets for you, the earth produces for you, the earth gives you food, the oxygen is freely given to you, the animals around you are there for their own purpose and the ecosystem that Allah has created them in order to create stability for you in the life that you live in.
[SPEAKER_00]: all of this brothers and sisters is in harmony for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: The oxygen, as I said, the gravity, the forces of nature, the light that you receive, everything about you, the way that your biology works, all of this, remember, who is the one that put this into harmony?
[SPEAKER_00]: It is Allah, a selam.
[SPEAKER_00]: Of course in this world brothers and sisters, there are moments in life where suffering happens.
[SPEAKER_00]: Moments in life where we see corruption and war, sometimes pain and sickness illnesses do happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes there is anguish and wronging, and then we start to think in the way that the Shadhan loves us to think that where is the peace of Allah in this world?
[SPEAKER_00]: The answer to that brothers and sisters are the following.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number one, Allah is always the source of peace.
[SPEAKER_00]: However, He created this world also as a test for us.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, when you think that Allah is the peaceful, always remember as well, that Allah created us for a purpose in this life too.
[SPEAKER_00]: That there are moments in life where we are tested.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Allah's uponer, what Allah has created a world where those who deserve will receive, and those who don't deserve won't receive, meaning that he will test you with some things in life.
[SPEAKER_00]: And within that test shows who you really are, shows what you really deserve.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Allah's uponer, what Allah doesn't say that he is a Selam, the peaceful meaning that you're not going to go through hardships.
[SPEAKER_00]: or what it means is that for a believer who knows this name, even when you go through hardships, through illness, through anguish, through even oppression, or even though a lot doesn't like it for us.
[SPEAKER_00]: But within that, within that suffering, there still is peace.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine that?
[SPEAKER_00]: The prophet peace for you upon him, you know, he said, I find that so peculiar and strange and amazing the state of a believer.
[SPEAKER_00]: And no matter what happens to them, whether it's good or bad, they're managed to find that there is good in it, no matter what.
[SPEAKER_00]: If good happens to them, they are thankful and appreciative and grateful to Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when bad happens to them, they are patient and persevering.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this can only be for a believer.
[SPEAKER_00]: It could be forgiveness from Allah from the struggle that you're going through.
[SPEAKER_00]: That because of the pain you went through, Allah compensates you by forgiving all your past sins.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that in the year after you are into paradise and all the things that you would have deserved a punishment
[SPEAKER_00]: It could be that your rank is raised with a loss of panorowattaira when you go through certain hardships in life.
[SPEAKER_00]: It means that a loss of panorowattaira, he looks at you and acknowledges every little suffering that you went through and does not let it go to waste.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number two, peace from Allah means that you are able to find your peace in hardship as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: I believe that some people when they're going through suffering and hardships, you find that they are able to still think
[SPEAKER_00]: that you're still able to find the peace within it.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, some companions of the proper peace we're planning used to say, whenever we work up and we've got a fever, for example.
[SPEAKER_00]: We are grateful to Allah because for every joint of our body and every finger tip, we are rewarded or compensated for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the way they looked at it, different to what a normal person looks at it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so a believer, as the proper peace of your planning said, he said, this can only be for a believer.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you know that you are in this life for a test and there is a hero after and that there is paradise as well, then you are able to look at the world in a different way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number three, sometimes it's oppression of people.
[SPEAKER_00]: Although this world allows created it in a dynamic form of harmony and peace, he also created it in a way where some people can oppress and do wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: For there is freedom of choice within a parameter that Allah has created us in.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so when people wrong others, it is not that Allah is not the one who is peaceful, but rather it is them who are oppressive and don't ever think that Allah will let that go.
[SPEAKER_00]: either they will receive their punishment in this world or in here after or both.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you see brothers and sisters, this is how the world has to work as well, where there is good and there is evil, and there are those who protect and those who destroy, and there are those who save and those who kill and so on.
[SPEAKER_00]: And although it might sound ironic or as if I am be little in suffering or praising suffering or
[SPEAKER_00]: you know, making suffering as if it's something good.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, this is not what we're saying, but suffering in itself creates purpose in life.
[SPEAKER_00]: It gives more meaning to life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Without suffering, things won't have meaning.
[SPEAKER_00]: There will be no appreciation, no forgiveness or a pardoning, no love.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even with love, there has to be some sort of tests, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: That's why some people may fall in love with someone else but the other person doesn't fall in love with them.
[SPEAKER_00]: You might suffer a little bit, but it gives meaning to love.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whereas if everything was just given to you without any effort or any sacrifice or any work, nothing will help any meaning.
[SPEAKER_00]: You even say to a person I love you, and a person says to you, I love you, but they show no love towards it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The word doesn't mean much.
[SPEAKER_00]: If they go cheating, you know, on you, then even if they say, I love you or whatever, they do, you're going to, you're not going to really appreciate that, will you?
[SPEAKER_00]: And so in this life, there is some form of suffering, and it starts to create an equilibrium of who deserves and who doesn't.
[SPEAKER_00]: My brothers and sisters, Allah SWT, the Peaceful, the Loving of Peace.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even in the Qur'an Allah tells us, wherever you can create peace with the enemy, then created.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even if Allah says to us Prophet, if you are fighting in the enemy line, sorry if you are fighting in a battle and the enemy lines, your enemies want to lay down their weapons.
[SPEAKER_00]: In general, if they want peace and truth with you, Allah says, then you also put your weapons down and seek peace and truth with them.
[SPEAKER_00]: We have a story of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him when we call it Sulchul Khudavia, the Khudavia treaty.
[SPEAKER_00]: The enemies of Mecca, they had persecuted the Muslims.
[SPEAKER_00]: They even killed some of them and imprisoned a lot of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they tortured a lot of them who ever followed Muhammad peace be upon him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just for saying we're believing Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: 12 to 13 years of persecution in the home of Makko with a proper Salam live, they drove him and his family and all the Muslims out of their own homes and then years later they came back to do their Hajj, the Pilgrimage.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the Meccans wouldn't let them come in and although Hajj Pilgrimage was allowed to all people, this was a rule among the Arabs, that
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyone who comes to do Pilgrimage, the custodians of Mecca, the politiists there who worship idols and, you know, they persecuted the people who just believed in another God, they were not allowed to prevent any pilgrims, but they prevented Muhammad ﷺ, and the believers from going to do their Pilgrimage, which meant that they broke the law, they were doing something illegal.
[SPEAKER_00]: And number two, these people's homes were in there and their families, they wouldn't allow them to come back.
[SPEAKER_00]: so they trapped them outside and a man came out from the delegate from the corporation from the Meckham people and he said, we won't let you do your pilgrimage this year.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they invited them to an agreement.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is because the Muslims were getting stronger.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the proper piece we were planning to sat with one of the delegates and they wrote out a true, a truce.
[SPEAKER_00]: The truce involved 10 years of peace between them.
[SPEAKER_00]: No one attacks the other.
[SPEAKER_00]: and they're allowed to trade among them and roam freely.
[SPEAKER_00]: But on condition, that whoever converts to Islam in Makkah, the disbelievers get to keep them.
[SPEAKER_00]: They can't give them to the Muslims.
[SPEAKER_00]: But anyone who apostates like Leaves Islam in Medina, then you have to return them back.
[SPEAKER_00]: The second condition was that they're not allowed to do their pilgrimage this year.
[SPEAKER_00]: The third condition was when they wrote Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim, though as they were writing the contract, they said the name of Allah most most most compassionate, they said you can't write most for compassion.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have to say in the name of Allah, so the Prophet peace be upon him agreed.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then he said, this is an agreement between Muhammad, the messenger of Allah and so uncertain.
[SPEAKER_00]: They said, no, we don't acknowledge you as the messenger of Allah, then he said, okay, from Muhammad, the servant of Allah and so on.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there are many other terms in there that were so oppressive and not fear.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the companions said, how would you agree to the messenger of Allah?
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, don't worry, 10 years of pace, I would give the world for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And to the point where even some of the companions, they didn't want to do the sacrificial offerings, because you know in Pilgrimage, you do the Altheya or the Haddi.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Prophet Peace be upon him said, do your Altheya and they didn't listen.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were upset.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, how can we accept this belittling omission of Allah?
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, is that it is Allah's decree, and there is good that will come out of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet went in with almost Salama, his wife, and he was worried that they're not obeying the messenger of Allah out of hurt and pain.
[SPEAKER_00]: So she said to him and gave him an idea to sacrifice his offering and they will follow him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is what exactly what he did, and the people followed him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they apologize to the messenger of Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because he won a 10 years of peace.
[SPEAKER_00]: It only lasts for 2 years, where the allies of the enemies in Mecca betrayed them and they killed people from among the Muslims to where the Muslims came back and they conquered Mecca.
[SPEAKER_00]: In those 2 years, brothers and sisters, more than 40,000 people got to hear Islam and embraces Islam.
[SPEAKER_00]: So a lot always wants peace rather than war.
[SPEAKER_00]: And although some people may look at the Qur'an and they say, oh, look at this verse and look at that first, kill them wherever you find them and it tells you to be bad towards disbelievers and to convert people by the sort, all of this is rubbish talk.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, why it's rubbish talk?
[SPEAKER_00]: It means when you are reading, when these people are reading the verses in the Qur'an, they are taking it out of its context.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number two, they are not reading it along with all the verses before and after.
[SPEAKER_00]: So for example, the verses where Allah says,
[SPEAKER_00]: fight them and kill them wherever you see them.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is talking in the context of this.
[SPEAKER_00]: When the four months that have been forbidden to fight in, which were known to the Arabs, are over, then go and fight them and kill them wherever you find them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Meaning those who have declared war against you, because the verses before says, those who have declared war against you and driven out of your home who want to fight you do not fight them in these four months if they don't want to fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when there's four months or over, then you can fight them and resume, unless those enemies play down their weapons and they want to truth.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because after that verse, it says, well, in general, I Holy Son, I Holy Son, if they want peace and truth with you, then you also accept.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the meaning of kill them, we find it means the soldiers who are fighting new carrying weapons against you don't feel bad for fighting them in the Holy Land, which is Mecca.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is the meaning of the verse.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if they want peace, then you also see peace.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's fighting against people when a kill you.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the meaning of the verse.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Allah says in the Quran, Allah does not forbid you from dealing kindly and justly with those if not want to fight you because of your religion or drive you out of your home.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is talking about all the disbelievers who don't believe in Islam.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah says be kind and just a nice to them and be friendly with them if they don't want to fight you because of your religion or drive you out of your home.
[SPEAKER_00]: So now every other person in the Qur'an who people try to use and I think they go to websites and just try and refute and just use flimsy, straw man arguments against others and accuse the Muslims of it, are all very weak and this is why it's important to know that Allah truly wants peace and Allah's Pantah, Allah wants harmony so that people can hear the word of Allah and live a life of peace.