During the Love Notes class, after hearing of all of the issues on why people are not married within our community (I will post notes inshAllah) and I said " I lost hope" in regards to getting married as a joke, but now that I think of it, even if I lose hope in marriage because my community I should never lose hope in Allah because subhanAllah when you put your full trust in Allah He "Provides from sources you don't know of" He is the One who promisses that " Whoever does righteousness, whether male or female, while he is a believer We will surely cause him to live a good life"
SubhanAllah I decided to listen to a Mustfah Hosny lecture and guess what one of his newest video is about " Amal in Allah" Amal means hope in Arabic!
Heres some of what he said I LOVE IT, I will try to post the rest of this lecture. Please share with anyone who has lost hope for anything because this lecture reminds us of the One Who we should never lose amal in! Ya Allah!
على طريق الله 2 - الحلقة 11 - الأمل في الله - مصطفى حسني
Mustfah Hosny said:
A lot of times we go through times that have tests, hardships, and people cut from us and only Allah remains. And if the person has hope in Allah, this person will love in peace, sakina, and reassurance.
A lot of times good deeds come to you, you want to have hope that Allah will be pleased with your good deeds. Good deeds that will bring you enjoyment in this life and reward in the next.
A lot of times a person will be weak in front of bad deeds, but still has hope that Allah will save them and make them strong against al nafs al amara ba il su. And we have no hope except in Allah the One who is the Rab Al Alamin, and Qadr over everything.
Allah wants us to have full hope in Him, and that we never lose hope
We learn from our scholars that we must put all of our amal in Allah and that we complain of all of our worries to Him, and we place full trust in Allah, and He will never leave us because He is Al Wakeel, Al Kareem, Al Wahab
Let us talk about how the Prophets whole life was filled with amal in Allah, and how the salaheen good people never broke down in the dunay because of their amal in Allah.
Look at Surat Al Naml Allah is telling you about everything He created, Who other then Allah can do all this, who other other then Allah will you ask help for?
Say, [O Muhammad], "Praise be to Allah , and peace upon His servants whom He has chosen. Is Allah better or what they associate with Him?"
More precisely, is He not best who created the heavens and the earth and sent down for you rain from the sky, causing to grow thereby gardens of joyful beauty which you could not otherwise have grown the trees thereof? Is there a deity with Allah ? No, but they are a people who ascribe equals to Him.
Look what Allah is saying in these ayas, He provides you with so much, if Allah provides for the earth, the rain, the sky, the animals, then who is He going to provide for us? So if someone wants something let them say "Ya Rab", make duaa and have tawkul in your heart full trust in Allah,
Then Allah says in the Surah:
Is He not best who made the earth a stable ground and placed within it rivers and made for it firmly set mountains and placed between the two seas a barrier? Is there a deity with Allah ? No, but most of them do not know.
Its as if Allah is saying look at the creation of Allah, the earth, the mountains, the seas, all of this, just say Ya Rab , the One Who sends the rain down so the plants can grow, would He not provide for the One who prays and makes sujud?
Then Allah says:
Is He not best who responds to the desperate one when he calls Him and removes evil and makes you inheritors of the earth? Is there a deity with Allah ? Little do you remember.
Look at these ayahs first Allah talks about everything He Gives and Provides, then He mentions all of His creations such as the earth, the mountains, the skies, the rain, then He said " Will I not respond to the One who makes duaa?" Not many of us remember, because we forget to have amal!
Rabna yarabne on this amal.
Sometimes the door of the people might close but Allahs door never closes. This is why the Prophet taught us that the feelings of amal used to come to him when he was going through very hard times.
Imagine the Prophet going to a place where young and old were hitting him as he was leaving the city of taif, and the mountains were saying to him if you want we can crush these people, but the Prophet said " No don't crush them , as Allah might bring from them people who will worship Allah" The Arabic word this hadith begins with is "asa" which is a word of amal.
Allah remembers us even if we don't remember Him, and the Prophet is waiting for all of the nations who used to say the shahada, he will welcome them with their sins, and wrongdoings, and their hasant, and he will be holding for them all a surprise, a huge amal, the Prophet said " For every Prophet, there is a duaa that is answered, and I delayed my duaa for the Day of Judgement for my whole ummah"
The Prophet has amal that all of the people will go to Jannah and this is the amal of the Prophet.
Through the Baraka of the Prophets amal people will go to Jannah, the Prophets amal will allow people to go from Hell to Jannah.
He could have made these duaas in the dunya, but he saved them for us on the Day of Judgement.
Allah says, " And place your trust on the All Living (Al Hay) the One who does not Die
(Al lathe la yamot)"
The scholars said why does Allah say "Hay la ya mayot"? Because if Allah never dies we can always place our trust on Him.
When you don't have trust with Allah you live a hard dark life , and the shytan will always throw ideas in your head that Allah will not make you succeed or help you or grant you good deeds, you saw how you helped so much people and they don't even look at you , oh this and that, and then the amal of the person begins to leave.
So let us listen today , Allah tells us if you do a good deed then have amal! Have amal that Allah will accept your deeds, don't listen to the person who tells you Allah is not going to accept your prayer or fasting.
