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Allah Will Surprise You - Embracing the Unknown | Khutbah
No one knows what tomorrow holds, and embracing that is how we learn to trust Allah. Our circumstances as an Ummah and as individuals can change out of nowhere, and that’s why we shouldn’t have excessive hope or despair based on today’s circumstances.
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00:00I want you to imagine with me for a moment that you are returning home after several decades to a family who didn't even know that you were still alive.
00:16There's a story about a great tabi'i, his name is Farrukh Abi Abdur-Rahman.
00:23And Farrukh was a freed slave of Al-Rabi' ibn Ziyad, who was praised by Umar ibn al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, as one of the greatest commanders in the history of Islam.
00:36And when he passes away and he leaves behind Farrukh, this is a man that goes out and strives in the path of Allah, the Exalted, just as he was taught to do.
00:51This is a man who follows in the path of his mentors, this is a man who spends for the sake of Allah, the Exalted, and has absolutely no connection to this dunya. And he marries a woman by the name of Suhayla.
01:06And as he's sitting in the masjid and the call for the next battle comes to go out in another expedition in Khorasan, he comes home to his now-pregnant wife Suhayla.
01:20And he says to her, listen, here is 30,000 dinars, I have collected it through the various missions of the spoils of war.
01:35So invest it. Spend on yourself and on the child that will be born to you.
01:46And by the permission of Allah, the Exalted, I'll come back to you when Allah, the Exalted, decrees. He goes out and I'm paraphrasing the story because it's a very long one and I don't want it to become the sole focus of the khutbah.
02:01But he goes out for almost three decades, in the path of Allah. And he comes home 27 years later.
02:11And when he enters into the house, the young man that was his son who did not recognize him rises up to approach him.
02:24And subhan'Allah, up until this moment, you can imagine the mental anguish and torture of the wife that was waiting for her husband to come home. And she would ask the expeditions, what happened?
02:35Did he become a prisoner in the hands of the enemies? And that was a theory. Did he die in the path of Allah? And that was a theory and that was the most likely one.
02:46What happened to my husband? And some people would say, I think I saw him there, I think I saw him there. But he enters into the house and this young man approaches him to fight him because he thinks he's a stranger.
03:00And he says to him, ya 'adu Allah, khuraj min manzili. Oh enemy of Allah, get out of my home. Don't you know that you're infringing upon the sanctity of a home?
03:12And he says to him, ya 'adu Allah, oh enemy of Allah, you get out of my house, this is my house. And as the commotion starts between the two men, said that Imam Malik, may Allah have mercy on him, he comes in.
03:25And he says to Farrukh, who's an old man at this point, he says, "Ayyuha al-shaykh, laka sa'atun fi ghayri hadhihi dar." You can find any other home, ayy abu alayk, go, it's okay, just go to another house.
03:39Why are you coming into this house like this? There are many homes for you to go to. Why do you have to come into this house in particular? And he says, hadhihi dari, this is my house. This is my house.
03:52Wa ana Farrukh, I am Farrukh. This is my house. And the young man says to him, that I will not leave you until I take you to the Sultan.
04:06Wallahi la faraqtuka illa 'inda al-Sultan. I'm going to take you to the judge, I'm going to get you in trouble. Why are you coming into this house and what is this claim? And as they're both fighting, the woman walks in. And she solves the debate.
04:20And she says, that is my husband and that is my son. Meet your father who you haven't seen for almost three decades. And subhan'Allah, as this family reunion is happening, he says to her,
04:35What has life been like and what happened since I've been gone? And what happened to the 30,000 dinars? How did you spend them? What do we own now? And she said, go to the masjid.
04:50And he goes to the masjid and from a distance, he sees that same young man wrapped in a turban and the people all sitting around that young man.
05:01And this young man is a teacher of Imam Malik and Imam Abu Hanifa. May Allah be pleased with them. This young man is a teacher of the likes of Sufyan al-Thawri.
05:12This young man has met some of the greatest of the Companions and the tabi'in. And he comes back home and she says to him, "Fa-ayyuhuma ahabbun ilayk? Thalathun alfun dinar?"
05:27Which of them is more beloved to you? 30,000 dinars? "Aw hadha alladhi huwa fihi min al-jah?" Or this glory that your son is in? And who was his son? Rabi'a al-Ra'y. May Allah be pleased with him and have mercy upon him.
05:41The great scholar and teacher of the Imams. And his investment that he left behind had yielded him a tabi'i for whom you still reap the rewards.
05:52Now this is a story that shows up in the books of history. I paraphrased it for you. Some of the scholars say it's authentic. Some of them say it's not. But there is certainly something of that sort that planted the seeds for Rabi'a
06:07who became Amir al-Khurasan, the Amir of his people who became one of the greatest scholars in the Islamic tradition. But subhan'Allah,
06:17over the last few days as I was looking at some of these people that came out of the prisons of Hama after 40 years, can you imagine being in a tortured dungeon for 40 years and coming out to your people
06:3240 years later subjected to all sorts of torture? Your family doesn't even know that you're still alive, rising from a dungeon for 40 years. I said Allahu Akbar.
06:46What are the conversations like? And we see them with the Palestinians: some of them that were taken into the Israeli prisons at the age of 5 years old and coming out at the age of 38 or 40 years old. And you see the shock of the mom,
07:00the shock of a spouse, the shock of a child. How do you catch someone up on all of that? I remember, subhan'Allah, interacting with someone who was in a coma for over 10 years.
07:14How do you catch someone up who's been sleeping in a bed for 10 years and tell them all that happened over 10 years? How do you explain to the family you're back? These are the types of surprises,
07:27these are the types of miracles that Allah, the Exalted, shows us in our lives. And while none of us— or I'd venture to say none of us have probably had that type of an experience—
07:39all of us have been surprised by the Qadr of Allah, the Exalted, at various points of our lives. And there's a narration of a man named Warith ibn Amr.
07:50He was from the Bedouins in the time of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. In some of the books of hadith, he's the one or one of the people, the Bedouins that approached the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, aggressively and said, when is the Hour?
08:05Because you can always count on the people from the outskirts to ask the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, these direct questions. But he didn't just ask the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, about the Hour. The idea was you're a prophet of Allah, so you should tell me everything that's going to happen,
08:19because this was a society that was used to soothsayers, that was used to magicians, that was used to people that give them the horoscopes, that was used to the people that tell them you're going to marry this person, have this many children.
08:32That's the idea of someone that can look into another realm, as someone that can tell you the future. So he said to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, "Ya Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon you, qala inna ardana ajdabat,
08:45fa mata yanzilu al-ghayt? Our land has become barren. We're waiting for rain. So can you tell us when the rain is going to fall? Wa taraktu mra'ati hubla. And I left my wife and she's pregnant.
08:59Fa mata tarid? When's she going to give birth? Can you give me the birth date in advance? Can you tell me when it's going to rain? Can you give me a birthday in advance? Qala wa qad 'alimtu ayna wulittu, fa bi ayyi ardin amut?
09:14And I know where I was born, so can you tell me where I will die? And so Allah, the Exalted, revealed in Surah Luqman: "Inna Allaha 'indahu 'ilm al-sa'ah wa yunazilu al-ghayt
09:29wa ya'lamu ma fi al-arham wa ma tadri nafsun mada taksibu ghadan wa ma tadri nafsun bi ayyi ardin tamut inna Allaha 'Alimun Khabir." That indeed Allah alone has knowledge of the Hour, and He sends down the rain,
09:44and He knows what's inside of the wombs, and no soul knows what it will earn tomorrow, and no soul knows in which land it will die, because verily Allah is the All-Knowing and the All-Aware. In another hadith, the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said
09:58Mafatihul ghaybi khams That the keys of the unseen are five No Nabi of Allah knows these five things and I want you to sit with that for a moment No Prophet of Allah knows these five things
10:12because sometimes it's hard to understand the psychology of the people around the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam He's so clearly divinely inspired Why can't you see that? Because they didn't believe in God Everything in religion had been turned into stones and material
10:26So you have to tell me what's going to happen tomorrow You have to tell me what I'm getting out of this You have to tell me what I'm getting out of that They became a very transactional people There's no Akhirah, there's no iza mitna wa kunna turaban wa idha ana Like we die and we become bones and stones
10:41What is it that we get out of this? And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says Mafatihul ghaybi There are five keys of the unseen No Nabi of Allah, no Prophet of Allah knows these five things And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam mentions
10:55Inna Allaha indahu ilmus sa'ah wa yunazilul ghayb wa ya'lamu ma fil arham And he recited the ayah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Now I want you to pay attention to what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is telling us through this ayah He's telling us the who
11:10Allah sends the rain, the who He's telling us what he sends wa yunazilul ghayb He's telling us wa ya'lamu ma fil arham Only Allah knows how it will come
11:23Only Allah knows how it will come He's telling us wa ma tadri nafsun maza taksibu ghada When it will come And he's telling us wa ma tadri nafsun bi ayi ardin tamut
11:38And you don't know where it will come So Allah Azza wa Jal in one ayah answers the who, what, how, when and where And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam called these mafatihul ghayb The five keys of the unseen And when you sit with this for a moment
11:53Allah has shown the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam all types of things Anbiya before the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam raised the dead to life The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam has seen ad-Dajjal The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
12:08has gone from Mecca to Jerusalem led the Prophets in prayer has been taken to the highest heavens has seen all sorts of things that you cannot imagine So when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and all of these Anbiya of Allah
12:21who were able to stop the sun like Yusha ibn Nun Alaihi Salam or who were able to raise the dead like Isa Alaihi Salam None of them were told what's happening next All of them had that concealed
12:36And that's why the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam when he was at the wedding of Rubayyah one of the poets started to sing wa fina nabiyun ya'lamu ma fi ghad amongst us the Prophet who knows what will happen tomorrow
12:51And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam he could have taken it he could have said you know it's poetic license it's art, it's culture, it's okay it can mean different things and in some ways the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam told us what will come next
13:05because if you think of ghad as in Yawm al-Qiyamah, as-Sa'ah the hour, the day of judgment he told us Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam some of the signs so maybe there's something there wa fina nabiyun ya'lamu ma fi ghad
13:19al-fujaa, sudden death a sudden loss of blessings or fazaa, someone who is shocked by something out of nowhere and we are a people that don't like al-mawt al-fujaa, a sudden death because we like to prepare for death these things that come out of nowhere
13:33zawali ni'mati the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam used to seek refuge in Allah from a sudden decline in blessings it's the premise that there are things that are ahead of us that none of us can predict
13:47none of us know and it is part of what makes the test of Bani Adam and the test of Ummah Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam what it is in the first place that you can have the greatest forecasters
14:01political forecasters, economic forecasters weather forecasters they could tell you there is rain in the horizon they could tell you there is risk tomorrow they could tell you that this superpower is going to demolish this
14:15but then you turn on the news the next day or you come outside and it is the complete opposite of what was forecasted and sometimes
14:28that news comes to you from different places and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam loved to remind us of that uncertainty that in that uncertainty that's where tawakkul is found in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala that's where trust in Allah is found
14:42is in the uncertainty of what is ahead and that's why Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala anha asked, did the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam used to recite shi'r did he used to recite sometimes some poetry did he like some of the lines of poetry and she said radiAllahu ta'ala anha
14:57kana yatamathalu Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam bi shi'r Ibn Rawahah the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam liked the poetry of Ibn Rawahah is in the uncertainty of what is ahead
15:11 and that's why Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala asked, did the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam used to recite a shi'r did he used to recite sometimes some poetry did he like some of the lines of poetry and she said radiAllahu ta'ala anha
15:25 kana yatamathalu Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam bi shi'r Ibn Rawaha the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam liked the poetry of Ibn Rawaha wa yatamathalu bi qawlihi ya'tika bil akhbari man lam tuzawwid
15:39that verily news will come to you from places you don't expect someone that you did not commission someone that you did not pay someone you didn't subscribe to someone that didn't travel with you someone that doesn't have any familiarity to you
15:53and someone pops up and gives you news and you have no idea how it came from this person meaning you invest in lines of certainty you plan in certain ways but Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala shows you that those plans are not actually what makes things move
16:08what does this mean for us as an ummah as the ummah of Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam before we talk about the potential of Gaza being free and Gaza will be free and Al-Aqsa will be free
16:22because Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala promised it Allah 'Azza wa Jal will free it but before we talk about the way things are looking for Palestine the way things are looking for the ummah the projection of this place and the projection of that place
16:36let's actually start with the places where we have certainty what does this mean for us as an ummah we know that we shouldn't be too hopeful in what seems stable at any point the most stable lands can be overtaken
16:51from beneath or above at any point the most prosperous population can be tested with poverty this is the Sunnah of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala that at any point your hope can turn into despair
17:04your stability can turn into insecurity your safety can turn into fear Allah 'Azza wa Jal can flip it upside down just like that so as an ummah even the places of the ummah and I'm not just talking about the physical places
17:19the areas of the ummah where we seem to be stable we don't put too much stock into that and on the opposite side we don't despair in what seems absolutely impossible I don't see a way
17:33la aro tariqah I don't see a way tariqat al-nasr I don't see strategically how this is going to happen I don't see how this is going to happen it looks bleak
17:47you're right it can look bleak it can look bleak but I want you to just take the news over the last two weeks and be honest when you turn on the news did anyone think that the headlines
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