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Juz 2: To Allah We Belong | Dr. Haifaa Younis
Why is life so hard? Does it feel like your trials and tribulations are never ending? Why is Allah testing you with this, and someone else seems to have it easier?
Join Dr. Haifaa Younis with hosts Dr. Omar Suleiman and Sh. Abdullah Oduro as they reflect on Juz 2 of the Qur'an, discovering the unique knowledge of Allah, and how and why Allah tests those He loves.
Transcript
This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings.But practice Islam in totality, submit to everything Allah said, do or don\'t do. There are many ways that Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala tests you, but there is only one way to pass that test, which is sabr, which is patience. When one maintains their integrity for the right reasons, Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala is never, never neglectful of their sacrifice. May Allah reward you for the incredible work that you do, may Allah reward you for being a part of Yaqeen, may Allah reward you for your work with Jannah Institute, may Allah reward you for all of the da\'wah that you do. How are you? Alhamdulillah, Rabbul Alameen, how are you? Alhamdulillah, Allah yubarak fikum. We are blessed to have you. I know that, mashallah, the two of you had the chance to go to Turkey and Syria together after the earthquake, so you shared that experience, alhamdulillah, may Allah reward you both. Obviously, in a time of tragedy, subhanallah, the earthquake seems so distant since when Gaza broke out, subhanallah, this is the story of the Ummah, right? It\'s tragedy after tragedy after tragedy, wallahul musta\'an, may Allah reward both of you for going there.
I know, first and foremost, I want to direct people to Jannah Institute. The work that you\'re doing there is phenomenal, alhamdulillah. I know so many sisters whose lives have absolutely changed through it. So any of you sisters that are watching this, please do go ahead and check out the programming that they have at Jannah Institute with Dr. Hayfa. But I want to talk about something else with you. Subhanallah, the Ramadan series this year obviously is about Barzakh and Ar-Ruuh, and I tell people that the main inspiration was Kitab Ar-Ruuh, Ibn Al-Qayyim, rahimahullah, and you said that that was the book that changed your life. So can you talk about that for a bit? Yes, subhanallah, it\'s amazing what you just said. As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullah, everyone. I think I was in end of med school, beginning of residency, and one of the colleagues says, Doctora, I think this book you would like. And I know Ibn Al-Qayyim and I love his work, but I haven\'t seen Ar-Ruuh yet. So I took it and I start reading. And what you see today, one of the reasons is Kitab Ar-Ruuh. It\'s beautifully written, different than the style of Imam Ibn Al-Qayyim. It\'s not very difficult to read and understand, but the message is very powerful and very clear. You should, anyone who\'s going to read the book, and by the way, it\'s translated also. Anyone who reads the book, you\'re going to say to yourself, am I ready for that moment? Am I ready? The moment I\'m going to be in the grave and the moment I\'m going to meet Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala, what I\'m going to say to him. And the more you think about this, you will live in dunya, you will still do what you are doing, but the focus will start changing. And that was literally the key moment that I start shifting from the dunya, the physician, the dreams usual, to maybe there is something even more than that. So it\'s a beautiful book to read. And I\'m sure the series will be amazing. Yeah, it\'s definitely, I mean, alhamdulillah, there are about five primary books. That was
the first book that I consulted in this series, because it truly is not just eye-opening. If you understand the reality of the world that you\'re in, then you understand the reality of the world that you\'re going to. And so it really flips everything. It\'s almost like taking the human being and flipping them inside out, taking this dunya and flipping it inside out. And so you start to see things a lot more clearly. May Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala reward our scholars and may Allah reward you and count us as somewhat of the inheritors. Incredible mission, Allahumma ameen. Dr. Hayfa, we\'re actually going to have you start us off today inshallah ta\'ala. It\'s just to what is your lesson and what is your ayah? The second juz\' of the Qur\'an, which is almost the middle of Surat al-Baqarah, it\'s very interesting. There\'s a lot of verses in it. It\'s basically cover almost the main foundation of Islam. You find the siyam, the fasting, you find the hajj, you find the zakah, and you find the salah in it. It\'s beautiful, all of it. But there\'s one verse, every time I go to hajj, and Allah blessed me and you this year that we went, every time I\'m in hajj, especially at the end of the hajj, this verse comes to me. And Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala says, after he does talk about all the details of the hajj, he has three verses describing people. And then he comes suddenly, he says, Ya ayyuha allatheena aamanu, ya ayyuha allatheena aamanu, dkhulu fissilmi kaaffa, wa la tattabi\'u khutuwati shaytaan, innahu lakum a\'duwwun mubeen. Enter to silm, I\'ll leave it for a second. Kaaffa in total, wa la tattabi\'u khutuwati shaytaan, don\'t follow the footsteps of shaytaan. Wa ya rabbi, innahu lakum a\'duwwun mubeen. Verily, he is for you, meaning you and me, the believers, a clear enemy. Okay, what is silm? Or salm, there\'s two ways you read it.
The most common explanation, it goes with the hajj and what it is important for you and me in this day and age. Enter into Islam, meaning I am a Muslim alhamdulillah, but practice Islam in totality. Submit to everything Allah said, do or don\'t do. Whether I understand, whether I don\'t know what it means, whether I like it, whether I don\'t like it, whether it\'s difficult, whether it is easy. Kaaffa, even when you read it in tajweed, there is a mad lazim, you have to say kaaffa, it gives you time to think. Meaning, don\'t pick and choose. I can\'t do this today, I\'m going to do this tomorrow, maybe later on. That\'s okay if you\'re really sincere in changing, but the issue here is don\'t pick and choose. I\'m not convinced, I can\'t do this, why did Allah tell me that? No. Kaaffa. Submit. Now, why don\'t we submit? This is the second message. Don\'t follow the footsteps, because what is shaytan is going to tell me? If you go back to shaytan in the Quran, the discussion with Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala, which is so interesting, that he make an oath by Allah, by your majesty, I am going to lure them, all of them, but then there is exception. Those who are sincere. So Allah keeps reminding me, don\'t follow his footsteps. Which means, the reason I do not submit to Allah and what he wants from me, because somebody, shaytan is in my ears, internally, is always nagging. Either don\'t do it, or wait, you can do it later on, or I am not convinced, or why is this? Every time,
or any time I hear this, I need to take a break, remember this verse. He told me, submit to me completely. And unless we submit completely to Allah in our daily life, live our life, but submit to his do and don\'t, and I say no to shaytan, I am going to struggle, I am going to fail, it is okay. Because after this verse, Allah says, you are going to make a mistake, we all will. You are going to slip, we all will. That is okay, meaning, get up, remember shaytan, remember what he is doing to you, and remember also, Allah is all might, and he is all wise. Message, especially in Ramadan, we practice it to certain extent. We all fast, it is very difficult, it is long days, I have to work, I have to go to school, I have tomorrow exam, we fast. We all run to the masjid, it is taraweeh, and it is not even an obligation, but we all go, we feel bad. I did not go to taraweeh yesterday, I did not read my Quran today. We feel bad, but then what happens after Ramadan? Vacation, for 11 months. No, the submission to Allah is throughout the year, throughout the day, as long as I am breathing. And he did not say if you can, he did not say when it is possible. It is always, always, and when I cannot, because I am weak, or the things around me is like shackling me, that is when I turn to him, and ya Allah make it easy, ya Allah help me, ya Allah show me the way. I love it, subhanallah, and it comes like almost in the middle, subhanallah. Mashallah, I mean, I just love how Allah adds, because it shows the importance of how you should approach Islam, and it is something that you should give your whole heart to, and be devoted to, and that should be your priority, and everything else comes from there, trickles down from there. Yes, I remember the first time I read that,
so kaffa, I mean, really just understanding when Allah added that is for a particular reason, because he knows how we will be, like you mentioned, sheikh, you mentioned that, that the fact that we are human beings, we may take part of it, and leave part of it, because of our hawa, our desires, et cetera, but that is what is so beautiful that you mentioned, you know, just touching on that point. The kaffa came again in the Quran, when he talked to the Rasul, so he came to everybody, subhanallah. And one of the things, subhanallah, that I noticed is that the ayah, which I\'m going to be talking about under the lesson that Allah tests everyone, but in different ways, is that you mentioned many paths of the shaitan, but only one path to Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala. There are many ways that Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala tests you, but there is only one way to pass that test, which is sabr, which is patience, and Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala says, so Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala mentions that he\'s going to test you, I\'m going to test you with fear, I\'m going to test you with hunger, I\'m going to test you with the loss of wealth, with the loss of health, with the loss of your crops, but give glad tidings to the patient. Those who, when they are struck by tragedy, they say to Allah we belong and to Allah we return. So subhanallah, it\'s really interesting because Allah mentions the different types of tests, but then mentions the one passing grade, that at the end of the day, there\'s only one way to sabr, there\'s only one way to patience, which is at the end of all of these tests, each one of them has an indication of to Allah we belong and to Allah we return. One of the ways that the ulama connect it is that if Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala tests you with fear, to Allah we belong and to Allah we return, because there will come a time where you will be more afraid than anything that
you fear in this dunya, which is when you enter the qabr and beyond, when you enter the grave and beyond, may Allah protect us. If Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala tests you with hunger, there will come a time where you have no provisions, no food, no drink, in the physical sense, in terms of the worldly constructions, right, and to Allah we belong and to Allah we return. If you\'re tested with your wealth, there will come a time where you have no wealth, to Allah we belong, to Allah we return. Allah is the provider of all of these things, and ultimately we return to Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala to nourish us. But there\'s something else I was thinking about with this ayah, which is that many times when we are being tested with something in particular, it can feel like how come this person, who I think I\'m better than, is not being tested with this in particular, and you don\'t realize that Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala has customized tests for you, and customized tests for everyone else, in a way that is meant to bring you back to Him. Similar to how Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala provides you enough so that you don\'t have to get pulled by sublash shaitan, by the pathways of shaitan. And shaitan tempts different people differently. You know subhanAllah, there\'s some people like, you know, I don\'t know why that person fell to that fitna. I can\'t understand why that person fell to this. Maybe you\'re safe from that, or you think you are, but your fitna is different from that person. Likewise, when it comes to the tests, Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala knows what he\'s given to his slave. He gives his slave everything in accordance with what he knows of that slave, and it\'s important for us to not look at what other people are going through, and think how come they\'re not going through what I\'m going through, or they\'re getting what I\'m not getting, and realize that Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala is putting us through a perfect journey back to him subhanahu wa ta\'ala. My favorite tafsir of this ayah though, and I\'ll kind of subhanAllah leave it there, was a reflection from Imam al-Shafi\'i rahimahullah ta\'ala. The believer voluntarily tests themselves, voluntarily tests themselves for the sake of Allah, not by putting themselves in harm\'s way. But what does he say?
Wa lanabluwannakum bishay\'in minal khawf. We will test you with something of fear. He says khawfun minallah instead of the \'ibad, being fearful of Allah instead of the slaves. Wa lanabluwannakum bishay\'in minal khawfi wal ju\'. We will test you with something of fear and hunger. Who can guess what hunger is? You test yourself with hunger, fasting. So he said you test yourself with as-siyam. Wa naqsin minal amwal. And you test yourself with wealth by giving in zakah and giving in sadaqah. And he says that the idea here is that the believer is undergoing all sorts of tests and trials even voluntarily to see that Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala indeed fills the void of a person. And finding Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala the fullness of Allah and the deficiency of everything else. So whether it\'s involuntarily taken away from you or you voluntarily exercise sometimes distancing from these blessings, all of it is meant to teach you what? Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji\'un. There is no escape but Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala. There is no refuge except for Allah. There is no return except to Allah. There is no one who fulfills except for Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala. So just like you shut the doors of shaitan and you go back to the path of Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala, you shut the doors of test in the sense that you don\'t allow that test to capture you so that you don\'t see Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala through that test. Every test is meant to bring you back to Islam, back to submission. Submit to Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala in that test, and you will find Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala\'s reward more than sufficient. If you connect this verse with the other verse where Allah says about bala is fil anbiyaa Wa nablukum bishsharri wal khayri fitnatan wa ilayna turja\'un We will test you and here he put bishsharri wal khayri sharr, evil, things we don\'t like, and al-khayr, a lot of people look at test only in that lens, you know, I don\'t have, I don\'t have, I don\'t have. It\'s actually another way Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala
bring us us to him is when he give us, and then what I\'m gonna do? So I\'m hungry, but what about when he gives me a lot, like when I was in Gaza, this verse came, the two, he kept coming to me nabluwannakum Okay them, what about us, the abundance we have, and why ilayna turja\'un So the test here in general is both ways, we are tested living in this prosperity and comfort, and the others are tested, and in the two ways udkhulu fis-silmi kaaffah What does he want from me when I am tested with the less or with the hardship patient? What does he want from me when he gives me? Grateful, use it in his way. Subhanahu Because you\'re all coming back. SubhanAllah Yes, SubhanAllah And you know, this is the epitome of \'ubudiyyah a submission, servitude to Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala. And within this, you know, coming into Islam, kaaffah wholeheartedly, fully to the best of our ability, through these changes that we may go through, I want to touch on a particular aspect in the Seerah of the Prophet (ﷺ), which is one of the biggest changes in Islamic history, and that is of the Qibla. Yes. You know, when Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala talked about the changing of the Qibla in the chapter of Baqarah, roughly verses 143 to 144, or roughly the whole page he\'s talking about it. But I want to capitalize on one particular aspect amongst many lessons in this beautiful occasion and story. The title being the lesson of it being Allah is aware of your submission to change for His sake. Allah is aware of your submission to change for His sake. Two years after the Hijrah of the Prophet (ﷺ) in Medina, Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala ordered the Prophet (ﷺ), particularly roughly in the month of Sha\'ban, to change from Bayt al-Maqdis to Mecca. Now the climate is the Prophet (ﷺ) migrated from Mecca, and you know, they used to pray to Bayt al-Maqdis. But at this time, Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala ordered them, two years in the time of Medina,
the message, you know, it\'s been 13 years, and now they\'re in Medina and still, you know, professing the message of Islam. But at that time there were the Munafiqun, there were the hypocrites, there were the Yahud, there were the Jews, and there were the Mushrikun at that time as well. So 16 months after facing Bayt al-Maqdis, Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala legislated this. And what\'s beautiful is in the verse, Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala which we\'ll talk about, when this happened, each one of these three had something to say. The Munafiqun said, okay, one of these Qiblas must be wrong. If Allah ordered them to go to Mecca, then Bayt al-Maqdis must\'ve been wrong, must\'ve been a mistake. And if, you know, before, if we say that Bayt al-Maqdis was correct, then facing Mecca must\'ve been a mistake. You find the Yahud say, okay, how is the Prophet (ﷺ), if he\'s praying to Bayt al-Maqdis, and he is upon the Millah, he is going back to, how does Muhammad (ﷺ) be on the way to Ibrahim, then differ with the Qibla of Ibrahim? Because he was differing with it when he was praying to Bayt al-Maqdis, and now he\'s, you know, praying to the house that Ibrahim (ﷺ) built. And then you find from the Mushrikun, they\'re saying as Abu Sufyan used to say, he said, Qad aada Muhammadun ila Qiblatina Wa amma qareebun ila millatina He said that Muhammad (ﷺ) returned to our Qibla that was in Mecca. Just give him some time, he will come to our Millah. Just give him some time, he\'ll come to our Millah. And wallahi- The religion, right? The religion, right. He\'ll come to our Millah, our religion, our way. And this reminds me, subhanAllah, just as saying it, you know, when I became a Muslim, there were some people that were around, including some loved ones. They used to just give you time. Time. You just give, it\'s just a phase, yeah. You\'ll come back to, you know, some of them said to a certain prophet, right? Just give you some time, it\'s no problem. We see, we know, we know you, right? We know, we know you\'re not going to Udkhulu Fissilmi, can\'t forget. These tests are going to bring you back to us. Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala just all three of them. And Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala says, after Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala a\'udhu billahi min ash-shaitan ar-rajeem, Sayaqulu sufaha\'u min an-naas ma walahum a\'n qiblatihim walati kanu alaiha.
He said that the foolish people, they\'re going to say, ma walahum a\'n qiblatihim walati kanu alaiha. The foolish among the people will say, what has turned them away from their qiblah, which they used to face. So all of this, you know, media that is going on, people are talking, people are whispering, people are having their own assumptions and they\'re hoping for the misguidance or they\'re hoping for some type of mistake to happen with the Muslims and with the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. There\'s a lot of pressure. If you think of the climate, they just came to a place where they were welcomed by the al-ansar and the ones that sacrificed themselves from the muhajirun. There\'s still people around that still want their downfall. And this is a major event. Like you\'re praying towards a holy place and you have to change your place of prayer, your direction of prayer. Something must be wrong. There has to be something wrong. And it may be you coming back to us. Then Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala said, Qul lillahi al-mashriku wal-maghrib Say that to Allah belongs the East and the West. Yahdi man yasha\'u ila al-sirat al-mustaqeem He guides whom he wills to the straight path. He guides whom he wills. This is so beautiful of a rad, of a response. For Allah is the East and the West. He guides whom he wills to the straight path. The straight path. Allah guides whom he wills. Mashriku al-maghrib. Whether it was al-nasara and the Christians praying in al-mashriq and the yahood praying in al-maghrib as some scholars would mention, it doesn\'t ultimately matter because we\'re praying to Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala. He is in control of all of it. He is in ultimate control of all of it. And then after that, Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala mentions, Wa kadhalika ja\'alnakum ummatan wasatan litakoonu shuhada\'a alan nasi wa yakoona ar-rasool wa alaikum shaheeda Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala says, And thus we have made you a just community that you will be witnesses over the people and the messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam will be a witness over you. So firstly, you will be a witness over the people. And this is very, very important. Even throughout these trials and tribulations, we have done this for you to go through this fitna, this trial. We have done this for you to test, to see if you\'re going to, udkhulu fissilmi kaaffah which we\'re going to cover wholeheartedly.
And we\'re going to test you through these things, but we\'re testing you because we want you to be the witness over the people. We want you to be the example. We want you to be the exemplars of this tawhid, of this oneness of Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala. Witnesses on this earth and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, yakoona alaikum shaheedan as some scholars mentioned on that day of judgment that he will be the shaheed for us. As you know, we mentioned that Ibn Mas\'ud was reading when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam told him to read to him. And then Ibn Mas\'ud said, akraa alaika wa alaika al-Quran al-unzeel He says, I read to you, read upon you, and the Quran was revealed to you. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, verily I love for the Quran to be recited to me. You know, then he reached the verse, fa kayfa idha jitna min kulli ummatin bishaheedan wajitna bika ala ha-ulai shaheedan Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala mentions the verse which translates to mean, consider then when we shall bring forward the witnesses from every community and we will bring you O Muhammad as a witness against them all. And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam shed tears when he read this verse. So understanding firstly, that Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala will put us through situations to condition us to be better, to be stronger, to be more unified. And that is the ultimate test because Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala when he mentions after that, wa ma ja\'alna al-qibalata allati kuntu alaiha illa li na\'lama man yattabi al-rasoola mimman yanqalibu ala aqibai Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala mentions after that, we did not make the qibla which you used to face except that we might make evident who would follow the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam for who would turn back on their heels. The fact that the qibla was changed, a major event in Islamic history. Two years after their arrival in Al Medina, we did this to see, to test, we made evident and this is important in regards to translation, Allah made evident. It wasn\'t that he was ignorant, but it was to make evident to the people something that was in al-azl, al-qadr al-azl, his predestination. He wanted to see who was going to stick it out, who is going to be the one yanqalibu ala aqibai, who turns around. Some scholars mentioned, on the Sirat al-Mustaqim, some people will stop. Some people will turn their head, but it is nothing like the one that turns around and goes the opposite way
and that\'s what Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala is talking about here, who would follow the messenger of Allah from those who would turn back on their heels. Then Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala says, Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala says after that, Concluding here, after Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala tests them by changing the Qibla, Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala is showing you, look, there may be some people that may not make it. They will turn around and they will yanqalibu, they will give up because of what is happening and this is a nice latif, a nice point. In the midst of all of this drama, how strong is your faith? Because like you mentioned fitna is that literally being exposed to some type of heat and when you are exposed to that type of heat, how are you going to allow it to mold you, to be stronger when the heat goes away? When you\'re cooled down, how are you now? What state are you in? Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala says, and Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala would never have caused you to lose your faith. And the scholars say here that iman, Allah would not cause you to lose your faith, which would be here, the salah. Because it was mentioned to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, O Messenger of Allah, some people died before the tahweel al-Qibla, the change in the Qibla happened. That\'s why this verse is there to reassure that their reward is with Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala. And that\'s so beautiful because sometimes we only look at the trial and we hone in on the trial, but we don\'t look at the bigger picture. That Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala did it for an ultimate reason and that reason is there because they\'re couched in his love, his mercy. And that\'s what\'s so beautiful for us to remember when that trial comes, we have to remember, Allah did this for a reason. I don\'t know, lakin sami\'na wa ata\'na, I hear and I obey. And I submit. I don\'t have to know the reasons why, but it\'s important that I know his names and attributes and I trust in him that I submit. And then Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala says, inna allaha bin nasi ila ra\'uf wa raheem
al-deen, Allah is to the people, kind and merciful. And al-ra\'fa, as scholars mentioned, huwa a\'la darajat al-rahma. Ra\'fa, merciful could be translated, but it is the highest level of mercy. So the tahweel al-qibla, changing of the qibla is a beautiful story in regards to maintaining our integrity and knowing that when one maintains their integrity for the right reasons, Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala is never, never neglectful of their sacrifice. If I can add, the next ayah tells you the secret between ar-rasul alayhi as-salatu was-salam wa nallahu qad nara taqalluba wajhika fis-samaa fa lana walyannaka qiblatan tardaaha Nobody knew that ar-rasul alayhi as-salatu was-salam missed Makkah, and he wanted to pray toward Makkah, but no way he will do something unless Allah tells him. So what do I learn, you and me? There is things between me and Allah, people don\'t know, people say, people talk, but he knows it\'s actually came as honoring his request. You know, people said he changed his mind, he whatever, which one is right, but only he knew, and then revealed in the Quran, fa lana walyannaka qiblatan tardaaha tardaaha you, ya Rasulullah. Allah changed the qiblah for him because he missed Makkah, but he didn\'t do it without an order from Allah. udkhulu fis-salmi kaafa It\'s amazing how he never did something because he liked it, unless Allah told him, okay to do it, or there is an order. And I have to say, subhanAllah, it\'s an incredible, incredible connection. One thing that I thought of, Sheikh, is that subhanAllah, Allah has always been bringing out the hypocrites through Palestine, through Palestine. Allah exposes a group of hypocrites that like, well, we don\'t know if we can really buy into this. You know, he went to Jerusalem and came back, and now with the change of the qiblah, it\'s a way of exposing the hypocrites. Until today, Allah is exposing the hypocrites through al-Aqsa. So it\'s always been a criterion
for bringing out the hypocrites as well, you know, in this regard, subhanAllah. Dr. Haifaa, we have one minute left. Tell me very quickly, as someone that has been to Syria, Turkey, and Gaza, may Allah subhanAllah raise the pain from our Ummah, alleviate the suffering of our Ummah, tell us in one minute, what nasiha do you have for the people after what you\'ve seen from all of those tragedies? Honestly, what I said to myself, wake up, wake up, and see the dunya reality, and see the power of Allah subhanAllah in reality, and learn how should I, when things change, should react, but am I ready when I am now in my comfort zone? If Allah subhanAllah, Ya Rabbi, I mean not, but if He wants to change me, or change my situation to the worst, am I, the people of Gaza, ready? Ya Allah, are you pleased with me? If you\'re pleased with me, I\'m fine. The loved one in front of them, there was two, you probably have seen it. So everyone, and Ramadan is a beautiful exercise time for us, to learn to submit to the will of Allah, and get ready for the difficulty. Fasting is difficult, qiyam al-layl is difficult, giving charity is difficult, live your life in spite of all this difficult, go to school, go to work. We need to get ready, alhamdulillah, grateful to Allah for what everything He\'s giving us, but also, ikhshaw shinoo fa inna al-ni\'am la tadum. Get ready for difficult times, because blessings may not last forever. And we don\'t wanna right away, when Allah test us with something, the first thing come from my mind, why me? It should be now, this is what I said all the time in Gaza, why not me? SubhanAllah, and may Allah make it easy for them, Ya Rabbi, Ameen. JazakAllah khairan, may Allah bless you. We enjoyed having you as always, JazakAllah khairan to everyone for tuning in. We remind you again to keep us in your du\'a, also to please use the link to donate, and share it with as many people as possible,
as we\'re starting Ramadan. We\'ll see you all tomorrow, inshaAllah. Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
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