Spending time alone, just silence. Nowadays they call it meditation, right? But we have this system and this framework that's been given to us to come closer to Him, to know that Allah is enough for us. And when the miracles come, the miracle itself, we know that it's from Allah. We need to choose this too. It's up to us to be patient. And that takes a struggle, but Allah loves the struggle. Kana sa'iyukum ash-shukran. JazakAllah. Hafizullah Kulasha. May Allah bless you. Yeah, it's the leap of faith. That term means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. And it's used by sometimes other kind of like religions and other faiths in a way that probably wouldn't agree with our understanding of aqeedah. Because we have nusus, we have the text, we got wahi, we have Qur'an and sunnah. But this would be the Islamic application of the leap of faith. We know what we believe from the textual evidence, but then that thing that you were talking about, that acceptance and tolerance for knowing exactly when, where, and how, that's the leap of faith. Yeah, SubhanAllah. Mufti Kamani was talking about leap of faith too, by the way, when he was here. Oh, really? Something in Qalam about leap of faith. Y'all must be doing a lot of leaping. Leaping at Qalam. They have a big campus. MashAllah. MashAllah. Texas side campus. JazakAllah Khair. Beautiful reflection. May Allah bless you and increase you. And may Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la allow us all to manifest those beautiful qualities of the prophets. Allahumma ameen. InshaAllah ta'ala we will see you all tomorrow. BarakAllahu feekum. Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu. Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu.
Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu. Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu. Their du'as were loving, sincere, devoted. And so the seemingly impossible happens for them in ways that we could never imagine. But that's directly tied to their tawakkul. It's not just their stations as prophets. Their stations as ibad, as being great servants of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. And so that's why when you see like, I think the scars of the past, like when Ibn Al-Qayyim Rahim Allah talks about tawakkul in Madaraj Al-Sarakin. You know, when you really, really, really realize this trust in Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, things happen for you that don't happen for other people. And that's why you have the mu'ajizat, right, these miracles of the prophets, but you also have the karamatul awliya. You have the miracles of the awliya, the miracles of the friends of Allah that aren't prophets, but things happen for them that otherwise, you know, are outside of what we are familiar with. How do you, and I guess this is a question that's kind of close to both of you. How do you say to someone like, I don't believe a miracle is possible in my life, or, because there are two extremes to this. One is, is a miracle even possible for me? Or if the miracle doesn't happen for me,
that means that Allah is not answering my du'a. Right, it's kind of like, there's some people like the miracle is impossible or the miracle didn't happen. Therefore, my relationship with Allah is impossible. How do you kind of talk to people as they're trying to find themselves between these miracles and they're not seeing them manifest in their own lives? Yeah, you know, something interesting, because the story of Ibrahim alaihi salam, as I mentioned, you know, it's something that's really universally known and recognized as maybe one of the most well-known of the stories of the prophets, but particularly during times of difficulty and tragedy in the ummah, my mind, my heart always goes back to this particular story for that exact reason. There were so many steps along the way where Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la could have, where one might have expected the intervention to come at earlier moments, when they're nabbing him, when they're tying him up, when they're starting the fire, when they're putting him in the catapult, when they're launching him, when he's midair. There's so many moments where the intervention, one could have expected it, but it came at the time that was the most powerful and most effective, where it became something that people would remember and talk about and reflect upon for the rest of time. So much so that we're sitting here, only Allah knows how many millennia later, halfway across the world, and we're reflecting on it once again. So it's, going back to these stories is ultimately the way to find that kind of strength and consolation and comfort. And it might seem a bit obtuse to some people, but just going back to those stories and mentioning those stories and reflecting on those stories together, I think ultimately is what provides that comfort. وَكُلَّنَا قُسُوا عَلَيْكَ مِنَ بَعِرُسُ لِمَا نُثَبِّتُ بِهِ فُؤَادَكَ That it's the same Allah that we're praying to,
and he has the same might and power that he had when he saved Ibrahim, alayhi salam, and he can do the same exact, quote unquote, impossible, make the impossible possible, the miracle happened today like he did at that time. I have to say one thing here, because you just said it and it just occurred to me, right? When you say like, we're still talking about someone thousands of years later, their exact words that happened in a moment of time when they were at their lowest and loneliest points. Ibrahim is in a roaring fire. If you ever heard a fire roar, think about his words, may Allah protect us from the fire. Think about how muted his words would be in that fire with the roaring fire, has to be Allah wa ni'ma lakeem, and we hear them. And then Ibrahim alayhi salam is in the desert, and ما يبلغ سلطي, what's going to cause my voice to reach all these people in the desert, right? Just addhin finnaas, just do it. Zakariya alayhi salam is in a corner of Al-Aqsa. Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la liberated, Allahumma ameen. رَحْنَادَ رَبَّهُ نِدَاءً خَفِيَّةً Like he's speaking so low that no one else can hear him from the khalq around him, from the creation, except that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la wills, and here we are talking about it now. Ayyub alayhi salam has been shunned by all of society at this point. No one's around him, and he's calling out to Allah in this private du'a. He's shunned. And Allah Azawajal has it immortalized in Qur'an. All of these people's du'as are in Qur'an. Dhikru, dhikra, we're reciting it constantly. I mean, it just shows you how you don't know what's happening in that moment in history, how consequential that moment is in the qadr of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, in the decree of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la for everything that's to come, SubhanAllah. Yeah, SubhanAllah.
I mean, that's what I was going to mention about the statement of Ibrahim, Hasbi Allah wa ni'ma l-wakeel. I mean, we're seeing this online. The brothers and sisters in Gaza, they keep saying it, right? And then Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says, wa min yatawakkal Allah fa huwa hasbu. Allah is enough for me. Wa kafa'a bina hasibin, right? Allah is enough for me. So when it comes to a miracle, I ask that individual to think about even what is a miracle. A miracle is something beyond human capabilities. And who is Allah? Look at those beautiful names, those attributes. Each one of them are totally beyond our capabilities. Therefore, which is part of the reason why we count on Him and worship Him, and it's not conditional to our intellectual capacity. So when thinking about the miracle, okay, it's when Allah chooses, but in the end of the day, it's this term of uncertainty tolerance, right? I'm not certain when it's going to happen, but I'm certain He has the capabilities to make it happen. Am I okay with that? The fact that it doesn't turn on that I'm okay with it, or at certain times I may ask why, that's human. But what's most important is when you realize that, how do you retreat into fir ilallah and return to Him? It's about what happens at that moment. And getting back to Allah, it's not easy at times. It's a fitna, it's a struggle. You think what they're saying, hasbi Allah, ni'ma laki hasbi Allah. It is some type of, you know, some would say cognitive behavioral therapy. You're like speaking to yourself to bring yourself back to spiritual sanity. And that's what's needed because we're human. We're insan, li'anana nansa. Because sometimes we are, you know, this beautiful word insan comes from nesiyah and also comes from uns. Like nesiyah means you're forgetful at times, and uns means having that closeness or sociability. But that closeness ultimately is to be like Ibrahim was, khalil Allah. And that's why, SubhanAllah, you mentioned times of being alone. The last 10 days of our Ramadan, what are they?
I'tikaf, being alone and intimate with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Putting your phone away, fasting from food, drinks, and being with people, and electronics as well. And getting close to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, khalwah. We see this is what the Salafi, with our scholars, khalwah, spending time alone, just silence. Nowadays they call it meditation, right? But we have this system and this framework that's been given to us to come closer to Him, to know that Allah is enough for us. And when the miracles come, the miracle itself, we know that it's from Allah. We need to choose this too. It's up to us to be patient, and that takes a struggle. But Allah loves the struggle. Kandisat yukum ash-kura. JazakAllah. Hafidhah Kalasha. May Allah bless you. Yeah, it's the leap of faith. That term means a lot of different things for a lot of different people, and it's used by sometimes other kind of like religions and other faiths in a way that probably wouldn't agree with our understanding of aqidah, because we have nusus, we have the text, we got wahi, we have Quran and sunnah. But this would be the Islamic application of the leap of faith. We know what we believe from the textual evidence, but then that thing that you were talking about, that acceptance and tolerance for knowing exactly when, where, and how. That's the leap of faith. Yeah. Mufti Kamani. I was talking about leap of faith, too, by the way, when he was here. Oh, really? Really. Something in Qalam about leap of faith. Y'all must be doing a lot of leaping. Leaping at Qalam. They have a big campus. Inshallah. Inshallah. Texas side campus. JazakAllah khair. Beautiful reflection. Inshallah. May Allah bless you and increase you. And may Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la allow us all to manifest those beautiful qualities of the prophets. Allahumma ameen. InshaAllah ta'ala we will see you all tomorrow. JazakAllahu feekum. Wassalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Wa alaikumussalam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.