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Juz 17: Good is Not Good Enough | Sh. Waleed Basyouni
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Why do some seem to have it all while others face constant struggle? Why do we face these trials? Life’s tests, whether of ease or hardship, offer profound wisdom to those who pause and reflect.
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings.Allah will test you with that which you love and that which you hate, and all of it is a test from Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala. You know what? We\'re not going to make this just a good Ramadan, we\'re going to make it the best Ramadan ever. The blessings that Allah has given us to use it in a way that basically says, Oh Allah, thank you. As-salaamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu everyone, welcome back to Qur\'an 30 for 30. Alhamdulillah, as we are getting now close to the last 10 nights, we want to remind you all insha\'Allah, if you found the work of Yaqeen beneficial, so please go ahead insha\'Allah and automate your last 10 nights. You can click on the link below. Alhamdulillah, this is always, every single year, an opportunity for you all who are hopefully benefiting insha\'Allah ta\'ala from the work of Yaqeen directly, to invest in that work alhamdulillah, where of course everything that we do insha\'Allah ta\'ala is for the benefit of the community, for the Ummah, and for humanity as a whole. Alhamdulillah, we are joined by our beloved Shaykh, older brother, mentor, not too much older brother, but mentor, Shaykh Waleed Basyouni, he\'s the president of Al-Maghrib Institute, which is multiple courses in Aqeedah and Fiqh, a course on marriage counseling, what is it? Marriage, fiqh of love. Fiqh of love, now, Alhamdulillah, so you officially took the love doctor title from Shaykh Yasir Birjas. No, he\'s still the doctor. The Imam of Clear Lake Islamic Center, where we\'re at now, Alhamdulillah, here in CLIC, the second greatest masjid in the country, after VRIC, Shaykh, it\'s a pleasure, Alhamdulillah, we know you for a long time, and we benefit from you, and we\'re grateful for your hospitality, and we\'re grateful to have you for the first time on Quran 30 for 30, Alhamdulillah. The pleasure is mine, JazakAllah Khair, Shaykh Omar, Shahadah Allah, may Allah Almighty give you Tawfiq, and make whatever we say in this episode beneficial for us and for those who are listening to us. Allah Ibadakallah. JazakAllah Khair.
Shaykh, before we get into the serious stuff, I want to give you a scenario, if we were on an island, and there was a bear that was about to attack, would you rather have me or Shaykh Abdullah with you? Interesting. Shaykh, we go way back, we go way back, Shaykh. Okay, I think I would rather to have you. Oh, wow. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Give me a tissue box. Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. Because it\'s good to die with righteous people, so we die together. So Shaykh Abdullah, you have a chance to live, but we\'ll just take it, we\'ll let the bear take us. No, I want to say on this note, but really, I mean, we\'re sitting in a masjid that, you know, a lot of people, viewers probably don\'t know, but Shaykh Waleed worked hard to us, this is, you said the imam, Shaykh Waleed is a founder of this masjid, a visionary, he\'s my Shaykh, I studied with him when I converted to Islam, I\'ve studied so much with him, got an ijazah from Al-Qila Wasiti, and the old masjid, Nasir Masjid, Nasir Masjid, but I\'ve benefited immensely from him, and he has a huge haq on me, and a huge haq on a lot of people in Houston, masha\'Allah, he\'s done a lot for this community in Houston, Texas, masha\'Allah. May Allah SWT bless him and grant him a scale of good deeds. The same, Shaykh, your fadl on us is great, you\'ve been there for us in our hard times and our good times, alhamdulillah, and we\'re really, really happy to have you, alhamdulillah, for the first time. Shaykh, before we actually start with the juz\', you know, one thing I\'ve been asking the guests to do is maybe just share, like a story of the power of the Qur\'an as a whole, someone whose life changed with the Qur\'an, or you saw it, you know, really, instead of getting into the specific lessons, just the power of the Qur\'an in people\'s lives.
Anything that happened recently or before that you think the viewers can benefit from? I always share this story about the power of the Qur\'an, where one of my friend\'s students, he said, I just finished the exams, and I was like, you know, the summer break coming, and I said, I\'m not going to take any courses in the summer, and I was so motivated to do nothing, highly motivated to do nothing in the summer. I walk into Maghrib prayer, and the imam was reading, then he said in the end, he said, it hit me as if Allah talking to me. Now you\'re done, it\'s the time to exhaust yourself like that, there\'s no rest. He said, I think that\'s one of my best summer ever, that I came so close to Allah, and I think that the first day of my, like it was from the beginning in the summer break, and it\'s a message from Allah, so what I appreciate about what you guys do every year in relation to the Qur\'an, is to make that connection between people and the book of Allah SWT. It has to be translated to actions, to touch our lives, so really appreciate that. Alhamdulillah, I mean the beauty is that Ramadan now is actually close to the summer too, so a lot of people free up in the summer in some ways, and it is a chance to busy yourself with the Qur\'an, especially as people- So even have the spring break. Right, so Alhamdulillah, and this time it actually aligns with the last ten nights for many people, so Alhamdulillah, it\'s a blessing from Allah SWT. I want to make my lesson very quick today, because I know Sheikh Waleed has some rich insight for us, but the lesson that I have for you all today is actually very simple, and it is that no one has it all good or all bad, no one has it all good or all bad, and that sounds very simple, but it\'s probably one of the hardest concepts to come to terms
with in our lives as we\'re witnessing everything unfold around us, because some people seem to have it so good, and some people seem to have it so bad, and last Juz we were talking about how good might be bad, and bad might be good, like in the case of Musa al-Khidr and Firaun and what happened with him. In this situation, Allah SWT says in this ayah, كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَائِقَةُ الْمَوْتِ وَنَبْلُوكُم بِالشَّرِّ وَالْخَيْرِ فِتْنَةٌ وَإِلَيْنَا تُرْجَعُونَ that every single soul shall taste death. So number one, there is an equalizer that exists with all of this, which is death, right? At the end of the day, nothing truly reveals itself to you in the absolute sense in this dunya. That which didn\'t make sense, makes sense, right? And there are certain wisdoms as we said that unveil themselves to you over time, but at the end of the day, death is the equalizer of all, everyone who dies goes through the exact same process from a physical perspective, but from a deeper perspective in the dimensions that are unseen to us, there is so much that differentiates them. But Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala says, and we will test you, oh humanity, with bad and good as a trial, right? And you\'re tested with these two things as a trial, khayr and sharr. And what the ulama mention here which is deeply profound in the tafsir of this verse, is that everyone has a portion of good and bad in their lives. Every single person. And so Allah azzawajal will test you with what? He\'ll test you with ghina, or he\'ll test you with faqr, he\'ll test you with wealth, or he\'ll test you with poverty. Now very few people in life are going to dwell in wealth for their entire lives, for example. And even the one who dwells in poverty will sometimes feel like the richest man in the world, depending on multiple circumstances. But at the end of the day is, relative to your life, to your circumstances, to those
around you, you\'re going to have the spectrum, right, of good financial circumstances and difficult financial circumstances. You\'ll have as-sihah, you\'ll have your health, and then you\'ll have a saqm, you\'ll have moments of illness, right? There are very few people that live their entire lives healthy, right? Everyone goes through an illness, even if that illness seems relatively minor, but at the end of the day, you go through moments of a lack of health, and that is a test for you. Now some people, their default is actually sickness. And subhanAllah you see the humility that comes in their lives as a result of that. Just like the person whose default is poverty and difficulty, and that\'s why the majority of the people of Jannah, they\'re not distracted by this world as a result of that. So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta\'ala will test you with that, bima tuhibboon wa bima takrahoon as the ulama mention. Allah will test you with that which you love and that which you hate. And all of it is a test from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta\'ala, and every single person has their share of good and has their share of bad. A lot of times when we\'re seeing someone who seems to have it so good, we\'re not realizing that person is actually living in misery in two ways. Either by circumstance or by lack of spiritual clarity. So there might actually be a physical situation, a circumstance, that simply is not showing itself to you. And you\'re seeing that person and you\'re saying, wow, that person has it so good, and they might be dealing with all sorts of circumstances behind the scenes that you don\'t know about. Or their lack of spiritual clarity is making their circumstances miserable even if outwardly they\'re all good. So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta\'ala is saying everyone\'s going to have it, they\'re going to have their share of good, they\'re going to have their share of bad, and it will all be a test from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta\'ala. The great equalizer is death, وَإِلَيْنَا تُرْجَعُونَ And all of you will come back to us. All of you will come back to us. This is so profound Subhanahu Wa Ta\'ala because the Day of Judgment is not just a day of accountability, it\'s a day of explanation. It is a day of explanation.
Everything is made so clear on that day. And so many people are searching for clarity and they don\'t act because they don\'t have clarity. Right? And the beauty of our Deen is that it gives us the spiritual clarity that\'s necessary to have that spiritual thrust and that energy towards Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta\'ala. So no one has it all good, no one has it all bad, but the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, عَجَبًا لِأَمْرِ الْمُؤْمِنِ How amazing is the affair of the believer because his affair is all good. The affair of the believer is all good, not because the circumstances are all good, but because the reaction to the circumstance is always good. So if he\'s given something good, then he praises Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta\'ala and that\'s better for him. And if he has a difficult circumstance, then he is patient and that is better for him. So his affair is always khair, his affair is always good, not his circumstance. His affair is always good because he has that spiritual clarity, he understands the great equalizer, he understands the great explainer. The great equalizer being death, the great explainer being the day of judgment for us. And we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta\'ala that we are able to internalize everything that happens to us externally in a way that is good for us, in a way that brings us closer to Him Subhanahu Wa Ta\'ala. I think one of the most important lessons in life for me when I was growing up, something I heard from my teacher, but I will say it in a more simple term. The choice that you make about being good or great, when good is not good enough, when you have that zeal, when you have that interest to go that extra mile, when you just don\'t want to thrive, but you don\'t want to survive, but you want to thrive. It\'s not about making a living, but making a life. It\'s not just about yourself and what you gain, but it\'s about what you contribute and what you leave behind you.
It\'s when you have a bigger goal in your life. And that\'s something so profound in our religion. And I found this concept repeated so many times in the Qur\'an, but in our Juz, there\'s a verse in the Qur\'an where Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta\'ala tells us the story of Zakariya, and how Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta\'ala blessed to give him, answer his request when he was praying. رَبِّ لَا تَذَرْنِي فَرْدًا وَأَنْتَ خَيْرُ الْوَارِثِينَ Then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta\'ala said, فَاسْتَجَبْنَا لَهُ وَوَهَبْنَا لَهُ يَحْيَى We answered his call, and we gave him Yahya, John. وَأَصْلَحْنَا لَهُ زَوْجَهُ Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta\'ala said, amended his wife for him. Then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta\'ala said, إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا يُسَارِعُونَ فِي الْخَيْرَاتِ They used to hasten, they used to hasten in goodness, يُسَارِعُونَ فِي الْخَيْرَاتِ This is for me a very interesting concept, that they are in the khayrat, but still they are hasten in doing more, and it\'s not they hasten to the khayrat, يُسَارِعُونَ فِي الْخَيْرَاتِ هُمْ يُسَارِعُونَ فِي الْخَيْرَاتِ So they\'re already doing good, he\'s a prophet of Allah, he\'s a messenger of Allah, he\'s doing all this, but yet he always have that zeal to do more than what he is doing. And sometimes people ask, you know, isn\'t that exhausting? I always say, let\'s take the risk of, you know, getting exhausted than the risk of getting rusty, you know. I think that effort, that zeal, that commitment, that would distinguish you, that they say the good news is that there is no jammed traffic at the extra mile, you know, you are ahead of everybody else.
And that\'s something so important. That\'s a way you live your life, in every area of life, especially when it comes to the deen, that you always have that high commitment. وَهَبْ إِبْنِ الْوَرْضِ يَقُولُ إِذَا اسْتَطَعْتَ أَلَّا يَسْبِقَكَ أَحَدٍ إِلَى اللَّهِ فَافْعَلْ If you can make sure nobody can ever reach Allah before you, or reach the Nabi before you, make sure that you do so. Like you race, سَبِقُوا, بَادِرُوا, the Nabi says. The Qur\'an aligns with the Sunnah in this concept. And look at this, Zakariya is a prophet, yet he wants to be perfect, he wants a child. And he did this when he saw Maryam, you know, alayhi salam, getting the fruit of the winter and the summer, and he found that Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala capable of everything. Then he said at that moment, he made a du\'a to Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala to give him the son. Because he\'s about 70 years at that time, and he asked Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala for the son at that moment. And instantly, فَسْتَجَبْنَا, in Arabic language, فَسْتَجَبْنَا means immediately the answer came. وَأَصْلَحْنَا لَهُ زَوْجًا And not only that, we have, that\'s the greatness I\'m talking about. That Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala even give him more. He have amendment his wife, the scholar said, she was not able to bear children. And Allah made her able to, because she\'s old and before she couldn\'t get pregnant. And Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala made her able to do so. And Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala amended her, the fuqaha said, that he perfect her manners for him. And some, this is interesting, because what you want, you want for your children, not just a good environment, but excellent environment. You have a good wife and a good, you know, a good relationship between them and an excellent home where the child will grow.
Then Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala told us, the teen made the du\'a and Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala answered his du\'a. Ibn Taymiyyah rahim Allah had a nice comment. He said, from this verse, we learned that you should ask Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala for the salah of your family. You always ask Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala to make them righteous. Then Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala said, they used to haste. They here, some of the scholars said, refer to the husband and wife, Yahya and his wife. And some said, they refer to all the prophets and messengers. And for me, I ask myself the question, again, good or great? You know, when good is not good enough, with all what they\'re doing, they still offer more. They still hasten to goodness. They still compete in goodness. And the beautiful thing about him and his wife, it gives you that image where John will be born, where the wife and husband competing in goodness. And we are on Ramadan. Can you imagine that? In a spirit, you know what? We\'re not going to make this just a good Ramadan. We\'re going to make it the best Ramadan ever. You know, we\'re not going to be just committed to the ibadah. We\'re going to make the best out of this relationship with the outcome. And also, prophets and messengers, if you go to that understanding, even all the prophets and messengers, with all their contribution and their, you know, righteousness, still they hasten to the good deeds, and they rush to it. And some of the scholars once said, when Allah opened for you a door or access to do something good, take full advantage of it because you don\'t know when that door will be open again. Hasten to it. In Ramadan, many doors Allah opened. Jannah has so many doors. So Allah opened all the doors of Jannah in Ramadan. So make sure that you hasten to it.
Also, one of the things that I want to say, it\'s also an important point to reflect upon in this verse. When Allah, subhanahu wa ta\'ala, said, يُسَارِعُونَ فِي الْخَيْرَاتِ وَيَدْعُونَنَا رَغَبَ وَرَحَبَ يَدْعُونَنَا Some scholars said, يَعْبُدُونَنَا And some scholars said, supplicate. And both are correct. But look at the first concept, يَعْبُدُونَنَا In the time of ease and the time of hardship. They worship. They worship. They worship Allah, subhanahu wa ta\'ala, in the time of ease and the time of hardship. And also they worship us while they have fear and they have hope. There is a rule in تَدَبُّرُ القُرْآنِ You look at the order of the words. It makes a lot of perfect sense, like the Shaykh, he was saying earlier, الشَرُّ وَالْفِتْنَةِ الشَرُّ because it\'s more common, the fitna in it. Here, Allah starts with what? رَغَبَ وَرَحَبَ He put the رَجَاء before the خَوْف. The hope before the fear. The time of ease before the time of hardship. Because a lot of people worship Allah in the time of hardship, but not in the time of ease. So Allah, I want to point out the importance of it. Being consistent, it will make you a great person. And being balanced, it will make you a great person. And finally, I just want to say, what motivates people to be great is the خَوْفُ الرَّجَاء as well. That hope that, you know what, I trust Allah, subhanahu wa ta\'ala, and I know by being great and being coming closer to Him and doing my best, that I\'m dealing with the most generous, the most giving, which is Allah, subhanahu wa ta\'ala, Kareem and Jawad. And also appreciate your deeds and what you do.
So that\'s why it makes me feel like I want to do more and more. Because when you deal with someone who always appreciates you, I\'m always amazed by the hadith of the Prophet (ﷺ), Allah will be pleased with you when you say, Alhamdulillah, after eating and drinking. And I said to myself, just for a simple act like this, He\'s pleased. A human being, he does so much and you don\'t please them. And that just commits you to, you know what, don\'t hold back. Come full force and also with fear. And that commitment to greatness should never ever make you arrogant. That\'s why He said in the end, ...it means humble, as Ibn Abbas said. Don\'t let that make you arrogant. So much to be reflected on the verse, but thank you for the opportunity. Beautiful, beautiful reflections. I mean, just something I gleaned from it is that you don\'t understand your tests and your trials unless you look to the end, which is death and the Akhirah. You don\'t understand your blessings unless you look to the beginning, your source being Allah. And if you focus more on the blessings of Allah that He\'s given you this entire time, then you\'re not really immersed in like, why is this happening to me in terms of the trials? You\'re like, how am I repaying all these blessings? And it\'s not that my life is not good enough, it\'s that my deeds to thank Allah for the life He\'s given me is not good enough. So you said, good is not always good enough. That\'s your lesson, that\'s amazing. No, and this is so beautiful because, subhanAllah, I mean, the beautiful hadith that you mentioned in the end, you know, that Allah is pleased with the one that just ponders over the food that they have and they thank Him for that. You know, when they say, Bismillah, and they look at the manifestation of the name of Allah from Hifz, and protection, and Hafidh, manifest in these different ways by just saying that from the Akhirah,
and Allah is pleased with that, it reminds me of using our blessings in a blessed way. You know, using our blessings in a blessed way. And Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala talks about that in the Quran, particularly of the mushrikun, or the polytheists, during the time of the Prophet (ﷺ), when he mentions in chapter 22, verse 46, in the chapter of Hajj, verse 46, and he asks a rhetorical question, and some scholars mention that it\'s a sual istinkari, that it\'s a question that you know the answer, but it serves as a level of accountability upon your negligence. Therefore, Allah is asking this question to all of us. It\'s particularly those for the mushrikun, but generally for all of us to just remember ourselves and what we are doing. Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala says, Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala says, Have these people, and during the time of the Prophet (ﷺ), being the people of Mecca, have these people not traveled through the land with hearts to understand and ears to hear? So let\'s just stop there. We look at the Abu Lahams, the Abu Jahls, at the time of the Prophet (ﷺ), from his own relatives that denied the message. They hear the message, but it was elements of kibr, of arrogance, particularly that of arrogance, and looking at their position, looking at the tangible and not relying on the intangible, not relying on Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala, and understanding the reality of the power of Allah and how he can transcend the heart as he transcended with Muhammad (ﷺ) and gave him the revelation to call to them with courage and stick to that message. Did they not ponder and think over that? Rather that came to them, but there was elements of these things that I mentioned from arrogance and allegiance to other than Allah that prohibited them from this beautiful message of the message of Allah (ﷺ). So he\'s asking, did they not travel through the land with hearts to understand and to hear? With hearts to understand and ears to hear.
The hearts, as some scholars have mentioned, has the element of understanding, al-aql, to understand and to distinguish, because the aql comes from that which prohibits something. So you\'re able to distinguish that which is good, bad, right, and wrong when he\'s given us this element from the fitrah, from the natural inclination, for us to ponder and to think and to process, to further act in a way that complies with Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala wants from us. So he\'s asking this question, did they not travel the land and ponder over these things and let their heart process what\'s going on? Did they not have ears to hear? Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala is asking all of us this. When we travel, for instance, when we go to Umrah, for example, when we go to visit a relative, we go around the world, and we may visit certain places that were perished nations. Allah mentions these perished nations for what reason? For us to ponder over what were the things that they did? What was their negligence? What were the good things that were done? But the bad arrogance, et cetera, overpowered it. It\'s important for us to look at that and to ponder and look at our blessings. And Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala says after that, فَإِنَّهَا لَا تَعْمَلْ أَبْصَارُ وَلَكَنْ تَعْمَلْ قُلُوبُ الَّتِي فِي السُّدُورِ For verily, it is not the people\'s eyes that are blind, but their hearts within their breasts. This is so important because what we see here is a connection of the good deeds that affect the heart. When someone is not doing an action of khair, particularly, subhanAllah, Sheikh Samte Mia mentions here, غَبَّ البَصِر When you lower your gaze, for instance, of a bad deed, of not watching that online or offline on your phone, wherever it may be, that lowering of the gaze serves as a means of good deeds in the heart and giving you a basira, making you a basira, making you someone that has that intuition, making you someone that makes the right decisions. You know, sometimes we think, okay, I\'m committing all these sins, but I don\'t see anything happening to me. No, it\'s the decision to commit another bad deed because you performed that one and no one saw you.
No one said anything about it. You\'re alone on your television, on your computer. No one\'s saying anything. You\'re not being held accountable in this physical life, but it\'s conditioning your heart to when you face a calamity or you see a calamity on your phone, on the television, you associate it to Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala saying, why is this happening? What is going on? But not even looking back at ourselves, not even let our hearts reflect on what is happening in our lives and the lives of others to where it will result in, instead of raising your hand to Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala, you\'re putting your hands down and you\'re giving up. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, The Prophet (ﷺ) said, whoever said that mankind is destroyed, then he himself is a source of destruction or he himself is destroyed or the most of those that are destroyed. So it\'s important for us to remember in this beautiful verse, the blessings that Allah has given us to use it in a way that basically says, oh Allah, thank you. To have gratitude towards him. And the best way of showing gratitude is by living your life in that which nourishes the soul, which linguistically literally means sharia, that which nourishes the soul for us to be better human beings, to have a rippling effect on those around us. And that will, inshallah, save humanity all around the world. You know, Sheikh Abdullah, I was just saying, the blessings of Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala are gifts to you. What you do with them, it\'s your gift back to Allah. Subhanallah. Sheikh Ali is dropping lessons. He\'s going to do the whole hundred himself. That\'s what it is. That\'s beautiful. So it\'s really a gift if you use it. What I was reflecting on, Sheikh, is this idea of travel through the land, travel through the land, see what happened to those that came before you. Isn\'t it amazing that Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala lets you see the before, the during, and the after, so that you can heed?
Like you see life come to be. So you see children being born, you realize that was you. Like that was how vulnerable you once were. You see people that have blessings, more blessings than you, and you see people that are tested more than you. And then you see death. And then you see the aftermath of death. Like all of that, like how many lessons and signs of Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala are giving us. So we\'re seeing what happened at the end of people. Like look, they had all this land, they had all these beautiful palaces. Where are they now? No benefit. So why are you pursuing them? You\'re seeing people that are spiritually perishing in front of you, even if they\'re not yet physically perished. They\'re spiritually dying and dead people. You really want to be that person? May Allah protect us and grant us iman, and grant us yaqeen and certainty in that regard. Allahumma ameen. So it\'s really, subhanAllah, it\'s beautiful. Look at, like it\'s about the vision that you have. How you look at people, how you look at the current people in your life, your current blessings, your current trials, and how you look at those that came before you as well. SubhanAllah. It is your attitude in life. I don\'t mean to drop lines. No, I want to hear another one. I was like, it\'s your attitude in life. Your attitude determines your altitude. When I used to go with my son for his cancer treatment, I will never forget I saw somebody in front of me with a t-shirt written in the back. It says, the only disability in life is bad attitude. SubhanAllah. I never forget that. We focus on that, changing our attitude towards life, because that\'s really changing. That kind of ties into what you were talking about, the spiritual clarity, to allow those events in our life to make sure that we process it in a way that\'s beneficial for us in this life and in the next. And that\'s how we view Allah, subhanAllah. I am as my servant, thinks of me. Sheikh Waleed, we\'re out of time. I\'m sorry, you dropped it,
so we\'re going to just add a minute to this. Cancer is probably one of the hardest things to witness in front of you. I mean, I witnessed it with a parent, you witnessed it with a child. You witnessed someone kind of literally have the life sucked out of them. How do you keep your view on the blessing of Allah? Sheikh Abdullah witnessed it with his sister. So all of us kind of had people close to us, subhanAllah. How do you keep perspective? Just, I mean, with someone that you\'re seeing cancer literally suck the life out of someone. What do you say to them about the blessing of Allah\'s presence in that situation? You know, it is very hard. And it is like, I remember like seeing my son, like his blood counts go all the way to two. Normal people survive 12. Like you have to do, like you see really literally what you just said, the life sucked out of him. His hemoglobin dropped tremendously. So it\'s very hard to process this, to take your son and take the chemotherapy. But one thing kept me always strong, and I said, my wife told me this. She said, I was devastated when you, because I wasn\'t there when she got the news. So when I came and she didn\'t tell me because I was driving, she was worried about me. When I arrived to the hospital, subhanAllah, she told me, this is the word that kept me strong. And I don\'t remember saying it, but that\'s the beauty of having this good habit in your life. So when she told me the first thing I said, I said, alhamdulillah. And she said, that\'s what really kept me going. Because I know whatever had happened, Allah subhanAllah, I have the best plan. And that really helped me. It\'s not easy, it\'s not like I\'m, there is a moment where tears come down, where you feel down, but I always say alhamdulillah. I trust whatever Allah subhanAllah planned for me. And Allah subhanAllah, make it easy for all those who are going through this suffering. I mean, I know it\'s very real for a lot of people. So may Allah subhanAllah have mercy on those that have passed away from it. Ramadan is a good opportunity for du\'a. May Allah heal all the sick, O Lord.
And help our brothers and sisters around the world. Especially those who are suffering in Palestine and other places in the world. Ameen, ya Rabb. Imagine being a cancer patient in Palestine. And that\'s one of the things, right? We don\'t thank Allah for the blessing of a hospital. You know, a functioning hospital. But this is our sleep. JazakAllah khair, sheikh. We went over time, but we could have spoken to you all day. And we benefited from it. Alhamdulillah, Allah did give shifa to your son. And we ask Allah to protect and give shifa to all those that are struggling around the world. BarakAllahu feekum inshaAllah. We\'ll see you all tomorrow. Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
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