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Waiting for The Mahdi or A Miracle | Lecture by Dr. Omar Suleiman
Are you waiting for a miracle to change your life or the world around you? What if Allah has already equipped you to be that miracle? True faith doesn’t wait for miracles—it drives action, fueled by sincerity and trust in Allah. Learn how you can rise to the occasion, embody the values of Islam, and become a force for good in the world, knowing that Allah's help often comes through those who step forward.
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00:00As-salaamu alaykum. MashaAllah, it's wonderful to be here once again. I ask Allah to bless this gathering.
00:08I ask Allah to make it a means by which each and every single one of you and all of us enter into Al-Firdaws Al-A'la. Allahumma Ameen. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen.
00:20Was-salatu was-salamu ala Rasulihi Al-Kareem wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'een. Dear brothers and sisters, in the story of Al-Feel, Alam tara kayfa fa'ala rabbuka bi-ashaab al-Feel,
00:34where Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions to us the destruction of the army of Abraha,
00:41an arrogant man who was jealous of the Ka'bah and who wanted to destroy the Ka'bah so that people would instead come to the home that he had built in Yemen
00:53and they would take that as the place of their tawaf. In that story, Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala appointed birds.
01:04And those birds, as we know, were birds that no one had ever seen before that came and that pelted the army of Abraha, protecting the house of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala,
01:17even though the house of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala had been marked by all sorts of idols and depictions that were contrary to the message of tawheed upon which it was built.
01:30Can you imagine all of the Arab that witnessed that miraculous incident and the testimonies were many,
01:42yet still insisting upon kufr, upon disbelief, after Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala sent the Prophet (ﷺ) with the message of Islam?
01:53Abraha himself, can you imagine? Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala spared that zalim, he spared the oppressor himself. Many people don't know this.
02:05And he caused a disease to overtake that zalim, to overtake the core tyrants.
02:12And that disease ripped up the body of Abraha piece by piece, limb by limb,
02:20every single morsel of his physical existence in front of his people until he died a completely humiliated death. And such is the state of the zalim, such is the state of the oppressor.
02:34Inna allaha layumli li zalim hatta idha akhathahu lam yuflithu. Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala delays the oppressor until Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala seizes him. And Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala does not let him go at that point.
02:47Khubaib ibn Adi (رضي الله عنه), one of the great companions in hadithatul raji' a massacre that took place after Uhud.
02:59Khubaib was taken prisoner in Mecca. And before he was crucified in the area of Tan'im, where you go today to redo your ihram,
03:12your intention for ihram, if you're going to make multiple Umrahs. Khubaib (رضي الله عنه), as he was in captivity, a hostage,
03:22the woman that was in charge of watching him said that I saw when I would enter upon him
03:29he had grapes that were the size of a human head, miraculously provided to him. And he said that this is from Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
03:41Asim ibn Thabit (رضي الله عنه), a companion of his that was with him, and that was also attacked and separately killed.
03:52He had a bounty on his head of a hundred camels. One of the women of Quraysh wanted his head specifically to drink wine in his skull.
04:04And as he was about to be killed, he said Allahumma inni hamaytu deenaka awwal an-nahar, fahmi li lahmi aakhirahum.
04:15Oh Allah, I protected your religion in the beginning of the affair, so protect my body at the end of the affair.
04:25And what he meant by that is that after he was killed, (رضي الله عنه), he did not want that woman to have the satisfaction of drinking out of his skull.
04:39And indeed, Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala provided a coat of bees that surrounded his body to where when they tried to approach his body after they killed him, after they rained down the arrows upon him and the different weaponry upon him,
04:53they were unable to access his body and they said we'll come back later. And it was so that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala allowed his body to be carried into the valley naturally. And they called him dafeen ul-malaika or dafeenullah,
05:05the one who was buried by Allah or buried by the angels. All of these miracles were supernatural things happened.
05:14But then you also have to take a step back and remember that Khubaib (رضي الله عنه) who had that miracle provided to him also was martyred.
05:26He was still crucified (رضي الله عنه). Asim ibn Thabit (رضي الله عنه) who made that special du'a was still martyred.
05:35Even though Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala provided a miracle after the fact. We know of the miracles of Badr where Allah Azawajal sent the angels in the thousands.
05:47And they saw the impact of those angels both from the side of the believers as well as the side of the disbelievers. And it's important for us to remember that just as how on a personal level the angels surround us.
06:01And they are protecting us by the permission of Allah. That when Allah Azawajal commands them to step aside, they step aside.
06:10And for the believer that is for our benefit that Allah allows harm to come towards us when Allah Azawajal decrees it. It's not that he's incapable of the miracle Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
06:22It's that in his divine wisdom he intends something else for us Subhanahu wa ta'ala. And the sahaba understood that with their aqeedah. They understood that in their creed.
06:33That if Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala withheld some sort of a miracle or some sort of supernatural support. That so long as they were not withholding their taqwa that all of that would be khair for them.
06:47All of that would be for their own good. And they did not doubt Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala as a result. All of these manifestations. They speak to an ayah.
06:58وَمَا يَعْلَمُ جُنُودُ رَبِّكَ إِلَّا هُوَ No one knows the soldiers of your Lord except for him.
07:07The first meaning of this ayah is the junood of Allah, the army of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, the soldiers of Allah are the angels.
07:17And you don't know the number of the angels or the amount of angels that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala sends to support the believers when he decrees it.
07:27Imam al-Awza'i rahimahullah ta'ala, he narrates an athar that Musa (عليه السلام) asked Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, Oh Allah who is with you in the heavens? And he said mala'ikati, my angels.
07:39And Musa (عليه السلام) said, and how many angels are there? And Allah Azawajal said 19 groups. And how much in every slipped, how much in every caravan of angels?
07:50Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala said, adadat turab, the amount of particles of sand on the earth.
07:57It's how many angels exist amongst the soldiers, the armies of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala in the heavens.
08:05But beyond that as the ulama say, in some manifestations the army of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala could be the birds. Sometimes the soldiers of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala can be some sort of being.
08:18The bees in the case of Asim ibn Thabit (رضي الله عنه). The ant in the story of Sulaiman (عليه السلام). Sometimes the army of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, the soldiers of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala are numerous and beyond.
08:32And we look towards that, and here is what we fail to read into that ayah.
08:41Why is it that when you hear, wa ma ya'lamu junoodu rabbika illa hu, that no one knows the soldiers of Allah except for him.
08:51That your mind goes to, I wonder what it's going to be and who it's going to be. And you don't step back and consider maybe for a moment, what if I'm that unknown soldier of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
09:06And to be clear, I'm not promoting violence, not telling anyone to do anything crazy. Because I know how Islamophobes will cut things out of context.
09:16I'm saying that agent for good, that agent for change, that's not some supernatural or miraculous existence.
09:26It's just you, a abd of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, who perhaps doesn't have a major platform.
09:33Who perhaps isn't someone famous, who perhaps doesn't have a whole bunch of money, who perhaps doesn't have a whole bunch of influence.
09:41But it may be that through you Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala works a major change in this world because of your sincerity.
09:53Because you wait, not for Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to send you a miracle, but prepare for Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to make you a miracle.
10:05To make you a reason by which something happens in the world, by which a change happens in your community.
10:14By which Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala brings about something major in this ummah. Why do we always read these ayats and think, I wonder where the miracle is going to come from. I wonder where that bird is going to come from.
10:28I wonder where Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is going to send something that's going to blow everyone's mind. And we don't ask ourselves, what if I could be that miracle? What if I could be that unknown agent for change?
10:42SubhanAllah there is a story about a man who wanted to show his tawakkul upon Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. His trust in Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
10:52So he read the hadith of the Prophet (ﷺ), that if you were to trust in Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, haqqa tawakkuli, the way you should trust him, that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala would care for you like the birds.
11:03They leave out in the morning with their stomachs empty, they come back with their stomachs full. Allah would provide for you the way that he provides for the birds. So he said, okay, I'm going to have tawakkul in Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
11:16So he said, I'm going to go sleep in the masjid, and I'm going to have tawakkul in Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is going to provide for me somehow. I'm not going to say anything, I'm just going to go sleep in the masjid. And he did. He went and he slept in the masjid.
11:30And as he's sleeping in the masjid, he's starting to get hungry, a few days go on, nothing's coming to him. So he's starting to get upset and angry.
11:42Then he notices a bird outside, and that bird has a clipped wing. And so he says, I'm going to watch this bird, because I wonder how this bird is sustained.
11:54So lo and behold, some time goes on, and then he sees another bird fly, and bring some food for that bird, and provide for it, and then the bird flies away.
12:05He says, ah, this is a sign from Allah that I must continue. So I'm going to continue on. And then some more time goes on, and he's getting so hungry that eventually, he relinquishes the hunger tawakkul strike.
12:19He says, this isn't working out for me. And he goes to a sheikh, and he's so upset. He says, you know, I thought that I could manifest this hadith of the Prophet (ﷺ), توكلت على الله, I have trust in Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, so I was waiting for Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to send me something.
12:34But it didn't happen. And the sheikh told him, he said to him, how come when you saw that image,
12:46or you saw that incident of the bird with the clipped wing, and the bird that came and provided for it, you assumed the role of the bird with the clipped wing, instead of the bird that provided for the bird with the clipped wing.
13:00Why did you assume the vulnerable position automatically? Why didn't you instead see that perhaps Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala was guiding you because you have the capability
13:11to provide for someone else, to go and to be a provider, knowing that the ultimate provider is no one but Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Why did you put yourself in that situation?
13:22And the reality is, is that while that sounds ridiculous to so many of us, many of us sit back and we say, why aren't they doing anything? Why isn't this person doing more?
13:36Why isn't my community doing this? And you have so much commentary about the failures of everyone else that you're not unlocking the own potential of your success.
13:48Because everybody else is flawed and everyone else has problems. And yes, when you take the example of this genocide in particular, this genocide in Gaza, may Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala give victory to our brothers and sisters in Gaza
14:02over these evil Zionists. Allahumma ameen. No matter what field you are in, no matter what area you are in, there's somewhere for you to find a way to contribute.
14:17If you're in medicine, you have a way to contribute. If you're in business, you have a way to contribute. You look at your supply and you look at your demand. If you are an engineer, you have a way to contribute. If you're in humanitarian work, you have a way to contribute.
14:31Whatever field you are studying or you work in or you have an expertise, you have a way to contribute and sincerity will unlock creativity. You'll find your way.
14:43And Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala will guide you to do something productive. But you have to actually want to do something productive. I tell you what, even if the only thing you have is time, and you don't have an expertise,
14:56instead of doom-scrolling on social media, you have the ability to contribute. You have the ability with your time to do something beneficial, bi-idhnillahi ta'ala, for your brothers and sisters.
15:04Why do we always assume the position of the bird that needs another bird to show up and give it its food? What happened to the mindset of tie your camel and put your trust in Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala?
15:18How are we tying our camels and then putting our trust in Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala? It's not from the mindset of a Muslim to always wait for a miracle.
15:29It's of the mindset of a Muslim to try to be the miracle by the pleasure of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. The angels did not show up in Badr and everyone else took a step back and said,
15:41well, if Allah is sending all these thousands of angels, I don't need to do anything. In fact, you have the narration of Sa'd Abdur Rahman ibn Auf, where he says there were two young men, two mu'ads,
15:52tapped him on the shoulder and said, ya'am, uncle, which one of those men is Abu Jahl? I'm thinking to myself, like, what are you going to do with Abu Jahl, the fir'oon of this ummah?
16:06What are you going to do with Abu Jahl? And then the other young boy says, our mom told us not to come home until we kill Abu Jahl. And you think, like, what are these two young men going to do?
16:17And then SubhanAllah, when the battle of Badr happens, they both come across Abu Jahl like this. And each one of them strikes him from a direction and then he falls to the ground and Abdullah ibn Mas'ud (رضي الله عنه) climbs on top of him and ends him.
16:31The sahaba didn't say, alhamdulillah, the mala'ika showed up. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, jibreel jibreel (عليه السلام) is coming to us and he has his horse and he has with him the appearance and the tools of war.
16:45They didn't say in that case we're good. Because they understood that Allah's help comes when we help ourselves. That miracles arise when we put forth our best efforts.
16:59You don't wait for the miracle, you put forth the efforts. And Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala brings about miracles in the capacity of those sincere efforts.
17:09liyatma'inna qalbik, so that your heart can be at ease. You see Allah Azawajal did not need the angels to defeat the mushrikun in Badr.
17:19Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala did that to put faith and tranquility in the hearts of the believers because they knew that the angels were on their side. They saw the effect of those angels. You don't wait for the angels.
17:30You be the best version of a Muslim, of a human being that you can be. And Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala sends help in miraculous ways. Whether you see or perceive or not, you are always dependent upon Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala,
17:43upon the supernatural for the otherwise natural to transpire in a way that's most pleasing to you. Was it not our Messenger (ﷺ) who crafted the path of the hijrah
17:56and then found himself in a cave (ﷺ) with Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (رضي الله عنه). And did he say to Abu Bakr, la tahzan, don't worry.
18:05I saw this spider web outside or I saw the birds nest and that's going to make them think that nothing's going to happen. Or did he say la tahzan inna allaha ma'ana, don't worry Allah is with us.
18:19Whatever tools Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala decides to use in the process, alhamdulillah because intansurallaha yansurkum.
18:30If you support the cause of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, Allah will support you in his ways. Don't worry about his ways, worry about yours.
18:39Don't worry about how he's going to do it, worry about what you're going to do to deserve him doing it for you. And we have a sickness sometimes in ourselves where we're waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting.
18:53I'm going to go into something a little bit controversial. It's late at night so if I'm a little controversial, may Allah forgive me. Let it go please.
19:02The Prophet (ﷺ) said in an authentic hadith, la tathab ad-dunya hatta yamlik al-arab rajnun min ahli bayti.
19:10The dunya will not cease to exist until a man from my family will rule the Arabs.
19:22He said (ﷺ) he would have my name, Muhammad ibn Abdullah, famously known as who? Al-Mahdi, right? The Mahdi, the guided one.
19:36A reviver that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala would send from the offspring of the Prophet (ﷺ)
19:45that would lead the Muslims until the descent of Isa (عليه السلام) for a few years. And should we see that time, may Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala place us in his ranks. Allahumma ameen.
19:59But here's the thing, I believe in it because there's tawatur, there's enough narrations about the coming of the Mahdi to where it's affirmed in the sunnah. I believe in it because anything the Prophet (ﷺ) said, I affirm it.
20:13Anything that's authentically narrated, whether I can point where it is or not, the Prophet (ﷺ) said it's happening, it's happening.
20:21But you tell me, where in the psyche of the Muslims, with all the turmoil that our ummah has faced, did you find the scholars writing about,
20:33maybe the Mahdi will come now, or the Mahdi is going to come and we're all going to be okay.
20:38Where in the psyche of the Muslims was this emphasis or this obsession of a savior that would take them out of their despair.
20:53I'm going to call it Mahdi syndrome. Where a person justifies their passiveness by saying, well Allah is going to send a savior. And even if it's not the Mahdi, it could be Salahuddin complex too.
21:07We're waiting for the next Salahuddin Al-Ayubi, rahimahullah ta'ala, to take us out of the darkness, to take us out of the depths of our despair.
21:16In fact, within the corpus of Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah, the words al-Mahdi al-Muntadhir, the awaited Mahdi are actually not used.
21:24It's not in the Sunni school to call him the awaited Mahdi because the concept of awaited is not actually there.
21:32It's not a savior, he's a sign of the day of judgment, that will arise as a muslih, as a righteous one, as a reviver. And we pray that if we are alive at that time, Allah ta'ala, put us in his ranks. Allahumma ameen.
21:46But, we're not sitting around waiting for a savior. You're not waiting for a figure that's going to revive the ummah.
21:56You see yourself as part of a group of revivers, bi-idhnillahi ta'ala.
22:02And the Mahdi is a continuation of Mahdiyeen, Mahdis, throughout Islamic history.
22:12The Prophets of Islam called them al-Khulafa, al-Rashideen, al-Mahdiyeen, the guided righteous Khulafa. Abu Bakr was a Mahdi, Umar was a Mahdi, Uthman was a Mahdi, Ali was a Mahdi, Al-Hassan was a Mahdi.
22:26(رضي الله عنهم أجمعين). They were all guided in their actions, saviors in their own right.
22:35But the idea of an awaited figure, that justifies us sitting back and accepting our situation.
22:47That's not in the psyche of who we are. That's not in the ethos of who we are. That's not what this ummah is made of. When Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says, wal-ladheena jahadoo feena lanahdiyannahum subulana
23:00Those who strive in our way, we will guide them. We will grant them guidance to our paths. They can be Mahdiyeen, just like they can be musliheen. They can be revivers.
23:13You don't have to be the reviver, the mujaddid of the century, to be a mujaddid in your own right. You can be a mujaddid in your community.
23:25Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala has given each and every single one of us access to do things that are of great meaning in the midst of the critical moments in our ummah.
23:37And even if history books don't record us amongst the reasons for these changes, amongst the reasons for these impacts, Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says, sanaktumu maqaddamu wa atharu
23:49Allah will write down everything that we put forth and the effect that you have. Because wama ya'lamu junoodu rabbika illa hu
23:59No one knows the army of your Lord except for Him. And sometimes, those unknown soldiers in history that perhaps we don't know were the reasons for some of the greatest turning points.
24:13I wonder who the person with Salahuddin Al-Ayubi rahimahullah ta'ala I wonder who that person was that changed the course of history.
24:23I wonder who the doctor of Salahuddin was, the nurse of Salahuddin, in a moment where he was perhaps extremely desperate and he was about to die 10-15 years before, that cured him, that treated him by the permission of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala,
24:37the ultimate healer. I wonder who that person was. I wonder who the loyal soldiers of Salahuddin were. I wonder who the trustworthy journalists at the time of Salahuddin were.
24:50The message carriers of Salahuddin were. It's never just a man, it's always a movement. And in the case of the Prophet (ﷺ), he too had a movement around him (ﷺ).
25:04He had a blessed family, (عليه الصلاة والسلام), ahlul bayt. He had blessed sahaba around him (ﷺ). And he has a blessed ummah that he is proud of.
25:15May Allah Azza wa Jalla make us amongst those that he is proud of. Allahumma ameen. And the people that would make him most proud, no doubt, are Ahlul Ghazah.
25:27Imagine how many of them the Prophet (ﷺ) rushes to meet as they transition into that realm of the barzakh amongst the shuhada.
25:37To be greeted by Allah Azza wa Jalla and greeted by the anbiya and the righteous ones that preceded them. We too have the ability to be amongst these people
25:48so long as we put our trust in Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala and let that trust be activated in working for the sake of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
25:58Dear brothers and sisters, you know a lot of times SubhanAllah it feels like we sit down in a room,
26:06the door is locked and Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala has given us the keys to open that door. But we sit there and we wait for Allah Azza wa Jalla to send us someone through the roof
26:18that's going to open that door for us. I want to leave you with this thought. The people that will be in the ranks of a person like Al Mahdi
26:30and then eventually in the ranks of Sayyidina Isa (عليه السلام), Isa Ibn Maryam (عليه السلام) when he descends upon Al Masjid Al Amawi
26:40which we are seeing today in Damascus, may Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala see forth the full victory of the people of Syria and may Allah Azza wa Jalla allow that victory to transition to Palestine and to Lebanon
26:54and to the people of Ash-Sham as a whole. Allahumma ameen. The people that will join those ranks are not people that we're waiting around on social media
27:06to say alright now it's time. They're people that are already inclined towards the khair that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala would bless to be in those ranks anyway when it happens. They're people that would have already been toiling for the sake of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
27:20that Allah Azza wa Jalla would then honor to be considered amongst blessed ranks in this dunya just as he would consider them to be amongst blessed ranks in the hereafter.
27:30But ask yourself right now, are you fully opening the doors that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala has given you with the keys that are in your hands? And are you making yourself worthy of that help from Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
27:43such that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala would count you amongst Ansarullah, amongst the helpers of Allah's cause in this world. May Allah Azza wa Jalla make each and every single one of us worthy.
27:54May Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to be torchbearers of good, not passive but active towards khair. kuntum khaira ummatin ukhrijat linnas ta'muruna bil ma'ruf wa tanhawna anil munkar wa tu'minuna billah
28:08You are the best ummah because you enjoin good, you forbid evil. And you believe in Allah, may Allah make us a people who enjoin good and forbid evil and believe in Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala along the way.
28:19May Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala make us amongst those who have certainty in his plan. And may Allah make us part of his plan for the ummah, part of his plan for humanity. Bearers of khair, bearers of good.
28:33And may Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala forgive us for our shortcomings and remove from us the sins that weigh us down and the little thinking that stops us from achieving great purposes. Allahumma ameen. Barakallahu feekum, dear brothers and sisters.
28:47Wassalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
