one
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need thank you very
much
okay uh it's my honor to be here uh
today I'm speech when I arrived and I
saw this beautiful first of all let me
tell you the story I'm tell me that we
going to the university then we kept
driving for about 2 hours and I keep
saying what's that University which is
hidden far away from the city kind of
looks like okay then he said no it's in
a very good city it's in Toronto to
Toronto I said Toronto that sound like
Toronto anyway it's it's very similar
you can I'm not a Canadian but Canadian
people always
add in the when they talk uh uh and I
guess Malian they add
La so anyway um I'm very uh very happy
uh very uh proud of you because we are
one nation one Muslim um when I see the
success in any part of this Muslim um I
consider it a success of myself because
I'm part of this nation the Muslims um
so I would like to congratulate you for
this beautiful country that you have
Malaysia it's my first time to visit the
country very
beautiful I would like also to
congratulate you for this unique
University the university technology uh
Petronas it's also wonderful place
mashallah uh I was very impressed with
the little bit of information that I get
to know about University uh from uh the
vice uh Chancellor uh Professor Muhammad
thank you very much for hosting us us uh
today and also I would like to thank
anur uh Institute anur Islamic Center
which is something I thought it's very
unique to have an Islamic Center inside
the university that's something very
unique I came from a country which is
known of its education United States of
America but I'll tell you you have put
so many of our University in Shame by
the uh mashallah the the beautiful
buildings the beautiful students and
wonderful uh teachers that I have met so
far so I ask Allah to give you strength
to continue your uh uh journey in in
this life and to be more successful in
this live and the next
in all praise due to Allah and his
praise and blessings and peace be upon
our Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasam his family his companions and his
followers until the day of
judgment uh my dear brothers and sisters
I know I'm talking relatively to to a
very young crowd so when you talk about
challenges in life uh so many of us we
don't really kind of relate to it yet
you know when you are a college students
where still young fresh there's no too
many things to worry about to worry
about especially if you are a a male
single male singles are less worried
than female singles you know they said
uh a male young male uh will not worry
about uh life uh and until they get
married until they get married as a
female young female she worry about her
future until she get married after that
somebody else will worry about
it okay but for the man he doesn't care
about L much until he get married after
that he start getting worri about the
future but anyway there is no doubt that
each and every one of us regardless of
your our age regardless of our gender
there is certain challenges ahead of us
there is so many challenges ahead of us
this Dy this life that we living today
Allah did not created it to be that
smooth ride that we all go through Allah
never promised us never promis us a a
calm Journey but he promised us a safe
landing inshallah tal if we uh follow
his command so this rough Journey this
up and downs Allah subhana T said in the
Quran
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oh Mankind and by the way yes it's all
mankind and insan but you will find some
of the MU some of the scholars who
interpreted this verse said here meant
Muhammad oh muhamad you are going to go
through so much struggle in this life so
if Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam
Who is the best best creation that Allah
ever created who is the most pure uh
format of a human being that you can
think of the most dear one to Allah
subhana tala Allah did not promise him a
calm Journey that he will go through ups
and downs so what about the rest of the
um there is no doubt that they will go
so struggle and some said
no meant all who you believe
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it's it means all who you believe you
going through a struggle not because
you're a Believer you think this life
will be very smooth for you no and other
Scholars said this verse should be kept
as general as it is all mankind
Believers and unbelievers uh righteous
and uh uh uh wrongdoers everyone in this
life will go through a struggle because
things will not be achieved easily in
this duny and that's what I like that's
the opinion that I think it is fair
because it include every other opinions
as
well Allah subhana told
us we created human being and we made
them go through hardship challenges in
life in another verse Allah subhana said
about human
being we created you from a from a lowly
SPM that un we going to CH put you
through challenges in life through
hardship in life this is a promise from
Allah subhana tala to all man kind
everyone of us has his own struggle in
life anyone everyone of us has his own
worry you know what some of us worry
about the future I'm going to get a job
when I graduate some of us talking
personally I'm going to be married to
the person that I I love maybe today
maybe you love someone and you worry if
you're going to marry that one or not
maybe you don't even have someone in
your mind but you always worry I'm going
to be married to the right person or not
or I will be yeah having a hard time
like so many people I see in life when I
grow up would I still in poverty or I
would be able to make money to change my
life would I be able to go back to my
country and know mashallah it's really
the picture of Islam you see it in this
universe in this Gathering So Many
Colors so many uh and I don't mean the
hijab colors I mean the faces okay uh
there are so many different ethnicities
in this beautiful Gathering so everybody
has his own maybe worry about his own
future or her own future would I be able
to pay my debts that I had to go through
to continue my education maybe I'm
struggling with some subjects in the
University would I be able to go through
that maybe I have a hard time to adjust
maybe some of us have sickness and
disease that he doesn't know or she
doesn't know how they will overcome this
challenge in life maybe you have someone
who's sick at home that you always worry
about and you don't know how things will
change in your life it's not even in a
personal level some of us live a bigger
problems we are part of this bigger
world where all this economical crisis
that's around us that affect us some way
or other when we see we talk about
global warming we see countries not far
away from us they are sinking in the
ocean we looking at the world around us
there's so many struggles there's no
stability there is always fear of war
and and problems when you look at all
these challenges in life you go up you
step and you take a deep breath and you
look out and say how I'm going to be
able to deal with all these problems how
I'm going to be able to deal with
challenges in life and my role in this
talk I don't want to be just telling you
hey you're going to have a hard time in
your future very nice to meet you guys
salum no I didn't came 10,000 miles away
from Houston to tell you that you know
there is a guy fallen in in a in a
hall so uh uh he was like inside the
hall screaming help help help saw a
doctor pass by him then he said Doctor
help me he said what I said I Fallen the
in the hall and I broke my legs he said
yeah okay just one second he wrote him
prescription that he threw it
inside and then he left him so another
person pass he scream hollering up the
person person came and that's the sheh
so she help me you know I'm in the in
the hall and I broke my legs so the she
said okay let me make Dua for you he
make Dua for
him then a friend passed
by and he said hey what happened to you
he said I'm Dy then immediately his
friend jumped in the hall and carried
him and he helped him to get out that's
what friend Force friends are the only
one
who comes in when everybody goes
out that's true friends in life so I
want to be your friend today I want to
not only to get to make du for you and
leave no I would like to share with you
10
Tools 10 10 points I want you to keep it
in mind that you're going to need it in
your future 10 points it will help you
to face any challenge in life it will
help you to handle any problem that it
will pass or it will challenge you in
your future or even in this time
inshal it's not important to talk about
our problem as much it's important to
talk to our
problems we can talk about our problems
much as we can but I think what we need
to do we know we need to talk to our
problems that's why I came up with these
points with these points that it will
help you to solve these challenges that
you might go through it in your future
inshallah tal and I'm putting these 10
points while I am putting in front of me
a statement from the prophet sallallah
Ali wasallam that I consider it one of
my favorite Hadith that I ever come
across in my life and this Hadith I use
it a lot on my preaching in my when I
teach I teach it to my kids to my
community in the master which is it's an
interesting Hadith the prophet wasallam
said
Allah subh never put a disease in Earth
unless he provide a cure for
it and don't ever limit your mind to the
word disease to the physical disease
it's
actually said that include all kind of
diseases hard diseases psychological
problems economical problems there is no
problem in this earth Allah have made it
or allowed it to happen unless he have
also put out there a solution for
it that's
why some people will come to know the
solution some people will come to know
the Cure and some will not the only
thing there is no cure for it there is
no solution for it the concept of death
everybody will die and the concept of
alam which is everybody will get old
nobody can stay young unless you go to
Jenna so let's start with these 10
points
quickly number one
number one in anytime you are going
through hardship and Calamity what I
want you to think of the the first thing
come to your mind to trust that Allah
subhana in your sight that your creator
is with you don't ever ever to see don't
ever think bad or evil or negative of
your lord you always have to remember
that Allah subh loves you that Allah
subhana wa ta'ala with you because Allah
subhana tala told us and told Us in
Surah yusf this meaning when the father
when the father told his children even
though he lost his son he's about to
lose another son which is yousef's
father and there is a problem a Calamity
that the king refused to give them food
for his tribe how he can feed his
children his tribe listen to what Allah
told us about Yousef about yousef's
father he said
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only the disbeliever the one who will
give up hope in Allah tal the Believers
will never give up hope in Allah subhana
wa tala the believer will always realize
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Allah's Mercy is so close to the
believer is so close to the believer we
part of our belief as a Muslims that we
depend on Allah tala you know what's
depend on Allah means you know what tul
means taul it mean to rely on Allah to
rely on him and to and you will never
rely on someone unless you trust
him unless you trust him you know what
can you try it go to one of your friend
you know we do this sometimes in the
class and let your friend be behind you
and you just let your body
go would you do
it would you completely no resisting
just fall like this in your friend's
hand unless you trust that he's strong
enough to hold you that he will not be a
cruel Joker and he's oh and he let you
fall that's his joke you know and listen
trust him you rely completely on him can
you believe that you rely completely in
Allah you trust Allah subhah wa ta'ala
whoever rely on Allah Allah is the most
sufficient Allah is the most sufficient
Subhan Allah I come across a study been
done where I came from I came from Texas
uh it's a very religious State very
religious State there is a study ch me
shocked me that study in Texas it was
done conducted for more than 200
students high schooler they are doing
very well in their in their school their
grades are very high they doing very
well and one of the question the one of
the common factor be between these 200
students who from different schools in
the state that all of them they have
very positive View towards God they all
of them think of God as something
positive something will stands for them
anyone think of Allah subhah wa ta'ala
as someone who will always for me it
will be very easy for you to go through
these
challenges let Allah subhana do it his
way we don't always understand Allah
subhana wa tala's
methods we don't necessarily always
understand Allah subhah wa tala's the
way he he put things together
because Allah subh sees the big picture
and you don't all what it needs to trust
Allah subhana wa
taala Allah said I will meet your
expectation on me if you expect good
from me you will find good you expect
bad you will find nothing but
that Allah subhana tal always has a way
even when it looks like there is no way
I have a person you know he MH one of
these rich guys who fly in a private jet
okay so he said once I was flying and I
was trying to everybody after we took
off open the tray you know the tray to
to put my laptop or my iPad and he said
mine didn't open and mine looks strange
a little bit like from the side he said
I'm not like he said this is my first
time to travel on this kind of jet uh
with someone so he said I keept grabbing
it grabbing it grabbing it everybody his
open except mine then he said to himself
he said to himself
why why all of them open except me it's
embarrassing and he said after I'm like
grabbing it so hard I finally realized
that there is like a like a red things
written don't try to open it it's not a
trade it's an emergency exit
so at he said at a moment I was saying
to myself why then he said I got it
that's Allah didn't let it open because
if it's open I will be flying out of
that airplane so sometimes you should
you need to learn how to trust Allah
subhana tala you need how to to learn
how to trust Allah subhana tala because
Allah will never intend bad for you
Allah subhana always there for you I
want to encourage every one of you every
one of you today to get your life back
and have to stay filled with hope
trust in Allah subhanahu wa taala you
dealing with the one who sees you who
hears you who knows your situation and
he's more merciful to you than anybody
else sufan used to say I never want
Allah subhana tala I never will choose
my parents to to be my judge instead of
Allah they said how come your parents
will give you like an easy access to
Jenna he said no because I know Allah is
more merciful towards me than my own
parents that's the trust that we talk
about that the feeling that it should
fill our heart when we deal with Allah
subhah wa taala we shouldn't deal with
Allah with doubt we shouldn't deal with
Allah subhana tala we would have a
question mark is he really cares about
me does Allah really loves me W no
matter what no matter how much you far
away or maybe you're not a perfect
person but still Allah subhana T is so
merciful so near to you all what it
takes from you is just to take one step
towards him and see how in return he
will come back or he will come to
you Allah subhana T has ways when it
looks like there is no
ways you all know the story of
M he left Egypt with his followers and
guess what the children of Israel told
MSA should we take weapon he said nobody
allowed to take
weapons took no weapons they left all
their weapons where are we going this
direction there is nothing there it's
desert this direction this direction and
he end up
where in the sea in front of him is the
sea he looked back and he see over there
pharaohs and his soldiers and this
listen to this Allah subh
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said when they saw one
another they they were so near that the
children of Israel and MSA they can't
see
them the children of Israel said to MSA
what do you have done to us you brought
us to nowhere he said I'm not the one
who brought you here Allah is the one
who told me to bring you here so what
was the answer he
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said no Allah subhana t with me and he
will guide me see the heart when it full
that's a challenge that's a very
difficult moment to see your enemy and
you have no weapons and they will not
hesitant to kill
you but he said Allah subhana wa tala
with me he will never forsake me and
Allah subhah wa ta'ala have giving him
the victory Allah has his own way put
things according to his timeline not
according to our timeline you know there
is a great scholar in Islam I don't know
by hands K how many of you ever heard of
someone his
name by hand it's a great chaf Scholars
one of very good number this scholar
IM in the beginning of his life you know
what he want to be he want to be a
doctor he studied a book called
he said I was reading it treating it
it's it's not my field and I was so mad
at myself that I couldn't understand and
comprehend this subject Subhan Allah
maybe at moment he thought that this is
the field the area that he's excelling
in but he quit that and he started
studying Shar and today the
book every corner of the
earth everywhere I traveled in an area
you will never think that Islam reach it
and I found in this area one of the no's
book I traveled to the to the es Eskimo
north of Alaska by helicopter then we
took a dog basically we travel all
the way there to see a Muslim living in
a small little village okay uh and they
have a c
from you go to the north north of Canada
you will sign a m that coming
from Africa in in islands in the Pacific
Oceans I have seen the books of this man
maybe if he was a doctor he wouldn't be
that
famous but Allah choose for him another
path for a moment he thought he's a
failure but he was not if you struggling
in your study remember the story trust
Allah subhana wa tala do your best excel
in the thing that you are good at
so number one always have this trust in
your heart in Allah subhanahu waala that
he always choose for you the good the
second point I want you to remember that
ease comes with
hardship when thing became the hardest
when it reached the peak that the time
where things is going
to
change I have
Mah I witnessed uh my so many of my kids
kid uh
delivery standing next to my wife's
holding her hand when she deliver the
baby I'm I'm sure some of you maybe
uh I don't know about that most of you
young but I'm sure you heard about it
saw maybe TV with the woman deliver the
baby have you have you come across and
seen experience like that when woman
deliver the baby that's one of the most
difficult moment in her life Subhan
Allah at one moment your wife would be
saying or that pregnant woman would be
saying that said I don't want to do it
anymore that's said I want to stop
because so
painful it is so painful to the extent
said that's it I don't want to do this
anymore I want to stop can you imagine
if you should stop at that
moment when the pain reached to the
peak that's exactly when the baby about
to be delivered if she stopped and back
off at that time what will
happen brothers and sisters remember
this example when things reach to the
peak it's not the time to back off it's
the time to push
forward when you things become so hard
in you you remember that's the time not
to back off that's the time to push
forward
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we're so grateful to our Lord that Allah
said with hardship ease and Allah didn't
say in the Quran after hardship comes
ease Allah didn't say that he said
with brothers and
sisters the darkest moment in the night
the moments right before Dawn this is
the darkest moment of the night
that's why for those who are struggling
in life those who have things that make
them worry going through hardship and
Calamity I want to tell you that I know
for sure and I want you to know that the
pay day is coming very soon to
you when you start saying forget
it when I hear some father telling me
you know what this son this daughter
would never made it they would never be
good I tell them that's not the that's
not when you reach that level that's the
level that I telling you a little bit
more effort and your son will be good
your daughter will be
good if you married and you say this
marriage will never work out when you
reach that level I'm telling you all
what it needs not to divorce all what it
need to work
harder one guy came to me right before I
came here just two days before I I TR I
I flew to Malaysia and he came to me to
a m and he said sh yeah that's it I want
to divorce my wife I said why he said I
don't love her anymore I said okay no
love between us that's it I said you
know what why don't work it out he said
I tried that I reached the I said that's
the time you should work harder he said
you remind me of somebody telling me you
know what I want to sell my car why
because I run out of
gas because there's no gas in it so I
want to sell the car what you need to do
go put some gas
not on your wife okay uh could put some
guys make some you can invest in your
relationship with her go reignite that
love again in the heart that's what you
need to work more not to the time to
quit when you say I will not change
maybe some of us has a drug problems
using drugs or
smoking you know what every time you
struggle with that you want to quit and
you say I want to quit I want to be good
I want to stop doing this evil thing
that I'm doing when you reach the level
you say you know what I'll never change
no that the time you're going to change
that the time you push farther that's
the time you dig your
heel in and you stand your
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ground can you imagine the prophets and
The Messengers they reached to a level
that they thought they thought that
Allah forsake them Allah have Lov
them the promise that Allah giving them
is not true that's how far they went in
their imagination can you imagine you
reach that level and you are a prophet
or a
messenger when you reach that level
our Victory came to
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them Allah subh T telling us at this
story about the incident where the
Muslim in in Medina and the army of the
pagans and the kufar came from
everywhere when they came and approach
you from above you from underneath of
you from all the sides and you're
basically G cannot concentrate in one
place your heart treats your throat so
terrified so scared and you have all
these bad thoughts about Allah subhah wa
ta'ala Allah lot talking about the
Believers who with mam with Muhammad at
that time at that difficult moment the
victory
came so the point anytime you see reach
to the peak know that this is the top
and you're going do h easy after that
number three every time you have a
challenge in your life you go through
Calamity or hardship what I want you to
do I want you to start to think about
why Allah subh put me through such death
what's the wisdom behind that don't
curse don't be mad don't be angry don't
be Sor always say what the wisdom behind
that because part of what we believe as
Muslim all Allah's actions based on
wisdom because he's the most wise Al
subhanahu wa taala why Allah put me
through their hardship what's the wisdom
behind
that you
know the ultimate major of a person is
not when is not where he or she stands
in a moment of comfort and ease no it's
actually in a time of Challenge and
controversy that's the the the ultimate
major measurement of few the value of
you will not appear in a time of ease it
will only appear in a time of
difficulties in a time of challenge your
real your basically your value will
appear in the time of your exam that's a
time of challenge not in the
daily basically during the your daily
activity in a time of a challenge in a
time of difficulties that's what your
real value will appear
Allah subhana tal sometimes allows
certain pressure on you not because see
think not because he hates you not
because he want to put you down no
because he loves you and he want you to
be
stronger you guys know what's the most
valuable Rock on the face of the
Earth anybody knows Black
Diamond one of the cheapest Rock on the
face of the earth is what the coal
charcoal just I'm sure you know better
than me about that charcoal and black
diamonds they are exactly coming from
the same
elements the only difference between
black diamonds which is very expensive
and charcoal is the structure of the
diamond different than the structure of
the
charcoal the structure of the Black
Diamond allowed it to resist pressure
while the call does not allowed it to
resist pressure it will be crushed
immediately Allah subhana wa ta'ala put
pressure in you and allowed you to
resist your pressure so you became
something valuable in life not to be
something can be easily crushed have no
value in
life Allah subhana T want you to be to
grow
strong when I hired a personal trainer
but you can tell I fire him very quickly
okay to lose weight okay one of the
thing he told me he told me he said one
of thing that if you want to grow your
muscles when you grow your muscles you
have to work out your muscles to tear
your muscle first then after that you'll
allow your muscle to
grow Allah subhana T want you to grow
want you to be strong you know where I
came from in
Texas it's very interesting in Texas
people in the old days they love
codfish okay codfish is a fish grow in
the north of America which is in a cold
sea we have very warm sea like you guys
here in the Gulf Mexico so the old days
they used to get the fish catch the fish
and bring them to dead fish to Texas and
Louisiana and Louisana in Texas they
said you know it's not a fresh fish it
didn't go well but people love this type
of fish so a man brought a container and
filled it with water B and put all the
codfish in the water and brought it to
down south but the fish by the time it
arrived it was so smooshy and taste
weird because the whole Tri the fish
like you know in this tanker so the guy
came up with very smart idea you know
what he did he brought the natural
predators of catfish which is the
natural predator of codfish which is the
catfish and he threw several catfish in
the tank in the tanker so the whole
entire trip all the fish the codfish
very alert they keep moving and they
moving around so by the time they
arrived they were so strong fresh their
muscle TI
and people enjoy them after
that maybe that difficulties in your
life it's that C Catfish that Allah
threw it in your
way Allah sometimes drop catfish in your
way to keep you alert to keep you fresh
to keep you strong W not to keep you
weak W he not meant to keep you down
because Allah subhana tal that we know
he's so loving Lord subhana
my brothers and
sisters since we are an Engineering
University it will not
be proper just to pass a name of one of
the most respected scientists in the
modern history a scientists who have
invented so many inventions that until
today nobody broke his
record he's in the top as far as I know
Thomas and add
Edison who invented more than
1,000 invention
1,93 it's patterned registered by his
name this man if you know a little bit
about his life you'll be
amazed this man he was kicked out of his
elementary school because his teacher
said that he's a
kids he's a kid he was risen by
by his own mother she took care care of
him she's his teacher the teacher
refused to teach him in the school this
said his kids get
out he had a very rough life in his in
his in his life if you read his live
story you will be amazed maybe in the
beginning if you're there and you see it
you say what's this but this is did
nothing to this man man but to make him
a stronger
person read the story of Mr
Honda the
famous uh car that so many of few drive
here in Malaysia
masallah if you read his life four
factories were destroyed it he built
four factories and it all were destroyed
it he started with a bicycle he put a
like an an engine on it then he invented
the Mike later on he bu that factory
that it burn in the World War II in
Japan war then after that you know
another big fire destroyed in him he
start from a scratch every time every
time his Factory was burned he start
over again and start over better in a
better way so these challenges in life
never meant to make you to put you down
it's only meant to grow you strong
brothers and sisters
number
four when we think about our
problems my advice to you the fourth
point that I want you to keep in mind
don't ever be led by your problems only
be LD in your life by your
dreams don't ever let your problems
block your way these problems that
happen to you in your life don't make
your whole entire Focus CH life on it
no don't make it live in your
heart or settle in your
brain just keep it somewhere in the side
I know it is there and I'm going to deal
with
it you know I have a
simple way to put it I
say live is like riding a bicycle
can you tell what's the
connection the only way you can keep
balance when you ride the bicycle if you
keep
moving that's life you want to keep
Balan in life keep moving don't
stop keep moving don't ever stop at your
problem and say don't let it block you
from moving and growing that's why I
said don't be led by a problem be always
led by your dreams and plans in life I'm
going to move quickly number
five make sure that your
problems your failures will not defeat
you from
Insight even if you're knocked down make
sure that you able to stand up again and
don't ever let these problems in life
these sins that maybe took over your
heart or these habits or these or maybe
the addiction or maybe the failing in
the class or you didn't go do well in
one of your courses whatever the problem
is or your problem with your parents you
problem with your spouse you problem
with your fiance maybe whatever problem
that you have in your life don't let it
ever knock you from inside defeat you
from your inside don't let anyone defeat
you from your
inside Allah subhana T teach us this
lesson
don't ever be defeated from inside Allah
said to the Muslim after they lost the
battle
of they lost technically they lost the
battle of Allah said don't don't feel
down don't feel from inside you lost no
you're higher you're
bigger one of the beautiful things in
your country here that you have so many
palm trees
and by the way palm tree is a
blessings tree and the prophet
said the example of mmin like the tree
the palm tree the mmin is like a palm
tree do you know something about palm
tree just since you see a lot of them
around here palm tree palm tree is the
only tree as far as they know that the
trunk is a live thing it's a life thing
palm tree it's not like so many other
trees that they grow wider palm tree it
grow taller but that's not my point
there is one thing about the palm tree
I'm using it here for palm tree has the
ability there's so many type of palm
trees but palm tree has the ability to
bend in the wind then go back again
straight it's not like the AR trees that
we have in America or some these big
trees thick and they when
the strong wind or hurricane comes it
will break it Subhan Allah palm trees
they Bend then they go
back andam said the example of the
believer like what like the palm tree
don't ever be defeated from side even if
you've been knocked down come back again
strong come back again
strong don't all worry yourself so much
that you became from inside
defeated because
worry will never empty tomorrow from its
sorrow and fear it's only empty today
from its strength that's the only thing
worries and being defeated from inside
will
do number
six when you have a problem in life you
need to look
at why this problem happened what's the
reasons behind it how where is the root
of the problem so many times I I counsel
uh couples like a husband and wife oh we
do this and I noticed that always they
fight over the symptoms they never try
to look at the root of the problem when
you have a problem in your life look at
the root of your problem what is the
root of your problem let's say you are
in so much
debt maybe the problem is that you have
a a a a spending problem maybe you are
so you always fail you cannot
concentrate maybe you have a time
management problem maybe you have an
anger problem look at the root of the
problem look at the basically the the
foundation of it and how can you tackle
it from the
root that's the right way to go with
your
problems so many times we deal with our
problems in a very naive way you cannot
solve a problem by using the same kind
of thinking we used when we created
these problem so that means there's
something else I need to look at what
the reasons what the where is these the
source of these problems and so
forth number seven whenever you have a
problem in your life I want you to watch
carefully your
words how the words that you use when
you deal with your problems don't say I
can't say I will
try don't say that's S no that's the
beginning Subhan language is the dress
of thoughts you can tell a lot about
your thought by your language by the
language that you
use sometimes just changing the way
you're saying it will make a big
difference will make a big huge
difference how something can be done
rather than saying cannot be
done that's a big different a big
difference
that's
why for
instance forbade us to
say don't say if if I do this if I did
that because this language it will bring
bad negative thoughts it will help to
defeat you from
inside said is a person watch his
tongue is not a person always cursed
always use false language no in another
hand he in another Hadith he
said good words are a form of
church so what your your language that
you use when you talk about your
problems the prophet sallam
said two way to pronounce theith the
prophet said whoever say all people are
bad the prophet said it means he is the
worst or the other way to read to
understand it he is the one who made
them
bad because the language negative word
don't say that don't say you know cannot
be changed no so I'll will try we'll see
how it's going to work number eight it's
something I will keep it for tonight
it's about optimism so there is a whole
thing to be said about being be be
optimistic when you deal with your
problems let optimism Lead You Lead You
In Your in your uh uh challenge in your
challenge Subhan Allah I I saw a very uh
nice it's a very interesting picture I
saw it's this beautiful boat we're boat
usually sitting on the beach that's
right or on the on the sea that's right
but this boat was on the
sand so I said to myself Subhan Allah
how's that this beautifully act on the
sand
but underneath of it was a very nice
caption it says the tide always comes
back the tides always come back the
water's coming back and I'll bring it
back to the Sea and I thought this is
very inspiring I thought this very
inspiring but anyway inshallah we will
uh talk more about optimism and how can
you be optimistic person how can you
develop that character and I will tackle
this tonight from Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wasallam
I'll talk about it from the life of the
Prophet sallam how he was the most
optimistic person and I will give you
also another six or seven points it will
make you an optimistic person because
unfortunately we don't have a button in
our body we can push it I became
optimistic person we don't doesn't work
this way have to work your way
for number nine anytime you are in a
problem anytime you are in a hardship
anytime you're in calamity
turn yourself to Allah subhah wa
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tala the one who always answer the call
of those who are in
trouble a good friend of mine from Egypt
he told me about a
woman this woman she's very poor to the
ENT that she doesn't have any money to
bring dinner in so many nights to her
children her young daughter was so
sick very high fever so they told take
her to the hospital and their Village
there's no hospital she has to travel to
the city she said I don't have even
money to have a taxi to take me to the
city and I don't have money to pay for
the
doctor she tried everything she beged
for money she asked for loan nobody
everybody turn her
down she said I put water on my
daughter's forehead I put her into to
bed and I prayed and she's a righteous
woman and she said
Y in her own language simple words
said everybody tear me
down I don't know what to do with this
problem she's going to die
y I ask you I beg you to find a solution
for
IT Help me and he said you saying in the
Quran you said in the Quran you the one
who answered the call of those who are
in hardship and Calamity I am now in a
hardship and Calamity and I'm begging
you and asking
you she said well I did not finish the
Salat unless the door
knocked and I opened the door then he
said I'm the
doctor she said I was in
tears when he said I'm the doctor then
he said where is the where is your
daughter I said
inside he walked into the room he looked
at my daughter he gave her a shot and he
wrote for me a prescription he said
150 and I said
what she said he said
150 said I I I I have no
money he said what do you mean you call
me I brought me all the way from the
city to this Village to tell me you have
no money she said I didn't call I don't
even have a
phone she said no I was called a phone
call came to me no back and forth all of
a sudden the neighbor coming down yeah
do yeah
doct then he said what said our daughter
waiting for you upstairs I'm the one who
called
you he knocked on her door by
mistake the one who answered the call
of those
who raise their hands towards him
subhanahu wa ta'ala
so many times in in Calamity and
hardship we go to so many worldly things
we forget to turn ourselves to Allah
subhana wa tal and to sincerely ask him
and to pray to
him last Point number
10 when you have a
problem don't complain to people about
your
problems most of the people they don't
know how to solve it and the rest they
don't care about
it instead of
complaining you know what you need to do
take M take advice when you come to me
said don't go to someone said I to
complain to him about your problem ask
for advice ask her for
feedback you will never regret
consultation go consult those who are
older than you wiser than you have more
experience in
life my brother and
sisters final words about the subject to
tell you that so many times Allah put us
through so many hardship and
calamities and Allah subhana is not
really what he is really interested in
who he's interested in changing
you but I found it so ironic that when
we go through Calamity and hardship all
what we care about is changing our
circumstances we don't think about
ourself we always think how Allah will
change the circumstances to things will
go good but you know what Allah doesn't
really care about your circumstances
what he care about is you changing or
not that's why Allah said
Allah will not change what is in you
what's happening to you until you change
yourself can you get
it it's about you buddy it's about you
sister and
brothers
so go get your problem solved or
untangled go get the life that you
deserve and don't let anything stoping
from what Allah subhana have created you
to be free man free woman not chained
not enslaved to your own problems or
worries in life but to live with
strength to live a happy and a
successful life may Allah subhana to
Grant all of us
Thad thank you very much