Hazrat Moulana Dawood Seedat Saheb Madrasah Isha'atul Haq · Albert Falls Albert Falls, KwaZulu-Natal
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Madrasah Isha'atul Haq · Albert Falls Albert Falls, KwaZulu-Natal · 2026
Ladies Programme | Hazrat Moulana Dawood Seedat Saheb
Ladies Programme Hazrat Moulana Dawood Seedat Saheb
Hijri date 2 Jumaadal Ukhra 1442
Date 15 January 2021
Duration 58:13
Venue Stanger Summary Main Topic
Cultivating tranquility (sakinah ) and steadfastness (iman ) through absolute trust in Allah during times of hardship, panic, and societal trials.
Key Lessons
True peace of the heart (sakinah ) descends upon a heart that is open, connected to Allah, and guarded against the whispers (waswasa ) of Shaytan.
Frustration, anxiety, and the tendency to blame others arise when people lose focus on Allah's absolute power and place excessive trust in physical means.
Prophet Musa (alayhis salam) exhibited unwavering composure at the Red Sea, knowing that salvation rests entirely in Allah's hands regardless of outward circumstances.
The trials faced by previous nations and prophets demonstrate that difficulties are often mercies in disguise (rahmat ), purifying the believers and strengthening their faith.
Facing widespread sickness and adversity with patience (sabr ) brings spiritual rewards, including the elevated status of martyrdom (shahadah ).
Quranic/Hadith References
Surah Ash-Sharh (94:1) : Reference to Allah opening and expanding the chest (Inshirah ) for divine guidance.Surah Al-Fath (48:4) : "Huwal-ladhi anzalas-sakinata fi qulubil-mu'mineen..." – Allah sending down tranquility into the hearts of the believers to increase their faith.Surah At-Tawbah (9:40) : "La tahzan innallaha ma'ana" – The reassurance given by Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) to Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (radiallahu anhu) in the Cave of Thawr.Surah Al-Kahf : The story of Musa (alayhis salam) and Khidr (alayhis salam) illustrating divine wisdom behind apparent harm (damaging the boat).Hadith on Plagues : A believer who passes away during a widespread plague (ta'un ) receives the status of a martyr (shahid ).Hadith on Immodesty : Warnings that open immodesty (behaya'i ) brings about severe epidemics and tribulations.
Practical Advice
Protect the heart from Shaytan by avoiding excessive panic over worldly news, economic changes, and fearmongering.
Maintain daily masnoon du'as and morning/evening adhkar with firm conviction (
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0:03 Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. 0:16 A'udhu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem. 0:18 Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. 0:22 Alhamdulillah. 0:48 Alhamdulillah. 0:49 Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is allowing us to sit for a short while and make some mudhakara of some aspect of this beautiful deen that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has blessed us with. 1:06 Not only blessed us but also honoured us. 1:11 Sayyiduna Umar radiallahu ta'alaan. 1:14 He had mentioned that we are a people. 1:16 A'azzanallahu bil Islam. 1:19 Allah Ta'ala has honoured us. 1:21 Allah Ta'ala has given us our respect etc. 1:25 through this deen of Islam. 1:28 Not that we should feel that we are worthy of some respect, but it is only Allah Ta'ala's favour upon us that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala has given us this beautiful deen, beautiful shariat, the beautiful sunnah of our beloved Rasul-e-Baqir. 1:47 Sallallahu alayhi wasallam. 1:51 So we have recited one surah from the Quran Sharif. 1:56 And all of you are probably, probably know the surah better than myself. 2:01 But in this particular surah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala 2:08 Mentions. 2:09 The ni'mat upon Huzoor-e-Paak sallallahu alayhi wasallam. 2:15 Wherein Allah Ta'ala mentions that did we not open your chest? 2:21 Did we not open your chest? 2:25 So there are different different interpretations given with regards to this that what is it exactly referring to? 2:35 However, what we understand is that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala opened the chest of Nabi al-Karim sallallahu alayhi wasallam to understand the Quran Sharif, memorize the Quran Sharif, be able to explain the words of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala exactly how Allah ta'ala wants it to be explained. 3:03 Now this opening up of the chest, when a person's chest is not opened up to deen, then a person lives in a lot of worry, a lot of anxiety. 3:20 People suffer depression, suffer frustration when our chest is not opened up to the deen of Allah Ta'ala. 3:31 If Allah SWT opens up a person's chest to his deen, then we find that this person lives a life of sukoon. 3:42 And sukoon is something that is very, very important. 3:47 And sukoon, the sakinah, this is something that settles on the heart. 3:55 Our late Shaykh, as the morning is Fatiha. 3:57 Ashab Rahmatullah Ali. 3:58 Allah Ta'ala for his Qabar with Noor. 4:01 He mentioned this in one of his programs. 4:05 He read the Ayat-e-Kareemah wherein Allah Rabbul Izzat mentions. 4:10 A'udhu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem. 4:13 Huwa alladhi anzala sakinata fi qulubil mu'mineen. 4:18 That Allah is that being who sends down the Sakina upon the hearts of the believers. 4:27 The effect of this sakinah is liyazdadu imanam ma'a imanihim. 4:34 In a nutshell, whatever iman they have, this sakinah will cause their iman to increase. 4:42 Iman will get even stronger. 4:43 Their yaqeen upon Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will get even stronger. 4:49 Their tawakkul in Allah Ta'ala will get even stronger. 4:53 All aspects of deen, of aqeedah, of iman, everything will become much much stronger when a person has got sukoon, when sakinah comes upon the heart. 5:04 And when this sakinah is not there, then as we mentioned, there will be the opposite. 5:11 Anxiety, depression, frustration, worry, etc. 5:16 So, Hazrat Rahmatullah Ali mentioned that this Sakina, it comes down onto the hearts of the believers. 5:25 Now, these hearts need to be open. 5:30 These hearts need to be open to receive that Sakina. 5:36 So, Shaitan, what he does, 5:39 He attacks the heart. 5:41 Shaitan attacks the heart. 5:44 He whispers. 5:45 He perches on our heart. 5:48 And he keeps making waswasa etc. 5:51 in that heart. 5:52 Hazrat had mentioned that the enemy forces when they want to take over a country. 6:00 And one of the first things they do is they try to secure the airport. 6:06 And they want to, rebels come in or an army is invading, etc. 6:12 So the enemy forces, if they have to secure the airport, then they are on their road to victory. 6:21 Because once they got the airport in their hand, 6:24 All their supplies etc. 6:27 can land. 6:27 Right? 6:29 If the airport is not in their hand, then they got lot of difficulty. 6:33 So like that, Sakina, Allah Ta'ala sends it upon the heart. 6:38 So the heart is like the airport. 6:42 Now when we have given the heart in the hand of the enemy, then that Sakina is not going to come down. 6:50 Sakina is not going to come down. 6:52 And when that Sakina won't come down, because, not because there's any fault in the Sakina. 6:59 There's fault in our heart. 7:02 The runaway got potholes. 7:05 Oh, it is totally finished. 7:07 The airport is totally run down. 7:09 So how is that aeroplane of Sakina going to land? 7:14 Right? 7:15 So when we are void of Sakina because our hearts are not open to receive what Allah Ta'ala is sending, then it is our own fault we have given the heart into the hand of Shaitaan and then we will find that whole lot of different worry and anxiety and fear 7:33 All these things will grip us. 7:34 We go into a depression. 7:36 We go into a frustration. 7:38 All these things happen because the heart is closed. 7:41 The heart is closed. 7:43 Life becomes like it's very narrow. 7:45 Which way am I going to turn? 7:47 What am I going to do? 7:50 But if you take Nabi Musa a.s. Nabi Musa a.s. has taken his people and they have now come right to the ocean. 8:03 Behind them is the army of Fir'aun. 8:06 They can already see the sand, the dust from the wheels and the hooves of the army of Fir'aun. 8:14 Whatever wagons they were coming with, horses they were riding, it was creating dust storms. 8:21 So in the back, they are seeing death in the form of Fir'aun and his army. 8:27 Death is approaching and it's approaching fast. 8:31 In the front, there is the ocean. 8:36 Death in the form of drowning. 8:40 Now it seems like there is no way out. 8:43 The people of Nabi Musa, they are now in depression. 8:51 They are in frustration. 8:54 Some, you see, people have different personalities, right? 8:58 Some people, they react with frustration, with anger. 9:01 They get angry when there's a problem. 9:04 They react with anger and get frustrated. 9:07 And other people, they go down. 9:11 They go into like a depression, right? 9:13 So the people of Nabi Musa alayhi salam, these both reactions are there from them. 9:19 Now, whether you go into a depression or whether you go into a frustration, 9:25 Both those things start a blame game. 9:29 Because I'm depressed now. 9:31 I'm feeling sorry for myself. 9:33 Now who did this to me? 9:35 Who caused this problem? 9:38 And if I'm frustrated also, I'm angry. 9:40 So somebody caused my anger. 9:43 So now they started the blame game. 9:45 Now what's the blame game? 9:47 You told us. 9:49 They were suffering there under Fir'aun's rule. 9:52 They wanted to leave. 9:53 Hazrat Musa alayhi salam, Allah Ta'ala told him, take the people and go. 9:58 So they were very happy. 9:59 Now we got a route out we're going. 10:02 But now when some challenge came, 10:05 Now what they did started a blame game. 10:08 Oh, you see, you brought us here. 10:10 We were staying nicely there. 10:12 Maybe we were the slaves of Fir'aun, but we didn't have all these problems. 10:15 Now we're in a bigger problem. 10:16 We're in a worse mess. 10:17 Now they're going to kill us. 10:20 So they started the blame game. 10:23 But Nabi Musa alayhi salam, he is calm as cool waters. 10:30 His resolve is more solid than a rock. 10:34 No problem. 10:35 Nothing is worrying him. 10:37 He's not in any anxiety, not in any frustration, nothing. 10:41 Why? 10:42 Because he knows that this is the command of my Allah. 10:46 My Allah told me to come. 10:48 So although it looks like a hopeless situation here, there's no exit, there's no way out. 10:54 But Allah Rabbul Izzat is ala kulli shay'in qadeer. 10:59 The army in the back is under the command of Allah. 11:04 The ocean in the front is under the command of Allah. 11:08 We are in the obedience of Allah. 11:11 We didn't come here on our own. 11:12 We came here because Allah Ta'ala told us to come. 11:16 So now we will leave things in Allah's hand. 11:19 Taqdeer, good and bad, is from Allah Ta'ala. 11:26 If Allah Ta'ala has decreed that our death is going to come at the hands of Firun and his army, then O my Allah, I am your slave. 11:36 You are my master. 11:37 I am happy with your decision. 11:39 If Allah Ta'ala has decreed that our death is going to come through drowning here in the water. 11:45 Ya Allah I'm happy with your decision. 11:47 I'm not going to question your decision. 11:50 And Ya Allah if you have got a way out for us that too we are happy with. 11:54 Whatever you have got for us we are happy with it. 11:58 His heart is connected with Allah Ta'ala. 12:01 That's why he's not getting frustrated or depressed or anxious. 12:07 In that situation. 12:09 And like this we can take examples from the lives of each and every Nabi of Allah Ta'ala. 12:18 Each and every Nabi of Allah Ta'ala. 12:21 Nabi Ibrahim A.S. is being thrown into the fire. 12:26 Such a blazing fire. 12:28 But he is cool and calm. 12:30 He is cool and calm. 12:32 He is not clutching at straws. 12:35 Even the angel came to him to say, O Ibrahim, can I help you? 12:39 I have come with the permission of Allah Ta'ala. 12:41 Can I assist you? 12:43 Ibrahim alayhi salam said, Ma Allah knows of my condition. 12:46 Ma Allah knows of my condition. 12:48 I don't need anything else. 12:49 I don't need anything else. 12:53 Huzoor-e-Paq sallallahu alayhi wasallam. 12:57 He is in the cave with Sayyidina Abu Bakr radiyallahu ta'alaan. 13:03 The enemy have reached right there. 13:06 There is a reward out. 13:09 There is a reward out. 13:11 That person who captures Nabi Akarim sallallahu alayhi wasallam and he brings him back. 13:16 Whether he brings him back 13:19 As they say in English, dead or alive. 13:23 He is getting a huge reward of a hundred camels. 13:27 So people are all hungry for this reward. 13:31 And they are right there now. 13:32 Right there by the cave. 13:34 That if they just have to look down, they will see them. 13:38 Abu Bakr radiallahu ta'alaan. 13:41 He is afraid for the life of Nabiya Kareem sallallahu alayhi wasallam. 13:45 He is concerned. 13:46 No harm must come to my Nabi sallallahu alayhi wasallam. 13:49 And at that time, what does Nabiya Kareem sallallahu alayhi wasallam say to Sayyidina Abu Bakr radiallahu ta'alaan? 13:57 La tahzan innallaha ma'ana. 14:01 Don't grieve. 14:02 Nothing to worry about. 14:03 Why you worry? 14:05 Allah Ta'ala is with us. 14:09 And if Allah Ta'ala is with us, what more do we require? 14:12 We don't need anything else. 14:14 Allah Rabbul Izzat is with us. 14:17 So, when Allah Ta'ala opens the chest of 14:22 Surah Al-Fatiha. 14:38 But that heart is in peace because that heart is connected with Allah Ta'ala. 14:44 Ya Allah, whatever you are going to do, I am pleased with it. 14:48 I am happy with it. 14:49 That is best for me. 14:51 Even though I cannot understand it, it is best for me. 14:55 Sometimes you'll find a lady 15:01 She gets married. 15:03 She has children, etc. 15:05 Now maybe Allah Ta'ala takes away her husband. 15:12 And she is still young. 15:15 She is still young. 15:16 Allah Ta'ala takes away her husband. 15:18 Right? 15:20 Now at that particular time, if that lady starts making statements, she starts uttering words that now what's going to happen to me? 15:33 Now there's nobody for me. 15:35 Who's going to look after me? 15:36 How am I going to survive? 15:39 So what it shows that that person's focus was on her husband. 15:44 She thought that her husband is providing for her. 15:47 She thought her husband is looking after her. 15:51 Sometime it can happen. 15:52 They are children. 15:53 Small children. 15:54 They lose both their parents. 15:56 They lose both their parents. 15:59 And now the family people. 16:01 Children are masoom. 16:02 They are small. 16:03 You look at them. 16:04 They lost both their parents. 16:05 They are still running around in the garden. 16:07 But the people around them. 16:09 Now what's going to happen to these masoom children? 16:11 Who's going to look after them? 16:14 They got no father now. 16:15 This... 16:17 But each person, each one of us, we are the servants of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 16:24 And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has got a journey that He has mapped out for us. 16:31 And we will go through that journey. 16:34 And in that journey, no matter what condition Allah ta'ala puts us in, we have to ensure that I am in the obedience of Allah ta'ala. 16:44 Allah Ta'ala. 16:45 Allah Ta'ala. 17:03 Then I got older. 17:05 Allah Ta'ala made it that I got married. 17:09 Now Allah Ta'ala made the means my husband. 17:12 He was taking care of things. 17:14 Right? 17:15 If Allah Ta'ala took my husband away, now maybe Allah Ta'ala appointed my son. 17:21 Sometime a lady has got a big son. 17:23 He's working. 17:24 He got a business. 17:25 Whatever it is. 17:26 So now Allah Ta'ala gave him the responsibility. 17:30 He is now looking after the mother. 17:32 Right? 17:35 Few years down the line that son too may go away. 17:39 And it may be an only son. 17:41 Right? 17:43 Then too that lady cannot despair. 17:47 Because it is Allah who has done everything. 17:51 And it is Allah Ta'ala who will find a way out for me. 17:55 Right? 17:55 Like Musa a.s. 17:56 He is standing there with these people. 17:59 All around him they can only see death. 18:02 There is no way out. 18:04 But his focus is on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 18:08 Waiting for the next instruction from Allah. 18:11 Allah is going to find a way out. 18:13 Nobody else. 18:15 And Allah Ta'ala, when Allah makes a decision and Allah finds a solution, then that solution is so perfect, it's so complete, that it sorts every difficulty. 18:28 It sorts everything out. 18:30 Now if you look at how Allah Ta'ala took Nabi Musa a.s. out of that situation. 18:37 Allah Ta'ala told him to strike the water with his staff. 18:42 He struck the water. 18:44 It doesn't make logical sense. 18:47 There is no logical sense. 18:49 Strike the water with your staff. 18:51 What is that going to do? 18:52 From a logical point of view or a scientific point of view or a gravity point of view or whichever mathematical point of view, you take all the different sciences and put it together. 19:06 And Allah Ta'ala is commanding now strike the water with your staff. 19:11 And if you have to use your brain, logical brain, and use all the different sciences that we have. 19:18 But this makes absolutely no sense. 19:21 We are in a problem here. 19:24 How are we going to come out of this? 19:27 But Nabi Musa A.S. never questioned the command of Allah. 19:32 He did as Allah told him to do. 19:36 And when he did as Allah told him to do, not only did Allah Ta'ala make roads in the ocean for them to cross and go to the other side, 19:47 But through that same striking of the staff, one is the people crossed and went on the other side. 19:54 Musa a.s. and his people crossed and went on that. 19:57 But that same striking of the staff became the means of the enemy that was chasing them to be destroyed. 20:07 They were drowned. 20:09 Just one shot with the staff on the water. 20:13 But because it was done in the obedience of Allah Ta'ala. 20:17 Sami'na wa ata'na. 20:18 We have heard. 20:19 We have obeyed. 20:20 Ya Allah, you want us to do this. 20:23 Then there is no problem after that. 20:27 Right? 20:28 After that, if even something has to happen. 20:32 Something has to happen which in our minds we feel now some bad came to me. 20:39 No, that bad is looking bad in my eyes because I don't know the future. 20:44 That bad is looking bad in my eyes because I don't know the future. 20:49 That bad which I think is coming to me, that too is good for me. 20:53 There is wisdom. 20:54 As long as I am in the obedience of Allah Ta'ala, there is wisdom in what is happening. 21:00 There is wisdom. 21:02 One young person was asking me this question. 21:06 He said, Maulana, we get different duas, masnoon duas, morning duas, evening duas, and there are different virtues mentioned for these duas. 21:19 If a person reads this dua in the morning, daily, then no harm will come to him that day. 21:25 Or different, different virtues that we get for different duas. 21:29 So he said that, now if a person reads it, a person reads the dua, and he's reading with some level of yaqeen, we don't say our yaqeen is very high, but with some level of yaqeen also he's reading, 21:46 But yet on that same day he experiences some harm. 21:52 Some difficulty. 21:53 Some harm came to him. 21:55 Now how do you reconcile now? 21:57 That one side the Hadith Sharif is saying if you read this dua then this is the virtue or this will be the protection or something. 22:04 On the other side the person is reading and he is reading with Iman and Yaqeen. 22:09 One is Ulama always tell us that no because we lack in Yaqeen. 22:12 Right? 22:13 So fair enough we do lack but 22:15 Some level of Yaqeen there is. 22:18 And now some problem happened. 22:20 So how do you reconcile between the two? 22:24 So Allah Ta'ala put it in the mind at that time what answer to give to this person. 22:31 So we mentioned to him that see the difficulty that befell you. 22:37 One is definitely maybe we are not reading with Yaqeen. 22:40 We can't measure our Yaqeen. 22:43 But the difficulty that 22:45 You experienced. 22:48 Maybe there was something much worse than that which was going to happen. 22:54 Something much worse was going to happen to you. 22:58 Because you read the dua. 23:00 Through the barakat of the dua, Allah Ta'ala saved you. 23:05 You thinking you got a problem, but Allah saved you. 23:08 So then I gave him the example of Musa a.s., 23:15 And Khizar a.s. Those brothers took them across in the boat. 23:21 And they had, these brothers had some handicapped brothers, brothers who were disabled. 23:28 And they used to work taking people across, charge a few, whatever currency was at that time. 23:35 And like that they were earning their risk, earning their rosy. 23:39 So they recognized that these are pious people, Musa alayhis salaam, Kizar alayhis salaam. 23:44 So they didn't even charge them. 23:46 They took them across and they didn't even charge them. 23:50 So, they did a good deed. 23:52 They're looking at these people. 23:54 These people are Allahualas. 23:55 They are pious people. 23:56 Maybe we're going to charge them now. 23:58 They did a good deed. 24:00 Allah Ta'ala instructed Khidr alayhi salam to remove one plank from the boat. 24:07 Right? 24:07 So, he caused harm to the boat. 24:10 Now, those people did good. 24:13 They did good and harm is coming to them. 24:17 Right? 24:18 But, 24:20 In the future, you see, we can't see in the future, right? 24:23 The future was that the king was going to go past and if he found this boat on the waterway, he would have confiscated this boat. 24:34 He would have taken it away. 24:36 And the destruction that came to the boat was just one plank. 24:39 It was easy to put it back. 24:43 So if you look at it in the present with our eyes, we'll say some harm came to them. 24:48 But in reality, that harm was not harm. 24:51 It was a rahmat in disguise. 24:53 Right? 24:54 So like that, sometime we may read the duas everything and some problem happens in our life. 25:01 Now we may question, but I read the dua. 25:03 We must never question. 25:05 We must always realize that what happened to me, there is khair in there. 25:10 There is goodness. 25:11 Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did this to protect me from something. 25:15 There was some worse supposed to happen to me. 25:17 Allah Ta'ala only made this happen to me. 25:20 And even if a person goes through some difficulty, a believer, even if a thorn has to prick him, he makes sabar on it. 25:30 Allah Ta'ala is rewarding him. 25:32 So can any situation be bad for a believer? 25:35 No situation can be bad for a believer. 25:38 But a person will only look at it this way. 25:42 When his heart or her heart is connected with Allah Ta'ala. 25:46 When our heart moves away and we give it to Shaitan, then he makes waswasa and he makes us think of so many different different things which don't even concern us. 26:00 Doesn't even concern us. 26:02 I got one businessman friend. 26:07 So every time there is a fluctuation with the Rand dollar, you know. 26:13 So he too gets fluctuated. 26:16 And every time the petrol price is going up, then his temperature also goes up. 26:21 His blood pressure also goes up. 26:24 So now he'll wait. 26:27 He'll wait to see who he can speak to, you know. 26:32 So if you see, you know, you heard the petrol price has gone up now. 26:37 You know now everything is going to go up. 26:39 This thing has a chain reaction. 26:41 How we going to manage now? 26:43 Bread is going to go up. 26:44 This is going to go up. 26:45 That is going to go up. 26:47 So over the years now I had this, I mean petrol price goes up every now and again. 26:52 So I had this conversation with him many times, you know, listening to him, pouring his heart out. 26:57 Sometimes we let somebody pour their heart out. 27:00 Then if the dollar, you know, dollar price, how are we going to afford Umrah? 27:03 How are we going to afford this? 27:05 How are we going to afford that? 27:06 So he'll talk later. 27:07 So you just hear him out. 27:10 So one day, many years later, every time listening to him, so one day I asked him, I said, Uncle, tell me something. 27:19 So many times petrol price went up and came down and went up. 27:24 And this dollar went up and down. 27:26 Every time you got worried about it. 27:28 What happened to you? 27:30 In all this time, in all honesty, ask yourself, what happened to you? 27:36 Did any harm really come to you? 27:39 You were saying that the poor people, how they gonna afford bread and everything? 27:45 Everybody is still eating their bread, man. 27:48 Everybody is still eating their bread. 27:50 If you go and ask the bakeries, they'll tell you, no, we're still baking same amount of bread every day. 27:56 So why are you allowing these things to worry you? 28:01 Allah Ta'ala is the one who's in charge of our rizq. 28:05 Why you now taking that worry on your head? 28:09 You see when we lose focus and we start focusing on the means, we start focusing on people, we start focusing on our own skills and our own strengths, etc. 28:21 And then shaitan makes us very frightened. 28:24 Shaitan makes us very frightened and then we feel that there is no way out for us. 28:29 Like the Qawm of Musa a.s.q. 28:31 They taught now. 28:33 Behind us is the army. 28:34 In front of us is the water. 28:36 There is no way out for us. 28:39 Now take in this current situation of ours. 28:45 One side there is a bimari. 28:48 One side there is a bimari. 28:50 People are getting sick. 28:51 So many people have passed on. 28:54 Some people have recovered, but they're still like, you know, suffering the aftermath of the sickness, etc. 29:03 So one side you got that. 29:05 Then on the other side now, 29:08 Somebody said, but now this government, they don't want to give us ivermectin now. 29:12 Ivermectin will sort the problem out. 29:14 This government got a problem, they don't want to give us ivermectin. 29:17 You see, they got something up their sleeve. 29:19 So that's another figure now. 29:22 Then somebody got it in our house. 29:25 Now must we give them food or mustn't give them food? 29:28 Am I also going to get it? 29:30 Must we look after the person? 29:31 Mustn't look after the person. 29:32 That's another worry now. 29:34 Another pareshani. 29:36 Then say now this government won't go in another lockdown. 29:40 We finish one lockdown. 29:41 Now they want to go in another lockdown. 29:43 Now what's going to happen to our business? 29:46 How we going to eat? 29:48 What we going to do? 29:50 So that's another worry now. 29:53 Another worry a person got. 29:56 Then, if all those worries were not enough, now we got another story. 30:02 New world order. 30:04 New world order. 30:06 Day behind this whole thing. 30:09 You know what they're going to do? 30:11 They're going to inject you with a vaccine. 30:14 And the vaccine is going to put a chip inside you. 30:18 Now they're going to know your bank account. 30:21 They're going to know where you're going, what you're doing. 30:25 Now that's another worry now. 30:28 So many worries a person got. 30:31 How are you going to read two rakats namaz? 30:32 How are you going to read two rakats namaz with khushu, with khuzu? 30:39 We have to draw from the treasure of Allah Ta'ala. 30:43 We are sitting here worrying about all these other other things. 30:48 Every day now we're checking what they're saying in the news. 30:51 What date school is opening? 30:53 Oh now it's not opening school. 30:54 What should happen here? 30:55 What should happen? 31:02 We make it now. 31:03 Our primary, you know. 31:04 Then you've got this other people Muslim stats. 31:08 You don't hear Hindu stats. 31:10 You don't hear Jewish stats. 31:11 You don't hear no other stats. 31:13 You only hear Muslim stats. 31:15 As if to say nobody else is passing away. 31:18 Muslim small percentage of the population, they're saying the hospitals are full. 31:23 If all the hospitals were only full with Muslims, we wouldn't have had no more Muslims walking around anyway. 31:30 All nations there. 31:32 All different, different nations everywhere. 31:35 So one thing I have seen in all of this, in this whole situation that we are in currently, one thing I have seen is Alhamdulillah those ulama, our seniors, our elders, you know like Hazrat Maulana Abdul Hamid sahib, Azhar Mufti Ibrahim Sajidji sahib, 31:59 You know. 32:00 And others, I just say one, two names. 32:02 And others also, senior ulama, who, you know, have been our seniors and our guides all along. 32:11 So throughout this whole situation, they got sukoon. 32:15 They carry on with their work as normal. 32:19 And nothing is worrying them. 32:22 There is nothing harming them, worrying them, putting them into a state of panic and anxiety. 32:28 We need to change this or that. 32:31 Normally they are carrying on with their life full of sukoon, peace. 32:36 If anything, it is bringing them closer and closer to Allah Ta'ala. 32:42 But we find that those of us who we lack this connection with Allah Ta'ala, that so many things are worrying us. 32:53 Now, whether it is medication, whether it's New World Order, whether Dajjal is coming tomorrow, see, insan is insan. 33:01 We are insan. 33:03 We got certain natural instincts and emotions, etc. 33:07 Huzoor-e-Paq sallallahu alayhi wasallam, 33:11 One day he explained to the Sahaba with regards to Dajjal. 33:18 Different, different aspects with regards to Dajjal. 33:22 And then Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam finished explaining and he went away. 33:26 Now Sahaba got very worried. 33:29 This Dajjal. 33:31 How are we going to overcome this fitna of Dajjal? 33:35 It's such a heavy fitna, this fitna. 33:38 How are we going to overcome it? 33:40 So they were perturbed, worried, could see it on their faces. 33:44 So Nabi Akarim sallallahu alayhi wasallam came back and he saw them. 33:47 So he realized that, you know, they are worried. 33:49 So he asked them. 33:52 So they said, you know, you spoke about Dajjal. 33:54 You put so much of worry in us with regards to this Dajjal. 34:01 So what answer did Nabi sallallahu alayhi wasallam give them? 34:05 Bigger things to worry about. 34:08 Other things, more bigger things to worry about than this Dajjal. 34:12 Dajjal, if he comes and I am still living, I'll sort him out. 34:19 I'll take care of him on your behalf. 34:21 You don't have to worry about it. 34:24 And if I have passed away, then Allah Ta'ala is there for you. 34:30 Allah Ta'ala is there. 34:32 Allah Ta'ala will take care. 34:34 Each person will have to sort themselves out. 34:38 In other words, we have to remain firm with our iman, our a'mal. 34:42 We have to hold on to that. 34:44 And then Allah's madad will be there. 34:46 Allah's help will be there. 34:48 And Allah Ta'ala will take us through that also. 34:51 Right? 34:52 So whatever situation it may be. 34:54 You know, I want to share something with you all. 34:59 Couple years ago, 35:02 When the war was taking place in Iraq, you know. 35:07 The war was taking place in Iraq. 35:11 So one day, one family came and the ladies wanted to read namaz at home. 35:20 The men came in the masjid and the ladies needed a place to read namaz so they went home to read namaz. 35:27 So after salah, 35:29 So the men said, now please, you know, call our ladies first. 35:34 So I went upstairs. 35:35 So there was one old Iraqi ma, you know, old lady, Iraqi lady. 35:42 She was there in the house. 35:44 So she is asking me, say, are you the Sheikh of this masjid here? 35:50 So I gave her some answer. 35:54 So she is telling me, men, you know, you South African people, something is wrong with you all. 36:00 So I asked her why. 36:02 She said, I went to the supermarket to get few things. 36:06 And I see that you've got sauce. 36:09 One whole aisle only of sauce. 36:11 It's not even food. 36:13 And you've got a whole aisle. 36:15 How much you're eating? 36:18 So anyway, she spoke couple things. 36:21 And then I asked her, I said, so Ma, what you doing here in South Africa? 36:27 So she said, no, I came to fetch my son. 36:31 So I'm thinking one small child. 36:33 I said, no, your son is studying here? 36:35 He said, no, no, no. 36:36 My son is doctor. 36:38 My son is a doctor. 36:41 So I came to fetch him. 36:43 Taking him back to Iraq. 36:46 So I said, well, he couldn't get work here. 36:47 He said, no, he was working here. 36:49 But South Africa is too dangerous. 36:53 So Africa is too dangerous. 36:56 So I said, but Ma, you're staying in Iraq. 37:00 What do you mean? 37:00 There you've got bombs falling and machine guns and all these things. 37:04 The army is there. 37:07 So she says, Sheikh, there's a difference. 37:12 In Iraq, we know who the enemy is. 37:17 In South Africa, you don't know who the enemy is. 37:21 That's the difference. 37:23 So that statement of hers is stuck in my mind. 37:28 That as a believer, do we know who the enemy is? 37:34 As a believer, do I understand who my enemy is? 37:38 Allah is saying in the Quran Sharif. 37:41 Wa hum lakum adu. 37:45 The shaitan and his progeny, they are your enemy. 37:49 We can focus on the government, focus on this one, focus. 37:53 The enemy is shaitan. 37:56 And what does shaitan want? 37:58 He wants us to lose our iman. 38:01 That is shaitan's plot. 38:02 We must lose our iman. 38:04 Right? 38:06 Allah, Rabbul Izzat, wants us to remain on Iman, A'mal, Akhlaq, Sunnah. 38:13 We must remain on that. 38:15 Shaitan, he wants us to lose our Iman. 38:19 So we have to know who the enemy is and what we are up against. 38:24 Once we know who the enemy is, then we will be able to read the plot of the enemy. 38:32 If we don't realize who the enemy is, we won't be able to see the plot. 38:38 How the enemy is trying to distance us from our deen. 38:41 How the enemy is trying to put fear in us. 38:45 So now all these other things as I was saying to you will grip us and we'll forget Allah Ta'ala. 38:52 And then we'll start drifting further and further and further away from what we're supposed to be doing in the dunya. 38:59 See, we got a situation of a bhimari. 39:04 Other countries, they got situation of a war. 39:08 Other countries, they got earthquake. 39:10 Another country, they got tsunami. 39:13 They also, so many people are passing away. 39:15 People have lost their houses. 39:17 People have lost their businesses. 39:19 But in all of that, can we leave our namaz? 39:24 Can we leave our khidmat-e-khalq? 39:27 Can we leave sunnah? 39:28 Can we leave sharia? 39:31 Allah Ta'ala has been so kind to us that in our situation, He didn't put us in a situation like that. 39:39 Where there's a war and there's bombardments and all businesses are being blown up. 39:44 Houses are being blown up. 39:46 He didn't put us in that. 39:47 He just put us in one small test. 39:50 There's one Bimari. 39:51 People are passing away. 39:53 That too we got solace that this Ta'un shahada di kulli Muslim. 39:59 Every Muslim that passes away in this plague is a shahid. 40:05 Hazrat Muqtib Ibrahim S.A.W. 40:06 was explaining this Hadith Sharif the other day and he mentioned, he said, that this Hadith Sharif doesn't even put a precondition that only pious believers, any believer, right? 40:19 Now so many, I mean, Nabi Akrim S.A.W. 40:22 has told us in the Hadith to the effect that the mafoom of the Hadith, each one of us, we must have that yearning for Shahadah. 40:32 You must yearn to die the death of a martyr. 40:37 Right? 40:38 Now, so many Muslims in the country, we don't know what dua they're making quietly. 40:46 We don't know what dua they're making quietly. 40:49 How that in that couplet of Hazrat Shaki Maqdarsa wa rahmatullahi alayhi, I think, Ghalibani. 40:55 That when he comes to Madinah Munawarah, Ab na jana ho gar ham ko wapas. 41:02 Chupke. 41:03 Chupke. 41:04 Manghe. 41:04 Dua. 41:06 The person is in Madinah Manohara. 41:08 So now quietly, quietly he is making this dua. 41:10 Ya Allah, don't let me go home. 41:14 Don't let me go home. 41:16 Quietly. 41:16 Nobody else knows about the dua. 41:19 Quietly he is making the dua. 41:21 How many people in our country, men, ladies, maybe they were making this dua. 41:27 Ya Allah, give me shahadat. 41:28 Ya Allah, take me away as a shaheed. 41:31 Now there's no war taking place here. 41:34 Allah Ta'ala is giving them Shahadat Maut. 41:36 We don't have the time but wallahi the type of Maut those people whom in this Bimaani they are holding on to Allah Ta'ala you people may have heard 41:51 Type of mood Allah has given him. 41:54 I'll just give you one incident. 41:56 I mentioned that thing in one or two Jummahs back. 42:00 A few different incidents of how people are passing away. 42:03 One incident. 42:05 There is a Morana in Escort Morana, Manju. 42:10 His father. 42:11 Peter Marisberg family. 42:13 His father is in Peter Marisberg. 42:15 Rahimullah. 42:15 His brother etc. 42:17 So, Murana was telling me, Murana Manju, he says that his father had a habit that whenever he read Yasin Sharif, when he used to come to the ayat Salamun Qawlam Mir Rabbir Raheem, he would read it three times. 42:35 And as small children he taught them also. 42:37 So you know when you come to this ayat, read it three times. 42:39 Now it's no masla. 42:40 It's not a faraz. 42:41 Nothing. 42:42 But he just had this love for that ayat. 42:44 The meaning of that ayat. 42:45 Salamun qawlam mir Rabbir Raheem. 42:48 Describing the Jannat is how Allah Ta'ala will make salam to the people of Jannat. 42:54 So he says that the day his father passed away. 42:57 That evening when his father passed away. 42:59 His father also had this bimali etc. 43:03 So he called the brother, his son now, Manju's brother. 43:08 So he told him, Bay, read Yasin for me. 43:12 Read Yasin Sharif for me. 43:16 So he's reading Yasin Sharif and the father is reading with him. 43:21 Reading with him, following him. 43:24 And when he came to this ayat, Salamun qawlam mir Rabbir Raheem. 43:30 Father Zuru left the body. 43:32 Allah. 43:34 Now these, you know, Hazrat Rahmatullah Ali, once he mentioned, 43:39 With regards to one brother, he was in Ihram. 43:42 He was making Tawaf. 43:44 He just finished making Tawaf. 43:47 Right? 43:48 And before he could go now for Sa'i etc. 43:51 He finished making Tawaf. 43:53 He was going to read his two rakats. 43:55 Still in Ihram. 43:56 And on the Mataaf and he passed away. 43:59 Right? 43:59 And Hazrat Rahmatullahi and them were present there. 44:02 When Hazrat came back, 44:04 He mentioned this mood of this person. 44:06 He didn't know who this person is. 44:08 Some from one of the Arab countries. 44:10 But he mentioned the mood of this person. 44:13 And he said that, you know, this was a Qabil-e-Rashq mood. 44:19 And, you know, when Hazrat Rahmatullahi then passed away on them. 44:23 Okay, he was not in Ihram. 44:25 But he also passed away on the Mataf. 44:28 And I said that look, you know, he must have been, you know, the way he admired the mood of that person. 44:34 Allah Ta'ala gave him also a mood on the mataf. 44:38 So, as mu'mineen, as mu'minat, look, death mustn't be something that makes us so frightened. 44:46 Because death is that bridge that we all have to cross. 44:49 Each one of us we have to cross. 44:51 Right? 44:52 And if Allah Ta'ala is taking people away, obviously we ask for a long life with afiyat because we need to accumulate maximum amount of good deeds. 45:01 We need to 45:02 We need to make this still far. 45:05 But when Allah Ta'ala is taking people away, we can't question Allah Ta'ala. 45:11 Neither can we get so worried that now we become so panicky that we don't even want to visit our own family members. 45:22 We don't want to even make khidmat of somebody who's not well. 45:26 Right? 45:27 We don't, now some people, they don't even, the wives, the wives, wallahi, there's so many men writing to me, saying, Maulana, I want to come for program, but my wife now, she's saying, no, you're irresponsible. 45:40 You're not worried about our small child. 45:43 And how can you go to the masjid for namaz? 45:47 All of this, how are we going to answer by Allah Ta'ala? 45:52 Look, I'm not pointing finger with the medical fraternity or anything. 45:57 But they've been proved. 45:58 It's not the doctors. 45:59 The doctors which are they doing wonderful work. 46:03 But I'm talking about that whole fraternity, that whole science, that who and all these people. 46:08 From the beginning of this pandemic till now, how many things they told us and they themselves were proved wrong. 46:14 So how long are we going to listen to them? 46:16 We have to carry on with our aamal. 46:19 We have to carry on doing what we need to do. 46:22 See, in Turkey, right? 46:25 In Turkey, 46:27 This Ataturk's regime. 46:29 You know, Ataturk's regime. 46:33 He basically like removed the whole Islam from Turkey. 46:39 But you can't extinguish the fire of Allah Ta'ala. 46:43 Because they will be lovers of Allah and Allah's Deen and Huzur-e-Paak sallallahu alayhi wasallam and that love burns bright in the heart. 46:52 And they will continue striving for their Deen under whatever circumstances. 46:57 There was one Turkish Hafizah. 47:01 Very old person. 47:03 Right? 47:04 And in this whole time when it was banned for them, they couldn't read Quran Sharif, they couldn't make salaam, they couldn't do anything. 47:13 In that time, I don't know how many girls became Hafizah by her. 47:19 I don't want to give you a number because I can't remember exactly. 47:24 But it's a phenomenal figure. 47:25 It's a phenomenal figure of girls who became Hafizah by her. 47:32 So she explained 47:35 So this is the thing. 47:35 We can't sit back and say no one out of the situation. 47:38 You're under this 48:06 Islam. 48:06 Doing that. 48:07 No. 48:07 We have to continue striving for this deen. 48:10 That's what Allah Ta'ala put us here for. 48:12 We have to carry on making ibadat. 48:15 We have to find a way of making ibadat. 48:17 We have to carry on doing. 48:19 In fact, not carry on. 48:20 We have to escalate. 48:22 We have to escalate. 48:23 Right? 48:25 See, the Mongols, right? 48:29 The Mongols 48:32 They also, you know, they finished the Muslims up. 48:36 The Mongols, when they were the Tatars and Mongols, when they fought against the Muslims. 48:42 Also, it was the Muslims' fault. 48:43 We lost focus of Allah Ta'ala. 48:46 Then the madad of Allah Ta'ala was not there. 48:48 We started making zulm, etc. 48:50 on these Mongols. 48:51 They were like a nomadic people, you know. 48:55 But when zulm was made on them, eventually they revolted and they turned against the Muslim khinafat. 49:02 And they finished the Muslim Khilafat, you know. 49:06 Baghdad. 49:06 All these places were finished. 49:08 And there was like no hope that Islam is going to survive now. 49:13 No hope. 49:13 The whole Muslim Khilafat, everything is finished. 49:17 The men, the men, so many men were killed that their heads used to be stacked up like mountains of skulls, right? 49:30 The ladies were taken as prisoners of war. 49:33 They were made into bandits by these Mongols. 49:38 They took the Muslim ladies away. 49:41 And they had children from these Muslim ladies. 49:45 They took them away as bandits and they had children from these Muslim ladies. 49:51 These Muslim ladies kept Iman and Islam alive in their hearts. 49:56 They couldn't express it. 49:57 They couldn't show it. 49:59 But they kept Iman and Islam alive in their hearts. 50:02 These little children that were born to them, these Mongol children, they started teaching them deen. 50:13 They started teaching them deen. 50:14 Because now these Mongols were warriors. 50:16 Now everywhere they got concubines. 50:20 So this lady now, that husband, when he'll come here again, but she got a child from him. 50:26 She's teaching that child deen. 50:29 Then she knows of another Muslim lady who's also in the same situation like her. 50:36 Now she had a son, that one had a daughter. 50:39 That one made the daughter Muslim, this one made the son Muslim. 50:42 Now secretly they say, no, get these two married now. 50:45 Like as if to say these are two Mongols getting married to one another. 50:50 This is why eventually, it's a long history, we don't have time to go into it, but eventually when Islam lit amongst the Mongols, when they went to fight against Egypt, it was a long, long history, but when Islam lit amongst the Mongols, it went like Wi-Fi. 51:11 Because half of them were already Muslims. 51:17 Those mothers kept that deen alive. 51:20 They kept that deen alive. 51:22 Right? 51:23 But we finding in our situation that as soon as there is one small test, Allah Ta'ala kept us in such good condition so many years. 51:33 Now when there is one small test and there is some restrictions on our deen and you know, things like, we falling down. 51:43 We holding back. 51:44 We falling down. 51:47 No, this is not the spirit of Islam. 51:50 We are believers. 51:51 We need to check that in this situation now, how I'm going to serve the deen of Allah. 51:57 Obviously with mashwara, with the ulama, the elders, all that. 52:01 We make mashwara, we take their guidance. 52:03 But we can't be falling down. 52:05 We can't be holding our men back and telling them, no, you mustn't go for program and you must 52:12 Asr. 52:13 Asr. 52:13 Asr. 52:31 All we need to do is, as a believer, what is the hukam of my Allah towards me? 52:37 I must do that. 52:39 I must make ibadat of Allah. 52:41 I must get qurba irahi. 52:43 I must follow the sunnah of my beloved Rasul-e-Baq, sallallahu alayhi wasallam. 52:47 Now we don't know whether the school is going to open, school not going to open. 52:52 If the school don't open also, it's Rahmat in disguise. 52:54 It's good. 52:55 The children don't go to school, it's better. 52:56 They're safe from fitna. 52:58 The school is not a nice place. 53:00 Right? 53:00 But now as mothers in the home, we need to put a program together. 53:06 That our children, Alhamdulillah, they're not going to school now. 53:09 So they can wake up from tahajjud time now. 53:12 They can wake up from tahajjud time. 53:15 We can have some aamal taking place in the house. 53:18 Some talim can take place. 53:20 Tilawat of Quran Sharif certain time to certain time. 53:23 Talim certain time to certain time. 53:25 Then muzakara of sunnats etc. 53:30 The children are not just running in and out of the house. 53:33 They got time. 53:34 They are not going to school. 53:36 The sad part is that we're concentrating so much on all the other things, but we're not concentrating on the solutions given to us in our deen. 53:46 And the last thing I will leave you with in this last one, two minutes, is Nabi Akarim sallallahu alayhi wasallam has mentioned that when this behayai, immodestly, 54:00 Will become a rife. 54:03 Then Allah Ta'ala will afflict the community with plagues. 54:08 All these plagues, pandemics, etc. 54:10 All these things will come. 54:13 Today's time, who can't see the bihaya around us? 54:18 Who can't see the bihaya around us? 54:21 Now we can blame this world order, that world. 54:23 No. 54:25 We bringing the conditions upon us. 54:27 And I mentioned this many, many times. 54:30 Even those day-days we are in jamaat or we got taluk with mashail or we are the wives of ulama and whatever. 54:41 The cloaks that we are wearing, we have to check properly that this cloak I'm wearing, is it really a cloak of modesty? 54:51 The unfortunate thing is, 55:12 So many of the fitnas are being spread there from haraming. 55:18 Not from the haram itself. 55:20 I mean from Saudi. 55:23 Right? 55:24 Now you saying, no, you went for Umrah. 55:25 You bought one cloak. 55:26 I bought it in Makkah. 55:27 I bought it in Medina. 55:29 You bought it there. 55:30 But is that cloak suitable for a Muslimah to be wearing? 55:40 In the first lockdown, some alim had a dream that Huzoor-e-Paak sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had sent Sayyidina Abu Bakr ilan and Sayyidina Ali radiallahu ta'ala to come and give him the solutions for this situation that we are facing. 56:00 And one of the things was mentioned was Beparbegi. 56:05 Bepardegi. 56:07 So when I went into this whole parda and I started reading it with the family. 56:13 We were doing talim at home. 56:15 Because you're in a lockdown now. 56:16 What else are you going to do? 56:18 I was checking in Mariful Quran. 56:21 Wallahi the parda that we are exercising today is very far from parda. 56:28 Very very far from Parda. 56:29 The Parda that we supposed to be following. 56:33 Those of you who may be animas or you know you got little bit background. 56:38 Check it out. 56:39 Do some research. 56:41 Check it out in Mariful Quran. 56:43 Right? 56:44 One is in Surah An-Nur. 56:47 Read that whole ayat and check the whole tafsir. 56:56 The other is in the 22nd Sifarah. 56:59 Surah Ahzab. 57:01 Surah Ahzab has got a whole explanation. 57:05 Read it over there. 57:14 Read the whole definition. 57:16 The different levels of parda etc. 57:18 Read it up. 57:19 Then we'll realize how far we are from where we're supposed to get. 57:24 Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give me tawfiq. 57:27 Allah give you tawfiq. 57:28 Those who are not well. 57:29 Allah ta'ala grant shifa'i kamila. 57:31 Aajila. 57:32 Mustamila. 57:32 Daima. 57:33 Those who have passed on. 57:34 Allah ta'ala grant them high stages in Jannatul Firdaus. 57:38 Family members. 57:39 Allah ta'ala give sabr-i jameel. 57:40 Allah ta'ala cool their hearts. 57:42 Allah Ta'ala make it easy for everybody. 57:45 Allah Ta'ala keep us all in his divine guidance, his divine protection. 57:49 Most importantly, Allah Ta'ala keep us with Iman. 57:52 Allah take us with Iman. 57:54 Resurrect us with Iman. 57:56 SubhanAllahi wa bihamdihi. 57:58 Subhanakallahumma wa bihamdik. 58:01 Nashhadu an la ilaha illa anta nastawfiruka wa natubu ilayh. 58:05 Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. yaqeen
Establish an active spiritual environment within the home through regular Quranic recitation (tilawat ), family study (ta'lim ), and daily worship.
Practice genuine modesty (parda ) in line with Quranic guidance to draw divine mercy and protection into our lives. 45:39
Hazrat Moulana Dawood Seedat Saheb