Trust in Allah During Trying Times - Mufti Menk

Trust in Allah During Trying Times - Mufti Menk

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We praise Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We send blessings and salutations upon Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم), his household, his companions. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to bless them, to bless everyone of us and to grant us every form of goodness.

Ameen.

The Journey from Self-Reliance to Trust in Allah

My beloved brothers and sisters, when a person falls ill, immediately many people would actually think to themselves, let me take a little bit of medication, let me see what I could do, let me perhaps have something that I might have within the house, and inshallah I'll feel better very soon. And then they find that they're not getting better.

And so what happens is they think to themselves, let me visit the doctor, or let me speak to someone else. And they either visit the doctor or speak to a professional. And what would happen at that particular time, they feel reassured within themselves when the doctor diagnoses the problem they have and tells them that you need to have this medication or that medication.

It is prescribed and mashallah they would make their way to the pharmacy or wherever they're going to get that medication and they will start the course. And psychologically they begin to feel that they're having something and they may even give a bit of feedback to the doctor to say, I'm feeling worse, I'm feeling better, etc. There comes a time when even that doesn't help.

And the reason why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allows a believer to go through certain stages at times is in order for us to realize that the mistake was right at the beginning. The minute we fall ill, the minute calamity strikes, the first thing we need to do is turn to Allah.

The Foundation of Worship and Help

So many times a day we repeat, you alone we worship, you alone we ask for help.

I will worship Allah alone and I will ask Allah for help. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will then facilitate for me. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will then facilitate for me and grant me the ability to do that which is correct, to do that which is filled with blessing from every angle.

There is no point in being cured medically and physically when spiritually we are ill, we are sick, when religiously we are far away from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So mankind due to his weakness starts off on the wrong side by relying primarily upon the medication or the doctor or whoever else it may be, or himself or his expertise, or whatever he's read or knows and nowadays even on Google, subhanAllah. So you find Allah is removed from the equation.

And this is where we falter. The difference between a believer and one who does not believe is that the believer primarily turns to Allah before everything we say bismillah. We're taught that when you leave the house, you say bismillah, tawakkaltu ala Allah.

In the name of Allah, I lay my trust in Allah and we would lock the door. Thereafter, whatever you're doing, if it is anything of importance, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam says:

The Importance of Beginning with Bismillah

(Sahih Abu Dawood Hadith 4840)

Anything that you're going to do, if you haven't started it with bismillah, it is going to be cut, chopped.

Chopped means the blessing of it, the reward of it, the goodness of it. Even if physically you achieve some form of success because you removed Allah from the equation, that was the mistake you made and therefore the blessing will be snatched away, the goodness is snatched away. You and I know that we're going through trying times.

Trying times not just because of the virus that has overtaken the globe, but people are losing jobs, people are struggling with anxiety, people are struggling with a lot of difficulty and hardship. People are struggling in such a way that they're losing their loved ones and their properties and a lot of other things, subhanAllah. I know of people who've recovered from the virus, but they have other health issues.

May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant them mercy. May Allah make it easy for them and for all of us. Ameen.

We turn to Allah and Allah at times makes every plan that we have fail because we haven't added Him into the equation and we haven't put Him into it yet. So, place Allah in your equation. We ask Allah.

And when we ask Allah, Allah allows us indeed and He requires from us that we do whatever He has placed within our capacity to do, to achieve what we believe is beneficial. And this is why the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says:

(Sahih Muslim Hadith 2664)

Work hard towards what you believe is beneficial for you.

The Balance Between Effort and Trust

Then leave it to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. If I would like a job, I need to strike a balance between two things. One is just to go out and look for a job and remove Allah from the equation without saying bismillah, without making my salah, perhaps to make dua to Allah, O Allah, I'm going out today for a job, make it easy for me, let me get a job in a good place, help me to go to the right people, help me with the right environment and so on.

Then you go out. And when you go out, you actually are going to be guided by Allah. But if you removed Allah, like the one extreme where people just go out and there is no Allah in the equation, they didn't do anything.

In that case, there will be no barakah in the job, there will be no barakah in the surroundings, there will be no barakah in what you may earn because where is Allah, the owner of sustenance, in your equation? He's supposed to be featuring number one there. And so the other extreme is, those who say, I lay my trust in Allah, so after salatul fajr, I'm going to sit on the musalla, perhaps do a little bit of dhikr, and then I will go to bed and recline up to salatul dhuhr. And if it is meant, the job will come to me, someone will miraculously know that I need a job, and someone will miraculously bring the job here to me at home.

That's the other extreme. It's called tawakul. Tawakul and tawakkul, there is a difference between the two that I will get to in a few moments.

So, a mu'min is one who strikes the balance. Everything we related to Allah and we thank Him for giving us energy, a capacity, a brain, a mind, a system, an environment, a neighborhood, people whom we know or people whom we will get to know because we will make an effort after we say, Bismillah, in the name of Allah. I say in the name of Allah, then I make an effort to go to the masjid.

I don't just sit back and relax and say, I'll get there if it was written. That's foolish. It is said that a man once came to Umar ibn al-Khattab, or he was brought to Umar ibn al-Khattab as the amir of the mu'minin.

And he had stolen, so he was about to be punished. But he was a clever person. He says, O Umar, O amir al-mu'minin, how can you punish me when it was written that I was going to steal? So Umar ibn al-Khattab says very beautifully, he says, Well, it was written that we were going to punish you as well.

Subhanallah. As simple as that. So you cannot blame the taqdeer of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the predestiny of one thing that may have led to another thing when Allah gave you the capacity and the mind and the ability to do or not to do.

If that was the case, there would be no point in any one of us fulfilling salah or any ibadah because Allah already knows who is going to go to Jannah and who is going to go to Jahannam. What's the point of doing deeds? Well, the point of doing deeds is you and I don't know where we're going to go. So Allah says, We've kept it a mystery for you, although we may know.

That doesn't mean we imposed upon you not to do things. If you chose with the choice we gave you, Allah gave us a limited choice. If you use that limited choice in a way that was foolish, you pay the price.

Divine Justice and Human Choice

And this is why Allah is going to question and ask. It would be unfair for anyone to ask you why you did something when they forced you to do it. It would be very unjust.

But what is justice is when Allah has given you a limited choice and He asks you to use that choice in a beautiful way and you made an effort, you strove to use that choice in a beautiful way, then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala would definitely question you how you used your choice and reward you for that which you chose which was good. So, at times a person falls ill and one thing didn't work, the next thing didn't work, the third thing didn't work as intelligent as you thought you were. Speaking to the doctors with this crisis, many of them will confirm that they don't know what's going on at times.

They've tried everything and they realize that you know what? It's not in their hands. They can only try. But it's Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who grants the effect of the medication.

That's true. Look at how many people having exactly the same medication for the same diagnosis. It works on some, it doesn't work on some. That is the power of Allah. Allah is just showing us how helpless we are and how He is (رَبُّ الْعِزَّةِ وَالْجَلَالِ). So what is of importance is for us to realize this balance.

True Trust in Allah

If you are true believers, then you would lay your trust in Allah in the correct sense.

Subhanallah. What is the meaning of the correct sense? تَوَكَّلْ We have a tashdid on the calf.

تَوَكَّلْ means, do whatever is in your capacity, God-given capacity, Allah-given capacity in order to ensure what you would like and lay your trust in Allah. Look at Yusuf a.s. When his father was speaking to his brothers and the brothers were going back to the palace of the minister in order to get their rations, he says, Oh, my sons, there are 11 of you, so many. I fear the evil eye.

Subhanallah. I fear the evil eye. So, if you're all going to enter from one gate and they see 11 handsome youngsters all looking similar, all walking through the same door, perhaps evil eye may affect you in one way or another.

So what does he say? He says, Oh, my children, don't enter from one door, enter from all separate doors. Let the you're all part of one big family. MashaAllah, Tabaraka Allah.

And he says, you know what? I hold nothing. If Allah wills anything, I have nothing that will hold it back. But we obviously have to lay our trust.

So he says, I have now laid my trust in Allah. He took his precautions by doing what? He told his children a few things. He says, look, I fear you might take this child, this other brother and he might disappear.

When they gave him the promises and then he gave them advice how to enter the door and what to do. And then he said, now I've laid my trust in (وَعَلَى اللَّهِ فَلْيَتَوَكَّلِ الْمُتَوَكِّلُونَ)

And he says, indeed those who are the layers of trust should lay their trust only in Him, in Allah.

You want to lay your trust in someone, it should only be Allah. Ultimate trust is laid in Allah. We do know that if a little child looks at the parent, a little person looks at someone bigger, a person who's working for you, looks at you as a boss or as a... When I say as a boss, I mean as someone who's slightly above them in authority or in wealth or whatever else.

They say, look, I trust you and I know this. What they mean is, I only trust you within the limits that Allah has given you. Beyond that, it's Allah whom I ultimately trust for me and for you, subhanAllah.

So Allah gives everyone a little capacity. If you take a look at Yusuf a.s story, it's amazing because right at the beginning, he tells his son, don't even narrate this dream to the others. Why? That's part of taking precautions, subhanAllah.

Something bad will happen perhaps if you just relate this dream and guess what? Lo and behold, Allah wanted it to be. As much as he told his child, the innocent child told the brothers. And as a result, subhanAllah, there was the evil plot that was planned against him.

But the lesson learnt is, didn't he speak about it? Didn't Yaqub a.s say that, oh my son, don't narrate this dream to your own brothers as a precaution? SubhanAllah. But Allah still let something happen. And one thing went wrong according to us, but it was not wrong according to Allah.

The human mind looks at it as a negativity. That was the beginning of the positivity. Allah creates positives out of a negative.

What seems negative to you is a positive to Allah. SubhanAllah. If you are a believer and you lay your trust in Allah, nothing can go wrong.

Lessons from the Battles

Look at the battles. When the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was in the battle of Uhud, and Allah subhanAllah revealed so many verses. And Allah subhanAllah tells us at the time of war.

He says, those believers who took part in that war, Allah says, they were promised one of the two good things. إحْدَى الْحُسْنَتَيْنِ used in the Quran. One of two good things is going to happen to them.

What are one of those two good things?

You lay your trust in Allah, you either achieve victory which is temporary in this world, or you achieve martyrdom which is everlasting. SubhanAllah. It is success.

You're a believer, you don't look at it negatively. It's a trying time, it's a test, it's a difficulty. But:

The Affairs of a Believer

(Sahih Muslim Hadith 2999)

"Amazing are the affairs of a true believer indeed all his or her affairs are good.

If something bad happens physically to us as we human beings would look at, we would consider it to be the decree of Allah. It was a good thing we bear patience, and the patience will result in us being rewarded immeasurably. And if something good according to us happened, where we achieved what we thought we wanted to achieve, as humankind, we make what is known as shukr.

We thank Allah. We don't become haughty, we don't become arrogant, we don't become people who think they're mighty and so on. We understand this was from Allah, it is also temporary.

But Allah has given us this gift, and so we will become even closer to Allah. My brothers and sisters, when Allah gives you something, become closer to Him. That's a sign of a believer.

When Allah takes away something from you, become closer to Him. That's a sign of a believer. When anything has happened to you, if it resulted in you coming closer to Allah, it was a gift of Allah.

Be it positive or negative from a human perspective. And when anything drives you away from Allah, no matter how positive it looked like, from a human perspective, it was very negative, because it drifted you away from Allah. Perhaps it could be a punishment.

May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protect us. So, a true believer during trying times lays his or her trust solely and only in Allah to begin with understanding that Allah alone is in absolute control. Nothing happens except by the will of Allah.

Divine Decree and Human Responsibility

(Sahih At-Tirmidhi Hadith 2516)

You should know that if the whole nation, all the people gather to benefit you by a little, they will never benefit you unless Allah has written it for you. Look at the people who want to cure the sick and ill during this virus.

If it is not meant to be, it will never happen. You can bring the top specialists with the top medications, with the top apparatus or machinery or whatever equipment they call it, whatever else it may be. If Allah

has not written for you to be helped, it will not even say hello to you.

Subhanallah. And if Allah has written for harm not to reach you, it will never reach you. The same hadith says, (اعْلَمْ - i'lam), you should know, (أَنَّ الأُمَّةَ لَوِ اجْتَمَعَتْ - anna al-ummata lawij tama'at), the entire nation, and according to one translation, if all the nations get together in order to harm you (لَوِ اجْتَمَعَتْ عَلَى أَن يَضْرُّوكَ بِشَيْءٍ - lawij tama'at 'ala an yadurruka bishay'in) with a small thing, They will not be able to harm you except by that which Allah has written against you. Now, does that mean I need to sit back and say, well, if Allah has written, it will come. If Allah has not written, it won't come.

Part of the plan of Allah is you need to use that God-given or like I said, Allah-given capacity that you have to do your bit, either attempt to protect yourself to the best of your ability that was given by Allah. It doesn't mean that's denying the trust in Allah. We lay our full trust in Allah.

Example of the Prophet's Practical Trust

Look at the Prophet Muhammadsallallahu alayhi wa sallam. The battle of the trench was a great calamity. It was a test, a very trying time, difficult. The army was coming of the Meccans. But what did he do? He didn't just sit back. They dug a trench around a lot of Medina Munawwara in order to save or protect the mu'mineen.

They didn't just sit back and relax and say, you know what, I'm the Prophet of Allahsallallahu alayhi wa sallam. These are sahaba who are the highest of the lot, which is true. They didn't say, so now we're just gonna sit back and wait and Allah will protect us.

Yet Allah will definitely protect them. But Allah wants you to play a small bit and then say, you know what, oh Allah, I'm so weak, I could only do X amount given, meaning by the energy you gave me, the ability you gave me, the common sense that you gave me, the logic that you gave me, I can only play a small role here. But you are the one who gave me that power in the first place, accepted from me and grant me the protection or whatever I am trying to achieve by your ultimate power.

That's what it is. May Allah grant us ease. These are so many examples in the day-to-day lives of the Prophets of Allah.

May Allah's peace and blessings be upon all of them and the companions of Rasulullahsallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Every day you will find so many examples. Abdur Rahman ibn A'udh r.a, when he came into Madina Munawwara as a person who had just made the hijrah, he was an intelligent businessman, but he had nothing with him.

When people offered him half of their wealth and so on and so forth, his own level refused to take a handout from someone, although it was not wrong. And you know what he says? He says (دُلُّونِي عَلَى السُّوقِ - dulluni 'ala as-suq). Show me to the market.

Where is the market here? Let's see where it is. He went to the market. At the end of that day, he came back with some profit.

Subhanallah. What did he do? He obviously bought and sold. He did something. And he made an effort. He went out. Subhanallah.

That's why the hadith of the Prophetsallallahu alayhi wa sallam speaks about sustaining people in hardship the same way Allah sustains a bird. So many people who don't understand the difference between (تَوَاکَل - tawakal) and (تَوَكَّل - tawakkul). They think for themselves, well, yes, the hadith Allah says:

The True Meaning of Trust - The Bird Analogy

(Sahih At-Tirmidhi Hadith 2344)

"To lay your trust truly in Allah, in the proper sense, He will feed you the way He feeds a bird.

So they stop there, and they say, well, look, He feeds the bird, so He's gonna feed me. That's it. But they didn't end the hadith.

They didn't continue. What did the Prophetsallallahu alayhi wa sallam say in the next sentence? He says:

That is the most important part of the hadith. He says, the bird leaves its nest early morning, going out in search for food, and comes back in the evening with a full belly of food.

That means, if you lay your trust in Allah truly, you will make an effort. Like the bird makes an effort, and Allah will sustain you with what is sufficient for you for that day. That's what the hadith means.

And sometimes Allah's mercy, He gives you more than that. People have one business deal that can keep them going for a whole year. Subhanallah.

But that's Allah. Who gave it to you? Allah. So, let's not think for a moment that we should be people who lay our trust in Allah without putting into play what Allah has given us in terms of ability, limited ability.

You must put it into play. So, tawakul is when you lay your trust without tying the camel. And tawakkul is when you lay your trust after having tied the camel.

Bismillah, I locked my door, I armed the alarm, and I walked into the market with my car locked, and I said (تَوَكَّلْتُ عَلَى اللَّهِ - tawakkaltu 'ala allahi) When I come back and I see that the window has been smashed, and my belongings have been stolen, I say:

"All praise is due to Allah. Indeed, we all belong to Allah and we're going to return to Him. I start off with praising Allah because now I know what happened.

That was Allah's gift to me, Allah's blessing for me, testing me. We're gonna take away from you? How are you going to react? That's what it is. So, Allah says, We'll take away from you.

How will you react? But for a person who refuses that and says, Look, I will leave my windows open, my door won't be locked. Nothing can happen except by the will of Allah. You're fooling yourself by adding a false statement to a true statement.

Subhanallah. As simple as ABC. We lock our doors at night.

MashaAllah. What do we do? Lock it. And you know that they can break it.

It's just a deterrent. They can damage it and destroy it in a flash of an eye, you know, in the blink of an eye. But you know, I've laid my trust in Allah.

And guess what? You read your ayatul kursi, you read your, what we call the three quls, the mu'awwidat and surat al-ikhlas and a few other duas, and you sleep like a log until salatul fajr because you know you've left it in the hands of Allah. As a human, you did whatever was possible. Now, don't struggle with anxiety all night, tossing and turning.

Did you not lay your trust in Allah? Yes. Did you do whatever you could? Yes. Now, have a good sleep.

Subhanallahi rabbil alameen. The same applies with sickness and disease. People are becoming anxious, struggling with anxiety.

What's gonna happen? What's not gonna happen? I got it and I didn't get it and so on. Do you know what? If you're gonna think that way, you're going to probably get more sick and ill than you should have. Subhanallah.

And you are to blame because lay your trust in Allah. Did you not take a few precautions? Yes. We are humans, we cannot go beyond a certain point.

We can only take a certain amount of proportion, of precaution. And after that, do you know what? If it's gonna come to you, it will come to you.

And if it does come to you at that point, say, Alhamdulillah.

Allah has given you a gift. He wants you to bear patience. And guess what? If Allah has written that these are going to be your last days, there's nothing you're going to do that's going to change that.

But you need to go back to Allah knowing that you're going to answer Allah to say, you tried your best to look after yourself with the capacity given to you by Allah. Like I said, limited capacity given to you by Allah. Allah says, how did you look after the amanah of the body that I gave you?

So you're going to say, I didn't smoke, I didn't drink, I didn't do anything that would harm my body.

And when there was a plague, I took a few precautions to the best of my ability in a way that was not displeasing to you. And thereafter, it still got me. And after that, I still died.

Subhanallah. If you die having committed suicide, you will be questioned, why did you do that? But if you die without having played a role in it, or having done whatever you should have in order to protect yourself and you still died, you're never going to be questioned, why did you die?

Subhanallah. Why did you kill yourself? Because you didn't.

Allah on the day of judgment is only going to ask you questions rotating around one thing. Wherever we gave you a choice, how did you use it?

There's no other questions. We gave you a choice to get up for Fajr or not.

You didn't get up. You didn't set your alarm. You were lazy.

Why? If we didn't give you a choice, then Allah is not going to ask you about that. Things happening around you or with you that you have absolutely no choice regarding or no role to play, Allah is not going to ask you, why did you do that? Because He knows, I didn't even give you a choice. Why were you born in this country? That's not a question Allah is going to ask you because Allah didn't give you, you know, the choice in that regard.

So remember my brothers and sisters, we lay our trust in Allah. And Allah alone, we know whatever happens will happen only from Allah. And whatever comes in our direction will definitely come if Allah has willed it and written it indeed.

But let's not be foolish by using that statement which is so true to be negligent and to be people who don't care and don't bother. Remember to turn to Allah. Remember to fulfill your duty unto Allah with the basics such as salah, such as your dress code, such as the Quran, the dhikr of Allah, the remembrance of Allah.

The Power of Quran in Healing

This morning I received a message from a brother who swears that what helped him was the recitation of Suratul Baqarah and listening to Suratul Baqarah. When his fever was so high and according to what he says, he says, I promise you that's what brought my fever down. Imagine the conviction.

Beautiful. Imagine the yaqeen. Amazing.

I'm sure he's taken other things and perhaps other medication and so on. But for him, what really worked was that Suratul Baqarah. Subhanallah.

That's what would happen to us. If I make a dua to Allah before I take medication or even after I've taken the medication, I say, Oh Allah, I've taken this medication, but I trust you that you will make this work on me and you will cure me by your cure. Allah will give you the cure.

And I've told you that there are people diagnosed with the same disease, taking the same medication, works on some, does not work on some. The power of Allah. That's what it is.

The qudra. Believe in this qudra. We are mu'mineen.

I know how much you worship me, how much you trusted me, how much you endured from what I put in your path. Here is your jannah. Allahu Akbar.

May Allah grant it to us. The calamities of this world will continue until the world comes to an end itself. The world will come to an end.

Everything will come to an end. But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, we will reward you. Take it in your stride.

Don't lose hope. It's not the end of everything. No.

What's the worst case scenario for people? For us as human beings who are weak, we say, Well, the worst thing is I might die. That's actually the best thing for a believer. Tuhfatul mu'min hal mawtu.

The Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) says, The gift of a true believer is death. Imagine when you die after having led a life of obedience to Allah, trying. You're a human.

Don't forget you're a human being. You will falter, but you will also repent immediately and make amends regarding your relationship with Allah.

And then guess what? The day you pass on.

If you started that day with Salatul Fajr, may Allah strengthen us. If you started that day with tilawat of the Qur'an, with goodness, with a good plan, and so on and come 10 o'clock and you just pass away, do you really think you're going to go to an evil place, a bad place, or you're going to be the happiest soul ever, ever, ever? Subhanallah. Eternity.

We all have to go. Don't let these temporary trials of the dunya distract you. Don't.

May Allah strengthen all of us. My brothers and sisters, if you have people who are sick and ill or if you are unwell, do whatever you can. But don't ever remove Allah from that equation.

Call out to Allah. Make dua to Him. Ask Him.

Connect yourself with the Qur'an. Connect yourself with Allah. Go to sujood.

Take your time in sujood. And you know what? Allah will calm you down. And you need to know ultimately your time of returning to Allah is fixed.

There's no chance that that's going to change. Even if this virus had not come onto this earth, your time is your time. You were going to go anyway.

Be it a heart attack, be it a murder, be it whatever else it may have been, you were going to go. There is a silver lining to all of this and that is those who have passed on with this virus, inshaAllah, they would be considered martyrs. Because we're totally helpless.

We're watching and witnessing. We're seeing. And subhanAllah, life is just being snatched away in front of our eyes.

You're a believer. You surrender to Allah. Allah says, Give you jannah.

And for a martyr resurrected with a certain category of people, with the other martyrs, with the other friends of Allah, with the companions, with the messengers, with those who were truthful, those whom Allah loves. I always think of hajj. I've made hajj quite a few times.

And normally the general public, all of us, we walk in and we wait our turn and we stand in the queues and we actually have so much to do and there are millions of people usually and we're just one in a few million, two, three million, sometimes more. Imagine if you were, subhanAllah, someone who was given preferential treatment just in this world and you had your own little system with your own little bubble of people and you had to go separately and you were okay. And people watch, Hey, what's happening to this guy here? And we just stay through.

Everything is happening. You would feel relatively important. May Allah protect us.

I say protect us from pride, haughtiness, but you would feel important. Imagine the day of judgment and imagine it often. If you want that status, it's not so difficult.

You just need to be the best possible version of yourself as a mu'min, as a believer. And Allah will grant that to you. Allah will give you something amazing.

Allah will make you a VIP on that day of judgment. There's a special area, a special area that the Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) speaks about on the day of judgment where it's going to be very, very hot. The sun will be so close to the heads of the humankind that they're going to be drowning in their sweat.

But there's going to be a special area which will be shaded by Allah Himself. And certain categories of people will be there. Strive to be from among at least one of those categories.

You might want to research more about that particular hadith. The hadith of the seven categories of people who will be granted the shade of the day of judgment. May Allah grant us that particular shade. Ameen. So my brothers and sisters, I pray that we can enforce and reinforce our trust in Allah. And we understand the plan of Allah.

And we understand it obviously to a degree that He has explained it to us that we have a role to play. And still that does not negate that we trust Allah completely. And let's not insult Allah by engaging in what is known as tawakul.

Like I explained, tawakul is to say, I lay my trust in Allah, but that is a false trust because we have not played the simple limited role that Allah has asked us to play. That would be insulting to Allah. Imagine Allah tells you, I gave you the energy, I gave you the capacity, I gave you this, I gave you that.

You had a lock on the door, you had everything, you left the door wide open and you're telling me, look after this thing here. Couldn't you just lock that door and say the same thing? That's the meaning of that

hadith of the camel and the tying of it where it was simple for the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) to say, never mind, don't tie it, just lay your trust in Allah. Isn't it? It's very strong.

Oh, it's powerful. The man says, my trust in Allah is solid. What should I do? This or that? So the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) clearly told him, tie it, then lay your trust in Allah.

May Allah help us all. I say this saying of mine, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad. Glory be to Allah and praise be to Him.

Closing

Glory be to you, O Allah, and praise be to You. We bear witness that there is no god but You. We ask forgiveness and repent to You.

May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us the correct understanding and practice of tawakkul in our lives. Ameen.