Does Allah Really Respond When You Call?

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Allah subhanahu waala tells us in no uncertain terms and this meaning is iterated and reiterated ated throughout the entirety of the Quran both verbatim and in spirit. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says what translates to and what could Allah possibly want with your punishment. If you are thankful and you believe of what use to Allah is it to punish you speaking to humanity all of us speaking to you speaking to me Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala asks rhetorically and of what use is your punishment to Allah If you are thankful and believe and indeed Allah is more thankful, Allah is most thankful. He is most gracious and Allah is most worthy of your thanks. And he verily knows all that is, all that was, all that is to be. Subhan. Now this statement here crumbles much of the whispers propaganda mis construed distorted impressions that a shan whispers into the hearts of men. This shatters those myths and that is that human beings naturally receive whispers from a shan to think the worst thoughts about Allah and that truly those who are dumped into the hellfire, they are finding themselves there in the hellfire because they fed in to the whispers of a shaitan and those whispers are related to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala listening and believing the very distorted very cynical beliefs that a shan tries to drive home into the hearts of men. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us that the people of the hellfire when they find themselves in the hellfire it will be said to them it is your beliefs your your estimate of Allah that has landed you here into hellfire your unjust estimate of Allah believing in the most cynical way in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that when something bad happens to you a shaitan whispers for you to believe that this is somehow Allah always punishing you anything painful that happens it's only punishment from Allah and if you listen to the whispers of a shan time. He will make you the most cynical, most negative person, always feeding you distorted ideas and beliefs in Allah. As if Allah is sadistic. As if he wants to see you in pain. As if pain is the essential bedrock of your existence and mercy is only something that happens in small portions occasionally, incidentally that you must go to hell. There's no way you can escape hell. that you are not in any way close to Allah. You have no chance of being close to Allah. Therefore, don't waste your life trying to not go to hell. You're going to go anyways no matter what. So, you know, try a little bit, but enjoy your life here. These are the ideas, the misconceptions that Allah breathes into the chests of men. They start to believe the most cynical things about Allah to the point that we even have sayings, we even have idioms in popular culture that just ooze with this cynicism. they say in America and the west they say no good deed goes unpunished. No good deed goes unpunished. Meaning anytime you try to be good, you'll get bit. You'll get bit because no good deed goes unpunished by God. These kinds of ideas, these thoughts, they build up over time. They they build up plaque on a person's heart over time until they think that they see Allah and really all they are looking at as a is a shan. They are looking at the devil himself confusing these things and conflating them with the descriptions of Allah. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us he says in.

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Listen to the descriptions that Allah gives. He says, "And when Musam went, he went to that mountain for the meeting of Allah for 40 days and 40 nights." Benis and in his absence they took the gold that they had and the jewelry that they had and they forged a golden heer a golden calf that they then worshiped aside from Allah in the absence of Musam Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says do they not see that this golden idol of theirs neither speaks to them nor guides them. Listen to the description. Do they not see that this golden calf that they are worshiping aside from Allah, it neither speaks to them nor guides them. Meaning Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he speaks to us and he guides us and this idol neither speaks to them nor guides them. How could they worship this and leave off the worship of Allah? Do you think that Allah does not speak to you? That he does not speak to me. You don't need to hear a voice in your head that is Allah speaking to every single one of us. He has left with us a book that if any book could resurrect the dead, it would be this book, the Quran. In it is the response for any question you or I or all of humanity would ever have or will ever have. You just have to know how to read the book. You have to know where to find the response of Allah. You have a question. This book, the Quran, is the most vivid mirror on this planet. You at every moment, at every step down the path of Allah may open this book and find your exact description in the Quran. And not only will it find you find your exact description, he will describe to you where you are, where you should be, and how to get there. But you have to learn how to read this book. You have to learn how to find those answers. You and I, every other human being, who are we to expect that Allah will speak to every single one of us when we have every little question? He has sent down a book that has in it the guidance for all that was and is to be. He has already spoken to you and he guides you. And when you speak to him, he responds every time. Every single time in Muslim Abu narrates that the prophet Sam said that Allah himself has said.

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Alhamdulillah.

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Abdi.

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Subhanah. Listen to this narration in Muslim. Our prophet sallall.aii wasallam says that Allah himself has said he has proclaimed I have divided prayer between myself and my servant into two equal halves and to my for my servant whatever he asks. He says, "So when the servant stands in salah before Allah and says in his salah, all praise," meaning fat, all praise is due to Allah, Lord of the words. Allah responds in real time. Allah responds and says, "My slave has praised me." And if he says the beneficent, the most merciful, Allah responds, my servant has doubled down on his praise of me. And when the servant says, "The king, the sovereign king and owner and possessor of the day of recompense, Allah responds, "My slave has proclaimed my greatness." And when the slave says, "You alone do we worship and you alone do we beseech and aid," Allah responds and says, "This is between my slave and myself and for my slave whatever he asks of me." And when the servant, you, me, everyone who stands before Allah making salah, when we say, "Guide us the straight path, the path of those whom your grace is upon, not the path and way of those who have earned your anger, nor the misguided." Allah responds in real time and says this is between my slave and myself and for my slave what he asks of me. He is not the golden calf of Beni is in any way where he describes that pathetic golden calf that they worshiped aside from Allah. He describes that pathetic golden calf saying, "Do they not see that that calf neither speaks to them nor guides them?" Allah he speaks. Allah he responds. Allah he guides. Allah interacts with you with every waking moment and with every decision you make. Allah is there with you at that junction every time. Every time the prophet Sam says in Muslim and.

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That when a person stands before Allah in prayer, Allah fixes is his face to the face of his servant and he will not turn away from his servant until his his servant turns away. And this is why in salah when we end salah we turn away to signify the end of that prayer, the end of that connection. Allah gives you that attention when you stand in prayer before Allah. You have a question, he's answered it already. You have the greatest of answers that was ever bestowed upon humanity, the Quran. And as it gathers dust on the shelves of many Muslims, and they wallow in agony wondering why Allah will not respond to them. The answer is sitting right there on the shelf. It's right there. Pick it up. Learn who Allah really is. Not who you think he is. Not what this cynical negative world teaches you Allah is. Learn who Allah tells you he is. The first description of Allah that you or I read when we open this great book of light, the Quran is Those are the descriptions of Allah. No good deed goes unpunished. They say this is not our belief in Allah. That's not our Lord that we worship. Those false gods that they worship, that is their description. Our God that we worship is the one who responds when we call out. The one who answers when we pray and ask. The one who guides when we step. The one who forgives when we seek his forgiveness. And he interacts with us. Every single time we stand in prayer, every time we raise our hands to the heavens, Allah responds. And I Ahmed Salman who narrates that the prophet said, "Our prophet Sam says indeed Your Lord is very modest. He's shy of you and he is very generous. He is too modest, too shy from his own servant that when you raise your two hands to him and ask him that he will let you put those hands back down to your sides empty. He's too shy to let that happen. He is too generous that every time you raise your hands, they come back full of Allah's generosity and mercy. If you don't see them, that's the blindness that you have incurred from this world. That's not on him. You have to learn to see. If you cannot see your hands full of Allah's mercy and generosity when they come back down to your sides, it is because you have been stricken, my friend, with the blindness of the heart. Because Allah tells us that true blindness is not blindness of the eyes, but true blindness is blindness of the heart. If you can't see yourself treading in Allah's mercy day and night, then you are blind, my friend. If all you can see is cynicism, if all you can see is negativity, is if all you can see is misery and oh my life should have been and blind as in Allah and this and that, you are blind, my friend. That is not on him. No one told you to listen to a shaitan. Where did you get these descriptions of Allah that you ascribed to him? Did you get them from the Quran? Who told you that this is who Allah is? And so, my brothers and my sisters, we don't worship a silent god. We don't worship a god that is cynical and sadistic. We worship Allah. We worship the one that every time we move our tongue to remember him, he remembers us.

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Allah says, "I am with my servant every time he remembers me and moves his lips with my name." If he thinks of me, if he remembers me in himself, I make mention of him in myself. And if he mentions me amongst a group of people, I mention him amongst a superior group. Every time you mention Allah, he mentions you. Every time you say his name, he tells the angels around him your name. That is the one we worship. We don't worship the golden calf. We don't worship the calf of Ben.

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Stand shoulder tosh shoulder. Align your shoulders and feet. Take a moment to look to your right and left. Make sure that your shoulders and your feet are directly in line with the shoulders and feet of your two neighbors. Straightening the road is a great part of the reward of our prayer. If we fail to straighten our rows, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will not harmonize our hearts. Ensure that you close the gaps. Do not join a row unless the row in front of you is completely filled to capacity. Please turn your phones off so as to honor this time with Allah.

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Alhamdulillah.

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Will help you. Allahel me. Allah. Allahel. Allah.

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Give you a couple of reminders. just wanted to go over the programs that masid offers and hopefully the people who not may not know can benefit from these inshallah. There is a hatra by imam every fudger after every fudger and after isha. So every day those hatras are there and you please see if you can find the time to to to benefit from those. Also on Sunday program we have a school program that is catering to the kids of f between ages between 5 and 17 and that is from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. And again that is for the youth that can benefit from the the activities at the masjid and connect back to the masjid inshallah. Also there's a Quran halaka on Saturday and Sunday morning after fudger. So that is very beneficial. If anybody can find the time to join that is really beautiful. It's again on fud after fudger and that is on Saturday and Sunday. we also have Rahma Academy as you know that is offering the pre from preK all the way to the fifth grade. So alhamdulillah school is in session. Anybody that still has any students or candidates that can come join benefit from it. Please talk to brother Ahmed Jabber and that will be definitely very rewarding inshallah. one last thing I wanted to talk to you about is the parking. starting next week, inshallah, we'll be enforcing the parking rules and regulations that are already in place. So nothing new. Park in the designated parking only. Designated parking spaces only. And please do not block any ingress or egress and please do not park in the neighbors lots without any clear understanding if that is allowed or not. So if the if you find anything in violation, you may find a yellow sticker on your vehicle. So please avoid that the best you can. Inshallah, donate generously on the way out. Hello.

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