Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah wa salatu wa salamu ala Rasulillah.
We are talking about Allah's plans and what we should, what should be our attitude with regard to that.
In short, the attitude of a Muslim to the plan of Allah is an attitude of submission.
Which we say, we are pleased with whatever Allah decrees for us.
Now, in the Quran, Allah gives us many,
many examples of the prophets who seem to be in positions of being oppressed.
Prophets who are not in powerful positions, they don't have wealth, they don't have military power,
they don't have authority, they are not heads of state.
Yet, they stand up.
To injustice, they stand up against tyrants and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives them victory.
Imagine, for example, Musa a.s., Moses, standing in the court of Ramesses II,
the pharaoh of Egypt, the head of probably the most wealthy and powerful empire at that time.
He became king of the formerónsрей school, new kings that night accepted victims.
The King of Upper and Lower Nile, Upper and Lower Egypt,
stretching from the Sudan all the way down to the South.
Master of wealth, the position of authority, where he declared himself to be God,
and the pharaohs considered themselves to be deities,
and they compared people to two dès.
to worship them. That's the reason why the pharaohs married their sisters, because no one was
considered equal to the pharaoh, so he could not marry any other woman. They married their
sisters and of course produced all kinds of genetic issues, that's a different thing.
And Moses, Musa , single man, staff in hand, imagine him standing in the court
of that pharaoh, and that pharaoh has power of life and death, he can order Musa to be chopped
into small pieces, but as we know, to make a long story short, how did it end? It ended with the
pharaoh and his army,
perishing and Musa and the Israelites who were enslaved at the time, being freed.
We take the story of Ibrahim , for example,
where he is sitting tied up in the cup of the siege machine which is going to throw him into the fire,
he is certainly not 엄청pants and gives the people a huge hole.
But Ibrahim describe him as a man of complete helplessness.
It is a picture of complete helplessness. Noawk saw an arrow which which he made
into the scrip of the shape of alon?
The picture of complete helplessness. Here is a man who is completely tied up in ropes.
He is in the the cup of the trebuchet , he is about to be shot into the flames,
Jibreel, the angel Gabriel, came to him and he said,
O Abraham, O Ibrahim, what can I do for you?
And Ibrahim, peace be upon him, smiles and says, nothing.
He says, nothing.
He's sitting there facing the fire.
And the fire is so big, they lighted this fire and they made it so big
that they can't go near it to throw the man.
So they need actually a catapult to throw him into the fire.
And Jibreel comes and says, what can I do for you?
He says, nothing.
Because by nothing, he means that I ask Allah.
I don't ask you.
You may be the angel, but you are makhluk, you are a creature.
And we worship only the Rabb.
We worship only the one who created us.
So I ask help only from Allah.
So Jibreel-e-Salam goes to Allah.
Of course, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, he's seeing what's happening.
He knows what's happening in real time.
But Jibreel goes to him and says, Ya Rabb, they are going to burn your Khalil.
And I went to him, asked him, can I do something for you?
He says, no.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, go now and tell him, I am asking.
Your Rabb wants to know what do you need from him.
You're talking about the plan of Allah, right?
So Jibreel comes and says, and of course, all of this Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala knows
and Allah knows that he knows and you know.
So, but for the time being, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala knows that he knows.
For the sake of narration.
So Jibreel-e-Salam comes back and he says,
Ya Ibrahim, your Rabb sent me and he wants to know what do you want from him?