 Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu Alhamdulillah we thank Allah for this opportunity to be together here on the Yomul Juma and what I'd like to speak about inshallah before we begin is this concept in the Quran and I want to talk about a word here which is خوف and this word appears in the Quran approximately 124 times but there are 10 different words 11 words that Allah actually uses for this hope and each of them convey a different meaning here so hope if we think about it it's a perceived danger and a fear of something that is physical that's and we know that something which is physical here and as we know in reading in Suratul Kahf today I will not read all of the Arabic because our time is short here but here on this verse and if you have seen them you have turned away filled with fear this is a overwhelming fear of terror which impacts your ability to reason this is another wajaf is used here it's a fear mixed with discomfort we didn't wajifah Allah says in Suratul Naziat khashya khashya is a type of fear but it's a fear that is a result of knowledge that leads to action this is khashya so here I want to just change gears a little bit there's a contemporary psychologist that claims that there are only five primary fears that we experience as people and what he says is that any emotions that we have outside of these five primary will fall into one of these five categories the first category is fear of extinction which is just another way to say that we fear death if you will so there are certain things he says that one is not really afraid of heights but whether they are fearful of as a result of what may happen that causes this type of fear the second he says he terms it as what he calls mutilation so this is a fear of losing a body part or an organ or something such as this loss of autonomy he says the third one loss of autonomy and this is a fear of being immobilized paralyzed it can be called claustrophobia or something like this but really otherwise controlled by circumstances beyond our control and then also it extends to our social relationships the fourth one is fear of separation fear of abandonment or rejection and loss of the connectedness being a non-person non-wanted and the last one I thought was very interesting he says the fear of the ego death the death of our ego if you will and this is a fear of humiliation and shame and something else that kind of you know separates us from others and he says this is what he talks about in public speaking that people aren't really afraid of public speaking they're afraid of the type of ego death that would be associated with it if they think they make a mistake or something like this so within that comes two categories that I have thought about which are fear of loss and fear of change and if you think about fear of loss applies to different areas in our lives losing our income our friends our family members close relationships identity health and power fear of change a lack of confidence in ourselves or our abilities or because we fear change may result in loss and alienate us from friends and family now how I thought about this fear was really thinking about examples in the Quran and what was the result of fear and I thought about this in terms of if we look at the MBA and we look at the prophets we take the Prophet Muhammad first and foremost and we look at the response of the nation of the Quraysh to his Da'wah is really one of fear of economic loss as Imam Zaid says there's nothing new under the sun they're coming to him with a plan that we actually will worship what you worship for a year and you worship what we worship for a year but we're not going to have this reality where the potential loss with that we will incur from the economics of this and I'm just kind of prayer paraphrasing here in time but also here we have the comb of Noor alaihi salam if you think about this and being pushed out in each of them are from aqribah the people that are close to him to them so what type of fear would be instilled in people that even those that are close to you and I thought was really interesting here in the verse from the talks about the explanation of the rejection of comb Noor and this is one of our teachers brought out for us where he says Allah says in the Quraysh that they put their fingers into their ears and one of our teachers said you have to be very spend some time and thinking about that because what he said is that the human being can only put their fingertip into their ear they can't put their fingers into their ear but Allah uses example to show the intensity of the rejection of the letter but these are people the Risala the message from Allah and these are as I said these are people that are close you think about the story of Ibrahim alaihi salam these are the people that are close to him such that right Nimrud calling for the fire and such as this and then mousa alaihi salam now this verse this is it here this is that fear uses the word hope here Firaun says leave me to kill Mousa and let him call upon his Lord for I fear he may cause you to change your religion and spread disorder in the land now look at this type of deception we know the story of Firaun and what he was doing that yet he thinks that calling to the oneness of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is causing this the term that he uses here causing this disorder and the land and the last I thought about here our time is getting short here is this idea well I'll leave it here inshallah but I thought about this as I said in these if we look at each one of them that really this concept of fear and fear of loss and fear of change and think about that in terms of what we understand of the prophets and how they were being dealt with and what I understood from this is that this fear leads to irrational thought and irrational actions and then irrational actions can lead us to the unthinkable so as I said nooh alaihi salam his family pushing him out Ibrahim alaihi salam his family pushing him out the Quraysh pushing him that and we know what the type of the sanctions were of pushing the prophecy salam out and the what they had to deal with of being out so living outside of Mecca for that time and then Musa as we said you know this closeness of being pushed out and then actually what I want to say because we were close in and Muharram and it made me think about this that this fear if you think about the actions of Yazid the fear that this causes as I said to irrational thought and then irrational behavior that after 50 years of the passing of the Prophet alaihi salatu salam that you'll find taking up arms against the family of the Prophet salam based on this concept of fear and what I want to say in this concept of fear is that it comes from something else in my opinion and I thought about this for a little while and then I came to this hadith I'm happy for you to rally a lot who I'm who call for the Rasul of Allah he's oh sorry I'm happy for you to rally a lot who I'm who call the color of the Arabian Masjid when I be sallallahu alaihi wasallam Jalison team was all of them off of a call a lot of them are happy me one more I'm with a lot of them on a I had an felt if I tell you they need to be sallallahu alaihi wasallam for call a lot of them to have dirt was he on so on this hadith the Abu Hurayra Rally Allah says that a better one entered the Masjid and the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam was sitting there and the man prayed and then raises hand and made to answer Oh Allah have mercy upon me and Muhammad and nobody else and the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam turned to him and said you have restricted something vast and this is the point that I want to close with as our time is short here there's a concept that is called a scarcity mindset that's where you believe that there are limited resources so if someone else is that someone else is having something that we feel that then this resource is not available for you and when I thought about each one of these fears being being like what would this come from and the human psyche it's because I don't think that there's enough to go around just like this man said I don't want other people to take the Rahman because maybe there won't be enough for me so the scarcity mindset is something that I want to just spend a few minutes on but actually before we do that I wanted us to think about this question that if we find ourselves in this state of fear or if we find ourselves in this scarcity mindset how is it that we can be there if we are people that believe in Allah, Hulah, Wa La Quwwata Illa Billah how can we have this fear if we are if we understand the reality of who our sustainer is Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and then if we understand the type of connections that we have and the type of decree that has been made for our lives then we will not fall into this trap it's when we ascribe those things to ourselves and our capabilities and our abilities that that's when we fall into this trap but if we bring it back to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala as what has been decreed for us and what has been made available for us from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala then we will not fall into this and just very quickly I want to close out with this if we think about ourselves of this scarcity mindset it's that we consider limitations of a situation but an abundance mindset is that we consider the opportunities of a situation spend our mental energy on what's lacking in our lives rather than spending our mental energy on possibilities feeling frustrated, powerless, anxious, angry and fearful but rather we should feel empowered and engaged because of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala being there for us and when you think about this idea of scarcity I just want to close with this hadith here Abu Hurayro R.A. he said and I'll read this in English here that the Prophet S.A.W. said look at those who are below you if you will using this term and do not look at those who are above you for that is more likely to hold you back from belittling the blessings to hold you back from belittling the blessings of Allah that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has bestowed upon you so if we think about this and this concept from an abundance mindset Allah has given us prepared for us, facilitated for us allocated for us all that we need in this realm so the idea is for us to move away from ourselves and towards Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Wassalamu Alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh