 from the mercy of Allah. Now, there's a hadith that Ar-Hadirah narrates, Paul says, and said, Every newborn baby is touched by Shevaan when it's born, and the baby starts crying because of this touch, except for Madiaan and her son. So it's not that I actually protected her in that state, SubhanAllah. Now, Ibrahim, her father, actually passed away before she was even born. So Madiaan never knew her father. So her mother decided to send her to her maternal aunt, Sohanah's sister, who was married to Prophet Zafiriyah. So basically, they took on the charge of Madiaan and decided to raise her in the service of the Masjid. And she becomes a student of Prophet Zafiriyah, about Prophet Ibrahim. And just right away, you can see SubhanAllah, the opening that Masjid has given her, right? That she's now becoming a student of Prophet Zafiriyah. So one of the blessings that we're getting, being in his service was that she had access to the Masjid and she was given a special chamber that was entirely hers. So she secluded herself. As a very young girl, this is just what she did. She just had this deep, profound love for Prophet Zafiriyah. She excluded herself from family and the people and she just devoted herself to worship of Prophet Zafiriyah. How does Ibrahim narrates that there are many times when he would enter her room at SubhanAllah, after weeks, days, she wouldn't step out. She never left her chambers, maybe to relieve herself, but she was very, very devoted to her worship and he would come into her room SubhanAllah and he would find fruits that were out of season in her room, right? So imagine it's summer and then there's winter fruits, SubhanAllah, in her room. Or it's winter and there's summer fruits in her room. And so he would ask her, where did you get these fruits from? You never leave. And how did you even get them, right? It's out of season. And her response, she said, he said, excuse me, oh my God, from where have you gotten this? And she said, this is from Allah, verily Allah provides sustenance to people with those who got them this. So it was SubhanAllah who delivered to her beautiful fruits. Again, we're talking about those who are coming in the story of Medina Islam and the topic that I was given was to talk about the sweetness of faith. So I thought the story really captured that. And here's just one example. Again, the sweetness of faith and fruits being delivered to SubhanAllah to your room and of course Allah is capable of all things. So she SubhanAllah spent her days and nights worshiping Allah. She rarely sees people. You know this part of the story, right? One day something strange happens to her. Someone she's never seen before enters her room in the form of a man. This is Angel Javid al-Isra. And she's completely frightened and terrified because remember, this is a woman, a young girl, not even a woman yet, who did not meet with people and to have suddenly a strange man in her room, you can imagine how terrifying that was for her. And she warned him to fear Allah, thinking that he's there to hurt her. And he tells her, I'm only a messenger from your Lord to provide you to the gift of the righteous Son. So again, try to place yourself in her shoes for just a moment. Rewind your brain thousands of years back. She's so innocent, has no concept of what is happening to her. And he's telling her that she's about to have a child. Any of us would have, you know, clearly a breakdown or some type. But subhan Allah, in that moment, she's stunned and says, How can I have a son when no man has touched me? And I do not commit wicked acts. And he responds, thus it will be your Lord says it's easy for me and we will make him a sign to the people and mercy from us. And it doesn't matter already to creed. So basically, Allah Almighty can do as He wills. So she, in that moment, did she protest? Did she break down? Did she run out of room in hysterics? Her faith is now being seriously tested, right? I mean, Mashallah, she displayed her devotion clearly. She loves Allah Almighty. He loves her in return. It's evident. Now the test is coming. This is just a pause here for a moment. When we reflect on the stories, whether it's the prophets or these incredible people that, you know, stories that we hear of other people as well, who are tested despite their incredible faith. We have to then come back and remember that yet that is just what happens on earth. People are tested. Every single one of us will face tests in this life. And it's just part of being here, part of this experience because the video is designed to test us. So we have to end. This is from the Holy Prophet. He says in the Qur'an, do they say that they believe and they don't expect to be tested? So he's telling us right now and there are expect tests, right? That's part of how it is. In Shaitan, of course, it's important this tactic to make you question and put doubt in yourself, put doubt in Allah, just fill you with all of these negative, negative thoughts when the tests come. But the response that you have really is where you prove your faith, how you respond to the test of what's coming with you. If you protest, why me, what was me, or angry, and I've actually heard this from many people before, where they express anger, this is an injustice, I don't deserve this, I did everything right, I made this the hada, people get really, really angry sometimes because they don't understand what's on that decree. But again, if you have that concrete and you're very clear on that, that you will be tested that accepting the decree of Allah, SubhanAllah, is the best choice, instead of resisting, right? And that's exactly what she did. So SubhanAllah, as stunned as she is, she accepts her decree, she realizes that she reads in to her womb and she becomes pregnant. She goes through all the normal signs of pregnancy and then the rumors of force even though she was in her chambers when she did come out, maybe for specific things, people in the list she's growing, she's experimenting, then the rumors began to spread. So she decided at that point, again, to think about her age and the incredible pressure she must have felt to protect her reputation, to protect her reputation of her family. In the face of this decision, as a young girl who barely ventured out of her chambers, let alone walked alone into the streets of where she was, she made the decision to completely leave. So she leaves and runs away. According to Ibn Fathiyah, she ran away and when she reached an area between Ashab and Egypt, she was overcome by labor pains. She was placed eight miles from the sacred house of Jerusalem in a village in Bethlehem. So just, you know, if you've ever been in these parts of the world, then you can visualize that. But she went pretty far from her a shift from her home, from her chambers. And she knew that she was going to be tested with the birth. She knew people would not assist her. There were already spreading rumors about her. They were not willing for a story. And, you know, especially because she was known to be so developed, right? And now to imagine that people are spreading rumors about her, that she's a foreign caterer, that she's done this horrible deed, she just knew that she couldn't depend on anybody. She had to do this by herself. So in her anguish and pain, you know, just imagine these words coming from her. She said, would that I had died before this and had been forgotten and out of sight? So sometimes, you know, just things can get overwhelming for you, right? I mean, here's this little girl, pretty much a young girl, going through such a deep tribulation. And, you know, people often get very sanctimonious and self-righteous when they judge other people's pain in anguish. And they don't realize that people process and cope differently. And if you make a momentary statement out of pain or just, you know, it's overwhelming, you don't let someone shame you and make you feel like you've made a statement of kofo and what's wrong with you and you see people, even after someone dies, a loved one, they're already being policed about what they shouldn't say, what they shouldn't do. This is wrong and we have to stop that as a community and realize that sometimes in the moment, because people become more loved and they don't understand, they might make a statement, like, I wish I could just die. You know, and that's enough. That doesn't mean that they're terrified of people and they don't have faith and they don't have an event. It means, in that moment, their heart is broken. And they really don't understand. And you should reach out for empathy and love and with compassion instead of judgment. It's a very ugly problem. And we, you know, unfortunately though, it's just very common that people react that way. So here, just look at the example. She made a statement like that because it was too overwhelming for her. Right? But she reviewed it. Did lightning strike her? No. She's hailed as one of the forward-perfect women who seem to be able to talk about her. So again, take comfort that these are human emotions and we're allowed to be human. So she finally delivered and is incredibly weak and all alone. Again, imagine her situation. She's under a tree and there's nobody with her. I mean, how many sisters here delivered a child? How many have been completely alone delivering a child? No, not single soul. I didn't think so. The idea of going through something like that for the first time in her young, fragile age is terrifying. But to panel off, when you have almost a panel up on your side, you can get through anything. And her story is the perfect example of that. So here she's under this tree or family or husband or sibling. Nobody holds her hand to comfort her and she's just been through. And so she, of course, is in this agonizing state. But to panel off, her Lord was guiding her all along. Her voice came down to her in that state. Do not grieve. Your Lord has provided beneath you, there was a stream for her to have fresh water. And then you told her and shake toward you the trunk of the palm tree. Upon you right and fresh leaves. So this voice called on to her. And so eat and drink and be contented. And if you see unhumanity, so now this is for her, direct order to her. If you see anybody, any human being, say, indeed I have vowed to the most merciful abstention, so I will not speak to anybody. To panel off. This is such a powerful thing. She's gone through so much she didn't feel like she could count on any human being and I lost count of it again confirming you don't need any of them. You don't need to talk to any of them. Okay, I am with you. The people actually went out to a number of rumors were spreading. They were very concerned about what happened to her. She just disappeared out of thin air. They went out to the program and people were asking other people along the way if they saw her. They actually found a shepherd. He said that he didn't see her, but he saw something very strange that he'd never seen before. He said he saw a bright light and his cattle, all of them did something that he hadn't seen before. They prostrated in the direction of where the light came from. So Panabah, he witnessed them all and said at that time where this light was shining so bright. So he pointed down in the direction Mary in the meantime they sat up and had gathered some strength and she decided at that point to collect herself. She remembered what she was ordered to do. Do not talk to anybody. She collected herself. She gathered her new infant. Of course Please Of course, please No, no, no Subhanallah and she decided to head back home. So she now is walking back and she actually runs into a very group that went out to look for her and they surrounded her and now it's their intimity. Imagine a young girl, you had this before and you cannot talk. You've been ordered to silence and they're all standing there What are you doing? Do you know the shame that you brought her family? How could you like accusing her of all of this but how could you do this? How could you do this to them? They treated you so well. They took you in when your father passed away and she just has to stand there Subhanallah taking their abuses taking their accusations and how could she just endure it all by herself? Subhanallah All she could do was communicate through sign language just trying to let them know because they're badgering her and so suddenly she points to the baby to Issa and they said, how could we because she's trying to tell them aren't we talking to you just pointing to the baby if you want answers and they're like what? How can we speak to this? How can we speak to an innocent? This is crazy more accusations, more abuses that launched at her and then Subhanallah of course we believe so he decreed that infant Issa speaks and he responds Indeed, I am the servant of Allah He has given me the scripture and made me a prophet and he has made me blessed wherever I am and has enjoyed upon me prayer as long as I remain alive and made me dutiful to my mother and he has not made me a wretched tyrant and peace is on me the day I was born and the day I will die and the day I have raised alive and I just imagine an infant saying these words to Subhanallah and this is it this is why Allah Almighty said you don't need to defend yourself you don't need to speak to anybody I will do that for you and of course immediately her honor was restored and everybody felt terrible for the accusations they made of her and the horrible thoughts that they thought of her and Allah Almighty elevated her peace will be with her son she never married again so she maintained that title of the Virgin Mary until she left this world there are so many incredible lessons from this story that we can draw from first before we continue does anybody have any questions or comments to share yes so after the birth of Issa she didn't undergo any other tests beyond this while what happened to him was also a test program as a mother yes if he was alive then it was yes according to him yes I attended a lecture from a scholar who talked about how much he was young that she actually could go out of her chamber and was a healer and would heal the poor there might be different accounts of her history so a scholar shared that that's beautiful I'm sure it's true but for the most part in her account it's just not about her the majority of her the majority of her time she spent in her chamber in devotion so the lessons that I wanted to pull from this because there's so many actually preceding her story in the sense that we looked at her mother let's look to Hannah and the power of sincere God because it's very natural for some of us who've been wanting or yearning for something maybe we've been making God for weeks, for months maybe even years for a specific thing and it enters our hearts it's a lot to say stuff for a lot people have these thoughts to see, hear me am I, is there something wrong with me am I not worthy where do you think these types of thoughts come from 100% if you ever have a thought about stuff for a lot of a lot not listening to you if you really tear your peace that statement up that's the difference because also Hannah hears everything he has knowledge of everything so the idea that he doesn't listen to one or something it's outside of our we don't believe in that he listens to everything there's nothing that escapes his knowledge so right then and there you have to first know that's what's supposed to appreciate but then even when he makes you doubt your self-worth God isn't being answered I can't tell you how many people I've talked to that immediately race to that judgment about themselves that there's something wrong with me because I'm not my God isn't being answered I'm also trying a lot you know how many people in history or how many stories have we heard of people who have been tested and tried by something being with health from them even in our promise license is there anyone who suffered more than he did so suffering not getting your adult answer or not having this happy perfect I don't even know what we think the sort of ideals we create about life on your own earth but those are not proofs of anybody's standing with Allah in fact the opposite is true that people who are closer to him are tested so you have to reject those thoughts right away and say actually if I'm being tested inshallah this is a good sign I'm being purified we all sin and we all aren't heedless we all do things that we shouldn't do and so this we should welcome being purified in this world opposed to living it up and having thinking that everything is fine and suffering a lot showing up on the Day of Judgment full of surprises we don't want to be surprised on the Day of Judgment we don't want to think that oh because I've created 5 times a day and I'm working to have my fast food and everything just seemed so perfect and good then you show up and suffer a lot the balance is not in your favor that's not what we should want so we should look at it like you know what if these are happening to me in this world and even though they're difficult to bear and I have to be patient alhamdulillah alhamdulillah I just have to accept that this is a real true blessing for Allah SWT and so but the power of again, sincere doha and she wanted a child for many many years and it took that one moment where she saw this beautiful exchange from her mother and her chick where she made that doha and they say alhamdulillah will bring you to your knees right because of that the sweetness of your devotion in that moment so if you're asking like if you're just like alhamdulillah and it's kind of like a rush doha you know the quality matters sometimes and so if you have a knee that you've wanted fulfilled for example and you've never once thought to wake up for the hajj but yet you wonder why isn't it being answered maybe that's the vehicle that you need to you know take that's the means with which the doha might be accepted or sazaqa there's so many different ways that we can almost like expedite to go out and you have to look at what those opportunities are fast in giving acting and being in the service of feeding people who are hungry doing things like that are ways to inshallah increase the chances that you go out being answered sometimes we just go to that yes inshallah is good in that never limit that but take it to the next level it could just be that one moment of absolute sincerity where your heart is broken and you're crying and you're just like y'all but please it really really need this as opposed to just sort of casually mentioning something so think about that with all of you and then take also about what Hanna did when she received news about her pregnancy this is also another great lesson and another great opportunity for us that when we want something for like single sisters for example or sisters who do want children sisters who are married and maybe they they're having difficulty with their spouses when you're making da'a for something if you're stuck on just the material thing that you want you're also limiting the power of da'a to the next level so if you want to be married don't want to be married just to be coupled and have a fairytale life just so that you can buy a house and have a perfect wedding and all the things that people dream up about marriage make the intention in that moment that I want to be married so that I can have that can do incredible things for you all with my partner that my partner and I are like we're the next board members of MCC doing amazing things for this community we're out there serving for gift life foundation helping orphans there's much more meaning in our union than just the material or the worldly aspect or if you want a child the same way that Hanna made her she was going to raise her child in service of him take that take your da'a for a child to that level I don't want the child to have a baby and go big to the rest and shop for a stroller and put on cute clothes and take baby pictures and then what do you want this child why? in our cultures, I know many of our cultures it's like a numbers game you have one child you have two with your necks it's never enough for what purpose for what purpose do we bring children into this world this is a place of difficulty of challenge if it's selfish there's some cute normally that's the mom it's like so limiting and so worldly but how about because I want them to be the next you know, so I could be you know I want them to do amazing I want them to be like Mary I want them to do amazing things these are the kinds of you know intentions we should add to our for whatever we want in this world even for wealth you know if you want wealth have a good intention for that wealth if you want success in your job in your work whatever it is that you want to give you from the world it's okay to ask but beautify the intention by attaching it to love for him as well not just whatever benefit you get from him and this is what we learn from him as example she could have you know write it in there and you know invite all her friends this is how we react to these but she took a moment really to feel the weight of what happened to her so I'm going to start that opens doors for you if you're newly engaged if you just found out you're pregnant if you are falling in love in the moment right now with someone to take a moment to really appreciate what's happening to you take a moment to really pause the blessing that always comes about the favor that he's giving you if you already have children really I mean how many times do we sit there and look at them and just today for example it's you know just happened and happened I was looking at my son and I just said it's so strange and he said well I don't even know if there's a child like well I said it's just how light I sometimes look at you and I can't believe you're my son because for so many years I wanted a child and I didn't think I'd ever have it you know I for eight years close to maybe ten I just accepted that I would have children and then all of a sudden he gave me this child and now he's you know almost ten years old so I was just looking at it because I had that moment like somehow I'm not what a gift right to do that for what we have not for what we want but for what we have so we had to take those moments where you really stop and even you know if you're married and your husband annoys you all of your pets do this he has that we can list them all shaving, trimming, all of this the two things that is never closed right yeah it can drive us crazy I'm sure we drive them crazy too but it's important just do it and return the same thing I don't know what shaving is I don't know how hard it is I feel like I need this now I know I know I need it I just need everything that's to you and face that yeah it could work yeah but you know it's important to just stop and think past all of the things that annoy you and bother you and just look at this person and say subhan Allah he's a good provider, he's a good father and just say no Allah is giving me someone who comes home from every night and if I call him and say pick up this from the grocery store sure anything else to me and he's very very tired and half the time they're exhausted but they're still learning to pick up things and do things inshallah or he comes in the house and he's you know at least a little helpful here and there just think God and be very grateful to Allah that you have a warm body a companion because there's a lot of people who want that they're really lonely and they're isolated and they have never felt a loving touch before so if you've had that in your life make sugar to Allah subhan Allah for it but we can do this for every little thing you know and this is true gratitude they take account of all the blessings and you really really ponder where you would be without those blessings and that what it does is it instantly should restore your connection to Allah subhan Allah because you realize that all along he's been giving you he continues to give you every day every day we breathe when he's just think about that if you've ever had a terrible chest cold or a sinus infection how miserable are you right to think that there's only a company who wants a year, a week or two the rest of the year you breathe fine there's so many things to be grateful for but when you reflect on again what you have this is what it does it increases your love for him and you realize subhan Allah where would we be without his love where would we be without his compassion and all of us even those who reject him who deny that they still are recipients of this mercy so this is the concept of Allah we have the most generous Lord and then the thing to also remember is the power of the story for women in general because the problem is that he took Mary into his under his care but she had a profound effect on him he's a prophet of Allah here he sees this young girl in her devotion and food is coming to her and he's just like he was incredibly impacted by her so he actually in his old age having no children because of seeing Mary's devotion he turned to Allah subhan Allah and he said my Lord indeed my bones have weakened and my head has filled with white and never have I been in my self-location to you my Lord unhappy and indeed I fear the success of that after me and my wife has been barren so give me from yourself an heir who will inherit me and inherit from the family of Jacob and make him my Lord easy to you this law of Zachariah was because of Mary so an old man being impacted by young girls probably young girls in here don't let anybody other than you or make you think that you can't do as much as a man can right? this is a perfect example of the impact that a young girl can have on a prophet of Allah so he was told we give you good tidings of a boy whose name will be John Yahya we have not assigned to any before this name and he said my Lord how will I have a boy when my wife has been barren and I have reached extreme old age and an angel responded thus it will be your Lord says it is easy for me for I created you before while you were nothing subhan Allah so again reflecting on that the Prophet was impacted by a young girl so these are all just good things to just take for us women there are so many beautiful gems in our history that really again show us how Allah has elevated us and we have to know these stories and we have to learn from other women and that's why mashallah and all of the people who work with her will put these events on I am just here as a guest that we continue these you know these lessons these classes and we learn from one another because we hear these examples and we inspire each other in shama another another thing to also reflect on is in a very good response to the prophecy that he found her with her fruits you know where did you get this and she just barely allowed her by a substance to whom he wills without limit so sometimes we impose limits on ourselves but we have to really have the best opinion of Allah subhan Allah he says what I am in the opinion of my servant so if you think well Allah subhan Allah and anything is possible with Allah subhan Allah the more you have conviction in that the more you will preview it but if you doubt that I don't know if you let those doubts enter that's what you're going to see you won't have confirmation or you'll have that confirmed for you but you won't get what you want because you're filled with doubts so here we have to realize it's really very much in our hands any questions about that this is from Allah subhan Allah but it comes inshallah maybe it's the da'a someone else his promise is true when you go through difficulty inshallah there's ease and sometimes if you endured a lot and you suffer especially if you're in a press situation right now don't underestimate the da'a there's incredible immense power in the da'a in the press where you are not someone who's taking your rights from you and you're feeling the effects of that don't limit your da'a just keep pushing wake up from the head and ask Allah to turn to him and inshallah his promise is true you will be relieved but we like I said we have to believe in that yakin the more yakin you have in Allah the more he will prove you right inshallah any questions maybe just a few minutes left the instructions I've got were when you go until 8 o'clock and then there's a speaker here so I think Dr. Rani wanted you guys to attend that talk inshallah any questions or comments such a large group no? yes well I was just going to share on you know I'm enjoying listening to everything because I think it's you get shown what Allah feels in ways that you don't even realize I remember like two years ago I was with someone who was my closest friend and I was with her as she was taking her last breaths but it was watching that and as sad and you know as you know depressing and you know warful as it is the thing I learned was that everything happens for a reason and then you get to see in the most elementary way everything Allah says is true like you see the last breaths you see you know that it can you know death comes to all of us because I just talked to her you know it can come like a beast it can be a worshiping it can be like a beast and when you see it you know it was like for me personally it's as difficult as it was it's still a blessing because you get to be reminded that you know we're all going to be there unless we pray to Allah and we you know do our best to follow what He's put us on as a path you know we have to set what we want the next life to be like sorry Allah I did reflecting on death is definitely one of the most rewarding things it sounds like dark because our society runs from death and it's like oh that's why would you do that it's so depressing but actually as you said when you actually reflect on what death means death is a process but what is the ultimate destination right is that you're step closer to Allah but it makes you appreciate and allow you what time you have here especially when you see someone your own peer group I'm assuming right someone who's close to you an age now older she was my adopted mom and then she died at the age of 69 she had learned Arabic and how to read the Quran so the best thing that came is that all the sisters that came to the hospital because this is one of the few chances you actually know that death is coming we knew I was there for a week with her so we knew it was coming we were able to read so it is seen for her we were able to keep reminding her as the breath was going it was like regrets we were reminding her what to say when the angels come reminding her to say la ilah it was really as hard and difficult as a situation that has been offered it was still it was actually as morbid as this might sound it was actually a beautiful situation because we actually had the opportunity to take that next step and sometimes you just have to be envious of the fact that now they get to see where they stand with the last month and I know it sounds morbid but to me that was just a sad yet amazing experience to be with someone I relate to that very much I lost my father three years ago a lot have went and all of us were around and it was a time we were smiling because we could feel it's just a very spiritual experience to watch someone go especially Naye and Shalwa and they're finally free from those constraints of this world and life and this body there was stuff like that we just felt peace it was an incredibly peaceful moment for us we were sitting for an hour and I said and we just sat down maybe we walked into this room and we were crazy because we were just like smiling and we had already cried we cried for a week to watch it suffer it was a moment to say Shalwa you are finally free with Allah sorry I couldn't really do that Shalwa, thank you for sharing Shalwa, so we are going to go through that and then we are going to see if we can see if we can