 my brothers my sisters when things happen in our lives generally we react to these things in a specific way a lot of the times this way the way we react to things that happen to us is connected to our upbringing it's connected to the programming of the hard drive that we have ہے ، حضرتہ ، بھر먈ہ ، لہذا جسنا ہم تمہارے باقہ ہمارے باتنا کفز بہت نبیہ کرتے ہیں ، جو ان کے لئے دعائیں ، اچھا بہت بہت سے ہمیلسی سے بہت بہت بہت حسن ہمارے بہت بہت انسان جا نظر کیا جنگا جاتنا ہے کہ محمد صلا اللہ کو علیہ وسلم ہے ،acağو ہے لیکن جاند ہے ، ہمارے بہت بہت انسان ہے کہ اللہ کیا کے لئے ہمارے بہت بہت بہت ہمارے کو ہمارے کو اور بہت ایک لئے، ایمہ ارام اور راہنے کے ساتھ عالیے سبحانہ و تعالیٰ حالت ہے۔ لہذا ہم محمد صل اللہ علیہ وسلم کے حالے سے قریبہ ہے کہ ہم کے ذاتہ ہوتا ہے اور اگر میں میکن نہیں گئے کہ ہم ان ہی ولی بھائیت ساتھ ہوتا ہے ، کیونکہ وہ زیادہ ہوتا ہے ، ہموالے دور ہوتا ہے کہ ہمانا اپنے الانات لے know sometimes because we know but we claim that we are not prophets which is actually something weak the reason is yes we are not prophets but we cannot use that statement to justify the distance between us and the method of Muhammad صل اللہ علیہ وسلم we have to make sure that we are as close as possible and sometimes we know it we are جانتے ہیں we understand the Prophet صل اللہ علیہ وسلم's reaction we know we should be reacting in a similar way but we are not bothered we are too lazy or we just feel like it's going to be tough it's going to be hard i don't care and that's the attitude we develop now if you look at the quran Allah سبحانہ و تعالیٰ tells us clearly about certain reactions how to react and the certain circumstances for example and there are many verses in the quran اللہ کہا ہے کہ۔ اللہ نے کہا ہے کہ ہم جب ہی جو ایلے ہی راجعہ ہی ہے۔ اللہ ہی سیرے جو ایلے ہی راجعہ ہے۔ یہ اولی پر یہ dois وہ کہاژ صحیہ لیکن یہ اوہ اللہ طرح وہ کہاژ اوہ اور 감사aste انہوں و ہی اکثر hayu و اٹبرге و ایک البس Pour جس how you بہت ایک這個 او鄈ائر انہوں نے حق حاؤانی باتسکت timeline یقا دس رقام ہے اننا لِلّا وَ ان لوگ راجعون ہے۔ ہمارے qurna ، ہمارے غوان ہمارے خوانت ہمارے اللہ اور ہمارے غوانت ہمارے اللہ ہمارے اللہ کے بارے بہت جو ہمارے اللہ آپ روح ان کا ہمارےà اچھا سلام جس ان Mmmm آگیا کہ اگر جاتا ہے جو اللہ نکل کنے کے لأہمارے میں جو ان کا سعادہ جمعہ ہ اگر ایک حالہ ایسا造ہ جو ایک ملزان ایک حالہ لے لے تھے۔ سبھی ایک ریزن ایک ہونے پر ساومہ ہوجاتا ہے کہ ہاتھا ، جو کو 70 سی ساومینuma آبریت کے ملزان اور行 کے ساتھ ایک ہوتی ہے۔ہلے کیا جاتا ہے؟ اگر آپ کو اللہ کے ساتھ کتی ہے اگر آپ خیلے اور جہنے کا اپر حالہ چاہئے ہیں ، آپ ہوتا ہے۔ آپ ہوتا ہے۔ اور کلم that you went back to a-l-llaus Unfortunately, people who remain will consider that a problem سبحان اللہ؟ they will consider it a big problem yet而 Quite crise might be floating in جنہ may Allah make it easy for all of us to achieve that you might be in a far more beautiful place but your children are crying both mom and dad are crying may Allah bless every one of us i hope the relationships are strong سترang کی گئے Tôi غریبہ ر ساتھ ہوں کہ جبین کوuu وقتوںکیتahu�ی أن آخریوں Since ہوں کہ یہ جائے تھے اللہ...' ہم بہن کے Right وَتَرَکْنَا عَلَيْهِمَا فِلْ آخِرِينَ سَلَامٌ عَلَا مُسَا وَحَارُونَ اللہ سبحانہ وسلم about the peace upon the messengers of Allah اور اللہ says we left after them a very very good reputation and remembering on the tongues of those who were to come including us today when we say Ibrahim what do we say do you just say Ibrahim if I say Ibrahim came or Ibrahim did this I would not be referring to the prophet of Allah but rather one Ibrahim from amongst us if I'm referring to the prophet it is an insult to say his name without saying علیہ السلام may peace be on him the same way the name Muhammed سل اللہ علیہ وسلم if I'm referring to the messenger there is actually a curse upon the one who intentionally skips out سل اللہ علیہ وسلم did you know that if someone intentionally skips out سل اللہ علیہ وسلم there is a curse on that person so my brothers and sisters it's extremely interesting for us to lead a life such that when we go we also have a little bit of that gift it will not be anywhere close to that of the messengers or even the صحابا رضی اللہ علیہ وسلم when you say the name of any companion you must add رضی اللہ علیہ وسلم no matter what happened between them we have to say رضی اللہ علیہ وسلم ابو بکر رضی اللہ علیہ وسلم عمر رضی اللہ علیہ وسلم اثمان رضی اللہ علیہ وسلم why that's a gift from Allah Allah says in the quran لقد رضی اللہ علیہ وسلم المؤمنین اذ يو بایعون کتا احت الشجرہ اللہ has become totally pleased with those who pledged allegiance with you or محمد صل اللہ علیہ وسلم or to you under the tree from amongst them were all these huge names سبحان اللہ starting with ابو بکر رضی اللہ علیہ وسلم عمر رضی اللہ علیہ وسلم عمر رضی اللہ علیہ وسلم علیہ رضی اللہ علیہ وسلم may Allah's peace and blessings be upon all of them so we will never reach that rank but at least if you let a good life if you were connected to اللہ and polite to the rest of the people اللہ will give you a good mention in those to come after you remember those two things you need تقو اللہ and you need حسن الحلوحی you need to be conscious of Allah develop your relation with Allah and then be polite to the rest of the people what is stopping you from being polite even if a person is ugly we speaking today about the reaction the reaction of what things that happened to us someone swears you what's the reaction go back to the life of the prophet صل اللہ علیہ وسلم did he swear them back no never he was not vulgar the hadith says the prophet صل اللہ علیہ وسلم was not vulgar he was not abusive he was not hurtful with the words he used but what do we do we hurtful with the words we use not to those who hurt us but to people who are innocent who don't even deserve it to our own family members our children our brothers and sisters our parents at times we use hurtful words abusive words why not even as a reaction but as an action to begin with may Allah forgive us may Allah guide us may Allah strengthen us my brothers my sisters i plead with you to become more conscious of the way you use your tongue والا ہی it will solve a lot of your problems when you die people will remember you for the good words you used to utter they will remember you because you made them feel good you made them feel worthwhile with us those who are connected to us so closely we make them feel unworthy we make them feel totally useless اعوذ بلا it is a sign that we need reformation ourselves let's get back to that verse of the quran where Allah says when a calamity strikes you are supposed to declare your closeness to Allah and confirm that you are going to return to Allah سبحانہ وتعالہ remember that so that is Allah سبحانہ وتعالہ telling us when a problem happens it's not the end of the world but even if it was the end of the world who would you return to to Allah so you say اِنَّا لِلّٰہ وَ اِنَّا اِلَيْهِ رَا جِعُونَ nothing can be bad for a mu'min there is another way that the prophet ﷺ has taught us to react you know ابو سفیان before he was a muslim he was the leader of the mccans the mccan army and prior to him being a leader he was one of the top leaders but after the death of abu jahal etc he became the leader he prepared an army to come back to attack muhammad ﷺ and the mccans had sent a huge army to come and attack and the mu'min were small in number 313 small number they were not even prepared with their own weapons and what happened the army had come forth and they were coming someone got to muhammad ﷺ and told him that ابو سفیان and them are coming and this is the condition upon which they are coming which means they heavily armed you know what اللہ mentions this in the quran اللہ says you remember the time when the people came to the messenger ﷺ and told him that those people are coming those people are coming you need to be scared of them you need to fear them you need to watch out for them and what did the the prophet ﷺ do what happened to the true believers اللہ says it increased their conviction it made them firm in their faith and they said اللہ is sufficient for us and he is the best disposer of our affairs my brothers my sisters when اللہ closes a door for you and a second door and a third door and a fourth door it is because the fifth door will lead you to a place way beyond the first four doors you have to be convinced you tried something اللہ closed the door you came out again you tried something اللہ closed the second door and the third whether it was a marriage and you ended up divorce once twice some of some of the brothers and sisters especially the sisters who've been divorced more than twice they will tell you i've given up now i'm not going to marry why perhaps the next man or the one after the next man will be such a lovely person that you'll forget about the other five characters that you were married to yes but if you stop that's where everything stops you gave up that's where your hope stops you lost a job a second one a third you applied one they didn't accept it they rejected it one two three four five i applied for 10 jobs no one's giving me a job because اللہ says you know what the 12th one is actually a mega mega deal subhanallah that's why we don't want you to get these 10 but after five you're giving up what's happening you are doing something wrong don't react in that way the reaction of giving up hope is not part of the dictionary of a mo'min a believer does not give up hope when something happens you suffered a loss today a loss tomorrow one year business is not going right two years something is going wrong for as long as you did not give up hope and you keep thanking Allah and you keep trying trust me five years later that multimillion dollar deal that people were waiting notice i said dollar not rinse that people were waiting for subhanallah came to you but what happened the five years you struggled suddenly you shut up to the top that was allah why you reacted with hope in the face of that which would have brought about hopelessness to those who don't believe اللہ اکبر حسبون اللہ و نعم الوکیل اللہ is sufficient for me for us and he is the best disposer of our affairs اللہ says the verse after that what a beautiful verse اللہ says as a result of that conviction that they had and the dua that they made حسبون اللہ و نعم الوکیل we actually converted for them whatever there was in terms of fear that they may have been or may have been warned about into a beautiful coolness a calmness success and victory how did victory come they reacted correctly let me give you another reaction in the quran you know sometimes we hear some news news is either good or bad it's either about peace or about war it's either about something positive or negative important pieces of news how do we react let me tell you typically what we do someone says you know what there is okay let me make it a bit interesting rather than saying something negative you say you desperately need butter for example let's say ghee now ghee you know what ghee is okay not many people know so you desperately need it and someone tells you it's at one tenth of the price at the store that is across the road what are you going to do a lot of people would start forwarding messages with a good heart with a good heart this i'm giving you a very light example with a good heart you start forwarding messages martial arts good but the problem is if you need it what you've got to do is make sure you've secured your one or two tons before everybody else gets it so you start making a move but if you're going to announce it before you've done anything about yourself you might sit and say guy you know what i needed it more desperately than everybody else but they've all got it and i don't have it okay that's a simple light example what would be the best thing to do the best thing is make your plan and while you're doing that you can let the rest know there's a time to tell the people there's a place to tell the people i give you a more serious example if there is a man with a gun out there and someone sees it there are so many ways of reacting he can either start screaming yelling and then this guy takes what happens with the thief you ask those who know i think you're in cape town people know when someone wants to hijack a vehicle from gatesville he is a fool the reason is you can't come out of gatesville you're not going to get out of this place and when that happens do you know that he will start panicking if he has a weapon the thieves a lot of the times they use these weapons when they start panicking okay so if you're in the wrong place wrong time there's going to be cross fire do you understand what i'm saying when a thief comes in if he's armed there's a different way of dealing with this we're we're fortunate we are from africa that's why we taught this drill people who are hearing this lecture living in other countries might be saying what is he talking about but it's a fact if a man is armed you deal with him differently very different you got to make sure he says you say look take what you want he says look down you look down look up you look up things that you wouldn't even do in salah astaghfirullah you know a lot of us when Allah says do this do that we don't do it but a thief with a gun says do it we did it خلاص on the ground you're on the ground but five salah we're not on the ground اللہ تعالیٰ اکبر من اللہ تعالیٰ فرقیب از لہذا you know how to react because or you should be because if you react wrongly it's going to become dangerous so if you scream and the guy panics there's a problem rather you can you you deal with the situation you can let one or two people know you know a certain uncle you know someone else you know you know the security of the masjid for example there's always security in the masjids mostly you know like we say unmarked vehicles they are unmarked security members that are here a lot of you might know them some of you might not know them but they're there so now what happens subhanallah you deal with them in a beautiful way the problem is solved when people come out they heard you know there was a guy who tried his luck but he was dealt with he was dealt with why because you dealt with it and you reacted in the correct way so اللہ speaks about this in the quran you know the hypocrites اللہ says when news of peace security or war or uncertainty lack of security comes to them they broadcast it without thinking they broadcast it first thing they do they let the whole world know this is what happened and اللہ says had they approached the messenger صل اللہ علیہ وسلم had they approached those with sound intellect sound knowledge with that piece of information they would have known how to process that information and react as a result of what they heard or what they know when you get news that is very important you don't just broadcast it when you get news that is serious either way whether it's good or bad you don't just broadcast it first you ask yourself what am i about to do when you make a profit of a million rands you don't broadcast it people might become jealous the thieves will know where to go because you broadcasted it when you have a loss sometimes you don't just broadcast it sometimes you might want to keep it within because you don't want to give an opportunity for those who dislike you to laugh and to become happy at your loss it happens that's why there is a dua where we are taught to say oh allah do not let our enemies become happy at our loss سبحان اللہ don't give our enemies a chance to laugh at us that's a dua مئے اللہ سبحانہ و تعالیٰ قرant us ease so my brothers and sisters to react the quran is telling you when something happens to you you need to know how to react ائے انہ لی اللہ و انہ علیہ راجعون حسبنا اللہ و نعم الوکیل or you need to know whether or not to broadcast that news and how and to who now i get to one serious matter that came to me a few days ago two three days ago so there are people who hate islam you know that that hatred is based a lot of the times on ignorance ignorance because of that they hate the prophet ﷺ due to that ignorance i'd like to put it at ignorance i don't want to get it further because i've seen people who've hated and later on they became muslim okay so we don't want to say anything besides ignorance they're ignorant so one of the dutch mp's senior senior guy in the political hierarchy he decided to fire up something called draw a cartoon of محمد 2018 صلى اللہ علیہ وسلم Right and the competition is on ڈو بلہ مئی اللہ پروٹیکٹ اس و مئی اللہ گائد اوڈ بلہ what will it do to us it is provoking us that's what it is provocation someone telling you we're going to draw dirty cartoons and it's my right to do it we tell them my dear brother in humanity you're making a mistake you don't know the messenger صلى اللہ علیہ وسلم you don't know islam you're blaming a faith that has promoted peace over the centuries by looking at a few issues that have affected you and perhaps those around you and a few others and you're blaming two billion people and on top of that the messenger peace بھی اپنے ہمہوں who brought about a lot of the goodness that we have today from اللہ سبحانہ حوالہ علیہ وسلم I'm talking of as mankind a lot of what we have today is taken from islam whether you like it or not you might be ignorant but it actually is so we say my dear brother in humanity we'd like you to rethink that position you are inciting and provoking people to do that which nobody on earth wants and that is violence that is hatred that is enmity that is warfare we don't want it the مسلمs are being killed more than anything else take a look at the millions that have been killed within the last 12 years 15 years who killed them go back and check اللہ سبحانہ حوالہ forgive us may Allah strengthen us as an umma may Allah grant us wisdom so the reaction how should it be they will keep on drawing their cartoons but i want you to consider something when they harmed نبی صل اللہ علیہ وسلم انطا اف and in his life in his person he reacted with a beautiful dua he reacted in a calm way as a result they turned to islam whole سین i guarantee you my brothers and sisters from this pulpit of friday here in mustodal coulds in cape town i want to tell you every time they have drawn cartoons or come out with blasphemous videos scores of people have turned to islam as a direct result of what they did i guarantee you that is what has happened and keeps on happening today it's very difficult to enter the fold of islam because it's difficult to be a muslim the way we looked at with the eye of scepticism but there are people against all odds turning to islam because they saw a cartoon they saw a video they decided you know we know so many muslims let's go into it let's study so these videos and cartoons have actually made people want to look into the reality when they went into the reality they said this is the truth wallahi i know people personally personally not just one but many whom this has happened to but when we react with hooliganism we are now vindicating those who are saying islam is a barbaric faith therefore my call and my plea to you my beloved brothers and sisters from the bottom of my heart i am telling you when you see negativity please react in the wise way ask yourself how would nabi محمد صل اللہ علیہ وسلم react he would not make a استغفر اللہ i don't even want to say it he wouldn't do anything negative so yes we are provoked yes we will be upset but be proactive use the opportunity to educate people give a little pamphlet you saw those cartoons yes i did well i just want you to read about the person they trying to blaspheme because allah says in the quran oh محمد peace be upon him you are way beyond everybody else in your rank in your status no matter what anyone does against you to mock at you to try and make a fool of you they will only be making a fool of themselves they will be mocking at themselves your status is engraved it's already there nothing will change it that's a guarantee of the quran allah tells محمد صل اللہ علیہ وسلم we have protected your reputation from the mockery of those who want to mock سبحان اللہ when they mocked what happened it destroyed their reputation not محمد صل اللہ وسلم more and more people are following it i want to give you another piece of good news i don't believe my half an hour is up if it wasn't جمعہ i would have probably lengthened it but my brothers and sisters a powerful example i want to give you right now it makes me shiver when i think my brothers and sisters do you know the population of the globe at the moment is more than it ever was before do you agree and the population of muslims on earth who makes sujood for allah is more than it ever was from the beginning of humanity to this day i promise you don't lose hope in the mercy of allah the dean of allah is solid it is strong yes we do have problems we will manage them by the help of allah we do have crises do not be despondent we do have splits we do have disunity but by the help of allah if we keep on reminding people of our duties unto one another to speak with each other with respect to be able to react correctly when things go wrong when things don't go the way we'd like them to go then we will definitely be serving the dean there is a lot to hope for look at this masjid my brothers and sisters i want to let you know the masjid is packed to capacity isn't that a sign that we are connected to allah why lose hope this is the house of allah we are about to put our heads on the ground for allah i'm going to put my head on the ground inshallah for the sake of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala not once but so many times whereas those magicians at the time of the prophet musa alayhi salam they were evil people but when they turned to the dean and when they made one prostration not two not five one prostration for allah allah says we wiped out all their sins granted them jannah in return if one prostration could wipe out everything they did my brothers and sisters i've made thousands of prostrations may allah accept at least one so have you so have all of us smile there is hope allah is رب غفور allah is most merciful allah is the most forgiving the most beneficent and i end off with the same statement my brothers and sisters let's learn not to react in a negative way to anything that happens to us