 فهاؤُمنا الحمد لله وسرات والسرم على سيدٍ وحبيبٍ رسول الله وعلى آله وأصحابه ومنواله اللهم إنا نعود بك من شرور أنفسنا ومسيات عمالنا اللهم إنا مؤمنون ونستفرقون وتبويليك وهانحنو متذللون أمامكم وانت أرحم الراحمين أنت الذي خلقتنا وانت الذي هديتنا وانت الذي جعتها الدين الكريم هداية لنا وهديتاً لأنفسنا منكم ومن فضلكم يا رحم الراحمين الحمد لله The The human condition is a condition of tribulation you know إمام الجونيد he said that I'll start to uslend that I took as a foundation or principle like an axiom something you live by and since and since I took that as a principle to live my life by I've never been troubled by what the world brings to me and he said and the principle is that a dunya دارو هامن وغمن وبلاءن وبطيراءن وفتنة وتدقاني بكلما أكره that this dunya isn't a boat of tribulation of difficulties of grief and sorrow and and also strife and conflict and it's designed to meet me with everything that I dislike and so he said that that's the principle that he he took as foundational to his life and then he said so whenever it comes with other than those things it's pure grace from Allah and you have to be feel an immense sense of gratitude and but he said that the first is the usl so the other is father and Allah says that he created the human beings to try them to test them and these are the tests that come and but he also tells us constantly in the Quran that if you make toba and turn to Allah that he will send good to you and do good things and so part of the problem with humans is that they they do all the sinfulness and then they don't when when when they actually get the results of their sins they don't take responsibility and that's it that's not just in in in big things like that are happening but also in just lesser things so in your individual lives so collectively because the judgment of of nations is in the dunya you know the the judgment of nations is in the dunya the judgment of individuals in the أخرة so in the in the in the in the Quran Allah says لاتزيروا وازراتون وزر أخرى no sin bears the sins of another person but out of the actually I think had the most profound understanding of that because he said that's actually in the أخرة it's not in the dunya is that lots of people bear the sins of other people in the dunya you get affected by what people did so people now in the middle east are suffering because what people did a hundred years ago right so we actually do get the effects of but we're not taken to account for those sins and that's why in the أخرة only is the judgment of individuals not the judgment of nations people are judges individual but in the dunya the good the bad the ugly everybody when the tribulation comes it gets the innocent the children you know haven't they seen how children suffer وشبهو فهذا المحاة I don't think that Allah doesn't test people collectively in the dunya in the أخرة there's no in taz اليوم أيها المجرمون all the mood you want over to the side here and and then it's split and then even on the سرات the Prophet ﷺ said that there's these مكالل there's these machine they're like scanners you know and they come and they and they're made of metal the Prophet ﷺ said that and they have like كلمس they so they clamp onto the soul so this is some spiritual thing we can't understand it to but everybody is going to see it so when you're walking across the سرات these they scan you and and if if the Imam is not strong then it latches on and and we know now they do these scans and they can see if your body is sick or not so the spiritual scanning makes perfect sense and نُدِهِمْ أَيَاتِينَ فِرَا فَاقُلُ فِيُمْفُسِينَ so they it latches on and then the soul will fight and that's why the Prophet ﷺ is at the end of this سرات saying اللهم سلم سلم like help my people أسفل الله أسفل الله أتوب إلي اللهم أفلنا ورحمنا واتوب علينا إنك أنت توب رحيم سيد النوح who is you know just سبحان الله one of the أول العزمي من الرسول and and he was with a people that mocked him for a long time and the Quran says almost a thousand years he was mocked by his people and he just kept calling them in total utter patience and then the moment that Allah told them that they won't know nobody's going to believe then he asked to remove them as long as he had hope that they would believe but when Allah told him that your people will not believe that was the point when he made the dua against them and which is very rare for prophets because they generally don't make dua against their people they ask for their people's guidance the Prophet ﷺ was asked in the Sahih Hadith to make dua against the مشركين it's in Sahih Muslim and he said ما أبعتوا العانة لكنني أبعتوا رحمة I went and sent to curse I was sent to as a mercy so he was always looking for the mercy but نوح عليه السلام he told them قطو أستغفروا ربكم like ask forgiveness in who can a ghaffara he will forgive you he's off forgiving يرسلوا عليكم سماء مدرار he will send the rains from the heavens for you and he was telling them that if you ask forgiveness and turn to Allah so these tribulations are actually opportunities to make dua and just to repent and ask Allah to forgive us and to you know to you know to remove these blights from us so really and this is what in Surat Ar-Rum when Allah سبحانه وتعالى says بهر الفساد في البري والبحري بيما كزبت أيد الناس you know that فساد which is a comprehensive word there's no single translation in English for that word because it has pollution it has corruption it has foundness it has a lot of different meanings in the Arabic language you say فسادة الفاكهة you know the fruit went bad right so it has many things فسادر أسنان you know dental carries or فساد so things when they go bad it's فساد so this foundness has shown up manifested on the land and in the sea in one of the great Turkish Ottoman Qaldis and Mufassirun he's buried in Istanbul in his تفسير he says ومن هذر فساد دهور الحراق one of the signs of this فساد is fires that spread so people don't realize that that there's a there's a metaphysical just like you have laws of physics so in laws of physics you know about a Newtonian physics not in quantum but in Newtonian a body at rest will stay at rest unless acted upon by another body that's a lot of physics those cause and effect but there are metaphysical laws and this is where the prophets the physical laws can be understood by the but the metaphysical laws can only be understood by by revelation and the difference of the people is the people that believe those metaphysical laws and the people that don't if you don't believe the physical laws in this dunya like if you're driving a hundred miles per hour and you think you can go through that wall you will die if you think you can jump off a roof like in a film or something you know these Chinese films where they jump off high roofs and they just land they're like flying if you think you can do that and I mean I'm sure there's probably oh the other could do that but for us if you think you can do that you will kill yourself because you're you're going against physical laws of physics the metaphysical laws are exactly the same if you go against them and one of the things about the metaphysical laws is that they're not the same they're different for different people like physical laws we all share them metaphysical laws are different the more you know the worse it is the more you know and that's why the the Sufis who have a very interesting understanding of the world they would always look on people that were sinful as maybe better than them if they were ignorant because they knew and they were still sinning so and that's why the umma gets more tribulation the prophet said جرع العذاب و أمتي في دنياها the adab of my umma is in this dunya so the other people you see them and Muslims wonder like when we have earthquakes 10,000 people die when they have earthquakes 10 people die and the Muslim wonder like why what's happening I mean partly it's because they have much better engineers and they have all these codes that we used to have the Ottomans had those things that's true but the other thing is a reality too is that you know this is the adab of our umma is in this world and but in the next world all the people who had wonderful time here many of them will have horrible time there not all of them but many of them and the people that suffered the most here won't even remember their suffering there's a river that you swim through in Jannah and you come out on the other side the river of life and the people that suffered they're like when they go into the river coming out of hell but when they go into the river they're restored and Allah asks them have you ever known suffering they say you know I never knew suffering so these things aren't fairy tales they're they're things that the prophets came and the prophets bring them in all these different places around the earth where did they get the where did they get the and through long periods of time like a Jewish profit and then five hundred years later another Jewish profit saying the same thing because nobody teachers have students and they disagree with them you know in dunya sciences but not in the after sciences they're in agreement I'll call you خولي هلا أستغفر الله أستغفر الله أستغفروا ربكم may Allah forgive us all الحمد لله والصرات والسرم وعلى سيدنا رسول الله وعلى آله وصحبيه ومنواله الحمد لله الله سبحانه وتعالى وَنَهِسَدْ وَلَنَهُ بُلُوَنَّكُمْ بِشَيْئِنْ مِنَ خَوْفِيْ وَجُورِيْ مُنَقْسِمِنَ الْأَمْوَارِيْ وَنَا اُنْفُسِيْ وَالْتَمْرَاتِ when he said that the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the من جنون، اللهم يعطوك من الجنوني والجذام، وسوء الأسقام، ايسيك رفيجينيو من مادنس، because people get afflicted with madness, and from like Viraligo and from foul diseases, like Saratan, these are things that Prophet said, his uncle came to him and he said he said يا رسول الله علمني شيء أسر الله، you know teach me something I can ask Allah and he said صلى الله العافية، he said ask Allah for well-being and then Abbas said I went for several days and then I came back and he said يا رسول الله علمني شيء أسر الله، teach me something and he said يا عمه رسول الله، صلى الله العافية، you know he just reiterated it, like ask Allah for well-being عافية is comprehensive word for just being in a good state, like right now, what a blessing you know the air is much clearer than it's been and so the more gratitude we show يا رسول الله علمني شيء أسر الله، he's declared that if you show gratitude, he will increase you but the trials and tribulations will come and some of you I know there's people in this here just sitting in this gathering that have had immense tribulation in your life and the Prophet ﷺ said that if Allah loves the people, they get more tribulation you know so there's a lot of tribulation now the other thing about this country and I got into trouble years ago like the day before 911 for saying that this country had a great tribulation coming to it but people here don't relate what we do in other places to what happens here you know and I mean my father who became Muslim at the very end of his life with Dr. Assad you know he was a very contemplative person here he thought very deeply about things before long before he was a Muslim he was so distraught about what happened in Iraq you know he just he was distraught you know and he was a war war two veteran so he joined the Air Force at 17 you know got an early diploma from high school and that was the type war that they saw that you know like everybody felt it was a just war but he was so troubled and he used to tell me and I never heard him use this word but he said one day he said I really am troubled by the karma that this country has coming to it you know so this country needs Toba because they don't realize there's a lot of good people in this country and most of them aren't responsible for what's happened but because there's so little real concern about what happens and they just one thing happens after another and people sit by and watch these things happen and don't really do anything that builds up and so we don't know what's coming to this country but it's these are troubling times you know these are troubling times and you can see the country kind of being pulled apart at the seams you know and people different people came here some of you came as refugees I know a few people in here are refugees and this country was a great refuge for people and provide a lot of opportunities those of us who were born here and raised here I don't want harm for this country I don't want any evil for this country you know these are good people generally and but there's a real lack of guidance and this country has lost its way you know it's lost its way I mean they had guidance in their Christian tradition but the many people have abandoned that but their young people don't they have no guidance like spiritual because the Ten Commandments is a huge amount of guidance like if you just follow the Ten Commandments you are in good shape with Allah سبحانه وتعالى so we should you know just ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to Yalla Tief is a good name in fact traditionally the people of Allah that was the name that they called on was the Yalla Tief because it's the name that يجلب الخير و يدفع الشر it brings good and it repels harm الحمد لله سبحانه وتعالى ان شاء الله to forgive all of us and to just bring some guidance to this country and you know and you know and Andoba you know repentance because we they used to have these days of repentance like the sum of this prayer is to fast three days before because fasting you do fasting as a way of expiation in our religion fasting is too it's for a bad but it's also for expiation like when you when you do wrongs fasting can be an actuation for it لكن في هذا البيت they used to have days of fasting like literally the president of the united states would tell everybody to fast and repent i mean that that was a practice in this country they don't do things like that anymore if you do they think you're crazy so these are things that we should do so i'm gonna make dua inshallah we ask Allah الله سبحانه وتعالى to forgive us and to just return us to guidance our community and also the greater community. If people just stay. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصراته وسلم وعلى سيدنا محمد وعلى صحبي وسلم تسليم كثيرة اللهم إنك أنت تسمع من يدعوك فسمع لنا يا الرحمن الرحمن الله مستجب أنت قدت وقورك الحق أنك تجيب المضطر إذا دعاك اللهم نحن مضطرون في هذا البلاء وفي هذه الفتن وفي هذه هذا الوباء ونسألك يا رحمن الرحمن أنت تتوب علينا إنك أنت تتواب يا الله نستغفرك ونتوب إليك إنك أنت تتواب الله مغفل لنا ورحمنا يا رب العالمين يا رحمن الرحمن يا رطيف يا رطيف انت رطيف بعملتك بلطف بنا في مجرد بها المقادير اللهم أكشف عن العداب اللهم اكشف عن هذا الدخان اللهم أكشف عن هذه الحرائق اللهم أطفي هذه الحرائق يا رحم الراحمين بما السماء أنت أرحم الراحمين اللهم أنت الذي خلقتنا ونحن مخلقون دعفة لا قوتنا ولا حول لنا أنت قوي وأنت العزيز وأنت قادر على كل شيء اللهم أقدر لنا يا الله الخير حيث ما كان اللهم أقدر لنا الخير حيث ما كان يا رحم الراحمين اللهم أغفر هذا القوم في إنهم لا يعلمون اللهم أردهم إلى رشتهم يا أرحم الراحمين اللهم بارك في هذه الأرض يا الله اللهم أسقي البهائم والحيوانات و الطيور أنت أرحم الراحمين لا إله إلا أنت سبحانكا اللهم يا رحم اللهم أرحم بنا يا لطيف ألطف بنا ياغفغ فِلّنا ya عزيز أعزّنا الله ما ياء رحم الرحمين اللهما يا تواب اللهما يا آظيم اللهما يا عظيم اعظم إيماننا في قلوبنا يا أرحم Run رحمين اللهما يا صبور صبرنا يا الله اللهم يا صبور صبرني يا الله الله ما غفلنا ورحمنا وتُبع علينا لا سُمعت ولا رياء يا رحم الراحيمين اللهم أنت الحق اللهم أنت العظيم اللهم آمن نبكة اللهم نؤمن بكة ونؤمن بنبيك الكريم ورضينا به نبياً ورسولة ورضينا برقران كتاباً ودستورة ورضينا بكة يا عظيم رباً كريماً اللهم عافينا في أبداننا وعافينا في أراضينا وعافينا في طعامنا وفي شرابنا اللهم عافينا يا أرحم الراحيمين اللهم جعل هذا النبي الكريم شافعاً مشفع لنا دنياً والآخرة يا أرحم الراحيمين وصلى الله عليه وسلم على سيدنا محمد وعلى آلى وصحبه وسلم تسيم كثيرة سبحان ربك رب العزة عما يصيفون والسلام على عمر السليم رحمد لله رب العالمين الحمد لله الله يتقبّن إن شاء الله