Juz 26: Don't Run From Struggle | Sh. Mikaeel Smith | Season 7

“Be like the blade of grass that blows with the wind.”

Sh. Mikaeel Smith joins Dr. Omar Suleiman and Sh. Abdullah Oduro and shares powerful insights on what it truly means to trust Allah. He reflects on the Sahabah (ra), who were always ready to pivot when the moment called for it, moving with certainty, courage, and complete reliance upon their Lord.

Can we ever reach that level of trust, where we rely on Allah fully, even in the most uncertain and unsettling times?

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:04

We're all going through something tough right now.

SPEAKER_01 0:07

But maybe you need to reframe that. Sometimes we may think that the capabilities of Allah is within our minds. Therefore, we have expectations of Allah, even though sometimes it you know it's Hasan, inshallah. It's good thoughts about Allah, but we will never cease to be amazed by what Allah chooses to do.

SPEAKER_00 0:24

With Gaza, right? It doesn't look like victory. This doesn't look like victory. This doesn't feel like victory, but there are different shades of victory. Asalaamu alaikum rahmatullah, everyone. Welcome back to Quran 30 for 30. Alhamdulillah, we are in Juz 26. As we come up to the most special nights of the year, as we come into the 27th, we want to remind you all to please, inshaAllah, support the work of Yaqeen. Fun fact between the 27th and 29th is when we get the most support for Yaqeen throughout the year. So it's very important, inshaAllah ta'ala, whatever you can give. I hope you've benefited Bidn Laita and I hope that you want to see other people connect to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as well, inshaAllah, and want to invest in that work. So we want to remind you to please give out that link, whatever it is, even if you've already given, inshaAllah, and please also make dua for us. May Allah Azza allow us to be amongst those that observe Laylatul Qadr. Allah Ma'amen. We're blessed today to have Shaykh Mikhail Smith Alhamdulillah. Shaykh Mikhail, how's it going? It's good to be here.

SPEAKER_03 1:22

Amazing. Amazing how fast the year goes by. But it's good to be here at Alhamdulillah.

SPEAKER_00 1:26

Alhamdulillah. Shaykhman, like I was reflecting. I'm gonna tell you about it. I have you in my phone uh still with Baltimore.

SPEAKER_03 1:32

Oh man, we got Baltimore. I'll have to change the cards. The DMV gonna love that one, bro. I'm Dallas through and through now, bro. Officially adopted Dallas. Yeah, I mean, we could do that. Some of the night.

SPEAKER_00 1:44

The DMV, like halas Baltimore, they're good people.

SPEAKER_03 1:47

I love them. MashaAllah, donate to heavy DMV. Heavy. We love you. Alhamdulillah. But Dallas is just different, man. Alhamdulillah. And so but the believer is wherever Allah wants us to be. Like, we're just doing the work, man. Like Sahaba moved. How much did they love Medina? But then when it was time, they had to go, you know?

SPEAKER_00 2:07

Okay, there you go. That's a good way to save yourself. So they don't have to leave Medina. So they both do it. You got it, Shaykh. You got it. Sheikh, why do you speak Urdu, man? How does your Urdu know? I learned it because I have to say this your Urdu is better than Mufti Abdurhana Wahid. My assessment. No, no, no, wait. My assessment. Next level.

SPEAKER_03 2:32

And anyone who actually knows Urdu very well will know my sentence was really like fabish. But uh Fabish. Fab-ish, you know, fab-ish. You know what I mean? Is that a bad word? Is that okay to say? No, it's okay. Okay. We can run that.

SPEAKER_00 2:48

Um Shaykh Mikhail on a serious note. Yes, yes. MashaAllah, you teach the names of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. My family has benefited tremendously from it. Alhamdulillah. May Allah bless you. What's your favorite name of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala?

SPEAKER_03 2:59

Oh, a name that has changed me drastically in the last like month is a shakur. I think a lot of us put so much pressure to do and per produce and to uh like reach high standards that have been set maybe because of our childhood or whatever. Like I gotta get this done, I gotta do that, I gotta do that. But the name Shakur, it does two things. Uh-huh. It reminds you that it's the little bit that you do that Allah loves. It's the little bit that you do that Allah loves. And then it shifts your mind from focusing on needing it from the people and only wanting it from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Now there's a whole lecture to give on we need to become Ma Mishkrinas, Lamishkirilla, like that's there. But for me, man, I felt like so many parts of my life I was I was seeking approval and appreciation from the creation. And it's not just he appreciates, when the scholars define it, they say he appreciates it a little bit. And to me, man, I think so many of us from childhood were told, you know, you gotta get good grades, you gotta do this. And so the levels of where we gotta get to are high. And we live with that burden on our shoulders. And so that name shakur for me has whenever I feel stressed to produce and do, now don't get me wrong, we have to grind in. But sometimes it's stressful. And that's where I just a shakur. Beautiful, beautiful reflection.

SPEAKER_00 4:38

Tell you alhamdulillah, with that, uh, I know we're gonna have a rich discussion, inshaAllah. So I actually want to purposefully not take too long at all with the overview, but how is Allah talking about himself in this duas in particular? Uh something really interesting, you know, and and you go from one of the sequences, I'm sure I've mentioned this in the past, but I absolutely love it. As one of the ulama had mentioned, that uh you have first al-ahf, which is the warning, right? And then you have surat Muhammad, right, which is Surat al-Khital. And then you have Surat, Fatah, right? The victory. And so as the scholars mentioned, the call is always followed by the fight, the fight is always followed by victory, that even in the way that those surahs are laid out is absolute beauty. But Allah Azza mentions here, that if you turn away, Allah will replace you with another group of people, and they will not be like you. Right? Allah Azzawajal, Allah Azza is free of need, and you are entirely needy, right? So even though Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is giving us the opportunity and saying, like, look, you either take it or leave it, but Allah will replace you with another group of people if you don't take it. And whether it is you or them, Allah Azwajal is Al-Ghaniyu, Fuqara. Allah Azwajal is the one who is free of need, and you are the one who is entirely uh needy. So it's really interesting here that you have that um warning of istibdal. May Allah not replace us. Istibdal is to be replaced. Allah mista'minna, testabdilla. Allah use us and don't replace us. Allah ma'ameen. If you don't do your job, Allah Azza will find other people to do the job. And subhanAllah, you find in the next surah-saqina safikuru iman and ma'imanihim, that he is the one who sent down tranquility into the hearts of the believers so that they may increase in faith upon their faith. And to Allah belongs the heavens and the earth, and Allah is all-knowing and all-wise. So Allah Azjal mentions how He prepares your hearts for the mission should you go forward. You know, subhanAllah relating to this concept of ashakur, that if you show that you are up to it, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will make you up to it, right? Allah Azjal will bring you to the level that you need to be to meet the task. Because otherwise, carrying this amana of the religion is way too heavy. We're all gonna fail. But if you're sincere, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will bring you to the place that you need to be with success. Now, here is uh the last verse that I'll mention here. Uh Srut al-Fate, right? Uh Bay'at al-Rudwan, the pledge under the tree. This is istibdal in action. How? You know, there are these major markers in the serah. There is uh Asabi kun al-awaloon, from Muhajarin, right? Those that first embraced Islam with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, then you have Ashabul Hijrah, those that made the Hijrah to Abyssinya, then you have those that made the Hijrah to Medina, then you have Ashabul Hijratain, those that made both hijras, then you have uh the Badriyun, who are the highest calibr of the companions, then you have the Uhud group that stayed with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, so Thabatum and Ma'an Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. The last major marker is Bay'atul Rulwan, is the pledge under the tree. After that, La Hijra ta'ba'ad al-Fatih, there is no hijrah after the Fath. Obviously, Kulan wa'adallah al-Husna, Allah Azza grants everyone their their customized rank and reward. But as a group, those that embraced Islam after Fatih Makkah, right? So they're not the same, those that came after as a quality of people in terms of overall caliber. So this is uh istibdal in action, you know, truly like Allah chose Salman al-Farsi radiallahu ta'ala anu who come from Persia to be in your place, oh Quraish, because you failed. Allah chose Suhay Bar Rumi, Allah chose Bilali bin Rabah, Allah chose the Ansar of Medina because you failed him in Mecca, right? And then Allah brought him and his companions to the place that he promised to bring them, which was the victory, and inna ladina yuba'irunaka, innama yuba'irunallah, yadullahi, fa'qa'e dihim, that verily those that uh that that give you the pledge, verily they are pledging to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And yadullah, the hand of Allah is above their hands. So they are coming to Allah Azwajal. The victory sometimes is found in the saquina that Allah gives to the the believers in their hearts. And then the one who commands the armies also commands the hearts, and Allah commands the outcomes as well. So this is Sunnah tul-istibdat. Right? Allah chose another group of people because the people of Mecca, those that rejected, were not up to the call, were not up to the challenge. And Allah did not need any of them throughout this entire process, but Allah wanted to choose some of them in this process. As in our time, of course, He's chosen the people of Gaza, He's chosen uh some of those people that have stood up when other people um have turned on their heels. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protect us from being amongst those Allah Ma'amen. So I want to open that up first and foremost to discussion, Shaykh Abdullah, Shaykh Mikail, uh any any uh observations, inshaAllah, then we'll get into the specific ayah for discussion.

SPEAKER_01 10:06

No, I mean subhanAllah, I mean again, you know, when when looking at how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala chooses people, you can never domesticate the power of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, never domesticate sometimes we may think that the capabilities of Allah is within our minds, therefore we have expectations of Allah, even though sometimes it you know it's personal run, inshaAllah, it's good thoughts about Allah, but we will never cease to be amazed by what Allah chooses to do. And I think that's a beautiful opportunity for the believer to realize I don't have it all figured out, and I will never have it all figured out. But the fact that I make an effort to trust in the one that does have it all figured out is the process of Ibadah and that's servitude in and of itself. And you know, subhanAllah, I love being surprised and saying subhanAllah and saying mashallah. It always reminds me that Allah is in full control of all of this, and Allah is the one that tells us consistently that He will replace the people. So again, history is a huge opportunity for the individual in general to remember God, but for the Muslim in particular to increase their iman with the names and attributes that they know of God. So when you see what is happening throughout history, when we see what is happening to the people of Gaza and the Sudan and nations before, it's always a reminder for us. It's a huge opportunity for us. It can be a fitna for us at times, but the fitness is there to mold you. As fitness, you know, something that you put iron in under heat, and then after it's cooled down, how have you been molded? Mentally, psychologically, spiritually. So when we see what is happening to peoples and nations, know that it's within the qadr of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. That knowledge may be deep to grasp, maybe hard to grasp at times, but the heat, quote unquote, being that it's hard, that it's a struggle, does that cause an emotion, elicit an emotion to make you more vulnerable to him, to where you call on him and further understand the relationship between you and Allah, number one, and then understand the Sunnah to law filun, and to understand Allah's methodology in the existence and time and in place and with people and what happens and how it happens and you know things that we don't want to happen, obviously. What do we learn from that? And the time that you can really learn from that is when you are alone with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So thinking about you know how Allah replaces people with people, how you mentioned Sunman and Fadasi, you know, the the these companions that were not particular particularly Arab, but Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala chose them to be vanguards. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala chose them to be the one that came with the Adan and originated the Adan that we all call on now, subhanAllah. It's a beautiful way in Sunnah Tallah, it's a way that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has chosen for us, but it's important for us to always reflect on that and to think of how Allah's names is manifested in that particular situation, in that person, in that, in that in that era, in that time.

SPEAKER_03 12:52

Beautiful, beautiful. You know, you said uh Sunnah Tallah, right? And the first thing that came to my mind in this juz is um as Shaykh was mentioning the verses about uh mu'minina iduba'iunika tahta shajorah. Like this moment was crazy because like in life we have our expectations, uh-huh, but the believer has to be like that blade of grass that blows with the wind. It just goes with the wind. When the wind blows, it bends. There's a hadith about that. But the idea here is they set out and they thought, we're going for this. This is where we're going, this is it. But they were ready to pivot when the time came to pivot. And to me, that's so profound. And in that moment, with no weapons, with flip-flops on and and their ihram on, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam he says, it's time. They killed Uthman, they murdered the most innocent and gentle of people. It's time, y'all. And in that moment, they didn't blink. Like they didn't blink, man. Like, and they said, Let's go. And immediately Allah, immediately Allah says, then the sakh came down. And so for me, there's these moments, these quintessential moments in history where you prove in your life, where you prove and can gain that radi Allahuan. And and so that's the first thing that comes in my mind is is that moment of uh bayatur and how they proved themselves in that moment. And they had nothing in their hands to fight with, but their heart had firm conviction in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Um the second thing that I wanted to reflect on was what you shared, Shaykh, which was uh, that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants us to see this deen and the struggles of the deen as an opportunity. Like the verbiage is like get in or get get in where you fit in, or you'll miss the opportunity. Right? Like you need to see this not as as something to run from, but something as a great opportunity for you. And I want our listeners to think in life right now, our there's we're all going through something tough right now. But maybe you need to reframe that. Maybe you need to reframe that and see that this is that moment where you can gain God's pleasure. Now, if you don't take this opportunity, Allah says, There's somebody else in line that will take this opportunity waiting. And he just wants you, like subhanAllah, with our kids sometimes. You probably did this. Sometimes your kid will be acting up like they don't want something, and then you offer it to the other kid. You offer it to the other kid, and they'll be like, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I want it. And it wasn't until you saw other people's desire for it that you wanted it. That's our human nature sometimes. And so Allah is tapping into us like, oh, you don't want this dean? Oh, oh, there's some other people. And hopefully the child within this will go, Ya Allah, I want it. Give it to me. And then the end part to me is um, wallahuhani. Because once you get the motivation to do the work of the dean, shaytan will come in and start making you feel like you're doing something. Like, like this dean needs me. This deen needs Wednesday night halaqah. Man, you don't need Wednesday night halaqah. This need this deen needs your the next book you write. This deen needs the the the nonprofit that you started. No. When Moses helped the the the daughters of Shu'aib at the well, when he helped them, he went back and sat down and he said, Ya Allah, I'm in need of every good. So it's just a mentality that after we work and do the work of Deen, you have to, you have to say, Ya Allah, you don't need this, but I need every opportunity to do khayat and do good. Wallahu Alam, man. It's just this beautiful Quran, just I'll tell you what, subhanAllah, it's not lost on me.

SPEAKER_00 17:08

The irony is that we're talking about istibdal, and there are people that are watching this all over the world, and some of them maybe have been struggling with their deen, and both of you embraced Islam, mashallah. So your parents came from Ghana, you embraced Islam here in Houston, you embraced Islam with Alhamdulillah. I mean, so both of you coming from that and then went to study the deen and and Alhamdulillah, and become torture bears of May Allah accepted from the same.

SPEAKER_03 17:30

I mean, Shaykh, honestly, bro, but like I worry about my istibdal, man. Of course not. Like, I I was like, I honestly, man, like I worry about my istibdal, and I and I know it was nothing I did to deserve this. Nothing. Not there's n I look at where I was in my life at the time. I was 18, just 20 something years ago. And I was lost in darkness. But Allah is Kareem. And Kareem is the one who gives to those who don't deserve. And some of our listeners right now, they're listening and they're like, but I don't deserve, I don't deserve. I was talking to someone last night, and they're like, and they said all of my du'as are being answered, but I don't deserve it. I was like, none of us deserve this. I said, sister, get in line. None of us deserve any of this. Hatta al-Rasul. No one will enter Jannah but Amal. The Sahaba were chart. They said, Because it was, was it anybody's amal or is it just, you know what I mean, right? So he said, they said, Walla antiya Rasulullah. He said, Walla ana, illa ain't, I can't even enter. Except who? Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He said, except if Allah doesn't just shower his mercy. So if we have people on the 26th ninth of Ramadan saying, I can't make dua shaykh, I don't deserve, I don't, don't none of us deserve it. Stop looking at yourself and look at him. Right? SubhanAllah.

SPEAKER_00 19:17

You don't have to, you don't have to apologize. Beautiful reflections. So coming back to a very particular part of the surah here. Now you mentioned the sahabu are ready to go. So you have, you know, you'll you'll read in the biographies, you want to do the first, you know, ashab al-badr or ashab al badr or uh canum and ashab al-shajra. This was one of the people of the tree, or one of the people of Badr. These are very special people, right? That were willing to go always when the Prophet asked them to. But sometimes withholding is harder than going, right? They were ready to go. But then once they were told not to go, it's like, oh wait, like this doesn't feel like victory. This doesn't feel like fathir. And so they had to see the Prophet shave his head and sacrifice at the advice of Um Salamardiallahu ta'an. And then finally, like they begrudgingly, right, they do it because, like, man, we we got into a zone, and now we can't go. You know, now we have to turn back, right? And this doesn't feel like fateh, this doesn't feel like victory, but victory comes in different ways. So the verse, right? He is the one who has sent his messenger with right guidance and the religion of truth to prevail over all else. And sufficient is Allah as a witness. What I think about is you know, when uhud happens and Alhamdulillah is laying in the field, the battlefield with his torso opened, and uh Abdullah, the father of Jabir Abdullah i Haram radiallahu annual has his nose cut off, and like people are mutilated in the battlefield, and Abu Sufyan is gloating from the battlefield. And at that moment, the answer is Qatlana fuljanawa khatlaqum finah. Our dead are in paradise, your dead are in hellfire, right? Allahu ma'wlana wallaqum. Allah is our protector, you have no protector. It doesn't look like victory. Yeah, and a lot of people felt that after, right? Or feel that with Ghaza, right? It doesn't look like victory. This doesn't look like victory, this doesn't feel like victory, but there are different shades of victory. Yeah. And the way Allah Azza talks about this ayah sounds almost identical to uh Surah Saf, right? Yeah. Oh uh mushrikun, or karih al kafir. The first one kafir one. The order in any case, yeah, the order. I'm I'm mixing up the order. It'll be here in two days, inshallah. It'll be here in two days. I'll think of it inshallah shortly. But the the end here is different. So in Surah Al-Saf, it's even if they don't like it. Okay. Yeah. Here it's and Allah was witnessing it the whole time. So Shaykh Mikael, what is the hikmah, the wisdom here of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala being the witness to it all and what true victory actually is in this context? The name of Allah is Shaheed, like being used in this context.

SPEAKER_03 22:03

Yeah, well kaffa. I think it's the the the kafa is an important part. The word kafa means sufficient enough. Um and and and I think the ver the way the verse is structured.

SPEAKER_00 22:14

By the way, before you finish, there you go. It was like, I gotta get it. I gotta get it. Gotcha. We have that type of relationship we can cut each other. It's all good.

SPEAKER_03 22:30

Alhamdulillah, man. So wa kafah, have fun. So but I'm gonna back up actually. The the very the verse right before this, fathan karibah. Like it's the promise that the fat is coming. Like it's coming, but I can't see it. I can't see it. So there's that yaqeen. Don't forget to donate, inshaAllah. There's that yaqeen that's needed, that yakeen, that certainty. But right after this fathan kharibah, this prophecy of a fat that will be soon followed, and sure enough, it came quick. Right after that, in the very next verse, is what Shaykh Omar is referring to. He is the one. It begins with huah. Yani Allah. Allah. So right when the Fathan Kharib comes, is the place you need yaqeen. Who do you need yaqeen in? Huah. Yani hua Allah. Who's in charge? Who did all this? Who set all this up? Going back 19 years, right? We're at Bayatul Radwan. Go back 19 years. Who set all this up? Bil Huda. Wadenil Haq. Why did he send it back in Mecca? 18 years ago, 17 years ago, right? Because we're at Bayatul Rudwan. I think what it's trying to remind us is where did this begin? Who's been in charge from day one? And never forget who's in charge. Never forget who's running the show. That's the first part. A lot of us struggling with our children. Man, who gave you, who set up that marriage? Who, uh, how did your wife conceive? How did like all of this was part of God's plan? Don't look at this moment as a like a like a break in the chain of events. No, this is part of God's plan. He's the one that sent the prophets, the prophet, his prophet, Bilhuda, with this guidance. And he sent him with this deen of truth, this way of life that would distinguish between false and falsehood and truth. Why, though? The lead, the lamb here is like the reason why, the illah. The only reason he brought this, so that this deen could rise above all of the other ways of life. The people of Philistine have shown how to rise above everything. And the world has seen it. The world has seen it clear as day. Is to make it apparent. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying we're gonna go through hardships, but you have to understand that those hardships are to make it apparent what is the right way, what is the top way. But look how it ends. When we're struggling, whenever our children are struggling, it's important that they see or know that we're watching them. They just want to know that you see what I'm going through. When our wives are struggling at home, whatever, or at work, you know, whatever. When a spouse is struggling, what they want most is to know that that struggle is seen. You know what I mean? Like when the family of a yasser is on the sand, the Prophet doesn't just walk by, he stops by Sabar and Ariyasar. Like, I see you. I think this name Shaheed of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is to let us be reminded that He is ever present over the oppression that is happening, He is ever watching every single element. Ibn Kayim al-Josi, he says, a shaheed yani yeshmalu kullum absurat, like everything that is invisible, everything that is heard, and everything that can be witnessed, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying, I'm aware of that. Why do I need to know this? Here's my question. In your life, why do you need to know Allah is as shaheed? That's the question I have for you. The reason you need to know that is because you will for sure go through hard moments, that it will be unbearable. But the only thing that will get you through it is knowing that Allah is watching. But here's the thing, Shaykh, this is, I've been thinking about this, man. A lot of us, we've been told Allah is watching, but we always were told Allah is watching in a way that made us scared. Think about it. Allah's watching. Allah is watching. Ibn Hazm, in his Taql al-Hamamah, don't read the book ever, but in his book Tawql Hamamah, you know what he says? One of the signs of love is you can't take your eyes off of the beloved. Allah's not watching us because he wants to catch our mistakes. Allah's watching us the way a beloved watches their beloved sleep. Think about when Abdullah was a little baby, how you used to watch him sleep. Maybe now. Your love, Allah isn't watching to catch a slip. Allah is watching because he loves us. And he's saying, I'm enough. He's basically saying, like, who cares who doesn't know? Imagine a child, a young man under rubble who feels that nobody sees me right now. Imagine a wife being abused by her husband who's thinking nobody sees me right now. Imagine a husband who's going through domestic abuse, thinking, who can I talk to? Nobody sees. Not everyone had the privilege of going viral when they were murdered. They just died. And Allah says, Who cares if the world didn't see you? I see you. So here's my question for me, Nikayo. Have I made enough? Have I made Allah enough? That's for me. Have I made Allah enough? He's saying I'm enough for you, but I gotta accept that. And I think a lot of us run through this dunya, and when we get to 60-70, then we realize. But right now I'm thinking in my heart, man. Allah is telling me, Mikayo, I'm enough. You ain't gotta prove nothing to nobody, Habibi. But I'm enough as your witness. And so the Sahaba in this moment, they felt oppressed. They had just watched Abu Jundil dragged away. Like context is crazy here. For those who don't know it, when we signed the Treaty of Hudaybiyah, there were Muslims in bondage that were being dragged back into bondage in front of us. They were screaming at the top of their lungs. Are you gonna let them drag us? We were watching them. Sa, Shaykh, Sahih. And in that moment, Omar, Omar has a moment there. He goes up to Abu Jundal, and one of the he goes, Don't worry, their blood is light in the sight of God. He was trying to tell him, like, handle business if you need to. But in that moment, I think Allah wanted, I know Allah wanted us to know you're gonna have these hard moments. And the only way you get through them is number one, who aladi, know who set this all up. Number two, and what's the reason?

SPEAKER_00 30:23

Shaykh Rabdullah, I'm gonna have you close us off with a thought, inshaAllah, on this.

SPEAKER_01 30:27

I mean subhanAllah, I mean just mentioning the how you contextualize it and then always knowing that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is watching. I mean, that's very, very important. He's well aware. I mean in Shahada, and this is why subhanAllah, any the individual that dies in the path of Allah dies being in an honorable way, dies defending themselves, defending their community, defending the word of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah is well aware of that in shahada. And some scholars say that it's a shahada, and then malaikatasha that the angels witness and the angels report that to Allah, and Allah is an alim at the same time. But Allah chooses his process of how he wants that name to be actualized. What's most important for us is we as Muslims have certainty that Allah is well aware and we are watching, and that is what can be sometimes the only thing that will get you through. As you mentioned, how many people still currently, currently right now, are under rubble, you know, right now? And there are people that are not being heard, you know, and knowing that Allah is a shaheed, that process, that emotional vulnerability is what is needed to find saqina in tranquility, and knowing that name exists and that it is jadi and that it is always there.

SPEAKER_00 31:34

Zaklaqha shaykh maq, zaklakha shaykh Abdullah. May Allah bless you all and accept and accept us on this naivulatul qadr. If it is al-khadrullah. Amin barakallah, fiqum as salamu alaikum rahmatullah.