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Why Did Allah Mention The Number 19? Your Test of Faith | Dr. Omar Suleiman

When Allah ﷻ sends His signs, they are meant to test and transform hearts—softening those of the believers while exposing the arrogance in others. In this lecture, Dr. Omar Suleiman draws a powerful parallel between how the miracles of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ were received by the Sahabah and disbelievers, and how we react to challenges in faith today. Do we stay steadfast in our belief in Allah ﷻ, or are we shaken by mockery, doubt, or the need for empirical evidence?

This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings.
00:00My dear brothers and sisters, once again, jazakumullahu khayran. I apologize for any inconvenience I caused to you by forcing you to come out on another night than you originally intended.
00:13And I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to accept all of your good deeds, all of your du'as, all of your well wishes for the people of Gaza and beyond. Allahumma ameen.
00:24How many people were included amongst Ashab ul-Kahf, the sleepers of the cave?
00:33Can anybody tell me how many sleepers were there in the cave? I heard some numbers. Seven?
00:47Three? All of you are potentially right. Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, Sayaquluna thalathatun rabi'uhum kalbuhum wayaquluna khamsatun sadisuhum kalbuhum rajman bilghayb
01:01Until the end of the ayah. That they will say that they were three and that the fourth was their dog. They will say that they were five and that the sixth was their dog. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala knows their true number.
01:15Why am I starting off with this? I want you for a moment to imagine that you were one of the first people to convert to Islam. That you were one of the muhajireen in Mecca.
01:28One of the early Muslims in Mecca. How difficult it was for you to already be going against the grain by believing in Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
01:40All of the mockery, the lack of an outside validating power, the lack of an inside validating power structure.
01:48The lack of family support, the lack of financial means, the lack of a masjid. Where you can come together and nourish your faith. You only have Darul Arqam, a secret home of gathering.
02:02Where you can come together under the tight scope of the people of Mecca. Hoping that you won't get caught, keeping your voices down and trying to stay out of sight.
02:12And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reveals an ayah which is extremely interesting. The ayah is,
02:21Allah says that the gatekeepers of hell are nineteen.
02:33Why would Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala withhold from us the number of Ashab ul Kahf?
02:40But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives such a precise number of the gatekeepers of hellfire.
02:48What this does is it leads to a mockery amongst the people of Mecca.
02:56You see Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala was teaching the people of Mecca as he would teach the people of Medina. That God does not play on the terms of man.
03:07That Allah does not respond to the demands and the conditions of man. That Allah sets the terms, not you.
03:19And so when you make demands of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and you say to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Tell me this and tell me that. Even the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam has to say insha'Allah to get the answers. That are demanded of him in Medina.
03:33And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala still makes it a fitna to say that some things are irrelevant to you. And you have to believe without delving into those details.
03:45And so just as Allah withheld a specific number in Medina, Allah gave a very specific number in Mecca. I want you to follow along with me bi'idhnillahi ta'ala and put yourself in that situation.
03:58When Allah says alayha tis'ata ashar. That there are 19 gatekeepers of hell. Abu Jahl makes a mockery of this.
04:12He says, if it's 19, we can take them. If we're put in hell fire and it's only 19, we play the numbers game.
04:22And playing the numbers game in Badr didn't work too well for Abu Jahl, did it? Because he played the numbers game in Badr and thought Badr would be a walk in the park. We're a thousand, they're 313, we've got this.
04:35So he said, if they're 19, then that's fine. We can overpower them. We can break out of hell fire if there is a hell fire. And then we can occupy our places in Jannah.
04:48Ha, ha, ha. That's the mood. The arrogance of a pharaoh. And subhanAllah, there's a reason why he's Fir'aun Hathil Ummah, the pharaoh of this Ummah. He had a mindset like the pharaoh.
05:01He had a way of thinking like Fir'aun. You know, Fir'aun said, if there's a god in the heavens, go ahead and build me a tall structure. Let me go meet him.
05:10This is the way that a proud and arrogant being speaks about the divine. Oh, fine. 19, we've got it. There's another man in the dustbin of history, Kadar ibn Uwais ibn Khalaf.
05:24Big, huge man. He said, I've got an idea for you all. I'll take 17, you guys handle two of the angels.
05:34Why would Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give the room for them to make this type of a mockery of Islam? Pause for a moment.
05:46The prophet sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam could have gone on the journey of al-Isra' wa l-Mi'raj, which many will be speaking about in the month to come. In fact, it's my next lecture in the series I'm doing on al-Aqsa.
05:59And the prophet sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam could have kept the journey to himself, because he knows that the people of Mecca will make a mockery of it. Oh, you went to Jerusalem last night, to the heavens, and came back all in one night? Hold on one second.
06:13Abu Bakr, you hear what he's saying? The prophet sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam, had he been the fabricator they accused him of being,
06:24he could have withheld Surah Rum. Because to make that type of a political calculation, that the Romans will defeat the Persians,
06:35fi bid'i sinin, between three and nine years, is dangerous. You're staking the integrity of your mission, all in a political calculation that may or may not prove to be true.
06:47And someone who had a disease in their hearts, and weak belief, would have said, Ya Rasool Allah, you know, let's hold that one tighter to your chest.
07:01Don't put us in an awkward situation, by revealing this to the people. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, Alayha tis'ata ashar.
07:12Hellfire has nineteen angels, that are guarding it. And you know what's incredible? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions, Wa ma ja'alna iddatahum illa fitnatan lillatheena kafaru.
07:24By the way, we purposefully revealed the number nineteen, as a fitna, as a test and a trial for the disbelievers. Let them mock!
07:36Let them say, ha ha ha, nineteen angels, guarding hellfire. And subhanAllah, imagine how stupid they will feel, when they are in hellfire, staring at those angels.
07:49And those angels are throwing them back in, and tossing them into the punishment that they want denied. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protect us from being with them. Allahumma ameen.
08:00We made it, Wa ma ja'alna iddatahum illa fitnatan lillatheena kafaru. It was a fitna for them. It was meant to test them. It was meant to try them. But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala also says,
08:12with the same number that was given, liyastayqina allatheena ootul kitab. So that the people of the book will have yaqeen.
08:23They will have certainty that this message is from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Can anybody tell me what that means? I can hear you inshaAllah ta'ala. Raise your voice if anyone knows what that means. Surah al-Mudathir, liyastayqina allatheena ootul kitab.
08:37So that the people of the book can have certainty. Does anybody know what that means? Anybody?
08:48Okay, I don't think they're talking about what I'm asking. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala was revealing something that was known to the people of the book. The scholars of the people of the book.
09:01The rabbis of the Torah who were waiting for a messenger to arise. Camped out in Yathrib. They knew that this was previously revealed information
09:15that would have been inaccessible to an illiterate Arab in the middle of Mecca. The Christian scholars who were truly upon the way of Isa alayhi salam,
09:28who were trying to be upon the monotheism of Jesus peace be upon him, and waiting for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to send that messenger.
09:38They knew that biblically speaking at some point it was revealed to them the exact same tidbit of information. And so if you are a Waraqa ibn Nawfal,
09:50or you are a Abdullah ibn Salam, one of the scholars of the scripture, liyastayqina allatheena ootul kitab.
09:59You will have more certainty that he is indeed Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam. wiyazdadallatheena amanu imana And those who have faith will be increased in faith.
10:13You see subhanAllah the same piece of information that is a fitna for the disbelievers, is a reason for belief of the people of the book,
10:25and a means by which the belief of the believers actually increases. Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu
10:35When Allah revealed what others considered ridiculous, put his money where his mouth was. Yeah the Romans will defeat the Persians. I bet my entire fortune on it.
10:49The Romans will defeat the Persians. Because whatever that man says sallallahu alayhi wasallam is true. Because he never speaks from his own, he speaks based on divine revelation,
11:03and I'm not embarrassed. I'm not worried about what you're going to say. I'm not worried about your laughter. In fact I do ihtisab, I seek the reward for your laughter with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
11:17And I feel even more comfort in my heart. I say it with my chest out, what the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam says is true. What Allah has revealed is true. And I have no doubt about it whatsoever.
11:31And so when they go to Abu Bakr radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, after the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam mentions the journey of Al-Isra and Al-Mi'raj, Say, Abu Bakr, heard what he said?
11:42He said, that he went to Jerusalem, and the heavens, and came back to Mecca, all in one night. Abu Bakr radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu,
11:55doesn't stutter. He doesn't go, man I wish, I wish they never found that hadith. I wish the Islamophobes never heard it. He didn't say, wait, wait, wait, hold on, that's ridiculous,
12:07let me go check and see what he really said. He says, with a full chest, idh kana qalaha faqad sadaq.
12:19If he says it, he's telling the truth. I believe him when he says that the Lord of the heavens and the earth directly communicates to him in revelation, and that is a far greater feat,
12:31than going from Mecca to Jerusalem and coming back in one night. So if he said it, he's telling the truth. And I'm not embarrassed about it. And I have no doubt in it whatsoever.
12:43The same piece of information that made the Muslims a laughing stock, increased the believers in their belief,
12:54and piqued the curiosity of those that were sincere seekers of truth. Dear brothers and sisters, we take a step back, and I want to talk to the present
13:08that we are in right now. Don't you ever let anyone shame you with your religion. Don't you ever let anyone make you feel ridiculous
13:20for believing in what Allah has said, or what the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam has said. Don't you ever let them cause you shak, cause you doubt in your heart, and say, really?
13:34So you believe in Dajjal? Oh, and you believe Jesus, Isa is going to descend at that minaret. And you believe in Ya'juj and Ma'juj.
13:47And you believe in, oh, you believe that the earth is going to do this and do that. And you believe in this fairy tale of paradise. Ha, ha, ha.
13:59اليوم الذين آمنوا من الكفار يضحكون على الأرائك ينظرون One day you will sit on thrones, and you will laugh at them.
14:13Don't you ever let them say, aren't you embarrassed that this is a part of the Quran and the Sunnah? Instead say, that if I have embarrassment, then it is either due to my lack of understanding it,
14:27or my lack of faith. Not a flaw in the religion. كل آمن بالله وملائكته وكتبه ورسله
14:40آمن الرسول بما أنزل إليه من ربه والمؤمنون The messenger believes in everything that was revealed to him. As do the believers.
14:52كل آمن بالله وملائكته وكتبه ورسله All of them believe in Allah, and they believe in the angels, they believe in the messengers, they believe in the books. They have no doubt whatsoever.
15:04Because if he said it, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, I believe it. Someone might say, well isn't that blind faith? It's not blind faith.
15:17It is acknowledging that every single human being is necessarily blind to the full reality of existence.
15:27And that we have faith in the one who is al-Basir, the one who is all-seeing. And we have relegated our trust to him. And we have no doubt in anything that he revealed to us.
15:40Because whether some science comes later on to prove it. You know, subhanAllah, there was an article about ants, and how ants speak to each other. And I remember a teenager coming to me with the article and saying,
15:54See, Allah told the truth. When Allah is talking about the ants communicating to each other. In the time of Suleiman alayhi salam. Isn't this amazing? I didn't need the article.
16:06Someone points out an article that the human being is conscious after they're buried. That consciousness, that scientists have discovered that consciousness is there for at least seven days.
16:17I didn't need that. I have the hadith of al-Bara'a radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu. About what happens in the grave. Now when Allah azza wa jalla shows us signs, certainly. liyatma'inna qalbi
16:31The heart is put even further at ease. liyazdadu imanan ma'a imanihim Faith is increased upon faith. But I don't need that to know. Because the all-knowing already told us.
16:45al-'Alim Already has told us. al-Khabir Already has given us the khabar. Has given us the news. I'm okay. I don't need any more than that.
16:58Why do I bring this to our time? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says radiyaAllahu anhum wa radu anhu The believers, Allah is pleased with them and they are pleased with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. ar-Rida Being pleased with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
17:12We say raditu billahi rabban wa bil-islami dinan wa bi-muhammadin sallallahu alayhi wa sallam nabiyyan I'm pleased with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as my lord. I'm pleased with Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam as my messenger. I'm pleased with Islam as my religion.
17:23That rida is fil-qadha wa shar' I'm pleased with his decree. I'm pleased with his legislation.
17:33I'm at full ease and peace with his revelation. At full ease and at peace with his decree.
17:44And when you laugh at it, you don't make me feel bad. You actually only increase me. Let me bring that to our global political scenario.
17:56Every time, I'm gonna be very open here. Every time I post the news about another shaheed in Gaza. You get the Islamophobes, the Zionists, they come and they mock.
18:09And they say, oh, well I bet he's met his hur now. Ha ha ha. Oh, he's got his trees now. He's no longer in Gaza. You fools believe he's in a paradise.
18:22And I wonder what God is saying to him now. Ha ha ha. And I say, alhamdulillah, you'll eat your words one day. While these people enjoy what you mock,
18:34while these people realize what you deny, you will one day eat your words and you don't shake our faith whatsoever. When the people of Palestine stand up,
18:46and the people of Gaza stand up, and they say one day we will be free. While standing in the rubble, hearing the drones above them, starving in their stomachs, missing limbs, and they still say,
19:00Sayabqa Falestin, Sataood Gaza.
19:13It's unbelievable. If they have that iman, if they have that yaqeen, who are we to sit back here in our political calculations
19:24and say it's not looking good. It's not looking good to you. It's not looking good to me. But everything is on plan with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
19:38They know it because they're people of yaqeen. The question is whether we know it or not. There's a nasheed that they sing.
19:51And it was a nasheed that came out of the Egyptian revolution. Sofanaabqa hoona, kayyazoolal alam.
20:01That we will stay here until the pain goes away. Sofanaahya hoona, we will live here. Sofayahloonagham.
20:14The rhythm will one day change. They don't have any doubt. Someone looks at the Muslim world and says, what's going to come out of that pile of garbage? Look at you people, you're pathetic.
20:27Let the colonialists laugh. Let the empires laugh. For like the empires and the tyrants that came before them, they will one day be buried under the rubble.
20:39And everything that they put forth as a so-called achievement will be an artifact of testimony against them for the evil that they wreaked on this earth before Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala brings it out on the Day of Judgment.
20:53Yawma tublas sarair. The day that all secrets will be revealed. Let them laugh. Let them mock us. Let them say you have no hope. Let them tap out on Islam and the Muslim world.
21:07Let them say that religion is a thing of the past. Let them say that you believe in fairy tales and an unseen God because you know who that was said to before? Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. They mocked him.
21:21They laughed in his face. They thought that they were crazy. They put them down. They tried to break their spirits. They tried to twist their emotions.
21:33And it didn't work. To the point that when the messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam stands with Abu Bakr and Umar in the mountains of Uhud and they're covered in blood,
21:46Umar radiyallahu anhu has the audacity to say qad abqa allahu ma yukhzik ya adoo wallah O enemy of Allah, Allah has caused to remain that which is a cause of your humiliation.
21:59We're not going anywhere. We're okay. Alhamdulillah. Nahnu bikhayr. The promise of Allah is just as true now as it was two years ago.
22:11Things look just as promising now as they looked then. Even if I can't see it, I know that He can. And I'm pleased.
22:23Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. Inna wa'ada Allahi haqq. walakinna akthara al-naasi la ya'lamoon.
22:34The promise of Allah is true but most people just don't know because they're so relegated ila dhaahiran min al-hayati al-dunya to the surface level of things.
22:46They don't understand the secrets of creation because they don't know the power of their Creator. And so they're spiritually dead. They're emotionally dead. And they're relegated to the physical.
22:59And the physical will one day collapse on them. And if the people of Gaza are physically under the rubble, then those that have wreaked this tyranny on them are spiritually in ruins and under the rubble.
23:11And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will certainly shame them and show them for who they are. But dear brothers and sisters, it's times of fitna. And in a time of fitna,
23:25there's gonna be poking. And say, you still believe? You still believe in this religion? You still believe in a path to victory?
23:37You still believe that Islam will grow and thrive? You still believe in all of this? You're still insisting on your backward ways? You're still wearing hijab?
23:49You're still praying out in public? You're still doing all these things? What's wrong with you? They will make you think something is wrong with you. And that will emanate only from the emptiness that is within themselves.
24:02Don't adopt their emptiness. Insist on your fullness. قُلْ آمَنْتُ بِاللَّهِ As the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, when shaitan causes you doubt, say, I believe in Allah.
24:15Repeat it with your heart full. Repeat it with a chest full. You come across a ayah or a hadith you don't understand, اتهم نفسك Accuse yourself and say, I don't get it yet, but I know it's true. I'll get there.
24:29قُلْ آمَنْتُ بِاللَّهِ I believe in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. I'm pleased with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And one day, dear brothers and sisters, we will celebrate, if not in this life, then in the next.
24:43And here's the thing, because the hereafter is just as real to us as here, because the life after death is just as real to us as the life before death, then we are not relegated
24:57to having to see the fullness of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's plan come to fruition before death and here, because we believe that here and now
25:08is such a small part of our existence. فالحمد لله The true test of your iman, the true test of your yaqeen,
25:20the true test of your faith is not when you can see Allah's wisdom playing out. It's when you believe in Allah's wisdom
25:31even when you can't comprehend a single part of it in regards to something specific that's happening and you say, alhamdulillah, Allah has shown me enough to believe in that which He has not shown me.
25:43I've seen Allah's wisdom play out in enough things in my life to have yaqeen that He is al-Hakim with the things that I cannot understand at all.
25:55Every moment, every leaf, every drop of rain, every withheld moment, every withheld sustenance
26:07is part of His divine plan. And whatever Allah and the Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam have said is true and whatever Allah and the Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam have said is better.
26:19wal-akhiratu khayrun wa abqa Do not let anyone mock you with your religion. Do not let anyone mock you with the prophecies of your Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
26:31Believe in them when others are starting to lose faith in them and insist on them when others mock them. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us a people of iman and yaqeen. May Allah make us a people who believe
26:45and who have thabat, who have firmness upon that belief and who have a good ending, who leave this world saying la ilaha illallah as smoothly as we're saying it right now. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow it to flow from our tongues
26:59to take root in our hearts. And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala forgive us for the times that we have doubt. And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala remove from us the whispers of the devil and the lure and the temptation of our desires.
27:13And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala not let us face the humiliation shamata til a'dat, the humiliation of our enemies. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala honor us
27:24with seeing the humiliation of our enemies instead. Allahumma ameen. Barakallahu feekum. Wassalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.

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