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Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu A'udhu billahi minash shaitanir rajim Bismillahir rahmanir raheem Alhamdulillahi rabbil a'lamin wa la a'udhu billahi minash shaitanir rajeem wa la a'qibatu lilmuttaqeem

Allahumma salli wa sallim wa barakal abdika wa rasulika Muhammadin sallallahu alaihi wa sallam wa ala anihi wa sahbihi wa salam tasliman kathira So, inshallah ta'ala Tonight we're going to do the last reflection probably on Surah Ibrahim

and I'm going to be possibly discontinuing the nightly reminders for Monday, Wednesday and Thursday That doesn't mean I'll stop all reminders We still have the first on Tuesday

and obviously on Friday, by the way, if you've noticed the Juma'ah I'm actually doing it from the lawn of the masjid at 3.30pm Eastern, inshallah ta'ala weekly

So I might just make the reminders a little less frequent but we'll see bithnaillahi ta'ala, so I'll keep you all posted inshallah over the weekend

But I did want to talk today about this particular reflection of when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says wadhakirhum bi-ayyamin la So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says

walaqad arsalna moosa bi-ayatina an akhrij qawmaka minal dhulumati ila al-nur wadhakirhum bi-ayyamin la inna fi thalika la-ayatini kulli saddarin shakur

We indeed sent Moses with our sign saying lead your people out of all forms of darkness into light and remind them of the days of Allah

and verily in that are signs for everyone who is sabbar and shakur, who is patient and grateful and then the next ayah is waithqala moosa li qawmi yathkuru ni'mata allahi alaykum idh anjaakum min aali fir'aun

yasumunakum su alAAadhaab wa yuthabbihuna abnaakum wa yastahiyuna nisaakum wa fi thalikum bala'um ar-rabbikum azeem So the next verse, Moses is saying to his people remember Allah's favor upon you

when he delivered you from Pharaoh who inflicted or afflicted you with a grievous punishment slaughtering your sons and humiliating your women

and in that was a terrible trial from your Lord So this particular usage, ayyamin la, is something that I think is very profound

and insha'Allah ta'ala I hope we can all take some benefit from it because it really is beautiful how it's used here Now I want to start off by saying that the days of Allah there are two opinions from the mufassireen about what they refer to

and then there's a third one that sort of combines the two ways One of them is based actually on a narration that some have classified authentic to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam marfu' to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam

which is ayyamin la refers to ni'min la it refers to the blessings of Allah the days of great blessings upon you and so we're coming up on Ashura

and obviously as we've mentioned we're celebrating the victory that Allah gave to Musa alayhi salam over the Pharaoh and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala would remind the people of Musa alayhi salam

remember when you were about to drown or you were about to be killed and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala saved you from that grievous punishment and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala blessed you with victory

and so the reminder of Allah's favor upon the people of Musa alayhi salam upon Bani Israel and that logically connects to the next ayah which is why I read the next ayah

where Musa alayhi salam mentions the favors of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala upon Bani Israel so remember when you were saved by Allah from the Pharaoh remember when you thought you had no way out and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala made a way out for you

the second opinion of the Mufassirun is that this is referring to the opposite actually which are great events in human history that involve punishment or catastrophe

and so a reminder that those days of hardship could come upon you as well that retribution is cyclical that all of these things that have happened in the past could happen to you as well

remember the great floods, remember the great tragedies that befell a people that disobeyed Allah or that did horrible things and transgressed and so how do you combine the two at least for the sake of benefit

I'll say that by the way from the first opinion because there's a narration that appears to have enough authenticity and it matches the next ayah is probably the stronger one but to at least extract benefit insha'Allah ta'ala from both interpretations

the days of Allah, how many times were you in a situation that you can look back upon and you thought that there was no way you were going to get out of the difficulty that you were in

you were in a tough episode and you thought that you're not going to make it past that episode you were in some sort of great difficulty you faced a hurdle in life

and you thought that that hurdle was going to permanently, permanently paralyze you so that you would not be able to move forward and you called upon Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and Allah made a way out for you

it's important for us to go back and to look at those moments and you know maybe in those days there are days that happened in our lives or things that happen in our days of our lives that we did not attribute the relief to Allah

we attribute the hardship to Allah but we didn't attribute the relief to Allah which is in gratitude with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala remember Zakariya alayhi salam as he called upon Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and he mentions وَلَمْ أَكُنْ بِدُعَاءِكَ رَبِّ شَقِيَّةٌ

I've never asked you for anything O Allah and felt empty handed, felt disappointed you've never left me amongst the wretched as a result of calling upon you

فَسَأْلَ لَذِي أَحْسَنَ سَابِقًا وَيُتِمَّ أَحْسَنَهُ لَاحِقًا as one of the great imams said that he asked Allah who was generous with him in the past to be generous with him in the future as he called upon Allah

and was blessed with Yahya alayhi salam, John peace be upon him as a son even in his old age so it's important for us to reflect and to remember the times that Allah saved us

to remember the times that we overcame a very difficult situation to remember how we barely passed, how you know we barely escaped this hardship

or how this one you know twist in our lives in our favor allowed us to get to a place that we are because sometimes people that are highly blessed and highly privileged

forget the source of their blessings and then forget how humble they were when they were asking for those blessings and so now when they have it easy they turn back on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and disobey Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

so ayyamil la to go back and to remember those days and those blessings and those things that Allah has given you right the times where you thought that you were going to drown the times that you thought that things were over for you

and that you had no way out and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala made a way out for you that is a profound means of granting sabr and shukr right li kulli sabbarin shukur

a person who is patient who is extremely patient steadfast because they know that Allah will get them through it again and a person who's grateful for the blessings of the past which allowed them to contextualize properly the present and the future

okay, so that's the the the primary I think way of reflecting on this ayah but the second one are episodes of human history

how many arrogant nations thought that they would be able to remain in a place of power but everything was taken away from them how many tyrants thought they were invincible only to be drowned like the firoun

not in the exact manner but in a way in which they lost everything how many times were there people that thought that they would not be given victory

that they were completely defeated but Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave them victory am hasibtum an tadkhulu aljannah walama ya'tikum mathalu allatheena khalaw min qablikum masatumul ba'sa wa dharra'u wa zulzilu

right Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions these people that came before you that went through extreme hardship I talked about khabab ibn al-arad radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu when he came to the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam and he said to the messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi wasalam

ala tad'u lana wa tastansir lana aren't you gonna pray to Allah for us and the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam mentioning a people that came before and what they went through right how they were sawed into two for saying la ilaha illallah

so history repeats itself and tyrants are eventually humiliated arrogant nations are eventually brought to their knees and the oppressed eventually rise

and even those that are are killed or those that are harmed in the way of truth then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has a way for them, which is the way of bliss in the hereafter

but the point is to reflect on human history and to see the way that history repeats itself to see the cycles of history and you know when they say that you want to be on the right side of history

subhanAllah what what moments of history are we living right now, right? Think about you know 2020, you know in particular what moments of history are we living right now

the political turmoil the pandemic and the uncertainty with the pandemic the era of technology that we are in in which you know people are more polarized than ever

all of these things what did you do as this history unfolded not in front of you but with you in it and so remember the days of Allah and make sure that in these days of Allah

that you are connected to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and on a path of righteousness and truth even if you are against a strong current of falsehood so may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala preserve us make us amongst those that patiently persevere

and that always remain sincere and may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to meet any current of falsehood with the strength of the truth and always make us people of truth and may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make the best of our deeds the last of them

and the best of our days the day that we stand before him subhanahu wa ta'ala Allahumma ameen

Jazakum Allah Khayran, Wasalamualikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh

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