Against Alll Odds

Mufti Menk

Muslim Central

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🗓️ 29 August 2015

⏱️ 46 minutes

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A must and highly recommended episode motivating us to understand the odds, trials experienced in life, ways to overcome and develop closeness to Allah SWT, love of Allah SWT, understanding the blessing in the midst of hardship, having hope in the mercy of Allah, remaining steadfast in the path of Allah and explaining the kindness towards parents in the light of the verses of the glorious Qur’an and the hadith of our beloved Prophet SAW.

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0:00.0	This audio is brought to you by MuslimCentral.com
0:25.3	Complete blessings and salutations upon Muhammad
0:29.3	Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam, his entire household, all his companions.
0:33.3	May Allah SWT bless every single one of them and may he bless every single one of us.
0:38.3	May Allah bless the Ummah of Islam and may Allah bless this beautiful country and nation
0:44.3	of Malaysia as well.
0:46.3	I mean, my brothers and sisters, we need to understand why Allah SWT created us.
0:54.3	What was the purpose?
0:56.3	Why is it that I come to this world and 70 years down the line if I'm still alive I'm preparing to die?
1:03.3	Why is it that people come to this world and they die at an early age sometimes?
1:08.3	Why is it that some are given age up to perhaps a hundred and slightly beyond?
1:14.3	Why is it that we haven't seen anyone in our lives live to 150 years?
1:20.3	Why is it that Allah has chosen for us to be fit at an age where perhaps we are peaking on around 30, 40 and after that there is a decline.
1:32.3	Why is it that Allah SWT did not keep us upon a level of fitness, a level of perhaps looks where we are looking young and healthy throughout our lives?
1:44.3	Why does it have to be a graph that starts off in weakness and ends in weakness as Allah SWT says,
1:52.3	Allah who has created you in weakness when you were initially born when you came to this world you were very weak.
2:19.3	You were young, you depended on other human beings, Allah made you and gave you parents for a purpose.
2:26.3	If he wanted he could have created you in a way that you were already independent, you did not need anyone but you needed someone to look after you from a very early age.
2:36.3	And when you are in your peak he wants you to look after the very people who looked after you when you were a little baby and once again when you grow older he says
2:47.3	we grant people the peak and after the peak of strength they become weak again and they develop grey hair.
2:55.3	So when you are old those whom you have now given birth to are asked to look after you, Subhanallah and it continues up to the end, it's the plan.
3:05.3	They surely is a master plan in that and if we sit for a moment and ponder we will realize that it's the continuity.
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