How to build Tawakkul

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How to build Tawakkul

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Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the messengers and messengers. Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and peace and blessings be upon him. Tasliman kathiran kathira famma ba'du. My brothers and sisters, in Jammu al-Tirmidhi, there is this hadith where Rasulullah, peace and blessings be upon him, is reported to have said, If you were to rely upon Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, with the required reliance, then He would provide for you just as a bird is provided for. It goes out in the morning hungry and returns full. In Jammu al-Tirmidhi, the hadith is reported where Rasulullah, peace and blessings be upon him, is reported to have said, the meaning of which is, If you were to rely upon Allah, if you were to rely upon Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, with the required reliance, then He would provide for you just as a bird is provided for. It goes out in the morning hungry and returns full. We ask Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, to help us to have tawakkul on Him and on Him alone because only He is worthy of being and He is worthy of being relied upon. The question is, how do we build tawakkul? How do we build this reliance on Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, and on Him? And the answer is that we build reliance in the same way that we build reliance on anything else. And that is, by focusing on the power and the strength and the ability to provide of that entity that we are intending to rely upon and also to look at our own history in that relationship. And that is why they say, we should trust, we should verify, verify, verify, verify, verify, verify, intending to rely upon. And the second one is interesting because the second one starts from where the first one finishes, which is that having learnt about the greatness and glory and power and control of the entity we are intending to rely upon, to actually have this reliance, to have this tawakkur, there has to be a leap of faith. A risk has to be taken. At that point of risk, our true belief on this entity is called to question. You really believe. If you really believe, then step forward. I want to tell you two stories. One is a hypothetical story, it's a teaching story. And the other one is a true story that happened to me. The hypothetical story is that there was this man, it's a teaching story, so it's very useful. There was this man who wanted to climb the Matterhorn, which is one of the most famous mountains in India. And he was one of the very difficult mountains to climb in Europe. And he wanted to climb it, climb one particular phase of it, which was a very difficult phase to climb. And nobody had until that time attempted it solo, alone. This man decided that he wanted to do that. So he trained for it and so on, a couple of years. And he came to this mountain, and he said, I want to climb this mountain. And he said, I want to climb it. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. very early. As he was starting to climb, the weather changed. And it looked like the weather, there was going to be a storm or something. And the weather was not conducive to climbing. So the people around him, they tried to dissuade him. They said, look, just wait. He said, no, I have no time. If I wait, then I lose this opportunity. Then I trained for this for two years. And I have to climb. And let's see, maybe the weather will change for the better. He said, no, the weather prognosis, the weather predictions are that it will get worse. Anyway, the man didn't listen to the advisors. He started climbing. And as he went higher and higher and higher and higher, the weather kept on worsening until it came to a point where this man was... It was very high up. And it became pitch dark. And there was a terrible wind and gusty wind and pitch dark. And this man is climbing on his own. No help. And then the inevitable happened. He reached up for a handhold. He caught a place in the rock. And as he was lifting himself up, his whole body weight on his one hand. The rock gave way. And he fell. It's pitch dark. He can't see anything. And as he's falling, his whole ...

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