to complain’.
The point I am trying to make is just coming.
When he made this
duʿā’
to
Allah, when he turned to Allah and said, ‘
Yā Allāh
my back is broken’. A
faqīr
,
by the way, is also someone whose back is broken. When your back is broken it
means you cannot lift anything; things have to be given to you because you
cannot even go and get them. That’s why he said, ‘
Yā Allāh
, whatever you sent
towards me is because I’m
faqīr
, I can’t go and get it. You are bringing it to me!’
Subḥān Allāh
, this is the acknowledgment of
Mūsā
(
ʿalayhi al-salām
).
When he makes this
duʿā’
, the next
āyah
of
Sūrat al-Qaṣaṣ
is:
Soon thereafter one
of the two women came to him, walking
bashfully, and said: “My father invites you that he may reward you for
your having watered our flocks for us...”
(Al-Qaṣaṣ 28: 25)
‘Therefore’, listen carefully now, ‘therefore one of those two girls came back
and said, “my father wants to pay you”.’ The word ‘therefore’ is important. Did
he ask for money? No. Did he ask for a job? No. Did he ask to be invited to their
house? No. None of this, he only turned to Allah and said whatever you have
given me, I was desperately in need of it, I appreciate it.
You turn to Allah in
appreciation and as a result, there’s a formula, there’s a rule. You know how we
call them the laws of nature; there are laws of Qur’an and they are more
powerful than the laws of nature. The laws of nature change: fire is supposed to
burn but it will stop burning when
Ibrahim
(
ʿalayhi al-salām
) is thrown inside;
water is supposed to retain its shape but it will change when
Mūsā
(
ʿalayhi al-
salām
) strikes his staff and Allah makes the water not keep its shape. The laws
of nature can bend when Allah wants them to but the laws of Allah in His book,
the laws of guidance, they don’t bend. The laws of
duʿā’
, they don’t bend. And
what is this law? That when you appreciate what Allah has given you, then Allah
will take care of you!
What happens? She comes to him and says, ‘My dad wants to pay you’. He
doesn’t turn to her and say, ‘No thank you sister, I did that
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