Overcoming Fear Through Faith

Dear brothers, among the greatest ways to break the shackles of fear

is love of the Hereafter

and longing for it,

and keeping one’s gaze fixed on it,

and fully bringing it to mind with complete certainty,

that what is with God is better and everlasting.

When the Hereafter is always before one’s eyes,

then, by God’s permission, it brings about this awareness.

Bringing the Hereafter to mind creates a state of strength

and courage in the heart that cannot be explained by material things.

The example is the magicians who believed: “So decree whatever you

decree. You can only decree in this worldly life.” Who were they saying these words to?

Who were they saying them to? To one who slaughtered children.

They said them to one from whom they had just heard the threat, “I will cut off your hands

and feet on opposite sides.”

What gave them patience? Remembering the Hereafter, believing in it,

certainty. They saw the proof before their very eyes and spoke the

eternal words:

“So decree whatever you decree. You can only decree in this worldly life.”

If this is not the slogan of the الأمة today, it will remain in a state of

weakness.

Gaza endured for two years, and people wept

until their tears dried up

They blamed one another until the blame and reproach ended.

So if Gaza's tragedy happens again now, what will happen? What has changed?

What has changed?

If the awareness and vigilance achieved over

the past two years are not a basic foundation for building

another step toward breaking the state of fear, terror,

and panic before anyone but God Almighty,

before the enemies, before the criminals, if this does not take hold in people's souls,

then the state of weakness will remain.

The tragedies will continue. Sudan is bleeding, and nothing will happen.

Nothing will happen.

If Gaza were attacked again, and I ask God Almighty to ward off all evil from it,

nothing will happen.

And the greatest disaster would be if Al-Aqsa Mosque were also demolished, what

would happen? In this state of weakness and fear, what would happen?

This is how you think now.

If tomorrow that filthy criminal demolished Al-Aqsa Mosque, just think,

what would happen?

You know that politically, no one would do anything.

The statements are well known, and so on. Thank God statements are issued, I mean,

at least, I mean

Nothing is going to happen, nothing is going to happen, and you know it, and we have known from history for decades that nothing is going to

happen.

On the political level, no one is going to do anything.

So if Al-Aqsa Mosque is demolished, who will do anything?

If people are constrained by a state of fear,

what will happen?

Is it right to always justify it by saying that

prudence and wisdom lie in safety and in what

is proper?

At the same time,

a person needs a state of sound judgment

that is in accordance with what God Almighty loves, so that when he

acts, he acts with clarity, and when he refrains, he refrains

with clarity,

He advances where God wants him to advance,

and retreats where God wants him to retreat.

But what motivates advancing or retreating is not merely

fear or cowardice.

Rather, the motivation is first deep faith, then

religious duty,

enlightenment and guidance,

knowledge and insight.

But knowledge and insight will not benefit— a scholar will not benefit from knowledge and insight

unless there is courage and strength

within his heart.

Therefore, today we are required

to dispel the cloud of fear.

And the cloud of humiliation and disgrace

surrounding us everywhere. This can only be achieved by giving

the Hereafter centrality and deeming this world insignificant.

We must regard this world as insignificant.

We must regard this world as insignificant. Folks, what is this world?

People around us are being snatched away. One dies in an accident. He's 17 years old.

He's 20 years old. That's it, he's gone on to the Hereafter.

This one had a stroke. Then COVID came, and he contracted the

coronavirus and died. This one died of cancer.

This world is nothing.

I ask you, how many people under 25 do you know who have died

whether in accidents, from illnesses, diseases, strokes, or

for any reason? How many? How many do you know? They're gone. They vanished.

How many people older than that have worries and sorrows

and financial problems, health problems, family problems, and social problems

and so on? So many.

This world is not Paradise. We were not created to live here.

We were not created to remain here forever. We were created

to build for ourselves there in Paradise.

We were created to escape God's punishment and worship

The Creator, glory be to Him, with insight, with light, with proof,

and we sacrifice in this life and remain steadfast in His cause.

So if He decrees, glory be to Him, that we live in an era

where falsehood prevails, then faith must nourish our hearts

in a way that makes us unafraid of this falsehood.

Brother, there are people whom God decreed to place in periods when

Islam was mighty and had no need for it.

Praise be to God, that is how our Lord chose for them.

But God also chose for His prophets to live through the crisis

of fear.

God chose for His beloved ones and His saints to live through the crisis of fear.

Prophets were killed. Who are you?

Who are you, O center of the universe? Prophets were killed. Don't you know? A prophet was killed.

They killed them

as God, glory be to Him, mentioned. He mentioned the Jews who killed the prophets.

And they also kill those among the people who command justice.

Prophets were killed.

God's saints were killed.

Before the Prophet's very eyes, Hamza, the Lion of God, is felled,

cut to pieces.

And you think that when he was killed, I mean,

what's-his-name

What do you mean, his body was like that? There was nothing left, it was chopped to pieces.

Mus'ab ibn Umayr, whom the Prophet, may Allah bless him

and grant him peace, sent—the Chosen One, may Allah bless him and grant him peace— to teach people their religion.

This one was chopped to pieces on the ground.

Anas ibn al-Nadr.

The one about whom Allah Almighty said: “Among the believers are men who were true to what

they pledged to Allah. Some of them fulfilled their vow, and some of them

are still waiting, and they have not changed at all.” No one recognized Anas except his sister, who recognized him

by his fingertips and fingers. As for his face, it had no features left. He departed as one of Allah's righteous saints,

one of the companions of the Chosen One, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.

Prophets were killed.

The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “I was threatened for Allah's sake in a way no one

had ever been threatened.” There was no one, people weren't— The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace,

was threatened and harmed, but he remained steadfast and patient.

He confronted those polytheists with the word of truth

and with proof, clarification, and evidence, while they

mocked, laughed, confronted him,

plotted, and schemed. Then Allah permitted him

to migrate, so he fought them at Badr until they were cut down,

When the ranks were shaken at Hunayn by the surprise of

the ambush,

and there was some conceit in their hearts, or in some hearts,

and the people turned away, scattered, and fled, the Chosen One peace and blessings be upon him, stood firm.

He spoke those immortal words: "I am the Prophet, no lie.

I am the son of Abd al-Muttalib." He stood firm there, peace and blessings be upon him, just as he stood firm in every

situation. As Al-Bara said: "When the battle grew fierce, we sought shelter

with the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, this Chosen One, peace and blessings be upon him."

Tell me about the feelings of the Companions when the Arabian Peninsula apostatized after the Prophet's death, peace

and blessings be upon him, except for a few people,

and news came that the armies had reached the outskirts of Medina,

while the main army of the Companions had been sent by Abu Bakr al-Siddiq to Greater Syria under the command of Uthman ibn

Zayd. Tell me about the feeling of fear in that situation.

They did not waver or become unsettled.

You see, it is not a problem

for the heart to feel some fear. That is not the problem.

The problem is when these feelings turn into a decision

It makes a person withdraw from arenas where he must remain steadfast

in them,

or these feelings may prevent him from

a duty

or hurl him into something forbidden.

But the mere presence of feelings in one's heart, in one's heart, is innate and natural.

But they do not control a person or prevent him from remaining steadfast, nor

do they prevent a person from upholding the truth. So, dear brothers, we are now speaking about

the level of the Ummah,

We're now speaking about the Ummah in general, the Ummah