Except for Those Who Pray (The Most Important 8 Minutes of Your Life) #Step | Episode 4

[00:02] coming from the house downstairs. He immediately went down and found three people robbing him. It was dark, so he three people robbing him. It was dark, so he shot them all. When he turned on the light, he discovered they were shot them all. When he turned on the light, he discovered they were his brothers. You know, I was asking myself, what's the most common

[00:15] feeling we young people experience these days? Is it joy? days? Is it joy? Is it a sense of security? Is it comfort? Is it a sense of security? Is it comfort? When I started thinking about it, I realized that the most common feeling

[00:30] we young people experience, especially these days, is fear, specifically fear of the Speaking of fear of the future, I want to tell you a story. When I first heard it, it seemed very strange to me, but I still remember it now. Once upon a time, there was a

[00:46] very rich man. He had a lot of money, and everyone around him envied him for it. He was rich and could buy anything he wanted, anytime. Everyone envied him for... So, who were they envious of? Including his sisters, his sisters

[01:01] and their wives hated him very much because he had a lot of money and his sisters were in the opposite financial situation. So one day, his sisters who were angry with him decided that they would go and steal at night. Indeed, they gathered themselves one night and went to

[01:16] his house to steal. As soon as they entered, he heard a sound like a rustling happening in the house downstairs. He immediately went down and found three of them stealing from him, and it was dark. He shot them stealing from him, and it was dark. He shot them all. When he turned on the light, he discovered that it was

[01:29] his sisters. Anyway, the sound of this crime was heard a lot in the town, and they went to the judge. When they went to the judge, he started to hear from him or take his statements, as they say in things or procedures, things like this. He started to ask him, " Why did you do this?" He told him, "First of all, I didn't

[01:42] know they were my brothers. It was dark, and they were thieves, so I was defending myself." Then his sisters-in-law testified against him. They said that he had invited them to his house that day, and then after inviting them, he decided to kill them. Of course, they were just making things up, and that didn't

[01:56] happen. But in the end, the judge believed him. He believed his sisters-in-law and sentenced him to 30 years. Anyway, he got scared and decided to run away and hide somewhere no one could find him. So, where was he going to hide? There was a basement in his house, and no one knew about it except

[02:12] him and his wife. He said he would hide in that basement until the crime was forgotten or something happened, but he didn't want to be imprisoned. He was very afraid of being imprisoned, so he hid. His wife would bring him food and soup every day because if he didn't eat, he would die. So, his wife would

[02:27] lived with him in the same house, didn't know where he was. Days know where he was. Days and years passed, his wife died, his children left the people moved in. He would only come out when the new residents were leaving,

[02:42] just to eat, and then he'd go back down and hide. One day, he became he became very ill and started coughing badly. One of the people who lived in the house heard the coughing and searched until he found the man. He asked him who he was, and

[02:55] story, and he told them his story. After about ten years had passed, they asked him why he was hiding. They looked at each other, surprised. He told them that he was hiding because he had been sentenced to

[03:10] 30 years. They said, "No, you don't know that after your mother..." You were sentenced to this punishment. A month later, she went to the judge and began telling him the truth: that his brothers really did want to rob him, and that he hadn't invited them or anything. In the end, the judge decided to pardon you. Of course, you might think the

[03:25] story I told you is like a Bollywood movie, or that it's not real. And people really did disagree about this story, but the point isn't the story itself. The point is the idea of ​​fear of the future. This man hid for 10 years because he was afraid of something unknown, or

[03:39] afraid of the unknown. And the thing I feel most is that we young people have become afraid of the future. Fear of the future starts with us when we're young, it starts a long time ago. It begins when you're afraid of many things: afraid of not getting

[03:51] the grades you dream of, afraid of not getting the required marks and upsetting your parents, afraid of not getting into the college you want. You want it, and you think this fear will disappear as you grow older, but on the contrary, as you grow older, this fear starts to increase. It grows, so you

[04:06] enter university and find that this fear has become even greater. You're afraid of being in the wrong college, afraid that when you graduate you won't find a job in that field, afraid of being in the wrong place in general, afraid of not making friends. You think that the fear will stop there, but it continues and grows.

[04:21] You graduate from college and find yourself still afraid. You're afraid that when you graduate you won't find a job, or when you find a job you're afraid they might or when you find a job you're afraid they might fire you and make use of your services. You're afraid of the

[04:35] army, afraid of spending a year, two, or three years in the military and realizing that time has been wasted from your life. You're afraid of so many things; if you started counting them, you'd find you have a million fears.

[04:47] So we remain afraid, and this cycle of fear continues. It's with us until we die, but you know, at the time God chooses for you to pass away, the time He chooses for you,

[04:59] which is your appointed time, you discover that you didn't die, for example, because of fear of the future, you didn't die because of anything you were afraid of all your life. You died, for example, because an organ in your body suddenly stopped functioning. So all the things that scared you and worried you all your life weren't what

[05:15] scared you and worried you all your life weren't what killed you. And this makes you ask yourself, why was I afraid of all this in the first place? Why was I afraid of the future? Why do we, as young people, always live with fear and anxiety gnawing at our hearts? Then you find that God says in His

[05:28] Holy Book, "In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, that mankind was created fearful." This is our very foundation; we are born fearful. We think that this fear will go away with time, or that when I grow up, this fear will leave my heart. But fear remains with us, and that's what we don't know. When something bad

[05:41] happens to us, we become anxious and fearful. The moment something happens that worries or scares us, we start saying, "Oh God, I'm ruined! The world is over for me! It's all finished!" We feel like life has stopped. But when something good happens to us, or when we achieve something,

[05:57] or when we accomplish anything in our lives, we start thinking, "What bad thing could happen to us after this good thing we've gained?" or "Who will envy me?" We operate with this mentality. Now, pay attention to this point: except for those who pray. God

[06:13] all this are the ones who pray. So why is that, young people? I pray, but I still feel restless and uneasy. Because just because we pray doesn't mean we are truly praying. We might be performing certain rituals

[06:27] without any particular intention, but we are still performing them. A few actions to ease our conscience, but do you even know what the basis of prayer is? Prayer is a connection between you and your Lord, and the essence of prayer is one thing only: submission. You surrender all your affairs to God Almighty and meet Him five times a day, saying, "O

[06:43] Lord, take this burden off me. I can't bear it. I need someone. O Lord, it's up to me to strive, and it's up to you to take the burden of the results off me. I can't carry this on my own." The phrase "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest), which we say at the beginning of every prayer, five times a day, is the greatest cure for the fear we experience. It

[06:56] means that God is greater than everything in my mind right now, greater than my problems, my studies, my work, everything. That's why the Prophet, peace the Prophet, peace

[07:15] all the problems and worries of the world. He escaped to prayer. Now, we've become complacent in this world and forgotten prayer. You put a lot of strain on your willpower, and no matter what you achieve or how far you go in life, you're still afraid. Your fear either paralyzes you, stops you, or, in fact, it drives you to achieve

[07:30] successes and reach great ambitions, but none of it brings you joy. So why not try entrusting your affairs to God and leaving it to Him? He wants this from us. God wants to give us peace and remove the burden of fear for the future from our hearts, yet you insist on exhausting yourself. God Almighty doesn't

[07:45] exhausting yourself. God Almighty doesn't need our prayers; He is far too exalted, rich, and great to need our prayers. We are the ones who need prayer to calm the fear in our hearts. You're not required to worry about tomorrow; you're only required to do one thing: strive, take the first step, and

[07:59] only required to do one thing: strive, take the first step, and leave the rest to God.