Abdullah Oduro – Ramadan 2024 – Invocations of God #04 Should our Servitude – Serve Us

			After I've been helping him talked about the purpose of the test where he says that the test is not
to destroy you or me, but rather the test is to test our patience and our servitude. He then moves
on to servitude as we talked about the pillars of patience. He moves on to servitude he says Rahim
Allah Tala. For en la la heeta. Allah Allah Abdi or booty gets in football, right? ecom Allahu La
here booty attune for surah. He says, For verily for Allah subhanaw taala. Upon this servant is
servitude, in times of ease and of times of hardship. And this is important because when ALLAH
SubhanA wa Taala tests you with something, there is always an option for you to serve Him and to be
		

			good to yourself by worshipping Him. And remember, worshiping Allah is the best way to take care of
yourself. When you are in a time of hardship you turn to Him. That is how you take care of your
soul, your contentment with what Allah has predestined, and as a matter of fact, that contentment
can bring forth a level of increase in action. To therefore be served to you are serving Allah
subhanaw taala and not serving something else, serving your emotion, serving that which can take you
away from the remembrance of your purpose of life, which is God and his actions and being pleased to
the best of your ability with those actions. So here when he says that for really a for Allah, upon
		

			the servant is servitude, in different situations, particularly in times of hardship, and in times
of ease, and then he says, Well, who Allah here booty attune,
		

			female yokocho commander who are dear to him female hip, and for him as servitude upon things that
he dislikes, to wear upon things that he loves. And he goes and further he gives examples later he
says what Federal holiday you're a clone and adorable deatta female your hipbone? And he said most
of mankind is given servitude, or gifts. Servitude worships a lot and that which they love, and this
is deep because it was okay it was really digging deep inside of our hearts and really wanting us to
have that self reflection. When you worship Allah is it only the things that you love but things
that you dislike? You're very lenient lackadaisical in its performance, or you don't perform it
		

			performance at all. Even okay, it goes on to say was shutting up air coil, who d et T fin McHattie.
And he said in the real situation was shutting the important situation, or the the affair, the real
affair is giving servitude, in the things that you dislike. And I don't want to say dislike to where
we as Muslims, we understand.
		

			You want to say to yourself, Okay, there's certain things that Allah is obliged me that I dislike,
but it's certain things that you do not prefer to do. So, let's say,
		

			making Sinatra winter, you know, you don't prefer to do it. It's something that if you're with a
group of people you do it, or it's something that is someone reminded you to, you don't want to be
reminded about it. Fasting, Mondays and Thursdays, you know, fasting the month of Ramadan, the first
week of Ramadan, he says was shutting off it. I thought about that femur, Phil McHattie and then he
said Febi heat Tafawa Tamara Tibble a bat well there has to be he can add to my NAS Ito home and the
light Isla
		

			even Okay, um, touches on something here, it's so deep because it's important for you as a, as a
Muslim, to look at the things that you are negligent of whether it's in its consistence, or its
intensity, or its initiation. So when we talk about initiation,
		

			pranks a lot, the waiter for example, you know, Imam, Mehdi said, Whoever doesn't press a lot to
with what's it for who are our children. So this is an evil person, not meaning that you are a
sinner if you don't do it. But if you're looking for someone that's at a high MACOM, or a high level
rudabeh, and you're looking for that person, particularly in his time, you know, for someone that is
going to teach the people the religion, or someone that you can see it has a level of allegiance to
Allah and His Deen, which it is definitely something that is on the top of the list when looking at
okay, outside of the five prayers, what other prayers do they offer?
		

			So when looking at the McHattie it's important for each and every individual to look at themselves
and say, what are the things that I don't usually do? So lots of Witter initiating it, and then we
talk about its consistency, how consistency are consistent Are you in it? The so lots of Sunon the
relative the extra prayers after the obligatory prayers, you know, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam would offer extra prayers you call them the Sunnah prayers after the obligatory prayers, and
even within that, depending on the school of thought that winter would be in
		

			Uh, the most important outside of the five, and then you have your tahajjud and you have this solo
out, roll it. So in any case, just starting with the solo, the chapter of life of Salah, how many of
those what types of those are we offering outside of the obligatory prayers. And the last part is
the level of intensity. You may be initiating, you may be consistent, but how intense is your
sincerity and this is important for people that are consistent on Twitter they grew up doing it and
they offer what they're after every Asia immediately you know the master that I grew up in there I
learned how to read Quran mashallah, they were the NEF you know, they offer slaughter Witter every
		

			single Aisha but that's not to say that they were sincere in each prayer. Allah only knows that so
every act that you're consistent in Are you sincere within it, right. But when we're talking about
the mechanic,
		

			those things that you do not usually do or do not lean towards doing because mechanic yuck comes
from dislike or to hate. So the actions that you prefer not to do those actions you initiate can
raise your levels in front of Allah subhana wa Tada and even AFAM says here for being Yanni he
thought it will do and giving the servitude and the things that you do not like to do to fall into
tomorrow to but a bat to fall with it Marathi will a bed that the ranks of the servants is dependent
on this.
		

			And this is deep because when we look at all the things that we do from the obligatory X class we do
them but what about the extra the extraordinary the ones that are supererogatory are the ones that
are recommended. Then he gives examples he says full full well that will be mounted by the efficient
that's in Harare, our booty on Bachata to Soulja to he has snapped allottee you habanero booty he
says
		

			and making will do it with cold water in the hot weather is servitude and having relationships you
know being with your wife that you love that you love is servitude. So these are examples of that
what you like or dislike these are examples of things which you like but then he goes on and he says
here
		

			well we'll do we'll we'll do Bill Maher al Baladi fish shit that birdie or booty and making wudu and
the cold is OBEDIA so if I was to ask you right now you prefer to make will do with cold water in
the colder hot weather. In the hot weather, it'd be much more refreshing. So you're getting will do
and it's refreshing. You're like wow, this is you know, somebody will say Islam mashallah is a great
religion I get to, you know, make will do in the cold water and worship Allah based off of this
washing, but what about the hot weather? But what about the cold weather, something that most likely
generally you would not prefer to do, some of us may wait till the hot water comes on. But when
		

			doing that, that is a level of God that Allah loves, because it is something that is not
recommended. You would not want to do it. As he says what topical mouse here alette He said that
there were enough See, he lay him in lady hope and Mina Nasir booty, and that is deep here. He gives
another example.
		

			He says, and leaving off the sinful practices that it's the intensity of its call to your knifes
		

			for without any fear for mankind is worship. Right? So when you leave off something that everyone is
doing, and you don't care if what people say about you have no hope, no fear, from what they would
say that is servitude as well. When you're at work, and you're amongst friends and you're at the
restaurant, you tell him I gotta go pray because the prayer time is coming out. Most likely they're
gonna look at you and you're like, What are you doing, but you're doing that. And if it was up to
you, you would be you want to be alone and people not know, for example, that is rudia. And that is
what will raise your ranks amongst the servants of Allah. So it'd be no came here touches on this
		

			beautiful point after talking about patience, moving on to show that Allah will test you with your
level of servitude. So after he tests you with patients, he will test you with situations in your
life that will test your servitude, but then Immanuel came with his fifth of the religion excludes
the things that you like he said, I'm not talking about the things that you like to do. I'm talking
about the things that you would prefer not to do. And he gave those examples. So may Allah subhana
wa adata make us of those that are continuous and consistent on servitude and knowing that just as
He tests us with the things that we may not anticipate, it is important for us to be patient and
		

			with the things that are already there and present, that we serve Him in a manner that he loves even
the things that we do not prefer to do, whether it's at time or place by the Glaucomas Santa Monica
Rahmatullah, but it gets