Abu Bakr Zoud – Sujood, The Source Of Honor

Abu Bakr Zoud
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In this transcript, the speaker discusses the importance of honoring the believer in Islam, specifically his actions and words. The speaker explains that while the believer makes "plus" in the deed, the reality is that he only worships himself and not others. The speaker also discusses the punishment of people who refuse to comply with Islam's command and the consequences of doing so.

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			Brothers and sisters in Islam,
		
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			don't you want to honor in this life
		
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			and in the afterlife,
		
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			Especially in this day and age that we
		
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			live in, in where many people have lost
		
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			their honor, have lost their dignity and their
		
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			nobility.
		
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			No doubt
		
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			a sane intellectual person
		
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			wants to be honored first and foremost by
		
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			Allah Azzawajal in this life and in the
		
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			afterlife.
		
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			Listen to the secret,
		
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			the honor of the believer is a sujood,
		
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			a sujood
		
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			and this is the worship
		
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			that we are conducting
		
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			on a daily basis many many times.
		
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			In Surat Al Hajj Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			makes this very clear for us. Listen brothers
		
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			and sisters in Islam Allah
		
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			says,
		
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			Allah
		
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			addresses in the ways of Allah
		
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			and He addresses the believers. He says, can't
		
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			you see? Can't you see with your heart
		
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			and understanding? Can't you see with your eyes
		
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			that whatever is in the heavens,
		
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			heavens
		
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			and everything that is on earth, whatever Allah
		
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			has created on earth,
		
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			it prostrates to Allah
		
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			It is in constant sujood to Allah
		
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			Then Allah
		
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			specifically mentioned
		
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			the sun, the moon and the stars
		
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			the mountains, the trees
		
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			and the creatures.
		
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			These things were specifically mentioned,
		
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			even though they are included in whatever is
		
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			in the Earths,
		
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			because
		
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			these are creation of Allah that were worshipped
		
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			besides
		
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			Allah
		
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			So there are people that worship the sun
		
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			and some worship the stars and some worship
		
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			the moon and some worship trees and others
		
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			worship animals. So Allah
		
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			specifically
		
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			mentioned these 6 things
		
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			to make sure that we understand
		
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			that these things that have been worshipped
		
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			besides Allah, they themselves
		
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			make sujood to Allah Azazul
		
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			They don't only worship Allah
		
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			but they are actually engaged in sujood to
		
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			Allah
		
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			The deed that brings you the most closest
		
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			to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. The mama
		
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			said,
		
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			And many, many of mankind
		
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			make sujood to Allah
		
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			Did you know brothers and sisters in Islam
		
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			that the believer makes sujood to Allah and
		
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			even the disbeliever
		
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			makes sujood to Allah
		
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			but there is a difference between the 2.
		
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			The believer makes sujood to Allah willingly
		
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			while the disbeliever
		
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			he does sujood to Allah but forcefully.
		
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			How is that the case? Allah
		
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			Allah He says whatever is in the heavens
		
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			and whatever is in the earth make sujood
		
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			to Allah
		
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			Some
		
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			are willingly making sujood to Allah and others
		
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			are forcefully making sujood to Allah. How does
		
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			the disbeliever make sujood to Allah? Allah azza
		
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			wa jal, he says,
		
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			The shadow, the shadow is actually making sujood
		
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			to Allah
		
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			Now we come back to the ayah of
		
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			Surat Al Hajj, Allah
		
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			then he said,
		
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			This is a new fact Allah says
		
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			and many of the creation of Allah, many
		
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			of mankind
		
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			the punishment has been justified for them it
		
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			has been decreed and written upon them. We
		
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			ask Allah Azzawajal to save us. Who are
		
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			these people? These are the people that refuse
		
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			to make sujood to Allah They refuse to
		
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			pray, they refuse to obey Allah
		
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			command and the greatest of Allah's command
		
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			after a Tawhid, after embracing the oneness of
		
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			Allah is a Salat.
		
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			They decided to be like Iblis
		
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			when he refused to make the sajdah to
		
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			Adam
		
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			He refused the commandment of Allah
		
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			And finally, the end of the ayah brings
		
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			all into light. Allah
		
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			He says,
		
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			If Allah wanted
		
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			to humiliate someone,
		
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			then you will not find anyone that can
		
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			honor such a person.
		
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			You know, the beginning of the year was
		
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			about a sujood prostration.
		
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			The end of the year was about humiliation
		
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			and honour. The one who avoids a sujood,
		
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			such a person is degraded
		
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			and he's humiliated.
		
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			Doesn't matter how much people glorify him on
		
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			earth,
		
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			in the heavens he is disgraced.
		
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			In the sight of Allah he is disgraced
		
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			and on the day of judgement he faces
		
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			the worst type of punishment
		
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			and the one
		
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			who makes sujood
		
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			in this world of life
		
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			and he's careful
		
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			and always conscious about his sujood
		
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			and making sure that he obeys Allah
		
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			then such a person, even if people
		
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			have disgraced him on earth
		
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			and people have turned away from him, then
		
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			Allah
		
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			in the heavens has honored such a person.