Abu Bakr Zoud – Too Busy With Family & Work No Time To Worship

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The speaker discusses the excuse for abandoning Islam's guidance, which is used to motivate Muslims to do not commit crimes. They also address the importance of prioritizing family and pursuing joy and purposeful life, and urge individuals to accept the excuse and not use it to gain things they want.
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As-salāmu ʿalaykum wa-rahmatullāh brothers and sisters
in Islam there are some Muslims when they
are asked why don't you pray, why don't
you fast, why don't you do al-hajj,
why don't you wear al-hijab, why don't
you adhere to the obligations of Allah subḥāna
wa-ta'āla and his commandments, they give
an excuse that is exactly similar to the
excuse of the hypocrites.
In surah al-Fatihah Allah azza wa jalla
told us about the hypocrites when it was
obligated upon them to join the Messenger ﷺ
in battle, they gave an excuse, they didn't
go, they gave an excuse, they said they
said we were busy with our wealth and
our jobs, we were busy with our dunyā
and with our families, that was the excuse
subḥāna wa-ta'āla and Muslims today when
they abandon the commandments of Allah they use
the exact same excuse as the hypocrites, strange,
how could that be the case of the
believer when Allah azza wa jalla said in
surah al-Munāfiqūn, the surah that spoke about
the hypocrites, he said in that surah addressing
the believers يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا تُلْهِكُمْ
أَمْوَالُكُمْ وَلَا أَوْلَادُكُمْ عَنْ ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ Allah azza
wa jalla said oh you who believe, don't
allow your wealth and your families, your business,
your job, your worldly related matters, don't allow
that to distract you from the remembrance of
Allah, from the worship of Allah, your prayers
and all the other obligations Allah azza wa
jalla said don't use this excuse, subḥāna wa
-ta'āla my brothers and sisters in Islam,
everyone has worldly responsibilities, all of us, and
if this was a valid excuse to abandon
the worship of Allah azza wa jalla, no
one would ever fulfil the rights of Allah
subḥāna wa-ta'āla, no one would fulfil
their duties towards Allah azza wa jalla, well
Islam teaches us to balance things, فَآتِ كُلَّ
ذِي حَقٍ حَقَّهُ Give everything its due right,
we know family and wealth and health and
your job, all of these matters are important
but they are not supposed to come at
the expense of your connection and relationship with
Allah azza wa jalla, our faith is the
foundation of our success in this life and
in the afterlife, and remember my brothers and
sisters in Islam, remember that your wealth will
perish one day and it will be taken
away from you and you will part your
family one day and you will leave this
worldly life and all its troubles and all
its responsibilities and the only thing that will
remain with you is your worship, your prayers,
your Qur'an, your du'a, your hijab
and all of the worships that you conducted,
their reward, those deeds will remain with you,
allahu akbar, so the thing is when you
stand before Allah azza wa jalla on the
day of judgement, what excuse are you going
to use, are you going to say oh
Allah I was busy with my worldly activities
and my family, Allah azza wa jalla would
say I said to you that this excuse
doesn't work, it's not valid, it will not
suffice, so my brothers and sisters in Islam,
prioritize your relationship with Allah azza wa jalla,
prioritize your prayers, prioritize the obligations and do
those first and by Allah, when you do
what Allah wants from you to do, you
know what happens, he begins to bless your
time and your wealth and your family, you
will actually have a lot more time, a
lot more quality time with them, subhanAllah, people
abandoned the worship and their excuse was family
and wealth and jobs and worldly responsibilities, yet
the actual and the real understanding is that
if you prioritized worship, Allah azza wa jalla
will bless your life and will bless all
these worldly responsibilities for you and subhanAllah, you
will be able to have a quality life,
a meaningful life and a purposeful life and
I ask Allah azza wa jalla to accept
from us all, Jazakum Allah Khaira