Ali Albarghouthi – The Disease and the Cure #24 Sin Wipes Out Barakah from Your Life
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So Ibn Qayyim he continued
in listing
the consequences
and punishment of sins. And so
he said here,
So from the punishment of sin or its
consequences
is that it eviscerates,
it
destroys, removes the barakah
of one's life
and his provision,
that isq,
and his knowledge
and his acts,
actions
and obedience
takes away all the barakah.
It says in general, it removes the barakah
of the religion and the barakah of the
world.
Religiously
and
worldly
barakahs are removed because of sin.
You will not find someone with less barakah
in his life,
in his religious life, like in his life
in general, how long he lives.
And then in his religious performance.
And then in his dunya,
there's no one with less barakah than the
one who disobeys Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And
he says that the barakah
of this earth is not removed
except through disobeying Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And
he lists or brings 2 ayahs here.
What Allah Azzawajal said,
If the dwellers of the city, of the
city people,
if they had iman and taqwa,
we would open for them blessings
from the sky and the earth.
That is what's the condition for these blessings?
That they would have what? Iman and taqwa.
If they have iman and takwa, Allah had
promised what?
That Allah will shower them with blessings
from above and from beneath.
From the sky and from this earth.
So if a person obeys Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala, even if not immediately, whether as an
individual
or as a nation,
even if it doesn't happen immediately,
but there's a promise that they will be
blessed physically and otherwise.
Right? Physically and otherwise.
He says that there's another ayah.
He says if they were to walk the
straight path,
the tariqah that is straight,
la asqayna huma and ghadakah. We would provide
them with abundant water. And water is life.
So if you have water, you have life
and then you have agriculture, then you have
wealth.
So he says if this is the consequence,
it's tied to this.
And so the opposite is true.
That is if Allah had promised that there's
gonna be barakah through his obedience,
If you take his obedience, what happens?
Baraka must decrease.
And the ibn al Qayyim, he doesn't say
that it's just physical baraka, he says baraka
in everything.
Barakahe in how you live and barakahe in
your money and barakahe in your effort and
barakahe in everything
that you have and you will understand
shortly Insha'Allah why he's saying all of this.
You will lose that Baraka.
And he says
Rasulullah
he said
that
Ruhul Qudus is Jabeel
alayhis salam,
the Sacred Spirit or the Holy Spirit
had blown into my chest, meaning that's an
inspiration.
No person
will die
until it will receive its provision in full.
Meaning what it's written for it.
So you will not die until you receive
everything that Allah had written for you.
And if it's not written,
obviously you're not gonna get it.
So don't think that Allah had written something
for you
and somehow someone else can take it from
you.
No. If it's written, you will not die
until you get it. And if it's not
written,
no amount of effort
to run after it is gonna bring it.
Fataqollaha
ajmillu fataalab. So if you know this,
so he said alaihis salatu wa sallam, have
taqah of Allah
and be beautiful
in seeking rizq.
Waajmilloomin
aljamali.
Be beautiful in seeking risk. What does it
mean to be beautiful in seeking risk?
If you think about it, you'll somehow figure
it out a bit.
That is,
if you know that it's written, you know
that it's written for you,
and no and no one will take it
away from you,
how would you seek it?
Would you get it from Haram?
Would you
run after it?
Would you hurt people
to get it?
Because
it's all written.
It's all gonna be received, all gonna be
received. So be beautiful in how you seek
it. So
don't be obsessed with it. It's coming your
way. Don't
don't overthink it.
Has rules for it. And so when he
continued
halafa inna hula yunaaluma
indallahiilla
bi ta'ati.
You're not gonna get what is with Allah
except through Aha, except through obeying Him.
And that really, that statement really is really,
is
really beautiful.
Right?
Right? You're not gonna get what Allah has
except through
obeying
him.
Right? So think about it. Let's say for
instance, you're a king,
an earthly monarch. An earthly let's say for
instance, you're going to a king, monarch, an
earthly
king, and you want
only he has
and only he and you want something from
him that he
and only he can give.
And if you go and you're standing in
front of him
and you think maybe I can steal it
from him,
Maybe
I can upset him.
Maybe
maybe I can
insult him.
Then then I'll get what I need from
him from him.
Obviously, if he's powerful sleeve, he's powerful.
That's the wrong strategy. So he says Allah,
azerodir, is the King of Kings, and you
want something, you want something from him. So
you're gonna upset him to get it?
And whatever you get,
will it have will it have barakah in
it?
No.
It will not have Baraka
in it. Even though seemingly you're gonna get
something,
that those who steal get something. I mean,
unless
unless
their attempts
fail. Those who steal, they get. Those who
lie, they get something.
But then what they get is
cursed,
cursed.
There's no barakah in it. So this is
what you so this is what you got
to yourself and you disobeyed Allah. Disobeyed Allah,
Azzajal. But if you wanna get it by
disobeying him.
He continued, alayhi salatu wa sallam,
And Allah Azza wa Jal had made or
had made or linked comfort and joy and
certainty.
And he had placed or linked
worry
with doubt
and discontent
and discontent.
Meaning if you are if you are satisfied
with whatever Allah gives you,
and you
and you have certainty
that
whatever
Allah has promised you is gonna come your
way, and whatever he does not he does
not ordain for you is not good for
you. It's this, then what will you get?
Arrohaol is not good for you. It says
if you believe this, then what will and
peace.
He's simply Roohu al Farah.
Joy
and
Are you not sad?
And if you believe this and you've treated
2 major illnesses major illnesses today,
Sadness and worry.
You're not
worried about the future and you're not sad
about the future. Is that tie is tied
to belief,
Belief.
So if you have an iman, have an
iman
that is strong enough, you'll be able to
treat, you'll be able to treat these things.
But he said that,
where will you find or find or what
generates
sadness,
sadness and worry? He says discontent and doubt.
You're not happy with what Allah, aza,
thinking that you deserve more, or Allah does
not know what he know what he's going
giving.
Maybe Haram can give me some give me
something.
Maybe rizq is not ordained is not ordained.
Maybe I can do more.
So all that so all that generates these
illnesses, these diseases, these diseases. Or as you
know now,
if you know,
if you want to be happy,
then you have to be content with Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. With Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and have certainty in what he he had
promised.
But the thing that he wanted to to
stress
Rahimahullah,
is that you're not gonna get what Allah
has by this has by disobeying him. But
only through obeying him. Taqala wakaddaqaddamafi
athar. And this is something that
a tradition that we talked a bit about
before and he talked about before and he
just here wants to illustrate Baraka.
And it's an Israelite tradition.
Where it is said that Allah said I
am Allah. I am Allah
if I'm blessed and there is no end
to my blessing. And if and if I
am angry, I will curse, and my curse
will reach the 7th generation,
the 7th
child. So we've explained before that this is
an Israelite tradition, and it doesn't mean that
it is all accurate.
So the son of a sinner is not
necessarily cursed because of what his because of
what his father or mother have done.
That's important to remember Because because some people
may think
my parents did something, my parents did something,
somehow
I'm paying the price the price for what
they have done. You don't pay the price
for what your parents
unless you are reproducing what they're doing. But
otherwise, if
you are different, then you're treated differently.
But the first part here, part here
is there is no limit to the
Barakah of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. And also
generally there is no limit to the anger
of Allah
on those who
displease him Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So he
said
He says the abundance of provision is not
by having a lot of it.
So he wants to say the barakah in
it, it's not by having a lot of
lot of money.
Or
the Baraka, the Baraka of one's age,
one's life is
not about living
many months or years, but
but when you have Baraka in
money, then you have a lot of money.
Barakah in your life, then you have lived
for a long long time. So it's not
about how many years, how many years or
months you live, or how much money you
have money you have,
but
how much baraka you have in them you
have in them. So
here again when you here again when you
a person
may
Okay. A person may then maybe righteous
or at least that they're trying to please
that they're trying to please Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
They they
may say to themselves,
if they compare
them
them now to them in the past and
you say, well well
once I or saying Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
my risk did not increase. It's still the
same salary. It's still the same salary.
Right?
Right? Or he says, I, he says, I
compared to somebody else, and this person is
not even a person, is not even a
Muslim.
And they keep getting
promoted or they keep getting more money, getting
more money compared to me.
So what do we say to this?
Is you're looking about it the wrong way.
According to what Ibn Al Qayyim,
Rahim Allah said, it's not it's not it's
not about
the dollar sign, how many dollars, how many
dollars are you getting.
It's not about how many year about how
many years you are living.
It's about how much
it's about how much barakah Allah deposits in
the deposits
in the money that he gives you. Aurabaraka
is much less than a 1,000 with a
baraka. So he gives you. So a 1,000
without a baraka is but it does not
behave the same. So
numerically it's the same number,
but it does not the same.
It's not the same 1,000,
and it's not the same number of years
if there is Baraka in them.
And by the way, all of these of
these things are things that you need to
look and remember later, because each one of
them is a piece of wisdom
that you need to write separately in a
notebook and remember later because piece of wisdom.
Right? When he said when talking here, each
one of them is a piece of is
also a piece of wisdom.
He said before that
your age,
he says we've mentioned before,
I mean your life or your lifespan
is
is how alive you are, alive you are.
And he's gonna explain. It's the life of
the heart, life of the heart.
Like your lifespan truly span truly is not
your physical life.
It's the life of your it's the life
of your heart.
So if you so if you turn, he
says, if you turn away from Allah as
away from Allah, azzawjan, and you're preoccupied with
somebody
else, then the life of of animals is
better than your life.
Animals have a better life than you
if you turn away from Allah. So this
is the quality. And again this helps helps
in comparison.
Because you look at because you look at
sinful people in general, or you look at
general, or you look at some non Muslims,
and you say, look look at their life
and my life.
And you feel terrible because you think that
they are what? You think that they are
what? Prospering and bring and happy and all
of this.
Ibn Al Qayyim is saying this is not
your how will you it's not your how
will you're supposed to evaluate. So he can
travel but you can't and so that's why
you are condemned or cursed or unblessed?
Is that how you're looking? He says his
life is not the physical part. Is not
the physical part.
It's not doesn't it's the life of his
heart.
Now now you look at him and you
say he is the wajal,
doesn't believe, doesn't care,
is distant from Allah azza wa jal, that
being. You're not supposed to admire them. So
you gotta like get it into into your
head.
He
is not worthy of admiration. You have to
tell to tell your kids. He is not
worthy of admiration. It doesn't matter how famous
he is.
It doesn't matter how rich he is. How
rich he is. It doesn't matter how people
say, and you look at yourself and say
where's my success? People say he is successful
and you're supposed to look at it.
An animal, a dog,
you'll next to him. He said no, that's
not how you're supposed to look at it.
Well a
dog, a cat,
an insect is better than him,
who does not know Allah Subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
And of course we're not saying this to
demean them, we're saying this or that.
We
can have a better perspective.
Realizing that they have the potential to be
better than us if they
change their ways, right?
So
he
says, He says your life is truly your
life is truly the life of your
heart and soul. Heart and soul is not
alive unless you know
your creator.
And you love him, and you love him
and you worship him alone and you repent
to him and you'll find solace in his
remembrance.
So if you lose this life, you lose
all good.
And nothing in the dunya can replace can
replace it.
See,
he's saying if you lose this, he's saying
if you lose this, this is the essence
of why you were created. It should be
the essence of your happiness and what gives
you
meaning.
Says if you say if if you say
if you don't have any of this, nothing
nothing in the dunya can replace it.
He says even all of this dunya cannot
replace dunya cannot replace that.
Then he said, famin kulisha inyafutul
abda'iwalt.
Says anything that you lose can be replaced.
But if you lose Allah,
replace
it. Right? Blood that sink. Right? Blood that
sink in.
Let that sink in. He says anything that
you lose
can be replaced.
Right? You lose a house, you lose a
house,
you can buy another.
You lose you lose a car, you can
get another.
You lose a child, you can have another.
And again, that child
can be met can be met again
in the next life. You lose a spouse,
you lose spouse, you lose a parent.
There's compensation.
It'll be as if you've never separated.
Lose Allah.
Who
can take his place?
Because he's the essence that makes everything possible,
everything possible.
If you if you don't feel it,
who makes who makes your spouse and your
child, child and yourself and all your property
possible,
property possible?
Why do they exist?
Now, now he's going to talk about it.
Why do they exist?
Because of Allah. Allah can compensate all of
them.
Then what do you have?
Not only that you don't have Allah.
Now take Allah, then what do you have?
Only that you don't have Allah, but none
of these things
actually.
So there is no replace no replacement
or compensation compensation.
And then he said, okay, if I you
aww with all fakhirogirogirogirogirogirogirogirogirogirogirogirogirogirogiroganiyeh
with that.
And that's also again really
really beautiful.
These things these things,
you have to read them again and again
and again.
So that then so that then this could
be a potential potential
book where you know how some people some
people read books more than once.
They keep repeating it. That is a book
that you could is a book that you
could repeat.
Because
guaranteed
in a year from now you're gonna forget
these things. All of us.
So you need a remembrance. So he says,
how could the one who is innately impoverished,
poor,
replace the one who is innately who is
innately rich?
Who's the one who's innately rich? Who's innately
rich?
Allah azza wa jal. Maybe by necessity Allah
is rich.
Who
is who is by necessity poor?
We.
We.
We have nothing by necessity necessity
innately.
What do you have?
You have to be you have to be
given everything.
Do you have anything from your own?
Even the breath, right, comes from outside.
Even
with you, that is you. But Allah
has everything everything with him. So he says,
how could the one who is poor compensate
or replace the one who is rich and
the helpless, the helpless
who's innate,
replace the one who's innately all powerful.
And the dead
can replace the living.
And the one who is dead, Allah is
the one who is living. And the created,
how can he replace the living? We are
dead.
Allah is created. How can he replace the
creator? And the one who has no is
external.
Okay.
How can he compensate
who
his existence
is eternal?
He says that cannot happen.
And the one who has nothing or owns
nothing
owns nothing, how can he replace the one
who
owns the heavens and the earth?
Why sin
takes away Barakah?
It says, and sin
is the reason to remove or eviscerate
barakah
in
your provision
your provision, in your risk, and in your
life, in your life, because it's the shaitan
that comes
and overtakes the person when they sin, when
they sin.
He has authority over the sinful
and those who commit
sin, commit sin. So He has power over
them over them.
It's as if he has as if he
has a legal document
that that
this is the hiwala, a legal document
that document that enables him to have power
in that treasury. He goes in and he
said he goes in and he says give
me and he gets it and
its people are his companions. He gets it.
That's the hiwala.
And are his companions.
And everything that is attached to the shiks
barakah
departs.
And this is, that's why Allah
commanded and legislated that you would mention Allah's
name, Allah's name, when you eat and when
you drink and when you drink and you
put your clothes
on and when you wear your wear your
animal, you get into your right, your right.
And when you are intimate with your spouse,
there is barakah with Allah's name. And if
you mention it with your spouse,
because there is and if you mention Allah's
name, the shaitan runs away. And if there's
barakah
So he says you understand away. And if
there's barakah from Allah, nothing can oppose it.
And now what do you say Bismillah?
Why do you say Bismillah?
Because you want baraka in that food. And
if you don't say Bismillah, who eats with
you?
And then he takes away the barakah from
your food. So it's the same thing. Same
thing if you're wanna be intimate with your
spouse intimate with your spouse, you say bismillah
so that
there is barakah in that child. Right?
And and also he said when you eat,
when you drink, you eat, when you drink,
when you put on your clothes, when you
enter your car, you say bismillah,
sunillah.
So Bismillah chases away the shaytan. And he
said, wakullu shayil. Bismillah brings the barakah of
Allah and it chases away the shaytan.
Shayta. Any its barakah is removed.
Anything that is not for Allah Azawajal,
it's barakah.
Right?
Good sentence to remember.
Everything that is not for Allah.
And that's a good short sentence to remember.
Increase something's barakah. What do you do?
Link it
to Allah,
to Allah
So think about anything, so think about anything
in your life.
You want Allah azzawajal
to
put barakah in your work, in your work
and your work, let's say, it's not necessarily
religious,
but you want Allah to put baraka in
it.
And of course there's not going to be
Baraka if there's not going to be Baraka
if you're not praying.
Right? Obviously. Obviously.
So we're assuming that the basics are being
performed basics are being performed, but here we're
kind of trying to climb into the next
into the next level. See on that, Allah
is Allah
put paraka in your work.
Link it to Allah.
So how can you link it to Allah
Azawjal?
You can say I'm you can say I'm
working,
so I can take some of that that
money.
Give it as
sadaqa. You are working for Allah. And of
course
I'm doing this to earn money, to please
Allah
link it to Allah, earn money to support
my family to please Allah
link it to Allah. Then there will be
more Barakah in your work Barakah in your
work
Or I'm doing it because I'm gonna use
this use this knowledge, this work
or humans.
Right? But find something
to please Allah that you do through Allah
that you do through that work, there'll be
barakah in it. There'll be barakah in it.
You want to be barakah in your brain?
Use it use it
for Allah.
You want to have barakah in your body?
Don't
disobey
him with that body
and do there'll be barakah in that body.
You want barakah in
your car, you want barakah in the house,
barakah in the children, link it to Allah,
get to Allah, but when you unlink it,
then of course it's gonna so he says
It's baraka, meaning it has baraka in it,
but you're not getting it. You're not getting
it.
Even just, you know, having, you know, having
good pleasant conversations
with your neighbor.
When Allah is not present, the barakah is
not present, the barakah of that thing goes
away.
Allah is the only one who blessing
one who blessing blesses
and all and all blessings come from him.
Everything that is attributed to Allah Azzawajal
that comes from him, but also attributed but
also attributed to him, is linked to him,
is blessed is blessed.
Allah's speech is blessed. Speech is blessed.
His words
and his and his Rasool is Mubarak.
So there's
so there's Baraka
in following the prophet alaihi salatu wa sallam
and listening to them and listening to his
words and memorizing them izing them. And there's
baraka in reading the Quran and in memorizing
yourself to the source of baraka.
So where's that source of baraka? Allah alone,
he says. Allah alone, he says, is the
source of Barakah. Right?
Right? Wa'abduhuul muminunafi'uulikal
khimu
Barak. And if your righteous
helps others, you are blessed.
And there's blessing. If a righteous
servant of Allah who helps others, you are.
And there's blessing
in being around you.
House is blessed.
Mecca, Medina,
Medina.
He says, and also the land of Hashem
is blessed
So he's blessed. So he said that Mecca
and Medina are blessed.
But he also, he said Biladusham
is also blessed.
And Allah, azzajal, had mentioned that it's blessed.
He says in 6 says in 6 ayahs
in the Quran.
Now he called it here, natuhuminardhi.
The kinana is the quiver is the quiver
that you keep arrows in, the back arrows
in the bag,
right? The leather bag that has arrows in
arrows in, that's the kinana.
So it's the famously,
famously,
they call Egypt,
Ardul kinana.
We heard that? We heard that?
And
and
also they called a sham ardulkinana
are based on weak traditions.
So it's not sahi,
but it's called anyway. But it's called anyway.
What does it mean, Ardukinana?
Ardukinana
means
either
protected
land
or Allah's quiver quiver.
Allah's quiver quiver. What does that mean? Meaning
if Allah
wants to or hit a people, punish them,
punish them for a wrong than they're doing,
like
like you would take an arrow from a
quiver and hit a person with it, person
with it. Allah would then take soldiers from
those soldiers from those areas
to punish the sinful.
That's the
kinana,
the quiver.
It's not
authentic.
Authentic is not sound, but at least now
you understand at least now you understand what
it means if Egypt is the
God's God's quiver on earth or Hashem is
God mean by it.
But anyway anyway, what he's saying is that
that land is blessed.
Land is blessed.
So Falamubariq
illahuwahda,
he's the only one who blesses.
And the only thing that is blessed
is a is blessed is a thing that
is a tribute to him.
Meaning to
his
his,
worship
and love.
Otherwise,
everything,
it goes back to Allah
and love and content.
Otherwise
in terms of creation.
Is created is blessed. Right?
So not everything that
Allah is created is blessed
or wrong?
Did ever is everything the
everything that Allah created blessed?
No. Because he
lands are blessed.
But things that are the shaitan is not
blessed.
Not all lands are blessed.
Things that are
linked or attributed
to Allah. Not in terms of rububiyah,
that he created them, but
meaning that they worship Allah
and
they love him
and they rely on him. So in terms
of
in terms of there's
Baraka. Rubobihi?
No.
Allah could give it Baraka or take it
away from it.
Take it away from it.
Okay?
And so anything
to Allah as
though
in terms of its proximity to
to him
will have proportional barakah proportional barakah.
He says,
the opposite of
which is a curse.
The curse meaning
the opposite of
is La'ana,
which is curse meaning La'ana is to be
distant from Allah.
This is what La'ana
to be distant from Allah.
So if a land of a land is
cursed by
Allah or Allah curses a
curses a person
or an
or an act,
it
will be furthest
be furthest
removed
from
removed
from Barakah.
So if Allah
So
if Allah Azadil curses a land, then there's
no barakah.
He curses a person,
a sin,
absolutely no Barakah.
He curses
an he curses an act.
And you hear in the Quran
that Allah cursed this person, or you hear
in the sunnah, the the prophet
he cursed this person who
will do it. And you go ahead
you go ahead and do it, you know
that you've distanced yourself from distant yourself
from Barakah.
And you brought a curse upon upon yourself.
Right?
But
there is no curse in anything curse in
anything that Allah
has because
it's because it's
distant from Allah. And
any
and anything that takes you away from Allah
Azzawajal
will take you away from Baraka.
And then he continued Rahimahullah, and he said
Allah has cursed his enemy Iblis
and made him the most distant from him.
So anyone
who
gets close to Iblis
runs away from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and
will receive
a curse
or a la'ana from Allah aza wudil so
much as he is close to the devil,
To.
If you're close to him, you'll receive you'll
receive a portion of
that curse.
He says that's
he says that's why sins have such
such
a strong influence
influence on removing Baraka.
Because you are distant
because you are distant from Allah who is
the source and
close
to Iblis who
is
to Iblis who is
the source
so if you're next to a source of
that curse.
Planned or a cursed action,
you may likely to
likely to it.
Take some of that curse on because of
that position or
that position or because of that,
intent.
Intent.
It
says, every time or any time
any time where you've disobeyed Allah or money
that you've used to disobey
you've used to disobey Allah, or a body,
or a body
that he used to disobey Allah.
Repute,
an honor,
honor,
a rank in society.
Disobey Allah, or knowledge, or a deep that
you
used to disobey Allah.
So anything that you have,
you possess,
but you use it to disobey Allah that
wasn't for you, it was against you.
Allahu bi.
He says, you only have what
you have, what you really
have,
your real age,
your real money,
money, your real strength,
and
and your real
bank,
rank
and status in society and society and knowledge
and
deeds is the portion
is the portion that you used to obey
Allah. The rest is not yours.
Alright?
And so what follows, subhanAllah,
is
incredibly interesting.
And you'll find a person who lives on
earth
for a 100 years and so, but his
real age is 10 years.
So how old are you?
It's not how many years you've lived on
this
earth. Now how many of
the use to obey Allah?
How many of those years were
how many of those years were beneficial?
So if this person arrives on the day
of judgment
how
long have you
Equivalent of 2, 3 years.
Equivalent of 2, 3 years.
Right?
Right?
So what's the what's the value
of living a
100?
If you only come to Allah
with
2
to
3 years, then your real age
age is what?
2, 3 years. As as if you
lived on this earth for 3
3 years.
That's you will age. You will age.
The 100,
the rest
were wasted.
As if they did not
exist. As if you did, the rest
97
were wasted.
If you did not live them. But of
course, there is the sin that
may be committed during those times.
But then
but then
how really
valuable are you
How old are you?
How long how long will you live depends
on how you use your
how you use your time.
Your real age with Allah Azadil
is known to him.
Is known to him.
If you want to live
longer,
do
do
better.
Right? And that's why
also
and similar,
not only
but
similar
deeds
are precious
precious
because they multiply your life
your life.
And they make up 4
and they make up for lost time.
They make
up for lost time.
So
so
maybe you
live a hundred, but you really
with Allah
And this is one could own physically own
tons
of
of gold and silver.
But he but he really with Allah
Zohjal only possesses
like he could be
among people.
People, a billionaire. Only possesses a 1,000 dirham.
He has no more than a 1,000
dollars.
So that person is pure, is poor,
is poor,
that person
with Allah is
poor. Poor, not rich.
Right? Right?
Whereas if you
as if you were to flip this and
look at someone
someone who doesn't have as much money physically,
physically.
But the little that he gives to Allah
gets multiplied. So with
Allah,
he is a billionaire.
He is a billionaire,
but with people he's what?
He's what?
A person who may have been deserving
sadaqa and zakah.
Right?
So you see so you see how you're
supposed to look
at things?
Not be confused by how society
what
is ruled by and
not be
called by
the non Muslims
Muslims.
And I'm saying this because
even in a Muslim
limb
land, the society and its
and dictated by non Muslims. It's not different.
And its perception
are
ruled and dictated by
an x y z Muslim country. You think
people think you
think
if you're living in x y z
It's mostly the same.
It's all about status.
It's
all about money. People think here.
It's mostly
it's all about money and it's all about
the here and
So
the here and now, it's not about
religion.
The
poor
with Allah Azawajal
is a really
really who arrives poor there,
there.
As he said
money here. He says, no, the bankrupt who
collects a lot Who is the bankrupt among
you?
He says, who doesn't have money here?
He insults and attacks and hurts other people.
So on the day of judgment, he
pays them with his own good deeds and
then becomes bankrupt
Comes bankrupt.
So
there
are 2 different bankrupts.
People or poor people or poor people
in the dunya, but that doesn't
in the akhirah, well, that's lasting.
So then now you have to think about
about
you.
Can
I
can I let's split you
you into 2 persons?
You
you hear and you're in the akhir.
You hear you have status.
Right?
I'm so and so, son of
so, son of so and so.
I am
I am
you have a title before your
for your name or be after it.
People respect me.
People work under me.
I get to tell people what to do.
This is your rank and your status here.
Your status here. What is your status of
you over there?
That's the split person.
The split person.
The other you over there. What
you over there? What is your status and
rank with Allah?
Is it
Thai?
Is it Thai?
Or among the low among the low,
and they'll
and they'll be disappointed when you meet
Allah.
And the people I used to bully
back in the Dunia, nobody here.
And you look at them. Right?
Well, I used to bully. Now they're in
the highest levels of jinnah.
And
you
you here,
you're powerful,
you're healthy,
you do a lot.
But you over there,
you over there,
it's as if you
it's as if you have no power,
as if you couldn't
walk. As if you
could as if you couldn't move because you
don't pray.
You don't walk
to Allah Azza wa Jal.
You're eloquent, you could speak, but over there
it's as if you
are mute.
Because
you don't speak, you don't remember Allah, you
don't read the
Allah. You don't read the Quran. So where's
your tongue?
Tongue.
If you think about it,
over there, you are asking you here asking
you here.
You over there
you over there, you're asking you here. Where's
your tongue?
Tongue?
Speak.
Because if you recite the Quran
I'll be talking there. Where is your tongue?
Where is your money? Why are you leaving
me poor over there?
Me poor over there. Spend some of it
here so I could have some there.
So you have to you know how, you
know, people worry
about people worry about their retirement and what
could harm and what could happen to me
when
I will worry about
well, worry about once you die what will
happen to you.
Because
it's still the Dunia.
When you retire,
it's still the
save, yes, but still the dunya.
From here. Maybe you'll get it from
there. Yeah.
If you don't find it from here,
But if it's the next life, where will
you get it?
So that's what he is saying.
Consider how much you really have
there.
It may not
it may not correspond to how much you
have here
you have here.
Right?
So
it
is also status and
it's interesting
So is elm.
Add us in rank,
and so is elm.
You may be a person who
person who had memorized the whole Quran maybe
or half of it.
One third of it.
Where? Half a Surah.
Why?
Why? Because that's that's what you apply.
That's what you've actually
do did.
The rest is just things that you had
in your head, but no, you were not
knowledgeable.
So
your so your was not for you. It
was for you. It was against you. So
you're
counted among counted
among the ignorant
in the next
in the next life. Right?
And there was no Baraka in that.
It didn't give you anything.
And then
he said,
and says he says
narrated by that the prophet
said,
is cursed,
and cursed what is in it,
is in it
except
the
the remembrance of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
and what comes close to it
or what follows it.
A person of
person of knowledge
or a seeker
And
It's important seeker of knowledge.
Right?
It's important to understand this hadith
and this hadith properly.
So what do we mean
is cursed because some people will have
are could be confused about it. Does it
mean that the
water that I drink is
cursed, and the food that I eat is
cursed, and
cursed, and marriage is cursed, and children
are cursed and all of that. And if
that's
the all of that and if that's the
case, then should I just
just
give
all this up?
And but at the same time that you
find
married and he had children, and he recommend
them that you find that the prophet
So how? And that's part of the dunya.
And the prophet, alayhis salatu wassalam, he said
in the hadith,
Is in other words made beloved to me
from your dunya, women and perfume.
So he said
that
he
did love things
things from the dunya. And we know
that he loves specific
that he loves specific
food, and specific meals, and
pick meals, and we know this.
So what does it mean?
It says if you read it says if
you read the hadith all
of it, you'll understand
Understand.
And if you understand what the meaning of
meaning of cursed is, you'll figure out
what the hadith is talking about.
And about,
duniya as a duniya meaning detached
or detaching you from Allah because it has
because it has the power to detach you
from
from Allah Azzawajal.
So what is the
so what is the meaning of something that
is cursed? It's cursed. It is distant
from Allah. Right?
Allah, right? And distances you from Allah. So
that
you from Allah. So the dunya as a
dunya
distances you from Allah
from Allah.
Right?
That's how it's
that's how it
Right?
What's in it as what's
in it.
By its name by its nature, how it
how it was created
that it has over you, and it has
power
over you. Because if the dunya if you
if you say I'm not attracted to this
to this
pretty sure you're attracted to something
that is something in the dunya.
So it has this
so it has this power
to distance you from
distance you from Allah, azza wa Jal. By
that,
it is a curse.
That actual movement is a curse.
That's what what is that exception?
Allah, Allah's remembrance.
What is Allah's remembrance? Everything that reminds you
of Allah
is Allah's remembrance.
You remember him
him with tongue, the Quran,
the Quran or general taker of Allah Azza
wa Jal, you remember him
you remember him
by thinking about him
him through acts of obedience. All of
that is Dhikr of Allah. Any
anything that reminds you of Allah is dhikr.
Right?
Wala wala, what you connect
to it,
Now
that brings you close to Allah, not further
away.
So that's
an exception.
And he says he
highlighted
this alayhi salaam
because
of its
of its honor.
So
So so or
a'lim, a person of them, a person of
knowledge,
or
a person who is seeking it,
who is seeking it.
Because this is
because this is how you come back to
Allah as if this is how you discover
what Allah is remembering.
Remembrance is. This is how you find the
temptations of the dunya. How could you
find the temptations of the dunya if you
don't know it's danger?
What
it can do to you.
Fight it if you don't know what to
fight it with.
Escape the dunya,
you're ignorant
How?
So you have to learn
it yourself. And if you're not learned yet,
what's supposed to
to learn
and keep learning
and learn the things that benefit you.
So if it's Allah's remembrance and you link
the dunya to it,
that's not cursed.
So
he says
in another tradition
tradition,
cursed, and what's
and it is cursed is cursed scourged
except for what
is for
Right? Except
That is not cursed because that does not
remove you
from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So your task
now, if you know that that's the case,
is to link yourself
to that source of Baraka
and to link everything that you are doing
to that source of Baraka. And you think
about it.
The more that you do of that, the
more Baraka that you will have in your
life.
So you want barakah in your
marriage? How do you get more barakah in
your marriage?
Stop
stop some of the haram in the house.
If there's
in the house,
stop it.
That's his if there's haram that is being
committed in the house,
That's essential.
If there's haram between
if there's haram between you 2, stop it.
If whenever
he or she is angry,
you say something or you
do if whenever you're angry, whenever he or
she is
you say something or you do things that
are haram,
stop.
Stop that.
Stop that haram.
And if
and if you remove those
sins
And then you bring into the house
salah.
Not only the obligations, but
You
bring into the house the Adhan,
if you're praying at home, obligations, but the
voluntary recommended.
You
if you're praying at home,
right,
not going to the masjid, call the
right? You bring
into the house the reading of Quran. Masjid
Quliada.
Right?
Reading of Quran.
You bring it to the house of reading
to the house of reading
especially of Surat Al Baqarah.
Because it brings Baraka,
and he make it continuous.
You bring into your house dua,
then you brought Baraka
barakah
into that marriage,
and into your relationship
to your relationship with your children. So if
you're constant, so if you're constantly fighting,
you hate each
other, you hate each other,
You can't
seem to get along or it
along or at least to initiate a conversation
station.
Do these
things and Allah Azarajid will say
will say change your situation.
Bring that
bring that Baraka in.
You want more Baraka You want more barakah
in your income?
Don't spend it in Haram.
Get it from
Halal. Don't
right?
And give sadaqa.
And Allah will bless that.
You want more barakah?
More Barakah
in your tongue in how you speak
Speak.
Stay away from obscenities.
Obscenities.
Stay away from
stay away from
insulting,
backbiting,
demeaning
other people,
people. Don't use your tongue for haram. Start
start
remembering Allah with it.
Start
the Quran.
What do you think? Can
you
just
imagine
that when your tongue is repeating the exact
words of what Allah spoke
words of what Allah spoke, Allah spoke spoke
this.
How
closer can you get to
and by repeating his words on your tongue?
Can't get any closer.
So you want Baraka? You do this
You do
this?
In your eyesight in your eyesight.
Can in how you think.
Get rid
of the garbage
garbage
that you and I are thinking about, the
haram
wish and start focusing and start focusing on
beneficial things,
righteous things.
And you'll find, bidnillah, after some time that
Allah Azzawajal will sharpen your mind.
So this is how you attain that Baraka
and this is a real
important
part that
part that Ibn Khayim is talking about
because we
are living in a
in a time when there is lack is
lack of Baraka.
Not abundance, but lack of
abundance, but lack of barakah.
Societies
barakah in the food. We talked about this
previously.
This previously.
There's no baraka in the food.
And how
it
it tastes, and how it smells,
smells and what it gives you.
There's no barakah in society.
Not like it was before. People, there's money
and people don't have enough of it. There's
money, but it's not enough.
People are not going richer but poorer.
And even with what we have compared to
what other people have, we still complain
because there is no barakah and there is
no content.
There's no happiness.
And you have societies rather than advancing their
declining,
Rather
than rather than, you know, subhanAllah promoting
peace, they're
promoting
peace, they're promoting war.
So absolute diminishment of
absolute diminishment of barakah. So where is this
coming from? Because
coming from, because
we
general
really as a public
public,
I can't just blame the lead blame the
leaders and say, okay, we're
they're great. They're the
we produce them.
We sustain
them.
Sustain them.
There and you wanna whenever you look at
a political leader here or there,
You understand that there's a population
that
that allows that person
to listen,
to be who they are.
I'm not saying
go and pull them down
violently,
violently. No. I'm saying that through our
behavior,
through our taqwa.
The lack of that
allows this person to continue
how they are.
So you have societies that are are completely
in chaos.
To increase, not
Greece. Look at the world in chaos,
and it's likely to
What direction is it heading?
You'll understand that we have lost that
and we're likely to continue to
you'll understand that
upon you, if you understand this, then you
know how to fix your
life.
And then you know how to fix society
society,
because this is all I can bring
Baraka back.
Baraka back.
And in Baraka,
Barakah can never come back. Or
you wanna, in Muslim,
they want more Barakah, they think they should
modernize.
Wanna in Muslim societies, if they want more
Barakat
organization
or against modernization. What it means is what
But
Allah's
Allah's disobedience.
That's what my with us
what?
Becoming more like
the non Muslims.
Right?
That's not that's not gonna bring you barakah
or bring you more income
bring you more income.
If a person believes that barakah
provisions are with Allah as
they will not seek it
from or
so let me stop here because let me
stop here
because I don't wanna
go into the
next
because it's a lengthy one, and it
needs, to the next chapter because it's a
lengthy one.
Time to explain this inshallah. Let me stop
here.
Let me stop here and let me know
inshallah if you have questions.
No.
Yeah. It's a it's a good distinction. I'll
repeat your question.
So,
Allah Azzafjal said in
the Quran
carries somebody else's sin.
And he said
He said and all but also we know
from the story of from the story of
Musa alayhis Musa'ul
Alihim
that
they've helped
the
2 orphans
because
of the righteousness of their the righteousness of
their father.
So
right between righteousness
and sin.
Sin is not inherited.
That's
what we talked about here. No one
about here. No one inherits the sin of
their forefathers or their
forefathers or their parents.
But righteousness
does actually
pass
to the next children,
to the next generation,
to the next generation and so on.
So
so
because of
of
the righteousness of the father,
will receive blessings from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Or maybe
maybe
the grandchildren and
so on and so on depending on the
degree
the degree of that righteousness.
Because of their because of their dua, because
of their
halal money.
Ever good that they do it did
that is pleasing to Allah money
because of whatever
good that
pleasing to Allah, a zawudal,
it's not limited
it's not limited to them, but
it
extends of the righteous. It extends to your
neighbor.
Even if you're
not even if you're not physically, right, you're
not physically giving them
anything. But protection from error
from error, protection from sin, acceptance of
Dua, the righteousness
spreads.
And it definitely
the righteousness of the righteous.
Right? Sometimes the children don't grow up to
be righteous. That and it definitely spreads to
the children.
Right?
We've seen that with the prophets of Allah,
but it does
extend. So sin does
does extend and
does get inherited if Allah
if Allah will sit.
Mhmm.
So, I mean,
the brother is asking about the
balance
about the balance between
believing that
that the risk
provision is written
provision is written, and at the same time,
striving
to
get it,
and not falling into
extremes
where
if you believe it's written,
you
become complacent,
simply dependent on if something is
written is gonna come my way,
my way,
or if you go to the other extreme
to the other extreme and you strive, you
start believing
in
your own effort, in your own
in your own intelligence,
trusting less and less in Allah.
Allah
but in the
in
the people around you and your physical
ethical effort and circumstances.
And
and it's it's not
always an easy
balance and that's why
a and that's why a
person needs to
and renew his intention.
That
needs to constantly remind himself and
But at the same time, this is written,
and that one of them does not
one of them does not negate the other.
So Allah, azza wa jal, as we've
issued before.
Allah, azza wa jil, had written as we've
talked about this,
issue before.
To go to heaven or to go to
*, but at the same time,
he said, this is
he said, this is written with the cause.
So written that, yes, you
can
written with the cause that you're gonna pray,
and you're gonna ask Allah forgiveness.
You're gonna go to Hajj.
So you're gonna go to Hajj. You're gonna
give sadaqa. And if you don't do this,
you're not gonna get
that.
But at the same time, it's not this
that gets you this that gets you into
heaven, but Allah's mercy that gets you in
to it. So you all
so you always have to remind yourself because
it's
actually in the dunya,
going falling into the extreme of
into the extreme of not trusting Allah as
but your own effort.
Effort. Because nothing around you reminds you of
Allah. But everything Allah. But everything around you
reminds you of
strive and try your best
best and you're smart and you're intelligent and
work and this and work and this and
this. So it's easy
to forget Allah as
Allah azza wa jal. So you always have
to so you always have to say and
remind
yourself
yourself.
It's not I who's getting all of this
effort. My effort is a key
who's getting all of this. It's not my
effort.
My effort
It's Allah that opens it.
So you just need to unlock.
The rest, Allah is the one who gifts
it.
So it's written, but
written, but written with the effort.
And you need the
and you need the effort to get what
is written, but at the
same time,
you know that
on its own
is insufficient.
The
the effort on its own?
You didn't get it because
of you. You have to
you have to tell yourself that, Alhamdulillah,
alhamdulillah Allah had given you special talents. Now
knowledge, degrees and all of this,
and all of this that
extensively
ostensibly
superficially
allows you to get this. Right?
Right? That's how you get it.
But
but if Allah want
it, you would not get
Thanks.
Or you would get it without it, you
would not get it with all of these
things.
So I have to tell
yourself. So if that's the case
without all of these things.
But you trust Allah
that he is the one who truly case
you do, but you trust Allah.
He's the one who truly gives.
Let me just quickly check here inshallah.
Is
one's is one's struggle to memorize the Quran
Quran equivalent
to one's sin
sins.
If one struggles to memorize the Quran the
Quran,
does that
that
forgive your sins, or is
it
because
of your sins?
So let me answer it,
let me answer it,
in both cases.
If you struggle to memorize the Quran, this
is jihad.
Right?
And if this is jihad, Allah rewards you
as long as you are struggling.
So don't give up just because you're
finding it difficult.
No.
Continue to
continue to,
and
even if your effort
or the outcome is still
modest.
And if your effort eventually,
or the
the ultimate result that matters.
It's the effort.
It's not the result.
The effort.
Right? So maybe 1
so maybe one of us
intends to memorize the Quran.
I'm
too busy and too
this, then you give up on the idea.
Well I'm too old. I'm too busy.
I'm
on the idea.
The loss is that.
But if somebody said, no. I'm gonna work
called I'm too old. I'm too this, and
I'm too that.
But I said, but I want to do
it. And you keep
doing it
like that, it'd be as if you've done
it.
You see the difference?
It's as if you've reached it.
Because you didn't stop.
You struggled,
and you kept doing it.
Is death.
Okay?
So that's what he
and the thing that
stopped you is death.
Memory Quran memorization is not because of
sin,
although it can.
It, Lord, can.
So if you wanted to improve,
repent
and ask Allah
to give you
patience to stay away from those sins
so that you
are so that you are clean enough
enough
to receive Allah
words. Right?
Okay.
Okay.
Anyone
else?
Else
So your question is that,
the world seem
Okay.
So your question
seems to be getting
worse, the more killing
and
compared to the past and says,
is this because what
is worse than what people did before?
If you look at the kind of the
prevalence
dominance,
degree of sin in the world today,
today,
compared to
100 years ago?
Ago. The answer would be easy.
We're
far more sinful
today than we were in the past
than we were in the past.
There are things that are happening
that are happening worldwide, globally.
Right?
That were
100 years ago.
Right?
Sins that are public
sins that are public
that
go against Allah Azzajal
Azzajal, go against
religions,
not just one.
Go against nature
And this is likely to expand and continue
and for us to have new forms
forms
of sin,
and they become normal
normal
and accepted.
So the more
the more that you are likely to so
you are likely
as you conclude that we're gonna see more
punishment
punishment
and more dissension and more
dissension and more disagreement and
less Baraka because of it.
No. So you say, but at the same
time, you see more wealth?
And more
more advancement
This is this is the
type of
but they are unaware of the hereafter.
They
have super
for now superficial
after.
That type
wealth that
Allah
mentions actually in the Quran.
When they forgot what we have sent to
them. We've opened,
opened to them the gates of heavens and
earth,
and earth.
That is a sign of
Allah's
of Allah's punishment.
That is when they
that is one day disobey
Allah
for bringing this so that people understand
stand
that not every blessing or not every wealth
is good.
So Allah Azul says
that when they disobeyed him
and he
obeyed him, and he reminded them, and they
rejected
rejected that reminder.
What he did with them is that he
gave them more money
them more money, so that they can increase
they can increase
in
disobeying Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
That he would overtake them, he would
destroy
them all of a sudden.
And
in rebellion
and that he would
So that increased knowledge, that increased wealth,
that increased wealth is
is not a good sign.
It's a very
very
because if you find yourself
as an individual or as a community
or as a community or as a society.
You should start crying.
And he gives you more?
Start crying
because that's a sign of punishment
that
impending doom.
If you find yourself when you're doing something
bad,
that's a sign of an impending doom.
You for it.
You find things are being complicated in your
life, say Allah cares about me.
But he gives you
more while you are sinning.
You
have to
you have to really worry about it. Oh,
lord.
So we'll stop here.
In
stop
here in and
we'll see you
we'll see you next week.