Bilal Philips – Belief In Allah

Bilal Philips

Belief in Allah
Sheik Bilal discusses the Six Pillars of Faith in a moral principles perspective.

Jumu’ah Khutbah @ Masjid Bin Zaid (FANAR)

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			Brothers and sisters
		
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			today
		
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			we continue our series looking at the Pillars of Islam and he man
		
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			but from a moral perspective
		
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			as we said, when we began the series looking at the Pillars of Islam,
		
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			Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
		
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			summarize the essence of the religion
		
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			from its beginning to its end
		
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			as a moral message, when he said in my boys to live with them Mima muckety muck o'clock, indeed, I
was sent only to perfect for you the highest of moral character traits.
		
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			And when I Isha his wife, radi Allahu Allah was asked, what was the prophets character like?
		
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			How was his
		
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			moral character? She said,
		
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			Can hola qu Al Quran
		
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			his character was the Quran. All of the map the moral attributes which he displayed, they were
manifestations of the message of the Quran. He implemented those messages, the messages of
revelation in his day to day life, in the way that he dealt with his existence, the way that he
dealt with a loss of 100 with Allah, the way he dealt with his family, with his children, with his
neighbors, with his enemies in the court,
		
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			on the battlefields
		
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			during Hajj,
		
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			in his prayers, and how he dealt with the creatures around him in the society.
		
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			how he treated the animals that he rode, the animals which he had slaughtered, for food, or for
religious rights.
		
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			All of this was a display of the moral character
		
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			engendered or taught by the Quran itself.
		
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			And this was the sooner
		
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			the sooner was the translation of the Quran into living practice. So the sooner is a living Sunnah.
		
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			It represents a way of life,
		
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			fundamentally, a moral way of life. This is what Islam is, it is a moral message. Essentially, it is
a moral message to implement that message. It might require weapons. So there is jihad, Jihad as a
place. But ultimately, the goal of jihad is not the spilling of blood.
		
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			The goal of jihad is not primarily to take the lands of other people.
		
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			Though it may come as a part of the jihad, people's lands and their properties may be taken.
		
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			But that isn't the goal.
		
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			That is just the consequence of military struggle.
		
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			The losers have to be dealt with. And they are dealt with in accordance with principles which Islam
has set down principles which are fundamentally moral principles. We find them written up now in the
Geneva Convention.
		
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			It is only
		
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			The 20th century that the west of the world decided to put laws for war.
		
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			Whereas Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu wasallam,
		
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			in translating the Quran established the laws for war 1400 years ago,
		
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			they established the moral principles which must be upheld, even in the time of battle.
		
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			So,
		
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			Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu wasallam, conveyed to us a moral message. And everything of Islam
		
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			is geared towards creating
		
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			an ideal moral individual.
		
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			That is the individual who can change his world, the world in which he lives, the environment in
which he exists. If he himself is changed, he follows that moral message, the guidelines, the
blueprint of Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu wasallam, then he will be able to change his family, his
community, his society, his nation, and the world, ultimately, he will be a part of that change,
maybe he is not the one who will ultimately make final decisions with regards to government
policies, etc, etc. But
		
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			he is a part of that change.
		
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			And that change begins with the individual. So when we look at the Pillars of Islam, as we did, in
the previous hospice, we looked at each pillar, one after the other,
		
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			to extract from each one of them, the moral message,
		
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			which is in it with regards to our character,
		
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			what should be our character with regards to Salah,
		
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			fasting,
		
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			Hajj zeca, the Shahada time, there was and there is and there will be continued to be a moral
message that each and every one of us needs to learn. And whatever we learn of Islam,
		
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			whether it is from Islamic history,
		
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			it is a statement of the Prophet Mohammed Salim in a hadith.
		
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			Or it is from any of the relationships which Islam establishes economic, social, etc.
		
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			Each and every instruction, each and every bit or piece of information carries with it a moral
message. Meaning there is something in it for us to apply in our daily lives. And that's what we
need to know.
		
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			Because knowledge, which we don't apply, becomes useless knowledge. And prophet muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam used to say Allahumma inni, I will do becoming illman lie and fire or Allah I seek
refuge in You from knowledge, which is of no benefit.
		
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			Now that knowledge which is of no benefit could be useless knowledge in the sense that
		
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			it's false knowledge. Or it could be useful knowledge and beneficial knowledge, but we just don't
apply it.
		
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			It could go either way. So to protect ourselves from falling into that evil category, the evil
category, for which last month Allah said,
		
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			or taught us in our daily prayers to say, is dinner, sirata Muslim, serrata Latina and I'm talay him
ready to be a la mano darlin. Show us the straight path. This is what we asked for 17 times every
day, at least, show us the straight path. The most important thing to ask for in this life. Straight
passes what that moral path where we do the right thing. We make the right decisions.
		
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			We are
		
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			For that, and then Allah goes on to clarify who is on that path. sirata Latina and I'm telling him
those, the path of those who you have blessed, they live blessed lives. So that's what we are
seeking Renato de la mer not the path of those on who is your rough.
		
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			Who are they?
		
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			There are those who have knowledge which they don't apply.
		
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			The prime example is that of the Jews
		
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			who received the knowledge.
		
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			They know what that knowledge that message was, but they didn't apply it
		
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			was Darlene and not the path of those who have gone astray, due to what ignorance, not having
knowledge at all.
		
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			Following misguidance
		
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			and the classical example of them today
		
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			are the Christians who follow a religion, not the religion which Prophet Jesus brought, but a
religion, which was fabricated after his time.
		
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			So the very things that he spoke out against
		
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			they promoted and the very things that he did, they didn't do.
		
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			He called them to the worship of one God.
		
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			And they call people to the worship of him,
		
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			calling him the one God.
		
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			He worshipped one God.
		
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			And it is recorded in their distorted gospel that he did, falling down on his face as we do in
sujood. He worship the one God, but today, the mass of Christians worship Jesus.
		
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			How father astray could one possibly get.
		
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			So we asked a lot to protect us from that and as promised, Solomon said, tolerable Elmi Fareed,
Allah Cola, Muslim seeking knowledge is compulsory for every Muslim. And that's why he made it a
religious obligation on us that each and every Muslim should know his or her religion. Not enough
for us to say I'm Muslim, because my parents are Muslims, is not enough.
		
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			Because the law will not reward us for our parents Islam.
		
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			He will question us for what we did. They get their reward for what they did. And we will get for
what we do.
		
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			So moving on, having completed the five pillars of Islam, we now move on to the six pillars of
Eamon.
		
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			They are
		
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			belief in a law, belief in his angels, belief in his books, belief in the messengers, belief in the
last day, and belief in destiny.
		
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			These six pillars which constitute the pillars of faith,
		
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			the foundation of Muslim belief
		
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			were identified 1400 years ago, there are not pillars which people agreed upon after Prophet
Mohammed Salah asylums death, where there were discussions and people had meetings and eventually
they came up with these six Nope.
		
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			Like the five
		
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			they were taught by prophet muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in his own lifetime.
		
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			And that is what unites Muslims throughout the world.
		
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			And that is what holds Islam
		
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			intact and will continue to hold it until the last day.
		
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			So the first of the pillars of faith, belief in Allah
		
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			brothers standing.
		
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			Either you come in and find a place
		
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			or you
		
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			Find a place outside.
		
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			Don't leave the door open.
		
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			And make sure you make two units of prayer before sitting down.
		
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			believe in Allah.
		
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			What does it mean? First and foremost, it means belief, in a laws existence.
		
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			belief, in a laws existence, belief, meaning, having certain belief,
		
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			I believe which is free from doubt,
		
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			a belief which a person feels confident about.
		
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			There are people today who would promote the idea that belief in a law is illogical.
		
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			It's blind faith,
		
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			that everything actually points to
		
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			there being no God.
		
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			However,
		
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			one should be certain, that belief in a law belief in God's existence is logical.
		
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			It is reasonable.
		
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			And in fact, it is the disbelief in existence which is illogical.
		
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			Which is blamed is brooches based on blind faith.
		
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			Belief in God's existence
		
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			was held by the founders of logic. The Greeks, ancient Greeks, Plato and Aristotle, leading thinkers
amongst the Greeks who are, who are revered,
		
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			virtually worshiped by Western civilization. They argued logically, for the existence of God.
		
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			Logically,
		
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			using pure logic, they argued, there must be a god.
		
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			So we asked those who say it is illogical to believe in God, what happened with Aristotle and Plato,
the founders of your logic.
		
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			So, we should have no doubt
		
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			that what is proposed by others, that this existence that we live in, is a pure, pure result of
accident.
		
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			This is a logic.
		
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			It goes against all of our
		
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			mental processes, when a person walks on the beach, and he or she sees a footprint in the sand.
		
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			What comes to mind logically,
		
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			if we think in terms of those who say, belief in God
		
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			is illogical.
		
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			Belief in accident,
		
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			as being the Creator, is more logical, then we have to say that when you see that footprint in the
sand, the first thing that should come to the logical mind is that the waves came up onto the sand,
sunk into the sand and formed a footprint.
		
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			But who thinks that
		
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			no one thinks that
		
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			whenever whenever we see a footprint in the sand, we say, somebody was walking here.
		
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			That footprint indicated that is logical thinking that somebody made that footprint, it didn't
happen by accident, though, it is not absolutely impossible, that the seawater could sink into the
sand and form something looking like the shape of a footprint. It's not impossible. But that is not
what comes to our mind.
		
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			So those who claim the whole of this existence is a world is a result of an accident. That is what
they're trying to say.
		
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			And we say, Okay,
		
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			if there is one footprint, a result of an accident, how about all the footprints? No,
		
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			even if we accept that one
		
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			footprint could be the result of an accident consistently, every time we see a footprint that's
going to come to our mind. No.
		
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			And that's what they're saying, illogical.
		
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			The whole of this existence is a result of an accident,
		
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			chance,
		
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			no designer,
		
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			design was a product of accident.
		
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			The second
		
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			part of belief
		
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			in God, or belief in law
		
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			is to believe
		
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			that Allah alone
		
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			is the
		
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			Lord of this world.
		
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			The Lord of all that takes place,
		
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			he controls he sustains, he maintains
		
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			these attributes or his whatever it takes place in this world is
		
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			by his permission, nothing takes place without his permission, whether good or evil,
		
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			whether good or evil,
		
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			it is by a laws permission,
		
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			very important, basic concept
		
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			related to belief in a law because this aspect of the belief
		
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			is what keeps faith firm.
		
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			One who doesn't have this aspect of belief in Allah clear, easily falls into this belief, whenever
		
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			calamities occur in their lives, which they cannot explain.
		
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			This is common. When you sit down you talk to most people who are atheists. Why did you become an
atheist? Your parents weren't?
		
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			They will tell you something happened in their life, which showed them there couldn't be a god.
		
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			What could possibly happen, calamity, calamity. To those who they felt it shouldn't happen to.
		
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			They will tell you, my aunt. She was a wonderful woman, always doing good for everybody around her.
		
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			Then one day, she was walking across the street and a bus came and just
		
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			killed her.
		
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			Why? She was a good person.
		
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			There are other people around who are evil, my uncle's
		
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			other relatives evil, but they live comfortable lives. They didn't suffer what she suffered.
		
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			How could there be a god?
		
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			Where is the Justice here?
		
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			So a person falls into this belief because
		
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			and I remember years ago, when there was an outbreak of
		
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			hoof and mouth disease in England.
		
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			And they had this picture of a little girl
		
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			who had a plaque in front of her.
		
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			And she had some places which were circled.
		
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			And she said the arrows pointing to it saying these are my tears
		
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			are tears.
		
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			And she had a question. She was standing there with this placard her parents are standing behind
her.
		
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			She was asking
		
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			God
		
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			Why did you take my calf?
		
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			They were killing because of course hoof and mouth diseases are it was the that was another
		
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			Mad Cow mad cow disease, which had spread they were killing the animals right, left and right to get
rid of them to stop this disease from spreading. So she had a calf.
		
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			She was living on a farm calf was born she became attached to it from it's very small. It grows up
with her, you know, she's so attached to it and then they came to get away and killed it.
		
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			Something very dear touching that she had this
		
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			relationship with killed. So she's asking God, why did you take away my calf?
		
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			What was his sin?
		
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			What did he do?
		
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			I love them so dearly. parents had no answer, just standing behind that is the beginning of
disbelief.
		
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			Not being able to understand
		
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			that
		
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			whatever happens in this life,
		
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			which a law permits is for good.
		
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			Even if we can't see the good in it.
		
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			Whatever happens in this life, in our lives in the lives of those around us, is for good. Even if we
cannot see the good in it.
		
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			Many times we can see the good
		
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			and we say Oh,
		
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			Mashallah,
		
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			that thing which happened and I was upset about
		
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			I see some good came from it. So I say, I'm the law was a good thing, after all.
		
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			This happens all the time.
		
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			But there are times when things happen, where we can't see it. And this is the time when our faith
is tested.
		
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			And that is part of belief in Allah, to believe that whatever takes place in this world,
		
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			is ultimately for good.
		
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			Satan.
		
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			People asked, Why did God create Satan?
		
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			Didn't he know before He created him, that Satan would refuse to bow? And would tempt Adam and Eve
to disobey Allah and eat from the tree?
		
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			What can you say? If you say no?
		
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			Then you're saying, Allah doesn't know all things? Of course he knew.
		
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			So why then, would a law create this being who would become evil? He didn't create him evil, he
would become evil and cause evil.
		
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			Knowing that this is going to take place, why would he do that?
		
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			Because
		
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			from Satan's evil
		
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			came great good.
		
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			What was the great good,
		
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			the great good was that when Adam and Eve ate from the tree,
		
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			in disobedience to God,
		
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			and they recognized their sin.
		
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			And they turned back to a law based on the words of repentance, which our Lord told them.
		
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			That repentance was one of the greatest acts of worship, that we, as human beings can do.
		
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			Turning back to a line repentance is among the greatest acts of worship that we can do. Prophet
Muhammad Sallallahu wasallam said, at our ableman of them be Carmen lathom Bella.
		
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			One who repents from sin is like one without sin.
		
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			I ask Allah, to forgive myself and yourselves,
		
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			to cause our hearts to turn back to you or Allah in repentance, as only you can forgive our sin.
		
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			Belief in a law
		
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			also involves
		
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			believe that he alone deserves our worship,
		
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			that Allah alone deserves our worship. He cannot do what he has died.
		
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			You alone do we worship and from you alone, do we seek help?
		
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			That is
		
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			the central
		
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			principle of faith
		
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			that is required of us in belief in Allah.
		
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			And this was the essence of the messages of all
		
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			The prophets of Allah, calling people
		
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			to the worship of Allah
		
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			to dedicating their lives
		
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			to Allah, to living, God fearing lives, lives in which we are conscious of a law in each and
everything that we do.
		
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			Because for a Muslim, all of his or her life is supposed to be worship.
		
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			From the time that we get up in the morning,
		
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			till the time we go back to sleep at night, playing with our children,
		
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			relating with our husbands and wives,
		
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			feeding our animals,
		
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			working,
		
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			interacting socially with our neighbors.
		
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			All aspects of our lives is supposed to be worship of Allah.
		
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			As I said, Paul in the Salatu, WA new Suki, Rama,
		
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			Rama Mattila, Nairobi, Al amin say, indeed, my prayers, my sacrifices, my living and my dying, are
for a law, the Lord of all the worlds
		
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			that is the life of the believer of a true Muslim, one who has submitted his or her will to Allah.
		
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			Meaning that in whatever we do,
		
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			we try to understand what it is that the law has required of us in this act.
		
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			This thought, this word
		
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			what is it that the law wants from us?
		
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			If we do that, then we turn our lives into worship. Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu wasallam gave us no
end of supplications to make from the time we wake up in the morning, to the time we go to sleep at
night. Why? All these applications when you look at yourself in the mirror, when you go into the
bathroom, when you go to eat, when you leave your house, when you enter your job, when you
		
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			and so on and so forth throughout your day. Prophet Mohammed says Allah has given us supplications
prayers to make for each and every occasion of our lives. Why?
		
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			In order that we be conscious of a law, in the things that we do,
		
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			as a law said,
		
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			Optimus Sala Lee decree establish a prayer for my remembrance.
		
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			The essence,
		
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			a life of prayer is a life of remembrance of God.
		
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			And that makes the difference
		
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			that distinguishes between the righteous and the unrighteous. So in closing,
		
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			what are the personality traits? What are the characteristics, which
		
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			belief in a law should produce in us what is the fruit of this belief?
		
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			The fruit which is seen in the life of Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam about whom Allah
stated in the Quran in the law of Allah ekata who you saloon Allah, Nabeel, Indeed Allah and the
angels
		
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			praise the prophet SAW its Allah
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Otis Lima OH you who believe.
		
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			seek Allah's peace and blessings for him.
		
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			What are the characteristics which he displayed, for which we should ask Allah His blessings from
the profits or sell them?
		
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			For Prophet Mohammed Al Salam?
		
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			First and foremost, it is, as we mentioned, the God conscious
		
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			character.
		
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			One who is conscious of God
		
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			meaning that
		
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			when we sit and we talk with this individual
		
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			No matter what he's talking about,
		
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			whether he's talking about fixing his car,
		
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			buying a house, changing jobs,
		
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			or as a woman, about the children, the foods that are going to be cooked,
		
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			perhaps working, also, whatever they're talking about.
		
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			A law is mentioned, a law's name, a lot of power, a lot of attributes, a part and parcel of that
conversation.
		
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			It's worked in there because we don't forget the law.
		
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			That is one characteristic. And the person who does this is a person, of course, you when you speak
with them, you can you hear the difference between that type of a person and a person who's
unconscious of a lot.
		
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			Most of us, unfortunately, are unconscious of Allah. So when we speak, there is no difference
between how we speak, and how those who don't even believe in the existence of a law speak. So say
		
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			an external observer would say this the same, no difference between this one and that one.
		
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			Because that consciousness is not reflected in what we say.
		
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			And what we do.
		
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			The second characteristic is that of having a stable personality.
		
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			Stable personality
		
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			is one which is able to handle the ups and the downs of life.
		
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			One who handles trials
		
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			with patience,
		
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			and success, with gratitude.
		
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			Not to say that we don't shake Yes, we're human beings.
		
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			trials will shake us, success will trick us to some degree, but we're not
		
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			taken all the way away.
		
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			Where we lose our way.
		
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			We are balanced in times of difficulty, and times of ease, balanced personality.
		
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			When you read about other people who don't have this consciousness of a law, when trials happen,
like some years back in the US, when there was a
		
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			crash in the stock market,
		
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			you read articles in the papers, so many stockbrokers jumping out of Windows.
		
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			suicide.
		
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			One particular individual they spoke about, this guy had funds of like $5 million, the market
dropped, so he only ended up with $1 million loss $4 million dollars, and he was jumping out the
window.
		
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			We say this is somebody who hasn't understood life,
		
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			no stability, personality.
		
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			You blame others.
		
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			When you can find others to blame you blame yourself and take your life.
		
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			One who hasn't understood Allah character in this regard is weak. Last, I asked her last month Allah
to give us
		
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			character of God consciousness, to make us aware of the laws of Allah and all of the various acts
and thoughts and deeds of our lives. I asked the last one to Allah to make our hearts connected to
him, to keep us conscious of him, to make our last words in leaving this life remembrance of him to
keep La ilaha illAllah on our tongues and to keep it in our hearts and to keep it in our lives. And
ask Allah to give us stability in our individual lives, to help us to handle the difficulties and to
help us to be
		
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			thankful to him in the times of blessing and ease.