Dzaki Rosman – As Salaam Masjid Tokyo
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First and foremost and all of you. We
have Taqwa in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And one of the meanings of Taqwa is
That you act in obedience towards Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala in the guidance of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala
and goofing for his reward.
And you leave
this obedience towards Allah
in the guidance of Allah
fearing his punishment.
Mashallah Muslimen, O servants of Allah.
It is obligatory upon us
to be a thankful servant,
to be a shakid, a shakood.
To always be thankful to Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
from whatever
that he has been giving to us.
And, Allah,
we if we try to enumerate, we count
all the blessings that Allah
has given us, we will surely will not
be able to count them. Allah
says in the
And if you try to enumerate
the blessings of Allah, you will not be
able to count them.
If you try to list down all the
list, all the things that Allah has given
to you, you will end up writing pages
and pages
of things that you receive without even lifting
a finger.
And these are all the apparent ones that
we can see. And, of course, there are
all
there are some,
blessings that we cannot see from our naked
eyes.
Allah
says,
And Allah has engulfed upon you favors that
are apparent
and also some favors that are not can
be, that are can be seen by your
naked eyes.
We might feel that every other day that
we live
is just another day for us. But, however,
in fact,
being able to breathe,
being able to eat, being able to
live in a secure places,
in a safe environment,
these are all
blessings from Allah
And why do we need to stress in,
this concept of shukub?
It is because Allah
says in the Quran.
And but a lot of mankind is ungrateful.
And few of my servants are thankful.
So being grateful and showing gratitude towards Allah
is the fundamental concept
of our existence.
Meaning the purpose of our life
is to manifest
is to manifest gratitude towards Allah, Towards the
one who has created us. Towards the one
who has given us all of this that
we are possessing now.
To acknowledge that in fact we are the
slaves of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Without the concept of shukr, without the concept
of giving thanks towards the one who have
created us.
And in the Quran,
if you read the Quran throughout the Quran,
you can see
Allah uses the word
as the opposite of shukr.
And surely, we will show mankind
ways.
And either they will be grateful or ungrateful.
And remember me, and I shall remember you.
And be grateful to me, and do not
be ungrateful.
The word used here is
be grateful,
and do not
among those disbelievers among those who reject,
the favors of Allah
It
is what we see also in the Quran.
Allah uses
as the opposite opposite of iman, opposite of
belief in Allah.
So we can say shukr
and iman
is synonyms
are synonyms, the same meaning.
Believing in Allah will automatically make you become
a grateful servant.
So those who believe in Allah, they would
thank Allah more.
Look at our prophet
Muhammad He Allah has been
forgiving his sins. Allah has forgiven all his
sins. He is promised Jannah.
But he takes himself to the next level.
He worships Allah more
until his feet become swollen
from the long standing of the prayer.
And what did he say?
Should I not become
a grateful slave?
Yeah, Allah. This is
our
this is our role model,
prophet Muhammad.
And also,
of all the blessings that we can see,
for example,
from prophet Sulayman alaihis salam. After he has
given all of the blessings, if you read
from the Quran and from the sila of
the prophets, he has been given a great
kingdom.
And he has been given the ability to
understand the language of animals and birds.
And he also have a great army that
consists not only men,
but consists of jinnkind
and also the birds and animals.
And what
did he say after all this?
In the Quran, Allah recorded. He's saying,
This is from the favors of my lord.
It is to test me whether I am
grateful
or I am not grateful. So that is,
I think, for a while.
Let's say there's no verse in the Quran
that command us to do shukun,
that ask us to give thanks to Allah.
It is only logical that we show gratitude
to Allah.
Without any commands, we have to show gratitude
because we are from Allah.
That is the concept
of shukur. But one may ask,
how to show shukur? How to show gratitude?
So the fundamental of shukur
is being humble.
Is to humble ourselves
to the one who has created
us. For the for to be humble
to the ones who have given us all
the blessings.
You cannot have arrogance
and be thankful at the same time.
Think about it.
If somebody gives you a hadiyah, a present,
you can think deeper that
this hadiyah is from Allah
And also if you think deeper, the one
who is giving you this hadiyah, this present,
Allah send it to you. You are Allah
So we have to thank ultimately to Allah
alone.
And we thank him, and we say
So how do we manifest a shukub?
So there are 3 pillars of shukr.
Number 1, that we,
use our heart
to acknowledge the the all of the favors
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
The heart should witness all of the blessings
that feel and Allah,
all of the things that is from Allah,
that we feel love towards Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
And we affirm with full conviction
and certainty that this is all from Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. Not from our own work,
not from our own effort, it is from
Allah
The second pillar is to use our tongue.
Is to
see
utter
praises to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
That we say that all of this is
from Allah.
And whatever
the best things that you have been receiving,
tell people that this is from Allah.
And the third one,
last but not least, this is the most
neglected
one, which is to use the limbs
to put it into action, to show gratitude
with our limbs, with our body.
They are need to confirm and submit to
Allah with our body
that he has given us, according to his
pleasure,
according
to whatever that he pleases.
Yeah.
And not enough by just saying
thank you. Thank you, Allah.
Not merely mid deep service. So we have
to show
an action how to become a grateful servant.
As you can see, the prophet
David,
he has been given a lot of blessings.
He has been given the knowledge of bending
the metal. He has been given also a
great kingdom, and his son, prophet Suleyman alaihis
salam.
What did Allah command him to do?
Allah say in the Quran.
Put into actions of family or dawood
and to show gratitude.
So may Allah
make us
And what do you get if you are
becoming a grateful servant of Allah?
First of all,
Allah will be pleased with you.
And Allah see, if you are thankful, then
Allah will be pleased with you.
Next, that Allah will leave the punishment from
you.
But
yeah. What will Allah gain from punishing you
if you are thankful and if you believe
in him?
And the third one, that Allah will increase
all blessings that he has been given to
us.
And your lord has proclaimed that if you
are thankful, that Allah will increase
the blessings upon us.
From all the blessings that we have received,
brothers and sisters, in Japan,
I am just a traveler,
so we are here in Japan from all
the blessings that we have received.
And the greatest blessings that we have been
receiving
is the blessing of guidance,
is the blessing
of his
love. It's the blessing to know who is
our creator.
It's the blessing of knowing what is halal
and what is haram. We have a guiding
light that to know which one is good,
which one is bad. So this is your
law. We have to thank Allah
for this.