Hamza Yusuf – Love Has Conditions Part 1 Of 2

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			Allah subhana wa Tada. Quran said adronis dibbler come and this
		

			is what the Arabs call a conditional sentence Joomla sharqiya, the only StG blucon. So whenever you
have a conditional sentence, it means that whatever the proposition of the sentence is, it's
predicated on the condition being fulfilled. So if you don't fulfill the condition, then whatever is
being told is not going to happen. So Allah subhana wa Adana says the only as the developer can call
on me, and I will answer you. So what Allah says is, if you call on Allah, He promises to answer you
as to who. And that's the condition that he puts that you just call on him. Now, if you look at the
word that our, like the Arabs, they say that I do, and he called or he invited, or he prayed, it
		

			could mean he prayed. So if you look at the word though, the word has to do with an invitation. It's
an invocation, or an invitation. Like for instance, if I invite someone in my house, I say out to
eat at I called him to my house. And so what you're doing is you're inviting somebody into some part
of your life. So when you call on Allah, Subhana, WA, tada, it's like an invitation. you're inviting
Allah Subhana Allah to Allah to help you. But every invitation has certain aspects that make it
appealing. No invitation is answered simply as an invite. For instance, if somebody who you don't
know at all invites you to some place, you're likely to say, That's all right, because you don't
		

			know the person. And you might ask about him later. But you're most likely you'll just ignore that
person. Or, for instance, if you invite somebody to dinner, and then when he gets there, you serve
him a glass of water. And you say, well, that's the dinner, he's probably not going to return an
invitation again, if you invite him for dinner. So what you do or what humans do, they tend to do
when they invite people is they prepare something. And so the invitation is appealing. There's an
appeal to it. Now, when you invoke Allah subhana wa Adana, the scholars stated that there are
certain conditions. In other words, there are things that you do now, there are circumstances where
		

			those conditions are completely thrown out. For instance, somebody who's oppressed when somebody is
oppressed, if they call on Allah subhana wa Adana, there's no conditions, even if he's not a Muslim,
		

			an oppressed person, the Prophet sallallahu Sallam said Lisa Bane, Bane and marumi will la hijab.
There's no hijab between Allah and an oppressed person, Willow cafe, even if it was a cafe, somebody
who reject just calling, you know, pleading because he's being wronged and Allah subhana wa tada is
just so even just like we would side if we're fair, if we're just, if we saw a Muslim, if he's
oppressing somebody who doesn't believe in Allah doesn't believe in his prophet, we're gonna side
with the non Muslim. Like, should I help Ali, when he sided with the Jewish man against Satan alley
when he was admitted meaning because he's being fair, so Allah is fair also. So even if one person
		

			is says Allah exists and believes in his profit, if he's oppressing somebody who doesn't believe in
Allah doesn't believe in his prophet, Allah subhanaw taala sides with the press, in that case. So
those are places where there's no conditions are thrown out. But in normal circumstances, there's
conditions to everything. And this is why a group of people passed by Ibrahim even add him in at
basara. A city in Iraq, in a famous city famous for scholarship for great saints and, and people of
Allah subhana wa Tada, famous for grammarians, and many, many other things. The dates of Basra were
also famous. It was a place of immense abundance from Allah subhanho wa Taala Anna, but these people
		

			he was in the marketplace and he passed by some merchants, and they said, yeah, this hack, that was
his luck, you know, oh, Father is hot. We have a question for you. And he said, What's your
question? He said, in Allah subhanho wa Taala erroneous Did you block can you call on me? And I will
answer you like Andrew Who would I used to Dubliner you know, we call on Allah but we don't see that
I was answering us, which already indicates they're ignorant because you're not allowed to say that
the Prophet prohibited that. When you call on a lie, you're not supposed to say I asked a lie asked
Allah. He didn't call because there's two eyes that allow you the beautiful, he will actually defer
		

			answering the prayer to the Day of Judgment.
		

			There's people that Allah just loves to hear them complain to him. So he'll just just to hear their
complaints, Allah subhana wa dannah will defer answering their prayers.
		

			And that's why one of the Persian poets told the story about the man who was calling on Allah
calling on a lot and a skeptic walked by and he said, How long have you been calling on a law? He
said, Oh, yours? He said, Have you got what you've been asking? He said, No, he said, Then why do
you keep calling? And so the man became confused, because he was simple. He was avid. He wasn't the
atom. He was just devotee. He got confused. And then he fell asleep. And he had a dream. And in the
dream, one of the people some say, came to him and said to him, why did you leave your prayer? He
said, I've been calling and I didn't get the answer. He said, No, no, your prayer was the answer.
		

			Just that you're at the door of Allah subhanho wa Taala is already an answer.
		

			Because you know who to go to. And whether he defers it or he doesn't is irrelevant. Because your
certainty enables you to realize that just being at his door is the place to be. So they said we
call on Allah He doesn't answer is he said, because your hearts are dead. In other words, in order
to call on a law, you have to be alive. The dead don't call Allah subhana wa tada says, Do you hear
that? Do the dead here, you know, so the dad can't even even if you answered they wouldn't hear they
wouldn't where he said that he can be an approval come admitted, the Ashura t shirt, your hearts are
dead because of 10 things.
		

			And then he told them what these 10 things were. And this is a hikma from one of the righteous
people of the early community. He was a great word of God and people recognize him for his
uprightness, he said out of tamala for him to add to hopko you know our law, but you don't fulfill
his rights. That's the first problem. Your hearts will die because Allah Subhana Allah to Allah
said, vanaman, who La ilaha illa Allah knew that there is no God but Allah, and knowing there's no
God but Allah and saying, There's no God but Allah are two different things. You see, because even
the hypocrite says that, you know, hating Allah, but knowing and saying are two different things. So
		

			he said, You say you know Allah, you know Allah, but you don't fulfill the rights of Allah. And now
margaretha knowledge of Allah and His Messenger in genders love. That's the nature of knowledge of
Allah and His Messenger, the more you know about the prophets, the license, the more you will love
him. The more you know about Allah Subhana, WA Donna, the more you will love him. Now the lover is
obedient to the beloved, that's the nature of love. If you have somebody who claims they love you,
and then they never do what you ask, then you should know there is a false claim. They don't love
you. They're just giving you lip service. Because the nature of love is that you do what the one who
		

			you love, ask. And that's why one of the poets, he said that you claim to love our law, and yet you
disobey Him. You claim you love our law, but you disobey Him. And then he says, this is a wondrous
type of reasoning that you're using. We've never heard of that before somebody claims they love. And
then they don't desert la with RCU. You claim to love on land, and you disobey Him. And then he
said, in caribou Casa de la Tato, if your love is real, you would obey Him in and demand your
material. Because the one who loves somebody is always obedient to them. One of the women who had
somebody who was in love with her, she said to him, tell me about the one who loves me. And he said,
		

			I thought it was unhealthy. Ashoka Lila has forgotten kasatochi you know, tell me about this one
that loves me and don't detract and don't embellish, you know, just give me the straight truth. And
so the poet said, his states, in Kenya alone and motivate them will put coffee and guru What could
he do?
		

			If he thought that he would die from thirst and you said, Don't drink he wouldn't drink.
		

			That's the state of the lover.
		

			You see, the one who claims to love and the one who loves are two different that many people claim
to love. A Shakespeare he said love is not love that alters when it alteration finds, or bends with
the remover to remove. Oh no, it is an ever fixed mark that looks on templates and is never shaken.
That's love. Love is not something that changes when the situation changes. people claim they lose
their faith. You know, I lost my faith. They didn't have faith in the first place. You can't lose
faith. Because when you were tested, suddenly you lost your son gets taken away, your wealth gets
taken away. That's when faith is tested. That's when the metal of a person is shown is not when
		

			things are going
		

			Well if everybody's a believer, when things are going well is when things are going horribly. That's
the test of faith. So you say out of them, allowing them to add to heptyl karasuma, Quran Phantom,
Ruby, you read the Quran and then you don't act according to it.
		

			You read the Quran and then you don't act according to it. So if Allah subhana wa tada says an AMA
wakulla nesea.
		

			Speak well to people. That's an AMA from Allah, Allah wakulla nesea persona and then you're going
around cursing this one accusing somebody cuts you off the road. La Atlantic ally, you had a basic
right that's not wakulla nasya phocoena right. It's not anything that happens in the Quran, Allah
subhana wa tada either a Saba Tomasi between what do they say? Hello in LA we're in a la Roger on
when an affliction hits them. The first thing they say is we belong to Allah and to murder. In other
words, we're his property, he can do whatever he wants, and we're going back to him. In other words,
we know he's gonna reward us for any tribulation we had. So that's in the Quran, Allah says that's
		

			an attribute of the believer. So you read the Quran, but then when an affliction comes, you're all
over the place. Why me? Why is this happening to me? What did I do? Look at all these bad people
over here? What's happening to them? That that's what people do. They read the Quran, but they don't
apply it to themselves, they apply to so and so and so and so and so and so. Really, they apply to
the rulers. Why don't they obey the law in the Quran? Why don't we obey Allah in the Quran? Allah
says, Allah
		

			saadian say to the believers lower their gaze, Allah subhana wa tada says Allah Deen whom few
Seraphim Hachi own people that have who sure in their prayer, their people, they do the prayer. You
know, it's they can't not put a Deak just like a chicken packing. There's people that they'll go to
the supermarket. And now go over avocados for five minutes. Just to get the right. They'll check all
the different watermelons, you know, and they'll teach you ways of doing it. They'll show you No,
no, you see if it's dry here, and I had somebody teach math, it's all science to pick a watermelon.
Where does the watermelon go in one and out the other?
		

			But where does your prayer go? It goes up to Allah subhana wa Tada. You give more to a watermelon
than you give to Sasha. And Allah says that you're closest to him when you're in such depth. I mean,
that's the state of Benny Adam. It's an amazing state. People will read a newspaper, they'll spend
every day they'll get the Wall Street Journal, they'll get the New York Times and they'll read and
all these things that have nothing to do with them whatsoever. Nothing You read about some man in
New York that went bankrupt and this that and the other and you won't take 10 minutes for the book
of Allah 15 minutes 20 minutes, but Time magazine every week,
		

			read through it cover to cover the economist read through it. That's what people do with their life.
So if they were reading the four are not it people aren't even reading the Quran anymore. Or give
some time to the son of the prophets a lot is that people get they get agitated. They'll watch
television, they'll watch a movie for two hours, people will watch a movie for two hours, excited,
waiting to be Oh, I can't I can't just wait a second. I got to see what happens here. But one of the
things in reading the Quran is makrooh to look to the end of the Jews
		

			to see when it ends, right to see when it ends. So how much more do I have to go?
		

			But they'll rewind something, a sports thing, rewind it, let's see that play again.
		

			And we know that in the Hadith, the prophet SAW and recited verses over and over and over again, the
same verse, he recited the whole night.
		

			But people don't watch a rerun over and over again. Look at his play. You got to see this. Do you
see that? Look at that kick.
		

			That's what people do. That's the state of Benny Adam. It's a pathetic state. It's a pathetic state
because people waste their lives. So we read the Quran. We don't act according to the Quran. The
Quran tells us that we should have fear in our hearts that we should have or that we should have
love. And then he said at the rhassoul forum. He you claim to love the profits allies and but you
don't follow his center. I'll give you one example. The son of the Prophet on Friday is to take a
shower to wear your best clothes to wear your best clothes. If you guys were going for a job
interview. You think you'd look like you look today.
		

			If you were going for a job interview, would you be late for the job interview? No. You'd have your
CV ready, you'd prepare
		

			The night before you'd be doing all these things, right, that's what people would be doing for a job
interview for their dunya not for the euro for their dunya that they might or might not get. They'll
go to links and extremes to impress people about their dunya. But they won't go to any links or
extremes to impress Allah subhana wa tada about their alpha.
		

			Right? People wear t shirts,
		

			t shirts. I don't I wouldn't even go outside with a T shirt because I have a more of a sense of
dignity about being part of Benny Adam, than to wear a T shirt out in public that's an undershirt
Muslim, never wore undershirts in public, even our peasants, you go to side Muslim, and you look at
how peasants dress in their daily life. And maybe it's changed now because they've watched so many.
Lucy reruns, right? I don't know, maybe it's changed. But that's the way it was when I met the
Saudis. I saw peasants that look like kings, because they had some sense of their own human dignity.
And that's the way our women were as well. But people don't have that anymore.
		

			People don't have that anymore. Seriously, when I was growing up as a Christian in this country, we
weren't because I was I was orthodox and Orthodox is more. It's like, it's more rigid than
Catholicism. Right? We had to go in our Sunday best when I was a little boy, a child dressed well,
we go and you had to sit there quietly and patient and you would listen and they would do kitty
liaison kid for hours. It's a three hour mass. That's what I grew up with. So Islam that was a
breeze Juma.
		

			But that's really that's the way it was. I went I wouldn't think of going to Sunday in clothes that
I wouldn't wear to a job interview. So people claim to love the problem. They don't follow his
Sunnah. They don't follow his Sunnah, and little and big things, but primarily the big thing and
part of his Sunnah is just to be kind of people to speak well of your brothers, not to back by to
treat your parents well to treat your mother. Well, you know, just be human. I mean, what's happened
to people just being human visiting sick people, we've got sick people. in hospitals, we've got sick
people, people come and go, they die in our community, and people don't even know about. There's
		

			people that die. That's not a community. That's atoms that haven't formed a molecule. Communities
are bonded together like molecular bonds. That's what molecules are. And that's the whole basis of
existence is molecules. If it was just atoms that were born, you couldn't do it. So people claim to
love the profit. And then he said, You claim taco noon in the Chapin I do.
		

			So I'm going to stop there and I'll finish in Shannon's in future hook but because it's worth going
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