Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Remedial Tasawwuf SeriesHope in the PrayerTrust in AllhLoveSincerityDallas 12022017
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The speaker discusses the importance of trusting in Allah's actions and not giving up on one's mistakes, emphasizing the need for people to trust in his actions and not give up on mistakes. The speaker also highlights the negative impact of the message of Islam on people's lives, including the label of hate towards death and the label of love for people. The importance of learning to do one deed with quality is emphasized, and the conversation ends with advice on becoming a good deed with sincerity.
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Muslim.
So this is a very,
very beautiful,
hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
So
who we mentioned, before the break was a
a person who said that
in Jahiliya, I used to consider idol worshiper
white idol worship to be bogus nonsense.
But I just kinda kept it to myself.
So when I heard that there's somebody in
Makamukarama who also,
denounces the worship of idols and
who teaches people good teachings and tells them
about the gabe.
He said that I went to meet him.
And when I met him, I asked him,
what are you?
He said that when
I I went to meet him, I asked
him, what are you? He says, I am
the messenger of Allah.
So Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam, this is
one thing, Masha'a, you should have modesty but
you shouldn't your modesty should have some sort
of had. You don't compromise on the haqq
because you're modest or because you're,
humble.
When it came to the Haqq, rasool Allah,
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, set it straight.
He said, I'm the messenger of Allah. He
said, who are you sent to? He said,
I was sent to the the,
to the rich and to the poor,
to the, master and to the slave, to
the free man and to the slave, Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
And it said that at that time,
Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam and Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
who was sitting on the other side.
Said that was sent to the the free
man and to the slave,
meaning the patrician and the the plebian, regular
people and and and and and to, the
the elite into the regular classes of people
for everybody.
And,
he asked certain questions of the prophet, sallallahu
alaihi wasallam. He said, what were you sent
with? He said, I was sent with
to teach people to,
honor their parents and keep their kinship bonds
into
worship none other than Allah
and to not make,
associates with him of anything.
And so this is also part of the
prophetic that Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi is someone teaching
the teachings of Islam. What did he start
with? He started with something which is a
common curd currency of of of the ethics
and morality of all the Arabs,
which is keeping your kinship bonds. That was
something that they used to do religiously in
Jahiliya as well and they used to consider
it a a an honor, filial piety, to
honor your parents, to honor your relatives, your
kinship bonds.
He mentioned that first. Why?
Because the person's heart will,
then open up and incline to whatever he
says afterward.
Then afterward, he said that that to worship
none other than Allah and to not,
associate any partner with him.
And so what happened is that he, accepted
the the the Deen and
gave
him the shahadatein
and then he told him go back to
your people
because you're not going to be able to
survive the difficulties that come over here.
So he he says that just wait for
the news of our victory and then come
join us. So he said that I wait
I waited. I heard all the stories. Every
caravan which would come from Macau Muqorma, I
would ask them what's going over there and
so they would tell me about everything play
by play as it happened. Then I heard
about the Hijra. I heard about all of
these things. So once I heard about the
victory in the battle of Badr, then I
said this is my cue and he went
straight to Madinah Munawwara and he saw the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam asked do you
recognize me? He says, yeah, you're the one
you came to me in Makkah Mukarama. He
said, you Rasool Allah, teach me those things
that Allah taught you. And so the Rasool,
he
says, teach me about wudu. What is wudu?
And so,
he said,
sallallahu alaihi wasallam that there's no one amongst
you that
will offer,
his wudu to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Right?
Here is
offers it as a sacrifice to Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala that none of you will
give your wudu to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
in which they rinse their mouth and they
sniff water in their nose and snort it
out except for the sins of the,
face,
and will drip from the person's face from
the side of their their 2 jawbones,
as the the water drips out.
And,
he continues. He says that a person will
not,
wash their 2 arms to the elbows except
for the sins of the arms will fall
from the tips of their fingers as the
water falls.
And a person will not wipe his head
except for the sins of the head,
will fall from the, sides of the person's
hair with as the water falls. And God
knows that all the craziest sins are all
cooking up inside here.
Allah, Ta'al forgive us and protect us. Then
the person will, not wash their feet except
for the sins of the feet will fall
off by the the the toes,
as the water falls off. So this describes
what? That the wudu itself is, something through
which a person's sins are forgiven.
If we thought about the wudu like this,
then all of a sudden, it feels like
you feel like we wanna make wudu.
But we don't think of it like that.
That's why we think of it like a
waste of time that that we have to,
you know, something we necessarily have to rush
through before getting to the salat.
He said
that,
after that's done when a person stands and
prays and he praises Allah ta'ala
and he extols him and he magnifies him,
in a way that, that he, that, that
is befitting of Allah ta'ala.
And these three these three,
expressions,
to understand what they mean, you have to
reference another hadith that's narrated in the mawtah
of Imam Malik
That the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam
said that when the person
recites the Fatiha,
when he says Alhamdulillahi rabbil alamin,
Allah
answers and says that my slave has praised
me. My slave has given me Hamdys, praised
me.
When you say,
when you say,
Allah responds by saying,
My my my my slave has extolled my
virtues.
And when you say,
then Allah says, my
slave has magnified me, exalted my my my,
my station.
And then after that, a person says,
Allah Ta'ala will say this statement that you
do we worship and your aid do we
seek? This is this is the the bond
between me and my slave, and whatever my
slave asks of me, I'll give him. And
then a person says,
which is a dua. You Allah guide me
to the straight path, the straight path, etcetera,
the rest of the Surat al Fatiha and
Allah accepts that that dua from the the
slave then. So this is, also
what is saying the same thing that the
person how do you pray and you make
hamdulillah and athana on him and tamjid of
him? It's by reading the fatiha. Right?
In a way that's befitting to him. If
we were to use our own words to
praise Allah Ta'ala, they would not be befitting.
Rather, Allah ta'ala taught us the words to
praise him that that he's that that are
worthy of his praise.
Otherwise, there's a story in the Methnawi that
Sayna Musa alayhis salam entered into a hut
and he saw a man, old man,
making dua. He said, you Allah,
if you came to my house I would,
massage you and I would massage your feet
and I would put oil in your hair
and I would pick the lights out of
your head and things like that. Sayyidina Musa
then became angry and said stuff for Allah.
Do you see what you're saying? Allah is
not a person. You how are you gonna,
you know, say all these things that lies
in the head? Are you crazy? Are you
out of your mind?
And and then he gets reproached in a
in a vision that, Sayamu, this was my
slave. He doesn't know anything better than than
than what he said. That was the only
thing he knew he could say. He's a
simple minded person. Why did you go crazy
on him?
To him, he didn't know anything better than
that. He was just expressing his love and
the only way he knows possible.
So the idea is that this also is
a blessing from Allah that he revealed to
us the words that by which we praise
him that he is worthy of.
And so when a person does that
and that person makes his heart free of
anything except for Allah
in that moment.
That person will not leave the prayer
except for,
leave the prayer sinless like the day that
he was, like, the way that he was,
the day that his mother bore him.
So that's pretty big deal.
Usually, people think, oh, this only happens when
you take Shahadah or it's only happens when
you go on Hajj. If you pray properly,
you leave from the salat like the day
that you're sinless and free of sin like
the day your mother bore you.
This is a really big deal. And in
many ways, it's more difficult than going on
Hajj.
Why? Because it's something you do every day.
Who who makes time for this? Who's makes
their will do like this?
Who prays like this? How many times are
you gonna do it? 5 times a day
you're gonna do this? It's very difficult.
In many ways it's more difficult than going
on Hajj one time.
So, the hadith continues. Amr bin Abbasan narrated
this hadith to Abu Umama
who is another companion of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
May Alata be pleased with both of them.
Abu Umama said to him, pay heed to
what you have said. Will someone be given
so much reward for standing in prayer just
once?
Amma responded to, oh, Abu Umama, I have
become old in age, and my bones have
become weak, and my death approaches. There's no
benefit for me in forging a lie against
Allah Most High nor against His Messenger Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
And was it that I only heard him
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam say it but once, twice,
or 3 times? And he counted up to
7. He said, I would not have mentioned
it, but I've heard it from him more
times even than that.
So this
is a hadith with regards to what? Hope
in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
The idea is that no sins that a
person commit are anything in the face of
the mercy of Allah Ta'ala.
And there are so many opportunities for Allah
Ta'ala's mercy. And when you read hadith like
this, it makes you wish wish to pray.
I was thinking about this. I wish we
had delayed the class even a little bit
more so that we could have read this
hadith so people could have prayed their luhr
with this much anticipation.
Why? Because the excuse for the mercy of
Allah Ta'ala is hidden around every corner. No
matter how bad a person is screwed up,
the the excuse for the mercy of Allah
ta'ala is hidden in every corner. In so
many different forms, in so many different ways.
It's just that you have to look for
it. The loser is not the one who
tries and fails. The loser is the one
who doesn't try at all.
And, this is one thing I want you
to remember also.
The are here for what?
They're here to,
they're here to
heal and and repair the bond between
Allah and his servant.
And one of the things I don't like
is what is that many many,
preachers,
they,
take the ibadah and the the worship of
Allah like a foregone conclusion.
And they'll belittle the prayer, and they'll belittle,
vicar, and they'll belittle the recitation of the
Quran, and they'll say, well, you know, what
if you're praying and everything and whatever, but
you're not a good person to other people,
then your prayer is worthless.
And the idea is this is that although
the the the
that's true,
that the prayer should guide you toward dealing
well with other people. It doesn't mean that
dealing well with other people is the objective
of your life.
What is the objective of your life? Allah
ta'ala says, umakhaalaktul jinnna will insa illaliyahbudun.
I did not create that mankind in the
jinn except for to worship me. Dealing well
with other people is a branch of the
worship of Allah ta'ala.
The Ibadat are the highest branch of the
worship of Allah Ta'ala. Why? Because you don't
see any incentive for it in the dunya.
It's a pure act of love.
You can earn money and give to other
people that's also a worship of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala in a secondary sense.
You understand how it works so your own
aqal has some peace in that.
However, when you pray for raka'as or you
pray nawafil or you pray tahajjud or you
make the dhikr of Allah ta'ala or you,
wake up for tahajjud or you, make the
recitation of the Quran, It's not immediately intuitive
to you how is this somehow helping.
It's just that you took it on trust
from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. There's no worldly
reward for it. And all of these acts
of worship have a place in the deen,
but the highest branch is the one that
is purely between you and Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. The other ones are
branches of worship that help you and aid
you and assist you in this. And this
has become an understanding that's been left behind
the backs of people now. Nobody cares about
the salat anymore. In fact, they openly belittle
the salat now. Nobody cares about the dhikr
of Allah ta'ala. They openly belittle the dhikr
of Allah ta'ala. And you'll see there are
people who will use the differences of opinions
amongst the imams in order to run away
from acts of worship like they run away
from death.
Khalas, Jumaa'id is on a Friday we're not
gonna pray Jumaa' Why? Because imam so and
so said you don't have to pray it.
What about the other 3 imams that say
you do?
Did any of them say it's an invalid
to pray Jawa on the day of Eid?
None of them. Rasool Allah, salallahu alayhi wa
sallam used to pray Jawa on the day
of Eid. At the most you can say
it's not farth. So whoever doesn't want to
come, doesn't have to come. No. People make
it a point to lock the Masajid on
the Day of Eid.
People make it a point, there's a difference
of opinion. Do I have to wash my
feet or can I just wipe over my
socks? Khalasafi, it's a difference of opinion. Some
people say it's valid, some people say it's
don't. Let the people wash their feet. There's
khair in it. Didn't you hear the hadith
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam? That
every time the water runs over the feet,
the the sins of the feet leave. Let
the people do it.
No. People insist they're not happy until you
cut that out as well. Every single thing.
Hajj,
fasting, every single thing. They will run away
from an increase in the worship of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala like people run away from
death. This worship of Allah Ta'ala is not
worthless. It's not a waste of time. It's
not something stupid that our illiterate forefathers used
to do. And now that we go around
in airplanes and,
automobiles and have Internet and smartphones, we don't
need it anymore.
That's what made them what they what they
were. It's what allowed them to, you know,
surmount even more overwhelming obstacles and odds against
them was this connection they had with Allah
with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. We don't know
what it is, so we don't value it.
But if you knew in every single salat,
you have the the potentiality of being forgiven
from your sins in the way that the
day your mother bore you,
then you would take that salat very seriously.
Then you would, in your practice, transcend
differences of opinion and go out of your
way just to make sure the salat was
well because you not only want that benefit,
you realize we can't make it anywhere without
that benefit. If we don't have the help
of Allah Ta'ala, how are we gonna do
anything in this life or in the hereafter?
And so anyone who that's fine. I'm totally
for, like, not being a jerk who, like,
prays but then is, like, bad to other
people. I agree you should be good with
other people. Beware of somebody who belittle belittles
the the the the the acts of worship
between the slave and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
The sign of someone being a man of
god is that when they speak about the
acts of worship, it encourages you that this
is something I want to do and this
is something that I'll make a bond with
my Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala through it. And
the sign of somebody who's just selling you
snake oil is that when you're done with
it, the the Avama and the greatness of
that worship of Allah Ta'ala, the Ibadah of
Allah Ta'ala, the salat, and the dhikr, and
the tilawah, and the tahajjud,
and the Nawafil, and Sunan, and Hajj, and
Umrah, and all of these things that that
will fall down in your heart and you'll
think of it as not something that's that's
as important. Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
and his companions weren't like that.
So we continue to the lesson number 14.
Are there any questions?
We continue lesson 14,
tools of the spiritual trade, trusting in Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
That when the believers saw the confederates, that
all the tribes of the Arabs, the Bedouins,
and sedentary,
they gathered together against the the p the
believers in Madinah Munawara.
And they said, this is what Allah and
his messenger, salallahu alayhi wasalam, promised us that
this word of will
turn everyone into your enemy one day.
This is what Allah and his Messenger,
promised us and Allah and his Messenger have
spoken the truth
and it didn't increase them except for in
iman and in in submission in faith and
in submission.
Meaning
what?
Obviously, Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam told his
companions that this dua of La ilaha illallah,
the Arabs will oppose you because
of it. And so when they saw that
that happened, they didn't say, oh, man. This
is it. We're, you know, we're up the
creek without a paddle. What are we gonna
do now? They said, no. If Rasulullah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam told the truth about this,
that means the other things he told said
were also true.
That his promise of help and his promise
of victory were also true. This realization doesn't
come from any for anyone except for the
one who trusts in Allah,
That Allah most high said,
those people are the believers who when the
people told told them that everyone has gathered
against you, and so you should fear them.
So in the Munafiqin, they they that's what
they said. They said to the believers, they
say, look, all the Arabs have gathered to
against you in order to destroy you. So
you should fear them. Instead of fearing them,
them them hearing this also from the Munafiqeen
increased them in faith inside of their heart.
And they said, Allah is enough for us
and he is the best disposer of our
affairs.
This Hasbun Allahu Anima l Wakeel,
this, Vicar of Allah Ta'ala is one of
the treasures of Jannah, that a person should
keep it with them and recite it
by by day and night. And when everybody,
when your own aqal, when your own mind
and your own senses, they tell you that
this is an insurmountable
challenge in front of you. What do you
say? You say Hasbun Allahu Anaimalwakeel
HasbihAllahu Anaimalwakeel.
Allah is enough for me and he is
the best disposer of my affairs. Even if
it means I'm gonna lose my life at
this
point. Allah is enough for me, and the
choice he made for me is the best
choice. He's the best disposer of my affairs.
If I were to make a choice, it
may have been wrong. His choice is never
wrong. For me to die at this moment
is better than for me to live.
That's trust in Allah Ta'ala.
Allah
loves the people who trust in him. Imagine
that, if a person shows up, Yomuqiyama, if
everyone is gonna die.
Everyone, all of us are gonna die one
day.
You show up in front of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala
and he sees you trusted him.
Is he the one who is going to,
leave you behind? Is he the one who's
going to, you're gonna reach out your hand
to
take from him and he's just gonna leave
you hanging?
That's stuff we do. We sell each other
out.
People trust us and we, we sell them
out. Allah Ta'ala is not like that. Allah
Ta'ala doesn't do that. Whoever trusts in Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, Allah Ta'ala gives them better
than whatever they could have done for themselves.
This is an understanding of,
of the believers. And this is actually interesting
because everybody is interested in making money. You
wanna make money?
One of the greatest wasa'il, one of the
greatest means of of making money is trusting
in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
This is why businessmen make more money than
their employees do.
The businessman,
every day is worried about
how is everything gonna happen.
Are consumer
is are consumers and customers gonna come, or
are they not gonna come? Is someone else
gonna open another business that's gonna put us
out or or not? Is the price from
my wholesaler gonna be what it was yesterday
or is it gonna double and triple in
price without me having any control? There's a
100,000,000 things that a a businessman thinks of
that could go wrong. Whereas the consumer clock
in, clock out, clock in, clock out. No
worries.
No worries because someone else is handling all
of this for them.
Why is a businessman superior? Because they have
to trust in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Now,
the funny thing is that the same perils
that endanger the business
and the businessman are the same perils that
endanger the paycheck of the employee. He just
fools himself about it,
And, he lives in his ignorant bliss. But,
the reality is what? That the manager who
is actually running the business, or the owner
who is actually running the business, worrying about
all of these things? He may be paralyzed
by his fears if he doesn't have trust
in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Because of his trust, in the barakah of
his trust, even a Kafir has this trust
that everything will be okay. Where is it
gonna be okay from? You're not the one
who's making it okay. It's gonna come okay
from Allah Ta'ala.
That trust is a reason Allah Ta'ala increases
their risk. And, it's very interesting that
the Sahaba, radiAllahu anhu,
especially from Quraysh,
what were they by profession? What was Rasool
Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam by trade and by
profession?
What was he?
He was a businessman.
He was a merchant. He used to buy
and sell things from different places.
There's a reason that business people were the
ones who were that generation that carried Islam,
to the four corners of the earth because
they knew what needed to be done in
order to make the whole system work.
What are we nowadays?
We're consumers. We come to the Masjid like
Walmart.
We come to the Masjid expecting low, low
prices. We it doesn't come to our head,
how much did it cost to build this?
How much did it cost to pay this
person? If we wanna have people of knowledge,
we have to bring people of knowledge. How
much does that cost? We want everything for
free, and we want service with a smile
at the end of the day as well.
And if we don't get it, we complain.
Go, so let's talk to the manager and
complain about things like as in Walmart.
In the old days, the people used to
honor their their teachers,
and they used to love their teachers, and
they used to forgive their teachers their mistakes.
Meaning what? The teachers make mistakes as well.
They used to forgive the mistakes of their
teachers. Nowadays, what do we do?
We take a class and afterward, we fill
out,
instructor evaluations.
I agree. Okay. There's a reason for it.
There's some benefit for receiving feedback and things
like that. But the the the way we
do it is horrible.
If you don't have any love for the
your sheikh or whoever you're learning knowledge from
your Ustad, your teacher,
how much barakah is that that knowledge going
to have?
Your Ustad, your teacher, is like your father
to you.
Whoever, you know, like, you did Hafsaab, you
did Hifs. I'm sure your Hafsaab probably, you
know,
every now and again may have called you
something that wasn't nice or, like, may have
lost his temper with you or may have
whatever. Some people a lot.
What are you gonna do? You're gonna, like,
hold it against you that you're going to
Jannah because you're Hafiz and, like, you're you're
gonna see how I'll throw that guy into
the hellfire. He taught me his, but like,
you know, one time his child was cold
and he yelled at me or, you know,
whatever. Maybe his,
you know, maybe he something else he got
into a car accident and he's in a
bad mood that week and he yelled at
me. Send him into the hellfire. You're not
gonna do that.
That would be horrible. That would be like
that you're you're a horrible person if you
would do something like that. So what do
what do we do? We come in as
a consumer. We want the the part of
the service we receive to be good, and
we don't wanna think about what does that
entail.
The sahaba
were businessmen. They knew what it took.
When the Rasool salallahu alaihi wa sallam gathered
an army to fight,
each of them used to bring their own
horse. Each of them used to bring their
own weapons. Each of them used to train
in their own time. Why? Because if each
person knows how the army runs,
they can decentralize the the the responsibility of
gathering that army together. Whereas, the Romans had
to amass huge amounts of wealth,
and they used to have to hire people
to train, and those people are on salary
and etcetera, etcetera, and those people weren't good
soldiers.
Why? Because they didn't know or care what
they're fighting for and once the money dries
out, they're gonna run. This is one of
the reasons, actually, interestingly enough, that the Sahaba
completely mopped the floor and took names with
the Romans and the Persians. You know why?
Because in battle, the Romans and Persians, the
the battle lines used to chain them together
so as to, prevent them from running. All
you can do is advance together. If you
don't advance together, you're gonna make the line
crooked and you're all gonna get killed.
So they're all chained together. So when the
Sahaba radiAllahu anhu, who used to think outside
of the box, sayin the Khaled bin Walid,
he's like
a strategic and tactical genius. They They used
to think outside of the box. When they
would disrupt the battle lines, their entire armies
would get decimated
because they're all chained together. Why? Because they
don't trust each other. They don't trust them.
We've become just like that.
We've become exactly like that. Right? That's why
when the Masjid needs some money, what do
we do? How are we gonna get the
money together? Nobody thinks I have to do
my part, I have to do my share.
The rich people do their share, the poor
people do their share. Everyone, you know, come
together and let's think about what it takes
in order to build the master there, in
order to make a school, or in order
to make something happen and let's do it.
No. What do we have to do?
Book a nice hotel,
Book a nice dinner. Put, like, weird, like,
nice doilies and,
like, flowery stuff at every, table.
Book a a a speaker who's gonna charge
$10,000 honorarium.
You think this is, a joke? This is
your favorite Islam evangelist that you love and,
like, you know, think is gonna revive the
Deen in America. That's what what they're charging.
$10,000 $10,000
for a Bayan.
And then everybody, because their cult leader is,
like, gonna attend that that that that thing
and say, okay, I'm gonna come to this
as well. And so they say, oh,
look how great our community is. We raised
300 $1,000. It cost you $70,000
just to put the event on.
And what happens is $300,000
event, sometimes that happens, sometimes $70,000
for, like, a $120,000
event. Now tell me something. Is that smart
or is it stupid?
My mother is if she was here, she'd
pull my ear. She said, don't say stupid
in the in the mustard. Right? His dam
is stupid. It's not a good thing.
It's very unintelligent.
But if we were people who took responsibility
for the dean,
like a businessman thinks of, like, how to
make things efficient,
then we would have done things differently. But
we
treat the dean like consumers.
So someone has to package something and give
it to you and until it makes you
happy and feel good, you're not gonna do
anything. You're not gonna make any sacrifices. I'm
not gonna make any sacrifices because that's how
our our community has turned into. It's a
very sad state, in fact.
Right? What is it? It's basically like, you
know, it's it's making the hotels and the
the whatever
televangelist rich,
in order for us to do so little.
Whereas if we were simple people,
we would have been able to do so
much more with what we have.
Remember this, the people of this Deen will
never out out outpace the people of the
dunya in their dunya.
That's all that's their that's everything. They they
gave up Jannah for it. They take it
really seriously. That's all they do by day
and night.
Are you gonna beat them in dunya with
dunya? Absolutely not. You're only gonna beat them
with the help of Allah to Allah. You're
only gonna beat them with the use of
the deen.
Otherwise, they will they will outflank you at
every corner if all you have at your
disposal is the dunya because they're the ones
they don't pray 5 times a day. The
ones who don't wake care if they wake
up in Wudu or in in Janaba. They're
the ones who, you know, don't care if
they're what they're eating. Is it clean or
is it dirty? All they all they want
is the dunya.
All they want is the dunya. You're not
gonna be able to beat them at that
game.
The only way the only way the dean
has the upper hand is if you play
to your strengths. And if we're ignore completely
ignorant of what our strengths are,
then,
or if we're we're inefficient in the way
that we do things. We have to be
smarter. We have to work harder. We have
to be excellent, better at what we do
than than they are at what what they
do.
And that's what trusting in Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala is is that if you keep following
the instructions of wahi again and again and
again, Allah will make you better than than
other people are.
You'll see that there's there's some kids,
you know, they
will literally memorize, like,
memorize their, homework
lessons and things like that. So you don't
see no Muslim kids winning the spelling bee.
You don't see no Muslim kids, like, getting
perfect scores and exams or whatever. But the
idea is what? You follow the deen. When
you go out into the real world, nobody
can compete with you because you're a whole
and complete human being.
And so the idea is this is that
you have to you you have to be
like the sahabah radiallahu anhu, like businessmen.
That you you think as much as you
can, and you put things together and try
things the best way that you can, not
worrying of about whether other people are doing
it or not. You have to put together
things the best that the best that you
can, and then you trust in Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala for the result. And if he
wills wills for you to be successful, he'll
he'll make you successful. And if he wills
for you to fail in this world, you'll
fail in this world. But the idea is
what? In the Akhirah, nobody who trusts in
Allah to Allah fails.
If Allah to Allah loves the ones who
trust in him, just the fact that he
he loves you means even if your Masjid
project doesn't work, even if your school doesn't
become successful, even if Latif doesn't become, like,
the hottest new,
organization on the scene or whatever.
Why did you want any of those things
in the first place?
Because it would have been a a wasila,
a means to receive Allah Ta'ala's love.
And so if you got it anyway,
what do you have to complain about?
But if that's what you wanted, then you're
gonna be happy. If that's not, if you
wanted something else, then go have whatever else
you wanted.
Allah says trust in the the the the
ever living that never die the ever living
one that never dies.
And Allah Ta'ala said,
let the people who believe, trust in Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Allah most high said,
that Allah Ta'ala said, if you
if you set out to do something, then
trust in Allah. What is Azm? Azm is
the strongest form of of intention.
It's the the strength of intention that a
person has right when they're about to do
something.
So if I were to take this bottle
and I were to, like, throw it at
you, right,
Before it leaves my hand, my intention is
strongest at that time. As if in my
head, it's already happened.
Maybe it's, you know, someone out of nowhere,
and, like, the bottle will fall down. But
I had aazam. If that didn't happen, I
completely was gonna throw this bottle at you.
Right?
That azm, when you're gonna do something, you
say let's do it, and you do
it, at that point, don't waver in your
intention.
If you thought about it as best as
you're supposed to think and you planned as
best as you could have planned, and you
know this is the thing to do, at
that point, shaitan will assault you and,
assail you with all sorts of doubts.
And, at that point, you're not supposed to
give into those doubts. Rather, the azamta, once
you have that azam, then trust in Allah
and carry through what you're going to do.
Don't be paralyzed and double minded it when
you do things. If you're truly doing it
for Allah's sake, there's going to be some
khair in it. Even though it's scary, it's
scary sometimes.
It's it's scary sometimes.
You may feel fear about certain things, about
praying, about, you know, whatever. Our brothers,
they're all filled up and whatever
and,
looking real pious right now, pietitis level of
piety. But the sisters,
it's not like they take their hijabs off
when they go out in in in public.
For them, it's scary as well sometimes.
If it's not a good idea to go
out, don't go out. But once you've decided
this is what I'm going to do, then
trust in Allah Ta'ala. Allah Ta'ala will help
you. Allah Ta'ala will protect you.
This is the promise of Allah ta'ala
that whoever,
trusts in Allah ta'ala, Allah is will be
enough for them.
They won't come up short that they they
they need anything else other than,
other than him.
Allah Allah ta'ala will suffice them.
The the Allah Ta'ala says, the believers are
nobody except for those
who when Allah Ta'ala is mentioned, it makes
their hearts tremble.
The divine name should have some effect on
the heart.
This is one of the benefits of zikr,
that the divine name should have some effect
on the heart. It shouldn't move without,
without moving the heart.
And when Allah
ta'ala's ayaat are are recited to them, it
increases them in iman.
And they're the ones who, trust in their
lord.
Abdullah bin Abbas, may Allah ta'ala be pleased
with both of them narrated
that, saying
Allah is sufficient for us, and he's the
best disposer of our affairs.
It's what Sayidna Ibrahim Alaihi Salam said when
he was thrown into the fire.
What happened?
The fire that Sayidna Ibrahim Alaihi Salam was
thrown into wasn't just like a small, like
a a kind of like a European,
you know, protestants burning Catholics at the stake
type of fire. That's what they used to
do in Europe. Right? They can
say Islam is extremism.
You want extremism? Look at your own forefathers.
You guys had to abandon religion because your
religion caused you to behave in such barbaric
ways.
That these to tie people up at the
stake and burn them alive for
for what? For,
you know, not accepting the pope as, like,
God's, whatever, vice vice vice regent in the
earth.
Those types of differences of opinion, we never
we never considered a person as a Kafir
because they didn't accept a political authority.
And so,
Said Ibrahim, the fire that he was thrown
into,
rather it was a ditch that was dug.
And then around the ditch were walls that
are, that are higher than,
higher than,
several men stacked up on or, like, you
know, one after the other after the other.
And that
pit which was surrounded by a wall,
they,
the priest of the the the pagan religion,
of of the people of Ibrahim, al Islam,
said that your gods will bless anybody who
throws a piece of firewood into the or
a piece of fuel into this pit.
So take a piece of fuel, pray to
the gods, and then throw the the piece
in, and they'll accept your prayers.
So it took years for them to fill
that pit up.
The entire qom participated in it. The day
he was to be burned, they set the
fire. It took days for it to start
blazing. It became so hot that they couldn't
approach that those walls, from any side
because it was so hot. If you've been
to a bonfire before, the bonfire burns so
hot, you can't come near and touch it
because it's burning so hot. Your body involuntarily
won't let you come near into it.
If you want to, you have to run
and jump into it. Otherwise, you can't walk
right up to it. So they became so
close. They didn't they couldn't even put a
ladder and throw Ibrahim over. Comes in the
tafsir of the Quran that the Shaitan came
to
the Qom of Ibrahim in the form of
a man and showed them the plans. This
is how you're going to make a manjaneen,
how you're gonna make a a catapult
to throw him in.
And so they they say, thanks, stranger. And
they built a catapult,
and they they they they they, what you
call calibrated it with stones.
And then they put him in. It was
like a Eid for their entire comb.
All of them came to witness it. And
so, Sayed Ibrahim, alayhis salam, he's put into
the catapult.
And,
the catapult is, let loose. And when it's
let loose, say that Jabriel comes to him
and says to him, I'm a messenger from
from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
It's the first time saying that Ibrahim sees
Satan that Jabril Alay Salam. So that messenger
from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Is there anything
I can do,
for your service?
Abna, if it was one of us, I'd
be like, yeah. Awesome. I'm a pretty pious
dude.
Say that Jibril here to bail me out.
Right? But that was a different howl that's
in Ibrahim alaihi wasalam was in. That he
says that I have nothing no need for
any of the creation. If I was gonna
ask anyone I a creation created thing, I
would have asked them. I didn't ask them
why am I gonna ask you.
And then when he comes to the fire,
the fire itself speaks to Ibrahim alayhislam
and says, shall I shall I be cool
for you? He says, I have no need
from any of the creation. I have no
need from anyone except for my lord right
now. And what did he say? His only
dua was
that Allah is sufficient for me and he's
the best disposer of my affairs.
And so he said
that he said to the fire, be cool
and be
be,
wholeness for Ibrahim.
And
the say that the the fire of Allah
had said only to be cool, it would
have frozen him to death.
But Allah instructed, be cool in a way
that doesn't harm him. And so said Ibrahim,
alaihislam,
that fire burned for 40 days and 40
nights.
It's smoldered, and he he came and Allah
gave him supernatural risk and provision and sustenance
inside of that fire for those 40 days
40 nights. And he led the angels,
in in in in in in an ecstatic
prayer
for that those days and for the rest
of the days of his life, he said,
I remember my time in the fire. Those
were the best days of my life.
So what is this?
It's a treasure, the person who can plunge
into its depths and take from it. There's
a lot of hail from it.
So Abra Abdullah bin Abbas radiAllahu anhu, he
says what? He says that,
this is what Ibrahim, alayhi salaam, said when
he was thrown into the fire. And this
is what Sayna Muhammad, salallahu alayhi salaam, said
when the Munafiqeen
said when they saw the gathering of the
Arabs to
siege and destroy Madinah,
arrive at its doorsteps,
the people said, look how all of the
people have come to destroy you, so you
should fear them. But that saying of those
hypocrites
didn't increase them in anything except for in
faith, and they said, Hasbun Allahu nayamalwakeel.
Allah is sufficient for us, and he's the
best disposer of our affairs. Now tell me,
were the akhzab able to breach the the
khandaq, the ditch, and destroy Madinah like they
wanted to?
Absolutely not. In fact, they fought with one
another before they left.
And after that, nobody nobody tried to touch
Madina again from from from the Mushrikeen. Why?
Because they knew that it was protected by
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Madinah is a Mubarak place don't ever forget
that. Ma'bayn Allah baitha haramun.
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam when he was coming
from from his hijrah
it's only open in the north side. There
are 2 rocky,
lava rock tracts that
flank it on the east and in the
west, and there's mountains in the south. So
when rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was coming
down the stretch, the small opening, that's where
the handak was built, the ditch was built.
When he was coming down that opening, he
said he made a dua to Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. He says that indeed Ibrahim
made or invoked your your prayers in order
to make,
what's,
into
a haram, into a sacred land.
And he says, I invoke you and I
pray pray to you that you make this
land a sacred land just like Ibrahim alaihis
salam made it sacred,
or even more. And I ask you to
put barakah in its and its that every
measure that that the people buy and sell
from because their business meant that you put
barakah in every measure of of
of of of of its sale, whether it's
a mud, which is the 2 Mubarak cupped
hands of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
or the saa, which is for for Amdad
that you put barakah in it. Now there's
a difference of opinion amongst the olamah. Which
city is more sacred? Makar, mukarama, or Madinu
Munawara.
So in the favor of the opinion of
Malik and the elders of the Sahaba
including Said Abu Bakr and Said Na Amar
radiAllahu anhu. What what's in their favor? What's
in their favor is that if the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's dua is accepted,
it's accepted, then according to this dua, it
should be at least equal. It's ola that
it should be accepted greater than the acceptance
of the dua of Sayedid Ibrahim alayhis salam.
So this mad Madinah Munawara is a sacred
and and inviolable place.
And they invoked Allah. And what made it
sacred is what? It's not just for free
bonus, like, that they got it, that, like,
all those guys got it and we didn't.
It was their sacrifices. It was their prayers
that made it made it sacred.
Allah accepted their their sacrifices and accepted their
prayers in that place,
because of their sac and it's not that
the sacrifices made it, but their sacrifices were
greater than ours. The slave who comes at
hand's breath, they get the cubit, and the
slave that comes to cubit gets the arm's
length. It all comes from Allah Ta'ala, but
still they wanted it more.
So Allah Ta'ala gave it Allah Ta'ala gave
it to them.
Allah gave it to them, and and it
was, unbreachable. The Arabs didn't even try afterward.
They never tried again,
because they knew that this is the same
thing that protects Makkah Mukarama is protecting this
place. This is a waste of your time.
You just need to move along.
So this Hasbun, Allahu Naiman Waqil, inshallah, Allah
ta'ala loves the people who trust him. Use
it as a use it as a a
a protection and a benefit for you. The
reward for
for for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's love and
his trust,
is it in this world or is it
in the hereafter?
Yeah. Its prime manifestation is where? It's in
the hereafter.
So don't be like the person who lost
his, you know, lost his keys on the
other side of the street, but is over
here looking under the street light.
You'll only find it on the other side.
If you find some part of it over
here, that's great as well. But the reward
for these things isn't hereafter, but the the
the thing that a person should remember is
that's an appointment nobody's
able to miss. Nobody's going to be able
to miss. All of us are gonna be
there for
it. So we're almost done. We have 2
more lessons. These are very important lessons though.
All of them because it has to do
with what Allah His Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
said. All of them are important but these
are extremely important lessons.
These are things that are I I find
are missing from from our discussion with regards
to Islam,
in this land and in this time that
we're in, and you will get immense benefit
from them inshallah.
Rawah Muslim.
So the Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala Anha narrates that
the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
said, whoever loves to meet Allah ta'ala, Allah
ta'ala loves to meet him. And whoever hates
to meet Allah ta'ala, allata hates to meet
him.
I said,
Umal Munina, the mother of the believers, she
said, I said, oh messenger of Allah,
are you talking about the hatred of death?
Because everyone hates to die.
Every one of us hates to die. Meaning
what?
You know, being a being a a believer
who is, of high station and of sound
disposition,
doesn't mean you turn into, like, some sort
of, like, weird maniac, like, I don't care
if I die, like,
No. Those are the people who actually their
lives were the most
meaningful and and fulfilled.
They're the ones who loved life more than
anybody else.
It says, you mean that we should like
love to die? Because nobody likes to die.
None of us like to die. He says
he says, he says, salallahu alayhi wasalam, that's
not what I mean. Rather, what I mean
is that the believer, when he's given the
glad tidings of the mercy of Allah and
of his pleasure and of his Jannah,
it makes them want like, look forward to
it. Say, I would love to meet Allah
and
and I would love to, tell him how
much I love him and how much I,
you know, I wish for his mercy and
how much I wish to please him in
the life of this world, and I would
love for him to tell me how much
he loves me and how much of his
mercy he will give to me because I
loved him, and how much of his pleasure
that he has with me because I sought
his pleasure.
This is something everybody should look forward to.
Imagine that that Allah
all of the the nirma and all of
the blessings of Allah ta'ala
in honor that he set forth for the
Ummah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Everybody should love that and look forward to
it. Love it more than they love cars
and houses and money and jobs and degrees
and all of these things.
And the kafir, when he is,
when he's given the tidings of the torment
and the anger of Allah Ta'ala,
that Kafir will hate to love, to meet
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and Allah Ta'ala hates
to meet him. And this is something very
interesting as well that non Muslims,
they feel offended that you think they're gonna
go to * like atheists.
And you're like, yo, dude. Like, if someone
told you, like, the Easter bunny is gonna
eat you,
like, would you be offended? No. Because the
Easter bunny doesn't exist. It doesn't mean anything.
It's stupid.
But the fact that you're actually offended that
I believe you're gonna go to * means
that you're not as much of a atheist
as you lead yourself to believe.
The fact that it bothers you,
It means that it's not the problem is
not necessarily that you don't think there's a
god as vociferously as you claim you don't
think there's a god. Rather, something else is
going on that you just don't wanna conform
to his commandments and you think you're special
and you don't need to obey. And, when
you're reminded of the the the the bad
end that that path will take, it makes
you upset and angry.
This hadith I we I I read this
packet in Bogota.
I don't know if I told you a
story. I read this packet in Bogota in
Colombia,
and,
when we got to this hadith,
an earthquake started.
And so I'm like, okay. We should, like,
leave the building now. It was like we're
in the ground floor of a high rise
building.
So they're like, no, Sheikh. No, Sheikh. We
love to meet Allah.
I'm like, that's that's that's wonderful,
but we need to leave now. That's not
the meaning of the hadith.
They're like, no, Chek, we ain't going we're
not going anywhere. We wanna hear the next
hadith.
And so I said,
okay.
Why don't we all just say,
and, if this is it, this is it.
You know? And so they all took the
shahada. There's one Colombian woman who just came
to learn about Islam. She actually took the
shahada at that time.
Yeah.
So
there are a lot of good people in
the world. Many of them are not us.
I was astonished though. They were like they
were like pumped. They heard the hadith and
that's it. That, like, overwhelmed them. Otherwise, nobody
nobody nobody likes to die.
Right? The first one is about the love
of meeting Allah to Allah.
Here we read from from from Sin Anas
bin Malik radiallahu anhu that he said he
said that this is this is a story
of Anas bin Malik
when he was 7 years old. His mother
brought him for the service of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. She said that when
Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam came to Madina,
umsoleaim, her name is, umsoleaim.
So when Sulayem came to Madina Munawara or
when the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam came to
Madina Munawara, Sulayem said what? She said she
said that everyone came and brought a gift
to the messenger of Allah and
I had no money to give him a
gift with.
So I brought my son. She only had
one son. She was from the noble woman
of the Ansar, and she was a very
beautiful woman.
Every man of the Ansar wished to marry
her.
But she had no money at all.
And, in fact, the richest man of Madinah
actually proposed marriage to her. His name is
Abu Talha.
And because he wasn't a Muslim, he was
a mushrik, she said no. I'll never marry
you.
So he came despondent to the messenger of
Allah salallahu alaihi wa sallam and said what?
Said that he thought this guy is an
important guy. She respects him. Maybe I can,
like, get some insight from him or, like,
whatever. Figure it out. You know? Don't give
up so quick.
Inshallah.
So
he he he, you know, he's a he's
a intelligent individual. So what happened?
He said he he he asked the prophet,
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, why won't she marry
me? And he explained to him about Islam,
about how she doesn't want to live with
the mushrik. He says, this Islam thing is
alright. Uh-uh.
Said, what should I do? So why don't
you become a Muslim? He said, okay. He
became Muslim. He said,
Now lest the person be judgmental, oh, you're
just married in order to, like, you know,
get married or he just got converted in
order to get married, which is things that
people say nowadays to each other.
Okay. What? You became Muslim because you because
of conviction or whatever? You're, like, 5 years
old and you decided that this makes more
sense than Buddhism? I mean, come on. Right?
Allah brings everyone into the deen, like,
out of his mercy and out of his
fable.
No one has a right to judge another
person.
If there are if someone converted just to
get married, there are people converted to just
to get married that are better than you
and I.
And the
Ayah
says it was it was
revealed and the first person to to act
upon it was
this,
Abu Talha. You won't ex you won't
attain piety until you spend from that which
you love. Abu Talha, when he heard this
hadi he he heard heard this ayah, he
came straight to the messenger of Allah salallahu
alaihi wa sallam before anyone else. He's a
wealthy man. And he said that, you Rasool
Allah, Allah ta'ala said that you won't attain
piety until you spend from that which you
love, and my most beloved property
is such and such well,
which is right across the it was right
across from the mustard of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. And the well had sweet
water.
All the wells, the water is not the
same in all of them.
Had sweet water in used to love the
the to go and visit him at that
well and at that well and drink the
water and the garden, the orchard that was
watered by that well.
So Rasulullah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam
said,
He said, that's that's a a a a
a profitable transaction.
That's a profitable
transaction.
And he says that my my my opinion
is that you should give it in the
path of Allah ta'ala to your
relatives, the poor ones amongst your relatives, and
you should fix from its produce that they
should all receive a share.
And,
that way you can
give in the path of Allah and also,
honor your kinship bonds which is also the
beauty of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
He could have easily said thank you.
We'll give you a receipt on the way
out.
What? It's going through the Masjid. Right?
But he wasn't like that sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
He was very careful to avoid even the
possibility that a person could see some sort
of conflict of interest in what he did
salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
So he said give it to your poor
relatives. Let them benefit from it.
And so anyway, this this Abu Talha,
so Sayna Sayna Sayna Sayna
she said that she had nothing to give
to the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
Nowadays, we I receive you know, I hear
this all the time. Oh, Muslim women, they're
professionals. They have a hard time finding Muslim
man who is,
of the same rank as them or who
was as accomplished as them or is a
doctor or a lawyer or whatever.
I mean, I guess if that's, to you
a a a a reason to,
violate or contravene the Sharia, at any rate,
the the the
example we have is of the Sahaba radiAllahu
ta'ala Anhoom.
Say the Umsuleim, despite being so, poor,
she still said no to the richest man
in in in Madinah Munawwara and Allah gave
him to her anyway.
Because of her, tawakul,
her trust in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So at any rate, Umsulaym gives gives Anas
bin Malik. So he shows up, he's 7
years old, first day to help out around
the house in the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam's house. And so,
he narrates what, you know, how how what
that experience was like. That he served for
7 years till he was 14. He served
inside the house of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam helping with guests and helping, you
know, fetch things, run messages back and forth,
things like that. He said the messenger of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam never get angry
with me, he never yelled at me, he
never cursed me, he never hit me.
And,
in another hadith he never hit anybody, sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
except for in battle and in battle he
only killed 1 person Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam with
his Mubar Khan.
But, Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
he's this is a part of advices he
was given. It's not the whole thing, but
it's a shorter,
truncated narration.
And we said when he she said, oh,
oh, my dear son,
if you're able to wake up in the
morning, go to sleep at night, and there
is no ranker in your heart for any
anyone,
then do so. And this includes everyone. This
includes a a a Muslim in.
So how do I have no ranker in
my heart for Hitler or someone like that,
Stalin?
Say Say what? At least you should hope
that Allah take them away before they can
plunge themselves deeper into the hellfire.
So if you're able to wake up in
the morning and go to sleep at night
and you don't have ranker for anybody, then
do so. Then he said to me,
oh, my dear son,
no. That's from my sunnah. And whoever revised
my sunnah, that person has loved me. And
whoever loves me is with me in Jannah.
There's another orthography of this hadith that's transmitted
in the Mishkah al Masabi
that, oh, my dear son, and know that
that's from my Sunnah, and whoever loves my
Sunnah has loved me. And whoever loved me
is with me in Jannah.
Notice this doesn't involve any action whatsoever. It's
completely inside of the heart.
The first the first hadith is about loving
the the lita, the meeting of Allah ta'ala.
The second hadith is about the love of
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's sunnah and
the love of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. What is the primary manifestation of the
love of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam?
To bring his Sunnah to life and to
love his Sunnah over your own.
People have abandoned the love of the Sunnah
now.
You tell them some such and such thing
is a sunnah and they say, oh, it's
not practical.
It's a sunnah to pray, eat outside, we
get it's not practical.
It's a the prophet, salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
dressed like that.
The prophet, salallahu alaihi wa sallam, used to
eat like the oh, you can't eat less
than practical. The prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
used to pray this many rakahal before and
this many after? Oh, I can't do that.
I don't have time.
Look,
The idea is this, even if you never
do any of those things. What is love?
Love is it's it's a it's a a
feeling that you have inside of your heart
that this is something that you that that's
more beloved to you than yourself.
It's hard to explain. Right? Because I use
the word beloved in explaining what love is.
Right? It's hard to explain. It's something that's
more valuable to you than your your own
self is.
Rasool Allah sallahu alaihi wa sallam sunnah is
more valuable to you than other things in
the world.
And so if you love the sunnah of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, you say that's
amazing, that's wonderful.
You don't make excuses.
If in Romeo and Juliet,
if in Romeo and Juliet, you know, instead
of going in the middle of the night
to serenade Juliet at the balcony,
Romeo was like, oh, man, that's a that's
a really rough part of the hood,
which it was, you know. They didn't like
him. They didn't like, you know, the Capulets
and Montagues didn't used to get along. I
don't know if you read the read the
play. But,
yeah, it's it's it's it's a rough part
of the hood and it's late at night.
And, you know, I have, class in the
morning and,
you know, it wouldn't have been this it
wouldn't have been it
wouldn't have been a story that touches you.
Why? Because they would have been slobs just
like you and me.
It wouldn't have inspired us for anything.
What is it that that love is something
that transcends all of these all of these
different things that, like, elevate people to a
a kefia and a howl inside of their
hearts
that that the entire world can be, against
it, but it can't touch it can't touch
that kefir that that that that that feeling
inside of the heart.
And so this is one of the reasons
this is one of the reasons that the
Muslims traditionally, they loved everything about Rasulullah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
The Medina of the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
they loved for his sake. The Allebayt, they
loved for his sake. The Ullama, they loved
for his sake. They forgave one another for
his sake. They they loved the Umma, the
prophet for his sake. They loved the prayer
for his sake. They loved fasting. They loved
just the love of these things. Even if
you don't do it yourself, just the love
of these things is enough to save a
person on the day of judgment and be
an excuse for being forgiven for all of
these things. The thing that scares me is
I see now people who pray, but they
don't love the prayer.
I see people who fast, but they don't
love the fast. They ask questions like, oh,
Shay, if you don't have a exam tomorrow,
can I just bail out? Who cares? You
know, the people in the past used to
be more concerned that Allah to Allah doesn't
accept their fast than they were concerned about
passing the test
for, like, whatever.
Sociology or whatever.
Elective past class or whatever.
The fact of the matter is you can
do both. It's not impossible. It's actually very
doable.
The thing that makes me afraid is that
love is gone from the people's hearts. That
love is more important than the deed itself.
This is not, you know, goofy Sufi teaching.
This is the the
love of the deed is more important and
receives more reward with
Allah than doing the deed itself. If you
don't do the deed, you're a sinner. If
you don't love the deed, you might be
a
It's a hadith of the prophet that the
intention of a believer to which he doesn't
act as more,
it's more
it's better and it's more,
beloved to Allah than the deed itself.
The deed is like the ship. Right? And
the the the intention is like the the
cargo or the passenger inside the ship.
It's more valuable. It's more important. It's the
reason the ship exists in the first place.
So the person who loves the sunnah, the
prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, has loved him. And
the person who loved him loves him, what
is the jaza of that? What is the
reward for loving him, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam?
That you're with him in Jannah. What's the
reward of loving to meet Allah to Allah?
That Allah to Allah will treat you with
the honor that somebody would have treated you
had they loved to see you.
Which is what? Aljannah.
This is important. This is missing in a
lot of in a lot of people. This
is missing in the deen. Once you have
love, then you no longer ask, well, do
I have to this? Do I have to
that? Is it just Makru or is it
actually haram? Is it just sunnah or what?
People stop asking those questions and they start
doing things. They look at things differently.
They look at things from a more real,
lens.
This is something that from from our that
we we we we heard I heard from
my Sheikh, Raheemullah ta'ala, he says that the
person who is prompt and punctual in his
acts of worship
and his dhikr and in his tahajjud and
all of all of the recitation of the
Quran and his prayers, etcetera.
That person has a high maqam with Allah
ta'ala
and the person of service who serves those
people. So for example, there's the people who
what? The people who put the the the,
the, you know, whatever the class together. They
received the individual reward of all of the
attendees all gathered together.
So those people, they're they're like, they're like
like a thief, like, rob the bank. You
get all the for yourself
without,
obviously,
decreasing from the of people who attended one
bit.
But the people who have love inside of
their hearts, they leave everybody in the dust.
They leave both of those groups behind. It's
like they flew in the sky. They went
into went into outer space. They they even
left this galaxy in there and their Maqam.
Why?
It's the heart that that matters. That's the
the the heart is what Allah will judge.
That's the only thing
The day of judgment. The only thing you
have to present to Allah ta'ala is your
heart. The effects of all your deeds are
there wrapped up inside of it. Your deeds
only have, and that's the next chapter that
your deeds only have,
weight because of what's inside of your heart.
Otherwise, all the deeds in the world could
be like froth on the top of the
ocean. They mean nothing to Allah
even though
they're innumerable in number.
The idea is what? The idea is that
that heart the more love a person has,
there may be someone who's making Hajj right
now
and then another person, like villagers sitting somewhere
who loves the house of Allah to Allah
and who loves Madinah Munawara and because of
their love, they're receiving more reward for than
the Hajj of the Hajj. Obviously, the person
who's needs a commandment of the deen if
they're able to afford to go, they have
to go. But I'm saying maybe someone can't
even afford to go, but because of their
heart, they're over there. They're they're with everybody.
And this is a a a hadith that's
a a a this is a hadith that
that I didn't include in this chapter just
for brevity, but it's a hadith of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam that a Bedouin
walked into the masjid of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. The Bedouins are different people.
They're
the the rough and toughness of living in
the desert meant that they didn't know the
etiquettes of city people.
They were very rough people and very uncouth
people.
And,
but they're also very real, you
know. So, the desert is like literally, it's
like the law of the jungle, you know,
it's a matter of survival for living out
in the desert.
And so,
this Bedouin walks into Madinah Munawwara and he
sees the amount of order that's there. And
he sees, in fact, the amount of love
that
Sahaba have for one another and how they're
treating each other with so much respect and
so much dignity and how this is like
unreal. He's never seen anything like this before
anywhere.
And then with great respect he comes to
the
and he says he asked him a question.
He says,
He says,
he says to the prophet,
what do you say about a man who
loves a people
but wasn't able to be like them in
his past and still isn't able to be
like them? Like, he says, this is amazing.
Like, this Medina you have, this is amazing.
I was never like this before and I'm
not even like this. I can't even be
this good right now. It's, like, overwhelming to
see how wonderful this is. So what do
you say about a man who who who
who loves a people but wasn't able to
be like them and still isn't able to
be like them?
Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
that a a man will be with the
one that he loves.
That's like a big deal.
That's a really big deal that that a
person even throughout throughout their inability to cope
with put together the pieces of the puzzle
in their life and in order to live
the the life that they know that they
should be living. One thing is you're slacking
off and being lazy then get to work.
One thing you're trying your best and it's
still not coming together.
What the importance of love is which is
why it leaves a person
Why why it leaves all the other people
in the dust and it flies into the
into the heavens is what Is because in
that moment of sincere love for for piety
and righteousness for the pious and for the
righteous for the Anbiya Alih Muslim Salam, the
Sahaba radiAllahu an whom, the Ulamar radiAllahu ta'ala
in whom. For Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
In that moment of sincere love, you jump,
you like make a quantum leap and you
jump into a Maqam that wasn't yours through
through earning otherwise.
It doesn't mean you become one of them.
But it means that wherever whatever happens with
them, you'll go with them. You'll have like
a license to tag along.
But the idea is that love is sincere,
it's not something you can say I love
and afterward, like, you just go back to,
you know, being a slob afterward.
If you love, the love has certain adab
and certain etiquettes.
And the adab and etiquettes of loving someone
is that you put their happiness
and you value it more than you value
your own. You
you love their way more than you love
your own. You put that person above yourself.
Once you do that though,
it's it and the thing is the beautiful
thing is how can a person not love
Allah Ta'ala?
How can a person not love the Rasool
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam? Allah Ta'ala created the heavens
and the earth from nothing. No one can
compel him to do anything and he still
he still wrote up above his arsh, above
his throne,
that my mercy out outstrips my wrath.
That he still gave so much mercy and
so much chance for for all of the
creation to receive his mercy. How can you
not love that Allah Ta'ala?
And that Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam who's a
mercy to mankind, how can you not love
that Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallamah,
those those those salihun
that that give from themselves in order that
that others can be happy. How can you
not love them? Allah made it easy. It's
not a difficult thing to love them.
The only thing that interferes in the way
is that the nafs, the desires of the
nafs as they get the upper hand over
you, then they'll drag you into a place
you didn't wanna be in first place. Otherwise,
the love of Allah and His Rasool Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam is not difficult. Just don't interfere
with it. Don't do stuff in your own
life to mess it up. Don't interfere with
it. It's the natural state. It's what the
hearts were made for. Even a kafir, when
they see that I I know this might
I have a a friend I went to
university with,
he saw a picture of the the the
the the Kaaba and the from afar, and
all the people are around the Kaaba in
red rose and it's nighttime. The lights are
coming down on it. He said, that's amazing,
man. I wish I could believe in that
stuff. I said, you can? He's like, no,
man. I can't.
What is that?
The heart was made to love Allah and
his Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. It wasn't made
for anything else.
If you have Tawfiq to say
or not, that's between you and Allah to
Allah. Everyone should make dua that Allah give
them the tofik of of of of saying
the Shahada again and again and dying on
it.
It's a gift he gives to the ones
that he love. But to love Allah, subhanahu
wa ta'ala, this is a natural state of
everyone's heart. Even the kafir in the midst
of his kufr, they say that, Abu, Abu
Jahl and,
Abu Jahl and,
the worst of the
the people used to mock the prophet from
the mushrike in Quresh. They used to sneak
at night and try to overhear the words
of the Quran.
They used to enjoy it. There's a sweetness
in it. One time they caught each other,
listening in on the way home. Like, what
are you doing?
Nothing. What are you doing? You know, like,
that type of thing. Why? Because
the the the heart was made for that.
If you have or not, it's easy to
to to love Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Just
don't get in the way. Don't mess it
up. Otherwise, that's what the heart was made
for. There's no reason for a person to
do anything but love them. So,
Allah and his Rasool, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
and love all of the good things that
Allah made in this world.
And that in and of itself, you'll be
surprised to see how much of a,
how much of a, how much of a
vehicle it is for a person's salvation on
the day of judgement. When you think that
all the other hard work and things that
people did,
are the real big show, the real big
show is the love inside of the hearts.
If there was love, then we wouldn't need
to do big things. Small things would have
had enough barakah, they would have taken us
much further.
And if we had love, the small things
that we do would have become big things.
And if we had loved, the big things
that we did would have worked, whereas the
big things we do now, we've spent 1,000,000,000
and 1,000,000 of dollars, and every country in
the Muslim world has so much wealth, and
we have a 1,000,000,000 people and all of
this and it's still useless in in front
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala because what that
one thing is missing, that's the thing that
made the Sahaba radiAllahu anhu, What they had
useful and it what makes what we have,
you know, needs a little bit of work
still, insha'Allah. We won't be pessim completely pessimistic.
It needs work, insha'Allah, I can get there
as well.
It's not difficult for Allah to Allah to
make it to to to to make it
something of value as well for us.
Narrated by Sayna Anas bin Malik, radiallahu anhu,
that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said
there are 3 things. There are 3 traits
if they're in somebody, that person will taste
the sweetness of iman.
Meaning that the the iman will be something
that they will love and they'll enjoy inside
of their heart rather than a chore or
a task for them.
Them. And so what are those three things?
They are that Allah and His Rasul salallahu
alayhi wa sallam should be more beloved to
that person than anything other than them.
The idea that neighbors will be upset, the
idea that people at school or work will
be upset, the idea that relatives will be
annoyed, the idea that whatever,
those things are are, you know, they can
still have a place with you but they
have no place when compared to whether Allah
and his Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wassalam are angry
about something or not.
You don't want to at any cost, you
don't want to upset all on his
and you want them to be happy that
the day of judgment when you show up,
you're not one of the beggars who comes
to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. This
is, oh, yeah, Rasool Allah. You're Shafa'a.
I know I blew it in this life,
but you're the mercy of the world. No.
Rather, you wanna be able to show up
in the Surah, salaam says, yes. This is
the one who defended my sunnah. This is
the one who defended the people of my
ummah. This is the one who did things,
sukhidma for the people of my ummah. This
is the one who loved the deen and
who loved my sunnah and because of that
I love him.
You don't wanna be one of the losers
that shows a face embarrassed on the day
of judgement. You wanna be someone that they
recognize because of the good that you did.
And there's khair in everybody inshallah. So the
first the first trait that a person has
to have in order to taste the sweetness
of faith is that Allah and his
are more beloved to them than other than
them.
And the second is that a a person
should, love another person,
for no reason except for be for the
sake of Allah.
So this is also a good sign, masha'Allah,
you show up in this in this meeting.
Maybe some of you don't see each other
during the week.
Your,
your friendship that you have from just being
in the same class together for the sake
of Allah Ta'ala.
This is a greater this is a greater
friendship than the friendships that you have with
other people for the sake of enjoyment or
for other reasons.
For the sake of kinship or because your
colleagues at work or your colleagues at school
or because your neighbors or whatever. Those things
can also be for the sake of Allah
to Allah. But if they're not
then they perish in this world. And the
thing that's for the sake of Allah ta'ala
even if it's very ephemeral, very temporary. These
are the friends you'll bear witness in each
other's favor on the day of judgement.
You'll be sweating it on the day of
judgment. Jawad will show up and be like,
yeah. I saw this person at the at
the class,
and he was or she was learning and
whatever, all of this stuff.
Right?
The mother and daughter show up to class,
There are other mothers and daughters are yelling
and screaming at each other right now.
And you guys
you guys have the the of
coming for the sake of Allah.
You'll show up and you you you'll say
this is my daughter. She came with me
to to hear the
This is my mother. She came with me
to hear the
That lasts forever. It lasts in Jannah forever.
This is a a sign that when you,
that that you have a that people in
your life that you don't love them for
any reason except for for the sake of
Allah ta'ala. Rather than, you know, this is
the the friendship of the people of the
dunya. It's disgusting.
I'm sorry. Maybe I should be more, like,
politically correct and stuff. It's really I I
I find it abhorrent. Right? That they'll be,
like, they'll invite each other out and say,
oh, why don't you come to my birthday
party? Okay. Cool. You go to the birthday
party at a restaurant and then they all
go and split the check afterward. So you're
basically, like, eating alone but, like, in the
same physical proximity. What kind of friendship is
that?
That's the friendship of the people that will
cuss each other out in the hellfire.
That's the friendship of the people that will
cuss each other out in front of the
hellfire and sell each other out and snitch
on each other also on the day of
judgement and say, this person, because of him
I did this, bring him into the fire
with me as well. Give him double the
punishment because of that.
It doesn't behoove a believer to have obviously,
it's not so you're saying, oh, Sheikh, what
are you saying? Everyone who splits a check
is going to *? No. It doesn't behoove
a believer to to to
treat each other like the people in Jahannam
treat each other. You understand what I'm saying?
The adab adab is not like halal haram.
It's just adab. It makes things nice.
Right? The adab is the people you love
for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
just like
you expect to benefit each other. In this
world, you should also be at eager and
avid to benefit each other. It's a sign
of what's to come.
And the third the third thing is what?
That's just my own, hamza pet peeve.
This this age that we live in is
like a a a a graveyard for hospitality,
and we can only,
we can only, this is a graveyard for
for love. May we can only complain to
Allah Ta'ala for it and hope that, inshallah,
just, the few people keep it alive, the
barakah of it spreads to others.
And the last thing is that a person
should hate to,
lapse into kufr, into disbelief after Allah saved
him from it, just like a person would
hate to be burned alive,
to be thrown into a fire, and they
hate to be burned alive. That same visceral
disgust with the the the state of of
having left Iman,
that that should also
a person should have fear from it. A
person should hate it. You should make plans
to avoid it.
For you, plans to avoid it for your
children. I tell people this is one of
the great benefits of having your kid, like,
you know, memorize the Quran is what? Is
that hopefully then at least they'll die on
iman.
Statistically, it's probably a far less likelihood that
a kid who made, a hifs of the
Quran will lapse out of the deen. Unfortunately,
we've seen it happen. It does happen, but
it's much rarer
than than than that of the regular people.
Getting through this life with your your iman
is itself a paramount objective of of of
life,
and it itself is an act of worship
that we've mentioned from before. That the fact
that people used to fear, that's a reason
Allah accept from them and forgive them their
sins. Allah
make us amongst those who have who
have a good end.
Muslim. It's a beautiful hadith.
The prophet said
that a lot most high will say on
the day of judgment,
where are those people who loved each other
for my sake?
This day I shade them in my shade,
on such a day that there's no shade
except for my shade.
So this is, you know, when the people
from whatever Islamic relief or from whatever Masjid
or whatever come and ask for some help
or support,
You know, give for the sake of Allah
ta'ala. Especially somebody you'll never meet, you'll never
see. It's easy to say that I love
them for the sake of Allah
because there's no complications in the middle.
Right? Give give in a way for those
who there's no way you could've materially benefited
from it.
Emotionally benefited from it, socially benefited from it.
Anyway, you could have benefited. It's only for
the sake of Allah. He says what? Allah
most high says on the day of judgement,
where are those who who, loved each other
for the sake of my majesty?
On this day I shade them in my
shade.
On such a day that there's no shade
except for my shade.
And this is important. Why?
Because if you can't do any else, from
all this pious, stuff we talk about, Being
good friend to your friends itself is, is,
an act of piety.
Right? Being good friends with each other, being
a good husband, being a good wife, being
being good friends, being good with one another.
Right? You love your wife, Allah ta'ala is
the the third third one who is happy
with you than the 2 of you. If
you love your friends, Allah is with you
and that love that you have for your
friends. Don't sell them out, don't leave them
high and dry, don't be there for their
happiness and then ditch them when they're sad
or when they need help.
Those types of friends are curse.
Don't be like that. You don't have to
hang out with everybody. Just pick 1 or
2 people that you can actually be a
real friend with. The rest of them are
a waste of your time. Remember we talked
about wasting time where is the DocuSign
do you bounce? Yes. Yeah. So they're right.
Remember we talked about wasting time? Those people
that you're not not interested in being there
for them in their hard hard times, you're
wasting their time and they're wasting your time.
So inshallah, hamdala, we're in the home stretch.
It's the last the last page inshallah.
Allah gives tawfiq and accept it from us.
This is the,
this is this is
this is
possibly
one of the most important lessons.
So what differentiates the saints from common people?
The Oliyahu of Allah Ta'ala from the regular
people is Ikhlas.
What is Ikhlas?
Ikhlas is, is sincerity.
So the idea is what?
The idea is that the deeds on the
Day of Judgment aren't counted. They're weighed.
Weight is an intrinsic property
of matter. It's not something that you can
visually assess.
So two things may look exactly the same.
One of them has different weight than the
other. Deeds the reason that deeds are given
the metaphor of of of weight on the
day of judgement, there's wasn't in in in
in scales.
There's scale pans and weight. Is that something
may have looked really, really not like a
big deal to some people, but it's heavy
in the scale pans.
And something may have looked like a really
big deal and to Allah Ta'ala, it's meaningless.
It's lighter than a feather.
And Allah picked these picked these metaphors for
a reason. Allah says in his book,
Allah said that the the likeness of those
who spend their wealth in the path of
Allah Ta'ala. And the analogy extends to all
good deeds.
Is the likeness of a person who, or
is the likeness of a grain
from which sprouts 7 ears of corn. In
every ear, there is a 100 grains. And
Allah will
multiply for whoever he wills, and Allah is
expansive and all knowing.
Meaning, you do one deed.
What is the deed? What is the deed,
what is the deed,
akin to? It's like planting a crop. It's
not that you did it and it's done.
It's a crop you plant in the ground,
and the harvest is on the day of
judgment. And between now and then, there's a
long time. There's a lot of things you
can do to mess it up.
Just like if you have a crop, if
you go and stomp out the the the
plant, it's gonna die before it get yields
any, any grain.
Right? So how do you stomp out your
deeds? Showing
off, by regretting having done the good deed,
by talking nonsense, by doing sins, etcetera, etcetera.
You'll mess up your your good deeds that
you had.
Rather, you have to cultivate and then tell
the
and that day will be a day of
of great harvest.
And so here, you know, there's another other
place in the Quran where Allah says
that every good deed will be rewarded 10
times its worth. That's not the the the
hard and fast rule, that's the floor.
The lowest level of, recompense for an accepted
deed is 10 times its worth.
Here, the mention is what?
700.
There are 7 ears from that one grain
that sprout. Each of them has a 100100,
a100,
what you call, grains in it. And Allah
says,
He mentions what? He says
that,
he says he says,
that some people take this ayah to mean
that 700 is the cap. He says if
you read the ayah, that's not what it's
saying.
He Allah Ta' mentions 700 and he says
Allah Ta'ala
multiplies for whoever he wills.
Meaning what? That it could be even more
than that. Sky is the limit. The reason
700 is used is that the Arabs are
an enumerate people.
They're not skilled in mathematics and quantitative analysis.
700 is just a big number, like you
know how like kids are who's a 1000000,
1000000000, trillion, man? Like it's it's like just
a big number meaning like more than you
can imagine.
And the sky's the limit. There's no, there
are hadith in which the Prophet says that
a, a person's deeds will be
rewarded 10 times their worth up to 700
except for fasting because fasting is for me
and I'm the one who rewards for it.
Fasting is not the only one. There are
a number of deeds in which it's mentioned
that that it breaks the 700,
limit if it's done with the requisite amount
of sincerity.
So, Kurtubi Rahmulullah Ta'ala says,
that that that that he multiplies for whoever
he wills, meaning even over 700.
So what is Kurtobis saying? He says that
that that he takes the analogy of the
of the the idea that a person,
like, plants
like a farmer, plants their deeds.
It says that a a farmer the the
crop that they plant,
the yield is dependent on what the what
land they put it in and how skilled
they are as a farmer and,
the, let's see. What was the other thing?
How skilled he has as a is as
a farmer and how good the seed is
that they use.
So some seeds yield better
versions of the crop and some seeds,
you know, yield smaller ones or bitter ones
or whatever. Right?
So the likeness of the seed is the
analogy of how halal means you used in
order to,
do that deed. So if you just robbed
the liquor store and you put the money
in the mustard donation box, it's dead on
arrival. The seed is like dead before you
implanted it into the ground. Looks like you
gave salakah, you gave nothing.
The skill of the farmer is is the
analogy is to the amount of knowledge
that the the the person doing the deed
has.
That a person will know if I pray
the prayer in such a way or if
I give the sadaqa in such a way
or if I, you know,
you know, give it at such and such
time on a Friday better than another day
in the 10 days of of
or in the last 10 nights of Ramadan
or whatever. They know how to maximize,
the yield based on how how they how
they plant the seed.
And the third is what the the land
that the seed is put into, which is
the cause that that this the the the
the sadaqa or the deed is given for.
Giving giving zakat receives more reward than giving
sadaqa.
Giving sadaqa that saves a person's life is
more than donating to the SBCA.
Giving something that will help an animal also
you'll receive reward for it, but helping a
person is much more reward.
Helping the person who is, gonna starve to
death receives more reward than helping the person
who can't make the rent this month. May
helping the person who can't make the rent
month will receive more reward than, like, you
know, building, like, the new chandelier in the
Masjid.
Even though there's Khair Insha'Allah in all of
them, hopefully.
But the land the analogy of the land
is choosing your your, you know, what you,
invest your deed in,
wisely.
And
how much wisdom and how much skill and
how pure your means are,
the the higher the index is in all
of these things, the more the same deed
will will have the weight in the scale
on the day of judgement.
The same that same deed can have more
yield. This is what these are all different
these are,
ways that the same deed can have more,
have more acceptability from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So the idea of this chapter is what?
Don't be people who are like superficial people
that oh, look. You gave a $1,000,000. Amazing.
That's job done. Wonderful. Yay.
Don't be superficial
person.
Have some depth. And know that Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala accepts through depth what he doesn't
accept through,
just, you know, something having a gross huge
size or scale.
And the idea is that some people will
come up and it will look like they
have very few deeds, but they did them
with so much sincerity that those things will
tip the scale pans. And there'll be people
who come with a whole bunch of stuff,
but all of it, you just blow and
all of it flies away. That's how lighting,
meaningless it is in the eyes of Allah
ta'ala.
Ta'ala.
And this is a proof for the last
thing to be said. The last thing court
to be said was what? That 700 is
not a cap.
That you can go past 700. And this
is the eye of Surat Zomer
that he quotes as a proof for his
for his, claim, which is what Allah tells
us, oh, my slaves
that believe. Fear your lord.
For those who do good in this world.
Allah has prepared good for them. And the
the the land of Allah is wide.
Meaning if something's not working out one place,
go to another place. Don't give up hope.
Just keep trying.
Those people who have patience,
those people will be given reward without any
sort of reckoning. Meaning what?
No numbers mean anything 700 or otherwise.
The reward for Sabar is what? Without any
sort of reckoning. The sky is the limit.
How much patience you have, that's how much
reward you'll receive.
So don't think of, you know, don't think
of things again like this many dollars, that
many dollars, this many times, that many times.
The quality is what matters.
The person who can do one deed with
quality for them to do the second deed
with quality is easy. The person who does
a 100 deeds without quality, to teach them
how to do one deed with quality is
very difficult.
To teach them to do one deed with
sincerity is very difficult. It's almost impossible. We
live in an age where, you know, Muslims
Muslims
charge money to retweet like,
you know, whatever for good causes. Muslims charge
money in order to, you know, say something
in order to raise money for, the poor.
Muslims charge money for all sorts of things.
And the thing is the whole ecosystem is
messed up. Right? The ulama, nobody pays them
so then they have to turn then they
turn the ilmen to a business.
It's not good either way.
But it takes 2 hands to clap. You
can't one group of people just points the
finger at the other one and everyone nobody
has any blame and the whole world is
messed up and it's burning down. Everybody shares
a equal,
portion in this. The idea is what? The
idea is that,
that, like, you know, there are certain things
you should do for the sake of Allah
ta'ala. You don't expect money for them.
You don't expect money for them. You earn
money so you can do these things for
the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And, you know, this is not something we
should point fingers at others. This is something
we should ourselves say that when I take
a service, I will pay for it. I'm
not gonna take a freebie. Or when I
give a service, I'm gonna give it for
free. I'm not going to expect because what?
I do this for the sake of Allah.
Some of us are mubtalah. We're we're we're
we're challenged. Why? Because we actually do, you
know, this is what we do for a
living.
If we didn't do it for a living,
then there are certain things that no you
know, that that they're not gonna get done.
Even people, if you find yourself in a
position like that that you this is your
means of livelihood,
then do something or another from Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala that you don't take anything for
and hope for that that's the thing that
will pay off for you and and not
the things that you're receiving compensation for. Falaqa
gives,
reward for the things we receive compensation for
as well, this is from his father. This
is from his father. Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
have mercy on all of us.
Said that he heard the messenger of Allah
say, when a slave submits,
to Allah to Allah, I. E. Enters Islam,
and makes good on hislam his Islam. Allah
makes it an expiation for every sin he
ever,
committed or he ever came close to.
After that, accounting is as follows. A good
deed will be counted at anything from 10
times its worth all the way to 700.
Again, here the word 700 is an expression
meaning
like more than you can count. It doesn't
actually mean 700.
And the sin will be not counted except
for by its worth unless Allah forgives.
Meaning what?
Again, the deed that's done well,
that deed has the possibility that it may
eclipse another person's
1,000,000
deeds.
The Sahaba radiAllahu anhu, the the the the
thing Rassulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam taught them is
how to do things with sincerity.
That's what took 23 years.
Once they learned that, he like clocked out
of this duniya very quickly actually. And he
left the Sahaba radiAllahu on whom they swept
the earth and the the the the east
and in the west.
Why? Because the hard part of the lesson
they learned. The conquest and things, those are
easy afterward.
The hard part of the lesson is what?
How to become that person who has sincerity
for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. This was always
the pursuit of the Muslims. Nowadays, we think
that be by being smart and good marketing
and
you know, a 100000 YouTube, followers and whatever,
we're gonna solve the world's problems. It doesn't
work that way.
That's how the problems begin in the first
place. Don't you know that?
The problems are solved through what? Through the
prophetic methodology. That's why it's prophetic. It's not
from this world. It's a that's
revealed by near by revelation. Otherwise, people wouldn't
have known.
But this is a prophetic methodology that what
that your deeds, if they're done right, one
salat has their ability to eclipse,
eclipse an entire an entire kom,
has the ability to turn thrones upside down,
Has the ability to change the destiny
not just of 1 person, entire nations.
If we have people like that, the rest
of it is not easy but it's much
easier.
And the path opens up just like Banu
Israel is up against the the sea and
the hosts of Fir'aun are barreling down on
him on them.
The is what opens up the path to
cross to the other side. Doesn't mean your
work is over, but without it, you're not
gonna go anywhere. You're not gonna make it
anywhere. It's the only thing that we have.
We have a set of people who act
like that's like the like, you know, some
sort of ancient religion of our, backwards forefathers.
This is the only thing we have. It's
the only thing we ever had in the
first place.
Without it, all of it is worthless.
And none of it is going to end
well.
Remembrance of the Sahaba of the messenger of
Allah, salallahu alaihi wa sallam, that sacrificed their
every breath and their life in order that
the word of Allah ta'ala should be supreme
until the day of judgment,
to whom we owe everything that we have
and who we love more than we,
love anything else in this world. He said,
sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he warned the Ummah. He
said, don't curse my companions.
Don't curse my companions ever. Why?
Because if one of you were to give
the mountain of Uhud and gold,
as a, as sadaqa,
It would not equal the 2 cupped handfuls,
of anything that people spent for his sake.
So in grain.
So imagine,
a mountain of ohad and gold is literally
maybe like more than a $1,000,000,000,000.
Right? It's a lot of money. Like literally
$1,000,000,000,000.
And the amount of grain is worth what?
Probably less than a dollar?
But why? Under this khanun that we mentioned,
that's why they're the Sahaba radiAllahu anhu.
That the mountain of Uhud, if one of
us gave it in sadaqa, it wouldn't be
worth to Allah to Allah the the the
2 cupped handfuls of the Sahaba radiAllahu anhu
and not even half of it.
Why? Because of their ihlas, because of their
sincerity.
And guess what? They gave the mountain and
gold at the rate of, like, the 2
cup handfuls being more than our mountain of
gold. And we're just showing up with
with very little at the end of this
game.
So we're more in need of a class
than they are.
Allah
give all of us tofiq. Allah give really
we have everything. All we need is just
a little bit of a class. Allah give
us Ikhlas. Allata'a give us Iman.