Maryam Amir – You are Not a Hypocrite
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The speaker discusses the struggles of people struggling with racism and faith, as well as the importance of praying for others, particularly those with negative attitudes. They stress the need for individuals to pray for their success and the importance of showing one's love for worship and being a member of a foreigners group. Prayer is crucial in achieving spiritual transformation and achieving success in life.
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Allah doesn't say the MAS, the MAS. Who are like striving to do
every prayer on time, and way more than that, and constantly in this
state of extremely amazing worship,
Amanu is people whose faith have entered their hearts, but it
hasn't quite settled. Their actions are not fully there. If
you were someone who is struggling with sinning or shortcomings, or
you feel like an old Dawn, you're one way, and the rest of the year
you're another way. That doesn't make you hypocritical, it makes
you someone who's struggling to be firm and close to Allah, and then
you falter, and then you come back and think about Yusuf Ali and
salam. How many trials have Yusuf alaihi salam go through in his
life? I mean, think about the reality of his family issues being
thrown into a well by your siblings. Think about even after
all the time of being, you know, pursued by a number of women,
being jailed, and after all of this, being placed in a position
of power to have those same brothers to your face not
recognize you, how badly about that brother who they had? Like?
How would that make you feel, emotionally like, ripping open old
wounds? You're finally like, now having to die. I'm in this space.
I'm like, you know, in a place of privilege, and I can use that in
the right way. And those same people look at you through all of
that. They still think those terrible things about you. You
suffered his Salam. He had difficulty in his life, but
obviously he's better than all of this combined. And yet he says
antiwali
Yousef Ali Islam uses the word Wali, the name Al Wali. So when
you and I are going through something, when I go through
something like a miscarriage, may Allah protect everyone. When I
went through something like a miscarriage, may Allah protect you
all, bless you all. When you go through depression, when you're
struggling with doubts and faith, when you're going through an
addiction, whenever you're going through Remember who you have. And
what he is your friend and your guardian. And that includes those
of us who struggle with sin over and over and over. Some of us feel
so far away because we feel like there's no way we can get over
something that we keep doing. But think about the companion of the
Prophet's voice of the Abdullah. He used to constantly drink. He
used to drink alcohol. He was commander of the Prophet told
lower they would send them he would be punished for his public
drinking, over and over to the point that the Companions got
frustrated, and they were like, what's up with this guy? He's
constantly sitting in the same exact way.
And they they cursed him. They were saying things about him that
were just wrong, and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi was sent them
himself stood up for this man, and he declared that this man loves
Allah and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, if the prophet
himself, sallallahu alayhi wa salam could declare how much this
man loves a lot in his prophet, and he's a companion of the
Prophet, who sees the Prophet on a regular basis, who has the
opportunity to become the best of Muslims that have ever existed,
because he's literally, physically sitting with a prophet. Then why
don't we knew that are struggling in America that are dealing with
Islamophobia, that are dealing with all types of different racism
or sexism, or anything else that you're struggling with, and on top
of that, you're struggling to be Muslim and Ramadan with crazy,
long fasting hours. Maybe you have a crazy schedule, and you're still
fasting through it. What about me and you? Of course, Allah's
Panama, Tala is Inshallah, hopefully looking at us, even when
we make mistakes, and saying that's a servant that loves me. We
pray that we be of those people. He's not looking for perfection.
He loves you anyway. And when we look at those who turn to him, you
know, sometimes in your heart, have you ever wanted to you know
you wanted to do something and you knew it was wrong, and it didn't
make you happy that it was wrong, but the action itself made you
happy. Like, let's say you knew a relationship was wrong, but it
made you happy to be in it, or like you knew not praying or
mother right, let's say Mother missing was wrong, but you wanted
to watch that movie in the theaters, and you're gonna walk
out. Okay, so you that action, in and of itself, is wrong, but it
made you happy to watch the movie you got me, but the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi was sent them. He talks about a believer being
the person who they're they're the things that they do that are good,
it makes them happy. The things that I do that are wrong, it makes
them sad. So even if you didn't do the right thing, the fact that it
didn't make you happy, that you were doing the wrong thing, that
in and of itself, is a description of a believer. In and of itself,
that's a description of who you are. And the Lost parental says
familiar.
Taba, a him, Leah, Tubu, that then he turned to them in repentance,
so that they would turn to Him. If, when Allah, saying that Imam
Abuja talks about he, he turns to you in repentance before you turn
to Him. If you've ever had in your heart for a moment, this feeling
that you want to come back to Allah that's not coming from you,
that's literally coming from Allah. He wants you to come back
to him. So he puts this feeling inside of your heart to come back
to him. And if you haven't felt that feeling, it doesn't mean
there's no hope for you at all
in we all pray that Allah puts that feeling in our hearts and
that we turn to him once we feel that feeling. So even if you
haven't felt it, there's so much hope for you still, as in so many
Ahadith talked about, if you just turn to Him, that He accepts you.
Subhanho wa taala, sometimes maybe it's just that you're struggling
with who you are today versus who you used to be like today. You may
not be able to do the type of worship you used to do, and it
makes you feel guilty. You maybe feel overwhelmed. And this is
something one of my teachers taught me, which I panelized like
saved me this from Al Dawn, may Allah bless him. Even atwa Idah
says something incredible that you looking outside of the Allah has
placed in front of you for ways to come close to him is a hidden type
of Hawa. Let me explain that. What that means sometimes the way to
Allah, after praying your obligatory prayers, like the basic
obligation, the way to him after that is taking care of your
parents, or the way to that to him after that is working so you can
provide for your family, or waking up at 6am because your toddler
does, even in Aldon, this is my son. Please pray for
us every morning I
am so tired. Tired. Second point, the point is when you're too tired
to pray, even to muqas after Isha because you're collapsing because
you have to take care of a child the next morning,
that is what Allah has placed for you. And Rahim, Allah talks about
pawli at all. What these are the obligations of the time that Allah
has placed in front of you? So when you have a crazy, big exam,
or when you have to work, you have to take care of your health, your
mental health, whatever it is, and it's stopping you from doing those
things that all those other believers are doing, all the
people who are praying here for hours at a time, who love fasting
can't wait for Ramadan, all those excited Ramadan, faster worshiper
believers, and you don't feel like you're one of them. You know what
you're doing. Instead, you're taking the Asmaa, the means that
Allah has placed in front of you to draw closer to Him, and if you
were to try to remove those just because you wanted to feel a
spiritual high, since you didn't have those responsibilities,
that's not closeness to Allah. That's you trying to find a way
out of the responsibilities he's given you, and the guilt that's
induced from that is not something pious. Instead, find ways to come
close to Allah in the worship he's put in front of you, even if it
doesn't taste sweet, that spiritual sweetness doesn't always
come from changing an explosion diaper. It really doesn't, and it
also doesn't come from having to work crazy, long hours when you're
exhausted, but at the same time, that is the worship that Allah is
putting in your place to come closest to him, SubhanAllah.
And subhanAllah, we know that the Prophet saw someone told us in the
bindiyat that indeed, actions are by intention. So whenever you make
the intention, whatever you're doing that Inshallah, in and of
itself is worship.
There was a man who the during the time of Prophet saw them. It
was,
excuse me, he was strong, and he looked, I guess, strong, and so he
was walking, and the Companions saw him, and they were talking.
The prophets left them, and they're like, Wouldn't it have
better? Been better if this man was out, you know, out in the
Cause of Allah. And the Prophet saw them responded and said, If he
went to work to provide for his young children, he was out in the
Cause of Allah. If he went to work to provide for his old, elderly
parents, he was out in the Cause of Allah. If this man was out to
work so that he would be able to sustain himself and not beg
people. He was out in the Cause of Allah, Oh SallAllahu, alayhi wa
sallam. But the prophet saw some of his teaching has said, unlike
the very narrow view we have of what closest to Allah looks like,
everything we do, including the emotional struggles that we have,
those are forms of worship, and those are forms that all.
Allah loves and uses for us to draw closer to Him.
Allah subhana wa Taala is aloli to the one who draws close to him
through the obligatory so he tells Sina Hadith putsi, that he's a
Wali, that he's on your side, that when you do the obligations.
That's how you come close to him. That's it. That's what's asking
you. He's not asking you to do the obligations and also weep in sola
all night. He's not asking you to the obligations and also smile
with extreme vigor at your love for doing worship inshaAllah will
be blessed with those feelings one day. But that's not what's a
requirement for you, the action, in and of itself, is what Allah is
asking for, and when we are trying to do more, that's awesome. Let's
try to do more, because we should strive to be better believers. But
when what that is holding you back from Allah, your own self, because
of how guilty you feel, then recognize that's not from Allah.
He wants you however you turn to Him. When I was studying in Egypt,
a few sisters and I went to dinner, and we had a bunch of
money left over after we pulled our money together for the food.
So we decided that we were going to go and give this homeless boy
who used to sleep in front of a grocery store with his little pet
dog, the extra money. And we walked for 20 minutes to get to
this place where this little boy was he's a teenager, or this
teenage boy used to sleep. So we finally get there, and he's
nowhere. But this puppy is there, and there's this tiny puppy, and
he's trying to open a water bottle with his paws, and he can't get it
open. And so we came and we opened the bottle, and we poured some
water out, and this puppy drank so much water, and then once it was
done drinking its water, it just just kind of ran away. I was
thinking, SubhanAllah. We are a group of foreigners. We're a group
of American students going to a restaurant with some extra money.
Our intention was to donate. We walked 20 minutes only to open a
bottle cap for this adoptive bunch of thirst. And if Allah's
penalties is going to take care of his creation like a small,
innocent puppy who doesn't pray and struggle with worshiping Him,
obviously, all creations of Allah believes okay, but I mean, like
we're struggling to worship Him. So if he's going to facilitate all
of this for this tiny puppy, then what is he going to facilitate for
the person who is going through the hardships that you're going
through and trying to think good of him too? Allah tells us I am as
my servant thinks I am. So when you think great of Allah, when you
have hope in Allah, when you are certain that Allah will accept
your repentance, and certain that Allah understands your struggle
inshaAllah, he will do all of that because he is your wali in any
circumstance, in any space you're in. He is there to be your loving
guide. It's just about reframing our minds and our framework so
when we approach Him, we know he's on our side, and then trying our
best to live our lives in a way that even when we falter, it's
okay, we just go back to him, because that's what a loving
friend does. They constantly guard you. They protect you. They're
your ally, and they accept you. We always want to talk in this thing,
except every single one of us and everyone
we let every.