Choose Wisely

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My dear respected Brothers Sisters elders,

Allah subhanho wa Taala who

ordered us and advised us to have taka

taka is the condition

where we fear to disobey and displease the one we love the most.

Taqwa is not fear of Allah.

The why is fear of offending the one we love the most.

I say that because fear by itself is a negative emotion. You do not love the things that you fear. People who fear snakes don't love snakes.

A child in your school in your class in his class or her class, who fears the teacher does not love the teacher. They may obey the teacher because the teacher will punish them. But they can never love the teacher.

But unless one of them has said about us and may Allah make us among those, well Lavina Armano a Cheb to hope by Lila

not only love Allah says the believers are those who love Allah subhana wa Taala more than anyone and anything else.

Therefore, therefore is not fear of Allah Jalla Jalla who the ukwa is fear of offending the one I love the most. The beauty of that is the more I love Allah, the more I fear offending him. The more I love Allah the more I love this, the more I love, not displeasing him, the more I fear not displeasing.

So the more hub increases, the more Taqwa will increase. And the result of this too is our code of Allah.

The topic Am I open today is choose wisely.

Let me give you a couple of examples to begin what is which choice is more important. Where to go on a vacation? Or which career to choose? Which is more important.

Another one, which is more important, who to employ or who to marry?

Why

wrong vacation choice at worst? Two weeks gone down the drain one week gone down the drain summary gone down the drain we learned a lesson. Don't go there again. US

but wrong career choice.

As a different ballgame right?

Who to employ? Are you employed the wrong person?

You discovered your blood wrong person you can find them.

Again, you learn from the experience. don't employ somebody like that again.

But you marry the wrong person.

Sure, you can divorce them.

Well, you don't have the price of that.

Now

what is

the difference between these two?

The importance of the choice depends on the consequences of it.

What will be the payoff or price of the choice? And how long will it last? That is what makes the choice one choice more important than the other.

I remind myself and you to choose wisely because the choice that I'm going to talk to you about is forever.

Diamonds are not forever.

Our choices are forever.

So choose wisely.

Choosing well is so critical that Allah subhanaw taala did not leave it to us to do on our own.

He didn't force us, but he guided us. And he said,

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Very the right path has been shown distinctly from the wrong path.

The two paths are clear, there's no force anywhere. But whoever disbelieves in taboo, whoever it is, believes in all kinds of false deities was theories was philosophies and so on and so forth. And believes in Allah subhanho wa Taala then that person has grasped the most trustworthy hand or that will never break.

And Allah subhanaw taala is all here all know.

I remind myself I knew that Islam is an active choice that we need to make. You do not become Muslim because of your race or your color or nationality, or tribe or name or anything else. We become Muslim when we choose to become Muslim, when we choose obedience to Allah subhanaw taala over obedience to our own desires.

History really as simple as that.

And Islam teaches us that success is proportionate to obedience, obedience to the orders of Allah subhanaw taala in the way that his messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam showed us

the best example of this is Allah Allah subhanaw taala ordered as to establish Shara aka musona

Rasul Allah is an Asana showed us how to do that. He sets a low Kamara to more usefully pray as you have seen me pray.

This is the fundamental connection also between the Quran and the Sunnah. And the way in which the Sunnah supports the Quran. The Sunnah is the fieldwork of the Quran. And that is why Allah subhanaw taala caused it to be protected and its ways to be practiced in the world, generation after generation.

The fundamental principle in Islam, as I mentioned before is taqwa.

That there is a process that begins with inquiry, Who is Allah?

Then when we learn about Allah subhanaw taala, our hearts filled with His glory and magnificence is Russia.

And then with gratitude is sugar. This is the meter.

If you are I think that we know Allah. Let us look in our hearts with respect to Allah, see what is there? Because whatever is in the heart, is reflected in our actions.

Those who have captured Allah automatically obey Allah Subhana Allah that they don't make excuses. They don't try to find loopholes. They don't go photoshopping they ask what did Rasul Allah salAllahu Alaihe Salam do in this case, and they do this in

this condition, where we obey Allah subhanaw taala because we are in his craw and we love him more than anyone else. This is taqwa

for the one who has it. Allah subhanho wa Taala promised guidance and protection and support that ye is a condition of hedaya Allah subhanaw taala called is book The Little Book the key guidance for the Moutoku

we are coming to a month which is dedicated to making us Taqwa. Gudivada como CRMO coma Gudivada Levina min Coverly calm Viva La La Quinta taco. So you will become with the whole fasting is prescribed so that we become with the whole not for any other reason. We ask Allah subhanaw taala to give us Ramadan or work in good health and human and we time and dovie to maximize its benefits. Inshallah I remind myself when you and I remind myself when you do think of all those of our brothers and sisters and relatives and friends who passed away this year

after last Ramadan before this rather, which means what, which means that last more than was their last Ramadan for their lives. Did they know that they didn't know that

Do I know whether this Ramadan will be my last? I don't know.

So treat every Ramadan as if it is your last rather than for your life. Because one Ramadan will be your last

that there is no doubt.

So treat every one of them as if this is the last. I'm not going to get the next one

it is a framework Taqwa is the framework of the relationship of the believer with ALLAH SubhanA wa, which is based on knowing his rub, feeling the all of His Majesty and grace and so fearing his displeasure and hoping for his forgiveness, and being grateful to him for his blessings, and therefore loving him,

this is the relationship between that information, law rules, laws fit and the heart, the all the gratitude and the love of Allah subhanaw taala it is the relationship between oil and Irfan. It is the relationship between knowing about and knowing.

It is the relationship between living in the world in this world as a person of the world and living in this world as a person of the ultra grateful for what Allah subhana wa has given us His Word.

Making money, power, position, authority ruled everything, but all of that in the hand,

not in the heart. Nothing goes into the heart, except

the Associate of Allah Subhana Allah

what is in the heart, the love of Allah subhanaw taala and the yearning, not just feeling not just wanting yearning to meet him and to meet him in us in a state where he's played pleased with us.

To reach this position, we must make effort because that is the role that Allah subhanaw taala set in this life. Anyone who wants anything in any field must make effort.

That is the root of this dunya wildlife Sally Lindsay Annie Illamasqua there is nothing for a viewer except that which he works for.

US make no doubt about that. But also remember, no doubt also that no matter how much effort you and I make effort is required. Without it, nothing will happen. But no matter how much effort we make, the effort will take us only to the door of the palace.

The door will only open when the owner opens it.

It will not open by effort. If you take us to the door without effort you're not even near the door you're somewhere last.

But after all the effort you and I will get in only if the door opens and that door will open by the mercy of our ramen or rocky will be dunya Malacca

and he declared that he will open the door for the one who has since who is sincere was useless. And who seeks his pleasure. Because he said was June worked on it.

Every time I read this I am absolutely amazed

because logically speaking it is the worst way of of asking someone to come close.

Right if you if you want to call somebody What do you say get up here

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you want say was in such that his face is on the ground his hands and feet our feet are on the ground his knees on the ground He is helpless completely and totally helpless. Right that is why surrender is haram to anyone other than Allah.

Allah subhanaw taala created as he gave her is

he made the Quran was he said you cannot take that and put it before another muffle okay you cannot make so do to a creature no matter who the creature is. We have you know the Hadith. They said to me elsewhere Allah we see the peace Kisara and Kosovo throw the you know the Byzantine Empire on the euro and the Persian Empire and so on and they have the system where when you go into the presence of the king, you make sense that to the king and they say Arizona you are worthy of such scheduled much more than any of those give you other rasool Allah so permit us to make such that you as a way of greeting a Surah Surah Salam says that is haram to anyone other than Allah subhana wa Tada so I

do not permit you to make sudo to me.

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I know those of you who don't know the Hadees are waiting for me to say the next part of it.

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makes you do and come close. Was Jude worth 30 Because when you make such that, that is a sign of our body yet when you say are up and your hands

and I am in front of you, completely and totally helpless as a sign of my total our call on you total trust on you that Allah subhanho wa Taala will draw the person close, Allah will draw your close, not your effort. Allah subhana Del Taco

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when the slave submits himself in sudo is Rob geladeira, who draws in clothes that is the beauty of the love of Allah subhanho. The love of Allah subhanaw taala is the foundation of our code, the reliance on Allah subhanaw taala whose power the person knows, and whose blessings he feels grateful for, he feels nobody except ALLAH, and relies on nobody but Allah.

This is the reason that the more he knows about Allah and the more he knows Allah the more he loves him and the more he fears displeasing him. It's a beautiful, positive, self sustaining relationship.

The relationship between taqwa and hope, which results in tobacco and loss rather isn't good enough seeing that you've got remote.

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human hair to dunya Illa Moto, in sort of the lottery winner last round there is it everyone will taste death? No exceptions. If there was an exception, it would have been Muhammad Rasul Allah is.

Everyone will taste death. And only on the Day of Resurrection. Will you be paid your wages in full and whoever is removed away from the fire and we ask Allah, Allah Allah Medina, I'm in love

and admitted into Jana, only that person purpose only that person is successful. The life of this world

is only the enjoyment of deception.

And that why the believer does everything for one reason only to please Allah, because he loves him more than anything and anyone else. And this is why I submit to you and remind myself that the first and foremost responsibility that we have is to know Allah subhanho that and to fill our hearts with His Majesty and grace. If we do that, then everything else will become very easy. His greatness and our connection with him will become the whetstone the criterion on which we will test every word and action of ours to see if it meets the only thing that matters, does it please Allah

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my brother and sisters

as I mentioned to you the choices do we obey Allah? Or do we obey our own desires are on the force?

I asked myself this question.

And how long do we want to live in this self created struggle between our knifes and the orders of Allah?

There is no struggle the struggle we create.

We create the struggle because we give our knifes this exalted position

that it has the

it has the position that it should be consulted when an order of Allah

subhanaw taala is facing me, who said we should consult our owners who said we have to like anything

we give ourselves is bullish who are you?

You are a piece of you are a drop of seminal fluid after rejecting which both your parents are a shower.

That is who you are. That is why I am

a drop of seminal fluid. What is the result of a drop of several fluid? A drop of semen what is the opposite of that? That is your heartbeat. That is my having

a drop of seven

made not just your parents and my parents, so they had to take a shower.

This is our reality. If you begin with this, you can't go wrong. You cannot go wrong.

You're gonna imagine but I'm actually one of the great scholars when

they asked him what was the happiest time of your life. He said I was traveling

I was on a boat

and of course people didn't know he was the king of bulk in our eyes that

and became one of the greatest scholars a long story I won't go into that this particular thing

he said I was I was on this boat

and for some reason there was no reason I didn't wear it you know but but one man took a dislike to me.

So this man the whole trip

he started needling me and of course I didn't respond to that I kept silence that got him more and more angry and he started cursing me and he started doing this and that and so on and then that was not enough because that was not he was not getting any response from me so then he gave me Pull my beard he knocked on my hat he did all kinds of things.

And he said every time he did that I said Ah hamdulillah

I'm not looking at work

I'm not having a color

I'm not an added I'm a drop of symbol

What is this? Somebody curses a drop of simmer Of course. What do you say? What do you say to something which makes you're not just

you take it and put on your head

this is who we are.

This is who we are. We are the reason I'm saying that we live in a society where children are given this completely

you know distorted image of themselves in the name of building self esteem. I'm a psychologist

I have a doctorate in Applied Behavioral Science I'm speaking from my professional at

complete completely false image of self esteem. I'm not saying no to children I'm saying give them an understanding of who they are. Anything they do oh wow

am i You are the greatest

in nearly lay when I was eight years old I was like 12 meters tall. He is the greatest Alright in our demonstrate Where's he gonna go?

He's on top of Mount Everest solid in our telemetry.

Please let us get some balance into our life. Ama you're not the greatest. You are a little kid who did something good, very good for you. You are the whole life ahead and the much more you need to do. You're not the greatest sorry.

There are matters there is a flood

in this society,

religion, religious discourses,

the rows of Dean

the chef is sitting there. He has the Quran in his hand. He is giving lots of Quran and you have

people who go and pump iron in the gym. In the gym, that guy can live to 150 kilograms he can lift 200 kilograms. But he cannot sit with other individuals.

Both his legs are pointed in the face of the chef

and in the face of the Quran and because the chair is sitting where he's sitting, he's pointing his next word is acapella. And if you ask him in Santa Ana ask you Misha, where is it? Where does it say in the Quran that I must not point my feet towards the fibula you want Fatah

because you've never taught him either.

Who's going to do this? Who is going to teach?

You have grown people

so called Children acquainted with any anyone who's you know 16 1718 not a child.

But 20s

Hanukkah Quran is going on. Ha ha ha this is going on. They will sit leaning on the wall on the side of the room.

Looking at their phones, showing I don't know what's showing that to each other. giggling and

Laughing like little girls.

Why?

Because you don't want to speak the truth.

You do not want to speak their truth to your own children. You do not want to raise them as Matakohe you do not teach them either. And then guess what? It comes back to bite.

It comes back to bite and you read it in the neck when you when you get older. Because the child you did not teach the child to respect Allah. You did not teach the child to respect the Quran. You did not teach that child to respect the shares the religious college or the individual.

You think he's going to respect you think about where the rug Where does respect for parents what is the root of that? Where does it come from for the Muslim from the Kitab of Allah?

Unit bother about that.

So I will respect you for what

choices

choices.

We need to make choices.

I want to end with the choices that the Sahaba rebound like a madman made

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Reflect on this. How many times have you read desire? How many times have you read the translation of this? And when you said to everything in the heavens and the earth belongs to Allah, did you jump with joy? You say Subhana Allah Yara I am yours and you said it.

I didn't make the claim. You said

no. Isn't isn't Allah saying you belong to me?

Yes or no? You got a lot of guys here who are half of them don't know Arabic. I mean seriously.

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Allah is saying You are mine. You belong to me. What are you afraid of?

If I belong to Allah Alhamdulillah as I am not afraid of anything.

All I need to do is stay there. Stay in a state where you continue to belong to Allah when Allah subhanaw taala will not say you know what? Get out.

Go No, we don't want that. I belong to you. So what happens now when there is an order of Allah Allah said do business in this way buy this sell that don't buy this don't sell that don't buy don't borrow on interest and so on. What must I do? I want to remain young I'm yours. So what must I do whatever you say, I will do curse

Menjangan will come and you know this is America.

This is America unless you sell haram stuff, unless you have lotteries. Unless you sell this and that you cannot survive, how will you feed yourself? How will you feed your family what happened to Allah?

Whatever.

And then as if our Allah did

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my brothers and sisters life is very simple. Very, very simple. Just get stand in front of the mirror and stand in front of the mirror and look at the mirror and say are you Allah or am I gonna

do the result? Am I the result?

Clear yourself? Has Allah subhanaw taala who are reserved for those who are deliberately nobody else?

I stay with it. So I'm not America. Maybe Lima fish survivor. Do you ever filled

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and that's it whatever you disclose or whatever you keep inside Allah will take account

forever we will remain where you are.

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will forgive awards and love it

Initially we weren't and he's capable of doing anything.

In I quote from his book he said the commentators of the Quran they said when the AI this AI was revealed, Abu Bakar see the names of local cities over and over was a top of the hammer now of the jungle and a group of the answer or the Alana macmaine. They all went to the solar cell. When they went there, what did they do? They fell down on their knees before Rasul Allah is Allah Allah Allah wa salam, they did not even stand they went down on their knees, they didn't make sense on their knees.

The knelt before Him and they said Ya Rasool allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam by Allah, no other ayat of the Quran is harder on us than this one.

Because one of us, we speak to ourselves, we have some thoughts, we have some desire and so on so forth,

with things that we don't like, we don't want to have that thought. But the thought comes, you don't want to have that desire, but the desire come that they said to get rid of that, we will be happy to give a mountain of God

but it is their desire.

Now, Allah subhanaw taala says that he will take us to task even for what we think and even for what we feel and we are told.

As soon as I was challenged, this is how it was revealed.

This is how it was David.

This is yours we love We are ruined. Because Allah has bound us we are bound by something we cannot bear.

So as a result of God and me,

His face became red with anger. He said are you going to be like the Bani Israel who said semana also, you know, we hear what we will not obey. He said called Saran Khanna or frog or a banana where you they can see. He said say Oh, Rob, we hear and we obey. Forgive us. And to you is our turn.

Think about this.

This this question of the sahaba. Does it appear to be reasonable or not reasonable? What do you think Allah is going to hold me responsible for my thought my What do you think?

So they came there with something they thought reasonable. If it wasn't reasonable, they wouldn't have come their

lawsuit has rejected the claim.

What was their response?

It is a no no, we are so that you know what you haven't understood what we're saying? I'm going to explain it differently. Maybe I didn't put it the right way. No.

He said called Samana Altana Ofra. carapa. Now illegal mercy what happened? They said somewhere out on over on a garage burner or illegal mercy merci.

Now,

what do you think happened?

Using the heavens open then something happened,

nothing happened.

Nothing happened.

You have to go away.

Say the agency does the analysis.

One year later. 12 months later,

Allah subhanaw taala sent the

ayat after that

how severe this test must have been.

And think about this. The concern of the Saba was not to say I want to indulge my desires. And now Allah subhanaw taala is, you know, spoiling my fun, no.

This me do not want to disobey Allah. We do not want to disobey Allah. But despite that, because I'm human, I will get some thought I will get some desire. And if Allah is going to punish me, then I'm in room.

Right? They're not saying they want to do that. They're saying even the thought.

And for 12 months, nothing but 12 months. We know the number today that when they were going through that, did they know it was going to be 12 months? Did they know that anything was going to change? No.

How many people how many of those have passed away in that 12 month period?

When we don't tell the stories you must think about all of this stuff. How severe was that test for people who are not the whole not just book upon for people who are last minute showed us as our examples the gold standard.

And then after 12 months,

Allah subhanaw taala revealed the the the reward of

obedience

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that when the person is obedient Allah Subhana

Allah subhanaw taala opens the doors of his most

and that's about it Taala abrogated earlier. Allah subhanaw taala confirmed the Eman and the position of the of the of his nabi alayhi salam and the Sahaba and Allah subhanaw taala taught them how to make dua, he taught them what dua to make. And he taught them how to make the, what is better than being taught how to make dua by the one to whom the DUA is being made, and the one who will accept this one. There's nothing better than that. This is the reward of obedience to Allah. I ask Allah subhanaw taala general rule to make us obedient to Him. Ask Allah to fill our lives with the grace and mercy and blessing of his obedience of being obedient to Him. Ask Allah subhanaw taala to

help you in ways that you cannot imagine. Ask Allah subhanaw taala to protect you from all the evil that you know and don't know, as the loss manager will take care of you from sources you cannot imagine, as Carlos Rangel to make all of us completely and totally obedient to Him in the way that pleases him to keep us in our state and to take us in St. Robert of Aquila has been our coffee Ramadasa Tina was often a Barbara Robin Hassan Susana Willem de fille and our hands

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