Jumuah 086 Tazkiyya Wal Tarbiyya Series Part1

salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah

wa Salatu. Salam, O Allah, Allah Mia, Laila Ali here was happy he was

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My dear brothers and sisters and elders.

inshallah, today we begin a series of matches on the topic of just get enough water bottle.

And like we did with the

other series

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that series of goodbyes is available now as a book and there is a downloadable DVD with all the audios for that football both of these are free and they are available on the website, and you are welcome to take it down from there and to use them inshallah. And inshallah, the same thing will happen at the end of this We ask Allah subhanaw taala to make this easy for us and make this a source of guidance for us, so that we may actually bring about some changes in our lives.

My brothers and sisters, Allah subhanaw taala sent us into this world for a purpose. And that purpose is to introduce him to his creatures

in order to teach us how to do that. He Jalla Jalla who sent his book and his lovely Muhammad Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the instructions and a demonstrator.

And that is why the first item of tarbiyah is to learn to connect with Allah subhana wa Jalla Allah. And that is why I say to you that tarbiyah begins with us, not with our children.

A lot of parents are very keen that the children must have tarbiyah.

But it has to begin with you cannot begin with the children.

If we don't know how to connect with Allah,

if we don't know how to take from the treasures of Allah,

how can we teach our children

we can only give what we have. And therefore it is essential for us to first acquire, so that we can give and that is why sadly, today we live in a state of fear and want and condemn the children also to such a life, all the while holding the keys of honor and peace and happiness in our hands. Now how intelligent is that?

Allah subhanho wa Taala said about this incircle alum Ron

How will he manage Shakeology? Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim la causa

Mina is bosavi.

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which means, Indeed, Allah subhanho wa Taala conferred a great favor Namah on the believers, when he sent among them a messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam from among themselves. reciting unto them his Ayat of the Quran, purifying them internally and externally, which is dustier and instructing them in the book of Allah which is dallin and Al hikmah, which is tarbiyah. Practicing or teaching them how to practice what they learn, and very before that, they were in manifest error, they were in fear. My dear brothers and sisters, Islam is the is not the name of an ideology or a philosophy. Islam is the name of practice, like exercise, or martial arts, it only benefits those

who practice it, not those who may well know a great deal about it, but who don't practice it.

You will know the entire history for example of Aikido, its principles and philosophy, and all about the various moves and so on. But if you don't practice Aikido, it cannot help you when you are in a fixed there is a very interesting story about the founder of Aikido

morihei ueshiba.

He was called by the Shogun and order to demonstrate his art with the katana which is the samurai sword

Maria Yoshida refused. And he said I cannot demonstrate, because if I demonstrate my opponent dies, and I cannot just kill somebody to show the arch. If there is a real fight, then you will see it.

I can't just demonstrate that because there is no way of demonstrating and

no results happening out of it.

To give you another example,

nobody goes to a cooking class to read recipes. They go to read the recipe and immediately to practice cooking it. Only the one who knows how to cook is called a chef.

Not the one who knows the entire recipe book by heart, but cannot cook to save his life.

Which his experience is different from Nutella which is really

only information which is practiced becomes knowledge. Knowledge that is digested becomes wisdom. never confuse information with knowledge, or knowledge with wisdom. They as distinct and different as the recipe and the food. It is practice which makes the recipe edible. Otherwise, it's only paper.

So all practices are effective only when they are practiced. And that's why Allah subhanho wa Taala centers messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam with instructions about how to teach his companions. Remember my brothers sisters, that it is so much which made the Sahaba not reading or degrees from a university.

I want to begin with this statement in this series of lectures on thermea toska. Because this is perhaps the biggest fallacy that most Muslims live under. That Islam means to know about the deen but to practice it selectively. Remember that selective obedience is disobedience. Make no mistake, Islam demands complete obedience, not obeying what we choose, and disobeying the rest. Today people acquire information they attend courses and lectures, they buy books and DVDs, but seldom do they ask themselves now that I learned so much, how much am I practicing? Just to make my point, which Muslim does not know the importance of crucial in Salah. But what is the state of our Salah?

Which Muslim does not know the importance of understanding the Quran?

But how much of the Quran do we actually understand?

Which Muslim does not know the importance of eating halal, but how many of us make a serious attempt to eat and have an urn halal.

And as I've said before, selective obedience is disobedience. It is useless in this world, and harmful in the next. And that is why there's no such thing as a non practicing Muslim. Just as there is no such thing as a non practicing Yogi. The only non practicing Yogi is the best.

Muslim is the one who practices Islam, not the one who knows about Islam.

Not the one who knows about Islam, but doesn't practice in my brother's sister, remember a day will come when we will be asked, What did you do? Not? How much did you know?

Let me give you another example.

How do you enter Islam by believing in your heart that there is nobody worthy of worship except Allah subhanho wa Taala and that Muhammad Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he's his last and final messenger maybe.

And then by saying this allowed,

and third, by living by this creed.

So a person accepts Islam.

And then comes the time to pray. But the one who accepted Islam does not pray. So what is he doing? Though he accepted Islam by His Word. He denied it by his action.

He entered it by his speech and he left it by his action.

And that is the reason why Rasul Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said

in the famous hubbies Allahu la Vina verbena home a Salah woman araga for Coca Cola, Coca Cola, Li salat wa salam, he said, and all the Sahaba were united in their opinion in the matter, that the one who leaves the salon deliberately without any sharee excuse has left Islam.

So let us begin by making mahabhava and taking our own his app

how much and how well, we practice Islam for one day, my brothers and sisters, without a doubt, we will be called to account for this. So let us ask ourselves the questions before we are asked the questions by the questioner. Let us prepare by correcting ourselves so that we incur Allah subhanho wa Taala mercy and forgiveness instead of his anger and rots, ask Allah for his mercy

for myself and for you.

While on this subject, I want to remind myself when you that children, listen with their eyes, not with the ears, they don't care what you say, until they see what you do.

They do what they see us doing, not what we tell them to do. So let us remember this and do the right things.

I began with the IRS because Allah subhanaw taala mentioned the coming of his levy Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and called it his blessing and his dharma. So let us take the first part

of the four parts of his blessing

that he mentioned which is the first part is to read and listen to the Quran.

My brothers and sisters in Islam, the Quran is a living document. It is the actual speech of Allah subhanho wa Taala it is not a created thing. It was not written by Muhammad Rasul Allah is Allah Allah wa salam or by anybody else. The author of the Quran is the Creator of the heavens and earth himself.

The Quran speaks to those who will listen,

the Quran asks and demands their response.

The Quran promises great rewards, and warns about great punishment, so that we may actively seek that reward and protect ourselves from the punishment.

The Quran introduces Allah subhanho wa Taala and mentions his majesty and glory so that we may revel in the fact that we worship only the one where the worship

that we worship the only one who is worthy of worship.

so that we may seek His pleasure.

And we will look forward to our meeting with him.

And that is why the death of a Muslim is the happiest moment of his life.

Because on that day, he goes to meet the one

who he yearned to meet all his life.

As I said, my brothers and sisters,

the root cause,

for our situation in life,

the root cause for the fact that we

are living in a state of

fear,

fear fearing everything that exists, instead of fearing the only one who is worthy that he should be feared.

The reason for that is because our hearts have become heart.

Our hearts have become heart.

Our hearts do not respond to the color of Allah. They do not respond to the signs of Allah subhanaw taala His glory and majesty around us.

Allah subhana wa tada mentioned the effect

of understanding his column.

And he gave us a beautiful example

where he said

that if this column

were to be sent down on to a mountain,

and if this mountain we're to understand this color, there is a meaning of saying sent down onto a mount.

Elizabeth said that it is Colombo to be sent down onto a mountain. That mountain would disintegrate.

It would break up Minka Shatila

because of the Associate of Allah subhanaw taala.

And Allah subhanaw taala said we give these examples so that people

can try to understand

and then Allah subhana wa introduced himself in his glory, glorious and majestic words.

The eye at which all of us have heard so many times.

The key thing is not that we hear these

and over again.

But to reflect and introspect and say what happens to my heart, when I hear this I have a lot of anodyne.

Because if nothing happens to my heart, then my brothers and sisters, that is the sign of a very serious cardiac illness, which is called called the hardness of the heart.

The serious illness is so serious, that every other cardiac illness ends in this life,

or ends by the end of this life. But this cardiac illness, of hardness of the heart, continues with us in the cover,

and is a cause of neverending grief. We ask Allah subhanaw taala to save us from this.

So Allah subhanaw taala mentioned the effect and said, no one's Allah.

So that we may reflect, so that we will make

and then introduce himself.

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Allah subhanaw taala introduced himself by his glorious qualities, and by his glorious attributes, by

each one of them requires us to reflect on it

to reflect on its meaning. And even more importantly, to reflect on what does it do to me inside?

My brothers and sisters,

I wonder how many of you can answer this question if I just asked you right now, if I gave you a piece of paper and said write down what is in your heart just now? What are you feeling right now? I don't know how many of us have no clue.

You have no clue? If I asked you, do you have a headache? You can tell me yes or no. But if I ask you what is in your heart? You have no clue.

And I bet most of you did not even think of thinking of that question. Before I asked this question to Yes or no?

Did you even think I should think what is in my heart I should reflect what is in my heart did not even read that question even cross your mind.

And believe me, I'm not giving you this is the nature of this life.

This life has been created for us to forget.

And that's the reason why there is a reward for not forgetting.

The reward is always for doing for swimming against the current, the reward is for always doing what is not natural.

To do what is not natural is called being civilized.

To go against your nature, when that nature is of a negative kind is what is called civilized is what is called good manners. It is what is called a clock. We follow our nature of fitrah in the good things, but there is also shall in the fitrah There is also parts of the fitrah which are part of our nature shower, for example. lust is part of our nature.

But to follow it

is a source of grief in this world and the next

to guard against it. He's a source of benefit in this world and the next

and that's the reason I'm asking this question and saying what is in your heart? Ask yourself this question. And since inshallah we will be doing this as a series of lectures. Let me give you this as homework. Those of you who are interested do this. When you go home today, sit down with a sheet of paper and write down what is in my heart.

And that table is only for yourself. It's only between you and Allah

You can write the truth in it. You don't have to hide it, nobody's going to see it, I will not ask to see it.

Right, whatever is in your heart, the good and the bad.

And if you are blank, and you say, I don't know what's in my heart, leave the paper blank, but put the heading what is in my heart, and the paper is blank, and then stand in the night in the head, and ask Allah subhanaw taala to open those doors of the heart, which we have sealed for ourselves.

This rough lot of this dunya

as I told you, has been designed to seal the doors that lead to hire, to seal the doors that lead to the mercy of Allah.

That is what this is all about, get you completely and totally engrossed and bribes.

So that you react to this thing, which is happening, as if it is real,

as if it is real, because the one who created it told us it is not real.

The best example of this is if you are sitting in a movie theater, watching a movie,

actual experiments have been conducted, where people have been wired up

to measure the heart rate, to measure electrical activity in the brain

to measure their blood pressure,

and then actual hard data, measurable heart data to show

that your heart rate goes up and down depending on what's happening on the screen. That your blood pressure goes up and down depending on what's happening the screen

that you feel emotions, depending on what is happening on the screen, even though cognitively You know perfectly well. That whatever is happening on the screen is a lie.

You do not think

it is drama is not happening. The person who is dying hasn't died, the person who is crying hasn't cried, the person who got married, didn't get married, the person who got divorced, didn't get divorced, the person who had an accident didn't have an accident, the person who flew the plane didn't fly the plane, every single thing you are seeing there is something which is not happening. You know this and I know this cognitively in our brain. Yet the heart, the mind the same brain, which knows in its intellect, that this is false.

In its center for emotion, it behaves as if it is true.

Now, that is the reality of the make believe world that we create.

Where for two hours or three hours or whatever the duration of the movie, it disconnects us from this life. When you are in that movie, and you are watching that movie, I can guarantee you no matter how devoted a son or daughter you are to your parents, you are not thinking of your parents. I can, I can guarantee you that no matter how much you love your children. During the duration of that movie, when you are watching that film and grossed in it. You are not thinking of your children.

I can guarantee you that whatever business you are doing, it's not your balance sheet that is going through your mind. It is the script and the acting of that movie.

Imagine that that movie can disconnect you from this real life.

Even though it's for a short duration. What do you think is the power of this life?

this motto,

this imaginary life that we live in? What is the power of this life in which we are immersed? 24 seven? What is the power of this life to disconnect us from the actual reality? Which is Allah subhanho wa Taala which is the meeting with our

imagine? The reason I'm saying is because unless we understand the nature of the challenge, unless we understand the magnitude of the difficulty that we have to face, we cannot fight that battle.

It is essential for us to understand the challenge it is essential for us to understand the magnitude of that difficulty. If we are serious about creating a

an antidote, creating a way of meeting that difficult

otherwise we will be condemned to live engrossed in this life with Allah subhanho wa Taala called Alma de oro in Nevada.

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my brothers sisters, I want to end with some of the Quran which Allah subhana wa Taala mentioned at the end of it. Allah subhanho wa Taala asked a question,

desire to refer to a scene

that we will see on the Day of Judgment. Allah subhanaw taala describe the scene in such beautiful detail.

The act of Serato headed

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mentioned which means, on the day you will see the believing men and believing women, we ask Allah Subhana Allah to include us among them. You will see them their light, they will emanate light, their light running forward before them and by their right hands.

Masako long, glad tidings for you this day. Jonathan Tajiri mean that our Gardens under which rivers flow Jana to dwell there in forever. Truly, this is great success. On the day when the hypocrites men and women will say to the believers, wait for us. Let us get something from your life. It will be said to them, go back to the rear and then look for the light. A wall will be put up between them with a gate there in inside it will be mercy and outside it will be

hypocrites we'll call the believers. Worry not video. The videos will reply Yes. But you lead yourselves into temptations. You look forward for our destruction. you doubted in faith and you were deceived.

by false desires, till the command of Allah subhanaw taala came to pass, and the chief deceiver shaitan deceived you in respect of Allah.

So this day no ransom shall be taken from you hypocrites, nor from those who disbelieved in Islam, your abode is the fire ma kumana

That is the proper place for you. And worst indeed, is that destination We ask Allah subhanaw taala to protect us from the fire.

And then my brother and sister the last ayah

Allah subhanaw taala is asking a question.

Hello Mia and in in levena Amano.

Allah says as not the time come for the hearts of those who believe to be affected by the reminder of Allah subhanaw taala the Quran and that which has been revealed of the troops, lest they become like those who received the Scripture and the term was prolonged for them so that their hearts were hardened. And many of them were faster when they were various. My brothers and sisters.

So has the time come for us to respond

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