Living Islam – Session 8

alameen wa salatu salam ala mousseline, Mohammed

why we are looking at it and why we call it

leaving Islam is because Islam is the name of our practice.

Islam is not merely the name of a theology. Islam is not the name of a philosophy. Islam is not the name of a theory. Islam is the name of a practice. Like Judo is the name of a practice. karate is the name of a practice.

Taekwondo is the name of a practice. If I read 20 books on Judo, and I memorize all the 20 books, and then I am in a street fight, that knowledge of judo will not save.

Even though I am the half is of the Kitab of judo, not I can learn all about the history of judo. Where did you start from who started it? What happened? What didn't happen? It will not save me. What will save me in the street fight is if I know how to practice judo.

And for that one, what do I need to do? I need to go into a dojo and I need to learn how to fall 10,000 times. That's where it starts. They teach you first how to form.

And that's exactly the system and the issue with Islam, which is that if I want Islam to benefit me, I have to go in the dojo which is called the budget and I have to for 10,010, which is called to you.

Unless I practice Islam, Islam does not benefit me. I will know about Islam, there's no doubt about this. And in this country, we have so many scholars in the American universities, many of them heading departments of Islamic Studies. And they are not they're not Muslim, the Christian they are Jewish, the atheist, they all kind of see but they are scholars of Islam. They are fluent in Arabic, they will quote Hadith.

In Arabic, they will quote for Al and they will translate but they are not Muslim. They don't pray. They don't believe in Allah subhanaw taala Islam for them is a

field of study they are studying Islam. Many of them write some good stuff as well. books which are beneficial, but when they stand before Allah subhanaw taala what will be their state laws best bet as far as we're concerned, and also, it will not be law.

It will not be accepted from anyone who comes to Allah subhanho wa Taala

with a deed other than Islam.

When you have the VEDA Islamic dnn for

it will not be accepted.

So that is why we talk about leaving Islam. And as I have said many times before, if you look at the Sierra Club, look at his biography, look at his life

and the lives of the people around him. And if you ask this question, what is it that made these people so influential

that these people were at the bottom of the pitch in the Macan period, they had no influence. They had no money, they had no strength. Nobody cared about them. People were torturing them, people were killing them. But then if you look at the Medina period, the same period, the total period of 20, something years,

these people became the rulers of the hijackers. And then later on in the philosopher Russia, they went all the way up to Egypt, Iraq, and Iran and so on. And so how did this happen?

What was the magic? The magic is called Islam.

They lived Islam, they practiced Islam.

That's it. There's no secret formula. So it's an open secret. They lived as Muslims.

Somebody has an idea says America is it become like us,

become like us, be like us.

That is why we need to learn to practice Islam in our lives.

to whatever we learn, whether it is one single thing for example, we know the value of Salah in the masjid.

Knowing the value of the Salah in the masjid is not important whether if we know that then are we praying

Alhamdulillah so many of you are here, even though it is winter, even though the snow is on the road. But May Allah bless you may I'll accept your Salah May Allah give you the reward the natural Salam said which is 27 times the reward of praying at home and then May Allah subhanaw taala increase it for you in keeping with his majesty and grace because you took the trouble to leave your arms and to come to the masjid to praise Allah.

This is the meaning of practicing Islam. So you are not simply sitting with this knowledge. If somebody asks you, if I pray at all, how much reward do I get? If I pray in the masjid? How much do what do I get the right answer? But where are you praying in the home? No, you are hamdulillah practicing what you know.

That's it.

If we do that with everything else in Islam, whatever. Now the beauty of Islam is Islam covers all aspects of life. Islam is not simply a bunch of practices relating to worship.

Islam covers worship, obviously. But Islam also covers your domestic life. Islam covers your relationship with your spouse's Islam covers your businesses and business practices. If you are the head of a state, Islam teaches you how to run the state.

Whichever situation you might be, Islam teaches us how to behave in that situation in a way which is beautiful, which is graceful, which will buy us friends and influence in the world and which will get us Jannah inshallah.

That is the reason why it is important for us to learn is very important. Now,

there is a confusion that seems to happen in the minds of a lot of people where they confuse information and knowledge.

I want you to think about this information and knowledge. So I read a book and I say, Well, I have knowledge

I take the Quran I read the Quran, I read the translation of the Quran if I don't understand Arabic, then I read the translation, whichever language and I say I have read the Quran, I have knowledge.

I submit to you that what you have is information.

What is the difference? What is the difference between information and knowledge? Now in order Luisa mamilla, maluma and L. Two different things.

Information is information, you know about something?

Knowledge is to know that thing at an experiential level.

So how does knowledge come? knowledge comes by practicing the information

I know about something, for example, I know that I must work out 45 minutes a day if I want to be healthy information.

But when will I get the benefit of that? When I hit the gym?

Simply knowing that I should work out you can Tanja Hello Nadal I have the information.

But if I say no, I have knowledge, you don't have knowledge, you do not have a you have information. Now when you go and work out 45 minutes, your body will feel it your blood circulation will feel it your digestion will feel it and so on. And then you have knowledge about the meaning of 45 minutes are working on

you another example.

Say you're going for a walk on this on this road.

There are big villas, you know along the road, big villas, and they have gates.

And every gate or every Villa has a sign which says beware of dog.

Right?

So what does it mean? It means that there is a dangerous dog inside you should be careful. Don't enter the villa because we were a dog.

So from a when you say I have read it and you say is I read English I know English I understand English beware of dog, what does it mean? It means this

do you have knowledge? Or do you have intuition? What do you say

about this beware of dog What do you have information on knowledge? information right. Now I'll tell you why it is not knowledge. So, now you have beware of dog you have this. Now, you ask other people before I gave this study, they will they may have they said I have knowledge but the user information will give you the right right answer.

Now as you come along you come before this villa which are the big gate and the gate as the sizing beware of God. And as you come in front of the gate, you find the gate is not closed, the gate is half open.

And as you come before that open section of the gate, you find that there is a huge Rottweiler sitting there. And as soon as the Rottweiler sees you, he gets up in tasm because he is respecting you. So he stands up and then he comes towards you because he wants to shake your hand and may busaba and you know greet you because you are a great chef. And he is his Rottweiler. This dog knows the value of knowledge. So he says, You know, I let me go and internalize this knowledge right?

So now tell me when you are seeing this dog coming towards us massive cloud that looks like a bear is coming straight at you

the knowledge that there is the information that there is a dangerous dog in this house did anything change in that?

What changed?

You understood what is your connection with that information? That is the meaning of knowledge.

Intuition you already had it the dog is not the dog is still a dog is not a bear. You didn't see no Sunday the Tiger Tiger. So beware of dog I knew there is a dangerous dog in this house. That piece of information didn't change is the same thing.

But suddenly you realize why is this dog important for me? Because this dog is going to send me to Geneva Shahid Sharma

Hey.

So, what do you do is

Allah, Allah Muhammad Rasul Allah.

So what has happened? Now, you understood your connection with that piece of information number one, and what is the sign of that understanding of the connection, you start taking action, you turn around and run like hell, you start screaming, you pull out your gun, you start resenting the karma, you are preparing for whatever is going to happen. There is action, right? It's not a simple Yeah, there is a dog No, no, no easier resides here, it's coming at me, it will kill me. So, I mean, I need to do something about I need to take care of myself, I need to protect myself or I need to provide right whichever it is.

So please understand this information converting to knowledge means you understand your connection with that. And you prepare, there is some action involved with that.

Now, I remind myself venue, Allah subhanaw taala told us to prepare for the meeting with him gelatin,

he told us to prepare for the Day of Judgment,

whether Jaya Angelou, LA, Luna Serato, when I stopped doing

LS monitors, then when the time comes,

it will not be delayed, and it will not be brought forward even by a second.

Now, is this with me?

And you can ask yourself the same question. Is it information? Or is it knowledge?

Because if it is information, it's information.

If it is knowledge,

then there has to be a sign of that knowledge in our lives, which is action. So if you look at me, and if you ask me this question for you, is it information or knowledge, then I will tell you look at my life and see, do you see any sign that I am preparing for this day, if you see the sign that I'm preparing for this day, then inshallah This is knowledge? Otherwise, this is a piece of that information, doesn't help you.

The whole meaning of leaving Islam is to convert this information to knowledge.

And the sign of that I'm giving you a sign, not to monitor others, but for ourselves. If I want to monitor myself, What must I do? look for signs of action. I mean, in my own life, if I find that action and rely

on that, if I don't find those signs, then I must look at my life and say what changes do I need to make?

How must I change my life in order to become

to benefit from this information and convert this into knowledge? Right? older sisters?

Allah subhanho wa Taala della della who mentioned in this

head is in the Buhari and the rated

rasulillah salam said, Allah subhanho wa Taala said, and this is how

Allah subhanaw taala said, I will declare war against him, who shows hostility to someone who is dear to me to a pious worshipper of Allah.

Right.

And then Allah said, and the most beloved things, with which my slave comes nearer to me comes close to me, is what I have made fun of on him.

So first part of that is

realizing I will declare war, meaning I

protect, I accept the law. I love somebody who is a pious worshiper. The word used in the Hudson Valley.

usual translation people make of Wally his friend, but please understand with Allah Subhana Allah there is no friendship as we have friendship, because friendship is a sign of equality there is nobody equal to Allah.

So, as far as the wilayat of Allah subhanaw taala is concerned, it refers to

obey, obeying Allah subhanaw taala and being a pious person. So, here Allah subhanaw taala is saying, I will declare war against the one who is the enemy of and who shows hostility to somebody who is a pious person who is a valley of Allah. Now, again, as I said, when we say value of Allah, we are not talking about, it is not our right to name somebody and say so, and so is the value of Allah many times we make this mistake, right? We named people individuals. Now, this does not mean they are not good people hamdulillah they are good people, we can say, Well, you know, 100 as far as I know, he's a very pious person and so on. But to specifically name somebody and say so and so is a

valley of Allah. This is not permissible in our religion because we don't know this. Only Allah subhanaw taala knows the reason I'm saying as an aside from this is because there is also correct some of our actions and beliefs. Let me give you an example from the Syrah

in the time of in Medina, one of the one of the Mahajan Sahaba he died and he was staying in the house of his Ansari brother.

Now he was a very, very wonderful man beautiful man and the Ansari brother, his wife, his family, they all loved him very much and he died so they were all very upset when they're the wife of the anxiety brother she said yada yada surely this man his

agenda is from the

alphabetic mind

how do you know that he is from the people of them. Now he does not say that therefore he's gonna know that i'm saying is making a definitive statement. So and so is from genda so and so we'll go to Jana so and so is a valley of Allah, so and so is not available and this is not, this is to speak without knowledge. This is not a this is not something that we are permitted. What you can say is, I hope Allah will give this person gender as far as I know, he was a good person, I wish Allah will give him gender.

This is what this is definitely possible and we should do this make dua for our brothers and sisters, but to say he is or she is, this is not permissible. Similarly, as far as wilayat is concerned, no more. So Can somebody say musala salam was a W of Allah. Can you say this differently? Yes, because Allah said it.

Can I say that Mohamed Salah Salaam is the is the Messenger of Allah of course that is our man. Can I say no ra Salam is Allah is Allah. Allah is Allah Allah, Allah, Allah. Allah. Allah, usually Salam Can I say these people specifically near us what is enemy of Allah?

Because Allah told us this. I am not making it up. I'm not saying you know what, he's a good man. I'm sure he is no I this is what Allah has told us. So what Allah has told us we can see.

But what Allah has not told us, Allah did not tell us the names of his earlier. On the other hand, see the Wrath of Allah Allah. Allah, Allah Allah Allah.

Allah.

Allah Dena Amanullah Khan with Oh, Allah residually and very early

the earlier of Allah, the buyer slaves of Allah Subhana Allah, there is no health and there is no Fazal the whole finale when

there is no confidence about the future, it's fear. And Hassan is about the past sadness. So Allah say on the earlier of Allah, there is no sadness and there's no fear because Allah has forgiven them. So therefore there is no sadness and Allah is Forgiving, forgiving them so there's no fear. So Allah Allah, Allah.

So Allah Allah insha, Allah Allah, Allah, Allah, then Allah subhanaw taala mentioned who are the only Allah Allah mentioned who are the only Allah Allah Dino Amano?

Anyone who has these are the people who have Ebola and they have

so to this extent, we can say inshallah, that any Muslim

man or woman who has emerged and who has stopped what is from the earlier we ask Allah subhanaw taala to include all of us among the Alia have.

But in this we live also there are there are that so in that to say so and so is a higher one

And closer to Allah and so on. So this is not something that we can say because we don't know.

That is very important to understand. So the first thing here Allah say that Allah will declare war against

somebody who tries to have his Willy and then Allah subhanaw taala is telling us how do you become a valley of Allah?

Allah.

So Allah Allah says, the most beloved thing to Allah Subhana Allah is that his slave must do what Allah has made for.

Among the thing which I lost grant and I made fun is Allah insha Allah it means Allah by Gemma inshallah.

So therefore hamdulillah you praise Allah Felicia by Java, this is the most beloved thing a lot of anatella we asked a lot for the benefit of this. Now he's the one of the Chava Allah gives him the reward of worshipping for half the night. And then the one who prays Serato further by Gemma,

give him the word for worshiping the rest of the night. So if you praise

otherwise, Java in general you get a reward for the whole night of worship. That is how beautiful it is. And then all the other five

to the most important part is of course, to theory which is not to make sure of any kind. And then we have Salah, we have Zakat, we have hij we have fasting in Ramadan. So all of these the fara is of Islam what is for following halal and haram is for staying out of interest transaction is for all the foreigners, Allah.

Allah says my slave comes closer to me in what I have made obligatory on him, and then allows rather than resist, and my slave comes and keeps coming closer to me by performing our field by doing over and above what I have prescribed, so under the name of Asia by Java, inshallah, you will press out further also by Java, but in between the two Salawat you wake up a little bit before as an advisor and you pray to

this novel and this takes you closer to

Allah subhanaw taala and joined upon us to give Zakat Alhamdulillah he gives a car but in addition to in addition to the car, we also help people throughout the year, different kinds of charity, our umbrella is Allah.

Allah Mandela enjoined upon us the fasting of Ramadan, Alhamdulillah, we fast nada, but in addition to Rama, into the AGI in Mahara in Mondays and Thursdays, and so on and so forth, we fast voluntarily, we come closer to

all of these voluntary actions are available. And this slave continues to come closer to me until I love him.

Sister dies, I always remind myself I

just sit and think,

do this as an exercise, shut off your phone, sit down and think. What does it feel if Allah loves me? What does that mean to me?

What is the value of that?

You know, here in the head? conceptually, we all understand this. If I tell you though, is it important for love to love you? Of course, if Allah loves you, is it a good thing? Yeah, it's a good, what does it actually mean?

Allah loving you is information, converted knowledge. If Allah loves me, what does it mean? How will it change me? What will happen to me?

What is a sign that Allah loves me?

In my heart, what will be the sign if I know that Allah

so Allah says when he does this, then I love him. So that I become his sense of hearing with which he hears and his sense of sight with which he sees and I become his hand with which he grips and his leg with which he walks. And if he asked me, I will give him

and if he asked my protection, I will protect him.

And I do not hesitate to do anything, as I hesitate to take the soul of this believer because he does not like to die and I hate to disappoint.

And this is a perfect as I think about this, how beautiful this is and what it means. Allah subhanaw taala loves you. And because Allah loves you, Allah says I become the site with which he sees. What about the site with which is the site

the power which is given by the last panel

It means that for one thing, Allah will show you the reality of things. You will not be deceived by anybody unless they give you that.

One other thing it means that Allah will protect you from seeing anything which is wrong.

Alone protect him when he was a small boy

teenager he used to graze sheep,

with his belongings with ants and so on. So he, somebody has also used to graze with him

in in Makkah, on the weekends, you know, they used to have these parties, like you have here rave parties, right, Saturday Night Fever, so they had these parties so many times that you know, I let me go see what this whole thing is about. So one day he says to his friend, you stay here I'll just would see what his party

he said I went and on the way I felt tired so I just sat down for a little while. I said, Okay, I get up and go and he said, I fell asleep. I woke up next morning, the party everything switched. So I came back

next time we tried again, safety hopper deep on the way before he could reach the place. He got tired he sat down he fell asleep and then he woke up the next morning see what's happening here. Here is Allah subhanaw taala protecting you from something which is wrong. So Allah does not even let him do that thing.

I like I

can forgive anything, LSAT for anything. So one is that you do something wrong you make is the foreign power which we should make and I mean, forgive us.

But if Allah loves you, Allah will not even let you do that.

Forgiveness is one thing, but Allah will not even allow you to do that.

If Allah is your hearing, what does that mean? It means that nobody can deceive you will be true the reality of what has happened nobody can fool you.

And Allah will allow you to listen to enjoy only things which he loves and likes. For example, a lot of youth today the issue of music you know we like to listen to music we like rap we like you know jazz or whatever it is right?

And then he will Islam says no, can't do that which is tough. I listen to this all my life and now you say I should not be busy.

But how about a wellness monitor? converts that love for tune

into love to listening, love to listen to the thilawa entrepreneur.

Getting measurement, but with every half not every word, every letter.

Marriage giving you how many Hassan Hassan

said Allah subhanaw taala gives 10 has an ad

for every letter of the Quran.

And then he said clarified further. He said I do not say that Alif Lam Meem is one letter. He said Elif is one letter. Lamb is one letter beam is one that so when you read or listen to me, how many Hassan did you get? 30

What is the value of one Hassan?

It is the difference between Jana and Jana on the day of the 101 single lesson is the difference between Jana and Jana, and simply by listening to and reading caulifla me

all of us got 30 Hashana right now.

You weren't 30 before that before I was I said this two times what 60 then

well,

then I'll just write that as is I become the hand by which he grips. What does it mean? It means that inshallah your actions are protected by Allah. Allah will never allow you to do anything wrong. Allah will not allow you to be oppressive, Allah will always put you in a place where you can help people. Allah will make you stand firm against injustice.

Allah says I become the leg by which he walks, see the edges of this.

What does it mean? It means that Allah Subhana Allah will not allow you to go to any place which is wrong,

completely protected. And then

Allah subhanaw taala says when that slave of mine asks, I will give

is not my promise. I'm not smarter than saying

what is the value of that?

What is the value of knowing that if I raise my hands and ask my rock will give before my hands come down?

This is what

Hover over like

this is what the Sahaba were like.

This is what they did.

The chef mentioned that in the last remark the story, they knew the

the Battle of cardassia

in Iraq

this hour, under the command of San Diego Casa de la,

the heart of

the oncology center.

They came to the

river Tigris,

Judah was Tigris and Euphrates.

So they came to the river.

And at that time, Iraq was under the

Persian Empire.

Part of it Persian Empire parts of it also the Roman Empire. This was a battle against the with the, against the Persians.

So, huge River.

So, the Persian is all just a portion, General desert, remove all the boats.

All the boats on this river, take them to the other side.

So, no boats, they can cross the river, it's a big river.

So, we are safe.

Now, they come here

sabbiadoro Delano announces. And he says, Is there anyone who has committed any major sin?

telling a lie is a major sin. Leaving a Salah deliberately is emergency.

Medicine doesn't mean murder and Zilla only

bringing alcohol is a major sin. So suddenly, he announced that he said Is there anybody who has committed any major sin? If so, make no mistake.

If you have done make it a point.

Then he said Let us pray two rakaat of Neville and ask for the help of Allah subhanho wa Taala they did that and he said mount up and right.

We're

right

on the water.

And the narrator of this thing he says that the water never came above the hoof of the horse. Just though he said the water never came above the hoof of the hearts The river is 20 feet deep. 40 feet deep. God knows how much deep

the horses ran on the water. The Iranians the portions they saw that they said these are just not even being run from here. We can't fight these people. He said how can how can somebody right on on top of the water he says run? There was no battle there there are no way.

This is the value of being

when you make the law.

Now you might say well, you know what about the specific gravity of water? What about the surface tension of water? How can it support the weight of arts? The one who makes the rules of physics can change the rules of physics. Simple as that.

This is one of the kurama of Satya Nadella.

What am I when he used to tell his story is really in a beautiful way. He used to say and we are not comparing between the Dalai Lama. But he used to say when Moses people crushed the water.

They walked on the land. They did not walk on the water. And Musa alayhis salam was with them.

He said when the lumati is on

when they cross the water,

Mama Sara Sara was brought with them

and they walked on their horses walked underwater, not on the ground.

So, the lesson for us to think about is what is the value of being a homebody.

And final point of that is Allah subhanaw taala says, and if he seeks my protection I will protect.

Today we are talking about difficulties and dangers this country or that country or that country and May Allah protect all the Muslims everywhere. Allah protect all those who are being oppressed by Allah subhanaw taala destroy all oppressors whenever and wherever they might be.

We are doing all of this we are making so many months so bad and so many strategies and how would we deal with this and how will we deal with that and so on and so on. The question I ask is how

Many of us are saying, what do we need to do to correct our own lives so that we get ourselves to a point where all we need to do is say, yeah, Allah protect me and Allah will protect

us. What is the best strategy? The best strategy is to get protection from Allah will only Allah can protect la la, la la la la la la, there is no one who can give any benefit or any harm.

Should we should we do this or not? If we make all these strategies, and I'm not against South Africa, we must make strategies political strategy should be what economic strategies are no problem, do all that. But how about a strategy to be to get into the list of the earlier of Allah

and all it takes is, is tougher and tougher.

You don't have to do that 400 400 is the right

leg is Dima Yella, this is what I have been doing wrong. Yella from this moment onwards I will not be doing it. Please forgive me.

This is the worst return towards the last part is to seek forgiveness. So I seek forgiveness and I turned towards you.

That's it.

We do these two things. Allah Subhana Allah will forgive us. And Allah subhanaw taala said, After that it has been a light Allah then we try our best to do the two and four to ensure we do the five and we try to do whatever additional thing that we can do.

See the beauty Allah Allah simply said, By now are filled they will come close, Allah did not save enough will means 200 Raka of Salah every night, Allah did not say enough it means that so

whatever you can do,

maybe it is wall doesn't matter. Maybe you want to do Raka no problem but pray that will try to pray it will try to pray it with that and get as close to the center as possible no problem handled.

We do this inshallah. Then we asked Allah subhanho wa Taala all of you among these Odia ask Allah Subhana Allah to give you what He has promised, which is to accept your whatever you ask, and to protect you whenever you seek His protection and shall

be pleased with you and never to be displeased, asked to accept you're coming here

to fill your arch with his nor and to fill your life with his Baraka ask Allah subhanaw taala to bring your lives on to the sooner

ask Allah subhanaw taala to protect you from all the evil that exists that you know about and you do not know about, ask Allah subhanaw taala geladeira to be to help you from sources that you cannot imagine. ask Allah to give you a risk from sources that you cannot imagine. ask Allah to give you a risk without your effort to give you a risk without getting you tired to give you a raise to give you a response with honor and with dignity and ask Allah Subhana Allah to enable you to spend that in his path. And to give you an agenda as a result of that was a military veteran. He was abused by bureaucracy.