Same God

My brothers and sisters,

some friend of mine sent me

this

little,

you know,

poem

which,

says that today is 17th Ramadan,

1400th anniversary

of the year

of the Battle of Badr.

If you are a moment

if you are a moment, do

not fear

the,

strength and the numbers

of the enemy,

the the one who helped

the people of Badr,

that God, that that Allah is still there.

So I remind myself and you

that

this poem,

the first misra, the first line

is a condition.

It is something which is describing a condition.

The rest of the poem is based on

that condition and that condition is if you

are a moment

moment

If you are not a woman,

then the rest of it will not apply.

Today, this is our problem.

Our problem is

Allah is the same.

What has changed is we have changed.

We no longer have the connection

that the Badriyin,

the people of Badriyan had with Allah

So if we want

what happened in the case of bother to

happen for us,

we have to have the state of iman

and yakin,

the state of obedience, the state

of of, service, the state of

subservience,

the state of submission

to Allah

which the people of other had.

But that is the key thing.

Right? If we don't have that condition, if

you don't have that

situation of the people of other, then it

would be very

foolish and very,

unrealistic to expect,

that what happened for them will happen for

us.

What happened for them was for a reason.

If we have that reason,

then we can legitimately

and confidently expect

the same help to come to our aid.

But when that reason is not there,

then expecting the aid to come, expecting the

help to come

itself is unreasonable.

We are, like today,

a house

which is all wired up with all the

technology in the world,

and there's a transformer

next door to the house,

but there's no connection between the transformer and

the house.

So this house will remain in darkness

even though that transformer is generating electricity, which

is powering of the old city. But this

house will remain in darkness because the house

is not connected to the transformer.

That's our situation.

We have Allah There's no doubt about this.

There is the same Allah of Badr is

Allah of

today. Because there is only 1 Allah, and

he is.

Allah is forever.

What has changed is our connection.

Now, this is both good news and bad

news. The bad news, of course, is that

as long as we continue to remain in

our state of

disobedience

to

Allah

then we cannot expect the hell of Allah

to come. But the good news is that

if we change our ways, then the help

of Allah will come, Inshallah.

So today, when we look at difficulties and

say,

So the thing to understand is that

today, we want to remind ourselves and say

that, oh, you see, when I'm in difficulties,

I should not worry because the Allah who

helped the people of Badr, he's still the

same god. He's still the same Allah.

The answer is yes. He's still the same

Allah. But he's still the same Allah when

we were when we are disobeying him. He's

still the same Allah when we earn haram

and eat haram.

He's still the same Allah when we refuse

to pray. He's still the same Allah when

we are oppressing somebody and taking away their

taking away their,

rights

violating their rights. Right? The same Allah.

So how come we pay no heed, no

attention

to that Allah

when we are doing all these things? Right?

We follow the shaitan. We follow anafs.

And then when we get into trouble, we

say, oh, you Allah, you Allah, help me.

How will Allah

help us?

And this is like the famous hadith where

this man came and he was praying and

he raised his hands to them and then

he said, you Allah, you Allah, you Allah.

And Rasool

said,

his clothing is haram. His food is haram.

His earning is haram.

How can he call on Allah and expect

to be heard?

Right?

So I remind myself to you

The purpose of Ramadan

is to remind us about this, is to

remind us that we have a Lord, that

we have Allah,

and that Allah

prescribed this way of life for us for

our benefit

because he is.

He is completely and totally free

from any need.

So when he prescribed a way of life

for us, we live that

with

great joy

because we know that the one who prescribed

it for us

knows what is better for us than we

could ever know.

He knows what is best for us and

he knows that

much better than we can ever know. Allah

prescribed

his life for us for our benefit.

Our benefit in this world and the next.

As I was saying yesterday,

the beauty of the prescription of this life

in this world is

that if we live our lives the way

Allah

chose for us and prescribed for us,

Then not only will this be good for

our of course,

but this is good for us in this

also.

Because if you have somebody who is living,

who is a just person, who is a

compassionate person,

who is a friendly person, who is a

kind person, who is a helpful person,

right, who goes out of their way to

be good to people, who stands up for

other people's rights, who does not violate the

rights of other people and so on. You're

looking at a person who is going to

be extremely popular, extremely influential, very well liked,

very loved, beloved of everybody in society also.

So what is wrong

with that? What is wrong with being

the most beloved, the most respected,

the most influential person in society.

Nothing wrong with that. Right?

How do you get there? By obeying Allah.

And the bonus is that this is also

good for us in the.

This is what Rasulullah

was. He was the most beautiful human being

on the face of the earth. He was

the most beloved, the most influential,

the most,

looked up to role model for people, and

so on and so forth.

And, obviously, even if you look at his

life purely from a worldly perspective,

it was a beautiful life.

Who doesn't want to live a life like

that with those with those kind of,

you know, powerful

returns?

And then in the Yakhra,

we have the Rida of Allah, Insha'Allah.

The pleasure of

Allah,

So I remind myself and you that

when we quote these things,

then

we show the same god. Yes. The same

god. There's no doubt about that. There is

one god.

But

what changes

is our connection with that god.

If we live our lives in a way

where we are connected to Allah,

then

we benefit from disconnection.

The way we connect you with Allah is

to obey Allah.

It's not simply to sing praises and nasheeds

and hamd and salah. No. It is to

obey Allah

in every aspect of our lives

and to obey Allah

in every state of being. To obey Allah

when we are happy, to obey Allah when

we are sad, to obey Allah when we

are

when we have power, to obey our love

when we have no power,

to obey Allah

in every

state of being, in every way that we

are.

And then we have when we have that

connection, of course, then life will be beautiful.

And and our lives will get illuminated with

this by this connection.

But only and only if we have the

connection. And the way to get the connection

is obedience.

The love for anyone is expressed in

ways that are appropriate for that relationship.

You don't express love for your wife the

same way as you express love for your

mother. You don't express love for your children

the same way as you express love for

your wife or your mother

and so on.

The love for each is expressed according to

that the demands of that person.

The demands of that relationship is not with

the person's relationship.

And therefore, the love for Allah

is expressed through obedience to him.

The love for Muhammad is

expressed through itiva of his Sunnah following his

Sunnah

So He asked Allah to make us people

who are obedient, who are

who are

and we ask

in our corner.

in our corner.