Mohamad Baajour – Without This Your Salat Fasting Hajj Etc. Are Void Heartify #3
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The importance of intentions in Islam is discussed, including the use of intentions in driving actions and renewing one's intentions. The speaker emphasizes the importance of intentions in driving success and helping others, and encourages the audience to renew their intentions and renew their ones. The speaker also discusses struggles and struggles in life, including achieving success and helping others, and asks various questions about people's heart's occupied capacity and percentage of their heart is occupied by Allah. The importance of intentions in driving success and helping others is emphasized.
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Tonight, inshallah ta'ala, we are starting the
a'mal al-quloob, the actions of the heart,
that we discussed before, that they are more
important than the actions of the limbs, the
actions of the heart.
And today we will start with the most
important one of them.
But before we start, we're gonna mention a
story that I like to mention always when
I'm mentioning this topic.
There was a very famous leader.
His name is Maslamah.
And Maslamah surrounded a city for a very
long time.
And the Muslim army was getting very exhausted
and very tired, and they cannot last any
longer.
So they found out that there's the only
way to get into the other side and
open the gates of the fortress that they
wanna conquer is to have someone go through
a tunnel.
They found out that the only way to
win this war is for someone to go
through a tunnel.
So Maslamah gathered all his people like this,
and he said, who wants to go through
the tunnel?
Nobody knows what's in the tunnel.
Sewage, snakes, spiders, only Allah knows.
Nobody.
Who wants to go in the tunnel and
open the doors from the other side?
Nobody.
Then the third time, a masked man, a
man with a mask stood up and said,
I will do it, and he disappeared.
He went inside, long story short, went through
the tunnel.
Can you please, Azhar, can you close the
doors?
He went through the tunnel, fought fearlessly, killed
the people, opened the door, and alhamdulillah, the
Muslims were victorious.
I don't wanna go into details.
Obviously, after everything is done, the general of
the army, Maslamah, he stood up again, he
gathered them, and he said, who's the man
of the tunnel?
Nobody came.
Who's the man of the tunnel?
astahlifuka billah, I ask you by Allah to
present yourself.
Nobody showed up.
While he was in his tent at night,
Maslamah, someone not, he said, came with a
mask.
He said, are you the man of the
tunnel?
You cannot see anything except his eyes.
He said, yes.
He said, identify yourself.
He said, before I do that, I have
three conditions.
I have three conditions.
First, you do not send a letter to
the khalifa to acknowledge me.
Second, you do not give me any reward.
And third, you do not treat me any
different than anybody else in the army.
Agree?
He said, I agree.
He took his mask for a few seconds,
and he disappeared again.
Maslamah said, since that night, no tahajjud, no
salat, I perform, except I say, ya Allah,
gather me with the man of the tunnel.
So the first amal of the qalb that
we are studying tonight, ikhlas.
Ikhlas.
Sincerity.
Why it is so essential and so important,
I want you to really probably, this is
probably one of the most important lectures I've
ever given in my life, because how important
it is.
Why?
Because without it, all our amal multiplied by
zero.
Literally.
Our salat, our siyam, our umrah, our hajj,
our Quran, our hafiz, our volunteering, our dua,
without this amal qalbi, all the amal multiplied
by zero.
This is how important it is.
This is how dangerous it is.
So lend me your heart, and ask, let's
ask Allah, all of us, ya Allah, make
us from the people who listen and apply.
Al-amal yajib an yakuna khalisan wa sawaban.
Al-khalis an yakuna lillah, wa al-sawab
an yakuna ala al-sunnah.
We mentioned this many, many times, but because
of the topic, for any action to be
accepted, it has, it must, no if, no
difference of opinion, no this shaykh, no this
madhab.
Any amal to be accepted, it has two
conditions.
Number one, sincerely done for the sake of
Allah.
Number two, it has to be according to
the sunnah.
But what if it was sincerely for Allah,
but not on the sunnah?
Is that okay?
Zero.
What if it's according 100% everything on
the sunnah, but it's not done for the
sake of Allah?
Zero.
I'll give you an example.
I am praying dhuhr, ya'ani, full khushu
'a, full khushu'a, ya'ani, 100%
sincerity for the sake of Allah.
But I decided to pray dhuhr, you know
what, I'm gonna pray five rakat.
Out.
And if I, the opposite, if I have
something, I have, I bought a sheep, all
according to the sunnah, the weight, the age,
everything according to the sunnah, no defect for
sacrifice.
And when I'm sacrificing, I said bismil jilani.
Zero.
It's not bismillah allahu akbar.
I said bism one of those, you know,
awliya.
It's not for Allah's sake anymore.
So one of them is missing.
It has to be both together for the
amal to be accepted.
Look ya'akhwan, subhanallah, both of them together
in order for this salah to be risen,
for that fasting to be accepted, for that
umrah to be elevated.
It has to be both together.
Every time you go to umrah, why are
you going?
Why are you going?
You know, so we have to always, we
will come to that inshallah.
Tayyib, what is, according to the scholars, what
is the definition of ikhlas?
Listen to this, subhanallah.
When you hear the definition, you can tell
that these definitions can only come from scholars.
First, I'm gonna read them in Arabic for
the people who know Arabic to enjoy.
Al-ikhlas istiwa' a'mal al-abd fil zahir
wal-batin.
When your a'mal in secret and in public
are the same.
Some people in the masjid, Allahu akbar, mashallah,
amazing.
His sujood is one minute, two minutes.
His qiyam, khushu, everything.
He goes home, insa ya habibi, boom, boom,
boom, up and down, finish.
When your salah or when any a'mal done
in public, same in private, I don't change,
then this is the definition of ikhlas.
Another definition, al-ikhlas, and this is the
most common one, nisyan ru'yat al-khalq
bidawamin nazar ilal khaliq.
Forgetting that the people are looking at you
while you are focusing that the creator is
looking at you.
I don't care if you see me, you
don't see me, you heard about me, you
don't heard about me.
I don't really, doesn't mean anything to me.
All I care about is he sees me.
He knows what I did.
That's all I care about.
This is ikhlas.
And one of them is, subhanallah, this is,
he said, al-ikhlas, it's a secret between
Allah and his abd.
It is so secretive that no angel know
about it to write it.
No shaytan will know about it to deviate
it.
And no desire will know about it to
spoil it.
Even the angel does not know about it
because the angel only knows what we are
doing.
They write down what we are doing.
But this is so sincere that no angel
know about it and the shaytan cannot whisper
something to ruin it.
This is ikhlas.
And one of the shuyukh said, ma sadaqallah
abd ahabbash shuhrah.
This is my young brothers, young sisters especially.
He's not truthful with Allah, the one who's
looking for fame.
He's not truthful with Allah, the one who's
looking for fame, the one who's looking for
likes, the one who's looking for followers.
This is his main goal.
If that come by itself, alhamdulillah.
But I'm not doing it for that.
When we have men like this man that
we mentioned, the man of the tunnel, this
is when the Islam was at its peak.
Now, subhanallah, everyone wants to make sure that
everybody knows what they have done.
Look at me, selfie with me in the
umrah.
This is me, I'm giving a donation.
This is me traveling to help the people
in Africa.
This is me, everybody has to know everything
that we're doing.
No matter how, and of course there are
amal that we have to do it publicly
in order to encourage others.
But that needs a lot of really sincere
sincerity in order not to have any kind
of showing off.
Very hard.
Very hard.
Now, Al-Fadl Ibn Iyad, one
of the greatest scholars, he said, tarqil amal
min ajlil nas riya' wal amal min ajlil
nas shirk wal ikhlas an yu'afika Allah
minhuma.
Allahu Akbar.
He said, leaving an action because you're worried
about people is also riya'.
You know how sometimes some people say, you
know what, I don't wanna do it.
So they won't think I am doing riya'.
Doing the amal to show off to people
is riya', and stopping the amal because you're
afraid of people is riya'.
I get up to pray tahajjud every night.
And then brother Mahbub came to sleep over.
I said, you know what, I'm not getting
up tonight.
I don't want him to see that I
perform qiyam.
I stopped for a human being.
I stopped the amal because of an insan.
That is riya', even though I thought I'm
stopping because I don't want them to praise
me.
No, no, no, continue.
Don't stop for a person, don't continue.
Don't do something just for the person.
So the sheikh said, tarqil amal, leaving amal
because of the people is riya'.
And doing amal because of the people is
shirk.
Shirk and sincerity is for Allah to save
you from both.
SubhanAllah.
Sincerity is for Allah to save you from
both.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said in the
hadith al-Qudsi, ana aghnal agniya'an al
-shirk.
I am the most and high exalted.
I do not need any partner.
If anyone does anything where he associates anyone
with me, I shall abandon him and tell
him, go for that person you did it
for.
And listen to this, this is a little
bit scary.
99% of the amal to Allah and
1% to show off to the imam
or to the sheikh or to this and
that, the amal is zero.
This is how dangerous is this topic.
One of the scariest ayat, one of the
scariest ayah in the Quran.
وَقَدِمْنَا إِلَىٰ مَا عَمِلُوا مِنْ عَمَلٍ فَجَعَلْنَاهُ هَبَاءً
مَّن ثُورًا Allahu Akbar.
Ya Rabb, protect us, Ya Allah.
And we came to everything they have done
and we turned it into scattered dust.
Imagine I go on the day of judgment,
I'm so excited.
I have four or five hajj.
I have 30, 40 Ramadans.
I have years and years of salawat and
sadaqat and I'm standing, I'm very happy.
And then it turned out, you are not
sincere.
Who are, Ya Rasulullah, the first three people
in the hellfire?
Who are the first three people who will
enter the hellfire?
Every time Abu Huraira wants to narrate this
hadith, he said, qala Rasulullah, boom, falls unconscious.
Then they throw water, wake him up, then
he stands up.
qala Rasulullah, three times.
He cannot mention the hadith.
He's not able to imagine, this is the
scariest hadith.
That's the scariest ayah, this is the scariest
hadith.
Who are, Ya Rasulullah, the first three people
who will enter the hellfire?
Number one, a major, huge donor.
He has given millions of dollars, fee sabeelillah.
He will be brought and he will be
told, why did you give all that money?
Ya Allah, I gave all that money to
build masajid in America, to build schools, to
sponsor orphans, to do this, to do that,
kathabt, you did it, so they can call
you Kareem, they can call you Jawad, they
can call you a generous person.
And they did, take him to the hellfire.
To me and you, Allahu Akbar, this brother
is big donor, always very generous.
The second man, why did you memorize the
Quran?
Fathers and mothers that put their kids in
the hafiz school, just so they can get
the title of a hafiz, open your ears,
because their cousin is a hafiz, because their
neighbor is a hafiz, how can my family
does not have a hafiz, that's why I'm
putting him to become a hafiz.
Why did you memorize the Quran?
Why did you become a sheikh?
Why did you become a qari?
Why did you become a mawlana?
Ya Allah, to spread your deen, to spread
your deen and spread la ilaha illallah and
so on and so, kathabt, you're lying, you
did it so they can call you hafiz,
you did it so they can call you
sheikh, ustaz, mawlana, mufti, that's why you did
it.
Take him to the hellfire, hafiz of kitabillah,
from the first people who go to the
hellfire, because his intention or her intention was
not for the sake of Allah, was for
the sake of dunya gain or dunya praise.
Now listen to the third one, at least
these people saw the fruits of their showing
off, the third guy is a shaheed, he
did not even enjoy the fame.
Why did you die fee sabeelillah?
Ya Allah, I died, so kalimatullah takoon al
-uliyah, so Islam will be superior, because jihad
is the most important ibadah, because this and
that, kathabt, you're lying, you did it so
they can call you shujaa, courageous, brave, that's
why you did it, and they did.
Go to the hellfire, shaheed, the highest level
in Islam, go to the hellfire, all of
that, because the amal of the qalb, you
see, the actions outside, allahu akbar, the best
of the best, but the action of the
heart was corrupt, all of that is gone,
all of the amal is gone, and not
only gone, go to the hellfire, allahu akbar.
Allahumma sallim ya rabbal halameen.
So, just because of the time, how can
we attain ikhlas?
How can we attain this sincerity?
Number one, intention.
Intention.
Why did you come to Isha tonight?
Why are you coming to Fajr tomorrow morning?
Why are you volunteering to be on the
board?
Why are you volunteering to do anything in
the masjid?
Why?
If you have 1% to show off,
immediately stop, reset.
Alhamdulillah, there's a reset button now, over there
is no more reset.
Change your intention, fix your intention, renew your
intention.
Why are you growing your beard?
Why are you wearing the hijab?
Why?
Number one, before you do any amal, why?
During the amal, why?
After the amal, why?
Keep always renewing, to make sure it's done
sincerely for the sake of Allah.
I do not care if anybody saw me
donate or not.
If you have that much power to be
able to raise your hand and say $50
,000 without a speck of pride, Allahu Akbar,
I envy you.
I really envy you.
If you are scared, what do you care
if the people know?
You know you want the goal to be
achieved, right?
Doesn't matter, the minute I give that money,
it's registered in the bank of Allah.
That's all I care about.
You see me, you do not see me,
you know about it, you do not know
about it.
I really, it doesn't mean anything to me.
إِنَّمَا نُطَعِمُكُمْ لِوَجِهِ اللَّهِ لَا نُرِيدُ مِنكُمْ جَزَاءً
وَلَا شُكُورًا I'm only feeding you for the
sake of Allah.
I do not need any reward in return,
and I do not even want a thank
you from me, from you.
I don't want a thank you from you.
If you thank me, that's a bonus.
But if you do not thank me, and
I got upset, that means I'm not doing
it for Allah.
I'm doing it for you.
Like I always repeat, if I'm doing something
for Iyad, and then Ghulam did not thank
me, why do I care if Ghulam thanked
me?
That's not for him.
I'm doing it for the sake of Allah.
And that's خلص, done.
If the guy comes and thank me, الحمد
لله، اجزاك الله خير.
And it's good to thank people, don't get
me wrong.
But if I get upset, and how many
times this happened?
How many times this happened?
After all I did to him, look what
he did to me.
Right?
How many times this happened?
After all I did to him, to her,
look how they're treating me back.
With people, you never win.
With Allah, mustard seed of good is a
mountain.
Number one, intention.
Number two, listen carefully, get addicted.
Get addicted to hidden actions.
Two rakah in the middle of the night,
not even your wife knows about it.
An orphan in Pakistan, in Bangladesh, in India,
in Egypt, in Syria, no one knows you're
sponsoring.
No one.
A widow, a well that you dug, no
one knows and I don't really care if
anyone knows.
All I care is Allah knows.
The more hidden actions that you have, the
more you get close to becoming a sincere
person.
Get addicted to hidden actions.
Third, make it the background of your phone.
Make it your logo, your slogan.
Listen carefully, do it and forget it.
That's gonna be our new logo.
Do it and forget it.
Don't keep reminding yourself about the donation you
give ten years ago.
Don't remind yourself about the three four hajj
and about the tears that fell in Ramadan
and about that person that he was homeless
and you changed his life.
Don't keep reminding yourself about these things that
you have done.
Do it and forget it.
Do it and forget it.
Don't wait for a thank you, don't wait
for any cards, don't wait for an email,
or he did not text me back and
say thank you.
We have to train ourselves.
Number four, eagerness to do the amal.
You have zeal, you're sitting here and you
can't wait to come to Fajr tomorrow.
That shows ikhlas.
You can't wait, you heard that somebody is
sick and you can't wait to go and
visit them tomorrow.
You can't wait to do any amal salih.
You can't wait.
You can't wait to get that job and
make money and start helping people.
You can't.
The zeal is so strong.
You have it in your heart.
It's not like, okay Allah, you want to
go to the masjid, okay I'll go with
you.
There's no interest, there's no interest.
And the last one, you want ikhlas, beg
for it.
Beg him for it.
By the way, it is the hardest thing
to achieve in our life.
It's 24x7 striving and struggling.
It's a lifetime struggle in order to achieve
ikhlas.
I don't want anyone of you to come
tomorrow, Shaykh, alhamdulillah today I am mukhlis.
The minute you say I am mukhlis, you're
out.
You have no ikhlas.
It's a struggle.
Nobody with ikhlas say I am mukhlis.
These are amal al-quloob.
These are actions of the heart.
And finally, I want to ask you a
question.
What percentage of your heart is occupied by
Allah?
What percentage of your heart is occupied by
Allah?
What does that mean?
That means when you're about to make a
decision, who comes to your mind first?
Your wife?
Your children?
Your parents?
Your boss?
Who comes first?
If it's any of the above, you have
a problem.
If Allah comes first, Allahu akbar.
May Allah bless you and increase you.
How much of your heart is occupied by
Allah?
All that is concerned about the pleasure of
Allah.
If it is good, bismillah.
If it is not, no matter what happened,
even like I always repeat, even if that
job pays you a million dollars, but there
is some doubt in it.
There is some haram in it.
Give it up.
Ikhlas ya akhwan.
Ikhlas.
Beg Allah for ikhlas.
Wallahi, this should be literally on our mind
24x7 with every amal.
Why?
Why?
Any time you see some doubt, sit down,
calm down and say, Ya Rabb, please Ya
Allah, Tahir qalbi minan nifaq, wa amali minal
riyaa.
Ya Rabb, Ya Allah.
I beg Allah in this blessed night of
Friday.
Ya Rabb, Ya Rabb.
We ask you with the best of your
names, Ya Allah, to bless us with ikhlas.
Ya Rabb, bless us with ikhlas.
Ya Rabb, everybody who is here with us
today, brothers and sisters and everybody who is
watching us, Ya Allah, do not let us
leave this place except you have blessed us
with ikhlas in everything that we say and
everything that we do.
Ya Rabb, do not make our a'mal to
scatter dust.
Ya Rabb, do not make our a'mal to
scatter dust, Ya Allah.
Ya Rabb, Ya Rabb, Ya Karim.
Make our last deeds our best deeds and
our last words, La ilaha illallah.
Ya Rabb, gather us with Rasulullah My brothers,
tomorrow is Friday.
Make a lot of salat on Rasulullah.
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the
Merciful.
Al Fatiha.