Mohamed Magid – Loving and Getting Closer to Allah Beyond the Basics #01
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The speakers discuss the importance of knowing Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and personalizing his teachings in Islam. They stress the need for social security, monitoring behavior, and personalizing one's experiences. The speakers also emphasize the importance of learning and being aware of Allah's love and power. The speakers stress the importance of fearing and not being overwhelmed with words and one's personality.
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Our session today
is about knowing Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And this
topic
is one of the most
important topic we're dealing with it in this
series
of
softening of the heart.
Can I get water, please? Water.
With the softening of the heart,
because it is the key
of how
our heart
can be subtle and softens.
If we don't know Allah, if we don't
know Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
if we don't get to know Him,
if we don't connect ourselves with Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala,
nothing in our lives will be worth of
anything.
Therefore, this is the key
for anyone of us to change their life
and to improve the situation
and get a better with
the level of iman
or ihsan
is to know Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And there's many ways
a person can use
to get to know Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And today,
we're
gonna go over
certain things
that may help
us to try to achieve
this goal.
Of course, knowing Allah
It's a purpose of all of these cities.
Now
I will ask myself and you
that
use
4 ways
to get to know Allah.
Major resource
that we use
to know Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. 1st,
we have to all of us get the
habit of recitation of Holy Quran.
Reading Quran daily.
Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala spoke to all
of us in the holy
Quran. Every single one of us had been
addressed
and talked to by Allah himself
in this whole books of Quran.
2nd,
we would like to do contemplation and reflection
in Allah creation.
To appreciate what he made and created before
us
and for us.
3rd, appreciation of his bounty upon us.
Every single one one of us
that cannot count the bounties of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala upon
them.
And the 4th is a reflection of the
names of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Allah has 99 names,
attributes
reflecting on the sifaat and asma of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
We like to take one
ayah from the holy Quran.
This ayah, Rasool Allah subhanahu wa sallam call
it Sayidat Ayil Quran.
If the if there's a master Ayah,
all all the Ayat of the Quran, it's
this Ayah or the by this.
This Ayat al
Kursi. That we were asked to recite
it, the end of each salah.
We ask to recite it before we go
to sleep
because of when if you do that,
shaytan will stay away from us.
Shaitan,
be away from us.
I would like to use the ayat al
kursi as a way to contemplate,
to reflect,
and all of us with full heart in,
you know, contemplation and reflections.
We would like to think about this ayah,
where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
in it describe his beautiful attributes.
Allah
in this ayah
Begun the ayah by statement. He said the
statement.
Allah,
there's no god but he.
This word
means the one were to be worshipped.
Is a very important
word
of anyone who would like to know Allah
to know what this is all about, the
word
Because to have an
that means you love him,
you obey him,
you fear him,
you connect yourself with him.
Anything
that in life
that we love,
we fear
in the level that equal to Allah or
more than Allah, it become our God.
And that's why Allah
used the word in
many ayaat
to describe
the deities people have taken other than him.
For example,
our whims and desires.
It's good. People use it as Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
Do
You see the person have taken his desire
or her desire, her whims
as
Meaning that a person met their desire is
a criteria.
If I love
it, if I like it, I would do
it. If it doesn't feel good, I will
not do it.
That has become the criteria, the desire, the
whims.
Said,
some people have taken money as god.
Rasool ahsallam said,
When people come attached to materialism,
materialism become
illa. Worship other than Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. Human being, celebrities,
great people, People can love them even they
can commit suicide because somebody died. 1 of
them died, we would lose their life
because the love was so great to a
human being. They left They give their life
to that human being who doesn't recognize them.
I might be living in Herndon,
and this
basketball player in Chicago
dies,
and a person commit suicide in Herndon, he
doesn't know who that person is.
But the capture, the love of that person
becomes so great in that person heart to
the extent that he think that person worth
it to give their life for. And it
happened even Muslim countries. When some of the,
you know, singers and so forth died, some
people would jump from the bridge.
Therefore, Ilah
is the one that been worshiped by people.
The in America, they use this concept.
They said that he's been idolized, been worshiped.
Meaning that be loved to the extent that
people don't think and see, anyone except that
person.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
Allah, there is no God worthy of worship.
No one is worth of being worship except
him.
Why is that?
Allah is saying, Allah, there is no god
but he.
And this who, by the way, referring to
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. You see it many
many times in the Quran.
And here meant
he,
but here he fell also
to to the there's
there's no
deity
been worthy of worship except Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala to be the should be worshiped.
And what the description of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala in this ayah?
What the description of Allah
in this ayah?
Brothers and sisters,
Allah says, I'm going to give you criteria
in this ayah
to get to know me,
and against him, check anyone else
Again, it's this criteria.
Check anyone else.
See, is anyone
in the position to be deserved to worship
other than me?
Because the rest of this I am in
this qualifying this statement
of
First,
Allah is ever living.
Anything that we think other than Allah dies.
Anything that become greater in our heart and
our mind
other than Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
that will perish.
If you look to something beautiful, if you
seen a car, or a building, or a
human being, anything that capture our heart and
our soul.
The thing come to our mind, is it
This thing ever living?
Is it everlasting?
Is this internal?
No.
First criteria, Al Hay.
And that's why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala many
verses of Quran says,
Everything shall perish.
Everything have to come to an end except
Allah
He said in Quran,
Every soul shall taste death.
And this soul, brothers and sisters, is not
something a soul.
It's my soul. It's your soul
will taste death.
Everything that we see around
us to come on the end.
If that's the fact,
then when you get to know Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala have that in our mind. He
said, hey, ever living.
Ever living.
2nd,
Allah said, Al Qayyum.
Means the one who sustain
the universe.
And we say
I would like you to personalize it.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala brothers and sister does
not sustain every only every cell of our
body.
You know how many cells we have in
this body
from head to toe?
Can you count them?
Millions.
Millions of cells.
You know how many electron and neutrons in
our bodies?
You know how many
fish in this universe? How many
mic you know, microbes?
How many germs?
How many bacterias?
How many
any other creation, how many stars?
Who's good in astronomy?
How many stars in the universe here?
Billions.
Billions of stars?
How many stars are there in the milk
way?
Which is the solar system existing.
How many stars in the milk way?
How many stars?
Millions of stars in the milk way.
You need 1 galaxies.
How many galaxies are there?
There's a billions of stars,
billions,
And
the star the sun we see is a
medium star.
A medium star
that's so close to us. You know when
they talk in they talk to us everyday
that temperature is 90?
Today, if you walked on the street and
the midday, you'd be sweating
because the medium star
is so bright.
This earth we live in, brothers and sisters.
How much of it that we we inhabit?
All of this noise we make, all of
us.
With all these nations,
25 percent of it only been occupied by
human being.
The rest of it is water, there is
more fish than human being,
in the face of her.
All of this problem we have,
25%.
Within it, we have continents
like North America.
Within the continent, we have a country called
United States.
With the United States, we have a state
called Virginia. Within Virginia, we have county
called Loudoun. Within Loudoun we have city called
Stirling, Stirling. We have a building called Adams.
In Adams we have room.
Can we locate our self in the universal
map?
And when we talk about majesty,
when we talk about the greatness,
Allah said
Is it Maghrat time? Yes.
Okay. Need to call it on that.
Insha'Allah, we'll stop here for and then we'll
continue after Maghrib.
I was saying that before the Maghrib,
we say that in order for us to
know Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala, we have to consult the Quran.
Because in the Quran, Allah Subha'ala had revealed
to us who is he.
He talked about himself.
And as made the selection of this
as one of the ayah you need to
contemplate on,
and I said before
it that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
start to die by saying, There's
no God but He, worth of worship.
And I said there's many
there's many
that people worshiped in this dunya.
Whether power,
in prestige,
lack money,
lack materialism,
of whims and desires,
loving
someone because they're famous or beautiful,
to the level that they worship them.
As we're gonna see also in this class
today, what do we mean by worshiping?
And anyone that it becomes so great in
our eyes,
we have to examine that person against the
following criteria Allah put in this beautiful
Ayatul Kursi.
And I said one of the best one
of the first thing Allah said after he
said, Al Hayy.
One of the attributes of Allah is ever
living.
And nothing that has captured our soul and
our eyes become fascinated with
it's safe forever.
No matter how powerful
we are,
how much prestige we have, how much wealth
we have,
we have to die.
The fact that the day we were born,
or birthday
also been marked with it our death day.
Everyone of us has to come to that
fact.
Not only human being, but everything else in
the universe
shall perish Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Everything will
perish
Except Allah. Therefore, anyone
or anything that we feel that is we
love so much,
become dear to our heart
so
much.
We need to examine it. I don't get
this first criteria. Is it lasting?
Can it last for good?
Can we last for good?
And I was talking about the and
I gave you these examples of this universe.
How many stars, how many things Allah subhanahu
wa'ala had create in this universe,
and Allah sustain every one of them.
Brothers and sisters, when we woke up
in the morning,
Allah have sustained the soul of every one
of us sitting here, give it life back.
Every single one of us. Allah sustain us
as we go to sleep tonight.
And when we wake up in the morning,
he's the one who's sustaining us.
Al Qayyum.
He does not only watch human being,
he watch every other
creatures
that's in this universe.
The billions of stars, the billions of electron
and neutrons, the billions of cells.
I gave example today in the Jum'ah,
the brothers in Maryland.
I said,
Allah subhanahu ta'ala says in Surat Al Anam,
Say with Allah,
with him,
the keys of the the treasure of the
unseen,
No
one knows it except him,
He knows whatever takes place in heaven,
in this universe.
Whatever take place on earth.
Allah says there's no a falling of a
leaf
of a leaf
from a tree
that Allah does not take account of it.
Exercise.
Take a chair,
and one of us,
in the fall or the summer or the
winter,
especially in the fall when the leaves start
falling from the trees.
If you have a house,
take a a chair and sit in your
backyard.
Watch 1 tree, not 2 trees, 1 tree.
From the morning
until next morning,
and count how many leaves
that fall from the tree
with the condition.
You don't go to bathrooms.
You don't go to sleep.
You don't take a meal.
Just staring at a tree.
One
tree, not 2 trees.
One tree.
Watch it 24 hours. I'm not saying 7
days a week.
24 hours, watch that leaves, count them how
many of them
and then calculate.
And tell me, brothers and sisters, or come,
let us tell each other how we feel
after that experience of 24 hours watching
one tree
watching the leaves falling from it.
It's our
our God,
our Lord
watch every single leaves falling from a tree.
But does not does not distract him.
He listened to Aisha and Muhammad and Ali
who say, you Allah, it is at the
same time.
He watched their blood going inter
in their veins. He watched the cells in
their bodies.
He watched electron and neutron in every atom
in the universe.
He watch every fish, every bacteria,
every microbe, every every germs,
every fish, every birds.
This our Lord.
Every stars,
every ant.
You know what our prophet said?
This man is how this full of belief
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, love of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
He said Allah healed the walking of an
ant
in a rock,
walking on a rock,
in a dark night.
Notice that ant.
An ant.
Because nothing that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala create
in the universe, he doesn't watch.
Nothing he create in the universe, he is
not observing.
He's
a.
Who has the power then?
Who is worthy to be worshiped?
Who worth our love and our fear more
than Him?
Brothers and sisters, as he does that,
he met all of us all of us.
You know, in in United States, they says,
be careful the place the place been washed
by civilian camera. What do you call it?
Those cameras?
Surveillance camera.
Surveillance camera.
Is that true?
Brothers and sisters,
do you know each one of us
have a civilian camera and each one of
us their word been taped?
Have do you know the president of United
States, the king of Arabia, every single person
been watched?
Whatever they do, when they stand, when they
sit, when they talk, when they walk,
because Allah is
Ever living.
The sustainer of the universe.
He watch all of that.
He sees all of that.
As you sit here,
what taking place in your house now, brother?
I don't know.
What taken place in this street
just down there? Yes, sir.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
knows every single things that take place in
the universe at the same time.
Not only that, do you know Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala read thoughts? All of us.
What in our mind while sitting here? What's
in our heart?
He says in Quran,
We have created,
man. Created all of us.
We know the whispering of himself. You
know, when when we sit on our room
and have thoughts
and we entertain the thought, it says, you
know, maybe tomorrow I will go to Starbucks
and have a coffee,
and perhaps I'm gonna give Yasir Sayed a
call. And this
and then somebody said, oh,
what I need? You you know, are you
thinking about something? No. No. Everything is fine,
you know.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala know that thoughts.
He said in Quran, Very powerful. Allah said,
Allah knows what inside you. Be careful of
him.
What inside?
The thoughts,
the feeling,
he knows it.
And that's
why if somebody
feeling pain,
and call upon Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in
their head,
Allah will answer their dua.
He said, if somebody just sit and sit
inside themselves, You Allah,
You Allah,
help
me.
Allah hear that.
I just gave you this exercise and I
give myself the same exercise
that we cannot, for 24 hours, watch 1
tree
without need to go to sleep,
without need to go to bathrooms,
without need to eat.
Allah yet said,
He watch every single one of them
day and night, every second, every minute,
because no sleep,
no slumber overtaken him. See now? If you
do like this, one second.
Can you imagine this?
You know,
I heard one time one of the
head of the state of one country
said, I they woke me up and they
told me what happened.
And I was so disturbed by it.
That means he was sleeping.
He's in charge, but he has to go
to sleep.
He asked somebody else to do something.
And then he has to be informed.
Sleep.
And that's why if a person make dua
in the middle of the night,
when everyone is asleep,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is al hayy.
You know, Rabi al Aduiyah?
She has a thief. A thief come to
her home,
jumped
the wall,
took all the stuff in her house.
She woke up, her husband said, There's a
man in our home.
The husband captured the thief.
He said,
Why are you here?
Say, You know I am here. I took
your stuff about the lid.
Rabay
Alsaid of the Allahu Anha, she said let
me that she asked her husband said can
I talk to him?
Many people that think that Rabih Al Adi
will never get married. That's not true by
the way, for your confirmation.
She said, can I talk to him?
She said, why you why you come at
night?
She said, because you were asleep.
She said, don't you know that our Lord
does not sleep?
Don't you know our lord does not sleep?
My lord and your lord,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
When you sneak at night, speaking to young
people, when you do something
at at at home, when we think that
there's no one watching the Internet except us,
When we think that we're closing our room,
This is a fact.
To Allah, it belongs
whatever you see on earth,
everything you see on it.
And to him belongs whatever you see, and
the only thing that you can see
in the in the heaven,
in the universe.
How much do we know about the universe?
That much. You know, the astronomer says,
we our knowledge about the universe is like
a dot.
Just
dot.
Allah said He owns
the universe.
When you talk about rich people,
person has money and wealth.
And who as human being, you get fascinated
by wealth.
Rich and famous,
tapes, and movies.
I said today, during Jumah,
I was in the metro
one
time
and I heard 2 people talking.
And a man talking to a lady,
he said, you know, he has more money
than God or he's richer than God.
You hear that expression in America? Yes.
Materialism,
materialistic
society. People say use that expressions.
Some people.
We know that so many people don't believe
in that also.
Because people think that when a person have
so much money,
become god.
Law of Muhammadu Alaihi says,
again, it's this criteria.
Bring the richest person on the earth.
See if he dies or not.
He has to be ever
living. See if he can sustain
whatever he has
without go to sleep.
Can Do you know that some people get
so stressed
about work,
about sustaining things?
Because they don't have the this qayyum. It's
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. This infinity of of
bin qayyum is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And see if they don't
if they stay without going to sleep.
See if they own more than what Allah
owns.
To him belongs whatever it is on earth,
whatever it is on
heaven. Is our our Allah God, our ilaha,
isn't he al ghani?
Yes. Self sufficient?
Can you think about anyone richer than Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala?
Allah
no one influenced Allah subhanahu
wa
ta'ala. No one influenced him because he's self
sufficient.
He doesn't need us.
That's why Rasool ahsollam said in the beautiful
hadith.
Said Allah said,
You Ibadi,
oh my servants,
If all the jinn of of and and
human and all of you,
They become all of them the most pious
people. All the jinn, all the human.
That will never increase my majesty.
I'm Allah with you or without
If all of you human being,
Americans,
Asian, African,
all the people of continents,
gather in one side and say we're gonna
disbelieve in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
None of us will prostrate, none of mixed
to do, none of pray to him.
We will never you will never be in
position to benefit me.
You will not be in a position to
harm me.
Finished?
Finished.
Who can intercede?
Before him, accept his permission.
As tomorrow,
I will talk about Noyin Rasool Allahu alaihi
wa sallam.
I'll contemplate in this shafa.
Is one of the people that Allah gave
them permission to speak in the day of
judgement.
When he prostrate before the arsh of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, it makes you good.
Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said raise your
head,
You will get the shafa.
Oh, Muhammad Ishfa to shafa.
Speak. Your intercession will be accepted.
Allah telling all of us,
he knows our past,
our history,
our
coming before before or what's coming after.
What we have done in the past, what
we're gonna do in the future. He knows
it.
They say knowledge is power.
Allah has the infinite knowledge
about every single one of us.
Brothers,
they tell you in United States,
do not throw trash
while your social security, it is there in
one of the receipts
or one of the paper. Am I correct?
You're right.
Why is that?
Somebody may steal your information. Somebody may steal
your information.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala needs social security?
Need to check Mohammed's social security? Mohammed Mahdi's
social security?
Does he need to check George Bush social
security?
Does he need to check anyone's social security?
No. He doesn't.
There's no single human being
live in this earth
or live in this earth, will be born
in this earth, does not know anything about
that.
Every single thing.
You know you know how powerful this knowledge
is?
Allah gave us example in Surat Al Mujadila.
He said,
and this is the name of Sameer. You
know, each name of Allah Subhanahu Ta'ala, there's
explanation for it in ayat of the Quran.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala show us the manifestation
of those names in Ayat of the Quran.
He
says,
I
said there's no 3 people.
Comes an office
or sit in a place where they think
that having private conversation.
Only 3 of them.
Be the 4th.
Except him be the 4th.
There's no 5 people sit among themselves have
private talk.
Is the 6th.
There's no 2 people
be sitting and have a private talk among
themselves.
In their 3rd.
And there's no 7 or 8 or 9
or 20 or 100
having any kind of conference or any talk
among themselves
without Allah
monitoring
and listening
and hearing what they say.
You know, to make it personal to Rasoolallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
when Rasoolallahu alaihi wa sallam stand,
a lady come to him
complaining about her husband,
or it came to Rasoolha Salaam to explain
her dispute with her husband.
Allah
subhanahu
wa
ta'ala
Oh,
Muhammad
The conversation you had last night,
the day before,
Allah have heard the conversation.
And I'm a lot telling you what to
tell the lady.
You see, the personalized things, and that's why,
umu al Khabap, badallahu anhu, this lady stopped
him on the street
and become an old lady.
And the companions, they want to talk to
him, Umar Radallahu Anhu stood and she was
talking to him for a long long time.
The companion says, Yeah, Amir al Mu'mineen, or
the leaders of the believers.
This lady have taken you from us. It
It took a long time to talk into
this lady.
So I Omar Al Khattab say,
Woe to you. You don't know who is
she?
It is the woman that Allah said to
rasul a sallam, Allah have heard the conversation
of that lady with you.
If rasul salallahu alaihi wa sallam have listened
to her, if Allah said that Allah have
heard her, how about the ummah?
Giving her some time.
And that's why
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in Quran, some
people will be completely surprised.
If we don't know Allah, if we underestimate
him, we don't know give him the respect
he deserve,
some people will be shocked in the judgment.
With the details,
they kept in the record. You talking about
computer brothers and sisters? Forget about
it. There's something amazing,
unbelievable.
Allah says,
We are copying exactly what we have. Means
to copy things the like the origin. Everything.
Everything that we do, it been.
That's why Allah
says in Quran,
The record was established.
Those who are wrong themselves,
they become worried what is in the book,
the
record. Why?
They say woe to us.
What's wrong with this book? What about this
book?
This book what is this about? This book?
Does not miss every anything. What is so
small or so big? It is in it.
You know when
Musa alaihis salam
was asked,
you Musa,
who is the most knowledgeable person on the
face of the earth?
Musa is Kareemullah,
he talks to Allah directly without Jibreel.
Musa alaihis salam
thought, I am Karimullah. Allah talk to me
directly, who can have more knowledge than me?
He said me.
I'm the most knowledgeable now.
And Allah took them to a retreat.
He sent him with Al Khidr alayhis salam.
You know, Surat Al Kahf?
You know Al Khidr alayhis salam told Musa
alayhis salam,
when they were in the ship, a bird
came
and took a drop of water and flew
away.
Khidr alaihi salam said to Musa alaihi salam,
my knowledge and your knowledge,
compared to Allah knowledge like that drop of
water that bird took from that this ocean
or the sea.
Above everyone who is knowledgeable more there's someone
more knowledgeable than them.
We should not be arrogant, we think that
we know it all.
Is
infinite,
absolute.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala then he said about
his throne.
Talk about the universe,
you know rasulullah alaihi wa sallam said,
heaven and earth,
compared to the arshah of Allah,
like
a ring.
If you have a wedding ring, look at
it.
If you have engagement ring, look at it.
If you have any ring, look at it.
That ring,
imagine it in the big desert. You throw
a ring like that, small ring, in a
big desert.
Allah
said the whole Universe
compared to the ash,
like a ring you throw in the desert.
Human being have big mouth. We talk a
lot. We think we we.
We need to humble ourselves. When we know
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
we shrink.
We shrink to the extent that we cannot
see our shadow.
We know who we are. We can look
at ourself.
With all these creations
and sustaining
the universe,
he does not feel exhausted and tired.
Subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
Exalted
al-'Alim
almighty.
Brothers and sisters, these two names, al-'Ali and
al-'Aileen.
As you read this ayah, beautiful ayah describing
Allah majesty,
contemplate in those two name, Al Aliyeel Al
Aliyeel Al Aliyeel Al Aliyeel Al Aliyeel Al
Aliyeel Al Aliyeel Al Aliyeel Al Aliyeel Al
Aliyeel Al Aliyeel Al Aliyeel Al Aliyeel Al
Aliyeel Al Aliyeel Al Aliyeel Al Aliyeel Al
Aliyeel Al Aliyeel Al Aliyeel Al Aliyeel Al
Aliyeel Al Aliyeel Al Aliyeel Al Aliyeel Al
Aliyeel Al Aliyeem.
Is anyone
could be in that position?
After Allah give this beautiful description of who
you see.
I said this
explanation of this ayah, and I want to
do exercise.
Contemplation.
And brothers and sisters,
this is not in a hadith
or anything like that,
but an exercise I want you to reflect
on it. So someone so no one will
come and say, what's your delete?
Okay?
An exercise that make us think about it,
about this contemplation.
I would like to say the name of
Allah, the word Allah,
and I want to pause
for a few seconds,
and I want you to think
what felt it felt in your heart
after this.
And I will start with saying it and
then pause.
Ready?
If you are
busy with anything, please drop it.
If you don't write in, put your pen.
Concentrate.
I will say the name of Allah,
and when to to think.
Allah.
What we think, what we feel,
What you feel in our heart?
Because I'm gonna tell you aya in Quran
talk about this.
Who can share?
Yes. Yeah.
He felt fear.
Yes, sister? Safety.
Safety.
Love.
Greatness.
Greatness.
Hope.
Hope.
Allah
says,
the believers
are the one when Allah has name been
mentioned to them,
their heart what? Be hampered.
When the Ayat of the Allah recites to
them,
what? It increase their iman.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
Some of them, when we mention Allah by
himself, people don't like it. But when you
mention, oh, this basketball player and so forth,
you change the subject form about Allah than
to basketball,
nothing against basketball, brothers and sister.
But about the celebrity, what they're starting, Nadim.
Get excited. They say, yes. I have his
picture. I have him. I know how much
he score. I know his number
excitements.
Other than him be mentioned, he will get
excited.
Yeah.
That's why Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
he used to make this taspee and dhikr
of Allah subhanahu alaihi all the time.
So that the name of Allah subhanahu alaihi,
and the dhikr of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
penetrate the heart.
If we read the sunnah of Rasulullah,
what he used to do as dhikr is
sufficient.
It's enough.
The other aya, I want
to have you to think about it.
And then I gave you a lot of
homework,
a lot of things to think of.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in Quran,
or those who believe worship your Lord. Why?
Why?
All human being, all people,
worship your lord, the one who created you.
The reason of submission of worshipping,
whom should you worship? The one who made
us.
Created us.
Can we wake up in the morning,
said Allahu Khaliqani?
As the used to say in this famous
hadith, and have it here in
What
the used to say in this dua?
Say it in this dua.
Created
me.
1
Aduk.
You created me, I'm
your servant.
You know,
in kingdoms,
when the king or queen
talk about one of their citizen citizen, what
were they used sometimes? Subject.
Subject.
Subject. And who the queen or the king
they're subject to?
Who are they subject to? If they're calling
other people their subjects.
Subject to Allah.
There's no one subject of anyone except Allah
Because Khalakhtani
Khalakhtani, you created me.
I mean, you serve it.
The the Dua, it is in your paper.
Say this to our fulsilfars everyday.
How many times you used to do tulsilfars?
70 times, another had to say 100 times
a day.
Who are we?
We need to do more tilfar.
And brothers and sisters, as we do more
is tilfar, we're gonna feel
the love of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in
the heart in our hearts.
We can have the connection with Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
He created you and those who before you.
You want to look to history?
You see, human being, mankind,
everyone
of them was a creature of
Allah What the purpose of creation?
What the purpose of Ibadah? Why we worship
him? For our own good, so that we
may achieve
righteousness. So that we may achieve righteousness.
Then he go to a bounties,
which is this exercise
I want you really to do.
He says he's the one who created the
Earth for you. See, for you, for me,
for you,
he created for us.
A place where we can walk, where we
can build homes, where we can sleep.
Where we can have countries, where we can
have
all of the things that we do on
it.
The stars and the moon and the universe.
He created all of
this.
When you talk about life, brothers and sisters,
don't don't talk about refrigerator,
don't talk about VCR, don't talk about cars,
Don't talk about even clothing.
When you talk about life, talk about basics.
The sun,
the heat,
the oxygen,
the water,
that's the basics. That's what sustain human being.
Now you know
Maryland
and restrictions
use of water now.
If you use your water more than you
need, it might get fine.
They're asking people because there is no rain,
rain.
There's not enough rain.
Basic things, can human being be able to
make that?
Now,
Allah subhanahu wa'ala at the end of this
ayah says, therefore don't make any partner. Don't
commit shirk.
Don't make anyone equal to him.
No one provide those things for you except
him. He's the one who provide the Earth.
Do
countries in Asia or in America made the
earth or made their own country
as a land?
No.
Vegetation.
As you eat the apple tomorrow,
don't think about seafood, please.
Don't think about shopper, please.
Don't think about Freshfields, please.
Don't think about other grocery stores. Think about
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
As you drink that bottled water, please don't
think about the spring water or this brand
name.
Look beyond those
like nice packages.
Who provided them?
We take it here for granted.
And that's why one of the thing I
realized when I come to United States,
that
and even when I lived in Arabia,
we become so
attached
to names
and companies,
we commercialize
everything.
You go buy milk.
You think about
the
container.
About what kind of it? Skin milk?
How much percentage?
Have you thought about the cow, about the
animal that the milk came from?
Have you thought about as as you get
the apple, you buy it from the grocery
store, about where it came from.
How when we sit in the dinner table,
and we have vegetables, and we have salads,
and we have breads, do we think it
would come from?
We don't.
Even as we get our money,
it's come paper. A check says that that
much amount of money. Therefore, the risk connect
to the paper,
the salary.
And the salary connect to a company and
the company connect to a boss, your boss.
And the boss connect to the company call
connect to Wall Street, and Wall Street to
the stock market.
Nothing that says Allah in it.
That's why
we take it for granted. We get
afraid
about our rizq
because it doesn't click.
There's so many hajub,
veils over veils over veils that allow us
even to contemplate and
think. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in Surat Al
Waka, he put a challenge to human being.
It is in the exercise.
That do you see the water you drink?
Who provide it for you?
Do you see the heat you have?
Now, by the way, people think that only
the fire that you you flame.
All the energies,
The electricity,
the the heat you have in your homes,
everything.
It's the law, subhanahu, that provide the energy.
What what did it come from? If it
come from gas, where the gas come from?
The electricity,
how come to existence?
Whatever we use,
we need
to take all the veils
and break all the curtains, and let us
see the reality
of things. Wallahi, Insha'Allah, I think if I
do this exercise and do this exercise,
tomorrow,
we can feel that we'll be better believers
because we become more connect with Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
You know Rasool Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam,
and I'll conclude by this. If you have
any question then we can ask. He has
Umar and Abu Bakr with him, Radha Allahu
Anhul.
Visiting a man from Ansar
at his home.
The man provided water for them, cold water.
Who have been in Hajj or Medina?
Raise your hand, please.
Okay. Now, Absar, how would the heat in
Madinah in the summertime
when you went?
The temperature was 110.
The hotel you stayed at does have air
condition?
The cab or the bus you took has
air condition?
Masjid al Nabawi
has air condition?
Now,
I'm just let me take you back to
history. Let us rule all of us 14,
15 century ago, and visit Medina.
No air condition,
no Safa hotel, or Taiba hotel, or, intercontinental,
all of these big hotels.
Not this very nice sheets
and rooms.
You got Masjidina where there's no air condition.
Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
was Abu Bakr Al Umrah.
They provide them cold water, so there's no
ice.
Now you go to someone home and says,
do you want ice in the water or
no ice?
Because they can make it colder for you.
That companions did not ask the prophet if
you want ice, brother.
He just provide the water that it filled
to the prophet cold.
Nice. Cool water. Cool water.
And he drank from it,
and he put it down and he said,
He looked to Abu Bakr and Omar in
their eyes.
And he said, oh people,
Allah who gonna ask you about this bounty
he give you, the water.
Umar said about the water? He said yes.
Muslim in the United said, how many nayim
you're gonna be asked about?
Go to any Safeway,
you find 100 type of cheese,
maybe 10 type of hummus,
Maybe 7 type of 20 type of bread.
We select, we read the labels.
Don't we?
We check the prices,
don't we?
We have that car full of grocery, nothing
wrong with that, don't we?
But do we think as we stand in
the line,
the person taking our items one after another
in the grocery bag,
Do you see anything that?
If you bring Abdul Rahman in
a rich companion has a lot of money,
drop him in America.
What you gonna think
with all the work he has in Medina?
A rich person in Medina,
the maximum food he will eat
is meat with bread. That's the luxury.
If you eat meat
in Medina,
luxury.
Used to be 1 month
in his house
and there's no food to be cooked.
There's no vegetable. There's no meat.
What he
has?
The best man walk on this earth,
depth and water.
You think about bounties?
Can we walk up in the morning
and look to our children and say?
Can we walk in the morning and look
to our hands and our body and say?
Can we walk to our refrigerator and operate
as we plow that milk? Say Alhamdulillah.
As we
use what Allah provided for us, doesn't he
deliver the shukr?
We
need to overcome this Hajjub.
And tomorrow
from morning
or from tonight,
make a declaration in the household,
Said we would like to be conscious of
Allah.
Can we do that?
Make a sign. Said this house is the
house of recognition
of Allah bounties.
From the child to the wife to the
husband, we want to count.
We want to recognize.
As we sit in the dinner table, and
we
put that bread,
we say it's the name of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
Can we do that?
I was asked myself and before you,
that by cleaning this veils
and cleaning this hijab,
you can feel the connection with Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
You become more grateful. You woke up in
the morning, and you can feel life.
Because you connect with the one who give
life, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. You can appreciate
it more.
The breathing, the walking, the talking, the eyes,
as you just look at yourself in the
mirror. You know what the prophet used to
do when he looked himself in the mirror?
Oh, praise to Allah, the one who fashioned
me and made me.
Praising Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Does he or he ask anyone that when
he do that and say, oh, I think
I look handsome today, I look beautiful. Maybe
I can, you know, have someone flutter with
me or can
see, that was the intention.
He tell us when we look to the
mirror, it says,
all praise to Allah. The one who fashioned
me in that fashion. So that I not
forget that as I walk out of the
house.
With all the cosmetic and plastic surgery and
all the, thing being spent in America,
There's no appreciation, because you want to be
look like somebody else. Even our color, you
all like to like to look someone else
color.
I would like to end here, and you
have
in
this
ayat
And the hadith
of Raul Sallallahu Alaihi wa Salam,
I would like you to do a when
you get in the morning. There's a dua
here.
Let us do one dua at a time
because as we go more in this class,
we're gonna learn the sunnah of Rasulullah.
How he used to make vikr.
When he woke up in the morning,
he used to say,
We reach the morning and still the dominion
and the kingdom is belong to Allah. There's
no change. There's no coup overnight.
No one have taken from
Allah.
We submit ourselves to Allah
Assha'allah, you have any issue of those exercise
I gave you.
Any question about them? You might ask before
we break for a issue. Yes.
Now.
Now. Question, not about the exercise. Yes. A
lot of people say that what you should
feel when you hear Allah or is but
the best Muslim is the one who fears
Allah.
So a lot of times it makes it
sound as Allah, we shouldn't be afraid of
him and,
like, the more you know him that we
should, like, fear him fear him more. And
there's not a lot of top of love
sometimes.
Inshallah, the whole session about Raja and Khawf.
About seeking Allah pleasure and seeking Allah mercy
and also being what?
Have kawf, fear
or afraid to disappoint him or fear of
his punishment, we're gonna talk about that.
My mercy is before my punishment. We're gonna
talk about that inshallah
in the whole session.
Now
Could you please read out for me the
Myself, I cannot even say it now. I'm
not.
Idols?
The sister asking
about idols worshiping.
Human being
attribute power to another human being. They think
that human being has power of control, can
give
harm
or can give good,
Or someone
feels someone so much that they think that
they can control their life.
Or someone
that have love of money
capture their heart.
A bed of money,
or you think that someone
in the level
are to be equal to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala in
asking him.
You cannot ask ask anyone except Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. You cannot,
have submit yourself except to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. This is the essence of worshiping, Ibadah.
Therefore, there's different people
worship. That's why rasulullah alaihi wa sallam said
to Ibn Abbas, he was 10 years old.
He said,
I'm gonna teach you few words. No big
lecture.
Be with Allah. Allah will be with you.
If you remember Allah subhanahu wa'ala, you find
him wherever you are in position or bad
time or hard time, you need Allah so
you find him there for you.
If you ask anyone, ask Allah. No one
else.
If you seek help, seek it from
Allah. If all people
gather
to give you something Allah said no to
it, they will not be able to do
so.
Unless Allah permit it.
If all of them gather to harm you,
they will not be able to do that.
Zat Allah subhanahu wa'ala said,
be. All pen I have, lift it, and
the book are dry.
Finished.
And up to 10 years old.
Can you imagine this? One of the thing
I will talk tomorrow about the Rasool.
It is this this characteristic of Rasool.
By the way,
Rasool, some of these hadith.
He will grab a companion,
and then talk to him beautiful hadith
that will enjoy.
This young man, it hap it happened that
he was behind Rasool Salam in his camel.
Then this beautiful hadith, 10 years old. He
didn't say, you are a young person, wait
until I give a lecture in the masjid,
you're gonna hear what I'm gonna say. Okay.
Yeah, Olam. Oh, young man, I'm gonna teach
you a few words. The Olam says,
I'm I'm all listening
was behind him in his camel.
You
know, also one time was walking with Mu'adh.
Said, yeah, Mu'ad,
should I teach you something? Mu'ad said, yes.
He could not every time he get a
little bit, he talk to the companions, tell
them, teach them something.
And we're going
tomorrow. I may not make it I'm not
making I mean, next Friday, I'm not making
any commercial
about this, but we're gonna we'd like to
learn about the Rasool Salam. Not only I
said of a hadith. I'm not gonna open
Rala Salihin or Buhari and read a hadith
for you, but I'm gonna tell you a
hadith and the story behind them.
So they become connected with persona of Rasa
Salihin or Bukhari and did a a hadith
for you, but I'm gonna tell you a
hadith and the story behind them. So they
become connected with persona of Rasa
When we leave here,
we become more in love with We
think of
When we drive, you say,
Muhammad because you're overwhelmed. There was a story
or something come hit your brain about rasa
salaam or your heart actually.
Then you
overwhelmed
and
said
That's for next Friday.
I like to conclude because we're gonna stop
now for Asia.
Oh, Allah, make our heart full of iman
of taqwa, of your remembrance, oh, Allah. Oh,
Allah, you ask you the best of this
night. Oh Allah, make us gain what is
we pleased you, oh Allah, in this night.
Oh Allah, make us stand and stay for
whatever might displease you in this night. Oh,
Allah protect us and our family. Oh, Allah
make us gather us in paradise. Oh, Allah
forgive our sins. Oh, Allah accept our dua.
Oh Allah accept our gathering.