Mohammad Badawy – The Call of Duty- Answering The Call of Allah
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The importance of praising Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, the final messenger of Islam, is emphasized, along with fulfilling all responsibilities and duties to achieve his full duty towards Islam. acceptance of the call of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is also emphasized, as it is a sign of acceptance and guidance. The speaker emphasizes the importance of recognizing the call and not feeling distracted by distractions, as well as fulfilling duties and responsibilities for oneself and others.
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Indeed, all praises due to Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. We praise him. We seek his help.
We invoke him. We beseech him. We ask
him to send this salutation upon the prophet
Muhammad. Peace and blessings upon him. His companions
and whomsoever follow his footsteps until the end
of time, I be witness and testify that
there is no one worthy of worship but
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And I be witness and testify that Prophet
Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he is the final
and the last messenger.
I advise myself,
I warn myself before you all
to be conscious of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
to be fearful of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
to fear Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and be
mindful of him.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told us and warned
all of us and advised all of us
with his noble words, oh people of iman,
people of faith, fear Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
and do not die except in the scale
of submission to him.
And Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala also says,
O people of imam, people of fear. People
of faith, fear Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala and
speak the truth.
And whomsoever Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala guided him
or her to speak the truth,
indeed you will be
among the winners in this life.
And whomsoever obey Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and
his messenger,
they will be among the successful one in
this life and hereafter me. Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala makes
us among them.
To proceed, my restuqd brothers and sisters in
Islam,
I know the topic,
SubhanAllah,
expecting some delayed in flights and some traffic,
but we ask us we ask Allah
to make it easy for
people who are traveling and people who are
driving, and may Allah
grant all of us 15 hour lives.
Call of duty.
Our lives is full of responsibility
and duties,
but for my young fellows,
my friends and brothers who
grew up in
late seventies, early eighties, and so on and
so forth,
maybe they will assign or associate
the title to a game
or PlayStation or Xbox
because this is a famous
name that is called Call of Duty.
And we actually coming from overseas,
those who knows
the word of
towards you fulfill your duties towards your military
or your army and so on and so
forth.
That's why they created that game, and they
call it Call of Duty. You fulfill the
duties to towards certain missions that you have
to submit and you have to go through.
But that's not my
topic that I'm gonna talk about, Call of
Duties that is comes through
the games.
However,
the ultimate success
as we all know
when we fill our duty
towards Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and following the sunnah of the prophet Muhammad
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
and what comes in our lives.
So these three things, it's full of responsibilities
and full of duties that we have to
fulfill and we have to commit.
And Allah
command and ask,
and he ordered
all of us.
O people of iman, people of faith,
answer
the call of Allah
that is full of duty and responsibility.
And the messenger of Allah
whatever he asks you to follow and command
you to follow, it is your duty and
your responsibility
to follow.
And our lives,
it is full of duties and responsibilities.
Duties to our families,
responsibilities to our co workers,
to our communities,
to our
people who
we live with, the culture that we are
in.
There are too many
duties that we have to fulfill, but we
have to know
as Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
What is brought life for you?
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in a different
ayah, He says,
Answer the call of Allah before
death reaches
you.
What do you respect to brothers and sisters
in Islam?
In the acceptance of the call of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala,
the acceptance of his guidance,
and the acceptance of the message
delivered to us by the prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. Accepting
Islam,
it is not merely knowledge
what has been sent down to us or
upon us,
surrounding to the truth
and letting the truth
transform
our hearts and actions.
As we said, the aya
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, istajeebulillahi
walurrusu.
Answer the call of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and answer the call of the Prophet Muhammad
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala also promised those who
will listen to his call
and fulfill their duties
towards Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala towards His Messenger,
to the people that they live with.
Innama yastajibul ladheena
yasma'oon
wal mawtaa yaba'athuhumullah
Indeed,
those who will listen
and answer the call,
those who are pondering in their listening.
Those who will listen and accept the call
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, indeed they will
hear and they answer the call of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Accepting the call of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
means
embracing the guidance of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and the guidance of the Quran and the
sunnah of the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam
and every
aspects in our lives.
From our personal conduct
to our relationships,
towards our spouses,
towards our children,
towards our friends.
We have duties
and responsibility
towards our children.
We have duties and responsibilities
towards our scholars,
our ulama,
our ummah.
Duties and responsibilities
towards the system that we are living with.
What's my responsibility
towards the election?
What's my responsibility
to my fellows, and brothers, and friends, and
family who lives overseas?
What's my responsibility
and duties those who are keep calling us?
And We cannot do nothing
except we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to
make it easy upon them.
Accepting Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's call,
the essence of our religion
that we call
La ilaha illallah.
That there is no God but Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
And this declaration
carries profound meaning.
To accept Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala calls means
we willingly
and with him
to the wisdom and justice
of the creator of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
It is an act
of humility
showing submission to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
and the knowledge and the power
are supreme by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
and we are his servants.
But how do we know
that we accept
or have truly accepted Allah's call?
By examining our actions?
Are we living according
to the teachings
of the Quran and the sunnah of the
prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam?
The true acceptance
of the call of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
means
living in accordance
with his law,
striving to become better Muslim,
and consistently
seeking
his pleasure.
Accepting the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's
call.
Allah has pleased us with the guidance of
the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
The best example
that we are witnessing
his beautiful
month, Rabi'uul Awal. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
makes us among those
who honor
his legacy
by remember him and follow his guidance.
To accept the call of the prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam following his sunnah, teaching
teachings,
and actions,
and lifestyle.
Our prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam would
embody of mercy, justice, humility, and compassion.
He says none of
you shall have complete faith or believe until
your desires
are accordance with what I have brought.
The means we connect claims
to have true faith if we reject
the teachings of prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam or pick and choose
which parts
of his message
to follow.
Or we pick and choose
which one that is going to fit our
lifestyle
from the sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
The companions of the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam as soon as the Quran Quran revealed
to the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
in a certain circumstances,
certain situations,
you will apply it to their lives. 1
of the sahaba of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
He was married to
women
and
relationship
end to divorce.
After a certain time,
he desired her
and she desired him.
And he went back
to asking for her hands again.
But her in laws or his in law
give him a hard time to bring him
back.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala revealed Quran to the
prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And he says
in this ayah,
I like,
I desire
my spouse after
I divorced her.
I wanted her back to me.
She want me back to her
but the in laws doesn't want that to
happen.
His father-in-law
said, after you divorce her I'm not gonna
bring her back to you.
But the call of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
our duties and responsibility
towards this ayah
as Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
after you divorce woman,
and she became clearly
divorced from you.
Do not give them difficult time.
Each word explain it by itself.
I had the consultation. I sit with her,
and she said, I put my expectations
and get to know each others.
Do not make any obstacles for them to
bring them
back if both of them want each others.
And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
says,
beautiful ayah.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala comparing between those who
accepting the call of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and those who do not accept the call
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala will admit them to the Jannah.
And those who did not answer and reject
the call of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will put them in
a severe punishment. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
protect all of us.
Answering the call of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
answering the call of the prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam by all means
would not make you in loss in this
life.
It won't
make you distracted
by these distractions
that is full in this life.
It always keep you in the path,
it always keep you focus,
it always
make you in the right path
and make you always resilience with the straight
path of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
I ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala always to
guide us our hearts,
and we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to
make it easy upon all of us and
to make us among those who are accept
the call of Allah
and to fill the duties and responsibilities
towards Allah.
A scholar or a righteous man says,
reflecting
upon this life and how to fulfill our
duties
and responsibilities toward Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and
toward Azr,
towards
those who we have duriya for them or
among them, Those we have to fulfill our
duties
and accept the call of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala and the sunnah of the prophet Muhammad
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
He says,
swearing by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
If the creation of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
knows,
for what purpose that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
have created them.
If the creation of Allah,
if the human beings
knows what's their purpose
of their
creation,
they will never left in heedless
and they will never go
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala indeed
have created them for a great purpose.
If their hearts
or consciousness
are pondering
about the reason that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
had created them,
they would not be in loss.
Think about death.
Think about the grave.
Think about standing in front of Allah
Think about when we stand in front of
Allah
in humility.
Think about
the great
situations,
the stages, the levels
that when we stand in front of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, what's gonna happen?
To the day of resurrection, a lot of
people
are
wiggling and thinking,
pondering
for that day,
taking advantage of this day.
They do their work for that day.
They pray to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and
they fast for the sake of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
This is the reality
and the true statement.
When Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala asked us to
do something,
and we when we receive any
guidance for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala with the
sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Wa Ta'ala
Allah
subhanahu
wa
ta'ala
told us do not do this. All the
Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam told us do
not this.
Do this.
Like the people of the cave,
they were awake, but they were sleeping.
How many guidance that we follow from the
teaching of the Quran, how many guidance from
the sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad
What's our cause to our lives, to our
spouses, to our family, and so on and
so forth. I'm not talking to my brothers
only. I'm talking about sisters,
your
nobility and your responsibility
toward your parents,
how you fulfill them,
How you accept
them?
Again,
our lives
is full of duties that we have to
take it serious. Please, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and to be happy with ourselves that we
fulfill these duties and this call by answering
this call. Ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to
make us among those who have good life
in this dunya, allahu nameen, to have good
life in hereafter. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
resurrect all of us among the righteous one.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala elevate the suffering
from this Ummah. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
lift this harm from the humanity. May Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala
bring the Khayr for all of us
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