Moutasem al-Hameedy – The Worldy Life – Dont Let This Dunya Fool You

Moutasem al-Hameedy
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The speaker discusses the importance of being a Muslim nation to achieve wealth and success. They stress the need to free oneself from the culture of fear and confusion, and to not be associated with things that make one feel secure. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of pursuing a passion for Islam to achieve wealth and success.
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What sets you apart as a nation is

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what?

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كُنتُمْ خَيْرَ أُمَّةٍ أُخْرِجَتْ لِلنَّاسِ You're the best

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nation ever brought forth to mankind.

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Why?

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What makes you better?

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Your name, your title, your ethnicity, your language?

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No, none of that.

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لَا يَغُرَّنَّكَ تَقَلُّبُ الَّذِينَ كَثَرُوا فِي الْبِلَادِ مَتَاعٌ

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قَلِيلٌ Don't be deceived and deluded by what

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the disbelievers have.

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So we Muslims need to free ourselves.

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If we are not free in our hearts,

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we will not be free in our circumstances.

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We're still living in this phase.

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When we worship Allah, when we hold on

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to the book of Allah, and we know

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the reality of this life, and we never

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worship this dunya because we know that Allah

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created it as tools and means through which

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we serve Him, and we worship Him.

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Allah will bring the dunya to us.

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Allah will bring the science to us.

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Allah will bring technology to us.

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Allah will bring wealth to us.

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Because that's what the Prophet ﷺ said, مَنْ

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كَانَتِ الْآخِرَةُ هَمَّهُ جَمَعَ اللَّهُ لَهُ شَمْلَهُ وَجَعَلَ

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غِنَاهُ فِي قَلْبِهِ وَأَتَتْهُ الدُّنْيَا وَهِيَ رَاغِمَةً Those

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who have Allah and the last day as

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their main goal and ultimate goal, Allah will

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bring their affairs together, and Allah will give

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them a sense of abundance and wealth within

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themselves.

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And then Allah will bring the dunya to

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serve them, even if it's against its will.

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Because Allah created the dunya to help us

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worship Him.

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So when we fulfill that purpose, Allah allows

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the dunya to fulfill that purpose, which is

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to serve us, worship Allah.

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But when we want the dunya for ourselves,

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and we say, yeah, the Muslims have to

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be strong.

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Muslims have to be rich.

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Muslims have to be educated.

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حَقٌ أُرِيدَ بِهِ بَاطِلٌ It is true.

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It's good for the Muslims to be wealthier,

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generally speaking.

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It's good for the Muslims to be more

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educated.

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It's good for the Muslims to be more

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civilized in terms of technology.

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That's true.

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But are you seeking this for Allah or

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are you seeking this for yourself?

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But you just found a nice way to

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sugarcoat it and put it under the umbrella

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of Islam.

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Do you treat other matters in Islam at

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the same level of priority?

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That would be a reality check.

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So we Muslims need to free ourselves.

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If we are not free in our hearts,

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we will not be free in our circumstances.

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If we're not putting Allah before everything, everything

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we love, and everything we crave, and everything

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we aspire.

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If we don't make all of our personal

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goals secondary to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,

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and what Allah wants, we're going to continue

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to pay the price.

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Yes.

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We will continue to pay the price if

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Muslims don't worship Allah properly, and they don't

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make Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala their main

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and their top priority.

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If they get all the wealth in the

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world, if they get all the science and

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the knowledge and the technology in the world,

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and if they dominate world's resources, will they

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bring any goodness to the world?

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No, by definition, no.

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The name, the title doesn't guarantee anything.

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And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told us

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in order to free us from the captivity

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of this world, لَا يَغُرَّنَّكَ تَقَلُّبُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا

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فِي الْبِلَادِ مَتَاعٌ قَلِيلٌ Don't be deceived and

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deluded by what the disbelievers have.

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Power, wealth, technology, whatever they have, don't be

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deceived by that.

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It's all short-lived.

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It's all temporary.

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What sets you apart as a nation is

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what?

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كُنتُمْ خَيْرَ أُمَّةٍ أُخْرِجَتْ لِلنَّاسِ You're the best

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nation ever brought forth to mankind.

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Why?

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What makes you better?

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Your name, your title, your ethnicity, your language?

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No, none of that.

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It's the worship of Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala.

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It's that you become a force of good,

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enlightening people, guiding them to the truth, saving

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them, freeing them from captivity for shaitan and

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the soldiers and the servants of shaitan in

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this dunya.

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That's the excellence.

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That's the source of excellence of the Muslim

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ummah.

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That's something we shouldn't forget.

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That's something as parents we shouldn't forget.

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That's something our children should never forget.

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We need to know our place in the

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world.

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We've lost ourselves.

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And the price that we pay is hefty.

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The price our innocent brothers and sisters that

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are dying, that are dying everyday, the price

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they're paying is hefty.

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اِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يُغَيِّرُوا مَا بِقَوْمٍ حَتَّى يُغَيِّرُوا

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مَا بِأَنفُسِهِمْ Allah does not change the state

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of a people until they have changed themselves.

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أقول قولي هذا وأستغفر الله لي ولكم فاستغفروه

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