Moutasem al-Hameedy – The Worldy Life – Dont Let This Dunya Fool You
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What sets you apart as a nation is
what?
كُنتُمْ خَيْرَ أُمَّةٍ أُخْرِجَتْ لِلنَّاسِ You're the best
nation ever brought forth to mankind.
Why?
What makes you better?
Your name, your title, your ethnicity, your language?
No, none of that.
لَا يَغُرَّنَّكَ تَقَلُّبُ الَّذِينَ كَثَرُوا فِي الْبِلَادِ مَتَاعٌ
قَلِيلٌ Don't be deceived and deluded by what
the disbelievers have.
So we Muslims need to free ourselves.
If we are not free in our hearts,
we will not be free in our circumstances.
We're still living in this phase.
When we worship Allah, when we hold on
to the book of Allah, and we know
the reality of this life, and we never
worship this dunya because we know that Allah
created it as tools and means through which
we serve Him, and we worship Him.
Allah will bring the dunya to us.
Allah will bring the science to us.
Allah will bring technology to us.
Allah will bring wealth to us.
Because that's what the Prophet ﷺ said, مَنْ
كَانَتِ الْآخِرَةُ هَمَّهُ جَمَعَ اللَّهُ لَهُ شَمْلَهُ وَجَعَلَ
غِنَاهُ فِي قَلْبِهِ وَأَتَتْهُ الدُّنْيَا وَهِيَ رَاغِمَةً Those
who have Allah and the last day as
their main goal and ultimate goal, Allah will
bring their affairs together, and Allah will give
them a sense of abundance and wealth within
themselves.
And then Allah will bring the dunya to
serve them, even if it's against its will.
Because Allah created the dunya to help us
worship Him.
So when we fulfill that purpose, Allah allows
the dunya to fulfill that purpose, which is
to serve us, worship Allah.
But when we want the dunya for ourselves,
and we say, yeah, the Muslims have to
be strong.
Muslims have to be rich.
Muslims have to be educated.
حَقٌ أُرِيدَ بِهِ بَاطِلٌ It is true.
It's good for the Muslims to be wealthier,
generally speaking.
It's good for the Muslims to be more
educated.
It's good for the Muslims to be more
civilized in terms of technology.
That's true.
But are you seeking this for Allah or
are you seeking this for yourself?
But you just found a nice way to
sugarcoat it and put it under the umbrella
of Islam.
Do you treat other matters in Islam at
the same level of priority?
That would be a reality check.
So we Muslims need to free ourselves.
If we are not free in our hearts,
we will not be free in our circumstances.
If we're not putting Allah before everything, everything
we love, and everything we crave, and everything
we aspire.
If we don't make all of our personal
goals secondary to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
and what Allah wants, we're going to continue
to pay the price.
Yes.
We will continue to pay the price if
Muslims don't worship Allah properly, and they don't
make Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala their main
and their top priority.
If they get all the wealth in the
world, if they get all the science and
the knowledge and the technology in the world,
and if they dominate world's resources, will they
bring any goodness to the world?
No, by definition, no.
The name, the title doesn't guarantee anything.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told us
in order to free us from the captivity
of this world, لَا يَغُرَّنَّكَ تَقَلُّبُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا
فِي الْبِلَادِ مَتَاعٌ قَلِيلٌ Don't be deceived and
deluded by what the disbelievers have.
Power, wealth, technology, whatever they have, don't be
deceived by that.
It's all short-lived.
It's all temporary.
What sets you apart as a nation is
what?
كُنتُمْ خَيْرَ أُمَّةٍ أُخْرِجَتْ لِلنَّاسِ You're the best
nation ever brought forth to mankind.
Why?
What makes you better?
Your name, your title, your ethnicity, your language?
No, none of that.
It's the worship of Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
It's that you become a force of good,
enlightening people, guiding them to the truth, saving
them, freeing them from captivity for shaitan and
the soldiers and the servants of shaitan in
this dunya.
That's the excellence.
That's the source of excellence of the Muslim
ummah.
That's something we shouldn't forget.
That's something as parents we shouldn't forget.
That's something our children should never forget.
We need to know our place in the
world.
We've lost ourselves.
And the price that we pay is hefty.
The price our innocent brothers and sisters that
are dying, that are dying everyday, the price
they're paying is hefty.
اِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يُغَيِّرُوا مَا بِقَوْمٍ حَتَّى يُغَيِّرُوا
مَا بِأَنفُسِهِمْ Allah does not change the state
of a people until they have changed themselves.
أقول قولي هذا وأستغفر الله لي ولكم فاستغفروه