Who Is The Most Honorable Amongst Us

May Allah bless you guys. Wallahi, I tell

you something very interesting.

When I was young, I was living in

Madinah Munawarra. I used to help volunteer to

the Hajj. I mentioned this yesterday in my

talk.

Help the and help the people and so

on.

And, that time now it's a bit better,

I think. But that time, 1992,

90 3, 94, and so on,

we used to be

immediately

immediately, we used to know where the Indonesians

are. Even if my eyes are closed, I'm

walking the building. I say, here there is

Indonesians.

I say, How do you know? I say,

Because I can smell gudangaram.

It's the cigarettes. Special It's special from this

country, right?

Yes.

May Allah bless. May Allah forgive.

It's a bad habit. We should quit it.

No matter how

how garam the gudang might be,

But it's a bad habit. In the same

way, any bad habits we quit them for

the sake of Allah. If you can quit

one for Allah, Allah will give you jannatul

firdaus.

If you can quit something for Allah, Allah

will grant you jannah. Look, I tell you

something.

Allah Almighty has granted jannah to those

who have quenched the thirst of a dog

for the sake of Allah. Allah gave them

jannah. When they felt compassion,

when they felt their hearts were soft, What

is my connection with a dog? Let me

tell you what is my connection with a

dog. Number 1, can we eat dog?

Haram. Right? You cannot eat. But my connection

with the dog is the one who made

me, he also made the dog.

Subhanallah.

You see? So, I need to be kind.

Pig, for example, we don't eat but I

cannot harm the pig because pig has life.

Some people, Muslims, they think because it's a

pig, I can throw stones, I can do

anything, I can hurt it. That's a pig.

No way.

Allah will punish you if you hurt anything

that has a soul

unnecessarily.

When I say unnecessarily, I mean if you

want to consume

something that is halal,

you need to follow a certain method

of

making it halal.

But to harm any animals or birds or

even the fish or the oceans or the

trees or the ecosystem,

and to create pollution unnecessarily,

and so on. Allah will hold you accountable.

This earth is not only yours, it belongs

to me and you in the same way.

All of us were born here on earth.

You are entitled to live just like I

am. You are the same as me. What

makes you close to Allah is something called

taqwa.

Suratulhujurah.

Allah says, O man,

we have created you from a single male

and female,

and from them we have caused you to

obviously

become multiplied in tribes, and communities,

and nations, and peoples, etcetera, etcetera.

Allah says, The most honored from amongst you.

The most honorable, the closest to Allah. The

one who has taqwa, is conscious of Allah.

He will be the most honorable. You have

a status.

And when you are close to Allah,

you do not think that I am better

than everyone else because that's

from the devil. What was shaitan's

first deviation? You know what it was?

When he saw Adam,

and Allah created Adam, and shaytan saw Adam,

he wanted to find an excuse not to

obey Allah's instruction. He said,

Anakayum

minhu. I am better than Him. Why should

I

prostrate here? I am better than Him.

Up to today, that better than him is

a problem with all of us.

It's a problem with all of us. When

you think I am better, that is the

very moment shaitan is holding you and massage.

Massage nicely. You are better. You are better.

You are the king. You are smart. Everyone

has nothing.

Right? May Allah forgive us.

A'udubillahi

sami ilaalimaminash

shaytanirwajeem.

May Allah Almighty

in him against shaitan the accursed.

in him against shaitan the accursed.