Muhammad Salah – Fear Allah Wherever You Are – Zanzibar
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The speaker discusses the idea of being pious and how it can raise awareness about Allah's presence. They also mention a quote from the Prophet sallali alayhi wa sallam, which suggests that individuals will become pancakes and come down from heaven if they maintain certain characteristics. The speaker argues that this is an insurance policy for forgiveness and that forgiveness is a result of actions taken.
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Fear Allah and keep your duty to Him
wherever you may be at, wherever you are,
whether in public or behind closed doors, in
front of people who assume that you are
a pious person or behind closed doors.
This is something that if you take home,
if I take home and I try to
work on it, I will be simply very
a pious person.
Why?
Because that will raise the awareness of Allah's
presence in my heart, in my mind at
all time.
So I don't fall into the habit of
being good sometimes and otherwise some other times.
Double-faced or wearing mask before people, people
assume that I'm a super nice guy.
But otherwise in private or with my family
members, I'm a monster, God forbid.
And that's why the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam has said to his companions, You want
to be righteous?
Feel shy from Allah.
As much as you will feel shy in
front of one of the righteous people of
your clan, your tribe, you would feel reluctant
to say a bad word or to do
a bad act in front of him or
them.
Likewise, Having said so, that will take us
to the following advice.
Raising the awareness of Allah's presence at all
times doesn't necessarily mean that you or I
will end up becoming infallible or sinless or
as good as angels.
When Hanzala complained to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam, along with Abu Bakr, that they
experience this sometimes and sometimes they are very
righteous.
He said, By Allah, if you maintain the
condition of piety and righteousness that you maintain
whenever you're sitting with me, By Allah, if
you maintain this righteousness all the time, angels
would come down from heaven, will shake hands
with you while you're walking in the streets
and while reclining on your beds.
You know why?
Because you'll be as pure as angels.
But we're no angels, are we?
The Quran stated the fact that by nature
inclined into sinning.
And that's why the Messenger of Allah sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam acknowledged this fact.
He did not dismiss the possibility of committing
sins.
As a matter of fact, he said, By
Allah, if you guys do not commit sins,
Allah will take you away.
Why?
In order to bring a new patch of
people who will commit sins, then they will
say forgiveness and he will grant them forgiveness.
So this is an inseparable fact of our
reality.