Muhammad West – Surah Mulk #3

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La Habra cattle, just like Luffy thank you so much for joining us tonight. Number 24 of this year's
Ramadan and spent a lot getting closer to the end of Ramadan. And is the time as we reach the end of
Ramadan to start not only intensifying in Nevada and, you know, seeking out Allah's mercy, it's also
starting to think about life after Ramadan starting to think about am I achieving those objectives
of Ramadan but at the beginning we had a goal and that was to have Taqwa of Allah. And we'll talk a
		

			little bit about what it what that means. And I look at the economic analysis of this 30 days, or 29
days of fasting, Amanda has a goal in mind. It's not just a diet, it's not just a fad that you go
through when you go back to the way things work. It is about a life changing experience. And so that
at the end of Ramadan, what you what you hope to get this taqwa. And therefore our relationship with
Allah subhanho wa Taala has to be different for this Ramadan to be successful. If we go back to the
same, same habits, same routines. If our relationship with Allah was the same as it was before
Ramadan began, then, you know, my bond did not achieve its full impact. Yes, we might still get the
		

			rewards of Ramadan, we might just have fulfilled the obligation of fasting. But the true benefit in
the essence of it was not achieved. And so now as we have basically a week to go into Ramadan, it is
to ask ourselves, have we changed, even if it's a small way, some may change in a big way might last
longer than that for us? Would the day of eat bring about a different meal. And that is a
conversation that all of us need to have. Now before you know this hormone ends, and if we ever need
achieved, this is the best time this is the best time to achieve it. Also, it is it is as we get to
the last few days of Ramadan. For those who maybe did not capture Ramadan in its seriousness, and
		

			you tend to wake up late, you might feel it, you know, I wasted a few days, and you might begin to
feel despondent. That's one of the ways in which shape on deflators he tells us at the beginning,
you've got a lot of time, don't worry, don't worry, you've got a lot of time. And then when you
finally wake up, it is too late. You don't have enough time you might as well just enjoy it. It's
over like that students are studying for an exam. You know, we need your license. Oh my goodness, I
have a lot to do and I only have a night to to lift, it's easy to feel demoralized is it? Well,
what's the point? At this time it you know, even if we had one night to go even if you had one hour
		

			left of Ramadan, that might be the hour that changes your life that might be the hour we almost
paranoid Allah accepts that you are, you know, the prophet of Islam also tells us out of his mercy a
lot also judges how we end the action. So if we end up on a high, even if the beginning wasn't so
good, the middle wasn't so good enough, strong enough, well, that our last panel data smooths over
and he and He rewards the deed based on the best portion of it. So as if the entire deed is Any word
on that one night where you will really see this and so inshallah with one week to go to really,
really focus as all our efforts and our energies, it's also a reminder that it's the time for
		

			every single person who has enough food in his house for the day of eat is required to to contribute
as a cattle fitter, even if you are struggling, but if you have enough in your house, for your
family for the day of aid, then it is to also give charity to someone else. And it's just we said 40
Rand per person in your household, maybe it's a bit difficult now because you can't go to the most
you can do these things online will simply go to the shop, buy something buy a few kilos of rice and
give it out to someone that is deserving and each other that is your use a calculator. Tonight
inshallah we only going to talk about one if so that is out of suitable for this evening. And
		

			Subhanallah this link ourselves up to this idea because this is the only I in the whole surah Allah
speaks about forgiveness and reward. So there's a lot of warning that's going to come in the surah,
there's going to be a lot of reflection contemplation, we already spoke about janam. But yet there's
only one is about mercy and about rewards and about forgiveness only one eye. And you know, once
upon a time I asked why is that? Because most of the time and if you read if you read the Quran,
Allah subhanaw taala balances his reward, with punishment and punishment with reward warning with
forgiveness, there's always this link between the two. But in this sort of there's a bit of almost a
		

			disproportionate discussion about janam. And just one idea about the word meaning one of the ways
and one of the seeds of the reason for that is, and that is showing that there are many ways many
paths of misguidance. But there's only one way, there's only one way to achieve success. So let's
link up what we've discussed so far in this work to how we reach this If so, Allah subhanaw taala
remember, he began by speaking about the kingdom about the heavens about looking into into the
universe, looking at the creation and this is a common motif within the Quran, especially those
Muslims who are as well as fancies before you. Before I talk about Allah. Just look at the creation
		

			and look at how perfect it is. And what challenges you look if there's any mistakes in it is
anything out of the ordinary is any inconsistency in it. And you would find again and again for
Gilboa, Soraka, rotini look again and again, you will eventually give up searching for any kind of
faults within the in the summer. And eventually you will be humbled and you will realize that this
is in perfect harmony. And once you realize that there is a pattern, once you realize that there is
harmony, once you realize that there is intelligence, this design this purpose in the universe, you
know, just logically it should tell you that the is
		

			As a creator, a designer, a one behind it. And the next logical step is to say, Well, if everything
in the universe has a purpose, and everything has a function, well, what is my purpose and my
function? Am I just here without, without reason? Am I an accident? Surely there has to be more than
this life. And that is what Allah subhanaw taala wants us to lead to, I mean, that's what's out, the
thinking should go. And from there, we should seek out our purpose. And ultimately, it is to connect
with Allah. But then you have those who don't think about it, they don't look at the universe around
them, they don't consider the consequences of the actions, they just love for the day, for the
		

			moment, they just give into every desire, they only do whatever makes them feel happy. And that is,
that is really the only barometer The only compass in their life is that which I want to do, it's me
and myself, and that what makes me happy. And so they live a life without any key or any concern.
They live a life as if though, there is no ultimate purpose, and there is no consequences. And so
all those policies for such a group of people that they don't listen, and they don't, they don't
think then they will end up in this, our samosir in a terrible, horrible ending a lot. You know, if
we looked at those verses of Jana we spoke about yesterday, I wouldn't speak about them, Bernie
		

			didn't speak about what's going to happen to them. Allah only spoke about what the place that they
go into is like, the sound in that place, the fire in that place, very great that they would feel.
And so after this test is over, and they failed the test, after they failed the test and ramola
spoke about this, this life is a test. They failed the test. Now they are reflective. Now, their
reasoning now they are thinking their whole life, they did not reason or deflect, and then they say
to themselves, why didn't I just listen? I've been you know, so many people told me the so many
people warned me about way I'm hated to, and I did not listen. And even if I didn't listen, because
		

			sometimes it's difficult we as people, we don't like to listen, we have this natural inclination,
this natural instinct to want you to tell me, I know what none of your business is my life I live
how I want to live. So even if you don't want to listen to anyone, at least listen to yourself.
Alesis when when all speaks about the reasoning, listen to that voice inside of your own head, that
surely, surely, if I die, there has to be more to it than my life, there has to be some reason why
I'm so so these people have janam they will think why did not listen on all those conversations,
they would have all those lectures, all those reminders that they rejected, I didn't listen to
		

			those, why not listen to those people? And they will say even if I didn't listen to them, why didn't
they even listen with my own self, and I would not end up here. So unless Pandora speaks about the
the path to getting to, to get into that horrible ending, is by living a life without consequences,
living a carefree life? And therefore the answer to to not being the easy one having concern having
consciousness having fear. And therefore we need to talk before to get into the if we need to have a
conversation of fear. We live in an age we, when we talk about Islam, when we give Dawa it's very
difficult to talk about fear. It's also almost unpopular to talk about fear and punishment and
		

			gentlemen, because every time you speak about these things, it's as if though you have this mindset
that Oh, that's all that Islam is about. That's all that the Quran is about is about punishment. and
gentlemen, yes, maybe in the past, and he's maybe certain certain ways in which we present Islam is
too focused on those things. But it is part of the guidance. And in our day and age, we, we feel
like we can control and I'm free, I can listen to whenever I feel like listening to I can say
whatever I want on social media, no, there is no fear of repercussions. I read what I want to read
and if I don't like it, I read it. I don't like the spot. So as I read the Quran, you know, these
		

			verses about mercy and kindness and gender, I like those things, but the part of janam and
consequence I don't like those things. And so it's almost like I can write it on amazon.com you
know, five stars for this part of the Quran and two stars for that part of the Quran, we don't have
a choice in the matter. And you know, fear. Fear is not something it's not done as a as a way of
demoralizing or putting someone down. Fear when it comes from a place of love, it is of concern and
that is the language of the Quran wants you to understand. So when you look at a parent, when they
teach the young child so as we grow up, our parents tell us to be afraid of many, many things to be
		

			careful of many things, think about a fire and that is exactly what I was doing. You tell the child
you bring the child close to the fire and you say look, it's hot. If you go near it you're going to
burn and before you even touch it you're going to burn but if you get too close you might go inside
it the same way we tell our kids you know if you don't brush your teeth, your teeth are gonna get
rotten you're gonna have to end up going to the dentist but if you talk to a stranger you know
things are going to be bad for you. So this feel you know why do we do this? Do we do it to to to
psychologically scar our kids? Do we do it to upset them? No, we do this because we are concerned
		

			and care for them because we love them the time at times. We need to speak about the things we don't
want to hear. We need to tell people the things they don't want to hear because we love them It
comes from a place of love. Yes they are those people that always want to put you down not because
they're concerned about you. You might have this uncle that you know whenever you need, they never
they to help you. But the minute you've messed up they'll be the first one you know to crap on you.
That isn't a real concern. That is someone you know, being horrible a loss of
		

			Data when he speaks about jahannam, and he speaks about the punishment, it comes from a place of
love, it comes from Allah subhanho wa Taala, wanting us to succeed, but also letting us know the
reality of life that he has given us choice. And with choice comes consequences, that there are
paths to take, you know, some paths will lead to gender, and some positive you need to, to join
them. And this is the reality, and we can't escape that reality. And so if we look at how we have a
conversation of fear, with our, with our kids, we connect actions with consequences if you do this,
this bad thing is going to happen. And you know, small children, and they just reflections of US
		

			Small children Alhamdulillah, especially when we teach them Islam, they love the things we love,
they do the things we do, they don't like the things we don't want to do. They like mothers, so if
your parents, you know, if you like a certain sport, then you know, your son's going to grow up, and
I'm going to play for the team one day, you know, you ask the kids, what do you want to do, I want
to be like that, I want to be like, Mom, I want to be like my teacher. So they just, they just
follow on what they see from the parents. And they will naturally be fearful of the things that you
tell them to be fearful. Of course, as they get older, and they start becoming young, young adults.
		

			Now Islam doesn't have this concept of adolescence, we don't have an in between a child and an
adult, we have young adults, so you go from a child, and very quickly, you become an adult. And as
you become an adult, you start to form your own opinions, you start to have your own interests in
your own fears, and your own concerns and your own worries, and your own desires and your own hopes.
And you always want to move away from being out of the shadow of your, of your parents. And this is
a very challenging time now, especially when we want to bring about the fear of Allah and
consciousness of Islam into someone at that age. Now, at that age, you know, when you start forming
		

			your own views and your own opinions, one of the challenging things is to actually link actions to
consequences because many of the things that we want our kids against as young, you know, young
adults, the consequences you don't see immediately, like, you know, if you don't study, if you don't
work hard in your school, in 1015 years time, you're gonna see the results, you're gonna see the end
result of that, when you can't make ends meet, that if you have bad friends, now, you're just having
fun today, you just go into a party today. But you will see the long term effects of that bad
relationship, a romantic relationship that is so good for you, you might feel the benefits today.
		

			But in the long run, this is going to be miserable at the end drugs, for example, as well, I mean,
that's a very clear one, that you will feel a high right now you will feel good right now. But it's
the consequences at the end of the day is going to be difficult. And it's so hard to to explain to
somebody and not just young people, it's one of us to explain to someone, the long term effects of
something when we can't see the effects immediately, when it's difficult for us to internalize that
this thing is bad for me and I need to take into take precautions. And so it's a very different way
in which we teach young adults about the fear and the consequences of Allah subhanaw taala, then
		

			children, and many of us have had a lot, you know, we go through stages we go through, you know,
stages in our lives. As kids, we just follow on what our parents did. And if we were in a certain
environment, we fall into that, as we grew up, we made our own views our own opinions. We may be
Didn't we often many of us, most of us as we go through our adolescent boy or young adult stages,
mostly, except for the very, very few lucky people, we end up worse off than we then we did we did
most often in our teenage years and our young, early 20s, before we came back on the on the street,
but this is the this is the norm unfortunately. And that is why one of the people that are shaded
		

			under the throne of ultimative gamma is one of these a person in those years, that that are Stoke
that are conscious of Allah, they are actually better in those years that they are close to Allah
subhanho wa Taala in those years, and that is why it's such a difficult thing to do. Because the
vast majority, like you know, 90% of us go off the rails and then we come back. And we tend to come
back a number of reasons. You know, there's even an interesting study that your brain is not yet
fully developed the part of the brain that actually deals with understanding consequences, and
making sound judgment only fully formed to the age of 25. And so you have
		

			it also corresponds to the time when your hormones and your desires and at lower self is raging it
is it is so strongly so powerful at that time. And these are linked Li for between being conscious
and outcome of the outcomes of things and your desires. So we see in Ramadan very clearly. And
Ramadan is very clear as we subdue our desires. By fasting, it's easier also for us to build a
connection with Allah subhanho wa Taala. And therefore, in our teenage years, when our you know,
hormones are raging, it's so difficult to drown those urges out with something that is that seems
long term, you know, Jana, Jana, Alice, these these are things that seem so far away, they almost
		

			seem, you know, in the distant future. But right now all I have that I'm worried about is being
socially accepted by my friends, that romantic relationships in my life, living for the now those
things are so powerful, and so Subhanallah by the mercy and the grace of Allah many, many people
become serious later on in their life, you know, maybe after they get married
		

			After they have a job, they actually stabilize that the hormones become calm. And maybe it's because
we've made our mistakes. And only after we've made our mistakes, and now we become those adults that
live with so much worry, we worry about paying bills, we worry about our kids, we worry about so
many things that honestly become so worried in our life and we realize how little control I have,
you know, I'm not in control, I could lose my job tomorrow. And because you've seen the consequences
of the ugly side of life, that is when you come back and you realize the only thing that can keep me
safe. The only way that I'm successful is I need to, I need to be on a path that brings me the
		

			success and the only way to learn is Allah subhanho wa Taala. And so having fear is a major part of
being a successful human being measured from an Islamic perspective. And it should lead to positive
change. The fear is not about being scared. It's a big difference between being fearful and cautious
and being scared. And so if we go into the ayah, Allah subhanho wa Taala tells us so often speaking
about those who have went astray, and they ended up you know, the the endpoint was this horrible
place, a loss panda wants to tell you the secret of success, and that's why he puts it to the only
one ayah in this whole Swaraj because it's the secret Allah says in the living as shown on
		

			Bumblebee, lahoma 00 kB, that valley, those who have Harsha and the translation, most of the
translation was a fear. And that's not a good translation. But let's use the word Harsha. I was
really people. Those who have the quality of Harsha for the unseen load for the loaded they cannot
see for them is a muffler for them is forgiveness. It is a prediction, what can be a huge, huge
reward in the end. So Allah says, the only way out is for someone to have a harsh year of Allah
subhanho wa Taala. And, and this brings us into this concept of how do I in how do we introduce a
las panatela in our life because hatia is it does come from a connotation of being fearful and many
		

			times again, the criticism is, is that the only relationship I have with Allah is one of fear. So
we'll talk about that in a minute. But let's break this down into detail. So the word Allah says
indeed Verily, meaning that this is a promise. This is a law with a lot take it as a given that if
you have Harsha, you will be successful, that if you have Harsha in Allah, you will be forgiven and
your life will be good and you will get to gender. It is a promise from Allah subhana wa Dhana.
Anyone with a quality of Harsha is going to succeed. So what is Harsha Harsha is different to fear.
Because in the Quran, Allah Subhana Allah says that he believes is in need of Allah. He believes in
		

			the Quran. I fear Allah, in fact, he believes is perhaps more afraid of Allah than we are. Because
he's seen the consequences of Allah. He's seen the angels, but he's fear does not bring about a
positive change. So he's genuinely afraid of Allah, but he does not change him in the positive hatia
is a concern. It is having key it is having a worry, that forces you to take proactive steps to
improve yourself and before to make positive change. That is what Russia is. And the outcome of
Russia very closely is this thing of taqwa, this thing that we want to achieve at the end of
Ramadan? That what does it mean to fear Allah? It means to have a a with fire is taking a precaution
		

			that saves you. So the to go hand in hand. Harsha is about understanding that there are consequences
to being fearful of the consequences. And then taking proactive steps is the taqwa and they go hand
in hand. You must have Harsha and when that leads you to to correcting yourself and they will as
many of us policies, the healthy way of fearing Allah is shown in in taqwa. When asked about to
explain this thing of taqwa is very deep, deep discussion about taqwa.
		

			One of the Sahaba sets a number on the line when you understand taqwa taqwa is like someone that is
walking through a thorny bush. And so what would you do when you walk through a bush of thorns?
		

			You know, a patch that is thorny. You do you pull your clothes in close. You watch every step so as
not to step on the phone. And that is what taqwa is. It is about being cautious about every step you
take. And so, when we start talking about Allah subhanho wa Taala only in the sense of being
vengeful, being spiteful, being angry being punishing, you know, that takes away a lot of the
essence of what taqwa is and Harsha is that you can have concerns. I'm the same way a parent has
concerns for the children. What do you like Madonna? We can't give her any kind of analogies. But I
paid and when they speak about being fearful or scared for the children, it is not one of you know,
		

			I'm looking to harm me physical harm. It's about it's so many so much. The consequences are so so
much broader and therefore it is about when we have fear and we are concerned about Allah. It is
about being concerned that you know Allah subhana wa Tada. We will not have a relationship with Him
will never come to know him. We will never have his mercy in our life. We won't have his prediction,
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			Going out there, knowing that you could take all the precautions, but without the protection of
Allah, you know what's going to happen and looking at all the things that's out of your control. And
if you don't have that, that relationship with Allah who's going to assist you. And then of course,
a big part of the posture is my ultimate destination, where am I going to end up? And so Allah
subhana wa tada sees the Lord unseen. Why? Because it's easy to fear the lion in front of you, it's
easy to fear the fire in your face, but to be conscious about something which you cannot see
something which is even might not even be in this life, the consequences are not seen in this life,
		

			it is in a life after I die. I mean, that is the that is the challenge. That is the test. So Allah
says that if you are able to reason and think about the consequences of the life beyond what you can
see today, for that person, the success, the is forgiveness, and the is is the reward. And that is
what Allah says, The Lord and seeing this is the challenge. And so our purpose in our life in that
in that Hadith of the sun, so again, it links beautifully at the beginning of this surah Allah says
Lena Bella welcome, you can ask Allah who will have the highest quality of of deeds the best? This?
Yes. And when the prophets of Salaam was asked to explain what does your son mean? He said, his son
		

			is to live your life as if though you could see Allah subhana wa Tada, how would we live? If we
could see Allah subhanho wa Taala? in everything that we did, how would we speak to our wives? How
would we use? You know, how would we use our phones? when everyone's asleep? What are we what what
sites would be? What would we be viewing? If Allah was in front of us? What choices would we make,
and that is a person who lives with that kind of consciousness is successful. In fact, he has the
highest level of success he has the quality of your time. And so all of this if you live like this,
being conscious of Allah as much as possible, then even though you cannot see him, then for you is
		

			forgiveness number one, and a great reward. So why does Allah mentioned forgiveness because before
we get the reward, you know, the reward is gender, the reward is being close to Allah before we get
the the weeds, the imperfections need to be taken away. And for some Allah protect us, that
imperfection is taken away through hardship through the calamities in their life, and maybe through
the punishments, but for others, and this is what we hope for in that I'm alone, Allah doesn't have
to have to make us pay for our mistakes, he can just forgive it. And so if I truly fearful a person
who is truly close to Allah, they get the sins forgiven, just by alone making a fool and that's
		

			beautiful while we make in this time alone in the car for a while you erase the sins, the mistakes
that are doing this, the imperfection in my life, you love to erase so erased from us. And for me,
for us, all of us erase that mistakes, let our records be clean, and so that we are eligible to
intergender without any any repercussions. And so this is this is what we want. And so a lot and so
it's beautiful allowances for them is a gym can be a big reward, a great reward. And that contrasts
those people that sit to them in their in their lives, people told to them you are feed or adding
Kabira you are on big misguidance you are wrong big time. So unless they in fact are going to get a
		

			big reward now very closely linked to this entire conversation and the whole concept of this Harsha
is about having a relationship with Allah and supprimer all of us are in different stages in our
relationships with our any changes in fluctuates today we're feeling very close to Allah. Tomorrow
in my field at distant from Allah. Sometimes we forgotten Allah for for periods of time, we've come
back sometimes we've we've we've had a relationship with Allah, we can remember times when we're
crying and we were sincere. And now we just we almost feel like we stuck we did. And so how do we
how do we get that there might be some people smile a lot. They have on the outside, they perform
		

			this allowance because they've been pressurized, you know, the parents tell them to do so they reach
a certain way. But deep down, there's just nothing I don't feel any connection to Allah. I don't
feel any connection to Islam. It's just all external. So how do we get to that point we, you know,
Islam, Allah subhanho wa Taala is the priority in my life, that everything that I do every choice I
make, it is the highest priority in my life. Allah subhanho wa Taala is the center and Subhanallah
when you see people like that nothing fazes them, nothing harms them, nothing, they don't worried
about money, they don't worried about what's going to happen. Because things like I'm good with
		

			Allah, if I'm good with Allah, that Allah is going to be good with me that the ups and downs in life
that everyone experiences, they are contented they are at peace, and you find other people who don't
do not have a relationship with Allah. And again, the link between your heart just has so much
capacity for for dunya of Allah, if there's too much dunya too much desire, too much enjoyment.
There is no space for Allah and the for the people that have the most fun and the most enjoyment,
the most.
		

			Fame, the most money, many of them, they don't have a law and they live a miserable life. Look,
statistically, the countries that have the highest suicide rates are not the places where people are
starving to death. It's the places where people have the highest GDP per capita, the places
		

			We have the highest levels of atheism, they are also the people on the highest levels of
antidepressants, the people that are most miserable because something is missing in their life. And
so our it comes down to our relationship with Allah. So for many of us, unfortunately, our
relationship with Allah is almost transactional, we like a buyer and a seller with Allah subhanaw
taala. When I need something, I speak to him so I can get something, I need this job, I need a
house, I want a spouse. And so now I'm, I'm speaking to Allah because I want something or if
something bad in my life has happened, now I need Allah subhana wa tada to intervene. And if you
		

			look at your relationships in your life, for the relationships that are not important, you know,
your relationship with your, with your work, for example, or the shop on the corner, it's
transactional, I give you something, you give me something, and that's it. But if you don't give me
anything, that I don't give you anything. But if you look at the beginning relationships, and again,
like my daughter, Alicia Prince you have with your mom, or with your wife, with your husband,
hopefully, it's not transactional, you don't do things, you don't do things for your mom sake,
because you hope that she's going to give you breakfast in the morning, you do it because you
		

			genuinely love her, that you relationship, you want to strengthen it and improve it and increase it
with time. As a new mom, many times you find a marriage that isn't going well. The people, the
couples will sit between you and then the husband will say tell her what the rights of the husband
is. And she will tell her about the what to do to me as a wife. This is not a relationship anymore.
It's a transactional business agreement. You give me stuff I give you stuff, it's not a marriage
anymore. And so our relationship with Allah, if it doesn't exist, is this transactional, then it's
very weak, and we need to get to the next level. And how do we get there? How do we get there, and
		

			why this is so important in our day, our time right now is because we have surrounded ourselves, we
live in a time where you are exposed to everything that if your heart is empty, is going to be
filled with materialism is going to be filled with some ideology that is wrong, it's going to be
filled with just enjoying yourself, live your life and enjoy yourself and Subhanallah we cannot
avoid it anymore. We need to fill our heart with the relationship with Allah to keep us safe and
livable in this dunya. Because if we don't have that, if we don't have a lot, you know, hot it, it
will be filled with something else. And no amount of family patient, no amount of fear of janam or,
		

			or worries about things that are not important. If you don't have the love of Allah in your heart
and the relationship with Allah with the heart. It's not, it's not going to save us in the world
that we live in. So how do we build a relationship with Allah? How do we get them. And again, as I
explained this, I really like method Allah, we don't make any analogy with Allah subhanho wa Taala.
But the only way for me to, for us to understand is to look at how we build a relationship with with
anyone else in the dunya whether it is your parents, your kids, your loved one, if you want to build
a relationship based on love, how do you do that. And the relationship with Allah is based on three
		

			components, it's based on love, it is based on hope, and it's based on fear and you need all three
of them. If you don't love Allah subhanho wa Taala. And then then there is if there is no love
between you and Allah subhanho wa Taala, then there is no relationship with you in almost every
important relationship in your life, if you had to describe what is your relationship with your
parents, your kids, your spouse, the first thing you would say it is enough that if this thing was
not there, I would be miserable. If this thing was absent from my life, then I would be I would be
devastated. If I didn't have my parents or my kids or my wife or the things that I love that was
		

			gone, I would feel it. And so the first thing that that you want to have is that if Allah was absent
from me, I don't know where I would go. And of course, it is the love that is the highest level of
love, that I can lose everything. But if I lost Allah Subhana Medina, then that is the biggest loss.
The second one is hope. You always hope for getting closer to Allah hope for more hopeful benefits
in your life, that no matter how bad things are almost always going to be there for me that even
though I have turned away from Allah, Allah subhanho wa Taala will come to me and bring me back
again and he has mercy. So we must have hope. Because without that hope, and all you have is fear,
		

			you will become a person that you know those people that are so religious, and they only about salah
and worship, but they have no kindness in them, that they are rude and they are abrupt and they are
aggressive. That is not the kind of relationship that you should have with Allah makes you a nasty
person. And the other side is if you only have hope and no fear, then you have no fear of
consequences. You live your life as you want. And it's just a carefree life. So how do we build how
to develop the sense of love, hope and fear and Allah number one, all relationships need to be
worked on understand the relationship doesn't just happen, it develops, even those relationships
		

			that you are constantly exposed to, you have to work on it and it develops over time. And so we have
to work on our relationship with Allah subhanaw taala remember this relationship unlike other
relationships, which are a two way thing Allah does not need us. Allah says at the beginning of the
of the sort of the battle quality that all the goodness is with him that you cannot increase Him in
His goodness, your relationship all these things always telling us is about our success. And and for
our
		

			benefit, the relationship that he has with us is only for our benefit. It does not diminish him, it
does not increase him. And so we need to work on it. How do you what things do you need to do? You
need to get to know the object of your affection. If you want to get to know if you want to have a
relationship with something you need to know and get to learn about Allah subhanho wa Taala Allah
says in the Quran, in the Maya lemon Abadi Allah, that is the amount that should have the most
consciousness of Allah, Allah doesn't mean you need to be part of the MTC. Oh, you have to be a
Mufti, whatever it means, the more knowledge you have, this should lead you to Allah subhanaw taala
		

			both secular knowledge, you know, Islam doesn't have this concept of secret or knowledge. It is
having true knowledge, and especially religious knowledge, knowing what Allah subhanho wa Taala is,
leads you to that and in that alone is a big lesson for us. How much priority have we given to our
Islamic knowledge, you know, Subhana Allah keep struggling to madressa as you know, as simple and as
basic as madressa is, they stopped going at the most critical time in their life and that is when
when they make these big informed decisions about the life they're going through the teenage years,
we forgot, you know, when we stop saving for the day, so why because school is more important and
		

			the extracurricular activities, the violin lessons or the the soccer practice is more important. And
so so Pinilla we have not prioritized the learning of Allah subhanaw taala. And then is there any
doubt as to why they don't have a relationship with Allah subhana wa, Tada. education about Islam
and the deen is so much more important now in our field 2020 than it was before, because you're
going to be exposed to everything out there, you know, you can't predict your kids anymore. Your
kids need to go out there and make their own decisions. And so all we can do is equip them, you
know, you want a lot in the hot aisle, it doesn't get into the heart directly. It has to go first,
		

			as the sort of robotic showed you first make that logical steps, you first get to understand Allah
and learn about him. And hopefully, it will eventually start affecting your heart, how else you
develop a relationship with Allah, you spend time together with Allah, you give attention to that
relationship, the more time you spend with Allah, the closer he becomes to you, like any
relationship, when you prioritize that thing, it becomes the most important thing in my life, I make
my Salah on time I fulfill the obligations, then it will develop, you also communicate and that is
divided. The relationship is based on communication, it is about speaking to Allah, it is about
		

			speaking in your language, telling him about your needs, your desires, your fears, your hopes, if
you don't have that, and you just have this ritualistic going through the motions, that is not
really a connecting to Allah, part of building the relationship is appreciating the blessings that
Allah has given you. When you begin to appreciate what Allah has given me what I have, you realize
that Allah has always been there in my life, even when I forgot him, he did not forget about me. And
that is why the man who said the Arizona law, my heart is dead, like I feel it's empty. Nothing
affects me any more than I be. So some said, Go and rub the heat of an orphan because when you spend
		

			time with someone listening, you realize what Allah has given you, Heart of loving Allah and
building that relationship is avoiding the things that he dislikes and he disapproves of. So if you
love someone, you don't want to hurt them. Now, of course, you can hurt a lot, but you don't want to
be distant from them. Remember, when we commit a sin, we have taken ourselves away from Allah, we
have moved away from him, and in a proximity away from him. And that is something that you should
feel, and the more good that you do, it brings you closer to him. And that is what we thrive. But
the more good you do, the more the better you do the lessons you do. It's a positive feedback loop,
		

			you begin to love a lot more. And by doing that, by loving a lot more you want to do more and more
good. And that is really what taqwa is. And that is what develops stuck when you do these things.
And over time, you develop this lifestyle of taqwa. There's a beautiful Aya witnesses. And they are
those who give in charity, which they give with a heart that is full of fear with a low and they
give charity very, very scared. They very conscious of Allah because they know they're going to
return to Allah. And it is these people Allah says, who raised for the good deeds, and they are the
foremost in them in doing good deeds. So they make a lot of evader a lot of solar, and they give
		

			charity, because they are scared, and so I shall Osceola are these people that give charity out of
fear? Are they the ones who come at home and drink and they do all the sense? And so the Prophet
says, Oh, no, don't have acidic or no abubaker his daughter, these are the ones who fast and they
pray and they give charity meaning, the more good deeds you do, the more conscious you are of Allah,
the more you realize how important this relationship is how you need this relationship. And so that
increases you in your fear of losing Allah subhanaw taala and so they are the ones that increase and
push themselves more and more and more that what if Allah does not accept my goodness, what if I am
		

			not enough? Allah subhanho wa Taala does not need me and so they push themselves even more. And that
is why the person that has more fear of Allah and again, fear is a sin. It's love, fear and hope
together. They are the ones that do the most nice panel and I end up with this beautiful IRA, an IRA
which we all know Allah in the only Allah hopefully today when I know that Allah Subhana Allah says,
Vili those who are the only or only among those who are close to Allah. What do they get? They don't
have to feel scared and they don't have to feel sad that if you have a lot as your primary
relationship
		

			When you focus, then you don't have to feel any fear anymore. You only have to have concern for
Allah and all other fears fall away. I don't have to worry about what's going to happen tomorrow. I
don't have to worry about my job, my money, my health. If I'm good with a law, then I'm safe. And
I'm fine. Unless it's like you won't feel fear in this life. And you won't have to fear about the
author. You don't have to fear about death. You don't have to fear about the angle of the cover. And
you won't feel sad meaning without even being fearful. Unless I'm going to give you something that
will make you said yes, life has its challenges. But you will rise above those challenges you won't
		

			be said ultimately, you will get a agenda where there is no more sadness. There is no more fear,
malice panneau de la grande has hearts that are conscious of him and grant as actions that are
pleasing to Him. And may we live a life connected to him so that we will be with him in general for
those I mean, she's like hello hi. Salaam Alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh