Musleh Khan – Why can’t I change #1

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			Salam alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh Bismillah Alhamdulillah wa Salatu was Salam ala rasulillah
he warbird. Brothers and sisters, this is Muslim Kahn, and I welcome you to another episode of
Mechanical Turk, and titled, why can't I change? brothers and sisters? This is a question that each
and every one of us at some point in our lives, we asked ourselves this question, why can't I
change? Why is it that I fall into sin over and over and over again. And no matter what I do to get
out of that sin, I may be looking at something wrong. I may be doing something Hold on. I may be
with somebody who is held on and I can't stop myself from doing it. What is the reason why I can't
		

			change myself? Whether it be in Ramadan, when Ramadan comes, we try our very best to push ourselves
in the obedience of Allah subhanho wa Taala. But as soon as Ramadan is over what happens? For some
people on the day of varied, they fall back into the same sins over again, for a lot of people, even
during the Ramadan, when the shaytan is locked up. Even during that time, they're still falling into
the exact same sin. Why is it that a person is in this state? Brothers and Sisters remember, once
there was a time when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam told us that verily the min the
believer, every single time that they commit a sin, there is a black stamp that is placed on their
		

			heart. And the more they increase on that sin, the more the stamps increase, until when, until
allies xojo causes that their entire heart is covered, and it becomes like a black stone. when
that's the case, brothers and sisters. This is exactly the heart that Allah azza wa jal is talking
about in so little more coffee when he says, kettle bell, or RA and Allah kulu be him. Verily, by no
means their hearts have been stained with a type of rust with a type of stain. And the scholars they
say that that rust and that stain is the effects of sin. Now you're probably thinking now how do you
get rid of that rust? And this is going to be the core of our discussion. Brothers and sisters.
		

			Think about your state at this very moment. Think about what kind of person you are every single day
when you wake up? Where are your thoughts? When you wake up early in the morning? What is the first
thing that you go and you do? Is it to make sure that you pray fudger on time? Or is it to get on
the computer and check your email? What are the thoughts? What are the priorities in your life? And
this is going to lead us now in the first way or the first guideline on how you can change that
state? Where when you raise your hand to Eliza gel. And you say to Allah subhanho wa Taala Yeah,
Rob, forgive me. Oh Allah change me. Oh, Allah make me better that Dora can be answered.
		

			Look at the state that you're living in and look at the priorities in your life. Are you a person
that when you stand up for prayer, you're still eating? How long? Are you a person that when you
raise your hand to allies, you are drinking? How long? Or you are a person that is working for how
long? Or are you a person that is living a life of how long? This is your first step to
understanding how to diagnose and deal with this problem. And that is to think about your priorities
in life and the state of the life that you live in. Let me give you a clear example of how to
understand this point. Imagine you have children and you want your children to be the best. You want
		

			them to be half of the Quran. You want them to be people who are pious.
		

			You want them to be righteous in Islam, but you yourself as a family, the environment that you're
in, no one is praying there, the environment that you're in, no one is establishing Salah reciting
Quran making Dora The house is filled with only parties and friends and things of that nature. How
do you expect for someone to change if their environment does not influence them or encourage them
to change? This is why it's very different that if you were reading * in your home, as opposed to
reading or an in your in the masjid, it's to two different places to different environments. And so
the essence of how you recite also changes and so brothers and sisters,
		

			from the points on how I can change number one, a you
		

			think about the other then and think about what you see when Allah azza wa jal when you say hey are
Seiler hayyan and Fela, you respond to Allah subhanho wa Taala and you c'est la hawla wala quwata
illa Billah there is no authority there is no power except with Allah subhanho wa Taala except what
Allah azza wa jal has prescribed has allowed for you to happen for as allowed for you to do. Why is
this so important when you change yourself? Because in that event, in that particular moment, you
automatically recognize that you could never pray unless Allah allowed you to pray, you can never
stand up and go into a Roku and then go into sujood unless allies will allow that to happen for you.
		

			Doesn't that make you think about so many Muslims, who are not praying what the state of their lives
are, they've gotten so used to sin, that they can change. They've gotten so used to a problem, they
can't see anything wrong with it. As a result, as one of the great scholars of Islam, one said that
the small sins don't become small sins anymore, they now become a big problem, they now become a
huge sin of Islam. However, for the person who has a major sin, but they repent to Allah subhanho wa
Taala, then it is no longer a major sin anymore. Now it is something that could be wiped out from
them and they are forgiven, their life begins to change. And so brothers and sisters, this first
		

			guide of how to change yourself, is to realize that that is something that allies so a gel has to
give you. That is a privilege Allah gives to you, how do you get it? This is where your sincerity
lies. Many Muslims, we don't become opportunistic. In other words, we don't look for that
opportunity to do righteous deeds. We don't look for that opportunity to donate to help one another.
We will sit in msgid most of the time and we will wait for somebody to say we need a donation for
someone so for the msgid for an orphanage for a charity, and only then will we give for the sake of
Allah azza wa jal. Many Muslims, they will only give or assist if they know that they're going to
		

			get something in return. And this is why Allah says well at 10 noon test tech theory, don't give,
but at the same time you wish for something in return, or you wish for an increase meant. Leave that
to Allah azza wa jal, your job is just is just to try your best to be sincere and have Taqwa in
everything that you do. And so brothers and sisters look for that opportunity to try and make a
change with yourself. Look for the chance that when you see an elderly struggling to put on their
shoes, be there to help them put on their shoes. Look for when you see a young child who's trying to
climb the stairs who's trying to get a drink of water from the fountain and can't reach it or is
		

			struggling look for that opportunity to help that child accomplish those things. Do you realize that
we're only talking about the simple things this is why when you look at the entire Sunnah of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam you will find that this is something that he loved to do for all
the children he loves to do for all the elderly. Do you know that never was there a time when the
prophets a lot more it he was sending him would walk by an elderly men or a person that was injured
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			Except that he would stop. And he would say, a set Mr. Lee come to them, and he would make dua for
their cure. Or he would make dua for them that Allah increases them in their health and their
strength. What is the process of them doing here, he's looking for an opportunity to do good
wherever he finds it. And realize once you have that in your heart, then Allah azza wa jal will
constantly invite you to his worship will constantly invite you to his obedience. So that's the
first point, the second guideline on how you can change yourself, his brothers and sisters, you want
to try and limit as much of the transgression and sin as possible, especially if you are quote
		

			unquote, a religious person, or a student of knowledge, who is very, very close to their religion
and involved in learning it. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam once talked about the student
of knowledge, who still falls into sin. And he said, the student of knowledge that is sinning is
like a candle. On the one hand, when that candle lights up, it brings guidance and light to everyone
around them. But at the same time, that candle is burning itself out. And so what happens here is
that the student of knowledge is always on the same page is always on the same level, and is always
in the state that they cannot change. And so brothers and sisters, try to limit how much sin that
		

			you do to the best of your ability. Now, how do you do that, there are a number of things that you
look at, one of the most important things that you look at is the environment that you're in. You
want to stay away from that environment that is constantly filled with how long that is constantly
filled with people sitting in that area, sitting in that time, sitting in that particular place,
stay away from it as much as you can. Secondly, brothers and sisters is that you also want to try to
steer your thoughts away from sin. Don't think about it. And the moment you find something, whether
it's on TV or on the internet that causes you to remember somebody in your past in Jay Z, somebody
		

			who has come to you, or a former boyfriend or a former girlfriend, but that's in your past and today
Alhamdulillah you are practicing. You want to stay away from the things that remind you of sin as
much as possible. And this is why brothers and sisters, if you have internet and you have a TV, then
you need to control how you use those resources because that in and of itself could be the exact
same problem. Why you can change so limit the amount of sin and limit the amount of transgression as
much as you can. This is why Allah azza wa jal says, Fear Allah azza wa jal to the best of your
ability to the best way you know how try to put every single effort to do that. And we ask Allah
		

			azza wa jal to make that easy for all of us. Brothers and sisters. We will continue with our
discussion. Let's take a short break. And we will be back and continue our discussion of the
important topic. Why can't I change