Mustafa Khattab – Closer to Allah 1 Mechanical Worship Ramadan 2011

And genuine worship.

Mechanical worship that has no soul in it.

You don't do it from your heart.

You just do things routinely. When you pray,

there's no for sure. You pray faster than

light.

You come to the masjid everyday.

I'm not talking about you, but some people

come to the masjid and they lie.

Some people make Hajj and they cheat and

they amuse people.

So there's no impact. The salah has no

impact on these people.

But as for the genuine act of worship

like salah, or Hajj, or fasting, it should

have an impact on your personality and your

character.

Otherwise, it has no way in the sight

of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

If you come to the masjid everyday and

you abuse people,

or you fast all the time and you

have a very foul time,

what difference does that make? So that Ibad

that your Ibadah should have an impact on

you. And this is the difference between a

mechanical worship

and a genuine worship.

A mechanical worship has no impact on your

life.

But a genuine worship that is coming from

your heart has an impact on your life.

So I'm giving you an example of the

genuine worship, the worship that comes from the

heart, and the impact it should have on

your life.

This person, Abdullah Qursat in Abdullah al Salih,

was a scholar.

A very righteous man, and he was traveling.

So one day he was traveling with a

caravan, a group of people. Then all of

a sudden,

the highway robbers, they seized their money, and

they seized their property,

So when the thieves, they took the food

and the property of the people including

Abdullah at the street,

they took it to the ringleader, the king

of the thieves.

So all of them, the thieves, they started

to eat the food except for the king,

their leader. He wouldn't eat with them.

So

Sahin had a lot of surprise. What what

is wrong with this guy?

So This guy is a psycho zombie dude

as the youth say. What is wrong with

this guy? You steal the property and the

food of the people and you're not eating

with them, you are fasting? What kind of

fasting is this?

So he said,

it is true that I'm a thief and

I close all the doors between me and

Allah Subhanahu Wa'ala. I don't pray.

I don't do Hajj. I steal people by

day and night. But the only door that

keep me open between myself and Allah is

fasting. Asiyan.

May me Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will turn

to me with His mercy and forgive me

and change my heart.

So he said,

I closed all the doors between me and

Allah and I left this door, the fasting

door.

So sad swears by Allah 3 times that

3 years later he was making Hajj Ta'av

around the Ka'ah and he saw the king

of the thieves making Ta'av and crying and

crying.

So he came to him and said what

happened to you? He said whether I left

one door open between me and Allah subhanahu

wa'ala. Allah opened all the doors for me.

Now I pray, now I make a Hajj,

and I'm not a thief anymore.

So this is the kind of worship, this

is the kind of fasting that should have

an impact on your life.

We conclude with the,

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