Mustafa Khattab – Closer to Allah 1 Mechanical Worship Ramadan 2011
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The speaker discusses the importance of genuine worship, rather than just doing things randomly. He gives examples of how a woman who was caught by the insurance company and fired by the police, caused her to lose her job and become upset. The speaker concludes that the worship should have an impact on one's personality and character, but not their behavior. The segment ends with a quiz on pain killer pills and insulin shots.
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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,
interactive or the question for Ramadan. It's a
Ramadan daily quiz.
And the question for today is what is
the ruling on the, pain killer pills and
the insulin shots on the day of Ramadan?
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