Nadim Bashir – Ibadah Liberates A Person #2 Fajr Khatira Imam

			Last week in my Saturday morning brief reminder, we talked about the five benefits of worshipping
Allah subhanho wa taala. There are five benefits of the ALMA have mentioned that when we come close
to Allah subhanho wa Taala and today inshallah we want to talk about or I want to talk about that
how does that riba How does coming close to Allah subhanho wa Taala liberate us from other things
because either you are enslaved to something, or to an idea or to an entity, or you could be
enslaved to such as Allah subhanho wa taala. And so before we get to that, about that part, first of
all I want to talk about as is as Islam as a whole. This Deen came to liberate people in general. So
		

			if you go back in history, to the Battle of The Odyssey, yeah, it was called the Battle of causes.
See, yeah, this happened in the year 636. This is right after the death of obika, the hola line this
is in the very early stages of the life of Almighty God Allah that I'm, and this was a battle that
took place between the Muslims and the Persian Empire. And as you all know, in the time of the
Prophet salallahu, alayhi wasallam. Besides the Muslims, there were two superpowers at that time.
One was the Sassanid Empire, the Persian Empire, and one word the Byzantines or the Romans. Now, the
Persian Empire collapse, and so did the Roman Empire. It did collapse, too. But we're talking about
		

			the Persian Empire. And the this is one battle that many historians say that this was perhaps one of
the battles that took place that was the cause of the collapse of the the Persian Empire. Some say
that this was sort of the nail in the coffin, as they say, for the, for the Persian Empire, but the
leader of the Persian Empire, or the Persian army at that time, his name was Roustan rousse, Tom
sent a message to Saudi Casa de Allahu Allah and said that you are the Commander in Chief, I know
you're busy, send us someone that we can talk to send us someone that you really trust that we can
talk to about this whole situation. So this Saad will walk us through the Allahu Allah and He sent
		

			us a hobby by the name of Robbie EBITA Ahmed and Robina Ahmed is mentioned that he was a very simple
man, he was not a very tall person, that when he would walk, you would catch people's attention. And
what he would do, of course, his clothes, he was very well off the hobby. So whenever he would wear
clothes, he did not wear clothes, which was, of course, at the you know, that is considered as
expensive clothing as they were saying. He had a small mule that he will use for transportation
purposes. And as mentioned that when he walked so Simon Omakase sent him to go talk to them. When he
came into the courtyard of bluestone. He saw that this was a courtyard that was filled with riches.
		

			Rustom was sitting on a platform, he was sitting on a stage, and he was sitting around other people
who were serving him constantly. He had his guards around him, he had his colleagues around him,
expensive clothing, expensive. carpeting, everything, you know, as you say, the whole nine yards.
Now a person by the name of ROB even, I mean, when he walks in, he sees that the carpet is so
expensive, that it is difficult for his Emil to walk on that carpet. So what he did was that he took
out his sword, and his sword was broken in half to he didn't even have a full sword. And he began to
cut the carpet in front of everyone. Like he's going against all protocol of how you go into someone
		

			else's presents. Why? Because these were people who did not worry about the opinion of others. He
went in. And then when he saw that his donkey was finding it difficult. He cut the carpet Lidl, and
not only that, but he tied his donkey to some pillows. After that he had his weapons with him, he
began to proceed towards wisdom. The guards stopped them. They said, No, you can't go forward with
your weapons. He said, Listen, you're the one who called me I did not want to come here. Okay, you
came to my commander in chief and say you want to talk to someone. These are my terms. I keep my
weapon with me at all times. They said Rustom said, You know what, let him come. He then came, and
		

			he sat right next to Jerusalem. Now wisdom. On one hand, he has the most beautiful clothing,
probably the most expensive clothing. Here. On the other hand, Robina Ahmed, he has the clothing
that he has his very, very inexpensive. In fact, some books of history mentioned that he has he had
even some patches on his clothes. Then he asked Roustan What do you want? What do you want? Like you
don't look at the confidence and the swagger in the
		

			The conversation of Robina Ahmed, he says what do you want Rustom? And roast him said that well,
you're, you know, we're in this situation. And so we just want to talk about who you people are and
what do you want. And at that time Robina Ahmed says something that will be remembered in history
for what an amazing thing he said. And what he basically said was about the liberation of Islam,
that how Islam liberates people. And he says he first of all said, he says Allahu EBITA Asana, Allah
is the One who sent us, lino Ridge mansha to take out people whoever he wishes. Now you remember
when he talks about this idea of taking out? Allah uses the same concept in the Quran, when he talks
		

			about the Quran also, when the Quran Allah says about the Quran, kitab Hoon and Zilla who alayka
Leto Cree Jana submenus, Gulu Mati Elan nor Allah sent down the Quran as a source of guide to take
people out from the Avila mud from the corruptions from the darknesses of this dunya Illa news to
the * of Allah subhanho wa taala. So So Robin armour says, Allah sent us, Li northbridge so that
we can take out his slaves with his permission, whoever he wishes, Minelli bad that Tillery bad,
from the worship of other people ILA Reba that he wrote, billary bad to the worship of the robe of
the creation, meaning that we have been sent to take people out from the enslavement of others, to
		

			the enslavement of Allah subhanho wa Taala will mean the dunya either say that from the tightness
and the constrictions of this world, as many of them are, they say, to the don't to the vastness of
the akhirah woman, Jodl, a Diani ILA, I believe in Islam, and from the injustices of other
religions, to the justice of Islam, look at this confidence of Robina Ahmed. And then he says that
we are here to fight of course. And if you obey, I mean, if you follow if you come into the fold of
Islam, no harm. If you don't, then this is a ward This is about as that is going to take place. And
at that time, Rose stone, he said that you know what, you have to give us some time, you have to
		

			give us some time, he says, I will give you three days and three nights to make your decision. But
Rustom God, his colleagues together, and his colleagues began to say that don't ever, you know,
don't ever bow down to this person, and to what they're calling you to and roost them. At that time,
he corrected his colleague and said, that don't look at his clothes. Because this is this was this
was one of the colleagues comments that you're gonna follow a person who's wearing raggedy clothes,
like these are people who are so behind in terms of the standards of civilization, you're gonna
follow a person like him. And at that time, lucidum said, don't look at the clothes. Don't look at
		

			the donkey that he has. Don't look at his appearance. But look at what he's saying. These are people
these Muslims are such that they don't fear anyone. They have a standard and they're gonna stick by
their standard. And the point of this story is that these Sahaba were such people that when they
knew that they believed in Allah subhana wa Tala, because if there's one superpower that is truly a
superpower, it is the superpower of Allah subhanho wa taala. That is the ultimate superpower. All
these other entities that may call them a superpower. Today they are a superpower tomorrow they will
collapse. This is the reality of this dunya the only superpower that will exist forever is the true
		

			power of Allah subhanho wa taala. So when Muslims said that we believe in Allah subhanho wa Taala
they were not scared of anyone else. They do not care about anyone else's opinion and so forth. And
this is in essence, liberation, the liberation idea of Islam. When you're there are three things
that rooster Amin, Robin even said, and I'll quickly want to go through them. The very first thing
he said was that we want to take out or as Allah subhanho wa Taala has sent us to take people out
from the Ibadah of others from worshipping others from the enslavement of others, to the enslavement
of Allah subhanho wa taala. Now, when we talk about the enslavement of anything besides Allah, that
		

			could mean many things. Either you serve Allah, or you can even serve as the Quran says, people
serve their desires, as Allah says in surah J
		

			via a pharaoh Atia many shahada, ILA Ha hoo ha Well, have you seen that person, that who follows
their desires, who has made their desires their god meaning that desire says internal desire says, I
want such and such, whether halal or haram, Permissible or impermissible. The person says, If this
is what my desire is, I'm going to give my desire whatever he wants, or the ego, okay, the ego like
for example, in the case of shaytaan, ego, he although he had knowledge, the ego said do something
different and he went with his ego. So either you're following you are obeying Allah, you are
serving we are serving Allah subhanho wa taala. Or we could be serving our ego, we could be serving
		

			our desires, our Hawa, or we could even be serving social pressures. The idea is that the society
tells us that when you follow social pressures, when you follow your desire, there's so many people
who said, Follow your heart, wherever your heart takes you follow that direction know, the heart
pulls us in the direction of haram, we will not go in the direction of haram. This is what the
society tells us. And the society tells us that if you follow the social pressures, you follow your
ego, you follow your desires. This is ultimate freedom. What we don't realize is this is not
freedom. This is actual enslavement, because society changes over and over again. What is today
		

			Normal becomes abnormal tomorrow. What was abnormal today may become even normal tomorrow. We have
people who say that whatever society tells us what is right, I'm gonna go with that wherever society
tells us that is wrong. I'm gonna go with that. No, as a Muslim, the liberation of Islam actually
means that we serve only one Allah subhanho wa Taala because that is what is more easy. Allah gives
us an example in the Quran talking exactly about this. Allah gives us an example he says to the
Zoomer Baba Allah Who masala Raju lon Allah gives the example of a person fee he Shula cat on water
Shirky Sunnah wa Raju, Lin Salah Malaya, Rajan ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala he gave the example of slavery
		

			and because at that time you had slaves, you had masters and so forth. It's an idea that many people
can relate to. Allah is saying that imagine there's one person and he has multiple masters that he
has to serve. Does this make sense that he has to serve multiple masters because what you know one
master may like something the other master may not like the same as that thing. When one person has
to serve so many masters does this make more sense? Or if one person has to serve one master, does
this make more sense? Allah subhanho wa Taala says hello yester we only masala can this example be
equal? No, it cannot be equal. The idea that Allah subhanaw taala is trying to get across to you and
		

			I brothers and sisters is that you cannot follow so many different things besides following Allah
subhanho wa taala. And when you try to follow and fulfill the criteria, and please everyone besides
Allah subhanho wa Taala you will never find happiness in life. Because if you try to make one person
happy you're making the other person upset. That is why when we talk about Alibaba dot last week, we
talked about Alibaba this week. Also when we talk about our iba serving Allah subhanho wa taala. it
liberates us from worrying about what anyone else thinks about us what anyone will say about us,
what the media says about us and so forth. Why? Because I am serving someone, and I'm serving an
		

			entity that is more powerful than any of them. I am serving I'm going away from an entity that is
weak compared to Allah subhanho wa taala. And I'll tell you, honestly, if you look at the world that
we live in today, you know, a lot of times as Muslims, we just have to open up our eyes, and we have
to reflect on our situation. When a person says I believe in Allah, that means that I do everything
based on what ALLAH SubhanA what what pleases Allah subhanho wa taala. And that means I have a
standard of life. I have a center of life. There are people who say, I'm going to do everything. You
don't by the way, there are some religions that they say we're going to do everything.
		

			Okay, we're gonna do everything. By the way, those religions, they don't have a standard. They don't
have a standard. I went yesterday to one of my family members house, they live in a predominant
Hindu community. I mean, there is not there are a lot of Hindus that live in that area. And you
know, when you go there, you know, you know that Christians celebrate Christmas, so they have
Christmas lights outside. You go to a Hindu community where there's Hindus living even they
		

			We'll have Christmas lights outside. And you think about it that why do they have Christmas lights
outside? You know, I know like Diwali that's when when it was gone, but why are they? Because even
in their religion, there's something called there's some there's an idea that you go with the flow,
you're inside, you go with the flow, okay, I think somebody called this was a bit I mean, there's
something
		

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			Jessa this was our best. So like mean that whatever is whatever is the common culture you go with
that, you know, when you do something like that you don't have a standard left in life. If you go
with the flow and every single thing, there are some other religions by the way, within like there
are, I remember I went to one
		

			I met with one person who comes from a religion that is a branch of Hinduism, for example. And he
says that in our worship, we mentioned all the worships by the way, even in their worship. There's a
part of the worship, they're saying, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, and so forth. Okay. It's shocking.
Wallahi. But they're like, our belief is that we peace, this is they don't they don't have a
religion, they don't have a belief system is just that there's a value. We want peace on earth. So
we are going to worship everything with everyone else worships. That's not a concept. You're
innocent. That is not liberation. That's not open mindedness. That's called enslavement. Actually,
		

			you're innocent. You're trying to please everyone in this world, you can please everyone that is a
reality. And that is what many of us, especially our youth, they don't understand that they see
these kinds of things, and they call this freedom. But if you try to please one today, you can
please the same one tomorrow. That is why our Dean has taught us that worshiping Allah subhanho wa
Taala is liberating. When a person knows, as long as I please Allah subhana what that does all that
matters, then will Allah He you will have ultimate freedom in your heart. So that is why brothers
and sisters, this is what Islam brought us. This is what Allah gave us. Yet you and I are running
		

			away from that same thing that can bring us happiness. The second thing that he said Robin Amir said
was that
		

			he says women leave the dunya it is the idea from the from the constrictions of this dunya to the
vastness of the Africa and some say that to the vastness of this dunya there are some aspects of
dystonia, but some of them are they say that this is in reference to Accra, meaning that how
constructed as a Muslim for a Muslim, this place is dunya is not the place where we fulfill all of
our desires. There are some things that Allah has made halal. There are some things that has Allah
subhanaw taala has made haram and by the way, as many people believe that there are more things
haram and there are less things halal, no, that's not the way it is. There are actually more things
		

			are halal and less things are haram. We have been taught and programmed the wrong way to think that
Allah subhanho wa Taala is oppressive. Allah is not oppressive, Allah is taking telling us stay away
from those things he has made those things haram which are not beneficial for you and I, Allah is
looking out for us. So from deconstruction of this dunya to the vastness of the Accra and the Accra
Everything is permissible for us Inshallah, in Janome, Allah subhanaw taala gather us there. I mean,
you're about to Allah mean. And then number three is woman Jodan a Danny either either Islam, from
the injustices of the other religions and other cultures to to the other of Islam Wallahi if you
		

			study Islam, and the laws of Islam, while there are so many Muslims, unfortunately, who are running
towards other laws, besides the laws of our deen, thinking that there are other laws that give them
more justice than the other of Islam. I've talked about this before. Anyone who believes that the
Islam the adult system of Islam, the justice system of Islam is not good. And they run away from the
justice system of Islam. And they have doubts in it. Allah subhanho wa Taala says these are the
people who are the oppressors. So if you study every single system, even the system that is highly
praised, called the democracy system Wallahi the democracy system is the one the worst systems in
		

			the world. We know this every single country that calls themselves a democracy. We know that
internally, they are filled, it's all a bunch of fluff, there is no good in it. There's only one
dean that provides justice across the board to every single person in society, not based on their
social, their social status, not based on their financial status. But these are the laws of Islam
that have been implemented by Allah and His Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that looks after
every single person, man, woman, children, elderly and every single person in the society based on
the context and so forth. There is no system in the world I say
		

			This confidently that has the justice of Islam. Now, I will say this, there is not many countries
that follow there. I mean, there I don't believe there's any country in the world right now. Even
Muslim countries that follow Sharia 100% There is not okay. We're talking about the actual the other
system Islam, the actual, you know, what they say is Islamic tort law, criminal law and so forth.
And in the justice system, there is no country that applies them. But if you go back into the books,
and you study the history of Islam, and the other system was some will lie there is no system that
is better than the system of Islam. This is what Allah subhanho wa Taala gave us. This is what the
		

			Sahaba understood that this Islam is liberating us from all these other ideas. So once again, the
whole idea was I really want to focus on the Riba of Allah subhanho wa taala. So last week, we
talked about the benefit of a brother today. The second benefit of a brother is that a brother to
Allah subhanho wa Taala liberates you from your ego liberates you from your desires, and liberates
you from all the other different social ideas or the social constructs that take place or the social
concepts or new things that come up every single time. it liberates us from all of that. Inshallah,
in the next few weeks we'll be talking about the other benefits there are five benefits of a bada to
		

			Allah subhanaw taala we covered one last week today one Inshallah, and then in the next week's
inshallah we'll cover the other three Inshallah, ask ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada to Ghana, Sophia, and to
grant us the true understanding of our dean and the MCSA of our dean and the purpose of our dean. I
mean, no, but I mean, what is that Kamala had said I'm already going to label cattle
		

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