Revival #19 – Oaths, Promises and Vows

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Mannerheim and Hyundai layerable Alameen wa Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah he Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi edge marine was salam to see when the cathedral cathedral Ma Ba Salaam Alaikum dear viewers around the world wherever you may be, ask Allah subhanho wa Taala to accept from all of us, may Allah subhanaw taala accept our pm our CM, may Allah subhanaw taala accept our to our our sadaqa all the good that we do, may Allah subhanaw taala accept all of them, and especially May Allah accept our Dwyer's that we make in the month of Ramadan Amira, Rabbil Alameen first of all, I want to say that with the last 10 days of Ramadan dawning upon us very soon, I asked Allah subhanho wa

taala. And I implore you all, that he, first of all, it gives us the ability to accelerate and we do as much as good that we can, in these last 10 nights of Ramadan, let's push ourselves to the limit, Inshallah, let's try to do more and more, this is what we learned from Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that in the first 20 days of Ramadan, he will already accelerate himself, he will always he will already do so much more. But in the last 10 nights, he will do even more. So this is why let's try to do everything that we can, this is the last and this is where we have to give everything that we have. And subhanAllah just to give you a you know, an example, you know,

subhanAllah I give this example when it comes to sports, that when it comes to the last you like when it comes to the end of a game, or if you watch cricket the last over or if you watch like you know, car racing the last lap. Um, the last is always the most crucial time you gotta pay close attention to that that time and making sure that you know, who comes first who comes second, who wins, who loses. So this is what Ramadan is, in the same way, making sure that we push ourselves in these last night's Ramadan. So Allah Subhana Allah, you've all of us to have the ability to do more and more immunoblotted Amin

continuing with our series of revival, the revival of faith and Iman, and what are the branches of Iman and where are the branches of faith? Today I want to take a little different one in the last two days, I talked about justice, I talked about the importance of encouraging good in joining good, forbidding evil. Today I want to take some other branches of faith that Imam alibi happy has mentioned in his book Jami really sharpen Eman and today I'm taking three of them in sha Allah and I'm going to try to combine all three of them, because all three of them have to do with fulfilling something. So the very first one that we'll be talking about is to fulfill a vow that we have made

to Allah subhanho wa taala. The second one is that if we have made a vow or an oath, that is not sinful, then we have to make sure that we fulfill that. And not only that, but the next one is to pay any Kuffar odd or pay any expiation as a result of that Cafaro and as a result of not fulfilling the oath or the the oath or the another than in that case, we have to always give a FARA or if we break an oath, there is like a photo there is an explanation. So let's try to go through all this inshallah quickly once again, I cannot cover every single thing. I'm going to try to summarize it as the best to my ability in sha Allah. So first of all, is that at a very high level, at a very high

level, there is something called giving and doing everything that we can for Allah subhanho wa Taala and you know, giving everything that we have for Allah subhanho wa Taala in essence, we owe everything to Allah subhanho wa Taala we have taken a vow, we have taken an oath, that we will acknowledge Allah as being our Arab, and we will stick to that and we will live according to that. So for example, going back to the story, that when Allah subhanho wa Taala had put all of us in front of him and we all were standing in front of him, and he says ls to be Rob become, Am I not your Lord, and ALLAH SubhanA was and we all said, Bella, indeed you are our You are our Lord. So

this is why when we said this, that Allah subhanaw taala is our Rob. That means that we acknowledge the fact that he is the one who is going to do our tarbiyah the word therapy comes to the word rub. That means that Allah is going to look after our affairs. And not only that, but we learned through the the SMA SIFAT of Allah subhanho wa Taala the names of the attributes of Allah subhana wa Tada how Allah is the Giver, how Allah is the One who takes care of us, and He is the one who looks after all of our affairs in this dunya and so Allah subhanaw taala is the one that we always are going to give everything that we have for as once again Ibraheem Alehissalaam his demeanor and his attitude

In masala tea, or no Sookie WOMMA Yaya or Mati here or below, I mean, my Salaat my nusach my everything that I do good that I do is not just only reference to hydrogen and the rights of hydrogen, but every good that I do, then it is only for Allah subhanho wa Taala my living in my dying is for Allah subhanho wa taala. So at a very high level, we talked about, we talked about fulfilling our vow to Allah subhanho wa taala. Now, coming coming down to some of the more important aspects of these three topics, let's talk about them very quickly. And number one is that there are three different things we have to understand. Number one is that there's something called promises.

There's something called there's something called promises. There's something called oaths and there's something called vows. And usually we take all these three concepts and we you know, we mix them up, we're not able to understand them. So I want to quickly explain what are they first of all, is that Allah subhanho wa Taala says, Well, you fool nudura home while Yato waffle beta it, this is Allah subhana wa Tada saying that they should fulfill their vows mean that the vow that we have made to please Allah subhana wa Tada we shall fulfill that Allah subhanho wa Taala says Wilma and faculty Manasa cotton owner vero to me, Nazarene for in the La Jolla, Alamo. Anything that you spend when my

own faculty, Manasa, cotton, anything that you spend own Adaro to me, Nazareth, or any vow that you fulfill Allah subhanho wa taala, or any vow that we make Allah subhanho wa Taala is aware of them. So let's quickly go through what is the difference between a promise, an oath and a vow? A promise is where a person says, Okay, I will do something in the future. Like, for example, you know, when two people are talking to each other, and they say, Okay, let's meet up tomorrow in sha Allah, and know there's a strong, you know, there's a commitment in place, there's a sort of sort of a promise in one way. But then let's just say someone is not able to fulfill that promise, you know, you have

this agreement that this is something that it's going to take place, or let's just say that when there is an agreement between an employer or employee, then making sure that we don't lie in that kind of, because that is in itself a promise, the employee is making the promise that he's going to provide his services, and the employer is making a promise that he's going to pay for the for the services being performed. So there is promises on both sides, therefore, they should fulfill both promises. And if they don't fulfill their promises, then there is no cathedra there is no explanation for that. But this is something that is not liked by Allah subhanho wa taala. When you

give your word, ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada says, whoa, full biller. And when you've made a promise, you stick to your promise you stick to what you have said, you know, as they say, in English, your word is your bond mean that when you say something, you stick to that. Now, of course, a lot of times we don't, we're here, all human beings, a lot of times, we can fall weak, and we may become weak and fulfilling our promises. And we should always there's nothing wrong, you know, you know, if you need to humbly, you know, excuse yourself from a certain situation, you've made a promise, you cannot fulfill it. You know, first of all, just mean, very humbly tell the person that you cannot do such

and such, or you cannot fulfill the promise. But at the same time, you know, every single promise, every single commitment, they're not all the same. There's a difference between a promise of an employer and employee versus me making a promise of someone that, for example, I will send them an email there. I mean, these are all different kinds of promises, are making sure that we try to stick to our promises as much as we can. Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam always taught us that when you say something, you stick to that, when the President will make an appointment with someone, he will stick to it. So this is what we learned from the Sierra of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam

The next one is oaths. So this is an oath where you start taking the name of Allah subhanaw taala will law he, I will do this or will law he something happened in the past. And when we study fifth there, we find that there are three different types of humans because that is what an oath is. The very first one is Yamina of a moose, where you are swearing you're taking the name of Allah subhanaw taala about an event that took place in the past, but you are deliberately lying about it while law he I did this. And you know, you did not do it. And you know that you're lying about it, but you're sticking to that. Now, someone could say that well, is there a cover photo for that there's not

necessarily a cover photo for that. In that case, you will simply you have to repent to Allah subhanho wa Taala because you are taking the name of Allah in vain. I mean, what we're doing is that we're taking the name of Allah subhanaw taala and we are abusing the name of Allah subhanho wa Taala I mean, think about this today. We live in a world that if I want to really push forward my word, you know, sometimes we take the name of a chef, you know, this chef said this to me

and sometimes you know many cases this happens where many shoo you and many, you know known, known Islamic figures in the world that we live in, their names are misused, and they don't like their names to be misused because we're giving the wrong idea to someone, we're taking someone else's name, where and we are attributing something to them, whereas they never said it. Likewise, when we say that Wallahi something has happened in the past and I'm deliberately lying about it, then I misuse misusing the name of Allah subhanho wa taala. And so this is why the name of Allah is a very beautiful name, it has a you know, there's it's very sacred to begin with. So we should never first

of all, there is no Kfar to this. This requires a very sincere Toba to Allah subhanho wa taala. The second type of Yameen or oath that does exist is a me and I'm going to ask you though, when nakida and that is where you swear that to do something or you will not do something in the future and in this case, if you do break your your oath, that in that case, you have to give a you have to give a Kufa which is feed 10 people or two give the monetary value or if a person is not able to do that, then this case I mean there is mentioned a freeing a slave but that does not exist. And that is out of context I mean, because of you know our current situation or so, either you feed 10 people or or

clothed them, I mean that giving them one garment each or to give them the equivalent monetary value or in this case our person is not able to do that, then he will fast for three days this is mentioned in social media either to be very precise, it is on the very first page or the bottom of the first page this the top of the second page of the seventh Joe's Allah subhanaw taala talks about that there, you can always refer back to that there. But once again, this is called a Amina Wanaka that you say you promise you swear by Allah that you will do something or you will stay away from something and if you break that promise, then in that case you give a Cafaro The next one is Yamina

Lavoie, now this yummy Allah is to swear about something in the past, and you really believe that something has happened in the past, but you are wrong about it. And that case, there is no Cafaro for that. Because in your understanding, this is exactly what has happened. Now someone may come to you later on and say no, you are wrong. This is the way it was. And you realize that oh, you did something wrong. So there is not necessarily a good fodder for that in that kind of situation. But it's also very important because you know, this applies this yummy Allahu is something that we do a lot nowadays. I mean, Subhan Allah, how much do we say in every single small thing, not realizing we

say well, Allahu, Allahu Allah, He, you know, we take the name of Allah subhanaw taala so lightly, because what we don't realize is that when you take once again, the name of Allah subhanho wa Taala is a very heavy thing. It's a very big thing. And you know, subhanAllah you hear people saying, use the word of Allah in small, small things. And when people are playing sports, Oh Allah, He has happened on Wallahi you know, it this happened or that happened. I mean, small, small, trivial things are alive, we're using the name of Allah subhanho wa taala. This becomes the Amina Allahu, so this is why it's very important that if we are saying that something has happened, we take the name

of Allah, and where indeed it did not happen, then there is no cathedra to that. But at the same time, we need to learn how not to abuse the name of Allah subhanaw taala there's no need to say, we'll login every single thing if I need to say Wallahi to get a point across or to assure someone or something, that's fine. But to say well line every single thing we don't learn this from the Sierra and from the nature of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam. Finally, we come across to vows vows is an Arabic You can call it a another. Another is where a person says that, you know, if Allah subhanaw taala house, me and such and such, or if Allah subhanaw taala you know, if Allah helps me

passing this exam, for example, I will fast for 10 days. So you are putting a an arriba you're, you're putting a BandAid on a condition, the condition is that Allah does does something for you, and you will do something for Allah subhanho wa taala. So first of all, is that we should always understand that there's while making another is absolutely fine, there's nothing wrong with making another but once again, part of our servitude to Allah subhanho wa Taala is that we should not be making so many of these kinds of conditional kind of like claims or statements. Rather, we should always go out of our way to do something for Allah subhanho wa Taala that Oh Allah, I want this do

this for me. This is something that we learn from the Prophet sallallahu ala he was setting them so this is why that is the best way. So instead of saying Oh Allah, I will fast for 10 days. If you help me passing this test, rather than doing that

We better I mean, once again, is allowed to say something like that. But it'd be better if a person said that I'm going to fast for 10 days, and Insha Allah, I have my full hope and Allah that Allah helped me in sha Allah. So that's the way that's a better way of doing that. But once again, doing another is absolutely allowed. And once again, according to the IMF, especially when you do it, when you make another than it is mandatory is very important that you fulfill that. And not only that, but when you make a another, another cannot be done that where you use you make another or you vow to Allah, that you will do something that's already mandatory. Like if a person says, if Allah

Helsing passing this test, then I will start praying five times daily prayers, that does not exist. Why? Because five times daily prayers is already part of us being a Muslim, or a person cannot make a vow that if Allah helps me pass or if Allah passes me, then I'll stop committing that haram. You cannot say that either. Because the Haram is something that you should already stay away from. In fact, we learned from Lhasa Allahu alayhi wa sallam, and this is a Hadith on the body, that when a person does something good, then they should follow through with that. And if they made a commitment to do something that is wrong and bad, like if a person says, you know, I swear, going back to oh, I

swear, I will, you know, do such and such wrong to another person, then that case, the province has some saying that do not do that. If you're making a promise or a vow or an oath, that you will do something to hurt someone else, or you will commit haram, then the policy that says that you do not do that under any circumstances. In fact, the orlimar say that because you take it you have taken an oath, you pay the cathedra for that, and you get out of the oath. But once again, going back to the Nether, there is nothing wrong in making that kind of another. But it's very important that once if Allah subhanaw taala does something for us, then that case we have to go we have to fulfill that

oath. Going back to the story of Salah or Islam we find this can somebody be neutral, that they made a promise to Allah they made a vow to Allah was on with them we made a vow to Allah. Oh Salia show us as your Allah to create for us a she camel and a delivers a baby right in front of us and a you create it from a rock, Allah has created that camel from a rock. The problem I mean Prophet Salah is making this dua Allah accepts it. And some would still they did not live up to their promise that is very, very wrong. So if we made a promise to Allah, we live through that, and we have to live up to that promise. Now, the last question quickly I want to do cover is that the question that many

people ask is that what if I make an oath that, you know, for example, I will fast for 10 days, but then I'm not able to fast for 10 days. In that case, you will also give the Kasara just like in the case of the oath, either feed 10 People 10 Poor people, two meals each, or you will clothe them, for example, one garment each. And if you're not able to do that, then you will fast for three days, then you will do that, in that case, if a person makes a another day, I will fast every single day, then that another is not even valid to begin with, because it's not something within your capacity. So we learned that we don't make a another oil promise or a vow of something that we're not able to

do something that is beyond our capacity. I mean, just imagine if I'm living like for example, if a person is living within, like, let's just say if they're making like four or $5,000 a month. And he says that if Allah does something for me, then I'm going to give a million dollars and southpaw? Well, of course, I mean, in many I mean, looking at it from a from the outside perspective, is very impossible for this person to give a million dollars for sadaqa. So this is why in these kinds of cases that never will not be valid to begin with. So just want to just share this with everyone, once again, we have an overall a promise that we have made to Allah. But then on the smaller level,

there are promises there oaths, and there are vows. And what we learn from these branches of faith is that anytime we have made a promise to Allah, we fulfill that promise, making sure that also, if I've made a promise to do something, that is good, I should follow through with that, if I made a promise to do a sin or commit haram, I break away from that, if I made an oath, then I should pay the kufr or give the expiation and not only that, but in general we give the Kasara gladly, actually, that comes to my mind, I do want to share is when it comes to even like other things, there are a lot of things that we do that there could be an explanation for them. So making sure

that we pay the explanation or we give the explanation of the cathedra for example, a person they missed their fast deliberately, you know, they they they broke their fast deliberately. Now in that case, there is a cathedral. Now there is a difference between the orlimar that you know how many times you know according to the other three schools of thought besides the and if, if you you know if there's intimacy that takes place or anything that takes place

There's only a Commodore whereas according to that enough, there is a full color photo you have to fast for 60 days consecutively. So if there's like a photo for anything, we have to pay for that. Likewise, if a person is not able to fast, I mean physically, they're just simply unable to fast in Ramadan. And after Ramadan passes by, for example, their diabetic or they're very elderly in that case, then in that case, part of that is giving you the photo is I mean, it's not necessarily a photo, but it's a video, giving the video giving. I mean, in our context in Plano is $10 for every single day that you give for every single person for every single day that you cannot fast, but

making sure that whatever Kufa that is there, we make sure that we fulfill all of our Kufa rot. If I miss fast, there's I mean, we make sure that we fulfill all of them. So all these things, all of these are actually branches of faith that Imam Al basically mentioned in his book, and today 100 I just want to quickly go through them because this is something that happens a lot of times we have a lot of confusion about these things. I want to clarify that confusion, ask ALLAH SubhanA without to give all of us ability to maintain our iman May Allah increase in our iman May Allah subhanaw taala take us from this dunya with iman, and resurrect us amongst those who are the CDP in the shahada and

the salah Hain and the beginning of CDP the shahada Asahina on the Day of Judgment admirable Alameen Till next time, Michelle Rogers akmola. Hey, Salaam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh

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