Omar Suleiman – Am I Really Sincere?

			Do brothers and sisters, one of the hardest questions that a person can ask themselves is whether or
not their intentions are sincere, whether they have a philosophy or not, because the chances are,
that if you are sincere, you're not so settled in the idea that you are sincere. meaning you're
constantly questioning yourself and going back and re evaluating your intentions over and over and
over again. And sometimes you have a feeling. In an era where everything is out there, things are so
public, you might even be midway through a good deed. And you tell yourself, you know, this doesn't
feel like it's just for a loss of Hannah Hosanna anymore. There, there's something else around
		

			there's another element to this that's taking away from the sincerity of my intention, I'm not so
sure if this good deed is only for Allah subhanho wa Taala or not, it might have started out that
way. But I'm not so sure. And then sometimes it can become a habit. Right, you taste the sweetness
of react instead of floss. And just like any sin, it has a temporary sweetness to it with permanent
consequences. So the sweetness of praise, the temporary sweetness of praise, you taste that, and
then you start to crave it and you start to do more and more and more for that. But there are these
dueling tensions inside of you these these factors, these feelings on one hand, well, I need to keep
		

			on doing the good, I need to keep on going forward, I can't stop doing good. On the other hand, a
person has to ask themselves, well, do I just, you know, just live with this, this self doubt? Or do
I actually do something about it? And of course there is the discussion of whether or not you
question someone else's intentions, which is an entirely different disease, which we'll talk about
in Charlottetown next week, where you see other people doing good and inside yourself, you say
they're not doing that for a loss of kind of hotel, but self doubt when it comes to your own
sincerity. And at the end of the day, you should be interrogating your own intentions more than
		

			anyone else interrogate your intention. So if someone else telling you or someone else questioning
your intentions, is more severe than your own questioning of yourself, then that means you're giving
more weight to that person site than the sight of Allah subhana wa tada because at the end of the
day, you want to be perceived in the best way possible by him and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said by the la junta Baraka to Allah and Alvin assura kalyana shidduchim and Amina Ramadan
Estrada Fie Marissa v. telok, to who was sure that Allah subhanho wa Taala has said I am the most
worthy of having an a partner that is attributed to me. So whoever does an action and mixes their
		

			intention sets up a partner with me in the performance of that action, talk to who worship can, then
both they end the deeds that they do are abandoned because once you spoil that sincere deed for
Allah subhanaw taala by bringing someone else into the picture, then it's putting a partner with a
loss of Hannah horchata in that pursuit. Now, what are the traces of this mixed intention?
Obviously, there is a person that does things and they know they're doing it for other than Allah
subhanho wa Taala but they do it for social pressure or mobility or to fit in or whatever it may be,
or to gain the blessings or to gain the goodness that comes from being known as a virtuous and a
		

			righteous person. And these are the people that Allah mentions, for example, Allah Dena Houma,
Ancelotti, himsa hoon, and Edina Homura Ono, m Maryland and Maryland that these people that are
forgetful, May Allah forgive us and protect this. Everyone has moments of forgetfulness and their
prayer. But people that really don't care about their prayer, they do it because they kind of have
to do it. They're intentionally engaging all other thoughts, but the prayer but at the end of the
day, the external appearance is one of prayer. So they're forgetful in their prayer. No one has
access to your thoughts, but they're praying so it looks it looks okay on the outside. So that's one
		

			thing that there it's all external, superficial, there's nothing internal. The other thing is the
lack of motivation. What either Famo ito sloty kamuzu, Salah, musala, right. If they get up for
prayer, or if they go to the prayer, they're lazy, they drag their feet, they have no motivation,
whatsoever, why you are owning us the same thing. Because you know, they'll go there, they'll do
their prayer just to get by, but it's not really there. So there's no motivation towards it. There
is no internal sincerity within it. It is all superficial and that's a very dangerous place to be
in. That's different from a person that struggles with for sure we all struggle to have focus in our
		

			prayer. with varying degrees. I mean, Allah subhana wa tada allow our prayers to be entirely focused
upon him sincere and entirely focused upon him, Allah amin, but we all will struggle, but a person
who has no motivation and a person who just does it to get by
		

			And then there is again, the person who struggles who wonders, is this deed going to be accepted?
Does my prayer mean anything? Does my charity mean anything? What do I do? And I will say the
history of the Allahu taala annually narrates that the prophets of the likes of them said
authentically Allah have broken the man who worked for la commande de minimus he had the job by
lacuna Bella for call a circle coffee and yahoomail Roger you suddenly say you say you know salata
who Lena Yara mean, nadarajah Prophet slicin I'm such a lie, not tell you what I fear for you more
than the Antichrist and the job. Instead, what is it he said, that hidden should that hidden
		

			idolatry, that a person stands up to pray and then they only beautify their prayer when someone else
is looking at them? Why? Because the job deceives the job deceives you from the outside when a
person engages that they deceive themselves, you're literally decorating your prayer to yourself,
what benefit would it have for you on the Day of Judgment. So this is again, a person that, you
know, does not seek to write their prayer with a loss of Hannah Montana. And it's, of course, the
main thing that we will be asked about on the Day of Judgment. Another thing that profits I'm
talking about was the pursuit of knowledge. Right? And the pursuit of knowledge is the path to
		

			paradise. That's what the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that whoever seeks out
a path of knowledge then Allah subhana wa tada will make easy his path to paradise. But on the other
hand, he said Salah lahardee was still a mentor and another alma liuba ballerina, why you jariabek
is super hot. What else three Furby he will do hanasi la he attallah hola now there was contact
protect this muscle a lot of half of the profits license that whoever seeks knowledge to argue with
those that are more learned with them just to get into arguments with those that are more learned
than them somehow imagine the social media age and the way that people try to get a leg up in
		

			whatever groups they're in whatever technology they're in, to argue with those that are more learned
than them. And really what you're trying to do is you're weaponizing knowledge to bring them down so
you can bring yourself up or to put down those that are less learning than them. So you're either
trying to bring down someone more learned than you or you're trying to shame someone who's less
learned than you shame the ignorant, put them down, beat them up, right? To get the the celebration
to get the likes to get the you know, look, I really I won that argument, I won that debate and of
course, at the core of it, to direct people's attention to you. Right, then the opposite result.
		

			It's not genuine, it's genuine, right? Because you're either weaponizing knowledge to hurt someone
else, or to draw attention to yourself to things that are completely contrary to the to what is core
to what Allah subhanho wa Taala has given to us with this blessing. So the difference is, of course,
between an initial certain pursuit with bad intentions, and a good pursuit that can be polluted
somewhere along the way, someone starts to seek knowledge and they do it sincerely, but then somehow
they get stolen along the way. Someone sets out and starts a charity effort or starts to volunteer,
but somehow their sincerity gets pulled along the way someone starts to do things for the sake of
		

			Allah subhana wa tada in the space of, you know, a fighting for those that are oppressed, but
somewhere along the way, they get stolen, their intentions get stolen, and the reality is so Fianna
thodi Rahim Allah said Mara led to shame and a shudder at a human near TD Anahata. Tapella borrelia
I've never had to treat anything in my life more difficult than my intention because it changes on
you. It changes on you. So what do you do with a changing intention, you constantly renew your
intention and do your best. And of course, never give up the good deed itself. And as many times as
you hear this, it's just natural that at some point, you can get paralyzed with such self doubt that
		

			you say, you know what, I'm just not going to do the good deed anymore. What's the point of doing
the good deed? And insulative Narayan Rahim Allah to Allah He said, technically, I'm an excellent
nasteria. Well, I'm a woman as well, if plus and you are a physical law firm in hoonah. He certainly
allowed that to live off a good deed because of people is a form of real
		

			meaning what it's a form of showing off. And this is of course, that you know what no one's looking
right now. So I'm not going to do the good deed and to do the good deed for the sake of someone
else's site because you see them is setting them up as a partner with a loss of Hana what's added
and what you really want to do is you want to you know, you you hope that a loss of hundreds of
spares you from them both and that is sincerity. And the shape on at the end of the day wants to
disconnect you from doing good he wants to disconnect you from your salon. He wants to disconnect
you from yourself. He wants to disconnect you from everything that brings you closer to the loss of
		

			hands on and makes you a better person. And that's why
		

			I said if you're praying and you're making subdued your prostrating and someone walks
		

			And sees you prostrating and the shape on tells you get up because you know, you're only doing that
for other people stay in your suit and fight off those thoughts. Don't leave off the good deed and
work on the intention. Never leave off the good deed, because of the fear of the intention, but
never stopped working on your intention. Even if you are a relief from the idea of Allah you've
reached sainthood. Of course, not in the in the sense that it's traditionally spoken of, right, but
you've reached a point where you're a close servant of Allah subhanho wa Taala. You don't stop
working on your intention and you never give up your good deeds. So what is the solution? I'll give
		

			you a few things in sha Allah to Allah and then we'll conclude because there is something practical
about this law you can leave alone Epson Illa. Allah does not burden a soul beyond that scope. If
I'm going to start having Wes, Wes, you know, the whispers of shape on the whispers of you know,
that things are just all off. Right. And none of this is pure, just like with physical filth. Like
if a person prays and they have constant was lost, you just have to overcome them and you have to do
your best to get your purity. The same thing as with spiritual filth. You've got to put that stuff
aside and keep going forward. That doesn't mean belittling how important it is. But that means Allah
		

			is not unfair, Allah is not unreasonable. When a person sets off, and they want to do the right
thing, but in along the way the test is, is getting stronger. And so somehow listen to this Hadith,
Abu Musab de la the Allahu anhu says cappadonna Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam adata young,
the Prophet slicin was once speaking to us, giving us a hope for Karla au Hannah's attacco had the
ship for in FM in web number, the prophet size and said oh people beware of this polytheism of this
idolatry. It is more hidden than the crawling of an ant. How much can you detect the crawling of an
ant prophets lie? Some said this type of shit. This type of idolatry. The idol, the idol of the self
		

			is more hidden, less detectable than the crawling of an ant. So someone responded and they said,
What kayfun attacchi he was affirming the beaver pneumonia rasulillah so how are we supposed to
avoid it? If we can't detect it? If it's less than the crawling of an ant the Prophet size and I'm
sad kulu Allah home in Nairobi, I mean, initially cabbie cache and Nat allama Manasa firaga Mallanna
Allah, the prophet SAW Selim said, say, Oh Allah, I seek refuge in You that we associate partners
with you knowingly, and we seek forgiveness for you for what we do, unknowingly. How powerful is
this supplication of Rebecca Sadiq about the law of Thailand when he heard the prophets I seldom
		

			refer to that type of insincerity and the pulling away of sincerity as being less detectable than
the crawling of an ant. He said the other sort of law, what do we do? How are we supposed to get rid
of this? The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he responded to apobec here what the Allah hotel
and I'm home and he said, Allah do look at Anna Shea either Coulter who the Hubba Anka kalila, who
were Cafiero listen to the words of the Prophet slice me said, shall I not guide you to something if
you say these words, it will remove that shit from you remove that idolatry, the large of it and the
small of it. The very obvious insincerity that you can actually feel and the parts that you're
		

			having a hard time detecting. And he said, say Allah hum in the rules will Baker and Ashley kabaka
Anna Alamo, West Africa Lima Allah Allah, Allah Honda in Aruba and Sri kabaka Anna Alamo, West
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			fetal calf the mother Ireland memorize the dear brothers and sisters, that Oh Allah I seek refuge in
You from that which I do knowingly and I seek forgiveness from you for that which I do and I don't
even recognize it. I don't even know it. Five things that we learned from this their brothers and
sisters number one, the power of the power of supplication, keep asking a lot to keep you sincere.
Keep asking a lot to keep you sincere. And keep seeking forgiveness from him for that which takes
away from your sincerity. Number two, make sure that when you perform an action, you have that
initial sincerity for that action before you do what you're about to do. Remind yourself that it's
		

			only for Allah subhana wa tada that you want nothing out of your prayer out of your charity, nothing
out of the goodness that you do from the people of this world. You're doing it only for Allah
subhanho wa Taala. Number three, constantly renew your intentions. It's not just the initial
intention. It's revisiting and making sure your intention was not stolen along the way. Number four,
your private good deeds. So Fianna thodi Rahim Allah who is
		

			said that I've never struggled with anything like I've struggled with intention. You know what he
said? He said, anything I've done that has been seen by other than Allah subhana wa Tada, I don't
count it from my good deeds. I don't count it from my good deeds. What does he mean by that he says,
I instead store up my private good deeds, and on the Day of Judgment, if those deeds that were seen
by others are credited that hamdulillah I mean, that's bonus, but I'm going to count on building my
stash of good secrets. Some people have demons in the closet. Others have deeds in the closet of
goodness, to your sincerity, I'm going to store away the prayer, the charity, the goodness that no
		

			one else knows about except for maybe the recipient of that goodness. And that's what will be
between me and Allah subhana wa Tada. Number five consistent performance. What I do in private, I do
in public what I do in public, I do in private, and there is no drop off of the motivation, no drop
off of the performance of the prayer, no drop off of that goodness, just because someone else's eyes
are there. The goal is not to remove other people's eyes. The goal is to remove the weight of those
eyes to where they affect the performance or the sincerity of those deeds. So it doesn't matter if
someone else is watching because the only site you're concerned with is the sight of Allah subhanho
		

			wa Taala May Allah subhanaw taala grant us loss and all that we do full sincerity and all that we do
and accept all that we do. May Allah Subhana Allah to Allah protect us from attributing partners to
him knowingly and make you forgive us when we do so unknowingly alone. I mean, echolalia though
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