Omar Suleiman – But You Want Something Else From Allah

			Dear brothers and sisters, I want to actually start off with a picture that will come back to insha
Allah Tala in a few minutes, I want you to think about two people clearly calling upon different
gods take a Muslim and take anyone calling upon someone other than Allah subhanho wa taala. Now the
obvious issue that we would point out is obviously the Schoodic is the idea of calling upon other
than Allah subhanaw taala and the importance of calling upon one God. But I want you to ask
yourself,
		

			if you were to peek at the wish list of the believer versus the disbeliever if you were to look at
the wish list and what that person was supplicating to their deity for the Muslim calling upon Allah
subhana wa Tada and whoever it may be calling upon whatever it is, that is worshipped other than
Allah subhana wa Tada, would there be a difference in what is being asked for does the Darat list
look different for a believer and a disbeliever does the want look different between those two And
subhanAllah this is something that you know, I want us to come back to but it comes from an area and
I'll move to this iron shell and I want you to keep that picture in your head because it'll make
		

			sense inshallah time the next few minutes. When Allah subhanaw taala says in certain Isa, when I
tell you no Flippity light and calm, do not weaken in your pursuits and you're fighting back against
the enemy, as you pursue your enemies. This is coming in the capacity of the Battle of Ufford. Allah
subhanaw taala says inter Kuno tet lamona, for in the home yet lamona cannot attack the moon. If you
are hurting, they too are hurting, just like you're hurting, you feel pain, they feel pain, meaning
when there's a battle going on, you mourn your casualties, they mourn their casualties to a person
that does not understand what the battle is all about maybe a bedwin that just comes in and peeks in
		

			and sees this battle taking place. It just looks like two armies fighting. We've seen armies fight
before. We've seen people fight over the silliest of things. We've seen people go to war over
animals and silly notions of tribalism. We've seen it all before, right? So I might think, as I come
out, and I look and I see these two parties at war, right, that this is just another one of those
skirmishes, they have their casualties, you have yours, you go home, they go home, another battle
for another day.
		

			To Quraysh that's all it was. You embarrassed us in bed, if we kicked you out of McCain, you
embarrassed us in bed with a smaller army, you made us look bad. And so we're coming after you and
erode. And we want to make sure that this time, we're able to raise our heads and pride that we
want. So Allah saying, Look, you both struggle in battle. You're going to have losses, they're going
to have losses, you will have injuries, they will have injuries, you will cry over your loved ones,
they will cry over their loved ones. But Allah says the differences what what we're doing I mean,
Ilahi Mata yo John, but you want something different from Allah, don't you?
		

			What you hope for from your Lord is different from what they hope for. You have a loftier pursuit
than their pursuit, you have a greater goal than their goal. What can Allah even Hakima and Allah is
all knowing, and all wise, such a powerful, small part of an IRA. You want something different from
Allah than what they want? Meaning what the on the exterior, it's two armies that are fighting.
		

			But at the end of the day, what are they fighting for? They are small minded people with such small
goals. They want to be able to go back home and boast in Makkah for some time. Say we showed those
bandits, we showed those people that dared to depart from the ways of our forefathers they want the
battles and the prizes and the praise and the poetry that comes with being victorious in battle, but
set small goals, so small minded, that they were willing to sacrifice their fathers, their mothers,
their spouses, their children, they actually were trying to kill their children. Right? Why? So we
can go back to Mecca, and we can be the victors. We get some spoils from battle. And we get some
		

			victories and we get this praise. And Allah says, But you're different from them, aren't you? Total
Judah mean Allah, He matter you're doing. You want something from Allah, that they don't really want
and they don't care for it. And that was the immediate response of the prophets. I seldom when Abu
Sufyan starts to call out and starts to recite the poetry of the days of ignorance and the
statements of victory and the models and it's so profound. Atlanta filled General catla confer now
		

			you people are celebrating. Our dead are in paradise, your debtor in the fire. You're celebrating.
And you think you won for us because what we seek from
		

			Allah subhana wa Tada. There is no such thing as loss. Because so long as we're striving for Him, we
trust him with the reward. So, for us, yes, there's going to be sadness, there's going to be pain,
that's human. People are going to cry over their loved ones the prophets lie, Selim is going to cry
over Hemsedal, the Allahu Anhu more than anyone else's uncle. But at the end of the day, we don't
feel like losers here. Because Atlanta for general Kotla comfort, not what we seek from Allah is
very different from what you people seek from Allah subhanaw taala small minded people with small
pursuits, well, pilot will mclubbe They're both weak, the secret and that which is sought after are
		

			so small. And Allah is saying you seek something different, as a community, as individuals, when you
call upon your Lord, when you act for your Lord, you have a different goal altogether, a different
motivation. And that's very hard for a mind that is restricted to worldly dimensions and worldly
pursuits to really understand they don't get it because even their generosity in Christ, they had
some very generous people. They weren't really seeking any type of reward. They didn't even believe
in a hereafter. They wanted the praise that came with being generous people. They always had a
hidden agenda. There was always something about their good deed, right? So when I'm working on the
		

			Allah, tada, and he goes, and he starts freeing the slaves, they used to free slaves to but they
freed slaves only for the praise of it. And if they could get something out of that slave, they
could get something out of him. You know, that one right there, that one, I have a connection or I
owe him something or he's gonna give me something or a particular skill set or whatever it may be.
There was something about why they were doing this.
		

			And when I look back at all the law on who goes in the freeze Bilad and kebab and Andreevna for
Hagar and lubaina and the neara and above, okay, hon kebabs rotten, these people
		

			don't like what's going on here. There's got to be something else. He can't just be doing this
because he wants something from Allah. They don't get it. They don't understand what I'm doing. I
mean, Allah He, Nah, you're doing you want something from Allah that they don't understand. So as
father takes them to the side, it was generally viewed as a noble thing to free the slaves at the
time. But again, there was always something about it, right? You wanted the praise of it. You wanted
something else with it? And he says, Yeah, Bonia Oh, my son, he's talking to Abubaker you know,
people usually free others that can offer them some benefit.
		

			You're free and people who don't have any money, no tribe behind them, no people behind them. You're
not going to get anything out of these people. And his answer was, yeah, it'd be in Nila RGBHV him
Mandela. Panel a perfect answer, said my father. I'm seeking with their freedom. What is with Allah?
I'm not seeking this one. So for Yoruba and he will be pleased all the Allah Tada and he will be
pleased because he was sincere in his pursuit of Allah subhanaw taala. So what does this have to do
with our do Atlas? Let's come back to that. Allah tells us in the Quran for either pubblicato Mina
SICA comfort could Allah GeekyCon that shed that the Quran Allah mentions when you finish your
		

			rituals in hajj, then remember Allah the way that you would remember your father's and even more.
Now someone would probably read this verse and think about us familiarity. But in fact Subhanallah
when people go to hedge now, right, they're all prepared for drought, right? All the lectures before
the day of autofire about drought, what are you going to ask Allah for? How are you going to ask
ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada May Allah accept all of our heads do as for ourselves and for Allah Amin, but
you're being drained with drought right drilled with doo, doo, doo, doo. This is how you make
drought. You know what they used to do in the time of Quraysh they would perform acts of generosity
		

			in the Hajj of Julian had to the days of ignorance. And then after the Hajj, they'd compete who fed
more people who freed more people who took care of more orphans mashallah great things so you want
to give drink to the poor you want to give food and but they would recite that my father did this
and my father did this and my father did this. So Allah says, Now when you finish your hedge, now
that you've moved away from the hedge of Julia mentioned Allah, I'm not your father's anymore. Stop
that. This is about Allah your hedges about Allah. Now it's not about the performance of a tribe or
an individual. Then Allah says, Femina, Nassima yaku Rob Benner Tina for dunya one Allahu filosofia
		

			team and Kolak there are people that when they ask their Lord, all they asked for are things of this
world. There is nothing in there supplication for the hereafter. It's always asking a lot for
material things and let me tell you something, I believe that one of the main reasons people get so
frustrated when they're doing it is because their eyes are so worldly and they're they're always
about something that they want immediate and in the now and so when it doesn't happen. You get upset
you get bitter.
		

			But if you're John's are framed
		

			with what you really want from a
		

			Law more than anything else, a law response will mean homea Kulu. Rob Donna Tina for junior Hassan
will ask you roti Hasina Joaquina other Banagher some of them say, Oh our Lord, give us the best of
this life
		

			and the best of the hereafter and protect us from the punishment of a knock protect us from the
punishment of the fire.
		

			You see, Allah did not say stop asking for dunya stop asking for worldly things. Allah said, adjust
the proportion of your asked to your priorities.
		

			Adjust the proportion of your asking Allah to your priorities in this life. And I asked you to think
about yourself as you're making drought is it along with yourself gentlemen? And then when you start
asking Allah after you made the droughts for the hereafter, when you start asking Allah for
something worldly and material, suddenly you get emotional and you get driven and you get into it,
suddenly your drought becomes sincere.
		

			But the other thing you know, last night's Ramadan along with the government to habitat for
California alone in the California habitat, and then Oh Allah, give me this and give me that Noah
give me the spouse and oh Allah give me this job and Allah take care of this and Allah take care of
that.
		

			The most precious thing you could have asked Allah for was forgiveness, the greatest prize that
Allah can give you a normal bond and the prophets my son was not saying this to someone that really
had to worry from our perspective, as I said, of the Allah on asking the prophets I seldom what are
we doing the last 10 nights if we think later to others here, the main thing, ask Allah for
forgiveness, the day of alpha, the prize of the day of alpha is forgiveness.
		

			And doesn't mean don't ask Allah for this world. That means how proportionate is your job, to your
priority. Now panela notice that Allah azza wa jal responded to people who only make dua for dunya.
And they don't care for Africa. Because you rarely find people on the other end.
		

			You're rarely going to find someone who spends too much of their time making graphs for the future.
And if they do, then that could represent another problem that can represent, you know, a poor
assumption of Allah subhanaw taala because your Lord is generous, your Lord is merciful. He loves to
give you first aloo ask Allahu Akbar, Allah is more. ask Allah for the worldly things. ask Allah for
the halal ask Allah for these things. It's okay. You have a lord that loves when you ask. So adjust
your proportion. And then ask Allah don't say I'm such a sinful servant. I'm not even going to
bother asking Allah for worldly things. I'm just going to ask him for things of the Hereafter
		

			instead, because that's all I care about. That sounds like you could be coming from a noble place,
right? It's kind of I came across this hadith.
		

			And I saw the Allahu Tada and he says that the prophets lie, some visited one of those Sahaba.
		

			And he said, This man was dying. I mean, he was so sick. They really described him he was it was
like a bird that was dying. I mean, he was crumbled in his bed about to die.
		

			And the prophets lie Selim went to visit him, and he said, Hello, quantitative rubbishy, were you
making your app for anything?
		

			Are you asking Allah subhanaw taala for anything I mean,
		

			as you were in the situation,
		

			he said I used to say,
		

			Allah Allah my quantum or activity behavioral accurate, for I did Hooli for dunya
		

			he said, Oh Allah, whatever you were going to punish me within the hereafter hasten it for me in
this dunya
		

			punish me in this dunya let me get it over with let me go through the pain and the suffering in this
world. And don't punish me in the hereafter.
		

			The prophets I some some that's what used to make do half for help. Quinta Ted, it will be shade
that was you're doing all these all this time? Oh, Allah torture me in this life. So that I don't
suffer in the next life. The Prophet Seisen said Subhan Allah Allah to tickle. You're not going to
be able to handle that. This isn't what you're supposed to be doing. No, you don't ask Allah. It
could be coming from a noble place. This is coming from a sincere place a lovely Allah on who may
Allah be pleased with him but you don't ask Allah punish me now so that you don't punish me then
that's not the type of Lord that you're asking. So the Prophet size M says that say instead Robin
		

			attina. for dunya has an elephant Aphrodite has some. Well, Canada but not all our Lord grant us the
best of this life and the best of the Hereafter, and protect us from the punishment of the fire.
Again, proportionality. proportionality. When you make dua to Allah, exert yourself the most when
you ask for the things of the Hereafter. And ask Allah for the highest of this life and the next ask
Allah for the dose of Allah, for the highest level of alpha dose, ask Allah subhanaw taala for these
things, and there is no such thing as a direct that's made in vain, so long as your pursuit is right
and that's why the believer does not become bitter and dejected when they're due. Because they know
		

			that they have an understanding that their Lord that if my heart was not answered in the way I
wanted it to for this dunya then Allah stored it for the greater goal. That was all
		

			present and my dear, which was salvation in the hereafter.
		

			To June Amina Llahi Mata your June what you want from God is different. Your wish list should be at
the top or at the top of that wish list should be Allah grant us and for the dose of Allah, Allah
protect us and your brothers and sisters has no one and Allah subhanaw taala having a good
expectation of Allah part of that is that you have a practical responsibility to every portion of
that year for dunya has an Allah grant us the welfare of this dunya the best of this life then
pursue dunya with hella pursue this life with only Hello things with Phil arkeologi Hassan and in
the hereafter has an a pursuit without non pursuit with good deeds, put your good deeds towards what
		

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Cristoforo hola for rockin.
		

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