Omar Suleiman – The Faith Revival 16

			So now I want to catch everyone welcome back to the faith revival. So if I was to ask you what is
the most dangerous thing to your email? What's the biggest threat? You might think about
circumstances, major sins, you might think social media, you might think of bad friends, you'll
think about, certainly things that are hot on things that are forbidden and prohibited and some of
the things that we've already spoken about right like adultery, you know, fornication, drinking,
alcohol, theft, all these things that we said that a man would even depart from a person if they are
guilty of these things, but listen to what the prophets lysozyme said, is the greatest threat to a
		

			person's email. So the Prophet sallallahu wasallam says in this hadith is narrated in a Timothy he
says mother Burnie Gianni oracy laughy economist bf sada, Lucha Van Helsing Maria and analiza Shafi
Lydian he, he said, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, that there is nothing more dangerous to a person's
faith, like two wolves that are let free amongst the flock of sheep. Imagine what the prophets
lysozyme is saying, imagine two wolves that go into a flock of sheep. He sets a lot of money with
some of them the two most dangerous things, those two wolves to your faith, your faith being the
sheep are the love of wealth, and the love of fame that a person has the love of wealth and the love
		

			of fame are the two most dangerous threats to your, to your faith. So it's not a major sin. It's not
some horribly hot, um, thing. It's wealth and fame, the love for wealth and the love for fame. Now
as well, for the bad thing. No, the prophet, slice alum taught us to have the upper hand instead of
the lower hand, a lost contact teaches us to say no bene atina for jr has no philosophical, it has
enough to give us the best of this world, and the best of the next. But if a person has an
uncontrollable desire for this world for materialism, and they constantly pursue more and more and
more wealth, then they're going to find themselves in a situation where they will resort to
		

			unethical things, where they will start to place expectations in that wealth, and that will distance
themselves from a loss of Hannah Montana. And sometimes having a lot of money changes a person's
personality. Well, you know, wealth can actually change a person's behavior. So they'll start to
resort to some of the things that we've spoken about in the past these major sins that we've spoken
about in previous episodes, and then the desire for fame. If I want to be famous and it's all about
the fame, then a person starts to resort to unethical behavior to get that fame or when a person
gets that fame. Once again, they change and they find it very easy to resort to some of the major
		

			sins that have been described. So what's the solution number one, the uncontrollable desire for
wealth the profit slice, um, gave us a few things to deal with with materialism. First, he taught us
a lot higher Southern charity, it sounds simple enough, but if you dictate on yourself to give a
certain amount of charity every time you earn, then it's going to be routine, and it will be already
baked into anything that you're going to receive. Number two, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam taught us not to be extravagant, so the difference between needing something and wanting
something to check your extravagance number three, as we learn in the month of Ramadan and fasting,
		

			the importance of sometimes breaking off from something that is available to you of this dunya as a
means of gaining a greater appreciation for it. So all model the Allahu anhu said, if you have a
comfortable bed, don't always sleep on it, take a night off and sleep on the floor the next the next
day, you're going to appreciate the comfort of that bed. When you fast you appreciate the blessing
of that food. So person becomes content with what they have. Number four, the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam taught us to constantly be grateful for what is given to us. As for the love for
fame, the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam taught us that we need to make sure that we never
		

			pursue something for the sight of the people. And he taught us that the showing off, particularly
doing something to be seen by the people is a hidden shift. It's actually a hidden form of
polytheism because you turn those people into Gods by acting in accordance with their sites. And
essentially what we learn from our scholars of teskey are scars of spirituality. If Iam Rahim Allah
says, a person has to make the sight of Allah more beloved to them than the sight of the people. So
secret good deeds, essentially try to get famous in the sight of Allah subhanaw taala and with the
angels that he boast to, and forget about being famous with the people. So again, the two wolves
		

			that are left out on sheep that would destroy a person's email or an unchecked love of wealth and
fame, a loss of hundreds out to protect us from both And may Allah subhana wa tada grant us the
wealth and the fame of the hereafter in the presence of His angels and Our Messengers a lot harder
to sell him a llama. I mean, see you all next time in sha Allah and I want to learn about accounts.