Omar Suleiman – The Faith Revival 21

			Everyone, welcome back to the faith revival. So last time we talked about this idea of realizing the
sweetness of faith, but how do I even begin to get there? And the prophets lie some recognizes that
there's a spectrum that it takes time to get there, but a person has to actively practice certain
things before they get there. So there are many a hadith where the prophets lie someone will say,
you know, I had to come Hatter, no one of you believes until, and the translation is not that you
don't believe as in you're a disbeliever until such and such happens, but that you don't truly
believe until such and such happens. The most famous one, the prophets lie, Selim says, they don't
		

			mean I had to come. No one of you truly believes until you love for your brother, what you love for
yourself. Because now you are putting the love of Allah above the love of possession and the love of
circumstances in this world. And it's either the love of Allah, that leads you to take care of your
brother or loving your brother for a law that leads you to take care of him. So from the sweetness
of emotion that we talked about last week, two of those things come into the equation. He says the
lies that I'm no one of you truly believes until I become more beloved to him than his wealth, his
family, and so on, so forth. So again, this is when you reach that elevated level of email. But how
		

			do I even begin to get there, especially when it comes to theology, especially when it comes to my
update my creed, listen to this, I am sort of denisa Allah Subhana Allah says, fella, while I'm
beaker law, you know, I swear by your Lord or Muhammad Sallallahu wasallam they do not truly believe
what you hachimura FEMA shadowbane home until they make you the judge of all of their affairs. So it
starts intellectually. The Prophet sallallahu wasallam sooner is what governs the interpretation of
the Quran. It's what governs all of our affairs. When I try to find an interpretation of the Quran
that's going to settle well with my current context, I will not resort to anything without first
		

			going to the Sunnah of the Prophet sly some of the tradition of the prophets lie some orthodoxy to
find my solution theologically. I'm willing to settle on that the prophets lie Selim is our judge,
we take it back to him. So Allah Hardy was seldom when we have any difference when we have anything
there. But what if going back to the son of the Prophet sallallahu, wasallam makes us uncomfortable.
It's difficult, right? So we feel like we need to escape this interpretation for our current
context, rather than, you know, maybe some things don't apply in our context. We feel like we have
to escape from it so that we can feel better about it. What is the law say next? samina, edgy doofy
		

			unforeseen how to populate. The next level is not just intellectual, it's that they make peace with
the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu wasallam. They make peace with his judgment, it is Salatu was
Salam. So they are able to resolve they don't find resistance inside themselves internally, when the
sun of the prophets lie, some is put forth, there are elements of your faith that you are not going
to be able to practice in your context, but you should make peace with all of them to be able to say
that Allah and His Messenger do not wrong Allah and His Messenger it is Salatu was salam, everything
that has been legislated through those two means of divine revelation, either the Koran, or the
		

			Sunnah of the Prophet slicin I'm all of it is just all of it is merciful. All of it is moral, even
if my current context does not consider it as such. And even if I'm never going to practice any of
these things, that they that, that all of this comes from place of morality and goodness, and I
don't find that resistance inside of me. So I move from the intellectual to the breaking that
resistance, I'm willing to make peace with all elements of my faith. But then look what Allah
subhanaw taala says next, will you send me more tests NEMA, and they submit themselves then
willingly. Now I go to a place of Sakina by understanding and contextualizing everything about my
		

			faith, by learning more about the Prophet sallallahu wasallam by learning Sierra Whitson, his
biography with the things that come from it by learning to seed, the methodology of tough seed, the
interpretation of the Quran, everything that comes from by building myself intellectually and
humbling myself internally, I now come to a place where not only am I not finding resistance
internally to elements of my faith, I am finding myself submitting to this faith with you know, with
with a full willingness and embrace I don't find I don't find any resistance I am proud of the poor
and and the sooner I feel enriched by the Quran and the Sunnah, the Quran and the Sunnah puts my
		

			heart to ease. So you go through intellectual resolving internally, you know, or resolving any
disputes you might have with the faith to go into a place where you're satisfied with it. And that's
where a person starts to taste the sweetness of faith, and they actually realize that
		

			The true reality of faith may Allah subhana wa tada allow us to be of that last category. And may
Allah subhanho wa Taala forgive us on the way in that journey of faith when we feel that resistance
and allow us to overcome that resistance alone. I mean, does that mean Oh hold on, see you all next
time in sha Allah said I want to limit accounts.