Omar Suleiman – The Faith Revival 23

			So now Mike McIntyre, crickets everyone. Welcome back to the faith revival. So we've really spoken
about the impact of sin on faith, the impact of the pursuit of wealth and envy and stinginess, and
we've spoken about a lot of things. But what about good deeds that actually can hurt your eemaan?
What does that mean? The prophets lie Selim says language shadow Dini, I had no one overburdens
themselves with the religion no one exaggerates or goes to extremes with the religion in lasala,
except that the religion defeats him. That's powerful. The religion defeats you the religion
actually crushes your email. What is the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam talking about he says,
		

			I said the Dubois party will welcome Whoo hoo. He said so be moderate and proceed gradually, what
will do what or who and worship Allah subhanaw taala in the morning, and between us and Muslim,
Washington mina dolger will cost the cost taboo and a little bit in the last part of the night and
proceed moderately moderately and you will reach your goal. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
is telling us that sometime sometimes the most detrimental thing to your EMA is when you set
unreasonable expectations for it. When you have this sudden burst that catalyst that we spoke about
a few episodes ago, you have that sudden burst and this want to just take it all on at once I've
		

			been so far away from Allah subhanaw taala. Now I need to grab everything. So I need to go from
being this wicked transgressor this sinner to being a companion of the Prophet slice and I'm like, I
need to get to that level tomorrow. Because I've done so much bad in my life. I need to jump into
this. The prophets lie Selim witnessed that in his life and he warned people from going to extremes
with good deeds because it will crush your eemaan when you can't maintain that output. And there are
many examples of that you know, every fundraiser in in Ramadan Of course it is the main fundraiser
so please donate to clean every fundraiser in Ramadan, you'll see people quote, our bucket list of
		

			the holiday allowed Thailand and they'll say that Abu Bakr gave all of his wealth for the sake of
Allah. And Allah gave half of his wealth for the sake of Allah. And the Prophet sallallahu wasallam
praised double Beckett and Alma. However, what they won't tell you is that the prophets lie Selim
actually stopped other people from giving all of their wealth why because he recognized that that
was unreasonable. So when people came to the Prophet, slice them and said, I want to give it all for
Allah. He said I'm sick I think you should hold some of it for your family. You should not give it
all up. They said the ATO sola I want to give it all up. The very famous story in early Enron
		

			lantana barrel had 20 local minima to hipbone you will not achieve gender or righteousness until you
give that what you love about on how it comes to the profit slice me so I want to give my most
beloved garden the profits licenses out onto the Caribbean, it's better if you leave it for your
family, or donate it to your to your relatives, because he understood so I tell him that these
people might be depressed afterwards because they'd recognize that they went too far above the law
and on the other hand, his emotion was secured. Likewise, the prophets lie some allowed some people
to fast more than others there are companions that fasted every day. There are companions that
		

			fasted every single day, except for the tour eats he didn't allow that for other people because he
knew that it was unreasonable that the expectation was too much. So he tells I'm loving them and
also the alongside I know that the best fasting is the fasting of that water is set up if you really
want to fast and he took him through the the equation. First try Mondays and Thursdays try three
days of the month. Okay, you want more than don't go beyond fasting alternate days because he
recognized, Abdullah Ahmed was too overzealous, and he was too young. And he was trying to do it all
at once. Trying to pray all night he might want to pray all night long. Yes, little I don't want to
		

			wait till the last third of the night to start praying. And what did the prophets lie? Some tell
him? He said, Yeah, I'm the law. He said, Listen to me. Oh, I'm the law. Lotta coin. carajo can I
accumulate photopic Don't be that guy that comes later on in life and says I remember when I used to
play piano live, and then he just abandoned it altogether. Because it became too burdensome because
the bar he set was way too high. And so people need to understand that I need to set short term
goals and long term goals. Long term we all have something to strive for. We will never surpass the
profit slice I'm in his companion. So long term I want to get here short term. I can't go from not
		

			reading on at all to reading the Quran three times a month. I need to start somewhere I can't go
from not praying my five prayers on time to praying all night long or to saying that I'm going to
pray pm and then every night. Start with your five prayers. I can't go from barely fasting in
Ramadan to trying to fast every other
		

			Day going straight to the fast thing of that we're gonna set up. If you set unrealistic goals for
your faith, you will feel defeated when you're unable to meet those goals. So what do you have to
do? You have to set goals that you can achieve in sha Allah. Once you achieve these goals and baby
steps, then you build on them in Charlottetown, you don't start with with these lofty goals you
build on them. And there's a methodology that Nima goes out to him. Allah says, with our faith,
that's very profound. He says that you leave sin immediately, you don't gradually get off of a sin.
Once you recognize your sending, you immediately cut it out of your life, because if you leave it in
		

			any capacity or any proportion, it's only a matter of time before you dive into it altogether. But
you build good deeds gradually, so rapidly detached from sin, slowly and gradually attached to good
habits and good practices to build your email. Otherwise you will fall short because you're going to
feel like you you know you're not sufficient. And if you set a goal for yourself, and you're not
able to meet that goal, then readjust the expectation and readjust the goal. Don't give it up
altogether. So if you say from now on I'm going to break the lid two times a week and you're finding
it too difficult don't say well, I tried doing Fiamma it didn't work. The new one time a week in
		

			Charlottetown. If you said from now on I'm going to read this many pages of Koran and it didn't work
cut it in half inshallah, but keep on going don't detach from it all together. Otherwise, again, it
will be a depression of faith. May Allah subhanaw taala allow us to proceed with moderation towards
them and not be overburdened by a religion that is meant to provide ease and tranquility to our
hearts allama mean See you all next time inshallah. So I want to come up with a lot of accounting