Omar Suleiman – Ramadan 2017 – Khatirah Night 17

			He also had to sell them to someone
		

			who can remember who's the first profit that we recited about today. And the eight guys
		

			the price will and the five can answer.
		

			The prize goes to the winner.
		

			There is no price.
		

			The first prophet we recited today was about Ibrahim alayhis salaam and the momentous occasion of
Ibrahim Abraham peace be upon him standing in front of the carrabba after he has built it as
commanded by Allah subhanaw taala with his son is married, and then told to call out to the people
you have to Khadija and people will come to you in this barren desert, from all over, saying the
baker lahoma bake on Camelback on horseback by foot caravans tribes, people who don't speak the same
language as you, people that you would have never imagined coming to this place will start to come
to this place. Oh, Ibrahim, just do your part. And Allah subhana wa tada will send the people. There
		

			are many lessons that we can derive from this. But I want to focus on one point that perhaps is an
undertone when we talk about Ibrahim alayhis salaam, and his truthfulness with the loss of Hannah
woods, Anna. And that is the lack or the lack of a need that Ibrahim alayhis salaam had to seek
validation from people. Ibrahim was so motivated by the command from Allah subhanho wa Taala, that
he never really needed that validation from people. Ibrahim didn't need to see the numbers. Ibrahim
didn't need someone to come and pat him on the back and say Good job building the Campo Ibrahim did
not need someone to hug him after he was cast into the fire and came out saying huseby allow an
		

			airman Joaquin a lot of sufficient for me. He didn't need someone to tell him that was amazing what
you did there Mashallah, look at you, you're a lion of Allah and so on so forth. Ibrahim needed it
his Salaam no validation whatsoever from people. Now, why am I focusing on this in particular? You
know, many times when we talk about spiritual diseases, we tend to assume that they just come out of
nowhere, they catch us out of nowhere. But one of the things that the real amount of toughskins
Look, there's a real amount of spirituality of focus throughout history, is the fact that you have
to pay attention to the precursors of spiritual diseases, the signs that you're about to develop a
		

			disease because often we talk about sincerity, and then we talk about signs that you have a disease,
but we don't talk about the signs that you're about to develop a disease. The diseases
		

			The disease is showing off. The disease is when a person actively starts to do deeds for the sight
of the people rather than the sight of Allah subhana wa Tada. The opposite of that is sincerity. And
there are things in between there are signs that a person might start transitioning from a loss from
sincerity to reality. And you have to be able to catch those signs. And amongst those signs, Imam
Abdul Kalam Rahim Allah points out that a person starts to seek approval for actions they did for
Allah subhanho wa Taala. This is powerful. You did an action for Allah. But after you do an action
for a law, you start to look for the approval. You look for that pat on the back. You look for that,
		

			Mashallah. Good job, brother, good job, sister, and you were sincere when you did that action. But
slowly, slowly, you start to look for that approval. And then you know what happens that matures
into an addiction, you start to get addicted to that praise and to that approval, and you start to
constantly need that validation until the validation precedes the action being done by it for a loss
of Hannah horchata until that need and that desire to be praised. And for someone to tell you
something good about yourself or to validate your repentance or to validate your good deed starts to
precede the good deeds themselves. And so when you do good deeds Now, the first thing you're
		

			conscious of is who's watching who's gonna see it? Who's going to tell me this? Who's going to tell
me that there's a transition to your brothers and sisters. And what we learn in the story of Ibrahim
alayhis salaam is to cut it off from the root. Who cares? If anyone knows about your good deed? The
worst thing you could do as a mom, I know Dr. Maha Lhasa, Allah blesses you to shed a tear in the
Yama Lille and tahajjud all by yourself between you and a lot. And then you go and you spoil it by
telling someone you know, Mashallah, last night, the Imam was reciting surah Ibrahim, and it was so
amazing that I just couldn't
		

			help myself from crying. You blew it.
		

			You spoiled it. You finally got a moment alone with a loss of Hannah Montana doing something, and no
one was there to see it. And you went and you ruined it because you told someone about it. And then
you started to actively do that until a person falls into utter hypocrisy, where now they are
worshiping the sight of the people. So everything they do they do in mind with the sight of the
people rather than the sight of Allah Subhana hutan and fellated in our yard, Rahim Allah teaches us
a very beautiful way to deal with this. And it's a mechanism it's an equation. And it's what we
learn from the sleight of hand from the righteous that came before us even if we can't reach their
		

			level. We learned from them. He said that the believer covers up his good deeds with the same
vigilance that he covers up his sins.
		

			You know how you hate for your sins to be exposed. You hate for someone to find out about your your,
your flaws, you hate for people to see the weaknesses that you have that same hatred that you would
have for people to find out about your evil you actually start to detest that people find out about
your good because you want your actions to be validated only by Allah subhanho wa Taala So again,
the point is your brothers and sisters first and foremost, do out from the Prophet sallallahu
wasallam where he used to say alum in the EU Vika and oshika b cache and our llama West Africa
lahoma Lima Ireland Can you all repeat it after me? Allahumma inni Ooh, beaker. And whoosh Vika
		

			beaker say an
		

			Alamo with a stuffy rock Allahumma.
		

			Lima Allah, along with the prophets lie Selim used to say, Oh Allah, I seek refuge in You from
knowingly associating a partner with you from the times that I knowingly do so. Meaning when I know
that I'm insincere, when I do a deed, and I seek your forgiveness, even for those times that I'm not
recognizing that I'm doing so. May Allah subhanho wa Taala make our only our primary desire the
desire for his pleasure, may Allah subhana wa tada protect us from having our deeds corrupted by a
yacht or pride or shidduch or whatever they may be. May Allah Subhana what's out of keep already
sincerely for his sake, a llama. I mean, there's like Wilfredo said I want to come up with celebrity