Omar Suleiman – True Love for Allah
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The speaker discusses the importance of shukr, a relationship between Allah and the ni adm. They explain that the relationship is not restricted to individual moments or events, but rather is continuous and intense. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of not letting things take too long to come to conclusion and offers advice on how to handle the situation.
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If you love Allah only for the blessings
of this dunya, and hence you increase in
your worship of Allah, and your love of
Allah, only when you feel like the blessings
are coming down.
You know, you always see a person when
something great happens to them.
Alhamdulillah.
And indeed, sajda to shukr is from this
deen.
Sajda to shukr is from this deen.
The prostration of gratitude is from this deen.
But Ayyub a.s. was not just driven
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala out of
shukr.
When the good things were there, we praise
him and celebrate him because he was driven
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the
same position when everything was taken away from
him because his love of Allah was not
about the ni'mah.
It wasn't restricted to the ni'mah.
And so if your relationship, your love of
Allah is only attached to dunya-y things,
when the ni'mah, when the blessings come descending
upon you, what's going to happen?
And this is where Ibn al-Qayyim rahimahullah
ta'ala injects why this is such an
important conversation.
Those that turn away from Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala because of this dunya, right?
When things start falling apart, ya'budullaha ala
harf, and they're ready to jump off of
a cliff.
Those that turn away from Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala because of this dunya cannot be
turned back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
because of this dunya.
You can't stop them there.
It's like when you're raising your children and
you hope that nothing bad will ever happen
to them.
I'm going to give them everything that they
want and I'm just going to teach them
to say alhamdulillah.
Good.
Say alhamdulillah.
Love Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
The goodness that is coming to you is
from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
But then you know inside of you, I
hope nothing goes wrong because then the faith
is going to fall apart.
You can't restrict that relationship with Allah to
ni'mah, to blessing.
It has to move beyond that.
It has to be so intense and so
consistent that if a person were to see
you when you're struggling or when you are
celebrating, they would think you're in the same
position.
Subhanallah.
The example, if you saw the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam praying qiyam al-layl, you
would be like, what is wrong?
I hope he's okay.
He's crying so much.
So there's a puddle under him from his
tears.
Something must be wrong.
No, something's not wrong.
Something is right.
The love of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
drives that person's ibadah, drives that person's closeness
beyond ni'mah.
And so the idea here is that those
that turn towards Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
and develop their relationship with Allah, don't just
wait for the ni'mah to be good.
And alhamdulillah for that.
And intensely thank Allah then.
But they're constantly in the state of shukr,
constantly in the state of love, constantly getting
to know their Lord and increasing their obedience
to Him, to where the other stuff is
becoming irrelevant.