Sadullah Khan – Nights of Empowerment Parables and Wisdom from the Quran Night 4

We continue our theme

nights of empowerment,

parables, and wisdom from the noble Quran.

The Quran makes a conditional statement at the

very beginning of the 4th Jews.

Allah begins

You cannot attain

unless

you avail for others what you yourself

love most for yourself.

And whatever you spend,

whatever you provide,

whatever you avail for others,

surely Allah is fully aware of everything

that you do.

Now, lent an alul beer, you can never

attain unto beer. This beer is a concept

that occurs numerous times, in fact, 14 times

in the holy Quran.

And in the Islamic primary text, the concept

of birb

is a very fundamental concept.

It implies a variety

of positive behaviors and positive attitudes.

For example, there are

Right? Truthfulness leads towards.

And human conduct.

Also, it can imply cordiality

and respect for others.

In numerous ayaats, in one of them for

example, Allah says, those who do not fight

you, those who do not oppose you, those

who are not hostile towards you, Allah says,

there's no there's no harm

in being just and fair and kind to

to them. And the word used there is

so implies

a cordiality

and respect for others.

It can also be the means of social

engagement.

For example, Allah says,

engage each other, engage other people,

engage in social activity

on the basis of

on the basis of what we can say

righteousness and God consciousness.

In the verse that we are particularly focusing

on,

the unique aspect of this verse that captures

our attention and that evokes

our our conscience

is the fact that it's a conditional statement.

You can never attain and to build.

In other words,

there's a precondition.

Until and unless.

You cannot attain this bill until and unless

you avail for others

that which you yourself love most.

So here,

symbolizes,

righteousness

coupled with what we can say the spirit

of of of empathy, of infar, of generous

generosity,

of spending, of availing, and benefiting other people.

And this verse we can say for Islam

in the Islamic terminology and in the Quran

is the foundation of what we call the

golden rule, the ethic of reciprocity

that is loving for others what you love

for yourself.

And therefore,

this golden rule,

which is linked to the notion of

is

emphasized the prophet

as a mercy unto the world in numerous

ways. Among them, for example, he said, as

an advice,

he said,

He said, If you love for others what

you love for yourself, then truly you are

a Muslim.

This can also be a means of salvation.

Whoever wishes to be saved from the fire

and to enter the guard the garden of

paradise,

that person should die having faith in Allah

and aware of his accountability

on the day of judgement.

And

that person should treat other people the way

he himself would like to be treated.

And of course,

Mu'adh ibn Jabal radiAllahu, one of the companions

asked the prophet, what is the best

what you love for yourself.

Dislike for them what you dislike for yourself,

and say something good. If you say something,

then if you can't say something good, rather

remain silent. This is the highest perfection of

your iman.

So we need to realize from all

this, that if we live with love as

our dominant emotion,

because we're all emotional beings. Any human being,

we're always in some

state. We only become conscious when we become

highlighted when we're angry,

when we express love,

hatred,

jealousy, then we come aware of our emotion,

but we are emotional beings. We're always in

some emotional state.

So if we live with

our with love as our dominant emotion,

which is very rarely the case, even among

loved ones.

If we live with love, like Deirasul, his

dominant emotion was mercy. Israel will call him

mercy.

If we live with love as our dominant

emotion, then we have a power to make

a difference in the lives of the people

whom we engage and whom we meet.

There's nothing more comforting. There's nothing more gratifying

for a conscientious person than knowing that through

your kind word,

through a helpful act, through a loving hug,

through a cheerful smile,

that you have made a difference. You've made

someone's burden a little lighter, someone's day a

little brighter,

someone's

situation a little more pleasant.

So kindness and love are indeed most noble

qualities,

not only good qualities,

integral to righteousness,

which is the doorway to paradise and also

linked to the notion of taqwa, which is

the reason why we're fasting.

So love

and kindness are indeed most noble qualities,

characteristics of Allah himself.

Allah is kind. Muslim.

Allah is kind and Allah prefers kindness in

every

matter. And of course, Allah encourages

love and compassion

for after all.

Allah himself is most compassionate and

most loving.

Let us ponder over the following three points.

1,

or

the expression of

righteousness, should be an integral

part of the life and the psyche and

the attitude of any believer.

Bir,

or the expression of righteousness should be an

integral part of any believer and should be

manifested in our attitude and our engagement with

other people.

2,

righteousness

cannot be truly attained without caring for the

well-being

of the rest of our human family.

And we should therefore love for others

what we love for ourselves as instructed by

the Quran and by the prophet.

And I leave you with a reminder of

the

All of creation,

dependence of Allah. All of the creation,

dependence of Allah, and Allah loves most among

his creation,

those who are best to his creation.