Safi Khan – Soul Food 25 August 2023
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The segment discusses the importance of understanding the process of becoming a Muslim and the importance of learning to be happy as a Muslim. The speakers also touch on the loss of human time and the importance of remembering things in the context of Islam, including words and conversations, and the importance of understanding deeds and one's success. The segment also touches on the physical pain of people who migrated from Mecca to antibiotics treatment and the importance of not criticizing them. Finally, the speakers emphasize the importance of trusting oneself and the importance of not criticizing people.
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Bismillah Alhamdulillah wa Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah while
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rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh who everybody Welcome Home Welcome to
roots Hamdulillah we are, as a lot of you probably saw from the law,
we are excited super, super excited to be launching our brand
new series for the next insha Allah at least the next couple of
months
Hamdulillah we benefited a lot from the previous series that we
did together, which was the conversations on being Muslim.
Right? And now that we're done, I feel like I can be honest with
everybody about what that series is actually about that series of
course conversations on being Muslim practically what it means
to practice your faith. But you know what we did in a nutshell
actually what a lot of people may not have realized is that we
actually took certain Hadith from this really incredible like
compendium of Hadith
compilation called riada Salah Hain and we basically took them
week by week and just kind of dissected them as a group of
people from the de la so you know you can now when you go up to
Allah subhanaw taala on the day of judgment you can say yeah, Allah
You know, when I attended soul food on Thursdays at roots from
you know what, whichever month we started up until, you know a
The end of August 2023, you can say, Yeah, Allah I read Riyadh,
the Saudi Hain every Thursday night, not many people can flex
that right? It's pretty cool. Hamdulillah. So, we are in Sharla
going to continue on with this new series today. This new series is a
series called a journey to Allah. Okay.
And it is actually based on an incredible book that was written
by an amazing scholar, his name was Ibn Rajab al Henneberry. Okay,
he was an incredible scholar of the humbly methodology. And he
wrote a lot of books that were actually kind of commentaries on
larger pieces of work, or what he would do is he would take certain
like, commonly, you know, used Quran, you know, Surahs and Hadith
of the Prophet size of them, and he would break it down, so
everyone would understand it on a deeper level. So this entire
series that we're going to be going over in sha Allah for the
next couple of months, is actually and this is going to kind of trip
everybody out. It's actually based off of one singular Hadith. And I
can guarantee you that everyone's like, you know, and this is one of
the benefits of this. By the way, a lot of times as Muslims, we get
into the cycle into this culture of just like a new thing. Like I
want to do a new thing. You know what I'm memorize Rasul Fatiha.
Now I want to move to something else. You know, I memorize that
hadith already, and I want to do something else. Oh, I already know
that thing. I want to do something else. Now. You know, there are
scholars who say that if a person truly understood, like, for
example, there is a narration that mentions that if a person
memorizes and implements a sutra, like Sudha, Asada, right, then how
many of us here have ever heard of sorts of loss or Well, acid in
Santa Fe closer, this really, really short three line sutra in
the Quran? If a person implements that it's as though that they
understood 1/3 of the entire Quran,
like when the Prophet slicin and make statements like that, you
understand that Islam is never like a rat race to the finish
line. It's never a goal of a Muslim to say, oh, you know what I
finished? Right? And I understand that it it's exciting when we,
again, we live in that culture, right, you graduate, you're done.
Right? You're moving on to another job, another career, right?
Everyone's kind of like living in this cycle of starting and
finishing. But as a Muslim, you know, one of my teachers always
taught me that if you ever feel like you're finished, as a Muslim,
it means that you're not really doing justice to what it means to
be a believer. No one should ever be done with anything, right?
Everyone sitting here right now may claim that they Hey, man, I
read social Fatiha. I read it 17 times in a day during my prayers,
but how many of us truly, truly live, understand, implement every
single teaching of that even that short? Seven line surah. Right. So
one of the goals for soul food and not just soul food, but just kind
of culturally as, as as a community is to appreciate the
process, right? Sometimes people they say that the journey is
actually what's more important than the final destination. Right?
And subhanAllah you know, I truly, truly 100% believe this, that
inshallah inshallah once we all make John Everyone say, I mean,
and one once we all in sha Allah make Jana, we will go back and
look at our lives and say, subhanAllah these are all the
things that I did to get here. Right? Like that journey is
something to be appreciated. Because in Jannah, you're not
going to be you know, doing Hajj in Jannah you're not going to be
fasting in the month of Ramadan. Isn't that tricky? Isn't that
weird to think that there will be a time in your life at one point
where you won't be fasting Ramadan anymore, you may not be praying
five times a day anymore because that was something that you're
obligated to do in the dunya so once you get there, you will look
back and you'll say to yourself, wow, subhanAllah I, I can't
believe that all of that hard work mashallah led to this moment,
right? So, this series in sha Allah is going to reflect on on
those principles. So, through this series, we're going to talk about
really incredible things. You know, today in sha Allah, we're
going to start off with the with the Hadith itself, then we're
gonna move on to things like the virtues of single hamdulillah
what's what's the meaning of blessings? Both paradise and deeds
are from the Grace of Allah? What does it mean to be a miserable and
what does it mean to be happy as a Muslim?
Another chapter is titled How Allah's blessings can never be
repaid. So we're in sha Allah going to go one by one through
these chapters every single week. And again make it discusses make
it something that has almost like a discussion based you know,
culture here in sha Allah it's all food like we're all used to and
we're going to try to make some some some some really amazing
memories in sha Allah from this series. So we're gonna start off
with a hadith British all I want to give everyone a little bit of a
teaser trailer this because this is gonna make us appreciate this,
right? How many people are here out of anybody? Anybody here out
of okay, Mashallah. All right. So I
Arab culture, by the way, is big on like lineage, right? And I
think it's actually a tragedy that a lot of people don't even like
know their names of like their great grandparents. You know, a
lot of I can guarantee you, I mean, even myself included to a
certain degree, if you ask me, like, who my grandmother was, and
what her mother's name was, that's like, where I'd have started
having trouble that kind of figuring things out, right. But
the reality of why, you know, these people were so special is
because they all had this incredible ability to remember
things, right? I want you guys to just pause and think about that
for a second. I think we live in such a fast paced world, where we
forget to pause and remember things like for example, like what
what did you What did you eat yesterday? Like for breakfast? Or
lunch? Like you don't even use a lot of people? Have you hear it?
Oh, no, because there were so busy in between two things. But they
forgot that I mean, subhanAllah it was a blessing. It was a meal,
right? It's a source of sustenance, it's a form of risk
from Allah. Well, we can't even remember what that was right? Or
even the conversations, even more importantly, the conversations you
had yesterday with people, right? A lot of times SubhanAllah. The
Sahaba used to say this, by the way, they used to say that, at the
end of the day, we used to go back home and before our head would hit
the pillow, we would think about every word we utter that day,
every word we uttered that day and today's you know, day and age, you
would always think about like words that you said and also words
that you typed, because half our communication is through text
messaging now, right? So could we go back and recall the
conversations we had with people? Is that something that we can
quite literally do, we live in such like a state of
forgetfulness, that I mean, lo and behold, this is why by the way, we
make so many mistakes, we'll talk about this they we make so many
mistakes that we forget about. We do so many things in our lives day
to day that we forget about that, you know, when we meet Allah to
Allah and the hereafter, and Allah asks us Hey, man, like on August
like 10th, did you really say this and you have no recollection of
it? Why? Because we're just moving on from this to this to this. I
mean, subhanAllah how many of us would be confident if somebody
pulled up like your entire transcript your entire receipt up
on the screen right now between you and another person and can
confidently say that I've never say anything weird?
Like, I've never said anything, like, even remotely rude or like,
Ill mannered? No, this is just the way that we are, unfortunately,
nowadays, right? But these people were extremely, extremely
masterful of remembering things. So Ibn Rajab, you know, it's so
funny. The person who translated this he said that even Rogers full
name Y'all ready for this? There's gonna be a doozy already. So Ibn
Rajab, he says that this is the Imam the half of he says this is
Zeno, Dean of the Rockman Ibn Ahmed Abdullah Hassan Ibn Al
Hassan ibn Muhammad ibn Abu barakaatuh. Almost wrote a salami
al Hanbali as the missionary. And then he goes, his nickname was Ibn
Rajab.
And he was named after his grandfather in Russia because he
was born in the month of Raja okay. And they've been Raja was
incredible, Masha, Allah, you know, he had, you know, people who
studied with him studied under him. Allah Hui, by the way, quote,
all the time that soulfood was one of his famous, you know, one of
his famous students that came after him. And so, this particular
narration and Sharla we're gonna get some discussion going on here
with everybody who's here. This particular narration that this
entire series is going to be based upon is this narration right here,
and I'm going to read it out to everybody, okay. And this
narration is found in Behati, which means that it is absolutely
something that the prophets of Allah Allah, who was salam without
a shadow of a doubt mentioned in his life, okay. So it says that
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was sitting with his
companions. And he thought to himself, who said, I mentioned to
the people around him, he said, that your deeds alone will not
save you. He said, Your deeds alone will not be the thing that
saves you at the end of the day. And the companions were kind of
taken aback by this, right? Because again, if the prophets
lie, Selim is saying that no one's deeds will come to their you know,
complete salvation on the Day of Judgment, then their automatic
response is going to be well, what about you? jasola, right, like
you're with us, are you different from us? Or are you going to go
through the same exact kind of situation, and the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he says, not even me. He says, not
even me. He says, Unless a lot were to envelop me, in His mercy
and His forgiveness. And then he says, Be firm and steadfast and be
balanced, he says, and journey to Allah Subhan Allah Tada again,
hence why this book is called a journey to Allah. He says journey
to Allah subhana wa Tada in the beginning of the day, and at the
end of the day, and a portion of the latter part of the night and
be moderate and everything that you do and through this, you will
attain what you seek. Okay? So the profit slice of him he gives some
incredible advice right here. The first thing he says is that your
deeds will not be enough to save you home.
only in the hereafter. So what I'm going to do in sha Allah right
now, as I do usually in soulfood I'm going to pause for about a
minute and I'm going to ask you to kind of converse with the person
next to you about that statement, that your deeds alone will not
save you. Why do you think that your deeds alone will not be
enough to save you on the Day of Judgment? Let's talk a little bit
inshallah because again, I feel the way that a person understands
Islam is not just through lectures, not just through hearing
and mashallah lectures and you know, motivational talks and
whatnot gives you a lot of that kind of, you know, Zelle and
charisma in your heart but at the end of the day, we want to learn
here our soul food, we want to be people who improve your soul food
so let's talk to each other and shall I give everybody a minute
talk to the person next to you about what you think about that
statement that your deeds alone will not save you Bismillah
talking inshallah and then we'll reconvene together as a group?
Alright Bismillah let's, let's hear some thoughts in sha Allah.
What do we got? Why do we think that there is a component of deeds
not being the ultimate deciding factor. When it comes to a
person's hereafter, this will let go ahead.
Weak. So as a consequence, our own weakness, there are always going
to be imperfection in no matter how many good deeds do let's say
if I praise Allah, I might be getting distracted to food. There,
there's going to be an element of imperfection within meat just
because
of my own weakness. The only
exception is then he showered his mercy at all looks over those
imperfections that are performing any good is that?
Yeah, powerful, right? I mean, there's an element to we have to
allude to the fact of perfection versus imperfection. Right? That
deeds, ultimately our deeds are our metal come from us. Right? And
whatever anybody does anything, there is always a mode of
imperfection associated with it. I pray and even my best prayer and I
want you guys to think about this right? Even the the best prayer
you've ever prayed in your life, there was a little small little
hint of imperfection in it. Even the time that you like knocked
something out of the ballpark, right? You nailed a job interview.
You got into you aced an exam, right? There was even a small bit
of imperfection in that right? And what he mentioned is powerful that
but when it comes from Allah there cannot be imperfection involved
with it right? Because when Allah does something it's absolutely
perfect and there is no cert there is no a coincidence when Allah
does something is always purposeful and be when Allah does
it it's the best way that it can it could have ever been done right
very good. Anyone else who wants to go in trouble yeah
along with our deeds we also have to make repentance and that
repentance is a big component of what we
have Allah so that repentance that repentance factor is a big
component again
coupled with that fact that your your deeds will not actually be
perfect to a certain degree. Right. Very good. Anyone else?
Yes, go ahead
Subhan Allah, you know, it reminds me of that narration of Ibn Ahmad
Radi Allahu Allah. And when a man came up to the son of a medical
Baba and he says, Yeah, you know, he says, Yeah, I've been a role
model. I want to repay my mother back for, you know, all the stuff
that she went through for me, right? When I was a child when I
was a baby. And he goes, Well, law here, I'm going to carry my
elderly mother now on my back for the entirety of the process of
hudge. And if an armada goes, okay, sure, go ahead and try, you
know, like, knock yourself out. So this man, he quite literally
carries his elderly mother on his back the entire process of hudge,
hoping that this is going to be some sort of a compensation for
all of the struggles that she went through when he was a child. Okay.
And so after he completed this, he comes back to Lebanon model the
Allahu Allah and he says, you know, a, is this something that I
can finally now just be free of that kind of payment that I owe
her? Right. And even Omar Abdullah, who on what did he say
the famous narration, he said, that you have not even paid her
back for one singular contraction that she had with you while she
was pregnant with you. While she was carrying you, you didn't even
you didn't even take care of one small contraction. And
contractions obviously can last, you know, between five to seven
minutes, it can last between 10 to 15 minutes, it can last between 20
to 30 minutes, you haven't even paid one of those back. And so
there you know, there's a reality to what he mentioned is that there
are certain favors that are actually not repayable, you guys
agree with this statement. And I'm sure there is active, you know,
examples in your life that you can attest to, where you know that
there are certain people who did certain things for you that no
matter what you do for them, there is no possible way that you can
repay them for what they did, right. And parents, by the way, is
a great example of this. But now imagine, imagine, take it a step
further. Now you're talking about Allah, you're talking about Allah.
So for the people who take deeds, and say, My actions will be enough
to repay back Allah for everything he's done for me. There will be a
million things, scratch that a billion things. If you could write
down on paper that Allah has done for you that you probably to this
day, don't even know about.
You're sitting here right now at routes and you're thinking to
yourself, I'm Hamdulillah you know, I'm a decently grateful
person, right? I thank Allah for my family. I thank Allah for my
job. I thank Allah for my ability to live in a home that has AC in
this 180 degree Dallas heat. I'm happy for these things right? In
sha Allah one day, it'll dip to the frigid cold of 89 in sha Allah
Tada, right, like, we can't wait all these doubts. People look at
the weather next week, and they see 95 and they're getting their
parkas out. And so like, you know, like, we always think that oh,
yeah, and I'm grateful. I'm decently grateful. Imagine
Subhanallah if there was a moment on the Day of Judgment, where
Allah shows you that here is a mode of blessing that I gave you
in your life that you didn't even think about. You don't even
account for it. Right? Think about if And subhanAllah. Y'all ever
like seen those? Those like movies and TV shows about like the
butterfly effect. Like if this didn't happen, then that wouldn't
have happened. If that didn't happen 20 3040 years ago, then it
wouldn't have set off that chain of events that took place and led
to this. Like what if half the things in your life are because
Allah to Allah allowed one small thing to happen 80 years ago, and
we reflected over this, like, I believe it was either last week or
the week before everyone who's sitting here right now calling
themselves a Muslim. Either you yourself are Muslim, because you
decided to take that upon yourself and start that tradition in your
lineage. Or you owe extreme gratitude to somebody who lived
like 50 or 100 years ago.
Think about that. Right? Like I'm sitting here right now teaching
here. And subhanAllah I don't know who accepted Islam and my family,
I believe it was from you know, Subhan Allah from my mother
hamdulillah accepted mainstream Islam. But on my father's side, I
don't know who it was, but there was somebody who took the baton
who took the the you know, the stamp of la ilaha illallah and
pressed it upon my family. And because of that, I know what
Ramadan is. Because of that, I know what it is because of that, I
know what Salah and Zakah are, can you imagine and our entire lives
we go by and think that like this is nothing. So another kind of,
you know, example that
You know, deeds are not going to be your end, you know, it's not
going to be your savior at the end because your deeds are so flawed.
And no matter what you do, you can never repay Allah back and earn
his Genda based upon your own faulty deeds that you commit.
Right? So that's, that's very good. Anybody else who has
something sister side? What do we got? Yes, I'm gonna go ahead.
More of like growth mindset of wakefulness and with a mother's
love, you can't ever really prepare like if you're like what
the saying I think of like when we describe these as being on a scale
of you have one more positive detail to the scale, but you're
not at your best you're not actually what you're doing
Yeah, very good. Don't make it a math equation, we're actually
going to talk about this Inshallah, in just a second. Well,
I'm gonna say it was powerful. She said that a Muslim who again looks
at deeds and their their armor, as like this kind of like scale that
they have to fill. And in order for it to tip over, I just have to
kind of hit this number, right. And again, subhanAllah it's such
a, it's such a reality to the lives that we live that we're so
used to, because we just have to meet our marks nowadays, right?
Everyone has to hit that sail in order to get that bonus, everybody
has to hit that grade in order for their GPA to be averaged out
whatever it needs to be averaged that everyone has to get that
degree in order for them to get that job. Right. So everything for
a lot of people is just kind of like numbers, numbers, numbers. I
mean, think about Subhanallah the way that we even assess like,
events, right? Oh my god, did you know that like 80,000 people
showed up to so horror fest it was crazy, right? Y'all know this?
80,000 People should I'm just getting the numbers are skewed
that night. But think about it. Subhanallah we're like, oh, it was
what what if? What if SubhanAllah? What if 100 people showed up to so
horror fest? But what if those 100 people were the quality of the
companions of the Prophet slice?
But we never think about that, right? And I want you guys to
think about this in the early days of Islam, when it was just the
prophesy Sonam preaching La Ilaha illa Allah to people like Khadija
or the Allahu anha to people like Ali ibn Abi thought him to people
like ze the Ben hadda to people like Abdullah ibn Miss Earth.
These are people who are like not really known in society to be
like, lofty, right? Wealthy, high standard people know, they were
like his family. Imagine if you walk into a masjid and the only
people that are listening to the Imams. halacha is like his two
sons. You're like, I'm gonna dip and go to heart work in sha Allah,
right? Like, no, like, for real. But that's kind of the way that we
start thinking nowadays. But what if that the quality of those
people were likely Lesia? What if the quality of those people were
like Zaid, who knows man? So this idea of quantity over quality is
something that hinders a person's ability to understand what the
goal of Jannah actually is. Because when you think of Jannah
as just quantifiable, right? It's a quantifiable goal, then we're
never going to actually appreciate it. That's why in dunya you'll see
people praying, praying, praying, praying, praying, but they have no
shoe on their prayer. They have no like, mindfulness in their salah.
How many people like y'all ever seen people like doing the Quran
of God and mashallah, it's a great thing, but they're like, but you
can even understand it's like that dude like on Tik Tok that's claims
to be the fastest reader in the world you're like bro, you're not
reading English. Have you been in a language that is but you're not
you definitely ain't reading you know I'm saying so like this whole
idea of quantity needs to be something that we need to reel
back and really focus on what qualitative measures actually are
right Bismillah perfect, who else wants to share inshallah go ahead
yeah, subhanAllah write a beautiful example Russia use
example the prophets awesome. She said that even a personally the
Prophet SAW Saddam had to have his heart cleansed a few times in his
life, right. And although he was protected vastly, vastly more than
the average human being, he still needed to be protected and
cleansed and guided by Allah subhanho wa taala. And this is why
there's actually a famous story where, you know, I shuttled the
Allah who I'm hashey, Narita, and again, the reason why she narrates
this is because it was a very personal story. It was behind the
confines of their own home right behind the walls of their own
home. And she said that I witnessed the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa salam standing in Salah so long that the skin on his feet
would crack, right like he would she would visibly able to see that
right I mean, a lot of our pains right, by the way, a lot of people
just look lethargic human beings, but like, Yeah, real pain, right?
She witnessed it right? She said, I used to see him pray to the
point where I
cracks developing and the bottom of his feet, which means that
like, if somebody can see the pain on you, that means how much pain
is that person actually going through? Right? Because sometimes,
you know, sometimes felt pain is not always seen by other people.
Correct. Somebody can really be hurting, but no one can really see
it because they they cover it up so well. And the prophets lesson
was never a man who went out and sought attention, right? He never
went out and sought people's pity and saw people's sympathy. No, no,
he just did his thing. He never complained about that. But she
said I shall really low on her. She said that I saw him praying
one night, until the point where I noticed that there's cracks
developing at the bottom of his feet. And I would ask him, after
he was done praying, I would go up to him and I would say, Yatta so
Allah, why, why do you do this? When you have been forgiven of all
of your former and latter sins, like you know, like that feeling
of alpha, that you're promised, if you fast that day, then all of
your sins of the previous year in the upcoming year forgiven? The
province doesn't just live his professional life, every day. But
he earned that right? It wasn't just a given to he, there was
something that was meant for him. So she asked us why why do you do
that? Why do you pray to the point where your feet are cracking, when
all your former sins all your latter sins will all be forgiven?
And he responds with one beautiful line he says, Salah Hakuna Abdon
Sakura,
he says, Should I not be a grateful servant to God?
Should I not be someone who remembers every favor that Allah
to Allah has given me.
And this further kind of pushes the envelope about the point of
you will run out of minutes in a day, seconds in a day, before you
run out of things to thank Allah to Allah for. I challenge you to
do that. By the way, I think you should do that. I think one day,
just go home, and sit in your room in your home late at night, and
just start writing things down. Things that you consider blessings
and even things that you may not consider blessings, but you saw
blessings within.
You would probably be tired before you ended that list. You'd have
probably been like, oh my god, I have work at like 7am in the
morning, I got classes at 830 I can do this forever. Right? You
will stop yourself because you would run out of time before you
run out of things to list off. Right? And so this is why by the
way, we understand that these deeds at the end of the day cannot
be what fully holy enters us into paradise even so there's actually
an ayah in the Quran. I'm not sure if people know about this i in the
Quran, Allah Allah Tada. He actually talks about people who
emigrated from Mecca to Medina, he says, Fela Dena hajj who will read
you mean dare him, those of you who migrated or were driven out of
your homes, and you basically suffered, you suffered for the
sake of Allah. I mean, I want you guys to think about the people who
went from Mecca to Medina. They didn't choose to leave, they were
forced to leave a lot of people when they look at the hedgerow
they're like, oh, yeah, that was a nice little trip everyone took
from Mecca to Medina. Everyone was happy so kids started to sing the
thought of Allah bedroo Elena when the prophets ism entered Medina so
everyone was all like nice Kumbaya? No, do when people when
people left Maccha they were leaving their homes behind.
Like, I want you guys to think if somebody were to tell you tomorrow
morning, hey, you have to leave your house and go to like San
Antonio or the villa May Allah protect us. But like, if somebody
said you have to go to travel to San Antonio or Houston tomorrow
morning, I want you to think about it. And you might never see your
home in Dallas ever again. Right? Say goodbye to share tea and
bubble tea, all that stuff. Like say goodbye to Cassandra and
you're done. We don't have those things. Like what would you take
with you?
Like, what would you take? Oh, by the way, you can load up your car.
You walk it on foot, right? You're not driving. You're not taking
like you're not you're not buying a capacitor a budget van? No, no,
you're going on foot. Wherever you can carry in your backpack. Take
it with you. You will try to scramble y'all thought like
airport like baggage was an issue. Like think about this, right?
Y'all ever been through that before in your life? Had to drop
off like a parent or somebody like there but you're like, Mom,
please. It's like 59 pounds right now. Now trust me, trust me with
the Lord having me like Lydia more than half ago.
But imagine I mean, so the people that left from Mecca to Medina,
they felt that pain. So what they sacrifice for Allah was their
life. They sacrifice quite literally their life. And Allah
says that for you. He says, I will erase love Guca fear and I know
whom say to him, I will erase your bad actions from you. And I will
admit you to paradise genetic data demon. Jana to TechWomen takhti.
Alana on our he says, because of my forgiveness for your sins, you
will enter Paradise because of that.
So somebody could have been like, oh, Allah isn't enough that I left
my house for you. Like I left all that for you. You can't you don't
count that as a good deed. Because the first thing Allah mentions
about the people who migrate
It was, because you left that all that for the sake of Allah, you
have earned my forgiveness.
Which means that Subhanallah if you were to see like a scale, or
like a PowerPoint image of your good deeds versus bad deeds, you
might be blown away by what you see.
Because a lot of times people are like, oh, you know what, like, I
have sure I make mistakes. But I also do good in my life as well.
But no one thinks about all the small little things that they do
that they completely, completely forgot about.
Right? And I want you to even think about this. I'm going to
give you an example to help us think the prophesies of them.
Anyone knows Soto Agha Tavella. Allah revealed that sutra, in
order to address the Prophet so sudden, because there was an older
man in the community who wanted to learn about Islam. And the Prophet
was addressing some of the more like higher ups of Mecca, talking
about Islam, talking about Allah talking about the day of judgment.
And this elderly man who was blind, came up behind the Prophet.
So I said that when he says the honest to Allah, I need you to
answer a question for me. And the prophesy said them, he said, I'll
get to you in a second, you almost ignored him a little bit. For all
of us thinking about it, we're like, oh, that's not like, that's
not the worst thing that a person can do. That's not that bad. But
Allah revealed in the Quran that you shouldn't dismiss people like
that.
And that was counted even for him or herself was Saddam, a man who
was protected from any major mistakes and sins, that was
considered something worthy of correction from God.
So if that was the standard, I'm not trying to like depress
everyone's days here. But think about how many things we could
have possibly done in our last 12 hours of being awake. That would
be considered a mistake.
Think about your day to day. Did you leave home? And your mother
said said, and you didn't say anything back to her?
Did you drive on the road? And like cut somebody off? Because
they deserved it? Right? Did we did we like, Did we do something?
Did we write someone off? Did we, you know, dismiss somebody early?
Did we? Were we short with somebody at some point during the
day? Did we accidentally back by? Right? All of these different
traps of shaitan?
Did we fall into those pits today? Because as a human being
Subhanallah it's so easy to remember the high moments of life.
Oh, yeah, I prayed. I prayed officer, I pray Maghrib. So I'm
gonna pray Maghrib in sha Allah, we remember those high moments,
but all these like moments where, you know, we made mistakes. It's
like, oh, yeah, I didn't even really happen.
And subhanAllah something that you think that wasn't a big deal could
have been the actual worst thing that happened to somebody else's
day.
So when the Prophet SAW sent him, you know, in that Surah when he
kind of like shrugged off that older, elderly man, the prophet
system didn't think much of it and get he's a human being. We do this
all the time. But that man was like, Oh my gosh, I was so excited
to see him. I wanted to meet him. I wanted to ask him this question
that was going to decide something about my faith. That's a huge
deal. So Allah said, no, jasola Don't do that to somebody. Okay,
so now in sha Allah, we're going to move on the conversation
because we don't have too much time salah is in about 10 minutes,
so we're going to speed up a little bit inshallah. So what is
the point of deeds done? Right? If you know your deeds are not going
to be your sole salvation in the Hereafter, then what's the point?
What's the point of your deeds because there must be something
right because Allah Allah doesn't just mention, you know, Eman, he
mentioned while I'm in the Saudi hat, correct. Just a little Edina
mn Hua. I'm so sorry that you have to do good along with those. Those
moments of faith those moments of sincerity. So what is the point of
a deed in sha Allah Okay, so I'm going to ask you guys to talk to
each other once more to one more time. Talk to one another next to
you in sha Allah and we'll reconvene in just about another
minute I'll give you guys another meant to discuss
Arjuna well we got we got five minutes left we got it awesome
Hello we're like running against him for a mother of man. All
right, what do we got inshallah So, if there's so much focus on
the forgiveness of Allah, then what is the point of a deed at the
end of the day it isn't going to go in the back and I'll come
forward to you inshallah. God
bless Washington purifies yourself in a way
giving charity helping somebody out smiling at somebody, you know,
reading, it just helps you wash away. It feels from your heart and
helps you keep terrified. And I didn't really believe that's what
needs to do and just
beautiful beautiful. So that's actually he hit on hit the nail on
the head, Masha. Allah deeds, he said, is something that kind of
keeps you in line, right? Because faith alone is not enough. Right?
Talk is cheap, we all hear that statement. Right? So actions at
the end of the day is the thing that completes your faith. And
also on top of that I'll add to it actions are actually what allows
you to remember your faith, right? That when a person does good, they
should remember a lot and not forget about him. And this is why
by the way, if you read any you know famous books about this
religion, you will see that one of the ways to forget Allah is to
actually decorate your life with with with mistakes and sins. Like
why is it hard for me to pray? Ask yourself What did you do the 30
minutes leading up to Salah if we're engaging in Haram right
before Muslim it's going to be harder to pray. Why do you think
everyone is pumped to pray Maghrib after like soul food and heart
Oregon 30 and up roots because will ask you what did I just do
for an hour before salah? I was thinking about him I was
remembering him. But when we're laying in bed scrolling through
Tik Tok and watching Bashar um God knows what I don't doubt that we
don't feel I pray mother it man. If that makes sense. Beautiful.
Yes, go ahead. I want you to save that Okay, gotcha. Yes, we're not
going back
a beautiful right love for creation increases love for
creator. This is one of the most you know, beautiful principles in
our religion. Beautiful. You had your hand raised? Yeah, go ahead.
Yeah, has just done a little exam, right? Is there any reward for
good except good. And Islam, we understand that there's a defined
area of good and a defined area of bad. And a part of our job is to
actually understand and follow through with what is good, right?
Because if we obscure that line, then God knows you know what I'm
going to do with my life. Right? I might be doing bad things my
entire life and lying to myself and saying, Well, I think that's
good. Right? So it's important not only to do good, but to know what
good is right? To define what goodnesses right one of the
scholars he actually said this is beautiful. I want you guys to kind
of really take this in. He said that entry into paradise is
accorded by Allah's mercy. We understand that from this hadith,
but he says the assignment of ranking and station in paradise a
person is my arm and Paradise is done in accordance to his or her
deeds that they performed. So what will get you through the gates of
Jannah will be Allah's forgiveness and mercy. But what will assess
your rank in the hereafter will be what you did with that in your
life, right? And there was a beautiful statement by a scholar
Ibnu RNA or even Norina he said that they were of the opinion that
salvation from from from hellfire occurs to the forgiveness of all
Law, an entry into paradise occurs by His grace, and the appointment
of ranking occurs in accordance to one's deeds. And this is something
that the scholars actually mentioned. So the last thing
inshallah that we want to go over before we break for Maghrib
Inshallah, in a couple of minutes is just something because I know
that this was a little bit of a heavy session because a lot of
people are going to go home and think about what they did all day
and try to like, sit in their room at night and sulk. But I want
everyone to think about this right. One of the beautiful points
of the argument they make is if your ultimate Jana is based upon
Allah's forgiveness, then you really have to believe Allah's
forgiveness can get you there, right? Because you know, when
people say like, I believe in myself, so I can get this done.
Right? How many of y'all have a hard time passing on tasks to
other people? Because you just know you can get it done better
than they can you believe in yourself your self confidence is
it right? It's like through the roof. But in order to get to Jana,
you're told that you have to believe in Allah's forgiveness. So
in order for you to really believe in your admittance into paradise,
you really have to have confidence in Allah's mercy. So this hadith
up here is something that I want everyone to read and really
internalize it says that and this is something that is a Hadith
Bootsy, actually, where the prophet Swami says that Allah
subhanaw taala said, Oh, son of Adam, as long as you call upon me,
I will forgive you of what you have done, and think nothing of
it. Subhanallah isn't that incredible? How Allah is so
different than our interpersonal relationships with other people
that a person can give, I can forgive you. But what's that
famous statement, I'll forgive but never forget. Allah says, I will
forgive you. And I will think nothing of it. It doesn't matter
what you did to me, you're completely clean. And then he
says, Oh, son of Adam, even if your sins were to reach up to the
clouds in the sky, and you were to ask me for my forgiveness, I would
forgive you and think nothing of it. So the second addresses a
person who comes up to Allah and says, Yeah, Allah, I think, I
think I did too much. I get it. Forgiveness is for everybody. But
I am not everybody. I'm like the top 1% That like just has done too
much. I've done too much to be forgiven. And Allah says, I will
forgive you, and think nothing of it as well. And then he says, Oh,
son of Adam, even if you were to come to me, with sins, nearly as
great as the entire dunya. And then you were to meet me after
death, not worshiping anything besides me. I would bring you
forgiveness nearly as great as the Earth. So Allah Tada. He says that
the way that you think about your sins, and somehow there's such an
emotional point here made by the prophets of Islam, so many people
are emotional about their sins. They think of their sins, as like,
Cubby rots, right? They're huge. I cannot even fathom some of these
things being erased. Allah says, Well, what do you think of My
Mercy then?
If you think your sins are so great, then what do you think my
mercy is for you? My Mercy is even greater. When you guys say Allahu
Akbar, Inshallah, we're about to say it in just a couple of
minutes. When you say Allahu Akbar, what are you saying? You're
not saying Allah actually, in fact, it's kind of funny,
grammatically. You're not saying Allah is the Greatest. Allahu
Akbar is actually a comparative word in Arabic. So the actual
translation of Allahu Akbar is, Allah is greater, greater than
what anything you can possibly imagine.
So whenever a person steps up to their masala, their prayer rug,
and they say, Allahu Akbar, they're admitting that whatever
they have done, Allah is greater than that. Whatever they could be
doing Allah is greater than that. Whatever mountains worth of sins
that I have committed, Allah's Mercy is greater than that. Start
getting used to the statement, Allah is greater, Allah is greater
because when you leave it open ended. There is nothing that can
possibly be greater than that statement that you just uttered.
Right? So we ask Allah subhana wa Tada to allow us to be people who
hope and have faith and trust and Allah to Allah is mercy. And we
ask Allah subhana wa Tada to allow our deeds to be adorned and
decorated by His mercy and we ask Allah subhana wa Tada to allow us
to truly truly, to rely upon Him, to trust Him, to have him in mind
and every decision that we make in our lives and we ask Allah Subhana
Allah to Allah to make us of the people who have God consciousness
and every step that we take me a little bit out I mean Subhana
Allah humma will be Hamza gonna show to Allah Illa Illa and nostoc
If you do one or two break, just gonna everybody thank you so much
for being here. So food hamdulillah for our new series in
sha Allah, we will pick back up next Thursday. So then why they
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