Saif Morad – Our extreme need of Allah for everything! Sura Fatir 1518

Brothers and sisters, may Allah

bless us with the best in this world

and the next.

We as human beings, no matter how successful

we become,

no matter how strong we become, how intelligent

we become, how wealthy we become,

one thing remains the same, and that is

that we will always be

we will always be people who are in

dire need,

who are poor, and in need of Allah

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala at all times.

As Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells us in

the Quran,

Oh people,

you are the ones who are poor and

in need of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,

and Allah is the self sufficient, the one

who is always praised.

We need to stop and understand who Allah

is.

Allah is the one who possesses divinity,

the sovereign over his entire creation,

which means that Allah is the true deity,

the true Lord, the one who deserves worship.

Allah is love for who he is. He

is praised for who he is.

And if we add to that the tremendous

blessings

Allah has showered us with, his mercy that

descends upon us,

his forgiveness

that he shows us,

his forbearance

that he does not punish us when we

make mistakes, and he gives us time to

turn back to him. It makes us understand

that there is no one worthy of worship

except Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and that we

turn our attention, our worship to him alone

and to nobody else.

And to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala belongs all

the beautiful names and attributes. His names and

attributes are perfect, they are complete, and all

his names and attributes go back to the

name Allah, the true Lord.

And from his names that he tells us

in this ayah is

the self sufficient.

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is

the self sufficient, the rich.

He is completely independent

of his creation. He does not need their

aid, their help in running his kingdom.

Despite how vast the kingdom of Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala is, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala alone

is in charge. He alone runs the affairs

of everything,

and he is Al Hamid,

the one who is praised, the one who

is praised for his actions,

for his sayings, for what he legislated,

for what he decreed.

If he wanted to, he could get rid

of us,

and bring another creation, and that is not

difficult for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

The fact that you and I exist today

is because Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala wants us

to be here. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala did

not create us for no reason,

but there is a reason, there is a

purpose behind our creation and that is for

us to know Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, to

love

Allah to depend on

Allah for all our needs,

and to worship him

without any partners.

And this is a time when we need

to understand that. And this time that we

have,

we need to utilize it in the best

manner.

Because today, we have time and we can

do,

but tomorrow, there's gonna be accountability.

And we have to take responsibility for our

actions

because no one is gonna be able to

help us on yumul qiyama.

And even if a person is being crushed

by his sins,

even his closest relative will be of no

help to him on yawmul qiyama. Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala promised those individuals who believe and

strive to do good, he promised them with

Jannah.

But those who turn away, who disbelieve, who

don't do the righteous actions, Allah

warn them of a punishment that's to come.

Our actions have consequences,

and nobody will be able to help us

on that day when we stand in front

of Allah

And this is why we need to wake

up and understand that there's a purpose to

life. We need to take responsibility for our

actions,

but not everybody benefits from the Quran.

The Quran is the truth, but not everyone

benefits from the Quran. Quran. So who are

those individuals who benefit from the Quran?

Allah is telling the prophet

that you only warn those individuals

who fear their Lord

inwardly,

those individuals who fear Allah

despite not having seen him, but they know

that Allah

is watching them, and they established the salah.

These are the individuals who benefit from the

Quran, who understand, who know who Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala is. Because in order to have

that awe of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, in

order to have that fear, that love,

that servitude towards Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, a

person has to know who Allah subhanahu wa

ta'ala is. And when a person knows who

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is,

they establish the rights of Allah subhanahu wa

ta'ala. They do the things that Allah subhanahu

told them to do, and the most important

of it is to establish the salah.

These are the individuals

who benefit from the teachings of the Quran.

The Quran is their guidance system. It shows

them the path to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

What Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants from us,

expects from us, what he loves, what he

told us to stay away from. And in

the Quran

is our success,

is everything that we need to live a

beautiful life.

And when we act upon the teachings of

the Quran,

we are the ones who are benefiting. Allah

subhanahu wa ta'ala does not need us.

Those individuals who purify themselves from shirk, from

sins, they only benefit themselves by doing good.

They are the ones who benefit from this

Ibadah.

They get reward in this world and the

next happiness,

peace of mind,

certainty in the promise of Allah Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ala.

And by doing all this good,

they earned the mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ala which enters them into Jannah.

And all of the affairs return to Allah

subhanahu wa ta'ala. It begins with him, it

ends with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

When we understand who Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

is, we understand his ghanid, the self sufficient,

alhamid, the one who is praised and understand

all of his names and attributes that they

are perfect and complete.

And we understand our state, our essence, who

we are. We are

people who are in dire need of Allah

at all times.

And this is actually something beautiful

because regardless if we accept it or not,

this is the truth.

When a person understands who Allah

is, and that understanding

internalizes

and goes into their heart,

then they understand the greatness of Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala

and they understand that they are nobody,

that they need Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for

everything.

We are so needy, we need food, we

need drink, we need to sleep, we need

to breathe. If Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala took

away oxygen, how would we survive? Even the

richest person in this world

needs Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. They need to

eat, they need shelter, they need people to

utilize their services, they need people to buy

their product. And when the person who acknowledges

this fact, they turn to Allah subhanahu wa

ta'ala who is the almighty, the powerful, the

one who the one who has everything.

And they depend on him and they ask

from him. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala promise to

give them, to answer their supplication. And they

depend on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala alone. They

are servants of the most high.

And this is something that is honorable

because they are servants of the creator. They

are not servants to their desires, to

money, to people, to ideologies,

but rather they are servants to Allah

And to recap,

we are the people who are completely in

need of

Allah. Therefore, we need to turn to him,

we need to depend on Allah.

We need to ask him for any and

everything that we desire, for guidance, for wealth,

for happiness,

for success in this world and the next.

We need to also understand that this is

the time for action, and that nobody will

be able to help us on yulmur qiyama,

so we need to take responsibility

and start preparing for that day. And let's

be from amongst those people who benefit from

the teachings of the Quran.

Look at the Quran, read the Quran, reflect

over the Quran, understand the Quran, and implement

the Quran.

Because in it lies our success in this

world and the next. May Allah subhanahu wa

ta'ala give us understanding of the Quran. May

He make us amongst His special slaves.

Until next

time.