Shadee Elmasry – How Can I Love God EP. 6 Ramadan 2024
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A lot of times people say when it comes to God, you should only
worship God for the sake of God, he should only do good for the
sake of the good. Well, if that's the case, only 1% of people will
do good because people love themselves. And the first thing
that a human being naturally loves is his own self. And in this
hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam This is revealed
and reflected. Now, the key is it's not the only state of person
will have, but it definitely is the beginning state that we all
live in.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says in this amazing how
the Hibbeler Limaye a locum be Manami already may have a vocal
minyama love Allah for the blessings by which he sustained
are the blessings which he in shrouds, you are the blessings
with which he covers you. So why do you love Allah because he did
good things to you. So who is the origin of your love yourself? So
the beginner or a novice or a person who's first starting to
think about things he loves himself first, and He only loves
Allah visa vie himself and the Prophet peace be upon him is
saying, if that's your state, fine, then we can begin with that
and if you died upon that, you'd still be okay because the Prophet
also pointed to worship of Allah has three types, the one who
worships Allah only to avoid pain than the one who worships Allah
only to gain benefit than the word who worships Allah for the sake of
the love of Allah. And this is really the natural gradation and
graduation of a person's mentality and psychology and spiritual state
we conserve the Prophet continues in this hadith love me for the
love of Allah. So he justifies, why would I love the Prophet peace
upon? I don't know him? I'm not from Arabia. I'm not from that
century, right? What would make me love someone from so far away?
Right? Which is because you love Allah, and Allah loves the
Prophet. So sometimes our love is almost indirect. You love the
Prophet because Allah loves him. Why do I love Allah because he's
nice to me, and he's good to me. So here are the psychology, the
default psychology, the foundational psychology is the
recognition that I love myself. Now here, if you feel that your
love of Allah is weak, or it's dry, like a desert than love
yourself, but no, who is going to be your benefactor? Allah is your
benefactor. So if I start asking for good things, and receiving
good things, I'm going to love Allah more. And now you start to
realize why Allah answers some people's dua, who seemed not to
deserve it. Sometimes our own selves, you get your DUA answered
at a very low time in our worship and a very low time in our
practice of deen and you wonder Why did Allah answer this one, I'm
actually being very bad. And the answer to it is that that's
nourishment for your heart. When Allah gives you something, all of
a sudden you feel so much gratitude to Allah subhana wa
Tada, you feel so much love and you reform yourself as a result of
this. So generosity from God is not just after doing good deeds
and being good generosity of Allah is oftentimes the motivation to
transform ourselves. And that's why even if a person is in a low
state in a bad state not doing good, you still go to a load for
draw, you get an answer, and that's going to be the beginning
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