Shadee Elmasry – How Can I Love God EP. 6 Ramadan 2024

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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