Shadee Elmasry – Levels of Ikhlas

18 April 2024

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The speaker discusses the reasons people worship Allah for, including fear of punishment and desire for reward. They also mention a higher level of worship for the creator, who is the only one who deserves an Award. The speaker emphasizes the importance of worship for one's Lord and the success of one's life.

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There are levels to this class people worship Allah for three

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reasons. Right? So the first reason is the people who worship a

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law for fear of punishment, and that's why their worship loss

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fear. So someone like this would most like just do the bare

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minimum, right this person will just do what he needs to do to

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tick the boxes so to speak, and avoid being labeled any sort of

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punishment, nothing extra nothing special. The next station is going

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to be the person who's going to worship a law for desire of his

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reward. This person works will also well I want to get rewards I

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want to enter paradise I want to see good things happen in this

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life. I want to see good things happen to me or my family and so

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on so forth. This is a higher McCall, but the highest McCollum

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is worship Allah because you understand he's your Lord He

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deserves to be worshipped regardless of what he does to you.

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Regardless of the outcome, regardless of the punishment

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Award. He that's what he deserves. And this is what it comes down to

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a saint sing along the hereafter because

"I really think this is one of the greatest causes one could support"

Mufti Ismail Menk