Shadee Elmasry – The Purpose of Your Life Lecture
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Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim Al hamdu lillah wa Salatu was Salam
ala Rasulillah while Ali he was a woman who Allah. I want to get
straight to the message that I came to deliver for everybody.
Which is based on Allah us saying in Surah Jin
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Allah Allah with the camo, Allah tariqa the sky now whom
Allah says, if they just had not had just stayed steadfast on the
path, we would have fed them quench their thirst, which
Sweetwater
and Allah Tada
gives us something else like that. In fact, it did a syrup and
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we know of course dental Serrata Mr. Clean goddess to the straight
path.
What angel had to Fina Island and Vietnam Solana. If they strive for
our sake, we will guide them to our paths. Surat
Bari, Cebu. So what are these? What is the spirit and the terrain
and the symbol,
the syrups
the spirit and the trip are synonymous. They're one
and the symbol or the lanes within them, the pathways and the lanes
inside this path. So now we have to ask, well, what is the path?
What is this path and this path
is synonymous with the purpose of our creation? Everybody who's has
any small sense of introspection
would have to ask themselves, what is the purpose of our existence?
This is the golden question. And this is the best question that a
person ever can ask, what is the purpose of our existence here?
And shaytaan doesn't want you to ask that shaytaan wants you to
just go through reels and,
and videos and all these things and paths through life without
ever asking what is the purpose? Now to the purpose, we come to
three things.
There are three answers between the Quran and the Hadith as to the
purpose of life. Allah tells our Creator tells us the purpose of
life. And if you if something fulfills its purpose, it's
wonderful. If something is outside of its purpose, its destruction.
The purpose of this water is to go in the body not inside the mic,
you put it inside the mic, it destroys it, it becomes evil, it
becomes bad.
Water is a terrible thing out of place. Floods, you get flood
insurance, right? Because floods are terrible. Because it's water
in the bad in the Bad Place or out of its place. But water is also
people fight wars over water.
Water in the body is what you need. So everything has its place.
So what is our place as human beings? What's our job? What's our
purpose? So Allah gives us three answers. Each answer? How could
there be three answers to one question? Well, because it's based
on perspective.
For some people, there are so far from any knowledge about their
Creator. The first answer to them comes in sodas and milk.
To Baraka Debian had MOLKO Allah cliche career let me Khaliqul
motor will hire that he created death and life, Lee Emmylou accom
What does Allah say death first, and life is because death is the
absence of life. And what we experienced first actually is
death. Like you don't exist, then you exist.
So he precedes death with life, color color motor wellhead, there
is another perspective on this is that he created life. That's the
obvious one, because we're all alive. So he brings you the non
obvious one. Death, clinical notes. What had the one that we
don't think about? We don't like to think about death. What was the
last time there was a Janaza funeral in this Masjid? Probably
every week, you have at least one right? In England, Birmingham to
have such a massive community in what's called in one of their
biggest massages their garden goal. It's called
out, they have a room, special room like the back room. They're
just for Jeunesses. And they have an imam just for funerals.
He treats the family when they come in. He manages the funeral.
And they say at least four funerals a day.
So death is most of the time away from our minds. But Allah brings
it forward. So the first question, the first answer is, He created
you to test you.
Who is the best in deeds? That's what matters. Your deeds are what
mattered? Who is going to do good deeds, how many times you see
people, it takes them sometimes in their 30s and 40s. something
terrible happens. They wake up, life is not just entertainment.
It's not just collecting money.
It's not just collecting stuff, attaining power, amassing
experiences, pleasures, that's not the purpose. It's sometimes you
need to crash in order to think what is the purpose, and this is
where gifted people suffer the most.
The more gifted a person, the more shallow he is, chances are
the more gifted people are like these Hollywood people that are
gifted, they have money, they have looks, they play, make believe in
comedy all day long. That's all they do playing make believe.
Acting or being comedians are laughing, and being models. But
you don't actually work. You don't struggle, you have no problems,
yet they're the most shallow of all people.
So sometimes you have to crash in order to ask what is the bigger
purpose of life and sometimes that crash is not a physical crash,
it's a depression. But Imam Al Ghazali. He said, When the same
thing happens to a person, everyone has a different
perspective on it. He says that, when a person goes into
depression, the astrologists will say it's the alignment of the
stars and the planets that affected his makeup. The
physicians will say, he must have eaten something.
And there's chemical processes in his body, bringing him down. The
psychologist say
something different. And he said the theologians will say the
people of Allah, they will say this depression is a soldier from
Allah soldiers, to make you think about deeper matters.
And they say that it's the soldier of Allah preparing you for
something big look at the perspective of Allah's people, the
scholars on this terrible thing called depression,
sadness, grief, depression, whatever you want to call it. The
Scholars say it's a as a soldier from the hidden soldiers of Allah
that descends upon you like a dark cloud, that makes you think deeply
and makes you stop activity, because your muscles are going to
need a rest. And depression is nothing other than a forced rest
upon you. And a Forest review of the purpose of life. Allah's
forcing it you don't have to want to do it yourself. Nobody would do
it themselves. Nobody would sit alone in a dark room by themselves
and say, As Muhammad Pablo says, Don't call me don't text me,
though. Okay?
Nobody's going to do that by themselves. Only when you become
suffer from this. This is the perspective of the Allah scholars
and Allah has people
on this thing called depression. Now you can get somebody thinking
of the deeper purpose of life. Now you have somebody
not doing anything, this inactivity is a preparation for a
great future. Like this is a wonderful perspective on a
terrible thing.
And anybody close to Allah and who knows, Allah knows, Allah creates
nothing without a great wisdom behind it. And that's why being
close to Allah sets you free. Depression, yeah, that's something
for you, not against you. The only time that we say it's against you,
is if you react to it with more sins, I'm depressed. So what do I
do as a Muslim or I forget this whole thing, I'm skipping Salaam
and I spend, I'm gonna start drinking, start doing drugs. Then
we say, Oh, this depression, that's a punishment. If you react
to bad things by sins, that's punishment.
Now many people, it's a punishment for a while, then they wake up
and they get better.
The moment you realize this is for me, not against me. It's for me,
not against you. The moment you realize that you
This thing is an elevator taking you up,
taking you up about whatever the Tribulation is.
So the first purpose of life is that this light, life is a test.
All right? Okay, I recognize that now.
What is the test all about? Now here we go to the second answer to
the purpose of life
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Why would you want to promote?
Allah tells us I have only created humans,
jinn and humans because the Gen were created before the humans
Elgin, well ins have created you for any reason, except to worship
me
to worshiping Allah,
now becomes the central focus of the person. What are the acts of
worship? What is my sound belief? What do I have to believe in
Islam?
You know that one time
that was a woman
was a secretary worked for my mom
for 20 years,
complete illiterate dropout, failure in everything in her life.
But my mom felt bad for her. Give her a chance. I found her to be a
fierce and loyal person.
And she became very close to our family.
And then, when our family discovered Islam, it came back to
the path of Islam.
She was like, Hey, what are you guys doing? And then we said, this
is Islam Baba. She said, I love this.
I want to be Muslim.
But then she the day that she was about to take the Shahada. So hold
on a second. Are there dinosaurs in the Quran?
He said, No, no mention of like, I can't do it.
I can't do it.
I have to believe in dinosaurs. The dinosaurs, not in the Quran. I
can go again, do it. You see how people need to be educated peoples
have different levels of brains. And she never took shahada.
Che IG didn't see why knowledge is so important. Now we didn't have
much knowledge. We let the blame is on us of the moral of this
story. We could have said, yeah, there are dinosaurs in the Quran
implicitly. Because Allah says welcome Allah to Allah moon. He
creates what you don't know. If we had said that maybe she took her
ahead. That's why knowledge is the first path of worship. If we had
said that, perhaps I blamed myself. Now if we had said that,
maybe she took shahada. Well,
he creates a lot of things that you don't know. We could say in
general, that could include dinosaurs. It's possible
knowledge, because we at the time, were like, No, there's no mention
of dinosaurs in the Quran. There's no dinosaurs in Islam. A poor
woman didn't accept Islam,
just on the silly issue. So knowledge is so important you can
actually be used by Allah to guide people or misguide people based on
knowledge.
So the first thing in worst you will worship Allah you have to
know who you worship.
So study of Akita study of Sharia.
The V in the beginning,
the objects of this person are the theology and the acts of worship.
And that leads us to the third answer in the Quran. In the
Hadith, kotse, which is, the meaning is from Allah, and the
word is from the Prophet.
And that is,
that
my slave continues to draw nearer to me with
nothing more beloved to me, than the obligations. Then he continues
to draw near to me with extra good deeds, no effort, until I love
him. So now let's look at this hadith.
Allah loves two things in this hadith,
the first thing he loves as well. He says, My slave doesn't draw
nearer to me with anything more beloved than the obligations
and I can no he continues to draw near to me with no effort until I
love him. So there are two Beloved's hear the first love is
not the person. He hasn't earned it yet.
He has not earned God's love yet. And Allah's love here is the act
of worship.
The obligatory acts and avoiding forbidden acts.
So that's the parallel that's overlap with the with the verse
that we just mentioned,
acts of worship, obligatory acts of worship, and
prohibitions that you avoid. Then after you submit yourself in that,
then you start to learn. What else can I do besides the obligations,
right? pray five times a day fast. We all know these things, right?
In general, we can assume most Muslims know the obligations that
they have to fulfill. And they know
most prohibitions, alcohol, the basics we know.
But now, the implicit meaning here in this hadith. Now I need to
learn more. I need to go above and beyond because you cannot worship
Allah, if you don't know what the acts of worship are. So now, what
are these, Noah, Phil? What are these extra acts of worship?
That is the path. Well, Allah was Docomo, Allah tariqa. If they were
upright on the path,
then we would feed them sweet waters, we quench their thirst
with sweet water. That path now is all the extra acts of worship. And
this takes knowledge.
Now, once he does that, then Allah to Allah in this hadith could see,
introduces the second love, which is finally the person
he continued to draw near to me with no effort until I love him.
He wasn't beloved yet, when he was just doing obligations and
avoiding for prohibitions. He was righteous, He had mercy. And he
was drawing near to Allah. He was we, his description was near, he
was close to Allah. But he wasn't beloved yet. So you see here,
there are mile markers, milestones on the path. When you arrive,
going west to east, and you pass by Texas, you know that you're
halfway across the country, you hit Florida, you know that you're
in the east, there are milestones. When you're doing obligations and
avoiding prohibitions. That's it, you're close to Allah.
Because Allah describes the person who does this as yet.
You are drawing near to Allah, but you haven't drawn near yet to his
love. You haven't attained it yet. Until you can be described as
somebody who does who goes above and beyond. You do the acts of
worship that are not obligatory upon you. They're not obligatory,
but you do them regularly, consistently.
Hotter or headbutt. Now, if Allah loves a person, so you'd see when
we say that there is a spiritual path in Islam, this is what we're
talking about. There are milestones here.
What is the marker? How would I personally know if Allah loves me?
Either I have below Abdon, a patella,
where
the love of Allah subhanaw taala is marked by a couple of things.
Number one,
a log educates him and
he educates you in Sharia.
When Allah loves me, you ready lobia fire on the joven de for
Allah wants good for you. If Allah loves you, the sign of that love
is not that you get so emotional, like the Baptists, and you're
crying and gyrating and shaking and all this silliness.
That's not the sign that Allah loves you or you love Allah, the
sign that Allah loves you, he educates you. In Islam, he
inspires your heart, He fills your heart with a desire to learn.
All these youth spending hours trying to learn Arabic, a foreign
language.
Instead of doing all the things that other youth are doing that
you see in the Facebook reels and stuff like this Instagram reels
are the things that 99% of the world is doing one thing and
you're doing something else. Why? Because you're inspired, where the
inspiration comes from. That's the gift from Allah. So if you aren't
inspired now to learn and do this hard work that Allah made easy,
it's hard.
But now all of a sudden, I want it. So it's easy. When you love
something and Allah makes it easy.
When Allah makes something easy for you, that's called an opening.
We call that a fat
Something very difficult, Allah made it easy.
And Allah makes it easy by making you love it. And some people, the
doors closed, the sign of the doors closed. It's hard, he's
lazy, he doesn't like it. So now you start learning. When you start
learning and you start going on this path guaranteed keep in mind,
there will be tests.
You have to be tested. But don't ever work. I'm going to tell you
about tests, but don't ever think about it again.
Because one of the tricks of shaytaan is is I don't want to
draw near to Allah because I don't want to get tested. My life is
good right now. I don't want to be tested. This is one of Satan's
tricks. shaytaan is an enemy. Allah says he's an open enemy. But
Allah also says he's a weak enemy. Why is he a weak enemy? How is
shaytaan a weak enemy is a weak enemy, because all of his tricks
are documented. The Playbook on the devil
is there, he's been doing the same tricks on people for 1000s of
years. You can study it, if you put your mind to it. You can find
it in the Quran, find it in the Hadith, find it in other books of
scholars and start listing the tricks or shades on and you avoid
them. Any team that has a playbook all the plays are known the NFL
what they tried to do is steal the playbook of the other team. You
know what they do?
They bout to face a team in the playoffs. They can handle them,
what do they do, they go sign someone from the practice squad.
You know this trick, they go sign a scrub from the practice squad,
they have one need for him
think hard right down the place. Because we're about to face them
in the playoff.
The old trick oldest trick in the book, if you know the playbook of
the other team, you can defeat them easily. That's why shaytaan
he's Allah said he's a weak enemy, you can learn his tricks. One of
the tricks of at least is to scare you don't get close to Allah
because it comes with tests. This is why you shouldn't be scared
those tests
in a way
they come down upon you. But because of your worship,
and the good deeds that you do, your barrier becomes stronger. So
the test comes down and you get less wet.
Like someone is out in the rain with a little skinny umbrella. But
it's just a drizzle, he's gonna get wet to a degree
because his umbrella doesn't cover much. Someone could be in the
middle of a hurricane. But if he's in a building like this, he is
completely dry. That's the difference between the people who
are close to Allah that we say about them, they have the hardest
tests.
And the people who are not close to Allah, they have the small mini
tests, but that small mini test is drenched.
A small drizzle but all you have is a baseball cap. Stay in there
for 10 minutes, you're completely drenched. Right? It's just a small
drizzle. But you have no protection is he the only of Allah
The people who are near to Allah, they have big tests come down on
them. But they have big protections. And as a result of
that they're dry.
They're not internally harmed by the tests.
Only maximum the roof gets wet. That's it. Worst case scenario, if
it's really bad, you may have one leak doesn't bother you at all. So
that's why you should never be afraid when the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam said, the most beloved to the people are the most
tested.
Furthermore,
if you go to the best army in the world, they got to test you.
If you want to be the best soldier in the world,
you got to be a Navy SEAL.
You go to the army, they have one level of testing you you go to the
Marines, another level of testing you then they Navy Seal and other
level of testing you
and they test you with everything they'll test you, we'll
send you into the deserts. And they're like give you like a book
bag that has an orange and a bottle of water. And you don't
know when they're going to pick you up. So you don't even know how
you're going to measure this out. Then after that they take you up
to Alaska, give you a book bag with some potatoes in it. I say
goodbye. They pick you up when they pick you up.
They do this in the Marines and Navy SEALs. Then they take you
down to San Diego at two in the morning. And then I go swim. Where
am I swimming? Who knows you just swim
1020 30 minutes direct straight swimming in the middle of the
night in San Diego.
Then they tell you get out at three in the morning from swimming
roll in the sand Zerubbabel experience but you're the best
soldier right if you can't be the best soldier without being tested.
So you will be tested and you
You will be tested by people opposing you and saying, Well,
what are you doing? Come on? Who do you think you are?
And you want to be something great. And people are saying,
they're pulling you down just by the way they look at you,
especially your family, and your friends. They're gonna say, What
are you doing? Going to these masks and trying to study? What is
this? Who are you be yourself, they'll tell you that shaytaan
will send everybody to pull you down. So you have to be very, very
careful that you remember, this is one of the tests of iblees the
people around me will pull me down.
There's one time a man, a Syrian scholar used to speak every day
between Maghrib and Isha.
And a man came up to him and he said, Sheikh, when I listened to
your talks, between McGraw and Aisha, I promoted, I listened to
your talk, and I'm floating, I go home floated. By the next day, I'm
down on the ground again. I have not interested. I'm like dragging
my feet. I'm barely
what's the solution? The shape said,
Change your friend group.
The people you hang out with after Isha? They negate all this. The
people you hang out with? They're the ones stopping you. All of the
Quran. What does Allah tell us the fastest route to righteousness,
good friends. Simple stuff, the fastest route to be pious, hanging
out with other pious people. What's the fastest way to be a
millionaire? Hanging out with other millionaires? How the
Prophet Yusuf learn the ways of the world.
Was he not?
Adopted by a Minister, the Minister of Egypt Azeez. What was
he doing? What was he doing with Aziz?
First use of Allah Tala. He says we established him in Egypt. But
what does that mean established him? It means once he is
established in the hearts of the elites of Egypt, then he's
established in Egypt. And the first person to love him, was the
disease of Mr.
The minister, and the minister at that time, his wife was given them
a headache Zuleika.
Well, there's a reason she was given him a headache. These people
were they were hexose. Basically, like a type of Semitic people that
conquered Egypt. And they believed in one God.
They were not the pharaohs. They believed in one God, angels,
demons and afterlife and all that. But they had innovations in them,
they have lost their way, just like the Christians, we say, yeah,
that was a true religion at some point. But it's deformed down.
It's altered. So the Hyksos were on the religion of Abraham, but
they lost it. And they had adopted some of the Eastern some of the
habits of those people, and from their habits was that a man does
or if he becomes elite, he does they put his way. He observed
celibacy.
So Zulekha was frustrated, because her husband celibate, like, what
is this? What's the point of marriage? So she was really
frustrated. And she was taking that frustration out on him. So he
said, let's go get her a slave or something to keep her company so
she could stop being so frustrated.
But once they bought use of he loved him so much. Instead of
buying her a servant to do everything for her, he made her
serve him. And she said, a creamy mouth wha Ha said I am gonna I'm
gonna tuck into her wallet to take care of this boy he bought use of
first the intention was to get a slave for her. So she could just
stand and do other things and not have to worry about anything.
instead.
Allah made him love him use of so much that he said agreement will
take care of him and every day he come home that use if it is his
clothes clean. What did he do today? Is he learning so then
eventually he brought him in
use of Alright, we're getting a minister so and so you get the
water you go get the fruit when he's a little boy, later on. All
right, use of sit down and write this letter to the Minister he
became his scribe, then use if you go and give the letter to so and
so use if you go and invite someone so to a meeting, he's now
an assistant to a minister now. This is how Allah taught him that
we did a hadith that we did. A hadith is not just dream
interpretation, events of the world. He became knowledgeable in
languages. He became knowledgeable in governance. He became
knowledgeable and so many elite things that he would have never
learned in the deserts of Palestine.
So if you want something you need to hang out with the people who
already have it. And that's how Prophet Yusuf Ali Salam was
educated. Prophet Musa alayhis salam. At the same fate of Prophet
Yusuf was taken from slavery. What was his destiny going to be a
slave? If he was left, born to be born with the Benyus, Orion, what
would he have been? digging holes, building pyramids,
lifting rocks
as a slave, but Allah Tada brought him up to live in the house of the
Pharaoh himself when he lived in the house of fair What did he
learn how to rule how to govern. And Allah corrected what was wrong
from those beliefs later on. Because he learned from the
Pharaoh himself. He learned how to do everything.
So here we have a spiritual path. The moment that you break through
there is an announcement.
There is an announcement like a graduation ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada
says and Hadith could see
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or EB bufala. And for Amber,
O G breed if Allah loves a person, that means the moment you pass a
certain mark, in your devotion to Allah.
And Allah may hide that from you, so that you don't take your foot
off the pedal, but you will pass a certain mark, there is a
graduation for you in the heavens. This is a day something happened
so great in the heavens and you don't even know what happened. And
Allah protects you from that knowledge so that you don't take
your foot off the pedal.
But what is that event? When a person passes and proves his
devotion to Allah subhana wa Tada. Allah calls Djibouti the edge of
breed in neighborhood boo LAN, and oh god, I announced my love for so
and so. So you love him? Very Winair DG breed for you. Eboo
Jibreel immediately. Djibouti loves him. The moment he learns
that Allah loves him. He loves him right away. These angels are
perfect. There is no ego. No Anwar Hunka Hara, they said we are pure
souls, pure spirits.
The moment Oh, he hears the word that Allah loves him immediately.
He loves him. So you hit Bucha breed Thumma una de le semer. Then
he goes and he calls out to the announcement to all of the
creation of the heavens. Gibreel is the prime minister of all the
heavens.
So my unity v and this summer
in Hola, yo, Boo Falana and fat hippo.
Then he calls out and he says Allah love so and so you all love
him No. Fly, you have boo Elsa the people in the heavens. Heavens are
different from Paradise paradise is something different, that have
been towards paradise is closed until the Day of Judgment, which
I'm at the heavens, everyone in the heavens immediately when they
hear that God loves so and so and that Allah loves them so they love
him immediately.
So my yield Allah will Kaboul.
Then every time these angels come to the earth, woman antenna zone
in Arabic, if Allah allows an angel to come down to the earth,
or he commands an angel to come down to the earth, he comes to the
earth and he looks for him and he surrounds him and he helps him and
that person is surrounded by Metallica all the time surrounded
by angels. So when people meet this person, they love him too,
because they feel such a peace around this person. So this is the
graduation in the spiritual path.
From there, where do you go? At this point, Allah will reveal to
this person
hid all of his secrets and his wisdom through his eyes through
his ears, and everything he does, he now uses this app to do what
this slave could have never done before. That is the meaning of
come to some I will love the smell better or worse or older the Youth
Survey where they will let you up they should be average Lola TMCs.
That is the meaning of Allah becomes his hearing with which he
hears a seeing with which he sees his hand with which he strikes on
his foot with what you ask means you will learn you will understand
you will have wisdoms you could not imagine you ever had before.
And nobody knows where you get this wisdoms you can't ever
imagine. Then abilities you will achieve. Because Allah is with you
know, and all these angels are with you now. He will achieve what
you could have never imagined do it.
Cheap before all might have been a cut up.
It was a natural born leader, right? It's natural to him, being
a leader is natural.
But would he have conquered the known world, minus China and
India, would he, without Islam, he would have been another tribal
leader that is more powerful than everybody else, but cannot
overcome his anger cannot overcome his drinking.
And his judgment is clouded by that, and you mess around off with
your head. Correct should have been 50% If he ruled, everyone
would be dead. The other half all motivated, hooked up. He was a
natural leader. But without Islam, he was a drinker. And he wasn't
out and he was angry. And this clouded his judgment. Islam came,
gave him a sense of purpose, took away, made him control his anger
guided him to this and took alcohol away from him.
And by the way, it was one of his ideas
to ask the prophets of Allah when he was salam, O Messenger, ask
Allah for a ruling on alcohol. It's a problem. Alcohol is a
problem. It just puts us in a spectrum.
Of it's somewhat good to relieve tension. But then it puts us into
drunkenness, which causes problems. We need a final sound
alcohol, all might ask that question, then the rulings on
alcohol came down afterwards. So So without Alma, it wouldn't have
been haram Of course it would have been but Allah used him to
initiate this questioning, to elevate his rank in our eyes. So
that we know how great he is.
He became the ruler of that home near East area, that whole world
well we call it the Near East, that whole area
he would have been nothing but another tribal leader that never
entered the history books without Islam. So with when you advance in
the spiritual path, then Allah reveals his wisdoms to you you
achieve what you had never achieved before. And your love of
Allah doesn't stop growing it continues to go up and up and up.
And love is something that has no limits.
These are the three results
of attainment to the end of the spiritual path which is an end
that has no end
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