Suhaib Webb – Sincerity is the Spirit of Your Actions

Welcome to the hicom. Masha'Allah. Now we reached

the 10th hicom.

The sheikh last time he talked about how

do I understand the quality of my deeds?

What is the cause of the quality of

my deeds

that are within the area of taklief? Right?

We're not talking about poverty. We're not talking

about social issues for the most part. Unless

someone's lazy, that will be taklief.

We're not talking about race, color, ethnicity, which

we said other philosophies and systems make as

the crux of of people's

reality. Or we say, no, the reality of

people is the heart. There are certain things

that the heart is not responsible for. The

things that I mentioned, and then there are

things which the heart is responsible for,

and the good

in relationship to those things

in the

existential physical world, in the corporate world,

is indicative of where I am spiritually, subhanAllah,

where my heart is. Now this shirk is

going to start to talk about

one of the most important ingredients for having

good ahuwal.

And he says, Rahimu Allah al aamalusuwarunuqaaima.

He says that

actions are like empty mannequins,

like empty vessels.

Very beautiful man. He's he's using some very

powerful language.

And he said, and the life of these

empty vessels

is the existence

of the secret of sincerity

inside them.

Masha'Allah.

As though the ruah

to the body of course is oxygen

and the ruh

of the actions is ikhlas So what breath

is to our body

Ikhlas is to our actions

SubhanAllah and

life is something which Islam uses a lot

as a metaphor

Uhya ulumid deen. Right? The book of Sayna

Imam al Ghazari and so on and so

forth. But what he's talking about here is

sincerity.

The prophet

said,

all actions are by

based on their

good actions are based on their intentions.

And

we know the statement of Abdullah ibn Mas'ud,

Right? That the intention of a person is

better than his or her deeds, they're heavy,

masha'Allah.

Ikhlas is from the same word as halas.

You're finished with halas I'm done man, I'm

done, I've broken away from it completely

Ikhlas is to break away from everything except

Allah

in acts of worship.

Remember this, ichlas doesn't have like your your

normal habits,

playing video games, If you make ikhlas there,

it's good. If you make the intention, it's

good. But ikhlas

is in those areas where we have been

commanded

to worship Allah

And most ulema say in those acts of

worship which are ghayro maqul,

which are beyond our comprehension. Like when we

pray, like why do we stand instead of

institute first? Why do we make wudu?

What's the real reason nobody knows? So we

say these are

these are beyond our comprehension so when we

do them we do it for Allah.

Because we don't necessarily know everything, we just

know inshaAllah we get Jannah hopefully.

So what Ikhlas comes from the word also

which means tahalos,

one of my teachers from Alib in Yemen

used to say tahalos

minashawayeb.

When you purify a honey, you pull out

all

the bee body parts from it. That's tahlos

alasal.

And what comes from it? Asal, chales.

Pure honey. So the heart, how do I

achieve the chalas? Is I look into myself

and I begin to rigorously address the issues

of my heart and pull them from my

heart and constantly do this. It's not like

a weekend course. This doesn't happen once. This

is something which is gonna happen throughout our

entire life. I pull those things from my

heart, right, metaphorically

and that's how I achieve sincerity, subhanAllah. So

I find laziness, let me do its opposite.

Imam, imqoodama

said the process of changing your heart is

to do the opposite of those things which

weren't sincere for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. I

asked my teacher one time, how do you

achieve Ikhlas?

Like, how does someone get it? And he

said, in the Quran, Allah says,

in cows there is a sign for you.

Nuskiyikum,

we provide you drink. Mi mafi botoniha.

From what came out of their belly.

Between feces and blood,

the same word

pure milk. So the sheikh, he said to

me, You suhayb, you have to go through

the blood and feces of life.

You gotta appreciate the test, man.

Sometimes failure is an opportunity to improve your

and my sincerity.

Don't look at every failure as failure.

Look at it as an opportunity to grow

and continue. So between

the crap and blood of life, the tests

that are always going to

be there,

who created life and death as a test

in order to see which one of you

is the best having a class

between failure and success

is the moklas.

The last thing that we can do,

2 things we can do for echlas is

to think about death.

The prophet said think about death a lot,

it removes false pleasure.

And then of course,

worship.

Worship and don't

stop

worshiping.

So mashAllah, this beautiful hicom al

That actions are like empty vessels,

empty bodies. Right?

And the life in them is the secret

of sincerity that resides inside them, mashallah.

We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.