Suhaib Webb – The Way Of The Worshippers (New Part Seven) Knowledge & Worship

Welcome back to our greetings of Minaaju Abediqsa.

I'm a very, very old preface in my

notes in there

over the

years. This is that that that this is

the these are the kind of texts that

we used to study in the ESNAR.

Unfortunately,

right, I don't I don't see this paper

as a sign of shutoff.

This is the same paper that people use

for shawarma.

The

should be respected and it should have it

should this shows you that we're not scaling

as an ummah or knowledge.

Some people think this is an an honor

to be able to

navigate these kind of texts. I feel feel

sad as one of my teachers said from

Iraq.

We used

the for

the

for the.

And people are so blinded they think that

that's a good thing.

We're talking now about the

importance of putting knowledge before worship and then

the necessity for both of them.

And the sheikh he says

So now it has been proven, it's very

clear that

a seeker, a servant of Allah has to

have both knowledge and worship.

But if you think about what I've said,

he said, also

don't get it twisted and and and go

straight for Ibadah,

to understand that knowledge has to come first

for the Elmore. I will be talking to

me. Lambahanna without any shadow without

the end of will ask no because it's

the foundation.

If I wanna go pray and I don't

know how to pray,

then the act is not the foundation.

What is the foundation is knowing how to

do it. So

The foundation of everything is knowing

for us from our perspective.

So he says

and its evidence.

Its guide, any knowledge guides us to how

to practice.

This actually is not a statement of the

prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam. It's a statement of

of the Ulema.

That knowledge is the imam of actions and

actions is the follower of knowledge.

This is an and and and and the

reason that knowledge takes precedence

and action should follow it

are due to 2

2 things 2 proofs

doesn't mean these are the only improves he

just saying these are the 2 proofs that

I'm gonna bring

Carlos, I had over married to see you

in luck at a bird

or test them.

1st is so that you can achieve worship

and you'll be safe in this life and

the next.

'Fahinnaka'

'Elwarrinnaka'

'Laijibwalaika'

here's a mistake in the print.

This is because first and foremost.

This is actually really nice what he's saying

subhanallah.

It's obligatory for you to know who you

worship.

And then you worship him.

That's why some scholars say

is a dua

for knowledge.

And then we say, a guidance on

the ill. Make us from those

not for those.

Just drop some for you there if you

pay attention to it.

So he says

How can you worship the one that you

don't know what you have to believe about

him? You don't know what you're not allowed

to believe about him?

Teach Aqidah that way here at Swiss. You

don't know his names. You don't know his

attributes. That's why we have a class on

the names and attributes of Allah to facilitate

all these things here. So how could you

worship the one you don't know

and

Because maybe you will without knowing god you'll

believe something about him or have some kind

of idea about him that contradicts what he's

commanded and that will impact your worship in

a way that your worship

actually doesn't bring any merit.

Again it's like carded wool.

It doesn't have any fruit.

And I talked about this in my book,

the revival of religious sciences on

the the dangers of having a bad ending

to life.

That bad ending is based on, like, having

bad assumptions of god.

So

the prophet said

Except when you die, that person dies, they

have a good expectation of god.

They say that might you know someone has

a bad expect expectation and assumption that's gonna

impact their hereafter.

He said next thing you have to know

is the Sharia. You have to learn the

Sharia. What you are commanded to do, what

you're commanded to avoid so you can again

live a life which is compliant

to believing in Allah.

So it has to be learned. I have

to know what's haram or what's haral and

how to practice and how not to practice.

If I don't,

then again, I risk

putting myself in a very difficult situation.

Because if you don't know the Sharia, that's

how we teach

then how can you establish obedience?

So he said like, how are you gonna

be able

to establish the obligations? Well, you know what

they are. You don't know how to perform

them. You don't know when to do them.

And how are you going to avoid sin

if you don't know what evil is?

You don't know what is Ma'alsi.

To the extent that you know about these

things and you don't fall into it.

Basically what he's saying is then, you know

for years years someone is worshiping and you

and I are worshiping.

But we may be missing something in the

sharia, in the firk that invalidates

or weakens those acts of worship. And we

do it for years

years years years.

And we may even fall into innovation not

observing the sunnah.

So we wasted light. We could have been

worshiping correctly and getting all the all of

the rewards

but now maybe these mistakes are nullifying the

acts we ask Allah for mercy Allah Subkareem

or

weakening the overall reward that we could have

received with Allah

Then he said you know. And also you

may come into issues. So the first is

the issue of practice

and belief. So my beliefs may be wrong

because I haven't learned that's gonna be a

problem for me.

My acts of worship may be wrong because

if I didn't learn how to worship, I'm

suspect of that. And then finally, he says

something really, really important.

And he says,

nah.

That the third thing is that problems may

come to in your life. You don't know

who to ask. You don't know where to

turn. You don't even know how to

you know how to diagnose it, but you

don't know how to cure it. And so

that's knowledge. If you learned, you would either

know how to answer it or you would

know who or the resources you could turn

to,

for answers.

We're gonna stop here because next time he's

gonna talk about the importance of the inner

knowledge, not just the outer knowledge and how

it relates to

the importance of learning

and placing

priority on learning before everything else.