Suhaib Webb – The Way Of The Worshippers (New Part Seven) Knowledge & Worship
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The speaker discusses the importance of understanding and worship before achieving worship, as it is the foundation of everything. He gives examples of mistakes made by people in their past, including false assumptions and false expectations, and warns against seeking information and trying to convince others to believe in Islam. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of learning and placing priority on learning before anything else.
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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.