Suhaib Webb – Treasures From The Sunna Part Four Islam & Iman
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The importance of affirming Islam's foundations and faith in it is emphasized, along with the need for trust and security in society. The speaker also discusses the meaning of " faith" in Arabic language, meaning " faith" in a sense of " faith" and the importance of submitting to something temporary in a risk of losing everything. The speaker emphasizes the need for surrendering oneself to Islam and building a strong will to submit to something.
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We praise Allah
We send peace and blessings upon our beloved
messenger, Muhammad
upon his blessed family and companions and those
who follow them until the end of time.
It's been a while. We have not had
our Friday evening program.
So please please forgive me for for,
being unable to
to, engage. The nets the nets defeat the
celtics.
Inshallah, when the Nets fight find Kyrie, wherever
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He went on 40 days.
That's the word. I heard that Kyrie Irving
is out doing one
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we can talk about it. But as of
now,
you know, the Celtics are 7 and 3
or now 83.
And,
the Nets still have not been able to
find their point guard.
We ask.
But,
it's great to see everybody.
And I hope that everybody is well. I
hope that everybody is
is doing wonderful.
And, it's been certainly MCA, of course. A
lot of love to the MCA, and and
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If you're on Instagram, the MCA youth group,
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They do some incredible stuff.
So, alhamdulillah, we have been reading
from this book,
which
Al Mukhtar is a very popular name. Mukhtar,
people say,
in certain cultures.
Mukhtar is from the one that's chosen.
So
which is a book written by a really,
really awesome scholar.
Good morning to you.
It's good morning for some people, good night
for others,
by Muhammad Abdullah Durazi. You know what's really
beautiful about that? You see people saying
good night and good morning. How Islam
brings us together to worship the lord of
the morning and the evening and the night.
No
matter the time,
the the haqq
brings us together.
May Allah,
bless us
and increase us and raise us, insha'Allah,
and make us from the righteous. So, we've
been reading from this book and we finished,
the first section,
which is a section
on Wahi and revelation. Right? And Sheikh Abdul
Duraz, he mentioned,
I believe, around
almost,
yeah, almost
14 or 15 hadith
that really explained to us the
foundations of revelation,
how revelation came to the prophet
You can find these recordings on YouTube,
the different types of revelation
and the means that which in which revelation
came to the prophet.
Because in order for us to have faith
in Islam, we have to have faith in
its sources. So
So he's giving, like, the foundations
of the religion before he talks about what
religion the ingredients of the religion.
And this really shows you the greatness of
this scholar,
his his methodology
in teaching Rahim,
doctor Muhammad Abdul
Azharie, who died, as I mentioned, before 1955
in Lahore, Pakistan even though he was from
from Egypt.
And this this really shows you, like, his
style.
Something that should be noted about, the sheikh
is that his father was an incredible scholar,
and the sheikh, his specialty was what's called
Usuruddin.
And Usuruddin
is referring to the foundations of our faith.
And I believe, you know, we're all going
through some very, very interesting times.
Right? Like, there's been a lot going on
in the world and in our lives, lockdowns
and,
you know, political things and the continued military
aggression in the Muslim world, the economic aggression
in the Muslim world, the pummeling
of the Muslim world largely at the hands
of the West.
And
it's important that we root ourselves in foundations
and and let these foundations become what centers
us
and and and anchors us because
we're Muslims.
So the next 2 weeks
we're going to talk about 3 very important
terms.
The first is iman, is faith,
and Islam.
Right?
Iman
and Islam.
And then next week, inshallah,
going to talk about the word ad Din.
Adeen.
And and this is following the method of
the sheikh. And then we're going to start
to go through a number of hadith
that talk about, like, how lucky we are
to say.
Like,
how how lucky we truly are.
How Allah
has blessed us and favored us and chosen
us
even though we don't deserve it, even though
I don't deserve it to say la ilaha
illallah.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he said,
We know that the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallamah, he said to Sayna Mu'ath,
do you know the Haqq of Allah upon
his servants?
He said, no. He said,
At the right,
that Allah has upon
his creation is that they worship him,
and they do not associate partners with him.
And then he said to Mu'adh,
do you know
that the right that Allah has given them
if they do this?
He said,
Here we learn the etiquette
of the Sahaba. I'm sure Mu'adh, he knew
that whoever doesn't commit shirt goes to Jannah.
And we know that Mu'adh was the most
knowledgeable
of the halal and the haram.
But still, instead of jumping in, oh, I
know I know and having an opinion and,
you know, getting into it, he said Allahu
wa rasoolahu a'aram.
Allah and his messenger know. We saw this
also from Sayna Amr Al Khattab
when Jibreel came to the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. And then Sayna Jibreel, he left.
And then the prophet said to
him, Do
you do you know who that was?
I'm sure, Umar, he had an opinion.
But, subhanAllah,
they understood the importance of,
you know,
speaking
with great care
and speaking when it brought value.
So when the prophet
said to say,
if those people worship Allah
and they do not associate partners with Allah?
What is the right that Allah has
given them?
Allah will not punish them.
So just imagine, man,
all the mistakes we make,
all the shortcomings,
all of the challenges
when we say la ilaha illallah.
Sincerely,
Muhammad rasulullah,
we are obliterating our sins by the rahmah
of Allah.
And as we'll talk about tonight, Allah has
created
a right.
Right? Allah has made it
a right upon himself
to forgive whoever says
That's why Allah
in the Quran as we'll talk about it
next week,
he promises to forgive those who believe.
And that's why other religions sometimes when Christians
ask me, you know, what is it that
Muslims have that guarantee their forgiveness? The reason
that they asked the question this way is
that they are guilty of idolatry,
that they have
created God in the image of a person.
And we know as people, there has to
be give and take.
So that's that's the nature of our relationship.
But Allah
Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala
provides all things and needs nothing.
The Quran says
Oh,
people,
you are impoverished to Allah.
And Allah is the one who gives
all things and the one who needs nothing.
So when they ask me,
you know, what what do you have
that
proves
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
like, what do you have to prove you're
forgiven?
The Quran says, Allah is sufficient for me
as a witness between me and you because
I do not see
and conceptualize God
in the image of an idol, in the
image of something that needs, in the image
of something that is material.
So we're going to talk about 2 very
important words today,
and these are the words
Islam
and iman,
translated
as faith and submission.
So the sheikh, he says,
he says that you should know that
the word
eman translated as faith
has
2 usages.
2 usages in the Arabic language, in the
language. Sometimes
it means
is also the word for insurance in Arabic.
But here means
security.
You Allah, what a beautiful deen. SubhanAllah.
That
our faith,
our faith
comes from a word which means
security.
But how many of us don't feel secure
in our faith?
How many of us we've been mistreated by
people? How many of us have people tried
to scare Islam into our hearts?
Whereas, the word
Security.
Faith should be our place of security.
I tried to tell parents, you know,
there is a time, of course, for using
fear maybe as an inspiration. Of course.
You have to have balance.
But have you ever tried to allow your
children to feel secure in in faith?
That faith has their back.
In marriages,
right, sometimes maybe one spouse is practicing, another
spouse isn't practicing.
How to make them love Allah
to find love in this faith through
discipline and through
being obedient. Of course, faith comes with responsibility.
Mercy comes with responsibility.
One time, I went to a masjid
years ago,
in in
a city. And as I pulled up this
man, he told me,
you should intimidate them back to Allah.
I said, why don't we try to love
them back to Allah?
He said, that's a lot of work.
It's easier to scare people
because love is an investment.
But there, of course, is a time
to to
to to,
you know,
inspire people through fear? Of course.
So the first is
or
to to give
security to someone else.
Like,
what what a beautiful deen.
So when
you say
means that I feel safe and secure with
this person.
I feel safe.
Our faith is a faith
that
is rooted in feeling secure.
That's why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in
we all memorized
it. The word
Allah secured them from fear.
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
socially,
we should think about this as we engage
society.
Right? Is the prophet is Amin
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was Ameen
before he's Nabi.
People trust him
and feel safe with him
before he is a prophet.
Sometimes
we wanna be
I can't be work in any place
that involves education and teaching and working with
others
if if I'm not trusted.
So the foundation of our iman
is trust
and security
and safety.
The next is the word Islam,
and now we're talking about them, of course,
linguistically. Right? The word
Islam
also has
You need 2 usages.
2 usages in the Arabic language. From the
word
to use, to employ.
From the word to work.
Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah Duraazhir
Hamal. As Hari says that sometimes it's used
as a transitive verb. I'm sorry. I don't
wanna make it too complicated.
And when it's used as a transitive
verb, it means
to surrender.
You know,
no matter what people have
This is my experience. I'm not that old
and I ain't that young.
But in my
life,
you know,
when people submit to anything other than Allah,
I've always found them that they're not they're
not happy.
But I've seen people in my life who
have everything.
And if they haven't submitted to Allah
and centered themselves
on submission to the creator,
they're not they're not satisfied.
Because when you submit to something which is
finite,
you're not gonna be stable. To submit to
anything in the temporary world
is to walk on thin ice.
It's to walk on thin ice so I'll
never be secure.
And
Whoever clings to Allah, they cling to something
that will never break.
And I've seen people who have nothing
materially,
but their hearts are rich.
SubhanAllah, I remember one time I was in
Qatar.
This is over 20 years ago
in a place called Al Khoreityat.
With my sheikh, I was memorizing the Quran.
In those days, you used to travel with
your teacher and and study
what's called a molasama,
the molasama system from Sunira.
So I I was traveling with him and
I remember I was memorizing Sur Surah. It
was really hard for me because at that
time, I didn't understand Arabic very well, so
it was difficult. Right? And there was this
guy next to the masjid. He was a
batan
from from from Pakistan.
Masha'allah. 1 batan brother, he was so strong,
alhamdulillah,
and he was at every salah.
Every salah, and he was burnt red from
working in, construction.
And one day,
he told me,
you know, the baton this gentleman, he was
an older man, he said, I'm I'm I'm
upset with you.
I said, why? He said,
you never visited my house for tea.
You never came to my home for food,
and I'm Patan.
So I said, man,
I don't know about this kind of stuff,
you know?
In America, we don't invite people to our
houses. We lock the doors. We have, like,
security cameras. We have, like,
you know, burger systems,
everything.
You know? He said, no. No. You have
to come to my house.
I said, okay.
He had a house made from bricks.
It was a room
that he had made himself from bricks,
and he was living there in the desert
and working.
And he cooked paya. If you you want
to hear from Afghanistan or Pakistan, you know
it as paya.
He made paya for me, man.
And he was, like,
so happy.
And then I said to him,
why are you so happy?
You know? He said,
because I live next to the Masjid.
You Allah, he told me all my life,
I wanted to live next to a Masjid.
I'm
able to live next to the masjid.
And he said to me, how many people,
they live in big mansions in this neighborhood,
and they never come to the masjid.
So
the idea of Islam
is from a word,
to surrender.
Because human beings, we surrender to something, man.
1 of my teachers, Sheikh Abdulrahman Al Basir,
who gave me Shahada,
I love him so much, from Brooklyn
from from Marcy, Brooklyn actually, Marcy Avenue,
who accepted Islam in 1962.
Masha'Allah.
He used to tell me, if you don't
submit if you don't submit to Allah, you'll
submit to a car.
If you don't submit to Allah, you'll submit
to attention.
If you don't submit to Allah, you'll submit
to drugs.
If you don't submit to Allah, you'll submit
to something
because the nature of a person
is
is to submit.
The gravity is always reminding us that we
cannot escape submission.
So there is a type of submission which
is which we are compelled by,
and then Allah has given us free will
to choose morally
and religiously
to submit to the one true God.
Ask yourself, brothers and sisters, right, what do
you submit to, man?
Let me ask myself, what do I submit
to? Well, I'm not better than we're all
the same here.
We all have the same challenges.
I was upset that cyberpunk
was bad. You know what I'm saying?
We all have the same challenges.
None of us are better than others,
But let's, like, let's, like, center ourselves on
Allah
and ask ourselves,
like, what do we submit to?
What moves me?
What drives my passion?
That like tells us a lot. So the
sheikh
says
like I I put the dirham
I put the the money in my pocket.
So I've I've I've I've freed it.
And that's that there's something subtle in this
idea of submission is I freed it from
something.
So I freed that deerhound from my grasp.
I fear that I freed that coin then
I I submit it to my pocket. Right?
So I free my nafs from the world
and submit myself to Allah.
Look at our deen, man.
So if you understand Arabic, this is something
very important. I'm going to explain it in
English. The word Islam
has two meanings, to submit and to leave,
to submit and to emancipate.
So in in classical Arabic, you say,
I have surrendered this person
to the enemy.
Meaning, I have compelled him to be under
the control of that enemy and I have
also freed myself. I've I've I've let him
go.
So now
Islam
is to
surrender myself
to Allah,
to God,
and and to emancipate
myself
from submitting to anything else.
That's the meaning of
Islam,
one of the meanings,
in the Arabic language.
So you
say,
I'm done with it.
I'm done.
I leave it to Allah. I no longer
Like I don't have tawakkal now on myself.
It's too much. I leave it to Allah.
Alaa alaaslam to Amri lillah, il Allah.
Some of the of our teachers used to
say
the richest person is the one who has
given everything they have in submission to Allah,
and the poorest person is the one who
thinks they can control everything and leaves nothing
for Allah.
Allah. The other meaning of Islam
is
Al Inkayad, I heard from Sheikh Abdul Hamoud.
Sheikh Abdul Hamoud was from Ib. Those of
our Yemeni
brothers and sisters,
I used to read to a sheikh from
Yemen from Al Ib.
We ask Allah
to free and protect
the our dear
brothers and sisters in Yemen.
We ask Allah to protect him.
The prophet
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he used to
love
the Yemeni people.
So the sheikh, he told me, Sheikh Abdul
Hamoud, may Allah bless him,
that Islam
is
from the word which means
you know the ring you put on a
bow?
You see, like, I'm from Oklahoma and the
farm. They have this ring they put on
a big bull. It's massive. This massive bull.
Right? So you put the ring on his
nose, you can turn this bull into a
kitty cat.
So when I submit to Allah,
I do not put the ring on the
bull.
I put the ring on my nafs.
I put the ring on my mind.
I put the ring on my limbs,
So I am now controlling my myself
and submitting myself to Allah. What a what
a religion, man.
But also there's something that I wish I
could write. I can't write here. But if
someone can write in the notes or whatever
on the comments,
the word Islam is from the form.
You should write this kind of stuff down.
Don't tell yourself, oh man, this is hard,
you know. I want to go to the
entertainment sessions. You know, we're going to entertain
ourselves till we die,
but look how amazing our religion is. Look
how beautiful it is. If we learn it,
we are inspired by this
incredible
treasure left to us by our ancestors
to to heal ourselves and to heal a
fractured world.
So the word Islam is from the form.
Ibnomatik.
Ibnomatik was a great poet. He said
Like, you wanna learn the secret of
how the words are formed because that's the
the doors of the language will open. So
is from a form
implies a choice,
A choice to take on something.
So this is actually very beautiful and it
counters
even some of the notions like of even
some Muslims who, like, are very anti,
you know,
like Islam is anti intellectual.
Or it tells people like don't don't ask
questions.
Or, you know, sometimes we hear the
the the non Muslims say, you know, Islam
is a mother lord of bad ideas.
The form is
Afala,
which means the person chose to do this.
The person chose to submit.
So within that, Masha'Allah, is unpacked.
What is the first obligation of Islam? Is
to think.
You have to understand and submit. That's why
we have the axiom.
There's no taqleed in the foundations. I can't
be a believer because you're a believer. I
have to learn for myself,
and I have to choose for myself.
So the other meaning of the word Islam
in the language
is is to submit
and to surrender and to enter by choice.
So Islam means to enter into submission.
By by choosing the form ifaal
is the is the muster of ifaal
and
a isba.
We
say.
I've come into
the morning. I've I've entered into it. So
the idea of Islam is I
chose.
That's why the word Ihram when you make
Hajj or Umrah, you make eharam, you choose
to go
into eharam. There's no compulsion.
There's no compulsion.
There's no compulsion.
After that, of course, the Sheikh,
he talks about the meaning of iman
according to
Islamic theology, and this is where we're going
to stop, insha'Allah,
and take
questions
from everybody.
We're more than happy and criticisms or any
thoughts. Don't worry. I'm I'm not gonna get
upset.
He said that based on this then, the
meaning of
iman
in Islamic theology
is
to affirm from the heart
to feel comfortable to the point that you
say
this is the haqq.
As for
and then of course
the limbs and then what we say. We're
going to talk about that next time.
And then the meaning of Islam,
right,
if we wanna define iman, actually, the sheikh,
he says something nice in my notes. He
said
Right? That Islam iman is to affirm something
from your heart. How how do you reach
that point of affirmation?
It's knowledge. That's why it's called shahada. We're
gonna talk about shahada in 2 weeks. I
affirm
I I affirm that there's no god but
Allah.
And then
the meaning he says for Islam
in theology is
is to surrender.
To surrender our limbs,
our hearts,
and our words
to Allah
by obeying Allah as best we can.
And this is what the prophets were sent
with.
Was saraham.
They were sent to model for us
Iman
and Islam. Next week, inshallah.
So we stop now. We can take any
questions.
We're gonna talk about the word ad Din,
you know, and and the the three components
of deen, and then we'll pick up with
the first hadith
from Ubada,
Ibniu Samit Radiallahu an.