Tawfique Chowdhury – Proving Our Love To Allah

			Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil alameen wa salatu salam ala nabina Muhammad in
		

			my dearest brothers and sisters in Islam.
		

			Is there any one of you at all in the audience? Any one of you listening to me at all in the
audience that has ever been chronically hungry? Listen to what I'm saying. chronic hunger? Do you
know what that means? It means every single day, you've actually being hungry. Not just Ramadan.
Because Ramadan is part of our worship, we all get hungry Ramadan, but any other time, every single
day that you've gone without breakfast, and lunch, perhaps dinner as well. And you only had one
morsel of food to eat. Anyone amongst you here at all? Anyone with a hand?
		

			I can't see a single hand.
		

			But the World Bank, they published a report that in 2011 1 billion people, 1 billion people are
chronically hungry every day they go to sleep without lunch. Without breakfast, perhaps only dinner.
		

			Perhaps only a little bit of food to eat. And that dinner also is not a proper food. 1 billion
people, 1 billion people brothers and sisters Islam, one in six people on this earth are going to
sleep without food.
		

			Now my brothers Islam, is there anyone in the audience over here? Who's lost their father and their
mother?
		

			When they were a little baby,
		

			a little child lost their father and mother and had no one to look after them. No one taught to look
after them. anyone in the audience?
		

			anyone at all?
		

			No one. I can't see any hands.
		

			UNICEF,
		

			part of the world, part of the UN. They published a report that in 2011 in this year that we are in
		

			no less than 220 million orphans exist
		

			220 million orphans now in this year, up from 140 million a few years ago.
		

			The question I have for you, my brothers and sisters in Islam. Is this what have you done? To prove
your love for Allah subhanho wa Taala? What have you done to prove your love for Allah subhanho wa
Taala to prove your humanity and your association with other human beings? Have you at the very
least spread Islam? Have you at the very least fed a poor person? Have you at the very least rubbed
your hands on the hair of an orphan? My brother This is Islam. How much does Allah subhanho wa Taala
do for us? He created us. He gave us life. He gave us good health. He gave us wealth. He gave us
children. He gave us gave us wives and spouses. He gives us beautiful homes to live in. He promises
		

			for us an eternal paradise. He will elevate our status and let us look at his face on the Day of
Judgment. How does Allah subhanho wa Taala love us so much. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
said well Allah He Indeed Allah loves us and loves loves people. Far more than a mother who has lost
her child when she finds her child back. Imagine when a mother who's lost a child finds a child for
the first time How much does she love the child? So Pamela, it is for this reason why so Fiona thodi
Rahim Allah used to say well law he, I would rather have Allah as my judge on the Day of Judgment
rather than my own parents. Why? Because I know Allah loves me more than my own parents, Allahu
		

			Akbar.
		

			My brothers, my sisters in Islam. How much does Allah xojo love us is shown by the fact that even
when we disobey Him, He still feeds us. He still clothes us. He still lets us breathe but Allah, he
still provides for us and nourishes us and sustains us. Even whilst we're disobeying him by law,
even when we're committing that sin. Allah still letting us breathe, unless you're letting us eat
our food. Yes, Allah. How great and how noble and how merciful is Allah subhanho wa Taala indeed is
because of this, that one of his most beautiful
		

			Allah azza wa jal is revealed to us, told us about from the 99 names that we should memorize, to go
the agenda. One of the names is Allah dude, do you know what Allah dude means? He is the loving God.
Allah do. The one who loves the one who has mercy with his creation, the one who loves to love his
creation, the one who loves his creation, so much so that the love that he has sent on this earth is
only one part of 99 parts that he has prepared for the believers in the Day of Judgment. So my
brothers and my sisters Islam,
		

			what have you done to prove to Allah subhanho wa Taala that you love him? What is it that you have
done to prove to Allah subhanho wa Taala that you love him? What actions can you identify with? That
you have done? To prove to Allah subhanho wa Taala when he asks you on the day of judgment? Yeah,
buddy. Yeah, buddy. Oh, my slave, how have you proven that you love me so that I'm in love you back
on this day? My slave? What have you done to prove that you love me? My brothers and my sisters in
Islam but Allah there's not a single person, the one who is speaking on the one being spoken to
except that he will find a level of hypocrisy in his heart in this question, but Allah will lie we
		

			say we love Allah. But we are not true in Allah for Allah subhanho wa Taala. We say we love Allah,
but but Allah our actions are lacking. There are a number of reasons why we are so no one amongst us
does not want to love Allah, every single Muslim in this audience and out there the billions of
Muslim everyone will say I love Allah or I want to love Allah. However, certain things prevent them
from proving their love for Allah azza wa jal. The first thing that prevents them is this
negativity. I can't be that great. I can't prove my love to Allah. I've done too much since I'm not
someone special. I don't have Islamic knowledge. I only know so little. I'm not from a great family.
		

			I'm not a great speaker. How can I truly do so many things? How can I prove my actions? How can I
increase my actions in order to prove my love to Allah azza wa jal I'm no one special. But But
Allah, you are special. You are special. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, when a slave
stands in a Salah, and he says al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil aalameen Allah answers the slave back and
says my slave has has praised me. So every time you speak to Allah, Allah speaks to you back. You
are not a person in 6 billion. You are the person in 6 billion at that moment, because Allah azza wa
jal despite looking after the affairs of creation as time for you, all my brothers and my sisters
		

			Islam, Allah subhanho wa Taala pays attention to you. He created you and you're more valuable to
Allah subhanho wa Taala than the Kaaba will lie. The scholars of Islam say the tears of a believer
are more precious than the carbons Hakata Kala Shakuni Ashoka, Allah says the tears of a believer
are more precious to Allah azza wa jal than indeed the Kaaba itself. Have you not heard sure Kenny
says the Hadith Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that indeed seven people will be given shade
on the day of judgment and one of those people to be given shade and the day of judgment will be a
man who remembers Allah and out of fear and love for Allah His eyes tear will light and so he says
		

			will lay the tears are more beloved to Allah than than the car Baba Allah. So my beloved brothers
and sisters Islam, do not be of those people who are negative about your love for Allah azza wa jal.
We have those people who are positive about it. Every single time you feel negative, every single
time you feel you can't prove your love to Allah azza wa jal every single time you think of doing
something, to show Allah azza wa jal Yara, you are more important to me than the Horn of this dunya
Allah every single time you feel like this, remember, but Allah the prophets so that was a very
positive person, be very positive about yourself, be very positive that you can make a change be
		

			very positive that you will have an effect in changing the oma every single time. Every single time.
The believers in the Quran and the Sunnah of the prophet SAW Selim were being negative, the prophet
was positive every single time when Yusuf alayhi salatu salam was in the bottom of the well, in his
greatest moment of despair, they came upon him an angel by the name of jabril, who told him that
Allah subhanho wa Taala told him the following thing lead to not be unknown, be angry him.
		

			Verily or use of a day will come when you will tell them about what they have done. And by Allah
they will not even know that it is you telling them and this is the positivity of Islam when the
mother moves
		

			Allahu salatu salam was despairing. What did Allah subhana wa Taala tell her, Allah subhanho wa
Taala told her throw Moosa into the river, indeed my enemy will grab him and then but Allah, Allah
as mercy in some way or the other, Allah will return Moosa back to his mother, so that she does not
despair, positivity in the eyes of negativity, when the people stood there and said, We are going to
throw this little boy by the name of Abraham into this huge fire. What did Abraham say? Allahu
		

			Akbar said, this was said by three people. The first person who said it was Ibrahim Alayhi. Salatu
was Salam. When the people all gathered together built a huge fire to throw Ibrahim in there. What
did he say? positivity in the eyes of tremendous negativity, husband Allah who will never imagined
Joaquin, Allah is our protector. And enough, is he a protector over us? My brother and sister in
Islam. When Ibrahim wanted to kill his son, what did his son say in the eyes of negativity? His son
said what? He said, Yeah, Betty, if Alma Chatterjee dooney insha Allah who Mina Swabian eat all my
father do as you've been commanded, indeed, you will find you indeed you will find me in sha Allah
		

			by Allah as well from the patient ones in the eyes of negativity, but Allah remember how the Prophet
was when
		

			Abu Bakr radi Allahu anhu was moving in front and moving in the back at the time of Hydra. When he
was in the cave, when he was despairing when the Quraysh came, what did the prophets have some say
in the eyes of negativity? The Prophet sallallahu Sallam said, law in law hermana do not despair.
Allah subhanho wa Taala is with us, my brothers and my sisters in Islam. If Allah didn't want good
for you, why did he give you the opportunity to listen to this talk? If Allah didn't want good for
you? Why did Allah give you the opportunity to come today the wealth by which you paid for your
petrol by the car that you came here, the time and the health and the goodly opportunity to come
		

			here and listen to the talks and the knowledge that was given by the scholars over here? Why am I
brothers sisters in Islam, if Allah doesn't like you, and doesn't want good for you? Why did Allah
subhanho wa Taala give you the opportunity to give him his claws? But Allah Allah loves you all. And
but Allah Allah wants cared for you. And but Allah Allah wants to see you in Jannah. The question
is, do you want to see Allah subhanho wa Taala agenda? Indeed, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said in the authentic hadith, man had balika Allah, a habibollah Holika woman curry hajipur
Allah Kadi Hola, hola, pa whoever loves to meet Allah. Allah loves to meet him and whoever hates to
		

			meet Allah. Allah hates to meet him. Ask yourself are you from those people? My brothers and my
sisters in Islam? My brothers my sister in Islam. One day the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
stood up in the depths of the night. It is authentically reporting al Bukhari that he raised his
hands up to the heavens. And he said, Oh Allah, my own my my alma, Allah, my own my alma, Allah, my
alma mater Alma. He couldn't say more than that. He couldn't finish his sentences because he was so
emotional until the night passed. And the last third of the night came until fudger. time came, and
at that point he breathed Allahu Salatu was Salam came down and said, Yeah, Muhammad, Muhammad
		

			sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Allah has sent me and said, Yeah, Muhammad, your Lord will not
disappoint you regarding your Ummah, your Lord will not disappoint you regarding your oma. The
question is brothers and sisters Islam, are we going to disappoint our professor Salah? Are we going
to disappoint our prophets? Excellent. Allah has promised our Prophet he will not disappoint him
regarding our oma, the question is us are we going to otherwise not fulfill the promise of Allah and
be a disappointment for a profit center? b you have those people who fulfill his vision? b you have
those people who fulfill your love for Allah azza wa jal by pursuing the vision of Rasulullah
		

			sallallahu wasallam on this earth.
		

			I asked him about the system Islam if you're feeling negative, because you're constantly criticized
in this world to remember what even Tamia mama said, he said, Well, Allah loves Abu Bakr and Omar so
much that he created a nation of millions of people known as the Shia, who would curse Abu Bakar day
and night so that by Allah boubakeur can take their good deeds and they can take the bad deeds
aboubaker nama Allahu Akbar. This is the positivity in the eyes of negativity in it. This is why a
chef a Rahim Allah used to say measly, measly is the situation of the
		

			person who is not criticized. So do not be afraid of criticism. Do not be afraid of those people who
talk too much. Get on and get doing your good deeds. Do not worry about people who criticize and
tell you otherwise, for those people who are going through great difficulty in their life, remember
the story for me to not be a great poet. in Arabia, he used to say, whenever I used to have disease,
and had difficulty in my body, I used to write the best of poetry, the most emotional poetry. And
indeed, I'll wait for those times of difficulty because my poetry will be the best. So if you're of
those people who are afflicted by difficulty, remember the story for me to not be for those people
		

			who are significantly trying to do Dawa, to your families. People come to me and say, I've been
trying to change my family. I've been trying to change them, telling my mom that she has to pray my
dad to pray, what message do I have for you? I have the message of the great scholar at the level of
the lab. Nobody used to have a Jewish neighbor, and used to give him down for 20 years, until a
decade when the halifa came to Abdullah Mubarak, and came to the neighbor of Abdullah Al Bara, the
Jewish neighbor, and said I have to demolish your house, because we have to build a road on this
path. And what did the Jewish neighbor say? He said, Okay, I will send you my house for 2000 dinars
		

			2000 gold coins. So the halifa said, Why 2000 when the house is only 1000 Gold dinars, he said 1000
Gold dinners for the house and 1004 being the neighbor of the lab, robotic that he went to the lab
and robotic and accepted Islam. My brothers, my sisters in Islam, those who are despairing that your
parents don't listen to you. Your wife doesn't pray, your husband doesn't listen. Your uncle
Auntie's your brothers and sisters not listening to you Be patient, but Allah, just like a bull,
Abdullah Mubarak was because when they lose you by Allah, they will surely surely understand the
value that you have come to them. For those people who have lost hope, think that they cannot do any
		

			good at all. Remember the story of a surrogacy ribolla imana surrogacy the great scholar, the Hanafi
madhhab, was imprisoned in the well for 10 years. But by law, this does not stop him. He used to
recite at the bottom of the well, he's reciting his book until his students would come at the top of
the world and write down everything he used to say until they filled up a volume of 27 volumes of a
book by the name pharmaceut 27. volumes from what a surrogacy would say from the bottom of the well,
never despair. You can always prove your love to Allah azza wa jal, wherever you are in whatever
situation you are, for those people who are being harmed, who are being hurt by your families and by
		

			your situation now, but Allah remember the situation Imam Ahmed Rahim Allah and remember that he was
also harmed and hurt for years and years. He was lashed until his until his arms were out of his
pockets, yet he never gave up being upon the truth for those people who are looking at the situation
the Muslim men around us and so there is no hope for this oma, this almost destroyed, there is no
hope for it. Those who look at the situation of Islam and Muslims and the countries of Islam and
Muslims be eaten up by other people. But Allah never despair. Let me tell you what even caffeine
says in his bedava Neha Anna recite to you the following. He says a million Crusaders entered into
		

			battle MK this, and they did with it what animals do in the forest, and they perpetrated that what
that which even the shade plans do not do in one week, they kill 60,000 people from them, the
scholars, the worshipers, the Imams of massage, and aesthetics, they put up the cross over vital
muck, this they brought into by the Nazis, the pigs and replaced the Amazon with the colleagues of
disbelief and ship, and people cry, and they cried and cried. And they thought that baitul madness
would never ever returned to the control of Islam and Muslims, and that there will never be an end
to this trial and tribulation of the people in Islam. So the disgrace upon the believers continued
		

			until Allah raised from this oma a hero who planted the love for the blood of struggling in the path
of Allah flow through the veins and he planted the spirit of struggle and valor in the souls and he
destroyed the pessimism that had unseated the hearts. So there's to demand but the name of Allah de
and he called that from our mark and Jana, he said, Oh, woe to Islam. On that cry the heroes from
the army of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam stood up until they met the Crusaders, and they
killed 30,000 of them, and they opened up and they purify the sacred lands from the evil ones. Their
victory continued until the Crusaders had no option but to pay the jizya from a lowly hand, after
		

			the Crusaders had been the commanders in authority in power for 91 years. My brothers and my sisters
in Islam, those who are despairing about the situation
		

			The oma by Allied could be we are on that 19th year, we could be on the 19th year the year before
Allah gives this Omar victory. You know what it could be Allah laughing that this oma because his
mercy is just about to come, never despair of the mercy of Allah subhanho wa Taala never despair and
prove your love to Allah subhana wa Tada, be positive, go out there, do every work of good deeds
that you can, me Allah subhanho wa Taala make your deeds acceptable to him. For those who think that
they don't have the skills and the knowledge and the ability, but Allah will tell you, every single
person that has made an effect in this dunya was not a really great man before they became became
		

			great. They were not particularly talented, not particularly educated, not particularly eloquent.
They didn't need the permission of everybody. They didn't have the help of everyone as well. But
Allah had one thing and one thing only, and that was a deep burning desire to achieve something.
Gandhi when he thought that he was going to throw the people out of India. When was that time it was
the most unique of times when he was being thrown out of the carriage, the first class carriage in
South Africa, that is the moment as his cheeks hit the ground as was thrown out of the train. He
said I made up my mind at that point that I'm going to free India from the British. Yes. This is the
		

			nature of visionaries. This is the nature of people who want to do good that Bala divisions are
completely completely illogical, sometimes completely incomprehensible, completely. You know
imbecilic, sometimes to people, and sometimes quite, quite silly. But But Allah This is the nature
of visions. This is the this is the power of vision. This is the power of passion, my brother's
Islam. It's completely illogical, but by Allah by some heavenly logic, Allah subhanho wa Taala makes
it possible. So my brothers and my sisters Islam, as we come to a close for this beautiful
conference, and but Allah was made beautiful by Allah subhanho wa Taala as Baraka in your presence,
		

			may Allah subhanho wa Taala Let every single person who leave this conference, go away with a
tremendous desire in his heart to prove his love to Allah subhana wa Tada. Let this be the call that
you all have. Let this be the promise that you all make as you walk out of this conference. So my
brothers and my sisters Islam, make an oath and a promise to Allah subhanho wa Taala that you're
going to do something to prove your love to Allah azza wa jal, right, you're going to prove your
love to Allah Subhana Allah to Allah, and but Allah be of those people who fulfill your promise. And
I remind you all Lastly, of the ayah and the verse in the Quran, where Allah subhana wa Taala says
		

			about the people and the men who have promised Allah subhanho wa Taala verily from the believers are
those who have fulfilled what they have promised Allah subhanho wa Taala men whom man Katana bow
from them are those people who have already passed away. One mean whom my untethered and from them
are those people that are still waiting to fulfill their promise, llama but Duluth Abbe de la they
have not changed but Allah in their promise. The scholars have the same say. This verse was revealed
regarding a Sahabi by the name of Anna's been another and has been another radi Allahu anhu was the
Sahaba who accepted Islam just right after bother just before. And but Allah when he accepted Islam
		

			after butter, but before he felt sad, he felt sad. Why did he feel sad because he had missed the
greatest battles, the Battle of butter. So he made a promise to Allah, raising his hands to the
heavens said yada. If you give me another chance, I will prove to you my promise to you. So Allah
subhanho wa Taala gave him a chance and gave him the Battle of butter. And by Allah He fought in the
Battle of Adam sorry. And he fought in the Battle of OSHA, until they said that he was wounded 36
times all in the front, and they could not recognize him except by the tip of his fingers that his
sister you would recognize him for? Why? Because but Allah He proved his promise to Allah, that if
		

			Allah gives him another battle, he will truly prove to Allah how much value he has, how much love he
has for this deed, how much he wants to defend this deed and by Allah. This is the verse that was
revealed for him, verily from believers are those who are truthful to the covenant from Allah from
them or those that have passed away, and from them or those that still await their death, about
Allah, they have not changed in their promise to Allah. Ask yourself this question. Are you going to
change in your promise to Allah azza wa jal? Or are you going to be of the believers that are from
the men and the women that are true believers that hold on to promise and be in the law make a true
		

			change in this oma zachman lahia My brothers Islam for attending this conference. I hope they'll be
in the law. You all benefited