Working On The Imaan Faith

			You welcome to the deen show, which is a way of life we try to put out there for everyone to see
helping you understand Islam and Muslims. And every week we bring you a special guest. And today
special guests on the deen show Shaykh Ibrahim, we'll let you see who he is. And then we'll get you
back here so we can introduce him live, we're back in a second.
		

			How are you from the law? I'm so happy that you're here with us today on the D show, which is a show
in which we try to reach out to non Muslims and Muslims helping them understand this beautiful way
of life that we live, which is the fastest growing way of life in the world today. Am I correct? My
son later. And I just want to cover real quick the people out there audience got to read a little
bit about you. But I'm very impressed and humbled law that you all praises to the creator that you
have memorized this entire verbatim Word of God the Quran. Yes. Yes. And you also have a jhaza in
six books of the
		

			the Hadith correct. What does this mean? Now can you just tell us what was me we have in Joshua and
howdy right Actually, this is more as a way that this religion was passed from one generation to the
other from the time of the Prophet sallallahu sallam, and the Prophet sallallahu wasallam said that
the Allah Allah told me that the scholars are the inheritors of the prophets. So the message and the
Quran and the Sunnah of the prophet SAW Selim was passed from one generation to the other, by the
way of his net and the way of his lead meaning the chain of narrations. So when a scholar, he
teaches someone and he sees in him that he is capable of taking the message to the next generation
		

			then he would give him an agenda doesn't mean necessarily that he memorized all the six books of
Hadith but it means that he is interested to convey the message and the knowledge of the Quran and
the Sunnah to the next generation and so on. So if I just throw out 100 from Jesus just off the
subject we'll get to if I throw out one deep say from behati you most likely you know that Honey
Honey Honey can Buhari plates with it with the with the repetition is seven over 7000 7000
repetitions? 4000 somehow hamdulillah Okay, let's get right down to the topic at hand. Man faith, it
goes up and down. Right? One minute you're like floating high next minute, you just about some
		

			people about to give up. You get swallowed up by this dunya we want some practical ways. It's easy
sometimes I find myself falling in this textbook you just say okay, you got to do this. You got to
do that. You got to believe this. You know in Islam we know we have the evidence and this is the
verbatim where to go from the from the credit but you can't see it. And that's where faith comes in.
Tell us give us some practical ways how to keep our faith. More on the opposite end. rather than
letting it crash down. Give us some practical ways of smaller hamdulillah salat wa salam, O Allah.
This is a very important question because Allah subhanaw taala mentioned in the Quran that the
		

			reason for people to enter gender is the belief is the man and their good deeds. And it's not the
wife it's not the status the person has in the society as a Lost Planet. Allah says Rama and welcome
Allah Allah ability to cause a boom and then as alpha 11 M and ami lasallian for Allah Allah Hamza,
very Phoebe, Mohammed
		

			amin which means that it's not your wealth. No your offsprings is the thing that will get you closer
to Allah Subhana Allah accept Amen, faith and good deeds. And for those who have immense faith and
good deeds, they're the ones that would have double of the rewards and they would have the dwellings
in general. So this is the mercy of Allah subhanaw taala. It comes from the very basic understanding
of the religion of Islam and the Muslim understands that he is on this earth for a purpose and that
is to worship Allah subhanaw taala alone. And when he understand this, and he knows that his way to
enter the pleasure of Allah subhanaw taala to be among the people of gentlemen. He has to strive and
		

			he has to build his Eman decreed and Akiva is something that is stable in the heart does not
increase and decrease the Eman increases and it's something that is the belief in the heart and what
we say with our tongue and the actions of our body. Everything and as you said it does not stop or
standstill. It's either going up or going down and Allah subhanaw taala says that in the Quran, live
and share I mean compania Takada
		

			for those of you who will to go forward or to go backwards and there is no standing still as a no
Chi Rahim Allah said, so anything that we say or hear or we see it's either taken out of or taken
out, even down and the prophets
		

			alaria Selim said in the authentic hadith, liquidity amor insha Allah for every method, there is a
peak to it, a person would get excited. For example, in the beginning when he embraces Islam, when
he is a lecturer or something like that he gets excited and he wants to do the best he can, his
demand goes up. And then for every server, there is a factor. For every time that a person reaches a
peak, it has to go down. But then the prophet SAW Selim stating that this is the nature of the human
being that he has these types of feelings. He said, For mechanics for throw to LSU meta faculty,
whoever his down time, if it's correct to say that he still is following the Sunnah of the Prophet
		

			sallallahu sallam, he is the guided one. So we need to make sure that we follow the Sunnah of the
Prophet alayhi salatu salam, we basically imitate the prophets of the last element, everything that
we do in our life. And this is the beauty of the religion of Islam, that everything is saved. And we
just need to seek the knowledge, we need two things, two forms of power that we need to know to have
in this life. The first one is the power of knowledge, getting to know what the prophets or seller
needs to say and do and things like that. And then the power of acting according to this knowledge.
And what encompasses or what makes it easy for these two parts of power, knowledge and actions is
		

			the desire and the turning to Allah subhanaw taala alone, putting ourselves in the proper
environment, the environment that will take the person higher in his Eman and not to be in the
environments that will take the person down. It basically increases with the good deeds and
decreases with the bad deeds, obligations come first. And this is the practical way, we need to
fulfill the obligations in the most perfect way after Of course, we're having the sound and the
correct aqidah create, we perfect our obligations, the five daily prayers and so on, away from sins,
we do the best we can to perfect it. And then after that the person will do the opposite of acts of
		

			worship, in a way that he will be steady doing it in a continuous fashion. And this is what is the
meaning of the Hadith could see that Allah subhanaw taala says or metacoda belajar Devi have a
minister to Allah, that the slave of Allah can never come closer to Allah subhanaw taala by other
than what Allah had made it obligatory on him first. And then the Hadith says, well as I do,
		

			that my slave would keep on getting closer to me with the acts of worship with the optional acts of
worship, till I love them. And this is a very important part of the Hadith, because it says he would
keep on doing this meaning the consistent manner of the deeds till Allah subhanaw taala loves him.
So does that happen by switch that occasion with his event will go up, he needs the effort and the
following, the sooner the profits are seldom this acidity and following the profits as element being
consistent in the good deeds, optional solar optional fasting, reciting the Quran every day, even if
it's 510 minutes, but something that the person do in a regular basis after he perfects the
		

			obligation in the most basic manner. And then we do this absurd, absurd acts of worship, till he
reaches a level where he is loved by Allah subhanaw taala. And then he will be guided to hear what
Allah subhanaw taala wants him to hear, to see what Allah subhanaw taala wants him to see. And
anything that he asks for, as its mentioned, the heavy fellow will granted for him. If we seek
refuge in Allah subhanaw taala Allah will be his refuge. So it comes with the consistency of the
option acts of worship as the prophets of the last elements in the Hadith. What is it seems like
it's much easier said than done. You're not you said, you mentioned that when you do some good
		

			deeds, your faith goes up. Now when you do some bad deeds, it goes down. So the practical things
that I'm talking about watching TV, and you see a lot of bad things on TV with your faith go up or
down. Of course it goes there's gonna go down. It's either going up or down. And this is an easy way
for every Muslim to see whether his Eman is going up or down. Because there is no level which say,
Oh, it's not valid for someone to say, Well, I'm okay, now. It's steady. For me. My Eman is steady
doesn't work. It's either going up or down. So because nowadays, you know, this is a fact that, you
know, many Muslims, you know, instead of reading Quran and spending time watching the lectures and
		

			working under Dean, you know, it might be to five daily prayers. But if you spend two, three hours a
day on the TV, it's not gonna help you Mangle a visit. That's correct. And that's why the
consistency of the deeds and being away from all sins, and then being consistent in doing the
opposite acts of worship. And it's always as the scholars have this and they say, there has to be a
period of time which is a test for every individual. He has to exert himself and be patient. And
it's not easy in the beginning because it's not his loan. But if you want to do this, putting the
trust in Allah subhanaw taala, and making dua to Allah subhanaw taala to guide them and to help him.
		

			Then after a period of time when the person is truthful and sincere with the last panel guide, Allah
subhanaw taala changes his heart and become the joy of his life is to adopt the religion of Islam
and he
		

			To tell it came after the striving and the patience and so on. And this is actually alum made it in
the life of the human beings in the materialistic world, if a person get a job for 1000s of dollars
every month, but he has to wake up at two o'clock in the morning, for example, he would make sure
that he wakes up because he doesn't want to lose the job. But in the first week or so, it'd be
difficult for him. But then after that, it becomes his loan. If he changes the schedule, he feels
headache and everything. And this is Allah subhanaw taala have this in the life of the human being
as an evidence against them, so that they don't say we cannot fulfill the orders of Allah because
		

			the son of the profits or seller, it's for everyone to apply, because it's not against the burden or
over the burden of the human being. It's actually being the Julian this life, but need some
consistency and truthfulness, that the person is not doing it for the pleasure of this life, not to
feel good. He's doing it for the hereafter seeking rewards from Allah subhanaw taala. In the after,
and after instead first in this, Allah subhanaw taala make it easy for him and this is what Allah
Subhana Allah says in the Quran, Medina jado female,
		

			those who strive and because of Allah, Allah will guide them to the way of Allah so it has to have
from ourself the striving first and asking Allah subhanaw taala for him, so the person that is new
to Islam or even he's even in Islam, but he's you know, he's his mind is not that strong. He's used
to say, spend a few hours listening, going asleep to the music, watching TV consistently. What
reality shows and whatnot, all the stuff that's out there reading a gossip magazines, but he's
Muslim, or he just came to Islam but these are just things that he's gotten accustomed to. How does
he start? Should he start? Is it going to be really difficult all at once to cut all this out?
		

			What's the gradual, like, you know, a workout plan? You know, you start off with two pounds and two
and a half give us a practical way where he can start replacing and what should you put in place? If
you take away this music, the the TV and all these gossip magazines and all this other a lot of
stuff that's out there, give us a practical way to are the prophets Allah Sallam he said in
authentic hadith this Deen is Mateen is very strong. Yeah. And he advised the Muslims to go into it
with the with kindness, and not to rush trying to apply everything missing day doesn't work this
way. It's against the nature of the human being. So we start with the most important first, how to
		

			have the oneness of worship of Allah subhanaw taala learning his treat, putting his trust in Allah
subhanaw taala and have the love of Allah subhanaw taala understanding the principles, that this a
better this act of worship is done by the perfect love to Allah subhanaw taala and the perfect
submission to the will of Allah subhanaw taala because this is what Islam means. And then he do the
obligations, the five daily prayers and perfecting them this is an opportunity for him to ask Allah
Subhana Allah for guidance for help the heart this amazing creation of Allah, it's the one that
loves either the sins and the evil matters or loves the good deeds, and it's all in controlled by
		

			Allah subhanaw taala so when the person turned to Allah Subhana Allah alone, ask him as the profits
of ceylonese to make de alarme had been diligent Amanda was Allah make the immense act of faith,
most beloved to me, and adorn it in my heart was headed Ilya Khufu colossian and make this belief
and this obedience and to be rebellious against the odors of Allah disliked when he so when he makes
dry like this, and then he takes the route in the steps and the gradual way, the Akita perfecting
the up the obligatory acts of worship, and seeking help from Allah subhanaw taala then eventually
inshallah Allah who you reach his final destination in peace, but he needs to do certain things, one
		

			of which he need to be with the right company of Muslims, in which they would help him because to be
a stranger in a society This is makes it difficult for the person. So he need the strength from
those who reminded him of Allah subhanaw taala. And when we do this and making dua to Allah subhanaw
taala las panatela make it easy for the priests. Okay, so give us a real quick
		

			let's say, workout your mind plan from the morning after waking up for fudger which every Muslim
should be doing, praying the
		

			the the prayer, the morning prayer, and then now he has to go to work. What can you do throughout
the day? You know, as far as the Quran reading lectures, how can he wait, what do you suggest? Yes,
workout plan. The basic thing of course, is the obligations, perfecting it meaning not just do it.
If a person is capable of going to the masjid five times a day, he's close to the masjid then he
should do that. Right. So once this is set, then all the schedule after that will fit in between
instead of saying I'll meet you at seven o'clock in the evening, I'll meet you after before after
us. Salah is the main thing in our day and then we fill in the blanks afterwards. The actual acts of
		

			worship after we do the obligations and we make sure that the wave we're away from all sins. Then we
do the way the prophets are selling the things
		

			The optional craze the 12 rakow, soon which the reward of this is building a house for the person in
general. One of the very important things if a person has the means to do that and that has so much
effect in building the man is sitting after fed in general in the masjid in the masjid, till
sunrise. I know this is difficult for a lot of people, especially if they have work to do early. But
most of the Federal time is early and if people are preferred in the masjid, and sit as the prophet
SAW, Selim mentioned, Muslim that used to sit to sunrise, an hour, hour and 15 minutes or so. This
is the day where you give in matters of Vic