Tom Facchine – Hadith Series – #05 – How To Attach Your Heart To Allah

			Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa salam said that there's no action that a person can do that is
more effective and saving them from Allah's punishment and remembering Allah. And that's because we
kind of have a cute and quaint association I think in the English language we think remember Allah
we just think about hamdulillah Subhan Allah and these things and that is what it is. That's kind of
the the outer form of it right? But really what is the purpose of the outer form is to attach our
hearts and our awareness and our consciousness to Allah right? Because as the prophesy said, I'm
setting another Hadith. A person who steals they're not a believer when they're stealing and the
		

			prophesy said, I'm didn't mean that the person left a slam, it means that they lost the plot, right?
They, they forgot themselves, they weren't remembering a law. When that happened, no one's gonna
remember a law say Bismillah. And then, you know, throw down some alcohol or something like that,
right? It's usually a moment of forgetting or more than a moment of forgetting and being unaware,
right? And so if we are able to build up a fortress of awareness, right and habituate ourselves to a
constant awareness, or at least, if that's not possible than a constant returning to awareness, then
this is the most effective way to stop sinning. This is the most effective way to stop all the foul
		

			behaviors and habits that we have. Because you're going to be more constantly it's like we say
Islamic mindfulness, right, you are more mindful of what Allah subhanaw taala wants from you, right,
that the more that you repeat Allah's name, or his names, or the sorts of formulas of praise and
liquor, then you're constantly bringing your awareness back to this source of everything that you
have a source of, of gratitude, right? And all of the things that you have to be thankful for. It's
all Allah. So how are you going, you would be embarrassed, right? If you're remembering Allah and
you're remembering who Allah is, and everything is done for you, and how great he is you won't be
		

			embarrassed, you'd be ashamed to commit some sort of foul deed or say some bad thing or do these
sorts of things. Most people when they do sin, it's because they've temporarily forgotten it's
because they have been prevented from remembering Allah in that moment. And so if we work on
ourselves to the point where remembering Allah and being aware and mindful of Allah is something
that's automatic, or it's something that's constant, or it's something that we are constantly
returning to, then that is the most effective thing to prevent us from punishment in the afterlife,
because we're carrying that awareness with us wherever we go, and it's actually having an impact on
		

			the things that we do.