Waleed Basyouni – I Feel Like An Atheist How Can I Strengthen My Iman – Ask The Imam

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The speaker advises the audience to focus on their energy, pray harder, and do more prayer to improve their health and life. They suggest not enteringtain the idea of a job or family, as it takes years to change one's behavior, and to focus on their deeds rather than their faith. The speaker emphasizes the importance of recognizing faith and maintaining deeds, not just because of its various ways, but also because of various ways. He also advises people to pray more, not give up on prayer, and not to give up on prayer, as it may lead to problems and progress.
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We have a question by a brother who,
I mean it could be an obsession, it
could be a waswas, whatever it is, it's
that he feels like he's an atheist, that
he doesn't believe, but then he doesn't like
that, he doesn't like to feel that way,
and sometimes he doesn't feel the connection when
he prays, and sometimes when he misses a
prayer he doesn't feel guilty, so he's afraid,
and he doesn't want to feel that way,
he is really like, to him it's alarming,
what advice do we have for this brother,
and he's really asking in a very, very,
let's say, urgent way, that's how I felt.
Bismillah alhamdulillah, first of all I would like
to say, that feeling, you feel a sense
of urgency, you feel that this is wrong,
this is something wrong, it's a good sign,
it means your heart still have life in
it, when your wound is dead, when you
touch it, it doesn't hurt, it only hurt
when it's fresh and alive, so that means
these things and these thoughts hurting you because
your heart has Iman in it, and in
Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Sahaba came and said,
Ya Rasulullah, sometimes we think of stuff, we
would rather to die, to fall from the
sky, you know, like a free fall from
the sky, to be smashed on the ground,
and not to speak of, thoughts, and Nabi
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, you have these thoughts,
they said, yes, and Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
said, that's a sign of clear Iman, why
because the Shaytan will not come to a
heart which is empty of Iman, the heart
that filled with Kufr and empty of Iman,
the Shaytan is not interested in it, only
interested in it, and he tried to take
whatever left in your Iman, so that's something
to keep in mind, another thing I would
say, that shows also weakness, so what I
would advise you is to start to strengthen
your Iman, make a lot of Dua, make
a lot of good deeds, stand up in
the night and pray, you know, things doesn't,
you didn't build the connection of Salah right
away, it takes years, it takes months of
sincere, real effort to connect, those who struggle
in our way, Allah will guide them to
the way, to the straight path, to the
path that will take you to Jannah, so
you put that effort, make a lot of
Dua, make a lot of Sadaqah, you know,
force yourself to come to the Masjid, pray,
you focus 10%, next time 12%, next time
13%, you go down to 9, that you
go back again, you know, sometimes that's an
advice, somebody gave it to me, he said,
I pray Asr and I pray Dhuhr and
I didn't feel like I was focused on
Dhuhr prayer, you know what, I make sure
that that day, I make extra volunteer prayers,
to make up what I missed in Dhuhr
and the focus that I didn't do in
Dhuhr, it patch the obligation, covers the shortcoming,
another thing for example will be, being a
good company, also don't entertain these thoughts, like
when the Shaytan comes to the atheist, no
I'm not, you just say that, you know,
oh you know, the Shaytan come tell you,
who created this, you say Allah, who created
this, Allah, then who created Allah, the process
of the Shaytan comes and tell you thoughts
like this, and blow on your left hand
side, 3 times and don't think about it,
don't dwell on it, you know, it's not
a debate, you know, Iman, it comes from
the heart, from the belief in the heart,
so you don't need to dwell on it,
and sometimes, oh I couldn't understand it, faith
is not always a logical debate, faith comes
because of many different ways, somebody said, I
saw the Prophet's face, and when I saw
his face, I knew that he's not a
liar, and I became a Mu'min, did not
start to establish through debate, somebody read just
verses of the Quran, and I became a
Muslim, and so forth, so what I would
like to say here, that it's important for
you to recognize that, important for you to
recognize that faith is established in different ways,
and that's why, don't dwell on it, you
know, if you have a real question, ask
the question, and if you have a real
issue you need to solve, you can ask
somebody to help you to solve that real
challenge you have, or issue that you have,
other than that, you should be able to
maintain your deen, read a lot of Quran,
enjoy your, have trust in Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala, and make a lot of dua
as well.
And also understand that it's a test, that
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is testing your
faith, sometimes if you feel like, I feel
like giving up on prayer, no, do more
of the prayer, if you feel not connected
to the prayer, pray more, if you feel
like a certain good deed that you've been
doing is not bringing any results, if it's
a good deed, continue with it, so, I
mean, that could be the shaitan's way of
stopping you from progressing, and progress doesn't take,
it's not like an overnight thing.
And I found that really what led a
lot of people to bigger problem, they dwell
on it, they start thinking it too much,
oh I'm not going to ignore it, no,
ignoring it doesn't mean you don't know it,
you're doing something about it, which is, you're
praying, you're fasting, you're doing a good deed,
that will change your heart, you know, and
sometimes you know what, I don't have an
answer for every question, I know for sure
there is, or sometimes I'm stuck with one
thing in religion that is confusing me, you
know that one thing, that one thing, should
not make you, logically should not make you
cancel everything else, that's why Allah told us,
there is certain things in religion, might be
mutashabihat, might be confusing, might be not clear
to you, it's clear to me, but for
you it is not clear, you know what,
you refer to what is clear, you refer
to what is stable, Alhamdulillah, and that thing,
that area that I'm not clear about it,
you know, put it in a safe, lock
it, take the key and throw it away,
say when I meet Allah, I will ask
him about it, and that's it, but when
you keep dwelling, the whole religion became one
issue, or the whole entire your faith be
limited in that area that you have an
issue with, and that's wrong methodology of dealing
with this kind of shubhahat, don't let it
go into your heart, Ibn Taymiyyah said, when
it comes to doubts and things like that,
don't be like the sponge, suck it in,
look at it the way you look at
things behind the glass, it will not touch
you, it will not stain you, and you
see it clearly from a distance, so don't
be a sponge, don't be a sponge, right,
very good, very good, thank you shaykh, JazakAllah
khair, JazakAllah khair.