Yahya Ibrahim – Guidebook to God #06 – The armor of piety

			taqwa, piety of heart, piety of purpose and action, taqwa is defined as taking the means doing the
things that will protect you from the punishment and anger of Allah. It's with Kaya it is a shield
your steady nulab dooby homina now, it is a shield and an armor that you put on in your life that
protects you from the punishment of Allah. When he basswood taqwa higher the armor and the clothing
of piety that is where you will find your goodness. I want to talk to you a little bit about cod
consciousness awareness of Allah taqwa is one of those things that is easy to say but difficult to
do. It is one of the eternal commands of Allah. Yeah, you have levina M and takala. Be mindful of a
		

			law be conscious of a law be aware of a law, be fearing of a law, be loving of a law be hoping and
Allah's mercy, the great mom's at the moment melkonian For example, He describes tequila as being
having equal measure of hope, what Raja will have, it is having equal measure of three important
aspects of your life, love of God, fear of God, but hoping the mercy of Allah in this life in the
next telephone, Habib he gives another explanation. Some of the roadmap say that this is the most
precise definition of taqwa, he says, and tamela Vitara Attila Allah nudelman Allah, total juu so
Allah, it is that you do your best to obey God, using the light that was sent down to us by him
		

			through the prophets or I sell them in the messengers of God of the past, hoping that it will be
accepted and you will be rewarded for your deeds, where he and tetsuro camassia to Allah, it equally
means that you abandon turn away from and stop committing sins, and no demean Allah because you are
enlightened by the path of God. Total jeu de Sha acaba ly fearful of the punishment of a lot,
another important definition is provided to us by ergonomical Katara the Allahu anhu and in the
authentic hadith we know that the Prophet said to Omar at taqwa hoonah, Mr. taqwa is in here and the
Prophet struck him in the chest, he touched his chest and he said, tuck what begins in the heart.
		

			It's between you and God. It's a privacy that you have with a law to privacy that you have in your
dealings in your thoughts and your behaviors, in your assumptions in your good, good, your good
intentions and hope that you have for Allah. It's the love you have in the heart. It's the fee or
that anguishes you, but it's also the hope and the mercy of Allah subhana wa Tada. And another
explanation given in the Sahaba. The prophets I seldom is asked to describe taqwa. And ergo
mahatama. The Allahu anhu conveys this when he's asked by Abu hurayrah what is taqwa? And how does
it show and manifest itself? He says at Tanaka. That's all you can show. We can feel a young, he
		

			asked, Have you ever walked down a path that was full of things that could injure your feet? Back
then, you know, it was easier to walk barefoot in certain places. Have you ever walked in a place
where there were thorns or things that would cut up your feet and you know, jagged rock? And they
said, Yes, yes, we we, you know, we we've all experienced that you're standing in your kitchen. You
dropped the glass in the darkness of the night, in the middle of the night, you went to get a drink,
and there's glass everywhere and you don't have your slippers, motherless on that, what did you do
when you were in a place of danger such as this? He said, a tutorial I looked down at where I was
		

			going to put my feet. I stepped gingerly every step I took was measured every ounce of my energy, my
hearing my sight. I tried to observe everything around me. And if I needed help, I asked for someone
bring me some slippers. Bring a broom, I asked to protect myself. So the prophets I send them
demonstrated this germa he hit him in the chest and he said that taqwa that is consciousness of God.
That is mindfulness of a law, that you live each and every day in your life. taking small steps,
being careful where you put your footsteps, being careful how you live your life, you don't big make
big moves without studying it, thinking about it, calculating it. You don't invest until you're sure
		

			it's halaal. You don't pull out and wonder, Is this right or wrong? You don't speak about others
without being sure what you're saying is correct. You don't give opportunity to other people to
slander or gossip or hold words of contempt to others to you at the expense of other people. You're
a person of substance of taqwa of consciousness and mindfulness of a law. What are the things that
awaken taqwa in my life in your life? Well first and most
		

			important is to know that there's a punishment in this life and in the next life for those who take
Liberty with a loss of paranoia to Allah, those who take Liberty with other people to fear the
genuineness of the difficulties that we can bring ourselves in. If we live a godless life, a life
that is lacking of taqwa lacking of consciousness of Allah, number two, to have hope, in the next
life as much as we seek hope for this life, to look towards the next day, and to know that whatever
we miss out in this life will never be missed out entirely. And that whatever we missed in this life
was never meant to be for us to know that there is a greater purpose and design for our existence,
		

			to have hope and reward in the next life, even if we are not as complete in pleasure in this life,
to fee or the Day of Judgment, to fear nor a duelist to Allah Jo Abba, to have an answer to the
question that will be put for us on the Day of Judgment. Why did you do this and that authentic
hadith of the prophets is lm says that Allah will ask and he will say yeah Abdi identificado mcheza
worker, oh servant of mine, most slave of mine. Do you remember it's such an such a day and nikka
family together work together that you did this and this in this for your federal Abdou, you will
say yes, Oh Allah I do remember. And may Allah make us of those who the prophets I seldom said that
		

			there will be some believers who Allah will say to them consultado to Holly Kofi dunia William
Alfredo hurlock, on the day of law in your life. On those days I hid it from other people judging
you and seeing you and holding you in contempt. And today I forgive it for you on account of the
genuineness of your heart, the things that increase our talk with a law, our being shy of a lot.
		

			Having a sense of higher having a sense of shyness and modesty between us and Allah knowing that a
loss of Hannah Tyler rocky wouldn't be a bad he is aware and a witness over us that Allah subhana wa
tada Lisa is awful. He is not unaware he has not turned away he hasn't ignored us. My azubu I'm on
whom is Carla Vera, not even the the mustard seed or half of an atom's wait is beyond his his. His
understanding of us is seeing of us is not only jobos suparna who went to either some of the degrees
of taqwa and as you understand that taqwa is of different levels. All of us we begin on the taqwa of
Islam is the taqwa of Islam, where we protect ourselves from Allah by being people c'est la ilaha
		

			illAllah Muhammad Rasulullah. The second level of taqwa is allama Masada. The second level, you go
up from just belief into the practice of Islam, you begin to do your prayers, you begin to do that
which is right, that next degree of taqwa is you begin to live a good life. The next degree is not
just I do the good things, but now I abstain. And I work hard to turn away from the disobedience of
Allah subhanho wa Taala, the extendible, my alma mater, and I turn away from the mandala mat, the
next degree, it's not just that I believe in a law, and I practice what's right, and I turn away
from what's wrong. But now I begin to do what is recommended. Number four, I begin to do this sooner
		

			than I begin to do them, I begin to do the things that are recommended. The degree above that is now
I begin to stay away not just from the heart on, but I seek to stay away from the things that are
most cruel things that are doubtful things that can erode me and bring me closer to the heart of
them, even though I'm not yet in it. And then a degree above that is now I begin to invite others to
come and join me in the good and I invite others to stay away from the evil. And finally of the
things that increase our level of taqwa is that I put myself in a place where I even question the
permissible times in my life, where it's not about halal or haram. It's not about sooner or later.
		

			It's not about Mr. habit or mcru. It's something that it's entirely permissible, I begin to think,
can I change this to making it desirable, or to making it something pleasurable, that a person of
tough love when they begin to eat their food, and they say, Bismillah and they ingest it, they say,
Alhamdulillah, for Allah giving me this food, it will give me strength to pray in the night prayers.
So now that very permissible act of just simply eating or having a cup of coffee, that it becomes a
means of the worship of Allah. So that is a level of taqwa that we all see. We ask Allah subhanaw
taala to give us insight into our inner workings of life, to lead us towards a path of righteousness
		

			and to make us from those who are determined in our affairs. Well, suddenly Allahumma salli wa barik
ala Sayidina Wahhabi Vina whenever you know Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam your brother you
have Rahim was Salam Alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh