Yasir Qadhi – The Branches of Faith – 17 – Fear & Hope of Allah

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			we're still doing our series of emammal. They have these a Shabbat Eman or the comprehensive
Encyclopedia of demand. And we have done around 10 of the various branches of faith will now move on
to two of them today today will combine two of those branches. And those are the fear of a law and
the hope in Allah's mercy. So of the branches of Eman of the branches of Eman without which you are
not a woman is to have a fear of a law and a hope in Allah subhanho wa Taala. As for the fear of
Allah, this is a constant theme of the Quran. Allah subhana wa tada mentions in over 50 verses the
concept of having hope and kushtia and COVID and kushtia are not exactly a synonymous. hashish is a
		

			type of internal fear and hope is a fear that you have a generic fear and all of them are due to
Allah, Allah Tasha will not Don't be scared of mankind will show nee have hashish of meat for Allah
to haul food home, don't have hope of them will have funi be fearful of me and the macom or the
level of hope will allow us to get to the highest levels of Jannat in Surah Ar Rahman when Allah
mentions both those those levels of gender, the higher level is given to whom when the men call from
Amara be gender Dan, whereas the lower level does not have that that concept of hope. So the hope of
a law will allow us to go higher, and there's a beautiful Hadith in Sahih Bukhari that demonstrates
		

			what is hope of a law. There is a verse in certain noon that mentions those who give of what Allah
has given them, and their hearts are terrified, knowing that they're going to go back to Allah.
Allah Dena, tuna, moto Kuma gelatin, Isha listen to this beautiful Hezekiah Isha said Yasuda Lord,
their hearts are terrified. Are these the people that are drinking and fornicating and committing
all types of sins so they're terrified? The profitsystem said not yet been to sadaqa no daughter of
a sudden No, these are the people who fast and pray and give charity and their hearts are terrified
that Allah will not accept their good deeds. That is the macom of hope and Harsha, the righteous
		

			people they are terrified What if my deeds are not accepted? And Allah subhana wa tada mentions that
even the angels Johar, funaro, bahaman folta him even though the angels do not really have a sub per
se, they don't have a punishment per se. But because the angels realized who is a law, your hall
funaro the human folk to him, the angels themselves are terrified of their Lord who is above them.
And in the famous hadith of those seven people who will be sheltered on judgment day one of those
seven, the person who remembers Allah when nobody's looking at him and overcome with fear, his eyes
began to cry from the hucha of Allah subhana wa Tada. And of course the concept of crying from the
		

			fear of Allah is something that is well known. It is mentioned in the Koran, that the righteous
people, when they hear the verses, you find them crying, you find that their eyes are full of tears,
and from the lies of the Sahaba we know this Abu Bakar of the law on his own daughter begged the
Prophet system Yasuda law, don't put my father as the Imam. Every time he recites out loud he begins
to cry, aroma rhodiola one how many times in his khilafah he recited a verse and he would stop at
that verse. He couldn't move on because he would be choking. And Omar was a man who would terrify
everybody. But when he stood in front of Allah, he himself had that terror of a lord the fear of
		

			Allah subhana wa Tada, how many times or more would be sobbing, his beard would be wet Earth man
rhodiola one every time he would visit the grave, he would be trembling, he would be crying. Once
his student asked him, Why are you crying and you are, you know, such a great Sahabi and whatnot.
And he said that if I had the choice, and on judgment day, I was waiting for the hisab between
heaven and *, and I don't know which one it would be. If I had the choice I would opt that I was
never a human I was never created. I would just be dust and that it wouldn't have to face the
history of Allah. This is what a throne would say. How about me and you? And the concept of hope and
		

			Harsha is a well known thing. Every Muslim has to have fear of Allah. But along with that fear,
there must also be hope, hope must exist coexist along with fear and hope in Allah's mercy,
optimism.
		

			Allah will forgive me, Allah will help me, it must be together in the heart along with fear. If you
only have one of these two emotions, you will go astray. And it's common sense, if you only have
fear, and there's no love, no mercy, no tenderness, no hope. Generally speaking, these are the types
of groups that gravitate towards fanaticism, harshness, looking down at everybody. And we all know
that type of person that really he just is a person who can't really function in society. And
frankly, these extremist groups they characterize what happened when you only think of fear and
janome and fear and Jan numb, and you have no love, and you have no hope. But there is a danger on
		

			the opposite side, the opposite side we also know those types of Muslims, they have no fear of
Allah, and they commit every sin in the book. And when you tell them they say, oh, Allah is love for
Allah is there a him he shall forgive me? This is not hope this is foolishness. Because genuine hope
causes you to act in a hopeful manner. Genuine hope makes you strive for the hope. That's what real
hope does. Otherwise this is foolishness. If you just sit back and do nothing, commit every scene in
the book and then say yeah, Allah is Forgiving, Oh, you are being lacks about Allah calm, the both
of them have to exist together. And of course the evidences of hoping in Allah putting your trust in
		

			Allah having an optimistic a positive outlook. This is something that is well known in the Quran and
Sunnah in the famous Hadith and Timothy Hadith could see, the prophets have said that Allah said,
Oh, my servants, as long as you worship Me, and put your hope in me What a joke any, you have your
hope in me, I shall forgive and I shall not care as long as you worship. Notice, he didn't just say
put your hope and no worship, as long as you're doing what needs to be done, and you put your hope
in me I shall worship I shall forgive and not care. And in the ideas inside Bahati, our Prophet
sallallahu Sallam said, Allah divided mercy into 100 parts, one of them he sent down to this world,
		

			and because of it, people show mercy to one another, so much so a mother animal that shows mercy to
its foul or to its chiclet or whatever it is coming from that one 100 In other words, all mercy in
existence from the beginning of creation, up until the trumpet is one, then the profitsystem said,
Allah has kept 99 that he shall use on Yom Okayama imagine that, all of mercy that any to creation
have shown one another from the beginning of time equals one, and a law's mercy will be 99 on one
day only asked for actually Allah Rama, it is infinite, it cannot be quantified, but on Judgement
Day, 99 times what has been used for all of the creation, and our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
		

			sallam said, that Allah said, I am as my servant thinks of me. If you think of Allah in a positive
manner, Allah will deal with you in a positive manner. But I do believe if you think of Allah in a
mean or a stingy or whatnot, then that is what you're going to get. You have to have good thoughts
of Allah, it is called personal one. Our Prophet sallallahu Sallam said, none of you should die,
except that you have who snuck one in Allah, you expect the best from Allah subhanahu wa Tada. And
as we said, true Hope it leads to action. Because when you're hopeful that let's say that, you know,
whatever the case might be your boss you think is going to give you the promotion, and you're
		

			thinking and the end of the month, I'm going to be the one that's going to get the promotion that
month, you will actually be on your best, you're going to show that you deserve the promotion,
you're going to do the best work. This is the sign of real hope that there's an optimism that leads
to positive action as well. That hope is what the Quran and Sunnah is talking about. Now, as I said,
fear and hope are two pillars of a man, but they must coexist at the same time and this is
throughout the Quran. Last time we talked about love these three emotions I want you all to memorize
them. These are the three I call them psychological factors or we can say the motivational factors
		

			upon which worship of Allah is based love, fear and hope and love is the primary emotion but fear
and hope must exist as well. And even as sorbitol. Fatiha al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil alameen This is
love. We praise Allah, He's worthy of being loved our Rahmani Raheem, this is hope. You are the
merciful. You are the right man. And then Maddie Chioma Dean, this is terrifying us there's a
judgment there's a dub. So even here in Surah Al Fatiha love fear and hope and also in the Quran.
Not everybody and the analog or photo Rahim one either be who Allah
		

			When I tell my servants my I, well, my my mercy, I am the one who is a foreigner and Rahim but also
tell them that my punishment is severe, simple verse that translates fear and hope must coexist tell
my servants I am the afford. I am Dr. Haim, but also tell them that my punishment is severe. And
Allah praises that Korea and other prophets and other people in this phrase in the Koran. Yeah, the
ruin and Robin wa Hubba. They would pray to us and worship us, hopefully, in a state of hope. And in
a state of fear, there would be hopeful Allah is going to answer my mouth, but they're also scared
What if Allah doesn't, so Allah combines both hope and fear. And the famous scholar of note by him,
		

			he gave that analogy that we should all memorize simple analogy. He said that love is like the heart
of a bird. That is the primary emotion but the bird needs to go forward, these two fly, and the
flapping wings, one of those wings is fear. And the other wings is hope. It's hope and fear that
caused us but the life of our a bird that is love, but hope and fear, they propel us forward, they
cause us to do things and abstained from things. Now scholars have differed, which one should be
more love or fear, lots of different opinions. Some say and this is interesting. If you're young,
you should increase the fear. Because fear prevents you from committing sins. And if you get older
		

			and you're closer to meeting Allah, then you should be more optimistic and more hopeful. Other say
that it depends on the state that you're in, that if you're flirting with a sin, thinking about a
sin, then you have better think fear more, because fear is what prevents from committing sins. And
if you need motivation for a Bada, you need to give money, you need to pray to HUD, generally
speaking, that's an optimism I hope that Allah will accept and all of these opinions are valid. The
point is, they must both most must coexist in the heart. And there will always be a healthy
synthesis of love and fear and hope. And once a prophet, the prophet system visited a young man who
		

			was terminally sick, he was about to die. And the Prophet system said, How do you find yourself and
the man said, I am scared of my sins, but I'm hopeful Allah will forgive me. Fear and hope. The
prophets of some said, Never do these two emotions combined in a person at this time, except that
Allah will secure him against his fears, and grant him his wish and desire. Notice hope and fear go
hand in hand, and it must be going together. And finally, we'll conclude it which really
demonstrates both of these go hand in hand. Our Prophet sallallahu Sallam said, if the men fully
understood the punishment of a law, the men would never think he's going to go to gender. If the men
		

			understood the punishment of a law, he would give up hope of gender, if he understood how harsh it
is. And if the calf fear understood the mercy of a law, he would be certain he is going to gender.
Think about this Hadeeth if the movement understood that as a job, he would think I'm never going to
get there, even though he's a movie is going to get there. But if you understood the idea of a law,
he would think there's no way if that cafard who's not going to get there, understood the mercy of
Allah, he would be certain he'd end up over there. And what is the correct path? dead in the middle?
We should hope be optimistic. Insha Allah, Allah will forgive me. I want Allah Farah, Allah will
		

			show that Rama Allah will forgive my sins, but at the same time, I am scared, I am terrified. What
if he doesn't? What if that is not happening? Those two emotions if they exist together, then know
that you're upon good, but if only one exists without the other, then that is a problem that needs
to be rectified, and inshallah we'll continue our talk tomorrow cinematic moments with Lucha
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