Yasir Qadhi – The Branches of Faith – 03 – Descriptions of Iman

			Wa salatu salam ala rasulillah Allah Allah He was so happy woman while
		

			we were still discussing the descriptions of a man in the Koran. And yesterday we discussed one of
its main descriptions and that is the analogy of the tree. Today we'll move on how else does Allah
subhana wa tada describe a man and the blessings of a man of the descriptions in the Koran and of
the blessings that Allah has mentioned of a man is the fact that Allah has mentioned that the
greatest blessing that he has ever given any person is the blessing of a man. Instead of hoogenraad.
Allah subhana wa tada says, regarding a group of hypocrites that had just embraced Islam, they
walked into the the Syrah tells us they walked into the Prophet Sall Allahu Allah and His Messenger,
		

			and they were boasting, we are the new believers. We are the new Mormons, and they wanted to curry
favor. They wanted to impress the prophets are some that yes, we are the new converts. So give us
some special some special dignity. So Allah subhana wa tada revealed in the Quran yummo noona la can
assalamu they think they have done you a favor by accepting Islam. Bonilla, huya mundo la come and
ha de como de man in quantum souderton rather, it is a law that has blessed you. It is a law that
has grace to the min the greatest blessing that Allah has given you is the blessing of he man, but
in La Jolla, la come and have documented a man in kuntum saw the thing if you are truthful, if you
		

			are truthful and understanding what is a man if you are truthful and saying to the Prophet
sallallahu I just said them we are believers, you would not take it as something you have done. If
you are truthful and saying I am a believer, you will recognize it is a loss blessing that you are a
believer, not something that you have done, you have acquired you have earned it is your birthright
No. If you are truthful, you will thank Allah for having guided you to eat man. The greatest
blessing that Allah has given any of us is the blessing of a man. So Allah subhanho wa Taala reminds
us that we should thank him for that blessing. And of course this blessing of Iman, Allah tells us
		

			in the Quran, that he is the one that has gifted it and written it in our hearts. It is in the Quran
that Allah says, I have written a man in your hearts, Allah iica cuttable for you to be human, a man
the believers are those Allah has written a man in their hearts, what a Yoda whom and Allah has
protected them and gifted them with a roof with the spirit coming from him. In fact, Allah subhana
wa tada reminds us that the greatest beauty that He has given us is the beauty of he man, Allah
subhanho wa Taala says in the Quran, that while I can no longer have de la como a man It is Allah
who has made a man so beloved to you. It is Allah who has made you love He man was a Yana who feel
		

			lubicon and he has beautified your hearts with a man and the man is beautified in your hearts. Your
hearts are beautified with a man and it is a law who has gifted you with that beauty. If you did not
have beauty in your lives, your lives would be ugly, decrepit, it would be something that is
withering away but you are made beautiful because of man you are made healthy because of he man so
Allah subhana wa tada reminds us that he is the one the Yana who the Zener of life The beauty of
life comes from Allah blessing you with a man so the movement is always powerful, the movement is
always beautiful is always precious, because Allah has gifted you with the gift of a man and if
		

			Allah had willed, He would not have given that gift. So we need to thank Allah subhana wa tada for
that gift as well. The Quran tells us another metaphor, another parable and it goes back to
yesterday's lecture as well that we talked about the fruits well fruits have a taste so a man as
well has a taste and this taste is mentioned in the Quran and the Sunnah of our Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam said that he man, the person has tasted a man who is that person three
characteristics Monrovia Bella here Robin Robin Islami dienen Wadi Mohammed sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam and Abby and Sula. If you have three characteristics, then you will taste that
		

			Taste of lemon balm here is not just taste It's also sustenance, balm food. So the one who has these
three characteristics will be nourished with he man, he man will taste good to him and the man will
then nourish him. What are those three characteristics number one, he is content with a lot as his
Lord, He is content that Allah is my Creator. And this means he is content with Allah other he is
content with whatever happens he is content with worshiping Allah number two, he is content with
Islam as his way of life, which means he conforms to Islam and he doesn't cut and paste Islam to fit
into his schedule. He makes his schedule work around Islam, and he makes sure that his lifestyle is
		

			in accordance with Islam. And number three, he is content with the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam as his nebby and hazardous as his rhassoul you are content with the Prophet as your
newbie and rasuluh when you take him as a role model when you follow his soon enough when you study
his Sierra, when you love him like you love no other person, then you are content with him as an
it'd be another soon if you have these three characteristics. Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said, you will taste the fruit of a man you will taste the man that will sustain you that a
family man so a man has a taste a man has a nourishment. And if you have belief in a law and belief
		

			in Islam and belief in the prophet SAW Selim, then you will taste a man and what do you think the
taste of a man is? Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said very explicitly that that taste is
sweet Halawa. Tell a man whoever has three characteristics. Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
said we'll taste the * out of a man and halau what is the sweetness of a man? What is those three
characteristics and your Kunal la hora, Sulu, la human merci wa Houma. He loves Allah and His
Messenger more than he loves anyone else he loves on Alan His Messenger. Number two, he loves for
the oma what he loves for himself. He loves his Muslim Brothers, what he loves for himself. Number
		

			three, he hates to go back to Cofer. He hates to not be in a man just as much as he has to be thrown
into the fire. He is so blessed said with a man you know, when you have a blessing, and you want it
so much, you cannot imagine life without it. So the blessing of a man is the greatest blessing. You
don't want to lose it so you're terrified of losing it. So to be terrified of losing a man is a sign
of a man. So when you are terrified of losing a man when you don't want to lose a man, then this is
one of the characteristics of those three, that when you have them. Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said that that person that Kahala with an email, he will taste the * out. And we all know
		

			what hello and hello was sweetness. There is no sweetness that is more sweet than the sweetness of
Eman And that is why the most men will give up every other sweetness that is out of him because he
loves the sweetness of Eman more than the sweetness of how long that is why when the Sahaba when he
was allowed for them to drink alcohol and they're drinking alcohol. When Allah reveals in the Quran,
that in normal commonwell maizuru it is reached it is evil get rid of alcohol, right as they're
drinking alcohol, they pour it outside of the windows because the love of a law is more than the
love of alcohol. And that will only come when you have a man it is a man that will allow you to
		

			conquer those desires. We're all struggling with addictions brothers and sisters, we all have sins
that we do. The only cure for those sins is that we taste the sweetness of a man when we love a man
and the sweetness of a man more than those evil deeds, then we won't want to commit those deeds
because there is nothing sweeter than Halawa. Tell a man once you taste that * hour. And you
know, we all know this in our daily lives. Even when we eat our food. Why do we keep the desserts to
the end because we don't want anything after that. We want to end on something that is sweet. Once
we have a desert palace, we don't want anything after we're gonna leave it on a sweet taste. So to
		

			one you have a man, when you commit a sin, you're adding bitterness to that sweetness. You don't
want it you would rather have that sweetness of a man. And that's why our scholars of the past they
said if these rich princes and these playboys that are committing all these sins, if they knew the
sweetness and the the Halawa, and the the tama Nina the Sakina. They said the piece that we feel
they would be fighting us with swords and cutting our chests to get that sweetness, but they can't
get it that way. If they only understood the sweetness of a large warship. They wouldn't be engaged
in those lifestyles they will be doing as we are doing but they don't understand. They think that by
		

			spending money and how ramen by doing this and by eating this and drinking that and going here and
there, they will face pleasures, but the real pleasure is Halawa to a man as the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam tells us as well. He man is so powerful that of the names of our Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam is the color to a man he is described as the color
		

			To a man as Allah says in the Quran, in Scimitar nimona dn una de man, we have heard a caller
calling us to Eman Muna de is the title of our prophets of the law while he was selling them,
calling us to a man his entire life is a life of calling to a man. So he becomes the caller to a man
and Allah describes him as the color of a man So anybody who calls others to eat man, anybody who
calls others to eat man becomes following the footsteps of our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam as
well Allah subhanho wa Taala tells us in the Quran, that when we have a man, then Allah will open up
the doors of this world and the next one Oh, hello, Armando, what Choco Lava tahina, Allah him
		

			Baraka, Mina sama, he will out if the people of the cities meaning Makkah, and Medina, if the people
of the cities believed if they had a man, we would open the doors of the heavens and the doors of
the earth so that all of the Rockets would come to them. When you have a man, you get this world and
the next. And this is one of the biggest dichotomies that Muslims don't understand. We think when we
have a man, we have to give up this world and we'll get the next No, the moment gets this world and
the next Allah subhanho wa Taala is not going to deprive his believers of gifts and the Mothman
lives the quality life, not the quantity, we'll talk about this in a future lecture in two, three
		

			days, the quality of life when you become a man, you don't become a multimillionaire, that's not the
way it works, but your life quality, your pleasure, your happiness will go to levels you never knew
before the life quality will increase with a man because pleasure is not in quantity. Pleasure is
not in how large your bank account is, is how happy Your heart is. And the Mothman is the one that a
lot as originally mentioned, we will open up every Baraka Baraka to semi you will out we would open
up the doors of the heavens and earth and he will feel blessed. He will feel fortunate. That is the
internal happiness that comes for the believer. And Allah subhanho wa Taala also mentioned in the
		

			Quran that he man allows us to conquer grief and pessimism and anxiety while he no one attacks No,
what am I alone in control? Meaning Don't be sad, don't worry, don't be anxious. And every one of us
we have anxieties. Every one of us we have fears, whether it's financial, whether it's family,
whether it's stress of work, every one of us we get bombarded with issues of stress and anxiety. And
Allah says Don't be scared, don't worry, you will overcome but there's one condition in common
meaning if you have a man, then you will overcome those stress. Don't be worried when I tell you
what I say no, don't be sad. Don't be anxious, you shall win if you have a man. And of course, there
		

			are so many parables as well. And one of the parables we're going to discuss tomorrow in shallow
data in more detail is the parable of light and darkness. A man is called light and leaving a man is
called darkness. And there are many beautiful verses. Today we'll discuss one and finish off
tomorrow we'll discuss the famous verse the idea to note the verse of Sudoku, which is about a man
today we'll discuss this verse. Yeah, you already know Armando tapa la Hawa, Amina para su de la
Nima, Rama de la come neuron, una de la Alfred LA, are you who believe, believe in a law, I mean
will be law and believe in the messenger. If you do so, a low will give you a light that you will be
		

			able to walk with. So a man has been called a light. And what is the purpose of a light, a light
tells you where you are. It shows you where your destination is, it allows you a safe passage from
where you are to your destination. When you have light. You know your context. You know your
dangers, you know how to get from point A to point B, you have purpose and meaning. Those who don't
have life. They don't those don't have light, they're in darkness. And when you're in darkness,
you're in mobile, you have nowhere to go, you have nothing to do. You're wandering around aimlessly.
You know when the electricity goes out literally life stops for us. We can't do anything. A law is
		

			saying a man is the life the electricity a man gives you everything when you don't have a man you
are shun in darkness, you are living without any purpose wandering aimlessly in circles and
inshallah tomorrow we will discuss discuss the the beautiful idea of suta note. Let's finish off
today by reminding ourselves that Allah tells us in the Quran that we should thank him for guiding
us to Eman and hamdulillah Hilary had an idea that we thank Allah for having guided us to this emaan
wama Khun Lena Talia Lola and her Donna law we would never have been guided unless a law had given
us that guidance. So we
		

			thank Allah for Eman we praise the law for having gifted us with a man and we ask Allah subhana wa
tada to strengthen our email and give us more email upon him and I will continue tomorrow with said
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