Allah Loves Strong Believers
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Lena tarea Lola and had an o la al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil aalameen All praise is due to law the Lord of all the world. Allah subhanho wa Taala has sent us a messenger to guide us through a human being human like us, not an angel was
free and immune from sin, and disobedience and rebellion, buddy human being
as human capabilities and is afflicted with human frailties in the sense of the emotions that a human being possesses. A lot of Tyler's protected him from falling into sin Salalah while he was saying sallam, our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam mentions on ebihara Terra de la Han and then nebia sallallahu alayhi wa sallam upon and minella kawi you hyaluron were humble Illallah him in a minute dive with the Kulin higher this island in South Africa was staring below with a tie just when I saw the cache on faletau Polo and the
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and such rather say a law decreed something and what he decreed came to pass and what you to do otherwise you would open up for the
geils of Satan the schemes of Satan.
So this hadith the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam reminds us that the strong believer and movement aka Wii U is better and more beloved to a lot than the weak believer in ML code to be another's mentioned commenting on this, this hadith. That strength here is physical strength. Because physical strength allows the believer to worship Allah with greater vigor and with greater endurance with greater stamina. A strong believer can stand for prayer physically longer.
Then a weak believer, a strong believer can fast voluntarily, whereas Oh physically weak believer possibly cannot. A strong believer can undertake the responsibilities of the religion related to assisting others, helping someone to physically move some furniture out of the house, helping someone to engage in other physical tests. A physically strong believer is also more capable of commanding the good and forbidding the wrong if those things require a physical effort to enforce the good or to forbid the wrong. So the Hadith is referring to physical strength, but it's also referring to spirit spiritual strength. A believer that spiritually strong again, doesn't hesitate
to assume the responsibilities that Allah subhanho wa Taala has put upon them a believer that spiritually strong does not waver in the face of sick situations or circumstances that cause a weak believer to doubt. Many of us every day, or frequently. were confronted with a phone call or an email or a text message from a believer who's struggling in his or her Deen in his or her religion. Who's encountering doubt in their faith? a strong believer is not exposed to those doubts. A lot Allah mentions in the Quran in the mail me no nella Dena Emmylou. Billa he wore a Sunni Muslim your taboo, that the true believers and this referring to this spiritually strong believer are those who
have believed in Allah and His Messenger messenger and thereafter they've never doubted your taboo. In the men mean La Nina Emma new build a water su de su mellem your taboo, they never doubted this lol Hello, la Muhammad Rasulullah. They've believed in Allah and they believed in the Messenger of Allah, and they've never doubted thereafter, in the face of any sort of attack on Islam, any sort of slander, defamation, and these any sort of philosophical or sophisticated arguments made undermine the faith, they've never been affected by them.
That's the strong believer and how we hire one lineman and one minute dive with the coolant here, but in the strong believer and in the weak believer, there's good because in the weak believer this faith and faith is an honor conferred upon a human being by our Creator. And anyone who has who has had that honor bestowed upon them is an honorable person. Anyone who has that honor bestowed upon them
is a believer.
And as they say, membership has its privileges. So for wefew coolin, higher, Ellis Island, a and Foucher. seek out those things that benefits you.
seek out those things that benefit you in your religion, seek out those things that strengthen your Amen. What are some of those things that strengthen our faith? One being in the company of strong believers, a person will place himself in this or herself in the company of someone whose faith is weak, someone whose religion is wavering, someone who's afflicted by this or that or the other problem, and then find that their faith is wavering. No, put yourself in the company of strong believers. Don't be intimidated by them, because of their belief is true. They won't make you intimidated. They'll make you comfortable, they will look down on you. They will condemn you for
your shortcomings. They won't point out your flaws except that there's something that's a clear violation of the religion and then they'll do that in the best of ways. Put yourself in their company, and that will strengthen you. Their spirit will strengthen your spirit, their heart will strengthen your heart and your heart, their reality, the reality of their being will strengthen your reality. Put yourself in their company, and lookman an Elmo Allah Dini Holly Lee fell over. I had to commend you, Harlan, a person is on the religion of their companions. Therefore, let every one of you consider well the company they keep
because you will be on their religion.
If you're hanging out with people that are drinking, eventually, you're going to
Drinking. If you're hanging out with people who are smoking reefer eventually you're going to end up smoking weed for if you're hanging out with them, you're going to inhale it anyway. If you're hanging out with people who are constantly talking down and denigrating the faith of the believers, eventually you're going to be talking down and denigrating the believers. This is human nature. And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was alerting us to one of the realities of human nature and mortal Allah Dini Holly Lee, a person is on the religion of their companion, thoroughly over a hadoken menu Harlan, so that each and every one of you consider well the company they keep. And if
you're around people, who when it's time to pray, as opposed to procrastinating and delaying and waiting for whatever they're watching on television to finish, even though it brings them perilously close to the end of the prayer time. If you're around those people, then you procrastinate, if you're wrong, people when the prayer time comes in, they say stop, we have to stop right now I'm praying. When you're going to stop and pray. If you're around people, when they hear foul talk emanating from you are going to warn you stuff your love brother, sister, you know, we don't use that language. We're Muslims were honorable people, Allah is dignified us we lead is the Eros
rasuna. He will mean well I can clean Allah, Allah moon, that Allah has honor as does his messenger, as do the believers. But it is the hypocrites that realize it not. They're going to check you as we said, but in a good way. If you're around people who fast a lot, then it's going to encourage you to fast voluntarily. Sometimes, if you're around people who read the Core M and you come in their presence, and they encourage you here let's read a little code and together then you're going to read the Core M.
A person is on the Dean of their companion. So this is one way we strengthen our religion. By being around people whose religion is strong. we strengthen our religion by increasing our remembrance of Allah subhanho wa Taala because as we increase our remembrance of Allah, our awareness of Allah subhanho wa Taala grows and as our awareness of Allah subhanho wa Taala grows, the favor that the favors that he has bestowed upon us, they come stronger and more closely to our consciousness. And as our fate as the favors Allah has bestowed upon us, are more readily evident to us and aren't something we take for granted or heatless of, then we love Allah subhanho wa Taala and when we love
Allah subhanho wa Taala we're encouraged to do those things that are pleasing with him, such as our acts of worship, such as reciting his scripture, which involves his words of person whose law who's in love with someone they can't wait to see to receive a love letter from them to receive words of love from them. Our love letter from Allah subhanho wa Taala is the core and that's where his words are inscribed. And as the love for all law deepens the attachment to the core and deepens. So this is one way to remember and be abundant in the remembrance of Allah. This helps us to strengthen our religion. And these are the things we seek out aerosol Ma and fowl care, seek out those things which
benefits you and they benefit others because what benefits us will benefit others. If something benefits us and our Deen becomes stronger than we in turn become a source of benefit and a source of strength for something else and Macmillan Rocklin, California and you should move on to who Baba the believers on to each other like the individual bricks in a wall. Each one strengthens and supports the next the stronger my brick is, the more support I can provide for the next Muslim This is what we strive for an earlier higher on mineral yet a souffle, the upper hand is better than the lower hand. So we strive to be the person giving the charity we strive to be the person that people can
come to, to seek a loan from and to seek assistance from why because we're seeking out those things that benefit us. And by benefiting us they put us in a position to benefit others Western the left.
And we understand that Hola Hola, quwata illa Billah ultimately there is no strength or power except with the law. And so we seek the help of a law and we realize I might not be able to do this alone.
I might not be able to get
I need to be by myself, in my religion in my life in my worldly affairs, and acknowledging that I need a lot of help. And by seeking the laws help, we open ourselves to be the recipients of his help.
If you don't apply for the job, you're not going to get the job no matter how qualified you are.
Right? Well, the land method will Allah and Allah is above any worldly comparisons. But as a reminder to us, if we don't seek the laws help,
we might not be the recipient of his help, we could well be because a lot of L carry and carry an L carry him which is sometimes translated the generous is an incomplete translation. And Corinne is the one who gives, even though the recipient might be undeserving, that cell carry
and carry him is the one who gives even though the recipient might be undeserving. So we might not ask him because we might not ask or because of some certain issues we have, we might not be fitting to be the recipients of a lot of Tyler's bounties where he is well kept by by worldly standards.
By worldly standards we look and by worldly standards without messing up. I'm not doing right. But Allah subhanho wa Taala is Al Karim
and he gives freely
but we enhance what we might receive by Allah when we ask Allah, we enhance our likelihood of receiving help from Allah by asking Allah we're standing below. Before we ask people, we should ask Allah because the law inspires people to assist us. A law can inspire the wind to assist us just as the wind assisted the Prophet, Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Allah can inspire the birds to assist us, just as the birds defended the Kaaba. Allah can inspire the plants, the trees to assist us, just as the tree shaded His Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam, or the clouds, the cloud in the burning desert, hovered over the Prophet sallallahu wasallam as he moved along, when he was a young
man movement when he was engaged in his trips to Syria.
So Allah can Marshal whatever forces he chooses to assist us with the les julu scenario where it will up until a law or the forces of the heavens and earth
but we have to ask Allah for his assistance was there in belaire will attach us and don't be incapable. A believer is not an incapable and competent person. We should all strive to be competent, there might be worldly situations that placed us at a disadvantage in certain situations. But we should always be striving to be capable in whatever realm, we might not have money, we should go out and plant a garden.
Seriously, I don't have money to buy food. But I'm not going to be incapable of eating out plant a garden
and eat from the garden.
I'll do something to assist myself. That's the mentality of believers should have. I will find a way that's the mentality of the believer. Well, that ties us
why because people are looking at you.
People are looking at you. And if they see strength, they'll have they'll be inspired to have hope. And if they see weakness, they'll say there's no hope. What do they say the Muslim in the family messes up or the Muslim man they messed up too.
They are looking for strife, people are looking for strength. People are looking for hope. People are looking for inspiration.
And if the people who are following the way have a loss of how to what Allah and His Messenger, the people who are the heirs of the prophetic message, the people who are the oma of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam if we cannot stand up, if we cannot be strong, if we cannot set an example then who will?
And this is why we should not be people are looking for every easy way out.
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Why is an easy way out? When there's absolute necessity, though Nora means absolute necessity. And it shouldn't be an absolutely in the set and absolute necessity. That record that pushes us to seek the easy way out. Other than that we shouldn't be strong.
We should be strong.
And we should represent this religion we should call people to the religion, we should be be upright on the path that the religion directs us towards. We should be people who strife leads us to maintain an even keel. If a ship is strong, and it's going through the ocean, it doesn't matter if the waves are kicking up. Or if it's a calm sea, it's forging ahead, and it's not being tossed and turned by the waves. This is the way the believer should be. The challenges of our time should not lead us to be wishy washy. The challenges of our time should not lead us to turn away from our faith. The challenges of our time should not lead us to hide our faith. The challenges of our time
should lead us to intensify our efforts to hold on to intensify our efforts to present this religion to represent this religion. That's the strong believer the prophets talking about sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and movement and how we you how you run the hub will allow him in a minute life or if you call in here, so he says he reminds us
seek out those things which benefits you seek the help of Allah. And don't be incapable well, that ties us and if some difficulty afflicts you, this is a this is a beautiful Hadith because it It puts in perspective and issue that vexes many people, many people they read about and hear about as a believer, we should submit our fair to a law. We shouldn't submit the outcome of our fair tool law. But while going about our fair will seek seek the help of Allah and take every possible initiative,
every possible initiative. This is what the prophet is telling us sell ally to a seller. So submitting our affair to a law doesn't mean sitting back and waiting for something to happen. I'll sit back and I'll get a job even though the economy's bad because I'm a believer, and I disputed it to a lot. I sit back and I'll get a new car. Because my old car's broken and I can't get to work but a law will give me the means to fix it. Oh, a new car will pull up. No we got and work. Strive, struggle, sacrifice, make every effort. And then so he says
aerosol Ma and Foucher. Seek out that which benefits you that involves initiative, Western belaire seek the help of a law that involves initiative one at a time. And don't be incapable and incompetent. That involves initiative. But after you've done that, and things don't work out.
Fair enough Saba cache on and something afflicts you
fenetre call low and knee foul to Canada, Canada, Canada, don't say if only I had done this. No, you you sought the help of a law, you did what you thought was right, and a law, He manifested another outcome. So don't say if I only did this or that Why? Because when we do that, we're putting ourselves in a position that is reserved for loss of power. Tyler, were saying if I would have done this or that differently, the outcome would have been different, as if I control the outcome and not Allah subhanho wa Taala. That's why we don't say if only I would have did this or that would have turned out differently.
You could have done this in that and it would have turned out the same or it would have turned out worse.
No, it turned out the way Allah decreed that it turned out
so a Muslim isn't fatalistic in the sense of just waiting back, giving up not working a Muslim as a hard worker, a Muslim as a diligent worker, a most Muslim is a faithful worker. A Muslim is in a serious worker and stryver. But at the end of the day, a most Muslim is one who graciously
and gratefully accepts whatever Allah has decreed.
So don't say
If I only would have done this or that I do not determine the outcomes. So I cannot say if I would have did this or that the outcome would have been what I think is should have been.
Well I can whole other Allahu amercia file rather say Allah decreed something what he decreed came to pass.
We're in a low tester who ominous shape on and if you were to do otherwise you would open up the door for the work of Satan for the schemes of Satan for Satan to start playing with one's faith
for Satan to say See, you did everything they told you to do.
You follow the sunlight
and it didn't work out.
You know see I tried to tell you about this Islam stuff straight on talking.
That shaytaan we don't open the door cutter Allah Masha. Allah decreed something and what he decreed came to pass for wisdom that he knows. And whatever he decrees is best for me.
Whatever he decreed is best for me.
Even if I think is not, and then time Surely, as we all know, and we've all experienced things manifest in a way that we understand it was best today. We didn't get the job, we want it. Tomorrow, we realize that number one if we took that job, the job that gave us incredibly more opportunities, both in our Deen and in our worldly life that we got six months later, we would have missed because we would have already been working the job we think we thought at the time we should have had, or the job that we didn't get provided us with an opportunity to do something beneficial for our soul, or the job we didn't get warded off some evil from us. Or the job we didn't get
could have created a situation if we had taken it or gotten it.
That would have led to our ruin, and then circumstances developed. We look back over our life and we realize that and where initially we were saying, oh why didn't Why didn't I get the job? I really needed that job. We're saying hamdulillah I didn't get that job. hamdulillah I broke my leg Alhamdulillah this or that happened? Have the role on the chef and what Allah decreed can the past and what comes the past is best for us as a band lil Emery
and Umbra Who? hula hula who is amazing is the affair of the believer, all things associated with the fair the unbelievers affair is good for him, is good for her. So we pray that Allah subhana wa Taala blesses us
to understand the wisdom in his decree. We pray that Allah subhana wa Taala blesses us to be that strong Muslim, to be that strong believer. Strong in our, in our faith, strong in our spirit, strong in our worship, to be that strong believer strong in our bodies. May Allah bless us to be that strong believer, and then a lotta Allah bless us to strive for those things which benefit us May Allah subhanho wa Taala bless us to seek his help, and all of our fears with sincerity. May Allah subhanho wa Taala bless us to not be incapable and incompetent and anything we do in the Lucha Khattab. El es Santa Allah coolly shake. Allah has ordained excellence in all things. And if
something afflicts us that we perceive to be bad, may Allah tala bless us to say, Adora Allahu Allah Masha Allah has decreed something and what a lot Tyler decreed has come to pass. And now Allah tala push us away from being exposed in any way shape or form to the geils of Satan. appunto Holly had that esto la Li y la cumbre Sal Mineo calm Stop.
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be amongst the people of gender, the people of paradise.
Many things happen in our world around us.
And we should take note of these things. And because we live in this world, and we're part of this society, and this culture, last Friday, one of the his
significant musical figures, Gil Scott Heron died. So we don't mention this because he wasn't a Muslim, we mentioned this to make this point.
He was a musician who tried to speak out against injustice, and to point out the excesses and abuses of the country. And a person who struggled in his personal life. And people, there are many people out there people have conscious I don't think anyone would deny, despite his trust struggles with substance abuse, he was a person of conscience. There are many conscientious people out there, that we should be working to get the message to the message of Islam to because the message of Islam can give that person, the strength and the inner peace.
To not need substances despite the challenges and hardships of life. And to see the the the the love
of Allah and His messenger and the believers. We should be a loving community that embraces people. And we've been in such communities. And I believe this is a community of that nature, where people they just come because they feel some love, and they can't get any love out there. One of his songs is home is where the hatred is.
And we should be creating spaces where people can feel that this is their home and Home is where the love is.
And because there's love, as the song goes on Home is where the needle marks, tried to heal my broken heart.
that people need needles and bottles
to try to wash away the pain of this world.
Because the love of Allah
and the love of the Messenger of Allah and the love of the believers will wash that pain away.
And when when this happens, you'll see people flooding to Islam.
You'll see people flooding for to Islam.
One of his songs, I didn't realize he had passed. And I gave a talk that was last Friday, a talk on Monday. And this makeup prayer. And I said not realizing I even said before I made the prayer This is was a song that was written by Gil Scott Heron who still he's old and but he's still with us, not realizing he had passed. And that song said that this is a prayer for everybody in the world.
Many of you know it.
And we should be paying for this world.
We shouldn't be saying God Bless America, we should say God bless this world.
If anyone is upset and feel their patriotic sentiments have been breached that we're not praying for America, I would imagine America is part of the world. But we live in a global village and what one nation
affects other nations. What a group of people do over here affects people over there. We should be praying for the world.
And at the end of that, that prayer, he said something to the effect, that without you and without me, without courage and dignity, what would it mean to be free? And this is what and how are we this is what is talking about courage and dignity and the strength that that gives courage and dignity are signs of strength.
And when we gain that through Islam, Islam frees us. mela bless all of us to be free. To be free with courage to be free with dignity to be free with Islam to be free with Islam. Allah Hello feeling muslimeen one Muslim man well meaning oh one minute and yeah, even while I'm wet or vanilla to the body, his head eterna will have learned
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