Be a slave – 6

Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillah I feel that the world is against me. I'm not saying you should say that. I'm saying that there are times when you feel this, that somehow the world is against you. And as I said, you would have evidence for that. You would have proof for that. People showing hostility to you for no reason other than that you are Muslim because people who show hostility to you are strangers. They don't know you at all. And yet, instead of showing friendship, they show hostility. Now, solution is, therefore we need to find a solution. What's the solution? How do we deal with this situation where we live in a world which is apparently hostile to us? Now, Allah SWT showed us and gave us this solution in the Quran. Where Allah SWT said, يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِسْتَعِينُوا بِالصَّبْرِ وَالصَّلَحِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ مَعَ الصَّابِرِينَ Allah SWT said, O you who believe, seek help, seek assistance, seek help from sabr and salah. From patience, from fortitude, and from prayer, from salah. So salah is, and Allah said, verily Allah is with those who have patience, who have sabr. Now, as I mentioned many times before, sabr relates to doing everything in your power, to achieve your goals. Sabr refers to determination. It refers to consistent action. It refers to doing whatever is necessary to achieve your goal. Not just to sit and wait for things to happen, calling it patience. This is not patience. This is just laziness. Patience means to make the maximum effort you can in order to succeed. And then, was salah. Allah SWT put salah after that. He said, and salah. And salah because we remind ourselves that success will come from the amor of Allah. Will come from the hukum of Allah. From the order of Allah. Success will not come from simply our effort by itself. The, this, this thought and this understanding that success comes from Allah. Is tawakkul. And this tawakkul is the tawheed of the heart. Tawakkul is the monotheistic belief of the heart. Tawakkul is to completely and totally rely on Allah SWT after making all the effort that is required. After using all the faculties that Allah has given us. After using all the resources that Allah has given us. We then turn towards Allah SWT in complete and total submission. And we say, Ya Rabb, I have done what I have been doing. whatever I could do, and I leave this matter now in your hands, give me success. Help me against the forces that are reigned against me. Help me against whatever difficulty is in my path. Remove the difficulty because for you, there is no such thing as difficulty. So this is something which we seem to lose track of. Now, therefore, today in this world, if you look at it and say, well, Muslims are in so much of difficulty everywhere. There is hostility against them. As I said, varying degrees. In some cases, it is an holistic. In other cases, it is less. But there is by and large, the seems to be hostile people, hostile forces. Therefore, since the solution is given in the Quran, which is, we should be seeing Muslims. Who are hugely focused on their goals. People who are using their resources, using their knowledge, using their strengths, abilities, influence in the right way. And who are united, whoever you need, whoever you are united in their focus, who are united on the. Success of their mission and who are who have turned to Allah . So Muslims who have, you know, cleaned up their act, who are out of Haram, who are not doing anything which attracts the anger of Allah instead of Allah's part of the pleasure, something with they're not doing anything which. Which attracts the enmity of Allah instead of the will of Allah . Protection of Allah. Allah. And who are people who are standing in the night in the hajj. People who are who are protecting and safeguarding their fardh Salat, which is the most important thing that we have. Therefore, all this must happen now, if we've given this framework that there is hostility and the solution for hostility is Sabar and Salah. And therefore, I must therefore be seeing or should. Expect to see signs of Sabar and Salah in the Muslim population. What do you think we're going to see? Now, that's my point. The point is that, yes, we should be seeing these things. But do you think we are seeing it? If you look around ourselves, are we seeing Muslims who are united Muslims who are focused on on a single goal that is beneficial for the entire community and the entire world because we are in this world to help everybody else and therefore our goals are not separate from the. Goals of the good people of this world. Right. Muslims who are dedicated to Allah who are, you know, who are focused on Allah who are submitted to Allah. Are we seeing this? And if you are not seeing this, then we need to ask this question and say, what is what is wrong? So do we really believe in the Quran? Al-Kareem, do we really believe that what Allah has told us? Because here is a solution. And we do. We do not implement a solution. So what are we going to get? That is the question. The question is. To ask ourselves and say. What are we seeing in terms of our actions and what does this promise us? Does it promise us delivery from difficulty or does it promise us perpetuation of that difficulty? Now, having said that. Obviously, the idea is not to criticize the world, but to ask ourselves and say. 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How do I treat my parents? How do I treat my siblings? How do I treat my children? How do I treat the people around me, my neighbors? All the hadiths of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam concerning the rights of neighbors, am I doing that? Am I fulfilling those rights? Right? All of this, everything is together. We have the famous hadith of Abdullah bin Masud, radhiallahu anhu, and he said, I asked Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, Ya Rasulullah, which is the deed that is most beloved to Allah SWT? And he said, As-Sala'a Ala Waqtihah. He said the Salah at its time. And then Abdullah bin Masud, radhiallahu anhu, said, and what else? He said, Birra Al-Walidah. He said to be good to your parents, to be dutiful to your parents, to obey them, to serve them, to love them, to show your affection for them, to go out of their, out of your way, to help them in everything. Anything that they might need help in without them asking for it. And then he said, I asked him, I asked Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, what else? And he said, Jihad Fi Saweelillah. To struggle in the path of Allah SWT, to establish Haqq and to fight Baatil, to establish the truth and to fight falsehood. Do we see this? See the importance of this, the most beloved deed to Allah SWT is the Salah. At its time, which refers to the first Salawat, the Salah at its time. Do we do that? I remind myself in the Uda, Allah SWT, every single place in the Quran, Allah SWT used the word establishing Salah. Aqeemus Salah. Iqamatis Salah. Allah did not say, read Salah, pray Salah, do Salah, make Salah, finish Salah. My South African friend, may Allah bless them, they say, let us do Salah. Let us do Salah. Let us do Salah. Let us do Salah. Let us do Salah. Let us make Salah finish. Let us make Salah finish. No, really, I mean, think about this. I mean, Allah did not use any of these phrases. Allah SWT said, Aqeemus Salah. Aqeemus Salah. Establish Salah. And then Allah said, Salah separates you from all fahushat and munkarat. From all obscenities. From all shameless things. And from all disobedience of Allah SWT. Now, you might say, but you know, okay, so it separates from disobedience and so on. So, how does it help me? In the same way, it helps you in the same way as, for example, living in a clean environment saves you from respiratory illnesses. Just as pollution of the atmosphere has an effect on the lungs and thereby on the rest of the body, pollution of actions, pollution of behavior has an effect on the heart, on happiness, on contentment, on living a life without fear, without apprehension, and all the goodness of life. Our actions affect us. And by actions, I mean, obviously, you know, some physical action, but I'm saying actions as in good and bad. Evil affects us just as the wrong food. Evil food affects us. Evil water affects us. Evil air affects us. And thereby evil, I mean, polluted and so on and so forth. Just like that. One, the effect of one is on the physical body and the effect of the other, which is on the effect of evil deeds, is on the soul. It's on the heart. And just like, for example, food, which is potentially harmful, you know, food, which is very high calorie, food, which is just pure carbs, food, which is, for example, alcohol, which is, it's a chemical that has no business in your body, but that people insist on drinking, all kinds of drugs. Drugs.