Be a slave – 7

Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wassalatu wassalamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasliman kathiran kathira. Fammabadu, my brothers and sisters. We hear this ayat in every Jummah khutbah where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said Ya ayyuha alladhina amanu ttaqullaha haqqa tuqatih wa la tamutunna illa wa antum muslimun. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said which means O you who believe, have taqwa of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as it is His right. Haqqa tuqatih. Wa la tamutunna illa wa antum muslimun. And do not die except in a state of Islam. So have taqwa. Taqwa of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Haqqa tuqatih. Not any way be like. As it is His right. Jalla shanu. Wa la tamutunna illa wa antum muslimun. And do not die except in a state of Islam. Now as we know, any ayat in the Quran which begins with Ya ayyuha alladhina amanu is an ayah of hukum. It is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's command. And therefore, it is the duty, it is the essence, it is the purpose, it is the sign of being an abd of Allah, of being a slave of Allah, that we obey Allah. The first point. Second point, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying, Ittaqullaha haqqa tuqatih. Have taqwa of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as it is His right. Now, we must understand the meaning of taqwa. Taqwa is to fear, to displease the one we love the most. Usually it is translated as fear of Allah. Fear Allah as it is His right to be feared. Fear is a negative emotion. You don't love the things you fear. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. spiders. You fear them. You don't like spiders. People fear snakes, except me and Ibrahim. So people who fear snakes, they don't love snakes. Right? But with Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, the fear that we are talking about is not a fear like this, which is you want to run away from them. I don't want to see this person. Children, some children fear their teachers. So you ask the child, do you love this teacher? No, I don't love you. Do you obey the teacher? Yes. Why? Because the teacher will, if I don't obey the teacher, the teacher will punish me. But that obedience is coming out of fear. The problem of obedience which comes out of fear is that the minute the fear is not there, there will be disobedience. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. and may Allah include us among those who He called the believers. Allah said, Allah said, But the believers are those who love Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Not just any love. Ashad. Ashad is the superlative form of shadid. Intiha'i. Ultimate. Extreme. Ashad hubba lillah. Their love for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is supreme. They love Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala more than they love anyone or anything else. So what is the sign of the believer? That he or she loves Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala more than anyone or anything else. Now, the combination of these two things. The combination of fear, which is khatib, khashiyah, and in some cases khawf, and the hubb of Allah. When you combine these two, then you have what is called taqwa. Taqwa is a very unique concept in the Quran, which talks about something which is very, very, very peculiar and particular to the believer, the true believer of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 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When you understand the power and glory and majesty of Allah SWT, it produces a quality in the heart which is called khashiah. It's a different term, qauf. Khashiatullah. Oh no. the greatest khashiyah is an alim, is a true alim. He's not someone who just memorized the Quran or hadith and ulum al-shari'ah and fiqh and so on. No. If that is coming without the khashiyah, it is not ilm of deen. And it comes. It comes. Iblis was the greatest alim. He was the greatest abid until he disappeared. Because there's no khashiyah. So when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, you are saying I worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala but when there is a hukum of Allah, you don't obey. So what worship did you do? Where is the worship? What worship did you do? Because the one you are worshipping, when he tells you do something, you say, no, no, no. This doesn't make sense to me. I am better than him. I am better than him. You made me from fire. You made him from clay. So effectively you are saying that your hukum is wrong. There's no khashiyah. This, whatever khawfi has, that itself is a lie. Even if there is khawf, he would obey. He would not obey. So khashiyah is this condition, is this quality in the heart. And that's why Imam Malik alaihissalam he said that Abu Bakr, Abu Bakr radhiallahu he said, Abu Bakr radhiallahu is superior to all the human beings and all the believers except the Anbiya. Not because he worshipped more or because he fought in Jihad more or because he fasted more or because he gave sadaqah more than anyone else. Not because of this. Abu Bakr siddique radhiallahu died in his bed. He didn't die a shaheed in some battle. He said, yet his position is superior to everybody because of something that settled in his heart. Because of that Allah gave him darjat. And that thing which settled in his heart is the khashiyat of Allah. So I remind myself and you that this is something we need to focus on and say, do I have khashiyat of Allah in my heart? And only I can answer about my heart and you can answer about your heart. It's not about looking at somebody and else and saying, arey usku dekho ki kya kar raha? This is our very foolish habit. Very, very foolish habit we have which is that we look at other people. We point fingers at other people. Look at his sala. Look at him. Look at what he's doing. Don't look at anybody. Look at the mirror in which you see yourself. And say, so what is the state of my khashiyat in my heart? One, the many, many ways of testing that for yourself. One small test. Hasan Basri said, I have read 90 times in the Quran that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala said that I am responsible for your rizq. So don't fear. Don't fear poverty. Don't fear poverty. Don't fear poverty. Don't fear poverty. Don't fear poverty. Don't fear poverty. Don't fear poverty. Starvation. I am responsible for your rizq. Right? More than 90 times in the Quran. One of those times in Surah Dariyat Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Inna Allaha huwa ar-razzaqudu al-quwati al-mateen. Where really Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala He is ar-razzaq and He gives you by His power. La nas'aluka rizqa Nahanu narzuquk Allah said, I don't ask you to feed me. I don't ask you for rizq. I give you rizq. So Hasan Basri now says, More than 90 times in the Quran I have read this. And only one time I read in the Quran that shaitan ya'idukum ul-faqra wa ya'muru bil-fahsha He frightens you with faqr. He frightens you with poverty. And invites you towards the disobedience of Allah. If you don't do this haram business your business will collapse. You know, while America they have all these convenience stores along with the gas stations. And that convenience store they sell everything. They're selling now they're even selling marijuana because they've made marijuana you know, halal. You have to understand this. Nobody can make what Allah has made haram into halal. You can pass any law you want. It remains haram. And nobody can nobody can make haram what Allah has made haram. Your laws don't change. The hukum of Allah is the same. So they sell that. They sell alcohol. They sell pork. They sell pornographic magazines. They sell cigarettes. Everything. And you ask them oh, you know, strobe is shut down. We have to do this. Nobody has to disobey Allah. Please understand it's a very, very important thing. This thing comes up all the time. Oh, but you know, in my company, in my culture, in my country, in my this, I have to do this. I have to have cocktail parties. I have to attend cocktail parties. I'm not drinking, but you know, I have to serve drinks. You do not have to disobey Allah. That is not a excuse in law. Two things. Lack of knowledge is not a excuse. It's your job to find out. You can't say I didn't know. No, no, no, didn't know. You have to find out. It's your job to find out. Whether something is halal or halal, haram or halal, it's your job to find out. And the second thing is this issue of saying I have, you know, I had to know. The malaika will say when they take the soul of the person who continued to disobey Allah and he says I was helpless, the malaika will say I was helpless. Why? The earth of Allah was wide. Why didn't you make hijrah? Why didn't you go? If this was the case, in this particular case you were forced to disobey Allah, why didn't you leave?