Deen is action

Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillah, we do and if we don't we should recite Surat Al-Kahf every Friday and this is from the Hikayat and the Nasihah of Rasulullah and among the benefits of that is that Rasulullah said the one who recites Surat Al-Kahf on every Friday will be protected from the Dajjal. We have the Hadith of Abu Darda where he said that Rasulullah said the one who memorizes and recites the first ten Ayat. The rest of Surat Al-Kahf will be protected from the Dajjal and in another narration the last ten. So it is mustahab and good to memorize at least the first ten and the last ten. It memorized the whole Surah Alhamdulillah. The Surah especially with respect to protection from the Dajjal in Surat Al-Kahf Allah SWT mentioned four stories and each story is connected with one of the trials and one of the tests that the Dajjal will present to those who are there at the time. So we will InshaAllah in the course of the next few days we will talk about that. The important thing to understand is that the Dajjal is the one who is the protector. The purpose of the Qur'an is to understand it and to live our lives by it. Everything else is secondary. The purpose is to understand the Qur'an and to live our lives according to the Qur'an. And the way to live our life according to the Qur'an is to understand the Qur'an and to live our lives according to the Qur'an. What is life? What is life? What is life? What is life? What is life? What is life? What is life? What is life? What is life? What is life? What is life? What is life? What is life? What is life? What is life? What is life? What is life? What is life? What is life? What is life? What is life? What is life? What is life? What is life? What is life? What is life? What is life? What is life? What is life? live your life the way Rasulullah lived his life. The dailil for this is, the Sahabi who came to Sayyidina Ayesha Siddique after Nabi had passed away and he said, Ya Ummul Momineen, please tell us about the life of Rasulullah . [PAUSE] So she asked him, she said, do you not read the Quran? He said, yes, we read the Quran. He said that was his life. His life was the Quran. So if you read the Quran, you are reading, [PAUSE] you know how Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam lived his life. That's why the seerah is so important. The seerah is the tafsir bil amal of the Quran Al-Karim. The seerah is the explanation in action of the Quran. [PAUSE] I'm doing a course on seerah in Masjid Al-Baqi, InshaAllah on Saturday and Sunday. So you all welcome InshaAllah. From Saturday from 11 o'clock to 1 and then two sessions, one before Zohar and one after Zohar. [PAUSE] Sayyid Bayyad sent out the notice to register and so on. So please do that. The seerah is very, very critically important. If you do not study the seerah, you are living in ignorance. As simple as that. Because anything else, any other way, any other system, any other methodology that comes to you and me, [PAUSE] comes from some human. [PAUSE] So no matter how learned or how complex and how good it might seem to be, it cannot be super, it cannot be, cannot supersede, cannot be superior to a method that comes from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is the one who sent his Nabi and he sent his, he protected his Nabi. He gave him the akhlaaq of that he gave him and he taught him how to live the way he lived. And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is the dalil for this. And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said, Laqad kana lakum fee rasoolillahi uswatun hasana. Liman kana yarjoolaha wal yaumal akhira wa zakarallaha kathira. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said for you, the best example is the example of the Nabi alaihi salatu was salam, of Muhammad Rasool Allah . And this example is the best example for the one who looks forward to the meeting with Allah and looks forward to the day of judgment. Somebody who wants to do that, somebody who's waiting for it. Now imagine, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala described the day of judgment in terms which are not very welcoming and not very within quotes nice. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala described the day of judgment in very frightening terms. Right? Izaa zulzilatil ardu zilzalaha. Izaa waq'atil waqia. Izaa waq'atil waqia. Right? Wa duqqatil ardu dakka. And so on and so on. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala described the day of judgment as a day of great turmoil like there has never been before. Earthquake like we have never seen the earthquake in that way, in that way, and the mountains being uprooted from their places and so on and so on. So who will look forward to that? But Allah is saying, yarjoolaha wal yaumal akhira. The one who looks forward to that. Who will look forward to that? Only the one who knows that inshaAllah he or she will be protected from all this. This will happen. But you will be protected. And who is that? Who is that person who can say that? The one who followed Muhammad in his life. Laqad kana lakum fee rasoolillahi uswatun hasana. Leman? Fahu? Leman kana yarjoolaha wal yaumal akhira. The best way of life is the life of Muhammad for the one who looks forward to protection, who looks forward to the meeting with Allah. How would you look forward to the meeting with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala unless you are looking forward to being forgiven by Him? Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. You are looking forward to being rewarded by Him. And that is where action comes in. Like I think I mentioned yesterday, Sayyidina Ali bin Abi Talib, who asked the people around him, he said, how do you find yourselves? How are you? And they said, ameel muminin, we are between fear and hope. Between the fear of Allah's punishment and the fear of Allah's punishment. Between the fear of Allah's punishment and hope for Allah's reward. So Sayyidina Ali said, the one who fears something runs away from it. The one who expects something good runs towards it. Right? The one who fears something runs away. And the one who expects something good, he goes towards that thing. And he said, I find it so strange. And he said, I find it so strange that you say you fear something, but you go towards that. Right? You say you fear this, but you are running towards that. And you say you want something, and you hope for something, and you run away from it. Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Allah is the Forgiver. He said, what kind of, you know, what kind of statement, you are lying to yourself. Because you say, I want Jannah, but if you look at our actions, they are actions which are taking us away from Jannah. So how do you mean you want Jannah? You say, I fear Jahannam, but if you look at the life and look at the actions, the actions are those which take you towards Jannah. So what is this liking Jannah and what and not wanting Jannah? Right? so this is very important it's very very important to for us to understand this because without this the understanding is what that this deen is the deen of amal this deen is the deen of action you can talk till the cows come home it doesn't matter you can dress all of this is important the dress of the sunnah is important the beard is important the head covering is important and praying five times salah is important praying in the masjid is important by jama'at reading quran everyday and the askar of the morning askar of the evening all of these things are important no doubt about that but if we have all of this but the heart is connected with ghairullah there is no tawakkul on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala there is no khashyatullah in the heart then all of this is a waste the amal action has to be there in our lives whatever we say has to be proven before Allah by our actions so if I say la ilaha illallah I worship no one except Allah no one is worthy of worship except Allah then this worship means to obey Allah this is something that we don't connect always we think worship is only ritual you come and stand in salah you make ruku you make salat khalas I am done salaam alaikum rest of my life is mine no worship is obedience and the reason for this is Uday bin Hatim before he became Muslim he was a Christian he came to and he was a friend of Prophet so he came to visit Rasulullah and he was wearing a cross a big cross on a chain and Rasulullah recited the ayah where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said they have taken their priests and their monks as arbab means as their Rabb as their gods instead of Allah so Uday bin Hatim said Ya Rasulullah we do not worship our priests and we do not worship our monks Nabi SAW saw his cross and he said these are people who have taken their their priests and monks as gods instead of Allah so he said Ya Rasulullah we do not worship our priests and we do not worship our monks Rasulullah SAW said is it not true that certain things Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala made haram but your priests have made halal and therefore you use them even though Allah has prohibited is it not true he said yes so he said God is God God is God God is God He did not eat pork, he was Jewish. His faith was Jewish. It was Judaism meaning Islam of the time. And in Jewish law, pork is haram. He did not eat pork. So how do Christians eat pork? Pork is prohibited in the Bible. Even today, we take St James, King James Bible. Even in the Bible, even today, pork is prohibited, but the Christians eat it. How is that possible? And there's a list of long things. So, Nabi said to him, is it not true that some things Allah prohibited, but your priests, whoever it is, they have permitted that, so you follow that. You don't follow what Allah has prohibited. He said, yes. And he said, is it not true that Allah permitted some things? But you have, your priests have prohibited that. So therefore you follow that and you don't follow what Allah has permitted. For example, Allah permitted you to get married. But in Catholicism especially, the priest is prohibited from marrying. Nuns are prohibited from marrying. Where is the prohibition? Allah has not, Allah has not prohibited. Allah prohibited God's also.