Enter Islam fully

Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wasalatu wasalamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasliman kathiran kathira. Fama badu. My brothers and sisters. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said. Ya ayyuhal ladhina amanu. Udkhulu fis silmi kafatan. Wala tattabihu qutuwati shaytan. Innahu lakum aduhum mubeen. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said. Which means the ayat which we have ourselves heard many many times. Which means O you who believe. Enter into Islam fully. Completely. Udkhulu fis silmi kafatan. Wala tattabihu qutuwati shaytan. And do not follow the footsteps of shaytan. Innahu lakum aduhum mubeen. He is an open enemy to you. I remind myself and you. To reflect on this ayah. Because first and foremost. This ayah is addressing the believers. It is addressing the believers. And in this case. Those believers were the sahaba of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. The best of the best. In every sense of the term. So Allah ta'ala is addressing them. And he is saying O you who believe. And do what? Enter into Islam completely. Not partially. I remind myself and you. That. To benefit from. Any situation. To benefit from anything. It is critical and essential. To do it fully. Not partially. And this applies across the board. For example. If you want to benefit from walking. As an exercise aerobic exercise. Then they say you must walk. Ten thousand steps. That is five miles. If I walk. I will walk. If I walk one thousand steps. Which is half a mile. I am still walking. But I will not be able to benefit from it. In the way. That somebody who walks ten thousand miles. Will benefit. If I want to become a doctor. Then I will have to. Join the. Join a medical college. I will have to study. For the entire duration of the course. I cannot say. Well, you know. I want to become a doctor. But. The thing takes too long. It is like. Six years. And then I have to. You know. Do specialization. Which is another couple of years. And so on and so on. And I am a busy man. I. Do not have all this time. So I am going to. Do a few things. I am going to. Do a few things. I am going to. Do a few things. I am going to. Do a few things. So I am going to. Attend medical college. For one year. Because. I do not think really. I am very smart. And I do not really think. I need more than that. And the rest of the time. I will just. You know. I mean. Books are there. I know in the English language. The books are in English. So I am going to read. And. And that is it. I will not be a doctor. And if I do that. And if I try to practice medicine. Then. I will find myself in some. Some. Some. Some. Some. Some. I will find myself in some serious problems. The same thing I can go on with this. You know indefinitely, but I do not think I need to. And. Let me just give you one more example. Which. Is supposing I. Want to learn. To get a driver's license, then I would have to take the course. Pass the written exam, then pass the actual test. And having done all of that, then. I will be qualified to call myself a doctor, not before. Same thing applies across the board to everything. Now, the question is, to ask ourselves this, that this is something that we have no problem with believing, with mentally adjusting to. We have no problem with understanding this, understanding the importance of this, right? But for some funny reason, when it comes to Islam, we change these rules, we put them, we put them in the way of Islam. We turn them upside down. We do not apply the same rules when it comes to Islam. Somewhere we have convinced ourselves that Islam is something which can be learnt in our free time. And by free time, we mean time which is basically useless time, because free time when it comes to learning Islam is for us something which is free, free from everything else. If I have a game to play, it is not free time. If I have to, you know, some entertainment that I need to look at, then it's not free time. Anything, I mean, free time for me has to be something where there is zero, absolutely nothing happening in my life. And then maybe I will get up, and do something about Islam, not otherwise. Now, this is the standard we apply. So we say, well, you know, this is free time. Free time is when I have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do. And so then I'm free, and then maybe I will go and sit where I'm supposed to sit and study. Similarly, we apply this rule and we say, well, if somebody is teaching a class for us, then we will do something about it. We will decide the duration of that class, how long it should be. And we apply standards to it once again, which we don't apply anywhere else. For example, we say, was this class interesting? Was it boring? And so on and so on and so on. Now, I don't think I want to elaborate beyond this because it's more than clear what I want to say. My question is, since we do all this, what is the standard? What is the benefit that we are looking to as far as Islam is concerned? Because as Allah SWT said, enter into Islam fully and completely. So if I am entering into Islam partially, then I'm not going to get the full benefit of Islam. Just like if I enter into anything else partially, I will not get the full benefit of that thing. So that is the first thing to understand. Allah SWT is addressing those, the believers who were the Sahaba of Rasulullah SAW, his companions, and who were, as far as we are concerned, Islamically speaking, the best of the best. Allah SWT is addressing those people. And Allah is saying, enter into Islam fully and completely. Now, by this, we do not understand that, and we do not take this, come to the conclusion that they were not fully in Islam. He is saying that Allah is teaching them a way in which their belief in Islam and their practice could be even better. But as far as we are concerned, it is to do with, it is to do with, it is to do with, it is to do with, it is to do with, benefiting at all from the religion. And we have to ask ourselves, is it going to happen if I treat the religion the way that I treat it now? Is it going to happen if I treat the religion in the way that I am doing it now? So, then Allah said, then Allah said, then Allah said, then Allah said, then Allah said, then Allah said, then Allah said, then Allah said, then Allah said, then Allah said, then Allah said, then Allah said, then Allah said, then Allah said, then Allah said, then Allah said, then Allah said, then Allah said. So, Allah Taala is saying, don't put yourself into that situation because, the footsteps of shaitan can only lead to one place which is jahannam which is the hellfire and allah is saying do not go there do not put yourself in that situation don't end up in trouble because at that time if you do then you will be responsible completely you cannot then say shaitan forced me or shaitan took me because shaitan wasn't even there you chose to go shaitan was not there you were the one who took the decision of following in the footsteps of shaitan and then allah made it very clear why is allah saying do not follow in the footsteps allah said he is your enemy and not only you but allah said and not only you but allah said not only is he your enemy he is your open clear visible enemy this is shaitan he is your open enemy now i remind myself and you my brothers and sisters if somebody does something by mistake then it is excusable one can say well you know i'm sorry i didn't know and somehow this happened so therefore i should be excused but if somebody does something knowingly deliberately after being warned then there is no excuse and if allah does not forgive then we can be in serious trouble i do not say allah will punish because that's not my place to say what allah will do or will not do all i can say is what allah subhanahu ta'ala mentioned and promised and allah subhanahu ta'ala mentioned and promised that he would you know he would he would do justice and surely he is like that instead of putting him in that position only i know i am like that now you don't need to show me you is is right only when we think about who we are the question asked along so far then do not reset pessoas if there is any problem with our reaction then allah will respond how can we save ourselves from allmüş areas that questions asked along You cannot say, I didn't know. Clear enemy. I ask Allah to save us from that, where we fall into this trap. I ask Allah to help us to do that which is pleasing to Him and to save us from that which does not please Him. Wa sallallahu ala nabiyyil kareem wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in bi rahmatika alhum al raheem wa alhamdulillah rabbil alameen