Questions #2 – What is your a Deen

Auto-generated transcript:We were talking about the questions that we have to answer. And as I mentioned, I remind myself and you, there are three questions that we have to answer in the grave that have to do with our Aqidah, with our creed, with our belief. Then there are four questions that we have to answer on the Day of Judgment, which have to do with our Aamad, our actions. The first of those questions we mentioned and talked about that last night, and that was, Man Rabbuk, who is your Rabb? The second question is, Ma Dinuk, what is your religion? Now, I remind myself and you that there is a difference between Deen and Madhab. There is a difference between Deen and Madhab. A Madhab has to do with rituals concerning worship and with certain issues of halal and hara and so on. Right? A Deen has to do with a complete way of life. So Islam is a Deen. In Islam, we have different Madhabs, which we follow until last. No problem with that. But the Deen is Islam. Allah said, Allah said, With Allah, there is only one Deen. That is Islam. And Allah said, Anyone who comes on the Day of Judgment with any other Deen other than Islam, will be among the losers. He should be rejected. So, very important. Allah said, Today I have completed your Deen. So, I have completed your Deen. Today I have completed your Deen. And I have given you my favor. And I have completed your Deen. Islam is a Deen. Now, therefore, it is very important for us to ensure that we learn and we practice. There is no practice possible. without learning. May Allah have mercy on us. We don't seem to give any importance to learning. Islam, learning about Islam is like learning about... in terms of learning, I mean it's not like learning about anything else because nothing else will take us into Jannah or Jayaan, but Islam will. If you practice Islam, you go to Jannah, otherwise you don't. But in terms of the time, the effort, the focus, it's the same. So just like you can't say, you can't say, well, I will learn cycling by watching some YouTube videos. No. You have to get onto a cycle, you have to get a cycle, get onto a cycle, fall off a few times, learn, get your balance, right? If you are training to be something more complicated than that, cooking for example, or just to be a good cook, you can't say something more complicated than that, say you want to become a physician, a doctor, a surgeon, right? Nobody becomes all these things by watching TikTok videos or by watching some YouTube videos. You do that by giving it your full attention, full time, following a prescribed program under the guidance of a scholar. What is a residency program which you do in the hospitals? It's guidance under scholars. These scholars are called doctors. Okay. You can't say, well, I joined medical school and now I want to do heart surgery on you and please lie down, give me a knife. No. Systematic. But somehow we have a different thinking with our, in the case of Islam. We think that Islam is just, you know, baby listening to a khatira or something, listening to khutbah. All this is good. But these are like the frills. In addition to everything else, I go and sit in the khatira, I listen to a khatira, I listen to a khutbah, I go and listen to a bayaan, and nothing wrong with that. But if this is the only way in which you are getting the, excuse me, don't fool yourself. Do not fool yourself. You will not get the deal like this. You have to apply yourself. Systematic process of study. I'm not even going into, the standards of our Salafi Salihin, of the great scholars of Islam. Because today when we talk about that, it seems like it's some fantasy, you know, like, is it even possible? It is possible. It was possible. They did it. And that's how you and I, we call ourselves Muslims. Alhamdulillah. Abdul Abid Mubarak, one of the greatest of the Tabiur. He said, I learned adab. He said, I learned adab. For 30 years before I touched the subject of Islam. Adab. Just how to behave. How to approach the Deeb. How to approach Islam. 30 years. That's not because he was stupid. Right? He's one of the greatest scholars of Islam. He didn't learn for 30 years because he was dumb. No. That's how long it takes. Your entire life. This is how you raise your children. He didn't say he went to a school for 30 years to learn Islam. No. He said, I learned adab. How? From the way he was raised as a child. Right? Imam Malik Ramatullah Ali. He says, my mother, he must have been about maybe five years old or something. He says, my mother used to dress me up before Salatul Fajr. She would dress me up. She would tie an amama on my head. Little five year old kid. And then she would take him. She would walk with him. She would take him to Majlis. And then she would take him to the mosque. And then she would take him to the mosque. She would walk with him. She would take him to Majlis and Nabi Shaykh. And after Salatul Fajr, he would sit in the Dars of Rabia Taurayi. And his mother used to, every day, the mother would tell him, take from the adab of Rabia before you take from his head. Learn the way of, and adab is everything. How you sit, how you talk, how you walk, how you approach somebody, what you say, what you don't say. Everything is adab. And without adab, you get nothing. You get nothing. You can be a Hafiz Quran. You can be a Hafiz of the Siyasita, all the kitabs of hadith. You can be a, you name it. You can recite the Quran backwards. You can recite all the Siyasita backwards. You will get nothing unless you have a hood. Because none of that will go below the throat. And we have the hadith of MashaAllah. Two Prophets used to come. A man came to Rasulullah, SAW. After the Battle of Hunain, when Rasulullah, SAW was distributing the Ghanima. He came and he grabbed him, SAW, like this, by the neck of his shirt, to the extent that it left a mark on his breast neck. And he said, Ya Muhammad, iadil. He said, Oh Muhammad, SAW. He said, do adal. He's telling Rasulullah s.a.w. Do other. Nabi s.a.w. said, If I don't do other, Who will do other? Then he said, Give me so many, Whatever it was, Ghanam or something, Sheep or something. Nabi s.a.w. said, Take it, go. The Sahaba with him, They pulled out their sword. They said, We'll kill this. This man is a burtad. He's a kafirah. He's telling the Nabi to do other. Nabi s.a.w. said, No, don't touch him. Don't touch him. Let him go. When he went, Rasulullah s.a.w. said, There will be people Like him In this ummah. And he's talking to who? He's talking to the Akkaibirin of the Sahaba. He's talking to the Biggest of the Sahaba. Abu Bakr and Umar And others. Radheelanum, Ajmayee. He said, There will be people In this ummah Who will pray More than you. They will have More Quran than you. Because not all the Sahaba were Umfas. He said, They will have More Quran than you. They will pray More than you. But the Quran Will not go Below their throat. They can recite The beautiful Quran. No problem. The people behind them Who are praying Behind them, You know, They will be connected With Allah s.w.t. But the one reciting, Nabi s.a.w. said, The Quran will not go Below their throat. And he said, They will be, He said, Imar will enter them And leave them Like an arrow Enters a target. And leaves the target. There is no blood On the Tip of the arrow Or on the body Of the arrow Or on the Feathers of the arrow. It will not touch them. Imar will come inside And go away. Imar will not touch them. These are the people And these were the Khawarij. On the surface To look at Beautiful Muslims. Appearance. Inside. And only Allah knows. And Allah s.w.t. Mentioned this. وَمِنَ النَّاسِ مَنْ يَقُولُوا آمَنَّا بِاللَّهِ وَوِلْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ وَمَا هُمْ بِمُؤْمِنِينَ Allah is saying, They will say, We believe in Allah. We believe in the Day of Judgment. But they are not Muslim. They are not Mughneen. And Allah is saying this. Who will dispute that? Appearance is important. The Sunnah is important. But, It's not only the appearance. It's the heart. Deen is to follow Islam in every aspect of our lives. From the time we open our eyes to the time we shut our eyes. Every aspect. Domestic, home, family, children, employment, if you are in government, government, if you are in the military, military, wherever you are. Wherever you are. Islam is to practice the Deen in every aspect of our lives. And that is the question in the Qabar. What was or what is your Deen? Meaning? What did you practice? So, to simply say the answer is Deen-e-Islam, Deen-e-Islam, my Deen-e-Islam is Islam. It's not something that we know. Make the guy remember it and say, make sure you say it. No, no. I will be able to say Deen-e-Islam, my Deen-e-Islam, if I was living by Islam. If I was earning, if I was eating haram, if I was lying and cheating and deceiving people and creating conflict and fitrah, it doesn't work. It doesn't work. You can have a beard like B.B. Lewinsky makes no difference. You can have an amawa that looks like the dough of the rock, makes no difference. Right? We ask Allah SWT to give us ikhlas. We ask Allah SWT to help us. To obey completely. I always say this, selective obedience is disobedience. Selective obedience is disobedience. Allah SWT mentioned this in the Quran, the ayat of Surah Al-Baqarah. Allah mentioned very clearly, Allah said, do you believe in some things of the book and you leave the others? Very clear. Read the ayat to the end. Allah SWT said, what is the reward for these people? Khizjun fil hayati al-dunya. Wa yawbal aakhirati yuradduna ila ashaddi al-aza. Wa ballahu bi ghafilin amma ta'wilun. Allah SWT said, for these people, there will be difficulty in this life. Allah said, I will make your life miserable in this life itself. You will suffer here itself. And then on the day of judgment, we will be returned toward the worst of the punishment. Think about this. Here is the person, what will be our reaction? At least he is doing something. No. In Islam,