The silence of Allahﷻ

Auto-generated transcript: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the Prophet and the Messengers. Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family, and peace and blessings be upon him and upon many, many. My brothers and sisters, may Allah bless our scholars. One of the scholars, he said, be thankful that Allah allowed you to stand at his door. Be thankful that Allah allowed you to stand at his door. Don't be in a hurry. Don't try to knock on the door because he knows you are there. He does not need to be alerted to the fact that you are standing at his door. Don't knock on the door. Don't demand this and that. Don't expect answers. Don't say, now that I'm here at your door, open the door. Now that I'm here at your door, give me what I want. Nothing. Just stand at the door and stand at the door with the sense of awe and majesty and intense gratitude that Allah enabled you and permitted you to stand at his door. Just that. Just that. Just that. And the guidance to stand at the door of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Yet, you, with all your problems, you with all your issues, you with all that you have, with your dirty hands and your dirty tongue and your dirty book of deeds, Allah allowed you to stand at his door. So just encouragement. Have that sense of gratitude in your heart as you stand at his door. And remember that if he allowed you to stand at his door, he knows why you are there. He knows you are there. He knows why you are there. And he allowed you to stand at his door because he will open the door and he will give you what you need and he will give you what you want. There is no doubt about this and there should be no doubt in your mind about this. But don't be in a hurry. Do not be in a hurry. Do not disturb. Do not try to push. It is the sign of Abodiyat. It is the sign of the slave that the slave is so conscious and so aware and so overwhelmed with just the thought that my Rab allowed me to stand at his door. That he does not do anything. Just standing at the door of his Rab is something which is so beautiful, which is something which is so invigorating, which is so enervating, which is so ennobling, which is so rejuvenating that it does not even occur to him to go beyond that. Say, Alhamdulillah, I am content. I am content. I am here. I am content. You know, I think about this as in the days, in my early days, my childhood I had, we lived in a big house and we had dogs and of course they were outside the house but one of the things that I always sort of thought about was a dog is happy just to lie on the mat. mat outside your door. That's it. He won't go anywhere. He won't ask for anything. He's just lying there on that mat. And when you come out of the house and he jumps up and down, he jumps, you know, he shows his delight in multiple ways and his tail is wagging and so on. And he's barking in that special tone, which tells you that this is not a bark of anger. It's not a bark of fear. It's a bark of complete and total delight that you have appeared. Complete delight. And he's jumping up and down. Complete delight. He's not looking for food. He's not looking for you to do anything with you. He's just absolutely delighted that you exist. He's absolutely delighted that you are there and that he has the opportunity to look at you. He has the opportunity to stand there in your presence. That's it. He's so happy with that. I tell myself that is how I should be with regard to my Rabb, Jalla Jalaluhu. That when I go and obviously Allah SWT does not appear in our presence in that sense, but we ask Allah SWT to enable us to see him in Jannatul Firdaus inshaAllah, as Rasulullah promised that Allah will show himself to us. We hope that day will come. And we hope that we will be the people who Allah SWT will permit to see him Jannatul Firdaus. But today, when we stand in Salah, Rasulullah SAW, if you see his description of al-Ihsan, which he described in terms of Salah, أَنْ تَعْبُدُ اللَّهَ كَأَنَّكَ تَرَىٰ To worship Allah as if you can see Him. Now think about this. He did not say to worship Allah knowing that you are in his presence, to worship Allah with the awareness that you are standing before him. None of that. أَنْ تَعْبُدُ اللَّهَ كَأَنَّكَ تَرَىٰ فَإِن لَّمْ تَكُنْ تَرَىٰ فَإِنَّهُ يَرَكَّ And even though you don't see him, you know this in your heart, with this complete sense of certainty that he sees you. Seeing. This is the beauty of Salah and that's why Rasulullah SAW said this is مَرَضُ الْمُؤْمِنِ that it is something where we are in the presence of Allah SWT and for us that means that it is as if we are seeing Allah SWT. So when we are standing in Salah, the question of ghafla, the question of thinking about something else, the question of going somewhere else in our minds and wondering, you know, wandering the corridors of this and that and going here and there, question doesn't arise. The question does not arise. And that's why Rasulullah SAW said when a slave is standing in Salah and his mind wanders, Allah SWT says, what is it that you are thinking about and what is it that you are looking at which is more beautiful and glorious than I am? And this happens three times. The slave is looking at the beautiful and glorious thing. The slave is looking at the beautiful thing. The slave is looking at the beautiful thing. The slave is looking at the beautiful thing. The slave brings his attention back and his attention wanders again and the same thing happens, the attention comes back and the attention wanders again. And then Rasulullah SAW said, and then Allah SWT, then comes a time when Allah SWT then leaves you to wander. Allah leaves you to wander. And this is the great, the great, you know, the terrible thing which is the silence of Allah SWT. The silence of Allah SWT. The silence of Allah SWT. The silence of Allah SWT. The silence of Allah SWT. Where everything gets shut down. Where a person is not given the guidance. Where a person, the door of guidance is shut. The door of correction is shut. The door of Islam is shut. The door of Hidayah is shut. Because we chose that for ourselves. Because the slave decided that he did not have to go to the mosque. He was allowed to go to the mosque. He was allowed did not need the guidance of Allah . And how does that become visible and how does it manifest itself? Because every time guidance comes, you are in denial. Every time guidance comes, you are saying, oh, you know, you are rejecting it. And that is why Allah mentioned in the Quran in Surah Al-Mulk, people ask, أَلَمْ يَاتِكُمْ نَزِيرٌ People will ask, was it not, nobody came to warn you? أَلَمْ يَاتِكُمْ نَزِيرٌ And what is the reply? They will say, قَالُوا بَلَاقُ قَالُوا بَلَاقُ They will say, yes indeed, yes indeed, people came to warn us. قَدْ جَاهَكُمْ قَالُوا بَلَاقُ قَدْ جَاعَنَا فَكَذَّبْنَا Definitely, certainly, without a doubt, people came, warners came to us. فَكَذَّبْنَا But we denied them. We tried to silence them. We defied them. We belied them. فَكَذَّبْنَا وَقُلْنَا And we said to them, مَا نَزَلَ اللَّهُ مِنْ شَيْءٍ إِنْ أَنْتُمْ إِلَّا فِي ظَلَالٍ تَبِيرٍ Allah has not sent anything to you. Allah has not. The Nuzul of the Kalam of Allah has not happened on you. Which means, we belied them. We said, no, you are lying. You are lying. إِنَّ اللَّهُ وَإِنَّ الْهَجَلَ فَكَذَّبْنَا وَقُلْنَا مَا نَزَلَ اللَّهُ مِنْ شَيْءٍ إِنْ أَنْتُمْ إِلَّا فِي ظَلَالٍ تَبِيرٍ And we said, surely, you are the misguided. We are not misguided. You are the misguided. Somebody telling you to stay away from Haram, you get angry with that person. Somebody telling you, he's advising you because he loves you, because he wants the best for you. He's saying, do not fall into Haram. Do not earn Haram. Do not eat Haram. Do not do Haram. The Haram is the guardrail. Don't go over the guardrail. If you go over the guardrail, you will fall over the cliff. You will fall off the cliff. Don't do that. And you are angry with that person. You are angry with that person. One of the great scholars of Islam, he said, and the meaning of that, he said, one of the most frightening punishments in Islam is not a loud thunder or blazing fire. It is silence. It is silence. It is when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala no longer corrects you. When sins don't sting. Sins do not sting. They're not bothered. You don't care. You will stand all day and sell Haram and buy Haram and eat Haram and drink Haram. It doesn't make any difference to you. You're fine with that. When your heart stops trembling at reminders, you find, you find reminders irritating. You find reminders irritating. You don't like a person who reminds you. You find fault with the person who reminds you. When your heart, instead of your heart trembling at reminders, the heart is dead. When your heart stops trembling at reminders, when you are deprived of guidance, these are signs of being deprived of guidance. And remember Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala does not randomly deprive anybody. We do it to ourselves. We do it to ourselves. Because we deny Allah and we deny guidance of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala until Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is Ghuyur. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is not begging us or requesting us to obey Him. Allah is commanding us. And when we defy the command, Allah says, Atiwullah wa atiwur Rasool. Commanding. Obey Allah and obey His Rasool. Why? For your own good. For your own good. But you say, No. I will not obey Allah. I will not obey the Rasool. I will obey selectively. Selective obedience is disobedience. When we do that, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, Okay, go. Go. Do what you want. So this person says, When haram becomes your normal, when you are deprived of guidance, when haram becomes your normal, can you imagine? Can you imagine? People having businesses selling halal, selling haram,