Why is dua not accepted – 6

Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, the fourth thing that Ibrahim said to the people of Basra as being the reason for them and for their duas not being accepted. He said, you claim to be enemies of shaitan, but you align with him. SubhanAllah, see the beauty of this and see where Allah have mercy on us, how these things apply to us today, apply to us, our actions, our behavior, our priorities and what we do. Now Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala described and told us. The story at the beginning when shaitan became our sworn enemy. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said. He said, you have created him from clay. He said, fall down from it, and whatever you have to be proud of, come out. Come out, you are from the small. He said, warn me until the Day they are resurrected. He said, you are from the seen. He said, because you have made me, I will go back to them, your straight path. He said, you are from the seen. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said. He said to them, come from between their hands and from behind them, from their foreheads and their foreheads, and do not find them. Many are grateful against them. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, fall down from it, you are from the seen. balls of clay. We shall not withstand you of them, because Hell will be a place for all of you. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reminded us In surah al-araf Ayat from 11 to 18 Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reminded us And he said Surely we created you Then shaped you Then said to the angels Prostrate before Adam So they all did But not Iblis Not Shaitan Who refused to prostrate with the others Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said What prevented you from prostrating When I commanded you He replied I am better than him I am better than he is You created me from fire And him from clay Allah said Then get down from paradise From Jannah It is not for you to be arrogant here So get out You are truly one of the disgraced He appealed Then delay my end Until the day of their resurrection Allah said You are delayed Until the day of their resurrection Until the appointed day He said For leaving me to stray He is blaming Allah He says For leaving me Allowing me to stray I will lie in ambush for them On your straight path I will approach them from their front Their back Their right And their left And then you will find Most of them ungrateful Allah said Get out of paradise Get out of Jannah You are disgraced And rejected I will not let you go I will certainly fill up Jahannam With you and your followers All together Now See the curse of this How Where arrogance lands you Here is Satan Allah commanded him to do something He refused To obey the command Allah said Allah commanded him He was a jinn But he was so pious And so knowledgeable And so good That his ranks were raised And he was allowed to be with the angels So Allah ordered all the angels And he was in that group Allah ordered all of them To make sajda to Adam Here we are not talking about sajda of worship We are talking about sajda of Tazeem A sajda of respect So The Question of bowing before Allah There is no sajda Of worship Of ibadah Of abudiyah To anyone other than Allah But sajda of ta'zeem Used to be at one point in time And we have examples of this Also in the Quran In other places So Allah ordered The angels to bow Before To make sujood to Adam And Iblis Refused And when Allah Now gave him a chance Right Allah Could have thrown him out Right away But didn't He said Why did you not bow Why did you not Make a prostration And make sajda to Adam When I had commanded it And of course Allah knows why This is to establish The evidence in favor Or against the slave And he said He said I am better than him You can say that You created me From Fire And you created him From clay So Arrogance Based on race He said I am of a superior race Than him Subhanallah See where it got him And then In store He has given the chance to Make tawbah and istighfar He did not do that Instead He insisted on his Abundance On him being correct He insisted that he was right And then on top of that He When Allah Subhanallah When he He responded to Allah Subhanallah In an arrogant manner So Allah Subhanallah Said get out of here And then when he said Get out of here He said He then Blamed Allah Subhanallah He said You have Allowed me to stray And so I will I will Misguide these people Meaning The children of Adam Which is all of us From the straight path And then instead of Making istighfar Instead of making tawbah He could have Even at that stage He could have said I am sorry I misunderstood I apologize Forgive me Instead of that He said give me time He said give me time Until the day Of their resurrection Right And then what will he do In that time He will try to Misguide them And Allah Subhanallah Said you have the time And you go And you misguide If you want to misguide And You will be You are rejected And they will be rejected Whoever follows You will be rejected Allah said I will fill up Jahannam With you and your followers All together My brothers Sisters I remind myself When you let us be warned Let us be warned And then Allah Subhanallah Warned us And Allah said Ya'i wa al-lazeena Amanu Udkhunu Fis-silmi Kafatan Wa la tatabi'u Khutuati shaitan Innahu lakum Adumum mubeen Allah said O believers Enter into Islam Wholeheartedly Enter Islam Wholeheartedly Enter Islam Without hesitation Completely Totally And do not follow Shaitan's footsteps Surely he is your Sovereign enemy Think about that Allah is saying Don't follow Shaitan's footsteps Allah is not saying Don't follow shaitan The point I am making here is If you want to tell somebody If you tell somebody What's the difference between saying Don't follow so and so's footsteps And don't follow so and so What is the difference If you say don't follow so and so It means it assumes that that person Who you are warning them against Is present there And you are saying don't follow him But when you say don't follow footsteps It means that the person is not there Only the footsteps of the person are there He walked on that path And if you go on that path Then whose responsibility is it You cannot say that he took me Because he is not there He could not have taken you Because he wasn't there So if you went It is entirely your responsibility Allah is saying Don't do this to yourself Enter Islam completely Not halfheartedly Not partially Don't take something And leave out something Completely enter Islam And do not follow shaitan's footsteps Surely he is your Sovereign enemy Don't follow shaitan's footsteps Surely he is your Sovereign enemy So what should we do with shaitan Allah SWT said Allah SWT said Allah SWT said Surely shaitan is an enemy to you So take him as an enemy Treat him as an enemy He only invites his followers To become inmates of the faith To become inmates of the faith To become inmates of the faith To become inmates of the faith Allah SWT said He is your enemy Ignore him He is your enemy Don't listen to him Allah SWT said He is your enemy So take him as an enemy Become his enemy He is your enemy You fight him You become his enemy So we are being asked here Not simply to ignore shaitan Not simply not to follow shaitan But to actively fight shaitan So take him as an enemy Surely shaitan is an enemy to you Surely shaitan is an enemy to you So take him as an enemy And so therefore take him as an enemy And if you don't do that Remember that he invites his followers To become inmates of the blaze To be people of the fire May Allah ask Allah to forgive us And protect us from that And then Allah SWT warned us And he said shaitan is not only one And so we made for every prophet A enemy of the shaitan And so we made for every prophet A enemy of the shaitan And so we made for every prophet A devilish human and a jinn A devilish human and a jinn A devilish human and a jinn Shaitans who look like humans In human form And jinn Whispering to one another With elegant words of deception Had it been a jinn It would have been a devil It would have been a demon It would have been a demon It would have been a demon Had it been your Rabb's will They would not have done such a thing So leave them and their deceit So leave them and their deceit See think about this There was a logic There was a logic That shaitan used I am better than him So I will not make sajdah to him He made, he used this logic In the presence of the kalam of Allah In the presence of the order of Allah In the presence of the order of Allah Allah said Bow to Adam Bow to Adam Bow to Adam The right response was To bow to Adam To obey Allah Whether or not you understood that Whether or not you agreed with that Whether or not it made sense to you That's not the logic The logic is Allah said bow I bow He did not do that Today when people are presented with the kalam of Allah When an ayat of Allah is put before them When a sahih hadith is put before them What do some people say They say no no no Times have changed In my opinion In my critical analysis In my critical analysis I must do something else Whose footsteps are you following Whose footsteps are you following That's exactly what shaitan said And see where it got him It got him the promise of Jahannam By Allah And then Allah told us What will happen and what shaitan will do On the day of judgement And shaitan said When he took the command Indeed Allah has promised you the promise of truth And I promised you And I promised you And I disobeyed you And I had no authority over you But I invited you And you answered me And you did not blame me And blame yourselves I am not your follower And you are not my followers And you are not my followers I disbelieved in what you had promised me I disbelieved in what you had promised me I have never done anything The wrongdoers have a painful punishment The wrongdoers have a painful punishment And shaitan will say to his followers After the judgement has been passed Indeed Allah had made a promise A true promise to you