 Bismillah, Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen, Wa Salatu Wa Salam Aala Rasulil Kareem, Wa Aalihi Wa Sahbihi Wa Min Tabiat Sunnatuhu Ila Yumideen, Salam Wa Aalikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu Welcome again to another episode of your weekly Islamic chat show, Guests of the Week, coming to you from Musharji TV. As always, I'm your host Ismail Buluk. And today we have another, inshaAllah, interesting topic. We want to talk about the ways of, you could say, protecting yourself or avoiding the anger and punishment of Allah. Because we know, of course, we always like to talk about how Allah is, of course, Allah is, and His mercy, as we're probably going to touch upon, way over exceeds His anger. But at the same time, we have to realise that if we make mistakes and we don't repent, we can be punished for those mistakes. So to discuss that with me, inshaAllah, again to the show, is Ustaz Abdur-Rahman Hassan. As-salamu alaikum. As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. ShazakAllah Khair for coming on. Now, as I mentioned to the viewers, of course, and for valid reasons, we talk about the Rahmah of Allah and Allah's forgiveness. Because as I mentioned, and there's so many evidence we can talk about there, that His mercy exceeds His anger. But just the fact that that statement is there shows us that there is an element where Allah can be angry with us or we can be on not the bad side of Allah. But you see what I mean as we say in English. We can put ourselves in trouble. We can put ourselves open to punishment. So today we want to try and talk about ways that we can avoid that. Ways that we can protect ourselves from that. Ways that we can do our very best to stay away from being in that kind of position. Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alameen. Wa Salatu wa Salamu ala Ashrafil Anbiya wal Mursaleel. Sayyidina wa Nabiyina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa ashabihi wa kabi'ina lahum bi-hsanin ila yumidina ma ba'ath. First of all, when we look at the Qur'an and the sunnah, we find that when Allah speaks about the righteous creation in which He created, the reason why I said creation is because the angels are also from the creation of Allah, Az-Zawajal. When Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, spoke about the angels, Allah says about them, that they fear their Lord from high above. Allah also says about the Ibad-ul-Rahman, the slaves who are righteous. He says, The believers and the angels ask, Inna Allah, Ta'ala, he talks about the righteous people when they enter Jannah, and they talk amongst themselves. They ask questions, how did you enter Jannah? What did you do? And they look at what Allah says, When we were with our families and we were in the world, we were scared, and because of that Allah protected us from the Hellfire, Allah protected us from the punishment of the Day of Judgment, Allah protected us from all of that. So what you tend to find in the Qur'an is the righteous people are always scared and they are hopeful of Allah, even the Prophets. Allah, Ta'ala, says, When this leaves the heart of a believer, it becomes a problem. I remember now that SubhanAllah, the Aya, insha'Allah, you'll be able to refresh my memory. The Aya slipped my mind, but there was a particular Aya that refers to the people who are afraid. This particular Aya really slipped my mind, SubhanAllah, but when Aya asked the Prophet, about this Aya, she said, are these the sinful people? And he said, no, these are actually the righteous people, but they're scared that the deeds will not be accepted. It's true. The Aya, Allah, Ta'ala, says prior to the Aya, so if we understand the context, it gives us a great understanding, which Allah, Ta'ala, says And those who believe in the signs of their Lord, and those who have no doubt in their Lord, and those who give what is given to them and their hearts, and their hearts, so that they return to their Lord, those who follow us in good tidings, and they say, The narrated by Imam Tirmidhi Al-Sunan, from the Hadith of A'isha, may Allah be pleased with her, that Sheikh Nasser, may Allah be pleased with him, authenticated in Sahih Al-Sunan, Tirmidhi, Hadith 3401, that the Messenger, may Allah be pleased with him, she said to him, when the Prophet recited the Aya, she said, Ya Rasulallah, Ahumul ladina yasharabuna al-Khamar, aday the ones who drink khamar, wa yassirikun, aday the ones who steal, and then he said, Laya bint al-Siddiq, know the daughter of Abu Bakr, know. But rather who are they, al ladina yusalluna, ama al ladina yasumuna wa yusalluna, they are the ones who fast, they are the ones who pray, wa ladina yunfikuna, and they are the ones who give, but they are scared, yakhafuna, Allah yutakabala minhum, they are scared that it will not be accepted from them. And I believe that the correct translation of that part of the verse about their hearts is their hearts tremble. So you can understand to some aspect that Aisha radiallahu anna, she naturally thought these must be the guys who are doing big sins, that's why they're trembling because they've done, they're stolen, or they're fornicated, or they've done all these things. But SubhanAllah, it turns out that these are the people who have the level of their taqwa, that they have this true understanding of Allah and this true fear, and in knowing that ultimately, no matter how much we do ultimately, we do our best, but it is, we rely on the mercy of Allah. SubhanAllah. We just do, we do the, we do the asbab as they say, we take the steps required to inshaAllah gain that mercy, but ultimately. Damn. So you can see that they're scared, but they're not only scared, they've come with righteous deeds. You see, the ayah, when the deenah, before the Allah, he says, they believe in the vassal of Allah, when the deenah, they don't associate partners with Allah, when the deenah, when they come with everything that they come with, but they're still scared. What are they scared of? Allayu taqab alameen. That this will not be scared of that, will not be accepted from them. So this is vital. This characteristics is very noble. That when a person does righteous deeds, he fasts, he prays, he connects himself with Allah Azza wa Jalla, he's still scared that, I don't think this will be accepted from him. And would it be taken in by Allah Azza wa Jalla? I think it's important as well to point out to the viewers, because some viewers may be thinking, well, you know, subhanallah, I do all these good deeds, why should I be afraid? It's actually a lesson for us not to be complacent, because we can think, we've reached a certain level, and I'm doing so many good deeds, and then you can just think, I've made it. So this always, it always keeps you on your feet, or it should always keep us on our feet, always knowing that we're never, you know, you know, perfection is ascribed to Allah, not to us. So we've always got to keep on striving, keep on improving. No, but I don't think anybody can confidently say, I don't need to improve in anything. That's so true. It's so amazing, because look at Nabilah Muhammad, you know, Qiyamul-Layl, he prays, he's a prophet of Allah, he's forgiven for all of his sins. Inna fatahna laka fataham mubina liyaghfir ala laka allahumma taqaddamin min dambika wa maata akhar Allah forgave him for all his sins. He prays at night, he's praying until his legs are swollen. And guess what he starts his Qiyamul-Layl with? He says, Allah ma fatah rasamawati wal-arab a'anim al-gaybi wa shahada Anta taqum abayna ibadika fee ma'kanu fee hiye khtarifun Ihdini Ihdini liy maqtulisha feehi min al-haqib iydini Inna kitahdi mantasha'u ila siratul mustaqib He's scared, he's asking Allah to guide him, Subhanahu wa ta'ala, and Allah to keep him on the straight path. Nabilah Muhammad is asking, Nabilullah Ibrahim, as you know, before, you know, he became a prophet. Young age, he destroyed idols. Ma'ad alika, when he grew older, and he became a prophet, what did he say? He said, Rabbana rabbi jinubini wa baniya n'a'abuda al-asna'a You know, Allah protect me, I'm my children, from worship in war. I don't, he didn't say shirk. Ibn al-Qayyim said he didn't say shirk. Because shirk comes in different forms. He said the most common, the most well-known form of shirk, Allah protect me from it. He knows, that if Allah wills that he can throw him in it. I trust, Allah ta'ala, on her, she has heard the prophet, As-salamah, increase in the dua, sallallahu alaihi sallam, Ya muqalliba al-kulubi, Now, you're just increasing in this dua. And she said, Ya Rasulullah, are you scared? Are you scared? Is that why you make this dua, Allah? And he said, Why would I not be scared? Al-kulubu bayna usbu'aini, min asaabi ar-rahmani, yuqallibu ha-qayfi asha'a You know, the fingers are between the two hearts of Allah, the hearts of the creation, are between the two fingers of Allah, as-salallahu alaihi sallam, yuqallibu ha-qayfi asha'a Allah tosses and he turns it the way he was. Subhanahu wa ta'ala. So, this characteristics, of not feeling safe and secure, from the punishment of Allah, is something that one needs to see and work with. And you know why many people actually fall into this, in which they feel secure and they feel like, You know what? Actually, I'm not doing bad, is when Allah gives them the dunya. When Allah gives you the dunya, and you know your sinning, you actually think what you're doing is not wrong. Even though you're doing so many sins, you actually think what you're doing, there's nothing wrong with it. And that's why Imam Ahmad narrated in his Musnad, from the hadith of Uqbaat-e-Aamir, may Allah be pleased with him. The prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said, If you see Allah giving the dunya to His servant, from the dunya on his throne, if you see Allah, giving a person his dunya, why is he sinning? Why is he sinning? What do you love about him? He's giving that person what he loves. So, you know that he's a traitor. You know that this person, Allah wants to grab him. Allah is going to grab this person and he's going to destroy them. Allah is going to grab this person and he's going to destroy them. And that's why when the prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, what did the prophet recite? This ayah, All of the doors were opened for them. The whole dunya was given to them. And they were told to enjoy it. And guess what? They were sinning and they really didn't understand that what they were getting was the time for Allah to destroy them. So, this is where the believer, he worries, I'm sinning, and I'm getting all of this. When he said, Being given something in this dunya doesn't mean Allah loves you. When Allah gives you something in this dunya, it doesn't really mean he loves you. Because Allah gives this dunya to who he loves and Allah gives it to who he doesn't love. Allah gave it to Qaroon. Allah gave it to Qaroon. Allah gave it to him. And He sent him to him. And He gave him the signs. And he left them. And he followed him to Satan. And he was a devout. And if we don't raise him with it, but he went to the earth and followed the wind, then he is like a dog if you carry it on you, or you leave it at the end of the verse. Allah gave this dunya to him. Because Allah says, If there is no single nation, We will be forgiven for what He forgives the servants of Allah, for their homes, for their homes, for their homes, for their homes, for their homes, for their homes, for their homes, for their homes, for their homes, for their homes, for their homes, for their homes, and for their homes, for their homes, and all of this at that time, when the life of the dunya ends. The last word is the one giving you, You love you. That is because Allah gave you something like this in this world. It doesn't mean what you are doing, that sin you were blissful and the types of charges that you committed, it's all right there is nothing wrong with you. And don't feel secured and safe. This is why many people face this. And we know the reality is that, like you said, Allah gives wealth to whom He loves and whom He doesn't love, but whereas He only gives hidayah, guidance to those who He loves. So this is the ultimate richness, this is the ultimate gift, this is the ultimate treasure really. It's true. Not the money, I mean even subhanAllah, I remember, even as he was dying after he'd been stabbed, he asked that they put his head on the floor because he wanted to, he was worried, you could say, scared, for lack of a bit of words, and he wanted to leave this world in worship. So that kind of, again, shows us if they were like this, then what should we be like? We should be more, we should, on a daily basis, should be kind of reflecting upon that and trying to correct our ways. What's actually amazing is that, in the tarjama of Al-Umar, radiallahu anhu, when he told them to put his face on the floor, and not to refer to him as Amir al-Mu'minin, the reason why he said that was because he felt that he didn't finish the Salat al-Fajr, that he was leading him, because he got, you know, he got stricken whilst he was in the Salat by Abu Luqlu al-Majousi. And so he never finished after Salat. They say he was either reading Surat Yusuf or Surat Al-Ra'b when he got hit from the back. So he never finished the Salat. And he said, There's no place for a person The one who left the prayer, there's no place for him in Islam. He never left it, intentionally, you know, he got stricken. He had no choice, but he still had that kind of Hars, that kind of Striving for the prayer, et cetera. And that's the quality that I think many of us, especially nowadays, when we do little khair, we just do a little bit of good. Automatically we think, you know, we're qualified to fill that. Masha'Allah Allah has accepted it and Allah is happy with us and we're doing good. I'll just hold you on that point, insha'Allah. And we'll just take our first break. Join us, insha'Allah, after this short break. Salam alaykum and welcome back. Obviously we went, you know, before the first part of the show, we spoke so much about this Not feeling safe, for lack of a bit of words, in the sense of not getting complacent and saying, you know, I've made it. I do so many good deeds. I've got nothing to worry about. I just, I don't even need to improve Masha'Allah. You know, we gave so many examples. So I guess for those people who maybe have become complacent or they feel that they've made it and there's nothing more to be done, how can we try and, what can we say to persuade them and show them that this is not the case and we need to keep on striving and we need to, if what we haven't already told them, what kind of steps can we give them for this? There's an ayah Allah, In this ayah Allah gives us the answer to that question of yours, which is, In this ayah Allah gives us the answer to that question of yours, which is, The person needs to come with two qualities, to really believe in Allah, and the person needs to take which is piety, that person needs to come with wa al'a'malu bi-tanzeel, act upon the Qur'an and the sunnah. because the Qur'an is a revelation from Allah, and so is the sunnah. the sunnah is the second type of revelation. A lot of people who actually have al'amru min makr Allah al-Zawajala, what is the problem that whatever is given to them Whatever is given to them is what they they evaluate the the closeness to Allah Tabarak with ta'ala based on their worldly On the worldly gain and I've spoken about that and that doesn't mean anything Karun Allah gave in the dunya for out. Allah gave in the dunya. Allah gives dunya to non-believers and Muslims Allah gives it to righteous people. Allah gives it to non-righteous gives it to everyone. That doesn't show anything You're mad with the of the verse He provides every every once without account that you can't count it. So there's like you mentioned everybody can receive this verse This is not evidence of your piety or of your status with Allah or your status in the in the in here after It's true and Ali and Mabi Al-Talib concluded by saying Preparing for the day of judgment. How could you think you're safe and feel security? When you haven't died yet Because to be honest it doesn't matter all the good that you do in your life What really matters is as the process of Salam said in the mal'a malu bil khawain What really matters is that last moment. That's what really counts In the hadakum yujma'u khalqoo fi batinum biha arba'ina yawman nutfa tumma yawma a laqata mit ala darik tumma yawma mulqata mit ala darik tumma yursal ilahi malak fa yawm fa qafi arrooh wa yawmar biha arba'a kalimat biha tibirizqi wa ajali wa amari Shaqi wa al-awsa'id and then look what the Prophet said Fa wallah ilad ila ilaha ghayru Inna hadakum la yawmar biha amari ahli al-jannah Hatta ma yaqun wa bayinahu wa bayinaha illa dira'a Fa isbik wa aali al-kitab fa yawmar biha amari ahli al-naali fa yitkuloha Wa inna hadakum la yawmar biha amari ahli al-naali Hatta ma yaqun wa bayinahu wa bayinaha illa dira'a Fa isbik wa aali al-kitab fa yawmar biha amari ahli al-jannah fa yitkuloha You can be doing good all your life But that last moment you turn on your heels And guess what? You do the opposite of what you would do all your life So that's fear, that's scared That should make you not feel safe and not secure You see, and that's why Astu'adadul yawmar raheel, preparation for the day of judgment Four of those points that Al-Alim Nabi Al-Tali bin said Al-Khufu min al-Jaleel, fearing Allah Wa la'amalu bi'tanzeel, living by the Quran and the Sunnah You know, warriba bil qaleel, being happy with the letter Allah gave you Stop looking at the big things that this dunya contains And the fourth one which is Astu'adadul yawmar raheel Prepare for that day which you will depart It's amazing because wallahi Just recently on social media Two young girls, nineteen and another Very young girls Up in America Oh yeah, disappeared That's it, they were disappeared, they got found The body was found in the car Nineteen and twenty, they just graduated They just graduated The graduation pictures, you'll see it It just shows you that when death is coming It doesn't care how old you are It doesn't care what age you are It doesn't care what background you are It doesn't matter how much children you have How much wealth you have Really when it comes it comes I mean, go back to the Hadith you mentioned Translation of the last part It just points out what we're trying to say Is that you always have to keep working And keep doing your best because as it says That somebody he'll be, you know He will be doing good work all his life Until he's just almost like an arms length away From entering paradise What's written for him will overcome him And he will be of those of the Hellfire And there'll be another person who's done all these deeds Like he's a hands span Or arms span away from the Hellfire And then likewise what's written for him Overcomes him and he goes to Jannah So it shows us, we don't know Many people again they think They just stop at a certain stage Of all my life or we have the opposite Which was something common I used to experience Back home Is a lot of the guys when I used to After becoming Muslim we used to take them Come and pray, come on When I was at school I would end up praying by myself And I would have my Muslim friends Who I initially saw who they prayed now and again And I would say to them let's go and pray Oh we have to go to the canteen Let's pray asad we're going to miss the bus So I would be the one who's Very alien to Islam in the sense I've just become a Muslim but I'd be praying by myself In the classroom as people would be Knocking on the windows laughing The idea of I know I should pray, when I get to 40 years old I don't know what it's about 40 but they kept saying 40's it's some weak hadith they have I don't know but some cultural thing But they used to use the number 40 When I'm 40 I'll become a good Muslim I'll pray, I'll grow a beard I'll do this and do that And who should you go live to 40's I remember around that same kind of time He wasn't a Muslim but One of our fellow students Died in a car crash And he was with us in the class every day And he was gone and this was around the same time That they're saying to me where we're 40 So how do you know you live that long Why take that risk? It's funny because I came across a beneficial point The other day which is Allah Says Be steadfast the way you were commanded To be steadfast is not How we determine what steadfastness is Allah tells us how to be steadfast And when to be steadfast And where to be steadfast What steadfastness means And the reality of it That's why you hear today many people Who say leave me alone Why are you all up in my business My heart is good I'm steadfast in my own little way I'm doing my thing But steadfastness is not how you perceive it It's not how I perceive it Steadfastness is what the Qur'an And Sunnah mentioned Allah is telling the process Be steadfast the way you were commanded The way that you were told Not the way you want to Muhammad And not the way that your companions No, the way you're commanded And the way that you're told And that goes to As the scholars they say That Even though the Prophet is the one That's been spoken to here It's not restricted to him It's everybody So each and every one of us have to be steadfast And upright the way Allah Is telling us It's funny because This ayah This ayah Imam Ibn Kathir when he brings it He brings the call of two great scholars Hassan Al-Basri and Qatada You see The first one Hassan Al-Basri He said if you see a person Who wherever Allah has given them Has pleased them And so they thought there's nothing to worry about I'm safe There's nothing I need to worry about Then Hassan Al-Basri said This person has no idea What he's talking about This is not a person you should even ever refer back to He has no opinions He doesn't know what he's saying He doesn't even know the reality in front of him You see Also Qatada He said That a people transgressed Against Allah And they went against them They went against Allah And then Allah Opened all doors for them And so they thought to themselves that this is it But did they not know that Allah destroys a person At the time when they're most heedless Because remember the ayah that I read before When did Allah The people of Qura'an Give them Is it safe for the people of Qura'an Or is it safe for the people of Qura'an To give them a light and they play So they play These are the two times when the people are heedless So sleeping and playing Do you know Allah's punishment When you're heedless you don't know And then Allah says Are they safe from the Plans of Allah Allah says Except the people of Qasirun The only people who find safety from the Plans of Allah And feel that they're secure There's nothing to worry about Except Qasirun Who are the Qasirun? The ones Allah mentioned in Wal-Asr There's nothing to wait for That person is in a state of loss There's nothing to wait for They destroyed now So It's a very deep topic But I mean There are so many things How can then What more can we say to them In the sense of We've said so much advice On feeling safe From the Plans of Allah But then what do we say for those people Who keep one of the big things Of course Like many issues, it's people falling into sins So I guess we could spend The last part of this Section of this program About the danger of sins Because no doubt if you're sinning And your sins are Overcoming you Or controlling you to some extent Then you're not Going to be able to You're not going to be able to reach the status that you're supposed to So we want to focus I guess a bit on Staying away From sins Which are going to give you some time Someone might say that they're sinning That they're complacent Sometimes that itself can be a result of sins Even though you'd think to yourself How can he feel complacent He's okay because he's sinning But then he'll say I'm sinning I'm doing all this stuff But I'm also doing all this good So inshallah I'm okay Because I have goodness in me And he kind of makes excuses himself For these sins that he's falling into He was asked And ibn kathir he mentioned That this ether is True Ibn kathir mentioned this in his When he was asked about The major sins What are they? And what did he also say? He said To find safety from the punishment of Allah He said this is one of the major sins And he mentioned it after what? He mentioned it after To do shirk Straight after He mentioned that The person has The feeling in his heart or her heart That she's safe and there's nothing to worry about You see There's actually a debate amongst the scholars Whether there are major and minor sins Or kind of sins even be divided Into major and minor Why? Because they said Don't look at the sin Look at who you're disobeying Look at how Just put aside what you're doing But look at who you're disrespecting Who you're going against Even on the flip side of that The scholars have also said That there's no minor sin Upon repetition of it So if you keep doing a minor sin It becomes a major sin So whatever you look at it You're going back to a dangerous point It's true Now repetition Because even if it wasn't A minor sin itself It now opens your heart to go Towards what? The worst of worst They have a saying Which is They say that Touching money It's a stepping stone to stealing it Because if you just touch one A note that isn't yours You lead that with direction And that's how it is Everything starts at that small point So it's The fact that we don't have that in our hearts We don't see what we're doing The crimes that we're doing The sins that we're coming with The disobedience that we're coming with Okay well on that We'll just go for another break Insha'Allah You know we touched in the last part The last part of before the break We touched upon the sins Now what comes to mind is We know that the scholars say That we should worship Allah with fear Which hopefully what we should have covered That in the first part Not feeling safe And always trying to avoid sins Do our best, improve ourselves Be better Muslims Now we come to the other aspects Of fear and hope How do we balance that Should we have more hope than fear Should we have more fear than hope How can we try to gain What is the criteria there Which is more important The scholar is like One of the great imams His name is Abu Sulayman Al-Darani And Imam Abdul Rahman Ibn Hassan In his Qatafat-ul-Majid He brings it That Abu Sulayman Al-Darani He said That the person Is required from the person While he is alive And he lives in this world That the fear is more Higher than the hope That you are more scared But when the person Is at his last moments in his life The thing that he should have More in is to have hope Allah is What you think of him That is what you thought of your lord Last moments The person comes with High Good hopes of Allah But the course of his life The person is scared That doesn't mean there is no hope But there is more fear Which makes complete sense Because if you had more hope Then you can quite easily Fall short Because you've got so much hope That you don't act and do as much Efforts and deeds as you would But if you have the more fear You're always in theory going to be on your toes And going to be Trying to work towards What you need to work towards But those two qualities Which is hope and fear The believer should have both We're not saying one should be eliminated Allah is Allah says You see So this concept of fear And hope to combine between the two You know To have hope And to have fear is as Ibn Qayyim Said that it's a bird with two wings A bird cannot fly with two wings Without with one wing And the flying he said It means that the person is going to Allah The bird is flying to a direction He wants to go somewhere The believer is flying to Allah He's trying to get to Allah He needs those two wings to get to him Which is hope and what And fear But whilst we're in this world Because there are so much things That make us have a lot of hope Then the person should have more fear But he did say There are some places There are some people who fear is too much in their heart When you do listen to them You find that they've got so much fear with them So what do you do? So what you do is You place in their heart hope And you make sure that they don't give up Allah forgives all sins Every mistake you've ever come with Allah also says These are things that should place hope in your heart But also So the person is Consistently on his toes Hope and fear And he combines between the two But if the person one Of those two Isn't there Then the person will definitely come with either excessive Hope Which is not praiseworthy Or the person will come with excessive fear Which is also not praiseworthy Where the person will give up In both situations When he would give up because he's too scared And the other one he's too hopeful That's required from him And now when we look at the world that we're living in today A lot of people are actually to have too much hope The majority of people that you meet They're laxie, they don't care They're relaxed They believe there's nothing to really worry about So they come with what is known as Extreme negligence They come with what? Extreme negligence The groups that went against Ahlus Sunnah Are three groups he mentioned In the issue of hope and fear And love These three He said, for example, he said the Sufiya They went towards love And he mentioned that the Khawarij went towards fear And the Murji'a went towards hope And his Ahlus Sunnah combined all three What did they do? They combined between all three They came with hope, they came with fear And they also came with love All three of them became present on them But all the other groups, the Murji'a The sects that talk about hope The Khawarij, they took the verses that talk about Punishment and fear And the Sufiya, they took the verses That speak about love Whereas Ahlus Sunnah, what did they do? They took all of the verses that speak about All three of those components Fear, hope and love I mean, guess for the last three or four minutes We can touch upon Because we obviously mentioned now That we've discussed the fear And the hope How can we How can we Build, I know that itself is an episode But just a few tips in the last three or four minutes How can we build this love For Allah, since it's part of the discussion We want to end on that note really How can we build this love? Definitely the first thing That a person can increase their love for someone Is the knowledge and the understanding that they have of it Knowing someone Increases your love for them The less that you know The less love that you have for them And definitely the ones who love Allah Are those who know Allah the most Who studied Allah the most I mean, think about it When you didn't know about Allah Or you didn't have much knowledge of him Your love and your desire for meeting And when you see him was very less And the more you learn about him And the more you study his names and attributes The more your love increased The greatest thing that increases love In the hearts of the people Towards Allah Is having to what? Is having to know his names and attributes Studying his names Each of Allah's names has a meaning in it Allah's names are And they are And they are Allah's names, they are not just mere names They are names that have meaning in it And each name has a meaning that comes out of it Ar-Rahman There's a characteristic in the Sifat Al-Rahma Masih Study that characteristic Allah has Allah is his name This name Allah has A characteristic of The one that's worshipped You study that The more you study that, the more you realize that I remember one time I was going through the name Al-Ghalib Sorry, Al-Azeez And when I went through Al-Azeez To some group of brothers I said, do you know what Al-Azeez means? Al-Azeez means Al-Ghalib The one when he wants something That will happen the way he wants it No one can stop it I remember when I explained that and I went into examples And I showed this name, Al-Azeez Wherever it came in the Quran In the context that it came in What it meant when it came in the context of the Quran I remember a lot of people They said just that alone itself Increased my Eman a lot And SubhanAllah made me realize Al-Azeez This is it, Al-Azeez So the reality is the person The more he studies the names of Allah And the more he learns about Allah The more he loves his creator Allah Azza wa Jalla What about from the From the aspects of We've obviously mentioned one of the ways To increase the love for Allah is The Names and attributes Learning name attributes and learning about Allah But what about Other certain Acts of worship Other certain practices That can also increase us In the love for Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala The righteous people that you're with The people that you hang around with Definitely they can increase your love For Allah ta'ala There are people when you go and you sit with them They don't even need to say much You just by being around them You increase your love for Allah And your iman will increase You can see that your iman has grown Just in that gathering And this is something Allah Ta'ba Commanded his prophet to do Be patient with these righteous people Muhammad Be with them The third thing is To be in the gatherings Of Knowledge and information Religion is being taught This also increases your In that gathering where you see a lot of people studying And they're learning and the environment When it came to the ayah wasbih When it came to the ayah wasbih He said it means the Halakat where fiqh is taught The religion is being taught That this is what it's By So definitely Seeking knowledge Being with righteous people And definitely reading about the biography Pious predecessors Another thing that pops to mind Is that something that People either Neglect or go in extremes Or acts that don't Confer or aren't From the teachings of the prophet Muhammad Is to try and gain this love An important aspect Is also making zikr, remembrance of Allah Like I said we have some people who Maybe do that by Doing things that weren't from Islam Like dancing or singing And say this is remembrance of Allah But reality Remembrance of Allah Like reading the Quran What would you recommend For those people who say We want to get closer to Allah What is the best Or the Given a few pointers Should I say The correct ways to Make remembrance of Allah Instead also should increase your love For Allah because if you're always remembering somebody And to Allah is the best of examples You will also gain some attachment to them So this is also an important aspect So what are the main steps that they should do Or how should they make this zikr I personally honestly believe Me especially What I do is I read Every night I have it next to my bed I try to take every Night some portion out of it Something page or two through your page And in months you see us Four or five months you finish the Tafsir And you start again Having knowledge of this Quran It really bonds you with Allah And you realize your creator There are stories in there There are things that took place Allah says You see the Quran when it gets Detached from you And you're not connected to the Quran Allah tells us Your heart becomes Harden And where does love come from Comes from the heart Your heart is dark and dull So not knowing the Quran And not knowing what Allah is saying Because remember when I just said Having to know Allah's names and attributes Allah has an attribute which is speech This is the direct relationship With Allah Azza wa Jalla Which is the Quran The Quran is the speech of Allah So the person By reading the Quran He becomes connected to Allah And without a shadow of that I've not seen anything increase my Eman More than the Quran We're coming on today inshallah And also may Allah reward you all for tuning in Give us some good steps there inshallah On how to not become complacent And at the same time How to have love The fear and the hope In our hearts Fear and the hope In Allah and until next time inshallah Same time, same place Assalamualaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh