 يتوقف عندما يتوقف. الله أتبار الله. أتبار. الله أتبار الله. أشهد أليا. الذي تسأل بيه والأرحام. إن الله كان عليكم رقبة. يا أيها الذين أمن الطق الله جديدة. يصلح لكم عمالكم. ويعفق لكم ظلوبكم. ومن يطع الله ورسوله فقال الفازا فوزا عظيما. أما بعض فأن أصطق الحديث كتاب الله. حبي محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم مشهر المور مش نثاتها. فكل محدثة بلعب كل بلعب ضلالة وكل ضلالة في النار. الحمد لله الحمد لله الذي أنزل على عبده الكتاب ولم يجعل له عبجا. الحمد لله الذي هدانا. الحمد لله رب العالمين. أشهد أن يفعل الله أن يكون رائع and majestic. رفع and exotic. أشهد أن يفعل الله أن يفعلنا with the great gift of Islam. إيمان عادي رضي الله عبن. يبقى أخبره. إِنَّا مِتْنَعِيمِ الدُّنْيَا إِنْ يَكْفِيكَ الْإِسْلامُ وِنِعْمَتْهَا From the blessings of this world is that Islam suffices as a blessing. إِنَّا يَكْفِيكَ الْإِسْلامُ وِنِعْمَتْهَا Islam suffices as a blessing. If we get nothing else from this world as we mentioned many times if we don't get the house of our dream the car of our dream the job the yacht the vacation home the spouse the children but we leave this world we leave this world and the car that we dreamed of the yacht the vacation home two or three vacation homes one in the Swiss Alps for the summer and the light the lights they pass quickly and what remains before some people eternal damnation for some people a period in hell and then thereafter eternal bliss we pray we're in the former category the first category we're the people who it's eternal bliss and no time in hell no time being tormented see since that peace it's eternal bliss وَعِنَّماْتُ وَفْفُونُ وُجُورَكُمْ يَوْمَ لَقْيَانَ فَنَنْ زِحْزِهَ عَلْنَّالِ وِعُدَخِلَا جَنَّةَ فَقَدْ فَازْ وَمَلْحَيَاتُ الدُّنْياعِ إِلَّا مَتَالُ غُرُورُ everyone will taste death everyone will experience death كلُّ نفسِ that it's eternal bliss and then you will be given لتخبأة بفتحنا يجب علينا to use this world لتخبأة من نهاية يجب علينا to use this world لتخبأة حياتنا يجب علينا to be deceived بحيث أننا نكون موضوعا من كل أحيان وإنهاية يجب علينا أن نكون موضوعا بأولينا وماذا والبانون والبعيات الصعلي הو خيرٌ عند ربكة ثوابا وخيرٌ أمالا خطم الممسلك ولكن هذا ليس حالة هذا سيارات على من الككر لكن إذا ككره تفتح ممنوعا what good is icing إذا ككره أفضل ما جيده؟ نحن نقلها جيدا نضع نسخة بشكل جيدا نقلها بشكل جيدا نضع نقلها بشكل جيدا نضع نقلها بشكل جيدا ما جيده؟ إذا كانت تطبيقا من سيأتها؟ فالله تعالى يخبرنا ونحن سنذهب بشكل أسفل هذا كانت المؤسسة من قبل لكنه يخبرنا المان والبنونة زينة الحياة الدنيا المنطقة والبنونة are the adornments of this worldly life they are the icing on the cake they will make the cake look good والباقيات الصالحة تخيرون عند ربكة ثوابة وخيرون أملة but it's the lasting reward from the good deeds that you do starting with the remembrance of Allah باقيات الصالحة أصلا it's fun to mean it سبحان الله الحمد لله لا إله إلا الله الله أكبر ولا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله gore file is Allah all praises for Allah there is no god but Allah Allah is the greatest there is no strength or power except with Allah the reward from that that's what's best with Allah as a reward and that's the best thing to hope for which tells us the remembrance of Allah in this world that's the cake the remembrance of Allah in this world that's the cake so we have wealth in children but we don't have a life that's filled with the remembrance of Allah we're putting icing on a round cake on a spoiled cake يا إله الذين آمنوا آمنوا ذكروا الله ذكروا كثيرة are you believers remember Allah abundantly فذكروا لي أفكركم وشكروا لي ولا تكفرون for me I will remember you give thanks for my blessings and don't be an ingrate that's the cake the children the wealth the ya the car the house all of that that's the icing brothers and sisters make sure the cake is sound make sure the cake is delicious make sure the cake is sweet and then the icing will be appropriate but we want it what we want to talk about is Allah تعالى saying in the Quran I will put Allah in a shape on your regime يا إله الذين آمنوا تقوا الله ويتقوا إليه الوثيلة وجاهدوا فيه سبيله لعبواكم تفرحون are you believers be mindful of Allah and then mindfulness translates into implementing His orders and avoiding the things He's prohibited in order to ward off with that obedience the punishment of hell that's what taqwa means to ward off so to ward off what to ward off the punishment of hell through our obedience of Allah سبحانه وتعالى that's what taqwa is يا إله الذين آمنوا تقوا الله so ward off the punishment of hell and the asul again of taqwa is avoiding the prohibition avoiding the prohibition and then some say it's avoiding the prohibition then are implementing the orders امتثال العوان امتثال العوان امتثال العوان and avoiding the prohibition امتثال العوان and avoiding the prohibition امتثال العوان that's the essence of taqwa and it comes from a consciousness and an awareness of Allah so some people translate taqwa as God consciousness and some people translate taqwa as piety or living a life that's guided by the commandments and prohibitions of Allah but it's both really it's a consciousness that gives birth to implementing the orders and avoiding the prohibitions so Allah تعالى orders the believers يا إله الذين آمنوا تقوا الله and then he orders us وابتخوا إليه الواسيلة and then seek the means that lead unto him those who say that taqwa is avoiding the prohibitions when they say وابتخوا إليه الواسيلة is undertaking those acts of worship that draws near to Allah سبحانه وتعالى so the واسيلة in that opinion are the العمل الصالحة the righteous deeds the righteous deeds that we undertake our prayer our fasting our recitation of Quran our night prayer our Allah our adhqa our commanding the good and forbidding the wrong our lowering our gaze from those things forbidden from us all of those things constitute the واسيلة we ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to give us that واسيلة He is ordering us وابتخوا and then seek out يعني اطلواه seek out إليه الواسيلة those means that draw near to him some are of the opinion at taqwa as you mentioned امتذالة وابتخوا وابتخوا he is both implementing the orders and avoiding the prohibitions and some scholars that being they say the واسيلة is a station in jannah that the prophets of Allah عليه وسلم said is reserved for one servant of Allah and he said to ask Allah pray to Allah that I am that servant when we hear the adhan to ask Allah you say اللهم ربه هذه دعوة التمدة والسولات رقاهية آتي سيدة المحمد الواسيلة والفضيلة وبعث مقام المحمودة الذي وعتها and that واسيلة that مقام محمود the واسيلة is the مقام محمود and it is a station in jannah reserved for one servant and that is واسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم and then the logical question would be why is Allah not asking us to seek that station وابتغو أنتم وابتغو أنتم وابتغو إليه واسيلة so based on that understanding there appears to be a contradiction but in reality there is no contradiction because we are told by the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم if we pray for him to have that station and then we understand as he informed one of the companions who asked him صلى الله عليه وسلم متسع when is doomsday when is the end of it all متسع and the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم from his wisdom he didn't begin he didn't begin did not begin to enumerate this or that sign rather he said to his companion the one who asked him he said مَعْدَتَلَهَ what have you done to prepare for it so we can know all the signs we can know all the signs of the dead jack know what he looks like what's going to happen when he comes all the signs but we never take time to memorize the first ten verses of the plural cat we haven't done anything to prepare ourselves to protect ourselves from the fitna of the dead jack because those ten verses are protection from the fitna of the dead jack so what's better to know all of the signs or to do something to prepare ourselves for the fitna what's better we have to have our priorities and our systems this is a religion of action not a religion of talk الله تعالى condense the people of talk كبرى مقتل عند الله يا أيها الذين آمنوا لماذا تقولون ما لا تفعلون كبرى مقتل عند الله ان تقولوا ما لا تفعلون are you believers why do you say that what you don't do it's grievously hate it with the law you say that what you don't do كبرى مقتل عند الله those who understand Arabic and not a person like me who studied Arabic it's not my native tongue those who Arabic is their native tongue when that expression falls on their ears they shiver they might pass out كبرى مقتل عند الله انتقولوا ما لا تفعلون when they hate it is it with the law that you say that what you don't do this is not a religion of talk it's not a religion of theory it's a religion of practice there are scholars they're known as Orientalists they know all the theory they know more theory about Islam than any of any of us I guarantee you they spent their lives studying Islam from a theoretical perspective but most of them they don't practice it even one iota all of that theory renders them less than the most ignorant believer who humbly prays to his or her Lord all of that theory is worthless it only has benefit if it enhances our practice it only has benefit if it softens our hearts it only has benefit if we translate it into something that draws us close to Allah so the prophet asked the man ما عدت لها and he said in one version اني احبو الله ورسولا Verily I love Allah and his messenger the shortest possible version and the prophet said to him صلى الله عليه وسلم انتا معا من احتبات you will be with the one you love and in another version انمارقو على من احبا that a person will be with the one he loves so if the prophet has the وسيلة and we love the prophet we will be with the prophet and we will share in that station انتا معا من احتبات انمارقو على من احبا and so some scholars say الوسيلة هي المحبة ورحمة that is love and mercy that's what the وسيلة is but the first meaning is the soundness that is those righteous deeds we do to draw ourselves close to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and so we pray with Allah telling us in the Quran وابتعويني وسيلة so seek those practices and those actions that draw you close to Allah that's when the Quran وابتعويني واسيلة and the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he taught us to pray اللهم اني اسألوك حبا or Allah asks your love وحبو وحبو من يحبا وحبا من يحبا and the love of those who love you وحبا العمل الذي you love وحبا العمل الذي you love or you love and love of those actions that draws close to your love that's the believer that's the believer brothers and sisters the believer lives a life of devotion the believer lives a life of love the believer has a deep and meaningful relationship with Allah سبحانه وتعالى and the believer because he or she has a deep meaningful rich relationship with Allah سبحانه وتعالى he or she is in dazzle by the word with all of this world he or she is in dazzle we mentioned in a class we had the other day here the saying of Imam Ali when he is asked to describe the righteous people so one of the devout people came to Imam Ali and he asked them سفل المتقيم حتى كأنني أنظروا إليهم describe me the people of Taqwa with so much clarity it says if I am looking at them and one of the descriptions he had descriptions that he had of them he said رضي الله عنه كرم الله وجهة عظم القالق في أنفسهم فسقرة مدونه في عيونهم عظم القالق في أنفسهم the creator has become great in their souls فسقرة مدونه في عيونهم and everything else has become small in their eyes but what's the condition of most of us today عبم الخنق في عيوننا فسقرة مدونه في أنفسهم the creation has become big in our eyes so Allah has become small in our souls that's the condition of most people عبم الخنق في عيوننا we seek refuge with Allah from that we're dazzled by the big buildings and the nice cars and the big bridges and the dazzling lights and the light screen television and the this and the that and the other of the world and it dazzles our eyes it preoccupies our time we spend work and extra job to get more of it we discard what we've paid for so we can go back into debt to pay for more dunya and spend our time that we were freed up the house is paid off the car is paid off the loans are paid off and instead of enjoying taking advantage of that time we can work less it's all paid off and we can devote more and more of our time to the worship of Allah and to deepening our relationship with Allah what do we do? we refinance the house and we get a new car and we get more dunya and we get in debt all over again so most of our time is spent working to pay for that dunya that's become great in our eyes so most of the money is in their eyes and the sincerity of Allah in their lives the righteous people this verse is talking about the people of al-taqwa It's said, O ye who believe in Allah the蔬 of these people this verse is talking about the righteous people and the righteous people that I speak to them and they say فالصغر امادوله في عيونهم. The Creator has become great in their eyes. And everything, everyone other than Him has become small in their souls. May Allah bless us to have that Maqam. Maqa wa Taqwa. La ilhanahallahu. وابتغوه إليه الوثيلة. وجاهده في شبيره. يجي هيدو في سبيله و يشتريب في رأسه هذا هو for the generality of believers هذا هو for the generality of believers يجب علينا to live lives of struggle when we don't struggle as believers that's when the dunya becomes big in our eyes when we don't struggle as believers that's when Shaitan has an opening to our hearts when we don't struggle as believers that's when we lose the sweetness of our faith people come oh Imam Zayn or to someone else fulan ya fulan ya imam ya shey ya shey I don't feel it anymore you know I just don't feel it what are you doing? what are you doing? are you getting up to pray? when is the last time you read a khatam of Quran? when is the last time you got up at night to pray? and you stood before your Lord and you besieged your Lord until the tears started flowing out of your eyes until your heart started longing for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when is the last time you fasted outside of Ramadan? when is the last time you read the matthurah or the weird lapeef or whatever compilation of the fukar as sabah with masat when you're complaining you don't feel it business and every business requires an investment and if you don't make an investment in a business do you get a return? do you get a dividend? it doesn't work like that in the dunya and it doesn't work like that with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and the proof of that Allah ta'ala tells it ya ayyu hallaneena amanoo هل أدلكم على تجارة تنجيكم من عذاب عليم are you believers? shall I direct you to a business a transaction هل أدلكم على تجارة تنجيكم من عذاب عليم or shall I direct you to a covers that will sell you from a painful punishment what's the investment? تؤمنون بالله ورسولي believe in Allah and his messenger والتجاهدون في سبيل الله بأموالكم وأنفسكم ذلكم خير لكم إن كنتم تعلمون and that you strive and you struggle in the way of Allah with your wealth and your life that is best for you if you but knew this is a religion of struggle brothers and sisters this is a religion of getting out of the bag he also said he said they patiently endured the discomfort of a few days in this world in other words they don't seek their comfort in this world because they know if they live a life of struggle and if they live a life of faith they are going to have a nice comfortable rest in the Akhira starving in their grave don't look for your comfort in this world look for struggle in this world work for this religion work for the people of the religion work for the betterment of humanity contribute to the struggles that are going on and we're not talking about some involved thing it might be something simple it might just be forming a group to assist the poor people it might be providing rights to people who don't have cars in poor neighborhoods it might be something simple it might be just going out organizing to tell people about Islam going to the community centers going to the various associations to tell people about the religion to clarify the misperceptions it might be as simple as that but it's going to require effort and sacrifice but that's the nature of Islam وَجَهِدُمْ فِيْصَبِيمِ and again we're not here we're a minority of Muslims we're not talking about fighting some people have to defend themselves in Muslim countries that lands have been invaded and occupied and they're involved in a noble struggle that sometimes is misrepresented by criminals who in the name of their so-called jihad are murdering primarily Muslims putting bombs in market places and places of worship recruiting centers where poor Muslims who can't get a job except in this national police force or go to sign up and some misguided person in the name of what he might think as he had puts a bomb there and blows up 30 or 40 Muslims and discredits the noble struggle of people whose homes and lands have been occupied whose sons and daughters have been murdered unjustly and so they wage a noble struggle against those occupiers that's the lot of some Muslims that's not our lot our struggle is different our struggle is a struggle of education we sit and hear Islam abuse what are we doing to clarify the misperception what are we doing to educate the people brothers and sisters وَجَاهِدُوا فِيْسَبِيلِهِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِهُونَ in order that you will be successful so one of the exigents mentions there are four keys to our success they are all mentioned in this verse faith in man يَا أَيُهَلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا to have a firm faith we should strive to be that strong believer اِن مُؤْمِنَ الْقَوِيْ قَيُرٌ وَأَحَقُرِبُ اللَّهِمْنَا مُؤْمِنَا دَعَيْفُ وَفِيْفُلٍ خَيُرٌ the strong believer is better and more beloved to Allah than the weak believer and in each there is good we should strive to be that strong believer يَا أَيُهَلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِمَانُوا تَقُولَهُ تَقُوَا mentioned implementing Allah's orders avoiding those things he is prohibited or avoiding the prohibitions the ward off the punishment of hell اِبْتِغَارَ الْوَسِيلَة اِبْتِغَارَ الْوَسِيلَة اِبْتِغَارَ الْوَسِيلَة so seeking to do those righteous deeds العمال الصالحات or as we said if we say تقوى as the order implementing the orders and avoiding the prohibition then striving with might and may to love Rasool Allah he is Allah and to revive his sunnah in our lives and then the fourth وَجَاهِبُوا فِي سَبِيرِهِ strive and struggle for his sake for the sake of his religion for the sake of his people for the sake of humanity لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِهُمْ so we pray that Allah SWT that He blesses us with firm faith He blesses us all to be that مؤمن قوي that Allah SWT blesses us with تقوى that He blesses us to be the people of تقوى that He fills our souls with تقوى so that we're eager to implement His orders and we're eager to avoid the things He's prohibited and we ask Allah SWT that He blesses us with the means that draws near to Him that He blesses us with those means and He makes us He blesses us to be amongst the مقربين those who are nearest to Him the مقربين that Allah SWT blesses us to be amongst the يهدين those who struggle for His sake and as you said in a way appropriate for our situation and with wisdom one of our scholars described wisdom and hikmah he said during what is appropriate in the most appropriate manner at the most appropriate time may Allah bless us with wisdom may He bless us to be people who struggle and may He bless us to be successful and if we're sincere and if our faith is firm and we live the life of the believers we will be successful Allah SWT has already mentioned that قد أفلح المؤمنون قد أفلح المؤمنون may Allah bless us to have the blessings of those successful believers أقول قول هذا وستقفل لي ولكم وليسأل المؤمنين وقول السطفل وصلاة والسلام على سيد المرسلين سيدنا وحبيبنا ورسولنا وقر راتي عينينا ومحمد سلى الله عليه وسلم عبدوه ورسول ما الله تعالى بلسس ما الله سطيحنا وإن الله سبحانه وتعالى أن all of those Muslims are struggling everywhere to live a dignified life, to live a life befitting of the believers, to attain their basic human dignity that wasn't given them by the universal declaration of human rights, it wasn't given to them by this or that constitution, it wasn't given to them by some principles that someone introduced, it was given to all of us by Allah سبحانه وتعالى when He declared in the Qur'an ولقد قرمنا باني عادر that we have been noble with the human being may Allah bless us all to attain to that nobility, to maintain that nobility, to hold fast to that nobility may Allah bless us to be successful الله مغفير للمسلمين والمسلمات والمؤمنين والمؤمنات أن أشياء منهم ولا مواقب ربنا نا تذكروا بنا بعد إذهديتنا وحبلنا باللدوك رحم أنك أنت الوحاب ربنا أفرق علينا الصبر واتبت أقدامنا وانصورنا عليهم الكاثمين ربنا أفرق علينا الصبر واتبت أقدامنا وتوثنا مسلمين وعافوا عننا ورحمنا أنتا بولنا خونصورنا علي القوم الكاثمين الله مئنا نعوذ بك من الحمد والحزن ونعوذ بك من العجز والكسل ونعوذ بك من الجمن والبخل ونعوذ بك من غرفت الدين وقهر الرجال الله مقسم لنا من خشياتك ما ترل به بيننا وبين معاصيل ومن طاعتك ما تبلغنا بها جنتك ومن أن يقين ما يهوين علينا مصعب الدنيا وماتعنا بأسماعنا وأصارنا وكوكنا ما احييتنا وجعله الوارث همنا وجعل فأرنا على من ظالمنا وانصورنا على من عدانا ولا تجعل مصعبةنا في ديننا ولا تجعل الدنيا أكبر همنا ولا مبلغعننا ولا تسلط علينا بذنوبنا من لا يخافك ولا يرحمنا يا أرحم الراحنين وعفو عنا ووفينا وارحمنا أنت مولانا فمنصورنا على القوم الكافرين الله منصور المسلمين في كل مكان الله منصور إخواننا المسلمين في فلسطين وفي إراد وفي كاشمير في أفغانستان في باكستان في الهن في البنغال في أفغانستان الله منصور إخواننا the Muslims خلسمال وفي مصر وفو الشام dla الله الله منصور إخواننا our Muslims وفي الشام وفي ليبيا في تونس في الجزائر في مضرب مورتانير في سنغال في بالي في نيجيريا في كل مكان يا الله الله منصورنا this country الله منصورنا in this country الله منصورنا in this country اللهم من أراد خيراً لهذه العمة المحمدية فوضف كو لكل خير ومن أراد شرى ولا هول المسلمين فخفه أخذة عزيز المقتبير اللهم اجعت تدبيرهم تدميرهم اللهم عليك بعدياء الإسلام أنت مولانا فانصرنا على القوم الكافيرين سبحان رب كرب العزة عم ياسقول والسلام على المرسدين والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم أكمل صلاة وحمد الله الله أكبر الله أكبر أشهد والله إلا الله أشهد والنا محمد ورسول الله صحيح على الصلاة