 إن الحمد لله نحمده ونستعينه ونستغفره ونتوه إليه ونأخذ بالله من شرور أنفسنا ومن سيئات عمالنا من يحده الله فلا مدل له ومن يدل فلا هادي له واشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له واشهد أن سيدنا محمد عبده ورسوله يا أيها الذين آمنوا اتقوا الله حقا تقاتل حقا تقاته ولا تموتن إلا وأنتم مسلمون يا أيها الناس اتقوا رفبكم الذي خلقكم من نفسه واحدة وخلق منها زوجها وبث منهم رجالا تثيرا ونساءة واتقوا الله الذي تساءلون به والأرحام إن الله كان عليكم رقيبا يا أيها الذين آمنوا اتقوا الله وقولوا قولا سديدا يصلح لكم عمالكم يوفلكم بلوبكم ومن يتع إله ورسوله فقل فازا فوزا ناظيما أما بعض فأن أصدق الهديتي كتاب الله وخير الهدي هدي محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم وشرد عمور محنثاتها فكل محنثة برعة وكل برعة بلالة وكل بلالة في النار الحمد لله الذي أنزل على عبده الكتاب ولم يجعله إواجاء الحمد لله الذي هدى لله هذا وما كنا للهتدى لو لا انهدان الله الحمد لله رب العالمين كل بلاله يفعله لله الذي يجعلنا إلى هذا الطريق الذي يفتحنا مع الإسلام الذي يفتحنا مع الإيمان ومعنا مع إيهسان كل بلاله يفعله لله الذي يفتحنا مع هذا الطريق في سيفتي ومعنى الله سبحانه وتعالى يفتح and preserve the state of safety and security that we enjoy Our religion and the faith of our religion that it brings to us is founded not on rationality if you will There are rational proofs for Islam There are rational proofs for the existence of Allah سبحانه وتعالى But that's not the foundation of faith One of the greatest foundations of faith is love One of the greatest foundations of faith is love And love is something associated with the qualities of the heart that are unseen So the foundation of love just as the reality of Allah سبحانه وتعالى In terms of his essence is that All of these are from or both of these And many other realities associated with our religion are from the unseen world realm And so we have no immediate rational proof for the existence of these things But we know they're real So Allah سبحانه وتعالى at the very beginning of the Quran Informs us that our faith and aspect of our faith is to believe in the unseen realm In fact this is the first description of the believers in the Quran Where Allah سبحانه وتعالى mentions ألي فلا ميم ذلك الكتاب وذا رعب فيه هدى للمتقين الذين يؤمنون بالغير This is the scripture There is no doubt concerning it It is guidance for those who are aware of their Lord هدى للمتقين and then those متقين The first description Allah gives of them ألدين يؤمنون بالغير Those who believe in the unseen And then when you say ومما رزقناهم ينفقون And they establish regular prayer And they spin from what we have bestowed on them Upon them of the first thing ألدين يؤمنون بالغير So love Which is an emotion that we know is real It is one of the foundations of faith Allah تعالى مينشل فيه القرآن Or before that What we will go to that Allah تعالى مينشل فيه القرآن والذين آمنوا الشبد الشبد حب لله ومن الناس من يتخذوا من دون الله And they love them like love for Allah والذين آمنوا الشبد حب لله That amongst the people There are those who take equals That they love as they should love Allah والذين آمنوا الشبد حب لله Those who believe are more intense in their love For Allah in other words Those things that some people take And they set them up And they love them as they should love Allah The believers are more intense in their love Of Allah than their love for those things Some people take money And they love money as they should love Allah Now there is nothing wrong with loving money In and of itself Especially if one loves money So they can use that money That's one of the people we can envy Like two people we can envy You can envy the person who has much money And they spend it feasibly We can envy the person who has much knowledge And they use it and they share it with people Allah says he made money beloved to us حب الشاوات زينا للناس حب الشاوات من اللساء والبنين والقناتر المقنطرة والقناتر المقنطرة من الذهب والفضلط والقيل المساومة والإنعام والهر ذلك مات عن حيات الدنيا والله عنده حسن المعاب So it's been made more into people زينا للناس حب الشاوات من اللساء والبنين والقناتر المقنطرة ما يتكلم هنا is women but women for men and for children and heaped up hordes of gold and silver وقناتر المقنطرة من الذهب والفضلط والقيل المساومة and branded speeds والإنعام and cattle and cultivated fields that's been made endure and dear that's been endeared to people but the believers love a lot more so they're not going to murder someone to get their farm because they love the cultivated fields because they love a lot more and they know Allah has sanctified the human life and forbidden murder they're not going to go into interest just to be able to buy a house they love a lot more the believers they love their spouses زينا للناس but they're not going to put alcohol in their store because their wife wants the income to go up so she can stop shopping at Walmart and she can stop start shopping at Nordstroms or Saks Fifth Avenue or Macy's tired of shopping at Walmart just sell the alcohol we'll get more money I could shop at Nordstroms so I think I need a new wife وَلَّذِينَ عَامِلُ وَشَدُّهُ بَلِ اللَّهِ those who believe are more intense in their love for Allah than their love for women or men كل day we receive news this one has left this land this one took off hijab why she doesn't think she can get married wearing hijab so you love the guys and what do you love Allah or you think you have the power to bring yourself a wife or a husband now if I make more money even though it's haram it's a real trophy wife you know the kind of wife you walk into the place and everyone turns their head I get one of those kind of wives you've already dehumanized her she's a trophy she's not someone to help you to get to the Akhira she's not someone to cook you good house some food she's not someone who'll be a good mother for your children she's just someone that looks good you can save yourself the trouble just get it some scissors cut out a picture of the most beautiful woman you can go to FedEx Kinko now just get a picture of a super model and the pay the hijab on her and then go to Kinko get it blown up cut it off and paste her onto your arm that's all she is she has no human qualities that you value she's just a trophy go to Acme Awards now I'm on a trophy shake like a beautiful woman and then put Velcro on it so I can stick it onto my arm and walk around with it so you love her more than you love Allah you love the guy more than you love Allah you think that if you get your income up into another higher tax bracket you're going to track that beautiful woman you think if you take your hijab off you're going to track that beautiful guy and you bring it to you not Allah SWT is جهل on top of جهل جهل مركب compound ignorance ignorance of Allah SWT ignorance of the religion compounded ignorance ليس لك من الأمر شيء Allah tells us in the Quran you have nothing to do with anything وما تشاءون إلا إن يشاء الله رب العالمين your will is only effective if it's consistent with what Allah has willed وما تشاءون إلا إن يشاء الله رب العالمين and if it's inconsistent with what Allah has willed it's not going to happen that's how reality works so love Allah please Allah and then pray to Allah with sincerity and then see what happens otherwise people are setting themselves up for failure and they're setting themselves up for frustration إبن عطا إلا the very first aphorism he mentions in his collection من علمات والمن علمات والمن علمات الإعتماد على العمل نقصان الرجاء إن وجود الزلم from the indications من علمات إعتماد على العمل that you're relying on your actions is a loss of hope when you experience a setback or I studied hard for the test and I've flown so where was Allah Allah was there the whole time for wisdom he didn't decree that you pass so where's your faith where's your love for Allah if you love someone and they say wait for me here and they don't show up you keep waiting if you love them she's coming she says she's coming at 5 o'clock don't throw love I'm out you'll wait until midnight in zero-degree weather if you really love her you'll wait until the next day maybe she meant 5 o'clock tomorrow camp out have a sleeping bag people love the 49ers right for a playoff ticket they'll sleep in the parking lot they'll spend the night in the parking lot they'll set a little pup tent up to get a playoff ticket to the 49ers game because they love the 49ers they'll wait for 2 or 3 days standing in line for the 49ers but as soon as what we expect Allah should have done for us because we did what we think will affect something in a long time this creation we give up one of the qualities of love one of the linguistic meanings of love and love يعني اللزوم is constancy even in English we have that meaning and someone we know they're going to be in love for 2 weeks you say you're not in love you're infatuated this will be gone in 2 weeks so you're 13 year old comes you know I love the teacher so okay this will be over as soon as you get your first test result back they'll know you're not in love you're just infatuated love is deep love is permanent love is permanent اللزوم يعني اللزوم اللزوم العرب يقولون بعير محب البعير المحب يعني لازم المكان وحد so a camel that's محب it stays in one place so if we love Allah سبحانه وتعالى we're not going anywhere our faith isn't going anywhere our commitment to Islam isn't going anywhere we're going to be consistent I'm staying right here I'm amazed every day someone apostated what happened where they went to philosophy class and they read a book one book and you gave up your faith and you're going to start thinking about it until I read it in psychopedia and then read the response to that you read the argument you didn't even bother to read the counter argument where's your faith where's your love didn't even bother to read the counter argument to the argument that puts you out of Islam and then you were never fully in Islam in the first place because if you were in it would take someone putting a gun up to your head to have you fake like you're leaving just don't shoot okay I'm not one I'm not one of them put the gun down and you suck شرعنا اللهم شرعنا محمد our رسول الله is that cheap your faith is that cheap you give it up for one little pamphlet ready by some wretched miserable kathar look at the lives of these people look at their lives there's no joy there's no love there's no mercy there's no fulfillment in many cases there's no family meaning for family relationship frustration and bitterness and hatred and anger is coming out in that literature وَالَّذِينَ أَهَمْرُوا شَدُّوا حَبَدِ اللَّهِ those who believe are more intense in their love for Allah ﷻ this is part of our religion love love of Allah ﷻ love of the Messenger of Allah ﷻ صلى الله عليه وسلم لا يُبْمِنُوا حَدُّكم حتى أكون أحبَّ إليه من وَالِدِهِ وَالْوَالَدِهِ وَالنَّاسِ أجمعين لا one of you truly believes until I'm more beloved to him than his father, his son and all of humanity all of humanity صلى الله عليه وسلم this is the foundation of faith there has to be love there has to be love شرعاً الحب أو المحبة ميلٌ نفسي إلا ما تضمنه خيراً شرعي love is the soul inclining towards that which it knows to be good which it knows to be good سوين الله سبحانه وتعالى look at the good of what is done for us there will be a skeptic wow God hasn't been good to me I lost my job I lost my family I lost my brother in a car accident I lost this I didn't have that I was denied this I failed at that I am and what do you get from Allah سبحانه وتعالى if you patiently persevere through all of that life all of that loss permanent bliss for the rest of eternity our life isn't confined to this world so if I lose in this world I'm a loser if I'm denied in this world then I'm undeprived this world as one of the early stages at dunya sa'a this world is just a fleeting moment God has filled this moment with the obedience of Allah we're not living for this world this is one of the great deceptions our minds have been so steep in the materialistic reality that surrounds us we can't see beyond this material world and so if I'm denied in this world I never got the car I wanted I never got the job I wanted I never got the spouse I wanted I never got the kids I wanted I never got the this or the that or the other that I wanted that's half of the problem right there I but besides the point so what do you want jannah or do you want or all of your aspiration confined to this world our prophet taught us to pray in our dua اللهم لتجعل اللهم صور رسول الله لا تجعل الدنيا أكبر همنا ولا مبلغا إلمنا don't make this world this is a prayer يا الله اللهم لا تجعل الدنيا don't make this world أكبر همنا our greatest concern ولا مبلغا إلمنا nor the extent of our knowledge don't make this world our greatest concern not the extent of our knowledge we should be far more concerned about jannah than we are about this world because this world passes look how quickly some of you have grey hair now you remember the last time it's like yesterday you looked in the mirror it was all black it was like yesterday you looked in the mirror masha'Allah تفارق الله it's all black no hena naturally black now you look in this gray this is going to start falling on it's going to get patchy and then we're gone then what? all you thought about was this world all you worked for was this world all your passions and obsessions were collected with this world this world is going no one can deny it then what? اللهم لا تجعل الدنيا أكبر همينا ولا مبلغ علمينا don't make this world our greatest concern nor the extent of our knowledge not all about this world and this is the materialistic orientation of the dominant cultural and civilizational force on this world in this world this materialistic they're not a split in Adam they're not a split in Adam they're not a built tall bridges but they can't figure out a way to make peace between people they can't figure out a policy they can't even reasonably discuss a meaningful policy to keep our kids from going in the schools and blowing each other away as we see for happening every other month or so that's a spiritual disease that there is no insight into by the people by the Adam splitters it's a spiritual disease but if your world is the greatest concern then the love for that world why can't as a nation we can't even have a meaningful national dialogue on youth violence because we can't figure out a way to get around the NRA we can't figure out a way to get around this or that lobby not just the NRA we can't have a meaningful national discussion on Palestine because there's a lobby that gets in the way we can't have a discussion about the problems in our society we can't have a meaningful discussion on many of the critical on alternative energy we can't get around big oil all of this connected to this world and none of it is looking at higher values, higher meaning higher principles اللهم لا تجعل الدنيا أكبرهم منا ولا مبلغ ألمينا don't make this world our greatest concern nor the extent of our knowledge don't make this world our greatest concern or the extent of our knowledge we're in and out young people young people beware of what you're getting in your universities the dominant philosophy is a philosophy that's totally antithetical to any meaningful religious belief the relativist philosophy there is no absolute truth Islam is founded on absolute truth starting with لا إله إلا الله that's an absolute truth that's axiomatic if you don't accept that there's no tawheed if there's no tawheed then it's all relative there are no binaries everything has to be conflated into one meaningless jumble where the whole spirit of the Quran is based on binaries Allah Shaitan faith disbelief إيمان كفر light darkness striving neglect غفلة so when our whole mind is being oriented away from the fundamental axioms that give meaning to the Quran and we're bombarded with this most of it subconsciously isn't any wonder so many young people are pastating we have to reform our education how we educate our serious man we have all of this materialism bombarding us and we can't even systematically strengthen and buttress ourselves against it because any practice or any belief that will provide the vaccination we need against these bacteria our innovations this bidah it's from Tasawwuf Sufism's bidah this whole Muslim project in the face of modernity or we're going to see some things we have never seen in the history of this Ummah like Muslims cannibalizing Muslim murdering Muslims like mass apostasy we've never seen this since Muhammad sallallahu alayhi sallam walked this earth may Allah Almighty give us debates may Allah Almighty give us wisdom may Allah Almighty give us insight may Allah Almighty give us strength may Allah Almighty give us love of Him اللهما إنه الناس ألك حبك وحب من يحبك وحب العمل الذي يقللنا حبك الله we ask you for your love and we ask you of the love of those who love you and we ask you of the love for those actions which convey us to your love يا الله أقول وصلاة والسلام على سيد المرسلين سيدنا الحمد لله إذرا إن الله مناك يتأذو صدول على النبي يا أيها الذين آمنوا صدوا عليه وسلموا تسليه ما الله المرسلين وسلموا بارك على سيد المرسلين عندما نقول تصوف نحتاج تصوف او احد يتحدث عن أي شيء يتحدث عن فرصة There are sound practices that all of the world have this ummah have agreed upon those things that are diseased and cancerous and even dangerous and a lot of the movements and the end of the 19th, that are half of the 19th century that were anti to so forth were reacting to a lot of the things that are not sanctioned but there are good solid practices that can strengthen our hearts and strengthen our relationship with Allah سبحانه وتعالى that we need to examine otherwise we're swimming upstream against a very powerful current and when anyone is in a situation like that they need all the help they can get so if someone can throw us a rope that is suffice Muslims ask yourself one question and we'll stop here because the time is up normal children don't get scared ask yourself this question is anything in any Muslim country Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria even worse than what the Muslims encountered in the jungle hordes Ganes Khan and his descendants swept across the heartland of Islam it doesn't even measure they say 60,000 people been killed in Syria may Allah have mercy and one innocent life is one too many so making a point of not belittling the suffering of our brothers and sisters in Syria or anywhere else but that's one town 70,000 is one town how many died in Savartan how many died when the Mungo hordes swept through and the whole these cities that were like Jannah on earth were raised to the ground and burned to the ground how many died in Bukhara how many died in Tashpin how many died in Baghdad but why were the Muslims able to accept that blow and maintain their composure and maintain their focus and within 3 generations bring those invaders into Islam because they had faith that wasn't going to shake that had love for Allah that they weren't going to abandon even in the dark days even in the dark days that they encountered in the face of that scourge and this is what we need this is what we need in our day and time this is a time for strong Muslims this is not a time if you're weak you're going to be swept away and everyone has the capability to be strong وَاَطَصْرِمُوا بِحَبْلِ اللَّهِ جَمِيعًا وَلاَ تَفَرَّقُوا all of you hold through the rope of Allah everyone can hold on but we have to choose to hold on we have to choose to be strong we have to choose to be steadfast and if we make that choice Allah سبحانه وتعالى will help us Allah سبحانه وتعالى will strengthen us when there is the companions the companions of the cave when they decided that they're going to stand up in the face of their people who were weak and they were going back on their religion what does Allah say about them He says وَقَالُوا رَبُّنَا رَبُّوا سَمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْمِ لَنَّدْرَا مِنْدُونِهِ إِلَاهَا لَقَدْ قُلْنَا إِذَاً شَطَطَا الله سبحانه وتعالى will strengthen their hearts when they took a stand وَرَبَطَنَا عَلَا قُلُوبِهِم إِذْخَامُوا so they had to take a stand first but once they took a stand once they said I'm being strong once they said I'm not turning back once they said I'm not afraid of the Romans and their persecution I'm not afraid of the gladiators I'm not afraid of the lions I'm not afraid of anything they might do to me الله تعالى strengthen them وَرَبَطَنَا عَلَا قُلُوبِهِم إِذْخَامُوا when they stood up and they said رَبُّنَا رَبُّوا سَمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْمِ لَنَّدْرَا مِنْدُونِهِ إِلَاهَا we will call on no other God besides Him other than Him this is what we need today because we are facing some difficult and challenging times and they are coming from many different levels and many directions and many angles and if we are not strong we will be swept away الله تعالى يكلم بسرين هم يوفيل المسلمين والمسلمات والمؤمنين والمؤمنات الأشياء منهم والأموال ربنا لا تزد كلوبنا بعد اذحديتنا وَهَبْ لَلَا مِنْ لَدُونِكَ رَحْمَا إنك أنت الوحام ربنا أفرغ علينا الصبر واثبت أقدامنا وانصرنا على القوم الكافرين ربنا أفرغ علينا الصبر واثبت أقدامنا وتوفنا المسلمين وعفو عنا ووفيلنا ورحمنا أنت مرنا فانصرنا على القوم الكافرين الله نقسمنا من خشياتك ما تعول به بيننا و بين معاصك ومن طاعتك مدبلغنا بهجنتك ومن يقين ما يهون علينا ما الصعب الدنيا وماتيعنا بأسماعنا واقصارنا وك laughterنا ما احييتنا وجعله الوارث مننا وجعو ثقرنا علىما انظالمنا وانصرنا علىما عدانا ولا تجعل fame في national لا تجعل الدنيا أكبر يحمنا ولا مع الدنيا ولا تجعل الدنيا أكبر يحمنا ولا طمي mill ش vec ولا تجعل الدنيا أكبر رحمنا ولا ببلب علمنا ولا تسلط علينا بذنوبنا من لا يخافك ولا يأرحمنا يا أرحم الراحنين وعفو عنا ووفلنا ورحمنا أنت مولانا فانصورنا على القوم الكافرين سبحان ربك رب العزة عما يصفون والسلام علي المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين عكم السلام يا رحمي