 وَأَقُولُوا فِي القُرْآنِ مَا جَاءَتْ بِهِ أَيَاتُوهُ فَهُوَ الْكَارِيمُ الْمُنْزَالُهُ وَأَقُولُوا قَالَ اللَّهُ جَلَّ جَلَالُهُ وَالْمُصْطَافَ الْهَاديِ وَلَا أَتْ أَوْوَالُهُ الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على المبعوث رحمة للعالمين نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته نبدأ بصعب الله بسأل الله عزا وجل to إقصال دمانشن وغرن بيستاء محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم لأسلام to his family and his companions مرحباً في آخر أبسوط من this brand new series Ramadan Droplets one point of benefit every single night in the month of Ramadan and tonight the benefit that we would like to share with all of you إن شاء الله تعالى is that this month of Ramadan is the month of إخلاص it's the month of sincerity and إخلاص has a very important position in every act of worship that a Muslim does and that's why Allah عز و جل He said فدعوا الله مخلصين له الدين call upon Allah making the religion sincerely for him alone and Allah عز و جل said قل إني أمرت أن أعبد الله مخلصاً له الدين صورة الزمر eye number 11 say indeed I have been commanded to worship Allah making the religion sincerely for him alone and all of us know the ayah in suratul bayna وما أمر إلا ليعبد الله مخلصين له الدين حنا فا ويقيم الصلاة ويؤتوا الزكاة وذلك دين القيمة the only thing that they were commanded to do the only thing they were commanded to do is to worship Allah making the religion sincerely for him alone turning away from all acts of polytheism and to perform the prayer and to give the zakah and that is the upright religion we know that Allah عز و جل singled out إصورة إنه قرآن صورة الإخلاص قل هو الله أحد الله الصمت لم يلد ولا ميولد ولم يكل له كفوة أحد and to give you an example of just how important the issue of إخلاص was to the early generations the Salaf al-Salih from the companions and the tab'een and those who followed them with good I'm going to quote to you the statement of Abu Muhammad عبد الله بن أبي حمزة رحمه الله تعالى it's a beautiful statement just showing you how important teaching the people إخلاص sincerity to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and the right knee was in their eyes he said he said I wish that there were among the great scholars of Fiqh the Fuqaha those who would not have any other job no other job except to teach the people their intentions in the action that they do ويقعد إلى التدريس في أعمال النيات ليس إلا and that person would sit down and hold classes with no other reason and no other purpose than to teach the people their niyat to teach the people their intention and that would be the classroom that would be the job of that scholar of Fiqh to sit that great knowledgeable person that great Imam would just sit all day teaching the people sincerity in the niyat he said he said because what really caused many people to lose and to go astray was the fact that they got lost when it came to their niyat this is what caused many many people to get to be lost and cause many people to go astray was because they got lost when it came to their niyat they lost the right intention towards Allah سبحانه وتعالى and there is a beautiful hadith this hadith is the hadith of Obayy ibn Ka'ab and the hadith is narrated in Musnali Imam Ahmad and others the Prophet ﷺ said بشر هذه الأمة بالسناء والدين والرفع he said give glad tidings to this umma that they will have a high status السناهية means العلو والارتفاع means highness and they will be raised up and they will have a dean their religion is the one that will remain and will stay and areرفع and they will be raised up and given a high position والنصري والتمكيني في الأرض and they will have victory and they will be established on the earth and then the Prophet ﷺ he said فمن أعمل منهم عمل الآخرة للدنيا لم يكن له في الآخرة من نصيب and whoever among them does the actions of the akhira for the sake of the dunya does the actions of the akhira for the sake of the dunya they won't have any share in the akhira at all so what is إخلاص my brothers and sisters in Islam إخلاص it is إفراد الحق سبحانه بالقصدي في الطاعة it is to single out Allah سبحانه وتعالى in your intention for doing good deeds وتخليص العملي من الشوائب وتصفية الفعلي عن ملاحظة المخلقين and it is to get all of the to purify all of the deeds from the things that take it away from being accepted by Allah سبحانه وتعالى things that would if you like cause your deeds to be or things that would take away from your deeds things that would deviate or divert your deeds away from Allah سبحانه وتعالى and to purify your actions from ملاحظة المخلقين from being seen by the creation and the creation sort of people saying or look at the way this person prays look at how excellent their prayer is look at how generous they are to clean your actions away from this and then even not only that but also وهو التوقي من ملاحظة الخلق حتى عن نفسك and it is to protect your deeds from people seeing them and people commenting on them even from your own self and you remember in the hadith about the seven that are shaded under the shade of Allah on the day when there is no shade except his shade is the person who gives a صدقة the person who gives a صدقة and he gives that صدقة فأخفاها he keeps it so hidden حتى لا تعلم شماله ما تنفق يمينه until his left hand doesn't even know what his right hand gave and that is what a wonderful example of what it means to hide your deeds even even from yourself even from yourself you don't become impressed with your own deeds you don't seek to adorn your own deeds you seek to purify it from anyone seeing it except Allah سبحانه وتعالى and anyone who praises your deeds that doesn't concern you what concerns you is only what is with Allah سبحانه وتعالى even from your own self like the person who gave a charity and hid it to the point that their left hand didn't know what their right hand gave and الإمام ابن القييم رحمه الله وتعالى he said العمل بغير إخلاص ولاقتداء كلمساثر يملأ جرابه رملا يثقله ولا ينفعه الإمام ابن القييم he said actions without sincerity and without following the guidance of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and these are the two conditions for your actions to be accepted they are like the traveller who fills his satchel with sand can you imagine a traveller who has a satchel or a vessel that they store their provisions for their journey like a suitcase or a satchel and in our age it would be like a suitcase and you imagine you're going on a journey and you filled your suitcase with sand يثقله ولا ينفعه it's heavy it makes it burdensome for you but it doesn't benefit you anything and that is the example of the action that doesn't have sincerity for Allah and doesn't follow the guidance of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم it's like filling your suitcase with sand it burdens you and it's a heavy weight to carry it's a burden to carry and a heavy weight to carry but it doesn't benefit you anything in the sight of Allah سبحانه وتعالى some of the pious predecessors used to say ما نزل من السماء أعز من التوفيق ولا صاعدة من الأرض أعز من الإخلاص they used to say nothing came down from the heavens that was more mighty and great and more powerful than success from Allah توفيق for Allah to make it possible for you to achieve that which you are seeking to achieve success from Allah and nothing came up from the earth more mighty and powerful than sincerity and that is why ابن المبارك رحمه الله وتعالى he used to say رب عمل صغيرٍ تعظمه النية ورب عمل كبيرٍ تصغيره النية he said perhaps a small action would be made great by a person's intention and perhaps a huge action would be made very small by a person's intention and for that reason from the dua of أمر رضي الله عنه he used to say اللهم جعل العملي كله صالحة Oh Allah make all of my actions righteous وجعله لوجهك خالصا and make all of my actions sincerely for your face ولا تجعل لأحدٍ فيه شيئا and don't give anyone a share of the actions that I do and that is a beautiful dua and it's a dua that we can learn and we can practice in Ramadan we need to understand that the only way that our Ramadan can be accepted all of the actions our prayers our fasting our recitation of the Quran is if it is sincerely for the sake of Allah if we purify those actions and clean them from anything that would deviate and take them away from Allah سبحانه وتعالى and that we clean them and purify them from being seen from people and doing things to be seen by people and for people to speak about you and talk about you and praise you and even to hide the actions from yourself and this dua is a wonderful example and a practical example of how we can implement that for ourselves and how we can ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to make our actions righteous and the action which is righteous is the action which is in accordance with the Sunnah of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and how we can make our actions sincere by asking Allah عز وجل وجعله لوجهك خالصا ولا make it only for you because without the help of Allah عز وجل we won't be able to make our actions sincere and don't give anyone other than Allah a share of the wonderful actions that you do in Ramadan or outside of Ramadan and that's what Allah عز وجل made easy for me to mention on this beautiful and important point of sincerity and Allah عز وجل knows best وصلى الله عليه وسلم على نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين السلام عليكم if you're enjoying these videos and you'd like to keep up the date with all of the courses we're going to be running make sure you head over to amauathome.com