Achieving the Goal of Life - Omar Suleiman

Salam alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh so the title is upping the ante right and you guys have been listening to lectures all day long including hospital Gemara so I want to make sure that you guys actually up the ante so I want you to do me a favor and wake up and the way that you're going to wake up usually if I was teaching a class I'd make everybody stand up and stretch but I'm not going to do that I just want you to do me a favor and charlotta Allah when I say takbir for mercy mission and for this incredible event that they've put together I'm the leather incredible work I want you to yell Allahu Akbar at the loudest frequency that you have ever yelled in your life I want this building to fall apart and Rumble ok you guys ready this is going to wake you up in shout lock takbir masha'Allah masha'Allah now somebody needs to reassure the authorities that nothing's going on in here by smellorama raheem alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen whatever Guanella al avoid I mean when I'm Cuba to Latakia Hama Saudi wa sallim wa barik arab dakota suleka muhammad in salalah hardy wasalam while adding he was happy you assalam to seamen kathira dear brothers and sisters Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala says in the Quran Vasari Rua da mafia team Arabic imagine that in our Doha sama well art or a debt limit Akeem Allah subhana WA Ta'ala says and rush towards the forgiveness of your lord and a paradise that is as vast as a Samoa to allow the entire heavens and the earth and it has been promised for an muttaqeen I want you to appreciate how special this ayah is just for a moment because when we talk about the topic of the Sun before Sun can be achieved there has to be something that is called tawa an exact as a level above sign as a step above and I was had a lot reading a book called the principles of happiness and there is a quote in there and the book was based on these principles by a man by the name of Jose Addison and I want you to listen very closely what he sought he said that there are three levels or there are three things that are needed in order to live a happy life three things you're taking notes it's easy it's not hard inshallah something to do something to love and something to look forward to Jose Addison something to do something to love and something to look forward to many times people go through the motions of this life and they don't have any real purpose they go through the motions of this life thinking that they're going to achieve happiness using the same ways and the same methods that so many people have sought to achieve happiness through and gained absolutely nothing but misery and regrets and remorse because at the end of the day they felt nothing they saw nothing they saw that their lives had went to waste and many times people seek as my brother Ahmad would say to be extraordinary but they end up being Extra Ordinary no purpose no purpose and here when we look through these three principles I want you to think about it before we refer back to the Koran why is it that we need these three things if you have two of them you will not be a happy person and this is true Islamic Lee speaking - but let's look at our lives for a moment something to do something to love something to look forward to whenever a person tries to work towards retirement and they've worked their entire lives to have an early retirement and whenever you're a teenager whenever you go to college and yours you're usually susceptible to all the pyramid schemes and all those things that tell you that you can get rich and retire by the age of twenty five and that's not a lie you'll be able to sit back what happens to people when they retire what happens to people when they have money what happens to people when they no longer have a necessity of working you know what they want to do they still want to work they start to feel like they're losing meaning in their lives so that's why you'll see people subhanAllah even towards the end of their lives they have something to love have something to look forward to but they have nothing to do and because of that now we need to start thinking of work they give themselves work I need to walk around this much every day I need to do this much every day because we all need to feel productive we need to feel like there is action in our lives we need to feel like we're working towards something we need to feel like we're being put to good use or else we feel like there is nothing left something to love many times people are very busy and they have a lot of work they make a lot of money they go through the motions of this life Mashal us successful in every single aspect except for spirituality and their family starts to fall apart their businesses are expanding their wealth is expanding their reputation is expanding but the family is falling apart the people that are friends with them are just friends with them because they want their money and they no longer have any meaningful relationships because success has its price they've got something to do they've got something to look forward to but they've got nothing to love and life falls apart the wealth becomes a punishment the success becomes a punishment in this dunya to them and then sometimes people have something to do and something to love but you know what happens to celebrities and people who went after Fame and who spent their entire lives trying to build their rep their rep wire so that they could get to a level where everybody admires them and everybody knows their names you know what happens to them they shave their heads bald and take a baseball bat and start beating people's cars they commit suicide in hotel rooms all they say they want they start having interviews on TV like masakeen poor people and say all I want is to be able to go out with my family and have an ice cream cone without a camera in my face yes Salaam you had that nothing to look forward to the dunya wasn't all that it was made out to be but unfortunately most people will be sheep and they'll go through these motions and they have nothing and you know what dear brothers and sisters one of the most dangerous things from a Dean perspective one of the worst things that can happen to your faith is when you become part of status quo whenever you are on the brink of hypocrisy because the only thing that you do is you meet the standards of society the only thing that you do is you give just enough charity so that people won't say hey you need to give some more charity you go to the Masjid just enough so people don't say hey you need to go to the Masjid you do just enough you give just enough back so that people accept you so that you're meeting society standards and why is that on the brink of hypocrisy what are the two hardest salawats according to the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam I can't hear you guys budget in Asia now masha'Allah when we look at Isis Allah if you go to any method in the country you'll find that Asia is the most crowded Salah and usually fetch it comes at a close number too so we can all say masha'Allah there's no hypocrisy in the Ummah right we're all doing so well or maybe it also lost I seldom said that because you know it's hard to wake up for fetchin because you might oversleep and so on so forth and why did the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam say that and what was the context of that the context of that dear brothers and sisters is that the munafiqeen the hypocrites would not bother themselves going to feza Denisha because at those times you didn't have chandeliers and lights and those types of things you got a pheasant in asia nobody would know you were there anyway so hey I'm meeting society standards look I'm there for the hora awesome Arab think about that for a moment meeting status quo making sure that everything is okay in other people's eyes making sure that I'm doing just enough I give just enough I do just enough so people will say masha'Allah he's a good brother masha'Allah she's a good sister and in reality you know what you're doing you're just as guilty as Tiger Woods when he gets caught sleeping with 20 women and he stands up on the stage and he says I am so sorry or John Edwards in the United States the senator the people's champion who got caught cheating on his cancer stricken wife after they lost their son in a car accident and everyone's analyzing how sincere will his apology be on national TV I am so sorry now before that happened these individuals these people who get caught and exposed they were picture-perfect individuals they were in the magazines with their families holding their kids masha'allah a role model for society but in reality you know what they were guilty of doing they were putting a pretty face to a very ugly relationship and many times we do that with Allah Azza WA JAL we put on a pretty face for an ugly relationship for a very dysfunctional relationship but society can't know how bad it is and think about that for a moment dear brothers and sisters those people when they get caught are they sad are they saying sorry because they actually feel remorseful or are they saying sorry because they face the consequences the societal consequences of those actions because they got exposed where were you when you were actually in the process of committing all of the sin it's just because they got exposed now let's take this back to our discussion about Assad remember we said that there are three principles of happiness what are they hurry up say him back to me you guys need to wake up something too and then and then all of this is answered in the ayah that I read Mossad Yahoo and rush something to do in a mafia Tamara become to the forgiveness of your lord something to love Waja not in our dough has Sanaa an art and a paradise that is as vast as the heavens and the earth Allahu Akbar they're figuring it out now and they're writing books on it but Allah already spoke it 1400 years ago Allah and Allah subhana WA Ta'ala says or a debt limit takign that has been prepared for those who are conscious of a loss of Hanoi to adda and their being conscious of allah subhanallah de leads them to fear Allah subhana WA Ta'ala and beyond all the loss of Hannah Montana and love Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala it's not just any type of consciousness because sometimes you're aware of someone watching you but you don't respect the presence of that person enough to really fear them you're conscious of allah subhanaw taala and because you're conscious of Allah subhana WA Ta'ala you watch yourself and talk what dear brothers and sisters reset it's a prerequisite to a son before we talk about it and we have to talk about taqwa and to summarize taqwa in one sentence as the scholars say taqwa is to avoid alma hace to avoid the sins as our mahaprabhu the allahu ta'ala anhu said when you're walking through bushes thorny bushes and you're making sure that you're not getting poked and if you get poked you don't keep walking and letting your body tear up when you get poked you come back into your path because before we can talk about excelling we need to stay away from those things we need to make sure that the relationship between us and Allah subhanAllah Dada does not have anything that will make it deficient that will make it dysfunctional that'll make it a pretty face to an ugly relationship so allah subhanaw taala says or a debt limit tatin maybe nepal rahim o allah - allah he has a beautiful tafseer' of this ayah why does Allah subhana WA Ta'ala talk about something to look forward to in Jenna because in dunya you see people who have it all who get all the millions of dollars that they want who buy a private island and they're still miserable because this is it there's nothing left and he says Rahim o Allah to Allah in a Magyar aladarro a lira mahalo leeches are e'rybody a loss of Hannah Matata because of that the psychology think about it he has made the ARA the place where he will repay the believers Leana javi it Dow lattice are Mirada and your ugly home illogical because this world cannot fit what Allah wants to give us doesn't have it this world cannot fit what Allah wants to give us well en Ajo Adela de l'homme Allah and your aplia home feed our in la ilaha and because Allah has honored the believers to give he has given them too much dignity and too much honor to give them something that will be given to them or to give them in a world that doesn't have any eternity Allah wants to give us something that lasts well al Kira to hiren what abaca and the ocula is better and everlasting now allah subhanaw taala is going to give us the definition of a son now that we make sure that there is nothing because you know what I don't care how good I don't care how many flowers you bring to your wife if you're cheating on your wife it's not going to help I don't care how nice your words are to your wife to the person that you love if your actions are showing nothing but disrespect then those words become nothing taqwa making sure that everything is selling I have peace with my Creator I'm at peace with my Creator I'm aware of him and that's what drives me now a loss of Hannity Allah is going to give us the definition of Assad Vasari ruin amalfi ottoman rob become a Janet in Auto Doha sama olr or a debt limit up in La Vina un Fiona Fissel wah yuh bah wah well Cal we mean a lathe well a FINA Ananas allahu yuhibbu morrison in listen to these definitions those who give in both hardship and an ease and those who swallow their anger and those who part in people and allah loves al-muhsinun allah loves those who excel think about this for a moment you know they're brothers and sisters whenever there is a fundraiser everyone's going to be looking around for the wealthy if I'm doing the fundraiser I'm going to be looking around I'm going to ask the organizers of this conference I'm gonna say who are the usual donors who are the millionaires in this conference who are those who always give where the doctors where are the engineers where the people that are a high-level those are who we need to identify to give fisa bitola and no one's going to look to the one who's having a hard time in his life and say hey you need to give fisa bitola no one's going to look to the blue-collar worker and say hey give feasable a lot no one's going to say that to him people don't expect it but a lot expected people don't expect it society doesn't expect it what society expects is that those who have lots of money have to give a portion back so celebrities and athletes who care nothing about the world and who care nothing about social justice and who care nothing about the starving children in Africa will make sure that they establish a charity foundation because that's what society expects but no one's going to come up to you when you're having trouble paying your bills and say ah hey Givi Sibylla because it's not expected of you but the moissan they one who excels expects that of himself he puts himself to the test and that's why the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that one Didem exceeded in Baraka and reward 100,000 dalams think about that for a moment how's that possible yatta solo law because Sahib will tell him the guy who gave one he only had two he only had two whereas the guy who had a hundred who gave a hundred thousand had LFL if he had a million a thousand by a thousand so which one suffered more as a result of what he gave the guy who gave one that one dirham means more in the sight of allah subhanaw taala than the 100,000 dinars why it wasn't expected it wasn't expected what is X and their brothers and sisters whenever gibreel alia salam asked the prophet sallallaahu re wa suleman hadith jubilant and taboo de la haka and NECA torah that you worship allah subhana wa ta'ala as if you see him and if you can't see him then you know what you know he sees you and that's what drives you no one expects you to give whenever you're in hardship but you know what push yourself to give push yourself to give not because people expect it from you not because society has those standards but because your standard is with allah subhanahu wa ta'ala while Cal they mean alive and those who swallow their anger you know everyone expects you to have a cool head and to not have a bad temper when everything is okay but if someone was to walk up to you and to call you a name or to say something about your mother or to offend you or to insult your Kabila or tribe or whatever it is then society expects you to respond no one's going to tell the guy that just got offended hey you have no right to respond though you have every right to respond that's justice you have every right to respond to that attack you have every right to respond to that assault you have every right to respond to that disrespect everyone expects you to respond but you know what that person has a different standard I'll tell them inna life those who swallow their anger you know subhanAllah when we talk about anger you know it's not controlling your temper when someone comes to you and someone offends you and you say may Allah forgive you alike for lokahi elias am hockey aki may allah forgive you you're actually using that door as an attack because you're telling the guy that you're wrong may Allah forgive you you're yelling it at him everyone expects you to do that or if it shows on your face or if you go huffing and puffing right clenching your fists letting it show on your face the prophet sallallaahu alayhi assalam with abdullah blow Maktoum you know what he did Ibiza you know what a bursa is this literally the two lines that you would see in your forehead that's our boosts if a person just does this not flower will a hotel a Bella Notte may Allah forgive you and may Allah do away with you know her boosts but he's a moistened Salah la rasilla means the greatest mercy Allah holds him to a higher standard and you know what you should hold yourself to a higher standard just because people expect you to respond just because it's justice for you to respond hold yourself to a different standard and swallow your anger and sages Alcala have does a collage let it go you know why because you want Allah who has every right to be angry with you and I to not be angry with us on the day of judgement and then finally allah subhanaw taala says well I've been on in us and those who part in people if someone takes your rights and this is the difference between an eye for an eye and a turn your other cheek it's right in the middle if someone takes your hug from you you have every right to request it back you have every right to demand justice Islam gives you that right but Islam tells you what in the law a little bit added well X on allah commands you in joins you with justice and compassion what is the ice on that allah is talking about compassion because justice without compassion will be worthless you should show mercy you should sow compassion you'll be rewarded inshallah but if you choose to take your right that's fine if you don't in Nidal ECAL Amin Osman amore that is a matter that requires determination Ezra who Allah his reward is with Allah Azza las plantas and sorta shorter no one expects you to say go society expects you to take her right back but if you're a Morrison like abu-bakr as-siddiq or the allotted I'm home I want you to imagine the situation dear brothers and sisters abu bakr as-siddiq radiyaallahu anhu his daughter aisha radi allahu anhu was slandered with the worst slander accused in her chastity and that hurt the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam wobbu Beckett loved more than Aisha and that hurt his own daughter not only that but one of the men who passed the slander was Miss la a relative who Abu Beckett or the allotted on who used to give charity to on a routine daily basis you imagine if it turns out that the one who caused your daughter and your most beloved prophet salaallah alayhi wasallam the one who caused them that pain was one that she used to give money back that's used to give money to all the time if anything you can go to the guy and say look I'm not going to beat you down I'm not gonna beat you with a baseball bat but give me back the money if anything it's only normal we would expect that we would do that go down and say at least give me that money while I was giving you money to live you were slandering my daughter give me my money back or at least go to him and say you should be ashamed of yourself I don't want the money back but you should be ashamed of yourself I will Beckett love the law I know when he found out about the slander of I some of the alotta and he only said one thing he said subhanAllah twas mr. I'm not gonna give him charity anymore seriously I'm not going to give him charity anymore that's it but on top of that Allah Azza WA JAL reveals in the Quran fairly a fool well useful I lied to highborn on your feet allahu alaikum let them forgive and let them pardon don't you love that Allah will pardon you subhanAllah well why if we remember this ayah all the time it would completely refine our whole oak and our character and completely redefine our interactions with one another wouldn't you love that Allah forgives you and pardons you because you know what on the day of judgment rasoolallah Salem says man you casually zap lib whoever is held accountable and another Lee Weyer in the home ensue Alejo Mel Fiamma italic as for the one who is asked on the day of judgment he will perish and I shall of the allow on hysteria Rasul Allah but doesn't Allah say I'm a man OT ajita bajo be a meanie for sofa you has a bhai sobbing a serie as for the one who receives his book in his right hand he'll have an easy accountability rasoolallah solemn says dolly can audit that's the presentation of your deeds but if Allah starts calling you out on each and every single one of your deeds or zip you will perish and you will be punished Malayalam Nahum whoever does not show mercy mercy will not be shown to him you want a lot apart in you pardon others because you're seeking the pleasure of Allah subhana WA Ta'ala allow your head wound worsening and a lost panel to other loves those who excel and one more ayah there brothers and sisters Allah continues well Lavina Edith a loofa he shot an oval a mournful home that Carol law a festival thoroughly than over him and those who whenever they commit a fahisha a sin something that is not befitting olala mournful home are they wrong themselves they don't remember oh wait the community is going to say this oh wait now my career is over now my reputation is going to be dragged through the mud remember they're thinking only for Allah that cat Allah they remember Allah festival thoroughly the dhobi him so they say they ask allah subhanaw taala for forgiveness and Allah consoles the believers what my yahoo knows the noble Allah who would forgive your sins except for Allah subhana WA Ta'ala when I'm your civil I die my fellow alum won and they would never be able to bring themselves back to that same sin over and over and over and over again knowingly being aware of a loss of Hana Tata watching them dear brothers and sisters all of this that we just described as a sod all of this is called ignoring society standards ignoring the status quo ignoring what people expect of you and looking to what Allah expects of you and looking to the pleasure of allah subhana wa ta'ala and not worrying about what other people say and not worrying about what other people think only being concerned with the opinion of one Allah and I just want to end with one thing dear brothers and sisters and I want you to think about this Allah Azza WA JAL says in the Quran little Adina Oksana Luna was yada for those who have exon is a listener those who excel they will have an excellent reward and more now in who's na is antenna and we already mentioned here with a la semana to Allah mention what he has prepared first in terms of agenda and that it's something that's not befitting to be given in this dunya because if it's given in this dunya then it won't fit and if it's given in this dunya then it won't last and dear brothers and sisters the Sahaba oestrus allah salallahu re us alone we understand busines we understand that Allah will give us a hearse 'no agenda what's more than Jenna what could possibly be more than Jenna what is was yada and what did the prophet sallallaahu re wa salam say another o inna llaha la another illa what she loved to stare at the face of Allah the one who you were working for the whole time the one who when you used to come to salah as the brother was mentioning the chef was mentioning you were coming because Ben was stack heart that was missing him looking forward to that conversation that dialogue with Allah the one who was that you were remembering when anyone was harming you you would say alhamdulillah Allah will have something better the one who won any hardship struck you you remembered him and you said in la laa laa la Roger oon we belong to him and to him we returned anyway that one a los Panna Hatala getting a chance to stare at his face and some people get to stare at him and al done every day some people have it twice a day some people have it once a week getting a chance to consistently look at him subhana hotarla because you love him and that love that you had for him it drove you everyone has something that drives them everyone has something that gets them out of bed every morning everyone has something that drives them to work and gets them through the day the believer has pursuing the love of allah subhanahu wata'ala and even if and listen very closely to this the mentality of the moissan is as such even if allah did not have a Jenna prepared for us or a hellfire from which we seek refuge in him you still would not disobey Allah you would still love him and that would still be enough of a driving force as ahmad al khattab radhi'allahu ta'ala anhu said about Sahaba roaming or the allah tala know even if there was no heaven or hell even if allah spanner to allah did not prohibit disobedience let me he would never be able to disobey allah subhana wa ta'ala cuz that's how intense his love is for him I want you to think dear brothers and sisters the next time you're in a situation the next time you're in a gathering the next time you think about who you are the next time you think about the hadith of alors bah of being strained ask yourself are you even ascending amongst your family members are you even the moisten in your family or are you at a level less than your parents less than your brothers and sisters you need to ascend and set a different standard for yourself because you know what happens we get divided into these cliques you have the religious crowd you have the secular crowd you have the crowd that's in between they'll perform all the rituals and things of that sort but whenever there's a real inconvenience in life they'll go back to the secularism and we belong to with one of these crowds somehow you get fit into a crowd don't worry about the crowd think about a loss of Hanna Hoda and if you are concerned with what Allah thinks of you then you won't care what other people think of you and that will drive you have any of you ever heard of Maslow's hierarchy of needs raise your hand if you have what is the top level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs somebody tell me self-actualization self-actualization you know what the definition of self-actualization is that the person becomes independent of the opinion of others span Allah the person has security a sense of security self-esteem confidence self-actualization realizing that they don't need to worry about what other people think of them they've set new standards for themselves they have a mission they have a vision and what do we know from Sufyan well the allah tala I know What did he say ha ha ha min Cal would do felt cool ooh hey linen Facundo Letty faux pas - Rob - Rob if you if I have your love o Allah then everything else becomes worthless because everything that's on top of this dirt is in and of itself dirt if I have your approval if I have your love if I have your standard if I have your guarantee and if I have your pleasure your Labuan I don't care about anything else the next time you find yourself in a fund raiser and you find yourself that you know I'm thinking about well I don't have too much money I'm struggling give give to show a loss of Panama to Ana that I'm only worried about what you think of me the next time someone offends you or insults you and everyone expects you to respond swallow your anger and smile in their face and say does a collage a Rakhi you have any advice Salam aleikum the next time someone takes a right from you forego that right make their art for that person and say oh Allah I pardon that person in hopes that you would pardon me and the next time you go into your Salah make sure that the only one you're concerned about watching you is allah subhana wa ta'ala and you visualize yourself standing in front of Allah subhana WA Ta'ala in a dialogue with Allah Azza WA JAL and with that dear brothers and sisters we would achieve taqwa and we would achieve a son and we would achieve the Leblon of Allah subhana WA Ta'ala we ask Allah subhana Allah to grant it to us we ask Allah to love us we ask Allah subhana WA Ta'ala to make us amongst those who love him and we ask Allah subhana WA Ta'ala to make us amongst those upon whom he lavishes praise because you know what dear brothers and sisters right now what is the loss of Hannah - Allah saying to the Malaika Allah is saying to the angels that reported to him said we found this Mejlis we found this gathering of people remembering you Allah subhana WA Ta'ala is saying if he loves us yeah gibreel in knee or hip before lon o debride I love that person so you love him too so ghibli will love him and gibreel alehissalaam will go and will call upon all of the inhabitants of the heavens and say in allahu yuhibbu fool and boo a loss of Hanoi to Allah loves this person so you should all love him too for yuhibbu al-assad ah and so all of the inhabitants of the heavens love him and as for the earth the people of the earth the inhabitants of the earth Rasool acai seller says viola hullabaloo fan art the love of the people is placed in their hearts they start to love that person allah subhanaw taala allows it to descend upon them and a loss of hana tara when he sees this gathering insha Allah to Allah Allah asked the angels what are they coming together for why are they here what do they want and Allah knows the answer and it's just to remember you on a Friday night when they could have been out partying when they could have been out at some Dow at some social gathering when they could have been out here there they chose to come and remember you a loss of Hannah - Atta says to the Angels bear witness that I have forgiven all of them I have forgiven all of them and the Angels save it Ya Allah there is that person amongst them was only here because his family dragged them there is that person who's there because you know what he wanted to go meet his friend social gathering whatever there's that person that's there for some business connection something like that and what will allow the panel's how to say he's forgiven - because no person accompanies such people or sits in such gathering except that he would be forgiven so we ask a lot to forgive us and make us from our sin Dean allama I mean does acaba la jolla Hawaii maha wotty ah coolio kolyada hasta la li walakum wa-salaamu alaikum WA Rahmatullah gotcha

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Length: 37min 46sec (2266 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 23 2013