Finding Purpose in Everything - Sheikh Omar Suleiman

sanam re comin to LA he over the cotton smell ar-rahman rahim hamdulillahi rabbil alameen whatever wanna know what I mean well I have people to didn't with terpene llama somebody was selling Mubarak an Arab Dakota Sudhir Muhammad in salalah haunting him asylum why honey he was luckily he was seldom to seem in kathira dear brothers and sisters i want you to imagine yourself in another existence waking up and you're waking up in a ballroom and in this ballroom everything is hell out I'm not talking about Haram you just wake up and it's a party everyone is having a good time everyone is eating and drinking everyone is socializing with one another and in the midst of this good time you wake up to it and you have no idea how you got to the party you have no idea what your name is or the names of everyone else's you don't really understand where you are you don't really understand the purpose of this gathering but everyone is having a good time it's a five star ballroom the carpet is nice you have nice chandeliers you have good food good drink and you ask someone and you say where am i and they don't give you the answer and then they continue to give you something else to eat in something else to drink and you continue on and you start socializing but you say what am I doing here and no one has the answer how did I get here no one has the answer and you continue to go forward if you were in that situation no matter how nice the chandelier was how good the food was how good the drinks were how great the socializing was you're going to become increasingly frustrated and at some point you're going to lose your mind because you don't know why you're here it doesn't matter how great everything is I don't understand what is in the first place and so when we talk about creation and when we talk about the question of we are here the question of existence as a whole I want to give you something very simple to start off this entire conference if I understand why then how and what will always be easy if I understand why then how and what will always be easy if I understand why then how and what will always be easy if I gave you two contrasting images now and these are not images that are made up and it's not like the first situation that I gave you but these are very real things that we see on a daily basis you see a person who has the entire world given to them they have the money they have the fame they have the islands but in the midst of sitting in that paradise and being adorned and being adored they have no idea why they are here and so they dwell in misery and they die in misery compared to someone who seemingly has nothing who has just a little bit to be able to pay their rent to be able to feed their families and just gets by but somehow seems so much more satisfied and the reason being is purpose and when you talk about purpose you cannot just talk about purpose five times a day you cannot just frame purpose within a very difficult time in your life you cannot figure out why you are here when something really bad happens to you when it's hard to think in the first place when your senses are adult but you have to actually have a regular relationship with purpose and the sense of purpose and so this is what I want to speak to you about today when allah subhana wa ta'ala talks about the creation around us he doesn't talk about the creation around us so that we can neglect it and that we can pay attention to it only momentarily you know when allah tells you about the mountains and the skies and the trees and the water and these types of things allah doesn't just want you to think about that in salah when you have your head down this is for you to pay attention in Nephi hulka's annuity will help wasti laughing lady wonder how well Phil Coletti surgery fever Phil battery be my and farah naaz when allah talks about the creation of the heavens and the earth the alteration of night and day the wind that you feel the boat that you see selling the sunrise as it comes the sunset as it goes the grass around you the sand around you the creation of allah all of that is for what to be an ayah to be a sign for you to be in constant interaction with this idea of a loss of hannah.goanna being not just great but you being inconsistent observance of that greatness and so here's what I want us to do not just frame purpose in our five prayers but framing it in our entire lives and so I'm gonna give you a snapshot of what your life looks like through the concept of purpose knowing why you are here and in the process the how and the what becomes easy when the prophet sallallaahu idealist Adam talks about the branches of Iman the branches of faith and he says that Iman has 70 something branches and he said some alone he was solemn that the highest of them is la ilaha illallah the highest branch of faith is la ilaha illallah and the way that their inner not connected this is that that branch is the branch from which all the other branches of faith come out that first branch of la ilaha illaallah and then all the rest of them come out that first branch of there is no god but allah there is no creator but allah there is no sustainer but allah there is no one worth living for but allah there is no one worth unconditional obedience except allah all of that all of the branches of faith come out of that and the prophets lion have said that the highest is la ilaha illallah and he said the lowest one is a mouthful to another an Italian that you remove something harmful from the road and so the prophets line salaam is connecting that faith to a very all thing that you would do in your life to remove something harmful from the road most people would not connect that to that ilaha ilallah how do you even connect that to purpose to the meaning of la ilaha illallah and when the prophet sallallaahu ardi wa sallam then says that there was a man that he saw strolling in Jenna because the only thing that he did was he saw something harmful in the road he saw other in the road and he picked it up and he removed it so that the path could be East for people and a loss of Hannah wata'ala eased the path of Jenna for him the first lesson from Rp the perspective from a Creed perspective is that Allah was willing to forgive this person to answer this person into Jenna for the smallest deed that he did in his life because he connected it back to allah subhana wa ta'ala and i'm to love nor model the alar and who used to say something very beautiful he said well I if I knew analodjica be limini such a certain wahida if a loss of Hanuman Allah accepted from me one prostration if I knew that Allah had accepted just one of them the terminate to note I would wish for death because I would have already achieved the purpose of life which is acceptance from the Creator if I knew for sure that that one prostration that one sense though was accepted by Allah I would have wished for death I want nothing more in life because it's already been given to me but instead we don't know where the pleasure of Allah is so we continue to do these small things connecting them back to that ilaha ilallah hoping that just one of them one of them Allah looks at and Allah finds us worthy of his acceptance so that's the first lesson from this hadith but the second thing is not just that this person was walking on the side of the road or what and saw something harmful and removed it it's that that person connected it back to Allah subhana WA Ta'ala he was intentional about what he was doing he was purposeful about what he was doing he made a mental and emotional a spiritual connection to that act and that's something special that's what takes a small deed and makes it a mountain in the sight of allah subhana wa ta'ala because it's not the eyes of the good deed that makes it accepted to allah subhana wa ta'ala it's the heart that's performing the good deed and making that connection to allah subhana wa ta'ala but that's not a person that just figured that out in one moment that is a person that has been working on himself that's a person that sees a loss of han huachen and everything that he does that made a connection between the garbage that was on the street and the obligation that he has to the one who created that stream and how do we make a connection done you know you can't be listening to a lecture and listening to someone talk about this and say masha'Allah amato to the other on atari removing something harmful from the road and you say sallallaahu i didn't he was southern and you finish your coke can and throw it on the road and continue to walk on your way to the messages you hear another hadith one about a man another about a woman where the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam mentions a man a very famous hadith that we all talk about the Prophet SAW Allah mentions a man who was thirsty one day and so he went to a well he saw well in the desert and he drew some water from that well and then he saw a dog that was thirsty and when he saw the dog that was thirsty most of us would paraphrase the hadith and we'd say he went and he got some water for the dog too but there's something else to it that man looked at the dog as the dog was thirsty and said that that dog has become thirsty just like I was thirsty mr. levy beloved even it out just like I was thirsty that dog too is thirsty so he made a connection to Allah subhana wa ta'ala Allah gave me something to drink when I was thirsty and my position to the Creator is a far greater variation as far as a far greater distance of glory than what is between me and that dog the creation of allah subhana wa ta'ala and someone might not make the connection at all you know a religious Muslim a dog might come to them and when they see the dog they'll say stop with a lot of nudges they'll kick the dog away that's how you practice your religion no this man thought you know I am not greater in the sense of rank I am not greater or more worthy of being taken care of than that other creation of allah subhana wa ta'ala that's a creation of a lot - and a lot took care of me Who am I to deserve that from Allah subhana WA Ta'ala who is that dog to deserve it from me and he took his shoe and he filled it with water and he brought it back to that dog Vishakha Allah Allah and so Allah showed gratitude to him he didn't give what he gave water to the dog why did Allah subhana WA Ta'ala thanked him because the man did that connecting that small act to allah subhana wa ta'ala connecting that vulnerability of that creation to allah subhanho wa taala to his own vulnerability with the creation that I was in need of him and he took care of me this animal is in need of me and I can take care of it in the same way that a loss of Hanna Matata took care of me and Allah answers a person in - Jenna it's not simply giving someone something simple but it is making a very deep connection in the process of it so when you have purpose your small good deeds Latakia on them in America Shia you do not belittle any of your good deeds because you realize that the one you're doing those good deeds for is Allah you're connecting it to create to the creator likewise when you commit a sin as Imam Shafi r-rahim o Allah commented on this idea that the prophets like Sam said Lata did on a Yamaha karate the new beware of belittling sins he said don't look at don't look at Saharan Marcia lot sama-darsinah and Marcia don't look at the smallness of the sin but look at the greatness of the one that you've disobeyed Allah leme al kabir look at a loss of heroines or honor the earth ma the greatness of the one that you have disobeyed so don't belittle your good deeds don't belittle your sins but you frame that once again with the context of the greatness of Allah subhana WA Ta'ala Allah you see the moon so beautiful the moon of Shaban may Allah subhana WA Ta'ala allow us to see the moon of Ramadan Allah humma I mean I want all of you to take a moment and to look up at it and to look up at how clear and how beautiful it is you think that a loss of Hannah Matata just puts that for us just to give a little bit of light in our lives or does he put that for us to also put a light in our hearts to be reminded of him Subhan Allah to hona these are signs that are ever present to show you that you don't put your purpose or your religion in a brake you use it at all times to channel how you interact with everything and so the first thing framing your good deeds the small good deeds and you know subhanAllah we talk about these things as if Allah only used to accept people back then but I want you to think about someone elderly in your family that had a good habit a habit of pave something good that they used to do I remember there was someone in from my family and aunts may Allah have mercy on her and she used to always take some food for the birds she had the bird feeder and you know one time one of her children asked her why she wouldn't miss doing so she only traveled away from her home one time you know they didn't have the luxury that we have of traveling all the time she only traveled one time from her house and she kept on being concerned when she was asking about her home that they made sure that the bird feeder was full and she you know when she was asked about why she was so diligent and these are stories that we have in our families of just righteous people that do small things on the side she said is it not that we seek from allah subhana wa ta'ala that a loss of hannah Wattana sustained us the way that he takes care of the birds that the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said that if you were to have true to echo to true trust in a loss of Hannah Matata that you would be like the birds Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala would always keep your stomach full you leave your house in the morning you come back and you know that you're going to have your sustenance provided to you from a loss of Connaught I don't we have that expectation of a loss of pain or sorrow if that's the case why don't we interact with his creation in the same way so think about small good habits a small good deed that is between you and Allah that people don't expect of you but through it you seek Allah's mercy and you make particularly a connection between that small good deed and your smallness in this world your own vulnerability in this world and keep it up on a daily basis so you don't know which one of those that'll loss of Hannah Todd is going to accept purpose is what takes the deeds that we do on a daily basis that are neutral in their nature and connect them to the Creator and that which is around us and enters us into Jenna more authority allows Iran who used to say in Neela Tessie you know motika Moctezuma ho mati that I seek the reward of my sleep the way I seek the reward of my p.m. the way I seek the reward of my praying at night because when I go to sleep I have that purpose that intention that I'm not sleeping for the sake of sleep I'm sleeping for the sake of Allah I'm sleeping so that I could wake up energetic and serve and worship allah subhana wa ta'ala and it's not allah you know i was thinking about this as I was thinking about what I would say tonight I was thinking about you know if you summarize your day and the way that your life usually becomes and in fact none of many of us become frustrated because life becomes too routine I go to work I earn I come home family do this go to sleep and these types of things I mean it's basically career you keep on working and we're working harder and harder and harder and harder or you're at home and you're constantly you know you're taking care of the house I'm I'm working harder and harder and harder it's work family exhaustion sleep and that's it and I can't think of anything else I've got to earn my money so that I can sustain my family and I keep on earning so I can keep on sustaining my family and I don't feel meaning in my life and Allah subhanAllah dimensions to us let's really come a monochromator allows oh come on Vick Lila do not let your families and your wealth distract you from Allah subhana WA Ta'ala how do you reclaim them the prophet sallallaahu and he was that him taught us to view the daily mundane habits as habits to bring this close to Allah subhana WA Ta'ala Allah doesn't want you to quit your job unless it's how long okay just so no one takes a snippet of that you know in the United States they always take snippets of our stuff happened it a lot there's only one news microphone that's here not not to quit your job unless it's Haram as long as it's hot out and home did he laugh but think about your job as a meanings to please a loss of Hanna Ensenada think about the recognition part of it Allah doesn't want you you know there was once a man that was very harsh to his kid and you know I said to him why are you being so hard she says Allah says in the Quran that your families are I do wanna come show home they're your enemies so you should be aware of them your spouse is your children they're your enemies show home but the prophets lie son said create oakum chaotically ali the best of you are those that are best to their families so what's the connection between the two instead of viewing your wealth you're earning your household chores your families and all of those things as things beyond your purpose of life things that are outside things that are contrary because then the more religious you get the more you're gonna grow resentful of those things instead of viewing it that way view them as part of the package of purpose and spirituality and you say how you know how i tell you some of us might not live to see it on milan allama but living out on mobile on may allah subhanaw taala allow us to live to see Rama bond Lama I mean everyone say I mean may Allah allow us to live to see it all move on don't just think that because you've seen the moon of Shaban you'll see the moon of Ramadan as well allama been living out on Mabon some of us might not live to see it but you know what the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said he said Aparri most shocker be man 0th I saw an asado such a beautiful hadith the one who and is grateful has the same rank as the one who fasts and is patient he said some allow any wassalam and Salma Ramadan and Iman and righty Salman who fear Allah who matzah cut the miminum be whoever faster on a bond with faith and perseverance and seeking the reward of Allah subhana WA Ta'ala all of his previous sins will be forgiven he also said sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that whoever eats and says alhamdulillah Allah the up Romani hatha warez acne him in Riley Howlin Minnie well our cool WA hoo all praises are due to the one who fed me this without any doing of my own without any power or capacity of my own he also said sallallahu alayhi wa sallam who fear Allah whom are to cut devoman them be all of his previous sins are forgiven he said sallallahu and he was selling something as mundane you know and you think about you you we barely even remember to say bismillah and ahem did it now when we eat our food but a person who really makes it a point to say in heaven did he love where did this come from alhamdulillah even though I earned all day to put this food on my family's table I know that it was Allah I know that I didn't do this myself you made a connection when you're getting dressed in the morning and you're getting dressed so fast you're not even thinking about it you're quickly throwing on things and the prophets like I said I'm said in that is a moment where a person looks up says that happened to Delilah tika signing have atho min-ye hold in min me when Apple WA all praises be to the one who dressed me with this dress without any doing or capacity of my own home at Academy min Lumbee all of his previous sins would be forgiven why because the purpose of fasting is to make you more conscious la allakum Tata : and the purpose of Ramadan la la comtesse Quran when he took me to read that already - Kabir Allah anima hadaka Milan la comtesse cologne so that you finished that period and you become more grateful to a loss of Hanuman Thailand but that's something that you can be practicing on a daily basis and so instead of seeing all those other things that you do in life family career life as outs of your purpose in existence and one day I'm gonna go to the message' that lived the rest of my life reading Quran and I'll be like that pious elderly person I see in my family see your career see your family see your food everything that you do every form of kindness the Prophet slice of a mentioned intimacy between the spouses wilfy buleria Heidi come sadaqa that if a person is intimate with their spouse that there's a charity in that why because if you would have done it in a harem way then he would have been punished so Allah rewards you when you do it right the Prophet slice that I mentioned that the morsel the food that you put of kindness in your family's mouths that's the most beloved charity to Allah subhana WA Ta'ala don't you remember that woman that I shall be alone and has saw and she was poor and she only had three dates and she gave two to her kids two of her children she was about to eat her own but in a moment of taqwa she saw her children naturally wanting an extra piece of the date and as she was about to eat it she instead tore her date in half and gave one half to each of her children and Allah assured her Jenna through the Prophet SAW he Salim through that these are the types of occurrences that happen in our daily lives instead of seeing these things around us as distractions use them to propel you to allah subhana wa ta'ala they're not distractions unless you allow them to be distractions they can instead be vehicles of taking you to allah subhana wa ta'ala that's how you start to frame purpose in everything that you do if I was to ask someone what is the last time you prayed esta Hara you know the company is Tejada is a prayer and it's it's something that usually comes up in the context of marriage I swear some people only pray a staccato when they want to get married there is more to st father than marriage the Companions used to pray it for things that maybe we would consider small things in life but the idea of asking Allah for guidance for the affairs that you embark upon even if you might see them as very small affairs but you ask Allah for guidance that shows that you are bringing a lot into your decision-making on a regular basis don't just leave the profits like some did not just give it to us just for marriage so that when your marriage isn't working out you can blame your Estacada or you could blame the cher who told you to pray this to heart and say he didn't tell me to pray Estacado right and by the way there are no dreams in istikhara if you see the person that you wanted to marry because you prayed istikhara that's probably not because of the astara that's because you were thinking about the person when you went to sleep you don't see colors in istikhara this was to bring Allah into our decision-making that's why the Companions were taught to pray it so much by the Prophet slice Allah and so you framed so far in purpose your small good deeds your regular day-to-day deeds your more important life decisions and that's where it's tejada comes in right you rock the boat a little bit and then this is where I really want to bring us to most people do not actually try to figure out their role here in existence their purpose in life until the project of gruffalo the project of heedlessness fails them I thought that I could consume myself to happiness I thought that if I worked a little bit harder got a little bit of a bigger house got a little bit more money in my bank account got this person in my life had this in my social life I thought happiness was going to work out and it didn't work out the way that I wanted to and most people don't start asking the questions of existence and creation until something really devastating happens to them that shakes their life up you know remember the very first example that I started off with and those of you that came late I'm not gonna repeat the example you can watch the recording and show now I mentioned the example of a person that's sitting in a room that's everything is great around them but they don't know why they're there imagine an asteroid hitting that room something devastating happening at that moment then people wake up and they start to think wait a minute what's happening here why is this perfect world suddenly being shaken most of us don't start to ask the questions of purpose and existence and try to connect with a loss of Hannah Montana until something like that happens and that is a major problem because when you are in devastation when something hard happens to you that's not the time to form a relationship with a loss of Hannah Matata or purpose that's of time to act upon a relationship that you've already been building now for some of us that are fortunate when something bad happens it pulls us back to allah subhana wa ta'ala it's a gift from allah subhanaw taala but the prophet sallallaahu hani he was sending them tells us - I don't know feed Allah Fatiha ERF capisci de no Allah subhana WA Ta'ala in raha and ease Allah will know you and hardship know Allah in prosperity Allah will know you in adversity what that means is that getting to know allah subhanaw taala when something hard happens to you and it's a reminder it's a wake-up call that doesn't mean you know Allah because you cried and you prayed it's a warning to get to know allah subhana wa ta'ala but get to know a loss of hanumana in times of stability in times of ease Allah will know you and hardship and when things are disturbed what does that mean that means that because you have already been seen Allah the daily things that you do you've been pursuing the pleasure of allah subhana wa ta'ala with small good deeds that other people don't even think about you've been pursuing a loss of hanataro you've been connecting yourself to a sense of purpose with your work with your family with your life you're not trying to remove those from the realm of spirituality they're part of your spirituality so because you were able to know a lot and ease and because you were able to know Allah when things were just neutral now when hardship comes to you you immediately connect back to allah subhana wa ta'ala your brothers and sisters I want you to think for a moment about the hardest thing that ever happened to you the worst thing that ever happened to you the most difficult moment of your life and I want to go to that moment of the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam and thought if but I don't want to just look at the incident of the prophets I Salaam in life in isolation I want us to look at the incident of life in the context of the way that the prophets ylm connected to a loss of Hannah wa'ta'ala in his day-to-day life the hardest time of the life of the prophet sallallaahu Hadi was an almost life we all know that everything that used to be a source of stability was taken away from him and this is actually very important this is a dimension we don't usually think about what life you know when one part of your life shakes you tend to run to another part of it that feels stable so if one relationship think about you know I asked you to bring to your memory the hardest thing that ever happened to you if it involved a person a person psychologically you're gonna run to a relationship that you feel is more stable right so one friend really hurt me so I'm gonna go complain to another friend and in the process of you know talking about how devastating that friendship was I'm gonna actually nurture this friendship here it's a source of stability family falls apart I kind of run to my career and I make sure that my career now is stable I tried to to lean on what's stable one part of my life shake psychologically I immediately run to the part of my life that I feel is stable ground because that's now shaky ground with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasalam afterthought he doesn't have had each other the allaha on her anymore who wrapped him the first time and said well LA he liked Allahabad ah I swear that Allah will never abandon you would never disgrace you he doesn't have the warmth of Hadiya he doesn't have the protection of Abu polyp to say that even if the people were to persecute me and even if I don't necessarily believe in his message sallallahu wasallam you are my nephew I will protect you you deserve protection he doesn't have that anymore he doesn't have financial stability he doesn't even have his home regular home to run to he's got no stable ground he doesn't have a large group of followers family's gone wealth is gone followers are gone everything is gone what is his stable ground are they his slot to a set up and imagine those moments which no movie could depict when you're getting stoned in the face blood running down your body your shoes filling with stones and you have nothing you've been humiliated emotionally mentally tortured for 14 days and you're looking up to a loss of Hanoi to Allah Ya Allah I don't see anything and you know a lot of times a lot of times when we talk about that we mentioned the hadith where the prophets I son was offered the opportunity to wipe everybody else out to actually take out his grievances Salalah hard he was set upon the people give the command and the angels will wipe out this entire place but the prophet sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam didn't want vengeance at the moment and i want you to think about yourself for a moment if you were the Prophet so I said up in that moment how much anger and vengeance would you have I don't care anymore wipe these people out I'm done but the Prophet sallallaahu Hardy was sullen did it look at the people he looked up to a loss of Hanoi Thailand he called upon Allah subhana WA Ta'ala he asked the loss of Hanuman to Allah for his guidance why because the prophets lifestyle him understood the why and so even if the how and the what were hard he understood the why strong enough that all of that could be put in perspective you know when something bad happens to us a lot of times we ask why Allah are you doing this to me why me what did I do because I didn't get why right then now am i what in my how are messed up too why Allah did you do this to me and then the next question is what did I do to deserve it as if the earth was here and everything was here to honor you and amuse you and then how do I get myself out of it so your your what and your house are not correct because your Y is messed up your question is why are you doing this to me o Allah you're not interacting with the creation in the Creator properly the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam already had the why right why am I here I am here for the purpose of service I am NOT here for the purpose of being served I am here for the purpose of serving a loss of Hannah - Ana I know why I'm here therefore the first question the prophets Lysanne asks is nada Allah Allah whom in me what does Allah want for me and how do I earn his pleasure he wasn't concerned about the outward part of it it hurt him salaallah alayhi wa sallam he hurt and we hurt but that sense of purpose that he'd been nurturing and Allah had been nurturing in him for all those years it really came to be the prophets lie some did not have even in his lowest moment there why did Allah do this to me moment instead it was immediately - what can I do for Allah how do I please Allah with this moment in nakhon because Allah banana affero or Bali as long as all this happening is not a manifestation of your anger with me o Allah then I don't care I'll continue to persist I'll continue to move forward you don't get that type of persistence and that type of resilience and that type of connection to Allah out of nowhere that's not a sudden fatale a sudden expense that's something that you nourish and you work on when you bring a loss of Hana Hana in your life - out off in Allah for Aloha yeah terrific efficient de no Allah in good times Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala will know you in bad times no Allah when things around you are relatively stable nothing is ever perfect and we would be fools to think that everything around us could ever attain full stability it's the mercy of Allah subhana WA Ta'ala that we're always unstable in some form of our lives and will lie you look at other people sometimes you think Masha Allah everything is great with that person's life he or she must have it all but know that if Allah is testing you with one thing he's testing that person with something else Allah is purifying them of a weakness know that if you're being tested with your wealth and that person is not Allah is testing them with their health or with their family or their relationship know that if you're being tested with your health but not your wealth Allah is testing someone else with something different every single one of us has their share of tests but you know why Allah so L does that to us because He loves us because he cares about us Hanna ho tada so that we could remember our purpose in this world the prophet salaallah alayhi wa sallam he mentions that allah has placed in our lives these are bob our rod our hindrances you know there are different words for tests in the quran and the sunnah wa la botella fit them all of these are words that Allah describes test with Allah are hindrances they're like hooks and the prophets lice Allah mentioned that if one of them misses you another one gets you what is the point of these arad these hindrances they slow you down and they remind you so that you don't go crashing into a wall of heedlessness they remind you of purpose so Allah takes away a little bit of your health to remind you that there will come a time that you will have no health whatsoever Allah pinches you with your wealth so that you know that there will come a time that you will have no wealth whatsoever Allah pinches you with your family so that you know that there will come a time that you will have no family no relationships whatsoever Allah pinches you with these things hold you back not to torture you not to harm you so that you could wake up to your purpose and be purified with that and alhamdulillah for what Allah gives to us because you know what I mentioned to you right now to think about that hard moment in your life if you were to be honest with yourself that hard moment in your life that maybe you could not see through is a big part of why you are who you are today and why you are here today and why you are trying to connect to Allah subhana WA Ta'ala no one likes harsh wake-up calls you know I tell this story my mom may Allah have mercy on her lap until Allah they have she used to wake me up repetitive hey you know sometimes some of the mothers may Allah bless you all and there is no heart like the heart of a mom you speak to the Messiah can you say masha'Allah how did you become like this like were you like this as children to like you know we woke up reading Quran we came out of our mothers bellies and we said in the Abdullah you know I am the servant of Allah and you read put on your whole life and you were wonderful no I all of us all of us I'm not gonna speak for Mufti min kinship Abdul Rahim masha'Allah maybe they actually did have that child that may Allah bless our Messiah I'm talking about myself I remember it's a lot that fed him and you know moms who wake your kids up for fecha and some of the kids are gonna hate me in here for this my mom you know how she used to wake me up for Fetchit cold water and it hurt she used to bring the cold water to the room and she would drip it on my forehead until I woke up and somehow along well Lani there are still days well lie there are still days and my mom may Allah have mercy on her has passed away over a decade ago and there are still days that I could feel those drops on my forehead I wake up in the morning and I can still feel those drops on my forehead and I said hum did he laugh for that because that was formative that was teaching me getting me inclined to understand the world around me that you have to wake up you've got to do what you've got to do and it was done out of love likewise dear brothers and sisters Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala puts these things in our lives to bring us back to that sense of purpose because let's be honest with ourselves if I did not tell some of you to look up at the moon and say subhanAllah subhanAllah subhanAllah how amazing is allah subhana wa ta'ala who placed that moon there who crafted the heavens and the earth this way you might have walked by another day and you wouldn't have paid attention because sometimes we don't pay attention until we're shaking up a little bit I remember as someone who travels much I was commenting to a brother and I said how beautiful the Sun rises and the Sun set isn't Mufti mink is going to talk and charlotta to you about the signs of Allah and to Dublin to or contemplation and introspection and I'll share I said subhanAllah how beautiful the Sun rises in this place and you know what he told me he said you know the Sun rises where you live the exact same way but when you're on vacation and you've got a balcony you actually take the time to look at it it's not that the Sun wasn't rising where you were it's that you were not paying attention so in heaven did Allah for Allah who cares enough about us to bring us back to attention not out of punishment or hardship but it's so we can be the best version of ourselves because I don't want to be in the party and not know why I'm here instead I'm seeking the eternal party and generative for the DOS where I know exactly why I am there where the angels say said I wanna take on be muscle Beltone venireman da da peace be on to you for the patience that you showed the way that used to live your life naturally I mean that this is the work that's used to do remember when you were back in the world you know exactly where you come from in Jannah you are reminded of the round before here in this dunya you have no recollection of where you were before you came here in Jenna you are seeing the fruits of the work that you did in this dunya you are working for a realm that you do not see until you leave it in general you know why you got to the party you know how you're in the party you know what to do in the party and we ask Allah subhana WA Ta'ala to allow all of us to be admitted into that party we ask Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala that he be pleased with us that he grant us a great sense of purpose that he allow us to interact with his signs whether they our personal signs in our lives or the glorious signs that are ever present around us that remind us of him or if it's our daily deeds or the small good deeds or the sins that we belittle we ask a lot to make that all reason for us to come back to him to be brought back to attention to be brought back to a sense of purpose and we ask Allah subhana WA Ta'ala to forgive us when we become distracted and deluded from him for he is the source of peace and he is the source of mercy and he is the source of satisfaction and pleasing him as our purpose was folly LeFleur sallim ala nabina muhammad wa ala aalihi wa sahbihi wa sallim da'iman cathedral Sanaa Malik [Applause]

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Published: Sun Apr 14 2019