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towards the forgiveness of your lord and a paradise that is as vast as the entire heavens and the earth and it has been promised for al muttaqin i want you to appreciate how special this ayah is just for a moment because when we talk about the topic of before isan can be achieved there has to be something that is called tahua and is a level above san is a step above and i was subhanallah 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 said 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 inshaallah 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 extraordinary 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 quran 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 islamically speaking too 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 you're 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 25 and masha'allah 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 they 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 masha'allah successful in every single aspect except for spirituality and they their families start to fall apart their businesses are expanding their wealth is expanding their reputation is expanding but the families 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 reports 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 deen 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 want to 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's standards and why is that on the brink of hypocrisy what are the two hardest salawats according to the prophet i salallahu hear you guys fajr and isha now masha'allah when we look at salah if you go to any masjid in the country you'll find that isa is the most crowded salah and usually fajr comes at a close number too so we can all say masha'allah there's no hypocrisy in the omaha right we're all doing so well or maybe rasulallah said that because you know it's hard to wake up for fajr because you might oversleep and so on and so forth and why did the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam say that and what was the context of that the context of that dear brothers and sisters is that the munnafique the hypocrites would not bother themselves going to fajr and isha because at those times you didn't have chandeliers and lights and those types of things you got a fajr and asha and nobody would know you were there anyway so hey i'm meeting society's standards look i'm there for the maghreb 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 a 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 azzawajal 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 faced 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 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 to the forgiveness of your lord something to love 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 fourteen hundred years ago subhanallah and allah that has been prepared for those who are conscious of allah subhanahu ta'ala and they're being conscious of allah subhanahu ta'ala leads them to fear allah subhanahu wa to allah and be in all of allah 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 subhanahu because you're conscious of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala you watch yourself and taqwa dear brothers and sisters we said it's a prerequisite to assad before we talk about assad we have to talk about taqwa and to summarize taqwa in one sentence as the scholars say taqwa is to avoid al-ma'asi to avoid the sins as um 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 does not have anything that will make it deficient that will make it dysfunctional that will make it a pretty face to an ugly relationship so allah something to look forward to in jannah 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 because of that the psychology think about it he has made the place where he will repay the believers 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 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 better and everlasting now allah subhanahu ta'ala is going to give us the definition of 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 salim 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 allah subhanahu ta'ala is going to give us the definition of listen to these definitions those who give in both hardship and in ease and those who swallow their anger and those who pardon people and allah loves al-marzinin allah loves those who excel think about this for a moment you know dear 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 going to say who are the usual donors who are the millionaires in this conference who are those who always give where are the doctors where we're the engineers we're the people that are a high level those are who we need to identify to give fisabilillah 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 fisabilillah no one's going to look to the blue-collar worker and say hey giffi sabillah no one's going to say that to him people don't expect it but allah expects it 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 ahi give isabella because it's not expected of you but the sin the one who excels expects that of himself he puts himself to the test and that's why the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said that one dirham exceeded in barakah and reward 100 000 dirhams think about that for a moment how is that possible ya rasool allah because 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 elf elf 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 durham means more in the sight of allah than the one hundred thousand dirhams why it wasn't expected it wasn't expected what is their son dear brothers and sisters whenever jibril salam asked the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam that you worship allah subhanahu 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 we 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 your 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 no 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 al calvi those who swallow their anger you know subhan allah 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 allah may allah forgive you you're actually using that dua 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 sow on your face the prophet sallallahu alaihi was you know what he did you know what is this literally the two lines that you would see in your forehead that's urbus if a person just does this not [Music] not may allah forgive you and may allah do away with you no abuse but he's a muslim sallallahu he's the greatest merchant 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 say 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 subhanahu ta'ala says and those who pardon 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 hakk from you you have every right to re request it back you have every right to demand justice islam gives you that right but islam tells you what allah commands you and joins you with justice and compassion what is the sand 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 innadali that is a matter that requires determination his reward is with allah no one expects you to say let it go society expects you to take your right back but if you're a morsin like abu bakr i want you to imagine the situation dear brothers and sisters his daughter is slandered with the worst slander accused in her chastity and that hurt the prophet sallallahu and that hurt his own daughter not only that but one of the men who passed the slander was a relative 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 sallallahu alaihi 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 gonna 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 when he found out about the slander of aisha he only said one thing he said subhanallah it was mr i'm not going to give him charity anymore seriously i'm not going to give him charity anymore that's it but on top of that allah azzawajal reveals in the quran let them forgive and let them pardon don't you love that allah will pardon you subhanallah well i if we remember this ayah all the time it would completely refine our holoq 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 whoever is held accountable and another reward as for the one who is asked on the day of judgment he will perish but doesn't allah say akita as for the one who receives his book at his right hand he'll have an easy accountability rasool that's the presentation of your deeds but if allah starts calling you out on each and every single one of your deeds you will perish and you will be punished whoever does not show mercy mercy will not be shown to him you want allah to pardon you pardon others because you're seeking the pleasure of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and allah subhanahu ta'ala loves those who excel and one more ayah their brothers and sisters allah continues and those who whenever they commit a sin something that is not befitting fusahm or 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 they remember allah who would forgive your sins except for allah 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 allah watching them their brothers and sisters all of this that we just described as ahsan all of this is called ignoring society's 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 subhanahu 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 for those who have is al-husnah those who excel they will have an excellent reward and more now al-husna and we already mentioned here what allah mentioned what he has prepared first in terms of al-jannah 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 sahabah asked we understand we understand that allah will give us what's more than jannah what could possibly be more than jannah what is waziyada and what did the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam say another anova 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 sheikh was mentioning you were coming a 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 when any hardship struck you you remembered him and you said we belong to him and to him we return anyway that one allah getting a chance to stare at his face and some people get to stare at him in al-jannah every day some people have it twice a day some people have it once a week getting a chance to consistently look at him subhanahu ta'ala 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 and even if and listen very closely to this the mentality of the mohsin is as such even if allah did not have a jannah prepared for us or a hell fire 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 um even if there was no heaven or hell even if allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did not prohibit disobedience he would never be able to disobey allah because 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 being strange ask yourself are you even ascending amongst your family members are you even the more sin 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 clicks 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 one of these crowds somehow you get fit into a crowd don't worry about the crowd think about allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and if you are concerned with what allah thinks of you then you want 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 subhanallah 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 if you if i have your love oh 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 redwan i don't care about anything else the next time you find yourself in a fundraiser 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 allah subhanahu wa ta'ala 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 you have any advice the next time someone takes a right from you forego that right make dua for that person and say o allah i pardoned 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 subhanahu wa ta'ala and you visualize yourself standing in front of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in a dialogue with allah azzawajal and with that dear brothers and sisters we would achieve taqwa and we would achieve isan and we would achieve the redwan of to allah we ask allah subhanahu ta'ala to grant it to us we ask allah to love us we ask allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make us amongst those who love him and we ask allah subhanahu 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 allah subhana ta'ala saying to the meraika allah is saying to the angels that reported to him said we found this medjlist we found this gathering of people remembering you allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying if he loves us i love that person so you love him too so jibreel will love him and jibril alaihissalam will go and will call upon all of the inhabitants of the heavens and say inna fulan allah subhana ta'ala loves this person so you should all love him too 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 the love of the people is placed in their hearts they start to love that person allah subhanahu ta'ala allows it to descend upon them and allah subhanahu ta'ala when he sees this gathering insha 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 or there they chose to come and remember you allah says to the angels bear witness that i have forgiven all of them i have forgiven all of them and the angels say but ya allah there is that person amongst them who's only here because his family dragged them there's that person who's there because you know what he wanted to go meet his friends social gathering whatever there's that person that's there for some business connection something like that and what will allah subhanahu ta'ala say he's forgiven too because no person accompanies such people or sits in such gathering except that he would be forgiven so we ask allah to forgive us and make us so

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