Importance of Tawheed & Living Islam - Dr. Bilal Philips

[Music] alhamdulillah here of Bilal I mean what salat wa salam ala rasoolillah kareem well he was hobby woman instead maybe soon neti he Eli Oh me Dean all praise is due to Allah and may allows peace and blessings beyond the last prophet muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa seldom and on all those who follow the path of righteousness until the last day the topic that I've been given to close off the morning session is that of tawheed for living Islam the importance of tawheed in living Islam and if we look at the position of tawheed in the Quran and in the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad sallallahu wasallam we will see that it is the core of Islam without our heed there is no Islam with no heat properly practiced there is Islam everything of Islam is built on the foundation of tawheed if it doesn't have to heed as its foundation any act any word and he thought if it doesn't have to heed as its foundation then it is of no use it will not benefit us in this life or the next so we have to understand that how he'd is the foundation and that foundation is so important that Prophet Muhammad Rasul Ahmed said Mancala la ilaha ilallah duffle el Jenna whoever says la ilaha ill allah will enter paradise we refer to lila and allah as what calaman to tawheed it is calaman to tawheed it is the word or the statement of tawheed and that statement is enough to take one to paradise so is there anything else in Islam that the Prophet SAW seldom said if you say this you will enter paradise do you know of any other practice if you do hatch you will enter paradise did he say that no if you make Salah you will enter paradise did he say that no if you give zakah you will enter paradise did he say that no but he said if you say la ilaha illallah you will enter paradise of course he gave conditions it wasn't just left open anybody says it a person who doesn't believe in it at all and that's going to put him in paradise or her in paradise no in some narrations he said whoever said lion a lot books listen because be sincerely from his heart so there our conditions that are added to it but fundamentally it is still that statement of tau heat is enough to take one - Parris that's why the promised wasallam showed us practically one of the Sahaba accepted Islam and they were going for battle he didn't have time to learn Salah and everything else he went into the battle died without praying a single Salah and the problem said he's in paradise he's saying la-la-la-la sincerely was enough to take him to paradise so that's how fundamental that tawheed is secondly the implementation of tawheed is the very reason for creation for our creation the Prophet SAW Salim Allah smart Allah had informed us o ma khalaqtu l-jinna wa l-'insa illa li abu dune I only created the jinn and humankind to worship me and that worship of Allah sincerely Yaka na'budu you alone do we worship when that worship is restricted to worshipping Allah alone that is to heed in implementation that is the the highest level of implementation is that we worship Allah subhana Allah alone without any partners without any intermediaries that worship is to he'd implemented furthermore the application of tawheed is the goal of the pillars of Islam when we look at the rituals that we are taught as children we grew up with we learn we implement those rituals that application of the teachings of Islam in particular the fundamental pillars of Islam and Iman that application its goal is implementation of tawheed it is at the core that's why I lost my Allah had said a key masala with Acree established the prayer in order to remember me remembering Allah that is the heed in our hearts in our minds in our souls that is to heed how he'd applied so even the very pillars of Islam all of them had zakah fasting the goal of it all is the remembrance of Allah that is applied to heed and the internalization of the head is itself the realization or actualization of Islam when we internalize toheeb meaning it's in our thoughts in our minds in our actions Coheed is there and the core of tawheed is about allah subhanaw taala about knowing who allah is and who is not and that is why how do we know this internalization is the actualization of Islam because the very first question that we will be asked at the end of this life when it is all over everything has been said and done that very first question that munkar and nakir will ask us is what manner a book who is your Lord who is your Lord how do you know who Alliance through tawheed if you have not realized our heed in all of its various aspects you will not be able to answer that question though you might know that that's what you're supposed to say on that day in the Barza when we are asked memorable who is your Lord we will only be able to say ah ah a law the term a law will not come out of our mouths we will not be able to express it because we didn't translate the knowledge into actual faith so my brothers and sisters when we hear that surah s loss is equivalent to one third of the Quran and we wonder why so X loss considered one third of the Quran it's so short the greatest verse of the Quran was ayatul kursi ayatul kursi what is ayatul kursi about ayatul kursi is about describing the unique characteristics of allah every single statement in ayatul kursi is describing various aspects of the uniqueness of allah so that we would know who allah is this is tawheed and that knowledge reciting ayatul kursi is so powerful that it protects us from Shaitaan when we recited before we go to bed at night it protects us throughout the night till morning and we are encouraged to recite it after our different daily prayers ayatul kursi so the question comes and remains what is the heat now heat may be defined as maintaining the unique unity of Allah in all aspects of our lives maintaining the unique unity of Allah in all aspects of our lives pull who Allah who had Allah didn't say cool who Allah who ahead in other parts of the Quran he has described himself as being Allah had alcohol offered but in ayatul kursi he said and described himself as I had those were the words of Balaam when he was being tortured what AAHA doon I had that Allah is not only one but he is unique in his oneness this is the point maintaining that unique oneness of allah this is tawheed when we maintain it in all aspects of our lives meaning we live lives dedicated to the Almighty God Allah that our life is dedicated as Allah said pull in the Salah T say indeed my prayers one no suki my sacrifices rama hiya my living room Amati and my dying lillahi rabbil aalameen are for allah the lord of all the worlds salah t how do we implement that our salah is for allah we implemented by praying the way that the Prophet SAW salaam taught us to pray he lived Tauheed he taught us how to lift our head so regarding the prayer he said so loose a lot America in say or pray a farewell prayer whenever you are praying you pray as if this was the last prayer you had to make in this world you have no more time time is up you have time only to make one more prayer if you've made that prayer that farewell prayer you know it is completely different from the prayer that we make now the prayer we made for budget the prayer we're gonna make for the rest of the day that prayer is a ritual prayer we go through the motions we have learned how to do it correctly physically ritually but the essence of the prayer is missing and that's why our prayers don't have the impact that they should in our lives so we need to get back to that prophetic recommendation to pray each prayer like a farewell prayer strive for it I'm not saying ok now that I told you you go and trace a lot of lore and it's perfect no we are human beings who have been so used to praying ritual prayers to now go and actually pray a farewell prayer is a huge struggle and you know that's how things are aren't they the greatest reward comes for the greatest struggle the greater we struggle the greater the reward so let us try when we leave here today for Salah let us try to pray that farewell prayer well no Sookie and my sacrifices sacrificing whether it's sacrificing of an animal or making sacrifices in our lives Prophet Muhammad SAW Salam tolas what Mantar Akasha and Lila our water hula who Heron minnow whoever gives up sacrifices something for the sake of Allah that job in the river bank you sacrifice that job for the sake of Allah Allah will replace it with something better may not be right away immediately it may take some time you have to be patient it's up to Allah whether he gives you that replacement immediately or it takes time but the bottom line is that you make that sacrifice then Allah will give you better that's the promise of Allah subhana WA Ta'ala as told us taught to us by Prophet Muhammad SAW Salaam well Mariah our living voilá mati and are dying how does our living and dying become dedicated to Allah well Prophet Muhammad SAW Salim told us before we go to sleep at night we say what this because Lahoma a mood to are here this makalah Huma in the name of Allah I die and I live in the ayah Allah speaks about Woma hiya Wilma mati he mentioned the life first then death after but in the doís we say a mood to Mejia we mentioned death first why because sleep is the sister of death and that's what we're going into right now at that point that we're going to sleep at night we're dying our soul is actually taken from our bodies and some the souls are returned and others it's not so we're entering into a death situation so we say bhisma kala Huma ammu - well here I die in your name of Allah and I hope to be brought back to life in your name and of course throughout our lives we have bismillah before eating before doing so many things in our lives bismillah is there that's the reminder that we should be doing it for the sake of Allah alone and also Prophet Muhammad told us lucky no malta comme la la la la we should remind those who are dying there on their death beds remind them to say la ilaha illa llah sincerely so that that may be the last words before they leave this life to die on that state in that state with that in mind with those words on our lips this is ideal so we try to help our friends and our relatives when they're in that situation and we pray Allah give us the same opportunity now in order to maintain this unique unity of Allah we must have knowledge if we are ignorant of a law we're ignorant of Islam will be ignorant of this life an ignorant of tawheed though we may know some of what I have said before we will not be able to implement it in our lives if we do not have solid knowledge of Islam and that is why Prophet Muhammad SAW Selim had said tolerable Elmi Farid ala kulli Muslim seeking knowledge is a religious obligation on every Muslim and if we follow the principle of first things first what we need the most knowledge of in our lives is what Allah so that's where our knowledge should begin in the knowledge of allah subhana wa ta'ala and after that we know or should know the knowledge of the sunnah which gives us the methodology for living according to the knowledge of allah living according to tawheed he demonstrated allah sent him to demonstrate to us how we should live no heat and that is why when we talk about knowledge many times people go to other knowledge areas of knowledge in this life management education many other areas of knowledge it's all included in the command to seek knowledge but the starting point the most critical area to have knowledge is knowledge of the Quran and the Sunnah and that is why prophet Moses said tarik Tuffy come on brain I've left with the two things into my second Bahama if you hold on friendly to them landed in Lua Buddha you will never go astray holding on firmly to a law laws book he explained it was kitab allah was so naughty the book of allah and my sunnah holding on firmly to allah's book is having knowledge of a laws book we can't hold on firmly to it if we don't have actual knowledge of it what we have done unfortunately is to turn holding on firmly to a laws book into rituals that we have added around the laws book which the Prophet SAW still have never even taught us so we put a lost book on the highest shelf we take it off the shelf beginning of Ramadan blow off the dust we read it through Ramadan then we put it back on the shelf so that is the ritual and if the book Falls we pick it up we kiss it and we have all kinds of rituals around it which the promised are seldom never told us because it's much easier for us to focus on rituals than it is to hold on firmly to the Quran by understanding it that is the firm hold understanding the Quran and implementing it when we do that we have held on firmly to it and holding on firmly to the Sunnah is living our lives according to the example of Prophet Muhammad sallallahu wasallam which he has left for us and which is carried down to us and in closing I would just like to point out that in the Prophet SAW Selim's time that knowledge of tawheed and the practice of Islam was available to all it was accessible to all so much so that when the Prophet SAW seldom asked a slave girl ina law where is Allah she said she's somehow above the heavens immediately no hesitation no reflection no contemplation she just responded above the heavens end of story but as time passed we had philosophers and others bringing all kinds of different ideas so that now with the question is where is Allah as I don't know I'm not sure some people made it a part of their belief system that you say Allah fee Colima can lie a column in houma can wahoooo frequently mccann there is nowhere where he isn't my aluminum icon and he is everywhere wahoooo Fukuda makan which is confusion confusion all eyes everywhere they couldn't answer that simple answer given by the same girl found in Sahih Muslim above the heavens end of story no he's like everywhere and the problems that come with that confusion the faith and the understanding of the faith became confused and it's not to say all Muslim scholars held that belief no a group a group that became so powerful that it became the state belief for a number of years so that knowledge became distant and difficult to achieve but alhamdulillah in our times that knowledge has come back to us it has become available on a scale unknown before in history due to the Internet the Internet has now made that knowledge available to anyone and everyone and alhamdulillah Allah blessed me to establish the first authentic Islamic University on the internet the Islamic online University which is available to each and every one of you there are over 450 thousand students from across the world studying in its diploma free diploma six thousand in the degree programs among them thirty thousand here in Nigeria have registered gone into courses taken one course or another course etc it's available I'm sure still many of you would have no idea huh there's such a university free yeah it's there so we don't have any excuse today with the internet and accessibility of knowledge we don't have any excuse today to say well I didn't know we all can access it benefit from it and help ourselves in our lives you don't necessarily have to go and take a degree but you can take courses which will help you you're already qualified most of our students are professionals they qualified in different areas but they never had the chance to get Islamic knowledge that was missing so alhamdulillah with that opportunity they have grasped it and so many of them have benefited from it similarly women women who normally don't get the chance to seek knowledge to go out and seek knowledge men are the ones who go to Medina as har whatever get knowledge women 99.9% stay home but now it's possible to be ironing your clothes cooking your food looking after the kids and studying the Dean at the same time it's there at your fingertips so tawheed is the imperative the obligation on each and every one of us in order to make our lives lives lived according to the belief in the unique oneness of allah and the application of it in all aspects of our daily lives I ask Allah so Allah to give us the reality of tawheed and to remove from our hearts any objections any misunderstandings any sins in relationship to the unique oneness of Allah worshiping him according to that oneness who look only how they was thought for a lowly welcome Allison was the minimun column first a few in new 104 Raheem Salaam alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh Islamic online University changing the nation through education register now and get started visit wwii you edu GM for more details you

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Length: 29min 36sec (1776 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 06 2019