Strengthening our Relationship with Allah (SWT) - Shaykh Ahsan Hanif

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the greatest challenges that every single Muslim faces every single one of us respective of our age our agenda our position in society our level of knowledge an issue that every single Muslim faces is how to keep on strengthening the relationship with the loss of Hannah and Ouattara one of the greatest traps of shape on and one of the greatest ways that shape and enters upon a person is by weakening and diluting that link between us and our Lord and creator Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala and if he can the link that he will do so that is his objective in life it is our objective in life and our purpose in this dunya to strengthen to the best of our ability that connection with allah subhanahu wata'ala and everything within this religion revolves around that central principle that is the essence of the hain it is what we find in the example of our prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam it is what Allah Azza WA JAL wants from the Quran it is the role and the purpose of the Hatim and the scholar the Imam and the day to connect the people to allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala to help them to find those things that motivate them and strengthen their relationship with the large they were jelly when we look at the life of our prophets on Allah Allah he will sell them you will find that even he sallallahu alayhi wasallam was given things by Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala that then would be used by his Ummah as well but he was given means to strengthen and to bring him closer to Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala there is no one who is closer and stronger in their relationship with Allah religion then our prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam no one who is more beloved to allah subhanahu wata'ala that our prophet sallallahu hardly he was sending no one who has a highest state of Eman or a greater reward in the sight of Allah or a greater status in the sight of Allah religion then our prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam if there are a number of verses in the Quran that show that the Prophet sallallahu aleyhi wa salem would become sad and he would it would sorrow and grieve him what the mushrikeen of Quraish is to say about him and what would happen to the muslims would be something especially in those early years of mecca it would be something that would weigh heavily upon his shoulders the responsibility that he was given of conveying this message and spreading the religion of islam and teaching the people and bringing them to a loss of hannah returned and his toe heel there was something which used to have a physical effect upon him wasn't just that it was something which was mentally draining something which was difficult to think about it to to comprehend but even physically it would manifest itself upon our prophet sallallaahu aliens an example of this is as-sunnah there is mentioned in the Quran and something which the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said concerning this surah and it is somewhat unique this surah and some of the other surahs that he mentioned within the same context and the sense that it shows us how the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam used to connect with the loss of hana hana and in particular through the quran because the quran is one of those means and one of those ways through which you can continuously strengthen your relationship with the la rasilla gen it is easier for the vast majority of people vast majority of muslims to have a strong connection with allah in the month of ramadan it is easier it is easier for them to have a stronger connection with a larger region when they go for Amara or when they're performing Hajj when they're sitting by the caribou it is easier when they're praying in the musk of the prophet salallahu alayhi wasallam but the challenge that people face that me a new face is how to keep that strength of Eman going when we're not in those places we're not in that situation we're not in those seasons of worship like the month of Ramadan how do we keep that connection strong with Allah one of the greatest means is through the Quran and Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala taught this to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam by revealing to him certain surahs at certain times the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam lost his wife Khadija radi allahu anhu and then a few months later he would lose his uncle Abu Talib in the books of ceará in the life of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam his biography this year it is known as a man chosen the year of grief in the year of sorrow two of the closest people to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam died they passed away a few months apart it is after this that Allah religion gave to the Prophet sallallahu aleyhi will sell them three things that would help console him and would help him to become even strongly in his connection with allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and it is as if a large originally saying to him that yes Khadijah of the allahu anhu was one would inspire you and you would confide in her and she would motivate and encourage you Inessa was Abu Talib who in public outside in the public eye he would defend you and he would protect your honor but it is ultimately Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala who protects and gives divine care and protection so even if all of them were to pass away these people and other than them from amongst the Muslims Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala is with you a larger will gave to the Prophet sallallaahu Holly he'll sell him three things one is specific to him we as his own matter not sharing it but two of those three are things that we to participate in we have a share of them the first of them was the Asturian maharaj the night jenny in a single night the prophetís element from mecca to jerusalem to the seven heavens and back that is unique to him but it was done to show the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam the amount of love and care and protection that Allah religion has for his Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam yet within that journey and then after that journey there are two other things that every single one of us can take from in our problems in our issues when we're struggling with our iman when we perhaps look at the world events and find that there's a test that has come to us that we need to face up to as individuals personally doesn't necessarily mean that it's something you share with other people but you yourself know in your heart your level of Eman your connection with Allah religion you can audit yourself a loss of Hannah Hannah gave to the prophet salallahu alaihe salam and by extension to this Ummah the Salah the prayer that five times a day and night you have that connection that is unique between you and Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala it is a connection which in you and allah azzawajal that even though every single Muslim is praying and you may well be in a Masjid and praying with hundreds or maybe even thousands of other people your prayer is your personal connection with a loss of Hannah hotarla and that is why people pray but they differ in their levels of reward and what they take from that prayer people pray but the benefit that they take from that prayer will also vary and the second thing that the prophets or the third thing that the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was given was the revelation of certain surahs after the death of those two people certain surahs were revealed to the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam the contemplation of the Quran understanding the Quran reading the Quran and merging them midis a hadith with the prophet salallahu alayhi wa salem pinpoints a surah or a verse or a passage and he says that this is how we're affected me or these are the benefits that you can extrapolate from it that is contemplation of the Quran understanding the Quran at a deeper level because reciting the Quran with that understanding and contemplation will only take you so far in the hadith of zyada vanilla-bean insanity Ben manager Xia Deborah Levine or the Allah WA and said that our prophet said sallallaahu are you still him spoke about the signs of the hour and he mentioned a number of them and then he said that are in the Hawaiian either happier in that will happen when knowledge is taken from us knowledge will be lifted so yet he said or the Allah Quran that I said o Messenger of Allah Kfar Saba Nemo wanna unipro Quran cuando Korea who Abner Anna why you pre ab na hoona a banana human Quran Allah yogi Fiamma o Messenger of Allah hath and knowledge possibly be lifted how can knowledge be removed when we read the Quran and we teach our children to read the Quran and our children will then teach their children how to read the Quran and that will continue until yeomen p.m. and that's the case we learnt the Quran from the generation above us our parents our teachers people who order denison age now we teach it to our children they will teach it to their children from generation to generation the Quran passes on and that is from the miracle of the preservation of the Quran the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam replied and he said tequila kombucha is yet in the controller era Unterman FPL medina may your mother be bereaved of you and this was an Arabic expression Arab expression to show someone the grave the seriousness of the situation and how important it is that they grasp what is being said may your mother be believed of you over the ozn I used to think that you are one of the most knowledgeable people in the city of Medina our Lisa javi Hill Yahoo du monde Nosara the corona Kurata will injeel lie interfere on I mean heavy shake don't we have amongst us the Jews and the questions who read their scriptures the torah and the injeel but they take very little benefit from it so the props are salem is saying it is not simply about the act of reading reading will only take you so far and the quran is blessed even in its recitation we know that for everywhere that you read you have 10 or rewards of the quran and those people who memorize the Quran according to their levels of memorization Allah will increase them in rank and station on your Yama in general these are virtues of the Quran but they will only take you so far the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would stress to his companions the importance of understanding and contemplating the Quran and that's why the companions would often take months and sometimes years over a single surah with delving into its meanings pondering and reflecting over what allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala is seen and the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam would turn their attention towards certain surahs towards certain passages and verses so that they would go back and contemplate it even more one such example that I want to bring to your attention is the surah that was revealed after this year of grief and sorrow after the prophet salallahu Ali who sent him went on his Asura and Mirage after Allah had obligated and legislated the Salah upon all of the Muslim Ummah Allah subhana WA Ta'ala revealed to him from amongst the stories that were revealed a surah by the name of surah hood now surah hood in the Quran is one of those maybe you could say more popular more famous surahs in the sense that people don't normally wish to read or listen to the recitation of this surah snot like surah maryam or a man o caliph or other surah yousuf from the quran that people are more familiar with but the prophets on Allah selim made an interesting observation concerning the surah in the hadith er is collecting the tiller millionaire hack him and other than that on the authority of abdul IBN abbas radi allahu anhu man who said that the prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam was one day in the company of his companions and abu bakr radiyaallahu and said to him sabatello rasool allah o messenger of allah you have gone old meaning that your hair has white in it now the prophet sallallaahu Ali who still him was the most most youthful of people and the most courageous and the strongest of people even from amongst the Companions he was known for his courage and for his strength and for his youthfulness and the Companions say that at the time that the Prophet SAW Allah Allah will seldom died as NSM in manicotti Allah grant said in the noise and Bukhari the process of Salim didn't have more than 20 white hairs in his head and in his beard no more than 20 the younger companions would sit and they would count the white hairs of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam such was their love and the adoration and the admiration for the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam and as if in Malik said he didn't have more than 20 white hairs the vast majority of them were in his hair that were attached to his lower lip 20 hands yet even that slight change was noticeable to the Companions that slight grain of the hair of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was noticeable to the Companions and that's because the Companions used to pray pay so much attention so much care to every single statement and every single movement of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam every single action it's normally unusual it's unusual for a person that you see every day to notice slight changes about your family members who see you every day your wife your husband your children because they see you every day they don't normally notice the slight changes within you if you're going more bold you're going more gray you've put on weight you've lost weight there is normally others who when they see you after a few weeks will look at you and say you look different there's something different about you but those people who see you every day for them it's more or less the same the subtle changes are difficult to notice but the companions despite seeing the prophet sallallaahu warily who seldom on an almost daily basis they would see even the slightest of change so the prophet salallahu alaihe salam replied abu bakr radiallahu on and he said Shadia Bettany wouldnt Misawa to her it is Sora's like surah hood that have made me grow old now surah hood is a surah that was revealed after Ezra and Maharaj but the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is contemplating and contemplating and contemplating revolving around this surah so much that years later when people noticed a physical change this is how the unaffected the prophet sallallahu RA who seldom that it would manifest within him a physical change so the Prophet SAW seldom says that it's not my worries that made me grow old it's not age that has made me grow old or white but rather it is the Quran Sheikh a Bethenny who didn't watch over to her in another narration he said Shia Bethenny who didn't well wat ER woman Senate where I'm a attesa alone what is a sham suka Whelan v Sora's have made me grow old from the Quran surah hood and what era and muscle at and I made the cell alone and either shim suka we're on five Sorel's have made me grow old this is how much the prophet sallallaahu Holly who sell him connected with with those Soros from the Quran if you were to look at these Sora's and you were to analyze them and in particular surah hood surah hood is the surah that the Prophet sallallahu aleyhi will sell him received at this time in his life because Allah subhana WA Ta'ala gave to him within this surah the example of those who came before him the stories of those who came before him no hood Solly Ibrahim Lord Sri Musa alayhi salat WA Salam prophets who came before him and the stories and the interactions that they had with their people because now that the prophet salallahu alaihe salam had lost abu talib the Quraysh increased in his in the oppression and transgression towards the Muslims and they even harmed the prophet sallallaahu Ali will sell them more personally than they during the life of a battalion now khadija of the O'Laughlin has passed away so when the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam returns home he only finds his children doesn't find his wife he finds orphan children who have lost their mother rowdy Allah grant management yet still the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam continued upon his path because allah azzawajal revealed to him Sora's like surah hood allah subhanho dial at the beginning of the surah and i just want to draw your attention to two or three critical points within the surah allah subhanaw taala mentions at the beginning of this surah there every single thing that we need in order to keep that connection strong with allah and that we need in order to be successful muslims you will find it within the quran allah flora kitab on him at a yachty summer facility little Hakim Nabil this is a book that its verses are manifest and clear and then they have been explained from the one who is all aware all wines every single thing that you need as a Muslim to be successful not only in your religious life but in your worldly life you will find within the Quran so loss of Hannah Anna by begins by mentioning a couple of those things that are extremely important a letter Buddha in la la that you should worship only Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala and then allah says oh and it's not filled water become from atubu ilayh you mature come meta and Hassanein allah agenda mu sigma y UT quality huddle in favela and that you should seek Allah's forgiveness and repent to allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and allah azza wajal will give you good and he will increase you in good and he won't give you enjoyment within this life and he will give you from his bounty and from his grace provision success happiness all of this revolves around your relationship with allah azzawajal and that's where Laden says when I am in that but in fill out of the allah and allah here is for her alamo mustafa rahama still that though they are that there is not a single creature upon the face of this earth except that it is allah who provides for that creature it is a large diligent who provides for his creation it is in the hands of Allah to give happiness to people to give them success to grant them to the way that will be the sirat al-mustaqim the straight path and then allah azza wajal mentions the two types of people when it comes to this message of the Quran when it comes to the message that was brought by the prophets of Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala those people who will accept and they were persevere and they will work and they will bring effort and determination and they will sacrifice for the sake of Allah religion and then you have those people who will turn away who will choose a different path who will rather want to enjoy everything they can in this life and won't give any thought to what will happen after their death allah subhanaw taala mentions both of them but then he goes on to mention those examples in practical terms with the people of no Holly his Salam the people of no Holly his Salaam refused to believe in north and one of the reasons that they refused to believe as Allah mentions in this surah is because their people the people who followed no Holly his Sarah were the weak and the poor so they said I don't mean oh let have a tabernacle out of their own should we believe in you when your followers are the weak when your followers are the poor when your followers are those who don't have a noble station in society but Allah Azza WA JAL doesn't care about those things along mentions the story of who that who darling he started to ascend an hood his people were people who were known to have military prowess they had the ability to construct fortresses everywhere and a large soldier says in this surah that hood said to them that if you return to Allah and seek his forgiveness he has it come poet and Aleppo Otakon then Allah will increase you with even more strength in addition to the strength that you already have but when they turned away from a large silligan Allah didn't care about the way about their military power about their strength about the fact that they could go and conquer other lands and other people's Allah mentioned the story of Saudi honey his Sarah and his people were given technological advances to the extent that still today in the world you can go and see the dwellings of Saleh hurling his Senate and his people but they're in select where they built houses and palaces into the sites of mountains carved into them thousands of years ago yeah when they turned away from Allah subhana WA Ta'ala when they rejected their prophets Allah hiding his said I'm a loss of Hannah and Ouattara didn't care about those technological advancements that they had you have the story of Shri Benari his sanam whose people were given economical means they had money and they had wealth and they were extremely prosperous but they would do so by cheating others and by being unfair in the way that they used to buy and trade and sell so large so dimensions in the Quran that Shri Mataji Selim said to them why upon me Oh from Mikayla will me sign a bill pissed be just in the way that you a be just in the way that you buy and son for they too turned away from their profit and a loss of hand and what allah so allah azzawajal didn't care about their well so what does a loss of Hanna what I really care about and all of these things are being levelled against the prophet salallahu alayhi wa sell him and the few Muslims that he has with him during that time in Mecca the poorest are more powerful they're more noble they have better weaponry they have more advances in every single form the Companions of the Prophet of salem the vast majority of them are weak and poor their women and children and exclaims and so on yet a large elderly showing through this surah that allah subhana wa ta'ala only cares about those people who believe in him who turned to him who hold on to the path of allah subhana WA Ta'ala they are the people who are given success they are the people who if they strive and they up they preserve and they are determined to reach what Allah Azza WA JAL has promised them then a loss of Hana Hana won't make their path easy for them the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam took away these lessons and he would think and he would ponder and he would contemplate so much that he made a physical difference in his appearance not only in his appearance but even in his mindset as their eye shot of the allahu and her mentioned to us that the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would sometimes see a cloud and when he would see the cloud he would become agitated and he would walk in and he would walk out of his house and he would become upset so she said o Messenger of Allah when the people see clouds they rejoice because it's bringing rain especially in a climate like Arabia where it's desert and hot when people see rain they rejoice they see clouds they become happy but you are missing Java la you become agitated and upset he said oh Iron Chef verily there were people who came before us who would see clouds like this thinking that he brought wing and mercy from Allah religion but within it they're contained punishment for them he's referring to the people of who they are his Sena those people of who were given our drought and famine that's how they were destroyed and drought and famine and who darling he said I'm promised them that the punishment of Allah would come they saw drought and family for a number of days and they were extremely hard up but then eventually clouds came so when they saw those clouds they rejoice and they said to hood we knew that you were lying clouds have come rain has come relief has come therefore you are not true your God is not true Philomela over our Islamist avila oh dear to him para no Heather I didn't want Ivana they saw those clouds they said these are clouds bringing rain bell who a master jelton bit reconfigure either on a limb to them miracle Asia in the Ahmadiyya Ribeira force but Allah your our ulema tsukino Allah says for Radha it is what you hastened what you wanted meaning the punishment of Allah when you would say to hood if you're true then ask a lot to punish us if what you're saying is true show us this punishment of Allah rather it is what you hastened it is an extremely painful torment and a wind it will destroy everything everything so that the next day you will not see anything standing except their houses other than their abode everything was destroyed the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and he would read saunas like surah hood he wouldn't just read them and passed on but he would understand and contemplate to the extent that if he saw something that is mentioned within that surah something that happened to a people who came before us by thousands of years the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would fear the same for his home map the process of salem would contemplate and he would change his physical appearance this is how a person connects to the Quran this is how we strengthen our relationship with the Quran Allah subhana WA Ta'ala has given us the Quran his given Astana has given us all of these means but often the way that we treat them is very haphazard we don't connect we don't stop to think and to ponder even though a large services in the Quran FLA at Barone al-quran a mariner alumina Prelude ha do they do not contemplate and ponder the Quran or are their hearts locked resealed barakallahu li walakum floor animal soon whenever honey we happen to me feed him a meal hikmah a quartic only Haida mustafa ala Holly welcome militia grimacing mean I mean Khalida mean festival in Nirvana for Rahim SMIL I will handle our salat wa salam wa ala rasulillah early he was suffering here woman viola hand my back this what bear is not meant to discourage people from reciting the Quran or reading as much of the Quran that they can as they can but to memorize the Quran but rather is to add another aspect in a different way of also interacting with the Quran one that is equally important and perhaps in some cases even more so and that is the importance of understanding and contemplating what you understand but just simply reading a translation or even a book of tafseer but to stop and to think about it I've done live in armor of the allahu anhu ma and in some narrations that he said that it was his father I'm one of the Allah and they spent ten years over Surat al-baqarah ten years Abdul Rahman even Abby Laila rahim allah one of the famous palace of the tambourine from the students are from the student are many of the great companions he was once reciting surah hood and a woman passed by and she said an elderly woman and she said to him o eb nabi layla do you recite surah hood with this speed and he was reciting normally he was reciting very fast he was reading normally she said do you recite surah hood with such haste it's taken me six months and I'm still on this surah six months and I'm still on the single surah because that's how the companions were that's how the scholars were yesterday would have a portion of the Quran that they would read daily in order to finish the recitation of the Quran as often as they could but they would also have portions of the Quran where they would stop and ponder and they would contemplate and some of the Companions would simply take a surah and they would spend as long as they needed in order to take everything that they possibly could from that single son of the Quran I'm delighted mr. Authority Allah Quran said don't read the Quran with haste it is not poetry that you're reading nor is it a fable or a story that you're simply trying to read to pass time but rather stop and ponder the amazing signs of Allah contained with every single verse that is how you plunder the Quran you contemplate the Quran if the Prophet Sunnah long-wearing will send them towns that are so relaxed surah hood made him grow that it's something that brought fear within him he would make him fearful at times they shouldn't we as people who love allah the quran the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam want to go back to Sora's light surah hood and see why what does Allah say we did see what is the message that Allah subhana WA Ta'ala wants us to take so the message from this football my dear brothers and sisters in Islam is to connect with the Quran it is one of the greatest ways of strengthening your Eman and keeping that relationship with Allah strong but not just simply by reading the Quran also by contemplating and understanding the Quran rascal our religion that he makes us from amongst the people of the Quran those people who are his only yeah those people who are his special people that he has chosen from this earth may allah azzawajal give us the ability to understand the quran to implement the Quran to follow the Quran memorization make it a means of our intercession on your mother Yama and through the Quran may allah subhanaw taala raise our ranks and Jenna may Allah protect us and our families from every evil subhana rabbika rabbul izza Jeremiah c-fone was said I'm almost 18 when hamdulillahi rabbil aalameen

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