Who Are the People of Taqwa by Nouman Ali Khan

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column or desitin vada Mukunda be rotten Balala Mikula bottle attention now ikuo subhanahu wa'ta'ala Vickie Hilton Raja Huli Huli let him initiate on the regime well Tallulah Huaraz all the under control her moon was earlier in a Maserati Minerva become was a nothing Boris and Iwata well-armed that helmet Akane Allahu mahjongg nominal mater came well imagine I mean alladhina amanu aminu slowly hot what I was of the luck what I was of the sub allahumma thabbitna in del Monte villa la la I mean Arabella I mean inshallah tada and today's brief goodbye I'd like to share with you a reminder a reminder from a passage that belongs to salat al Imran the third surah of the Quran first and foremost just something very basic that all of us already know Allah Azza WA JAL invites us to the Friday prayer the commandment occurs in so told you MA and he says to us that when the call is made facility Kerela rushed to the remembrance of Allah so instead of calling it the hood WA are calling it the prayer he called it the remembrance of allah the essence of the hood wa is what to remind ourselves of allah it is a means of refreshing our commitment it's a means of refreshing and individual at the same time refreshing an entire community and the best means to do that is the remembrance of Allah and speaking of remembrance there are different kinds of remembrance of Allah but the best of them the ultimate remembrance of Allah is what Allah Himself calls the ultimate reminder the Quran well the kid will Koran remind with the Quran can lie in the hadith Kaaba no on the contrary this no doubt is certainly a powerful means of reminder in Hua Allah the Quran Quran and Mubeen it is nothing but a reminder so one of the essential roles that the Quran plays in the life of a believer beside despite its knowledge and there's a wealth an infinite wealth of knowledge in the Quran one of its central roles that it plays in the life of a Muslim and in the life of a community is that the Quran is a reminder and by definition a reminder is something you already know a reminder is not new information if I remind you you have a flight at 7 o'clock it's something you knew what you forgot so Allah Azza WA JAL reminds us in the Quran and this lends to an appreciation of why there is much repetition in the Book of Allah Allah as ojas says the same thing many times many many times he mentions taqwa for example many many many times and the proportion to which something is mentioned more it illustrates how quickly people forget that which is mentioned more so if Allah as though it inventions over 200 times he mentions stuck wa it is because even if you know what about taqwa you forget to apply it you forget to think about it you forget to realize it when the time comes so you need to be reminded over and over again as do I so a reminder from surah al-e-imran allah azzawajal says well fear Allah what was soon done become toha moon or they align the messenger sallallaahu and he will send them so that you may be shown mercy so that all of you may be shown mercy in this ayah allah azzawajal has attributed obedience to alive his messenger with the one who is hopeful of getting a las mercy you know Iike Arjuna Muhammad Allah those are the ones who are hopeful for the mercy of Allah so anyone hoping for a lot to show mercy on them need to first change their attitude about obedience to Allah of the messenger sallallaahu Mardan he will send them there is no mercy outside of obeying Allah and His Messenger so that you may be shown mercy be in obedience to Allah and by the way a couple of Ma'at before there's a there's a prohibition yeah you had Medina a maneuver cool Arriba Abajo Mubarak a couple of ayat before Allah says those of you who believe don't consume river don't consume all forms of this detestable form of earning the most common occurrence of which is interest it's not limited to interest but at least that's the most common form don't be consumers of it even if it multiplies one on top of itself and by saying a behalf of Mubarak Allah illustrates something that why would people get involved in a river anyway what's the incentive so you get something out of it you weren't you worked so hard to earn this money and the banker comes to you and says let it work for you now let it multiply on top of itself so you want to do it so you succeed so you get the most out of your efforts Allah Azza which it gives an alternative in the same ayah that Allah Baba what table instead of consuming Reba I give you an alternative the alternative is be conscious of Allah now what do you see an alternative I was thinking maybe give me an alternative form of investment somewhere else I should put my money on the reservation offers the incentive the alternative have taqwa of Allah and then he adds that I do not come to fear poon so that you and literally a flat a flat is to see the fruits of your labor so that you may see the fruits of your labor have taqwa of Allah the very reason for which one would get involved in rib eyes to get something out of it and Allah says you want to get something out of it you want to succeed you want to see your investments come through I'll give you an alternative with stucco of Allah and if that's not enough what taco now and a tea or a debt new caffeine the very next ayah now fear that if you're not being gonna be careful and cautious of Allah then here's another incentive why you should get rid of live out of your life fear the fire be cautious we be aware of the fire that has been prepared or in depth little caffeine it has been prepared for disbelievers just by saying that that's a mercy from allah subhana wa ta'ala it has not been prepared for muslims it has not been prepared for believers the IATA began yeah you had latina avenue those of you who believe you shouldn't consume RIBA you should have taqwa of Allah you should have taqwa of the fire so in that fire which has not been prepared for you but prepared for an caffeine so Allah Azza WA JAL is reminding us don't act like those who are headed for the hellfire just by saying that he could have just said just fear the fire and that's enough but he added those that is prepared for those who disbelieve may Allah not make us from them and then he says what of the old Muhammad Rasul fine were afraid of the fire but he gives us an additional incentive we don't just want to be escaped with don't just want to escape the fire we want to be entered into a lost paradise subhana wa ta'ala and that's the mercy of allah so he says he gives us the other incentive obey allah and the messenger so that you may be shown mercy I gave you this introduction because the real passage that I want to share with you is what's coming next in the ayat is a very unique place the Quran and in this place allah azzawajal mentions a certain category of people there's certain attributes certain personality traits that these people have and these traits are so important and so powerful that Allah mentions the beginning of it is dimension of jemna and in the end of this passage there is a mention of gender again and in between there are these people so the mention of these people is sandwiched between the mention of gentleman the beginning of the regime and the end of it is earnest of Allah who are these people we want to be from these people we want to at least embody some of these characteristics so we are hopeful for allah Simla allah azza wa jal says was sorry omal fatima probably come the the choice of words is just incredible run run towards forgiveness from your Lord and this is an alternative because just the ayah before talking about people that are running towards worldly benefit they're running in the opposite direction Allah is giving you something else to run towards the first thing forgiveness from your Lord run towards forgiveness from your Lord what that implies for you and I is first of all you don't run towards something that you don't need you and I we never run towards something that we don't need you rush to work because you need to get there on time you rush you hit the books because you need to pass the exam we rush the things when we need them so first of all we need to acknowledge that we are in need of Allah forgiveness and who will realize that they need to be forgiven by Allah except the one who realized they've done something wrong the first thing the believer has to internalize no matter if we are good Muslims we are not free of sin we are not free of disappointing the the standards Allah has set for us after all it is Allah who says about all of humanity including the Muslims loudly they didn't appreciate a lot like he deserved to be appreciated the first thing he tells us run towards forgiveness from your Lord salió in an affinity mohab become well gentle nothing odd Muhammad went out and the second incentive run towards this garden this general whose expanse was real estate whose is comparable to the heavens and the earth combined you know this hits home when you get a little older when you're younger you're not going to understand and appreciate the power of these words but those of you that are older those of you that are married those of you that have kids you will appreciate this when you're younger you don't care about money not so much so long as you have clothes on your back whatever it's all good you can live in an apartment you can roommate with five other guys it's all good no problem when you get married you see I need to move out to a house I can't be in that apartment anymore I need we need to buy a property and it should be in a good neighborhood and if this was not the right size we need something a little bigger and the kids are growing older we need something with more bedrooms what about a backyard what about this what about that we run towards a house we run towards permanent residents we don't want to say in temporary housing we want to stay in permanent this it's a status of of stability so allah azzawajal offers a stability run towards this garden this is amazing real estate which the square footage is huge it's the expanse of the heavens and the earth and who has this been prepared for or a debt limit attained these are the people it has been prepared for those who are truly cautious afraid careful these are the most a team who are these booked a team Allah so just speaks about the people of taqwa all the time but in this passage there are some specific attributes that I want us to try and remember and implement insha'Allah Allah what good are these reminders if they don't affect our life and Nadine I am Fiona Fay Sabra Eva bara there's the first attribute of the people of taqwa he says those who spend in ease in times that are easy and in times that are difficult of course here spending implies spending for the sake of Allah investing in that real estate that you get later on you don't get any pictures of that real estate yet there are no brochures there's only trust you have to trust the one selling it to you Allah subhana WA Ta'ala any other salesman tries to tell you something without showing you the product you say I don't trust you man but Alonso was at is selling us a new low commodity Jala should I tell you over sale first up she will be very calm congratulations on a trade agreement that you've made allies selling us something soprano Madonna why would a lotta soldier need to sell us something it's not like we need I'll let you know when you buy and sell there's an exchange but everything we own is outlaws - so the selling doesn't make any sense he's our owner - but allah azza wajal speaks to us in terms we will understand because human beings are greedy when it comes to business deals our ears open up really there's a good deal I can get something out of this so Allah so it just speaks to us in the terms we understand and the terms that are in that incentivize things for us so Allah Azza WA 10 here says and levena you in fear who and those who spend when it's easy to spend and when it's hard to spend and what is it that they spend all I didn't say I'm Lyla home here he didn't say I'm what he says I'm Wilin and wealth and assets and other places in this passage he meant he didn't mention it it includes wealth but it includes time it includes your youth it includes your energies it includes your priorities it includes your planning you give that up for the sake of Allah you sacrifice things for the sake of Allah you've invested things for the sake of Allah and that literally means to lose something to let go of something so we let go the things that which we love and we let let them go for the sake of Allah to acquire this attribute of taqwa and Nevena unify boniface somehow or Baba this is the first characteristic and listen to the second one maybe you could say I don't know I don't have anything to give I don't have any money but the next attribute all of us can manage what calda mean Allah Allah Allah says those who swallow their anger those who swallow anger and the wording is very very powerful Kodama is actually to swallow now there's one thing you know when you're chewing food if I'm chewing food you could see my cheeks moving right and you could tell that there's something in my mouth but if I swallow it then would you know that I've eaten something No it disappears by using the words kalvin kalvin Nina alonzo Adam has illustrated that we have to have such a good control over our temper that when you do come across something that makes you upset then when you do get into a disagreement with someone entirely obnoxious as upset as that makes you not only do you have to be quiet you can't even show the anger on your face you have to swallow it as though it's not even there the imagery is incredible you have to have the self control and this self control is increasingly difficult especially for younger people who are hot-blooded you know somebody says something we don't want to hear and our face fires up for those of you that are younger and you play sports you're playing basketball somebody fired you no fouls you or somebody blocks your shout or something immediately your cheeks turned red you have the exact revenge right how easily we get angry you're driving your car somebody cuts you off and my god this is the end of the world right your dignity has all just been just been compromised you must cut him now right well Cal they mean away this is an attribute of a believer and the isn't that is used in English we call it the act of participial simply speaking what that means is they do this all the time they do it all the time there are all these opportunities to get angry little things little things that work little things at the home easily the the wife gets angry at the husband very easily the husband gets angry at the wife little little things makes you make you angry at the children learn to swallow your anger become a person that persevered through these things if little things annoy us if little little things that get angrier you'll make us upset how do we expect a lotta soldier to forgive our big sins we expect from Allah that he doesn't get angry at us and yet here we are exactly angered every little thing it shows a lack of restraint so well Cal demeanor life and the second the next attribute when our Athena and in NASA very difficult they forgive people out of love not a feeling not Vaseline a theme a laugh it is someone who forgives but uh as someone who forgives out of love you know when you forgive someone and they offend you when you forgive them first of all most people say brother I that was a nice football and I know I should forgive but my situation is special you don't understand this guy was really messed up he doesn't deserve forgiveness by the way you never forgive someone who deserves it by definition forgiveness means to give it to somebody who doesn't deserve it and you're not forgiving for them you're not exactly forgive you're not giving them forgiveness because they want it or because they deserve it you're doing it for yourself because you want to be in this list you want to be among these people that are considered with tatin that's why they forgive people especially those who work for the sake of Allah so again if you volunteer at a Masjid or an Islamic organization especially in the situation of family there's a lot of feuds there's a lot of things that come up and people get friction among each other this is where Shaitaan once friction in the shape on I am Jehovah in Akuma among yourselves Shaitaan will no doubt he will try to cause dissent among you and these are the times we have to remember what Athena and in us you know the Sahaba understood this really beautifully well hassle of the allahu anhu is one time he's sitting there and his servant brings him drink and when he was pouring the drink he dropped it he dropped the drink of course this upset the the Sahaba of the allahu anhu so immediately he recited this aisle welcomed him in alive those who suppress their anger those who swallow their anger husband says all the aloha new column to lady I've swallowed my anger he heard the ayah he said ok I'm not upsetting you anymore the servant continues to recite he says what I have FINA and in mass and they lovingly forgive people he says I thought ok I forgave you too Danny then he recites the end of the ayah Allah says o Allah who you hit with mercy mean it is Allah who loves those who excel who excel in their religion who excel in their consciousness of Allah he says go you're a free man he said I'm free because just because he heard the ayah these ayat are supposed to exact change in our behavior so here we have three things iliza whether it mentions an Athena Universal reward or are those who spend when it's easier when it's hard when Kathy Mina lieth those who suppress their anger consistently and then when Athena and ignis and those who've pardon people out of love and here it implies also out of love of Allah one thing about forgiving people because it seems to be a big problem for Muslims we're very nice to the secretary at work into the boss when we come to the must should be come with a frown there's a problem that brother yeah he's nice may Allah forgive him and you start with all the flaws he has we're not forgiving of people were very cutthroat when it comes to each other we have to learn to be different and in this regard I share with you just one reminder that I shared with a few students last night Ummah but get us a vehicle of the allahu anhu probably fuel there can't be any comparison between the love he has for a pseudo Lhasa ilaha are they said I met anybody else his love for the messenger surpasses anybody else's so V allahu anhu was a lot Lahani him send him on top of this his daughter is married to the messenger of allah so allah - so not only does he love him because he is the messenger of allah he loves him because his family his daughter is accused in saloon we find the incident his daughter is accused and his daughter is accused by someone who he used to give some allowance to now those of you that have daughters imagine your daughter is accused in an ugly way like our mother was accused oh man what meaning it just imagine the rage you would feel the anger you would have and on top of this ad that this is not just anybody's daughter this is not just any woman this is the mother of the believers so accusing her is an attack not just on her but on her husband and on the deen of islam it's an attack on the dignity of islam altogether this incredible violation this enormous in nervous you know attack and here we find a moba case a vehicle of the allah Arnall as how big this man's heart is he exact singer by discontinuing the allowance that's all he does he discontinues giving allowance and a large that was else had such a high standard move up and she locked out as much as you can unless that's such a high standard for him he tells him he gives him advice in the Quran well ya fool then he should forgive out of love they should forgive out of love well yes follow they should turn the page and abouna and yell that Allah who the kun wouldn't you love that Allah would forgive you now listen to this carefully on the one hand imagine this scale okay there's a scale on the one hand there's the anger of abu bakr as-siddiq olivia allahu anhu against this man it's fear he deserves to be you know punished but on the other hand Allah gives him either your anger weighs more or your love of being forgiven by a lawyer's weighs more I'll give you the choice and after he buna and you'll fit Allahu Alem so when you get the next time you get upset you and I get upset remind ourselves is the offense that you that has made you upset does it compare to the anger and the situation of a book a disability Aloha does it compare and does it compare that if you forgive out of love of Allah and out of in a loving fashion if you forgive then what allies offering you is your forgiveness is your anger and your revenge worth more or is the forgiveness of Allah that he's offering you worth more what is worth more to you you will forget about whether the person deserves it or not whether they're a nice guy or not whether they even acknowledge they did something wrong or not you don't care all you care about is a lie is offering you your forgiveness and after he buna and just feel loved welcome so this is the next attribute well the happy not in us we'll love Sydney but the one I want to conclude then I only have a couple of minutes to do so it's something very peculiar you would think I'm going to keep going on with a list of good leads good things that these muttaqeen do the next ayah is about bad deeds when Lavina is a fellow fan Misha oh wanna go and fusa home those who did something lewd shameless vulgar whenever they committed an act that was shame and vulgar in any way shape or form factor 10 not alpha but I said any act of shamelessness whether it was stealing something with the eyes they gazed at something they shouldn't have Yamaha in Italian he knows the stealing of your gazes he knows that too well not to salute that what the chests are hiding whether it was a billboard whether it was a banner whether it was some Facebook friend you made whether it was some texting you were doing in the middle of the night whether it was some inappropriate interaction whatever it was whatever shameless thing you did these people don't look that they are being described that they may fall into this trap - they're not immune they're human beings it might happen and will lie he it's so much easier to understand now that it was ever before you can't take a trip you can't get in your car unless unless you're exposed to fire hundreds of times before you get to work we're bombarded with it so we're guilty of this what do we like it or not we're breathing it in the culture of fashio we're breathing it in when the denied a fire do fahisha a one on one force a home or they wronged themselves in any other way they didn't wake up for the prayer they didn't give there's a cut they didn't you know give sadaqa they weren't they didn't keep family ties they wronged themselves in any other way Allah is describing the muttaqun like this why because they will make mistakes but then there's something they do after the mistake and this is the point I want to make it I'm done insha Allah Allah he says what ladina is a final flourish ax o of Allah will enforce a home with a guru la they remembered Allah I want to tell you about a trick of Shaitaan when you go late to work and your boss is angry at you because you're late and lots of people work at your office you know what you do you avoid eye contact and sneak into your cubicle you don't want to sit you don't want to face him when you when you have a bad report card and you go home to your family you're in sixth seventh grade you got a bad report card you sneak into the house there's no Salam alaikum on home you sneak in and you kind of go and you pass out you go to sleep right what happened in school nothing when you disappoint someone you avoid contact with them you would it's natural in this case when do something shameless when we wronged ourselves who have we disappointed allah azza wajal we were so disappointed Allah so naturally Shaitaan takes advantage of this he comes to you and mean he says you're gonna go pray now you hypocrite you do the shameless thing you do this and that and now you want to go attend a class now you want to go to you know arribada we should be you know you know you you're such a two-faced person so this person says to themselves yeah I shouldn't go pray because I'm two-faced Shaitaan takes advantage he distances you from Allah and were embarrassed to go before Allah so again but the true looked up he does something wrong he does something wrong and immediately what does he do he remembers Allah that Allah there's not even far no from my nothing record Allah immediately fast off our rule isn't moving him then they asked a lot of forgive for their sins and the word for sins here who comes from then I've actually a tail that which you're not proud of that that which humiliates you something you did that you're not proud of and they ask a lot of forgive those embarrassing things that they did woman yell filled the Nuba in the law who's gonna forgive sins if not Allah who's gonna who are you gonna go to where else you gotta go who knows the things that you and I have done wrong except ourselves and Allah there's way there's a lot of things in our closet that Allah is not exposed and only Allah knows and we have to find the time to ask Allah to forgive this is the the the main attribute of people that are described that enter Jannah Allah Akala home to Nathan that even tachyon and how the ayat are coming the sandwich between mentions of Jenna and the last thing I share with you about this this final passage I was one time I was with my family and we were at a mall and this other mom heard her child she was yelling at her child this mother was yelling at her child and the kids crying his head off and she even gave him a little you know but you know where the child went after he even got hit and yelled at he's still holding on to the mother he's not letting go everywhere else around there these ugly gigantic strangers he doesn't want to deal with them even if she's angry even if she's up disappointed even if she's upset his whole world his whole shelter his whole protection where is he gonna go except his mother and it made me think subhanAllah when you and I sing when you and I disobey love where are we gonna go where else is there to go who do we turn to we know we don't have anywhere else to turn so even if we disappoint our Lord even if we fall short of the standards he set for us the true water the hopeful of Jannah he never loses hope in Allah la tomatina to the rocket Allah don't lose hope in the mercy of Allah don't you're not allowed to lose hope in the mercy of Allah this is the attitude we have to internalize may Allah Azza WA JAL make us from among them with a cane may Allah make us from those who spend when it's easy and it's difficult may Allah make us from those who suppress their anger may Allah make us from those who forgive people loving the impart earth at pardon them out of love of Allah Azza WA JAL may Allah make us of those who whatever they commit an act that is not not becoming of a believer they immediately remember Allah and they ask Allah to forgive their sins for who is there to forgive the sins except Allah may allah azzawajal protect all of us and our families especially our youth that are faced with all kinds of trials and tribulations so chronic ilaha mohammed ik Machado la ilaha illa anta felucca Manitoba Lake al hamdu lillahi wa kafa salat wa salam ala a body heal Adina Slava hosonaga of wallahi Muharram in the beguine Muhammad al-amin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in yaqula lahu Azza WA JAL vegetable cream behold o billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim en allaha wa barakatahu yo saloon ala nabi yeah a uhand Adina amanu sallu alayhi wa send a notice lima allahumma salli ala muhammadin wa ala ala muhammad Thomas Allah Allah Ibrahim Ibrahim pheniramine in the Camino Majeed allahumma barik ala muhammadin wa ala ala muhammad remember dr. ibrahim were a Libra - I mean in the Camino Madrid Reba's Allah or AHIMA como la epic ala inna llaha ya'muru bil addition were et al kaba were in her and in fresh evil moon curve will add accrual logic hallelujah and a momentous neurone Alchemist Allah in the Salah I cannot I will mini- amor puta

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Length: 30min 55sec (1855 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 21 2013