mam Pearls of prophet Muhammad peace be
upon Him Abu s alri may Allah be pleased
with him narrated that he heard the
prophet peace be upon him saying whoever
amongst you notices something evil
should correct it with his own hands and
if he is unable to do so should prohibit
the same with his tongue if he is unable
even to do this he should at least
consider it as bad in his heart this is
the lowest degree of Faith sah Muslim
volume
1ab IM book of Faith chapter 21 Hadith
number
79
M spars of prophet Muhammad peace be
upon Him Abdullah amra may Allah be
pleased with him narrated that the
messenger of Allah peace be upon him
said a Muslim is the one who avoids
harming Muslims with his tongue and
hands and a muhajir is the one who gives
up all what Allah has forbidden sah
alkari volume 1ab Iman book of faith
chapter 4 Hadith number
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15 peaceful peaceful peaceful peace
peaceful peaceful peaceful
peace I pray for all of
us to choose the path that's
right Liv in
a every day of our
life Allah to worship Allah we have been
created to worship Allah and to worship
him alone and to abandon the worship of
everything else other than Allah this is
the purpose of
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life
alhamdulillah
We Begin by praising Allah we praise him
we seek his help and we ask for his
forgiveness we seek Refuge with Allah
from the evil of ourselves
and from the evil consequence of our
evil
actions whomsoever Allah guides there is
none to misguide and whomsoever Allah
leaves to go astray there is none to
guide and I testify and bear witness
that Allah alone is worthy of worship
and that
Muhammad s. wasam is the servant of
Allah and his final messenger after that
the best speech is the book of
Allah and the best guidance is the
guidance of
Muhammad s.
wasallam and the worst of all the
Affairs are those matters that have been
newly introduced into the religion and
every matter that is newly introduced
into the religion is is an
innovation all of the Innovations are
misguidance all the misguidance is going
astray and all the going astray is in
the
fire today we want to talk
about the
purpose of
life what is the
meaning and what is the purpose of our
existence
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as human
beings what is the
reason for which we are here on this
Earth what are we supposed to be doing
with
ourselves it's not something
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that a dog or a cat or a cow or a lion
or an ant or a
cockroach seems to to have any problem
about the Cat knows what he has to do so
does the cow so does the ant so does the
Sun so does the
moon these
creatures or these created things know
the reason for which they
exist and they spend their existence
fulfilling that created purpose but it
seems to be unique to the human being
that we can ask this
question what is the purpose of my
life as if we realize that we are
something
different from the
animals there is something about the
human being that distinguishes us that
separates
us that makes us a different type of
creation although we eat eat and we
drink and we procreate like the
animals there is this fundamental
underlying question that is in our
mind what are we as human beings
supposed to be doing with our lives what
is the reason for our existence now
every religion and every
ideology and every
philosophy in one way or another is
trying to make sense of this fundamental
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question by and large we live today in a
very
materialistic and secular
World
India professes to be a secular
country
certainly England
Eng
France most of the European
Democracies profess to be secular
states of course the Soviet
Union clearly defined itself as an
atheist communist Society whose ideology
was purely
materialistic and whose drivve force and
whose underlying concept was a totally
materialistic one whereas a secular
society recognizes religion but it just
states that religion should not have
anything to do with the normal everyday
running and Affairs of
state but whether the societies claim
for example in
England some of the the politicians
sometimes say this is a Christian
country and we run our society on
Christian principles the the fact of the
matter
is that their true religion and their
basic ideology is a materialistic
one and the materialistic
Society tells us
that the purpose of Life Is Life the the
reason for your existence is to enjoy
and to make the best of your physical
existence right here right now on this
planet that the way to be happy and to
be fulfilled as a human being is by
acquiring the material
possessions when you acquire these
material
possessions then you will find the
happiness and the peace that you are
looking for
and just like every religion every
philosophy they have a rational and
scientific justification for this and
this is called the theory of evolution
the theory of
evolution aims to root the human being
very firmly in the
material this
Theory must lead the human being to
understand
and to accept the idea that we are just
products of nature random mutation of
DNA we are a product of natural
selection there is no hand of God there
is no work of the Creator in fact there
is no need for a God and there is no
need for a
Creator if you want to believe in that
well that's fine you can believe it if
you want to but now they want to tell us
and they would like to us to believe
that science has proven this is how they
would claim it that we are
descended from an ape like creature so
that ourselves and the chimpanzees and
the gorillas we are all descended from a
common
ancestor therefore the human
being and the me mean of the life of the
human being is not much more than the
life of an animal in fact that's all we
are
animals we are just monkeys a little bit
more sophisticated a little bit more
advanced but basically the theory of
evolution tells us that we are
animals and that the things that make an
animal happy are the things that make us
happy
so if you have a monkey how will you
keep the monkey happy you give the
monkey some
bananas yeah you keep the monkey safe
from the Lions and the leopards and from
predators and you give man monkey woman
monkey woman monkey man monkey and what
do you have a happy monkey food
shelter and
uh sex that's it this is what the animal
needs this is the Instinct of the animal
this is The Passion of the animal this
is the driving force of the animal and
when the animal has food when the animal
has shelter when the animal has a mate
you have a happy animal so therefore the
human being is not really any different
give the human being food give the human
being uh shelter give give uh you know
the human being a mate and that's it you
have a happy human being this is the
idea behind
materialism my name is I am my name
you are the best of
people
in for what they
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and surely my prayer My Sacrifice my
life and my death are all for Allah
sustainer of the
world the students of Islamic
International School welcome all of
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you m l I'm so so blessed to be with
them m l I'm so blessed to be with them
don't know about you I know about me I'm
proud cuz I'm
rolling everywhere I see on TV people
talking trash about the way I be but
what they all hate is if we get great
cuz we're the only ones with our heads
on stra don't ever in your head looking
down if you read the the best in the
town m u l i m I'm so blessed to be with
them watch Little Wonders at their best
in Whiz
Kids each unit is
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unless
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you
L very
clever learn the language of the
Creator's last Testament in learning
quranic
Arabic Muhammad alibali the best of
words or the best speech are the words
of Allah the best of guidance is the
guidance of the Prophet Muhammad sallu
alh wasallam prophet's Mission
sallallahu alaihi wasallam it is to
explain the Quran to us and to teach us
how to practice it how to live by it his
manner his character was basically the
Quran so he is advising his companions
that after me be careful don't fight for
power keep the word of the um together
and this is part of the teachings of
Islam
give the human being food give the human
being uh shelter give uh you know the
human being a mate and that's it you
have a happy human being this is the
idea behind
materialism that you should satisfy your
passions and your animal
instincts and all this open sexuality
and nudity and fornication and even now
homosexuality is all just part of your
Natural Instincts and you should satisfy
your natural passions this is what they
say because they're trying to claim that
homosexuality even is also natural that
you have homosexual genes and some
people are just like that so they should
just do it because that's just in their
ins in and the way for you to be happy
is by following your instincts and your
passions this is the
claim of the consumer Society the
materialistic
society and most of us are caught up in
this we say we are
Muslim we say we are
Muslim but in reality
most of us are worshippers of the
D we claim we are worshippers of Allah
but most of us we are no different than
the Hindu than the Christian than the
Buddhist than the normal person Us and
Them Together We really believe actually
most of us that happiness comes from
having a nice wife or a nice
husband a you know
one man one woman you know there's two
of us and two of them that's what they
say in India yes two of us and two of
them you see that's nice that's that's
good you know man woman two kids that's
okay and we have a nice house and we
have a nice car and we have a nice
life and this is our aim the religion is
only something that goes along with that
maybe it's to do with our culture maybe
it's to do with our Society whatever the
fact is that most people follow their
religion because that's what their
ancestors were following but really
their true religion the true the thing
that they really believe is going to
make them happy in
life are the material
things and this in fact is truly the
religion that most people
follow because actually let us examine
this question what is a god what is
actually a
god when we say something is a God and
that people worship it what is it here
in India they have many many gods and
Idols which they
worship why do they worship those gods
and why do they worship those Idols what
do they believe they are going to get
from it something yes yes they believe
that that true or
not
okay so why do people worship a god what
is a God your God is the thing that you
believe is going to give you what you
want that's your God the thing that you
believe is going to give you what you
want is your
god so if you
think that Ganesh is the mean means
through which you are going to get what
you want and I don't know much about the
Hindu religion I don't know much about
it but anyway in many religions they
will worship different gods if I want to
have a child I will worship the god that
helps me have the child the fertility
God or if I'm going to go into battle I
will worship the god of war and if I
want the rain to fall I will worship the
god of rain
and because I believe that is the thing
that is going to give me what I want and
what I need yes by worshiping that thing
by sacrificing to that thing to praying
to that thing this is what I believe is
going to give me what I want yes so this
is the God and the sacrifice and the
prayer and the worship is the religion
that is given to this
God if we understand this concept this
wide concept of what a God
is we will also understand that people
they put their faith and they put their
trust and their hope and their
expectations and they approach this
thing with reverence and awe and
humility this is their worship of that
thing these are some gods that it's very
obvious that this is a
God but there are other types of things
which people take as a god which is not
so obvious but they are just as much
gods which people worship and they put
their faith in it and their trust in it
and they're hoping it and one of those
Gods is
money is
money dollars pounds Yen deutschmark or
don't have deut Mark anymore
Euro
rup how can a person worship
money you say how can they worship money
we don't pray to money we don't
sacrifice to money we don't put the
money up on our Shelf and and pray to it
and sacrifice to it but still we worship
it in fact the prophet Muhammad s. wasam
said woe be to the worshipper of the DIN
and the
Durham wo be to the worshipper wo means
like misery and unhappiness or some
Scholars said whale whale in Arabic
whale we translate it as wo is a valley
in the Hellfire it's a valley in the
Hellfire so w will be to the worshipper
of the DIN and the
Durham how can we worship the dinar and
the Durham that was the name of the
currency or the money in the time of the
Prophet sallallah alaihi
wasallam people worship money because
they put their faith in it and they put
their trust in it and they put their
hope in it and they believe that when
they have money they will be happy and
when they have money they will be
successful and they believe that money
is the cause of their happiness and
their success in life so when they have
it they are happy and when they don't
have it they are
sad this person is the worshipper of the
DIN and the
Durham because they really have their
hope and their expectation and their
fear and their trust in their
money also the prophet sallallah alaihi
wasallam said well be to the worshipper
of the finely embroidered cloth
there are some people who worship
fashion they are worshippers of fashion
if they have the latest clothes the
latest style the latest fashion the
latest shoes the latest everything they
are happy and they look and they think
that people are admiring me and they are
respecting me and this makes them happy
so when they have these things they feel
secure they feel happy and they put
their faith in this and their trust in
this and this is the source they believe
of their happiness in life so they
pursue it and they run after it and if
they don't have the latest clothes and
they don't have the latest fashions they
are miserable and they are
sad this type of
person can become the worshipper of
fashion it becomes a God to them just as
much as the idol is a god money can be a
god Fame can be a
god power and prestige
can be a god having a high position in
society can be a God but your God is the
thing that you believe is going to give
you what you want and what do you want
you want success you want happiness so
the thing that you believe is the source
of your success and happiness that is
your
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god so this is truly the correct
understanding of what a God is and what
religion
is Islam is telling us that in
reality all of these gods are
false all of these gods are FSE all
these things that you put your faith and
your trust and your hope in they will
not be able to give you what you want
and what you need not money not fame not
fashion or the idols or any of the
things that people worship they actually
none of them can give you what you want
and what you need because all of them
actually themselves are helpless and can
achieve nothing and do nothing except
that the one who created them and
controls them allows
it so in
fact the only true source of success and
the only one that we should really put
our faith and our our trust and our
hoping is not money not fame not fashion
not the
world and not these other things that
people worship but the one who has
created them all and who controls them
all this is what it means to worship
Allah
alone this is
what means not only that we make our
Salah only to Allah and we make our Dua
only to Allah of course that is very
important but also it means that we put
our trust in Allah our faith in Allah
Our Hope in Allah and the reason that we
have been created the Quran tells
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us that Allah did not create the human
being and the
Gin except that we we should choose to
worship him alone as Allah he said in
the
Quran that Allah says in the Quran we
did not send a messenger to Any Nation
except that he called the
people to worship
Allah and to reject all of the false
gods
this is the
purpose to worship Allah not to believe
only that Allah exists not to believe
only that Allah is the Lord and the
Creator and the sustainer but that we
should put our faith in him and our
trust in him and our hope in
him to worship
Allah we have been created to worship
Allah and to worship Him
alone and to abandon the worship of
everything else other than Allah this is
the purpose of
life not a single African tribe ever
worshiped images before the white man
came not one they all worship God
different different name by the concept
same Islamic Islamic
Islamic he's a Muslim he doesn't know
he's got the wrong label on the
Christian has christianized him and make
them to worship Jesus
Christ we have done nothing really no
mission is impossible watch Ahmed
bad oh my Lord Make Me Brave
bra and make my easy for
easy this is nationalism racism
so whoever will resort to the
distinction of color and blood will
perish a majestic Turk or a blue blooded
Arab this is the law of God you
discriminate on grounds of race language
color or riches you will perish come and
talk to me like that we don't have
records that 11 Wars done by Muslims it
is just a
hypothesis Muslims are being targeted
they're called as terrorists directly
indirectly the the politicians for the V
bank for the power for the money the
thousands of innocent people that have
been killed in Afghanistan goes to Iraq
more people are being robbed more people
are being raped the main purpose is what
oil it's an Open Secret the Buddhist
terrorist we have Hindu terrorists we
have sick terrorists we have Jewish
terrorists we have Christian terrorists
terrorism is not the Monopoly of any
religion it is
not some people say that bhagan rashish
he's almighty God Hitler number one
terrorist of human history he has
incinerated 6 million
Jews we find on the international media
there is virulent propaganda about
Islam the first people who were involved
in suicide bombing were the Tamil tigers
there was no case of suicide bombing at
all in Iraq Dr Zak my job is to present
truth to the
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world
Allah will not ask me on the day of
judgment is AMA Badin a terrorist or not
that is not my basis to pass the
examination that do you agree Saddam
Hussein the terorist or
not anything which contradicts the way
ofam is
wrong anything which contradicts the
Quran of any of the other scriptures is
wrong the Quran is 100% the word of
Allah Dr Abu Amina Bal Phillips
everything else was B it's clear it is
false and we call to that truth this is
the
truth
Muslim living in any part of the world
he is our brother we should feel for him
Muslims are suffering Muslims are
butchered Muslims are slain and some of
us even they don't feel they don't cry
over that Sal Al if one organ is in pain
the whole body feels that whether he's
in India whether his empow whether he
wherever the Muslim is he is my brother
I should feel for him
how can a person worship
money you say how can they worship money
we don't pray to money we don't
sacrifice to money we don't put the
money up on our Shelf and and pray to it
and sacrifice to it but still we worship
it in fact the prophet Muhammad S.I
wasam said woe be to the worshipper of
the DIN and the
Durham wo be to the worshipper woe means
like misery and unhappiness or some
Scholars said whale whale in Arabic
whale we translate it as wo is a valley
in the Hellfire it's a valley in the
Hellfire so what will be to the
worshipper of the DIN and the
Durham how can we worship the DIN and
the Durham that was the name of the
currency or the money in the time of the
Prophet sallallah alaihi
wasallam people worship money because
they put their faith in it and they put
their trust in it and they put their
hope in it and they believe that when
they have money they will be happy and
when they have money they will be
successful and they believe that money
is the cause of their happiness and
their success in life so when they have
it they are happy and when they don't
have it they are
sad this person is the worshipper of the
dinar and the
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Durham because they really have their
hope and their expectation and their
fear and their trust in their
money also the prophet sallallah Al
wasam said wo be to the worshipper of
the finely embroidered
cloth there are some people who worship
fashion they're worshippers of fashion
if they have the latest clothes the
latest style the latest fashion the
latest shoes the latest everything they
are happy and they look and they think
the people are admiring me and they are
respecting me and this makes them happy
so when they have these things they feel
secure they feel happy and they put
their faith in this and their trust in
this and this is the source they believe
of their happiness in life so they
pursue it and they run after it and if
they don't have the latest clothes and
they don't have the latest fashions they
are miserable and they are
sad this type of
person can become the worshipper of
fashion it becomes a God to them just as
much as the idol is a God money can be a
god Fame can be a
god power and Prestige can be a god
having a high position in society can be
a God but your God is the thing that you
believe is going to give you what you
want and what do you want you want
success you want happiness so the thing
that you believe is the source of your
success and happiness that is your
god
so this is truly the correct
understanding of what a God is and what
religion
is Islam is telling us that in
reality all of these gods are
false all of these gods are false all
these things that you put your faith and
your trust and your hope in they will
not be able to give you what you want
and what you need not money not fame not
fashion or the idols or any of the
things that people worship they actually
none of them can give you what you want
and what you need because all of them
actually themselves are helpless and can
achieve nothing and do nothing except
that the one who created them and
controls them allows
it so in
fact the the only true source of success
and the only one that we should really
put our faith and our trust and our H in
is not money not fame not fashion not
the
world and not these other things that
people worship but the one who has
created them all and who controls them
all this is what it means to worship
Allah
alone this is what
means not only that we make our Salah
only to Allah and we make our Dua only
to Allah of course that is very
important but also it means that we put
our trust in Allah our faith in Allah
Our Hope in Allah and the reason that we
have been created the Quran tells
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us
that Allah did not create the human
being and the
Gin except that we should choose to
worship him alone as Allah he said in
the
Quran that Allah says in the Quran we
did not send a messenger to Any Nation
except that he called the
people to ship
Allah and to reject all of the false
gods this is the
purpose to worship Allah not to believe
only that Allah exists not to believe
only that Allah is the Lord and the
Creator and the sustainer but that we
should put our faith in him and our
trust in him and our hope in
him to worship
Allah we have been created to worship
Allah and to worship him alone and to
abandon the worship of everything else
other than Allah this is the purpose of
life so what is I we have talked about
it we have tried to get a deep
understanding of this concept of I by
understanding why do people worship
something why do they put their faith in
it and their trust in
it so I is something very
comprehensive when we translate some
words from Arabic into English or any
other language in fact what
unfortunately happens is we lose a lot
of the meaning that is implicit in that
word so when we talk about
worship the English word worship has a
very
narrow confined understanding usually
most people imagine worship
means a few ritual actions like some
prayers or burning some incense or going
to jum fasting
Ramadan okay depending on the religion
but we view these ritual acts as worship
and it's true they are
worship but actually the term I covers
much much more than
that one scholar he defined I as
this he said I is everything which Allah
loves and everything which Allah is
pleased
with from the actions of the
heart and the actions of the limbs okay
this is
so if you remember this would be very
beneficial for you to remember this
definition of
I it would be good for you to write it
down with a pen and paper because this
helps you to
memorize
I is everything which Allah loves and is
pleased with from the action of the the
heart and the action of the
limbs yes so this is I so we have been
created by
Allah to try and make every single
action of the heart and every single
action of the limbs to do all of them in
a way that Allah loves and Allah is
pleased with therefore I is compr
comprehending everything in our life
every moment of our life every aspect of
our
life and we have been created by Allah
to try and Achieve so this is the goal
that we are aiming for we may never
reach the Perfection of that goal but at
least we can say that's what I'm trying
to get to that is what I am aiming for
we should have that in our mind that we
should try
to do everything in our life in a way
that Allah loves and is pleased with
internally and
externally according to Islam every
human being is born good so if you want
to improve your character you strengthen
your faith in your creator there can be
no good deeds without any faith Dr jaff
Idis that you should do to improve your
character is always to do whatever helps
you to strengthen your faith in Allah
subhana
tala how many of us take for granted we
go to jenah what's the possibility that
we go to Jenna with no punishment at
all I want to know for me I want to know
what in my chances I want to go to Jenna
you have more TAA than me you have more
knowledge of Quran than me no more
Arabic than me nor histan to me than me
more eloquent than me I believe most of
you better than me much better than me
what are your chances get
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it what is your duty to yourself is
written in the Quran what is your duty
towards your parent is duty is written
in the Quran what is your responsib
between you and the prophet is in the
Quran what is the respon between you and
fellow mankind is in the Quran
everything is written in the Quan is a
sin for all Muslim who do not share the
Quran with your friend who are
not
Allah that all Muslims believe in the
one and same Lord
Allah all Muslims believe in the final
and same messenger of Allah Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam Quran it is
the last revelation of Allah Allah
himself said right I'll take care of
preserving myself I would not UST it to
anyone Dr Jamal badavi a day when no
wealth or children would be of any help
except those who come to Allah with a
clean heart because after all we came
from the dust and to dust we are
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returning
Dr Abu Amina B Philips doubts about the
existence of Allah he has this believed
in Allah belief is based on truth to
worship God's creation this is called sh
if we really feared Allah subhana tala
then our lives would be straight Allah
looks into an individual's level of
faith and if he sees that his faith is
strong then he puts a strong long trial
on you fire of
Faith Yas faga Islam is not one
horizontal line where everything is
equally the same that is not Islam
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam was
the greatest Liberator that Humanity has
ever known that Humanity will ever know
we are the best umah that was erected
for the welfare of mankind don't live
today as if there's no tomorrow poverty
is never celebrated in Islam and as
Muslims self-pity does not exist watch
your character that becomes your destiny
watch yaser faga in here to
hereafter
living the faith in the spirit of
Islam now we have to explain
this what do we mean by actions of the
heart What on earth does that mean what
is an action of the heart can anyone
tell me what is an action of of the
heart
intention that is an action of the heart
neara your intention the reason you do
something I am going to pray I am going
to give a speech about Islam why am I
going to give a speech about Islam
because I want everybody to admire me
and I want the whole world to be talking
about what a beautiful lecture ABD is
and isn't he handsome and isn't he so
enchanting and I will be so popular in
the
world this is an intention a person may
have but is this type of intention
pleasing to
Allah no this is not pleasing to Allah
the intention that is pleasing to Allah
is that I am talking about Islam
in order that the word of Allah subhana
wa ta'ala should be made the highest and
it is not my concern whether you like
what I say or you don't like what I say
it is not my responsibility to make you
happy it is my responsibility to let you
know what Islam teaches whether I am
popular or unpopular should not be what
motivates me I should be motivated by
seeking the face of Allah seeking his
pleasure and seeking the reward of Allah
and to avoid his punishment that Allah
has given me some knowledge and
therefore my duty is to pass on that
knowledge to the best of my ability now
is this a good
intention yes so this Nia which is an
action of the heart it's not a statement
like some people make this near this is
a b this is an innovation and it is not
the the practice of the prophet
sallallah alaihi wasallam and to make
near with your mouth is to not
understand what near
is near is not a statement with I intend
to pray
for at 5 1:30 p.m. on such and such day
and this and that and some people do
this this is not
neara because you can say this with your
tongue and still your near is not
correct neara means in Arabic it is an
intention it's an outpouring from your
heart your firm resolve to do something
that is the near the near means the firm
resolve in your heart to do something so
it is an action of the heart not a
statement of the tongue this is Nia this
is an action of the heart so give me
another action of the
heart
huh
hope okay let's take hope
what do I put my hope
in what do I put my hope in I hope in
something I hope that such and such
thing will happen what do I believe is
the source of that hope what do I
believe is the motivator of that hope do
I put my hope in Allah or do I put my
hope in other than Allah and connected
with hope is
trust who do I put my trust in what do I
I put my trust in is my trust in my bank
accounts and how much money I've got in
my bank
accounts or is my trust in Allah the
test comes brothers and
sisters the test comes in these type of
things when someone is asking you
someone who needs your money someone who
needs your help a poor person or some
person doing something for the sake of
Allah or for the sake of Islam and you
have that
money and that is not money you need it
immediately and it's not right that you
should you know you you should regulate
your money and you know you have to pay
your rent and alhamdulillah that's
correct but you have some money but
really for you your hope is in your
money and even though Allah has told you
spend oh son of Adam and I will spend on
you even though the prophet sallallah
alaihi wasallam has told you that you
will never lose because of
Sak even though Allah and his messenger
have told you that when you spend and
when you do any good deed Allah will
increase it for you at a minimum of 10
times up to 700 times or even more than
that as Allah Wills now where is your
trust is your trust in Allah and what he
says or is your trust in those figures
in your bank account that's right in
front of you now that's that's where we
see what do you really put your trust
in Allah has made it haram to
take
interest to deal in RBA but how many
people have taken a mortgage how many
people have borrowed money from the bank
at interest so they can have a house and
I can bow my buy my house you could
rent you could rent a house
I have been a Muslim for now 16
years when I first became Muslim the
first talk I heard about Islam the first
lecture I went to was a lecture
about and R that was Haram which I
didn't actually know I've been
practicing Islam for about six months I
didn't know was Haram but alhamdulillah
it stopped I stopped it just from
thinking this is rubbish and I didn't
know riba and at the time I had a
mortgage so I phoned up my friend and I
was sharing the house I said we're going
to sell the house
today I didn't say I yes in my mind Shan
was going how are you going to live
where are you going to live what are you
going to do I said listen if Allah he
made it haram for me that's it it's
Haram Allah will provide for me and my
trust is in
Allah and for 16 years I've been living
in entered accommodation alhamdulillah
very comfortably but where is your trust
brothers and sisters
is your trust in
Allah or is your trust in these material
things that you think you think it you
imagine
it this is the test this is to see
really who do you put your trust in who
do you put your faith in it is in Allah
or other than Allah so what is another
action of the Heart Another action of
the heart what is the heart famous
for love the heart is famous for love
okay who Do You Love why do you love
them how much do you love
them love is an act of worship if it is
directed correctly it becomes worship
for Allah if it is directed incorrectly
it can even become
sh you can even make someone a partner
with Allah in Your Love In fact Allah
mentions in the Quran the meaning of
which is that there are some people who
love others as they should love Allah
there are some people who love other
people as they should love Allah but you
will find the Believers they are
overflowing with their love for
Allah and what is This Love This Love Is
the Love of
submission Allah subhah wa ta'ala he
mentioned in the Quran because some of
the mushriks in the the time of the
Prophet they used to say we love Allah
you say you love Allah Muslims we love
Allah too I am sure you'll find people
you'll find Hindus and definitely you'll
find Christians they say we love
God so Allah he gave a criterian in the
Quran he gave a test in the Quran he
gave the means to show who are the
people who love him and who are the
people who only claim it K Allah said to
the prophet say in
say if it's true that you love Allah
follow me the prophet said if you really
love Allah make of me follow me and then
Allah will love you and then Allah will
forgive you your
sins so the test and the truth of the
matter is that a person who loves Allah
Will Follow The Prophet Muhammad
sallallah am and anyone who claims to
love God who does not follow the prophet
Muhammad their claim is a lie and Allah
rejects their claim because the test of
whether you truly love Allah is
following the prophet sallallah alaihi
wasallam because the prophet Muhammad is
the one who has brought the guidance
from Allah and the Revelation from Allah
and the means through which and by which
we can know what Allah loves and what
Allah hates what Allah wants us to do
and what Allah wants us to abandon it is
through this that we know the Revelation
and it is the only way we know through
Revelation how can we worship Allah and
how can we obey our Lord So This is Love
This is an action of the heart but this
action of the heart leads to the actions
of the
limbs okay and the same with fear
and means reverential all all of these
and many other actions of the heart
these are acts of worship and they must
be directed to Allah in a way that is
pleasing to
Allah and they all have means and ways
that we can direct them to other than
Allah which is not pleasing to Allah
subhana wa tala and we can know this by
studying Allah's Revelation yes so
worship means internally here to make
our love of our heart in a way that is
pleasing to Allah
in fact the prophet sallallah alaihi
wasallam mentioned that it doesn't
matter how much you pray and how much
you fast and how much charity you give
you will never
taste the sweetness of Iman the
sweetness of Faith until you love Allah
and his messenger more than anything
else until you give for the sake of
Allah and you withhold for the sake of
Allah you love for the sake of Allah and
you hate for the sake of Allah you meet
for the sake of Allah and you depart for
the sake of Allah until you have that
quality my brothers and sisters you will
never taste how beautiful and how sweet
and how lovely this beautiful dean of
Islam
is so this is something to achieve this
is something to aim for this is
something to yearn for and the action of
the limbs it's obvious what is the
action of the limbs yes praying fasting
making pilgrimage enjoying the right
forbidding the wrong fighting Jihad H
how we dress how we talk how we behave
our manners our our this is all the
actions of the limbs even how we go to
the toilet even how we go to the toilet
Islam has something to say about that
even that can be done in a way that is
pleasing to Allah and a way way that
Allah loves and is pleased with and this
is all taught to us in the Revelation so
my brothers and sisters this is the
purpose of our
life to try to do everything in our life
in a way that Allah loves and Allah is
pleased with you may not reach that
almost definitely it will be very hard
to reach that every day all the days of
your life but at least we can try and
this is our purpose and Allah did not
create us for any other purpose except
that this is very important to realize
and in this is the nobility and this is
the happiness and this is the true peace
and in this is the true Tranquility this
is the purpose of the life of the human
being let me ask you a question
something to think about how do you
think how pleasant do you think the life
of a cat would be if the cat spent its
whole life thinking it was a dog
you know cats and dogs are always
fighting yes you don't know or you
know okay so if the cat thinks he's a
dog how pleasant is the life of the cat
going to
be it's not going to be pleasant at all
imagine the deer thinks he's a lion or
the Sheep thinks he's a wolf will the
life of this animal be happy no how
about the human being
he thinks his life is about running
after this D but Allah did not create
him for that he talks about peace Tony
Blair talks about peace George Bush
talks about peace we're fighting for
peace we're blowing for peace we're
doing this for peace we want peace
everyone wants peace Abdul Rim
green that Islam is the only way to
establish true
peace
the only religion acceptable in the
sight of almighty God is the religion of
Peace Islam is a religion of Peace Islam
and Quran talks that force can be used
as a last resort only to let peace
Prevail peace a vision of Islam is not
meant only for the Muslims or the Arabs
it is meant for the whole of
humanity Dr Zakir Nik speaks on peace
vision of Islam in Truth Exposed
what is the meaning of the word
fundamentalist the concept of
jihad who are
terrorist watch Dr Zakir
n who marry more than one wife the aist
fundamentalist who spread the religion
with the sword misconceptions about
Islam
in Truth Exposed mam speaking to
people spread peace one of the beautiful
descriptions of Peace the term Salam is
derived from the root verb Sala and they
say that anything that is in the state
of wholeness anything that has no
deficiency is to be called that it is in
the state of s or Salam watch yaser faga
in here to here after
Allah has made it haram to
take
interest to deal in RBA but how many
people have taken a mortgage how many
people have borrowed money from the bank
at interest so they can have a house and
I can bow my buy my house you could
rent you could rent a
house I have been a Muslim for now 16
years when I first became Muslim the
first talk I heard about Islam the first
lecture I went to was a lecture
about and that was Haram which I didn't
actually know I've been practicing Islam
for about 6 months I didn't know was
Haram but alhamdulillah it stopped I
stopped it just from thinking this is
rubbish and I didn't know riba and at
the time I had a mortgage so I founded
up my friend and I was sharing the house
I said we're going to sell the house
today I didn't say I yes in my mind Shan
was going how are you going to live
where are you going to live what are you
going to do I said listen if Allah he
made it haram for me that's it it's
Haram Allah will provide for me and my
trust is in
Allah and for 16 years I've been living
in rented accommodation alhamdulillah
very
comfortably but where is your trust
brothers and sisters
is your trust in
Allah or is your trust in these material
things that you think you think it you
imagine
it this is the test this is to see
really who do you put your trust in who
do you put your faith in it is in Allah
or other than Allah so what is another
action of the Heart Another action of
the heart what is the heart famous
for love
the heart is famous for love okay who Do
You Love why do you love them how much
do you love
them love is an act of worship if it is
directed correctly it becomes worship
for Allah if it is directed incorrectly
it can even become sh you can even make
someone a partner with Allah in Your
Love In fact Allah mentions in the Quran
and the meaning of which is that there
are some people who love others as they
should love Allah there are some people
who love other people as they should
love Allah but you will find the
Believers they are overflowing with
their love for
Allah and what is This Love This Love Is
the Love of
submission Allah subhah wa ta'ala he
mentioned in the Quran because some of
the mushriks in the time of the prophet
they used to say we love Allah you say
you love Allah Muslims we love Allah too
I am sure you'll find people you'll find
Hindus and definitely you'll find
Christians they say we love
God so Allah he gave a Criterion in the
Quran he gave a test in the Quran he
gave the means to show who are the
people who love him and who are the
people who only claim
it Allah said to the prophet
say
say if it's true that you love Allah
follow me the prophet said if you really
love Allah make of me follow me and then
Allah will love you and then Allah will
forgive you your
sins so the test and the truth of the
matter is that a person who loves Allah
will follow the prophet Muhammad S.I
wasallam and anyone who claims to love
God who does not follow the prophet
Muhammad their claim is a lie and Allah
rejects their claim because the test of
whether you truly love Allah is
following the prophet sallallah alai
wasallam because the prophet Muhammad is
the one who is both the guidance from
Allah and the Revelation from Allah and
the means through which and by which we
can know what Allah loves and what Allah
hates what Allah wants us to do and what
Allah wants us to abandon it is through
this that we know the Revelation and it
is the only way we know through
Revelation how can we worship Allah and
how can we obey our Lord So This is Love
This is an action of the heart but this
action of the heart leads to the actions
of the
limbs okay and the same with fear
andu means reverential all all of these
and many other actions of the heart
these are acts of worship and they must
be directed to Allah in a way that is
pleasing to
Allah and they all have means and ways
that we can direct them to other than
Allah which is not pleasing to Allah
subhana wa taala and we can know this by
studying Allah's Revelation yes so
worship means internally here to make
our love of our heart in a way that is
pleasing to
Allah in fact the prophet sallallah
alaihi wasallam mentioned that it
doesn't matter how much you pray and how
much you fast and how much charity you
give you will never
taste the sweetness of Iman the
sweetness of Faith until you love Allah
and his messenger more than anything
else until you give for the sake of
Allah and you withhold for the sake of
Allah you love for the sake of Allah and
you hate for the sake of Allah you meet
for the sake of Allah and you depart for
the sake of Allah until you have that
quality my brothers and sisters you will
never taste how beautiful and how sweet
and how lovely this beautiful dean of
Islam
is so this is something to achieve this
is something to aim for this is
something to yearn for and the action of
the limbs it's obvious what is the
action of the limbs yes praying fasting
making pilgrimage enjoying the right
forbidding the wrong fighting Jihad uhuh
how we dress how we talk how we behave
our manners our our this is all the
actions of the limbs even how we go to
the toilet even how we go to the toilet
Islam has something to say about that
even that can be done in a way that is
pleasing to Allah and a way that Allah
loves and pleased with and this is all
taught to us in the Revelation so my
brothers and sisters this is the purpose
of our
life to try to do everything in our life
in a way that Allah loves and Allah is
pleased with you may not reach
that almost definitely will be very hard
to reach that every day all the days of
your life but at least we can try and
this is our purpose and Allah did not
create us for for any other purpose
except
that this is very important to realize
and in this is the nobility and this is
the happiness and this is the true peace
and and this is the true Tranquility
this is the purpose of the life of the
human being let me ask you a question
something to think about how do you
think how pleasant do you think the life
of a cat would be if the cat spent its
whole life thinking it was a dog
you know cats and dogs are always
fighting yes you don't know or you
know okay so if the cat thinks he's a
dog how pleasant is the life of the cat
going to
be it's not going to be pleasant at all
imagine the deer thinks he's a lion or
the Sheep thinks he's a wolf will the
life of this animal be happy no how
about the human being
he thinks his life is about running
after this D but Allah did not create
him for that Allah did not create her
for that Allah created the human being
to worship him in the remembrance of
Allah the hearts find rest this dun is
only there for one reason the only
benefit of this whole duny is that we
can use it in order to get closer to
Allah that's
it you use the D
in order to get closer to Allah apart
from that it has no
benefits that's it your life is very
short and this is another illusion that
it's amazing that although on one hand
the
materialist on one hand the materialist
teaches that life is a random event we
are like animals that's it we live and
we die really in reality they always
forget the dead bit
they leave that and they somehow imagine
in spite of things dying in front of
them constantly the whole time people
seem to live under this illusion that
they are going to live on this Earth
forever so they build fantastic houses
and amazing palaces and they surround
themselves with wealth and all sorts of
things as if they are going to be
enjoying this
forever and really believe me some of
them actually really have this idea they
don't think they're going to die my
father may Allah guide him to Islam he's
82 now 82 and he told me last year for
the first time in my life I feel
mortal for the first time in my life I
feel mortal that means my dad has 8 only
after 82 years has my dad suddenly
realized that I am going to die it's
taking him that
long and my dad Allah subhana T gave him
a lot of strength you know if you meet
my dad most of you he he beat you in
tennis
easily Allah gave him this strength in
this energy but the disadvantage of that
is that he imagined I'm never going to
die and people fool themselves with that
and only maybe when they get very old
and they get weak and they start
realizing wait a minute my strength has
left me and I'm 82 years old and no one
is really going to live beyond 90 maybe
100 maximum you realize suddenly no
death is going to
come but maybe that's much too late to
start realizing that fact and also we
don't know when death is going to come
how many people live to my father's age
very few most people die long before
that so the other reality we have to be
aware
of that the meaning of life is actually
not life itself but the meaning of life
is the end of
life I just wanted to ask Dr
Nike my question is idol worship is the
greatest sin in Islam Christ was the son
of God is it a question of killing
Muslims I'm sort of confused and what is
the best way to answer them there is a
case for
Supremacy and sorry secondly I'm
fighting them somehow um bring blasphemy
of one religion against another what
advice can you give who created God
that's my question thank
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you don't hesitate question Dr zakin
nyak in Dare to
ask
what were the teachings of the Prophet
peace be upon him what did it revolve
around Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam was the greatest Liberator that
Humanity has ever known that Humanity
will ever know
Yaga without a standing army without a
bodyguard without a palace without a
fixed Revenue if ever any man had the
right to say that he ruled by the right
Divine it was
Muhammad how the media is playing games
50-year-old Muslim Arab married a
16-year-old girl but when a 50-year-old
non-muslim rapes a 6-year-old girl it
comes in news briefs today the fastest
growing religion in the world is Islam
the fastest growing religion in America
is Islam the fastest growing religion in
Europe is with Isam watch Dr Zakir n
before the Americans came to Iraq there
was no suicide bombing after the
Americans came then suicide bombing
people worry that one day nuclear
weaponry will fall in the hands of the
Arabs they fail to realize that the
Islamic bomb has already been dropped it
fell the day Prophet Muhammad peace be
upon him was born Islam is destined to
supersede all this religion of Peace
this religion of H will supersede all
all the the ways of life and enough is
Allah's a witness media and Islam war or
peace so the other reality we have to be
aware
of that the meaning of life is actually
not life itself but the meaning of life
is the end of
life the true meaning of life is the end
of life and this is explained so
beautifully in in a Hadith of the
Prophet sallallah alai wasallam the
prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam said
what have I got to do with this world I
am like a rider on a journey who has
taken rest underneath the shade of a
tree and then continues on his journey
let us think about this beautiful
beautiful
similitude this allegory that the
prophet sallallah alai wasallam has
given us about this D about this
world this world is like a man first of
all you imagine someone on a long
journey especially in those
days through the desert in the heat
traveling for many many hours many many
days in fact perhaps many
weeks so imagine you are on your camel
in the desert traveling for many days
what would happen do you think if you
did not stop and take a
rest if you did not stop and take a
rest you will not complete your journey
because you will fall off your camel
maybe in the night or the day from
exhaustion the camel would keep going
and you would be left in the desert
alone to die you need that rest that
rest is very important because that
moment that you take to rest gives you
more strength to carry on your journey
and to reach your destination
yes so when the man is sitting
underneath the shade of the tree he is
getting what he needs in order to
complete his journey this is part of his
Z his provision his
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provision okay so this is our existence
our existence is like a long jour
Journey from when Allah he created us
until we reach our
destination but our destination is not
this world no this world is like the
rider who takes the shade underneath the
tree that tree and that shade is not his
destination is it he doesn't say that oh
that's how i' I've arrived now I've
reached my destination here I'm going to
stay
no his destination is some City or some
town or some place he's only resting
briefly to take what he needs this is
this life brothers and sisters this life
for us on this Earth is like a man
resting underneath the shade of a tree
on a journey we are here just to take
what we need in order to reach our
destination and what is our destination
that we want to reach that we desire to
reach it is
Paradise and the destination that we
want to avoid is the
Hellfire and the stage that we have to
pass before we get there is the day of
judgment and what is Allah going to
reckon for us and what is Allah going to
account for us except our Deeds good
deeds and bad Deeds so what do we need
from this life good deeds that is the
provision we need from this life that is
what we need to take from this world
Good Deeds
so that we can reach our destination of
paradise but most people my brothers and
sisters they are fools they imagine that
this is the destination they have been
confused and they have been taken in by
the life of this world and they have
been deceived by the life of this world
and they imagine this is the destination
here I am I've arrived what a beautiful
world it is look at the sun look at the
trees look at these nice things and they
amass the wealth and they build nice
houses and they have palaces for
themselves and cars and they believe
this is
it so they do everything they can to
acquire the things of this world but the
reality is they will die and they will
not take any of it with them and then
they will see the true reality and they
will see that they have prepared nothing
for their
journey and when they meet Allah on the
day of judgment
what deeds will they
have what deeds will they have nothing
they acquired nothing with their
deeds they got no benefit from it
because they didn't do it and even the
things they did they didn't do that
hoping that they will have something
waiting for them in the next life these
people who did in some of them it's true
they do do good deeds they do good
deeds but these good deeds will only
benefit them in the life of this
world they did not do that seeking the
Hereafter it's no good if you have a
bank account and you just put your money
in the bank account all you will get is
what you put in but if you invest your
money in a
business or in in the terms of the kufar
if you put it in an interest bearing
account it's not Halal for us I'm just
giving you an example if you put it in
an interest bearing account then you not
only have your money but you have what
you have earned on top of
it yes you have the interest you have
earned so you're making something you
can't put your money in a normal account
and expect that you will get the return
on it you will not so a person who
invests all the effort in the duny how
can they expect that they are going to
get something in the when they meet
Allah because they did not invest invest
in that they only invested in the duny
this is another explanation why the
Deeds of the disbelievers are of no
benefit to them on the day of judgment
they are of no benefit to them on the
day of judgment because they invested
only in this life they did not invest in
the they did not invest in the life to
come and the only way you can invest in
the Life to Come is by following what
Allah wants us to follow by investing
the Allah wants us to
invest by obeying him and obeying his
messenger according to what he has
revealed by worshiping Allah subhana wa
tala alone so this my brothers and
sisters is another very important thing
to realize about the life of the human
being the meaning of the life the
meaning of life actually is not this
life the meaning of life is the day that
we are going to stand in front of Allah
and he is going to weigh up for us and
he is going going to account for us the
things that we did the good and the bad
and we will be rewarded and punished
accordingly we move on to question and
answers sir I want to know in what way
the almighty is benefited by our prayers
we are only benefited by the prayers no
Allah does not need anything from us
Allah does not benefit from our our
prayers at all cuz Allah subhana wa
ta'ala is the self-sufficient he's
a everything needs Allah and he needs no
one and Allah needs nothing Allah
subhana wa ta'ala loves that we should
pray to him and Allah subh loves that we
should worship him because this is a
proof of our recognition of our need for
Allah of our complete dependence upon
upon Allah subhana wa taala but Allah
has no need from it
whatsoever so this is a very wrong
notion that some people have is that
somehow Allah subhana wa ta'ala uh
benefits uh or needs our prayers or some
people imagine that for example that the
more people are worshiping their God the
stronger the power of their God becomes
no Allah subh wa ta'ala is the one who
already possesses all the strength and
all the power and if Allah want to
destroy us he only needs to say one word
if Allah wanted he could make everyone
believe or everyone disbelieve this is
easy for Allah subhah waala so this is
something very important to understand
that
factum is it necessary to believe in the
position of jins to be good Muslim is
there any uh proof for
that yes believing in the Jin is
something that uh is from our AA it's
from our belief uh it is mentioned the
Jin are mentioned in the Quran there is
even a Surah called Surah Jin and in
fact we have many Hadith uh also from
the prophet s. wasallam uh explaining
and talking about the Jin and
indeed is Shan is one of the Jin so most
definitely to believe in the existence
of the Jin and to believe in their
capabilities and everything that has
been told to us about the Jin in the
Quran and in the authentic Traditions is
an essential part of our belief as
Muslims without a doubt it is something
from the belief of the Muslims The
Possession the Gin possessing human
beings is something that is proven both
from the Sunnah of the prophet sallallah
wasam and we have authentic
where the Prophet sallallah wasallam uh
used to exercise Jin and this was also
the practice of the sahaba and it's also
proven through uh experience of human
beings both Muslim and non-muslim so uh
gin possession without a doubt is a fact
uh and it is something that is real and
it is proven by the uh authentic sayings
of the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam
and in fact it is mentioned also even in
the Quran
that the people who take RBA will not
stand on the day of judgment except as
one who the Shan has made mad meaning
he's ma majon in Arabic means possessed
by a Jin so even the Quran mentions that
the person who deals in RBA on the day
of judgment will stand as a possessed
person a person who's been possessed by
the devil so even this we find in the
Quran is mentioning the possession of
the Jin and Allah subhana tala Allah
knows
best a friendly message by Dr
zaker way to Salvation
the way to Salvation has been
prescribed the Glorious Quran
inah Number 103 verse number 1 to
3 by
time indeed mankind is in
loss except those who have
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believed and done righteous Deeds
and advised each other to
tr and advised each other to patience
there are minimum four criteria required
for any human being to enter jna that is
Paradise these are IM that is
faith that is righteous
Deeds that is advising each other to
truth that is Islam calling people to
submit to God
and Advising each other to patients its
significance has been emphasized by Imam
Shafi who said if people were to ponder
on the Surah it would have been
sufficient for their
salvation peace TV the solution for
Humanity