WEBVTT 00:00.031 --> 00:05.418 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah Subhainat ala says, ala di khanak al-Montah, he created death binary zero. 00:05.498 --> 00:08.682 [SPEAKER_00]: Because this world are ultimately everything's a vibration. 00:08.702 --> 00:10.885 [SPEAKER_00]: And if we believe this world is a test, now notice. 00:10.905 --> 00:13.429 [SPEAKER_00]: khanak al-Montah, he starts by talking about death. 00:13.449 --> 00:14.650 [SPEAKER_00]: He created death in life. 00:14.770 --> 00:20.658 [SPEAKER_00]: khanak al-Montah al-Hayatah, li, in Arabic, the lamb is called lamb is sababiya. 00:20.878 --> 00:22.661 [SPEAKER_00]: Meaning, it's the lamb of purpose. 00:22.761 --> 00:25.284 [SPEAKER_00]: Anything that comes after the lamb is the purpose. 00:25.304 --> 00:28.148 [SPEAKER_00]: So when he says, li, yablu akum, 00:28.128 --> 00:29.131 [SPEAKER_00]: to test you. 00:29.371 --> 00:33.883 [SPEAKER_00]: So the purpose of creation, because how do we come into this world? 00:33.923 --> 00:35.668 [SPEAKER_00]: We're born into this world, right? 00:35.688 --> 00:37.873 [SPEAKER_00]: So the purpose of creation is to test. 00:37.894 --> 00:41.864 [SPEAKER_00]: To test that's what ya Allah, ayyukum aha senu aamala. 00:42.085 --> 00:44.972 [SPEAKER_00]: Who out of you is the best in action? 00:44.952 --> 00:52.107 [SPEAKER_00]: not the most in action, but the best Allah is interested in quality, not in the quantity, okay? 00:52.127 --> 00:58.440 [SPEAKER_00]: So if it's all about ahman and iman, you have to have iman, iman is actually a condition. 00:58.681 --> 00:58.921 [SPEAKER_00]: Why? 00:59.182 --> 01:04.092 [SPEAKER_00]: Because Allah says, 01:04.072 --> 01:19.209 [SPEAKER_00]: Wahoo wa min, whoever does a good deed, whether if there are a male or a female, a male or a female or a female, Wahoo wa min, while he has a man, Fala no hiyan, who haya tantayaba, we will give him a good life, even in this world. 01:19.369 --> 01:26.097 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's all about your actions, but we have to define what's a good action, Allah says it in Surat al-Qaf. 01:26.077 --> 01:34.989 [SPEAKER_00]: Femin can ayar ju liqa Arabihi, whoever wants to look forward to meeting his Lord, Falyam al-Amlansalihan. 01:35.009 --> 01:37.892 [SPEAKER_00]: Let him do practice good deeds. 01:38.453 --> 01:39.515 [SPEAKER_00]: Aam al-Salihan. 01:39.535 --> 01:43.760 [SPEAKER_00]: Then he says, well, you should be a bad that Arabihi ahadah. 01:43.880 --> 01:48.386 [SPEAKER_00]: And let him not associate any partners in this worship, meaning in this act. 01:48.486 --> 01:55.155 [SPEAKER_00]: So from this the scholars deduce that a righteous act is one where the heart is fully turned towards Allah. 01:55.135 --> 02:02.104 [SPEAKER_00]: Meaning, you could be fulfilling a shahwa, a desire of yours, like spending time with your family. 02:02.304 --> 02:05.729 [SPEAKER_00]: And you're connected with Allah, that's Amal Salih, it's worship. 02:05.809 --> 02:16.583 [SPEAKER_00]: First of all, the Prophet ﷺ teaches in the Hadith that before you make love to your wife, you would say, Allah Almighty, nibna shaytan, wajn nibshaytan, amara zakhtena. 02:16.683 --> 02:20.788 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a dua that you recite to see refuge of Allah from Satan. 02:20.768 --> 02:27.458 [SPEAKER_00]: and not to let Satan touch or have any share in the baby if Allah were to decree a child to come from this. 02:27.858 --> 02:32.766 [SPEAKER_00]: By reciting this but also you're fulfilling the rights of your spouse. 02:33.186 --> 02:42.540 [SPEAKER_00]: So by fulfilling it if the intention is there and your conscious of Allah during the act, then this now becomes a righteous act. 02:42.520 --> 02:46.624 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's no longer just a, you know, a random act that you're doing. 02:46.904 --> 02:50.687 [SPEAKER_00]: But it's actually an act that is rewarded by Allah. 02:50.707 --> 02:56.012 [SPEAKER_00]: Just like sleep, sleep is, is just, it's not something halal or halam, it's just sleep. 02:56.152 --> 03:00.096 [SPEAKER_00]: But it becomes worship if you intend something from that sleep. 03:00.116 --> 03:00.536 [SPEAKER_00]: Like what? 03:00.656 --> 03:12.527 [SPEAKER_00]: Like to, you know, to gain some strength for worship, you know, or you don't want to be tired the next day when you're fulfilled your duties in your job or with your family. 03:12.507 --> 03:15.091 [SPEAKER_00]: Permiss, we call them in English in Shadiya. 03:15.111 --> 03:20.919 [SPEAKER_00]: They're called merely permissible become now acts of worship when they're infused with an intention. 03:21.099 --> 03:33.276 [SPEAKER_00]: But now you could be in a Sajda where the Prophet says the closest a person is to his Lord is when he is in Sajda, but your heart, your mind, your mind, your mind, your mind, your Sajda, your thinking of other things. 03:33.296 --> 03:35.079 [SPEAKER_00]: That now is not Aham Al-Sanah. 03:35.099 --> 03:38.143 [SPEAKER_00]: It's just, it has the outer shell of the action. 03:38.123 --> 03:45.255 [SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of, obviously, based on your intention, the quality, why does a lot of way deeds on the day of judgment? 03:45.275 --> 03:46.097 [SPEAKER_00]: Why does any count them? 03:46.217 --> 03:50.084 [SPEAKER_00]: They're weighed, because the deed is heavier based on your intention. 03:50.144 --> 03:54.371 [SPEAKER_00]: So the more sincerity, the more iman, the way they are, the deed. 03:54.671 --> 03:58.478 [SPEAKER_00]: So now we've established that the whole point is iman and righteous deeds. 03:58.458 --> 04:00.582 [SPEAKER_00]: But how are you going to perform righteous deeds? 04:00.922 --> 04:05.370 [SPEAKER_00]: So Allah says, I created death and life, meaning I plugged you into this matrix. 04:05.390 --> 04:06.812 [SPEAKER_00]: How do we know this is a matrix? 04:06.892 --> 04:08.976 [SPEAKER_00]: It's very interesting, a divine matrix. 04:09.457 --> 04:15.387 [SPEAKER_00]: And by that we mean what you see is not or what you perceive isn't what's really going on. 04:15.407 --> 04:22.980 [SPEAKER_00]: So then Allah says in Suratil Insan that verily we created Insan from a drop of sperm, minut fethin, amshadhin, 04:22.960 --> 04:27.625 [SPEAKER_00]: Nebhtali, the first same word about Iptilat tried to try him. 04:28.125 --> 04:32.049 [SPEAKER_00]: Nebhtali, Fajjah, al-Nah, Husami, and Basirah. 04:32.069 --> 04:32.790 [SPEAKER_00]: It's fascinating. 04:33.210 --> 04:34.772 [SPEAKER_00]: We created this in Sam. 04:35.092 --> 04:38.075 [SPEAKER_00]: We put him into this world as a test. 04:38.095 --> 04:39.016 [SPEAKER_00]: How are we going to do that? 04:39.276 --> 04:40.357 [SPEAKER_00]: We gave him perception. 04:40.638 --> 04:44.501 [SPEAKER_00]: So now he's listening and he's hearing, but it seems like way to second. 04:44.902 --> 04:48.766 [SPEAKER_00]: What I'm hearing and what I'm seeing is it really what's going on? 04:49.226 --> 04:49.426 [SPEAKER_00]: No. 04:49.867 --> 04:51.128 [SPEAKER_00]: What's happening? 04:51.108 --> 05:02.602 [SPEAKER_00]: is that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, He created everything from nothing and created all the things in this world and all the means of this world and then put you in this world. 05:03.023 --> 05:10.973 [SPEAKER_00]: Then He created in you needs with His Khodra to fulfill those needs from His treasures. 05:10.953 --> 05:20.148 [SPEAKER_00]: So he created in you and need, and need to sleep, and need to eat, and need to earn, all these needs, and then he sent commands with these needs. 05:20.348 --> 05:25.556 [SPEAKER_00]: And your job is to fulfill these commands, and then you will be successful. 05:25.656 --> 05:27.079 [SPEAKER_00]: So this world is a test. 05:27.139 --> 05:32.387 [SPEAKER_00]: What's happening is not what's really going on, meaning Allah created the Sun. 05:32.367 --> 05:33.689 [SPEAKER_00]: but Allah provides light. 05:34.010 --> 05:37.376 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah created water, but Allah conscious thirst. 05:37.777 --> 05:41.564 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah created food, but Allah says shayt's hunger, but wait O Samma. 05:41.885 --> 05:42.867 [SPEAKER_00]: What are you talking about? 05:42.927 --> 05:46.193 [SPEAKER_00]: When I drink water, I feel quenched, but that's the test. 05:46.393 --> 05:54.308 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah's the one doing everything, but He veiled His Qudra, He veiled His power through these means of this world. 05:54.288 --> 05:58.472 [SPEAKER_00]: So he made it appear as if medicine curious. 05:58.492 --> 06:04.639 [SPEAKER_00]: He made it appear as if water quenches thirst but in reality in the Qur'an he tells us that he's the doer. 06:04.719 --> 06:06.360 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the meaning of the kalimah. 06:06.380 --> 06:08.042 [SPEAKER_00]: La ilaha illallah. 06:08.262 --> 06:11.966 [SPEAKER_00]: What you see with your eyes, it's not happening from there. 06:12.286 --> 06:15.029 [SPEAKER_00]: So then Allah showed us something that's not the truth. 06:15.510 --> 06:18.473 [SPEAKER_00]: Then he sent messengers to tell us what the truth is. 06:18.713 --> 06:20.215 [SPEAKER_00]: But why he said, why not show us? 06:20.435 --> 06:21.696 [SPEAKER_00]: You know why not show us that? 06:21.676 --> 06:24.841 [SPEAKER_00]: because where's the test if you see him doing everything? 06:24.861 --> 06:27.765 [SPEAKER_00]: The whole basis of Eman is to believe in the unseen. 06:28.806 --> 06:29.728 [SPEAKER_00]: What did Pharaoh say? 06:29.948 --> 06:37.539 [SPEAKER_00]: It says, I'm not the king of Egypt and these rivers are running from beneath me meaning I am the king and I control agriculture, your sustenance. 06:37.559 --> 06:38.220 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what he's saying. 06:38.360 --> 06:40.884 [SPEAKER_00]: Then he said, Eiffelah Tubsiroun, do you not see? 06:41.365 --> 06:44.229 [SPEAKER_00]: The basis of materialism is perception. 06:44.349 --> 06:46.452 [SPEAKER_00]: The basis of Eman is the unseen. 06:46.432 --> 06:50.798 [SPEAKER_00]: That's why Allah says, Aliflamim, Surah Al-Bukharah, the second chapter, after Fatiha. 06:50.959 --> 07:13.452 [SPEAKER_00]: The Al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al-Qa'al 07:13.432 --> 07:15.135 [SPEAKER_00]: But now you're being tested. 07:15.235 --> 07:17.619 [SPEAKER_00]: So for example, he created sickness. 07:17.680 --> 07:20.525 [SPEAKER_00]: He sent to you the condition of being sick. 07:20.645 --> 07:26.115 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a circumstance because Allah created objects and created circumstances both are his creation. 07:26.135 --> 07:29.040 [SPEAKER_00]: He created the the the object of food. 07:29.240 --> 07:31.464 [SPEAKER_00]: Then he created in you a need called hunger. 07:31.524 --> 07:33.027 [SPEAKER_00]: Then he told you eat. 07:33.007 --> 07:35.831 [SPEAKER_00]: but then he also told you don't be extravagant. 07:35.852 --> 07:40.940 [SPEAKER_00]: So the point of eating is not to fesciate your hunger because it's a lot that sesciates hunger. 07:41.320 --> 07:46.488 [SPEAKER_00]: The point of eating is to fulfill God's because eating is a test. 07:46.508 --> 07:52.618 [SPEAKER_00]: Drinking is a test every action amel of yours is a test to pass that test. 07:52.598 --> 07:55.502 [SPEAKER_00]: A business man does business and he makes a million dollars. 07:55.642 --> 07:58.526 [SPEAKER_00]: And the other trades and does his business and makes a dollar. 07:58.566 --> 08:02.371 [SPEAKER_00]: If you ask any sane person today, who's the successful business by a million dollars? 08:02.391 --> 08:03.132 [SPEAKER_00]: The million dollars. 08:03.673 --> 08:08.219 [SPEAKER_00]: The Dean would teach us that the successful person is not the one that made a million dollars. 08:08.420 --> 08:11.564 [SPEAKER_00]: And the unsuccessful one is not the person who just made a dollar. 08:11.985 --> 08:17.292 [SPEAKER_00]: The successful person is the one who fulfilled the commands of God as they relate to wealth. 08:17.512 --> 08:19.194 [SPEAKER_00]: A relevant of the outcome. 08:19.575 --> 08:21.778 [SPEAKER_00]: The outcome is not in your hands. 08:21.758 --> 08:26.446 [SPEAKER_00]: See, most people, most of the, let's say, non-believers. 08:26.607 --> 08:31.876 [SPEAKER_00]: They're after happiness, but happiness is a creation of Allah and it comes and it goes. 08:32.337 --> 08:33.699 [SPEAKER_00]: It only stays in paradise. 08:34.040 --> 08:42.855 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're after happiness as a non-believer, we tell you, don't be after happiness, success is in being after God's happiness, God's pleasure. 08:42.835 --> 08:53.170 [SPEAKER_00]: So if you fulfill God's requirements, Allah will make you happy if he wishes, but I say happiness is overrated because the point is not being happy. 08:53.631 --> 08:57.496 [SPEAKER_00]: The point is fulfilling God's command irrelevant of the outcome. 08:57.977 --> 09:01.002 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes Allah will send you situations that will make you sad. 09:01.522 --> 09:04.767 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes he'll send you circumstances that will make you happy. 09:04.887 --> 09:08.893 [SPEAKER_00]: And you'll think if I'm happy then Allah must be pleased with me not necessarily the case. 09:08.873 --> 09:22.747 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah is pleased with you if you fulfill His command in every situation He sends your way, your question is, what does God, what does Shariah law, what does God want from me in this situation? 09:23.408 --> 09:26.275 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you fulfill that, you will be successful. 09:26.255 --> 09:28.140 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's not in the outcome. 09:28.180 --> 09:32.671 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes you could be happy about something that is not so pleasing to Allah. 09:33.132 --> 09:34.876 [SPEAKER_00]: The question is, would it make Allah happy? 09:35.237 --> 09:36.440 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, then I'm good. 09:36.661 --> 09:42.154 [SPEAKER_00]: Even if it makes me sad, sometimes you might have to leave your family behind. 09:42.134 --> 09:44.398 [SPEAKER_00]: to maybe study religious knowledge. 09:44.859 --> 09:47.323 [SPEAKER_00]: And you feel sad, but it's actually a good thing. 09:47.703 --> 09:54.896 [SPEAKER_00]: You are sacrificing a little bit of time with family, but for a bigger cause, and you might not be so happy about leaving your family behind. 09:55.396 --> 09:57.159 [SPEAKER_00]: Neither was Ibrahim when he left his child. 09:57.179 --> 09:58.742 [SPEAKER_00]: That's that's difficult. 09:58.722 --> 10:06.130 [SPEAKER_00]: But we say success is not in happiness or sadness, even Allah says in the Qur'an that sometimes he sends you happiness. 10:06.652 --> 10:08.379 [SPEAKER_00]: But he never keeps you in that state. 10:08.419 --> 10:09.704 [SPEAKER_00]: He also sends you sadness. 10:09.744 --> 10:12.354 [SPEAKER_00]: So you don't become a slave of happiness or sadness. 10:12.675 --> 10:15.988 [SPEAKER_00]: Because then you're a slave of your emotions, for you're a slave of love.