[SPEAKER_01]: reason why we don't change.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the reason why the transformation doesn't happen is that the heart hasn't recognized Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ala, truly as who Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ala is.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he says specifically, and this is what's critical for tonight's lesson.
[SPEAKER_01]: He says that it's love.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's primarily love of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'idah, a deep profound love of Allah, a love for God.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is what's going to motivate us to do what we need to do and actually prevent us and stop us from what's hot on and what Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'idah doesn't want for us.
[SPEAKER_01]: He says that the love is what truly, the heart when it loves it, truly knows Allah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he says that that's the experiential love.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the experiential knowledge, not just the information knowledge.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so he says, and this is profound.
[SPEAKER_01]: He says that when you know that Allah loves you,
[SPEAKER_01]: And so that's why we make this dual when we start, O Allah, I ask you for your love.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I always say that there's two ways to look at it.
[SPEAKER_01]: One thing is that you want to love a love more than anything else, so that I give a love preference over everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: But in order to do that, there's something else that you need first, that so many of us actually lack.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a deep understanding, it's a deep experiential realization that Allah loves me.
[SPEAKER_01]: that Allah loves me and that's what so many of us are struggling with is that true understanding that Allah loves me as an individual, Mika'a ill that Allah has loved me and look what he says.
[SPEAKER_01]: He says, Eman, Assasuhuh al-Hub, he says that faith, the foundation of it is hope is love.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what the Arabic word, hope means, it means love but you know what's deep about
[SPEAKER_01]: a seed, which means if you plant that into the heart, watch the actions that will sprout from the heart.
[SPEAKER_01]: So hope is the actual thing that we need.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the question is that I want you to ask yourself, throughout the halaka, throughout tonight, I want you to ask yourself, do I understand that Allah loves me?
[SPEAKER_01]: Do I understand real quick if the brothers can move forward, like a lot in Shala?
[SPEAKER_01]: If you don't mind, if you don't mind, yeah, inshallah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Unless you need that barrier right there, you can see right here, it's not good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Jazakuma la Hulkhairan.
[SPEAKER_01]: So what does he say?
[SPEAKER_01]: He says that, Eman, Assasohu, hope, that the foundation of all faith is love.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the foundation.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this is something I think we all need to embody, which is as we teach it to the next generation.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we want this community to grow spiritually.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have to teach it with love.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have to teach the Dean with love.
[SPEAKER_01]: So many of us were taught to deal with a punishment bias that if you mess up, you'll get caught.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you do this wrong, you'll get in trouble.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you do this wrong, Allah will see you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like in and so subhan Allah, one of the scholars, Dr. Usman, over in Valley Ranch, he wrote a brilliant article where he says that so many of us have what is called a cop mentality of Allah, a cop, like he's gonna catch me.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he says, the problem is we were taught it from a punishment basis.
[SPEAKER_01]: And as a father, I ask myself every day, am I teaching the next generation, an image of God that is one of love or one of punishment.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's what I want us to focus on tonight.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Alamina Boudouzi, he writes, Eman.
[SPEAKER_01]: Assassahu'u'ub, the foundation of all your faith in Allah is love of Allah and again love of Allah is two ways, you love him but you realize he loves you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Fala-e-man li-mallamuhab-bat-alah, he says you can't have any faith until you have true muhabba of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ala.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this is what causes so many of our hearts to be disturbed.
[SPEAKER_01]: We pray our Sala, we go for Omra, we go for Hajj, we pay our Zakat, but you're like, shake, my heart, it's fragmented.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't feel that cohesion in the heart.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the reason you don't feel that is because you're lacking that love and realizing how much Allah SWT loves you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And to bring this point home, I'm just going to recite one verse of the Quran, where Allah SWT says,
[SPEAKER_01]: Indeed, the believers, Allah, they are the ones when Allah's name is mentioned.
[SPEAKER_01]: What do you let's call you?
[SPEAKER_01]: Their hearts tremble, their hearts get goose bumps, their hearts get goose bumps, what is atuliyat's atahim ayatu?
[SPEAKER_01]: And when the verses of Allah are spoken to them, zahadat whom iman, their faith goes up, their love for Allah goes up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I love you, I'm Yatawa Kadun.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the question I have for myself is ask yourself, who do you love?
[SPEAKER_01]: Love is powerful, why?
[SPEAKER_01]: And tonight we're gonna get deeper, but I gotta bring this point home.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love is more important than the actions that you do.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna slay that out right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love is more important than how much solai you pray.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love is more important than how much charity you give.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the reason I say that is shaykh Khan will make you think that this is a transactional relationship with God.
[SPEAKER_01]: And when you try to get close to Allah, I don't know about you, but my dees are slacking.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so I feel like who am I to call Allah, who am I to worship Allah, with my dees.
[SPEAKER_01]: But there's a beautiful Hadith that is profound.
[SPEAKER_01]: A man once came to Rasulullah, sallallahu aadihi wasallam.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he said, Ya Rasulullah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yuhib Bulkong, well, I'm yet Haku Bihem.
[SPEAKER_01]: A man loves a group of people, and he was talking about his love for Rasulullah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sallallahu alaihi wa sallallam.
[SPEAKER_01]: The messenger of Allah.
[SPEAKER_01]: But he's saying, my actions don't meet the criteria to be a lover of you.
[SPEAKER_01]: But my heart truly does love you.
[SPEAKER_01]: The prophet looked this man in the eye, and he said, Al-Mahab.
[SPEAKER_01]: A person will be with those that he loves on the day of judgment.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you're love for Allah, Subhanu Wa'Ta'ala is there, for a moment I want you to put your actions and deeds to the side.
[SPEAKER_01]: Another man came to Rasulullah.
[SPEAKER_01]: This wasn't a one-off.
[SPEAKER_01]: Another man came to Rasulullah, Sallallahu'a'day wa sallam.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he said, Ya Rasulullah, Mata Sa'a.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was a better one from the streets.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're raw.
[SPEAKER_01]: They just say it straight up.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he's like, man, all this like, like mystery behind the dead judgment.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's like, Ya Rasulullah, just win is it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just want to be ready, like when is it?
[SPEAKER_01]: In the prophesies, I said, I'm switched the question.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said, no, no, hold on.
[SPEAKER_01]: I debt to Allah.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said, what did you prepare for it, though?
[SPEAKER_01]: What did you prepare?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, that's what the question we asked the Shabbab, the Shabbab, like, shake, I'm trying to get married.
[SPEAKER_01]: He comes to his mom, is that, Dad, when am I going to get married?
[SPEAKER_01]: And they get in the big argument.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the dad just flips it.
[SPEAKER_01]: He goes, my, I debt to Allah.
[SPEAKER_01]: What did you prepare for it?
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a trust-a-law.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's like, nah, I've brought it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Huh, right, you got it, like, what did you prepare for it?
[SPEAKER_01]: So it'll suicide, said I'm taught at something.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said, instead of focusing on when will something come, focus on you preparing for when it will come, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Instead of you focusing on when will I get that job, focus on, I'll give you another example of this if I could digress for a moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: When the profit size to them did hijra, everybody from Medina left,
[SPEAKER_01]: But Abu Bakr did in leave yet.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the back of his mind, Abu Bakr was hoping that I would get to go with Rasulullah, Sana'a Llāh, he said, I'm like, I want to roll with you to Medina, like what a honor, just to be with you on that journey, that journey that marks a change of civilization of time.
[SPEAKER_01]: But here's the deal.
[SPEAKER_01]: He didn't just wait, he prepared.
[SPEAKER_01]: The prophesied Sonam came to him.
[SPEAKER_01]: The day he was leaving.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he said, yaba baker, it's time to go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Abu baker, he goes, a saaba, I get to roll with you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I get to go.
[SPEAKER_01]: The prophesied Sonam says, yes, we have to leave to tonight.
[SPEAKER_01]: Abu baker says, yado su dala, already have two camels I've been feeding and waiting for this day.
[SPEAKER_01]: The point is, stop waiting for something to come, rather focus on your preparation for it right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what you should be focusing on.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because when it comes, will you be ready for it?
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the true question.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the Prophet said, he switches it on, and he says, Ma'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a
[SPEAKER_01]: So the man, he says, he's one of us, Subhan Allah.
[SPEAKER_01]: He says, ma, I'd get to Cathy in Minasiyam with Salat.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't have a lot of fasting.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, some of the brothers in the room, Mashallah, Sundays of Mondays and Thursdays, three days of month, Mashallah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some of us in the room were like, man, I'm struggling with Ramadan if I'm being real with you.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he says, I don't have a lot of Siyam fasting.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't have a lot of prayer.
[SPEAKER_01]: So what do you have?
[SPEAKER_01]: What currency do you have?
[SPEAKER_01]: He says, well, I can't be, Allah wa Rasulah.
[SPEAKER_01]: He says, but I love Allah and I love the Rasul.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the Prophet ﷺ said, you'll be with the ones that you love on the day of judgment.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't worry about when it comes.
[SPEAKER_01]: But why is the Prophet saying that?
[SPEAKER_01]: Is it to deemphasize the actions?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's no, it's not the reason.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's saying that because as long as you have hope of Allah, you are holding on to the rope of Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'adah.
[SPEAKER_01]: But that, where is that coming from?
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's like, shith, I get you.
[SPEAKER_01]: But how can I create that hope?
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what we're going to talk about today.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the name of Allah that I want to speak about tonight.
[SPEAKER_01]: is the name al-Wahab, al-Wahab, al-Wahab, and I repeat it so that you can say it, so that you can get it moist on your tongue, al-Wahab.
[SPEAKER_01]: When I first convert it, you first convert, you gotta learn all these new things.
[SPEAKER_01]: But low key what they don't talk about is switching to the name Allah.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't even think about it, because ever since you were four, you were like, y'all, y'all, y'all.
[SPEAKER_01]: Your first word, Allah, the gift is like,
[SPEAKER_01]: But when you convert, you're like, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'
[SPEAKER_01]: Elwahav is the bestower of gifts, the bestower of gifts, Elwahav.
[SPEAKER_01]: The scholars, they say that in Arabic, if someone gives you one gift, they're just a y-hib.
[SPEAKER_01]: They gave you a gift.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just a little higher.
[SPEAKER_01]: But if someone repeatedly just gives you gifts, repeatedly just gives you gifts over and over and over again.
[SPEAKER_01]: then this person becomes adwahab.
[SPEAKER_01]: But they also say, even if it's not repeated, but it's one large gift.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sheikh Nablusi, he says, if somebody just comes up to you and gives you a pen, like you'll hear, I had this extra pen here, you go, you go, you go, you go, thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, I mean, thank you, appreciate you.
[SPEAKER_01]: He says, that's why I have.
[SPEAKER_01]: But if someone comes, he gives you a sayata, a car.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like you, we had an extra one on the lot, bro.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here's the keys.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's Wahhab.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Wahhab is the one that gives over and over and over again.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, now, Sheikh, how does this name connect me to love of Allah?
[SPEAKER_01]: How does this name connect me to the love of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ala, listen to this?
[SPEAKER_01]: Al-Qa'ather, the one who is ungrateful to God, the one who doesn't know Allah,
[SPEAKER_01]: No Allah, and I know for many of us, the word used is cathed, and we're like, well, that's not me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a believer.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not a disbeliever.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's true, but maybe we have qualities that aren't putting us completely into the category of believers.
[SPEAKER_01]: So when you hear this, ask yourself, is this me?
[SPEAKER_01]: He says, al-Kathir, yabakawam al-Natmati, he says that the disbeliever gets stuck at the blessing, get stuck at the blessing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wama and Nettama and get stuck with the blessing.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said, he says, stuck, you can't move.
[SPEAKER_01]: You get the blessing, but you get stuck at the blessing.
[SPEAKER_01]: You get stuck and he uses the word heavies, like you're imprisoned by the blessing, which is profound because Allah's blessings are not for us to intrinsically have, but they are for us to know who he is.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the key.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so he says, so many of us are trapped by our blessings, trapped by our blessings.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll give an example that I gave weeks ago.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sheikh Abu Zakatia.
[SPEAKER_01]: He gave this example to me which was profound.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said, our example with the blessings of Allah, you heard this one before.
[SPEAKER_01]: right in the ant finds a pile of honey and the ant you're like he's like man that's good the queen going love this yo so the ant goes on to the honey and now the other ants around are looking at my man on the honey like yo he's living the life he's got it all he's got all the honey he's on all of it but the ant on the honey is like yo I'm stuck
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't get away from this.
[SPEAKER_01]: This blessing isn't a blessing anymore.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm stuck by it.
[SPEAKER_01]: That car that you were like, I could afford the payments.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're stuck now, yo.
[SPEAKER_01]: That house that you were like, optimistically like, mortgage rates are low.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: You're stuck now, bro.
[SPEAKER_01]: That job that you were like, yo, see, sweet, I made it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's stuck.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody else is looking up, like, Abdullah made it, Fatima made it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess I got to pretend like I made it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And those who know, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: And those who don't know must take lesson from those who do know.
[SPEAKER_01]: So what does he say is the cathart?
[SPEAKER_01]: They get stuck at the blessing.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they don't move on beyond the blessing.
[SPEAKER_01]: He says, la kinneka.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tejido el módmin, yan tátli luminha il el múne em.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is profound.
[SPEAKER_01]: He says, but the believer doesn't get stuck at the blessing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yan tátli luminha, the believer moves beyond the blessing and goes on to the múne em, the blesser.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the more God gives him, the more he or she doesn't get stuck in the blessing, the more they see Allah in the blessing.
[SPEAKER_01]: So every time Allah blesses them, they increase in gratitude and recognition of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ala.
[SPEAKER_01]: So here's my question.
[SPEAKER_01]: Are you setting yourself up to be blessed by Allah or as Allah holding blessings back from you because you're not ready to move beyond the blessing?
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the question I have for myself.
[SPEAKER_01]: Am I not being blessed and given gifts?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because Allah is protecting me because of this thing we talked about right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: The blessings I have, I'm not using them to move beyond the blessing to a loss of Hanahua to Adam.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that is the quality of the believer.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's an example given just a little Latifa.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's beautiful that they say when a lost book to Benny Israeid, he says, Fath Kuru Nyan Matiel Latianam to Al-Aikum.
[SPEAKER_01]: What did he say to Benny Israeid, the children of Israel?
[SPEAKER_01]: He said, remember the blessing that I have given you.
[SPEAKER_01]: But what did he say to our own mother, Fath Kuru Nyan of Kuru Kuru.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said, but remember me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't remember my blessing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Remember me.
[SPEAKER_01]: which tells me something that the reason we're studying the name of what hop is that I need to develop the ability to look at everything that God has given me and then we'll be on.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, shake, you said that this this Holocaust was about love of a luck, how does this connect?
[SPEAKER_01]: They say,
[SPEAKER_01]: Eda jahat kaneat maten.
[SPEAKER_01]: When a blessing comes to you from a person.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now I want you to make this practical and think of the blessings you have get received from people.
[SPEAKER_01]: He says, ta lubu is dhyaan.
[SPEAKER_01]: He says, when someone truly gives you a heba, but stoles on something you to endure.
[SPEAKER_01]: you didn't deserve it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was just purely a gift.
[SPEAKER_01]: What is the feeling that is created in you and front of that person?
[SPEAKER_01]: He says, yeah, you get a bit of like humility and bashfulness before the person.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like you gave me this, I didn't deserve it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I met the door, I was able to go to Toronto this weekend and I don't know if y'all know a little bit about my story and I'll just share this so you could understand what I went through this weekend.
[SPEAKER_01]: When I first converted, I wanted to study the dean more than anything.
[SPEAKER_01]: I truly wanted to just study the dean.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I lived in Buffalo, New York.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, what's Buffalo?
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I mean, like, where?
[SPEAKER_01]: I ain't no shayu around here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Where am I going to study?
[SPEAKER_01]: So this one brother he comes up to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he says, yo, I see you in the mustard all the time.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's like, yo, you should go study the dean.
[SPEAKER_01]: A brother from, from missile.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love Egyptians till today, yo.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll show a law.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because it is brother, yo.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he goes, no, no, there's a school for learning Qur'an here in Buffalo.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me take you.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he takes me, I go, I see this muddressa, all these little kids, immigrant kids sitting on the floor, reading Qur'an.
[SPEAKER_01]: They do some magical stuff in there, yo, I just want it to be one of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: I just want to get in.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I apply, they accept me, they're like, all right, you could come study.
[SPEAKER_01]: tuition is this much money.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was 20 years ago.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if I say to a man, man, that was cheap.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it's like tuition is this much.
[SPEAKER_01]: I go back to the brother, and I'm like, I'm long, my face is long, I'm just, he's like, what's wrong?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, I got in.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's like, why are you sad?
[SPEAKER_01]: He's like, I don't have the money to pay.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought it was like, fees to be the lie, you know what?
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we go to Islamic stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're like, it's free.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like they charge you like, oh, stop for a lot, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: So he's like, oh, just make dua, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, yo, Allah loves the provider.
[SPEAKER_01]: Later that night, he calls me out of nowhere.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he says, my mother wants to pay your tuition.
[SPEAKER_01]: My mother wants to pay your tuition.
[SPEAKER_01]: Go, tell him, you got the tuition, you're signed up.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I began the study, study, study, I'm learning Quran because I'm on a time, I'm like yo.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got eight months, seven months, six months.
[SPEAKER_01]: After the next year rolls around, I'm still there.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you know how sometimes you show up to class and you think maybe they didn't like check the roster.
[SPEAKER_01]: So after a few months, I go to the office guilty conscience and I'm like, sh, I have to tell you all something.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've been studying for a few months free.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you have to kick me out, I understand.
[SPEAKER_01]: They say, no, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: The lady who paid your tuition, the first year has paid the next four years, you could.
[SPEAKER_01]: I went and met her this weekend.
[SPEAKER_01]: And she was at the conference, and she told her her grandson, go find him.
[SPEAKER_01]: She don't call me shake, she goes, go call me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Shake, she go, go call me, guy, yo.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I came.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um Tamer, she comes, and she's looking at me.
[SPEAKER_01]: And in front of her, I felt so shy, so little, so appreciative.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, it's you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And do you know what I say to her all the time?
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't catch you in Jenna, because everything I do, you get plus what you do.
[SPEAKER_01]: So how can I ever catch you?
[SPEAKER_01]: But in front of her, I felt so small.
[SPEAKER_01]: I felt so, you did that for me for no reason whatsoever.
[SPEAKER_01]: And whatever I have is because of that blessing, you've sold upon me.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is what happens when a human being blesses us.
[SPEAKER_01]: That love I have for her will never be shaken, no matter what she does, no matter what happens, no one can ever take that love I have for her out of my heart ever.
[SPEAKER_01]: But why?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's because she gave a gift to me for no reason other than the sake of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this is how we love Allah.
[SPEAKER_01]: When I am able to see every blessing, the way I stand before Um Tamar is the way we should stand before Allah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want you to look in your life and realize, and here's where it comes, I know in my heart
[SPEAKER_01]: So behind her is a love, the bestower of all gifts.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so the love of Allah, looking your life and look at people who have just blessed you for no reason, no reason whatsoever.
[SPEAKER_01]: And think about that relationship.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is how we grow love of Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
[SPEAKER_01]: They say, they say, al-Rathala, true heatlessness.
[SPEAKER_01]: is that you see the house.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, this is where it gets deep.
[SPEAKER_01]: You see the car, you see the house, you see the job.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you think to yourself, I worked hard for this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I sweat to build this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I sacrifice to get this.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a very dangerous place to be, because you're seeing the blessing, but no blesser, but yourself.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're seeing the blessing, but all you can see
[SPEAKER_01]: And this is why we have to understand that the name of Allah is Al-Wahab.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now what is Wahab?
[SPEAKER_01]: This is profound.
[SPEAKER_01]: They say that the word Hibba in Arabic comes from a root.
[SPEAKER_01]: That means, Tim Leek, to give somebody something, Bila Awa then, without anything in exchange.
[SPEAKER_01]: Without that's the key part here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because how many of us deal with us feeling a very transactional relationship with God?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I don't have that emotional relationship.
[SPEAKER_01]: Shake, I get what you're saying.
[SPEAKER_01]: But for me, it's a very transactional.
[SPEAKER_01]: I raise my hands.
[SPEAKER_01]: I pray my soulah is very transactional.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm checking boxes.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the way you move beyond that transactional relationship and show a love is to begin with this name Wahhab by realizing what a Hibba is.
[SPEAKER_01]: A gift is a Hibba is when something is given to you and you didn't even deserve it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And there was nothing in exchange.
[SPEAKER_01]: There was nothing given back to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: There was nothing you gave in exchange.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was purely Sheikh Nablusi.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you want to realize that he is well-happed, look at the first blessing that he gave you, which is your life, you know.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I know, as I say it, it's very elusive for many of us.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I want you just for a moment to just think, like, I'm breathing, I'm alive, I'm conscious, I'm aware, I'm living in this moment in time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Allah has blessed me with, through Jude, which means existence.
[SPEAKER_01]: That right there, I heard Sheikh, we were seven years ago, we were studying with Sheikh Hamza Zorses.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he said it profound and it just hit me.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said everything above a breath is extra, y'all.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everything you're alive.
[SPEAKER_01]: As you sit in this room and you think about your economic situation, your family situation, the drama there, your own mental health, I want you to pause for a moment and block out all the negative and just focus on the fact that Allah blessed you with life, you're alive right now, seeing another day witnessing God's beauty.
[SPEAKER_01]: This week in a young man, 12 years old, he asked me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the youth man, because they just cut to the chase sometimes.
[SPEAKER_01]: So in the middle of a crowd, he raises hands, I was like, what's up?
[SPEAKER_01]: He's like, how do I learn to love Allah?
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like man, yo.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's like, you've been talking about love Allah.
[SPEAKER_01]: How do I love Allah?
[SPEAKER_01]: I said to him, this is wrong only from Allah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I said to him, you can't appreciate the artist until you admire the canvas of art
[SPEAKER_01]: Sit with that for a moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can't appreciate any artist until you stop to appreciate the work of art that they have drawn.
[SPEAKER_01]: They have painted.
[SPEAKER_01]: But there's another level to it though.
[SPEAKER_01]: Have you ever gone to the museum?
[SPEAKER_01]: Just on the strength of what we going to do this weekend?
[SPEAKER_01]: Someone's like, yo, I heard there's a museum.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're like, all right, let's go.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then you walk around and you look at stuff and you're like, hmm, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, be real.
[SPEAKER_00]: You pretend like you know what's going on, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: You're like, all right?
[SPEAKER_00]: We're everybody else's standing.
[SPEAKER_00]: You stand there too, oh, OK.
[SPEAKER_00]: But low key, if that wasn't on the wall, you couldn't tell the difference.
[SPEAKER_01]: But here's what one of my shewks said two weeks ago to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said, you don't understand.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love is from one lover to the next lover.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, man, you go to the museum.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't go with your homie that don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Go with an art kind of surreal.
[SPEAKER_01]: You want to love coffee?
[SPEAKER_01]: You got to sit with my man, I'm gonna have to remember, Fio.
[SPEAKER_01]: You got to make coffee with him.
[SPEAKER_01]: You want to love anything you have to sit with lovers of that thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: So don't just go to the museum with your homie that don't know nothing about art.
[SPEAKER_01]: Go with somebody that knows like 17th century art from the European, whatever.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they, oh, it was the oil canvas with layers.
[SPEAKER_01]: And oh my, look, I watercolor to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: You want to appreciate the beauty of a lost creation, speak to a physician about the intricacies of the body.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you want to appreciate the intricacies of the human psychology speak to someone who has advanced studies in that, and just listen to them talk about the miracle of God in that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love is past from heart to heart.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that is the secret when you fall in love with a law, your children will fall, children love whatever you love.
[SPEAKER_01]: I ain't gonna tell you, but my son loves what I love right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't ask him, don't ask him, please.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right?
[SPEAKER_01]: But that's the nature when you love something.
[SPEAKER_01]: Naturally, that love passes from one heart, and you don't even gotta talk about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't even gotta just the way they see you interact with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the reason why so many of us fail to love Allah is because we've never been around the lovers of Allah.
[SPEAKER_01]: When you're around the lovers of Allah, just being in their presence makes you love it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that is the nature of hearts.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that is why we come together in these gatherings.
[SPEAKER_01]: is because, for 45 minutes to an hour, we get to sit in a room with other people that desire to love a love, and hopefully someone else's gonna rub off, you know?
[SPEAKER_01]: You sit in there, and the dude next to you starts crying, you're like, oh, oh, oh, oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love is path from heart to heart.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now I'll say something.
[SPEAKER_01]: This chair doesn't represent lovers of a love.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nah, yo.
[SPEAKER_01]: The lovers of Allah are hidden.
[SPEAKER_01]: That random uncle that you see after Salat making a little extra prayer, going talk to him after Salat.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm not making an uncle.
[SPEAKER_01]: How are you doing?
[SPEAKER_01]: My name's Adnan, which is one of me too.
[SPEAKER_01]: That random aunt you see in the back with her hands raised.
[SPEAKER_01]: This chair don't represent love of Allah.
[SPEAKER_01]: The lovers of Allah are hidden amongst us.
[SPEAKER_01]: Find those lovers of Allah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's how you learn to love anything.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what about the dunya, but apply it to your Ahidah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So this name, Wahab, is about looking at the gifts of God that He has given you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And to move beyond the transactional relationship in order to move beyond the transactional relationship, you have to understand that whatever He has given you, start looking at your life.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Sheikh Nabunu, see what does He say?
[SPEAKER_01]: He says, look at the spouse you've been given.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right?
[SPEAKER_01]: For the youngins in the room, sorry, hold up.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I mean, look at the spouse you have been given.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like look at the blessing, the Hibba, the gift of God in that.
[SPEAKER_01]: He says, Sheikh Nablusi, he said, sunlight.
[SPEAKER_01]: Subhan Allah, sunlight.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right, my man, look at that, he's like sunlight.
[SPEAKER_01]: What do you mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, first of all, move to Seattle.
[SPEAKER_01]: You'll realize real quick.
[SPEAKER_01]: Second of all shakin' Abu Rusi, he said, how many more millions of dollars or thousands of dollars will a property be just because of the direction of the sunlight hitting the house?
[SPEAKER_01]: The real estate is like, yo, why is this much worse?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, yo, look at the sun coming, you're like, oh, wow, you're like, yeah, wow, I love her, you find a lover, you love the house now.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said, sunlight, sunlight, just that.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a gift from a Lusuphano-Lataila.
[SPEAKER_01]: He says,
[SPEAKER_01]: You have a son or a daughter who is intelligent, good-natured, compassionate, et cetera.
[SPEAKER_01]: He says, many people will say, yeah, I worked hard.
[SPEAKER_01]: I worked hard to raise this child.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I've learned something.
[SPEAKER_01]: Whenever I asked the parent of a young man or woman who just has stellar a clock, I'm not going to name drop.
[SPEAKER_01]: But there's a few young men and women that I met their parents in the first thing I said was yo, what's the recipe?
[SPEAKER_01]: What's the recipe, y'all?
[SPEAKER_01]: And you know what they always say?
[SPEAKER_01]: Allah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because they realize that somebody may do the exact same things I did in that child, not come out the same way.
[SPEAKER_01]: May not.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some, and they may have three, four children.
[SPEAKER_01]: They did the exact same thing, well, all three.
[SPEAKER_01]: Other three ain't come out like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: because it's a hip-up from God.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a gift from Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so he says the statement is incorrect.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you ever find yourself saying, and we don't say it, we think it though.
[SPEAKER_01]: You look at the job and you think, man, I grind it for this.
[SPEAKER_01]: You look at whatever, man, I stack this money.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't say it because it's not polite to say it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But in your mind, you think it.
[SPEAKER_01]: He says, look deeper.
[SPEAKER_01]: Who gave you that?
[SPEAKER_01]: Others may do the exact same thing and not have the outcome.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this brings me to something I was talking to a scholar about the other day.
[SPEAKER_01]: As we mentioned this name, Wahhab, so many scholars of Dean struggle just to keep their kids on the Deanio.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're teaching the Dean.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're teaching the Quran, they're teaching the Sunnah, they're trying.
[SPEAKER_01]: But they don't control that.
[SPEAKER_01]: because that is a hibba from a lusse panorwood to Adah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll give you proof, Noah, Noah, Ali Hisselat to a son of a prophet, Noah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Would you ever say that he didn't do what he was supposed to do for his son, you'll never say that?
[SPEAKER_01]: But we don't control the outcomes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why am I saying this?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because I want you to look at your life, look at the house, look at the car, look at the family that you have.
[SPEAKER_01]: And for a moment, put the drama to the side.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know your house got bills, you're like, yo, this house is stressful, but you have the house.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're like, oh, I got family, but the family's drama, but you have the family.
[SPEAKER_01]: Look at the blessing for a moment in realized, y'all, and to a hub.
[SPEAKER_01]: You are the one that bestowed upon me this thing, and I didn't even deserve it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Without you, where would I be y'all, Allah?
[SPEAKER_01]: I did nothing for this.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was only you, y'all, up and on, I mean.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the idea is that in life, nobody gives us anything,
[SPEAKER_01]: without any return.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now you may say, Sheikh, you just said on the time or she gave you education without anything in return, he's like, nah, she did that for the sake of Allah too.
[SPEAKER_01]: She did that hoping for a reward from Allah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So what they say is if you look at even the cleanest hearts of the dunya, the most sincere hearts, nobody truly gives you the way Allah gives you.
[SPEAKER_01]: reward from Allah SWT.