Introducing Allahﷻ – Part 2

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My brothers and sisters, I mentioned two ways of introducing Allah SWT and His glory and majesty to ourselves and remind ourselves and to introduce Allah to the people in my last video, one was by reciting Allah’s introductions, places where Allah introduced Himself, Surah Al-Ikhlas, Ayatul Kursi, the last part of Surah Al-Hashr and many other places in the Quran, where Allah mentioned Himself and He spoke about His own glory and majesty. There is nothing that is more magnificent than the introduction of Allah by Allah. The second way is to reflect on the creation of Allah SWT. Again, there is no shortage of that. As I mentioned, do your research correctly and make sure you use factual stuff and inshallah, this is a beautiful way of introducing Allah SWT. The third way is to remind ourselves and to remind others of the importance of shukr, the importance of being grateful to Allah SWT. Again, if you just look at yourself in the mirror in the morning when you wake up and say, Allah made me like this, so beautiful, so wonderful, so unique, there is no other person in the world who is like this. I am alone and you are alone and each one of us is alone and each one of us is a miracle in himself and herself of the khudrat of Allah SWT. So remind yourself and remind others to be thankful and continue to make thanks to Allah SWT, continue to be grateful to Allah SWT. Part of being grateful is to make istighfar because one of the things that we thank Allah SWT, most of us, is for covering us with His cover, for covering our faults, for not exposing us, for not exposing our sins, especially those that we do quietly when we think nobody is watching. There is nothing more stupid than that for a Muslim to believe that he or she is somewhere, somehow alone and hidden and nobody is watching. How can it be that nobody is watching when Allah SWT who was Samuel Basir, he is the all seeer, the all hearer and he knows what’s in the hearts. So how can there ever be a time when nobody is seeing and nobody is watching and nobody is hearing when we are truly hidden. There is no such thing but shaitan fools us and we believe shaitan instead of believing Allah and put ourselves in trouble. So therefore we thank Allah SWT for all that He gave us physically. For example, the ability to do things, the ability to construct things, the ability to have a strength and power, you know, just think lists. That’s why it’s very important to sit down with a piece of paper and a writing pad and a pen and list down one after one after the other and say all the things that Allah gave me and which I am grateful to Him for. Go on Bhawa, make sure you don’t miss anything. If you want to count the blessings of Allah, you will not be able to count the challenge of Allah SWT. So let us try at least. We are not trying to say disprove the challenge, that cannot be done possibly, but for us to make the effort and say Allah at least I tried, so please forgive me. So when we thank Allah SWT, as I said especially for the cover that Allah SWT put over us and over our actions and over our speech and what we did and didn’t do. And Allah SWT saved us from the evil of our speech. For example, one of the most important teachings of Rasool Allah SWT, which Allah SWT even mentioned in the Quran, when he mentioned the story of Musa, Allah SWT said, Allah told Musa, He said speak to Firaun in a soft way, in a gentle way. SubhanAllah I remember the times that I did not do this myself. Sure my intention, inshallah, was good. I was frustrated for the right reasons and I was trying to do my best, but did I speak gently? I did not speak gently. And it had its evil effects and I shudder to think that if anyone was turned away from Islam because of the way I presented it, because of the way I addressed that issue, then I begged that person to forgive me. I begged that person to ask Allah SWT to forgive me and I asked Allah SWT to forgive me. If anyone was turned away from Islam because of the way I presented it. This is one of the big problems that we have today, especially people who within courts newly come to Islam, the newly born into Islam. People who are Muslims, alhamdulillah, but suddenly Allah SWT, alhamdulillah, with His khudrat, with His power, glory, majesty, Allah opens their hearts and they start studying and learning about Islam and suddenly they turn into jinn, they turn into raqshasas because they start acting as if the Quran is being revealed to them directly and that they have the right to say halam, halal and they pronounce takfeer and they say so and so is a kafir and so and so this and so that. May Allah have mercy on us please like Ibn Taymiyyah said, do not make the cure worse than the disease. Meaning when you go and correct people don’t make that into a worse problem because people might be turned off and might be turned away from Allah, might be turned away from Islam. Not because they are really away but because of the way you presented it. So don’t fall into that trap and may Allah save me from that. May Allah save all of us from that. And like a man came to one of the scholars, came to when he was in his court and I mean Mawiyah was a very wise man and so he was also a very humble man so he always used to ask any scholars who came he would say please give me advice and this scholar started off and he literally yelled at him and he spoke to him very disrespectfully with at the end of the day he’s speaking to the Amir Momineen, he’s speaking to the Khalifa of the time. When he finished Mawiyah said to him, thanked him and he said zidakAllah khair for your advice but I want to remind you that Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala mentioned this and he recited the ayat of the Quran of surah ta’ha when Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala told Musa speak to Fir’awn in a gentle tone of voice don’t yell at him don’t be harsh with him and Mawiyah said that you are not better than Musa and I am not worse than Fir’awn. He’s not saying I’m innocent he’s saying yes well you know maybe some things you said are they apply to me but try to be lenient about that try to be soft about it. I said there’s something which is very important I remind myself more than anybody else and as I said I seek forgiveness from anyone who listen to me and cause hurt. Allah knows I speak to a God who knows how many thousand people but may Allah have mercy on me and not hold that against me and as I seek forgiveness from you inshallah. So it’s very important to that the glory and majesty of Allah when we speak that we do this in these three ways introduction of Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala as he mentioned himself in the Quran his glory and majesty as we see it around us in his creation and within ourselves and through shukr of Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala that we thank Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala one by one by one and I one of the things that I try to do and I recommend to you is in tahajjud so make tahajjud further on yourself pray tahajjud every single day without without missing it and in sujood in sajdah in tahajjud thank Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala for what he has given you start with the fact that he gave you tahajjud start with the fact that he called you Ibn Taymiyyah again he said that Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala made me miss tahajjud for a month because of what I did whatever it was and he see this is what he went and he said that Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala made me miss when Allah is calling you to tahajjud this is the greatest sign of the mercy of Allah on you this is the greatest sign of the favor of Allah on you that Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala is allowing you into his darbar into his court into his presence into his glory glorious and magnificent presence at a time when he himself Rasulullah said Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala descends to the first heaven in a manner in a manner that suits his majesty and grace and Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala says who is there who needs anything from me let him ask and I will give him who is there who needs my protection let him ask and I will protect him who is there who needs my forgiveness I let him ask and I will forgive him this is the the mafum the meaning of the hadith this is the time when Allah is telling us come and I will give you dua can be done at any time and we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to accept our duas but what about the time for dua that is specified by Allah and Allah himself says come to me at this time and I will give you Subhanallah what is better than that and the fact that you and I woke up the fact that we woke up our spouses the fact that we woke up our whoever else we love and we recommend this and the fact that we stand before Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala and tahajjud that we worship him that we make sajda and ruku that we cry before him and that we make dua to him all of these themselves in themselves are signs of the rahmah of Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala they’re the sign of the glory and majesty and the special consideration the special favor that Allah is doing on us and therefore let us appreciate that and thank Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala for that first and say Allah I thank you for allowing me to pray tahajjud and then ask him for whatever you need to ask him and in that call in context I request you to me please make dua for Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to forgive me and to give me and my wife khatima bil khair that we take that Allah gives us a life which is spent in obedience to him that Allah forgives our sins and Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala grants us death in a way that pleases him at a time when he is pleased with us in a way that will reflect his forgiveness in a way when we are in sujood in tahajjud insha Allah and I wake the sin of all of you was allah hana nabee al kareem wa ala ali wasaab e jameen barahmatul kareem al raheemina walhamdulillahi rabbil alayhi