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Friday Sermon: Five Benefits of Relying on God - Sayed Saleh Qazwini
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Friday Sermon: Five Benefits of Relying on God - Sayed Saleh Qazwini Muslim Educational Community Center of America
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[0:04]go ahead [Music] Allah foreign [Music] [Music] foreign foreign and that's why
[2:34]um foreign [Music] one of the most important ingredients to a happy
[4:15]life and a happy and successful and prosperous afterlife is faith faith
[4:23]is very important for a person to live stress-free for a person
[4:32]to live without anxiety and difficulties when we talk about faith the
[4:40]first thought that comes to our mind is faith in God now
[4:43]yes that is the greatest form of faith that every single person
[4:48]needs for happiness however faith is something that everyone has and everyone
[4:57]needs I have faith that the sun will rise tomorrow hence I
[5:03]make plans for tomorrow and next week and a year from now
[5:07]I thought I have faith in a small ignition switch and hence
[5:14]I sleep at night rest assured knowing tomorrow I do have a
[5:20]way to get to work because I have faith that the small
[5:23]switch is going to work I have faith that my kidneys that
[5:29]my liver that my lungs are going to work and hence I
[5:31]make plans for tomorrow the day after a year from now and
[5:38]we live our life based on faith we don't have certainty I
[5:42]don't have certainty that the car will start I don't have certainty
[5:47]that the sun will rise tomorrow the sun is one of the
[5:49]stars and every day hundreds and thousands of stars die this our
[5:56]star could also die however I have faith I don't have certainty
[6:02]I have faith and therefore faith is very important to live stress-free
[6:08]to live without anxiety without pain and when we look at the
[6:15]grand scheme of things if faith in a small ignition switch or
[6:19]faith in the sun rising tomorrow or faith that my alarm clock
[6:24]is going to wake me up in the morning brings me happiness
[6:29]imagine faith in the creator of the Universe imagine her and the
[6:36]and the under and the one who has put all of this
[6:41]together right now when Apple comes out with a device I have
[6:46]faith that that device is going to when I buy it when
[6:50]it comes in the mail and I push the on button I
[6:53]have faith that it's going to turn on why because I know
[6:55]that this company has a good track record I know that this
[6:58]company has done a good job therefore I have faith in that
[7:04]company well what about Allah who has created me who has organized
[7:09]everything in a sophisticated manner should I not have faith then Allah
[7:16]no we have to have faith in God and when we have
[7:21]faith in Allah this will bring us many benefits to our lives
[7:25]because at the end of the day I recognize that I'm weak
[7:32]I recognize that I'm limited I recognize that I am powerless therefore
[7:37]when I Surrender when I have tawakul when I have Reliance on
[7:43]a power that I know has a good track record an impeccable
[7:48]track record a power that has created me a power that has
[7:52]gifted me that has given me everything that I have shouldn't that
[7:56]bring me Comfort should I shouldn't that bring me some some peace
[8:02]and all of these difficulties and challenges that we Face the this
[8:08]is why my dear brothers and sisters we need to have faith
[8:10]to live a happy life we need to have faith to live
[8:16]a stress-free life we need to have faith so that we are
[8:18]our life will function in the way that we want it to
[8:24]otherwise Faith what's the point of faith if I don't believe in
[8:27]things that I don't see if everything I have to have 100
[8:31]certainty in then that means I don't have faith that my alarm
[8:33]clock is going to turn on tomorrow I don't have faith that
[8:37]my car is going to start I don't have faith in many
[8:41]things but we have faith in individuals we have faith and devices
[8:44]we have faith in things therefore that that allows us to live
[8:48]stress-free so my dear brothers and sisters faith in Allah is very
[8:54]important Reliance on God and Allah talks about this in the Quran
[9:04]the one who has taqwa Reliance on God then Allah will give
[9:11]you an exit out of any problem that you're dealing with and
[9:18]the sustenance will come to you from a way that you did
[9:24]not imagine we always make calculations if I do this business if
[9:27]I do this deal money will come this way money will come
[9:32]this way if I have faith in God money will come from
[9:34]away though I did not calculate is that possible yes of course
[9:38]it's possible many times has a statement he says sustenance of two
[9:46]types there's the sustenance that you seek and then there's the sustenance
[9:53]that seeks you so much and then here's the important parts you
[10:05]rely on God then that's it you're relying on the greatest power
[10:12]you're relying on the one who has ultimate authority over everything in
[10:20]another verse say nothing will happen to me except that which God
[10:32]has decreed and destined for me the Believers should have reliance [Music]
[10:48]now when we talk about Reliance on God does this mean that
[10:53]I don't I live a careless life I don't fulfill my duties
[10:56]I don't fulfill my obligations and I say yeah we're just relying
[11:01]on God of course not that's not how Faith Works you need
[11:04]to do your job you need to do your task but then
[11:09]at the end you leave it up to Allah you leave it
[11:14]up to God because there are there's a point where there are
[11:17]some things in our lives that we don't have control of but
[11:21]I do my job I have to make sure that I fulfill
[11:25]my duties and my task a man comes to rasulullah he tells
[11:29]the prophets he says should I tie my camel and then rely
[11:36]on God or should I let my camel loose and say I
[11:40]rely on God that the camel is not going to get lost
[11:42]foreign and then have Reliance on Allah in another he says [Music]
[11:56]there was a prophet from amongst the prophets of God he became
[12:02]ill he's a prophet of Allah he said I'm not going to
[12:13]take medicine until the one who made me fall ill God he
[12:15]will be the one who will cure me reveals to him I
[12:25]will not cure you unless you take the medicine because the medicine
[12:30]is also created by God some people think that the medicine is
[12:33]created by another God by something else no the medicine is also
[12:36]created by Allah when I take that medicine Allah has put the
[12:43]ingredients Allah has made that medicine work on me there are many
[12:46]people they take medicine it doesn't work on them so even if
[12:49]you take medicine there are some people they say I don't want
[12:51]to take medicine I don't want to go to the doctor I
[12:54]don't want to do this because this goes it conflicts my Reliance
[12:56]on God no it doesn't because these means I have also been
[13:03]there and provided for you by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so when
[13:07]we have faith when we have talakun on Allah there are many
[13:13]benefits one of the first and most important benefits is that faith
[13:17]will relieve you of the stress and anxiety our life we try
[13:24]to be in control of everything I try to have control because
[13:27]when I'm in control therefore I feel I'm at peace but there's
[13:32]many things that happen in our lives that we are in not
[13:34]in control of I'm not in control of what happens to me
[13:38]I'm not in control of my health I'm not in control of
[13:41]my wealth I'm not in control of many things the stock market
[13:43]could crush I could go to the doctor and the doctor could
[13:47]tell me there's a problem with me there's many things that we
[13:50]are not in control of so when I'm not in control that
[13:55]makes me anxious that makes me live a stressful life because I'm
[13:58]not in control of what's Happening imagine you're trying to fly a
[14:03]plane for the first time in your life the doctor fell ill
[14:05]and they told you they told you yeah you coming you fly
[14:09]the plane you're going to be very anxious it's going to be
[14:14]very stressful but then imagine they came and they told you no
[14:18]the doctor is fine he's here he's the the pilot is fine
[14:22]the pilot is going to fly the plane how is that going
[14:25]to make you feel or to feel very relieved because now you're
[14:29]surrendering this responsibility that you did not have authority of you're not
[14:34]in control of you're surrendering it to someone who knows what they're
[14:38]doing so imagine when we surrender our matters Allah when we surrender
[14:45]the difficulties and the challenges we surrendering surrender it to God Allah
[14:50]is the one who provides the finances we stress out over finances
[14:58]the risk comes from God when we are sick we get stressful
[15:00]and filled with anxiety who is the one who really cures me
[15:05]yes we said you go to the doctor you take the medicine
[15:07]but the real cure comes from whom who cures me and this
[15:19]is why we need to surrender to Allah we need to have
[15:25]faith and Allah he says he advised his son he tells his
[15:35]son oh my dear son a person is in total a hundred
[15:43]percent Reliance on God at three stages of their life but then
[15:46]at the fourth stage they lose Reliance what are those three stages
[15:53]the first is when you're in the womb of your mother who's
[15:55]sending you the list who's sending you the sustenance who's sending you
[15:58]the food when you're in the womb of your mother only Allah
[16:02]we don't even know how advanced science is there's no other way
[16:06]where the the the nutrition all of that has to come in
[16:13]the womb that is a system that has made by God Allah
[16:17]so we rely on God we rely on God that Allah will
[16:22]send the risk and the nutrition to this baby that was an
[16:24]embryo that ends up becoming a baby a full-term baby this is
[16:31]one second as soon as the baby is born do they have
[16:32]to worry about where they're going to get the food from no
[16:35]because the body of the mother suddenly it becomes a machine that
[16:40]produces milk subhanallah and this is also where we are a hundred
[16:46]percent reliant on Allah third an infant a toddler the toddler Allah
[16:54]sends them their nutrition he says and the affection through placing the
[17:02]love in the parents and the parents heart that goes directly to
[17:05]the child and then he says but once this person grows older
[17:08]and the womb as soon as they were born they had talakun
[17:13]when they were children they had to once you become bothers you
[17:18]become older you start worrying where am I going to get my
[17:20]risk from where am I going to get my money from where
[17:23]where's this coming from we start stressing out over things that we
[17:26]do not need to stress out because Allah has been giving us
[17:29]our whole existence Allah has been providing for us but now suddenly
[17:34]we think that we're all on our own so this is one
[17:37]of the first benefits of tawakun it makes you live stress-free makes
[17:41]you remove that anxiety that you might have second Allah tells us
[17:53]you want to be loved by God then you have to have
[17:58]faith in God and you have to have Reliance in Allah and
[18:01]when Allah loves you that means Allah will give you and give
[18:07]you and give you that means your love for God will also
[18:12]increase we need to have faith in God and that faith that
[18:16]call it is translated through our actions he says there's a Hadith
[18:25]Imam he says that there was a man from bani Israel from
[18:29]the Israelites where this man he was a hard worker but he
[18:33]wasn't making a lot of income he was poor he wasn't doing
[18:36]he wasn't very well off one day his wife comes to him
[18:40]and she tells him we don't have anything to eat today so
[18:42]she tells him do you have any money he says I don't
[18:46]have anything so she goes and she knits she makes something she
[18:49]she knits something and it has and she goes and she doesn't
[18:53]go and sell this in the market see if you could bring
[18:57]us some food so he takes it that object that the wife
[19:00]made probably a shirt or something he goes to the markets he
[19:05]sees the market is closed so he goes to the fish market
[19:07]and he sees that the fish market is also closed there's one
[19:12]fisherman he has two pieces of fish and they look very rotten
[19:16]they look very old but they're dying out of hunger they don't
[19:20]have anything so he goes and he trades that object that his
[19:23]wife made and he brings these two fish he comes home his
[19:27]wife looks at the fish she says this is what you brought
[19:32]this is we can't eat this this doesn't look like a good
[19:34]fish he tells her this is the only thing that was out
[19:37]there do see what you can do see what you can do
[19:39]with it and on the side that says she goes and she
[19:42]cuts open the stomach of the fish and she finds a pearl
[19:48]in each fish and this one there's one Pearl and another one
[19:51]there's another Pearl she comes to him she rushes them she tells
[19:54]him I found these go to the market and trade them he
[19:59]goes and he trades them and he sells each one for twenty
[20:03]thousand Dirhams so he comes back with 40 000 Dirhams a bag
[20:08]of twenty thousand durhams and a bag of twenty thousand dollars in
[20:11]the morning he didn't know what to eat he was so poor
[20:15]now he has all this wealth said he as soon as he
[20:19]came home he sat a knocker knocked on the door and the
[20:23]knocker knocked on the door and the knocker tells him give me
[20:30]from that which God has given you he tells him you see
[20:33]one of those bags there's two bags don't take one he gives
[20:36]one of the bags away his wife she comes and she says
[20:40]what have you done you gave away half of your wealth you
[20:42]gave away half of what you owned he tells her don't worry
[20:46]the same Lord that gave us will continue to give us away
[20:48]again so the Hadith continues and says that that knocker knocked on
[20:56]the door again and he came back and he said I'm giving
[20:58]you back this I'm an angel sent from God to test you
[21:03]to see will you be thankful or will you be ungrateful Allah
[21:08]has seen that you are a thankful person therefore Allah will continue
[21:13]to give you my dear brothers and sisters this is when you're
[21:18]loved by God then Allah will open the doors for you another
[21:24]benefit of talaqun on Allah when you rely on God obviously what
[21:31]will you where will your home be in the next Abode in
[21:33]the world which home will you be you will be in Paradise
[21:38]when you have full Reliance on Allah Allah says [Music] who are
[22:03]they who are those who go to paradise gives them the best
[22:11]reward in Paradise those who are patient and then they say but
[22:15]we rely on God I'm patient but I have full on Allah
[22:21]my dear brothers and sisters another benefit of Allah is that you
[22:29]will see victory in this life before that you rely on God
[22:32]Allah will show you victory in this life before the not only
[22:38]the you will see results in this life is [Applause] it in
[22:49]this life as well and you will see victory we know the
[22:57]story The Beautiful story of prophet Ibrahim Prophet Ibrahim he's gone through
[23:04]so many tests in his life and this is why Ibrahim he
[23:07]reached one of the highest positions in the eyes of Allah he
[23:20]reached the highest position of Imam amongst the prophets one of the
[23:27]earliest tests of Ibrahim when he was still a youth that was
[23:31]when he was in his own City we know the story he
[23:37]went and he breaks the idols he breaks all of the idols
[23:39]except the large one he leaves the ax hanging on the hand
[23:43]of the large one they come and they tell him what happened
[23:45]o Ibrahim you broke he said no ask the idol you worship
[23:49]the idol as the idol he's the big bully so of course
[23:52]they knew that he broke the idol but they knew that they
[23:57]were wronged as well but they decided to burn Ibrahim decided to
[24:00]throw him in Fire and they go and they build a huge
[24:08]fire and Nimrod he he's the king he orders them to build
[24:11]a huge fire a fire so big that when the birds would
[24:15]fly over it they would fall it was so big they took
[24:17]them days and weeks just to gather the wood for that fire
[24:21]and then the Hadith says shaytan he taught them how to make
[24:27]the catapults because they can't come and put him in the fire
[24:30]they have to throw him in the fire so how are they
[24:34]going to throw him in the fire they they they engineer a
[24:38]device to throw Prophet Ibrahim here's the beautiful Hadith says that they
[24:43]have Ibrahim on the Catapult and they throw him in the middle
[24:48]of the air while he's being thrown comes to him he tells
[24:51]him o Ibrahim what do you do you want me to do
[24:54]something for you Rahim says no you I don't need you then
[24:58]Mikhail comes to him another Angel he comes and he doesn't Ibrahim
[25:03]I am the I could move the clouds I could bring the
[25:05]rain what can you what do you want me to do for
[25:08]you then the Hadith says that even the angels were worried what's
[25:14]going on Ibrahim is not saying not saying anything so that one
[25:17]of the Angels tells him then ask Allah ask God to cure
[25:23]ask God to save you Ibrahim replies God knows what's in my
[25:31]heart I don't need to ask when Allah knows exactly what's in
[25:34]my heart then Allah is the one who will take care of
[25:40]me Ibrahim landed in the fire but what happened to them the
[25:46]fire which in its Essence it's meant to burn have you seen
[25:50]a fire that does not burn fire its Essence is to burn
[25:54]Allah says the fire that its Essence is supposed to burn it
[26:03]becomes peaceful it becomes cold and when Allah orders the fire to
[26:10]become cold Ibrahim began to shiver he began to shiver his teeth
[26:14]began to hit against one another because it's cold but then Allah
[26:19]immediately says and also be peaceful for Ibrahim then Ibrahim was at
[26:23]peace they look at him they say Ibrahim was just sitting in
[26:25]the fire this is the result of Quran Allah my dear brothers
[26:30]and sisters when we rely on God we will see Miracles when
[26:35]we rely on God we will see things that we could not
[26:37]imagine in our life but when you rely on God Allah will
[26:43]be there for you another another key benefit from is sustenance sustenance
[26:54]and we also covered this Hadith he says he says if you
[27:22]have the real Reliance on God the way that you're supposed to
[27:27]you will receive the sustenance just like the bird the bird wakes
[27:32]up hungry it leaves it leaves the nest hungry but when it
[27:37]comes back it comes back with a full stomach and it's bringing
[27:40]food to the the baby birds the small birds but what Allah
[27:43]says it says if you really rely on God in the way
[27:47]that you're supposed to then the risk will be sent to you
[27:53]and that way as well the fifth benefit of and Allah is
[27:55]that you are protected from shaytan we need the immunity how do
[28:01]we get this community that immunity comes when we are protected from
[28:06]shaytan and how do you protect yourself from shaytan Allah says does
[28:18]not have Sultan does not have authority over who the people who
[28:27]have faith and the people who rely on Allah now my dear
[28:34]brothers and sisters when we rely on God we will see great
[28:37]things and our life that we will live will be different I
[28:42]will switch to the second very short um foreign foreign foreign in
[30:38]the next two weeks there's going to be an election coming up
[30:44]and there are three proposals that have been proposed the first one
[30:49]it is about something that doesn't really affect us very much it
[30:56]is about the term limits for those who are running for office
[31:01]in Michigan from 14 to 12 if you say yes to it
[31:06]it will go to it will limit the term limits and those
[31:07]who are who are going to who are running for office they
[31:13]have to disclose some of their financial uh information so it's good
[31:17]um the second one I believe is very important and this one
[31:22]it is to preserve the right to vote you preserve the right
[31:25]to vote and there should be no discrimination when it comes to
[31:32]voting there should be no discrimination based on color based on religion
[31:37]based on ethnicity and it is very important that the voices of
[31:42]minorities especially the Muslim voices heard because after all Muslims are paying
[31:47]taxes Muslims are living here and there are some things that you
[31:50]could probably say I don't want to talk about this this is
[31:54]something I don't want to vote on that's up to you but
[31:56]there are other issues there's it's not a single issue ballot there
[32:02]are multiple issues on the ballot and some things you have to
[32:05]voice yes or no on it and especially I believe that this
[32:08]proposal proposition 2 is very important to vote Yes on the third
[32:15]proposition it's somewhat of a controversial one and this is about abortion
[32:21]and the if you were to vote Yes on it then this
[32:26]would make abortion be the norm the hustle meaning that it's allowed
[32:32]unless there's an exception or after the fetal viability meaning after the
[32:41]child can live outside the womb and there is no physical defect
[32:46]there's no mental health issue then the state would not be able
[32:49]to uh to limit it meaning after four or five months the
[32:52]state cannot do something but before that anyone seeking an abortion they
[32:57]would be able to right away and they would go and do
[33:01]an abortion and I don't want to tell you what to vote
[33:06]there's also two sides on this when it comes to Muslims there
[33:08]are some Muslims that say we should not we should not um
[33:12]limit any any freedom minority freedom and don't vote no on this
[33:18]vote Yes on this so that we're not limiting anyone but then
[33:21]there's another view and this view says that if something is Haram
[33:25]then we can't accept it and to make abortion be the norm
[33:32]to make it be acceptable anytime someone wants this is wrong yes
[33:37]from an Islamic perspective there are cases there are times where abortion
[33:42]might be allowed we're not either all the way no or all
[33:46]the way yes if for example if there was a mental health
[33:49]problem if there was a um physical defect and it's going to
[33:55]harm the life of the mother then abortion would be allowed in
[33:59]in some cases but that's not the original rule the original rule
[34:02]is that it's Haram except if there are some exceptions so this
[34:09]is why the majority of the imams and a few days ago
[34:13]uh we gathered there was a gathering of the Sunni and Shia
[34:18]imams in Michigan and the majority of the imams they they were
[34:21]pushing towards voting no for this to yes if if there were
[34:27]exceptions then someone could go and seek an exception to the rule
[34:30]but we would not want to make it something that is the
[34:34]norm and something that is fully acceptable because at the end of
[34:38]the day life has sanctity and it is Allah who gives life
[34:41]and it is Allah who takes away the life and this also
[34:46]goes back to tawak Quran Allah we're talking about a lot of
[34:49]people because of their lack of tawakod because of finances because of
[34:55]problems because of stress because of anxiety they say okay I don't
[34:57]want to carry this responsibility and Allah will make you see Miracles
[35:01]have to look good on God and Allah will bring you the
[35:07]risk and the sustenance to your children to yourself to your families
[35:10]the people of quraish and pre-islamic times they used to kill their
[35:16]own children why because of poverty Allah says don't kill your children
[35:26]out of fear of poverty we will give them rest and we
[35:28]will give Urus as well who's the one who's giving the rest
[35:31]so it is Allah and therefore life should be preserved I wanted
[35:43]to also remind you all once again inshallah December 2nd we're having
[35:50]a fundraising dinner for this newly established organization and we urge you
[35:56]all to please attend when we first opened this a few months
[36:01]ago we thought this was going to be too big for us
[36:02]we thought that there was going to be not many people coming
[36:05]Sundays we have over 80 children registered in the Sunday school and
[36:12]there's barely any space so there is a need to expand there's
[36:17]a need right now we're renting this place there's a need to
[36:19]purchase a place purchase a bigger place that is suitable for the
[36:25]community for the children for the families a community center this is
[36:29]what we aim to have so we urge you all to purchase
[36:33]your tickets we urge you all to invite your friends and to
[36:37]show your support inshallah we will try our best to serve the
[36:40]Muslim Community in this area also another announcement tomorrow night Saturday nights
[36:45]at 7 pm we have a youth bonfire bonfire for the Youth
[36:51]and we will be inshallah here and um we ask those who
[36:57]are 13 and up ages 13 and up there are also other
[37:01]programs being set up for the younger ones we have the Sunday
[37:03]school as well but this one is for the ages 13 and
[37:06]up so that they could have the freedom to ask their questions
[37:09]and make friends with those who who are at their age so
[37:18]please encourage your youth to join us foreign foreign
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