Love for the Sake of Allah - Sayed Mahdi Al-Qazwini

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[0:09][Music] alhim Mustafa Muhammad B [Music] it's been narrated that the prophet

[1:19]Muhammad s alai wasam once asked his companions and the prophet peace

[1:29]be upon him you find he would look for opportunities to to

[1:35]teach but his teaching was not just him giving instruction and giving

[1:45]teaching sometimes he would prompt his companions he would Prime them he

[1:48]would ask them a certain question to understand their level of understanding

[1:56]not every student understands the lesson the same way some who spend

[2:03]more time than others with the teacher receive more benefit receive more

[2:09]guidance receive more wisdom they say it's the uh what's the saying

[2:13]the squeaky wheel gets the oil you find that teachers especially they

[2:19]love the students who are paying attention who are showing up who

[2:25]are learning who are asking the right questions versus sometimes a student

[2:29]who they just want to get by with the bare bones minimum

[2:33]I remember growing up sometimes if the subject was intriguing and interesting

[2:37]I'm I'm talking about myself personally you know we would we would

[2:42]put in time time after school put in time trying to really

[2:46]understand the subject matter versus if something was dry or if it

[2:52]didn't really appeal sometimes you Tred to just get by with the

[2:55]barebones minimum you would think what's the least passing grade or the

[2:59]least passing score that you can get and you'd be fine with

[3:02]that so the prophet peace be upon him had different types of

[3:07]students he had the students like who he was able to teach

[3:14]and open up for him 1,000 doors of Knowledge from each one

[3:17]of those doors another thousand doors of knowledge versus the ones who

[3:21]they were there for some sort of benefit they weren't really there

[3:26]to be enlightened or to learn or to be taught in any

[3:29]way a group of them the Quran describes they would come to

[3:42]the prophet sometimes they knew that the Muslim Community was thriving that

[3:46]they had resources that they could take care of them that there

[3:50]would be benefit to the poor and they would claim their Iman

[3:55]and Allah tells them do not claim Iman for Iman is something

[3:59]that develops gradually in the hearts say we have become Muslim and

[4:08]it costs nothing to become Muslim and your Islam your shahada your

[4:11]testimony of Islam will not be rejected it is not permissible for

[4:15]any one to reject the Shah of another once a person says

[4:28]it is not for any one of us to reject so one

[4:33]day the prophet was sitting with his companions and he asked them

[4:37]he said what is this phrase which appears in the Quran in

[4:47]two verses one we are familiar with because we recite in means

[5:01]what what is the definition of it the word in the Arabic

[5:08]language is a handheld something which you can hold on to means

[5:15]the most reliable handhold something that you can hold on to which

[5:19]is reliable in terms of your faith and it's actually uh the

[5:30]title of a book on jurist Prudence written by Muhammed studied in

[5:34]our it's also the name by the way of a journal which

[5:40]was written by two Muslim Scholars jamaludin afani and Muhammad Abdu who

[5:46]were in Paris France in the year 1884 and they would write

[5:51]an Islamic Journal named so the most reliable handhold the prophet asks

[5:56]his companions what is it what does this refer to the thing

[6:01]that you can hold on to your faith that you will never

[6:06]lose that will never let you down so they began giving different

[6:09]answers one person said well it's fasting one person said it's your

[6:16]prayers one person said it's Hajj one person said it's charity they

[6:24]began to give different answers and the prophet responded he said while

[6:28]all of those have their own merits the most reliable handheld is

[6:36]to love for the sake of Allah subhah waala and to loathe

[6:39]also for his sake not for your own sake to remove yourself

[6:46]your nefs your ego your desires from the equation completely when it

[6:50]comes to serving when it comes to giving when it comes to

[6:53]doing realizing that this service is purely for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

[7:00]even our own desire sometimes we have our own desire which gets

[7:07]mixed in and we must ask Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala to keep our

[7:12]our our desires our wants what we want what we do in

[7:15]complete sincerity to him so that there is no nothing that is

[7:21]mixed in you know all of us are familiar with the story

[7:25]of how IMI he struck down in battle no person no muslim

[7:36]wanted to fight this man they were terrified and so when the

[7:42]prophet called upon the companions which one of you will go out

[7:45]to fight this Warrior nobody stood except for a young man at

[7:51]the time so the prophet told him to sit down he said

[7:56]sit down Ali who will stand who will fight he stood again

[7:58]he said sit down Ali give others the opportunity give others the

[8:01]chance and when he found that no one was going no one

[8:05]was willing so he sent him into the battlefield and long story

[8:08]short they have their exchange of words they have their exchange of

[8:14]fight when the dust settled the Muslim said when the dust settled

[8:18]we found Ali standing on top of this man and before he

[8:26]dealt the final blow this man insulted Ed him in some way

[8:31]he either said something or you he did something to insult him

[8:35]so the companion said Ali moved he went around he did a

[8:40]full circle around and then he came back and he struck the

[8:43]final blow and when he came back they inquired they said you

[8:48]know what what was this you know you walked away in a

[8:51]circle and you came back he said when he insulted me when

[8:56]he insulted me I became angry myself took it a bit personal

[9:04]he said I I became angry myself so I had to walk

[9:06]away to clear my mind so that I was not dealing the

[9:15]final blow while I was angry for myself and I was offended

[9:17]for myself I wanted this to be purely for the sake of

[9:24]Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala I didn't want any of my own desire or

[9:27]my own loathing or whatever it was to be mixed with my

[9:33]intention I wanted it purely for the sake of God purely for

[9:35]the sake of Allah so to love for his sake to also

[9:41]loathe for his sake the Quran tells us so what does it

[9:53]mean to love for the sake of God and how does God

[9:58]love us what is the effect of God's love when he loves

[10:00]us first of all we say that Allah loves his creation if

[10:08]he had not loved his creation he would not create them in

[10:14]one Hadith attributed to them he says Allah subh says about himself

[10:31]that I was a hidden treasure and I wanted to be known

[10:38]I desire to be known so I created Humanity to know me

[10:41]not for my benefit but for their benefit when they benefit through

[10:45]my love they become better they become greater they become a manifestation

[10:53]of greatness man who has desire who can be overcome by his

[10:57]desire who can choose to do evil but chooses to love and

[11:03]do good regardless Allah subhana wa ta'ala tells us of the categories

[11:08]of Those whom he loves whom does he love God loves the

[11:17]people ofan is to do good kindness we have commanded man to

[11:34]do good and be kind towards his parents why his mother carried

[11:42]him even though it was so difficult on him she paid the

[11:45]price she sacrificed her well-being and you know in those days it

[11:51]was very common for women to die it was much more common

[11:52]for women to die during child birth correct it was much more

[11:59]common than it is today we have commanded man to to be

[12:05]kind and according to our narrations in Hadith alian is one of

[12:14]those things which enters the grave of a Believer see we have

[12:18]this concept known as the embodiment and the physical manifestation of your

[12:26]Deeds see our Deeds what we say what we do you know

[12:32]sometimes we say something and we've completely forgotten about it that we've

[12:36]said it it's disappeared but that act of speech does not disappear

[12:43]entirely it remains in existence scientifically speaking everything that we do everything

[12:51]that we say we are not creating anything new any new energy

[12:54]we are simply transforming science tells us of the law of conservation

[13:00]of mass and energy these were two laws that were sort of

[13:06]discovered separately but after Einstein's theories they were brought into one Theory

[13:12]the conservation of mass and energy which states that the energy and

[13:15]the mass in this universe stays consistent we cannot create it nor

[13:19]can we destroy it we can only transform it you see when

[13:24]you consume energy you consume calories right you need to consume calories

[13:30]which is energy in order to produce your own energy produce your

[13:36]own Deeds if I stopped consuming calories I would not have the

[13:39]energy to produce any speech to produce any actions correct and eventually

[13:43]I will deteriorate and wither and die when I consume calories what

[13:52]is a calorie a calorie is a unit of measurement of energy

[13:57]correct and it's the amount I was paying attention in class okay

[14:01]it's the amount of energy required to raise one liter of water

[14:07]by 1° Centigrade correct 1 KCAL right 1,000 calories right by 1°

[14:15]Centigrade correct muham Muhammad I I really struggled with science but where

[14:25]it counted alhamdulillah I made it count and I learned so if

[14:28]I don't consume a calorie right you notice as soon as you

[14:33]consume calories you notice that food has a thermogenic effect and some

[14:38]people feel it more intensely that I feel I feel the thermogenic

[14:40]effect of food very intensely as soon as I begin to eat

[14:46]or drink the body temperature goes up because now there's energy in

[14:50]the body this energy I have not created from myself nor can

[14:53]I destroy it I can only transform it so the energy that

[14:58]you bring in you can choose to transform for Good Deeds or

[15:01]you can choose to transform into evil and it never disappears this

[15:05]is why the Quran says that on that day every soul shall

[15:18]see what it has produced from Good and Evil as means it's

[15:24]present in front of you and the one who has produced evil

[15:30]will wish that there is a distance between him and his evil

[15:33]but he cannot get away from it in this world you can

[15:36]get you can say something and you can get away with it

[15:38]you can do something and then you can get away with it

[15:43]but for how long do you get away from with it how

[15:44]long do you disappear from it there are certain Deeds that the

[15:50]torment and the punishment is happening now but you do not feel

[15:54]it this is why the Quran says two two things one is

[16:07]happening currently one will happen in the future what is happening currently

[16:11]when they consume the wealth of the orphans back then and even

[16:14]today it's an issue where orphans who they're placed under somebody's care

[16:18]the person who is caring for them they use their wealth for

[16:24]their you their own business their own means god almighty says those

[16:28]that engage in this type of behavior when they are consuming that

[16:32]wealth they are consuming fire in their stomachs so that fire is

[16:36]there but we cannot see it it does not become manifest until

[16:41]later this is why we are told our Deeds according to Ali

[16:47]bringing it back to this is what we were talking about Allah

[16:49]subhana loves according to aith in is one of the Deeds that

[17:02]enters the grave with us and it takes a physical manifestation our

[17:09]Salah zakat our Ouran our righteousness and the last is the belief

[17:18]in the guardianship of the the Hadith says that these are not

[17:23]just acts and deeds that we do we fulfill in this Dunya

[17:28]in this life and they're done no they will enter the grave

[17:31]and they will take a physical form and they will protect the

[17:39]M The Believer from all directions front back side to side top

[17:44]and bottom and that whenever the Angels who are in charge of

[17:47]holding him to account whenever they want to punish him these Deeds

[17:53]they stand in front of a man like a soldier blocking off

[17:56]that evil blocking off the punishments so if your Salah is strong

[18:02]you'll have a strong Soldier by your side if your Salah is

[18:04]weak and you don't pay attention to your Salah and you forgo

[18:08]it you'll have a soldier but he'll be missing a leg and

[18:11]he'll be missing a arm and he won't have any you know

[18:16]bullets in in the chamber the good that you do it takes

[18:24]a physical manifestation in the grave and it protects you it's something

[18:28]which is very significant and Allah subhana wa tala says he loves

[18:34]what is another category of Those whom he loves he loves those

[18:41]who repent and those who are pure he loves those who repent

[18:51]who turn back to him and you know in order to turn

[18:53]back to Allah it means that you must have been going in

[18:58]the wrong direction so if you're going in the wrong direction you're

[19:01]not damned for life there's a way for you to come this

[19:03]is the whole point ofba is to turn back to repent he

[19:11]loves the person who realizes I've made a mistake and now I

[19:18]need to turn back and again I am personally I am reminded

[19:20]of the words of IM in Dua abam he says oh Allah

[19:28]if you were to punish me then in that punishment is the

[19:35]pleasure of your enemy and if you were to reward you reward

[19:37]me in that reward is the pleasure and the satisfaction of your

[19:44]Prophet peace be upon him and I know that the pleasure and

[19:47]satisfaction of your Prophet is more beloved to you than the satisfaction

[19:50]of your enemies and his enemies really a treasure chest and repentance

[20:01]and I mentioned the Hadith yesterday of the companion who would ask

[20:06]the Imam he would say why is it that you spend so

[20:09]much time in Weeping narrations tell us that he would Weep the

[20:15]Imam would weep in prostration and of course the closest we are

[20:19]to God according to the Hadith is in what time in suud

[20:25]in prostration so prolong it one Hadith says that if the M

[20:29]knew what kind of blessings what was happening to him when he

[20:32]was doing suud he would never lift his head from the ground

[20:36]he would keep it planted permanently for the rest of his life

[20:39]if he knew what kind of blessings he was receiving so are

[20:46]we familiar with the blessings that we receive so people ask you

[20:53]know your God the Islamic God does he love because the Christian

[20:59]God right is love God is love we do not say God

[21:04]is love but God is loving it is one of his attributes

[21:05]he shows us love he is loving where is his love he

[21:09]says here I love those who stay clean those who stay pure

[21:19]our faith our religion is about purity it's about cleanliness this is

[21:25]why alhamdulillah you come to the Masjid here every every day and

[21:32]as much food there is served the night before you come here

[21:35]and it's alhamdulillah clean as a whistle it's clean every single day

[21:39]we are intentional about this cleanliness is a part of Faith the

[21:45]prophet peace be upon him he would spend you know where he

[21:49]would spend a lot of money on perfume and oils some reports

[21:53]would say that when the prophet would walk someplace people would come

[21:58]a few days later and they can still smell the scent of

[22:02]his fragrance he says the people of this is the whole point

[22:13]behind why we fast we fast to attain ta and Allah says

[22:25]if I've given a person tawa then I have given him an

[22:32]abundance of good the person who holds back Allah says the person

[22:44]who has tawa Allah will create a channel for him an opening

[22:48]for him sometimes you have the opport someone has done wrong to

[22:54]you and you have the opportunity to do wrong to them in

[22:56]the same way but you hold back you hold back because whatever

[23:01]people do they may cross the boundary you say I'm not going

[23:05]to cross the boundary they may oppress me I'm not going to

[23:08]oppress them in the same way not because they're not deserving maybe

[23:11]they're deserving of that sort of treatment but because I know Allah

[23:17]is watching over me my role my responsibility is towards Allah not

[23:20]towards this person anything I do is for the sake of Allah

[23:26]this is what it means to forgo an ignorant an ignoramus comes

[23:34]to you with their words and you can tell an ignorant person

[23:39]not by the lack of their knowledge the the the the the

[23:47]lack of their knowledge or the existence of their knowledge the way

[23:51]that IM aliam describes an ignorant person is not through their knowledge

[23:55]it's through their aggression he says you might find a knowledgeable person

[23:59]who is who has a lot of knowledge but because they are

[24:04]aggressive they are like the ignoramus they are like the Jah and

[24:06]you might find the person who is a j they don't know

[24:10]a lot but because of their patience they are they are like

[24:14]a scholar and like a a knowledgeable person this is what he

[24:18]says in ta to hold back Allah says I will create a

[24:23]channel for you don't worry some early Muslims they they misunderstood this

[24:29]verse they thought that it meant that we will sit in our

[24:32]homes and we will worship and Allah will send for us our

[24:36]risk and our sustenance and when the prophet heard about this he

[24:39]said no not at all you must go and you must work

[24:44]you must produce Halal income and Allah will bless it again IM

[24:50]in Dua Abu Hamza among the what he asks for in his

[24:56]Dua oh Allah give me forgiveness give me mercy give me compassion

[25:05]give me your love give me your guidance but also give me

[25:09]that which is meant for me that which is pure that which

[25:16]I don't need to overextend or reach my hand into somebody else's

[25:18]pocket in order to take how many of of us here we

[25:31]can testify to this that we have received some form of risk

[25:34]that we did not even expect to happen all of us every

[25:40]single one and risk is not just money it's Health it's well-being

[25:44]it's opportunity it's the opportunity to perform Hajj and and Z how

[25:49]many of us we've performed Hajj or or Zar and we did

[25:53]not even expect to go and maybe it only happened a week

[25:56]beforehand many of us here and inshallah for those who have not

[26:02]experienced it you will experience it how many times did you want

[26:11]something and you didn't get it and Allah gave you something a

[26:13]million times better than what you wanted something that you had not

[26:17]even thought about you had not even imagined Allah takes it and

[26:21]puts it in your lap this is the effect of tawa Allah

[26:26]says not just the effect of tawa but I love those people

[26:34]of tawa he says Allah loves the people who come together and

[26:48]they stand side by side shoulder by shoulder fighting for his cause

[26:53]as if they are a concrete structure have you ever tried to

[26:59]you know push down a concrete structure or fight a concrete structure

[27:06]you cannot Allah loves Harmony between people he loves peace and prosperity

[27:10]between people when people of different nationalities can come together and stand

[27:16]together and build a community like this one Allah loves to see

[27:23]this site Allah loves when we can come together and we are

[27:27]not separated by our differences our differences unite us our love for

[27:31]Allah our love for Islam our love for Ramadan our love for

[27:36]all that is good unites us Allah says I love to see

[27:38]a group of people like this and there are many other categories

[27:49]of Those whom Allah loves these are only a few of them

[27:54]now when God loves us and when we love God how do

[28:00]we express it how do we express our love for him he

[28:06]teaches us exactly how to express our love for him say to

[28:10]them if you claim to love Allah many people claim to love

[28:14]Allah say to them if you claim to love God a sign

[28:26]of your love to God is to love the messenger of God

[28:33]Muhammad s alai Al wasam to follow him in his commands Fellowship

[28:44]to follow do you find out of the companions anyone like who

[28:49]did not violate the commands of the Prophet peace be upon him

[28:54]did not doubt the commands of the Prophet not once not a

[28:58]single time Ali was a scholar during the days of the prophet

[29:02]he was a scholar but he never answered anybody's questions when the

[29:08]prophet was there he could have he could have answered the questions

[29:11]in the same way that the prophet did but he did not

[29:17]he stayed silent out of respect for so when you love God

[29:24]you will feel God's love when you follow the commands of God

[29:31]brothers and sisters not picking and choosing many people they pick and

[29:35]choose and the Quran speaks of those who would pick and choose

[29:38]who are the nation of people that would pick and choose the

[29:43]ones that came before the B is what was convenient they picked

[29:48]for themselves what wasn't convenient leave it for the next Generation even

[29:52]if it was not part of their faith they would they would

[29:56]find another group of people and say we want that to be

[29:58]part of our our faith and so they would adopt it as

[30:02]part of their faith and they would make up laws for themselves

[30:04]and the Arabs learned this practice as well they started to make

[30:10]up laws fors and attribute them to Allah subhanahu wa taala a

[30:25]sign of their belief God tells the prophet if you want to

[30:32]test their belief let them come to you in judgment after that

[30:37]whatever you say to them they find no difficulty in themselves to

[30:50]accept your judgments to accept your rule and they are fully submissive

[30:56]in themselves not not only do they not say oh but what

[31:01]if if this if that even inside they have none of that

[31:06]so what becomes the effect of God's love this is special Allah

[31:13]says we are truly lucky and fortunate if we fall into the

[31:21]category of people that that he loves I'll present to you one

[31:24]Hadith and this is a Hadith that many of us know from

[31:29]he says the following he says that and I'll I'll just say

[31:34]it in English he says that no servant draws close to me

[31:39]with anything more beloved to me than that which I have made

[31:44]obligatory upon him the way that my servant draws close to me

[31:48]if you ask how do I become closest to God how do

[31:54]I gain proximity how do I gain nearness to him he says

[31:59]no servants becomes close to me with anything more beloved than what

[32:06]is waj the prayers the fasting the zakat the righteousness holding your

[32:11]tongue back not backbiting not hurting not stealing he says if he

[32:19]really wants to be beloved and gain proximity to me let him

[32:22]do that which is obligatory and then he draws closer to me

[32:27]with what with the the voluntary acts after each prayer the voluntary

[32:35]acts of s all of these you draw closer and closer to

[32:42]him until I love him I begin to love him more and

[32:50]more intensely see our love can decrease or it can intensify the

[32:55]Quran says those who believe their most intense love is reserved for

[33:04]Allah they love their spouses they love their children they love what

[33:08]Allah has given them but their most special intense love is reserved

[33:11]for him he says he draws closer to me and I begin

[33:18]to love him and when I love him what is the effect

[33:24]of God's love he says when I love him I become the

[33:28]hearing by which he hears the sight by which he sees the

[33:34]tongue by which he speaks and the Hand by which he strikes

[33:38]Allah says the more I love a servant I will become his

[33:44]eyes I will become his ears I will become his tongue I

[33:47]will become his hand these are superpowers you know growing up we

[33:52]would watch cartoons like Superman and and things like that and you

[33:55]say oh they they have superpowers they can do extraordinary things think

[33:59]of this superpower that Allah becomes your vision and he becomes your

[34:03]hearing and he becomes your tongue you begin to speak only that

[34:07]which pleases God you begin to look at only that which pleases

[34:09]God you begin to hear only that which pleases God you begin

[34:14]to do only that which pleases God he says the closer he

[34:17]becomes to me the more I love him and this is something

[34:20]which can be afforded by all is not just uh something reserved

[34:25]for a certain class of believers Every Act that we have whether

[34:31]obligatory or voluntary are accessible to all in return what does he

[34:40]want what what kind of love and affection does God want he

[34:44]wants us to love him yes he wants us to love the

[34:49]prophet but more than that and this is something specific to our

[34:53]Prophet Muhammad sallahu alai Al wasam I want you to love the

[35:08]closest of kin so love is part of our faith it's part

[35:11]of our school of thought our religion is not just one that

[35:14]is staunch there's it's cold there is no love no it is

[35:19]full of love one day and I'll end with this Hadith one

[35:22]day one of the companions of IM he comes to him during

[35:29]the the middle of the day to visit him in the home

[35:32]he knocks the door to visit him in the home the IM

[35:34]opens the door for him he sees you know he has this

[35:38]visitor His companion he says what can I help you with he

[35:40]says nothing Ali I'm I'm here just to visit you pay my

[35:47]respects because I love you and I miss you imagine Imam didn't

[35:49]tell him get out of here you're wasting my time I have

[35:52]battles to fight and wars and all of this come back to

[35:55]me when you have a question or come back to me when

[35:57]you have some money or sodak he says you came to visit

[36:01]me out of love he said yes he said I will return

[36:05]the visit to you out of love maybe not in this duny

[36:06]but I will come to you in the times that you need

[36:10]me the most I will come to you at three separate occasions

[36:12]if you came to me out of love I will come to

[36:16]you out of love on three separate occasions number one at the

[36:19]time of your Soul's departure on that day that no one can

[36:38]help you anymore no doctor can help you no father no mother

[36:41]no siblings no children no one can rescue you from this ordeal

[36:46]I will be there with you I will be there with you

[36:48]at that time number one number two I will be with you

[36:56]upon the that very narrow path above the Hellfire that all of

[37:01]us must walk and for some people it's like a what do

[37:03]they call it the Rope the suspended rope that goes from one

[37:07]building to another tight rope one building to another you see how

[37:12]they have to balance and sometimes they fall off for some people

[37:14]it will be a beautiful path he says I will be there

[37:18]holding your hand you don't have to worry about it this is

[37:19]number two and number three I will be there at the pond

[37:26]to quench your your thirst will take the water he will give

[37:32]the cup to Ali Ali will give it to the Believers one

[37:35]by one this is what our authentic narrations tell us if you

[37:39]come to me out of love I will come to you out

[37:43]of love the love that you give God the love that you

[37:44]give the prophet the love that you give the brothers and sisters

[37:49]all of it all of it comes back to us in Spades

[37:52]and not only does it come back to us in Spades it

[37:57]improves Our Lives it makes us better people let us ask Allah

[37:59]subhah wa ta'ala to keep us on the straight path we ask

[38:04]Allah subhah wa ta'ala to accept oural from us in this holy

[38:07]month and we ask the almighty to remove the suffering and the

[38:13]Affliction and pain from all of those worldwide who are suffering m

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