The Identity That Liberates The Soul- Sheikh Azhar Nasser | Night 16 - 2026 MYC Ramadan Program

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Topic: The Identity That Liberates The Soul Speaker: Sheikh Azhar Nasser Program: Night 16 of the 2026 MYC Ramadan Program Location: Islamic Institute of America - Dearborn Heights, MI, USA #islam #shia #muslim #sunni #ramadan #ramadankareem #ramadanmubarak #hijab #lecture #shahrramadan #eid #qazwini #prophetmuhammad #devil #sins #deeds #quarantine #myc #mycmedia #levels #shiavssunni #islamicfigure #hijab #porphetmuhammad #muhammad #fast #fasting #ethics #venting #complaining #mentalhealth #abuhamza #dua #duaabuhamza #friends #children #kids #namingkids #kidsnames #raisingkids #quran #readingquran #quranrecitation #dayofjudgement #Allah #allahswt #judgement #death #soul #identity #liberation

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[0:12]That's it.

[0:17]Muhammad [sighs] Hussein.

[0:51]Alhamdulillah.

[1:01]Sayham.

[1:33]Respected elders, my dear brothers and sisters, I know it's the month

[1:47]of Ramadan, but it feels like the month of Muharam as we

[1:57]observe the bombing of our countries, the death and the devastation People

[2:05]are asking what is our role?

[2:09]We feel absolutely and utterly hopeless as we watch our cities, our

[2:21]homelands being carpet bombed.

[2:24]What are we supposed to do?

[2:28]What is our responsibility?

[2:32]You know, as I reflect on this this question, I cannot help

[2:39]but think about the role of Zanab after the martyrdom of Im

[2:43]Hussein.

[2:47]I think as Muslims here, especially in the west, I think in

[2:54]many ways we have a Zabi role to play in this moment.

[3:00]What do I mean by this?

[3:04]Zanabis after she witnessed the oppression that her family had faced when

[3:14]she saw the brutal killing of the grandson of the prophet who

[3:19]was killed simply because he was the embodiment of Islam.

[3:25]everything that was antithetical to the satanic practices of Yazid and the

[3:34]empire that he had built.

[3:37]Zanabis did not crumble after that tragedy.

[3:45]And it's important that you and I as followers of this prophetic

[3:53]family, it's important that we do not crumble under pressure.

[3:57]It's important that we do not feel weak or helpless.

[4:04]A lot of innocent blood has been shed.

[4:08]Just a few days ago, we saw an air strike against a

[4:17]school in one of the cities in Iran that claimed the lives

[4:24]of 165 school girls.

[4:29]A lot of innocent blood has been shed.

[4:34]We've lost many great personalities.

[4:40]So we in this moment we have to understand that what we

[4:51]are witnessing in the world today is not just a conflict between

[4:58]a few countries.

[5:00]There's a a Chinese professor who described what is happening now as

[5:10]a battle for the soul of humanity.

[5:11]That's how he described it.

[5:16]We have to say in this moment what Zan said on the

[5:25]day of.

[5:24]We have to say Allah, oh Allah, accept, accept this the blood

[5:35]of these innocent people who have stood in defiance of an empire

[5:43]that seeks to subjugate them and rob them of their sovereignty.

[5:47]Now, what do I mean when I say that we have a

[5:52]a Zabi role to play?

[5:55]What that means is just as Zab did not allow the um

[6:02]to control the narrative after the battle of Ash, we cannot allow

[6:11]the media, we cannot allow the Zionist to control the narrative.

[6:20]We have to claim the narrative.

[6:22]And that is what Zanabisam did.

[6:28]The role of Zanab is she did not allow the truth to

[6:33]be buried.

[6:35]Now what does that mean for us?

[6:37]Yes, this is a tragedy, but every tragedy presents opportunities.

[6:47]And and an opportunity that we have today, my dear brothers and

[6:53]sisters, is to show the world that the people that you have

[7:00]been brainwashed into vilifying.

[7:01]If you compare them with your leaders, you will see that those

[7:09]who you vilify, who have been vilified, they're actually quite loved by

[7:15]their people.

[7:16]These are individuals who are willing to die among their people.

[7:24]While many of your leaders, they give they take their entire country

[7:31]to war, but they're not willing to die for the cause.

[7:34]from the safety of their offices, from their government chambers.

[7:42]They send your sons and your daughters to die, not for their

[7:47]country, to die for a foreign country.

[7:51]The same president of the United States who is a draft dodger.

[7:57]We have to remind the American people that you are being led

[8:02]by someone who does not care about you and your families.

[8:05]And the people that this government is telling you to hate, these

[8:10]are people who are at least dying among their people.

[8:16]The same individuals that you are taught to demonize, look at the

[8:22]way that they interact with children.

[8:25]And look at the way that many of your leaders, look at

[8:28]what they've done to children, how they've exploited children.

[8:34]This is a moment where we have to tell people that for

[8:40]decades and decades you have been lied to about Islam, about what

[8:48]Islam represents.

[8:49]The same political class that has covered up the crimes that does

[9:00]not tell you about what is in the Epstein files.

[9:03]You think these people are going to tell you the truth about

[9:07]Islam?

[9:06]The people who cover up the crimes against innocent children who don't

[9:12]tell you the truth about what is happening.

[9:14]You think that these people have told you the truth about Islam?

[9:20]So this is a moment my dear brothers and sisters in which

[9:25]we have to allow the world to see the contrast.

[9:31]Now in this month it's important for us to develop ourselves.

[9:41]You know every year we develop certain habits good habits.

[9:45]We recite the Quran more.

[9:48]We recite more dua.

[9:51]We're more committed to our prayers.

[9:55]We develop all of these good habits.

[10:00]But what usually happens a week, two weeks, a month after the

[10:04]month of Ramadan, what happens?

[10:03]We go back to our old ways.

[10:07]We go back to our old ways.

[10:11]And it happens year after year after year.

[10:14]We always tell ourselves that this is the year I'm going to

[10:20]change, but we quietly regress.

[10:23]Have you ever wondered why?

[10:26]Why does that happen?

[10:27]The reason why we always go back to our old ways is

[10:32]because we're trying to change our behavior without changing our identity.

[10:40]Behavioral change only happens when you truly understand who you are, what

[10:50]your identity is.

[10:51]Now the question is what is my identity?

[10:53]And by the way, if we are going to spread the Islam

[10:59]of and educate people about Islam, if we want our words to

[11:03]have impact, our words are going to only have impact if we

[11:11]practice what we preach.

[11:12]Because to influence the hearts of people, your heart has to be

[11:21]pure.

[11:19]You need that inner purity for your words to hold weight.

[11:25]There was a man who came to Im and the Imisam was

[11:35]speaking to him about the trials and the tribulations that would await

[11:40]believers in.

[11:44]And the Imam speaks about how it will be a time of

[11:52]confusion, a time of trial and tribulation.

[11:53]And the Imam says, "The only ones who will not be swept

[12:00]away in this wave of corruption and deviation are those who hold

[12:10]on to dua.

[12:12]Who hold on to a dua that is known as the supplication

[12:19]of the drowning one." The supplication of the drowning one.

[12:24]What is this supplication?

[12:26]The narrator asked the Imam, "What is dua?" The Imam, he says,

[12:36]"Recite this dua.

[12:37]Recite Allah.

[12:51]Oh Allah, oh the beneficent, oh the merciful, oh the turner of

[12:58]hearts, firmly establish my heart upon your religion.

[13:07]Brothers and sisters, the world is not going to go back to

[13:13]the way that it was.

[13:14]We have to understand this.

[13:17]We have crossed that threshold.

[13:21]The world is never going to be the same.

[13:27]And what does that mean?

[13:29]That means you and I, we have to strengthen our iman.

[13:36]Otherwise, we're going to drown.

[13:38]We're going to drown in the tsunami that is heading towards us.

[13:44]the trials and the difficulties.

[13:49]Keep me upon the right path.

[13:53]Strengthen my heart.

[13:54]Now, as I said before I share with you things that you

[14:02]and I can do that will fortify our hearts.

[14:06]It's important for us to speak about something that is more fundamental

[14:15]and that is what is my core identity.

[14:16]Because if you want to give if you want to make someone

[14:20]the best football player, if their primary identity is that they're an

[14:25]athlete, you're going to give them certain instructions.

[14:28]They have to develop certain habits that are going to make them

[14:32]enhance that identity.

[14:35]So what is my identity?

[14:41]Who am I?

[14:40]When we sit back and we watch in awe these great leaders

[14:47]who are sacrificing in this day and age, it's important for us

[14:51]that we don't just compare and contrast our leaders with their leaders.

[14:55]More importantly is we need to teach people the religion that produces

[15:03]these types of leaders.

[15:05]What is this religion that has produced a group of people who

[15:11]can stand in front of the superpowers of the time and say

[15:22]the entire world is in awe of Islam particularly the Islam of

[15:33]B They are in awe.

[15:35]Now everyone understands the importance of chest beating for years, decades, longer

[15:46]than that.

[15:46]The Shia have always been mocked.

[15:50]Look at these Shia.

[15:51]They beat themselves.

[15:53]No, no, we're not beating ourselves.

[15:55]mourning.

[15:57]By beating our chest, it unleashes a spiritual power.

[16:04]We beat our chest in solidarity with the family of the prophet.

[16:12]And look at the world today.

[16:14]Who is defending the oppressed other than the Shia of B.

[16:20]So in this moment there is an opportunity for us to not

[16:27]just tell people to admire our leaders and our who have given

[16:32]everything for Islam but let us talk about the religion that produces

[16:36]these types of noble personalities.

[16:40]But before we even get there and we speak about the habits

[16:45]of these great personalities, we have to speak about what is the

[16:54]core identity of these personalities.

[16:54]And this is where we come to the discussion on every day

[17:03]in our adan.

[17:05]Every day in our salah we mention the primary identity of our

[17:12]prophet.

[17:13]What is that identity?

[17:20]Our prophet is the of Allah.

[17:36]The core identity is what?

[17:39]We are servants of God.

[17:42]The problem is most of us we are not servants of Allah.

[17:50]We are worshippers of Allah.

[17:52]There's a big difference between anid and an what is the difference?

[17:58]Anid is a worshipper.

[18:03]An abid is a description of an action.

[18:08]And we all know that actions can become corrupted.

[18:12]An action.

[18:14]This is a description of an action pattern.

[18:21]Abid.

[18:19]An abid can be self-centered.

[18:24]Ll was an abbid.

[18:28]El was a worshipper.

[18:32]He worshiped.

[18:29]He did.

[18:31]He did for thousands and thousands of years only to become that

[18:39]individual who says whatl was a worshipper.

[18:48]But a worshipper can be what?

[18:53]A worshipper can be selfc centered.

[18:54]But an abd of Allah this is not a description of an

[19:00]action.

[18:59]An abd of Allah is a description of an identity.

[19:04]An abd of Allah is god- centric.

[19:09]An abid might be god- centric, but he could also be self-centered.

[19:17]An abid worships and has a transactional relationship with Allah.

[19:25]I worship.

[19:27]I do this action and I want compensation.

[19:29]This is exactly whatl did.

[19:33]He worshiped Allah for thousands of years and then when he defected

[19:37]what did he say?

[19:40]I want you to pay me for my and Allah subhana wa

[19:45]ta compensated him because he was an abbid.

[19:48]But an abb is different.

[19:50]An abd is someone who does not transact with God.

[20:00]Who who doesn't worship for the sake of a particular reward.

[20:05]An is what you do.

[20:10]An is who you are.

[20:11]Ll was a worshipper but he was not an it's like parenting.

[20:17]Parenting is not what you do.

[20:20]It's who you are.

[20:20]You don't say, "Well, today from the hours of 10 to 2,

[20:25]I'm going to parent and then after that I'm done." Right?

[20:27]Even though sometimes that might be tempting.

[20:31]Being a parent is what?

[20:35]It's an identity.

[20:34]It's not an action.

[20:37]It's something that you are 24 hours a day.

[20:41]Now, when you look at the the Holy Quran, what you find

[20:46]is that He mentions in a very subtle way what it means

[20:58]to be an of Allah.

[21:00]You see a worshipper might not quite understand who God is.

[21:08]In fact, most of us regrettably we are worshippers because we worship

[21:18]Allah in pursuit of reward.

[21:20]Meaning that Allah is a means through which we want to achieve

[21:24]something else.

[21:26]I worship Allah so he can give me palaces in Jenna.

[21:30]I worship Allah so he can give me gardens in Jenna.

[21:32]I use Allah as a vehicle to get something else.

[21:36]But what does that mean?

[21:39]That thing that you are seeking through Allah, is that thing superior

[21:46]to God?

[21:46]Anything that Allah is going to give you, that thing is created,

[21:55]that thing is inferior to Allah subhana wa ta'ala.

[22:00]Hence, listen to what says he's using the language of he says

[22:11]in, "Oh Allah, you are my master.

[22:23]You are my lord.

[22:28]You are the one upon whom I rely.

[22:32]You are the one that I have hope in.

[22:37]And then what does he say in his dua?

[22:50]What is he saying?

[22:53]He says, "Oh Allah, you are the ultimate thing that I seek."

[23:01]Is the thing that you're seeking.

[23:04]Ali is saying that oh Allah it's not that I'm seeking Jenna

[23:07]or paradise or reward.

[23:11]Ali is not looking for Ali says that the ultimate thing that

[23:16]I am seeking is God himself.

[23:22]You're the the ultimate wish that I have in this life and

[23:31]in the hereafter.

[23:34]Ali wants nothing but God himself because there's nothing greater that you

[23:37]can get than Allah himself.

[23:41]And this is something that can be experienced here.

[23:44]This is why when we look at these individuals who are so

[23:47]fearless their fearlessness comes from the fact that you can lose everything

[23:56]and it doesn't matter because if you have Allah you have everything.

[24:01]If you have Allah you have everything.

[24:04]You can lose everything.

[24:06]You can lose even your life.

[24:08]The real loser is the one who loses Allah subhana wa ta'ala

[24:13]who loses himself in dua in look at what look at what

[24:24]Immad says the whispered prayer of the lovers.

[24:27]You want to know how to speak the language of love with

[24:32]Allah?

[24:33]Look at what I imad says.

[24:34]He says, "Oh Allah, who is the one who has tasted the

[24:51]sweetness of your love and went to go look for an alternative?"

[24:57]Has anyone ever tasted your love, oh Allah, and said that I

[25:03]want to go somewhere else?

[25:16]Who is the one who has experienced the pleasure of being close

[25:24]to you and then wanted to go anywhere else?

[25:28]They teach us that the ultimate thing to seek, what's more important

[25:34]than money, than power, than all of these things is Allah himself.

[25:39]If you have allahel, you have you have everything.

[25:45]And this is what we see in the language of all of

[25:47]these prophets.

[25:49]If you look at Musam for example in surah Allah subhana wa

[25:56]ta'ala tells us about how much MS used to yearn for Allah.

[26:00]Allah says to MS that come to the mountain come to the

[26:06]mah to the meeting place so I can give revelation to you.

[26:09]So he takes with him a number of the senior the elders

[26:16]of beni is 70 of them they're going with ms up the

[26:23]mountain but the Quran tells us that Musa he starts to run

[26:26]ahead of the crowd ahead of the rest ayah 83 and 84

[26:31]if you look at it look at what Allah says Allah sees

[26:37]MS running up the mountain.

[26:39]Allah says, "Oh M, what has made you hasten to me?

[26:46]Why are you rushing?

[26:48]Why have you gone ahead of everyone else?

[26:55]They're they're close behind me.

[27:03]They're close by.

[27:05]But oh Allah, I am rushing to you so that you can

[27:11]be pleased with me.

[27:12]MS doesn't say, "Oh Allah, I am rushing to you because I

[27:16]want reward from you." No, for m Musa, the reward is Allah

[27:22]himself.

[27:21]The reward is the pleasure of Allah subhana wa ta'ala.

[27:25]That is the ultimate reward to be connected to that absolute power.

[27:31]If you look at the Quran, Allah tells us about the servant

[27:38]mindset of Ibraim.

[27:42]Ibraimisam according to the Quran he is the archetype of the perfect

[27:51]Abd of Allah.

[27:51]What does Allah subhana wa ta'ala say?

[27:54]What does Allah say?

[28:01]Anyone who turns away from the way of Ibraim, from the lifestyle

[28:10]of Ibraim is someone who has fooled themselves.

[28:13]You're at loss for not following the Abrahamic way.

[28:19]We have chose him in this world.

[28:26]And then look at what Allah says.

[28:39]Allah said to Ibraim, "Oh Ibraim, submit to me." Without any hesitation,

[28:48]Ibraim says what?

[28:53]I submit to as an who are you submitting to?

[28:59]Are you submitting to a tyrant?

[29:01]Are you submitting to a cold cruel master?

[29:04]Or are you submitting to the one who describes himself as if

[29:12]you look at the Quran?

[29:13]Alhamdulillah.

[29:16]You go to the last surah of the Quran.

[29:21]The entire Quran revolves around the concept of now the question is

[29:32]what does it mean when Allah says I am your when Ibraim

[29:37]says I surrender wholeheartedly without hesitation to What is the meaning of

[29:47]in the Arabic language?

[29:50]Is not just the one who created you is the one who

[29:59]created you.

[30:00]Highlights a very beautiful aspect of our relationship with Allah.

[30:05]Allah is our meaning he is the one who nurtures us.

[30:10]Just like the mother.

[30:16]She is she is the caretaker, the nurturer, the one who feeds

[30:21]you, the one who educates you, the one who gives you everything

[30:25]that you need to develop.

[30:28]Allah subhana wa ta'ala is that one who gives us intimate care,

[30:35]who wants us to flourish.

[30:38]He provides us with everything that we need so we can rise

[30:43]up in dua.

[30:47]Imad he teaches us what it what it means for Allah to

[30:54]be our he says what?

[31:01]Oh my master, I am the insignificant one that you nurtured.

[31:08]We began as this one cell and Allah subhana wa ta'ala, he

[31:15]took us through all of these stages.

[31:17]He gave us everything that we needed, physical nourishment, spiritual nourishment.

[31:24]He is the one who raises us up.

[31:35]And I am the ignorant one that you taught.

[31:44]And I am the lost one that you guided.

[31:53]I am the low one that you raised up.

[31:57]What a generous master this is.

[32:00]What a loving master this is.

[32:04]I'll share with you a story that illustrates what a beautiful we

[32:13]have.

[32:11]There's a story that says Yufisam the great prophet of God.

[32:18]We know the story of Ysef.

[32:22]Ysef had a lot of ups and downs in his life.

[32:24]When Ysef was at the height of his power, when he was

[32:28]at the height of his power, he was sitting as the Aiz

[32:35]of Egypt, Aziz M.

[32:37]He saw a man walking down the street, who looked homeless, who

[32:47]looked disheveled, wearing tattered clothes.

[32:50]Girael descends upon Ysef and says, "Yuf, do you know that man?

[32:59]Do you know who that is?" Ysef says, "Who is that?" Says,

[33:03]"This is the one who gave testimony with your case with Quran

[33:11]says this is the one who absolved you.

[33:17]This is the one who said that if Ysef's shirt is ripped

[33:19]from the back then is the one who betrayed.

[33:23]Ysef said that is him.

[33:26]Bring him.

[33:30]Bring him.

[33:30]He has a right over me.

[33:33]So they bring this man.

[33:36]Ysef sees him.

[33:38]He sees his condition.

[33:39]He's impoverished.

[33:41]He gives him new clothes, new garments.

[33:45]He gives him food.

[33:45]He assigns a stipen for him from the treasury.

[33:50]He showers him with gifts, shows him so much honor and respect.

[33:56]And Girael is watching.

[34:00]Ysef glances and he sees Jibrael smiling.

[34:06]Ysef says, Jirael, why are you smiling?

[34:09]Is it because you feel that I have not honored him sufficiently?

[34:16]Says, "No, I didn't.

[34:24]I'm not smiling because I feel that you haven't done enough for

[34:30]him." He says, "But as I observe the way that you are

[34:33]compensating this man who gave you one testimony, I think about how

[34:40]Allah is going to compensate the M for testifying throughout his life

[34:47]that this is how you're compensating for one testimony.

[34:58]Allah is more generous than you.

[35:03]How will Allah compensate the mu every day who says?

[35:09]This is Allah subhana wa ta'ala.

[35:14]This is the Lord that we have in aith.

[35:17]Look at what he says.

[35:32]If a person, if an of Allah goes down into prostration and

[35:40]calls out three times, ya Allah, oh my, oh Allah, oh my

[35:46]lord, ya, oh my master, what does Allah subhana wa ta'ala?

[35:53]How does Allah respond to his who calls upon him?

[36:09]We know this word when we go for when we go for

[36:13]we put on put on theam.

[36:17]What do we say?

[36:19]What does mean?

[36:23]is a term that is used when a superior calls upon you

[36:32]and you say to them, "Here I am.

[36:36]I'm at your service." You and I, we say to Allah, "Oh

[36:42]Allah, you called upon me.

[36:43]I am here for you.

[36:45]I am at your service." But look at Allah subhana wa ta'ala.

[36:48]Look at this lord.

[36:50]The servant is calling him and Allah says, "Oh my servant, I'm

[36:57]here.

[36:58]I'm at your service.

[37:00]This is the type of that Ibraim submitted to.

[37:04]This is the type of that Allah submitted to.

[37:09]This is why when he introduces himself, he says what?

[37:18]This is the ultimate honor because to be a slave of anyone

[37:25]else, you will be imprisoned.

[37:26]You will be humiliated.

[37:28]You will be abandoned.

[37:30]You will feel constricted because human beings they are designed to worship

[37:38]something.

[37:37]You are you're either going to worship money, power, your ego, whatever

[37:45]you worship other than Allah is going to be limited.

[37:47]It's going to disappoint you.

[37:50]It's going to break your heart.

[37:52]The only object of worship that will make you feel free is

[37:56]Allah subhana wa ta'ala.

[37:59]He is the one who wants to raise you up.

[38:03]He is the one who wants to elevate you.

[38:06]And hence my dear brothers and sisters the question is this r

[38:12]this lord who wants to honor his servants what does he want

[38:18]from us what does he expect from us there's a beautiful hadith

[38:25]that is famously known as it's a famous hadith from Imam and

[38:33]maybe other imams where they share share with us aith where Allah

[38:41]subhana wa ta'ala he speaks he speaks to us he says the

[38:48]last part of the hadith is what Allah subhana wa ta'ala he

[39:01]doesn't need us he doesn't need me he doesn't need you he

[39:04]doesn't need our worship but he wants to liberate us from the

[39:11]limitations of our bodies.

[39:12]Allah wants us to transcend these limitations by doing certain things.

[39:18]And Allah says there is nothing that is more beloved to me

[39:26]from my servant than doing what I have commanded him to do.

[39:30]If you want Allah subhana wa ta'ala to love you to give

[39:34]you that special love because there is a universal mercy that is

[39:38]extended to everything.

[39:40]We don't want that general mercy.

[39:42]We want that special mercy.

[39:45]When he says this is one level of divine mercy, we want

[39:54]more than that general universal mercy.

[39:58]If we want that, we have to do our wajat.

[40:00]We have to fulfill our obligations.

[40:03]But an of Allah doesn't stop there.

[40:08]When you love, you don't do the bare minimum.

[40:11]You go above and beyond.

[40:13]Now, what does it mean to go above and beyond for Allah

[40:18]subhana wa tala?

[40:21]The hadith says, After fulfilling the Allah says, "My servant then begins

[40:35]doing the recommended acts of worship.

[40:39]They go above and beyond.

[40:41]They start to do they do the other until what happens?

[40:47]until I love my now as I said Allah he loves all

[40:56]of his servants.

[40:55]This is a special type of love.

[40:58]Now what happens when Allah when loves you?

[41:04]What happens when I love my I become the hearing through which

[41:21]he hears.

[41:25]I become the sight through which he sees.

[41:31]And then he says and I become his tongue.

[41:38]You know there are some people when they speak they shake your

[41:44]heart.

[41:45]Two people they can say the same word but one person when

[41:51]they speak their words penetrate.

[41:54]Allah says my when he goes above and beyond I start to

[42:03]work through him.

[42:05]He hears through.

[42:08]I become his hearing.

[42:09]I become his sight.

[42:13]I become his tongue through which he speaks.

[42:17]I become his hand.

[42:20]And then what does Allah say?

[42:27]this person, my he reaches a point where when he calls upon

[42:33]me, I respond because everything about him is now aligned with my

[42:40]will.

[42:45]And when he asks me, I give because an of Allah has

[42:53]emptied himself of his ego.

[42:54]There's no ego anymore.

[42:57]He's emptied his heart and purified the heart to such a degree

[43:01]that this heart is now a mirror that only reflects the light

[43:08]of God.

[43:08]This is what we see in the prophet when the prophet when

[43:14]he conquered Mecca.

[43:13]Look at what he said when the when they asked him for

[43:22]forgiveness because they killed his wife, his uncle, they destroyed his family.

[43:27]They drove him out of his home.

[43:28]So they asked him for forgiveness.

[43:30]Do you know what the prophet said?

[43:34]He says, There is no blame upon you today.

[43:46]Allah will forgive you.

[43:47]Notice he doesn't say I will forgive you because there is no

[43:54]I left.

[43:54]There is no ego.

[43:56]He doesn't see himself anymore.

[43:59]Your crime against me wasn't against Muhammadb Abdah.

[44:01]It was against God.

[44:04]And God is merciful.

[44:05]There is no I left in the equation.

[44:06]There is no ego.

[44:09]And hence Allah subhana wa ta'ala when his surreners to him when

[44:14]you fully submit to him you become an instrument of Allah on

[44:18]earth.

[44:19]Look at what Allah says inah and I'll end with this.

[44:26]In the battle of Bedr the Muslims were outnumbered.

[44:29]They were outnumbered three to one.

[44:32]Any military strategist in the world would have looked at bed and

[44:36]said that the Muslims are going to get crushed.

[44:38]They had less weapons.

[44:42]They had less horses.

[44:41]They were at a disadvantage.

[44:44]In that battle, the prophet took a handful of sand and he

[44:52]threw it at the enemies.

[44:56]That's all that he had.

[44:56]Allah says in the Quran about this, you did not throw when

[45:10]you threw that sand.

[45:10]Who threw?

[45:13]Allah threw.

[45:13]Which means what?

[45:15]that even if you have limited resources, if you surrender wholeheartedly to

[45:26]Allah, Allah says, "I will take it from here." That when you

[45:30]do anything, it's not you anymore.

[45:31]Allah begins to work through you and I.

[45:36]Inshallah, my dear brothers and sisters, tomorrow night we'll begin looking at

[45:41]what I call the atomic habits of a Muslim, of a true

[45:47]believer.

[45:47]Little things that we can do that we can adjust, that will

[45:53]completely change our lives, that will enhance our im so we can

[46:01]go from being worshippers of Allah to servants of Allah.

[46:05]Alhamdulillah.

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