A Lifelong Journey | Al-Sirat Al-Mustaqeem EP.27 | A Journey With Shaykh Alauddin ElBakri

1 moment mention “Mercy”: 4:04

1. 0:00Salaam 'Alaikum
2. 0:01and welcome back to Ramadan series "As-Sirat al-Mustaqim"
3. 0:04Yesterday we covered: (Except those who have faith)
4. 0:08Today we cover: (And do good deeds)
5. 0:11But if you take these two together: (Except those who have faith, do good)
6. 0:16meaning except those who believe and they do good deeds.
7. 0:19This sentence, this expression is mentioned over 52 times in The Noble Quran
8. 0:25It is the hallmark of Islam.
9. 0:27It represents the personality of Islam.
10. 0:30Islam is not the type of religion in which
11. 0:32it only asks you to believe a set of beliefs,
12. 0:36and if you believe that, you're fine.
13. 0:38No, you need action with that faith.
14. 0:42Otherwise, it's a stagnant, dead action
15. 0:46Notice the type of religion
16. 0:48that is telling you it's all about your actions,
17. 0:51where there's no place for Iman and faith.
18. 0:53This: (Except those who have faith, do good) again is mentioned
19. 0:57in the plural sense because teamwork makes the dream work.
20. 1:02This sentence: (Except those who have faith, do good)
21. 1:06(Do good deeds) is a general expression
22. 1:11meaning, in this expression: (And those who do good, righteous
23. 1:16deeds) it's not specified which deeds are we talking about?
24. 1:20Are we talking about fulfilling the five pillars of Islam?
25. 1:23Are we talking about feeding the poor, helping the old?
26. 1:26What are we talking about?
27. 1:27It's open ended, which makes Islam accommodate
28. 1:31and the Quran accommodates ages and ages to come.
29. 1:35Just 15 years ago, we didn't have these smartphones.
30. 1:39Now, how many good deeds are we doing on our smartphones?
31. 1:42For those who use it wisely, obviously.
32. 1:45If you look at that, it makes you love the Quran.
33. 1:48How certain expressions are general to accommodate
34. 1:52the time and space that will come later on?
35. 1:55(Except those who have faith, do good)
36. 1:58(Do good deeds)
37. 2:00is what translates faith into action.
38. 2:04What good is faith if it's only in the hearts of the people
39. 2:07but it does not translate on their actions?
40. 2:10And what do we mean by action? In Islam and in the The Noble Quran
41. 2:14Allah opens our eyes that certain action
42. 2:17is inner and certain action is outer.
43. 2:21The inner action.
44. 2:22There's something called "The actions of the hearts"
45. 2:26Subhanallah, when our Prophet PBUH say:
46. 2:29"You will not attain the perfection of faith until you love for others
47. 2:34what you love for yourself, for your Muslim
48. 2:36brother and sister, what you love for yourself"
49. 2:38That's an action.
50. 2:40But it is inside. It's an inner action.
51. 2:43That inner action translates into an outer action.
52. 2:47The actions of the hearts are something that we have not been talking about a lot
53. 2:53in our lectures and in our explanations of Islam,
54. 2:58because it's like the hidden elements.
55. 3:01Our scholars in the past wrote so much about The actions of the hearts
56. 3:05and the best action of the heart
57. 3:07is something related to action.
58. 3:10The outer action. What is that?
59. 3:12It is sincerity, Al-Ikhlas
60. 3:15They say for an action to be accepted
61. 3:18by Allah SWT, it has to fulfill two conditions.
62. 3:22Condition number 1, that it's sincere for Allah
63. 3:25You're not doing it with an ulterior motive, you know,
64. 3:29and you're doing for a different reason.
65. 3:30And number 2, that when you do the action, you try your best
66. 3:34to follow the example of the Prophet PBUH
67. 3:40This world of action makes the believer
68. 3:45grounded in reality.
69. 3:47We as Muslims are not detached from reality.
70. 3:50If you remember when we talked about the goals,
71. 3:53when we talked about that Allah put to us on this planet
72. 3:57as part of a certain scheme, to speak the truth
73. 4:01and tell people about the truth, to establish justice,
74. 4:04to establish mercy, and to establish excellence, especially moral excellence.
75. 4:09These things are grounded in reality.
76. 4:12They're not in the abstract, just dreaming and wishing.
77. 4:17The Prophet PBUH said:
78. 4:19Faith is not by wishing.
79. 4:24It is that which settled in your heart, and was confirmed with action"
80. 4:34(Except those who have faith and do good)
81. 4:37this world of action is what we do now in Ramadan.
82. 4:42We're reading Quran, giving charity, making Dua's, making Dhikr,
83. 4:46feeding the poor,
84. 4:48you know. Being grounded in action is something that is required
85. 4:53of the believer and the more you do, the better it is.
86. 4:58My dear brothers and sisters,
87. 4:59Allah SWT has told us about the reward.
88. 5:03I also want to add, the difference between one person
89. 5:07doing a good deed and a group of people doing good deed, is the difference between
90. 5:12a one-time action and an impactful chain of actions
91. 5:17If you're passing by driving
92. 5:19and you find a homeless person, so you go buy him food
93. 5:23or you take your own lunch and give it to him.
94. 5:26Now, you did a good deed.
95. 5:28But it is a one-time and one-place.
96. 5:31But if you bring a group of people and you make an organization
97. 5:35and you look for the homeless people, you first feed them,
98. 5:40then you work on their education.
99. 5:42You try to help them find a job so that they will not be homeless anymore.
100. 5:47This is what we call impactful action.
101. 5:50That's why Allah in Surah Al-Asr
102. 5:52asks us an Ummah to work together to do good deeds.
103. 5:56Finally, the reward of good deeds
104. 5:59is mentioned all over the Quran
105. 6:02May Allah accept from us
106. 6:04our deeds that we do on a daily basis, especially in Ramadan.
107. 6:08But if you read a small Surah in Juzu Amma, Surah Al-Bayyinah
108. 6:13You will find that at the end of it, Allah says:
109. 6:16(Those who believe and do good deeds,
110. 6:25they are the best of mankind)
111. 6:28Oh Allah! You know
112. 6:30Subhanallah, good deeds need faith,
113. 6:32and faith needs good deeds.
114. 6:34And, what did Allah say about them?
115. 6:37(Their reward at their Lord,
116. 6:41Gardens of Eden, beneath which rivers are flowing)
117. 6:49Why?
118. 6:51(Allah is pleased with them
119. 6:56and they are pleased with Allah)
120. 6:59(That is for the one that fears His Lord)
121. 7:04Don't you want Allah to be pleased with you?
122. 7:07I want you to think today about a good deed that you've never done before.
123. 7:13Go home and do it.
124. 7:16and Insha'Allah, inform us on the chat.
125. 7:19What was the good deed that you didn't do
126. 7:21and you decided to do Insha'Allah? So that we can learn from each other.
127. 7:26May Allah accept from us all.
128. 7:28Wa Assalaamu 'Alaikum Wa Rahmatullah