A Triumphant Surrender | Your Relationship With Allah Ep.17 | Sh. Alauddin ElBakri | Ramadan Series

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1. 0:00Assalaamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh
2. 0:02Welcome back to our Ramadan series at Tawasaw Institute for 1446, your relationship with Allah SWT
3. 0:10Our topic today is about the second foundational pillar in your
4. 0:15relationship with Allah SWT which is Al-Islam, yes the name of our faith
5. 0:23has a lot of deep meanings and a lot of demands from us. Glory be to Allah, Islam means to surrender
6. 0:33to submit, if you take that component out of Islam then you're left with nothing, usually the human
7. 0:39resists with this idea, why shall I submit to God? Why shall I surrender? The question is why not?
8. 0:46because when Allah invites you to submit to His will, He shows you first a proof in the universe
9. 0:53how capable He is in running huge operations like the universe
10. 1:01Allah SWT tells us in the Quran
11. 1:03(The creation of the heavens and the earth is certainly greater than the re-creation of humankind, but most people do not know)
12. 1:10The creation of the heavens and the earth is bigger than the creation of the human but most people do not know
13. 1:16At that time when Allah was talking to the Arabs in the Arabian desert they didn't know
14. 1:21how vast is the universe, now we know and the verses of the Quran are coming true one after another
15. 1:28My dear brothers and sisters this issue of Tasleem of submitting to Allah SWT
16. 1:34to this system of Islam to this setup of beliefs, acts of worship, laws, duties, ethics
17. 1:46This system, the holistic system of Islam, Allah calls upon us to submit to it and to bend our will and let go of
18. 1:57our will by choice for Allah's will and Allah's way and Allah's system. If Allah SWT
19. 2:04can put a system for this universe chemistry, biology, astronomy, mathematics, every science
20. 2:12out there is a system, who put the system? Allah SWT, if Allah can put a system for
21. 2:18your body, your lungs and kidneys and liver and stomach and heart and brain, can't He put a system
22. 2:25for you? So when the human reflects on that, which Allah invites us to reflect on the universe
23. 2:32outside us and He invites us to reflect on the universe inside us so that we can come up with a
24. 2:37logical strong certain choice, based on what I see and hear and witness I submit to Allah SWT
25. 2:47because I can see Allah can set up huge systems and number two Allah SWT
26. 2:53showed you in the Quran, which actually you can understand with the mind that He gave you
27. 2:58that this entire system is built around you, is to bring you benefits and prevents harm from coming
28. 3:06to you, so when we talk about Haram it's all harmful, addictive, expensive, destructive, it's all from
29. 3:14alcohol to adultery and fornication to gambling to stealing to killing to drugs to all of it
30. 3:24has one thing in common harmful and destructive to the human. What is Halal is beneficial so Allah told us
31. 3:32to consume it moderately and what is "Fard" duty we have to do it, is something that we have to abide with
32. 3:40the whole system is designed with you in mind so why would you not follow? When the One who
33. 3:46designed the system is exactly the same One who created you and created everything around you
34. 3:51and the third point, why would you not submit to the system? When the result, the reward of this
35. 3:59system is Allah SWT will make you the boss of everything else and everything else
36. 4:05becomes your servant, Allah liberated us, there is liberty in Islam, there is freedom
37. 4:12that I'm not afraid of anyone, I'm not afraid of anything, I'm not worried about anyone or anything
38. 4:18I'm not gonna live my life in fear or in just like hoping someone will help me, no I'm liberated from that
39. 4:26Allah is my God, Allah is my "Walei" custodian, so there is a sense of liberty and there is an understanding
40. 4:33of reward that if you become the slave of Allah SWT, meaning His servant and the
41. 4:41one who serves His creation in His name, Allah will make the whole creation serve you
42. 4:47This is very interesting and this is very powerful when you think about it
43. 4:51Do you wanna be the slave of everyone and everything?
44. 4:54Or you want to be the slave of the One creator? And usually in slavery
45. 4:59the benefit of the slave goes to the master, in our slavery to Allah the benefit of the master
46. 5:05Allah SWT, comes to us the slaves so it's not like a human to human slavery it's
47. 5:12just the word, the word confesses the amount and the type of commitment you have in the religion of Islam
48. 5:20Allah SWT told us
49. 5:22(Certainly, Allah’s only Way is Islam)
50. 5:24Truly religion in the sight of Allah is Al-Islam
51. 5:27This is our relationship with Allah SWT, it's based on submission
52. 5:32When Allah SWT tells us to say
53. 5:35(Say, “Surely my prayer, my sacrifice, my life, and my death are all for Allah, Lord of all worlds)
54. 5:40Say my prayers, the rest of my rituals, fasting, pilgrimage, Ramadan, charity, all sacrifice
55. 5:48and number three (My life) my whole life (And my death) even my death
56. 5:54(Are all for Allah, Lord of all worlds. He has no partners)
57. 5:57Do you see how submission is built on Tawheed the first pillar that we laid was
58. 6:03"There is no God but One God" Tawheed
59. 6:04You build on that submission to Allah SWT. Many of us right now and this is not
60. 6:10new, I mean this is not new to America or the West this has been happening
61. 6:16since Adam PBUH and his children, you know people want to question this people say "Oh, I don't
62. 6:23want to submit, oh I'm gonna do 50-50, oh I'm gonna do whatever I like I will submit
63. 6:29whatever I don't like, I'm not gonna submit" you can't pick and choose my dear brothers sisters
64. 6:34this religion of Al-Islam, humanity is so blessed that this faith survived until today, why? Because Muslims
65. 6:42didn't play with it, because Muslims didn't change it, because Muslims did not alter it
66. 6:47because Muslims understood, you either shape-in and submit or you just go and find yourself and shape-out and
67. 6:56find your timeline until you repent to Allah SWT, we don't try to change Islam
68. 7:03to match our wants, our desires, we change our desires and wants to match Islam
69. 7:10That's exactly what we do in Ramadan, we fast, we submit to Allah SWT
70. 7:15My dear brothers and sisters it's not easy but it is very rewarding to really enjoy submission because that's when you start
71. 7:23living as a human and not as God, you're not in charge, you're not in control, you do your best
72. 7:30and you submit to Allah and you leave the rest for Allah SWT
73. 7:34May Allah make us
74. 7:36taste the sweetness and make this submission, the sweetness of Islam and faith and make
75. 7:42submission easier for us, definitely Satan will be in the way, your self, will be in the way
76. 7:48your desires, people will be in the way, temptation will come in the way but you can do it
77. 7:54That's why we fast in Ramadan, to get the proper training to carry out this mission and practice Islam in our life
78. 8:01Oh Allah make us live as Muslims, die as Muslims and resurrect us on the Day of Judgment
79. 8:06with the Prophets and Messengers, the people who led humanity and history with Islam
80. 8:11Ameen Ya Rabb Alameen
81. 8:12May God’s blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad and all his family and companions