Deadly Characteristics | Your Relationship With Allah Ep. 28 | Sh. Alauddin ElBakri | Ramadan Series

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1. 0:00As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa
2. 0:01barakatuh, and welcome back to Ramadan
3. 0:03series, Your Relationship with Allah
4. 0:06Subhana Wa Ta'ala. We covered three
5. 0:08categories last episode that Allah does
6. 0:11not love those who transgress. Allah
7. 0:14does not love those who are ungrateful.
8. 0:17Allah does not love those who betray and
9. 0:22deceive others. We will continue with
10. 0:24this list so that we make sure we don't
11. 0:27meet any of these categories so that we
12. 0:30stay within the categories of the people
13. 0:31that Allah loves Subhana Wa Ta'ala. One
14. 0:34of the biggest statements in the Quran,
15. 0:36inna Allaha la yuhibbul mufsidin, Allah
16. 0:39does not love mischiefers. This category
17. 0:43came in two statements. Inna Allaha la
18. 0:45yuhibbul mufsidin wallahu la yuhibbul
19. 0:48fasad. Allah does not love mischiefers
20. 0:52and Allah does not love mischief. What
21. 0:54am I talking about? We're talking about
22. 0:56corruption on the level of the society.
23. 0:59We're talking about when people start
24. 1:01accepting bribes. When people start, you
25. 1:04know, bypassing the systems with
26. 1:06connections, vasita and rashwa. We're
27. 1:09talking about when people allow
28. 1:11themselves to become corrupt to make a
29. 1:14little bit of money
30. 1:16or a little bit of fame or a little bit
31. 1:18of power. It becomes, you know, the
32. 1:21person is willing to do what he or she
33. 1:24should never do. This idea of luring
34. 1:27people with money, with connections,
35. 1:30I'll give you a little bit power, I'll
36. 1:32give you a little bit fame, some wealth.
37. 1:35This action, when you spread that,
38. 1:37that's called fasad. It's very
39. 1:39interesting that in English the facade
40. 1:42is the front of the building, the cover,
41. 1:44the things that covers it. In Arabic,
42. 1:46fasad is to put a show of mischief, to
43. 1:50put a show of corruption on Earth. Allah
44. 1:53Azza Wa Jalla says, wa idha tawalla,
45. 1:56this person, when he goes on on earth
46. 1:58said feeling
47. 2:00you have to see that we have while you
48. 2:03can have
49. 2:06and this person when he turns around and
50. 2:10walks the earth to spread mischief and
51. 2:13corruption
52. 2:15you know and destroy
53. 2:17the land the farmland and destroy the
54. 2:21children destroy the progeny of the
55. 2:24people As if Allah is talking about war
56. 2:27indirectly. This is what we see
57. 2:29happening in
58. 2:31the children are dying the
59. 2:32infrastructure is dying destroyed the
60. 2:36farms are destroyed people are left to
61. 2:39starve for a prolonged time while the
62. 2:42world is watching and pretending nothing
63. 2:45is happening. Allah does not love those
64. 2:49who commit these acts of corruption
65. 2:51destruction war aggression oppression.
66. 2:56You don't want to be one of these people
67. 2:58and you don't want to sell your here
68. 3:01after for a cheap price in this world
69. 3:06no amount of money no amount of fame no
70. 3:09amount of power is worth your soul don't
71. 3:13sell your soul to the devil by going
72. 3:16with the path of corruption as Allah
73. 3:19warns us of that in
74. 3:22the next category that Allah
75. 3:24mentioned in the Quran.
76. 3:26Allah
77. 3:29does not love extravagant people when a
78. 3:31person is extravagant that's an
79. 3:33indication that the person has extra
80. 3:36wealth
81. 3:37and instead of helping people with that
82. 3:39wealth they just keep on spending and
83. 3:41spending and spoiling themselves more
84. 3:43and more and more
85. 3:45until it becomes pointless
86. 3:47so even when it comes to not spending
87. 3:50even if it comes to eating, Allah says
88. 3:52"Wash rabu wala tusrifu. Innahu la
89. 3:55yuhibbul musrifin." Eat and drink,
90. 3:58but don't overdo it.
91. 4:00You know, israf comes with halal, not
92. 4:03with haram. Haram is haram, you should
93. 4:04not do it.
94. 4:05Like, just don't do it.
95. 4:07Israf, just don't overdo it. It comes
96. 4:10with halal.
97. 4:11Is it halal to eat bread? Yeah, it is.
98. 4:14But should you eat 100 pieces of bread a
99. 4:16day? No, that most probably will kill
100. 4:19you or cause you diabetes or something.
101. 4:22Or, you know, stomach pain. So, my dear
102. 4:25brothers and sisters,
103. 4:26israf is something that the believer
104. 4:29runs away from. We believers try to live
105. 4:32a minimalistic,
106. 4:34simple life. And specially for us who
107. 4:37has wealth,
108. 4:38there's people around the world, be it
109. 4:41in, you know, Indonesia, in Africa, even
110. 4:44in America, 13 million children go to
111. 4:47sleep without dinner. In the richest
112. 4:50country in the world. Why?
113. 4:52Because all the casinos in Las Vegas are
114. 4:55dumping tons and tons of food that
115. 4:59nobody's allowed to use or reuse. They
116. 5:02say the amount of food waste in the
117. 5:05United States can go up to 70%. It's an
118. 5:08astronomical number. Allah does not love
119. 5:11those who are extravagant. If you have
120. 5:13too much money on your hand, go and
121. 5:15invest it. Go and give charity.
122. 5:18Save some of it. But don't be spending
123. 5:20your money
124. 5:21mindlessly. Allah will not love you or
125. 5:24love that action. The next category of
126. 5:27people that Allah does not love are
127. 5:29those who cover the truth,
128. 5:31fight the truth, dilute the truth,
129. 5:35give half a truth, you know, these
130. 5:38people are
131. 5:39you know, a category by themselves. Al
132. 5:42kafirin, those who intentionally, they
133. 5:45They the truth and they intentionally
134. 5:47fight it, and look the other way, and
135. 5:49turn a blind eye, and refuse to accept
136. 5:52it.
137. 5:53When that's the purpose of their life.
138. 5:56Why are we all alive? Just to know the
139. 5:58truth,
140. 5:59follow the truth, promote the truth, and
141. 6:02that as they say the truth shall set you
142. 6:05free.
143. 6:06And this is what we believe as Muslims.
144. 6:08Allah's name is the truth. Islam is the
145. 6:11truth. Quran is the truth, you know?
146. 6:13There is truth in this world. There is
147. 6:16certainty in this world. Not everything
148. 6:18is maybe or perhaps. There is certainty
149. 6:22that there is good versus bad, good
150. 6:24versus evil, right versus wrong. Do you
151. 6:26know truth versus falsehood? May Allah
152. 6:29Azza wa Jal make us from the followers
153. 6:30of the truth. Amen. Ya Rabbal Alameen.
154. 6:33The next category of people that Allah
155. 6:35does not love, wallahu la yuhibbu
156. 6:37zalimin. Allah does not love the
157. 6:39oppressors, the aggressors. We see so
158. 6:42much oppression in the world right now
159. 6:44that we are baffled. Like the whole
160. 6:47world is watching what's happening in
161. 6:49Gaza, and nothing no one can do anything
162. 6:52to stop that oppression and aggression.
163. 6:54Allah does not love those who are
164. 6:56aggressors, the dictators, the tyrants,
165. 6:59the murderers, the killers.
166. 7:03And we the believers should abstain and
167. 7:05stay away from that and be the people of
168. 7:08justice and fairness, inshallah. Rabbal
169. 7:11Alameen.
170. 7:12And the last category of people that
171. 7:14Allah Subhana wa Ta'ala Allah does not
172. 7:15love are those who are arrogant.
173. 7:18Oh my god, Allah does not stand arrogant
174. 7:21people. Snobby, boastful, full of
175. 7:24themselves, selfish.
176. 7:26This category could be like uh an
177. 7:29episode by itself.
178. 7:31But Subhanallah, you know, I know
179. 7:34everybody knows when we talk about kibr,
180. 7:37but kibr has a root.
181. 7:40I am better than you.
182. 7:42You are less than me. In Islam as
183. 7:44Muslims,
184. 7:45Allah knows who's best. The best of
185. 7:48amongst us are those with the most
186. 7:50righteousness. Inna akramakum indallahi
187. 7:53atqakum. And taqwa is inside the heart.
188. 7:57So, we don't know who's best and who's
189. 7:59better than the other one, but Allah
190. 8:01knows and Allah decide. So, we live our
191. 8:04lives with humbleness, doing our duty,
192. 8:08serving mankind and humanity and the
193. 8:10creation. And we ask Allah subhana wa
194. 8:12ta'ala to grant us humbleness and
195. 8:16humility in his name, for his sake. May
196. 8:19Allah subhana wa ta'ala never make us
197. 8:21from those whom he does not love. And
198. 8:23may Allah make us from those whom he
199. 8:25loves. Amin ya rabbal alamin. Wa
200. 8:27sallallahu ala sayyidina Muhammad wa ala
201. 8:28alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in.