Do Not Be Tempted | Al-Sirat Al-Mustaqeem EP.18 | A Journey With Shaykh Alauddin ElBakri

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1. 0:00Assalaamu 'Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh
2. 0:02and welcome back to this Ramadan series about "As-Sirat al-Mustaqim"
3. 0:06As we are in the station of the enemies,
4. 0:10that could deviate you from the Straight Path
5. 0:14Today, we're dealing with another enemy.
6. 0:17But this enemy is not inherently an enemy.
7. 0:20It's how you perceive it.
8. 0:22It's nothing else but our lives itself.
9. 0:26Al-Hayatuh Ad-Dunyah, this world that we live in.
10. 0:31It's very interesting that the meaning of the word
11. 0:34"Dunyah" in Arabic has two dimensions.
12. 0:37One, something that is near to you
13. 0:41and two, something that is low. As if the word "Ad-Dunyah"
14. 0:46is telling you, if you make this world
15. 0:49so near and close to your heart
16. 0:53and it becomes the goal and the purpose,
17. 0:56it will take you so low and you will lose your humanity.
18. 1:01That's why we are usually deceived
19. 1:04by the glitter and the glamor of this world,
20. 1:07that Allah SWT tells us straight:
21. 1:10(So do not let the life of this world deceive you)
22. 1:14Do not let this life in this world deceive you.
23. 1:19Now, it's interesting that in The Noble Quran, you will find "Ad-Dunyah"
24. 1:23but so much "Al-Hayat Ad-Dunyah" the life of this world. Why?
25. 1:29Because before we came to this world, we were in another stage of life
26. 1:32in our mothers' wombs.
27. 1:34And before that, we were in the world of souls.
28. 1:37And after this world, we will go to the stage
29. 1:40of Al-Barzakh, in the grave, at the burrier
30. 1:43And then there will be the Day of Judgment.
31. 1:45And then, Insha'Allah, eternity in Jannah, in heaven.
32. 1:50So Allah wants to tell you that He's talking to you
33. 1:54about the life of this world that you are living in.
34. 2:00Don't let this life deceive you.
35. 2:02Don't be betrayed by this world
36. 2:07and focus on what is important.
37. 2:10Otherwise, you will drown in the ocean
38. 2:14of your desires and lusts and wants and whims.
39. 2:20And that will take you definitely away from the StraightPath
40. 2:25Now, in this world, Allah warns us of two things
41. 2:29that we need to look at in the right way, not in the wrong way.
42. 2:33What are these two things?
43. 2:35Wealth and children
44. 2:37Wealth with all of its types and the variety of its kinds.
45. 2:43Wealth and children, Allah said in Surah Al-Kahf:
46. 2:47(Wealth and children are the adornment of this worldly life,
47. 2:51but the everlasting good deeds
48. 2:53are far better with your Lord in reward and in hope)
49. 2:57This world
50. 2:59the luxury of it, the decoration,
51. 3:02the beauty of it is in wealth and in children.
52. 3:06But the long-lasting
53. 3:08good deeds are more rewarding.
54. 3:12And you should put your hope in it
55. 3:15more than what you think
56. 3:18will give you the return on the investment. Wealth and children,
57. 3:22If you look at them and you make them, the purpose, they will drown you.
58. 3:27Allah SWT said in the Quran:
59. 3:30(O believers! Do not let your wealth or your children divert you
60. 3:35from the remembrance of Allah)
61. 3:36Oh you who believe, let not your wealth
62. 3:40and your children keep you away
63. 3:43from the remembrance of Allah, that means
64. 3:47a person can really miss
65. 3:50the mark and start perceiving that their goal in life
66. 3:54is just to collect wealth and have more children.
67. 3:58Allah even explained that more in the Quran, that in life
68. 4:01you go through five stages:
69. 4:02(This worldly life is no more than play, amusement, luxury,
70. 4:07mutual boasting, and competition in wealth and children)
71. 4:10This world is nothing but playing, how children play with no purpose,
72. 4:15then "Amusement"
73. 4:16when you become youth and you want to have fun with your friends
74. 4:20and then "Luxury" you start realizing that is wealth in this world.
75. 4:24Oh, I can own a car, I can own a house, I can do this!
76. 4:27And then you go and own it and start looking at the person next to you.
77. 4:33How much did he make? How much did she make?
78. 4:35And you compare, Oh, I made more!
79. 4:38And then it becomes just more of the same.
80. 4:41More children and more wealth, because there's nothing after that.
81. 4:44This is the journey that we take as we grow older in life.
82. 4:49Now, do we hate Al-Hayat Ad-Dunya?
83. 4:53or does the Quran ask us to hate it,
84. 4:56and to give up and detach ourselves
85. 4:59and go and seclude ourselves on the top of a mountain somewhere?
86. 5:04No, that's not Islam.
87. 5:05There are seven ways that you can make the best out of this world,
88. 5:12and realize that this world is a blessed world.
89. 5:16If you pay attention to what's going on around you.
90. 5:20And there are other seven ways, if you perceive this world in these
91. 5:25seven ways, it will backfire on you and you will end up losing everything.
92. 5:31The first seven ways, Allah SWT tells us
93. 5:35that He created this world for us
94. 5:39and He created us for Him.
95. 5:42So this is a blessed place and that everything in this world,
96. 5:47the skies the earth, even the atoms are glorifying Allah SWT
97. 5:52by following the systems that Allah put for them.
98. 5:56So this world is a blessed place because it was created
99. 6:00with Haqq, Allah created this world for the sake of the truth,
100. 6:05not for playing, not for having fun, not for wasting time.
101. 6:10We seek refuge in Allah
102. 6:11(Glorified and Highly Exalted is He above what they claim!)
103. 6:15The second reason why this world is a blessed place.
104. 6:18It's because in this world Allah SWT
105. 6:21sent Prophets and Messengers
106. 6:25and brought forth followers that followed them and scholars.
107. 6:30This world is so blessed that Allah will send Prophets
108. 6:33and Messengers that we should take as role models.
109. 6:37Adam, Noah,
110. 6:39Ibrahim PBUH, Moses, Jesus
111. 6:41Prophet Muhammad PBUH
112. 6:44May Allah have His peace and blessings upon all of them
113. 6:46This world is a blessed place,
114. 6:49the third reason is because Allah revealed His books
115. 6:53and His revelation and He guided mankind.
116. 6:57The word of Allah came into this world, which means it's a good place
117. 7:03as it hosted the word of Allah SWT
118. 7:06and we host that word in our hearts
119. 7:09and we run it on our tongues as we do in the month of Ramadan.
120. 7:15This world
121. 7:16is the only way
122. 7:19you can go to Jannah, to being with Allah
123. 7:23You have to go through this world,
124. 7:26in order to make it to the hereafter, obviously
125. 7:31There are some children that die in their mothers' wombs.
126. 7:34Those are pure souls.
127. 7:36They come as souls, they leave as souls.
128. 7:38But for us, who are born in this world, we cannot hate it.
129. 7:42Actually, we should be very excited
130. 7:45to do our best because the only way to Jannah,
131. 7:49and the only way to obey Allah
132. 7:52is to go through this world.
133. 7:54The next good thing about this world is Allah made it
134. 7:57the place of tests and trials and tribulations
135. 8:02where the believers do good in this world
136. 8:05and pass the tests in the name of Allah, for the sake of Allah.
137. 8:10It is in this world that Allah asks us to stand up for justice,
138. 8:15economical justice, social justice,
139. 8:18political justice, spiritual justice.
140. 8:21It is because Allah put a test on us,
141. 8:24and as we can see, the hardest people today tested,
142. 8:28are the people of Gaza, who went through relentless
143. 8:32tests and trials and tribulations in every possible way
144. 8:36and every time they are tested, they go triumph with the remembrance of Allah
145. 8:42and with remembering Allah SWT
146. 8:45and being steadfast in their faith.
147. 8:48Finally, this world is blessed because Allah sent angels to it
148. 8:53and Allah sends angels to take our Duaa, to protect
149. 8:57us, to guard us, and to reveal revelations to the Prophets and Messengers.
150. 9:01This is a place where it's full of angels as the Prophet PBUH said:
151. 9:06"The sky is feeling heavy,
152. 9:08and it should feel heavy because there is no place of one hand.
153. 9:11But there is an angel
154. 9:13that is standing up, bowing down, or prostrating, worshiping Allah SWT"
155. 9:18What an honor to come to this world,
156. 9:21to know Allah through this world, to worship Allah
157. 9:26and to remember His name, and to be honored and chosen by Allah.
158. 9:31Oh Allah, praise be to You
159. 9:32We conclude today with the seven ways
160. 9:35that a believer makes this world a good place and a blessed place.
161. 9:40And tomorrow, Insha'Allah, we will find
162. 9:43how people make this world a negative place.
163. 9:47May Allah the Mighty and the Majestic guide us all, Ameen