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Talk · Your Relationship With Allah | 2025 Ramadan Series, part 20 of 31

Enduring With Grace | Your Relationship With Allah Ep.19 | Sh. Alauddin ElBakri | Ramadan Series

Shaykh Alauddin ElBakri

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  1. and welcome back to taas Institute
  2. Ramadan series for 1446 hij my dear
  3. brothers and sisters we're about to
  4. embark on a list that Allah mentioned in
  5. the Quran a few of us noticed this list
  6. but it is essential and it sets the tone
  7. for the rest of your life this list is
  8. the list in which Allah
  9. says and Allah loves these type of
  10. people and in another set verses Allah
  11. says and Allah does not love those type
  12. of people it really is very interesting
  13. it strikes me on a very high level that
  14. when you have fallen in love with Allah
  15. subhana wa ta'ala not only you love
  16. Allah but you love what Allah loves and
  17. you love what who Allah loves right if
  18. Allah loved the Salah then we love the
  19. Salah if he loves fasting we love
  20. fasting and if Allah loves the righteous
  21. the good people the charitable people
  22. then we love them too and Allah in the
  23. Quran talks to us on a very high level
  24. because he knows that we have taken this
  25. journey of Iman from knowing Allah to
  26. loving Allah to establishing a
  27. relationship with Allah we call it
  28. worship to obeying Allah Allah expects
  29. from us to build the relationship on
  30. love now all what Allah has to say is I
  31. love this typ these type of people I
  32. love this action and we will jump on it
  33. and for Allah to say I don't love these
  34. type of people and I don't love these
  35. actions and we will like run away from
  36. it this is a very beautiful Dynamic it's
  37. very high class it's very like moist
  38. it's very connecting it's really about
  39. our relationship with Allah subhah wa
  40. ta'ala which is the topic of this series
  41. the first type that I want to make
  42. mention for you
  43. is the people who
  44. have sometimes when it said in a
  45. masculine it means a masculine and
  46. feminine and in two places in the Quran
  47. Allah
  48. specifies the those who practice sa
  49. amongst men and amongst women what is
  50. the meaning of the word sa usually it's
  51. translated to patience and usually the
  52. word patience is translated to waiting
  53. for something bad to get away and move
  54. on that's not what sa is sa if we
  55. translate it to English it will
  56. translate to more perseverance endurance
  57. and that's why it translates into four
  58. dimensions the First Dimension to
  59. have to have patience on obeying Allah
  60. you see again when something good
  61. happens in life and let's say people are
  62. praying doing their thing but now they
  63. became very Rich they drop it they don't
  64. have sa they lost their consistency they
  65. lost their persistency they think now
  66. they don't need it so Allah says the
  67. first thing that you should have is to
  68. consistently endure and persevere in
  69. your obedience to me whether what is
  70. hitting you is good times or bad times
  71. you should continue on your journey with
  72. Allah this should not affect you time
  73. and events and circumstances should not
  74. affect your performance you should have
  75. a steady performance second type of sa
  76. is to have sa away from Haram whether
  77. you have going through easy times or
  78. hard times you're going to be
  79. consistently away from that which is
  80. forbidden just having too much money or
  81. having easy times should not lure you
  82. and should not attract you to just drop
  83. this whole Haram and start doing
  84. whatever you want the third type of sa
  85. is and those who have over what happened
  86. to them what happened to them could be
  87. one of five things the major like if we
  88. are to theme tests and trial and
  89. tribulations in the Quran is the lack of
  90. security loss in health loss in wealth
  91. loss of loved ones and the stress that
  92. comes from relationships Allah mentioned
  93. them in the Quran and mentions that he
  94. will test us with that again there is
  95. expectations this world is a world of
  96. test Allah will test you but he will not
  97. leave you alone he will test you but he
  98. will give you the answers that's
  99. guidance and he will stand with you
  100. that's help and that's we
  101. say Ya Allah we we want to worship you
  102. we commit to worshiping you and we
  103. commit to asking you for help because we
  104. need your help so this is how the
  105. believer lives his life Allah is telling
  106. us in the
  107. Quran we will test you with loss of
  108. security loss of wealth loss of Health
  109. loss of loved ones and stress in
  110. relationships but Allah
  111. says give Glad Tidings to those who have
  112. sa oh my god get hard times and
  113. difficult times come with a Glad Tidings
  114. yes who are these who are these
  115. consistent and they endure these Hard
  116. Times those that when a Calamity hits
  117. them they say to Allah we belong and to
  118. him we shall return meaning to Allah I
  119. belong Allah is my we Allah will help me
  120. in this situation Protect Me Guide Me if
  121. I go through pain and suffering he will
  122. reward me he will protect me he will
  123. guide me he will help me go through
  124. it I belong to Allah Allah takes care of
  125. his
  126. own and when I go back to Allah whatever
  127. pain and suffering I'm going through he
  128. will reward me for it this pain and
  129. suffering is not going anywhere again
  130. what we said in the earlier nothing goes
  131. unnoticed unrecorded or unrewarded with
  132. Allah subhana tala this are the three
  133. types of to be consistent with his to be
  134. consistent away from Haram to be
  135. consistent with your faith and not lose
  136. your IM when you go through hardship
  137. that's why we
  138. mentioned to think positively of Allah
  139. you keep your faith when you go through
  140. hard times you don't lose it because
  141. that's when you need your faith the most
  142. who runs away on Allah when he needs
  143. Allah the most I think only a fool will
  144. do that you run away from Allah when you
  145. need Allah the most that's the most
  146. unintelligent thing that one can do and
  147. that's why that takes us to the fourth
  148. level of in which Allah subhana tala
  149. tells us
  150. that to be patient with Allah subh tala
  151. to see Allah's big plan if you read the
  152. story of
  153. mam you know he's escaped being
  154. slaughtered as a baby raised in the
  155. house of the Pharaoh away from his
  156. parents then he came back back to his
  157. parents then he discovered that he's an
  158. Israelite then he killed one of the
  159. pharaoh's guards then he ran away to
  160. median then he lived in Medan then he
  161. came back it is one struggle after
  162. another yet he had he had patience with
  163. Allah's plan for him many people when
  164. they're young they don't have patience
  165. I'm telling you from experience trust
  166. Allah Allah will build you day by day
  167. year by year build your strength he'll
  168. test you make you stronger test you make
  169. you stronger 20 years from now you will
  170. be happy with what you see because you
  171. stuck yourself with Allah subhanahu wa
  172. taala so Allah in the Quran tells
  173. us seek the help of and you're like seek
  174. the help of patience yes because now you
  175. understand patience to be performing
  176. enduring consistent
  177. persistency perseverance it doesn't mean
  178. sit down and do nothing sa is an action
  179. it's a very active action Subhan Allah
  180. and it goes well as the prophet
  181. sallallahu alaihi wasallam
  182. said patience is half of faith and it's
  183. one of the early commands by the way in
  184. the Quran if you look at and then one of
  185. the early
  186. things Allah
  187. says and before it
  188. in one of the early commands that of the
  189. Prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam was
  190. asked to follow and endure and what a
  191. good job did he do mashallah May Allah's
  192. peace and blessings be upon him and may
  193. Allah grant us patience because Allah
  194. says Allah is with those who have
  195. patience give the Glad news and good
  196. tidings Allah loves and since we are on
  197. the list of whom Allah loves and he
  198. mentioned that he loves in his book this
  199. is our first category it's easier said
  200. than done but inshallah day by day year
  201. by year Allah will inspire us to
  202. practice

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