He Knows You Best | Your Relationship With Allah Ep.1 | Sh. Alauddin ElBakri | Ramadan Series

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1. 0:00Assalaamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh
2. 0:02Last year we dedicated the Ramadan series for our brothers and sisters in Gaza
3. 0:07and a year later and 14 months after the beginning of this war
4. 0:13the people of Gaza are still going through pain and suffering day and night
5. 0:18non-stop, relentless death and destruction, hunger and famine
6. 0:23When we speak and discuss this series, we're not in a void, we're not forgetting our brothers and sisters in Gaza
7. 0:31but rather if we end up with a better relationship with Allah SWT
8. 0:36maybe one of us will make prayer and Allah will accept his prayer
9. 0:40and Allah SWT will stop this massacre, genocide and tragedy from happening
10. 0:47May Allah SWT use us as means to stop war everywhere in the world
11. 0:53to bring peace and justice and guidance and love and bonding between human beings
12. 1:00instead of the hatred that is spreading everywhere
13. 1:03When we talk about relationship with Allah SWT
14. 1:07it is very important that we realize that our relationship with Allah is different than any other relationship
15. 1:15Why? In the world of relationships you get to know the other person
16. 1:19and the other person gets to know you, you start, you go slowly
17. 1:24then it goes faster, certain events happen
18. 1:27you get bonded with the other person
19. 1:30That's the natural way of starting and growing relationships
20. 1:35but with Allah it's very interesting
21. 1:37Allah knows you before you knew yourself
22. 1:41and it's very important to see what Allah told us about ourselves
23. 1:47What was the beginning of the story?
24. 1:49Glory be to Allah, before Allah created Adam
25. 1:52Allah made an announcement in the world of heaven to the angels
26. 1:57(When your Lord said to the angels, “I am going to place a successive ˹human˺ authority on earth.”)
27. 2:02Lo and behold your Lord declared and announced to the angels that I will put on earth a vicegerent
28. 2:11a representative, someone who will establish My will on earth
29. 2:15This announcement shows that Allah SWT has set for us the mission, the vision and the goal
30. 2:24but when Allah SWT wanted to create Adam PBUH
31. 2:30before He created him, He created for him a universe
32. 2:34skies and the earth, galaxies
33. 2:37right now after launching the James Webb telescope
34. 2:42we went from seeing two to four hundred billion galaxies to seeing two trillion galaxies
35. 2:48and that's not even it
36. 2:51Glory be to Allah, when we look at this vast creation
37. 2:55and then we read in the Quran that Allah said that I've created for you
38. 3:00whatsoever is on earth and whatsoever is in the skies, skies plural
39. 3:06This is fascinating! This tells me I think that we will explore space
40. 3:12and we will be able to benefit from other planets or other solar systems
41. 3:18or maybe Allah SWT was talking about the rain that comes down from the sky
42. 3:23but I always wonder what does it mean
43. 3:26and what did Allah SWT intend when He said (I subdued and subjected to you
44. 3:33that which is on earth and that which is in the skies)
45. 3:37So Allah created for us a whole universe
46. 3:40What an abundance! What a generous God!
47. 3:43Allah SWT created a huge universe for us the human beings
48. 3:48and that shows you what did Allah SWT think of us before He brought us to life
49. 3:54this is very very very important
50. 3:57Allah SWT, when He created Adam
51. 4:01Allah SWT taught Adam the names of all the things
52. 4:06so Allah honored Adam with knowledge
53. 4:09Allah did not hold back from Adam, did not tell him don't eat from the tree of knowledge
54. 4:15this narrative is in the Bible, it's not in the Quran
55. 4:19Allah SWT taught Adam the names of all the things
56. 4:23(He taught Adam the names of all things)
57. 4:26So look at the intention before we come to life
58. 4:29Allah SWT created the universe
59. 4:32then taught us the names of all the things
60. 4:35and then Allah took from the loin of Adam his children
61. 4:39and threw them around him, scattered them
62. 4:43and the Prophet PBUH said
63. 4:45that Allah put between the eyes of every person a ray of light
64. 4:51like a light, a flashing light
65. 4:54So Adam saw all of these dots of lights
66. 4:56he said: "Who are these oh Allah?"
67. 4:58He said: "These are your children"
68. 5:01What is the hint?
69. 5:02Allah has given each and every one of us a light from Him, a gift
70. 5:07it's part of the instinct, it's part of our pure innate nature
71. 5:12that we come to life with that goodness in us
72. 5:15that light that Allah has gifted us already
73. 5:19Allah SWT for us
74. 5:22He made the earth inhabitable
75. 5:26(And Allah ˹alone˺ spread out the earth for you)
76. 5:30Allah made the earth for you like a land that you can travel on
77. 5:35We see right now in other planets
78. 5:37it's either mountains or valleys, there is no flat
79. 5:40we see on other planets that it's either freezing or it's on fire
80. 5:45we see other planets don't even have rock and water
81. 5:48they're made of gas
82. 5:49our planet was designed carefully for us to come
83. 5:53and Allah SWT
84. 5:55when He created each and every one of us
85. 5:58He picked your heart, your soul, your mind, your body, your face, your physical features
86. 6:08a very unique combination
87. 6:11which means each and every one of us is so unique
88. 6:15that there is no one like you exactly ever
89. 6:19from Adam PBUH to the last human that will live on this earth
90. 6:24I see people today they're dying to make themselves look different
91. 6:29either by putting tattoos or body piercing or a certain haircut
92. 6:35it's just looking to be unique and different
93. 6:39they don't realize and we don't realize
94. 6:42that each and every one of us is so different and so unique
95. 6:47this if you discover it
96. 6:49you will discover so many things
97. 6:51you will realize that the goodness that you bring to this world
98. 6:55no one else can bring it to this world
99. 6:57because your combination is unique
100. 7:00and the evil that you can bring to this world
101. 7:03no one else can bring because the combination is unique
102. 7:06So this should ignite in you a personal relationship between you and Allah SWT
103. 7:15Why?
104. 7:16Because Allah SWT created you like no one else
105. 7:20and He wanted you, you, specifically you
106. 7:24with your face, with your voice, with your personality, with your heart, with your soul
107. 7:31with your mind, with your deep consciousness, that uniqueness
108. 7:35Allah wanted you to exist
109. 7:38Oh my God! You start feeling now there is a personal relationship between you and Allah SWT
110. 7:45We are very lucky as Allah SWT set for us the stage with honor
111. 7:51(Indeed, We have dignified the children of Adam) Allah SWT says
112. 7:54(carried them on land and sea, granted them good and lawful provisions
113. 7:58and privileged them far above many of Our creatures)
114. 8:02We have honored the children of Adam
115. 8:05and We've given them the ability to live on the land and on the sea
116. 8:09and We have endowed them with so many blessings
117. 8:13and We have preferred them over a great portion of Our creation
118. 8:18a great preference
119. 8:20Don't walk around the planet with your head down
120. 8:23don't walk around thinking that you are nobody
121. 8:26that you are insignificant
122. 8:28that you own nothing
123. 8:30that you have nothing
124. 8:31don't evaluate yourself the way that people evaluate you
125. 8:36Look at what Allah said about you and enjoy that
126. 8:41live up to that
127. 8:42claim that honor
128. 8:44everyone is born with an honor
129. 8:46but it's up to us to claim it or waste it and put it to waste
130. 8:51My dear brothers and sisters
131. 8:53everything I have told you is mentioned as a verse in the Quran or a Hadith
132. 8:58and it's really interesting when Allah SWT says
133. 9:01(O humanity! What has emboldened you against your Lord, the Most Generous,
134. 9:05Who created you, fashioned you, and perfected your design,
135. 9:08moulding you in whatever form He willed?)
136. 9:10Oh human, what made you so deceived, so unaware of your Lord
137. 9:15Who created you from nothing
138. 9:18Who portioned you
139. 9:20Who straightened you up
140. 9:22Who endowed you with so many gifts
141. 9:24Who assembled you
142. 9:26Glory be to Allah, you're unique, unique, unique, unique soul, unique body, unique heart
143. 9:30this is very interesting
144. 9:32and we want to claim that honor that Allah SWT has put for us on this planet
145. 9:39this is very important to know
146. 9:42because it's important before you start a relationship with Allah
147. 9:46that you know what Allah thinks of you
148. 9:50Let's put our low evaluation of ourselves aside
149. 9:55let's put the temptation that we face in life aside
150. 10:00let's put the whisper of Satan and the devil inside our head
151. 10:05that keeps on beating us and convincing us that we are wrong, dishonorable, evil sinners
152. 10:12let's put that aside and let's listen to the One who made us and brought us to existence
153. 10:19what does He, God Almighty, Allah thinks of us?
154. 10:23What a beautiful way to start the journey with Allah
155. 10:26May Allah SWT help us this Ramadan to claim that honor
156. 10:31to build that relationship and to meet His expectations of us
157. 10:35Ameen Ya Rabb Alameen
158. 10:37Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh