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Tawasaw In-Depth: Better Together | Shaykh Alauddin ElBakri | Ihsan Foundation Webinar

Shaykh Alauddin ElBakri

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are we live now yes it's going live
now welcome to another iteration of Anan
Foundation webinar uh for the sake of
benefiting the general Community
inshallah the topic today ISO better
together and our guest
is as a brief introduction
is an Islamic scholar and Community
leader of Palestinian descent after
studying Islamic and international law
and history in Jordan he moved to the US
in 1996 he co-founded Iman in Chicago
mine in Fresno and the support life
foundation in Oakland in 2018 he
established the taso Institute to
empower Muslim youth he is dedicated to
uniting Muslims through education and
Community Service uh before I hand over
the figurative mic to she I do want to
encourage anyone and everyone watching
listening tuning in however that may be
to visit thean Foundation website esan
foundation.org check out the different
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may pull on the heartstrings uh for you
to donate and support any amount will go
very far in that region of the world
again isan foundation.org without
further Ado I'll go ahead and hand over
the invisible mic to our guest for today
um we I thank Allah subhana
tala for everything that we enjoy and
um as every and each and every one of us
almost feel
guilty uh enjoying these blessings while
our brothers and sisters and laza are
not
um I want to remember them in the
beginning and at the end of my speech
and say Ya Allah have your mercy upon
them feed the hungry quench The Thirst
of the
Thirsty clothe those who are
naked give shoes to those who are
barefooted heal those who are sick and
wounded and accept as Martyrs those who
have
died and Grant them Victory Ya Allah at
the end of the very hard long
struggle um
alhamdulillah um want to thank uh my
young brother Imam Bilal for the
introduction and I want to thank uhan
foundation for hosting me may Allah
subhana
tala uh continue to bless the
team uh from the founders to the
managers to the workers and in all the
countries in Africa and
worldwide uh may Allah put Baraka in the
Work ofan Foundation as they
truly help the helpless and give voice
to the
voiceless and um are there for the
people who need it the most you
know uh and they're doing a making a
difference both on the not only in
basically handing out food
uh to the people in West Africa and now
even in East Africa but rather also give
them
Education Health
Care uh
training uh you know job training so in
other words instead of giving the uh
fish they are teaching people fishing
and giving them the fish pole so that's
the uh alhamdulillah and I have someone
as who work withan seen their work on
the ground and created a partnership
between support life Foundation andan
Foundation uh we mashallah they're the
best people on the ground to implement
the projects that we partnered with them
on in West Africa may Allah put Baraka
and accept from us uh all of our small
humble little good
Deeds um so
I you know this is just a general talk
and I was asked to talk about the
concept
of and the concept of is mentioned in
the Quran so many times in many
different
suras uh but the people hear the
word uh the most on uh in in the context
ofah because it's short Surah and many
Muslims uh recite it memorize it and and
love
it uh this
Sur
IM and we know that when im says
something big like this he must have
contemplated on it Allah he said if
Allah has not revealed of the Quran
except it would have been enough that's
a big statement definitely coming from
big one of the major of this
um um so then maybe we can explore a
little bit and the meaning of within and
within the rest of the Quran and that
will be something that will benefit us
insh um Subhan
Allah in in
Allah starts by uh using time were last
by
time uh and the word as also in Arabic
means an era a certain era so for every
one of us uh we experience the world
through our
era uh so yes the world has been there
for thousands of years before us and
even millions of years before Humanity
showed up on this planet
and probably planet Earth Will Survive
few million years after you know our
Extinction on this
Earth um
so but what difference does it make to
you and I how many thousands of years
there was before how many thousands of
years they will be after all what we
deal with is our era our time so it's uh
it's it's beautiful that Allah like
subhana T did not say
by time he he spoke he used the
word by the era which era your era my
era every time someone reads Al it's
talking to him about his era meaning
your
lifetime and all the events that
happened around you and around your
lifetime truly uh the human is
in great loss in the state of loss and
that's uh something interesting like why
would Allah say that and
linguistically there has been three
tools of
confirmation uh to to make to confirm
the meaning that this statement is very
very very
true uh Allah
said this is normal this is a statement
but Allah said First Tool of
confirmation the Lamb by itself
is which means a tool of confirming the
meaning is also so Allah could have
said that's also proper Arabic
or complete so number one tool is there
is
a before is by
time first
to so three
words two confirm uh the meaning and and
this
meaning this is before it it mean an
oath by time this is true this is a fact
this is real this is uh the state of
being in this Ayah Allah like takes us
out of our like he invites us to leave
our time and look at our whole lifetime
time especially on this earth like from
an up from an upper
look um Subhan Allah I was sitting down
with a brother this brother was um rated
in 2008 I think as one of the best eight
investors in the
world uh his predictions were almost all
right and he continued to be one of the
best investors but he was rated by
Forbes Magazine
as one of the best uh eight investors in
the world basically uh in
2008 um and he sat down with me and
showed me how he sees from an investment
point of view from a stock market point
of view through diagram how he sees this
Surah like how he analyzed it and he
drew for me this basically this diagram
and I don't know if you can see it or
not but there is this is basically the
horizontal is time and the vertical is
the resource so if you look at here here
is time this is the ver the horizontal
and then there is here when you look
there is health wealth knowledge these
four are the four resources that we get
usually in life right so now we are born
here in this point time starts okay so
then how did he see see that we come to
life very weak if our mother did not
feed us the first day we will die so we
come here with very little strength very
weak could possibly die in one day or
two days if we don't eat then we get
stronger and stronger and stronger and
stronger until we reach the peak of our
life the peak of your strength for every
person it's different then but in
general we get older and then this start
going down and down and down and down
until this point here could becomes the
point of our death right so this is the
end of our Lives that's here the point
of our death and that's it so we come to
this life if we draw from Health we will
go Health goes up then Health goes down
until we
die so that's the first diagram we draw
this is what he drew for me and I felt
it was I wanted to share sh that with
you and I wanted to also say this was
not my knowledge I learned it from
someone else may Allah reward him then
we come to WTH see when you come to this
world you come with nothing zero right
so also when we were born we came out
with zero right
and we went up and became
wealthy and by the time we go back to
zero so this is the second line here but
now it's wealth we go from zero then you
become very very wealthy then you even
if you stay wealthy here by the moment
of death you lose all of your wealth
like let's say you became wealthy and
you didn't become poor like let's say
this even became the same line here here
here the second you die you drop to
zero so this diagram could be up and
down or could be up stays up but then it
has to drop down to zero because when
you die you can't take it with you when
you go you cannot take anything with you
so then there is a third diagram which
is we come to
life Allah brought you out of your
mother worms knowing nothing so the
third line let's say if this is zero
when you're born knowledge you know
nothing Allah says you come to this life
knowing nothing then you get older if
you actually live long which many people
wish to live long they don't know when
you get older you become sick and tired
and sick and to a point where you don't
want to live anymore like you don't know
that when you are young you know that
when you get older you don't know that
when you're young you only know that
when you get older and older and older
and very sick and very tired and can't
get up out of bed and sometimes you
can't go to the bathroom by yourself and
people have to help you et this is a
problem right so then you come in with
so much you know with the third one is
knowledge you no no no no no no then as
you get older you start forgetting
forgetting forgetting
forgetting by the moment of death like
your knowledge is zero it's gone except
if you wrote something for the sake of
Allah a knowledge that will benefit
people then uh it will uh remain that
knowledge but you your knowledge Your
Capacity is
gone so by time the human is in a great
loss we still did not explore this
Subhan Allah the only thing that we come
up with full full is time meaning when
we were born it was determined how long
we're going to
live so let's
say we like let's say the highest level
is 80 years old here is 80 right on the
top let's say when you were born you
didn't know but Allah said you're going
to live 80 years old you you don't know
I don't know when we're going to die but
let's say that is that so as life goes
right then you're going towards your
death it's actually going down down down
down until you meet your death so you
are in a state of loss so even
though this is 100% loss every day that
passes of your life you're losing it
right and this is wealth you become you
come with nothing you leave with nothing
so you will lose it health you come very
weak you leave very weak and you will
lose
it uh knowledge you come knowing nothing
you know you leave knowing nothing and
so health wealth and knowledge and then
finally time you're constantly in a
state of loss
this is very beautiful way of explaining
this Surah by an intelligent man may
Allah reward him and uh bless
him brother Jamal for teaching me that
so the idea here is I I took this to
heart and I started always like I draw
this sometimes when I'm traveling to
remind myself of where am I in life
right because at the end you're going to
lose it all so
now now for
and for someone who a non-believer who
actually don't care and an evil person
let's say they say for an for someone
who spent his life like just fooling
around and partying around and hurting
other people not not only you know just
fooling around but actually you know
when you hit this point the very scary
thing is that that's not the lowest
point of your life yet because your life
will extend after death your life will
extend after death there's the life in
that grave the life in that day of
judgment and then life after the day of
judgment so there's three more stages
coming so for a CF in the grave it gets
worse on the day of judgment it gets
worse and in Hellfire they just drop and
it gets worse and it's constantly a
prophet sallallahu alaih wasallam said
people will be dropped
uh uh people will be will
drop in Hell Fire they will be in the
state of falling for 70
years and they still cannot find the
bottom of Janam imagine falling if you
fall for 7 Seconds you feel it's seven
hours if you fall for seven minutes you
feel it's seven months if you fall for
seven weeks you feel like your whole
life how can you even possibly the the
longest fall we feel
is 1 second 2 seconds like from your bed
down I don't know if you jump if you are
on a plane usually Landing is the last
half an hour of the
flight but we we can't even experience
anything more than half an hour Landing
from a plane now imagine seven years not
half an hour not seven hours not seven
days not s seven years and you can't
find
the you and I may Allah never
and you know and and this is not only
the cfir the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam in the Hadith said a person and
could be a Muslim that person that says
a word of like says something that
displeases
Allah some people curse Allah
himself some people curse his messenger
sallallahu alaihi wasallam some people
curse the Quran some people curse
Islam some people curse the purest
people around the prophet sallallahu
alai wasallam the
and like why would you want to curse the
best of the best people on the planet or
the prophets and Messengers or Allah or
Islam or Quran like they have so much
anger in them they will curse and they
intentionally curse something very holy
to show you that I don't care and I'm a
big deal and I can curse the holiest of
the Holy the prophet sallallah alaihi
wasallam said a person could say a word
heard of Allah's displeasure that will
throw him in Hellfire for 70 years and
he will not find a bottom for it so the
issue here is after death it doesn't get
better because there's life in the grave
there will be torture life on the day of
judgment there will be torture then
dropping in hell right so Allah so we
ask a question okay how can can we break
this because every human will go through
this Muslim cfir good person bad person
you're going to have to go through this
cycle in life this is for everyone uh uh
Subhan Allah so the idea here is for a
Believer for a
Believer um okay how can we break this
the question so literally after Allah
said and now we see through a diagram
that this will happen to everyone then
says
accept so now we can break this sad
depressing cycle it's not even a cycle
linear like going down and down and is
there a way to break this yes there's a
way four
steps four
things let's take the first two except
those that in this life in this
lifeu
Iman is something
that you gain through knowledge through
learning through seeking knowledge
that's why because wasallam is our uh
role model Allah told him in the Quran
know that there is no God but one God
doesn't know of course he knows he's the
one who guided us to that is just like
keep seeking knowledge keep growing in
your
Iman build your IM on
knowledge because Islam and Iman is not
something that you
inherit what you inherit from your
parents whether your parents are Muslims
or not Muslims is f the state of Purity
the state of pure innate nature the pure
innate
nature uh pure innate nature this F in
Islam we say every child is born pure
innocent sinless and with with some
goodness in them right so whether you
are a Muslim meaning born to Muslim
parents or you're born to non-muslim
parents you're born with them that so
with that Allah is fair and just with
everyone Allah give us all the same
chance and
opportunity um now after you hit puberty
what do you do after that now it's now
it's based on you now it's your choices
you're no more a child you're not
excused anymore and as you know as
Muslims we don't have this concept
teenager teenagers is excused from being
intellectual from being responsible for
being rational in Islam we don't have
that teenager is just a young adult
that's it we train them we teach them
but we treat them as an adults and there
is nothing more beloved to a 13 years
old whether a boy or girl nothing more
beloved to them than treating them like
adults they love it they're sick and
tired of being treated like a children
for 13 years they're done with that
stage in their life they don't want to
be talked to as children they want to be
talked to as
adults and that's what Islam gives them
we will talk to you as an adult we will
treat you like as an adult so shape up
and act like an adult so now with this
Choice like the idea that we Muslims
especially born Muslims have is that I'm
a Muslim why because my parents were
Muslim that's not how you gain
Iman and that Iman that you just
inherited from your parents you think
because your parents because some of us
their parents they're Muslims and
masallah they're good Muslims they're
good Muslims but some of us are parents
are Muslims and they're not good
Muslims so you didn't even have a chance
to learn to have a good example as you
so whether your parents are great
mashallah or whether your parents had
struggle in their life in Islam it
doesn't matter Allah asks us to respect
our parents even if they're not
Muslims Allah said if they're not
Muslims and they're telling you leave
Islam do not obey them but befriend them
become their friend so there's no excuse
for
mistreating your parents you cannot say
my parents were bad I'm going to
mistreat them no not in
Islam but now we're not talking about
your parents and your relationship with
your parents your relationship with your
parents should be beautiful and good
even if they're not good and beautiful
to you you don't answer evil with evil
you answer evil with good but we're
talking about you how can you have Iman
Iman means belief not not only like not
only a belief a belief that is active I
believe in English a belief that is
active is called Faith like this person
got faith meaning they got like active
Iman like their faith makes them hopeful
their faith makes them positive their
faith makes them grateful their faith
makes
them patient and have endurance
perseverance their faith is not a
stagnant belief it's it's an active
Faith active Iman and that's very very
very important to have uh and that's
what Allah refers to Iman is like active
Faith it's not only a belief I believe
in Allah sure do you live by that I
believe in the messenger of God great do
you live by that do you live do you try
to model your life after the model after
the lives of the prophets and Messengers
and their beautiful wife wives and
daughters and companions whether their
Companions and disciples were men or
women do you are you trying so that's un
called belief this belief that turns
into Faith active faith can only be
gained through knowledge it's not
something you inherit from your
parents even what you inherit from your
parents is if your parents when you were
young spoke to you about Allah spoke to
you about Islam that means they taught
you knowledge that means that's why you
have IM because you learned it from your
parents but just because your parents
are Muslims doesn't make you like have a
complete perfect nice Iman no that's
something you have to work on yourself
by gaining knowledge
so means you have to be an active
learner so that you can have active
belief which we call in English Faith
active faith in Arabic the word Iman
includ includes both belief and
Faith then number
two and they did Good Deeds they they do
good deeds and this um uh
expression and they did the Good
Deeds it's showing that they are they
turn their faith into action
and that action is continuous not one
time not two times not every day and
every moment if possible when you
remember so it's very
important and they did they
acted means they acted and acted here
means acted continue to act will act
it's a past continuous tense basically
did and they are now and they will in
the
future and very interesting this word
it's plural
of means good something good but it also
have a hint of something it means you
will use it also this is and this is
meaning this is good and this is not
good this is actively good for you this
is actively not good for you like it's
actively good for you to drink a lot of
water during the day or some water like
to drink to be hydrated it's actively
not good for you to drink alcohol so
this
is is active good and
means something fresh also if you say uh
uh this is not fresh vegetables you can
use the
word right also it
means means some that that that that
fixes you did an action that fixed a
problem so is in Arabic is to fix an
issue so you can we can use it even on a
fixing a car you brought me your car I'm
a mechanic I did is on your engine I
fixed your engine so the
word is a very beautiful
word Deeds that benefit others so it's
not only a good deed it actually benefit
others
actively a deed that fixes something
fixes a problem like problem of poverty
problem of hunger problem of
homelessness problem of God knows what
like it fixes it is is it is to fix
something and from that came the word
the
adjective and Allah did not
say they did a good deed he said and
they did Good Deeds
is plural
of so and that's one type of like to
pluralize a word in Arabic there's
different ways
there's and and and and this word is
like uh very uncommon by the way this
way of
making also like for example
it's a plural
of and it's a general
term it's amazing that Allah used this
expression this expression
in is the last time Allah
used and this expression if I'm not
mistaken it's like number 63 in the
Quran meaning
this like Allah describes the Believers
they have an active faith and they
practice their faith they turn it into
Good Deeds
63 times in the Quran if I'm not
mistaken maybe 66 67 but I know that
that the the lowest number is around 62
63 this
expression they had active faith and
they did the good deeds in the Quran the
last time it's mentioned in the Quran is
in this Surah the chapter of time the
chapter of in
alquran the beautiful thing about the
word it's General Good Deeds
praying five times a day General it's a
good deed and it's an
obligation helping the homeless stopping
by buying him a hot meal giving him a
that's not an obligation but that
is you make it an obligation on yourself
that's a a general Good Deed helping
someone with a flat tire on the road
just please if you're trying to do that
on a highway uh I would recommend you to
stop but not get down from your car I've
lost so many dear people because they
got down from their car and another car
hit them so if you're in the highway and
you see someone that needs help let them
stay in their car you stay in your car
you call the uh the roadside
assistants uh that will save your life
and their lives don't try to change a
flat tire on a highway the cars don't
see you and they come at a high speed
and then both of you will be gone the
helper and the helped and we don't want
that um so the idea of helping someone
with a flat tire that's generally Good
Deed smiling in the face of someone you
see someone down you say hello how are
you Salam alaykum how are you how's it
going can I help you are you
okay uh you try to make cheer up someone
someone is in financial problem they
can't pay the rent that's a general Good
Deed uh someone um fell under debt
cannot pay their credit card you help
them that that's a good deed I don't
know what it is it's anything anything
and Allah described the Believers that
they
do they believe they have active faith
and they do good deeds
now if you from the people who believe
and did Good Deeds then then Allah is
saying it in the form of a plural
meaning where's your crew where's your
like let's say gang the good gang
obviously where's your crew where's your
crowd where's the people that you're
going to serve Allah with and do good
deeds with so there's in this ayat
there's an invitation to Collective
group
work Allah didn't say except the
believer no he said except those who
believed
Believers and they did Good Deeds
plural and they advised one another to
stick to the truth and they advised one
another to persevere to
endure so they advise one another to
stick to the truth
why because once you do good you believe
and you do good deed you're going to be
from the
minority and you might start slipping
away you might start losing your faith
you might start
uh becoming weak so you need someone to
say stay strong stick to the truth we're
together in this we can do it we're a
compute we're we're a group of Believers
we do good deeds we help Humanity we
help the planet we help animals we help
we we nurture and preserve and and grow
anything that is good on this Earth
don't give up you know so to remind
someone of the truth don't deviate from
the the path don't get so depressed and
now next thing we know you're doing
Haram and drinking and on drugs and this
because of pressure no no no pressure
leads to growth pressure is good for the
believer pressure creates the Four
Seasons pressure
creates uh experience it creates growth
it's it it filters the good from the bad
even inside you pressure makes the bad
go away if you want it that way
obviously so so the idea here is stick
to the
truth the word taas in Arabic is also
very beautiful word it's a
word um uh a
word uh
is the word is say a word that is used
in the
Quran as
um as a word that refers
to giving a sincere
wholeheartedly advise to someone that
you love and you cherish like when the
father or the mother are on their death
bed and they give the final advice to
their children
that's it's an advice that is comes with
from the most sincere compassionate part
of your soul and heart and mind so Allah
says the Believers advise one another
in Arabic is a word that uh can be two
ways it mean two meanings Al meaning
Truth Versus
Falsehood and Al meaning rights human
rights like rights your rights the
people's rights planets like plants
rights animals rights right so Al in
Arabic has it means Truth Versus
Falsehood that's one definition of the
word Al also Al in Arabic and in the
Quran refers
to meanings right versus oppression so
Truth Versus Falsehood right versus
oppression or aggression or taking
rights away right so I can say our y
brothers and sisters they say when they
say this is mine they
say this is my right and what they mean
I own this this car is
right this is this is my right meaning I
own it this is very beautiful way how
yanes speak you know uh and they use
this word so H
is Truth Versus Falsehood and H is Right
versus oppression any right
so they advise one
another stick to the truth Truth Versus
Falsehood don't deviate they advise one
another don't take the rights of the
others don't oppress them don't be
aggressor don't do this don't do
that and they um and they advise one
another to have perseverance and
endurance I feel that people keep on
translating the word sa in the Quran to
the to patience or I am patient and when
you ask them what do you mean like you
your patient they say I'm going to wait
until the problem goes
away that's not the sa that is referred
to the Quran the sa that is referred to
in the Quran is beyond that because
anyone can do that I'm just going to
wait till the problem goes away let me
let me just wait let me see if the
problem is going to go away no when
pressure hits you when the test that
trial tribulation hit you you stick to
the principles of your Dean you you you
you keep on practicing your faith you
keep on doing your five daily prayers
you give your charity you smile you
don't oppress others just because others
oppressed you you don't give up on the
principles of your faith
right they say there's three types of sa
one perseverance in doing
what is good and what you are obliged to
do prayers fasting charity H pilgrimage
you know
this to endure and and keep on
practicing what your obligations and the
Good Deeds the good things not because
oh you went through hardship you come
and say oh I've been praying my whole
life and I've been praying Dua to Allah
but didn't happen nothing happened etc
etc etc so I'm going to just give stop
praying now you don't have sa you
stopped your
endurance your perseverance your
consistency your
persistency that's what subber means so
persistency in doing good persistency in
not doing evil stay away from that which
is forbidden stay away from oppressing
others stay away from being an aggressor
stay away from lying cheating backbiting
slandering all of that number
three uh uh uh
this and number three is perseverance so
perseverance saber to do good saber to
stay away from Evil and Haram and bad
and the last subber is to have saber
when hardship hits you I don't know you
become sick I don't know you lose your
money I don't know you lose a loved one
you don't lose your IM because you got
pressured you actually stay with Allah
and they say the highest is that's like
the fourth level of sa first level to do
good
consistently second sa is to stay away
from Haram
consistently third sa is to um uh
uh
stay with strong Iman when hardship
hits and keep on doing what you're
supposed to do keep on your Dua and and
Quran and and
and number
four that you are always with Allah
you're consistent persistent you will
persevere you will
endure with Allah and for the sake of
Allah anything
so this is something very very important
to understand and uh uh you know just
just to uh conclude that yeah you know
Subhan Allah if we think that this is
dun right like this is uh let me write
here this is
alun and uh this
is and let's say this is like basically
hell God forbid inshallah and this is
like a
j heaven right basically
heaven or
Paradise uh this is basically here
after so basically if this side of Our
Lives let me draw a line here if this
side of our life is our this life that
we come with nothing and then we leave
with nothing and this side is life you
know like Hereafter or life after right
um and then this is let's say Jenna here
and the bottom here like let's say God
forbid this is hell right so right so
then then what happens when you are
here this is the you see there's a
beginning and there's an end here
there's a this is the end this is the
beginning so here is what we call finite
this is finite this is limited here is
what we call called infinite
forever they shall live in there forever
for eternity twice Allah put
confirmation twice forever for eternity
right so this is what happens when you
do a good deed what happens when you do
one two three
four you break this cycle of loss
because here this is the point of death
if you die as a loser you never believe
it gets worse it's not going to get
better people kill themselves they go
through suicide thinking if when they
die it's going to get better it's not
going to get better that's the scary
stuff that's that's why you don't want
to ever ever ever get to kill
yourself from here the believer bounces
up and is going to get better and better
and better all the way going to
Jenna and it's going to be Infinity
basically like no stopping it just keeps
on getting better and better and better
and better instead of here getting worse
and worse and worse and worse it keeps
on getting better and better and better
and better and better and what happens
when you do this one two three 4 let me
write here one two three four this one
this one two 3
four what happened you basically let's
say there's a moment here I don't know
this moment
this moment is finite it's one minute
but in that one minute you smiled in the
face of person you had a good
conversation you had a sandwich in your
head and you passed it to a hungry
person you spoke the truth to a tyrant
you invited someone to the truth to
Islam and you shared with them your your
faith and you know you left them to they
can make their decision on their own but
you tried right so this is every moment
here is finite you did a good deed in
this one moment so this dot is one
moment it's just a DOT what happen when
you do this dot you go from here you
turn that which is finite to that which
is
infinite so the moments here and
Hereafter they're infinite moments like
time doesn't stop like there's no time
basically it's over no Sunrise no Sunset
no so what happens you go from from here
to here and that is the phenomenal thing
about being a Muslim you're constantly
transferring moments from being finite
to being infinite finite to infinite
finite to infinite that's every time you
do the one two 3 4 you're sitting down
right now
learning right from this program
whatever you know webinar arranged byan
Foundation may Allah reward them for
arranging this webinar you know you're
doing this and you're like basically
you're going from here to here this is
insane right so so you're sitting down
learning right now this is called you're
in number one every moment you spent
right now you transferred number one
from finite to
infinite you go then you go and apply
let's say you decide to donate toan
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but the idea here
is number two find a partner in faith
partner in faith that's that's a whole
model that we have at is we always find
a partner of faith and then you grow up
with them in your IM so you remind each
other stick to the truth and don't
oppress others don't take the rights of
others and stick to the truth don't
don't deviate from the truth and number
four you you you you you say let's when
you are alone you you fall easily when
you are with other people that have the
same agenda you you basically get better
and
better
endurance this cannot be done when you
are alone this has to be in a teamwork
setting and that's why Allah expect us
to be an um like a Community of Faith an
community that actively
is active in their Iman in their faith
active in their action active in
sticking to the truth active in stopping
oppression from happening active in uh
perseverance and endurance during the
easy times and the hard times right
sometimes when life becomes easy it's uh
it's uh it's also a test people forget
Allah because everything is going
perfect they think we don't need Allah
they don't say that loud but that's what
they think right and that's what Shan
makes them go astray so uh that was my
presentation for
today and brothers inan foundation and
uh I'll leave it to give it back to you
to Le the second
part yes I'm
sorry for the well structured
presentation the it's it's very rich
there's a lot of very good food for
thought very uh practical points of
benefit for myself and anyone and
everybody else uh that's you know tuning
in to benefit from this inshallah just
for the sake of time I know you have a
lot going on and for any time that you
set aside for this my L except the time
effort the
preparation BL you and and your family
always me if I can uh conclude with with
one uh one one question if somebody
found themselves struggling with the
second and if they maybe from this
webinar maybe from you know something
that happened in their lives if they
feel that they want to shift gears and
they want to get out of uh maybe going
in the wrong direction out of a bad
situation and they have this spark of
inspiration I want to change and go in
the right direction I want to join those
doing these four things what practic
iCal advice would you have for them if
they want to now shift gears and and
transition to going in the right
direction I mean alhamdulillah so one of
the Allah tells us that we have an enemy
unseen uh enemy which is Shan and we
have a beautiful unseen supporter which
is Angels
Mala and people complain about Shan but
from what we can see from the prophetic
sayings that any given Muslim has 10
Angels joining him from to that's the
day shift and then they give it to the
next shift of evening from to so you at
any given time you have 20 angels 10 in
the morning 10 in the evening and they
switch and they report to Allah the
people angel in the morning report to
Allah then the one in the evening report
to Allah uh so you have 20 angels and
you have one devil that's trying to
mislead you so you're you're in a good
shape you got a whole army with you so
don't worry about that but what one of
the tricks of Shan is science right and
and our life experience even if there's
no science say it's like time moves in
one Arrow like it always going forward
right so what Allah invites Us in the
Quran you did something good you did
something evil right do you want to
change it yes then go through the
process of Toba what's Toba repentance
what are the process of Toba four steps
stop what you're doing wrong right
now if you're smoking stop smoking
you're drinking stop drinking if you're
I don't know messing around committing
adultery and fornication stop today
right now stop today make the intention
I'm not going to do it
again stop it number one make the
intention that you will not do it again
number two show remorse to God number
three follow a bad deed with a good deed
number
four and Allah
says I will forgive you not only I will
forgive you I will erase the bad Deed
from your record obviously unless there
is a human right involved meaning you
took someone's money you can't just
repent to God you have to give them back
their
money you have to give them back their
money
um
so except if you're a Believer you're
not in the state of loss you're in the
state of gain so what happens Shan one
of his tricks is to make you live in the
past so he pushes you in a time errow
that goes
back this going back in time and living
in the past and constantly victimizing
yourself because I don't Know What You
Did in your past or I don't know what
your mom did to you what your dad did to
you what your God knows boss or friend
or someone did something violated you
right they could
have you know I use this with people
that went through rape right I said
that's that was not your fault right
someone attack don't live in the past
because when you live in the past you
become
delusional because you cannot go back
into to the past the past is gone time
always moves in one Arrow the direction
of time is always moving forward you
cannot go right left up down backward
you can only go forward in space you can
go in all eight directions like front
back right left up down sideways you can
move in all directions this is living in
the past living in the past is from the
devil The Devil Makes You delusional
there is you cannot live in the past so
what does Allah propose literally move
forward move forward with time how one
intend not to do the action again two
stop doing the action three um show
remorse and make prayers to God right
that he will accept your
repentance uh for if you heard someone
took someone's right give it back to
them
five follow a bad deed with a good deed
the good deed might be that you returned
the money that you
stole that's the good deed so you
restored someone else the good deed
might be you spoke evil about someone in
front of someone you're back bited and
slander you go back in front of that
person you say I was wrong that person
is good and I was wrong to backbite them
now you made the other person whole and
complete
again this issue don't become delusional
this idea and I feel it's a it's it's a
like a double sword of the Shan on one
side he makes you live in the past on
the other
side he makes you live in the state of
helplessness and
hopelessness
and paralyzation like you become
paralyzed and you do everything except
the thing that you should do which is
repent with the four to five steps of
repentance you do everything you get
depressed you you get sad you get angry
you going God knows and then he he with
this sadness and depression he tells you
oh you've been regretting so much you've
been sad so much you've been in pain and
depression so it's time to go and have a
drink you go now and disobey Allah all
over again in the name of I want to
forget what I did wrong okay you don't
forget about it nor you live the past
you just remember okay so now I go 1 two
3 four five move forward Allah said not
only I will forgive the sins in the past
that's number one I will forgive it
forgiveness in Arabic is to
cover cover number
two Allah erases it because
he's is different than so there's three
mechanisms of forgiveness that Allah
uses that no one else can use number one
he covered this sin you when you look at
your book of deed if you were able to
look but if you look you you know it's
there but it says it's
forgiven then Allah does number two
forgiveness level two
forgiveness Allah erases it erases it
like you take an eraser you erase it so
now you look there's no oh he did the
sin then God forgive him no no no
there's no
sin number three Allah will go back to
that bad deed and will write on it that
you actually did a good deed so when you
wake up on the day of judgment you're
looking expecting to see the bad deed
that you did instead of it you see that
you did a good
deed no one can do that but Allah subh
tala this is insane this is unbelievable
this is beautiful because there is only
one
God and that one God can do what no one
else can why because there is no other
God that can do what Allah can do it's
only one it is only one that can do this
and that's Allah people instead of going
for
Allah that can do things that no one
else can do they go for Shan and they
become delusional and they live in the
past and they live in guilt and they
live in regret and they live in
depression and they live in sadness and
then they go and do more Haram to make
to forget the depression and sadness and
it becomes a cycle you do wrong you get
depressed you go do more wrong to forget
the wrong that you did which means you
now you have another wrong you get
depressed you give up you go and do more
wrong and then Shan C catches you in
that that's what Allah warned us from in
the Quran we should never ever do that
but
again so essentially at the at the core
of that that uh
taking that step in in in the right
direction Toba is really the The X
Factor it's the GameChanger if someone
connects with Toba and they uh look at
okay what do I need to correct what's
between me and Allah between myself and
Allah's creation and like you said
earlier in connection with it's not the
way that patience uh is seen even though
sa as you mentioned is is much broader
than just this idea of patience it's
it's not something passive it's
something active so man is active is
active our Dean commands us to action so
Toba likewise is something active it's
not uh sufficient to just think about
asking Allah for forgiveness but to
actively ask Allah for forgiveness and
then to explore creative ways how can I
replace this bad deed with this good
deed and then Allah will open doors to
facilitate things further inshallah for
the the wonderful presentation may Allah
the time the effort May Lord bless you
anything as we wrap up anything that you
want to share in connection yes uh
actually when you were I see that you
type that you type highlights when I'm
talking and in one of your highlights
you wrote uh pressure can be good or bad
I actually believe that pressure is
always good for the believer uh it's
never bad it's always will make you a
better person out of you and um that
what I say that's what I believe because
if pressure happens if it happened you
didn't trigger pressure on yourself like
if you brought pressure on yourself then
stop it and stop pressuring yourself but
if pressure is imposed on
you you're driving perfectly fine on the
highway perfectly speed limit 65 mil
hour seat belt everything is perfect in
your lane and someone comes and slams in
you next thing you know you're paralyzed
from the neck
down you can live in depression for the
rest of your life or you can think that
that is since it happened and since
Allah allowed it to happen it can only
be good and you will you have to set up
your mind that this is something good
this is a pressure this is will last my
lifetime usually when you're paralyzed
from the neck down you can never have
your sense back but since it happened
and it was out of my control it was not
a result like I
smoked to death and then I ended up with
a lung cancer that's a different issue
that needs a repentance stop and turn
around uh I'm talking about outside of
your control pressure it means the fact
that it happened it means Allah allowed
it to happen the fact that Allah allowed
it to happen and you are a Muslim that
says there's no God but one God and you
put your trust in
that means Allah allowed it to happen
only for a good reason only for a good
reason so move on with the good reason
don't go negative don't think it's bad
don't let it destroy you no pressure
should be destructive to AV if you did
something wrong you know what to do
repentance 1 2 3 four five we already
spoke about that if it you didn't do
anything wrong and someone wrong to like
now the the people in GZA back again at
the end of this
presentation like these children these
men wom you know 2 million people
they're having bombs what wrong did they
do they're literally telling them move
from north to south while they're moving
they're hitting them if they don't move
they hit them in the South they're
hitting them they're heading everywhere
so is that their fault no that's blaming
the
victim that and telling them oh you're a
victim because you like you brought it
on yourself there's nothing like that in
Islam
but at the end of the day we know that
Allah will reward them so much and this
everything that happened to them will be
good what I'm worried about is US did we
do enough to help them that's where we
should worry but if something happens
outside of your control and is
pressuring you to the max relax it's
from Allah deal with it with your IM
with your active Faith look at it
positively because IM will make you see
everything positive and use it as a
chance to grow and mature and become
stronger as it's known they say the hit
that doesn't kill you or break you it
makes you stronger right so that's my uh
conclusion may Allah accept the again
the the time and the effort
for Reflections and especially in
connection
with and having company and being around
the right
people than for hosting me I'm sorry
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you have a lot of different thank you
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all Allah have his utmost Mercy on the
people of and give them Victory and give
them security and give them an end to
this pain and suffering
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Published: November 6, 2024
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Length: 1:06:08
Source: Tawasaw Institute (opens YouTube in a new tab)Tawasaw Institute upload
Speaker evidence: Shaykh Alauddin ElBakri: title: "…epth: Better Together | Shaykh Alauddin ElBakri"
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