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Talk · Your Relationship With Allah | 2025 Ramadan Series, part 11 of 31

The Choice is Yours | Your Relationship With Allah Ep.10 | Sh. Alauddin ElBakri | Ramadan Series

Shaykh Alauddin ElBakri

Transcript

  1. As-salamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh and welcome back to
  2. Ramadan series 1446 brought to you by Tawasaw Institute
  3. about your relationship with Allah SWT. In last year's episodes
  4. we talked about As-Sirat al-Mustaqim "The Straight Path” to Allah SWT, we defined
  5. stations and stops and to answer this question
  6. Why did Allah SWT create us?
  7. In The Noble Quran, it gives you two answers
  8. the purpose and the job and the role. The purpose of our creation
  9. is to know Allah SWT and we explain that we get to know Allah through His creation
  10. We get to know Allah through His book The Noble Quran
  11. We get to know Allah through the daily destiny that we go through, our life story, our life events
  12. Allah communicates with us through these events
  13. and that's how we end up having an active relationship with Allah SWT, to know Allah
  14. and based on that knowledge, to make a choice
  15. and that's when a person, after we read and
  16. know, we say: "I bear witness
  17. that there is no God but One God and I bear witness that Muhammad is His final prophet and messenger"
  18. May Allah's peace and blessings be upon him
  19. This is the testimony of faith based on knowledge, you make choice and based on that choice you follow it with
  20. submission, that's why the first step in Islam is to know Allah, it's a relationship
  21. How can you establish a relationship with someone that you don't know?
  22. That's impossible, and that's why every Muslim has to stop and answer the question
  23. What did I see? What did I witness that made me say: "I bear witness"?
  24. How can I establish a relationship with Allah? Did I invest enough time and energy in knowing Allah SWT?
  25. And that's why
  26. on this journey
  27. when we look at knowing Allah
  28. I want to explore with you and to understand what Allah SWT has said to us about Himself
  29. Allah wants us to see Him as
  30. The Lord of humankind, the Master of humankind, the God of humankind
  31. He's our lord meaning the One who created us, cherished us, sustained us, gave us parents, grew us, guided us
  32. protected us, this is your lord
  33. But Allah SWT should be your king that you obey His laws
  34. When He says do not kill, do not steal, do not cheat, do not lie, do not rob, do not destroy
  35. your life or the life of the people around you or the lives of the creation around you on the planet
  36. You abide by that because that's what Allah SWT created you for, this awareness
  37. So when Allah SWT tells us to learn about Him, get to know Him, then we choose Him
  38. Then that moves to two dimensions
  39. Establishing a relationship with Him, we call it worship
  40. that's where the five pillars of Islam lie, to obey Him SWT and obey His laws
  41. So that's how we see Allah and how Allah wants us to see Him and see His role in our daily lives
  42. As Allah is our lord
  43. So you got a guardian, you got a caretaker
  44. You got a lord for God's sake, don't walk around like you don't have a lord
  45. Don't live like you don't have an unlimited resource
  46. They say the reason for stress is when the perceived demand exceeds the perceived resource
  47. How can the perceived demand exceed the perceived resource
  48. when your resource is Allah SWT?
  49. That's why Allah is your lord, then Allah is your king
  50. You obey His laws, then Allah is your God
  51. You worship no one but Him. The word "God" is always associated with worship
  52. My dear brothers and sisters, this is how we establish our relationship with Allah, proper relationship
  53. (Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “I seek refuge in the Lord of humankind, the Master of humankind, the God of humankind)
  54. based on thatو we fulfill the purpose
  55. and then we move on from the purpose, which is to know Allah, to love Allah
  56. to worship Allah and to obey Allah
  57. Inshaa'Allah
  58. on the next episode we will explore the topic of loving Allah SWT
  59. As many times it's not covered and we only talk about the worship or the obedience
  60. But
  61. neither the worship or obedience will count if it's not founded in knowledge and in love and in devotion
  62. We are Allah's devotees, we are Allah's
  63. dedicated servants and it's better
  64. happen with passion and with love and with recognition
  65. to this amazing relationship that we have access to
  66. May The Mighty and Majestic inspire us
  67. May Allah's blessings and peace be upon His servant and Prophet Muhammad
  68. Praise be to Allah, Lord of all worlds

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