Talk · Your Relationship With Allah | 2025 Ramadan Series, part 22 of 31
The Comprehensive Command | Your Relationship With Allah Ep. 21 | Sh. Alaa ElBakri | Ramadan Series
Shaykh Alauddin ElBakri
No lines contain “Patience”.
- after we covered sa which is endurance
- and perseverance and shukur which is
- thankfulness gratitude to Allah subhana
- wa tala the reason why we covered them
- because Allah
- said Allah loves those who are patient
- there is eight of these categories in
- the Quran and Allah loves this Allah
- loves this type of people today we're
- going to cover the second one and it's
- very relevant to Ramadan it is nothing
- else but
- tawa Allah tells us in the Quran that he
- wants us to fast so that we can gain
- tawa what is tawa tawa as a word from
- the Arabic language it means in its
- basic linguistic meaning to
- avoid avoid hell Allah uses the word TA
- in the Quran with its negative meaning
- and with its positive meaning negative
- and positive here means negative to
- still you don't do this and positive
- telling you do this tawa it means to
- avoid someone
- asked what is TA he said have you ever
- walked in a field that has thorns he
- said yes he said how did you what did
- you do he said I left up my thob my Kam
- I looked where I was going and I watched
- where I put my steps so that I'm not
- poked by these Thorns he said that's
- exactly tawa to avoid falling in shik to
- avoid falling into Haram to avoid
- committing sins to avoid angering our
- Lord by doing something harmful and
- hurtful to oneself or to others this is
- what tawa is and because of that it
- matches the action of fasting you see
- fasting is the only in Islam that
- consists of inaction not action with
- prayers we do something with Charity we
- do something with Haj we do something
- with fasting we don't do something we
- hold off from food water and mating
- during the days of Ramadan so we avoid
- why do we avoid to train
- ourselves to grow this NFS this self
- from A Primitive naps that just wants to
- do whatever it wants to do to a
- developed naps a naps that can go and
- accomplish so many things in life Allah
- subhana T commands us to fast to gain
- tawa
- because tawa and fasting in meaning are
- similar and tawa is so essential because
- also our shahada when you become a
- Muslim you say shahada what do you start
- do you start with the positive or the
- negative you start with negation you
- say there's no God but Allah you first
- negate you start with the negation then
- you bring the confirmation and that's
- why tawa with
- goes side by side Allah subhana tala in
- the Quran when you explore the word tawa
- and I give a course about tawa that
- lasts eight hours I try to explore every
- meaning of tawa in the Quran so it's
- very difficult to summarize it in8
- minutes but believe it or not there's
- about
- 258 times tawa is mentioned in the Quran
- almost in every page there's something
- about TAA and Allah subhana T in one
- Ayah
- tucked in all the teachings of Islam
- under the word tawa Allah put the six
- articles of IM the five pillars of Islam
- the ethics this is Ayah number 177
- in it's a long Ayah in the Quran one of
- the longest ay in the Quran and it
- explains that tawa is your IM your faith
- tawa is practicing the Five Pillars tawa
- is staying away from Haram tawa is
- fulfilling your promise tawa is
- endurance at the time of hardship and
- ease and even at the time of war tawa is
- a complete you know package that you can
- almost all the teachings of Islam tuck
- it under it and it is so important and
- essential that Allah used this word so
- many times in the Quran that Allah gave
- us mental images with the word tawa so
- for example Allah
- says Allah makes us think of tawa as
- food food for the traveler why because
- once you die you're going to be
- traveling in your grave and on the day
- of judgment a long journey what are you
- going to eat on this journey what's
- going to sustain you it's tawa the Good
- Deeds you did in this world and the evil
- Deeds you stayed away from doing in this
- world that will sustain you into the
- Journey coming forward Allah
- gives us a mental image in the Quran
- that tawa is clothing that covers
- you Allah gives us you know uh so that
- you know when you think of tawa you
- think is the good things that you do
- that covers you in front of Allah subhah
- wa ta'ala also Allah gives us the mental
- image of tawa as
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- Foundation isn't it the one who built
- his building on a foundation made of
- tawa better or the one who built his
- building on a foundation of uh mischief
- and Corruption my dear brothers and
- sisters in the Quran Allah
- says oh you who believe be mindful of
- Allah it's very hard to translate the
- word tawa by the way you want to
- translate it to be mindful of Allah you
- want to translate it to be God-fearing
- you know fear God you want to translate
- it to be be committed to your Dean you
- want to translate it to be deeply
- conscious of your faith in every moment
- in your life very hard to translate the
- word tawa but nevertheless we get the
- meaning of the word tawa my dear
- brothers and sisters Allah subhana tala
- told us that the reward of tawa is
- immense in this world Allah considered
- the and in the hereafter it's almost the
- thing that makes you enter Jenna you
- know not almost Allah in
- says and those who had in this world
- they will come and enter Jenna in groups
- they will be moved as delegations to
- enter Jenna Paradise in groups so that
- they can meet their lord what's the
- highlight of these
- groups those who have tawa to their lord
- subhanahu wa taala tawa is like the
- Pinnacle of the relationship with Allah
- our series is your relationship with
- Allah and you cannot have a relationship
- with Allah without tawa it's deep
- commitment commitment to the action to
- be God-fearing this action God-fearing
- will prevent you from doing so much
- Haram it will prevent you from other
- categories that Allah said in the Quran
- I don't love these types of people one
- of the the things that will help you to
- not be amongst those whom Allah does not
- love is to actually have tawa may Allah
- make us from may Allah Inspire us to be
- on the straight path to him






