The Comprehensive Command | Your Relationship With Allah Ep. 21 | Sh. Alaa ElBakri | Ramadan Series

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1. 0:02after we covered sa which is endurance
2. 0:04and perseverance and shukur which is
3. 0:08thankfulness gratitude to Allah subhana
4. 0:10wa tala the reason why we covered them
5. 0:13because Allah
6. 0:15said Allah loves those who are patient
7. 0:18there is eight of these categories in
8. 0:20the Quran and Allah loves this Allah
9. 0:24loves this type of people today we're
10. 0:26going to cover the second one and it's
11. 0:28very relevant to Ramadan it is nothing
12. 0:30else but
13. 0:32tawa Allah tells us in the Quran that he
14. 0:35wants us to fast so that we can gain
15. 0:37tawa what is tawa tawa as a word from
16. 0:40the Arabic language it means in its
17. 0:43basic linguistic meaning to
18. 0:47avoid avoid hell Allah uses the word TA
19. 0:50in the Quran with its negative meaning
20. 0:53and with its positive meaning negative
21. 0:55and positive here means negative to
22. 0:58still you don't do this and positive
23. 1:00telling you do this tawa it means to
24. 1:03avoid someone
25. 1:05asked what is TA he said have you ever
26. 1:07walked in a field that has thorns he
27. 1:10said yes he said how did you what did
28. 1:13you do he said I left up my thob my Kam
29. 1:16I looked where I was going and I watched
30. 1:19where I put my steps so that I'm not
31. 1:21poked by these Thorns he said that's
32. 1:24exactly tawa to avoid falling in shik to
33. 1:28avoid falling into Haram to avoid
34. 1:32committing sins to avoid angering our
35. 1:36Lord by doing something harmful and
36. 1:38hurtful to oneself or to others this is
37. 1:41what tawa is and because of that it
38. 1:45matches the action of fasting you see
39. 1:48fasting is the only in Islam that
40. 1:51consists of inaction not action with
41. 1:54prayers we do something with Charity we
42. 1:56do something with Haj we do something
43. 1:59with fasting we don't do something we
44. 2:01hold off from food water and mating
45. 2:05during the days of Ramadan so we avoid
46. 2:09why do we avoid to train
47. 2:11ourselves to grow this NFS this self
48. 2:15from A Primitive naps that just wants to
49. 2:18do whatever it wants to do to a
50. 2:20developed naps a naps that can go and
51. 2:23accomplish so many things in life Allah
52. 2:26subhana T commands us to fast to gain
53. 2:28tawa
54. 2:29because tawa and fasting in meaning are
55. 2:33similar and tawa is so essential because
56. 2:36also our shahada when you become a
57. 2:39Muslim you say shahada what do you start
58. 2:41do you start with the positive or the
59. 2:43negative you start with negation you
60. 2:48say there's no God but Allah you first
61. 2:53negate you start with the negation then
62. 2:56you bring the confirmation and that's
63. 2:58why tawa with
64. 3:01goes side by side Allah subhana tala in
65. 3:04the Quran when you explore the word tawa
66. 3:07and I give a course about tawa that
67. 3:09lasts eight hours I try to explore every
68. 3:12meaning of tawa in the Quran so it's
69. 3:15very difficult to summarize it in8
70. 3:17minutes but believe it or not there's
71. 3:19about
72. 3:20258 times tawa is mentioned in the Quran
73. 3:24almost in every page there's something
74. 3:26about TAA and Allah subhana T in one
75. 3:29Ayah
76. 3:30tucked in all the teachings of Islam
77. 3:33under the word tawa Allah put the six
78. 3:36articles of IM the five pillars of Islam
79. 3:40the ethics this is Ayah number 177
80. 3:47in it's a long Ayah in the Quran one of
81. 3:50the longest ay in the Quran and it
82. 3:52explains that tawa is your IM your faith
83. 3:57tawa is practicing the Five Pillars tawa
84. 4:00is staying away from Haram tawa is
85. 4:03fulfilling your promise tawa is
86. 4:06endurance at the time of hardship and
87. 4:09ease and even at the time of war tawa is
88. 4:12a complete you know package that you can
89. 4:16almost all the teachings of Islam tuck
90. 4:18it under it and it is so important and
91. 4:21essential that Allah used this word so
92. 4:23many times in the Quran that Allah gave
93. 4:26us mental images with the word tawa so
94. 4:29for example Allah
95. 4:32says Allah makes us think of tawa as
96. 4:34food food for the traveler why because
97. 4:38once you die you're going to be
98. 4:40traveling in your grave and on the day
99. 4:41of judgment a long journey what are you
100. 4:44going to eat on this journey what's
101. 4:47going to sustain you it's tawa the Good
102. 4:50Deeds you did in this world and the evil
103. 4:53Deeds you stayed away from doing in this
104. 4:55world that will sustain you into the
105. 4:57Journey coming forward Allah
106. 5:00gives us a mental image in the Quran
107. 5:02that tawa is clothing that covers
108. 5:08you Allah gives us you know uh so that
109. 5:12you know when you think of tawa you
110. 5:13think is the good things that you do
111. 5:15that covers you in front of Allah subhah
112. 5:18wa ta'ala also Allah gives us the mental
113. 5:21image of tawa as
114. 5:23[Music]
115. 5:25Foundation isn't it the one who built
116. 5:28his building on a foundation made of
117. 5:31tawa better or the one who built his
118. 5:33building on a foundation of uh mischief
119. 5:38and Corruption my dear brothers and
120. 5:41sisters in the Quran Allah
121. 5:47says oh you who believe be mindful of
122. 5:50Allah it's very hard to translate the
123. 5:52word tawa by the way you want to
124. 5:53translate it to be mindful of Allah you
125. 5:55want to translate it to be God-fearing
126. 5:58you know fear God you want to translate
127. 6:01it to be be committed to your Dean you
128. 6:04want to translate it to be deeply
129. 6:07conscious of your faith in every moment
130. 6:10in your life very hard to translate the
131. 6:13word tawa but nevertheless we get the
132. 6:16meaning of the word tawa my dear
133. 6:18brothers and sisters Allah subhana tala
134. 6:21told us that the reward of tawa is
135. 6:23immense in this world Allah considered
136. 6:27the and in the hereafter it's almost the
137. 6:30thing that makes you enter Jenna you
138. 6:32know not almost Allah in
139. 6:38says and those who had in this world
140. 6:43they will come and enter Jenna in groups
141. 6:46they will be moved as delegations to
142. 6:49enter Jenna Paradise in groups so that
143. 6:53they can meet their lord what's the
144. 6:55highlight of these
145. 6:57groups those who have tawa to their lord
146. 7:01subhanahu wa taala tawa is like the
147. 7:03Pinnacle of the relationship with Allah
148. 7:06our series is your relationship with
149. 7:08Allah and you cannot have a relationship
150. 7:11with Allah without tawa it's deep
151. 7:13commitment commitment to the action to
152. 7:16be God-fearing this action God-fearing
153. 7:20will prevent you from doing so much
154. 7:21Haram it will prevent you from other
155. 7:24categories that Allah said in the Quran
156. 7:26I don't love these types of people one
157. 7:29of the the things that will help you to
158. 7:30not be amongst those whom Allah does not
159. 7:33love is to actually have tawa may Allah
160. 7:38make us from may Allah Inspire us to be
161. 7:41on the straight path to him