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Talk · Your Relationship With Allah | 2025 Ramadan Series, part 6 of 31

The Disease & the Cure | Your Relationship With Allah Ep.5 | Sh. Alauddin ElBakri | Ramadan Series

Shaykh Alauddin ElBakri

Transcript

2 moments mention “Relationship with Allah”:

  1. Assalaamu 'Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh
  2. and welcome back to Tawasaw's Ramadan series. Your relationship with Allah Glory be to Him, the Exalted
  3. This episode might be one of the most important episodes in this series because it lays a very important foundation
  4. when Allah SWT talks about us in the Quran
  5. and exposes our
  6. defects to us,
  7. so that we know how to fix them
  8. Many people, when they read these verses, when Allah is talking about the human
  9. and it sounds
  10. critical and sometimes it sounds like it is
  11. accusing the human. People do not read in these verses, that before Allah said that He described the remedy
  12. the solution, before that point that He mentioned, the criticism or after
  13. Meaning Allah will tell you what's your defect and Allah will tell you how to fix it. In Surah Al-Ma'arij, Allah SWT
  14. lays a foundation that we all have to know about ourselves. When Allah says:
  15. (Indeed, humankind was created impatient: distressed when touched with evil, and withholding when touched with good)
  16. Truly the human, is created in a state of hastening, in a rush,
  17. always impatient
  18. If evil or something hard or difficult
  19. befalls on him, he becomes frantic,
  20. panic attack,
  21. anxiety,
  22. frantic,
  23. distressed,
  24. completely dysfunctional,
  25. afraid,
  26. scared, when evil or something hard touches the human
  27. (and withholding when touched with good)
  28. And if
  29. something good
  30. happens to him, like suddenly he makes a lot of money
  31. suddenly, you know, he wins something, a prize,
  32. he gets a raise at his job or her job, some big deal happens into your life,
  33. something good and beneficial,
  34. (and withholding when touched with good)
  35. And if something happens to him good, he does not want to share it with others
  36. He will keep it only to himself
  37. He does not want to spread the blessings or share the bounty. Nothing, only for myself, selfishness and
  38. self-centeredness. These three statements about the human
  39. (Indeed, humankind was created impatient: distressed when touched with evil, and withholding when touched with good)
  40. The human is impatient when something hard or evil happens to him
  41. He becomes frantic, and if something good happens to him, he becomes stingy
  42. Why is that?
  43. Because Allah explains in the Quran that the human
  44. realizes, deep inside himself and herself, that we are limited in resources. We have very limited time, we have very limited health,
  45. we have very limited energy, we have to sleep and rest,
  46. if we don't, we become dysfunctional, we have a limited amount of wealth and when we gain wealth
  47. we have to spend it in order to enjoy it which makes the wealth
  48. less and less, the more you enjoy your wealth, you spend it the more you spend, you're gonna have less, which is a very interesting
  49. cycle. The human realizes that if I become sick, and it's a serious sickness,
  50. I could die, my life could end. If I lose all of my money,
  51. I could fall into hard times and hardship,
  52. maybe I can't even pay the rent. If I don't have enough time to study,
  53. I will fail the test in school or if I don't
  54. perform well in the job interview, I will not get hired
  55. This realization of the human about his own limitations and weaknesses,
  56. makes the human act in a certain way
  57. without faith. Do you know after Allah mentioned these three things in Surah Al-Ma'arij, what did He say after?
  58. He said: (Except those who pray) who's not like that
  59. Only the people who pray and they pray regularly. We're talking about five times, prayers
  60. regularly on time
  61. Why? Because the five daily prayers
  62. create a relationship between you and Allah SWT
  63. that relationship
  64. centers you
  65. anchors you, makes you stable. Why? Because you're no more looking at your own limitations,
  66. you're looking at Allah the Unlimited,
  67. you're looking at Allah the One who created infinity, He's beyond infinite.
  68. You're looking at Allah,
  69. Whose resources will never run out
  70. You're no more
  71. calculating based on your own deficiencies and weaknesses and limitations. You are making calculations
  72. Based on Allah's giving, Allah's generosity
  73. Allah's giving
  74. Allah's abundance
  75. You know, this is a mentality
  76. You know, they say when people make decisions in life, whether in companies or even in the non-for-profit world,
  77. they say there is a scarcity mindset, there is not enough,
  78. let's not spend, and there is abundance mindset
  79. let's spend and let's give because Allah will give us more
  80. this point has been mentioned so much in the Quran and the beauty of your
  81. relationship with Allah SWT, when you strengthen that relationship,
  82. you will depend and rely on Allah and you will no more live, either frantic or
  83. stingy and selfish, either freaking out
  84. panic attack,
  85. anxiety, that's what happens when you don't have
  86. a strong Iman and faith, you know, unless it's a medical condition
  87. then that's a totally different discussion, people with medical conditions are outside
  88. whatever I'm saying now, but for the rest of mankind
  89. who may be, in a way we all have mental issues, we all have these difficulties,
  90. we all have this deep sense of
  91. anxiety, why? Because we know our resources and our time is limited. My dear brothers and sisters,
  92. there is nothing in this world, on this planet, that will take that away from you and
  93. give you stability and make you heavy,
  94. peaceful, strong, and
  95. hopeful like believing in Allah SWT. May Allah SWT, in this month of Ramadan,
  96. make us from the righteous, from his pious servants
  97. Ameen Ya Rabb Alameen
  98. Wasalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh

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