The Essential Balance | Your Relationship With Allah Ep. 29 | Sh. Alauddin ElBakri | Ramadan Series

1 moment mention “Mercy”: 1:48

1. 0:02and welcome back to Ramadan series your
2. 0:04relationship with Allah subhanahu wa
3. 0:06taala before we end this series we have
4. 0:09to tackle this one topic that I feel not
5. 0:12many people talk about which is our Iman
6. 0:16is like a bird and the bird needs two
7. 0:18wings without these two Wings the bird
8. 0:21cannot fly our our Scholars brought this
9. 0:24topic many times and it creates a
10. 0:28balance in the faith what am I talking
11. 0:29about
12. 0:30hope and fear we usually find that
13. 0:34people who just only want to hear the
14. 0:35hope they want to hear Allah's forgiving
15. 0:38Allah will accept your repentance don't
16. 0:41worry about it you know and they never
17. 0:43ever want to bring the consequences that
18. 0:48allaha could stop you in your tracks
19. 0:50could give you the consequence in or
20. 0:52could punish you be God-fearing this
21. 0:55balance is essential to your
22. 0:58relationship with Allah subh
23. 1:00and I find it very much evident
24. 1:03in Allah
25. 1:08describes my devotees they call upon
26. 1:13me with hope and with fear Allah in
27. 1:20says tell my devotees tell my servants
28. 1:24and my
29. 1:26slaves that I am the most forgiving and
30. 1:29I am the most
31. 1:32merciful and that my punishment is the
32. 1:35most painful punishment in one sentence
33. 1:38Subhan Allah Allah created a heaven and
34. 1:41hell for a reason to keep us balanced
35. 1:45they say you should have hope always in
36. 1:48Allah's mercy and inside your hope there
37. 1:51is a fear what's the fear that you will
38. 1:54lose that relationship with Allah so
39. 1:57inside hope there is fear and and inside
40. 2:00your fear there is a hope when you do
41. 2:03something wrong and you feel fearful you
42. 2:06have a hope that Allah will forgive you
43. 2:10sometimes we find ourselves leaning
44. 2:13towards one or the other when I sit down
45. 2:16with counseling sessions with people
46. 2:18they make statements I don't know how
47. 2:20they even say it but it's comes out of a
48. 2:23good place in their heart Allah will
49. 2:25never forgive me oh so you've given hope
50. 2:28so now you give up
51. 2:30you're totally lost in fear no you
52. 2:33cannot speak in the name of the Divine
53. 2:35you cannot speak in the name of Allah
54. 2:38who Allah is going to forgive and who
55. 2:39he's not going to forgive that's not
56. 2:41your business Allah does not want us to
57. 2:45have so much fear to a point we lose
58. 2:47hope and so much hope to a point we lose
59. 2:51the fear and we are ready to do anything
60. 2:55because that is the door that will open
61. 2:58for people to become amongst the list of
62. 3:00Those whom Allah does not love
63. 3:03oppressors
64. 3:04aggressors deceivers
65. 3:07ungrateful
66. 3:09extravagant all of these things happen
67. 3:11when when you think there's no
68. 3:13consequence it's okay God will forgive
69. 3:15me I will do whatever this is a very
70. 3:18imbalanced Faith Subhan Allah even in
71. 3:21one sentence on the day of judgment
72. 3:23Allah
73. 3:25says the day that some faces will be
74. 3:28dark from the evil have done and some
75. 3:31faces will be bright from the goodness
76. 3:32that they have done this is amazing that
77. 3:35Allah mentions that in one piece in one
78. 3:39even
79. 3:41in guide us to the straight path the
80. 3:44path of Those whom you have been pleased
81. 3:46with them not to the path of those who
82. 3:49earned your anger or went astray hope
83. 3:53and fear the believer's heart Subhan
84. 3:55Allah is always anxious and people ask
85. 4:00is Allah happy with me did Allah accept
86. 4:03my repentance did Allah accept my good
87. 4:05deeds did Allah forgive me Allah makes
88. 4:08us live on the
89. 4:09edge and that is because if Allah will
90. 4:13tell us oh by the way I forgive all of
91. 4:16your sins for the rest of your life if
92. 4:18Allah will tell us that it will knock us
93. 4:20off track and we will go left field and
94. 4:24drift away from Allah tala and if Allah
95. 4:27subh tala will come to us and says by by
96. 4:29the way you're going to do so many bad
97. 4:31things in your life and you're going to
98. 4:33go to hell you're going to give up and
99. 4:36you're just going to become double and
100. 4:39triple evil more than what you are but
101. 4:43Allah has kept the gates of repentance
102. 4:46open anyone who's doing wrong can stop
103. 4:48and switch lanes anyone who's doing
104. 4:51right can do more and more and more
105. 4:54right this hope and fear is something
106. 4:57that is essential to the relationship
107. 4:59with
108. 5:00and people avoid talking about like
109. 5:02Allah is serious with
110. 5:06us and Allah is warning you of himself
111. 5:10don't take Allah for granted don't take
112. 5:13Allah easy Allah is mik Allah is a king
113. 5:17the king of kings The One and Only God
114. 5:20there is no other God but one God so
115. 5:23treat Allah with Majesty treat Allah
116. 5:25with royalty treat Allah with respect
117. 5:29worship Allah with humility all of this
118. 5:33comes from that fear and from that it's
119. 5:36like a healthy fear it's not like I'm
120. 5:38scared of Allah no it's like I am afraid
121. 5:41that I will break that relationship I'm
122. 5:43afraid that will I trigger Allah's wrath
123. 5:47Against Me by hurting myself or hurting
124. 5:49the people around me or hurting Humanity
125. 5:52or destroying the planet it keeps you on
126. 5:55the straight path and without these two
127. 5:58things it's not not possible to have a
128. 6:02healthy relationship with Allah subhana
129. 6:04wa tala may Allah makes us from those
130. 6:07that they call upon him with hope and
131. 6:09fear and may Allah subhana wa taala
132. 6:11towards the end of our Lives show us a
133. 6:14sign that we will die with peace looking
134. 6:19forward to meet our Lord being ready to
135. 6:23be received by the most generous
136. 6:28host Allah
137. 6:32m