The Lifelong Remedy | Your Relationship With Allah Ep.7 | Sh. Alauddin ElBakri | Ramadan Series

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1. 0:00As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh
2. 0:02Welcome back to Tawasaw Institute's
3. 0:04Ramadan series for 1446, your relationship with Allah SWT. My dear brothers and sisters
4. 0:11We have been exploring the human in the raw
5. 0:15Without the human going through this processing factory of Islam and then coming out of the other side as a Muslim
6. 0:23The best human product, from a human to a Muslim being processed through the factory of Islam
7. 0:31Allah tells us that the human in general is in one of two states
8. 0:35State number one is something good happening to him or her, things are going good, they're going well
9. 0:42What's the reaction of the human in that case? Allah tells us in the Quran that
10. 0:48(for humankind is ever stingy!)
11. 0:50Allah SWT says that the human, when he has so much
12. 0:55blessings from Allah
13. 0:57Usually, the human in the raw
14. 0:59without the processing of Islam, the human would want this
15. 1:04blessing only for him, does not want to share it with anyone else and
16. 1:10it makes that human feel arrogant
17. 1:13boastful
18. 1:14Selfish, big ego, why?
19. 1:18Because that human was able to accomplish something
20. 1:22Allah SWT in the first five verses that were revealed to Prophet Muhammad PBUH
21. 1:27(Read, ˹O Prophet,˺ in the Name of your Lord Who created, )
22. 1:29Verse number six, seven and eight, it says
23. 1:32(Most certainly, one exceeds all bounds
24. 1:36once they think they are self-sufficient. ˹But˺ surely to your Lord is the return ˹of all˺)
25. 1:40In these three verses
26. 1:41Allah states the problem
27. 1:44then Allah in the next verse states the cause of the problem
28. 1:48then Allah the Mighty and the Majestic states the solution and the
29. 1:52remedy for the problem. What's the problem? That the human goes overboard
30. 1:57oppresses, becomes
31. 2:00a tyrant, becomes
32. 2:02a despot
33. 2:03goes overboard. You know, tyrant means oppressor, despotism means
34. 2:08transgressing the boundaries
35. 2:12(Most certainly, one exceeds all bounds)
36. 2:14Nay the human becomes a transgressor and an oppressor
37. 2:17When?
38. 2:18(once they think they are self-sufficient)
39. 2:20When he sees himself becoming rich
40. 2:24Doesn't need anyone
41. 2:25young
42. 2:26healthy
43. 2:27powerful, usually power does that to you and lots of money
44. 2:32Then you go overboard, you start oppressing, you become an aggressor
45. 2:36Allah SWT describes for us the remedy for that
46. 2:39(˹But˺ surely to your Lord is the return ˹of all˺)
47. 2:41Remember that you will go back to your Lord and you have to answer for what you have done
48. 2:48The answer to that is the Day of Judgment, a deep belief and a deep
49. 2:54impact of that belief that there is a Day of Judgment should stop you from being an oppressor
50. 2:59should stop you from being an aggressor
51. 3:02Glory be to Allah, you know, people with all of this attack on the faith and having a faith
52. 3:08Like you will find the atheists attack the believers, oh so many religious wars
53. 3:14Actually, historically, the religious wars are far less than the wars that were driven
54. 3:21Not in the name of God. Genghis Khan did not believe in God nor he declared war
55. 3:28Because of religion and yet him and his descendant wiped out
56. 3:33Between 11 to 12 percent of the world's population at that time
57. 3:37The first World War was not initiated based on religion, the second World War was not initiated based on religion
58. 3:45Many of the massacres that happen in human history have nothing to do with religion
59. 3:51It has to do with one human feeling that he's invisible
60. 3:55unstoppable
61. 3:58powerful and he will become a curse on mankind
62. 4:03Nay the human transgresses when he sees himself self-sufficient
63. 4:07What's the remedy for that? To believe that whatever you do in this world
64. 4:12you will have to answer for it on the Day of Judgment. If you have that faith deep in your heart
65. 4:17you will not even oppress one human
66. 4:19You know what? You will not even oppress a cat or a dog or an insect or a bird or a fish
67. 4:27Because you know, you will have to answer for it on the Day of Judgment
68. 4:31This belief on the Day of Judgment is very essential and crucial for
69. 4:36stopping a believer
70. 4:38from oppression and when that becomes activated
71. 4:43your relationship with Allah will go higher and higher and you will be closer to Allah
72. 4:48That's why in so many verses in the Quran Allah couples the faith in the hereafter with Him
73. 4:54(And there are some who say, “We believe in Allah and the Last Day,”)
74. 4:57Believe in God and the Day of Judgment, God and the Day of Judgment, out of the six pillars
75. 5:01the most coupled two pillars after believing in Allah and his messenger is believing in Allah and the Day of Judgment
76. 5:08Because that's the faith that stops people from going crazy. May Allah SWT
77. 5:15make it that His blessings to us will not be the reason why we become
78. 5:22oppressors and aggressors, but rather we will become merciful
79. 5:27giving
80. 5:28charitable, loving and we will embody the names of the beauty of Allah SWT
81. 5:35May Allah make this Ramadan
82. 5:37inspire us to be like that
83. 5:39Ameen Ya Rabbal Alameen
84. 5:40Wasalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh