The Only Hope | Your Relationship With Allah Ep.16 | Sh. Alauddin ElBakri | Ramadan Series

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1. 0:00Assalaamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh
2. 0:01And welcome back to Tawasaw's institute Ramadan series for 1446. Before we move
3. 0:07forward with our series, I'd like to lay the foundation for our relationship with
4. 0:12Allah SWT, this foundation has three major points that have to be
5. 0:18clear in the heart and mind of every believer before they build anything on
6. 0:25the top of it. The first thing of these three things is at Tawheed, that you
7. 0:31believe that Allah SWT is the One and only but there is much
8. 0:35explanation to that point that we will explain today. Then we will talk about
9. 0:40At-Taslim, the submission and surrender to Allah SWT. Then after
10. 0:46that we will talk about Husnu Dhann in Allah, to think positively in Allah SWT
11. 0:53at all times. Without these three things it's impossible to
12. 0:58move forward and you will always be crippling and falling and unable to
13. 1:04bring about a change in your life based on your belief. My dear brothers and
14. 1:10sisters, when we see the word At-Tawheed usually it's translated to The Oneness
15. 1:16of God, I don't like that translation because that makes the whole thing
16. 1:20established on an adjective, based on a noun. If you believe that God is One
17. 1:26you're done, you're a Muslim, you can move forward right now. No, Tawheed can also
18. 1:33be used as a verb which means to unite. To unite all of your hopes in life
19. 1:39in one hope. All of your fears in one fear. That that hope and fear lies first and
20. 1:47foremost in Allah SWT. This is so essential, so fundamental that
21. 1:53without the clarity in the impact of Tawheed on our hearts and minds and on
22. 1:59our lives. Allah gives an example in The Noble Quran in which He says
23. 2:05(Allah sets forth the parable)
24. 2:07If we start using the word Tawheed as to
25. 2:10unite we will always be called to action not just to stagnant belief and that's
26. 2:18why Allah SWT tells us that the impact of believing in Allah as
27. 2:24One and making that faith and belief active the impact of that on you is that
28. 2:31you become one. What is the blessings and what's the biggest major impact of
29. 2:38believing in Allah as one on our lives? Is that it saves us from being scattered
30. 2:44I'm afraid of this and this and this and that and I have my hopes here and here
31. 2:50and here and there and I rely on this one and that one and this one and that
32. 2:54one and I'm hoping this one will benefit me and this one will benefit me and I'm
33. 2:58gonna have to chase this one and I'm have to spoil this one because I want
34. 3:03something from them and I'm afraid of this and this and that. That's when
35. 3:08you become scattered but when you believe in Allah SWT that
36. 3:12your God, your beneficiary is One and that's why Allah described in the Quran
37. 3:20(Allah is the Guardian of the believers, He brings them out of darkness and into light)
38. 3:25Allah is the guardian, the caretaker, the protector of the believers, He takes them
39. 3:32out from darknesses to light. Notice how darknesses is plural and light is
40. 3:37singular. The darkness of stress, the darkness of depression, the darkness of
41. 3:42anxiety and fear, the darkness of panic attacks and going frantic and losing
42. 3:49your mind and heart and soul and peace. So many darknesses in life
43. 3:54The darkness of the way of the devil, the darkness of bad company, the darkness of
44. 3:58losing hope in life and becoming helpless. So many things out there that
45. 4:04can destroy us, Allah takes us from darknesses to light, why? Because we
46. 4:10believe in Him as our "Walei" custodian and this "Walei" His name is Al-Wahid and Al-Ahad "The One and Sole God"
47. 4:16They're both very unique names. The One, Al-Wahid, like the One because there's
48. 4:23only one God so He is the One God. The second one is Al-Ahad, the Only One, the
49. 4:32unique One, the different One, the One that no one else is like Him. As Allah said in the Quran
50. 4:39(There is nothing like Him, for He ˹alone˺ is the All-Hearing, All-Seeing)
51. 4:41and Allah in a short surah that every Muslim recites in their prayers
52. 4:45(Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “He is Allah, One ˹and Indivisible˺; Allah, the Sustainer ˹needed by all˺)
53. 4:48Say Allah is unique and different, Allah is special, Allah is the One and Only and
54. 4:55He is self-sustaining that everyone needs Him and comes to Him for help and He
55. 5:01doesn't need anyone else. This has a huge impact on our lives. When there is a
56. 5:05place in your heart that you will only give to God Almighty only to Allah, why?
57. 5:12Because He's the One and the Only. So just like He's the One and the Only
58. 5:16there will be a place in your heart and in your mind and in the depth of your
59. 5:22soul for the One and Only which means no one will share that space in that place
60. 5:29with Allah SWT. That place is in your mind and heart and if
61. 5:34anyone else starts sharing that space in your mind and heart then you are falling
62. 5:40in Shirk, associating partners with Allah. Most people when they approach this
63. 5:46topic of Tawheed, they're thinking Shirk happens somewhere else in the world like
64. 5:50people are calling about you know they're worshipping trees or stones or the stars
65. 5:55or the moon or the sun, whatever people worship or people even worship people
66. 6:00The idea here is Shirk doesn't happen in the real world because in the real world
67. 6:07there's only one God, that's a fact. Like people for thousands of years thought
68. 6:11the earth was flat. It wasn't flat because it was a globe and that's a fact
69. 6:17whether people say it, believe it or they don't, it doesn't make any difference
70. 6:23My dear brothers and sisters, out there in the world there is only one God, then
71. 6:27where does Shirk take place? It happens in your mind and heart and soul. So to
72. 6:33establish a relationship with Allah SWT Allah has to look in
73. 6:36your heart and soul and he does have that capacity and ability because He
74. 6:42sees through you, He knows what you say to yourself
75. 6:46(Indeed, ˹it is˺ We ˹Who˺ created humankind and ˹fully˺ know what their souls whisper to them)
76. 6:50We created the human and We know what he whispers to himself. Allah can see
77. 6:55through you, scan your heart. If Allah sees in your heart that there is a
78. 6:59special place for Him, that no one else shares that space, then Allah will accept
79. 7:05you as a devotee, One of Allah's devotees. If Allah looks in
80. 7:12your heart as He said in the Hadith, the Prophet PBUH said
81. 7:16in the Hadith Al-Qudsi that whosoever does an action that he puts a partner
82. 7:22with me, He does it for me and for someone else, I leave my part because I'm
83. 7:26the richest of the partners, I'll leave my part to the other one and I will
84. 7:30leave. I will not accept that deed. I will not be in that heart. If a person commits
85. 7:36Shirk, the biggest effect and impact is on him or herself first because now
86. 7:42you're gonna live scattered and you know the difference between living in one as
87. 7:47one entity and one peace versus living scattered is the difference between
88. 7:53peace and tranquility and between war and destruction. This all happens inside
89. 8:00you so you have to really spend time with yourself. Every prayer, try at least
90. 8:07once a day to sit down with yourself for five minutes and say
91. 8:10There is no God but one God, oh Allah help me to unite all of my fears in one
92. 8:17fear just only I am only worried about my relationship with You, I only have
93. 8:23fear from you and I only put my hopes in You, oh Allah purify my heart and my soul
94. 8:29so that there is no God but One God inside my heart, oh Allah show me how can
95. 8:38I do that? Show me how can I accomplish that? This is the best prayer that you can
96. 8:44make and especially in the month of Ramadan. You know Ramadan silences all
97. 8:48the noises, food, water, mating, relationship, all the things that
98. 8:55creates noise Ramadan silences it and it gives you that silence so that you can
99. 9:02think and talk to yourself and engrave "There is no God but One God" in your heart so that
100. 9:09Allah will become your "Walei" custodian so that Allah will become Al-Wahid Al-Ahad, the
101. 9:15One and the Only in your heart and that will be very essential the first major
102. 9:22step on your way to Allah SWT and in your relationship with Him
103. 9:28May Allah the Mighty and Majestic make us in His eyes from those who really were able to
104. 9:33purify themselves from Shirk and to practice Tawheed in their lives
105. 9:39May Allah help us against all enemies that stand against this goal
106. 9:44Ameen Ya Rabb Alameen
107. 9:45May God’s blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad and all his family and companions