The Purest Love | Your Relationship With Allah Ep.11 | Sh. Alauddin ElBakri | Ramadan Series

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1. 0:00Assalaamu 'Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh
2. 0:02and welcome back to Ramadan series with Tawasaw Institute for 1446
3. 0:06Last episode we talked about how Allah SWT
4. 0:12Has created us for a purpose, to know Him, to love Him,
5. 0:17to worship Him and to obey Him and we said we were gonna talk about the love of
6. 0:22Allah SWT, one of the most
7. 0:24beautiful, passionate topics that anyone can talk about. The topic of the love
8. 0:28of Allah SWT in The Noble Quran
9. 0:31is established on two things, two pillars, one of them is way much more important than the other
10. 0:37The first question is, do you love Allah? And the second question, does Allah love you back?
11. 0:45This is a choice that we all have, the love of Allah SWT
12. 0:49is not just a mere emotion
13. 0:52it's not just a once-in-a-lifetime feeling, it is something that you wake up with
14. 0:58and you go to sleep with
15. 1:00It is a choice, it is a realization
16. 1:03After you've looked around in the world and you did your evaluation
17. 1:08Who created me? Who cherishes me? Who sustains me? Who guides me? Who protects me?
18. 1:15Who shows me the way? Who's there for me all the time?
19. 1:19Who is there for me before I even ask? Who knew me before I knew myself? All of this
20. 1:26should trigger something in you, who always answers my prayers?
21. 1:31Who is there for me in this world, in my grave, on the Day of Judgment?
22. 1:36Who created me for a great honor, above and beyond my imagination?
23. 1:41If this does not trigger the love of Allah SWT in you, then what does?
24. 1:45I tell people that if someone brings you a rose, one rose
25. 1:50you know, to work or something, you feel "Oh my God, so much touched!"
26. 1:54especially if there's a relationship, you feel like this person loves you
27. 1:58If they bring a dozen of roses
28. 2:00then they really, really love you. Now, I want to share with you that
29. 2:04on planet Earth, there is over
30. 2:07386,000 species of flowers, and we're still not falling in love with Allah
31. 2:14On planet Earth, there is over 17,500 species of butterflies
32. 2:21and we're still not falling in love with Allah. The variety of fruits and vegetables
33. 2:26the variety of leaf shapes, the 6,000 stars that we can see with our own eyes at night
34. 2:34that makes the sky at night so beautiful. But now through the James Telescope, you know
35. 2:40the James Webb Telescope, we can see over 2 trillion Galaxies
36. 2:45If that's not going to make you fall in love, then what does?
37. 2:48When you see how Allah SWT has surrounded you with every blessing that you have
38. 2:53right now in your life, including your existence, that you are alive,
39. 2:58that you can think that you are aware, that you know what's going on,
40. 3:03that you know yourself, you know life around you, and you know Allah SWT
41. 3:09If that does not make you fall in love, then what does?
42. 3:12Love in The Noble Quran, it's not just the mere emotions, as I said
43. 3:17it has to be taken from a deeply founded feeling and emotion that comes out of a realization
44. 3:27So it's built on knowledge that then translates into words
45. 3:32that's when we read the Quran, make prayer, make remembrance, remember Allah, all of that
46. 3:38and from that, it turns into action, and from an action, it turns into reaction
47. 3:45like you act good, act good, act good, then in life, things will hit you hard
48. 3:51you react based on that love, knowing that Allah SWT is there for you at all times
49. 3:58This is something that we have to translate
50. 4:01My dear brothers and sisters, Allah describes the believers in the Quran that
51. 4:06(who love Him and are loved by Him)
52. 4:08Allah loves them, and they love Allah back
53. 4:12Allah tells us in the Quran that
54. 4:14(Allah is pleased with them and they are pleased with Him)
55. 4:18They are pleased with Allah, and Allah is pleased with them
56. 4:22It's a two-way relationship, not one-way
57. 4:25Allah SWT has asked us to do things
58. 4:30you know, if we are to look in the month of Ramadan to this whole fasting thing in a different way
59. 4:34you know, when you fall deeply in love, you kind of lose your appetite and you kind of lose sleep too
60. 4:42So you don't eat in the day, nor you sleep at night
61. 4:45Why? Because you are engulfed in this deep feeling of emotions
62. 4:50That's what love does to the human
63. 4:53Isn't it strange that in Ramadan, we don't eat in the day and we barely sleep at night?
64. 4:59Where does that come from?
65. 5:01Maybe you already love Allah SWT and you don't know it
66. 5:04Maybe you really have to look at what you do in a different way and light
67. 5:09When you read His word, in my generation, we used to send letters
68. 5:15you guys now send texts and even texts are no more words
69. 5:20they become the "You" became letter "U" and the I don't know became Idk
70. 5:29and, you know, we used to write long letters
71. 5:31and when someone writes you a letter that you love and this letter is full of love
72. 5:37you read it and you spend the whole night reading it
73. 5:40Isn't it interesting that the whole night of Ramadan, we spend it reading the Quran?
74. 5:45Trying to decipher the meanings in this word and trying to find the love of Allah
75. 5:50SWT in these words
76. 5:52and we can't even go to sleep
77. 5:54Ramadan is a season of total love and devotion
78. 5:59a love that is turned into devotion and into action
79. 6:04that love extends from us loving Allah SWT to us doing good deeds
80. 6:10in the name of Allah
81. 6:11We feed the poor
82. 6:13we help those who are in need
83. 6:15we are there for the one that there is no one there for them
84. 6:18Why? Because we are reflecting God's love into the world and into humanity
85. 6:25and into the universe
86. 6:26My dear brothers and sisters, the word love in the Quran is "Hobb"
87. 6:31and interestingly, Hobb, if you change the diacritics
88. 6:35the other way of reading Hobb is Habb
89. 6:38Hobb and Habb are the same word, just different diacritics
90. 6:41What is the meaning of the word Habb? Seeds
91. 6:44Love in the Quran is like a seed that grows and grows and grows
92. 6:49Allah gave the example of "There is no God but Allah" as a tree
93. 6:53that keeps on growing and giving fruits
94. 6:56"La Ilaha illa Allah" means there is no God but one God
95. 6:59This idea of love and devotion
96. 7:01and I only love You, Allah, the One and alone
97. 7:05I don't love anyone else like I love You ever
98. 7:09You're the only God, so I love You in a special way
99. 7:12there is a special place in my heart that I do not share with anyone else other
100. 7:17than You, Allah
101. 7:18There is another place for Prophet Muhammad PBUH
102. 7:22there's another place for my parents
103. 7:24there's another place for good, righteous people
104. 7:27but the biggest and exclusive place in our hearts is for Allah
105. 7:31we don't share it with anyone else
106. 7:33If we do, we actually end up falling in "Shirk" associating partners with Allah
107. 7:38So love is essential
108. 7:40love is foundational
109. 7:41love goes with "There is no God but Allah" with being a Muslim and a believer
110. 7:46and that's why we turn that love into a way of life, as our Prophet PBUH
111. 7:54showed us
112. 7:55Allah told us in the Quran
113. 7:56(Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “If you ˹sincerely˺ love Allah, then follow me)
114. 7:59and "Me" here means Prophet Muhammad PBUH
115. 8:01Allah will love you and Allah will forgive your sins
116. 8:05My dear brothers and sisters, may Allah the Mighty and the Majestic inspire that light
117. 8:11you know, Imam Al-Ghazali was trying to explain what is "Hidayah" guidance
118. 8:15What happens when someone wakes up one day and feel that they just want God
119. 8:21and faith and they want to do beautiful things and philanthropy work in their life?
120. 8:25What is that?
121. 8:27He said,
122. 8:28It's a light that Allah throws in the heart of the person
123. 8:35Let's pray to Allah SWT to throw that light of love in our hearts because it will give us
124. 8:42endless energy and we will start worshipping Allah
125. 8:45not because we have to, but because we want to
126. 8:50We will move from being pushed towards our faith and towards Allah to being pulled
127. 8:55by the attraction and the gravity of the beauty of Allah SWT
128. 9:01May Allah inspire that to our hearts
129. 9:04Ameen Ya Rabb Alameen
130. 9:05Wassalaamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh