Trust Allah's Plan | Your Relationship With Allah Ep.12 | Sh. Alauddin ElBakri | Ramadan Series

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1. 0:00Assalaamu 'Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh
2. 0:01and welcome back to Tawasaw series for Ramadan 1446
3. 0:06My dear brothers and sisters, it's very interesting
4. 0:09how Allah SWT in certain verses in the Quran, He tells us what He wants for us
5. 0:16Now it's up to us to want what Allah wanted for us or not, so this is not kind of
6. 0:23something that will happen to you, this is something that you have to choose
7. 0:28but Allah made His
8. 0:30intentions clear to us Glory be to Him, the Exalted
9. 0:33Now in these verses, one of the most fascinating verses is in the verse that talks about fasting in Surah Al-Baqarah
10. 0:40After Allah explained to us when to fast? How long to fast?
11. 0:44What are the exemptions from fasting? At the end Allah said
12. 0:49(Allah intends ease for you, not hardship)
13. 0:54Allah wants things to be easy for you, He does not want things to be hard
14. 1:01and difficult for you. Allah SWT shows us in these verses that we should not mix
15. 1:08between things being smooth and easy and between going in some sort of pain
16. 1:15Meaning, when we fast, yes, we will feel hungry, we will feel thirsty, we will feel tired
17. 1:21we will feel sleepy, but does that mean that our life is not gonna get any easier or our life is gonna get harder?
18. 1:29No
19. 1:30We even human beings without a revelation through observation
20. 1:35we came up with a statement that says "No pain, no gain" and
21. 1:40the pain that we go through in Ramadan
22. 1:43will lead to so much gain that it will make your life
23. 1:48easier the rest of the year and the rest of your life when you follow the teachings of Islam
24. 1:55specifically fasting, why? Because fasting is all about self-control
25. 2:00Are you in control of yourself or is yourself in control of you? That's the biggest question
26. 2:06Why do people fall into addictions?
27. 2:08Because their self becomes the master and they become the slave, because they could don't know how to stop
28. 2:14because their self dictates what they do or what they don't do
29. 2:18in Islam
30. 2:19disciplining ourselves, which is mentioned in the Quran as "Nafs" the self, is one of the
31. 2:26goals, one of the
32. 2:27trainings that we have to reach to and accomplish in order to reach to our goals in Islam
33. 2:35My dear brothers and sisters, this discipline through fasting, will lead us to so many things in life
34. 2:42that will lead to our financial success
35. 2:45social success because we learn how to say "No", most people in life don't know how to say "No"
36. 2:51We, in Ramadan, we say "No" to even that which is halal
37. 2:56Imagine saying "No" to what is haram, tthat will be easier because what is haram is
38. 3:03harmful
39. 3:04and destructive
40. 3:05and addictive
41. 3:07and expensive and it will lead to your demise and that's why in Ramadan we go through this
42. 3:15discipline and we go through the idea of "Yusur" where life becomes easier
43. 3:21(Allah intends ease for you, not hardship)
44. 3:26The point of this religion is not to make your life difficult and hard, the opposite
45. 3:31it's to make your life easy. This determines the relationship between you and Allah. How many Muslims feel bothered
46. 3:39and they feel loaded by Islam? They fast and they cannot wait till the day is done
47. 3:45They go to Hajj and they cannot wait until they leave the crowds
48. 3:49They give charity and they cannot wait until they get away from the poor people
49. 3:55What a way to practice a religion! That's not how we practice our religion
50. 3:58We practice it with love and passion and when we see that even though we go through difficulty in fasting
51. 4:05in waking up for Fajr and prayers, in going to Hajj, in giving charity
52. 4:10That pain will lead to so much gain that the pain will become
53. 4:15nothing to talk of and nothing to be mentioned
54. 4:18My dear brothers and sisters, may Allah SWT
55. 4:20inspire us this Ramadan to be on the right track and to see that Allah wants for us
56. 4:27as He said in the Quran after talking about Wudhu
57. 4:31(and laid upon you no hardship in the religion)
58. 4:34He did not put upon you in this religion a difficulty
59. 4:40So I hope we see our religion that way and that will change the dynamic of the relationship
60. 4:48between us and Allah, we will always be excited to practice our faith
61. 4:52and we will always be aspiring to do more not less
62. 4:56Ameen Ya Rabb al Alameen
63. 4:58May God’s blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad and all his family and companions