from those who enter Islam, leave Islam being upset and angry
with Islam;
Does anyone do this?
and abu sufian (ra) answered no, no one does this. remember when he
answers this question, it is not not me and you, he is reflecting
over 19 years of fighting; Waging War going through all of
those moments of his life against at that time
He's thinking; these evil Muslim And 19 years flushes through
his mind and he can't find a single instance
He can't find one in 19 years.
So he says no, no one does this and then hierarchical/ the
answer and I looked at this; on a Minbar 1400 years later
We're going to take the advice of a non-Muslim
We're going to take an understanding for our lives, which
is the difference between paradise and Hell from a non Muslim
correct To Us by Islam.
What does he say?
And that is exactly how eman works: if it enters and penetrates
Into the Depths and inner corners of the heart.
when this happens; There's no way that anything except increasing
eman can happen. love for that eman as sweetness that cannot
be compared with anything such that people are willing to
sacrifice everything for that faith.
This is the reality.
And then add to this the statement of the Prophet salallahu
alihi wasalam; whoever ever finds these three things.
Then he will taste the sweetness of it.
al-bukari mentioned it several times in sahih; in
sahih bukhari find many times mentioned and we know it.
but really I haven't contemplated enough
And I'm guessing that many of us here
Haven't contemplated enough.
So the prophet salallahu alihi wasalam says..
He says there's three things if you have them, you are gonna
taste the sweetness and the sweetness is real and you will
not want to give it up ever.
The only thing you're going to want is increase.
You know that time when you tasted something really nice
way to remember them; taste: it was so nice.
First time you had this item of food, this sweet, this delicacy
and it was so good
What did you want, you would want to have more and more and more
and you wanted to keep it.
You don't want to stop.
That was a reality.
Just like anything in this life.
If you have that sweetness, you don't want to give it up
you want more and you keep wanting more. the prophet (saw)
says to us right at the beginning three things.
If you have them you going to taste that sweetness.
You're going to want more and you're going to give up everything
else for it.
The whole is Hadith; the three things that the prophet (saw) mentioned
are not technical;
are not facts of Islam,
are not... they call .... the realities of faith
of the technical features of Faith;
that They're not those, none of them
None of them; the problem that we have
our time Is that when we try to learn about Islam; we focus
on the technicalities: do this, don't do that, work like this
This is what we need to believe.
This is how it is.
That's what we face
And that's our Focus.
We forgot to interface or focus on what prophet (saw)
said focus on.
the sweetness of Faith.
So the first thing that prophet (Saw) says is That you love Allah
and his messenger more than you love anything else.
Which also means
that you hate everything that opposes of Allah and his messenger
more than you hate anything else.
Love and hatred; ibn abbas (ra)
He summarized the whole of our faith and he says it is love
for the sake of Allah and hatred for the sake of Allah, you
know, we all claim that we love Allah and his messenger more
than we love everything else and everyone else.
this is a claim...
Let me give you a yardstick by which we can measure our faith.
and a yardstick which is more profound for men and a yardstick
at the same time on the same issue; the first issue that is
more profound for women.
Okay, the ones are for the man;
But you know salatul-fajr, when it's really early in the
morning, when it's really early in the morning
But think about how you get up for salahtul-fajr
And you know, it's time and your alam goes on
Yeah, you switch off that alarm.
You put it on snooze.
It wakes you up again.
You put it on snooze and you keep doing it until on some
occasions and we hope they're not many that you sleep through
until fajr is finished.
Right now, let me take you to the comparison.
getting up for work: When you realize that you know, what
if I don't get up for work, I'm not gonna earn the money today.
If I don't get up to work my boss makes sack me, but i don't get up
for work, I'm going to get a telling off at the very least
from my boss.
So you jump, like there's no tomorrow out of your bed, you are
getting ready...
Nothing distracts you and you're on your way.
It's the reality.
it's the reality and one for the Sisters; that time when your child
gets up in the night and it applies to us as well as brothers
And the child is in agony, pain immediately jump out of your
bed, you run, you take them immediately to the hospital.
You'll do anything and everything, no matter what time it
is. you will move... There's no questioning about what will do
And then when it comes to the salah even after that and
it's time for the salah and ....... that you can't
move, you had hardly any speak if any, how are you going to move
for your salah?
That tells you each and every single one of us
Where we are when it comes to loving Allah and his messenger
more than loving anything else?
It's not to judge anyone else.
I'm crying over myself
Like you're crying over yourself.
I'm sure, something we need to work on. then the prophet sallallahu
alehiwassallaam he says and that this person he loves
Someone only for the sake of Allah from no other purpose.
Love, so therefore, the opposite you hate someone only because
of Allah; love and hate in the first one
It was about love and hate. in the second one is about love
and hate: emotion
And in the third one the prophet (saw) says
that this person hates to return to kufur,
hates to turn to disbelief after Allah has saved him from
it. He was there in disbelief and then Allah saved him, a blessing
and a mercy from Allah.
When did we last give to thank Allah and say in adhkaar
that I am pleased with Allah as my rabb and I am pleased
with Muhammad (saw) as my prophet and I am pleased
with the Deen of Islam as my religion?
When did we last say and really mean it to Allah?
And then the Hadith says just like he hates to be thrown
into the fire
Every one of us can appreciate that emotion.
It's all about this emotion, which brings about a reality
in your life.
If you're sincere to those three things, you will taste that
sweetness and live the reality that the sahaba (ra) were living in.
You know, if you realize these three things you're on a different
planet. the person next to you can't see that sweetness and
feel that sweetness
that your heart will feel like it is with Allah in the clouds.
That's the reality the sahaba (Ra) were living in, but that reality is
possible for every single one after them.
Just realizing these three things.
Remember, it's about Love and Hate. Now this whole thing is
what we need to ingrain in ourselves and the nurture our
children on this. we love for Allah,
We hate for Allah.
We never commit Injustice.
But with that you will taste the sweetness or the greatest
sweetness that is available in this world
And then you will sincerely sacrifice for the sake of Allah
if you don't do that, That you're never going to taste that
sweetness and you are always going to be unhappy.
That's the reality the prophet (saw) is teaching us.