so now I wanna come back and recut so everyone welcome back to the faith revival so we've really
spoken about the impact of sin on faith the impact of the pursuit of wealth and envy and stingy nough
sand we've spoken about a lot of things but what about good deeds that actually can hurt your iman
what does that mean the Prophet 20 of them says language added Dini I had no one over burdens
themselves with the religion no one exaggerator goes to extremes with the religion in la jolla
but except that the religion defeats him that's powerful the religion defeats you the religion
actually crushes your iman what is the prophets of Allah - I'm talking about he says possibly
do what body will of the world who he said so be moderate and proceed gradually welcome to
war over who and worship Allah subhanAllah in the morning and between acid and Muslim wish
alumina dunya well coastal Kostka blue and a little bit in the last part of the night
and proceed moderately moderately and you will reach your goal the prophet sallallaahu anima
sanam is telling us that sometime sometimes the most detrimental thing to your iman is when you
set unreasonable expectations for it when you have this sudden burst that catalysts that we
spoke about a few episodes ago you have that sudden burst and this want to just take it all
on at once I've been so far away from a loss 100 Adam now I need to grab everything so I need to
go from being this wicked transgressor this sinner to being a companion of the prophets
life that I'm like I need to get to that level tomorrow because I've done so much bad in my
life I need to jump into this the prophets like Sodom witnessed that in his life and he warned
people from going to extremes with good deeds because it will crush your Iman when you can't
maintain that output and there are many examples of that you know every fundraiser in in Ramadan of
course it is the a pain from resource Oakley's million Tok every fundraiser in Ramadan you'll
see people quote above oculist vehicle the allahu khairan and they'll say that abu bakr gave all of
his wealth for the sake of allah and on what gave half of his wealth for the sake of allah
and the profits of the Lahani wassalam praised a Rebecca an almond however what they won't tell
you is that the profits y7 actually stopped other people from giving all of their wealth why because
he recognized that that was unreasonable so when people came to the profits why Simon said I want
to give it all for Allah he said I'm sick on a ground or not you should hold some of it for your
family you should not give it all up they said the auto sola i want to give it all up the very
famous story in surah al-e-imran 910 a little hot sun vehicle minima - head born you will not
achieve gender or righteousness until you give of that which you love abu talha comes to the Prophet
place on me said I want to give my most beloved garden the Prophet place of them says add on to
China half of alcalá bean it's better if you leave it for your family or donate it to your to your
relatives because he understood so I tell them that these people might be depressed afterwards
because they'd recognize that they went too far I will record will be Allah and who on the other
hand his iman was secured likewise the prophets like some allowed some people to fast more than
others there are companions that fasted every day there are companions that fasted every single day
except for the Tuileries he didn't allow that for other people because he knew that it was
unreasonable that the expectation was too much so he tells luv indomina also the ilaha tada I know
that the best fasting is the fasting of Dellwood ideas set up if you really want to fast and he
took him through the the equation first try Mondays and Thursdays try 3 days of the month
ok you want more then don't go beyond fasting alternate days because he recognized Abdullah
blood was too overzealous and he was too young and he was trying to do it all at once trying
to pray all night he want to pray all night long yellow soul I don't want to wait till the last
third of the night to start praying and what did the prophets my son tell me he said yeah I'm the
law he said listen to me oh I'm the luck not a con carne a cool Malaysia talk don't be that guy
that comes later on in life and says I remember when I used to pray on the list and then he just
abandoned it altogether because it became too burdensome because the bar he set was way too
and so people need to understand that I need to set short-term goals and long-term goals. Long
term we all have something to strive for. We will never surpass the Prophet ﷺ and his companions,
so long term I want to get here, short term I can't go from not reading Quran at all to
reading the Quran three times a month. I need to start somewhere, I can't go from not praying
my five prayers on time to praying all night long or to saying that I'm going to pray Qiyam ul Layl
every night. Start with your five prayers, I can't go from barely fasting Ramadan to trying to fast
every other day, going straight to the fasting of Dawood (as). If you set unrealistic goals for your
faith you will feel defeated when you're unable to meet those goals so what do you have to do,
you have to set goals that you can achieve in sha allah once you achieve these goals in baby steps
then you build on them in sha allah t'ala. You don't start with with these lofty goals you build
on them. and there's a methodology that named mo da da da da him allah says with our state
that's very profound he says that you leave sin immediately you don't gradually get off of a sin
once you recognize your sinning you immediately cut it out of your life because if you leave
it in any capacity or any proportion it's only a matter of time before you dive into it altogether
but you build good deeds gradually so rapidly detached from sin slowly and gradually attached
to good habits and good practices to build your iman otherwise you will fall short because
you're going to feel like you you know you're not sufficient and if you set a goal for yourself and
you're not able to meet that goal then readjust the expectation and readjust the goal don't give
it up altogether so if you say from now I'm going to break the almond in two times a week and you're
finding it too difficult don't say well I tried doing Fiamma it didn't work then do one time a
week in channel notes on if you said from nan I'm going to read this many pages of Quran and
it didn't work cut it in half inch Allah but keep on going don't detach from it all together
otherwise again it will be a depression of faith now loss of panettone allow us to proceed with
moderation towards him and not be overburdened by a religion that is not to provide ease and
tranquility to our hearts Allah I mean see you all next time so I want to come up on the council