and here's the next reason which also speaks to or about Allah's name
Al-Kareem, the most generous gift giving. Now take all of that and say whoa that's
me, I'm the recipient if I wasn't it wouldn't have been enough. Now what
happens when I am? Cuz you know like when someone gives you a gift just you fall
in love with them even if you hated them that's why the prophet sallallahu alayhi
wasalam said "Tahadu ta7abu" exchange gifts you will start loving
each other "watath-habu alsah7na2 and hard feelings grudges will go you know
like even when you're upset at someone and then they give you a gift you're
upset they gave you the gift because you don't want to forgive them just yet
right? But you feel like oh no now I'm getting a soft spot for them because
it's just gifts do that that's why the Quran speaks so much about Allah's
blessings doesn't it? Because it draws you to love Allah through the gifts He
has given you Subhanahu wa ta'ala. And it's not just like the things you ask of
Allah either. You know the ayah that says "Wa 2atakum min kuli ma sa2altumuh,
wa 2in ta3udu ni3mat Allah la tu7suha" it's a very often repeated ayah. He
gave you from all that you asked for and if you were to count the favours of
Allah you'd never be able to list them all
meaning if you set from today till the day you die just counting the favours of
Allah you wouldn't be able to they are too many aside from those that you don't
even recognize his blessings. Like did Allah only give us what we asked fo?r
Like that Ayah says He gave you from all that you asked for but it's not that's
not the only thing. He gave us some things we didn't even ask for yet
Did you ask to exist? You didn't have to exist. That would be a
circular philosophical argument as they say right. And then He gave you the
inspiration, the guidance to ask Him, right?
Which is better than whatever you're asking for by the way. And then hH gave
you from, not all, from what you asked for. Meaning from His blessings is that He
filters some of your requests and doesn't Give you except the good that
you asked for, though that of it which He knows to be good for you.
Subhanahu wa ta3ala. But you know the greatest gift He gave
us was what? The greatest reason to love Him through gifts is what? Tell me.
Islam - absolutely the gift of Deen, the gift of guidance. You ever thought why
you say in the in Al-Fat7a "Sirat allathina an3amta 3alayhm"
Give us the path of those whom you favored, because the only true Ni3ma, meaning
absolute Ni3ma, is the Nimah of being guided to the straight path. Every other
never could before you or against you it's relative. Like your kids could be
for you or against you, your money could be for your against you, your health
could be for - it's like a relative Ni3mah, for some but not always for
others, could come back to haunt others but guidance is the Ni3mah that's a
Ni3mah from every angle it's not relative. Like imagine you were the most well-off
person and the most outwardly generous person in the world, like Abdullah ibn Jud3an
Abdullah ibn Jud3an. It was said about him that he was so generous that no one
ever in his life asked him for something to that he gave it to him, okay?
Aisha (R) said ya Rasulallah Abdullah ibn Jud3an is just such a
philanthropist, so generous with people. Will that benefit him on the day of
judgment? He said it will not benefit him because he rejected God. He saw God's
message he knew God's revelation and he rejected it. He never once said Oh Allah
forgive for me my sins on the day of resurrection, he refused to believe in
resurrection, ibn Jud3an. But you are someone that Allah had chosen to lower
your head to him in prostration and get to benefit from that by the way even
here in this world before the next. You know the the biogropher ibn Hambal
said that of the supplications he used to make he would say, "Oh Allah just as you
have honoured me above lowering my face to anyone but you, protect me from having
to ask anybody but you." Right? Allah has protected you from both of those. The one
who lowers their face to Allah raises their head in front of anybody
and has no need to humiliate themselves when they request from anyone. And then
also when you stand in Salah, like if you ever want to feel like just
the sheer sheer infinite blessing of being guided to pray to Allah as He
desires Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, imagine the amount of people between you
and the Kaaba, right? The central place were all Muslims pray. How many people
are there in front of you, on your right on your left, who are not doing
this who didn't get up for Fajr, and Allah chose to erect you to stand in
front of him like all those that do not just leave that alone for a second just
trust Allah's justice for a second, don't let that blur your moment your
sweet moment with Allah, but He chose you, He pulled you close
He opened the door for you to do that, above everyone else despite most people
not doing it He chose that you'll be of those who do it. The ability to do deeds
that He will continue to repay you for without end, forever. You know Saad ibn
abi Waqqas (R), he said something, the uncle of the Prophet
(SAW) that is very profound. He said SubhanAllah and Alhamdulillah
and La ilaha illa Allah and Allahu Akbar. Glorified is Allah
Praise be to Allah and none is worthy of worship but Allah and Allah is the
Greatest. He said these four statements they took
me what eight seconds to say? Are dearer to me are more a fortune for me than
everything that is fed by the Nile and the Euphrates. Imagine like you owned
like Egypt and Sudan and Iraq and you owned everything that it produces, okay? You're a
trillionaire and beyond. That's all going to what? Crumble at some point, but
SubhanAllah I'll continue getting a residual income for it right? It won't
stop. Just that one moment- gone. It's reward will never go. Alhamdulillah, La illaha Illah Allah
Allahu Akbar. You know even regarding charity
I'm about to do something historic by the way I hope you guys are ready I'm about
to recite a verse that you've never heard outside of a fundraiser, you ready?
In Surah Al-Hadid, Allah 3aza wajal says, "Man thallathee yuqrid Allah qardan hasana
fayuda3ifu lahu walahu ajran kareem." Who is the one he's trying to
get you to move? He's stirring your your competitive instinct, not who are those
who is the one- who's it gonna be? That understands the the worth and the value
of getting up - Who is the one that will loan to Allah a good loan so that
He may return it to him many fold, meaning in this world because then He
said "walahu ajrin kareem," and he will have a great reward for it, a
noble reward for which is the reward of it hereafter. Loan to Allah good loan
like where do we get our money from to begin with? Allah. Right? He gave you your life
He gave your money and then He calls it your life and your money - it's His, he
gave it to you and then He asks you to give a little of it back and then He
says what? Return it to me? No consider it a lone, I'm gonna return it to you as if
it's yours. Alright. Like you know when you're trying to teach a kid like to
share, telling here give this to me, he goes no, right? We do that all the time
don't we? That's why the other ayah in Al-Tagahbun, Allah 3aza wal says, "In tuqridu
"Allah qardan hasana yuda3ifuhu lakum wa yaghfir lakum." If you were to loan
to Allah a good loan He will multiply it for you and forgive you, "Wallahu shakurun
7aleem." Allah is most appreciating, Most Forbearing. He puts up with so much
resistance from us .as if we have any place to say no here, right? So this verse
says so He may multiply it for them many folds. He considers it a loan even though
it's His, and then He asks you for some of it only and He has no need for that
some, just so He may return it back to you, here give me this, a part of it, so I
can give you more. What a Gift Giver, right? Subhanahu wa ta3ala.
There's a hadith regarding this, it's very visual where the Prophet (pbuh)
"In Allah tayibun la yaqbal illa tayiban." Allah is
pure and blessed, He only accepts that which is pure and blessed. He says "Wa la
yatasadaq 2umru2in bi 3ithli tamratin min kasbin tayyib," and no person
donates half of a date- a date you know the date fruit? Some people call them
Muslim fruits - no one donates the equivalent of half of a date from good
pure income, lawful income, illa wa ka2anamu wada3ha fi yamin Al-Rahman.
it will be as if he placed it in the right hand of the Most Merciful. Like
placed what? A date? would would you giving someone a date go very well? They
would be extremely insulted right? And then this is not a date, this is a half a
date, and then who are you placing it with? Someone who has no need for
anything at all and then you placed it where? Where's the location? The most
blessed place in existence. The hand of God. What goes there is not like anything
that goes anywhere else. And that's what the Prophet (pbuh) says that
it will be as if you place in the hand of Rahman, "fayumaneeha lahu"
He'll develop that charity, like He'll cause it to grow
He'll mature it for them "kama yumani a7adukum falluwahu aw fasilahu" the same way
one of you develops their fawn, their baby horses or deer, horse, the same way
one of you takes care of their baby horse until it grows. He says "7atta
takuna kal jabal." Until it becomes like a mountain. Like you placed it in the
right hand of God, and that was it right? You died, but Allah didn't subhanahu wa
ta3ala. The living that never dies. So He continues to grow it for you until the
day of judgement and then you arrived on the day of judgement and you find that
your reward is like unimaginable unrecognizable. What is this that's
just for your half a date. Is he not the kareem, subhanahu wata3ala
is He not the most generous? And there are so many ahadith to this effect.
You know when the believer performs, intends to perform a good deed and he
performs it, he gets how many rewards? Ten times to seven hundred times 'illa ad3afiha"
to many times more than that, there's no ceiling. And when he intends
to perform a good deed and doesn't perform it he still gets a good deed. And
when he intends to perform a bad deed and doesn't perform it he still gets a
good deed. Isn't that what the hadith says? I'm not getting this out of my pocket am I? The Prophet
(pbuh) got this from Allah to tell us. And then the fourth scenario is if he
intends to do a bad deed and actually does do the bad deed then it's written
as one bad deed.