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Jasmine Mujahid and you're listening to serenity streaming live on one legacy radio. So today'stopic is one of my favorite topics actually. It's, it's the topic of love of Allah subhanaw taala.And the reason why it's one of my favorite topics is because everything that we do in this life andeverything basically should revolve around this particular station on the path to Allah subhanawtaala. So, we have talked about in the past, I mean, we talked about things like trust in Allahsubhanaw taala we talked about trust, meaning, you know, tawakkol having full reliance on Allahsubhana wa Tada, we talked about, you know, humility, we talked about these, the concept of RDA, for
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example, the concept of Subbu, you know, rhythm meaning contentment with the decree of Allahsubhanaw taala, Subodh patience, perseverance, all of these, you know, all of these differentstations on the path of Allah subhanho data, and they either lead up to the love of Allah subhanawtaala, or they are a result of the love of Allah subhanaw taala so everything else every otherstation leads us or, or as a means to get to the love of Allah Spano data, or it is a fruit of thatof that love. And if we you know, a lot of times we as believers, and you know, we might get to apoint where we want to devote our lives, you know, to becoming better, we want to strengthen our
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Deen, we want to better ourselves. And a lot of times what keeps us from taking that path is that itlooks really hard, it looks like it's a very, you know, from the outside, when you look at,sometimes from the outside, when you look at Islam, all you see is all you know, like everything'shot, or it's too hard, you know, it's a lot easier to just not be religious. And there's thisdeception that people have about what it means to devote your life to Allah soprano data. But thetruth is that if you really want to take the easiest path to Allah subhanaw taala, it really is thispath, it's the path of love. And when I say that, what I mean is that if you think about the example
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of another human being that what what happens if you compare, you know, like, how you are, what, youknow, how difficult it is to be kind and giving and generous when you love someone versus when youdon't love them. So if you think of an example, in your own life of a person in your life, who isvery dear to your heart, someone who you absolutely love, maybe more than anyone else in the world,and then you think about how easy it is to, to give to that person, how easy it is to sacrifice forthat person. And, and sometimes you'll even be willing to give up your own comfort for the sake oftheir comfort and, and sometimes you'll just, you'll sacrifice your own happiness to make them
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happy. And this is something that when you really love someone isn't even very difficult to do, it'sjust sort of a natural consequence of love. And if you compare that to a situation where you don'treally love the person, but you sort of feel obligated to the person, and it's a lot harder, at thatpoint, sacrificing is much more difficult, you're basically going to just do the minimum for thatperson, you're not going to go above and beyond for that person, because you don't really love them.I mean, you don't have that, that regard for them. And so to give to them is a struggle. And it'sespecially difficult if it means self sacrifice. But if you go back to the example of the one who
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you love, and especially if you're in love with someone is that is that when you're at that point,it becomes very easy, it becomes easy to not only give to that person, but it becomes very easy toremember that person. And in fact, if you think about a situation where someone is in love, it's notlike they have to be reminded of the one that they love. It's like kind of like they have to getsome you know, you need help to stop thinking about the one you're in love with, not the other wayaround. And so, when you when you think about the concept of love, love is a very, very strongmotivator. And so when we when we look at how do we approach the path to Allah subhanaw taala how do
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we approach this path to bettering ourselves or getting closer to him or, you know, in quotationmarks being more religious? And really, I think that unfortunately, a lot of us go about it in thewrong way and even as children I think we're taught as children so much of what we're taught aboutIslam as children has to do with Oh, you're gonna go to hell if you don't do this right. You have todo this. This is how Tom This is how Tom and this is how Tom so everything
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You know, the image that that that's created as children for us, sometimes in Sunday school and, andall that is that everything is held on, and I better not do it because if I do it, I'm going to goto hell. And so the I think the big mistake in seeing Islam in this way is that it has nothing to dowith the love of Allah, it just has to do with, you know, just trying to get myself out of Hellfire,you know, just the idea of thinking about Allah subhanaw taala in such a way that, you know, hisattributes, which are more, most emphasized, are not emphasized in this way, when you just talkabout a less patatas wrath and you just talk about Hellfire, you start to see a skewed and very
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inaccurate picture of Allah subhanho, Donna, and I've seen a lot of times where children grow up inthat way where they're taught in this way. And it really just turns them off from the whole idea ofbeing religious at all. And sometimes it completely turns them off from a snap. And it's like ituntil and a lot of times people it's not until, like they get they grow up and they go to college,and sometimes in their Msh, they'll come back to Islam. But it's kind of like I've seen this patterna lot where as children, because of the way they're taught about who Allah is and, and how we'resupposed to worship Him. And it's so much of it is out of fear. So much of it is, you know, this,
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this image of of a very wrathful type of God, who is you know, he's gonna punish you unless you doX, Y and Z. And, and so people get very turned off by that. And and then, you know, a lot of times,you know, Hamdulillah, through their MSA, they start to see the other side of Islam. And, and reallythe other side of God. And in fact, this is the most emphasized side of God. And so it's extremelydangerous to take that out of the whole equation. Now, when we, when we think back to the idea oflove, we you know, going back to the example of when you feel like, you know, you really lovesomebody, and and when you are in that, you know, state, again, everything you do for that person
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becomes much, much easier, it becomes very easy to remember that person. And it becomes very easy tosacrifice and give to that person. When we love Allah subhanaw taala the worship that we do, and thecommitment that we make to him becomes much, much easier, because we love him, and we want to pleaseHim and we want to be with him. And so really, that is the strongest motivator and it needs to beour strongest motivator. In the example that was given. It's, you know, a lot of times, peoplebecome sort of paralyzed by having either too much hope or having too much fear in the last paneldata, more or less upon no data. And so what we're told to have is we have to have a balance between
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the fear and the hope, where we,
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you know, we fear for example, when we are, you know,
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when we are committing sins we should fear Allah subhanaw taala as anger and that's part of taqwa.But at the same time, we should not allow that fear to paralyze us because if that fear paralyzesus, we're not going to be able to change we're not going to be able, we end up falling lower andlower and lower. And so what we have to do is let that fear actually drive us to get better, but notparalyze us. And the way to do that, is to balance it with hope, because hope in Allah subhanawtaala you know, anytime that I am committing sins, I should not lose that hope in Allah subhanawtaala to forgive me, because Allah subhanaw taala tells us all of these attributes of his which have
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to do with forgiveness and forgiveness and and love and you know, the fact that Allah subhanaw taalais ultra bar for example, which means one of the meanings of this attribute is the one who mens andso if I'm, you know, if I'm broken or I am, you know, my deeds are by definition insufficient, Allahsubhanaw taala can mend them. And Allah subhanaw taala is the most generous so even when I'm, youknow, I'm giving him you know, very insufficient, a bad a very insufficient worship, and yet hestill gives and gives and gives of his gifts to me, and that's because Allah subhanaw taala is themost generous and not because I deserve it. So inshallah We'll take a short break now and when we
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return, we'll continue on the topic of love of Allah Spano.
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Salam Alaikum This is Yasmin Mujahid and you're listening to serenity streaming live on one legacyradio. So before we return to the topic of love of Allah subhanaw, taala, I had a request on thechatbox to sort of give an inspirational message for students, I guess a lot of students are dealingwith midterms right now. And that's a stressful thing. You know, I remember when I was a student,and it's interesting, actually, one really short, quick reflection about that is, I know that when Iwas a student, and I had an exam coming up, or I got a bad grade on the exam, or whatever happened,I remember, at the moment that it was happening, I thought it was like, the biggest deal in the
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world, you know, like, Oh, my God, I have an exam tomorrow, or Oh, I did really bad, or what am igrades and this and that, and it becomes like, very, very important. And it's something that youfocus so much on, and you're sort of, it's it becomes sort of your whole world at at that moment.And I'll just say this, that, like, once you are out of that moment, so many years later, you lookback, and it like, totally didn't matter as much as you thought it did at the moment. So I just kindof want to give that reflection, having gone through it, and then looking back that, that that thatparticular moment where I was freaking out about a test, or I got it, you know, in the grand scheme
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of things, it mattered very little to none. So, I'm not saying that, you know, you don't do yourbest you do your best. But I am saying that, you know, really like you do your best, but you justkind of are able to step outside of it and realize that it really isn't the, you know, the beginningand end of the world, it's something that you're doing and then inshallah it'll it'll pass. Butbasically, what I would say for advice about, you know, anything that you do, basically, whetheryou're studying or you're working, or anything that you're focused on, or working at in this dunyais just to make sure that your focus is clear, and that your intentions are clear, because the
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prophets I send them told us that the way and he basically gave us a prescription to be successfulin this life as well as the next life. And that prescription is to actually make your primaryconcern and your focus, not on this life. So when you're going in and you're taking a test, oryou're studying or you're you know, you're working on your, you know, whatever degree it is,
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you're doing that, but your end, your goal is not about dunya your goal and your end should not bejust to get that degree or just to make a certain salary or, you know, to have a certain prestige insociety. But Your goal should be bigger than that and greater than that, and, and, and better thanthat, and that is for the hereafter. And if you make that your goal and you make that your primaryconcern and where your focus is, Allah subhanaw taala will make your matters easy for you. And thisis based on the Hadith of the prophets, I send them where he talks about the difference between theperson who makes the dunya his primary concern, versus the one who makes acida. Hereafter his
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primary concern and, and the one who makes the primary concern and the goal and the focus, aka theHereafter, Allah subhanaw taala actually will join and make easy your affairs in this life. Soalways just remember, you know, your priorities. One One, you know, thing I want to point out is,sometimes we don't get involved enough in things that that will bring us closer to Allah subhanawtaala such as like study circles, or, you know, going to lectures or just basically being involvedin these things because we have to study or because we have, you know, we're we have all thesecommitments at school. And while obviously you're not, you're not supposed to abandon your
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commitments at school, but if you realize like, if you always put make it a priority, to put Allahsubhanaw taala first you will find that Allah subhanaw taala will put Baraka will put blessing inyour, even in your study time and, and you can be able to do things in less time than you wouldotherwise. If you make Allah subhanaw taala the priority so I it's just, you know, some reflectionsto think about, you know, it is very important that you are involved along with your school withsome consistent activity, which is, which is keeping you and bringing you closer to Allah subhanawtaala some type of Vicar, some type of consistent halaqa for example, or something that you do
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regularly that I cannot overemphasize, you know, that point it's extremely important, we cannotbuild our relationship with a last panel data based on just sporadic you know, you know, things thatjust, you know, we go to a lecture here we go to you know, we listen to something on YouTube one,sir, but it needs to be consistent, just like you need to consistently eat food in order to stayalive. You need to consistently have these remembrance you need to consistently be working on yourheart in order to to keep it alive. So back to the mean.
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To the topic of, of hope and fear and then love there's a really beautiful statement of immune Chimo law in which he says on his way to Allah, a believers heart is likened to a bird. Love is itshead, fear and hope are its wings. Hence when the head and wings are sound, the bird will perfectlyfly. If the head is cut, the bird will die. And when he loses the wings, he will be inevitablyobjected to hunting is so like, found a law it will fly you and Ryan Holloman. So he, he's talkinghere about a concept. I mean, it's just Yes, it is deep. So so here if you if you think about he'stalking about that the head of the bird is love. So what is it that leads the bird? It's love of
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Allah subhanaw taala. So this is what should be driving us. This is what should be leading us in ourpaths, Allah Spano Tata. And the wings, if you think about the wings, now what happens if one sideof the wing is broken? And and or weaker than the other side, what happens now is the bird isn't asstable. And so it's more likely to be shot down. And this is a perfect analogy. If you think about aperson who, who has too much fear, for example, and not enough hope and a loss of data. When youhave too much fear. This is where you get a situation of like, well, I'm going to go to hell anyway.What's the point? You know, people say things like that, like, you know, what's the point no matter
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what I do, I'm gonna get punished or no matter what I do, I'm gonna I'm gonna sin or no matter whatI do, I'm going to fail. So what's the point in trying? It's, it's this loss of hope, because thefear is too strong, and the hope is too weak? And if you look at that situation, now that person whohas that mindset, are they motivated to really act? They're not. And that's because they don't havethat proper balance. Now, if you look at the other side of it, where you have too much hope and notenough fear, when you have too much hope, this could be a situation where it's kind of like, I cando whatever I want, and I'm still going to be saved. In the end, it doesn't matter. Because I can,
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you know, you kind of have too much wishful thinking, where you think that I can do whatever I want.Act however I want. And then you know, it's kind of the idea of I can live my life however I want.And then before I die, I'll just say like, I have a law, and then I'll be fine. But the problem withthis thinking is that at the time of death, for example, the only thing that you're going to be ableto speak with your tongue is what's filling your heart. And so if your heart is, you know, you liveyour entire life just living for dunya and loving dunya. And, and Allah subhanaw taala was not inyour heart, guess what, he's not going to be on your tongue when you're dying, because your tongue
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is going to speak what's in the heart. And so whatever your heart was attached to, that's what comesout at the time of death. And it's so interesting and rather very, it's actually very scary to lookat people when they're dying to look at what they say and how they act. And there are times and I'msure many of us have heard of these cases where people at the time of death, they can't c'est lailaha illAllah they're not able to people around them, keep telling them c'est la ilaha illAllah.Repeat that, you know, repeat after me Say La la la la. And they're not able to say it. Allahsubhanaw taala will not that person will not be allowed to say that la Mola unless they had La ilaha
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illAllah in their heart, unless that's what they live. So what you live and what you carry inside iswhat what you're going to end up seeing and what you're going to end up speaking at the time ofdeath. So the So the whole idea of the bird is that it needs to be balanced, that the love and thefear I'm sorry, the hope and the fear, need to be balanced. And the love needs to drive the person.This is really what ultimately what I what drives me is my love for Allah subhanaw taala that I wantto please Allah Spano Tata, and I want to meet Allah subhanaw taala having him be pleased with me.And so on the topic of love, I want to I want to actually mention a couple of Hadith where the word
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Allah subhanaw taala speaks about the issue of love of, of, of Allah for the slave and for and thelove of the slave for a loss of panel data. Now, this is a hadith that I really really love, whereAllah subhanaw taala says that when Allah loves a servant, he calls gibreel and says, I love so andso. So love him, and then gibreel loves him. Then he did really bounce in the heavens, saying Allahloves so and so. So love him, then the inhabitants of the heavens to the angels also love him. Andthen the people on earth love him. And when Allah subhanaw taala dis doesn't love someone Allahsubhanaw taala dislike someone thus
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Also starts to dislike him then the people object then then the people become the object of hatredon Earth as well. So here the high def is, you know this is and this is it and most of them wellthat's what that is saying here that when when Allah Spano Tata has hope has love for for a personhe actually tells, I mean imagine the the honor of having Allah subhanaw taala love you that hetells gibreel alayhis salaam to love you and then gibreel Ali Salaam tells the angels that AllahSpano that he loves you and so they love you and then the the people on the earth love you This is aconsequence of Allah subhanaw taala is love. Now, the question now should be well, how do we get the
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love of Allah subhanaw taala? How do we, you know, how do we get this this amazing, you know,acquire this station where Allah subhana wa tada loves us. And there's a hadith which talks aboutthis exact question where Allah subhanaw taala it's a high difficulty. And Allah subhanaw taala saysthat there is no, there is no action, that that that a slave gets close to him except by which ismore Beloved, than those things which he has made obligatory. So the first part of this hadith issaying that lots of panatela that the thing, the action that Allah loves most, in order to get closeto him, are those actions which are actually fought to those actions, which are obligatory. Now, I
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just want to make a quick reflection on this on this issue. A lot of times what we find in ourselvesand people around us is that when we when we take this path, and we want to start to be morereligious, and and you know, you know, basically make the deen more important in our lives,sometimes we, we kind of overlook the fundamentals and we go for like these extra things. So this isa situation where a person might be okay, they're very, like excited, and you know, they're, they'reon this high and so they want to get very involved for example, so they might be involved in allthese committees at the masjid and involved in activism. And, you know, they're, they're kind of
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like, pumped, right and want to work for Allah subhanaw taala. But then, at the same time there,Salah is not really an order, or maybe, you know, they're involved in all these activities, but theydon't wake up for fetchit this is a situation where we have overlooked what is false, what isobligatory, and we've gone to the to the things which are which are extra that no effort. And inAllah subhanaw taala is explaining here that you start with the fundamentals, you start with thewith the obligatory and the reason why you start there is because that's what Allah loves most.Because that's what he made fun to see, like, we sometimes overlook these things, as if they're, you
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know, just, oh, you know, that's just it's lesser, because it's fun. But what we forget to realizeis the reason he's made it obligatory is because that's the action he loves most. So when he says,You pray fetchit at a certain time, when he says you pray these, you know, these five prayers atthis time, you know, fasting and the and the Zakat and these things, he has made those thingsobligatory, for a reason, those are the things which are most beloved to him, and those are thethings which will cure us and which will, will make our hearts healthy, most So that's this is kindof like the medicine, this is the strongest medicine and the best medicine to take is the things
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that he has made obligatory.
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And then after that, the Hadeeth goes on to say and then my servant continues to draw near to me bythe things which I have made an effort direct extra things, the voluntary things and so here nowwe're talking so after you've done the photo ads, you've you've settled, you know, you've gotten andyou've you you have the fundamentals down then you continue to get closer to Allah subhanaw taalathrough adding the extra things, this is where you add you know, the extra prayers, the extra fasts,getting involved in the community etc, etc. And then after this something amazing happens. And thatis Allah subhana wa tada says, until I love him. So now this is the point where Allah subhanaw taala
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now loves the servant. And once Allah subhanho data loves a servant, he says, I become his hearingwith which he hears his sight with which he sees and his hand with which he strikes and his feetwith which he walks. And if he asks me something I will surely give him and if he seeks myprotection, I will surely protect him. This Hadeeth is like powerful. His head he talks about thisHeidi talks about this process of getting to a point where not only do we love Allah subhanaw taalabut Allah subhanaw taala loves us. And when Allah subhanaw taala loves a servant, even his hishearing and his seeing and his hand becomes a reflection of Allah subhanaw taala that everything
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this person does is reflecting of Allah subhanaw taala
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Light and so, this is the I mean this is the station that we you know we seek and we and we we wishinshallah that we can reach and this is the way to reach it it is through you know making sure thatwe have the fundamentals down the follow it down and then inshallah continuing to add extra thingsand until we get closer to Allah subhanaw taala and Allah subhanaw taala loves us
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and and I want to inshallah just end with the with another idea of the Quran which links the to thelove that we have for Allah subhanho data and then the love that He has for us and that is the ideathat says I was a bit let him in a shaitana regime call in quantum to hipbone aloha factor, we areonly your baby Kamala, or young fella comes the new back home. This is an area where the prophets Isend them is told to say to the people, if you truly love Allah, then follow me.
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And then Allah will love you and forgive your sins. So this is this is chapter three, verse 31. Nowhere you see the link first Allah saying, you know, to tell the prophet to tell us that if so, thefirst part of it is we love a lot. If we really love Allah, then this is what we should do. Weshould follow the Prophet we should follow his Sunnah we should we should follow his way and hisexample. And once we do that, now Allah subhanaw taala will love us back and he will forgive oursins, according holy hell. That was Dr. lalibela come in Naga funan Rahim. subhanak Hello byham Dec.Misha dawanda illa Highlands nostoc f*ckunaga to Lake wa salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.
