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  • Be a slave – 4

    Be a slave – 4
    Jan 27 2026
    Auto-generated transcript: As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. This ayah was so heavy on the Sahaba, that they went to Rasulullah s.a.w. with a ma'ruza. They went to him with a petition, and they said, Ya Rasulullah s.a.w., Allah s.w.t. has revealed that He will hold us accountable for what is in our hearts. Whether we speak it or we don't speak it, Allah will hold us accountable for what is in our hearts, and Allah s.w.t. may forgive what He may punish. And they said, Ya Rasulullah s.a.w., we have control over what we speak, what we choose to say, and what we choose to do, and this we follow Allah s.w.t., we obey Allah s.w.t. in these things. We obey Allah s.w.t. in these things. But if we don't obey Allah s.w.t., we will be punished. But if Allah holds us accountable for what is in our hearts, then we will be destroyed. Now before we go any further, just think about this ayat itself, and think about the response of the Sahaba, the Sahaba are going to Rasulullah s.a.w., and they are not rejecting the ayah. They are not refusing to obey. They are only saying this ayat is so heavy, that we do not think we can fulfill what Allah s.w.t. is demanding from us. And in the context, they are saying that we have control over what we speak and what we do, and in this we do not disobey Allah. Same religion, same Allah, same Rasul, same Kitab. We give a sentence to a person, give a sentence to a person, give a sentence to a person, give a sentence to a person, give a sentence to a person, give a sentence to a person, give a sentence to a person, give a sentence to a person, give a sentence to a person, give a sentence to a person, So, if anyone comes before Allah SWT and he says, I was weak, I could not do it, it was not possible, then you will be shown the example of the Sahaba, they were also human. They were also human. They did. So what about you? So what is the answer? I remind myself when you think about this, the purpose of simply listening to these khatiras and bans is not for entertainment. There has to be amal, there has to be, after you listen to something, there has to be the manifestation of that, the clarity of that. If you listen to something, you still do the same thing. Then? Then you are accountable before, you will be held accountable by Allah SWT. Allah can forgive or He can punish, we ask Allah for forgiveness. But the point is that. What is the, what is our excuse before Allah? You are taught something, this is how, this is the right way to do something. Now if you have a doubt about that, you say, well, where is the dalil or why do you say that or I have, clarify all that, no problem. But if somebody is teaching you and somebody is giving you the dalil of the Quran, there's no dalil beyond this. They're giving you dalil of the sunnah of the Prophet . You still do the same thing. Please understand that there is, there is no, as far as the people who speak about the deen, as far as the people who try to guide us, Allah SWT said very clearly, Wa maa alayna illa albalaaghul mubeen. On you there is no responsibility other than to teach, other than to state, period. Okay. Okay. ! So, what is the problem? I am teaching you or somebody like me is teaching you, what is it to that person? You don't want to learn, don't learn. Remain ignorant. He's teaching you, this is the right way to do something. This is the right way to do salah. This is how Rasool Allah did salah. No. You still want to do the, you still want to do it the wrong way. You do it. Be my guest. What is it to me? When somebody, I am speaking about the da'wahs, people who do the work of da'wah, your imams, your musliheen, your, your people who do your khutbahs and khatiras and all of this. Please understand. They are not getting paid for it. Nobody is paying them some money to say, say this, for this you will give some. Nothing. They are doing it only for the pure love of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. They are doing it because they are concerned about you. Then? So, here the Sahaba are saying, Ya Rasool Allah , whatever you told us we are obeying. When Allah gives us a hukum, Allah said, aqibu salah. We don't miss salah. We don't miss salah. We do not miss salah. We are in salah. We are in salah with takbir-ul-ula. Right? They are in salah before the Imam says, Allahumma akbar. Allah said, pay zakat, we pay zakat. They said this. Allah said, establish salah, establish. Allah said, pay zakat, we pay zakat. Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala said, fast in Ramadan, we fast in Ramadan. Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala said, fast in Ramadan, we fast in Ramadan. Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala said, fast in Ramadan. Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala said, fast in Ramadan. And so on and so on. And so on and so on. But here Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying, I will hold you responsible for what is in your hearts. Now what ...
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  • Be a slave – 3

    Be a slave – 3
    Jan 26 2026
    Auto-generated transcript: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the most noble of the prophets and messengers, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and his family. Peace and blessings be upon him and his family. Brothers and sisters, we were talking about the issue of being Abdullah, the slave of Allah. And as I mentioned to you, the differences between being a slave and being a servant. We ask Allah to make us true Ibadullah, true slaves of himself. This was the first and foremost lesson that Allah, through his Prophet taught the Sahaba in Makkah, which was the lesson of complete and total submission and obedience to Allah without any exceptions, without bringing their own thinking and their own logic and their own feelings and their own inclinations into the equation. Whatever Allah orders, we do. There is no limit. There is no argument about that. There is no option in that matter. And we see this if you, that's the reason why it is so important to study, not just read. Unfortunately, we don't even read. We need to read, we need to study the Seerah of Rasulullah . Because this is the lesson we learn from the Seerah of Rasulullah that the first lesson was the lesson of obedience to Allah . And we must be obedient to Allah and to the Prophet . And this lesson was learned in Makkah. And it was learned in Makkah in some very, very hard and harsh circumstances. Because in Makkah the Muslims were persecuted. They were persecuted cruelly, persecuted mercilessly. They were tortured. Some of them were killed. they were deprived of their possessions, their property was confiscated, and eventually they had to leave Mecca permanently, their own home, their own vatan, where they were born, their motherland, they had to leave it and go away. And all of this they did only and only to please Allah SWT. And through that entire period of 13 years, you see it, they never once retaliated against the people who were oppressing them. Now when you see this Sira later on, if you take the battle of Badr, you take Ahad, you take different things, you can see very clearly that these were people who were capable of retaliating. So it's not that they were cowards and they were, you know, helpless or they did not know what to do. They knew. They knew they were not, they were, they were, they were brave people, they were noble people. And when they were permitted to defend themselves, when they were permitted to retaliate, they did that and well. They won battles. They won battles. The battle of Badr was against three times their number. Right? The enemy was three times the number of the Muslims, yet the Muslims won. So there was no doubt about their bravery and so on and so forth. So the obvious question is, same, very same people, why did they not do something in Makkah? You know, being persecuted, all things are happening, do something. Right? So this is what Abu Jahl is doing, take him down. This is what so-and-so is doing, finish him. No. Because that was not permitted to them. Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, make sabar, have sabar. So, so, right? Even when something as, as heinous and as horrific as what happened with Sayyida Sumayya bint Khayyat, Radhi Allah anhu, and her husband, Abu Yasir, Abu Ammar Yasir, Radhi Allah anhu, they were murdered by Abu Jahl in the most, most horrific ways. Despite that, Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, have sabar. Have sabar, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la will give you better. Bilal bin Rabba Radhi Allah anhu, tortured daily, in public. All this happened in public. I mean, Abu Jahl was not, was not hiding anything. And, the people who were torturing, they were not hiding something. They, they did that, openly in public. The purpose of doing it in public, was to terrify and terrorize the other Muslims, to say, leave this religion. Leave this religion. But, that didn't happen. They did not leave the religion. And, they also, did not retaliate, because the order was not there. Now, this whole thing of, how, this message was, conveyed, it was taught, it was accepted, is, is, one of the, finest, examples of that, and the finest, dalail of that, is from the Quran itself. The last ayat of, Surah Al-Baqarah, we know from the tafsir of Surah Al-Baqarah, that, when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala revealed, لِلَّهِ مَا فِي السَّمَوَاتِ مَّا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَإِن تُبْدُو مَا فِي أَنفُسِكُمْ أَوْ تُخْفُوهُ يُحَاسِبُكُمْ بِهِ اللَّهِ فَيَغْفِرُ لِمَنْ يَشَاءُ وَيُعَذِّبُ مَنْ يَشَاءُ وَاللَّهُ وَلَا كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala revealed this ayatul kareemah, and he said that, everything in the heavens and the earth, belongs to Allah. لِلَّهِ مَا ...
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    17 mins
  • Be a slave – 2

    Be a slave – 2
    Jan 25 2026
    Auto-generated transcript:I want to draw your attention to this word as the highest form of honouring Rasulullah. Because he said in Surah Al-Isra' Surah Al-Isra' If you take this ayah, Allah said, His Abdihi, His Abdi. Now there is no, even though, as I said yesterday, if Allah had said, The meaning is conveyed, he is the Rasul. Allah did not say that. Allah said, His Abdihi. So when Allah SWT is using a form of address, it means that this is the highest level of honour. So being the Abdi of Allah, being called Abdi, my slave, being called this, being given this title by Allah SWT, is the highest level of honour that any creature can get. And this was given to Rasulullah SAW. So what's the difference? Our problem today is that, Alhamdulillah, may Allah have mercy on us, we don't completely rebel. Against Allah SWT. We are not atheists. We don't say there is no God. What we do, is something which is, actually even more serious. I might say what is more serious than being atheist, but I'll tell you the problem with Dalail. I never express my opinions. It's a question of what is Dalil in the Quran, and the Sunnah. What we do is, what I call selective obedience. So we have this whole Deen of ours, Alhamdulillah, it covers every aspect of our lives. This is the beauty of Islam. Islam has not left anything uncovered or left to do whatever you like. Anything in life. From our birth to our death, every single thing is covered in Islam. At any stage in your life, at any question that we have, we ask ourselves the question and say, what should I do according to the Quran and Sunnah? There is an answer. But what we do is, from this, what are we supposed to do? First of all, Allah SWT told us very clearly, two things to understand. First of all, any ayat of the Quran which begins like this, is a hukum. This is an amr of Allah. There is no, no scope for saying, okay, fine, let me think about it. No. Amr of Allah. Ya ayyuha alladheena amanu is a hukum of Allah SWT. Second thing is, Allah is addressing the people of Iman and He is calling them the people of Iman. Ya ayyuha alladheena amanu, all you who believe. Right? Udkhulu fi silmi kafatan. Wa la tattabihi khutuati shaitan, innahu lakum adhum mubeen. Right? Allah said, O you who believe, enter into Islam completely. Enter into Islam totally. Udkhulu fi silmi kafatan. Now this is a simple question. I am a believer. Allah Himself is calling me a believer. Then what's the meaning of entering into Islam? I mean, according to me, I have entered into Islam. That's why I am a believer. If I had not entered into Islam, how am I a believer? You are saying I am a believer, which means what? I am in Islam. No. Allah is saying no. Completely. Completely. In another place in the Qur'an, Allah SWT said, Allah said, they have said, La ilaha illallah, but Iman has not entered their hearts. What must they do? He said, obey Allah, obey Rasulullah, he said, salam, he said, salam. So there is a difference between the two. The two, the two, the two, the two, the two. the two, the two, the two, the two, the two, the two. the two, the two, the two, the two, the two. The two, the two, the two, the two, the two, the two, the two. The two, So the point is that Allah is saying this is not sufficient. Enter into Islam fully. Our problem is, we want to enter Islam as per our convenience. So, it is convenient for me to pray. I will pray. Salatul Fajr, too difficult to go to the masjid. Right? Get up and get out of the house and this and that. Forget it. I will pray Fajr at home. Zohar, masjid is next to my office. Okay, I will pray Zohar in the masjid. Asar also, before I go home, I will pray. So, convenience. I want to buy a car. I have an option. I can buy a second-hand car. Good condition second-hand car. I have the money. No. I want to buy a fancy car. I want to take it straight from the showroom. New car. Do you have the money? No. So, what will you do? You take a loan on it. Interest. You take a loan on interest. You are buying NBT with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. I can live in a rented house. I can accumulate some funds and then buy a house. May not be a big house, but enough for myself. No. I must have a big house. I don't have the money. What do I do? Go to the bank. I am doing some business. Then somebody will come. Do this also. Why don't you keep some? In America, the latest one is jelly beans with marijuana. It is haram. No, in the US it is legal. Being legal. Being legal. And being halal. They should be the same. But they are not. It is legal to live without marrying a man and woman. It is legal to live together. To have children. It is legal. It's not illegal. You won't go to jail. Is it halal? It is there. It is there. It is there. It is there. To live in that state is go for. And I tell people, you don't like what I say, don't listen. Go away. I don't make the rules. You have a problem, go talk to Allah SWT about it. We want to be members of this Islamic organization, that ...
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