7 Under His Shade

my brothers and sisters we sent out question here on social media and got many different topics that the people would like to hear all of them are very different and it was very hard to choose which one so chose topic that will cover about half of the requests and inshallah think it was very good thing that we did because coming to Ramadan think this will be very nice topic to start off with inshallah we want to to the hearts because the heart is the most precious and most valuable thing we have if the heart is wrong the rest of the body is wrong Asam stood up one time and said behold in this body there is muscle and if it is right the rest of the body is right and if it is corrupt the rest of the body is corrupt behold it is the heart the rest of the body meaning spiritually physically mentally and emotionally if the heart is not right all of that is not right all of that is not right so my brothers and sisters let's enter into this topic and begin first of all with little scenario which want to put ourselves in the topic today the seven who will be shaded under Allah shade on the day when there will be no other shade but his shade so let us go through them insh the scenario it is an Islamic belief it is the Muslim belief that after this world there is day of judgment day of accountability the evil who got away with his or her evil shall be held to be accountable and questioned for every evil they did every Injustice they did God help them well there's no help for them on the day of judgment but God help them now if they are not guided and fixed their ways every person who did an atom's worth of evil it will be produced and every person who did an atom's worth of good it will be produced so those who did good and nobody noticed and died and passed away Allah has recorded every atom's worth nothing goes lost right now is our work the Hereafter is Allah's work now we work now we obey now we worship now we have choice now we have freedom and we have conscience to choose which way we want to go but everything will be recorded in the here after day of judgment it is Allah who acts and we have to receive we are judged no more worship on that day no more Good Deeds no more saying yah take me back let me do better it's over Allah has given us the guidance he's given us the Quran he's given us the prophets and Messengers and now in this modern world nearly every person in the world he is about the guidance of Allah we have the Quran that is unchanged and the messenger of Muhammad alam's words they shine and they get even bigger and greater and more manifested than any other time wasallam did say this Dean of Allah this religion of Allah will reach whatever the night and day has reached until it enters not single until it does not leave out single home whether it is urban or city in remote land or in the heart meaning 90% 99% of the world it will reach and it will enter with either the people receiving it with pride and happiness or it will approach them and they will reject it and they they will receive it with Agony hate and misery but it will face you the truth will face you so we are seeing that now alai wasam tells us and of course the verses are many in the Quran about the herea the day of judgment he said the Hadith is in al IM Ahmed and many similar to it he said on the day of accountability the sun will come closer to the Earth how will it come closer only Allah knows is it the same Sun as today most likely not in fact the Quran says the heavens will change and the Earth will change from what you see now therefore the physics we know today the celestial bodies and the way the sun is the way the Moon is will not be the same after the world ends and the day of accountability comes says the sun will be so close to the Earth and people everywhere who were standing there shall sweat the sweat is not normal it's not like the sweat here on hot day 40 45 or 50° people will sweat and then he described as follows some sweat will reach their ankles others will sweat until it reaches their knees others will sweat until it reaches their hips others will sweat until the sweat reaches their shoulders others will sweat until their sweat reaches their mouth others will sweat until the sweat covers them all together together from their sweat everyone depending on the amount of sins that they have accumulated in this life then he said sallallah alai wasallam giving us hope he said and there will be on that day seven types of characters seven types of people and then he describes their qualities seven who will be shaded and protected by Allah subhah wa ta'ala from the hardships of that day how will he protect them either by the shade of his throne or by his own protection in different ways or whether the angels will come and Surround that person and protect him and give him or her the feeling of Safety and Security there are many different ways that Allah gives protection so the word shade in Arabic is metaphor for protection support and looking after you and Sheltering you from all of the harm on that day including the Sun and he enumerated the Hadith is in bukari and Muslim number one im just ruler just leader number two young young person youth who spent their youth in the worship of Allah the youth is from puberty and what's generally agreed among the scholars up to 35 some said 40 and some even went to the extent of 50 but generally speaking 35 number three man whose heart is connected and attached to the places of worship number four man two men or two people who meet each other and love each other for the sake of Allah when they meet it's for the the sake of Allah when they depart it's also for the sake of Allah I'll explain it soon number five man whom woman of beauty and Status called him to in appropriate or called him to the bed then he remembers Allah and says fear Allah number six man who donates so secretly that it is that nobody else knows and another Hadith says his left does not know what his right did again this is metaphor but I'll explain it and man who remembers Allah in seclusion so much so that the fear of Allah makes his heart weep makes his eyes weep and he cries the first thing want to say about this number one are there other things that person can do which will cause them to be shaded on the day of judgment other than these seven the answer is yes and will inshallah say what they are number two is this Hadith only for men since was always saying Man Two Men and want you to learn this principle brothers and sisters forever any time the Quran or Hadith says Men by default it also means women and this is unanimously agreed by all the scholars and all the Arabs who speak Arabic and whenever woman is mentioned in the Quran or in the Hadith automatically it also means the men unless there is specific verse or Hadith that tells you no it is only specified for women or only specified for men an example of where men are mentioned which includes women is when Allah subhanahu wa taala he mentions in the Quran those who are honest and truthful in their worship then there is no harm upon them and no sadness and he mentions it in the masculine term the feminine term is but Allah says that means it is also the women because women also worship and pray same thing in another verse of the Quran Allah mentions women he says Those Who accuse women of in Chastity of indecent Behavior accuse them and do not bring four Witnesses who eyewitnessed the fornication then whip each one of those who accused her with 80 lashes each so they not accuse people the the Ayah is talking about the women but it Al also true for the men any man any woman who accuses men of Zena or fornication or adultery should also bring forth Witnesses otherwise the women are also whipped 80 lashes for their accusation so these are two examples of verses where men are mentioned but the women apply and women are mentioned and men are applied but where verse is specific to women such as their dress code such as specific matters in divorce such as specific matters in pregnancy and breastfeeding of course we know that these verses are specific for women and there are others specific for men we're not going to talk about that today but generally speaking 90% whenever you say men it means women and definitely in all of these seven characteristics wasallam mentioned it is for both men and women let's go through them inshallah but before we go through them promised you there are other qualities which make person be shaded under Allah shade let's go through them quickly inshallah just to give you good feeling of Allah subhana wa tala's mercy and blessing so not everybody can apply all these seven perfectly so Allah gives out of his Mercy others the hadiths are inat by imbar he said also the one who is shaded is the one who relieves someone's hardship and burdens there are people who who have that quality they love to help people who are destitute and in hardship and they always go out of their ways to find way to relieve their hardships whatever they're going through whether it's through government debts or bills whether it's something going on in their family that they are stuck in whether it's homelessness whether it's job whether it's anything these people go out of their way helping for the sake of Allah not as job but for the sake of Allah to relieve these people from their burdens and even people who take on job with the intention that it is for the sake of Allah because they like to relieve people's hardships then inshallah they also fall under this number two someone who helps someone else pay off their debt also again these are people who will be under his shade number three excelling in good character person's character reaches point where they are amazing that person will be shaded another one is the person who loves walking to the places of worship to the mosque footsteps another one is defending someone's right and to get their right back someone who Advocates and works to get the right of somebody who their right has been taken away from them another one is an honest and trustworthy businessman or businesswoman person who is trading or doing business selling and buying they are honest and fair and trustworthy in their trade they'll be shaded under Allah's shade an an orphan sponsorer person who sponsors orphans will also be under Allah shade another one is financially generous person who helps others or depends on others in need they're not misly they're always helping that person will be under Allah shade another one is Sheltering and protecting person in need or in fear giving protection and peace to somebody who is in fear also and obviously justly they not when somebody is in fear because they've killed someone no but person is generally in fear when they're oppressed another one is making properly even in discomfort and inconvenience you still make and you don't say I'm not going to make I'm going to let my prayer go because it's too cold or it's rainy another one is Sheltering and protecting resistant resistance fighter in truth and Justice fighter who's fighting in Ju truth and Justice who is protecting the innocent another one is supporting and assisting soldier who stands for justice and peace in Islam of course all of these brothers and sisters earn person shelter on the day of judgment so long as they die upon these characteristics and and now let us go to the seven what is the difference between the seven who are shaded and these ones that mentioned why did wasallam mentioned the seven by themselves and gave so much emphasis and importance to them and these other ones mentioned are scattered hadiths here and there the answer to that is what the scholars said the seven that the wasallam mentioned they are they reside in the core of the heart of person and they guide your actions whereas the others they reside in your actions and they then eventually affect your heart one comes from within and the actions are automatically shown and the other ones they come from your actions with some with some foundation in your heart but they improve your heart so therefore the seven is really who you are it's the core of your heart it's like the CPU of your brain of like the computer right it's the heart of it and it governs your actions whereas the other one is just for people out of blessings and mercy from Allah for those who don't reach that level let's go through them number one just and Fair leader or ruler the scholars describe this person in two the first one and the ultimate one is ruler of the Muslim land and everyone under that ruler who has given Authority and Leadership to govern or to look after the Affairs of people so one who is leader of people one who has the people's Affairs in their hand and their control they have the power to oppress or to be fair and just if he is if he or she is fair and just and of course there are categories there are somewh women are not allowed to be according to Islam and somewhere women can be so they all can be in leadership positions some one way or another in which people's Affairs and fate are in their control when say fate mean that the fate of what Allah has given them to decide on things for their livelihood the other interpretation the scholars gave is anybody who has given position of leadership even if it's small even if it's inside of the home like the mother the father school principal an owner of big business in which people are working under person who is leader of big organization in which people people's Affairs are reliant on that principle that person has the power to be just to the people who are working under them or they are in charge of or they they have the power to ruin their lives these people if they are just and fair to them then inshallah like an employee even employer for example to Les lesser extent so long as they apply Justice all the way down to the father and mother is this understood inshallah the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam Allah subhanahu waala wasallam said muslim those who are just they will be on the day of judgment on high towers of Lightman on the right side of the most merciful this is again metaphor which means there will be in special closeness to Allah because in Arabic when we say right it also it means literally right and it also has metaphoric meaning which means the close one who will be treated with special favors that's what it means and they are the ones who are just in their rulings and their execution and their own families and whatever they are in charge of your families your children all of that the people whatever you are in charge of let's move to the next one or let me just finish that because anybody who takes care of others and shelters them with Justice and goodness then they deserve on the day of judgment to be treated in the same way Allah will also shelter them with Justice and goodness just like they sheltered people's affairs with Justice and goodness and they were trustworthy and the opposite is true any person of power who is injust to or unjust to the people that are reliant and dependent on them Allah will give them the same reward on day of judgment where they will also be denied Sheltering and support from Allah on the day of judgment number two youth ma boy or girl man or woman male or female who chose to dedicate their youth in the worship of Allah now there's nothing special about that to dedicate like sounds really big all it means is the opposite we know that youthful people have high level of hormones high level of energy more Temptations mentally they've got more reasons to go astray because they're thinking I've still got my whole life ahead of me they think I've still got time they've got their strength their health yes they have bit more time than your Elder older people they have less responsibilities than older people and they have more time to think about so they can be deceived with it soam focused on them and said the youth who spend their time not following their Temptations and their disciplined in the worship of Allah subhah wa ta'ala as much as they can they deserve the shelter of allaha because because they sheltered themselves from very difficult Temptations and the young people the younger you are the harder it is to fight The Temptations the more difficult it is to restrain yourself from Haram therefore the equal reward to that is fair because their struggles and their challenges are stronger therefore when they shelter themselves from it and they try their best they deserve the shelter from Allah on the day of judgment more than an older person who doesn't have the same challenges as the young people does that make sense youth who was raised in the worship of Allah subhah wa tala they didn't let the abuses the teasing The Bullying the ideologies that came to attack this young person on the internet on social media among their friends among their peers at school at work among their families they held tight and they stood firm on their ident identity and their ideals these people these young people are special to Allah subhanahu wa tala and that is why wasallam said even though the Hadith is weak but from different angles the meaning is true that the young person young person who's constantly repentant coming back to Allah repenting from their sin and coming back doing the sin and coming back and trying always up and down up and down and not giving up is one of the beloveds of Allah subhanahu waala and that is why used to have young people around him all the time he loved the young people because he looked after them and saw them as the future more than the older people and their minds need to be cultivated and they are braver more courageous ready to accept new Innovations and ideas Innovation mean in worldly Innovations not religious Innovations but they are ready and truly the dean was built on the youth mallah although the youth need guidance or wisdom from the elderlies the dean was built on them there's whole chapter of the Quran dedicated to the youth called Surah so the bigger the challenge the bigger the reward number three man whose heart is attached to the places of worship told you that when you say man it means also women there are two interpretations among the scholars and both of can be merged together with this meaning is it the mosque itself that the Hadith is saying the hearts are attached to one interpretation one meaning is correct but there is also another meaning that goes with it both of them are correct one the person whose heart is attached to any mosque because they're attached to prayer and they love to pray in Jamal this is more specific to men because the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said the best type of prayer for woman not the only but the best is inside her home in her room it doesn't mean that she doesn't go to the Masid it doesn't mean there's no benefit for her in the Masid but when it comes to congregational prayer the men are more encouraged to be there and when it came to the time of the compulsory prayers the best place of woman to pray is in her bedroom however said do not prevent the worshiping women of Allah from the mosques of Allah from the houses of Allah even he said Leen even at night if they want go so all other times also her heart is clinging to the Masjid his heart is clinging to the Masjid is all virtuous and the other meaning that is merged to it that some Scholars took it to mean generally speaking so that's the specific meaning the general meaning is that their hearts are cling to the times of prayers they're always watching it's nearly time for prayer they've got their clocks working they've got their alarms going they've got their Clockwork in their head no matter what they're doing the Salah takes priority to the best of their ability or at least if they can't do it their heart becomes at ease until they prayed these are the types of people the sign where your heart is connected to Salat Mass plural for prostration which means all prayer you're always your heart is cling to the prayer you're uneasy without your prayer being done and the closer it is to its time the better soam said the most beloved prayer to Allah is the one on its time or close to its time unless you're praying in Jama in congregation then whenever the congregation prays it's the best even if it's half an hour later the point is person's heart is cling to the prayer unlike person who is oblivious to prayer doesn't care misses their prayers it's the last thing on their mind or it's on their mind but they're thinking this is bit more important they're lazy Daisy with their prayer laxy Daisy don't really care don't take it seriously so the ones who take their prayers seriously Al IMI says and its meaning is that they have intense love to sticking to the congregations to the prayers and it doesn't mean sitting in the mosque it doesn't mean you stay in the mosque no it means to the prayer itself and that's why the general meaning is closer and the specific meaning of being at the mosque is more virtuous of course who doesn't love the houses of Allah subhana wa tala they love being in congregation whenever they have the chance and in general any time of Salat their hearts cling to the Salat for Allah subhah waala says in the Quran Allah says then there came generation who neglected their prayers and instead replaced it with following their Temptations and Allah says they will find on the day of judgment terrible misery awaiting so they better change and Allah Praises those who love the Salat and are connected the next one is two men who love each other for the sake of Allah and they meet upon it and depart upon it it also encompasses the women so it's quality and it not necessarily two people some people say it's like soulmate is it is it somebody that meet specifically just two of us best friends you know BFFs is that what it mean no the focus here is on the quality of the person not the numbers nor specific people it's the quality that you have inside your heart that shows outside what is that the type of love that you have for people how you love them and based on what what do you love People based on what is your criteria what is your measure what is your balance you cannot decide your heart decides lot of people misunderstand love and the Heart in all avenues of life especially in the modern day gen they got love all twisted upside down and believe it's because of their lack of understanding of what love is that relationships are also not stable got twisted idea of love fantasy of love don't know what it's coming from but let me explain something to you brother and sisters there are those who love other people personally because of what they've done for them or natural love unconditionally such as children parents like that that's personal love that is not shared by any criteria except you because you're related to them or because they dumb faith for you and this type of person will only love someone if they find that they're there for them they love them as well they sacrifice for them so it's mutual it's mutual transaction the love grows based on treatment that's why you hear the term I'll only love those who treat me well and they don't treat me well I'm not going to love them and love is based on this so this is personal type of love and that's good thing this is the same love sallu alhi wasallam the prophet peace him had for his Uncle Abu Talib who was disbeliever he loved him because his uncle supported him and protected him and looked after him and sacrificed for him and uphold the religion of Islam and what the prophet wasallam stood for and he believed him and he said he is truthful and will protect him till my death grew so much love for him but the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam wanted the higher love he wanted the personal love and the religious spiritual love the love that will not only make make him together here in this life but the one that after their death they will be together in Paradise as well unfortunately wasallam could not get the second love and this is the Sunni stance that Abu did not convert to Islam and that on his deathbed wasam from his intense personal love for him he came up to him and whispered my uncle because the leaders of quray were there and his uncle was too entrenched with and and too obsessed with his lineage and his culture and his and his tribalism and didn't want to look to in front of the leaders that he died on another belief and that he was more loyal to his culture and his tribe so came close and whispered says uncle just say it with your just move your lips and will bear witness for you on the day of judgment that you said up my uncle but he said no on the religion of my lineage and forefathers and he died upon that disbeliever wasallam at that point said because of his personal love for him he said will continue to ask Allah to forgive you after his death unless Allah forbids me from doing it will continue then Allah forbid him and the verses came down and gave us the example of prophet ibraim Alam who also felt love for his father even though his father abused him he wanted the best for his father but Allah said no you have no you have no say in the matters that concern them and Allah you have say in what's between you two but not between them and Allah for Allah created them and Allah has his own wisdom and he knows who deserves forgiveness and who doesn't and he Allah said the disbeliever who has made that choice Allah knows he does not deserve Allah's forgiveness no we're not allowed to ask Allah for forgiveness for them now of course there are different types of disbelievers there are those who've never heard about Islam for example God knows who they are and Allah will judge them in their own way there is Hadith which is authentic that there are people who never heard about Islam never received Islam on the day of judgment and among them are the people who who who are not mentally sane and so on on the day of judgment Allah will send out prophet who will tell them this is the fire your God commands you to throw yourself in there if they disobey they are disbelievers and if they throw themselves it is made cool and peaceful upon them now every test is according to the circumstances and that's the best test for them anyway that's to Allah but the point that want to make here is from his personal love he had for his his uncle except there was another love Which is higher than that that he was guided with and that is the love of Allah the love of Allah supersedes everything and my love to you for the sake of Allah is by the criteria of what makes Allah pleased and what doesn't of what is loving to Allah and what is not what is right by Allah and what is not not by my standards can love you personally you can love your wife you can love your husband you can love your parents even if they're disbelievers even if they're evil but evil disbelievers good disbelievers bad disbelievers whatever you want to call them you may love them but the love for Allah sake is something different that's special and some people can love others for materialism because they want something from them they look at what they have and let's say for example my love is money and find someone who know by by take by having relationship with them in whatever partnership whatever can get lot of money out of them so show them love but it's not because love them that's called fake love because of what because of the love of what can get out of them those are two-faced people they also show you love and these are people who will only love you but so long as they can gain something from you the moment that's gone they disappear as well the third type of Love is the one that you love someone for the sake of Allah now who has that the only people who can do that are the people who already have established the love of Allah already they already have love between them and God and Allah loves them you will find them automatically drawn towards the people Allah loves who are they the moment you see characteristic in person that you know is loved by Allah you find your heart drawn to them I've seen lot of these people as soon as they see them they don't know them and then they find there are signs of religious actions in them there's genuine religion in them they've they've asked about them people have spoken about them they have gone on travel with them for example the moment they see characteristics of the things which please Allah their hearts are drawn to them now remember there is difference between your heart being drawn to them and between trusting them in everything it doesn't mean that you have to trust them in everything that comes in time but the fact that you saw these actions in them which you know as person who loves Allah and Allah loves them are in them those qualities you can't help but your heart already be drawn to them and you start to love them for the sake of Allah and these are many different levels the love intensifies or goes less the prophet sallam loved all of his companions every time he saw goodness in someone which Allah loves he would love them more and that's why he loved Abu Bak the most out of all the men and wasallam used to love different ones in different categories and he used to say to AB love you to love you and so and so love you if only you would do this so loving for the sake of Allah means you love the person for the qualities which Allah loves in them that's special type of love and this my brothers and sisters is restricted as said as the prophet loved his uncle now some people they do harm to themselves with love there are different types of love child just want to give examples of which can be detrimental be very careful about them look after your heart number one there is love called that is based on codependency have you ever heard of that love codependency it's one-sided love and that person who has one-sided love will only do the things that make that person they love happy but they don't care about their own happiness they will do anything that pleases the other person even if it's wrong even if it's Haram even if it's illegal so long as they see them love they will go to prison with them so long as they're together while the other person is not really caring about them they don't have the same love codependency they feel their life is dependent on them being close to them so it's one-sided love this is toxic terrible type of love and if person does have the love of Allah tala first they find themselves falling into that the only one we have that codependency with is Allah subhanahu wa tala for everybody will leave us and nobody even our own mothers and fathers how much do they love us our own children no matter what happens eventually we will leave each other and we'll be Reliant and dependent on our connection with Allah and Allah is the most merciful so if you lose that connection with Allah nobody can replace it the second another type of toxic love is called infatuation be very careful about infatuation infatuation is fantasy based attachment in your mind you've got this imagination and fantasy about someone and you've drawn this world in your own head which is irrational this is called an infatuation and your health and well-being revolves around their closeness or their distance to you you'll find people with infatuations they it can be wife or husband where it becomes where they just won't let you breathe you're at work if you don't reply to their message within the next seconds they lose the plot if you're driving on the on on the road you don't park and answer immediately there there mental illnesses they you don't want to go home anymore too much it's called infatuation sometimes you're not married to them them it could be anyone could be friend infatuation with this friend they govern your life they don't let you breathe this is Haram and this is person who needs to establish their love to Allah and know that Allah comes before everything there's also another type of Love called The Crush I've talked about that again another fantasy that people have irrational usually they have it toward celebrities and famous people and the last one is is is very unique and and quite dangerous it's called the trauma bonding abundant type of Love examples of that there's disease called the Stockholm syndrome it's when the victim of abuse develops love attachment to their abuser for example child relies on their parent or their caregiver for love and support and then instead they receive repetitive abuse Cycles from their parent or caregiver and child Associates after that abuse with love and child normalizes the abuse and then copes by blaming themsel as their goer so they grow up type where someone will abuse them they'll associate it with love and they're dependent on them and then they'll blame themselves all the way and some of them turned into abusers themselves and think that's love they interpret tough love as abuse abuse as tough love but they become abusive and this is very bad sickness that's why loving for the sake of Allah if person can establish that it'll save them from this cycle of sickness and that is why used to say if you find yourself attached or drawn to the love of someone give you stay stay little bit of distance don't love them with all your heart because one day they may be the most hater to you and if you find yourself hating someone don't hate them all together with all your heart one day they might be beloved to you keep your heart at Bay this heart my dear brothers and sisters is precious and those who attach it to love of material things your car your phone your money your purse your house your job your Fame your reputation your luxuries if you attach that heart to it and make that the goal everything in your life is destroyed you pray you pray for money you give da you give dawa for money you talk about Islam it's for money you associate yourself with people of goodness it's for money if you don't get anything out of it your heart's not with it this is big problem and another type of thing that happens from this type of Love is called self-love not self- as in like loving to make yourself better I'm talking about narcissism where you don't care about anyone else but yourself absolutely no emotions or empathy for anyone if you have no benefit from them and narcissism is called in Arabic in the Quran which literally means arrogance and pride and vanity you think you are superior to everyone else wasallam said person with that will not enter Paradise so his love is for himself not for Allah or her because love for Allah is selfless when you love someone for the sake of Allah it's selfless come and meet you love you for the sake of Allah because love that you love to pray you love to be honest you love to give charity you love Allah subhana tala you love to recite the Quran You Love to Worship Allah love you for that don't want anything from you don't care about your color don't care about your race don't care about your gender brothers and sisters don't care about how much money you have or don't have fame or not ugly or beautiful don't care that doesn't even cross my mind the fact that see you person who loves Allah and worships Allah know that Allah will most likely love you so I'm going to love you based on that and that's it and can love brother for the sake of Allah and like love sister for the sake of Allah with no personal attachment and is how we should all love each other and one of the signs of it is when you hear about your brother or sister in pain you're also in pain you see someone being misguided you really want them to be guided and you try your best to be around for them it's love for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa tala my dear brothers and sisters and that's want to say one more thing in marriage since we're talking about that you know in the Quran Allah does not mention love when it comes to husband and wife doesn't say love doesn't say there's in the Quan says he made between you Ma and mercy ma is from where love comes from ma is treatment treatment of love but not necessarily in here so husband could love his wife but not full-heartedly wife could love her husband not full heartly and when you get married that love can be high and it can go lost sometimes person doesn't love then their love increases depending on how you treat each other and sacrifice and spend your life but there is something called ma it is when you love to see your spouse happy and closer by your actions that you do and you be selfless and try to grow together but it has to be mutual so Allah says Ma and means mercy and from there comes love and wanted to emphasize that cuz some people they think too much Hollywood too much Netflix too many romantic movies too many books too many social media where they talk about love and really honestly lot of them don't know what it is so they say don't love you anymore bang 6 weeks later they divorced why just don't feel it Subhan Allah marriage is not just based on that cuz love Rises and falls and know that they've put it into our brain love love love yeah but the ultimate love is only for Allah nobody can love someone with all their heart nobody even loves themselves with all their heart do you divorce yourself from yourself no you try to nurture it inshallah especially if you have children nurture it grow it together you will never love everybody with all your heart all right and that's another topic finally brothers and sisters let me ask you how can you increase your love for Allah all right so we know that loving each other for the sake of Allah you have to have your love for Allah how do increase my love for Allah I'm going to give you few tips how many 1 2 3 4 five just five tips on how to increase your love for Allah so that your love in your heart for Allah guides your actions automatically without even trying number one since you're all internet SE sevies sevvy is that what you say yeah so you go on internet go on Google and write Allah loves and see what comes up you're going to get at least 13 things that Allah loves try to work on them then type Allah hates you're going to get list try to work on detaching from them and watch how your love for Allah will increase number two increase your regular do you know what is remembrance of Allah remembrance of Allah is in the heart and the tongue some people say when they pray for example and they recite Quran that's called or they say sub that's called but they don't move their mouth they just say it with their heart no you have to say it with your mouth number one it's the sunah of the prophet wasallam and it's not obligation just like if you don't swear with your mouth or lie with your mouth you will not get sinned it stays in here same if you think of something good then say it then it will count and it's something about the connection between the mouth and the Heart by the way when you say it to yourself you love your car beautiful but say this you get in your car and sayd Allah allow me to thank you for the blessing of giving me this car and wouldn't have gotten it without your blessing and am nothing without you just saying those words and repeating them reminds you to stay at Bay in your heart inshallah at distance you get new clothes there's Dua praise be to Allah my Lord who has granted me and provided me with this new garment without and had no power in this decision attribute it to Allah keeps your heart at Bay not to be attached and so on so what you say in the morning what you say in the evening and I've said it few times download on App Store Fortress of the Muslim try and take on zik from there and do them bit by bit and do them regularly inshallah when you love someone you always mention them you always text them isn't that correct you'll call them you like to see them because you're remembering how do you remember Allah when you don't see him or perceive him through these words that are special to him number three do your prayers on time as much as you can you might miss here and there few prayers doing half an hour later try to do them on time here's one one thing get into regular habit as much as you can not 100% 70% that when the prayer hits you leave everything you're doing you'll be more productive if you do leave it and go and pray and come back number one you energize your thought process you get you rest number two you get to move around number three you feel more organized than in order rather than rushing and having something on your mind number four read about Allah's names who he is his Mercy His blessings his forgiveness what his angels say about him and so on you'll fall in love with his names and you'll fall in love with some names more than the others some people get more of an attachment to some names more than others and this is how you start to create relationship with you and Allah the Google has lot of information about it and lastly number five you must recite the Quran every day the words of Allah is your speech with Allah who is the best than Allah speech recite the Quran if you don't know how to recite it in Arabic recite the ones you've memorized recite one companion he used to recite in his prayer always like no matter what he recited he recite another but always say in the first two the angel told wasam that you have companion here who is infatuated this isal infatuation with ask him why so he comes up says who is the that keeps reciting have done anything wrong goes no you've actually hit the nail in other words but that can only happen at time the prophet Sall wasallam he said you recited he says why he say love it love love how it tells me how God is just so one and unique and the only one and just does something to me he said the angel has come to tell me that he loves you for loving so you will have an attachment to something than the other so brothers and sisters there is one more long Hadith about getting closer to allaham said the inkari he said whoo Allah the almighty has said whosoever acts with eny towards closer servant of mine will indeed declare war against him nothing brings closer my servant to me than doing of what have made obligatory upon him to do and my servant continues to draw nearer to me with voluntary prayers and acts so that shall love him when love him shall be his hearing with which he shall hear his sight with which he shall see his hands with which he shall hold and his feet with which he shall walk and if he asks something of me shall surely give it to him and if he takes refuge in me shall certainly Grant it to him of course the hand in the eyes this is metaphor meaning that Allah will be in your with you guiding you you will feel his presence your eyes will hate to look at anything that Allah doesn't like your ear would then start hating any anything Allah doesn't like your hands will start loving to do that Allah loves and hates to do the things that Allah hates and your legs will find them always taking you to the best of places how will you know that Allah loves you I'll give you six number one you will feel his love daily and you will feel it increasing it is impossible for you to love Allah and you don't feel his love remember that number two you will find love from The Acts of worship increasing you start loving acts of worship more you'll just love them more you didn't even have to try you just man why am loving to pray all of sudden why is it becoming so special to me number why do why do love giving donation why do love to do good acts number three you will find hate and discomfort in disobeying Allah it will increase the more and more you'll just start disliking don't know just the Friends that used to take you in the bad just don't feel like going anymore why what's happened to you just don't like that stuff if it's har if it's good then go with those friends number four you will number four you will find yourself talking to Allah more often and without hesitation saw little clip of worker in Medina who cleans you know his workers nobody really asks about them he's sitting there in his blue outfit in the and he's talking like this okay so you can see really it's like he's talking to some invisible person in front of him and saying this is what can understand said to him that and he kept on doing that and went this way and that happened and tried and don't know what to do like that that's what it looks like he's talking with Allah subhanahu wa taala as if he's talking to friend do you understand when you can talk to Allah like that you have relationship with Allah subhana tala what beautiful beautiful thing for someone to reach that point you will number five you will feel sense of inner peace yes on the outside things don't go your way you'll go through pain you sometimes you go through worries in fact worry is sign of Ean you probably think what worry there's difference between worry between worry and anxiety irrationally when you don't know what it is you're worrying about but if there's something real and you worry about it and you rely on Allah you get reward rewarded for it and went through worries very very hard but it was real and you rely on Allah you turn to Allah you get rewarded for that you get rewarded for your sadness you get rewarded for your little pain you get rewarded for pick of needle you get rewarded for your fears something really and you're afraid and you turn to Allah you get rewarded for your something sadness of the past fear of the future pain right now you get worried from people harming you or hurting you all of that insh you get rewarded and lastly you will love those he loves blessing not seeking meaning you'll find your heart drawn by itself brothers and sisters love is not something you seek Love Comes as blessing from Allah through the treatment and actions finally brothers and sisters I'm going to go through these quickly inshallah said and person who remembered Allah in seclusion until his eyes weped Allah says Allah says in Surah verse 33 to everyone who feared the merciful one though he is beyond the reach of perception to everyone who has come with heart ever want to turn to him it will be said to them enter it enter Paradise with peace and Tranquility that is the true and ultimate end he fears Allah in spite of knowing his Mercy even though he has not seen or perceived Allah in spite of knowing he is merciful and forgiving he feared disobeying Allah nevertheless and refuses to disobey him in spite of knowing he's forgiving and merciful that is what it means to fear Allah and to remember Allah Allah says is Allah says in Surah maram verse 58 these are the prophets upon whom Allah bestowed his favor from the seed of Adam and from the seed of Those whom we carried in the ark with Noah and from the Seed of Abraham and Israel they were those who we guided and chose for an exalted position they were such that when the words of the most compassionate Lord were recited to them they fell down in prostration weeping and crying now the Weeping and crying here means literally and it also means like you feel it emotionally those are the people remember Allah every now and then in the night they pray they wake up in the night and they pray tud they're in their car listening to something that reminds of Allah they look at the sky something happens they remember Allah and then their hearts weep their hearts shiver they you know they respond and these are the people is sign that Allah will shap them wasallam taught us Dua he said repeat after me everyone say soam to say Allah seek refuge in you from knowledge which will not benefit and from heart which does not fear meaning respond and feel Allah the presence of Allah from body that it never gets enough it's never satisfied and from Dua which is never accepted and finally repeat after me and from eyes that do not weep Muslim finally always say finally but the last last one think missed it and that is person man whom woman with power and beauty and Status called him to the bed in Haram and he says fear Allah this applies also to woman where man of of of power status and beauty also calls her to the bed and she says fear Allah person once asked me what what if it's just normal girl not status or beauty what just commit Zena and I'm safe I'm all right said no this Hadith is talking about the intensity of the situation in the past men and women were attracted only to Men of power women of power Beauty and status because there was also slavery in those days that was known among the world but what it means as the scholar said is any Temptation that is intent between two people if you say fear Allah so anything that attracts you to that person and you want to you get the urge to sleep with them and then you say fear Allah there are some people they never put themselves in that position in the first place they'll say hold on minute what if it never happens to me does that mean I'll get no shade I'm the one who's been avoiding all this alhamd so don't get there don't get rewarded for that nothing so that's the ultimate character this person is constantly fearing Allah not just at time constantly but is telling us even if it gets to that you will find that he or she will say fear Allah meaning in their heart they turn away they get afraid of what is about to happen and they don't get tempted they get tempted physically but their heart gets scared they get scared all they see is the fire all they see is the punishment all they see is the terrible stuff that can happen and they walk away while The Temptations are urging them doesn't that person deserve the shelter of Allah subhana wa tala because he or she has reserved that Temptation for Halal some people said to me so do get rewarded if serve my Temptations in halal do get rewarded the companions were sitting with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and he said and they said to them don't take for granted even the smallest of means charity in English some person said to me so said even in your marriage with your intimacy together between husband and wife there is sodak one person said to me who's giving the sodaka here said no no no sorry about that what had young people say that to me does not necessarily mean charity sodaka means goodness and closeness and good deeds so said any kind of intimacy between husband and wife in halal is an act of goodness that Allah rewards you for they said Allah Allah even while enjoying ourselves he said what if you were to use that Temptation in Haram would you get sinned they said yes he said for protecting yourself from sin and channeling that temptation to Hal Allah rewards you for it because you compensated and you chose the Halal instead of theam how will these people not be sheltered in the shade of Allah subhah wa taala may Allah subhanahu wa taala make us among those who are shaded on the day when there is no other shade but the shade of Allah subhanahu wa taala allaha help us and guide us to heart that is remembering of Allah may Allah connect our hearts and unite our cause in that which pleases him subhah may Allah let us see the right as right and let us see the wrong as wrong and may Allah guide us to that which is right and grant us the path to it and may Allah show us what is wrong and grant us the ability to stay away from it may Allah guide us to all the actions that lead us to the to Jenna and whatever brings us close to Allah and may Allah save us from all the actions that take us closer to Hellfire and away from Allah and may allaha save and protect and forgive and have mercy upon our brothers and sisters in gazah in festine in in ra may Allah protect them and shower them with his shelter and protection