Your Heart Might Be Sick Without Realizing It | Ustadh Abdulrahman Hassan

If you fix these eight, your will be salim, your will be clean.

And when you meet Allah, you've come with a which is clean.

And that is what matters, and these are the sicknesses that the heart goes through.

The first illness is associating partners with Allah.

And a lot of us, if we don't come with the greater shirk, inshallah, which we don't, then the small shirk.

The small shirk, showing off.

The Prophet told us that it's what? The hidden shirk.

That somebody does an action only so that other people can see it, and because of now social media and mobile phones and camera, it's very easy to share everything that you do.

You share.

I want to show the people me reading.

I want to show the people me studying.

I want to show the people.

Everything.

Your whole entire and your deeds, you're displaying it for the masses.

And the reality of shirk in its essence, my brothers and sisters, is what?

Is when the heart is connected to other than Allah.

That's where it comes from.

And the reason why some of these people, may Allah protect us, where we fall short in this issue of showing off, is that the heart has found connection in the creation rather than the Creator.

You're connected to who?

The people.

You want the people's words.

You want the approvals of the people and the recognition of the people.

Rather than who?

Allah.

I just recited an ayah, and say, 'Work, for Allah will see your work and His Messenger.'

Allah is going to see your actions.

Why do you want anyone else?

Why do you need anyone else?

And Allah has angels that are writing it.

There are angels writing what you're doing, it's documented.

Why does somebody else have to see it?

If you don't fix this issue, this illness, it will affect you.

Number two.

It's another illness in the heart.

Is animosity.

Towards your Muslim brothers and sisters.

Over worldly matters.

You have hatred.

I'll come to.

Hatred, which is you hate a Muslim.

Hate him.

Whenever you see him, you hate him.

If anything is mentioned about him, you don't like him.

You need to fix it.

It's an illness that you need to work on.

Sheikh said something very powerful.

He said jealousy.

Is a trait that every single body has it.

But the righteous people, they extinguish it.

It's a trait that everybody has.

But the righteous people, they bury it.

They kill it.

They don't let it grow.

And one of the ways to do that is.

Make dua for the person who you have something towards.

When you hear his name.

Say, 'May Allah protect him.'

Oh Allah, forgive him.

Oh Allah, guide him.

Somebody you're making dua for, what's going to happen is going to affect your heart in a positive way.

My brothers, I told you guys a story.

And this happened at the time of the Prophet where the two best men after the prophets.

Had a disagreement between themselves.

Abu Bakr and Umar.

They had a conflict.

And I mentioned the story a lot of times.

But the way they solved their problem shows you that they had great noble qualities.

When Abu Bakr saw the Prophet's face change when Umar was walking, because the Prophet became angry with Umar.

And Abu Bakr came to the Prophet so that the Prophet could talk to Umar to fix the issue.

Abu Bakr, when he saw the Prophet's face change towards Umar.

He didn't say, 'Alhamdulillah, Umar's going to get it today.'

He didn't say that.

Do you know what he did?

He fell on his knees on the ground.

He said, 'Oh Messenger of Allah, I am the one who started the issue.

I am the one who did the mistake.

I came to you, oh Messenger of Allah, so you can speak to Umar that you can bring a harmony and good between us.'

The Prophet didn't want to listen to Abu Bakr has to say.

As soon as Umar came, the Prophet, he said.

Abu Bakr stood by me, he helped me, he aided me.

At a time when all of you companions disbelieved in me.

He spent his life and his belongings and his wealth.

The Hijra was the family of Abu Bakr who did it.

It was Abu Bakr who accompanied the Prophet.

It was Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr who was spying and bringing the news back to the Prophet and Abu Bakr.

It was Asma who was feeding them the food.

It was the mawla of Abu Bakr, who was the one cleaning the footprints.

So that nobody traces the Prophet and Abu Bakr to their direction.

It was the family and the household of Abu Bakr who helped the Prophet migrate from Mecca to Medina.

Then you know what the Prophet is teaching the companions here as well?

Another lesson.

Which is, if somebody does good for you, repay them back the good that they've done for you.

If you can't find a way to repay that person for the good that they did for you.

Make dua for him.

There you go.

The Salaf, they used to say, 'Anyone who wrongs you and does something bad to you.'

His good that he did for you, the thousand good that he did, intercedes for that mistake.

He did a mistake to you.

Two mistakes.

Three.

What about the thousand good that he did for you?

That intercedes, that speaks for him.

Number three.

Is envy.

Envy is worse than hatred.

Hatred is just hate.

When you don't cure it, it now becomes envy.

And envy is what?

You want the blessings to be taken.

You want the blessings to be taken from another Muslim.

You see Allah has given him the world.

Allah has given him wealth.

Allah has given him children.

Allah has given him a good marriage.

And guess what?

Envy.

Sometimes you can see from some people, they see a wife and a husband very close to each other, have a good relationship.

Instead of saying, 'Oh Allah, that's what we should be working towards.'

He says, 'No, there's no marriage that's perfect.'

That's a statement of envy.

He just wants everyone's marriage, everyone's situation, everyone's household to be down.

Number four.

Is stinginess.

Stinginess is when a person strives towards something.

And when you strive to this thing.

It's out of stinginess.

You want it for yourself.

You just want to be the one to have it.

And a person who is stingy.

The stingy one.

A person who has this quality of stinginess.

It's me first.

I'm going to have it first.

Give it to me first.

This is a bad in the heart.

It affects your giving in acts of worship.

The stingy one is not only stingy to the creation.

It affects his stinginess towards his Creator.

He's very stingy.

Even waking up, give Allah more worship.

I haven't done enough.

What does he think?

I worshipped Allah until he became pleased with me, one said.

I worshipped Allah until he became pleased with me.

How do you know that Allah became pleased with you worshipping him?

It's a statement of stinginess.

Right?

The stingy person thinks he's done more than what he actually really has done for you.

Number five.

Arrogance.

Arrogance, my brothers and sisters, will get in the way of everything.

Arrogance means, in simple terms.

Is when you reject the truth when it's brought to you.

Anyone who tells you the truth.

He doesn't like it.

Also, belittling the people.

The Prophet said.

He belittles the people.

How does he know?

What does he think he is?

Somebody came to tell you something, you're arrogant.

When you say, 'Fear Allah, this is wrong.

Allah said this.'

Arrogance enters his heart.

He's full of himself.

He says, 'Do you know me?'

Who are you?

You don't even know me, and you have the audacity to talk to me like this.

Arrogance enters him.

Humility, humbling yourself.

Is a trait of the people who have a clean heart.

They don't see themselves to be anything.

Brothers, listen to this.

We're going to come to this in the Seerah, we're going to take it in great details.

When the Prophet came to the city of Medina and he was building his masjid.

Was he sitting back and watching them do it?

The companions, what did they say, 'If we sit down whilst the Prophet is working.'

Humility.

He's the Prophet of Allah.

He's the best man to have ever walked on this earth.

Right?

He's building the masjid with them.

And they're chanting, 'Oh Allah, forgive the Ansar and the Muhajirun.'

They're saying, 'Oh Allah, there is no life except the life of the Hereafter.

Have mercy upon the Muhajirun and Ansar.'

That's what they're saying.

The companions, while they're carrying the bricks.

And the Prophet is saying it with them.

Are we all together, brothers?

Humility.

Even we mentioned it when the Prophet migrated to the city of Medina.

The humility of the Prophet that he sat with the companions on the floor.

And he was with them, he was talking with them.

He was a member of his community.

Number six, my brothers and sisters, is love of the world.

Loving the world.

Having the world in your heart.

It affects your worship.

Loving this world.

You're working towards the world.

To the extent, my brothers and sisters, for us, when we pray the Salah.

We do acts of worship, we do it to quickly get rid of it so we can go back to our worldly affairs.

Because the world is so big in our hearts.

So when we pray, it's like, 'Allahu Akbar,' and quickly go through it so then we can go back to work, make money.

Love of the world.

Number seven.

Is loving leadership and authority.

Whenever it's five of you guys, six of you guys, you want to be in charge.

You put your finger up.

Every situation, you want to be the one to control everything.

Let the people choose you.

But don't choose yourself all the time.

Loving leadership and to be in charge, it's a sickness of the heart.

Go at the end.

Say, 'I'll be with the people, I'll do anything.'

My brothers, this brings tears.

In one of the battles, Khalid ibn Walid was the commander.

He was in charge.

In the middle of the battle, Umar had sent a letter to who?

To change the person in charge and to make who in charge?

Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah.

The fight was going strong.

Are we all together?

The letter reached Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah in the battlefield whilst the believers were fighting.

The letter reached him.

The messenger came and gave him the letter.

Abu Ubaidah read the letter.

What does the letter say, 'You become in charge, Khalid has to step down.'

Ibn Walid, right?

He took the letter and he put it in his pocket.

And he let the fight go on.

He did not interrupt it.

He did not say, 'I received a letter in which I am told to get him back.'

None of that.

They didn't like leadership.

Umar, when Abu Bakr appointed him as the leader.

He was saying, 'Why me, Abu Ubaidah is alive?'

He's got these traits, he's got these qualities, choose him.

Abu Bakr, when he was appointed as the leader of the Muslims.

He didn't come there for that reason.

And he was fighting you, and then they gave allegiance to Abu Bakr.

Loving leadership, it's an illness, it's a sickness.

So some things, my brothers and sisters, in the world, should you work towards something in leadership and everything?

Maybe this is, but if this enters into the religion.

And everything in your life is a problem.

Are we all together, brothers?

It's an issue.

Number eight, is the final point.

And that is loving fame.

Everyone wants to be famous.

There are two books.

I was just talking to one of my close friends.

About two authors who've written two books.

Who a lot of people don't even know their biography.

But if I asked you those two books, I believe not majority, I think every single person in this room knows it.

But if I asked you the authors, a bit about them more.

You most likely might not know.

Number one is the book, 'The Sealed Nectar,' right?

It's a very famous book, right?

I, maybe some Indians will know it here because they know Sheikh Safiur Rahman.

But is his book more famous than him?

Which was more famous, the book or him?

The book.

What about 'Fortress of the Muslim'?

The author's name is Said ibn Wahf al-Qahtani.

Put your hand up if you knew that.

Put your hand up if you didn't know the author's name.

There you go.

Right?

His book is more famous than him.

And inshallah, we believe, inshallah.

Sincerity.

They didn't do it for themselves.

They didn't do it for themselves.

And this book, everyone's reading it.

Languages.

He doesn't need people to know his name.

He needs Allah to accept this from this.

Because Allah accepts from those who are pious.

Are we all together, brothers?

And that's why it's very important, brothers.

But if your name is known, if it's not known, if something is attributed to you, if it's not attributed to you.

Never make it about yourself.

Don't give yourself value.

Like in the world, what are we learning in our personal development books?

Yeah.

Personal branding.

Allah.

Personal branding.

You have to, you have to work towards your name, your credibility.

The only thing that should matter to us, brothers, is how we are in the eyes of Allah.

How does Allah see us?

Right, brothers?

True or false?

That's what should matter.

And this is the problem with fame.

People want other people to give it to them.

I hope those words which I have said is of great benefit to all of you guys.

Anything I've said that was wrong or incorrect is from me and Satan.

And Allah and His Messenger are both free from it.