# Allah Loves Beneficial People | Episode 11 **Author:** Dr. Omar Suleiman **Series:** Allah Loves **Published:** 2019-05-16 **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVY-uDlWp70 **URL:** https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-beneficial-people-episode-11 **Topics:** Allah, Faith ## Description Serving as a vehicle of Allah’s love to someone else’s life is one of the best ways to earning His love yourself. This episode provides different ways we can be beneficial to others. ## Transcript **[0:01]** Salamualaikum, welcome back to Allah Loves. **[0:17]** So this is a hadith that often comes up in fundraisers or something in regards to charity and the importance of service but I actually want you to analyze this because it really opens the door for a lot of other hadiths and a lot of other sayings about who Allah loves and why Allah would love these people. **[0:32]** We talked about ihsan very early on in this series and we talked about this concept of excellence and how Allah rewards excellence and how Allah loves excellence. If you realize Allah defines excellence and ihsan even though it's primarily a relationship between you and Allah, how you treat other people in accordance with that excellence **[0:51]** you seek from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So if you shift to this now, this hadith the Prophet peace be upon him says, Inna ahabbin nasi ilallah, the most beloved of people to Allah anfa'ahum linnas, are those that are most beneficial to the people. **[1:06]** The most beloved of people to Allah are those that are most beneficial to people. Not the best of people are those that are most beneficial to people, no the most beloved of people to Allah are those that are best to other people. Why? Because you amplify the attributes of Allah to other people. **[1:25]** You serve as a vehicle of Allah's love to someone else's life and that's the best way to be a part of earning Allah's love yourself. And so the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam continues in this hadith, he says, Wa inna ahabbal a'mali ilallah, and verily the most beloved of actions to Allah. **[1:41]** So the Prophet peace be upon him is going to show you how you are the most beneficial to the people. Number one, an tutkhila ala qalbi akhika surura, that you enter a sense of inner joy into your brother's heart or into your sister's heart. That you bring them inner peace, you bring them inner joy, you pick them up when they're **[1:58]** down. When they have low self-esteem you boost them up. When they're sad and depressed or anxious you're a source of comfort and healing and tranquility to them. You bring them joy on the inside, you don't just smile at them, you give them reason to smile as well. An tutkhila ala qalbi akhika surura, so you're emotionally available to people. **[2:17]** The same way that you seek happiness from Allah beyond all of the tangible things is the same way that you are the most beneficial to other people. So you serve as a vehicle of Allah's comfort to people in the emotional sense in the same way that you seek that from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. **[2:34]** And then the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam mentions, one narration says, aw takshif anhu karba, that you remove a hardship from him. And if you think about it, what do you seek from Allah? You seek the removal of hardship. That's usually when people connect to Allah most. Well what if Allah uses you to be the reason for someone else's hardship being removed? **[2:50]** Aw takhdhi anhu dayna, you know, or you remove a debt from that person. You pay off that person's debt or you relieve them from a debt. Aw tutu'imahu khubza, or you feed that person a loaf of bread. So you either remove a burden from them in the financial sense or you provide for them. **[3:06]** The point of this is very profound that the Prophet peace be upon him, when he tells us about stories of people that entered into Jannah for what were seemingly small actions, they always involved service to someone else. So the woman that gave water to a thirsty dog, the man that removed something harmful **[3:24]** from the road, you always find that it's those small deeds of kindness, those small deeds of service that someone showed to someone else or something else, or even in the case of the man who removed something harmful from the road to a community as a whole by just taking care of the environment, all of those things always connect back to an outstanding **[3:44]** reward. Why is that? The reason is that just as you are tasked with amplifying Allah's attributes to people, so if you amplify love to people, then you will receive more love from Allah. If you amplify mercy, you will receive more mercy from Allah. **[3:59]** If you amplify kindness, you will receive more kindness from Allah. Allah will never allow you to outdo him in his attributes. And that's actually the most important point to take from this hadith. Anytime you're showing kindness to someone, Allah will never allow you to show more kindness **[4:15]** to someone else than he will show to you. If you show gratitude to someone else, then Allah will never allow you to be more thankful to someone else than he will be to you subhanahu wa ta'ala. So all of these ahadith, manna yurham la yurham, whoever does not show mercy will not be shown mercy, therefore whoever shows mercy will be shown mercy. **[4:33]** Irhamu man fil ardi, yurhamukum man fil samaa. Show mercy to those on earth, the one in the heavens will show mercy to you. And so the most beloved of people to Allah are those that are most beneficial to the people because Allah sees you as a vehicle, Allah uses you as a part of carrying out that **[4:52]** relief in other people's lives and Allah azza wa jal will never allow you to outdo him in those beautiful attributes and those beautiful things that he enabled you to do in the first place. He will not allow to make us beloved to him and to allow us to serve him by serving other people and to make us the channels of rahma, of mercy and generosity and benevolence in **[5:12]** other people's lives and that he use us for good all the time and not deprive us of it ourselves. Allahumma ameen. See you all next time inshaAllah. Asalaamu alaikum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh. ## Other Episodes in "Allah Loves" - [Allah Loves Beauty | Episode 30](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-beauty-episode-30.md) - [Allah Loves the Acceptance of His Gifts | Episode 29](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-the-acceptance-of-his-gifts-episode-29.md) - [Allah Loves Being Prophetic | Episode 28](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-being-prophetic-episode-28.md) - [Allah Loves Generosity in Trade | Episode 27](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-generosity-in-trade-episode-27.md) - [Allah Loves the Unnoticed | Episode 26](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-the-unnoticed-episode-26.md) - [Allah Loves Your Mother | Episode 25](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-your-mother-episode-25.md) - [Allah Loves Love | Episode 24](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-love-episode-24.md) - [Allah Loves The Mosques | Episode 23](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-the-mosques-episode-23.md) - [Allah Loves Cleanliness | Episode 22](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-cleanliness-episode-22.md) - [Allah Loves Punctual Prayer | Episode 21](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-punctual-prayer.md) - [Allah Loves Consistency | Episode 20](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-consistency-episode-20.md) - [Allah Loves Due Diligence | Episode 19](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-due-diligence-episode-19.md) - [Allah Loves Forbearance and Deliberation | Episode 18](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-forbearance-episode-18.md) - [Allah Loves Humility Without Disgrace | Episode 17](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-humility-without-disgrace-episode-17.md) - [Allah Loves Gentleness | Episode 16](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-gentleness-episode-16.md) - [Allah Loves Honor | Episode 15](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-honor-episode-15.md) - [Allah Loves Healthy Pride | Episode 14](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-healthy-pride-episode-14.md) - [Allah Loves Independence | Episode 13](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-independence-episode-13.md) - [Allah Loves Strength | Episode 12](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-strength-episode-12.md) - [Allah Loves Justice | Episode 10](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-justice-episode-10.md) - [Allah Loves Patience | Episode 9](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-patience-episode-9.md) - [Allah Loves Trust | Episode 8](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-trust-episode-8.md) - [Allah Loves Tears and Traces | Episode 7](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-tears-and-traces-episode-7.md) - [Allah Loves Those Who Are Trying | Episode 6](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-those-who-are-trying-episode-6.md) - [Allah Loves Sincere Supplication | Episode 5](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-sincere-supplication-episode-5.md) - [Allah Loves Angelic Praise | Episode 4](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-angelic-praise-episode-4.md) - [Allah Loves Excellence | Episode 3](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-excellence-episode-3.md) - [Allah Loves Repentance | Episode 2](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-repentance-episode-2.md) - [Allah Loves Piety | Episode 1](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-taqwa-episode-1.md) - [Allah Loves: Series Introduction](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-series-introduction.md)