Allah Loves
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. As-salamu alaykum. Welcome to Allah Loves. So last time we talked about the strong believer and in this episode I want to focus on independence, this idea of actually being independent. So obviously a person should seek to be in a place in which they are giving. The Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam mentioned, Inna allaha yuhibbul abd al-faqeer al-muta'affif. That verily Allah loves a servant who is poor yet at the same time maintains a sense of dignity, does not go out and beg, does not put themselves in a vulnerable situation, but instead tries to pick themselves up. And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam mentioned, ab al-ial, even if that person might have a big family, they still do their best to be as independent as possible. The Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam taught us to seek refuge in Allah from debt, to seek refuge in Allah from being in a difficult situation. Yet there are entire chapters of hadith on the virtues of poverty, the virtues of being in these types of tests that are not self-inflicted but at the same time they are tests and trials that come. And that a person tries their best to maintain as much of modesty, as much of their independence as possible even in those situations. And it becomes a mindset. Sometimes if a person finds himself in a difficult situation and has to resort to something they typically would not, then they can actually adopt that as a mindset. And that's something that the scholars mentioned that a person should try to avoid. Allah loves that person who is trying even in their most difficult moments to be as independent as possible. The Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam went through numerous examples of this. A'uf ibn Malik says we even took a bay'ah, we took a pledge with the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, ala alla nas'alu nasa shay'ah, that we would not ask people for anything. And he says the companions that
were present in that pledge took that pledge so seriously that if one of them were on their riding animal and they dropped something, they dropped a whip or they dropped whatever it is that they had with them, they wouldn't ask someone else to pick it up for them but instead they would get down and they would pick it up themselves. So that sense of independence is something that is to be ingrained in the mindset, in the psyche. The Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam mentioned five advices that Jibreel alayhi wasalam, that the angel Gabriel gave to him. And the last two things he said, wa'lam anna sharafa al mu'min qiyamuhu bil layl. Know that the nobility of the believer is a standing up in prayer at night, that your sense of nobility is not in the things that other people endow you with. It's not with the awards that are given to you, it's not with the recognition of this world. It's in the standing up in prayer at night and distinguishing yourself in the sight of Allah, seeking honor in His sight. Wa'lam anna sharafa al mu'min qiyamuhu bil layl. Know that the nobility of the believer is his standing up at night. Wa'izzahu istighnaahu AAan annas. And his sense of dignity is his not being in need of people. So a person should strive as much as they can to be always in a state of independence whether it's financial, emotional, physical, whatever it may be. Now with that being said, with all of the du'as, all of the supplications that you make, asking Allah to protect you from al ajz wal kasal, from inability, from laziness, from ghalabat al dayn wa qahra al rijal, from the hardship of poverty, the hardship of debt and the cruelty of man being in a situation where you are subject to some sort of cruelty because you need someone. With all of that being said, if a person finds themselves in a situation where they are in need of help, obviously they should seek help. This is speaking to the mindset. Allah does not want us to suffer in silence. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala simply wants us to not accept or resign ourselves to a position of weakness or to a position of being dependent. To try our best to not
adopt it as a mindset and that speaks to the same strength that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was speaking about in the previous episode. So we ask Allah to never allow us to be in need of anyone but Him. To make us people that always strive for His goodness and strength and to make us a people that are independent of all things but Him. For surely upon Him we are always dependent even if we don't recognize it. Jazakum Allah Khayran See you all next time. InshaAllah.
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