Name: Allah Loves Those Who Are Trying | Episode 6
Uploaded: 2019-05-11T09:30:13.000Z
Channel: Dr. Omar Suleiman
Description: Sh. Omar Suleiman discusses the importance of always being in the process of repentance even when we feel ashamed to turn back to Allah.

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The supreme deity in Islam, Allah is the One and Only God, creator and sustainer of the universe. He possesses all attributes of perfection, including mercy, justice, and omnipotence.

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Allah Loves: Series Introduction

Allah Loves Piety | Episode 1

Allah Loves Repentance | Episode 2

Allah Loves Excellence | Episode 3

Allah Loves Angelic Praise | Episode 4

Allah Loves Sincere Supplication | Episode 5

Allah Loves Those Who Are Trying | Episode 6

Allah Loves Tears and Traces | Episode 7

Allah Loves Trust | Episode 8

Allah Loves Patience | Episode 9

Allah Loves Justice | Episode 10

Allah Loves Beneficial People | Episode 11

Allah Loves Strength | Episode 12

Allah Loves Independence | Episode 13

Allah Loves Healthy Pride | Episode 14

Allah Loves Honor | Episode 15

Allah Loves Gentleness | Episode 16

Allah Loves Humility Without Disgrace | Episode 17

Allah Loves Forbearance and Deliberation | Episode 18

Allah Loves Due Diligence | Episode 19

Allah Loves Consistency | Episode 20

Allah Loves Punctual Prayer | Episode 21

Allah Loves Cleanliness | Episode 22

Allah Loves The Mosques | Episode 23

Allah Loves Love | Episode 24

Allah Loves Your Mother | Episode 25

Allah Loves the Unnoticed | Episode 26

Allah Loves Generosity in Trade | Episode 27

Allah Loves Being Prophetic | Episode 28

Allah Loves the Acceptance of His Gifts | Episode 29

Allah Loves Beauty | Episode 30

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To know you are loved by God is one of the greatest gifts of faith. In "Allah Loves..." Sh. Omar Suleiman explores who and what Allah loves so that we may become those who are beloved to Him.

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 As-salamu alaykum, welcome back to Allah Loves. So last time we talked about sincere supplication  and many people don't call out to Allah sincerely because they feel too distant from  Him to call out to Him, not realizing that the calling out to Him is a form of closing  that gap and actually reducing that distance. Now I want to bring the first five episodes  into perspective with this particular episode. Shaytan invites us to commit a sin in the  first place that then causes the distance between us and Allah. Then Shaytan invites  us to feel too ashamed to turn back to Allah with tawbah and to call upon Him with du'a  so that we can get back close to Him. This is a very powerful connection that Allah makes  in the Qur'an in surah al-Baqarah. Allah loves those who repent and Allah loves those who  are engaged in purifying themselves. Now some of the scholars said that this purification  is physical purification, it's referring to wudu and tahara, it's referring to the way  that we clean ourselves up for prayer. There are other scholars that said that this one  actually has a spiritual implication and we'll actually talk about in a future episode how  Allah loves tahara in the physical sense. But I want to actually focus on this from  the spiritual perspective. First of all, al-mutatahireen, those who are engaged in purifying themselves.  So just as Allah loves those who are engaged in repentance, not necessarily those al-ladheena  ta'bu, those who repented in the past tense and they no longer are committing sin because  we're always committing sin and always repenting and always trying to get back close to Him,  but those who are seeking to purify themselves, those who are engaged in a state of purification.  The power of that is that Allah does not expect you to reach some peak purification before  you can be worthy of supplicating Him. But Allah loves you just for trying. Allah loves  you just for the effort and if you think about how beautiful and profound that is, then it  actually helps you to repent and helps you to make dua. So there's a very beautiful expression,  there's a very beautiful explanation for this verse from the spiritual perspective. And  it comes from the way of Imam Hassan al-Basri rahimahullah as well as the great mufasir  of the Quran, the great explainer of the Quran, Mujahid rahimahullah ta'ala. They said that  inna allaha yuhibbu al-tawabeen, that Allah loves those who repent, i.e. those who do  not insist upon sin. Then inna allaha yuhibbu al-mutatahireen, those who do not return to  those same sins. So the first one, they said, lam yusibuha, those that don't engage or those  that don't insist upon committing those particular sins. So they're insisting upon returning  to Allah. Even if they do commit those sins at times, they insist upon returning to Allah.  And then the second one they said, al-mutatahireen la ya'uduna feeha, they don't return back  to those exact same sins over and over and over again because that would show a disregard  of Allah. That would show that you weren't taking your tauba seriously, your repentance  seriously. And that would show that you haven't learned the lessons. Now there is something  important to understand here. Allah loves you for trying and Allah loves you for being  engaged in a state of purification and Allah loves you for repenting. But where is it that  we actually fall short here? Some of us will repent sincerely for a sin and then insist  that we will not return to that sin yet still return to it. That does not disqualify you  from the love of Allah, nor does it open up all the previous times that you committed  that sin or nullify the repentance from those previous sins. The type of insistence and  returning to that could cause you to fall out of the love of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala  and out of this journey of attaining the love of Allah is when you insist upon those sins  and disregard the sight of Allah and disregard the pursuit of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in  returning to those sins. So that's the difference between falling short again, getting weak  again after you sincerely repent and not being sincere in your repentance in the first place,  hence not being sincere in your pursuit of purification in the first place as well. So  we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to allow us to always be engaged in the effort of purification,  to allow us to reach better states and to always allow us to be in his state of love  even as we fall short at times just for being in the state of repentance and for being in  the state of the effort of purification. Allahuma Ameen. Jazakum Allah Khayran. See you all  next time inshaAllah. Wasalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

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