Name: Allah Loves Excellence | Episode 3
Uploaded: 2019-05-08T09:30:43.000Z
Channel: Dr. Omar Suleiman
Description: You don’t just want to love Allah, you want to be in love with Allah. While Taqwa keeps us on track with our obligatory duties, excellence is going the extra mile and earning more of Allah’s love in the process.

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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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 Asalamualaikum, welcome to Allah Loves. The most praiseworthy station in the sight of  Allah, the highest quality mentioned that was most manifested in the way that the Prophet  peace be upon him carried himself is the quality of Ihsan, it's the quality of excellence.  We started off this series by talking about Taqwa because Taqwa is the stepping stool  to Ihsan. God consciousness is the stepping stool to this sense of excellence. The Prophet  peace be upon him described Ihsan as worshipping Allah as if you can see him and if you can't  see him then you know that he sees you. If you remember the statement that we mentioned  of Umar ibn Abdul Aziz in the first episode, he said that Taqwa is that a person abandons  sins and he said that everything beyond that which is fasting long into the day, praying  long into the night, those are forms of excellence, those are forms of Ihsan. To understand how  these two qualities go together, Taqwa is observing the sight of Allah upon you in a  way that would deter you from doing anything that could compromise that love. Ihsan is  honoring the sight of Allah upon you in a way that would encourage you to do extra good  deeds to earn that love at a greater degree, to even go further in earning that love of  Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So it beautifies your obligatory deeds and then it leads you  to do deeds that aren't even expected of you to hold yourself to higher standards because  you don't want to just be another average person. You don't want to just love Allah,  you want to be in love with Allah. You don't want to just get by with your obligatory good  deeds, you want to do more and more and more to distinguish yourself in becoming one of  those who are especially loved by Allah. So Allah mentions throughout the Quran,  Wallahu yuhibbu al-muhsineen. Almost an exact proportion in fact to the mentions of Allah's  love to Taqwa are Allah's love to Ihsan, Allah's love to excellence. Ihsan is described  in the Quran and in the Sunnah of the Prophet peace be upon him both in how we interact  with Allah and how we interact with people. In regards to how we interact with Allah,  we go beyond the obligatory and we do that which is voluntary. We don't look at the people  around us so whether other people are looking at us or not, we are always focused on only  the sight of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala upon us. And that shows itself, it demonstrates  itself in the way that we rise above and the way that we try to beautify our deeds. The  way that it manifests itself in our relationship with people. The first way that Allah actually  breaks down Ihsan is he talks about these different situations that you'll actually  find yourself in in life. Allatheena yunfiqoona fissara'i waddarra' those who spend both  in times of ease and in times of hardship. Now spending in times of ease, you have a  required amount that you're supposed to give in charity and you have that which you're  encouraged to give. So when that person is in ease, they give beyond their zakat, they  give beyond that which is obligatory. They open their hands and their hearts in sadaqa  and charity and they give and they give and give. And when they're in hardship, just like  they don't want Allah to stop providing for them and giving to them even when they are  distant or when they're doing things that should disqualify them from that sustenance,  they too continue to give even when no one expects it of them, even when they're in hardship  because they understand that Allah is the provider and Allah is the one worth spending  for. And no person goes into poverty for giving for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So they move  themselves to a different standard. They spend in ease and they spend in hardship.  وَالْكَاظِ مِنَ الْغَيْبِ And they swallow their anger even when their  anger is justified. They don't just avoid doing the things that are haram in anger,  they also make sure that they swallow their anger in a way that they use their anger only  for that which is good. They don't use their anger for things that are petty, they don't  use their anger in ways that are displeasing to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. They withhold  their anger even when it may be justified because they want Allah to withhold his anger  from them. وَالْعَافِينَ عَنِ النَّاسِ And they pardon people even  when they have the right. And Islam establishes the right of a person to have what's been  taken from them, given back to them, to have their sense of justice. Justice is the societal  standard but when it comes to the personal level, when a person is placed in a position  where they have the ability to forgive and to show mercy and to pardon, once justice  has been afforded to them, they opt for a state of mercy, they opt for showing a greater  degree of pardon and forgiveness because that's what they seek from Allah. أَلَا تُحِبُّونَ  يَغْفِرَ اللَّهُ لَكُمْ Don't you want Allah to pardon you and to  forgive you even when you find yourself not de…

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