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Ep: 30 Always Put Yourself First | Road to Return
It’s very easy to slip into self-centeredness and make our personal problems the most important things in our lives. But Islam teaches us that we should flip our priorities around and make service to others more important than ourselves. In doing so, we avoid the transgression of arrogance.
Transcript
This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. It's all about me, me, myself and I. Arrogance, pride, self-centeredness, putting yourself before everybody else in everything, all the time, whether they're family or friends or acquaintances or workmates, having a self-centered approach where you are the center of the world, center of everyone's universe, as you assume is one of the transgressions against the way Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la intended for us to live our life and the sunnah of our Nabi Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that you shouldn't value yourself and that you should put yourself in the service of others before you have assured for yourself what's good. Allah tells you in the Qur'an, Ya ayyuhal ladheena amanu qoo anfusakum wa ahlikum naara O ye who believe, save yourself first and then your family and your loved ones and others. And you can't help someone, faqadu shay'i la yu'ti The one who has nothing can give nothing. But that doesn't mean that I will prioritize myself, prioritize my safety, prioritize my comfort, prioritize my entertainment at the expense of others that other people find resentful in my attitude and in my way of life. All about me is a false transgression against Allah, against the tradition of the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam counters that. He says, khayrukum anfakum linnaas The best of you is the one who is most benefiting to other people in society. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, ma damal abdu fee awni akhihi, kan Allahu fee awni As long as a person is in the service of their fellow man, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la will be in the assistance of that person who is serving others.
Always look at adding value to your life, barakah to your life, blessing into your life by assisting others. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, nobody assists a believer with one of the pains that they're suffering in this worldly life, except Allah will alleviate one of their pains in this life or in the next life. The best way for you to invest in your future, to invest in your own self-preservation, self-protection is to protect the weak, to assist the needy, to not have a proud, boastful presence, to not be arrogant and hold yourself at a higher level than others. May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la not allow us to look at the world as being all about me and it's me, myself and I, rather it should be about us along with other people. And that is the very basis of the reason we give sadaqa and zakah from the hard earned earnings that we have saved. May Allah open your heart to the service of others so that we can be followers of our Nabi Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
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