The Faith Revival
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Welcome back to the Faith Revival. So in a very famous incident where Abu Sufyan goes to Jerusalem, and Abu Sufyan was not yet a Muslim. And when he arrived in Jerusalem shortly after the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah, where the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam came to a ten year truce with the people of Mecca, Abu Sufyan continued on the traditional route of the Meccans to Ash-Sham, to Greater Syria, which included Palestine and Jerusalem at the time, where they would do their trading. And they were held up by Heraclius, who had just received the letter of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam inviting him to Islam. So he stands Abu Sufyan in front of him and puts the companions of Abu Sufyan behind him and says, I want you to answer every question I have honestly, and if your companions say that you tell a lie, that I'm going to kill you right now, so you have to answer me honestly. So basically he's going to force him to say what's true about the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, even though Abu Sufyan at that time was not yet a believer. So one of the questions, or rather two of the questions that he asks Abu Sufyan, one of them is, I asked you about the followers of Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa sallam, هل يزيدون أم ينقصون؟ Are they growing in number or are they decreasing? Are they increasing or decreasing? Meaning with all the persecution that you're putting these people through, are they growing in number or are they decreasing? And Abu Sufyan had to admit that they're increasing. The second thing he asked him, he said, when these people enter into Islam, does anyone leave the faith after they enter into it, صخطة عن ديني, out of displeasure with the faith? And Abu Sufyan said, no. That people when they become Muslim and faith enters into their heart, they don't leave the faith out of displeasure with the faith. And Haraqal responded, he said, that is the reality of
Iman, of true faith. Once it enters into the heart of a person, there is no way that someone would abandon that out of being displeased with it. Now there are a few very important things to point out from this hadith. Number one, Haraqal understands that Islam comes with persecution at the time. It also comes with new restrictions. So this faith came to the people of Mecca with persecution. They would be tortured for it. And things that were previously open to them and halal for them are now prohibited for them and they're still not leaving the faith out of displeasure with the faith. Were there people that were leaving the faith? Yes. وَمِنَ النَّاسِ مَنْ يَعْبُدُ اللَّهَ عَنَ حَرْفٍ Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says there are people that believe in Allah or that worship Allah on an edge, on a cliff. If good things happen to them, then they stay within. If bad things, they literally jump off the cliff with their iman. So there were some people that accepted Islam, you know, kind of accepted Islam and then as soon as they accepted Islam, if something bad happened, they said forget this faith. You know, good things aren't happening to me yet. I don't want anything to do with it. But he's saying someone that dives deeply into iman, once iman enters into the heart, there is no way that a person would give that up. Now are there exceptions to that rule? Of course there are exceptions. Sometimes you will see people that leave Islam and they would actually attribute it to the religion. But most of the time, why people leave Islam is not because of something that has to do with Islam itself. Sometimes the scholars mention, إنما يخشى الله من عباده العلماء Those who truly fear Allah or are conscious of Allah are people of knowledge. So sometimes people leave out of ignorance. They did not properly study the faith or they don't have the proper knowledge. So when they were challenged from a knowledge perspective, they were not able to answer not just to someone else but to themselves. Sometimes people leave when they don't achieve benefits. People equate faith with prosperity in this world. So if
I became Muslim or if I started to embrace faith and bad things started happening to me, then I'm one of those people that worships Allah on an edge. Sometimes people leave out of hypocrisy, meaning they joined or they became Muslim or they accepted faith with a bad ulterior motive in the first place. And so when these people that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions that are insincere, when they're with the believers they say we are with you and when they are plotting against the Muslims they say we are with you to the people that are plotting against Islam. Sometimes people leave faith because they've never experienced what it's like to be away from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And this is profound. Umar ibn al-Khattab radiyaAllahu ta'ala said that Islam will not be lost by people that revert to Islam, by the reverts. He said Islam will be lost if nasha'a fil-Islam manna ya'rifu al-jahliya. When people are born into Islam and they have never experienced ignorance or being away from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So people that have never experienced distance from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala before coming into faith, they'll take it for granted and they won't taste the sweetness. It'll become routine and something that's part of their upbringing but they will ditch it because they do not know what it's like to be away from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And that's why we see so many times that people that came from a dark past love Islam and love faith so much more because they had to strive for it and struggle for it. And when faith settles in your heart with all of that journey, you've already beat the temptation of wealth. You've already beat the temptation of fame. You've already sacrificed relationships, not because you ditched people when you became Muslim but because people abandoned you when you became Muslim. You've already achieved all of those things that lead to the sweetness of iman in order to get to iman. So Umar radiya Allahu anhu is saying the problem will be in Islam when people are brought up in it
and they don't appreciate the benefit of it. So faith never really enters into their hearts. Rather they're born with all of these restrictions in their families and their culture and that's when they start to have an insecurity in the faith and they start to look in other places for happiness. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to be pleased with iman and understand that when people leave faith, usually it's not about the faith, it's about something else. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala never allow something outside of the faith to take us away from the faith. Allahuma ameen. JazakumAllahu khayran. InshaAllah ta'ala. I'll see you next time. Asalaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.
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