Connect to Allahﷻ

Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, tell me what is the number one important thing for you now? Which is your highest priority? Quickly, anybody? Allah, and prayer? Don't give me a sun-tis-ul-ansar. What is actually your highest priority? Prayer. 100%. Okay, Alhamdulillah, good for you. Anybody else? The Quran, highest priority, 100%. How much of it do you know? One Juz, billion. Highest priority, anybody else? You want to go to Jannah? You have to die first, right? So you are telling me here, and I am seeing the majority of you are college university students, that your university is not important for you, your degree you are working for is not important for you, your careers are not important for you, Allah is important for you, the Quran is important for you, Jannah is important for you. Is this true? If it is true, Alhamdulillah, I am not arguing. If it is true, you are inshallah among the awliya of Allah. But if it is not true, you are lying to yourself. And that is the worst kind of lying. Right? The reason I am asking this is, Allah swt tells us the story of a young boy. And my guess is, in that story Allah does not tell us the age of the boy, but my guess is that this little boy was maybe 10 years old, 10 years, 11 years old or something. And this boy is talking to Allah. He is having a normal conversation with Allah. And from the tone of the conversation it seems that this is not the first time he is doing it. He is not doing it because he is stuck in some trouble, he is asking for help. He is not doing it for... He is a normal, that is how he is. You talk to your friends, you talk to Allah. What is the conversation anybody? Allah swt says, Ibrahim said, Rabbi arini kaifa tuheel mawta. He said, Oh my Rabb, show me how do you bring back somebody to life after they have died? And I say this as a normal conversation because the response to that question is so beautiful and it illustrates a very close relationship which illustrates the fact that this is not the first time this kind of conversation is happening between these two. He says, Rabbi arini kaifa tuheel mawta. He says, Oh my Rabb, show me, can you show me how you bring back to life something which is dead after you have taken the life? So normally what should happen? Allah should say this is how I do it, right? Show it or explain it. But what is the answer? What is Allah saying? You don't know, you don't believe that? You don't believe that? What kind of question is that? From you? All the people, you are asking me this question? What is his answer? He said, of course I believe it. But for the ithbaran of my kalb, show me. So what does Allah do? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala does not say, okay, here is a chicken, dead chicken, live chicken, I saw how it's happening. No. Allah gave him a whole project. Allah says to him, get four birds. Imagine, Imam Ali sahab is living in an agrarian society. They have cattle, they have poultry. Allah did not say catch a duck, catch a turkey, no. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says find four birds. Raise them, tame them so that they come to you when you call them. He didn't say catch the birds, put them in cages, no. Just think about that. You know what that means? It means that you first of all have to find four different birds. So he is not saying four sparrows, no. Four different birds. Maybe one of them is a bird of prey, an eagle or a falcon or something. Maybe one of them is some other kind of pisarian bird or you know. If you want to tame a wild bird and have it come to you free flying, no cage, have it come to you when you call it, you have to get that bird at the exact time after it has hatched, before it starts flying. If you get it too young, it will die. You can't, you can't, it won't survive because it eats special food that comes out of the crop of the mother. If you wait too long and it gets its feathers, it will not tame. Exact time. Now you know and I know that different birds have different gestation pe...