Khashiyya + Shukr = Taqwa

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In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
Praise be to God, Lord of the worlds.
And peace and blessings be upon the most honorable of the prophets and messengers.
Muhammad, the Messenger of God, peace be upon him, and his family, and his family.
Peace be upon him, and his family.
And after that,
we will continue.
Sisters,
one of the, or the purpose for which Allah created us is to worship Him.
Because He said,
وَمَا خَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُوا
Allah said, I have not created the jinns and the insan,
the jinn and the insan, humans and jinn,
for anything other than my worship.
إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُوا
So we know that,
we know what the purpose of our creation is.
It is to worship Allah.
Now,
what are the bases of worship?
Who do you worship? Why do you worship?
If you think about this,
you will realize
that we worship
for two reasons.
We worship because we are so aware
of the glory and majesty
of the one we are worshiping.
Right?
We are so aware of that.
It's not fear as in running away from something,
but it is fear as in
fearing to displease the one
whose glory and majesty
we are so conscious of and aware of.
And the second reason is,
theLove.
Because we love him.
We worship because he is there.
It means to be an infidels.
Because we live an infidel,
because we love him.
Because we stay faithful to him,
we keep in touch with him
His love runs throughout,
every little thing.
Faizullah said we love the one
we worship.
And this is a given part of it.
That's all.
We worship Allah.
Now, how do we inculcate this?
Because this is the basic basis of Taqwa.
Taqwa is founded on this, on creating and inculcating in our hearts, the awe and majesty
and glory of Allah and love and hub for Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala Jalla Jalaluhu.
The way to do that, both of these, the way is through observation.
Is by opening your eyes and looking around you.
And that is the reason why Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala said,
إِنَّ فِي خَلْقِ السَّنَوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَاخْتِلافِ اللَّيْلِ وَالنَّهَارِ لَآيَاتٍ لِوُلِي الْأَلْبَادِ
Allah said, really in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the day and the night,
there are signs,
for people of intelligence.
So Allah is saying, open your eyes.
You want to see my glory and majesty?
Open your eyes.
Look around you.
Use your senses.
And when I say open your eyes, I don't mean necessarily open eyes as in eyes,
because there are many things, some of the most critical and important things,
are things that cannot be seen.
By the eyes, so the eyes don't matter.
Because take love for example.
It's felt.
It's not seen.
Take the, I'm walking now in the morning, the sun hasn't risen yet.
The thing that I'm very conscious about in all the years that I've lived here,
the thing that I'm absolutely extremely conscious about,
is the clarity.
The clarity.
The cleanliness of the air.
Just the, the air is so beautiful and clean.
Right?
So beautifully.
That I take a deep breath and I thank Allah .
Alhamdulillah.
Ya Rabb, you enabled this for me.
You enabled this, me to breathe this absolutely beautiful fresh air.
Right now the sky is overcast.
There's some lightning flashing.
And looks like it might rain.
And this is Florida and the rain literally hammers down.
So I'm hoping it will not happen while I'm out walking.
But, InshaAllah, we'll see whatever Allah does is for the khair.
So look around.
Look around as in live a life of awareness.
Don't live a life of default.
That's the reason why in Islam,
all forms of intoxication are haram.
You know, all forms of intoxication are haram.
Because intoxication, what does intoxication do?
Intoxication takes away your awareness.
You're no longer aware of your surroundings.
You're not aware of what you're doing, your own actions.
You're not aware of who might be seeing that, be affected by that.
You're not aware of anything because you are in your drunken stupor.