Why are duas not accepted? – #3

Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters,
listen to this.
We continue with the list of the checklist that Ibrahim A.A. gave to the people of Basra
when they asked him why their dua is not accepted.
And we are on the sixth of the ten reasons that he gave.
And he, in the sixth reason, he said,
you say that you fear Jahannam.
You say that you fear the Hellfire, you fear Jahannam.
But you do not flee from it.
You do not run away from it.
Now, one of the things that happened in Islam,
and there's a whole history behind it which I won't go into now,
is this false belief that there is no need to fear Allah.
The fear of Allah is not like the fear of anything else.
Because when a person fears something, they seek to run away from it, escape from it.
You can't run away from Allah for any reason in any way.
The fear of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the fear of offending.
The fear to offend, the fear to disobey, the fear to displease the one we love the most.
This is at the highest level.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said,
وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَشَدُّوا فَلِلَّهِ
Very the believers are those who love Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala more than anyone or anything else.
And therefore, at the highest level,
the muddaki is the one who fears to offend the one he loves the most, and that is Allah.
But however, there is also,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala described himself and described his punishments.
In Allah,
Allah said,
وَشَدِدُوا لِخَابٍ
Who was Ali ul-Adhar?
So there is no running away from that.
And therefore, it's also the fear of disobeying the one who has the power to inflict severe punishment if he wishes.
And we ask Allah to protect us from that.
Now there are two main reasons why Muslims disobey.
And this is a very important thing because you're not talking about here,
what people,
who don't believe in Allah at all.
That's a different issue.
Alhamdulillah, we believe in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
We don't deny Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
We are not falling into kufr.
But we disobey.
And that is two reasons.
One, we have become and made ourselves the slaves of our desires.
Instead of being Ibadullah,
we are Ibadul Hawa.
We are the slaves of our desires.
Number one.
And number two,
may Allah protect us from ourselves.
إِلَّا مَشَاءَ اللَّهُ
Except those who Allah has mercy on,
we lack faith in the Akhil.
We do not have yakin in the Akhil.
We believe in it at an intellectual level.
But we do not have yakin in the Akhil.
We believe in the Akhil.
But we do not have yakin in the Akhil.
But we do not have yakin in the Akhil.
Now that borders on disbelief.
I remind myself,
I knew that the biggest strength of the Sahaba,
Ridwar and the Alayhi Majma'in,
was that they took the word of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala literally.
If Allah said something in a certain way,
that is how they understood it.
And that is how they treated it.
That is how they responded to it.
That is why, for example,
we are so many people,
we are so many instances of the Sahaba asking,
Ya Rasulullah, are there dates in Jannah?
What is the size of that fruit in Jannah?
Literally.
They are not saying,
Oh, Jannah is, you know, it's a good thought.
There is a share that comes to mind which I won't interrupt.
The only other person here who understands Urdu poetry is sitting here and telling,
He and I share these things.
He and I share these things.
He and I share these things.
And he is piling because he knows the share.
But I won't talk about that here.
But the point I'm saying is,
Jannah is not a nice concept.
It is real.
The Sahaba took it as real.
When Rasulullah said,
He said,
In Jannah, some of you will have palaces which float in the air.
The question they asked him was,
Ya Rasulullah, how will we enter that palace?
Think about this.
They didn't say,
How will it float in the air?
How can the palace float in the air?
They didn't ask that question.
He is saying,
The palace floats in the air.
We accept that.
We believe that.
That's not the question.
The question is,
Okay,