Search for yourself in the Quran – #2

Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillah, my dear brothers and sisters, we heard the story of Ahnab bin Khayz, Rahmatullah Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, and his humility and his figure. The main thing is this, his figure, his concern, the deep concern that he had for himself and his connection and his position with Allah. We live in a life with concerns. There is nobody on the face of the planet who lives or who lived or who will come in the future to live until the Day of Judgment. Whether it is the Ambiya' alayhi was-salam himself, whether it is the Rasul Muhammad sallallahu alaihi was-salam himself, or whether it is the worst of the people, everyone had concerns. There is no intelligent human being who can say that I have no concern. If you have no concern, you have no brain. As simple as that. You have no clue. You don't know where you are. You are in some kind of, you know, God knows what. Everybody has concerns. The question is what are those concerns? What am I worried about? What am I concerned about? The game that shaitan plays and has played and is so successful is that he has flipped the things that we should be concerned about and replaced them with things that Allah has guaranteed. Allah said, don't worry. Allah said, do not worry. Not your problem. I will take care of this. And shaitan said, no, no, no, hold on a second. Forget about that. This is what you should be concerned about. And things where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, look out for that. Allah said, oh, you believe save yourselves and your ahlikum, your entire families from the fire. Allah did not say save yourself from hunger. Allah did not say save yourself from poverty. Allah did not say save yourself from poverty. Allah did not say save yourself from hunger. Allah did not say save yourself from poverty. Allah did not say save yourself from sickness. Allah said save yourself from the fire. So you say, okay, so I will do that. But what about hunger? What about poverty? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said this. He clearly mentioned this. Allah said, we feed you. Allah is the razaq. Allah is the razaq. And he feeds you with his power. I ask myself and you, what are we more concerned about? Our status in this dunya or our status with Allah? Our position in this dunya or our position with Allah? Our position with Allah? I'm not saying forget this. It's a question of which has priority. Which comes first? If somebody suddenly asks us a question, I'm not talking about in the majlis like this where you have been primed to give the right answer. I'm talking about just out of the blue. You are at your workplace or somewhere you're playing a game. Somebody stops you and says, name your three top concerns. Name your three top objectives. How many of us will say genuinely with that feeling and only we know the truth and only Allah knows the truth? How many of us will say that Allah must forgive me when I meet Him? Jannah is the result of that. We don't talk about Jannah. That Allah must forgive me when I meet Him. How many of us will say that? I'm not saying we don't believe. I'm saying top of the line, top of the line concern. We talk about careers. We talk about money. We talk about political ups and downs in society. We talk, do we have the forgiveness of Allah, the Rida of Allah as a top concern? I'm only saying top three. This should be the number one concern and frankly the only concern. Allah promised us food. Allah promised us our lifespan. Nobody can change that. Allah did not promise us Jannah. I remind myself in you. Allah did not promise Jannah to me. Allah did not promise Jannah to you. Even the ones who Allah promised Jannah to, the first of the human beings after the Ambiya' alayhimu s-salam, even he said, he said, I wish I was a blade of grass. I would dry up and blow away in the wind. So the question I want to ask myself and you is when we search and I'm not saying if we search, we need to search. If I search for myself in the Quran,