PART 4 : Journey of Love to Allah | Dr. Ali Albarghouthi | The Awakening Convention
Assalamualaikum everyone, how your days? it's good or it's bad? It's okay. It's a journey surely u can handle it till the end. Hoping u all the best. By the way, it's part 4 of my usrah journey that I want to share with u guys. Hope u can earn something from my sharing.
So, on Friday ( 9 April 2020) we don't have usrah session like usual because there's a replacement for it which is on Saturday( 10 April 2020). Our usrah is replaced with an online session with the Awakening Convention Event special appearance of Dr. Ali Albarghouthi.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
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Dr. Ali Albarghouthi received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Wilfred Laurier- University of Waterloo Ph.D. Program in Religious Studies.
His dissertation focused on Ijtihad and reform among Muslims in North America.
He taught at the University of Saskatchewan and currently heads the Institute for Muslim Research and Progress. He is also the Educational Coordinator, Khateeb, and Instructor at ISNA Canada, and Khateeb and Instructor at Khalid ibn al-Waleed Mosque.
Moreover, Dr. Ali is the best-selling author of the book ‘Heart Therapy’ and his upcoming book is titled ‘This is Love.’
Surely u can visit the session, here the link :
https://youtu.be/27rVZpwfZdg
So here, I want to share few things that I got during the session.
The first thing that I want to highlight is how close Allah with us.
Allah is really close to us even closer than our jugular vein. As mention in the Quran. “And indeed We have created man, and We know whatever thoughts his inner self develops, and We are closer to him than (his) jugular vein.” (Quran 50:16)
Even we feel like we have no one with us when we start to fall apart and complaining about how bad our day alone. Then we realize that Allah is always there with us no matter how far we think we are from him. He will never leave us. He will always ready to hear our words. He always misses us. Allah without us will not change anything while we without Allah like a kite that broke the string. We need him and He will always there for us. Back to him and He ready to hear you.
Next is how big the love of Allah towards its creature especially humans.
Did you know that Allah loves His servant more than a mother loves their children? (Hadits Qudsi: narrated Bukhari) «لله أرحم بعباده من الأم بولدها» Umar Ibn al-Khattab (RA) relates that some prisoners were brought before Allah’s Messenger (saw) and amongst them was a woman who was frantically searching for someone in the crowd. When she found a baby amongst the prisoners, she took it in her arms, cradled it next to her chest, and suckled it. So Allah’s Messenger (saw) said: “Do you think that this woman would ever throw her child into the fire?” We said: ‘By Allah, Never!’ So he said: “Allah is more merciful to His believing servants than that mother could ever be to her child.” [Bukhari (10/426) & Muslim (18/80)]
No matter how cruel we are, how far we stray away, and how forgetful we are about Him, when we back to him, He will always accept us again. Allah will never turn away from us as his love and mercy are much bigger than his anger. So why we scare that Allah will not accept us? Allah will always accept our repentance no matter what as long as we try our best to back to him.
Everyone has their own journey, but all the journey matters to help us to back to Him. Never feeling down, keep on trying your best to be back to him no matter what happens. The time will come.
I think that's all for now. Sorry if it's too long. Hope u gain something from this sharing. Hope u all the best. Thank you💓💓💓. Assalamualaikum...
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