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Islam- The Religion of Love | Talha Shahnawaz Khan | TEDxAlShohada


in the name of Allah the most gracious
the most merciful the most beautiful
when we talk about Islam as the religion
of love we must first understand what
love means you see love is the opposite
of hatred love means that I will hurt
myself for you on the other hand hatred
means I will hurt you for myself when
man was created the first thing that
happened was Allah the one God blue roof
or sold into a dermal Aslam this soul
came from Allah directly himself you see
man is made of atoms material beings but
as soon as this roof came inside man
Allah commanded everyone to bow except
Shaitaan Shaitaan said I will not bow to
him and we believe that is the day our
tests began so what was it that Allah
wanted to test Allah wanted to prove to
the people it is not about me
it is not about my rank it is not about
my position it is about you or Allah and
that is the test of man how far can man
go in the love of Allah to understand
love we must first understand it in our
common daily perspective what love is
what are some of the things we love
every day don’t we all love money don’t
we all chase money don’t we see the
beauty in money money is powerful it’s
like a genie
I can make your wishes come true it can
make you if you wish for a car you have
it you have you have you wish for a
house you have it you want the most
tastiest food in the world you have it
just make a wish we all are running
after money because it has some some
attraction in it at the same time we
love woman–the
for example that’s another thing that we
find in everyday example just the thing
that people absolutely just love
everybody knows the difference between
beauty and ugliness you bring a child
and you put a scary mask in front of him
the child will start crying he was just
born but he knows it is ugly but you
bring a beautiful face in front of him a
comforting face like a face of a mother
the chance marks giggling he starts
laughing you see even a child knows the
difference between beauty and ugly
similarly men when they grow up are
still able to see what is beautiful and
what is ugly and we are every day
getting killed or being killed for a
woman we are every day doing that for
money so you see love is defined by this
fundamental characteristic it is
something for which you’re willing to
give your time willing to give your
effort your energy and even your life I
mean how many times we see people are
ready to get killed or kill to rob a
bank we see it every day how many times
we hear a man slit his wrists or jumped
from a building or drank poison because
he couldn’t find the girl he loved but
see the problem is we see these
beautiful things around us and we chase
after it like a bull and be compete with
each other but what happens when we get
it what happens when we get it
evoke the woman that you were willing to
kill or be killed for suddenly when
you’re married to her you have family
problems we have fights the money that
you chased all your life you want it to
be successful once you have it
what happens I don’t know what to do now
right people who are famous they’re
using drugs to find happiness in their
life hey you wanted to be famous isn’t
that the purpose of our life isn’t that
what we’re all chasing so what is it all
about that what are we doing over here
you see slum explains to you that I did
Allah says in the Quran I did not create
man and jinn except to worship Me you
see the entire slime is defined in one
word worship so what is that what does
that word worship me we must really ask
don’t we have a bunch of rules in Salaam
don’t do this don’t do that do this do
that but Allah is saying I only created
you to worship me and what are the five
pillars of Islam you need to ask
yourself isn’t the entire of Islam
depended on these five pillars Shahada
salah zakah soul and Hutch but when it
was all about worship he said I only
created you to worship me just one
reason but we have five is that
connected somehow you see if you want to
understand what worship means you must
understand what love means let’s take
this example of woman and man falling in
love with each other it’s the best
example to understand love what’s the
first thing that happens when a man
falls in love with a woman you know the
first thing that he does is he makes a
statement in his talk I’ve had this
woman she’s beautiful he might actually
go and say to her verbally but it
doesn’t matter you say it in your heart
you say it with your tongue you’ve said
it that is quite similar to Shahada
you see am i saying la ilaha illaallah
muhammaden-rasul allah allah is telling
us to say there is no God worthy of
worship except me but how do you worship
Allah as
but solo Bob Marley southern worshiped
him the way he showed us the way of
worship okay so the first thing that
happens is you make a commitment you
make a statement that’s the beginning
the second thing that happens when a man
loves a woman is that he starts losing
his tops
he might be sitting in the middle of a
gathering and you know there might be
friends talking and everything going on
and and he’ll be just thinking about
that girl like you know her hair the way
she smiled you know your thoughts are
absorbed they’re gone you do not control
them it is a beauty that was so powerful
that just struck your heart and you are
not in control anymore even if you want
to avoid that feeling even if you want
to you know look at the world and these
that smile you can do that
your thoughts are gone your you’re able
to sacrifice your nights after nights
and your sleeps and you’re writing
poetry about her
well isn’t that what’s a lies salah is
basically remembering allah five times a
day it makes you leave your sleep there
is no way you can pray the fajr prayer
without disturbing your sleep there is
no way allah is asking you to give me
your thoughts five times a day it is me
you think about the second thing the
next thing that happens in a love is
that the person who loves the woman he
starts giving her expensive and precious
gifts he starts sacrificing his belt on
her money is no matter I don’t know what
she likes I’ll buy her gold I’ll buy her
a diamond I don’t know what will make
her happy so you see Allah is saying
give me your belt
as well by the way you know give me your
belt give me zakat and how do we give it
we don’t just you know burn it and we
say this is for Allah we gave it to
people so that it can help other people
who have a lost soul the soul that Allah
blew into other the other people who
have that soul in it we
to them so that they can think about
they can understand that there is still
love in this world not hatred the next
thing that happens is that a man will be
happy with being hungry he does not want
to eat anymore you know people will be
like Harry I got some food for you I
don’t want to eat man I don’t know
something is inside me I can’t eat I
don’t like food anymore
okay so Allah is saying you need to fast
you need to give me your food you have
to be hungry for me that’s the only time
when that feeling works the last thing
that happens between a man and a woman
is that they decide to leave everything
in this world behind leave their family
leave their business leave their
brothers their parents everything and
just run away with each other is it that
what hat is hat is saying at least once
in your life leave everything for me and
just come just come for me you see back
in the days Hajj was not you know flying
in an airplane in an air conditioner and
you know you land you have a beautiful
hotel ready for you and you have you
know people taking your luggage no Hajj
was walking thousands and thousands of
miles back in the days you had to travel
in the Sun that was Hajj I’m coming for
you above okay so Islam is basically
made into rules these days it’s just a
bunch of rules all the Muslims do is
okay I prayed I did my Hajj I did my my
soul I did my zakat oh I’m going to I’m
going to Jannah but never in their
prayer was there was their thoughts
towards Allah never and there’s a cut
they were really trying to sacrifice
their world the love of the world all
they were thinking is like look people
are watching you know people think I’m
good it’s all about me again
you see we’ve made slam into a rule book
it’s not it says it’s a religion about
love and love seeks sacrifice we can
understand this concept by the example
of it
Himalayas Salaam you see Rahim
alehsalaam was the friend of Allah and
he to earn that title had to go to a
test that Allah did not put any other
man through that test ibrahim al islam
was given a son at the old age a son
which was so precious that ibraheem
ellis alam asked him i am seeing in my
dream that i’m killing you he says
father do as you wish i am okay you see
a son like that is is very close to your
heart it’s easy to go kill yourself but
you are not willing to hurt someone who
you love but allah said no the dream
came again and again allah said no I
need this sacrifice because he wanted to
see is is the love of son above me or is
my love above all other loves may Allah
never put us through that test but he
was put through that test and Shaitaan
came in his way three times on the way
what are you doing are you crazy what is
going on and three times he tried to
stop him you know that is why we
celebrate Eid al-adha every year because
it is a remembrance of a test that our
father ibraheem alehissalaam succeeded
in he proved that Allah I love you and
for you everything is gone nothing
exists okay but Shaitaan said no Allah I
don’t love you I love myself and I need
my rank okay so the religion of Islam is
different it’s telling you a very
different story we need to step out of
the perspective okay the other thing
that people always bring up is Islam is
a terrorist religion it teaches us to
kill or be killed it teaches us to make
everybody Muslim they’re all covered
know Islam says very clearly in the end
of Quran Lagoon Dinu company
to you your religion to me my religion
you don’t mess with me I will not mess
with you but if you come around and tell
us what to believe in and you force us
to believe something then I am supposed
to do whatever I hemolyzed Lam did what
he did he broke the idols he said these
are wrong idols I don’t worship them he
spoke up against the community and he
was alone and they were all together and
he was right and they were wrong he was
thrown into the fire and then the
miracles happen when you stand up for
Allah when you truly see his light when
you truly see that in the fragrance of
the flower in the flavors of the fruits
in the tunes of the music there is new
of Allah and the beauty of the woman
there is reflection of Allah snood when
you see that it is all Allah is known
and when you eat these things or when
you enjoy these things you say
subhanAllah you’re still connecting
yourself to all our through these images
and you don’t become a fool and you
chase after these reflections in this
Mirage thinking this is it or this is my
purpose of life you must realize these
are reflection of Allah smooth you can
only see it the minute you try to touch
it it comes into dust and you realize
you can never touch it the more you
chase money you know what happens after
marriage in in a woman’s life when you
have a marriage between a very beautiful
woman
and a man who loved her you know we
start fighting the next day you see the
beauty is just in its appearance the
minute you go close to it he really
realize it’s just material that beauty
belongs to Allah and Allah says don’t
give your heart to anything else except
me it is my right Islam does not tell
you to be extreme it does not tell you
to be hungry all day it does not tell
you to sacrifice food you know it it
says your heart should be towards Allah
it belongs to Allah love and worship
worship is a better word than love
because worship includes love and it
respect for Allah and a perspective that
I am a slave and he’s the god worship is
a better word
so you see worship is the right of Allah
don’t give it to anyone else because
Allah says I will forgive every single
sin that you do but I will not forgive
this one this is my right I created you
you are my creation I am the most
beautiful who are you chasing where are
you going
it says in the Quran when are you going
so please don’t think that this religion
is backwards this religion speaks about
the reality of this world what are you
people doing over there aren’t you
chasing after something that you love
and we say Allah is the one that is the
most beautiful and he is the only one
deserving of love Thank You Stan
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