029: Love is the foundation of all Actions

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Love is the foundation of all Actions

This week we will be talking about how to understand our actions and desires based on the foundational and most powerful emotion of Love. We will also complete the picture by discussing how Love is impacted by sound or weak intellect, knowledge and desires.

Bismillah. Wallahumdulillah Wa Salat Al al-Salamu wala rasulullah. This is your breakthrough coach, Zubair.

We have been discussing in the last two episodes that concept that one does not leave what one likes and loves. So he will always stick to it. The only way for him to leave that is that he leave it and gives it up because of something that he likes much more. Or on the other hand, he would not do something he dislikes except that he does it to attain something that he love much more, or to avoid something that he is dislike much more. That quality of intellect, the sound intellect, the sound understanding is what helps one to prefer the more beloved and the more desired, over less beloved and less desired. And the less dislike over more dislike, and this is from the perfection of love and hate.

Alright, now if somebody is not doing that, than this is because of one of the deficiencies. A) Lack of understanding. He does not understand and perceive what should be more beloved to him, and what’s more beneficial, and what’s more harmful. So he does not have the right choice and the right preference. Or he lacks courage of heart, the boldness to take the action, lack of will power, self-esteem and confidence.

There are people in whom their desire for gratification is more powerful than their faith, than their iman, and intellect. And there are people in which the situation is opposite. How many physically sick people continue eating, drinking and consuming what the doctor clearly advise them as being harmful to them? Now the same reason they lack of world power that they understanding this is harmful, that’s the same reason that they are lack that will power, they have that understanding this is harmful, but they lack the will power, lack the patients, or they’re not fully comprehending harmful effect.

So the foundation of goodness and wellbeing is correct understanding, comprehension, knowing the good from bad, knowing the better from the good, the worst from the bad, and then having high ambitions, will power and patients to deal it, patient to pursuit it. And the essence foundation of evil, sadness, rationalist, humility is opposite of that. The essence of every action is love and will, and hatreds and dislike is the absence of not taking actions.

So this how we make our choices. And this way of choosing making the choice is common between animals and humans. The error that many make is to pursuit and chose that which will give you the instant gratification but that will only last for a very short time and give up the long term benefit. And this is something we see when animals are hunted. How they offered something that would appear to give them quick gratification but compromise their life or freedom. As you reflect and ponder on what people are after, they all in general are after happiness and content, and to remove sadness, grief, and anxiety. Now some do this by eating and drinking, education, businesses, trade, marriage, having kids, and music playing, and amusement and so on. These are ways with some success, but ultimate eternal success is the path to the creator, submitting to Him, trusting Him, loving Him, and making His preferences and orders in our prefer way, and submitting to them as we discussed in the last episode.

Now look at the Kalimah of Tawheed, which we say la ilaha illaa, that there is no deity worthy of worship, the rooh, the essence sort of that is to single out the Rab, the Lord, the creator, the owner, the one who controls all affairs, the one who dictate all affairs, the one who is in charge all of affairs, the one who plans all affairs, the one who provide sustainers. Just singling out when it is come to the love, when it is come to the respect, the honoring, when it is come to the fear, when it is come to hope, right? and these things that lead to trusting in Him, depending on Him, repenting to Him, longing for Him, you know, having fear of Him, and not to love to anybody other than Him, accept that love of someone else leads to the love of Allah, or leads him to increase the love of Allah, and so on and so forth, right, that the whole essence of it, right? The one only repent to Him, the one make obedient to Him, the priority, the one to obey Him completely, and in all situations, right? The one seeks His help first and formal, and does not seek help in idols, and the dead, and so on and so forth. And does not prostrate to somebody else, and does not sacrifice for somebody else, and so on and so forth. And that is the essence of Tawheed to give his full hug, and full right, right? And Allah (subahana wata alla) says in Quran, praising the people. Allah (subahana wata alla) says in surah Al-maarij.

 

And these are the people that upon their testimony, they are firmly standing, right? So, this is giving the Hack, the right of the shahada,

Now for the people who do that, they are the one who will taste the good life in this dunya, as well as in the hereafter, right? So their paradise of this dunya is sweetness and beauty of worship. They enjoy the worship of Allah (subahana wata alla), actually enjoy fasting, praying, and doing things for the sake of Allah (subahana wata alla). They don’t take it as physical burden, they’re actually enjoying it. Then, in the hereafter, they are blessed with the Jannah, and good live life in the Jannah. As Allah (subahana wata alla) says,

“Whoever does good deeds, whether male or female, and he is a believer – Allah will give him a good live life, and Allah will definitely give him a good live life.”  

So the one who is not feeding that sweetness, the one who is not enjoy that sweetness, now they are in one of that situation, one is that they may have some of  these indicator something calling them from inside, from their soul, and showing them there are some sort of emptiness in their life. And they can feel something is missing, their heart, their Fitra’s giving them signal, but now what would happen is either they don’t have the knowledge of how to pursuit the creator, or they don’t have the courage, the Tawfiqh, the facilitation from Allah (subahana wata alla). Or the other type of people are the one who are busy and drowning in their love of dunya, and what the dunya has, so they may be busy chasing and enjoying  fame, wealth, man and woman, so on and so forth.

Similar to someone who is fully intoxicated, that he may see his home, car burning down, but would not be aware of his loss, because he is intoxicated, so even he is missing out, he does not realize that loss until he wakes up, until he sobers. For Some people, this awakening, this sobering happen at a very late time when nothing can be done and that is the time when they are facing death.

Love has its consequences, feeling, and taste of sweetness, excitement, desire; separation from the one being loves, being away from him, longing for him, missing the beloved, crying, exerting efforts and so on.  One may go from joy and pleasure to crying and sadness, and back and forth, these are all power of love, and the whole package of love. But love can be beneficial and praiseworthy, and harmful and blame worthy, right? Either your love is praiseworthy, and is going to be beneficial for your or is harmful for you and blame worthy.

So the one who would choose the love of one that is harmful and blameworthy, the reason for that is either the person is ignorant of the harmful effect of that love, so one is not realizing how the love for someone or something is harmful for them, right? Or they are trying to meet instant gratification or faults promise, they are following their desire. How to fight that is with proper knowledge and patients, patients upon not following sinful and harmful desires.

So the beneficial love all the painful emotions, anything that you suffered, all the efforts that you exert, all the pain, all the crying, and all longing, all becomes beneficial.

So action points from today’s episode is to check what is our true desires, what are we after, what do we think most of the time? What do we think about during our prayers, our meeting with Allah (subahana wata alla), what make us disobey Allah, who is love, who is pleasure, who is comfort, what are we seeking when we disobey Allah, are we following any fault promises? The way to bring this change is to have consistent, authentic knowledge, and consistent reminders, and to plan our actions and to be patient on pursuing them, and to do checking our own accountability to see the failure and success rates for our plans. Or having a coach and an accountability partner, so when you are having a coach and an accountability partner, let’s say you have a bad habit or a sinful habit, you don’t have to necessary disclose that, you can make it an anonymous  habits, you know, did I do that or not, and then, digging the coach on what causes you to do those sinful actions and so on and so forth. Associating short term penalties from bad behavior, right? A lot of time when you do that behavior, or a sin, we don’t realize that the cause of it. because Allah (subahana wata alla) is very forgive him, and He does not take us, make us accountable right away, He does not punish us right away, so sometimes you don’t not realize the power that He has, so you can have short term penalty, and such as that, if I do such such things, I would give such such amount in charity, or I would fast, or I would volunteer certain number of hours, do something that will deter the bad behavior.

Lastly but most importantly, do not forget the power of Dua.

Until next time

Subhanakallahumma wa bihamdika, ash hadu anlaa ilaaha illa anta, astaghfiruka wa atoobu ilaik.

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