Hazrat Moulana Dawood Seedat Saheb Madrasah Isha'atul Haq · Albert Falls Albert Falls, KwaZulu-Natal
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3 Things Liked By Allah Ta’ala And 3 Things Disliked By Allah Ta’ala | Hazrat Moulana Dawood Seedat Saheb
3 Things Liked By Allah Ta’ala And 3 Things Disliked By Allah Ta’ala Hazrat Moulana Dawood Seedat Saheb
Hijri date 10 Jumaadal Oola 1445
Date 24 November 2023
Duration 24:53
Venue Albert Falls Summary Main Topic
The lecture explains a Hadith narrated by Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (Radiyallahu 'anhu) detailing three traits that earn the pleasure of Allah Ta'ala and three habits that incur His displeasure.
Key Lessons
Three Traits Pleasing to Allah:
Worshipping Allah Alone: Performing all forms of 'ibadah rooted in firm 'Iman, completely free from both major shirk and minor shirk (such as showing off or dual intentions).Holding Fast to the Rope of Allah: Staying united upon the Shari'ah and Sunnah as codified by the scholars of Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah, rather than dividing into chaotic sub-groups or creating isolated sects.
Three Traits Displeasing to Allah:
Qeel wa Qal (Idle Chatter): Engaging in futile discussions, endless commentary, gossip, and wasting hours in social media chatter.Kathratus-Su'al (Excessive Questioning): Asking hair-splitting or purely hypothetical questions rather than practicing simple obedience ('Ita'ah), as well as entertaining destructive doubts and overthinking.I'da'at al-Mal (Wasting Wealth): Indulging in extravagance (Israf) on luxury items, expensive weddings, brand names, and useless gadgets, while ignoring the pressing financial needs and upliftment of the Ummah.
Quranic/Hadith References
Hadith of Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (Radiyallahu 'anhu): Nabi Karim (Sallallahu 'alayhi wasallam) said: "Inna Allaha yarada lakum thalathan wa yakrahu lakum thalatha..." (Allah is pleased with three things for you and displeased with three things for you).Ayah on Creation and Worship: Mufassireen explain the Quranic expression "Li ya'budun" (to worship Me) as "Li ya'rifun" (to know/recognize Me).Command for Unity: Reference to the Quranic directive to hold fast to the rope of Allah together and avoid division (Surah Ali 'Imran 3:103).Story of Bani Isra'il: Highlighted as a warning against making religion unnecessarily difficult through constant, redundant questioning.
Practical Advice
Develop Ma'rifah: Strive to recognize who Allah Ta'ala is, as true devotion and submission naturally follow genuine recognition. Transcript Machine-generated, so it will contain mistakes — the audio is the reference. Tap any line to play from that moment.
0:03 Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. 0:12 Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. 0:15 Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah radiyallahu ta'ala. 0:19 We narrate that Nabi Karim sallallahu alayhi wasallam said. 0:25 That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 0:28 Inna Allaha yarada lakum thalasa wa yakrahu lakum thalasa. 0:34 Allah Ta'ala is happy, is pleased with three things for you. 0:42 And Allah Ta'ala is displeased with three things for you. 0:46 In other words, Allah Ta'ala wants us to have these three sifat. 0:51 And the other three things, Allah Ta'ala doesn't want us to have it. 0:57 So the three things that Allah Ta'ala loves, minnallaha yarudha lakum an ta'budallah. 1:03 Which you worship Allah Ta'ala. 1:06 So worship, this includes everything. 1:11 Everything. 1:13 And there is no worship without Iman. 1:19 A person can be worshipping, but if his Iman... 1:25 If he doesn't have iman, this believer is being charitable, he's serving his parents, he's got very good character, whatever it may be. 1:33 So Allah Ta'ala will reward him for his good in this world. 1:39 But there is no shawab, no reward for him in the akhirah. 1:44 Then you get all different types of ibadat. 1:48 Whether it is the pillars of Islam, whether it is the subsidiary matters, the nawafil, etc. 1:56 All different, different ibadat. 1:58 So Allah Ta'ala wants us to worship Him. 2:01 Allah has created us. 2:03 Allah Ta'ala wants us to worship Him. 2:09 And the only time a person will really be able to worship Allah Ta'ala properly is when he recognizes who Allah Ta'ala is. 2:18 Who is Allah? 2:20 This is why. 2:21 The wind. 2:29 If you look at the sound. 2:34 The wind is hitting the mic. 2:36 Making noise. 2:38 Otherwise feel hot. 2:43 Coming back to what you are saying. 2:45 That under the tafsir of this ayat. 2:48 Liya'budoon. 2:50 So some Mufassireen have written, A. Liya'rifoon. 2:55 That Allah Ta'ala says, I haven't created jinnah and insan except so that they recognize me. 3:03 They know who I am. 3:04 Who is our Allah. 3:07 When a person recognizes who Allah Ta'ala is, then a person will worship Allah Ta'ala. 3:14 Then a person will understand Allah. 3:16 That there can be no law besides the law of Allah. 3:21 No other law can apply only Allah Ta'ala's law. 3:25 When a person realizes who Allah Ta'ala is. 3:28 But today we haven't even realized who our Allah is. 3:32 So this is the first thing Allah Ta'ala says that you must worship Allah Ta'ala. 3:41 And don't commit any shirk. 3:44 Don't associate any partner with Allah. 3:48 So whether it is shirk in iman, that takes a person totally out of the fold. 3:56 And whether it is shirk fil a'mal, that a person is carrying out certain deeds but he's got a dual intention. 4:05 He's making Allah Ta'ala happy also. 4:08 But then he's being for insan also, he's being for some ulterior motive, for something else. 4:15 So all types of shirk, Allah Ta'ala says, must be out. 4:20 And the third thing. 4:21 Wa an ta'tasimu bihabdillahi jami'u wa la tafarruku. 4:27 That you hold on to the rope of Allah Ta'ala together. 4:31 And don't, you know, have different groupings, fighting in house, fighting against one another. 4:43 This whole 4:45 Groupings, groupings is what weakens the ummah. 4:50 Weakens the ummah. 4:53 When the ummah cannot stand united, cannot stand together, then the ummah will be weak. 5:05 We must make a lot of shukr to Allah Ta'ala that Allah Ta'ala brought about the imma of fiqh. 5:16 Because the imma of fiqh, jointly, that forms what we call in our terminology today, Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah. 5:28 Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah. 5:30 So if, for example, a person who is following, who is making taqdeed, is following the imma of fiqh, so if he has to come out with a belief, 5:44 So you got something to test it against. 5:50 Comes out of the belief. 5:51 You got something to test it against. 5:55 So not anyone and everyone can just come do their own thing. 6:00 When it comes to all our laws, everything, we are so indebted to these A'im Ma'afiq that they have written, you know, got their students, everything, everything mudawwan in kitabs. 6:14 All the usools. 6:15 How it works. 6:17 How you must extract. 6:20 Masail from Quran Sharif. 6:22 From Hadith Sharif. 6:23 All this they have done. 6:25 All this work for us. 6:26 So now nobody can just come and do their own thing. 6:30 It is so sad in Arab countries. 6:33 When they have moved away. 6:35 And they are moving away. 6:37 From the Imma and from Fiqh. 6:39 Was not something that just happened overnight. 6:42 It was something that was actually brought about by the Kuffar. 6:48 As a tool to split the Ummah. 6:51 Right? 6:52 You see. 6:53 For example. 6:55 You take Syria. 6:56 Take Sham. 6:57 Take Syria. 6:59 So there Jihad is taking place. 7:02 But. 7:04 The Jihad is taking place. 7:06 By so many different groups. 7:11 So many different groups. 7:12 And each group will tell you, no, we're making jihad because we want to establish a khilafat. 7:18 We need a khadifa. 7:19 We need a shariat. 7:21 But they can never make headway. 7:23 Why? 7:25 Because they keep fighting against one another. 7:29 Because each group regards the other group as kafir. 7:35 Because they come with concocted aqaid. 7:38 And they say, no, if you don't accept this aqidah, you're out of the fold of Islam. 7:44 You don't accept this aqidah, you're out of the fold of Islam. 7:47 So one is, there are certain things that if you don't accept, it will take you out of the fold. 7:53 Other things, if you don't accept, you're still a believer, you're still a Muslim, you can't be called a disbeliever. 7:58 But because they don't have anything to go back to, 8:03 They got nothing to test it against. 8:06 Each one is just reading the Quran Sharif, reading the Hadith Sharif, coming to their own conclusion. 8:11 They're making that one kafir, making this one kafir. 8:14 So they are fighting the jihad. 8:16 Right? 8:17 They got a common enemy, they're fighting. 8:19 When the common enemy is not there, they're fighting amongst themselves. 8:24 Like that ISIS. 8:26 ISIS also, they elected the khalifa and everything on whose authority. 8:31 But what were they doing? 8:33 Only killing Muslims. 8:35 Beheading Muslims. 8:37 A little bit kuffar here and there. 8:38 One, two reporters and all that. 8:40 They did one, two things. 8:41 But most of their fighting, they're killing Muslims. 8:44 Say, no, you don't subscribe to this akidah. 8:46 You never accept this khalifa. 8:48 You know. 8:48 Oh, then you're a renegade. 8:49 Right, finish. 8:51 Qatal. 8:54 So, this is why in Afghanistan, you didn't have this problem. 8:58 Because they are muqallideen. 9:01 You see? 9:02 They make taqlid. 9:04 So you never have this problem. 9:05 In Afghanistan, there was a united front. 9:09 You knew who's the sellouts. 9:11 Munafiqin you'll always get everywhere. 9:13 So who the sellouts are? 9:15 They were one side. 9:16 The Northern Alliance. 9:17 And then you knew the Taliban. 9:18 But the Taliban all subscribed to one thing. 9:22 There were no divisions, divisions, divisions amongst them. 9:26 So this is why they were so successful in their jihad. 9:31 So Nabi Sallallahu alayhi wasallam is saying, Allah Ta'ala doesn't want you to be all broken up like this. 9:38 But yes, the unity must be on what? 9:41 Bi hablillah. 9:42 The rope of Allah Ta'ala. 9:44 Not each person, anybody wants to do whatever they want to do, and you say, no, but we must remain united. 9:51 Bihablillah. 9:53 You hold on to the rope of Allah Ta'ala. 9:56 You must unite on Shariat and on Sunnat. 9:59 Now who is going to explain what the Shariat and Sunnat is? 10:03 So for Muqallideen is very easy. 10:05 Our Imams have done it. 10:08 Our Imams of Fiqh, they have done it. 10:10 So we just have to subscribe to that. 10:12 Right? 10:12 So these are the three things Allah Ta'ala wants. 10:15 There's a lot. 10:18 That needs to be explained on each point. 10:20 But in a way, you need a person who got that kind. 10:23 Unum also. 10:24 Can explain. 10:26 So now we move on to the next three. 10:28 What Allah dislikes. 10:33 Allah dislikes three things. 10:36 The first one, Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Qilawakal. 10:41 Qilawakal. 10:43 What is Qilawakal? 10:46 Banter. 10:48 Chitchat. 10:50 Discussions. 10:51 Discussions. 10:52 Talks. 10:55 Layani. 10:55 Futile discussion. 10:57 Yes. 10:57 Talking. 10:58 Talking. 11:00 And this is what we love. 11:04 Allah Almighty dislikes it. 11:05 But this is our past life. 11:07 Poke this one. 11:09 Share that one. 11:10 Make a story with this one. 11:12 Someone said something. 11:13 We must comment something else. 11:16 All just futile talk. 11:19 Peer of a call. 11:20 Then we be discussing things that got nothing to do with our deen also. 11:26 Got nothing to do with our dunya also. 11:28 No fayda whatsoever in deen and dunya. 11:31 But long long discussions with regards to that. 11:36 Peer of a call. 11:38 Included in that Qira wa Qal is all the social media. 11:44 So much of chatting. 11:46 What they call it? 11:47 Chatting, isn't it? 11:48 Chatting on social media. 11:50 Putting up things. 11:51 Chatting things. 11:52 Reading. 11:52 So much time goes. 11:54 Qira wa Qal. 11:55 Nothing. 11:56 It doesn't help. 11:57 It doesn't benefit anything. 12:01 I put him in his place. 12:02 He put me in my place. 12:03 I told him off. 12:05 At the end of the day, what you got? 12:07 Saw what I said in the chapter. 12:10 Now, keep it to you. 12:11 At the end of the day, what did he do? 12:14 He's just blowing hot air. 12:16 Or making the thumbs hot. 12:17 I don't know what you want to call it. 12:19 So, qira wa qal. 12:22 The second thing, Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, wa kathratas su'al. 12:29 Too much questions. 12:32 Too much questions. 12:34 You want to know this. 12:35 Why like that? 12:36 Why like this? 12:37 No. 12:38 Our job is Itaat. 12:41 Obedience. 12:43 Now. 12:44 But why Zuhr is at this time? 12:47 It's at this time because Allah commanded it must be this time. 12:53 Now everything a person wants to keep questioning. 12:57 So Allah Ta'ala speaks about the destruction of the Bani Isra'il. 13:03 In the Quran Sharif. 13:04 When they ask too many questions, too many questions they ask, they make life difficult upon themselves. 13:12 So as a believer you accept this is Allah Ta'ala's hukam, I must follow it. 13:16 This is what Nabi Sallallahu alayhi wasallam said, I must follow it. 13:21 The mindset, the secular mindset is that anything that is told to you, you must ask five questions. 13:31 They teach you this in university. 13:35 That anything you are told, you must ask five questions on that. 13:39 And then they got their format. 13:41 What questions you must ask. 13:43 So the way they make it like, no, no, no. 13:45 You see, you all are university students. 13:48 So you must have an inquiring mind. 13:50 You all are above. 13:51 You know, you all 13:53 So you must ask, you must understand. 13:55 There's a lot of things you can't ask and you can't understand. 13:58 You have to accept as a bandar. 14:01 This is the command of my Allah, I must accept it. 14:05 So, this kathratas su'al is referring to this. 14:08 Too much unnecessary questions. 14:11 One person, he had come to Hazrat Muhammad s.a.w. 14:16 And he said, I got one hypothetical question. 14:20 Hypothetical. 14:22 What was his hypothetical question? 14:24 He said, no. 14:26 If there are two couples. 14:29 Two couples. 14:31 And they are murdered. 14:36 They all beheaded. 14:38 Four of them beheaded. 14:40 But through some miracle, through something, they got life again. 14:49 And the surgeon put their heads back. 14:53 They managed to stitch all the heads back, connect all the nerves and spinal cord and everything. 14:58 They managed to put it all right. 15:01 But now when they put it right, they mixed up the heads of the two wives. 15:08 The one head now they put in the wrong body, the other head they put in the wrong. 15:14 So now, in determining which wife belongs to which husband, 15:21 Will you take the head into consideration or the body into consideration? 15:26 How are you going to determine now? 15:28 Because the wrong head is on the wrong body. 15:31 So Hazrat heard him out, this whole hypothetical question. 15:35 And then he told him, he said, see boy, the day this thing happens, you come to me, I'll give you a ruling. 15:42 Now this is Bayjan. 15:45 Futile question. 15:47 What you asking this kind of question? 15:49 Futile. 15:51 So, Qasrat as-Sua'al. 15:54 I'm not saying that this is the meaning of the Hadith, what I'm going to tell you now. 15:59 But also something that troubles people's minds. 16:03 One is Qasrat as-Sua'al where you ask questions. 16:07 The other thing is when you overthink. 16:12 You overthink a thing. 16:14 You're questioning yourself all the time. 16:17 You made wudhu and I go, I made wudhu for you. 16:22 I didn't leave this thing out. 16:24 You made wudhu. 16:25 You can see that it's wet. 16:27 Now why you keep questioning? 16:29 You made istinja, you came out. 16:32 No, nothing else. 16:33 Drops came out. 16:36 Allah didn't make everybody so weak that everybody now just got drops coming out, drops coming out. 16:42 You make your istinja, you make your istibra. 16:45 You know you are Pak. 16:47 And now you come away and carry on. 16:49 If a person really got a problem, he'll know he got a problem. 16:53 But for nothing to make doubts. 16:55 Now, your father told you something, now you're overthinking. 17:01 Why he told me this? 17:03 No, no. 17:04 Must be, my sister must be told him that. 17:07 That's why he's hinting at me with this. 17:11 You're overthinking. 17:12 Now you're opening the door for shaitan. 17:15 To make waswasa. 17:17 Most problems, misunderstandings, you know that down feeling all comes about because of this. 17:26 You're living inside your mind. 17:29 But this too we must endure. 17:33 And the third thing Huzoor sallallahu alayhi wasallam mentioned. 17:37 Wa ida'atal maal. 17:40 And the wastage of wealth. 17:42 Allah Almighty dislikes that you waste wealth. 17:46 One is to use wealth. 17:48 A mu'min is not kanjus. 17:50 He is not a stingy person. 17:53 Right? 17:54 He uses his wealth. 17:55 Where he needs to use, he uses it. 17:57 But at the same time, he doesn't waste wealth. 18:01 Right? 18:02 Today's time, lot of wastage taking place. 18:05 Lot of wastage. 18:07 One person came to ask me. 18:10 He said, Ma'am, in my house, I got carpet. 18:14 So I'm feeling now we take out the carpet and put some tiles because the children are suffering with asthma and all this. 18:25 You know in the carpet sometimes a lot of dust especially if it's an old carpet in an old house. 18:32 And then one or two things you want to do in the house. 18:34 So it will just be regarded as Israf. 18:38 No, it's not Israf. 18:40 You make yourself a little bit comfortable. 18:42 You need an extra cupboard or whatever. 18:44 You want to put a tie. 18:45 You want to take out the carpet and put a tie because of the children's health or whatever. 18:49 That won't be regarded as Israf. 18:52 But now, what kind of tie are you going to put? 18:57 What kind of cupboard are you going to put? 18:59 Now, that's where we're going into Israf. 19:02 And we are wasting wealth. 19:04 Big, big vanimas, weddings. 19:07 Big big jalsas. 19:09 So much of money spent just to have a jalsa. 19:14 So much of money. 19:16 Sometime hundred thousand. 19:18 And that's only the cost. 19:21 If you really have to work out now how much each person used to get there, go back, all that. 19:27 How much the money will become? 19:30 Wanwan. 19:31 Wadimah. 19:31 People are going from here, there, traveling, coming, then the outfits, then the food, then the decor. 19:39 Right? 19:40 That is those things. 19:42 Then on ourself. 19:44 I must have this name brand. 19:47 I must have that name brand. 19:49 I must have this kind. 19:53 Those are in things still that we will use for some purpose. 19:58 And then other things that are totally totally useless. 20:04 Whether it is smoking. 20:06 Not only useless but harmful. 20:10 Data. 20:11 How much data people are using. 20:13 How much money people waste on buying games. 20:18 One one game. 20:19 How much it costs. 20:21 These games going this PS and all that. 20:24 Hmm. 20:25 What's the price of that thing? 20:27 Then you get some people are just crazy over gadgets. 20:32 Seriously. 20:33 Just buy this gadget, that gadget. 20:35 For nothing. 20:37 For a while it's a novelty and then after that you even forgot you own it. 20:43 You even forgot you own it. 20:47 Then you take in our homes before what our mothers used to cook 20:54 Now must be bought out. 20:57 Must buy it ready made. 20:59 What they used to make, now must buy ready made. 21:03 Now how much more expensive all that ready made is? 21:08 This very same meal could have costed how much? 21:11 Now that very same meal is costing four times the amount because it's ready made. 21:18 So this Allah Ta'ala blessed the ummah with wealth. 21:23 That wealth, one is a person must take care of his obligations, everything. 21:29 The surplus wealth, he is supposed to see that how can we make this wealth work for the ummah? 21:37 For the upliftment of deen, for the upliftment of Islam, the preservation of deen, the establishment of Islam, defense of Islam. 21:46 Hmm? 21:49 I mean you take this Hamas. 21:51 They are under sanctions. 21:53 Right? 21:54 Hardly anything can come in, go out. 21:57 They are poor, poor people. 21:59 Right? 22:00 And they are manufacturing Yasin 105. 22:06 Blowing down big, big tankers. 22:12 So what it means that every spare cent they had 22:19 They were putting it into research, putting it into material to make this thing. 22:30 And the rest of the Ummah, we are squandering our wealth. 22:36 Some kings of Arab countries and all that, they got the best of car, but no, no, no, it needs to be gold now. 22:46 Because now how much can you spend, right? 22:50 You went, you bought the top, whatever you think is your top car, you bought the top, top of the range, you made it bulletproof, you did everything on it. 22:58 But now somebody else can also do that. 23:01 So now he needs to take it to another level now. 23:03 You put the best toilet, now the toilet is not enough, now must study it with diamonds now. 23:10 This is how insane we are becoming. 23:12 Where are you going to stop? 23:14 Whereas all these resources that Allah Almighty gave, that resources supposed to be put into seeing, the ummah be saying medical aid is haram. 23:25 And people are still taking out medical aid. 23:27 Now what can we do to bring about a facility when Allah has given so much of wealth in the ummah, we can bring about facilities where we don't have to cross an arm and a leg for medical treatment. 23:40 For our mothers and sisters to give birth. 23:43 But no, we all worried about our overseas holidays. 23:47 We worried about our hobbies. 23:49 We worried about all our personal luxuries and fashion and our personal things. 23:56 So we're not seeing how the ummah can be uplifted. 23:59 How the problems of the ummah can get solved. 24:06 This ida'at al-mal, wastage of wealth, the barakat goes away. 24:11 Tomorrow when that wealth is required for important things, now you've got no money. 24:17 Why? 24:17 Because you bought one silly gadget, you wasted so many hundreds on vape. 24:23 One silly t-shirt you went and bought. 24:25 Costed so much money. 24:27 Just because you got one name on it. 24:29 Now tomorrow when you really need the money for something. 24:33 Now you haven't got money. 24:37 Allah Ta'ala give us tawfiq. 24:39 That we do those things that please Allah Ta'ala. 24:42 We abstain from those things that displease Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 24:49 SubhanAllah. 24:50 Alhamdulillah.
Guard Your Time and Words: Avoid getting dragged into social media arguments, unproductive chats, or commenting on matters that bring no benefit in Deen or Dunya.
Simplify Worship & Mindset: Refrain from overthinking small details or asking hypothetical questions; execute basic obligations with conviction and sincerity.
Budget for the Sake of Deen: Avoid spending money on status symbols, expensive brands, or harmful habits like vaping; channel surplus wealth into supporting community welfare and the Ummah.
Hazrat Moulana Dawood Seedat Saheb