God's Love: Lessons from the Quran | Mufti Abu Layth

all right now we're going to take a look today at allah how does god describe his love in the quran and what lessons can we take from this so you've got here some verses and these are some examples i will show you a um

there is a uh you just bring that back there what is going on right there is here is a little chart but i'll come out of this in a moment uh this this was actually um made by somebody who has um he has forgotten the name of the channel about the quran so may allah bless him uh right so you've got here a number of verses where allah is explaining and we're going to go to some

of these verses but i thought let's just show this quickly so you've got where allah highlights how he loves the just how he loves those who are pure you'll have the mutate you'll have the moxetin you'll have and here you've got number of occasions those who fight in his in his cause feasibility and that can mean in many ways those who struggle it doesn't have to be a physical fight those who who do uh good deeds

you've got people who purify themselves you've got al muttaqien and this is an interesting one we're going to come to the steadfast saberine right now and on the other side as well you can see a lot those who he does not love okay now i want to highlight something here allah does not say allah does not say in the quran ever that he hates note that that's incredibly important

allah mentions he loves allah your heb there are several verses allah loves okay never does allah say allah hates such a people never says that in the quran you do not find a single verse he says he does not love he does not love neither does he say he despises you allah never uses it yes there is one verse allah says

and notice allah does not say about the people but he says about the the action to assault in when they were setting off for the assault this was um the non-muslims were to attack or the in this particular case with the hypocrites that carry allah at home allah hates them or dislikes them

this act of this and allah disliked that but never does allah say he dislikes a people he says he does not lie makes the verb negative there's a difference a huge lesson to learn in that allah you know people say um oh you know you are we just reading too much into these verses are we no we're not because think about it you know some people say the prophet the prophet was a warlord in fact jordan peterson recently said that and that

is i okay i accept he has also said i don't know much about islam so he has i've watched one of these things where he says i don't have enough knowledge about islam to come in but i would say that anybody who has with any decency tried to learn about islam and the life of the prophet sallallahu alaihi from an objective viewpoint academically i don't just mean you did a google search but somebody with some academic rigour can see that such a statement that the prophet was a warlord

it completely is a misfit and a mismatch to the prophet's whole mission his life and the legacy because look take the quran as an example the quranic discourse the language even used in the quran is not a that of a warlord it is not um i'm going to come to the super chats much love for that shukran i'm going to come to them it is not for someone who is speaking about war i'm not saying there's no verses that

address that they do but the language the rhetoric like just think about it when you are a particular person you use those words and many islam revisionists have actually they've actually been intrigued and have marveled at why is it the language of the quran if anything seems to be of a mercantile nature it seems to be of a somebody who is a trade is into trade a merchant because it's a lot about safaq suffocating a lot about trade and make a deal and

profit and khasara and loss and bail and dane and debt and sales and you'll be surprised i mean this is you know i'm i'm i'm not saying this i mean just read the islamic revisionist material and you'll see that they actually are intrigued that why how is it using these things because they and they've got their own theories but it's definitely not the language of a warlord somebody who's saying oh let's round them up let's do this let's do it's not and i'm not saying there are no verses

of the quran that that do not address war of course they lived in a uh in a tribal society but let's be honest out of 6200 plus verses how many of the verses are speaking about war tiny amount so and here is another fine example where the prophet is describing allah and he's sorry the prophet is teaching people in the quran with the words that allah is describing himself as in allah allah loves

now if if this was a warlord you tell me why wouldn't it reflect that language that allah does this and he you know he strikes down with the sword and he hates and he it would use language which reflect a warlord so right so here allah never uses the word hate as i mentioned and uses the word love and uses negative love as in does not love and these are some examples i want to just take a look at because uh just how amazing they are you've got suratul bakra let's take a

look at these few examples okay now this is an incredible verse absolutely incredible that spend fisabilillah now this means in anything that can that can serve some help it does not like a theory as imam malik said uh speaking about sabilillah that they are many and countless

so helping someone building hospitals helping the poor this is there is a there is a cheat that god has hidden in helping you know when you give forward it brings counterintuitively it brings so much fulfillment to you and that's counterintuitive because you would think actually i'm losing money why would i get happy but you do well you see um and do things

you see this can it's an amazing verb and word because it can mean kindly it can mean properly in allah allah loves those people who are of kindness but of um of a meticulous nature they see it through and the next verse that we've got here

76 whosoever is true to his word now this is something which i think is so important because it's it's very unfortunate that muslims today certain muslims have become in some society synonymous for deception and for trying to con you and that's that that is very tragic and i'm just being honest because yesterday i was with a friend and we were speaking and he's um he just lives up here so i don't know qadhir if you watch this

geo right so and he just bought a new car mercedes and the interesting thing is that we had this discussion and he said look i'm going to be honest i i wouldn't buy this i wouldn't buy a new car from a muslim specifically a pakistani he said he said i would never trust him and he himself is but he's just being honest because he knows that they're always they're going to be playing an angle you just can't trust them and this is really tragic it's a tragedy that

we have become synonymous like that as muslims with deception whereas allah says whoever is true to his word or covenant allah loves those people who are mindful of god and notice it doesn't say muslims okay once again spending look at notice how many verses always god's love is about those who love for others and help others

okay those who hold in anger you see people of hell and helm is this that you you can remain calm in tense situations that those who hold in anger and note allah doesn't say those who don't get angry they have raith and what's fascinating and those of you that are into arabic will will will know that karthi mean is you see and the question is uh why

why is it why isn't it moon and some will say that's this is being specified it's like being highlighted if you like okay and that follows as well you see this follows anger why those who forgive people when something happens it's happened you know those who can't forgive and note it doesn't say muslims forgive muslims people are in nurse because this is another thing we have this thing that we should show compassion to muslims

why i'm just muslims of course muslims but humans you know this is why it kind of this is why i find it so you know disappointing that muslims they will speak up about tragedies happening in the world but only if it's a muslim country they don't seem to care if it's you know when that was happening in colombia they don't care it's not their problem that is just so wrong that is not the way of islam really and you've got here

once again the people of essen and there's just so many ways to translate that but you know one is people who have a this people because it borders between this compassion this kindness but also people who see to things getting done now this was an interesting one i thought that let's let's let's include this

now look at this and this is by extension to all of us but to the prophet that by a mercy from god that you were soft for them if you were harsh they would have long left you who would have left you the believers would have left you for remember to be consistently forgiving

make dua for them seek forgiveness on their behalf that is making dua ultimately include them when you it's always great to consult and now check this once you make up your mind you you're resolute then just have reliance take that leap of faith okay now in allah allah loves those who rely on him because you know indecision is a nightmare

honestly it is one of the worst things is people who are so constantly chronically undecided it's it's horrible there's uh there's a poem um i read probably about i don't know 19 20 years ago or something i read it when i was in madrasa that um

if you are somebody that has an opinion then have some res be resolute it is what ruins opinions that you are undecided okay that you'd have no resolve to you that you have to kind of have that and that in allah killing people who rely on allah and you've got this is another example here that was from ali imran again this one from uh

you know people who have faith those are faith of belief those of good deeds it doesn't matter about what they ate as long as they were mindful of god that they did good deeds constantly reminding after a time lapse about mind i'm translating taqwa as being mindful with god but people can translate as god consciousness um or conscientious of god

fear isn't the right word well once again you see essen see see things through be kind now you can see here example upon example of the kind of people that allah loves and note that they are always people who are doing something even though it mentions yeah they do good you know yeah they may pray they may do or yeah they have faith they may have but but they're feeding the poor or they're giving even when they are struggling or they're holding in anger or they're constantly forgiving people and that verse is

an amazing reminder that why is it today people that are religious us are not seen that they are sorry they are scenes synonymously with being religious is synonymous with being harsh and allah says and this is to the messenger of allah that look lo kunta father if you were harsh they would have long left you was it because of the belief no

they would have left you because character is everything and being loving being compassionate is everything in being a leader seriously people need to you know people think it is only an insecure man who thinks that to be a leader you must be kind of like seen as kind of very forcefully strong and or shouting or never leaders really look at lead study leadership study leaders throughout the world they've

never been like that true leaders they've always they've they've been charming charismatic they've never been you can look at any structure when you look at the alpha in that structure it is seldom about fighting take an example you go back to take it down a notch primatology look at the ape family look at chimpanzees there's been you know uh

um there's several books by professor what's his name ah damn right it'll come to me i've got actually got them right here but uh ah right but uh he he has the one about the uh the philosopher and the primate and yes that's one of his titles and many others um no ah right sorry it'll come true but if you read the studies i've been through those books it's so fascinating to see how a

chimpanzee takes over the new tribe they have like their own kind of contests and it's not how people would think people would think oh is it that to become the new alpha he goes around and he beats up all the others he doesn't i mean he doesn't he isn't weak usually the alpha isn't weak but he's not necessarily the strongest the chimp what he does is he goes around and checks on who's sick he pets the young he goes and he'll kind of like you know how chimpanzees they kind of take out the they kind of check for i don't know pet

each other's hair and check for things and he does that he it's really crazy it's like a president going for a candidacy you'll see that how they go around they pick up a little baby and they take a photo this is exactly what the chimps do to become the new alpha and once they have once they are accepted by the majority they become the alpha and then that's it it's locked in and this you can see in the animal kingdom humans are incredibly much more complex so real leadership never is about this having to show brute

strength and brute force and only insecure people would do that and to learn from islam and greater still to learn from the character of the prophet sallallahu alaihi the quran teaches us that it was because he was soft they would have left him if he was harsh you know they would have long left you and this is why

so that's an you can see how much this echo of love mercy compassion essen and these are just some of the verses so even though there are some verses in the quran i think at least on two occasions allah does say he does not like those who reject and their caffeine can mean also a rejection and arrogance people it could equally mean disbelievers but allah never says not even once in the quran in allah muslim never says it once that allah loves

muslims or in allah allah loves the believers never says that once he always says about an action those who are doing this action of god mindfulness they are mindful of god muttaqin he loves them those who are masineen who are doing this act of kindness or meticulous nature they see things through he loves them those sabering those who are patient he loves them those who are calvin those who are holding in they can suppress anger he loves them those who are tawabeen who are often

turning back they don't feel arrogant to admit that they've made a mistake he loves them those who keep clean and pure he loves them you see that there has to be an active action not just this oh i have faith i'm a believer god loves me doesn't not according to the quranic description so i think that's um

all right sorry there it is franz de waal that's in sugar and chocolate i've i've got a few of his books right here but yeah right so right let's so move on from there but that's i thought it's really important to have a lesson on god's love in the quran it's really something we don't talk about enough i know some people do but it's not really explained in this way that allah never mentions about loving muslims or believers he mentions about loving people of

who who loving people who perform certain actions right now