Explaining that righteous deeds are the cause of entering Paradise, and explaining Allah’s bounty upon His creation.

The Shaykh : The baa here indicates compensation, not causality. By Allah, do you not know the difference between causality and compensation? Do you know the difference between them? What Allah willed, here, do you know? Is the baa in His saying for causality or for compensation? It is for causality; it is for causality, meaning because of what you have sent forth, that is, what you have done in days past. It is not for compensation. The evidence that it is not for compensation is the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) The scholars said that the speech of Allah and the speech of the Messenger do not contradict; they do not contradict at all. But the baa that came in the affirmative is for causality, and the one in the negative is for compensation. And this is the truth. That is to say, if Allah had wanted to hold us to account and scrutinize the reckoning, our deeds would be what? They would not match a single one of the bounties of Allah. All of our deeds, indeed, the righteous deeds we perform are themselves from the bounties of Allah, are they not? If Allah had willed, He would have led us astray, just as He led astray those He led astray. So if Allah has guided us, praise be to Allah, to Islam, then this is a great bounty, a great bounty. For this reason, the poet said a verse, or rather two verses, which I will recite for you and repeat three times. The custom is that whatever is repeated three times must be memorized. Pay attention. I recite them. The poet said: "If my gratitude is a bounty of Allah, a bounty upon me, for Him, in its like, gratitude is obligatory. So how can the reaching of gratitude be achieved except by His grace, even if the days lengthen and life continues?" I return: "If my gratitude is a bounty of Allah, a bounty upon me, for Him, in its like, gratitude is obligatory. So how can the reaching of gratitude be achieved except by His grace, even if the days lengthen and life continues?" The third and final time: "If my gratitude is a bounty of Allah, a bounty upon me, for Him, in its like, gratitude is obligatory. So how can the reaching of gratitude be achieved except by His grace, even if the days lengthen and life continues?" Whoever has memorized it, please.

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The Shaykh : How can the reaching of gratitude

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The Shaykh : be achieved except by His grace, even if the days lengthen and life continues. The second verse I recited in meaning. May Allah bless you. Rest. Now, listen. I say: If Allah, Glorified and Exalted, had rewarded us according to an equation between our deeds and His bounties, we would be what? We would be in debt. We would be in debt. Because if Allah enables you to be grateful, that is a bounty, that is a bounty that requires a second gratitude. Then if you give thanks for the second time for the bounty, it requires a third gratitude. Then the third requires a fourth, then the fourth requires a fifth, and so on. For this reason, the poet said these two verses, which a person should repeat whenever he sees himself becoming arrogant and boasting to Allah with his deeds. Listen. Allah the Exalted said: Read: "They boast to you of their faith." Yes.

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The Shaykh : Rather, Allah That is it. These Bedouins are boasting to the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) that they have submitted to Islam. We return to Surat al-Infitar. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says: