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I don't deserve Jannah. I want to go to Jannah. I want to be with Allah. But my actions, my

deeds, my pit, I fall every now and then. How will I ever reach there, Ya Rabb? I'm afraid that no matter what I do, nothing is good enough. Am I worthy enough? Can I ever

reach Jannah? Can I ever be with the Prophet (ﷺ)? Will I ever make it there? If that's a question I have, then I have a reflection for you inshallah today. Something I learned

experientially from my own daughter. And I would show it to you inshallah. So I want you to take a look on this. This is my answer for the question. What do you see here? This

is a picture that my daughter gave me when she was six years old. And I still remember she came and said, Baba, I drew this for you. It's a gift that I want you to have. And apparently

that's me. And that's, do I look like this? Do I have a green beard? Is this a nice picture? Is this something that you would hang? Is this something that is valuable to you? For

me, this is a very valuable piece. This is why I still have it. My daughter is 20 years old. I still have this. Why? I don't look like this. Her drawing is not that great.

It is not about her action. She wanted to give something to me. Her intent is what counts. My daughter loves me. I love that my daughter gave me this. This is so valuable. Not because

of the drawing, because of the meaning behind it. The very fact that she wanted to give me something, that she's trying to do something for me. That is what makes this great. And

subhanallah, my ibadah, my worship for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, in comparison to the angels, in comparison to the people in Palestine, in comparison to the shuyukh, might look like

this. But what makes it great? It's my heart behind it. It is the very question. Ya Rabbi, please, I want to reach you. I want to do. I can. Please help me. That is what counts.

And I want to even take this a step further. You know, I came back to my daughter and she was 12 years old and I wanted to show her how much I love her. So actually, I showed her the same picture. Aisha, you remember this? And I thought that she's going to be

very happy and she's going to be like, you know, elated that, you know, her dad loves her so much. Look how much I cherish you. The thing that you drew for me, that action, that is like something I cherish. I put on my fridge because of you, because I love you.

It starts with that more than you love me. I want to give you more than what you want to take. I don't, maybe I don't deserve Jannah. Allah wants to give me Jannah. Allah wants

to give us more than we want to take actually, subhanallah. And subhanallah, Ibn Ata'illah in this second hikma says,

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala made the hereafter the place in which he will give his servants. Why? There is a lot here. Mashallah. Look at this. Look at the mountains. Look at the

sky. Like there is so many things. Why? Because this world with the vastness in it, with the diversity of it is not big enough to contain what Allah wants to give us. Allah wants to

give. We go to Jannah not by our actions, by Allah's grace. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala actions are by intentions. And I want to share something further. When I showed this to my daughter and she was 12 and I thought that she's going to be elated. I was shocked because

she looked at the picture and said, Baba, I can't imagine you have this. Give it to me. And she wanted to tear it into pieces. Why? She said, I'm so shy. This is such a

terrible picture. I am so sorry. I'm so sorry that I did this. Muslims, sometimes we do something for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And after we worship Allah immediately,

Ya Rabbi astaghfirullah. Why? My worship, my worship is not good for you. I can see it the same way. Imagine if my daughter came to me crying, crying, said, Baba, in summer,

please, I want you to put me in an art school. I want you to hire a teacher. Why? I want to learn how to draw. Why? So I can draw you a better picture. Baba, please help me. Help

me become a better artist so I can draw you a better picture. How would you feel about your daughter? Just that. This is exactly the du'a we do to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

After every single ibadah, after every single, you know, when we pray, what do we do? We say Allahumma a'inni ala dhikrika wa shukrika wa husni ibadatik. Ya Rabbi, please help me.

Help me to be more grateful. Help me to worship you in the best possible way. Ya Rabbi, teach me so I can worship you in a better way. This by itself, just that state of the heart is

worth so much for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, by default, loves us. And many people ask this question. What must I do so that Allah loves me? What must

I do to earn Jannah? Actually, you know what's the question? What, how bad can you be for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala not to give you Jannah? You know, when a son or a daughter comes and says, Baba, what should I do so that you can keep me in the house? Mama, what

should I do so that you can feed me? Baba, what can I do so that you allow me to sleep in my bedroom? What? The default, the default is it's I love you. I prepared it for you.

It's yours. The real question is, how bad can you be? How hard must you work for me to say eventually there is no way for you to stay here? Even if you're doing bad things,

even if you're taking drugs, as long as you come back and say, Baba, please help me out. I'm addicted. Please help me out. A mother will cry and hug her son. Allah loves us more

than a mother loves her own son. We might not be fit enough with our actions to reach Jannah, but surely the vastness of Allah's rahmah and the vastness of Allah's forgiveness

is vast enough to include us with all our sins as long as we have a heart that yearns for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. The answer is the one that asks this question, who feels

that pain, that's a sign, inshallah, that you'll go to Jannah. Sometimes we feel that we cannot go to Jannah because we compare, because we have a competitive attitude. In the life of this world, we always hold ourselves against each other. She's more beautiful

than me. He's more powerful than me. He's more intelligent. He has a better car. And if I don't compete, if I'm not better, I won't reach my target. I won't be lovable.

And sometimes we look around and say, look at me and what I'm doing. And mashallah, look at the brothers in the masjid. Look at our brothers and sisters in Palestine and their patience. Look at their sacrifice. Look at those righteous people. Who am I to be compared

with them? I won't ever make it. What is the answer to that? The answer is very simple. Allah is not like us. The hadith of the Prophet (ﷺ),

al-mar'u ma'a man ahabba. Subhanallah. You know why Allah provides us with examples that are good? Those people in Palestine that are so patient that I think I can never be like

them. The people worshipping in the masjid and mashallah, do I love them? Do I love them? If I love them, I'm with them. We all win. It is not like dunya. I only win if you lose.

With Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, we can all win if simply, if we love each other. Maybe I don't deserve Jannah, but ya rabbi, I love those who obey you. I love those that you

are going to put in Jannah. And maybe with this love, I will be with them in Jannah.

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