Attitude decides benefit
About this episode
The episode discusses the importance of intention in determining the benefits one receives from various situations.
Auto-generated transcript: Alhamdulillah Rabbil 'Aalameen, wa salatu wasalamu ala ash-Sha'ifa al-Anbiya'i wal-Mursaleen, wa hamdu lillahi Rabbil 'Aalameen. Tasliman kathiran kathira. I am about to share with my brothers and sisters the first hadith in Al-Baqarah, narrated by Umar ibn al-Khattab (RA). He said: "The first thing is..." This is an important thing for us to remember because the reward is not only in the Akhirah; the reward is also in this Dunya. The reward is in the sense that what you get out of something depends on what you want from it. Why did you enter that? What's the reason for you to enter that situation? So what you get out of it depends on what you want from it. So what you get out of that situation depends on the intention with which you went there. For example, today they have this terminology where they talk about religious scholars who give lectures and so on. They say speakers; they call them speakers. Here is a session, Speaker, so-and-so. If that person is a speaker and you are going there, then what are you? A listener. The speaker, you are a listener. So at the end of the lecture, if I ask you, "So what will you do?" You will say, "What will I do?"…
People in this episode
Host: Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center
Topics covered
- intention
- reward
- learning
- spirituality
- Islamic teachings
Keywords
- hadith
- Al-Baqarah
- reward
- listener
- teacher
- student
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