Wake up and Worship!

Last Friday was the first time I heard a live online lecture. The title was "Wake up and Worship" by brother Abu Ahmad from Australia. It was so eye opening. I truly felt WOKEN UP! I wanted to get up and memorize quran, delete all my music, and worship 'til the end of time. Here are my notes on the lecture:

Each one of us has a duty. Those of us living in the states, or somewhere else, somewhere full of sin-what are we doing? Are we preaching our religion? Are we gaining new Islamic knowledge? If not, we might as well take ourselves back to a Islamic country. It's the New Year, but not OUR new year! We muslims go by the Hijri Calendar. We shouldn't be celebrating. We shouldn't be having a ball. Our brothers and sisters are being murdered in Gaza. We should be praying for them. We should be asking ourselves these questions: are we struggling for our country like them? Are we struggling for our religion?
The Hereafter is our main goal in left. If we want to enter Jannah, we must work HARD! We should educate ourselves-the Quran/Sunnah being of most importance. After learning them, we should implement. “Be certain that there is only one God –fa3lam ana la illaha la illah ilalAllah." These will keep us on the straight path. These are the only things that will keep us out of the hell fire.
Start with day things-like thikr after salah. Do everything in halal. Stop cussing-ask yourself, would I do this if prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was right beside me? If not, then don't do it! Don't question Islam. We do not know the hikma (wisdom) from Allah. It doesn't matter who loves you, the only love you should care about is your love for Allah. Do not fear anything, but Allah! Anything as in dont' fear poverty, your superiors, people around you, lack of food, anything!-because Allah is always there.

Every person has a qareen (that little thing that sways you to do wrong). Learn more and contemplate about the creations to stop it.

My notes definitely do not do this lecture any justice, but I wrote them remind myself and others of the lecturer's teachings. Tune in on Friday's at 4:30 Eastern Time at Islamchat.com.