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The brothers and sisters, one of the hardest questions that a person can ask themselves is whether or not their intentions are sincere

whether they have a gloss or not because the chances are that if you are sincere you're not so settled in the idea that you are sincere

meaning you're constantly questioning yourself and going back and re-evaluating your intentions over and over and over again

and sometimes you have a feeling in an era where everything is out there, things are so public

you might even be midway through a good deed and you tell yourself you know this doesn't feel like it's just for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala anymore

there's something else around, there's another element to this that's taking away from the sincerity of my intention

I'm not so sure if this good deed is only for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala or not

it might have started out that way but I'm not so sure and then sometimes it can become a habit

right? You taste the sweetness of Riyat instead of Ichloss and just like any sin it has a temporary sweetness to it with permanent consequences

so the sweetness of praise, the temporary sweetness of praise, you taste that and then you start to crave it and you start to do more and more and more for that

but there are these dueling tensions inside of you, these factors, these feelings on one hand

well I need to keep on doing the good, I need to keep on going forward, I can't stop doing good

on the other hand a person has to ask themselves, well do I just you know just live with this self-doubt or do I actually do something about it

and of course there is the discussion of whether or not you question someone else's intentions

which is an entirely different disease which we'll talk about in inshallah to add in next week

where you see other people doing good and inside yourself you say they're not doing that for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

but self-doubt when it comes to your own sincerity and at the end of the day you should be interrogating your own intentions more than anyone else interrogates your intentions

so if someone else telling you or someone else questioning your intentions is more severe than your own questioning of yourself

then that means you're giving more weight to that person's sight than the sight of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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