Taqwaa is the cause for every good

Shaykh ‘Abdul Azeez bin ‘Abdullah bin Baaz, may Allaah have mercy upon him, expounded on the benefits of Taqwaa in this brief but beneficial lecture….

Excerpt from the book:

Taqwaa is the cause of happiness, hope, and ‎alleviation of anxiety, as well as the strength and ‎help in the Dunya and Hereafter. The following ‎verses will illustrate these points: ‎

‎“And whosoever fears Allah and keeps his ‎duty to Him, He will make a way out for ‎him, and He will provide him from ‎‎(sources) he never could imagine.” ‎

Some of the salaf said: “This verse is the most ‎comprehensive verse in the Book of Allah,” or ‎they said, “It is among the most comprehensive ‎of verses in the Book of Allah.” It has such status ‎because all goodness in this world and the next ‎springs from it. Allah has made for those who ‎fear Him an escape from the difficulties of the ‎Dunya as well as the Hereafter. And mankind is ‎in severe, intense, dire need of safety from the ‎afflictions of the Dunya and the Hereafter—‎especially those to be experienced on the Day of ‎Judgment.‎

So those who fear Allah in this abode—Allah will ‎relieve them from the troubles of the Day of ‎Resurrection, and they will obtain happiness on ‎this heavy and mighty day. ‎

Whoever suffers any distress should fear Allah in ‎all affairs until attaining solace and facility. ‎Hence, taqwaa is the door to alleviation from the ‎plight of hardships, the sorrows of poverty, the ‎grief of oppression, the anxieties of sin and ‎transgression, as well as the torment of shirk ‎and disbelief. ‎