Abdulfattah Adeyemi – Who Are You Corded With
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The speaker discusses the importance of joining together in English language, and how it is a process of building a world that is akin to the joining of things together. They also discuss the importance of being intentional and careful in your life, as it is crucial to avoid mistakes and avoid failure. The speaker emphasizes the need to be mindful and selective in your life to avoid mistakes and failure.
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You get to see there's
a world that is akin to joining things
together.
That is, for example, Allah will say, Some
people cut what Allah commands them to join
together.
So this process of joining together is what
we refer to as cording.
That is cord.
Like in an electric cable, whatever connects one
appliance to the source of power, you say
it's a cable, sometimes you say it's a
cord.
And in general use of English language, we
can say something is in accordance to another
thing.
It's that same word cord we are talking
about, the way it connects.
Sometimes we say according to so-and-so.
That's we are trying to connect this one
to this one.
For example, also in the human body, you
have the part of our body that we
call the spinal cord.
That is the cord that connects the spine.
That is the cord that goes inside the
spine.
Allah protects it with the spine.
Then you talk about something like the umbilical
cord.
That is the cord that connects the mother
to the foetus.
And then you have a whole lot of
this.
What is the job of a cord?
The job of a cord is to connect
two things.
And like the umbilical cord, there's exchange of
nutrients.
The mother supplies nutrients to the foetus.
Though we don't know whether the foetus returns
anything back.
And then generally, in matters of coding in
this world, how people are joined together.
Whenever a husband and wife, the cord between
them is severed, we say there's marital discord
between them.
If something is being done and it is
being documented, we say they are making a
record of it.
That means we want to put it in
such a way that we can reconnect back
to it.
And the one we have already reconnected to
that is stable, we say it's a record.
All of these things are from the word
record.
According to, in concordance with.
This cord that we talk about, this is
the joining of two things together.
Then you begin to ask yourself, who are
those that you are coded with in this
world?
Who are those that are cordially in relationship
with you?
Just like when you invite somebody to an
event, you say you are cordially invited.
Because we know you and you know also
we are inviting you because of the familiarity
between us.
To make life to be user friendly, you
have to be intentional and you have to
be definite about the people that you cord
with.
What do they do for you?
And what do you do for them?
What do you benefit from the people you
surrounded yourself with?
And what do they benefit from you?
Are you corded with people that will nourish
your soul with knowledge?
Or you are corded with people that will
remove knowledge from you and give you ignorance?
Are you corded with people that will nourish
your soul with iman?
People whom whenever you see them you remember
Allah.
Whenever you are connected with them, you can't
do what is wrong again.
Because that connection between you and them will
make you not to want to go into
what is not lawful.
A person has got to observe this a
lot in life.
So many people are corded to those who
in the day of judgment, they will not
even want to see each other.
And some of us are corded to some
people who in the day of judgment will
even be together in our jannah.
So be very specific about the people you
are corded with.
Some people are corded with friends that will
always lead them into trouble.
Some people are corded with some individuals that
will never remind them about Allah for a
second.
People who when you want to do what
is good, they taunt you, they laugh at
you and they shout you down.
Are you corded to those kind of people?
Or you are supposed to be corded to
people that whenever you want to do good
deeds, you remember them and you feel like
I want to do like that person also
does.
This is one of the pointers to life.
And there are some cordings that you need
to sever from your life from this moment
on.
How do you sever this?
You have to be clinical about it.
Just like when you want to cut the
umbilical cord, you don't just yank it off.
You look for something that is sterilized to
cut it if there will be infection when
you want to detach from people that are
evil.
They may backlash to you and then you
may come back to suffer it because you
have been corded to them in a very
wrong way.
So be very cautious, be very careful, be
very selective to be successful in this life.
You need to be corded to those who
have knowledge.
You have to be corded to those who
can advise you.
You have to be corded to those who
can mentor you.
You should be corded to those who can
remind you of things that you must have
forgotten.
And eventually, be corded with the Quran.
Be in cordiality with the Quran.
And let the whole of your life move
in accordance to the Quran.
If you can achieve this in your life,
then you will find life to be very,
very user-friendly.
As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh.