Abdullah Oduro – Invocations of God #15 Is Allah Great

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The speaker discusses the importance of glorifying orders and prohibitions in Islam, citing the verses of Exodus, which emphasize the need to have mindfulness and fear of the creator. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of following orders and prohibitions in order to achieve the spiritual goals of Islam.

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			So the second situation that Ibn Uqayim talks
		
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			about when,
		
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			wanting to obtain an upright heart,
		
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			he says here,
		
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			he said the second situation
		
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			or fear that the heart becomes upright with
		
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			is Tawlim al Amr wan Nahi wahuwanashun
		
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			antawlim al Amr n Nahi. He says it
		
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			is glorifying the orders and prohibitions
		
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			and that does not happen except with glorification
		
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			of the one who orders and prohibits.
		
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			He says, For in Allah, ta'ala,
		
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			For verily Allah
		
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			despises or belittles
		
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			those that do not
		
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			glorify him nor glorify his orders or prohibit
		
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			and prohibitions.
		
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			Allah says in the chapter of Noah when
		
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			Noah was speaking to the people
		
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			verse 13, What is with you that you
		
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			do not
		
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			amiss glorification to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala? Or
		
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			do you do not hope for him from
		
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			him from him in a glorious fashion? Meaning
		
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			to have mindfulness and fear of him because
		
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			the verses that were mentioning above that were
		
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			mentioned above, Nuh was speaking to the people
		
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			when he was talking about the glorification that
		
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			Wa Ta'la gives them. Wajalalu
		
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			kumarfiheinnorang
		
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			wajalasham sashi rajat wallah, wallahambetukuminaardinabata.
		
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			Going on and talking about how Allah Subhana
		
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			Wa Ta'la creates and how Allah Subha'ala with
		
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			the creation,
		
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			manifestation of the creation, how he's in control
		
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			of everything.
		
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			Qalib, he says here, qalufitafsiriha
		
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			madakumlatukhafun
		
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			Allah
		
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			He says, what is the tafsir is what
		
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			is with you that you do not fear
		
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			Him in a glorifying fashion?
		
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			Because when Noah was calling the people to
		
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			Islam,
		
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			he was mentioning the
		
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			greatness of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and the
		
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			greatness
		
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			of his creation. And when he was mentioning
		
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			this,
		
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			he was saying,
		
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			And he is the one that gives you
		
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			money and children,
		
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			and he makes
		
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			and he gives you gardens
		
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			and rivers. So when looking at all of
		
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			this, human beings cannot do this. So it
		
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			is Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala that we should
		
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			glorify
		
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			and have fear of him because if he's
		
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			if his greatness is able to
		
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			form this, imagine what else he can do.
		
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			Subhanah.
		
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			And then Ibn Al Qayyim goes on to
		
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			say, He said,
		
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			and what is the greatness and what is
		
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			better than what Sheikh Al Islam,
		
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			says
		
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			in in regards to glorification of the orders
		
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			and prohibitions. He makes a very comprehensive statement,
		
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			which Imid Al Qaim further breaks down. He
		
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			says
		
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			He says here,
		
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			it is not to
		
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			to basically be negligent and lackadaisical.
		
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			Tarkhis and jab. Tarkhis literally comes from the
		
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			verb rakhasiurakhesu
		
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			is to is to give a form of
		
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			concession
		
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			or to,
		
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			a form of exception
		
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			due to a particular situation
		
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			and a concession to make things easy. So,
		
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			for example,
		
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			shortening the prayers when travelling is a concession
		
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			from regular 4 raka'at to 2 raka'at
		
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			units of prayer like for as we see
		
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			in Dhur or Asr or Asr.
		
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			And
		
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			jaf is dry. So, basically, what you are
		
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			doing is you are approaching the dean in
		
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			a minimalist fashion. You are approaching the dean
		
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			at what's the least I have to do
		
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			because
		
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			it may be stressful for me or inside,
		
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			I may not want to do that much.
		
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			Then he says,
		
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			and it is not someone that is basically
		
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			transgressing and going over the bounds, doing too
		
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			much and ordering people to do more than
		
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			what is obligatory or even recommended upon them.
		
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			And that is what we call to
		
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			be,
		
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			radical
		
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			in your approach.
		
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			And then he says
		
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			and to not,
		
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			hold the the religion
		
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			based on some type of characteristic of the
		
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			ruling that will lessen or weaken the allegiance
		
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			and practice. And he goes on. He'll speak
		
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			about it Insha'Allah here.
		
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			He says,
		
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			and the meaning of his statement,
		
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			He basically says here that the the the
		
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			first level for glorifying
		
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			al Haqq, the the truth, which is Allah,
		
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			is to glorify
		
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			his orders and prohibitions.
		
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			And that is because the the believer knows
		
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			that his lord,
		
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			he knows that his lord,
		
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			He knows his Lord by the message that
		
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			was given to the Messenger,
		
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			to all of mankind.
		
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			That's how he knows Allah, by the message.
		
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			He knows Allah by the message. The risala.
		
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			Risala literally means letter or message that was
		
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			given to the prophet
		
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			and the which results in or the result
		
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			of that message
		
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			is,
		
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			to follow the orders and prohibitions.
		
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			And verily, this
		
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			can only happen,
		
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			can only be with following,
		
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			the following him, following the the orders.
		
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			And the the glorifying of the prohibitions
		
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			and by
		
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			avoiding them, avoiding the prohibitions.