Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qur’anic Reflections The World Does Not Conform to Your Desires

Salam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh Welcome back to our

Ramadan reflections may Allah subhanho wa Taala accept them and

a benefit us to them. Let us start with a verse of the Quran are all

the will him in a shape on Ragini Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim. The

next verse that I have for today is from surah Nisa, which is

chapter four and it's verse 123.

Allah subhanho wa Taala says, Lisa B Imani ye Comala. IMANI Neil

kita. Me MyLSU to us.

It's an interesting verse. Look, this is what Allah says, not your

desire, no, of the people of the book can prevail. Basically, it's

not according to what you desire that the world will run, nor the

desire of the people have the book, it's not anybody's desire

that this world will run according to them.

But there is a law, which is that whoever works evil will be

punished accordingly. Anybody who does evil will be punished

accordingly. So there's a few things that are being mentioned

here.

Desire is in every human being. Right. It's an innate thing. It's

an innate nature within every human being to have a desire.

Since the beginning of man's life on Earth, man has always been

swayed by their desires, right? However, the ground realities are

decided by Allah subhanho wa taala. And they could many times

be at variance with our desire that's why we pray to Allah

subhanaw taala that make our Amani our desires in conformance to what

Allah desires and then that is when life becomes easy. That's

when you call the life become higher than by yerba. Right Allah

subhanho wa Taala says I give some people higher than tayyiba and

excellent and a pure life. And that is essentially when our

desires come and become in conformance with Allah subhanaw

taala has likes and desires. And there's a special term for that in

Arabic, which is delphic I mean, you've heard this so many times

probably that he's you know, he has a lot of dough fika legit

Sofia, Allah give us Sofia, though feet means for Allah subhanahu wa

taala to make somebody's actions, in conformance to Allah's desires.

So we feel good about it. Can you imagine how life would be it'd be

paradise on earth, if our desires were always 100%, in conformance

with Allah subhanaw taala wants that we just feel like doing the

good hamdulillah Al Hamdulillah. You know, we feel like doing many

good things, right. And we don't feel like doing bad. Although

sometimes we feel like doing bad, we regret it afterwards. But

imagine if we never felt like doing bad, we know we're never

inclined towards that a simple example I'll give you is that we

go to a supermarket. And if you're used to going around and checking

out the aisles and finding your products, you know, there's always

two or three aisles nowadays, which you don't have to touch

which is basically the the wine and the beer and everything like

that, because there's just no desire for it'll hamdulillah if

you don't have desire for certain things, it's just Allah makes it

so much easier.

So you can go past some of the best wines and the best champagnes

in the world. And they're telling you at this function today, you

know, they've got a champagne, which is, you know,

from from this chalet in France, and it costs this much and it's a

1928. And, you know, it's been left in, like, doesn't make a

difference, right? hamdulillah we're not interested, we're not

interested. But when it's something Halal like that, and

then you might be interested, there's an interest there, there's

a, there's a there's a desire there. So if Allah subhanaw taala

could just basically help us close our desires completely to things

which are haram. Right? To everything, which is wrong, that

would make life easier, but then what would be the struggle them in

this world? That's why it's going to be difficult. Allah wants to

forgive people, right? Allah wants us to have an effort and make a

challenge. Otherwise, it'd be paradise in paradise, all of your

desires will be 100% halal, because that's just absolute

hospitality down there, from Allah subhanaw taala. But in this world,

there's going to be a challenge. Yes, there are certain things if

Allah can close and we can, we can slowly slowly develop an immunity

to certain things, but they could just come back at any time because

that's the nature of the world. Right? You could you could relapse

into these things. So

Allah subhanaw taala then warns at the end, that whoever works evil

will be punished accordingly. Right? Because, and again, that's

based on some of the reflections we've done before as well that

you'll only be punished according to how much wrong that you have

done. Right. That is a promise from Allah subhanaw taala because

when I yell bilimora buka Allah, Allah says, your Lord will not

oppress anybody. There's a number of verses about that. So here it's

whoever works evil will be my Yeah.

Men Sue and you disobey, whoever does an evil, he will be

recompense for that much there's no discussion of, there's going to

be extra or not or whatever. But Allah mentioned that a number of

other verses on that. One is Amara Buka, Viva La La La VT. You Lord

is not an oppressor at all, not in any way and is an exaggeration

that your Lord is not an oppressor in any way whatsoever. So we make

dua to Allah subhanho wa taala, that Allah will make our desires

in conformance to his, to his, to his goals, to his goals with us

and to his desires with us. And the way that we can get this to do

more is by reflection, that what is it? That is generally making me

fail? And I would say that one of the biggest things that makes us

fate is our society. Our I don't want to blame society, but other

people and when we feel it's really us really, because we have

chosen to follow certain trends. We have chosen to follow certain

habits, certain cultural habits, it's our responsibility. And then

we can go on condemning everybody that people are bad and people are

better, maybe they are bad. But our responsibility is to do what's

in our best interest. And one of the most debilitating and

suffocating factors is culture. Right? The bad aspects of culture,

not the good aspects of a good aspects of culture is what raised

us in elevators, and no and nobody else is the bad aspects of

culture. This is what we watch causes destruction to a lot of

people and they can't practice they can't do good, they can't

move on in the world.

So the only way our desires are going to become in conformance to

Allah subhanaw taala desires is when we break free from all of

these shackles because that's what Islam came to do. Islam came to

take people away from

the worship of others, to the worship of the creator of the

human being, which is Allah subhanaw taala. And while when

when we blindly follow a culture and we feel suffocated by by that

can't do anything with it, while that's not worshiping. But at the

end of the day, it's showing that kind of affinity which is the

wrong so we ask Allah subhana wa Taala to protect us from the evils

of our culture, to allow our ideas, our goals, to align with

what Allah subhanaw taala wants from us, we make dua that Allah

Allah make us the way you want us to be. Make us the way you want us

to be. And may Allah subhana wa Tada allow us to

gain the blessings of this world and the blessings of the

hereafter. Jazak Allah here As salam o Alaikum Warahmatullahi

Wabarakatuh please keep us in your doors, and we will keep you in our

doors. May Allah subhanaw taala bless you all. And may Allah

subhanaw taala make this Ramadan, a blessed one. Assalamu alaykum

Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.

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