Adnan Rajeh – Sunday Tafseer- 67 Part 6 Surat Al-Mulk

Adnan Rajeh
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The importance of understanding the Moore's Law and the laws of existence is emphasized, emphasizing the need to be mindful of one's actions and not give up on promises. The speakers stress the importance of learning from people with different backgrounds and experiences to gain guidance and knowledge. The history of the Prophet's teachings is recapped, emphasizing the need for everyone to accept and let know about their flaws to avoid unnecessary punishment and fixing mistakes and letting others know about their flaws to avoid punishment.
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Today, inshallah ta'ala, we will attempt to

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conclude or complete the tafsir or explanation of

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surah al-mulk and we have arrived at

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ayah number 22.

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There's maybe 8 or 9 more verses yet

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left of it.

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And the ayah that I stopped at last

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week is probably the central verse within the

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surah and it explains what the purpose of

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knowledge actually is.

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Surah al-mulk is offering us or explaining

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to us what we need to know.

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As Muslims, what it is that we need

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to know.

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The requirement of information, of knowledge that we

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have to have and carry with us if

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we're going to be able to practice Islam

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appropriately and also spread it appropriately.

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And of course, surah al-mulk does not

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talk about fiqh and issues of jurisprudence because

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these are topics or issues that come secondarily.

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They're secondary issues in the deen.

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Primarily, it's the theology.

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It's understanding Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and

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knowing your purpose and why you're here and

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what is it that you're here to do

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and how life will be conducted and what

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will it look like after death and what

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accountability is going to be based on.

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These are the pieces of information that unite

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us as an ummah, by the way.

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We're united as Muslims through these pieces of

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information, through these comprehensions, understandings of who Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala is.

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We may differ on aspects of jurisprudence, of

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fiqh practices, variations of how we perform acts

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of worship and that's fine.

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It's never been a problem.

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Islam has always been wide enough and open

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enough and large enough and comprehensive enough to

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carry these different ways of doing things.

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But what unites us unequivocally is understanding our

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basic theology, which is what surah al-mulk

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talks about.

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Surah al-mulk does not go into any

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details.

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It doesn't even go into secondary aspects of

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aqeedah or tertiary aspects of aqeedah.

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It sticks with the basics.

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These basics, if they were properly understood by

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us, if we understood them well and we

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reflected upon them well and we also accepted

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and reflected upon that which they lead to

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with certainty.

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So, any piece of information, you have to

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understand it and accept it but also if

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it concludes something unequivocally, in logic, when a

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certain statement leads beyond a shadow of a

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doubt to another statement, then the belief in

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that first statement means belief in that statement

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and the one that comes after it.

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So when you accept that Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala is one, then that leads undisputedly

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to the statement that He does not have

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partners and there is no one that is

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similar to Him or equal to Him subhanahu

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wa ta'ala.

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That is concluded with certainty.

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Sometimes there will be a statement, you can

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conclude two things from it.

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You can understand it in two different ways,

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there are two conclusions.

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Whenever a statement offers the option of more

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than one conclusion, then there is sa'ah

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in the deen, there is always some openness.

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And you need a piece of evidence to

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state one of them over the other.

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For one of them to be correct and

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the other one to be incorrect, you need

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another piece of evidence to conclude that.

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But in language and in logic many times,

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a statement will lead immediately and undeniably to

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another statement.

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And the example that I gave you, when

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says He is

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the one and the only, that means that

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He has no partners, that also will lead

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to the fact that there is no one

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similar to Him.

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So you conclude that without requiring more pieces

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of evidence.

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Now the Quran offers other pieces of evidence,

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but you don't need them.

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Because this is understood and concluded linguistically.

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But the Quran does that to emphasize and

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reinforce certain understanding and certain comprehensions.

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Surat al-Mulk offers us these basic pieces

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of information about this journey, about existence.

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He told us about Himself, that He is

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Tabarak, that He is the one who continuously

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sends us blessings in a way that on

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an ongoing fashion is increasing, despite the fact

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that we do not acknowledge the weight of

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these bounties.

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Barakah means, they are heavier than we can

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even imagine.

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We can't even fully appreciate how heavy and

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how impactful they are.

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That's the first piece of information.

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Bi-yadih al-mulk, He is the King,

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subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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Sovereignty is in His hands.

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Ala kulli shay'in qadeer, He is the

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omnipotent.

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The creator of death.

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The creator of life.

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The fact that He, liyabluwakum ayyukum ahsanu amala,

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that our existence is merely an opportunity for

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us to be able to prove ourselves, to

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prove, to show what we can do.

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It's an opportunity of existence so that you

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are offered the potential to do something good

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with it.

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So that you can try your best with

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what you've got.

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He is the unfathomable.

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He is the most forgiving.

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The one who created the cosmos and the

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earth.

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I'm just reciting for you the verses that

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we went through.

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Al-Aziz, al-Ghafoor, alladhi khalaqa saba'a

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samawat intibaqa.

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They are identical.

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And then He asks you to reflect upon

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those cosmos.

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And He tells you to look at them

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infinitely.

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Thum marji'il basara, karratayni yanqalib ilaykal basaru

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khasi'an wa huwa hasid.

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The more you look, the more you will

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come to the conclusion that there are no

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breaks.

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And there are no discrepancies.

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And you will be in a state of

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frustration.

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And a state of awe.

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And admiration of that which was created.

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Walaqad zayanna al-sama'a al-dunya li

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-masabiha wa ja'alnaahu rujooman li-shayateen.

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And He states, subhanahu wa ta'ala, that

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everything that He created has a dual role.

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A role in alam al-shahada, something that

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you see.

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The stars are bright lanterns in the sky

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that beautify it in your surroundings.

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And they are also rujooman li-shayateen.

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They also exist in alam al-ghayb, in

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a fashion that you don't fully understand.

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He will give you the pieces of information

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that you need to know, but you won't

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know everything about that.

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And then He talked about al-akhirah.

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He talked about the Day of Judgment.

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He talked about punishment and He talked about

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reward.

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Those were the pieces of information in the

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first page.

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He continues, subhanahu wa ta'ala, in the

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second page, to challenge you.

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And to tell you, what is it that

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you are not certain about?

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You think that the One who created does

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not know His own creation.

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You think that He is not al-latif

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and not al-khabir.

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He is not the One who knows the

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subtleties and knows that which is hidden in

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your chest.

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Are you in a delusional state of safety

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and security?

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For you to walk around acting like Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala has not punished the

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people before.

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That He is not capable of sending the

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sky down on you or having the earth

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open from under you.

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Learn from that which happened before.

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Walk this earth.

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Eat from its provision.

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Walk the earth.

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He made it for you, dhaloon.

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He made it easy for you to walk

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it and eat from its provision.

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Enjoy what He made for you, subhanahu wa

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ta'ala.

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And then look at the animals.

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Look at the birds above you.

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Watch them as they fly.

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Who gave them the ability to do this

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aside from ar-Rahman?

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The One who sees all.

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All of these adjectives, all of these descriptions

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of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala come together

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in Surah al-Mulk.

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You don't find them that way.

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These subtleties, not everyone notices them.

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I'm trying to bring them to your attention

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because it's what makes surahs click.

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It's what makes surahs unique.

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When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala talks about

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Himself in other surahs, we don't find this

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pattern.

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We find other patterns, not this one.

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This pattern is Surah al-Mulk where He

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talks about His omniscience, subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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And then He uses all of the descriptions

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that are going to talk about His ilm.

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We find them in Surah al-Mulk.

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One after the other, He points them out

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to you, subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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Al-Lateef, Al-Khabeer, Al-Baseer.

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He's using these descriptions so that you understand

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who He is, subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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To understand the fact that you are taking

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these pieces of information from the source of

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knowledge Himself.

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He challenges us again.

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Who is it that's going to protect you?

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What soldiers do you have that will protect

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you, aside from ar-Rahman?

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Who is going to grant you provision if

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He holds back provision?

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If the sky stops raining and the earth

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stops giving food, and animals stop reproducing, how

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are you going to eat?

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Where are you going to get rizq from?

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The Qur'an argues these points, by the

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way.

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And I've repeated this a number of times

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because I need you when you read the

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Qur'an to understand what points the Qur

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'an is arguing.

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Or else you will be misled or you'll

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find it.

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Because you could say, well, we can get

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provision from anywhere.

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Fulan will give me money, I will steal

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it from that place.

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He's not talking about that, subhanahu wa ta

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'ala.

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He's not talking about that you can go

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and get grain from...

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No, He's saying provision itself as a concept.

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Who put it there?

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If He holds it back, where are you

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going to get it from?

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If water stops quenching your thirst.

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If water stops doing that.

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If you start drinking water and your kidneys

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just throw it out and it doesn't quench

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your thirst anymore.

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How are you going to fix that?

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If a seed is put in the ground

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and then sun and water don't...

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It doesn't grow.

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What are you going to do?

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If you put together chickens and a rooster

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and they don't make eggs and they don't

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reproduce.

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What are you going to do?

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Within three years every living thing will be

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dead.

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If He holds back His provision, subhanahu wa

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ta'ala.

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These laws are His laws.

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The laws of the universe are owned by

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God.

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He coined them.

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He made them.

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Gravity and electromagnetic fields and the basic laws

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of existence.

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He made them.

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It wasn't Newton who made these laws nor

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Einstein or any of the scientists.

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They just figured out how they functioned.

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They just figured out that they were there,

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that they existed.

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But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala put them

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there.

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So when He challenges you, He's challenging you

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saying, You see these laws, what if these

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laws stopped happening?

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What if they stopped?

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What if gravity stopped existing?

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Then what are you going to do then?

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Go ahead, what are you going to do?

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Do you think that we understand how it

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works today?

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Do you think we do?

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Do you think that human beings understand how

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it works?

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No, they don't.

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We don't.

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We just know it's there.

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We just know that gravity is there.

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We have no idea how it works.

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We don't understand why it works that way.

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We don't.

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We just know that anything that is positively

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charged and anything that is negatively charged will

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attract each other.

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Why?

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We have no idea.

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Why do they repel each other at the

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same charge?

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We don't know.

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We just know that that is a maxim

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of the universe.

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And because we understand that maxim, we can

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study its effects and we can learn things.

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The Qur'an is asking you about those

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maxims.

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If they stop functioning, what are you going

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to do?

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Who is it?

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This is what the Qur'an is saying.

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So when you listen to these verses, make

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sure you understand what the Qur'an is

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challenging.

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The Qur'an is challenging the maxims, the

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axiomatic matters that we take for granted that

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are self-evident to us, that we stop

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thinking about.

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We stop thinking about because it just happens.

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It just happens.

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This is the axis of the earth and

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this is how it rotates around the sun.

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This is its speed.

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This is its space.

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The distance, sorry.

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But without these basics, we wouldn't be here.

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So He challenges those things.

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أَوَلَمْ يَرُوا إِلَى الطَّيْبِ فَوْقَهُمْ Who made the

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laws of aerodynamics?

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That a bird can...

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Just because you understand it now doesn't mean

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that this verse is not relevant.

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This verse is not saying, oh now you

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understand how the physics go.

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So if you have a body that is

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filled with air, it's lighter than air, and

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you put enough speed, then you basically can

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lift off.

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You just figured out how it works.

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But He's saying, why does that happen?

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Why is it that that...

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Who put that law there?

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And if He takes away that law, that

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law doesn't function anymore.

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The fact that you put a boat in

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the sea and it floats even though it's

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heavier than water itself.

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You understand the law of how it works?

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It's the full space of the ship that

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you're going to use the calculations for and

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that's why it floats.

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But what if that law stopped functioning?

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We don't control these things.

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We just came to the world and that's

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what the world was working.

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That's how it works.

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That's why the Qur'an says, مَا تَرَى

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فِي خَلْقِ الرَّحْمَنِ مِنْ تَفَوَتِ Look at the

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creation of the Rahman.

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Look time and time again.

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You see breaks.

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You see discrepancies.

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Are there not all the same laws that

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govern everything and govern you and govern the

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world around you?

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Who put those laws there?

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Who put those laws?

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You go study a course of physics.

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They give you law number one and two

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and three and four.

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But who put them there?

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Where did they come from?

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We're just describing laws that govern things but

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where did those laws come from?

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That's what the ayah is saying.

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This is what the Qur'an is talking

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about whenever it challenges you to look at

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something and reflect upon something.

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That's what it's saying.

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Go back to these laws that you didn't

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put there, that you can't change, that without

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them you would not survive.

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And remind yourselves who put them there?

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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This is leading up to this ayah.

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أَفَمَ يَمْشِي مُكِبًّا عَلَى وَجْهِهِ أَهْدًا Who is

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more guided?

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The one who walks with their face down

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to the ground.

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They don't see ahead of them.

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They don't know which direction they're walking.

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They have no destination because they don't see

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in front.

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They're looking down.

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أَمَّ يَمْشِي سَوِيًّا Or the one who's walking

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with their head held high and they see

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ahead of them walking straight on a straight

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path.

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With equilibrium.

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سَوِيًّا They're balanced.

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They see the straight path.

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Are they the same?

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Someone walking aimlessly.

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No direction, no destination.

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Their face is down to the ground.

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Or someone who's walking with their head up.

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They can see.

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They're not the same.

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This person will reach somewhere.

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This person has a destination.

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They'll reach it.

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This person will never reach it.

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And علم, that's what علم is for.

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علم is to allow you to raise your

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head so you can see.

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And the point of that is so that

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you can find guidance.

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So that you're more guided.

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علم has to lead to guidance.

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If علم does not lead to guidance, it's

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a waste of time.

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If you increase in your knowledge and your

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knowledge does not take you to a state

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where you're more guided, meaning the طريق, the

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سبيل for you.

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The صراط is not more clear.

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If it's not clearer because of your knowledge,

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then the knowledge you took was not helpful.

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Knowledge has to clarify the صراط so you

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can walk with more equilibrium, with more clarity.

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You know exactly where you're putting your foot.

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You see the end of it.

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You know exactly where you're going.

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No matter how violent the waves of life

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are, no matter how far they throw you,

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you can always stand up and get your

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head up there again to see where the

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destination is and then walk again because you

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know where you're going.

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But someone who's...

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They're focused here.

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And there's symbolism in this ayah that goes

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beyond even what I'm trying to explain to

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you here.

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This concept of being focused on small details

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that are inferior to your own existence, details

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that don't matter.

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You're being preoccupied, having this tunneled vision of

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preoccupation with little details of life, of things

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that don't matter at all, that are دنيا,

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that are low.

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You're just looking down.

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How are you going to get anywhere?

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Don't you understand that there's more to you

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than this?

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Get your head up.

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Lift your head.

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Why are you looking down?

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Why are you focused on حيات الدنيا and

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these details that don't mean anything, that have

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no weight or value at all?

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Lift your head.

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Take a better view of what you're doing.

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See where you're going.

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Understand what you're here to do and live

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for that so that your life has more

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meaning to it, it's more fulfilled.

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And then walk, walk with clarity, walk with

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equilibrium, with balance.

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SubhanAllah.

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This is what this ayah is talking about.

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Enough time wasted on nitty-gritty details that

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don't mean anything.

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Fighting over small aspects of دنيا, focused, having

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no idea, having no understanding of the bigger

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picture, focused on just my little, my little

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small aspects of comfort and what I want.

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يا أخي ارفع رأسك Lift your, raise your

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head, look, look, what are you doing?

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Look at the, see your صراطة, do you

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know where you're walking?

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Do you have any idea where you're going?

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Where are you?

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From where you should be?

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What's wrong with you?

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أَفَي مَن يَمْشِي مُكِبًّا عَلَى وَجْهِهِ أَهْدَى Is

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this person more guided?

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أَمَّن يَمْشِي سَوِيًّا عَلَى صِرَاطٍ مُسْتَقِيمٍ What takes

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you there?

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علم takes you there.

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Knowledge takes you there.

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It's knowledge that took the صحابة there.

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It transformed a nation of illiterates to a

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nation that brought علم, knowledge, science, and religion

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together for the first time in history.

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Historically that never, no church historically has been

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able to do that.

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Every single church, I'm not talking about the

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Christian church, any church, any form of religiosity,

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historically has always been at odds with the

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scientific minds.

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And then for a millennium, for a solid

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thousand years, for a solid thousand years, religion

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is what encouraged scientific thought, critical thinking, objectivity,

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rationale, logic, discovery, and exploration.

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And the scholars of religion were the scholars

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of botany, and geology, and biology, and medicine,

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and astronomy, and every other discipline of science

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that was known to man at the time.

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For a solid thousand years, across three continents

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that was the case.

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Because this is what the Qur'an taught

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them.

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I just want us to go back and

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learn what the Qur'an taught the earlier

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generation.

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That's all.

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Let's go back and learn what they took

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from it.

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How they understood this.

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So that we can take it and practice

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it that way.

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So it can do something, do for us

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what it did for them.

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And the answer here is no, Ya Rabb.

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Because the question, أَفَمَنْ There's a lot of

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questions here.

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أَمِنْتُمْ No, we didn't Ya Rabb.

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أَمِنْتُمْ أَمْأَمِنْتُمْ مَنْ فِي السَّمَاءِ No, we didn't.

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أَمَّنْ هَذَا الَّذِي هُوَ جُدُ لَّكُمْ Who is

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it that?

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No one, Ya Rabb.

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أَمَّنْ هَذَا الَّذِي يَرْزُقُهُمْ Who is going to

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provide for you?

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No one, Ya Rabb.

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أَفَمَنْ يَمْشِي مُكِبًا Tell me, who is better?

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يَا رَبِّ مَنْ يَمْشِي سَوِيًا عَلَى صِرَاطٍ مُسْتَقِيمٍ

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The one who walks with their head.

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That one.

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That's the one who's more guided, Ya Rabb.

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It's obvious.

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Follow.

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Learn.

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When you learn these concepts, when you allow

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these pieces of information to mean something to

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you, when you allow them to, when you

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embrace them and you absorb them and they

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become a part of your subconsciousness and this

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is how you live your life, knowing these

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facts about God, about the universe, about creation,

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about life itself, about your experience here, then

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you live differently.

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Surah Al-Mulk gives you, Surah Al-Mulk

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not just in a mythological way will protect

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you in your qabr.

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Surah Al-Mulk in a practical way will

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protect you in your qabr.

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Because if you understand this, then you will

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live a life that will make sure your

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qabr is a good experience.

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If you understand this stuff, you can't live

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a life that you won't.

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If this is clear to you, if what

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Surah Al-Mulk has explained is clear to

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you, then you will absolutely live a life,

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you will for sure live a life that

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will be protected in the grave after you

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leave.

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For sure.

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The Prophet when he said these things, he

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wasn't saying these things in a way to

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turn off your brain.

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Oh, read Surah Al-Mulk and then you'll

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be protected.

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How are you going to read Surah Al

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-Mulk?

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As in sleep?

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Or read and think and learn.

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These words have meanings, it's a language, it's

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not gibberish.

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This is very profound.

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Every verse is trying to teach something.

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Read it every night so that you're protected.

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How are you going to read it every

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night?

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Read it and turn off the upper deck

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and just...

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That's how you're going to read it.

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Do we seriously think that's what he was

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saying?

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That's very, very depressing to me.

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It's depressing to me if he teaches us

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these things.

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Say this and say that and read this

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and read that and every time we do,

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we just turn off the upper...

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Just why?

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He might as well have told us to

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say things that have no meaning at all.

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Right?

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Might as well have told us to say

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things that have no meaning at all.

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If you think about it, there are verses

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in the Qur'an that are like...

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No meaning.

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For us at least, no meaning.

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We don't understand what they mean.

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We don't understand what they mean.

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I can give you some hypotheses, but I

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don't know exactly what they mean.

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Why?

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It's challenging you.

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Here, you see those words, those letters?

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These are the letters that build the content

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of this book.

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Now read the book.

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Understand it.

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Or else you could have made the whole

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book just...

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We just sit down and read.

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We understand nothing.

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Yeah.

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You have to comprehend.

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We'll start with Ayah number 23.

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The conclusion of Surah Al-Mulk.

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A lot of commands.

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You will find six times in a row

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in these verses, he will say to the

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Prophet, Say the following.

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Say the following.

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Answer with the following.

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Respond with the following.

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These verses, you'll find these clusters of verses

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in the Qur'an in multiple places.

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I talk about them every once in a

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while.

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Because we'll recite like a Surah, and there'll

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be a bunch of them.

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You'll find them in Surah Al-An'am,

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you'll find them in Surah Al-Sabah.

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You'll find them a couple of places in

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the Qur'an where Allah Subh'anaHu Wa

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Ta-A'la goes over like a damr.

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Say this, say this, say this.

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Here are some responses.

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Here are things for you to say, not

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just to others, but to yourself and to

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understand.

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As a conclusion of this Surah.

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And they're very beautiful, so we'll start, InshaAllah,

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reciting Ayah number 23.

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قُلْ هُوَ الَّذِي ذَرَأَكُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَإِلَيْهِ تُحْشَرُونَ

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The first two verses that tell him something

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to say.

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قُلْ Say the following.

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هُوَ الَّذِي أَنشَأَكُمْ He is the one who

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created you, and brought you up.

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And Insha is to make something, but also

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grow it.

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That's why when we talk about someone who's

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growing up, we say him Nashi'ah.

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Meaning people who are on their way to

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get older.

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So Ansha'akum means that he created you,

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but there was some degree of graduality to

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it.

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Meaning you came with time.

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You didn't come out once.

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You came with time.

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You had to learn on your way there.

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You had to grow, and you had to

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mature.

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Ansha'akum.

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He brought you up slowly.

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He brought you up.

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Ansha'akum.

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He brought you up slowly from nothing to

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something.

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قُلْ هُوَ الَّذِي أَنشَأَكُمْ And during that process,

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جَعَلَ لَكُمْ He made for you.

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He installed for you.

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Within you.

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السَّمْعَ وَالْأَبْصَارَ وَالْأَفْئِدَ He gave you the ability

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to hear, and the ability to see, and

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he gave you consciousness.

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فُؤَاد is your consciousness, or your intellect.

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If you want to use that word to

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describe it, it would be also reasonable.

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He gave you the ability to hear, and

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to see, and he gave you that basic

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consciousness and intellect.

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So you do what with it?

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What are you going to do with it?

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You're capable of hearing and listening.

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You're capable of seeing.

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You can process information coming from the outside,

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externally to you.

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And then you have a consciousness that can

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take all that information, and process it, and

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draw conclusions.

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What are you going to do with that?

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قَلِيلًا مَّا تَشْكُرُونَ How little it is that

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you are thankful for that, and you're grateful.

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How do you show gratitude to Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala for that?

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By just saying الحمد لله.

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Say الحمد لله at all times.

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You say الحمد لله whether you have something

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you can think about that's good in your

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life, or you have nothing to say to

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think about.

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If you have nothing that you can think

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about that's good in your life, you still

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say الحمد لله.

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Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is worthy

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of praise, whether you can think of something

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to praise Him for, or you can't.

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It makes no difference.

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He is not worthy of praise because you

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can think of something that you want to

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praise Him for.

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He is worthy of praise even if you

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cannot come up with anything.

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Because He is الحميد.

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He is worthy of praise at all times.

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So الحمد لله should roll off your tongue

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normally.

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But when He talks about شكر, A few

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of you, قليلة, very few times, a few

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instances of people actually show شكر to the

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fact that He أنشأكم and He granted you

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the ability to hear and to see and

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He granted you intellect and consciousness.

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How do you show شكر for something like

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this?

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You use them appropriately.

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How do you show شكر for the wealth

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that He gave you?

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You give.

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You give others.

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You make sure that's how it is.

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It's simple.

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There's nothing complicated here.

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He gives you something.

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He grants you a bounty.

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You show شكر by using it well.

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By using it, by making sure that you

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use it the way it was intended to

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be used.

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Whether it's your wealth, whether it's your time,

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whether it's your health.

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But when He gave you intellect and the

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ability to hear and the ability to see

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and the ability to process and to think,

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that consciousness, the word فؤاد is not very

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common in the Qur'an.

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Maybe six, seven times, tops.

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Within the 30 juz'a, it's not...

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فؤاد is...

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wherever it's used, إِنَّ السَّمْعَ وَالبَصَرَ وَالفُؤَادَ كُلُّ

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أُولَئِكَ كَانَ عَنْهُ مَسْؤُولَ Indeed, your ability to

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hear and to see and the فؤاد, meaning

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your intellect and consciousness, the consciousness that you

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have.

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Indeed, all of that, you're going to be

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asked about يوم القيامة.

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You're going to be...

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كُلُّ ذَلِك All of it...

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كُلُّ أُولَئِك كَانَ عَنْهُ مَسْؤُولَ The human being

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was responsible for...

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Responsible for what he was going to do

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with them.

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There you go.

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قَلِيلًا مَّا تَشْكُرُوا SubhanAllah.

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كَانَ سَيِّدْنَا عُمَرُ سَيِّدْنَا رَضُّ الْخَطَابُ He used

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to make this du'a.

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اللَّهُمَ اجْعَلْنِي مِنَ الْقَلِيلِ He used to make

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that du'a.

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Or make me from the few.

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And of course, one of the تابعين asked

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him, what do you mean?

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فَقَالَ قَوْلُ وَقِيْلِ وَقَلِيلٌ مِّنْ عِبَادِيَ الشَّكُورِ Right?

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In Surah Saba.

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And few of my servants are those who

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are grateful.

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Who show gratitude for what I give them.

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And he repeats this in the Quran a

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lot.

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That it's not...

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Most people take what they have for granted.

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They take it, they feel that they deserved

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it somehow.

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That they are entitled to it.

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And they run with it expecting more.

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Expecting more of it.

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If it gets less, then they're like, what?

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Why is it less than I...

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Why is it less?

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Who dares take...

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What do you mean?

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Did you earn this?

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Did you pay for it?

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What did you do to deserve this?

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Nothing.

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This was a gift.

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Here.

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Just like he gave it, he can take

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it.

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سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى يعني...

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وَنَحْشُرُهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ أَعْبَى Those who turned their...

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Turned away from Allah's reminders.

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يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ They come, they're blind.

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They can't see.

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قَالَ رَبِّي لِمَ حَشَرْتَنِي أَعْمَى وَقَدْ كُنْتُ بَصِيرًا

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Why am I blind?

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I could see before.

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قَالَ كَذَلِكَ أَتَتْكَ آيَاتُنَا فَنَسِيْتَهَا وَكَذَلِكَ الْيَوْمَ تُنْسَى

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Just like we sent you all these reminders

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and you decided to neglect them and forget

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them, you're being neglected today.

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Yeah, the Malik forgot to give you eyesight.

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Just like you forgot.

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Just like you didn't care.

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You didn't care about what we were talking

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to you about, so we didn't care enough

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to make sure that you had all of

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your senses restored the way they were.

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That's the first one.

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This is what he has to say.

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He's saying this, alayhi salatu wasalam, not to

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the mushrikeen specifically.

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Right?

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Most of the...

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When you find these verses in the Qur

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'an that have five or six قُلْ قُلْ

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قُلْ in a row, you have to identify

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what the context of the verses are.

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Sometimes those verses will be in the context

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of an argument or a debate.

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Right?

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You'll find that in Ali Imran and you'll

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find that in Saba.

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You'll find where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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is telling them, say this as response.

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Say this as response.

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Right?

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This is how you're going to respond to

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them.

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And then you'll find other verses that are

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like this, where it's not a debate.

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Where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is telling

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the Prophet alayhi salatu wasalam what statements to

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make to himself and to the believers.

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Here's what you need to learn.

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Here's what you have to think about.

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Number one, you say this.

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It's Allah who created me from nothing and

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brought me up and granted me all of

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my intellectual faculties.

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He granted me my ability to listen and

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to hear and to think and to see.

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He granted me consciousness.

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And very few people are grateful for that,

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so I need to change that.

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That's the first one.

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Second one.

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قُلْ هُوَ الَّذِي ذَرَأَكُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ Say, He

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is the one who dispersed you amongst the

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earth.

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You're all over the earth.

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You aren't living in one small spot.

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He spread you.

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ذر is to take something and spread.

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The farmer, يذر الحب.

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He'll take seed and he'll disperse the seed

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all across the field.

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So ذرَأَكُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ He disperse you all

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across the earth.

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ذرَأَكُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَإِلَيْهِ تُحْشَرُونَ And you will

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all be gathered back to Him subhanahu wa

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ta'ala.

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Say, this is what you say.

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It's Allah who spread you the way you

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are across the earth with your different races

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and cultures and tongues and habits and traditions

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and whatever you have.

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This is what Allah.

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He put you like that.

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So that you may learn.

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So that you may grow.

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So that you may take the best of

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it and practice and leave the worst of

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it and remove it.

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Because you're all going to be brought back

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to Him and gathered back to Him subhanahu

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wa ta'ala.

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He granted you the intellectual faculty.

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So use them well.

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Use them for khair.

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Use them so that you can gain knowledge

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and you can gain guidance.

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Use them in a way that you can

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say, I was grateful.

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I could hear and think and listen and

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see.

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I'm going to use them well.

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And use those gifts from Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala in a way that yawm al

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qiyamah I can say I was grateful for

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them.

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So I use them well.

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Say, He is the one who spread you

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amongst the earth the way you are.

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Because these are existential questions by the way.

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The question of why is it that I

00:31:01 --> 00:31:01

have metacognition?

00:31:01 --> 00:31:03

Why can I think this way?

00:31:04 --> 00:31:06

Why does every other creature just exist happily,

00:31:06 --> 00:31:07

quietly?

00:31:08 --> 00:31:08

Why?

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If you left orangutans for a thousand years

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with all the tools in the world they

00:31:12 --> 00:31:13

will poop on all of them and they'll

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continue just to eat bananas.

00:31:14 --> 00:31:15

They don't care.

00:31:15 --> 00:31:16

They're not going to build an empire.

00:31:17 --> 00:31:18

They don't have metacognition.

00:31:18 --> 00:31:18

They don't care.

00:31:18 --> 00:31:19

They're not depressed.

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The only time they are depressed is if

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you put them in captivity.

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If you take away their freedom.

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Aside from that, they're fine.

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We made animals depressed by the way.

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We gave them depression by putting them in

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small tanks and taking them away out of

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their and ruining their habitats for them.

00:31:35 --> 00:31:36

But put them in their habitats.

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They're fine.

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They don't mind.

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They're happy.

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They don't need psychiatrists and they don't need...

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Do you understand that the stocks for antidepressants

00:31:45 --> 00:31:47

in the 90s went up by 400%

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by 400% People who invested this early

00:31:50 --> 00:31:51

on became multi-millionaires.

00:31:51 --> 00:31:54

Billionaires because of the human experience.

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Because we don't know what we're here to

00:31:56 --> 00:31:57

do.

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And just existing is not enough for most

00:31:59 --> 00:31:59

human beings.

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Even those who don't have faith some aspect

00:32:02 --> 00:32:04

of them is unfulfilled and it's very difficult.

00:32:05 --> 00:32:07

When you sit alone with your thoughts something

00:32:07 --> 00:32:08

is nagging at you.

00:32:08 --> 00:32:10

If you don't know...

00:32:10 --> 00:32:11

If you're...

00:32:11 --> 00:32:12

If you're...

00:32:12 --> 00:32:13

If you're walking in life and you're focused

00:32:13 --> 00:32:15

only on the small pleasures and leisures of

00:32:15 --> 00:32:17

life then there's a part of you that

00:32:17 --> 00:32:18

is unfulfilled and unhappy.

00:32:18 --> 00:32:20

When you're left alone with it it screams

00:32:20 --> 00:32:22

at you and it scares you and it

00:32:22 --> 00:32:23

makes you feel worthless and it makes you

00:32:23 --> 00:32:26

feel very anxious and tired and upset and

00:32:26 --> 00:32:26

fatigued.

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These questions what the human being has been

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asking forever why is it that I feel

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like...

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You think and you understand because Allah subhanahu

00:32:35 --> 00:32:36

wa ta'ala wanted you to.

00:32:37 --> 00:32:40

You have this intellectual faculty you're able to

00:32:40 --> 00:32:42

think and to reflect and to hear and

00:32:42 --> 00:32:44

to see and to process all this because

00:32:44 --> 00:32:45

Allah wanted you to.

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That's what He wanted subhanahu wa ta'ala.

00:32:47 --> 00:32:48

He decreed that.

00:32:48 --> 00:32:48

No one else did.

00:32:50 --> 00:32:51

Subhanahu wa ta'ala decided that you are

00:32:51 --> 00:32:53

going to have this gift.

00:32:53 --> 00:32:54

So be grateful.

00:32:54 --> 00:32:56

And then He decided that you're going to

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live all across the earth and you'll look

00:32:57 --> 00:32:59

different and you'll sound different and you'll have

00:32:59 --> 00:33:02

different races and cultures and habits and traditions

00:33:02 --> 00:33:03

and that's what He decided.

00:33:03 --> 00:33:06

So use that well because you will all

00:33:06 --> 00:33:07

be gathered back to Him subhanahu wa ta

00:33:07 --> 00:33:07

'ala.

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These are the basics of our existence.

00:33:12 --> 00:33:13

And the Qur'an is just stating them.

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This is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's choice.

00:33:15 --> 00:33:15

He chose.

00:33:16 --> 00:33:18

He chose for me to look different than

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you and you to look different than Him

00:33:20 --> 00:33:20

and her to look different.

00:33:20 --> 00:33:21

He chose that.

00:33:21 --> 00:33:23

He chose for us to come from different

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backgrounds and have different experiences.

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So we can learn from one another.

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So that we can grow from one another.

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So that we can appreciate that which brings

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us together and not that which divides us.

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That's His choice subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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فَلَمَّا رَأَوْهُ زُلْفَةً سِئَتْ أُجُوهُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا وَقِيلَ

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هَذَا الَّذِي كُنْتُمْ بِهِ تَدَّعُونَ And

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they will say متى هذا الوعد إن كنتم

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صادقين When is this promise of yours?

00:34:49 --> 00:34:51

If you are truthful, tell us when is

00:34:51 --> 00:34:52

this promise going to happen?

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This promise of resurrection of Armageddon occurring and

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of a day where everyone will be تُحْشَرُونَ

00:35:00 --> 00:35:01

إِلَى اللَّهِ where you are gathered and you

00:35:01 --> 00:35:03

are shepherded back to Allah subhanahu wa ta

00:35:03 --> 00:35:03

'ala.

00:35:04 --> 00:35:05

If you are truthful, when is this going

00:35:05 --> 00:35:06

to happen?

00:35:07 --> 00:35:07

So they asked about when.

00:35:08 --> 00:35:10

When is not the right question.

00:35:12 --> 00:35:13

When is the wrong question.

00:35:14 --> 00:35:17

Surah Al-Mulk is again as I pointed

00:35:17 --> 00:35:19

out a number of times now is talking

00:35:19 --> 00:35:20

about what we need to know.

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But it's also telling us what we don't

00:35:22 --> 00:35:22

need to know.

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There are things that you absolutely need to

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know and there are a bunch of things

00:35:26 --> 00:35:27

that you don't really need to know.

00:35:27 --> 00:35:28

They don't matter.

00:35:29 --> 00:35:31

They are not crucial.

00:35:32 --> 00:35:34

They are not intricate to your story.

00:35:35 --> 00:35:36

Whether you know them or not doesn't make

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a difference.

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The Qur'an does this all the time

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by the way.

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The Qur'an points this out all the

00:35:39 --> 00:35:39

time.

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Of things that you are asking for that

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doesn't matter whether you know them or not.

00:35:44 --> 00:35:45

They didn't make a difference.

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سَيَقُولُونَ فَلَاثَةُ الرَّابِعُهُمْ كَلْبُهُمْ يَقْلُونَ Who cares?

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There are three of them or five of

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them or seven of them.

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What does that matter?

00:35:52 --> 00:35:53

Who cares what type of dog it was?

00:35:55 --> 00:35:55

Google it.

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See the number of forums that are open

00:35:57 --> 00:35:59

online for people asking what type of dog

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the people of Ahlul Kahf had.

00:36:01 --> 00:36:03

Wallah, take a look.

00:36:04 --> 00:36:06

Hundreds and hundreds of hours have been spent

00:36:06 --> 00:36:08

talking whether it's a great dane or a

00:36:08 --> 00:36:09

shepherd or whatever.

00:36:09 --> 00:36:10

Who cares?

00:36:11 --> 00:36:13

Who cares what type of dog it is?

00:36:13 --> 00:36:14

How does that change anything?

00:36:15 --> 00:36:17

What impact does that have on you?

00:36:17 --> 00:36:18

What if it's a husky?

00:36:18 --> 00:36:19

Are you going to go buy one?

00:36:20 --> 00:36:22

What is that going to do for you?

00:36:23 --> 00:36:26

عَلَيْهَا تِسْعَةَ عَشَرٍ Nineteen of the mala'ikah.

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And then they spent time talking.

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Oh, 19.

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Why 19?

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How does that change anything?

00:36:32 --> 00:36:36

Whether it's 19 mala'ik guarding, gatekeeping Jahannam

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or whether it's 19,000 or whether it's

00:36:38 --> 00:36:39

one or whether it's none.

00:36:39 --> 00:36:40

How does that affect you?

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It's when you focus on هُنَكَ عِلْمٌ مَوْجُودٌ

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هُنَكَ عِلْمٌ مَفْقُودٌ If you study Tahawiyyah with

00:36:46 --> 00:36:47

me in a Aqeedah course every year, we

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do a Aqeedah course, and I'm mandating this

00:36:51 --> 00:36:52

now for everyone who's attending this masjid.

00:36:52 --> 00:36:53

You have to attend this course.

00:36:53 --> 00:36:55

If you have not, then once we run

00:36:55 --> 00:36:56

it again in May, you have to attend

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it.

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And after a couple of years of doing

00:36:58 --> 00:37:00

this, that will be your entrance to the

00:37:00 --> 00:37:00

masjid card.

00:37:00 --> 00:37:01

You attended the Aqeedah course?

00:37:01 --> 00:37:02

أهل وسلم No?

00:37:02 --> 00:37:04

Go pray in some other masjid.

00:37:04 --> 00:37:05

You have to attend.

00:37:05 --> 00:37:05

You have to learn.

00:37:06 --> 00:37:07

You have to understand what your theology is.

00:37:08 --> 00:37:09

We have to agree who Allah subhanahu wa

00:37:09 --> 00:37:11

ta'ala is and how we understand Allah

00:37:11 --> 00:37:13

subhanahu wa ta'ala and what reverence and

00:37:13 --> 00:37:15

what degree of exaltation we all carry in

00:37:15 --> 00:37:17

our hearts for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

00:37:17 --> 00:37:18

what we claim for Him, what we don't

00:37:18 --> 00:37:19

claim for Him.

00:37:21 --> 00:37:23

In the end of this text, the Imam

00:37:23 --> 00:37:25

of Taha'i will say هُنَكَ عِلْمَانِ عِلْمٌ

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مَوْجُودٌ وَعِلْمٌ مَفْقُودٌ There is no knowledge except

00:37:27 --> 00:37:28

of knowledge.

00:37:28 --> 00:37:29

Knowledge that is available.

00:37:29 --> 00:37:31

Knowledge that you are obligated to learn.

00:37:31 --> 00:37:33

Knowledge you are obligated to practice and to

00:37:33 --> 00:37:34

teach others.

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وَعِلْمٌ مَفْقُودٌ And there is knowledge that is

00:37:36 --> 00:37:37

not accessible.

00:37:38 --> 00:37:39

There are things that you will never know.

00:37:40 --> 00:37:43

There are things that if you pursue them,

00:37:43 --> 00:37:45

they will only make you get more lost.

00:37:45 --> 00:37:47

If you ask about them, you will only

00:37:47 --> 00:37:49

get more confused because they are not accessible

00:37:49 --> 00:37:49

to you.

00:37:50 --> 00:37:51

How does Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala exist

00:37:51 --> 00:37:52

the way He exists?

00:37:53 --> 00:37:54

How is it that He doesn't have a

00:37:54 --> 00:37:55

beginning?

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هَذَا عِلْمٌ مَفْقُودٌ The essence of God is

00:37:59 --> 00:37:59

not understandable.

00:38:00 --> 00:38:01

You'll never understand the essence of God.

00:38:02 --> 00:38:03

If you did, He wouldn't be God anymore.

00:38:04 --> 00:38:06

If you were able to break down His

00:38:06 --> 00:38:07

essence, He wouldn't be God.

00:38:07 --> 00:38:09

He would be some great creation, but He

00:38:09 --> 00:38:09

is not God.

00:38:10 --> 00:38:12

You can't have your cake and eat it

00:38:12 --> 00:38:12

too.

00:38:12 --> 00:38:14

You can't say, this is Allah, but I

00:38:14 --> 00:38:15

also want to understand His essence.

00:38:15 --> 00:38:15

No.

00:38:15 --> 00:38:18

Either He is Allah, or you understand something's

00:38:18 --> 00:38:18

essence.

00:38:18 --> 00:38:20

Both of them together, يا أخي, they don't

00:38:20 --> 00:38:20

work together.

00:38:20 --> 00:38:21

There's no logic in that.

00:38:22 --> 00:38:23

So if you spend time trying to understand

00:38:23 --> 00:38:25

the essence of something that you are, by

00:38:25 --> 00:38:28

design, by design not capable of understanding, then

00:38:28 --> 00:38:28

you're wasting your time.

00:38:29 --> 00:38:31

If you start asking questions about, when is

00:38:31 --> 00:38:31

يوم القيامة?

00:38:31 --> 00:38:32

When?

00:38:32 --> 00:38:33

I'm going to use this hadith and try

00:38:33 --> 00:38:34

to figure it out.

00:38:34 --> 00:38:35

And then someone sits online and says, it's

00:38:35 --> 00:38:36

going to be 2000 and something.

00:38:36 --> 00:38:37

يا أخي اسكت يا أخي.

00:38:37 --> 00:38:38

يا أخي اسكت.

00:38:38 --> 00:38:39

What are you doing?

00:38:40 --> 00:38:42

If the Prophet, عليه الصلاة والسلام, was asked

00:38:42 --> 00:38:43

by Jibreel, what is...

00:38:44 --> 00:38:45

Do we have a more authentic hadith than

00:38:45 --> 00:38:46

hadith Jibreel?

00:38:47 --> 00:38:48

Do we have a hadith that is celebrated

00:38:48 --> 00:38:50

amongst the Ummah more than hadith Jibreel?

00:38:50 --> 00:38:52

Where the Prophet was asked by Jibreel, يعني

00:38:52 --> 00:38:55

متى الساعة فقال مالمسؤول عنها بأعلم من السائل؟

00:38:55 --> 00:38:57

The one that's being asked is not more

00:38:57 --> 00:38:58

knowledgeable about this than the one who is

00:38:58 --> 00:38:59

asking.

00:38:59 --> 00:38:59

Because I don't know.

00:39:00 --> 00:39:01

Do we need the...

00:39:01 --> 00:39:04

قل يَلَا أَمْلِكُ لِنَفْسِي نَفْعٌ وَلَا ضَرَّةٌ وَلَوْ

00:39:04 --> 00:39:07

كُنْتُ أَعْلَمُ الْغَيْبَ لَا سْتَكْثَرُ يَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ السَّيْعَاتِ

00:39:07 --> 00:39:11

أَيَّا لَمُسَاهَةٍ فِي مَا أَنتَ مِن ذِكْرَاهَا إِلَى

00:39:11 --> 00:39:14

رَبِّكَ مُنْتَهَاهَا No, we're going to sit down

00:39:14 --> 00:39:15

and we're going to spend time and talking

00:39:15 --> 00:39:17

about the signs and we're coming close to

00:39:17 --> 00:39:18

the end of time and we have to...

00:39:18 --> 00:39:22

رَحَّ وَلَا وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ I don't

00:39:22 --> 00:39:23

know what the...

00:39:24 --> 00:39:26

Why are you wasting time trying to study

00:39:26 --> 00:39:29

something that you don't have the tools to

00:39:29 --> 00:39:30

detect anything?

00:39:30 --> 00:39:31

You can't deduct anything from it.

00:39:32 --> 00:39:33

You can't deduct any knowledge from this.

00:39:35 --> 00:39:37

But you think that there's a formula in

00:39:37 --> 00:39:39

these narrations that will tell you when the

00:39:39 --> 00:39:39

hour is.

00:39:39 --> 00:39:41

And the Prophet ﷺ didn't know.

00:39:42 --> 00:39:43

And the Sahaba didn't understand it either.

00:39:45 --> 00:39:48

قُلْ إِنَّمَا الْعِلْمُ عَنْدَ اللَّهِ Say exclusively the

00:39:48 --> 00:39:50

knowledge of the hour is with Allah.

00:39:51 --> 00:39:52

That's what you say.

00:39:52 --> 00:39:53

Because that's not a piece of...

00:39:53 --> 00:39:54

That doesn't matter to you.

00:39:56 --> 00:39:58

People say, well, it would be nicer to

00:39:58 --> 00:39:58

know what would happen.

00:39:58 --> 00:39:59

Yeah, it would be.

00:40:00 --> 00:40:01

Would be, wouldn't it?

00:40:02 --> 00:40:03

Yeah, for someone who doesn't want to do

00:40:03 --> 00:40:05

anything productive, it would be great to know.

00:40:06 --> 00:40:07

It would be nice to know when you

00:40:07 --> 00:40:08

die too, wouldn't it?

00:40:09 --> 00:40:11

That way you can just plan things out.

00:40:12 --> 00:40:13

I have 15 more years.

00:40:13 --> 00:40:13

Excellent.

00:40:14 --> 00:40:18

Next 10 years, I know what I'm doing.

00:40:19 --> 00:40:21

Then last 5 years, I'll do a Umrah

00:40:21 --> 00:40:22

every year.

00:40:22 --> 00:40:24

And last year, I'll perform the Hajj of

00:40:24 --> 00:40:25

all Hajjis.

00:40:26 --> 00:40:27

And I will give all my money away.

00:40:28 --> 00:40:29

So it's a...

00:40:30 --> 00:40:33

What information he held back from you, the

00:40:33 --> 00:40:34

information he held from you, he held from

00:40:34 --> 00:40:35

you for you.

00:40:36 --> 00:40:37

He held it from you for you.

00:40:38 --> 00:40:40

Because there's no point in knowing it.

00:40:40 --> 00:40:41

Because it's not going to help you.

00:40:41 --> 00:40:44

Actually many times, certain pieces of information will

00:40:44 --> 00:40:45

only harm you.

00:40:45 --> 00:40:46

So he held them back.

00:40:46 --> 00:40:48

Subhanahu wa ta'ala.

00:40:48 --> 00:40:50

قُلْ إِنَّمَا الْعِلْمُ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ Because they asked

00:40:50 --> 00:40:50

about...

00:40:50 --> 00:40:53

Surah Al-Mulk is telling us what we

00:40:53 --> 00:40:53

need.

00:40:53 --> 00:40:54

It's giving us pieces of information.

00:40:55 --> 00:40:57

And then it's commanding us to observe the

00:40:57 --> 00:40:57

cosmos.

00:40:58 --> 00:41:00

فَارْجِعِ الْبَصَرَةِ And to walk the earth.

00:41:01 --> 00:41:03

فَمْشُوا فِي مَنَاكِ بِهَا And to look at

00:41:03 --> 00:41:04

the creations.

00:41:04 --> 00:41:06

أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْا إِلَىٰ قَيْرِ Asking you to look

00:41:06 --> 00:41:07

at everything and learn.

00:41:07 --> 00:41:09

As also pointing out, but there's certain pieces

00:41:09 --> 00:41:10

of information that don't matter.

00:41:11 --> 00:41:11

Don't ask about them.

00:41:11 --> 00:41:12

It's not going to help you.

00:41:12 --> 00:41:14

متى هذا الوعد When is this promise going

00:41:14 --> 00:41:16

to come to fruition?

00:41:16 --> 00:41:17

That doesn't matter.

00:41:17 --> 00:41:20

قُلْ إِنَّمَا الْعِلْمُ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ It's exclusively with

00:41:20 --> 00:41:21

Allah, this information.

00:41:22 --> 00:41:24

وَإِنَّمَا And I am exclusively.

00:41:24 --> 00:41:25

شُوءْ إِنَّمَا Twice in one verse.

00:41:25 --> 00:41:26

I told you once before.

00:41:26 --> 00:41:28

And I say this in multiple دروس في

00:41:28 --> 00:41:28

التفسير.

00:41:29 --> 00:41:31

Whenever you see إِنَّمَا Hit the brakes and

00:41:31 --> 00:41:32

stop and think about what you're listening to.

00:41:33 --> 00:41:35

إِنَّمَا Is saying exclusively the following is what

00:41:35 --> 00:41:36

you need to know.

00:41:36 --> 00:41:38

Or what the reality is.

00:41:39 --> 00:41:40

إِنَّ Is to emphasize.

00:41:40 --> 00:41:41

إِنَّ Is the diamond dust.

00:41:41 --> 00:41:42

It's everywhere in the Quran.

00:41:42 --> 00:41:46

إِنَّمَا Is not as common because it as

00:41:46 --> 00:41:49

they say كَافِيَ مَكْفُوفَةَ It gives you this

00:41:49 --> 00:41:51

aspect of حصر.

00:41:51 --> 00:41:52

Of exclusivity.

00:41:53 --> 00:41:55

So regarding the question of when is the

00:41:55 --> 00:41:55

day of judgment?

00:41:55 --> 00:41:56

When is Armageddon?

00:41:56 --> 00:41:58

Because that's a question that the human race

00:41:58 --> 00:41:59

has been asking for a long time.

00:41:59 --> 00:42:00

When will this all end?

00:42:01 --> 00:42:02

Everything ends.

00:42:02 --> 00:42:03

We can't understand anything that doesn't end.

00:42:04 --> 00:42:04

Nothing goes forever.

00:42:04 --> 00:42:05

It's going to end.

00:42:05 --> 00:42:06

When is it going to end?

00:42:07 --> 00:42:09

قُول Say the following Exclusively the knowledge of

00:42:09 --> 00:42:10

this is with Allah.

00:42:10 --> 00:42:11

No one knows.

00:42:12 --> 00:42:15

And exclusively I am yet nothing but a

00:42:15 --> 00:42:17

نذير مبين A clear warner.

00:42:18 --> 00:42:19

I am offering you a clear warning.

00:42:20 --> 00:42:21

That's all I'm doing.

00:42:21 --> 00:42:23

That's all the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم

00:42:23 --> 00:42:24

was doing for us.

00:42:24 --> 00:42:27

And that's all we do as well.

00:42:28 --> 00:42:29

We are not here to judge.

00:42:29 --> 00:42:30

We're not here to force.

00:42:30 --> 00:42:31

We're not here to coerce.

00:42:32 --> 00:42:35

We are here to offer information that is

00:42:35 --> 00:42:38

going to serve as a warning of something

00:42:38 --> 00:42:39

that is coming your way.

00:42:40 --> 00:42:41

Undeniably it's on its way to you.

00:42:42 --> 00:42:43

It's coming to you.

00:42:43 --> 00:42:44

You don't have to go after it.

00:42:44 --> 00:42:45

The Qur'an doesn't talk about you dying.

00:42:45 --> 00:42:47

The Qur'an talks about جاء أحدكم الموت

00:42:47 --> 00:42:49

Death coming to you.

00:42:49 --> 00:42:51

ارتاح حبيبي Stay exactly where you are.

00:42:52 --> 00:42:55

Do not Death will come to you.

00:42:55 --> 00:42:55

Death will come.

00:42:55 --> 00:42:56

It's coming.

00:42:56 --> 00:42:58

And do you know what you need to

00:42:58 --> 00:43:00

have prepared for that?

00:43:00 --> 00:43:01

Do you know what you need to have?

00:43:02 --> 00:43:03

What understandings?

00:43:03 --> 00:43:04

What pieces of information?

00:43:04 --> 00:43:07

And then what those pieces of information will

00:43:07 --> 00:43:07

lead to?

00:43:08 --> 00:43:13

You see at the beginning of this session

00:43:13 --> 00:43:16

I told you that there are pieces there

00:43:16 --> 00:43:18

are statements there are pieces of information.

00:43:19 --> 00:43:22

But if they lead to certain conclusions unequivocally

00:43:22 --> 00:43:25

then those conclusions also become a part of

00:43:25 --> 00:43:26

accepting those pieces of information.

00:43:27 --> 00:43:30

So if you accepted if you listen to

00:43:30 --> 00:43:33

this surah and you accepted لِيَبْلُوَكُمْ أَيُّكُمْ أَحْسَنُ

00:43:33 --> 00:43:35

وَعَمَلُ you understood it that this is nothing

00:43:35 --> 00:43:36

but an opportunity.

00:43:37 --> 00:43:40

He gave you لِيَبْلُوَكُمْ granted you an opportunity.

00:43:40 --> 00:43:41

Not test you.

00:43:41 --> 00:43:43

That's لِيَبْتَلِيَكُمْ We talked about this.

00:43:43 --> 00:43:45

لِيَبْلُوَكُمْ granted you an opportunity so that you

00:43:45 --> 00:43:48

may prove the quality and the excellence of

00:43:48 --> 00:43:49

your deeds.

00:43:49 --> 00:43:51

That piece of information has to lead.

00:43:52 --> 00:43:52

It leads.

00:43:53 --> 00:43:54

It leads without without any doubt.

00:43:54 --> 00:43:56

There's no way to deny it.

00:43:57 --> 00:43:58

That you must practice that.

00:43:58 --> 00:44:00

You must act accordingly.

00:44:01 --> 00:44:03

You can't believe something and then not act

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based on it.

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If that's the case then that's the definition

00:44:07 --> 00:44:08

of what نفاق is basically.

00:44:09 --> 00:44:10

نفاق is to understand it and then say

00:44:10 --> 00:44:11

I'm good.

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I will just claim the belief in it

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but I'm not gonna actually practice any of

00:44:16 --> 00:44:16

it.

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I'm not going to actually commit myself to

00:44:20 --> 00:44:23

what these words mean what these words lead

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to.

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فَلَمَّا رَأَوْهُ زُلْفَةً And then we get a

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snapshot.

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The Qur'an does this all the time.

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There's over maybe 150 snapshots of يوم القيامة

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in the Qur'an.

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Some of them can go up to 7

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-8 verses and some of them can be

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just one.

00:44:40 --> 00:44:41

We just have one here.

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فَلَمَّا رَأَوْهُ زُلْفَةً And once they see it

00:44:46 --> 00:44:50

زُلْفَةً زُلْفَةً means coming close, charging.

00:44:53 --> 00:44:56

لِيَعْبُدُوهُمْ إِلَّا لِيُقَرِّبُونَ إِلَى اللَّهِ زُلْفَةً We want

00:44:56 --> 00:44:59

them to get we are worshipping these aslam

00:44:59 --> 00:45:01

because we want them to take us to

00:45:01 --> 00:45:01

Allah closer.

00:45:02 --> 00:45:05

فَلَمَّا رَأَوْهُ زُلْفَةً And once they see it

00:45:05 --> 00:45:07

when they see it which is the day

00:45:07 --> 00:45:11

of judgment زُلْفَةً coming close, charging their way

00:45:11 --> 00:45:12

they can't stop it anymore.

00:45:13 --> 00:45:15

Once they see the sun coming up from

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the west and the universe basically crumbling in

00:45:20 --> 00:45:21

front of their eyes and they know يوم

00:45:21 --> 00:45:26

القيامة is occurring سِيَةُ وجُوهُ اللَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا The

00:45:26 --> 00:45:28

faces of the disbeliever will be in a

00:45:28 --> 00:45:30

state سِيَةُ means there will be a state

00:45:30 --> 00:45:34

of difficulty a state of distress سَيَةُ الوجه

00:45:35 --> 00:45:38

سي is something that is bad that is

00:45:38 --> 00:45:40

low quality something that is not good سِيَةُ

00:45:40 --> 00:45:42

means it will be in the state of

00:45:42 --> 00:45:45

low quality or a state of distress The

00:45:45 --> 00:45:47

faces of the disbelievers those who denied this

00:45:48 --> 00:45:49

those who said there is no Akhira and

00:45:49 --> 00:45:52

lived accordingly those who said that there is

00:45:52 --> 00:45:55

no Akhira there is no God and there

00:45:55 --> 00:45:57

is no creation and there is no resurrection

00:45:57 --> 00:45:58

and there is no accountability none of that

00:45:58 --> 00:46:00

is there and they lived according to that

00:46:00 --> 00:46:03

they lived accordingly to that belief when they

00:46:03 --> 00:46:06

see يوم القيامة running towards them Zulfa is

00:46:06 --> 00:46:10

coming close everything is happening as it was

00:46:10 --> 00:46:13

said was going to happen سِيَةُ وجُوهُ اللَّذِينَ

00:46:13 --> 00:46:15

كَفَرُوا The faces of those who denied all

00:46:15 --> 00:46:18

of this will be in real distress وَقِيلَ

00:46:18 --> 00:46:20

and they'll be called upon and it will

00:46:20 --> 00:46:22

be said to them هَذَا الَّذِي كُنْتُمْ بِهِ

00:46:22 --> 00:46:26

تَدَّعُونَ This is what you were claiming didn't

00:46:26 --> 00:46:29

exist this is what you went through your

00:46:29 --> 00:46:31

life claiming was not the truth it was

00:46:31 --> 00:46:34

not going to occur deal with it now

00:46:35 --> 00:46:37

deal with it now and whether they deal

00:46:37 --> 00:46:40

with it or they don't whether they acknowledge

00:46:40 --> 00:46:42

it or they don't doesn't make a difference

00:46:42 --> 00:46:43

how we know that?

00:46:43 --> 00:46:45

because the same surah just pointed it out

00:46:45 --> 00:46:49

to us a page before two pages ago

00:46:49 --> 00:46:53

and the surah said the same thing وَقَالُوا

00:46:53 --> 00:46:55

لَوْ كُنَّا نَسْمَعُوا أَوْ نَعْقِلُوا they acknowledge if

00:46:55 --> 00:46:56

we were listening and if we were thinking

00:46:56 --> 00:46:59

if we were using you see the are

00:46:59 --> 00:47:02

you noticing now the little dots coming together

00:47:02 --> 00:47:04

وَقَالُوا لَوْ كُنَّا نَسْمَعُوا أَوْ نَعْقِلُوا if we

00:47:04 --> 00:47:06

were listening and thinking if we were using

00:47:06 --> 00:47:08

our intellectual faculties the way we should have

00:47:09 --> 00:47:12

if we allowed ourselves to learn and to

00:47:12 --> 00:47:14

actually comprehend what was happening ما كُنَّ it

00:47:14 --> 00:47:16

wouldn't be here so Surah Al-Mulk is

00:47:16 --> 00:47:19

saying if you gain knowledge if you learn

00:47:19 --> 00:47:20

the right if you learn what you need

00:47:20 --> 00:47:22

to learn then you'll be guided and on

00:47:22 --> 00:47:23

the Day of Judgment that's what they'll say

00:47:23 --> 00:47:27

لَوْ كُنَّا نَسْمَعُوا أَوْ نَعْقِلُوا if we practiced

00:47:27 --> 00:47:31

listening and learning and thinking and contemplating we

00:47:31 --> 00:47:33

wouldn't be amongst the people of the flaming

00:47:33 --> 00:47:37

fire فَاعْتَرَفُوا بِذَنْبِهِمْ and they admitted their sin

00:47:37 --> 00:47:40

it doesn't make a difference though it didn't

00:47:40 --> 00:47:44

help them فَسُحْقًا لِأَصْحَابِ السَّعِيدِ here it's just

00:47:44 --> 00:47:48

being re-emphasized فَلَمَّا رَأَوْهُ زُلْفَتًا when they

00:47:48 --> 00:47:52

see this day that they are mockingly asking

00:47:52 --> 00:47:53

the question where is it?

00:47:53 --> 00:47:54

give us a date give us a date

00:47:54 --> 00:47:56

if it's true if it's true give us

00:47:56 --> 00:47:58

a date the knowledge of that is with

00:47:58 --> 00:48:00

Allah no one has that and I'm not

00:48:00 --> 00:48:01

here to give you a date that's not

00:48:01 --> 00:48:03

the knowledge I'm here to offer you I'm

00:48:03 --> 00:48:06

here to warn you clearly of that which

00:48:06 --> 00:48:08

is going to happen the timing of it

00:48:08 --> 00:48:09

is not I don't have that knowledge so

00:48:09 --> 00:48:12

I can't offer something I don't have فَاقَلُوا

00:48:12 --> 00:48:13

شَيْءٍ لَا يَعْطِيهُ if you don't have it

00:48:13 --> 00:48:14

you can't offer it if I don't have

00:48:14 --> 00:48:15

the knowledge how do I give it to

00:48:15 --> 00:48:15

you?

00:48:16 --> 00:48:17

make things up?

00:48:17 --> 00:48:19

the Prophet is going to make something up

00:48:19 --> 00:48:21

no he didn't and he said he answered

00:48:21 --> 00:48:24

appropriately but when they see it on that

00:48:24 --> 00:48:27

day coming charging towards them their faces will

00:48:27 --> 00:48:28

be in distress and they'll be called upon

00:48:28 --> 00:48:31

and said this is what you were claiming

00:48:31 --> 00:48:33

was not and now it is may Allah

00:48:33 --> 00:48:36

subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us Iman true

00:48:36 --> 00:48:38

Yaqeen in the day of judgment Allahumma ameen

00:48:40 --> 00:48:46

قُلْ أَرَأَيْتُمْ إِنْ أَهْلَكَنِي اللَّهُ وَمَن مَعِيَ أَوْ

00:48:46 --> 00:48:56

رَحِمَنَا فَمَن

00:48:56 --> 00:49:08

يُجِيرُ الْكَافِرِينَ مِنْ عَذَابٍ أَلِيمٍ قُلْ

00:49:08 --> 00:49:16

هُوَ الرَّحْمَنُ آمَنَّا بِهِ وَعَلَيْهِ تَوَكَّلْنَا

00:49:23 --> 00:49:36

فَسَتَعْلَمُونَ مَنْ هُوَ فِي ضَلَالٍ نُّبِينَ قُلْ

00:49:36 --> 00:49:50

أَرَأَيْتُمْ إِنْ أَصْبَحَ مَآءُكُمْ غَوْرًا فَمَنْ

00:49:50 --> 00:50:23

يَأْتِيكُمْ بِمَاءٍ مَعِينٍ The

00:50:23 --> 00:50:26

last three verses are another three commands from

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to the Prophet

00:50:27 --> 00:50:31

a.s. We told him, say, it's Allah

00:50:31 --> 00:50:33

who created me from nothing and raised me

00:50:33 --> 00:50:35

and granted me my ability to hear and

00:50:35 --> 00:50:37

to see and to think, to be conscious.

00:50:39 --> 00:50:41

So he's the one who dispersed us amongst

00:50:41 --> 00:50:43

this earth to live the way that we

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live and we all come back to him.

00:50:44 --> 00:50:47

Say that the knowledge of the time of

00:50:47 --> 00:50:49

the Day of Judgment is not with me,

00:50:49 --> 00:50:49

it's with Allah alone.

00:50:50 --> 00:50:51

I am here only to warn.

00:50:51 --> 00:50:59

Say, أَرَأَيْتُمْ أَرَأَيْتُمْ means, basically, he's offering a

00:50:59 --> 00:51:00

hypothetical.

00:51:01 --> 00:51:03

أَرَأَيْتُمْ, you see if this happened.

00:51:04 --> 00:51:06

أَرَأَيْتُمْ, you see if the following occurred.

00:51:06 --> 00:51:10

So he's offering a hypothetical, subhanahu wa ta

00:51:10 --> 00:51:10

'ala.

00:51:10 --> 00:51:15

إِنْ أَهْلَكَنِيَ اللَّهُ وَمَنْ مَعِيَ أَوْ رَحِيمَنَا Say

00:51:15 --> 00:51:18

that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala was to

00:51:18 --> 00:51:19

punish me.

00:51:21 --> 00:51:22

Subhanahu wa ta'ala.

00:51:22 --> 00:51:24

إِنْ يُعَاقِبَ حَبِيبَهُ صَلَى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهُ وَعَلَيْهُ صَحَبِهُ

00:51:24 --> 00:51:28

وسَلَمْ وَإِنْ يُهْلِكَهُ إِنْ أَهْلَكَنِيَ اللَّهُ وَمَنْ مَعِيّ

00:51:28 --> 00:51:29

If Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala was to

00:51:29 --> 00:51:32

remove me or destroy me.

00:51:32 --> 00:51:34

وَمَنْ مَعِينَ And all those who believe in

00:51:34 --> 00:51:34

me.

00:51:35 --> 00:51:37

أَوْ رَحِيمَنَا Or if he was to show

00:51:37 --> 00:51:38

us compassion and mercy and love.

00:51:40 --> 00:51:43

فَمَنْ يُجِيرُ الْكَافِرِينَ مِنْ عَذَابٍ أَلِيمٍ Who is

00:51:43 --> 00:51:45

it that is going to protect you?

00:51:45 --> 00:51:48

يُجِير from إجارة, from جِوار, is to protect.

00:51:48 --> 00:51:50

فَمَنْ يُجِيرُ الْكَافِرِينَ Who is it that is

00:51:50 --> 00:51:52

going to protect the disbelievers from a painful

00:51:52 --> 00:51:53

punishment?

00:51:54 --> 00:51:56

The point the Prophet ﷺ is told to

00:51:56 --> 00:51:58

make here is tell them, Okay, fine.

00:51:59 --> 00:52:02

We are weak and to you we are

00:52:02 --> 00:52:02

worthless.

00:52:03 --> 00:52:05

And let's say Allah ﷻ takes me and

00:52:05 --> 00:52:07

all of my followers and He gets rid

00:52:07 --> 00:52:07

of all of us.

00:52:07 --> 00:52:09

Or He doesn't, He keeps us.

00:52:09 --> 00:52:12

Regardless, who is going to protect you from

00:52:12 --> 00:52:12

your punishment?

00:52:13 --> 00:52:17

Your emphasis, your focus on us, whether we

00:52:17 --> 00:52:20

are going to be successful or not, whether

00:52:20 --> 00:52:22

we are going to be shown mercy or

00:52:22 --> 00:52:23

not, whether we are going to be punished

00:52:23 --> 00:52:24

or not.

00:52:24 --> 00:52:26

Regardless of what He does to us, why

00:52:26 --> 00:52:28

is it that you're not focused on what's

00:52:28 --> 00:52:28

going to happen to you?

00:52:29 --> 00:52:31

Why are you mirroring this back on me?

00:52:32 --> 00:52:33

Allah can do it, this is what the

00:52:33 --> 00:52:33

ayah is saying.

00:52:33 --> 00:52:34

Allah can do whatever He wants to me.

00:52:35 --> 00:52:37

The Prophet ﷺ was never going to be

00:52:37 --> 00:52:39

destroyed by Allah, nor are the sahaba.

00:52:40 --> 00:52:42

أَهْلَكَ نِيَ اللَّهِ That Allah will destroy me.

00:52:43 --> 00:52:47

وَمَنْ مَعِي ظَحَابَةٌ Allah was not going to

00:52:47 --> 00:52:50

ever punish the Prophet ﷺ or the sahaba.

00:52:50 --> 00:52:52

These are the most beloved people to Him.

00:52:53 --> 00:52:54

But the ayah is saying, say this to

00:52:54 --> 00:52:54

them.

00:52:55 --> 00:52:58

Whether Allah removes us and destroys us, or

00:52:58 --> 00:52:59

He doesn't, He shows us mercy.

00:52:59 --> 00:53:02

You, فَمَيُّوا جِهُوا الْكَافِرِينَ Who is going to

00:53:02 --> 00:53:02

protect you?

00:53:04 --> 00:53:06

Why are you reflecting this on someone else?

00:53:07 --> 00:53:08

Why are you listening to this and then

00:53:08 --> 00:53:10

thinking about what's going to happen to somebody

00:53:10 --> 00:53:10

else?

00:53:10 --> 00:53:11

This is about you.

00:53:12 --> 00:53:14

When I give tazkiyah sessions, I tell them,

00:53:15 --> 00:53:17

there are three, ever watched Fight Club?

00:53:19 --> 00:53:21

The first law of tazkiyah, it's about you.

00:53:21 --> 00:53:23

The second law of tazkiyah, it's about you.

00:53:23 --> 00:53:24

The third law of tazkiyah, it's about you.

00:53:25 --> 00:53:27

Don't ever listen to anything that is said

00:53:27 --> 00:53:30

in a tazkiyah session, and then say, no,

00:53:30 --> 00:53:30

no, no, no.

00:53:31 --> 00:53:32

If I had the ability, if I had

00:53:32 --> 00:53:33

a asa, I would use it.

00:53:33 --> 00:53:37

You never listen to anything about good behavior,

00:53:37 --> 00:53:39

about good etiquette, about good character, and then

00:53:39 --> 00:53:41

reflect it about someone else, and say, why

00:53:41 --> 00:53:41

is that person not?

00:53:41 --> 00:53:42

No, no, this is about you.

00:53:43 --> 00:53:44

Why aren't you doing this?

00:53:44 --> 00:53:45

Why aren't you listening to this?

00:53:45 --> 00:53:47

Why aren't you holding yourself to that standard?

00:53:47 --> 00:53:49

Let people live however they want to live.

00:53:49 --> 00:53:50

If you're granted the position to give them

00:53:50 --> 00:53:51

nasiha, give.

00:53:51 --> 00:53:53

If you're granted the position to teach them

00:53:53 --> 00:53:55

and mentor them, then do that.

00:53:55 --> 00:53:56

If you have the ability to offer them

00:53:56 --> 00:53:57

da'wah, then go ahead.

00:53:57 --> 00:54:00

But if you don't, then let people be

00:54:00 --> 00:54:01

the way they want to be, and then

00:54:01 --> 00:54:02

you listen to what's being said here, and

00:54:02 --> 00:54:04

then apply it to yourself.

00:54:05 --> 00:54:07

The ayah is saying, the ilm, the reason

00:54:07 --> 00:54:09

this ayah is here, is because what is

00:54:09 --> 00:54:11

the number one problem with ilm, with knowledge?

00:54:11 --> 00:54:14

Is that we preach, we don't practice what

00:54:14 --> 00:54:14

we preach.

00:54:15 --> 00:54:16

This is the number one problem.

00:54:16 --> 00:54:18

Is that you take knowledge, and then you

00:54:18 --> 00:54:19

apply it to someone else.

00:54:20 --> 00:54:22

And I see it, and it boils my

00:54:22 --> 00:54:22

blood.

00:54:22 --> 00:54:24

This is one of the few things that

00:54:24 --> 00:54:25

makes me lose my temper.

00:54:25 --> 00:54:27

You learn something so that you can apply

00:54:27 --> 00:54:29

it to yourself, so that you can be

00:54:29 --> 00:54:30

better.

00:54:30 --> 00:54:31

Not so that you can come and point

00:54:31 --> 00:54:33

out to someone else what they did wrong.

00:54:33 --> 00:54:34

It's not your job.

00:54:35 --> 00:54:36

One of the diseases of the heart is

00:54:36 --> 00:54:39

to watch people and judge them, and point

00:54:39 --> 00:54:40

out their mistakes.

00:54:40 --> 00:54:41

One of the diseases of the heart, marud

00:54:41 --> 00:54:43

fil qalb, to be watching people like, I

00:54:43 --> 00:54:44

know all of your mistakes.

00:54:46 --> 00:54:47

That's not a good thing.

00:54:47 --> 00:54:49

That's a reflection of a disease in your

00:54:49 --> 00:54:50

heart if you're doing that.

00:54:50 --> 00:54:52

Because you should not have the time for

00:54:52 --> 00:54:52

that.

00:54:53 --> 00:54:54

Because you shouldn't have the time.

00:54:54 --> 00:54:58

If I'm hired for a job, and the

00:54:58 --> 00:55:03

boss walks in, and sees me making beautiful

00:55:03 --> 00:55:05

pieces of art, what is he going to

00:55:05 --> 00:55:05

do?

00:55:05 --> 00:55:07

Is he going to be impressed with that?

00:55:07 --> 00:55:08

It's like, how do you have the time

00:55:08 --> 00:55:08

to do this?

00:55:10 --> 00:55:11

He's going to fire me.

00:55:12 --> 00:55:13

It's a nice piece of art.

00:55:13 --> 00:55:14

I made a beautiful piece of art, but

00:55:14 --> 00:55:15

that's not why he hired me.

00:55:15 --> 00:55:16

He hired me for another job.

00:55:16 --> 00:55:17

If I had that amount of time on

00:55:17 --> 00:55:19

my hands, then either they're doing something wrong,

00:55:19 --> 00:55:20

or I'm doing something wrong.

00:55:20 --> 00:55:21

I shouldn't have that time.

00:55:22 --> 00:55:23

You have time to see what other people

00:55:23 --> 00:55:24

are doing.

00:55:24 --> 00:55:25

You have time to wonder whether they're going

00:55:25 --> 00:55:26

to do well or not.

00:55:26 --> 00:55:27

Where do you get that time from?

00:55:28 --> 00:55:28

But you're perfect.

00:55:29 --> 00:55:29

You have no mistakes.

00:55:30 --> 00:55:31

You have no flaws.

00:55:31 --> 00:55:33

You fixed all of your flaws, and now

00:55:33 --> 00:55:35

you have time to focus on other people.

00:55:35 --> 00:55:36

Masha'Allah.

00:55:37 --> 00:55:38

Masha'Allah alik.

00:55:38 --> 00:55:41

Please come, take the imamah from the...

00:55:41 --> 00:55:43

Come, lead us on the way, ya shaykh.

00:55:44 --> 00:55:44

Ya wali Allah.

00:55:44 --> 00:55:45

What are you doing?

00:55:46 --> 00:55:48

The reason the Prophet alayhi salatu wasalam taught

00:55:48 --> 00:55:50

people is because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

00:55:50 --> 00:55:51

commanded him to.

00:55:52 --> 00:55:54

And we as an ummah accepted him as

00:55:54 --> 00:55:55

our mentor and teacher.

00:55:56 --> 00:55:57

If you are accepted as a mentor for

00:55:57 --> 00:55:59

someone, then point out their flaws to them.

00:55:59 --> 00:56:00

That's your job.

00:56:00 --> 00:56:01

If someone comes to me and asks me

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to teach them, and to mentor them, then

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I will.

00:56:04 --> 00:56:05

I will point out every flaw.

00:56:05 --> 00:56:06

Not because I don't like them, it's because

00:56:06 --> 00:56:07

I love them, I want them to be

00:56:07 --> 00:56:07

better.

00:56:08 --> 00:56:09

Because they accepted me in that capacity.

00:56:10 --> 00:56:11

But the majority of people don't accept one

00:56:11 --> 00:56:12

another that way.

00:56:12 --> 00:56:13

We're all equals.

00:56:14 --> 00:56:16

So unless someone has accepted you in the

00:56:16 --> 00:56:18

capacity of teaching and focusing and pointing out

00:56:18 --> 00:56:20

their flaws to them, then you shouldn't have

00:56:20 --> 00:56:20

the time.

00:56:21 --> 00:56:23

The number one problem with ilm is that

00:56:23 --> 00:56:24

if you use it to apply it upon

00:56:24 --> 00:56:28

others, I learned all this information, now you

00:56:28 --> 00:56:29

practice it.

00:56:30 --> 00:56:30

You do it.

00:56:32 --> 00:56:33

You learn this information so you can do

00:56:33 --> 00:56:33

it.

00:56:34 --> 00:56:36

And this ayah is saying, araytum min ahlakani

00:56:36 --> 00:56:38

allahu wa ma'i in the most severe

00:56:38 --> 00:56:38

manner.

00:56:39 --> 00:56:40

You see, if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

00:56:40 --> 00:56:41

was to punish me and those with me,

00:56:42 --> 00:56:44

salallahu alayhi wa alayhi wasalam, wa radiallahu anas

00:56:44 --> 00:56:45

sahaba, never happened.

00:56:45 --> 00:56:47

Or rahimana, or he shows us mercy.

00:56:48 --> 00:56:49

What is it to you?

00:56:49 --> 00:56:50

What is it to you?

00:56:50 --> 00:56:52

What Allah does with us.

00:56:54 --> 00:56:55

What's going to happen to you?

00:56:56 --> 00:56:58

Who's going to protect you from a painful

00:56:58 --> 00:56:58

punishment?

00:56:59 --> 00:57:01

Isn't that supposed to be what you're focused

00:57:01 --> 00:57:01

on?

00:57:03 --> 00:57:04

The fifth command.

00:57:04 --> 00:57:05

Qul, say this.

00:57:06 --> 00:57:06

Huwa ar-Rahman.

00:57:08 --> 00:57:09

He is the most compassionate.

00:57:09 --> 00:57:10

How many times now in this surah?

00:57:11 --> 00:57:14

Have you followed along with the word?

00:57:15 --> 00:57:16

How many times in this surah has ar

00:57:16 --> 00:57:17

-Rahman come in?

00:57:18 --> 00:57:19

Go back to the beginning of it and

00:57:19 --> 00:57:19

look.

00:57:22 --> 00:57:23

This is the fourth time.

00:57:24 --> 00:57:25

It's more than surah ar-Rahman itself.

00:57:27 --> 00:57:29

He uses it, huwa ar-Rahman, because you

00:57:29 --> 00:57:30

need to know Allah, know this about him.

00:57:31 --> 00:57:31

He is the most compassionate.

00:57:32 --> 00:57:33

He is the most loving.

00:57:34 --> 00:57:38

His compassion and mercy towards you is unlimited.

00:57:38 --> 00:57:39

It's infinite.

00:57:40 --> 00:57:41

Say, huwa ar-Rahman.

00:57:41 --> 00:57:42

He is the most compassionate.

00:57:43 --> 00:57:44

Amanna bihi.

00:57:44 --> 00:57:47

We have embraced belief in him.

00:57:47 --> 00:57:49

We have internalized the acceptance of him.

00:57:49 --> 00:57:51

Wa alayhi tawakkalna.

00:57:51 --> 00:57:52

And upon him we depend.

00:57:53 --> 00:57:54

This is the conclusion.

00:57:54 --> 00:57:56

If you learn these pieces of information, this

00:57:56 --> 00:57:58

is what you will state with clarity.

00:57:59 --> 00:58:02

You will stop focusing on the destiny of

00:58:02 --> 00:58:03

other people and you'll focus on your own.

00:58:04 --> 00:58:06

You will state the nature of your Lord,

00:58:06 --> 00:58:07

ar-Rahman.

00:58:07 --> 00:58:09

And you will have full iman in him.

00:58:09 --> 00:58:11

And you will have full dependence on him.

00:58:12 --> 00:58:14

Fasa ta'lamoona man huwa fee dhalalim mubeen.

00:58:15 --> 00:58:16

And then on the Day of Judgment, everyone

00:58:16 --> 00:58:17

will figure out, people will learn.

00:58:18 --> 00:58:21

You'll find the knowledge on that day, who

00:58:21 --> 00:58:24

is in a state of misguidance, true state

00:58:24 --> 00:58:24

of misguidance.

00:58:25 --> 00:58:26

Leave it till Yawm al-Qiyamah.

00:58:26 --> 00:58:27

We know who we are.

00:58:27 --> 00:58:29

We know who our Lord is.

00:58:29 --> 00:58:30

We know what we believe in.

00:58:30 --> 00:58:32

We know upon whom we depend.

00:58:32 --> 00:58:33

We know that.

00:58:34 --> 00:58:34

Others don't.

00:58:35 --> 00:58:36

They can know whatever they want and they

00:58:36 --> 00:58:37

cannot know whatever they want.

00:58:37 --> 00:58:38

We know who we are and what we

00:58:38 --> 00:58:39

stand for.

00:58:39 --> 00:58:41

And Yawm al-Qiyamah, on the Day of

00:58:41 --> 00:58:43

Judgment, fasa ta'lamoon, you'll find out, man

00:58:43 --> 00:58:45

huwa fee dhalalim mubeen, who was living a

00:58:45 --> 00:58:48

life of complete and clear misguidance.

00:58:48 --> 00:58:49

Leave it till then.

00:58:49 --> 00:58:50

We'll leave it till then.

00:58:50 --> 00:58:51

We don't have to argue with you here

00:58:51 --> 00:58:51

and waste time.

00:58:51 --> 00:58:52

You don't want this, fine.

00:58:53 --> 00:58:54

Yawm al-Qiyamah will be clear.

00:58:55 --> 00:58:56

Last piece.

00:58:57 --> 00:58:58

Qul, say, Ara'aytum.

00:59:00 --> 00:59:01

Hypothetically.

00:59:01 --> 00:59:02

An asbaha ma'ukum ghawra.

00:59:02 --> 00:59:04

If water stopped floating.

00:59:05 --> 00:59:07

If water just ran right into the center

00:59:07 --> 00:59:07

of the earth.

00:59:08 --> 00:59:11

And no matter how deeply you dug into

00:59:11 --> 00:59:13

the ground, into the earth, you could not

00:59:13 --> 00:59:14

extract water.

00:59:15 --> 00:59:16

Ghawra, it goes down.

00:59:17 --> 00:59:21

Another law, a basic law, of how the

00:59:21 --> 00:59:23

levels of the earth and how the stages,

00:59:23 --> 00:59:25

how soil and how earth actually function with

00:59:25 --> 00:59:26

one another.

00:59:27 --> 00:59:28

Law, a law that Allah Subhana put in

00:59:28 --> 00:59:28

the universe.

00:59:29 --> 00:59:32

Where when water comes and is absorbed, it

00:59:32 --> 00:59:34

runs in certain directions, it's gathered in a

00:59:34 --> 00:59:36

certain layer of the earth and then it

00:59:36 --> 00:59:37

comes back up again because of the heat

00:59:37 --> 00:59:39

under it and then you have water that

00:59:39 --> 00:59:40

is purified by the earth itself for you

00:59:40 --> 00:59:41

to drink.

00:59:41 --> 00:59:44

If that stopped happening, if the earth drank

00:59:44 --> 00:59:45

all of its water and took its rights

00:59:45 --> 00:59:47

to its core and there's nothing under anymore.

00:59:48 --> 00:59:49

Man ya'teekum bima imma'een.

00:59:49 --> 00:59:51

Who will bring you water that is...

00:59:51 --> 00:59:53

Imma'een, water that is going to come...

00:59:53 --> 00:59:55

Al-'Ayn, is going to come on the surface

00:59:55 --> 00:59:56

that is drinkable.

00:59:57 --> 00:59:58

Who's going to bring you water that will

00:59:58 --> 00:59:59

surface that you can drink?

01:00:00 --> 01:00:04

And the answer is, Tabarakalladhee biyadihil mulk.

01:00:05 --> 01:00:05

The cyclic surah.

01:00:06 --> 01:00:08

It ends with a question that is answered

01:00:08 --> 01:00:09

by the beginning of it.

01:00:09 --> 01:00:11

The one who put that law that allows

01:00:11 --> 01:00:14

you to eat and drink and live is

01:00:14 --> 01:00:16

the one whose blessings, Tabarak, keep on coming

01:00:16 --> 01:00:20

time and time again and there's no appreciation

01:00:20 --> 01:00:22

and there's no true acknowledgement of them.

01:00:23 --> 01:00:25

And that's how Surah Al-Mulk ends.

01:00:25 --> 01:00:26

It's a beautiful surah.

01:00:26 --> 01:00:27

I hope I was able to help you

01:00:27 --> 01:00:29

enjoy it and appreciate its beauty.

01:00:29 --> 01:00:30

We'll end with that insha'Allah ta'ala.

01:00:30 --> 01:00:31

We'll start Surah Al-Qalam next week.

01:00:31 --> 01:00:32

SubhanAllah bihamdik.

01:00:32 --> 01:00:33

Jalool la ilaha illa anta astaghfirutuhu.

01:00:33 --> 01:00:33

Bida'ik.

01:00:33 --> 01:00:35

Wassalamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu.

01:00:35 --> 01:00:36

Wabarakatuhu ala nabiyyina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa

01:00:36 --> 01:00:37

sahbihi ajma'een.

01:00:37 --> 01:00:37

Assalamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu.

01:00:37 --> 01:00:38

Wa barakatuhu ala nabiyyina Muhammad wa ala alihi

01:00:38 --> 01:00:38

wa sahbihi ajma'een.

01:00:38 --> 01:00:40

Assalamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu.

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