Qada & Qadr #1
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The importance of understanding someone's minds and the consequence of their actions is emphasized in Islam. worship and worship are emphasized as it is the only way to connect with God. Trusting God's plan for everyone is emphasized, as it is the only way to measure everything and achieve dreams. The speaker emphasizes the need to be prepared for events in the future and acknowledge the challenges of living in a remote region with limited resources. The importance of trusting God's plan and acknowledging everyone has a chance to achieve their dreams is emphasized.AI Generated Transcript ©
And I'll begin by first of all, saying that
part of being a Muslim, actually, no one can be a Muslim.
No one can be a believer, unless you believe
in six main foundations. Number one, to believe in the oneness and unity of Allah,
that there is no God worthy of worship but him. We all know this and hamdulillah number two, to believe in all His messengers and prophets that he told us about,
and to believe in Allah as angels, which he told us about
to believe in all his books and revelations which he sent down, which he told us about the final of them being the Quran that replaces all the revelations before
to believe in life after death and the Judgment Day, and then to paradise or Hellfire that Allah is going to judge us for what we have done in this life,
or what we are or our shortcomings.
After a short time, we go back to Allah and there'll be a judgement day before determining who goes to paradise and who goes to hellfire.
And
to believe
in what Allah has called Qaddafi, Qaddafi.
As I said before, predestiny the fate and will and pre measurement
that is in the power and control and knowledge of Allah alone,
and nothing can happen or get to where it's going to get without Allah knowing about it,
writing it
wheeling it, allowing it to happen and creating the means for it to happen.
And he decides and wills where it should be go, how it should be when it should be and what shouldn't be.
Predestination
another word is pre measurement.
And there are two words we use in the Quran. Allah says codon sometimes and sometimes says codon. Have you heard of the word codon Kadar
they really mean the same thing.
But if I go by the views of the scholars if you want in particular,
Kabbalah just means ALLAH has prior knowledge of all things.
And since Allah has prior knowledge of all things is already there, it cannot change.
Because if it changes it's as if we're saying God does not know everything.
So the prior knowledge of Allah is set, there is no changing tool called up.
And kadar. See that prior knowledge which Allah has that is infinite, and can never change. Copper means that Allah brings it to existence. Allah brings it to existence and it happens.
He pre measures it. Everything has been decided to be where it is and how it should be
right from the beginning.
And it will not go anywhere else but it will but where it has to be. You're born a male, you're born a female, it was decided
how long you're going to live, where you're going to live where you're going to die, the world, the sun, the moon, the rotation, Allah's Mandela talks about every single thing that comes to your mind, that is in existence has a purpose and a destiny.
It is within Allah again within Allah's knowledge
within Allah Samantha has written it, Allah subhanho wa Taala has destined and willed it.
And Allah subhanho wa Taala
is in control of it.
Up to here, we all understand this basic piece of information.
But we have many questions. We have many questions about this. Lots of misunderstandings. But what about this and what does this mean? So in sha Allah in this series, I'm going to address those misconceptions, those questions on people's minds when it comes to God's will destiny and fight. How do we understand it?
It's important to understand it
and since we need to believe it and you cannot be on
Islam without believing it, it's detrimental that we believe in it, we understand what it is.
Before I go into it,
there is a question that people ask repeatedly.
What is the motive?
What is God's motive for creating us and everything?
Why did God Allah create everything and us?
What is his motive? Why did he do it?
Brothers and sisters, I'm going to answer this question very in a short few sentences.
And it should suffice insha Allah?
The specific answer to that
is not told to us.
Why he Subhana what his motive is not told to us. Why?
Because Allah is not like us.
Allah doesn't have motives, we have motives.
You see, the reason we ask that question
is because we sometimes fall into the mistake
of comparing ourselves to God. Let me give you an example.
We as humans, if we want to get to something, we want something.
We can't just get it. We can't just click our fingers and magically is that it's there? It's not correct.
And if we want something, there's a reason for it. Is that right or wrong? We always have a reason a motive.
To get to it, I need to do the means towards it. For example, if I dig a hole in the ground, you will naturally ask me, why did you dig the hole? What is your motive? Naturally, I have a motive isn't that correct? My motive is because I want to get to something that I don't have right now. But I have to dig the hole first. In order to get there. For example, if I want to dig out a weld some water, I have to dig the hole to get to the water and then I drink that's my motive. If I want to dig a hole in order to plant a tree, so I can grow it to eat from it or to farm it or to make money out of it. That's my motive. But I can't get there without digging the hole. And when you asked me
that question, I have an answer.
Because of this, we got used to the question, why do we do what we do? And then we ask God Allah, why did he do what he does? What Why does Allah do what he does? You see brothers and sisters, Allah doesn't need means he doesn't need anything.
Allah did not create us because he needs us He did not create this universe because he needs something there is a motive or an objective of his that he wants to reach. Allah can just say couldn't be. And it is. Allah said Be and there is.
But Allah subhanahu wata, Allah created this universe and us for a wisdom that he himself knows beyond our comprehension and understanding.
And if we continue to ask that question, why he why he why he It's an endless cycle. The question is wrong, my dear brothers, sisters, because Allah is not like us.
But I know what you're saying. Is there a purpose behind our creation? Did Allah just create us for nothing then?
And just leave us like that? Also Billa Allah says in the Quran, after Huseby to an
O and welcome Elena to Ronja Did you assume or calculate or think that we created you for no purpose whatsoever, just playing games and to us you will not return?
Allah created us for purpose and a wisdom, a wisdom that is his subhanahu wa taala.
My brothers and sisters
What is this purpose?
There are many purposes in life.
Many purposes that Allah created us for you can be here to enjoy one of the purposes to enjoy life, to appreciate life, for the purpose of relationships, the purpose of innovating, creating, inventing, building, the purpose of going and coming the purpose of existing the purpose of living and experiencing life experiencing this world. All of these are purposes and Allah created them for us, and they are part of the reason. However, they're short purposes, short term purposes. They are just means to the greater purpose. What is the greater purpose that Allah Subhana Allah created us for? In simple words, by the infinite wisdom of Allah. He will
Will for the human to be created on this earth, and to teach him about himself and his relationship to his creator. And to teach him the story of the universe around him, and to make him an entrusted successor on Earth, successor on earth, to look after it, and to represent the will of Allah, in standing up for justice, between people and everything else. But by his own choice of actions, not by mere animalistic desires, and whims like wild animals.
Brothers and sisters, therefore, we are in this world
to live by
this wisdom that Allah spent Allah created us for.
If a person applies injustice, they are not living the purpose of why Allah created you. If you apply justice and follow justice, you are fulfilling part of the purpose that Allah created you. If you follow the guidance of Allah in the way that he created this universe, and how to live through it, and what is the right life from the wrong life, you are fulfilling the purpose that Allah created you for.
If you
worship Allah subhanho wa taala. And understand that this world is a preparation for the here after that is to come.
And you prepare for it. You are living the purpose that Allah subhanaw taala has created you for
when you look after Allah's earth, and his creatures, in the way that he wants you to look after them, you are fulfilling the purpose Allah created you on this earth.
When you get married, and you have children, and you raise those children and teach them about Allah and their relationship to him, and their relationship to themselves and why and the entire reason why they are here you are fulfilling the purpose that Allah created you, for Allah said to the angels in Niger Island, fill out the Khalifa, I am going to create on Earth successors who will be entrusted
who will be entrusted with what entrusted to carry out
on behalf of Allah,
justice, goodness and the right in this world.
But how he gave us choice, you can choose now
you can choose brothers and sisters, this is an honor that Allah spent Allah has given you. He has honored you and made you different to the angel.
The angels, they do have choice, but they don't have desires.
Allah put us in us the desire.
And when that desire wrestles with you,
and your internal fitrah your conscience which Allah has created for you, and your belief in Allah, and your sense of right and wrong, comes to the picture you fight with your desires, which choice will you make. And Allah gave us the Quran and he showed us this line and said, This is the way to go. And this is the way not to go.
Go ahead, I have given you all the resources you need. Now make the right choice.
If you didn't have choice, you will not be honored or favored My dear brothers and sisters.
And with the choice you can rise to be above the angels because it was your effort. It was your choice you earned it. Or you can go against everything that pleases Allah subhanaw taala and bring yourself even lower than the animals. It's up to you.
All right. All this is nice and good.
How do we understand the verse of the Quran which says one gene, I will insert allele.
I have not created the genes or the humans for any other purpose except to worship me.
So does Allah need our worship? Did He create us because he was yearning for someone to worship Him because no one else worshipped Him or was over the angel is not enough? Because the angels asked. They said oh Allah
are you going to create people on earth or shed blood and spread corruption while we the angels, we worship you and glorify you?
They couldn't understand. Allah Amelie said I know that which you do not know meaning there are things that you will not be able to comprehend right now, even if I explained them to you until it happens. And truly the angels have understood now and they make dua for us.
So why did Allah say I have not created the jinn or the humans for any other purpose but to worship Me? This verse My dear brothers sisters works in response was in response to the people who created out of
God statues and deities.
And they started to offer these gods and deities, their food, their belongings, offerings. In ancient Greek, for example, ancient Greek theology, they used to do it. Today there are several religions in the world, such as Hinduism and others, they give offerings to their statues and idols in the meaning of these offerings are for God, this food, this water, this drink, this jewelry, this belongings, so that the gods can be pleased with us by giving them this these things. So Omar responded by saying, What are you doing?
Your whole creation on Earth was not so that you can feed me. I didn't create you so you can feed me. I didn't create you so you can give me I don't need anything Allah says, ma Adi da minha Mariska on your time on I don't want anything for you to provide me with? I don't want your food.
I don't need any of that. However, the relationship between the creation
and the Creator Allah cannot make sense in any way except that it's done through worship, the god and the creation. How do you have a relationship with Allah?
How do you have a relationship with Allah?
There is only one way. It's called worship. It's called worship. You don't worship anything else?
That is how you connect with Allah subhanho wa taala? How do you connect to your parents? Through their own means? How do you connect with your wife or your husband, the ones you love? How do you connect to your children? How do you connect to your employer? How do you connect to your pet which you have at home, each one has a way that you connect with them. The only sense but the only thing that makes sense, and the only thing that is appropriate and befitting between the creation, and God, to have a relationship and connect with him, is worship. That's how you connect to your Creator to Allah. So Allah is saying, the only reason
that you are a creation, or that you are here
is just your duty is to worship, nothing else who don't want anything else. And when you worship, this is where you feel your connection with me. And that is when it's a whole new world for you. Brothers, sisters, think about it. Think of the opposite way.
You cannot be here
without a creator. Otherwise, did you create yourself? Did you make yourself what your parents, your parents are a means? It's like a machine that produced something.
Where did you come from?
Do you have a beginning? There must be a beginning to this universe. If there was no beginning, there will be no existence. There has to be a beginning. That beginning has to be the absolute beginning. Who is that the Creator? Who created the Creator? Nothing. That's like asking, can you make a triangle A square?
No, because it's a triangle.
That's it? Who created the Creator? No one because then that would be the creator. This is an oxymoron. This is a contradiction. It is a wrong question. Some people they say if God is all powerful, how can get first go powerful? Can he create a rock which he cannot carry? Again, an absurd and silly question.
If God is the all powerful and can create a rock that he can't carry, it's an oxymoron. It's a contradiction. It cancels itself out the question itself is stupid. He is the all powerful.
So he is the all powerful End of story.
Allah is the Creator and He is the beginning otherwise you and I won't be here. Allah says a simple statement. I'm fully committed it che in I'm humbled Holly Cohen, where they created from nothing, or did they create themselves.
Brothers and sisters, just very quickly, something to think about.
This, you know, inside of us, our features you and me as human beings, the color of our eyes, the color of our hair, their skin, everything about us. It is made up of codes. We call them your genes, or genomes, which are codes inside your genes, not the genes that you wear g n e. S, your genetic code is inside of you. It's a program that Allah created. It has a sequence. It has a code and numbers which we numbered.
Not one is the same as the other.
If you were to take out all of your so they're also called DNA, all of your DNA that makes up
Hold your genes, if you were to take them out of your entire body, and put them in a string, end to end, they are so small, right? They put them in a string end to end all the DNA that's in your body. Do you know how far it will reach? Do you know how long it will go? All the DNA, all the codes that are inside of you, that make you the human being up,
they will reach from the sun to Pluto and back 10 times.
Look it up.
You can look it up in the Science Daily.
You can look it up in any authentic website for astronomy and scientific discoveries, biology, anything you like.
If one of these codes was taken out,
you will have a deformity. One, if one was added, you will have a deformity.
So you're telling me
this creator
cannot be and at the world made itself now impossible. There is a design,
there is a sequence, there is a pattern. There is an order.
There is harmony in this order.
And that's how we know science. It is impossible not to have a designer
who is beyond our tiny, feeble mind. I'll give you one more example. This table in front of me
didn't make itself obviously not.
Who made it?
Can you tell me? What does your reasonable mind say?
Who made this table?
The designer, a human or a monkey? A human? Why not a monkey?
Would anyone believe that a monkey made it?
Everyone's laughing at me.
A monkey couldn't have made it? Did you see who made it?
Did you see who made it?
You didn't see who made it?
Did any of you here go and get the serial number and start calling and tracing it back? Although experimenting until you get to the place where it was made? Did any of you do that? So how can any of you told me that a human made this? Are you crazy.
Without experimentation without science with I'll tell you something, your reasonable mind your faculties your intelligence which has been created in you. And your experience in life teaches every human being that this table must have been by made by a human because the human is the only reasonably intelligent being intelligent enough to make it a monkey can't make it because we know a monkey does not have the capacity or the intelligence to make it. Did this human make it for no purpose?
Did this human make the table? No didn't make it for no purpose. There is a purpose. If the human made a table for no purpose, you say it's foolish. It's just crazy. What are you doing?
If a human you can tell me this simple table was made by a human who is intelligent, and not a monkey because it's unintelligent, because it has a design it has a purpose, it has a structure it has a means it has a meaning.
Then what about this entire universe in your DNA?
It is a design there has to be a creator who deliberately made us for a purpose directly and there is an order and there is a timing and there is a goal and there is a destiny and there is a will this person who made you therefore has to control everything, then
he just left it in like that by itself. And if for example, if you had a shopping cart on wheels, from Woolworths,
and you got a bunch of different groceries and things from the shop, and you placed them into that trolley.
And then
you took it outside, you're going down a hill, and there are cars on the road and there are children as families and you're going outside to your car.
You have to control that trolley to get to your car. Isn't that correct?
But if you took it outside and you were the cause of it being outside, you put all the groceries in then you organize them all nicely. And as you're going down the hill, he decided to be silly. You just let go of the trolley. And you said the trolley will find its way
what will happen?
What will happen
it'll hit someone what else can happen
hit a car on the road what will happen to the groceries?
Everywhere probably kill someone probably whatever
the trolley and the groceries will not organize themselves it has to have a designer and maker deliberately the guiding it to its destiny.
Am I right or wrong?
This is a very simple example Allahu Allah, Allah to Him belong the Best of examples, there has to be necessarily someone who is controlling, willing, willing things to happen, pre determining them, pre measuring them, pre planning them, creating the means for them to happen. guiding them deciding
knowing exactly everything
is not true.
Has to be Allah says Therefore in the Quran, do you think that we created your birth and meaning we just did that left you left you for the whole world to just clash against each other in the universe and the planets and the stars and we just clash and finish? No, there's an order. Even if you decide to clash and do the wrong thing. There are consequences as a result, perfect consequences that don't change. For example, if you lit up a fire
and you jumped into the fire, is the fire going to burn you? Somebody's gonna burn you.
If you allow your baby child to crawl on the road with cars going and coming is there a consequence because it run over the child? It's gonna run over the child.
You jump into a hole Are you gonna fold the possibly break your leg or something? There's a consequence. So you can be disorderly, but your disorderly also has an order that follows it. Everything is in precise measurement and an order that does not change.
So my brothers and sisters, you have to believe in God or uncover that Allah subhanho wa Taala has created everything willed everything pre measured everything predestined everything, and knows every little single thing. Let me begin with the verses of Allah's knowledge, just so that we can understand it a little bit better.
We know and believe that Allah created everything in existence, things we know things we do not know things we've discovered things we have not discovered. And things we can never discover, nor ever no or even understand or comprehend. He created the things we can see and cannot see. He created this life. What was before this life, what is parallel to this life. And what is after this life, since Allah created and made everything, and nothing created him or came before him, it necessitates that he also knows it all. And controls it all. He has to know the past, the present, and the future of everything. Do we know all that? Do we know that? The reason my brothers and sisters why then we
understand why we ask questions. Why did this happen to me? What if I had done that?
Is this a punishment from Allah? Or is it a reward? Or is it that Allah has a plan for me? Why did this Why am I a boy? Why am I a girl? Why was I created into this parent? These parents? Why am I in this circumstance? Why is my house like this? Why am I created looking like that? Why did I not get this job? Why did I get this job? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? How was it possible for you to know all the answers? My dear brothers and sisters? Even if Allah told us the answers will still won't get it. I'll give you an example. A baby who was one year old, no, five months old. You lit up the barbecue, and the barbecue was still very hot. Let's say you had a wood fire. And the fire is
burning there.
Your baby who was five months old and now crawling. When they see that flame? What do they think it is?
What does the baby think that fire is?
Something to play with a toy is a colorful? It's colorful. Is it dancing to the baby. This is paradise.
This is the joy. This is what they were created for.
What does the baby do?
crawls to the fire? What does it want to do?
Touch it why? Doesn't know why? But just thinks there's something enjoyable and fun about it. It's something that they're going to enjoy. It's for them. Me Me. What do you do as a parent?
Stop them. No. Why don't you go up to the baby and say listen, it's your choice, but I want to tell you, that fire will burn you. And if the fire burns, you're gonna get skin injury, you're going to probably first lay or second or second degree or third degree burns then you're going to go to the hospital you probably get an infection and then if you get an infection they could amputate. What do you tell a five month old baby all that stuff?
You just grabbed the baby and take them away. What does the baby do then?
Cries What do you think the baby's thinking?
Why?
Also a mum and dad must hate me. Mum and Dad don't want me to have fun. Why it's a Tory, they've let me play with toys before one or this one. This is the baby can't articulate it. But this is what the baby's feelings are telling you. And it feels like he's been victimized, oppressed, wronged. What is gonna happen to me fear?
Did my parents do because they're punishing me? Or my parents don't like me? Is this gonna keep happening this way? Why? Try to explain it to them, you will never get the answer. Because it doesn't have the brain capacity to comprehend even if you told them. You can say good Do do you can say you can say well, why you can say babies still won't understand. Even if the baby got burnt, we'll still not understand why it got burns going to blame the fire. Why? Why the fire burned me why I'm just trying to play it not fair. I meant good. Brothers and sisters. This is a simple example of our relationship with Allah subhana wa ATOD. Imagine we are that baby. And there is things happening
to us in the world. Some things we can understand majority of them, we cannot reach a conclusion.
If I had done that, my father wouldn't have got cancer. If I had done that, my brother wouldn't have had an accident. If I had done that. I could have been in this place or that place. If I had avoided that. I wouldn't have married so and so. If I had done this, I would have married the other person. If I had not done that this would have happened if we had done this we could have had a boy if we could have had a girl if we have done now could have gotten that job.
My brothers and sisters it's endless. I'm going to explain all this there is an answer total. But in the beginning, Brian sisters, I want you to relax and take a step back. We have small percentage of control over our lives. And that control which we have is the only thing that we are responsible for and the only thing Allah will judge us for we're gonna get into that insha Allah. As for everything else, what did the Prophet sallallahu wasallam say? He said,
In the meaning of the Hadith, I'll just recite parts of it. He said, Be careful. First of all, he says,
act and try your best plan and go ahead. Rely on Allah. And don't be afraid. Don't get lazy. Put your determination and learn then go ahead. But then he says when things don't work for you do not say to yourself low ini file doula can If only I had done such and such this would have happened. Just say God dot Allah, Masha.
Allah has pre measured and predestined and what He wills he does finish move on. Otherwise, you will be in an ever lasting loop
of an obsessive seeking closure to understand you probably die and never understand that you would have to know the infinite past the infinite present the infinite future and everything in between and all the wise to understand it.
Why did this person die at a young age? How did you know that they were? Why did they die? Before they time? They say how did you know this was not their time?
That was what was written for them.
Why? unlit? Allah knows. Do you accept that? Alhamdulillah? Is there a good reason there must be an amazing reason. Allah doesn't do anything without mercy, kindness and wisdom. And that is why Allah told us in Hadith and Cuzzi Hadith, which the Prophet says but on behalf of Allah is quoting Allah it's not Quran but it's not words of Mohammed Salah sermons in between. He said that Allah says
Allah and the husband is on the appdb I will be at I will be to you as you think of me in a good way. Yanni think of Allah think of me positively no matter what happens, assume good about me. Because I'm don't do anything for bad. I do it all for good. Maybe you don't understand yet. Maybe you cannot comprehend yet. That's the meaning of believing in Kedah uncover and that relaxes you. My brothers and sisters, listen to this. Allah says He has the keys to the realm that lies beyond the reach of human perception.
Beyond the human perception, how are you going to even get there? No one knows them but he knows them but he and he knows what is on the land and in the sea. There is not a leaf, which falls that he does not know about a leaf from any tree in the world, under the ocean, above the ocean
In the mountains, if there were trees on Mars, the leaf on Mars, any leaf that drops, Allah knows it.
And he does not know, falls that he does not know about. And there is not a grain, a grain in the darkness of the earth or anything green or dry, which has not been recorded in a clear book. Do you know what it means that it was recorded in a clear book? Anyone know?
Allah has written everything. And we'll talk about that soon. in something called a clear book. It is a preserved record at the book of decree, which is with him, no one can see what's in it except Him He wills. Allah wrote in it, everything that will ever be everything, everything, everything, everything.
That book of decree, everything is in there.
What is it based on?
It is based on what Allah knew.
Infinitely before, everything he knew that will happen. He wrote it. Why did he write it? The wisdom is known to Allah subhanho wa taala. But perhaps he wrote it to tell us, it's because in our perception, you and me, this is how we understand things, that when things are written, they become more important. They become more serious. In our perception, Allah didn't write them because he wants to remember them. Allah wrote them so that it has an effect on us, and on the angels, and on the Day of Judgment.
It was written
everything.
What does that mean that Allah knew and wrote everything? Does that mean? That none of us here have any say, in where we end up?
Does that mean?
That if I don't pray
that Allah had written
this for me, therefore, it's not my fault.
If I don't fast, is it because Allah wrote it upon me, meaning, I have no say it's not my fault. If I killed someone, Allah wrote it. It's not my fault. They were supposed to die on my hands. If I go outside here is sometime at one time, a brother, May Allah guide him, he hits someone else's car. The other brother said, You know what he said to me, I go what he goes, he said, this is from the shaitan. I wish he said he was written, he goes from the shaitan.
Another brother, he says it's written there, I'm gonna punch you the other one punched him back as mine is written to the other one goes, I'll show you what's written as well gives them another punch. It's written.
Everything is written, they go, therefore, I have no say in the matter. This is absurd.
They have How do we explain all this? How do we explain all this? I've got to believe in color. And you're telling me
that Allah has already pre measured and predestined? And then you come and tell me? I have to be accountable and judged for what I do? How's this my fault? Why would Allah judge me? And punish me? For the wrongs that I did when he wrote it upon me?
Is that a fair question?
Is that a fair question?
For you?
What is the answer?
My dear brothers and sisters, it is true that Allah had written it.
But what he has written, that you will do is not because he made you do it, he didn't write it, meaning I'm forcing this person to do it.
The writing means I know what this person is going to do.
I'll give you an example.
Let's say you had a time machine. Someone invented a time machine. You took that time machine and traveled 1000 years into the future.
And you wrote all the things you see.
Then you came back 1000 years back into the past where you were.
And you gave this book. And everybody started following those thinking how it's everything written in this book is actually happening. 1000 years in the making, it's happening, because you had already seen it. My question to you is, did you make
all this stuff happen for 1000 years? Or did you just know because you saw it, and then you wrote it?
Whose fault is yours? Because you wrote it? Or is it someone else's fault?
Someone else's fault. All you did was know what's going down because you saw it. I'm just giving you a hypothetical example. Let's say there is a
As a parent who has mothers are good at this, they got a child. And that mother, she knows that if she offered her son or daughter an ice cream
or grain pays
the mother before the child makes the choice knows that the child will choose which the ice cream,
the ice cream.
She puts it in front of them, the child chooses what the ice cream? Do we say the mother forced the child to eat ice cream.
She might have allowed it. But did she forced the child or the child make the choice? Of course the child is not accountable yet. But whose choice is the child? Let's say she put the green peas. And I don't know garlic.
And she says, My child's going to choose the green piece this time.
The child chooses the green piece if they've tasted the garlic before. Does that mean the mother is the one who made that decision? Or just knows that her child will choose this over that?
Do you understand? So when Allah subhanho wa Taala has written everything that will be it is his knowledge of what you will do by you. What about all this other stuff, the sun rising, and the sun setting and the moon and the trees they don't have a mind of their own.
There are two aspects to Qatar.
There is something we call the universal predestination and the specific
which is else.
In other words, universal predestination which Allah is controlling fully and totally.
And the things which are legalized things which Allah told us to do, or told us not to do these things
are in our control? We choose them, not Allah.
What is the difference? The things that you have no control over. Allah will not judge you for them. For example, if you're born a boy,
and you said to yourself, Man, I'm jealous. I'm jealous of all the good deeds that women get to do, which I can't do like pregnancy and giving birth. And I heard the amount of rewards a mother gets, I wish I want to do what the mother does.
But you can't, because you're a man, you can't get pregnant.
I'm not gonna go into all the science right now we'll do that another time.
That's not your fault.
That's not your fault. And the other way.
Let's say for example, you were born
into
a corrupt family.
And you say to yourself, am I going to be judged for what my father does? What my mother does what my brothers and sisters do? No, that's not in your control?
Is that right? A person was born with a mental illness, or a disk or a disability. And they didn't have the capacity to pray the five daily prayers that Allah has made compulsory, is that their fault? It's not will they'll be accountable for it? No, they won't. Why? Because it is not within your control.
But the things that are in your control, and then you had a choice, you will be judged for that.
So the question now is, am I forced?
are a my or do I have free will? Am I forced or do I have free will?
The answer to that is anything
that Allah has commanded you or prohibited you. And anything which you find that you are able to do or not do by your own decision is a free will. And that free will you will be asked about.
Example.
Can you stand up to pray
you if you choose not to stand up, you need a good excuse. If you don't have an excuse. You will be judged. Why didn't you stand up?
You had the opportunity to steal or not steal. You chose to
not steal.
Your friend chose to steal.
You get the reward, they get the sin. Why? Because you chose Could you do it? Of course he could
Do it. You're thirsty, you chose to drink. The tap is there, you can walk to the tap, your legs are fine, your hand is fine, your eyesight is fine. The tap is working, the water's coming down, you can reach up to the cup, you have absolutely no disabilities.
But you were so thirsty or not, you chose not to get up. Maybe you're lazy.
But you still felt thirsty.
Whose problem is that? That's your problem. Why? Because you had the choice. You are accountable for that. And the list goes on. Isn't it right? You dug a hole? You didn't put let's say you work outside ministry, you dug a hole. You didn't put any warning signs or anything like that. Somebody falls into it. Whose choice was that? Yours? They got injured? who's accountable? You. Why? Because you had the freewill.
that example I gave you before the person punched him, the other one punched him back. Who chose that? Allah or them?
They chose? They chose it. They've you might be asking me now. All right, then. That's all good. But isn't Allah still in control and wills?
For you to punch someone or not? To pray or not? Meaning? If I if God doesn't allow me, I won't be able to do it. You're saying everything's within his will?
Yes, it's true. Allah is in control of your actions as well. But not in a way you think.
Allah has made a Kadar a pre measurement a predestiny that you will have a certain degree of freewill.
Who is the one that gave you that certain degree of freewill? In the beginning in the first place, who is it? It is Allah. Example, if you move your arms around right now, who is the one that gave you that freewill? Who is the one that created those arms for you? Who created the neurons and the neurotransmitters from your brain to your arm, who made you healthy, who made you conscious to be able to move them or not move them, isn't it Allah, this is still in the control of Allah, but the control of Allah is this he will do it for be your choice. He will get to be your choice. When you make the choice. Allah creates the opportunity.
Let me repeat that. When you make the choice and you are determined, the intention is there and you go to do it, you cannot do it unless Allah creates the opportunity creates the reality for you.
And Allah creates the reality for you based on his knowledge of what you will choose. So it's the other way around, actually, it's the other way around. It actually started with you.
That action actually started with you not with Allah.
Allah facilitated it, allowed it, measured it, willed it and you did it.
Alright. Let me ask you another question. When Allah rewards you, or punishes you,
does Allah reward you for the mechanical actions that you do?
And if for example, if I lifted this mobile phone up,
and I called someone to help them
that action of carrying the phone
and talking to that person, and I help them that mechanical act me moving my arm and carrying my phone
does Allah reward me for that?
Or does it reward me based on something else?
Does Allah reward me for actions or for something else?
Do you understand the question?
Allah rewards me
for my intention and objective.
In Arabic, we call it a cost, a cost, my objective and my intention.
As soon as
I want to go to the masjid to pray,
I make that intention that objective. Allah creates the means for me. He creates the means for my legs to move for the pathway to be open. For me to get there for me to raise my hands for me to stand. Oh, step by step Allah creates it for you.
Yes, he is controlling it. But based on what?
Based on your intention and objective. You want it to do it. So if let's say something happened along the way and Allah subhanaw taala pre measured, God forbid that a person they're going to break their leg on the way and they didn't make it to the masjid does Allah reward you?
For the intention objective or no longer rewards because you didn't get there.
Here it was if we intention and objective and same with the sin. So, let me repeat this, if Allah is in control of everything, and he creates everything, and He wills everything, and he wrote everything
then
how do I explain
that I made a choice, your choice is based on your decision, your intention and your objective. As for the mechanical work, Allah is the One who facilitates that. Let me give you another picture to this, to show you how things work with Allah's pantile. And you
you know,
your intention and your objective.
If you just sit there and you intend to do something, but you don't do it isn't counted.
It's not counted. It's not counted.
But then you do it, it's counted for you. Why does Allah want us to do it? What does Allah tell us get up and go and I'll create the means since your intention objective already there.
Just sit there and say I intend to pray and I love Salah Hello sits in my heart.
No, Allah tells you get up and I'm gonna create the means why all this trouble?
Because Allah subhana wa Tala, He knows your intention objective, and the evidence and the witness to the objective and that intention is shaped into what we call your actions. Those actions are the things that on a day of judgment, will come up and witness for your actions for your intentions and your objectives. Allah subhanaw taala wants you to show what you object, what your intention objective is, in the actions that you do. And because of that, the world keeps going. motion happens. It is the cuddler of Allah. Listen, brothers and sisters, let me talk that watch this. Allah says in the Quran
wahala kakula. Che He created everything or called Daraa, who took a deal.
And he measured it in a precise measurement. Precisely.
You know, that means
there are no mistakes. It's absolute. No mistakes,
precise, hell, in His justice, with his knowledge, with his wisdom, with his mercy, with his kindness, with his fairness, everything and you know what brothers sisters, we should thank Allah that everything is in his control. In his judgment, not anyone else had it been in any one else will be disaster.
But it is Allah who has taken control of our affairs. I'll give you an example of a great
scholar of the past.
He said,
I think it was side and then we'll say, Oh, I think it was also
a hustler. Basri. He said,
Whenever I make a DUA, I call upon Allah.
And while it can be made in different ways, by the way, but there are some dua where you ask Allah for something doesn't just mean you have to ask Allah for something. Dua is a whole lot of things, calling upon him connecting to him worshiping Him, complaining your worries to him, asking him for guidance. And sometimes he asked for something specific. He said, Whenever I asked for something,
and Allah does not give it to me.
Sorry, and he gives it to me, I thank him SubhanAllah. And I'm very grateful to him, when he doesn't give it to me. I thank him double. Why? He says, because I know that the reason that he did not give it to me, is for my benefit. Had it been up to me, I would fall into disaster.
Allah kept it away from me for my benefit. And I am happy that Allah is in control of my affairs, not me.
That's when you believe in cobalt and copper.
And you put your token and trust in Allah, while while doing the actions while seeking the means. There is no such thing as sitting down and saying, I'll just rely on Allah and he'll just take care of everything. That's wrong.
That's wrong. And that defeats the entire purpose of why Allah created us. We just talked about Allah creating us. And he willed for us this enabled for us that and there is a purpose and emotion. And there's a judgment day otherwise all this means nothing. All of it means nothing. Brothers and sisters, I'm not going to go into the next misconceptions because there are actually about 15 of them. But for now, I want to just finish this short introduction to cuddle and cuddle with the following principles and concepts. I want you to use these principles and concepts from here.
Run. Every time you hear about Godot and coder every time we hear about CUDA and CUDA use these principles, I'm going to give you four what we call characteristics of codon cuddle, how many
for what characteristics or for features
of Kado avocado, and I'm going to give you four
four
reactions, how how to deal with codon cutter in four ways.
So four characteristics
and four ways to deal with Qatar.
The four characteristics of Qatar this, Qatar does not happen except with these four things. Number one, and I mentioned it before
that Allah subhanho wa Taala first of all, knows everything that will happen.
What's the first one, Allah knows everything that will happen?
Everything based on his knowledge of everything. The second characteristic, he wrote and recorded, what he knows about what will happen. So now this to Allah new, Allah recorded in the preserve tablet Allahumma fourth, the book of decree.
Thirdly,
Allah subhanahu wata, Isla will build
for what will happen. So now he willed it, he allowed it.
And number four, Allah created everything that happened, who can repeat them, four characters of Kedah, Allah knew everything,
recorded everything, willed everything. So if you record it hasn't happened yet. You need someone to will it, Allah willed it, meaning allowed it, decided it,
gave it permission to happen. And number four, created it. So you give it permission, but what's the where's the product, Allah created it.
He even created your actions. Remember, we said before, when you intend to do something, Allah creates the actions for you to do it. So he bases that on your intention in your objectives. Either you get there or you don't at the end of that Allah will give you the reward for your intention objective, and he looks at your effort. So Allah created everything. See, when you stand up to pray, who created your arms to do that? Allah if you didn't create them, can you do that? And who created your legs to stand up? Was it not Allah? Who created the means for you to stand up with your legs? If there wasn't oxygen for you to breathe? Can you even stand up and pray? Who created the oxygen
for you? Allah, the brain that you have the consciousness to think with who created that consciousness for you? Allah, your heart that beats all of these mechanisms are created by Allah, therefore we say Allah created your action.
All you have to do is use it. And once you use it, Allah makes it a reality. He created the reality based on these means. So I don't want anyone to come back and say, and I've heard this question before saying, well, Allah, Allah didn't will for me to pray. Allah hasn't willed for me to wear the hijab. Allah hasn't willed for me to start fasting. Allah hasn't called for me to stop alcohol. Allah hasn't willed for me to stop drugs. Allah has not willed for me to change my ways. Allah has Subhanallah My dear brothers and sisters, I have to tell you seriously, and honestly, that is a question from the shaitan. And it's a dubious one, it makes it you're not going to get anywhere with
it. You need to move away from that, and face the reality and say to yourself, it is within my control, and I have to make the decision. Allah has not stopped you.
Allah has not stopped you. In fact, the fact that Allah commanded you means that you have been willed to do it.
How do you know Allah hasn't wielded you're the one who hasn't willed it? Allah is going to go by you. Allah is going to go by you. Otherwise, if Allah is going to judge us for things that we have no control of, you're saying that Allah is an oppressor?
Is Allah vollum? Is Allah and oppressor? No.
Even the little child who hasn't reached puberty, Allah doesn't judge him. Because they don't have the brain capacity
to be able to make the right decisions on their own, enough to be judged. That's what Allah doesn't judge the person who's born mentally insane. That's why Allah doesn't judge a person who's never
heard or known about the truth.
You know, Allah subhanaw taala looks at all the circumstances. He is absolutely fair.
It is me and you who choose or not choose Yes.
Some things are hard. Yes, some things we have to struggle that's how it is. That's, that's how you earn. That's how you earn what you deserve. But I guarantee you Allah He even the Haram needs a struggle. Everything in life is through the good and the bad. You have to struggle to go and meet with that person who's going to sell you the drug, and take the risk of getting caught. And planning and plotting. Man, that's a lot of work. You have to plan to go and learn all the flirt, flirting words, flirtatious words with that girl to get her you're planning, you've got an objective you're going around, you're taking your time out. This needs a lot of effort.
Same as you plan for the halal and for the good. When you do your salad when you tell the truth when you do a work that is beneficial. When you learn something that is beneficial to you, all of it needs work. But the problem is you
either laziness,
or what you tell yourself
or you just don't want to do it.
Or maybe you don't understand yet. All of this is within our hands Madiba and sisters. So keep going and rely on Allah, I gave you the four characteristics of God or in relation to Allah writing. I'm going to tell you something. There are five stages of recording, five stages of recording I already told you the one in the book of decree, that's everything right. But
there are specific things that ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala do did not write them in a local muffles. But they are based on the local muffles.
He comes down for example, local muffled is one. Then you have after creation of Adam when Adam Alayhis Salam was created, ALLAH SubhanA wa Isla, he sealed the decree of who shall end up in paradise and who shall end up in hellfire. And he knew who will go but did not write it nor the angels know till after we, after we declared Yanni when Allah created the Adam, Allah took us out of the back of Adam, Allison and we were all souls, this before He created us. And He said to us, I have already decided and written who's going to paradise and who has going to hellfire, but he did not record it. He said to everyone, as in the Quran, do you all bear witness that I am your Lord
worthy of worship and that you will follow my message and my guidance and we all set it Muslim and non Muslim? Then Allah recorded after that declaration, who will end up in paradise who will end up in hell? That's the second recording that happened? How did he decide who's going to Paradise and Hell based on what he knew we were each going to do? So why did he make us go through it anyway? That's a question for next week. Insha Allah. Why did he put us here anyway, since he knows, then a third creation. A third recording is in the womb when you are in your mother's womb as a baby at the age of 120 days. According to the authentic hadith in Sahih Muslim and Buhari 120 days, Allah sent
an angel to write four things, your lifespan, how long you will live, your is your provision, how much money you're going to get, how many skills you're going to get, what will you get out of this world and what you will not how much
and whether you are going to end up in paradise or hellfire.
that writing is not what Allah wants for you. It's what he knew about you. Why we'll talk about it next week. Inshallah number five, number four, Allah records in Leila, to cover Leila tool. Quarter
later to cover in Ramadan, Allah makes a right new decrease for the year.
That is why it's important for us to make dua in later to Qatar. And that is why when someone is pregnant, it's good to make dua for that child.
We'll talk about that another time. But dua has an effect on Qatar. Doha has an effect on Qatar, number five, a daily daily decree daily recording, Allah says good laomi Hua fisherton Everyday Allah is decreeing a new happening.
So that's why we say da in the morning. Oh Allah, one of the dogs for example, also sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he used to say for example, Allah Menez Luca Hydra Harada. And Yo Ma we come in Cherie, oh, Allah asked you the best of this day and I seek refuge in You from the bad of it. And he is the McDonough about goodness. And that Doha makes a difference for when it is recorded. You might ask me, hold on a minute. How can you change the color? I say to you, Allah already knew and wrote that you're gonna make this dua today, which will change what was originally supposed to happen. So at the end of the day, still there, no mistakes, no mistakes, but
It's from you it started with you and Allah recorded it, do you understand it started with you.
Lastly, the four ways of reacting to other brothers and sisters every time something happens, whether it's good or bad, and we usually focus on the bed, well at least it's the bed that will you and I perceive to Allah there is no good or bad it's to Allah. Samantha is what you perceive. Sometimes we might see bed as good and good as bad in this life. That is when you disobey Allah and you start heading towards hellfire, that's the real bad, but to Allah subhanaw taala when things happen to you in this life, some of them are out of your control, some of them are within your control. So always remember four things. Number one, this inshallah will prepare us to have the
strength in the face of any hardship, any calamity, any change in our life. Number one, always remember, it could be that Allah has a plan for you.
Allah may have a what a plan, there is a plan why this didn't happen, there is a plan why went that way you will see soon be patient. Or number two, it could have been one of those tests that ALLAH is given you for your hereafter. We all get tests, you want to and Jana, you're gonna go through some examination, but that test will also strengthen you, you either pass it or you fail. So get ready. Probably it's a test for me. Number three,
number three,
suffering so talking about suffering, let's say
Good.
may come out of this. Maybe Allah allowed to do this or not allowed you because good is going to come out of it. Sometimes we head in a direction. Thinking that good will come out of Allah says none and I'm going to take you that way. I'm going to guide you that way. You get guided that way. Yes, it's within your choices. But sometimes Allah subhanho wa Taala says that you deserve that good come out of this particular time. It can happen and Allah directs you but within with heart in harmony with your choices though, how ALLAH knows and you are guided in a direction by pre measurement of Allah to bring out a better outcome for you. And that is why Allah says are certain
taka Hua Santa crochet and Maha hydrological. You may hate something when it's good for you I say unto him Bucha overshadow lakum you may love something when it's bad for you. Wala Who ya allah momentum letter Allah moon, you say Allah knows, you don't know. So rely on him. And lastly, it could be the result of a choice and free will that you made. Okay, if it's a choice and free will that you made? What do I do with it? Perfect. I learned from it.
Every mistake you made is good. Don't think of it as bad. So long as you keep moving forward. Don't stay stuck where you are a baby. How does a baby learn how to walk my dear brothers and sisters?
Persistence, what else?
Experience now, I'll tell you how.
Every time the baby fell, when he was getting up, he didn't stop this persistence keeps going because babies don't think about consequences adults do. He gets up or she gets up then falls. The baby falls 1000 times and learns 1000 ways of how not to fall by falling 1000 ways.
Do you understand? Her baby learns 1000 ways of how not to fall by first falling 1000 ways. I won't do that anymore because all fall
Do you understand? So in our choices and freewill relying on Allah subhanaw taala we learn and so long as Allah has given you a life to live. Don't give up. There is a reason for you to live you still have chances.
And in sha Allah, we're gonna bring up beautiful questions. But all the things I discussed today.
You know, the prophesy Salam said hold on a minute. A person may reach paradise, them before they die, they do something they end up in hellfire. There are people who do the actions of the people of hellfire, before they die, they change and end up in paradise. How do I how do we explain that?
How do we explain that for example? Right? And also Allah Subhana Allah says, What do you mean that it's all about? It's It's all up to you to pray or not pray? Doesn't Allah say you had the MA Yeshua or you didn't do my Yeshua, Allah guides whoever He wills, misguides whoever he was, what's the meaning of that? You know, questions like this insha Allah and many other questions that come up. Such as if God knows everything that's going to happen, why create us and make us go through it?
You know, we've got a series of misconceptions insha Allah that next week, we will answer the evening heater isla. I just left you with a bit of a cliffhanger because I want you to come back in sha Allah and invite your friends because this is an important topic we'll be repeating some things over and over in different ways until Insha Allah we get it and our hearts are rested at ease. I hope insha Allah if you don't take anything from this lesson today except these four and four, can you repeat them for characteristics is Allah New World recorded and created and the four ways we react to Kadar Allah may have a plan, it could be a test for my hereafter good is going to come out
of this suffering. And number four, it could be the result of my choices and free will which I will learn from get stronger.
Good Jezza Kamala Hyde was SallAllahu Nabina Muhammad while early he was rbh mind if anybody has any questions I'll just take three I went that three any questions
no. Yes one question.
Now
can I leave you with a cliffhanger?
No, God but Allah Masha fowl say it.
Shall America Luffy Habibi, I'm glad that you're enjoying it anyone else?
To deliver Ramadan?
Brothers asking if you do an action that's not for the sake of Allah. Can you change your intentions? Of course you can.
You just change your intention.
And make sure that what you're doing is pleasing to Allah Taleb. If it's haram, you change your intention and the huddle. How do you do it in here.
But if you want an example, you have to give me an example. But anyway, anyone can change their intention at any time, anytime.
And there's a great Hadith about that. It says, If you intend to do something good, but then you change your mind.
For no bad reason, Allah will still write it as once one good deed because you intended because you wanted to do, but not just interesting then thinking about it means you were going to do it, you planned for it, and you're going to do it and then
maybe something came up or you just thought I'll do it another time Allah still write it for you. If you do it, you will get rewarded from 10 False to 70.
If you intended and planned, and were determined to do something haram, and then you did it, it will be counted as one bad deed. And if you change your mind for the sake of Allah, before doing it, it will be written as one good deed because you changed your mind. So Allah rewards for intentions that are changed away from haram.
And he still rewards you for intentions that you wanted to do good but you didn't do him. Isn't that generous from Allah. And if you do the good deed, it's up to 70 folds. If you do the bad deed, it's one. Allah helps us. We're just gonna look at those two questions anymore. One more. That's it? Yes. A motive. Does he have desires now?
Allah does not have desires. Even the angels don't have desires
that's a question we get an answer. Allah subhanaw taala will something for us, it's all about us. It's not about him. subhanho wa Taala it's all for you. It's all for you.
You know that area in the Quran where Allah says what either so Allah Kariba the only for any college. Students ask you about me I am close. So his close.
fell yesterday volley. Let them respond to Me. So now your effort. If you respond to Allah, what happens?
What happens? You feel an amazing purpose for yourself. You rise in yourself your esteem rises, your purpose rise, your importance rises, you feel close to Allah and a connection with Allah, you feel his Rama and your reward is amazing. That's what Allah subhanaw taala wants, he wants it for you. As for Allah has motive himself, Allah has no motive for himself. That's what Allah is. We keep saying Allah who are hamara Him and He is the Most Merciful. Allah is the Creator he creates. Allah is just his shows his justice. Yeah. And if I told you, if everybody asked their parents Why did you give birth to me?
Why did you give the I didn't ask you to give birth to me.
I didn't tell you
and the parent tells me it's because I love you. Because I want to manifest love on our child I show love that we can have relationships together as love so that I can have a family and we our family lives on and life keeps going and so that we can and the person can continue and saying but I didn't want it and I don't care and I didn't get it results in rebellion. When the child rebels what happens to the child
Do they feel good, they don't feel good, they feel lost. They feel lost, because they're not close to their family. It's a need that Allah has created in us that we love to feel close and important. And Allah's mother wants that for us. The opposite way is true. Sometimes the parents they bear to their children, and the child loses their parents, but they yearn for it. Isn't that right? So the whole idea is really along once good for us. At the end of the day, it's what it is, and to trust the loss pantalla and to know that he created for wisdom beyond our understanding comprehension is enough. Or we need to do is that we're here now. Worship Allah, follow His guidance, watch what
great rewards you get. And if you want to know even more, you're not satisfied with the answer. In sha Allah in the hereafter. You and I will be satisfied in sha Allah dial. But right now, think of the baby that goes for the fire.
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