Faraz Rabbani – Weekly Q&A How Do We Overcome Worshipping Ones Whims
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The speaker discusses the confusion surrounding the worship of Muslims as a means of worship, rather than the actual reality of one's whim. The speaker uses the title "has been revealed" to describe the actions of Allah's fellow followers as a rebuke against those who do not value their own feelings and values. The speaker warns against being a person who is only focused on their whim and rather a servant of Allah.
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Bismillahir Rahman Rahim, there's a question who is
the one who worships their nafs?
Can that be referencing referring to Muslims?
Worshipping one's whims does not mean literally nobody
prays to themselves,
right?
When Allah castigate those who take
their whims
as their
God,
that refers to those who always defer to
and surrender to their whims and their desires.
Right? So it's a rebuke, it's not declaring
that such a person
is a disbeliever
but rather don't be of those who
don't be of those who
merely follow
their whims and desires but rather be a
servant of Allah. It strive
to choose on the basis of the pleasure
of Allah and not merely
the vagaries
and whims of your self.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says
and whoever
can restrain
the vagaries
of their self,
those are
the successful.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells us in the
Quran,
and the self and how Allah has fashioned
it
inspiring it both to its
virtue
and its vice
successful is the one who purifies it
and ruined is the one
who allows it to be corrupted.
And so that is our,
that is the call of Allah
to
learn to restrain oneself. And the unrestrained self
is as if it is devoted
to
its whim rather than to its Lord Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. So don't be of those people.
That is the call.
Don't be of those
people. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala make us
of the people of principle and good and
not of the people of whim and caprice.