Hamza Yusuf – Vision Of Islam CD7 #03

			And so that's the general sense that everybody is Abdullah. Now there are conscious servants. And
there are unconscious servants, there are servants that are aware of their obedia. And there are
servants that are not aware of that this servanthood to Allah subhana wa Tada. And this is the
difference. So the servant in its narrow sense is someone who consciously serves God by following a
profit, and in a still narrow sense of serve as a human being who serves God perfectly with full
awareness and total freedom of choice. So this is the idea of the servant, in its most narrow sense
is that the apt, in fact, is somebody who freely gives up his state to his Lord. And this is the
		

			gift that Muslims believe that God gave his creation, because in the Quran in Toba, the verses in
the lush thirimanne, and we need them for someone to be under the home agenda that God has purchased
from the believers, their wealth and their lives, and against that purchase is paradise. If God owns
you in the first place, then how did you engage yourself in a transaction? How do you sell what is
not yours, this is the gift. This is the gift, it's it's the gift of somebody who if you come into a
shop, and he gives you something and then buys it back from you, because he knows you're in need, so
it's the idea of the Father, it's a bounty from Allah subhana wa tada that he on the one hand,
		

			already possesses you, but on the other hand, has engaged you in a commercial transaction in which
you become a partner. In other words, you become a free agent. And this is what the idea of to cream
of the human beings have been honored in that way, because everything else in creation can only be
what it is, every if you look out at creation, there is nothing that can be other than what it is.
And this is something very interesting, a tree can only be a tree, it cannot be anything else. The
dog can only be a dog, the pig, the horse, the donkey, everything is determined in its attributes
and its qualities, except the human being, the human being can actually take on qualities that are
		

			strange to its nature, and you have mad people that will actually bark like dogs, you have people
that behave like animals are worse than animals. And the Koran indicates that they're actually worse
than animals, but home all done to subida because animals do not do things that harm them. With
knowledge, an animal would never purposely harm itself. It will only do what it thinks is beneficial
for itself. So if an animal sees fire, it flees from fire. Whereas a human being will actually do
things knowingly, that harm itself. And this is where the rational soul is overwhelmed by the
irascible or the concupiscence soul those lower energies in the cell. So one of the things that this
		

			idea in the Koran is that God measures out carefully what he gives to his creatures. And part of the
reason for that is if a law did not do that, they would overstep greatly they would transgress. Now,
you can already see that there is transgression out there. But if everybody got what they wanted,
then what would it be like? In other words, the fact that not everybody gets what they want, there
are only certain people out there that have enough power to so corruption. But if everybody had that
power, then what type of a world would it be? And so the point there is this. There's a balance of
power. And this is the idea in the Quran that Allah says Lola, Allah He naza Baba, whom Baba had not
		

			gotten used some people to constrain other people, the facilitator of the entire world would be
filled with corruption. And so there is a balance of power in the world. There's not one dictator
that can simply do whatever he wants, because if one emerges here, somebody else emerges over here
to counterbalance them. And one of the major problems that have emerged in our own lifetimes is the
fact that America does not have any counter balance that for most of our lifetimes, and certainly
for the older people in here during the 50s 60s, and 70s, and even the 80s, the Russians acted as a
counterbalance to the Americans. So the Americans could not do everything that they wanted, because
		

			they always had to take into consideration what's going to be the reaction of Russia.
		

			And vice versa. Whereas now that's been removed so that there becomes this vacuum. And this is a
very unusual scenario. It's not a historical precedent. I mean, the Romans at one time were probably
similar in a large portion of the world. But the Romans did not control Africa, or at least not most
of it. They control North Africa, they certainly didn't control Asia, nor did they control India,
when Alexander the Great who was Macedonian but when he went to India, he wanted to conquer India,
he got sick, all his troops got sick, and he had to leave. And that's another thing. Harada has
mentioned that nobody has ever moved towards the Arabian Peninsula, except they were stopped. So
		

			there have been people and in fact, Alexander the Great died of a fever in Egypt, he was on his way
he wanted to invade Arabia. Arabia was never invaded in the ancient period that armies were always
stopped from invading. And we know appa ha, which was the Ethiopian, who lived in Yemen, when he set
his sights on Mecca, his army was destroyed. So there's always been these constraints in the world.
And the thing about it is many of them you're not even aware of there are times when a country wants
to do something. And then something really tragic happens that prevents them from doing it because
they become preoccupied. Their economy collapses, or they have major natural disasters, they have
		

			this or they have that. So there are things in the world that you're not even aware of that you
can't comprehend, because we as human beings, we're limited in our perspectives. And when we look at
the world, what has to be understood is that there is actually a balance in the world that is not
always discernible, not that it's not there, but because of short sightedness. And one of the things
that Kimo Morales says is that all things are motor, salya hair, moto salita man hydrodynamics, Nora
Hickman, everything is equal. And they are not different in that everything was created with a
wisdom. So at the essence of everything, the rock is equal to the human in that the rock was created
		

			for a purpose just as the human was created for a purpose. So at that level, when you look at the
world, everything that is in the world is in the world for a reason. And this is what he means when
Allah says what matter if you have any mentor forward, you will not see disparity in the creation of
the Merciful. In other words, if you look out at the creation, you won't see this tooth out. One
thing is different from another. And then Allah says as your advisor, keep looking, if you think
there is keep looking, and you're I will come back to you exhausted and fatigued and trying to find
something that has no purpose in creation. Everything has purpose, the least Adam has purpose. Now,
		

			then it says that humans, they are multifilament, Hazel and Nakula nor any of us will be fat either.
But they're different in that every thing that is existent is specific to a benefit. And when to
refer for mom and Shay in extra 11 men and Nast come up quite a lot with data. And if you look then
nothing has more difference in all of this then human beings. And Allah says what hot up a home up
water, they were created in stages, well how to add a water fan about the home talk about that a
shot, we raise some humans over others. In other words, that this is according to the Quran is from
God, that there is these differences in the creation, under cave have done about the home at about,
		

			look how we have preferred some over others in the world. This is actually you're told in the Quran
to look at the world and see how some have been preferred over others in the world. And then what
immediate after that we'll have autodata shots, and in the next world are even greater differences
		

			of data and more preference. So don't become diluted by these things. In other words, these are
finite, limited. A person might have wealth, have fame, have beauty, have lineage have all these
things for 50 6070 years, and then it's over. But the next world is infinite. And therefore you
can't compare the two in that way. But POTUS of Hannah, what else a larger outcome Amata wahida what
I can do to accompany my attack on had got one and he would have made you one oma one people all the
same, but he desired to try you in what he has given you. In other words in the differences what
OSHA autoboca grns or mattawan had God wanted. Your Lord wanted, he would have made it
		

			Have you won people, or how to turn only the data that you've had or whatever about to confirm about
the project. And he is the one who made you replace others in the earth just as we're here. Now,
there were people here before us. There were people in Hayward. And those people mostly were
Hispanic people that worked in the fields here. It before them, there were Indians here, there were
native Californians, the alone is and what the Spanish called the Costa leoneans. I mean, they were
here, living here, had a whole cosmology. They had religious festivals on Mount Diablo, and they're
gone, and now we're here replacing them. And then it says that we raise some of you over others, Leo
		

			blucon in order to test you or try you in what he's given you. And then also what else shout out
bukata Giada nessa omata weida What is I don't have therapy had God wanted he would have made you
all one people. And look, you continue to be different multifeed which means you're different, but
also you differ Illa marinara buka except those who specific mercy has been given them and then
after that says what he that it could have become a woody that it got harder for him that for that
reason, he created them, in other words, to defer and to be shown mercy. So that is part of the
intention of the creation will fit out of the pedometer, gelato gentlemen, and Evan was that in the
		

			earth, you see all of these different different types of Earth out there that are different, Earth
is different soil is different. There's rich soil, there's poor soil, there's soil, if you plant
nothing grows there, salt marshes, nothing will grow there are only certain specific vegetations.
There's areas where fruit trees flourish, there's other areas where they can't grow. Because of air.
If you watch mount what Bodie seen in board, one of the meanings of Thor is a mountain the trees
grow on because there are mountains that no trees grow on, it gets too high, and it can't sustain
vegetable life. So even in creation, there's all this diversity. And that's going to have an effect
		

			on the people living there. And then he says in Nevada, I think there are many of these are signs
and we go back to the idea a few weeks ago, we've talking about signs that human beings are here to
perceive signs, these are Signs for people who have intellect, that can actually reflect, they can
actually think so then he says, wisdom necessitates all of this, because the human being cannot
sustain himself alone, and therefore had a human being been forced to sustain everything that he
needed alone. Most human beings would not survive for very long. And so because human beings need
other human beings, there needs to be this tough out, had everybody been given wealth, then how
		

			would some people serve other people? If all of us had equal Well, how would some people serve other
people? And there's another important point here, which is had God not created with freewill, these
human beings to feel impoverished? Then who would need God?
		

			If everybody felt independent, they would feel no need and this is what the Quran says in the in
Santa Clara para sadhana, human beings become aggressive, and oppressive, and they transgress when
they deem themselves independent of God. And so the state of impoverishment, which the human being
whether he's wealthy, materially or impoverished material is the same. Every human being is in
reality impoverished before God is in need of God for that sustenance. And this is why animals have
been subjugated to human beings, they're subordinated human beings benefit from animal we eat, we
have leather products, we have all these things. I mean, everything. If you look around here, a lot
		

			of this stuff is coming from animals, you don't even think about it. You know, all these carpets
that you're on? Is there any wool carpets, they're coming from, from animals, we benefited from
those animals, if there was a human being, they're not going to let you shave their hair so that you
can make a carpet with it or something like that. But the what can the animal do? Its subjugated to
you. Now, the same is true for most people. You can't ask your next year to take out your garbage
for you. Right, really, you can't do that. So who's going to take the garbage because that's
somebody has to do that that is a function because human beings create garbage and it would be very
		

			difficult for people to have to get rid of their own garbage.