Mohammad Elshinawy – Divine Parables #10 Slaves & Slave-Masters
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The speaker discusses the idea of creation and how it is based on nothingness and lack of control. They use examples of the printing of a beast and the "we" of a beast to illustrate their point. The importance of living by principles is emphasized, not just doing things for oneself. The speaker uses various examples of God-approved deities, including those in Islam, to illustrate their point.
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In Surah Hajj, Allah
says, O humanity,
A an example has been struck, so listen
to it carefully.
Those that you call out to instead of
Allah, the false gods, the idols, and otherwise,
They will never
create a single fly
even if they all collaborated on it.
And if the fly were to steal something
from them, they would never be able to
retrieve it from the fly.
How weak is the seeker, someone seeking to
create a fly.
And how weak is what is being sought,
the fly.
You know,
some of the scholars said this was a
reference to the fact that these idols that
you worship and you slaughter at the altar
the animals and spill the blood there, flies
are landing. Even the fly that lands on
your idol,
you have no control over and you can't
create.
This is the idea.
And subhanAllah, you think also of the example
of the the cobwebs,
these measly
threads.
They're so weak, all they can catch is
the fly.
And insects the size of the fly, but
you can't even create that. The weakest of
the weak.
And you know when he says, you will
not create a fly. Think about that. Creation
is only within the realm of Allah. You
know when you want to like construct a
masjid or What do humans do when they
want to create something?
This is not just about the sophistication of
the fly.
When humans want to create something, you go
get materials and you put them together, and
you you design something. You build really.
With materials, Allah already creates it. But no
matter how small, when it comes to creation,
you can't pull it off. Because Allah creates
out of nothing.
Not just the most sophisticated
but out of nothing.
You know, like Allah
speaks in the Quran about this heavens and
the earth.
They were one solid piece.
We rip them apart. The other say,
And we continue to expand. It was this
big, and I continue out of nothing. Why
is it getting bigger? Allah continues to expand
the universe. Or think about the tree.
That tree was what?
Somehow that enormous tree came out of a
seed. More and more and more comes out
of a seed to become a tree. How
does that work? Or the human being, you
think of the egg or the sperm or
whatnot.
Out of that came a walking, talking, debating,
believing, disbelieving,
investing.
A human being?
So this is the meaning of creation, to
bring out of nothingness.
And it continues to expand and grow and
develop.
The even the fly though, you will not
be able to get it there.
And if the fly were to steal anything
from you, you wouldn't be able to retrieve
it. You know, sometimes they say they put
not just the blood but they put perfume
on these idols. That fly lands and some
perfume gets on its leg, and it flies
away, you're stuck. Can't get the perfume back.
How pathetic and how pitiful. So this is
a regarding
the
the might of Allah. There is another just
cause I'm gonna have to start consolidating now.
Allah
says,
And Allah strikes an example,
One of them is mute. He doesn't have
the ability to speak.
And he's incompetent. He has he's not able
to actually do anything at all.
And he is utterly dependent, reliant on his
master. Consider a slave that is utterly useless.
A human slave to slave, human to human,
incompetent, unable to do anything.
And the 4th quality is every time you
turn him in a certain direction, he only
brings back problems. He doesn't go benefit you.
He doesn't harvest for you. He doesn't speak
on you. He can't do anything.
That's the example of one. What example is
that? That's the idol.
The idol that you worship, oh pagan.
You carved it out, and you carry it
around, and you wash it off
like the story of Amr ibn Jammu radiAllahu
anhu. You know Amr ibn Jammu before he
became Muslim,
his kids became Muslim before him, his 3
kids and his wife. But they didn't tell
him. And so every morning they take his
idol, Manaf, who was the name of the
idol, and they throw him in a pile
of poop basically. That's what they would do.
And he would say, Oh my idol, why
they do that? And he'll wash off his
idol and he put him back. Right? And
the next morning, he finds him again in
the pile of and then he brings up
then the 3rd night says, listen. And he
puts a sword around his neck and tells
him, anyone who messes with you tear him
apart.
The next morning, he finds the idol with
the sword in a pile of.
And so he finally They they help bring
their dad to his senses. Yes?
Utterly incompetent. And then the second one is
what?
2 men, that's one of them.
Is he equal, him
Him,
that useless slave,
mute, incompetent, a liability,
and the one that enjoins
others to be just and fair and is
themselves living upon the right path on a
principled code.
Compare this one with a a free man
who's not just a free man, not just
he's useful to his his own for his
own self, but he commits others. He compels
others to be just and fair, and to
live by principles.
That's the example of the idols. Right?
And the other example is what?
Allah azzawajal subhanahu wa ta'ala. Right? According to
most scholars, Allah is Allah is the one.
He's the one communicating with you. He's the
one giving you purpose to live for and
principles to live by. And you know subhanahu
wa lai, I was reflecting on this. It's
not just about idols and statues of olden
times.
People today
countless millions of people believe there's some sort
of God out there, but he's like separate
from us. He doesn't talk to us. This
is the idea of a deist. There's a
deity but just He doesn't That's not a
god. A god that is mute is not
a god. A god that leaves you hanging
like that is not a god.
The god has to be speaking, communicating, guiding.
This is actually
guidance, specific guidance traceable to god that is
communicated in Islam.
The third and last one
That was 6 minutes? I think that was
6 minutes.
And so the Zumr, the 3rd and final
one, so I can close out this theme,
Though it is the most obviously,
recurring
theme in the Quran. Allah says,
and Allah strikes an example. This is the
third example. Different part, different surah.
The example of a man that is co
owned
or collectively owned
by disputing
parties. Imagine like you have a whole bunch
of bosses that all have equal right over
you. Or a slave that is sort of
owned by a whole bunch of different entities,
and they're all disputing.
Every time he wants to make a move,
someone else is telling him something else.
That's one
example. And a man that
belongs solely to one master.
Can they ever be equivalent these two examples?
Praise be to Allah, people don't know. Most
people don't know the blessing of having only
1 God,
of knowing that there is only 1, so
that you're not torn apart between all of
these.
You know subhanAllah that the universe
enjoys the harmony that it does
because there is only one God.
Right? Allah said, If there were multiple gods,
the universe would be in ruins. Wouldn't it?
One of them wants the sun to come
up from this way, one of them wants
sun to come Likewise, we as human beings
are in ruins
if we submit to multiple gods.
Yes? You know, one of the reasons sort
of the the powers of the world can't
stand Muslims is because Islam
creates such a resistance
to,
you know, the the the chains that are
set up in this stage for humanity. We
call them the invisible chains of corporate greed.
Right? They tell you about this wine,
and this vacation.
And then there's the Zina industry, and there's
the drug industry. Big money. You know, I
I read the the liquor industry is a
$285,000,000,000
industry. Do you know how much money is
spent on cancer research in this country? All
the hospitals, and all the grants, and
all
the universe? $5,000,000,000.
Look at the difference. You gotta have alcohol,
but like cancer, if we have some scraps
left over, we'll we'll put it towards cancer
research. Right? And so the Muslims are the
ones that are sort of so resistant to
this. Yes? And then they have these marketing
machineries
that'll tell you your dream home, and your
dream vacation, and your dream thrill. It's actually
not your dream by the way.
This is the dream of the greedy devil
that is being force fed to you. And
so Allah is telling you, most people don't
realize the blessing
of being liberated from all of this, not
having to answer to any of this. You
remember that parable, and I'll close here, that
I alluded to 2 nights ago. The example
of the one that has multiple gods. Right?
It's like the example of one that falls
from the sky.
It says,
and the birds * him from every direction,
or the wind removes him to a very
remote place.
What is that referring to? Ibn Khayyim says,
these devils
are those birds.
They're fighting over
you, and you're going to be the the
casualty here.
He says, And your desires which they manipulate,
these are the winds that carry you off
to faraway places.
And of course, the rope of Allah a
zawajal we already spoke about, his great book.
Alhamdulillah for the blessing of Islam, and alhamdulillah
for Allah being our God and not leaving
us in the dark. WassalaAllahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu
sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu sallallahu wa rakanahu wa rakanahu
wa rakanahu wa rakanahu wa rakanahu wa rakanahu
wa rakanahu wa rakanahu wa aalaalahi wa sahabi
ajmain.