Morad Awad – Rules of Engagement #1 The Importance of Knowing the Purpose of Life

unite us in his masajid and unite our hearts the same way he united

our bodies in this Blissett house. I mean, you know, but I mean. So

today in sha Allah to Allah

I want to reflect on

a verse in the Quran.

One of the scholars who wrote a book of tafsir

he began his book with an introduction. And there's

something that captured me from this introduction, something I

heard.

He said, to follow, I'll follow Quran when her family

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He said the letter or the word of the Quran

is taken from who from those who memorize its word.

And the meaning of the Quran is taken from those who experience

it. The meaning is taken from those who experience it. So

there's no doubt that there is a great difference between those

that

focus on the word and those that focus on the meaning.

The meaning of the Quran is without a doubt what Allah

subhanho wa Taala intended from us to get from his word subhanahu wa

taala.

So with this Inshallah, I want to begin a series that I'm going to

give every Friday, and in this series,

I want to speak about a rule every single day. But not just any rule.

I want to talk about the rule of engagement.

There's something

there that every soldier in the military, when they're deployed,

or sent on a mission, there's something called rules of

engagement, right, the way they would engage themselves in a

particular battle or in a particular mission. And that's

called the rules of engagement.

And in this earth, in this world of ours, Allah subhanahu wa taala

gave us rules of engagement.

This talk is going to be focusing on these rules of engagement in

this dunya and is specifically tailored and I want I'm directing

this to the younger generation amongst us. Younger meaning 75 and

below.

So, but everyone can benefit with Nila Tyler, so the rule of

engagement

the first rule of engagement and before I actually mentioned the

rule, the way I'm going to talk about it is number one, mentioned

the rule mentioned the verse, extract the rule and perhaps

speak a little bit about how we can implement it in our lives.

So the first rule is when Allah subhanaw taala said with cholera

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in Allah may Allah Tala moon in this first rule.

Allah subhanho wa Taala

is telling us one of the most important things we can know in

this world, which is the purpose of life.

Allah subhanaw taala is telling us why we are created and why we are

sent on this mission in this world. So just like any soldier

sent on a mission, there's rules of engagement, Allah subhanaw

taala gave us a rule in this mission of ours in this dunya

which is to have a purpose

and the loss of Hannah with Thailand, this verse, he said in

the translation what and what Allah told the angels, I will

create a successor for me in this world. The angel said, Oh Allah,

will you create in this world who cause corruption and cause havoc

and spread bloodshed? Allah subhanaw taala told them in the

Ala Moana Allah Tala moon I know what you do not know.

Brothers and sisters

Allah subhanho wa Taala created many things

many things in this world were created lifeless, like the rocks

like the dirt, like some things around this right the stars and

the moon.

But there are some things that Allah subhanaw taala created life

in

like plants.

But plants grow.

So plants are different from stones, and different from dirt

and different from the moon, right because it grows, and as a special

thing, attribute that Allah gave it, which is that it grows.

Allah subhanahu wa taala created things that grow and move like

animals. Right? They grow and they move and that is their unique

attribute. But then Allah subhanaw taala created what mankind created

the sons and daughters of Adam Alayhis Salam. And they have a

special attribute which is that they grow, they move and they

think,

and it is with this distinct

attribute, which is thinking that Allah subhanaw taala made us the

successors of this earth. Without using our thoughts without using

our knowledge, our intellect, we will never become those who

succeed Allah subhanaw taala in his hokum on Earth.

And without using our intellect, we will never arrive to the

conclusion of purpose in life.

Purpose is the most important thing one can have in this life

knowing why they are here.

And when this purpose is not known, Allah subhanaw taala told

us what will happen in the Quran, the angels with their intellect,

because the angels have intellect they have no desire, unlike us

were created with desire and intellect. The angel said, Oh

Allah will you create in it, what spreads chaos and bloodshed.

It says if the angels knew what mankind is capable of, if they do

not know their purpose. So someone brothers and sisters who doesn't

know their purpose in life, will never

succeed in being the successors of Allah subhanho wa taala. In this

world, Allah Subhan Allah, Allah created us to maintain justice,

Allah subhanaw taala created us to uphold his Hukum, to do all his

commands, to try to fulfill them to the best of our abilities, and

to refrain from his prohibitions. And that is how we fulfill our

purpose in life in sha Allah, Allah, Allah without this purpose,

what's going to happen to us,

without knowing this purpose, the most corruption we can imagine

will be spread. Without understanding this purpose. It's

as if life is for nothing.

Without fulfilling this purpose, this creation of Allah, this

creation that Allah endowed with all of these attributes that I

mentioned earlier, they mean nothing.

And as a matter of fact, it will be working the opposite of what

it's supposed to work.

So purpose in life, one

is the most important thing to understand. And the first rule out

of four rules that I'll talk about this Ramadan vanilla.

One thing that we should teach our children, we should understand

ourselves, and teach our children before anything, is their purpose

in life. And I want every single one of us to think, when is the

last time I sat my children down, or sat my siblings down, or sat

down myself and reflected upon purpose of life? told them this is

why we're here.

This is why we're not here to make money. We're not here to get

degrees. We're not here to, to travel the world. We're not here

to look fresh and know how to talk and not us. No, no, that's not why

we're here. The first thing we're here the purpose we're here is to

do what to be the successors of Allah subhanaw taala in this

world, and this should be the first and the most important rule

of engagement. When it comes to being in this world, in sha Allah

Tala, and I'm saying this to the youth, because after what happened

last month, and after some things that I've been reading,

on social media platforms, and so on, so forth. Well, it's obvious

that many of our youth Muslim youth, perhaps attendees of the

masjid people that say they're Muslim, they pray they're five

they fasted Ramadan. But how is it possible for a Muslim not to know

this first rule, which is something that Allah subhanaw

taala began his book with the first story in the Quran, the

first rule of engagement in this mission that we're on in this

dunya which is purpose. So let us reflect on our purpose insha Allah

Tiana and let us try from now now this is messages for the youth to

try to fill our conversations have a deep

Have a heartfelt meaningful conversation about our purpose. If

we have younger siblings, then let's talk to them about this.

Let's tell them and explain to them why they're here.

Because without this one, nothing else is gonna work in life. We ask

Allah subhanaw taala to fulfill our purpose in life. We ask Allah

subhanaw taala to make us from those who understand why they're

here, and what they're responsible for in this world. We ask Allah

subhanaw taala to show us the straight path. We ask Allah

subhanaw taala to guide us, to guide our children to fulfill our

hearts and to bless us with the blessings of this month of this

holy month. I mean, you're a bill I mean, there's acapella here are

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