Morad Awad – You’re NOT an Exception
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The responsibility of individuals is discussed in the Quran, where it is emphasized that individuals cannot take responsibility and work according to rules. The importance of fulfilling and owning up to responsibility is emphasized, along with the need for people to acknowledge their responsibility and fulfill it. The speaker also discusses the importance of fulfilling and owning up to responsibility, shelling and intimidation, and having a strong faith in God.
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Brothers and sisters inshallah with,
you know, a few short words inshallah, I
wanna talk about
or elaborate on a profound
parable that Allah
gave us in the Quran.
In Surat al Zumr Ayat 29, Allah subhanahu
ta'ala said,
Allah gave an example of a man.
That has
a slave,
a
man, So, this man is a slave, and
this slave has 2
owners that are conflicted amongst each other. They
can't seem to agree on anything.
And another slave
that only works for 1.
Do they equate
at all or in any way?
Alhamdulillah,
praise be to Allah,
most of the people do not know.
So here,
we see how Allah
gives us the example
of
how
difficult it is
for a slave to serve 2 partners,
let alone 2 partners that are conflicted
and don't have a common set of rules.
Because
you can't seem to find 2 people that
agree on a set of rules. But
we have 1
and 1 God, and 1 Lord, and
he gave
us sunnah.
There's a set of rules that Allah
created
in this universe
that apply to everyone.
And that do not
accept anyone from this rule.
And that's why Allah
and other ayaats, and many ayaats in the
Quran,
he says,
Right?
And then another ayah,
And you do not find in the ways
of Allah
any replacement
There's no way around them either.
So in these ayaat brothers
so first of all,
we have
one lord with one set of rules.
And the second is that these rules apply
to everyone,
and there's no one that's an exception from
them.
Could be Muslim,
rich, poor, you could pray all day, you
can disbelieve,
you can disobey.
But there's universal
rules that apply to you, and no one
is special.
And no one is an exception from this.
Imagine
working in a job
with
an employer.
And this employer is very,
or this manager is very sporadic
in nature.
One day is angry.
One day has this mood. The next day
has that mood.
He promotes this person, and there's absolutely no
reason
why this person is promoted.
You don't understand why this person's promoted, and
this person's demoted, and that person's fired, and
this person's and
you're not getting a raise. Although someone who
does much less work than you gets a
raise and it's it just doesn't make any
sense.
It's a very it's a very rough environment
to live in.
Allah
is not
running the universe
with an exception
for any particular person
or creation in this whole universe.
There are sets of rules
that
if you understand them, and you apply them,
or you master them,
whether you're a Muslim or a kafir,
you are going to succeed and prevail.
And if you do not understand them and
do not work with them, you're
you're going to fail, obviously.
You apply them and understand them, you're going
to succeed.
Even if the one who does not understand
them is Muslim, they'll still fail. And even
if the one that understands them is a
kafir,
they're going to succeed even though they're kafir.
And these are the sunan of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. And there are many sunan
in the Quran. Many repeated ayaat, and lessons,
and rules. One of
them is
That
a person cannot bear the burden of someone
else.
Every single one of us,
when we were created, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
wrote upon us a certain burden
that we are going to live with.
A certain
responsibility
that we just have as a creation.
And this responsibility
is something that we carry.
Right?
We cannot What Allah is telling us in
this Quran, this that is repeated many times
in the Quran. It's one of the rules
of the Quran
that it's consistent.
No one can take this burden off and
put it on someone else.
You have to carry it. Allah created you
with the ability to and the choice whether
to take it upon yourself
or to not. Whether to walk with it
or to stay stagnant.
Responsibility
and accountability is the main theme of this
verse.
And brothers
and sisters, you know, we we
Sometimes,
we feel like
this burden is a little bit too much.
We have a lot of
things
that we need to do required from us
in life, responsibilities,
children, job, work, bills, this, that.
Sometimes, we can feel overwhelmed.
But
the reality is
that
Allah
dictated
that this is your responsibility.
And this is the burden that you
would and should carry, and are capable of
carrying.
And the difference is, the one who takes
responsibility and accountability,
and follows the path of Adam alaihis salam,
and the one who
does not take responsibility and accountability,
and follows the path of Iblis.
Adam alaihis salam, when he sinned, when he
ate from the tree, what did he say?
He said,
You Allah,
I wronged myself or him and Hawa said,
we wronged ourselves.
Right? And if you do not forgive us,
then we'll be amongst
the the losers.
So he automatically
took accountability.
As as for Iblis,
he didn't wanna carry this burden.
He rejected it.
He denied it. He questioned
Allah
with
it.
And he said, You Rabbi, You created Adam,
so You can test me and then exit
me from
Jannah.
But I'm better than him, and he's created
from this, and I'm created from that, and
and and he kept what
justifying
his lack of carrying the burden that Allah
put on him,
which was to prostrate to Adam.
We could choose the path of owning up
and taking accountability,
and recognizing this burden, and that it's only
ours, and no one can carry it but
us, or we could deny and reject it.
And
one striking
ayah. One ayah that every time I pass
by, it's it's it's really shocking allahi.
Because
in that ayah,
Allah is telling us
that the last person to stand up
and give a
to us people
on the day of judgment. The last.
You know, we stand up, we listen to.
The last
is not going to be by a prophet,
or a messenger,
or by
any one of us humans. Said,
And shaitan said,
when everything ended, the
matters were wrapped and sealed, and whoever's going
to Jannah's Jannah, whoever's going to is going
to
When all of that happens, shaitan stands up
and gives a sermon to everyone. And
what does he say?
Allah promised you and I promised you. And
I did not fulfill my
promise.
And I had no control over you.
Shaitaan
saying, I had no control over you.
All I did was talk, but you're the
one that chose not to carry the burden
basically.
You're the one that chose
not to set off on the path that
Allah chose for you.
Not to fulfill and own up to the
responsibilities
that I Allah gave you.
I just called you,
and you listened.
It was your choice.
Do not blame me but blame yourselves.
I
am not gonna change anything no matter what
I say.
And no matter what you say, it's not
gonna change anything.
And this is the biggest disrespect. You know
shaitan, imagine,
who spend eternity.
Imagine how many hours shaitan put luring us
individually. The blurring, the progeny of Adam alaihis
salam from Adam until the day of judgment.
After all of that,
all of the strife, and chaos, and disobedience,
and bloodshed, and everything that he caused.
He
said,
I disbelieve in your shirk of me.
See how you this this is what shaitan
is saying.
Your belief in me, I disbelieve in that.
Allahu Akbar. This
is Allah is telling us the last thing
that's going to be said.
And the only solution
to this, if we ever want to succeed
on that day,
is to
wake up
and carry this burden that Allah gave us
today.
And carry this responsibility.
The responsibility
of iman.
The responsibility
of dawah. The responsibility
of
of of of maintaining this world with whatever
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, whatever capacity he helped
he gave us.
Every single one of us has something that
they're capable of doing, and that they're also
responsible in front of Allah
for doing.
So owning up to it
is our path, and that's the path that
Allah gave every single one of us. We
ask Allah to
guide us to the straight path. We ask
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make us from
those who take accountability
and for those from those who take responsibility
and from those who do not throw it
on anyone else that cannot ever carry it
for us. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
to guide us and guide guide our progeny.
We ask Allah
in these days of Ramadan, where our brothers
and sisters in Palestine are being tested, being
tried, and the people of of Masjid Al
Aqsa are not able to pray taraweeh after
constant bombardment and occupation. We ask
Allah to help our brothers and sisters there
to plot for them and not to plot
against them, and to make Allah
wrath bestowed upon
his enemies and their enemies.