Mufti Menk – We Will Return To Allah – Not Go To Allah
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The speaker discusses the importance of worshipping Allah for a long time. They stress that the word "return" is used to prove that one was there and that they are returning to Allah. The speaker also warns that the worship is always a matter of personal choice and that anyone who is owed worship cannot say the word "return" to prove they were there.
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My brothers and sisters, remember something.
Allah Almighty will never mention the story of
Luqman if there was no proper lesson in
every word that was mentioned by Allah in
the Quran. So firstly, he asks us to
worship Allah correctly. Worship your maker. He is
the one who is owed worship because
the simple question that we always ask, where
were you before you were born? Maybe 10
years before you were born. Wherever you were,
when you leave this earth you're going to
go back to whoever you were with. You
were with Allah. You're going to go back
to Allah.
So if I'm going to go back to
the one who made me and I say,
oh you who made me, I worship you
alone. I don't associate partners with you. Have
mercy on me when I return to you
and so on. Have I made mistakes? No,
I haven't.
I haven't. That's what Islam teaches you. Worship
the one who made you, the one whom
you are going to return to. It doesn't
ever say the one you're going to go
to. Always the term return is used to
prove that you were there in the first
place. When someone passes on, something happens,
that is negative as muslims we are taught
to say,
Right? Do you know what that means? Indeed
we all and everything belongs to Allah And
we're all going to be returned
to Allah. Notice the word return. Rajaa means
to come back, which means I was there
and I'm going to go back.
You see, it doesn't say the haba. It
doesn't say I'm going to Allah. I'm returning
to Allah. That alone proves I was there.
I was already with Allah and going back
to Allah.
Now naturally, when that happens, you realize
He is owed worship.
He made me.