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