Mufti Menk – When Ibrahim As Was Searching For His Lord
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The speaker describes a young man's interview with his father and his father's actions. The speaker describes how he approached his father and his father's mother and approached the idols. He describes how he approached his father and his father's mother and approached the idols. He describes how he approached his father and his father's mother and approached the idols.
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Ibrahim
as a young boy, when he questioned his
father and he tricked the community by destroying
some of those idols and when they came
back from their festival and saw the idols
were smashed,
he actually, when questioned, said, well, ask them
what happened if they could only speak. And
they knew the idols couldn't speak. So they
had beef with him. They really did not
like what he did. They wanted to get
back at him. They expelled him from the
community. At some point they tried to harm
him and Allah always saved him. But
he looked at when he went to a
place called haran
and out in the open he saw the
stars and he says, you know what? These
stars are better than the idols
that my father was carving.
He did not worship the stars. He only
considered the greatness of the stars. And then
he says, no, no, no. When the stars
began to disappear, he said, it can't be.
This can't be my Lord.
And then a little while later he saw
the moon. Beautiful, nice, bright shining moon. He
looked at the moon. He says, well, this
is shining brighter than the stars. This is
actually even better.
He did not worship the moon, but he
was considering
looking for his creator who created me, who
made me. And so when he looked at
the moon
and the moon began to also set, you
know, the moon sets and it began to
disappear. He said, that can't be my Lord.
He says, Oh my Lord, if you're not
going to guide me, whoever you are, I'm
going to be misguided. You guide me.
The prayer and supplication for guidance is the
most important prayer you and I could ever
make.
Guide us to the straight path. We repeat
it every day. Wallahi my brothers, my sisters,
the dua, the supplication you make, the most
powerful of all of them is to ask
Allah for guidance. May Allah guide me and
guide all of us and keep us on
the straight path.
So Ibrahim, alaihis salam, he continually
asked Allah to guide him. He saw the
sun rise in the morning and he was
excited because for the first time,
even though throughout his life he used to
see the sun every day, but it was
the first time he considered the greatness of
the sun. That's why Allah says when you
look into the creation of Allah, the night
and the day and the way it moves
and the sun and the moon and so
on, you will discover the greatness of the
maker thereafter.
But for us, every day we look at
things, we take it for granted. Take a
moment. Allah says,
Don't go too far. Look inside yourself. Take
a look at your organs.
Each one of them is a sign of
the existence of Allah.
How they work, how it happens. You're looking
at me. I'm looking at you. You're breathing
effortlessly.
Subhanallah.
Your heart is pumping 136
1,000 times a day and you don't even
realize Allahu Akbar. Allah says that you still
think we don't exist. La ilaha illallah. La
ilaha illallah. Each one of your limbs, your
organs, your ears, your lips, your nose, your
your nostrils, the hair in your nose and
why it's there is just a miracle from
Allah. It's not a coincidence.
Those who tell you that are actually not
even dreaming because the dream itself is a
miracle. Subhanallah.
Subhanallah.
May Allah Almighty grant us guidance. So Ibrahim
alaihis salam looks at the sun and he
says, you know what? Wow, this is bigger
than all of it. Wow. He's looking. He
did not worship the sun, but he's considering
where is my maker? And then he realized
something powerful. The most powerful statement and the
Quran has it in the Quran.
I turn my face in worship to the
one who created
the heavens and the earth, the skies and
the earth.
Everything I'm seeing, whoever
made this, he is my Lord
and I turn my face to Him alone
without associating a single partner
with him in worship and I will worship
him and him alone.
He discovered Allah.