Shadee Elmasry – Aqida Fiqh Lesson 4 The Wisdom Behind Qada & Qadar
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now the issue with cuddle and cuddle, firstly, the limitation of
it is that the more you look into and try to understand the seeming
paradox of Kabbalah and cover, the more the more confusing it's going
to get Now, so what is this paradox? The paradox is simply
this.
How can be we be rewarded and punished for things, right when
it's predestined isn't already in us knowledge? Right? That's the
pirate the idea. So
to be morally responsible, right, you need to have free will. All of
us, all of humanity recognizes that individuals have free will,
right, except for a few people who are insane. And the proof of that
is that if someone takes $1 from your pocket, you find him guilty,
right or wrong. So the court system the fact that we have a
justice system indicates that we all agree human beings have
freewill. But then Allah subhanaw taala is telling us everything is
written. So it seems that there is a paradox, do we have free will?
Or are we just somehow forced to act out a predestined
story? Right? The answer to this is to separate between will and
knowledge. The fact that Allah subhanaw taala has a foreknowledge
of our action takes nothing away from our free will. Okay, by our
own testimony, because if that was the case, then when I steal your
phone, right, then my defense could be that is destined. Right?
But no one does that. Right? That's a defense, right?
Everything is free will okay, then let me take your phone out. I was
destined to do it. I'm innocent. Right once I'm amended, that's
almost cut up. Right. And he had done something pretty bad. And all
my my thought came and he had a Gillette named Mohammed bin
Muslimah and
Normally said, sometimes armor himself with his stick, he had a
stick called the dura. And he would lash out, give out the
punishment himself so that everyone can see. Okay. And
a man came to him and he in the middle of his beating, right? He's
got this man is getting a beat down.
He says to say normally, you beat you punish me for something I was
destined to do. He said, Yeah, you were destined to do and I was
destined to beat you.
So of course,
the concept is that we separate between knowledge of Allah is one
thing, your free will is another thing, right? So there are two are
not overriding, or contradictory.
Number three, so that's the limitation. That's the idea of the
paradox, the question mark, the real function of this concept,
right? Someone may ask the question, well, if it's so
confusing, Why did Allah introduced it, right? It's not
supposed to be for us to ponder upon as a philosophical point,
what it's supposed to be is that it is a cure for the hearts of
people. After that things happen, including our own misdeeds,
provided that we have taken responsibility for them and made
repentance from them. Afterwards, you can say, it was a will of
Allah, right? But provided that you have already taken
responsibility for it. And you have made a correct repentance for
it. But everything else that is outside your control, this idea of
MK two, that something is predestined and marcador. Right?
Is a healing for the hearts of people. So why did XYZ happen?
Right? You ask yourself, is it an external thing? Because if you
have any say in the matter, the first thing we do is we blame
ourselves. Okay, that's the first thing we do we blame ourselves.
We see where we went wrong. If we can't find anywhere we where we
went wrong, then we say it's the father of Allah. And if it's the
color of Allah, what are Allah's other attributes, wisdom,
knowledge,
care for His servants, then we should know this action has a
wisdom behind it. Because it's author is wise. Right? So if I
attribute everything to the product, then I know, I'm going to
benefit from everything. It just, it's just a question of me digging
and thinking and thinking and thinking of what is the wisdom
behind this section? Right? What is the wisdom behind this? Okay.
Any questions on that? Yeah, true. So if you're definitely destined
for some
choices, obviously the right choice and the wrong choice, the
wrong choice. And that means, what comes after it? Because you did
the wrong choice, but correct, right choice.
You pick the right choice, and now you have a whole series of
business different, that's going to have totally, is that what it
means? That's what it is. So like, basically, your life
of the choices that you make you make one wrong choice, that's
going to lead you down a path that has a whole different story than
if you had just made that other choice. Right. And that's why part
of the what's written as well, not just what happens is all the
possibilities from day one of birth, until today, right? Of eat,
not just your choices, because your choices are dependent on
other people's choices, right. So all the possibilities of what
could have happened. And one of the indicators is the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa salam says that upon someone's death, he is
shown his place that was reserved for him in the fire. Right, and
his place that was reserved for him in paradise, right. And then
where he ended up landing, right. So which means if he had made all
the bad choices, where would he be?
And then all the good choices, where would he be and then that
what's in the middle? Right, lesser punishments, or lesser
paradises, right. So we could enter on your choices are not just
contingent upon it's your base based on your parents. What if
your father decided to take a job in North Korea? Right, what would
your life be like then? A whole set of different choices, right?
So it's a trickle down of a innumerable, innumerable number of
possibilities. And in philosophy, they call this all possible
worlds. The Spanish philosopher, what's his name? What's the
Spanish one Spanish Jewish philosopher.
They actually make fun of him a lot. But he was a decent
philosopher.
Okay, his name escapes me. Spanish Jewish philosopher, was eaten
philosopher.
No, no. The other one.
can remember his name? Someone will put it in the comment
section. But
He was a good decent boss, we came up with this idea of all possible
worlds. Right? And he said that
when he said that this is the best of all possible worlds, right?
Well, we don't say that. We don't necessarily say it. But we say
that, from, from our perspective, what happens is the best for us.
Right? That's how we have to view it. That means the fact that
you're born in this century, not in the
18th century, or the 16th century, or the 15th century, or the 22nd
century, are you done?
You can come and get your reward
on all these different centuries, right? And that you could have
been a woman, that you could have been different physically, it
could be different, many different ways, right? But you have to
believe that this is the best possible situation for me, that
and what is the best for best in this life, not necessarily, the
best set of ingredients for you to attain your goal, which the real
goal is the next life. So you mix it houses the best of all possible
worlds, when I'm like this, and that, right? And other people are
like that are better?
No, that's because the person has misunderstood the purpose of life.
The purpose of this life is not to be in heaven. Now, the purpose of
this life is to give you the necessary ingredients, tools to
work with, to earn yourself the Allah's mercy, and then enter
paradise. That's the goal, if that means you need to be ugly, right,
and poor, and wretched. If that's what it's going to take for you to
earn paradise, then that's what's good for you. Right? If you're
going to,
if it means something else, then that's what's good for you. Now,
here's the problem with that. And this is why Marx said this is
religion is all an opium for the masses, right? If you stop there,
you have a big problem. If you stop at that belief, you have a
problem, because now you're almost giving a pass for failure and,
and, and mediocrity and saying, Well, maybe that's my destiny, we
also have to know that God tells us to not settle for less, even in
the material element of this world. Right prophesy, some did
not want to see Sahaba going around poor, dishevelled, looking
back, right? He even said, When you choose a mate for marriage,
okay? Look at the lineage right? There. If they have, if she the
guy, let's say your daughter's getting married, the guy might be
great, but he's like a one off the rest of his family is a disaster.
Like physically everything. So you have to take that in consideration
if the promise I sent him is not giving us a religion, where we're
settling for less and saying, Well, it's all destined for the
good know the Prophet, there are many Hadith and teachings that are
telling us to improve, okay? To be better, even in our material
world. The prophesy seven said if something benefits you of the
material world, hold on to it, the hadith is the man felt good. So we
have both. There are some religions now that only go with
this, these teachings. And when capitalism came on the world, all
most of the religions started looking in their traditions, to
find the teachings that support material advancement. Okay,
material advancement. So you got Calvinism branch of the most
extreme branch of Protestantism, was founded by John Calvin and
Switzerland, right? Completely extreme and every way, shape and
form. When capitalism came on the scene, they took advantage of it.
Right? And they said, the good servant is the rich servant. The
servant that God blesses, right? So they were all about work
getting rich, they made it part of the religion. Right? And they made
it actually a sign that if you're poor, God doesn't love you.
Because he's not giving you right you must not be working hard
enough, you might be must be doing some sense. So that was their
extreme, okay. For us as Muslims, they are key to that we are given.
Okay, document that we are given is both one we do seek for
material advancement. Right, but two, when it does not come, we
only seek it in a lawful way that doesn't throw our whole life off
balance. If you notice all these successful moguls, and these
people, their life is all messed up, right? So we seek these things
in a way that doesn't destroy number one or dean number two, the
other things that we have to balance in life, right?
And number three, when it doesn't come, then we say this is the
other this must be the best. So if we only make it 60% of the way,
but we've given 100% effort in an intelligent way, right and 100%
Come on in intelligent effort. Okay, then at that point, right?
We, we say that, that's, that's the other very good
Very good. Let's see what you got very good.
Very good. You all did very good. You're all gonna get one.
One for you, one for you.
One for you, one for you.
Let's say, one for you.
Go get next break. Okay. Next break, you get someone, you'll get
one.
All right, go throw it in the garbage. Good job.
Okay, so this is the idea that when we fall short, and we have
done everything legitimately, and well, okay, and we've given 1,000%
Not just with effort with intelligence, right, but just come
up short. At that point a moment says how the federal law. That's
it? Right. It's a federal law. And this is what's good for me. Okay.
Sound looks a bit fishy.
Looks a bit fishy.
Oh, that's very nice of you. That's very nice of you. Good.
Good. I don't even know if any of these kids are not free.
Allergies, sugar free? Yeah, we'll find out. And we'll find out about
half an hour if anyone's rolling around, rolling down the rest.
Okay, keep reading. Next, you all understand the concept, you get
the concept. So cover is an extremely important tool that we
lean upon. When we have given 1,000% from our own effort. We've
analyzed ourselves or effort to death, we have
pursued what benefits us with 1,000%. And then when it fails,
then you say, hey, the federal law and it's good. Right? And we look
for the goodness in it. Okay, got
a big load on
work on Paula who
will be at a follow up.
Which means
that there is no action from Allah azza wa jal servants, except that
they are by his color and color. Okay. He's got that. Let me give
you an example of how this should work the correct way it works.
Okay. A man comes He robs you.
What does a Muslim do? Right. Some people say, Oh, I just forgive. We
tell them that you have misunderstanding of forgiveness.
Forgiveness means he's been apprehended, right? He's been
charged, he's been found guilty. The
sentencing is happening, the guy sweating and scared for his life
now, then you forgive. But when someone says someone stole me, I
forgive. No, no, that's a cover for your weakness. Right? Someone
robbed me. Because I'll tell you why that's wrong. That's totally
wrong. Because if you do not report the person, and he doesn't
get apprehended, and he doesn't get charged and found guilty
first, before you forgive, you are now sending him a message. You can
continue doing this with everyone else. You're sending him a
message. Right? He must be apprehended. And you can forgive
him right before his sentencing. Of course, there's that concept
doesn't exist. restitutionary justice doesn't really exist in
most states. But there are some states working on it, where they
take the criminal and the victim and they try to work it out.
Right. So the criminal is found guilty first, then they bring the
victim. So today, that's how it isn't shittier. Today, though,
once so if someone commits a crime against you,
you're put on the side, you can sue him later. But it's the state
who deals with him, right? So we say the state deals with him.
Right? However, the victim has a say in whether or not he wants a
financial return on it, compensation, financial
compensation, or he wants justice, he wants him to be punished or he
wants to forgive completely. The victim overrides the state
regarding the aspect of compensation
or forgiveness, okay. And there are a few cases where he doesn't
the state overrides it. So essentially, the person has
repeatedly done this at that point to say hello, so we're not no
one's forgiven you, right. So
this is the nature of forgiveness. And this is why people have to
understand that when someone abuses you, if you the first
thought is let me just forgive. That is a cover and you're telling
yourself that to mask your reality of weakness. All right, because if
you forgive someone who's
slaps you upside the head, what is he going to do next? He was
slapped the next person upside that next person guy in a
supermarket who says something to a Muslim woman in hijab. If she
says, Oh, let's just forgive, right? And some of these guys who
are weak, they say, Oh, for that Dawa. For the sake I talked to a
guy one time, I almost went nuts. Okay. I said to him, What happens
if you're sitting in a restaurant? And another guy, insults your
wife? While you're at the table? What are you going to do? He said,
I'm going to forgive because it's better for dalawa. Right? What
kind of total? Messed up understanding is this? Right?
Because when you do that, and you walk out like a little turtle,
right? He's gonna do that to the next woman, because he realized
you all a bunch of chumps. Right? Rather than what you do, if you
want to forgive him. For Dawa, you take them all the way to the level
where he's actually regretting his action, then you can forgive?
That's the concept between forgiveness and justice. Okay. And
that's when you could say all this was after the justice has been
served. All right, and things are now even. Now you say that this is
the prophet of Allah subhanaw taala. Right. And it's
for wisdom.
Correct. Forgiveness is only done from a position where you have the
sentencing is about to fall on the guy, right? Whether he's going to
get life in prison, or get the chair or whatever he's going to
get.
Cydia has commentary on that, too. But
forgiveness only comes from a position of strength. And that's
why whenever these people say, Oh, it's for the sake of Dawa, we
forgive, forgive after, okay. After you've taken the guy up to
the point of justice and sentencing. Alright, keep going.
Do you mean,
people will be, okay.
Those who go astray go astray by their own doing?
They go astray by their own doing, if someone is astray, because and
your judgment is the circumstances of their life are so bad, there's
no way this person could have chosen any other way. And when you
look at so many people who are involved.
In gangs, for example, you see someone who's like, I was talking
to a guy who was worked in juvenile delinquency. And he was
like, You got these 15 year olds who are in gangs, right? And
you're like, oh, my gosh, what's going on here? Well, you don't
know that when he was like nine, he was getting beaten up, because
he was like, neutral. So we had to pick a gang. And there was no one
to defend him. So he had to, you realize that there are some people
there constant very early on in life, they're given a choice of
bad or worse. So when they choose the bad, right, any of us within
this situation, would have done the same thing. Those people we
say about them, Allah will judge their situation, we say about them
that Allah will judge their situation. However, we do hold the
principle that when the doubt will come the message comes to someone
that they're responsible. If they're and misguidance is
something that only occurs after multiple times, repelling the
message, repelling the message. We all get the message many times to
change our ways. By constantly pushing that back. Then Allah azza
wa jal leaves us to our own devices.
Yep. So we're talking about how
other
we have, we have the free will to make choices, right? Whether we
make the right choice or the wrong choice. And then they even dread
and then the throughout the song traditional sense, like any any
good is from Allah and he bad? Yeah. Why don't we get any credit
for the good? I'm not trying to Okay, here's that's a good point.
How is it that we say all the good is from Allah and all the bad is
from myself and from shades on? It works like this. The good
you get the reward for doing the good. But the phrase the good is
from Allah, it is that literally, you will not even know what is
good. Right? If it was not Allah subhanaw taala gave you an
example. Right had guided you to the knowledge of what's good,
okay, had given you the limbs to do it. So you do we do get credit
in the sense that we get the reward of it. Right? We even get
the reward of making the intention for good. But when we say the good
is from Allah because you didn't think of this good. Someone taught
it to you, right? It's transmitted to you.
And Allah subhana, which Allah throws thrusts in the hearts of
believers, through himself and through angels, ideas of the good.
Does that mean our default position is that no the default
position of of
The human being is divided into two parts. really three parts. The
first part is his rule, which accepts the good, good ideas good
thoughts, okay.
From Allah and from angels. Number two his neffs. That's default is
bad. It always wants to go to for something lowly. Right? Laziness,
slothfulness, lusts, greed, power, right? oppression. That's the nub.
So there, you already have a conflict right there. The third
one is is knowledge. And that's neutral. And you can be misguided
or guided, you can be a great person and be totally misguided,
right? And that's why you actually, when you look in
American history in the past few decades, and you see all of these
destructive movements that have come upon the households in the
country, you actually really have to feel bad for the people,
because you realize what they're working with what they considered,
are moral truths. It was so simplistic, and gave them no
answers. Right? So the masculine men, for example, didn't really
there's no definition for masculinity. So when their boy
comes out effeminate, and they have a reaction to it, they make
it worse. So their fitrah says, No, he shouldn't be behaving like
like, effeminate like this. But he doesn't know how to handle it. He
doesn't know what is acceptable, feminine qualities, because there
are some feminine qualities that are acceptable in men, right, such
as high up, not wanting to show your body parts not wanting to
have shame, not wanting to utter bad words, not wanting to oppress
others, right, not wanting to be loud and boisterous. But when you
look at those who have no teaching, and we would just be the
same way, if we had no concept of this, right, you would think
masculinity is sitting around on the couch, not caring about your
physical fitness or caring about it too much. Right? being loud.
You know, being rough, being crude, putting down women. And
when you look at the, the web, that's what masculinity is to a
lot of these guys, exploiting women, womanizing, right, you
know, being sloppy, whatever, being over aggressive, oppressive,
sort of, that's what they think masculinity is than any boy
growing up who's sort of leans more to his mom and towards the
feminine side, you've totally lost him. Because that's horrible.
Right? In his eyes. That's horrible. Right? So there's no
sense of guidance. So from that respect, we would have no clue
what the good is, if it wasn't forgotten. So that's the third
part of the human being isn't knowledge can lead us astray and
can make some misguided, you look at some of the Sahaba, whose
personalities before Islam were so repulsive, they had no friends.
And after Islam, they became beloved to everyone. He's the same
person. But the teaching, shaved off, right, those calluses and cut
off those thorns, right, and then made him grow into a balanced
person that everyone loved.
One of the examples of that are two of the examples said Nominum
kata, and I was literally fit that before slum no one really liked
them. Right? They feared them maybe. But after Islam means
through civilizations on and love them. Does that answer the
question? And so the thoughts, the four thoughts that people get a
thought that comes to our mind, this is all based on Quran and
Hadith
from Allah directly. And that's a direct guidance, and then one from
the angels. So what's the difference from the angels?
Is the thought to do a good deed. Right? So get up and pray with it.
Right? Get up and do something good. Okay. And you have the power
to accept that thought and act upon it or to reject it, we all
get the phone or head get up for fetch. But Where's that coming
from? Right, we all get the thought in our head, I think I
should do that sooner. Right? Or I should think I should call so and
so who's sick, or do this or that, okay. And we accepted or rejected.
shaytaan has two types are shaytaan there are two types of
sales team.
The one Shaytaan, The lesser of the shayateen.
wants to get you to do small sins,
the function of which is to muddy up your vision. He wants you to do
enough small sins, that you can imagine these small sins to be
like dust a cloud of dust.
Like a dust ball in the desert. It's just little pieces of dust.
But if you become so much you can't see in front of you, right?
If you stop, the whole car gets dusted. You have to keep moving.
So you keep moving, you could fall into a hole. So that's what the
little Shayateen wants you to do little sins such little tiny sins,
right? So small, you think it's insignificant, but when you pile
them up
All right, they become a block on your vision, the ego, the neffs
calls you to what it loves. Right? It called, it'll call you to like
the same three things your whole life. Three things that you got
attached to any young age, it will call you to them. The sight of the
sign of the difference between the neffs and the shaytaan. shaytaan
will call you to anything, he just wants you to disobey Allah. He
doesn't care how the neffs has its own addictions. And it will call
you to the same sin for your whole life. That's how you know it's the
neffs it's not to say, Tom, I hope it right, but it's your neffs and
then the major Shayateen
do not care about your sins.
Because they know that sins can easily be wiped out. Right? Sins
can easily be wiped away. And Allah has forgiven the mate a big
Shayateen are like philosophers, their goal is to make you doubt
the eternal truth. This is what they care about. The major.
Yeah, they're like, they're like philosophers. They, they don't
care if you go clubbing or not the big ones do you can go clubbing
and make Toba tomorrow, how many good people we have in the
community, ask them about their youth. They were disasters, right?
Okay.
And how many good people they go clubbing later on, they become
bad, right? And then they become good again. So it's always back
and forth. The big shout in they care about your beliefs and they
want to put sow a seed of doubt. Okay, in you towards Allah
subhanaw taala. And from this, they have extensive plots that are
very dangerous amongst them, is actually to lead you to the good
to lead you to the good, okay.
So they lead you to something so good. Okay, that you start to
develop arrogance, right, start to develop arrogance, that you start
to believe yourself better than others, that you become wealthy.
Right? And through these, they will continue using those things
that are now part of your life, that I'm so smart. I'm so good.
I'm so rich, they'll start using this right to eventually make you
rebel against Allah subhanaw taala. Okay, or to lead you to a
path to a up a mountain where he knows there's a cliff. So when you
fall from that cliff, He knows your Eman cannot withstand that
fall. So you're gonna end up disbelieving, right? Someone goes
all the way up and then one day, they have a big crash there Amen.
And they're gonna they're gonna complete doubts after that. So the
big Shayateen they're not into these little sins, high school
level sins, right? They don't care about those. If they do, it's part
of a plan, right? Part of a plan. Okay, and this is why we say
shaytaan and these big shale team emitted COFRA they are smarter
than us. They know better than us. They are plotting against us,
okay?
And we do not have the mental capacity nor the knowledge, okay?
Nor the knowledge, okay, to play this chess match. We don't have
it. So what do we do? We're not going to play the chess match.
We're going to take the coach, the coach is going to do it, but we
have to listen to the coach and the coach is that the knowledge
the fifth, fifth, our data, the scholars, the prophets of Allah,
what He was telling them is the chief is the source of all of it.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is the way here's the
source, and by following his footsteps, step by step, this is
why it actually says we'll put out a meme Allah what is called Hakima
every matter you have to stop and see what is there a ruling on
this, what do we do it? How do we do it? How do I be blessed in it?
Okay, you got to be blessed is their support behind me, et
cetera, okay. So,
this is what we do. Now, we come to the inspiration directly from
Allah subhanaw taala. The inspiration directly from ALLAH
SubhanA which Allah is the most noble and beneficial, that they
possibly is. And it also is not related to deeds, it is related to
certainty. It is the feeling, okay.
It is the feeling that this deen and this religion is
and we call this Eliakim
Okay, Eliakim and in the Quran is called alHuda guidance. It's your
team.
The feeling in your heart that this Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
salam deserves my love. And he is the greatest man to walk on the
earth. Right? And I would sacrifice everything for him that
this, you know, Quran
deserves 100% of my effort. So these types and that when it comes
on the heart of a moment, he cannot repel it. Right? Unlike the
angelic one and all the other ones can be repelled. But the one that
Hudak comes from Allah azza wa jal, you're not repelling it,
you're gonna change, you're gonna change. And that's why when Allah
wishes to guide someone, he doesn't teach he doesn't send him
a whisper and go make will do. That's from the angels, right? The
actions from angels, when Allah seeks to brings guidance to
someone, he gives him a guide, it gives him a thought that the
afterlife is real. That's it and that thought settles like a seed.
There's no repelling it and once that's thought settles it's gonna
grow it's just a matter of time. You see him in the beginning of
the year he's a bozo but the thought came into his head he's a
regular kid. The thought came into his head by the end of the year
he's something else completely okay
What time is it actually
Alright, keep going.
So Kulu Yes, we are still on be days with a CD
ROM already been shuttling in.
Keep going.
And you're gonna feel free will be mad at you. Elliot
Anbu ongoing lean, lean then lean on Oh yeah. Pune only say in
trouble either europeu
one one who can deal with the hurricane at him?
God him and Bruce who sue that era him he called me
know
Alright, so let's stop there. Chapter on Naboo was coming next.
But this is the main idea of Kedah and Carter and how valuable and
important it is as a belief All right, we can take any questions
anyone have any questions here or
online we could take them
no, no it's
I can't remember what is it live minutes maybe it's love it I can't
remember his name.
Yeah.
So
how about you what are you up to them?
Starting a lifting company company
this training
I thought you're like a coach now. Yeah, call it get the wind stuff.
I'm still training obviously. But I've said nationals couple weeks
ago that's good.
All in in
iron not enough like cardio right
yeah, so
how are we got
all right, So Patrick, Allahu Moby, I'm gonna show you the stuff
we're gonna do a call us in Santa Fe acoustical Alladhina amanu. I
mean a solid hot water so we'll hop but also a suburb of Santa
Monica.