Suhaib Webb – The Masses Creed 15 God in Islam (Part Four)
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The speaker discusses the importance of affirming the existence of Allah's existence and denying his existence. They also talk about the negative qualities of man and the consequences of them. The speaker emphasizes the importance of fiscal responsibility and living a life that shows that one is a caretaker of the environment.
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Let's continue now talking about that first obligation
really quickly, and we said it's called sifat
that or sifat nafs.
And the sheikh, he says here,
you can see the
line.
He says Allah exists. And we said that
within the poem he'll mention one word, right,
like
and that means what you should affirm
but then also what we affirm from that
is what we have to deny as Muslims,
as believers in Islam. So he said
very beautifully
and the Allah exists, the opposite will be
Adam. He doesn't exist. Now
here's that know, kind of just broken down
for you simply. If God's existence is an
obligation to affirm then his none
his nonexistence,
sorry,
then his nonexistence is an obligation to deny.
Thus in this one word,
right here,
we have 2 obligations,
to affirm his existence and to deny his
existence. Then we talked about the fruit of
believing Allah's existence, the lack of loneliness,
being careful of falling into sin, being excited
to do good, knowing that your struggles are
rewarded because Allah exists
and so on and so forth.
The next, two qualities that we wanna talk
about begin
a a set of attributes that are called
sifat
the word
means negative
or negations.
What that means is the opposite of these
is also an obligation as I said earlier.
They they talk about Allah's existence
is that,
for a reason that you'll study in in
more advanced texts but let's just keep it
simple now. So we have sifatovat,
and then the next attributes are are called.
Right? Their opposites are also an obligation. So
he says,
right.
The word right means to be old. Right
here what it means according to the scholars
of Ilm Kalam and theology
is
to have no beginning.
Imam
Abu Zayed says,
right? I
believe he says in the right Allah has
no beginning. His beginning has no beginning. He
is beyond time.
Right.
Means he has no ending.
Right, he has no ending.
Now there there's,
of course, a logical support for this because
if God had a beginning, that would imply
that he was born,
and if he had an ending, that would
imply that he would die,
and that would make him like his creation,
thus unworthy of worship. Right? We'd be worshiping
the creation.
And since creation obviously did not create,
right,
then that's impossible because we're not the creator.
If we're the creator, we'll be outside of
our own qualities, right? That's the argument. Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala says
in the Quran. So here's a logical argument,
logical argument being that
simply put, life and death are symptoms of
creation.
And if god experienced
life or death,
then there would be no creation because creation
can't create.
The verse in Surat Al Hadid, Allah
is the first
and the last. Al Awa means he has
no beginning, no ending.
Now what is the outcome of this or
the benefit for this, of these two qualities
in our lives, right?
Before we talk about that, let's talk about
the negations, right?
The the opposite
of
kiddom
is going to be birth.
Allah
says,
Right?
The opposite
of would be death.
And the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said
in describing Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala,
Right? You're he while you meet. Allah is
the one who caused life and death. Another
narration of prophet,
Allah never dies,
So the opposite of
and
is birth
and
would be the opposite of
so we deny those. We said those are
inconceivable
because those are human qualities. Those are qualities
of creation,
And if God has a quality of creation,
well, creation does not have the ability to
create.
Right? So that's the argument.
Secondly, Allah says
in the Quran,
and then the third is the impact. Listen.
When we believe that Allah has no beginning
and no ending
and we talk about investments,
where is it that we're really going to
put our investments?
Right? Are we gonna put our investments in
this life, which
everything dies, everything moves on?
Are we going to
be able to control the narcissism and the
hubris that exist in this world
and dedicate ourselves to Allah
because Allah says,
what's with Allah lasts.
So the outcome of understanding these two
qualities well is
and fiscal responsibility
and living a life that shows that we
are definitely
a caretaker of the environment, staying away from
wasting things and getting caught up in this
world and forgetting our purpose.
No.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
He's the only thing that's going to last,
so that is where I'm going to put
my investments.
Allah says those everlasting good deeds will stop
now inshallah and continue next time.