Suhaib Webb – Uqud alJum’an of Sheikh alIslam, Selim alBishri (Lesson Six)

So,

the sheikh, he mentioned some ayat,

which are used to prove

the immutable

primordial,

transcendent will of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.

And then finally,

Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Then he says,

Most of Ahl al Sunnah,

the theologians,

you'll find us at Ibn Ashir of the

famous mutton.

Most of the Sunni community divides akhem into.

What is

taken from Sharia? What is taken from the

intellect, and what is taken from a norm

or habit?

A norm or habit is like if it's

cold outside, you wear a sweater. I can

be like, what's the for

that?

Adam. So

for example,

I am in the room next to

you. Maybe, maybe not.

Or you may see me tomorrow at your

Masjid.

Maybe, maybe not. So you, you know, that's.

In that vein, the sheikh is doing something

really remarkable. He's bringing

to teach us how to think about dawah.

We don't have to use the the same

methods or language or style he's using. The

sheikh, he didn't live around a lot of

non Muslims that we know of. I mean,

there are non Muslims in Egypt,

but not comparable to what we're experiencing maybe

in the west.

So our job is to take, like, these

teachings and sort of

take the language and adjust it to the

people around us so that we can think,

As Sayedid Ibrahim did with his people.

Say, look at the stars, look at the

moon, look at the sun,

to draw

their attention to Allah

So the sheikh, he

says,

If

Allah was not willing, then he would be

under compulsion to do something.

Excuse

me.

So either he would be under compulsion,

or he would not be

in charge. He would not be able to

make his own choices.

And both of that, those are symptoms of

something which is.

It may or may not exist because it

needs

other things to exist, but Allah is

And, also, this is you know, sometimes

people talk about, like, mother nature,

you know.

Now people talk about manifesting.

Audubillah

is slick form

of polytheism.

None of those things have any power. None

of those things have any will.

So to say, for example, that

Allah

you know, mother and nature runs its own

course, Allah has given us us power that

we can manifest our own things in creation.

All this is shirk.

And he

quotes

who says

Whoever says like,

nature runs its own course like mother nature.

The idea is that Allah created the power

in things and then left creation and creation

is running its own course.

He says,

That's kufr. It's considered disbelief by the scholars

as well as the text, the immutable text

of Islam.

Moves on now to 10th

from the qualities of Allah.

Women

power.

Allah's power. And when we think about Allah's

power in our

understanding, this is related to the things which

can and cannot happen in our lives.

I could be rich. I could be poor.

I could be healthy. I could be sick.

I could live here, I could live there.

In

short to make it easy for you Allah

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, He hears

all things, alhamdulillah,

in a way that of course

without like

any physical means that we understand that you

use for hearing.

Because Allah

Allah

says that Allah's hearing doesn't require ears

or earlobes.

He use he mentions a statement which is

very common that Allah hears all things,

even a black ant on a black rock

in a dark night.

Allah

sees all things.

That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, and we need

to make this clear, he hears and sees

all things

before they

were, after they were,

when they are, and even those things that

don't exist

Subhanahu wa ta'ala. From our

perspective, they don't exist.

How should this impact our character that Allah

is all knowing, Allah is all seeing, Allah

is all hearing?

You know, one of our teachers used to

say,

We know that Allah exists, we'll leave sin.

So if I'm aware that Allah is seeing

all things and hearing all things and knowing

all things, in Allah.

Nothing is hidden from Allah. What kind of

life am I gonna live?

As the prophet

said, Right? Be dutiful to Allah wherever you

are.

And Allah is seeing is not a sifa,

like my

eyes.

Right?

My

eye works and doesn't work. My vision comes

and goes.

My eye has a period of life, and

it will it will

cease.

For Allah

seeing was, is, and will be,

and permeates

all things, all existence.

So now we can see that the Ma'rif

of Allah

is a ocean without an ending, without a

shore.

And the more that we make ourselves aware

of

Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, transcendent knowledge as best

we can, since we're not,

you know, we're not we're finite, we're not

infinite,

the more we're going to find a dedication

to the obedience of Allah,

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says in the Quran

that there is nothing like Allah, and he

is the all hearing, the all seeing.

Seeing.

Then he says the kalam of Allah Subhanahu

wa ta'ala, the speech of Allah, of course,

which is not like physical speech,

which is an evidence for all things that

exist.

Existed,

will exist, are existing, and haven't existed.

In Surat Nisa, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says

that he spoke

to Sayyidina Musa,

How do

we encapsulate everything that we did now from

these

13 qualities,

is that we understand

that Allah

is described

with perfect

transcendent qualities,

khalas.

And anything in opposition to those is mustahil.

Allah exists, the opposite, He doesn't exist.

Allah has no beginning, the opposite of that

is He has a beginning or a birth.

Al Baqi, Allah has no ending.

Allah. Every creation will die.

Every has its prescribed term of existence.

So the opposite of that, al Baqa is

death. So the opposite of those things which

is inferred is

If you were to take any of these

transcendent qualities that we talked about

from the idea of Allah

you would not only be contradicting the Quran

and sunnah, but logically,

you would be creating deficiencies

that would no longer

allow God to be God, but God will

become creation.

That's what he means by.

But that's impossible for us to believe about

God

because Allah,

our existence,

is evidence of one who's beyond our existing

existence, existing. Therefore, his qualities

are not like our qualities.

Insha'Allah, we're gonna stop here, and next time

we're going to unpack the

Al Mustahilad,

the opposites.