Tom Facchine – Ayah Series #30 – Who Are The Righteous

			At the very beginning of Surat Al Baqarah. Allah talks about the person who is righteous. The person
who has Taqwa. And the first characteristic of somebody who has Taqwa are the people and let the you
know you're gonna build AI people who believe in the unseen. That's kind of interesting if you think
about it, because if you think about someone who has taqwa, maybe you wouldn't think to start there
he has, say, someone who prays or somebody who fast or somebody who obeys a law, somebody who stays
away from the haram. But Allah subhanaw taala started with belief, right belief. And that tells us
one thing that's important already is that your actions grow out of your beliefs, your actions grow
		

			out of your beliefs, you have to believe in certain things that content or what you believe in
matters. It's completely against what we're told in modern society, that it doesn't matter what you
believe, as long as you're a good person a lot, right? In the first page is sort of Lakota tell us
the opposite? No, you have to believe in this first, what you believe in matters why and
specifically believes in the unseen. The opposite of that is sort of like this hard materialism
people who only believe in what they can see, if you only believe in what you can see, you're not
going to be able to be a moral person, sorry, maybe you're going to be able to be a moral person, in
		

			some sense of the word when times are easy. When there's no war, when everybody's got enough, you
can hold the door open for somebody, but when war breaks out, and when the economy crashes, and the
currency is completely inflated and things start to go down, you're going to save your neck, you're
going to save your neck and the people who around you, it's going to be me against everybody else.
It's going to be your interests, who are the people who are going to do the right thing, when it's
against themselves, who are the people who are going to do the right thing, when nobody's watching
the people who believe in the unseen the people who believe, first of all, that Allah subhanaw taala
		

			is watching them that angels unseen angels are writing down everything that they do, and say and
think and that they're going to get some sort of Recompense, they're going to get some sort of
judgment at the end of it all after they die. There's life after death part of the unseen they're
going to be resurrected, they're going to stand before a perfect God and be given an eternal
sentence, either in paradise or in hellfire or a little bit in hellfire and then taken out and put
into paradise. But they believe that this is real. That's the foundation of Taqwa. That's the
foundation of all righteousness of all morality of all ethics, believing in the unseen, believing in
		

			things that are not just hard material facts, things that you can observe with your eyes or hear or
taste or smell or touch. There's more than that. And the person who believes in more than that there
they have a strong foundation for morality and righteousness.