Tom Facchine – Do You Believe In The Final Account
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the afterlife. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of having a clear understanding of what everyone is doing and the need for accountability.
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Because if you have on your inside sincerity,
if you have on your inside faith, the
virtue, then yes, you will make mistakes, but
more times than not, you're going to follow
the guidance that Allah ﷻ sends, and you're
going to resist the whispers, you're going to
resist the bad influences, you're going to resist
the delusions or the justifications or the rationalizations
that the demons give you.
But for people who have the sickness in
their heart already, this is what they've been
waiting for.
They want to hear the west-west.
They want to hear the suggestions.
They want to hear the delusions.
They want to be provided the rationalization so
then once it comes along, they can latch
onto it and say, ah, yes, see, I
knew what I was doing was okay.
I knew that I could live my life
without faith.
I knew that I could live my life
without thinking about being accountable to anyone or
to anything.
This is how misguidance works.
And if Allah ﷻ had willed it, He
wouldn't have let it happen, yet He allowed
it to happen to demonstrate what He already
knew because when it comes to your heart
and my heart and everybody's heart and what
they would decide, how they would react, Allah
already knows.
He didn't have to do it for His
own benefit so that He knew something He
wasn't already aware of, but He makes the
hidden manifest to prove it to everybody else
so that we get on the day of
judgment and we stand before Allah ﷻ and
He gives us our final judgment.
He shows us our deeds, it's enough.
He makes us confess, you did this.
We have to say yes.
We don't have an argument.
We can't say, well, but if you had
only given me this different situation, no, no,
no.
Allah ﷻ gave us the situation, gave us
every opportunity and we're going to get what
we deserve.
وَلِي تَسْقَىٰ إِلَيْهِ أَفْئِدَةُ الَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْآخِرَةِ
This is exactly what we're talking about.
Allah says, li, okay, the laam that He's
using here is laam at-ta'lil, okay,
laam at-ta'lil, Allah ﷻ is explaining
the reason why He let this happen.
Why did He let the demons run amok,
right?
Be able to confuse people, be able to
provide these arguments, bad influences among the people,
bad influences with these suggestions and these whisperings.
Why?
وَلِي تَسْقَىٰ إِلَيْهِ أَفْئِدَةُ الَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْآخِرَةِ
So that the people who don't believe in
the afterlife, their hearts would incline towards it.
And Allah Azawajal puts this front and center
time and time again, الَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْآخِرَةِ
It's interesting, you would think, somebody, an outside
observer would think, okay, well, the Qur'an
would usually say, believing in Allah, believing in
Allah, believing in Allah, and it's true.
Allah says that a lot in the Qur
'an, but a surprising amount of times, instead
of saying, يُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ, He says, يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْآخِرَةِ
الَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْآخِرَةِ The people who don't
believe in the afterlife, what's the first sifah,
the first description of the متقون in Surah
Al-Baqarah, الَّذِينَ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْغَيْبِ Interesting, the first
thing he says is not, يُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ, He
says, يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْغَيْبِ The one who believes in
the unseen, because believing in the unseen and
the afterlife is part of the unseen, has
to do with حساب, has to do with
accountability.
You know that you're going to be held
to account, you know you're going to be
held responsible for what you did.
All piety, all taqwa, all responsibility, all faith,
is based off of accountability.
We need it.
If you don't have accountability, you're going to
do whatever you want.
And that's just the reality.
How many think about your job, for those
of you who have a boss, if your
boss never ever ever came in to work,
how tempting would it be to slack off?
How hard would it be to discipline yourself
so that every single, I mean, all of
us have shortcomings.
Imagine, are you going to tell me that
every single second that you're on the clock
is dedicated to your work?
You never once looked at your phone, you
never once shot a message, you never once
scrolled Facebook or something like this when you're
on the clock?
Well, Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is the
only boss that has complete knowledge of what
his workers are doing, right?
And so, we need that accountability.
We need to have some sort of accountability
so that we act right.
And Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says here
that the people who don't believe in accountability,
and if you can't, if you don't believe
in the afterlife, you can't believe in any
accountability, no real accountability.
Your heart's going to lean, it's going to
lean towards these suggestions, towards these demons, towards
these demonic forces and these influences.
You only live once, it's your body, it's
your choice.
Get out there and live a little, relax,
loosen up.
You only live once, let's go.
If you don't believe in accountability, your heart's
going to lean towards that and eventually, you're
going to find the justification you were looking
for.