Tom Facchine – Do You Believe In The Final Account

Tom Facchine
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The speaker discusses the importance of having faith and faith in one's ability to live life without mistakes. They stress the need for accountability and a person to act on
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,

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if you have on your inside faith, the

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virtue, then yes, you will make mistakes, but

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more times than not, you're going to follow

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the guidance that Allah ﷻ sends, and you're

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going to resist the whispers, you're going to

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resist the bad influences, you're going to resist

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the delusions or the justifications or the rationalizations

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that the demons give you.

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But for people who have the sickness in

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their heart already, this is what they've been

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waiting for.

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They want to hear the west-west.

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They want to hear the suggestions.

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They want to hear the delusions.

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They want to be provided the rationalization so

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then once it comes along, they can latch

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onto it and say, ah, yes, see, I

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knew what I was doing was okay.

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I knew that I could live my life

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without faith.

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I knew that I could live my life

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without thinking about being accountable to anyone or

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to anything.

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This is how misguidance works.

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And if Allah ﷻ had willed it, He

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wouldn't have let it happen, yet He allowed

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it to happen to demonstrate what He already

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knew because when it comes to your heart

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and my heart and everybody's heart and what

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they would decide, how they would react, Allah

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already knows.

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He didn't have to do it for His

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own benefit so that He knew something He

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wasn't already aware of, but He makes the

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hidden manifest to prove it to everybody else

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so that we get on the day of

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judgment and we stand before Allah ﷻ and

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He gives us our final judgment.

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He shows us our deeds, it's enough.

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He makes us confess, you did this.

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We have to say yes.

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We don't have an argument.

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We can't say, well, but if you had

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only given me this different situation, no, no,

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no.

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Allah ﷻ gave us the situation, gave us

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every opportunity and we're going to get what

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we deserve.

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وَلِي تَسْقَىٰ إِلَيْهِ أَفْئِدَةُ الَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْآخِرَةِ

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This is exactly what we're talking about.

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Allah says, li, okay, the laam that He's

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using here is laam at-ta'lil, okay,

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laam at-ta'lil, Allah ﷻ is explaining

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the reason why He let this happen.

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Why did He let the demons run amok,

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right?

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Be able to confuse people, be able to

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provide these arguments, bad influences among the people,

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bad influences with these suggestions and these whisperings.

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Why?

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وَلِي تَسْقَىٰ إِلَيْهِ أَفْئِدَةُ الَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْآخِرَةِ

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So that the people who don't believe in

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the afterlife, their hearts would incline towards it.

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And Allah Azawajal puts this front and center

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time and time again, الَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْآخِرَةِ

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It's interesting, you would think, somebody, an outside

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observer would think, okay, well, the Qur'an

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would usually say, believing in Allah, believing in

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Allah, believing in Allah, and it's true.

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Allah says that a lot in the Qur

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'an, but a surprising amount of times, instead

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of saying, يُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ, He says, يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْآخِرَةِ

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الَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْآخِرَةِ The people who don't

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believe in the afterlife, what's the first sifah,

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the first description of the متقون in Surah

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Al-Baqarah, الَّذِينَ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْغَيْبِ Interesting, the first

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thing he says is not, يُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ, He

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says, يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْغَيْبِ The one who believes in

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the unseen, because believing in the unseen and

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the afterlife is part of the unseen, has

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to do with حساب, has to do with

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accountability.

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You know that you're going to be held

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to account, you know you're going to be

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held responsible for what you did.

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All piety, all taqwa, all responsibility, all faith,

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is based off of accountability.

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We need it.

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If you don't have accountability, you're going to

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do whatever you want.

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And that's just the reality.

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How many think about your job, for those

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of you who have a boss, if your

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boss never ever ever came in to work,

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how tempting would it be to slack off?

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How hard would it be to discipline yourself

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so that every single, I mean, all of

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us have shortcomings.

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Imagine, are you going to tell me that

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every single second that you're on the clock

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is dedicated to your work?

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You never once looked at your phone, you

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never once shot a message, you never once

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scrolled Facebook or something like this when you're

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on the clock?

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Well, Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is the

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only boss that has complete knowledge of what

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his workers are doing, right?

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And so, we need that accountability.

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We need to have some sort of accountability

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so that we act right.

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And Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says here

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that the people who don't believe in accountability,

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and if you can't, if you don't believe

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in the afterlife, you can't believe in any

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accountability, no real accountability.

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Your heart's going to lean, it's going to

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lean towards these suggestions, towards these demons, towards

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these demonic forces and these influences.

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You only live once, it's your body, it's

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your choice.

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Get out there and live a little, relax,

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loosen up.

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You only live once, let's go.

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If you don't believe in accountability, your heart's

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going to lean towards that and eventually, you're

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going to find the justification you were looking

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for.

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