Tom Facchine – Hadith Series – #26 – The Blessing of Guidance

			Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa salam says that when Allah wants good for somebody, he gives
him understanding in his Deen in his faith in his religion.
		

			And this is something that we attest to. Every single time we stand up to pray and we recite Surah
Al Fatiha, what's the one thing that we asked for is the NSA autonomous destiny? Guide us we asked
for guidance. So religious understanding is categorically different from understanding anything
else. Sometimes we get a little sloppy and we say, well, you know, Islam is all about seeking
knowledge. And, you know, that includes medicine and becoming a doctor and engineer and these
things, those things are good too. But we should be careful and we should really pause before
conflating understanding the religion, the deen and understanding things that have to do with the
		

			dunya
		

			because understanding the deen has compound benefits, right? It has benefits of an entirely higher
order than the things that we understand that have to do with the dunya. And this is found another
Hadith one of my personal favorites, where the Prophet sallallahu sallam said that all the creation
asks forgiveness for the island. The person who understands their religion had to hold back even the
fish in the sea. Because somebody who understands their religion, they're going to have a positive
impact on all of creation. Everyone around them, their kids, their spouse, their families, their
relatives, their community, the trees, the grass, the kids, you know, the kids in school, the school
		

			board, every single part of their community is going to benefit from that person because our deen is
comprehensive. Islam has guidance for everything. And it has something to say about everything, and
it puts everything in its proper place. So if one of the signs of Allah wanting good for a person or
approving of a particular person is that a lot enables a person to have understanding and
understanding is very different from just being able to regurgitate and memorize and reproduce.
Understanding is making it all fit together. And that's something that takes tofi from Allah, some
of that takes a law granting that success.