Tom Facchine – How Does Allah Resurrect The Dead
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The transcript describes two stories of Islam's power and resurrection. One story describes a man who passes by a garden and is punished by his actions, while the other story describes a woman who wants to increase her certainty by asking questions. The man who has the intention of wanting to increase her certainty is the one who decides what stays alive and what dies and when it dies. The woman who wants to increase her certainty is the one who decides what stays alive and what dies and when it dies and when it rest.
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The end of Surah Al Baqarah Allah, Aesawajal,
he tells a couple stories that that have
a a very similar theme, and it has
to do with
increasing
certainty
in Allah's power and the resurrection and sort
of the things that are gonna happen in
the last day. So you have the story
of the person who passes by the township
and it's ruins. You know, it's like people
used to live there. Now it's completely abandoned
and and in ruins. And he kind of
expresses
something like a doubt, but it's more it's
kind of like a question. He says, could
Allah resurrect even this? Basically saying it's like
these guys are so dead and gone. It's
like
even these guys, like, Allah can bring back.
And so he causes this person to to
die, to fall asleep. Right? And he's got
you know, he's traveling. He's got his his
donkey and he's got his provisions and stuff
like that.
And so Allah causes him to, you know,
knock out and then brings him back to
life and then questions him and says, how
long were you, you know, asleep for? And
he says, I don't know, maybe like a
day or part of a day. And then
Allah says, no. Actually, it was, was, you
know, quite a long time. It was, like,
a 100 years. And it points to the
fact is, like, look at your donkey. Like,
your your your donkey is bones now. Like,
it's completely disintegrated or decomposed. Whereas Allah
preserved his provisions and his food and stuff
like that. And then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
causes the the donkey to be brought back
to life right in front of his eyes.
And so Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is proving
to this person that, just like Allah
created everything in the first place, that resurrecting
everything after it has died is even easier.
And so he's the one that decides
what stays alive and what dies and when
it dies and for how long it rests
and then brings it all back. And then
immediately after the story, we have the story
of Ibrahim and the birds. Right? So Ibrahim
asks a certain question. He said, kefthorhilmalta.
He's like, how are you going to bring
he couldn't get it. You know? Like, he
believed in it. It wasn't he didn't believe,
but he didn't understand how. And so he's
he's he said basically to Allah, like, how
are you gonna bring life to the dead?
And then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala actually, you
know, answers the question with a question, falaatutman.
He's like like, don't you believe? And he
says, yeah. But I want to bring ease
to my heart. And this is the key.
This is the key ingredient of these of
these both of these stories is that the
person is not asking out of a inad.
They're not asking out of sort of opposition
and,
doubt that's significant enough that it is sort
of, taking them away from faith. They actually
have the intention of wanting to increase their
certainty by asking these questions. And because they
have that good intention when they're asking these
questions, Allah honors their question and actually responds
to it in a meaningful way, as opposed
to other scenarios all over the Quran when
people ask with a bad intention and Allah
you know, basically rebuffs them and refutes them
and says, you know, this is a ridiculous
or a dumb question to ask. So this
is the opposite. Ibrahim is asking this question
and he he wants to have more certainty.
And so Allah says, okay, take these birds,
you know, sacrifice them, cut them up into
pieces, mix the pieces up and put them
on different hilltops or different mountain tops and
then call to them. And Allah Subhana Wa
Ta'la causes all of them to reassemble in
the proper way right in front of his
eyes and bring them back to light. And
so Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala can do anything.
Right? Material cause or no material cause, mechanism
or no mechanism, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala can
do what he wants. And for us, the
one of the takeaways is that we can't
be afraid to ask questions if we have
a good intention, a sincere intention, because we
want to have more certain faith. Right? And
we need to encourage our children and other
people to ask questions if the intention behind
their question is to have more certainty in
their faith. This is something that even Allah,
Aas Wajal, honors in the Quran.