Tom Facchine – How The Story of David and Goliath Relates To Our Righteousness
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The speaker discusses a story about a king who sends a king to them, but the king refuses to fight and hiding in the inside of the people. The speaker believes that most people are focused on fixing the system and working on their people, rather than focusing on the actions of the king.
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Towards the end of Surah Al-Baqarah, Allah
Azawajal, he tells some stories.
And one of the stories that he tells
is the story of Talut, right?
And the story of David and Goliath, right?
And it's an interesting sort of story because
you have the children of Israel, the Bani
Israel, and they claim, they say, all right,
if you send, they talk to their prophet
because they had a prophet among them.
They're like, yo, if you send us a
king, then we'll fight, we'll go to war,
we'll do our duty.
Because at that time, they had some sort
of enemy that they had to stand up
to.
And the prophet is like, well, what happens
if I send you a king and you
still refuse to fight?
And they say, well, how could that be?
How could we possibly do that?
We've been turned out of our homes and
our children and all these sorts of things
have happened to us.
Like, are you doubting us?
But then sure enough, when they're sent the
king, they criticize, they don't wanna go into
battle.
They say, he's the wrong guy.
Wait a second, how are you gonna send
this king to us?
He doesn't have money.
He doesn't have this, he doesn't have that.
They have their own preconceived idea of who
a king should be.
And the prophet sends them a king and
now all of a sudden, it's off.
They don't want to do anything.
And this is something that's really, really significant,
I think for most people, because a lot
of times we get obsessed with the system
versus the personnel, right?
We think about the system.
If we're only, we can fix the system
and this thing that's outside of myself and
we can get the perfect setup, then we'll
be okay, right?
And a lot of times we're really just
making excuses for ourselves, right?
A lot of times the real work that
has to be done is on the inside,
right?
The people who were in this story, Bani
Israel, they were making excuses for themselves.
They didn't wanna fight.
That was basically what it was.
Whether they were too cowardly or too attached
to the dunya or whatever, they didn't wanna
fight, but they couldn't admit that.
So they had to make an excuse and
they're just like, well, we can't fight, we
don't have a king.
How are we supposed to fight without a
king, right?
And then the king comes like, well, he's
the wrong type of king.
We want a different type of king, right?
And so they're hiding what's down on the
inside, right?
Even if you were to be given a
perfect system, if you have the wrong people,
it'll get ruined.
You need to work on the people and
what's on the insides of people, their sincerity,
their attention to detail, their caution, their taqwa,
their righteousness.
And then even if you have a system
that's not perfect, they'll make it work.