Tom Facchine – If Allah Wants Good For You – This Happens

In our next hadith, the prophet sallallahu alaihi

wa sallam he said,

That whoever Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala wants good

for,

he causes him to understand his religion. And

this is an a tremendous hadith because it

recalibrates us. Right? Unfortunately,

most of us in the dunya were

our senses are thrown off. Right?

If you're an adult, you're responsible for people.

You've gotta make money. You've gotta hustle. You've

gotta you have a job. You gotta take

care of things.

And so a lot of what we spend

our time interacting with is the dunya.

And so

the liability of this or one of the

consequences of this is that it starts to

get us thinking of success

in terms of dunya.

And even when it comes to knowledge, it

gets us to think about knowledge in terms

of dunya

and we don't need any help already with

that because we already live in an era

where everything's about science and STEM and this

and that and the third and Harvard and

Princeton

parrot, you know, the ivory towers,

you tell somebody that you're

SubhanAllah,

you tell somebody's parents they're going to Yale

or they're going to Harvard and you see

the reaction.

You tell them you want to drop out

and you want to go to Morocco or

or Saudi or somewhere to study the Deen

and you see their reaction, that tells you

all you need to know

about how much we need this hadith.

You get that full ride to Harvard

or that full ride to Yale, everybody's gonna

celebrate you. The marriage proposals are gonna come

in in force. Everyone's gonna be like, this

is the guy. I made it.

But you're gonna live in some sort of

roach infested apartment

in Medina or in Cairo or in Fez

studying,

you know, eating

bread and lentils

for years,

just trying to understand Arabic, get your Tajweed

straight, understand basic, these sorts of things,

and you're seen as a failure.

The marriage proposals dry up.

You're not celebrated. You're overlooked.

Unfortunately, that's the dunya, and that's where we

are. The prophet

he's trying to correct and recalibrate

our sensors.

He's saying that if Allah wants

good for a person,

he doesn't let him get into Harvard. He

doesn't let him get into Yale. All the

other things that could have been said in

this hadith, He makes him understand his religion,

that that is the supreme good above all

other good. Any type of thing in this

dunya

compared to understanding your religion

pales in comparison, because when you understand your

religion,

everything else falls into Doesn't mean you're gonna

be a rock star, doesn't mean you're gonna

be super popular or super successful or very

rich or anything like that. It couldn't possibly

mean that, but it means that you're gonna

understand right from wrong. You're gonna sleep well

at night because you understand, you know, you

not gonna make enemies unnecessarily. You're going to

forgive people and be forbearing. You're going to

go out of your way to encourage what's

good, the known good, and you're going to

be

a factor

in limiting and prohibiting and preventing the evil

from taking place. You're going to be an

essential component of your

community. You're going to uplift everybody and everything

around you. That's why in another Hadith, the

prophet said that for the Adam, somebody who

is

learned, somebody who understands his Deen,

every single creature on Earth asks Allah to

forgive that person.

Even the fish in the sea.

We need this hadith more than ever. We

look at what we're doing to the sea.

We're dumping

toxic sludge and plastics. You know, there's the

the,

the island of of plastic in the Pacific

Ocean, 2 of them, actually.

We need their.

We need people who Allah has given understanding

in their deen to be running things, to

be deciding things, to be impactful, to be

the real influencers,

not necessarily on social media, but the real

influencers, people with real influence and real authority.

The most important type of person in this

dunya

is the person who understands their religion.