Tom Facchine – If Allah Wants Good For You – This Happens
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The speaker discusses the importance of understanding one's religion in order to address problems and avoid negative consequences. They use the example of the universal belief in the Deen and how it can lead to success in life. The speaker emphasizes the need for people to understand their religion to be a part of their community and ultimately lead to positive outcomes.
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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.