Tom Facchine – Muslims Are People of Process

			As Muslims, we are people of process, we have to be people of process, because we can't control the
result. And that goes with just about everything, all we can do is make our sincere intention,
correct our orientation, and then take the requisite action, do whatever action makes sense and as
likely to produce the result that we want. But then we have to let it go at that point. We can't
follow it past that. If Allah wants that to happen, he's going to make it happen. And if Allah
doesn't want to make it happen, guess what, there's no possible way it's going to happen. And this
is, you know, in so many Hadith the Prophet alayhi salatu. Salam was riding with him and Ibis. And
		

			he says, Get, he's gonna give us some advice. And one of the last things he says to us is that if
the whole world got together to hurt you, or to harm you, they're not going to be able to do
anything to you, except if Allah had already willed it to happen. And if the whole world everyone in
it got together to help you in some sort of way, they're not going to be able to help you at all,
unless it was something that Allah subhanaw taala already willed or already decided was going to
happen. So we have two major theological problem or a hang up that a lot of people have is getting
too focused on the results, we want the results so bad, or a certain type of results so bad, that
		

			we're willing to beg, borrow, and steal, and cheat, to win and do whatever it takes to get that sort
of thing. And sometimes the end is a good thing. Sometimes you want someone to become a Muslim,
sometimes you want somebody to start praying again, sometimes you want good things, but the ends
don't justify the means in our religion, or in our faith, right? And we need to recognize the limits
of our own power, and not in a way where we're just like, oh, well, if they didn't, if they weren't
guided by my actions, then their heart must be sealed and they must be in hellfire. You know, see
you later sign our sucker. No, it's not like that. Right? You know, you're a human being, you've got
		

			your flaws, maybe it's you, maybe you're the problem, right? But but to put that to the side for a
second, we have to have this sort of peace with the results. We know that we have, we're responsible
for Orient, orienting ourselves with sincerity and taking responsible action. And after that,
there's nothing you can do, right? And everything's going to be sorted out and the Day of Judgment,
who is sincere and who wasn't sincere and who was neglectful and who wasn't neglectful, right? But
everybody just has to try their best