Tom Facchine – Signs Of The Insincere
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The rejection
of revelation,
the rejection of Allah's guidance,
the rejection of his signs,
whether it takes the form of kufr
or the more specific form of kufr, which
is shirk,
is not a cognitive issue,
not a primarily
cognitive issue. It's not about how smart you
are.
It is an issue of the heart.
It is about
how sincere you are. It is about how
moral
and ethical you are,
which is why Allah
he says,
Allah says,
look, even if
we sent down to them an angel recall
this was one of their
phony demands, one of their excuses. Oh, we
don't want a prophet.
We want you to send us an angel.
Allah says even if we sent them an
angel
or even if we allow the dead to
speak to them,
or if we gathered everything for them,
They wouldn't believe except if Allah
willed.
No. Rather,
most of them are ignorant.
In this way, okay, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is about to account for the existence of
something.
He says, we have placed
for every prophet enemies, enemies among the shayateen,
al insi wal jinn, mean human devils,
and devils from among the jinn.
They help each other, and they speak to
each other, and they delude each other,
with beautified,
literally, golden words.
Golden diluted words.
And if Allah
had wanted, he wouldn't have allowed it to
happen yet.
Al Hakim,
the all wise, Allah Azzawajal,
decided
that this would happen, that this type of
confusion
would happen, this type
of argumentation.
You've got some people doing the devil's work.
Right? Hizb shaitan.
People
or West West, the suggestions that you find
within your own soul.
And the reason that he has allowed it
to happen
is to demonstrate
what's on your insides.
Because if you have on your inside,
sincerity.
If you have on your inside,
faith,
the virtue,
then, yes, you will make mistakes. But more
times than not, you're going to follow the
guidance that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala sends.
And you're going to resist
the whispers.
You're going to resist
the bad influences.
You're going to resist
the delusions or the justifications
or the rationalizations
that the demons give you.
But for people who have the sickness in
their heart already,
this is what they've been waiting for.
They want to hear the West West. They
want to hear the suggestions. They want to
hear the delusions.
They want to be provided the rationalization.
So then once it comes along, they can
latch onto it and say, ah, yes.
See, I knew what I was doing was
okay.
I knew that I could live my life
without faith. I knew that I could live
my life without
thinking about being accountable
to anyone
or to anything.
This is how misguidance works. And if Allah
had willed it, he wouldn't have let it
happen. Yet,
he allowed it to happen
to demonstrate what he already knew.
Because when it comes to your heart and
my heart and everybody's heart and what they
would decide how they would react, Allah already
knows.
He didn't have to do it for his
own benefit so that he knew something he
wasn't already aware of,
but he makes the hidden manifest to prove
it to everybody else
so that we we get on the day
of judgment, and we stand before
Allah and he gives us our final judgment.
He shows us our deeds.
Yeah. It's it's off.
He makes us confess. You did this.
We have to say yes.
We don't have an argument. We can't say,
well, but if you had only given me
this different situation.
No. No. No.
Allah
gave us the situation, gave us every opportunity,
and we're going to get what we deserve.
This is exactly what we're talking about.
Allah says, Lee. Okay? The lamb that he's
using here is Lamata'aleel.
Okay. Lamata'aleel, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is explaining
the reason
why he let this happen.
Why did he let
the demons run amok. Right? Be able to
confuse people, be able to provide these arguments.
Bad influences among the people, bad influences with
these suggestions and these whisperings. Why?
So that the people who don't believe in
the afterlife, their hearts would incline towards it.
And Allah puts
this front and center time and time again.
It's interesting. You would have think somebody, an
outside observer, would think, okay.
Well,
the Quran would usually say believing in Allah.
Believing in Allah. Believing in Allah. And it's
true. Allah says that Allah in the Quran.
But a surprising amount of times,
instead of
saying, he says,
here. The people who don't believe in the
afterlife.
What's the first sifa? The first description
of the muttaqun in Surat Al Baqarah?
Interesting.
The first thing he says is not
He says,
the one who believes in the unseen.
Because believing in the unseen and the afterlife
is part of the unseen has to do
with
hasaab,
has to do with accountability.
You know that you're going to be held
to account. You know you're going to be
held responsible for what you did.
All piety, all taqwa, all responsibility,
all faith
is based off of accountability.
We need it.
If you don't have accountability,
you're gonna do whatever you want,
and that's just the reality.
How many think about your job?
For those of you who have a boss,
if your boss never ever ever came in
to work,
how tempting would it be
to slack off?
How hard would it be to discipline yourself
so that every I mean, all of us
have shortcomings. Imagine. Are you gonna tell me
that every single second that you're on the
clock is dedicated to your work?
You never once looked at your phone. You
never once shot a message. You never once
scrolled Facebook or something like this when you're
on the clock.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the only boss
that has complete
knowledge of what his workers are doing.
Right? And so we need that accountability. We
need to have some sort of accountability so
that we act right.
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says here that
the people who don't believe in accountability,
and if you can't if you don't believe
in the afterlife, you can't believe in any
accountability, no real accountability.
Your heart's gonna lean.
It's gonna lean towards these suggestions,
towards these demons, towards these demonic forces and
these influences.
You only live once.
It's your body. It's your choice.
Get out there and live a little. Relax.
Loosen up. You only live once. Let's go.
If you don't believe in accountability, your heart's
gonna lean towards that, and eventually,
you're gonna find the justification
you were looking for.