Tom Facchine – Stop Overthinking…Unlock Your Potential
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The speaker discusses the importance of recognizing Allah's signs and potentialities in the process of developing and achieving a status as a supervisor. They explain that these tools are not just random, but are designed to protect the body, including the ability to see, smell, and sense. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of protecting these tools for their personal and professional lives, as they are the most important things in their lives.
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The next segment, Aragoul Aslihani, he talks about
the 2
or 2 other tools, we could say, that
human beings have been granted.
Kind of the nature of human beings and
how
they are to begin this process of reforming
the self and
attaining to the station of a Khalifa
or a steward or a representative of Allah
and
his take on it is that human beings
are have a dual nature. So one of
the part of that nature is
material, right, the body,
and then the other part of that nature
is not material. You can call it the
intellect, you can call it the spirit, the
the soul, whatever you want. And he justifies
this by the
the Right? And there are signs in your
own selves. And his point is that, you
know, all of these things are, again, capacities,
they're potentialities, they're not yet realized, they are
tools
for you to use and he's gonna get
to the importance of that in a second,
how Allah created us different from everyone else
because
we come into the earth not as a
finished product. We come in as a potential
or as a capacity. He gives us the
tools
and he, our job in this life, is
to use those tools to bring it to
fruition or to develop
the proper end product.
But in a general sense, so we have
this one tool, which is the body. That's
that's a tool. Right? We everybody knows
everything that you do can be an act
of worship if you actually put your intention
through that. Right? So if you're sleeping, that
can be an act of worship. If you're
eating, you know, if you're being intimate with
your spouse, if you're doing any of these
things, they can all be acts of worship
for you if you have the right intention.
That's your body. Right? Now when it comes
to recognizing Allah's signs, there's part of that
which is also your body. Allah gave you
eyes, right? He gave us the ability to
see color. He gives us the ability to
smell
fragrance and sense. He gave us the ability
to hear the birds singing. He gave us
the ability to feel the different textures and
then the plants and the animals that he
created and all these sorts of things, right?
All of these physical
characteristics and qualities and capacities that we have
are all tools
that were given to us to use
for accepting Allah's signs. Right? So they're not
just random. They're not just an evolutionary stratagem
just to secure
resources and reproduce, you know, find the best
mate or whatever and reproduce as much as
possible. That's very very basic level stuff. That's
the level of imara. Right? That's not the
level of Chirafa.
Things might have more than one purpose. Right?
If you have that stuff for level of
Imara, okay great, but you also have them
to recognize the signs of your creator.
So that's the body. And then the second
aspect is the intangible
and the inspiration, the insight. Right? If our
eyes are foresight, then our intellect and our
soul is for insight.
Right? To be able to
observe these things and put them all together,
To recognize the patterns. To be able to
detect
in the creation
mercy
and love
and genius
and beauty.
Right? This is something that it's not, it
might be tangentially related to physical forms, but
it's not it's not purely physical. Right? This
is something that is sublime,
we would say. It goes beyond,
the physical corporal reality
and so these are these are the tools
that we're given, which is why, which is
why, and we're getting into now a little
bit of the Maqaddi Mas Sharia, which is
why some of the guidelines in the Sharia
are geared towards protecting these two things.
Okay. If you've been given
a body
to detect and recognize Allah's signs,
then it stands to reason that there's going
to be guidelines for how to protect that
body.
If you've been given an intellect
that is designed to recognize Allah's signs and
submit to Allah's signs, then it stands to
reason that you're gonna have to protect that,
but there should be guidelines
that you cannot cross, red lines, consequences
to keep that intellect intact because as long
as that intellect is intact, you might still
recognize a law of science.
Maybe not until you're 50 years old. Maybe
not until you're 60 years old, Sam. Maybe
not until you're on your deathbed.
But as long as it's intact, you stand
a chance. Okay. What if I'm an alcoholic?
What if I'm a druggie?
What if I do things that just destroy
the tool?
Am I ever going to be able to
recognize the signs if I destroy the tools
that Allah gave me?
It's not possible, unless Allah wills otherwise. It's
not possible. And so many of the guidelines
in the Sharia, whether it comes to intoxicants
or whether it comes to substances or whether
it comes to relations with other people, anything,
a lot of it has to do with
the preservation
of these tools
because the most important thing in our lives
is the ability to recognize Allah's signs and
any activity that we engage in that might
damage these tools that Allah has given us
to recognize the signs, it's not worth it.
We would rather to go without
these fun things that we think are going
to bring us happiness. We'd rather go without
them for our whole lives than damage the
tools that Allah gave us to recognize his
signs.