Tom Facchine – Tafseer Reflections #13 – The Regret of The People of The Fire – Surah Al-Mulk

			Some milk obviously in an amazing Surah there's so much to say about sorts of milk. I'll just try to
touch on two points very quickly. One of them is that a lost power to Allah tells us what's the
criteria we're going to be judged upon for the Day of Judgment, what's going to get us into
paradise? And what was the reason that we were created. And he says, right in the beginning, I love
the article meltable Hayato, Leah, beluga calm or Yocum, axonal Pamela test we created basically
death and life in order to test you which of you is the best indeed the best in action. And so this
life obviously, this tells us that this life is a test. It's a Proving Grounds, it's about
		

			demonstrating the virtue that's inside of our hearts, Allah Spano, Tala already knows what we're
made of. But if he were to just sort us out automatically, and put us in Gen nurjahan, and put us in
* and heaven, we would complain, right, we would say, Wait a second, I didn't get a chance to
show what I'm made of. And so Allah subhanaw taala gives us this life in order to demonstrate and
he's gonna throw tests at you. And he's going to throw things at you, in order to see what you're
made of, and show and demonstrate what you're made of, so that when you reach the end, you're not
going to have any excuse. And it's significant that I lost found, the auto says, accident I'm gonna
		

			and not extra lamina like a lot of times when we think about getting to be more pious or more
practicing in our religion, we think about quantity rather than quality. And Allah subhanaw taala is
telling us here, he wants quality over quantity, instead of just more and more and more, what is the
value of your prayer? Like what is the, you know, the level that you have, who should have fear or
or reverence that you have connectivity that you have, in your prayer, write all the sorts of things
that you're doing, rather than just try to accumulate more and more and more and more good deeds?
Maybe you need to take time thinking about how can you make the deeds that you're already doing more
		

			valuable and more weighty. So that's one point. And the second point is that allow someone to audit
he tells us some of the regrets of the people at the fire. And so when he does that, he's basically
showing us okay, avoid this thing. And so when the there's this conversation, and the people that
are going into the Hellfire are asked, right was a prophet sent to you? They said yes. And then
Allah subhanaw taala says that they will say well call Lunokhod international Oh, now people that
couldn't be I was happy say is that one of the two regrets basically, that the people the fire will
have if only we had listened or reasoned, and that's very significant, because a lot of times people
		

			these days, they assume that reason and Revelation contradicting each other or that faith and reason
don't go together. And Allah is bound to Allah is saying here that if you don't use your reason,
it's going to end you up in the fire, or it could end you up in the fire. If you're not able to
listen and obey, and you don't use your reason, then you're going to end up in a very, very bad
situation. But what is meant by reason here is not what most people think of as reason. It doesn't
necessarily mean judging the Koran by only our what our sensibilities what we should say, like what
we think is true, and what's not true and saying, Well, you know, this verse, I think, is true. And
		

			this one doesn't make sense. So I'm going to disregard it, or oh, I believe in the Koran, or but I
don't believe in the Hadith. And we have a lot of people now in Islamic studies departments that
this is sort of the norm. And they say, Well, you know, it just doesn't make sense. Well, who said
that you're the standard of what makes sense and what doesn't make sense? Maybe you should evaluate
the criteria upon which you're basing what makes sense. What doesn't make sense. So last month, I
was talking about a type of reason, but what type of reason Okay, he gave us the tools, what are the
tools for the tools are for recognizing Allah signs, okay? Allah is not proven. A lot of people ask
		

			for proof Allah is not proven, he's found means that the signs are all around us already. They're
not hidden somewhere in some obscure place that we need to develop these like, obscure, you know,
difficult convoluted formulas and theses and like very, very, no, it's actually right in front of
your face. It's been in front of your face the entire time. All it takes is sincerity, and the
correct attitude, opening up your mind, use your reason to determine that the signs in front of you
are pointing towards purpose. They're pointing towards a creator, they're pointing towards
afterlife, they're pointing towards accountability and responsibility. That's what your reason is
		

			for, which is even to me his critique of the entire thing. If you get into his works, he's saying
that real reason does not contradict revelation that the actual Quran and the Sunnah of the
revelation that Allah gives us, it presupposes a certain amount of reason, because it's asking us to
be convinced. It's asking us to think about things, but we don't take some sort of external
tradition of reason from the Greeks or from somebody else, and then chop up the Quran and the Sunnah
and try to make them gel. We have to use the reason that's inside of the text, the reason that's
inside the Quran and the Sunnah, and the reason that Allah gave us in order to recognize its truth,
		

			and to submit to it