Tom Facchine – Who Does Honor Belong To

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The speaker discusses the concept of Islam and how it is a way to undermine others. They explain that while Islam is a way to profit from others, it is also a way to take responsibility for one's actions. The speaker also mentions a hadith from the Prophet about servicing others and how he says that anyone who tries to please others by yelling at them will face a response from Islam's soldiers.

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			As a very important concept of Islam, Allah says that Isaiah only belongs to Allah says and
certainly set is only belongs to Allah. And that has so many implications and consequences if we
were to take that seriously, because a lot of what we do in the dunya how we undermine ourselves is
assuming that somebody else has is just like honor, okay? It's like honor and dignity, maybe maybe
we could say, honor and dignity. And so if we don't realize that Allah has all As and that he's the
one that distributes it and grants it, we make the mistake that we think it is with another person,
we think it's with the politicians or we think that it's with the people of cloud or the celebrities
		
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			or whatever, then we act in a servile way towards those people, because we want them as we think
that we're going to get honor from them or dignity from them. And Allah is telling us that the
opposite, you have to be relating vertically, not horizontally, okay? There's no as horizontally,
there's only as vertically. Okay? So if you want honor, the honor is in a snap. That's it. If you
want honor, honor is in what Allah gives you, and Allah is not going to give it to you, if you are
being servile, and like this towards the creation, now we're supposed to only worship Allah subhanaw
taala in the true meaning of what worship is complete servitude. And that's the kind of beautiful
		
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			paradox is that if you only submit to Allah, He gives you the honor among the creation and if you
try to serve the creation and make everybody happy, then he takes away the honor from you. There's
actually a hadith the Prophet saw, I saw I believe it's in Sahih Muslim, where he says that whoever
tries to please the people by y by what Allah hates, then Allah will cause the people to hate him,
and Allah will hate him too.