Yasir Qadhi – Pearls From The Quran 01 – Ramadan 2017

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			will be commenting on various verses that we're going to do each and every day. So today I will find
a suitable for a verse 21. Yeah, you're not
		

			a property commander,
		

			or you own mankind, worship your Lord, who created you and created those before you?
		

			Who created you and created those before you so that you may achieve righteousness is the one who
made this world, this earth, a vast place, and you made the skies eternity. So do not worship
alongside a lot, any others. And you know that Allah created you know, in this verse, verse 21. This
is the first commandment in the Koran. It is the first time chronologically open up the Koran that
Allah tells you to do something. And it's not just to us, all mankind worship your Lord. So today
		

			we want to talk about what is worship? And why do we worship a lot? And how do we worship almost the
kind of without the first commandment in the Koran all mankind worship your Lord. And it is this
commandment that along is explicitly mentioned in the Quran, he has created a form what am I?
		

			The only reason I have created mankind in it so that they may worship me. And Allah says in the
Quran, we have not spent a single profit, except that you have told this people not.
		

			There is no deity other than a while so worship me. So worship, exclusively worshiping alone is the
primary and the only purpose of our creation. It is why Allah, the prophet, it is why Allah revealed
the books. It is why we exist. We exist to worship Allah.
		

			Allah alludes to four reasons why we should worship Him. In these series of verses. There are four
reasons why we worship a lump. if somebody were to ask us, why should we worship a lot in these
verses? four reasons. Number one, you are not
		

			all mankind worship your love. But we worship the Lord because he is a what is a rug is an entity is
a feeling that is characterized by every single characteristic of perfection of majesty of glory, is
the word of the Creator, the rug.
		

			The rug is magical. So we worship a lot, because a lot is a rug. In other words, we worship a law
because the law is worthy of being worshipped. We have been created, that when we see something
majestic, we are in awe, we humble ourselves to a majestic creation, when we see the stars feels
like what happens, we feel a sense of all of majesty, how about to understand the creator of the
night, when we see the sunrise, when we see the full moon, it is embedded in us that we feel a sense
of humility, a sense of all we appreciate the majesty of the creation. So how about the majesty of
the creator of mankind, worship your Lord, we worship a lot because a lot is so perfect, so
		

			majestic, so beautiful, that He is worthy of mankind in the creation, humbling themselves to him.
And our Prophet, Allah love it, he was setting them in his, in his in the night prayer, he would
make dua to Allah, that he would say that Oh, Allah.
		

			Oh, Allah, I cannot do justice in praising you, no matter what I say. It's not worthy of you. Now.
		

			I cannot do justice in praising you. Only you can praise yourself the way that you deserve the best
of creation, in the best of posture and the best of luck. He is worse you can go on the middle of
the night. And he says a lot. I cannot do justice. When I praise you. Only you can treat yourself we
worship Allah because Allah is that's the first reason when the angels we learned in the tradition,
that the final conflict will be blown. And that's when the angels themselves were for a period of
time died. And the angels have been worshipping a lot from a pre eternity and they have been worked
with in a rock continuously non stop. They don't eat, they don't drink, they don't sleep. They don't
		

			take a break. There.
		

			constantly working alone and run, they will die for that period of time. What was the last thing the
angels say be?
		

			Done?
		

			Oh I Lord, we did not work if you the way you deserve to be worshipped. If this is the state of the
angels, that would be a first reason we worship a lot. What is it, that Allah is worthy of being
worshipped because of who he is. The second reason is that the
		

			the one who created you created your ancestors alive is the one who created the earth and the world.
You make this world a vast place, he made the skies that kind of canopy. He says the rain down he
brings towards the vegetation I eat, we worship Allah because Allah has blessed us with life. We
worship a lot, because we are here, because life is beautiful. Because this world is so perfect. The
least that we can do is to tackle love by worship. Boys, they learn how
		

			to love and be of those who are thankful. So the second reason why we worship, the last note is it
is not the primary one, it is not the primary reason, many people think we worship a lot, because a
lot of that is true. But the primary reason, even if a war did not create us, he would still be
worthy of worship. Even if I didn't exist, or you didn't exist, a love would be worthy of worship.
My existence is independent of a love worship a lot is worthy of worship because of who he is not
because of what he has done to me. But the second reason, we worship a lot, because he has created
us under the
		

			public. This is the second reason. The third reason
		

			that you may all achieve God consciousness. And so worshiping a lot brings about a tangible benefit
to us, we achieve what happens when we achieve many things, our life becomes meaningful, we have a
Purpose Driven Life, if we don't have stuck where we are like animals, if we don't have, we don't
have a purpose of living. So when we worship a lot, our lives become stable. Our lives become
meaningful, our families, our societies, there's more in order, when the civilization has stopped,
you gain peace, you're gaining more in order right is right wrong is wrong. When what is eliminated,
there is no right and wrong, there is no good and evil everything becomes permissible, as we are
		

			seeing in many civilizations of society. So the third reason we worship the law is that a large
worship brings about law. And when we get life, we get purpose, we get stability, we get value, we
get a purpose of living, for our own existence becomes meaningful, we get a court of law, society
flourishes to work tikkun olam brings about all of these benefits. And last but not least, the
fourth reason, and this is mentioned in the next verse, unless the title was
		

			mentioned.
		

			Not having any help. And that comes at the end. That's not our primary motivation. It's not the main
motivation, we do not wish to pull up primarily for entering heaven and being saved from health. It
is a secondary, tertiary, it is a reason amongst the reasons, but it's not the primary reason. Yes,
indeed, one we work with a lot a lower blood pressure in this world.
		

			And that blessing is the greatest blessing. And that is genuine, and it is a motivation. We are we
we need the character. We need the motivation agenda, we also need the fear factor, and that is
		

			there, and it is on the list. So we worship a lot for these four reasons. Number one, because He is
worthy of being worshipped regardless of anything else, a lot is worthy of being worshipped. Number
two, we worship a lot because he has created us because he has blessed us, with our lives, with our
wealth with our family with everything that we have. Number three, we worship a lot because worship
brings
		

			what brings everything to life, meaning stability, values, everything comes from support. And number
four, last but not least, we worship a lot because in a lot of worship, we will gain pleasure and
that agenda, abstain from his punishment, and that in
		

			future lectures, I'll talk about how we worship, our love and the levels of worship to go about it.