Yasir Qadhi – What Is The Amanah We Were Entrusted By Allah

Yasir Qadhi
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Today I recited the last two verses of

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Surah Al-Ahzab, which is a very profound

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and a very deep meaning verse.

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In these verses Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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says, إِنَّا عَرَضْنَا الْأَمَانَةَ عَلَى السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ

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وَالْجِبَالِ We offered the amanah to the heavens,

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to the earth, and to the mountains.

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فَأَبَيْنَ أَن يَحْمِلْنَهَا They refused to take the

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amanah.

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وَأَشْفَقْنَ مِنْهَا And they became scared of taking

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the amanah.

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وَحَمَلَهَا الْإِنسَانَ But Insan took the amanah.

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إِنَّهُ كَانَ ظَلُومًا جَهُولًا Insan was zalum.

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He is wronging himself.

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جهول, constantly in a state of ignorance.

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لِيُعَذِّبَ اللَّهُ مُنَافِقِينَ وَالْمُنَافِقَاتِ وَالْمُشْرِكِينَ

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وَالْمُشْرِكَاتِ Allah Azawajal will therefore, based upon this

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amanah, those who didn't fulfill it, Allah will

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punish the hypocrites men and women, and the

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mushrik men and women, وَيَتُوبَ اللَّهُ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ

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وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتِ And Allah will forgive the believing men

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and women, and Allah is Ghafoor and Rahim.

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Today inshallah we'll explain a little bit about

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these two verses.

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What exactly is this amanah?

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And how is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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offering it to the heavens and earth?

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And what is the status of man that

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has taken this reality?

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This verse of course, it is a verse

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that is a lot of tafsir you can

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imagine.

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Over 10 different interpretations have been given.

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We don't have time to go over all

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of them, but we'll go over some of

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them.

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Allah says, we offered the amanah, al-amanah.

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One, it is a very big responsibility.

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We offered the responsibility, not responsibilities.

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Allah didn't say we offered amanat.

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No, it is al-amanah.

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There's one amanah in the singular.

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There is one very important amanah, which means

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Allah has entrusted.

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has given.

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What is an amanah?

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An amanah is something that you entrust with

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somebody, and then you expect something in return

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back from that amanah.

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So Allah is saying, we offered the amanah

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to the heavens, to the earth, to the

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jibal, to the mountains.

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And they refused to accept it, and they

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became scared of it.

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So first and foremost, we learn that Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala is telling us, even

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these inanimate objects, they have awareness and perception.

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Even the inanimate objects, and of course the

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Qur'an and the sunnah, and frankly, even

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modern science and modern biology even seems to

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suggest it.

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Of course, their consciousness is different than our

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consciousness.

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But at some level, they do have some

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awareness.

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Allah azza wa jal mentions in the Qur

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'an, there's nothing except that praises Him.

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And Allah says that even the heavens and

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the earth are prostrating to Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala.

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And the Prophet ﷺ said that, I can

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hear the tasbih of the stones.

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And the Prophet ﷺ said that, the mountain

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of Uhud loves us and we love it.

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So he ascribed an emotion to the mountain.

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The mountain of Uhud loves us and we

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love it.

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And as I said, even modern strands of

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biology and of science, they are also affirming

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that even plants and other inanimate objects, we

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would consider they might have some type of

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consciousness.

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And of course the Qur'an affirms this.

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So Allah is saying, these inanimate objects, and

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He gives examples, the samawat, all that is

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in the heavens, the ard, all that is

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below you, the jibal, the solid mountains, no

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creation wanted the amanah.

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But insan wanted the amanah.

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So what is this amanah?

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So there are as I said more than

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10 opinions.

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One opinion, the amanah is the kalima of

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la ilaha illallah muhammadur rasulullah.

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This is the amanah, that's one opinion.

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Another opinion, the amanah is the salah.

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We offered them the amanah that they have

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to salah, pray salah, and they have to

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pay the salah.

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The amanah is they fulfill the obligation of

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salah.

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A third opinion, the amanah is not just

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the salah, but all of the rituals, salah

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and zakah and siyam, i.e. the ibadat

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of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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And this is similar to the second opinion.

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The fourth opinion, the amanah is the laws

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of Allah, the wajibat.

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All of the obligations, not just the rituals,

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but the obligations, including the hudud, including all

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of the shara' of Islam.

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The fifth interpretation, it is even broader than

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this.

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It is the deen of Allah, the deen

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which is the broadest.

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So if you look at the previous, all

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of them, they are aspects of the deen.

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This opinion, the entire deen is amanah.

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We offer the religion of Islam to these

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inanimate objects.

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They all said, it is too big of

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a responsibility.

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Let us remain at our level.

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Don't give us the capacity to rise up

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because with that capacity, we also have the

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capacity to fall down.

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Let us be neutral.

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We don't wanna be tested.

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We don't want ibtila.

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We wanna remain without ibtila, without having to

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answer to the amanah.

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So all of the creation turned it down

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and insan took it.

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So these are five.

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Let's move on.

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So the first five all deal with aspects

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of Islam.

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We started from one, the kalima, to salah,

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to salah and ibadat, to mu'amalat, and

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then to the entire religion.

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Then there's another genre of interpretations.

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These are not dealing with external.

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It deals with internal, what is inside of

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us.

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So what is the amanah according to another

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group of scholars?

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They said, one group said, and especially those

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that were the mu'tazila type of scholars, they

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said the amanah is free will.

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We have the capacity to obey and disobey.

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لمن شاء منكم فمن شاء فليؤمن ومن شاء

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فليقفر According to their interpretation, we have ultimate

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free will.

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And according to our interpretation, no, we don't

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have ultimate free will.

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وما تشاءنا إلا أن يشاء الله رب العالمين

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Our will is always under the will of

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Allah.

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But without a doubt, we have a type

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of mashia or will that the inanimate object

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does not have.

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So according to this interpretation, amanah is choice.

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And with choice comes privilege.

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But with privilege also comes the potential for

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failure.

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So this is another interpretation.

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Amanah is mashia or free will.

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Another interpretation, number seven, I think we're on.

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Another interpretation, amanah is aql, intellect.

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Allah offered all of these entities something that

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only one species will get.

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And that is intelligence, aql.

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And so, insan said, I want it.

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And by getting it, insan became a different

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level.

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But again, with that level comes privilege and

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also comes the opposite.

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Yet another interpretation, number eight now.

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It is not just aql, it is all

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of the faculties.

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The faculty to hear, to see, to speak,

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to touch.

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We are the only species that has these

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faculties to that level.

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Especially the faculty of bayan.

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الرحمن علم قرآن خلق الإنسان علمه البيان Allah

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taught us, this is the amanah that Allah

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gave us.

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And by the way, bayan would include aql.

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Because bayan requires aql.

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You can have aql without bayan.

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You cannot have bayan without aql.

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You can have aql and not be intelligent

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speaker.

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But you cannot have bayan without aql.

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So, all of this goes back to the

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privilege that man has been given.

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Yet another interpretation, and this is the interpretation

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of many of the modern thinkers of our

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times, such as Sayyid Qutub and perhaps also

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Maududi to a certain level, that amanah here

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is social responsibility or in enacting Allah's laws

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on earth or the concept of khilafa, right?

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So, the amanah is the responsibility to be

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Allah's khalifa on earth.

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To effectively rule over the creation in the

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name of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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We are obliged to treat the makhluq, to

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treat the inanimate objects, to treat everything around

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us by establishing justice, by establishing morality.

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That is the amanah.

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So, we have this, and this is a

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more modern interpretation, but we find elements of

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it in the past as well.

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Of course, these are all, I would say,

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within mainstream.

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There are also opinions we don't have time

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to get into that are, I would say,

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outside of our normative mainstream.

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For example, the famous philosophical Sufi Ibn Arabi.

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Ibn Arabi, the one who wrote Fususul Hikam

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and whatnot.

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So, you know, they have a different interpretation.

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I'm just narrating to what he said that

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this amanah is the divine nur of Allah

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that He placed in the quloob of the

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servants.

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Because they believe that, and this goes back

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to Gnosticism, it goes back to elements of

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ancient religions and whatnot.

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They believe there's a spark of divinity in

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all of us, let's say, right?

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There's a bit of, you know, Allah's light

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in all of us.

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We don't believe this, but that's their interpretation.

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So, they say, this is the nur that

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is in the qalb that all of us

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have to have that amanah.

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And then, of course, you have like the

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non-Sunni groups, the Ithna Ashari Al-Majlisi,

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for example, the famous scholar of the Ithna

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Ashari strand.

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He says, the amanah, of course, is the

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concept of the imams and whatnot.

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So, they have other interpretations.

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But for us, in our tradition, as I

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said, there's over 10 interpretations.

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Now, which one is right?

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If you look at all of these that

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I have given you, the 10 mainstream ones,

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in reality, what we are talking about is

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something that makes insan different from the other

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makhluqat.

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And therefore, all of these are manifestations of

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this amanah.

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Some of them are external, and that is

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the religion of Islam.

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And others are internal, and that is why

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are we different from the other makhluqat.

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And in fact, I don't see a contradiction

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saying, all of these examples that I have

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given are a part of Allah's amanah.

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We created man to be different.

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And we entrusted man with something that the

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other makhluqat do not have.

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What do we have that the other makhluqat

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do not have?

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Well, first and foremost, we have, Allah has

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given us faculties that He has not given

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other creation.

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And secondly, Allah has revealed to us the

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religion, and the deen, and the Qur'an,

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and sent prophets to us.

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And therefore, all of this comes together because

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there would be no sense of sending prophets

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if Allah hadn't given us the aql to

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understand the prophets.

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There would be no sense to send the

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Qur'an if Allah had not given us

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the knowledge to understand the bayan of the

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Qur'an.

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So the two of these, internal and external,

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actually go together.

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Because if Allah had created us with aql,

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but without hidayah, where would be the amanah?

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And if Allah had sent down the hidayah,

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but without aql, what's the purpose of hidayah?

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So the amanah is a special privilege that

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we have and the other makhluqah do not

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have.

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That privilege is manifested in how we are

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different, and in how Allah has blessed us.

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So Allah says, we gave it to all

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of these creation.

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Now if somebody says, how could they have

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refused?

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We respond, aradah is not a command, aradah

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is to display.

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Literally in Arabic, when you say aradah, literally

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like the merchant displays his wares, which indicates

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala was giving them

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the choice.

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Unlike when Allah said to the angels, bow

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down to Adam, there is no choice.

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Usjudu, this is not arad, this is amr,

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this is command.

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As for this, it is clear, Allah is

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giving them a choice.

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Do you want the amanah?

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And all of the makhluqah said, it is

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too big of a responsibility.

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We would rather remain without being tested.

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And this means we will give up the

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possibility of being rewarded jannah.

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But we're also saving ourselves the possibility of

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entering jahannam.

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It's neutral.

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Neither positive nor negative, we'd rather remain there.

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Then when insan was given this choice, wal

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hamalah al-insan, insan immediately carried the amanah.

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He put it on his back, I want

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this amanah.

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Now, did Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give

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this choice to all of insan?

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The majority of scholars say, no, He gave

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it to our father Adam.

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And when Adam accepted it, either we can

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say that just like we are dependent upon

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our fathers and their fathers before us, like

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there's elements of our father's responsibility that we

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do bear in terms of where we were

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born, in terms of our upbringing and privilege.

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It's something that comes with the territory.

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So when Adam took it on, then the

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children of Adam also have to take it

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on.

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And another interpretation is that Adam took it

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on, but Adam is symbolic of all of

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us.

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If we were there, we would have done

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it as well.

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Adam is our father.

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Adam is my father and your father.

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So by Adam accepting, Allah is indicating, you

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would have accepted it too.

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That's how you are.

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And a third interpretation is that actually Allah

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gave the amanah to all bani Adam.

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And this goes back to another verse in

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the Quran I have spoken about this, I

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think two years ago.

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And that is Surah Al-A'raf, when

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Allah says, Recall when I took the covenant

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from the children of Adam.

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From all of the children of Adam.

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وَيَتْأَخَذَ رَبُّكَ مِن بَنِي آدَمَ مِنْ ظُهُورِهِمْ Bani

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Adam.

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And Allah said, Am I not your Lord?

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And they all said, Yes, you are our

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Lord.

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So another interpretation, actually the amanah was offered

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not just to Adam, but to all of

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us.

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And we all accepted that amanah.

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And this is interesting because some of these

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atheists, these agnostics, they say, I didn't have

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a choice.

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I wasn't asked whether I want to be

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created or not.

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Because you know, they really fetishize consent, right?

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Consent to the point of it becoming irrational.

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Consent has a role in Islamic law, but

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there are things that are beyond consent.

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And some of these agnostics and atheists say,

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It's not fair.

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I didn't choose to be created.

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You didn't ask me.

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If they go down that route, we can

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actually, we have an argument from the Quran.

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Actually, we believe you were.

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We believe that choice was given when you

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were in your soul, in your ruh.

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And we as a creation, as a species,

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all of us were eager to accept this

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amanah.

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Because we wanted that responsibility, because we wanted

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that power, because we wanted the potential to

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rise up, the potential to be tested and

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pass the test.

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And we were not that concerned about the

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possibility of failure.

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And that's why Allah says, innahu kana dhalooman

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jahoola.

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Man is consistently wronging himself.

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Dhaloom means dhalim is doing wrong once.

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Dhaloom, he's doing wrong continuously.

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Man is not capable of being sinless.

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Man is consistently falling short.

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Jahool, jahil, you are ignorant.

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Jahool, utterly ignorant.

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It's the more stronger, if you like, it's

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the more efficacious sigat al-mubalighah is called,

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which is, I don't know how to translate

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sigat al-mubalighah.

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It's called the exaggerated state.

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He is very jahil, jahool.

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That's what we call it, very jahil.

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So, insan is dhaloom and jahool.

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Now, pause here.

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Does this mean we are at a disadvantage?

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If somebody will say, well, that's not fair.

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I wasn't, you know, it's not my choice

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that I'm dhaloom and jahool.

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We respond, don't take just one phrase and

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ignore the rest of the Quran.

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Firstly, the very next verse we're gonna come

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to, Allah mentions the way out.

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And secondly, Allah is describing that compared to

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the other creation, man is hasty, man is

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prone to commit sin, and man does not

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recognize how ignorant he is.

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The other creation actually are more responsible in

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this regard.

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And this is in the Quran.

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خُلِقَ الْإِنسَانُ ضَعِيفًا Man has been created weak.

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خُلِقَ الْإِنسَانُ مِنْ عَجَلٍ Man is so hasty.

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But these verses should not be taken in

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isolation of other verses, which indicate Allah has

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privileged the children of Adam.

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Allah has blessed the children of Adam.

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Allah says in the Quran, وَلَقَدْ كَرَّمْنَا بَنِي

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آدَمًا We have honored the children of Adam,

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and we have given them privilege over many

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of the other creations that we have.

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وَفَضَّلْنَاهُمْ عَلَى كَثِيرٍ مِّمَّنْ خَلَقْنَا تَفْطِيلًا We have

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preferred the children of Adam over the majority

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of other creations.

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And Allah mentions in the Quran about the

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creation of Adam.

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And He says to Iblis, Why wouldn't you

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prostrate and bow down to that creation, which

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I fashioned with my own two hands.

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This is a privilege.

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خَلَقْتُ بِيَدَيَّ Allah is saying, I fashioned Adam.

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No other creation has been shaped by my

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own hands other than Adam.

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And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala preferred us

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over all the creation when He commanded even

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the angels to bow down to us.

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So you cannot just take ظَلُومٍ and جَهُولٍ

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and خُلِقَ الْإِنسَانَ مِنْ عَجَلٍ and خُلِقَ الْإِنسَانَ

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ضَعِيفٍ and ignore the rest of the Quran.

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No.

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Man has been privileged.

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Man has been given things.

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But there are also negatives that man has

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to be aware of.

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And the reason for telling us those negatives

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is so that we overcome them.

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We do not fall prey to them.

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Then Allah says, so man took this amanah.

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And man did not fully think things through.

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But still, because of this, لِيُعَذِّبَ اللَّهُ The

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laam here, not to get too advanced here,

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it's not really technically for the Arabs in

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the audience, laam ta'aliliyyah.

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It's rather a causal laam.

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In other words, what the Quran is saying,

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therefore, based upon the amanah, there will be

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some people who will be punished, and others

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who will not be punished.

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The laam here, it links back to the

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amanah.

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Based on this, therefore, some people will be

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punished.

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Who will be punished?

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مُنَافِقِين مُنَافِقَات Because the munafiq, what is the

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characteristic of the munafiq?

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He doesn't fulfill the amanah.

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This is literally the characteristic of the munafiq.

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And the worst munafiq is the one who

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fails the biggest amanah, which is the amanah

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between him and Allah SWT.

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And that's why in this verse, Allah begins

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munafiq before the mushrik.

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لِيُعَذِّبَ اللَّهُ مُنَافِقِين مُنَافِقَات وَالْمُشْرِكِينَ وَالْمُشْرِكَات So

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this also indicates, therefore, that the amanah is

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tawheed.

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It is the deen of Allah.

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It is believing in Allah.

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Because the mushrik rejects the religion of Allah.

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So amanah is therefore, as we said, internal

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and external.

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And then, and so that Allah may forgive

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the believing men and women.

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By the way, mushrikeen, mushrikat, mu'mineen, mu'minat, munafiqeen,

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munafiqat.

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Both men and women are mentioned.

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And that is not common, because usually Allah

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only mentions the male gender because the female

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is included.

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To indicate a very important point here, when

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it comes to holding the amanah, both men

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and women are equal.

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And I have said multiple times in khutbas

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and durs, I have said this phrase, real

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equality is equality in front of Allah.

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This is what we believe.

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This is real equality.

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As for roles and responsibilities, this is not

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equality.

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This is just laws.

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Real equality, the dignity of a man, the

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responsibilities of the man, the karama of a

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man is the same as the dignity, responsibility,

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karama of a woman.

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And this ayah proves it.

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The munafiqeen, munafiqat will be punished.

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The mu'mineen, mu'minat will be rewarded.

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Both are mentioned by gender.

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Because both genders equally are responsible for that

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amanah.

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Now, interesting point before we conclude.

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وَيَتُوبَ اللَّهُ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتَ Allah says, I'm

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gonna punish the munafiqeen and the mushrikeen, and

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I will forgive.

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He didn't say reward.

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He said forgive.

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Because there's a subtle indication.

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Two indications by choosing the word yatub.

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Firstly, that you will never be able to

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fully convey the amanah the way that it

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is deserved.

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You cannot.

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You cannot give back the amanah perfectly.

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That's impossible.

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So nobody is gonna be perfect.

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But then secondly, to indicate another beautiful point.

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No matter how imperfect you are, if you

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try, Allah will forgive you.

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You don't need perfection.

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Allah didn't say, and I'm gonna reward the

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righteous.

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Because if Allah had said that, we would

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always be wondering, how will I ever get

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there?

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Allah said, no, don't worry.

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yatub.

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No matter where you are, if you have

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mu'minin, mu'minat, if you have iman, which means

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you are trying, you have that even the

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flicker of iman, and you have some attempt,

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don't worry, I shall forgive the rest.

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The only people who will not be forgiven

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are the munafiqeen, the mushrikeen.

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They have no desire for Allah's forgiveness.

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They have no desire to fulfill the amanah.

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But the mu'min who knows there's an amanah,

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and who's trying to fulfill the amanah, Allah

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says, don't worry, you shall be forgiven.

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Just do what you can.

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And Allah finishes this verse, وَكَانَ اللَّهُ...

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What?

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غَفُورًا رَحِيمًا To contradisting dhaloom and jahool.

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Because dhaloom requires maghfira, and jahool requires rahma.

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Allah says, don't worry, you're dhaloom, but I'm

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ghafoor.

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And you're jahool, and I am rahim and

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rahman.

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So Allah is saying, yes, you have some

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negatives, but don't worry, those will be overlooked

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by my positives.

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Any mistake you make, you're dhaloom.

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Any mistake you make, I am ghafoor, I

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will forgive them.

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And any error you make because you're jahil,

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don't worry, my rahma will encompass you.

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It will overcome your jahil.

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And so this beautiful ayah tells us a

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very optimistic message.

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It's a very beautiful message.

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And that message is, O Adam and children

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of Adam.

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Yes, you might have been a little bit

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hasty.

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Yes, you took on a big responsibility that

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the other makhluqa did not want to take

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on.

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And there is an element of hastiness, an

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element of dhaloom and jahool.

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But don't worry, I wanted you to take

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this because I honored you.

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And I will take care of you.

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And I will forgive you even if you

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fall short.

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That is why I created you.

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Li, so that Allah can forgive the mu'mineen

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and the mu'minat.

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I created you to forgive you.

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And I created you to show my rahma

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to you.

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All that I'm asking of you is you

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recognize that you are blessed, you have this

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amanah on your backs, and you must pay

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it back to me the best that you

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can.

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If you do so, then there's guarantee from

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me, I shall yatoob because I am ghafoor

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and I am rahim.

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What a beautiful message Allah has given us.

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May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us

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appreciate it, recognize it, and fulfill that amanah

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so that we can obtain Allah's maghfirah and

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rahma.

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Wa jazakumullah khair.

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Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu.

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Al-Fatiha.

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