Yousuf Raza – Quran Daily Surah alFatiha Ayah2 ArRahmaan ArRaheem III
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The hosts of a video discuss the impact of the coronavirus on their lives, including the importance of grace and immunity in preventing future infection and the difficulty in understanding how people avoid symptoms. They describe how many accidents happen where a car was totaled and the driver was left alone, and how many people do not develop illnesses, but do not turn into criminal, and they do not develop mental or physical symptoms. The surprise is that many people do not develop mental or physical symptoms, but do not develop illnesses, and they do not turn into criminal.
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All right, bismillah, as-salamu alaykum everyone.
This is Yusuf Reza and we're continuing with
Let's Grow Qur'an Daily Barakat of Ramadan
2020 that we are finally reconvening.
It's been a few months I realize, I
understand, we tried doing it before, multiple things
came up, could not continue but we're finally
continuing and we hope for this to be
more consistent from here on in.
What is this?
This is us talking about ayats of the
Qur'an starting from the very beginning.
So it's Fatiha, sharing 10 minutes of insights
on a portion of each ayah as we
go along.
We've already done Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen and now
we're talking about Ar-Rahmanir Raheem.
We did one video on that and there's
some few ideas, a few thoughts that I
would like to share further on that.
I would recommend for those of you who
are just tuning into this video and have
not seen the previous ones, I would want
for you to catch up with those as
well since it is a continuity of the
message that would be important.
The insights have their own place in isolation
as well, but they're better appreciated in context
with all the ideas that have already been
discussed.
Right, so Ar-Rahmanir Raheem, the idea of
Allah's mercy as it is being communicated to
us through Surah Fatiha, something that we have
to reiterate again and again, something that we
are reminded of so as to be able
to appreciate His relationship with us.
And this is something which is so common.
It is so pervasive across the different dimensions
of our life that we really take it
for granted.
And it has to be in the form
of prayer that we consciously acknowledge its presence
in our lives.
And there is so much in our life
that owes itself to this phenomenon of Allah's
mercy, of His grace, right, which would be
inexplicable otherwise.
So we're all often wondering with respect to
people falling ill, right, and people getting diseases
as to how that happened.
See, coming from a medical perspective, and this
is me taking from certain concepts presented by
Scott Peck, and he talks about this under
the heading of grace as to what that
is.
And I'm going to relate that conception of
grace as he presents it with Rahmah as
the Quran talks about, right?
So, this inexplicable experience of Allah's presence in
our lives.
So like I said, diseases.
We wonder how they happen.
But for the most of us who are
trained in a medical background, it is not
the question as to how diseases end up
happening, but the question which is more pressing
and more perplexing, bewildering, is that why do
they not happen more often?
Why do more people not fall ill?
Right, so there is a preponderance of bacteria
and viruses all around us, all over us,
all inside of us, to the point that
there are so many people who would have
active infections, and we're talking dangerous pathogens here.
There's those that are friendly with us and
are important in everything, them too, but then
more importantly the disease-causing ones, the more
the ones associated with more morbidity and mortality.
So it has been found time and time
again in research that there are these infectious
agents which are just as prevalent in normal
populations, in non-symptomatic populations, we're able to
appreciate that more with this corona pandemic surrounding
us, that they have that viral load, but
they don't have the symptoms.
They don't have the that life-threatening situation
that somebody else might.
And yes, one of the explanations for that
is the degree of immunity of another person,
but then again, as far as the quantifiable
measures of immunity are concerned, they too may
be very similar.
The viral load may be very similar, yet
some people have it, other people don't.
Some people have the symptoms, other people don't.
Some people have the morbidity, other people don't.
Some people will die of it, other people
won't.
So what is more surprising, and that's just,
I'm just giving one example of a coronavirus,
that's true for so many other pathogens, so
many other bacteria, so many other viruses, we
move on to other aspects of our lives.
How many times have we had those near
-death experiences in which just saved by a
wisdom, having absolutely no idea, like for all
practical purposes, for all quantifiable understandable, reasonable
explanations, one should not have survived.
One should have died.
And it is really inexplicable how that survival
happened, how we escaped, how that car just
brushed from the side and you don't really
see anyone pulling us away from it or
just surviving that accident.
Or you see so many accidents in which
the car was totaled and anyone watching the
wreckage of the car would see nobody could
have survived that and yet someone may have
escaped, unscathed.
And so many more, psychologically speaking.
I'm sure a lot of you have seen
the movie Joker and the kind of social
problems that it alluded to, how those social
problems, how those developmental challenges result in complete
anti-social personalities that the Joker had.
You know, like those people who are just
going around and they don't care for the
law and they're gonna take the law in
their own hands, they're gonna murder people, they're
gonna do all kinds of those criminal activities.
See, that is a very psychologically accurate description
of what does happen for a lot of
people.
Fine, it's dramatizing everything, but we have accounts
of criminals who have gone through those experiences
and that determined them becoming criminals.
But you see, coming from a psychological perspective,
that is not what is surprising.
What is surprising is that there are so
many more people who go through similar traumatic
experiences, who suffer similar levels of abuse, physical,
sexual, emotional, who are treated by the society,
bullied in multiple ways, yet they don't turn
out that bad.
As they logically or psychologically should, from what
we understand of these, of the developmental processes
of illnesses, how a lot of people do
not develop illnesses, how a lot of us
have been through fairly traumatizing experiences, experiences of
loss, but we do not develop that degree
of pain, of symptoms, of illnesses, of mental
illnesses, that some do.
The some who do, they're not the inexplicable
variable.
That's not the surprise.
The surprise is that how so many of
us don't.
And then to be able to recover from
that, whether it's physical or psychological illnesses that
do end up developing, to be able to
survive that, and then how from within that
we are able to identify the silver linings,
the positive dimensions, the growth producing, the life
-producing elements.
It is mind-boggling.
So in our individual lives, how many scares
have we survived, or we thought we were
as good as dead, how many psychological traumas
or challenges have we survived that we may
take for granted?
And man, that wasn't that big of a
deal because we turned out okay.
Because it did not produce as severe of
an effect as it could have.
And then spiritually, how we have had those
thoughts, those experiences, those have made those decisions
and choices, and yet we're still around.
We're some, our physical, our biological life is
intact, our psychological life is intact, our spiritual
life is intact, despite a lot of experiences
that could have taken all of that away
from us.
A lot of choices that we ourselves made,
yet we didn't really suffer the consequences of
those choices that maybe we should have, that
logically we should have.
But we didn't.
But we didn't.
And this grace, this rahmah of Allah is
so pervasive.
So pervasive.
In every aspect of our lives, it's just
that precisely because it's so pervasive, we fail
to see it.
It is so everywhere that it just blends
in the background.
It blends in the background.
And so it takes for a sliver of
an experience in which something of it does
not seem to be there.
When those biological pathogens get their way, when
those psychological etiologies of illnesses find their manifestation,
actually come into being, then we notice, oh
my God, what just happened?
And that's probably one of their one of
the immense wisdom behind those experiences of suffering.
That not only do we see what happened,
but all the things that we have been
taking for granted all this time and spiritually
as well.
So in prayer, this reiteration is this acknowledgement
of how deeply immersed we are in the
grace of Allah and the rahmah of Allah
and how whatever we study and all these
different dimensions of our life and life sciences
and psychological sciences and social science, these phenomena
of of the human society, they teach us
a lot about the grace and the rahmah
of Allah.
And prayer allows for us to develop an
eye to see it.
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