Yousuf Raza – Quran Daily Surah alFatiha Ayah3 Maaliki YaumiDeen I
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The speaker discusses the "habitable attributes" of Islam, including strong relationships with the divine and jamal dimensions and the importance of responding appropriately to one's actions and attitudes. They stress the importance of satisfaction in shaping behavior and perception, which can lead to negative consequences. The satisfaction of actions and attitudes is crucial for building a "habitable life."
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All right, assalamu alaykum everyone, bismillah, alhamdulillah, wassalatu
wassalamu ala rasoolillahi wa ala alihi wa ashabihi
ajma'in.
We are continuing with our discussion of surah
al-fatiha.
We shared a few ideas with respect to
ar-rahman ar-rahim after covering alhamdulillahi rabbil
alameen, obviously.
And there's quite a lot to share on
that, particularly in that idea of grace.
There's so much that can be said, but
i'm going to suffice with whatever has already
been said and ask for you to hold
on for more when, of course, these attributes
are going to repeat themselves in subsequent ayahs
of the Qur'an.
So right now we'll try to get a
move on and move on to the next
ayah of surah al-fatiha, which is the
third one which reads that he is the
malik, the king, the owner, the master, of
the day of judgment, of the day of
recompensation.
So when we talk about Allah being introduced
as Rabb, and we spoke about Rabb in
the context of love and love being that
relationship through which he looks to bring out
the best in us.
Right?
The greatest potential that we have for us
to manifest that potential.
That is his nurturing, loving relationship with us,
his rabbiyah with us.
Now one dimension of that rabbiyah is seen
in the attributes of Allah which we can
attribute to his jamal, to his beauty, and
we see that irresistible beauty of Allah manifesting
itself, particularly in the form of his mercy
and grace, as ar-Rahman and ar-Rahim
represented.
Now if we were to restrict the entire
understanding of the divine, of Allah and his
rabbiyah, to his jamal only, to his beauty
only, to his mercy and grace alone, and
just that one half is covered, then what
we understand or what would result from that
is a lack of growth.
That growth actually far from being realized, far
from an individual growing, the person, the individual
becomes stunted.
They stop growing, they stagnate, or worse, they
start regressing, right?
They become not the best version of themselves,
rather they keep becoming worse off.
And how does that happen?
Simply because of the complacency and laziness that
settles in with this recognition of only the
beautiful attributes of Allah, of only the jamal
dimension of Allah.
This sense of entitlement settles in, in which
the human being is not pushed to play
their part in what it is that they
have to do, that the human being becomes
prone to one of the greatest evils that
we can become prone to, which is laziness.
That a luxury that settles in our attitude
when we have, when we continue to receive
and we continue to get and there is
no check on how much we get or
what we get, then it is the human
being tends to become, we tend to become
spoiled.
The sense of entitlement, us just wanting more
and more, not recognizing anything of a sense
of responsibility, not recognizing any need for self
-discipline, right?
So a relationship with the divine, with the
Rabbul Alameen, which only sees the beautiful dimension
of the divine, the jamal of the divine,
the Rahman and the Rahim of him will
not inspire the necessary recognition of responsibility, the
necessary dimension or the necessary practice rather of
self-discipline so as to become that better
version of ourselves.
And so with this in the background, with
this understanding, Allah gives us an introduction, an
introduction to his Jalal side lest we become
spoiled and therefore not grow and that is,
that introduction of his Rabbul Biyah, of him
being Rabbul Alameen, is manifest in Maliki Yawmuddin,
that he is the Malik, that he is
the king of the day of recompensation, that
Allah is going to be the owner of
everything.
He is the owner of everything as we
speak in this world as well.
But what we get from there, what we
get from from this ayah is that there
is a dimension of freedom that human beings
have been given in the life of this
world and Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A
'la, God's own freedom, his choice, he has
taken a step back willingly so as to
enable us, so as to empower us and
as necessary as that is for our development
and growth that cannot go on indefinitely.
So our power, our freedom for as long
as we have it is not going to
go unchecked.
It is not going to go unrestrained, right?
We find manifestations of that in the life
of this world with the different restrictions and
limitations that we do experience to our own
will, to our own power, to our own
resources, to our own health, right?
And then this would ultimately manifest itself on
the day of judgment in which when we
have power, i.e. now, we give judgments
and our judgments are in the form of
the choices that we make, the attitudes that
we choose or the actions that we choose
to do.
On the day of recompensation, on the day
of judgment, in the afterlife, our judgments are
going to be judged.
The choices that we made and the actions
that we did and the attitudes that we
chose are now going to be judged on
the day of judgment by the ultimate judge
that is Allah ﷻ himself.
Right?
So that dimension of Him being Malik is
going to come into a full manifestation.
His Jalal is going to come in full
manifestation on the day of judgment itself.
It finds manifestation in the life of this
world when our experiences show us through the
consequences of our actions and attitudes that judgment
is even being passed right now in a
restricted sense, in a temporary reminder kind of
a sense, right?
So when things don't really go our way
and we face the consequences of our actions,
we face the consequences of the attitudes that
we hold on a daily basis, on a
weekly basis, as our life goes on, the
different stages and time periods within our life
give us trailers, if you will, snippets of
how the judgment of the divine proceeds, how
everything that we do has consequences.
Yes, a lot of those consequences we may
not have to face.
They may be forgiven.
We may be allowed leeway.
But if that mercy of Allah, if that
Rahmah of Allah is taken for granted and
a sense of entitlement prevails in our attitude,
then as we said, there is not going
to be growth.
So we find Allah's being Malik, Allah's being
the the master, the owner, manifesting itself during
the course of our routine life and then
how it will manifest itself on the day
of judgment ultimately so as to ensure that
this human being that we are, this human
life that we've been given is is headed
in the direction of actualizing its potential.
Right?
So whenever those restrictions are placed before us,
whenever we see our own limitations, whenever we
are forced to acknowledge, through pain often, our
consequences of our actions or the dire consequences
of our actions, then that speaks to us
of the control and discipline that we have
to master, that we have to develop within
ourselves.
And if we pay heed, then that is
the point of those experiences is served prior
to us having to experience that on the
day of judgment.
The earlier we pay heed, the earlier the
Jalal of Allah is acknowledged and responded to,
the better our development is going to be.
And if that be the case, if we
do respond to the manifestations of Allah's Jalal
in our individual lives, then really that Jalal
the manifestation of his I think I did
not elaborate as to what the Jalal represents.
The Jalal represents the irresistible power of Allah.
It represents the control of Allah, at times
manifesting in his anger, being brought before us.
So if we are able to respond appropriately
by rectifying our attitudes and actions, then that
Jalal is leading for us to appreciate his
Jamal better.
The wrath of Allah veils his mercy.
Provided we respond appropriately.
And like we said before, if Jamal is
all that's appreciated, the beauty, the mercy is
all that is seen, then that can be
destructive.
If our attitude devolves into a sense of
entitlement, we lose a sense of responsibility, and
there is no discipline in our lives.
For what is discipline, but a recognition of
boundaries, and then living our lives with the
recognition of those boundaries, fulfilling the responsibility that
we have.
Right, so that's all for today, for this
Qur'an daily segment.
I hope this was beneficial.
I'm going to build on these ideas with
respect to Maliki Yawm al-Din, as to
how it ties in with the previous ayat
in the next video as well.
Thank you very much for watching.
Again, if you're benefiting, have others benefit as
well.
Jazakumullah khayran.
Wa akhiru da'wana an alhamdulillah.