Yousuf Raza – Quran Daily Surah alFatiha Ayah3 Maaliki YaumiDeen II
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The speaker discusses the importance of boundaries in our lives and how they can be used to achieve goals. They also mention the need for a graduation or certification for Islam, which is a fundamental necessity for everyone. The speaker emphasizes the importance of understanding and embracing our emotions.
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Alright, Salaam Alaikum everyone and we're continuing our
discussion in Qur'an Daily on Maliki Yawm
al-Deen.
So what we discussed yesterday with respect to
Allah's Jalal manifesting itself in this particular ayah
and how that Jalal is indispensable, a recognition
of that Jalal is indispensable for our growth
and development, for the love of Allah to
truly manifest itself.
So we go on from that recognition to
realize, to identify the importance of boundaries in
our lives.
See, we have different deadlines that we have
to work with, without which we would not
work.
So we have the ultimate deadline that is
of death looming, threatening over us at all
times.
Right?
And so we know that we do not
have an eternity to do whatever it is
to be done.
Or if it is action that is reflective
of our growth, or that is going to
be the source of our growth, then that
action will not happen.
If we have an indefinite time period to
do it.
So imagine yourself having a responsibility of a
task, which let's say takes a couple of
hours to complete, but the deadline for that
task is five years, you have to do
it in say December 2025, it's going to
take a couple of hours of your time.
Rest assured, for the vast majority of us,
we are not going to get around to
that task until November 2025.
That's probably when we're going to start thinking
about it.
We're probably not going to start doing it
until the very last day comes around.
And then on that very last day, we're
going to start making the necessary preparations to
put those couple of hours in.
And again, for the most of us, if
it's a couple of hours for the task,
then we're going to wait until we only
have a couple of hours left, or maybe
even less than that before we actually get
around to it.
So projecting from that, generalizing from that rather,
if we have an entire lifetime at our
disposal, and no tasks or responsibilities or meaning
worth a lifetime for us to fulfill, for
us to discover, for us to do, then
we're going to be complacent.
We're going to be lazy, right?
So it is what this idea of limits,
how it instills meaning into our life.
So the fact that life is going to
end with death, and the life of this
world is going to end with the hereafter.
Both of these limitations, both of these ends,
are in fact, new beginnings that endow this
particular time period, bounded off with its limitations,
with meaning.
You take away death, you take away life's
meaning.
You take away afterlife, you take away the
meaning of the life of this world, right?
So we have to have this recognition of
limitations, of ends, of restrictions.
And as we alluded to the last time,
these restrictions manifest themselves in smaller doses within
our daily routine, within the regular course of
our life.
Falling sick, for example, is a reminder of
our physical limitations.
Experiencing grief at a loss is a recognition
of our psychological limitations, right?
So any kind of loss is symbolic of
the loss of life that eventually awaits us
and creates within us this urgency, and should
create within us this urgency to get stuff
done, to achieve whatever it is that we
have to achieve, that we should be achieving.
The sense of, I should do, should be
inspired by these different experiences.
And so Allah being the Malik of the
Yawm al-Din helps us recognize.
There is another aspect to this Maliki Yawm
al-Din that is important to recognize.
See, Malik, Allah being the Malik or the
master or the owner or the king of
the Yawm al-Din is also, in a
huge way, a consolation, it is a reassurance
that the one who is the Malik of
the day the decisions are going to be
made, the judgments, the final judgments are going
to be pronounced is Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahman,
is the one most merciful, is the one
ever merciful, is the one of grace.
So you can rest assured that there will
be no injustice with respect to how you
are treated on the day of judgment, rather,
his justice would lean towards the side of
forgiveness and mercy, but remain justice nevertheless.
It would not be so much mercy and
so much forgiveness that it becomes that justice
is not there at all.
So recognizing his being Ar-Rahman on the
day of judgment is important, but also recognizing
that it is a day of judgment.
It is not a stage show, it is
not a theater, or, you know, just a
convocation ceremony where you're just getting together and
everyone there is going to get awards or,
you know, their degrees or their certification for
paradise or tickets to paradise, and it's all
a formality.
It is not a formality, because if it
is a formality, then that renders the entire
day of judgment meaningless, which renders the entire
life of this world meaningless, which basically says
that God himself is meaningless.
And that is something that he takes very,
very seriously, as we will find in the
Qur'anic narrative.
The meaningfulness of this world, of our lives,
of human lives, is one of the fundamental
messages of Tawheed, of the Qur'an, that
any conception, any exaggerated conception of Allah's attributes,
of Jamal, for example, of his beauty, of
his mercy, if they challenge that meaningfulness, then
that is not going to be accepted.
And as we know, that that kind of
a conception, what we spoke about in the
last video, that recognition of Allah's Jamal is
destructive, rather than what it's meant to be
constructive, growth oriented, right?
So it has this balance is of the
utmost necessity, a balanced understanding of Allah's attributes
will result in a balanced relationship with him,
which would mean a balance in our life
which we are so desperately craving for.
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