Yousuf Raza – Quran Daily Surah alFatiha Ayah3 Maaliki YaumiDeen II

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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