Yousuf Raza – Quran Daily Surah alFatiha Ayah4 Iyyaka nabud III
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The speaker discusses the concept of "by definition" and how it is impossible to achieve a linear progression of behavior. They emphasize the importance of individual capacity and the community's role in fulfilling their potential. The speaker also invites viewers to leave comments and share their own experiences with growth.
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All right, bismillah wa salatu wa salamu ala
rasulullah.
Assalamu alaikum everyone listening and watching.
We're back with another episode of Let's Grow
Qur'an Daily.
I said some things about Iyaka Na'bud
yesterday.
I want to share a few more thoughts
before we move on to Iyaka Nastaeen.
I may have given this impression that the
different phases are linear.
And what I mean by that is that
you get done with one, you start with
the other, and then with the third, etc.
And also, although I tried to clarify that
part, but it still may have been, that
impression may have been given off that you
finish one, you go to the other, you
leave the one behind.
That's not true at all.
This is not linear.
Rather, all three of these are in a
relationship.
So what that means is as you're working
with respect to obedience and conforming to a
discipline and growing as a personality, simultaneously you
are working towards that unique meaning that you
identify for yourself.
i.e. the way you see you in
fulfillment of your loving relationship with Allah have
to make the world a better place.
And then along with that comes Allah's participation
in fulfilling your ends and goals as well
that you think are necessary for that.
So each of these is reinforcing the other.
And you're carrying each of them together.
So it cannot be that one says, oh,
you know what, that ritualistic worship, that's no
longer important for me.
I've gone beyond that.
I've grown above that.
That cannot work.
By definition, if something like that is taking
place, there is going to be a lot
of corruption.
There is going to be a lot of
chaos.
That's one thing.
Another thing that I wanted to clarify is
when we say that we facilitate in making
this world a better place, we look to
fulfill our potential and play our part in
making this world in accordance with how Allah
wants for it to be.
We're not just carrying it forward in the
direction of His will.
I want to make sure that none of
us takes from that that we have the
weight of the world on our shoulders, that
revolutionizing this world into some sort of a
utopian paradise is on our individual shoulders.
What has to be recognized is that individual
capacity, whatever somebody can or cannot do has
to be taken into consideration.
So for example, somebody is paralyzed and bedridden.
You cannot impinge upon that particular person that
they have to do this and that in
the community.
The maximum that they are required to do,
perhaps, is maintain a positive attitude, inspiring people
with their bravery as their bedroom.
For other people, their financial or social restrictions
might mean that all of what they have
to offer, all of what they have to
do is extend that goodness, that positivity, that
message of Allah, or that mercy of Allah,
or that kindness of Allah, or that justice
of Allah, or whatever of the attributes of
Allah that you want to, that you have
to communicate or enact, that you have to
exercise, that you have to put out there,
that may just be with respect to your
family, if that's all of what your resources
allow for you to do.
Right?
So we have to take that into consideration.
And that point is reinforced by how the
phrasing is in the plural.
Like when it says, it says, we enter,
we give ourselves in this relationship of Ibadah
to you alone.
Right?
So we, all of us, as a community.
So within a community, everyone has their different
roles to play.
Everyone has their own important roles to play,
uniquely important roles to play.
So we cannot go around with the recognition
that there is this only, this one way
of doing good, and nothing else is good.
Nobody else's effort is of any good.
That cultish mentality cannot proceed.
So as is symbolized within the congregational prayer
as well, where we collectively affirm Iyaka Na
'bud, is that how within that prayer, you
have from the janitor, to the leader of
the community, the political leader of the community,
or the richest person in the community, all
lined up together, shoulder to shoulder.
Right?
And how that reflects, how that represents this
important consideration that it is a community effort.
That within the scope of fulfilling my inner
potential that God has put inside of me
that he wants me to fulfill, for the
betterment of the community, it is going to
be with recognition of my place in the
community.
Of my role and that of others.
So it is my relationship with Allah and
my relationship with the rest of my community.
All of these have to be taken in
tandem.
All, both of these relationships have to be
taken together.
And then looking at what it is that
I have to offer, what it is that
I can offer, what it is that I
can develop myself to offer.
I look to pursue that and become a
participant in the creative evolution of this world,
in the, in Allah's will for this community,
for this society to take place and I
play my role in it, however big or
small that role may be.
And then it follows from there that his
participation in that, his support in that, his
help in that comes across and comes along
the way, which is where we, we go
into, And that's something that I will build
upon tomorrow.
Thank you very much for watching.
I hope this was beneficial.
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