Yousuf Raza – Quran Daily Surah alFatiha Ayah4 Iyyaka nabud III

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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