Yousuf Raza – Quran Daily Surah alFatiha Ayah4 Iyyaka nastain
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Right, bismillah, as-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa
barakatuh, all of those listening and watching, we
are talking about surah al-fatiha in Let's
Grow Qur'an Daily.
I'm Yusuf Reza and we have reached the
middle of the fourth ayah.
We spoke about iyyaka na'bud, now we're
going to wa iyyaka nasta'een, because as
soon as we recognize the immensity of the
task that iyyaka na'bud puts before us,
what we're acknowledging before Allah standing in front
of Him, repeatedly telling Him that we are
committing to discipline ourselves and then to work
in accordance with how He wants this world
to be a better place and our place,
particularly in making this world a better place,
when we commit to the fulfillment of that
meaning in our lives, then that's a tough
ask, right, to say the least, for the
very first few steps involved in self-discipline
become incredibly challenging, right, so there is so
much difficulty in giving up whatever it is
that gives us our immediate gratification.
It becomes a matter of great difficulty in
trying to make the world a better place
because whatever is going on, whatever kind of
place it is, change doesn't come easy.
Even if it's change for the better, people
don't usually roll out the red carpet expecting
for you to just do the good that
you're so capable of doing.
There's challenges, there's obstacles, internal, external, you name
it, there will be critics, there will be
opposition, there will be all kinds of challenges
that you'll have to face, and so naturally
what follows is that to you alone we
turn to for help.
Particularly important here is what kind of help
isti'ana is representing.
It is the kind of help that we
resort to after having given our best, right,
so we can use dua to evade responsibility
and we do that all the time as
human beings.
The kind of responsibility that does fall on
our shoulders, the ends that we need to
cover, the bases that have to be covered
by us, we in our laziness, our slothfulness,
let them be and expect for this divine
intervention to cover those ends for us.
So kind of like the people of Musa
alayhis salaam, when he asks them to come
forth and fulfill their responsibility, whatever it is
that they had to do to enter into
the holy land and get rid of those
tyrannical people that were already there, oppressive, unjust
people, and the Bani Israel straight out refused.
They said, You and your Rabgo, Musa, we're
sitting right here, we're sitting right here, you
do this for us.
So we have to be very, very careful
when we're turning to Allah for help and
dua in isti'ana, when we're asking Him,
we are not asking Him so as to
get a clean chit and not have any
responsibility to worry about.
Rather, we're asking Him so as to be
able to do our jobs better.
May Allah, we did the best we could.
Yes, there will be shortcomings, there will be
mistakes, there will be slip-ups.
We want those to be covered.
We did our best, but there are some
things that are truly and genuinely outside of
our power, they are within yours.
We leave that up to you.
Right, so very important in this process of
self-development and growth and fulfillment of our
meanings, as Allah would have us fulfill, is
to take our own responsibility.
Right, so if the ball is in our
court, we're supposed to be the ones playing
it.
So we're, not only do we evade responsibility
by this escape that a particular pathological kind
of dua gives us, that we're not doing
the effort that we have to, we're not
making the dua, we're not taking the responsibility
that we have to, the choices that we
have to, we're not making all of those
and we're expecting divine intervention to just rescue
us from that.
What that does is that not only are
we giving up the responsibility that we have
to take up, of choices that we have
to make, of actions that we have to
do, we're giving up opportunities of growth.
We're giving up opportunity.
So here we have Allah as our Rabb,
who wants nothing more than for us to
grow, as he has made clear repeatedly, right,
that this is his, whatever the Qur'an
represents of what Allah wants from us.
You read the law, what Allah wants, and
we're going to study that as we get
to Surah Nisa sometime in the future.
And everywhere other than that as well, within
Fatiha, within him telling us that he's our
Rabb.
So he wants our growth and we're like,
nah, we don't want to grow.
We don't want to do this.
Not us, not now.
We don't want, you just do it for
us.
It's like a child telling their grand, you
know what, I don't want to, I don't
want to learn to walk.
I'll stick to the stroller for the rest
of my days.
You know, you know, you take me everywhere.
Why the * do I need to learn
how to carry my own weight, right?
So we need to be very, very careful
that the dua that we're making to Allah,
the seeking, the reliance, the falling back on
Allah, the trusting him, the asking of him
is not an escape.
And so that's one of the integral meanings
within isti'ana is the kind of that
the effort has been put in, that there
is no evasion of responsibility.
And then yes, there is a recognition that
the immensity of the task is such that
we do need his help.
We do need his support.
We need him to empower us.
Strength, power comes from him.
We do what we gotta, but then we
make sure that we turn to him to
ensure that his help covers up any loose
ends that we've left.
They're not going to be just loose ends.
They're going to be like, you know, whole
areas of mistakes, of shortcomings, of wrongdoings that
we want for him to cover up for.
And not only that, the actual practice that
is taking place to ensure that we persevere,
we require his, his help, his support in
all of that.
That's what we want in Iyya Kanista'in
and also important to recognize that it is
his help that we fall back on.
And this is, it gets a little tricky
that his help doesn't mean that you give
up on the resources and means that, that
are necessary for you to reach your destination.
That is not like, I am not, I'm
not, I rely only on Allah.
I don't need no car, no vehicle, no
nothing.
I'm just going to rely on Allah.
He'll get me to my whatever destination I
want to go to.
No, but it is also important that there
are certain things that means and resources that
may be taken away from us, people who
support we lose and people or means who
support we should cut off from because in
the long run, when the bigger picture is
just not right, right, there are morals and
values being violated in resorting to certain means,
resources or people.
So cutting off from those is necessary and
representative of how we do truly and really
rely on Allah alone.
So for example, there, there is some sort
of haram earnings.
There are some sort of earnings, which are
prohibited from some kind of illegal source, be
it interest, be it gambling, be it cheating
others one way or the other.
And we're just into it and saying, you
know what, to fulfill my meaning in life
that Allah has for me, I have to
resort to this income.
That's not relying on Allah.
That's not relying on, yeah, relying and falling
back on everything that is halal, that is,
that is not morally objectionable.
That is not just that, that, that signifies
trust in Allah, that signifies having in Allah
that we resort to all of what he
has declared for us to use.
Right.
So that's an important recognition.
Thank you very much for listening me out,
having these, you know, giving me the opportunity
to share these insights with you with the
dua to Allah that he helps us in
growing and growing for as good as our
growth is.
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