Yousuf Raza – Quran Daily Surah alFatiha Ayah4 Iyyaka nastain II
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All right, bismillah, as-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi
wa barakatuh, everyone.
This is Qur'an Daily, Yusuf Raza, and
we're continuing talking about Surah Al-Fatiha.
We got all the way up to wa
-iyyaka nasta'een and we spoke about how
we want to make sure that iyyaka nasta
'een is not being used as an excuse,
as an evasion of responsibility that is upon
us.
But of course, there is another dimension to
it that definitely has to be mentioned, that
whenever we're up to do a task, whenever
there is a recognition and realization of a
responsibility for a task or a set of
tasks, there's always a fear of failure, right?
And that fear of failure does not necessarily
have to do with our effort because there
are genuinely so many things that are not
within our control.
So you have to make a decision with
respect to your future.
You have to make an effort with respect
to that decision.
So whether it is that you are getting
married or it has to do with you
studying for an exam or working at a
job, right?
The entirety of the results we know from
experience is not just based on the effort
we put, right?
And that idea that, you know what, there
is so much that I can do and
it may all go to waste and I
may not get the result that I want
despite the best of my effort can take
us away again from effort itself, right?
So what Iyaka nashfa'een is telling us
is to have this tawakkul and saying, listen,
you got within your power, let's say 20
to 30 percent of what it takes to
get the results that you want, right?
The rest, 60 to 70 percent, 70 to
80 percent is outside of your scope.
There ain't nothing you can do about it,
right?
So you do the 20 to 30 percent
or as best, as much of it as
you can, let's face it, we're not going
to be able to do even the 20
to 30 all the time, but let's not
make it zero percent.
Let's try to make it at least 15
to 20.
And so what Iyaka nashfa'een does for
us, what dua does for us, what turning
to Allah does for us, it says, ya
Allah, you know what, there's like 10, 15
percent of my effort still wanting, still not
all that much.
So is there something you can, you know,
and there is something you can do.
So I want for you to cover those
loose ends, cover those gaps for me and
then most importantly, there is this entire area
of uncertainty.
There is this entire area of uncertainty that
I can really not do anything about.
This 70 to 80 percent of it, maybe
less, maybe more, you get the idea.
I want you to take care of that.
I want you to take care of that.
I want for my heart to be content
that you've got it covered so that I
can get my end covered.
So it's like, um, it's like football or
soccer, whatever you want to call it.
You're, you're playing defense and you put it
your all, but you know that that's not
all it takes to win a game.
You have to bank on your other team
players to win the game for you.
You want to make sure that your, your,
your forward runners, your, um, the, the, the
goalie and the people who are going to
score the goals.
I don't even know what they're called.
They're going to have to play their part.
They're going to have to play their part,
but worrying about their part should not lead
for you to give up on yours.
Trusting that they'll get their job done.
They'll get their job done.
With that, recognizing that you're, you're on Allah's
team.
So other people on his team, Allah himself,
they got you covered.
You do the best in your area and
you rely on him to cover his end.
And so with Iyak and Ista'in comes
this, comes this tranquility in the face of
uncertainty.
Recognizing that uncertainty is not randomness.
Uncertainty is not anything at all can happen
mindlessly.
It's just, it's, there's no, there is no
deliberation behind it.
There is no consciousness behind it.
There is no meaning behind it.
No.
Iyak and Ista'in understands this, that whatever
happens, failure or success, whatever is in the
future, it gives me that relative degree of,
of, of contentment.
As much as is necessary for me to
get my, get my act together.
See, when I say, have a relative degree
of contentment, that is what I mean.
I'm not talking about absolute bliss.
I am not talking about not having any
fear at all.
There's going to be that realistic fear and
that should be there.
But it shouldn't be to the point of
debilitating me, taking me away from all kinds
of effort.
Yes, different states of fear of the future
will influence my productivity, will influence my, my
efficiency, but it should not.
So say in the absence of fear, my,
my productivity or efficiency is, is 70 to
80% of what it should be.
Great.
But it should not be that in the
presence of fear, a lot of fear or
anxiety for that matter, that that productivity goes
all the way down to zero to 10%.
And nothing more than that.
Yes, fear and anxiety can be debilitating.
But then there is this conversation that I
can have with myself, this reassurance that I
can give to myself in a state of
prayer, tell myself, and then gradually start building
it up.
From that zero to 10% to maybe
15 to 20 to 25 to 30 gradually
onwards.
Again, even having that zero to 10%
in as, as, as one-off events, as
something that happens, you know, every now and
then.
Completely understandable, completely understandable.
But if that becomes a persistent picture, and
we are not trying, whatever can necessarily be
tried to fix that, of course, there will
be a zero to 10% that would
require professional help.
That that's not what it should be.
Where a simple reminder of what may not
be working, again, completely understandable.
Completely understandable.
But for the most part, and for the
most of us, what Iyaq and Asta'in
should provide, that reassurance, that even in the
face of very strong threats, in the face
of very unnerving uncertainty, we're able to keep
our act together.
We're able to keep our act together.
Maybe not all the way up, but also
not all the way down.
And progressively getting better with each dua, with
each recitation of Fatihah, with each Salah.
So I hope that serves as a useful
reminder.
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