Yousuf Raza – Quran Daily Surah alFatiha Ayah7

Right, bismillah, alhamdulillah, wassalatu wassalamu ala rasoolillah wa

ala alihi wa ashabihi ajma'in, assalamu alaikum

wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, everyone.

We're moving right along to the last and

final ayah of surah al-fatiha, which identifies

for us a very important recognition that we

should have that we usually do not have.

Remember that because surah al-fatiha requires a

repetition, that this is the one surah that

has to be repeated in every unit of

your prayer.

It reminds us of things that we are

very likely to forget or take for granted,

right?

So these are things, everything that is mentioned

in this surah is something that we need

to be consciously reminding ourselves of and relating

with repeatedly during the day in every unit

of our prayer.

And of the things that we tend to

take for granted the most is that we

may, we're probably already there, that we have

the guidance.

We are, we recognize, alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen, anna

rahmanir raheem, anna maliki yawm al-deen, and

we have acknowledged and committed to, iyyaka na

'budu wa iyyaka nasta'een, and we have

asked for, ihdina al-sirata al-mustaqeem, and

also specified, sirata allatheena an'amta alayhim, right?

So with all of this, you get a

feeling that, you know, I got it good.

I got it going, and I'm on track,

and I'm all, I'm all okay.

And what needs to be identified over here,

as it is in the last ayah of

the surah, that this very important vulnerability, that

no, you don't have it all good, that

there is this very strong tendency inside of

you to, despite all of this, lose track,

lose focus.

Think that you're on the path, but you're

not on, actually, on the path, actually.

You think you're on the path of the

an'amta alayhim, of the greatest people ever,

and you're doing good, but in reality, you're

not.

Right?

That there is this very strong tendency of

self-deception within the human beings, that they

don't even realize they're doing wrong, and they

continue to do wrong.

Right?

So it is important to identify that, to

recognize that, and to acknowledge that.

So moving there, moving from there, as to

what this ayah talks about, and it says

that not of those ghayr al-maghdoobi alayhim

wala dhaallin.

I mean, we don't want it to be

the path of those people who incurred your

wrath and those who went astray.

Right?

And another way of evading the responsibility that

this entails, or the warning that it entails,

another way of shying away from the vulnerability

that this highlights, is to limit the reading

of this ayah to previous ummahs, to previous

nations that have gone by, those of the

Christian communities and Jewish communities of old, just

specifying that, oh, this is referring to them.

Let's move on.

What this is referring to, that the way

they've been criticized in the Qur'an very

explicitly, in a lot of detail, as to

how they had the message and lost it,

how they saw the path, and they were

shown the path, and they thought they were

walking on the path.

But in reality, that was something completely different.

That criticism holds against us as well, because

that vulnerability is within us, because that tendency

will manifest itself and has probably already manifested

itself in our individual and collective lives.

The hadith of the Prophet ﷺ that you

will walk down the same path that the

previous nations did, to the point of similarity

as to how one shoe is similar to

another, to the point that if one of

them went down a lizard's hole, one of

you is going to go down a lizard's

hole as well.

So these are not just particular communities or

particular religions or particular race of people that

are being somehow criticized.

That's not what this is at all.

It is attitudes and behaviors that they manifested

after having received guidance.

That attitude and behavior is manifested by anyone

receiving scripture and guidance, and historically, we as

a Muslim community have manifested those same problematic

attitudes and behaviors, and that on an individual

level stands to be repeated.

And so we remind ourselves within prayer, identifying

that that vulnerability is there, that tendency is

there.

I have to be wary.

I have to be cautious.

You can't see what you don't think can

ever be there, right?

So if you think you can never be

astray or misled or misguided the way that

the people before you were astray or misguided,

then when that straying and misguidance enters into

your personality, you're not going to be able

to see it.

You're not going to be aware of it.

You're always going to be thinking that I

got it right.

I got it good.

I'm on my, I got my passport to

heaven and I'm on my way there.

And all the social problems that result from

that that privileged attitude, that sense of entitlement

that leads towards that, that's one of the

attitudes, that sense of entitlement that leads for

us to believe that we can't be like

that.

Right?

And how it's reinforced by these behaviors.

We have to be very, very, very wary

of.

Please understand that there's, these are the seven

greatest ayats.

Nothing here is superfluous.

Because really that's what we are saying when

we say that I don't have the vulnerability

or the tendency to go astray in those,

those ways of the previous people.

I can't do what they've done.

They were that bad for some kind of

inherent problem.

I can't be that way.

But I'm still making this dua.

I'm practically saying that this, this last ayah

is extra superfluous.

It's unnecessary.

It doesn't apply to me.

It's irrelevant.

And that is a huge, huge slander against

Allah, if you believe in him to be

the, the one revealing these ayahs to you

and instructing for you to repeat them in

your prayer.

As we go on, and that's precisely one

of the very important dimensions that we see

within the Quran as to how these two

tendencies of these, these people the maghdubi alayhim

and the baaleen, how they are, how they

manifest themselves and how we need to be

wary of them.

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Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.

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