Yousuf Raza – Quran Daily Surah alFatiha Ayah7
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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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Jazakumullahu khairan.
Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
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