3- Islamic Beliefs Crash Course - The Attributes of God - Sayed Saleh Qazwini

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[0:00]foreign this is the third session that we are having on the

[0:10]Islamic beliefs and in the first session we proved that there is

[0:17]a need to worship a higher power and we prove that there

[0:21]is a higher power and this higher power it is omnipotent omniscient

[0:28]and omnipresent meaning all-powerful all knowledgeable and always there because it's the

[0:36]power that created everything then in the second session last session we

[0:41]moved on to prove that there can only be one you can't

[0:47]have multiple designers multiple Powers because there would be conflict that's one

[0:54]then another is because one would limit the power of the other

[0:58]so there's one all-powerful you can't have two all-powerful because one would

[1:04]limit the power of the other another is you would see flaws

[1:08]in the design you would see flaws in the universe it's like

[1:13]two Engineers each one trying to program a car it's going to

[1:16]there's going to be flaws different calculations different methods different approaches we

[1:21]see one system and the whole universe it's all connected and there's

[1:25]one system and we said that is it is the fitra that

[1:29]leads us to believe in that and then now we go on

[1:37]to more issues that there they need some sort of explanation and

[1:41]this is where we see the words of Imam Ali we see

[1:45]the words of the Quran explaining these Concepts because they get a

[1:48]little bit deeper they're not as simple as there's a there must

[1:51]be a Creator it's a little bit deeper and it requires explanation

[1:54]and that is that these traits of Allah Allah attributes and traits

[2:03]and qualities all of these attributes of Allah being the Creator the

[2:08]powerful the knowledgeable all of these with any person with any of

[2:15]the creation you start small and you grow more knowledgeable you grow

[2:20]more powerful and you attain these qualities as you grow everyone starts

[2:26]off very small everyone starts off having nothing and then they slowly

[2:31]grow they become wealthy they slowly grow in knowledge they slowly grow

[2:36]in power and of course we humans we end up losing our

[2:38]power as well we it's uh hell you go up and then

[2:42]you go down you start losing everything Allah does God gain power

[2:49]does God gain knowledge over time does God gain things over time

[2:57]or are they the essence of Allah if we believe that God

[3:07]gains knowledge then that means at one point God did not have

[3:09]the knowledge if we believe that God gains power over time then

[3:15]that means at one point God did not have power and this

[3:17]goes against Allah this goes against our belief in God he wouldn't

[3:21]be God if he did not have power he wouldn't be God

[3:25]if he did not have uh knowledge and Authority so this is

[3:32]why we believe that the safat of Allah the attributes of God

[3:35]they are the essence of God the qualities of God when I

[3:44]say God is the knowledgeable it's not that I can't imagine knowledge

[3:49]and God I can't imagine power and God you could imagine that

[3:53]with anyone else you could imagine that with a person someone was

[3:56]weak then they became strong power is one thing and that and

[4:01]the person there knowledge is one and people are one then someone

[4:05]could acquire knowledge but Allah does not acquire Allah he is the

[4:11]essence of knowledge he is the essence of power he is the

[4:17]essence of Might and these do not separate from Allah the moment

[4:22]we would separate them from God we would either say there is

[4:27]one knowledge like the Lord of knowledge for example and then God

[4:31]or and that is impossible you can't have two like the Greek

[4:36]mythology for example they say the Lord of you know having the

[4:39]Sun the moon the having marriage Aphrodite all of these all of

[4:47]these different features they've come and they've separated them from God and

[4:51]they said these stand on their own we say this is impossible

[4:54]for Allah because if there is one Almighty if there is one

[4:57]all-powerful which there is one then he must have all of these

[5:02]qualities and these qualities cannot be gained over time it can't be

[5:06]that at one point Allah didn't have power didn't have authority and

[5:09]then he gained them so this is one very important point that

[5:14]the safat of Allah they are that Allah they are the essence

[5:17]of God now this later on is going to bring us to

[5:22]an issue for example God is all knowledgeable okay what about certain

[5:26]things that are yet to happen certain things am I going to

[5:32]go to heaven or am I going to go to hell this

[5:33]has not happened yet does God know of that or does God

[5:37]not know of that Allah knows of it someone might say how

[5:44]but it hasn't happened yet how could God know it we say

[5:47]that Allah is not trapped in the Spear of time in the

[5:53]sphere of time time is a concept created by God Allah has

[5:58]a bird's eye view of everything that is going on he's not

[6:01]like us where imagine yourself you're in a train you're going and

[6:04]you see you see things as they come but a bird is

[6:09]able to see the whole picture knowledge is his Essence Powers his

[6:13]Essence his Essence and all of these traits and qualities of Allah

[6:21]now we go on okay we understood that the qualities of Allah

[6:24]they are the that of that that's Allah they are they are

[6:28]essence of God now we go on to a second point when

[6:34]it comes to the attributes of Allah by the way the the

[6:36]Hadith tells us that no God the way he described himself because

[6:40]sometimes you could slip sometimes you could describe God in a way

[6:46]and you might associate something that is wrong just like in the

[6:51]last session a man asks how is God one Imam Ali said

[6:55]there's two ways of saying God is one which could be kufur

[6:57]one as opposed to second or third or fourth so you have

[7:03]we have to know we have to comprehend Allah the Lord that

[7:06]we are worshiping in the first the first he begins by saying

[7:17]you want to know God you have to have Allah he says

[7:25]and you have he keeps going and we will we will explain

[7:29]a little bit of that sermon of you have to understand the

[7:32]Lord that you're worshiping so when it comes to the attributes of

[7:38]God Scholars they have several divisions several categories when we when we

[7:43]talk about the attributes of God one category is these are referred

[7:51]to as the qualities of perfection and Beauty in Allah so when

[7:56]I say Allah is the almighty the all-knowledgeable these are all considered

[8:06]they fall under the category of safatil Jamal and Kamal means making

[8:14]God complete of any deficiency God is complete and god is perfect

[8:18]and God is beautiful so all of the qualities of beauty all

[8:24]of the qualities of perfection these fall under that category there's a

[8:29]second category you have safatil Kamal and Jamal and then on the

[8:34]other side they are referred to as safatil Jalal what is Jalal

[8:40]Jalal is removing any deficiency from God so the first Kamal and

[8:50]Jamal Kamal completion and Jamal Beauty we are proving certain qualities that

[8:55]belong to God we say Allah meaning meaning that Allah is not

[9:06]deficient so we are we're talking about we're removing any deficiency for

[9:11]example God is not a body that is Jalal that is not

[9:17]Jamal Jamal is all powerful Almighty knowledgeable these are Jamal and these

[9:24]are Kamal but on the other side meaning God is Not contained

[9:29]in a body you can't see God this is meaning we're we're

[9:37]removing any deficiency from God because the moment you say God has

[9:42]a body you're attributing a limit to God the moment you say

[9:44]God is in a place you're attributing a deficiency and a weakness

[9:48]to Allah he does not sleep he does not rest these are

[9:54]the Fatal Jalal they are the qualities that remove any deficiency so

[9:58]so is it clear on one side you have Kamal and Jamal

[10:02]they are the qualities out of the names of God and the

[10:05]qualities of God they are those that are that are proving completion

[10:11]and beauty and Perfection to God on the other side safaric they

[10:15]are negating and they are removing any deficiency to Allah so one

[10:19]side you have Jamal and Kamal and the other side you have

[10:24]Jalal these are when it comes to the qualities of Allah second

[10:27]we have what's another categorization that we have when I say God

[10:51]is these are these are that Allah um the these are the

[10:55]the essence of God they're never separated from Allah however there are

[11:01]some qualities that we cannot say they are the essence of God

[11:05]because it would cause us another problem for example the the the

[11:12]qualities that are the essence of God he is the high the

[11:16]all living He is the qadar the all-powerful he is the Alim

[11:20]the knowledgeable he's the he he is the um the other ones

[11:26]then then so you have these are the essence of God but

[11:31]then on the other side these are referred to as attributed qualities

[11:36]what are they meaning that they were attained now they have a

[11:43]source which is a the that of Allah the essence of God

[11:48]but I cannot say that this is the essence of God why

[11:52]I say God is God is the razak God is the musawa

[12:00]if I say God is God is the creator and if I

[12:06]were to say that this is the essence of God what would

[12:09]that mean he's a creator that means he's created and this is

[12:15]the essence of God God from the beginning he's always the Creator

[12:18]what would that mean if I'm a builder and I built something

[12:22]that means me and the building is with me God is the

[12:27]khalik if I say God being the khalik is the essence of

[12:33]God that means was always around the creation was always around it

[12:37]was always God and the creation and we know for a fact

[12:42]that that is not true God existed when there was nothing there

[12:44]was no Hulk God had the authority God had the power to

[12:48]create he was the Alim he was the qadir but once God

[12:55]created then he is it clear if I were to say that

[13:01]God is the khalik from the beginning before he has created and

[13:04]it's the essence of God now he has the power to create

[13:08]but if he was a Creator from the beginning meaning there was

[13:12]always a creation then that means the creation and God would always

[13:16]be around and that is impossible so it was Allah he had

[13:22]the power The Authority which is the essence of God but once

[13:26]God created he became khilak once God began to give sustenance to

[13:32]the creation he became razak once God started engineering and programming and

[13:38]and creating the image of the human being and the image of

[13:44]the animals and and all of that he is the musawa is

[13:47]it clear any questions yes yes he doesn't yes he's always present

[14:03]this is that Allah this is this is the essence of God

[14:07]but when we say when we say God is the Creator God

[14:13]is a sustainer he is the sustainer who is he sustaining if

[14:19]he's sustaining someone then that means if I were to say this

[14:25]is the essence of God then that means that someone that is

[14:27]being sustained by God was always around so it's just a way

[14:32]to look at it a way to differentiate Allah has the power

[14:37]to sustain but there was no there was no one to sustain

[14:40]at some point when there was no one to sustain then once

[14:44]God began to sustain by the federal action then this is this

[14:50]is why this is referred to as this is uh like right

[14:54]now someone might say what's the big deal about this before there

[14:57]was during the time of the abbasis there was a huge argument

[15:02]amongst the Muslims the imams of the Arabic they told the Shia

[15:07]to refrain from this argument and that is is the Quran or

[15:12]is it kadim meaning has the Quran always been in existence from

[15:17]the time of the from the time of God and God is

[15:21]always God is not limited by time or was the Quran created

[15:23]by God scholar he was imprisoned because he had a different view

[15:32]than the government at that time he was imprisoned and tortured and

[15:35]there was a huge controversy some were saying no it's the Quran

[15:42]is others are saying no the Quran is of course the imams

[15:46]of the al-baid they told they told people that the Quran is

[15:48]created because if it was always there then meaning God created it

[15:54]but then they told people don't get into this argument there's no

[15:58]point in getting into this argument but just to just to bring

[16:01]it closer to our minds that there is or after God does

[16:08]that specific thing then that applies to God even though God always

[16:11]has the power and authority to do these certain things that same

[16:21]first he says so he says the Perfection of Purity is to

[16:34]deny his attributes not all attributes apply to God sometimes it could

[16:41]be sometimes it could be limiting God because he says because every

[16:44]attribute is a proof that is different from that which it is

[16:48]attributed to so he says are two different things if I were

[17:09]to say he was always around then that means I were to

[17:13]say that the creation was always around kadim just like God has

[17:18]always been around and that is you can't say that so he

[17:20]says and and then he says if you're when you sometimes when

[17:30]you describe God in a way then you might have Associated an

[17:36]attribute to Allah he says and whoever attaches attributes to Allah recognizes

[17:42]his like meaning I'm saying something is similar to God and Allah

[17:47]says nothing resembles Allah nothing could be at the same level as

[17:59]Allah God is everything comes after God nothing has existed always with

[18:03]Allah at the same level so yes why why not because God

[18:15]is because God has always been around if me the creation and

[18:19]God have always been around then what's going to be the difference

[18:21]between me and God has to have come a point before me

[18:27]a millisecond before me whatever it is but God has to have

[18:34]come before me and if God came before me then were always

[18:38]there at the same time then what's the difference right now you

[18:43]made a car for example you and the car were always around

[18:45]then what's going to be the difference between you and the car

[18:50]that you made God God is there and then there there's a

[18:52]there's a higher there's a um timeline yes [Music] there was no

[19:03]time God created time the concept of time was created by Allah

[19:10]yes but just to just to explain in our minds that there

[19:12]was a time that there was a time that it was only

[19:16]God and nothing else nothing else then God created everything else these

[19:22]things did not exist simultaneous at the time with Allah other than

[19:33]Allah yes nothing how could there be a creation if God is

[19:38]the creator yes God created the angels if the Angels were the

[19:47]same time as God then that means that they are powerful just

[19:50]like God who created the angels but that's like saying me and

[19:56]my son we existed at the same time no that's not possible

[20:01]you have to come you have to come before yes nothing right

[20:17]now the concept of creation the concept of things that was even

[20:22]created by Allah all of these these things that you are imagining

[20:31]that is a concept created by Allah being being anything that is

[20:39]material anything that is created that is that whole concept is even

[20:44]created by Allah yes who had their hands yes yeah before the

[20:53]creation of the universe there were Angels Allah but we're talking about

[20:59]before anything existed even the angels didn't exist is a creation of

[21:04]Allah he was created by Allah Mikael is the creation of Allah

[21:11]the universe the son any living thing we said anything you either

[21:16]have wajah or you have does anything that whether it exists or

[21:21]it doesn't exist this is possible or not possible meaning I could

[21:26]live or I could not live everything that's created it's possible to

[21:34]exist or not exist because it came out of time everything was

[21:39]born everything has a beginning name me one thing that never had

[21:44]a beginning Allah Allah never had a beginning Allah has always been

[21:54]around everything else had a beginning everything else had a beginning had

[21:58]a birth date had a birthday all of the Angels they had

[22:02]a birthday everything had a beginning the fact that everything has a

[22:06]beginning means that it has a Creator someone has brought it that

[22:09]power that has brought it that is Allah now we so we

[22:18]explained and on the other side safal you guys know the difference

[22:21]between those Kamal and Jamal they are the attributes proving Perfection and

[22:25]beauty and completion to God or the negating any deficiency to Allah

[22:33]he doesn't have a body he doesn't he's not contained in time

[22:38]and place and all that these are called Jalan and then we

[22:40]have safatad that the qualities of the essence of God that have

[22:46]always been like Alim God has always been powerful Authority uh present

[22:52]everywhere these are that's Allah the essence of God and then which

[22:56]are once God created he became khalik once God that's like once

[23:00]I became a parent I then I became a father then I

[23:08]became once Allah created then he is this is not to say

[23:10]that God was not the khalik god did not have the power

[23:14]to do God always had the power but once he created he

[23:16]became khanak because if we were to say God was always khalik

[23:21]from the beginning then that means would be at the same time

[23:23]as God and that is impossible clear okay now we move on

[23:28]to another very important attribute of Allah and we're going to cover

[23:35]two one is the justice of Allah and in the school of

[23:40]thought the five one of them is the adalah of Allah we

[23:44]believe God is Adil other schools of thought don't have that as

[23:49]a part of their faith they don't they say it's okay if

[23:51]God is Not Aden meaning God could do whatever he wants God

[23:56]is not limited so he could come and take a good person

[23:58]and put this person in the Hellfire we say that Allah does

[24:04]not oppress Allah treats everyone equally and fairly and rewards the doers

[24:10]of good and holds accountable the doers of the bad why is

[24:14]Allah why can't God oppress because the moment the same reason when

[24:19]I say God does not have a body this is La yomkin

[24:24]this is impossible because it would limit God if I say God

[24:29]does that would that is also it's not that God chooses not

[24:32]to God doesn't you know God does not it's not that he

[24:38]chooses not to oppress God does not because the moment he would

[24:45]oppress the whole system would collapse why if who oppresses who does

[24:51]wrong either someone who is one ignorant an ignorant person oppresses they

[24:55]don't know that this is wrong right someone is ignorant does not

[25:01]have the knowledge that this is wrong this is oppression so therefore

[25:04]they do it or someone knows what is wrong but they're forced

[25:09]to do the wrong I know for example that doing is you

[25:15]know stealing is wrong but sometimes I'm forced you know someone sometimes

[25:18]people they're forced to do certain things that are not in their

[25:22]control third and these this does not apply to God as the

[25:27]first one does it apply to God God is not never ignorant

[25:31]God is Adam so God does not oppress because God knows right

[25:33]from wrong second knows it's wrong but is forced to do it

[25:39]it was forced upon him can anything be forced upon God no

[25:42]because God is the omnipotent third knows it's wrong and it's not

[25:48]forced on him but he needs it sometimes uh Tyrant or a

[25:55]dictator or someone they know what is wrong and it's not no

[25:58]one is making you do it but you need something so therefore

[26:02]you go and you do oppression is God in need of anything

[26:05]God is not in need of anything so this one doesn't apply

[26:10]to Allah the fourth one knows it's wrong it's not they're not

[26:14]forced to do it and doesn't need it but does for no

[26:19]reason does for the sake of lahu thus for the sake of

[26:21]entertainment there are some people they know wrong is wrong no one's

[26:26]forcing them to do it they don't need to do it but

[26:27]they do it because they just want to have fun they do

[26:30]it for no reason does God do does this apply to God

[26:33]these are the five reasons the these are the four reasons people

[26:38]oppress the four reasons people do wrong is there another reason why

[26:42]people do wrong either they need they don't know or they're forced

[26:45]to or they need to or they're bored out of their mind

[26:50]and they're doing it all of these do not apply to Allah

[26:56]Allah says in the Quran Allah does not just a second Allah

[27:04]said I did not create we did not create the heavens and

[27:06]the Earth for the sake of when you greet Greek mythology uh

[27:12]when you read about these gods that they believe they say oh

[27:17]this God became jealous of that God and this God got bored

[27:19]they're because they're because they're uh Immortal they became bored so they

[27:24]started messing around with people Allah does God get bored does God

[27:30]do live no because God is the all-knowledgeable god is the all-wise

[27:35]Allah does not like oppression Allah does not oppress Allah does not

[27:43]oppress so we know that Allah does not oppress yes so if

[27:49][Music] my garden this is that he has Beyond the question is

[28:00]wrong to say that if God oppresses because the moment you say

[28:05]God oppresses this is like the man who came to Imam and

[28:09]he tells him can God fit in an egg can God fit

[28:14]this Co this Earth this world in an egg without making the

[28:18]egg larger and without uh making the the Earth smaller the Imam

[28:22]tells him Allah Allah is capable of doing everything is the essence

[28:28]of God but the question that you're asking this is a wrong

[28:31]question that's like I'm telling you make two plus two equals five

[28:36]can you do that it's it's impossible it doesn't go make a

[28:41]white wall be black or right now make a man be a

[28:46]woman you know what people are doing right now so so it's

[28:51]it's um there are certain things that are impossible certain things that

[28:54]can't happen and it's not that we're limiting God it's that the

[29:00]this is wrong this this question that you're assuming that's in your

[29:04]mind this is wrong how could you make something it's it's assuming

[29:10]the impossible it's like can you can you create without any you

[29:14]know it's it's something that is is impossible there are laws of

[29:18]this universe Allah has made these laws these imagining them would be

[29:26]wrong so Allah We believe We the followers of the albat we

[29:29]believe that Allah does not oppress now this argument there are some

[29:37]non-shias that say yes exactly what you said they say the Allah

[29:41]is not limited by anything Allah is not limited by anything so

[29:48]if God wanted to put a good person in the Hellfire Allah

[29:50]would do that we say this is this is wrong because then

[29:54]that means God is not being Adam that means God is not

[30:00]being just and therefore he's not God anymore right God is think

[30:03]of perfection the essence of perfection and then say perfection did something

[30:09]wrong that is that is not perfect anymore so this is um

[30:14]some Muslims they attribute Injustice to Allah like for example and you

[30:21]have the Imam we are the Imam they are schools of belief

[30:28]you have the schools like hambellish these are schools of thoughts and

[30:36]then you have belief schools you have these are different systems of

[30:46]beliefs put aside the we the followers of the advaits we are

[30:50]imami in the beliefs and we are jaffari in the which is

[30:56]all also imami also following the Albert they used to say meaning

[31:03]that the atal my mind separate from God does not know right

[31:09]from wrong whatever God has promised reward for this is right and

[31:16]whatever God has promised promised punishment for that is wrong this is

[31:21]this is the opinion of the ishar we the followers of the

[31:25]admit we say no there is there is right and wrong where

[31:31]the the intellect and the mind and the fitra the Allah created

[31:34]us with irrespective of your religion you don't know religion you don't

[31:38]believe in religion you're an atheist whatever it is you know certain

[31:41]things to be right and certain things to be wrong even if

[31:45]you've never heard of God you've never heard that God likes someone

[31:50]who does good God does not like the one who does not

[31:51]do bad you've never heard of that you would know that oppression

[31:55]is wrong you would know that hurting people that abusing people that

[31:59]is wrong this is the fitra the same fitra that innate Consciousness

[32:02]that drives you to worship God it is that also tells you

[32:08]volume is Right volume is wrong and and doing good is right

[32:12]yes brother fedra is the innate Consciousness this is the this is

[32:17]the um driving force this is a navigation the internal navigation system

[32:22]that Allah has created you with just like the bird you know

[32:26]the animals for example the the animal the turtle that needs knows

[32:31]it needs to after it hatches it knows it needs to go

[32:33]this direction to the water the whales that swim in One Direction

[32:36]Allah gave hidayah there's multiple layers and levels of hidayah guidance yes

[32:45]programs created and he guided and the hidayah comes up multiple levels

[32:58]one hidayah is programmed it's programmed within us we're engineered with it

[33:02]this is called the fitra another hidayah is the prophets and The

[33:05]Messengers and the Quran and and all of that that is also

[33:10]a greater level of hidayah so so here Allah that same that

[33:15]drives you to worship God knows right from wrong and we believe

[33:18]that Allah so this is another point that we have covered today

[33:24]so we covered Jamal and Kamal and Jalal now we covered that

[33:31]the one of the attributes of God is that God is Adil

[33:34]this a lot of our faith is built upon the adal of

[33:42]Allah why do we believe in day of judgment why do we

[33:45]believe in heaven and hellfire why do we believe in prophets why

[33:50]do we believe that these prophets have to be soon infallible because

[33:53]of the of Allah God is just therefore there has to be

[33:59]a day of judgment therefore people this one killed and this one

[34:04]was killed they both they both die and that's it no there

[34:06]has to be an accountability there has to be judgment this goes

[34:09]back to the adalah of Allah okay God created us to test

[34:13]us now as a teacher just going to tell the students I'm

[34:15]going to test you and does not teach them that's not fair

[34:20]therefore Allah sent prophets and Messengers and guides to teach us why

[34:24]do we believe that the prophets aren't masum infallible imagine your teachers

[34:30]teaching you and he keeps or she he or she keeps making

[34:32]mistakes and then they and they hold you accountable for those mistakes

[34:36]is that fair that's not fair so this is why we believe

[34:39]the prophets and the imams are masum infallible we will address those

[34:43]when the time comes now we want to discuss another of the

[34:48]attributes of Allah we said one of the greatest attributes of Allah

[34:54]is the adala the justice of God any questions regarding that okay

[35:00]another very important attribute and it is the most outstanding of the

[35:08]attributes of Allah which one is it Mercy Allah is God has

[35:21]described himself with mercy and mercy in fact it is the reason

[35:30]for creation so we we now we we've gone through a process

[35:32]in this in this course so far we prove that there must

[35:35]be a Creator this creator has the powerful this greater is the

[35:39]all-present the all-knowledgeable this Creator must be one this creator has qualities

[35:45]that are in his Essence and this Creator is just and this

[35:49]Creator is merciful this Creator is compassionate Allah also has made Mercy

[36:00]a part of the identity of Allah someone might ask why did

[36:05]God create me was God in need of me God did there

[36:08]was a time where it was only God why did he create

[36:12]all of this why did he create all of this creation was

[36:14]God in need of my prayer was God in need of me

[36:18]God is the almighty God doesn't need anything we believe that the

[36:24]reason why Allah created us is because God is The Giver of

[36:27]Life because God is the most merciful because God is the most

[36:34]generous therefore God created us and the greatest quality the Allah has

[36:39]is Mercy so Allah wanted to be merciful with us therefore he

[36:43]created us there was a time that you were nothing to Be

[36:51]Imagined God wanted to bless you God wanted to have mercy on

[36:56]you therefore Allah created me now someone might say still why did

[37:02]God create me God wants to be recognized God wants me to

[37:05]worship him this is why God created me the answer is no

[37:09]see there are two types of generous person there are two types

[37:16]of loving people sometimes you might find a person who's generous but

[37:21]this person a few days ago someone told them you're greedy you're

[37:25]stingy you're this and that you're that then they come and they

[37:28]have a huge azima they have a huge invite and they invite

[37:36]everyone to prove that they are not stingy to make a point

[37:40]and then sometimes you might find someone who they're always generous they're

[37:45]always giving they don't need to prove anything even if no one

[37:50]sees even if no one is watching they're giving you tell this

[37:52]person why did you give they say because I enjoy giving because

[37:57]I love giving like the mother for example the mother when she

[37:59]takes care of the child when she wakes up in the middle

[38:04]of the night to show you love to to feed you to

[38:06]take care of you when she does everything does she want anything

[38:11]in return no the mother she wants to show love she wants

[38:14]to show compassion that's the mother she wants to show love they

[38:16]don't they're not doing it to ask for anything in return same

[38:21]with Allah Allah when he created when he gave when he provided

[38:25]he doesn't want someone to recognize what God has given Allah because

[38:31]he is because he is the one The Giver of Life God

[38:37]sustained God provided God gave me because God is the generous it's

[38:40]the essence of God to be generous so therefore God is generous

[38:45]with me it's the essence of God to be merciful therefore God

[38:47]is being merciful with me God does not need to God doesn't

[38:52]need to prove a point to anyone everything is beneath God does

[38:54]not need to prove anything to anyone but because God is the

[38:58]giver the lover the provider therefore Allah is the one who is

[39:04]giving and God is the one who is showing compassion so Allah

[39:07]says in the Quran he created us out of his Mercy because

[39:12]he is The Giver of Mercy he is The Giver of Life

[39:13]he is it's the essence of Allah no need to prove anything

[39:18]Allah says in the Quran in Surah verse Allah says God created

[39:29]you why out of his rahma out of his Mercy out of

[39:31]his compassion Allah created you when you were nothing to Be Imagined

[39:39]when you and the tarab and nothing you were nothing to be

[39:43]conceived Allah created you provided for you gave you life gave you

[39:47]an opportunity and Allah kept providing for you and gave you an

[39:51]opportunity to even Excel and become better because Allah he is perfection

[40:00]and when he created you he wants you to reach Perfection he

[40:04]wants you to reach that ultimate Perfection he wants you to reach

[40:10]that Mercy that knowledge all of that was asked why did Allah

[40:15]create people he says he says Allah did not create to receive

[40:32]a month something right now for example an inventor a maker a

[40:39]car maker uh someone who has a company they go and they

[40:42]invent something to benefit from it Allah does not need to benefit

[40:47]from me Allah has infinite resources he doesn't need that or he

[40:51]did not create to remove any harm right now governments they come

[40:55]and they make weapons to protect themselves Allah does not need to

[41:03]let him nothing could harm God I what you think God created

[41:06]me I'm gonna I'm going to protect God no God can't nothing

[41:09]could harm God he created you so that you benefit why were

[41:19]you but to reach eternity eternity and ultimate satisfaction yes brother someone

[41:26]may argue political emergency right but at the end if I don't

[41:33]do what you do yes so so Allah while he wants you

[41:41]to be merciful and he's given you so many millions of opportunities

[41:46]and chances and blessings every every night if you try to count

[41:53]all of the blessings of God you can't count them but Allah

[41:56]is also Adam Allah is also just so therefore if I don't

[42:01]do what I'm supposed to do if I fail the test and

[42:05]it's really hard to fail the test with God if I fail

[42:09]the test with God then yes God is also Adam God is

[42:16]also justad God is all because it's not going to be fair

[42:19]it's not going to be fair someone who didn't do anything they

[42:23]come and they receive the ultimate reward is that fair that's not

[42:26]fair so therefore Allah subhanahu ta'ala while he created you to give

[42:30]you mercy and he gave you Avenues to reach that Mercy there

[42:34]are two avenues that are mentioned in the Quran the first is

[42:42]verily the Jinn and the human and all of creation they were

[42:48]created for what to worship God worship God God does not need

[42:51]my prayer worship is foreign so when you worship God you're actually

[43:17]empowering yourself you're actually reaching getting closer and closer to perfection when

[43:23]you get closer and closer to perfection you're becoming the better version

[43:27]of you you're becoming a better person you God doesn't need your

[43:31]prayer God doesn't need your as a God God doesn't need your

[43:35]fasting when you do these things this will bring you closer to

[43:38]perfection and this will essentially bring you closer to Allah's Mercy another

[43:44]reason another Avenue to reach the mercy of Allah is through tests

[43:51]in life Allah he is merciful he wants you to reach he

[44:09]wants you to get the gradu graduate at the end of the

[44:14]year but a teacher that wants the students to graduate at the

[44:16]end of the year how are they going to reach graduation they

[44:19]have to go through what during the year they have to go

[44:24]through tests because that's what's going to distinguish the one who was

[44:27]lazy the one who did not care versus the one who was

[44:32]sincere and the one who paid attention and the one who prioritized

[44:36]their work so Allah this is the philosophy of being tested in

[44:40]life as well it's out of the justice of Allah that there

[44:46]is heaven and there is hell so here yes sister yes yes

[45:12]yes so some problem is one thing and accepting is another thing

[45:21]meaning in the in the um in the court when the judge

[45:28]tells the guilty person the one who was guilty I want you

[45:32]to sign a paper that you you were guilty you admit that

[45:34]you were guilty or you admit to something they admit to it

[45:38]but when it comes to action they go and they ignore it

[45:41]so every soul acknowledged that there is she's talking about Allah describes

[45:47]that before we came into this realm of creation matter there was

[45:56]the realm of particles meaning only the arwa only the souls existed

[46:00]asked all of the souls am I not your lord all the

[46:07]souls they said yes they said yes because you can't say otherwise

[46:12]that God is the Lord but admitting and accepting one thing is

[46:20]one thing but abiding by it is another thing right now I

[46:23]accept that there's a law there's a traffic laws there's traffic fines

[46:27]all of these things but do I follow them that's another thing

[46:31]that's the test some people accept their law I acknowledge that there's

[46:35]a law but I don't follow it so there's the difference so

[46:39]why did God create us if if there is all Justice why

[46:44]did God create me if if God knows we said the essence

[46:50]God God knows whether I'm going to heaven or hell then why

[46:52]did God create me and Adam he could have just sent me

[46:56]to heaven and said or Sent Me to Hell whatever why did

[46:58]God create me why did I have to go through this process

[47:04]God already knows what level you're at he knows which level you're

[47:12]at exactly because Allah because Allah is just Allah takes me immediately

[47:20]to heaven or takes me immediately to Hellfire I would tell Allah

[47:23]why did you take me to Hell Fire I didn't do anything

[47:27]yet I didn't do anything yet so Allah allows me to live

[47:32]this life and on the day of judgment Allah will show me

[47:36]my whole life in front of me like a movie then therefore

[47:40]everyone will say yes this is me everyone will admit everyone will

[47:46]admit right from wrong yes brother we're going to cover this next

[47:59]week inshallah next week we're going to talk about predestination versus free

[48:04]will your life God knows about your life but it doesn't mean

[48:07]that you cannot change certain things in your life we're going to

[48:10]talk about it because if you say if you say God is

[48:14]not involved in our life then that means I'm saying God is

[48:16]weak like some people they say God created and he's sitting and

[48:22]he's watching us do whatever we want and that is on the

[48:26]other side they say God is getting involved in every decision yazid

[48:29]killed Imam Hussain because it was actually God who made him do

[48:32]it Imam Hussain was killed because it was God who made him

[48:35]to do it then why why reward this person and why punish

[48:37]this person so we say that no God's knowledge God has knowledge

[48:44]but his knowledge is irrespective of the decisions that we make we

[48:48]make the decisions God knows what decision we're going to make ultimately

[48:52]and there's Avenues there's ways for us to change our destiny inshallah

[48:59]we will go deeply in this in the next session inshallah yes

[49:04]sister yes this is before that even before the creation of Adam

[49:20]when there was only arwa only souls and the first Soul according

[49:23]to our narration the first Soul Allah created is the soul of

[49:26]rasulullah and the soul of America then Allah created all the other

[49:33]Souls then once the souls were created who knows how long later

[49:37]then Allah started creating Adam and and and and the creation continued

[49:43]yes yes yes where Allah says yes there's there's reference to it

[49:52]but a lot of it is in the Hadith just second yes

[49:56]yes so perhaps not because it's a lot of people it's not

[50:23]shaytan that fools though is there enough's there's a lot of the

[50:28]the sins some of them could be the nafs not shaitaan and

[50:31]Scholars they say if you want to know the difference between when

[50:35]is the Neffs messing with you or when is shaytan shaytan he

[50:38]comes to you he tells you something that you have never imagined

[50:41]go and kill someone for example something that you would never plan

[50:47]you would never sit and think about but the the nafs there

[50:50]are certain things that the nuts is always craving it's always Desiring

[50:53]you always want when you fall in that thing that the Neffs

[50:57]always wants that's enough that's not even shaytan maybe shaytan will beautify

[51:02]it for you maybe shaitaan will tell you go to this it's

[51:06]okay but sometimes it's enough yes yes hajjada yes it's only only

[51:17]Souls we have narrations that say in this universe there was before

[51:31]Adam there was a thousand Adams but in the ish we don't

[51:34]know there was a time that only God existed and then he

[51:40]created yes yes sister it could be shaytan fooling you yes or

[51:55]it could be the nafs so it's it could be both Sometimes

[51:59]they come in hand in hand yes okay so we are done

[52:07]with this here alhamdulillah

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