The 3 Divine Reasons Behind Your Existence - Sayed Mohammed Hassan Alsheraa

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[0:00]Allah.

[0:07]Allah.

[0:47]Allah.

[0:48]Fore!

[1:07]Foreign!

[1:09]Foreign!

[1:12]foreign.

[1:37]for alhamdulillah.

[2:20]Alhamdulillah.

[2:32]Alhamdulillah.

[2:50]for Allah.

[3:17]For them, for me.

[4:15]Amen.

[4:17]forchech.

[4:58]battle or more.

[5:27]What the speech?

[5:53]foreign.

[6:18]for Wow.

[6:53]Alhamdulillah.

[7:20]Allah shall be shore.

[7:36]for foreign.

[8:37]for Alham.

[9:28]Alhamdulillah.

[9:34]foreign.

[10:11]What a Alhamdulillah.

[10:48]for [singing] Allah.

[11:15]forch.

[11:55]Amen.

[12:11]Allah Amen.

[12:34]for Hassan Hussein Shabal.

[13:11]Hussein Hass.

[13:32]forchech.

[14:14]All All Allah.

[15:38]Islam.

[15:50]for Allah.

[16:18]Fore!

[16:21]Foreign!

[16:22]Foreign!

[16:31]Foreign speech.

[16:42]Foreign foreign foreign speech.

[16:51]Fore!

[16:55]Foreign!

[16:57]Foreign!

[17:05]for all mort.

[17:35]Foreign the winner.

[18:10]All for for Sometime Ramadan.

[19:57]brothers and sisters.

[20:02]Ramadan Mubarak and thank you for attending the first night the first

[20:06]night of our program.

[20:09]We ask Allah in this month to accept our and to make

[20:14]us from those who take advantage of every moment of this holy

[20:19]month inshallah.

[20:18]We are going to offer you a busy uh program this year

[20:24]inshallah here at Mecca and we look forward for your uh attendance

[20:29]every night.

[20:31]Uh inshallah this year we have three speakers.

[20:36]Uh the first 10 nights will start with Hassan Sh and then

[20:40]inshallah that will be followed with another 10 nights within and the

[20:46]last 10 nights of the Ramadan will be with Hassan Rajab Ali

[20:52]inshallah.

[20:51]So we look forward for your attendance every night.

[20:54]Uh we also wanted to remind you that we have this year

[21:00]the kids Ramadan program.

[21:00]uh sister uh Malik is offering uh a class for the kids

[21:07]on the Saturday or the weekend school.

[21:09]Um so uh if you drop your kids, drop off your kids

[21:11]there every night.

[21:12]This way you can come here and enjoy the lectures and they

[21:15]have fun and they learn inshallah.

[21:17]Uh we also have um a program for sahur with a scholar.

[21:22]This is going to be this Saturday, February 21st.

[21:25]Uh it will be a QA session after the program with Hassan

[21:29]Muhammad Hassan Sh as well and they're going to be refreshments and

[21:35]the tail and cafe and coffee for sale as well.

[21:36]We also have uh three uh dinners or uh ears committed if

[21:44]uh every Thursday starting tomorrow.

[21:47]So tomorrow, February 19, uh there is tickets are uh still for

[21:50]sale.

[21:51]They will be open uh until the midnight tonight.

[21:54]So, uh, if you want to join us and bring your family,

[21:57]uh, please buy your tickets ASAP.

[22:00]There's another one next, uh, Thursday, February 26, and, uh, another one

[22:05]on March 5th, and you can follow the link and, uh, buy

[22:11]the tickets if you would like.

[22:12]Um, also, uh, our youth have their annual, uh, burgers, burger with

[22:17]say, burgers with say, uh, program.

[22:23]This is a sahur program and um February 27th, that would be

[22:30]Friday at Famous uh Burgers.

[22:30]So, um that also would require them to sign up.

[22:34]Um another program we're offering this year, we did it last year,

[22:37]was so fun that we're doing again this year, is a family

[22:39]lock in.

[22:40]Uh it's an event for the family where we go uh spend

[22:46]pretty much the whole night at Velocity uh or high velocity sport

[22:49]uh complex on Michigan Avenue.

[22:50]We do sports, dua, discussions, very fun uh activity.

[22:57]Please make sure you sign up as well uh for that.

[23:00]Um last but not least, I know I have a lot of

[23:05]announcements.

[23:05]Um uh our youth came up with a nice idea that just

[23:12]told me about uh today that um to encourage you to listen

[23:14]to these lectures and learn as much as you can.

[23:18]Every night they're going to be a question, a QR code that

[23:19]will pop up on the TV.

[23:22]scan it and there's a question about the lecture from the previous

[23:25]night.

[23:26]So you answer that question and inshallah by the end of the

[23:29]month uh we'll look into who answered the most correct questions and

[23:33]his or she would go would get a very um valuable prize

[23:41]inshallah.

[23:40]Okay, I think we're um good with the announcements.

[23:45]Um you know every year few weeks before we uh start Ramadan

[23:51]we prepare our programs and we uh spend time making sure we

[23:54]offer the best programs for the community but also we uh look

[23:58]for these events Ramadan muharamid to uh go back to the community

[24:03]and ask them for the support because without their support we can't

[24:07]really uh continue and continue to offer these programs.

[24:09]So inshallah this year uh as you know we um are still

[24:15]in the process of planning for our new center.

[24:18]Uh we have good news that inshallah we are planning to ground

[24:22]uh break uh the new center uh later this summer inshallah sometime

[24:26]in the summer.

[24:28]So last year as you uh remember we um started the campaign

[24:32]the Musah campaign uh of where you uh sponsored a spot in

[24:39]that musah uh that campaign was very successful.

[24:41]Alhamdulillah it positioned us in in a way that we can start

[24:47]inshallah the groundbreaking this summer.

[24:48]Now um we will continue uh into other parts of the uh

[24:52]of the uh center.

[24:54]We're moving now to the gym.

[24:55]We're going to do something similar where you uh sponsor a spot

[24:59]on that gym.

[24:59]As you know, we're building a a large two gym actually two

[25:04]fulls size uh basketball courts, which I'm sure our youth uh your

[25:07]kids, your grandkids would would love and look forward for it.

[25:12]So, you have the opportunity uh to sponsor a spot at a

[25:16]$3,000 uh inshallah.

[25:16]And and and that money would uh help us uh speed up

[25:21]the uh construction inshallah.

[25:22]And of course, you can continue support us every night through sponsoring

[25:26]one of those nights.

[25:27]Uh this is open.

[25:29]We have a lot of nice to uh a lot of knights

[25:33]to sponsor and um I have a list of sponsors for night

[25:38]for this night.

[25:37]One um sponsors of tonight are Dr.

[25:41]Fari and the on the behalf for the Hajima Han and Hussein

[25:52]family for for their for the souls of their for the souls

[25:59]of you.

[25:58]Let's recite after.

[26:16]And now please help me welcome who were with us this last

[27:00]Ramadan and are no longer with us.

[27:03]Remembering them with Alhamdulillah.

[27:32]Must Before I begin, I would like to extend My warmest congratulations

[28:03]to all of you and I would love to express how grateful

[28:07]I am to be able to share this first 10 nights of

[28:11]the holy month of Ramadan amongst you all.

[28:14]And I was very honored to receive the delightful undeserving invitation by

[28:19]my dear brother and our dear scholar.

[28:24]I remember and recall in the holy land of I was extended

[28:29]that invitation and when you're given such a a beautiful blessing you

[28:32]have to thank your lord.

[28:36]The first thing I did was I went to and I asked

[28:38]Allah oh Allah thank you for giving me the honor to serve

[28:43]my community uh among you during the holy month of Ramadan.

[28:46]I'm so happy to be amongst all of you today.

[28:49]And enough uh loveydovey talk.

[28:51]I remember hearing uh earlier in the announcements that did you guys

[28:55]pay attention that there is going to be a trivia or a

[29:00]quiz about the lecture that was done last night.

[29:03]And so I wondered and I asked could I participate in this

[29:07]because there's a gift at the end of but apparently that's like

[29:09]cheating or something.

[29:13]So inshallah someone else can get that title.

[29:20]Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says within the holy Quran, please illuminate your

[29:37]hearts and bless this first night of the holy month of Ramadan

[29:40]with a very loud salawat.

[29:47]Everyone will go through a phase in life where they will begin

[29:53]asking deep questions irrespective of your background or your faith or where

[29:59]you come from.

[29:59]There's going to be a time well you naturally will ask about

[30:02]purpose, meaning existential questions such as why am I here?

[30:08]And many thinkers came and proposed solutions to these dilemmas.

[30:12]This discussion in philosophy is called existentialism or the purpose behind your

[30:21]existence.

[30:20]Why you exist?

[30:22]Is there meaning to existence?

[30:23]This is important because this is what gives many people value.

[30:29]It makes them feel important and they be able and they're able

[30:32]to pursue that value even further.

[30:34]But in order to pursue it, you must first identify it.

[30:37]Therefore, what is the purpose behind my existence?

[30:40]And is there meaning behind life or is there not?

[30:46]Thinkers and literists such as Nietze, Frederick, Nietze, Hobbes, Lach, even the

[30:53]very deep extreme thinkers such as Carl Marx, they all gave some

[30:57]sort of solution to this.

[31:01]For example, Nietze, he said that there is no meaning to life.

[31:06]Existentialism is just what you bring to it.

[31:09]you exist and you go pursue your own meaning.

[31:12]There is no intrinsic purpose to this existence.

[31:13]At the end of the day, if you remove the god variable

[31:17]to the equation, you are just like any other creature that roams

[31:21]the world that has cells born and die carbon based like any

[31:27]other animal.

[31:28]The difference is you just have a bit more of an IQ

[31:31]than the other creatures out there and that's it.

[31:33]You are like we say you are like a rock and the

[31:36]rock is just like you.

[31:37]The only thing is you're talking and the rock is quiet.

[31:42]Others said no there is meaning but the kind of meaning you're

[31:44]talking about is the one that people create and generate.

[31:49]People will tell you the meaning to life is to have a

[31:51]happy family or to have a successful living.

[31:54]An outcome meaning is relative.

[31:57]It's not some objective thing.

[31:59]Your meaning isn't somewhere.

[32:02]You create it and you pursue it.

[32:04]That gave people a bit more comfort knowing that there is something

[32:07]out there.

[32:08]I just have to first identify it.

[32:09]Then you come to a different school and a different worldview that

[32:14]said life has something intrinsic to it.

[32:17]That there is no accident whereas you found meaning if you were

[32:22]to come and ask believers is to pursue God.

[32:26]Every worldview that embraces God will tell you that even if you're

[32:30]someone outside of the monotheistic religions of Christianity, Islam and Judaism, they

[32:36]will tell you the meaning is a higher power meaning that there

[32:40]is an above authority and you are to just follow what that

[32:46]above significant authority tells you.

[32:47]So if you're Buddhist, you may not necessarily see that there's a

[32:50]God element, but you see there's a nirvana.

[32:53]If you study these religions, it's I think important to at least

[32:56]know what's out there to see, hey, if that's the alternative, then

[32:59]I'm very grateful for what I have.

[33:00]Not to throw poratives or lower jabs at other worldviews, but how

[33:05]do you know if you're on a true path by not looking

[33:10]at what is the alternative out there?

[33:12]How do you know the existence of light if you didn't see

[33:15]what darkness looks like?

[33:16]How do you know what is right if you first didn't identify

[33:20]wrong?

[33:21]And so Islam encourages you go and check it out.

[33:29]They ask you there's always an encouragement of pursuing some sort of

[33:40]information out there.

[33:40]Whether it's finding a bliss like nirvana, you reach an ultimate state

[33:45]where you're so satisfied because the whole essence of this worldview is

[33:51]that you devoid and annihilate all of your senses and desires.

[33:53]Islam came and said that's a bit too extreme.

[33:58]Another purpose is to soul completely sell your soul to Jesus and

[34:03]his beliefs and believe in his you know humanity as well as

[34:08]his divinity and just give yourself to Christ in that manner.

[34:11]There comes a more unique response to this whether when you come

[34:15]to the Islamic narrative.

[34:18]However, for the very longest time the answer was a very dry

[34:21]one.

[34:22]It's a very stale response that if you were to ask the

[34:27]average, you know, average Muslim here, they'll tell you that well the

[34:31]meaning of life, why we exist is to worship Allah.

[34:35]And you can even resource this in the holy Quran that Allah

[34:39]said clearly that I did not create jin nor humans except to

[34:52]worship me.

[34:53]Therefore the obvious deductive conclusion is that God created us and we

[34:59]exist to worship him.

[34:59]Is that a satisfying answer?

[35:04]Because it makes God in some aspects a worship depending entity that

[35:08]Allah says listen I need worship so I created you for that

[35:11]reason.

[35:12]There are three primary reasons, brothers and sisters, for the divine conclusion

[35:19]of our existence.

[35:22]With my humble, not deductive, inductive reasoning, I found that God literally

[35:29]by verbatim says in the Holy Quran, if you go to the

[35:32]world of hadith, you'll find much more beautiful gems as well.

[35:36]But the Quran is our foundation here where God lays out, hey,

[35:39]I created you for X.

[35:41]When he says it like this, that means Allah wants to be

[35:45]as clear as day.

[35:48]So the first response is not wrong in any capacity.

[35:49]But when you're asking when you're telling this to someone asking you

[35:54]why were you created, the objective behind you answering is to satisfy

[36:01]that question.

[36:00]And often times when you give that response, it comes across as

[36:07]well God needed this.

[36:08]But then when you research deep, God says clearly as we open

[36:12]this talk, "Oh man and wankind, you are dependent upon Allah, not

[36:22]even which is much more broad in general, man and womanankind.

[36:29]You are dependent to to Allah.

[36:32]You see the term and you often conflate that with those who

[36:39]are poor but it has a more very destitudeesque meaning to this

[36:43]meaning I am so dependent often times the poor they can't make

[36:46]ends meet of course not that's why they're poor at the end

[36:51]of the day so they depend on others Allah says in my

[36:54]scope you are poor meaning you are dependent and whollah to God

[37:03]here now we're not reducing poor and rich means self-sufficient you are

[37:09]dependent I'm independent God is completely independent here's the issue then when

[37:19]it comes to this is that all there is and all and

[37:23]be all there is a deeper response to this brothers and sisters

[37:27]you might find another response given that he Allah is the one

[37:47]who created interestingly prioritizing death than life to trial you which among

[37:56]you are the best in conduct to for a lack of better

[37:57]words which can do the best.

[38:02]Who here can make more goodness in life?

[38:02]People I remember would say that my meaning in this life is

[38:08]to do good in the world.

[38:09]Why do you march and protest against injustice?

[38:12]Because it's good to speak up.

[38:13]Why do you I guess you have people who have interests in

[38:20]animal rights or let's say climate issues.

[38:22]It makes me feel good to do good out there.

[38:23]It's interesting.

[38:24]Good to feel good, but it's good.

[38:26]It's feels good to do good as well.

[38:27]So that's why Allah says hey by the way that's the reason

[38:33]why you exist as well I created what death then life which

[38:35]also we have to pause at what do you mean death and

[38:40]then life because death is the absence of life death may not

[38:44]necessarily come across as an independent creation ra whereas and rather death

[38:49]is the byproduct of the lack of life.

[38:53]So God created life first when you subtract life you have death.

[38:56]So then why does Allah give death such a position?

[39:01]Interestingly God is talking about the timeline of what is created first.

[39:07]Allah first creates us in a state of non-existence.

[39:12]Then Allah breathes into us life.

[39:16]If you look at the eye of the holy Quran that discusses

[39:18]the embryotic process that Allah says I have created you in the

[39:22]state of the then the zyote then the then the after which

[39:30]we then or then we created around the bones and fle around

[39:37]the bones flesh.

[39:39]Then he says then I added within it a unique different creation

[39:49]meaning I breathe into it life.

[39:51]So you were non-existent.

[39:52]You came into some form of existence but you were not considered

[39:57]alive.

[39:58]By the way, in this subject, many will begin debating the perhaps

[40:03]vague and quite complicated discussion regarding abortion because there's a timeline that

[40:10]already from the base is completely an act that is discouraged.

[40:16]But let's say if there are cases that are extreme that are

[40:19]very sensitive and critical, some will then draw a line at about

[40:24]four months.

[40:23]So why is that?

[40:26]Because perhaps at about that time period, you might find the development

[40:29]reaching a phase where the Quran says here's where we put a

[40:32]soul in it.

[40:33]But this is very controversial and a delicate of a subject.

[40:36]The say listen, if we're going to entertain it, let's draw a

[40:41]line somewhere.

[40:40]But why do they even draw a line before in the process

[40:44]or after?

[40:44]It's because there's a soul now involved.

[40:47]Now you're talking about a life.

[40:48]It's about spirit.

[40:55]It's a big deal to Allah.

[40:59]That's so important.

[40:58]The flesh is necessary because pending is but once is there that's

[41:04]life.

[41:04]That's something that is unique because that thing moves on.

[41:07]Allah then perhaps prioritizes non-existence.

[41:11]Then he says because that is genuinely the timeline properly for a

[41:22]human being because then the soul comes later.

[41:24]So that's accurate because typically you say wait first we live then

[41:27]we die.

[41:28]No no no there's a deeper meaning.

[41:30]Beyond that quite fascinating it's true life.

[41:35]This life we're actually not non-existent.

[41:42]that surely the afterlife it's real it's real living here what am

[41:50]I doing I'm pretty much walking dead flesh and truly wallah if

[41:53]you study even on a cellular level what are you except a

[41:59]bunch of cells dying and coming dying and birthing there's a bunch

[42:02]of dead in me right now sounds really morbid to say but

[42:05]there's a bunch of death and birth, death and birth.

[42:08]What's going on?

[42:10]Well, yeah, that's the only way I exist.

[42:11]That's the cellular process that in the quattrillion scale, so many buildup

[42:18]of cells, each of them in a split second, a nancond are

[42:21]being born and die.

[42:23]Born and die.

[42:23]How much did we learn about that in high school?

[42:26]And we got so annoyed.

[42:28]The mitochondria's the powerhouse of the whatever all of that and just

[42:32]to find out it dies within a second.

[42:33]Why did I focus so many?

[42:35]What?

[42:35]But it's good to know because there's a constant state of dying

[42:38]and living.

[42:40]Once we move on the it's real life.

[42:44]I'm double living.

[42:46]I'm triple living.

[42:46]I'm more alive.

[42:47]Why?

[42:48]At the end of the day, those who die in the way

[42:49]of God are what considered.

[42:54]So now they're really alive.

[42:58]Yeah.

[42:59]And they're getting as well.

[43:00]What gives?

[42:59]Because now you've opened perspective and now you see the truth and

[43:06]now God tells you here are the answers to your questions.

[43:08]Here the hak will become true.

[43:11]Here you were oppressed.

[43:14]Now watch my justice manifest.

[43:16]It only makes perfect sense that in the last months and few

[43:19]years when we saw so much tarnish, so much corruption, so much

[43:23]injustice that we're going to live sooner than later.

[43:29]If not in Allah's justice, that's why it's seen as from that

[43:34]you have to accept.

[43:37]You must believe in a day of reckoning.

[43:40]How come?

[43:39]It just makes perfect sense that all of those criminals and those

[43:44]who made their money off of oppression that God says you might

[43:48]feel you got away from it, but when true life kicks in,

[43:52]you're going to wish this was not the case.

[43:55]That's why it's so relevant to us that we have to insist

[43:57]there will be a day of judgment and Allah is and so

[44:02]on and so forth.

[44:01]Given this Allah displays to us that this in comparison to the

[44:12]pels in life.

[44:10]That's why I created a aka death.

[44:17]Then of which it's called which is to reference that it's genuine

[44:21]life and living to trial you which amongst you are what?

[44:29]the best in conduct.

[44:32]This is a motif in the Quran.

[44:34]You find it, by the way, paralleled a couple times.

[44:40]God says in the Holy Quran, "Race to do good.

[44:43]Try your hardest to almost compete in goodness, in conduct that is

[44:49]beautiful." And you know what?

[44:53]There's no wrong in being greedy to want to make goodness in

[44:55]the world.

[44:57]that if you see someone that you know established beautiful let's say

[45:03]humanitarian efforts or projects or contributions you should positively envy that because

[45:10]you know terms such as positive envy we have to come and

[45:13]make whereas in Islam you can call it you can call it

[45:18]that I see that I am jealous but jealousy may be a

[45:24]bad trait in English but there's a term that recogniz izes that

[45:26]no, it can be a motivating factor that hey, they did good.

[45:29]That motivates me.

[45:31]Let me race them to do even better.

[45:33]Not because I want to trump them, but rather I want to

[45:35]see more of this inspired by the good I saw out there.

[45:40]I remember that there was uh oh, this is very sad to

[45:47]be honest with you.

[45:45]in uh in London.

[45:48]Um I was there about a few months back and I went

[45:51]to a the wonderful community decided to take us out eating and

[45:58]after speaking and giving the programs there we went and ate at

[46:01]a restaurant I you might know this maybe knows others might already

[46:07]be it's called beh is means heaven in Farsy the funny thing

[46:10]is they told me that this means heaven right this restaurant across

[46:16]the street.

[46:15]This is a well-known story.

[46:19]The brother of the owner of this restaurant, they got into a

[46:22]fight.

[46:23]So the brother opened a restaurant called Jahann right in front of

[46:29]the restaurant called Heaven.

[46:29]And they were competing, but not necessarily for goodness, but to out

[46:35]business the other person.

[46:37]And out of spite, you couldn't think of any other name.

[46:40]My brother's restaurant is called heaven.

[46:41]I have I make it hell.

[46:44]And guess what?

[46:46]Hell restaurant closed up.

[46:46]You know, it didn't succeed.

[46:49]I wonder why.

[46:49]And if you're going to name it something like that, but the

[46:51]intentions may not have been sincere.

[46:53]Allah says, "Do the opposite of that.

[46:56]They succeed.

[46:57]Let that drive you to do even more." I mean, honestly, it's

[47:02]a good thing.

[47:01]People race to bring others down.

[47:03]How dare they do something?

[47:06]How dare they achieve?

[47:07]How dare they become rich?

[47:08]I have to out of spite be richer.

[47:10]Just change the paradigm.

[47:12]And you can still do that, but do it with a motive

[47:14]inside that says, "Listen, I'm going to allow you to succeed and

[47:19]I want you to succeed, but I want to also succeed with

[47:21]you as well." That's beautiful.

[47:25]That's encouragement.

[47:24]That's what God says.

[47:27]You know what?

[47:27]That's what he says is the reason behind our existence.

[47:35]That's the reason behind why we live.

[47:37]You see injustice, lift it.

[47:42]That's you see a center that needs reconstruction do that.

[47:45]God says but when you do that I want you to see

[47:50]who's the best.

[47:51]Now here is where they intertwine.

[47:52]The way you can do that is by doing what?

[48:00]to go in the state of because it's hard to do something

[48:06]genuine with sincerity if you don't have the Allah variable included because

[48:14]if just a speck of your good actions are done for selfish

[48:18]intention then you may not see rewards being reaped you may not

[48:25]see to just like that guy that opens a restaurant with not

[48:28]genuine intention lucky Well, the thing is, go figure.

[48:31]The restaurant didn't succeed.

[48:32]Why?

[48:33]Because there was no genuine purpose behind a motive where you spent

[48:38]so much time and money and effort that I want this to

[48:42]be a that's a form of the isn't the goal.

[48:50]The worship is not the goal.

[48:52]It's the means.

[48:54]The goal is what?

[48:54]Get closer to Allah.

[48:58]I get closer to you through my ya Allah.

[49:02]That's my existence.

[49:01]That's my purpose.

[49:04]Then what is philanthropic efforts?

[49:11]So now they become intertwined that the only way you can get

[49:16]closer to the purpose behind your existence is to worship Allah.

[49:22]What is worship?

[49:22]Good work.

[49:23]That's it.

[49:23]Beautiful.

[49:24]Because if you keep responding with God created us to worship him

[49:29]as if God became this worship dependent entity.

[49:33]No.

[49:34]Why?

[49:35]It's because of me.

[49:35]Because God is I am.

[49:36]That's it.

[49:37]Whereas God doesn't need our worship.

[49:39]There is a third reason.

[49:41]This third reason often times is always brushed over.

[49:46]It's such a beautiful reason though.

[49:49]And if you were to ask Christians, they've nailed the nail on

[49:52]this reason.

[49:53]They'll tell you that's the reason and they'll skip every of the

[49:56]last two we just said.

[49:59]They won't say worship because with all due respect to our friends

[50:02]from Christianity, there is no element of prayer.

[50:05]There's no element of worship daily.

[50:08]There's maybe Sunday mass.

[50:08]There's maybe attending church once a Christmas.

[50:13]There are maybe reading psalms, but there is no fixed act of

[50:16]worship.

[50:17]You can be a perfectly obedient Christian by not even doing any

[50:20]of that.

[50:21]But just recognizing God is, you know, Jesus and he is the

[50:25]son and father and all of that.

[50:27]That's totally fine.

[50:26]That's on them.

[50:28]But they will tell you this.

[50:29]And God says this in the Holy Quran.

[50:31]We should own this.

[50:33]This is ours because God literally says it that the third reason

[50:38]behind your existence is because I love you.

[50:43]That's it.

[50:44]Just because I love you.

[50:50]except from the of Allah and it's for that reason I made

[50:56]you just because I love you.

[50:57]That's it.

[50:58]Allah said the reason behind your existence because I love you.

[51:02]I wanted to see you and I wanted to bless you so

[51:07]I created you.

[51:07]Why did you want that ya Allah?

[51:09]It's not that you needed worship.

[51:11]You've already established that.

[51:12]What's the reason?

[51:12]Because you just like to see good things happen.

[51:15]It's even more than that.

[51:19]It's because I love you.

[51:19]Because of my rah, out of the rah that I have for

[51:23]you, I decided to create you.

[51:24]At the end of the day, why do parents have children?

[51:27]It's because they want to find something they can pour their love

[51:31]into, their heart over.

[51:32]I love this child.

[51:34]I want to make one.

[51:34]I want a a child to raise.

[51:37]But why would you do that?

[51:39]The world is terrible.

[51:39]But I want something to pour my love out.

[51:43]Allah subhana wa ta'ala says that because I love you, I made

[51:46]you.

[51:46]But still because I love you, I trial you just like any

[51:51]other good parent.

[51:51]And because I love you, I have to discipline you just like

[51:55]any other good parent.

[51:55]And because I love you, I have to see you grow.

[51:58]I need to see some struggle.

[51:59]I need to see effort.

[52:01]And I will guide you because God is a good God.

[52:03]Our God is a good God.

[52:06]He will not abandon you.

[52:07]And he's always there.

[52:10]And he even says, see how close you are to your parents.

[52:12]Say, who's the closest to you?

[52:13]My mom, my dad.

[52:15]Oh, yeah.

[52:16]Well, God says I'm closer to you than even your own jugular

[52:18]pain.

[52:19]Closer to you than they are.

[52:20]You think I don't care about you?

[52:22]Why do you love your mom and your dad?

[52:24]It's because they care about me.

[52:25]Guess who cares about you more?

[52:30]Allah cares about you so much that he said, "I loved you

[52:32]so much.

[52:33]I gave you that mom and dad that you said they're the

[52:36]priority.

[52:37]I love you so much that I made it the case that

[52:42]you knew me and I knew you and I placed my spark

[52:47]inside of you.

[52:46]Meaning the meaning the innate intrinsic path to always going back to

[52:52]God almost magnetically.

[52:52]If you trap the human being randomly without any design without any

[52:59]information there's always a feeling inside.

[53:02]This is called the that there is a higher power out there.

[53:06]This was a study done by the Oxford anthropological department where they

[53:10]grabbed by I believe in 2015 one of the largest case studies

[53:15]of children ever about 35,000 children.

[53:19]These are children under the ages of 12 boys and girls where

[53:23]they decided to ask them who they had no predisposed information to

[53:28]religion.

[53:29]So it's not the case that they're told to believe God or

[53:34]they go to church.

[53:34]The children are a good base to start these questioning.

[53:40]They asked what is your position about let's say an authority or

[53:46]a higher power something beyond this creation this universe?

[53:49]Do you think there is something that has created all of this?

[53:53]Is there something more significant than even human beings out there?

[53:58]Is there a maker, a creator?

[54:00]An overwhelming majority said of course there is.

[54:03]And these were children who have no predisposed information about God or

[54:06]existence or anything like that.

[54:11]The overwhelming what is that in Islam?

[54:13]This was done by a researcher called Justin Bennett.

[54:14]He says he even uses the term in the published peer-reviewed article.

[54:20]The reference is called according to the Muslims.

[54:23]He says the best term to explain this would be to not

[54:28]even look at this theologically.

[54:29]But the best term is like there seems to be what many

[54:32]resemble as an innate intrinsic pole towards at least a supreme authority.

[54:38]Are you serious?

[54:40]Of course there is.

[54:40]Something created mom and dad.

[54:44]Something created school and the Plato and all this something create and

[54:47]like yeah the company.

[54:47]Well, who created that?

[54:49]I just logic.

[54:49]Sometimes we need to think like children.

[54:51]It makes perfect sense cluttered with so much misinformation online so many

[54:58]thinkers.

[54:58]Bab just simplify it.

[54:58]What created this?

[55:01]They say the thing that created that.

[55:03]Just keep going.

[55:03]Go into the regress.

[55:06]Keep going.

[55:04]Is there a point where it just stops and just comes out

[55:09]of nowhere?

[55:11]Think.

[55:12]It's so logical that God said, "I put all my signs out

[55:15]there." That is why the says and I'm paraphrasing this that Allah

[55:21]says in a paraphrase sentence I was a hidden treasure and I

[55:34]desired to be known and so I created the Allah's desire here

[55:37]was not a dependent one that I desire because I needed it.

[55:43]I desire because it's my intrinsic that you know discussing the qualities

[55:48]and of Allah many in the school of B there's a debate

[55:50]about this but in the school of B the signs and names

[55:58]of Allah say he is all of these signs in the school

[56:08]of we believe that that they Or see God has but he

[56:20]is God is for example creating but he is he is the

[56:23]essence of mercy.

[56:25]They are intrinsically intertwined with God.

[56:28]And there are some qualities that in grasps we share that we

[56:32]create but not independent from God.

[56:34]But he gave us glimpses of some of his qualities.

[56:38]And that's why and this can be a very controversial here for

[56:41]those who may not have fully comprehended some of the qualities of

[56:45]God in a subject that might be a bit far for those

[56:50]who have not dwelled into Islamic philosophy.

[56:54]But God might say in one here that oh my servant worship

[56:58]me, obey me, you'll become like me.

[57:01]So how can someone become like God?

[57:03]that you become a sign from the signs of Allah.

[57:07]For goodness sake, if the she camel of is called an ayah

[57:15]of Allah, what about the ayat of Allah Allah gives us on

[57:21]a daily basis?

[57:20]What about those who they are walking symbols of God?

[57:26]That imm says the best friend is the one who when you

[57:30]see them that they always remind you of God that they are

[57:36]walking paradigms of the of Allahel not extensions of God that he

[57:42]has extensions but rather representatives walking on this earth.

[57:50]That's why the insan was honored with carrying what the Quran says

[57:57]the the trust and had we revealed this holy book Quran upon

[58:10]the mountains you would see it crumble from fear from horror but

[58:18]then what got the capability and capacity to hold such a trust

[58:22]and that I the almighty lord have spoken quite clearly to the

[58:34]angels.

[58:34]I will bring down upon the earth the one who represents me

[58:38]even the angels they replied almost contesting it's as if they gave

[58:50]an alternative and we praise you and glorify you and thanks ya

[58:55]Allah I know what you do not know and for that reason

[58:58]the insan became on earth why because they can handle this They

[59:04]can contain the trust of Allah.

[59:06]They can represent God on earth.

[59:08]They are they are they are representatives of God.

[59:12]Not every human being however there are some of those and human

[59:16]beings are divided based on their phases and their levels and their

[59:20]and we before taking too much more time conclude with one of

[59:27]the best most epic profound sentences about knowing God and your relation

[59:32]with God and your existence and purpose behind it.

[59:37]A sentence how small it is in letters, how deep it is

[59:41]in meaning.

[59:44]This is by imad by the way.

[59:48]One of the most profound and beautiful of a hadith you can

[59:52]find from Imuhamad.

[59:54]The greatgrandfather of the Imam of our time.

[59:57]May Allah hasten his reappearance.

[59:58]He or she who knows themselves will know their Lord.

[60:04]Know your place in life.

[60:05]Know your purpose and meaning.

[60:10]Don't just reduce it to I just walk and live and eat

[60:12]and move on.

[60:13]You can place your meaning in that which you feel good doing.

[60:16]If so long as that feelgood thing we're brings you closer to

[60:23]Allah.

[60:21]Your purpose in life could be as simple in the eyes of

[60:25]others as being an excellent mother.

[60:27]But don't compare yourself.

[60:28]What about that mom who's doing this this?

[60:31]Yours is unique.

[60:34]Your meaning in life could be simply the one who just builds

[60:36]and constructs.

[60:38]But you do it without cheating people, without harming others.

[60:41]You pay your waj.

[60:44]You help others.

[60:44]You don't scam people.

[60:47]You abide by whatever God desires from you.

[60:48]You prioritize your dean over dunya.

[60:51]If it's time for salah, you put everything aside.

[60:52]That act you do, be it good.

[60:56]It may not independently look like a form of worship becomes the

[60:59]biggest form of worship.

[60:59]I remember I heard the story from my father who relays it

[61:05]from one of the one of the my dad says I heard

[61:14]him be asked this question.

[61:13]So the say was asked that a contemporary of that I heard

[61:22]that there's a hadith that says imbal used to pray 3,000 times

[61:26]a day.

[61:28]How does he have the time?

[61:29]He's khalifa at one point he's waging wars here defending Islam.

[61:32]He's answering questions.

[61:35]where is 3,000 prayers in ibada coming from?

[61:36]He's like, don't worry, I pray 2,000 times a day.

[61:40]He's like, how I see you.

[61:41]He says, worship may not necessarily be confined in just prayer, but

[61:47]worship can be represented in the good that you do if you

[61:52]do it.

[61:52]Because I found my meaning in doing good.

[61:55]I understand that by doing good, it is the purpose behind why

[62:01]God made me, which is because he loves me.

[62:04]And because God loves me, I owe it to allahel to maintain

[62:07]that love.

[62:06]Otherwise, God would not have created you.

[62:09]Allah loves you all.

[62:11]But because he loves you, he made you.

[62:13]It's up to you to maintain that love.

[62:16]One man asked im and I conclude with this which by the

[62:20]way in these nights one of the best supplications is his thes

[62:28]of Muhammad to you find being asked that with all the haram

[62:33]people do if backbiting is compared to eating the dead flesh of

[62:37]your brother's back and the Quran says and you despise that then

[62:39]how can anyone get into Jenna if that sin that flies like

[62:45]this easily easily and comes and goes is seen as that vile

[62:47]and that condemning.

[62:50]How can anyone get into Jenna?

[62:52]To which the Imam replied, but with such a loving Lord, how

[62:57]can anyone go to hell?

[62:58]Allah subhana t so merciful you think that on the day of

[63:01]judgment after his even if your scales matched of the haram and

[63:11]the good that you did Allah will still prioritize and push the

[63:15]good after all that if you had a child in your descendants

[63:18]that did good that will intercede for you if a great grandparent

[63:22]said ya Allah bless me and my dy that dua may be

[63:27]of course it could be if someone one act of good was

[63:32]done that can come back not to haunt you but to do

[63:33]good for you one Adam's weight of good you will see it

[63:40]manifest on that day with so many ways and resources how can

[63:45]anyone go to hell it's as if someone wanted it as if

[63:47]someone pursued it well if people are opening restaurants called hell then

[63:50]people are pursuing hell apparently in the before but in any case

[63:56]if People want hellfire.

[63:57]Even if you wanted it, it's as if it's a struggle to

[64:03]get into it.

[64:01]Allah is so and that is why I mean when he says

[64:13]our purpose, our meaning, our existence is defined by one word, the

[64:21]love of Allah.

[64:20]And in order to fulfill that love, we worship him.

[64:25]And the best form of worship is to do good in this

[64:32]life so that we can go and see true life in the

[64:33]Ramadan.

[64:44]Muhammad.

[65:02]Alhamdulillah.

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