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If You Could Choose Your Life? #Perspective #Purpose | Mufti Abu Layth

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alayum folks the Quran documents a conversation a dialogue insan humans we had with Allah in a world before this simulation this configuration of this duny some people call it the world or the realm of pure s souls or pure being and Consciousness but we find it in verse

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172 that when your lord he brought you forth but yet you weren't in this state of being that we're in now and all of and brought us to witness and

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testify am I not your lord we all said indeed we have testified we Are Witnesses lest you say on the day of judgment that we we forgot or we were you know we were distracted that is a beautiful verse that

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captures the dialogue between insan and Allah but I want to take us on a thought experiment one step further let's say in that realm Allah spoke to you personally and he asks you what kind of a life shall I give you what kind of a a person do you want to become in this story of yours that will unfold in this D in this

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configuration do are you okay with something just ordinary do you want something what do you want so let's say in this thought experiment you said you know no I I want I want to I want something great I want to be successful I want to be loved I want to be um you know achieving great things I want a legacy I want people to really uh see my value and then Allah tells

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you that for you to be great I must put you through several hardships so that you may shine I must test you so that you may develop resilience I must bring at you immense winds so to speak so that you may s the skies I must present you with

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challenges so that your success be value that without that you will the things that that you are wanting cannot transpire that you must see hardships for patience for sa you must see these difficulties and thereby develop charm and the ability for people to like you and because you've seen those testing times just think about

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that that whatever you're enduring ing in life this is all part of that divine plan that Allah has unfolding before us Allah may Allah bless you all

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2024, December 11). If You Could Choose Your Life?  #Perspective #Purpose | Mufti Abu Layth [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1ksu9nfd89w/
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Mufti Abu Layth. 2024. "If You Could Choose Your Life?  #Perspective #Purpose | Mufti Abu Layth." Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded December 11, 2024. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1ksu9nfd89w/
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  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{If You Could Choose Your Life?  \#Perspective \#Purpose | Mufti Abu Layth}},
  year = {2024},
  month = {12},
  date = {2024-12-11},
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  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1ksu9nfd89w/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}