Fear Disguised As Practicality | Quranic Guidance | Mufti Abu Layth

let's take a look at today's verse so I would be learning the shaytan regime I wanted to take a look at this verse from verse 72. right now foreign foreign [Music]

now I want us to remember the Axion the rule the kanoon okay the lens when we approach the Quran and that is of superpositions but the Quran how depending on who and where they are in life and how they're looking at the Quran it will give them multiple meanings to add value to their lives that's from the beauty and the Majesty of the Quran right so let's take a look at this verse

now I know many people have taken a look at this verse and it's mentioning that it's highlighting that Allah is saying that we presented this Amana this entrusted entity whatever it is to the Heavens to the cosmos to the Earth to the mountains and and they couldn't bear it and insan carried it and in Sun is transgressing and ignorant

now many people have looked at this verse and they've said oh this is talking about takleef take Leaf in Arabic means it doesn't mean Urdu means like suffering or pain to but to Cliff in Arabic means liability which I guess that's interesting that Urdu made that connection with liability and what the Cleveland Arabic means um Islamic capacity so once you are McCullough you are liable to conduct

certain actions you can have the responsibilities for them so what we'd call today may be like legal or somewhat legal capacity having capacity in a legal sense that term is takleef in Arabic so some people said well maybe this means to Cleve and some people say maybe it means something else and I know also covers the alcohol that you know reason voice of reason and and I think that's more on um towards what we want to take a look at see I invite us to take a look at this verse again and you're going to

and read it with me right that what is this um and the reason I'm saying this verse is because somebody asked me they they said to me mostly you know there's this verse and uh Allah gave this responsibility to the heavens and and then you know we asked for it and now we're going to get punished somebody asked me this they said and he said well I didn't personally ask for it so you know why am I included in this because this verse is saying this so I said okay

let's take a look at the verse he said where does it say that so I said sure some people may look at this verse the verse has not said that the verse has used Words which people are interpreting so the word the verse begins with Amana there is a trust something entrusted which was presented it doesn't say what that thing was and some people then interpreted it to mean many things okay fine that's their interpretation now I said read this with me

that's not what it's talking about see Allah is bringing to our attention the potential of inside human beings look this thing that has been entrusted to us one way an awesome way of looking at these is it is the potential and you say potential for what and I say for anything

because in sand the potential that we have inside us the potential for anything of some Glory now it is presented now in this verse now there is naturally somewhat of an allegory here it's not saying that this is a physical thing in the sense that here's a trust being presented to the Heavens to the cosmos to the but somewhat allegorical now

why the heavens not just stop being with me people when because when the Quran is being revealed it's being revealed to the prophet salallahu and those around him in Arabia you have to go back in time in Sun people as they're traveling through the deserts surrounded by not nothing except just these tall hubing mountains and Saudi Arabia is an incredibly mountainous region of the

world so and it's got one of the most um you know per capita the most volcanoes that are present um Saudi Arabia definitely is amongst the leading uh in the world for how many uh mountains or actually dormant volcanoes now so you've got all of the and people are traveling

now when a person Ponders on themselves so let's put ourselves like we are walking through a desert at night in 7th Century Arabia you're weak disheveled feel powerless that what is it that you see that symbolizes the utmost brutal strength

you see one these immovable mountains some of which can breathe fire then your eyes go to the fastness the never ending Cosmos that envelops everything

always there and the firmness if anything is of the Earth these three entities symbolize insurmountable formidable strength power and vastness these are the things everything else is so weak

these things are almost Eternal for you mountains they've always been there watching down on you and everyone that has passed through these valleys before you the cosmos it has seen tragedies triumphs and this Earth you can't you struggle to pierce the slightest amount of it the se you are taken aback with by all

of these three entities that symbolize the greatest of strengths to you Allah says yeah these things they do Shadow down on you the watch over you almost with this formidable power that that you see but you know what in uh

but the potential true potential of being they couldn't bear that foreign he doesn't say we made him carry it he doesn't say he doesn't say we made insan carried he doesn't say is he sought out he said

I want to carry it I want to carry it Allah doesn't even address that point you're still caught up in wow these mountains and the cosmos and the Earth and Allah saying that they didn't they couldn't bear the potential and you're thinking wow so this potential must be so so insurmountable Allah immediately follows it by inside

in Sun bears that potential you look at insan and you say what inside this person he can't go a single day without water without food this in certain he has the potential Allah says

[Laughter] do people think Allah is dissing inside here that's their way of looking at it but it's not you see in the who he in Sun within him and her they have this unfathomable potential to achieve foreign

yet they are transgressing you see you're looking outwards you're unsure in sand transgresses outwards they transgress against people they harm people they do things that you're looking at it like that but this is bigger than that look inwards yet they transgress against their true potential

the definition of dulm in Arabic is to place something where it doesn't belong the truth on is that the potential was left to die so ignorant insan is so ignorant ignorant of what you're thinking outwards he's ignorant of this they don't know mathematics they don't know science they don't know sure or ignorant of all of those things

and sun is ignorant of the potential they carry with him cannot realized it this in Sun has been created with a gift that when they lock into their potential they against all the odds will achieve

this is the gift the mystery this is the miracle that God has placed in each and every one of us now you see this verse they couldn't bear it yet in Sun

he bore it in Canada yet insan continues is increasingly transgressing to his or her true potential and remains ignorant of it now you see this verse how amazing and empowering this verse of the Quran is that Surah adds up verse 72.

and I wanted to follow that with this verse from Surah many of you perhaps have memorized and many people once again they they read this verse and they read that oh Allah has created death and life and so it's a test foreign

let's visit this verse let's just take a look at it now Allah begins with he created death why begin with death this it it follows from the verse we're speaking before and as in it connects with it

because when we think of our potential see what do we do insan is a social creature as if by his or her nature is social we judge by comparison so I look at him and I look at her and I look at them and I think you know what I'm such a loser I mean it's true or I think you know what they've got it lucky in life I wasn't born in a wealthy family

I wasn't born to educated parents I wasn't born with privilege sure I mean I'm doing okay given the circumstances fear disguised as practicality foreign why because in death we are all equal

Allah in death we are all equal privilege or no privilege so let's begin from a perspective of equal equality an egalitarian foothold let's begin with death still think that there's a bias you're all gonna die okay so a person starts to get

starts feeling a bit down that before the anxiety can kick in Allah says but you're still alive you're full of life see now people think they restrict this to things like doing good deeds and by that they lock that into just worshiping as in a person reads nuffal all day long and he does but that's not necessarily what the

verse is saying sure you can understand the verse to mean that you can interpret it in that way that Allah created death he created life to allow this life to allow you to to be tested in what in the Excellence that you do and you come Allah

that Excellence is not restricted to worship sure that's excellent but that's not restricted to that to see to allow this to be a test that what potential will you unlock in this life which one of you will be the most excellent in their legacy Allah

foreign this is the verse to see which one of you is gonna unlock that is going to truly perform excellence this isn't restricted to anything whatever you do you excel in it unlock that potential in it and Allah finishes this verse with see a lies Almighty because when Allah is saying about let's see then bring

your Excellence let's see this is a a platform this is an arena it's like it's a it's a place where people get tested not so much like a tax man testing people more like an arena where people compete they get tested because they're competing they're performing it's like a stage let's see the Excellence that you unlock and you might think well see at this

point you might go back to that the downer oh but you know I don't know my circumstances my background I don't know Mike it doesn't really there's too many hurdles there's too many I don't think I'm cut up is Allah is Almighty

full short allies Almighty but then seals it with you see as easy why because truly speaking we will always fall short we will never truly unlock all our potential maybe we'll unlock it wrongly we spoke earlier on of people like hit Hitler he could take a person like that who

naturally he had all these skill sets about him and he Taps into his potential and unlocks it but in such a disastrous malignant cancerous evil way you see so there's that but then there's so many people in life who they don't even tap into their potential they will just let it go to waste by the excuse of practicality

that maybe you could have been the next Einstein maybe you could have been the person who discovered or at least contributed meaningfully to the cure to curing cancer maybe you would have been the next person that started some business that ended up you know helping so many people and feeding so many families maybe you would have been this this next multi-millionaire that then goes on and does all this philanthropy Maybe you would have been a person that

touches the souls of thousands Maybe but maybe you felt sure Allah says he's he's forgiving that don't disappear these verses they are so empowering and they what they do is they they realign The Narrative for us how our relationship with Allah should be and how we interact how the interface

should be so I thought okay let me share these in your own time to read them they are memorize them if you can Allah 72 and Surah Mulk verse 2. okay people with that will move on let's see