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Hadith Qudsi: “I Am As My Person Expects Of Me”

hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith muftis imaan eemaan eeman faith ayah aya ayat ayaat aayah aayat in sha allah insha'allah in shaa allah insha allah inshaa allah

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now in light of that you have the which is inur that um and I did bring that up uh oh I did have it on the same PowerPoint but it seems to have not got saved but it's the the I want to read the whole wording of it if I had it here that is but it's from it's from Abu it's transmitted it's in bukari and Muslim but it's very

0:37

popular that that it says that I treat my people my person you could translate it as servant I just think in this day and age we can translate it as servant or slave it's just in English it doesn't sometimes carry the same meaning because language

1:15

changes with the day and age and today servant and slave automatically falls into a derogatory kind of uh subset of words and that relationship with Allah is not derogatory it's an amazing relationship so so I prefer as not to cast upon it this shadow of the kind of social um interpretative repertoire what they would call in Psychology by using that word so I would prefer translating as just saying person or people but you can translate it as

1:53

slave or servant so Allah saying I treat people in accord with what they how they expect me to treat them and if they are mindful of me I am mindful of them Allah look at that tying exactly in to this phenomenal way of understanding that look you change your way Allah will change the world for you or your world at least I don't mean by

2:33

this I'm not saying in a sense the political structures and the the institutions of the world will change but your world which it stems from here it changes honestly I I find that so and this verse that that you do not send out this this this willpower what is It ultimately is it an energy is it a deep down kind of vibration is it what is it you do not send it out I mean people

3:11

could say vibration ultimately I mean everything is a form of energy is just vibration matter is according to string theory just vibration so you do not have this this Iman this mindfulness this positivity this will that you do not wish will something and it's not just wish you see is not is not like when you say inshallah it's not or you say you know oh if you you can translate it at times as wish but wish

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in in English can mean that kind of like that kind of Tam that I wish for something hey what are if you made a birthday wish this isn't that this is about will that you

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2022, March 13). Hadith Qudsi: “I Am As My Person Expects Of Me” [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iptynxh5mxa/
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BibTeX 
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  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Hadith Qudsi: “I Am As My Person Expects Of Me”}},
  year = {2022},
  month = {3},
  date = {2022-03-13},
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  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/iptynxh5mxa/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}