When God Created The Nafs | Mufti Abu Layth

is a a really uh a a beautiful um a beautiful hadith which which is problematized as its authenticity but its teaching is magnificent um and that is that it mentions that when allah made all the made creation he had the creation attest to god's majesty so that in this this teaching it it implies an implicit acknowledgement in all uh manifestation of phenomena to the divinity of god that the everything

it has this acknowledges this this the majesty of god the glory of god and it says in this teaching that and then allah created the nafs and so and when he asked this nafs this so this this this self just the i the the archetypal the archit you know the archetype itself yes created the nafs and and when its time came to manifest sorry to to acknowledge so allah says in this teaching allah says who am i it says anta you know you are god you are you

like so all the creation everything prior to this would say to god you are you you know you are the sublime you are the the ultimate you are they would all say that the naf said it too you see the navs it's not unaware it said anta ant and he said and i [Laughter]

because it's the origin yeah of this is this arrogant non-duality isn't it i went to a quran class once and they said that the root meaning of inson has two roots one is one who is social which is comical and then the other one is one who keeps forgetting stuff constantly forgets that because they say so you see the kuffiein and the bossariyin in in arabic grammar disagree and so what you have is the kufijin um sorry the bastard yin i believe they went to the understanding of saying that

insane is derived from uns which is this this kind of social harmony it's it's it's an affinity that you are drawn to someone so they say because he becomes familiar has this affinity he's drawn to and the kuffien said no it's mushtaq it's taken from nissan from forgetfulness because he's only called in sun because he keeps forgetting and but i find you know this teaching honestly it is so magnificent because it shows the essence of the self and what's interesting it's in this teaching it says that allah

and this is just it's it's an ally it's an allegory obviously it's just to teach to show inside allah says you know what punish this self this archetypal self punish it and it's punished and punished and punished and after eons it's brought back and it says to acknowledge the glory of god and it says and then he says no punish it and punish it and he keeps doing this until eventually you see what's interesting is eventually it's starved and deprived and then when it's asked it says just you are you and it stops

and it's interesting in showing that this self you know when it's deprived in that tragedy your travesty that it encounters it has a yearning which takes it back to the divine i find it so honestly so amazing