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Willpower Vs Destruction| Mufti shares a Hadith on Optimism & Willpower | Mufti Abu Layth

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Yeah, there is something formidable about the will of insan. Let me tell you something, you know, on this this courage, yeah. You know, I've shared with you guys the hadith before that ins- that the prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam says that if the final hour was to come upon you

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and you are eating a morsel of food falyagharafa then then let it be. Eat that morsel. And in a narration it says if the final hour was to come upon you and you are planting a plant.

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Could be a flower. It could be It says a plant. Something to blossom to a tree. falyazrahu Then plant it. Now this hadith there's a layer of it that is clearly showing the optimism that the prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam is teaching us.

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But there's a layer deeper than that. Check this. The cosmos perceptibly is turning in on itself. The celestial bodies are wavering and appearing to collapse.

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The oceans are rising. With tsunami terror. Fires. Landscape decimated. And amidst all of this, insan seeing it that if the hour is insan sees it

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looks it dead in the eye what is happening and then attempts to regrow it. That challo, it's looking at that destruction thinks it's on. Allah, he puts that plant in.

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But let's see. See, it's not the insan is going to perish. There is no way the insan can overcome that cataclysmic catastrophic destruction of the world before him or her. But it's that might of will that says it's on.

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I'm going to re grow, replant. I'm going to recreate this despite the destruct in the face of destruction. That is that this layer of the Hadith, it blows your mind. That wow, that is so profound.

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A message for all of us that no matter how engulfed we are. that Look it. Face it. And plant what you have to do. Take that step. I mean, if it's going down, it's going down anyway.

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But it's the might it's the willpower that is is a force to be reckoned with in the face of cataclysmic disasters. This is the thing about insan that Allah says And yet I know about this insan what you know not.

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So, wow, I just wanted to share that. It's profound. It really it's something.

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2023, March 22). Willpower Vs Destruction| Mufti shares a Hadith on Optimism & Willpower | Mufti Abu Layth [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tlq08ty4ege/
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  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Willpower Vs Destruction| Mufti shares a Hadith on Optimism \& Willpower | Mufti Abu Layth}},
  year = {2023},
  month = {3},
  date = {2023-03-22},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tlq08ty4ege/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tlq08ty4ege/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}