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The Beginning and the End with Omar Suleiman: Limitations (Ep 2)
Nauman Ali Khan - Official - Bayyinah
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You know, the very first way that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la actually describes us in the Qur'an
00:20
is, alif la meem, thalika alkitabu la rayba fee, hudan lil muttaqeen alathina yu'minoona bil ghayb.
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Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la describes the believers as people that believe in the unseen.
00:31
So right away Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la does away with this notion that if you don't see it then you can't believe it.
00:36
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la is basically telling us as human beings that we come to a place in our faith
00:42
where we recognize that we are simply incapable, we're utterly incapable of understanding everything around us.
00:48
And so once we've come to this conclusion that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, the creator and the one who sees all things
00:54
and the one who's created all things, is the one who's informing us about the reality of things
00:58
then we come to a satisfaction.
01:00
And you know this is really the essence of kibr, the essence of pride.
01:04
As the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, you know in the very famous hadith when he says that
01:07
no one of you would enter paradise even with an atom's worth of pride in his heart.
01:12
The companions were concerned with that statement because they thought to themselves
01:16
well pride could mean many things.
01:18
So they said, O Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, does that mean
01:21
you know if a person likes to dress nicely or a person likes to have nice shoes
01:24
does that mean that they have kibr, that they have pride?
01:27
And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said no.
01:29
He said, al-kibr, pride is ghamtu an-naas wa batru al-haq.
01:33
It's to degrade people, to judge people or to deny legislation.
01:39
And in essence what kabra comes from, what kibr comes from is this idea of making ourselves bigger.
01:44
So when we say Allahu Akbar, we say Allah is greater than absolutely anything else.
01:49
When we have kibr, we think that we're greater than we actually are.
01:53
And so we overestimate ourselves.
01:55
And when we overestimate ourselves, we naturally underestimate Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la.
01:58
And that's the crime on the day of judgment.
02:00
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says,
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مَا قَدَرُ اللَّهَ حَقَّ قَدْرِهِ
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That they did not give Allah his due estimation.
02:07
And Imam Ibn Al-Qayyim, Rahimahullah, he comments on that hadith from the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
02:10
and he says that the reason why those two things would guarantee a person hellfire
02:15
is because those are two rights that solely belong to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
02:19
being legislation and judgment.
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So when you place yourself in a position of denying legislation,
02:25
you are making yourself a god.
02:27
And when you place yourself in a position of judging someone else based on the ظاهر,
02:32
based on what's apparent of them,
02:33
you're also placing yourself in a position of god.
02:36
And so at that point, you have developed a sense of pride
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where you have made yourself greater than you actually are.
02:43
Abu Bakr al-Siddiq radiallahu ta'ala anhu,
02:45
when he wrote his letter to Kisra, the emperor of Persia,
02:49
he said to him something that's pretty interesting.
02:52
He said, وَيْلَكَ أَتَتَكَبَّرُ عَلَى اللَّهِ
02:54
He said, you know, woe to you.
02:56
Are you expressing pride with Allah?
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وَقَدْ خَرَجْتَ مِن مَخْرَجِ الْبَوْلِ مَرَّتَيْنِ
03:01
When you came out of مَخْرَجِ الْبَوْلِ
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When you came out of the place of urine twice.
03:05
In essence, who do you think you are?
03:07
What were you created from?
03:09
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us this in the Qur'an.
03:12
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
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قُتِلَ الْإِنسَانُ مَا أَكْثَرَ
03:15
May man be destroyed.
03:16
What was he created from in the first place?
03:18
How ungrateful is he?
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مِنْ أَيِّ شَيْءٍ خَلَقَ
03:21
What was he created from?
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مِنْ نُطْفَ
03:22
He was created from a dirty drop of fluid.
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خَلَقَهُ فَقَدْرَ
03:26
Allah created him when he willed
03:28
and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala proportioned him
03:30
the way that he willed, right?
03:32
So you had no say in your creation.
03:34
You had no say in the way that you were created.
03:37
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
03:38
ثُمَّ السَّبِيلَ يَسَّرَ
03:39
He made the path easy for you.
03:42
And Ibn Abbas radiallahu anhu,
03:43
he says that this can be understood
03:44
in both the physical and the spiritual sense.
03:48
Physically, he made it easy for you.
03:50
He facilitated your entrance into this world.
03:53
So he facilitated your way into this world
03:55
through the labor.
03:56
And spiritually, he guided you to the straight path.
04:00
Once he brought you into this world,
04:01
ثُمَّ أَمَاتَهُ فَأَقْبَرَ
04:03
When Allah wills, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
04:04
takes him away
04:05
and Allah puts him back into darkness again.
04:07
So he goes from the darkness of his mother's womb
04:09
to the darkness of this earth.
04:11
In essence, you have no power over yourself.
04:13
Who do you think you are?
04:15
Allah even takes us earlier than that.
04:17
Allah says,
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هَلْ أَتَى عَلَى الْإِنسَانِ شَيْءٌ مِنَ الدَّهْرِ
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Or هَلْ أَتَى عَلَى الْإِنسَانِ حِينٌ مِنَ الدَّهْرِ
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Has man not come across a time
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لَمْ يَكُنْ شَيْءٌ مَذْكُورًا
04:26
When he was nothing to even be recognized.
04:28
Before you were even that drop of fluid,
04:30
where were you?
04:31
Who were you?
04:32
And so this idea that we can understand everything around us
04:35
and if we can't see it
04:37
and we can't grasp it
04:38
with our own human capabilities,
04:40
then it clearly doesn't exist
04:42
and it doesn't make sense.
04:43
And I remember once being at the San Diego Zoo
04:46
with my family
04:47
and I'm that type of person
04:48
that will actually stop
04:50
and listen to what the zookeepers are saying
04:52
about the animals
04:52
because I find it quite fascinating.
04:55
And subhanAllah,
04:55
I remember the last time that I was at the zoo,
04:58
I was listening to the zookeeper
05:00
saying that the eagle,
05:01
the bald eagle,
05:02
actually has four times the vision
05:04
of a human being.
05:06
Right?
05:06
A human being,
05:06
not any human being,
05:07
a human being with perfect eyesight.
05:10
And she said that
05:10
if you were to hang a newspaper
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on a field goal post
05:14
three football fields away,
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the eagle could actually read
05:17
the fine print on that paper.
05:19
A great white shark
05:20
can detect a drop of blood
05:22
in 25 gallons of water.
05:25
Right?
05:25
They can smell it
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from three miles away.
05:28
An elephant can smell water
05:29
from three miles away.
05:31
A hummingbird could beat their wings
05:32
up to 80 times per second.
05:34
That to us is humanly impossible.
05:35
How could a hummingbird do such a thing?
05:37
A flea could jump 200 times its height,
05:40
which is equivalent to a man
05:42
jumping over the Empire State Building.
05:44
A cheetah could go from
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zero to 60 miles per hour
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in three seconds.
05:48
A giraffe can stand
05:50
within half an hour of its birth.
05:52
So all of these things
05:52
essentially show us
05:54
that we are not as superior
05:55
of a creation
05:56
as we think we are.
05:58
And Imam Sufyan al-Thawri
05:59
raheemullah
05:59
had a beautiful reflection on that.
06:01
Sufyan al-Thawri,
06:01
he said,
06:02
the only thing that we actually surpass
06:03
everything around us in
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is our ability
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to properly prostrate,
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our ability to do sujood
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to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
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to put every part of our body
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in sajda to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
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in prostration.
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Because that's why Allah created us,
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that's the purpose He gave to us,
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and that's what we are superior
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to the creation around us in doing.
06:23
So we are limited
06:24
in our own creation,
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and obviously,
06:26
you know,
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the things around us
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are far more vast
06:29
than we can possibly grasp.
06:31
You know,
06:32
you'll hear scientists
06:32
constantly saying,
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you know,
06:34
that there are now
06:35
this many billion stars
06:36
that we are sure exist
06:37
and this many billion stars.
06:38
And so,
06:39
at this point now,
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scientists have come
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to the conclusion
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that there are over
06:42
300 billion stars
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in our galaxy,
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and perhaps over
06:46
a trillion planets
06:48
in our galaxy alone.
06:50
Right?
06:51
And then you talk about
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the galaxies that exist
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outside of our galaxies,
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and the planets
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and the things
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that are flying around
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outside of outer space
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where we can't even see.
07:02
And scientists say
07:03
that the chance
07:05
of two galaxies colliding,
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that's outside
07:08
of what we can see,
07:09
the chance of two galaxies colliding,
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where there are over
07:12
100 billion of them,
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is the same possibility
07:14
as a fly from Paris
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and a fly from DC colliding.
07:18
So,
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what you should ask next is,
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what,
07:21
how vast is that space
07:22
that contains
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those 100 billion galaxies
07:25
that we think exist
07:27
and we can't even see?
07:28
And subhanAllah,
07:29
when you look at
07:29
the Big Bang Theory
07:30
and how this all came together,
07:32
scientists will happily admit
07:34
that if things were
07:35
even one trillionth
07:36
of a second off,
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none of this happens.
07:39
None of this around us happens.
07:40
In fact,
07:41
not a single star forms.
07:43
And so,
07:43
when you look at
07:44
the creation around us,
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how vast it is,
07:46
you know,
07:47
who could be doing
07:48
all of this,
07:48
except for a creator,
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except for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
07:51
And how could we exist
07:52
when scientifically
07:53
there are over
07:54
200 known parameters
07:56
that are necessary
07:57
for a planet
07:58
to support life?
07:59
And every single one of them
08:00
has to be perfectly met.
08:02
So how could we possibly exist
08:04
had it not been
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for a creator
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that put us here?
08:06
And so I saw this article,
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you know,
08:08
floating around recently
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that science is increasingly
08:10
actually making the case
08:12
for a designer,
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for God.
08:15
And Dr. John Lennox
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from Oxford,
08:17
he said that
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the more we get to know
08:18
about our universe,
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the more the hypothesis
08:21
that there is a creator
08:22
gains credibility
08:23
as the best explanation
08:25
of why we are here.
08:26
And so it has to be something,
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the creator has to be something
08:29
that is outside
08:30
of our concept of time
08:32
because obviously time
08:33
is created
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and time,
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you know,
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there has to be a cause
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and effect
08:37
and creation has to be created
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and so on and so forth.
08:40
It has to go back
08:41
to something
08:42
that is completely free
08:43
of our notions of time,
08:44
that is completely free
08:45
of our notions
08:46
of cause and effect,
08:47
that is completely self-existent
08:49
and that has a will
08:50
in order to will the creation
08:52
to begin in the first place.
08:53
And that's Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
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