The Fatiha - God's Most Important Message to Humankind (2020-05-08) ​

0:00:00 Akuma rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh today
0:00:02 we're going to be talking about
0:00:03 something very important
0:00:05 it's God's message God's most important
0:00:09 message to human beings say that one
0:00:13 more time no problem it's God's most
0:00:16 important message to human beings God
0:00:20 Allah he sent the Quran as the final
0:00:25 Testament if you like the final
0:00:28 revelation there's nothing more to be
0:00:32 revealed and the Prophet Muhammad was
0:00:36 the final messenger this is the Islamic
0:00:38 belief and in this book of six thousand
0:00:45 two hundred and thirty six verses of
0:00:48 approximately a hundred and fourteen
0:00:49 actually precisely 114 chapters and
0:00:53 approximately 70,000 70,000 words this
0:01:00 small chapter which is a composite of
0:01:03 only a hundred and thirteen letters
0:01:08 twenty-five words and seven lines is the
0:01:14 most important segment of the entire
0:01:17 poor Anik corpus this is what the
0:01:22 Prophet told us and he told his
0:01:24 companions he said to one of his
0:01:27 companions o Ali Monaca so rotten here
0:01:30 are the most sorrowful Quran I will
0:01:32 teach you a couple intelligent message I
0:01:34 will teach you a chapter which is the
0:01:37 most mighty chapter in the entire Quran
0:01:42 before you leave the message to one of
0:01:45 his companions he said this and he also
0:01:47 said let's all attack
0:01:48 Leeman Lamia crappy fatty until Khattab
0:01:50 there is no prayer in other words the
0:01:53 prayer is not valid unless you read this
0:01:56 particular chapter for those non-muslims
0:01:58 I know are watching when we pray five
0:02:01 times a day we pray each time with this
0:02:05 particular chapter recited and we recite
0:02:09 it 17 times on a minimum on a daily
0:02:12 basis
0:02:13 and it's only like I said to you it's
0:02:15 only 113 lettuce it's only 25 words so
0:02:21 what are these very important holy words
0:02:24 to the Muslims that together are
0:02:28 referred to as al-fatiha the opening
0:02:29 chapter of the Quran otherwise known as
0:02:33 ohm will Quran the foundation of the
0:02:38 entire Quran and scholars Islamic
0:02:40 scholars say that is because it
0:02:43 encompasses all of the major meanings of
0:02:46 the Quran all of the major themes are
0:02:48 represented in this chapter in other
0:02:53 words if all of the Souris of the Quran
0:02:57 were nominees and candidates for the
0:03:02 representation the ultimate
0:03:04 representation of the Quran then surah
0:03:06 fatiha would be the prime minister of
0:03:09 the Quran the major of presentative of
0:03:11 the Quran so do you not want to know
0:03:14 what this chapter is all about maybe
0:03:18 you're a Muslim and you've been reciting
0:03:21 this chapter for years
0:03:22 maybe you've been reciting and you don't
0:03:25 even really know what this chapter is
0:03:28 about maybe you don't know what the gems
0:03:30 of this chapter the jewels of this
0:03:32 chapter the gold nuggets of this chapter
0:03:35 are let's go through it so we'll start
0:03:41 with a handle a table I mean yes some
0:03:43 say l betts Mela bismillah r-rahman
0:03:45 r-rahim is part of the fatiha but for a
0:03:49 hadith for a reason that pertains to
0:03:52 doing it today L or evidencing the case
0:03:58 with a hadith which is could see which
0:04:00 means us from Allah that starts with
0:04:06 consent o Salih Bey nuobiniya Abdeen is
0:04:09 fain where the abdomen is a hadith and
0:04:12 in this hadith the hadith starts with Al
0:04:15 hamdulillah horribly awry so for that
0:04:17 reason lot of scholars have said that
0:04:19 actually the Fatiha starts with al hamdu
0:04:22 lillahi rabbil aalameen so let's start
0:04:24 with al hamdulillah uniblab what does
0:04:26 this mean
0:04:27 alhamdulillah means all praise and
0:04:31 thanks belongs to Allah Lord of the
0:04:33 Worlds
0:04:34 that's what it means all praise and
0:04:36 thanks belongs to Allah Lord of the
0:04:39 Worlds now let's take it step by step
0:04:42 for a second I'll handle who I'll met
0:04:45 how a Shooks so a hand is a combination
0:04:50 of two things
0:04:51 some scholars say who hath a neck like a
0:04:54 samosa he says who attend a whole met
0:04:56 what are our different miquellee metal
0:04:58 matter it is a synonym with the word
0:05:02 meta which simply means praise but I'll
0:05:05 just going to say wait a minute it's a
0:05:06 bit more general than that it is l-hamdu
0:05:10 it is shock and Matt it is praise and
0:05:17 thanks
0:05:20 because thanks when you thanking someone
0:05:23 it smokeable only niyama t as the
0:05:27 scholars say it's something which if
0:05:28 someone give me something oh you know
0:05:30 bro thank you very much you give me a
0:05:31 nice check it you gave me this you give
0:05:33 me that I am thanking someone as a
0:05:35 reciprocal response say that almost time
0:05:39 yes as a reciprocal response to their
0:05:41 initial generosity but praise doesn't
0:05:46 need to be a reciprocal response to any
0:05:48 kind of generosity at all you see praise
0:05:51 is usually as a result of an attribute
0:05:55 that someone has but someone sees a big
0:05:59 strapping tall dark handsome individual
0:06:01 like myself I'm sure the first thing
0:06:04 they want to do and when you're joking
0:06:06 guys okay
0:06:06 I'm just trying to because I know this
0:06:08 is a you know I have to give live
0:06:11 examples for the people yes when you see
0:06:18 a person or a sports person or something
0:06:21 you say wait a minute
0:06:22 this is very good you want a clap you
0:06:24 want to thank you on a sari you want to
0:06:26 praise it's a very standard response you
0:06:30 see what I mean so praising and thanking
0:06:32 are two different things
0:06:34 and what Allah is telling us is that all
0:06:35 praise not just some but all praise and
0:06:39 all thanks belongs
0:06:41 to Allah Lord of the Worlds now Kelly
0:06:45 met al al-amin
0:06:46 kalila Allah Allah moon okay Allah moon
0:06:50 which is in this because much rule is
0:06:52 al-amin but the us Allah slalom oon what
0:06:57 does it mean so the more fast you don't
0:06:58 say it's mercy Allah it's anything other
0:07:01 than Allah why because if it was a local
0:07:06 that only the intelligent ones then it
0:07:09 wouldn't there's a chapter of the
0:07:10 Quranic verse we're fair round and Moses
0:07:13 Moses Moosa are speaking and around us
0:07:17 Omar Abdullah Al Amin who is rabbul
0:07:19 aalameen says Robert Moses says rubber
0:07:22 semi-wet you will outdo me by now am i
0:07:24 in kuntum walk in him he mentions
0:07:26 inanimate things so it's not just about
0:07:29 the the the creatures of the intellect
0:07:32 and Allah moon is the same as a lower
0:07:35 limb its world's but it's just in a
0:07:39 different form which is a particular
0:07:41 form called John Whittaker Salem which
0:07:43 is acceptable
0:07:44 sometimes in reference to live a lark
0:07:47 Hill as the old poetry of the Arabs can
0:07:51 show now there's something I want to
0:07:53 show here is a very beautiful thing well
0:07:55 Ida the richness and the depths of the
0:07:57 Quranic discourse you'll be shocked
0:07:59 because the Calumet erupted three two
0:08:03 letters of the Arabic language one of
0:08:07 them as were shot dead robbed it has so
0:08:10 many deep meanings robbed means
0:08:12 elmo's later the really the one who's in
0:08:15 control
0:08:16 it means Malik the one who's has the
0:08:18 possession the one who owns so we say
0:08:23 rob bull mental for example someone who
0:08:24 owns the house or a bouquet or a
0:08:26 bouffalant
0:08:27 the one who owns something Malik Elmwood
0:08:30 that bill the one who plans the one who
0:08:36 plans the one who do basically the
0:08:38 organizer the organizer you're
0:08:41 organizing thieves you know how we
0:08:42 organize things but Allah organizes the
0:08:43 universe and in that really he
0:08:46 fine-tunes the universe he find choose
0:08:50 the universe and we're not talking about
0:08:52 you know arguments for God's existence
0:08:54 although
0:08:54 they are somewhat relevant here he
0:08:57 fine-tunes the laws of the ether
0:08:59 lawmaker he's the organizer of the
0:09:01 systems of the universe and Almora be
0:09:06 the one who sustains and maintains the
0:09:08 universe so for this reason it's very
0:09:10 interesting when I was reading the TAF
0:09:11 fear of thoradine arrazi
0:09:14 because he was actually making the
0:09:16 arguments of contingency and fine-tuning
0:09:18 through this particular verse how he
0:09:21 says look if Allah is the rub if Allah
0:09:26 is the one who lays everything out and
0:09:28 organizes it and sets the laws in motion
0:09:31 when you look into the sky and you look
0:09:33 into the constellations and you look
0:09:37 into the atom they're inanimate things
0:09:40 as well as the animal things all of that
0:09:42 is regulated and by the way there is no
0:09:45 atheistic response to this forget about
0:09:47 it you know forget about I've read their
0:09:50 books I've read all the new atheist
0:09:51 books believe me there is no new
0:09:53 atheistic response to the fact that
0:09:56 there is fine-tuning YES on a inanimate
0:10:02 cosmological level why is there all of
0:10:05 these why are these laws in place why is
0:10:08 the universe explicable at all but
0:10:11 anyway al-razi says if we are sure and
0:10:15 it's intuitive and immediate knowledge
0:10:16 for for us to be sure that the universe
0:10:20 is organized in this manner so why can't
0:10:23 we trust the organizer to organize our
0:10:25 lives
0:10:26 Allah Allah say that all time he says
0:10:29 why can't you trust the organizer the
0:10:31 ultimate organizer the ultimate planner
0:10:33 the Rob he's gonna organize your life
0:10:37 he's gonna organize your life
0:10:40 spiritually and psychologically and in
0:10:43 all the ways because believe me me and
0:10:45 you are not capable of guidance we're
0:10:48 lost
0:10:48 we need their map the roadmap you know
0:10:51 when some time you get lost in your
0:10:53 driving you need a map you need like a
0:10:55 GPS something like that yes and Allah he
0:10:59 offers that map and he shows you that he
0:11:01 is the best at organizing Maps through
0:11:05 his subhanAllah how he puts the universe
0:11:08 together
0:11:09 so the same replied I mean can be the
0:11:12 same rub that you do is to ina for we're
0:11:14 gonna come to that in child la when we
0:11:15 talk about yeah can amble do where
0:11:17 Candice time so let's quickly do a
0:11:19 translation alhamdulillah he all praise
0:11:21 and all thanks belongs to Allah the Lord
0:11:24 of all of the world's cool the mercy of
0:11:26 Allah subhana WA Ta'ala
0:11:28 alrahman alraheem al rahman is they
0:11:36 translate it to the most gracious to the
0:11:37 most gracious the most merciful
0:11:39 those two words man is intense intense
0:11:46 and immediate mercy and they're both
0:11:50 derivative of the Arabic word r-rahim
0:11:52 which is the womb of the mother because
0:11:54 Allah God Almighty he encompasses us
0:12:00 with mercy in the same way as the little
0:12:05 baby in the womb of the mother is
0:12:06 encompassed with the mercy of his mother
0:12:08 llahu akbar allah i say that one more
0:12:11 time ok no problem
0:12:13 you see Allah he encompasses you with
0:12:17 mercy and me with mercy in the same way
0:12:19 as the baby of the womb of the mother is
0:12:21 encompassed with the mercy and al Rahman
0:12:24 Allah Westmeath Ln and in the Arab times
0:12:30 Farallon is is a particular
0:12:32 morphological lexical construction it's
0:12:38 a particular morphological lexical
0:12:41 construction which indicates the
0:12:45 severity and the immediacy of the action
0:12:47 which is why when you see an angry
0:12:50 person you see immediately that they're
0:12:52 angry la so we see where we are exposed
0:12:57 to the mercy of allah subhanho wa taala
0:13:00 immediately it's like when you is
0:13:05 raining heavily and you come outside and
0:13:09 you you know you're immediately drenched
0:13:11 this is like the rama of allah subhanahu
0:13:14 tan rahim your denial is still wrong
0:13:18 it's continuous there's a continuity in
0:13:22 the mercy of God all I think about this
0:13:26 for a second man let me let me just put
0:13:28 something to you let me put something to
0:13:32 you if I were to say to you my friend
0:13:35 your eyes your your hearing your seeing
0:13:40 how much would you let me take you're
0:13:43 seeing four you'll see Oh your your
0:13:44 ability to see if you had two billion in
0:13:48 the account and you get two billion
0:13:50 dollars or pounds or whatever country
0:13:52 you're from and I took both of your eyes
0:13:56 and I said you the only way you're gonna
0:13:57 get both of your eyes back and your
0:13:59 eyesight back is you give me that money
0:14:01 and you know where it's possible for me
0:14:03 to give you that you'd give it to me
0:14:04 quickly these are priceless even your
0:14:09 little fingers priceless your arms your
0:14:11 legs your hair but some of us are losing
0:14:15 oh yeah
0:14:17 but even that you know they go to Turkey
0:14:20 they try and game plant this and that
0:14:21 maybe not maybe not as price loud be
0:14:23 honest it's not the hair is not as
0:14:24 priceless as the eyes and the ears and
0:14:27 you know hearing and seeing and so on
0:14:29 but the idea is we've given these things
0:14:31 in a non-reciprocal non-transactional
0:14:34 way no one told you hey here's the bill
0:14:43 so al-rahman al-rahim the most gracious
0:14:47 the most merciful
0:14:51 manly chioma dean and is also Mele
0:14:54 Chioma Dean
0:14:55 now after allah subhanaw taala showed us
0:14:58 how merciful he is there needs to be a
0:15:00 lay of balancing out here so he says he
0:15:02 is the owner of the Day of Judgment he's
0:15:04 also the king of the Day of Judgment yes
0:15:08 and both of them are different but both
0:15:11 of them have a pure are going back to
0:15:13 the prophet mohammed salah salem
0:15:14 which is legitimate and both of them
0:15:17 Allah sent Malik means the owner which
0:15:20 comes from Kalamata milk and Malik means
0:15:25 the king which comes from Kelly met milk
0:15:27 which milk like the one you drink for
0:15:30 milk here means serenity
0:15:34 yes so Allah is the owner and he is also
0:15:38 the king of the day of judgment he is
0:15:43 the owner and the king of the Day of
0:15:44 Judgment and why is it Yama Dean as the
0:15:51 Arab side came out to demon to them as
0:15:53 you as you give basically you're gonna
0:15:55 get so if you are an unjust person your
0:15:59 injustice will be exposed to you on the
0:16:01 day of judgment it's a day of recompense
0:16:05 that's a good translation recompense
0:16:08 when everybody will be recompensed for
0:16:10 what they done and that's why lots of
0:16:12 pantalla says you're amazing you have
0:16:14 Fahim allahu Vina will hop oh this is
0:16:17 dead area the day the day when Allah
0:16:20 will recompense them basically on their
0:16:25 offense so in other words here Dean is
0:16:29 mundane which is like debt and
0:16:33 everything that you're indebted to other
0:16:35 people for or to Allah for you be
0:16:38 recompense on the day of judgment this
0:16:41 is what's required for justice to
0:16:43 ultimately take place a forum which
0:16:45 allows for all of the debts to be
0:16:47 claimed if I killed someone one time or
0:16:50 a thousand times those two individuals
0:16:52 now will be dealt with accordingly shirk
0:16:54 you committed shirk you'll see on the
0:16:56 day of judgment how heavy that is and
0:16:58 what the ultimate demise of someone who
0:17:01 is a polytheist will be yeah can Apple
0:17:05 do what ya can assign you alone we
0:17:07 worship and you alone we ask for help
0:17:11 subhanAllah now has come to second
0:17:13 person it was third persons called LTFS
0:17:15 transitioning now into second person
0:17:17 which means we're forced yes we are
0:17:19 forced to make a supplication to allah
0:17:21 you alone we worship and you alone we
0:17:25 ask for help
0:17:30 you alone we worship and you alone we
0:17:31 ask for help and in the Arabic language
0:17:36 hey this is Joe militant fairly attune
0:17:39 harborough will be hovering will cut
0:17:42 them in this is a Joomla fillet of
0:17:44 verbal sentence which has been inverted
0:17:46 in a sense which you fiddle has selected
0:17:49 us which means lay off a fillet which
0:17:53 basically means you can't conjunct
0:17:55 anything with it we say you alone we
0:17:57 worship we can't say you alone we
0:17:59 worship and that one and this means that
0:18:03 this is the pinnacle of our cradle
0:18:07 position we have a puritanical
0:18:10 monotheistic position where we only
0:18:14 worship Allah no Trinity no Paula Caesar
0:18:17 no human being we worship no no no we
0:18:20 purely just worship one God the creator
0:18:23 of the heavens and the earth the same
0:18:25 god of Moses and Jesus and Abraham and
0:18:27 all of those prophets yes you alone we
0:18:32 worship and you alone we ask for help
0:18:34 because we're gonna need that help if
0:18:36 we're gonna get into worshipping allah
0:18:38 subhanahu wa'ta'ala
0:18:40 if you dinner sirat al-mustaqim guide us
0:18:43 to the straight path and beautiful guide
0:18:46 us not guide me shows us the
0:18:48 selflessness of the islamic position
0:18:51 forces you to be a selfless individual
0:18:53 not selfish and narcissistic but
0:18:56 selfless and giving out letting
0:18:59 outpouring just like allah gives you you
0:19:03 know how women feel of your hammock on
0:19:04 Memphis same as the hadith says be
0:19:06 merciful to those who are on the earth
0:19:08 and the one in the heaven will be
0:19:09 merciful to you so guide us to the
0:19:13 straight path and especially when we
0:19:15 pray with this source upon Allah it's
0:19:18 Manny this mother is a manufactured but
0:19:20 it's spoken this word is this the surah
0:19:23 is spoken in such a word in such a way
0:19:27 which allows us to when we're praying
0:19:31 make delightful them up we'll meet the
0:19:34 ones who are praying behind us so
0:19:36 everyone is benefiting yeah can I by the
0:19:39 way because a little self and guide us
0:19:40 to the straight path surat al-an'am
0:19:43 tell him the part of those who are
0:19:45 favorite ah this is beautiful the path
0:19:48 of those who you have favoured and the
0:19:54 Quran says uma Utah Lahore Rasulullah I
0:19:57 Kamala Dina and I'm Allah Allah him men
0:19:59 and nabi'ina was the deity knower
0:20:01 Shahada was Holly Haines Roja sooner or
0:20:04 later of you and whoever obeys allah and
0:20:07 the messenger then they will be with the
0:20:09 one who Allah has bestowed blessings
0:20:11 upon from the prophets the Nabi no seed
0:20:15 de pinna and the truthful ones were
0:20:17 Shahada and the martyrs were so Lehane
0:20:20 and the righteous ones and what a
0:20:22 pleasant company that will be and so
0:20:24 subhan allah allah subhanaw taala is
0:20:26 giving us a live example live examples
0:20:31 case study examples of lives of
0:20:33 individuals who have passed the test and
0:20:37 so we look at the life of Jesus we look
0:20:40 at the life of Moses we look at the life
0:20:41 of Abraham the stories of all of these
0:20:43 things all of these people and we see
0:20:46 Mary how does she live their Sahaba the
0:20:49 companions of the Prophet how did they
0:20:52 live now we try and emulate as much of
0:20:55 it as possible in order to practically
0:20:58 live a enriched Islamic lifestyle while
0:21:04 ma fluvial am not the ones who have
0:21:07 earned your anger and Kelly mcmurdo be
0:21:13 it's fair bittitan it's actually a state
0:21:18 it's not something like because in other
0:21:20 parts of Quran it says habib ali ya so
0:21:25 the ones who allah have have a lot with
0:21:29 you can say whatever yeah this is
0:21:31 different much boob which means they're
0:21:33 continuously in that state well of
0:21:37 barley in north the lost ones the
0:21:39 Prophet was asked who are these people
0:21:40 they were talking about NASA hadith
0:21:41 intimately which is has an honorary but
0:21:44 which is a low level of strength but
0:21:47 still a hadith that almost all the
0:21:49 exegetes in Islam use who are the model
0:21:51 bialy so the Prophet said Elia hood now
0:21:57 he said the Jewish once does this mean
0:22:00 all the Jewish ones it doesn't mean all
0:22:02 the Jewish ones why is it because we're
0:22:04 trying to please someone here online no
0:22:06 the Quran says lay so sour that Jewish
0:22:10 and Christian communities are not all
0:22:13 the same
0:22:13 you cannot generalize the Jews we cannot
0:22:16 generalize the Christians but we're
0:22:17 talking about case study examples which
0:22:19 the biblical accounts themselves
0:22:21 reference those who oppose Moses those
0:22:25 who mentioned the Quran parts of the
0:22:28 clergy a method rule Edina hum minute
0:22:30 Torah so Melanie okay methylene hey man
0:22:32 yeah - fella like those individuals that
0:22:35 were entrusted with the Torah and then
0:22:38 they couldn't handle that and so it's
0:22:40 like Allah says they're like donkeys
0:22:42 carrying books on their back which is an
0:22:44 interesting and vivid imagery what a
0:22:46 deep and interesting you can imagine I
0:22:48 know you know what you're imagining now
0:22:50 is that don't keep yes with with books
0:22:52 and but why is that you have a lots of
0:22:54 what and but you have no actions no
0:22:59 actions and likewise you can have a lot
0:23:02 of ammon actions but no island so the
0:23:05 two must come together because Darlene
0:23:08 are talking about and nasarah
0:23:09 the ones who they say we are Christians
0:23:12 now is it all the Christians no because
0:23:14 Allah says later somewhere then all the
0:23:16 same however those ones who believe in
0:23:19 the Trinity which unfortunately are the
0:23:22 probably the majority because we would
0:23:24 say that is a theological position of
0:23:26 contradiction and actually this is
0:23:28 you're forcing yourself into an ignorant
0:23:29 position unfortunately but how can you
0:23:32 do good deeds on this on the prayer on
0:23:34 the premise that you yes believe in a
0:23:37 three and one and one and three this is
0:23:39 wrong so we say Allah has the ultimate
0:23:43 map to guidance and we ask Allah and it
0:23:46 does anything you take from what I said
0:23:47 it's just one thing Surat al-fatiha
0:23:49 is asking us the week the the feeble
0:23:54 they're incapable yes human beings who
0:23:59 would otherwise be lost asking Allah for
0:24:02 guidance so whatever you're praying
0:24:03 think of those meanings quickly to recap
0:24:06 all praise be to God Lord of the Worlds
0:24:12 the most gracious the most merciful or
0:24:17 the immediately gracious the immediately
0:24:19 merciful they're consistently merciful
0:24:21 you could you can translate this in in
0:24:23 many ways malakoma dean malakoma dean
0:24:26 the king and the owner of the Day of
0:24:28 Judgment or the king of the owner of the
0:24:30 day of recompense
0:24:32 Jazze that they are really of Dane and
0:24:34 well when the Dane will be settled or
0:24:38 the story that that will be settled
0:24:39 yeah can Apple do you are alone we
0:24:42 worship and you alone we ask for help
0:24:43 guide us to the straight path the path
0:24:46 of those who you have favoured not the
0:24:49 path of those of earned your anger nor
0:24:51 of those who have gone astray
0:24:54 Salaam alaikum wa rahmatullahi