Why Are We Here? | Your Relationship With Allah Ep.9 | Sh. Alauddin ElBakri | Ramadan Series

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1. 0:00As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh and welcome back to Tawasaw series
2. 0:04Your relationship with Allah, for this Ramadan 1446
3. 0:08The biggest question that all Muslims ask
4. 0:12and sometimes people who are not even Muslim, ask why did Allah create me?
5. 0:18Why do I exist?
6. 0:19Because this will determine the relationship between you and Allah SWT
7. 0:23the answer to that question is
8. 0:26the full answer, the full depth and width of this answer, only Allah knows and believe me
9. 0:33when we all Insha'Allah with God's willing
10. 0:38that when we enter heaven on the Day of Judgment Allah will give us the answer and we can comprehend
11. 0:44some of Allah's wisdom in creating us, but He explained the wisdom for us in The Noble Quran
12. 0:49What we can see in The Noble Quran that before the human came into this world
13. 0:54He had created angels and angels don't have a choice. They don't eat, they don't drink, they don't sleep
14. 1:01they don't have a gender, they don't have any of the human needs and they are programmed and coded
15. 1:08to obey Allah SWT all the time
16. 1:12Also, it tells us in the Quran that before the human existed the Jinn existed, the Jinn had the choice to obey or not
17. 1:20to obey
18. 1:21just like the human, but still, there was something missing about the Jinn
19. 1:26and something that Allah did not give them, to the Jinn, that He gave us
20. 1:31It's very clear that Allah gave us two things
21. 1:34one, He blew in us of His essence and that give us an honor this idea of the soul
22. 1:40As I said in a previous episode that Allah SWT in the Quran
23. 1:45explained that He asked the angels to prostrate to Adam in respect after He blew in Adam the spirit, the soul
24. 1:54Allah sees, we see but our seeing is not like Allah at the least
25. 2:01Allah sees but we see but our seeing is very limited, our vision is very limited
26. 2:07Allah SWT
27. 2:10comprehends, we do understand but with a huge difference
28. 2:13Nevertheless, we can understand Allah SWT
29. 2:17So what we can see that Allah gave us a very unique soul and Allah gave us
30. 2:22very unique knowledge and Allah wanted us to choose Him, not by force
31. 2:29but by choice, in Surah Al-Kahf Allah says
32. 2:32(And say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “˹This is˺ the truth from your Lord. Whoever wills let them believe, and whoever wills let them disbelieve.”)
33. 2:38And say the truth is from your Lord
34. 2:41so whosoever desires let him become a believer and whosoever desires let him become a disbeliever
35. 2:48So this is a choice
36. 2:50So it very much clearly looks like Allah SWT give us a soul
37. 2:57knowledge
38. 2:59freedom of will and a choice
39. 3:01If we choose Allah SWT based on all the information that is given to us
40. 3:07we will attain the honor that Allah created us for, with it we will attain
41. 3:15eternity in heaven, which is the wish of the human, every human wishes to stay young forever
42. 3:23no health issues, no financial issues, no relationship issues
43. 3:28no loss of health, wealth, security or loved ones
44. 3:32This is the wish of the human but we clearly are not able to attain this wish in this world
45. 3:39So what inspired us to have this wish?
46. 3:42It's because one day we lived in the back of Adam, in the loins of Adam in heaven
47. 3:48and we sensed that what it feels and what it means to live in the state of peace and happiness
48. 3:55So we always yearn to that
49. 3:59miss that, feel that we belong to that. So that's why Allah SWT has chosen us
50. 4:06and He created us to discover Him. Allah SWT tells us that He
51. 4:11wanted the month of Ramadan to be a month that we gain piety and righteousness
52. 4:16God's consciousness and
53. 4:18Allah said that that consciousness He appreciates
54. 4:21(Neither their meat nor blood reaches Allah. Rather, it is your piety that reaches Him)
55. 4:27To Allah will not reach the flesh or the blood of these animals that you slaughter
56. 4:33but to Allah will reach the piety from you. This is a big deal, what an honor!
57. 4:38Who are we anyway?
58. 4:39What an honor did Allah give us. Allah in The Noble Quran says that He has offered
59. 4:46"Al-Amanah" the responsibility for the skies and the earth and the mountains
60. 4:52they all backed off and did not choose it
61. 4:54but the human carried the responsibility, and if the human carried it, he carried it because he was
62. 5:01qualified, if you and I were not qualified to carry this one
63. 5:05responsibility Allah would have not given it to us and the fact that we here
64. 5:11exist with a mind, a heart, a brain, a deep consciousness
65. 5:17emotional heart, a soul
66. 5:20We are so sophisticated
67. 5:23complicated and we are more than qualified to carry this responsibility of
68. 5:28carrying God's will on earth and that's why Allah created us SWT
69. 5:33Some people spend their life just asking that question and not reaching to a conclusion
70. 5:39Some people reach to the conclusion, seize the moment, take the honor, take the responsibility and move on
71. 5:47That's why in The Noble Quran when the human does not choose that, Allah described the human with two descriptions
72. 5:53(They are truly wrongful ˹to themselves˺ and ignorant ˹of the consequences˺)
73. 5:56Truly the human, if he does not make the right choice, it's out of oppression, aggression again and out of ignorance
74. 6:04and another verse Allah says
75. 6:06(Indeed humankind is truly unfair, ˹totally˺ ungrateful)
76. 6:09Truly the human is an oppressor and ungrateful
77. 6:13Let's look around us
78. 6:14Let's look how much Allah has blessed us. Let's make the right choice and move on with the righteousness, with good deeds
79. 6:22with purity, with piety, with helping and charity
80. 6:28that's the best way to live and
81. 6:30every other way will make you live miserably
82. 6:34depressed
83. 6:36sinking in the holes of
84. 6:39vain and destruction May Allah SWT
85. 6:43help us and inspire us to make the right choice and may Allah honor us by choosing us as
86. 6:49His servants on this planet
87. 6:52Amin ya Rabb Alameen
88. 6:53Wasalamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatu Allahi Wa Barakatuh