Safeguarding Our Souls - Part One Of Two

And people don't think about it, because there's this kind of determinism, this is a Marxist approach to the world, that everything, there's a , there's a determinism to the world, that we're just simply going along for the ride and things are completely out of our control as a species.

And the Muslims fall into that because of fatalism.

They will fall into that attitude of .

Maktoub, which is a good attitude about what happened, but not about what's about to happen.

And once something's happened, Maktoub, you just leave it and don't, it frees you from remorse.

But if you, if you take that attitude about your life, you won't accomplish anything.

It's a completely defeating, and that's why the prophet said in an amazing hadith, that Abu Dawud relates, where the Prophet visited Ali and Fatima at the time of Tahajjud.

And he didn't find them in Tahajjud, they were sleeping.

And so he said to Sayyidina Ali, don't you get up at night? And Sayyidina Ali said, you know, Allah , He takes the souls In other words, maktoob.

Tahajju is maktoob and it wasn't maktoob for us.

And the prophet didn't say anything, which is a very common response that you see in him because he always let people think about things.

His teaching was very often in how he responded than in what he said.

And so he just turned away, struck his thigh, which they now heard, and he said that, he quoted the verse of the Quran that says that, that man is a very argumentative character.

You know, instead of saying, you're right, so he's teaching his son-in-law.