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and the imagery that I want to share
with you is one that will help you
understand the larger concept
of imagine with me that you are
drowning that you're drowning and you
are unconscious two things you're
drowning and you're
unconscious do you have a lot of time if
you're drowning and you're unconscious
do you have a lot of time no you don't
have a lot of time which means there
your time is running out and you know in
Arabic what word is used for when time
is running out the time the word for
that
is literally means time that is running
out it's the last part of the day when
the day is running out is time of prayer
okay literally comes from juice that is
squeezed out time that's being squeezed
out of your hands you know even it's
used that you know you take a a cloth
that is drenched in water and when you
squish it like this all the water comes
out as a verb is used like that right to
squeeze it out so Allah talks about this
time your time you're drowning you're
you're unconscious your time's running
out what's the first thing you need to
do to be able to survive if you're in
that position what if you hope to
survive what's the first thing you're
going to need what do you think
wake up that's the first thing you're
going to need if you keep your
unconscious then you're finished the
very first condition has to be you have
to wake up and even if you were in the
most wonderful dream and in your dream
you were enjoying the greatest success
you're driving you're driving a Ferrari
down you know this you know they have
this car commercials with the hills and
the highways on the side the water on
the other side right you're one of those
cars the top top drop is the the tops
were dropped off and you're just
cruising along the highway enjoying life
that's your dream but when you wake up
what do you
realize you're drowning you're
underwater that's the first condition
you have to wake up once you do wake up
you say oh man this is a nasty reality
and I was enjoying such a good dream I
should go back to
sleep if you do that what kind of person
would you be insane you'd be insane or
someone at least who has no courage to
accept reality because they found
reality to be very difficult they
decided they're going to put themselves
back to sleep even though they woke up
does this person if he drowned can he
blame anybody else the one who woke up
and went back to sleep you think someone
who never woke up maybe right but the
one who woke up said this is not good
and they went back to sleep they have no
one to blame but who themselves they
have no one to blame it themselves now
let's imagine that they did wake up what
do you have to do next oh it's pretty
bad I'm drowning
even if you don't know how to swim will
you not use every muscle in your body to
make certain kinds of motions to go
towards the surface wouldn't you do that
and you will make certain kinds of
motions that make you go further down
and certain kinds of motions that will
make you go up and once you discover
which ones help you go up you will only
do those right you will do those in
other words the first thing was you have
to wake up the second was you have to
swim you have to do something to try to
get to the surface when you got to the
surface you gasp for air and you got
pulled back down you got pulled back
down and you know what who you got
pulled back down you won't believe this
there's a chain around your foot and
your relative your cousin is sleeping
and he dragged you down and now you're
drowning because of your sleeping cousin
what do you have to do now you got to
wake him up and you're not even waking
up him up because you want to save him
who are you waking him up for you're
maybe you want to save it maybe maybe
you don't even like your cousin I don't
know right but what's the point the
point is you're trying waking up because
if you don't wake him up who's also
going to drown you yourself so you wake
him up and he says man I was driving a
Ferrari you woke me up for no reason I'm
going back to sleep forget
you can you just say okay well I didn't
like you anyway suit
yourself can't do that if he goes to
sleep again what are you going to do no
man wake up let's go let's go we got to
we got you can't give up you can't not
accept reality and you have to keep
trying to wake him up until he finally
says okay fine what do we do he says
let's you say to him let's swim together
both of you come up together the third
time you both get pulled down by your
grandmother by your aunt by your
neighbor by your son by your daughter
does the process
continue the process continue there's a
four-part process to this people
surviving the first was they had to wake
up themselves then they had to try to
swim then they had to tell other people
that they're tied to this is the truth
let's go and even if they got tired and
some of them one of them said man I
can't do this anymore we've been doing
this now over and over again I don't
know if I can do it anymore and the
other one says no we are all going to
survive together you have to do this
come on let's go let's go let's go keep
going keep going you ever seen those
kinds of movies where they're trying to
escape from some Army and one of them
gets tired and says I can't run anymore
what do the others do come on come on
let's go let's go we can do this we
could do and they they get him to run
anyway even though he thinks he can't
run anymore they they they they work
with each other because their their
survival depends on each other they work
together desperately what does Allah say
at the end of this Surah first he
says first of all time's running out
then he says I'll translated human
beings are drowned in loss you see the
parallel human beings are drowned in
loss what's the
exception those who believed believed
what Allah didn't
say nothing he didn't mention anything
even though all of those things are
included according to the of theah the
context of the Surah what is the first
thing these people have to
believe that they're in loss that
they're
drowning and if they do come to believe
that and they correct their Iman what's
necessarily going to happen they're
going to swim and move upwards how does
Allah describe this
action they do good things they do
things that help reconcile the situation
by the way is an adjective
here which is literally means that which
corrects something something was wrong
and it corrects it so they do actions
that correct the situation literally
like the guy trying to swim but because
they were tied to other people what else
did they have to
do they had to tell the other the truth
and it's not even they told them about
the truth no no no you have to wake him
up and let's go let's go we have to go
no matter and over and over againi even
has in it it has repetition over and
over again they said this is the truth
this is the truth this is the truth you
know why cuz the people you're trying to
save even if you wake them up
temporarily for 20 minutes 30 minutes
during a guess what happens when theba
is done they go back to sleep they start
drowning again so what do you have to do
you have to go and wake them up again
then they get sleepy again then you got
to wake them up again this is and you
might get tired of doing it you might
become impatient so Allah also adds
what you got to keep doing it means
consistency constancy perseverance
patience you got to remain on point you
got to keep doing this because your
survival depends on it in the end if you
do all of these things but you have no
patience and you give up you you drown
too so even if you had IM and you had
good deeds and you told people about the
truth but you didn't have S you still
drowned so how many conditions do you
have to fulfill to survive all four all
four conditions are required they
they're critical and they're necessary
which is why there's a Why in between
them you see the logical progression
from IM
beautifully articulated in this
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