Allah made me not good at some things. I have a limit. I'm not good at accounting. I'm not good at remembering conversations.
My wife is very good at remembering conversations. "Do you remember what you said yesterday?
If I'm being honest, I don't even remember what I said one minute ago. If I'm being completely honest.
Do you remember that game in nineteen ninety-two, the World Cup final? Yeah, that was awesome. But do you remember
what you said yesterday? Nope. I got nothing." There are some people that can remember some things.
I remember other things. I'm good at creativity, not good at management. This is nothing.
There are some people very good at organizing but not very good at Patience. Usually organized people, very impatient people
it's the thing, because they see any chaos around them, they're like "humph". So here's the thing. Yes, I have free will
I have choice but I have intellectual limits, I have capability limits, I have physical limits, there's a limit to my height,
there's a limit to my strength, there's a limit to my physical ability, there's a limit to my economic mobility.
There's a physical bodily limit and that limit is a جبلة. There's a saying in old English "You can't grow out of your skin."
You know what that means? You're made a certain way and you need to know what you're capable of and you also need to know your limits.
If you're not designed to swim, Allah created you like a rock and so you just "Bloop."
I had a friend who he could drown in one foot. It's a miracle from Allah that he could do that.
We went to this place, he went on a slide. It's a kid's slide. It was a slide. You could stand up on it, your knees won't even be wet
and he's like. Allah didn't make you for that. So there is the limit placed within our genetic makeup.
There is the siblings, some siblings super genius, super creative, super academic and the other one super athlete but don't ask him to study.
Allah made two different جبلة you understand? So this body that Allah gave us and this mind, these genetics that Allah gave us
that are all different for all of us. The path that Allah chose that He says "He guided you to a path."
The path He made was unique to you. And the path He made for me was unique to me.
Based on my جبلة physically. And outside of my جبلة my environment. This is what psychology tells us
human personality is made up of two things. It's made up of your genetics and just made up of your environment.
That's what modern psychology basically tells you. And Quran is also talking about how within that environment like حديث says
everybody was born on فترة parents make them Jews, Christians and that's environment isn't it?
So, your environment and your genetics within that Allah gave you a path.
Now, a farmer who lives with his kids out on top of a mountain somewhere and he has to choose the right path.
His right path is a different one. And the manager of a multi-million-dollar organization.
He's a VP or something like that. His جبلة and his path is a different one.
The choices he has to make or she has to make are different ones, you understand?
And so each one of them was given the right directive to come back to Allah to do the right thing and it was put inside of them.
This is the جبلة from the body point of view. But then there is the grueling test and the ‏روح.
The ‏روح itself meaning there is the my physical limits but then there is my spiritual core inside.
That spiritual core also exist inside me. It also has a voice. It also has a say and it cannot be found in the study of psychology.
It cannot be found in philosophy. You can't find it in studies but I know it exists. Because you just know it does.
That's the thing inside you that feels something when you pray. That's the thing inside someone.
Incidentally I met a woman yesterday before coming here I had a craving for a donut. Don't ask me.
So I went to this mall and I'm getting in line there's a popular donut place. I won't tell you which one and I'm standing in line
and this lady behind me with her two kids and she said "Are you?" And I was like "Yeah."
And she started crying. Crying her face off. I don't know the face because she's wearing a mask but what I could see crying
and she had these two little kids and she goes "I'm actually Buddhist and I've been looking for Allah
and I've been praying to Allah and I just found your videos and it helped me go through so many difficult times
and every time I pray to Allah I just know something in my heart is taking me back to it."
And I'm listening to her like {إِنَّا هَدَيْنَاهُ السَّبِيلَ} Allah put something inside you. This ‏روح inside you it knows where it came from.
And it knows it was guided. It was put with a guidance to go back. So it's always finding a way back.
{إِنَّا هَدَيْنَاهُ السَّبِيلَ} So this is actually the test of the ‏روح itself.