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In the earth, there are miraculous signs, there are powerful signs, indications,

for those that are looking to be

settled in conviction. People that want to be completely convinced. We know that the word for our faith is Eman.

But another word for certainty, you have absolute certainty you're settled in it.

That's why the word Yaqeen is used. Yaqeen is used for absolute certainty.

And that's why it phrase like A'inul Yaqeen in the Qur'an, is because when you see something with your own eyes,

then you have absolute certainty that it's real. And Hakkul Yaqeen could even be thought of as

you've experienced something, so you know how real it is. So if somebody's seen a fire, they know it to be real.

That's A'inul Yaqeen. Somebody's actually felt the intensity of its heat. That's kind of like a Hakkul Yaqeen. Also,

it's they've experienced it, right? They know it to be true by the reality of it.

But so the word Yaqeen, also interestingly, the word Yaqeen in the Qur'an is used for death because death, no atheist, no believer, no Hindu, no Jew, no, everybody believes in death.

Nobody says, ah, you people, you believe are going to die. No, everybody knows we're going to die. There's certainty about that.

There's no way around it. So things that are absolutely certain get associated with the word Yaqeen.

And so here Allah says, wa fi l-ardhi ayatun l-lil mukhi ni'in, in the earth, there are enough signs for people that want to get absolute certain conviction.

In fact, the verb from it, Yaqeenah, or Yaqun Al-Mah, sakada, wa l-lahara matahhtahu, like when water settles, and you can see through it,

because you know when water is disturbed, you can't see the rocks underneath. When water completely calms down, you can see underneath it.

When the water is completely still, then it has Yaqeen. And the imagery is that of someone being settled in their thoughts and firm and not moving.

So they have, you know, this tamakkun, this like they're not disturbed and nothing shakes their faith.

Now the reason this ayah is so, or ayat like these are so important and so underestimated is because we think, oh, when you listen to the ayat of the Qur'an,

or you listen to the reminder, you listen to the khudba, you appreciate the miracles of revelation, you will get Yaqeen, you will get conviction, you know.

But Allah talks about another kind of conviction, not just a conviction that comes from listening to His words.

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