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Omar Suleiman

The One Who Created the Night and the Stars

Omar Suleiman

Muslim Central

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Islam

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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A place of being connected to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and they have Qada Maslid al-Khinn.

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They have their promised reward and their promised position with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala later on.

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And one of the things that you'll notice about Surah Yunus and you'll notice about the Qur'an,

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especially as it's speaking about creation, is this emphasis on the night sky.

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This emphasis on the night sky.

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This is just one of the verses where Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentions the Orbits,

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when Allah as mentioned, the creation of the sun, the creation of the moon,

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the notion of how we benefit as humanity from the way that all of these bodies function in perfect harmony

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for our benefit and so that we can come to know Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala which is the greatest benefit that we can have as mankind.

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And Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, this idea of the night sky, the stars.

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You'll notice there's a lot of emphasis on looking up at night and the stars.

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And this is something Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala that for us maybe we have a hard time connecting to because of the light pollution around us.

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We don't look up and see stars the way that people in the desert used to look up and see stars.

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And I want to connect this specifically to what we spoke about today in the Khutbah,

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about this connection to the sight of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala alone.

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When a person is in the deserts and I want you to just put yourself there for a moment, no artificial light

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and you're in the desert and it's the darkness of the night.

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Imagine how much more intense your fiamal aid is going to be if you wake up in the middle of the night in a desert

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and you go and you pray by yourself with no artificial light around you.

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Just think about how intense that salah is naturally going to be the peace, the connection to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

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and you look up and you see that, you feel that connection where it's just you and him Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

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