Omar Suleiman
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first heard Jan 2023
last heard Feb 2024
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That will choose service and choose dedication and devotion over death and destruction.
That there are human beings that will in fact ascend the angels in rank because they will live lives where they choose that capacity, that part of themselves.
And they lean into that and worship God lovingly and obey him.
You see, some of the sages in Islam, scholars, they describe this as saying that the human being has the capacity to be anywhere from an animal to an angel, or even worse, to be a devil to an angel.
Not in the sense that we ever actually become angels or become animals, but that an animal, for the most part, seeks its desires over everything, doesn't really think about
You know, many of the things that we are supposed to calculate as human beings doesn't think about which territory it's infringing upon or, you know, how much of its appetite it should fulfill.
It simply exists to fulfill its appetite and that many human beings simply exist to fulfill their appetite.
And they choose that over worship or reason or anything that is greater.
They literally take their selves as gods in that sense, and their selves have no limitation on appetite.
So they just keep filling that appetite and filling that appetite and filling that appetite.
Whereas a human being can also go to the extent of choosing something greater and disciplining their desires, disciplining their selves because they're seeking a greater reward.
You know, we know many people that achieve great things.
in the worldly sense, because they choose to study over sleep, for example.
They choose to exert themselves towards their careers, towards their education, because they believe that ultimately the outcome of those pursuits are more rewarding than the immediate fulfillment of their desires.
So as believers, we choose that love of God, and we choose that outcome that we seek, and we discipline ourselves to where we can even ascend past the angels in rank.
Now, of course, I said we can go as low as an animal or even as low as a devil.
And we have tyrants past and present and future as well.
that can become satanic in their nature, because they allow their desires to take such control over them that they not only worship them, but that every other existing being around them simply becomes a piece of their own puzzle and pursuit of their own lordship and their own satisfaction, and they will kill, they will discard.
Not because, and I always say this, it's not that tyrants
necessarily like killing people.
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