Taimiyyah Zubair – Taleem al Quran 2012 – P09 098F Tafsir Al-Anfal 15-19
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The importance of consistency and finding solutions is emphasized in the face of challenges and problems. The speaker emphasizes the need for individuals to pursue their goals and pursue their dreams, as well as finding a way to save their lives. The speaker also discusses the history of Islam, including the use of shaking saw to indicate victory, and the importance of remaining humble and show off one's accomplishments to make others feel successful. The importance of verbalizing one's success and results in their own words is also emphasized.
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Yeah, you have Alladhina amanu or you have believed either lucky tomb when you meet AlLadhina cafardo Those who disbelieve Zafran advancing meaning for the purpose of BAFO Fela to Alou humble about them do not turn to them your backs, meaning do not turn to them. Your back's in flight running away from the battlefield. Rather, you should remain firm and face the challenge. Over here we see in this idea that Allah subhanaw taala is giving instructions to the believers with regards to fighting with regards to battle. But remember that in this is also a lesson for us.
What is mentioned over here is that when you go to face an enemy in battle, then don't run away.
Likewise, from this, we learned a very important life lesson, which is that once you've started something, then don't leave it, running away from it, rather than face it, complete it, finish it.
And if you think it's difficult, yes, it is difficult you are right. But when you will stand your ground, you will remain firm, you will turn to Allah for help, that Allah will grant you success. Notice the word ziphone. Here when you meet the disbelievers zifa and Zafran is from their letters they have the half is used for crawling animal, a crawling animal that's going very, very slowly. But gradually, gradually, it's moving forwards. Okay. Now, Zach is basically marching forward making an advance because if you think about it, an army when it is marching forward, it's as though a creature is crawling forwards, right? So when you go forward to face an enemy, then go and face the
challenge remain firm, don't turn back and escape. Because the Muslims when they came out of Medina, remember what was the plan, go attack the caravan, and now they're standing before the army. So many times that happens when you're in this situation, you feel like just running away, escaping the problem altogether. You're like, you know what, I'm just gonna go sleep in bed. I don't want to deal with this monster. I'm just gonna go and sleep in bed, I'm gonna close my eyes. But is that the solution? Is that the solution? No. Because remember that there are some things which if you will delay them, you will defer them, then they will only get bigger, bigger problems, the problems will
escalate, the enemy will become stronger, the giant will grow. Okay, it will become stronger and more powerful. So the sooner you tackle it, the better it will be. And secondly, once you've come forward, once you're facing it, and come on, go ahead and deal with it. Go ahead, Allah subhanaw taala will give you the strength, the energy, he will give you the means. Our problem is that first of all, we don't start anything, we make excuses. We don't have this, we don't have this, we don't have this, therefore we cannot do it.
Or if Allah does give us a trophy to start, then we start and we say it's too difficult. This is something that we cannot do. So we're just going to give up and we're going to start something different. But the thing is that Allah subhanaw taala loves those actions which are consistent, which a person performs, he continues until the end of his life, even if that action may be very small, even if that project may be very small. You know, the Prophet sallallahu Sallam I shall deliver on her described that how when he started to do something you would do it consistently. And one of the examples is that how the Prophet saw a lot of sin and once he wasn't able to perform the
Sunnah off on time, because some people they came, they met him and they kept him busy. And the time of the hole ended, the time of Russell began the profit, total loss in performance. So when he went home, he prayed his do nothing, because he wasn't able to perform them after the whole, so he made up for it afterwards. Then another version we learned that the Prophet sallallahu sallam, he continued to perform those prayers until the end of his life, even though it was so difficult I shouldn't put out on her said that most of the prayers he would perform them setting towards the end of his life, but he wouldn't give up. He wouldn't leave the prayers, he would still perform them.
Because that is something that Allah subhanaw taala likes, that whatever you do, you do it with consistency. You do it until your last day
It shouldn't just be a phase in your life, and then you just leave it. Because the person whom Allah gives us I asked, and the person leaves them. He says, let me do something different. Now, his example is like who, like a dog? Like a dog, who clings to the world who doesn't want to give up his desires.
And this is one of the worst examples, one of the worst descriptions that a human being can be given. So what do we learn here that once you have started something than completed, wait until the end. And you might even feel as though you are doing something useless. And it's taking too much of your time, you might have better doing something else. But you know, what, if you stick it out, if you stick it out, and you reach the end, it's going to be worth it. Sometimes what happens is that people start their university, their college, and then this gets too difficult, and they're like, forget it, leave it, and they leave it, and they're never able to complete it.
So one is that you take a break, and you say, right now it's not possible for me, but inshallah I am going to complete it whenever Allah subhanaw taala gives me the chance. And the other is that a person says, You know what, I can't do it.
I know of a person who started their medical degree. Okay, they studied in college for a number of years. And you know, what happened towards the end, they failed one of the exams,
they could have taken it again, easily for the set. I'm not doing it anymore. The gave up
for like, forget it. I'm not doing it.
Can you imagine a person goes so far? And at the end? He says, Forget it. And if he says, Forget it, then what does he have in his hand? What does he have? Does he have a medical degree? Will anybody accept him as half a doctor? Will you allow him to give you medication to prescribe anything to you to give you an injection? Never, like he's only half a doctor, he's awful doctor, does he have engineering degree, then? What does he have? Nothing.
Nothing. So sometimes it happens that what you're doing gets extremely difficult. But you have to persevere, you don't run away, you do not turn your back and run away in flight, you don't become an escapist, you deal with the problem, and you keep going. And when you keep going, it will get easier.
Many times it happens that in relationships, if initially a couple they find it difficult to get along, or initially it's very good. And then problems start coming. And then one of them says that's it, I'm done with it. I'm over it, I'm walking away. And if they walk away, then okay.
But if they stick it out, they stick it out. They accept it, that these are problems, and I have to learn to grow with them, I have to learn to deal with them. We have to find a solution to them, we have to make it work somehow. Then what will happen eventually, inshallah they will make it because many divorces, they happen very soon, very soon. Because as soon as the couple realizes that we're going on that bumpy road, they don't want to continue anymore. They just stop right there. But you go through that bumpy road, you go you continue for a little while longer, and you know what, you'll make it inshallah you'll survive. There was a person, you know, those competitions that they have
where, you know, the hand one that what is it called? Arm wrestling, okay. So he always won games, okay, or competitions like that. Not just arm wrestling, but every kind of competition.
So, somebody asked him that, how do you do that? He says, Let me show you. He says you bite my thumb, and I will bite your thumb. Okay. And whoever gives up first meaning releases their thumb, they lose. You understand? You understand? You bite my thumb. I'll bite yours. Don't try.
But if you release your thumb from my mouth first you lose. Okay?
So he said, Okay, so they tried. And the other guy, he was very determined that I'm not gonna give up. I'm not gonna release my thumb. But you know what, he couldn't bear it anymore. And he pulled his thumb out. So he said, what happened? How did you win? He said, I was just waiting for you to give up.
My goal was I'm gonna wait until you give up. That was my goal. I had my eyes set on that. And when my eyes were set on that, that helped me be victorious. Because we focus on the pain and the difficulty. We say, ouch, it's hurting, it's hurting. It's hurting.
It's difficult. Now this happened. Now that happened. But you know what, we have to look past that pain. Look at the goal. You tell yourself only this much is left. Only this much is left. Inshallah we'll make it only two hours more. Like you know when you're traveling. Then what happens? You start thinking about oh, the seat is so uncomfortable.
Oh, no, it's so hard. You know what if you think like that, every second will be like an hour. But if you keep telling yourself, it's okay, Inshallah, there's five hours left, I can read for an hour, and I will take an hour for an hour, I'll take a long time doing this, I'll take a long time doing this and Inshallah, the time will pass.
So some people, they focus on the pain, and others are focused on the goal. If you focus on the goal, you'll make it if you focus on the pain, you're not going to make it.
So Allah subhanaw taala tells us over here, that when you face an enemy, then do not turn your back. In fact, from Hadith, we learned that one of the seven destructive sins is what running away from the battlefield will mean you will leave him and whoever turns against the meaning whoever turns his back towards the enemy. Yoma even that day, Dubrow who his back, meaning whoever turns his back that day to the enemy. In other words, he turns around in order to run away in order to save his life, then this is something very serious at the end of the IUC for the better will hold of him in Allah, He will incur the anger of Allah. Why would your hand No, and his aboard his Hellfire with it, so
mostly what a terrible place that is. So turning away from the battlefield is a major sin. It leads a person to hellfire. He's running away to save his life, he will end up where in the Hellfire he will incur Allah's wrath. But we see that an exception is mentioned. There are two cases in which a person is allowed to retreat from the battlefield. What is that? Which has mentioned that When may you only him yoga in in dubara? Who in there except, first of all, muda healthy funnily Peterlin.
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Firstly, Moto hurry fun liquid Allen moto riff, what's the route? How it off at the Hadith? What does the Hadith mean? To change but remember that the haev literally means to bend, right? To turn? Because you're turning the word. You're bending it, you're turning it, you're twisting it, you're changing it. Okay, so, Motorhead refund means the one who turns away from the battlefield. Why leave Bethel in force, the purpose of battle? Meaning he turns away as a strategy as a war strategy to show to the enemy that oh, I'm running away, and you're victorious. So what will happen is that when he's running away the enemy things, okay, we've won, what is the enemy going to do now start
celebrating. And once they're celebrating, they're busy, they've put their arms down, they've put their weapons down, they're relaxed. Now what happens? This group of people who retreated, now they come and attack again, basically what happened and, but not something that the Muslims did. This is what the non Muslims do remember that? They ran away from the battle. And the Muslims, they thought we have one and the 50 companions who had been appointed at that mountain. What happened? They came, they disobey the prophets, Allah lawless and they came to the battlefield started enjoying, they said, Let's collect the booty. And then what happened, then was shaking saw that the Muslims are not
guarded anymore. So they had run away, then they regrouped. And then they attacked the Muslims again. So Allah subhanaw taala, studying the believers of in remember, this was revealed before or
this was real before or hurt. So anyway, Allah is telling the believers that you're not allowed to run away from the battlefield. The only exception is if you run away in order to come back and attack again.
Oh, or would the Hasan Elahi attain what he is from the root letters? How well ze house houses basically to gather together? Okay, it's all to use for a snake. Because the snake How does it sit sometimes coiled up in one place, right. And it also means house also means to guard. So if a snake is sitting somewhere that places well guarded by the snake, you don't want to go there. All right. It's his territory. Keep away. Keep away. Right?
Like once there was a companion, man at the time of the Prophet salallahu Salam in his house, what happened that his wife came running out screaming, and she said there was a black snake inside the house. So he got very upset and he went inside and he struck the snake killed it. But what happened that there was a loud scream, you know, noise heard, and that man was founded. Because that snake was not just a snake it was a shakedown.
Because shaytaan sometimes didn't sometimes appear in this form. But anyway, if a snake is somewhere, then he's like, basically saying, Go away. This is my play.
This, right? Otherwise, if you come near, then you're going to be in trouble. Right? This is what house means. So what the hey, yours is the one who retreats in order to regroup retreats in order to regroup. So for example, there's five people fighting together, and three of them are killed, two of them are left. And those two realize that if we continue to stand here, we're going to be gone too. So let's run away and find another group of Muslims when we can join. So you understand, in this case, it is allowed, but otherwise, it's not allowed. The only exceptions were turning away from the battlefield is allowed is when, in order to come back as war strategy, and whoever does so without
these reasons, just to run away and save his life, for the better because of him in Allah, wa, who Johanna, will web itself mislead. It's a major sin. Allah subhanaw taala reminds the Muslims, felon doc to do home so you did not kill them. That victory was not because of your efforts only. You were victorious. Not because of all these strategies that you adopted? You were victorious because Allah gave you that victory. Realize that Falun taka to whom you didn't kill them. Did you take their soul away? Do you distract them? So many times it happens that people are struck in a worst way but they don't die. You struck them only follow up to the home you didn't kill them? Well, I kin Allah Katana
home, but it is Allah who killed them? What is meant by this, that don't think that victory was because of what you did? You are successful today? Because of your own efforts? No, not at all. If you have achieved anything today, it's why because Allah enabled you. It's because Allah guided you. It's because he gave you the strength, he gave you the ability to take that move at that time in that way. And if he didn't give you the ability, then you would never be successful, you would never be victorious. Because what happens is that when we are successful in anything, immediately, we become happy. And it's good to be happy. But the problem is that we become arrogant about it. And we
love to take credit for it. We're like, Yeah, I did it. I did it. Right. And we wait for applause. We wait for words of appreciation from people who say, look, I did it. But the fact is that you didn't do it. You didn't make yourself successful, who made you successful? Allah made you successful? Think about it, if there is an exam that you're writing, is it possible that while you're writing, you just go completely blank? Is it possible that the questions that come on the exam happened to be the exact same concepts which you thought weren't important, and you didn't really study? Very much possible that happens with people all the time. So if you enter an exam
room, and as a test paper comes to you, everything, all the answers are just coming in your head popping in your head that you wish you could write faster,
before those thoughts would go away. And all the questions are exactly what you prepared for. So you made yourself pass. You made yourself as the test know, who gave you the ability, Allah subhanaw taala.
And this is something that we must remember every time we accomplish something in order to remain humble. Because when we start taking credit for our achievements, and we start saying, yeah, yeah, I did it. Then we become arrogant. We start showing off, we want praise from people. And then we have wasted our efforts. Because now it is insincere. It is not sincere for Allah. We're wasting our efforts by what? Men, other Ria. Right, we accomplish something and now we're throwing it away. So what is necessary, no matter what we achieved, no matter what we accomplish, remain humble. And how do we remain humble? I didn't do it. Allah made me do it. Allah gave me ability he gave me don't
feel. And keep putting yourself down in this way in the sense that keep humbling yourself. It's like somebody was once asked about how do you remain sincere and humble? When people praise you for the work that you've done? He said that when people are praising you, remind yourself at that time of your mistakes of your sins. Tell yourself in your heart. Yeah, this person doesn't know this thing about you. If they knew they would never be praising you in this way. Because when you remember your sins, when you remember your failures, when you remember your shortcomings that keeps you humble. And when you just count your achievements and your success.
is and you boast them and you publicize them and you talk about them and you show off then that will make you a show off and that will waste your deeds. So falam doctor to do home with our kin Allah Hakata home you didn't become victorious yourself Allah give you that victory wallmount omega and you did not throw a throw Mater when you threw from the letters raw mean Yeah, ramen ramen is to cast to throw the prophets on Ulsan has been called. You see, duck to Lou is plural, all the believers are being told. And now Automator singular the prophets of Allah Islam is being told that you did not throw when you threw, well I kin Allah Rama, but it is Allah who through what is this
referring to? We learned that when the battle began the Prophet salallahu Salam, he took a handful of sand, and he threw it towards the disbelievers army. And he said, shatel Would you made the faces be humiliated, and this sand, it flew all the way, and it got into the eyes of the disbelievers. And imagine if there's sand in your eyes, can you look?
Can you do anything? sand in your eyes? What are you going to do? Drop everything you've got and start cleaning up your eyes. So this is something that also led to the victory. But Allah subhanaw taala reminds the Prophet, you didn't throw meaning when you took that handful and threw it in the air. You think it could have reached the eyes of the disbelievers from that far know who caused it to reach all the way there, Allah subhanaw taala who causes that wind to blow and take all those sand particles there and cause them to fall into their eyes? Allah subhanaw taala. So remember, whether it is some general thing that we are successful in, or we are successful in something
because of some strategy, because it's a trick that we adopted some plan that we had in place, don't give credit to yourself, and don't give credit to that strategy, that plan either.
Like, for example, somebody says, How did you ace this test? How did you make it, you're like, you know what, I made a list of everything that I felt was important first. And then I did this, and I did this, and I did this. And right before going into the exam, I read through all those things. And the one that I went inside, I remember it, it was all fresh in my head. And this is a reason why I got all the answers down. So this was a method that you adopted in order to be successful. So what do we do? Sometimes we give credit to that method. I always study in this way, this is why I pass my exams.
I driving this way, I take this route because of which I always make it in time. Yes. So like, I just wanted to share something we learned in psychology. Like I find it funny that when humans like when we do something that we're successful in, we attribute it to internal qualities, like our strategy or our like smarts or whatever. But when we fail in something we attribute to external events, like oh, the professor made it so hard, or it was so hard or bla bla bla, that's very true. So when we are successful, that don't attribute it to your internal qualities, or any plan that you adopt it, attributed to who
the one who sends the help the one who is the grantor of victory, Allah subhanaw taala is the one who gave it. So whenever we're successful, was the first thing that should come out of our mouths. Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah
Allah, it's Allah subhanaw taala who gave the dough field
and Allah subhanaw taala gave this victory to you for what reason? While you believe and so that he would test a meaning of the believers men who from him Bella and a trial Hassan are good in Allah, Samia and Arlene, indeed Allah is Hearing annoying, meaning Allah gave you all this victory. Why? To test you through a good test? Because Allah subhanaw taala tests us through that and through good through difficulty and through ease through failure, and success. So if you're successful, remember, that is just another test.
While you were working and preparing that was a test, but now that you have your result in your head, that is another test biller and Hasina. Because Allah Samir, I believe he's going to hear what you're going to say. And he's going to watch what you do and what you feel in your heart. So when we get our result, what's the first thing we say? Yeah, did it
look, I did it. See, I'm the best. I'm the best. I know I'm the smartest person in this class and every everybody else yeah, you know what? They don't know anything. You
But if we don't verbalize these statements, were we saying them in our hearts? Right? We say, see, I am actually quite smart, intelligent and capable. These people just don't know. They don't acknowledge it. And see now my results proved it to my mom. My result proved it to my teacher. I am a good person, I am a smart person, I can do something. So when we say such words, whether in our hearts or we verbalize them, what are we doing? What are we doing? We're showing off we're boasting. So Allah subhanaw taala is testing us in the last some year on our name, Valley calm that is for you, meaning you have victory or believers or an Allah and that indeed Allah Mohan one who will we
can move in from one one is weakness, he is going to weaken the cable caffeine the plot of the disbelievers. So you have victory and the disbelievers their entire plot their scheme of harming you, Allah subhanaw taala has made it weak now. Because this battle, this is what caused the Muslims to become stronger. And it caused the enemy to become weaker. Because if the first time you face someone you fail, then what happens? You think forever, then I'm going to fail.
Alright, like for example, if in school you ever had, you know, some competition, and there's a person and you failed, they won and you lost. And the next time you enter that same competition, and that same person is coming against you. What do you feel?
What do you feel why this person? They know some trick that I don't know and they always win against me. Right? So the first time you lose against someone, you forever thing that you're going to lose again. So Allah subhanaw taala he weakened the plot of the disbelievers by this victory. Allah says interested to who he addresses the disbelievers that if you were seeking victory from fatter, fatter, ha. For Khadija acumen fatter than victory has certainly come to you. What does it mean? We see that Abuja, he said on the day of brother of Buddha, who by the way, on the side of the machine, and he was killed in the Battle of whether he said on the day of whether that Oh Allah, because the
machine also believed in Allah subhanaw taala. He said, Oh, Allah, whichever of the two camps, which two camps, the camp of the Muslims, the camp of the pagans, whichever of the two camps, severed the relationship of the womb, meaning cut ties with their relatives, and brought us what is not familiar meaning they're following something that is new, destroy him this day, meaning cause them to lose today Abuja homemade this.
So what happened, Allah said into stuff the who if you were seeking feta, feta means victory and fatter also means decision, because a decision clarifies opens up the whole matter. So if you were seeking Allah the decision,
that whoever is upon the truth should be victorious and whoever is upon falsehood should be defeated today for Khadija Coleman further than that fact has come, that decision has come. Now it is clear to you who is upon the truth and who is not upon the truth. We're in tanta, who. And on seeing this, if you learn the lesson and you stop, meaning you stop from your disbelief, you stop from your opposition to the Prophet salallahu Salam, for whom Allah come then it will be best for you what intero do and if you return, you repeat meaning you come back fighting against the Muslims, then narrowed, we will also return meaning we will also repeat in our helping the Muslims, if you come to
attack the Muslims again, Allah subhanaw taala will send his help to the Muslims again. And remember that well Antonia and go and it will never avail you. It will never help you what fear to come your group, your company, fear is basically a group of people, right? So your company, meaning your great numbers are not going to help you show you anything at all, they're not going to save you, you were 1000 a number and 300 managed to put you to flight. So don't think your numbers are everything. Well Oka thought and even if there may be many, even if your numbers may be many, even if you make them and 1000s Now you came 1000 In the future, you come as 1000s Still your numbers are not going to
avail you because the fact is that we're Anila Morel macmini Because indeed Allah He is with who the believers, his help, his support is with those who believe in Him, those who turn to him. So what do we learn in this for ourselves? That we have to become believers, better believers stronger believers.
is more complete believers if we want Allah subhanaw taala is help because
no one is more truthful than Allah if Allah says that his he is with the believers and his help is definitely with them and if his help is not with the person who calls himself a believer, then that means that that person needs to work on his Iman which is why we see that at the beginning of the surah what was emphasized even the attributes of the believers because when we perfect them when we improve them, it is done that we will continue to receive Allah subhanaw dharnas who
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Like we learned over here that you shouldn't even praise yourself. So if somebody else is praising you, then what should you do? There is one there off that Allahu Mala to Sydney? Be Maya Kowloon Oh Allah you don't hold me accountable for what these people are saying.
Well, Philly, man Iarla moon and forgive me for that which they don't know about me. You know what, since I commit, so you forgive me for that which they don't know about me. And what y'all need Hiram and Maya will known and make me better than what these people think of me. They think I'm very good make me even better. They don't know my sins. You forgive me for that. And for this praise that I don't deserve. You don't hold me accountable for that. So it's very important that we keep ourselves humble, no matter what we've accomplished. If you know your knifes is becoming arrogant, you are impressed by yourself. Remind yourself of your sins and when somebody is impressed by your you know,
little insignificant efforts that are full of flaws, then remain humble at that time also.
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