Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – A Short Commentary on Juz’ 8
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We get nourishment from what we eat, we get our vitamins and
nutrients from what we eat. That's why we have to be careful. I
remember the days where there was no burger place and used to look
at McDonald's and your mouth would water that I wish I could have a
burger but it was haram. Now look 2030 years down the line. We've
got we're spoilt for choice. And people have moved on beyond food.
And now on every street, there's two or three dessert places that
were unheard of 30 years ago. I'm not saying that's a good thing.
Right. It's overindulgence, I personally think, but what I'm
saying is that when you make an effort, and I've seen countries
where they started giving further, it's okay. It's a Christian
country, you can just eat and the problem with this was that if it's
a Christian country, that doesn't mean they're doing it properly,
according to Christianity, just because people tend to be
Christian, just like, if there's a Muslim who's not slaughtering
properly, you're not going to say that hallelujah. If a Muslim, he
is not slaughtering according to the Islamic way of slaughter.
You're not going to say that's halal. So why would you say all
Christian meat is halal just because they're Christian where
you don't even say that for Muslims. So these are a few things
that we need to be concerned about.
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Absolute pleasure to be with your esteemed congregation again in
this beautiful Masjid May Allah subhanaw taala bless everybody and
their Ramadan and make this a place of guidance for everyone. So
what we're going to look at today is that
the half is we'll be reading the eighth and then the ninth juice
today from what I have learned. So um, I want to week in the time
that we have we can't obviously cover
in detail the whole juice but there's some really really
important messages that Allah subhanaw taala is providing us a
lot of important guidance that Allah is giving us in the Jews
that is going to be recited today in the eighth Jews. The eighth
just starts off with a completion of Surah Al Anon Surah Al Anon.
This is the reason why this surah is called circle Anam is because
there's a number of laws and rulings regarding animals. So a
lot of the discussion in the beginning of the surah is
that well, Malcolm, Allah Kulu Mima, Toki rasool Allah here are
they. So if you look at verse 119, for example, starts off all of
this discussion here is eat that which is halal eat that those
animals. So, you see, just to get a perspective on this, Allah
subhanaw taala says
that he has made all per year banned. All excellent things, all
pure things halal for you.
Hala Lakota Ebert.
Allah has made all pure things halal for us. By default, anything
which is pure is going to be halal. So anything that generally
grows out of the ground doesn't have any poisonous qualities or
poisonous
characteristics. It should be halal by default. And that's
pretty much for most things in the world minus two things.
There's only two things which start off by the default being
haram and you need proof to make it halal. Otherwise, everything is
halal. Until you can prove that it's haram through Sharia.
So the two things which are considered by default haram until
you prove it's halal one is animals, the dead because animals
when you kill them, when you slaughter them, you'll be
essentially killing them disappearing their blood by
default, that's haram unless you do it in a very particular way
which Allah subhanaw taala tells us that's one thing. The other
thing is male and female relationships, men and women
relationship intimacy, by default, that's haram unless it's through
marriage, or the other ways that Allah subhanaw taala said it's
halal. Otherwise everything else is halal. Unless it's proven to be
haram. So Allah subhanho wa Taala here is encouraging that you
should eat of that which Allah's name has been taken on. Allah says
whether that Kulu Muslim youth charisma Allahu Allah, he were in
the hula Fisk and don't eat of that which Allah's name has not
been taken on.
That is a transgression.
In all of that discussion, there is also another discussion, which
is following the path of Allah
Following his judgments, and
whatever Lika Jalna Nikolina V and I do one Shayateen l NC well Jean
you he bow to hula about in Zuko. falcoda Hoorah. So that's verse
112. The second verse of the actual Chapter says, And likewise
we have made for every prophet enemies,
every prophet had enemies, these are the shaytans of the human
beings and the jinn. So the proper shaytans and the shaytaan among
the human beings that
manipulate discussions and that give statements, which are sound
great and sound good, but they're actually wrong. And this is the
struggle that we're having today. We're in a situation where we have
so many things that we hear every day, that sounds attractive,
sounds even righteous to a certain degree, it's coated and we're
living in a time, I think we're living in a time of what they call
post truths and spin. This is the decade or the, I don't know how
many years this is going to last for we're living at a time where
you can't really trust 100% Everything you see,
to such a degree that even those people who consider
who we would consider to not be on the right track even they want to
open or start another social media called the truth. Because they
think that the other social media is not true. And it's all fake
news and false.
What a world we're living in.
How many how many of you trust the BBC?
Come on at least one person it's your British Broadcasting
Corporation. How many of you trust it?
Or shall
innocent children mashallah innocent children? Right? None of
the adults do it? Why don't these guys trust it?
You do as well? Or you don't trust it? Okay, mashallah, you're onto
something.
But how many of you still look at the BBC read the BBC.
Exactly. What a weird relationship we have. We have SPECT doubt about
all of these. And yet, we still feel like we need to take news
from somewhere. It's just dominating everywhere. You can't
escape it.
Similar with Facebook, we know that not everything you see, is
correct. And yet we still look at it. Because we have to it's part
of life. Allah make it easy. Allah make it easy. Allah subhanho wa
Taala is warning us.
Allah keeps warning us that this is the way it's going to be. You
have to be careful. That's why Allah subhanaw taala then says in
verse 120, whether rules are here, all if me, well, Tina, abandoned
both the clear sin, and also the sin that you can't really, that's
not so open. Sins come in many, many types. Sins come in many,
many types, abandoned the open sins, and the more hidden sins,
there after that, there's a whole discussion of what the people of
Makkah used to do with the animals they used to have these really
strange rituals. So they used to say that okay, these animals, only
the only for the male people, they're not for the female.
These ones they're only for the slaves. Sorry, they're only for
the idle, the these animals that we have, they're dedicated to the
idols. This one is dedicated to Allah because they still used to
believe in Allah. But then if they if there was a need, they would
actually eat the one that was dedicated to Allah, not the slaves
one. So they had this really strange behavior, when it came to
what they do as a lot of superstitions, and various
different other
things that they used to do of that nature. In verse 137, Allah
subhanho wa Taala says waka Liga, Unity cathedra, mineral Mushrikeen
Kotla hola the hem Shoraka om
li your do him Well, he'll be soiree him, Dena home. What OSHA
Allahumma fou further Houma, Maya stone. We've had many, many really
sometimes powerful dynasties in the world, powerful ruling
civilizations in the world like the Greek civilization. So I
actually went to Greece, I went to Athens to the Parthenon, I went to
Delphi. I want you to see what it was all about.
They had many, many gods. If you if you've looked at Greek
mythology, sometimes they teach Greek mythology in the school. And
even if you don't study it, you're constantly coming face to face
with many of the the names associated with these gods like
Zeus. There's even a halal restaurant called Zeus or takeaway
called Zeus, although that's probably spelled slightly
differently. Then there's Venus, the temple of Nike. I've seen it
the Temple of Nike, right? And so on all of this, this all comes
from Greek mythology. It's very powerful. Even though the Greeks
were eclipsed by the Romans, the Greeks were before essentially
Salam Stein.
Right, the height, it seems, was around 500 BC, Pericles 300 500.
Peace around that time, Pericles was one of the great leaders,
after the Romans came in, and they Eclipse them. So the two big
civilizations that have really, you can say influenced, usually
Western thought, is the Greek and Roman civilization.
And the Greeks were everywhere. You have the Greeks in North
Africa, in Tunisia, for example, in Rome, in Morocco, you have, you
have Volubilis, this area called volume was raised Roman remnants
there as well.
So I wanted to see what was this all about with all of these gods
that were constantly bickering and arguing with? There was a God of
love and there was a God of the oceans and there was a God of
there was Gods of this, that and the other. What drove these
people?
Thereafter that you see the people in Makkah? Right. These were the
people of Jaya Helia
ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada says about them here. Likewise, for many of
them are shaking their gods, those that they had made partners whose
ALLAH SubhanA, WA, tada, had caused them to kill their own
children.
Remember, they used to kill their own children. Their gods had made
them do this, they'd gotten done anything. They had thought that
gods had made them do that.
If Allah subhanaw taala had well, they would not have done that. But
Allah subhanaw taala has given us free will, so we can choose
whatever we want. This tells us that it's really, really important
to avoid superstition. Very, very important to avoid hearsay.
Everything that we do, and that we pursued needs to be from the
Sharia.
So for example, they say we're called Luma, feeble Tony had Elan
army, Holly, certainly the coroner, well, Mohammed Allah as
well, as you know, that whatever is in the stomach's of these
animals, if the animal was pregnant, they say that anything
that's in the stomach of these animals, the wombs of these
animals, they're purely for our males only they can have this is
just arbitrary. Why? It just we decided so
well, Mohammed Allah as well as you know, and it's haram on our
spouses thereafter that Allah subhanaw taala speaks about which
animals are allowed, which animals don't want to go into that Allah
speaks about the slaughter the food of the People of
the Book, and whether that's allowed or not. So generally, I
mean, just to give you an understanding Alhamdulillah in
England, we have a wonderful, Halal industry. And that's because
our scholars from the, you know, from 50 years ago, 60 years ago,
our community is about 60 years old in the UK, I would say, we
started here in big numbers, starting from the end of the
1950s. And then in 60s, mashallah, it grew further and then the 70s.
And then, you know, there's been after that less immigration, I
guess, but more mashallah production here. And the mashallah
the generations are moving on. So we've had 60 years here, and
things have changed, areas have changed. So alhamdulillah, in the
beginning, there are very strict that you can't just go and eat
from the Christian and Jewish sources. Although, if the
Christian and Jewish advertise do it properly, according to what the
Old Testament the New Testament say, then technically speaking,
that should be allowed. However,
while there are many kosher communities that are very strong
on this, but you have to be careful about this as well, just
to give you an idea, once in America, where there's a very
strong Jewish kosher certifying program, many, many of the
products mainstream even though Jews are minority in America, they
pretty much certify many, many mainstream products, mainstream
companies, you'll see the K. So they have various different
certifications. You know, here we have HMC, we have HF a right to
organizations, maybe a few more as well. So likewise, in America,
there's many Jewish certifying organizations. So generally,
there's the one which is very strict, very particular, ultra
orthodox union, it says they you in a circle, right? That one,
they're very strict. There's others let's just say k or
something like that. So once there was some yogurt, and I went and it
said kosher gelatin, or somebody had a kosher mark, and he had
gelatine so I got a bit confused by what kind of gelatine is this?
Maybe it's kosher gelatin. I called up the company. And they
said that it's actually
On pig. So I said that strange I thought
Jews do not consume pig swine said no, this particular certifying
organization, you get an idea here that they only consider the flesh
of pig to be haram not the bones or the skin is what I remember,
right that could be slightly wrong here. But that's what I remember
because Angela teen is made of bones or skin, not from the meat.
So they only say the meat of swine is haram, or non kosher.
That's, of course not agreed upon by everybody in the Jewish
community. Likewise, we have similar things when you go to
various different countries, and there's Muslims who have certified
you can't just stress everything with a halal sticker on
because nowadays, to be honest, in England, pretty much every shop
you got is going to have Hala written in Arabic or English.
That's the way you make business. Right. And when you know this
industry, you have to be very careful. As much as I know I find
it very difficult to eat sometimes, because I know what
happens in there.
I know what goes on in this situation. So one does need to be
careful.
In America, I used to live two hours away from Los Angeles.
And we had no local Halal places at all.
There was just one vegetarian cafe that people used to go to eat
otherwise, there was no Halal proper Halal place local at all.
No certified, uncertified nothing, right, not even a non certified
Halal place. We had to go to Los Angeles, two hours, two and a half
hours drive. So we used to buy for, you know, a few months or
two.
Every time I went to Los Angeles at that time, because it's so
confusing. I used to have a friend there, move this up, move the
stadium and I used to call him and I say, Okay, where can I buy meat
from this time? So he tells me, okay, go to this shop on this
street. So I go, and I said last time you told me this other shop.
Because last time two months ago, when I called him he told me to go
to another shop. I said I'm needy, I'm close to there. He said no,
no, I found that mixing.
What happens is that the halal meat done properly, costs more
money.
There's a lot of other junk that you can find. There's a lot of
other meats that are much cheaper because it's done in bulk. There's
no particular you know, where you have to have inspectors, that all
adds money to the cost. The halal meat is as money to the costs. So
it's more expensive to be halal. You know, I mean, that's just one
thing that we're going to inshallah Allah will give it back
to us. No, we're not going to die. If you look at the kosher
community, their meats are even more expensive. They're much more
expensive, very well certified, strong systems that they have as
well. That's why I know too much about this industry that I can
just trust. A lot of people trusted. Mashallah. And that's
okay. If they trusted, right. As long as they've done their due
diligence, I just find it difficult. So there's a big
discussion about this, because we are what we eat.
Every day, we get nourishment from what we eat, we get our vitamins
and nutrients from what we eat. That's why we have to be careful.
I remember the days where there was no burger place and used to
look at McDonald's and your mouth would water that I wish I could
have a burger but it was haram. Now look 2030 years down the line.
We've got we're spoilt for choice. And people have moved on beyond
food. And now on every street, there's two or three desert places
that were unheard of 30 years ago. There was no dessert place 30
years ago. I'm not saying that's a good thing. Right. It's
overindulgence, I personally think, but what I'm saying is that
when you make an effort, and I've seen countries where they started
giving further, it's okay, it's a Christian country, you can just
eat.
And the problem with this was that if it's a Christian country,
that doesn't mean they're doing it properly, according to
Christianity, just because people tend to be Christian just like, if
there's a Muslim who's not slaughtering properly, you're not
going to say that's halal, or you
if a Muslim
he's not slaughtering according to the Islamic way of slaughter.
You're not gonna say that's halal. So why would you say all Christian
meat is halal just because they're a Christian where you don't even
say that for Muslims. So these are a few things that we need to be
concerned about.
Now, towards the end of this surah, because the second half is
sorted out off then Allah subhanaw taala mentioned a number of
characteristics. Firstly, let's take the verse 162 Allah subhanho
wa Taala says to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Paul
in solidarity were no Sookie you are Maria yo, mama de la. Bella,
let me say that my solid, my prayer and my sacrifice and my
entire living and my dying is for Allah subhanho wa taala.
Now that's a very, I mean, you must have heard this verse before.
It's a very prominent verse and what he's trying to say. What he
is saying rather, is that if the prophesy philosophy has been told
to declare that, that look, my prayer
And that must be for Allah anyway if I'm going to pray, why should I
pray to anybody else that should be for Allah. But my sacrifice
every sacrifice I make is also for Allah. Sometimes I could make a
sacrifice for my own selfish gains may say no that must be for Allah
as well your your objective must be Allah or Maha yo Marathi, then
it carries on it says, In fact, my whole life, my whole living
and my dying should be for Allah.
Which means that if I live anything in this world, it's all
for the sake of Allah.
And the idea of this is that every aspect of our life needs to be for
the sake of Allah subhana wa Tada. Now, let me just give you one
simple example about this.
You know, we have to relieve ourselves, we have to go to the
toilets, the bathroom, as they say, right, we have to go to that
and relieve ourselves. Now that's something we have to do, you know,
you got a problem with your stomach, you're dying to go,
you're gonna just go and do what you have to do. It's a human need,
right? What Sherry about this? What is there have sunnah in this.
Even this can be done with Allah subhanho wa Taala in mind, and
you'll be rewarded for the whole process. How?
When you're going in Allah Khomeini with a bigger mineral
hook, Fievel Hubei.
You're seeking refuge in Allah, from all evil and dirt and so on.
Thereafter,
you sit in the correct way, as the prophets Allah, Allah, Allah has
been understood from the Prophet sallallahu sallam, you relieve
yourself, you make sure you don't get you guys are listening, right?
You make sure you don't like just go in there, pull your pants down,
and then essentially just stand up and do what you have to do ready,
splash everywhere and then pull it back up. You know, this is
unfortunately, what a lot of young children they do, right? Because
it's just easier to do that. And we got many children here. That's
why I'm mentioning this. Right? But you you sit down, you do it in
a in a way, that's better. And there's lots of research that
shows that especially when you squat and you sit properly, it
actually allows
you to empty much better than when you sit on a high pan. I mean, I'm
not saying sitting on a high pan normal toilets is anything haram
about that it's fine. But from a health perspective, and you can
check online, there's numerous discussions and research about
this, that when you actually sit in the Sunnah way which is
squatting, right, then it's just because of the position of the
stomach and the body, its release is much more easy. You have to
there's less stress in that. And now mashallah, they've if you
don't have one of those low pan toilets, generates the messages
which have them, it's very difficult to get them in the
houses all the time, what you can buy is a Squatty Potty online. And
essentially, you just keep that day, it's like a little stool, and
you just just helps you raise your hand, it's much easier to empty
your stomach, it's healthier, they say.
I know some of the children are finding that amusing, right? Then
anyway, when you sit and you relieve yourself, you make sure
you don't get splashes anywhere. As we know that the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam mentioned
that
people were being punished in their grave,
not for what people would have thought of as some big matter. It
was purely because they were not careful. The person was not
careful when they were urinating, or they were or maybe around the
animals or whatever the case was. That's why we have to be very
careful because urine is impure. You don't want it on your on your,
on your garments and your clothing. Then after that we're
told to do is the bra. So before a stingy, there's a st bra and st
bra means to make sure that you relieve yourself fully, so that
you don't feel like there's anything that remains because you
don't want to have that turbulence afterwards. Then after that, you
wash yourself and you cleanse yourself. Then you come out and
you say Oh franak
forgiveness for you. Forgiveness from you. Yeah, Allah because I
wasn't able to remember Allah there. I wasn't able to remember
Allah. And then you say all praises to Allah. Who do you know
that the Al Hamdulillah Hillary was the doer after the bathroom
after the toilet?
Alhamdulillah Hillary, as Hebron will ever wear Anthony, all
praises to Allah who removed the filth from me, and the harm from
me, because that's exactly imagine you can't go when you're
constipated, you have big trouble. So it's a we thank Allah subhanaw
taala that whole process Subhanallah is for the sake of
Allah subhanaw Whether you get reward for it, mundane acts like
that, if done according to the Sunnah in the right the right
away. That's what you get the reward for that. Then after that,
we start to settle our off circle out of
the big discussion at the beginning. Is it
shaitan
and Adam Alayhis Salam
and then eventually shaytaan becoming the rejected one. So, it
says that Allah subhanaw taala says, we created you, then we
formed you. And then we said to the angels that prostrate to Adam,
we told the angels proceed to other money his salaam they all
frustrated except a bliss as you know the story who did not so
Allah subhanaw taala asked him that what is it that stopped you
from prostrating when I told you to prostrate?
He said I'm better than him.
You created me from fire, you've created him from the soil
and fire rises. So Allah subhanho wa Taala had him rejected.
Now, this is what shaytaan I mean, you know that story anyway. But
this is the verse I want to mention, which is verse 16, and
17. This is what shaytan says and listen carefully here. He says,
Carla for Bhima. Wait and Isla co wrote another homeseer article,
Mr. T, because you have caused me to deviate.
I'm going to go and sit in the straight path in your straight
path. I'm gonna go and sit there, which means I'm going to block
people I'm going to misguide them then he says thumb tn whom mean by
any ad him warming coffee him one a Bernie him watch
him, what do you do a thorough homeshare Kyren then I'm going to
approach them, I'm going to attack them, I'm going to confront them
from in front of them from behind them from the right and from the
left. And you will not find the majority of them to be thankful
that that's another way of saying you see gopher means to be
ungrateful.
And why is gopher called COVID? Because if we deny Allah Who
created you, that's the highest form of denial. You know,
somebody's giving you a Did somebody say No, you didn't do it
for me. And it's clear that he did and you you say that? That's
ungrateful. That's totally ungrateful.
So the highest form of Kufa is denial of Allah. But small forms
of Kufa are basically just not recognizing the credit where it's
due. Allah subhanho wa Taala says in this very
majestic way. He says lemon Tabby coming home lamb Lana Jehan, NAMA
min km h, Martine.
Whoever follows you. I'm going to fill up the Hellfire with them.
I'm going to fill up the Hellfire with all of you.
That's a place where he gets jealous.
And then Allah subhanaw taala relates the story about paradise
where there was going and there was ojochal Jana. Now what's
really interesting, you know the story about paradise story, right?
This is where we started, and inshallah that's when we will end
up in sha Allah in paradise. What's really interesting here is
that when shaytaan misled them, this is what Allah says, For the
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when they tasted from that tree,
their nakedness was exposed.
What's the relationship between sin, wrongdoing and nakedness?
Clearly exposing yourself to Allah, you are clearly exposing
the wrong side of yourself to Allah subhanho wa Taala anyway, so
they started to grab, take hold of the leaves and to try to cover
themselves because they felt embarrassed. And then Allah
subhana wa does deny prohibit you from that. And I told you that
shaytaan is your clear enemy. And immediately Rob burner volunteer
for Cerner. We have oppressed ourself
that was at MIT Salaam and how Alia salaam we do the same thing
you make a mistake, immediately we seek forgiveness. Now what's
happening after that is there's a whole discussion on the bus and
covering and clothing and Xena and adornment. So this one Allah says
yeah, Benny, the Mercado
Libre say you are free so you can wear Isha? Whatever. So Taqwa Lika
Hi. Daddy coming is Tila Hilarion Lumia karoun Oh, children of Adam.
We've
caused clothing and garments to descend upon you by which you
clothe yourself.
So Allah has given us clothing. Why do humans wear clothing? Okay,
in England, yes, you have to cover yourself up. It's cold, but in hot
places. Why do they cover their Why do people still cover it's a
natural fit
Throughout human beings to cover, there's a natural inclination, a
natural fitrah and predisposition that we don't want to expose our
private parts. And we don't want to see other people's private
parts. That's a natural disposition. That's why watching
the Haram is haram, because it's against the natural disposition as
well. And that's been the case for the majority of communities in the
world and civilizations in the world that you call civilized.
Yes, you have a few tribes in various different countries that
don't observe this that have a different way. And they, they
either fully naked, or they at least cover just some basic
aspects. But can you see how natural that is that we need to
cover and people cover, and even the laws of many countries, they
don't allow you to be * in public, even though the countries
have great freedoms and so on. Right?
Of course, there are some countries which are worse than
others.
In England, it's not allowed to be bare breasted, especially for
women. But in France, and in some other countries, it's okay. In
some cases, not everywhere, but in some cases, and some are just, I
guess, worse than others in that in that situation.
Now, people take pride in their clothing. This is how, you know,
Allah has made us in whatever way, right? Allah has made us in
whatever way now, there's only so much you can do to your actual
natural body to make it look better. So what we do is we were
close. So clothes don't just cover us, but they actually adorn us.
They make us look better.
They might make us look different. It could make us look younger.
I know this one guy is 70 years old, but when you see him, you
think that he's 50. He comes with a one of those caps backwards that
only younger guys would wear. Not a 70 year old, but you'd you'd
you'd never you'd be surprised what clothing can do for you.
So Allah subhanho wa Taala I mean, we everybody knows what you know
how much attachment people have to clothes, right? People spend crazy
amounts on wedding for one day, they will spend some crazy
amounts, even though you're not gonna wear that clothing again.
Allah subhanaw taala says look what Evers to Taqwa Attica how you
knowing obsession with clothing, Allah says that the bus with Taqwa
is the best. This isn't say that you don't wear any other clothes
and you just to leave us a taco that be wrong, is trying to say
that if you want to guard yourself in something, wherever you go,
even a greater amount of covering is through. If you have God
consciousness Subhanallah you'll get some guys who have a beard.
They look the part they have Islamic clothing, but they've got
mischief in their mind. You get bad people among everybody. It's
not to say all people like that, you will get some women who are
covered maybe even with a niqab, but they may be flirting.
The point is taqwa is not a cloth on your head, on your face, or a
certain garment. Dakwah is a state of the heart, which makes you wear
things in a particular way and makes you behave in a particular
way. That's where Allah subhanaw taala is drawing our attention to
this, that Dakwah the Libras of Taqwa and he's called Taqwa
Libous.
Dakwah is considered clothing. How is Dakwah clothing?
You know why? You know, if somebody sees if somebody takes a
nowadays you have to be very careful because people take
pictures of people,
right in
unreasonable or undignified states. Now, if somebody takes a
picture of somebody that they don't like, many people will have
sympathy with the individual that yes, this was an abuse of you.
Right? They'll have sympathy. However, if we don't have God
consciousness and we end up doing something wrong by by doing a bad
act, because we don't have Taqwa that gets exposed. There's no
sympathy that is there. Because that's something we perpetrated
ourselves.
That's why Allah is saying, Be careful. Your consciousness is a
better garment for you overall, in everything in your dignity, in
your is in your honor.
And you're standing among people, that is what's going to keep you
always be dignified. Allah then says, oh, people are Children of
Adam, let not the shaytaan mislead you, just as he got your parents
out of paradise, and had the garments stripped from them? Or is
that connection is mentioned there? It seems so that the
nakedness became exposed. Then Allah subhanaw taala speaks about
the people who, who don't believe that shaytaan is their close
friend and associate and when they do something wrong.
When they do something wrong.
They say that
At this is what we found our forefathers doing. This is our
system, this is our way of life.
Say that Allah subhanaw taala doesn't command this.
So let me mention something here. They think that when we wear
proper garments, and the women cover properly, like hijab, that
that's oppressive,
that that's oppressive.
They're willing to go and campaign for countries like Afghanistan,
etc.
To go and try to take off the hijab, because they're saying that
the women don't really want to wear it, maybe some women don't
want to wear it, and they're being forced to wear it. So they go and
make a major campaign because that's what you call human rights,
which women should have the rights. Problem is I don't see a
campaign against France, where they don't allow women to wear
hijab, in schools, and in official positions. If it was about a
choice, many of the women that want to practice that choice, but
they're not allowed to, but there's no campaign against and
there's not even a hoot. There's not a cry at all. So it's not
about and you see, it's actually not about human rights. It's more
about you need to follow our way. Because always superior so now my
question is, why is your way superior? What science makes that
way superior? You've got a woman who covers and you've got one who
does not colourful? Why is this one superior to this one? What
science shows that they both have a choice. This one has chosen to
do it this way this one has chosen, okay.
I think
that women are forced to dress a certain way in our culture here.
If you look at any function, let's just look at functions. I mean, if
you take if you take a walk, I mean, you don't want to do this in
Ramadan, right. And you don't want to do this ever, to be honest. But
if you take a walk, the first 10 men you will see and the first 10
women you will see that are not Muslim, just see the way they are
dressed.
Generally, the men will always be more covered, and the women will
be less covered. Doesn't matter what their physique is. They, the
men never feel a need. In fact, if they went to certain functions,
like a party, in shorts, they'd be looked at probably be thrown out.
But if a woman goes there with lesson that's actually encouraged,
if a man turns up at work with not a suit, or not the dress, but
rather with shorts and a T shirt, that is bad.
You know, you're going to get a discipline.
But when women come, in fact, sometimes they actually forced, or
they lose their job of wearing high heels and being as scantily
clad as possible. Why do they have to do that? Why is that way
better? Why do women when they work, they have to show every part
of their body? Why for whom,
obviously, is for someone else. But why?
That is because it's a following of a certain style, following a
certain trend. So who's indoctrinated just the way they
say so they'll say that the woman who has it you say that the women
who wear hijab or niqab, they do it with their own choice? No, they
don't do it, they do it their choice, but it's because they've
been indoctrinated to feel that way.
To make that choice.
That's what some of them say. That's what some people say.
That's one of the arguments that they've been indoctrinated to
feel that they must dress that way. So having other people been
indoctrinated? Because everybody does it. It looks strange to be
not like that.
To dress as even though men and isn't this discrimination against
against women, actually, that they're not, you know, that they
are kind of compelled to dress in a particular way. I mean, even if
you look at these Grammy Awards, or whatever they call, though,
the, the, what you call the other ones, the Baptists, or whatever,
the men are always dressed, more clothed, right, than the women,
they have to come in scanty clothing, because that's what is
considered to be the style.
Otherwise, they can they can play their part. It's an
indoctrination.
Right? And we need to try to encourage people to understand
this, that this is done for the pleasure of other people. So
there's a number of verses on that. Now we move on to the next
part.
There's a huge discourse in
in this surah, between the people of Paradise and the people of
hellfire. And it's an amazing discourse, it really is a telling
discourse. So what Allah subhanaw taala is saying is that the people
of Jana when the US have origin at us have been called Voyager, then
I'm where either we're either gonna have the * legit to me.
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The people of paradise? They call out to the people of hellfire,
that we found what our Lord had promised us to be true?
Did you also find what your Lord had promised you to be true as
well? And they will say, of course, yes, I found it to be
true. And then an announcement will be made, that there is a
curse for all of those who are oppressors.
That who used to say this is a description of those people who
are going to be in hellfire who oppresses those who used to block
from the Path of Allah, who used to look for crookedness. And they
were disbelievers in the hereafter. There's going to be no
a hijab and a barrier place between them.
And then Allah subhanaw taala speaks about some people who are
in a halfway place between paradise and * called the hour
off, he speaks about them. And they call out to the people in
paradise saying, Peace be upon you.
Anyway, eventually then there's the discussion
about the people of hellfire. So the people of hellfire they call
out to the people of paradise.
Because they're suffering, they're struggling. And they know some of
these people in paradise It might even be in a friend or something
says a fee do Elena Minalima oh me Marissa Comala
por en us some of the water that you have the some of the water you
have or some of that which Allah subhanaw taala has provided you
with and then they're gonna get a response that in Allah ha Rama
Huma, I will caffeine, ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada has made this
unlawful for the disbelievers. And then Allah subhanho wa Taala
mentions who again, these people are Alladhina Dakka, dudina Hula,
hula, hula, even Mahatma higher to dunya. Those who used to take the
deem to be a plaything to be not serious to be a plaything and
adjust and they were they were misled. And they were deceived by
the life of this world family oh man and Sir home today we make
them to be forgotten, so we're not going to take care of them. Come
on Zuleika yo, we've had just the way that they had
forgotten our Meeting of this Day and they used to deny Our Verses.
Then it carries on and thereafter that the last few sections of the
surah and of this chapter is about the prophets new honey Salaam and
who daddy is Salaam and Saleh Ali Salaam and its their stories and
their
challenges with their communities and how Allah subhanho wa Taala
eventually gave them success and destroyed the wrongdoers and that
gives us a lot of inspiration. So there you go. That's in a
nutshell, that is what these disputes is about. And may Allah
subhanaw taala give us the Tofig to benefit from this and to
improve our lives in accordance with the Quran and allow the Quran
to be an illuminator for us. Allow the Quran to be a dignified for
us, allow us to be elevated by the Quran dignified by the Quran,
inspired by the Quran, infused with its blessings to to live by
the Quran and then to be gaining closeness through the Quran. May
Allah subhanho wa Taala make this Ramadan better than any Ramadan
before it. And may Allah subhanho wa Taala allow us to gain
closeness to him and keep us close even after the month of Ramadan
with Taqwa Dhawan, and it hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa
Rahmatullah or Hamra. I mean, the point of a lecture is to encourage
people to act to get further an inspiration, and encouragement,
persuasion. The next step is to actually start learning seriously
to read books to take on a subject of Islam and to understand all the
subjects of Islam at least at the basic level, so that we can become
more aware of what our deen wants from us. And that's why we started
Rayyan courses so that you can actually take organize lectures on
demand whenever you have free time, especially for example, the
Islamic essentials course that we have on the Islamic essentials
certificate, which you take 20 Short modules, and at the end of
that inshallah you will have gotten the basics of most of the
most important topics in Islam and you'll feel a lot more confident.
You don't have to leave lectures behind you can continue to live,
you know, to listen to lectures, but you need to have this more
sustained study as well as local law here and Salam aleikum wa
rahmatullah wa barakato.