Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Pharaoh
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So the Kola Hoon Aleem that's the beginning of the story of Musa
alayhis salaam. And the reason why I bring Mousavi salaam here is
that the story of Pharaoh on its own cannot be cannot be completed
without the story of Musa alayhis salam. In fact, Pharaoh is only
relevant because of Musa alayhis salam and because of his tyranny.
If you go to Egypt today to Cairo, and you go into the British made
Museum, there's a massive structure. It's called the
Pharaonic Museum. They've got an Islamic Museum. But there's a
Pharaonic Museum. If you go inside the, what you will actually notice
is that at the time I went there, I paid about 40 Egyptian pounds to
get in, that was my ticket. You get onto the second or third
floor, I can't remember anymore. But when you get onto the second
or third floor, then you have to pay again if you want to go into
this particular chamber. And there I remember, if I remember
correctly, I had to pay 90 Egyptian pounds. So 40 at the door
and then to see this just one room, you have to pay 90, so
that's more than double. Now, has anybody been there?
Okay, one person, okay.
It's okay, I'm gonna save you your money today. Anyway, that
particular room in there is essentially the mummy room. So you
have about nine mummies there. And the most interesting thing, and
maybe this is something that I'm supposed to mention at the end,
but I'm gonna mention it right at the beginning is Allah subhanaw
taala says about the Pharaoh. He he says in the Quran to Pharaoh
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I'm going to give you a respite with your body, so that you'll be
assigned, you'll be a lesson a sign.
So
what is it that out of all of these various different dynasties
and nations that have come and gone from this world? This one
particular one of the pharaohs is such that they used to mummify
their dead diseased, especially their, their wealthy and elite.
And thus, they're still preserved until today. Now if I were to ask
you, How long ago did was Pharaoh around in this world? Could you
tell me how many years ago or hundreds of 1000s of years ago
anybody have an idea?
Just to get give you an idea of how Allah pres has present it has
preserved preserved his body? Anybody know? Well, it's about
4000 years. So we're talking about 2000 years until a Saudi Salam
because we're in 2015, nearly 16 And we're talking about 2000 years
before isa Ali Salaam is when Musa alayhis salam was around. So we're
talking about over 4000 years. If you go into that museum, you'll
actually see everything in there from Pharaoh's Rolls Royce to his
needle. What I mean by Rolls Royces is chariot, you'll see
everything in there. And that's five floors full of this stuff.
And they got so much more in the basement that they haven't even
put up. And they reckon that actually going to find another
room very soon in the Valley of the Kings that has been until now
unknown. And the most interesting thing that I find is number one,
Pharaoh's body was only discovered about 150 years ago.
It wasn't around all the time, meaning we didn't see it. It was
existing Allah's words that always been true. But can you imagine the
Eman of the believers the faith of the believers of the preceding
centuries, all the way from Rasulullah sallallahu hymns time
down to when that body was discovered what they must have
thought about this verse which says that I'm Allah is saying, I'm
going to give you respect with your body, I'm going to preserve
your body so that you'll be assigned for the people after you.
Their Eman must have been very strong that there doesn't seem to
be a body around, but they still believed in it. Or is it that our
iman is actually so weak in the unseen that it had to be revealed
in our time? Right? So that's something I'll leave you to think
about. But what's most interesting is whatever Allah has said, is
absolutely true. And thus, after 1300 years, you find this body,
and not only do you find him, but when Allah does something, he does
it wholesome. He does it completely. He does it perfectly.
He doesn't do just something very, you know, something very tiny, but
he adds everything to it. So not only did they find Pharaoh, but
they actually found everything to do with him. Subhanallah it's
obviously something that was placed into the minds of these
people to preserve all of these things and have this tradition.
Who was this Pharaoh? There's a number of opinions, the strongest
opinion seems to be that it's Ramses the second. However,
there's other opinions that it's, it's another one called Madame
Tarr. Now they're both there, they both mummy are both mommies are in
that place in that room. Now, as I said, I'll save you some money,
you don't need to go there to see it. I specifically went paid for
it. Because I felt that if Allah has preserved this for us as a
lesson, then let me go and try to take a lesson. Right, just in case
somebody starts saying that you're entertaining yourself and it's
haram this than the other I don't know, Allahu Allah, um, you get
different photos around. So
if you want to see him though, all you have to do is check online,
Ramses the second images, and there he will be, you'll be able
to see him. But it doesn't do the same thing. It's just a 2d
picture, we actually go there and you actually see the curves of the
body and so on. That's when you actually notice that this is a
human being, this was a human being. And look how Allah
preserved it looks a bit shrunk and shriveled. But other than
that, it's amazing how Allah subhanaw taala had him preserved
saved him from the ocean from drowning at the last minute. Now
how does that story start ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada says in the Quran,
that we are going to tell you the story of Moses story of Musa
alayhis salam and Pharaoh, we're going to tell it to you with the
truth. Why does he have to say I'm going to tell you the truth?
Because one is that if you are if you're coming with a new story,
and you don't have a prior version of that story, there's no way to
verify whether this is true or not. How do you verify that
something is the truth or not? But because the story of Pharaoh is
abounds, it's part of the People of the Book, the Christians and
the Jews. This story is famous, it was told it was passed down, it
was known, and I'm sure most of us, most people, if they know any
story of Pharaoh, it's the Hollywood version. Right the
screen version, which I've refused to watch, like adamantly refused
to watch. And the reason I say that is because I don't want the
picture of Musa alayhis salam. As some actor, whoever that actor is,
I don't even know who plays that part, or in whichever version of
it, but I don't want for the rest of my life that every time I think
or Mousavi salaam I see some guy who reckons he's Mousavi cinema
for that time, right? I just don't want that I will just leave it in
my mind. And hopefully on the Day of Judgment, see him in sha Allah
in Jannah insha Allah. So
Allah says, we're going to tell you the truth, we're going to tell
you the truth, which means that any other stories, you know, out
there, there's been a lot of hearsay, hearsay, there's been a
lot of additions and masala, as we call it, that's been added that
happens to any story. And clearly that's happened to these stories
as well. And but we're going to tell you the facts, and we're only
going to tell you the facts that matter to you that you can take a
lesson from so we're not going to go into entertaining detail.
Because the Quran is not a form of entertainment. It's a form of
reflection. So we're going to give you the parts that are to reflect
on. And if you listen carefully, and you read carefully the way
Allah subhanaw taala tells his story. It's amazing in the way
Allah subhanaw taala slips in additional information here and
there that causes us to reflect. I will also say at the outset, that
I'm not going to even try to cover the entire story, because that's
impossible in the time that we've been given. Because then it'll
just be a rushed job. All I'm going to try to do right is to try
to take some lessons from a few of the stories as we read along and
see how much Allah subhanaw taala allows us to do. So we're just
going to touch on a few different subjects here. So Allah subhanaw
taala then says, We're doing this for the people who believe you
need a certain level of belief to believe in the Quran. Otherwise,
it's just like any other source for you. Anyway, it carries on in
the field I'm gonna fill out the Pharaoh, this Pharaoh Magnum ta
Ramses the second whoever it was, we'll just call him Pharaoh. By
the way, Pharaoh was the title of the of the leaders of the time of
Egypt. So the leaders of Egypt they were called Pharaohs so
Pharaoh when you say Pharaoh, it was not spared
Specifically speaking about a specific individual is a pharaoh
in general, although this Pharaoh becomes the most notorious. One
thing was that Ibrahim alayhis salam, he had an encounter with
Egypt.
What happened in Egypt is that when Ibrahim Al Islam went from
Babylon, to Haoran, and to to Jerusalem, he took an incursion
into Misser into Egypt. That's where if you know the story, I'm
not going to go into it. There was a very tyrannical king there who
used to he was a maniac, a * maniac, in a sense, right? He
liked to take women away and use them any beautiful woman. So there
was an encounter with Ibrahim Ali Salman Salah Alayhis Salam, now
Alhamdulillah Allah saved salatu salam from any approaches of this
man. But Ibrahim Al Islam did say that they will be coming from my
my gender, my descendants, somebody who, upon whose hands the
destruction of Egypt will take place. So this information had
been passed through the Bani Israel in the children of Israel,
children of Israel generally refers to Jacoba Islam is not a
name was Israel is Surah el haram, Sri Edo Allah enough says Allah
says in the Quran, so its raw eel is Iacobelli Salaam. That's Israel
is an eel eel, a Ismar. Eel Ibrahim is Salah, eel, Jabra,
Jabra eel, mica, eel, Israel, I feel these are all Allah's, you
know the servant of Allah, it's like Abdullah in Arabic, these are
Hebrew names, right? Just Just for your information. These are Hebrew
names, means the servant of Allah, the servant of the Rama and the
servant, you know, different names related to Allah subhanaw taala.
So now what happens is,
Ibrahim on Islam had mentioned that this had passed down in his
descendants. So the bunny is Salah eel, who the Pharaoh had then
enslaved, who then they had, he had enslaved. They used to use
this as their kind of MADI coming in and like today, people are so
complacent about the fact that we can't do anything with the
situation. The Muslims are in the world today. And we just have to
wait for the malady and they become complacent. They become a
defeatist they've taken on this defeatist mentality just sat back
and doing nothing. Right. So that is, it seems like this was their
story that would make them happy right now.
What Allah says in the Quran is Pharaoh was high handed and
tyrannical in the world with your other share and your stock photo
if at a minimum user who is tahini saw him, he
enslaved an entire people. He enslaved an entire people. That's
what Allah says he would kill their children slaughtered their
children, their boys, and he would keep their women alive. And
there's a special story about this in the hookah animal mausoleum.
But when redo a pneumonia and Alladhina Stollery fulfill out
there is so much hope in this verse. We wanted as Allah says, We
wanted to favor the people who were considered to be weak, who
are taken as weaklings who had been oppressed who had been
subjugated who had been weakened and enslaved. Now, again, going
back to Egypt of today and the this museum, and you see all of
these things in this massive five story structure. And everything is
slave labor. All of that. Every product in every article and
artifact in that is all slave labor, Bani Israel. He had the
whole tribe enslaved, because it's like Jacoba Salam had 12 Children,
right had 12 children. So a man or Islam came from one of his
children, I believe from Yahoo, though, whereas Musa Ali Salam
came from another one another one of Iacobelli sons, children. So
these were all Bani Israel, the children of Israel, the
Israelites, as they call them, so
he had enslaved them and he had put them to work. They were a
subjugated people. Now Allah says that we wanted to favor the people
who had been weak and oppressed. We wanted to make them the leaders
when as your image, we wanted to make them leaders, when as your
other human, why the theme, and we also wanted them to be the
inheritors of whatever is going to be left from this legacy. Now that
gives a lot of hope for weak people because Allah subhanaw
taala helps weak people. So if there's any reason for us to look
at the story of Pharaoh, one of the biggest lessons you get from
the story of Pharaoh is that he was this tyrant who had everything
at his disposal, and he would do anything to preserve that. And
that that is where it gets really, really problematic with him.
So then it says
We wanted then Allah continues and says, We wanted them to be the
leaders. We wanted them to be the inheritors. We wanted to give them
power in the world. And we want to know the affair. I want our Hamana
where Judah whom I mean who McCann we are the rune. And we want to
show Pharaoh and his main minister, ha ha.
Herman Herman, they said was actually sometimes worse than
fair, because sometimes fair, or they said, would have these
thoughtful reflective moments. And Harmon was the one who used to
drive him sometimes like the evil Minister of his. So that's why
he's actually spoken about in the Quran. And he's singled out as
well. So we wanted to show Pharaoh and Harmon and their armies, what
they were frightened of. Now, what were they frightened off?
Obviously, there's something that frightened of Allah to be
mentioning that. So now let's go back to what I mentioned is what
Ibrahim Al Islam had promised, or what he had prophesied this
information about somebody coming from the Bani Israel eel, and B
and destroying Egypt, destroying the rule of Egypt. So they used to
be hoping for that. Now what happens is there's two stories.
One is, this information had gone through the Bani Israel to their
masters, the cops. This was these were the the people of Pharaoh.
And of course, this news reached Pharaoh himself, he was concerned,
he was super superstitious, he was concerned, then he sees a dream.
He sees a dream.
And that dream frightened him because it seemed to be this rumor
or this prophecy come true in his mind. So he gets really angry, he
gets really angry. Now, although he's having the saints, he doesn't
reflect. And anybody in this world who becomes too indulgent and
loving of the world, they will not reflect, because they think they
have a false they have a false sense of security, you know, when
you have everything around you, and you have money that can buy
you anything, and you have friends in high places, and you have
contexts, and you can get anything done that you want. And there's
not much that stands in your way, then you forget about Allah.
Because this as human beings are, psychologically, the more power we
get, the more corrupted we have the possibility of becoming, the
more immune we feel, the more stronger we become. And we that
gets to our mind, so you interact intoxicated with your power.
That's why although Pharaoh is having a lot of these signs, as it
continues as well, it's very difficult to move away from your
comfortable position of where you are with everything at your hands.
And that's what the difficulty is. Now, what was he he was obviously,
we wanted to show him and then what they were frightened off. So
what Oh, hyena Illa Musa and are very now the Quran doesn't mention
specifically what Pharaoh started to do. It alludes to it by saying
that he killed all the boys. Now what happens here is Allah
subhanaw taala continues. So what Pharaoh did after he saw that
dream, he went and asked his, his religious men, his religious men,
and they told him that they will be a boy from the Bani Israel who
will destroy your kingdom. So now how do you save yourself from
that? Now, look at the parallels here.
First and foremost, when Allah wants to destroy somebody, he
creates a context for it. He creates a context, generally
before the destruction of anything, the people who are
supposed to be destroyed, will become even more tyrannical and
oppressive, because Allah wants to establish proof against people. He
wants to show people. I mean, he wants it that people, if he wants
to destroy somebody, he's not going to destroy innocent people.
He's not going to dis humiliate it destroy in a humiliating way,
innocent people, he will destroy people who are tyrannical, by
letting them do the tyranny acting out their tyranny, and then he
will catch them at a very, very vulnerable position in a very
vulnerable situation. So he creates the context. And you can
see in this case, there's a context being created. And I think
we can draw parallels Inshallah, and and feel for the people who
are being oppressed around the world, that it can only get worse
to get better. That's the principle we learned from the
Quran, it can only get worse to get better. Because when things
get worse, that means is a difficulty. And as Allah says, in
the Maroussi, usara, with every difficulty comes ease. So now
here, there's a context being made here. Now what happens is, he
starts killing all the boys. So all newborns, they are dying,
they're being killed. Now, can you imagine what a gruesome thing that
is? But how does he get away with it because of impunity? Because
there's nobody that he has to answer to. He was one remember who
used to say hon como Allah, I am your highest Lord. He used to when
they were later on which I probably not gonna have time to go
through but
When the magician's challenge Musa Musa ism challenged the magicians,
and they all then became believers in Musa alayhis salam after seeing
that he seemed to have a higher form of what they call sorcery or
magic, that this was something beyond that from Allah, they
became Muslim. You know what he says to them? He says to them, you
started to believe without me giving permission to you, as
though, you know, like, why am I going to give you permission? You
know, what, why are you going to give us permission to believe
somebody else? But that's how arrogant he was. That's how
arrogant he was.
Now, in order to remove your paranoia, to remove yours, your
insecurity, what do you do, you go out of your way, and be
oppressive, and you justify it. What he started doing is killing
everybody. This is a similar thing to what powerful nations do here
of preemptive strikes, of killing people, before they've even done
anything, of going into places and trying to destabilize them, going
into places and trying to get them under control, if they have a fear
over these things. You see, this Pharaonic action, almost as a
Pharaoh is this generic way of tyrants to deal with somebody. And
essentially, that's where it's, it's the Pharaonic style. And you
see that you see that? If you read the story carefully, if you look
at this third, there is so much to be learned from here. But for us,
there's so much hope that should come from this story. So as he
started killing everybody, and leaving the girls alive, boys are
dead. For several, you know, for a number of years, he did this now
that his own people started to complain, we don't have any
workers, there's nobody to help us that there is no boys left, right?
What's going to happen, you're not going to procreate, the next
generation is going to die. If there's not if there's only
females are no males. So then he was given an idea that you're just
going to have to do one year on one year off. Because it's just
the it's just a weird idea to Kill every boy there is I mean, how
long can you do that for? So now what happens is
this enslaved community, just another point, today in the modern
worlds, we've come up with different ideas of enslaving
people, no longer do you do it in the way Pharaoh did it, and put
them in shackles and make them work for you, and put them into
the conventional kind of slave attitude. Today, we enslave
people, without letting them know that they're slaves by them liking
the fact that they're slaves. And this is by using indulgence in the
world by using these kinds of ideas, these kinds of ideas of
indulgence in the world by giving them by intoxicating them,
intoxicating them with entertainment, intoxicating them
with entertainment, intoxicating them with just greed with, you
know, with sexual indulgence, and everything and all these vices and
that that's how people are enslaved, they like that they
suddenly start to like that, that, that style, and where nobody tells
you anything when nobody says anything to you. And then that's
it. You become followers of this, how is it possible in places in
many Muslim countries that they this is what this is the kind of
style that they prefer to live in. That's the whole idea here. Now,
Harun Alayhi salaam, the brother of Musa Islam he is born in a year
when the killing doesn't take place, so he's safe. Then Musa Ali
Salam is mother is pregnant again. And she is going to have Musa
alayhis salam in the year that people are killed that boys are
being killed. So Allah says in the Quran, whoa, Hanaa Illa Musa, in
that what Allah subhanaw taala tells Musa Islam's mum is that put
him into a box into a box and put him into the river. So what
Catherine mentioned is that Musa Hassan's mother used to put him in
a box whenever there was an inquiry that used to go and she
had the baby secretly, she didn't announce it. And what she did her
house, their house was in the bank of the Nile. So what they would do
is she would put him in a box and tie a rope to him and then hide
that rope. So then he would just be floating outside like some kind
of box or something on a string. And as they when they would go,
then she would pull him back in. That's how she kept doing this. On
one occasion, though, is Allah wanted something to happen. And
this is not the way it was going to happen. So on one occasion, she
let him go and forgot to tie the string. And suddenly this box
disappears. Now you can imagine what the feeling of this mother is
when her boy goes. So he goes, and he ends up again on the bank of
the Nile outside Pharaoh's house, outside Pharaoh's palace, rather,
they bring him inside. And it says that some of them didn't know you
know, the servants who had found him didn't want to even open the
box. They weren't unsure. And suddenly, it's his wife Pharaoh's
wife.
Who sees him first? And a prophet baby? You know a prophet infant?
Can you imagine what they'd look like? This beaming, bright
illuminated full of light child, as beautiful as you can get. And
Musa and Asya Her name was Pharaoh's wife fell in love with
this child straightaway. And that's it she just wanted. She
then fell Takata who aloe vera own Alia Cornella, whom I don't want
what hazard Allah, Allah subhanaw taala adds this information, they
picked him up the people of the family of Pharaoh picked him up so
that he would be the enemy, and he would be their source of distress.
And then he says interferon our hermana would you do the hamaca
and ohata in they ordered Pharaoh as people, they were all
misguided. They were wrong. And they were mistaken in this. They
were making a big mistake in this, but they don't know. This is woman
power now being shown because Pharaoh said, this baby kill it.
Pharaoh's wife is saying no, we don't have children. They didn't
have children. We can make this our child. Let Dr. Lu that's what
she's saying. What Carla timbral Tofana curato I in Lee Wallach
says that this child is going to be the delight of my eye and your
eye. My eye Nui the Pharaoh wasn't convinced. But sometimes you have
to give in to your wife. And he gave him and he probably regretted
that until the last moment. Right. But I'm not trying to tell you
guys anything from that.
At the end of the day, she was the one who became Muslim. She was the
one who became a believer afterwards, not him. So this was
all Allah's plan. Well, I talked to Lou who I saw, in fact, Ana,
Ana Taki, the who one of our whom now Sharon, and she's saying
something very truthful. She's saying, Do not kill him. Maybe he
will benefit us or we can take him as a child. Certainly benefit us,
not him. But her yes, because she was going to become a believer
afterwards is a long story about her belief, but she was going to
become a believer. So can you imagine the good words that you
say sometimes come out true to you that Pharaoh's wife says these
words and they truly are a benefit to her because she gets Iman and
faith because of him? Well hongli Sharon, but they did not know what
else by her for me Musa Ferreira on the other hand, his mother is
now trembling. She is taken over. She's taken over with extreme
distress. My son has gone what's going to happen to him
in God that led to BB he Lola or robata Allah Colby Hallett, hakuna
Minimate minion now, Allah subhanaw taala is showing what a
normal woman would do in this situation. She would just declare
this is my child or whatever, you know, just to try to save it
maybe. But Allah says it was very close that she revealed this had
We not strengthened her heart and so that she can be of the true
believers. Were correctly Akihiko See, she said to instead she said
to her daughter was Allison had a sister go and follow him find out
where So now everybody knew that this child had been found. Musa
Islams mother knows that it's her child, because who else is found
in a in a box right? Now she's worried what's going to happen to
this child. And
this kind of news spreads fast in those areas, tells his or her sit
her daughter go and follow and find out keep an eye. So she is
the boss want to be here and Joe Lubin who lives alone, so she is
watching from the sidelines. They don't know that she is related to
this young young boy. Now what Allah does and when Allah wants to
save somebody, when Allah wants to help somebody and support
somebody, he helps them in the most miraculous ways possible, in
the most ingenuous ways possible in the most unexpected manner that
you would never have even fathomed in your in your entire life. This
is the ability of Allah subhanaw taala. So wahana Allah Hill Maradi
straightaway, Allah subhanaw taala had prohibited for any woman to
feed him and thus, they're trying different women, the best of
nursing of nursing mothers, but he wouldn't take to anybody's breast
he would not take to anybody who would not drink from anybody. Now
they're getting worried he has to be fed. There is no SMA formula
milk in those days. You know, this was all natural in those days. It
was organic. Anyway. So
she's the sister of Musa alayhis salam, she's a prophet sister,
right there obviously got some great qualities. So she sees her
chances * do look at the bait in Yak Faloona who look like a
hula hula. Now see, when should we tell you can I tell you and
indicate to you about a household who will assist you who will bring
him up who will help you who will nurse him and they will be very,
they'll be very compassionate on him.
Then are suspicious Why is she saying that? There's no no this is
a very good mother. And I know you know because of other experiences
and so on so forth. So okay, fine for our dinner Huila, Omega Keita.
Karina so they brought her they brought her in and as soon as they
bring her in Musar is on takes to her starts drinking
And they're all very happy. They're all very satisfied. Now
they say, Okay, this is your payment, this is what you're gonna
get. We give you this apartment, we give you this, we give you that
and they give her a whole, you know, salary or whatever. And she
says, I can't stay here I've got other children, I've got other
responsibilities. If you want me to do it, I'm going to do it at
home. So they agreed they begrudgingly agreed Allah subhanaw
taala brings back her son for the now who Isla Ami. So we returned
him to her mother to his mother. Lika que Takara I knew her so that
her eyes continued to be gladdened. Well, that doesn't, and
that she not be grieved when he turned them on the word Allah He,
Huck, and this is on us. For us. Why is Allah telling us that his
mother had her benefit, she's experienced whatever she's
experienced, but Allah tells us because this is what the story is
about. You do something for Allah, you ask Allah and when Allah wants
it to happen, then he says, so that we can gladden her eyes, we
can make sure she's not distressed and so that she knows that when
Allah promises something, it will be the truth. That is what is were
being told, when Allah has told you that this will happen if you
are at one terminal, or Ilona In Kuntum Momineen that you will
remain elevated if you are true believers, because at this time,
we have many challenges in front of us. And a lot of people who are
on the fringe are giving up, they're jumping off the train of
iman, they want to just completely make themselves out to be
something else. And a lot of people are being lost here because
the Imam is being shaken for many people. Now Allah is promising one
to let alone ain't going to Momineen this religion at the core
of it is the religion of following of believing in the unseen
Alladhina you may know gonna Bill hide those people who believe in
the unseen and that is a massive requirement, but it's a massive
challenge. It's not easy. Allah help us all. So well akin a
thorough Himalaya and the moon is Allah says most people don't know.
Anyway, that's how he gets saved. He's brought up in this royal
splendor, everything at his disposal, he is brought up there's
not much information about what else he did. But then Allah says
what a mobile should the who was stoer Tina who hooked miroir Ilma
Okay, Daddy, can I just use Marcin, when he then grew up and
became strong enough became independent, and you know, had his
own mind to do things we gave him we gave him hochma Were Ilma we
gave him both ability
of judicial insight of understanding and we gave him
knowledge as well. Now the story continues. And essentially what
happens is, he is fine. He is a privileged, Bani Israel. He is a
privileged Israelite, all the others are enslaved, he is
privileged, right. So you can imagine what that how you know,
when you become a privileged individual, you can understand
what that might be for a person in that kind of society. However, on
one occasion, he is going at noontime he's outside and there's
a man from his tribe, meaning from the Bani Israel from the
Israelites, who is having some argument with a Copt with one of
the locals as such, right the leadership so this Bani Israel
knows that Mousavi Salam has a lot of influence. So he calls him over
he says, Look, this guy's always arguing with me. So Musa Islam
tried to stop whatever was going on and just whack the other person
one. When he whacked him, one he only did it to call you know, to
kind of shove him away moving away to calm him down. But Musa al
Islam did not know his own power. So when he hit him, he was given
obviously the he had the power of profits, but was he to know that
he killed him. Now as soon as he killed the Musa Issa and walked
away, nobody knows somebody. I mean, only the other Bani Israel
person knew that Musa Islam did this. Now nobody else knows but
they're looking for who is the murderer? Is it that royal is that
royal Bani Israel that's been brought up in the house of
Pharaoh. The next day, Musa Islam is obviously worried. The next day
as he's going along. He sees that same man the same Bani Israel
who's arguing with somebody else this time. And he calls him over
again, as moosari. Some goes there, he first tells him off,
you're messing around all the time, you're causing these fights,
and so on and so forth. Then he turned around, apparently, to try
to deal with the other man. And this person became so frightened
now that he's already told me off, he's going to sort him out, then
he's going to sort me out. So he says, Oh, you just want to be
tyrannical and oppressive in the world. And that's what you did
yesterday and so on and so forth. And that's it was awesome. Didn't
do anything afterwards. We're sorry son went away. But obviously
now the news reached the Pharaoh and others that this was him. Who
was Musa Ali Salaam. So eventually what happens is that there was
another believer, a friend of Musa Ali salaam, who's a who's a cop.
He was from the people of Pharaoh. He's the other believer there. He
came silently attending and the look they are in their highest
councils they are making their their consulting with each other.
too, they're gonna take care of you. So I would suggest that you
just leave. So then he goes to Meridian. I'm not going to go into
detail about Meridian because that's a long story, but that's
where he goes and spend several years down there and he gets
married there on his way back from that. On the way back from that he
gets prophecy. He is given Naboo he is given the prophecy, and then
he is told to go back to Pharaoh and to start challenging him to
give him that in a positive challenge. Hula Hoop hola Lena.
Give the Allah subhanho wa Taala says, Speak to him in a soft tone,
use soft spoken language with him. Now Subhan Allah, if Allah is
telling Musa alayhis salam to speak to a tyrant who calls
himself God in softness, then where does it justify for us to do
military Alison neurologia
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armor will modify nahi and human girl where you suddenly become
individuals become enlightened, religious, and then they go home
and they start causing havoc with everybody else. They want to throw
the TV out the next day and they want to like make everybody become
wealthy Allah in one day, it just doesn't work. If Allah tells Musa
alayhis salam and Harun al Islam to deal with Pharaoh like that, in
the beginning to give him his opportunity and his chance, then
it that's another lesson that we get from that.
Now what happens is, Musa al Islam says, I've got a slight impediment
in my speech, and there's a story why that happened. But I've got a
spy impediment, I want support. So we understand from this that you
can ask for support. You don't have to do it alone. And my
brother is more eloquent than me. My brother is more efficient than
me in his speech. He's more, he's more effective. So Allah subhanaw
taala gives his brother appoints his brother for him. His brother's
a prophet Musa alayhis. Salam is a messenger is on a higher rank. So
they go to Pharaoh, they speak to him and there's a whole discussion
that takes place. There's a whole discussion that takes place Musa
Islam a first Pharaoh tries to use the the excuse or tries to use the
card that I brought you up. And now you are so ungrateful that you
are doing this to us was that he said, Look, I I'm sorry, but and
he says you've committed this crime of killing that man. We're
sorry Salam said yes, that was the case. But I was mistaken. In that
case, I was mistaken at that time.
They have. There's a long story about what happens after that.
They have a to and fro. And finally what happens is that Musa
alayhis salam is told by Allah subhanaw taala is told by Allah
subhanaw taala that you need to take the Bani Israel and you need
to leave at night. You need to leave. So the news had spread
among the Bani Israel that you gather whatever you can. And what
they apparently did was they took gold from their masters, they
stole the gold from their masters, they all got together. And then
Musa lism led them out. Pharaoh and obvious these people found out
I'm cutting it really short, obviously. Right just to show the
end of the story from where I started. And
finally they get to the river. And behind them is the Pharaoh and in
front of them is the river. Where do they go now, but inside was
such that they used to complain a lot. Even at this time they start
complaining to all sides to them. Now they're saying now they were
enslaved there they were in misery that they have persecuted there.
Now they started saying we were better off there. Now we have the
sea in front of us we have this water in front of us behind us
we've got the enemy we've got the army that said it's the end of us.
Musa Islam is told by Allah subhanaw taala hit hit the surface
of the water with your with your stuff. Right. And as he did, so
the water just suddenly wells up to both onto both sides, and it
creates a dry passage. So literally the water just walls up
as though there's the invisible glass wall that's holding up the
water to the two sides. And they're just walking through. Now
Pharaoh and his people they're there at a short distance behind
when they come up. The water doesn't coalesce together yet. So
it's not like it let a moose Alliston go through. And then
after that it shut down straight away. But it lets Pharaoh come in.
It lets Pharaoh come in and he reckons wonderful. This happens
for me, you know because you then interpret everything according to
your understanding of the way things work. As they get to the
middle, the water, the sides break the control of Allah subhanaw
taala he tells them it tells you to come back down and it comes
back down. Now Musa that now Pharaoh, it seems at this point,
it seems at this point that he had been struggling with himself.
Allah Allahu alum, and I take this as something as a very important
message because he says at the end, that I believe in the Lord of
Musa and Harun, but he's saying this now when he is about to die.
And there's two things here, number one is that when a person
is about today, when a person is about today, they generally see
the reality, everything opens up to them. So that's why we have
this concept in Islam called the hustle hotma and soul hotma. A
good ending state and an evil ending state. What that means is
personal hajima is that when a person dies, imagine it like this.
You've just been through an exam that you are really trying hard
for. You've answered all of these questions, you are doubtful about
some of them, but you thought you did well, you generally you know,
you have this feeling. After an Exam, you come outside, you grab
your textbooks, and you go and check your answers. Right now, if
there was a question or two that you are confident about, but when
you checked, and you discovered how messed up you are, right, how
wrong you are, can you imagine how you feel? One is you don't know in
the exam team, when you try to write the best when you go and you
find out what's right, you don't feel so bad, you already knew you
didn't know. But in this case, what you thought you knew, whereas
you didn't know that you didn't know? And then can you imagine how
bad that is? So what happens that death, that rhythm I mentioned is
that when reality comes about, Allah opens up everything to show
how they really are, what faith really is, then we reflect on the
life that we lead, and what the reality was, if they come
together, and if they were the same and your your answers were
correct, meaning your life was correct, you feel great. You feel
great. Just like when you come out and you are somebody the answer to
that one was this right? And he said, Yes, Hamdulillah. That's a
wonderful, that's how it feels personal hotma at least in an
exam, you can do a reset. In this case, you don't do a reset. So I
think the reality opens up for Pharaoh, it seems that reality
opens up but Eman at that time is not accepted. Because once you
see, start seeing the next world as such, seeing the real the
reality you start receiving from this world, then there is nothing
that's except you're beyond accountability. Now, your seal,
that's why you call it hurt him hurt him, which means a seal. It's
either a good seal or a bad seal. So there are stories about that
Gibreel is now shoving sand in his mouth to make sure he doesn't say
it just in case Allah subhanaw taala being so compassionate,
merciful the way he is, he might even forgive him. Right? He might
just forgive him. But Allah chooses to mention that in the
Quran. He chooses to mention that in the Quran, that this is what
Pharaoh said. So for me what this tells me, for me this is what this
tells me is that even people who are tyrannical, even people who
are just so full of themselves and so arrogant, and so violent, and
everything else, they do have vulnerable moments, they do think
in themselves sometimes am I doing what I'm doing is right, they do
sometimes even want to make a change. But all the glitz around
them all the power around them is so intoxicating. It's so
intoxicating, that they seldomly break through that barrier. And
this is a lesson for us that do not set up around yourself a false
sense of security, a false sense of materialism, anything besides
Allah that you have so much trust in, that is difficult to get out
of that. And as young men and women that I'm speaking to today,
we're still developing, we're still in that development stage
where we're still studying at university, we're going to go out
there and make these kinds of decisions. We're going to go into
different fields and may Allah subhanaw taala help you to help
the muslimeen May Allah use you in the service of the believers. But
when when you become successful, when you get the context and
you're moving in the right circles, don't let that intoxicate
you. Because at the end of the day, if nothing else, we're going
to die and we'll be nothing anyway, let us look at the past in
history. Let us consider our future in terms of what happens
afterwards. Let us reflect over the story of of Musa Ali Salaam
and and Pharaoh and read his story. If you get a chance to read
the full story of Pharaoh there are so many lessons and that's why
Musa alayhis salam is and Pharaoh they are some of the most quoted
individuals in the Quran, the Musa and Pharaoh story is not in one
place. It is in so many different places. And it's different views
you get from it, different perspectives you get from this so
that if one doesn't affect you, the other one will if that one
doesn't, then the third one will insha Allah so that's what the
Quran is. Therefore that's why this story is therefore that's why
we showed one angle of it. Allah subhanaw taala help us. Allah
subhanaw taala help us because Pharaoh tried to Pharaoh tried to
avoid the inevitable. But Allah subhana wa Tada has his own ways
to get these things done. This shouldn't make us passive, but it
should make us just hopeful. And we keep trying. And may Allah
grant us strength may Allah grant us strength. May Allah grant us
and our progeny strength against all
All of the Pharaonic ideas that will come around us working with
that one and then Hamdu lillahi rabbil aalameen
Kill the Pharaoh