Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qur’anic Reflections Allah Made Islam Beloved to Us
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Salam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh I hope you guys are
all doing well. In sha Allah may Allah subhanaw Without a blessed
our Ramadan. Let us start with the verse of the Quran
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be reflecting on this versus auditor who gerat These are verses
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is
the main point I want to take from here is from hubub, at common
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Allah has made faith beloved to you. This is talking to the
believers, obviously, that Allah has made faith and dear and
beloved to you, in your hearts and has beautified in your hearts the
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and has made disbelief and wickedness and disobedience hated
in your heart hated by you,
hateful for you.
Such are they who are rightly guided.
And this is Grace from Allah and His favor. And Allah is all
knowing and all wise. That's pretty much the gist of that
translation. So according to the Quran, a truly Islamic society is
one which is going to be permeated by these and no building values,
life enabling values, excellent morals, and, and manners. Because
for believers, for each individual believer faith has been made
beloved, and beautified. So it's something you want to do and you
enjoy doing. It's, you know, when something is in when something is
attracting attractive, when something has been beautified. And
when something has been
adorned for you, then it's generally you take pride in it and
it's something that you want to do.
At the same time, the opposite which is disbelief and wickedness
and disobedience that's been made hateful to you.
That's what a believer should be like. And the Muslim community
should have this as a collective conduct a collective ethos, a
collective feeling.
That is to have wickedness is an antithesis. It's opposite of what
a Muslim community should be.
Anything that smacks of rebellion against Allah subhanaw taala
should be rejected outright by the Muslim community by the individual
Muslims which is basically what the Muslim community is made of
denial of the rights of others, other human beings
just fulfilling the unbridled self this is something we're all
believers should actually be focusing on.
Anything that goes with just complete self indulgence, self
gratification at the expense of sacrificing collective and
community interests. That should be a no no for Muslim community.
Anything that calls for any kind of disobedience like that should
should be revolting for the Muslim community.
See the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam established the Muslim
community in Madina Munawwara
on the ideals of the Quranic teachings, and it's against that
backdrop that this verse has been revealed to say that Allah has
caused goodness and faith to be beloved to you, and wickedness to
be hated in your heart.
Only when a Muslim community is like that, that it will enjoy
Allah's grace and reward because Allah subhanaw taala promises
grace and reward Fabula min Allah who are Nirma
we have to make that effort the Sahaba made that efforts. The
people around the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam made
that effort. That's why they then received
the gift and reward from Allah subhanaw taala
Now
you see from an Arabic perspective when you're looking at these
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reading these verses even before I pondered over them before I maybe
even understood what they meant because I memorize the Quran and
was reading the Quran before I learned Arabic in terms of
comprehension of Arabic. They there was a special ring to these
verses. There's just a very special lyrical quality to these
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work out Raha eco marucho For our Fuzu Cowell and you see
just this amazing, amazing effect of the Arabic basically showing
that there's nothing that delights the heart for a Muslim, as these
things should do, goodness should be very endear to us. And I know
that that's not always the case. But that's something that we
should be looking for. Because when a person does that, that
community will flourish, the more people that do that the community
will flourish. That's why they should be a collective effort to
get this done, which means that individually encouraging one
another, then if there is an issue, see, I'll give you a
perspective, from the Imam side. A lot of people blame the Imams,
sometimes for not speaking about things which are relevant.
Sometimes what you have to understand is that imams are in a
certain position where they've generally they're going to be
Muslim scholars, so they may have come from a really, really, you
can say, a very righteous kind of background, very protective
background, that may not be exposed to a lot of these things.
I know that there's a lot of Imams who are like that, they just they
won't know, right, what is going on in certain other families or
whatever, where there are few challenges. You know, I'm not
saying all the moms are like that, you know, there are moms who come
from, you know, from backgrounds that had no, you know, not much
adherence to their faith and so on as well. So that's not the case,
all the time. But what happens, and I've seen this from
experience, because I've been in demand for you know, about over
1213 years, you know, and you don't know what's going on, and
then people won't tell you and then they'll criticize you for,
for basically not speaking about something, but then people don't
come and share what's going on in the community. And I think people
should go and do that they should go and speak to the Imam whether
directly or indirectly, you know, through a letter through an email,
or maybe anonymously if they want to or, or directly and say, Look,
this is what's going on, you know, Imam, this is what's going on in
our community. So the Imam knows what what it is he researches the
issue and then he can speak about it because things which are spoken
about from the pulpit, or from you know, from from from the mic, as
you know, to the committee, the Muslim scholars, it has a bigger
impact, it will reach many more people and there are many people
who you will reach that will take heat from this, not everybody is
going to listen. But a lot of people will listen and I've seen
this to be very, very beneficial when people have shared things
that I've spoken about them in the Friday or in some of the other
lectures and mashallah it's had an impact. There's people who come
and said, Really, I thank you for letting us know about this. So I
think that's our responsibility that we need to make each other
aware of what's going on. So that we abstain the other person
abstains, and we tell the relevant people it doesn't have to be while
revealing you know, any unnecessary details, but at least
you know that okay, look, you know, people are taking this
substance or people are cheating in this way or people are involved
in this haram activity. Right? And you give that little detail and
that should be inshallah very, very useful because this is going
to help to capture the spirit of the Islamic community. We need our
communities to be strong in that regard. And that has to be
through, you know, taking pride in your faith and shunning
wickedness. So let's look at another verse. This is soulful
fit. The verse the Surah, actually of conquest and victory, right?
Verse 26, Allah subhana wa Tada says,
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copy her her work, no Allah who we call Alicia in the email. So this
is essentially condemning one of the vile characters of the
disbelievers of the time. And you know, you can relate to this once
I translate this Allah subhana wa Tada says, When the unbelievers
had put into their hearts, pride and haughtiness, and this was the
pride and haughtiness of Jahai of the Jahir period. This is that
racism that they had. You can call it language right
racism or whatever you want to call it, right? They had this
ignorance of Jehovah which is called racism, right? Allah sent
down His tranquility upon His messenger and upon the believers
and made them adhere to the world word of world of piety, and they
were well entitled to it, and they were worthy of it. And Allah is
all knowing of everything. So Allah subhanho wa Taala when
the disbelievers began to act in this haughty and proud and
arrogant way, you know, with with this jar Hindi way of doing
things, you know, this ignorant way of doing things without any
guidance, Allah subhanaw taala assisted the believers by causing
the Sakina to descend upon them. Sakina is calmness and solace and
comfort and tranquility. And many other ma they've actually found
these verses to be very, very beneficial to read when a person
is going through some turbulence. For example, the scholar half
ignored Tamia, a very famous scholar, he would take the five or
six verses in the Quran that mentioned the Sakina. And he would
actually repeat them often whenever he had some turbulence.
This is according to his students claim and it would give him
comfort, he would calm him down because this Sakina is the concept
of this tranquility that Allah causes to descend on the community
on an individual even right, whenever they have turbulence and
Allah subhanaw taala wants to benefit them in some way. So this
is what Allah subhanho wa Taala says, it demonstrates that the
unbelievers were swayed by their pride and haughtiness, you know,
of JD of ignorance, right of that time, with a time of ignorance.
This was includes nationalism, racism, self interest,
selfishness, you know, superiority complex, all of these things can
come into this idea.
Now, one has to remember that whenever a people think that
they're better than other people, that is one of the most vile
things that a human being can do. Right, so if I think that just
because I'm Asian, or I am Gujarati, or I am Indian, or I am
British, or, you know, whatever, you know, designations I may have
or as a man or whatever, that I'm better than somebody else, that is
one of the virus forms of wickedness. And the reason for
that, I think, is because the reason that I am what I am, in
terms of these things, I did not earn these things, right, I did
not earn or acquire being British as such, necessarily, I mean, you
know, or being Gujarati or being Indian or being Arab, or being
Pakistani or being Punjabi for that matter, or being Bengali or
for being from a certain area or being from Cairo, or, you know,
being Syrian, or Sarkeesian, or whatever it is. That's not a
choice we had, that's where we came into it. Now, if we found
something good in those cultures, Alhamdulillah Allah, we thank
Allah that He gave us his goodness, but it's not something
to show off. And it's not something to aggregate against
somebody else with, because it could have been so simple that
Allah subhanaw taala could have put the person who's from the
other culture that you look down upon in your culture, and you
could have been from there. So it's not something you're bragging
about. If you if you think it's good that you're in your culture,
then thank Allah subhanaw taala. But don't don't act hoti against
somebody else, because it's so easy that Allah subhanaw taala can
give the person that you are
thinking yourself over and essentially looking down upon
Allah subhanaw taala could then give them some other quality that
that everybody else respects, and basically make you the blameworthy
person. So that's not something ever and even something that
you've acquired yourself, it's not something to brag over you thank
Allah subhanaw taala for that, that's why I find racism to be
extremely bad. The way I deal with I tried to tell people how to deal
with racism is that if you find that you're very proud of your
culture, you're proud of your background, or wherever you are
from your ethnicity, then say Alhamdulillah, but that doesn't
mean you look down upon others, yes, there will be points that
will be of strength in your culture, and there will be points
that you will find a weakness in another culture. But then if you
look carefully enough, they're gonna find some strong points in
their culture that is not found in your culture as well. It's just
that you have not thought about that. Right? And in your mind,
right in our minds, maybe the point about our culture, because
it's so Beloved to us is so close to us, it's ours. That's why we
feel like it's better than somebody else's culture. This
this, this kind of thought, essentially spoils everything.
This is why you get some men who think they're better than women.
And then you get some women who think they're better than men, is
because they start focusing a bit too much about what they have, and
some of the strong points about that. So then they start looking
down on us on the other side, even though there may be some very good
points on the other side as well. And there'll be some deficiencies
on our side because there's nothing which is perfect in this
world.
So what that does is this kind of feeling of somebody has it it
makes you blind of your moral values. It makes you blind of
humanity of humaneness of it makes you lack empathy, you know, you
really can't think straight. And then it just goes out of bounds.
And that's essentially what JD was. And that's where Islam came
to eradicate. But yet, you're gonna still find that in some
places where people are not adhering to the love of the faith.
That's why
Allah subhanho wa Taala will, what Allah subhanaw taala shows is that
when there will be people like this, who will act in an ignorant
way, Allah subhanaw taala will give comfort to the other people
in some successful the other Allah subhanho wa Taala will give them a
gift and he will make them successful. So if you feel that
you are being oppressed, and you are being overcome, and you are
being looked down upon and looked on as despicable Allah subhanaw
taala will give you comfort, trust in Allah, put your trust in Allah
subhanaw taala is very, very important.
That's why believers going back to the original verse that the
goodness is in our heart, whenever we see anything like this, we need
to be the first to root it out. We should not ever take part in it.
And if we see it in others, we should be against it. We should
not take part in it. And that's why if you look at verse 12 of
Surah to know Allah subhana wa Tada says, this is when there was
if you if you remember the story of Aisha Radi Allahu anha being
slandered. I mean, I'm not going to go into the whole story here.
But when she got slandered
Allah subhanaw taala asks a question, verse 12, a surah, nor
the suta, nor discusses that whole event. But this particular verse I
want to mention Allah subhanho wa taala, says Lola is to move on,
let me know when our MENA to be fusi him hiera work orlu
if Moby in Allah has a very emphatic question, he says that
why then did not the believers, the men and women believers, when
you heard this slander, why did you not think good of their own
people and say, this is an obvious lie. So you should be willing to
speak out and the Quran senses those people who did not speak out
and who they were that you should have thought about this correctly.
So
we this also tells us of course, that you know, whenever there's a
wicked report about somebody what needs to be very careful the way
they approach it, the way they take it. And your first course of
action should not be to agree with it should not be that everything
you hear that you accept straight away. You should always look at
reports of this nature wicked reports, especially bad reports
about people you should always look at them first negatively,
should all look at them with some speculation and with some doubt,
and then if eventually one day it does become quite clear. Well, you
do what you have to do about it. But do not jump to conclusions
with these things. May Allah subhanaw taala make us a faith
imbibing community. May Allah subhanaw taala make the faith
beloved in our heart, and may Allah subhanho wa Taala make it
attractive for us so that we love doing it. And may Allah assist
allow us to assist one another as well so that we can help to make
the community a greater place. Allah subhanho wa Taala blessed us
all May Allah subhanho wa Taala accept from you please keep us in
your doors. And we will see you again in sha Allah Assalamu
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JazakAllah Harun salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.