Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qur’anic Reflections Does Jahiliyyah Still Exist
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Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh and welcome back to
our
Ramadan reflections. Let us start as usual with a the verse of the
Quran and all the humanists shaytani R rajim Bismillah Al
Rahman Al Rahim, have a hook manager Helia theorbo who don't
have an accent Amina Allah He heard kumily Call me you know.
This is sort of chapter five and verse 50. So at Almighty Allah
subhana wa Tada says Alpha hook manager Healy, Yeti yerba horn,
I'm an accent Amina Allah, how can they call me up noon? Today seek
after a judgement? Do they seek a judgement of the days of Jehovah?
Do they seek a judgment of the days of ignorance? For the
believers who can give a better judgment than Allah?
For a believer who can give a better judgment than Allah,
meaning for anybody, Allah subhanaw taala gives the best
judgment, but the people who will appreciate that, and acknowledge
that and accept that and go with the other believers, so do they
seek after a judgement of the days of Jai Helia? Now that seems to be
a simple expression that are they waiting for a judgement of Jehovah
that they were used to before? You know, which was, you know, maybe
based on bribery, or maybe based on favoritism based on zealotry
based on partisanship, or whatever the case case was at the time, or
do they want a just an proper solution from Allah subhanaw
taala, which is the Justin proper one.
So you hear the unbelievers in particular, I mean, specifically,
a reproach for demanding a judgment which reflects Jaya
Helia. Now this is obviously now after Islam has come and the Quran
has started providing his guidance, the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam is teaching, and there are Muslims now. But it
looks like they were obviously people who still liked that Joe
Helia system, right? They're still we're used to that. So what's
interesting here is of a hook Kamal Jia Helia, the judgment is
very significant. The word here judgment is very significant here.
Because implicit here is the idea that once press is the idea of
one's preference for something, you know, when you judge something
to be a certain way, right? That is kind of the idea is a very
powerful kind of idea here. So Allah subhanaw taala, very
specifically, and pointedly asked that and believers whether they
prefer such a judgment, do they want to still lead their lives in
a way which is vitiated by jehadi practices? Right? And this is the
relevant question to us as well today. Right? As believers, Allah
should be the best judge, and whatever he says, should be the
best judgment. But are we still looking for judgments elsewhere?
Again, a very, very general general, and a very, very far
reaching verse and message in this verse, right? So
what this verse does is that it makes a complete distinction
between jalahalli practices and judgments, and Islamic practices
and judgment that are firmly grounded. Now, what's happening
is, unfortunately, I mean, throughout history, we've had this
that Muslims, even Muslims
have been, you know, have, you know, had become oblivious of this
distinction? And it became based on more selfishness and greed. So
Ajah Healy judgment would be one that is based on selfishness and
partisanship and greed, right, which is just completely wrong.
Now, the reason why this is such a danger here is just think about
it. Do you still think that the Joe Healy time exists? Probably
not. Most people think and that's how we say this is the pre Islamic
era. That's how they translate Jai Helia. The word Jaya Helia comes
from the concept of gehele, which means ignorance. Right? The fact
that it was that was the term that characterize the pre Islamic times
the pre the PRI, Muhammad Sallallahu, some times, right,
doesn't make it just focused on that area. And on that time, you
know, because for about 500, and so many years, 500 plus years,
there'd be no profit. So that's why the world had really submerged
itself and descended into a lot of darkness. And that's why that
became what they call Jahangir. Javeria. Ignorance is essentially
the absence of light and guidance because guidance is always
the parable of guidance is always with light and of darkness is with
Joe Healy and ignorance. So a lot of people think that there's no
longer a battle between Joe Healy and ignorance and that was dealt
with at that time there probably still
Islam the Quran, you know, came in, washed away, washed away the
darkness washed away the ignorance so it's probably a waste of time
and energy to think about Joe Hillier anymore.
However, that is where our issue is because the
the generic idea of Jah Helia, right. And the various
characteristics of that still prevailed and will always prevail,
right? Until, you know, until we get out of this world.
A lot of people they interpret Jah Helia as this narrow pre in this
narrow pre Islamic context, right?
For example, they think, oh, that's what character is
characterized by idolatry and it was right girl, infanticide, you
know, killing girls alive, bearing them alive, drinking in abundance
and highway robbery. Obviously, some of this stuff is still
around, right? So, a lot of people they don't, they don't connect and
associate Jaya Helia with the current way of life. Right? The
economy, for example, there are so many people in involved in
interest and usury, as was the case in Jay Helia. You know, Allah
subhanaw taala spoke about that condemned that and told him to
stop it. But still people are going back to it in fact, more and
more as
the weirdest thing is that as people become more prosperous as
communities become more advanced, this is becoming more ingrained,
and this is becoming much more
welcomed and used as a tool. Right to get even further but it's it's
to the detriment May Allah subhanaw taala protects. So the
norms of everyday living, likes and dislike, there's just so much
of the Joe Helier, still around for that.
And Jehovah permeates all of those things.
So what Jah Helia is then, is a mindset. Jah Hillier is actually a
mindset,
right? A mindset that is not governed by the guidance from
Allah subhanaw taala is messenger. And it doesn't have to be specific
to any place. Right? For example, Europe or India or Arabia or
Egypt, right. It represents a way of life that is without
restriction.
Right? secularism, liberalism.
The thing is that jehadi is diametrically opposed to Islam,
because it completely disregards divine faith, divine strictures,
and rigors,
Allah's directives, it denies all of that. That's what Joe Healy is,
and whoever anybody leading a life without guidance and light just
going by the normal culture of what surrounds them.
Probably under the influence of JD have some level of JD and you
know, there's obviously lots of shades of this.
Right? So anybody who insist on following blindly the customs and
practices and the trends and the fashions of their time, you know,
without any kind of reference to divine guidance, then they're
probably showing that they have influence of Jehovah May Allah
subhanaw taala help us
it's very clear in the Quran sunnah to essentially disapprove
of anything that is against whatever Allah subhanaw taala has
mentioned. For example,
when you study the Hadith, right, you will see that the Prophet
sallallahu Sallam rejected certain things that smacked of Jehovah.
They were not necessarily like completely haram things as such,
but they smacked of Jehovah. Maybe they weren't not even related to
faith, particularly. So for example, I mean, they were related
to faith in a sense, but there was a
one of the Sahaba who was very,
didn't treat his servant well.
And the prophets Allah said, This is what he said to me says traces
of Germania still found in you.
Traces of Germania still found in you because you're not treating
your servants properly.
Right. So the practice also is taken exception to the bad
treatment of the servant. Numerous times he denounced Joe Hillier in
very, very strong terms because he knows that that is the biggest
threat to Islam. Joe Hillier is the biggest set, I mean, modern
Jahangir today, you know, modernism,
these various different ideologies, secularism and so on.
These are probably the biggest problems and
issues that our faith is what do you call it dealing with today?
That's why we
Need to Schengen here but the only way to Schengen is to know more we
need to
condemn Jamelia. But the only way we'll be able to do that is to be
able to realize what is jehadi and what is not generally that is
where the confusion is a lot of people they cloak a lot of things
of Jamia and they think that it's Islamic, it's fine. It's
sanctioned.
The prophets Allah Lawson's time there were a lot of vices that
were rife in Arabia, right? You know, for example, idolatry and
oppression, highway robbery, burial of girls alive, and all of
these kinds of things. Right? So that's why the Prophet sallallahu
Sallam That's why Allah subhanaw taala considered that whole thing
to be Jehovah. It's the manifestation of a number of
vices. And today we have the same thing we have manifestation
of a number of different vices. So it is a different form of Jehovah
but it's a judge at the end of the day and look at the Quran. Allah
subhanaw taala speaks about Jahangir in quite a few verses.
For example, Allah subhanho wa Taala tells the women
the prophets Allah Larson's wife as well as a guidance worker Nephi
BeautyCon wala about Raj Ginetta, baru Jalaja Heaney yet in Gula.
The main part here do not make a dazzling display.
Like in the days of Jay Hillier, like the displays of Joe Hillier.
I mean, I think this is definitely happening again, the various
different displays that are totally immodest, right? Sometimes
you have issues, sometimes you have a combination of half modesty
and half immodest, thinking that the modest aspect of the hijab
may, you know, just justify and compensate for the immodest aspect
of the rest of the garments, right? Likewise, it's not just
girls, it's not just women, but it's
the way some of the men, they carry themselves themselves as
well. This is Joe Hillier, right, then after that, we've got another
verse. So that was chapter 33, and verse 33. I think sort of heads
up. And then you've got another verse which is,
is John Medina Kefa roofie Pulu behavioral HMI other HMI yet
Elijah Healy, Allah subhanaw taala says, When the unbelievers had put
in their hearts a certain zeal, zealotry, zealotry of the days of
Jai Helia it's, it's very destructive. And lastly, there's a
verse from sort of Matt EDA, which is a hook manager he at EVO Hoon,
on an accent, Amina la hook mainly Comey, you know, do not do they
seek after the judgment of the days of Joe Helia. That's the
verse that we were looking at.
You know, the Quran can be appreciated even further than the
next level of understanding and appreciating the Quran is when you
understand the nuances of the words that Allah subhanaw taala
employees. That's what good writers do. They use certain
words, their choice of verse, their choice of word. And
organization is what then helps to provide a certain special effect a
special emotion right in that and this is a beautiful verse of a
hook manager Healy Yeti Abba Hoon with an accent Amina Allah, he
hooked me only call me up No.
You'll only obviously appreciate that if you understand the Arabic
language. But essentially, the message here is that Joe Healy is
something to be shunned. Right and that's what Allah subhanaw taala
is doing in the strongest terms and
out of Allah subhanaw taala is mercy and His grace towards
mankind, Allah subhanho wa Taala has put people out of, you know,
five 600 years of Joe Helia by sending down his beloved messenger
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam right and all the effort that I've
always asked him Did to route the chair Hillier out and now
Subhanallah you know, we are bringing back in and we are not
careful about it. That's why if you look at the Quran is probably
one of the most love some terms employed by the Quran to talk
about something evil this jar Hillier, right? It's one of those
words. So one should really after Allah subhanaw taala has extracted
us and taken us out and all of this effort was made. All of these
efforts by the prophet saw some of these companions and people after
one should shudder at the very thought of reverting to them, and
to Jay Haley under any circumstances, right? Once one is
blessed with true faith, and many times from birth, they should
rather prepare death, they should rather prefer death, you know,
then to indulge in anything that even borders on Jahai and
disbelief. May Allah subhanaw taala allow us to understand this
properly and not justify this in the wrong reason. Because at the
end of the day, we're chipping away at our faith and there's no
pleasure in
that may Allah subhanaw taala keep us on the straight path and grant
us the light and guidance and may Allah subhana wa Taala bless
everybody. Please remember us and our families in your DUA and Allah
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