Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qur’anic Reflections Don’t Even Incline towards the Wrongdoers
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The Bible describes individuals who do not admit to any Christian beliefs or attend any religious events, and the confusion surrounding the verse can affect individuals' understanding of their spiritual realm. The speaker discusses the importance of understanding what is in their spiritual realm and the potential negative effects of confusion. Islam is a totaling approach, but individuals should not be overly strict or liberal. The importance of faith and faith in one's deeds is also emphasized, and individuals should take advantage of opportunities to participate in a community. The speakers stress the importance of learning to read books and taking on a sustained study to become more confident.
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Salam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh dear beloved brothers
and sisters dear friends Allah subhanaw taala bless you all Allah
has brought us together to learn about the Quran. So let us start
with our verse for today are all the villa he Muna Shavon you Raji
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Very, very interesting verse. I don't know if we can actually do
full justice to this verse in terms of his translation, and the
emotion and the idea that it conveys but Allah subhanaw taala
is saying pretty much Oh Muslims do not incline. La Turkana. Illa,
Latina varnamo and phuse Illa de novo animal do not inclined
towards those who do wrong. Those who have oppressed those who have
done that which is wrong.
Or else the Hellfire will cease you further Mr. Coleman Nara, the
Hellfire will cease you. So if you're going to even incline
forget about follow even if you're inclined towards the oppressed,
you will be punished by the Hellfire
right just inclination towards them. Silent approval for example,
you do not have any protector and if that's the case, and if you do
do that, then remember what Amala comin dunlea Human Alia you do not
have any protector, no friend, you have no protector or friend, other
than Allah subhana wa Tada and you will not be assisted, you will
have no defense, you will have no assistance. So very, very, very
powerful verse full of the Majesty, the powerful message of
Allah subhanho wa taala. You can see how or striking that is. That
message is very, very humbling. What Muslims are asked to do here
is that one needs to be really on the straight path and they should
never inclined towards an associate themselves even the
slightest inclination towards wrongdoers. Simply put, you have
to have nothing to do with wrongdoers, because they've
deviated from the straightway and abandoned Allah subhanaw taala his
way. Now, if you're going to be drawn to them, then Hellfire will
overwhelm just like it's going to overwhelm them, it's going to
overwhelm us, right?
Then when that happens, you will have no protected from Allah
subhanaw taala, you'll have nobody to help you.
Because once anybody is deprived of divine patronage, divine
assistance, divine guidance, divine security, then they'll have
no other place for refuge. There's nothing else that anybody can do
for you, if Allah subhanaw taala doesn't want to provide you that.
You see, to put this in perspective, I think what it is,
is that a lot of people think and you know that we think that
sometimes it's clear what is halal and haram, what is right and
wrong. And there's a hadith to that effect. But then the Hadith
doesn't stop there. Right? Unfortunately, not everything
follows so neatly into either of these categories. And this is
where a lot of the complexity comes in. Right? This is even for
people who are generally practicing or trying to be
adherent, you know, people who are not trying to be adherent. I mean,
sometimes they use a lot of other justifications. But things don't
always fall so neatly. Some things do but other things don't fall so
neatly into lawful and unlawful, good and evil, good and bad, you
know. So, yes, there are obviously some things that we can brand as
properly being unlawful. And it's always difficult to figure out in
certain other cases, whether Allah likes that or dislikes that
because there's no very specific guidance or there's some confusion
or it's a new issue. And there's not an analogy that you can make.
So that's why What does Allah like in a certain situation? What does
Allah want me to do in a certain situation? What doesn't he want me
to do? This is where there's a huge confusion. Reason is that we
have emotions, we have selfishness, we have self love,
right? We have indulgence, we have addictions, you know, there's
inclinations towards vice. There's this force in this world. There's
compulsion in this verse, this pressure so that's why all of that
just skews our understanding of what Allah subhanho wa Taala wants
from us in a certain case.
How would you then develop beyond you know, the obviously haram and
the obviously halal, how do you develop an understanding of what
Allah likes in us? You know, what is in accordance with the spirit
of the Sharia? You know, what, what is in accordance with the
spirit of our tradition? That can only be understood. You see, I've
seen this is the challenge. I've seen this happen in so many
different play
He says, right? There's people who actually even learn a bit of
fiction and things like that, because they're not steeped in the
Quran and Sunnah and the Syrah above all. They don't have the
massage, they don't have the the Temperance of the Sharia. So they
try to look at things in some very kind of black and white way. And
they may end up making a lot of mistakes. Right, brother, this is
not haram. So we should be able to do it. It's not been condemned,
you know, there's no mention of it. So why are you making a big
deal? Like, you know, it's like, this is our approach to the laws
of the land that because there's nothing we're going to do it.
Right, rather than err on the side of caution. Now, why do you may
get away with that in in the earth, you know, for earthly laws,
but you can't get away with that with Allah subhanho wa taala.
Because all of that has any effect in terms of determining our
temperament. And Allah subhanaw taala gives based on our approach
and our emotions and our temperament. That's what I'm
trying to get through in this. So learning from the Sahaba from the
spirit of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and the Quran
sunnah directly. That is what creates the religious message.
Religious message, right? In many cases, I've seen cases where, you
know, we were studying something from a fic perspective, and there
was leeway, but it just doesn't sound right. I can tell that
there's this, it's going against the spirit. It's not right. Right.
And for some people who say like, look, as long as there's no direct
prohibition, let us do it. Well, okay, you know, but this is not in
the right direction. So
this is, you know, this is what this is what we deal with when it
comes to our lifestyle. Right? This is going to be plagued with
this kind of confusion, lifestyle, appearance, physical traits, and
ways and meaning means of beautifying ourselves, and
adornment. All of this comes into that clothing you wear, the way we
carry ourselves and so on. See, when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa salam appeared on the scene in Arabia, and he made his call to
embrace divine faith. He didn't ask people just to accept Islam
sincerely and give up polytheism and disbelief. That was the basic
message, he did that. But he also instructed them in an entire way
of life. Islam is totalizing. With a colo facility curve. Muslims
actually supposed to adhere to all the norms of the Islamic order.
Were told to refrain from Acts that lead to the punishment of
previous communities, we don't want to follow in their footsteps,
even though they may not be entirely Haram as such. Right?
They, these people were maybe guilty of refusing to follow
Allah's way. And that's why they had incurred Allah subhanaw taala
is rough. And that's why we're told not to do that as well, like,
for example, pass through quickly through those lands that have had
Allah subhanaw taala has anger and punishment, shower upon them.
You know, for a lot of people, they've got such a easygoing
attitude, which is a problem here, very liberal attitude. It's a
common misconception, a lot of places that you don't have to be
very particular about these things like you guys are just too strict
man. Yes, some people are too strict. Again, there's a penance.
And that's the difficulty, you get some people who are overly strict,
but then you get a lot of money. And there's a few of those people,
I would say that if you compare people who are overly strict to
people who are overly lacks, is a lot more overly lacks and liberal
people, right, than overly strict people you do come across them
once in a while, but because it's more difficult, you know, that's
not going to be something that a lot of people are going to get
into as much you know, the over over strictures that they have.
But this is to get the balance right? Is to get the balance
right? Allah subhanaw taala doesn't want to us to put pain,
you know, to put us in pain, you need Allah who began will use a
while you need to become a nurse. You know, those things which are
they say just follow those things which are central to one side,
everything else, you know, you got leeway, Allah subhanaw taala is
forgiving, and so on as long as they don't entail absolute
disbelief, or absolute little more wickedness or haram. But Muslims
need to be careful because we're what's in our heart is going to be
looked at. And then the problem is that once you start going in that
direction of being liberal about things, you start making
concessions in too many other places and eventually in
encroaches. So for example, if you don't make the Knuffle prayers,
then eventually you'll start missing a Sunnah prayers as well
and then eventually you'll start missing your follicles and that's
just the reality. A lot of people have done that. Right. And
sometimes it's such misdeeds in the
past past nations going against the whole spirit of things of
their religion is what brought divine punishment to the people
because it just became a malaise, you know, a problem for the whole
community. So one needs to not give into their selfish desires,
unbridled desires, we do need to have a bit of an effort in our
faith, a bit of strictures is useful, right? And some of the
biggest, you can say crimes and sins on materialism, this
worldliness if that's a term that you can use lust for power, right
lust for power, lust for bodily
pleasures, without permission, vices, all of these things are
major problems of today.
Now,
anybody who any Muslim who is keen on developing his faith, sincerely
asking Allah subhanaw taala for His mercy, right?
He is going to be ever conscious of his accountability to Allah
subhanaw taala.
You know, the way to stabilize ourselves and the way to balance
ourselves in this regard is think what am I going to answer I'm
going to die one day. Death is a very sobering reality. We're going
to be asked and interrogated in our grave by the angels. We need
to be thoughtful about the grand assembly in front of Allah
subhanho wa Taala on the Day of Judgment, when we will have to
render our accounts. Obviously, religious duties like fasting and
Hajj and prayer and zakat are extremely important. Likewise, the
articles of faith are important, but creating a de minimis urge,
creating a temperament an inclination, a balanced
understanding, a vision, a worldview, like that of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam and the Sahaba that is extremely
important. So, Allah subhanaw taala says, Letterkenny Illa Allah
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volume, Fatima circle menar that do not inclined towards those who
have done wrong, or else the Hellfire will cease you. You and
then you'd have no predicted from ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. And nor
shall you be helped in any other way. May Allah subhanho wa Taala
not allow us to be abandoned that way, just because of pursuing our
self desires. May Allah subhanaw taala not allow us to abandon
ourselves that way and oppress ourselves by and while Allah says
he has just inclination, he's not even saying follow them fully.
He's just as inclination because the next step is to follow them.
May Allah guide us and give us balance and equilibrium May Allah
give us the understanding, and the focus that the prophets are the
lowest of them and the Sahaba had, and may Allah make it easy for us.
It's tough, but may Allah subhanaw taala make it easy for us at least
we know we can make this effort. Please remember us in your doors
may Allah bless you and your families and grant us abundance
and blessing in our faith and in our prosperity in every other way.
Jazak Allah here in a Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa
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rahmatullah wa barakato.