Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qur’anic Reflections Don’t Even Incline towards the Wrongdoers

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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